Like another post said, the fact that infected machines try to DoS anti-spam services is a pretty strong indication. Also see the recent Sobig worm that installed a mail proxy on infected machines. The sole purpose of this worm is to create proxy servers to relay spam through. This has been well-documented.
That's the original version of the Mimail virus, the one mentioned in this story. It's innovative because people have to take multiple steps to infect themselves (unzip file, run executable) and they still do it. *sigh*
What, like the KKK, for example? Or how about the numerous other free speech cases they've taken on, regardless of the positions of the people doing the speaking?
I suggest you read up a bit before making uninformed statements.
Further proving that Penny Arcade is not, has never, and probably never will actually be funny.
why the hell doesn't slashdot provide any way to shrink text?
Because they're smart. What reason could you possibly have for wanting your comments to display in smaller text? If you want smaller text, adjust your browser settings.
Right, X is no longer an official MPAA rating and has since been co-opted by the adult film industry. And because there's no such rating, there's no difference between "X" and "XXX". It's marketing on the part of the adult industry, where I'm guessing XXX means dirtier, or more explicit, or whatever, but there's no one out there actually giving these films these ratings. It's entirely up to whoever is designing the movie packaging.
Well, while it wasn't a hyperlink to a web page, he did tell you which mailing lists this has been seen on. You could always subscribe to the lists or even google for a web list archive.
For what it's worth, I can back this up. I've seen this come up on Bugtraq a number of times over the past few years.
I think "support", in this context, means "provide technical support for". When I was doing tech support, the ISP I worked for only officially supported Windows and MacOS. That doesn't mean we didn't have a ton of people using *nix, Palm devices, etc, to access our services. We just didn't have the resources to troubleshoot connectivity problems on anything but the most commonly used platforms.
If 'most of the internet' has gotten to the point where it is the telecos (ie: the phone and cable companies), msn and aol who control access to the internet (and thereby detirmine what *is* the internet), then I would beg to differ.
Don't forget universities, which provide internet access to a lot of people. Oh yeah, and that whole rest of the world outside the US. So even in this paranoid worst case scenerio, "most of the internet" would not be affected.
Actually no, I didn't read this particular article before posting, but I read about this somewhere else a couple days ago. That story suggested the alleged BDSM reference is what offended someone.
The letter doesn't say specifically what the problem is, but use of the word "discriminatory" suggests it could be racial (although a bigger stretch, IMO), so the first article may have been wrong.
They aren't claiming it's race-related at all. The problem is that "master" and "slave" apparently suggests BDSM to the easily-offended (think "dominant" and "submissive").
Just as stupid? Of course.
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A couple weeks ago I was waiting for my GF, who works in an Apple store, to get out of a meeting inside. While I was standing around out front a group of three or four people stopped to look at the iPod display in the window.
Person 1: I want one of those. Person 2: What is that? Person 3: It's like a walkman. Person 2: $400?!? Shit, that's way too much for a walkman!
No matter how you look at it, if the only way the RIAA knows about something is through illegal wiretapping, which is what they're doing
How do you figure? All it takes is firing up Kazaa, searching for and download some songs by RIAA member artists, and making a note of the IP address they're getting it from. Hardly "illegal wiretapping" by anyone's definition.
strip_tags() is probably a good place to start. It does exactly what you're asking for.
Say you want to strip everything but bold and italic tags from some text:
$foo = strip_tags($foo, "<i>, <b>");
This by itself isn't sufficient to prevent XSS problems, but it's a start. Read over the user contributed notes on that page for some more good tips and example code.
And another thing, a location to put applications. Like in, this is my application, I put it in this folder, and when I delete it I have uninstalled it. Like, a folder named "Applications" or something;-) Libraries? Put them in "Libraries". DLL hell? No way - just because this is a problem on Windows doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to manually put simple library files with READABLE FILENAMES in a directory - just look how easy stuff like this is on AmigaOS.
ITYM OS X. It does exactly what you're talking about here.
When music industry hypes up Brittany spears or Shakira (looks good, sounds bad) every geek worth his salt hates it. When Apple does the same thing its a good thing ?
How can you compare musicians (or in this case, singers/performers) with hardware? Bands exist to make music. If they don't sound good, they aren't worth anything. The best looking people in the world (which those two certainly are not, IMO) can't make bad music sound better.
An.mp3 player, on the other hand, is something you'll be carrying around with you and looking at quite a bit. Think of it as an accessory like a nice watch or something. You'd want a watch to look good as well as work well, right?
The $60 line does not include those abilities, that is WHY its $60.
On the contrary, if you can get service from the right company, it absolutely can include those abilities. See my post further down re: this type of service (static IP address, servers, etc) for only $50/month.
You're not going to get it from any of the major ISPs but, in more populated areas at least, it definitely is available if you look for it.
You don't say what part of the country you're in, but Linkline offers pretty good DSL packages.
I'm paying $50/month for 768/128, but I get up to 1.5 downstream easily, I've got a static IP address, and I have their blessing to run whatever servers I want. They even set the reverse DNS on my IP address to my own host/domain name. Additional static IP addresses are $5/month each.
Also, they're small enough that if it goes down or something, once you've shown that you know what you're talking about it's fairly easy to get a sysadmin or network engineer on the line. That's so much nicer than dealing with three levels of tech support in a cube farm somewhere.
While I'm certainly not siding with BitGeek, who is obviously trolling, there's still a financial concern here: Smog checks cost money (~$50, according to the article). So everyone who receives one of these notices is going to be hit for that.
The other, related, issue is the accuracy of these devices. If I'm driving next to a car that's polluting, and I get ID'd by mistake, I'm out the money for the smog check. Is CA going to compensate me if I pass the smog check? Unlikely. I just don't see how they can be perfectly accurate in heavy traffic.
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Like another post said, the fact that infected machines try to DoS anti-spam services is a pretty strong indication. Also see the recent Sobig worm that installed a mail proxy on infected machines. The sole purpose of this worm is to create proxy servers to relay spam through. This has been well-documented.
That's the original version of the Mimail virus, the one mentioned in this story. It's innovative because people have to take multiple steps to infect themselves (unzip file, run executable) and they still do it. *sigh*
What, like the KKK, for example? Or how about the numerous other free speech cases they've taken on, regardless of the positions of the people doing the speaking?
I suggest you read up a bit before making uninformed statements.
On the other hand, who cares? It's not costing you anything to click an affiliate link as opposed to a regular one.
Both URLs work fine. If you can't figure out how to remove newlines from a long URL, it's your own fault.
Thank you, you just illustrated his point nicely.
Further proving that Penny Arcade is not, has never, and probably never will actually be funny.
why the hell doesn't slashdot provide any way to shrink text?
Because they're smart. What reason could you possibly have for wanting your comments to display in smaller text? If you want smaller text, adjust your browser settings.
Right, X is no longer an official MPAA rating and has since been co-opted by the adult film industry. And because there's no such rating, there's no difference between "X" and "XXX". It's marketing on the part of the adult industry, where I'm guessing XXX means dirtier, or more explicit, or whatever, but there's no one out there actually giving these films these ratings. It's entirely up to whoever is designing the movie packaging.
Well, while it wasn't a hyperlink to a web page, he did tell you which mailing lists this has been seen on. You could always subscribe to the lists or even google for a web list archive.
For what it's worth, I can back this up. I've seen this come up on Bugtraq a number of times over the past few years.
I think "support", in this context, means "provide technical support for". When I was doing tech support, the ISP I worked for only officially supported Windows and MacOS. That doesn't mean we didn't have a ton of people using *nix, Palm devices, etc, to access our services. We just didn't have the resources to troubleshoot connectivity problems on anything but the most commonly used platforms.
If 'most of the internet' has gotten to the point where it is the telecos (ie: the phone and cable companies), msn and aol who control access to the internet (and thereby detirmine what *is* the internet), then I would beg to differ.
Don't forget universities, which provide internet access to a lot of people. Oh yeah, and that whole rest of the world outside the US. So even in this paranoid worst case scenerio, "most of the internet" would not be affected.
Nah, forget the internet. And the blackjack.
That would be bitten, not boxen.
Actually no, I didn't read this particular article before posting, but I read about this somewhere else a couple days ago. That story suggested the alleged BDSM reference is what offended someone.
The letter doesn't say specifically what the problem is, but use of the word "discriminatory" suggests it could be racial (although a bigger stretch, IMO), so the first article may have been wrong.
It's trivial to whip up a web-based interface to things like this though.
They aren't claiming it's race-related at all. The problem is that "master" and "slave" apparently suggests BDSM to the easily-offended (think "dominant" and "submissive").
Just as stupid? Of course.
A couple weeks ago I was waiting for my GF, who works in an Apple store, to get out of a meeting inside. While I was standing around out front a group of three or four people stopped to look at the iPod display in the window.
Person 1: I want one of those.
Person 2: What is that?
Person 3: It's like a walkman.
Person 2: $400?!? Shit, that's way too much for a walkman!
At this point Person 1 dragged them all away.
No matter how you look at it, if the only way the RIAA knows about something is through illegal wiretapping, which is what they're doing
How do you figure? All it takes is firing up Kazaa, searching for and download some songs by RIAA member artists, and making a note of the IP address they're getting it from. Hardly "illegal wiretapping" by anyone's definition.
Say you want to strip everything but bold and italic tags from some text:This by itself isn't sufficient to prevent XSS problems, but it's a start. Read over the user contributed notes on that page for some more good tips and example code.
this chick? (NSFW!)
And another thing, a location to put applications. Like in, this is my application, I put it in this folder, and when I delete it I have uninstalled it. Like, a folder named "Applications" or something ;-) Libraries? Put them in "Libraries". DLL hell? No way - just because this is a problem on Windows doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to manually put simple library files with READABLE FILENAMES in a directory - just look how easy stuff like this is on AmigaOS.
ITYM OS X. It does exactly what you're talking about here.
Moe: Let's go burn down the observatory so this will never happen again!
When music industry hypes up Brittany spears or Shakira (looks good, sounds bad) every geek worth his salt hates it. When Apple does the same thing its a good thing ?
.mp3 player, on the other hand, is something you'll be carrying around with you and looking at quite a bit. Think of it as an accessory like a nice watch or something. You'd want a watch to look good as well as work well, right?
How can you compare musicians (or in this case, singers/performers) with hardware? Bands exist to make music. If they don't sound good, they aren't worth anything. The best looking people in the world (which those two certainly are not, IMO) can't make bad music sound better.
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The $60 line does not include those abilities, that is WHY its $60.
On the contrary, if you can get service from the right company, it absolutely can include those abilities. See my post further down re: this type of service (static IP address, servers, etc) for only $50/month.
You're not going to get it from any of the major ISPs but, in more populated areas at least, it definitely is available if you look for it.
You don't say what part of the country you're in, but Linkline offers pretty good DSL packages.
I'm paying $50/month for 768/128, but I get up to 1.5 downstream easily, I've got a static IP address, and I have their blessing to run whatever servers I want. They even set the reverse DNS on my IP address to my own host/domain name. Additional static IP addresses are $5/month each.
Also, they're small enough that if it goes down or something, once you've shown that you know what you're talking about it's fairly easy to get a sysadmin or network engineer on the line. That's so much nicer than dealing with three levels of tech support in a cube farm somewhere.
While I'm certainly not siding with BitGeek, who is obviously trolling, there's still a financial concern here: Smog checks cost money (~$50, according to the article). So everyone who receives one of these notices is going to be hit for that.
The other, related, issue is the accuracy of these devices. If I'm driving next to a car that's polluting, and I get ID'd by mistake, I'm out the money for the smog check. Is CA going to compensate me if I pass the smog check? Unlikely. I just don't see how they can be perfectly accurate in heavy traffic.