...and they failed! Apparently they were in such a hurry that they now forgot to enlarge the orange box behind the text (as they did with the modified picture).
I wonder if nobody noticed that it looks totally awful.
The article claims that changes will "sit invisibly on Wikipedia's servers". This is patent nonsense, because it would disallow working on the article for "non blessed people" at all if they can't see the current working version. Maybe i've missed some recent development, but i don't think so. German wikipedia has flagged revisions for quite some time already and it just means that by default the latest approved version is displayed, but the latest working version can be shown and edited by simply clicking on "Entwurf" (draft). The author of the article should have noted himself that his claim does not make sense.
>> Infinitely more expensive than doing a simple free bank to bank payment online. > Depends on where you live and where the recipiant lives. I looked into transferring > money from my UK bank account to an ebay seller in germany that didn't take paypal > (yes I know I should check before bidding and usually I do but when you are dealing > with multiple auctions of the same product it's easy to get confused). It would have > cost me more than the value of the transaction.
This was either years ago or your bank tried to scam you. The SEPA (single european payment area) rules by the EU mandate that a bank transfer within the EU must not cost more than you would pay for a bank transfer within your own country. All you need is the IBAN and BIC codes of the receiver.
It's a translation error. Please notice that the translated sentence goes "provide access [...] difficult". The german says it shall make it more difficult to access said sites.
Totally bullshit. For signing another CA the CA can (and will) use the same key as they use to sign "ordinary" certificates. After all the difference between a CA and a non-CA certificate is just a flag in the X509v3 extensions in the cert. There is no special "high level key" which is only used for signing a CA certificate. Any key/certificate which build a certificate chain up to a root cert will do.
But the users need to check the license of each image as there are already different licenses in use which need different handling when reusing the images.
Oh, it's a security thing. Really? Now please explain to me, why it is more secure to open the PDF in the standalone Acrobat Reader running under the same uid as your browser (and thus under the same uid as the standalone Reader).
It would be a security thing to use another PDF reader instead of Acrobat Reader, but this has nothing to do with the fact if it is runs as a plugin or not. You can both embed Acrobat Reader and other PDF readers into the browser window in Linux.
So instead of using lame excuses to your step daugther, thus making her linux experience bad and therefore make her dislike linux, just fix the damn box to show the PDF inside the browser.
> I'm not aware of SSDs doing any mapping at that level of granularity; > to do so would mean that a 256 GB hard drive would require something > like 2 GB of storage (assuming an even 32-bit LBA) just to hold the > sector mapping table, and that would have to be NOR flash or single-level > NAND flash, making it really freakishly expensive.
I'm sorry to inform you, that having said that, you showed to have no clue about SSD. NAND flash is specifically designed to accomodate for mapping needs because one of the design factors was that it should be able to cope with defective sectors. Therefore NAND flash had in the beginning pages of 512 Byte Data for which additional 16 Byte OOB (Out-Of-Band) Data per Page was available to store ECC data, mapping data etc. Nowadays the pages are often larger, but so are the OOB data blocks.
You don't need details to transfer a.de-Domain. Earlier this year a system which uses a "Authinfo-Code" for Transfers was introduced, but it is still possible to transfer a.de-Domain without using a Authinfo-Code. The new provider will just request a transfer from the DeNIC member it is using (if the new provider isn't itself a DeNIC member) which will then send it to the DeNIC. The DeNIC in turn will send the request to the "old" DeNIC-Member, which in turn will send it to the Provider (if not the same as the DeNIC-Member) which shall send it to the customer. There is then a deadline of a few days in which the Transfer can be ACKed or NACKed. So the owner of wikileaks.de had plenty of time to start a transfer and was not dependent on any "details" from his prior provider.
I believe the story stinks. It looks a lot like some guy tried to fuck with the system by attempting to transfer bnd.de, got burned and then was too disorganized to get his stuff transfered to another ISP in time. All the press releases now read a lot like lame excuses, especially given the fact that we were told quite a different story by the owner of wikileaks.de in the first place. After DeNIC and his old ISP stood up, we now get new excuses why it wasn't his fault. I've dealt with webhosting and customers myself a lot and i know this kind of customer. I put quite a few domains into "transit" because of customers who simply did not transfered there domain out despite of numerous requests. Some customers won't get their ass up before the domain is in transit and stops to be working.
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The coffee machine still exists! After it broke in 2001, it was bought by german magazine "Der Spiegel". They got the machine fixed by the vendor and created a new webcam. See here: http://www.spiegel.de/static/popup/coffeecam/cam2.html
Many people use a public OpenID provider. If you do, have you thought about it? You are granting an instance you barely know access to all your useraccounts on other websites. The convenient thing for the OpenID provider is, that he does not even need to guess which sites your ID might work with, but knows them through the authorization requests anyway. You have no way to prevent your OpenID provider to pose as you. You must be crazy to use a public OpenID provider!
I'm a taxpayer (you'll have to take my word for this, and I do pay a LOT of taxes). Therefore...I am entitled, authorized and fully qualified to take some of this money back in whatever form, just like any other taxpayer (and even for some reason, those who pay NO taxes).
Yes, everyone does it, right? And of course all cry about high taxes. Now guess what's part of the reason.
While the theory does not quite as good work out in the reality, taxpayer money is first and foremost intended to pay for public needs like streets and so on and also help the citizens that need help. You don't need a DTV box to hack around with it on behalf of the society. If you pay that much on taxes as you claim, you probably have quite some income and shall be able to easily pay yourself for your fun (hacking the box). It's the concept of society that we all pay our share even if we don't get that much out of it as we pay into, while others who have a legitimate need get more than they payed into (which makes the system a lot like an insurance). As i already admited in my first post, taxpayer money gets wasted anyway, but this does not make it right to do it yourself.
Moral and ethics can not be replaced by calculating how much you paid and concluding that you "deserve" a share of it back.
I don't really need one, but, figured I might try to get one or two, especially if there were any neat things you could do with some of them..
Don't do this. Wasting public money is not smart. While goverments usually are wasting money anyway, there is no need to increase the problem. If you want to hack something, buy it, recycle some scrap, get it as a present or whatever.
There is no other character, that: 1. Can be part of an e-mail address. 2. Can not be part of a username.
Untrue. The percent character can be used instead. While it was originally used for gateway-adressing, there is no reason not to use it instead for this subadressing. Both conditions are true for the percent character as well. The esclamation mark is another character which comes into mind.
<scnr>It asked me to upgrade and so i installed Opera.</scnr>
But seriously: I've switch to Opera quite a while ago when i had major issues with firefox 2.x (e.g. very slow upon large input fields as found on wikipedia). While there are still some sites who don't operate well with Opera, i'm very satisfied. It has all the features i need - including user site customization - without the need to install a bunch of addons, it is fast and i really love the new sync feature for bookmarks which allows me to keep my bookmark consistent at three different computers. While it notifies me about new versions, it does not try to force me into upgrade and it allows me to visit ssl webpages with selfsigned, CAcert and other strange certificates (of course it warns, but it does not require me to do multiple steps to allow the page to be shown).
If you are a firefox user and are disturbed by their plans, just give opera a try. You might like it. (No, thats no advertising, i'm just a happy user).
I hope their services are better than their own webserver which has SSL configured incorrectly (presents a incomplete certificate chain lacking the root certificate).
uid 327 ?!?! What, are you like a bacteria from the Archean?!?
Sometimes i feel like, but seriously i'm not that old. I only have a low uid because when they were introduced i was at the right place at the right time. Or to be honest: Slacking instead of working, like the prototypical slashdot user. So i probably deserved it anyway:-)
Haven't we still learned? If you only have a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.
Granted, layouts based on tables only are ugly and pita to maintain. But otoh layouts based on CSS only often require ugly css hacks, it's hard to achieve some goals (e.g. having multiple columns of same - but not fixed - height, see the web for some of the bizarre "solutions" for this like using background images) and thus require lot of knowledge and work.
While in theory tables are only meant to organize tabular data i think its perfectly legit to use a layout table if using CSS in this specific case would be much more complicated and require much more work. While it might not be the "perfect" solution, it can very well be the wisest one in terms of time involvement, cost (some people code pages for a living and are constraint to a budget!) and portability (CSS hacks are just that: hacks and they can bite you in the ass in the future).
For various reasons (e.g. oil prices) airlines are losing a lot of money right now. Industry wide, carriers are operating at a loss (except Southwest b/c of hedges it made against fuel prices -- but that's kind of a technicality, i.e. their prices are subsidized by an investment decision; ticket prices would not actually cover operations).
Sorry, but that sounds like BS. If you make a contract or arranged for otherwise means to buy something at a price X which is lower than the current market price Y, your true costs are X and not Y, and therefore there is no point in claiming that you make losses because your revenue is lower than Y (but higher than X). I don't see how this is a technicality. Its just a fact.
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...and they failed! Apparently they were in such a hurry that they now forgot to enlarge the orange box behind the text (as they did with the modified picture).
I wonder if nobody noticed that it looks totally awful.
The article claims that changes will "sit invisibly on Wikipedia's servers". This is patent nonsense, because it would disallow working on the article for "non blessed people" at all if they can't see the current working version. Maybe i've missed some recent development, but i don't think so. German wikipedia has flagged revisions for quite some time already and it just means that by default the latest approved version is displayed, but the latest working version can be shown and edited by simply clicking on "Entwurf" (draft). The author of the article should have noted himself that his claim does not make sense.
>> Infinitely more expensive than doing a simple free bank to bank payment online.
> Depends on where you live and where the recipiant lives. I looked into transferring
> money from my UK bank account to an ebay seller in germany that didn't take paypal
> (yes I know I should check before bidding and usually I do but when you are dealing
> with multiple auctions of the same product it's easy to get confused). It would have
> cost me more than the value of the transaction.
This was either years ago or your bank tried to scam you. The SEPA (single european
payment area) rules by the EU mandate that a bank transfer within the EU must not
cost more than you would pay for a bank transfer within your own country. All you
need is the IBAN and BIC codes of the receiver.
It's a translation error. Please notice that the translated sentence goes "provide access [...] difficult". The german says it shall make it more difficult to access said sites.
Totally bullshit. For signing another CA the CA can (and will) use the same key as they use to sign "ordinary" certificates. After all the difference between a CA and a non-CA certificate is just a flag in the X509v3 extensions in the cert. There is no special "high level key" which is only used for signing a CA certificate. Any key/certificate which build a certificate chain up to a root cert will do.
I wrote that it blocks all updates.
There is no need to reload all zones. You can easily detect which zonefiles have changed since the last reload and do "rndc reload ".
For a quick "fix":
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j DROP -m u32 --u32 '30>>27&0xF=5'
Will block (all) dnsupdate requests.
But the users need to check the license of each image as there are already different licenses in use which need different handling when reusing the images.
I don't know about DIB but i know that i'm really missing USB support in wine.
> It's a security thing! The Adobe plugin suck.
Oh, it's a security thing. Really? Now please explain to me, why it is more
secure to open the PDF in the standalone Acrobat Reader running under the
same uid as your browser (and thus under the same uid as the standalone Reader).
It would be a security thing to use another PDF reader instead of Acrobat
Reader, but this has nothing to do with the fact if it is runs as a plugin
or not. You can both embed Acrobat Reader and other PDF readers into the
browser window in Linux.
So instead of using lame excuses to your step daugther, thus making her linux
experience bad and therefore make her dislike linux, just fix the damn box
to show the PDF inside the browser.
Who asked for your opinion? :-)
> I'm not aware of SSDs doing any mapping at that level of granularity;
> to do so would mean that a 256 GB hard drive would require something
> like 2 GB of storage (assuming an even 32-bit LBA) just to hold the
> sector mapping table, and that would have to be NOR flash or single-level
> NAND flash, making it really freakishly expensive.
I'm sorry to inform you, that having said that, you showed to have no clue about SSD. NAND flash is specifically designed to accomodate for mapping needs because one of the design factors was that it should be able to cope with defective sectors. Therefore NAND flash had in the beginning pages of 512 Byte Data for which additional 16 Byte OOB (Out-Of-Band) Data per Page was available to store ECC data, mapping data etc. Nowadays the pages are often larger, but so are the OOB data blocks.
You don't need details to transfer a .de-Domain. Earlier this year a system which uses a "Authinfo-Code" for Transfers was introduced, but it is still possible to transfer a .de-Domain without using a Authinfo-Code. The new provider will just request a transfer from the DeNIC member it is using (if the new provider isn't itself a DeNIC member) which will then send it to the DeNIC. The DeNIC in turn will send the request to the "old" DeNIC-Member, which in turn will send it to the Provider (if not the same as the DeNIC-Member) which shall send it to the customer. There is then a deadline of a few days in which the Transfer can be ACKed or NACKed. So the owner of wikileaks.de had plenty of time to start a transfer and was not dependent on any "details" from his prior provider.
I believe the story stinks. It looks a lot like some guy tried to fuck with the system by attempting to transfer bnd.de, got burned and then was too disorganized to get his stuff transfered to another ISP in time. All the press releases now read a lot like lame excuses, especially given the fact that we were told quite a different story by the owner of wikileaks.de in the first place. After DeNIC and his old ISP stood up, we now get new excuses why it wasn't his fault. I've dealt with webhosting and customers myself a lot and i know this kind of customer. I put quite a few domains into "transit" because of customers who simply did not transfered there domain out despite of numerous requests. Some customers won't get their ass up before the domain is in transit and stops to be working.
The coffee machine still exists! After it broke in 2001, it was bought by german magazine "Der Spiegel". They got the machine fixed by the vendor and created a new webcam. See here: http://www.spiegel.de/static/popup/coffeecam/cam2.html
Many people use a public OpenID provider. If you do, have you thought about it? You are granting an instance you barely know access to all your useraccounts on other websites. The convenient thing for the OpenID provider is, that he does not even need to guess which sites your ID might work with, but knows them through the authorization requests anyway. You have no way to prevent your OpenID provider to pose as you. You must be crazy to use a public OpenID provider!
I'm a taxpayer (you'll have to take my word for this, and I do pay a LOT of taxes). Therefore...I am entitled, authorized and fully qualified to take some of this money back in whatever form, just like any other taxpayer (and even for some reason, those who pay NO taxes).
Yes, everyone does it, right? And of course all cry about high taxes. Now guess what's part of the reason.
While the theory does not quite as good work out in the reality, taxpayer money is first and foremost intended to pay for public needs like streets and so on and also help the citizens that need help. You don't need a DTV box to hack around with it on behalf of the society. If you pay that much on taxes as you claim, you probably have quite some income and shall be able to easily pay yourself for your fun (hacking the box). It's the concept of society that we all pay our share even if we don't get that much out of it as we pay into, while others who have a legitimate need get more than they payed into (which makes the system a lot like an insurance). As i already admited in my first post, taxpayer money gets wasted anyway, but this does not make it right to do it yourself.
Moral and ethics can not be replaced by calculating how much you paid and concluding that you "deserve" a share of it back.
I don't really need one, but, figured I might try to get one or two, especially if there were any neat things you could do with some of them..
Don't do this. Wasting public money is not smart. While goverments usually are wasting money anyway, there is no need to increase the problem. If you want to hack something, buy it, recycle some scrap, get it as a present or whatever.
There is no other character, that:
1. Can be part of an e-mail address.
2. Can not be part of a username.
Untrue. The percent character can be used instead. While it was originally used for gateway-adressing, there is no reason not to use it instead for this subadressing. Both conditions are true for the percent character as well. The esclamation mark is another character which comes into mind.
<scnr>It asked me to upgrade and so i installed Opera.</scnr>
But seriously: I've switch to Opera quite a while ago when i had major issues with firefox 2.x (e.g. very slow upon large input fields as found on wikipedia). While there are still some sites who don't operate well with Opera, i'm very satisfied. It has all the features i need - including user site customization - without the need to install a bunch of addons, it is fast and i really love the new sync feature for bookmarks which allows me to keep my bookmark consistent at three different computers. While it notifies me about new versions, it does not try to force me into upgrade and it allows me to visit ssl webpages with selfsigned, CAcert and other strange certificates (of course it warns, but it does not require me to do multiple steps to allow the page to be shown).
If you are a firefox user and are disturbed by their plans, just give opera a try. You might like it. (No, thats no advertising, i'm just a happy user).
I hope their services are better than their own webserver which has SSL configured incorrectly (presents a incomplete certificate chain lacking the root certificate).
uid 327 ?!?! What, are you like a bacteria from the Archean?!?
Sometimes i feel like, but seriously i'm not that old. I only have a low uid because when they were introduced i was at the right place at the right time. Or to be honest: Slacking instead of working, like the prototypical slashdot user. So i probably deserved it anyway :-)
do you graybeards have a script that scrapes slashdot for the string 'uid' in user comments?
No. It may sound incredible but there are people who are still reading slashdot even after that many years.
Haven't we still learned? If you only have a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.
Granted, layouts based on tables only are ugly and pita to maintain. But otoh layouts based on CSS only often require ugly css hacks, it's hard to achieve some goals (e.g. having multiple columns of same - but not fixed - height, see the web for some of the bizarre "solutions" for this like using background images) and thus require lot of knowledge and work.
While in theory tables are only meant to organize tabular data i think its perfectly legit to use a layout table if using CSS in this specific case would be much more complicated and require much more work. While it might not be the "perfect" solution, it can very well be the wisest one in terms of time involvement, cost (some people code pages for a living and are constraint to a budget!) and portability (CSS hacks are just that: hacks and they can bite you in the ass in the future).
For various reasons (e.g. oil prices) airlines are losing a lot of money right now. Industry wide, carriers are operating at a loss (except Southwest b/c of hedges it made against fuel prices -- but that's kind of a technicality, i.e. their prices are subsidized by an investment decision; ticket prices would not actually cover operations).
Sorry, but that sounds like BS. If you make a contract or arranged for otherwise means to buy something at a price X which is lower than the current market price Y, your true costs are X and not Y, and therefore there is no point in claiming that you make losses because your revenue is lower than Y (but higher than X). I don't see how this is a technicality. Its just a fact.