Or better yet, an 1x1 transparent gif lost in the page (if you like, can put things like "don't use me" in the ALT attribute of the image to avoid curious people that browse in text/disable graphics mode.
Putting the word "spam" near the trap could be used to recognize traps and avoid it for future or actual spambots.
What if you lose it, or die, or gets destroyed before released, and it never gets revealed? What if it was the cure for cancer, aids, or the next big disease, or it could be used to destroy the next big asteroid coming to earth (or a black hole, worst cases should not be discarded:).
Of course, maybe we could not be ready to assimilate it (like in a tale when aliens give someone a device that turns metals to a "plastic" state and back, and destroyed civilization), but keeping it entirelly secret "at least for a time" could be the easiest way to not release it at all
Other approach you could use is the software vulnerabilities approach. You inform that discovery (anonymously if you want to stay alive, as many books teach:) to several governments agencies or labs or whatever that are distributed to leave them to release it when is safe, and release yourself it if you get bored of waiting:) That could be better than destroying it and left the next bad guy to discover it again and use it against us.
Re:This is really good news and here is why...
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Our problems suddently will be gone
No more email viruses
Finally all spammers will die
A lot of fans of the Asteroids game will heve their chance to do it in the real life
All questions about life after death will be answered
Do you know why Microsoft makes so many mistakes? Because they have a lot of products. More risks, more chances to make a mistake. Take a look at the number of strikeouts homerun hitters get compared to leadoff hitters.
That remembers me that Apache have more worms in the wild because more servers use it:)
Could be a way to increase the gopher servers in internet. Imagine a worm that send an html mail message with a gopher link to the sender machine, and that link download and install a gopher server in the new infected machine.
Soon will be more gopher servers than http servers in internet
when I think in what would be read in 50 years, I think more in term of books instead of authors. Maybe some author have a lot of "better than average" books, but in 50 years would be one of them still be read?
Anyway, a lot of good books and authors were named here, but if I have to chose 5, I would take Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Ender's Game (Card), Fundation's Trilogy (Asimov), Hyperion (Dan Simmons) and, well, most of Discworld series of Pratchett:)
Check the anomy mail tools. It can disable the active content of emails (like renaming.exe to.exe.disabled or modifying the included javascript in html attachs to make them not executables). Also you can check and/or clean the attachments with antivirus and tools like that.
Also some antivirus have mail checking engines for linux, like avp or antivir, and with a policy of having the databases updated, this can work almost unattended.
... even if it not have DSL, net-ready refrigerators, ligths that turns on automatically, alarm system, a dog, a room full of computers or even electricity. Or a computer still can be called a computer even if it not have mouse, CD Writer, Quickcam, 3D video card, joystick and windows operating system installed.
When you come down to definitions, what counts is the minimum necessary to call an OS a OS, and even CPM and earlier OSs fill that requeriment (can be called the interface between the hardware and the application programs, if still is needed a basic definition for that kind of journalist).
Re:Who is SuSE aimed at? Everyone!
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The rc.config scheme is abyssmal. It's the NT registry in ASCII format. One change in one section causes every configuration file to be recreated. Equivalently, don't try editing config files directly, they'll probably get overwritten next time you change your default window manager, or your IP address or your NIS domain, or anything.
As far I remember (at least I saw that in older versions) if yast detects you touched manually a config file, it generates an alternative version (i.e. resolv.conf.SuSEconfig or something like that) so it not overwrite your changes, and you also have what it would generate if your changes were not made.
Of course, it could NOT detect that you touched it, but if you want to force something is enough probably to add a comment to the file, so it doesn't look like generated by yast.
Exist dangers in genetic manipulation (and maybe even in genetic mapping) but that is for people giving it a bad use. The same could be said about cars (how many people die daily by accidents?), scissors (can be used as a weapon, but also can be used in surgery or for eating food), or almost any tool/discovery/advance/etc. Discovering america, internet, even slashdot itself could be viewed as something harmful or that could harm or kill or whatever negative that you can think, but the real evil always is the man that is behind the bad use of it.
Could exist tools/technologies/discoveries that we are not prepared yet to use? maybe (the first one I could think is making black holes in the backyard:), but still is the misuse the problem, and most times the for sure beneficial uses overweight all the maybe possible not very good uses.
Don't forget to read also bad SF, poor selling sf or whatever you call it. Good stories generally are good not because they painted the most probably reachable future technical innovation or how to use a in-theory possible feature of the universe, they are good because how they talk about people, and how they live/adapt/take advantage in that new environment/situation, even if it is based in totally imposible things. In that way, one can write a perfectly technically possible sf novel with bad plot, not taking care of people, etc, that will be cataloged as unreadable, but with ideas that in a near (?) future can see the ligth.
Slashdot Mirror
Or better yet, an 1x1 transparent gif lost in the page (if you like, can put things like "don't use me" in the ALT attribute of the image to avoid curious people that browse in text/disable graphics mode.
Putting the word "spam" near the trap could be used to recognize traps and avoid it for future or actual spambots.
What if you lose it, or die, or gets destroyed before released, and it never gets revealed? What if it was the cure for cancer, aids, or the next big disease, or it could be used to destroy the next big asteroid coming to earth (or a black hole, worst cases should not be discarded :).
:) to several governments agencies or labs or whatever that are distributed to leave them to release it when is safe, and release yourself it if you get bored of waiting :) That could be better than destroying it and left the next bad guy to discover it again and use it against us.
Of course, maybe we could not be ready to assimilate it (like in a tale when aliens give someone a device that turns metals to a "plastic" state and back, and destroyed civilization), but keeping it entirelly secret "at least for a time" could be the easiest way to not release it at all
Other approach you could use is the software vulnerabilities approach. You inform that discovery (anonymously if you want to stay alive, as many books teach
Do you know why Microsoft makes so many mistakes? Because they have a lot of products. More risks, more chances to make a mistake. Take a look at the number of strikeouts homerun hitters get compared to leadoff hitters.
That remembers me that Apache have more worms in the wild because more servers use it :)
Could be a way to increase the gopher servers in internet. Imagine a worm that send an html mail message with a gopher link to the sender machine, and that link download and install a gopher server in the new infected machine.
Soon will be more gopher servers than http servers in internet
Well, lets say we believe in them, so the day they publish their study we turn off all computers running any kind of open source software :)
> Typing +++ (pause) ATH to hang up...
- Say to newbies that +++ATH0 would gives them sysop menu
- Ansi/Avatar bombs
- "Multitasking" DOS comm programs
For a moment I thinked that it was something related to C#, like an expanded subset, named by an ascii art fan
Do not vote for Candidate Bill Jones because he thinks spam is innovative.
Sent this email to all your friends
when I think in what would be read in 50 years, I think more in term of books instead of authors. Maybe some author have a lot of "better than average" books, but in 50 years would be one of them still be read?
:)
Anyway, a lot of good books and authors were named here, but if I have to chose 5, I would take Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Ender's Game (Card), Fundation's Trilogy (Asimov), Hyperion (Dan Simmons) and, well, most of Discworld series of Pratchett
According to this, it have the biggest commercial linux cluster in thw world (like 10.000 servers).
Also some antivirus have mail checking engines for linux, like avp or antivir, and with a policy of having the databases updated, this can work almost unattended.
... even if it not have DSL, net-ready refrigerators, ligths that turns on automatically, alarm system, a dog, a room full of computers or even electricity. Or a computer still can be called a computer even if it not have mouse, CD Writer, Quickcam, 3D video card, joystick and windows operating system installed.
When you come down to definitions, what counts is the minimum necessary to call an OS a OS, and even CPM and earlier OSs fill that requeriment (can be called the interface between the hardware and the application programs, if still is needed a basic definition for that kind of journalist).
As far I remember (at least I saw that in older versions) if yast detects you touched manually a config file, it generates an alternative version (i.e. resolv.conf.SuSEconfig or something like that) so it not overwrite your changes, and you also have what it would generate if your changes were not made.
Of course, it could NOT detect that you touched it, but if you want to force something is enough probably to add a comment to the file, so it doesn't look like generated by yast.
Exist dangers in genetic manipulation (and maybe even in genetic mapping) but that is for people giving it a bad use. The same could be said about cars (how many people die daily by accidents?), scissors (can be used as a weapon, but also can be used in surgery or for eating food), or almost any tool/discovery/advance/etc. Discovering america, internet, even slashdot itself could be viewed as something harmful or that could harm or kill or whatever negative that you can think, but the real evil always is the man that is behind the bad use of it.
:), but still is the misuse the problem, and most times the for sure beneficial uses overweight all the maybe possible not very good uses.
Could exist tools/technologies/discoveries that we are not prepared yet to use? maybe (the first one I could think is making black holes in the backyard
Don't forget to read also bad SF, poor selling sf or whatever you call it. Good stories generally are good not because they painted the most probably reachable future technical innovation or how to use a in-theory possible feature of the universe, they are good because how they talk about people, and how they live/adapt/take advantage in that new environment/situation, even if it is based in totally imposible things.
In that way, one can write a perfectly technically possible sf novel with bad plot, not taking care of people, etc, that will be cataloged as unreadable, but with ideas that in a near (?) future can see the ligth.