For your info, this service pack may cause BSsOD when non-compliant programmes are used. Think about that: a service pack that changes an operating system so that the kernel can be killed by an application. No wonder admins are loathe to roll it out! Imagine the crap you'd get from the board if it turned out your in-house programs now kill Windows?
If only one person breaks the encryption and creates a 'cleartext' version of the data, whatever data that is, then the non-copyright respecting parts of the world will have their low-cost copies.
So they think they need to have a system so restrictive that not even one person in the world can circumvent it, at a cost is that nobody in the world can then use their fair-use rights of whatever the data is, whether that's putting the soundtrack of a DVD on your ipod, watching a DVD on a laptop on a coach trip, whatever. So we all hate them.
Here's the rub: they probably still don't have a system good enough. So they don't stop pirating.
Finally, when someone, somewhere hacks it, their planned response is to penalise users who own a model which has been compromised...?! How does that effect the hacker?!
These guys are seriously failing to develop a working business model to me.
Don't put fucking windows boxes on networks! If spam wasn't sent via zombies, the real-time blocking list would make all this go away (the tinfoil hat wearers amongst us could make their own lists).
It's only because crappy microsoft machines can be used to obfuscate the source of the mails that they can do send this many mails without being barred.
IT'S FUCKING MICROSOFT'S FAULT FOR PROVIDING MILLIONS OF FREE PROXIES!
J. PS I'd have put a question mark on the title if/. didn't have such a damn silly length limit for subjects!
Won't be long... attach device to hard surface with sucker, build in a device for making clicks, voila. Won't help you with accuracy, but will give the confirmation you need. Can't put several of them on the same desk though.
"For instance, I can whisper and be understandable without moving my vocal cords."
No you can't.
If you don't use your vocal cords at all, you aren't whispering. You're breathing out, which is soundless. Try it!
In order to make a whisper, you contract the vocal cords slightly and thus create a taut edge which gives the sussuration we call... whispering. Try doing a 'heavy breath' and a normal breath and you'll see what I mean.
"It was discovered in 1981 that ribosomal RNA of the ciliate Tetrahymena can excise itself from the precursor rRNA without the help of a protein catalyst. This implied that the very first molecule might have been an RNA replicase that catalyzed its own replication witout the help of a protein. Many new RNA molecules have now been shown to possess the catalytic properties. Enzymatic activity has been attributed to DNA, but only under extremely controlled conditions. This is perhaps the most powerful argument that the first replicating nucleic acid was RNA rather than DNA."
Other theories suggest that the RNA replicase must have evolved from some simpler molecule, but DNA certainly didn't turn up by chance, it is a definately an evolved version of a simpler self-replicating molecule.
Must be IP based. Swine. Especially cos I've just realised I haven't got adblock on this box! This one is all site-bareed based on the rule that any server serving ads that move or irritate gets blocked.
I used to live in Amstelveen and work for IBM at Uithooren btw. Great cycling. Terrible food. No windmills. Must go back and visit some day, show my g/f where I used to live.
Actually I've recently patented "demonstration of personal idiocy by affixation of stickers to forehead and sundry other body parts including, but not limited to 'id10t', 'd1ckh3ad', m0r0n' etc".
Most/.ers (me inc) use flashblock. No flash content is loaded till you click on it, instead a nice, subtle blue italic 'f' in a frame is displayed. It's no problem when you want o see something - you just click! - and the rest of the time it means flash jiggly advert crap is all gone.
Get FF then get flashblock (google is your friend), then try IE again after a week. You'll never touch it again.
I have a TiVo;-) I wait for people to go "Did you see X, it was brilliant!" then stick it on TiVo for the rest of the season and download what I've already missed.
I'm pretty sure that's all the EU is requesting. Microsoft is then saying that anyone who implements calls to their licenced APIs must then keep their source secret.
Their logic is as follows:
"If calls to our APIs were implemented in open source, we couldn't control who sees our APIs."
It seems to be a poor attempt to side-step the basic principle that they are supposed to be publishing them as a recompense and to aid interoperability! I mean, should they be even attempting to control who sees the API specs in any way?!
Seriously, why do you think the UK leads the world in TV thef^H^H^H^Hdownloading? Because we don't get the decent US programs until long after the US either - but we have a huge proportion of BB connections compared to the world at large. If it weren't for the delay, nobody'd bother to download (except for using the net as a post-hoc VCR, which is where it comes in really handy for me!).
If you're right, it's a dumb choice. Everyone here is mad at him, especially as he was saying 'I want to be the Doctor for a whole generation of kids' only a few months ago.
Also, a friend of a friend is writing an episode right now, and apparently extremely pissed off, cos now he is writing for a completely different character that he doesn't even know! So I doubt your theory, I'm afraid.
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For your info, this service pack may cause BSsOD when non-compliant programmes are used. Think about that: a service pack that changes an operating system so that the kernel can be killed by an application. No wonder admins are loathe to roll it out! Imagine the crap you'd get from the board if it turned out your in-house programs now kill Windows?
Wake me up when Microsoft do the right thing...
Justin.
If only one person breaks the encryption and creates a 'cleartext' version of the data, whatever data that is, then the non-copyright respecting parts of the world will have their low-cost copies.
So they think they need to have a system so restrictive that not even one person in the world can circumvent it, at a cost is that nobody in the world can then use their fair-use rights of whatever the data is, whether that's putting the soundtrack of a DVD on your ipod, watching a DVD on a laptop on a coach trip, whatever. So we all hate them.
Here's the rub: they probably still don't have a system good enough. So they don't stop pirating.
Finally, when someone, somewhere hacks it, their planned response is to penalise users who own a model which has been compromised...?! How does that effect the hacker?!
These guys are seriously failing to develop a working business model to me.
Justin.
Nokia 6230.
Transfers are by Bluetooth instead of electric string. MMC for storage.
My only problem so far has been Windows XP won't use my Belkin Bluetooth Dongle on any given machine more than once...
J.
Really??
J.
Presumably it was the lookup for the smtp engine finding the IP for 'victim@igetsmap.com'.
J.
I posted this below and got modded troll! No fair!
J.
Don't put fucking windows boxes on networks! If spam wasn't sent via zombies, the real-time blocking list would make all this go away (the tinfoil hat wearers amongst us could make their own lists).
/. didn't have such a damn silly length limit for subjects!
It's only because crappy microsoft machines can be used to obfuscate the source of the mails that they can do send this many mails without being barred.
IT'S FUCKING MICROSOFT'S FAULT FOR PROVIDING MILLIONS OF FREE PROXIES!
J.
PS I'd have put a question mark on the title if
Won't be long... attach device to hard surface with sucker, build in a device for making clicks, voila. Won't help you with accuracy, but will give the confirmation you need. Can't put several of them on the same desk though.
J.
No you can't.
If you don't use your vocal cords at all, you aren't whispering. You're breathing out, which is soundless. Try it!
In order to make a whisper, you contract the vocal cords slightly and thus create a taut edge which gives the sussuration we call... whispering. Try doing a 'heavy breath' and a normal breath and you'll see what I mean.
Justin.
"FIRST POST!"
J.
Before DNA there was RNA, mRNA, rRna, lots of other flavours of *NA.
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http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/jun2001/99
"It was discovered in 1981 that ribosomal RNA of the ciliate Tetrahymena
can excise itself from the precursor rRNA without the help of a protein
catalyst. This implied that the very first molecule might have been an
RNA replicase that catalyzed its own replication witout the help of a
protein. Many new RNA molecules have now been shown to possess the catalytic
properties. Enzymatic activity has been attributed to DNA, but only under
extremely controlled conditions. This is perhaps the most powerful argument
that the first replicating nucleic acid was RNA rather than DNA."
Other theories suggest that the RNA replicase must have evolved from some simpler molecule, but DNA certainly didn't turn up by chance, it is a definately an evolved version of a simpler self-replicating molecule.
J.
Yeah, but see how little dance you get for one euro... and she ain't coming over to you again!
J.
Fine, roll out a patch that improves security.
Fine, roll out a patch that breaks some programs and so forces them to use more secure methods.
But a patch that causes some programs to blue screen? To kill the kernel?! Never - it shouldn't even be possible.
Justin.
Must be IP based. Swine. Especially cos I've just realised I haven't got adblock on this box! This one is all site-bareed based on the rule that any server serving ads that move or irritate gets blocked.
I used to live in Amstelveen and work for IBM at Uithooren btw. Great cycling. Terrible food. No windmills. Must go back and visit some day, show my g/f where I used to live.
J.
Well, I did click (visit Dell) but nothing... the adblock must've got 'em - thank God for non-proprietary browsers ;-)
J.
Damn, and I thought lining my hat and my pants was enough!
J.
Actually I've recently patented "demonstration of personal idiocy by affixation of stickers to forehead and sundry other body parts including, but not limited to 'id10t', 'd1ckh3ad', m0r0n' etc".
See you in court!
J.
Most /.ers (me inc) use flashblock. No flash content is loaded till you click on it, instead a nice, subtle blue italic 'f' in a frame is displayed. It's no problem when you want o see something - you just click! - and the rest of the time it means flash jiggly advert crap is all gone.
Get FF then get flashblock (google is your friend), then try IE again after a week. You'll never touch it again.
J.
I have a TiVo ;-) I wait for people to go "Did you see X, it was brilliant!" then stick it on TiVo for the rest of the season and download what I've already missed.
;-)
Justin the TV parasite
I'm pretty sure that's all the EU is requesting. Microsoft is then saying that anyone who implements calls to their licenced APIs must then keep their source secret.
Their logic is as follows:
"If calls to our APIs were implemented in open source, we couldn't control who sees our APIs."
It seems to be a poor attempt to side-step the basic principle that they are supposed to be publishing them as a recompense and to aid interoperability! I mean, should they be even attempting to control who sees the API specs in any way?!
J.
Well, there's this program you can download... ;-)
Seriously, why do you think the UK leads the world in TV thef^H^H^H^Hdownloading? Because we don't get the decent US programs until long after the US either - but we have a huge proportion of BB connections compared to the world at large. If it weren't for the delay, nobody'd bother to download (except for using the net as a post-hoc VCR, which is where it comes in really handy for me!).
J.
May I suggest that it serves you both right for naming stuff after a letter?
In one of the audio books (the friend I mentioned is a *real* fan btw) he is something like that, yes.
J.
Nope. Each of the Doctors so far has had a completely different style, behavour, vocalisation, etc. In other words, completely different characters.
Justin.
If you're right, it's a dumb choice. Everyone here is mad at him, especially as he was saying 'I want to be the Doctor for a whole generation of kids' only a few months ago.
Also, a friend of a friend is writing an episode right now, and apparently extremely pissed off, cos now he is writing for a completely different character that he doesn't even know! So I doubt your theory, I'm afraid.
J.