So she's old enough to be in college, she's happy to run around topless while at college, and she's smart enough to sue - but unable to give (or, indeed, not give) her consent to appear in the game.
Hmm, kinda going off on one there - I was reading the comments above about ActiveX controls and digital signatures not guaranteeing anything (meaning that MS Should be signing ActiveX controls, not Mozilla plugins).
Getting Microsoft to sit in the way of any development of non-Microsoft applications would be a recipe for disaster, obviously.
The automatic transmission shifter sequence is Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low, [Lower, [Lowest]]
But the parent was talking about a manual gearbox. Maybe the positioning of those is mandated by US law too, but I've certainly driven manual cars where the reverse gear has been in the top-left (left of 1st) and the bottom-right (below 5th, right of 4th) and, I think, bottom-left (left of 2nd). Additionally, sometimes you have to pull/raise some sort of flangey thing and others you push the entire stick downwards in order to change to reverse.
Plus, there's always the differences between indicators and wipers (sometimes they're switched).
Without doubt, though, the biggest problem that comes through lack of standardisation is the position of the damned fuel tank filler. If I had a dollar for every time I'd had to get out of a rental car to figure out where the hell it is, I'd have... like... $10.
If you think that's bad, you *have* to try Visual Studio.Net on it. I tried it on my laptop once (does 1024x768) and even with the classic windows theme, the amount of shit in there means I maybe had an 8cm (3") square to edit my code in.
Now I use it a bit more heavily I've learned how to hide some of the crap, but it's only really become usable for me now I'm running at 2048x1536.
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Rumour has it (from a chap I used to work with at Psion) that they were in the process of writing a database app for the ZX-Spectrum, when someone said something like "hey, wouldn't it be cool if you could get one of these in your pocket?" and thus the handheld computing industry was born.
Jez San hasn't bought Argonaut at all. He bought back 2 of the subsidiaries (Just add Monsters and Morpheme) and the Edgware site (the original Argonaut site) has been closed, with all the employees laid off.
Heinz has almost 100 factories and most of them are not in the US.
But as snopes also says, Heinz sells foodstuffs all around the world, and it would be stupid to make all of it in the US.
Despite Snopes saying that my ketchup is made in America, my bottle says it came from Canada.
You'll be pleased to know that we get products here that say they were made in the USA, too. That's kinda what globalisation's all about.
If you're bothered about your goods coming from another country, perhaps you should consider asking your retailer why they imported it rather than sourcing it in the same country.
[Y]our post would imply that when slander is recorded and transmitted, it becomes libel, which is not true.
IANAL, and IANAAmerican, but my understanding is that a recorded and transmitted slander (for instance, if it happened on a TV show) becomes libel - in Britain, anyway.
"Email is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founders." "recalled Larry Page, Google co-founder and president, Products. "She kvetched about spending all her time filing messages"
Of course, they didn't really say those things. Some PR flack made them up and they would've just signed off on them.
Personally, I find it abhorrent that a company such as Google would stoop so low as to lie to their users!!!1!
Chances are the exec, when presented with the quote, would have read it our loud to make sure he was happy with it - even if he just muttered it under his breath.
There, he said it. Happy now?
Nobody ever said "$exec came up with the following quote in a completely unprompted manner".
Sorry monstroyer, didn't realise it was your system that you were challenging people on. Guess you'll have some work to do tonight, eh?!
I'd recommend throwing some extra noise in there, and possibly varying the relative darknesses of the background and foreground. If you can distort the characters too it might make it harder to beat.
Well, if you discount the porn method and you're talking just about using code to do it, I'd be surprised if you could beat pix.
OTOH, I'd be a bit surprised they had a 100% hit rate with people, too. I just saw a couple that looked like the "right" answer could have been any number of things.
Well, this is by no means a proof, but maybe a method.
1) Get image. I followed your link and got given this image.
2) Pre-process. I loaded it into the GIMP and did Image->Mode->Greyscale, which yielded this image. Then I did Layer->Colours->Threshold, which yielded this image.
3) Match characters. At this point, you have a monochrome image, in what appears to be a known font. The chars don't even appear to overlap, so a simple 1-for-1 match is achievable. Scan left-right, top-bottom until you see a 10x10 (or whatever) section with a black pixel. Scan down and right from that pixel until you see a character.
I don't have the time to code it up right now, but if someone wanted to pay me to do it, I'm pretty sure it's acheievable - not least because a whole bunch of the more difficult code is available for me to use under the GPL.
Coincidentally, I've just been reading the original Halloween Document so when I saw the author's name, it rang a bell. He was talking about "commoditization"(in the context of protocols) back then, too.
BTW, for anyone who's never read the original Halloween doc, it's well worth a read. There's some amusing stuff in there about things being "stolen" from Unix and put into Linux, and how SCO are likely to be wiped out by Linux before long (and this back in 1998!).
When I read this story earlier, I figured that what they really meant was, "most of our vulnerabilities don't get announced until we have a patch, and people don't start to exploit them until they're announced".
Given that they're binary patches, it seems to me that it'd be a whole lot less effort to look at the details of the advisory (and example 'sploit) than to go reverse-engineering the patches. Particularly since they're accusing the h4x0rZ of being lazy.
Getting an email account from a mail admin, should implicitely be accompagnied by a key tied to that mailbox.
So the signing should be done by the first relayer and verifying should be done by the last mailhost or the mail client...
Interesting. I guess that gives you an implicit SPF-type system.
Doesn't actually prove that the message came from the sender, mind, so it kind of breaks the usual meaning of a PGP sig. If you've got a zombied machine, the mail server will happily accept mail from it anyway, and will also sign it!
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So she's old enough to be in college, she's happy to run around topless while at college, and she's smart enough to sue - but unable to give (or, indeed, not give) her consent to appear in the game.
Hurrah! for the law.
Hmm, kinda going off on one there - I was reading the comments above about ActiveX controls and digital signatures not guaranteeing anything (meaning that MS Should be signing ActiveX controls, not Mozilla plugins).
Getting Microsoft to sit in the way of any development of non-Microsoft applications would be a recipe for disaster, obviously.
They should be signed by Microsoft. That would show their userbase how much MS trusts the system, and how much they themselves can trust it.
What's that? A Microsoft-signed control got you 0wned? Well, that tells you how well the system works.
The automatic transmission shifter sequence is Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low, [Lower, [Lowest]]
But the parent was talking about a manual gearbox. Maybe the positioning of those is mandated by US law too, but I've certainly driven manual cars where the reverse gear has been in the top-left (left of 1st) and the bottom-right (below 5th, right of 4th) and, I think, bottom-left (left of 2nd). Additionally, sometimes you have to pull/raise some sort of flangey thing and others you push the entire stick downwards in order to change to reverse.
Plus, there's always the differences between indicators and wipers (sometimes they're switched).
Without doubt, though, the biggest problem that comes through lack of standardisation is the position of the damned fuel tank filler. If I had a dollar for every time I'd had to get out of a rental car to figure out where the hell it is, I'd have... like... $10.
Fuck I'm on a 15" LCD, XP is unusable on 1024x768
.Net on it. I tried it on my laptop once (does 1024x768) and even with the classic windows theme, the amount of shit in there means I maybe had an 8cm (3") square to edit my code in.
If you think that's bad, you *have* to try Visual Studio
Now I use it a bit more heavily I've learned how to hide some of the crap, but it's only really become usable for me now I'm running at 2048x1536.
Wasn't one of these, was it? Or one of these? Those were Psion's early handheld computers.
Rumour has it (from a chap I used to work with at Psion) that they were in the process of writing a database app for the ZX-Spectrum, when someone said something like "hey, wouldn't it be cool if you could get one of these in your pocket?" and thus the handheld computing industry was born.
Jez San hasn't bought Argonaut at all. He bought back 2 of the subsidiaries (Just add Monsters and Morpheme) and the Edgware site (the original Argonaut site) has been closed, with all the employees laid off.
Heinz has almost 100 factories and most of them are not in the US.
But as snopes also says, Heinz sells foodstuffs all around the world, and it would be stupid to make all of it in the US.
Despite Snopes saying that my ketchup is made in America, my bottle says it came from Canada.
You'll be pleased to know that we get products here that say they were made in the USA, too. That's kinda what globalisation's all about.
If you're bothered about your goods coming from another country, perhaps you should consider asking your retailer why they imported it rather than sourcing it in the same country.
timothy even predicted the dupe! ...Here's one that is going to get a lot of attention in the coming years...
He should've looked both ways before crossing the street.
He was driving. Obviously I wasn't there, but chances are he was crossing the intersection on a green light, too.
[Y]our post would imply that when slander is recorded and transmitted, it becomes libel, which is not true.
IANAL, and IANAAmerican, but my understanding is that a recorded and transmitted slander (for instance, if it happened on a TV show) becomes libel - in Britain, anyway.
"Email is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founders." "recalled Larry Page, Google co-founder and president, Products. "She kvetched about spending all her time filing messages"
Of course, they didn't really say those things. Some PR flack made them up and they would've just signed off on them.
Personally, I find it abhorrent that a company such as Google would stoop so low as to lie to their users!!!1!
Chances are the exec, when presented with the quote, would have read it our loud to make sure he was happy with it - even if he just muttered it under his breath.
There, he said it. Happy now?
Nobody ever said "$exec came up with the following quote in a completely unprompted manner".
Please, someone introduce this guy to ebay.
Good call. I just got mail from this guy saying you could make millions with an ebay-based business!
So long, suckers!
Nah, it was likely before that - they made MSX machines, which were around in ~1984.
Isn't the Bay Area full of people with PhDs from Stanford? Maybe I'm missing your point.
Yeah, I saw that one. "Black people", "African Americans", "noses", "mouths", "people", ..? Could be just about anything.
I guess a smart CAPTCHA would have a list of potential keywords and let any of them through.
Sorry monstroyer, didn't realise it was your system that you were challenging people on. Guess you'll have some work to do tonight, eh?!
I'd recommend throwing some extra noise in there, and possibly varying the relative darknesses of the background and foreground. If you can distort the characters too it might make it harder to beat.
Well, if you discount the porn method and you're talking just about using code to do it, I'd be surprised if you could beat pix.
OTOH, I'd be a bit surprised they had a 100% hit rate with people, too. I just saw a couple that looked like the "right" answer could have been any number of things.
I don't have the time to code it up right now, but if someone wanted to pay me to do it, I'm pretty sure it's acheievable[sic]
Of course, I don't mean I want paying to do it. I mean that someone who wanted it cracked might choose to pay someone to do it.
I might actually have a go later if I get the time.
Well, this is by no means a proof, but maybe a method.
1) Get image. I followed your link and got given this image.
2) Pre-process. I loaded it into the GIMP and did Image->Mode->Greyscale, which yielded this image. Then I did Layer->Colours->Threshold, which yielded this image.
3) Match characters. At this point, you have a monochrome image, in what appears to be a known font. The chars don't even appear to overlap, so a simple 1-for-1 match is achievable. Scan left-right, top-bottom until you see a 10x10 (or whatever) section with a black pixel. Scan down and right from that pixel until you see a character.
I don't have the time to code it up right now, but if someone wanted to pay me to do it, I'm pretty sure it's acheievable - not least because a whole bunch of the more difficult code is available for me to use under the GPL.
Coincidentally, I've just been reading the original Halloween Document so when I saw the author's name, it rang a bell. He was talking about "commoditization"(in the context of protocols) back then, too.
BTW, for anyone who's never read the original Halloween doc, it's well worth a read. There's some amusing stuff in there about things being "stolen" from Unix and put into Linux, and how SCO are likely to be wiped out by Linux before long (and this back in 1998!).
[I]n one year's time, the total number of reviews for Outlook 2003 will far outnumber the combined number of reviews for KDE, Ximian, Mozilla
So you're saying it'll be OK to review a 2-year old email client in 2005?
When I read this story earlier, I figured that what they really meant was, "most of our vulnerabilities don't get announced until we have a patch, and people don't start to exploit them until they're announced".
Given that they're binary patches, it seems to me that it'd be a whole lot less effort to look at the details of the advisory (and example 'sploit) than to go reverse-engineering the patches. Particularly since they're accusing the h4x0rZ of being lazy.
Getting an email account from a mail admin, should implicitely be accompagnied by a key tied to that mailbox.
So the signing should be done by the first relayer and verifying should be done by the last mailhost or the mail client...
Interesting. I guess that gives you an implicit SPF-type system.
Doesn't actually prove that the message came from the sender, mind, so it kind of breaks the usual meaning of a PGP sig. If you've got a zombied machine, the mail server will happily accept mail from it anyway, and will also sign it!