From Ashcroft's letter: The demands of justice are both rewarding and depleting. I take great personal satisfaction in the record which has been developed. The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved. The rule of law has been strengthened and upheld in the courts. Yet, I believe that the Department of Justice would be well served by new leadership and fresh inspiration. I believe that my energies and talents should be directed toward other challenging horizons.
Right click (on toolbar)>Customize>From the sheet, drag the "New Tab" button to an empty space on the toolbar. Viola!
Note, that this only allows you to have a New Tab button on the TOOLbar (not the TABbar), if you *must* have the New Tab button on the TABbar, the extension you want is called "Basics" and is available HERE.
I haven't run into any Java problems with Firefox, Java works great for me using Sun Java (1.4.2_05) on Windows XP Pro SP2. The thing that sucks for me with Firefox is Quicktime. Websites that embed Quicktime movies like Milk and Cookies and Kontraband always seem to crash my browser to the point of unrecoverability (and I am using the latest Quicktime PRO).
I am curious why you use IE for online banking, as Firefox will actually support 256bit SSL encryption if the servers certificate supports it, and will do 128bit SSL otherwise (just like IE). Why do you use IE for banking?
I run as a limited user. I ran Firefox as administrator, then I updated (using the built in updater) from that instance of FF. It seemed to bomb out (I got a warning that some updates could not be installed, but I think it was referring to the extensions that had no updates available). I then ran Firefox under my limited account and it is updated to 1.0.
By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root, I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself.
I've read a lot of this thread and haven't noticed anyone commenting on the fact that the storage of LM hashes in Windows NT/2000/XP (yes, XP has LM hashes stored by default) can be TURNED OFF (and REALLY should be)
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. 2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentContro lSet\Contro l\Lsa 3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value. 4. Type NoLMHash, and then press ENTER. 5. On the Edit menu, click Modify. 6. Type 1, and then click OK. 7. Restart your computer, and then change your password.
The above steps are one of the first things you should any Windows NT kernel machine that you don't want people getting into, and as you can see by this article, getting into a machine with LM hash intact is a trivial exercise at best.
Mr. Hayes demonstrates not only a lack of knowledge on the subject, but also an unwillingness to learn about things he doesn't already know about.
(cue Quentin Tarantino)
Do you see a sign over Mr's Hayes' desk that reads: SETI Scientist? No? Do you know why you don't see that sign? Because being a SETI scientist aint his fucking business.
Seriously though, your letter is well written and such, but every geek has to respect the fact that they like control over what goes on their system. This guy (Hayes) is the head geek in that particular flock, and he said "no". Granted, I don't agree with him being a dick about it, especially in a media outlet, but regardless, it's not his job to "learn about" or become "enlightened to" the concept of SETI@home software. He's put put in charge of a fleet of servers, his bottom line is the integrity of said servers.
Does the presence of SETI software compromize the secutity of those machines? No, probably not. But Charles HAD TO ASK PERMISSON TO PUT IT ON or risk the consequenses. He risked them and got bitten. Bummer.
This is a really cool hack, and has a great "Gee whiz look what I did" value to it. But that's about it. I don't think that it would be practical to start actually using this cool little hack due to the fact that no matter how much you may disagree with the GMail terms of use, they still reserve the right to either
A) make it so that this hack no longer works (wouldn't be too hard, in fact it will probably break often as GMail is still in beta and under heavy development if you havent noticed)
or,
B) simply close your account, no questions asked (don't think that people using this hack wont be EASY to detect to to a profoundly different traffic fingerprint in their logfiles for the GmailFS using accounts).
I'm not saying you're "bad" or "taking advantage of google" if you use this software per se, what I'm saying is, don't complain when the Gmail account you've filled to the brim with Bangbus videos get's abruptly cancelled.
My suggestion, for what it's worth, would be: enjoy this for what it is: a cool, neat-o, nifty hack. Period.
This one was a woman. Do I still call her a barber?
My ex-wife worked in a hair salon, and I kinda wondered the same thing...it appears to break down like this:
1. If there is a stiped pole (occasionally of the spinning variety) in the front of the hair cutting establishment the person doing the hair cutting is referred to as a "barber" regardless of sex.
2. In nearly all other hair cutting environments, the person doing the cutting is refered to as a "stylist".
I could go into all sorts of stereotypes involving old guys who used to be in the military (barbers) and men in leather pants with spiky hair (stylists), but i wont go there.
who the hell is iomedium? (i'm serious, ive never heard of them)
and while we are on the subject of iomedium, how can it be in this day and age that a company that offers web design services can't figure out that JPEGS are no good for vector graphic logos. Aliasing is only cool is Jennifer Garner is involved.
The other people who responded to you pretty much summed it up, but just so you're clear on this: What you did (posting the article so that people could read it) is totally appreciated, but it is not proper/. etiquette. Even though it is cool that you provided the article after it got slashdotted, there is no reason why your karma (as unimportant as it is) should be upped for doing so.
Unfortunately, there are people with mod points who are as clueless as you to this generally agreed upon (and rightly so) issue of/. etiquette. Therefore, you should expect downmodding to commence over the next few minutes by mods with a little more experience who know how this works. You will most likely get modded down to -1, which will actually REDUCE your karma.
The moral of the story here is: By all means, post the text of slashdotted stories, but do so as AC (you *do* know what posting AC is, right?) so no one questions the altruism of your actions. Like it or not, failure to do so will eventually erode the karma you may or may not cherish and you will wind up with a "karma whore" reputation you may or may not deserve.
I hope this describes what you have experienced in a manner that is both polite and explanitory.
What are your objections to the rules of the presidential debate? they seem pretty reasonable to me.
Section 5, Subsection (F) Reads:
"The candidates may not ask each other direct questions, but may ask rhetorical questions."
I don't understand this. I didn't do the whole "debate team" stuff in high school and maybe I'm just uninformed, but is this how debates work? How come the two debates can't ask each other direct questions.
I know that when I am debating things with my friends, the asking of direct questions plays a central role in articulating individual positions on the topic being debated about.
It seems to me that these rules, and this rule in particular takes away from the entire purpose of having a debate. These debates could serve as an opportunity to see how each individual candidate thinks "on their feet" and to observe how well they are able to articulate themselves on their position, but when you take away a basic characteristic of "debating" as this rule does, all you will most likely end up with is a 90 minute rehash of the commercials we have been seeing for the past few months.
This is a great feature to have from an ISP, and the technology is sound (we used similar "Crypto Keyfobs" when I worked at PacBell for logging into the system remotely when in the field)...but I must admit I am surprised that it's AOL offering this kind of a thing.
I used AOL years ago, and have used it from time to time recently on other people's computers, and there is nothing in the "AOL package" that I have seen that says "power user" to me.
So I guess what I am wondering is...is this something that AOL users are actually clamoring for....or has AOL finally sucked up all the "n00b" market that there is and is trying to offer services that would appeal to more of the "slashdot crowd"?
What a coincidence to see this topic on Slashdot seeing as I just saw this exact topic on MythBusters the other day. In the episode (Season 2 Ep. 07, "Stinky Car"). The MythBusters are attempting to confirm the legend of the "Car so smelly it can't be sold".
The MB crew decided that a whole pig, rotting in the front seat would be the best emulation for a dead human body (as described in the myth/legend).
After consulting with professionals, they discovered the best and perhaps only way to COMPLETELY remove the smell of decaying organic matter is to use ENZYME-based cleaners that essentially digest the particles of matter.
At this point it should be noted that a by product of the decaying/decayed animal is Amonia, which is not only smelly, but potentially poisonous.
Unfortunately, the MB crew also concluded that no matter how powerful the enzyme wash, unless you get ALL the decaying matter out, the smelly thing will still smell. In the case of the car, they would have had to take the car entirely apart and washed each individual component in an enzyme wash, which is not cost effective by any means.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes it has.
It's been fixed and protected.
My Firewire/USB 2.0 HD enclosure works fine under SP2.
And outbound traffic is configurable per-port or per application.
As far as I know, the per application/port items on the advanced properties sheet do not apply to outbound traffic.
From Ashcroft's letter: The demands of justice are both rewarding and depleting. I take great personal satisfaction in the record which has been developed. The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved. The rule of law has been strengthened and upheld in the courts. Yet, I believe that the Department of Justice would be well served by new leadership and fresh inspiration. I believe that my energies and talents should be directed toward other challenging horizons.
OK. Here's the article. The statement in question occurs in paragraph three. Please explain how was it taken "out of context"?
Right click (on toolbar)>Customize>From the sheet, drag the "New Tab" button to an empty space on the toolbar. Viola!
Note, that this only allows you to have a New Tab button on the TOOLbar (not the TABbar), if you *must* have the New Tab button on the TABbar, the extension you want is called "Basics" and is available HERE.
I haven't run into any Java problems with Firefox, Java works great for me using Sun Java (1.4.2_05) on Windows XP Pro SP2. The thing that sucks for me with Firefox is Quicktime. Websites that embed Quicktime movies like Milk and Cookies and Kontraband always seem to crash my browser to the point of unrecoverability (and I am using the latest Quicktime PRO).
I am curious why you use IE for online banking, as Firefox will actually support 256bit SSL encryption if the servers certificate supports it, and will do 128bit SSL otherwise (just like IE). Why do you use IE for banking?
I run as a limited user. I ran Firefox as administrator, then I updated (using the built in updater) from that instance of FF. It seemed to bomb out (I got a warning that some updates could not be installed, but I think it was referring to the extensions that had no updates available). I then ran Firefox under my limited account and it is updated to 1.0.
The post links to the Apple Spotlight page that has been there for months. Is THIS the "discussion" that is being referred to in the post?
Your rant reminds me of Bill Hicks on marketing:
By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they'll take root, I don't know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there's no rationalisation for what you do, and you are Satan's little helpers, OK? Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill yourself.
I've read a lot of this thread and haven't noticed anyone commenting on the fact that the storage of LM hashes in Windows NT/2000/XP (yes, XP has LM hashes stored by default) can be TURNED OFF (and REALLY should be)
o lSet\Contro l\Lsa
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentContr
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type NoLMHash, and then press ENTER.
5. On the Edit menu, click Modify.
6. Type 1, and then click OK.
7. Restart your computer, and then change your password.
The above steps are one of the first things you should any Windows NT kernel machine that you don't want people getting into, and as you can see by this article, getting into a machine with LM hash intact is a trivial exercise at best.
For NT and Win2K there are full details here.
I would imagine it's because OGG has higher overhead than MP3 and this unit dosent have the power to decompress, but I could be wrong.
Mr. Hayes demonstrates not only a lack of knowledge on the subject, but also an unwillingness to learn about things he doesn't already know about.
(cue Quentin Tarantino)
Do you see a sign over Mr's Hayes' desk that reads: SETI Scientist? No? Do you know why you don't see that sign? Because being a SETI scientist aint his fucking business.
Seriously though, your letter is well written and such, but every geek has to respect the fact that they like control over what goes on their system. This guy (Hayes) is the head geek in that particular flock, and he said "no". Granted, I don't agree with him being a dick about it, especially in a media outlet, but regardless, it's not his job to "learn about" or become "enlightened to" the concept of SETI@home software. He's put put in charge of a fleet of servers, his bottom line is the integrity of said servers.
Does the presence of SETI software compromize the secutity of those machines? No, probably not. But Charles HAD TO ASK PERMISSON TO PUT IT ON or risk the consequenses. He risked them and got bitten. Bummer.
This is a really cool hack, and has a great "Gee whiz look what I did" value to it. But that's about it. I don't think that it would be practical to start actually using this cool little hack due to the fact that no matter how much you may disagree with the GMail terms of use, they still reserve the right to either
A) make it so that this hack no longer works (wouldn't be too hard, in fact it will probably break often as GMail is still in beta and under heavy development if you havent noticed)
or,
B) simply close your account, no questions asked (don't think that people using this hack wont be EASY to detect to to a profoundly different traffic fingerprint in their logfiles for the GmailFS using accounts).
I'm not saying you're "bad" or "taking advantage of google" if you use this software per se, what I'm saying is, don't complain when the Gmail account you've filled to the brim with Bangbus videos get's abruptly cancelled.
My suggestion, for what it's worth, would be: enjoy this for what it is: a cool, neat-o, nifty hack. Period.
This one was a woman. Do I still call her a barber?
My ex-wife worked in a hair salon, and I kinda wondered the same thing...it appears to break down like this:
1. If there is a stiped pole (occasionally of the spinning variety) in the front of the hair cutting establishment the person doing the hair cutting is referred to as a "barber" regardless of sex.
2. In nearly all other hair cutting environments, the person doing the cutting is refered to as a "stylist".
I could go into all sorts of stereotypes involving old guys who used to be in the military (barbers) and men in leather pants with spiky hair (stylists), but i wont go there.
who the hell is iomedium? (i'm serious, ive never heard of them)
and while we are on the subject of iomedium, how can it be in this day and age that a company that offers web design services can't figure out that JPEGS are no good for vector graphic logos. Aliasing is only cool is Jennifer Garner is involved.
Not only do you have a 5 gallon quarter jug, a three-digit UID, a wife, and a baby... /. uid identifies you as the neighbor of the beast.
but your
Your are the freekin coolest!
The other people who responded to you pretty much summed it up, but just so you're clear on this: What you did (posting the article so that people could read it) is totally appreciated, but it is not proper /. etiquette. Even though it is cool that you provided the article after it got slashdotted, there is no reason why your karma (as unimportant as it is) should be upped for doing so.
/. etiquette. Therefore, you should expect downmodding to commence over the next few minutes by mods with a little more experience who know how this works. You will most likely get modded down to -1, which will actually REDUCE your karma.
Unfortunately, there are people with mod points who are as clueless as you to this generally agreed upon (and rightly so) issue of
The moral of the story here is: By all means, post the text of slashdotted stories, but do so as AC (you *do* know what posting AC is, right?) so no one questions the altruism of your actions. Like it or not, failure to do so will eventually erode the karma you may or may not cherish and you will wind up with a "karma whore" reputation you may or may not deserve.
I hope this describes what you have experienced in a manner that is both polite and explanitory.
What are your objections to the rules of the presidential debate? they seem pretty reasonable to me.
Section 5, Subsection (F) Reads:
"The candidates may not ask each other direct questions, but may ask rhetorical questions."
I don't understand this. I didn't do the whole "debate team" stuff in high school and maybe I'm just uninformed, but is this how debates work? How come the two debates can't ask each other direct questions.
I know that when I am debating things with my friends, the asking of direct questions plays a central role in articulating individual positions on the topic being debated about.
It seems to me that these rules, and this rule in particular takes away from the entire purpose of having a debate. These debates could serve as an opportunity to see how each individual candidate thinks "on their feet" and to observe how well they are able to articulate themselves on their position, but when you take away a basic characteristic of "debating" as this rule does, all you will most likely end up with is a 90 minute rehash of the commercials we have been seeing for the past few months.
This is a great feature to have from an ISP, and the technology is sound (we used similar "Crypto Keyfobs" when I worked at PacBell for logging into the system remotely when in the field)...but I must admit I am surprised that it's AOL offering this kind of a thing.
I used AOL years ago, and have used it from time to time recently on other people's computers, and there is nothing in the "AOL package" that I have seen that says "power user" to me.
So I guess what I am wondering is...is this something that AOL users are actually clamoring for....or has AOL finally sucked up all the "n00b" market that there is and is trying to offer services that would appeal to more of the "slashdot crowd"?
wouldn't have liked to be the guy openening that container
On the show the guy unsealing the car wore a full hazmat suit and gas mask (and STILL couldn't handle the amonia).
What a coincidence to see this topic on Slashdot seeing as I just saw this exact topic on MythBusters the other day. In the episode (Season 2 Ep. 07, "Stinky Car"). The MythBusters are attempting to confirm the legend of the "Car so smelly it can't be sold".
The MB crew decided that a whole pig, rotting in the front seat would be the best emulation for a dead human body (as described in the myth/legend).
After consulting with professionals, they discovered the best and perhaps only way to COMPLETELY remove the smell of decaying organic matter is to use ENZYME-based cleaners that essentially digest the particles of matter.
At this point it should be noted that a by product of the decaying/decayed animal is Amonia, which is not only smelly, but potentially poisonous.
Unfortunately, the MB crew also concluded that no matter how powerful the enzyme wash, unless you get ALL the decaying matter out, the smelly thing will still smell. In the case of the car, they would have had to take the car entirely apart and washed each individual component in an enzyme wash, which is not cost effective by any means.
You must be referring to Paltrow, as this specimen of perfection is NEVER the wrong choice.
You apparantly don't know Carl