The worst video game has nothing on the network news. In one hour I can get murder, rape, child abuse, drugs, and sex. While congress is so busy saving the children how about banning the news?
And I guess they'd have to ban most movies too. And playing 'cops and robbers'. Probably Presidential State of the Union addresses too. Oh, and the bible. Definitely have to ban the bible. It's got mass murder, sex, violence of all kinds...
Hey, great idea! So why don't you write your congressman and tell him you want him to sick the FBI on all those corrupt congressmen. I'm sure he'll get right on it.
Instead of complaining about the Slashdot editors, why not take matters into your own hands?
Build a Bayesian filter that judges Slashdot articles for their appropriateness. Then tag each article and filter out the ones that you don't want to read! Easy.
Except those sneaky Slashdot editors keep tweaking their articles to get by the filters! Damn them!
Lars: Sven, we hate thees job, yah? Sven: Yah. Lars: Always giving trooble to the dirty accountants and such, yah? Sven: Yah. Lars, eets very boring. Lars: So Sven, lets go after thees kid, Jon Lech Johansen. He ees famous, does theengs with compooters. Sven: Yah. We cood be on T.V. Lars: Yah. Famoos.
> if your mother had been killed by a terrorist if you would joke about it so casually?
Ok, troll, just how would stopping the use of 'untrusted Operating Systems' have saved his mother? I imagine he would not only have made this joke but would be actively protesting such stupid "security" measures in place of meaningful security that may have saved his mother.
Microsoft, realizing that even the graphic display of e-books can be hacked and copied has released G-SPOT: the "Graphical System [for] Protection Of Text".
Micropayments have never worked despite many attempts by very big players. The solution to SMTP is not to add charges to it. The solution is to REVERSE the paradigm. When you send email is is stored on YOUR server. A small notice is sent to the recipient's server. When he 'pops' it off THEN AND ONLY THEN is the actual message grabbed from the sender's server. This allocates the cost to the sender. You want to send 1,000,000 messages? Fine. They sit on YOUR server. Along with this you get notification of receipt. You get easy "blocking" and blacklisting. You make it easy for an ISP to remove a troublemaker and all the spam before most of the recipients have to see it.
I don't claim I thought of this. Someone else around here on/. did. I don't remember his name. Speak up if you read this.
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The poster claims: > it's easy to make jokes about Area 51 or Roswell, there is certainly a basis for those jokes and rumors. Something had to have happened in these places and many others throughout the globe to engender such speculation and argument
Lots of people speculate and argue that Elvis is still alive. Something must have happened to engender such speculation and argument. Therefore I have proven that Elvis is not dead (or is undead).
OK class, has anyone figured this out yet? Buffer overflows are bad.
It is easy to STOP buffer overflows just by using SAFE strcpy functions that don't blindly copy past the end of a buffer. Since we've known this for many many years, why do programmers still USE dumb functions that allow buffer overflows?!
Hey Microsoft, since you are spending so much on improving security, I have a hint for you. Print this out and make all your programmers pin it on their cubicles walls:
As a spammer it is trivial to forge the From address. I will send all my spam to you with your own email address in the From header. I will also try sending spam to you with (MAILER-DAEMON) in the From header.
You of course will have your own email address on your whitelist so you can send yourself notes (which everyone does every once in a while).
I do. Let's check. This morning I have: 30 spams that are not directly addressed to me, 130 spams that are directly addressed to my Verio email address, 5 spams addressed directly to my personal address.
Hmmm so I think I know what the problem is. Verio sold my email address to every spam-merchant in the world.
> they didn't understand the difference between a galaxy and a solar system
heh heh... you noticed that? They fixed it in later episodes. Now the opening dialog doesn't say 'a new solar system' anymore. Now Mal says 'galaxy' or 'planets' or something that makes sense.
For the record though, I love the show. I didn't realize it was in a bad time slot because I have Tivo. I only know that there's usually a new Firefly for me to watch by the weekend.
You mean politically correct like kicking a bound bad-guy through your engines because you didn't like his attitude?
Or do you mean politically correct like having a prostitute lauded as the most socially acceptable member of the crew?
Or perhaps you meant politically correct like having the captain toss his first mate out the airlock for mutiny? (yeah-yeah I know he changed his mind before he died...)
Or you must mean politically correct like having the "naive" female engineer's first meeting with the captain with her dress around her ankles as she screws the previous engineer?
Yeah, you're right. This show is too timid to do anything that wouldn't be deemed "PC".
You must be watching a different Firefly than I am. I am watching a show with the most 'real-life' characters I've seen on any TV show.
When I play this trailer I just get the 'key frames' with no motion in between... I downloaded and installed the latest DivX codec. Anyone else get this?
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> If they put up a shitty copy of a Britney song and I try to illegally download the song and find out that it's shitty
But how will you know?
> Yes, and they also get dentists, decent food and cold beer.
Yeah, it must be a bitch to keep beer cold in Antartica.
The worst video game has nothing on the network news. In one hour I can get murder, rape, child abuse, drugs, and sex. While congress is so busy saving the children how about banning the news?
And I guess they'd have to ban most movies too.
And playing 'cops and robbers'.
Probably Presidential State of the Union addresses too.
Oh, and the bible. Definitely have to ban the bible. It's got mass murder, sex, violence of all kinds...
Hey, great idea! So why don't you write your congressman and tell him you want him to sick the FBI on all those corrupt congressmen. I'm sure he'll get right on it.
Instead of complaining about the Slashdot editors, why not take matters into your own hands?
Build a Bayesian filter that judges Slashdot articles for their appropriateness. Then tag each article and filter out the ones that you don't want to read! Easy.
Except those sneaky Slashdot editors keep tweaking their articles to get by the filters! Damn them!
Lars: Sven, we hate thees job, yah?
Sven: Yah.
Lars: Always giving trooble to the dirty accountants and such, yah?
Sven: Yah. Lars, eets very boring.
Lars: So Sven, lets go after thees kid, Jon Lech Johansen. He ees famous, does theengs with compooters.
Sven: Yah. We cood be on T.V.
Lars: Yah. Famoos.
> George, is that you?
Nope.
Artoo Detoo, is that you?
You are in a maze of twisty little stories, all alike.
nuff said.
> I very nearly sprayed Coca-Cola all over my VX900, which would have been a hell of a mess to clean up
I have the feeling there will be much worse messes to clean up in the near future...
> if your mother had been killed by a terrorist if you would joke about it so casually?
Ok, troll, just how would stopping the use of 'untrusted Operating Systems' have saved his mother?
I imagine he would not only have made this joke but would be actively protesting such stupid "security" measures in place of meaningful security that may have saved his mother.
7) Profit...
Microsoft, realizing that even the graphic display of e-books can be hacked and copied has released G-SPOT: the "Graphical System [for] Protection Of Text".
> [I] was totaly asaulted buy young, glassy eyed girls trying to suck me off. It was so anoying.
:-)
Nice troll... You've just ruined the NEXT Burning Man when 50,000 Slashdotters show up looking for young glassy eyed girls
Micropayments have never worked despite many attempts by very big players. The solution to SMTP is not to add charges to it.
/. did. I don't remember his name. Speak up if you read this.
The solution is to REVERSE the paradigm.
When you send email is is stored on YOUR server. A small notice is sent to the recipient's server. When he 'pops' it off THEN AND ONLY THEN is the actual message grabbed from the sender's server.
This allocates the cost to the sender. You want to send 1,000,000 messages? Fine. They sit on YOUR server. Along with this you get notification of receipt. You get easy "blocking" and blacklisting. You make it easy for an ISP to remove a troublemaker and all the spam before most of the recipients have to see it.
I don't claim I thought of this. Someone else around here on
The poster claims:
> it's easy to make jokes about Area 51 or Roswell, there is certainly a basis for those jokes and rumors. Something had to have happened in these places and many others throughout the globe to engender such speculation and argument
Lots of people speculate and argue that Elvis is still alive. Something must have happened to engender such speculation and argument. Therefore I have proven that Elvis is not dead (or is undead).
OK class, has anyone figured this out yet?
Buffer overflows are bad.
It is easy to STOP buffer overflows just by using SAFE strcpy functions that don't blindly copy past the end of a buffer.
Since we've known this for many many years, why do programmers still USE dumb functions that allow buffer overflows?!
Hey Microsoft, since you are spending so much on improving security, I have a hint for you. Print this out and make all your programmers pin it on their cubicles walls:
BAD: strcpy
GOOD: strncpy
Someone who knows about TMDA please answer this:
As a spammer it is trivial to forge the From address. I will send all my spam to you with your own email address in the From header. I will also try sending spam to you with (MAILER-DAEMON) in the From header.
You of course will have your own email address on your whitelist so you can send yourself notes (which everyone does every once in a while).
Doesn't this render TMDA useless against spam?
(Raises hand)
I do. Let's check. This morning I have:
30 spams that are not directly addressed to me,
130 spams that are directly addressed to my Verio email address,
5 spams addressed directly to my personal address.
Hmmm so I think I know what the problem is.
Verio sold my email address to every spam-merchant in the world.
> they didn't understand the difference between a galaxy and a solar system
heh heh... you noticed that?
They fixed it in later episodes. Now the opening dialog doesn't say 'a new solar system' anymore. Now Mal says 'galaxy' or 'planets' or something that makes sense.
For the record though, I love the show.
I didn't realize it was in a bad time slot because I have Tivo. I only know that there's usually a new Firefly for me to watch by the weekend.
> ... the problem is too much is PC ...
Too much PC?!
You mean politically correct like kicking a bound bad-guy through your engines because you didn't like his attitude?
Or do you mean politically correct like having a prostitute lauded as the most socially acceptable member of the crew?
Or perhaps you meant politically correct like having the captain toss his first mate out the airlock for mutiny? (yeah-yeah I know he changed his mind before he died...)
Or you must mean politically correct like having the "naive" female engineer's first meeting with the captain with her dress around her ankles as she screws the previous engineer?
Yeah, you're right. This show is too timid to do anything that wouldn't be deemed "PC".
You must be watching a different Firefly than I am. I am watching a show with the most 'real-life' characters I've seen on any TV show.
When I play this trailer I just get the 'key frames' with no motion in between...
I downloaded and installed the latest DivX codec.
Anyone else get this?
> I think Don Marti was also the one who thought the geeks should do this by moving en masse to North Dakota.
North Dakota? I spent a few years in Buffalo and that was bad enough.
Why can't we take over Hawaii? Now THAT would be the place for our "Free State"!
I can't place the quote... but I am hearing it in Bill Murray's voice.
I second that! ECCO was brilliant!
I continued to use it for years after it was orphaned.
No other PIM has ever come close in power or ease of use.
"I'm rich!"
"I quit"
"I quit"
"I quit"
"I quit"
"I quit"
"I quit"
"I quit"
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