I started using Ad Aware at work when the security dept. sent me an email saying that my box was trying to hit a closed port on one of their machines. Turned out I had Alexa on there. Now I scan practically every day. Never have had anything but tracking cookies since Alexa was wiped, but that's ok by me.
I do wish they would let us dump IE in the can, though....
I think you missed something there. To be added to the blacklist, a site must 1) download the honeyfile, and 2) subsequently attempt an illegal access. My question is, what would constitute an illegal access attempt? Probably an attempt to scan their network?
How would such a plan work? Any attacker with two neurons left to rub together would initiate the download from one network and the attack from another. For that matter, they might even load port redirectors on other people's systems and completely camouflage their origin. Sure, this would be ultra vires, but it's none the less possible, even likely, considering the source.
A lone ISP can't effectively block this sort of thing on its own. But this statement at least will draw attention to the RIAA's sharp practice. That may be all we should hope for out of this, but that would be more than nothing.
This is not as bad as I would have imagined from the headline. (Nothing new there, huh?) They just don't want you referring to the name "Godzilla" or to use Godzilla images on a site that includes the formative "-zilla" in its name. Cultural allusions are okay; trademark allusions are not. So Mozilla and The Register (among others) can stand down from alert.
Fear: When you see B8 00 4C CD 21 and know what it means
It means you're gettin' out of Dodge, and "thank you very much for bringing up a very painful memory. Why don't you just give me a paper cut and pour lemon juice in it. WE'RE CLOSED!"
My connection went essentially "dark" on the 15th of this month...I could see arp request packets flying hither and yon, but nobody answering them, especially not the gateway. Other folks at my office (who live in different towns) say their service was not interrupted, but I'm back on the 56k baud soda straw for the duration. Just as well that the 2.4.15 kernel was a wash;-)
Charter is the local cable provider, and their backup plan is to bring their own ISP in -- Pipeline. Well, one might have figured on that, but they seem determined that I should not forget for one waking moment that they're coming to save the day. I got an appointment with the installers to come to the house -- it's all set! So stop with the recorded messages on the phone, already!
I never looked at AnchorDesk more than once every other month when Jesse Berst was there. Maybe less. This was the first look I have had at Coursey. And it's going to be the last, unless he learns not to spout verbiage such as this:
Perhaps if we let a certain former Texas governor order the killing of virus writers, he might refrain from killing retarded adults, people who committed their crimes as juveniles, truly repentant offenders who'd happily spend the rest of their lives behind bars giving church services, a disproportionate number of people from ethnic minority groups, and the occasional potentially innocent person.
I doubt that Coursey actually made that paragraph up. It sounds as if he lifted it whole from some other rag, or maybe from a political pamphlet that somebody handed him in the elevator. But, as I skipped over this gush of babbling rhetoric, I ran head-on into that incomprehensible concluding phrase, "the occasional potentially innocent person."
I think that this is supposed to mean, "wrongly convicted person", but, if so, why not say so? "Potential" means, "not actual, but could become so", and the mind boggles imagining how someone could be "potentially innocent." This would have to mean, "currently guilty, but able or about to become innocent." I can understand going the other way, in that "I am potentially guilty of shooting David Coursey for propagating inane English, more dangerous in its way than any number of email viruses."
Hmph. The guy is just duckspeaking to fill a column. His words are strung together the way they are because he's heard them that way somewhere, not because they represent actual thoughts. Charity would allow a possibility that he does have actual thoughts to represent. However, I'm not that charitable.
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Imagine the Sil stories being read aloud and you really get pulled into it.
I don't have to imagine it. I read that aloud also. More fun than anything on the toob, you betcha.
It's been a long time, but I did manage to read Out of the Silent Planet to her--once. Never have attempted the other two -- they are much more given to philosophical ruminations, although That Hideous Strength has a lot more action.
Narnia is hard to slog through because it was written, quite condescendingly, for children.
You could say that as well about The Hobbit, written to children, and somewhat condescending as well, but I'm reading it aloud to the family even now. Mutatis mutandibus, Lewis is just plain harder to read aloud.
Really. I was thoroughly impressed with his use of English, but never so much as when I read the entire trilogy aloud to my wife, and years later to my whole family. His stuff is a pleasure to read aloud, and that doesn't come automatically.
C.S.Lewis was a linguist as well; in fact he and Tolkien associated frequently in such ventures as the Kolbitar club, which studied ancient Icelandic poetry. And Lewis is about as famous a writer as Tolkien. But when I tried to read the Narnia Chronicles aloud, it was like slogging through waist-high jello in comparison. (I couldn't finish.)
One thing that makes Tolkien's prose so refreshing is that he used his familiarity with Germanic languages cognate to English such as Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, and Icelandic to minimize the influence of late Latin on it. To native English speakers, Latin-derived words often sound distant and antiseptic, while Germanic ones sound earthy and vivid. I'm sure that Tolkien was aware of it; it's no accident that the language of the Rohirrim (rendered in the story as Anglo-Saxon) seemed to Meriadoc to be a richer, fuller version of his own Westron tongue (rendered as English).
IIIRC, Varley never actually says what the system does that causes its victims to pull the chain. And it was not a single computer, but a network that reached "critical mass", as he put it.
When I first read "Press Enter" in the 80's it seemed kinda cool. Ah, the dear dead days beyond recall....
If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms
Such as slash-and-burn agriculture and deliberately set prairie and forest fires, all of which practices by "Native Americans" (augh! what an arrogantly PC expression) of course made N.America totally unfit for habitation years before Chris came in and started the Great Rape of the Ecosphere? Apologies to those among my own blessed ancestors whom I thus seem to indict; if the earth were as fragile as all that, I shouldn't be here. Somebody must have survived.;->
Oh, btw, in science, size doesn't matter. Everybody can be wrong, and often they are. Facts are not established by polling the Nobelists -- we might as well take a poll of ancient Greek philosophers. "In God we trust; everthing else we check."
Now this could be one of Lewis Carroll's "portmanteau" words. Ya know, two words in one, to wit: "etymology" (the root derivation) and "entomology" (the bugs)!
as many computer languages stem from math notations.
Spikking which, the chance to give vent to a spelling flame makes my pot boil over;-> No spelling checker would have helped with this one, since they're all too dumb to catch a correctly spelled homonym for the word the author might have intended. Or to suggest a better placement for the homonym when it is such a fortuitously good one:
they post stories that illicit strong responces
Let's see: stories that "elicit" strong "illicit" responses..."illicit" stories that "elicit" strong
responses...I dunno. Why can't we switch to a language that has regular spelling? Türkçe, anyone?
Slashdot Mirror
If that EMP takes out my system, how will I get onto slashdot??
Oh, wait, guess that should have been listed with the other crapola, hmmm?
Never mind. Carry on.
I started using Ad Aware at work when the security dept. sent me an email saying that my box was trying to hit a closed port on one of their machines. Turned out I had Alexa on there. Now I scan practically every day. Never have had anything but tracking cookies since Alexa was wiped, but that's ok by me.
I do wish they would let us dump IE in the can, though....
And they make great chili (with beans)!
;->
<PFRRRT!>
Sorry about that
"Gesture recognition" is even easier. Want me to interpret that last one for you, Dave?
Well, that might be true, but they could contract it out.
Btw, your screen name stinks.
One-handed? Vi??
Hmmmm....
I think you missed something there. To be added to the blacklist, a site must 1) download the honeyfile, and 2) subsequently attempt an illegal access. My question is, what would constitute an illegal access attempt? Probably an attempt to scan their network?
How would such a plan work? Any attacker with two neurons left to rub together would initiate the download from one network and the attack from another. For that matter, they might even load port redirectors on other people's systems and completely camouflage their origin. Sure, this would be ultra vires, but it's none the less possible, even likely, considering the source.
A lone ISP can't effectively block this sort of thing on its own. But this statement at least will draw attention to the RIAA's sharp practice. That may be all we should hope for out of this, but that would be more than nothing.
Once again, nothing to see here. Move along....
Cute story. Nasreddin Hoja is a Turkish folk hero. Lots of stories about him. Good for you they're all out of copyright.
From the article:
You see! This is the IT answer to the WWF!It means you're gettin' out of Dodge, and "thank you very much for bringing up a very painful memory. Why don't you just give me a paper cut and pour lemon juice in it. WE'RE CLOSED!"
Charter is the local cable provider, and their backup plan is to bring their own ISP in -- Pipeline. Well, one might have figured on that, but they seem determined that I should not forget for one waking moment that they're coming to save the day. I got an appointment with the installers to come to the house -- it's all set! So stop with the recorded messages on the phone, already!
Actually, with sufficient provocation I could probably quote the whole ad. I should just go lie down until this feeling passes.
I doubt that Coursey actually made that paragraph up. It sounds as if he lifted it whole from some other rag, or maybe from a political pamphlet that somebody handed him in the elevator. But, as I skipped over this gush of babbling rhetoric, I ran head-on into that incomprehensible concluding phrase, "the occasional potentially innocent person."
I think that this is supposed to mean, "wrongly convicted person", but, if so, why not say so? "Potential" means, "not actual, but could become so", and the mind boggles imagining how someone could be "potentially innocent." This would have to mean, "currently guilty, but able or about to become innocent." I can understand going the other way, in that "I am potentially guilty of shooting David Coursey for propagating inane English, more dangerous in its way than any number of email viruses."
Hmph. The guy is just duckspeaking to fill a column. His words are strung together the way they are because he's heard them that way somewhere, not because they represent actual thoughts. Charity would allow a possibility that he does have actual thoughts to represent. However, I'm not that charitable.
I don't have to imagine it. I read that aloud also. More fun than anything on the toob, you betcha.
Narnia is hard to slog through because it was written, quite condescendingly, for children.
You could say that as well about The Hobbit, written to children, and somewhat condescending as well, but I'm reading it aloud to the family even now. Mutatis mutandibus, Lewis is just plain harder to read aloud.
C.S.Lewis was a linguist as well; in fact he and Tolkien associated frequently in such ventures as the Kolbitar club, which studied ancient Icelandic poetry. And Lewis is about as famous a writer as Tolkien. But when I tried to read the Narnia Chronicles aloud, it was like slogging through waist-high jello in comparison. (I couldn't finish.)
One thing that makes Tolkien's prose so refreshing is that he used his familiarity with Germanic languages cognate to English such as Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, and Icelandic to minimize the influence of late Latin on it. To native English speakers, Latin-derived words often sound distant and antiseptic, while Germanic ones sound earthy and vivid. I'm sure that Tolkien was aware of it; it's no accident that the language of the Rohirrim (rendered in the story as Anglo-Saxon) seemed to Meriadoc to be a richer, fuller version of his own Westron tongue (rendered as English).
Against slavery? Don't buy one!
When I first read "Press Enter" in the 80's it seemed kinda cool. Ah, the dear dead days beyond recall....
Actually, that should have been a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays....
If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms
;->
Such as slash-and-burn agriculture and deliberately set prairie and forest fires, all of which practices by "Native Americans" (augh! what an arrogantly PC expression) of course made N.America totally unfit for habitation years before Chris came in and started the Great Rape of the Ecosphere? Apologies to those among my own blessed ancestors whom I thus seem to indict; if the earth were as fragile as all that, I shouldn't be here. Somebody must have survived.
Oh, btw, in science, size doesn't matter. Everybody can be wrong, and often they are. Facts are not established by polling the Nobelists -- we might as well take a poll of ancient Greek philosophers. "In God we trust; everthing else we check."
the syntactic etomology of a programming language
Now this could be one of Lewis Carroll's "portmanteau" words. Ya know, two words in one, to wit: "etymology" (the root derivation) and "entomology" (the bugs)!
as many computer languages stem from math notations.
So INTERCAL came from an old HP calculator?
Yes, I spend too much time running "fortune."
;->
Just once per login, right?
Lizzie Borden took an ax
And plunged it deep into the VAX;
Don't you envy people who
Do the things you'd like to do?
Let's see: stories that "elicit" strong "illicit" responses..."illicit" stories that "elicit" strong
responses...I dunno. Why can't we switch to a language that has regular spelling? Türkçe, anyone?