They did NO such thing, they did NOT I REPEAT NOT ! Shut down ANY web sites. They could have but they actually DIDNT.
What they did do, was CHANGE the content in question REMOTLEY. They made no effort to have the ISP or the US goverment TERMINATE the hosting of these sites, what they did was (probably with a rubber hose and blackjack) get the username and password and altered the site.
I hate when people say something other than happened, I read the damm headline an just about panicked that they somehow did this through LEGAL channels in the US , THEY DID NOT.
What they did is no different than what a 12 year old script kiddie could have done with a username and password. they changed content, there is a HUGE difference betwwen CHANGING content and "Shutting Down" a website, if the fellow had US cronies that were willing to host it the Italians could do absolutley NOTHING about it. Im half tempted to get a cached copy and host it for the fellows. Let the meatballs try and shut it down.
I built a system like this with 2 and later 3 heads, years ago. actually wrote an article on it for a magazine:)
Uses 20 Meg MFM single platter 5 1/2 drives (the tolernaces were the most forgiving, I probably had the only 486 with MFM hard drives in it:)
It was WAY cool though, (I had it under glass to watch it)
We took pictures, and the rejected aticle, sealed em in an envelope with a signed notarized affidavit. and had the post office postmark the flap.
I was going to patent it (this is circa 1992) but I was told by many contemperaries it was the dumbest idea they had heard. Now if I can find it watch out
College students. Computers. Gigabit eth0 interface. Porn. Warez. Muzic.
And these "ADMINISTRATORS" dont yet know how the bandwith is going to be utilized ?!?!?!
I think someone is asleep at the wheel. Or just dosent have a clue what college students are all about. I mean sure, some will be running spatial simulations of the end of time on their gigabit beowulf cluster that geek squad 101 puts togeter on this network and all that acedemia but, but how about the most kick ass perr to peer network know to man ?
I wonder if they'll pu that in the brocures:)
I am curios what type of traffic shaping and filtereing they are going to do on the campuses in and outbound pipe to the net ?
Lemme gues, this sounds great But am I betting Apple would want a patent on this "Single Protocol"....Why not right
Here is an opp for someone with a few spare bucks and a patent atty to stick it to the big boys, patent it now, grab it early, I mean how hard can it be to write a patent that says "One protocol to subde them all ?"
I am kidding of course, writng patent abstract is a royal pain if youve ever done it, if they are good enough to withstand scrutiny that is.
Im game, 1 protocol for everything lets call it HTTP, that would rock, native http hard drive, just plug a HD into the network, instant web server.
I mean, wouldnt it be REALLY cool to have EVERYTHING talking back and forth in HTTP, then we would never have to worry about IIS or apache security again, it would ALL be swiss cheese.
(I really hop all you slashdotters know the above is ALL in jest)
If you look closley at the high res image, you can most certainly tell that the case is a machined alloy, with bead blasted finis, you can also spo a hair on the unit to the left middle of the screen.
This isnt rocket science guys, its a Transmeta Cursoe proc, right for power consumption, and a 10 gig HD, nothing special there.
I think its slick, anywhere under 1500 I'd buy in a heartbeat.
Beside, you know its real from ONE SIMPLE ting in the high res photo, its got Quake on it, what developer at a company wouldnt just have to see how it quakes:)
Well. Digital Crypto , is for the most part 90% a waste of time for particularly sensitive data.
Its like the old MasterLock commercials, "Sure you can shoot it with a 308 in the middle and itll hold" but take a $5 pair of bolt cutters to it and its dust. Crypto is the same way, the client computers are the weak link, and as goverments spend more time and effort on Electronic Cypto, assuming it is the preffered route.
Well quite frankly it makes it EASIER to disseminate information in the plain REAL world, How hard is it to get a warrant to sniff email, In the US you dont even NEED one !!!!.
BUT let the FEDS TRY to get a warrant to open your snail mail, its damm near impossible.
Paper and Pen , these are going to be the Crypto tools of the next century.
In a time and place where 90% of work being done was the same crap over and over, cookie cutter stuff, and My specific focus was on the 10% that was to be completley new or extraordinary, then having someone else take credit for it ? I think not, actually within the company I could care less, but when seeking to fatten my salary, most certainly.
My ego is already big enough I need nothing to boost it.
"I would probably _not_ hire you".....I love when people on slashdot say that...especially when 99% of the time it doesent fall within their responsiblities to approve for hire...it kills me.
I have been offered a postion at every single company I have interviewed with since 1994. 12 in all. 6 I took. Every single one at a higher salary than previously. I do what I do and I do it well, its known, I have been offered unsolicited jobs without 1 interview, "We will send you a ticket, and a moving company" by MS and IBM to the point of annoyance (IBM called 9 times over 4 months) since I will NOT relocate.
BUT, things were not always that way..... Thats the point it took time for me to gain both credibilty and RECOGNITION for the work I had done, especially when so many others are willing to take credit where none is due.
If I was starting over I would do the same thing again. You may not see the value or place for it but I assure you it has made difference in the early days, now....it has no place for me...hence I dont do it any longer...
The eggs were of a VERY specific purpose, The provided NO alternative access, they simply provided, what appeared to be debug/versioning information.
I gave the addition much thought, I used a string on a Seperate CGI, (an executable, so it couldnt be reversed) that had to carry a specific variable (actually , "who_wrote_this" or "current_version" and they needed a query appended , but Im not telling you that:)
It actually had its uses, when we later went to load balancing and were initially having problems with page version distribution amongst servers, I added a parsing mechanism, and we would add a serial #into a comment field, we could then run another app which hit all the CGI's on all the load balanced servers and gave a quick report of which server wasnt getting updates properly.
No, never once did I hear them say No easter eggs for us. I gave a very detailed explanation it was OUR (my employeers) version checking application, the fact that I wrote and implemented it was of course left out.
In short they didnt see them as easter eggs, rather as a tool they could potentially see some value in for some unknown reason.
Truth be told psycology works both way in an interview, typically in interviewer, will NOT ask questions about something he/she does not full understand, at the risk of looking dumber than the person they are interviewing.
Every site, or more specifically interesting component I built was egged.
I did this for 2 reasons, 1 company I worked at, my MGR had a VERY bad habbit of claiming work was his, he would do a search and replace on Our names with his own....schmuck, SO, I would easter egg a cgi into it for "Author and Verion control" Lol....It basically said it was built by me when and what cool stuff it did.
The second reason was Job Hunting, nothing like bringing up a killer site and being able to PROVE you were the constructor. Worked like a charm every time. Or if I was a company or two down the road from something of note I built, I could prove it was mine.
I started doing this in the early 90's when a lot of applications we were writing were for exclusive distribution and branding by third parties, who were never going to , or expected to give credit, of course they still graced my resumes....ONCE I had a company get contacted, they claimed it was all written in house, and I was lying about having ever worked on the app, NOW I can actually understand this , it was a finacial app and the thought of eggs or backdoors must have been scarry, I got called on it in my secnd interview. I explained why the company lied about my involvment and promplty offered PROOF of my involvment on particuar modules....I got the job.....:)
I still do it to some extent although not as clandestine or ego-centric. I proved myself to those in the area a loooonnng time ago. But its cool that over half the site I put up are still up in their original form and doing well, most are ecommerce site, and their eggs are still there:) Not backdoors mind you, just "Author Control's":)
If code goes under the proper review channels, as it should before release this should never happen, funny thing is you have guys in charge of this stuff like me who then add it:)
But then again , on a smaller site that then gets gobbled by a 800lb gorilla you may see this, I guess If Ive done it, the author has done it and as many slashdotters Ive seen have done it.....how many egged sites are out there ?
I have been using Linux (RedHat in paticular) since the 2.0 release, wanna talk ugly...:)
But I have stuck it out and I always maintain at least 1 linux workstation.
I had almost for about 2 years gotten away from Win32 all together only using it for VB6 application maintenece.
I am an application developer mostly web-centric applications, so PHP and I became quick friends.
BUT for my home desktop I installed XP for the kids and wife. They loved it , I tolerated it. I installed Visual Studio 7 and was hooked, development, things I used to fight with, mostly gone.
For a no brainewr desktop enviroment XP is bar none the best MS has put out to date. Its pretty brainless, very stable, and has all the eyecandy crap the wife and kids like.
I then realized something, I dont need a desktop machine for 80% of my work. By the time I had PHP running and MySWQL under it along with an Xwin32 to connect to some of my linux systems, and ports of all the damm Linux tools I use EVERY day , I had 2 weeks investedin making my XP box act and feel like a linux box.
Problems SOLVED, I made a VERY serious decison, No more evening work from home, no more trying to make XP like linux, I decided Home is XP Pro Land, At work its Linux Land.
It also gives me a PRIME excuse not to do anything but play games when at home and have to be on a computer.
Back in the late 18 early 1900's STEAM itself was considered a pollutant.
Mass dischage of water vapor makes for a VERY nast enviromental hazzard, in many cities, there were MAJOR condensate problems , expecially in the winter.
Lung disorders increases in pneumonnia. Mixture of the vapor with other pollutants creating acids, etc.
Better run one hell of a condenser on the thing. But at that you WILL lose some efficeny, either from flow reduction or a thermal related efficeny loss.
WOW, thats interesting, here Coal is responsible for some 70% of power production, no wonder were know as the Acid Rain state, heh, then again at least our rivers and lakes quit catching fire....(for those that dont know some 30 years back, the Cuyohoga river and parts of LK Erie were SO polluted they would actually ignite and burn (well solvents etc in the water would)
Your logic is sound for the Californa Market, The cracking of crude is not a very thermally expensive process however. It can be dirty but generally isnt as much, It is cheaper and more efficinent to builf the fractioning systems in a heat efficent manner, this in turn reduced the emmisions of the refinment process.
Truth be known Im all for SNAP powered cars. But hey I dont see the NRC letting your average citizen hurdle down the highway with that much plutonium or strontium or cobalt 90 around while jabbering on their cell phones.
You gotta love people that dont have a clue, PURE electrics are responsible for the generation of more polution than comprable hybrid vehicles.
No ? Just look around at EV sites and it wont take you long to realized that generating electricity at a plant ??? miles away, transmission loss and all the fun add up to MORE FRIGGING polution in the generation of that electricity than a hybrid creates.
Not to metnion the long term battery and chemical disposal issues. Thats a whopper too.
Wait for one of the Borax Powered Hydrogen Fuel cell vehicles from Chrysler. Cost is supposed to be low, and emission zero.
Barring that look at some of the hybrid vehicles.
Sometimes I have to question peoples motives of EV , if its convinience thats OK, my neighbor has been using the same elctric lawn mower for 20 years, its easy, quiet cheap, the only thing he spends money on is a new extension cord every 3 years or so after he's chopped his umpteen times. If you are looking at an EV for enviromental reasons, PLEASE get a clue. PURE EV pollute more than hybrids, and some more than LEV.
My favorite action by an enviromental group was the guys in Calif, that burned an allotment down under construction. POINTS , 1 for burning, 2 like inscurance isnt going to pay and end up cutting more trees to rebuild ? 3, the fumes from all the insulation cooking ? 4 we deforest more area to rebuild an allotment "TREE HUGGERS" were protesting the cutting of trees ?
I would seriously wait for the Chryslers to be sold they seem AWFULL SLICK !
Does this mean all those magicians are correct when they say the hand is tuly quicker than the eye ?
Seriously are they even close to certain that their detection methods are accurate or is this a side effect of the enviroment on the detection equiptment. Wouldnt be the first time.
Well, 3 sites mentioned on the linux front and the only one that isnt slashdotted is RedHat. Does that prove Lindows is only for the Desktop and not a server enviroment ?
I am unsure, if in fact the Govt is considered and orginaization, or if by the act of voting the public is being exposed to its derivative works, a little cloudy this morning.
Guess its all moot since it not like freshmeat exactly has 25 Govt election packages hangning around:)
They may NOT release the source, and they dont need to.
If they are using OpenSource components, such as the server enviroment application servers etc. They dont need release the source. People ranting that they MUST release the source, etiher are lost in a fantasy.
If I write an application for counting chicken egg hatching probablity and It runs under Tomcat, JBoss and MySQL I needent release a single thing as long as I dont use any GPL suff in the code I am handling myself.
That said it would be nice if they do, who cares if they dont. A private software company is doing the development, they may or may not have some kind of agreement or future plans for the software being written.
I am getting pretty sick of all the OpenSource neophiles barking they must release the code blah blah blah. I think you are probably a large part of the reason MS calls the GPL viral, and people actually belive them. It isn friggin poison fruit. The other reason MS calls the GPL viral of course is projects like this get sold on building upon OpenSource applications, taking gold from a dragon has a tendency to piss it off a wee bit.
Its nice to see greed still reigns supreme in the human spirit.
Doctors, Lawyers, "qualified professionals in good standing"........Well that eliminates about 75% of the doctors I know, and has to be at least 90% of the layers I know.:)
The funny thing is these supposed "qualified professionals" are in general, A) Just dumb enough to pay and B) Have the ego that will force them too.
Damm I wish I had thought of this one, its almost a perfect business model. Just like selling MP3's for Christian Music like LiquidAudio is doing, you know a Real honest christian isnt going to steal the MP3 when they can buy it , its gold,
This is too, between overinflated ego's of "Proffesionals" Layers, Doctors, etc...You cant loose.
Whats next a.GOD domain for the ego's of Judges and Politicians ? I want in on that hell charge them 10k a domain its not like they wont steal from the taxpayer to fund it.
Someone needs to roll this script in a VIRUS scanner. So whenever the app gets on the machine it gets scanned and flagged as a virus, with the FIX option then removing the EULA.
MS calls the GPL liscence Viral , Hell they started calling names first, if you wrap this in a Virus scanner and get hauled into court , the judge ask "why you felt your prodect could remove the EULA" look you honor at all these press clippings calling the GPL if the GPL can be viral so can the MS EULA, and Hence I can remove it:)
Who cares. If you are not a US citizen you do not enjoy the rigths guarenteed by our constitiution. This is a very simple fact that has been proven time and time again. If you are a citizen no one could care less if you were a communist, or a mormon, but hell people just hate the mormons naturally, Im not exactly sure why but they do.
And hell 200 years ago we were hanging wiches. So what
50 years ago the Nazi were with the aid of their collaborators commiting genocide.
Do the germans allow nazi materials to be handed out ? Or the french or belgians for that matter ?
Yes you will get hauled away, no charges will be filed, im sure after theyve checked your rectum with a commercial grade endoscope but, as long as youdidnt do it to frighten or incite panic, you will walk away.
The second example isnt a speech issue, you are breaking the law, ask the cop for some drugs same thing, prostitution is illegal , NOW that said you can print books on how to find a secure sex for money, or even make drugs, THAT is protected.
The truth is McCarthy had no real powers, they would haul you up, possibly deport if you werent a citizen, and basically you got blackballed by mob mentality, you broke no laws you werent PROSECUTED, persecuted is a different story. I personally know 2 people who were brought in front of his hearings, 1 was dismissed as an eccentric (VERY TRUE) the other was "watched" until the 1980's but having a copy of Pravda sent to your house in the cold war might have looked a little suspicios. But neither broke laws and neither was prosecuted. They were pariahs, just like the KKK and Neo Nazi's are today, ster clear and dont associate, BUT that is a choice of the people not to associate with them.
My discussion of the laws and the Goverment, what I envision as wrong and how to change it CANNOT be limited even by the so called "agencies who's job it is to ensure "national security""
Chest-thumping.......lol.....Since the DMCA was passed thats all ive heard from the Europeans, a sort of look we can delude ourselves to think we have as much or more freedoms as you.
I have intimate knowledge of classified weapons systems, some may be declassified by now I am sure. I have a background in nuclear physics as well. Can I tell some dipshit terrorist about these things, no. But the information was passed to me in a secure manner, with the understanding it was secured.
NOW If I were the person that came up with those ideas outside of a goverment situation, I could publish, I could pass out flyers telling how to make an ION Path discarge weapon. No one would care, but I could do it. AND be protected in such.
There are a lot of unenforcable laws on the books in every country, you were reffering to a sex law. I am reffering to words that come out of someones mouth or are written on paper. Sex has nothing to do with speech. But in the US you still talk about doing those things without fear of prosecution, look at that NAMBLA thingy , homosexual sex with boys, sickening to me. But they publish guides on it FCOL, and guess what its legal, Im glad it is, (im also glad what they are doing is still illegal here and if they get caught theyll hang so to say) BUT To ensure my freedom of speech continues I must allow others to voice their opinions on anything they wish.
Much of europe bans Nazi literature, even for historic purposes. Certain political parties are OUTLAWED. A man can be imprisioned for lible in some, and votes in others arent closed. This sound free to you ?
Write a paper detailing all the things wrong with YOUR current goverment, make it racy, not violent but turbulent. Publish 5000 copies and pass them out around the EU, see how far you get.
I do not know where YOU are. That may be true, to some extent, or delusion to some extent.
Ive got a better one for you and I guarentee my list will be longer.
Name 1 SINGLE European country, hell even the Balkans, where Absolute Unabridged Freedom of speech is a right that is impeachable by noone ?
The US is very unique in the extent our freedom of speech extends. In france you cannot wave a Nazi flag, in the US you can in fact hand out KKK literature outside a Grade School. You cannot abvocate in certain countries a overthrow, (by political means, not violence) of the entire system of Govt you have, here in the US you can. I could go on for an hour.
Some european countries are VERY liberal and areas of there freedom of speech may extend past what people percive as limits here in the US. But the truth is, and it has been tested time and time again. Freedom of Speech is an ABSOLUTE right in the US. I dare you to show me one single country on the planet that the free speech extends to the lengths it does in the United States.
Show me one single example , I would LOVE to be proved wrong, (there are only 2 other countries in the world thats laws support Freedom of Speech to the degree it extends here in the US)
Is it Illegal to Say ANYTHING you want about ANY subject in your country, to publicize and distribute information on even Illegal activities ?
Its legal here.
Overthrow of Goverment BY VIOLENT Means is the one exception. It is in the other 2 examples I know of as well, just like crying fire in a building will get your ass hauled in.
Well if this passes I have ONE single POSITIVE thing that will come from it.
All the EuroSlashdotters will have to shut the hell up about there being NO freedom in the USA, "Just look at the DMCA"
The difference I might add that in some European countries it will be Illegal to speak out against it to ANY extent they want ( Not talking about violent action, talking like that COULD get you in trouble even in the US). Here we can bitch and moan to our hearts content, and actually DO something about it. There, once its law forget it.......
The DMCA isnt really that bad in itself, I am serious, the problems are simple and 2 fold, 1 its open to interpratation by people (judges) that dont have a clue about IP or technology issues. 2 The way it is being used as a tool of greed. Not one of the damm DMCA letters I've seen would hold a grain of salt. But people are afraid, its not the law its the way its being weilded.
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They did NO such thing, they did NOT I REPEAT NOT ! Shut down ANY web sites. They could have but they actually DIDNT.
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What they did do, was CHANGE the content in question REMOTLEY. They made no effort to have the ISP or the US goverment TERMINATE the hosting of these sites, what they did was (probably with a rubber hose and blackjack) get the username and password and altered the site.
I hate when people say something other than happened, I read the damm headline an just about panicked that they somehow did this through LEGAL channels in the US , THEY DID NOT
What they did is no different than what a 12 year old script kiddie could have done with a username and password. they changed content, there is a HUGE difference betwwen CHANGING content and "Shutting Down" a website, if the fellow had US cronies that were willing to host it the Italians could do absolutley NOTHING about it. Im half tempted to get a cached copy and host it for the fellows. Let the meatballs try and shut it down.
I built a system like this with 2 and later 3 heads, years ago. actually wrote an article on it for a magazine:)
:)
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Uses 20 Meg MFM single platter 5 1/2 drives (the tolernaces were the most forgiving, I probably had the only 486 with MFM hard drives in it
It was WAY cool though, (I had it under glass to watch it)
We took pictures, and the rejected aticle, sealed em in an envelope with a signed notarized affidavit. and had the post office postmark the flap
I was going to patent it (this is circa 1992) but I was told by many contemperaries it was the dumbest idea they had heard.
Now if I can find it watch out
Ok lets take this recipe
:)
College students.
Computers.
Gigabit eth0 interface.
Porn.
Warez.
Muzic.
And these "ADMINISTRATORS" dont yet know how the bandwith is going to be utilized ?!?!?!
I think someone is asleep at the wheel. Or just dosent have a clue what college students are all about. I mean sure, some will be running spatial simulations of the end of time on their gigabit beowulf cluster that geek squad 101 puts togeter on this network and all that acedemia but, but how about the most kick ass perr to peer network know to man ?
I wonder if they'll pu that in the brocures
I am curios what type of traffic shaping and filtereing they are going to do on the campuses in and outbound pipe to the net ?
Lemme gues, this sounds great But am I betting Apple would want a patent on this "Single Protocol" ....Why not right
Here is an opp for someone with a few spare bucks and a patent atty to stick it to the big boys, patent it now, grab it early, I mean how hard can it be to write a patent that says "One protocol to subde them all ?"
I am kidding of course, writng patent abstract is a royal pain if youve ever done it, if they are good enough to withstand scrutiny that is.
Im game, 1 protocol for everything lets call it HTTP, that would rock, native http hard drive, just plug a HD into the network, instant web server.
I mean, wouldnt it be REALLY cool to have EVERYTHING talking back and forth in HTTP, then we would never have to worry about IIS or apache security again, it would ALL be swiss cheese.
(I really hop all you slashdotters know the above is ALL in jest)
If you look closley at the high res image, you can most certainly tell that the case is a machined alloy, with bead blasted finis, you can also spo a hair on the unit to the left middle of the screen.
:)
This isnt rocket science guys, its a Transmeta Cursoe proc, right for power consumption, and a 10 gig HD, nothing special there.
I think its slick, anywhere under 1500 I'd buy in a heartbeat.
Beside, you know its real from ONE SIMPLE ting in the high res photo, its got Quake on it, what developer at a company wouldnt just have to see how it quakes
Well. Digital Crypto , is for the most part 90% a waste of time for particularly sensitive data.
Its like the old MasterLock commercials, "Sure you can shoot it with a 308 in the middle and itll hold" but take a $5 pair of bolt cutters to it and its dust. Crypto is the same way, the client computers are the weak link, and as goverments spend more time and effort on Electronic Cypto, assuming it is the preffered route.
Well quite frankly it makes it EASIER to disseminate information in the plain REAL world, How hard is it to get a warrant to sniff email, In the US you dont even NEED one !!!!.
BUT let the FEDS TRY to get a warrant to open your snail mail, its damm near impossible.
Paper and Pen , these are going to be the Crypto tools of the next century.
In a time and place where 90% of work being done was the same crap over and over, cookie cutter stuff, and My specific focus was on the 10% that was to be completley new or extraordinary, then having someone else take credit for it ? I think not, actually within the company I could care less, but when seeking to fatten my salary, most certainly.
My ego is already big enough I need nothing to boost it.
"I would probably _not_ hire you".....I love when people on slashdot say that...especially when 99% of the time it doesent fall within their responsiblities to approve for hire...it kills me.
I have been offered a postion at every single company I have interviewed with since 1994. 12 in all. 6 I took. Every single one at a higher salary than previously. I do what I do and I do it well, its known, I have been offered unsolicited jobs without 1 interview, "We will send you a ticket, and a moving company" by MS and IBM to the point of annoyance (IBM called 9 times over 4 months) since I will NOT relocate.
BUT, things were not always that way.....
Thats the point it took time for me to gain both credibilty and RECOGNITION for the work I had done, especially when so many others are willing to take credit where none is due.
If I was starting over I would do the same thing again. You may not see the value or place for it but I assure you it has made difference in the early days, now....it has no place for me...hence I dont do it any longer...
Actually, no,
:)
The eggs were of a VERY specific purpose,
The provided NO alternative access, they simply provided, what appeared to be debug/versioning information.
I gave the addition much thought, I used a string on a Seperate CGI, (an executable, so it couldnt be reversed) that had to carry a specific variable (actually , "who_wrote_this" or "current_version" and they needed a query appended , but Im not telling you that
It actually had its uses, when we later went to load balancing and were initially having problems with page version distribution amongst servers, I added a parsing mechanism, and we would add a serial #into a comment field, we could then run another app which hit all the CGI's on all the load balanced servers and gave a quick report of which server wasnt getting updates properly.
No, never once did I hear them say No easter eggs for us. I gave a very detailed explanation it was OUR (my employeers) version checking application, the fact that I wrote and implemented it was of course left out.
In short they didnt see them as easter eggs, rather as a tool they could potentially see some value in for some unknown reason.
Truth be told psycology works both way in an interview, typically in interviewer, will NOT ask questions about something he/she does not full understand, at the risk of looking dumber than the person they are interviewing.
Every site, or more specifically interesting component I built was egged.
:) Not backdoors mind you, just "Author Control's" :)
:)
.....how many egged sites are out there ?
I did this for 2 reasons, 1 company I worked at, my MGR had a VERY bad habbit of claiming work was his, he would do a search and replace on Our names with his own....schmuck, SO, I would easter egg a cgi into it for "Author and Verion control"
Lol....It basically said it was built by me when and what cool stuff it did.
The second reason was Job Hunting, nothing like bringing up a killer site and being able to PROVE you were the constructor. Worked like a charm every time. Or if I was a company or two down the road from something of note I built, I could prove it was mine.
I started doing this in the early 90's when a lot of applications we were writing were for exclusive distribution and branding by third parties, who were never going to , or expected to give credit, of course they still graced my resumes....ONCE I had a company get contacted, they claimed it was all written in house, and I was lying about having ever worked on the app, NOW I can actually understand this , it was a finacial app and the thought of eggs or backdoors must have been scarry, I got called on it in my secnd interview. I explained why the company lied about my involvment and promplty offered PROOF of my involvment on particuar modules....I got the job.....:)
I still do it to some extent although not as clandestine or ego-centric. I proved myself to those in the area a loooonnng time ago. But its cool that over half the site I put up are still up in their original form and doing well, most are ecommerce site, and their eggs are still there
If code goes under the proper review channels, as it should before release this should never happen, funny thing is you have guys in charge of this stuff like me who then add it
But then again , on a smaller site that then gets gobbled by a 800lb gorilla you may see this, I guess If Ive done it, the author has done it and as many slashdotters Ive seen have done it
I have been using Linux (RedHat in paticular) since the 2.0 release, wanna talk ugly...:)
But I have stuck it out and I always maintain at least 1 linux workstation.
I had almost for about 2 years gotten away from Win32 all together only using it for VB6 application maintenece.
I am an application developer mostly web-centric applications, so PHP and I became quick friends.
BUT for my home desktop I installed XP for the kids and wife. They loved it , I tolerated it. I installed Visual Studio 7 and was hooked, development, things I used to fight with, mostly gone.
For a no brainewr desktop enviroment XP is bar none the best MS has put out to date. Its pretty brainless, very stable, and has all the eyecandy crap the wife and kids like.
I then realized something, I dont need a desktop machine for 80% of my work. By the time I had PHP running and MySWQL under it along with an Xwin32 to connect to some of my linux systems, and ports of all the damm Linux tools I use EVERY day , I had 2 weeks investedin making my XP box act and feel like a linux box.
Problems SOLVED, I made a VERY serious decison, No more evening work from home, no more trying to make XP like linux, I decided Home is XP Pro Land, At work its Linux Land.
It also gives me a PRIME excuse not to do anything but play games when at home and have to be on a computer.
Something interesting,
Back in the late 18 early 1900's STEAM itself was considered a pollutant.
Mass dischage of water vapor makes for a VERY nast enviromental hazzard, in many cities, there were MAJOR condensate problems , expecially in the winter.
Lung disorders increases in pneumonnia. Mixture of the vapor with other pollutants creating acids, etc.
Better run one hell of a condenser on the thing.
But at that you WILL lose some efficeny, either from flow reduction or a thermal related efficeny loss.
Tricky business.....
WOW, thats interesting, here Coal is responsible for some 70% of power production, no wonder were know as the Acid Rain state, heh, then again at least our rivers and lakes quit catching fire....(for those that dont know some 30 years back, the Cuyohoga river and parts of LK Erie were SO polluted they would actually ignite and burn (well solvents etc in the water would)
Your logic is sound for the Californa Market, The cracking of crude is not a very thermally expensive process however. It can be dirty but generally isnt as much, It is cheaper and more efficinent to builf the fractioning systems in a heat efficent manner, this in turn reduced the emmisions of the refinment process.
Truth be known Im all for SNAP powered cars. But hey I dont see the NRC letting your average citizen hurdle down the highway with that much plutonium or strontium or cobalt 90 around while jabbering on their cell phones.
From Ohio I speak
You gotta love people that dont have a clue,
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PURE electrics are responsible for the generation of more polution than comprable hybrid vehicles.
No ? Just look around at EV sites and it wont take you long to realized that generating electricity at a plant ??? miles away, transmission loss and all the fun add up to MORE FRIGGING polution in the generation of that electricity than a hybrid creates.
Not to metnion the long term battery and chemical disposal issues. Thats a whopper too.
Wait for one of the Borax Powered Hydrogen Fuel cell vehicles from Chrysler. Cost is supposed to be low, and emission zero.
Barring that look at some of the hybrid vehicles.
Sometimes I have to question peoples motives of EV , if its convinience thats OK, my neighbor has been using the same elctric lawn mower for 20 years, its easy, quiet cheap, the only thing he spends money on is a new extension cord every 3 years or so after he's chopped his umpteen times. If you are looking at an EV for enviromental reasons, PLEASE get a clue. PURE EV pollute more than hybrids, and some more than LEV.
My favorite action by an enviromental group was the guys in Calif, that burned an allotment down under construction. POINTS , 1 for burning, 2 like inscurance isnt going to pay and end up cutting more trees to rebuild ? 3, the fumes from all the insulation cooking ? 4 we deforest more area to rebuild an allotment "TREE HUGGERS" were protesting the cutting of trees ?
I would seriously wait for the Chryslers to be sold they seem AWFULL SLICK !
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,125
If you havent seen or heard about it
"sometimes appears to leave before they enter"
Does this mean all those magicians are correct when they say the hand is tuly quicker than the eye ?
Seriously are they even close to certain that their detection methods are accurate or is this a side effect of the enviroment on the detection equiptment. Wouldnt be the first time.
Well, 3 sites mentioned on the linux front and the only one that isnt slashdotted is RedHat. Does that prove Lindows is only for the Desktop and not a server enviroment ?
Absolutley true.
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I am unsure, if in fact the Govt is considered and orginaization, or if by the act of voting the public is being exposed to its derivative works, a little cloudy this morning.
Guess its all moot since it not like freshmeat exactly has 25 Govt election packages hangning around
They may NOT release the source, and they dont need to.
If they are using OpenSource components, such as the server enviroment application servers etc.
They dont need release the source. People ranting that they MUST release the source, etiher are lost in a fantasy.
If I write an application for counting chicken egg hatching probablity and It runs under Tomcat, JBoss and MySQL I needent release a single thing as long as I dont use any GPL suff in the code I am handling myself.
That said it would be nice if they do, who cares if they dont. A private software company is doing the development, they may or may not have some kind of agreement or future plans for the software being written.
I am getting pretty sick of all the OpenSource neophiles barking they must release the code blah blah blah. I think you are probably a large part of the reason MS calls the GPL viral, and people actually belive them. It isn friggin poison fruit. The other reason MS calls the GPL viral of course is projects like this get sold on building upon OpenSource applications, taking gold from a dragon has a tendency to piss it off a wee bit.
I love this,
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.GOD domain for the ego's of Judges and Politicians ? I want in on that hell charge them 10k a domain its not like they wont steal from the taxpayer to fund it.
Its nice to see greed still reigns supreme in the human spirit.
Doctors, Lawyers, "qualified professionals in good standing"........Well that eliminates about 75% of the doctors I know, and has to be at least 90% of the layers I know.
The funny thing is these supposed "qualified professionals" are in general, A) Just dumb enough to pay and B) Have the ego that will force them too.
Damm I wish I had thought of this one, its almost a perfect business model. Just like selling MP3's for Christian Music like LiquidAudio is doing, you know a Real honest christian isnt going to steal the MP3 when they can buy it , its gold,
This is too, between overinflated ego's of "Proffesionals" Layers, Doctors, etc...You cant loose.
Whats next a
This is funny beyond compare
Someone needs to roll this script in a VIRUS scanner. So whenever the app gets on the machine it gets scanned and flagged as a virus, with the FIX option then removing the EULA.
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MS calls the GPL liscence Viral , Hell they started calling names first, if you wrap this in a Virus scanner and get hauled into court , the judge ask "why you felt your prodect could remove the EULA" look you honor at all these press clippings calling the GPL if the GPL can be viral so can the MS EULA, and Hence I can remove it
I looked and connot find OSX support,
With all the new Apples shipping on OSX wouldnt this be a great product for them ?
Every person I know that is/has bougth a iMac G4 whatever has also purchased MSOffice X.
It cant be that hard to port, can it ???
Immigration ???
Who cares. If you are not a US citizen you do not enjoy the rigths guarenteed by our constitiution. This is a very simple fact that has been proven time and time again. If you are a citizen no one could care less if you were a communist, or a mormon, but hell people just hate the mormons naturally, Im not exactly sure why but they do.
And hell 200 years ago we were hanging wiches. So what
50 years ago the Nazi were with the aid of their collaborators commiting genocide.
Do the germans allow nazi materials to be handed out ? Or the french or belgians for that matter ?
That dosent sound like free speech AT ALL.
Yes you will get hauled away, no charges will be filed, im sure after theyve checked your rectum with a commercial grade endoscope but, as long as youdidnt do it to frighten or incite panic, you will walk away.
The second example isnt a speech issue, you are breaking the law, ask the cop for some drugs same thing, prostitution is illegal , NOW that said you can print books on how to find a secure sex for money, or even make drugs, THAT is protected.
The truth is McCarthy had no real powers, they would haul you up, possibly deport if you werent a citizen, and basically you got blackballed by mob mentality, you broke no laws you werent PROSECUTED, persecuted is a different story. I personally know 2 people who were brought in front of his hearings, 1 was dismissed as an eccentric (VERY TRUE) the other was "watched" until the 1980's but having a copy of Pravda sent to your house in the cold war might have looked a little suspicios. But neither broke laws and neither was prosecuted. They were pariahs, just like the KKK and Neo Nazi's are today, ster clear and dont associate, BUT that is a choice of the people not to associate with them.
My discussion of the laws and the Goverment, what I envision as wrong and how to change it CANNOT be limited even by the so called "agencies who's job it is to ensure "national security""
Chest-thumping.......lol.....Since the DMCA was passed thats all ive heard from the Europeans, a sort of look we can delude ourselves to think we have as much or more freedoms as you.
I have intimate knowledge of classified weapons systems, some may be declassified by now I am sure. I have a background in nuclear physics as well. Can I tell some dipshit terrorist about these things, no. But the information was passed to me in a secure manner, with the understanding it was secured.
NOW If I were the person that came up with those ideas outside of a goverment situation, I could publish, I could pass out flyers telling how to make an ION Path discarge weapon. No one would care, but I could do it. AND be protected in such.
There are a lot of unenforcable laws on the books in every country, you were reffering to a sex law. I am reffering to words that come out of someones mouth or are written on paper. Sex has nothing to do with speech. But in the US you still talk about doing those things without fear of prosecution, look at that NAMBLA thingy , homosexual sex with boys, sickening to me. But they publish guides on it FCOL, and guess what its legal, Im glad it is, (im also glad what they are doing is still illegal here and if they get caught theyll hang so to say) BUT To ensure my freedom of speech continues I must allow others to voice their opinions on anything they wish.
Much of europe bans Nazi literature, even for historic purposes. Certain political parties are OUTLAWED. A man can be imprisioned for lible in some, and votes in others arent closed. This sound free to you ?
Write a paper detailing all the things wrong with YOUR current goverment, make it racy, not violent but turbulent. Publish 5000 copies and pass them out around the EU, see how far you get.
I do not know where YOU are. That may be true, to some extent, or delusion to some extent.
Ive got a better one for you and I guarentee my list will be longer.
Name 1 SINGLE European country, hell even the Balkans, where Absolute Unabridged Freedom of speech is a right that is impeachable by noone ?
The US is very unique in the extent our freedom of speech extends. In france you cannot wave a Nazi flag, in the US you can in fact hand out KKK literature outside a Grade School. You cannot abvocate in certain countries a overthrow, (by political means, not violence) of the entire system of Govt you have, here in the US you can. I could go on for an hour.
Some european countries are VERY liberal and areas of there freedom of speech may extend past what people percive as limits here in the US. But the truth is, and it has been tested time and time again. Freedom of Speech is an ABSOLUTE right in the US. I dare you to show me one single country on the planet that the free speech extends to the lengths it does in the United States.
Show me one single example , I would LOVE to be proved wrong, (there are only 2 other countries in the world thats laws support Freedom of Speech to the degree it extends here in the US)
Is it Illegal to Say ANYTHING you want about ANY subject in your country, to publicize and distribute information on even Illegal activities ?
Its legal here.
Overthrow of Goverment BY VIOLENT Means is the one exception. It is in the other 2 examples I know of as well, just like crying fire in a building will get your ass hauled in.
Well if this passes I have ONE single POSITIVE thing that will come from it.
All the EuroSlashdotters will have to shut the hell up about there being NO freedom in the USA, "Just look at the DMCA"
The difference I might add that in some European countries it will be Illegal to speak out against it to ANY extent they want ( Not talking about violent action, talking like that COULD get you in trouble even in the US). Here we can bitch and moan to our hearts content, and actually DO something about it. There, once its law forget it.......
The DMCA isnt really that bad in itself, I am serious, the problems are simple and 2 fold, 1 its open to interpratation by people (judges) that dont have a clue about IP or technology issues. 2 The way it is being used as a tool of greed. Not one of the damm DMCA letters I've seen would hold a grain of salt. But people are afraid, its not the law its the way its being weilded.
Uhhhhhh sorry for the question ....
Isnt "adult site" and "decent reputation" in the same sentence an oxymoron ?