i agree with ya. This kind of bs has been happening a little more often to me recently, but then again I do submit a large number of submissions, which is probably why I lead the charge in the hof. The guy right behind me, FortKnox, records his submissions in his journal. Maybe that'll be my New Years Res. Checking FK's journal right now, he's writing about getting a rejection a month ago on Flying on Mars, which appeared the other day.
Jupiter will be very visible tonight with the naked eye. After dark, look just east of the moon for an unusually bright star. Doesnt matter what part of the world you're in, best viewing would be midnight +/- 1 hour in your local time zone.
From the article:
Barnesand Noble.com's victory over Amazon.com in an appeal of Amazon's claim that Barnes & Noble infringed on Amazon's one-click shopping patent, thereby bringing a ray of commonsense into the otherwise murky world of business-method patents.
When did that happen!? I dont recall seeing it on slashdot or any other news site. A quick search through the/. archives comes up with this as the last article on the topic.
somebody go fix that faq!
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the faq isnt done yet - click on a link at the top and go no where. the author of it forgot to post link tags throughout the document linking it to the toc at the top
most places already do this. looking through a bunch of receipts from christmas, Texaco, ShopRite (a PA-area food store), Kmart, Walmart, and Bed Bath & Beyond print the last 4 digits, Levi's Outlet at Franklin Mills Mall prints the whole number.
That's ok for me though, as I know how to protect myself. Dont trash the receipt at the store. At home, carefully cut up each digit individually using a pair of scissors, separate the piles into several seperate trash bins somewhere downtown, the more blocks apart the better.
a lot of stores are like that. I used to work for KMart back when their cards were intro'd, and it worked the exact same way. The plus for KMart is that (according to the article) is that there is a conf number in the stripe not found on the card and not given to the customer. The only loophole would be a card that had it's stripe damaged, as the clerk would have to punch in the card number printed on the front, nothing else. But this article talks about re-programming the the stripe on the card, which is made difficult by the conf code.
gift cards are basically a replacement for gift certificates. whomever came up with them was probably trying to solve a problem with paper certs fraud. the idea is you go to the store, ask for a card with N amount on it, pay, and you're given a card that can be used later. you give that card to the person you wish to. when making a purchase with the card, the amount is deducted from the balance on the card.
the gift cards double for the store as store credit. return an item w/o a receipt? get the amount of your refund on a gift card.
You might SOL on getting done in 12 months. At best >3 years is what it will take for a bachelors of CS. Just about any accredidated (sp?) school will require non-CS stuff like 2 semesters Physics, Chemistry, history, and the like.
But there are some distance learning stuff that some schools are developing, which might be good and easy to get done quickly, depending on who's giving it.
Beware those distance leraning programs where there's no human interaction (ie, an entire computer based course). I once took a short Java course through one of those - lousy and full of errors. If you were asked to enter some missing text, liek the "String [] args" in the main() sig, using "String[]" as opposed to "String []" (note the space) gets you marked incorrect, not to mention they were full of syntax errors. (Coincidentally, the course was given through a Java-applet)
I think windows should be a generic term anyway, whether I'm running Windows, X or BeOS I call those boxes on the screen 'windows', therefore any derivatives of the name should be allowed I think.
i say we ask the opinion of the guy who steps away from his computer when tech support says "now close that window"
i started reading it near the end of july, got through about 2/3 of it and just couldnt take anymore (plus school was starting the following week). When news of the settlement started to surface in early November, I sat down one afternoon and wrote the review. It then took/. about 6 weeks to post it.
i wrote the review from the vantagepoint of the audience here on slashdot - the geek viewpoint. That is also how i read the book, as I consider myself a geek.
Given that, I did not find Auletta's biographical analysis of each person contributing much. A few were worth it, as the one about Gates was very revealing to how MS operates and acts as a corporation. But most were overdaunting in needless detail and were distracting from the main theme.
I still have not finished the book. But it doesnt take finishing to know that the book is of poor quality, IMO. If you watch a bad movie, does it take sitting through the entire two hours to realize that? And does it take that entire two hours to tell your friends "dont bother"
you are correct.. the author was indeed biased. I think he was actually one of the press guys that the Judge met with privately that caused the problems that got Jackson thrown off the case.
I did note the amount of MS bashing the book does, which probably contributed to why I got tired of reading after about 2/3 through. But the author did try to look unbiased, such as giving Gates's viewpoint on issues and such.
The title of the book came from two major things: the concept that Microsoft (in the author's opinion) bullyed other corporations around into contracts and other agreements that were restrictive and anti-competitive and denied the contracting company their abilities to do as they pleased. The other aspect to the tilte is how MS simply went off and attempted to consume markets all over the place, making enemies along the way. For example, Yahoo became an enemy when MSN was created.
i dont think it'll happen easily... the cpu appears to be far a few inches from the needles and branches in the third and fourth pictures. not to mention the tree's artificial, and probably fire retardant. besides, it's only a pentium 100, which doesnt produce as much heat as some newer cpus
power supply is probably also a non-issue, it's being used under the base of the tree.
most AV tools monitor program execution for anomolis behavior by unknown virii. would magic lantern be able to avoid being detected by that?
also, what about personal firewall programs? I use Tiny Software's PF (yes, under Windows, sad isnt it) that checks the md5 of an executable before granting internet access. on top of that, it can allow you to block certain apps from making/accepting connections from various sites. for example I have it set to not allow Mozilla access to doubleclick and some other ad servers.
Here, two things exist: the lantern has to find a way around the md5 and also find a way around asking the user "PGP wants to connect to [fbi-ip-address], allow it? (y/n)" Getting through one or the other might prove difficult.
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i dont think you followed the link. last time jupiter was overhead on new years was 1752.
try repeating that comment on this thread
i agree with ya. This kind of bs has been happening a little more often to me recently, but then again I do submit a large number of submissions, which is probably why I lead the charge in the hof. The guy right behind me, FortKnox, records his submissions in his journal. Maybe that'll be my New Years Res. Checking FK's journal right now, he's writing about getting a rejection a month ago on Flying on Mars, which appeared the other day.
Jupiter will be very visible tonight with the naked eye. After dark, look just east of the moon for an unusually bright star. Doesnt matter what part of the world you're in, best viewing would be midnight +/- 1 hour in your local time zone.
. jupiter.ap/index.html
/. last night, got rejected (naturally).
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/12/30/new.year
Tried submitting this to
me too..... only i was a day later and tried it twice
2001-12-29 22:24:59 Legal Year In Review (articles,doj) (rejected)
2001-12-29 23:11:01 2001: The Legal Review (yro,news) (rejected)
From the article:
/. archives comes up with this as the last article on the topic.
Barnesand Noble.com's victory over Amazon.com in an appeal of Amazon's claim that Barnes & Noble infringed on Amazon's one-click shopping patent, thereby bringing a ray of commonsense into the otherwise murky world of business-method patents.
When did that happen!? I dont recall seeing it on slashdot or any other news site. A quick search through the
the faq isnt done yet - click on a link at the top and go no where. the author of it forgot to post link tags throughout the document linking it to the toc at the top
old news
unfortunately, it's only for Solaris and HP-UX
most places already do this. looking through a bunch of receipts from christmas, Texaco, ShopRite (a PA-area food store), Kmart, Walmart, and Bed Bath & Beyond print the last 4 digits, Levi's Outlet at Franklin Mills Mall prints the whole number.
That's ok for me though, as I know how to protect myself. Dont trash the receipt at the store. At home, carefully cut up each digit individually using a pair of scissors, separate the piles into several seperate trash bins somewhere downtown, the more blocks apart the better.
a lot of stores are like that. I used to work for KMart back when their cards were intro'd, and it worked the exact same way. The plus for KMart is that (according to the article) is that there is a conf number in the stripe not found on the card and not given to the customer. The only loophole would be a card that had it's stripe damaged, as the clerk would have to punch in the card number printed on the front, nothing else. But this article talks about re-programming the the stripe on the card, which is made difficult by the conf code.
gift cards are basically a replacement for gift certificates. whomever came up with them was probably trying to solve a problem with paper certs fraud. the idea is you go to the store, ask for a card with N amount on it, pay, and you're given a card that can be used later. you give that card to the person you wish to. when making a purchase with the card, the amount is deducted from the balance on the card.
the gift cards double for the store as store credit. return an item w/o a receipt? get the amount of your refund on a gift card.
You might SOL on getting done in 12 months. At best >3 years is what it will take for a bachelors of CS. Just about any accredidated (sp?) school will require non-CS stuff like 2 semesters Physics, Chemistry, history, and the like.
But there are some distance learning stuff that some schools are developing, which might be good and easy to get done quickly, depending on who's giving it.
Beware those distance leraning programs where there's no human interaction (ie, an entire computer based course). I once took a short Java course through one of those - lousy and full of errors. If you were asked to enter some missing text, liek the "String [] args" in the main() sig, using "String[]" as opposed to "String []" (note the space) gets you marked incorrect, not to mention they were full of syntax errors. (Coincidentally, the course was given through a Java-applet)
Great! I already have a problem driving in front of a guy chatting away, now I have to deal with him having phone sex too!
Then they'd pronounce this Line-does
then those people would also pronounce it "Wine-does," which puts everyone back to square 1
I think windows should be a generic term anyway, whether I'm running Windows, X or BeOS I call those boxes on the screen 'windows', therefore any derivatives of the name should be allowed I think.
i say we ask the opinion of the guy who steps away from his computer when tech support says "now close that window"
... until we face Code Red XP?
i started reading it near the end of july, got through about 2/3 of it and just couldnt take anymore (plus school was starting the following week). When news of the settlement started to surface in early November, I sat down one afternoon and wrote the review. It then took /. about 6 weeks to post it.
Hemos's comment
It's about eight months out of date now
From my review
The book covers the story up to last January
perhaps 11 months feels like 8 to Hemos
i wrote the review from the vantagepoint of the audience here on slashdot - the geek viewpoint. That is also how i read the book, as I consider myself a geek.
Given that, I did not find Auletta's biographical analysis of each person contributing much. A few were worth it, as the one about Gates was very revealing to how MS operates and acts as a corporation. But most were overdaunting in needless detail and were distracting from the main theme.
I still have not finished the book. But it doesnt take finishing to know that the book is of poor quality, IMO. If you watch a bad movie, does it take sitting through the entire two hours to realize that? And does it take that entire two hours to tell your friends "dont bother"
you are correct .. the author was indeed biased. I think he was actually one of the press guys that the Judge met with privately that caused the problems that got Jackson thrown off the case.
I did note the amount of MS bashing the book does, which probably contributed to why I got tired of reading after about 2/3 through. But the author did try to look unbiased, such as giving Gates's viewpoint on issues and such.
The title of the book came from two major things: the concept that Microsoft (in the author's opinion) bullyed other corporations around into contracts and other agreements that were restrictive and anti-competitive and denied the contracting company their abilities to do as they pleased. The other aspect to the tilte is how MS simply went off and attempted to consume markets all over the place, making enemies along the way. For example, Yahoo became an enemy when MSN was created.
literally just finished reading the cnet version of this story, which included a statement like the following:
"... does not address any new holes that might crop up"
can I be the first to tell cnet "DUH!"
i dont think it'll happen easily... the cpu appears to be far a few inches from the needles and branches in the third and fourth pictures. not to mention the tree's artificial, and probably fire retardant. besides, it's only a pentium 100, which doesnt produce as much heat as some newer cpus
power supply is probably also a non-issue, it's being used under the base of the tree.
most AV tools monitor program execution for anomolis behavior by unknown virii. would magic lantern be able to avoid being detected by that?
also, what about personal firewall programs? I use Tiny Software's PF (yes, under Windows, sad isnt it) that checks the md5 of an executable before granting internet access. on top of that, it can allow you to block certain apps from making/accepting connections from various sites. for example I have it set to not allow Mozilla access to doubleclick and some other ad servers.
Here, two things exist: the lantern has to find a way around the md5 and also find a way around asking the user "PGP wants to connect to [fbi-ip-address], allow it? (y/n)" Getting through one or the other might prove difficult.