Most spammers use bots to harvest their stuff, soo, why not say, bury hundreds of false yet apparently legit email addresses under hidden links on your pages.... the bot will spider through your pages and then dig down to them. This is even more likely if it appears in your robots.txt and/or contains email in its name.
Even a novice programmer can write a php or perl script to spit fake emails out. From there i'm not certain what would be good. Feed it enough fake emails to keep it connected, or just let the connection time out so it gives up.
I suspect that he realizes that George has done the same here, and is basically doing the same to get George out, because he believes George to be the Devil, or at least a reasonable facimile.
These machines have the same problems as Diebold, and a few of their own.
DRE, just like the Accuvote machines, small difficult to read typeface, and so on. [url:www.votersunite.org/info/CorrectingSequoia.pd f]
All the noise going on here about it could be motivated by "certain interested parties", to do a number of things, such as:
distract the public towards a different manufacturer, taking the pressure off of Diebold,
Throw more bad press at Chavez,
and attack the Sequoia machines because they present a perceived threat to their regional control given by Diebold and other voting machines.
Already did it before I even read Slashdot... although my letter actually pointed out that millions of computer professionals had already read it (hint, people capable of actually doing the hacking) and diebold couldn't possibly provide a patch in time for all possible attack vectors. So many people have seen it now that it is statistically improbable for it not to happen.
The timing was awesome. A lot of Republican lawmakers started a trend of leaving DC for the weekend on Thursday. Don't expect anything to happen on it until next Monday at best, unless they call some sort of emergency session...
Sometimes I wonder whether or not the ozone hole has always been there and we just noticed the hole one day and thought it was something special. I mean, the Earth is slightly egg shaped, doesn't it kind of make sense for the atmosphere to also not be spherical?
Next thing you know people will be saying that the decline in pirates is directly related to global warming!
But seriously now.... after actually skimming over the study we it does have some actual points, but seems to miss some societal problems, it instead is based entirely in proving the relation between television and autism, even going as far as to provide precipitation data. Unfortunately the yearly precipitation and yearly cable subscription graphs do not interact enough to provide any supporting evidence of the problem.
To me, it is likely that the statistical data of diagnosis reflects societal awareness of the problem.
By 5 year blocks, the number of autism related movies released, vs california autism rate by birth year ( page 61 of the pdf) 1970-1975: 2 movies, 0.0005 1975-1980: 4 movies, 0.0005 1980-1985: 1 movies, 0.0008 1985-1990: 3 movies, 0.0013 1991-1995: 7 movies, 0.0027
Gee, it seems that there might be some kind of coorelation there too, now doesn't it....
From the description, I don't even think this is a "new hack", this seems to be the same kind of crap they pull on a normal harddisk applied to a UDF file system. A zero byte length IFO file? Just because the operating system can't see it, doesn't mean it isn't there. I bet they just positioned the data in "surplus sectors" somewhere outside of the normal disk space.
Reading it with our old buddy dd would likely be something like this;
I chose Gentoo specifically for the ability to build packages with the features I wanted, and not to have to depend on packages used in someone elses system layout and choices.
Seeds is a waste of time and resources. If I wanted a distro based around someone elses packages I would have chosen Suse or Debian.
Took me about a week to get it usable, and then another three weeks and a half dozen kernel builds to eliminate all of the errors found in the error log.
Most of my troubles were due to not carefully reading every single line of the manual, and skipping sections. Anything else I could find on gentoo HOWTO pages or google.
I think perhaps the manual could do with a rewrite. A lot of the sections aren't entirely clear. Attempts aren't made to define what some things are when they are first used, so you really need to read the manual completely through once or twice before you even try to install it.
Right, but it prevents passphrases, which are easier to remember and reproduce accurately. Not to mention they can be fashioned to be much much stronger.
Speaking as someone who is currently typing on that particular "miniature" keyboard and have been doing so for nearly 7 years now... Regardless of what your own opinion is of it, It is the most durable keyboard I have ever used. It doesn't have a loud click-clack that some do, the cord is heavy duty, The power button and USB ports still work, and even the rubber pads on the bottom of it haven't worn off yet, and neither have any of the letters on the keyboard, despite 50-60+ hours of use per week on it.
The hockey puck mouse, well, I have to agree that was a piece of crap. It was completely unusable by anyone on any computer. Hold your mouse sideways and try and select something on the screen. That is what using the hockey puck mouse was like.
Personally, I think the producers and executives involved need to be kidnapped and taken to secret CIA prisons overseas, where they would be forced to watch "Star Trek: Enterprise" on shuffle until their eyes began to bleed.
What is ingenious about IBM is the fact that IBM is essentially using the R&D in its consumer-electronics division (that builds processors for game consoles and other toys) to advance R&D in the business-oriented high-performance-processor/high-end-server division.
This is nothing new. It has been part of IBM's business model for years to take orders for projects, complete the projects, and then turn around and use the resultant products in their own hardware. Take the powerpc 970 for example; made for Apple, and used in IBM's own hardware.
Yes, poll disparity does in fact indicate tampering. In fact, I know people personally who were prevented from voting by republican poll challengers. Considering that I live in a "blue state", I would have to say that it was very wide spread.
I seem to recall seeing something on some conservative websites, where they were spreading a belief that the democrats were going to try and steal the election in 2004. Thus I believe that many poll challengers believed that they were combating fraud, while in fact they were contributing to it.
The media was well aware that the election was being stolen. They had to be. There were in fact some stories posted on CNN's web site for a short period of time in regards to election problems... but does anyone ever remember seeing anything appear on any of their TV networks?
Also, despite electoral-vote.com's popularity and dozen or so mirror sites. They were ALL ddosed into oblivion on the night of the election. Or doesn't anyone recall that? What other reason would someone ddos a site containing nothing but collected poll information if not to suppress it.
I think that this could produce textbooks that have content not directly influenced by governments, religions, and corporations. There is likely to be some level of resistance in certain places depending on the subject, but the overall result should be positive.
Yes, but if that schmuck had a BSEE he/she wouldn't, except in the rarest of circumstances, be a cop. The investigators would have to use their brains and find someone who can do the work.
Its just in the wrong place! Anywhere near the shift and control keys is a bad idea. Yes, you would think it would belong there, considering what it really is is a way to make shift stay on.
Now lets take a look over at the numlock key.... See how it is up and away from the enter key? How about the scroll lock key (if you have one)... it's certainly nowhere near anything useful. If it were my choice, I'd put scroll, caps and numlock all together in one group up next to the function keys, or even make them share space with some of the others and use alt to activate them.
I personally like his claim about Mac OS X updates, "..I'd argue that virtually none of those were major updates at all."
Tell that to the people using 10.0 when they updated to 10.1. Each update contained major additions in functionality, and often broke preexisting binaries (especially ones you compiled yourself)
How about the one about windows mail being first... Hrm... wasn't mail.app part of NeXT?
His point about 64 bit support in leopard: "Thanks to the 64-bit Xeon chip that will be shipping in the new Mac Pro systems, Leopard will be fully 64-bit enabled (unlike Tiger, which is only partially 64-bit and then only on certain Power PC systems). That means that OS X will finally do what Windows XP x64 Edition did last year: Run 32-bit and 64-bit applications natively, side-by-side. Good for them."
Of course there is the premise that OS X on intel does not, but what 64 bit intel offerings do they currently have?
How about this one: "Apple is integrating applications like Boot Camp, Photo Booth, and Front Row into Leopard. Previously, these applications were only available with new Macs, or in the case of Boot Camp, as a free public beta download. Sorry, but this is hardly impressive."
So, does ilife not exist now? Hey, its more free software.
Enough of this. I'd like to see his take on Linux already.
Hacks to keep a connection alive? Over TCP/IP, a connection based protocol?! No, really?!
I am not certain that it is time to update the HTTP spec so much as to come up with an accompanying spec for connection based browser communication before microsoft does.
Something similar to xmlHTTPrequest, but something that can maintain a symmetrical connection that HTTP is not designed for.
I dunno, maybe something vaguely like this: (and i stress vaguely)
<script type="text/javascript"> var server = new host ("192.168.2.3"); var state = "michigan"; host.connect(); host.send("query.php?capitalof="+state); document.write(" The capital of "+state+" is "+host.recv()+"<br>" ); host.send("query.php?populationof="+state); document.write(" The population of "+state+" is "+host.recv()+"<br>" ); host.close(); </script>
Slashdot Mirror
Mod parent Up. He has a point.
Most spammers use bots to harvest their stuff, soo, why not say, bury hundreds of false yet apparently legit email addresses under hidden links on your pages.... the bot will spider through your pages and then dig down
to them. This is even more likely if it appears in your robots.txt and/or contains email in its name.
Even a novice programmer can write a php or perl script to spit fake emails out. From there i'm not certain what would be good. Feed it enough fake emails to keep it connected, or just let the connection time out so it gives up.
Oops, wrong kind of bracketing...
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first link,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Voting_Syste
second link,
http://www.votersunite.org/info/CorrectingSequoia
Fix his own elections? Its entirely likely that he already has.
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[url:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Voting_
I suspect that he realizes that George has done the same here,
and is basically doing the same to get George out, because he
believes George to be the Devil, or at least a reasonable facimile.
These machines have the same problems as Diebold, and a few of their own.
DRE, just like the Accuvote machines, small difficult to read typeface, and so on.
[url:www.votersunite.org/info/CorrectingSequoia.p
All the noise going on here about it could be motivated by "certain interested parties",
to do a number of things, such as:
distract the public towards a different manufacturer, taking the pressure off of Diebold,
Throw more bad press at Chavez,
and attack the Sequoia machines because they present a perceived threat to their regional
control given by Diebold and other voting machines.
Already did it before I even read Slashdot... although my letter actually pointed out that
millions of computer professionals had already read it (hint, people capable of actually
doing the hacking) and diebold couldn't possibly provide a patch in time for all possible
attack vectors. So many people have seen it now that it is statistically improbable for it not
to happen.
The timing was awesome. A lot of Republican lawmakers started a trend of leaving DC for the
weekend on Thursday. Don't expect anything to happen on it until next Monday at best, unless
they call some sort of emergency session...
Me too!
The wikipedia page is more informative than this article...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer
Which after reading it, provides better insight than the article....
Sometimes I wonder whether or not the ozone hole has always been there and we just noticed the hole one day and thought it was something special. I mean, the Earth is slightly egg shaped, doesn't it kind of make sense for the atmosphere to also not be spherical?
Next thing you know people will be saying that the decline in pirates is directly related to global warming!
But seriously now.... after actually skimming over the study we it does have some actual points, but seems to
miss some societal problems, it instead is based entirely in proving the relation between television and autism,
even going as far as to provide precipitation data. Unfortunately the yearly precipitation and yearly cable subscription graphs do not interact enough to provide any supporting evidence of the problem.
To me, it is likely that the statistical data of diagnosis reflects societal awareness of the problem.
Lets consider full length films and films made for television, taken from http://autistic-people.com/autism-movies.html
By 5 year blocks, the number of autism related movies released, vs california autism rate by birth year ( page 61 of the pdf)
1970-1975: 2 movies, 0.0005
1975-1980: 4 movies, 0.0005
1980-1985: 1 movies, 0.0008
1985-1990: 3 movies, 0.0013
1991-1995: 7 movies, 0.0027
Gee, it seems that there might be some kind of coorelation there too, now doesn't it....
Reading it with our old buddy dd would likely be something like this;After that, someone would have to figure how to properly extract the ifo data from the output file.
I chose Gentoo specifically for the ability to build packages
with the features I wanted, and not to have to depend on packages
used in someone elses system layout and choices.
Seeds is a waste of time and resources. If I wanted a distro based
around someone elses packages I would have chosen Suse or Debian.
Idiots...
Took me about a week to get it usable, and then another three weeks and a
half dozen kernel builds to eliminate all of the errors found in the error log.
Most of my troubles were due to not carefully reading every single line of the manual, and
skipping sections. Anything else I could find on gentoo HOWTO pages or google.
I think perhaps the manual could do with a rewrite. A lot of the sections aren't entirely clear.
Attempts aren't made to define what some things are when they are first used, so you really need
to read the manual completely through once or twice before you even try to install it.
Right, but it prevents passphrases, which are easier to remember and reproduce accurately. Not to mention they can be fashioned to be much much stronger.
Any good detectors that support both out there?
Speaking as someone who is currently typing on that particular "miniature" keyboard and have been doing so for nearly 7 years now... Regardless of what your own opinion is of it, It is the most durable keyboard I have ever used. It doesn't have a loud click-clack that some do, the cord is heavy duty, The power button and USB ports still work, and even the rubber pads on the bottom of it haven't worn off yet, and neither have any of the letters on the keyboard, despite 50-60+ hours of use per week on it.
The hockey puck mouse, well, I have to agree that was a piece of crap. It was completely unusable by anyone on any computer. Hold your mouse sideways and try and select something on the screen. That is what using the hockey puck mouse was like.
Personally, I think the producers and executives involved need to be
kidnapped and taken to secret CIA prisons overseas, where they would
be forced to watch "Star Trek: Enterprise" on shuffle until their
eyes began to bleed.
This is nothing new. It has been part of IBM's business model for years to take orders for projects, complete the projects, and then turn around and use the resultant products in their own hardware. Take the powerpc 970 for example; made for Apple, and used in IBM's own hardware.
http://www.google.com/search?hs=EdK&hl=en&lr=&cli
In fact, it is likely that IBM even gave them a better deal on production if they thought that they could make money with it.
Yes, poll disparity does in fact indicate tampering. In fact, I know people personally who were prevented from voting by republican poll challengers. Considering that I live in a "blue state", I would have to say that it was very wide spread.
= org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&hl=en&q=poll+disp arity+indicates+tampering&btnG=Google+Search
e =off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aof ficial_s&q=democrats+will+try+to+steal+the+electio n&btnG=Search
Google provides some good info on its first search page: http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls
I seem to recall seeing something on some conservative websites, where they were spreading a belief that the democrats were going to try and steal the election in 2004. Thus I believe that many poll challengers believed that they were combating fraud, while in fact they were contributing to it.
Google doesn't do so good on this one:
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&saf
The media was well aware that the election was being stolen. They had to be. There were in fact some stories posted on CNN's web site for a short period of time in regards to election problems... but does anyone ever remember seeing anything appear on any of their TV networks?
Also, despite electoral-vote.com's popularity and dozen or so mirror sites. They were ALL ddosed into oblivion on the night of the election. Or doesn't anyone recall that? What other reason would someone ddos a site containing nothing but collected poll information if not to suppress it.
I think that this could produce textbooks that have content not directly influenced by governments, religions, and corporations. There is likely to be some level of resistance in certain places depending on the subject, but the overall result should be positive.
Yes, but if that schmuck had a BSEE he/she wouldn't, except in the rarest of circumstances, be a cop. The investigators would have to use their brains and find someone who can do the work.
Soon they will be as strong and flexible as gumby and hercules combined!
I've been wanting to try this one for a while: Qemu + eclipse
But then kdevelop gave me the least problems out of the three;
I wonder: does the continual re-editing of the work of the deceased extend its copyright to the re-editor's lifetime + 70 years?
Yes, yes it does... expect a lot of this in the future.
I'm *still* waiting for cable internet after 9 years....
and DSL....
They don't so much need upgrades as to get off of their asses
and finish the last mile.
The bastards provide digital cable, but are too cheap to
finish the transition to broadband internet.
There should be some kind of law that mandates uniform service
across all customers of such a utility.
Its just in the wrong place! Anywhere near the shift and control keys is a bad idea. Yes, you would think it would belong there, considering what it really is is a way to make shift stay on.
Now lets take a look over at the numlock key.... See how it is up and away from the enter key? How about the scroll lock key (if you have one)... it's certainly nowhere near anything useful. If it were my choice, I'd put scroll, caps and numlock all together in one group up next to the function keys, or even make them share space with some of the others and use alt to activate them.
I personally like his claim about Mac OS X updates, "..I'd argue that virtually none of those were major updates at all."
Tell that to the people using 10.0 when they updated to 10.1. Each update contained major additions in functionality, and often broke preexisting binaries (especially ones you compiled yourself)
How about the one about windows mail being first... Hrm... wasn't mail.app part of NeXT?
His point about 64 bit support in leopard: "Thanks to the 64-bit Xeon chip that will be shipping in the new Mac Pro systems, Leopard will be fully 64-bit enabled (unlike Tiger, which is only partially 64-bit and then only on certain Power PC systems). That means that OS X will finally do what Windows XP x64 Edition did last year: Run 32-bit and 64-bit applications natively, side-by-side. Good for them."
Umm, nope, sorry. Tiger already has that functionality too: http://www.apple.com/macosx/overview/
Of course there is the premise that OS X on intel does not, but what 64 bit intel offerings do they currently have?
How about this one:
"Apple is integrating applications like Boot Camp, Photo Booth, and Front Row into Leopard. Previously, these applications were only available with new Macs, or in the case of Boot Camp, as a free public beta download. Sorry, but this is hardly impressive."
So, does ilife not exist now? Hey, its more free software.
Enough of this. I'd like to see his take on Linux already.
Hacks to keep a connection alive? Over TCP/IP, a connection based protocol?! No, really?!
I am not certain that it is time to update the HTTP spec so much as to come up with an
accompanying spec for connection based browser communication before microsoft does.
Something similar to xmlHTTPrequest, but something that can maintain a symmetrical
connection that HTTP is not designed for.
I dunno, maybe something vaguely like this: (and i stress vaguely)
<script type="text/javascript">
var server = new host ("192.168.2.3");
var state = "michigan";
host.connect();
host.send("query.php?capitalof="+state);
document.write(" The capital of "+state+" is "+host.recv()+"<br>" );
host.send("query.php?populationof="+state);
document.write(" The population of "+state+" is "+host.recv()+"<br>" );
host.close();
</script>