Once upon a time, those would've been fightin' words. There are a few Apple II users who would disagree with your assessment. (Then again, you're probably just a kiddie who's never even seen a II. (Damn...I'm only 29, and already I'm talking like an Olde Pfarte.:-| ))
Whenever you get spammed by someone with an 800 number call... repetedly... give them some costs too...
Make sure to call from a pay phone; it costs more. Plus, if you call from home, they will have your phone number (even if you try to block it). I knew some people who would carry a list of 800 numbers and would call them from pay phones at the metro or grocery.
At any given phone, this might only work for a little while. I once tried this tactic against a group of gun-grabbers. Four calls got through before they started blocking calls from the payphone I was using.
I suppose you could go hunting for payphones and tie all of them up...with people who (for whatever reason) want to get through unable to do so, maybe this would still qualify in some small way as a kind of DoS attack.
Obnoxious? Yes. But with the huge money to be made I think it's only a matter of time before things go this route. Non-spamming ISPs will become rare... only small ISPs will want to refuse the income, because their small user base won't make it worth backlash. But as more and more small ISPs get bought out or go under, there will be fewer and fewer places to run...
This makes me glad I run my own mail server. All I want/expect from my cable-modem provider is a fat pipe to the Internet. All the spam in the world can go to foo@lvcm.com; it'll never show up on my machine. (Then again, I'm using a commercial account, so there wouldn't be much point in spamming it anyway.)
and there is no set limit over the posted it is called by the officer at a safe amount above the posted given traffic and weather conditions. You can be a ticket for driving the limit if conditions warrant slower usage.
Hell, they can even nail you if you're traveling at or under the speed limit, if everyone else is going faster. They call it "obstructing traffic." You're damned if you do and damned if you don't, if Smokey hasn't made his quota yet.
It's very simple to write a page to the standards that works in both Mozilla and recent versions of IE with NO browser sniffing code, you may have to ditch support for IE4 or add some code to cater for IE4 too (not difficult), but you should design pages to the standard spec, it'll then work in Mozilla, in recent versions of Windows IE (most standards are supported now) and Mac IE (which is more standards compliant than the Windows version), also not forgetting Opera.
Been there, done that, have a personal site to prove it. As long as you're not using Nutscrape 4.x or earlier, it dishes out standards-compliant HTML. It's been tested with IE 5.5 and Opera 5.something on Win2K, a fairly old Mozilla on Win98, IE 4.01 and a fairly recent iCab beta on MacOS (7.5.5 on a Quadra 610...old school), and Lynx on Linux. Except for iCab, all the graphical browsers rendered the page more or less the same. The Lynx rendering also looks halfway decent (if I say so myself). I'd attribute iCab's problems to being a beta...it recognizes that the page uses standard HTML and CSS, but doesn't render it properly.
(If my Apache sees that you're using Nutscrape, it runs the HTML through some "moronizer" scripts to make it displayable. It also displays a nag message that you need to get a real browser.)
The other use is an inventory of equiptment, for things like homeowners insurance. Or you can do inventory for a company. The only problem would be carrying around the desktop, monitor, UPS, tape drive, speakers when using the barcode scanner.
Why lug around a desktop system for inventory when you can plug the scanner into a notebook or a Palm? When we do store inventory, the barcodes get scanned into Notepad running on a notebook. The file is then saved and read into the POS system to update inventory and check for discrepancies.
(It'd be easier still if the scan guns could be plugged into a Palm instead...those are much smaller. Of course, there are also the Symbol SPT 1500 and CSM 150 if you plan on doing lots of Palm scanning...)
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Imagine the potential for destruction were the Internet-ready PC to be connected to the car's engine, steering, brakes, etc.
...to say nothing of the software crashing...it could give "blue screen of death" a whole new meaning. Which do you suppose would be worse: a pop-up reading "3y3 0wn j00r c4r j00 sux0rs 3y3m s0 31337" or "A fatal exception 0E has occurred in VxD STRNGCTL at..."?
Now, if we could just convince them to implement the W3C HTML Standard or the W3C CSS Standard.
Hmm...what part of the standard does IE not implement? I printed out the HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 specs and kept them next to me as I redid this site. IE (back to at least 4.01) renders it properly, as do Mozilla (last I checked was M16), Opera, and Lynx. The browser that choked was Nutscrape 4, so if you want to complain about a browser not meeting standards, I'd suggest that you go after AOHell and not Microsoft. I checked the site with W3C's validators, and everything came up OK.
And don't forget John Cleese as 'The Bomb' and Terry Jones as the Parrot in Douglas Adams' computer game Starship Titanic.
John Cleese is also set to take over HMSS' Q division, having appeared in The World Is Not Enough as R. (How long will it be before he's admonishing 007 to grow up?:-) )
Nice to see the Radeon support is upgraded, and that the chip is recommended, since I have the All-In-Wonder Pro Radeon.
Any chance it works with an AMD 761 northbridge? I had a 32MB DDR Radeon working fine on a VA-503+ with XF86 4.0.2, but my attempts at getting the same card working on an M7MIA have been somewhat less than completely successful (read: hasn't worked at all). Others have said it'll work if you shut off acceleration, but what's the point of doing that? I might as well yank out the Radeon and put my Xpert 98 back in if I'm going to do that.
Also, the government is looking at a permanent storage facility at Yucatan Mountian(?) in New Mexico because it is the most seismecaly stable places in the country.
It's Yucca Mountain, and it's in Nevada. It's the "third rail" in this state, as anybody who announces he's in favor of the dump might as well kiss his political future goodbye. The states that produce nuclear waste (Nevada isn't one of them) don't want a dump in their backyards, so the Democrat majority in Congress pushed a bill through in 1987 that says only Yucca Mountain is to be considered as a dump site.
Breeder reactors and waste reprocessing would be the smarter approach as they'd greatly reduce the amount of waste that eventually gets thrown out, but (as someone already noted) you can thank another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, for putting the kibosh on that idea.
You have a right to criticize religion; it falls under Free Speech. California's judges really should've looked into that fact.
There's no such thing as freedom in the People's Republic of California anymore. (I live "next door" to them in Nevada; they're constantly sending their loose screws our way to fsck up this state as badly as they've done their own.)
This is no different from the B2, since the flying wing concept produces inherently unstable aircraft. Without some serious fly-by-wire, both those planes would never fly.
Hmm...they didn't have fly-by-wire in 1948, when the YB-35 first took to the air. There was also a jet-powered conversion, the YB-49. There were some stability problems (especially when it came time to drop bombs), but the situation wasn't as bad as you put it.
This post was UTF-8 posting Japanese, and it worked fine.
It posted OK, but it came through as garbage. There's nothing in/.'s HTML that sets the character encoding used when rendering a page, so the browser presumably uses its default encoding (which I'm guessing is Latin-1).
The Teamsters better get into the blimp business fast.
It'd give them some interesting tools to put the hurt on someone they don't like.
"If you don't do what we want, we'll have Joey over here drop a house on youse..."
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Does [WebWasher] block them based on the tag attributes, or does it go ahead and load the image headers?
It parses the HTML returned by a site and removes tags that would load banner ads and web bugs (among other things). If the size attributes are in the IMG tag, I'd assume it uses those. If those attributes aren't included, it would need to download the image and check its size before deciding if it should include the tag.
The ability to blank out ads by size sounded interesting...until he mentioned that the image is still downloaded. If it's still downloaded, it still registers on the server and it probably still has a cookie attached. I think I'll stick with Squid and ad-blocking Perl.
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Region 1 DVD's? Where's the new series? Where's BBC America on my local cable provider?
If your cable provider has a digital-cable service, you might have BBC America on it. When my parents returned from overseas, they signed up for digital cable specifically because BBC America was available on it. (They don't care much for Doctor Who, but they've followed EastEnders as much as they could since it premiered in the mid-80s. BBC America is also on digital cable where I live, but I don't watch enough TV to justify the expense, and (dragging this back on-topic) I don't know if a TiVo can control a digital-cable receiver.)
Now, the big question is will one be able to do the opposite, copy your MPEGs onto your TiVO.
Personally, I wouldn't care too much about that...it might be nice once in a while, but what I'd really like would be for my TiVo to grab a show so that I can transfer it to my computer and then burn an SVCD or two. I can then pop that SVCD into my DVD player and watch it. (It also frees up disk space on the TiVo...I have 45GB in mine, but there's no sense wasting it.)
Maybe this has already been answered further downstream, but are there any mirrors of the software to grab video from your TiVo? If it's still out there, then I guess it's time to get a TiVoNet adapter and go to town.:-)
Um, sorry, thanks for playing. Rights are defined by society (or endowed by the Creator, if you lean that way), but they're definitely not a result of paying taxes. If that were the case, then poor people who had no taxes for a year would have no rights for that year.
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In some respects, that wouldn't be a bad idea. "Are you on welfare? No vote for you." I could live with that...if you're sucking on the government's tit, you have no business deciding on the continued funding of your welfare check. </offtopic>
The plural of dish is dishes, but the plural of fish is fish
"Fishes" is also a valid plural form of "fish." "Fishes" refers to a group of different species, while the plural "fish" refers to a group that is all of the same species. The plecostomuses (sp?) and cichlids in my tank at home are fishes; the trout in a pond are fish.
(Your point that English has tons of rules and even more exceptions to those rules still stands, though.)
"A bunch of bananas" or "a group of individuals", are these plural or singular?
A bunch and a group are both singular, though some Brits would disagree (their usage used to treat a group as a plural object ("and the crowd are going wild!"), but that is starting to change in more recent usage).
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Once upon a time, those would've been fightin' words. There are a few Apple II users who would disagree with your assessment. (Then again, you're probably just a kiddie who's never even seen a II. (Damn...I'm only 29, and already I'm talking like an Olde Pfarte. :-| ))
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At any given phone, this might only work for a little while. I once tried this tactic against a group of gun-grabbers. Four calls got through before they started blocking calls from the payphone I was using.
I suppose you could go hunting for payphones and tie all of them up...with people who (for whatever reason) want to get through unable to do so, maybe this would still qualify in some small way as a kind of DoS attack.
This makes me glad I run my own mail server. All I want/expect from my cable-modem provider is a fat pipe to the Internet. All the spam in the world can go to foo@lvcm.com; it'll never show up on my machine. (Then again, I'm using a commercial account, so there wouldn't be much point in spamming it anyway.)
You mean pommes frites? "French fries" isn't that much of a stretch.
Hell, they can even nail you if you're traveling at or under the speed limit, if everyone else is going faster. They call it "obstructing traffic." You're damned if you do and damned if you don't, if Smokey hasn't made his quota yet.
Been there, done that, have a personal site to prove it. As long as you're not using Nutscrape 4.x or earlier, it dishes out standards-compliant HTML. It's been tested with IE 5.5 and Opera 5.something on Win2K, a fairly old Mozilla on Win98, IE 4.01 and a fairly recent iCab beta on MacOS (7.5.5 on a Quadra 610...old school), and Lynx on Linux. Except for iCab, all the graphical browsers rendered the page more or less the same. The Lynx rendering also looks halfway decent (if I say so myself). I'd attribute iCab's problems to being a beta...it recognizes that the page uses standard HTML and CSS, but doesn't render it properly.
(If my Apache sees that you're using Nutscrape, it runs the HTML through some "moronizer" scripts to make it displayable. It also displays a nag message that you need to get a real browser.)
After that, the people responsible for sacking the webmaster were themselves sacked.
Why lug around a desktop system for inventory when you can plug the scanner into a notebook or a Palm? When we do store inventory, the barcodes get scanned into Notepad running on a notebook. The file is then saved and read into the POS system to update inventory and check for discrepancies.
(It'd be easier still if the scan guns could be plugged into a Palm instead...those are much smaller. Of course, there are also the Symbol SPT 1500 and CSM 150 if you plan on doing lots of Palm scanning...)
Hmm...what part of the standard does IE not implement? I printed out the HTML 4.01 and CSS 2 specs and kept them next to me as I redid this site. IE (back to at least 4.01) renders it properly, as do Mozilla (last I checked was M16), Opera, and Lynx. The browser that choked was Nutscrape 4, so if you want to complain about a browser not meeting standards, I'd suggest that you go after AOHell and not Microsoft. I checked the site with W3C's validators, and everything came up OK.
John Cleese is also set to take over HMSS' Q division, having appeared in The World Is Not Enough as R. (How long will it be before he's admonishing 007 to grow up? :-) )
Any chance it works with an AMD 761 northbridge? I had a 32MB DDR Radeon working fine on a VA-503+ with XF86 4.0.2, but my attempts at getting the same card working on an M7MIA have been somewhat less than completely successful (read: hasn't worked at all). Others have said it'll work if you shut off acceleration, but what's the point of doing that? I might as well yank out the Radeon and put my Xpert 98 back in if I'm going to do that.
...this article would've been better filed under "It's Funny. Laugh."
It's Yucca Mountain, and it's in Nevada. It's the "third rail" in this state, as anybody who announces he's in favor of the dump might as well kiss his political future goodbye. The states that produce nuclear waste (Nevada isn't one of them) don't want a dump in their backyards, so the Democrat majority in Congress pushed a bill through in 1987 that says only Yucca Mountain is to be considered as a dump site.
Breeder reactors and waste reprocessing would be the smarter approach as they'd greatly reduce the amount of waste that eventually gets thrown out, but (as someone already noted) you can thank another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, for putting the kibosh on that idea.
There's no such thing as freedom in the People's Republic of California anymore. (I live "next door" to them in Nevada; they're constantly sending their loose screws our way to fsck up this state as badly as they've done their own.)
Hmm...they didn't have fly-by-wire in 1948, when the YB-35 first took to the air. There was also a jet-powered conversion, the YB-49. There were some stability problems (especially when it came time to drop bombs), but the situation wasn't as bad as you put it.
It posted OK, but it came through as garbage. There's nothing in /.'s HTML that sets the character encoding used when rendering a page, so the browser presumably uses its default encoding (which I'm guessing is Latin-1).
It'd give them some interesting tools to put the hurt on someone they don't like.
"If you don't do what we want, we'll have Joey over here drop a house on youse..."
It parses the HTML returned by a site and removes tags that would load banner ads and web bugs (among other things). If the size attributes are in the IMG tag, I'd assume it uses those. If those attributes aren't included, it would need to download the image and check its size before deciding if it should include the tag.
He still posts stuff here? I haven't seen any of his drivel in a while...oh, I forgot that I had blocked his articles. Out of sight, out of mind. :-)
The ability to blank out ads by size sounded interesting...until he mentioned that the image is still downloaded. If it's still downloaded, it still registers on the server and it probably still has a cookie attached. I think I'll stick with Squid and ad-blocking Perl.
If your cable provider has a digital-cable service, you might have BBC America on it. When my parents returned from overseas, they signed up for digital cable specifically because BBC America was available on it. (They don't care much for Doctor Who, but they've followed EastEnders as much as they could since it premiered in the mid-80s. BBC America is also on digital cable where I live, but I don't watch enough TV to justify the expense, and (dragging this back on-topic) I don't know if a TiVo can control a digital-cable receiver.)
Personally, I wouldn't care too much about that...it might be nice once in a while, but what I'd really like would be for my TiVo to grab a show so that I can transfer it to my computer and then burn an SVCD or two. I can then pop that SVCD into my DVD player and watch it. (It also frees up disk space on the TiVo...I have 45GB in mine, but there's no sense wasting it.)
Maybe this has already been answered further downstream, but are there any mirrors of the software to grab video from your TiVo? If it's still out there, then I guess it's time to get a TiVoNet adapter and go to town. :-)
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In some respects, that wouldn't be a bad idea. "Are you on welfare? No vote for you." I could live with that...if you're sucking on the government's tit, you have no business deciding on the continued funding of your welfare check.
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"Fishes" is also a valid plural form of "fish." "Fishes" refers to a group of different species, while the plural "fish" refers to a group that is all of the same species. The plecostomuses (sp?) and cichlids in my tank at home are fishes; the trout in a pond are fish.
(Your point that English has tons of rules and even more exceptions to those rules still stands, though.)
A bunch and a group are both singular, though some Brits would disagree (their usage used to treat a group as a plural object ("and the crowd are going wild!"), but that is starting to change in more recent usage).