I've attended two community colelges and one university here in Illinois. All three use a form of *nix (I'm not sure which) to handle logins and email. The CS department of the university, as well, uses Solaris as its OS for higher level C, C++, Java, etc classes.
I was thinking more into somehow finding a way to break into AOL without an account without stealing any info, somewhat akin to using a guest account on *nix machines. I said this because, even though I won't pay for AOL, they don't deserve to have people use their service without paying, since you can still use the internet through other providers.
Things that are proprietary are not always bad. Windows 95/98 used a proprietary IP stack, but you could still share a connection, use said connection with other programs besides IE, etc. It's when proprietary things severely (in our minds, our meaning tech geeks) limit what you can do beyond the realms of "reasonable use" or whatever you want to call it. I hope that answers your question.
Thank you for correcting me, but that is what I meant. I meant that there is no practical use for consumer level devices, as I don't see industrial-size machines as consumer-level.
Just a quick note for you:
it's AOL's version of HTTP, not HTML that they are using. I know in the past AOL just used IE as it's HTML reader, but I don't know how that's changed. Just wanted to let you know.
As much as I dislike AOL, I understand many people like it. I'm glad that one more proprietary thing has been broken to help people. I just hope this doesn't make AOL accounts any easier to hack into, as I've heard. I don't know the exact nature of AOL's login process, so does anyone have any idea what the chances this can be used as a malicious hacking tool are?
If this is true (superconducting), then that means it's another unattainable superprocessor material for us to yearn for. I definitely applaud the researchers for proving Einstein's theory, but I just get so disappointed when I find out it's something that's relatively impossible (for now) to put in the consumer market. Does anyone agree that a Nobel prize may be better given to someone who finds a practical use for a technology than just making a new discovery?
If you had read the page you would have seen that it's not the famous actor, but the developer who happens to have the same name. While I am willing to grant that you may have seen that and you're just making a stupid comment, please refrain from doing so, as I hate to have my screen wasted. And if you really didn't know, PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE POSTING. Thank you
I understand that news agencies really love "on location live" shots, as can be evidenced by the nightly news almost any day of the week, showing the hospital that so-and-so is in after the accident at 11 pm. But when reporting something from that far away, I think they would want at least broadcast quality, especially since our government's image to the world may hang on what they say. Yes, it would prevent a live question from the home team, but why not beam those questions over a voice-only feed and record them on the same tape as they are sending anyways? this live news crap is going way too far.
I understand people are upset about someone finding the process of going to "Open with..." a little too unintuitive for the average user, but you have to remember: do you really want to deal with these people constantly asking you how to open a file in such-and-such a program because they forget every few minutes? I know I don't. And other people say that you can go to "Folder Options" but I personally find that very confusing to use, seeing as it lists literally hundreds of file types, and they aren't always titled in a way that makes sense. Yes, this would be one more tool to make me say that I don't mind using Windows. I don't mind saying that I might someday even prefer Windows, because I believe they still have the power to redeem themselves. Please also think of average users when attacking a story like this, not just average Slashdot users.
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I've attended two community colelges and one university here in Illinois. All three use a form of *nix (I'm not sure which) to handle logins and email. The CS department of the university, as well, uses Solaris as its OS for higher level C, C++, Java, etc classes.
I was thinking more into somehow finding a way to break into AOL without an account without stealing any info, somewhat akin to using a guest account on *nix machines. I said this because, even though I won't pay for AOL, they don't deserve to have people use their service without paying, since you can still use the internet through other providers.
Things that are proprietary are not always bad. Windows 95/98 used a proprietary IP stack, but you could still share a connection, use said connection with other programs besides IE, etc. It's when proprietary things severely (in our minds, our meaning tech geeks) limit what you can do beyond the realms of "reasonable use" or whatever you want to call it. I hope that answers your question.
Thank you for correcting me, but that is what I meant. I meant that there is no practical use for consumer level devices, as I don't see industrial-size machines as consumer-level.
Just a quick note for you:
it's AOL's version of HTTP, not HTML that they are using. I know in the past AOL just used IE as it's HTML reader, but I don't know how that's changed. Just wanted to let you know.
As much as I dislike AOL, I understand many people like it. I'm glad that one more proprietary thing has been broken to help people. I just hope this doesn't make AOL accounts any easier to hack into, as I've heard. I don't know the exact nature of AOL's login process, so does anyone have any idea what the chances this can be used as a malicious hacking tool are?
If this is true (superconducting), then that means it's another unattainable superprocessor material for us to yearn for. I definitely applaud the researchers for proving Einstein's theory, but I just get so disappointed when I find out it's something that's relatively impossible (for now) to put in the consumer market. Does anyone agree that a Nobel prize may be better given to someone who finds a practical use for a technology than just making a new discovery?
I can see how this would be a boon to motherboard makers, but is this going to create a problem for AMD and Intel in the future of CPUs?
If you had read the page you would have seen that it's not the famous actor, but the developer who happens to have the same name. While I am willing to grant that you may have seen that and you're just making a stupid comment, please refrain from doing so, as I hate to have my screen wasted. And if you really didn't know, PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE POSTING. Thank you
I understand that news agencies really love "on location live" shots, as can be evidenced by the nightly news almost any day of the week, showing the hospital that so-and-so is in after the accident at 11 pm. But when reporting something from that far away, I think they would want at least broadcast quality, especially since our government's image to the world may hang on what they say. Yes, it would prevent a live question from the home team, but why not beam those questions over a voice-only feed and record them on the same tape as they are sending anyways? this live news crap is going way too far.
I understand people are upset about someone finding the process of going to "Open with..." a little too unintuitive for the average user, but you have to remember: do you really want to deal with these people constantly asking you how to open a file in such-and-such a program because they forget every few minutes? I know I don't. And other people say that you can go to "Folder Options" but I personally find that very confusing to use, seeing as it lists literally hundreds of file types, and they aren't always titled in a way that makes sense. Yes, this would be one more tool to make me say that I don't mind using Windows. I don't mind saying that I might someday even prefer Windows, because I believe they still have the power to redeem themselves. Please also think of average users when attacking a story like this, not just average Slashdot users.