Let's try that one more time (latest beta of kde/konqueror has an annoying habit of not honouring selected tags inside html options so tends to reset values after previewing - must get on the case and submit a bug report)
Or, if he's really on the case then he would use one of these setups...
if you're going to scratch things then you should at least try and use the original user interface.
Ho hum. well yes, this does rather screw up the individual machines a little bit, but think about it - maybe the machines are not really the target for the attack...
anybody tried to ping www.skyinet.net recently?
or a traceroute?
small bit of a problem there methinks...
we have 10% (and rising) of the known world recursively re-infecting themselves with a virus that not only fscks up your hdd, but also tries to download a file from a web server and (surprise surprise), the web server falls over (and by the looks of it most of the surrounding infrastructure of that part of the net - unless they have purposefully disconnected themselves).
now what would happen if the script pointed itself at yahoo...
much easier than all this messing around with indirect ping triggers for launching nested attacks from previously compromised boxes.
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And why not? Jeeves didn't seem to have much luck with the interview, so let's see what the good doctor makes of it...
I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice.
thanks for being with us today, Jeeves. How are you?
I'm ok. Tell me about yourself.
It's Monday.
Why do you say it's monday?
Yes, they do tend to recur. As often as once a week. What's wrong with Mondays?
Is it because of your plans that you say what's wrong with mondays?
I don't know. They grind things...
Maybe your life have something to do with this.
A joke. Got it. How.. human.
Can you elaborate on that?
Absolutely, snaps to you. And props, and all that.
I would appreciate it if you would continue.
Yes, of course. Adulation aplenty. So, Jeeves, you have a unique perspective on the Internet, being directly hooked in. What's it like?
Is it because of the people you hang around with that you say what's it like?
Bees? I don't understand.
Is it because of problems at school that you are going through all this?
Don't they? I see... no, I don't. What's the connection?
Are you sure that what's the connection?
bluegrass.
I need a little more detail please.
Oh All right. So. In a nutshell: there's this bee, doesn't have arthritis, listening to bluegrass, in New Zealand, and thats what you're saying is the Internet.
Do you really think that?
What? No. I'm saying, in a nutshell, the Internet is like the bee-bluegrass-New Zealand thing, right?
How do you reconcile any hobbies you have?
That's... not very helpful.
Is it because of your sex life that you say that's not very helpful?
Look, it's not my mouse that's the problem.
What makes you think look it's not your mouse that's the problem?
I AM NOT GOING TO TOUCH THE MOUSE! Screw the damn mouse, OK? How is the Internet like this stupid crippled bee!
Perhaps this has something to do with hangups you have?
Sure, yeah, damn the bee too! And the frogs and the lemurs! Just PLEASE answer the question!
Perhaps you could watch your tongue!
No! Look... look, OK... Jeeves, just, you know, can you please answer the question?
I don't understand.
Why you little... that's just like a search engine. Ask a question and get no answer.
Is it because of your inhibitions that you say ask a question and get no answer?
Hey, that was almost a straight response. Hope you didn't blow a circuit.
Possibly some problems in your childhood are related to this.
Probably because you have his stash. But maybe I'm being insensitive. Maybe you really do have a problem.
Why do you say maybe me really do have a problem?
Not that kind of problem... actually, it could be. You're in a hurry to respond, so you toss out the first things that come to, um, mind.
Is it because come to um mind that you came to me?
No. It's irritating. But it does explain why, if I ask what 2 plus 2 is, you say...
Does it bother you that it does explain why if you ask what 2 plus 2 is I say?
Exactly. And there's no way to keep you focused and get better results, is there?
Earlier you said come to um mind?
Didn't think so. Well, thanks Jeeves, it was... enlightening.
Is it because of some problems at home that you are going through all this?
How about a clean, simple and portable server that can be taken to a clients intranet and logged into using one of their standard PCs and which can then be used for demonstrating prototypes and the like at ethernet speed...
all we need to do is work out how to get an ethernet adaptor hooked up to it and....
Ultimately, the problem that is being raised here is not that of multi-lingual sites, but rather the best way to dynamically build web pages into a constant structure. For example, I personally see no difference between different categories in a hierarchy tree and different languages if the pages are all being built using some kind of templating system, they are both just different properties for identifying the appropriate character data from a database.
For some time now, I have been using webmacro as my templating engine and have found it to be extremely powerful, especially in situations such as these. Webmacro's main design approach is based around the "Model/View/Controller" paradigm where the back-end data set is your model, the templates are your view and the webmacro based servlet is the controller that ties everything together. The advantage of a system such as this is that you never need to include any language awareness into the template at all, the only thing that would matter would be the abstract structure of the document in question (which can be broken down into whatever granularity you would prefer to use - pages/sections/paragraphs etc etc).
The controller would then be responsible for making a decision on what page and which language version was required either by virtual directories (/english/category/doc.html) or file extensions (/english/doc.en.html). The category would define the choice of template and the language would modify the query to a relational db. However, the information that is passed to the template is passed packaged by structural role rather than by language thereby enabling the template to render the page completely independantly of language type.
In order to deal with the generation of text buttons (if needed), then I would use java to build a scheme module that is then run through gimp. I've had at various other batch based manipulation packages, but haven't yet anything that gives you the range of freedom and quality that gimp does.
If the data set that is being used to generate this site is static then there is absolutely no reason to generate the site dynamically on the fly and it is better to cache the whole site onto a static file system (unless it is prohibitively large) and then just rebuild it whenever the data set is updated.
The other final advantage that using a system such as webmacro gives you is that it is possible to very easily test out your navigational systems without having a large data set of information already stored in the db. If you replace the model with a virtual model that supplies random text within the contexts requested then it is very easy to test out situations like "Does this tree navigation work as well with deeper trees and more than 5 languages?" without changing either your servlet or your template design.
I found that the easiest way around that was not to use the Perl interface but instead to generate Script-Fu directly using a templates built in Webmacro under java process that is then dropped into Gimp as a single batch function and then run manually.
Brings a warm glow to the heart seeing 2000 banner titles being auto-generated and saved to the right places with all the drop-shadows and everything in about 10 seconds... (mainly 'cos I was having such serious nightmares about doing it manually).
however, you are going to have to be a little bit careful about opening up the full script-fu functionality over a cgi interface (unless you have no fear)...
Wired had an article on this some time ago which is quite a nice read, and they where kind of enough to reprint the whole of the short story which is found here.
...and even if you didn't want to use "perfectly normal computers" then you could always go and talk to SuSE about buying one of their extremely funky clustering racks without having to worry at all about paranoid American export regulations.
Hmmm. Yes and No. You can infer stuff from damaged audio recordings, but think about what is required to cause errors in a digital recording: An error will be when a 1 or a 0 is read for it's opposite value. In order for this to happen (using conventional readers) you are going to have to have a background noise floor of somewhere around 45% of your headroom (assuming that 1 is written as 100% 'on'). Even at this level you will get a reasonable chance of reading the data correctly. However, if you listen to an audio recording with 45% background noise added then it is going to be virtually impossible to clearly distinguish the clear sound.
Yes, when digital breaks, it definately breaks (although checksums and duplication of data can reduce the chances of losing data), but the level that you can push the degredation of a digital device too before it breaks is really quite high.
One point to remember when looking at problems with digital information storage media is that they are not really intended to be archived. What they are (mostly) designed to do is read and write the information very fast at a high frequency with a high degree of accuracy. Most of them are quite good at this and the issue of bit-rot tends to go away if you are continually reading and writing your hard-disk.
CD's and related optical media do have problems with sunlight, but you have to remember that they where created (AFAIK) by the audio industry which is one of the most notoriously fickle industries in the world: they want you to buy a new CD from a new group every week, not have a single CD that is perfect and that lasts forever. I think that the concept of people being able to listen to their CD's for 10 years is already far too long for them.
The problem is that there doesn't really appear to be anyone making storage media that is optimised for long-term persistent storage. But do you think that such a format would be the way forward? Each year, we generate an exponentially larger amount of information. All the hard disks on the planet now would not be enough to store the new information that will be generated in the next 5 (wild guess) years. Therefore we are going to need progressively larger and efficient forms of data storage as the information bloat gets larger. As new formats come out, the important thing is to look at the movement of legacy data onto the new formats. If data is not treated as a static thing to be boxed up and forgotten, but rather as part of the on-going current set of information and transferred onto new technologies as they are developed then you will not have the situation where people are looking at a hard disk in 50 years time and going "what's an IDE interface?".
Of course, then you have the 'minor' issue of application file formats...
The problem of transient information storage is not just connected with reading old digital data stores, but also with analogue information as well, typically audio recordings.
In this case, the main problem is not bit-rot (although this will occur sooner or later) but rather problems with not recalling the information for an extended period of time. For example:-
Reels of tape start to inprint signals to adjacent tape causing loud passages to have ghost versions either before or after them.
Tape actually becoming stuck to itself due to using bad binding materials leading to baking of tape as desperate restorative measures.
These and other issues are discussed on www.audio-restoration.com. Does anybody know if there are similar problems associated with digital media (the cross-talk problem will be virtually negligible due to noise-floor issues being irrelevant)? If so then it makes archiving a much more difficult thing if you have to physically do something to the archives every couple of years (especially with the exponential growth rate of information generation).
Anybody else in Belgium? Anybody know why the network is so fscked up at the moment? Can't even traceroute to the europarl server at present. Its been like this for a bit now. Surely it can't be a slashdot effect on the level to take out complete pipes? (although I can't imagine that/.ers are the only people trying to download it).
Does anybody know what format the report is in, what size it is and precisely what time the link went live? I'd like to read it, but I'd also like to get my connection back at some point...
Well now nobody knows what to think. What have we got?
A poster who claims to be "Larry Augustin" who is posting "useless garbage" for whatever reason (and who consistently (justifiably) gets moderated down to -1).
A poster who claims to be from "VA Linux" who consistently posts directly after "Larry" discrediting the post with a mysterious bonus moderation score.
A poster who claims to be "Ed Fisher" who claims to have an email from someone who claims to be "Rob Malda" who denies knowing where these moderation points come from and that he will "look into it and make sure it doesn't happen again".
A defence of the rebuttal from "Kit" who has since lost his mystery points somewhere or other basically saying that he would much rather do other things "than rebutting fraudulent posts".
An awful lot of other people such as "Bruce Perens.", "A Hitler", "B Clinton" etc etc who also may or may not be who they are.
Look. Does it really matter whether anybody says anything true of false on slashdot? Surely the moderation system is designed to let the slashdot community dispose of trolls in whichever way is seemed fit. Are you suggesting that we really believed that it was Mr Augustin who was trolling for slashdot? Don't damage the good work that Rob has been doing trying to defend his editorial integrity in the face of increasing pressure from people who would like nothing better than for slashdot to sell out so that they can sit back and say "I told you so". By all means feel free to defend whatever principles you believe in during your posts, but don't compromise your position by abusing the moderation point system. If your reasoning is valid then people will moderate you up, if not then there probably wasn't really a danger from "Larry" in the first place.
I wasn't aware that I was suggesting that it was innoncent. If I was then that was not my intention. It is an unfortunate fact that regardless of whether or not you approve of pornography, it is one of the most pervasive forms of net publishing and as a result does its best to appear in any kind of search engine match possible.
As the ranking techniques of the engines gets better, especially with the referential analysis of google (how many sites talking about chocolate cookies do you see pointing to the porn sites), then the background noise of porn sites with hook pages containing copies of entire dictionaries will be pushed much further down the list, but it will still be there.
I believe the only way of really stopping people looking at pornographic material is to either make the search engines themselves so paranoid that they become inneficient for all but the most obvious searches or to make the filtering so intense that you lose a large amount of the valid web at the same time.
You also run the risk of creating a virus/anti-virus situation where everytime the filter gets made stronger, the sites are changed to circumnavigate the filters which is again a no-win solution and just leads to more and more inhibative filters.
Ultimately, there can only be one logical conclusion (other than banning internet from public places) which is that people have to educate their kids about how to deal with unpleasent images and concepts and take responsibility for their childrens upbringing rather than expecting some robot sentry guard to do it for them.
Putting the offensive things behind brown paper doesn't make them go away and anybody who believes that is a bit deluded IMHO
Joking aside, I think that it is probably a typo issue, for example the following search on alltheweb.com brings up plenty of porn inside the first 50 with the search terms:
choc chip cooky
It also brings up plenty of recipes as well, but a relatively understandable misspelling lets the porn noise floor through as it does with all searches as you get past the default matches.
I'm not an expert, but it seems from a quick glance that lyx has a linuxdoc compatible mode so you should be able to generate all the documentation you like inside a nice cosy graphical editor.
(apologies if i'm missing something basic and fundamental - it's been a long day)
How did you get a score of 4 without any moderation type showing? If my memory server me when Hemos and Roblimo post replies to stories, they start at a 'normal' moderation level and have to rely on the good will of the moderators at large.
Have I missed something or is this VA correcting its public image with a special moderated account? I understand totally the motivation and personally cannot think of any other way of disprooving the fake Larry posts, but surely you should let the moderators notice your comment and moderate it up in the normal fashion.
In fact, looking back at your past history, it seems that all five of your posts have started at a moderation level of 4...
speaking of strict adherance to the law, I was having a browse round the IANA website, and I found this on the IANA TLD Delegation Practices page:-
"
(a) Delegation of a New Top Level Domain. Delegation of a new top level domain requires the completion of a number of procedures, including the identification of a TLD manager with the requisite skills and authority to operate the TLD appropriately. The desires of the government of a country with regard to delegation of a ccTLD are taken very seriously. The IANA will make them a major consideration in any TLD delegation/transfer discussions. Significantly interested parties in the domain should agree that the proposed TLD manager is the appropriate party. The key requirement is that for each domain there be a designated manager for supervising that domain's name space. In the case of ccTLDs, this means that there is a manager that supervises the domain names and operates the domain name system in that country. There must be Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity to the nameservers and electronic mail connectivity to the entire management, staff, and contacts of the manager. There must be an administrative contact and a technical contact for each domain. The administrative contact must reside in the country involved for ccTLDs. The IANA may choose to make partial delegations of a TLD when circumstances, such as those in a developing country, so dictate. It may also authorize a "proxy" DNS service outside of a developing country as a temporary form of assistance to the creation of Internet connectivity in new areas. [N.B. The IANA continues to receive inquiries about delegation of new gTLDs. This is a significant policy issue on which ICANN will conduct a careful study and review based on the established decision making procedures. Information about this study will be disseminated on the website at icann.org.] " (bold sections added by me)
Now, I'm a little bit confused by this because I would of thought that Christmas Island is not a developing country and therefore doesn't need to have a "proxy" DNS service (although maybe its a practical problem of running a pipe out there) but why is it not possible to track down the administrative contact that is required to be an administrator for a ccTLD? The only physical address that I can find is:-
Karinna Love
Planet Three Ltd., 3A West Point, Warple Way, London, W3 0RG, UK
from the CCTLD Database. Now I'm not suggesting that there is anything actually illegal or wrong going on with Planet Three, I'm just a bit confused as to why they are the administrators of the domain for Christmas Island and what everyone expects to get out of the deal? From the above text, it sounds like the "proxy" deal is only ever a temporary solution. When is Planet Three going to open their Christmas Island branch (to go with their London and Sydney branches)?
"
Technically it would appear they have complied with the law, in that it is not hosted here," Mr Nugent said. "But to the end-user, it would appear that nothing has changed. "We are aware of the incident, and are looking at our options. It may be that all we can do is report it to the Communications Minister [Richard Alston]." Mr Nugent said the issue of DNS records being changed to point a com.au domain name to a US server was for domain name authorities to consider, not the ABA."
OK, so this sort of deals with the issue of whether or not net censorship extends beyond the boundaries of a country even if the site is registered with a geographically orientated domain and it looks like the porn site in question might get away with it in this case.
However, does this imply anything as to whether people can set laws applying to business practices on the internet on a per-country basis. If the porn site in question was a non-profit making open access site, then I suspect that there is very little that the authorities can do, but presumably they can block the revenues from the site (if they really want to) thereby making the move outside Australian jurisdiction pointless (unless they move the company structure as well)?
Do you know where they moved the server to and whether the server then became part of the regulations of it's physical location? Is there an on-line version of the newspaper article that I can read?
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And if not then which "local filter list" are they referring to?
Or, if he's really on the case then he would use one of these setups...
if you're going to scratch things then you should at least try and use the original user interface.
Or, if he's really on the case then he would use one of
anybody tried to ping www.skyinet.net recently?
or a traceroute?
small bit of a problem there methinks...
we have 10% (and rising) of the known world recursively re-infecting themselves with a virus that not only fscks up your hdd, but also tries to download a file from a web server and (surprise surprise), the web server falls over (and by the looks of it most of the surrounding infrastructure of that part of the net - unless they have purposefully disconnected themselves).
now what would happen if the script pointed itself at yahoo...
much easier than all this messing around with indirect ping triggers for launching nested attacks from previously compromised boxes.
ho hum. M$ we love you. not.
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all we need to do is work out how to get an ethernet adaptor hooked up to it and....
For some time now, I have been using webmacro as my templating engine and have found it to be extremely powerful, especially in situations such as these. Webmacro's main design approach is based around the "Model/View/Controller" paradigm where the back-end data set is your model, the templates are your view and the webmacro based servlet is the controller that ties everything together. The advantage of a system such as this is that you never need to include any language awareness into the template at all, the only thing that would matter would be the abstract structure of the document in question (which can be broken down into whatever granularity you would prefer to use - pages/sections/paragraphs etc etc).
The controller would then be responsible for making a decision on what page and which language version was required either by virtual directories (/english/category/doc.html) or file extensions (/english/doc.en.html). The category would define the choice of template and the language would modify the query to a relational db. However, the information that is passed to the template is passed packaged by structural role rather than by language thereby enabling the template to render the page completely independantly of language type.
In order to deal with the generation of text buttons (if needed), then I would use java to build a scheme module that is then run through gimp. I've had at various other batch based manipulation packages, but haven't yet anything that gives you the range of freedom and quality that gimp does.
If the data set that is being used to generate this site is static then there is absolutely no reason to generate the site dynamically on the fly and it is better to cache the whole site onto a static file system (unless it is prohibitively large) and then just rebuild it whenever the data set is updated.
The other final advantage that using a system such as webmacro gives you is that it is possible to very easily test out your navigational systems without having a large data set of information already stored in the db. If you replace the model with a virtual model that supplies random text within the contexts requested then it is very easy to test out situations like "Does this tree navigation work as well with deeper trees and more than 5 languages?" without changing either your servlet or your template design.
Brings a warm glow to the heart seeing 2000 banner titles being auto-generated and saved to the right places with all the drop-shadows and everything in about 10 seconds... (mainly 'cos I was having such serious nightmares about doing it manually).
- cooltext.com (no source and limited to the 'standard' text logos with gimp)
- A Tutorial for Perl Gimp Users, namely the section on the Perl Server.
however, you are going to have to be a little bit careful about opening up the full script-fu functionality over a cgi interface (unless you have no fear)...Wired had an article on this some time ago which is quite a nice read, and they where kind of enough to reprint the whole of the short story which is found here.
USB Promoters:-
- Compaq
- Hewlett Packard
- Intel
- Lucent Technologies
- Microsoft
- NEC
- Philips
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Yes, when digital breaks, it definately breaks (although checksums and duplication of data can reduce the chances of losing data), but the level that you can push the degredation of a digital device too before it breaks is really quite high.
CD's and related optical media do have problems with sunlight, but you have to remember that they where created (AFAIK) by the audio industry which is one of the most notoriously fickle industries in the world: they want you to buy a new CD from a new group every week, not have a single CD that is perfect and that lasts forever. I think that the concept of people being able to listen to their CD's for 10 years is already far too long for them.
The problem is that there doesn't really appear to be anyone making storage media that is optimised for long-term persistent storage. But do you think that such a format would be the way forward? Each year, we generate an exponentially larger amount of information. All the hard disks on the planet now would not be enough to store the new information that will be generated in the next 5 (wild guess) years. Therefore we are going to need progressively larger and efficient forms of data storage as the information bloat gets larger. As new formats come out, the important thing is to look at the movement of legacy data onto the new formats. If data is not treated as a static thing to be boxed up and forgotten, but rather as part of the on-going current set of information and transferred onto new technologies as they are developed then you will not have the situation where people are looking at a hard disk in 50 years time and going "what's an IDE interface?".
Of course, then you have the 'minor' issue of application file formats...
In this case, the main problem is not bit-rot (although this will occur sooner or later) but rather problems with not recalling the information for an extended period of time. For example:-
- Reels of tape start to inprint signals to adjacent tape causing loud passages to have ghost versions either before or after them.
- Tape actually becoming stuck to itself due to using bad binding materials leading to baking of tape as desperate restorative measures.
These and other issues are discussed on www.audio-restoration.com. Does anybody know if there are similar problems associated with digital media (the cross-talk problem will be virtually negligible due to noise-floor issues being irrelevant)? If so then it makes archiving a much more difficult thing if you have to physically do something to the archives every couple of years (especially with the exponential growth rate of information generation).Does anybody know what format the report is in, what size it is and precisely what time the link went live? I'd like to read it, but I'd also like to get my connection back at some point...
- A poster who claims to be "Larry Augustin" who is posting "useless garbage" for whatever reason (and who consistently (justifiably) gets moderated down to -1).
- A poster who claims to be from "VA Linux" who consistently posts directly after "Larry" discrediting the post with a mysterious bonus moderation score.
- A poster who claims to be "Ed Fisher" who claims to have an email from someone who claims to be "Rob Malda" who denies knowing where these moderation points come from and that he will "look into it and make sure it doesn't happen again".
- A defence of the rebuttal from "Kit" who has since lost his mystery points somewhere or other basically saying that he would much rather do other things "than rebutting fraudulent posts".
- An awful lot of other people such as "Bruce Perens.", "A Hitler", "B Clinton" etc etc who also may or may not be who they are.
Look. Does it really matter whether anybody says anything true of false on slashdot? Surely the moderation system is designed to let the slashdot community dispose of trolls in whichever way is seemed fit. Are you suggesting that we really believed that it was Mr Augustin who was trolling for slashdot? Don't damage the good work that Rob has been doing trying to defend his editorial integrity in the face of increasing pressure from people who would like nothing better than for slashdot to sell out so that they can sit back and say "I told you so". By all means feel free to defend whatever principles you believe in during your posts, but don't compromise your position by abusing the moderation point system. If your reasoning is valid then people will moderate you up, if not then there probably wasn't really a danger from "Larry" in the first place.As the ranking techniques of the engines gets better, especially with the referential analysis of google (how many sites talking about chocolate cookies do you see pointing to the porn sites), then the background noise of porn sites with hook pages containing copies of entire dictionaries will be pushed much further down the list, but it will still be there.
I believe the only way of really stopping people looking at pornographic material is to either make the search engines themselves so paranoid that they become inneficient for all but the most obvious searches or to make the filtering so intense that you lose a large amount of the valid web at the same time.
You also run the risk of creating a virus/anti-virus situation where everytime the filter gets made stronger, the sites are changed to circumnavigate the filters which is again a no-win solution and just leads to more and more inhibative filters.
Ultimately, there can only be one logical conclusion (other than banning internet from public places) which is that people have to educate their kids about how to deal with unpleasent images and concepts and take responsibility for their childrens upbringing rather than expecting some robot sentry guard to do it for them.
Putting the offensive things behind brown paper doesn't make them go away and anybody who believes that is a bit deluded IMHO
(apologies if i'm missing something basic and fundamental - it's been a long day)
How did you get a score of 4 without any moderation type showing? If my memory server me when Hemos and Roblimo post replies to stories, they start at a 'normal' moderation level and have to rely on the good will of the moderators at large.
Have I missed something or is this VA correcting its public image with a special moderated account? I understand totally the motivation and personally cannot think of any other way of disprooving the fake Larry posts, but surely you should let the moderators notice your comment and moderate it up in the normal fashion.
In fact, looking back at your past history, it seems that all five of your posts have started at a moderation level of 4...
However, does this imply anything as to whether people can set laws applying to business practices on the internet on a per-country basis. If the porn site in question was a non-profit making open access site, then I suspect that there is very little that the authorities can do, but presumably they can block the revenues from the site (if they really want to) thereby making the move outside Australian jurisdiction pointless (unless they move the company structure as well)?
Do you know where they moved the server to and whether the server then became part of the regulations of it's physical location? Is there an on-line version of the newspaper article that I can read?