A Minitel 2 (the black one) switched in the correct mode IS VT100 compatible with a 80x25 display.
Ok, didn't know that. Anyways, if I remember correctly, mine was a beige one, and I used it from September 1992 to mid 1993. After that, I no longer bothered with Minitel, as at that time I got my first Linux PC, and a modem dialin at university...
Color minitels, Photo minitels and all the rest came later, but were still no match for a PC (especially if that PC also ran Pierre Ficheux's excellent "xtel" minitel emulator, so that you could still access the services that were only available on minitel and not on internet;-) )
Minitel was virus free, because the terminals were essentially dumb terminals. Nothing to infect there.
However, hackers abunded. People cheated at online games (to gain mucho cash...), abused gateways to other networks (transpac, and yes, the internet), etc. A favorite boast of French hackers was to say "I can hack such and such system from a simple minitel". In a way, the minitel was their vi-phone.
Web was impossible because the Minitel was essentially a text terminal (VT100 IIRC).
Never heard of lynx? Such services were possible and did indeed exist. But, you have to consider the timeframe when they existed: the early nineties, an epoch where Bill Gates still ignored everything about the Internet, and thought the future of interactive multimedia computing was CD ROMs... Thus, most web sites were actually pretty standard compliant (no "Internet-Exploder only" sites, because simply IE did not yet exists back then), and most images did have meaningful ALT tags. Given the circumstances, it was actually very usable!
As far as I know, no gateway attempted to dynamically translate bitmapped graphics into assemblies of these special characters. They simply dropped graphics and used the ALT tags. And minitel was not VT100 compatible; it needed its own special termcap entry.
Such minitel-to-internet did exist (although not operated by FT itself), I remember using these in the early nineties, when I was studying in France. If I remember correctly, the call name was sth like 3617 USNET.
They did indeed run lynx, complete with some nice (unintentional...) shell escapes (hehe!), and you could browse the web from there (or, alternatively, use the shell escape, and then telnet to wherever you wanted... well, if you coped with the strange keyboard mappings...)
But, given the price they charged, I think they didn't even mind that much when people abused their system to get shell...
It's too bad that Web programmers will write code that only works on IE. (I understand why they do).
I don't understand why anybody would do that. Maybe a handsome bribe? But even then, I think a site like this will hardly do anything to improve Micro$oft's reputation. I dunno about you, but when I visited it, my first reaction was "What a bunch of self-righteous pricks! If at least they knew how to spell!". The whole thing is so silly, that they even made national news as flop site of the week. That was mid April, and strangley enough their site didn't change even after that nomination.
I think most of these are dedicated Intranet type websites,
Example above is visible from the public internet...
but I've been to several companies where Netscape or Opera just will not work.
Indeed... My reaction to that is to put a nice <form><input type ie sucks></form> on my own pages;-) hehe;-) Turnaround is fair-play!
you filthy pir8, you! You are not allowed to copy sheet music without paying $$$$ to the rightful copyright owners! If everybody did this, the poor composers would starve!
Your boat is subject to the legislation of its country of registration when it's in the international waters
What if your boat is registered in no country at all? (Should be ok, as long as it never ever attempts to go into the territorial waters of any country... Just supply it using another boat which is registered and allowed to go into a harbour, just like those casino boats). However, the boat must somehow link into the internet, so just bust the spammers using the laws of the country which supplies ISP access to the boat.
Of course, if this country is Panama, Liberia or similar, then you don't risk much enforcement in any matter!:-)
Yes, and in that case, it would be far easyer to set up your spamming outfit in the country itself: either their laws would allow spam, so what would be the point of putting it onto a boat, or their laws wouldn't allow spam, so they wouldn't allow it on a boat either.
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I mean, even some fast food joints (Jack-in-the-Box for one) require pre-employment drug tests for their hamburger flippers.
Are they allowed to eat their own poppy-seed buns?
SBC Communication's claim of ownership for a common Web site formatting tool is based on a pair of patents, U.S. Patent No. 5,933,841, having a grant date of August 1999, and U.S. Patent No. 6,442,574, which issued three years later in 2002. Both patents cover a "structured document browser" having an invention date at least as early as
May 1996,
If I remember correctly, Europe Online had frames on its site as early as January 1996, at least. Wouldn't that be prior art?
Note for the nitpicky: No, they no longer seem to use frames nowadays. Frames were neat in 1996, but are somewhat passé nowadays...
Hilarous. If you read the first link, you'll notice that they ran MS SQL Server (with all its security holes...) before the incident. And the job posting is for Unix sysadmin. Looks like they learned something;-)
In which case, wouldn't it be overprosecuting small time users with a liberal sense of copyright law, and underprosecuting the real pirates (i.e. manufacturing and distributing copyrighted material)?
... and it would also encourage users to continue, even after caught. Indeed, continuing will not make the penalty any worse, as number of incidents does not come into play.
... to annoy spammers. Analyze your spam's header. If the spammer uses an open relay, look into the Received:from/by headers to find out the real origin. Print out a nice Super-DMCA form, fill it in with the spammer's IP, and time of day, and send it to the IP requesting the perp's personal information. He was trying to "conceal... the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication", so according to the new law, the ISP is forced to cough up the info. Same deal if you are a squid proxy operator, and see stuff such as the following in your logs:
HOWEVER, when you refer to EASTER (as the topic of the post did) you are talking about the holiday that celebrates the resurrection of Christ, not the Pagan one.
Did you actually read the link? The very name of the holiday comes from the pagan goddess of springtime, Eastre.
If you spoke French, you'd have a point: in French, Easter is called Paques; this word is derived from the Jewish holiday Pesach (Passover).
Isn't retribution against civilians of an occupied country (for the sins of its government) against the Geneva Convention?
You forgot that Bush respectfully exempted himself from the Geneva Convention. He wages wars without an UN mandate. And he forbids the
International War Crimes Court to try American Citizens.
If you're the strongest military power on the face of the earth, you get to rewrite International Law.
The first part of the article is a rather dry explanation about how the "boondock banking" scheme works to maximize float time.
However, the end of the page is just hilarous: various inhabitants of Lake Lillian take issue with their "town" being qualified as boondocks. One letter points out that the only llama in "town" is not used for mail deliveries, but rather to keep it's owner's donkey company. They even explain why Lake Lillian cannot be found on a map: it's not about size, but it is a honest oversight by Rand McNally.
And if you're adventurous enough to go to Lake Lillian to collect your rebait cheque in person, be wary of farmboys trying to persuade you to piss into a hedge: DON'T do it! There may be an electric fence hidden inside, it's a popular trick they play on those ignorant "cityslickers"!
OH my freakin god. they recommended you turn the clock back 2 years. Dude, some one should sue the pants off microsoft for lost of productivity for each hour...
... of these two years, multiplied by number of employees!
During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $1 million. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on Earth.
The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil
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Yeah, right. I guess you "read" playboy just for the articles too ?
Ah, that's what's the iLoo is for!
Ok, didn't know that. Anyways, if I remember correctly, mine was a beige one, and I used it from September 1992 to mid 1993. After that, I no longer bothered with Minitel, as at that time I got my first Linux PC, and a modem dialin at university...
Color minitels, Photo minitels and all the rest came later, but were still no match for a PC (especially if that PC also ran Pierre Ficheux's excellent "xtel" minitel emulator, so that you could still access the services that were only available on minitel and not on internet ;-) )
However, hackers abunded. People cheated at online games (to gain mucho cash...), abused gateways to other networks (transpac, and yes, the internet), etc. A favorite boast of French hackers was to say "I can hack such and such system from a simple minitel". In a way, the minitel was their vi-phone.
Never heard of lynx? Such services were possible and did indeed exist. But, you have to consider the timeframe when they existed: the early nineties, an epoch where Bill Gates still ignored everything about the Internet, and thought the future of interactive multimedia computing was CD ROMs... Thus, most web sites were actually pretty standard compliant (no "Internet-Exploder only" sites, because simply IE did not yet exists back then), and most images did have meaningful ALT tags. Given the circumstances, it was actually very usable!
As far as I know, no gateway attempted to dynamically translate bitmapped graphics into assemblies of these special characters. They simply dropped graphics and used the ALT tags. And minitel was not VT100 compatible; it needed its own special termcap entry.
But, given the price they charged, I think they didn't even mind that much when people abused their system to get shell...
click here (don't be afraid, it's not one of those links that are on-topic to this story in their own special way...)
I don't understand why anybody would do that. Maybe a handsome bribe? But even then, I think a site like this will hardly do anything to improve Micro$oft's reputation. I dunno about you, but when I visited it, my first reaction was "What a bunch of self-righteous pricks! If at least they knew how to spell!". The whole thing is so silly, that they even made national news as flop site of the week. That was mid April, and strangley enough their site didn't change even after that nomination.
I think most of these are dedicated Intranet type websites,
Example above is visible from the public internet...
but I've been to several companies where Netscape or Opera just will not work.
Indeed... My reaction to that is to put a nice <form><input type ie sucks></form> on my own pages ;-) hehe ;-) Turnaround is fair-play!
you filthy pir8, you! You are not allowed to copy sheet music without paying $$$$ to the rightful copyright owners! If everybody did this, the poor composers would starve!
What if your boat is registered in no country at all? (Should be ok, as long as it never ever attempts to go into the territorial waters of any country... Just supply it using another boat which is registered and allowed to go into a harbour, just like those casino boats). However, the boat must somehow link into the internet, so just bust the spammers using the laws of the country which supplies ISP access to the boat.
Of course, if this country is Panama, Liberia or similar, then you don't risk much enforcement in any matter! :-)
Yes, and in that case, it would be far easyer to set up your spamming outfit in the country itself: either their laws would allow spam, so what would be the point of putting it onto a boat, or their laws wouldn't allow spam, so they wouldn't allow it on a boat either.
Are they allowed to eat their own poppy-seed buns?
If I remember correctly, Europe Online had frames on its site as early as January 1996, at least. Wouldn't that be prior art?
Note for the nitpicky: No, they no longer seem to use frames nowadays. Frames were neat in 1996, but are somewhat passé nowadays...
Hilarous. If you read the first link, you'll notice that they ran MS SQL Server (with all its security holes...) before the incident. And the job posting is for Unix sysadmin. Looks like they learned something ;-)
The first gulf war gave us "mother of all...", and now the second gave us "shock and awe". Neat.
In any case, wouldn't a bigger concern be that your coworkers (rather than friends and relatives) think that you were not actually working...
1045151932.206 205 193.2.88.43 TCP_DENIED/403 1001 CONNECT smtp-gw-4.msn.com:25 - NONE/- -
1045634456.808 46 65.239.174.227 TCP_DENIED/403 1007 CONNECT sbcmail6.prodigy.net:25 - NONE/- -
These are obviously spammers trying to abuse your squid proxy to send virtually untraceable spams. Report!
(Well, a weak point of both these was that the hiding of the place of origin was not really effective, but in many laws, attempt is enough.)
And once you have the spammer's home address, fire at will!
Did you actually read the link? The very name of the holiday comes from the pagan goddess of springtime, Eastre.
If you spoke French, you'd have a point: in French, Easter is called Paques; this word is derived from the Jewish holiday Pesach (Passover).
You forgot that Bush respectfully exempted himself from the Geneva Convention. He wages wars without an UN mandate. And he forbids the International War Crimes Court to try American Citizens.
If you're the strongest military power on the face of the earth, you get to rewrite International Law.
Or, even easyer:
Just crack that, and don't waste any of your precious ammo...
However, the end of the page is just hilarous: various inhabitants of Lake Lillian take issue with their "town" being qualified as boondocks. One letter points out that the only llama in "town" is not used for mail deliveries, but rather to keep it's owner's donkey company. They even explain why Lake Lillian cannot be found on a map: it's not about size, but it is a honest oversight by Rand McNally.
And if you're adventurous enough to go to Lake Lillian to collect your rebait cheque in person, be wary of farmboys trying to persuade you to piss into a hedge: DON'T do it! There may be an electric fence hidden inside, it's a popular trick they play on those ignorant "cityslickers"!
And open proxies...
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Are you the only one naive enough to never have heard of multiple accounts? ;-)
The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil