Does anyone know if this sequence is there for security purposes? It looks like this might lead to a spoofing vulnerability.
Indeed, it makes spoofing much easyer: no need to bother with sequence number guessing, just send your data packet right away, and pretend the connection is already open. This, combined with the fact that many IIS servers are often full of SQL-injectionable scripts should provide for great phun! Who needs open proxies when you can spoof so easily?
If I'm making no noise, and have an easy grasp of the course material, who says I have to sit there or even take notes unless the class requires participation?
You might make no noise while surfing, but the stench of the vomit that you threw up after tripping over that darn goatse link on Slashdot surely is disturbing to your classmates...
Another annoyance: Students googling for ...
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Professors vs. WiFi
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... teacher's every word and loudly pointing out every teeny mistake he makes, with bulletproof reference to prove him wrong?
Must be rather annoying in history, litterature or philosophy classes, when teachers no longer can pull the wool over their pupil's eyes to push their own agenda...
(Having said that, I can't see what any of this has to do with the DMCA. But hey, libel cases are expensive. Why bother suing, when you can just say the magic words and make any website dissappear?)
Next hoax: send a fake DMCA letter to the provider of the real dow site. If spun right, this could be mucho fun (just pretend that dow-chemical.com is the real site, and dow is the forgery...). Caution: Use an open proxy when pulling this off. Indeed impersonating a lawyer is a serious crime in most jurisdictions...
If you want to post really long URL's take a look a http://shorl.com. This is a site that provides shorter alias to URL's that you supply. The alias can then be posted to newsgroups, slashdot, etc, without fear of being broken up. There is also http://tinyurl.com, which does the same thing.
Of course, as moderation of this post shows, both of them are unfortunately also rather useful for trolling, so I'm not sure how long you'll be able to use these.
Note that neither of the two plants are even illegal in the US. If convicted he'll get twenty years. If I recall correctly that's five years more than the minimum for murder.
So, it's in his best interest to kill the whitnesses who saw that he had the plants. That'll save him five years. And if more people did this, two beneficial things might happen:
less snitching
maybe they'll fix the amount of punishments to keep a sense of proportion
Hell, wouldn't certain animals qualify as prior art?
Heck, certain apples qualify as prior art. The Golden Delicious is green when unripe, then turns a nice yellow, and finally a rotten disgusting brown... Looks like Apple (the computer maker...) not only infringes on the name, but also on the color changing ability of this tasty fruit (while yellow...)
hell, they may even be able to inform the police which areas and times have the highest incidence of speeding to improve their ability to ticket people - nothing a radar gun sitting on the side of the road can't do...
Why bother about ticketing people for speeding, if you know which areas and times have the highest incidence of people driving around with their cellphones switched ON (which is forbidden in many places)...
According to US maritime law, all the state has to do is see a judge with the documented location of each shipwreck and file a warrent to "arrest" the wreck.
But they first would need to prove that the wreck was involved in the trade of drugs. Alternatively, they could claim that the owner or the captain was black;-)
Their loyalty to Open Source stops at the desktop
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And, don't forget, IBM's "loyalty" to open source extends only as far as the server and mainframe world. Desktop is verboten. Hence no Lotus Notes client. And no open source Rationale Rose either, because that's a desktop tool too.
Besides which, the way they work is objectionable - if the internet is referred to as the 'information superhighway', then how about a motoring analogy... a pop-up banner would be somewhat equivalent to someone bringing your car to halt / diverting it down a different road, just for the purpose that you see a particular roadside banner... would you want that to be illegal or not?
A better analogy would be billboards disguised as traffic signs... "Roadworks ahead, bypass to the right", but the "bypass" is a cul-de-sac leading to some cheesy sexshop.
Of course, if roads were Slashdot, you'd see traffic signs pointing to some hick's backyard who'd spend all day mooning passersby.
The problem with that argument is that the "FLIPPIN'" space shuttle always costs the same per launch [1], so that if all you need is to launch a 400kg sat into LEO it's kind of wasteful. ... The proton, IIRC, tends to turn into little bits and peices about 10% of the time.
That shouldn't be a problem if you only want to go to LEO anyways...
And how exactly is this different from
Proton. A 290km orbit "to let the engineers assess the situation" is not that much better than "binding satellite arbitration"
but it is a lot harder to make an accessible site that looks snazzy. And I mean the sort of flashy web sites that you see mostly made for large
Then how come that the Websites made for very large companies, such as Yahoo, Msnbc and (to a limited extent) CNN look fine, yet still are very accessible? Heck, even Tommy Hilfiger cleaned their act up (but this may have something to do about snide comments about their site looking bad on blind people's browsers... If they want to pretend that Tommy never made that comment on how his clothes look on certain kinds of people, he cannot afford to make similar claims about his website...).
The general impression I got was that very often it's the sites of medium sized companies that are the worst: large enough to have the money to contract it out to an incompetent web-design shop but too small to know how to judge the product that they paid good money for.
I think this is not an issue. Many sites can indeed be viewed with Internet Explorer, thus this particular kind of disability is very well catered for...
Talking about Flash, a first step would be to provide a courtesy "Skip intro" link, so that the disabled can jump to the content of the site. Evening to sighted people will thank you, as not all of them enjoy sitting through minute-long flash intros. Do not try to second-guess whether the browser supports flash, just supply the damn link. Indeed, very often such "autodetection" code blows up horribly if assumptions about other features of the browser (Javascript, etc.) turn out to be wrong as well.
Also, make sure that once inside the site, all links are accessible from the HTML part. A friend of mine designed an website where all link anchors were small buttons which were flash animations. Needless to say, the site was utterly unusable in lynx. If he had used image buttons, he would at least have been able to supply an ALT text.
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Indeed, it makes spoofing much easyer: no need to bother with sequence number guessing, just send your data packet right away, and pretend the connection is already open. This, combined with the fact that many IIS servers are often full of SQL-injectionable scripts should provide for great phun! Who needs open proxies when you can spoof so easily?
In my day, I would sit in the back in philosophy class and do the homework from the math's class...
You might make no noise while surfing, but the stench of the vomit that you threw up after tripping over that darn goatse link on Slashdot surely is disturbing to your classmates...
Must be rather annoying in history, litterature or philosophy classes, when teachers no longer can pull the wool over their pupil's eyes to push their own agenda...
N.B. Don't worry, this link really does point to CNN, no need to cover your eyes or to have a bucket nearby...
Next hoax: send a fake DMCA letter to the provider of the real dow site. If spun right, this could be mucho fun (just pretend that dow-chemical.com is the real site, and dow is the forgery...). Caution: Use an open proxy when pulling this off. Indeed impersonating a lawyer is a serious crime in most jurisdictions...
Of course, as moderation of this post shows, both of them are unfortunately also rather useful for trolling, so I'm not sure how long you'll be able to use these.
So, it's in his best interest to kill the whitnesses who saw that he had the plants. That'll save him five years. And if more people did this, two beneficial things might happen:
Heck, certain apples qualify as prior art. The Golden Delicious is green when unripe, then turns a nice yellow, and finally a rotten disgusting brown... Looks like Apple (the computer maker...) not only infringes on the name, but also on the color changing ability of this tasty fruit (while yellow...)
Why bother about ticketing people for speeding, if you know which areas and times have the highest incidence of people driving around with their cellphones switched ON (which is forbidden in many places)...
I'm a midget, not a troll!
I hope someone does tell them. What better ally than the RIAA to fight that Redmond scum. Let the bad guys turn their guns on each other!
... what's to prevent some enterprising soul to retransmit this interesting video rather than the original content to his downstream clients...
But they first would need to prove that the wreck was involved in the trade of drugs. Alternatively, they could claim that the owner or the captain was black ;-)
And, don't forget, IBM's "loyalty" to open source extends only as far as the server and mainframe world. Desktop is verboten. Hence no Lotus Notes client. And no open source Rationale Rose either, because that's a desktop tool too.
It's OK with me if you steal my car if it's still parked in front of my house and I can still use it.
Well, ... he could have towed it...
A better analogy would be billboards disguised as traffic signs... "Roadworks ahead, bypass to the right", but the "bypass" is a cul-de-sac leading to some cheesy sexshop.
Of course, if roads were Slashdot, you'd see traffic signs pointing to some hick's backyard who'd spend all day mooning passersby.
The proton, IIRC, tends to turn into little bits and peices about 10% of the time.
That shouldn't be a problem if you only want to go to LEO anyways...
And how exactly is this different from Proton. A 290km orbit "to let the engineers assess the situation" is not that much better than "binding satellite arbitration"
Then how come that the Websites made for very large companies, such as Yahoo, Msnbc and (to a limited extent) CNN look fine, yet still are very accessible? Heck, even Tommy Hilfiger cleaned their act up (but this may have something to do about snide comments about their site looking bad on blind people's browsers... If they want to pretend that Tommy never made that comment on how his clothes look on certain kinds of people, he cannot afford to make similar claims about his website...).
The general impression I got was that very often it's the sites of medium sized companies that are the worst: large enough to have the money to contract it out to an incompetent web-design shop but too small to know how to judge the product that they paid good money for.
I'm a midget, not a troll!
I think this is not an issue. Many sites can indeed be viewed with Internet Explorer, thus this particular kind of disability is very well catered for...
Also, make sure that once inside the site, all links are accessible from the HTML part. A friend of mine designed an website where all link anchors were small buttons which were flash animations. Needless to say, the site was utterly unusable in lynx. If he had used image buttons, he would at least have been able to supply an ALT text.
... is its handle!