As a minor side point, here in the UK the "near miss" system has been specifically outlawed in the Gaming act coming in to force this september.
The other aspect of "near miss" is that on your last credit, assuming you lose, the win-line will have a "near miss" win displayed, (bell, bell, not-a-bell-but-only-off-by-one). This to has been made specifically illegal in the same act.
The obvious workaround is to simply not redirect. Install a transparent proxy and serve up your desired page on the first request.
I too have designed and implemented a similar system for a UK WiFi operator (100% my own work) One of the decisions I made was not to do the above since it potentially screwed up the user's browser - caching the wrong page or elements of it. Much better to send a 302 HTTP_MOVED_TEMPORARILY and you'll keep the address bar correct too.
Embryonic stem cell research (the only sort anyone objects to, AFAIK) is fueled by murder: the murder of the humans in question. It is unconscionable, and not to be stood. There are few things which should be illegal: fraud, theft, rape & murder just about sum it up. Ebryonic stem cell research is murder (as it involves the killing of a human being), and should be illegal.
LOL. Hahahahah! I'm struggling with conflicting emoitions. Should I pity you as a retard or be disturbed by your stupidity? Oh well.
FYI, reader, embryonic stem cell research is carried out on what used to be embryos, before they were aborted (either by request or by requirement [medical etc.]). The use of stem cells taken from cadavers has no effect on the production of cadavers, and since the cadavers are being produced anyway it makes a huge amount of sense for them to have some samples taken from them for life-saving research before they're incinerated rather than simply being incinerated.
Pragmatism beats 4 religious aces.
I suppose the originial dimbulb is an anti-abortionist, and is therefore regards anything related to abortion as bad. Thankfully democracy keeps such fringe lunatics from power.
Ha! I had one (sales) guy shout "Whoa there! I smell a revenue pony!" in the middle of the meeting. WTF?! Is there a mailing list for this sort of shit where the sales guys collude to introduce more garbage words in to meetings?
Right now cellular is fine for chatting with friends to meet at whatever resturant or bar or movie showing, but outside of that, it's impossibly expensive.
Err, what country do you live in? Calls are cheap as chips here (the UK). Even the with lowest-end contracts/plans you get 'n'-hundred free minutes per month, and it costs nothing to run one if you only want to recieve calls.
Besides, think of the advantages;
You have one phone number no matter how many times you move house.
Its up to you how reachable you are, if you don't want to answer then hit 'reject' and it'll go to voicemail.
You get stuff like E2 in your pocket all the time!:)
Why is it that in the USA (and no other country) people think the French are/were cowards? Its very strange. Consider the American War Of Independance, WW1 and WW2, la resistance etc etc. At no time have the French ever done anything that would allow them to be characterised as cowardly.
wow! I must quickly right a report reccomending my employers ditch all those expensive ATM WAN links and use cell phones - we'll have U's of rackage full of them! Hell we'll run the LANs off of them too - bits the crap out of 802.11b !
Wait! whats that strange bleeping sound? oh right - it's my bullshit detector...
Yeah, it went off a soon as you tied the SIM to the data transport endpoint in your mind. Apart from crypto algorithms running using data from the SIM - the SIM has no part in the data transfer.
Confusion. 3G radio comms has nothing to do with
the sort of thing you use 802.11b for. Both camps use the words 'wireless network' to mean different things, hence the confusion is understandable, but there is absolutely no crossover - yes they are both radio data systems, but thats where the similarity ends.
For U.S. based standards, there is a similar concept. Again, the interface can be TCP/IP or IPX or X.25 or SS7.
This is less of an issue than it seems. Just as with SMSCs there are only a handful of widely supported interconnect protocols and each SMSC will support at least one that everyone else supports. The most common is, of course, a straight SS7 link between the operators (peering, if you will).
This results in scalability problems. It's inherent to WAP. WAP could never scale, and as a result, WAP sucks.
Pop! (that was your bubble bursting, btw) As it happens, it scales easily by clustering your WAP gateways. Lots of people do it. It scales fine. You are wrong.
One of the reasons WAP was a disaster, IMHO, was because they invented a completely new set of protocols to do things that IP/UDP/TCP could already do.
Err, so did you read any WAP docs before saying that? WAP uses UDP over PPP in CSD environments or GPRS over SS7 to the GGSN in GPRS environments.
This was always a nonsense claim, since people were running IP over 2400 baud modems 10+ years ago, which is about as high latency, low bandwidth as you can get.
Wrong again. CSD (Circuit Switched Data) is the most popular bearer protocol in place at the moment, and the 2nd most popular is SMS. 2400baud is staggeringly fast compared to 160 bytes every 6 seconds with SMS.
The real reason was control: anything interoperable with the regular Internet would have been impossible to charge a premium for.
Err, except for the airtime, eh? Which is exactly what gets charged for ATM. Sheesh!
since when did bearer (air-interface) protocols have anything to do with WAP? The whole point of WAP is that it is bearer independant. FFS kids. WAP sucks dogs cocks at the moment, but it *is* changing. It's getting better. Yes, it was a fuckup of a marketing exercise but it's the only thing we (the cellular industry) agree on.
Now cue the 'tard boys saying "oooh1! imode uses HTML so it's better!"
Please, just once Mr Slashdotters, learn a little about the issues before you rant.
(Yes, I am drunk BTW. But hey, it's 3:50am here and I've had a good night out;)
Does this guy actually has to audacity to call something an RFC and actually just mean request for comment?
Well DUH! Of course they are RFCs, thats what we english speakers call an "abbreviation" or "acronym". Would you *really* have expected then to type "request for comment 005" where "RFC005" is both correct and perfectly clear?
First, you have to define obscenity, and I challenge you to do that.
The British defenition in law is "Materiel likely to deprave or corrupt the viewer" Which I've always though was a neat way of doing it, since it flows with society as it changes.
Seriously. It may sound odd, but cooking yourself good-to-excellent meals is an astonishingly pleasurable experience. It can also be very healthy.
Put off buying that new Nvida card and invest some money in good kichenware equipment, particularly things like *good* knives.
Here is one to get you started.
Ingredients Salmon (about a fist-sized peice)
Pasta (any kind except flat sheets)
Coriander, basil and parsley. (get living plants or fresh bunched stuff, nothing else will do, the dried stuff sucks)
Vinagrette (pre-made shop stuff is fine, substitute any salad dressing if you can't find some)
Olive oil.
Method * Turn on the oven and heat it up to about 250C
* Boil the kettle, you'll need the water for cooking the pasta in a moment.
* Strip off any bits you don't fancy eating from the salmon (bones, skin, eyes etc) and wrap it in some tinfoil. Put the tinfoil wrapped salmon in the oven (assuming it's heated up now).
* Pop the pasta in a pan, douse with the boiling water and bung on a bit of oil and cook (boil) until the pasta is chewy.
* Reboil the kettle and use the water to douse off the starch and gunk from the pasta. Drain off the pasta and chuck on some olive oil (very little, you only want to lightly coat the pasta w/the oil, so put a wee bit in and stir the whole lot around until it all looks sligtly glistening)
* Take the salmon out the oven (about 25mins will have passed, I'm assuming) and unwrap it. Chuck away the water that'll have collected in the bottom of the foil and let it cool down.
* Get a big bowl and chuck in the pasta and then shred/flake the salmon in to it. Chop up the coriander, basil and parsley roughly and pop them on top. (More coriander than anything else) dribble a bit of vinagrette on and shake it.
* Eat.
Or you could do what I did one time which was to hack the box the spammer was sending mail from (this was back when Stanford Wallace-style spam merchants were the norm, rather than the "grab a dialup, abuse it with some autospammer software and dump the account" style of today)
It was quite interesting really, the box was a no-mods straight-from-cd RedHat4.2 with the IMAP remote root, so it wasn't exactly difficult getting in.
I can't even remember what the spam was for, to be honest. What I remember was the fact that I'd just spent hours twiddling my.procmailrc to defend against spam and this one got through. Oh well.
(./a.out;cat) | nc www.HISHOSTNAME.net 143 and I was in. ps afx went on for several screens. Hundreds of sendmail processes churning away. Several hundred megs of email addresses in alphabetical order in one directory. Oh, and stuff like "sed -e s/nospam//g" scripts lying around as well. (email mungers take note)
I had a poke at the 'abuse' mailbox, it was big, getting bigger. Filled with abuse. (surprisingly:-)
I did prevaricate for a while about what to do, I wasn't the sort of system cracker who rm`d boxes (I don't do that sort of thing anymore BTW) but in the end I made an exception.
killall -9 sendmail; rm -rf/ Felt pretty good, to tell you the truth.
Heh.
Re:Shouldn't royalties go to the COMPOSERS?
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Correct!
We run a ringtone site here in the UK, and 10% of everything we make goes to the MCPS http://www.mcps.co.uk/, the Mechancial Copyright Protection Society. Just like the PRS protects the performance of a work, the MCPS protects the composer of a work, the composer being a much more appropriate recipient of the royalties.
I don't know wether I'm for or against this; one part of me (the bit that wants to be a millionaire;) says no but I can see the MCPSs point.
We're employing professional musicians to recode the essence/melody of popular (i.e. well known) tunes in to MIDI files. Sometimes this works really well and other times it comes out sounding awful, but bearing in mind the process I'd still say it's "music".
There will be no rest, no surrender, no slackening of pace nor weakening of will. In our lifetimes, the USA will again be a just and Godly nation
Whose god? Papa Legba? (Not a troll, btw. The USA is a multi-cultural society therefore there is no way ever that you will become a "Godly nation" you've got way too many religions active to be able to impose a state religion.
From there, the rest is inevitable. God will return to His rightful place in our Nation.
Heh. Refer to your history textbooks. The opposite of that is true.
(FYI, I support abortion. So would you if you knew more women who trusted you enough to tell you the truth about their childhoods)
You're not looking at the big picture, kiddo. You will see, however. And you will not have to wait long.
Oh, why is that? Perhaps the seventh seal is about to be broken? Is that the sound of intake of breath in preparation of the last trump?
Now I don't ever recall making a statement about the UK, so please leave that irrelevant country out of the discussion.
You're right you didn't. It was me. You said "Have you ever seen the effect of a godless society." I said I have, since I live in one. Use the "[parent]" link to follow the response chain.
GWB is also completely irrelevant, he wasn't
elected because he was a Christian, little guy. Most Europeans will give up their freedom like prostitutes, something which is unfortunately becoming a trend in the US.
I was starting to respond to that bit when I came across this comment and this one from which the only conclusion I can derive is that you are the worst sort of person, but regard yourself as a good guy, following a good man, capable of the worst sort of horror. I genuinely feel sorry for the society around you.
I think he meant that you would have dedicated GAIM MD5 servers which the GAIM client could connect to when asked for the checksum. Using round-robin DNS to load balance them and centrally manage the cluster as servers came and went. As someone was willing to have a Windows PC on a fast connection doing nothing other than checksum serving (assuming you guys can create the server) then it could be possible.
What exactly are you talking about, removed? Have you ever seen the effect of a godless society.
Yes, I have as it happens. I live in the UK where
state religion is of very little importance. A tiny percentage of the population are churchgoers. (Oh, and it's very nice here)
Ha! Wait, you're seeing it right now. As America moves further and futher away from God
You're not moveing further away from your gods are you? GW Bush is a (to my mind) disturbingly christian. His stance on abortion funding for 3rd world countries was accompanied by some weirdo christian references.
, you will see more school shootings, and you will see the morons in this country scratching their heads and saying "gawsh, guess we need more gun control".
Ahem. And you don't think you do?
When you start talking about religion, expect a firey response... some people actually believe in something.
LOL! Listen up kiddo. If you want to live somewhere where the church is respected and its citizens follow its teachings in all areas of life then go and live in the middle east. (please!)
I think that it's a useful thing to demonstrate that what they destroy is not a lump of tissue but a human being
No!
That's the whole point, at the stage a foetus may be legally aborted it is judged by society not to be a sentient entity. This is why abortion is time-limited, after a certain number of weeks of pregancy the foetus is not allowed to be aborted becase it has legally become human.
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As a minor side point, here in the UK the "near miss" system has been specifically outlawed in the Gaming act coming in to force this september.
The other aspect of "near miss" is that on your last credit, assuming you lose, the win-line will have a "near miss" win displayed, (bell, bell, not-a-bell-but-only-off-by-one). This to has been made specifically illegal in the same act.
I too have designed and implemented a similar system for a UK WiFi operator (100% my own work) One of the decisions I made was not to do the above since it potentially screwed up the user's browser - caching the wrong page or elements of it.
Much better to send a 302 HTTP_MOVED_TEMPORARILY and you'll keep the address bar correct too.
LOL. Hahahahah! I'm struggling with conflicting emoitions. Should I pity you as a retard or be disturbed by your stupidity? Oh well.
FYI, reader, embryonic stem cell research is carried out on what used to be embryos, before they were aborted (either by request or by requirement [medical etc.]). The use of stem cells taken from cadavers has no effect on the production of cadavers, and since the cadavers are being produced anyway it makes a huge amount of sense for them to have some samples taken from them for life-saving research before they're incinerated rather than simply being incinerated.
Pragmatism beats 4 religious aces.
I suppose the originial dimbulb is an anti-abortionist, and is therefore regards anything related to abortion as bad. Thankfully democracy keeps such fringe lunatics from power.
Ha!
I had one (sales) guy shout "Whoa there! I smell a revenue pony!" in the middle of the meeting. WTF?! Is there a mailing list for this sort of shit where the sales guys collude to introduce more garbage words in to meetings?
Actually, it was
"This is the sort of english up with which I will not put"
Err, what country do you live in? Calls are cheap as chips here (the UK). Even the with lowest-end contracts/plans you get 'n'-hundred free minutes per month, and it costs nothing to run one if you only want to recieve calls.
Besides, think of the advantages;
You have one phone number no matter how many times you move house.
Its up to you how reachable you are, if you don't want to answer then hit 'reject' and it'll go to voicemail.
You get stuff like E2 in your pocket all the time! :)
Why is it that in the USA (and no other country) people think the French are/were cowards? Its very strange. Consider the American War Of Independance, WW1 and WW2, la resistance etc etc. At no time have the French ever done anything that would allow them to be characterised as cowardly.
Strange...
Yeah, it went off a soon as you tied the SIM to the data transport endpoint in your mind. Apart from crypto algorithms running using data from the SIM - the SIM has no part in the data transfer.
Confusion. 3G radio comms has nothing to do with the sort of thing you use 802.11b for. Both camps use the words 'wireless network' to mean different things, hence the confusion is understandable, but there is absolutely no crossover - yes they are both radio data systems, but thats where the similarity ends.
In Opera, do
File->Preferences
Windows tab, lower area (document windows)
change from "allow documents to create windows" to "open in background"
Pop! (that was your bubble bursting, btw) As it happens, it scales easily by clustering your WAP gateways. Lots of people do it. It scales fine. You are wrong.
Err, so did you read any WAP docs before saying that? WAP uses UDP over PPP in CSD environments or GPRS over SS7 to the GGSN in GPRS environments.
Wrong again. CSD (Circuit Switched Data) is the most popular bearer protocol in place at the moment, and the 2nd most popular is SMS. 2400baud is staggeringly fast compared to 160 bytes every 6 seconds with SMS.
Err, except for the airtime, eh? Which is exactly what gets charged for ATM. Sheesh!
Duh!
;)
since when did bearer (air-interface) protocols have anything to do with WAP? The whole point of WAP is that it is bearer independant. FFS kids. WAP sucks dogs cocks at the moment, but it *is* changing. It's getting better. Yes, it was a fuckup of a marketing exercise but it's the only thing we (the cellular industry) agree on.
Now cue the 'tard boys saying "oooh1! imode uses HTML so it's better!"
Please, just once Mr Slashdotters, learn a little about the issues before you rant.
(Yes, I am drunk BTW. But hey, it's 3:50am here and I've had a good night out
Seriously. It may sound odd, but cooking yourself good-to-excellent meals is an astonishingly pleasurable experience. It can also be very healthy.
Put off buying that new Nvida card and invest some money in good kichenware equipment, particularly things like *good* knives.
Here is one to get you started.
Ingredients
Salmon (about a fist-sized peice)
Pasta (any kind except flat sheets)
Coriander, basil and parsley. (get living plants or fresh bunched stuff, nothing else will do, the dried stuff sucks)
Vinagrette (pre-made shop stuff is fine, substitute any salad dressing if you can't find some)
Olive oil.
Method
* Turn on the oven and heat it up to about 250C
* Boil the kettle, you'll need the water for cooking the pasta in a moment.
* Strip off any bits you don't fancy eating from the salmon (bones, skin, eyes etc) and wrap it in some tinfoil. Put the tinfoil wrapped salmon in the oven (assuming it's heated up now).
* Pop the pasta in a pan, douse with the boiling water and bung on a bit of oil and cook (boil) until the pasta is chewy.
* Reboil the kettle and use the water to douse off the starch and gunk from the pasta. Drain off the pasta and chuck on some olive oil (very little, you only want to lightly coat the pasta w/the oil, so put a wee bit in and stir the whole lot around until it all looks sligtly glistening)
* Take the salmon out the oven (about 25mins will have passed, I'm assuming) and unwrap it. Chuck away the water that'll have collected in the bottom of the foil and let it cool down.
* Get a big bowl and chuck in the pasta and then shred/flake the salmon in to it. Chop up the coriander, basil and parsley roughly and pop them on top. (More coriander than anything else) dribble a bit of vinagrette on and shake it.
* Eat.
It was quite interesting really, the box was a no-mods straight-from-cd RedHat4.2 with the IMAP remote root, so it wasn't exactly difficult getting in.
I can't even remember what the spam was for, to be honest. What I remember was the fact that I'd just spent hours twiddling my .procmailrc to defend against spam and this one got through. Oh well.
(./a.out;cat) | nc www.HISHOSTNAME.net 143 and I was in.
ps afx went on for several screens. Hundreds of sendmail processes churning away. Several hundred megs of email addresses in alphabetical order in one directory. Oh, and stuff like "sed -e s/nospam//g" scripts lying around as well. (email mungers take note)
I had a poke at the 'abuse' mailbox, it was big, getting bigger. Filled with abuse. (surprisingly :-)
I did prevaricate for a while about what to do, I wasn't the sort of system cracker who rm`d boxes (I don't do that sort of thing anymore BTW) but in the end I made an exception.
killall -9 sendmail; rm -rf / Felt pretty good, to tell you the truth.
Heh.
Correct! We run a ringtone site here in the UK, and 10% of everything we make goes to the MCPS http://www.mcps.co.uk/, the Mechancial Copyright Protection Society. Just like the PRS protects the performance of a work, the MCPS protects the composer of a work, the composer being a much more appropriate recipient of the royalties.
I don't know wether I'm for or against this; one part of me (the bit that wants to be a millionaire;) says no but I can see the MCPSs point.
We're employing professional musicians to recode the essence/melody of popular (i.e. well known) tunes in to MIDI files. Sometimes this works really well and other times it comes out sounding awful, but bearing in mind the process I'd still say it's "music".
Whose god? Papa Legba? (Not a troll, btw. The USA is a multi-cultural society therefore there is no way ever that you will become a "Godly nation" you've got way too many religions active to be able to impose a state religion.
Heh. Refer to your history textbooks. The opposite of that is true.
(FYI, I support abortion. So would you if you knew more women who trusted you enough to tell you the truth about their childhoods)
I think he meant that you would have dedicated GAIM MD5 servers which the GAIM client could connect to when asked for the checksum. Using round-robin DNS to load balance them and centrally manage the cluster as servers came and went. As someone was willing to have a Windows PC on a fast connection doing nothing other than checksum serving (assuming you guys can create the server) then it could be possible.
No!
That's the whole point, at the stage a foetus may be legally aborted it is judged by society not to be a sentient entity. This is why abortion is time-limited, after a certain number of weeks of pregancy the foetus is not allowed to be aborted becase it has legally become human.