Windows have produced a datatype that allows people to place executable code into image files? How can they call themselves programmers.
The same people have been making EVERYTHING executable for years. Going back at least to Word for Windows 1, when they rolled macros into the document file, which promptly led to the Word Concept virus and its many descendents.
Those aren't the only possibilities. For instance it's likely several people sent complaints directly to the editors, and he then checked the posts and he smote the thread. But you must admit it looks like a God-mod, rather than a community judgement, as the downmods seem very consistent and simultaneous; and similar critical posts since have not been modded down en masse (yet).
Thanks anyway... on the bright side, it shows they've actually read some of these comments. Too bad they never bother to fix factual errors or other problems in stories when the comments are full of it.
Taco. He basically isn't interested in feedback, which seems very not in the spirit of open source to me. He also said that/. doesn't track who is submitting what and doesn't care about a submitter's positive or negative track recor
Well, someone as Slashdot cares, given that three of my posts in this thread and many others were all simultaneously modded down to -1.
But look at the story that was posted today (and the other recent posts by Roland). There are no links to his blog (except his name).
Yes there are. Look at the "overview" that "contains more details, pictures and references" than the Wired article; though it's all cut and pasted from it and one other by the same scientist quoted in the Wired article.
with this article, and many of the others submitted by the author, it seems that this is in the foremost news, so be glad that someone has found it and posted it
How hard is it to cut and paste from Wired? Every new article posted there must get submitted to Slashdot dozens of times. Just thay choose to use Roland's, with his links to his blog. If Roland was digging up obscure stuff no one else did it would be a fair exchange. Since he's French, why doesn't he ever submit French articles? He can't be bothered to translate perhaps, would take more than 5 minutes cut and paste.
The controversy a while back is when the main link in his submission was to his blog (which seemed only to copy-and-paste or provide only slightly more information than the actual news report.)
He's still doing it. "The Wired article is pretty entertaining, but this overview contains more details, pictures and references about this authentication process." The "overview" lauded as better than the original Wired article is Roland's blog.
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Yes, the original story ran on 28th Dec. Some jerk blogs about it, adds some gratuitous insults about Australians and the obligatory (for Americnas) Simpsons' references, and Zonk thinks it's new (or more likely, picked it at random and went back to sleep).
Storing an additional version isn't "simplification".
Of course it is
Of course it's not. It's easier to use, which is an entirely different thing. Windows is "simpler" to use than DOS, but is not a simplification, it's millions of lines of code compared to thousands.
Internet-formatted email is 100% representable as ascii text
I often get two paragraph messages from people as a Word doc attachment. And yes, it actually is sent as a Base-64 encoded (ASCII) segment of the message, but I don't think that's very helpful. Personally I filter most of my email to plain text, so messages that weighed in at 50k or more come down to 1k. But an archivist doesn't have the freedom to simplify the format.
after issuing the reg command I was unable to view thumbnails in explorer of jpegs taken by my camera. I was also quite unable to open any of them until I issued the command to register the dll again
You probbaly have some kind of image viewing app (usually bundled with digital camers). Otherwise try a free one, eg Irfanview. Install and it will take the jpeg association and display them, allow you to move, rename, and do basic image editing as well.
So it wasn't enough for you that every other fucking thread on the page was about creationism, you had to hijack this one too. And some like-minded assholes modded you insightful.
Slashdot needs a religious crusades sction so those of us who don't want to replay the same arguments over and over and over and over can avoid them.
Okay, I RTFA, and still don't see why there is a hyphen in "crypto-graphic" here. I thought perhaps it was some cute way to use a graphics card to do the the encoding, but I think it's (don't laugh) a typo. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I thought Australians are more like proud of the "criminal history" of their country, not ashamed of it, but I could be wrong here.
No one who tells the joke does it as a sign of respect, it's a sneering putdown. Incidentally, my family came over in the Gold Rush, I don't have any convicts in my family tree that I know of, though if I did I wouldn't be ashamed, neither would I be proud. Are American blacks proud of their "slave history"? Would you joke with then (assuming you're not black) asking where their shackles are? Or ask a Jew to show his Auschwitz tattoo? Actually, I wouldn't be so sensitive if this crap didn't come up every time Australia is mentioned here. Continual baiting wears you down.
However, having never seen Lost yet (I'm gonna rent Season 1 on Netflix soon), I'm getting the same vibe now as I did when Twin Peaks was running -- some of the most passionate praise/flaming of a series I've witnessed in a long time.
It's compelling; but I'm sure that the wheels are going to come off soon. There is no way that the mysteries can be resolved and have the show continue. The fact that this was created by JJ Abrams who set up a similar mythology in Alias only to shrug it off and go on to a weird spy soap opera almost guarantees disappointment is coming. Ultimately, to solve the mystery of the island means to end the series, and commercial pressure means that won't happen, rather that new mysteries will be piled on whenever ratings sag till finally everyone's credulity gives out, somewhat like the conspiracy/invasion backdrop of X-Files which ended in total disarray (though it took 9 years to do so).
Every fucking time there's an Australian story this comes up; right after the Simpsons jokes. This might have been slightly amusing 50 years ago when it was invented, not any more. If I posted similar anti-American jokes in every story that mentioned the country I'd be in negative karma in no time, but anti-foreigners is "funny".
The stated reason in TFA is to allow use of IE-only sites. But of course it would be a lot simpler to fake and/or emulate IE's responses to sneak in; and to bitch loudly to the sites. A forked IE-Mac is unlikely to stay compatible with the latest Windows version, making it useless in short order for any purpose.
. 98% of the page hits will be people who clicked the link, saw a meaningless collection of statistics and closed the tab before the ads had even finished loading.
About 1% of the hits will be from me, trying over and over to load the damn page which choked on some javascripted banner ad (from the name of the domain it was waiting for), till I finally gave up.
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The same people have been making EVERYTHING executable for years. Going back at least to Word for Windows 1, when they rolled macros into the document file, which promptly led to the Word Concept virus and its many descendents.
It was, though not by MS. The Hexblog hotfix is 200 lines of code (he includes the source), including comments.
Those aren't the only possibilities. For instance it's likely several people sent complaints directly to the editors, and he then checked the posts and he smote the thread. But you must admit it looks like a God-mod, rather than a community judgement, as the downmods seem very consistent and simultaneous; and similar critical posts since have not been modded down en masse (yet).
Thanks anyway... on the bright side, it shows they've actually read some of these comments. Too bad they never bother to fix factual errors or other problems in stories when the comments are full of it.
Amazing, a Wired story that isn't credited to Roland Piquepaille's blog cut and paste.
Well, someone as Slashdot cares, given that three of my posts in this thread and many others were all simultaneously modded down to -1.
Yes there are. Look at the "overview" that "contains more details, pictures and references" than the Wired article; though it's all cut and pasted from it and one other by the same scientist quoted in the Wired article.
How hard is it to cut and paste from Wired? Every new article posted there must get submitted to Slashdot dozens of times. Just thay choose to use Roland's, with his links to his blog. If Roland was digging up obscure stuff no one else did it would be a fair exchange. Since he's French, why doesn't he ever submit French articles? He can't be bothered to translate perhaps, would take more than 5 minutes cut and paste.
He's still doing it. "The Wired article is pretty entertaining, but this overview contains more details, pictures and references about this authentication process." The "overview" lauded as better than the original Wired article is Roland's blog.
Stardust to Return January 15 On December 23rd, 2005 with 143 comments
accessdeniednsp writes "Seven years ago, the Stardust probe was sent to intercept Comet Wild 2, gather dust particles, and return to Earth. Stardust is...
Dust Samples Returning to Earth at 28,860 mph On December 22nd, 2005 with 48 comments
DjBenBen writes "After a 2.88 billion mile round-trip journey, NASA's Stardust mission is nearing Earth with comet and interstellar dust particles that could...
Yes, the original story ran on 28th Dec. Some jerk blogs about it, adds some gratuitous insults about Australians and the obligatory (for Americnas) Simpsons' references, and Zonk thinks it's new (or more likely, picked it at random and went back to sleep).
The Aborigines have only been in Australia for 50,000 years or so. They're as much immigrants as I am (my family came over 4 or 5 generations ago).
Of course it is
Of course it's not. It's easier to use, which is an entirely different thing. Windows is "simpler" to use than DOS, but is not a simplification, it's millions of lines of code compared to thousands.
Storing an additional version isn't "simplification". I was talking about "instead of", which is what I do for my own archives.
I often get two paragraph messages from people as a Word doc attachment. And yes, it actually is sent as a Base-64 encoded (ASCII) segment of the message, but I don't think that's very helpful. Personally I filter most of my email to plain text, so messages that weighed in at 50k or more come down to 1k. But an archivist doesn't have the freedom to simplify the format.
You'd have to hope no one came across this prior art from Signetics back in 1972.
You probbaly have some kind of image viewing app (usually bundled with digital camers). Otherwise try a free one, eg Irfanview. Install and it will take the jpeg association and display them, allow you to move, rename, and do basic image editing as well.
Conservatives were all saying "the memos are fake, so the information in them must be false".
So it wasn't enough for you that every other fucking thread on the page was about creationism, you had to hijack this one too. And some like-minded assholes modded you insightful.
Slashdot needs a religious crusades sction so those of us who don't want to replay the same arguments over and over and over and over can avoid them.
Okay, I RTFA, and still don't see why there is a hyphen in "crypto-graphic" here. I thought perhaps it was some cute way to use a graphics card to do the the encoding, but I think it's (don't laugh) a typo. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
No one who tells the joke does it as a sign of respect, it's a sneering putdown. Incidentally, my family came over in the Gold Rush, I don't have any convicts in my family tree that I know of, though if I did I wouldn't be ashamed, neither would I be proud. Are American blacks proud of their "slave history"? Would you joke with then (assuming you're not black) asking where their shackles are? Or ask a Jew to show his Auschwitz tattoo? Actually, I wouldn't be so sensitive if this crap didn't come up every time Australia is mentioned here. Continual baiting wears you down.
It's compelling; but I'm sure that the wheels are going to come off soon. There is no way that the mysteries can be resolved and have the show continue. The fact that this was created by JJ Abrams who set up a similar mythology in Alias only to shrug it off and go on to a weird spy soap opera almost guarantees disappointment is coming. Ultimately, to solve the mystery of the island means to end the series, and commercial pressure means that won't happen, rather that new mysteries will be piled on whenever ratings sag till finally everyone's credulity gives out, somewhat like the conspiracy/invasion backdrop of X-Files which ended in total disarray (though it took 9 years to do so).
Every fucking time there's an Australian story this comes up; right after the Simpsons jokes. This might have been slightly amusing 50 years ago when it was invented, not any more. If I posted similar anti-American jokes in every story that mentioned the country I'd be in negative karma in no time, but anti-foreigners is "funny".
The stated reason in TFA is to allow use of IE-only sites. But of course it would be a lot simpler to fake and/or emulate IE's responses to sneak in; and to bitch loudly to the sites. A forked IE-Mac is unlikely to stay compatible with the latest Windows version, making it useless in short order for any purpose.
About 1% of the hits will be from me, trying over and over to load the damn page which choked on some javascripted banner ad (from the name of the domain it was waiting for), till I finally gave up.