I love the Proxomitron. I can't believe the crap non-users put up with on
their browsers -- pop ups, gratuitous flash advertisements, etc. My only
complaint about the Proxomitron so far is that I'd like to be able to write a
filter that would allow me to whitelist or blacklist a
site via the right-click popup menu, or via a small toolbar at the page bottom.
Check out JD5000's custom
configuration files for Proxomitron. They have this feature and lots of
others. One cool feature is to split all links into two: one that opens
normally and another that opens in a new window. Beats right clicking.
Only complaint is that it's a bit of a pain to install.
I know Microsoft makes a program to help admins lock down IIS servers, but I don't know if they have anything about SMTP and POP security.
Besides, "e-mail server checkers" ought to be very close in what they look for regardless of the platform the server is running on. Why the heck can't we easily get whatever scanner that the blacklisters are using?
This guy admits his e-mail server WAS unsecure and is complaining that he got blacklisted. I understand his fustration, but I'm glad he was blacklisted.
Now what's needed is a simple to use tool to help users determine if their systems can be comprimized. Any ideas?
Radio Shack?! What's the catalog number? I bought the Kiki
Joy and it works super on my PC with WindowsXP. It supports
Force Feedback and I heard those dancing pads work with it, too.
You can relive the adventure on your PC with this remake called Indenture
that includes a whole mess of NEW levels and secrets. All you need is a PC
with a DOS box and you're set.
The lack of a floating point processor in most mp3 players was a major technical problem with vendors adding ogg support to their hardware. Now that a non-fp codebase is available for the taking, this could very well mean the beginning of widespread ogg acceptance! My only concern would be the following: If was a company like Sony and I did some R&D to improve the quality of ogg files in order to give my products a competative edge over other brands, would I have to make those improvements open source?
Um, according to our records, they show you WERE there. I know what your going to say. It wasn't me. A likely story! All the other circumstantial evidence points to you. Admit it and maybe I'll let you pleabargin to a lesser charge.
I don't care about Google knowing where I go on the Internet either. However, since they DO keep a record, what's to stop the government (e.g., law enforcement) from obtaining my Internet usage history? It's been done before. (Use Google to search for EZ-Pass and kidnapping.)
"...typical MS BS behind the scenes." Like what? You mean like tracking your searches without your knowledge? Kinda like what Google is doing? Sorry, you're still a hypocrite.
Re:Cookie? What cookie?
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Mr Anti-Google
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Funny. If it was Microsoft, I doubt you all would be so forgiving.
The license for iDVD is restricted to being used with Apple's SuperDrive. They made sure to enforce that within their software.
And someone else made sure to remove that feature which IMHO is
their right to do providing they OWN that copy of iDVD.
Your comparison with Microsoft is flawed. Microsoft sells software, Apple sells hardware. IDVD exists to promote sales of Apple Superdrives, period.
Really? Then what's OSX? Hardware?
Apple's intentions may have been to only allow iDVD to be used with Apple
hardware, but so what? They don't have the right to tell me what to do
with my computer just because their marketing department is too inept to realize
that giving away iDVD for free was a dumb idea.
I can understand why Apple would be upset. Their software that's
given away for free in order to promote their hardware is used to drive
up sales for their competitors. However, who's fault is that?
It's Apple's fault. Unless you force me to sign a contract to exclusively
use Apple's software with Apple's hardware, you can't stop me from doing
otherwise. Well, I mean they shouldn't be able to do that.
That's the reason why this action is so bad.
Apple just doesn't get it, do they? Microsoft strived to ensure their
Windows 9X operating system worked with as many different hardware products as
possible. I can use a third party MS compatible mouse on my Windows box
without fear of DCMA reprisal. When are they gonna learn, it's not about
the hardware, stupid.
Actually, it was the heat of the fires that weakend the
superstructure and caused the buildings to collapse...
Not exactly. The floors in the WTC were held up by trusses coated with
fire retardant foam. The impact of the plane blew off much of that protective
coating leaving the steel trusses susceptible to the heat of the burning jet
fuel. The superstructure of the building was damaged badly,
but may have held if it were not for the failure of the trusses holding up the
floors. Imagine an empty beer can with a heavy book on top of it. It
can take a surprising amount of downward force because the rigid cylinder
doesn't buckle. Now imagine a 20 foot high beer can. You can see how
much easier it would be for the sides to buckle in/out without internal
supports. That's what the floors did for the WTC. Without them the
external skin buckled out and caused the building to collapse upon itself.
The casinos that offer less decks make up for it by modifying the rules in their favor. Only allowing double downs on 9,10,A, no late surrendering, no resplitting, etc.
The technique they were describing in the article is similar to what gamblers call "Wong-ing" (named after the man who invented it.) Essentially it means that you have a bunch of people (spotters) watching the hands at different tables for a lot of low cards being delt. They signal to the desginated player with their big bankroll to sit down and bet heavily and then leave the table. I never understood how they were able to do this since most casinos I've gone to there were few open seats at the BJ pits. Table hopping seems impractical.
Re:Jeez... hasn't this been going on for ever?
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MIT vs. Las Vegas
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· Score: 2
It has been done. The way it works is three people have a transmitter attached to each of them. A switch located in their their respective shoes is uses as a signal as each man/woman taps when the ball reaches a certain location on the wheel. A computer calculates the velocity and at what point the ball will drop. I'm assuming anyone betting this way would have to get in a bet at the last minute for this to work.
When I worked for the NYC Transit Authority, I once saw a demonstration of a similar system they were demoing using the EZ-Pass.
One of the features was that the system purposefully ignored the EZ-Pass owner's identity when culling the statistical data.
It seemed a bit silly to me since your identity can still going to be discovered by simply looking in the billing
database instead, but at least they had the right attitude.
FYI, MetroCards are a little more private since there's no way to match up a
serial number with an individual unless you pay by credit card, have a picture
ID MetroCard (e.g., Seniors, Disabled, student, etc.), or are found with the
card in your possession.
Then do it the proper way and use Proxomitron. Now if I can only figure out how to get it to block popups without knocking out javascript "new window" commands...
The major detractor was the user interface, since it didn't feel
like a Windows application. This was probably due to a poor understanding by the
authors of XUL.
Oh yeah, his observations are invalid because he doesn't know about XUL.
You know what? Not many people know or care about XUL. What
they want is a browser that looks consistent with the rest of their applications
on their particular OS. Your comment is invalid.
That would assume that a flywheel would be a better battery than fuel cells. At the power output level that you need for a UPS, the answer is probably no.
If you've ridden on the NYC subway system, you'd know that the trains can be VERY close to each other. But that's not the point...
This system is essentially giant battery (or rather, 10 small ones) in every station to suck up the power put back into the rail by trains stopping at that station. If a train slows down far away from another train or station battery, there's not much good that power being pumped back into the rails are gonna do anyone.
Oh, by the way. The reason that the resistance is such a problem? They're DC motors. That's why they can be REVERSED and used as generators. You can't do that with alternators/AC motors. For reasons why DC has problems with transmission across long conductors, ask your local Slashdot geek about the "war" between Edison and Tesla.
Processing power
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MP3 for Gameboy
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· Score: 5, Informative
There's no way a GameBoy has the processing power to decode MP3s natively. This thing has got to be an Rio with a
GameBoy program to display the status on the GameBoy rather than have it's own LCD.
Whoopdie dooo.
Here's a better option:
Amazon has the SP90 player at $85 -
$5 coupon CHNKBKAMZNLT - $20
rebate = $60 shipped. There's a simple way to hack
it and upgrade the firmware.
Plays standard audio CDs as well as MP3 + WMA
Electronic shock protection up to 120 seconds
Supports ID3 tags and audio CD title display (CD Text)
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I love the Proxomitron. I can't believe the crap non-users put up with on their browsers -- pop ups, gratuitous flash advertisements, etc. My only complaint about the Proxomitron so far is that I'd like to be able to write a filter that would allow me to whitelist or blacklist a site via the right-click popup menu, or via a small toolbar at the page bottom.
Check out JD5000's custom configuration files for Proxomitron. They have this feature and lots of others. One cool feature is to split all links into two: one that opens normally and another that opens in a new window. Beats right clicking.
Only complaint is that it's a bit of a pain to install.
I know Microsoft makes a program to help admins lock down IIS servers, but I don't know if they have anything about SMTP and POP security.
Besides, "e-mail server checkers" ought to be very close in what they look for regardless of the platform the server is running on. Why the heck can't we easily get whatever scanner that the blacklisters are using?
This guy admits his e-mail server WAS unsecure and is complaining that he got blacklisted. I understand his fustration, but I'm glad he was blacklisted.
Now what's needed is a simple to use tool to help users determine if their systems can be comprimized. Any ideas?
Radio Shack?! What's the catalog number? I bought the Kiki Joy and it works super on my PC with WindowsXP. It supports Force Feedback and I heard those dancing pads work with it, too.
You can relive the adventure on your PC with this remake called Indenture that includes a whole mess of NEW levels and secrets. All you need is a PC with a DOS box and you're set.
The lack of a floating point processor in most mp3 players was a major technical problem with vendors adding ogg support to their hardware. Now that a non-fp codebase is available for the taking, this could very well mean the beginning of widespread ogg acceptance! My only concern would be the following: If was a company like Sony and I did some R&D to improve the quality of ogg files in order to give my products a competative edge over other brands, would I have to make those improvements open source?
Um, according to our records, they show you WERE there. I know what your going to say. It wasn't me. A likely story! All the other circumstantial evidence points to you. Admit it and maybe I'll let you pleabargin to a lesser charge.
I don't care about Google knowing where I go on the Internet either. However, since they DO keep a record, what's to stop the government (e.g., law enforcement) from obtaining my Internet usage history? It's been done before. (Use Google to search for EZ-Pass and kidnapping.)
"...typical MS BS behind the scenes." Like what? You mean like tracking your searches without your knowledge? Kinda like what Google is doing? Sorry, you're still a hypocrite.
Funny. If it was Microsoft, I doubt you all would be so forgiving.
The license for iDVD is restricted to being used with Apple's SuperDrive. They made sure to enforce that within their software.
And someone else made sure to remove that feature which IMHO is their right to do providing they OWN that copy of iDVD.
Your comparison with Microsoft is flawed. Microsoft sells software, Apple sells hardware. IDVD exists to promote sales of Apple Superdrives, period.
Really? Then what's OSX? Hardware?
Apple's intentions may have been to only allow iDVD to be used with Apple hardware, but so what? They don't have the right to tell me what to do with my computer just because their marketing department is too inept to realize that giving away iDVD for free was a dumb idea.
Full Throttle was cool, but certainly not a difficult game to solve. Hell, even I figured it out in no time.
I can understand why Apple would be upset. Their software that's given away for free in order to promote their hardware is used to drive up sales for their competitors. However, who's fault is that? It's Apple's fault. Unless you force me to sign a contract to exclusively use Apple's software with Apple's hardware, you can't stop me from doing otherwise. Well, I mean they shouldn't be able to do that. That's the reason why this action is so bad.
Apple just doesn't get it, do they? Microsoft strived to ensure their Windows 9X operating system worked with as many different hardware products as possible. I can use a third party MS compatible mouse on my Windows box without fear of DCMA reprisal. When are they gonna learn, it's not about the hardware, stupid.
Holy crap! Are you sure that wasn't Polytechnic University in Brooklyn you went to? It sounds all too familiar...
Actually, it was the heat of the fires that weakend the superstructure and caused the buildings to collapse...
Not exactly. The floors in the WTC were held up by trusses coated with fire retardant foam. The impact of the plane blew off much of that protective coating leaving the steel trusses susceptible to the heat of the burning jet fuel. The superstructure of the building was damaged badly, but may have held if it were not for the failure of the trusses holding up the floors. Imagine an empty beer can with a heavy book on top of it. It can take a surprising amount of downward force because the rigid cylinder doesn't buckle. Now imagine a 20 foot high beer can. You can see how much easier it would be for the sides to buckle in/out without internal supports. That's what the floors did for the WTC. Without them the external skin buckled out and caused the building to collapse upon itself.
The casinos that offer less decks make up for it by modifying the rules in their favor. Only allowing double downs on 9,10,A, no late surrendering, no resplitting, etc.
The technique they were describing in the article is similar to what gamblers call "Wong-ing" (named after the man who invented it.) Essentially it means that you have a bunch of people (spotters) watching the hands at different tables for a lot of low cards being delt. They signal to the desginated player with their big bankroll to sit down and bet heavily and then leave the table. I never understood how they were able to do this since most casinos I've gone to there were few open seats at the BJ pits. Table hopping seems impractical.
It has been done. The way it works is three people have a transmitter attached to each of them. A switch located in their their respective shoes is uses as a signal as each man/woman taps when the ball reaches a certain location on the wheel. A computer calculates the velocity and at what point the ball will drop. I'm assuming anyone betting this way would have to get in a bet at the last minute for this to work.
When I worked for the NYC Transit Authority, I once saw a demonstration of a similar system they were demoing using the EZ-Pass. One of the features was that the system purposefully ignored the EZ-Pass owner's identity when culling the statistical data. It seemed a bit silly to me since your identity can still going to be discovered by simply looking in the billing database instead, but at least they had the right attitude.
FYI, MetroCards are a little more private since there's no way to match up a serial number with an individual unless you pay by credit card, have a picture ID MetroCard (e.g., Seniors, Disabled, student, etc.), or are found with the card in your possession.
In Soviet Russia, cars drive you!
Then do it the proper way and use Proxomitron. Now if I can only figure out how to get it to block popups without knocking out javascript "new window" commands...
The major detractor was the user interface, since it didn't feel like a Windows application. This was probably due to a poor understanding by the authors of XUL.
Oh yeah, his observations are invalid because he doesn't know about XUL. You know what? Not many people know or care about XUL. What they want is a browser that looks consistent with the rest of their applications on their particular OS. Your comment is invalid.
That would assume that a flywheel would be a better battery than fuel cells. At the power output level that you need for a UPS, the answer is probably no.
If you've ridden on the NYC subway system, you'd know that the trains can be VERY close to each other. But that's not the point...
This system is essentially giant battery (or rather, 10 small ones) in every station to suck up the power put back into the rail by trains stopping at that station. If a train slows down far away from another train or station battery, there's not much good that power being pumped back into the rails are gonna do anyone.
Oh, by the way. The reason that the resistance is such a problem? They're DC motors. That's why they can be REVERSED and used as generators. You can't do that with alternators/AC motors. For reasons why DC has problems with transmission across long conductors, ask your local Slashdot geek about the "war" between Edison and Tesla.
Whoopdie dooo.
Here's a better option:
Amazon has the SP90 player at $85 - $5 coupon CHNKBKAMZNLT - $20 rebate = $60 shipped. There's a simple way to hack it and upgrade the firmware.