There used to be more of these about: pages in the old netscape (4.x and lower). Most of them went to the home pages of various developers on the netscape project. The about:netscape page used to display a different quote from the Book of Mozilla. If you put something in that the browser didn't understand, such as 'about:whatever', the resulting page would read "Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Have a look here, they list most of the about: URIs, as well as some other forgotten easter eggs.
The back button is simple and direct. Let's keep it that way. It works now and it works well.
I like Alric's suggestion. Smarter history tabs would handle the job better than extending the back button.
Re:Another example of WHY the US Patent office suc
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NCR Patents the Internet
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That's classic. My favorite quote comes at the very end.
Lastly, it should be noted that because pulling alternately on one chain and then the other resembles in some measure the movements one would use to swing from vines in a dense jungle forest, the swinging method of the present invention may be referred to by the present inventor and his sister as "Tarzan" swinging. The user may even choose to produce a Tarzan-type yell while swinging in the manner described, which more accurately replicates swinging on vines in a dense jungle forest. Actual jungle forestry is not required.
Licenses are available from the inventor upon request. "
And the storm shall engulf the followers of Mammon, and they shall become confused. Then shall the legion be like unto a great icon to lead the broken masses.
Seems to me a virus would only need to transmit a small part of itself. That small part could then download and install the rest of itself from the net - slowly. You could then have a massive, intelligent worm that would not be noticeable untill it goes active.
Imagine, Joe User receives a virus in an email attachment and executes it. It doesn't seem to do anything right away and Joe never notices. All it does is install enough of itself to run the first time.
Then, at an opportune moment, it downloads more code for itself along with a long list of exploits for various types of machines. Now, it can cast about the net looking for machines vulnerable to any to any of those exploits. It could even access a list of new exploits by connecting to irc and downloading them from a bot. By carefully covering it's tracks and only going active when the machine is otherwise not being used, it can remain undetected for some time, slowly looking for machines to infect. After a sufficient number of machines have been compromised, the network could then be used to do all sorts of nasty things.
Pretty much the same thing that some current worms do, but smarter. Capable of infecting a much wider selection of vulnerable computers.
From an economic standpoint, waste often is good. For instance, in retail products, more packaging means a more expensive product, and therefore increased revenue that produced it. Time wasted on contracts is often paid for by the principal -- translating into profit for the contractor. You see, waste increases the flow of capital in nearly every case. Of course, that doesn't make it right, just economically desirable. The social and environmental costs are tremendous, though, and far outweigh the economic benifit - IMHO.
And now to move back on topic. What you seem to be missing here is that many companies include open source software in their solutions. They don't charge for the inclusion of that software, just for the custom stuff they developed to work with the OSS stuff. Their customers are paying for custom solutions that build on this software, not for the (open source) software itself.
Here at the company I work for, we are developing web software that uses Linux, qMail, Apache, MySQL, Perl, and ColdFusion. We don't charge for any of those licenses except for the ColdFusion. We'd have to charge more if we went with Netscape iPlanet and Oracle.
So, we save money for our customers by saving on the cost of those liscenses. As for the ColdFusion, well, all of our developers are proficient in it and few are comfortable with the OSS app languages such as PHP and Perl (my personal preferences). Perhaps one day...
A city has a responsibility to promote the growth of businesses within it's boundaries. There is nothing wrong with the fact that Houston chose SimDesk, a Houston based company, to provide for it's software needs. In fact, the city council is to be commended for finding a way to support this company in a way that benifits all concerned parties.
The trademark was granted only three months ago. It states on it that first use was Dec '94.
Does it really take eight years to file a trademark, or does this seem more like something they did specifically so they could sue other people? Maybe this guy is just the poor test case. Try it on him and if it works, go for a bigger fish...
The word 'hoover' is commonly used as a verb in England, as in "I'm going to hoover the carpet." Windex is another good example, if not quite so common. I think the poster was mistaken about Kleenex. I've never heard it used as a verb, but I have heard it used to describe non-Kleenex tissues.
An interesting thread regarding the subject is available over at the Humanist Archives. They mention how a company can lose it's trademark if the trademarked term is used commonly to refer to things other than the product intended for it. Aspirin, for example, was once a trademarked word. Xerox is another term that has been in danger of losing it's trademark - so much so that the company waged an advertising campaign to dissuade people from using the term to describe anything other that the company itself or it's products. That is, it's a Xerox copy, not simply a xerox -- according to them.
And somewhat more topically, I googled for "verb kleenex hoover" and the above link was top of the list.
Another good way is to save ISO images of the CDs to your hard drive (if you have plenty of room) and mount them to the filesystem. Then add those directories as Source CDs and remove the previous ones.
Now you can install/remove software at the speed of hard drive access. Pretty nifty.
The question really is how much damage we can do before we kill ourselves off. If we manage to save a few larger mammals, perhaps the earth can recover in a few million years. If not, perhaps the amoebas can do better in a few hundred mil.
It's unlikely that we could actually kill ALL life on the planet, just a significant portion including ourselves.
Useless speculation anyhow. We obviously won't be there to see it.
Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at MIT. This makes him uniquely qualified to read between the lines of statements made by just about anyone, esp. corporations and government.
If you are going to listen to anyone on matters of national importance, listen to our nation's academics. They are, generally speaking, that last people around that do not have any special allegiance to corporate/government agendas. Not to say that most academics are unpatriotic, but simply that they publish what they've learned after studying a problem - with little to no regard for anything outside the subject. This nation desperately needs more input from this sector of society.
You shouldn't anthropomorphize corporations so much. It only encourages them;)
But seriously, what other way is there to get a corporation's attention? Corporations, by their very nature, are only interested in making money. Sometimes by every means available, however nefarious, as is the case regarding Union Carbide in Bhopal. In order to effect social justice and corporate responsibilty, the corporation must be penalized fiscally or they will never change. The profit motive is lacking otherwise. And that, sadly, is the only motive that corporations respond to.
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Tai Chi Robots
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I'm don't know what you searched under, but Google returns these results.
Someothers have picked up on it, there are some loosetranslations, but no real original articles. No pictures either.
Yeah, this looks a little vaporous. I hope not,the technology is certainly feasible, but I'm a little skeptical of uncorroborated articles in national chinese news sites. The japanese, however, have a robot that looks promising.
Nah, if the thieves were really after the information and not the hardware, they'd just mount the drives on a new computer. Access the files that way. This just proves that physical security is just as important as on-line security. Does you no good to secure a critical server against online attacks if you put the server in an insecure physical environment. The article implies that the building that contained these servers are standard office buildings. Simple locks on interior doors and many people with access to the building. Not exactly what I'd call secure.
Encryption is a good point, but what do you think the chances are any of the data is encrypted. Slim?
Actually, I think you can only go to jail for using for it's intended purpose. Until then, it's a "massager". Kind of like the rationale for buying a bong - it's a water pipe (for tobacco) until you use it for something other than tobacco.
Slashdot Mirror
Two words - power consumption.
Those little Eden boards consume very little power. Clustering them would provide more robustness and processing power for a mobile network.
Here I go replying to my own post. What a dork ;)
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Anyway, if you want to try some of these tricks, you can get an old version of netscape from http://browsers.evolt.org/index.cfm/dir/navigator
There used to be more of these about: pages in the old netscape (4.x and lower). Most of them went to the home pages of various developers on the netscape project. The about:netscape page used to display a different quote from the Book of Mozilla. If you put something in that the browser didn't understand, such as 'about:whatever', the resulting page would read "Whatcha talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Have a look here, they list most of the about: URIs, as well as some other forgotten easter eggs.
Hey man, you're going to slashdot my site!
The back button is simple and direct. Let's keep it that way. It works now and it works well.
I like Alric's suggestion. Smarter history tabs would handle the job better than extending the back button.
That's classic. My favorite quote comes at the very end.
Lastly, it should be noted that because pulling alternately on one chain and then the other resembles in some measure the movements one would use to swing from vines in a dense jungle forest, the swinging method of the present invention may be referred to by the present inventor and his sister as "Tarzan" swinging. The user may even choose to produce a Tarzan-type yell while swinging in the manner described, which more accurately replicates swinging on vines in a dense jungle forest. Actual jungle forestry is not required.
Licenses are available from the inventor upon request. "
Actually,
SGML => HTML
SGML => XML
XML is in no way derived from HTML. It just came a little later.
And the storm shall engulf the followers of Mammon, and they shall become confused. Then shall the legion be like unto a great icon to lead the broken masses.
from The Book of Mozilla, 3:32
(Red Letter Edition)
for the followers of Mammon: about:mozilla
Seems to me a virus would only need to transmit a small part of itself. That small part could then download and install the rest of itself from the net - slowly. You could then have a massive, intelligent worm that would not be noticeable untill it goes active.
Imagine, Joe User receives a virus in an email attachment and executes it. It doesn't seem to do anything right away and Joe never notices. All it does is install enough of itself to run the first time.
Then, at an opportune moment, it downloads more code for itself along with a long list of exploits for various types of machines. Now, it can cast about the net looking for machines vulnerable to any to any of those exploits. It could even access a list of new exploits by connecting to irc and downloading them from a bot. By carefully covering it's tracks and only going active when the machine is otherwise not being used, it can remain undetected for some time, slowly looking for machines to infect. After a sufficient number of machines have been compromised, the network could then be used to do all sorts of nasty things.
Pretty much the same thing that some current worms do, but smarter. Capable of infecting a much wider selection of vulnerable computers.
Good arguments. You made my friends list :)
Oh, how cute! Another "Waste is good" economist.
From an economic standpoint, waste often is good. For instance, in retail products, more packaging means a more expensive product, and therefore increased revenue that produced it. Time wasted on contracts is often paid for by the principal -- translating into profit for the contractor. You see, waste increases the flow of capital in nearly every case. Of course, that doesn't make it right, just economically desirable. The social and environmental costs are tremendous, though, and far outweigh the economic benifit - IMHO.
And now to move back on topic. What you seem to be missing here is that many companies include open source software in their solutions. They don't charge for the inclusion of that software, just for the custom stuff they developed to work with the OSS stuff. Their customers are paying for custom solutions that build on this software, not for the (open source) software itself.
Here at the company I work for, we are developing web software that uses Linux, qMail, Apache, MySQL, Perl, and ColdFusion. We don't charge for any of those licenses except for the ColdFusion. We'd have to charge more if we went with Netscape iPlanet and Oracle.
So, we save money for our customers by saving on the cost of those liscenses. As for the ColdFusion, well, all of our developers are proficient in it and few are comfortable with the OSS app languages such as PHP and Perl (my personal preferences). Perhaps one day...
A city has a responsibility to promote the growth of businesses within it's boundaries. There is nothing wrong with the fact that Houston chose SimDesk, a Houston based company, to provide for it's software needs. In fact, the city council is to be commended for finding a way to support this company in a way that benifits all concerned parties.
Yeah, but 8 years?
Good point, but I could also see their lawyers saying to them "Ya know, if we trademark this...."
The trademark was granted only three months ago. It states on it that first use was Dec '94.
Does it really take eight years to file a trademark, or does this seem more like something they did specifically so they could sue other people? Maybe this guy is just the poor test case. Try it on him and if it works, go for a bigger fish...
The word 'hoover' is commonly used as a verb in England, as in "I'm going to hoover the carpet." Windex is another good example, if not quite so common. I think the poster was mistaken about Kleenex. I've never heard it used as a verb, but I have heard it used to describe non-Kleenex tissues.
An interesting thread regarding the subject is available over at the Humanist Archives. They mention how a company can lose it's trademark if the trademarked term is used commonly to refer to things other than the product intended for it. Aspirin, for example, was once a trademarked word. Xerox is another term that has been in danger of losing it's trademark - so much so that the company waged an advertising campaign to dissuade people from using the term to describe anything other that the company itself or it's products. That is, it's a Xerox copy, not simply a xerox -- according to them.
And somewhat more topically, I googled for "verb kleenex hoover" and the above link was top of the list.
Another good way is to save ISO images of the CDs to your hard drive (if you have plenty of room) and mount them to the filesystem. Then add those directories as Source CDs and remove the previous ones.
Now you can install/remove software at the speed of hard drive access. Pretty nifty.
The question really is how much damage we can do before we kill ourselves off. If we manage to save a few larger mammals, perhaps the earth can recover in a few million years. If not, perhaps the amoebas can do better in a few hundred mil.
It's unlikely that we could actually kill ALL life on the planet, just a significant portion including ourselves.
Useless speculation anyhow. We obviously won't be there to see it.
Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at MIT. This makes him uniquely qualified to read between the lines of statements made by just about anyone, esp. corporations and government.
If you are going to listen to anyone on matters of national importance, listen to our nation's academics. They are, generally speaking, that last people around that do not have any special allegiance to corporate/government agendas. Not to say that most academics are unpatriotic, but simply that they publish what they've learned after studying a problem - with little to no regard for anything outside the subject. This nation desperately needs more input from this sector of society.
You shouldn't anthropomorphize corporations so much. It only encourages them ;)
But seriously, what other way is there to get a corporation's attention? Corporations, by their very nature, are only interested in making money. Sometimes by every means available, however nefarious, as is the case regarding Union Carbide in Bhopal. In order to effect social justice and corporate responsibilty, the corporation must be penalized fiscally or they will never change. The profit motive is lacking otherwise. And that, sadly, is the only motive that corporations respond to.
This looks like it could be the original source.
I'm don't know what you searched under, but Google returns these results.
Some others have picked up on it, there are some loose translations, but no real original articles. No pictures either.
Yeah, this looks a little vaporous. I hope not,the technology is certainly feasible, but I'm a little skeptical of uncorroborated articles in national chinese news sites. The japanese, however, have a robot that looks promising.
Nah, if the thieves were really after the information and not the hardware, they'd just mount the drives on a new computer. Access the files that way. This just proves that physical security is just as important as on-line security. Does you no good to secure a critical server against online attacks if you put the server in an insecure physical environment. The article implies that the building that contained these servers are standard office buildings. Simple locks on interior doors and many people with access to the building. Not exactly what I'd call secure.
Encryption is a good point, but what do you think the chances are any of the data is encrypted. Slim?
The Defence Department learns that Windows are a problem in information security.
Actually, I think you can only go to jail for using for it's intended purpose. Until then, it's a "massager". Kind of like the rationale for buying a bong - it's a water pipe (for tobacco) until you use it for something other than tobacco.
Not that that's any better.
I live in Texas.