I've written a little Android app that updates a webpage with your location. I've thought that people with an expensive sports car might like to use it by leaving it in their glove box when their car is serviced, and seeing if the garage takes it on a "Ferris Bueller" style jaunt around town.
Your MAC address isn't visible outside your local subnet. Slashdot has no way of knowing your MAC address. (Unless perhaps you're using IPv6 without privacy extensions enabled, but I'm guessing Slashdot is years away from IPv6.)
I wouldn't want to be Mark Karpeles at all.
He's going to have annoyed a lot of dodgy characters who want their money back. I think he'll be looking over his shoulder for the rest of of his life.
Joda Time is brilliant. It's a pleasure to use, and obviously was created by people who thought long and hard about it, and had suffered with the problems of the standard Java date/time libraries.
If you still use Date or Calendar, then check out Joda Time.
"it would just force these hypothetical dirty bomb enthusiasts to line the bomb container with lead"
A friend of mine works for a company making detectors for ports.
I said to him "But terrorists will just ship them in in lead-lined boxes", and he told me that that would cause a measurable drop in the background radiation which would trigger suspicions.
I once renamed shutdown.exe from the Windows resource kit to DONOTRUN.exe, and sent it in a mail round to the company (in the I love you/Melissa days), warning people in the subject, and message to NOT RUN THE ATTACHED attachment.
People then started coming to me complaining they'd lost work because their computer had shutdown.
I set up my mother with Ubuntu, and she loves it. She appreciates the "tidiness" of the desktop, and the simplicity of it all.
I left her set up with the ability to sudo, but with the warning that "there be dragons", and to contact me.
I set up OpenVPN so I could always SSH on, and fix anything.
The only time I've ever had a problem was when my sister's Windows-using ex boyfriend tried to install something, and stuffed up the firewall rules. I simply talked her through sudo iptables... and I popped on and fixed it. And then reminded her about the dragons.
From the main page: 1.95c GB-Mo *
From the stats page: Storage Rates (USD) per GB * 30 Days Storage Charge (Client Node) 1.95c
Note the "USD" mentioned.
Make your mind up, and make it obvious. Either it's $1.95, or it's $0.0195. Personally, I wouldn't bother with the cents. At first, I thought, wow, $0.0195 per GB/month - that's really good.
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i can probably count the number of cab rides i've taken in my life using my hands and feet.
So 2^20 then? 1048576 is a lot of cab rides.
And Bruce, I love you for it. Big thanks from me.
Funny thing is - now I don't have to learn Morse, I'm learning it for fun on lcwo.net!
I've written a little Android app that updates a webpage with your location. I've thought that people with an expensive sports car might like to use it by leaving it in their glove box when their car is serviced, and seeing if the garage takes it on a "Ferris Bueller" style jaunt around town.
I didn't think this was possible (as I run NoScript, Firefox and Linux), but apparently it might be, under IE on Windows, with WMI.
// Get the info
var locator = new ActiveXObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator");
var service = locator.ConnectServer(".");
var properties = service.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration");
var e = new Enumerator (properties);
Jesus, that looks horrible. I would hope that you have to add sites to your Local Intranet zone or whatever it's called these days before it'll work.
Your MAC address isn't visible outside your local subnet. Slashdot has no way of knowing your MAC address. (Unless perhaps you're using IPv6 without privacy extensions enabled, but I'm guessing Slashdot is years away from IPv6.)
Interesting - so an amnesiac would also be amnesic? Are there any other words that have similar examples like this?
I think we need an OS written entirely in Java...
The Amnesic Operating System. Shouldn't it be amnesiac? Or is this another English/American English difference like aluminium?
And it's Slashdotted.
And how do you know where anonymous money has come from?
I wouldn't want to be Mark Karpeles at all. He's going to have annoyed a lot of dodgy characters who want their money back. I think he'll be looking over his shoulder for the rest of of his life.
Well, that's what I get for jumping to conclusions!
Nicotine also helps patients with Parkinsons - maybe it's worth using patches?
300 million people
It also happens in other countries.
The word saboteur is French, I think.
Joda Time is brilliant.
It's a pleasure to use, and obviously was created by people who thought long and hard about it, and had suffered with the problems of the standard Java date/time libraries.
If you still use Date or Calendar, then check out Joda Time.
"Want to know how much my flat is worth and what I paid for it? Did I pay taxes last year, and if so, how much?"
Yes! Finally!
"it would just force these hypothetical dirty bomb enthusiasts to line the bomb container with lead"
A friend of mine works for a company making detectors for ports.
I said to him "But terrorists will just ship them in in lead-lined boxes", and he told me that that would cause a measurable drop in the background radiation which would trigger suspicions.
I once renamed shutdown.exe from the Windows resource kit to DONOTRUN.exe, and sent it in a mail round to the company (in the I love you/Melissa days), warning people in the subject, and message to NOT RUN THE ATTACHED attachment.
People then started coming to me complaining they'd lost work because their computer had shutdown.
It's amazing, it really is.
Urg. That ampersand in the URL makes me twitch. Surely that's not a valid part of the URL, unless it's in a list of parameters?
I set up my mother with Ubuntu, and she loves it. She appreciates the "tidiness" of the desktop, and the simplicity of it all.
... and I popped on and fixed it. And then reminded her about the dragons.
I left her set up with the ability to sudo, but with the warning that "there be dragons", and to contact me.
I set up OpenVPN so I could always SSH on, and fix anything.
The only time I've ever had a problem was when my sister's Windows-using ex boyfriend tried to install something, and stuffed up the firewall rules. I simply talked her through sudo iptables
Years of trouble-free computing.
Ambiguous pricing:
From the main page: 1.95c GB-Mo *
From the stats page: Storage Rates (USD) per GB * 30 Days Storage Charge (Client Node) 1.95c
Note the "USD" mentioned.
Make your mind up, and make it obvious. Either it's $1.95, or it's $0.0195. Personally, I wouldn't bother with the cents. At first, I thought, wow, $0.0195 per GB/month - that's really good.
This is like the Verizon maths problem all over again.
But what, other than brown urine is the effect? I mean, do you feel tired? How would someone know if they had damaged kidneys?
What happens when you do do something that strains your kidneys?
I'll get off your lawn.