Couldn't this be done by submitting the redirect info as a post in the guestbook? I was able to send some of the site's own html back to it as a guestbook entry, and IE5 displayed it (in my case, it showed a little next button where my post would go). So it seems like you could have just sent some 'proper' html/javascript as a post and voila. Am I wrong?
Forget caffiene. If you want performance enhancers, take Ritalin or Adderall, drugs used to treat AD(H)D. Ritalin makes you ultra-focused and motivated for a short time, but you tend to crash *hard* afterward (constant caffiene supply can moderate this, though). Adderall, IMO, is far superior -- one pill will keep you *wide* awake and motivated for 10+ hours.. almost to the point where you couldn't fall asleep if your life depended on it. The drawback is that you might tend to lose your sense of priority and become enthralled by everything at once. Good stuff, though. I really only drink caffiene now to maintain a plateau of performance, and because I'll get irritable if I don't have it.;)
Econ lesson for the day: Monopolies are bad because prices artificially inflate while product quality and innovation decline. It is in every consumer's best interest that businesses be restrained. The flaw in your "free market has a nice way of settling this stuff out" assertion is that a free market requires free choice of the consumer, which is eroded when monopolies prevent freedom of choice. Thus, monopolization is not a problem that the free market can always work out without intervention by the state. I'm puzzled by your claim that the gov has a monopoly on public schools. What gov: federal? state? Local/municipal? The truth is that the federal government has very little to do with public schools (although they would like to) -- it's more of a state/local issue. Back on topic, however, it is also important to realize that *being* a monopoly is not illegal; *intent to monopolize* is. This is because not all monopolies are the same, i.e. public utilities necessitate a certain amount of gov-sanctioned monopolism in order to be practical. Public utilities are much different from Microsoft, which in all likelihood broke (bent?) the law to gain an unfair advantage in the "uber-ware" market (thereby demonstrating 'intent to monopolize'). The government's duty is to stand in the way of such behavior, and although I don't particularly like government to solve everyone's problems, this is one of the few examples where it is the gov's responsibility to step in to ensure the viability of the free market. IANAL, but I play one on tv.
We can easily look for 'Alex Gurry' with any online search (assuming Alex Gurry is the real name of the person responsible). I found an Alex Gurry in Keansburg, NJ. I also found a couple more named 'A. Gurry'. I have the addresses and phone numbers, but I'm not willing to bet that any of these people are actually the spammer...
I don't recall if Vader and C-3PO meet, but if Vader could "sense" (using the force, I assume) that Luke was on a desolate, frozen ice planet at the beginning of ESB, then couldn't he also "sense" that a particular protocol droid was one that he built?
This is something that puzzles me a little bit.. I run a K6-2 400mhz with a 16MB Riva TNT to play Quake2, and with or without 3DNOW support enabled, I can't notice any difference from an P400. I've done the research, and seen all the benchmarks comparing K6-2 and Pentiums. I realize the Intel chip is supposed to be superior with FPUs and such, with all the integrated instructions, but I really don't see any difference in performance firsthand. Anyway, back on topic.. if you wait until the end of the year, get an AMD K7 (probably $200 cheaper than the Intel) at 600mhz (which i believe it will be, although I could be mistaken) and a 32MB Riva, I'd be willing to guarantee you won't find a difference from an Intel chip.. I've been happily surprised with my nVidia.
"Should" doesn't really apply.. Sure, in a free market any private firm has the right to restrict its customers to protect its own interests, because the customer can leave if he doesn't like it. The problem is that for whatever complicated reasons, too many are forced to err on the side of safety, resulting in rediculous censorship. Should we be so willing to protect the defamed that we are always hesitant to say anything that might be legally dangerous? I don't think its the type of scenario that lends itself to a progressive society. This idea of "indirect responsibility" for other's speech is getting way out of hand.
I agree, although "defamatory" material could be reason for the defamed to sue the defamer, could it not? In that case, the defamed might consider Demon the defamer for housing/linking to such material. Unfortunately, we in the U.S. don't have cultural support for defamation. That is, we might tolerate it to an extent, but when there's an oppurtunity, many U.S. citizens are eager to challenge any speech that they don't like -- unfortunately, we are just as thin-skinned as anyone else (except maybe for Germany and it's *strict* anti-hate laws). The legal question, in my view, is whether an ISP can be indirectly responsible for defamation if it allows a customer to defame. I would hope not, but crazier things have happened in legal logic.. IANAL, although ILTPIA (I like to pretend I am).
I agree.. I have a picture in my head: first, we litter the moon with a few spent devices. Whenever Mommy Nature decides to exterminate humans, the moon is left uninhabited as well. Later, though (I'm talking 'space-later' here), the moon gets 'pollinated' by whatever organism, which eventually evolves into sentient beings (if all goes well). Then, our 'litter' could become holy artifacts to these beings. That would be cool.. reminds me of that plan to send human DNA into space...
I don't know why, but AOL is annoying... This brings a couple things to mind: 1.) What is AOL's track record with these buy-outs? How has AOL affected the stuff they have bought? Until a couple months ago, I was an avid Netscape user, but I noticed little difference after AOL bought them out. Can anyone tell me if AOL ruined Netscape? The same goes for ICQ. ICQ99 got kind of annoying with its plethora of options previously unavailable in ver98, but at least most of them could be optioned out so they don't clutter everything up. I'm only asking because I haven't yet noticed any adverse effects from AOL sticking its nose in these areas, but then again I might not be paying close enough attention. 2.) Has anyone noticed the 2-party trend? AOL M$ --- -- netscape ie winamp media player icq future m$ messenger
it seems like everything is getting swallowed up by either side, like the U.S. two-party gov't. Repubs:Dems::AOL:M$.
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web site "cracking" is too easy if *i* can do it.. -->
Couldn't this be done by submitting the redirect info as a post in the guestbook? I was able to send some of the site's own html back to it as a guestbook entry, and IE5 displayed it (in my case, it showed a little next button where my post would go). So it seems like you could have just sent some 'proper' html/javascript as a post and voila. Am I wrong?
Forget caffiene. If you want performance enhancers, take Ritalin or Adderall, drugs used to treat AD(H)D. Ritalin makes you ultra-focused and motivated for a short time, but you tend to crash *hard* afterward (constant caffiene supply can moderate this, though). Adderall, IMO, is far superior -- one pill will keep you *wide* awake and motivated for 10+ hours.. almost to the point where you couldn't fall asleep if your life depended on it. The drawback is that you might tend to lose your sense of priority and become enthralled by everything at once. Good stuff, though. I really only drink caffiene now to maintain a plateau of performance, and because I'll get irritable if I don't have it. ;)
Econ lesson for the day: Monopolies are bad because prices artificially inflate while product quality and innovation decline. It is in every consumer's best interest that businesses be restrained. The flaw in your "free market has a nice way of settling this stuff out" assertion is that a free market requires free choice of the consumer, which is eroded when monopolies prevent freedom of choice. Thus, monopolization is not a problem that the free market can always work out without intervention by the state.
I'm puzzled by your claim that the gov has a monopoly on public schools. What gov: federal? state? Local/municipal? The truth is that the federal government has very little to do with public schools (although they would like to) -- it's more of a state/local issue.
Back on topic, however, it is also important to realize that *being* a monopoly is not illegal; *intent to monopolize* is. This is because not all monopolies are the same, i.e. public utilities necessitate a certain amount of gov-sanctioned monopolism in order to be practical. Public utilities are much different from Microsoft, which in all likelihood broke (bent?) the law to gain an unfair advantage in the "uber-ware" market (thereby demonstrating 'intent to monopolize'). The government's duty is to stand in the way of such behavior, and although I don't particularly like government to solve everyone's problems, this is one of the few examples where it is the gov's responsibility to step in to ensure the viability of the free market. IANAL, but I play one on tv.
We can easily look for 'Alex Gurry' with any online search (assuming Alex Gurry is the real name of the person responsible). I found an Alex Gurry in Keansburg, NJ. I also found a couple more named 'A. Gurry'. I have the addresses and phone numbers, but I'm not willing to bet that any of these people are actually the spammer...
I don't recall if Vader and C-3PO meet, but if Vader could "sense" (using the force, I assume) that Luke was on a desolate, frozen ice planet at the beginning of ESB, then couldn't he also "sense" that a particular protocol droid was one that he built?
This is something that puzzles me a little bit.. I run a K6-2 400mhz with a 16MB Riva TNT to play Quake2, and with or without 3DNOW support enabled, I can't notice any difference from an P400. I've done the research, and seen all the benchmarks comparing K6-2 and Pentiums. I realize the Intel chip is supposed to be superior with FPUs and such, with all the integrated instructions, but I really don't see any difference in performance firsthand.
Anyway, back on topic.. if you wait until the end of the year, get an AMD K7 (probably $200 cheaper than the Intel) at 600mhz (which i believe it will be, although I could be mistaken) and a 32MB Riva, I'd be willing to guarantee you won't find a difference from an Intel chip.. I've been happily surprised with my nVidia.
"Should" doesn't really apply.. Sure, in a free market any private firm has the right to restrict its customers to protect its own interests, because the customer can leave if he doesn't like it. The problem is that for whatever complicated reasons, too many are forced to err on the side of safety, resulting in rediculous censorship. Should we be so willing to protect the defamed that we are always hesitant to say anything that might be legally dangerous? I don't think its the type of scenario that lends itself to a progressive society. This idea of "indirect responsibility" for other's speech is getting way out of hand.
I agree, although "defamatory" material could be reason for the defamed to sue the defamer, could it not? In that case, the defamed might consider Demon the defamer for housing/linking to such material. Unfortunately, we in the U.S. don't have cultural support for defamation. That is, we might tolerate it to an extent, but when there's an oppurtunity, many U.S. citizens are eager to challenge any speech that they don't like -- unfortunately, we are just as thin-skinned as anyone else (except maybe for Germany and it's *strict* anti-hate laws). The legal question, in my view, is whether an ISP can be indirectly responsible for defamation if it allows a customer to defame. I would hope not, but crazier things have happened in legal logic.. IANAL, although ILTPIA (I like to pretend I am).
What?! I hope your kidding.. I don't work for NASA, but I'm positive that the sun is in fact bigger than the moon! ;]
I agree.. I have a picture in my head: first, we litter the moon with a few spent devices. Whenever Mommy Nature decides to exterminate humans, the moon is left uninhabited as well. Later, though (I'm talking 'space-later' here), the moon gets 'pollinated' by whatever organism, which eventually evolves into sentient beings (if all goes well). Then, our 'litter' could become holy artifacts to these beings. That would be cool.. reminds me of that plan to send human DNA into space...
I don't know why, but AOL is annoying...
This brings a couple things to mind:
1.) What is AOL's track record with these buy-outs? How has AOL affected the stuff they have bought? Until a couple months ago, I was an avid Netscape user, but I noticed little difference after AOL bought them out. Can anyone tell me if AOL ruined Netscape? The same goes for ICQ. ICQ99 got kind of annoying with its plethora of options previously unavailable in ver98, but at least most of them could be optioned out so they don't clutter everything up. I'm only asking because I haven't yet noticed any adverse effects from AOL sticking its nose in these areas, but then again I might not be paying close enough attention.
2.) Has anyone noticed the 2-party trend?
AOL M$
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netscape ie
winamp media player
icq future m$ messenger
it seems like everything is getting swallowed up by either side, like the U.S. two-party gov't. Repubs:Dems::AOL:M$.
Agree? Disagree? A little help, please.