Initially payments would be by credit card, but in the future downloads would be automatically detected and a charge added to the monthly internet service provider bill
Dream on, sphincter boys. Many people have tried to solve the problem of micro payments on the internet. The ISP is NOT going to handle this for you, and they shouldn't.
Never mind the 'automagical' detection of what you have to pay. No way that will ever fly.
btw (OT): what the hell is going on with the really low amount of replies to articles on slashdot (and the low amount of moderating?)
The right questions weren't even asked... I mean when he's dodging the issue of showing the code by saying that they have to protect the IP of other companies, why not ask him to show just a few samples? I mean out of hundreds of thousands of lines of code, surely a few lines here and there wouldn't hurt anyone? Then at least we would know if their clames are true or (as we've seen with the leaks, probably) not.
1. A native or inhabitant of India or of the East Indies.
2.a A member of any of the Native American peoples except the Eskimos, Aleuts, and Inuits. 2.b Any of the languages of these peoples.
At first glance you'd wonder, since a lot of people in India speak English, does that mean that Indian == English then?
But no, if you read closer 2.b probably only applies to 2.a. In which case the original poster was right. It doesn't say that people from India speak Indian, it says Native Americans speak Indian.
You'll note that it was a prediction. If you look below you'll see about a dozen replies to the article that say what's said in the parent. The prediction was right, therefore it's insightful.
Actually, that would classify more as 'flamebait'.
That's a really awful analogy.... He isn't stealing your car. He is walking up and seeing if the door is unlocked and the keys are in the ignition.
Wow, now _that_'s a really awful analogy. To back-'analogize' that one: are you implying that all that the white-hat hackers do is a telnet to a box, with user name 'root' and a blank password? I don't think so. So now we get into the 'how open is the box really' argument.
There is however no need for that argument. My car is MY PROPERTY. That means that YOU LEAVE IT ALONE. As I said before in another post, what if I walked out of the home with a shotgun and saw you in my car. Would it be OK to shoot you in the knee-cap?
Just because a box is on the internet does not mean it's public property.
If you want to do analogies on this, compare it to something like a store or something. A place where you are invited to come and look around. Hell you even get to bring stuff home if you come to an agreement with the store owner. But it's not acceptable to see if you can open the cash register. Or pick the lock to the office.
So go ahead, I'd like to see analogies on that one. Is it OK to open a door in a store that's not marked 'private' or 'employees only'? Would it be OK to pick the lock on that door? What if you are lucky and get the door to open, to find the store owner poking a minor? What if it wasn't a minor after all?
What if there's no employee in sight and the register is wide-open. Should I put a note in the drawer saying 'I could have taken your cash'? What if it is closed but it only takes one button to hit, to open?
What if I just leave a signed note on the inside of your car that says "follow these three easy steps, and then no one else will be able to break into your car again"? Do you say "hey, thanks, buddy!", or "hey, someone broke into my car!"...
What if I walked out of the home with a shotgun and saw you in my car placing the note. Would it be OK to shoot you in the knee-cap?
THey'll want business to use it. And businesses will be unwilling to use anything that they suspect has a backdoor. The source'd have to be visible for them to trust it
These guys have been selling this for a while. I have one and it's awesome. Use it with CompactFlash to boot from, and there is absolutely NOTHING that spins or moves, so no sound at all. Great for your home entertainment system.
Unfortunately they don't support the very high end CPUs. When I bought mine the max was 1GHz PIII, which is still ample fast for most apps.
"We don't say those kind of words." Apparently political correctness is higher in their priorities than good education. "Those" is plural, but "kind" is singular. For $149, I expect proper grammar.
Yeah, see! I though it was supposed to be "We don't say them kind of words."
Pretty soon IBM will give them the bitch-slap they so truly deserve and likely buy their assets pennies on the dollar at a bankruptcy sale.
Oh man, I can see it now: SCO out of money, not being able to pay IBM's legal fees. Judge decides to hand over the assets to IBM. IBM releases all code under GPL... The irony...
Could we please, please, please stop seeing these self-important, self-aggrandizing rants from Damn-the-Man slashdotters who don't even care to learn about the difference between a guilty plea and an Alford plea, and why it's so significant that Hawash didn't plead Alford?
Which lawyer did he get, to explain this theory (which I've never heard of as a foreigner that has lived in this country for a quite while) to him while he was not allowed to contact the outside world?
I don't consider a confession of someone who has not been allowed a proper trial worth anything.
I had really hoped that the US Gov was wrong for nabbing a US citizen. I had hoped that there would be a suite against the gov for violating civil rights. But Damn! This doesn't look good.
The whole idea of a fair trial is that when someone makes a confession, you can believe it's the truth. The way this guy has been treated, how do we know? I mean, where in the first place, did he make this confession? Under what circumstances? What happened exactly to him during the time he 'disappeared'? How can the public be convinced of a proper/fair trial for this man, when he's been kept behind secret doors for a major amount of time?
I hope the government will lose in the end, because eventually people will realize that the government can not act as an idividual and do whatever the fuck it wants. The government is us, and the government should, or better yet, *can* not have secrets to it's people. And more better, it should obey the gawdamn constitution!!
But but, you don't understand. You can't just go ahead and come up with solutions that have worked on M$ products for years now.
This was supposed to be the killer app for Linux to obtain world domination! It was to open up that huge untapped market of 'older folks and those who have eye strain problems', because everyone knows that Linux is _the_ product for older folks. The only thing keeping it back was the font size.
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I can't believe this story was posted. The story should have read: I don't know how to configure my system, what do I do?
(And to all the replies bitching about an LCD being ugly at lower resolutions, read the gawdamn comment. There is a perfectly viable alternative at native resolution. btw. I have a friend who is practically blind, and he actually chooses to run his 1600x1200 LCD at 800x600 mode. He's happy as a clam)
Using 1.4GB of data (two CD-ROMs) we can crack 99.9% of all alphanumerical passwords hashes (2 37 ) in 13.6 seconds whereas it takes 101 seconds with the current approach using distinguished points
Wow, does that mean that they are getting 100MB/s from a CD-ROM? That'd be more of story than the cracking!;-)
Slashdot Mirror
(there's a tool called DATING that can do that - contact me for a copy, it's hard to find - and which the name is a pun to the IDA FLIRT abilities).
And also an excellent name if you want people to NEVER be able to find it using Google.
Give me their webserver instead! That thing's serving up pictures like there's no tomorrow.
;-)
To bad for all the Karma Clowns mirroring the site.
as can be seen here
Last time, I think we agreed it wasn't really all that funny though
Initially payments would be by credit card, but in the future downloads would be automatically detected and a charge added to the monthly internet service provider bill
Dream on, sphincter boys. Many people have tried to solve the problem of micro payments on the internet. The ISP is NOT going to handle this for you, and they shouldn't.
Never mind the 'automagical' detection of what you have to pay. No way that will ever fly.
btw (OT): what the hell is going on with the really low amount of replies to articles on slashdot (and the low amount of moderating?)
where he said some very interesting things
Like what?
The right questions weren't even asked... I mean when he's dodging the issue of showing the code by saying that they have to protect the IP of other companies, why not ask him to show just a few samples? I mean out of hundreds of thousands of lines of code, surely a few lines here and there wouldn't hurt anyone? Then at least we would know if their clames are true or (as we've seen with the leaks, probably) not.
Obviously you do not speak for dictionary.com.
Hehe, that's kind of funny because they say:
1. A native or inhabitant of India or of the East Indies.
2.a A member of any of the Native American peoples except the Eskimos, Aleuts, and Inuits.
2.b Any of the languages of these peoples.
At first glance you'd wonder, since a lot of people in India speak English, does that mean that Indian == English then?
But no, if you read closer 2.b probably only applies to 2.a. In which case the original poster was right. It doesn't say that people from India speak Indian, it says Native Americans speak Indian.
Anyways, I'm no expert on the subject...
such as the classic "yelling, 'Fire!' in a crowded theater" is not protected
;)
Hehe. But it sure is fun!
Doh... Just sign up for free pr0n on a couple of websites.
;)
Google is your friend.
You'll note that it was a prediction. If you look below you'll see about a dozen replies to the article that say what's said in the parent. The prediction was right, therefore it's insightful.
Actually, that would classify more as 'flamebait'.
Let's teach future American programmers proper security before they graduate and start writing professional software.
Hmmm. You mean that:
Problem
Integer overflows can lead to allocating too little memory, which can often result in an exploitable buffer overflow.
Solution
Before each memory allocation, be sure to check the size you're allocating, to make sure it really is big enough to do what you need.
Should make you respond with 'Well, DUH!', before you get on the job?
I've no idea what 'to be' programmers study, but if this is news to them, than, YES, that's scarry...
A story in linuxworld reports that SCO itself has no idea what the history of a particular snippet of code might be
You have GOT to be shitting me.
That's a really awful analogy. ...
He isn't stealing your car. He is walking up and seeing if the door is unlocked and the keys are in the ignition.
Wow, now _that_'s a really awful analogy. To back-'analogize' that one: are you implying that all that the white-hat hackers do is a telnet to a box, with user name 'root' and a blank password? I don't think so. So now we get into the 'how open is the box really' argument.
There is however no need for that argument. My car is MY PROPERTY. That means that YOU LEAVE IT ALONE. As I said before in another post, what if I walked out of the home with a shotgun and saw you in my car. Would it be OK to shoot you in the knee-cap?
Just because a box is on the internet does not mean it's public property.
If you want to do analogies on this, compare it to something like a store or something. A place where you are invited to come and look around. Hell you even get to bring stuff home if you come to an agreement with the store owner. But it's not acceptable to see if you can open the cash register. Or pick the lock to the office.
So go ahead, I'd like to see analogies on that one. Is it OK to open a door in a store that's not marked 'private' or 'employees only'? Would it be OK to pick the lock on that door? What if you are lucky and get the door to open, to find the store owner poking a minor? What if it wasn't a minor after all?
What if there's no employee in sight and the register is wide-open. Should I put a note in the drawer saying 'I could have taken your cash'? What if it is closed but it only takes one button to hit, to open?
What if I just leave a signed note on the inside of your car that says "follow these three easy steps, and then no one else will be able to break into your car again"? Do you say "hey, thanks, buddy!", or "hey, someone broke into my car!"...
What if I walked out of the home with a shotgun and saw you in my car placing the note. Would it be OK to shoot you in the knee-cap?
(back-'analogizing' is left as an exercise)
THey'll want business to use it. And businesses will be unwilling to use anything that they suspect has a backdoor. The source'd have to be visible for them to trust it
<dr_evil>
Riiiiiiiiiight
</dr_evil>
These guys have been selling this for a while. I have one and it's awesome. Use it with CompactFlash to boot from, and there is absolutely NOTHING that spins or moves, so no sound at all. Great for your home entertainment system.
Unfortunately they don't support the very high end CPUs. When I bought mine the max was 1GHz PIII, which is still ample fast for most apps.
"We don't say those kind of words."
Apparently political correctness is higher in their priorities than good education. "Those" is plural, but "kind" is singular. For $149, I expect proper grammar.
Yeah, see! I though it was supposed to be "We don't say them kind of words."
Pretty soon IBM will give them the bitch-slap they so truly deserve and likely buy their assets pennies on the dollar at a bankruptcy sale.
Oh man, I can see it now: SCO out of money, not being able to pay IBM's legal fees. Judge decides to hand over the assets to IBM. IBM releases all code under GPL... The irony...
Hey, I can dream, can't I.
I don't think RMS is fanatical, even when I disagree with him.
Uhm: Merriam-Webster dictionary, fanatical:
: marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion
And how does RMS not fit that description?
Could we please, please, please stop seeing these self-important, self-aggrandizing rants from Damn-the-Man slashdotters who don't even care to learn about the difference between a guilty plea and an Alford plea, and why it's so significant that Hawash didn't plead Alford?
Which lawyer did he get, to explain this theory (which I've never heard of as a foreigner that has lived in this country for a quite while) to him while he was not allowed to contact the outside world?
I don't consider a confession of someone who has not been allowed a proper trial worth anything.
I had really hoped that the US Gov was wrong for nabbing a US citizen. I had hoped that there would be a suite against the gov for violating civil rights.
But Damn!
This doesn't look good.
The whole idea of a fair trial is that when someone makes a confession, you can believe it's the truth. The way this guy has been treated, how do we know? I mean, where in the first place, did he make this confession? Under what circumstances? What happened exactly to him during the time he 'disappeared'? How can the public be convinced of a proper/fair trial for this man, when he's been kept behind secret doors for a major amount of time?
I hope the government will lose in the end, because eventually people will realize that the government can not act as an idividual and do whatever the fuck it wants. The government is us, and the government should, or better yet, *can* not have secrets to it's people. And more better, it should obey the gawdamn constitution!!
But but, you don't understand. You can't just go ahead and come up with solutions that have worked on M$ products for years now.
This was supposed to be the killer app for Linux to obtain world domination! It was to open up that huge untapped market of 'older folks and those who have eye strain problems', because everyone knows that Linux is _the_ product for older folks. The only thing keeping it back was the font size.
---
I can't believe this story was posted. The story should have read: I don't know how to configure my system, what do I do?
(And to all the replies bitching about an LCD being ugly at lower resolutions, read the gawdamn comment. There is a perfectly viable alternative at native resolution. btw. I have a friend who is practically blind, and he actually chooses to run his 1600x1200 LCD at 800x600 mode. He's happy as a clam)
Using 1.4GB of data (two CD-ROMs) we can crack 99.9% of all alphanumerical passwords hashes (2 37 ) in 13.6 seconds whereas it takes 101 seconds with the current approach using distinguished points
;-)
Wow, does that mean that they are getting 100MB/s from a CD-ROM? That'd be more of story than the cracking!
Salem? Slim? Sloan? Do I get a cooky? ;-)
He paid 25,000 - 30,000 USD for the stuff currently
;-)
/. but I suppose since its more than 3 minutes ago that wouldn't count as a dupe.
Yeah, of course he could've invested that money in a formal pilot training, but there's nothing quite as much fun as pretending, is there?
Btw. there was a similar article many moons ago on
I am seeking 4.2 trillion dollars in damages
Why ask for trillions when you can have... oh, never mind...