Haven't seen this mentioned yet so I thought I'd bring it up. PCs were and are _cheaper_. Do you guys ever check prices when buying stuff? Well, apparently lots of people do.
I was using an IBM XT with no mouse around 1985, writing macros in Lotus 123. When I saw a Mac with a mouse I was blown away. The graphics were better too, not colour but nicely shaded rather than 'green screen'.
The boss got me a mouse for the IBM PC instead (a 3 button optical with a special gridded mouse mat,) which was cheaper. Most firms I've worked for, the cheaper solution is the one they pick.
This (cheap but not free) service allows you to do that from any phone, and have a recording available for download from their website. Check it out: http://www.grumbletext.co.uk/page.php?pn=gtrecord
Ask Slashdot: What Can I Legally Do About Insane Terrorists?
Posted by brian on Wed April 13, 02:53 PM from the have fun hitting reload page dept.
Bleees asks "I really hate terrorists especially the insane ones (are there any other kind?), and I'm wondering what I can legally do to stop them. Could I launch them from a catapult and not get sent to jail? I'd much rather spend my time destroying the ozone layer then dealing with these people. I'm interested in what Slashdotters have to say about this."
Two points about spam: 1) The most important feature of any spam filtering system is that it should have a few as possible false positives (genuine email but incorrectly regarded as spam, which are then lost.)
2) In the end, we need to stop spam being _sent_. At the moment most effort is going into filtering the spam out after it's been _received_. Clearly we can spend forever writing spam filtering rules, with the spammers a few steps ahead all the time.
A drug dealer once showed me you can check a bill with a sheet of plain paper. If you rub the bill on the paper some of the ink from the bill will be left on the paper.
She told me this is because the ink on the notes never really completely dries. I just checked, and it still works with UK bills.
As you can see, it has a silver centre and a golden outer ring. It weighs 12grams, about the weight of 2 x £1 coins, and measures about 2mm thick by 28mm diameter.
True: -Script--Script--Script--Script--Script- B ender: Oh my God. Are you God? God: Possible. I do feel compasson for all living things. My good chum. -Script--Script--Script--Script--Script-
OTOH, he's called God in the script, and Bender and 'God' discuss being a God at one point:
-Script--Script--Script--Script--Script- [Scene : Bender talks to God.] Bender: So, do you know what I'm gonna do before I do it? God: Yes. Bender: What if I do something different? God: Then I don't know that. Bender: Cool cool! I bet a lot of people pray to you huh? God: Yes, but there are so many asking so much. After a while you just sorta tune it out. Bender: Y'know, I was God once. God: Yes I saw. You were doing well until everyone died. Bender: It was awful. I tried helping them. I tried not helping them but in the end I couldn't do them any good. Do you think what I did was wrong? God: Right and wrong are just words. What matters is what you do. Bender: Yeah I know, that's why I asked if what I did - forget it. God: Bender, being God isn't easy, if you do too much, people get dependent. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket. Bender: Or a guy who burns down the bar for the insurance money. God: Yes, if you make it look like an electrical thing. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. -Script--Script--Script--Script--Script-
In an episode of Futurama, an intelligent galaxy (God) explains to Bender that being a Deity has some of the same qualities mentioned in the parent article.
"If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God, "Godfellas"
Our Computer Centre Director, who is in the invidious position of having to balance academic freedom against meeting JANET http://www.ja.net/ regulations, released this message which I reproduce here to show what Universities are dealing with.
-END OF QUOTE- The introduction of restrictions is not something that we have come to lightly. We certainly have no desire to apply censorship to our users; however, unlike Internet Service Providers, we have somewhat more legal responsibility for the material that is carried over or stored within our network. In particular, the University can be held 'vicariously liable' for a number of offences relating to, for example, the display or storage of pornography. Similarly, material relating to religion or race that is capable of offending is a potential threat, in a legal sense, to the University. There are others.
On the matter of websites that just plainly offer no business value to the University, we need to strike the right balance between the various interests. We have real concerns about the capacity of our network and to compromise academic and business activity on the network because we are hosting a flood of dubious traffic does not make good sense. However, under this specific concern, clearly there may be scope for relaxing restrictions outside the 'working day'. -END OF QUOTE-
I prefer IMAP to POP3. POP3 defaults to moving the email off the server onto the local machine. IMAP's default behaviour is to leave the email on the server (where it's backed up and available from anywhere.)
Doesn't IMAP send the account password in clear? That's a mark against it from a security standpoint.
Phishing was always social engineering rather than programming. It's more like phoning up and asking for the password while posing as someone you're not, than poking holes in the Operating System.
Slashdot Mirror
Haven't seen this mentioned yet so I thought I'd bring it up. PCs were and are _cheaper_. Do you guys ever check prices when buying stuff? Well, apparently lots of people do.
I was using an IBM XT with no mouse around 1985, writing macros in Lotus 123. When I saw a Mac with a mouse I was blown away. The graphics were better too, not colour but nicely shaded rather than 'green screen'.
The boss got me a mouse for the IBM PC instead (a 3 button optical with a special gridded mouse mat,) which was cheaper. Most firms I've worked for, the cheaper solution is the one they pick.
The camera obscura in Edinburgh was good. :)
http://brightbytes.com/cosite/2edinb.html
"if possible, record the call"
This (cheap but not free) service allows you to do that from any phone, and have a recording available for download from their website. Check it out: http://www.grumbletext.co.uk/page.php?pn=gtrecord
They turned me into a newt!
Here's a case in point. I've been reading this one for awhile:
Jon's Jail Journal
http://jonsjailjournal.blogspot.com/
Ask Slashdot:
What Can I Legally Do About Insane Terrorists?
Posted by brian on Wed April 13, 02:53 PM
from the have fun hitting reload page dept.
Bleees asks "I really hate terrorists especially the insane ones (are there any other kind?), and I'm wondering what I can legally do to stop them. Could I launch them from a catapult and not get sent to jail? I'd much rather spend my time destroying the ozone layer then dealing with these people. I'm interested in what Slashdotters have to say about this."
Two points about spam:
1) The most important feature of any spam filtering system is that it should have a few as possible false positives (genuine email but incorrectly regarded as spam, which are then lost.)
2) In the end, we need to stop spam being _sent_. At the moment most effort is going into filtering the spam out after it's been _received_. Clearly we can spend forever writing spam filtering rules, with the spammers a few steps ahead all the time.
Having said that, we work with what we can get. At the moment where I am we're using Ironmail v4.5.2.
http://www.ciphertrust.com/products/index.php
This is a big improvement over the last version of Ironmail, which wasn't half bad.
Check out these numbers:
MAIL: wk to 07 Apr -
505365 in;
16148 viruses; 3%
399415 spam; 79%
89802 clear 18%
March: 2475384 in;
74300 viruses; 3%
1995630 spam; 81%
405454 clear; 16%
Those are hard and fast numbers from the box. The important number (false positives) is of course not so easy to generate. And there's my point.
Or a moderation system for the articles, as well as the posts.
A drug dealer once showed me you can check a bill with a sheet of plain paper. If you rub the bill on the paper some of the ink from the bill will be left on the paper.
She told me this is because the ink on the notes never really completely dries. I just checked, and it still works with UK bills.
If you like our £1 coins, you'll love our £2 coins.
2 a.jpg
:)
Here's one that's been disassembled
http://205.243.100.155/frames/thumbs/2Pound_6300J
As you can see, it has a silver centre and a golden outer ring. It weighs 12grams, about the weight of 2 x £1 coins, and measures about 2mm thick by 28mm diameter.
Chunky!
While we're on this topic, here're the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Legal and Technical Policy Suggestions for Data Logging
Best Practices for Online Service Providers:
http://www.eff.org/osp/
Pi's definition depends on the size of the circle? How's that?
The one who dies with the most toys, wins. :)
True:
B ender: Oh my God. Are you God?
e : Bender talks to God.]
:)
-Script--Script--Script--Script--Script-
God: Possible. I do feel compasson for all living things. My good chum.
-Script--Script--Script--Script--Script-
OTOH, he's called God in the script, and Bender and 'God' discuss being a God at one point:
-Script--Script--Script--Script--Script-
[Scen
Bender: So, do you know what I'm gonna do before I do it?
God: Yes.
Bender: What if I do something different?
God: Then I don't know that.
Bender: Cool cool! I bet a lot of people pray to you huh?
God: Yes, but there are so many asking so much. After a while you just sorta tune it out.
Bender: Y'know, I was God once.
God: Yes I saw. You were doing well until everyone died.
Bender: It was awful. I tried helping them. I tried not helping them but in the end I couldn't do them any good. Do you think what I did was wrong?
God: Right and wrong are just words. What matters is what you do.
Bender: Yeah I know, that's why I asked if what I did - forget it.
God: Bender, being God isn't easy, if you do too much, people get dependent. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket.
Bender: Or a guy who burns down the bar for the insurance money.
God: Yes, if you make it look like an electrical thing. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
-Script--Script--Script--Script--Script-
Yup, it's a great episode
You wrote a long story ending with a piece of advice, then posted immediately saying you were going against your own advice?
That's like "Do what I say, not like I do."
In an episode of Futurama, an intelligent galaxy (God) explains to Bender that being a Deity has some of the same qualities mentioned in the parent article.
"If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God, "Godfellas"
But then the icons wouldn't be there. I get it.
You can miss out the 3rd shot if you just use the 2nd shot and crop in the background for the monitor from the first shot. :)
The University where I work has introduceds 708/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a0080 160a9f.html
1) Censorship of the Web, using Websense http://ww2.websense.com/global/en/.
2) Throttling bandwidth on network ports using Storm Control http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/p
3) Filtering out spam using Ironmail http://www.ciphertrust.com/products/index.php
Each these measures have had a negative impact on genuine study and research.
Our Computer Centre Director, who is in the invidious position of having to balance academic freedom against meeting JANET http://www.ja.net/ regulations, released this message which I reproduce here to show what Universities are dealing with.
-END OF QUOTE-
The introduction of restrictions is not something
that we have come to lightly. We certainly have
no desire to apply censorship to our users;
however, unlike Internet Service Providers,
we have somewhat more legal responsibility for
the material that is carried over or stored
within our network. In particular, the University
can be held 'vicariously liable' for a number
of offences relating to, for example, the
display or storage of pornography. Similarly,
material relating to religion or race that is
capable of offending is a potential threat, in
a legal sense, to the University. There are others.
On the matter of websites that just plainly offer
no business value to the University, we need to
strike the right balance between the various
interests. We have real concerns about the
capacity of our network and to compromise academic
and business activity on the network because we
are hosting a flood of dubious traffic does not
make good sense. However, under this specific
concern, clearly there may be scope for relaxing
restrictions outside the 'working day'.
-END OF QUOTE-
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interes ting-people/199307/msg00115.html
I prefer IMAP to POP3. POP3 defaults to moving the email off the server onto the local machine. IMAP's default behaviour is to leave the email on the server (where it's backed up and available from anywhere.)
Doesn't IMAP send the account password in clear? That's a mark against it from a security standpoint.
I remember it too, and here's where I read about it:
Wireless power charges gadgets
Friday, 21 March, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2861987.stm
"A British start-up called SplashPower has come up with technology that can wirelessly charge [...]"
You should stop hanging out with those DVDA boys.
"(fishing) (n.) The act of sending an e-mail [...]"
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/p/phishing.html
Phishing was always social engineering rather than programming. It's more like phoning up and asking for the password while posing as someone you're not, than poking holes in the Operating System.
You can read that article via Google, here: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ny+times+a+ question+of+numbers&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
It's the 2nd item right now.