Overuse of plugins has always been bad. Some websites require flash not for decorative content but critical stuff like navigating within the website.
Others have JAVA navigation bars. Generally, I surf with javascript/java disabled so as to avoid the popups and reduce the risk of netscape crashing on me.
There are other plugins that just SUCK. An example is vivo. While vivo movies are small, have you ever tried seeking a specific spot in a vivo movie? Tried rewinding or fast forwarding? I downloaded a couple of anime movies in vivo and whenever I need to re-view a specific portion, I need to see the WHOLE movie over again.
This is a typical case where I would prefer Real content or the plain old mpeg 1 format.
Web designers, remember that not everyone has feature-packed browsers. There are times I need to download something but wait... I want to do that on my shell account with wget. Duh! I need to have java/javascript enabled or some other fancy plugin to even ENTER the site.
Please, if you really really need to design a whole website in flash or director or whatever plugin, consider making a 'normal html' version also. PLEASE.
Some of you might argue that we are no longer in the console days and I am just old-coloured. Thats up to you. I will be just one less visitor to your site, right? Who cares about the small minority of die-hard geeks who love lightweight, console (insert favourite) stuff? We are still users who wish to visit your website. Consider us.
For those who might be interested, this is a listing of systems certified under the evaluation criteria, by order of rating. So, when do we see Linux there ?
I was cusious and downloaded a tool to decrypt blockfiles from peacefire. I was able to decrypt a 4 mb blocklist which resulted in a >10mb plaintext file full of URLS.
Just for the fun, I tried grep'ping for the most known porn site and they were all there.
Strangely enough, I looked for known URLS of the Ku Kluxx Klan, none showed up.
Yeah! Porn is bad, kids should not know about sex! Lets inculcate them racism and hate instead.
Hi, I do not live in the USA nor I know much about US laws.
Here is something I have been wondering about. We are constantly arguing that DeCSS is NOT used to COPY DVDs but its just an aid to VIEWING DVDs.
However, how will you show this to a judge in USA? Isn't it possible for defendants to bring a DVD Recorder in court, copy a DVD bit-to-bit *LIVE*, play the copy and show the judge that DeCSS is not about COPYING since it has not been used in the process?
Then, if the ruling says that DeCSS is illegal, I believe, DVD recorders should be outlawed as well.
Can something like above be done in a US court?
Dont flame me or something if the above idea is just stupid.
I risk being rated as a troll for this. Here goes nothing. Has anyone ever thought about this?
The communication is working properly between the Mars Lander and NASA but NASA wants you to think that the mission has failed. Why? Maybe because research there is intended to be kept a secret.
What if a lifeform or another extraordinary thing is discovered? How will the people on Earth react to this? Personally, I believe in the above theory but thats just my own:)
Oh well, maybe about 10 or 20 years later we will read about a de-classified paper relating the adventures of Mars Polar Lander...
Well the lawyers have really goofed up by targeting the wrong people. Its a bit like when slashdot was named as a defendant in the DeCSS saga:)
I have visited the website and I find it very very similar to a yahoo homepage and I could not find something like "This site is a parody and is in no way affiliated nor endorsed by Yahoo!"
Moreover, the Yahoo! wording is used and no attempt has been made to change it so that it could mean a parody, like YaHooka! had done in the past.
Well, a co-worker believed it was a Yahoo! site. I would too, at first sight if I had not followed this story on slashdot.
I think Yahoo! has a valid case here but alas, they have knocked at the wrong door.
I find this scary just because they were threatening to sue because their OS's look has been mimicked.
Those of you who are running themeable window managers such as enlightenment windowmaker etc. are probably aware of the existence of themes that mimic various OSes' appearance.
Please check out www.themes.org to get an idea of what I am talking about.
Do the theme authors risk a similar lawsuit threat? Is themes.org heading for trouble?
I hope some kind soul on slashdot can enlighten us about these questions.
An e-commerce website's home page gets defaced with the usual elite cracker message. Insulting the sysadmin. Shouts to the peeps. Links to places... and.. "Oh yea sysadmin, thanks for your customers' credit card numbers. I am gonna have some fun this month"
Just imagine how seriously this can hurt the business. People get informed that the website has been "owned by some elite hackers' and the credit card numbers they used to purchase stuff there are...ummm.. owned.
No matter what the website does to re-assure the customers that vital data has not been broken into, it will still lose MANY customers.
Will you purchase from..lets say Amazon if their website gets defaced with a similar message as above?
Lets see, one can make mp3 file (legal and illegal) available via FTP servers, HTTP servers, IRC fserves, etc.
Will the RIAA sue the makers of the diverse servers? Instead of colliding with a big corporation, apparently the RIAA prefers to sue smaller entities who, even though may win their case, may plead guilty because of the lack of money to defend their case.
Last time I checked, there were loads of illegal material on free services such as Yahoo Geocities, Angelfire, Xoom etc. and among them, were mp3s
RIAA better have lots and lots of bucks to sue each and every one of them.
Remember, tools are not malevolent. They are used in malevolent ways.
There are over 600 spoken dialects in India alone. Does this mean that one can claim to hold rights for each and every dialect to which their trademark translates?
While we are all wondering what will the benchmark results be, we are forgetting one thing.
Let's suppose Windows NT gets a score of 100 and Linux gets a score of 95. Ok, M$ goes home with a happy face and prepares its press release. Linux geeks wonder what happen...
The issue here is, how much did the NT box cost and how much did the Linux one cost. Thats what we call Bang for bucks-Price/Performance ratio
Why would I pay a few thousand dollars to get an NT box that gets a score of 100 while I can get 2 or 3 Linux boxes at the same price.
Slashdot Mirror
For those who care, CAST.org has a neat tool called Bobby which can analyse web pages and report their 'readability' for the visually impared.
Please head on to http://www.cast.org/bobby/
type in http://www.olympics.com/eng/home.html and send the request for processing.
Interesting to note that, at this stage, Bobby does not report any automatically detected Priority-1 errors. But thats just for this specific page.
I remember about a boycott of the MPAA a few months earlier.
A few days after the start of the boycott, slashdot did a review of Mission:Impossible II
We need to respect those decisions guys.
Overuse of plugins has always been bad.
Some websites require flash not for decorative content but critical stuff like navigating within the website.
Others have JAVA navigation bars. Generally, I surf with javascript/java disabled so as to avoid the popups and reduce the risk of netscape crashing on me.
There are other plugins that just SUCK. An example is vivo. While vivo movies are small, have you ever tried seeking a specific spot in a vivo movie? Tried rewinding or fast forwarding? I downloaded a couple of anime movies in vivo and whenever I need to re-view a specific portion, I need to see the WHOLE movie over again.
This is a typical case where I would prefer Real content or the plain old mpeg 1 format.
Web designers, remember that not everyone has feature-packed browsers. There are times I need to download something but wait... I want to do that on my shell account with wget. Duh! I need to have java/javascript enabled or some other fancy plugin to even ENTER the site.
Please, if you really really need to design a whole website in flash or director or whatever plugin, consider making a 'normal html' version also. PLEASE.
Some of you might argue that we are no longer in the console days and I am just old-coloured. Thats up to you. I will be just one less visitor to your site, right? Who cares about the small minority of die-hard geeks who love lightweight, console (insert favourite) stuff? We are still users who wish to visit your website. Consider us.
Awaiting nods of approval and/or flames.
Was I the only one to notice that? Look closely on the book in that image An NT server 4 book as a desk toy!
For those who might be interested, this is a listing of systems certified under the evaluation criteria, by order of rating. So, when do we see Linux there ?
href="http://www.radium.ncsc. mil/tpep/epl/epl-by-class.html
I was cusious and downloaded a tool to decrypt blockfiles from peacefire. I was able to decrypt a 4 mb blocklist which resulted in a >10mb plaintext file full of URLS.
Just for the fun, I tried grep'ping for the most known porn site and they were all there.
Strangely enough, I looked for known URLS of the Ku Kluxx Klan, none showed up.
Yeah! Porn is bad, kids should not know about sex!
Lets inculcate them racism and hate instead.
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530- ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/X/XFree86
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530- Korea
530- ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/Linux/xfree86
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530- Australia
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530- ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/X/XFree86
530- ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/mirrors/xfree86
530- ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/XFree86
530- ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/mirrors/xfree86
530- ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/XFree86
530- ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/xfree86
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530- ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/hci/X11/XFree86
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530- Finland
530- ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/X11/XFree86
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530- ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/X11/XFree86
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530- Germany
530- ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/xfree86/XFree86
530- ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/X/XFree86
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For those of you who might be interested.
There has been a discussion about this issue on Bugtraq in January 2000. Read it from www2.merton.ox.ac.uk/~ security/bugtraq-200001/0148.html
Hi, I do not live in the USA nor I know much about US laws.
Here is something I have been wondering about. We are constantly arguing that DeCSS is NOT used to COPY DVDs but its just an aid to VIEWING DVDs.
However, how will you show this to a judge in USA?
Isn't it possible for defendants to bring a DVD Recorder in court, copy a DVD bit-to-bit *LIVE*, play the copy and show the judge that DeCSS is not about COPYING since it has not been used in the process?
Then, if the ruling says that DeCSS is illegal, I believe, DVD recorders should be outlawed as well.
Can something like above be done in a US court?
Dont flame me or something if the above idea is just stupid.
Sincerely,
Simpleguy
I risk being rated as a troll for this.
:)
Here goes nothing.
Has anyone ever thought about this?
The communication is working properly between the Mars Lander and NASA but NASA wants you to think that the mission has failed.
Why? Maybe because research there is intended to be kept a secret.
What if a lifeform or another extraordinary thing is discovered? How will the people on Earth react to this? Personally, I believe in the above theory but thats just my own
Oh well, maybe about 10 or 20 years later we will read about a de-classified paper relating the adventures of Mars Polar Lander...
Well the lawyers have really goofed up by targeting the wrong people. :)
Its a bit like when slashdot was named as a defendant in the DeCSS saga
I have visited the website and I find it very very similar to a yahoo homepage and I could not find something like "This site is a parody and is in no way affiliated nor endorsed by Yahoo!"
Moreover, the Yahoo! wording is used and no attempt has been made to change it so that it could mean a parody, like YaHooka! had done in the past.
Well, a co-worker believed it was a Yahoo! site.
I would too, at first sight if I had not followed this story on slashdot.
I think Yahoo! has a valid case here but alas, they have knocked at the wrong door.
I find this scary just because they were threatening to sue because their OS's look has been mimicked.
Those of you who are running themeable window managers such as enlightenment windowmaker etc. are probably aware of the existence of themes that mimic various OSes' appearance.
Please check out www.themes.org to get an idea of what I am talking about.
Do the theme authors risk a similar lawsuit threat? Is themes.org heading for trouble?
I hope some kind soul on slashdot can enlighten us about these questions.
Also imagine another scenario.
... and..
...ummm.. owned.
..lets say Amazon if their website gets defaced with a similar message as above?
An e-commerce website's home page gets defaced with the usual elite cracker message.
Insulting the sysadmin.
Shouts to the peeps.
Links to places
"Oh yea sysadmin, thanks for your customers' credit card numbers. I am gonna have some fun this month"
Just imagine how seriously this can hurt the business. People get informed that the website has been "owned by some elite hackers' and the credit card numbers they used to purchase stuff there are
No matter what the website does to re-assure the customers that vital data has not been broken into, it will still lose MANY customers.
Will you purchase from
Simpleguy
I fail to see how the RIAA may win this one.
Lets see, one can make mp3 file (legal and illegal) available via FTP servers, HTTP servers, IRC fserves, etc.
Will the RIAA sue the makers of the diverse servers?
Instead of colliding with a big corporation, apparently the RIAA prefers to sue smaller entities who, even though may win their case, may
plead guilty because of the lack of money to defend their case.
Last time I checked, there were loads of illegal material on free services such as Yahoo Geocities,
Angelfire, Xoom etc. and among them, were mp3s
RIAA better have lots and lots of bucks to sue each and every one of them.
Remember, tools are not malevolent. They are used in malevolent ways.
There are over 600 spoken dialects in India alone.
Does this mean that one can claim to hold rights for each and every dialect to which their trademark translates?
Simpleguy
Just wondering.
Want pics of CPM 'leaving' defcon?
http://berk.dhs.org/dc7/
cpm_booted1.jpg
cpm_booted2.jpg
cpm_booted3.jpg
cpm_booted4.jpg
cpm_booted5.jpg
Want pics of CPM 'leaving' defcon? http://berk.dhs.org/dc7/ cpm_booted1.jpg cpm_booted2.jpg cpm_booted3.jpg cpm_booted4.jpg cpm_booted5.jpg
While we are all wondering what will the benchmark results be, we are forgetting one thing.
/Performance ratio
Let's suppose Windows NT gets a score of 100 and Linux gets a score of 95. Ok, M$ goes home with a happy face and prepares its press release. Linux geeks wonder what happen...
The issue here is, how much did the NT box cost and how much did the Linux one cost.
Thats what we call Bang for bucks-Price
Why would I pay a few thousand dollars to get an NT box that gets a score of 100 while I can get 2 or 3 Linux boxes at the same price.
Ouch, the number of misfortune has leaked till here.
I guess the M$ mslogo.gif syndrome is spreading.