Seriously, why should you run an interpreted language with a scant collection of modules, an annoying demand for whitespace, unreadable syntax, and various other issues.
Python lovers claim that the language reads like pseudocode, and "that's it's biggest advantage"... Oh really?
What the fuck is this supposed to mean?
processFunc = collapse and (lambda s: " ".join(s.split())) or (lambda s: s)
pseudocode readability my ass.
I'd much rather use perl, where at least the unreadability makes a bit of sense:
print "$_\n" foreach (sort glob "/tmp/*")
I dare python lovers to write something like that in python in one line.
"OMG, my free blog software changed, i have to pay for it now"
"i'm poor and can't afford it, if you read the past entries of my blog, which are all bitching about how i'm poor and can't afford anything"
"i'm going to bitch about MT changing to a non-free system on my blog."
Really, who cares? There's some blogs out there that are worth reading (pervscan, MSDN Blogs), but 99% of the users of Movable Type are retards. Charging for MT is keeping the shit off of the web.
A totally biased article about a topic that they only cursorly researched. WareZ kiddies also use Hotline, Carracho (for Mac), and simply giving out FTP links over AIM. Nothing revolutionary, and a ton of hype.
When the file system gets maimed up, or a system-required driver dies on bootup, and you hvae the "Automatically Reboot" option for BSODs enabled as per default, you can enter an endless loop of booting, kernel panicing, rebooting, panicing, etc.
I've once had to use the NT Password Editor disk in regedit mode to change the automatically reboot option by hand, and figure out wtf caused the machine to crash out.
The GNAA is full of proxies. That, and you also know who half the people who reverted the page are too. This wiki doesn't seem to be as userfriendly as Wikipedia, so i can't figure out how to diff each revision
Even braver is the notification section. It sends out email whenever someone modifies a page. Someone's going to have about 30093247983274928374 messages in their inbox by the time this gets taken off the front page.
It's a "wiki" which allows anyone to edit the text. You can see the differences between versions by clicking on the colored glasses. Bad idea to post a site that anyone can edit on the front page of slashdot.
It could be worse, they could allow image posting.
Uh no, a "-1, Troll" is definitely different than a "-1, Overrated".
Overrated's don't go into metamod, overrated's are less stigmatizing than Trolls, Overrated is spelled differently, etc. I could go on for a few hours.
Write a letter to the Editor By Tim Steller ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Operators at a Northwest Side call center may see some relief from the flood of fraudulent calls they've been handling by scam artists in other countries trying to defraud American merchants
Sprint has put in place a system to block calls by suspicious users of its Internet-relay service for the hearing- and speech-impaired.
The effort answers operators' complaints that scam artists from Nigeria, Ghana and other places have been using the system to buy American goods using stolen credit-card numbers. But not everyone is convinced the strategy will work over the long run, because scam artists may adapt.
Since January, relay operators at Communication Service for the Deaf, a call center at Foothills Mall, have spent much of their time handling thousands of calls from such scam artists.
These callers access the relay service intended for deaf people simply by getting on a Web site operated by Sprint, entering a phone number and pressing a "connect" button. The operators act as intermediaries, talking to the person receiving the call and typing messages back to the original caller.
Because federal regulations require the operators to transmit all calls faithfully and confidentially, they have been forced into facilitating fraud. About 200 people work at CSD, as the Tucson call center is known.
Sprint spokesman Steve Lunceford, would not detail how Sprint is trying to block the calls other than to say the company is looking at problematic Internet-protocol addresses and finding ways to block them before calls go through to operators.
So far, the effort appears successful. The volume of Internet-relay calls has returned to the level it was in early January, before massive abuse of the system began, Lunceford said.
CSD call-center manager Paul Hawkins declined to comment, as did several current CSD operators.
On the surface, the effort appears similar to those carried out by MCI and AT&T. Since late last year, MCI has been measuring daily which Internet-protocol addresses are using the system in high volumes, analyzing the usage, then blocking suspicious sources of calls, said Steven Johnson, MCI's vice president of information services and solutions.
AT&T has been blocking Internet protocol addresses from other countries, an approach that has been very successful, according to a company statement.
But one former MCI relay operator said blocking internet addresses will only be a temporary obstacle for abusers of the Internet-relay system. That's because the scam artists can continuously find alternative Internet-protocol addresses, said Rob Grodevant of Madison, Wis., who moderates an Internet message board for relay operators.
"Obviously it's had the effect of cutting down these calls, but they're going to find new hosts and call back anyway," Grodevant said. "It's always going to be a cat-and-mouse game."
Grodevant would prefer a system in which legitimate users register in advance to gain access to the system.
In March, the volume of calls exceeded 7,000 per day at Tucson's CSD, which is a contractor for Sprint, according to a company memo. Operators reported going through entire shifts without receiving calls from deaf Americans, but only from scam artists, largely located in West Africa.
The situation was so stressful that the company offered counseling to its operators. One former relay operator, Eric Reeves, said via e-mail that he quit in March in part because of the change from helping deaf people to aiding scam artists.
"After we started taking the calls for the villains overseas, the atmosphere was depressing and overall gloomy," Reeves said.
The interbase backdoor wasn't found for quite a few years, and only then because the thing went open-source. Could it be that companies are stopping themselves from going open because it would reveal their backdoors?
Well, resetting the firmware on Cisco's devices does NOT reset the rest of the settings.
The process goes like this: Boot device with console cable Hit ctrl-c during boot use the proper command to change the configuration register to 0x2142, which means "Start up using OS from flash, but IGNORE configuration in NVRAM". Use the proper command to boot the device.
You'll then be staring at "Password: " where it will accept an empty string. The configuration is still there (type show startup-config and you'll see the whole thing), but ignored.
Enable yourself. copy start run (bring everything back up). config t (begin configuration) username blah password blabla priv 15 (if you have multiple usernames + priv levels) enable secret blabla (big-daddy enable password) line vty 0 4 (telnet access) login password bla exit config-reg 0x2102 (stop ignoring the configuration) exit copy run start (save that daddy)
The new.net code is a layered service provider that gets up into your Windows IP stack and niggers things up badly. You need both Ad-aware -and- Spybot to get rid of it. They're not real domains, either. you need their crapware to view them.
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Python lovers claim that the language reads like pseudocode, and "that's it's biggest advantage"... Oh really?
What the fuck is this supposed to mean?pseudocode readability my ass.
I'd much rather use perl, where at least the unreadability makes a bit of sense:I dare python lovers to write something like that in python in one line.
It's a Unix EOF, seven times.
BitchX is the only IRC client that lives up to it's name.
Great idea, but one flaw.
modem dials
person on the other end picks up
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR PTSSSSSSSSSSSS"
You'd need a PBX with a FXO card to transmit voice over a regular phone line.
click here to read the Nero article
"OMG, my free blog software changed, i have to pay for it now"
"i'm poor and can't afford it, if you read the past entries of my blog, which are all bitching about how i'm poor and can't afford anything"
"i'm going to bitch about MT changing to a non-free system on my blog."
Really, who cares? There's some blogs out there that are worth reading (pervscan, MSDN Blogs), but 99% of the users of Movable Type are retards. Charging for MT is keeping the shit off of the web.
In a reply to my own post:
Especially ones that say "please eat us" and that you KNOW pop up goatse and scat porn.
Don't click on internet links?
A totally biased article about a topic that they only cursorly researched. WareZ kiddies also use Hotline, Carracho (for Mac), and simply giving out FTP links over AIM. Nothing revolutionary, and a ton of hype.
Consider yourself lucky.
When the file system gets maimed up, or a system-required driver dies on bootup, and you hvae the "Automatically Reboot" option for BSODs enabled as per default, you can enter an endless loop of booting, kernel panicing, rebooting, panicing, etc.
I've once had to use the NT Password Editor disk in regedit mode to change the automatically reboot option by hand, and figure out wtf caused the machine to crash out.
Like the Mac OS X kernel-panic screen available here?
Very nice. with lots of subdued greys and multiple languages detailing how to reboot.
Sigh.
The GNAA is full of proxies. That, and you also know who half the people who reverted the page are too. This wiki doesn't seem to be as userfriendly as Wikipedia, so i can't figure out how to diff each revision
Even braver is the notification section. It sends out email whenever someone modifies a page. Someone's going to have about 30093247983274928374 messages in their inbox by the time this gets taken off the front page.
It's a "wiki" which allows anyone to edit the text. You can see the differences between versions by clicking on the colored glasses. Bad idea to post a site that anyone can edit on the front page of slashdot.
It could be worse, they could allow image posting.
No, if i were karma whoring i would have been moderated up like LostCluster. Straight +5 Insightfuls. What a slashbot cocksucker.
A history on wordperfect by the great Wikipedia.
Uh no, a "-1, Troll" is definitely different than a "-1, Overrated".
Overrated's don't go into metamod, overrated's are less stigmatizing than Trolls, Overrated is spelled differently, etc. I could go on for a few hours.
Sprint has block to halt scam in place
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By Tim Steller
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
Operators at a Northwest Side call center may see some relief from the flood of fraudulent calls they've been handling by scam artists in other countries trying to defraud American merchants
Sprint has put in place a system to block calls by suspicious users of its Internet-relay service for the hearing- and speech-impaired.
The effort answers operators' complaints that scam artists from Nigeria, Ghana and other places have been using the system to buy American goods using stolen credit-card numbers. But not everyone is convinced the strategy will work over the long run, because scam artists may adapt.
Since January, relay operators at Communication Service for the Deaf, a call center at Foothills Mall, have spent much of their time handling thousands of calls from such scam artists.
These callers access the relay service intended for deaf people simply by getting on a Web site operated by Sprint, entering a phone number and pressing a "connect" button. The operators act as intermediaries, talking to the person receiving the call and typing messages back to the original caller.
Because federal regulations require the operators to transmit all calls faithfully and confidentially, they have been forced into facilitating fraud. About 200 people work at CSD, as the Tucson call center is known.
Sprint spokesman Steve Lunceford, would not detail how Sprint is trying to block the calls other than to say the company is looking at problematic Internet-protocol addresses and finding ways to block them before calls go through to operators.
So far, the effort appears successful. The volume of Internet-relay calls has returned to the level it was in early January, before massive abuse of the system began, Lunceford said.
CSD call-center manager Paul Hawkins declined to comment, as did several current CSD operators.
On the surface, the effort appears similar to those carried out by MCI and AT&T. Since late last year, MCI has been measuring daily which Internet-protocol addresses are using the system in high volumes, analyzing the usage, then blocking suspicious sources of calls, said Steven Johnson, MCI's vice president of information services and solutions.
AT&T has been blocking Internet protocol addresses from other countries, an approach that has been very successful, according to a company statement.
But one former MCI relay operator said blocking internet addresses will only be a temporary obstacle for abusers of the Internet-relay system. That's because the scam artists can continuously find alternative Internet-protocol addresses, said Rob Grodevant of Madison, Wis., who moderates an Internet message board for relay operators.
"Obviously it's had the effect of cutting down these calls, but they're going to find new hosts and call back anyway," Grodevant said. "It's always going to be a cat-and-mouse game."
Grodevant would prefer a system in which legitimate users register in advance to gain access to the system.
In March, the volume of calls exceeded 7,000 per day at Tucson's CSD, which is a contractor for Sprint, according to a company memo. Operators reported going through entire shifts without receiving calls from deaf Americans, but only from scam artists, largely located in West Africa.
The situation was so stressful that the company offered counseling to its operators. One former relay operator, Eric Reeves, said via e-mail that he quit in March in part because of the change from helping deaf people to aiding scam artists.
"After we started taking the calls for the villains overseas, the atmosphere was depressing and overall gloomy," Reeves said.
Props to Gay Niggers Association of America.
Yeah. Google Mirror
Except that most modern bloggers only understand that they had to pay more money for the "ess cue ell" service on their web hosting account.
The interbase backdoor wasn't found for quite a few years, and only then because the thing went open-source. Could it be that companies are stopping themselves from going open because it would reveal their backdoors?
Well, resetting the firmware on Cisco's devices does NOT reset the rest of the settings.
The process goes like this:
Boot device with console cable
Hit ctrl-c during boot
use the proper command to change the configuration register to 0x2142, which means "Start up using OS from flash, but IGNORE configuration in NVRAM".
Use the proper command to boot the device.
You'll then be staring at "Password: " where it will accept an empty string. The configuration is still there (type show startup-config and you'll see the whole thing), but ignored.
Enable yourself. copy start run (bring everything back up).
config t (begin configuration)
username blah password blabla priv 15 (if you have multiple usernames + priv levels)
enable secret blabla (big-daddy enable password)
line vty 0 4 (telnet access)
login
password bla
exit
config-reg 0x2102 (stop ignoring the configuration)
exit
copy run start (save that daddy)
Ow.
The new.net code is a layered service provider that gets up into your Windows IP stack and niggers things up badly. You need both Ad-aware -and- Spybot to get rid of it. They're not real domains, either. you need their crapware to view them.