The earliest messages of this kind I can find are from TheLoneCoder
These are the only three comments this user has posted: Outgoing Wed Apr 13, 2005 02:18 PM Outgoing Wed Apr 13, 2005 02:20 PM Outgoing Wed Apr 13, 2005 02:31 PM
So - I realized today that some moron is impersinating me on slashdot, posting random garbage on threads.
I guess he is not really impersonating me personally, but he goes by the screen name "The Lone Coder" and he claims this as his web site.
LOSER!!!
Get your web site, get your own identity, and stop flooding the slashdot message boards with crap responses that are meaningless.
These three messages are all by AC's: OUTGOING Mon Aug 01, 2005 02:22 PM OUTGOING Mon Aug 01, 2005 04:04 PM OUTGOING Sun Nov 06, 2005 05:35 AM
There are no apparent connections between the stories these are posted in, and no story has more than one of these messages posted.
I'd love to be able to manually rearrange and group the taskbar buttons. That way you could do what you suggest, connect related documents that are in various applications.
Drag one taskbar button on top of another, a group is automatically created. Then you can name the group by clicking on it once while it is already selected (a la file renaming in explorer) or right click -> Rename Group
You can also ungroup them by pulling one item out of the group list that pops up and dragging it back to the task bar.
another upside of this is the ability to rearrange your taskbar buttons by just dragging them around. That way, you could put them in a more logical order. It could show the "Insert here" line like Windows does everywhere else.
If you travel faster than the speed of light, do we get a massive flash of light?
Actually, you do. It's called Cherenkov radiation, and it's very similar to the way a sonic boom forms, with waves piling up. It's a kind of eerie blue light, I believe.
If BSD people just said "Ya, I want my name plastered all over the so called Free Software so I can get famous and open a overpriced consulting firm" instead of "Dude, like, I just want to make the world a better place filled with snazzy software and warm fuzzies free for everybody!" then I wouldn't find it hypocritical.
The string you must display at some point is:
This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
How is someone who happens to work on BSD-licensed code going to get famous from a little blurb like that? It's not like a full credits listing with their name. (the requirement to give credit has been removed anyway)
Just because you're not famous doesn't mean it's bad to be famous. If you write a program that gets popular enough to net you credit from your name being attached, more power to you.
I have always thought that the best idea would be to allow them to record the proceedings, then play them at a later time (with a maximum time limit, of course)
That way, the press still gets their story, nothing is covered up, and possible jurors are not spolied.
Why wouldn't we want him staring at the console? It could display 3D ship's vectors and possible paths or whatever. That big pretty main screen never showed any technical information. I'd rather my pilot know how fast he's going, what direction he's going in, and how far away things are.
I like using http://www.recipezaar.com. They are similar to google in the manner that you can websearch for recipes and also you can make a list of what ingredients you have and match it to a particular recipe in their database.
The only useful hardware-based firewall is the one between your legs and the engine in a car. ALL (TCP/IP) firewalls are software-based. A firewall has a CPU that follows instructions stored in RAM or ROM and has input and output, so it is a computer running software.
The only difference I can see between what you refer to as a hardware based firewall and a software based firewall is that the "hardware based" firewalls are usually full of proprietary software and hardware.
How does this make them any more effective or secure?
At the corner near my apartment, the light has one on these... If you press it, it eventually turns the lights red in all 4 directions for about 20 seconds. But the Walk light doesn't come on! They recently replaced the aging pushbutton with a touch sensor. But they didn't fix the walk light!
The whole point is that you can't (easily) get at the internals, so you tack on stuff to the outside to get the info you want.
Of course, you could build a trojan keypad.. it could sit over the top of the real keypad and transfer the keypresses through mechanically while recording which buttons were pressed.
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They wouldn't be in the mess they're in now if they'd lower the prices of movie tickets and DVD's so people could afford to go see/buy movies.
I would definitely go see more movies if a evening show was less than $7.75/person for a ticket, and I know the prices in North Dakota (where I live) are lower than elsewhere in the country.
And to take the analogy to its most excellent extreme:
I bought a car alarm for my car. If I find that someone has taped a note to my steering wheel telling me that my car alarm is wired incorrectly, and lists ways to fix it, can I charge the cost of the burglar for the costs of the new alarm AND a the time and effort it takes to inventory my car to see if he took anything while he was in there?
Hmm... sounds like an interesting idea. Stage a car break-in like this, and when the judge says your requests are unreasonable, point out that major corporations do exactly that with white-hat hackers. Somehow manage to get plenty of news coverage, and put pressure on those companies and the judges on these trials to throw out unreasonable reimbursements for things like this.
"So, now no operating system will allow users to copy CDs."
"Not quite, sir... They can still be copied with Linux."
If pirates can only use Linux, then everyone who uses Linux will be thought of as a pirate.
Sure, this wouldn't be entirely true, but you can bet that is the angle big business would take on the subject. They would force-feed it into every orifice John Q. Public has until they believe it.
If DRM is forced onto all computers, then Linux will die. The RIAA/MPAA will continue to pump out their inflated loss statistics, and they will point out that the only mainstream operating system that still does not enforce DRM is Linux. Well, faced with this information, the concerned public will have no choice but to decide that Linux is a Bad Thing(tm).
This reminds me, I've always thought trojan was a funny name for a condom. After all, when you say "trojan", what do most people think of? The "Trojan Horse".. which was created to get inside of (was it the walls of troy? I can't remember ATM..) Once inside, it burst open and a bunch of people came out of it to wreak havok on the city. Seems to be exactly what you DON'T want a condom to do, doesn't it?:)
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The earliest messages of this kind I can find are from TheLoneCoder
These are the only three comments this user has posted:
Outgoing Wed Apr 13, 2005 02:18 PM
Outgoing Wed Apr 13, 2005 02:20 PM
Outgoing Wed Apr 13, 2005 02:31 PM
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This user's web page is listed as http://www.thelonecoder.com/.
The blog residing there says:
The Lone Coder and Slashdot
So - I realized today that some moron is impersinating me on slashdot, posting random garbage on threads.
I guess he is not really impersonating me personally, but he goes by the screen name "The Lone Coder" and he claims this as his web site.
LOSER!!!
Get your web site, get your own identity, and stop flooding the slashdot message boards with crap responses that are meaningless.
These three messages are all by AC's:
OUTGOING Mon Aug 01, 2005 02:22 PM
OUTGOING Mon Aug 01, 2005 04:04 PM
OUTGOING Sun Nov 06, 2005 05:35 AM
There are no apparent connections between the stories these are posted in, and no story has more than one of these messages posted.
The new and improved Super Intel Pentium VII Xtra Xtreme blah blah blah..
Drag one taskbar button on top of another, a group is automatically created. Then you can name the group by clicking on it once while it is already selected (a la file renaming in explorer) or right click -> Rename Group
You can also ungroup them by pulling one item out of the group list that pops up and dragging it back to the task bar.
another upside of this is the ability to rearrange your taskbar buttons by just dragging them around. That way, you could put them in a more logical order. It could show the "Insert here" line like Windows does everywhere else.
Actually, you do. It's called Cherenkov radiation, and it's very similar to the way a sonic boom forms, with waves piling up. It's a kind of eerie blue light, I believe.
If a host is not found on the network, the nearest router is expected to send an ICMP "Host Unreachable" message to the sender.
The string you must display at some point is:
This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
How is someone who happens to work on BSD-licensed code going to get famous from a little blurb like that? It's not like a full credits listing with their name. (the requirement to give credit has been removed anyway)
Just because you're not famous doesn't mean it's bad to be famous. If you write a program that gets popular enough to net you credit from your name being attached, more power to you.
That way, the press still gets their story, nothing is covered up, and possible jurors are not spolied.
Many people probably didn't know he was dead. His name WAS still on the ballot, which means those running the election fucked up.
I hate Ashcroft about as much as anyone else posting here but I'm tired of seeing this argument.
Why wouldn't we want him staring at the console? It could display 3D ship's vectors and possible paths or whatever. That big pretty main screen never showed any technical information. I'd rather my pilot know how fast he's going, what direction he's going in, and how far away things are.
I like using http://www.recipezaar.com. They are similar to google in the manner that you can websearch for recipes and also you can make a list of what ingredients you have and match it to a particular recipe in their database.
The only difference I can see between what you refer to as a hardware based firewall and a software based firewall is that the "hardware based" firewalls are usually full of proprietary software and hardware.
How does this make them any more effective or secure?
At the corner near my apartment, the light has one on these... If you press it, it eventually turns the lights red in all 4 directions for about 20 seconds. But the Walk light doesn't come on! They recently replaced the aging pushbutton with a touch sensor. But they didn't fix the walk light!
Of course, you could build a trojan keypad.. it could sit over the top of the real keypad and transfer the keypresses through mechanically while recording which buttons were pressed.
...you insensitive clod!
Indeed, the fact that you can buy a DVD at Wal-Mart for under $20 is a godsend, but who wants to support THAT conglomerate either?
I would definitely go see more movies if a evening show was less than $7.75/person for a ticket, and I know the prices in North Dakota (where I live) are lower than elsewhere in the country.
Think of how long it was before Nintendo made a Game Boy System with a lighted screen. :P
hint hint ethereal can also be run on the same computer.
Yes, because hope springs eternal.
If you are so lucky to find a work environment like that, let me know. I want to work there, too.
Why don't we just call it "invasive-ware"? :P
They did. It's just not there anymore. ;)
I bought a car alarm for my car. If I find that someone has taped a note to my steering wheel telling me that my car alarm is wired incorrectly, and lists ways to fix it, can I charge the cost of the burglar for the costs of the new alarm AND a the time and effort it takes to inventory my car to see if he took anything while he was in there?
Hmm... sounds like an interesting idea. Stage a car break-in like this, and when the judge says your requests are unreasonable, point out that major corporations do exactly that with white-hat hackers. Somehow manage to get plenty of news coverage, and put pressure on those companies and the judges on these trials to throw out unreasonable reimbursements for things like this.
"So, now no operating system will allow users to copy CDs."
"Not quite, sir... They can still be copied with Linux."
If pirates can only use Linux, then everyone who uses Linux will be thought of as a pirate.
Sure, this wouldn't be entirely true, but you can bet that is the angle big business would take on the subject. They would force-feed it into every orifice John Q. Public has until they believe it.
If DRM is forced onto all computers, then Linux will die. The RIAA/MPAA will continue to pump out their inflated loss statistics, and they will point out that the only mainstream operating system that still does not enforce DRM is Linux. Well, faced with this information, the concerned public will have no choice but to decide that Linux is a Bad Thing(tm).
Wrong hands... you mean like the government?
This reminds me, I've always thought trojan was a funny name for a condom. After all, when you say "trojan", what do most people think of? The "Trojan Horse".. which was created to get inside of (was it the walls of troy? I can't remember ATM..) Once inside, it burst open and a bunch of people came out of it to wreak havok on the city. Seems to be exactly what you DON'T want a condom to do, doesn't it? :)