A simple thing like FTP for example, to update our websites.
FileZilla, GPL'd, I think.
Webcam, I agree, hard to find free & decent win32 programms.
Re:Bart, that's no elf-maiden, that's Comic Book G
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You must think I am some teen perv out for cybersex.
You aren't? What are you doing on/. then?!?
Relax, my post was (mostly) a joke.
Bart, that's no elf-maiden, that's Comic Book Guy!
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MUDs have been diminishing in number, especially lately. Why are they all quitting...?
Because with Yahoo chatrooms and IRC, you can get all the cyber-lovin' you want, without the pretense and baggage of "character classes", "gold pieces", and "elves."
Oh, ok, except that I expect there are a lot of disappointed elf fetishists sitting in their mothers' basements, fondling their, uh, "miniatures".
Yep, it lends a whole new meaning to "Dungeon Master".
This does add another layer of protection, but it has some drawbnacks.
I'm typing this on my Zaurus; the nnnnn key is hypersennnsitive, as you may have noticed by now.
I can switch to another input method, like the on-screen software keyboard, as I am now, but the timings are completely different. If I switch to the "handwriting", as now, you'd have to clock penstrokes, again totally different.
What about logging in remotely over a buffered or burst-y connection? You might be able to (roughly) time keystrokes, bnut not key-ups or key-downs (I'm nnback to the keyboard, see the extra "n"s?).
Even worse, what if I innnjure my finger or hand (yeah, it's/., I know the njokes I've set myself up for)? Will I nbe able to log in at all?
With a password, as long as one finger works well enough to nhunt and peck, I can log in. With your method, I've got to nbe in the same physical shape, possibly as awake, as relaxed, etc. as when I recorded the password. Not to mention it's a pain to record a password 20 times.
However, I think your method does have a use; its drawbacks as a general password system makes it perhaps useful for other purposes: it is an innexpensive (i.e software only) way to deternmine that the user is in substantially the same state of health and mind as when the password was recorded.
This might make it a decent way to deny access to users under duress. I should note that users under duress might well be harmed when they cannnot make the password work, so it probnably should only be used to protect access the user considers more valuable than his own life.
Constitution?? Didn't that burn up a couple of years ago. Seems I heard something about a fire at the National Archive......
Fire at the National Archives? No, you're thinking of the fire at the Reichstag. It was set by some Moslem.
Moslems are a great threat to the State and the Volk. We need a strong Fuhrer, unencumbered by such sentimental twaddle as "Constitutions" or "Rights" or "Opposition Parties", to fight the perfidious Moslem.
The way they trick women, and use the lure of money to get them to do things they didn't want to do, it's sickening and depraved.
Yeah, my boss uses the "lure of money" to get me to do things I don't want to do, too -- like getting up in the morning and putting up with chickenshit and coding in java.
Seems that for the girls of porn, keeping their sex lives private isn't worth as much to them as easy money. They could always get a job at McDonald's. Their choice. Not mine, not yours.
Unless a research team has developed an AI that can DM as well as a human, this may be D&D in name but not in spirit. The main thing I like about D&D is being able to be creative. For example, are all of the ways a flask of oil can be used going to be programmed into the system?
Ok/.'er, how exactly did your, uh, Dungeon Master, uh, creatively use that flask of oil?
Was your character's name, oh, I dunno, Goatse Man?
Like an online role-playing game, P&P keeps me in front on a computer 10 hours a day, and it doesn't cost $29.95 a month.
Actually, playing "Paper & Paychecks", I get paid real US dollars to do the same sort of mind-numbingly repetitive stuff that Everquest players do for the "love" of the game and a few "gold pieces".
There's a really good reason why TMDA is designed to run on mail servers as opposed to running on your local mail client machine. You can reasonably expect the mail server to be running up and available close to 24x7 whereas a personal machine might not
That's a good reason. But my desktop does run 24/7 (doing folding@home, motion detection, routing my handheld's wifi connection, acting as a jukebox).
Even if it did not, people don't (yet) expect instantaneous answeres to email. As I'd only challenge previously unknown emailers (and to whom I'd not sent email), it doesn't seem too much to ask Joe Doesn't Know Me to wait for his challenge as long as he'd wait for my answer. Yeah, then he has to pass the challenge, and it takes him perhaps twice as long to get a answer from me.
Well, it's actually a better deal for Joe than presently, where if I'm not sure of an email, chances are it goes into the bit bucket unread.
I'd install it myself, as a proxy MTA, but it's not a Mail Transfer Agent; instead it requires one to use one of a particular set of MTA.
In short, there's not way to use it under Windows or even cygwin (as far as I can tell).
I wrote much of a TMDA, but never completed it, as a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook -- I abandoned that project when I decided it should be wriiten as an extension of an SMTP/POP3 proxy. (And I wrote it first as a Visual Basic "macro" before I understood how to add plugins written in C++ to Outlook; that was the antithesis of fun.)
I was unable to find an open source SMTP/POP3 proxy that runs under both Windows and linux -- I've looked, but what I've found has been either for Windows but not linux or vice versa, or SMTP but not POP3 or vice versa. The one thing I've found is Hamster, which is quality software, but written in Delphi, and it doesn't run under linux.
Basically, I'll use a TMDA as soon as I can run it myself, under Windows -- or the OS of my choice.
The TMDA softweare currently available seems to be aimed at ISPs, and this seems to be a political decision of the TMDA software authors.
TMDA is designed to run on the server which receives your incoming mail, not on your desktop workstation.
ASK [a TMDA-like system --orthogonal] is a Unix/Linux/OSX program. It will not run on Windows servers or workstations. You may however, switch to an Internet/Mail provider that offers ASK services.
It probably makes some sense, in the long term battle against spam, to keep it off the desktop so as to put pressure on ISPs to install it, but it sure doesn't make it easy for me to use.
List<Object> haha = (List<Object>) list; haha.add( new String( "haha!" );
If I can cast a "typesafe" list, it's not really that typesafe; imagine that I don't do this maliciously, but do it inside some called function in an object, MyCollections, which is like java.util.Collections:
MyCollections.reverseAndAppend( List l ) {
java.util.Collections.reverse( l );
l.add( "This this was reversed" ); }
On the other hand, if the compiler enforces the rule that a List<Foo> is-NOT-a List, all of a sudden I can't pass it to any function that takes a List, either mine or in the Java standard library.
C++, for code size efficiency reasons, has a common base class for templated container classes, but the base class is privately inheirited, so that outside of the class, users can't cast it to the base class. In other words, the implementation is inheirited, but the interface is not. That's not a problem for C++, because functions are templated too.
Even if Java templates functions too, the problem remains: functions written pre-template either can't take a templated List -- and the functionality must be re-written --, or they get it cast to List<Object> and can violate its contract.
My girlfriend's mom wrote some of the first conversions of actuarial tables to mainframe, from books, in the 1950s and 1960s (all done w/ punch cards and machine language, of course) at a life insurance company in Mass. The company was still running a lot of her orgininal code when she retired a couple of years ago.
This is obviously an apocryphal story.
Who can spot the inconsistancy that gives this fakery away?
Bugs -- wireless eveasdropping devices -- that never need their batteries replaced.
Make them voiced activated. Put one every x meters. Have each "chain" the data it picks up, encrypted in a low-power radio burst, to the previous one in the chain, until the data reaches back to your recorder or cell phone or higher-powered transmitter.
Now say hi to Big Brother, or Industrial Spy, or Suspicious Husband.
Actually, funny you should bring that up at all. Yesterday, I was in Barnes and Noble and came across one of Stephen Hawking's audio books on CD, and it's HIM reading it using his voice synthesizer, for the whole damned book.
You really think a world-class physicist sat there and transcribed his book through his synthesizer? Yeah, I'm sure Hawking's got a lot of time on his hands. And it's so weasy to read your book and poke at the keys of your synthesizer with a pen held in your mouth.
More likely, he can feed teh synthesizer and arbitrary text he wants, along the lines of: cat mybook.full.txt | synthesizer |/dev/audio.in
I don't know what they are doing, but one example would be for someone to go through the text and add in markers for how the computer should say things (angry, loud, etc), so you get the right inflections and voices etc.
If you're willing to do this, why not just read it into a microphone. Yes, Joe Blow isn't going to sound like Larry Olivier, BU TIT... <inflection="emphasis"> MUST BEE </inflection=monotone> BET TER THAN A SYN THE SIZED VOICE.
Or, better, just convince a starving actor / voice-over announcer that it's a great way to get free exposure in bewtween auditions and that waiter job that pays the rent.
it isn't as if you can just send out a bunch of cheques. There are many steps involved in fulfilling a rebate
While there certainly is administrative record-keeping required to process rebates, it can't be much more than admini-trivia required to sell items in the first place. For a wholesaler, retail rebates of course mean a greater volume, but the process can largely be automated.
But your company manages to do the work required to sell the item in the first place, and it doesn't take you weeks to process those orders, does it? Your comapny could process rebates as quickly, if it had teh will to do so. But it's to the company's advantage to make the rebate process as inconvenient as it feasibly can., to discourage rebates and to keep earning interest on the money it eventually must rebate.
So don't tell me it's too hard: if you can sell the product in the first place, you can also do the rebate efficient. You choose not to, and so I choose not to do be taken in by rebates.
So, like, the ACM committee talked to Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman over a teletypewriter and were convinced that all three were human?
Or does this mean that each of the three are, at any one time, in only of of a finite number of possible states, and can compute any computable function with their (poissibly infinite length) tapes?
Publishers should hire college geeks to proof code
The original K & R C guide was legendary for it's coding errors.
Perhaps slashdot posters should hire college English majors to proofread their posts.
Let's face it, we all make mistkaes, even K&R. But The C Programming Language, has been continuously read and referenced by newbie and experienced coders alike since 1978 -- for twenty-five years.
Apparently it's legendary for more than just what you dismiss as "coding errors".
Slashdot Mirror
A simple thing like FTP for example, to update our websites.
FileZilla, GPL'd, I think.
Webcam, I agree, hard to find free & decent win32 programms.
You must think I am some teen perv out for cybersex.
/. then?!?
You aren't? What are you doing on
Relax, my post was (mostly) a joke.
MUDs have been diminishing in number, especially lately. Why are they all quitting...?
Because with Yahoo chatrooms and IRC, you can get all the cyber-lovin' you want, without the pretense and baggage of "character classes", "gold pieces", and "elves."
Oh, ok, except that I expect there are a lot of disappointed elf fetishists sitting in their mothers' basements, fondling their, uh, "miniatures".
Yep, it lends a whole new meaning to "Dungeon Master".
This does add another layer of protection, but it has some drawbnacks.
.
/., I know the njokes I've set myself up for)? Will I nbe able to log in at all?
I'm typing this on my Zaurus; the nnnnn key is hypersennnsitive, as you may have noticed by now.
I can switch to another input method, like the on-screen software keyboard, as I am now, but the timings are completely different. If I switch to the "handwriting", as now, you'd have to clock penstrokes, again totally different.
What about logging in remotely over a buffered or burst-y connection? You might be able to (roughly) time keystrokes, bnut not key-ups or key-downs (I'm nnback to the keyboard, see the extra "n"s?)
Even worse, what if I innnjure my finger or hand (yeah, it's
With a password, as long as one finger works well enough to nhunt and peck, I can log in. With your method, I've got to nbe in the same physical shape, possibly as awake, as relaxed, etc. as when I recorded the password. Not to mention it's a pain to record a password 20 times.
However, I think your method does have a use; its drawbacks as a general password system makes it perhaps useful for other purposes: it is an innexpensive (i.e software only) way to deternmine that the user is in substantially the same state of health and mind as when the password was recorded.
This might make it a decent way to deny access to users under duress. I should note that users under duress might well be harmed when they cannnot make the password work, so it probnably should only be used to protect access the user considers more valuable than his own life.
Constitution?? Didn't that burn up a couple of years ago. Seems I heard something about a fire at the National Archive......
Fire at the National Archives? No, you're thinking of the fire at the Reichstag. It was set by some Moslem.
Moslems are a great threat to the State and the Volk. We need a strong Fuhrer, unencumbered by such sentimental twaddle as "Constitutions" or "Rights" or "Opposition Parties", to fight the perfidious Moslem.
Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Fuhrer!
Just open it in a chamber full of N2....
Then cover it with a layer of clear acrylic spray.
Thanks a lot, you insensitive clod! Now you've gone and made nitrogen and clear coat illegal circumvention technologies under the DMCA.
Now only criminals will have nitrogen and clear coat.
And I use them everday for, uh, um, medical reasons.
The way they trick women, and use the lure of money to get them to do things they didn't want to do, it's sickening and depraved.
Yeah, my boss uses the "lure of money" to get me to do things I don't want to do, too -- like getting up in the morning and putting up with chickenshit and coding in java.
Seems that for the girls of porn, keeping their sex lives private isn't worth as much to them as easy money. They could always get a job at McDonald's. Their choice. Not mine, not yours.
Unless a research team has developed an AI that can DM as well as a human, this may be D&D in name but not in spirit. The main thing I like about D&D is being able to be creative. For example, are all of the ways a flask of oil can be used going to be programmed into the system?
/.'er, how exactly did your, uh, Dungeon Master, uh, creatively use that flask of oil?
Ok
Was your character's name, oh, I dunno, Goatse Man?
Isn't your Paper & Paychecks reference directly lifted from an old What's New with Phil & Dixie? comic strip [that ran in Dragon magazine] ... ?
Actually, I don't know if it was What's New with Phil & Dixie?, but it was a cartoon in Dragon magazine.
I was hoping somebody would get the allusion. Thanks.
I think I'll keep playing "Paper & Paychecks".
Like an online role-playing game, P&P keeps me in front on a computer 10 hours a day, and it doesn't cost $29.95 a month.
Actually, playing "Paper & Paychecks", I get paid real US dollars to do the same sort of mind-numbingly repetitive stuff that Everquest players do for the "love" of the game and a few "gold pieces".
There's a really good reason why TMDA is designed to run on mail servers as opposed to running on your local mail client machine. You can reasonably expect the mail server to be running up and available close to 24x7 whereas a personal machine might not
That's a good reason. But my desktop does run 24/7 (doing folding@home, motion detection, routing my handheld's wifi connection, acting as a jukebox).
Even if it did not, people don't (yet) expect instantaneous answeres to email. As I'd only challenge previously unknown emailers (and to whom I'd not sent email), it doesn't seem too much to ask Joe Doesn't Know Me to wait for his challenge as long as he'd wait for my answer. Yeah, then he has to pass the challenge, and it takes him perhaps twice as long to get a answer from me.
Well, it's actually a better deal for Joe than presently, where if I'm not sure of an email, chances are it goes into the bit bucket unread.
I'd install it myself, as a proxy MTA, but it's not a Mail Transfer Agent; instead it requires one to use one of a particular set of MTA.
In short, there's not way to use it under Windows or even cygwin (as far as I can tell).
I wrote much of a TMDA, but never completed it, as a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook -- I abandoned that project when I decided it should be wriiten as an extension of an SMTP/POP3 proxy. (And I wrote it first as a Visual Basic "macro" before I understood how to add plugins written in C++ to Outlook; that was the antithesis of fun.)
I was unable to find an open source SMTP/POP3 proxy that runs under both Windows and linux -- I've looked, but what I've found has been either for Windows but not linux or vice versa, or SMTP but not POP3 or vice versa. The one thing I've found is Hamster, which is quality software, but written in Delphi, and it doesn't run under linux.
Basically, I'll use a TMDA as soon as I can run it myself, under Windows -- or the OS of my choice.
The TMDA softweare currently available seems to be aimed at ISPs, and this seems to be a political decision of the TMDA software authors.
It probably makes some sense, in the long term battle against spam, to keep it off the desktop so as to put pressure on ISPs to install it, but it sure doesn't make it easy for me to use.
List<Foo> list = new ArrayList<Foo>();
; ;
; ;
list.add( myFoo );
Foo otherFoo = list.get( 0 );
The compiler will interpret the second and third lines as if they said:
list.add( (Foo)myFoo );
Foo otherFoo = (Foo)list.get( 0 );
But if a List<Foo> is-a List, I can do this:
List<Object> haha = (List<Object>) list
haha.add( new String( "haha!" )
If I can cast a "typesafe" list, it's not really that typesafe; imagine that I don't do this maliciously, but do it inside some called function in an object, MyCollections, which is like java.util.Collections:
MyCollections.reverseAndAppend( List l ) {
java.util.Collections.reverse( l )
l.add( "This this was reversed" )
}
On the other hand, if the compiler enforces the rule that a List<Foo> is-NOT-a List, all of a sudden I can't pass it to any function that takes a List, either mine or in the Java standard library.
C++, for code size efficiency reasons, has a common base class for templated container classes, but the base class is privately inheirited, so that outside of the class, users can't cast it to the base class. In other words, the implementation is inheirited, but the interface is not. That's not a problem for C++, because functions are templated too.
Even if Java templates functions too, the problem remains: functions written pre-template either can't take a templated List -- and the functionality must be re-written --, or they get it cast to List<Object> and can violate its contract.
Sure, they have paperless toilets. It's called a bidei.
/. needs to know how to spell bidet.
And it's spelled bidet.
But no one on
After all, what self-respecting geek would actually go looking for something that aids personal hygiene? It's tough enough to get them to shower.
And whose mother would actually install a bidet in her basement?
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for spelling "voila" correctly
No, no, it's spelled viola. Like viol, or violin.
As in, "Voilà! I finally played Eine Kleine Nachtmusik correctly on my viola!"
My girlfriend's mom wrote some of the first conversions of actuarial tables to mainframe, from books, in the 1950s and 1960s (all done w/ punch cards and machine language, of course) at a life insurance company in Mass. The company was still running a lot of her orgininal code when she retired a couple of years ago.
/.'ers don't have girlfriends.
This is obviously an apocryphal story.
Who can spot the inconsistancy that gives this fakery away?
Exactly.
We all know
I allready have a material like that, but it isn't a metal. (Well it can feel like one)
Yeah.
I guess the difference is, this miracle metal will have a use.
And outside of your Mom's basement, no less.
: )
Bugs -- wireless eveasdropping devices -- that never need their batteries replaced.
Make them voiced activated. Put one every x meters. Have each "chain" the data it picks up, encrypted in a low-power radio burst, to the previous one in the chain, until the data reaches back to your recorder or cell phone or higher-powered transmitter.
Now say hi to Big Brother, or Industrial Spy, or Suspicious Husband.
Actually, funny you should bring that up at all. Yesterday, I was in Barnes and Noble and came across one of Stephen Hawking's audio books on CD, and it's HIM reading it using his voice synthesizer, for the whole damned book.
/dev/audio.in
You really think a world-class physicist sat there and transcribed his book through his synthesizer? Yeah, I'm sure Hawking's got a lot of time on his hands. And it's so weasy to read your book and poke at the keys of your synthesizer with a pen held in your mouth.
More likely, he can feed teh synthesizer and arbitrary text he wants, along the lines of:
cat mybook.full.txt | synthesizer |
I don't know what they are doing, but one example would be for someone to go through the text and add in markers for how the computer should say things (angry, loud, etc), so you get the right inflections and voices etc.
If you're willing to do this, why not just read it into a microphone. Yes, Joe Blow isn't going to sound like Larry Olivier, BU TIT... <inflection="emphasis"> MUST BEE </inflection=monotone> BET TER THAN A SYN THE SIZED VOICE.
Or, better, just convince a starving actor / voice-over announcer that it's a great way to get free exposure in bewtween auditions and that waiter job that pays the rent.
but these fonts are really boring.
is there something Im missing ?
Boring fonts make for good reading. I want to notice what I'm reading means, not the letters with which it is displayed.
Non-boring also means distrating, busy, and in-your-face.
it isn't as if you can just send out a bunch of cheques. There are many steps involved in fulfilling a rebate
While there certainly is administrative record-keeping required to process rebates, it can't be much more than admini-trivia required to sell items in the first place. For a wholesaler, retail rebates of course mean a greater volume, but the process can largely be automated.
But your company manages to do the work required to sell the item in the first place, and it doesn't take you weeks to process those orders, does it? Your comapny could process rebates as quickly, if it had teh will to do so. But it's to the company's advantage to make the rebate process as inconvenient as it feasibly can., to discourage rebates and to keep earning interest on the money it eventually must rebate.
So don't tell me it's too hard: if you can sell the product in the first place, you can also do the rebate efficient. You choose not to, and so I choose not to do be taken in by rebates.
Inventors of RSA win Turing Award
So, like, the ACM committee talked to Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman over a teletypewriter and were convinced that all three were human?
Or does this mean that each of the three are, at any one time, in only of of a finite number of possible states, and can compute any computable function with their (poissibly infinite length) tapes?
Don't be taking away my grey goo!
Publishers should hire college geeks to proof code
The original K & R C guide was legendary for it's coding errors.
Perhaps slashdot posters should hire college English majors to proofread their posts.
Let's face it, we all make mistkaes, even K&R. But The C Programming Language, has been continuously read and referenced by newbie and experienced coders alike since 1978 -- for twenty-five years.
Apparently it's legendary for more than just what you dismiss as "coding errors".