But wouldn't you by an XBox if you could usefully run Linux on it? You'd get a very cheap PC (sans keyboard/mouse/monitor) with the extra joy of knowing its really hurting MS selling you it! Get 'em back for those costly Office licences!!
There is someone, somewhere, who is sitting in front of their computer thinking...
Their mind has wandered...
SEX...
Sex with the (wo)man of their dreams...
oh, how wonderful life could be... but alas no, not for this poor soul. For they only have a tiny small penis.
And right then, at that very moment just as their dream is being crushed by their own insecurities, up pops Windows Messaging Service:
++ INCREASE THE SIZE OF YOUR PENIS!!!! ++
++ New pill adds 3 inches to your cock! ++
How right it would be for them at that moment, to give this poor poor person some hope in life?
So my question is "Who are we to judge the rights and wrongs of this 'Mass advertising/marketing/spamming' product; a product that might give hope to just one or two of the thousands of millions spammed?"
That said, personally I couldn't give a rats-arse about some spotty virgin geeks' lack of sex - but hey, SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE must actually buy these products. Find that person, kill them, and the whole spamming problem is solved! Surely?!!
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Lots of love, Zaiffy baby!
What exactly is illegal on the internet? I think port-scanning is a bit dodgy, but then no one would follow it up. But is it legal?
Next, is it legal to scan TCP ports 135-139 (or whatever they are)? If it is illegal, could you prosecute if the source address was (say) from an ISP in the US and therefore the user could likely be traced?
Not sure exactly where you draw the line though between genuine communications and hacking... I guess port numbers don't count for much given that more and more things will be hanging off of port 80 via SOAP.
I'll bet that Google DOES use meta tags. In preferences there's an option to filter explicit text and/or explicit images.
By all accounts, the best way to automatically detect a porn site would be to use meta tags!
Which makes you wonder why browsers don't provide features for parents to filter web sites based on meta tags? Instead they rely on ICRA etc that never really work 'cos not enough sites use them.
Equally, the imprisonment of Chris is just a process!... so the point here is???...
That said, if you take hacking as an example of an illegal activity, then thats pretty abstract. One person sat infront of a device we know as a "PeeCee" can tap away on the "keeeybooard" and click away on the "mowse" and get paid for it, and another might get thrown in prison. The only difference is the sequence in which they both operated this "PC" machine thing.
Imagine explaining that to someone 100 years ago.
Image what we might loose our liberty for doing 100 years in the future!!
--
~I've got what it takes to take what you've got~
I don't think you can compare sentences like that. Sentences are presumably meant to protect society from an "evil do'er" and perhaps to rehabilitate said evil do'er.
Its also true that sentances will change as society changes and as circumstances dictate. So in time of war (for example), an act of theft might be dealt with more harshly than in peace time.
So if we took an example of a seriously screwed up serial killer who not only kills, but kills in a most unimaginably horrible way and lets say they get sentenced to 200 years, would someone who gets sentenced to 2 years (for robbery lets say) have commmited a crime 1% as heinous. Probably not - but that doesn't mean that 2yrs for this robbery wasn't appropriate, so comparison is kind of pointless.
As regards the purpose of sentencing, in the example of the serial killer, this is to protect society. The dude ain't getting out, but I'm guessing here, that the length of this sentence probably won't make any difference to any future serial killers... they wont "think twice before becoming a serial killer"! Conversely, robbery is a crime that might be sentenced with regard to detering future robberies.
Without a doubt, Chris's 33 month sentence is being handed down with the intention of detering "software theft". Yep, I think its crap, but then again society must live within its own rules. As an individual living in a democracy you have the opportunity to influence what those rules are.
--
~I've got what it takes to take what you've got~
I might be wrong here, but I believe SP1 will "patch" a hacked copy of XP so that it is no longer hacked. Therefore, it will behave like a fresh install and will require a valid key to be entered within the time-limit. "You have 20 seconds to comply!"
Or 3 days I think it is now! Whatever - so, no your data isn't trashed, but you'd presumably have to move your data somewhere, fdisk, and re-install your hacked copy within the 3 day limit and forget about being able to use SP1.
I suppose the issue then is that you don't get the benefit of the security patches, but I think (at the moment) you can obtain the individual security fixes and apply them manually.
Alternatively, someone will likely release a cracked SP1 I guess?
No you've misunderstood. Beagle2 is on a mission to find previous Mars probes! There's the Vikings, everyone has heard about those, but there's loads of other ones that just smashed into the martian surface so there's plenty to discover.
Its all documented on the Beagle web site... if anyone had bothered to check!
other than the joking reference I saw in a comic book where life had just formed on Mars, and the creature raised its appendage for the first time, only to have a Terran probe with "Search for Martian Life" painted on the side land on it and squash it.
Thats why Beagle2 lands on Mars encased in a bouncy foot-ball. This has been specifically designed not to hurt the heads of martian creatures. Man - am I the only person who's read up on all the design details?!
The Beagle design team truely have thought of everything - it even has a button on it that makes it turn to jam!! (this will only make sense if you're into Eddie Izzard)
Funtional programming is a total git! I've been subjected to it in XSLT and its not a great experience.
I'm guessing the reason why you suggest it would be good for adding dynamic functionality is the same as why it was chosen for XSLT; so that parts of the page can be rendered without having to re-execute/re-render everything. I can understand that, but I can better see the benefits of using a light *scripting* language - i.e. typeless and easy to code.
So my question is, how would using an FP language benefit a browser?
This is all from memory, but I seem to recall when one of the probes (sorry, can't remember which one) was passing Saturn, the motors on its camera jammed. At the time there was speculation as to the cause, e.g. something hitting it or something. Anyway, they recreated the fault on an Earth based double and it was due (I think) to moving the camera about too much and it over heating or something?
Anyway, at the time you think, oh well, shows over. But no - they fixed it!! They did this (again, from memory so the details are sketchy) by running up the nuclear thingum and moving the camera motors such as they could - the heat from the reactor was enough to free the motors up.
Admitadly this all sounds a bit sus. now that I'm forced to write what I remember!!! (I must've been about 8yrs old or something).
Can anyone remember this in "real-actual-facts-o-memory"?
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Does anyone know where there are some decent pictures of an Apple case thats opened up?
I mean, we've all heard the propoganda (oh, the Nazi's did propoganda**), but I never actually see any pictures of an Apple with all of its guts hanging out. So to speak!
The problem with requiring a pass phrase is that people need to then remember it. And they won't.
Second, if I want email from certain companies (and I do) then they won't remember it.
So... I'd get email from no one! (re-thinks.... oh yeah, it DOES work!:P)
This is fantastic - I'm only irritated that I didn't think of it myself!
It would be absolutely brilliant if ISP's started to offer this as standard. This could make SPAM non-profitable its that cool. To address the (only possible?) issue of automated bots responding to the fixed structure, the ISP just needs to change the layout frequently, but this is simple.
The big benefit of ISP's running this is that it removes the latency between your TMDA software collecting mail and responding - this is a big deal if you're on a dialup & only collect once a day I'd guess.
Sooo, a call to arms - everyone who is pissed with SPAM, lobby your ISP to provide this software!
Oh and call it the "Zaiff Urgulbunger" movement. (that last part is particularly important)!
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But wouldn't you by an XBox if you could usefully run Linux on it? You'd get a very cheap PC (sans keyboard/mouse/monitor) with the extra joy of knowing its really hurting MS selling you it! Get 'em back for those costly Office licences!!
There is someone, somewhere, who is sitting in front of their computer thinking...
Their mind has wandered...
SEX...
Sex with the (wo)man of their dreams...
oh, how wonderful life could be... but alas no, not for this poor soul. For they only have a tiny small penis.
And right then, at that very moment just as their dream is being crushed by their own insecurities, up pops Windows Messaging Service:
++ INCREASE THE SIZE OF YOUR PENIS!!!! ++
++ New pill adds 3 inches to your cock! ++
How right it would be for them at that moment, to give this poor poor person some hope in life?
So my question is "Who are we to judge the rights and wrongs of this 'Mass advertising/marketing/spamming' product; a product that might give hope to just one or two of the thousands of millions spammed?"
That said, personally I couldn't give a rats-arse about some spotty virgin geeks' lack of sex - but hey, SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE must actually buy these products. Find that person, kill them, and the whole spamming problem is solved! Surely?!!
---
Lots of love, Zaiffy baby!
What exactly is illegal on the internet? I think port-scanning is a bit dodgy, but then no one would follow it up. But is it legal?
Next, is it legal to scan TCP ports 135-139 (or whatever they are)? If it is illegal, could you prosecute if the source address was (say) from an ISP in the US and therefore the user could likely be traced?
Not sure exactly where you draw the line though between genuine communications and hacking... I guess port numbers don't count for much given that more and more things will be hanging off of port 80 via SOAP.
Would it help me with my plan to insult every intelligent being in the universe?
And will it let me do it in alphabetical order?
One would imagine it would work best if the "listening" process can be automated. Oh, and if you are able to track people/cars between cells.
I don't see how much practical use it can be though given how poor the data would be as opposed to (say) using a pair of binoculars to watch someone!
Don't let the fact these *suggestions* are at darwinawards.com put you off. ;P
Silver nitrate, magnesium, and a drop of water
Drink liquid nitrogen!
They're completely safe really - I found them in "honourable mentions" so they're not actual, proper, Darwins!
Erm, how about:
/apf
Which as any 1337 *nix head will immediately guess, stands for "Apf is similar to Program Files"!
but you'd think that after five years, the Slashdot bigwigs would have used a sensible *default* date/time format?
Perhaps?
I'll bet that Google DOES use meta tags. In preferences there's an option to filter explicit text and/or explicit images.
By all accounts, the best way to automatically detect a porn site would be to use meta tags!
Which makes you wonder why browsers don't provide features for parents to filter web sites based on meta tags? Instead they rely on ICRA etc that never really work 'cos not enough sites use them.
Meta tags CAN be useful - long live meta tags!
So what kind of money can they make then?
Just out of interest!
Equally, the imprisonment of Chris is just a process! ... so the point here is???...
That said, if you take hacking as an example of an illegal activity, then thats pretty abstract. One person sat infront of a device we know as a "PeeCee" can tap away on the "keeeybooard" and click away on the "mowse" and get paid for it, and another might get thrown in prison. The only difference is the sequence in which they both operated this "PC" machine thing.
Imagine explaining that to someone 100 years ago.
Image what we might loose our liberty for doing 100 years in the future!!
--
~I've got what it takes to take what you've got~
I don't think you can compare sentences like that. Sentences are presumably meant to protect society from an "evil do'er" and perhaps to rehabilitate said evil do'er.
Its also true that sentances will change as society changes and as circumstances dictate. So in time of war (for example), an act of theft might be dealt with more harshly than in peace time.
So if we took an example of a seriously screwed up serial killer who not only kills, but kills in a most unimaginably horrible way and lets say they get sentenced to 200 years, would someone who gets sentenced to 2 years (for robbery lets say) have commmited a crime 1% as heinous. Probably not - but that doesn't mean that 2yrs for this robbery wasn't appropriate, so comparison is kind of pointless.
As regards the purpose of sentencing, in the example of the serial killer, this is to protect society. The dude ain't getting out, but I'm guessing here, that the length of this sentence probably won't make any difference to any future serial killers... they wont "think twice before becoming a serial killer"! Conversely, robbery is a crime that might be sentenced with regard to detering future robberies.
Without a doubt, Chris's 33 month sentence is being handed down with the intention of detering "software theft". Yep, I think its crap, but then again society must live within its own rules. As an individual living in a democracy you have the opportunity to influence what those rules are.
--
~I've got what it takes to take what you've got~
I might be wrong here, but I believe SP1 will "patch" a hacked copy of XP so that it is no longer hacked. Therefore, it will behave like a fresh install and will require a valid key to be entered within the time-limit.
"You have 20 seconds to comply!"
Or 3 days I think it is now! Whatever - so, no your data isn't trashed, but you'd presumably have to move your data somewhere, fdisk, and re-install your hacked copy within the 3 day limit and forget about being able to use SP1.
I suppose the issue then is that you don't get the benefit of the security patches, but I think (at the moment) you can obtain the individual security fixes and apply them manually.
Alternatively, someone will likely release a cracked SP1 I guess?
I read somewhere that life on Earth evolved from contimination on a probe that landed here called Bagel2.
Wierd huh. Heh, I've just noticed... the name is kind of similar too! Heh!
No you've misunderstood. Beagle2 is on a mission to find previous Mars probes! There's the Vikings, everyone has heard about those, but there's loads of other ones that just smashed into the martian surface so there's plenty to discover.
Its all documented on the Beagle web site... if anyone had bothered to check!
other than the joking reference I saw in a comic book where life had just formed on Mars, and the creature raised its appendage for the first time, only to have a Terran probe with "Search for Martian Life" painted on the side land on it and squash it.
Thats why Beagle2 lands on Mars encased in a bouncy foot-ball. This has been specifically designed not to hurt the heads of martian creatures. Man - am I the only person who's read up on all the design details?!
The Beagle design team truely have thought of everything - it even has a button on it that makes it turn to jam!! (this will only make sense if you're into Eddie Izzard)
Z.
Funtional programming is a total git! I've been subjected to it in XSLT and its not a great experience.
I'm guessing the reason why you suggest it would be good for adding dynamic functionality is the same as why it was chosen for XSLT; so that parts of the page can be rendered without having to re-execute/re-render everything. I can understand that, but I can better see the benefits of using a light *scripting* language - i.e. typeless and easy to code.
So my question is, how would using an FP language benefit a browser?
...but it's classified?
Wouldn't it just be easier to not tell anyone that its slowing down?
This is all from memory, but I seem to recall when one of the probes (sorry, can't remember which one) was passing Saturn, the motors on its camera jammed. At the time there was speculation as to the cause, e.g. something hitting it or something. Anyway, they recreated the fault on an Earth based double and it was due (I think) to moving the camera about too much and it over heating or something? Anyway, at the time you think, oh well, shows over. But no - they fixed it!! They did this (again, from memory so the details are sketchy) by running up the nuclear thingum and moving the camera motors such as they could - the heat from the reactor was enough to free the motors up. Admitadly this all sounds a bit sus. now that I'm forced to write what I remember!!! (I must've been about 8yrs old or something). Can anyone remember this in "real-actual-facts-o-memory"?
Does anyone know where there are some decent pictures of an Apple case thats opened up?
I mean, we've all heard the propoganda (oh, the Nazi's did propoganda**), but I never actually see any pictures of an Apple with all of its guts hanging out. So to speak!
**[Joke - works best if you're into Eddie Izzard]
The problem with requiring a pass phrase is that people need to then remember it. And they won't. Second, if I want email from certain companies (and I do) then they won't remember it. So... I'd get email from no one! (re-thinks.... oh yeah, it DOES work! :P)
This is fantastic - I'm only irritated that I didn't think of it myself!
It would be absolutely brilliant if ISP's started to offer this as standard. This could make SPAM non-profitable its that cool.
To address the (only possible?) issue of automated bots responding to the fixed structure, the ISP just needs to change the layout frequently, but this is simple.
The big benefit of ISP's running this is that it removes the latency between your TMDA software collecting mail and responding - this is a big deal if you're on a dialup & only collect once a day I'd guess.
Sooo, a call to arms - everyone who is pissed with SPAM, lobby your ISP to provide this software!
Oh and call it the "Zaiff Urgulbunger" movement. (that last part is particularly important)!