Principal of evil? WTF type of FUD Is that. There is need in the computing world for secured/trusted computing, its called businesses. I sure as hell want my servers to run only code that is signed by my company. Not only with my company but for companies I do business with. I want my bank with most secure system out there
This shit ain't going to take off in consumer side of things. I sure as hell wouldn't buy one for home use.
Its filter bypass bug in hotmail and yahoo, its not exploiting anything. If you allow people to write content to your webpage, you better filter the for html,javacsript etc especially with javascript where I could programatically go through all the elements on webpage and send it back to me be it mozilla or ie.
I still want to know how they would get username/password with javascript. Only way I could think of is to write my own fake loggin screen.
Yawn, didn't slashdot predict that ipod mini's weren't gonna sell. From what i head they are sold out. Geeks don't matter plain and simple. Why market to 0.001% of the population, when marketing to grandmother and mom is 30% of the population. My mom doesn't care that her cell phone can be hacked up neither does my dad, my aunt, my uncle, my sister.
Not mention when you start allowing people to hack with things, they start breaking things. Which costs money to support. Prime example is chipping your car. Over boost the super and blow it and the car is under warranty. The car company is gonna have to pay. I know people who've done that, just remove the chip before taking it into servicing.
I think it was bad business decissions that made them go broke. Had nothing to do whether or not they allowed people to hack their products. Giving away free hardware and trying to sell a subscription service is plain stupid. If they allowed people to hack their product, people wouldn't have bought service.
If we don't know who supplied the bomb/bomb material too the terrorists, there is no way we can hold a country accountable. If we didn't finger print bombs, pakistan or any other nuclear capable country could supply a terrorist group with a bomb without any fear of retaliation.
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Umm problem is that ICBMs aren't a big threat to the US. The problem is some guy packing a oversize suitcase bomb that some country supplied him with. ICMBs its easy to track who launched it, we have Norad. We could even possibly shoot them out of the sky.
Koran says god protects Mecca and it cannot be destroyed.
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I guess its a good deal. They used to give them away for free, i got mine free 2 years ago. I mean there isn't really anything complicated about directivo, its lot simpler than a regular tivo since it doesn't have to compress the video stream. So your paying $100 for a 40 gig hard drive, directv units already come with decoding chip,modem, case,remote and they them give away.
I also guess paying $5 a month for service is good too, because... hmm.. I can't answer that. I mean they send your view habits back to tivo who in returns sell it to marketers. The guide that tivo uses is already provided by directv, software upgades are sent on free channels and not through modem like standalone tivo's.
There is a reason why we have secret balloting. Otherwise you could easily be forced by your job, or other person/entity to vote for the candidates they want because now they know who you vote for.
Imagine in the future, being forced to show your voting reciept to your CVO(chief voting officer).
Reading books is declining but reading in general is going up. I know spend more time reading magazine and newspaper articles on the internet then I do watching tv.
If that was the case, Apple system 8.5 would have been priceless. I remember many times browsing the web with netscape 1.1 while writing a paper and having netscape crash, sometimes I was lucky and could type "G F" in the debug window but the most time it trashed the systems memeory requiring a reboot. Those were the days.
Today nothing ever crashes, my work box has uptime of two weeks(win2k), our servers(solaris and red hat linux) never go down along with our sql servers(win2k server). If you getting crashes, i'd point fingers at hardware. I've had problems in the past with bad hardware(VIA Chipset + Creative Labs SB Live) or bad hardware drivers(VIA chipset before 4 in 1 drivers).
Most new cars have sensors to detect if your sitting in the front seats, notice the seat belt light if someone is sitting in the passenger seat without their seat belts buckled. Most new cars have inertial sensors for advanced traction control, which are used to detect yaw,pitch and direction of vehicle etc. It could be easily used to tell if the car is rocking and no one is in the front seat. Hell you could use the climate control thermastat to detect if the car is heating up.
If : is omitted, the port defaults to 80. No user name or password is allowed. is an HTTP selector, and is a query string. The is optional, as is the and its preceding "?". If neither nor is present, the "/" may also be omitted.
They are conforming to the RFC. Username/Password is a hack. First people complain that IE doesn't follow RFC, and when they do, you still fucking complain.
Most of these acts stem from MS bundling IE with Windows. People claim this was anticompetive, but what was the actual outcome of this? We have free web browsers, the goal for netscape was to charge for it. They even sold their browser at the local compusa's and other stores. We have a bunch of browsers to pick from, Mozilla, Opera, etc. Netscape/AOL found it wasn't profitable to keep maintaining netscape and Open source it hence we have mozilla which is arguably the best web browser on the market. If the OS came with no browser, how would you expect people to be able to download whatever browser they wanted? The command line version ftp is really too complicated for mom and dad to figure out. People would be shelling out money for an internet pack or installing AOL cds. Thats a loss for the consumer.
If you read many of the Microsoft biographies, you'll read stuff talking about how Gates was heavily into speeding everywhere he went, and was constantly being fined and given tickets. He even ended up in jail for it, which is where the infamous Bill Gates in jail picture came from.
Too bad thats is pure FUD, because in washington if you get 3 Tickets in 1 year, your license is going to get suspended. Driving with a suspended license is a gross misdeamanor( up to year in jail) and also means you can't get insurance. Getting 2 tickets in 1 month in washington state, can also lead to a suspended license if you don't do driving school.
I totally agree, directivo is much better than cable + tivo. It can record two streams at once while you watch a recorded show. It saves the raw MPEG stream so it doesnt' need an encoder which means directv is giving them away. Only thing I wish it had was Picture in Picture like the Microsoft Ultimate TV.
My girlfriend has adelphia cable since she lives in condo without a southern exposure. On their digital cable package, they use pop up adds when you change the channel and 1/3 of the guide screen is reserved for ads. Its an insult since you paying extra digital cable for them to advertise on your tv.
The myth about satellite tv going out in bad weather is pure bullshit, my girlfriends cable goes out when it poors down rain( though not that often since I live in LA), I'd assume its flooding something and causing a short. And funny thing is my satellite reception is still perfect. I even called up cable company and told them that her cable was out, and that my dish was still working. The CSR said "I know. Thats why I have a dish too".
Only time cable is worth while is if there is overbuilder cable company serving your area. There was study showing that rates where 25% or higher cheaper than if the cable company had no competition.
One way to prevent signal loss in bad weather is to put the dish under some sort overhead shelter(not blocking the line of sight to the satellite). The dish seems to have issues when it has water on it, be it snow or rain. If you can keep the dish free of snow or rain, you shouldn't have any problems with reception.
Thats what I was thinking, Spraying something like shelac or flex coat on it. I wish they sold them where I lived, would be worth investigating. $7 $20, and should be perfectly legal(ie: I can resell it).
On another note, does anyone know exactly what they're deleting here?
Web Browser Cache, Baja Men mp3 collection,Paris Hilton Video(in hopes to get a new one where the guy knows how to light a scene), and Spam from their mail client
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Your lucky you don't have adelphia digital cable which has popup ads when you switch channels. And the guide is usless because over 1/3 of it is ads.
This shit ain't going to take off in consumer side of things. I sure as hell wouldn't buy one for home use.
I still want to know how they would get username/password with javascript. Only way I could think of is to write my own fake loggin screen.
Yawn, didn't slashdot predict that ipod mini's weren't gonna sell. From what i head they are sold out. Geeks don't matter plain and simple. Why market to 0.001% of the population, when marketing to grandmother and mom is 30% of the population. My mom doesn't care that her cell phone can be hacked up neither does my dad, my aunt, my uncle, my sister.
Not mention when you start allowing people to hack with things, they start breaking things. Which costs money to support. Prime example is chipping your car. Over boost the super and blow it and the car is under warranty. The car company is gonna have to pay. I know people who've done that, just remove the chip before taking it into servicing.
I think it was bad business decissions that made them go broke. Had nothing to do whether or not they allowed people to hack their products. Giving away free hardware and trying to sell a subscription service is plain stupid. If they allowed people to hack their product, people wouldn't have bought service.
If we don't know who supplied the bomb/bomb material too the terrorists, there is no way we can hold a country accountable. If we didn't finger print bombs, pakistan or any other nuclear capable country could supply a terrorist group with a bomb without any fear of retaliation.
Umm problem is that ICBMs aren't a big threat to the US. The problem is some guy packing a oversize suitcase bomb that some country supplied him with. ICMBs its easy to track who launched it, we have Norad. We could even possibly shoot them out of the sky.
Koran says god protects Mecca and it cannot be destroyed.
I also guess paying $5 a month for service is good too, because... hmm.. I can't answer that. I mean they send your view habits back to tivo who in returns sell it to marketers. The guide that tivo uses is already provided by directv, software upgades are sent on free channels and not through modem like standalone tivo's.
Imagine in the future, being forced to show your voting reciept to your CVO(chief voting officer).
Reading books is declining but reading in general is going up. I know spend more time reading magazine and newspaper articles on the internet then I do watching tv.
Today nothing ever crashes, my work box has uptime of two weeks(win2k), our servers(solaris and red hat linux) never go down along with our sql servers(win2k server). If you getting crashes, i'd point fingers at hardware. I've had problems in the past with bad hardware(VIA Chipset + Creative Labs SB Live) or bad hardware drivers(VIA chipset before 4 in 1 drivers).
Most new cars have sensors to detect if your sitting in the front seats, notice the seat belt light if someone is sitting in the passenger seat without their seat belts buckled. Most new cars have inertial sensors for advanced traction control, which are used to detect yaw,pitch and direction of vehicle etc. It could be easily used to tell if the car is rocking and no one is in the front seat. Hell you could use the climate control thermastat to detect if the car is heating up.
that video games reduce juvenile violence because it keeps them at home instead of out causing mischief.
If : is omitted, the port defaults to 80. No user name or password is allowed. is an HTTP selector, and is a query string. The is optional, as is the and its preceding "?". If neither nor is present, the "/" may also be omitted.
They are conforming to the RFC. Username/Password is a hack. First people complain that IE doesn't follow RFC, and when they do, you still fucking complain.
3.3. HTTP
The HTTP URL scheme is used to designate Internet resources accessible using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol).
The HTTP protocol is specified elsewhere. This specification only describes the syntax of HTTP URLs. An HTTP URL takes the form:
http://(host>):(port)/(path)?(searchpart)
where and are as described in Section 3.1. If : is omitted, the port defaults to 80. No user name or password is allowed.
Yawn... yeah they are really breaking RFC.
Most of these acts stem from MS bundling IE with Windows. People claim this was anticompetive, but what was the actual outcome of this? We have free web browsers, the goal for netscape was to charge for it. They even sold their browser at the local compusa's and other stores. We have a bunch of browsers to pick from, Mozilla, Opera, etc. Netscape/AOL found it wasn't profitable to keep maintaining netscape and Open source it hence we have mozilla which is arguably the best web browser on the market. If the OS came with no browser, how would you expect people to be able to download whatever browser they wanted? The command line version ftp is really too complicated for mom and dad to figure out. People would be shelling out money for an internet pack or installing AOL cds. Thats a loss for the consumer.
Too bad thats is pure FUD, because in washington if you get 3 Tickets in 1 year, your license is going to get suspended. Driving with a suspended license is a gross misdeamanor( up to year in jail) and also means you can't get insurance. Getting 2 tickets in 1 month in washington state, can also lead to a suspended license if you don't do driving school.
I totally agree, directivo is much better than cable + tivo. It can record two streams at once while you watch a recorded show. It saves the raw MPEG stream so it doesnt' need an encoder which means directv is giving them away. Only thing I wish it had was Picture in Picture like the Microsoft Ultimate TV. My girlfriend has adelphia cable since she lives in condo without a southern exposure. On their digital cable package, they use pop up adds when you change the channel and 1/3 of the guide screen is reserved for ads. Its an insult since you paying extra digital cable for them to advertise on your tv. The myth about satellite tv going out in bad weather is pure bullshit, my girlfriends cable goes out when it poors down rain( though not that often since I live in LA), I'd assume its flooding something and causing a short. And funny thing is my satellite reception is still perfect. I even called up cable company and told them that her cable was out, and that my dish was still working. The CSR said "I know. Thats why I have a dish too". Only time cable is worth while is if there is overbuilder cable company serving your area. There was study showing that rates where 25% or higher cheaper than if the cable company had no competition.
One way to prevent signal loss in bad weather is to put the dish under some sort overhead shelter(not blocking the line of sight to the satellite). The dish seems to have issues when it has water on it, be it snow or rain. If you can keep the dish free of snow or rain, you shouldn't have any problems with reception.
Billy, do you like movies about gladiators?
Microsoft announces securing windows is hard...
Coulda bought $21 billion worth of beer and returned the bottles and still would a made $900 million more money.
Thats what I was thinking, Spraying something like shelac or flex coat on it. I wish they sold them where I lived, would be worth investigating. $7 $20, and should be perfectly legal(ie: I can resell it).
Web Browser Cache, Baja Men mp3 collection,Paris Hilton Video(in hopes to get a new one where the guy knows how to light a scene), and Spam from their mail client