I bet you forgot to tell them to check the 'remember this answer' box first, so it came up 100 times a day for the applications you forgot to manually allow.
Hrm. I, on the other hand, consider outgoing connection blocking to be pretty much the best thing about software firewalls. As long as I don't already have insecure software on my system waiting for an inbound connection, I'm always prompted before a program's allowed to connect out, or change it's executable. Which helps me achieve the former.
Until recently, I used KPF. However I recently switched to Sygate, and consider ZA to be better than KPF despite it's mediocre interface. Why? Not only is KPF's logging abysmal (apparently it doesn't know how to trim a logfile), but there're a ton of defined 'attacks' that have different priorities that you can't view the definitions for OR edit. Crap.
I have heard that Washington University in Saint Louis is getting quite close to making a useable ethanol fuel cell that could potentially power a laptop for a month.
So it could probably power a car for... 5 minutes?
less sturdy == lighter lighter == less energy needed less energy needed == fewer solar panels fewer solar panels == smaller car smaller car == lighter repeat until the car consists of nothing...
One of the wisest things Bush ever said was "The day you stop doing drugs, is the day you join the War against Terror."
Sounds like something Bush might say. But wise? It's just as dumb an overgeneralization as all his other rhetoric. The American Heritage Dictionary defines drug as "A substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease or as a component of a medication.", or "A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction.". Are you telling me that every time you buy your prescription Valium/Viagra/Paracetemol/Aspirin/Prozac, you're helping to fund terrorism? Bullshit, they're produced by commercial Western companies.
Perhaps you meant 'narcotics', but even that's dumb - I bet most cannabis isn't grown by terrorists/evildoers.
But Ross Perot got 18.91% of the popular vote in the 1992 election and 8.40% in 1996, where he was running for the Reform party (see http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/. How far has that gone towards establishing a multi-party system??
Automobile ownership is HIGHLY HIGHLY OVERRATED. If I could get by without one, I would. I welcome mass transit with open arms.
I totally disagree. Without my car, I'd be screw. Royally. I live in a village in England, south-west England to be precise. Yes, that is one of the most over-populated areas in the *world*, so multiply this situation 100x for someone in, say, rural Australia. Yet, the public transport here is apalling. As in, one bus every HOUR to the nearest town. Without a car, I'd be without a job today unless I move to a town. Whatsmore, it's understandable that there is so little public transport here, as it'd be totally uneconomical and incredibly expensive to run lots of convenient public transport services. Cars allow people in villages/rural areas the *LIVE*, and I'm afraid people who make statements like the one you just made above strike me as selfish and ignorant.
Sure, bad drivers may have made driving worse, but the solution is to ban/punish more the bad drivers, not discourage everyone from driving.
I believe the answer would be because Slashdot only supports the lower 128 bits/characters of ASCII because the upper or extended 128 bits/characters are not standardized. Or rather, there are too many standards - hundreds of them - used by different people and countries to represent various different characters. Perhaps Slashdot should support the most common of them, ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), in which the code for the UK pound symbol is 163... but Unicode will probably be supported before that happens. In short, Slashdot sucks a bit.:-)
As an AC showed in reply to this thread, you can display the UK pound symbol using its HTML equivalent '£' - producing £.
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No, because I don't think the current growth can continue. The spam epidemic seems to be pretty close to its peak, people's internet connections maxed out can only send so much, and it looks like Windows is actually going to get more secure soon so I'm seeing thorny future for spam.
Le navigateur que vous utlisez ne vous permet de surfer sur ce site. Pour surfer sur ce site nous vous recommandons d'utiliser Internet Explorer comme navigateur.
Looks like they don't want you using anything but IE to access their rather shitty site. Going in with IE, I can tell you it doesn't seem like there are any Windows-only features there that would justify not accepting other browsers; just doubtless lazy web design. Good example of a site to quote when somebody asks you for a major site that is incompatible with non-IE browsers.
And the ads on the news sites are routinely filtered out by the selfish with ad-blocking software. So back to square 1, the sites want them to pay with information.
That would be pretty sucky, as the already-insane population density on Earth would increase massively further, and almost certainly collapse in on itself unless a large number of people could be relocated to another planet.
Seeing as this is as appropriate place as any to ask, I'll ask here...
A while ago, I'm sure someone on Slashdot showed me a way to search Google for *AN EXACT PHRASE*. No, I don't mean using speech marks, I mean whatever goddamn ASCII characters I enter are searched for. I have never found out how to do this again. So, say I wanted to search for the *string*: #irchelp efnet
or: 2^4^8
? Obviously Google would filter out characters like '#' usually and also ignore such characters in between words (Google defines a hell of a lot as whitespace). Whilst this is usually useful, there are times when I want to match an exact string, and nothing else. Any way to do it?
As the parent said, America is the only country in the world who is this prudish about sex (especially on TV)
I dunno. The UK seems about as bad if not worse to me, nipples (and usually most nudity) blocked out, and the fact that a huge number of people only watch terrestrial television still means that these channels have to be heavily regulated, ie. virtually zero sex. There was controversy recently about two of the participants on Big Brother being *heard* to have sex on TV, let alone being seen.
Ah yes. That would be the same grammar checker that prompts you to 'consider changing your change your sentence to use an active, not a passive, verb. This gives the sentence a more lively and persuasive tone.' Yeah, shame that I'm trying to express something, not petition for a change in the law.
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I bet you forgot to tell them to check the 'remember this answer' box first, so it came up 100 times a day for the applications you forgot to manually allow.
Well done.
Hrm. I, on the other hand, consider outgoing connection blocking to be pretty much the best thing about software firewalls. As long as I don't already have insecure software on my system waiting for an inbound connection, I'm always prompted before a program's allowed to connect out, or change it's executable. Which helps me achieve the former.
Any windows user with even a hint of clue would unbind Netbios from their internet facing card.
How are you defining 'hint of a clue'?
Until recently, I used KPF. However I recently switched to Sygate, and consider ZA to be better than KPF despite it's mediocre interface. Why? Not only is KPF's logging abysmal (apparently it doesn't know how to trim a logfile), but there're a ton of defined 'attacks' that have different priorities that you can't view the definitions for OR edit. Crap.
I have heard that Washington University in Saint Louis is getting quite close to making a useable ethanol fuel cell that could potentially power a laptop for a month.
So it could probably power a car for... 5 minutes?
In the USA, I'd say those costs are greatly reduced. This is why living in suburbia is more popular.
And by the same token:
less sturdy == lighter
lighter == less energy needed
less energy needed == fewer solar panels
fewer solar panels == smaller car
smaller car == lighter
repeat until the car consists of nothing...
One of the wisest things Bush ever said was "The day you stop doing drugs, is the day you join the War against Terror."
Sounds like something Bush might say. But wise? It's just as dumb an overgeneralization as all his other rhetoric. The American Heritage Dictionary defines drug as "A substance used in the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a disease or as a component of a medication.", or "A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction.". Are you telling me that every time you buy your prescription Valium/Viagra/Paracetemol/Aspirin/Prozac, you're helping to fund terrorism? Bullshit, they're produced by commercial Western companies.
Perhaps you meant 'narcotics', but even that's dumb - I bet most cannabis isn't grown by terrorists/evildoers.
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But Ross Perot got 18.91% of the popular vote in the 1992 election and 8.40% in 1996, where he was running for the Reform party (see http://www.uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/. How far has that gone towards establishing a multi-party system??
Automobile ownership is HIGHLY HIGHLY OVERRATED. If I could get by without one, I would. I welcome mass transit with open arms.
I totally disagree. Without my car, I'd be screw. Royally. I live in a village in England, south-west England to be precise. Yes, that is one of the most over-populated areas in the *world*, so multiply this situation 100x for someone in, say, rural Australia. Yet, the public transport here is apalling. As in, one bus every HOUR to the nearest town. Without a car, I'd be without a job today unless I move to a town. Whatsmore, it's understandable that there is so little public transport here, as it'd be totally uneconomical and incredibly expensive to run lots of convenient public transport services. Cars allow people in villages/rural areas the *LIVE*, and I'm afraid people who make statements like the one you just made above strike me as selfish and ignorant.
Sure, bad drivers may have made driving worse, but the solution is to ban/punish more the bad drivers, not discourage everyone from driving.
WHY is the pound symbol banned from /. ?
:-)
I believe the answer would be because Slashdot only supports the lower 128 bits/characters of ASCII because the upper or extended 128 bits/characters are not standardized. Or rather, there are too many standards - hundreds of them - used by different people and countries to represent various different characters. Perhaps Slashdot should support the most common of them, ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), in which the code for the UK pound symbol is 163... but Unicode will probably be supported before that happens. In short, Slashdot sucks a bit.
As an AC showed in reply to this thread, you can display the UK pound symbol using its HTML equivalent '£' - producing £.
No, because I don't think the current growth can continue. The spam epidemic seems to be pretty close to its peak, people's internet connections maxed out can only send so much, and it looks like Windows is actually going to get more secure soon so I'm seeing thorny future for spam.
Le navigateur que vous utlisez ne vous permet de surfer sur ce site.
Pour surfer sur ce site nous vous recommandons d'utiliser Internet Explorer comme navigateur.
Looks like they don't want you using anything but IE to access their rather shitty site. Going in with IE, I can tell you it doesn't seem like there are any Windows-only features there that would justify not accepting other browsers; just doubtless lazy web design. Good example of a site to quote when somebody asks you for a major site that is incompatible with non-IE browsers.
And the ads on the news sites are routinely filtered out by the selfish with ad-blocking software. So back to square 1, the sites want them to pay with information.
That would be pretty sucky, as the already-insane population density on Earth would increase massively further, and almost certainly collapse in on itself unless a large number of people could be relocated to another planet.
I guess you just have to hope you don't collide with a comet/planet :-)
Yeah, because Slashdot is really qualified to be commenting on useful features...
Seeing as this is as appropriate place as any to ask, I'll ask here...
A while ago, I'm sure someone on Slashdot showed me a way to search Google for *AN EXACT PHRASE*. No, I don't mean using speech marks, I mean whatever goddamn ASCII characters I enter are searched for. I have never found out how to do this again. So, say I wanted to search for the *string*:
#irchelp efnet
or:
2^4^8
? Obviously Google would filter out characters like '#' usually and also ignore such characters in between words (Google defines a hell of a lot as whitespace). Whilst this is usually useful, there are times when I want to match an exact string, and nothing else. Any way to do it?
Firebird? What's Firebird? We are at war with Firefox. We have always been at war with Firefox.
Ooh, can I get an upgrade please? My name is Devils0wn Smith.
Segway offcourse has larger obstacles to handle than price.
Yep. Like stairs.
More anecdotal evidence:
I'm male, and have a foreskin, and have never had any serious foreskin problems. And I'm damn glad I'm NOT circumcised.
See how useless anecdotal evidence is?
As the parent said, America is the only country in the world who is this prudish about sex (especially on TV)
I dunno. The UK seems about as bad if not worse to me, nipples (and usually most nudity) blocked out, and the fact that a huge number of people only watch terrestrial television still means that these channels have to be heavily regulated, ie. virtually zero sex. There was controversy recently about two of the participants on Big Brother being *heard* to have sex on TV, let alone being seen.
Ah yes. That would be the same grammar checker that prompts you to 'consider changing your change your sentence to use an active, not a passive, verb. This gives the sentence a more lively and persuasive tone.' Yeah, shame that I'm trying to express something, not petition for a change in the law.