Like leaves in the wind,
all my tabs vanished
- I'd closed the window!
It was a real pain, when I accidently clicked the wrong [X].
Bah humbug:)
like showing "relationship" links in a toolbar
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Hyatt Discusses Tabs
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There's a (W3C) Standard feature whereby you can define "top", "up", "previous", "next", "search" (and various other) links in a page's section - basically, a short list of related pages.
Browsers like mozilla can display these links in a toolbar above the tab bar, to allow easier navigation around a site. These are the pages that can also be preloaded by some browsers, so when you click on the "Up", "Next" or whatever button, you go instantly to that page (for sufficiently slow values of instantly).
The effect is elegant, but too large to fit within the margins of this input box!
adding value in the sense of not adding value
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World of Ends
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The collision between Anyone can improve it and Adding value to the Internet lowers its value goes away once you realise that Doc&Dave are using "Adding Value" in the sense of "not adding value at all, but changing things so that some stuff works better but the rest is worse".
It's Humpty Dumpty logic:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less."
"The question is, " said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty. "which is to be master--that's all."
Last week, Secret Service agents in New York arrested three men and seized 35,000 illegally copied music discs, 10,000 movies on DVD and 421 compact disc burners that are used to make the counterfeit products.
...and that the 421 CD burners were really only 156 "quite fast" drives, maybe there were only about 3,000 movies - just that some of them were very popular, and would have been watched by more than one person!
Hey... if we count extra features and multiple language soundtracks, there might only have been about 864 disks. And some of those movies might have been "longer than average", so...
If most of the spam really is coming from a small number of individuals, and most of Europe has outlawed spam or soon will (there's an EU directive on the way), then maybe the top few spammers should be extradited to whichever EU state has the harshest penal system, "pour encourager les autres", as Voltaire put it.
Really... I mean, that is the whole point to actually making an IMPROVED product, right... So it's an IMPROVEMENT over what was offered before?
Hmmm. Microsoft (and many other software producers) tend to improve by adding more features and reducing performance. So this is actually quite a revolutionary concept.
Of course, marketers will need to come up with something that sounds more impressive than "outperform the 2.4, at least in some instances".
> "The U.K.'s charity rules really aren't all that different from the U.S."
I don't know what the US rules are, but in the UK there are some limits on political activity by charities:
Although an organisation established for political purposes can never be a charity, the trustees of a charity may do some things of a political nature as a means of achieving the purposes of the charity...
It may not be as easy as all that to get round an XBox ban.
If MS are tracking both the MAC address and the serial number (and if they capture both at manufacture, or registration for the network) then to get past a ban you'd need to get a matching PAIR of numbers - that's a lot harder than just picking any valid serial no.
Even if they don't have that info for existing boxes, they WILL have the serial numbers, so they can treat old boxes more leniently -- at least until they grab the serial numberxmac address pair the next time each XBox is used on the network.
If there is a collision of serial number, they can invite the innocent and the "guilty" party to call an XP-style registration line where they can be lightly grilled and have their details taken before having their respective MAC addresses re-enabled. That way, if you ever forget to unmod your box before going on line, they know it's you.
And if registration is linked to your box serial number, you'll not just be able to pick a new one without losing your hard won scores / profiles / treasures or whatever.
Hopefully there is some reason why this won't work...
If you buy an XBox, you can do what you like with it - that's your right. By the same token, MS don't have to let you use it on their network.
Of course, even if they have been banned, suitably hacked XBoxen could presumably use local networks or maybe even the internet (for games with weak timing requirements). LAN party anyone?
...The resultant ICMP Time Exceeded replies are analyzed...
Nutshell summary: this uses an existing open TCP connection to run a traceroute through a firewall that would otherwise tell you to take off. I could certainly see this being useful.
If this works by causing ICMP time exceeded packets to be generated, a suitably paranoid firewall will drop the time exceeded responses just as readily as it would drop ICMP Echo responses from a normal traceroute.
scanrand: is encrypting and decrypting or digesting packets any more efficient than maintaining a state table? Is this just a RAM vs CPU tradeoff?
minewt - NIC listening in promiscuous mode... and you'd have to alternate the sending MAC address too... and not clash with anything else on the switch, to avoid ARP cache problems... Never tried that.
lc (read): kind of like tcpdump? low level debugging.
lc (write): I've used protocol testers - it's hard to keep links up, typing packet responses by hand... Not sure how you can interfere with normal communications more efficiently than a special purpose tool. To do general stuff, wouldn't you need the brain of a router, and the typing speed of some of those infinite monkeys (if you can distract them from working on Shakespeare's complete works)?
paratrace: I kind of see at the handwaving level how the "twisted packets" get out through the firewall. How does this make the intermediate systems in the stream emit responses (that actually make it back)?
phentropy: Cooler visualisation than nmapfe? I suppose you can use human image processing abilities to make sense of complex patterns? Failing that, it should look cool...
Must think about this later when I have more time...
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all my tabs vanished
- I'd closed the window!
It was a real pain, when I accidently clicked the wrong [X].
Bah humbug :)
Browsers like mozilla can display these links in a toolbar above the tab bar, to allow easier navigation around a site. These are the pages that can also be preloaded by some browsers, so when you click on the "Up", "Next" or whatever button, you go instantly to that page (for sufficiently slow values of instantly).
The effect is elegant, but too large to fit within the margins of this input box!
The code looks something like:
Was that what you were thinking of?
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It's Humpty Dumpty logic:
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Humpty Dumpty was wrong
If the laws that you've bought and paid for don't actually work like they're supposed to, does that mean you can get your money back?
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"say no to feeping creaturism"
Hey... if we count extra features and multiple language soundtracks, there might only have been about 864 disks. And some of those movies might have been "longer than average", so...
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(not sure what went wrong last time)
Now which country do we need to lobby...
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there's probably a submarine patent for that very thing crawling its way through the sewers of the US Patent Office even as we type :-(
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Hmmm. Microsoft (and many other software producers) tend to improve by adding more features and reducing performance. So this is actually quite a revolutionary concept.
Of course, marketers will need to come up with something that sounds more impressive than "outperform the 2.4, at least in some instances".
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Most of us?
I'm not sure that most of us read the threads on Kernel Notes... Many, perhaps... Some, maybe...
You overestimate us, I fear.
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If MS are tracking both the MAC address and the serial number (and if they capture both at manufacture, or registration for the network) then to get past a ban you'd need to get a matching PAIR of numbers - that's a lot harder than just picking any valid serial no.
Even if they don't have that info for existing boxes, they WILL have the serial numbers, so they can treat old boxes more leniently -- at least until they grab the serial number x mac address pair the next time each XBox is used on the network.
If there is a collision of serial number, they can invite the innocent and the "guilty" party to call an XP-style registration line where they can be lightly grilled and have their details taken before having their respective MAC addresses re-enabled. That way, if you ever forget to unmod your box before going on line, they know it's you.
And if registration is linked to your box serial number, you'll not just be able to pick a new one without losing your hard won scores / profiles / treasures or whatever.
Hopefully there is some reason why this won't work...
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Of course, even if they have been banned, suitably hacked XBoxen could presumably use local networks or maybe even the internet (for games with weak timing requirements). LAN party anyone?
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You can be as secure as you want to be.
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Interesting ideas, but i'm still kind of hazy....
scanrand: is encrypting and decrypting or digesting packets any more efficient than maintaining a state table? Is this just a RAM vs CPU tradeoff?
minewt - NIC listening in promiscuous mode... and you'd have to alternate the sending MAC address too... and not clash with anything else on the switch, to avoid ARP cache problems... Never tried that.
lc (read): kind of like tcpdump? low level debugging.
lc (write): I've used protocol testers - it's hard to keep links up, typing packet responses by hand... Not sure how you can interfere with normal communications more efficiently than a special purpose tool. To do general stuff, wouldn't you need the brain of a router, and the typing speed of some of those infinite monkeys (if you can distract them from working on Shakespeare's complete works)?
paratrace: I kind of see at the handwaving level how the "twisted packets" get out through the firewall. How does this make the intermediate systems in the stream emit responses (that actually make it back)?
phentropy: Cooler visualisation than nmapfe? I suppose you can use human image processing abilities to make sense of complex patterns? Failing that, it should look cool...
Must think about this later when I have more time...
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