an olive oil bottle of moonshine, made with potatoes. Kind of orange-ish, and kinda tasted the same. Didn't taste much like alcohol, but it did get you messed up, and quick.
...so can someone explain to me why it takes 5 minutes to search a 20 gig hard disk for "myfilename.txt" in Windows, and yet takes 30 seconds on a 10 year old Mac? I assume it has to do with the filesystem, but I just don't know. You see Windows search going through the whole directory tree... somehow I think this is not necessary on HFS/HFS+.
Not really... although I would imagine there are probably drug-addicted spammers, I tend to doubt most spammers actually have any intention on purchasing products/services that they spam for. When you get right down to it, it's money. People who pay spammers per million emails get money, the spammers get money, their ISPs get money for massive amounts of bandwidth... the only loser is the rest of the world.
There was a vulnerability -- It had to do with OS X putting icons on files based on their extensions, but choosing how to open them based on their OS 9 file type/creator codes before looking to the extension or MIME type. An MP3 file was made that had a Carbon application in it -- the ID3 tags were mostly PEF code. The file would show up as an MP3, you could play it in iTunes, but if you simply double-click on it, it would launch the app. The app had awesome destructive power -- it brought up a dialog box that said "yes, i am really an application." The vulnerability was publicized by Intego to stir up FUD so that Mac users would buy their $100 antivirus software and the $60 update that fixed the hole.
At least AltaVista has Babel Fish, which just added something like 20 new translators. Lycos has the "image hosted by tripod" thing, and that's about it.
The biggest problem, AFAIK, is that emulating a RISC chip on a CISC chip doesn't work very well. RISC chips usually have fewer instructions, but individual instructions are done in fewer cycles. If, for instance, one could map every instruction on the PPC to an instruction on the x86, those instructions would take longer to execute.
Claudius (Moe): "I poisoned this sword tip, the drapes, and Rosencarl and Guildenlenny over there."
Guildenlenny: "Yeah, if he touches either one of us he's dead!"
Rosencarl/Guildenlenny: "Boo-yah!" *high-five*
*Rosencarl and Guildenlenny die*
CBS, NBC, and Time Warner seemed to think it violated cybersquatting for 2600 to register fucknbc.com, fuckcbs.com, and fuckwarnerbros.com.
Emmanuel will be pleased about this.
I used to be able to download uncopyrighted, public-domain Smashing Pumpkins live/rare recordings from Napster, until they instated the filename matching. I don't need to download copyrighted Smashing Pumpkins songs. I bought them on CD, because I respect the band. But when public-domain files are not permitted to be distributed via peer-to-peer networks, it comes down to fighting the networks, not the people infringing on copyright.
Think of it this way. If you run a telemarketing agency, you have to pay for every phone call, you have to pay for every hour that the 16 year olds working for you work, and you get very little turnaround.
Now imagine this. You crawl the web, IRC, Usenet, etc, for email addresses. You get hundreds of thousands a day. This costs you bandwidth. Max of about (liberally) $1000 a year. Then you send email to all of those addresses. It takes about an hour. Max of about another $1000 a year. Do this every day. The company/people paying you to spam pay you, let's say, $.01 per email. That's $1000 a day. If 10 of those hundred thousand people buy the product, the company's making profit. You, the spammer, are making insane amounts of profit.
I hate spam as much as the next guy. But it's a good investment. (Although I've heard you can make more money selling your soul to Satan, and it's not as evil).
that when women say "I don't believe in Valentine's day," it means "I believe in Valentine's day." That extra X chromosome must have made them OD or something.
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an olive oil bottle of moonshine, made with potatoes. Kind of orange-ish, and kinda tasted the same. Didn't taste much like alcohol, but it did get you messed up, and quick.
...so can someone explain to me why it takes 5 minutes to search a 20 gig hard disk for "myfilename.txt" in Windows, and yet takes 30 seconds on a 10 year old Mac? I assume it has to do with the filesystem, but I just don't know. You see Windows search going through the whole directory tree... somehow I think this is not necessary on HFS/HFS+.
Not really... although I would imagine there are probably drug-addicted spammers, I tend to doubt most spammers actually have any intention on purchasing products/services that they spam for. When you get right down to it, it's money. People who pay spammers per million emails get money, the spammers get money, their ISPs get money for massive amounts of bandwidth... the only loser is the rest of the world.
Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things...
http://www.generationxyu.com/pizza_party.mpg
There was a vulnerability -- It had to do with OS X putting icons on files based on their extensions, but choosing how to open them based on their OS 9 file type/creator codes before looking to the extension or MIME type. An MP3 file was made that had a Carbon application in it -- the ID3 tags were mostly PEF code. The file would show up as an MP3, you could play it in iTunes, but if you simply double-click on it, it would launch the app. The app had awesome destructive power -- it brought up a dialog box that said "yes, i am really an application." The vulnerability was publicized by Intego to stir up FUD so that Mac users would buy their $100 antivirus software and the $60 update that fixed the hole.
At least AltaVista has Babel Fish, which just added something like 20 new translators. Lycos has the "image hosted by tripod" thing, and that's about it.
That's not too difficult.
The biggest problem, AFAIK, is that emulating a RISC chip on a CISC chip doesn't work very well. RISC chips usually have fewer instructions, but individual instructions are done in fewer cycles. If, for instance, one could map every instruction on the PPC to an instruction on the x86, those instructions would take longer to execute.
If I brought a laptop with Debian, could I get free as in speech and free as in beer?
their closing tag.
Linux ISOs? One of the original purposes of BT... still the best way to get them. Totally legit.
Claudius (Moe): "I poisoned this sword tip, the drapes, and Rosencarl and Guildenlenny over there."
Guildenlenny: "Yeah, if he touches either one of us he's dead!" Rosencarl/Guildenlenny: "Boo-yah!" *high-five* *Rosencarl and Guildenlenny die*
How would I ever memorize the Zero Wing Intro?
Pissed people off when all their accounts got deleted after some script kiddie ran the latest IRIX 'sploit. Why IRIX? Why?
CBS, NBC, and Time Warner seemed to think it violated cybersquatting for 2600 to register fucknbc.com, fuckcbs.com, and fuckwarnerbros.com. Emmanuel will be pleased about this.
That's why you don't use the AIM client. People who don't know any better deserve to buy a new computer every year, or reinstall Windows every month.
I used to be able to download uncopyrighted, public-domain Smashing Pumpkins live/rare recordings from Napster, until they instated the filename matching. I don't need to download copyrighted Smashing Pumpkins songs. I bought them on CD, because I respect the band. But when public-domain files are not permitted to be distributed via peer-to-peer networks, it comes down to fighting the networks, not the people infringing on copyright.
...as can be seen here...
RTFA, and learn SOMETHING about programming.
Now imagine this. You crawl the web, IRC, Usenet, etc, for email addresses. You get hundreds of thousands a day. This costs you bandwidth. Max of about (liberally) $1000 a year. Then you send email to all of those addresses. It takes about an hour. Max of about another $1000 a year. Do this every day. The company/people paying you to spam pay you, let's say, $.01 per email. That's $1000 a day. If 10 of those hundred thousand people buy the product, the company's making profit. You, the spammer, are making insane amounts of profit.
I hate spam as much as the next guy. But it's a good investment. (Although I've heard you can make more money selling your soul to Satan, and it's not as evil).
no more than it's been a war between men and ants.
that when women say "I don't believe in Valentine's day," it means "I believe in Valentine's day." That extra X chromosome must have made them OD or something.
...that Kodos doesn't spam me. I really want to vote for Kodos.
...that take months or more to get patched, you have well documented holes that take HOURS to get patched.