I thought he was trying to take on the tone of a typical Linux basher or Slashdot troll, only to flip the tables, lamenting a switch to Windows now that it has "matured".
What's sad is that Limo doesn't inform our intrepid article editor that it was a joke, and to add the "It's funny, laugh" icon.
In fact, what evidence do we have that Rob even wrote it? As I understood it Taco and Hemos are ardent MacOSX weenies.
because all sir haxalot does is post early with links to places that are EASILY found by almost anyone if they care to, but a moderator will compulsively mod up informative because he doesn't want to waste his mod points.
Then he can post an Amazon link and get it clicked on like all the links in all his other posts. The effect is further amplified as it's highly visible, near the top as he's posting at +2 because of said karma-whoring.
Basically, it's because it's Sir Haxalot doing it, and he's taking advantage of Slashdot's structure to make money for himself. I say ignore it on principal, Amazon be damned. Slashdot could just as easily put it's own referral link in the article itself, but they don't because it would be a conflict of interest. That doesn't mean everyone else should attempt to ride it's coattails.
I wish you would stop posting amazon links to make referral money. It's not like you're actually contributing anything to the discussion of the book. you're just abusing the fact you got to post early on a book review.
There's no "space" in between things, like an invisible ruler defining where you are. It's the juxtaposition of mass that defines the space between it. So there is nothing outside the universe, because there's nothing out there to be next to. And, as it turns out, things that are "close" in a euclidean sense far away in one direction, could be close to things in a completely different direction if you travel far enough. How these straight lines loop back on themselves describes the shape of the universe.
I haven't studied the theory enough in a while, but as I recall, it's actually the curvature of space time due to gravity that actually causes these loopbacks. You can imagine firing a photon in one direction, and it's path is curved by all the existing relationships, and maybe if you trace it's path with a finger, it looks like it's curving around, but to the photon it was a straight shot.
These effects are inescapable, and in a sense, it sort of puts a absolutely outer boundary on the distance between any two objects in the Universe, no matter how hard you try to "get away".
Christ man, you sound like someone TRYING to be stupid. You're just trying to get your signature some visibility, for whatever that gets you. So then let me answer your question with another question: How can you be so stupid, yet sound even stupdier?
it's because Sun Type 6 keyboards are made for both Suns and Linux boxes they ship, and on Linux boxes it's the escape key. The just change the key covers.
I thought Alt+Graph was a holdover from when you had two upper parts of the ASCII character set on some terminals (latin-1-type, and line drawing), and wanted to switch between them.
#!/bin/bash vi $(which adduser) for each in $(sort $(find -name "/tmp/$regex") | head -$(($some_math_expression)) ); do mail $each #blah blah blah done
That being said, I love the backtick. Especially useful for compose sequences (of course, Slashdot won't accept a demonstration).
I imagine open files are tied to the "true" paths: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)/window s/system 32/ntoskrnl.exe etc, etc, etc...
The C: drive thingies are just useful for the Win32API, so opening new files off that drive won't work, and explorer will probably fail in mysterious ways later on, if the C: is mentioned anywhere in the registry where it might be used to dynamically load some view or file operation.
As you might expect, drives letters are just places where to start a mapping to a mounted filesystem (which is internally identified with a GUID, like everything else, the drive letter has no significance). Windows only needs C: to boot and load programs, but if you aren't opening files, you don't need it.
are listed on the sitefinder page. Presumably, the user would click the appropriate link rather than manually type the correct URL, unless they were trying to not feed Overture.
The study was trying it's best to explain why networks outside the US were blocking.
I think the argument that it brings up an English page only is reason enough to implement such a block, an insult added to injury of VeriSign abusing it's position.
Bandwidth may have been a factor too, but for a different reason: a negative response is preferable to a positive response because you have the same number of DNS packets either way, but the nasty part is the browser goes ahead and opens subsequently two HTTP connections (one for a location redirect, and one for the sitefinder page) into the US, which could be slower than the DNS error message timeout across a latent or slow link.
The guys in the study were parroting the 404 argument (without saying it explicitly), which is untrue. But they've got the right idea.
I was thinking about how the study could be improved, and I started wondering if there's some other way besides Alexa to get relevant data to analyze. It seemed a little sparse, which they acknowledged. Some ideas:
Perhaps google might be nice enough to provide sample data mined from google toolbar, which I think more people would voluntarily install than Alexa.
Or here's idea: contact owners of websites that are commonly accessed by name (slashdot, cnn, localized googles, weblogs, forums, etc.) and kindly request access_log data filtered by referer coming FROM sitefinder, along with requesting IP.
This way, you get inferential proof of when certain IP addresses hit sitefinder accidentally (and how they mispelled the site name), compatible with all but the most paranoid of webbrowser settings. I wonder if site destination correlates with number of sitefinder redirects vs. total traffic. (For example, slashdot might be quite low due to informed users taking local control of their machines via host files, etc.. while many CNN visitors are at the mercy of their ISP)
Are you kidding me? Everyone laughs at ironic mods. But I mean really... the "joke" wasn't that funny to begin with.
It just makes me sad. And that your sentiment (which is not uncommon, as I share it, and I've seen such posts many a time) is deemed insightful is the icing on the cake.
Excuse me while I sob into my corn flakes.
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Technology increases inversely proportional?
Zounds! Let's get rid of all those cockamaney silver bullets, and we'll have giant robots to ride in. Cool!!!
Even large magnets won't work, you need an extremely strong magnetic field (think active cooling), or you must heat up the drive platters before you apply the field.
Hammer is good, but platters can be examined using electron microscope and related technology.
Best idea: Write a bunch of random data to the drive (all sectors), at least 20 or 30 times, interleaved with writes of all zeros and all ones. See how long it takes to a few passes (like 5), then let it run for as long as you can wait, even if it's longer than 20 or 30 tries. The more passes, the better.
This takes a while, but it is nearly impossible to recover anything after this, even with a scanning tunneling microscope. The drive can now be reused (yeah!)
If you're really paranoid, dismantle the drive after this, and remove the platters.
Then burn them with thermite. That's the most thorough method of destruction. I don't think acid will do it. In fact, I don't think the platters will react well with it at all. There may be some chemical solvent that will destroy the platter recording surface, but it may be very toxic, messy, take too long, etc.
Linux is reporting the size from df because while the kernel couldn't query the drive for size information, it fell back to asking the BIOS, which reported the C/H/S you programmed in the BIOS setup.
Whoops. You got exactly what you expected.;-)
If/proc/ide/ide0/hdb/ doesn't exist or the files (cache, capicity, etc.) are empty, then you are S.O.L.
I have heard tales of people who buy an exact duplicate drive and model, de-solder the ribbon cable that talks to servo and head array, removing the controller, and attaching a good controller from the other drive.
of course, this may have become more difficult as drive electronics become more complex, and the drives heat tolerant. But I'd wager a pretty penny that ADR uses this technique quite often.
that he saved 20 times or so, which doubled in size each time as Word tried to retain the old revisions and saved 1600x1600 raster thumbnails of each clipart or chart.
google uses tons of DB entries to cross-index pages. I wonder if there's some simple hash-tables per page that it uses internally to speed things up that makes assumptions, and doesn't resolve collisions.
So you can search for one thing, and conceivably the checksum/hashes for each term match those of another page that has nothing to do with it, and it's returned as a relevant match by accident.
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It was tounge in cheek, don't you agree?
I thought he was trying to take on the tone of a typical Linux basher or Slashdot troll, only to flip the tables, lamenting a switch to Windows now that it has "matured".
What's sad is that Limo doesn't inform our intrepid article editor that it was a joke, and to add the "It's funny, laugh" icon.
In fact, what evidence do we have that Rob even wrote it? As I understood it Taco and Hemos are ardent MacOSX weenies.
Does SunComm read Kuro5hin or what?!
because all sir haxalot does is post early with links to places that are EASILY found by almost anyone if they care to, but a moderator will compulsively mod up informative because he doesn't want to waste his mod points.
Then he can post an Amazon link and get it clicked on like all the links in all his other posts. The effect is further amplified as it's highly visible, near the top as he's posting at +2 because of said karma-whoring.
Basically, it's because it's Sir Haxalot doing it, and he's taking advantage of Slashdot's structure to make money for himself. I say ignore it on principal, Amazon be damned. Slashdot could just as easily put it's own referral link in the article itself, but they don't because it would be a conflict of interest. That doesn't mean everyone else should attempt to ride it's coattails.
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I wish you would stop posting amazon links to make referral money. It's not like you're actually contributing anything to the discussion of the book. you're just abusing the fact you got to post early on a book review.
There's no "space" in between things, like an invisible ruler defining where you are. It's the juxtaposition of mass that defines the space between it. So there is nothing outside the universe, because there's nothing out there to be next to. And, as it turns out, things that are "close" in a euclidean sense far away in one direction, could be close to things in a completely different direction if you travel far enough. How these straight lines loop back on themselves describes the shape of the universe.
I haven't studied the theory enough in a while, but as I recall, it's actually the curvature of space time due to gravity that actually causes these loopbacks. You can imagine firing a photon in one direction, and it's path is curved by all the existing relationships, and maybe if you trace it's path with a finger, it looks like it's curving around, but to the photon it was a straight shot.
These effects are inescapable, and in a sense, it sort of puts a absolutely outer boundary on the distance between any two objects in the Universe, no matter how hard you try to "get away".
Christ man, you sound like someone TRYING to be stupid. You're just trying to get your signature some visibility, for whatever that gets you.
So then let me answer your question with another question: How can you be so stupid, yet sound even stupdier?
it's because Sun Type 6 keyboards are made for both Suns and Linux boxes they ship, and on Linux boxes it's the escape key. The just change the key covers.
Isn't that what the compose key is for?
I thought Alt+Graph was a holdover from when you had two upper parts of the ASCII character set on some terminals (latin-1-type, and line drawing), and wanted to switch between them.
don't you get it... god.
#!/bin/bash
vi $(which adduser)
for each in $(sort $(find -name "/tmp/$regex") | head -$(($some_math_expression)) );
do mail $each
#blah blah blah
done
That being said, I love the backtick. Especially useful for compose sequences (of course, Slashdot won't accept a demonstration).
I imagine open files are tied to the "true" paths:w s/system 32/ntoskrnl.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)/windo
etc, etc, etc...
The C: drive thingies are just useful for the Win32API, so opening new files off that drive won't work, and explorer will probably fail in mysterious ways later on, if the C: is mentioned anywhere in the registry where it might be used to dynamically load some view or file operation.
As you might expect, drives letters are just places where to start a mapping to a mounted filesystem (which is internally identified with a GUID, like everything else, the drive letter has no significance). Windows only needs C: to boot and load programs, but if you aren't opening files, you don't need it.
are listed on the sitefinder page. Presumably, the user would click the appropriate link rather than manually type the correct URL, unless they were trying to not feed Overture.
The study was trying it's best to explain why networks outside the US were blocking.
I think the argument that it brings up an English page only is reason enough to implement such a block, an insult added to injury of VeriSign abusing it's position.
Bandwidth may have been a factor too, but for a different reason: a negative response is preferable to a positive response because you have the same number of DNS packets either way, but the nasty part is the browser goes ahead and opens subsequently two HTTP connections (one for a location redirect, and one for the sitefinder page) into the US, which could be slower than the DNS error message timeout across a latent or slow link.
The guys in the study were parroting the 404 argument (without saying it explicitly), which is untrue. But they've got the right idea.
I was thinking about how the study could be improved, and I started wondering if there's some other way besides Alexa to get relevant data to analyze. It seemed a little sparse, which they acknowledged. Some ideas:
Perhaps google might be nice enough to provide sample data mined from google toolbar, which I think more people would voluntarily install than Alexa.
Or here's idea: contact owners of websites that are commonly accessed by name (slashdot, cnn, localized googles, weblogs, forums, etc.) and kindly request access_log data filtered by referer coming FROM sitefinder, along with requesting IP.
This way, you get inferential proof of when certain IP addresses hit sitefinder accidentally (and how they mispelled the site name), compatible with all but the most paranoid of webbrowser settings. I wonder if site destination correlates with number of sitefinder redirects vs. total traffic. (For example, slashdot might be quite low due to informed users taking local control of their machines via host files, etc.. while many CNN visitors are at the mercy of their ISP)
is that your post is +5 insightful.
Are you kidding me? Everyone laughs at ironic mods. But I mean really... the "joke" wasn't that funny to begin with.
It just makes me sad. And that your sentiment (which is not uncommon, as I share it, and I've seen such posts many a time) is deemed insightful is the icing on the cake.
Excuse me while I sob into my corn flakes.
Technology increases inversely proportional?
Zounds! Let's get rid of all those cockamaney silver bullets, and we'll have giant robots to ride in. Cool!!!
what.
the.
fuck.
I know as much about what's running through mods' heads today as I do Struts.
WTF is struts anyway. Sounds really retarded.
I'd wager that the new DRM is NOT an effective (in the functional, robust sense of the word) access control since it is so easily bypassed.
OSX secure delete (aka ShredIT) is not based on the Gutmann research for secure deletion, AFAIK.
You can download wipe and build it using the OSX free software development tools. It's more secure.
Even large magnets won't work, you need an extremely strong magnetic field (think active cooling), or you must heat up the drive platters before you apply the field.
Hammer is good, but platters can be examined using electron microscope and related technology.
Best idea: Write a bunch of random data to the drive (all sectors), at least 20 or 30 times, interleaved with writes of all zeros and all ones. See how long it takes to a few passes (like 5), then let it run for as long as you can wait, even if it's longer than 20 or 30 tries. The more passes, the better.
This takes a while, but it is nearly impossible to recover anything after this, even with a scanning tunneling microscope. The drive can now be reused (yeah!)
If you're really paranoid, dismantle the drive after this, and remove the platters.
Then burn them with thermite. That's the most thorough method of destruction. I don't think acid will do it. In fact, I don't think the platters will react well with it at all. There may be some chemical solvent that will destroy the platter recording surface, but it may be very toxic, messy, take too long, etc.
Linux is reporting the size from df because while the kernel couldn't query the drive for size information, it fell back to asking the BIOS, which reported the C/H/S you programmed in the BIOS setup.
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/proc/ide/ide0/hdb/ doesn't exist or the files (cache, capicity, etc.) are empty, then you are S.O.L.
Whoops. You got exactly what you expected.
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we're everywhere. putch() baby, putch().
I have heard tales of people who buy an exact duplicate drive and model, de-solder the ribbon cable that talks to servo and head array, removing the controller, and attaching a good controller from the other drive.
of course, this may have become more difficult as drive electronics become more complex, and the drives heat tolerant. But I'd wager a pretty penny that ADR uses this technique quite often.
They even have a free version that can grok ext2fs on linux, with a nifty GUI.
Neato!
that he saved 20 times or so, which doubled in size each time as Word tried to retain the old revisions and saved 1600x1600 raster thumbnails of each clipart or chart.
google uses tons of DB entries to cross-index pages. I wonder if there's some simple hash-tables per page that it uses internally to speed things up that makes assumptions, and doesn't resolve collisions.
So you can search for one thing, and conceivably the checksum/hashes for each term match those of another page that has nothing to do with it, and it's returned as a relevant match by accident.
This might explain a lot of result sillyness.