from the article: As part of that surgery, a 2-inch by 3-inch section of her skull had to be temporarily removed and electrodes implanted to pinpoint where the seizures were coming from. Then, a tiny portion of her brain was removed.
The surgery went well, and Hannibal Malmquist who was seen tucking into a freshly prepared piece of fried meat said she no longer suffers from seizures.
I want the traffic lights to assist me in crossing the road, to make it visible and safe for me to do so. I want it to give warning to approaching traffic. I want drivers to see and have time to react, so best let those busy bodies concentrating on other traffic through without worrying about little me stepping out in front of them, red light or not.
We have all seen accidents where drivers take a red light, I don't want to be a statistic.
The NOAA today started releasing accurate targeted weather data in XML format to a wide audience. However unfortunately, because of a large slashdotting, you cannot get todays weather until tomorrow. Several planned hurricanes were put on hold for a few days because of the disruption. Impatient internet users were caught and fined for illegally downloading and sharing todays weather. One user had a large tornado and numerous thunderstorms on his server.
Unfortunately, from other comments, this one is worse than slashdots bug.
It doesn't fix itself with a redraw.
I don't know who to be pissed off at here really.
I don't know enough about css style sheets and rendering to be able to identify the problems in the page, and I don't know enough about how firefox handles problems like this.
All I know is it happens too fucking much.
Can somebody please show the site owners the primary failure points in their code so the owners can fix the problem without having a cryptic mail or posting telling them to "make it standards compliant".
Something like "change the tag your using for page margins and it will work with more browsers". Most of these page authors don't understand deep stuff, they build from templates and CMS blog type tools, give them a hand.
The web used to be codable with notepad, and it has always been VERY forgiving of simple mistakes, it appears as though Firefox has drawn a line and (quite rightly) won't step over it.
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Wasn't The Omen specifically about the evil, anti christian devil spawn?
A movie about a cool game that appeals to now grown up 20-30somethings isn't going to touch Omen on any level, so I don't see why they left it out. Unless of course, they are going to the younger generation? The game was rated 18, so technically no minors should ever have played it (hah!) so why target a movie at anything less age wise.
I use firefox as well, and on the back of your comment have looked deeper. Its my proxy that screws up and not firefox! It returns a html error page, so firefox thinks it found the site and renders it.
I think consistency matters more than individual letter formation.
I could write entirely in scribbled hieroglyphs, but if it has a pattern, and the same squiggle means the same thing, then a computer could decipher it.
I believe the BSD license allows for private forking into a closed source branch.
Now, onto the issue of malicious patching.
Most Open Source projects are maintained by a chain of command. Patches are submitted into the tree, but not automatically rolled into the main branch until verified by a trusted maintainer, or after numerous discussions on the boards or IRC.
Anonymous patches are allowed in some projects, but would be incredibly stupid to allow them to be merged without first validating them.
I could begin submitting patches into the Kernel, and build up a relationship with the central maintainers. After X amount of time, I might be given rights to push patches directly into the main branch myself.
Of course, if its your own project, you can choose to simply ignore all outside patches and risk a rebellion and fork.
The utility of the program is that no one knows the exact criteria.
Doesn't that just sum up govermnents.
A person could spend 30 years reading every eltter of the law, and STILL become a criminal. Knowing the rules does not mean you will obey them. EVERYBODY knows its illegal to kill a person, but murders still occur.
I got into open source software long before most authors had the bandwidth to supply the source by default. Today's linux enthusiasts are the same folks who published into public domain libraries and magazine articles. Most authors back then would gladly supply the code on request, and would be more than happy to give people a walk around the application.
I sent a mail to the artofsense people and have just got the following response back which pretty much confirms what you said:
Thank you!
One Israeli company tried to resell our paintings and they used spam and to save their traffic they put links to images on our site. Of course, we have no connection with their spam.
Best Regards,
Nikolai
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by the way, as other people have also pointed out, my original assessment of the mail itself was wrong. I shall be more on my guard in future.
The spammed site is offline now, and following the trail isn't making me feel better. I would have liked to find out what it did look like, might have made any disconnection clearer.
To me, it seems their marketing campaign has gone the wrong way.
I don't see any problem with email offers as such as long as they are above board so to speak, for instance because I have signed up for a company, or expressed an interest in a product.
Up until recently they had an email signup form on the web, and its not difficult to signup anyone you want, the site is quirky enough to raise a laugh amongst friends (I went through a phase of signing up folks to knitting pattern newsletters!). (Archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20040202064714/www.arto fsense.com/signup.html)
On the signup page, they do state that they never sell emails or pass to others, which considering the whole look and feel of the site (small family art business) seems like a reasonable line.
Now, if one of those friends was on Lycos and marked it as spam its quite feasible that the Lycos engine has taken it onboard as spam.
This could mean Lycos makes no distinction between a reasonable prospective mailing from a small reputable company and the hardened multimillion hidden linkage spyware infested crap.
But then again, I'm possibly very wide of the mark.
What lesson? Those spyware kiddies are having a fucking field day right now!
They are getting so many hits now from news sites and articles that SOMEBODY is going to buy something from them, all because they have a link in the right place at the right time.
I'm gonna start spamming if it routinely gets THIS kind of publicity.
The subscription is payable to allow continued signature files. I'm still using NAV 2002 at work which works perfectly well and doesn't get in the way. You can continue to use Norton or the others if you don't subscribe, but don't expect it to have upto date definitions.
Most of the time, installing Firefox won't actually remove the problem. Sure, it will prevent further mistakes (or at least limit them) but it won't get rid of half of the crap that gets onto a machine.
Its the same thinking when people say "install service pack 2 to clean it up". Those machines are the ones which have the most problems, and for once, MS isn't really to blame for it.
They will only do well if starting from a clean slate, so before upgrading someone to Firefox, or any other secure upgrades, make sure you remove the problem first.
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Which rock have you been hiding under. ;)
Thats EXACTLY what RFID is really for
from the article:
As part of that surgery, a 2-inch by 3-inch section of her skull had to be temporarily removed and electrodes implanted to pinpoint where the seizures were coming from. Then, a tiny portion of her brain was removed.
The surgery went well, and Hannibal Malmquist who was seen tucking into a freshly prepared piece of fried meat said she no longer suffers from seizures.
I would prefer to wait for that gap in traffic.
I want the traffic lights to assist me in crossing the road, to make it visible and safe for me to do so. I want it to give warning to approaching traffic.
I want drivers to see and have time to react, so best let those busy bodies concentrating on other traffic through without worrying about little me stepping out in front of them, red light or not.
We have all seen accidents where drivers take a red light, I don't want to be a statistic.
That makes me nervous.
I could almost say I'm glad I'm not an american, but the British government are just as fucked up.
The NOAA today started releasing accurate targeted weather data in XML format to a wide audience.
However unfortunately, because of a large slashdotting, you cannot get todays weather until tomorrow.
Several planned hurricanes were put on hold for a few days because of the disruption.
Impatient internet users were caught and fined for illegally downloading and sharing todays weather. One user had a large tornado and numerous thunderstorms on his server.
Unfortunately, from other comments, this one is worse than slashdots bug.
It doesn't fix itself with a redraw.
I don't know who to be pissed off at here really.
I don't know enough about css style sheets and rendering to be able to identify the problems in the page, and I don't know enough about how firefox handles problems like this.
All I know is it happens too fucking much.
Can somebody please show the site owners the primary failure points in their code so the owners can fix the problem without having a cryptic mail or posting telling them to "make it standards compliant".
Something like "change the tag your using for page margins and it will work with more browsers".
Most of these page authors don't understand deep stuff, they build from templates and CMS blog type tools, give them a hand.
The web used to be codable with notepad, and it has always been VERY forgiving of simple mistakes, it appears as though Firefox has drawn a line and (quite rightly) won't step over it.
Wasn't The Omen specifically about the evil, anti christian devil spawn?
A movie about a cool game that appeals to now grown up 20-30somethings isn't going to touch Omen on any level, so I don't see why they left it out.
Unless of course, they are going to the younger generation?
The game was rated 18, so technically no minors should ever have played it (hah!) so why target a movie at anything less age wise.
Don;t worry, the scenes may be recorded in first person perspective, but keeping true to the game, all you see is 30minutes of blackness.
You see, they can't hold the lights and the camera at the same time.
I use firefox as well, and on the back of your comment have looked deeper.
:)
Its my proxy that screws up and not firefox!
It returns a html error page, so firefox thinks it found the site and renders it.
mental note: never underestimate firefox
is it just me, or has this been failing more recently?
I've been frustrated of late by such a silly thing that I'm sure didn't used to happen.
Or am I missing another automatic "feature" of internet explorer?
I think consistency matters more than individual letter formation.
I could write entirely in scribbled hieroglyphs, but if it has a pattern, and the same squiggle means the same thing, then a computer could decipher it.
I believe the BSD license allows for private forking into a closed source branch.
:)
Now, onto the issue of malicious patching.
Most Open Source projects are maintained by a chain of command. Patches are submitted into the tree, but not automatically rolled into the main branch until verified by a trusted maintainer, or after numerous discussions on the boards or IRC.
Anonymous patches are allowed in some projects, but would be incredibly stupid to allow them to be merged without first validating them.
I could begin submitting patches into the Kernel, and build up a relationship with the central maintainers. After X amount of time, I might be given rights to push patches directly into the main branch myself.
Of course, if its your own project, you can choose to simply ignore all outside patches and risk a rebellion and fork.
Its just common sense really
ffs
Sorry to everyone who just read the poll and are watching out for cockups like this.
You all know I meant letter.
The utility of the program is that no one knows the exact criteria.
Doesn't that just sum up govermnents.
A person could spend 30 years reading every eltter of the law, and STILL become a criminal.
Knowing the rules does not mean you will obey them.
EVERYBODY knows its illegal to kill a person, but murders still occur.
Absolutely correct.
I got into open source software long before most authors had the bandwidth to supply the source by default.
Today's linux enthusiasts are the same folks who published into public domain libraries and magazine articles.
Most authors back then would gladly supply the code on request, and would be more than happy to give people a walk around the application.
I'd rather pay the £18 or whatever per year to save me the hassle of disable/reboot/download/install/enable/pray :)
thanks for the tip though, I wasn't actually aware though that they are available manually.
its good to know for an emergency.
I sent a mail to the artofsense people and have just got the following response back which pretty much confirms what you said:
:)
Thank you!
One Israeli company tried to resell our paintings and they used spam
and to save their traffic they put links to images on our site.
Of course, we have no connection with their spam.
Best Regards,
Nikolai
-------------
by the way, as other people have also pointed out, my original assessment of the mail itself was wrong. I shall be more on my guard in future.
The spammed site is offline now, and following the trail isn't making me feel better. I would have liked to find out what it did look like, might have made any disconnection clearer.
Well, you live and learn
That mail actually looks pretty normal.
Hardly spam, its sent with outlook with absolutely no attempt to hide the recipient or what its about.
I would personally classify that as an update newsletter, and would be confident to mail back and ask to be removed.
To me, it seems their marketing campaign has gone the wrong way.
o fsense.com/signup.html)
I don't see any problem with email offers as such as long as they are above board so to speak, for instance because I have signed up for a company, or expressed an interest in a product.
Up until recently they had an email signup form on the web, and its not difficult to signup anyone you want, the site is quirky enough to raise a laugh amongst friends (I went through a phase of signing up folks to knitting pattern newsletters!).
(Archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20040202064714/www.art
On the signup page, they do state that they never sell emails or pass to others, which considering the whole look and feel of the site (small family art business) seems like a reasonable line.
Now, if one of those friends was on Lycos and marked it as spam its quite feasible that the Lycos engine has taken it onboard as spam.
This could mean Lycos makes no distinction between a reasonable prospective mailing from a small reputable company and the hardened multimillion hidden linkage spyware infested crap.
But then again, I'm possibly very wide of the mark.
What lesson?
Those spyware kiddies are having a fucking field day right now!
They are getting so many hits now from news sites and articles that SOMEBODY is going to buy something from them, all because they have a link in the right place at the right time.
I'm gonna start spamming if it routinely gets THIS kind of publicity.
now THAT I like the sound of.
:D
And regarding the domain name linkage, I would simply strip all arguments from the url leaving a cold hard domain.
Ideally suited to performing the task at hand, and built from your own crap.
Its like targetted taxation.
Hey, I might actually start forwarding all my spam to my buddies
The screensaver isn't doing everything though.
All the news sites covering the DOS attack are spreading word of the attack.
They are loading the site themselves because of a link in the news report or a forum comment.
Which country are you in?
I'm sure thats illegal where I come from (England).
The subscription is payable to allow continued signature files. I'm still using NAV 2002 at work which works perfectly well and doesn't get in the way.
You can continue to use Norton or the others if you don't subscribe, but don't expect it to have upto date definitions.
Most of the time, installing Firefox won't actually remove the problem.
Sure, it will prevent further mistakes (or at least limit them) but it won't get rid of half of the crap that gets onto a machine.
Its the same thinking when people say "install service pack 2 to clean it up". Those machines are the ones which have the most problems, and for once, MS isn't really to blame for it.
They will only do well if starting from a clean slate, so before upgrading someone to Firefox, or any other secure upgrades, make sure you remove the problem first.