What I find funny is that PKWARE will basically die off from this, no one I know from the workplace, friends, or even home users use anything PKWARE related. They all use Winzip or another windows tool. Hell it's been 10 year's since I even used PKZIP from PKWARE, and back then I was on a 486 machine with DOS 5.
It's also funny how people are still using a archiving format thats been around since 1988 at least, it's OLD and compresses like crap. Especially when there are SUPERIOR and much better compression formats out there such as
ARJ JAR RAR UC2 ACE
All of these formats compress better then ZIP, yet you are hard pressed to find ARJ/ACE/JAR/UC2 files on the net, RAR files you may find here and there.
Considering how I have seen some Americans drive I can't say I blame you. Makes me wonder what the hell the driving schools in America are doing or in the case of a new driver not going to a school, what the hell the parents teach a new driver who just turned 16 and wants a fancy speeding car so he can go kill himself and his friends...
Ah yes the American way. Have a family and keep a gun or two in your sock drawer so your young child can find it and blow him or herself away. Uh huh...right.
For one thing we do not have the Patriot ACT like you americans do and all the other legal crap like the DMCA/RIAA/MPAA and god knows what else that the american politicians are cooking up to further strangle the american citizens rights and freedoms.
Also if the UN would have approved the war on Iraq instead of the US going in regardless of the UN's say on the matter, Canada would then likely have sent some support.
Yes the RIAA and others do actually and routinely scan such large file sharing P2P networks as Kazaa and possibly others. This is how the RIAA found those 2 with Verizon and how they find out all those college and university students with music. With the result being they turn the colleges and universities into RIAA's bitches...
About the only thing you can do is run a good firewall and visit this site
http://koti.welho.com/ikindste/
And get a list of BAD IP and P2P Enemies IP lists. I have the last update from it running in Sygate Pro firewall here. Although im still looking for more updated lists as well.
Must be very nice for RIAA that they can afford to buy and own the judge to rule against Verizon. I wonder how many millions the judge got "hush-hush" from RIAA...
I have that magazine here on my desk. I read the article and for now they are just using a old Air India 747 to testbed this laser on. From what I gathered once they are done testing they will try faster aircraft to install this in.
My only hope is that the laser will be powerful enough to go through dense fog and also not be affected by rain/moisture as well.
The worst I've ever done was two years ago when I upgraded a 486 machine to a P166. Put in the motherboard, new ram, new hard drives etcetra. I was stuck with a 486DX2/66 motherboard that already had some intermittent troubles with freezing.
For some reason I can't explain it but I fought the urge to smash this motherboard up:D so I basically threw it around in our empty garage, smashed what little ram was on the board, yanked out the cpu and tossed that around some more too.
Then theres the worst things I have seen people do to computers at my previous work 3 years ago. Merchandising Manager at Computer City. I'm walking to the staff room when all of a sudden I hear a big crash at Tech Support. I go over and look, only to find the new tech guy having dropped a brand new Pentium 3 machine on the floor.
Im guessing his hands were slippery or he was plain nervous. The machine had a sizeable dent on the bottom and had troubles booting up. Needless to say the customer was pale as a ghost and swearing up and down at the technician before his manager came and offered to fix or replace it free of charge. I didn't see that guy working at tech anymore a month later.:P
And please don't ask about a older IBM white tower machine that had turned yellow from being in a heavy smokers room, being used as a ashtray holder, and having about 5 pounds of grape jam stains *ALL* over the machine.
" What's going on these days? Aren't the morons that work at these high-profile corporations better educated in social engineering avoidance techniques and the old-fashion trojan horse? Sheesh! (Apologies to the people who work for M$ and AOL who post on/.)".
Nope, why do you think everytime a major, hard hitting virus came out the last few years has hit large businesses and corporations the hardest? Because of the braindead people who don't know better about e-mail attachments (what to look for and WHAT NOT TO RUN).
This apparantly has been the case with some AOL employee's (I suspect a lot) and especially with your stereotypical brain-dead, good looking blonde secretary who opens everything up.
"The real hole here isn't any technical measures, but the complete fucking stupidity of AOL employees."
And just think, 35 million people have faith in these stupid employees? LOL!:D
Which is why for years when I meet people either online or in real life and I find out they are using AOHELL I help them switch to something called "A REAL ISP!"
Whats really ironic though is that here in Canada we have AOL Canada, Royal Bank of Canada tries it's damndest to spread AOL, and they still have AOL 7.0 here too!:P
This doesn't suprise me at all. For years I have not been suprised at all the many ways AOL (and even AOL Canada yet) have been screwing up. Everything from AIM security flaws to the ill fated AOL/Tim Warner deal, all the horror stories you hear about AOL over the years regarding accounts, etc, and now this.
I think "Merlin" better get some more potent magic potion at MagicMart.:)
"3 percent of consumers polled are buying less music because prices are too high--"
RIAA can say what they want, but what about the other 97%? I believe it's more like
"97 percent of consumers polled are buying less music because of high prices and the fact that a lot of music produced by artists and labels is garbage."
Ah well as long as RIAA tries to keep shutting down Kazaa and seemingly doesnt try to target *BETTER* P2P networks like WINMX...:)
Trying about:mozilla in Phoenix win32 build 2/21/03 shows this.
And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.
Thanks for the link. The kitchen sink worked perfectly in Phoenix Win32 build of 02/21/03. IE 6 (with latest patches applied) basically choked on the Kitchen Sink with a cryptic error message.
Me thinks IE needs some draino to unplug its sink.:D
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What I find funny is that PKWARE will basically die off from this, no one I know from the workplace, friends, or even home users use anything PKWARE related. They all use Winzip or another windows tool. Hell it's been 10 year's since I even used PKZIP from PKWARE, and back then I was on a 486 machine with DOS 5.
It's also funny how people are still using a archiving format thats been around since 1988 at least, it's OLD and compresses like crap. Especially when there are SUPERIOR and much better compression formats out there such as
ARJ
JAR
RAR
UC2
ACE
All of these formats compress better then ZIP, yet you are hard pressed to find ARJ/ACE/JAR/UC2 files on the net, RAR files you may find here and there.
Perhaps this fellow was at one time a crooked garage guy who suddendly graduated to writing lame brained articles for a newspaper.
What's scary though is you will see countless n00bies advocating this article like it was the Holy Grail or something...
Yeah you must remember to oil those springs regularly or they may get rusty and creak and groan :D
Well you and me know that most journalists are dumber then your average rock anyway, including the one who wrote that article. :D
Considering how I have seen some Americans drive I can't say I blame you. Makes me wonder what the hell the driving schools in America are doing or in the case of a new driver not going to a school, what the hell the parents teach a new driver who just turned 16 and wants a fancy speeding car so he can go kill himself and his friends...
Yeah those yankee's might shoot you up the ass ^_^
Ah yes the American way. Have a family and keep a gun or two in your sock drawer so your young child can find it and blow him or herself away. Uh huh...right.
For one thing we do not have the Patriot ACT like you americans do and all the other legal crap like the DMCA/RIAA/MPAA and god knows what else that the american politicians are cooking up to further strangle the american citizens rights and freedoms.
Also if the UN would have approved the war on Iraq instead of the US going in regardless of the UN's say on the matter, Canada would then likely have sent some support.
And the RIAA payed you how much again to be their brainwashed spokesperson? Or is that payed doggy to lick RIAA's shoes? :D
Yes the RIAA and others do actually and routinely scan such large file sharing P2P networks as Kazaa and possibly others. This is how the RIAA found those 2 with Verizon and how they find out all those college and university students with music. With the result being they turn the colleges and universities into RIAA's bitches...
About the only thing you can do is run a good firewall and visit this site
http://koti.welho.com/ikindste/
And get a list of BAD IP and P2P Enemies IP lists. I have the last update from it running in Sygate Pro firewall here. Although im still looking for more updated lists as well.
Must be very nice for RIAA that they can afford to buy and own the judge to rule against Verizon. I wonder how many millions the judge got "hush-hush" from RIAA...
It's that the world is full of assholes, the firebird database people being among them.
You have a car almost the size of a 747 nose/cockpit section to mount this on I hope? LOL! :)
Because that's how large it is mounted on the front of that 747.
I have that magazine here on my desk. I read the article and for now they are just using a old Air India 747 to testbed this laser on. From what I gathered once they are done testing they will try faster aircraft to install this in.
My only hope is that the laser will be powerful enough to go through dense fog and also not be affected by rain/moisture as well.
He didn't calculate exactly how much butter and Canadian Maple Syrup to put on these pancakes when they have been flipped so exactingly. :D
*Hmm it's 5am here where I type this, maybe I should go make some 'cakes for breakfast!*
The worst I've ever done was two years ago when I upgraded a 486 machine to a P166. Put in the motherboard, new ram, new hard drives etcetra. I was stuck with a 486DX2/66 motherboard that already had some intermittent troubles with freezing.
:D so I basically threw it around in our empty garage, smashed what little ram was on the board, yanked out the cpu and tossed that around some more too.
:P
For some reason I can't explain it but I fought the urge to smash this motherboard up
Then theres the worst things I have seen people do to computers at my previous work 3 years ago. Merchandising Manager at Computer City. I'm walking to the staff room when all of a sudden I hear a big crash at Tech Support. I go over and look, only to find the new tech guy having dropped a brand new Pentium 3 machine on the floor.
Im guessing his hands were slippery or he was plain nervous. The machine had a sizeable dent on the bottom and had troubles booting up. Needless to say the customer was pale as a ghost and swearing up and down at the technician before his manager came and offered to fix or replace it free of charge. I didn't see that guy working at tech anymore a month later.
And please don't ask about a older IBM white tower machine that had turned yellow from being in a heavy smokers room, being used as a ashtray holder, and having about 5 pounds of grape jam stains *ALL* over the machine.
" What's going on these days? Aren't the morons that work at these high-profile corporations better educated in social engineering avoidance techniques and the old-fashion trojan horse? Sheesh! (Apologies to the people who work for M$ and AOL who post on /.)".
Nope, why do you think everytime a major, hard hitting virus came out the last few years has hit large businesses and corporations the hardest? Because of the braindead people who don't know better about e-mail attachments (what to look for and WHAT NOT TO RUN).
This apparantly has been the case with some AOL employee's (I suspect a lot) and especially with your stereotypical brain-dead, good looking blonde secretary who opens everything up.
" I weren't using AOL myself... (Flame retardent defence: Not of my own free will)"
:)
Sounds like you have no choice other then AOL in your area or you live in a family thats forcing the crap on you.
I pray you find a real ISP ASAP! and dump AOHELL!
Quote
:D
:P
"The real hole here isn't any technical measures, but the complete fucking stupidity of AOL employees."
And just think, 35 million people have faith in these stupid employees? LOL!
Which is why for years when I meet people either online or in real life and I find out they are using AOHELL I help them switch to something called "A REAL ISP!"
Whats really ironic though is that here in Canada we have AOL Canada, Royal Bank of Canada tries it's damndest to spread AOL, and they still have AOL 7.0 here too!
This doesn't suprise me at all. For years I have not been suprised at all the many ways AOL (and even AOL Canada yet) have been screwing up. Everything from AIM security flaws to the ill fated AOL/Tim Warner deal, all the horror stories you hear about AOL over the years regarding accounts, etc, and now this.
:)
I think "Merlin" better get some more potent magic potion at MagicMart.
"3 percent of consumers polled are buying less music because prices are too high--"
:)
RIAA can say what they want, but what about the other 97%? I believe it's more like
"97 percent of consumers polled are buying less music because of high prices and the fact that a lot of music produced by artists and labels is garbage."
Ah well as long as RIAA tries to keep shutting down Kazaa and seemingly doesnt try to target *BETTER* P2P networks like WINMX...
Trying about:mozilla in Phoenix win32 build 2/21/03 shows this.
And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall
be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a
million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover
the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.
from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31
(Red Letter Edition)
Thanks for the link. The kitchen sink worked perfectly in Phoenix Win32 build of 02/21/03. IE 6 (with latest patches applied) basically choked on the Kitchen Sink with a cryptic error message.
:D
Me thinks IE needs some draino to unplug its sink.
*Wonders if this will show up at Walmart*. :D
The unfortunate truth is most kids are just plain damn cruel as they grow up.