I just looked at that site and I'm not really impressed. The four articles I looked at which supposedly debunk others don't include any references. It's all done with hand-waving arguments. Now I'm not saying those arguments are incorrect, just that if you're going to go after false claims you should have independent sources to back up your assertions too.
For a good comparison, check out the following two articles:
If you're gonna debunk the shills, make sure you don't look like a pro-Linux shill yourself. The EAL ratings article doesn't even have a link to what EAL ratings are about so that the reader can verify the claims made. Reads like FUD to me.
Funny, I would have thought you'd already know the answer to that if you could do as you claim. Hmph.
What you didn't realize is that he had to ask the question in the present, so that he could travel into the future to find the answer. Time travel != fortune telling.
But trading an all-expenses paid date for a ~$200 PS2 system? Granted, he might not have thought that the girl is his type, but think of the experience he could have had. Go do some fun things, then eat at a great restaurant, order the best stuff on the menu, have some expensive drinks, and maybe some decent conversation about Portuguese and life in Latin America. You could quite easily rack up $1000 worth of expenses that someone else is paying for, and who knows... the girl might turn out to be rather intelligent and interesting after all.
I think that's part of the plot. Gene Roddenberry's corpse is spinning so fast in his grave that it's causing frame dragging. The distortions in space-time open up a wormhole to the future. The Enterprise crew goes to investigate this effect and hilarity ensues.
Memos have surfaced taht confirm this: they were instructed to charge HIGH to add that capability, if it came to it.
I don't see this as (necessarily) a huge conspiracy to avoid an audit trail. This is likely a simple matter of Diebold achieving vendor lock-in with a limited feature set and then charging outrageous prices to add to that feature set. Where have we seen that before?
Global Economic Surplus may not exist. What should we do? We have two possibilities: Take measures to curb excess money circulating in the economy, or go on like we always have. If we go on like we always have and global economic surplus does exist, we're screwed. If we go on like we always have and global economic surplus doesn't exist, we'll be fine. If we take measures and global economic surplus does exist, we save ourselves. If we take measures and global economic surplus does not exist, we lose some money.
Clearly, the cost/benefit/risk assesment points to taking measures now, because the possible cost of not taking measures (end of civilzation) is far too great.
My proposed solution is to give me all your excess money. After all, do you really want to run the risk that global economic surplus might occur and bankrupt the world? Send me your money today and I'll help to save the world.
I'm wondering what kind of gravitational field you needed to attract sunlight. Oh, and next time, try adding a bunch of mirrors so that the sunlight keeps bouncing around forever on the inside.
IIRC, the amount of ice in an iceberg that sits above the waterline is exactly the amount by which the volume shrinks when the ice melts, so the waterline remains the same.
For all intents and purposes, yes. There is a slight variance because of the difference in density between freshwater ice and saltwater liquid. The mass of a freshwater iceberg is equal to the weight of saltwater displaced, but the volume of freshwater is slightly more.
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Has anyone else wondered what will happen when it becomes truly simple for EVERYONE to make movies, games, music etc. ? I mean, what will it be like when absolutely everyone can express what they want as they want it, even without technical skills? That's part of why I love the idea of machinima so much.
Probably about the same for book-writing, I would think. Anyone can slap together some sentences and pump it out as a book (or as a post on Slashdot... oh, wait) but how many of those grab your attention? Of every hundred new books that get churned out, you'd be lucky to even hear about one of them. The same will happen for movies. People will produce tons of crap, but you'll only be aware of the ones good enough to gather any momentum (and get moderated up... oh, wait).
Try inserting an icepick in your ear and it'll all become clear.
Well, my ear's still there, but I now have a hole in my tympanic membrane. On the plus side, it's suddenly easier to breathe. Should I have shoved harder?:)
There's also the free Nebula Device released under essentially a BSD-style license. It's created by Radon Labs in Germany. Their site appears to be down right now, so here's a link to the archived version. Check out the screenshots for their upcoming Schwarzenberg game. Looks like a nice engine.
We shared our story with 3M, the makers of post-its, and they must have got a kick out of it because they sent us 3 cases of post-its "for future decorating".
Aha! The missing step revealed:
1. Decorate office with products from Corporation X 2. Take pictures of said decorations 3. ??? = Send story and pictures to Corporation X 4. Profit! (as Corporation X sends you free product)
I suspect in a few months we'll hear a new story. Damon gets revenge on Dave by stapling a yoga mattress to every surface of his office. They share the story and ACME Yoga Mattress Co. responds by sending three trucks filled with yoga mattresses. Dave quits his job, sells all of them, and becomes the newest dot-calm millionaire. (Oh, you knew the punchline would be bad!)
No, that's not it. The $65M judgment was from last year in a case against Cohen, who stole the domain. The article doesn't say what Verisign settled for.
"Maybe this will prompt former EFF Board Member Tim O'Reilly to share that killer piece of 1-click prior art that's sitting on his bookshelf!"
After reading the page this links to, I'm really wondering if there is any such prior art. Maybe my tin foil hat is on a bit too tight, but perhaps it's really a killer piece of 1-click bluff he's holding onto? He could be waiting for Bezos to make the next move in the patent poker game.
Pretty much everything that can be invented has been either invented or patented already, so this may be too late. Nice effort, though.
That reminds me:
There is a prediction that was supposedly made by Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office Charles H. Duell. The words attributed to him were: "Everything that can be invented has been invented." The date given was 1899.
Now, in 2004 we have the ghost of Duell appearing as an anonymous coward to make the same prediction.
We did once have a problem with a h4x0r (one of our clients at the time) trying to automate hits to the subscribe link but we caught him.
We never could think of a good fix to prevent that. Anybody have any ideas?
Very simple. I assume you keep all the email records in a database, each row having its own unique primary key such as subscriber_id and another with a timestamp, right? All you need to do is an MD5 hash of the subscriber_id + timestamp. So if subscriber_id 29481 signs up on April 18, 2004 08:01:23 then create a string with: "29481 2004-04-18 08:01:23" and grab the MD5 hash of it. Take the last 8 digits of that and send it with the link and ID value. eg:
http://xyz.com/confirm.php?action=sub&id=29481&h as h=82C15F0B
On the server, lookup that subscriber_id, compute the hash of the id with the timestamp, and compare the last 8 digits. If it matches, you know it's good.
Of course, this *could* still be hacked, but you're looking at huge odds of getting both the id and hash correct because the end-user won't know your specific hash algorithm (does take the hash of id+timestamp or timestamp+id or timestamp+sqrt[id] or "howdy"+cos[id]+timestamp+"banana" or... ?). In a nutshell, it's effectively impossible.
and to the post above this.. what does 2 trillion hits matter against 2 million if they cant get what you really need up onto the first page
It doesn't matter one bit. That is, until you want page 2 million + 1. Then, all of a sudden, having a few more billion pages to index is a good thing.
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For a good comparison, check out the following two articles:
- problems with a global flood
- Linux & EAL ratings
If you're gonna debunk the shills, make sure you don't look like a pro-Linux shill yourself. The EAL ratings article doesn't even have a link to what EAL ratings are about so that the reader can verify the claims made. Reads like FUD to me.Funny, I would have thought you'd already know the answer to that if you could do as you claim. Hmph.
:)
What you didn't realize is that he had to ask the question in the present, so that he could travel into the future to find the answer. Time travel != fortune telling.
Alas, the answer has already been found!
But trading an all-expenses paid date for a ~$200 PS2 system? Granted, he might not have thought that the girl is his type, but think of the experience he could have had. Go do some fun things, then eat at a great restaurant, order the best stuff on the menu, have some expensive drinks, and maybe some decent conversation about Portuguese and life in Latin America. You could quite easily rack up $1000 worth of expenses that someone else is paying for, and who knows... the girl might turn out to be rather intelligent and interesting after all.
I think that's part of the plot. Gene Roddenberry's corpse is spinning so fast in his grave that it's causing frame dragging. The distortions in space-time open up a wormhole to the future. The Enterprise crew goes to investigate this effect and hilarity ensues.
Perhaps the mother ship will blow up like my motherbord did the other day...
You mean your motherborg?
Memos have surfaced taht confirm this: they were instructed to charge HIGH to add that capability, if it came to it.
I don't see this as (necessarily) a huge conspiracy to avoid an audit trail. This is likely a simple matter of Diebold achieving vendor lock-in with a limited feature set and then charging outrageous prices to add to that feature set. Where have we seen that before?
Global Economic Surplus may not exist. What should we do? We have two possibilities: Take measures to curb excess money circulating in the economy, or go on like we always have. If we go on like we always have and global economic surplus does exist, we're screwed. If we go on like we always have and global economic surplus doesn't exist, we'll be fine. If we take measures and global economic surplus does exist, we save ourselves. If we take measures and global economic surplus does not exist, we lose some money.
Clearly, the cost/benefit/risk assesment points to taking measures now, because the possible cost of not taking measures (end of civilzation) is far too great.
My proposed solution is to give me all your excess money. After all, do you really want to run the risk that global economic surplus might occur and bankrupt the world? Send me your money today and I'll help to save the world.
I'm wondering what kind of gravitational field you needed to attract sunlight. Oh, and next time, try adding a bunch of mirrors so that the sunlight keeps bouncing around forever on the inside.
IIRC, the amount of ice in an iceberg that sits above the waterline is exactly the amount by which the volume shrinks when the ice melts, so the waterline remains the same.
For all intents and purposes, yes. There is a slight variance because of the difference in density between freshwater ice and saltwater liquid. The mass of a freshwater iceberg is equal to the weight of saltwater displaced, but the volume of freshwater is slightly more.
Slashdot adds spaces to any unbroken text longer than 'n' characters. Preview is your friend! If you want to make a link, you use the
Which produces: link text here
Has anyone else wondered what will happen when it becomes truly simple for EVERYONE to make movies, games, music etc. ? I mean, what will it be like when absolutely everyone can express what they want as they want it, even without technical skills? That's part of why I love the idea of machinima so much.
Probably about the same for book-writing, I would think. Anyone can slap together some sentences and pump it out as a book (or as a post on Slashdot... oh, wait) but how many of those grab your attention? Of every hundred new books that get churned out, you'd be lucky to even hear about one of them. The same will happen for movies. People will produce tons of crap, but you'll only be aware of the ones good enough to gather any momentum (and get moderated up... oh, wait).
Try inserting an icepick in your ear and it'll all become clear.
:)
Well, my ear's still there, but I now have a hole in my tympanic membrane. On the plus side, it's suddenly easier to breathe. Should I have shoved harder?
Oh, and poke people's ears out with ice picks.
Um, how exactly does one poke an ear out? Isn't that like using a shovel to remove a hole?
There's also the free Nebula Device released under essentially a BSD-style license. It's created by Radon Labs in Germany. Their site appears to be down right now, so here's a link to the archived version. Check out the screenshots for their upcoming Schwarzenberg game. Looks like a nice engine.
I managed to convert my friend to use Mozilla last week , after persistent efforts of 2 years.
Can I expect an appointment letter ?
That depends. Is your friend's last name Ballmer?
Lucky thing for you that you hit the submit button on the way down, or we'd never know!
Update: Sunday, March 21nd, 2004
We shared our story with 3M, the makers of post-its, and they must have got a kick out of it because they sent us 3 cases of post-its "for future decorating".
Aha! The missing step revealed:
1. Decorate office with products from Corporation X
2. Take pictures of said decorations
3. ??? = Send story and pictures to Corporation X
4. Profit! (as Corporation X sends you free product)
I suspect in a few months we'll hear a new story. Damon gets revenge on Dave by stapling a yoga mattress to every surface of his office. They share the story and ACME Yoga Mattress Co. responds by sending three trucks filled with yoga mattresses. Dave quits his job, sells all of them, and becomes the newest dot-calm millionaire. (Oh, you knew the punchline would be bad!)
Yeah maybe I can sue them for denying domain transfers over and over so they can force me to pay them for another year. How much is that worth?
:)
About 15 minutes worth of lawyer time.
No, that's not it. The $65M judgment was from last year in a case against Cohen, who stole the domain. The article doesn't say what Verisign settled for.
"Maybe this will prompt former EFF Board Member Tim O'Reilly to share that killer piece of 1-click prior art that's sitting on his bookshelf!"
After reading the page this links to, I'm really wondering if there is any such prior art. Maybe my tin foil hat is on a bit too tight, but perhaps it's really a killer piece of 1-click bluff he's holding onto? He could be waiting for Bezos to make the next move in the patent poker game.
That reminds me:
- There is a prediction that was supposedly made by Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office Charles H. Duell. The words attributed to him were: "Everything that can be invented has been invented." The date given was 1899.
Now, in 2004 we have the ghost of Duell appearing as an anonymous coward to make the same prediction.They are using Majordomo. Everyone knows that there is no way to stuff the ballot box when you use an open mailing list.
At least it beats Diebold's system which appears to run on Majordumbass.
I guess the fools and their (virtual?) money are soon to be parted. :)
We did once have a problem with a h4x0r (one of our clients at the time) trying to automate hits to the subscribe link but we caught him.
h as h=82C15F0B
... ?). In a nutshell, it's effectively impossible.
We never could think of a good fix to prevent that. Anybody have any ideas?
Very simple. I assume you keep all the email records in a database, each row having its own unique primary key such as subscriber_id and another with a timestamp, right? All you need to do is an MD5 hash of the subscriber_id + timestamp. So if subscriber_id 29481 signs up on April 18, 2004 08:01:23 then create a string with: "29481 2004-04-18 08:01:23" and grab the MD5 hash of it. Take the last 8 digits of that and send it with the link and ID value. eg:
http://xyz.com/confirm.php?action=sub&id=29481&
On the server, lookup that subscriber_id, compute the hash of the id with the timestamp, and compare the last 8 digits. If it matches, you know it's good.
Of course, this *could* still be hacked, but you're looking at huge odds of getting both the id and hash correct because the end-user won't know your specific hash algorithm (does take the hash of id+timestamp or timestamp+id or timestamp+sqrt[id] or "howdy"+cos[id]+timestamp+"banana" or
and to the post above this.. what does 2 trillion hits matter against 2 million if they cant get what you really need up onto the first page
It doesn't matter one bit. That is, until you want page 2 million + 1. Then, all of a sudden, having a few more billion pages to index is a good thing.