6.) Someone comments on how they had sessions of lengthy, drawn-out fornication with your mother; alternatively, your sexual preference. Notation that you create a vacuum.
You can access gmail via https://mail.google.com/ to avoid sending anything in cleartext. The point isn't that it travels to Google securely, it's that Google's servers decrypt the SSL stream on the other side and have access to the plaintext before you encrypt with FireGPG. After a few seconds of inactivity, GMail automatically saves a draft of the plaintext... what is Google's policy with regards to draft retention? Do you know if they discard any draft messages once the [encrypted or not] message has been sent?
A much better interface would be to right-click on a multiline text field, choose "Enter encrypted text" and then enter everything into a FireGPG-created window such that the only text transmitted to Google -- and, thus, saved to draft -- is ciphertext once you choose to populate the browser window's form field with the encrypted version of what you typed.
Never in the history of slashdot has one relatively ordinary product received so much publicity based on so little actual information. Remember "Ginger"? Nobody even knew what it was and people thought cities would be redesigned around what turned out to be an electric scooter.
As far as I can tell, if I transcribe a song into tab it is my work not theirs. The IP was for the recording of the song so it's not RIAA's property. Since, as I said before, I transcribed it myself it is not their work -- the publishers -- but my own. How the fuck can they assume they won everything? How do the artists feel about this?
[I had someone read aloud your post and I have transcribed it here. Please note that the above is *my* work, not yours.]
While the FDA in the United States is doing what? Standing by turning their cheek? They're probably too busy drinking Mountain Dew and Bawls and their midichlorian count has been reduced by all the sodium benzoate in those drinks.
The article is worded badly. The original patent was created in the 1960s and expired in 2000. Then after it expired they started trying to figure out how to use it in a grill and it still took them 7 years to make it cheap enough for home owners. Correction: the patent expired in 2000 and it took them 7 years to hire a PR company who was clever enough to make this a patent-related business news story instead of a much more boring new product announcement. And it's got all the right makings... this is the technology used by high-end chefs (social proof), used to cost $5K but now yours for under $1K (value), be one of the first on your block (exclusivity), etc.
Maybe that's what New Jersey officials have to hide. Did someone take money to allow poor construction? Did you watch the video? The tollbooth seems to survive without much more than a scratch. Seems like rather excellent construction to me.
You can have it, with no strings attached for 200 mil. (US $ naturally) And here I was ready to offer that much but in Euros or Pounds. Looks like I'll have to pass up on that deal.
The article also suggests that pirates creating knock-offs might just be offering companies market feedback that they ought to attend to. (Microsoft, are you listening?) So companies who distribute Linux in violation of the terms of the GPL are offering Linux developers valuable market feedback that they ought to attend to? (Linus, are you listening?)
Seriously, watch the thing.. What../is/ COPY.. rrrright? COPY COPY.. rrright? IT!/is/.. a.. rrright! by the COPY!.. rrright OOOwner... etc. Would you like your newspaper to be written in the style of a 'ransom note'? Sure, it'd be interesting for a day, it might even enter history as a landmark publication.. but you wouldn't want to read it again. Much like embedding the decss.c source code as the words of a song, the point isn't "ooh... check out that C code". It's like making an image of an anti-pornography advocate out of thousands of pornographic thumbnails. Sure, you could complain that the thumbnails are too small to jerk off to, but you'd be missing the point entirely.
My thoughts exactly. Any affiliate link should have the HTTP_REFERER header populated with where they came from. If the first hit to the site from any given IP address does not have an affiliate-style link, yet immediately after there's a visit to the site from the same IP address but with its referrer containing an affiliate-style link, then it should be possible to build up a history of suspected fraud. I'm glossing over things like proxy servers as this can either be solved with session cookies (which should persist when the ad interceptor opens the new window) or over a large enough sample size it won't matter.
Yes, well, bring that up on the Slashdot if you want some suggestions on where to spend the money. Sure, I'll make a suggestion. $52M spread over 1000 developers means an average compensation of $52,000 per developer -- naturally, scaled based on the relative contributions of each. So some may only make $100 while others may make $1M. Even if you consider their entire 2004 revenue of $6M is taken up by expenses and that it holds true today, that still leaves an average of $48,000 per developer. Shouldn't this be the way contributors to open source get rewarded? Or will they make nothing except for the lucky few who are already on salary and have to offer Firefox support services in order to realize revenue?
And the fact that they admitted they copied their site and sent it to their lawyers means they are now distributing copyrighted material without authorization and can be sued for that fact. Petard, hoist, etc.
Agreed... this is something I would consider buying, were it not for the extraordinary price. Now the three button version of it for about $150 is certainly interesting for a few applications. However, the countdown timer to take a preorder is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. The fact that it's a preorder means you're going to have to wait before they're even made. And that there's a countdown means that they're making you wait before you start waiting. If they're in the preorder phase, then just start taking down names already.
Many people swear by French Press, yet I've tried that method several times and the coffee always comes out tasting vile. What's the secret? As the AC said, the important part is to start with the grind. You want a much larger grind than what you get with store-ground coffee -- mostly so that the grounds are large enough that they don't pass through the mesh on the plunger part. Unless you fancy playing around with grind size yourself, the best way to start is to go to your local coffee shop (Starbucks will do) and ask for a grind suitable for a French press (or "Bodum" as most people know it from the craze a decade ago). I don't recall the proper ratio, but I'm sure your coffee shop can tell you that. Pour in enough near-boiling water, leaving room for the coffee, then put the proper amount of coffee in afterwards. Put the plunger part on top so that it pushes the coffee just below the surface of the water and wait a few minutes. Then press the plunger all the way to the bottom and pour your cup. If you've done it right, you'll notice the oils in the coffee much more prominently in your cup than with most other preparation methods.
... roast your own in a hot air popcorn maker. The beans float once roasted... So make sure you have the lid on, otherwise you'll be picking beans up off the ceiling.
Just given a few different months, you could quite easily start narrowing down a leak. Email 1: iPhone delayed until September. Leopard delayed until October. Email 2: October/October Email 3: October/November
If you already had a list of suspected leaks you could narrow the field very quickly with different month combinations. You'd need to make it much more subtle than that. "Hey, did you get the memo that we're delaying the iPhone until September?" "What? I thought it said October." "OMG you're right... ponies!"
Instead, change around words subtly:
1. John Smith, Director of Product Development, has announced that the iPhone release will be pushed back to October. 2. John Smith, Director of Product Development, announced that the iPhone release will be pushed back to October. 3. John Smith, Director of Product Development, has announced that the release of the iPhone will be pushed back to October. 4. John Smith, Director of Product Development, has announced that iPhone release will be delayed until October.
etc. There's probably a dozen ways you could rearrange that and generate combinations of the possibilities that wouldn't be too obvious even if someone read their coworker's version as all the facts and basic sentence structure would be the same. Combine that with modifications in other sentences and with enough work and permutations you might be able to identify a leak with one single email, assuming that the reporting site quotes the source verbatim.
Is this evidence enough that Cringley's stuff can never appear on Slashdot ever again? He's a complete hack of a "journalist". I'd rather see blogs written by 12-year-olds than "articles" by Cringley. Looks like he's taken a page from Dvorak. First, incite them with a ridiculous story which generates tons of traffic. Then, post a follow-up explaining how they mischaracterized what he wrote. Rinse and repeat.
I boil a kettle, immediately pour the water into the cup, add creamer and server. It's likely to be far hotter (close to 100 degrees C) than the coffee at McDonalds. I drink (well, sip) it pretty much straight-away as well. So does everyone I know.
You're a fucking imbecile if you think you're putting 95C or whatever water in your mouth. To be fair, he did say he adds creamer and a server. I assume this server must run on Intel which requires one hell of a cooling unit. The cooling unit cools the coffee down enough to drink.
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A much better interface would be to right-click on a multiline text field, choose "Enter encrypted text" and then enter everything into a FireGPG-created window such that the only text transmitted to Google -- and, thus, saved to draft -- is ciphertext once you choose to populate the browser window's form field with the encrypted version of what you typed.
As far as I can tell, if I transcribe a song into tab it is my work not theirs. The IP was for the recording of the song so it's not RIAA's property. Since, as I said before, I transcribed it myself it is not their work -- the publishers -- but my own. How the fuck can they assume they won everything? How do the artists feel about this?
[I had someone read aloud your post and I have transcribed it here. Please note that the above is *my* work, not yours.]
Little known Bruce Schneier fact: he cryptanalyzed this in his sleep, he just forgot the answer when he woke up.
My thoughts exactly. Any affiliate link should have the HTTP_REFERER header populated with where they came from. If the first hit to the site from any given IP address does not have an affiliate-style link, yet immediately after there's a visit to the site from the same IP address but with its referrer containing an affiliate-style link, then it should be possible to build up a history of suspected fraud. I'm glossing over things like proxy servers as this can either be solved with session cookies (which should persist when the ad interceptor opens the new window) or over a large enough sample size it won't matter.
And the fact that they admitted they copied their site and sent it to their lawyers means they are now distributing copyrighted material without authorization and can be sued for that fact. Petard, hoist, etc.
Agreed... this is something I would consider buying, were it not for the extraordinary price. Now the three button version of it for about $150 is certainly interesting for a few applications. However, the countdown timer to take a preorder is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. The fact that it's a preorder means you're going to have to wait before they're even made. And that there's a countdown means that they're making you wait before you start waiting. If they're in the preorder phase, then just start taking down names already.
... roast your own in a hot air popcorn maker. The beans float once roasted... So make sure you have the lid on, otherwise you'll be picking beans up off the ceiling.Email 1: iPhone delayed until September. Leopard delayed until October.
Email 2: October/October
Email 3: October/November
If you already had a list of suspected leaks you could narrow the field very quickly with different month combinations. You'd need to make it much more subtle than that. "Hey, did you get the memo that we're delaying the iPhone until September?" "What? I thought it said October." "OMG you're right... ponies!"
Instead, change around words subtly:
1. John Smith, Director of Product Development, has announced that the iPhone release will be pushed back to October.
2. John Smith, Director of Product Development, announced that the iPhone release will be pushed back to October.
3. John Smith, Director of Product Development, has announced that the release of the iPhone will be pushed back to October.
4. John Smith, Director of Product Development, has announced that iPhone release will be delayed until October.
etc. There's probably a dozen ways you could rearrange that and generate combinations of the possibilities that wouldn't be too obvious even if someone read their coworker's version as all the facts and basic sentence structure would be the same. Combine that with modifications in other sentences and with enough work and permutations you might be able to identify a leak with one single email, assuming that the reporting site quotes the source verbatim.
And let me jump right in the middle of this and just say that Miyamoto wins.
You're a fucking imbecile if you think you're putting 95C or whatever water in your mouth. To be fair, he did say he adds creamer and a server. I assume this server must run on Intel which requires one hell of a cooling unit. The cooling unit cools the coffee down enough to drink.
You forgot to "Link to this page" before copying the URL. I think this route is what you meant.