Why do we always feel like the kids in our society need so much protection all the time. Ever notice that the only people that can open child proof locks are kids? The same thing applies here, while grandpa can't figure out how to open his email, the 9 year old grand child will explain to him how to get around child-protection on some restricted site. Any kid who wants to badly enough will have no trouble convincing the site that they are more then 12 years old.
I forsee a lot of difficulties with using the Palm signature. If someone gets their hands on one person's digital signature on disk (or ram card or whatever else), they can use their authentic signature all over the place.
"Yes, I _am_ sure I want to sell this property to this person for $1.00."
paraphrased: 'at a constant temperature of -12C to -13C, (8-9F). Very constant.:)
Now i'm wondering, what do you do in a power failure? You have a huge, several thousand year old meat pack in your lab freezer, and it begins to defrost.......now I see where the Mickey D's reference comes from.:)
Yeah but in dos iirc, ascii codes are $ascii%256, so putting in numbers larger then 255 (128-255 being the 'upper character set', could be there simply as a decoy. The article essentially said you need little experience to decode this, and as a result, few true geeks will get it, as [we] will always be trying to find the more complicated solution, assuming it *couldn't* be so simple.......
That code looks suspiciously like ASCII thrown into the IBM alphabet...I am a resident of Quebec (how nice), so I don't think I'll bother participating. Those of us outside the jurisdictions can throw ideas around as we have nothing to lose right?:)
That's an eye-opener of an article. It makes me wonder, we have interviewed so many other people on slashdot - would it be possible to send a list of questions to Bill Gates that we would like answers to? Among them could be the points listed in this article that were omitted, but perhaps we could all learn a lot about who he really is if we actually got to interact with him as group.
The Canadian Government has been working on making Canada the World's most connected country, and IIRC, CBC announced last fall that as much as half of the country has direct access, and there are thousands of CACI (Community Access Centres for the Internet)s across Canada allowing nearly every Canadian to get on line.
Makes me wonder - why don't they just announce the 'impending arrival' of new hardware when they already have it, and all they have to do is ship it that way? If you get everything ready, and _then_ hype it up, and _then_ ship, then these things can happen and noone will ever know.
To me it sounds like this is just one more person trying to cash in on the recent law-suite (sp?) lottery raging across the US for the past few years. She won her gamble in the court room, where she lost it on the web.
But how on earth did she get a $70,000 line of credit to waste in the first place, anyway?
Ok, lets say piracy is stopped cold turkey, and lets further say that 18000 new jobs are created over night. The US government goes oh no! We are having too much growth! And boom, we are in another economic recession...and 180,000 people are put out of work. Now _that's_ productive.
This won't get read, but anyway - remember last year when Microsoft came out with its light-based mouse? Anyone notice its just because Sun's patent on it expired shortly before...
Which reminds me - many a hay silo has been known to spontaneously combust due to the high temperatures of rotting with nothing to check their increase. Now that's vegetable danger.:)
Heh. Microsoft is grasping at straws, and the microserfs can't seem to be able to see through it. Any one here gotten windows to stay up more then a week more then once at the desktop? I used to get memory errors after 24 to 48 hours with 128M. I measure my desktop uptime in months now though.
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Yes, assuming you are using an operating system and a new nic that supports it, you can change it.
:)
For the fun of it set it to 00:DE:AD:00:BE:EF
Then why isn't IPv6 just 0.0.0.0.0 instead. Seems to be it would make life a lot simpler. And I don't think 255^5 IP addresses will go to quickly.....
Anyone notice there is no count_me_out@ email address for them? :)
Why do we always feel like the kids in our society need so much protection all the time. Ever notice that the only people that can open child proof locks are kids? The same thing applies here, while grandpa can't figure out how to open his email, the 9 year old grand child will explain to him how to get around child-protection on some restricted site. Any kid who wants to badly enough will have no trouble convincing the site that they are more then 12 years old.
I forsee a lot of difficulties with using the Palm signature. If someone gets their hands on one person's digital signature on disk (or ram card or whatever else), they can use their authentic signature all over the place.
"Yes, I _am_ sure I want to sell this property to this person for $1.00."
Horse + Donkey = Muel (I think i have the order right) :)
Elephant + Mammoth + Scientist = Mammoth
no wait......
paraphrased: 'at a constant temperature of -12C to -13C, (8-9F). Very constant. :)
:)
Now i'm wondering, what do you do in a power failure? You have a huge, several thousand year old meat pack in your lab freezer, and it begins to defrost.......now I see where the Mickey D's reference comes from.
Could someone put the movie through to aalib so I can watch it at the console?
:) )
(j/k
Easy choice: svgalib. :)
Yeah but in dos iirc, ascii codes are $ascii%256, so putting in numbers larger then 255 (128-255 being the 'upper character set', could be there simply as a decoy. The article essentially said you need little experience to decode this, and as a result, few true geeks will get it, as [we] will always be trying to find the more complicated solution, assuming it *couldn't* be so simple.......
That code looks suspiciously like ASCII thrown into the IBM alphabet...I am a resident of Quebec (how nice), so I don't think I'll bother participating. Those of us outside the jurisdictions can throw ideas around as we have nothing to lose right? :)
That's an eye-opener of an article. It makes me wonder, we have interviewed so many other people on slashdot - would it be possible to send a list of questions to Bill Gates that we would like answers to? Among them could be the points listed in this article that were omitted, but perhaps we could all learn a lot about who he really is if we actually got to interact with him as group.
The Canadian Government has been working on making Canada the World's most connected country, and IIRC, CBC announced last fall that as much as half of the country has direct access, and there are thousands of CACI (Community Access Centres for the Internet)s across Canada allowing nearly every Canadian to get on line.
:) (I do, anyway)
Gotta love social democracy
That's why they like to make risc processors! :)
Makes me wonder - why don't they just announce the 'impending arrival' of new hardware when they already have it, and all they have to do is ship it that way? If you get everything ready, and _then_ hype it up, and _then_ ship, then these things can happen and noone will ever know.
Just my $.02, add GST if in Canada
The world has three types of people, those who can count, and those who can't. :)
Lets organise to have BillG give $1,000,000,000 to the FSF. :)
To me it sounds like this is just one more person trying to cash in on the recent law-suite (sp?) lottery raging across the US for the past few years. She won her gamble in the court room, where she lost it on the web.
But how on earth did she get a $70,000 line of credit to waste in the first place, anyway?
Ok, lets say piracy is stopped cold turkey, and lets further say that 18000 new jobs are created over night. The US government goes oh no! We are having too much growth! And boom, we are in another economic recession...and 180,000 people are put out of work. Now _that's_ productive.
This won't get read, but anyway -
remember last year when Microsoft came out with its light-based mouse? Anyone notice its just because Sun's patent on it expired shortly before...
Yes, sorry, that's what I meant. Not bad memory, but out-of-memory errors.
...get a better hacker. :)
I'm curious - how come a score of oss hackers can make massive improvements to extensive code in 48 hours where their own coders couldn't?
Ok I won't complain. :)
:)
I'll just note that the five topic icons at the top are for articles 7,8,9,10 and 11.
Which reminds me - many a hay silo has been known to spontaneously combust due to the high temperatures of rotting with nothing to check their increase. Now that's vegetable danger. :)
I eat vegetarians.
Heh. Microsoft is grasping at straws, and the microserfs can't seem to be able to see through it. Any one here gotten windows to stay up more then a week more then once at the desktop? I used to get memory errors after 24 to 48 hours with 128M.
I measure my desktop uptime in months now though.