Opera allows you to change the idetification string sent in the "User Agent" HTTP header - you know, the bit that tells them whether your using Mozilla, IE, Opera, etc...
If I leave it identifying as Opera, I get the bullshit MSDN deeptreeconfig.xml. However, if I change the browser identification to MSIE6, i get the article as desired!!
It gets worse than just "grounding adaptors"... I live in New Zealand. Our company ships products to the States, and it has recently come to our attention that the official statistics have the number of american homes without an earth connection at around 20%.
I don't know about you but that scares me more than a little.
The comparison is that GPL software is free "as in free speech, not free beer".
This translates to roughly:
"you can charge for it but you can't control it"
Or whatever...
How recent is your media player? I believe the later versions are worse. I run 7.1 which doesn't seem to try to contact MS so much as 9 does (I used to use 9, and Zonealarm complained about it all the time...)
I worked briefly as a spammer, Then you are a social parasite. People like you should be subjected to public harassment, the more painful the better. I vote that the coliseum concept should be reinstated into the justice system - Tonight's main attraction... Spammers vs Lions!
First, it's not illegal to send unsolicited emails. Second, it's not illegal to use passive defensive measures to block said spam. But why should we have to? Lots of things aren't illegal, but they piss people off.
...but then lost my income as a result of an anti-spam hacker with a chip on his shoulder. I can hear the violins... It's such a sad story - the guy who pissed everybody off lost his irritating source of income... If I had my way you'd lose more than that. I'd ban all spammers from using the internet at all, and enforce it by removing all their fingers with a blunt axe. I hope you and all your amoral spamming kind rot in hell.
There's no use for vigilantes on the internet. But there is assumedly a use for spammers?
I take it that you've never heard of Delphi then?
Comments like that only bely your ignorance, but don't worry, you'll grow up one day.
Pascal is an ideal teaching language, it teaches good habits and is actually quite powerful in it's constructs.
Anyone remember Fasttracker? Written in borland pascal and it was the best tracker there was IMO
I couldn't say for sure, but it's possible that theyre just using a better coding scheme.
ZIP et al use (as far as I know) variations on the LZ type compression algorithms. These are fast, but definitely not the best entropy removal methods available.
Arithmetic coding OTOH is very effective, removes more entropy than LZ, LZW, or Huffman, but is slow because it needs to collect statistics on the entire file before compression.
I dunno about decompression speed though
Arithmetic coding is patented though, same as LZW,so not just anyone can use it.
Just my $0.02...
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I just tried an interesting experiment:
Opera allows you to change the idetification string sent in the "User Agent" HTTP header - you know, the bit that tells them whether your using Mozilla, IE, Opera, etc...
If I leave it identifying as Opera, I get the bullshit MSDN deeptreeconfig.xml. However, if I change the browser identification to MSIE6, i get the article as desired!!
This has happened before (see details of the Opera "Bork" edition) but I thought M$ had stopped this childish game - seems maybe not...
Kicks the shit out of IE
Do the maths again, but do it properly this time. Don't just add up every number you can see...
you're telling me you pay for a newspaper with a CC?
Well yeah... there's no transaction fees on my CC - $0.50 per transaction on my debit card...
Of course, thate here in New Zealand, YMMV...
It gets worse than just "grounding adaptors"... I live in New Zealand. Our company ships products to the States, and it has recently come to our attention that the official statistics have the number of american homes without an earth connection at around 20%.
I don't know about you but that scares me more than a little.
You are an idiot, people like you should be kept away from /.
I know, i know - IHBT IHL IHAND
The comparison is that GPL software is free "as in free speech, not free beer". This translates to roughly: "you can charge for it but you can't control it" Or whatever...
How recent is your media player? I believe the later versions are worse. I run 7.1 which doesn't seem to try to contact MS so much as 9 does (I used to use 9, and Zonealarm complained about it all the time...)
You suck, oh yes you do.
Read it and weep mac luser.
2+2=5
I Love Big Brother!
I don't know if I'd be doing what I do now (programming, or even reading slashdot) if it wasn't for the C64.
Amen brother!
I worked briefly as a spammer,
...but then lost my income as a result of an anti-spam hacker with a chip on his shoulder.
Then you are a social parasite. People like you should be subjected to public harassment, the more painful the better.
I vote that the coliseum concept should be reinstated into the justice system - Tonight's main attraction... Spammers vs Lions!
First, it's not illegal to send unsolicited emails. Second, it's not illegal to use passive defensive measures to block said spam.
But why should we have to? Lots of things aren't illegal, but they piss people off.
I can hear the violins... It's such a sad story - the guy who pissed everybody off lost his irritating source of income... If I had my way you'd lose more than that. I'd ban all spammers from using the internet at all, and enforce it by removing all their fingers with a blunt axe. I hope you and all your amoral spamming kind rot in hell.
There's no use for vigilantes on the internet.
But there is assumedly a use for spammers?
You are a git.
If only I had a gun...
STFW
Google is a wonderful thing
Yes but the difference here is the words "The book I used"
Most of us that learned to use QBasic didn't have a book... just the online help (OK so I learned C64 Basic first... but only a little bit...)
I take it that you've never heard of Delphi then?
Comments like that only bely your ignorance, but don't worry, you'll grow up one day.
Pascal is an ideal teaching language, it teaches good habits and is actually quite powerful in it's constructs.
Anyone remember Fasttracker? Written in borland pascal and it was the best tracker there was IMO
I couldn't say for sure, but it's possible that theyre just using a better coding scheme. ZIP et al use (as far as I know) variations on the LZ type compression algorithms. These are fast, but definitely not the best entropy removal methods available. Arithmetic coding OTOH is very effective, removes more entropy than LZ, LZW, or Huffman, but is slow because it needs to collect statistics on the entire file before compression. I dunno about decompression speed though Arithmetic coding is patented though, same as LZW,so not just anyone can use it. Just my $0.02...
Or you could use apache with mod_python - I have never used Zope but i know the python (and mod_python) docs are pretty good... //Adam