They didn't "crack" into anything. The stupid sysadmin forgot to password protect a shared folder on a network which both parties have access to. And it stayed like that for 2+ years, until now
That reminds me of an article about a "Creationist Science Fair". There are some really great science experiments here
. I especially like the experiment "Women Were Designed For Homemaking". This kid is way too advanced for the 7th grade.
Does anyone else remember seeing the SNL skit about Hamburger Helper Anti-bacterial? I'm pretty sure Will Farrel is in it, so it's not too old. The skit shows a couple using rancid meat that's been sitting out for weeks. They mix in the ingredients and then squirt a big tube of some bright blue gunk into the pan. When they're eating the food, they comment about the "tingeling" feeling they get (that's how you know it's working).
How many projects can you think of that would take weeks for a "programmer" but hours for a "scripter"? Lets be real. Obviously there are diffrent tools suited for diffrent tasks, but from a development standpoint, most languages try to offer the functionality you find in other languages. Granted, the code may not be as pretty, and the final product may not be as efficient, but sometime it's more important to put your competent programmer on the job instead of you incompetent scripter, or just the other way around!
Decsisions made for buisness aren't usually going to come with rigorus mathmatical proofs of their efficiency. They're typically the gut feeling of a supervisor who's interest is minimising accountability.
If your skills aren't needed/appreciated at your job, find a new job or learn the skills that are appreciated
If something like this were enacted, it would essentially leave us in the same place. Currently, copyrights are being extend specifically to stop the release of culturally significant works because they are worth money. This scheme would certainly open up less significant works, but are we really fighting for the release of less significant works or are we trying to get fair usage on all works reguardless of their profitability and popularity. I understand that your particular case was about works that are no longer being published, but I think that it was a better case for a challenge to an unjust rule then model for future rules. Releasing Mickey Mouse into the public domain has a much greater affect on our culture then a book that has been partially forgotten, and under this scheme Mickey would still be off limits. We deserve to have all the options, not just the ones that Disney has decided are not profitable
Wait untill you find out that they're the ones who killed the dinosaurs, but then wrote a lovely book about them. Now they're trying to restore the last dinosaur eggs...here we go again
How do you get free local calling? Typically there is atleast a minimum fee for service. if you're paying $10-$15 per month for service, but not paying for calls...well, sorry to burst your bubble, but you're paying for those calls. And in the months that you don't make many calls, you're over paying. I pay for unlimited local service aswell, but if you actually did the math on those numbers, I think you'd find that on a yearly average you always overpay for your unlimited local phone service
I hope that you will remember that studies like these are intended only to find correlations, not to directly determine the cause of the relation. They are not claiming that rejection is the only factor, nor that rejection actually is the factor causing this result. All that they are saying is that there is some sort of relationship between the people studied, their responces to rejection, and an effect on IQ. I tend to beleive that relationships that vauge are most likley true. Wether this study actually accomplishes anything scientific...that is yet to be determined
Now if only Xerces and Xalan would really work together. Sure there are ways to instantiate a Xalan object with a Xerces Document, but that's no real integration. I would love to just use my previously parsed Xerces document fragment for Xalan's Document object. There is a bunch of redundancy that needs to come out before these two projects in a similar arena can really play together. It would really make working with XML a breeze
This entire story is ubserdly inflamatory! There's a lot of MS bashing on this site but this really is a new low. The government has stated that MS has monopolistic practicices, but untill it decieds that they should not be allowed to be a company they have every right to continue promoting their products. The governemt isn's promoting Windows, they are selling add space! As we all know USPS hasn't been doing all that well financially. Email, and now the anthrax scares are causeing them to loss revenue. Selling add space is just one of the ways they do it. Lets face it, AOL/TimeWarner had there finger in that pot too. You think the government is supporting the loony tunes? You can go into any post office and buy pads of paper and other supplies with Looney Tunes charecters and logos. USPS is a buisness, part of the government or not. They are regulated by Congress, but their income does not come from taxes. Unless you all are so anti marketing that you can't accept a small eye sore I suggest you stop complaining and realize that MS has every right to continue advertising and the Post Office needs ad revenue to continue serving you.
The problem isn't that MS is giving their software away. The problem is that they were forcing distrubuters not to include Netscape on pre installed computers. If MS had not leveraged licensing rights then no one would care and you would be allow your preference between all the bug riddled software packages out there
They still do this at Maryland, and I can't beleive that any University offering a large computer science program would not be using it. All grading of these intro level projects is done by an automated process which diffs the output against one the TA's did and runs a cheat checker against it. Then they usually pay some TA's to go through and make sure you used comments appropriatley. The checker isn't just a diff -bwi though, it can detect when variable names are the only thing that's been switched, too.
Besides, the artical says that this has been around since 1993 that's almost 10 years. The second part of the artical is about something that happened a year ago. Must have been a very slow day at Yahoo! News
You don't have to be anonymous going in, only going out. They have your IP already, they might as well also have a username. As long as that info isn't sent through with the outgoing request you are still anonymous
I signed up for an account with them a few months ago and the software they used for the new accounts looked like gnome desktop. Haven't heard any articals about it, but i'd bet my moderation points it was Linux
just pop up an explorer window for cert.com
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this isn't original, a friend found it posted somewhere, but you can call up an internet explorer window with the cert advisory(or the patch for that matter)byt usung the root.exe file.
like such:
http://the.fckd.up.host/scripts/root.exe?/c+explor er+htt p://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-23.html
this works great for cable/dsl users who might not even know they have a webserver running. kinda tough to ignore explorer windows poping up, even on a MS computer.
that's right, everyone looking attractive. Maybe they should all have blond hair and blue eyes too. Maybe, because we have this great new group of people the other people aren't needed anymore. all those lesser developed countries that can't afford to buy their children only take up our space. Mybe we should kill them all, we know they are inferior. They are different the nus, they must be inferior.
Sounds like grounds for another holocaust to me. Maybe you should think before you say that having no individuality is great.
There have been apocaliptic moves in the past and there will be more in the future. just because in a month from now we will be living -yes, i said living- in the year 2000, doesn't mean there will be no motive for these types of movies. with the progression of technology the lay-folk will find something to fear for incoherent reasons. I agree that the graphics in Toy Stroy 2 mark the begining of a whole slew of really cool CGI movies, but the story plot behind it is a genre that has been around for a long time. The movies suit 2 different audiences. I wouldn't take my little sister to EoD, and I wouldn't go to Toys Story 2 w/ "the guys". In a few years we'll just be watching movies about machines taking over their computer generated worlds. then, schwartzenegher can finally put the muscle suit away and just do voices. you've got to admit, the accent is pretty cool.
I think there are a few very valid points here, but the one i'm interested in is working on these projects. I'm a newbie to linux and to programming. Hell i haven't even been able to get my sound card working yet, but i'm more then eger to find a project and start cracking. The problem is, and i will go out on a ledge to say i'm not alone on this, is where to start. I don't have a good idea (yet) myself, and i don't even have a lot of coding experance yet, but i know some C and i'm willing to spend a bunch of hours over this long winter break, in front of my computer. i've always learned by trying to code in the past. I'd love to hear how some of the more influencial people, to linux, got their start. Do i just knock on someones door and ask if they need help? Especially with the widespread fame of some these programs. what if i screw up, i'll never be allowed in on a project again! well, i may be thinking about this a little too much, but i'd love to hear someone else's story.
I'm a windows convert as well. I'd prefer to use linux all the time, but unfortunatly there are still a few things i need windows for. I installed redhat 6, played around in gnome for a while, but i really like the simplicity of KDE. I like the layout and i'm really looking foward to the new version.
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They didn't "crack" into anything. The stupid sysadmin forgot to password protect a shared folder on a network which both parties have access to. And it stayed like that for 2+ years, until now
That reminds me of an article about a "Creationist Science Fair". There are some really great science experiments here . I especially like the experiment "Women Were Designed For Homemaking". This kid is way too advanced for the 7th grade.
Does anyone else remember seeing the SNL skit about Hamburger Helper Anti-bacterial? I'm pretty sure Will Farrel is in it, so it's not too old. The skit shows a couple using rancid meat that's been sitting out for weeks. They mix in the ingredients and then squirt a big tube of some bright blue gunk into the pan. When they're eating the food, they comment about the "tingeling" feeling they get (that's how you know it's working).
Truth really is stranger then fiction
Decsisions made for buisness aren't usually going to come with rigorus mathmatical proofs of their efficiency. They're typically the gut feeling of a supervisor who's interest is minimising accountability. If your skills aren't needed/appreciated at your job, find a new job or learn the skills that are appreciated
If something like this were enacted, it would essentially leave us in the same place. Currently, copyrights are being extend specifically to stop the release of culturally significant works because they are worth money. This scheme would certainly open up less significant works, but are we really fighting for the release of less significant works or are we trying to get fair usage on all works reguardless of their profitability and popularity. I understand that your particular case was about works that are no longer being published, but I think that it was a better case for a challenge to an unjust rule then model for future rules. Releasing Mickey Mouse into the public domain has a much greater affect on our culture then a book that has been partially forgotten, and under this scheme Mickey would still be off limits. We deserve to have all the options, not just the ones that Disney has decided are not profitable
Wait untill you find out that they're the ones who killed the dinosaurs, but then wrote a lovely book about them. Now they're trying to restore the last dinosaur eggs...here we go again
Rooks Rike a candidate very good for www.engrish.com!
How do you get free local calling? Typically there is atleast a minimum fee for service. if you're paying $10-$15 per month for service, but not paying for calls...well, sorry to burst your bubble, but you're paying for those calls. And in the months that you don't make many calls, you're over paying. I pay for unlimited local service aswell, but if you actually did the math on those numbers, I think you'd find that on a yearly average you always overpay for your unlimited local phone service
I hope that you will remember that studies like these are intended only to find correlations, not to directly determine the cause of the relation. They are not claiming that rejection is the only factor, nor that rejection actually is the factor causing this result. All that they are saying is that there is some sort of relationship between the people studied, their responces to rejection, and an effect on IQ. I tend to beleive that relationships that vauge are most likley true. Wether this study actually accomplishes anything scientific...that is yet to be determined
no operator overloading
Now if only Xerces and Xalan would really work together. Sure there are ways to instantiate a Xalan object with a Xerces Document, but that's no real integration. I would love to just use my previously parsed Xerces document fragment for Xalan's Document object. There is a bunch of redundancy that needs to come out before these two projects in a similar arena can really play together. It would really make working with XML a breeze
site says they have a limited number of states avaliable, but those are $8 also
This entire story is ubserdly inflamatory! There's a lot of MS bashing on this site but this really is a new low. The government has stated that MS has monopolistic practicices, but untill it decieds that they should not be allowed to be a company they have every right to continue promoting their products. The governemt isn's promoting Windows, they are selling add space! As we all know USPS hasn't been doing all that well financially. Email, and now the anthrax scares are causeing them to loss revenue. Selling add space is just one of the ways they do it. Lets face it, AOL/TimeWarner had there finger in that pot too. You think the government is supporting the loony tunes? You can go into any post office and buy pads of paper and other supplies with Looney Tunes charecters and logos. USPS is a buisness, part of the government or not. They are regulated by Congress, but their income does not come from taxes. Unless you all are so anti marketing that you can't accept a small eye sore I suggest you stop complaining and realize that MS has every right to continue advertising and the Post Office needs ad revenue to continue serving you.
The problem isn't that MS is giving their software away. The problem is that they were forcing distrubuters not to include Netscape on pre installed computers. If MS had not leveraged licensing rights then no one would care and you would be allow your preference between all the bug riddled software packages out there
If I were good enough to do kernel hacking without taking classes on it, I wouldn't have to study either...ah who am I kidding, I don't actually study
They still do this at Maryland, and I can't beleive that any University offering a large computer science program would not be using it. All grading of these intro level projects is done by an automated process which diffs the output against one the TA's did and runs a cheat checker against it. Then they usually pay some TA's to go through and make sure you used comments appropriatley. The checker isn't just a diff -bwi though, it can detect when variable names are the only thing that's been switched, too.
Besides, the artical says that this has been around since 1993 that's almost 10 years. The second part of the artical is about something that happened a year ago. Must have been a very slow day at Yahoo! News
You don't have to be anonymous going in, only going out. They have your IP already, they might as well also have a username. As long as that info isn't sent through with the outgoing request you are still anonymous
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Because then you'd have bloated hardware, which is worse then bloated software...atleast you ca ndelete bloated software.
I signed up for an account with them a few months ago and the software they used for the new accounts looked like gnome desktop. Haven't heard any articals about it, but i'd bet my moderation points it was Linux
this isn't original, a friend found it posted somewhere, but you can call up an internet explorer window with the cert advisory(or the patch for that matter)byt usung the root.exe file. like such: http://the.fckd.up.host/scripts/root.exe?/c+explor er+htt p://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-23.html
this works great for cable/dsl users who might not even know they have a webserver running. kinda tough to ignore explorer windows poping up, even on a MS computer.
that's right, everyone looking attractive. Maybe they should all have blond hair and blue eyes too. Maybe, because we have this great new group of people the other people aren't needed anymore. all those lesser developed countries that can't afford to buy their children only take up our space. Mybe we should kill them all, we know they are inferior. They are different the nus, they must be inferior.
Sounds like grounds for another holocaust to me. Maybe you should think before you say that having no individuality is great.
There have been apocaliptic moves in the past and there will be more in the future. just because in a month from now we will be living -yes, i said living- in the year 2000, doesn't mean there will be no motive for these types of movies. with the progression of technology the lay-folk will find something to fear for incoherent reasons. I agree that the graphics in Toy Stroy 2 mark the begining of a whole slew of really cool CGI movies, but the story plot behind it is a genre that has been around for a long time. The movies suit 2 different audiences. I wouldn't take my little sister to EoD, and I wouldn't go to Toys Story 2 w/ "the guys". In a few years we'll just be watching movies about machines taking over their computer generated worlds. then, schwartzenegher can finally put the muscle suit away and just do voices. you've got to admit, the accent is pretty cool.
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I think there are a few very valid points here, but the one i'm interested in is working on these projects. I'm a newbie to linux and to programming. Hell i haven't even been able to get my sound card working yet, but i'm more then eger to find a project and start cracking. The problem is, and i will go out on a ledge to say i'm not alone on this, is where to start. I don't have a good idea (yet) myself, and i don't even have a lot of coding experance yet, but i know some C and i'm willing to spend a bunch of hours over this long winter break, in front of my computer. i've always learned by trying to code in the past. I'd love to hear how some of the more influencial people, to linux, got their start. Do i just knock on someones door and ask if they need help? Especially with the widespread fame of some these programs. what if i screw up, i'll never be allowed in on a project again! well, i may be thinking about this a little too much, but i'd love to hear someone else's story.
I'm a windows convert as well. I'd prefer to use linux all the time, but unfortunatly there are still a few things i need windows for. I installed redhat 6, played around in gnome for a while, but i really like the simplicity of KDE. I like the layout and i'm really looking foward to the new version.