Now wait: even though this is a "sample" scam page, which does not "store" information, the access_logs should still simply reveal which page was requested including all variables GETted with it.
But luckily, us/.-ers are way too smart to fall for that...
So, let's see... Google is being bought by Microsoft, right? At least, that's what the gossip-mill says. Now, Google runs on Linux, a stated fact. Most Linux-users happen to not like uncle Gates that much, presumed fact. Google starts to sell it's shares on the internet soon, definite fact. Linux users like Google, presumed fact.
Concluding: in order to prevent Microsoft from obtaining a majority of the available shares and thereby effectively ruining the way Google runs on Linux as well as diminishing the support Google gets from Linux users, those users massively go buy Google stock!
I wonder if this gossip was first found when someone Googled for "google microsoft" and saw the 3rd hit from above...
because they have multiple purposes. Imagine an electronic wire broke within the ISS: Using a pencil one can at least use the conducing graphite to link the two parts together again. I don't see you do this with a cheap (plastic) BIC-pen:=)
Ofcourse, one can also break a pencil in two, and voila: TWO pencils, you colleague astronaut has one too now...
Third option, that a pen doesn't normally provide, is the fact that a pencil can be erased more easily without nasty chemicals. Easy if you want to wipe out the last log-entry in which you were a little drunk and have written down nasty things about the flight-captain.
When you need to draw a very fine line, one can sharpen the pencil to make it so. I don't see them sharpening a pen:)
Concluding: regardless of the truth of the "pen doesn't work in space but pencil does" story, it is still a much more versatile tool than a pen, so it "works" better....
Looking at the book again, perhaps the OCR technology is not the problem, but the paper on which the book was printed (paperback).
So at least you can use this as a quick way to filter out books that were printed on bad paper, books with bad lettertype etc...
I think one of the things that I have been missing in this discussion is fear of knowing less than a certificate asks you to know.
Yes, you might think you are a pretty sleek Linux knower, but question A on page 2 of the certification test baffles you, and you can't answer it.
Before one thinks of certification, one has to admit that he/she doesn't know 'everything' there is to know about an operating system like Linux. The goal of certification should therefore be to stimulate you to learn more, instead of asking you the questions you can already answer.
In essence, it is the challenge that counts here, not the paper you get afterwards. People who only want to have the paper are probably in the wrong class, and should go study on their Word skills or something...
Because I don't want to spend minutes each day clicking away nasty popup-menu's as a citizen of Europe. Leave us out of your nasty DMCA-rules please:=)
So....I guess they have to build in some code which checks the regional settings of your country: "if uRegionalSetting == UNITED_STATES { doPopup(); }"
And now for something completely different (R): did anyone know you can change your regional settings to match the country you are in ?
Would be neat if my corn-CD can be absorbed my means of consumption after I decided I have no longer any use for it... Maybe I can put it on a stove and create pop-corn of it, or would that be called... pop-cd-rom ?
I believe it was the move the China Syndrome in which the "certified" pipe-plans prooved to be a copy of one original pipe-plan. It seems, and most likely is, far stretched that this would happen in reality, but with so much regulation going on, something is bound to "slip by" the bureaucratic paperwork every now and then...
Reading the article, I can't help but feel a great sense of loss in my current situation. Paying too much money for energy, failing powerlines, unthrusty neighbours who cross powercables and make the juice stop...
This idea would really bring a solution! Now, provided they miniaturise it even more, I can have a nice small reactor in my dorm room. It would fit neatly next to my server, and as an added bonus will probably provide me with enough heat to keep my room warm!
In the winter, when it is cold outside, I could lift up the carbon a bit to let the reactor produce a little more heat. I could place my feet on it and feel nicely warm and all. And it will last me 30 years !
When my mother-in-law drops by, I can even remotely lift up the carbon a bit more to keep her nicely warm too. This would even save me more energy, as I can switch off the lamps when I get back, and watch my mother-in-law light up the room!
When I feel sick, and don't want to go to the doctor, I can make my own rontgen-photo's, wouldn't that also look cool on party's !
Then, as a final bonus, when I have had it with the dorm room, I can simply remove the carbon all together, and watch the mushroom cloud from afar!
Ever tried entering an email on a mobile phone? Its pure horror. You can't oversee your sentence (unless you have font size -1), so you are bound to make grammatical mistakes. If you are a techie who thus uses his or her mobile phone to enter an e-mail to your average PHB, he will read it all wrong and it will get you fired. That takes away your smart phone which was ofcourse property of the company you worked for. Thus you have no other solution but to use your old Palm Pilot again, and suddenly realizing things aren't halve so bad as with that fancy smart phone...
I wish I could say:
what do we care, we just use any of the other IM's out there...
But then I think of the people I know that use MSN without protest, who have no problems with their connection, people who use MSN Messenger. People I do not dislike for that fact: they know not better. Now the foul sword of Bill cuts the one link we had to try and gain a symbiosis between our species.
What now? Shall we cease our diplomacy and switch over to the other IM? Shall we resist our attempts to keep ourselves free and mindlessly implement the twisted program that is called MSN Messenger? The thought alone strikes fear in me!
I take the one and only possible step: resist the urge for getting together online:
I will simply use the phone.
The movie was on the Belgian television yesterday, and one thing strikes me, reading this article. Even though, in one small part of the big big world, genetically checking employees is not allowed, it was clearly mentioned in the movie that that practice was not legal there too.
Employers, however, would simply take some DNA of the doorknob, or analyze the urine-sample for "drug-testing".
Clearly, this law is not a complete practical ban on genetic testing, if it ever be widely available. There will probably need to be organisations that guarantuee that this ban is implemented correctly. A sort of "ombudsman" so to speak.
[NEW YORK -... operating system. ]
Hi GPL lovers! Read this article, it will interest you!
[The Lindon,... the adoption of Linux.]
This is a very interesting article that covers current topics!
[But the... proponents themselves. ]
Be scared GPL lovers, very scared... of yourselves!
[For months,... year alone. ]
Those evil GPL lovers are doing very nasty things to one of our fellow rich company !
[But now there's... knockoff of your product. ]
They are actually implementing a license issue, isn't that what we (rich companies) oppose so much !?
[Not great... its big suppliers. ]
Poor cisco.
[For several months,... obey the rules." ]
[ The legal teeth... wouldn't comment. ]
Ofcourse those GPL lovers insist they are not, blah blah blah.. we don't believe them !
[The dispute,... code-writing labor. ]
This was so secret and hidden, until one of their commie-bastard-comrades played traitor on those GPL lovers!
[In fact... bust them. ]
Those commie bastards do even more filthy things!
[Who pays... Moglen says. ]
They sue to make money ! Isn't that hypocrite!?
[Sometimes it's... sign of gratitude?" ]
And they even get money from people who like what they are doing, bastards !
[The mySQL... with cloners. ]
But they want more than money, they want the heart of our filthy rich companies !
[Or maybe,... Kuhn says. ]
Or they want us all to be commies too, yea behold !!
[So far... Columbia University. ]
And all our fellow companies have gone scared uptil now!
[Will Cisco... to fight. ]
Now the latest issue will probably turn out into a win for those commie bastards too!
[Such a pity, comrade. ]
Hey GPL lover, if you read just the beginning and the end of the article, you could actually think it is a positive look on what you are doing! Har har har...
because everyone who as autorun turned off will be committing a felony !
I mean, you are circumventing a copy protection system, which can't clearly be legal. This is a much bigger case than the person who just points out to a way of breaking the law, these people are actually doing it.
"'Oh, that was easy,' says man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing" - Douglas Adams
That's not completely true. A ping only *seems* to take so long because it hops across a lot of routers. The TTL router is decreased anyway during the transit.
In essence, what a DoS or 'slower internet' would do is just congest the network so much that a ping will probably not reach the next hop, but just get dropped because the ('slow') router has too much data to process.
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Now wait: even though this is a "sample" scam page, which does not "store" information, the access_logs should still simply reveal which page was requested including all variables GETted with it. /.-ers are way too smart to fall for that...
But luckily, us
So, let's see...
Google is being bought by Microsoft, right? At least, that's what the gossip-mill says.
Now, Google runs on Linux, a stated fact.
Most Linux-users happen to not like uncle Gates that much, presumed fact.
Google starts to sell it's shares on the internet soon, definite fact.
Linux users like Google, presumed fact.
Concluding: in order to prevent Microsoft from obtaining a majority of the available shares and thereby effectively ruining the way Google runs on Linux as well as diminishing the support Google gets from Linux users, those users massively go buy Google stock!
I wonder if this gossip was first found when someone Googled for "google microsoft" and saw the 3rd hit from above...
Hey, what happened to Moore's law ??
So, erm, we should get our UPS's readied up and our backup-generators loaded now, right?
because they have multiple purposes. Imagine an electronic wire broke within the ISS: Using a pencil one can at least use the conducing graphite to link the two parts together again. I don't see you do this with a cheap (plastic) BIC-pen :=)
:)
Ofcourse, one can also break a pencil in two, and voila: TWO pencils, you colleague astronaut has one too now...
Third option, that a pen doesn't normally provide, is the fact that a pencil can be erased more easily without nasty chemicals. Easy if you want to wipe out the last log-entry in which you were a little drunk and have written down nasty things about the flight-captain.
When you need to draw a very fine line, one can sharpen the pencil to make it so. I don't see them sharpening a pen
Concluding: regardless of the truth of the "pen doesn't work in space but pencil does" story, it is still a much more versatile tool than a pen, so it "works" better....
Looking at the book again, perhaps the OCR technology is not the problem, but the paper on which the book was printed (paperback).
So at least you can use this as a quick way to filter out books that were printed on bad paper, books with bad lettertype etc...
Neat idea, but some excerpts come out all wrong:
See this for example...
Mass-OCR'ing has it's drawbacks..
I think one of the things that I have been missing in this discussion is fear of knowing less than a certificate asks you to know.
Yes, you might think you are a pretty sleek Linux knower, but question A on page 2 of the certification test baffles you, and you can't answer it.
Before one thinks of certification, one has to admit that he/she doesn't know 'everything' there is to know about an operating system like Linux. The goal of certification should therefore be to stimulate you to learn more, instead of asking you the questions you can already answer.
In essence, it is the challenge that counts here, not the paper you get afterwards. People who only want to have the paper are probably in the wrong class, and should go study on their Word skills or something...
Because I don't want to spend minutes each day clicking away nasty popup-menu's as a citizen of Europe. Leave us out of your nasty DMCA-rules please :=)
So....I guess they have to build in some code which checks the regional settings of your country: "if uRegionalSetting == UNITED_STATES { doPopup(); }"
And now for something completely different (R): did anyone know you can change your regional settings to match the country you are in ?
Would be neat if my corn-CD can be absorbed my means of consumption after I decided I have no longer any use for it... Maybe I can put it on a stove and create pop-corn of it, or would that be called... pop-cd-rom ?
Ah well, smoke detectors are safe ; they use a nuclear core.
Why would nuclear reactors not be safe too ; they use a nuclear core as well !
I believe it was the move the China Syndrome in which the "certified" pipe-plans prooved to be a copy of one original pipe-plan.
It seems, and most likely is, far stretched that this would happen in reality, but with so much regulation going on, something is bound to "slip by" the bureaucratic paperwork every now and then...
Reading the article, I can't help but feel a great sense of loss in my current situation. Paying too much money for energy, failing powerlines, unthrusty neighbours who cross powercables and make the juice stop...
This idea would really bring a solution! Now, provided they miniaturise it even more, I can have a nice small reactor in my dorm room. It would fit neatly next to my server, and as an added bonus will probably provide me with enough heat to keep my room warm!
In the winter, when it is cold outside, I could lift up the carbon a bit to let the reactor produce a little more heat. I could place my feet on it and feel nicely warm and all. And it will last me 30 years !
When my mother-in-law drops by, I can even remotely lift up the carbon a bit more to keep her nicely warm too. This would even save me more energy, as I can switch off the lamps when I get back, and watch my mother-in-law light up the room!
When I feel sick, and don't want to go to the doctor, I can make my own rontgen-photo's, wouldn't that also look cool on party's !
Then, as a final bonus, when I have had it with the dorm room, I can simply remove the carbon all together, and watch the mushroom cloud from afar!
Three times hurray for nuclear energy!
Ever tried entering an email on a mobile phone? Its pure horror.
You can't oversee your sentence (unless you have font size -1), so you are bound to make grammatical mistakes. If you are a techie who thus uses his or her mobile phone to enter an e-mail to your average PHB, he will read it all wrong and it will get you fired.
That takes away your smart phone which was ofcourse property of the company you worked for. Thus you have no other solution but to use your old Palm Pilot again, and suddenly realizing things aren't halve so bad as with that fancy smart phone...
Same thought, two different places in time and space. :)
Deep
Isn't that the Mars face ?
OMG StoneHenge was created by aliens!
But the word temporarily really meant what it usually means...
Lucky enough my PC has a backup bios :=)
I wish I could say:
what do we care, we just use any of the other IM's out there...
But then I think of the people I know that use MSN without protest, who have no problems with their connection, people who use MSN Messenger.
People I do not dislike for that fact: they know not better. Now the foul sword of Bill cuts the one link we had to try and gain a symbiosis between our species.
What now?
Shall we cease our diplomacy and switch over to the other IM?
Shall we resist our attempts to keep ourselves free and mindlessly implement the twisted program that is called MSN Messenger? The thought alone strikes fear in me!
I take the one and only possible step: resist the urge for getting together online:
I will simply use the phone.
The movie was on the Belgian television yesterday, and one thing strikes me, reading this article.
Even though, in one small part of the big big world, genetically checking employees is not allowed, it was clearly mentioned in the movie that that practice was not legal there too.
Employers, however, would simply take some DNA of the doorknob, or analyze the urine-sample for "drug-testing".
Clearly, this law is not a complete practical ban on genetic testing, if it ever be widely available. There will probably need to be organisations that guarantuee that this ban is implemented correctly. A sort of "ombudsman" so to speak.
[NEW YORK - ... operating system. ]
... the adoption of Linux.]
... proponents themselves. ]
... year alone. ]
... knockoff of your product. ]
... its big suppliers. ]
... obey the rules." ] ... wouldn't comment. ]
... code-writing labor. ]
... bust them. ]
... Moglen says. ]
... sign of gratitude?" ]
... with cloners. ]
... Kuhn says. ]
... Columbia University. ]
... to fight. ]
Hi GPL lovers! Read this article, it will interest you!
[The Lindon,
This is a very interesting article that covers current topics!
[But the
Be scared GPL lovers, very scared... of yourselves!
[For months,
Those evil GPL lovers are doing very nasty things to one of our fellow rich company !
[But now there's
They are actually implementing a license issue, isn't that what we (rich companies) oppose so much !?
[Not great
Poor cisco.
[For several months,
[ The legal teeth
Ofcourse those GPL lovers insist they are not, blah blah blah.. we don't believe them !
[The dispute,
This was so secret and hidden, until one of their commie-bastard-comrades played traitor on those GPL lovers!
[In fact
Those commie bastards do even more filthy things!
[Who pays
They sue to make money ! Isn't that hypocrite!?
[Sometimes it's
And they even get money from people who like what they are doing, bastards !
[The mySQL
But they want more than money, they want the heart of our filthy rich companies !
[Or maybe,
Or they want us all to be commies too, yea behold !!
[So far
And all our fellow companies have gone scared uptil now!
[Will Cisco
Now the latest issue will probably turn out into a win for those commie bastards too!
[Such a pity, comrade. ]
Hey GPL lover, if you read just the beginning and the end of the article, you could actually think it is a positive look on what you are doing! Har har har...
because everyone who as autorun turned off will be committing a felony !
I mean, you are circumventing a copy protection system, which can't clearly be legal. This is a much bigger case than the person who just points out to a way of breaking the law, these people are actually doing it.
"'Oh, that was easy,' says man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing" - Douglas Adams
That's not completely true. A ping only *seems* to take so long because it hops across a lot of routers. The TTL router is decreased anyway during the transit.
In essence, what a DoS or 'slower internet' would do is just congest the network so much that a ping will probably not reach the next hop, but just get dropped because the ('slow') router has too much data to process.
A few weeks ago, an article floated that RSA had designed an "RFID-Blocker", which intelligently blocks out RFID tags.
I guess it won't take long before the first investments are made in this little machine...
Not to mention:
A pencil even works in a weightless environment, so we are even prepared for the future...