OpenGL demos-oh no... NO!!! This can only mean...
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....that damn 3D-studio duck will be returning to our screens within days.... Grrrrr! Please no.... it can't be allowed to happen my duck nightmares have been reoccuring ever since I first saw that duck a few times in the mid 90's.... quack quack.... Noooooooooooooo
And for anyone keen to go looking for Alan's lost cash stash... Chances are it will now be buried under one of Milton Keynes small number of round-a-bout's (join the dots!!!) or being guarded by the bizarre Milton Keynes concrete cows. No wonder Alan couldn't find it again !!
You wouldn't expect a public office to hang onto every piece of paper, so why should they be expected to hang onto every email they have ever received?
There are always going to be things like replies to an original question and subsequent follow up questions going back and forth, so normally hanging onto the latest/final reply would be sufficient (providing it had the previous history - clearly showed the conclusion).
Now if they were to use this as an excuse to accidently lose records that would be a different matter. This however is where auditors should be playing a role to ensure that they are keeping the right records and discarding the rubbish.
But, arguably, the same weapons also prevented World War III, and are continuing to do so.
On the whole like you I believe this to be true. However the world as I see it is constantly now balancing on the edge, and there are 2 facts which when combined together may just one day upset this balance:
proliferation - Far too many dangerous weapons/substances were left literally lying around after the break up of the cold war.
different perspectives - There are people in the world who would definately press a big red button given half the chance without even stopping to think about the consequences.
The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties
[Clears throat... *coughs*]
"I would just like to apologize to the excellent admins of wikipedia for forgetting to remove my original direct link.... no doubt all the new extra traffic coming from Slashdot is not going to help much... sorry !!"
It could be argued that all inventions can be put to good uses and a bad uses. e.g. Nuclear power, cars etc. A frying pan was a useful invention and yet they can be very dangerous during a domestic... ouch... erm gotta... ouch!...go... OOOOUCH!
This reminds of a story I was once told by an UK telephone industry insider. The profit for a customer call to a premium rate number is usually split between service provider and the operator of the premium rate service.
When a well known UK telephone company first created a business line unlimited calls option in the early 1990's for around 400GBP per month someone worked out a clever and legal (at the time!) money making scheme. What this person did was to setup 2 phonelines:
Line A - a premium rate number as the operator
Line B - a business line with unlimited calls option
They then setup line B (unlimited calls) to call line A (premium rate) continuously so that half the profit of the calls to the premium rate line would go to them!!!
After several days the telephone company stopped this person's profit making scheme by blocking the ability to dial premium rate calls from their unlimited service and changing the service contract but not before the telephone company had ended up paying a lot of money to someone for their clever scheme.
1)Create completely random fake tech project which will look interesting to your average slashdot nerd 2)Compress your important files with apparent project together with a random open source licence 3)Ensure project hosted on a low grade webserver 4)Ensure your friends will email a link to the apparently interesting project to slashdot, so that it appears not long after your demise.
Lay back (well you'd be dead...) as:
1)The story is featured at least twice on slashdot 2)Hundreds of people will make backups aka mirrors 3)Someone creates a bit-torent to ease further sharing 4)The original copy is automagically shutdown 5)People eventually realise that what they've spent ages trying to download wasn't worth it:-)
in the 3 minutes it said that it was gonna take to down this initially
You miss read it. The 3 minutes referred to how long it was going to take to down his server not that small 65Mb file you wanted. Looks like the down calculation was correct;)
Security focus provided the following good explanation:
"...Grsecurity is a suite of patches (distributed as a single patch file) for the Linux kernel that are an attempt to improve the security of a Linux system. Grsecurity is based on a port of some previous patches for the Linux 2.2 kernel, including Openwall and PaX, which have never been ported to the 2.4 kernel. Grsecurity provides some updates to these patches and has been ported to the Linux 2.4 kernel..." continue reading SecurityFocus's review.
Re:Javascript Browser Sniffer (mod parent up)
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Useful thx. Currently the JsBrwSniff the project are looking for a logo. I can't draw myself but I guess a picture of a "sniffer dog" combined with say the anybrowser logo might do the trick. Anyone?
a lot of time, I just don't want to be bothered cooking a meal for one. All the prep work, the cooking time, then the clean up involved. Sometimes I just want to nuke it , eat it, and toss it.
One word "freezer"!
Prepare extra food in advance, freeze, decide what you are eating the night before, thaw overnight, place in fridge whilst before going to work, return, zap, eat. Decent food at the speed of a microwave meal.
Totally agree. I didn't cook much until my girlfriend started to encourage me... Then I found this very funny book which has been a great help - Cooking for blokes: Duncan Anderson and Marian Walls. Note: It even includes a detailed section dedicated to explaining all those weird "gas mark" settings and spoon sizes!! Now I just wish they would write "ironing for blokes":-)
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....that damn 3D-studio duck will be returning to our screens within days.... Grrrrr! Please no.... it can't be allowed to happen my duck nightmares have been reoccuring ever since I first saw that duck a few times in the mid 90's.... quack quack.... Noooooooooooooo
But once built what would the world do with her?
And for anyone keen to go looking for Alan's lost cash stash... Chances are it will now be buried under one of Milton Keynes small number of round-a-bout's (join the dots!!!) or being guarded by the bizarre Milton Keynes concrete cows. No wonder Alan couldn't find it again !!
Tony Sale's webpage - WW II Codes and Ciphers is well worth a visit also.
Easy by monitoring for traffic with the evil bit set which will either be originating from hell or going there :)
There are always going to be things like replies to an original question and subsequent follow up questions going back and forth, so normally hanging onto the latest/final reply would be sufficient (providing it had the previous history - clearly showed the conclusion).
Now if they were to use this as an excuse to accidently lose records that would be a different matter. This however is where auditors should be playing a role to ensure that they are keeping the right records and discarding the rubbish.
But, arguably, the same weapons also prevented World War III, and are continuing to do so.
On the whole like you I believe this to be true. However the world as I see it is constantly now balancing on the edge, and there are 2 facts which when combined together may just one day upset this balance:
[Clears throat... *coughs*]
"I would just like to apologize to the excellent admins of wikipedia for forgetting to remove my original direct link.... no doubt all the new extra traffic coming from Slashdot is not going to help much... sorry !!"
It could be argued that all inventions can be put to good uses and a bad uses. e.g. Nuclear power, cars etc. A frying pan was a useful invention and yet they can be very dangerous during a domestic... ouch... erm gotta... ouch!...go... OOOOUCH!
Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server
Oh well never mind instead click here for a google cache of Bill's page on wikipedia
When a well known UK telephone company first created a business line unlimited calls option in the early 1990's for around 400GBP per month someone worked out a clever and legal (at the time!) money making scheme. What this person did was to setup 2 phonelines:
- Line A - a premium rate number as the operator
- Line B - a business line with unlimited calls option
They then setup line B (unlimited calls) to call line A (premium rate) continuously so that half the profit of the calls to the premium rate line would go to them!!!After several days the telephone company stopped this person's profit making scheme by blocking the ability to dial premium rate calls from their unlimited service and changing the service contract but not before the telephone company had ended up paying a lot of money to someone for their clever scheme.
1)Create completely random fake tech project which will look interesting to your average slashdot nerd
:-)
2)Compress your important files with apparent project together with a random open source licence
3)Ensure project hosted on a low grade webserver
4)Ensure your friends will email a link to the apparently interesting project to slashdot, so that it appears not long after your demise.
Lay back (well you'd be dead...) as:
1)The story is featured at least twice on slashdot
2)Hundreds of people will make backups aka mirrors
3)Someone creates a bit-torent to ease further sharing
4)The original copy is automagically shutdown
5)People eventually realise that what they've spent ages trying to download wasn't worth it
Hmmm I wonder if anyone has patented waving.... !
/. :-)
You miss read it. The 3 minutes referred to how long it was going to take to down his server not that small 65Mb file you wanted. Looks like the down calculation was correct ;)
they are trying to spy on eskimoan extremists
:)
SSShhhh... before you know it some student will dig a sensor up and then show it to the press!
Security focus provided the following good explanation:
"...Grsecurity is a suite of patches (distributed as a single patch file) for the Linux kernel that are an attempt to improve the security of a Linux system. Grsecurity is based on a port of some previous patches for the Linux 2.2 kernel, including Openwall and PaX, which have never been ported to the 2.4 kernel. Grsecurity provides some updates to these patches and has been ported to the Linux 2.4 kernel..." continue reading SecurityFocus's review.
Useful thx. Currently the JsBrwSniff the project are looking for a logo. I can't draw myself but I guess a picture of a "sniffer dog" combined with say the anybrowser logo might do the trick. Anyone?
The sentance reminded me of the Elements song.... No doubt someone has already started rewriting it for Perl !
One word "freezer"!
Prepare extra food in advance, freeze, decide what you are eating the night before, thaw overnight, place in fridge whilst before going to work, return, zap, eat. Decent food at the speed of a microwave meal.
Totally agree. I didn't cook much until my girlfriend started to encourage me... Then I found this very funny book which has been a great help - Cooking for blokes: Duncan Anderson and Marian Walls. Note: It even includes a detailed section dedicated to explaining all those weird "gas mark" settings and spoon sizes!! Now I just wish they would write "ironing for blokes" :-)
Relax my friend, everything is in hand... the Austrians being the smart people they are have already sent in The Governator to do their dirty work!!
Next week on slashdot...... a geeks guide to finger dancing!
No, I'm thinking "offtopic" :-) Now Jessica Rabbit that's a different matter...