Currently there are only 37 characters usable in DNS entries
Wrong. The usable characters are 0-9, a-z, A-Z, period (.), underscore (_), and dash (-), so 65 characters are usable in DNS entries. I know the 37 number came from TFA, but it's still flat wrong.
I traded mail with David Nagel about two months ago when he first talked about Linux being important to them. I asked why the tools for developing Palm OS apps on Linux were so neglected by them -- the devs for pilot-link (great guys) could only support what they happened to own because they had no technical documentation, no code from either Palm company, not even anyone they could ask questions of occasionally.
Nagel's response was that they're thinking about porting their Eclipse toolkit to Linux. No one wants or cares about it.
Years ago Palm employed and then fired authors of open source tools. They've got a terminal case of NIH and don't understand that they're dying because they don't do enough to make it easy to develop for Palm OS. It doesn't matter what the handhelds run if they don't have third-party developers, and they shit from a great height on the Linux alpha geeks who could be incredibly valuable.
The N-Gage fails as a video game platform (take the battery out to switch games!?) and as a cell phone. If you wonder why it fails as a cell phone, well, you have to sidetalk.
Pivx was the company that had a website with a list of 31 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. Two days ago they pulled it with what sounds like a nice way of saying they were pressured to do so.
"In an amazing show of spontaneity and interactivity, Chandler breaks from the script to point out a flying pteradactyl (a helicopter) to Lucky, who then lifts his head and gazes up into the sky"
I guess the writer for the sight never learned stage magic. Lucky is quite cool, but Chandler's hand goes into his bag for controls before Lucky gives any reaction to the copter.
I've seen it, and the nicest thing I can say about it that it's not Cowboy Bebop. Ed is messed up, grapically and character-wise. The computer animation is pretty poorly integrated. Jet's barely in the movie and spends most of it moping around like a schmuck. Faye's top is cut open for no particular reason. Spike's at least about right, but Ein is painfully obvious.
The villain is some kind of nihilistic joke who can't even keep continuity -- he survives, without disfigurement, exploding a grenade in his hand that blackens and twists a nearby metal seat, but takes one bullet in the climax and dies.
Speaking of which, the entire story around the contrived love interest is incredibly hammy, and if anyone didn't see that twist at the end coming you'd best get your eyes checked. Ugh.
I didn't expect the world from this movie, but it didn't come close to matching up with the worst episode.
Japan - TRON Linux was announced and promptly sued into a smoking crater in the ground by Disney today. Disney representatives stated they were merely protecting their valuable intellectual property and that Linux is only used by thieves, anyways. MSFT rose 4 points.
I've seen it, and the nicest thing I can say about it that it's not Cowboy Bebop. Ed is messed up, grapically and character-wise. The computer animation is pretty poorly integrated. Jet's barely in the movie and spends most of it moping around like a schmuck. Faye's top is cut open for no particular reason. Spike's at least about right, but Ein is painfully obvious.
The villain is some kind of nihilistic joke who can't even keep continuity -- he survives, without disfigurement, exploding a grenade in his hand that blackens and twists a nearby metal seat, but takes one bullet in the climax and dies.
Speaking of which, the entire story around the contrived love interest is incredibly hammy, and if anyone didn't see that twist at the end coming you'd best get your eyes checked. Ugh.
I didn't expect the world from this movie, but it didn't come close to matching up with the worst episode.
Bug 30
Owner: mbligh@aracnet.com (Martin J. Bligh)
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Exact Kernel version: 2.5.7
Distribution: red hat
Hardware Environment: pc
Software Environment: linux
Problem Description: RMS is too smelly - What do I do?
Section 8, Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
What this says to me is that copyrights should be non-transferable. No signing away copyright to some big corporation unless you're doing "work for fire". This, and a sane policy that recognizes that authors don't have any incentive to create Writings and Discoveries after they're dead, would pretty much wrap it all up.
Interestingly enough, there is no threatening 'or else' stuff in those letters
Duh. If a college employee hasn't yet learned to read between the lines, they're not long for their job. College, as a business, have more intrigue and politics than a junior-high school girls' clique.
There's an excellent system called rubberhose that solves the problem of 'rubber hose' cryptography (ie. beating the key out of someone.)
You give it a certain amount of space to play with and then can encrypt "aspects", sets of files, to it. Each aspect is protected with a passphrase and there isn't any way to show how many or few there are. If tortured, the user has no way to prove they've given up all the keys - making it possible for them to hold out.
It's also possible to use it to give people some information and limit disclosure - the documentation has an excellent example using safehouses.
For the funniest commentary I've ever seen on the silliness that is Evangelion, start here. It's a condensation and parody and I anyone in the "it's such a great and moving series!" camp should read it. And take a cold shower.
Watch a source invalidate himself: "Do you realize that in all of science-fiction literature they never predicted digital technology and how it would change our lives and our art?"
Yeah, I mean, it's not like William Gibson, Neal Stephenson or John Brunner wrote about digital technology. No, they just wrote about... er, computers changing society.
In this country (guessing you mean US), too. 'Dasani' is Coke-brand water. Pepsi-co has its own brand of water. They both realized how crazy they were to ignore that people were willing to pay a buck for tapwater if it came in a focus-groupped plastic bottle.
Why'd you do it? I understand why it had to be done - the onerous law can only be harmful - but what made you decide you, personally, should get involved like this to change it? I've kept and eye on the case and you've been very smart about how you're doing everything, so don't try to sneak off with a "it just happened this way."
I worked at IBM in Schaumburg, IL a year or so ago. They've got a huge data center called "IBM Global Services" or "AT&T Global Services" depending who you asked. Anyways, it was nice working there: light work and an internet connection that loaded pages about as fast as I could click links.
Anyways, this building was almost totally insecure. They've got a bank of elevators with two entrances, north and south. In the day you can walk up to either, say that you're a consultant and forgot your page, sign a fake name and a random floor number and you're in. At night this isn't neccessary- they close one entrance and the sole guard is almost always napping. Reach over the desk to hit the door unlatch and there's a whole building full of computers awaiting you, with a loading dock you don't have to pass security to get to.
I'm sure they knew this when I worked there: I showed up one day to find my monitor moved from atop my PC and the case ajar. I opened it up, and found that someone had taken all my RAM.
Slashdot Mirror
Currently there are only 37 characters usable in DNS entries
Wrong. The usable characters are 0-9, a-z, A-Z, period (.), underscore (_), and dash (-), so 65 characters are usable in DNS entries. I know the 37 number came from TFA, but it's still flat wrong.
I traded mail with David Nagel about two months ago when he first talked about Linux being important to them. I asked why the tools for developing Palm OS apps on Linux were so neglected by them -- the devs for pilot-link (great guys) could only support what they happened to own because they had no technical documentation, no code from either Palm company, not even anyone they could ask questions of occasionally.
Nagel's response was that they're thinking about porting their Eclipse toolkit to Linux. No one wants or cares about it.
Years ago Palm employed and then fired authors of open source tools. They've got a terminal case of NIH and don't understand that they're dying because they don't do enough to make it easy to develop for Palm OS. It doesn't matter what the handhelds run if they don't have third-party developers, and they shit from a great height on the Linux alpha geeks who could be incredibly valuable.
The N-Gage fails as a video game platform (take the battery out to switch games!?) and as a cell phone. If you wonder why it fails as a cell phone, well, you have to sidetalk.
Pivx was the company that had a website with a list of 31 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. Two days ago they pulled it with what sounds like a nice way of saying they were pressured to do so.
The .cx registrar domains.cx already does this. Try any random thing ending in .cx and you'll get their signup page.
"In an amazing show of spontaneity and interactivity, Chandler breaks from the script to point out a flying pteradactyl (a helicopter) to Lucky, who then lifts his head and gazes up into the sky"
I guess the writer for the sight never learned stage magic. Lucky is quite cool, but Chandler's hand goes into his bag for controls before Lucky gives any reaction to the copter.
Trinity dies at the end, it was in the trailer.
Ah, well, google to the rescue: here's good example of a statechart.
I've seen it, and the nicest thing I can say about it that it's not Cowboy Bebop. Ed is messed up, grapically and character-wise. The computer animation is pretty poorly integrated. Jet's barely in the movie and spends most of it moping around like a schmuck. Faye's top is cut open for no particular reason. Spike's at least about right, but Ein is painfully obvious.
The villain is some kind of nihilistic joke who can't even keep continuity -- he survives, without disfigurement, exploding a grenade in his hand that blackens and twists a nearby metal seat, but takes one bullet in the climax and dies.
Speaking of which, the entire story around the contrived love interest is incredibly hammy, and if anyone didn't see that twist at the end coming you'd best get your eyes checked. Ugh.
I didn't expect the world from this movie, but it didn't come close to matching up with the worst episode.
Japan - TRON Linux was announced and promptly sued into a smoking crater in the ground by Disney today. Disney representatives stated they were merely protecting their valuable intellectual property and that Linux is only used by thieves, anyways. MSFT rose 4 points.
I've seen it, and the nicest thing I can say about it that it's not Cowboy Bebop. Ed is messed up, grapically and character-wise. The computer animation is pretty poorly integrated. Jet's barely in the movie and spends most of it moping around like a schmuck. Faye's top is cut open for no particular reason. Spike's at least about right, but Ein is painfully obvious.
The villain is some kind of nihilistic joke who can't even keep continuity -- he survives, without disfigurement, exploding a grenade in his hand that blackens and twists a nearby metal seat, but takes one bullet in the climax and dies.
Speaking of which, the entire story around the contrived love interest is incredibly hammy, and if anyone didn't see that twist at the end coming you'd best get your eyes checked. Ugh.
I didn't expect the world from this movie, but it didn't come close to matching up with the worst episode.
Bug 30 Owner: mbligh@aracnet.com (Martin J. Bligh)
Please enter
Exact Kernel version: 2.5.7
Distribution: red hat
Hardware Environment: pc
Software Environment: linux
Problem Description: RMS is too smelly - What do I do?
Steps to reproduce: No god no!!!
Section 8, Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
What this says to me is that copyrights should be non-transferable. No signing away copyright to some big corporation unless you're doing "work for fire". This, and a sane policy that recognizes that authors don't have any incentive to create Writings and Discoveries after they're dead, would pretty much wrap it all up.
Interestingly enough, there is no threatening 'or else' stuff in those letters
Duh. If a college employee hasn't yet learned to read between the lines, they're not long for their job. College, as a business, have more intrigue and politics than a junior-high school girls' clique.
There's an excellent system called rubberhose that solves the problem of 'rubber hose' cryptography (ie. beating the key out of someone.)
You give it a certain amount of space to play with and then can encrypt "aspects", sets of files, to it. Each aspect is protected with a passphrase and there isn't any way to show how many or few there are. If tortured, the user has no way to prove they've given up all the keys - making it possible for them to hold out.
It's also possible to use it to give people some information and limit disclosure - the documentation has an excellent example using safehouses.
For the funniest commentary I've ever seen on the silliness that is Evangelion, start here. It's a condensation and parody and I anyone in the "it's such a great and moving series!" camp should read it. And take a cold shower.
Yeah, I mean, it's not like William Gibson, Neal Stephenson or John Brunner wrote about digital technology. No, they just wrote about... er, computers changing society.
In this country (guessing you mean US), too. 'Dasani' is Coke-brand water. Pepsi-co has its own brand of water. They both realized how crazy they were to ignore that people were willing to pay a buck for tapwater if it came in a focus-groupped plastic bottle.
Does this strike anyone else as a great way to get someone else to finish up the work on your thesis for you?
Why'd you do it? I understand why it had to be done - the onerous law can only be harmful - but what made you decide you, personally, should get involved like this to change it? I've kept and eye on the case and you've been very smart about how you're doing everything, so don't try to sneak off with a "it just happened this way."
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't compile that.
I know it's cliche, but really, do we expect it to be as smart as another competent programmer reviewing code?
Anyways, this building was almost totally insecure. They've got a bank of elevators with two entrances, north and south. In the day you can walk up to either, say that you're a consultant and forgot your page, sign a fake name and a random floor number and you're in. At night this isn't neccessary- they close one entrance and the sole guard is almost always napping. Reach over the desk to hit the door unlatch and there's a whole building full of computers awaiting you, with a loading dock you don't have to pass security to get to.
I'm sure they knew this when I worked there: I showed up one day to find my monitor moved from atop my PC and the case ajar. I opened it up, and found that someone had taken all my RAM.
The hypothesis: I'm not sure this site could survive even a slight slashdotting, which is why I may not have found it in the archives
The test:We'll try the "early morning" timeframe and see if it survives.
The result: hypothesis proved
The hypothesis: I'm not sure this site could survive even a slight slashdotting, which is why I may not have found it in the archives
The test:We'll try the "early morning" timeframe and see if it survives.
The result: hypothesis proved
The geek says it will all happen, it's just a matter of time.