The good beer never is.. Victorinox used to make a few credit card sized bottle openers. They're great because they not only fit in your wallet, they're too big to lose.
All we'd need is a simple pre-processor that understood that
'public class HelloWorldImp implements HelloWorldIntf { public void greet() { System.out.println("Hello World"); } }
is spoken
public class hello world imp implements hello world int f brac public void greet dubparen brac system out println par quo cap hello cap world quo clopar semi clobrac clobrac'
Assume anything that isn't a reserved 'vocal word' is a concatenated variable/function name, abbreviate the punctuation to monosyllable, and double check all vars/functs against a known list. Heck, strip out the punctuation and just guess at it.
Say it, and try typing it.. For me, saying it is much faster, and I'm not shoddy typist.
Screw Lucas. Go spend the money on 'Dune', or 'Apocalypse Now', ' Night Of The Living Dead' or even 'Roman Holiday'. They're all better films than PM. Why everyone is so worked up about a 'delayed' release date for The Phantom Menace is beyond me. Now, the delay on the Trilogy is inexcusable. They are truly masterpieces, and I am honored to own them on cap-disc.
No. Retaliation is seldom a good idea (except those damn ICQ pron spammers), and DoS attacks are NEVER a good idea. A creative crash of their browser is about as far as I'd go. Non-destructive, mildly annoying, but it gets the point across..
Anyone got some bad JScript that'll take down IE 5? I'm guessing stuff like this rarely come from Netscape or Mozilla.
Techies are techies. Some work for Evil Companies, most don't. I'd like to think that the techies in there are the same as the techies out here, ethical and intelligent. Don't destroy my idealism, thank you!
I don't see a problem with some project team pulling down some GPL software and emulating it: Their code is no worse than ours to begin with. Granted, we are on a parallel course, but they have little to gain by stealing our code when they are perfectly capable of doing it themselves with no liability and no porting effort.
I see only one real danger from these Evil Corporations: The overzealous legal departments of the larger ones thinking they can 'sneak it under the wire'. They're used to bending the rules to make a buck whan it is likely they will lose less from the lawsuit/settlement then by the tomfoolery.
The US Army and various SWAT units use a 'remote control' version of an AR-15 for situations too 'high-risk' for exposed personel. It's tripod mounted, and has a variable-zoom scope attached to a CCD camera. The whole unit is operated over wire with a CRT and joystick. They're available open market from the manufacturer. (General Dynamics, I think)
It could be swivel mounted on three of these 'bots, and with the addition of a 'Rabbit' type video transmitter could almost be a cost-effective means of World Domination!
Had to install Linux on a dozen headless boxen. Drop in a videocard for install? No way! Just recompiled the bootdisk kernel so I could use a serial console. Took me an hour to make bootdisk mods and recompile. It would have taken an extra fifteen-per-machine it would have taken to swap in/out a videocard, (or the HD for 'cloning') not to mention the broken 'warranty' seals.
I wonder if you can bind the graphical installer to another Xserver? Hmmm.. . .
Monica Lewinsky had more effect on the news (in the US, at least) than any other single person.
But how she could be said to have done the embarassing is beyond me. There were two factors to the 'Zippergate' debacle: One, a confused 22 year old intern; Two, the 40-something married politician with a history of fooling around. You'd think that to become President you should know how to keep your dick in your pants, or at least out of the news.
A site-specific search service built around the newly-opened E-speak? Damn good idea.. Not only would it provide an easy interface for searchbots, but in the future it could provide information for user-agents and other client-side searches. I'd imagine it wouldn't inflict as much server overhead as the current system.
I'll be flipping through the 'E-speak tutorial for the rest of the afternoon!
This is probably the simplest solution. Just use an 'insteadof' tag in robots.txt to redirect the `bot to a meaningful page. As is, sites are using hidden pages gobbed full of metatags, relevent text, etc. Point the bot there! You could perhaps just use a space delimited section of the database, and include some standard for how the searchbot indexes the new 'insteadof'. 'Karma, Karma, Karma Chamelion' -- Boy George
There are still charges to be levelled...
on
Suing the Spammers
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· Score: 2
I'm glad that the spammers got a beating from AOL, but what worries me is the thought of thousands of AOL users actually buying into the 'Apricots are a cure for Cancer' garbage.
I hope law enforcement goes after them for fradulent claims. I'm not saying AOL users are stupid (as I usually do) but there is a certain weak element in any large group.
Actually, I'm a little idealistic. Having a CRJ/CF/PA means I know what 'law enforcement' was taught as well as any. But I have no 'practical experience. I didn't go into law enforcement, nor criminal forensics; Four years had left a bitter taste in my mouth. I used the degree as a door opener into my current field.
The police and FBI are extremely wary of bringing a case against a defendant when some of the evidence was tainted by trickery such as this. A long standing US legal principle has been the 'Fruit of the Poison Tree' doctrine, which dictates that any evidence secured as a result of information obtained in a illegal search is inadmissable in court. Say FBI Agent Smith taps your phone without a warrant. He hears you're about to go pick up a couple of joints for recreational use. He drives out to your home, catches you pulling into the driveway and sees the pot in your hand. What does he do next? Nothing. The information regarding your possesion of a controlled substance was obtained illegally, and even if his superiors let him get away with it no court will. Even in cases where the 'poisoned' evidence was allowed, the Appeals courts have not been kind to those who violate the 'Fruit of the Poison Tree' rule, even going so far as to suggest civil suit for violation of civil rights.
Been done... Popular Electronics published specs, circuit diagrams and logic code for one back in 1990.(I think..) It was a refit of a standard electric mower with steppers on each wheel and a pair of IR 'presence' sensors.
They also had a Radio Controlled version in an earlier magazine..
Anyway, it used tha same sort of 'spiral' pattern Dyson's device does..
These things seem about perfect for commercial cleaning applications.(No steps, no stairs, vast open areas) Instead of paying three guys minimum wage and getting spotty results, buy four of these things. Even if they are US $4000, you'd make back your initial investment in five months!!
I wonder if they'd take care of the staple collection I have under my desk?
Some Linux drivers have weird quasi-abstraction layers in them, so that most of the code from the Windows driver can be reused. It makes for an easier port.
Instead of having a single function that opens the device, the function calls a Windows abstraction function that calls the real function that calls a kernel abstraction function.
As evidenced by the work of all of the Opensource programmers working for the likes of Transmeta, RedHat or Corel, 'greasing-the-wheels' with a little cash works great! We have new, open-source installers, Wine is going much faster than anticipated, kernel development is at an all time high in terms of quality, polish and development speed, etc..
The best part? It doesn't matter one lick to the GPL, although Stallman might have a few words about it.
Not that I know of.. Some companies will sell you a copy of their 'service manual'; I'm sure it isn't terribly useful though. The manufacturers make more money off the service contract than off of the copier itself, and who would need them if you had a good service manual?
A little bit of both. Some of the components in a copier have a 'useful life' and wear out. Of course these parts are only available from a factory authorized service rep! On top of that, they tend to use specialty fasteners in a lot of places, and the combination of compactness and complexity makes them extremely difficult to service yourself.
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The good beer never is.. Victorinox used to make a few credit card sized bottle openers. They're great because they not only fit in your wallet, they're too big to lose.
Redesign C? Again??
All we'd need is a simple pre-processor that understood that
'public class HelloWorldImp implements HelloWorldIntf {
public void greet() {
System.out.println("Hello World");
} }
is spoken
public class hello world imp implements hello world int f brac public void greet dubparen brac system out println par quo cap hello cap world quo clopar semi clobrac clobrac'
Assume anything that isn't a reserved 'vocal word' is a concatenated variable/function name, abbreviate the punctuation to monosyllable, and double check all vars/functs against a known list. Heck, strip out the punctuation and just guess at it.
Say it, and try typing it.. For me, saying it is much faster, and I'm not shoddy typist.
Shock? No, We'd die of old age. Everyone would try to get the world's first frag in Quake/Java, and some of us would never give up..
Putting my +1 to good use; Overriding a moderator.
Screw Lucas. Go spend the money on 'Dune', or 'Apocalypse Now', ' Night Of The Living Dead' or even 'Roman Holiday'. They're all better films than PM. Why everyone is so worked up about a 'delayed' release date for The Phantom Menace is beyond me. Now, the delay on the Trilogy is inexcusable. They are truly masterpieces, and I am honored to own them on cap-disc.
An excellent reference for Einstein quotes:
http://stripe.colorado.edu/~judy/einst ein.html
No. Retaliation is seldom a good idea (except those damn ICQ pron spammers), and DoS attacks are NEVER a good idea. A creative crash of their browser is about as far as I'd go. Non-destructive, mildly annoying, but it gets the point across..
Anyone got some bad JScript that'll take down IE 5? I'm guessing stuff like this rarely come from Netscape or Mozilla.
Techies are techies. Some work for Evil Companies, most don't. I'd like to think that the techies in there are the same as the techies out here, ethical and intelligent. Don't destroy my idealism, thank you!
I don't see a problem with some project team pulling down some GPL software and emulating it: Their code is no worse than ours to begin with. Granted, we are on a parallel course, but they have little to gain by stealing our code when they are perfectly capable of doing it themselves with no liability and no porting effort.
I see only one real danger from these Evil Corporations: The overzealous legal departments of the larger ones thinking they can 'sneak it under the wire'. They're used to bending the rules to make a buck whan it is likely they will lose less from the lawsuit/settlement then by the tomfoolery.
The US Army and various SWAT units use a 'remote control' version of an AR-15 for situations too 'high-risk' for exposed personel. It's tripod mounted, and has a variable-zoom scope attached to a CCD camera. The whole unit is operated over wire with a CRT and joystick. They're available open market from the manufacturer. (General Dynamics, I think)
It could be swivel mounted on three of these 'bots, and with the addition of a 'Rabbit' type video transmitter could almost be a cost-effective means of World Domination!
Text mode is a 100% guarantee!
Had to install Linux on a dozen headless boxen. Drop in a videocard for install? No way! Just recompiled the bootdisk kernel so I could use a serial console. Took me an hour to make bootdisk mods and recompile. It would have taken an extra fifteen-per-machine it would have taken to swap in/out a videocard, (or the HD for 'cloning') not to mention the broken 'warranty' seals.
I wonder if you can bind the graphical installer to another Xserver? Hmmm.. . .
Monica Lewinsky had more effect on the news (in the US, at least) than any other single person.
But how she could be said to have done the embarassing is beyond me. There were two factors to the 'Zippergate' debacle: One, a confused 22 year old intern; Two, the 40-something married politician with a history of fooling around. You'd think that to become President you should know how to keep your dick in your pants, or at least out of the news.
Don't you mean
l inuz
;)
/boot/vmlinux
/usr/src/linux/arch/1386/boot/vm
or
c:\lilo\vmlinu z?
Nobody keeps it in / anymore! What are you, a 1.2.xx junkie?
A site-specific search service built around the newly-opened E-speak? Damn good idea.. Not only would it provide an easy interface for searchbots, but in the future it could provide information for user-agents and other client-side searches. I'd imagine it wouldn't inflict as much server overhead as the current system.
I'll be flipping through the 'E-speak tutorial for the rest of the afternoon!
This is probably the simplest solution. Just use an 'insteadof' tag in robots.txt to redirect the `bot to a meaningful page. As is, sites are using hidden pages gobbed full of metatags, relevent text, etc. Point the bot there! You could perhaps just use a space delimited section of the database, and include some standard for how the searchbot indexes the new 'insteadof'.
'Karma, Karma, Karma Chamelion' -- Boy George
I'm glad that the spammers got a beating from AOL, but what worries me is the thought of thousands of AOL users actually buying into the 'Apricots are a cure for Cancer' garbage.
I hope law enforcement goes after them for fradulent claims.
I'm not saying AOL users are stupid (as I usually do) but there is a certain weak element in any large group.
Actually, I'm a little idealistic. Having a CRJ/CF/PA means I know what 'law enforcement' was taught as well as any. But I have no 'practical experience. I didn't go into law enforcement, nor criminal forensics; Four years had left a bitter taste in my mouth. I used the degree as a door opener into my current field.
The police and FBI are extremely wary of bringing a case against a defendant when some of the evidence was tainted by trickery such as this.
A long standing US legal principle has been the 'Fruit of the Poison Tree' doctrine, which dictates that any evidence secured as a result of information obtained in a illegal search is inadmissable in court.
Say FBI Agent Smith taps your phone without a warrant. He hears you're about to go pick up a couple of joints for recreational use. He drives out to your home, catches you pulling into the driveway and sees the pot in your hand. What does he do next? Nothing. The information regarding your possesion of a controlled substance was obtained illegally, and even if his superiors let him get away with it no court will. Even in cases where the 'poisoned' evidence was allowed, the Appeals courts have not been kind to those who violate the 'Fruit of the Poison Tree' rule, even going so far as to suggest civil suit for violation of civil rights.
Been done... Popular Electronics published specs, circuit diagrams and logic code for one back in 1990.(I think..) It was a refit of a standard electric mower with steppers on each wheel and a pair of IR 'presence' sensors.
They also had a Radio Controlled version in an earlier magazine..
Anyway, it used tha same sort of 'spiral' pattern Dyson's device does..
These things seem about perfect for commercial cleaning applications.(No steps, no stairs, vast open areas) Instead of paying three guys minimum wage and getting spotty results, buy four of these things. Even if they are US $4000, you'd make back your initial investment in five months!!
I wonder if they'd take care of the staple collection I have under my desk?
Some Linux drivers have weird quasi-abstraction layers in them, so that most of the code from the Windows driver can be reused. It makes for an easier port.
Instead of having a single function that opens the device, the function calls a Windows abstraction function that calls the real function that calls a kernel abstraction function.
Thats bloat if I've ever seen it.
I agree. Make it equivalent to -1, Funny.
As evidenced by the work of all of the Opensource programmers working for the likes of Transmeta, RedHat or Corel, 'greasing-the-wheels' with a little cash works great! We have new, open-source installers, Wine is going much faster than anticipated, kernel development is at an all time high in terms of quality, polish and development speed, etc..
The best part? It doesn't matter one lick to the GPL, although Stallman might have a few words about it.
If I may be so bold, what was the bit of software they wanted written?
Not that I know of.. Some companies will sell you a copy of their 'service manual'; I'm sure it isn't terribly useful though. The manufacturers make more money off the service contract than off of the copier itself, and who would need them if you had a good service manual?
A little bit of both. Some of the components in a copier have a 'useful life' and wear out. Of course these parts are only available from a factory authorized service rep! On top of that, they tend to use specialty fasteners in a lot of places, and the combination of compactness and complexity makes them extremely difficult to service yourself.
200 Million is how many copies of Internet Explorer Microsoft claimed were installed during the Antitrust trial!
Just because I mention the useless plug-in pack included with IE doesn't make it a automatic 'M$' bash!
I know now what Katz felt like after those 'Disney' articles