One of the competing teams announced today that they had secretly patented the interface by which the chess programs compete with one another. As such, the other teams forfeited under threat of lawsuit and the team that held the patent won.
If this doubles the number of known planets, does this make Earth half as significant? I mean, is Earth at all significant in the big scheme of things? I am reminded of that picture from Carl Sagan's book showing Earth as a mere speck against the vastness of space. I think the book was called The Pale Blue Dot. Wow, this makes me feel a lot better about forgetting to pay my phone bill.
I installed SuSE 8.2 with X-Windows and FVWM on a NCR retail terminal with a 333 Mhz AMD processor and 16 Meg of RAM and it ran just fine. Mozilla was a tad slow, but our X-based point-of-sale app handled it just fine.
Type: Spoofing Exploit: Local Effects: All browsers
Description: A 6 year old vulnerability has been discovered in multiple browsers, allowing malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
The problem is that the browsers don't check if a piece of black electrical tape is on the screen covering the address bar, which prevents the user from identifying the source of content in the browser window.
Successful exploitation allows a malicious website to load arbitrary content with its source masked by the black tape. The user cannot know if this is a trusted site.
Solution: Remove the piece of electrical tape from the screen. Windex may be necessary to clean up afterwards.
The satellite with the Cisco router has been hijacked by attackers using a recently discovered Cisco vulnerability. Experts believe the intent is to launch a denial of service attack on the Cassini-Huygens probe. Upon gaining root access, the attackers patched the vulnerability and changed the passwords. A multi-million dollar space mission is planned next week to manually press the reset button on the router.
I work for a company that does Point of Sale software and we looked at Windows CE. The company that built some of our hardware (I won't give their name, let's just say its Not Columbia Records) sent us a CE image and a little boot utility that copied the image into memory off the hard disk and kicked it off. It booted up okay, and reminded me of a really bad version of Windows 95. (Heck, Windows 95 is a bad version of Windows 95, but this was worse). Particularly amusing was that apparently it had been expected to be used with flash memory rather than a real hard disk, so copying files took a long time as there was no head movement optimization.
The disk goes Clcklklklklklklklklklklklklklk for about 3 minutes to copy the 6 MB image.
Also, if there were bad sectors on the drive, it would corrupt the root directory and you'd have to reformat the drive and start over. This was especially bad for us as most of the hard disks on our customer's systems are inches away from a cash drawer that flies open then gets slammed shut constantly.
Needless to say, the customer we were evaluating this for is still running MS-DOS.
Thanks to new advances in radio cullularology, our fearless fighting men in Europe can stay in touch with one another in the field and their commanding officers back at the base. This is accomplished by the US Army's Verizon Corps, who follow our troops across Europe erecting cellular phone towers at key battle sites. This gives our fighting men an advantage over the German oppressors, who are forced to rely on tin cans connected by string. So, when the US Army asks, "Can you hear me now?", America can proudly say, Yes We Can.
Perhaps it might be prudent to send the file to a single fax machine first, to make sure that this won't happen in the future. As for the current siuation, perhaps you can fax your customers some blank paper to make up the loss.
Next week on Ask Slashdot: Same guy writes: I faxed my customers an apology for crapflooding their fax machines, but eFax misinterpreted the PostScript file again and they got another 300 pages of garbage. They're really pissed now. Man, is eFax screwy or what?
So, how long before Microsoft runs out of modifiers to attach to the word addition? We have:
Visual Studio Express Edition Windows XP Starter Addition Windows Millenium Edition Windows XP Home Edition Windows 98 Second Edition Windows XP Media Center Edition Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Windows Server 2003, Web Edition Windows NT 4.0, Terminal Server Edition SQL Server Developer Edition SQL Server Enterprise Edition
One of things I've learned about kites in my life is that they tend to hit the ground at blistering speeds with alarming frequency. I've toyed with the idea of trying something along these lines with a digital camera, except I always planned on using a balloon filled with Helium with a string running back to the ground. This way, if the wind changes suddenly, its not going to slam the kite into the ground from an altitude of several hundred feet. Still, you have the danger of the string breaking, but in this case, you can include on your balloon probe a small form factor motherboard, a cellphone modem card, a GPS receiver and an RS-232 interfaced control valve to bleed the helium. This way, if it gets away, you can call it, ask it where it is and tell it to land.
I've spoken to him. Except I was more of a jerk. (Hey, he called me.) Ultimately, he told me to "eat a dick".
I'm guessing AT&T has no quality control at all.
If it passes, write this letter...
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Dear Senator Hatch,
In order to comply with the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004, I am turning in my now illegal devices which can be used to infringe copyrights to you so that they can be properly disposed of.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
Now, round up a bunch of broken VCRs and old 486 PCs (think thrift stores), and send them, along with your letter to:
Senator Orrin Hatch 104 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
I remember back when Napster was still cool. I was at a party and all the music was downloaded illegally (wasnt my house, I'm not liable la la la la). Anyway, the guy had a fast internet connection so we could have pretty much play any song we wanted on demand. Kinda miss that. At one point it turned into sort of a one-ups-manship of trying to find and download increasingly obscure songs.
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Okay, so you have your wireless access point on the bus / train. How does that uplink to the larger network?
One of the competing teams announced today that they had secretly patented the interface by which the chess programs compete with one another. As such, the other teams forfeited under threat of lawsuit and the team that held the patent won.
Well, I have a file called DocumentNo5.mp3, but its a rip of an R.E.M. album.
That means all the sys-admins will have to work late on a Friday night making sure its installed.
Excellent timing.
Oh, my gosh, I was wrong.
It was Earth, all along.
You finally made a monkey,
Yes we finally made a monkey,
out of you, out of me.
If this doubles the number of known planets, does this make Earth half as significant? I mean, is Earth at all significant in the big scheme of things? I am reminded of that picture from Carl Sagan's book showing Earth as a mere speck against the vastness of space. I think the book was called The Pale Blue Dot. Wow, this makes me feel a lot better about forgetting to pay my phone bill.
I installed SuSE 8.2 with X-Windows and FVWM on a NCR retail terminal with a 333 Mhz AMD processor and 16 Meg of RAM and it ran just fine. Mozilla was a tad slow, but our X-based point-of-sale app handled it just fine.
Type: Spoofing
Exploit: Local
Effects: All browsers
Description:
A 6 year old vulnerability has been discovered in multiple browsers, allowing malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
The problem is that the browsers don't check if a piece of black electrical tape is on the screen covering the address bar, which prevents the user from identifying the source of content in the browser window.
Successful exploitation allows a malicious website to load arbitrary content with its source masked by the black tape. The user cannot know if this is a trusted site.
Solution:
Remove the piece of electrical tape from the screen. Windex may be necessary to clean up afterwards.
The satellite with the Cisco router has been hijacked by attackers using a recently discovered Cisco vulnerability. Experts believe the intent is to launch a denial of service attack on the Cassini-Huygens probe. Upon gaining root access, the attackers patched the vulnerability and changed the passwords. A multi-million dollar space mission is planned next week to manually press the reset button on the router.
Does this mean I need a CCW permit to stick a P4 in my pocket?
I work for a company that does Point of Sale software and we looked at Windows CE. The company that built some of our hardware (I won't give their name, let's just say its Not Columbia Records) sent us a CE image and a little boot utility that copied the image into memory off the hard disk and kicked it off. It booted up okay, and reminded me of a really bad version of Windows 95. (Heck, Windows 95 is a bad version of Windows 95, but this was worse). Particularly amusing was that apparently it had been expected to be used with flash memory rather than a real hard disk, so copying files took a long time as there was no head movement optimization.
The disk goes Clcklklklklklklklklklklklklklk for about 3 minutes to copy the 6 MB image.
Also, if there were bad sectors on the drive, it would corrupt the root directory and you'd have to reformat the drive and start over. This was especially bad for us as most of the hard disks on our customer's systems are inches away from a cash drawer that flies open then gets slammed shut constantly.
Needless to say, the customer we were evaluating this for is still running MS-DOS.
That explains why that box of laser printer paper I bought had all those blackened in circles all over it.
This is News... On... Parade...
(Queue trumpets)
Thanks to new advances in radio cullularology, our fearless fighting men in Europe can stay in touch with one another in the field and their commanding officers back at the base. This is accomplished by the US Army's Verizon Corps, who follow our troops across Europe erecting cellular phone towers at key battle sites. This gives our fighting men an advantage over the German oppressors, who are forced to rely on tin cans connected by string. So, when the US Army asks, "Can you hear me now?", America can proudly say, Yes We Can.
This has been News... On... Parade...
I read Magazines Today. It keeps me up to date on all the latest trends in magazine publishing.
I also recommend:
Bill Magazine - By and for people named Bill.
Also, we have the extreme sports mags:
Cliff Jumper!
Bear Baiter!
Glass Eater!
Perhaps it might be prudent to send the file to a single fax machine first, to make sure that this won't happen in the future. As for the current siuation, perhaps you can fax your customers some blank paper to make up the loss.
Next week on Ask Slashdot:
Same guy writes: I faxed my customers an apology for crapflooding their fax machines, but eFax misinterpreted the PostScript file again and they got another 300 pages of garbage. They're really pissed now. Man, is eFax screwy or what?
So, how long before Microsoft runs out of modifiers to attach to the word addition? We have:
Visual Studio Express Edition
Windows XP Starter Addition
Windows Millenium Edition
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows 98 Second Edition
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
Windows NT 4.0, Terminal Server Edition
SQL Server Developer Edition
SQL Server Enterprise Edition
Or for that matter, the band Looking Glass, which scored a single hit in the early 1970s with "Brandy"
The sailors say Brandy, you're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be...
It's always in the last place you look. why not look there first?
'If he knows you'll faint at the sight of blood, he'll cut himself just to watch you pass out.'
So he's like that kid from grade school who would turn his eyelids inside-out? Charming.
Anderer: Hey, look what I can do. Bleh-Bleh!
Everyone: Ewww!!!!
One of things I've learned about kites in my life is that they tend to hit the ground at blistering speeds with alarming frequency. I've toyed with the idea of trying something along these lines with a digital camera, except I always planned on using a balloon filled with Helium with a string running back to the ground. This way, if the wind changes suddenly, its not going to slam the kite into the ground from an altitude of several hundred feet. Still, you have the danger of the string breaking, but in this case, you can include on your balloon probe a small form factor motherboard, a cellphone modem card, a GPS receiver and an RS-232 interfaced control valve to bleed the helium. This way, if it gets away, you can call it, ask it where it is and tell it to land.
I've spoken to him. Except I was more of a jerk. (Hey, he called me.) Ultimately, he told me to "eat a dick".
I'm guessing AT&T has no quality control at all.
Dear Senator Hatch,
In order to comply with the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004, I am turning in my now illegal devices which can be used to infringe copyrights to you so that they can be properly disposed of.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
Now, round up a bunch of broken VCRs and old 486 PCs (think thrift stores), and send them, along with your letter to:
Senator Orrin Hatch
104 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
I remember back when Napster was still cool. I was at a party and all the music was downloaded illegally (wasnt my house, I'm not liable la la la la). Anyway, the guy had a fast internet connection so we could have pretty much play any song we wanted on demand. Kinda miss that. At one point it turned into sort of a one-ups-manship of trying to find and download increasingly obscure songs.
Ever put a CD in the Microwave?