Does that mean that unless i put a "no trespassing" sign on my door you can come into my house uninvited? Even though the street from which you entered is public property?
Bad analogy - but this is/. after all.
If you own a private piece of land, but make it into a park and invite people to use it (perhaps charging a small fee for access to some parks of the park, or maybe getting revenue from advertising on park benches), then unless you put a no trespassing sign on that special flower bed over there, I don't think it's unreasonable at all for somebody to walk over and look at those flowers.
Did he actually damage anything besides just gaining access to the system and telling people he could get in?
There's a pref in Firebird to not reuse existing windows for external links. I don't remember the pref at the moment, I saw it in somebody's blog recently, but I'm too lazy to look it up. It's there, you just gotta find it... I'm sure you're familiar with about:config.
Mapquest says it's valid, but no gaurantee that the actual owner is the spammer in question...
Hmm, my first thought was that the address sounded like an upscale neighborhood, but the aerial photo seems to show apartment buildings. Anybody want to drive by and visit?
Great concept - I can wait for it to show up in other (cross-platform, FOSS) apps. However, as another poster notes, the big drawback right now is no easy way to add individual arbitrary items to a virtual folder.
I really would need that to make it work for me. I have 9 or 10 years of email archives that I would really like to organize...
Read the details at bugzilla.m.o bug 195280. It was around June 3 I think. Several people have linked to an XPI that you can install to restore MNG support to post-June-3 builds. Try http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225227/.
There is a much older bug to restore MNG support but if you feel the urge to comment in bugzilla be sure to read the rules and add something useful...
I still haven't met another Software Engineer who had to design a 4th order Butterworth filter to graduate. (Just don't ask me to do it today).
Hi, my name is Christopher. Nice to meet you.
I don't have anything interesting to add to the thread. Just letting you know that there are (a few) others like us out there. I'm a software engineer (by looking at my academic record anyway) and Memorial University in backwoods Canada has an excellent broad-based program where I did everything from analog circuits and filters to kinematics, dynamics and philosophy. Likewise on designing a 4th order filter today, though (but I still have my notes around here somewhere if I ever had to).
I couldn't stand how opening a link in a new tab also switched focus to that tab
Edit-> Preferences-> Navigator-> Tabbed Browsing-> Tab Display-> Load links in the background
The pref has been in mozilla almost since tabs were implemented. Sorry you weren't able to find it. That's one of Mozilla Firebird's clear advantages: a vastly simplified and improved preference panel.
I thought his rant seemed somewhat insightful as to the state of media players on linux (not that I know anything about it). However, in his last paragraph, he makes a fatal error:
By the way, the suggestion to switch Linux distrubutions in order to get a single app to work might sound absurd at first. And that's because it is. But I've been saturated with Unix-peanut-gallery effluvia for so long that it no longer even surprises me when every question -- no matter how simple -- results in someone suggesting that you either A) patch your kernel or B) change distros. It's inevitable and inescapable, like Hitler.
He automatically triggers Goodwin's Law and therefore he must concede the debate and the discussion is closed.
I have X crash on me a hellava lot more than XP. In fact, I don't think Ive ever had XP crash. But hey, everyone is claiming how unstable it is, so I guess I'm just lucky (?).
Well, I guess I'm unlucky then. I've only installed XP once, and IE hung the machine during install while trying to download all the critical updates and security patches. During install! On a completely fresh machine!!
To be fair, I don't remember if it actually took XP down completely, but I did have to start part of the install over, and that involved rebooting or resetting the machine somehow. I couldn't believe it: crashed on the install, with no wierd hardware or funky install options either. This was XP Pro too, the commerical volume-licensed version.
I know IE isn't the NT 5 kernel, but you might be led to believe so by some of MS's legal dept's output, so I'd say turnaround is fair play. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
The way I see it is that the network allows (motivated and skilled) individuals to become better-informed more quickly than ever before. So in that sense it has a positive effect, not a negative one.
The same reasoning can be extended to small committees and even large ones. Given the right conditions (good organization and internal discipline) committees can communicate amongst themselves better, as well as receive external input and do better, faster research.
On the other hand, I think the rules quoted by the parent poster certainly stretch the application of math to empirical observations of network effect more than a little too far. A superfically plausible rule of thumb and an actual verifiable mathematical relationship between number of users and the usefulness of a network are two very different things.
Oversensitive? Yeah, probably, but Newfoundland doesn't have many claims to fame, and this in one of them. To stay on topic, the others include the UNESCO world heritage sites in Lanse-aux-Meadows on the northern penninsula, and Gros Morne national park. Lanse-aux-Meadows was a summer home for viking visitors around the turn on the first millenium CE, and Gros Morne has an exposed section of really, really old rock from the earths mantle, something similar to Ayre's(sp?) rock in Australia, minus the funky colors.
the bug you want is probably 134260 - [meta] Dynamic theme switching. If you have any insight on how to solve this problem, or you want to start coding yourself, start there rather than opening a new bug. If you don't plan to fix this yourself, be nice to Joe (Hewitt, bug owner) and don't spam him or the bug with requests, though I'm sure he won't refuse large enough bribes.
I'm not linking directly to the bug since Slashdot referrals are blocked anyway. It's not that hard to get there once you've got the bug number anyway.
The feature was called Dynamic Theme Switching or something like that. I can't get to bugzilla right now to search on it. I remember that it caused a whole pile of regressions and new bugs and it was backed out. I think there was an intention of giving it another try later, but I would say that any patches that are lying around are probably completely bit-rotted by now.
When mozilla.org recovers from the 1.2 release and slashdotting, try searching for dynamic theme switching in bugzilla.
So, let me get this straight. This guy sends a trojan to 250 million people per day
Seems to me the most practical tracking method would be embedding images in HTML email with encoded URLs. The trick then, would be to inspect his email after receiving it, and identify the servers that do his monitoring. Maybe Spamhaus has already done this, but I can't imagine he can hide his new location for long. Once you have one or two bits, all the rest - home address, ISPs, phone numbers - should fall into place.
The article mentioned unlisted phone numbers. I would actually advocate doing this, but some devious people might get a kick out of using this as practice in social engineering... there have to be several 'hackable' sources of unlisted numbers... his real estate records, his ISPs, his cable or satellite provider, his mechanic...
"Excuse me, I just moved and I want to make sure that you have my correct phone number... Yes, Alan Ralsky. What is the number you have on file now?"
According to posts elsewhere in this story, that's his old address. Still waiting for somebody to spring for his new address from the Oakland country real estate registry.
The Bible Gateway is a convenient resource for looking up Bible verses. Multiple language options as well as an advanced search that lets you compare many English translations.
Of course, the most logical approach is, YYYYMMDD, with significance than follows closer the way we count.
Not only is this the most logical approach, it's the standard approach. ISO 8601 to be exact. Not only is it logical, but it is also very computer friendly since sorting datestamps that are in this format is easy: an ascending sort is a chronological sort.
My parents are born and bred in North America. They are high school teachers. My dad just retired and my mom just took a job with a college. In Qatar.
Sure, it's right on the Persian Gulf and all their friends are worried, but they feel guilty because they have it so good over there. Good pay, good work environment, and a quick weekend trip takes you to India or to the pyramids.
From my quick reading of the link to Pascal's gambit above, I would conclude that the 'many Gods' objection is actually more substantial than your meaning of incompleteness.
That webpage (near the end) and Pascal in his original writing both address your second choice: "believe and fail". You assume that the consequence of that is infinite loss. However, you can't actually make yourself believe. You can only cultivate belief by acting as if you believe. If by doing that, you actually end up believing, that's outcome #1. If you attempt to believe and fail, it is possible that a diety could recognize that as all you were capable of doing, and the outcome might still be infinite gain.
Under that alternate assumption, the gambit actually more strongly favors belief. At worst it essentially reduces to the original form, I think. Of course, you know what they say about the word ass-u-me.
However, I can see we're getting into Occam's Razor territory, so I'll drop it...:)
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Does that mean that unless i put a "no trespassing" sign on my door you can come into my house uninvited? Even though the street from which you entered is public property?
/. after all.
Bad analogy - but this is
If you own a private piece of land, but make it into a park and invite people to use it (perhaps charging a small fee for access to some parks of the park, or maybe getting revenue from advertising on park benches), then unless you put a no trespassing sign on that special flower bed over there, I don't think it's unreasonable at all for somebody to walk over and look at those flowers.
Did he actually damage anything besides just gaining access to the system and telling people he could get in?
There's a pref in Firebird to not reuse existing windows for external links. I don't remember the pref at the moment, I saw it in somebody's blog recently, but I'm too lazy to look it up. It's there, you just gotta find it... I'm sure you're familiar with about:config.
Christopher
Another poster mentioned Send Safe. Seems like an interesting company to look into...
Particularly interesting is info on their open proxy scanner.
The domain registrar is Gandi and here is their whois info.
Looks like a nice Russian front for the company.
person: Ibragimov Ruslan
nic-hdl: IR14-GANDI
address: 12 Krasnokazarmennaya
address: 111250
address: Moscow
address: Russia
phone: nophone
e-mail: rusoil@mail.ru
Anybody out Moscow way available to do more research?
Mapquest says it's valid, but no gaurantee that the actual owner is the spammer in question...
Hmm, my first thought was that the address sounded like an upscale neighborhood, but the aerial photo seems to show apartment buildings. Anybody want to drive by and visit?
Great concept - I can wait for it to show up in other (cross-platform, FOSS) apps. However, as another poster notes, the big drawback right now is no easy way to add individual arbitrary items to a virtual folder.
I really would need that to make it work for me. I have 9 or 10 years of email archives that I would really like to organize...
Read the details at bugzilla.m.o bug 195280. It was around June 3 I think. Several people have linked to an XPI that you can install to restore MNG support to post-June-3 builds. Try http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225227/.
There is a much older bug to restore MNG support but if you feel the urge to comment in bugzilla be sure to read the rules and add something useful...
Most of this info is summarized in this Blogzilla entry
Christopher
I still haven't met another Software Engineer who had to design a 4th order Butterworth filter to graduate. (Just don't ask me to do it today).
Hi, my name is Christopher. Nice to meet you.
I don't have anything interesting to add to the thread. Just letting you know that there are (a few) others like us out there. I'm a software engineer (by looking at my academic record anyway) and Memorial University in backwoods Canada has an excellent broad-based program where I did everything from analog circuits and filters to kinematics, dynamics and philosophy. Likewise on designing a 4th order filter today, though (but I still have my notes around here somewhere if I ever had to).
several annoying features ... require user.js hacks, which is a minor hassle.
You do know about about:config, don't you? It's neat - try it! Saves drilling down your directory tree to find *.js in your profile directory, too.
Bookmarks is one of my sore spots with Moz too. I notice there are many bookmark related projects on mozdev but I haven't tried any yet.
I couldn't stand how opening a link in a new tab also switched focus to that tab
Edit-> Preferences-> Navigator-> Tabbed Browsing-> Tab Display-> Load links in the background
The pref has been in mozilla almost since tabs were implemented. Sorry you weren't able to find it. That's one of Mozilla Firebird's clear advantages: a vastly simplified and improved preference panel.
He automatically triggers Goodwin's Law and therefore he must concede the debate and the discussion is closed.
Christopher
(yes, I'm just poking fun)
I have X crash on me a hellava lot more than XP. In fact, I don't think Ive ever had XP crash. But hey, everyone is claiming how unstable it is, so I guess I'm just lucky (?).
Well, I guess I'm unlucky then. I've only installed XP once, and IE hung the machine during install while trying to download all the critical updates and security patches. During install! On a completely fresh machine!!
To be fair, I don't remember if it actually took XP down completely, but I did have to start part of the install over, and that involved rebooting or resetting the machine somehow. I couldn't believe it: crashed on the install, with no wierd hardware or funky install options either. This was XP Pro too, the commerical volume-licensed version.
I know IE isn't the NT 5 kernel, but you might be led to believe so by some of MS's legal dept's output, so I'd say turnaround is fair play. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Christopher
The way I see it is that the network allows (motivated and skilled) individuals to become better-informed more quickly than ever before. So in that sense it has a positive effect, not a negative one.
The same reasoning can be extended to small committees and even large ones. Given the right conditions (good organization and internal discipline) committees can communicate amongst themselves better, as well as receive external input and do better, faster research.
On the other hand, I think the rules quoted by the parent poster certainly stretch the application of math to empirical observations of network effect more than a little too far. A superfically plausible rule of thumb and an actual verifiable mathematical relationship between number of users and the usefulness of a network are two very different things.
Christopher
I think the mods are missing the joke here...
Look up impedance matching, particularly as it relates to sound transmission between differing media...
Christopher
I was going to moderate, but I couldn't let this pass. I don't know what "first" this Cape Cod spot claims, but Marconi's first trans-atlantic wireless radio transmission was in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. I know, because I live here, and my local IEEE section held ceremonies last year to commemorate the anniversary...
Oversensitive? Yeah, probably, but Newfoundland doesn't have many claims to fame, and this in one of them. To stay on topic, the others include the UNESCO world heritage sites in Lanse-aux-Meadows on the northern penninsula, and Gros Morne national park. Lanse-aux-Meadows was a summer home for viking visitors around the turn on the first millenium CE, and Gros Morne has an exposed section of really, really old rock from the earths mantle, something similar to Ayre's(sp?) rock in Australia, minus the funky colors.
Christopher
the bug you want is probably 134260 - [meta] Dynamic theme switching. If you have any insight on how to solve this problem, or you want to start coding yourself, start there rather than opening a new bug. If you don't plan to fix this yourself, be nice to Joe (Hewitt, bug owner) and don't spam him or the bug with requests, though I'm sure he won't refuse large enough bribes.
I'm not linking directly to the bug since Slashdot referrals are blocked anyway. It's not that hard to get there once you've got the bug number anyway.
The feature was called Dynamic Theme Switching or something like that. I can't get to bugzilla right now to search on it. I remember that it caused a whole pile of regressions and new bugs and it was backed out. I think there was an intention of giving it another try later, but I would say that any patches that are lying around are probably completely bit-rotted by now.
When mozilla.org recovers from the 1.2 release and slashdotting, try searching for dynamic theme switching in bugzilla.
Christopher
The article mentioned unlisted phone numbers. I would actually advocate doing this, but
That'll teach me to not preview... I meant to say I would not actually advocate doing this
So, let me get this straight. This guy sends a trojan to 250 million people per day
Seems to me the most practical tracking method would be embedding images in HTML email with encoded URLs. The trick then, would be to inspect his email after receiving it, and identify the servers that do his monitoring. Maybe Spamhaus has already done this, but I can't imagine he can hide his new location for long. Once you have one or two bits, all the rest - home address, ISPs, phone numbers - should fall into place.
The article mentioned unlisted phone numbers. I would actually advocate doing this, but some devious people might get a kick out of using this as practice in social engineering... there have to be several 'hackable' sources of unlisted numbers... his real estate records, his ISPs, his cable or satellite provider, his mechanic...
"Excuse me, I just moved and I want to make sure that you have my correct phone number... Yes, Alan Ralsky. What is the number you have on file now?"
According to posts elsewhere in this story, that's his old address. Still waiting for somebody to spring for his new address from the Oakland country real estate registry.
Christopher
CKK = initials of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Yeah OT but who cares?
The Bible Gateway is a convenient resource for looking up Bible verses. Multiple language options as well as an advanced search that lets you compare many English translations.
Ezekiel 25:17
I don't know the quote in question so I can't say which version is closest, but NIV seems strong enough, or perhaps the CEV.
Of course, the most logical approach is, YYYYMMDD, with significance than follows closer the way we count.
Not only is this the most logical approach, it's the standard approach. ISO 8601 to be exact. Not only is it logical, but it is also very computer friendly since sorting datestamps that are in this format is easy: an ascending sort is a chronological sort.
My parents are born and bred in North America. They are high school teachers. My dad just retired and my mom just took a job with a college. In Qatar.
Sure, it's right on the Persian Gulf and all their friends are worried, but they feel guilty because they have it so good over there. Good pay, good work environment, and a quick weekend trip takes you to India or to the pyramids.
I'm saving my money to visit them next year.
This is already way OT, but hey...
:)
From my quick reading of the link to Pascal's gambit above, I would conclude that the 'many Gods' objection is actually more substantial than your meaning of incompleteness.
That webpage (near the end) and Pascal in his original writing both address your second choice: "believe and fail". You assume that the consequence of that is infinite loss. However, you can't actually make yourself believe. You can only cultivate belief by acting as if you believe. If by doing that, you actually end up believing, that's outcome #1. If you attempt to believe and fail, it is possible that a diety could recognize that as all you were capable of doing, and the outcome might still be infinite gain.
Under that alternate assumption, the gambit actually more strongly favors belief. At worst it essentially reduces to the original form, I think. Of course, you know what they say about the word ass-u-me.
However, I can see we're getting into Occam's Razor territory, so I'll drop it...
Christopher