I 'spose that anyone in the computer tech/repair shop industry appreciates worms like these.
Surely, but (from experience) they also like easy ways to fix it. Especially if it can amount to popping an autorun CD in and just letting a script run.
I suppose that anyone in the computer tech/repair shop industry might appreciate tools like Rootkit Revealer right now.
Hopefully Microsoft's project that hasn't been released yet will show up soon. They also have a few hints to detect rootkits installed on a system including two Slashdotlinks.
Yeah, I think I'm glad they dumped those. What's too bad is they never refer to them later in the series. Why not take a jab at themselves for a laugh? For example when Riker makes a comment to Picard about how he hates the dress uniform, Picard could reply that, "at least he didn't have to wear those awful skirts."
It is important to point out that FSM is a spoof and nobody takes it seriously.
The first time I saw somebody refer to the FSM they only used the abbreviation and didn't spell it out. I just couldn't figure out how a Finite State Machine fit into the topic Intelligent Design.
Is this a localised thing, or something from GTA2? I never ran over Elvis's's...
In GTA2 (the last top-down view in the series) you could run over a line of Elvis impersonators for points, something missing from newer versions. I was referring to the also missing (since GTA2) "Kill Frenzy" mini-game where you're given a fancy weapon like a flamethrower and told to kill X people in Y seconds. If you complete the "mission" you get points.
They've removed Kill Frenzies from newer versions of GTA replacing it with with "Kill X Gang Members." I suppose it's supposed to be more sensitive since killing 40 gang members isn't as bad as killing 40 random people on the street (I guess).
If anyone's interested, you can actually get the full version of GTA2 for free from Rockstar's website (or bypass stupid soul-sucking registration for a direct download). Either way it's 345MB but worth it to see some of the game's roots and get a quick stress-reliever:)
I can tell by your UID that you're not new here. I can only believe that perhaps you've been on sabbatical for the last 7 years. Perhaps you are recently recovering from amnesia? Did you buy your Slashdot account on Ebay?
In any case it is my unfortunate duty to inform you that everything is the Bush administration's fault. In fact, I have it on good authority that the Bush administration caused cancer, created the 2004 Tsunami, and were the real authors behind the "Hot Coffee" mod. These acts and many others been uncovered by trusted sites such as MichaelMoore.com, The Onion, and Slashdot.
The truth is that they are responsible for just about everything since their takeover of the Lewinsky administration. Sorry to break it to you like this but they are pure dag-nasty evil, it's just a fact.
One of my favorite features is the form of auto-completion and showing function prototypes. You don't have to have memorized the entire Win32 API to be a "good" programmer. Documentation comes in many forms and by having the IDE tell you when you open a parenthesis what the function expects as inputs is just another way of looking at the docs.
The one place where I think that an IDE can cause some harm for new programmers is the "shake-and-bake" method of designing an app where it asks 10 questions and writes the code for you. Past that, IDEs are a great tool for managing larger programming projects.
Thanks for post those interesting documents. Some excerpts for those scared of PDF and DOCs:
From the first one (China):
Our government is planning to make new relevant policies and legislations, and making its efforts toward carrying out more practical and effective ways by using its legislative power and jurisdiction to create a healthy, stable and sustainable developing net atmosphere.
What kind of legislation? Blocking sites with the word "democracy" in it? China's apparent desire to make the Internet "healthy" is a joke.
To sum up, Internet governance is a system engineering, which need to construct an integrated system via the efforts from various layers of management in the whole human society. It needs the participations and support from all the people to protect Internet ethics and develop Internet civilization. Only in this way, could the Internet information society serve human being on economic, social, cultural and other aspects.
What in the world? I've got a shiny nickel for anyone that really understands that. "Internet eithics" indeed. This paper contains absolutely nothing of any value. How applicable to the UN.
The second document is almost as good. You can sum it up with the following:
1) Wah wah wah. The US has control over the DNS root servers. 2) It costs a lot to build an infrastructure. 3) Spam is bad. 4) IPv6 is good. 5) Too much English on the Internet 6) The Internet will break any second if the UN doesn't step in.
I have yet to see a valid argument for the UN control of the root DNS servers. Documents such as these are a perfect example of using a lot of words and not saying anything at all.
I'm going to predict this will pretty much get a bit of hype, then slowly (or not so slowly) fade away into the mists of the Interweb.
Seriously. If there's one thing I think most people can agree on, it's that the number of successful web browsers seems bounded pretty low. You've pretty much got IE, Firefox/Mozilla, Opera, and Safari. I imagine that those are the only browsers showing up with at least 5% in server logs, but in the past there have been many more, some getting more attention than others.
People want to use mainstream browsers. Giving me quick access to something like a blog or Flickr isn't "innovative". A bookmark/favorite does the same thing with less overhead. I can get all sorts of functionality with Firefox and IE using extensions and ActiveX. If Flock is based on Firefox, but they don't plan to fork the codebase or do anything more than GUI changes and extension-cabable add-ons, then what's the point?
The Internet public has a way of weeding out browsers. The mainstream ones stay put (unless they get screwed by major corporations, *cough* Netscape 6 *cough*) and these amazing "new" ones go the way of the dodo. This one will be no different.
Personally, I use the classic view in XP, setting it to show a menu in the Start Menu. I know where I want to go, and it's nice that the options haven't changed much since 95. It's nice that they don't go renaming and regrouping the different options every release.
I do like the category view in Vista better than XP. The "quick links" to oft-used functions in each category are listed under the main category name, a big improvement. The fewer sub-menus I have to open, the better.
The change jar on Bill's dresser was getting full:)
Don't take that the wrong way. Whatever his reasons (and I believe them honest), you can't help but respect the Foundation. A quick look shows they've donated over $28B and over $1B each year. That's a lot of money doing a lot of good, and is probably better spent than most Government-sponsered projects.
I know it's Sunday, but lets think a little. Why the heck link directly to a Babelfish translation making the poor fishy run the page through the translator for every Slashdot visitor?
It's not ignorance anymore editors, it's pure arrogance. "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Yeah, so you direct the tsunami that is Slashdot. Ooh, aah, wow. Altavista doesn't even get any ad-generated revenue. This is what will make people block specific referrers. I know if I was the webmaster for Altavista, Babel would not allow references from slashdot.org anymore.
At first glance it seems you were doing the series where each number is the previous number added to the number of letters it takes to spell out that number.
However your pattern misses by one (44 vs 45). So either you have a mistake and the answer was supposed to be "C" (53 instead of 54 because of the mistake), or this isn't the correct pattern.
While I don't care too much about this (perhaps I'm not taking the same, uh, genre, of photos you are), there are other solutions.
I'm not sure what service the submitter was referring to exactly, but many stores including WalMart and others have automated Fujifilm or Kodak kiosks that let you input your photos via a large number of interfaces (flatbed scanner, USB, compact flash, SD, etc), view and edit them, and then print them on quality photo paper for 10-25 cents each. My mother who owns a Kodak picture printer does this because not only is it a lot cheaper and the quality of the prints is very good, but she can crop, resize, adjust brightness/contrast/saturation, etc, without trying to learn how to use graphic software.
It prints the pictures instantly along with a UPC you stick to the envelope and pay at the cashier. Nobody really sees them.
Slashdot Mirror
I 'spose that anyone in the computer tech/repair shop industry appreciates worms like these.
Surely, but (from experience) they also like easy ways to fix it. Especially if it can amount to popping an autorun CD in and just letting a script run.
It's somewhat disturbing that you have that link handy.
What are you talking about? I can't be the only person with that picture on my desktop, can I?
Actually, it wasn't that hard. Feeling Lucky punk?
I suppose that anyone in the computer tech/repair shop industry might appreciate tools like Rootkit Revealer right now.
Hopefully Microsoft's project that hasn't been released yet will show up soon. They also have a few hints to detect rootkits installed on a system including two Slashdot links.
Hooray for AOL.
There actually is a shot somewhere early in the series with a man wearing one of those skirts.
You can see it here.
Yeah, I think I'm glad they dumped those. What's too bad is they never refer to them later in the series. Why not take a jab at themselves for a laugh? For example when Riker makes a comment to Picard about how he hates the dress uniform, Picard could reply that, "at least he didn't have to wear those awful skirts."
Moore or Mealy, good Sir?
:)
Oh, it's got to be Mealy. The fewer states the better
It is important to point out that FSM is a spoof and nobody takes it seriously.
The first time I saw somebody refer to the FSM they only used the abbreviation and didn't spell it out. I just couldn't figure out how a Finite State Machine fit into the topic Intelligent Design.
Is this a localised thing, or something from GTA2? I never ran over Elvis's's...
:)
In GTA2 (the last top-down view in the series) you could run over a line of Elvis impersonators for points, something missing from newer versions. I was referring to the also missing (since GTA2) "Kill Frenzy" mini-game where you're given a fancy weapon like a flamethrower and told to kill X people in Y seconds. If you complete the "mission" you get points.
They've removed Kill Frenzies from newer versions of GTA replacing it with with "Kill X Gang Members." I suppose it's supposed to be more sensitive since killing 40 gang members isn't as bad as killing 40 random people on the street (I guess).
If anyone's interested, you can actually get the full version of GTA2 for free from Rockstar's website (or bypass stupid soul-sucking registration for a direct download). Either way it's 345MB but worth it to see some of the game's roots and get a quick stress-reliever
Two words: Kill Frenzy!
Dear sir.
I can tell by your UID that you're not new here. I can only believe that perhaps you've been on sabbatical for the last 7 years. Perhaps you are recently recovering from amnesia? Did you buy your Slashdot account on Ebay?
In any case it is my unfortunate duty to inform you that everything is the Bush administration's fault. In fact, I have it on good authority that the Bush administration caused cancer, created the 2004 Tsunami, and were the real authors behind the "Hot Coffee" mod. These acts and many others been uncovered by trusted sites such as MichaelMoore.com, The Onion, and Slashdot.
The truth is that they are responsible for just about everything since their takeover of the Lewinsky administration. Sorry to break it to you like this but they are pure dag-nasty evil, it's just a fact.
If used correctly Visual Studio does not "rot your brain" or cause bad habits.
The places where Visual Studio excels is in some of the following:
Code/syntax highlighting
Structure/layout
Designing graphical aspects (forms, window layouts, etc.)
And others
One of my favorite features is the form of auto-completion and showing function prototypes. You don't have to have memorized the entire Win32 API to be a "good" programmer. Documentation comes in many forms and by having the IDE tell you when you open a parenthesis what the function expects as inputs is just another way of looking at the docs.
The one place where I think that an IDE can cause some harm for new programmers is the "shake-and-bake" method of designing an app where it asks 10 questions and writes the code for you. Past that, IDEs are a great tool for managing larger programming projects.
The cheapest I found it was on PCNation for $355 with free FedEx shipping. More here.
Isn't it policy to keep religion out of state schools? ;-)
Perhaps, but it's also policy for Slashdot to have at least 80 Google stories each week. Just trying to fulfill their quota, you understand.
Thanks for post those interesting documents. Some excerpts for those scared of PDF and DOCs:
From the first one (China):
Our government is planning to make new relevant policies and legislations, and making its
efforts toward carrying out more practical and effective ways by using its legislative power
and jurisdiction to create a healthy, stable and sustainable developing net atmosphere.
What kind of legislation? Blocking sites with the word "democracy" in it? China's apparent desire to make the Internet "healthy" is a joke.
To sum up, Internet governance is a system engineering, which need to construct an integrated
system via the efforts from various layers of management in the whole human society. It needs
the participations and support from all the people to protect Internet ethics and develop
Internet civilization. Only in this way, could the Internet information society serve human
being on economic, social, cultural and other aspects.
What in the world? I've got a shiny nickel for anyone that really understands that. "Internet eithics" indeed. This paper contains absolutely nothing of any value. How applicable to the UN.
The second document is almost as good. You can sum it up with the following:
1) Wah wah wah. The US has control over the DNS root servers.
2) It costs a lot to build an infrastructure.
3) Spam is bad.
4) IPv6 is good.
5) Too much English on the Internet
6) The Internet will break any second if the UN doesn't step in.
I have yet to see a valid argument for the UN control of the root DNS servers. Documents such as these are a perfect example of using a lot of words and not saying anything at all.
I'm going to predict this will pretty much get a bit of hype, then slowly (or not so slowly) fade away into the mists of the Interweb.
Seriously. If there's one thing I think most people can agree on, it's that the number of successful web browsers seems bounded pretty low. You've pretty much got IE, Firefox/Mozilla, Opera, and Safari. I imagine that those are the only browsers showing up with at least 5% in server logs, but in the past there have been many more, some getting more attention than others.
People want to use mainstream browsers. Giving me quick access to something like a blog or Flickr isn't "innovative". A bookmark/favorite does the same thing with less overhead. I can get all sorts of functionality with Firefox and IE using extensions and ActiveX. If Flock is based on Firefox, but they don't plan to fork the codebase or do anything more than GUI changes and extension-cabable add-ons, then what's the point?
The Internet public has a way of weeding out browsers. The mainstream ones stay put (unless they get screwed by major corporations, *cough* Netscape 6 *cough*) and these amazing "new" ones go the way of the dodo. This one will be no different.
A couple other views of the Vista control panel:
Category view from build 5112. Another full screen shot with the menu bar on the left.
Icon view
Personally, I use the classic view in XP, setting it to show a menu in the Start Menu. I know where I want to go, and it's nice that the options haven't changed much since 95. It's nice that they don't go renaming and regrouping the different options every release.
I do like the category view in Vista better than XP. The "quick links" to oft-used functions in each category are listed under the main category name, a big improvement. The fewer sub-menus I have to open, the better.
The change jar on Bill's dresser was getting full :)
Don't take that the wrong way. Whatever his reasons (and I believe them honest), you can't help but respect the Foundation. A quick look shows they've donated over $28B and over $1B each year. That's a lot of money doing a lot of good, and is probably better spent than most Government-sponsered projects.
Did it take the OS with it? ;)
:)
Fortunately it didn't. Though I suppose if you set firefox.exe's priority to Realtime first...
Nah. This is one of those exercises I'm leaving to the reader
Version 1.0.7 on XP sure is. Crashed and burned bad.
Don't worry about it guys. I sent Microsoft an Error Report so I'm sure they'll get right on the problem as well.
Uh oh, looks like the NSA needs to watch what gets made public on their site.
Crypto gear revealed!
Some of these links are kind of interesting. How many tax dollars have been spent on stuff like this (flash)?
I know it's Sunday, but lets think a little. Why the heck link directly to a Babelfish translation making the poor fishy run the page through the translator for every Slashdot visitor?
USE CORAL CACHE and create a Fish-friendly copy!
It's not ignorance anymore editors, it's pure arrogance. "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Yeah, so you direct the tsunami that is Slashdot. Ooh, aah, wow. Altavista doesn't even get any ad-generated revenue. This is what will make people block specific referrers. I know if I was the webmaster for Altavista, Babel would not allow references from slashdot.org anymore.
Slow down there, buddy. Looks like you might have been doing too many methematical problems lately.
At first glance it seems you were doing the series where each number is the previous number added to the number of letters it takes to spell out that number.
1 | One (3) 1+3=4
4 | Four (4) 4+4=8
8 | Eight (5) 8+5=13
13 | Thirteen (8) 13+8=21
21 | Twenty-One (9) 21+9=30
30 | Thirty (6) 30+6=36
36 | Thirty-Six (9) 36+9=45
45 | Forty-Five (9) 45+9=54
However your pattern misses by one (44 vs 45). So either you have a mistake and the answer was supposed to be "C" (53 instead of 54 because of the mistake), or this isn't the correct pattern.
...to have the clerk looking at my photos...
While I don't care too much about this (perhaps I'm not taking the same, uh, genre, of photos you are), there are other solutions.
I'm not sure what service the submitter was referring to exactly, but many stores including WalMart and others have automated Fujifilm or Kodak kiosks that let you input your photos via a large number of interfaces (flatbed scanner, USB, compact flash, SD, etc), view and edit them, and then print them on quality photo paper for 10-25 cents each. My mother who owns a Kodak picture printer does this because not only is it a lot cheaper and the quality of the prints is very good, but she can crop, resize, adjust brightness/contrast/saturation, etc, without trying to learn how to use graphic software.
It prints the pictures instantly along with a UPC you stick to the envelope and pay at the cashier. Nobody really sees them.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out what the hell that means.
Have you been reading my Calculus textbook? If I had a nickel for every time I saw that...
Wow, how did that slip through marketing?
It didn't. They are simply fulfilling their destiny. Tell me, the logical next step after an exoskeleton is what?
That's right. They don't "spew lightning"... yet.