"Two computers behind a NAT are treated as the same person"
"They block the transparent proxy"
The reason for this is because about the only thing you can't forge is your apparent, from the Slashdot server's perspective, WAN IP address. Your real WAN or LAN IP is passed in an easy to manipulate X_FORWARDED_FOR or HTTP_VIA HTTP header (both non-standard HTTP/1.1).
Of course, If you add a fake IP address to this header then a legitimate user-agent or proxy should still append you're remote IP. Although, I don't think there is a standard as to the order or requirement to do so.
If this is the case, to protect the feed from abuse by IP access lists would mean verifying the integrity of every proxy on route (how it operates, if it is shared and secure from meddling).
Other than providing you with some kind of cookie to log you in (which most news readers don't support) theres not much/. can do.
Has anyone noticed none of these standards have any form of e-mail obfuscation, or any support for contact methods that protect publishers from harvesting?
Not really. If your SMTP server went down then you wouldn't have been able to send the mail in the first place. The first Received: header in the chain (that isn't fake) should have a date (taking into account timezones) nearly the same as your own.
"One can backdate e-mails through rolling back a computer's built-in clock"
Unfortunately "Received:" headers add their own date e.g.
Received: from mta02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.42]) by mx2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id xxxxxxxxxxxx for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:56:09 -0400 (EDT)
Running Windows 2000 myself and I use Kerio Personal Firewall 2.15, the last firewall in the 2.x series and the last "personal firewall" from Kerio I can tolerate.
It has some major issues, don't use the remote access for one. But it's a decent suppliment to the Windows Firewall on open source project was planned to build an open source clone, unfortunately it seems to be going nowhere.
I'm using Opera's inbuilt BT client. Infact, I didn't even notice it was a BitTorrent link until it was 15% here already. Very impressed with how seemless it was.
Came in at 32KB/s at first (I'm on a 300kbps line). Averaged at 11.8 KB/s according to the transfer window. Not bad considering the circumstances.
Opera doesn't seem to be listening on port 6881, and I have a firewall in the way. Even so i've been uploading. Which is also very impressive.
Yes I have used PHP, most people who run a website probably have or in some equivalent. I also do Delphi and Java and touched into the delights of C++.
I don't think anybody can just 'program' it's just not like being able to stand up, it's a very progressive and diverse skill. Can someone who can code hardcore C++ drivers, only does assembly, or writes for the Linux kernel necessarily write a decent PHP script? Of course not.
:D You're assuming there is no difference in the physical construction of the layers and through how many layers wavelength of laser can penetrate in that material.
Just a thought, I can't be arsed to mini-research into it.
I would like to point out that i've dragged the thread way off topic from "Is it surprising that this little girl did this?" to "Well anyone can learn to program and do this can't they?"
Nevertheless, here are some of my logic for you to undistort:
'Just for the record', I never actually said everyone who uses a computer today is a programmer.
The pioneers who built the first computers were engineers, so admittedly generally smart people. But remember they were potential users, long before they became programmers.
History is featured with people now famous in topics in which they had little training or education. They aren't progidy children they just had the right mind for the job (and the right opportunities).
Knowing what you want from a piece of software and how you want to operate it is often the difficult bit over and done with. Users should know about that side of things better than anyone else. I would give an analogy but they always suck.
In my humble opinion, a high % of people could, if they wanted, learn a decent programming language and put together reasonable, or contribute toward almost any, software in a short time. In all probability though I suspect people choose not to because they:
Find it easier to tolerate what's available
Like most people follow the belief that programming is difficult and out of their reach (even to perform small contributions or mods).
Existing programmers despite claiming to embrace 'open' source and free (GNU def.) software actually tend to have a fairly large ego
Most people could probably go on become a decent programmer given the offset little Arfa has been.
The equivalent analogy in cars of programming a computer wouldn't be designing a totally new and/or better car, it would be making the existing car do new things, more fun, more economical, or more useful. A fair number of people tinker, mod, tweak and customization as well as maintain their vehicles themselves.
From what I hear on the grapevine there has been a fairly substantial increase in people taking up programming and computer science in universities in the UK and computer science degrees (although all degrees are doing this to a certain extent) are now 'worth' less to employers. This is the impression now being given to UK colleges and high schools. I know a computer science teacher and he has mentioned his class size doubled in just the last... what must be 5ish years. I don't think it's fair to say that people on average have got smarter in that short period of time and so are now able to cope with programming. They've always been able, attitudes toward computing have just changed.
For a supposedly pro open-source community, the response i'm getting in this Slashdot thread seems to suggest everyone thinks that you need years of experience to be a useful programmer. To me this shuns the whole beauty of open source (although you could argue it's always been soley for the professional programmer community, in which case why the hell should Joe sixpack give a crap about it like everyone pushes for here on/. - but i guess that's a different discussion). From my perspective it's the otherside starting the 'flamebait'.
I do some modest programming, mostly in Delphi and Java, but i'm currently studying in electronics university.
I always remember what my own computing tutor said in one of our first few lessons not so many years ago: "It's easier to teach a thinker to program, than it is a programmer to think."
It's not over poetic like some quotes but still very true.
Actually after a quick visit to Wikipedia and a Google search it seems HD-DVD will be triple layered and may be able to hold a capacity of 45GB - Source
Not to mention the consumer appeal of having a standard DVD compatible layer.
If only I had the mod points, there are some people in this/. on about firing the 'culprit' and such.
Although the poster hasn't stated his intentions when finding the responsible employee I hope he considers asking him (presuming he didn't just forget to turn off the AP) why he needed it, overlooking the incident, no harm done (after securing the network) and seeing what can be done to prevent the need for using these devices in the future.
It's ironic to me that your website's domain is "beresourceful.net" and yet you're the first person to post a complete yet simplistic and systematic solution....meanwhile everyone else is running around with Pringles tubes. We all know they just want to eat Pringles. Thats what IT managers do.
There is little point in discussing the use of CSS generally to customise forms, that is only a tool. A tool which isn't even new to webdesign. Better is to the discuss the authors use of it and the way he promotes it's use.
The author's examples and presentation of his method make his rating form look like a way of presenting a rating more than inputing one. If all inplementations end up this bad, and it does allow webdesigners to do so, it becomes difficult for a visitor to distinguish input from output and introduces confusion. My main point was he should have been promoting the use of customised radio and tickboxes not paving way for the introduction of, effectively, totally new unfamiliar form elements.
Web standards are heavy on pushing the seperation of data, style and structure. Since a forms structure partially implies the data it houses doesn't that mean it's style should also? For example: a plain or stylish tick, no matter how you look at it, still implies a boolean/binary field.
I don't see why a good webdesigner would want to introduce more presentation or user hand holding (Such as 'click to toggle' labels or legends) than necessary into a page just so the visitor can understand a pretty form, or how doing so makes the form more intuitive or enjoyeable to use
The majority of web users, both online and offline, are familiar with the star rating but I don't think that clicking stars to rate something is intuitive at all.
In the case of the example, and IMHO something much better, would be to have + and - buttons and a row of star graphics that appear and disappear as you use increase or decrease the rating. In my mind this seems more natural to me because you are mentally adding or subtracting from the score of whatever you are rating or reviewing.
They look horrible and confusing to me, especially in the example the author has given. If i had come across that form on a page and it said "please select a rating" or the like I would be momentarily confused.
I think there is a good reason why radio buttons and check boxes haven't been styled too much - it's because they are perfect the way they are.
If you want to style a checkbox or radio button atleast make it look like one, get some inspiration from the likes of Opera skins.
I would hardly say plumbers are the chaff from the wheat. Also plumbing has some serious engineering aspects.
I think he means the likes of those who aren't obviously going to be academically successful with your bread and butter subjects (although it is very debateable I suspect it is possible to spot such individuals) be offered more choice and guidance at a younger age (Although everyone should be given that choice).
Additionally at 13 you haven't covered all the material I would say is a necessity these days.
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"Two computers behind a NAT are treated as the same person"
/. can do.
"They block the transparent proxy"
The reason for this is because about the only thing you can't forge is your apparent, from the Slashdot server's perspective, WAN IP address. Your real WAN or LAN IP is passed in an easy to manipulate X_FORWARDED_FOR or HTTP_VIA HTTP header (both non-standard HTTP/1.1).
Of course, If you add a fake IP address to this header then a legitimate user-agent or proxy should still append you're remote IP. Although, I don't think there is a standard as to the order or requirement to do so.
If this is the case, to protect the feed from abuse by IP access lists would mean verifying the integrity of every proxy on route (how it operates, if it is shared and secure from meddling).
Other than providing you with some kind of cookie to log you in (which most news readers don't support) theres not much
Has anyone noticed none of these standards have any form of e-mail obfuscation, or any support for contact methods that protect publishers from harvesting?
Slashdot uses RSS 1.0, not 2.0. Just a side note.
Not really. If your SMTP server went down then you wouldn't have been able to send the mail in the first place. The first Received: header in the chain (that isn't fake) should have a date (taking into account timezones) nearly the same as your own.
It wouldn't explain the time difference.
Slashdot needs to commission a documentary on the habits of these elusive slashdot "real programmer" while in their natural habitat.
Anyone happen to know if Steve Irwin's up for he challenge?
"One can backdate e-mails through rolling back a computer's built-in clock"
Unfortunately "Received:" headers add their own date e.g.
Received: from mta02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.42]) by mx2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id xxxxxxxxxxxx for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:56:09 -0400 (EDT)
It's news because it reflects how web culture is grossly affecting some peoples lives and the way in which they make money.
I for one found it rather alarming and interesting and rather read about it than another story about Firefox or Windows updates.
Well i forgot to close my anchor tag, shame on me
Ghost Personal Firewall
Running Windows 2000 myself and I use Kerio Personal Firewall 2.15, the last firewall in the 2.x series and the last "personal firewall" from Kerio I can tolerate.
It has some major issues, don't use the remote access for one. But it's a decent suppliment to the Windows Firewall on open source project was planned to build an open source clone, unfortunately it seems to be going nowhere.
Failing that, Sygate is a good choice.
I'm using Opera's inbuilt BT client. Infact, I didn't even notice it was a BitTorrent link until it was 15% here already. Very impressed with how seemless it was.
Came in at 32KB/s at first (I'm on a 300kbps line). Averaged at 11.8 KB/s according to the transfer window. Not bad considering the circumstances.
Opera doesn't seem to be listening on port 6881, and I have a firewall in the way. Even so i've been uploading. Which is also very impressive.
Go Opera!
Yes I have used PHP, most people who run a website probably have or in some equivalent. I also do Delphi and Java and touched into the delights of C++.
I don't think anybody can just 'program' it's just not like being able to stand up, it's a very progressive and diverse skill. Can someone who can code hardcore C++ drivers, only does assembly, or writes for the Linux kernel necessarily write a decent PHP script? Of course not.
:D You're assuming there is no difference in the physical construction of the layers and through how many layers wavelength of laser can penetrate in that material.
Just a thought, I can't be arsed to mini-research into it.
Nevertheless, here are some of my logic for you to undistort:
I always remember what my own computing tutor said in one of our first few lessons not so many years ago:
"It's easier to teach a thinker to program, than it is a programmer to think."
It's not over poetic like some quotes but still very true.
Actually after a quick visit to Wikipedia and a Google search it seems HD-DVD will be triple layered and may be able to hold a capacity of 45GB - Source
Not to mention the consumer appeal of having a standard DVD compatible layer.
Maybe this is because most people don't want to be "real programmers" and A LOT of people enjoy porn and not because programming is difficult?
If only I had the mod points, there are some people in this /. on about firing the 'culprit' and such.
Although the poster hasn't stated his intentions when finding the responsible employee I hope he considers asking him (presuming he didn't just forget to turn off the AP) why he needed it, overlooking the incident, no harm done (after securing the network) and seeing what can be done to prevent the need for using these devices in the future.
You're spot on.
It's ironic to me that your website's domain is "beresourceful.net" and yet you're the first person to post a complete yet simplistic and systematic solution. ...meanwhile everyone else is running around with Pringles tubes. We all know they just want to eat Pringles. Thats what IT managers do.
"Using computers and programming are a bit different, don't you think?"
Once upon a time in the days of punch cards etc all users of computers were considered programmers.
On a more modern note, no. I think anyone capable of using a computer can program one and it always has been so.
Google Maps doesn't cover Africa (yet)
And HTTP/The Web was invented by a Brit. Deal with it, you own squat.
"Like everything on the Internet, the usefullness of file sharing was indirectly proportional to the number of people using it."
Like Slashdot.
They look horrible and confusing to me, especially in the example the author has given. If i had come across that form on a page and it said "please select a rating" or the like I would be momentarily confused.
I think there is a good reason why radio buttons and check boxes haven't been styled too much - it's because they are perfect the way they are.
If you want to style a checkbox or radio button atleast make it look like one, get some inspiration from the likes of Opera skins.
I would hardly say plumbers are the chaff from the wheat. Also plumbing has some serious engineering aspects.
I think he means the likes of those who aren't obviously going to be academically successful with your bread and butter subjects (although it is very debateable I suspect it is possible to spot such individuals) be offered more choice and guidance at a younger age (Although everyone should be given that choice).
Additionally at 13 you haven't covered all the material I would say is a necessity these days.
Many of the lookups are taken of in Europe. The DNS root servers are dotted all over the planet, including Europe.