Actually this is (close to) impossible. From the site:
"All subject lines have a fsname (filesystem name) field which has two purposes:
1. It prevents the injection of spurious data into the filesystem by external attackers. As such, the fsname should be chosen with the care you would exercise in choosing a user password."
I don't know about anybody else here, but I imagine I'm far from the only one who would love to see those blasted things continue to have artificially inflated prices.
About a week back I downloaded GMail Notifier the official alternative. Then I fired up Ethereal. There is indeed a backdoor protocol. Though from what I can tell from the HTTP GET string it's protected to high hell. GMail notifier sends an HTTP GET query to the GMail server, the GMail server sends back the number (and almost only the number) of messages. Here's the dump:
I however absolutely hate the color scheme involved with Notifier, so I will NOT be using it until they improve that. GTray (http://torrez.us/gtray), my app of choice, still works just fine as of about 10 minutes ago. If Google really does close it off at some point, I think we should petition them to open up a version like Google API with similar restrictions.
Quick, sombody write a fantastic game and then use a preloading scheme for what is supposedly a sequal but is actually the data behind the human genome.
Abstract: A process by which competition can be stamped out through the blatant abuse of the patent system. Vague ideas, which are the only logical way to achieve something, and for which massive prior art exists are stockpiled as patents in order to legally harass other businesses. This can be achieved by dedicating an ordinate amount of revenue to attorneys and using this as your principal business capital.
This battle Google will lose. Everyone will have Microsoft's app. Only those who choose to download will have Google's app. So long as the user can find stuff with any regularity with Microsoft's creation there won't be any impetus to switch to a marginally better alternative. Nobody lacks appreciation of technological quality like the average PC consumer (IE,AOL,WMP,ETC.).
What's most interesting to me is the single PCI expansion slot and open source OS. Means this thing is open to some serious customization. For instance, I could potentially hook this up to my wifi network.
Just a note for those not inclined to do the math. There are 2 $10 books and 7 $5 books for an average of $6.111 per book. The Wired article states that roughly 20,000 have been sold. If we assume that every book sold equally, which we know to be false but will accept for the purposes of this estimate, that's $122,222.22 in revenue. 50%, or $61,111.11, of which goes to the authors. There are 9 books. If we stick by our earlier assumption that's $6,790.12 for the author per book. Now we could add in what we do know about "Upgrading to Panther," but it would distribute evenly anyway. I know what you're thinking, and no I do not get outside much.
I think a lot of the comments I've seen so far here have pretty much outlined why there are few women in computer science. And they didn't do this deliberately, but through effective demonstration.
Though I guess I really don't see why more women aren't pulled in initially. I'd think the curiosity and desire for a logical world that drove me to CS would be more or less universal.
I sincerely hope that was sarcasm. There are things that are legal but should remain private, like business dealings or sexual preferences. Using that rationale we could literally institute 1984 tomorrow, and it would be just dandy with you. Do you really want your toaster reporting back to the government?
You also misunderstand the technology, black boxes are passive monitoring devices. They transmit nothing, they just record.
Simple way to fix this, at least in a 16 lane scenario, is to reserve parts of the side lanes near the intersection for turning. Then have the cars lane-change towards, or away from, the side as they get nearer.
Seriously, this kind of flaming makes me sick. If tomorrow there was no Windows and Linux was magically installed on most people's machines then the day after tomorrow malware, spyware, virus, and trojan writers would have a nasty little surprise for everyone. There is absolutely nothing in Linux to prevent that kind of monkeying. What prevents it is that most Linux users are power users and Linux isn't the dominating OS.
I'll bet that 2% includes a certain (reportedly) extremely rich Middle Eastern man with a beard and a picture on the USA's most wanted list. Not to mention anyone else he wanted to keep off of it.
1. Implement transparent micropayment on site. 2. Submit article to Slashdot concerning random article on site. 3. ??? 4. Profit!
When traffic alone generates revenue nobody need care about selling a product or providing content. Just dupe as many people as possible into viewing a page. We're seeing this small-scale with affiliate programs, I predict we'll see much more of this before it's all over.
On this same note I'd reccomend you check out this project. Video of it in action towrards the bottom. I've seen it working in the park nearby CMU, neato stuff. A little out of your league I'd think, but still worth a look.
Though I don't dispute Apple has come up with some neat designs, how much working with white rounded structures would it take to drive a true artist crazy?
Slashdot Mirror
Their server appears to still run on CTSS!
Actually this is (close to) impossible. From the site:
"All subject lines have a fsname (filesystem name) field which has two purposes:
1. It prevents the injection of spurious data into the filesystem by external attackers. As such, the fsname should be chosen with the care you would exercise in choosing a user password."
I don't know about anybody else here, but I imagine I'm far from the only one who would love to see those blasted things continue to have artificially inflated prices.
167 posts and no 5 moderated IT Slashdot color scheme jokes? Amazing.
About a week back I downloaded GMail Notifier the official alternative. Then I fired up Ethereal. There is indeed a backdoor protocol. Though from what I can tell from the HTTP GET string it's protected to high hell. GMail notifier sends an HTTP GET query to the GMail server, the GMail server sends back the number (and almost only the number) of messages. Here's the dump:
/gmail?ui=pb&q=label%3A%5Ei%20label%3A%5Eu HTTP/1.1f 5ZeIhRBn0aSXNXqg9mNrvBpyrfx0ImAGmONYgxv0w=; PREF=ID=446f57901cff551a:TM=1093681541:LM=10937355 79:TB=2:S=QbSoqBBCOK7nKj0f; S=gmail=NK86NtM1S-k:gmproxy=rYXDOT5E60U
f 5ZeIhRBn0aSXNXqg9mNtCkJwBg2BEl1DvtQ6bT250=;Domain= .google.com;Path=/;Expires=Tue, 26-Aug-2014 23:45:55 GMT
GET
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GNotify 1.0.21.0)
Host: gmail.google.com
Cache-Control: no-cache
Cookie: en_US; GV=fea7b8d648-b9be26d2425258708508713e52327ed1; GMAIL_AT=6d9cba730be1a490-fea7ca187f; SID=AV8H4FYfeDJ-4lwENnL9kzcyiSJshVSKK2xixnjpjWgHs
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: SID=AfvmInwaGVRkESW3REmGuiyongiyNzyqguZePHuQUyJ9s
Cache-control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Server: GFE/1.3
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:45:55 GMT
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I however absolutely hate the color scheme involved with Notifier, so I will NOT be using it until they improve that. GTray (http://torrez.us/gtray), my app of choice, still works just fine as of about 10 minutes ago. If Google really does close it off at some point, I think we should petition them to open up a version like Google API with similar restrictions.
Quick, sombody write a fantastic game and then use a preloading scheme for what is supposedly a sequal but is actually the data behind the human genome.
What? It could work.
Patent 6,775,893
Microsoft, SCO, et al
Abstract: A process by which competition can be stamped out through the blatant abuse of the patent system. Vague ideas, which are the only logical way to achieve something, and for which massive prior art exists are stockpiled as patents in order to legally harass other businesses. This can be achieved by dedicating an ordinate amount of revenue to attorneys and using this as your principal business capital.
I'm going to be RICH!
This battle Google will lose. Everyone will have Microsoft's app. Only those who choose to download will have Google's app. So long as the user can find stuff with any regularity with Microsoft's creation there won't be any impetus to switch to a marginally better alternative. Nobody lacks appreciation of technological quality like the average PC consumer (IE,AOL,WMP,ETC.).
On RTFAing an 802.11b adapter is optional. Ignore me.
What's most interesting to me is the single PCI expansion slot and open source OS. Means this thing is open to some serious customization. For instance, I could potentially hook this up to my wifi network.
Just a note for those not inclined to do the math. There are 2 $10 books and 7 $5 books for an average of $6.111 per book. The Wired article states that roughly 20,000 have been sold. If we assume that every book sold equally, which we know to be false but will accept for the purposes of this estimate, that's $122,222.22 in revenue. 50%, or $61,111.11, of which goes to the authors. There are 9 books. If we stick by our earlier assumption that's $6,790.12 for the author per book. Now we could add in what we do know about "Upgrading to Panther," but it would distribute evenly anyway. I know what you're thinking, and no I do not get outside much.
I think a lot of the comments I've seen so far here have pretty much outlined why there are few women in computer science. And they didn't do this deliberately, but through effective demonstration.
Though I guess I really don't see why more women aren't pulled in initially. I'd think the curiosity and desire for a logical world that drove me to CS would be more or less universal.
Pfft. Who needs a computing cluster of your own for that when you can steal the power of someone else's?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster...of Beowulf clusters.
I sincerely hope that was sarcasm. There are things that are legal but should remain private, like business dealings or sexual preferences. Using that rationale we could literally institute 1984 tomorrow, and it would be just dandy with you. Do you really want your toaster reporting back to the government?
You also misunderstand the technology, black boxes are passive monitoring devices. They transmit nothing, they just record.
It's like Slashdot got Slashdotted.
Simple way to fix this, at least in a 16 lane scenario, is to reserve parts of the side lanes near the intersection for turning. Then have the cars lane-change towards, or away from, the side as they get nearer.
Shouldn't this be under "Ask Slashdot?" I demand a change immediately! Oh, and no I don't think I'm annoying and you better agree with me damnit!
Seriously, this kind of flaming makes me sick. If tomorrow there was no Windows and Linux was magically installed on most people's machines then the day after tomorrow malware, spyware, virus, and trojan writers would have a nasty little surprise for everyone. There is absolutely nothing in Linux to prevent that kind of monkeying. What prevents it is that most Linux users are power users and Linux isn't the dominating OS.
I'll bet that 2% includes a certain (reportedly) extremely rich Middle Eastern man with a beard and a picture on the USA's most wanted list. Not to mention anyone else he wanted to keep off of it.
1. Implement transparent micropayment on site.
2. Submit article to Slashdot concerning random article on site.
3. ???
4. Profit!
When traffic alone generates revenue nobody need care about selling a product or providing content. Just dupe as many people as possible into viewing a page. We're seeing this small-scale with affiliate programs, I predict we'll see much more of this before it's all over.
On this same note I'd reccomend you check out this project. Video of it in action towrards the bottom. I've seen it working in the park nearby CMU, neato stuff. A little out of your league I'd think, but still worth a look.
There was an old lady who drove in a shoe...
How much of a pay raise would you give me latet for a favorable reccomendation now?
Though I don't dispute Apple has come up with some neat designs, how much working with white rounded structures would it take to drive a true artist crazy?