Sounds exactly like the IP equivalent of declining a collect call from "Itsaboy Eightpounds".
A similar scheme: several websites (such as webwirelessnow.com) are offering interesting free services for cell phone users who can recieve text messages for free.
First, the user signs up on the website and gives their phone number, what types of news they're interested in, what stocks they want to keep track of, etc. Then whenever they want updated information, they call a phone number belonging to the company and hang up immediately after the first ring. This is enough time for the internet company to determine the phone number of the caller, and within a minute the cell phone user recieves a text message with the desired information.
So, you can use this 31337 Xploit to gain free Internet access... assuming you're already paying for a static IP, and you just happen to know a telephone number that lets anybody in the world log in and use their DNS. Uhm. Yeah.
Well, it could be useful while travelling if you have a high-bandwidth computer at home. And anyway, who wouldn't give up 97% of their bandwidth just to use up Microsoft's resources?
A slashdot semi-hidden-sid tunnel! It could easily be anonymous, and it could be encrypted too -- pretty neat, huh? The only problem is that you could only send one message every 70 seconds. But if you had a class C if IP addresses available you might be able to post faster.
The same guy also wrote "Suckdot" and "Zapster". He also wrote a good article, which I believe didn't make the slashdot front page, about the DOS attacks against Yahoo and
There is, of course, the question of whether one can be exploited without their permission. I can see some circumstances where people might volunteer for what would otherwise be a paid position in hopes of gaining employment. That's definitely something that a ruthless company could exploit. "Not this week, but maybe next week I might find you a paying job. Keep on volunteering!" It happens. Here where I live, it happens with farm laborers pretty often, in fact. It's a way of milking free work and avoiding paying people.
Sounds like something that could be said by someone fed up with the Mozilla project. Lots of people work on Mozilla, and several of the ones who have put the most work into it have been hired by Netscape.
This article is pretty useless. One IE skin. One mac browser. And the last one costs far more than i would want to spend one a browser. Who is this comparison aimed to?
I got Neoplanet ads when I loaded the article. Maybe that would explain why they made chose those particular programs to compare...
No one should worry about being struck, personally, by a comet or asteroid. The threat to an average person from disease, car accidents, accidents in the home, and from other natural disasters is much higher...
I visited JPL a few summers ago and saw some of what the NEAT people were doing. They explained how the tic-tac-toe pictures on their page work. The basic idea is that a computer spends a few hours looking for blobs that look like they have moved linearly throughout the night, and then a person spends a few hours weeding out false positives and figuring out which asteroids are already known.
Plug for the Summer Science Program: I was there in 1998, and I think it's quite a cool program. We (about 35 high school students) tracked known asteroids using a medium-sized telescope, developed photographic plates in a darkroom, and wrote C/C++ programs to determine the orbits of our asteroids based on the data we had collected. Oh yeah, and we visited JPL. Hint: go right before taking calculus and physics, so you can slack off for a semester when you get back to school:)
Crazy idea for a business: collect $1000 from people in return for a place in a queue [?] for getting asteroid names. Use the money to pay for the operation of an observatory. Send asteroid data to the Minor Planet Center. If the observatory is the first to spot an asteroid whose orbit is later determined, we choose a name for the asteroid based on the name of one the contributors in our queue.
Of course, this only works if you can find lots of people crazy enough to pay $1000 to get an asteroid named after them. But just think: you could get your name on the doomsday asteroid!
anyone know an efnet server doesn't require identd? most of the servers require it, and us.rr.efnet.net apparently only lets you through if you're not.edu.
MORAL: Always start from clean documents (or turn the versioning off if you can)
Better yet, Moral: use a format that you can edit with a text editor, and edit it with a text editor.
(If you're stuck with MSWord, I think the versioning feature is called "fast save", because it works by appending new and changed parts of the file when you save it instead of rewriting the entire file each time it is saved. Open in notepad to check before sending if you're paranoid.)
Slashdot Mirror
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A similar scheme: several websites (such as webwirelessnow.com) are offering interesting free services for cell phone users who can recieve text messages for free.
First, the user signs up on the website and gives their phone number, what types of news they're interested in, what stocks they want to keep track of, etc. Then whenever they want updated information, they call a phone number belonging to the company and hang up immediately after the first ring. This is enough time for the internet company to determine the phone number of the caller, and within a minute the cell phone user recieves a text message with the desired information.
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Well, it could be useful while travelling if you have a high-bandwidth computer at home. And anyway, who wouldn't give up 97% of their bandwidth just to use up Microsoft's resources?
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A slashdot semi-hidden-sid tunnel! It could easily be anonymous, and it could be encrypted too -- pretty neat, huh? The only problem is that you could only send one message every 70 seconds. But if you had a class C if IP addresses available you might be able to post faster.
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Nukes don't shoot most of the time. But they're still "military".
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Tell it to stop what?
type in website.com, wait, get "unable to load page"
Does lynx fill in the www automatically? What happens if you try to go to bugzilla.mozilla.org or another site that doesn't have a www alias?
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Just plug n into the TI-89's "factor" function. It might take a while though.
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I think it's actually a pretty interesting idea, so it doesn't deserve to be marked as offtopic.
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Sounds like something that could be said by someone fed up with the Mozilla project. Lots of people work on Mozilla, and several of the ones who have put the most work into it have been hired by Netscape.
Who runs the Mozilla project again?
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"Doing something wrong"? You mean like not waiting for your hard drive to quiet down after booting before launching any applications?
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I got Neoplanet ads when I loaded the article. Maybe that would explain why they made chose those particular programs to compare...
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No one should worry about being struck, personally, by a comet or asteroid. The threat to an average person from disease, car accidents, accidents in the home, and from other natural disasters is much higher...
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Plug for the Summer Science Program: I was there in 1998, and I think it's quite a cool program. We (about 35 high school students) tracked known asteroids using a medium-sized telescope, developed photographic plates in a darkroom, and wrote C/C++ programs to determine the orbits of our asteroids based on the data we had collected. Oh yeah, and we visited JPL. Hint: go right before taking calculus and physics, so you can slack off for a semester when you get back to school
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Of course, this only works if you can find lots of people crazy enough to pay $1000 to get an asteroid named after them. But just think: you could get your name on the doomsday asteroid!
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oh well, thanks anyways
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where's thanks.php?
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Better yet, Moral: use a format that you can edit with a text editor, and edit it with a text editor.
(If you're stuck with MSWord, I think the versioning feature is called "fast save", because it works by appending new and changed parts of the file when you save it instead of rewriting the entire file each time it is saved. Open in notepad to check before sending if you're paranoid.)
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