... I'm assuming that you're talking about either a) spectrum assignments or b) the optical flares. If a), go complain to the ITU (and/or boycott it with a vengance).
Optical astronomers are getting screwed over because they have to make a lot of effort to avoid pointing their telescopes at Iridium satellites while the sun might be reflecting off of the satellites, or else risk damaging their equipment. Somepeople are having fun observing the "iridium flash" phenomenon, but many astronomers are annoyed.
A Related Los Angeles Times article says pretty much the same thing. The guy trying to buy it apparently lives in a community about 10 minutes from where I live.
I'm posting at 1, so moderators, you don't have to mark me down as redundant due to the similarities of the articles, but since I'm addressing you, you shouldn't moderate me up either. (I hope saying that doesn't make me a troll or flamebait. Doh... now I'm trying to get marked up as funny. Bleh, do whatever you want:)
The hax0r, to do real damage, must find some way to get his code executed as root.
It's been said before by other people, but...
You can do a whole lot more damage on a single-user computer by wiping out his/her documents than by messing up the operating system. The operating system (and programs) can be reinstalled in a few hours. Personal work can't.
yes, i'm on a cablemodem and get impatient with things when they don't show up right away... often that means i hit "stop" and try the link (or button as the case may be) again, without thinking.
If you hit submit without changing the message at all, slashdot will not post the duplicate.
McDonalds has announced its new educational "sue the dinosaur" program. Children from around the world will be able to participate in this activity. What is this world coming to?
Umm, Sue is the name of the dinosaur. Yeah, it's a confusing name, but this page is only a few clicks away from the link you give.
Unfortunately it always shows the same sequence of quotes, and doesn't record where you left off.
That's a good thing. You wouldn't want your operating system to come with a service that gives away the state of your random number generator, would you?
Gather a bunch of 24.x.x.x ip addresses from napster's servers, and complain to @home and Roadrunner that users with certain IP addresses are pirating using napster. The cable modem ISPs can kick those users off both for pirating and for running high-bandwidth servers, and the users probably won't be able to find another cable modem ISP thanks to the AOL-TW merger.
hmm, i wonder if the site name "nolo" is short for "nolo contendere", a legal plea that neither admits guilt nor denies the charges (i think it translates as "i con't contend that")
I can see a use for the finger protocol (if all major web browsers end up supporting it there'd be no need for those finger CGI scripts that people use to view.plan files on the web)
I got the impression that M14 was not much more than just another nightly build with the label M14 slapped onto it - Netscape engineers are concentra ting on getting all of the big bugs out before the M15, the first public beta release. I'm going to skip this release and download another nightly build in a few days.
There is a library - RSAREF - written by RSA implementing the RSA algorithm. It's license permits non-commercial use, but forbids any modifications whatsoever to it's code, which is structured in a way that doesn't expose APIs needed for https. As I understand it, for SSL, the commercial library from RSA, BSAFE, is needed, as well as some further modifications. BSAFE allows modifications, but forbids the distribution of modified source (or even source at all). So closed-source it is, until the patent expires. Even then, it will be necessary to re-write the code to use something else, as RSA's copyright on their library will still be valid. It will just be legal to use something else.
can you trick the library into becoming an api using #define?
I'd like to appeal to everyone. If you like Linux and especially Open Source Software, please download this release of Mozilla (and future releases as well) and use it, abuse it, and break it. Then, report those bugs! This is going to be one of the biggest coups for Open Source Software and show a lot of detractors that OSS is a viable method for developing quality software. It will also blow away a lot of FUD concerning security issues, etc. of OSS (because it's open.) Thanks.
I'm just worried that mozilla will be so large that there won't be ten hackers who understand any given line of the source code. Has this ever been a problem with other open source projects?
According to the milestone page, M14 was supposed to come out on 2/18. The beta beancounter, which is linked to from the milestone page says it's supposed, currently says it was to come out this morning.</whine>
Anyway, from recent binaries, mozilla looks like it's coming along pretty well. Some of the High-vote bugs (not including mine) have been sitting on the table for a while, but a lot of smaller issues have been corrected since M13.
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Or maybe a global era of dysprosium. Sounds like a long economic depression to me.
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Ahh, another Yogi Berra fan. Not necessarily because of baseball -- I don't follow sports at all -- but because of his great sense of wit.
Some more sites with Yogi Berra quotes ("Yogi Berrisms" or "Yogi-isms") are aphorismsgalore and the official Yogi Berra site.
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Optical astronomers are getting screwed over because they have to make a lot of effort to avoid pointing their telescopes at Iridium satellites while the sun might be reflecting off of the satellites, or else risk damaging their equipment. Some people are having fun observing the "iridium flash" phenomenon, but many astronomers are annoyed.
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I'm posting at 1, so moderators, you don't have to mark me down as redundant due to the similarities of the articles, but since I'm addressing you, you shouldn't moderate me up either. (I hope saying that doesn't make me a troll or flamebait. Doh... now I'm trying to get marked up as funny. Bleh, do whatever you want:)
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What are you going to use the phone for? Tracking the satellite as it plunges into the atmosphere to make sure you don't miss the fireworks?
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It's been said before by other people, but...
You can do a whole lot more damage on a single-user computer by wiping out his/her documents than by messing up the operating system. The operating system (and programs) can be reinstalled in a few hours. Personal work can't.
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Justin used to put cool rants up there all the time, along with information about his progress adding features to and debugging Winamp.
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If you hit submit without changing the message at all, slashdot will not post the duplicate.
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Umm, Sue is the name of the dinosaur. Yeah, it's a confusing name, but this page is only a few clicks away from the link you give.
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1. If you can find someone else's unique ID (easy because they used the phone number), you can get them in trouble by impersonating them to websites.
2. Websites can track you without cookies - and this includes tracking across websites.
No, Sprint needs to set up a proxy that gives a number unique to each website by which Sprint can track abusers.
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That's a good thing. You wouldn't want your operating system to come with a service that gives away the state of your random number generator, would you?
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Because they're low on oxygen, and are probably trying to catch their breath between each word.
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yeah. thanks
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Yep. More boxes will be slashdottable.
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Also check the frequently reported bugs page and the most popular bugs query. If you're really bored you can even look at the bugs I submitted.
I got the impression that M14 was not much more than just another nightly build with the label M14 slapped onto it - Netscape engineers are concentra ting on getting all of the big bugs out before the M15, the first public beta release. I'm going to skip this release and download another nightly build in a few days.
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can you trick the library into becoming an api using #define?
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I'm just worried that mozilla will be so large that there won't be ten hackers who understand any given line of the source code. Has this ever been a problem with other open source projects?
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This is your computer on doze. (Slightly longer video of someone sitting at a windows computer. The man sitting at the computer seems to be cursing.)
(The entire screen turns blue, with small white text in the middle: Any questions? A scream is heard in the background.)
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Anyway, from recent binaries, mozilla looks like it's coming along pretty well. Some of the High-vote bugs (not including mine) have been sitting on the table for a while, but a lot of smaller issues have been corrected since M13.
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