This may be a little inaccurate since I'm Norwegian, but here we go:
Hard to keep up with electronic communication
Today you may experience some unreliable websites. The new law on electronic communication starts today. It says that the sites must inform the purpose of each cookie. The users must also have an option to avoid them.
As of today, swedish websites may not use socalled cookies without informing the user of the purpose and contents stored in them. The user must also have a choice to avoid the cookies.
This is a consequence of the new law on electronic communication, SFS 2003:389, which starts today.
It is not enough to tell the browser to accept all cookies. The website you visit must inform what kind of information is stored, and what the purpose of it is - in addition of giving the user an option to avoid them.
Hard for the sites
Swedish websites have two options.
- One alternative is to stop using cookies. The website functionality may suffer from this, says Jonas Eriksson from Webkonsulterna in Östersund.
Jonas Eriksson doesn't even want to consider the other option.
That makes the majority of all swedish websites who use script languages such as asp and php to become unreliable, unless they rebuild the web sites so the users can use them without cookies when they enter.
But there's more.
- If you thought banners and pop-up ads were bad, considerthe fact that all ad networks now must launch a javascript asking the user wether or not s/he will store a cookie after viewing this ad, he says.
PTS follows up
In the website of Postal and Telecommuncations dept, the PTS, you can read the following:
"Cookies are used by most websites today. The new law on electronic communication, starting July 25th 2003, states that all websites using cookies must inform the user and give an option to work around them."
Hard to tell
According to Charlotte Ingvar-Nilsson, the executive chief of PTS, the PTS will check how the market acts on the new law.
- If the websites don't comply, then we must start informing them on the changes, she says.
What if they don't follow up?
- If we suspect that someone don't follow up, then the website gets one month to comply with the law.
The PTS also have the rights to terminate the service of those who do not follow the new law, unless it is of less importance.
- It remains to see if it will be required, says Charlotte Ingvar-Nilsson.
My first thought was like "Huh? Kino Kiosk?", because that's what it sounds like to me, but if you check out http://www.kinkos.com/ you can see that they offer a service where they print and ship documents (or photos) for you. Apparently they have a set of terminals around in the US where you may log on to, download and e-mail them your documents, and pay by credit card.
Spam means, when talking about email, unsolicited bulk email. Enlarge your penis, debt-free now, viagra online - you know the drill.
I believe the Spam Co. will loose this case, due to the fact that "spam" now has become a generic term in the e-mail world, like Sony did over the "walkman" trademark.
Here's a good story, in case you want to read more about earlier trademark disputes.
Stavr0 wrote: For this, I nominate the ZX-81 keyboard WORST KEYBOARD EVER.
Funny, I just mentioned the ZX81 keyboard in a comment I just wrote under the same subject.
And yes, I agree. In 3rd grade at school, we had an optional course called "Basic Computer Programming", where we were tought how to program on the ZX81.
Now, when these computers were brand new, the keyboards were "fine". But since every school has its bullies, and bullies tend to use more physical force than required, these keyboards wore out after a couple of weeks. To compensate for the worn out keyboards, we had to press even harder to have our keystrokes registered...
But ofcourse. I love old keyboards, only with a few exceptions.:-)
> At least I still have my Logitech 3 button mouse.
Me too. Now, I must admit that I'm very oldskool, but I never got used to the scroll wheel/third button combination on the mouse.
At work, I use a Mac which has a optical IntelliMouse attached. Each time I try to paste something with the middle button, I end up scrolling several pages in either direction:)
(Then again, you have the users who are addicted to the scroll wheel, and scroll like crazy to reach the bottom of a 200 pages long document)
> What is your favorite keyboard type?
I love The Happy Hacking Keyboard, which I use at home. It is, IMHO, as close to perfect as it gets. No caps lock, no Windows keys. and the CTRL is where it belongs - right next to the "A".
Who put the important CTRL key all the way down there?
well if you like it so fucking much why aren't you running it right now?
Who said I'm not? Okay, this message was written in MacOSX, but I have a copy of MenuetOS at home I run frequently.
You seem to be a bit slow, so I'm going to explain it to you carefully:
My point wasn't to remove the hard drive, but the fact that they've written a complete operating system with lots of apps that fits onto a floppy. Surely, if you want to download stuff from P2P, you need a huge hard drive, but that's not a part of the operating system!
And hey, you didn't even bother to try it, did you?
Nope. Been reading slashdot every day for 6 years and counting. Guess you can figure I've read quite a few articles about Mozilla by now.
I even thought about including a little disclaimer saying "No, I'm not new here" just to avoid that little insult:-)
Re:Go on, find me a COBOL programmer who is under
on
Ageism in IT?
·
· Score: 1
Hey, I know COBOL, and I'm "only" 28.
Now, to be honest, I've never worked with COBOL professionally. The reason why I decided to learn COBOL is in fact pretty much related to the subject: At 26 I had just quit my job. As I browsed the job market, I realized that the jobs related to languages like COBOL and Fortran has sky-high salaries. That's why I sat down and readlotsaboutCOBOL. Not just for the money, but also to help keeping a rare language alive.
And, well, you guessed it - I never got the COBOL job.
The reason most of the employers ask for COBOL programmers age 40+ is because they often have lots and lots of experience that a 26 year old never will have. Maybe I'll get one in 10 years, who knows.:)
Well, I'm 28 now, and I am currently learning C++, and I find it pretty hard to pick up. I started with BASIC at 9 and continued with assembler from 13 to 24, then I went on with Perl, Pascal and ANSI-C.
In fact I find it hard to learn C++ since I have the assembler "in my vains", to put it that way. If I chose something else than asm back then, I'd probably pick up C++ easier today then what I do now. In contrast, I find it easier to pick up "functional" languages and other assembler variants.
By the way I'm the oldest guy where I work right now - the others are 18-25.:-o
Yes it is integrated into the motherboard. At the front panel there are two leds which shows the current CPU in use.
This computer also came with a lot of extra equipment by default (add-in cards) such as 256K RAM, 300-baud modem, IR keyboard, and a burglar alarm for your house..!
I'm going to take lots of photos of it and document this rare machine at my best, since noone else seems to have.
Haha! The next time I get moderator points, you're going UP, mister!:-D
But yeah, those babies are heavy. I even have a Hewlett-Packard NetServer/100 at home. Dual-SCSI, 100MHz, 48M RAM, and all that fancy stuff. And yes, it weighs 35 kilograms. That's about the half of my weight!
I got it for free, and when I carried it to the car, I got big, black bruises all over my pale arms!
So as you might guess, I'm not the tanned body builder:)
I won't sell it for anything in the world:-) But if you really want one, you might want to check out some of the old stuff at eBay from time to time... If you have a few bucks spare, you might want to take a look at this one, perfect condition -- but hurry, only 10 hours left!:-)
An old Indigo2 computer sans hard drive (and more imporantly, sans hard drive bracket.)
A dual Pentium Pro 180, with 3 GB SCSI hard drive
An old AMD computer, processor type forgotten. (Probably about a 400 Mhz) something.
Some sort of IDE raid card
About 12 hard drives totaling 8 GB of storage
When I was your age, we didn't have monitors. We used mom and dad's TV! The Indigo2 wasn't even planned at that point, dual CPU's and IDE disks were pure rocket science.
Since you call this fully useable equipment "old" (keep in mind, the stuff you mention make perfect *nix firewalls/servers), here's some of the stuff I've got at home, in my own personal little "museum" -- from the top of my head: Probably 100 kilograms of 8086 PCs, Oric-1, Apple ][, C64, Texas Instruments TI99/4A, lots of Amiga 500's, a few 68k Mac's, and lots of old game consoles (b&w ping pong).
Now that's the stuff that works. From the stuff that unfortunately doesn't work anymore, the list is too long. An example would be the extremly rare West PC 800, a "dual cpu" 6502/Z80 Apple][ clone made in Norway in the early eighties. It's so rare, I can't find any spare parts, nor info about it on the net.:(
This might not be interesting at all, but here goes:
Naturally, I don't remember much from when I was a child (I'm 28 now), but I do remember a couple of details clearly. One of the things I remember is my grandfathers wedding ring. He showed it to me once in the livingroom, and I clearly remember this scenario. I was only 3 years old when he passed away, so I must have been 2 or 3 years old when this happened.
My mother's a psychologist, and she explained to me that I might remember this because children have a unique tendency to take note of minor and (in our eyes) unimportant details for some reason. I can also clearly remember the house we moved out of when I was four.
But I believe it's all stored up there somewhere. Ever experienced having someone say "remember this and that?" and you go all like "oh yeeeah, damn, I haven't thought about that for ages!" ? Happens to me now and then when I bump into old classmates. So the info's up there, it's just a matter of getting it back.
I just came back fresh from the cinema, and was amused that the reviwes already are out.:-)
Unlike others, I never read any of the LOTR books. Not knowing what's to happen, this movie was loaded of surprises for me!
I overheard some people outside the cinema afterwards, speaking something like "they left out the details when...", but I managed to cover my ears while yelling "LALALALA". I don't want to know what's to happen. For me, that's part of the fun. (FYI I've never read a book my entire life, and I'm 28.)
But: I don't want to give out any spoilers, but if you haven't seen it yet --- prepare for a massive battle not like anything you've seen yet! I was amazed, scared, upset and thrilled at the same time.
From what I've read, it seems that they are currently discussing wether or not CSS is a copy protection or not, and the fact that Johansen didn't break any laws when he wrote the GUI for DeCSS. As you know, some german guys did the hard work, and Johansen is taking the kicks.
Okay, this may be a bit offtopic, but I have to mention it:
When SETI@Home says claims to have millions of users, I hope they don't count the unused accounts. I'll tell you why:
I once created one account by mistake back in '98 when I installed SETI on one of the servers at work (hehe, don't tell my boss). This account has been unused since then, and only three packets was submitted packets to it. According to SETI@Home, this account has processed more packets than 46.714% of all users.
As I mentioned in an earlier posting, the mail protocol should contain a boolean when sending mail.
Imagine something like this:
csh$ telnet my.mail.server 25 Trying 10.5.10.29... Connected to my.mail.server Escape character is '^]'. 220 my.mail.server ESMTP HELO something.net 250 my.mail.server MAIL FROM: some@user.com 250 ok POLICY 426 Does not accept spam RCPT TO: user52@my.mail.server 250 ok DATA 354 go ahead blah lbah....
Ofcourse this rule may be broken, but if it is, the receiver should be allowed to sue the products mentioned in the spam.
Slashdot Mirror
This may be a little inaccurate since I'm Norwegian, but here we go:
Hard to keep up with electronic communication
Today you may experience some unreliable websites. The new law on electronic communication starts today. It says that the sites must inform the purpose of each cookie. The users must also have an option to avoid them.
As of today, swedish websites may not use socalled cookies without informing the user of the purpose and contents stored in them. The user must also have a choice to avoid the cookies.
This is a consequence of the new law on electronic communication, SFS 2003:389, which starts today.
It is not enough to tell the browser to accept all cookies. The website you visit must inform what kind of information is stored, and what the purpose of it is - in addition of giving the user an option to avoid them.
Hard for the sites
Swedish websites have two options.
- One alternative is to stop using cookies. The website functionality may suffer from this, says Jonas Eriksson from Webkonsulterna in Östersund.
Jonas Eriksson doesn't even want to consider the other option.
That makes the majority of all swedish websites who use script languages such as asp and php to become unreliable, unless they rebuild the web sites so the users can use them without cookies when they enter.
But there's more.
- If you thought banners and pop-up ads were bad, considerthe fact that all ad networks now must launch a javascript asking the user wether or not s/he will store a cookie after viewing this ad, he says.
PTS follows up
In the website of Postal and Telecommuncations dept, the PTS, you can read the following:
"Cookies are used by most websites today. The new law on electronic communication, starting July 25th 2003, states that all websites using cookies must inform the user and give an option to work around them."
Hard to tell
According to Charlotte Ingvar-Nilsson, the executive chief of PTS, the PTS will check how the market acts on the new law.
- If the websites don't comply, then we must start informing them on the changes, she says.
What if they don't follow up?
- If we suspect that someone don't follow up, then the website gets one month to comply with the law.
The PTS also have the rights to terminate the service of those who do not follow the new law, unless it is of less importance.
- It remains to see if it will be required, says Charlotte Ingvar-Nilsson.
What is a Kinkos????
My first thought was like "Huh? Kino Kiosk?", because that's what it sounds like to me, but if you check out http://www.kinkos.com/ you can see that they offer a service where they print and ship documents (or photos) for you. Apparently they have a set of terminals around in the US where you may log on to, download and e-mail them your documents, and pay by credit card.
Spam means, when talking about email, unsolicited bulk email. Enlarge your penis, debt-free now, viagra online - you know the drill.
I believe the Spam Co. will loose this case, due to the fact that "spam" now has become a generic term in the e-mail world, like Sony did over the "walkman" trademark.
Here's a good story, in case you want to read more about earlier trademark disputes.
Stavr0 wrote:
For this, I nominate the ZX-81 keyboard WORST KEYBOARD EVER.
Funny, I just mentioned the ZX81 keyboard in a comment I just wrote under the same subject.
And yes, I agree. In 3rd grade at school, we had an optional course called "Basic Computer Programming", where we were tought how to program on the ZX81.
Now, when these computers were brand new, the keyboards were "fine". But since every school has its bullies, and bullies tend to use more physical force than required, these keyboards wore out after a couple of weeks. To compensate for the worn out keyboards, we had to press even harder to have our keystrokes registered...
Oh, the sore fingertips we had..
ACK!! wrote:
:-)
:)
> Anyone else in the same boat?
But ofcourse. I love old keyboards, only with a few exceptions.
> At least I still have my Logitech 3 button mouse.
Me too. Now, I must admit that I'm very oldskool, but I never got used to the scroll wheel/third button combination on the mouse.
At work, I use a Mac which has a optical IntelliMouse attached. Each time I try to paste something with the middle button, I end up scrolling several pages in either direction
(Then again, you have the users who are addicted to the scroll wheel, and scroll like crazy to reach the bottom of a 200 pages long document)
> What is your favorite keyboard type?
I love The Happy Hacking Keyboard, which I use at home. It is, IMHO, as close to perfect as it gets. No caps lock, no Windows keys. and the CTRL is where it belongs - right next to the "A".
Who put the important CTRL key all the way down there?
Quite a few, I'd guess.
Some spammers make serious cash, for instance this fellow, who claims to have earned $1k each week.
Composing another Outlook virus is trivial. Download an existing source (either from usenet or some web page), modify, and start spreading it.
Any 13yo kid with some programming experience can do this, and if it pays $500, it probably beats mowing lawns for several weeks!
well if you like it so fucking much why aren't you running it right now?
Who said I'm not? Okay, this message was written in MacOSX, but I have a copy of MenuetOS at home I run frequently.
You seem to be a bit slow, so I'm going to explain it to you carefully:
My point wasn't to remove the hard drive, but the fact that they've written a complete operating system with lots of apps that fits onto a floppy. Surely, if you want to download stuff from P2P, you need a huge hard drive, but that's not a part of the operating system!
And hey, you didn't even bother to try it, did you?
I have problems seeing why an OS should take several gigabytes as well (as Windows XP for instance)
..and the distro is on one floppy!
:)
Take a look at MenuetOS for example (also mentioned on slashdot earlier). It's a pre-emptive multitasking OS with many apps, games and utilities..
Ofcourse, it's all written in x86 assembly. Seriously, give it a try, I guarantee you some eyebrow exercise.
Umm - you're new here, right?
:-)
Nope. Been reading slashdot every day for 6 years and counting. Guess you can figure I've read quite a few articles about Mozilla by now.
I even thought about including a little disclaimer saying "No, I'm not new here" just to avoid that little insult
Hey, I know COBOL, and I'm "only" 28.
:)
:-o
Now, to be honest, I've never worked with COBOL professionally. The reason why I decided to learn COBOL is in fact pretty much related to the subject: At 26 I had just quit my job. As I browsed the job market, I realized that the jobs related to languages like COBOL and Fortran has sky-high salaries. That's why I sat down and read lots about COBOL.
Not just for the money, but also to help keeping a rare language alive.
And, well, you guessed it - I never got the COBOL job.
The reason most of the employers ask for COBOL programmers age 40+ is because they often have lots and lots of experience that a 26 year old never will have. Maybe I'll get one in 10 years, who knows.
Well, I'm 28 now, and I am currently learning C++, and I find it pretty hard to pick up. I started with BASIC at 9 and continued with assembler from 13 to 24, then I went on with Perl, Pascal and ANSI-C.
In fact I find it hard to learn C++ since I have the assembler "in my vains", to put it that way.
If I chose something else than asm back then, I'd probably pick up C++ easier today then what I do now. In contrast, I find it easier to pick up "functional" languages and other assembler variants.
By the way I'm the oldest guy where I work right now - the others are 18-25.
Yes it is integrated into the motherboard. At the front panel there are two leds which shows the current CPU in use.
This computer also came with a lot of extra equipment by default (add-in cards) such as 256K RAM, 300-baud modem, IR keyboard, and a burglar alarm for your house..!
I'm going to take lots of photos of it and document this rare machine at my best, since noone else seems to have.
Haha! The next time I get moderator points, you're going UP, mister! :-D
:)
But yeah, those babies are heavy. I even have a Hewlett-Packard NetServer/100 at home. Dual-SCSI, 100MHz, 48M RAM, and all that fancy stuff. And yes, it weighs 35 kilograms. That's about the half of my weight!
I got it for free, and when I carried it to the car, I got big, black bruises all over my pale arms!
So as you might guess, I'm not the tanned body builder
the bluebrain wrote:
:-) But if you really want one, you might want to check out some of the old stuff at eBay from time to time... If you have a few bucks spare, you might want to take a look at this one, perfect condition -- but hurry, only 10 hours left! :-)
:)
> You've got an Oric? Gimme!
I won't sell it for anything in the world
But seriously, eBay is a great spot for buying old computers.
Well, especially if you're a fanatic nostalgic like me.
- A fuzzy 17 inch monitor
- An old Indigo2 computer sans hard drive (and more imporantly, sans hard drive bracket.)
- A dual Pentium Pro 180, with 3 GB SCSI hard drive
- An old AMD computer, processor type forgotten. (Probably about a 400 Mhz) something.
- Some sort of IDE raid card
- About 12 hard drives totaling 8 GB of storage
When I was your age, we didn't have monitors. We used mom and dad's TV! The Indigo2 wasn't even planned at that point, dual CPU's and IDE disks were pure rocket science.Since you call this fully useable equipment "old" (keep in mind, the stuff you mention make perfect *nix firewalls/servers), here's some of the stuff I've got at home, in my own personal little "museum" -- from the top of my head: Probably 100 kilograms of 8086 PCs, Oric-1, Apple ][, C64, Texas Instruments TI99/4A, lots of Amiga 500's, a few 68k Mac's, and lots of old game consoles (b&w ping pong).
Now that's the stuff that works. From the stuff that unfortunately doesn't work anymore, the list is too long. An example would be the extremly rare West PC 800, a "dual cpu" 6502/Z80 Apple][ clone made in Norway in the early eighties. It's so rare, I can't find any spare parts, nor info about it on the net.
Oh well.
Programming is as an art as bridge buidling is.
What about this?
Art or no?
Hell, I'll make my own programming language as well, only containing spammers e-mail addresses. Kind of like this:
ken_green2002@email.com {
- grocerycard@netzero.net (mhresult@yahoo.com);
p reformancemail1.net;
}mypreformancemail@lists.my
nritter@glasgow-ky.com
And yes, it'll be a web scripting language.
Try it here
Let the spammer spam his own ISP.
In case the spammer has blocked his own ISP's email address, here's another method:
Create an "invisible" link to a spam trap like this:
<!-- Do not follow this link - it is a trap for spammers
and will automatically send an email to abuse@yourhost -->
<a href="spamtrap.cgi"></a>
This CGI script then takes the visitors domain name, and e-mail the admins the visitors IP, time of day, including all obtainable remote information.
It uses GeoIP and a Perl snippet to determine where the users are at. But ofcourse, it's nothing like that site.
http://www.internetional.org/ if you want to give it a try.
This might not be interesting at all, but here goes:
Naturally, I don't remember much from when I was a child (I'm 28 now), but I do remember a couple of details clearly. One of the things I remember is my grandfathers wedding ring. He showed it to me once in the livingroom, and I clearly remember this scenario. I was only 3 years old when he passed away, so I must have been 2 or 3 years old when this happened.
My mother's a psychologist, and she explained to me that I might remember this because children have a unique tendency to take note of minor and (in our eyes) unimportant details for some reason. I can also clearly remember the house we moved out of when I was four.
But I believe it's all stored up there somewhere. Ever experienced having someone say "remember this and that?" and you go all like "oh yeeeah, damn, I haven't thought about that for ages!" ? Happens to me now and then when I bump into old classmates. So the info's up there, it's just a matter of getting it back.
-skurk
Hehe, the fact that I'm not english may explain it. Pardon my bad grammar.
I just came back fresh from the cinema, and was amused that the reviwes already are out. :-)
Unlike others, I never read any of the LOTR books. Not knowing what's to happen, this movie was loaded of surprises for me!
I overheard some people outside the cinema afterwards, speaking something like "they left out the details when...", but I managed to cover my ears while yelling "LALALALA". I don't want to know what's to happen. For me, that's part of the fun. (FYI I've never read a book my entire life, and I'm 28.)
But:
I don't want to give out any spoilers, but if you haven't seen it yet --- prepare for a massive battle not like anything you've seen yet! I was amazed, scared, upset and thrilled at the same time.
According to Verdens Gang (VG) (in norwegian), the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit claims that the creators of DeCSS are organized criminals, because "DeCSS written for, and can only be used to copy DVD movies."
From what I've read, it seems that they are currently discussing wether or not CSS is a copy protection or not, and the fact that Johansen didn't break any laws when he wrote the GUI for DeCSS. As you know, some german guys did the hard work, and Johansen is taking the kicks.
I'll keep you posted
-skurk
Okay, this may be a bit offtopic, but I have to mention it:
When SETI@Home says claims to have millions of users, I hope they don't count the unused accounts. I'll tell you why:
I once created one account by mistake back in '98 when I installed SETI on one of the servers at work (hehe, don't tell my boss). This account has been unused since then, and only three packets was submitted packets to it. According to SETI@Home, this account has processed more packets than 46.714% of all users.
-skurk
As I mentioned in an earlier posting, the mail protocol should contain a boolean when sending mail.
Imagine something like this:
csh$ telnet my.mail.server 25
Trying 10.5.10.29...
Connected to my.mail.server
Escape character is '^]'.
220 my.mail.server ESMTP
HELO something.net
250 my.mail.server
MAIL FROM: some@user.com
250 ok
POLICY
426 Does not accept spam
RCPT TO: user52@my.mail.server
250 ok
DATA
354 go ahead
blah lbah
Ofcourse this rule may be broken, but if it is, the receiver should be allowed to sue the products mentioned in the spam.
Something like this. I think it might work.
No, I think you're just being hypersensitivie.
:)
First of all, you can't tell a persons race from his or hers name. At first glance I thought it was a finnish name.
I'm not a racist. I found the "try saying that 3 times fast" remark just hilarious
-skurk