"not to nitpick, but if it was cracked, then by definition it was pirated, regardless of your legality or license.... at least by today's standards (see DMCA)"
Of course, some people would say that an operating system which takes you that close to the limits of being prosecuted under copyright laws as you try to install software you've purchased, is more hassle than they want. After all, you can get OS' where you don't even need to count the machines you've installed it on.
"What are talking about? XP has exactly the same paths as 2000."
Think he was talking about XP's way of randomly displaying different items in a menu each time you use it, depending on whether you've used each item recently.
If you're supporting someone who does't know much about computers [well duh, they've got XP], then you get all sorts of amusing conversations like:
"I can't see the program I just installed in the start menu... No wait... if I leave my mouse there for 5 seconds, it displays a load of hidden programs"
"Click on Edit... paste special" "I don't have that in my edit menu" "yes you do, it's 6th from the top" "no I can't see anything"
Amusing that is, until you refuse to talk about computers to anyone in your family until they get an iMac.
Quick quiz: what's easier to use, a menu on which you can learn the positions of things, or a menu which rearranges itself each time it appears?
"Many fellow/.s predicted this would happen, mainly because like it said, these devices _must_ accept interference."
Yet for the last few weeks, this university has been acting as if they're more powerful than the federal government, and putting in place their own communications laws which are incompatible with those of the USA.
W.T.F.?!?
And they can quietly remove the ban and nobody will say anything? What a system!
"Coral is a cacheing solution; unless it can get a copy of the site to cache it, it can't serve it up. This is why Coral needs to be used beforehand (IE, in the slashdot post) in order to be of any use. And even then, it works best on sites that have relative URLs on the images.""
So all it would take is someone who autoloads the slashdot RDF anyway to parse the links out of it, and request them on coral
Or request the front page, to avoid being blacklisted for taking the RDF too often...
"But Mozilla and Firefox are so much better than IE! Isn't that what you fuckers claim everytime there's an IE vunerability? So now that the tables are turned little baby Firefox/Moz is just a beta so it doesn't matter."
While not denying that any Mozilla vulnerability is (to say the least) bloody annoying, if you're the type of person to compare it to IE, you might say that the Mozilla BMP bug is equivalent to the Windows BMP bug, and that if you consider those equvalent, then IE raises you all the activeX and VBScript vulnerabilities.
Theoretically, Mozilla is at a disadvantage because its users consider themselves immune to security problems. However, thinking about that for a bit, most IE users seem blissfully unaware of security problems too, which can't help.
"Stay on the fence or fall the fuck off."
Oh, everyone here is on the Mozilla side. Apart from the ones who work for Microsoft (look for "if you were the CEO of a fortune-500 company like me..." comments to see who I mean), and they seem to start flamewars on both sides of the fence. "In a world without fences, who needs Linus" and all that...
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"Think that Kryptonite lock is safe? Think again."
Ironically, those of us with bike-lockers at work are probably even less safe (cylinder locks being about as secure as a "please stay away" sign and all that...)
"Because of this, hashing is irreversable, and therefor only an idiot would use it for encryption"
Count me an idiot then. I should mention why:
(a) take your key. MD5 it. Store this as X1 (b) Take X1. MD5 it. Store this as X2 (c)... repeat until you get to Xn (n being the length of your message) (d) For each 64-byte segment of your message, XOR it with one of the numbers in the sequence you just generated
To decrypt the message, do exactly the same thing.
"I'm still waiting for user education to catch up. If I here one more person ask "Where did the Internet go?" when I remove the IE icon..."
No need to remove the IE icon... nobody cares whether it's an e or whether it's a * or whether its a @, so long as it's what they recognise. (visual recognition being important for icons and all that).
Some people might even install the IE-style toolbar and widgets, but then who would know that it was Mozilla?
"As soon as your comment was posted, a dozen hackers got to work on a virus that does exactly what you describe. Thanks for helping fuck up my reports, asshole."
su -c ooffice username1 su -c mozilla username2
Now if mozilla gets exploited, your reports are safe. If you want to work on a document you downloaded from the browser, you can copy and chgrp it.
Best of all, if someone sits down at your computer and runs "mozilla", it won't have any of the browse-history or cookies from your "username2" account. Nor can they read your letters in OOo.
"Just tell her to buy a Bushmaster and put a sign on the lawn saying "Tresspassers beware - I can shoot you in the ass 80 times in a minute and then bayonet your corpse from here to Denver""
I misread "Bushmaster" as "Bushism" and imagined a shout of "Trespassers beware, I already preemptively set light to your house"
"1/5th the deaths for 1/10th the population. Sounds like Canada has a criminal problem twice as bad as the U.S. That's what happens when you disarm law-abiding people."
He's already clarified that the figures were per-capita. Now who looks silly justifying conclusions from erroneous statistics?
"I'd be very interested to hear about the details of this installation, if they are available."
You might also investigate theatrical pyrotechnics, which look quite useful for alarms. It's possible to get things like smoke cannisters which are fired by 12v electrical circuits and neatly packaged in metal tubes.
"That way, when the police came by you could hand them glossies and a DV tape of the guy."
A colleague recently handed the police a videotape of some people causing "criminal damage" to his car (this was in the UK, b.t.w.), and their response was "if it doesn't have a timestamp on the tape, we're not going to bother"
So it might be worth spending the $50 extra on a timestamping box if you'll be using video like this, although I believe he was able to persuade the police to make a token effort at investigating anyway.
With digital cameras or digital video recorders, make sure you check what's allowed as evidence. I seem to remember it being 4 megapixel or more, and the copy stored in your camera's memory (i.e. once you transfer it to PC, it becomes useless in British courts, but you'll need to check the details) - presumably digital videocameras are the same.
"But you'd get a lot more experience points if you leave the generator running and ambush the monsters one-by-one as they emerge. And this Stallman guy thinks he's a geek. Sheesh!"
"Cringely writes: Apple, for example, will let you mount up to a 100 megabyte iDrive as part of its.mac Internet service, but that costs $99 per year. Eight dollars per month for 100 megabytes of storage is too darned much."
For that $100 per year, you could buy 3 128"MB" USB-keys that give you more storage space, have faster copy-times from your computer, and have 3 times the redundancy as the network-storage option. They're small enough to post to a friend in a different location if you want (cheap, and all backups are encrypted?) or even to hide them around your city if you need security against raids (no pun intended).
But remember, you can't swallow them if you get caught...
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"not to nitpick, but if it was cracked, then by definition it was pirated, regardless of your legality or license.... at least by today's standards (see DMCA)"
Of course, some people would say that an operating system which takes you that close to the limits of being prosecuted under copyright laws as you try to install software you've purchased, is more hassle than they want. After all, you can get OS' where you don't even need to count the machines you've installed it on.
Think he was talking about XP's way of randomly displaying different items in a menu each time you use it, depending on whether you've used each item recently.
If you're supporting someone who does't know much about computers [well duh, they've got XP], then you get all sorts of amusing conversations like:
Amusing that is, until you refuse to talk about computers to anyone in your family until they get an iMac.
Quick quiz: what's easier to use, a menu on which you can learn the positions of things, or a menu which rearranges itself each time it appears?
"With any luck, I'd be guiding them through "installing" a power cord on a new iMac and telling them where to find the power button"
iMacs still have power buttons? That's a bit technical for a mac isn't it?
"Hello, computer...?"
"Many fellow /.s predicted this would happen, mainly because like it said, these devices _must_ accept interference."
Yet for the last few weeks, this university has been acting as if they're more powerful than the federal government, and putting in place their own communications laws which are incompatible with those of the USA.
W.T.F.?!?
And they can quietly remove the ban and nobody will say anything? What a system!
"The book should be open source"
Yeah, but then how would you evaluate whether you should read the open-source book about how to evaluate whether to use open-source programs?
"Coral is a cacheing solution; unless it can get a copy of the site to cache it, it can't serve it up.
This is why Coral needs to be used beforehand (IE, in the slashdot post) in order to be of any use. And even then, it works best on sites that have relative URLs on the images.""
So all it would take is someone who autoloads the slashdot RDF anyway to parse the links out of it, and request them on coral
Or request the front page, to avoid being blacklisted for taking the RDF too often...
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend, as the old saying goes."
Yeah, but when all your enemies are fighting amongst themselves, why bother?
"just checked my yahoo account and no spam! There's usually 100+ pieces in there"
Inbox: 2635 messages
No change there then...
"But Mozilla and Firefox are so much better than IE! Isn't that what you fuckers claim everytime there's an IE vunerability?
So now that the tables are turned little baby Firefox/Moz is just a beta so it doesn't matter."
While not denying that any Mozilla vulnerability is (to say the least) bloody annoying, if you're the type of person to compare it to IE, you might say that the Mozilla BMP bug is equivalent to the Windows BMP bug, and that if you consider those equvalent, then IE raises you all the activeX and VBScript vulnerabilities.
Theoretically, Mozilla is at a disadvantage because its users consider themselves immune to security problems. However, thinking about that for a bit, most IE users seem blissfully unaware of security problems too, which can't help.
"Stay on the fence or fall the fuck off."
Oh, everyone here is on the Mozilla side. Apart from the ones who work for Microsoft (look for "if you were the CEO of a fortune-500 company like me..." comments to see who I mean), and they seem to start flamewars on both sides of the fence. "In a world without fences, who needs Linus" and all that...
"Think that Kryptonite lock is safe? Think again."
Ironically, those of us with bike-lockers at work are probably even less safe (cylinder locks being about as secure as a "please stay away" sign and all that...)
First of all: oh crap!
Second: why exactly does MandrakeUpdate have nothing to say, despite Mozilla 1.6 being part of the default Mandrake10 installation?
"We should start putting up options on when this idiotic extravaganza will come to a final end.
2005? 2006? 2007?"
January 20, 2038?
"Because of this, hashing is irreversable, and therefor only an idiot would use it for encryption"
... repeat until you get to Xn (n being the length of your message)
Count me an idiot then. I should mention why:
(a) take your key. MD5 it. Store this as X1
(b) Take X1. MD5 it. Store this as X2
(c)
(d) For each 64-byte segment of your message, XOR it with one of the numbers in the sequence you just generated
To decrypt the message, do exactly the same thing.
"I'm still waiting for user education to catch up. If I here one more person ask "Where did the Internet go?" when I remove the IE icon ..."
No need to remove the IE icon... nobody cares whether it's an e or whether it's a * or whether its a @, so long as it's what they recognise. (visual recognition being important for icons and all that).
Some people might even install the IE-style toolbar and widgets, but then who would know that it was Mozilla?
"The secret to flying is to hurl yourself at the ground and miss. (one of the more amusing ideas from HHGG)"
Or indeed, perpendicular to the ground, and extremely fast...
"If you ask me, the number of downloads would explode if someone wrote a Firefox extension to correct for Slashdot's new IT colour-scheme."
As if that hadn't already happened...
"Zero-g exists in orbit. How is this different?"
Zero-g doesn't exist anywhere in our universe -- you've always got graviational pull towards everything else in the universe.
Especially in orbit (hint: gravity is quite a useful feature if you want to orbit something)
Best of all, if someone sits down at your computer and runs "mozilla", it won't have any of the browse-history or cookies from your "username2" account. Nor can they read your letters in OOo.
"Just tell her to buy a Bushmaster and put a sign on the lawn saying "Tresspassers beware - I can shoot you in the ass 80 times in a minute and then bayonet your corpse from here to Denver""
I misread "Bushmaster" as "Bushism" and imagined a shout of "Trespassers beware, I already preemptively set light to your house"
"1/5th the deaths for 1/10th the population. Sounds like Canada has a criminal problem twice as bad as the U.S. That's what happens when you disarm law-abiding people."
He's already clarified that the figures were per-capita. Now who looks silly justifying conclusions from erroneous statistics?
"Please let me remind you as to WHY the I.R.A. still blows up civillian targets in GB..."
Because the americans pay them to?
"I'd be very interested to hear about the details of this installation, if they are available."
You might also investigate theatrical pyrotechnics, which look quite useful for alarms. It's possible to get things like smoke cannisters which are fired by 12v electrical circuits and neatly packaged in metal tubes.
"That way, when the police came by you could hand them glossies and a DV tape of the guy."
A colleague recently handed the police a videotape of some people causing "criminal damage" to his car (this was in the UK, b.t.w.), and their response was "if it doesn't have a timestamp on the tape, we're not going to bother"
So it might be worth spending the $50 extra on a timestamping box if you'll be using video like this, although I believe he was able to persuade the police to make a token effort at investigating anyway.
With digital cameras or digital video recorders, make sure you check what's allowed as evidence. I seem to remember it being 4 megapixel or more, and the copy stored in your camera's memory (i.e. once you transfer it to PC, it becomes useless in British courts, but you'll need to check the details) - presumably digital videocameras are the same.
"But you'd get a lot more experience points if you leave the generator running and ambush the monsters one-by-one as they emerge. And this Stallman guy thinks he's a geek. Sheesh!"
Maybe RMS has already got the experience points?
"Cringely writes: Apple, for example, will let you mount up to a 100 megabyte iDrive as part of its .mac Internet service, but that costs $99 per year. Eight dollars per month for 100 megabytes of storage is too darned much."
For that $100 per year, you could buy 3 128"MB" USB-keys that give you more storage space, have faster copy-times from your computer, and have 3 times the redundancy as the network-storage option. They're small enough to post to a friend in a different location if you want (cheap, and all backups are encrypted?) or even to hide them around your city if you need security against raids (no pun intended).
But remember, you can't swallow them if you get caught...