Their "threat" is so transparently false that it makes me laugh. Broadcasting companies are threatening to stop broadcasting? If they don't get their way, they'll just close up shop, lay everyone off, liquidate their assetts and cease to be? Right. Do you think their shareholders would support them getting out of broadcast television?
They're like a 4 year old threatening to hold their breath until they die if they don't get the candy bar they want. They cannot do it, period. Sorry kid, no candy bar for you.
No, you couldn't. This is the general current level of people who approve of the war. You can't turn 33% into 95%. Into 37% maybe by arguing about the size of the sample, but not 95%.
Say the url was site.com/thanks.html. He changed it to site.com/../thanks.html.
Apparently some dynamic sites just grab whatever's after.com/ and use it as parameters with no sanity check. He tried it, they had a sanity check, they logged it as an attack. Stoopid. I don't see how it's an attack. Wikipedia says you could potentially change it to../../../../etc/passwd and try guess the number of levels you are away.
Directory traversal? You mean just cutting off part of the url?
How is this attempting to gain unauthorized access? There's no rule saying the only way to get to a part of a site is by clicking links as far as I know.
Did you ever hear of operation desert fox? A quick foray by the military under Clinton into Iraq to destroy chemical weapons. Apparently it was quite successful, and the UN weapons inspectors weren't invited along. The republicans all assumed it was a complete failure because Clinton was involved.
So, after that, how do you prove they're destroyed? It was an impossibility for him to prove it. He didn't like inspectors roaming around his country because he was a dictator, not because he was hiding chemical weapons.
Are you one of the 33% that still think this war was a good idea?
Simple question - how do you prove you destroyed them all? You can show that you didn't by showing some that are left, but you can't prove that you did by showing an empty bunker.
The only WMD I've seen in this war is american arrogance.
My favorite side adventure occured when the DM had an NPC slip a drug to my friend. We tracked him down and beat the name of his dealer out of him and spent the rest of the adventure taking over the drug market in town and ignoring whatever we were supposed to be doing.
Does anyone remember the story about the remote control tank that the military was getting ready to use? I saw this story a couple months ago, and can't find it anywhere now.
These are snipers. They carry one thing, a rifle. They shoot, they get out of there. They do not set up a remote control robot, pack along two laptops, etc. What a lot of extraneous technology to use as a countermeasure.
Here's a simple countermeasure. Have 3 snipers. They shoot one after another. The robot tracks the last one only. The other two run away. The third one probably does as well.
Maybe you should get out to different areas yourself. Some of the best punk and noise bands are Japanese. I don't see any lack of willingness to express themselves there.
One of my favorite blogs is largeprimenumbers.com. Apparently they're a band (and half look western), but they post tons of video game reviews, hilarious writeups of random events, and this: http://www.largeprimenumbers.com/news.php?nid=81/, the most perfect existential blog about Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ever. It finished with the writer posting a list of what he's done in his life, as he compares his life to Neal Stephenson's:
1. Went to Europe. England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy (Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence). 2. Spent much time homeless, penniless, wandering London, went to some rock shows. 3. Back in America, drove a convertible cross-country to Los Angeles. 4. Gave a valet in San Diego a $100 tip. 5. Went to Mexico. 6. In Tokyo, taught English. 7. Got in trouble with the Yakuza, and got pushed down stairs. 8. Got fired and kicked out of my house on Christmas Day. 9. Spent some time homeless in Tokyo. 10. Hired by a once-famous, now-drawing-soft-porn comic artist as a personal assistant. 11. Cooked hundreds of omelets for said comic artist. 12. Sang lead in a hardcore punk-rock band called Small Prime Numbers. 13. Wrote thirty-nine novels, four of which were about myself, twenty-five of which were about people who definitely weren't me, fourteen of which took place in Tokyo, four of which were longer than a thousand pages, twenty-seven of which were shorter than three hundred pages, and three of which were about tennis. One of the ones about tennis was pretty good. 14. Talked to someone on the phone an hour before they died. 15. Met a guy named Doug Jones via an internet forum, discovered we lived very close to one another, met, and became friends. He eventually met, befriended, fell in love with, married, and impregnated (though I think that would belong on his list) a girl named Julie Schimoller, who had sat next to me in half of my classes for half of my high school experience. 16. Wrote articles about videogames online, independently; gained a few thousand fans and a dozen or so haters, all of the haters being people who professionally write about videogames. 17. Angered a large videogame company. 18. Grew hair to impressive and disgusting length, then cut it all off. 19. Spent a combined total of about eighteen months homeless and jobless, with no prospects. 20. Published articles in sixteen magazines, including Wired. 21. Write columns about life in Japan under four different pen names for four different magazines of three different publishers. 22. Had pieces of my writing linked by Slashdot.org eleven times. 23. Started a band called "Large Prime Numbers," which may or may not go somewhere. 24. Have learned to play harmonica, guitar, bass guitar, and drums. Can play the former like a son of a bitch, the middle two like a bastard, and the latter like a god damned psychopath. 25. In the last six months, no, really, I guess I can play the guitar now. 26. Once beat the shit out of four guys in a fight in Ikebukuro West Gate Park. 27. Walked into a karate dojo by the sea in Chiba, thinking I'd train there, sparred the top student, beat him, and walked out. 28. Learned PHP and HTML; served as a technical consultant on a large yakuza-run website. 29. Interviewed Kazunori Yamauchi, producer of the Gran Turismo games, in Japanese, on Japanese broadcast television. 30. Appeared as an extra in a Japanese television drama series. 31. Can be seen singing in a Japanese music video. 32. Met each of the members of my favorite band, The Blue Hearts (this was not easy, as they have been broken up for a decade). 33. Translated some five thousand pages of Japanese comics into Americanized English for several publishers. Got paid for . . . about 600 page
There is no market. Please check out this defunct website to remind yourself of that: http://www.lokigames.com/.
Loki - The Games that Linux People Play (or not) * As you may know, Loki filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition on August 3, 2001. We will be filing a motion to convert the case to a Chapter 7--a liquidation. At that time all of Loki's assets will be transfered to a U.S. Trustee appointed by the Court. The Trustee's job will be to sell those assets to the highest bidder.
We'd like to thank everyone for their support these past three years.
Seriously, until there's a huge installed base of people who use linux as their desktop, it does not make economic sense to port. Once there's a big enough market, it will make economic sense. You won't have to request at that time, it will happen automatically. For years websites I worked for only cared about supporting IE because it was 95% of the market. Once FireFox got around 8% of the market, that attitude changed. Simply a matter of where it makes sense for a business unit to focus their energy to get the most bang for the buck.
Game making costs money, serious money. You guys can ask for a linux distro all you want, but I don't see many game companies spending the time on it anytime in the next five years. There's like one chance of that. If linux became the OS of choice in China, game developers would actually pay attention to the market. Aside from that, it's just not going to happen, so you can just skip the games articles on slashdot, because it's incredibly tedious to wade through 300 of the same comment. Don't want windows on your pc? Fine by me. Don't complain that you can't run windows only software then.
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Great. Whoever modded me troll, have fun jackass. Respond to my comment, don't just mod me down.
What the heck? The video is from december 2001. Why is this news? The article on that page talked about this being some new species (or possibly phylum?) of squid, not the normal run of the mill giant squid I was expecting. I think it may be totally unrelated to the Japanese squid video.
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Why is the parent modded as a troll? Just because he said Microsoft's OS was better than Palm's? For a whole lot of things, like synching with Outlook, it was much better, and that's what the vast majority of Palm users wanted their Palm to do, and which it didn't do well for years. If your entire OS is built around providing PDA functionality, and you can't synch with the most widely used email and contacts program on the planet, your OS is lacking.
One of my favorite film clips ever was a british guy who realized the closed caption camera across the street could see into his apartment. He didn't like it, so he made himself a creepy alien-monster costume, put it on, and went walking around in the street in front of his building. Tons of cops came roaring up. I was laughing my ass off. What, did they think he was an actual invader from space and they just happened to catch him on CCTV in London? And what would they do if he was? He clearly wasn't doing anything illegal, and that's what CCTV was supposed to be used for, not just weirdos.
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Their "threat" is so transparently false that it makes me laugh. Broadcasting companies are threatening to stop broadcasting? If they don't get their way, they'll just close up shop, lay everyone off, liquidate their assetts and cease to be? Right. Do you think their shareholders would support them getting out of broadcast television?
They're like a 4 year old threatening to hold their breath until they die if they don't get the candy bar they want. They cannot do it, period. Sorry kid, no candy bar for you.
No, you couldn't. This is the general current level of people who approve of the war. You can't turn 33% into 95%. Into 37% maybe by arguing about the size of the sample, but not 95%.
Say the url was site.com/thanks.html. He changed it to site.com/../thanks.html.
.com/ and use it as parameters with no sanity check. He tried it, they had a sanity check, they logged it as an attack. Stoopid. I don't see how it's an attack. Wikipedia says you could potentially change it to ../../../../etc/passwd and try guess the number of levels you are away.
Apparently some dynamic sites just grab whatever's after
Directory traversal? You mean just cutting off part of the url?
How is this attempting to gain unauthorized access? There's no rule saying the only way to get to a part of a site is by clicking links as far as I know.
Did you ever hear of operation desert fox? A quick foray by the military under Clinton into Iraq to destroy chemical weapons. Apparently it was quite successful, and the UN weapons inspectors weren't invited along. The republicans all assumed it was a complete failure because Clinton was involved.
So, after that, how do you prove they're destroyed? It was an impossibility for him to prove it. He didn't like inspectors roaming around his country because he was a dictator, not because he was hiding chemical weapons.
Are you one of the 33% that still think this war was a good idea?
ICANN is. Seriously, how many ICANN bashing articles have there been on this site?
Wrong. ICANN is in charge of assigning TLDs. The department of commerce still has control, as spelled out in TFA.
Simple question - how do you prove you destroyed them all? You can show that you didn't by showing some that are left, but you can't prove that you did by showing an empty bunker.
The only WMD I've seen in this war is american arrogance.
My favorite side adventure occured when the DM had an NPC slip a drug to my friend. We tracked him down and beat the name of his dealer out of him and spent the rest of the adventure taking over the drug market in town and ignoring whatever we were supposed to be doing.
Does anyone remember the story about the remote control tank that the military was getting ready to use? I saw this story a couple months ago, and can't find it anywhere now.
Thanks for any help.
Why do you people keep talking about webcams?
These are snipers. They carry one thing, a rifle. They shoot, they get out of there. They do not set up a remote control robot, pack along two laptops, etc. What a lot of extraneous technology to use as a countermeasure.
Here's a simple countermeasure. Have 3 snipers. They shoot one after another. The robot tracks the last one only. The other two run away. The third one probably does as well.
Man that made my day, thanks.
Maybe you should get out to different areas yourself. Some of the best punk and noise bands are Japanese. I don't see any lack of willingness to express themselves there.
One of my favorite blogs is largeprimenumbers.com. Apparently they're a band (and half look western), but they post tons of video game reviews, hilarious writeups of random events, and this: http://www.largeprimenumbers.com/news.php?nid=81/, the most perfect existential blog about Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ever. It finished with the writer posting a list of what he's done in his life, as he compares his life to Neal Stephenson's:
1. Went to Europe. England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy (Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence).
2. Spent much time homeless, penniless, wandering London, went to some rock shows.
3. Back in America, drove a convertible cross-country to Los Angeles.
4. Gave a valet in San Diego a $100 tip.
5. Went to Mexico.
6. In Tokyo, taught English.
7. Got in trouble with the Yakuza, and got pushed down stairs.
8. Got fired and kicked out of my house on Christmas Day.
9. Spent some time homeless in Tokyo.
10. Hired by a once-famous, now-drawing-soft-porn comic artist as a personal assistant.
11. Cooked hundreds of omelets for said comic artist.
12. Sang lead in a hardcore punk-rock band called Small Prime Numbers.
13. Wrote thirty-nine novels, four of which were about myself, twenty-five of which were about people who definitely weren't me, fourteen of which took place in Tokyo, four of which were longer than a thousand pages, twenty-seven of which were shorter than three hundred pages, and three of which were about tennis. One of the ones about tennis was pretty good.
14. Talked to someone on the phone an hour before they died.
15. Met a guy named Doug Jones via an internet forum, discovered we lived very close to one another, met, and became friends. He eventually met, befriended, fell in love with, married, and impregnated (though I think that would belong on his list) a girl named Julie Schimoller, who had sat next to me in half of my classes for half of my high school experience.
16. Wrote articles about videogames online, independently; gained a few thousand fans and a dozen or so haters, all of the haters being people who professionally write about videogames.
17. Angered a large videogame company.
18. Grew hair to impressive and disgusting length, then cut it all off.
19. Spent a combined total of about eighteen months homeless and jobless, with no prospects.
20. Published articles in sixteen magazines, including Wired.
21. Write columns about life in Japan under four different pen names for four different magazines of three different publishers.
22. Had pieces of my writing linked by Slashdot.org eleven times.
23. Started a band called "Large Prime Numbers," which may or may not go somewhere.
24. Have learned to play harmonica, guitar, bass guitar, and drums. Can play the former like a son of a bitch, the middle two like a bastard, and the latter like a god damned psychopath.
25. In the last six months, no, really, I guess I can play the guitar now.
26. Once beat the shit out of four guys in a fight in Ikebukuro West Gate Park.
27. Walked into a karate dojo by the sea in Chiba, thinking I'd train there, sparred the top student, beat him, and walked out.
28. Learned PHP and HTML; served as a technical consultant on a large yakuza-run website.
29. Interviewed Kazunori Yamauchi, producer of the Gran Turismo games, in Japanese, on Japanese broadcast television.
30. Appeared as an extra in a Japanese television drama series.
31. Can be seen singing in a Japanese music video.
32. Met each of the members of my favorite band, The Blue Hearts (this was not easy, as they have been broken up for a decade).
33. Translated some five thousand pages of Japanese comics into Americanized English for several publishers. Got paid for . . . about 600 page
What's aggressivelystupid.com? I tried to check it out but got a 403 forbidden.
Dude, what is up with you?
6 84987/6 15125/
You've posted this again in this same thread:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163879&cid=13
also a few days ago here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=162927&cid=13
Yes, but at least in the days of Vignette StoryServer the tracefiles were hilarious to read:
"DIE, child, DIE" and stuff like that.
There is no market. Please check out this defunct website to remind yourself of that: http://www.lokigames.com/.
Loki - The Games that Linux People Play (or not)
* As you may know, Loki filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition on August 3, 2001. We will be filing a motion to convert the case to a Chapter 7--a liquidation. At that time all of Loki's assets will be transfered to a U.S. Trustee appointed by the Court. The Trustee's job will be to sell those assets to the highest bidder.
We'd like to thank everyone for their support these past three years.
Seriously, until there's a huge installed base of people who use linux as their desktop, it does not make economic sense to port. Once there's a big enough market, it will make economic sense. You won't have to request at that time, it will happen automatically. For years websites I worked for only cared about supporting IE because it was 95% of the market. Once FireFox got around 8% of the market, that attitude changed. Simply a matter of where it makes sense for a business unit to focus their energy to get the most bang for the buck.
Game making costs money, serious money. You guys can ask for a linux distro all you want, but I don't see many game companies spending the time on it anytime in the next five years. There's like one chance of that. If linux became the OS of choice in China, game developers would actually pay attention to the market. Aside from that, it's just not going to happen, so you can just skip the games articles on slashdot, because it's incredibly tedious to wade through 300 of the same comment. Don't want windows on your pc? Fine by me. Don't complain that you can't run windows only software then.
Great. Whoever modded me troll, have fun jackass. Respond to my comment, don't just mod me down.
What the heck? The video is from december 2001. Why is this news? The article on that page talked about this being some new species (or possibly phylum?) of squid, not the normal run of the mill giant squid I was expecting. I think it may be totally unrelated to the Japanese squid video.
Why is the parent modded as a troll? Just because he said Microsoft's OS was better than Palm's? For a whole lot of things, like synching with Outlook, it was much better, and that's what the vast majority of Palm users wanted their Palm to do, and which it didn't do well for years. If your entire OS is built around providing PDA functionality, and you can't synch with the most widely used email and contacts program on the planet, your OS is lacking.
Seems to me I remember reading about the Blu Ray consortium years ago on slashdot, long before I ever heard of HD-DVD.
Perhaps, but in case it doesn't I'd rather keep the rolls of flab hidden.
No, it's a classic logic falacy.
My dog has 4 legs.
All cats have 4 legs.
My dog is a cat.
One of my favorite film clips ever was a british guy who realized the closed caption camera across the street could see into his apartment. He didn't like it, so he made himself a creepy alien-monster costume, put it on, and went walking around in the street in front of his building. Tons of cops came roaring up. I was laughing my ass off. What, did they think he was an actual invader from space and they just happened to catch him on CCTV in London? And what would they do if he was? He clearly wasn't doing anything illegal, and that's what CCTV was supposed to be used for, not just weirdos.