Reading between the lines in the article, it's obvious the RIAA has acted to take out a counterfeit operation flooding the market with illegally manufactured buttons of French design and the DJ / rapper thing was only a thin cover story.
As far as Venice is concerned, it is sinking under its own weight. This may be exacerbated by changing global sea levels, but is at base a strictly local phenomonen.
When I faced that problem, I made the IP check only consider the first 2 octets of the IP address, and compared the user agent too. By no means watertight, but was enough to stamp out some casual abuse with a minimum of effort.
I do web application development, and have been using Windows 2000 for testing the apps against that most excellent (hah) of Microsoft products, Internet Explorer. It's the only reason I use Windows on a regular basis. Now IE7 is out and about however, it looks like I'll have to take the plunge, probably into the wonderful world of XP SP2.
There was a two month changeover period afterwards (I think in other countries it may have been up to 6 months). The biggest problem, as I recall, was taxi drivers and restaurants not having enough Euro change in the early hours of January 1.
At the beginning of 2002 vast swathes of Western Europe managed to change not just the size and shape of their notes but introduced a completely new currency at the same time. In Germany (and possibly other places) they even managed to fix it so that ATMs gave out Deutschmark right up until midnight on Dec. 31, 2001 and as soon as 2002 rolled over, pumped out shiny new Euro notes.
Other countries such as the UK regularly replace their currency designs, usually every 10 - 15 years or so.
If the US did the same, it would benefit maybe not just blind people but keep e.g. the North Korean counterfeiters on their toes.
would be my suggestion for a DoD-friendly monicker.
Also, I recall whenever I install Oracle (closed source) I have to click an agreement that I will
not use the software in the design or production of biological, chemical or nuclear
weapons. I've never encountered such a clause when using open source software, so maybe this might be
something that would appeal to the DoD, who I presume would rather not be tracked down by one
of Larry Ellison's hit squads.
Reading the Slashdot summary it sounds like Blogger has introduced a new sort of HTML.
One with if-then, loops, and object-oriented structures. Ferchrissake, when people tell me they
can "program in HTML" I ask them to write a for-loop for me... it's Blogger's new template
language TFA's talking about here.
Mmmh, sounds tasty. Suggested campaign slogan: "Chat'n'Snack" (though users are advised to watch out for crumbs which might fall into the wireless Internet tubes).
I'm a UK citizen living in a non-English speaking foreign country, and at some point in the
next few years my POP (plain old paper) non-biometric passport will need to be renewed.
By the sound of things it might be cheaper and easier for me to take up the nationality
of my country of residence (I have all the right qualifications for it) than go through
the hassle of (re-)establishing my identity to the Thought Police^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
relevant UK authorities. I'd still end up with a biometric passport as well as the local
ID card, but I wouldn't have to carry either of them, and I'd at least have nominal influence
over government policy via the electoral process.
When I were a lad we had to get up at 2am in the morning to be down the pit by 3am to mine our own photons. With our bare hands and if we were lucky some shards of broken glass to use as shovels. No poncying about WAITING for some light to come along. Then our little sis had to walk down to the other end of the space time continuum in her bare feet to hold the end of the string we used to measure it with. And we were PROUD of ourselves, I tell you.
Sounds terrible. Ferchrissake, all they need to do is have the kids wash their hands after using the toilet and before eating, and observe basic food hygiene practices, and keep the place clean and orderly (sweep, vacuum, wash down with water and maybe a little disinfectant) and the kids will sort out the rest themselves. OK, every now and again some virus or bug will do the rounds, but that's part of growing up.
I thought that went out with the 90s, at least as far as the reputable portals go.
It's rare that I agree with any actions perpetrated by Fox News, but I see they have the
sense to include a "frame-buster" script on their site (as I do on all of mine), so
clicking on the Netscape link led to the site I was expecting to see, not Netscape's
"hijacked" version.
Oh, and having linked sites pop up in new windows is annoying too.
Well, I'm grateful for everyone who does make the effort, 90% of my computing time is usually spent in a Linux desktop enviromnent, and usually the "2D" stuff (Opera, Firefox and Co.) works plenty fine for me. If my main occupation becomes something other than web-based client server programming, I'd move on to OS X permanently, I'm sad to say.
I'm in the boat. I do DB / webapp development, and Linux is my OS of choice on my desktop. But as soon as it comes to anything graphical / multimedia-ish, or even just printing, I boot up my iBook. While I could solve any problems I come across with that kind of stuff in Linux, I just don't have the time to fiddle anymore.
At a guess I'd say it's taken from the Barrow Downs above Bree looking towards Weathertop. Although that stretch of water could be the River Anduin near Cair Andros, which makes that mountain at the back right Mount Doom. Whatever, if you view just the background the image without the site search input field, you can just about make out nine black dots flying high in the sky.
Slashdot Mirror
I'll buy one of these electronic guide books provided it has the words "do not panic" in large, friendly letters on the cover.
If not I'll stick to my hard-edged paper travel guides which also come in useful for swatting the local wildlife without ruining the guarantee.
Reading between the lines in the article, it's obvious the RIAA has acted to take out a counterfeit operation flooding the market with illegally manufactured buttons of French design and the DJ / rapper thing was only a thin cover story.
At least one of those downloads was by my humble self and now graces my humble Ubuntu desktop, thanks to the excellent IEs 4 Linux package.
(Disclaimer: I do web dev work and need it for testing purposes. And I feel all dirty and sordid with every time I fire it up).
Is there a good laptop manufacturer who will sell me a "blank slate" laptop?
Yes
There's a Thai channel called ITV too (warning: site does not render well with Mozilla-based browsers).
As far as Venice is concerned, it is sinking under its own weight. This may be exacerbated by changing global sea levels, but is at base a strictly local phenomonen.
When I faced that problem, I made the IP check only consider the first 2 octets of the IP address, and compared the user agent too. By no means watertight, but was enough to stamp out some casual abuse with a minimum of effort.
I do web application development, and have been using Windows 2000 for testing the apps against that most excellent (hah) of Microsoft products, Internet Explorer. It's the only reason I use Windows on a regular basis. Now IE7 is out and about however, it looks like I'll have to take the plunge, probably into the wonderful world of XP SP2.
Shurely you mean this?
There was a two month changeover period afterwards (I think in other countries it may have been up to 6 months). The biggest problem, as I recall, was taxi drivers and restaurants not having enough Euro change in the early hours of January 1.
At the beginning of 2002 vast swathes of Western Europe managed to change not just the size and shape of their notes but introduced a completely new currency at the same time. In Germany (and possibly other places) they even managed to fix it so that ATMs gave out Deutschmark right up until midnight on Dec. 31, 2001 and as soon as 2002 rolled over, pumped out shiny new Euro notes.
Other countries such as the UK regularly replace their currency designs, usually every 10 - 15 years or so.
If the US did the same, it would benefit maybe not just blind people but keep e.g. the North Korean counterfeiters on their toes.
Someone has done pretty well out of the normal Google engine for this kind of "research".
would be my suggestion for a DoD-friendly monicker.
Also, I recall whenever I install Oracle (closed source) I have to click an agreement that I will not use the software in the design or production of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. I've never encountered such a clause when using open source software, so maybe this might be something that would appeal to the DoD, who I presume would rather not be tracked down by one of Larry Ellison's hit squads.
These pipes, or tubes, would they be big enough to send Internets down them?
Yes, they saw a Window of opportunity.
Reading the Slashdot summary it sounds like Blogger has introduced a new sort of HTML. One with if-then, loops, and object-oriented structures. Ferchrissake, when people tell me they can "program in HTML" I ask them to write a for-loop for me... it's Blogger's new template language TFA's talking about here.
The next step is to build a probe which doesn't crash at all ;).
On an entirely more geeky note, I wonder if any of the Apollo ASLEP packages are still up and running and whether they would detect the impact?
Mmmh, sounds tasty. Suggested campaign slogan: "Chat'n'Snack" (though users are advised to watch out for crumbs which might fall into the wireless Internet tubes).
I'm a UK citizen living in a non-English speaking foreign country, and at some point in the next few years my POP (plain old paper) non-biometric passport will need to be renewed. By the sound of things it might be cheaper and easier for me to take up the nationality of my country of residence (I have all the right qualifications for it) than go through the hassle of (re-)establishing my identity to the Thought Police^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H relevant UK authorities. I'd still end up with a biometric passport as well as the local ID card, but I wouldn't have to carry either of them, and I'd at least have nominal influence over government policy via the electoral process.
When I were a lad we had to get up at 2am in the morning to be down the pit by 3am to mine our own photons. With our bare hands and if we were lucky some shards of broken glass to use as shovels. No poncying about WAITING for some light to come along. Then our little sis had to walk down to the other end of the space time continuum in her bare feet to hold the end of the string we used to measure it with. And we were PROUD of ourselves, I tell you.
Sounds terrible. Ferchrissake, all they need to do is have the kids wash their hands after using the toilet and before eating, and observe basic food hygiene practices, and keep the place clean and orderly (sweep, vacuum, wash down with water and maybe a little disinfectant) and the kids will sort out the rest themselves. OK, every now and again some virus or bug will do the rounds, but that's part of growing up.
I thought that went out with the 90s, at least as far as the reputable portals go. It's rare that I agree with any actions perpetrated by Fox News, but I see they have the sense to include a "frame-buster" script on their site (as I do on all of mine), so clicking on the Netscape link led to the site I was expecting to see, not Netscape's "hijacked" version.
Oh, and having linked sites pop up in new windows is annoying too.
Well, I'm grateful for everyone who does make the effort, 90% of my computing time is usually spent in a Linux desktop enviromnent, and usually the "2D" stuff (Opera, Firefox and Co.) works plenty fine for me. If my main occupation becomes something other than web-based client server programming, I'd move on to OS X permanently, I'm sad to say.
I'm in the boat. I do DB / webapp development, and Linux is my OS of choice on my desktop. But as soon as it comes to anything graphical / multimedia-ish, or even just printing, I boot up my iBook. While I could solve any problems I come across with that kind of stuff in Linux, I just don't have the time to fiddle anymore.
At a guess I'd say it's taken from the Barrow Downs above Bree looking towards Weathertop. Although that stretch of water could be the River Anduin near Cair Andros, which makes that mountain at the back right Mount Doom. Whatever, if you view just the background the image without the site search input field, you can just about make out nine black dots flying high in the sky.