...I'm sure some guy who first-times it in and blows his life savings will use this as a loophole and get away with it.
I hope so. I have to admit that it pleases me in some peverse but satisfying way to savour society tying itself in knots trying to figure how to cope with the information revolution (I bet I'm the only one here who still uses that term) and the exponential growth and dominance of concepts that it grasps, as a whole, on the level of a learning-challenged 2 year old.
"...in six months' time interactive gambling operators will not be able to enforce debts owed by Australians gambling on their sites."
C'mon people, I credited my geekish countrymen and women with more nous than that displayed so far...
Judging by the slashbite leading this story (and lo, what other source would I rely on for nationally significant news) Australia is headed for the greatest period of risk-free, debt-free fun we've ever seen... d'you seriously mean that noone will be able to persue Autralians for debts incurred on overseas-hosts sites?
I'm terribly sorry to have to disagree with you there, but most buffer overflows (at least in widely deployed internet server software) do not result in remote system-level access that's not even logged (IIS crashes, restarts, and baam! your cracked - tell me how you're going to tell that crash apart from the forty other IIS crashes that happened this week).
Try telling several million semi-clueless IIS admins on pissant corporate web sites all over the world who will be cracked over the next year or so that outrage over IIS's inexcusably woeful code is Hype Hype Hype.
No MicK, you're absolutely right - we just have a bunch of people (I use the term loosely) in charge who have desperate need of the size 10 clue hammer.
It is a nice place, and most of us are OK people, but our politicians, opinionators and decision makers get confused and challenged when confronted with issues that don't have "...for Dummies" books written for them (by an overseas publisher, of course!).
Though it's fairly obvious Bill's not speaking up for the sake of the Australian IT industry, but out of his own self-interest (does he have any other kind of interest?) - his contribution to the discussion of governmental policy with respect to IT in this country is more important than practically any other factor, opinion or belief (possibly with the exception of the half-assed reactionary nonsense spouted by any "independant" members of parliament in marginal electorates that may feel like getting involved).
Every point that decefette makes in the previous post is correct, but is merely scratching the surface of the depths of ignorance and ambivilence this, and previous Australian governments have displayed to any local commercial pursuit not undertandable in terms of livestock or pop singers (is that a redundancy?).
Naturally Bill's only concern is that the government immediately redress the imbalance in their priorities by locking the entire nation into Microsoft Office 2001, HAL Edition (or whatever) but he has the only voice that the government knows that the electorate will recognise, and therefore should be supported by us in this cause - even by those of us lucky enough to be working in Australia for European-owned Linux-friendly corporations like myself - especially by us. Otherwise Austraila loses (our taxes, knowledge, and potential) when we go off and work in Ireland, Finland, Sweden, the US or England, and we lose when we don't get to live in Australia:)
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How long would it take to kludge together a quick'n'dirty script to grab and parse those links to the main articles in the shortened advisories that they now publish, and then to run that script on some server in.ru or somewhere else untouchable for the greater good of the net?
In case you've missed the last 20 or 30 years of popular music culture, I'm here to tell you that Marilyn Manson is about as hard-core as Britney Spears or The Backstreet Boys. It's mass-market pop music!!
You want to hear something extreme? Fire up napster and grab some Anal Cunt tracks... classic.
Well, Browser News has graphs generated by TheCounter.com indicating around 10% market share for Netscape and about 80% for IE, though my personal experience suggest that the NS share is higher reality.
Naturally browser stats differ greatly depending on the content of the site. microsoft.com probably doesn't get that many hits from lynx, but linux.com probably does.
What has liking or not liking a company got to do with anything? The article is about an interview with Tiemann, and the discussion is about his answers (or lack thereof) in that interview, and what they reveal about RedHat's direction.
For a linux-geek-for-hire it's not possible to simply say "RedHat's shit, so let's use debian", because RedHat is what most companies (rightly or wrongly) use. Therefore it's entirely relevant to discuss here the pros and cons of RedHat's distribution, and particularly the influences and motivations behind some of their more questionable design decisions.
What do *you* think we should be posting about here, given that according to you we can't diss RedHat in any way?
That is exactly the kind of utterly worthless drivel that isn't exactly trolling or karma-whoring, but is nonetheless swamping/. in inanity.
Just to clarify for you - this is a *discussion* site. That means when there is an geeky issue of any contention, interested people can *discuss* it here. "If you don't like it, don't use it" is not an opinion, argument, or anything except possibly an excuse to tell your mates that you've posted to slashdot (ooh you bleeding-edge uber-geek, you!).
I don't use RH, (and wouldn't in a blue fit try to use it for any project that had to be stable and compatible) but it's future will influence the development of Linux distros for some time to come due to it's market position.
In short, save the world some bandwith and keep your retard non-opinions to yourself.
Well, how about 20million+ Linux/OSS-OS installed machines with no software DVD player?
*Keeping in mind* there is _NO_ copy protection WHATSOEVER for DVDs. There is no mechanism at all to stop anyone copying a DVD they own (providing they also already own an artificially expensive DVD burner). That is *not* what this is about!
Were the MPAA not the pig-headed, reactionary, greedy, grasping, exploitative blood-sucking scum that they are, they would be already reaping the benefits of an extra 20mil players for their god-forsaken media format.
Could GNU cash be extended with tax specific functionality in a similar way to Quicken's tax package?
According to http://www.gnucash.org (an excellent site) there is a scheme-based API for writing extensions to the package. Possibly this could allow for modules for specific tax systems...
I've recently installed v1.3 and found it easy enough for a non-financially-aware geek like me to get organised pretty quickly. Excellent for personal finance, but probably not in the race for professional requirements just yet.
Slashdot Mirror
That looks way cool. I was planning a similar system using PHP but it seems you've beaten me to it!
Mind you I don't have a secret passphrase so I couldn't get in to have a look at it. Is there a web page somewhere with some more details on it?
Iy knat shpeeale
miy bad 8~P
I hope so. I have to admit that it pleases me in some peverse but satisfying way to savour society tying itself in knots trying to figure how to cope with the information revolution (I bet I'm the only one here who still uses that term) and the exponential growth and dominance of concepts that it grasps, as a whole, on the level of a learning-challenged 2 year old.
"...in six months' time interactive gambling operators will not be able to enforce debts owed by Australians gambling on their sites."
C'mon people, I credited my geekish countrymen and women with more nous than that displayed so far...
Judging by the slashbite leading this story (and lo, what other source would I rely on for nationally significant news) Australia is headed for the greatest period of risk-free, debt-free fun we've ever seen... d'you seriously mean that noone will be able to persue Autralians for debts incurred on overseas-hosts sites?
Brrring it owwwwnnnnnnnnn!
I'm terribly sorry to have to disagree with you there, but most buffer overflows (at least in widely deployed internet server software) do not result in remote system-level access that's not even logged (IIS crashes, restarts, and baam! your cracked - tell me how you're going to tell that crash apart from the forty other IIS crashes that happened this week).
Try telling several million semi-clueless IIS admins on pissant corporate web sites all over the world who will be cracked over the next year or so that outrage over IIS's inexcusably woeful code is Hype Hype Hype.
No MicK, you're absolutely right - we just have a bunch of people (I use the term loosely) in charge who have desperate need of the size 10 clue hammer.
It is a nice place, and most of us are OK people, but our politicians, opinionators and decision makers get confused and challenged when confronted with issues that don't have "...for Dummies" books written for them (by an overseas publisher, of course!).
-Sam
Though it's fairly obvious Bill's not speaking up for the sake of the Australian IT industry, but out of his own self-interest (does he have any other kind of interest?) - his contribution to the discussion of governmental policy with respect to IT in this country is more important than practically any other factor, opinion or belief (possibly with the exception of the half-assed reactionary nonsense spouted by any "independant" members of parliament in marginal electorates that may feel like getting involved).
Every point that decefette makes in the previous post is correct, but is merely scratching the surface of the depths of ignorance and ambivilence this, and previous Australian governments have displayed to any local commercial pursuit not undertandable in terms of livestock or pop singers (is that a redundancy?).
Naturally Bill's only concern is that the government immediately redress the imbalance in their priorities by locking the entire nation into Microsoft Office 2001, HAL Edition (or whatever) but he has the only voice that the government knows that the electorate will recognise, and therefore should be supported by us in this cause - even by those of us lucky enough to be working in Australia for European-owned Linux-friendly corporations like myself - especially by us. Otherwise Austraila loses (our taxes, knowledge, and potential) when we go off and work in Ireland, Finland, Sweden, the US or England, and we lose when we don't get to live in Australia :)
Peace
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Ten bucks says "kludge" means what I thought it meant.
You dickhead.
Question:
.ru or somewhere else untouchable for the greater good of the net?
How long would it take to kludge together a quick'n'dirty script to grab and parse those links to the main articles in the shortened advisories that they now publish, and then to run that script on some server in
Answer:
Not very long
Hopefully.
You 'tard.
In case you've missed the last 20 or 30 years of popular music culture, I'm here to tell you that Marilyn Manson is about as hard-core as Britney Spears or The Backstreet Boys. It's mass-market pop music!!
You want to hear something extreme? Fire up napster and grab some Anal Cunt tracks... classic.
-=Sam=-
Christ, dude!
Go read ZDNet or something and leave our geeky toys alone. -S.R.
Well, Browser News has graphs generated by TheCounter.com indicating around 10% market share for Netscape and about 80% for IE, though my personal experience suggest that the NS share is higher reality.
Naturally browser stats differ greatly depending on the content of the site. microsoft.com probably doesn't get that many hits from lynx, but linux.com probably does.
-=Sam=-
What has liking or not liking a company got to do with anything? The article is about an interview with Tiemann, and the discussion is about his answers (or lack thereof) in that interview, and what they reveal about RedHat's direction.
For a linux-geek-for-hire it's not possible to simply say "RedHat's shit, so let's use debian", because RedHat is what most companies (rightly or wrongly) use. Therefore it's entirely relevant to discuss here the pros and cons of RedHat's distribution, and particularly the influences and motivations behind some of their more questionable design decisions.
What do *you* think we should be posting about here, given that according to you we can't diss RedHat in any way?
That is exactly the kind of utterly worthless drivel that isn't exactly trolling or karma-whoring, but is nonetheless swamping /. in inanity.
Just to clarify for you - this is a *discussion* site. That means when there is an geeky issue of any contention, interested people can *discuss* it here. "If you don't like it, don't use it" is not an opinion, argument, or anything except possibly an excuse to tell your mates that you've posted to slashdot (ooh you bleeding-edge uber-geek, you!).
I don't use RH, (and wouldn't in a blue fit try to use it for any project that had to be stable and compatible) but it's future will influence the development of Linux distros for some time to come due to it's market position.
In short, save the world some bandwith and keep your retard non-opinions to yourself.
Well, how about 20million+ Linux/OSS-OS installed machines with no software DVD player?
*Keeping in mind* there is _NO_ copy protection WHATSOEVER for DVDs. There is no mechanism at all to stop anyone copying a DVD they own (providing they also already own an artificially expensive DVD burner). That is *not* what this is about!
Were the MPAA not the pig-headed, reactionary, greedy, grasping, exploitative blood-sucking scum that they are, they would be already reaping the benefits of an extra 20mil players for their god-forsaken media format.
> but watch a former MacOS or Windows
:P
> user try to install an X server(heh).
You mean an ex win95 user (like me)...
bash-2.02# apt-get install xbase
Yeah, that'd be a _real_ trial.
Could GNU cash be extended with tax specific functionality in a similar way to Quicken's tax package?
According to http://www.gnucash.org (an excellent site) there is a scheme-based API for writing extensions to the package. Possibly this could allow for modules for specific tax systems...
I've recently installed v1.3 and found it easy enough for a non-financially-aware geek like me to get organised pretty quickly. Excellent for personal finance, but probably not in the race for professional requirements just yet.