Wow. I think we've managed to conduct a DDoS on a phone number! Next all we need is to report a Linus Torvalds sighting at X, and we'll create a stampede.
I hope Google would be better, but does anyone know if they plan to restrict access to port 80 only, like some other "free" (strange definition) wi-fi. That would mean the only internet applications that work would be web browsers. You wouldn't be able to send/check email, unless, you were using a webmail service, such as... GMail! Similarly, IM, p2p and everything else that isn't on:80, although many apps can get through firewalls, they lose speed.
Its true, the average user doesn't know, and doesn't care. Most can't name an alternative office suite, whereas at least people have heard of Netscape and Firefox. I bet if you install StarOffice on someone's PC, they'd just refer to it as MS Staroffice, or maybe MS Office star.
There has never in history been anytime which could be described as better than now. The founding of the U.S of A. - hardly golden, it's success was only made possible by the exploitation of thousands of slaves. Historically again, in the Edwardian times and around the time of WW I in Britain, the population longed for the age of the British Empire and her colonial glory. Again, this was just an occupation of foreign land with no regard for the indigenous peoples. The times of 1945 to 1990 can be excluded because the world was ever close to nuclear war. And if the 60s were a time of peace and love, then how did the world allow South Africa to impose the Apartheid? And 90s atrocities were commited in Eastern Europe. When we think we're enjoying ourselves, we more than ever need to check everyone else is. Things only get better.
There may seem like times of civilization and collapse say the Romans, followed by a thousand years of dark ages. But the peasants in the feudal system were more free than those slaves taken by the Romans.
Things may be getting worse for those highest in society, but they have to accept this sacrifice if it 's to help the global redistribution of wealth and we're to rectify centuries of injustice.
Clipart is a bane on our society. The average lame-ass user puts them onto every poster and leaflet they make, otherwise fine (unless they used MS Wordart) making them look appallingly bad. Of course, now everyone thinks my designs are professional (I can charge for theme even!) just because I either get real images from elsewhere or don't use any rather than crappy little cartoons.
It's NOT about the medium but the content. That said, the book is possibly the only medium we have today that will still exist in X50 years. The book is a rock of a medium. It *is* immortal, since the invention of the printing press.
DVD will be play another format soon enough, and circular optical mediums are probably about half-way through their lifetime. We'll have a different internet and a different web. We can't even speculate. Broadcast media is probably on it's way out. Personalisation of content is in.
The book will live on. For use as recording fiction. Reference, perhaps not. The web is far superior. But nothing we have now or ever is close to as absorbing as a 'good book' (sorry to use cliche).
The Blood-blagger-Beast-of-Trawl defense has been scientificly proven.. That is if EVERYONE was as bad at coding as Microsoft.
Be realistic
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Only the most foolish designers in the world would manage to some how connect the in-car stereo system to say, the braking system. The most any malware could do would be to play some really annoying sounds at you - or perhaps amusingly, sirens (esp if vehicle has surround!) - and even then, you'd be able to turn down the volume until you got to the garage - unless of course, they were so *intelligent* they gave the car an *intelligent* volume system that balances with the noise of the road. So I think we're safe for now, although I never underestimate the geniuses working in the motor-vehicle industry.
The GIMP UI is designed to work best with Linux-style hover-focus on the mouse. In Windows, it's frustrating, with the right focusing though, it's speedy.
But to do super-power damage, a virus only needs the user to give their own password once, and then nasty things can be run using sudo.
Adding a 'false' login screen at some point of startup would be possible without super-powers, and then after the user 'logs in' to that, the passwords stolen, and sudo whatever.
This guy worked on TCP/IP. You know TCP and IPv4 were published in 1981. That was 24 years ago. And technically, that internet is the same as ours now. And it's sure not perfect. They've tried to introduce IPv6, but a smooth transition just isn't possible. Sure, I don't think Cerf could have predicted 10^x IP addresses would ever be a problem, but we do have a real problem on our hands now. Someone should have thought of the illities!
So what do Google even want to do with the aged developer of TCP/IP? What has he even been doing since 1981?
The web only came in 1991, and Google in 1998.. They're work is all web-related (ok they have some POP and SMTP servers now), so maybe they want Cerf to develop IPvG, a new Ginternet that we all know who will control.
I'd much rather have Tim Berner-Lee. The internet is just beeping down a phone line.
Guys, given we are Slashdot, we should try not to all go to the offending site, and test it in Lynx with a changed user-agent and send millionsof emails to their support department. We need to keep this site up so ppl can submit submit their Hurricane claims.
I don't need a GUI tool that can handle 48 different formats... I can use just select correct program for the job in the command line. For.zip use unzip, for.rar use unrar, then there's untar, and unace. I;ve set some Bash aliases so I don't need extra handles on the command, and can extract tar balls in one.
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Wow. I think we've managed to conduct a DDoS on a phone number! Next all we need is to report a Linus Torvalds sighting at X, and we'll create a stampede.
I hope Google would be better, but does anyone know if they plan to restrict access to port 80 only, like some other "free" (strange definition) wi-fi. That would mean the only internet applications that work would be web browsers. You wouldn't be able to send/check email, unless, you were using a webmail service, such as... GMail! Similarly, IM, p2p and everything else that isn't on :80, although many apps can get through firewalls, they lose speed.
The 1.5 beta has inline spellchecking, some new RSS features and a nicer options UI.s es/1.5beta1.html
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/relea
As a Perl fundamentalist, that's a religion, but something then python, that's scientific evolution. Don't teach Perl in schools.
Its true, the average user doesn't know, and doesn't care. Most can't name an alternative office suite, whereas at least people have heard of Netscape and Firefox. I bet if you install StarOffice on someone's PC, they'd just refer to it as MS Staroffice, or maybe MS Office star.
There has never in history been anytime which could be described as better than now. The founding of the U.S of A. - hardly golden, it's success was only made possible by the exploitation of thousands of slaves. Historically again, in the Edwardian times and around the time of WW I in Britain, the population longed for the age of the British Empire and her colonial glory. Again, this was just an occupation of foreign land with no regard for the indigenous peoples. The times of 1945 to 1990 can be excluded because the world was ever close to nuclear war. And if the 60s were a time of peace and love, then how did the world allow South Africa to impose the Apartheid? And 90s atrocities were commited in Eastern Europe. When we think we're enjoying ourselves, we more than ever need to check everyone else is. Things only get better.
There may seem like times of civilization and collapse say the Romans, followed by a thousand years of dark ages. But the peasants in the feudal system were more free than those slaves taken by the Romans.
Things may be getting worse for those highest in society, but they have to accept this sacrifice if it 's to help the global redistribution of wealth and we're to rectify centuries of injustice.
"I want sharks with friggin' laser beams attached to their heads!"
Clipart is a bane on our society. The average lame-ass user puts them onto every poster and leaflet they make, otherwise fine (unless they used MS Wordart) making them look appallingly bad. Of course, now everyone thinks my designs are professional (I can charge for theme even!) just because I either get real images from elsewhere or don't use any rather than crappy little cartoons.
They're doing a good job at the moment, the project's called Vista, it's as insecure, buggy and impractical..
Only when you can write notes and deface them. When they're not copy-protected, for sure. When you can lend them to your friends.
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When you can publish material without censorship.
http://www.musicfanclubs.org/rage/pictures/imager
It's NOT about the medium but the content. That said, the book is possibly the only medium we have today that will still exist in X50 years. The book is a rock of a medium. It *is* immortal, since the invention of the printing press.
DVD will be play another format soon enough, and circular optical mediums are probably about half-way through their lifetime. We'll have a different internet and a different web. We can't even speculate. Broadcast media is probably on it's way out. Personalisation of content is in.
The book will live on. For use as recording fiction. Reference, perhaps not. The web is far superior. But nothing we have now or ever is close to as absorbing as a 'good book' (sorry to use cliche).
The Blood-blagger-Beast-of-Trawl defense has been scientificly proven.. That is if EVERYONE was as bad at coding as Microsoft.
Only the most foolish designers in the world would manage to some how connect the in-car stereo system to say, the braking system. The most any malware could do would be to play some really annoying sounds at you - or perhaps amusingly, sirens (esp if vehicle has surround!) - and even then, you'd be able to turn down the volume until you got to the garage - unless of course, they were so *intelligent* they gave the car an *intelligent* volume system that balances with the noise of the road. So I think we're safe for now, although I never underestimate the geniuses working in the motor-vehicle industry.
I ride a bike.
The GIMP UI is designed to work best with Linux-style hover-focus on the mouse. In Windows, it's frustrating, with the right focusing though, it's speedy.
How many of these 11 exploits are only /exploitable/ on Windows?
You remember buying crack illegally from the streets... and now your posting on Slashdot. Drugs are a slippery slope :p
Fight the war, fuck the norm!
But to do super-power damage, a virus only needs the user to give their own password once, and then nasty things can be run using sudo.
Adding a 'false' login screen at some point of startup would be possible without super-powers, and then after the user 'logs in' to that, the passwords stolen, and sudo whatever.
This guy worked on TCP/IP. You know TCP and IPv4 were published in 1981. That was 24 years ago. And technically, that internet is the same as ours now. And it's sure not perfect. They've tried to introduce IPv6, but a smooth transition just isn't possible. Sure, I don't think Cerf could have predicted 10^x IP addresses would ever be a problem, but we do have a real problem on our hands now. Someone should have thought of the illities! So what do Google even want to do with the aged developer of TCP/IP? What has he even been doing since 1981? The web only came in 1991, and Google in 1998.. They're work is all web-related (ok they have some POP and SMTP servers now), so maybe they want Cerf to develop IPvG, a new Ginternet that we all know who will control. I'd much rather have Tim Berner-Lee. The internet is just beeping down a phone line.
Woah, the amount of disk space they owe you is four times what I have in this system. Now I see the problem.
Guys, given we are Slashdot, we should try not to all go to the offending site, and test it in Lynx with a changed user-agent and send millionsof emails to their support department. We need to keep this site up so ppl can submit submit their Hurricane claims.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_us ing_a_n.html
These guys have degrees in Counter-Strike? Shit! The 1337 and policing our nation - you know those terrorists are wallhacking.
http://shipit.ubuntu.com/
I don't need a GUI tool that can handle 48 different formats... I can use just select correct program for the job in the command line. For .zip use unzip, for .rar use unrar, then there's untar, and unace. I;ve set some Bash aliases so I don't need extra handles on the command, and can extract tar balls in one.