The whole point of high school is that everyone leaves feeling persecuted, excluded and aggrieved. Then they spend the rest of their working lives trying to avenge their fallen egos by clawing their way up the career ladder, throwing away thousands of dollars for conspicuous status symbols like yachts, Rolexes (Rolices?) and Lexuses (Lexi?).
High school bullying is the engine of the U.S. economy.
That's excluding 95 still technically working that way but making you boot in to Windows then exit out (dressed up as logging out) to DOS.
Actually you can make it boot to the DOS prompt by putting the line BOOTGUI=0 in your MSDOS.SYS file. Sorry if this advice is 7 years too late to be useful.;-)
This exploit requires a C compiler to be installed on the infected machine (it creates C files in/tmp and then compiles them). How many IIS servers have a C compiler installed?
Cross-pollination could easily result in a crop that was 98% Roundup-resistant... if he were using Roundup. Non-resistant plants would be wiped out, and the resistant plants would gradually take over.
I wonder if you could be sued for spraying your field with herbicide, and then waiting for herbicide-resistant crops to "accidentally" colonize your field? Or maybe you could be sued for owning a piece of desert that's colonized by nitrate-producing GM maize?
My point is, don't worry about not being able to find media/drives. They're still around, you just won't be able to stroll out to CompUSA and pick yourself up one.
And when it's illegal to buy or sell them because of the CBDTPA, you won't be able to find them on eBay either. If you want a DRM-free CD player you'll have to speak to that guy in the corner with the facial tic who always keeps his sleeves rolled down over his knuckles...
Standard CDs are rapidly and quietly being replaced by a variety of non-standard "secure" formats. How long will it be before new releases are only available on "protected" media? If you ever intend to make a mix CD, format-shift an album, play it on your computer or even (gasp!) share it with your friends, buy it now. Forget about boycotting the record companies. Face facts: if you don't buy it now you'll be buying it later, and in a less useful, less flexible format. Grab what you can, the brief age of open media is coming to a close...
Some readers have dismissed the threat to privacy on the basis that it would be impractical to retain all internet data for a period of 24 months. To clarify the situation: the decision only covers the retention of "traffic data", defined as "all data processed which relate to the routing of a communication by an electronic communications network" (emphasis added). In theory this could mean the retention of every IP header, but consider the requirements of law enforcement agencies: they want to know who communicated with whom, and when. They don't need to know the exact route taken by each packet in order to identify the parties involved, or the web page that was seen. So what is a more realistic set of traffic data?
Minimal set:
Telephone calls and faxes: caller, recipient, time, duration. Already retained by telephone companies for billing purposes. Possible means of circumvention: use a prepaid international calling card to route your calls through a call centre outside the EU. Could be expensive.
Emails: sender, recipient, time. Require every SMTP server to log the RCPT and FROM fields. Possible means of circumvention: use POP and SMTP servers outside the EU. Use an anonymous remailer (effectively hiding traffic data inside the body of the message).
Websites: user, domain name, time. Unlikely to rely on webserver logs. Instead, require every DNS server to log every request. Of course this doesn't prove that the user actually looked at the content of the site, but try explaining that to a jury. Possible means of circumvention: use a DNS server outside the EU.
More effective set:
Emails: in addition to logging connections to the ISP's mail server, monitor all traffic on TCP port 25. Parse the traffic as SMTP, extract RCPT and FROM lines. Small performance penalty for users. Possible means of circumvention: find a mail server outside the EU that operates on a non-standard port (unlikely) or uses a non-standard mail protocol (unlikely).
Websites: user, URL, time. In addition to DNS logs, monitor all traffic on TCP port 80. Parse the traffic as HTTP, extract GET string, use a reverse DNS lookup to complete the URL. Serious performance penalty for users. Illicit websites will simply use non-standard ports or HTTPS.
Paranoid set:
In addition to all of the above, traffic on IRC and IM ports will be monitored and parsed to extract user identities. All TCP SYN packets will be logged. Anyone using a mail or DNS server outside the EU in order to protect their privacy will be assumed to be hiding something. All their traffic will be monitored and examined for known protocols. Man-in-the-middle attacks will be used to decrypt SSL connections in order to extract "traffic data".
What kind of competitive advantage would speech have offered for early humans, if language did not already exist? Language consists of much more than the production of words. You also need to be able to parse sentences, to "reverse-engineer" the grammar of your parents' language before you can start producing sentences of your own. This raises the question of whether parts of the brain have evolved "for" grammar (a hypothesis supported by Noam Chomsky and argued by Steven Pinker in his excellent book The Language Instinct), or whether existing pattern-recognition and planning mechanisms turned out to be useful for language, influencing the form and scope of all subsequent languages (suggested by Mark Steedman among others).
It's even possible that complete languages existed before humans were able to speak. American Sign Language is an example of a language with its own complete, unique grammar and morphology, which does not make use of speech. (See Pinker's book again.) Its existence supports the hypothesis that the parts of the brain responsible for language can operate independently of the parts that co-ordinate speech. In summary, there is a lot more to language than co-ordinating the muscles of the mouth and throat.
According to the article, 'the need for a common 3D format becomes clear in a simple perusal of the 19th century Russian novel, where the volume of 3D content is minuscule -- well under 1 percent.'
Well under 1 percent of dinner forks are used for pulling people's eyes out. Clearly we need to improve the state of dinner fork technology.
Some applications just don't need 3D. Previous experiments have shown that those applications include movies, TV, file managers, web pages, and tourist maps of London. Unfortunately people keep trying to apply 3D technology where it's not welcome. I'd like to send an open letter to the technology industry:
Dear Technology Industry,
I appreciate the many things brought to me over the years by your ceaseless drive to innovate. Things like the self-heating coffee can, the self-cleaning oven and the self-shitting fat substitute. But there are some areas of technological development that concern me. Not because I think they will transform the world into a grim dystopian warzone full of stalking insectoid cyborgs bent on the destruction of humanity, but because frankly you're wasting a lot of money on things nobody wants. Things like 3D web pages, animated paperclips, chocolate-covered pretzels and streaming video for telephones. Please, take the time to consult a 10-year-old child before spending billions of dollars on any new project. If the child's response is "what the hell use would that be?", consider moving your engineers to a different project.
I believe the FCC will be able to make money by relicensing the current frequencies. Compressed digital signals use less bandwidth than uncompressed analogue signals, so the FCC can resell the spare bandwidth (eg for 3G networks). That's the government's plan in the UK, anyway - I assume the FCC has something similar in mind.
32 bit Unix time ends in 2037. Maybe Ken Thompson knew something the rest of us didn't...
I think it went more like this: "Let's see... 16 bits buys me about 9 hours... I'll be out of the building before it crashes, but God help me if my car won't start. But 32 bits buys me 67 years! Screw it, I'll be retired by then, what can they do?"
How about a supernova in our quater of the galaxy? We will be ripped away. How about things that we don't even know about? Or a strong neurino star far far away, pointing it's north pole exactly on erath for a while? We will radiated to nothingness. Who says the whole univese is not suddendly slipping into a hole of some kind of superuniverse we don't even have an idea of today? (and stops to exist as whole?) Just calm down.
Calm down? CALM DOWN? You just mentioned three ways the human race could be annihilated that I've never even thought about and there's not a damn thing we can do about it and you want me to CALM DOWN? Well YOU can calm down mister, I'm going out to buy a tin-foil helmet RIGHT NOW!
However what about global earth warming? Oil resources? Malaria? The pest coming back?
Better make that a tin-foil helmet AND a copper torc bracelet!
I just checked - it works fine with Javascript disabled, and still offers a frames version. Maybe it's because my account details say I'm in the UK and yours say you're in the US (although I use mail.yahoo.com, not.co.uk). Or maybe you're smoking crack.;-)
Are you honestly surprised that the US president, who comes from a family of oil billionaires, is doing nothing to reduce the country's dependency on oil? Are you surprised that he's planning a war with a major oil-producing country which will almost certainly drive up oil prices?
The only reason you want mass is for traction not for safety in a collision. Being a death trap has more to do with acceleration.
Yes, but your mass determines your acceleration in response to a given force. F = ma, remember? When a light car and a heavy car collide, the light car undergoes more acceleration which makes it a more dangerous place to be.
What if you could make your own hydrogen out of water, right in the garage? The technology is already available; you electrolyze water by more or less running a fuel cell in reverse.
At the moment, this takes more electricity than the hydrogen would ultimately generate.
"At the moment"? But GM expects to overcome the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics by 2010, and then you'll be able to put water and electricity into your fuel cell charger, and get water and more electricity out!
Seriously, the whole article reads like a GM press release, with no attempt made to question the claims of the GM engineers. It sounds to me like GM is putting the government's $125 million (intended for fuel cell research) into developing its drive-by-wire technologies and single-chassis production line, which will then be transferred to internal combustion vehicles when the fuel cell money runs out. A drive-by-wire internal combustion vehicle (with the engine coupled to a dynamo which powers electric motors in the wheels, just like a diesel-electric train) would have most of the benefits of the AUTOnomy concept, without the expensive fuel cell. Of course it wouldn't have lower emissions than current models, but since when have car manufacturers cared about that?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.google.com/search?q=fre%65net
Does it pass through the filter?
Even better, give me a ssh account on your machine so I can play with the filter myself. ;-)
High school bullying is the engine of the U.S. economy.
Actually you can make it boot to the DOS prompt by putting the line BOOTGUI=0 in your MSDOS.SYS file. Sorry if this advice is 7 years too late to be useful. ;-)
This exploit requires a C compiler to be installed on the infected machine (it creates C files in /tmp and then compiles them). How many IIS servers have a C compiler installed?
If so, let's hope they don't upgrade their PRNG or we'll all be blown apart into our constituent atoms!
I wonder if you could be sued for spraying your field with herbicide, and then waiting for herbicide-resistant crops to "accidentally" colonize your field? Or maybe you could be sued for owning a piece of desert that's colonized by nitrate-producing GM maize?
I assume they bought the server before destroying it. Wasting stuff == wasting money.
NEVER whizz on the electric tank.
And when it's illegal to buy or sell them because of the CBDTPA, you won't be able to find them on eBay either. If you want a DRM-free CD player you'll have to speak to that guy in the corner with the facial tic who always keeps his sleeves rolled down over his knuckles...
Standard CDs are rapidly and quietly being replaced by a variety of non-standard "secure" formats. How long will it be before new releases are only available on "protected" media? If you ever intend to make a mix CD, format-shift an album, play it on your computer or even (gasp!) share it with your friends, buy it now. Forget about boycotting the record companies. Face facts: if you don't buy it now you'll be buying it later, and in a less useful, less flexible format. Grab what you can, the brief age of open media is coming to a close...
Voyager is carrying a GIF image of DNA? Good luck tracking that one down, Unisys!
Minimal set:
- Telephone calls and faxes: caller, recipient, time, duration. Already retained by telephone companies for billing purposes. Possible means of circumvention: use a prepaid international calling card to route your calls through a call centre outside the EU. Could be expensive.
- Emails: sender, recipient, time. Require every SMTP server to log the RCPT and FROM fields. Possible means of circumvention: use POP and SMTP servers outside the EU. Use an anonymous remailer (effectively hiding traffic data inside the body of the message).
- Websites: user, domain name, time. Unlikely to rely on webserver logs. Instead, require every DNS server to log every request. Of course this doesn't prove that the user actually looked at the content of the site, but try explaining that to a jury. Possible means of circumvention: use a DNS server outside the EU.
More effective set:- Emails: in addition to logging connections to the ISP's mail server, monitor all traffic on TCP port 25. Parse the traffic as SMTP, extract RCPT and FROM lines. Small performance penalty for users. Possible means of circumvention: find a mail server outside the EU that operates on a non-standard port (unlikely) or uses a non-standard mail protocol (unlikely).
- Websites: user, URL, time. In addition to DNS logs, monitor all traffic on TCP port 80. Parse the traffic as HTTP, extract GET string, use a reverse DNS lookup to complete the URL. Serious performance penalty for users. Illicit websites will simply use non-standard ports or HTTPS.
Paranoid set:It's even possible that complete languages existed before humans were able to speak. American Sign Language is an example of a language with its own complete, unique grammar and morphology, which does not make use of speech. (See Pinker's book again.) Its existence supports the hypothesis that the parts of the brain responsible for language can operate independently of the parts that co-ordinate speech. In summary, there is a lot more to language than co-ordinating the muscles of the mouth and throat.
Well under 1 percent of dinner forks are used for pulling people's eyes out. Clearly we need to improve the state of dinner fork technology.
Some applications just don't need 3D. Previous experiments have shown that those applications include movies, TV, file managers, web pages, and tourist maps of London. Unfortunately people keep trying to apply 3D technology where it's not welcome. I'd like to send an open letter to the technology industry:
Dear Technology Industry,
I appreciate the many things brought to me over the years by your ceaseless drive to innovate. Things like the self-heating coffee can, the self-cleaning oven and the self-shitting fat substitute. But there are some areas of technological development that concern me. Not because I think they will transform the world into a grim dystopian warzone full of stalking insectoid cyborgs bent on the destruction of humanity, but because frankly you're wasting a lot of money on things nobody wants. Things like 3D web pages, animated paperclips, chocolate-covered pretzels and streaming video for telephones. Please, take the time to consult a 10-year-old child before spending billions of dollars on any new project. If the child's response is "what the hell use would that be?", consider moving your engineers to a different project.
I believe the FCC will be able to make money by relicensing the current frequencies. Compressed digital signals use less bandwidth than uncompressed analogue signals, so the FCC can resell the spare bandwidth (eg for 3G networks). That's the government's plan in the UK, anyway - I assume the FCC has something similar in mind.
I think it went more like this:
"Let's see... 16 bits buys me about 9 hours... I'll be out of the building before it crashes, but God help me if my car won't start. But 32 bits buys me 67 years! Screw it, I'll be retired by then, what can they do?"
Calm down? CALM DOWN? You just mentioned three ways the human race could be annihilated that I've never even thought about and there's not a damn thing we can do about it and you want me to CALM DOWN? Well YOU can calm down mister, I'm going out to buy a tin-foil helmet RIGHT NOW!
However what about global earth warming? Oil resources? Malaria? The pest coming back?
Better make that a tin-foil helmet AND a copper torc bracelet!
They didn't silently break anything - there's a warning on the download page.
I just checked - it works fine with Javascript disabled, and still offers a frames version. Maybe it's because my account details say I'm in the UK and yours say you're in the US (although I use mail.yahoo.com, not .co.uk). Or maybe you're smoking crack. ;-)
There's an option to use a non-frames, non-Javascript version. Look under Mail Preferences.
It modifies only HTML email, because it's intended to prevent scripting attacks. I trust you always use plain text. ;-)
Are you honestly surprised that the US president, who comes from a family of oil billionaires, is doing nothing to reduce the country's dependency on oil? Are you surprised that he's planning a war with a major oil-producing country which will almost certainly drive up oil prices?
Yes, but your mass determines your acceleration in response to a given force. F = ma, remember? When a light car and a heavy car collide, the light car undergoes more acceleration which makes it a more dangerous place to be.
Seriously, the whole article reads like a GM press release, with no attempt made to question the claims of the GM engineers. It sounds to me like GM is putting the government's $125 million (intended for fuel cell research) into developing its drive-by-wire technologies and single-chassis production line, which will then be transferred to internal combustion vehicles when the fuel cell money runs out. A drive-by-wire internal combustion vehicle (with the engine coupled to a dynamo which powers electric motors in the wheels, just like a diesel-electric train) would have most of the benefits of the AUTOnomy concept, without the expensive fuel cell. Of course it wouldn't have lower emissions than current models, but since when have car manufacturers cared about that?