I was wondering. But I'm now convinced it is actually a troll (and won't therefore answer him) : how would an AC have written so much in about two minutes ?
Either he had access to the news before, which implies a suscriber account, then posting as AC, or he just copy-pasted a pre-written text. In both cases, I can't see how it couldn't be a troll.
Taking the analogy from virii (or viruses if you prefer) we can suppose that Longhorn will include a builtin adware, and then will propose a costly anti-adware solution.
Or maybe the adware will be used to discourage the use of legacy, non-trusted apps ?
And that Opera identifies itself as IE is a valid concern
That's not totally true:
HTTP_USER_AGENT for Opera identifying as: Opera : Opera/8.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Mozilla : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Opera 8.0 IE : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686; en) Opera 8.0
There is "Opera" in each line, so you can make the difference if you want.
It seems I was wrong, "Connexion refused" might have been caused by gazillions of slashdotters trying to connect at the same time, and it just worked coincidentally when I tried by pasting the link...
Liar. Any real blogger would have put at the very least three links to his blog in his post: providing a homepage in slashdot account preferences panel, in his sig, in the message body.;)
>#include stuff.h >void main() >{ >/* nothing / *//* to see / * here */ >/* whats * / challenging / * about */ >/* this *//* there / is no */ evil/* > screensaver(); * function *//* here > anyone that thinks there is * / needs */ >/* their / * / eyes testing */ (); >} > >585
I'm hesitating between an harmless evil(); function and an evil whitespace function (and I ruined it copypasting).
Paint Shop Prop is from Corel too, now that Corel bought Jasc.
I haven't used PSP since version 4 so I can't say for newer versions, but back in 1996, PSP hadn't real object/layers : after you finished editing a vectorized object (deselecting it), you wouldn't be able to edit it agin as vector graphic, while with Corel Photo-Paint 4.0, each object had its own layer and kept its vectorized nature.
I posted that story twelve hours ago and it was rejected. Maybe because the link was in the Baltimore Sun (only link I found with Google, I read the story in a French webnewspaper) and not in Yahoo News / Washington Post ?.. </rant>
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Thanks, I did a Google search but in "google web". ;-)
I didn't know that groups contents didn't appear in web searches.
So I used logic instead
Parent post is not a troll.
I was wondering. But I'm now convinced it is actually a troll (and won't therefore answer him) : how would an AC have written so much in about two minutes ?
Either he had access to the news before, which implies a suscriber account, then posting as AC, or he just copy-pasted a pre-written text. In both cases, I can't see how it couldn't be a troll.
Let's speculate :
Taking the analogy from virii (or viruses if you prefer) we can suppose that Longhorn will include a builtin adware, and then will propose a costly anti-adware solution.
Or maybe the adware will be used to discourage the use of legacy, non-trusted apps ?
Coral not, but mirrordot
Nah, Lunatrix is a derivative (read anagram) of "an Ultrix", which is (was?) a proprietary (DEC) Unix, so there is no GNU.
Unfortunately, paying people to buy your products doesn't work and never has.
I guess you never heard of Henry Ford ?
"The people who consume the bulk of goods are the people who make them. That is a fact we must never forget -- that is the secret of our prosperity."
Henry Ford, 1926
And that Opera identifies itself as IE is a valid concern
:
:
That's not totally true
HTTP_USER_AGENT for Opera identifying as
Opera : Opera/8.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)
Mozilla : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Opera 8.0
IE : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686; en) Opera 8.0
There is "Opera" in each line, so you can make the difference if you want.
Aren't they supposed to turn Blue Scr... err... Face Of De... Desperation ?
Distribute randomly constructed packets, and, at some point in time, you will get the whole file(s) :)
What they will do is enforce that evil bit [rfc3514].
Servers would then be able to handle legal downloads faster by prioritizing.
Huh ? Insightful ?
I still would like better Bill Gates posing for a Teen Beat Photospread than Osama.
Hot_britney_sex_video.exe for free?? And all I have to do is click yes? Awesome!
It usually rather is Hot_britney_sex_video.avi.exe,
default Windows installations hiding the '.exe'.
[...] not how long MS thinks its software should last.
:)
Obviously, pre-2000 MS Software lasts 49.7 days straight
Longhorn has always been to be released late next year, you knew it, right ?
It seems I was wrong, "Connexion refused" might have been caused by gazillions of slashdotters trying to connect at the same time, and it just worked coincidentally when I tried by pasting the link...
The economist is refusing connexion with Slashdot as referer. Simply copy/paste the link in a new tab.
The Economist has blown the lid off the BSA's recent report on software piracy, referring to their methods as 'BS'.
BSA = 'BS' Analysis ?
Liar. Any real blogger would have put at the very least three links to his blog in his post : ;)
providing a homepage in slashdot account preferences panel, in his sig, in the message body.
Yes, but what of fr33d0m, d3m0cracy, and dem0nstrat1on?
:)
Encryption has always been a criminal activity
Bah! At least, Appledot is different from Googledot.
The Walt Disney Company unveils today a new attraction in DisneyWorld : The Walt Disney Rollin'Grave !
why does 'cd..' without a space even work?
... and cd .... respectively goes to grandparent and grandgrandparent.
Just to note, some Linux distribs have an alias for that, too. Probably for people used with Windows shell, like those dir aliases.
a 'cd...' or 'cd....' works as well in that it returns no error, it just doesn't do anything!
Without spaces I'm not sure, but cd
(Booting the "test" box under Win98SE)
In fact in works too, and even with five dots.
cd (.+) and cd(.+) are equivalent, and with n dots, you're going to the parent n-1 times.
Paint Shop Prop is from Corel too, now that Corel bought Jasc.
I haven't used PSP since version 4 so I can't say for newer versions, but back in 1996, PSP hadn't real object/layers : after you finished editing a vectorized object (deselecting it), you wouldn't be able to edit it agin as vector graphic, while with Corel Photo-Paint 4.0, each object had its own layer and kept its vectorized nature.
I posted that story twelve hours ago and it was rejected. Maybe because the link was in the Baltimore Sun (only link I found with Google, I read the story in a French webnewspaper) and not in Yahoo News / Washington Post ?..
</rant>
here is a additional link from the Baltimore Sun.
The full original article is in Nature.