Nonsense. You can type "U" to drop down to the "U" section of the list, and then you keep pressing "U" until the item you want shows up. I do this all the time when choosing my state (Oregon) from a drop-down.
Anti-spam best practice might say that the machine name must resolve back to the connecting IP. Even better, the reverse entry for the IP must include the correct hostname.
Except NAT causes this to break. Here's what happens:
My PC (hostname is "gracie") connects to mail.msn.com on port 25 to send an e-mail.
My PC doesn't have an internet-facing IP address. It has a non-routable IP address, and the only hostname it knows about is "gracie", so it sends "EHLO gracie.WORKGROUP"
If mail.msn.com is configured how you prescribe, it would try to resolve gracie.WORKGROUP to my DSL modem's IP address (and, of course, fail).
Similarly, there was no mention of blocking email where the from address doesn't match the ISP.
Right, because this would break a massive amount of commonly used functionality. There would be no way to force replies to go to a specific recipient.
I tried to get an answer from [Earthlink] on why they were allowing someone to send out email "from" our domain when they have no relationship to us.
Because they have no way to prove whether or not the sender in fact has no relationship with you. And if they are going to block outbound port 25, they had damn well let me at least use my own domain when I send my e-mail through their servers!
Yes, what we need is some way to authenticate that a user is authorized to send e-mail from a certain domain, that does not rely on me actually being within that domain (i.e. sending an e-mail via Hotmail with an @yahoo.com reply-to address). However, such a system has not been implemented yet.
Go ahead and try to use the FTP installer when you have a NIC that is technically supported but requires a 1-line hack to the Tulip driver to make it work.
The Microsoft MN-130 adapter came out a year ago, and the fix was discovered on November 6, 2003. Why is it that six months and a major kernel release later, this fix still isn't included in a stock kernel?
The fact that the user has agreed for both software programs to be installed is irrelevant. Any agreement made in the EULA is between the end user and GAIN. The EULA *cannot* grant permission for GAIN to profit from 3rd party trademarks!
Note that I am not talking about simple comparative advertising (i.e. J.C. Penny saying "we're cheaper than L.L. Bean!"). GAIN is using others' trademarks as the basis for displaying a competitor's advertisement. This would be the equivalent of standing just outside a physical L.L. Bean store and handing out J.C. Penny circulars.
Nonsense. Law is all about intent. The intent of a pop-up blocker is to block commercial speech at the explicit request of the user.
By contrast, the intent of GAIN is to profit on the trademarks of others by associating them with competitors and exploiting that association by using it to decide when to display those selfsame advertisements. In other words, GAIN would be profiting off Nintendo's trademark by associating it with competitors (Sony, Sega, Microsoft) and then displaying Sony/Sega/Microsoft advertisements when users visit Nintendo.com.
This really has nothing to do with the fact that Gator is modifying the HTML.
I used to have one of those Nakamichi jukebox drives! The thing eventually gave up the ghost, and it got really annoying when it would take 1-3 minutes to scan EACH SLOT. I dreaded anytime something accessed the CD-ROM drive..
Reveal codes are only useful for people who don't know how to use Word.
Going back 5 major versions (and probably farther), Word has had support for styles. Styles allow you to take a block of text and apply either a character style (for a group of characters within a paragraph) or a paragraph style (for an entire block of characters terminated with a paragraph character). This is a very, very powerful feature.
The problem is that nobody knows how to use it, and they use the auto-formatting features. You can spot these people a mile away--they bitch about grammar check, numbering errors, re-typing large blocks of text, etc.
If you're using styles correctly, you'll never need anything resembling "reveal codes" to fix your formatting problems. If you use the manual formatting functions, you're asking for trouble.
On the other hand, I personally eschew both WP and MS Word for Adobe FrameMaker. Now there's a true power user's word processor!:)
This is not the type of obscurity that is decried by the "security through obscurity" mantra.
We say a system uses "security by obscurity" when the knowledge of how the authentication system works provides enough information to break in without having to know the secret of a particular user.
The reason that encryption such as Blowfish is secure is that, even with the mathematical formula used to perform the encryption, you still have to perform a bazillion calculations to try to "brute force" the decryption, and there are (hopefully) no flaws in the math that make it possible to shorten the keyspace of the algorithm.
Contrast this with NTLM authentication where if you know how it works (i.e. passwords are converted to all-uppercase and truncated to 12 characters), you can crack a password fairly quickly.
But even the most advanced encryption is useless if you publish your decrypt key out on the internet for anyone to grab.:)
You can download PDF format specs from Adobe's web site at no charge. You've got all the info you need to write your own PDF viewer. Hell, there are utilities such as pdf2ps that you can use to view PDF files in GhostView and such.
There's also PDF viewers for about everything that's capable of viewing them--PDAs, Windows/Mac, Linux, most flavors of UNIX.
Actually, voters in Oregon are required to sign the envelope before they put it in the mail. While it's not foolproof, it's obvious if every ballot has been signed by the same person.
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- It was the University of North Carolina, not a data center.
- It was walled in mistakenly by maintenance workers, not by a remodeling project.
- The server was eventually found by following network cables.
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Nonsense. You can type "U" to drop down to the "U" section of the list, and then you keep pressing "U" until the item you want shows up. I do this all the time when choosing my state (Oregon) from a drop-down.
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Except NAT causes this to break. Here's what happens:
Right, because this would break a massive amount of commonly used functionality. There would be no way to force replies to go to a specific recipient.
Because they have no way to prove whether or not the sender in fact has no relationship with you. And if they are going to block outbound port 25, they had damn well let me at least use my own domain when I send my e-mail through their servers!
Yes, what we need is some way to authenticate that a user is authorized to send e-mail from a certain domain, that does not rely on me actually being within that domain (i.e. sending an e-mail via Hotmail with an @yahoo.com reply-to address). However, such a system has not been implemented yet.
Tab stops. Learn how to use them.
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Yeah, it was called an Apple IIGS.
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I have tried running Fedora Core 1 on a 266Mhz K6-2 with 368MB RAM. It's nearly unusable. The same machine will run Windows 2000 just fine.
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Actually, my first thought was "Wow, this looks a lot like Portland."
Which makes sense, since Matt Groening is from Portland.
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Go ahead and try to use the FTP installer when you have a NIC that is technically supported but requires a 1-line hack to the Tulip driver to make it work.
The Microsoft MN-130 adapter came out a year ago, and the fix was discovered on November 6, 2003. Why is it that six months and a major kernel release later, this fix still isn't included in a stock kernel?
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(Read the F***ing Write Up)
The hotspots were for fee, not for free. They were charging for wi-fi access.
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The fact that the user has agreed for both software programs to be installed is irrelevant. Any agreement made in the EULA is between the end user and GAIN. The EULA *cannot* grant permission for GAIN to profit from 3rd party trademarks!
Note that I am not talking about simple comparative advertising (i.e. J.C. Penny saying "we're cheaper than L.L. Bean!"). GAIN is using others' trademarks as the basis for displaying a competitor's advertisement. This would be the equivalent of standing just outside a physical L.L. Bean store and handing out J.C. Penny circulars.
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Nonsense. Law is all about intent. The intent of a pop-up blocker is to block commercial speech at the explicit request of the user.
By contrast, the intent of GAIN is to profit on the trademarks of others by associating them with competitors and exploiting that association by using it to decide when to display those selfsame advertisements. In other words, GAIN would be profiting off Nintendo's trademark by associating it with competitors (Sony, Sega, Microsoft) and then displaying Sony/Sega/Microsoft advertisements when users visit Nintendo.com.
This really has nothing to do with the fact that Gator is modifying the HTML.
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There was a Krull video game?
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No, you moron:
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I used to have one of those Nakamichi jukebox drives! The thing eventually gave up the ghost, and it got really annoying when it would take 1-3 minutes to scan EACH SLOT. I dreaded anytime something accessed the CD-ROM drive..
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No, it's an Open Source Dork Network.
Get it right. Sheesh.
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Except--get this--they kill the aliens with a COMPUTER virus, instead of a biological one! F'in brilliant!!
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Reveal codes are only useful for people who don't know how to use Word.
Going back 5 major versions (and probably farther), Word has had support for styles. Styles allow you to take a block of text and apply either a character style (for a group of characters within a paragraph) or a paragraph style (for an entire block of characters terminated with a paragraph character). This is a very, very powerful feature.
The problem is that nobody knows how to use it, and they use the auto-formatting features. You can spot these people a mile away--they bitch about grammar check, numbering errors, re-typing large blocks of text, etc.
If you're using styles correctly, you'll never need anything resembling "reveal codes" to fix your formatting problems. If you use the manual formatting functions, you're asking for trouble.
On the other hand, I personally eschew both WP and MS Word for Adobe FrameMaker. Now there's a true power user's word processor! :)
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Google needs an interface redesign like fish need a bicycle.
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Reminds me of an old joke:
Q: Why do sound technicians only count to two?A: Because if they could count to three, they'd be lighting technicians.
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This is not the type of obscurity that is decried by the "security through obscurity" mantra.
We say a system uses "security by obscurity" when the knowledge of how the authentication system works provides enough information to break in without having to know the secret of a particular user.
The reason that encryption such as Blowfish is secure is that, even with the mathematical formula used to perform the encryption, you still have to perform a bazillion calculations to try to "brute force" the decryption, and there are (hopefully) no flaws in the math that make it possible to shorten the keyspace of the algorithm.
Contrast this with NTLM authentication where if you know how it works (i.e. passwords are converted to all-uppercase and truncated to 12 characters), you can crack a password fairly quickly.
But even the most advanced encryption is useless if you publish your decrypt key out on the internet for anyone to grab. :)
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... it's not?
You can download PDF format specs from Adobe's web site at no charge. You've got all the info you need to write your own PDF viewer. Hell, there are utilities such as pdf2ps that you can use to view PDF files in GhostView and such.
There's also PDF viewers for about everything that's capable of viewing them--PDAs, Windows/Mac, Linux, most flavors of UNIX.
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So I take it real men use IE6?
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Actually, voters in Oregon are required to sign the envelope before they put it in the mail. While it's not foolproof, it's obvious if every ballot has been signed by the same person.
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And here's a blatant karma whoring link for more info on Ali G:
http://reason.com/0306/cr.js.studied.shtml
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"AHHHHH!!! My eyes!!! Ze goggles, ze do nothink!"
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