And what is this nonsense about switching to "airport beacons" if an attempt at blocking the GPS is detected? Airport beacons are those white and green rotating lights -- the only navigation information they provide is to help the pilot find an airport at night.
C'mon, you had perfectly valid points, but it should have been pretty obvious that he was referring to VOR beacons.
Of course it is always possible to emotionally coerce the pilots, such as by holding the people in the cockpit hostage.
I presume you meant the cabin. Somewhat of an empty threat, considering a) they're can't get out anyway, b) people assume they're just going to smash them into a building anyway, and c) the pilots aren't going to be the ones that do that. 9/11 probably did more to remove hijacking as a hostage tactic than any countermeasure could; it's no longer a hostage situation, it's an incoming bomb, and the authorities react accordingly.
As a solution, I would recommend that Windows only ran software out of a specific $PATH, and that all parts of that $PATH are only writeable by Administrator.
This is entirely possible, actually, and it can be finer-grained than that. It renders the computer entirely useless for general-purpose use, though.
Microsoft tried addressing this sort of issue though with Palladium. You people lynched them for it.
I run Opera 7.1, and don't see anything like that feature. What it does have is a "smart forward" that will act on LINK REL="next" tags if they're present (it also has the navbar like mozila, not that I ever use it) and if they're not present, it scans the text for the first link starting with "next" or "forward" (and possibly some others) or if the URL looks like it has a sequential numbering scheme, it bumps it. Keyboard-wise it's normally bound to the same key as the history forward key, which overrides the "smart forward" function when you're in your history. So I rarely use it... I should probably rebind it.
I wouldn't call that a major leap, just an evolutionary change. But still, Marc is mostly just spouting off on a combination of inflated ego and bitterness. Kinda reminds me of RMS, I can see him in the future mumbling "they all say mozilla in the user-agent. I wrote that. Is it so wrong to want it called Mozilla/Safari?"
now, if you owe, say $5k on your car, you can deliver 5k $1 bills and they have to take them.
They do not. In fact, no one is required to accept cash. The term "legal tender" means that cash is a legal financial instrument that anyone may accept. It doesn't mean they must accept it.
I cite the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (cute hostname, eh?) which itself states that the law remains mum. This means that some states might have a requirement to take cash, but it's not a provision of the US code.
Now all they have to do is make Kerberos as easy to install as openssh. Last time I had to deal with kerberos, it was like removing my own spleen. And it never even worked well when I used it -- like most other MIT standards, it was a pig and had an archaeic interface. And the expiration mechanism still sucks.
wow, so all eight people who run linux on their xbox can put their soldering irons away. And still get blacklisted off XBox Live anyway.
Microsoft must be quivering with fear, really and truly.
Re:Not just for tagging consumers' chlotes.
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Okay. You got your super-sensitive RFID receiver. Picking out one tag. At an airport. Keep in mind you can't even wait by the jetway anymore, you wait by the terminal exit. Which I guess will have... a few tags wandering about?
Might just be easier to make the clothes distinctive, ya think? Besides, most of them believed the pitch, I'm guessing they walk quite willingly into the hands of their captors.
NT4 definitely can be stable, but you gotta admit: damn is it brittle. You get it into a configuration and you just don't touch it. This is fine when it's totally dedicated and you're not evaluating new services on it... but for deploying new stuff, I found my BSD boxen took a lot more abuse without too much complaint.
Contrast, my win2k box has been through install after install of toys, tweaks, games, utilities, subsystems, and tools, i've tweaked system registry entries all over, and it still keeps running like a cha-
But a Service can send a fake Ctrl-Alt-Del to dismiss the dialog. VNC can do it. I don't think it would actually be that difficult to put up a window that looks like the login screen and collect passwords.
Considering that recent versions of Win2K have made it optional, real easy. Largely it's a user training issue -- always hit ctl-alt-del. Only problem is you simply need a message on the window that says "message from Joe the administrator: you don't need to press ctl-alt-del anymore"... but social engineering is outside our scope.
Assuming that the mandatory ctl-alt-del is enabled, you miss the point. A Service can't be installed from an unprivileged user, for one, and an admin user can do just about anything they damn well please anyway. Secondly, that synthesized ctl-alt-del is still always received by the OS first, as are subsequent ctl-alt-del presses, assuming it hasn't been compromised (I'm certainly not saying that's impossible). This is why VMware doesn't let you use ctl-alt-del on windows, because it doesn't ever get to process it before the OS does.
I believe the reason for that weird keypress originally was that Ctl-Alt-Del was hardwired into BIOSes to send a non-maskable interrupt, which your OS could handle any way it wanted, but you couldn't actually block out and poll for the keypress yourself. 'course there was the PCJr, which generated a NMI on every single keypress... don't think much runs on those anyway:)
Microsoft does not have a new version of "Paint", "Wordpad", "Calculator", et. al. every couple months (even weeks!)
Or years. Are they that scared of pissing off all those ISV's that make half-ass notepad clones that they can't simply buy or clone one them and replace their laughable existing notepad? Calc isn't bad for something that behaves pretty much exactly like the electronic device people are used to, but I can't imagine people haven't been wishing for a virtual register tape so they can simply see their calculations -- to say nothing of being able to copy and paste them.
from the "ya don't say" department
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I found this "issue" a little mysterious:
The Java HotSpot VM cannot expand its heap size if memory is completely allocated and no swap space is available.
> If jack valenti were the drug czar of the US, he would put botanists and horticulturalists in jail and wonder why illegal drugs still proliferated.
It doesn't take Jack Valenti. Ever own a greenhouse? Might not get arrested, but you are under constant suspicion and harrassment from the federal pigs the moment you turn on the grow lights.
> But when I want to listen to that one song from a Dave Matthews Band CD that I own, it's faster for me to fire up Kazaa, pull the MP3 down the T1, and play it, vs. rooting through all my crap to find the CD.
Have you tried ripping your CD's? Or investing in a hundred dollar jukebox? Goodness knows you can afford it when you're shelling out for that kind of bandwidth.
"And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and its not okay because if they take my stapler then ill set the building on fire."
> I'm for civil liberties as much as the next guy, and I agree that filters generally suck, but how hard is it really for an adult to ask another adult to turn off the filters?
Not at all. How hard is it for a minor in the library to ask for that? My tax dollars are paying to have sites on gay rights and censorship blocked.
Take it from someone who's mercurial enough to occasionally throw out all his work and tell everyone to go to hell (done it with my projects directory on my machine, done it with a MOO, done it with more personal connections) that whereas I'm simply borderline cyclothymic, this guy strikes me as a full-blown manic depressive. He's probably on an uptick after a long period being down (oh, about 6 months), and he'll probably resume some grandiose project such as his innovative new OS when he moves up past baseline (incidentally Dave, fitting it in a mere 8 megs is not impressive -- I got your 8 meg scripting language and kernel in lisp right here).
Whether he needs or wants treatment isn't for me or any of us to say, but you gotta realize that if he really is bipolar, he's gonna be mercurial, and give him at least a little slack and wait for the dust to settle before condemning him.
> Set your own house in order, before chastising other people, would seem to be the relevant...
This is precisely why I can't stand arguments about hypocrisy. What if he didn't have the unregistered software? Would he then be in the right, his idea perfectly acceptable? I realize that this inversion is patently invalid, but so is the tu quoque argument. It makes your argument look so weak, you will capitalize on any barely thing that's not even germane to the issue that you're avoiding attacking directly.
Maybe I'm not communicating it well... unless you've got something really damning, pointing and shouting "hypocrisy" at your opponents is lame. Even if you can manage to take someone down a peg, it still usually does nothing to their own argument.
> Along the way, if you feel you have something to contribute, please share.
I tried, but the editors were too busy posting stories about Mozilla release candidates.
Re:They still haven't fixed the a huge issue
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MathML. It's supported, but only in pure XML pages. This means that on legacy HTML sites, like Slashdot and K5, I can't fully get across the brilliance of my scientific and mathematical ideas, which is a lose-lose situation.
HTML doesn't support namespaces, which makes picking out your embedded mathml a little problematic. Ideally the <OBJECT> tag would support XML (or HTML). In the meantime, use an iframe -- true, it won't work on slashdot, but slashdot won't accept your mathml anyway.
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And what is this nonsense about switching to "airport beacons" if an attempt at blocking the GPS is detected? Airport beacons are those white and green rotating lights -- the only navigation information they provide is to help the pilot find an airport at night.
C'mon, you had perfectly valid points, but it should have been pretty obvious that he was referring to VOR beacons.
Of course it is always possible to emotionally coerce the pilots, such as by holding the people in the cockpit hostage.
I presume you meant the cabin. Somewhat of an empty threat, considering a) they're can't get out anyway, b) people assume they're just going to smash them into a building anyway, and c) the pilots aren't going to be the ones that do that. 9/11 probably did more to remove hijacking as a hostage tactic than any countermeasure could; it's no longer a hostage situation, it's an incoming bomb, and the authorities react accordingly.
As a solution, I would recommend that Windows only ran software out of a specific $PATH, and that all parts of that $PATH are only writeable by Administrator.
This is entirely possible, actually, and it can be finer-grained than that. It renders the computer entirely useless for general-purpose use, though.
Microsoft tried addressing this sort of issue though with Palladium. You people lynched them for it.
A web browser is the perfect example of this. Bookmarks ('favorites'), foward, back, stop, and 'go' are all you need
It's all you need. Why do you feel this pressing desire to tell me what I need?
> I think that Opera also has the capability.
... I should probably rebind it.
I run Opera 7.1, and don't see anything like that feature. What it does have is a "smart forward" that will act on LINK REL="next" tags if they're present (it also has the navbar like mozila, not that I ever use it) and if they're not present, it scans the text for the first link starting with "next" or "forward" (and possibly some others) or if the URL looks like it has a sequential numbering scheme, it bumps it. Keyboard-wise it's normally bound to the same key as the history forward key, which overrides the "smart forward" function when you're in your history. So I rarely use it
I wouldn't call that a major leap, just an evolutionary change. But still, Marc is mostly just spouting off on a combination of inflated ego and bitterness. Kinda reminds me of RMS, I can see him in the future mumbling "they all say mozilla in the user-agent. I wrote that. Is it so wrong to want it called Mozilla/Safari?"
now, if you owe, say $5k on your car, you can deliver 5k $1 bills and they have to take them.
They do not. In fact, no one is required to accept cash. The term "legal tender" means that cash is a legal financial instrument that anyone may accept. It doesn't mean they must accept it.
I cite the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (cute hostname, eh?) which itself states that the law remains mum. This means that some states might have a requirement to take cash, but it's not a provision of the US code.
Now all they have to do is make Kerberos as easy to install as openssh. Last time I had to deal with kerberos, it was like removing my own spleen. And it never even worked well when I used it -- like most other MIT standards, it was a pig and had an archaeic interface. And the expiration mechanism still sucks.
Jesus christ, do you have to post this matrix-derived fanboy post on every single SCO article?
It wasn't all that funny the first time.
wow, so all eight people who run linux on their xbox can put their soldering irons away. And still get blacklisted off XBox Live anyway.
Microsoft must be quivering with fear, really and truly.
Okay. You got your super-sensitive RFID receiver. Picking out one tag. At an airport. Keep in mind you can't even wait by the jetway anymore, you wait by the terminal exit. Which I guess will have ... a few tags wandering about?
Might just be easier to make the clothes distinctive, ya think? Besides, most of them believed the pitch, I'm guessing they walk quite willingly into the hands of their captors.
How about the slave labor of the prison system?
NT4 definitely can be stable, but you gotta admit: damn is it brittle. You get it into a configuration and you just don't touch it. This is fine when it's totally dedicated and you're not evaluating new services on it ... but for deploying new stuff, I found my BSD boxen took a lot more abuse without too much complaint.
Contrast, my win2k box has been through install after install of toys, tweaks, games, utilities, subsystems, and tools, i've tweaked system registry entries all over, and it still keeps running like a cha-
But a Service can send a fake Ctrl-Alt-Del to dismiss the dialog. VNC can do it. I don't think it would actually be that difficult to put up a window that looks like the login screen and collect passwords.
... but social engineering is outside our scope.
... don't think much runs on those anyway :)
Considering that recent versions of Win2K have made it optional, real easy. Largely it's a user training issue -- always hit ctl-alt-del. Only problem is you simply need a message on the window that says "message from Joe the administrator: you don't need to press ctl-alt-del anymore"
Assuming that the mandatory ctl-alt-del is enabled, you miss the point. A Service can't be installed from an unprivileged user, for one, and an admin user can do just about anything they damn well please anyway. Secondly, that synthesized ctl-alt-del is still always received by the OS first, as are subsequent ctl-alt-del presses, assuming it hasn't been compromised (I'm certainly not saying that's impossible). This is why VMware doesn't let you use ctl-alt-del on windows, because it doesn't ever get to process it before the OS does.
I believe the reason for that weird keypress originally was that Ctl-Alt-Del was hardwired into BIOSes to send a non-maskable interrupt, which your OS could handle any way it wanted, but you couldn't actually block out and poll for the keypress yourself. 'course there was the PCJr, which generated a NMI on every single keypress
Microsoft does not have a new version of "Paint", "Wordpad", "Calculator", et. al. every couple months (even weeks!)
Or years. Are they that scared of pissing off all those ISV's that make half-ass notepad clones that they can't simply buy or clone one them and replace their laughable existing notepad? Calc isn't bad for something that behaves pretty much exactly like the electronic device people are used to, but I can't imagine people haven't been wishing for a virtual register tape so they can simply see their calculations -- to say nothing of being able to copy and paste them.
The Java HotSpot VM cannot expand its heap size if memory is completely allocated and no swap space is available.
> If jack valenti were the drug czar of the US, he would put botanists and horticulturalists in jail and wonder why illegal drugs still proliferated.
It doesn't take Jack Valenti. Ever own a greenhouse? Might not get arrested, but you are under constant suspicion and harrassment from the federal pigs the moment you turn on the grow lights.
> But when I want to listen to that one song from a Dave Matthews Band CD that I own, it's faster for me to fire up Kazaa, pull the MP3 down the T1, and play it, vs. rooting through all my crap to find the CD.
Have you tried ripping your CD's? Or investing in a hundred dollar jukebox? Goodness knows you can afford it when you're shelling out for that kind of bandwidth.
> Anyway, thank the Incas for chocolate
Aztecs
> (and coffee too i believe).
Arabs (or Turks)
Did anyone actually read this story before moderating it up? Read every word nice and carefully. A statement on CIPA I guess...
"How much for the little girl? The women, how much for the women?"
"What?!"
"Your women, I want to buy your women! The little girl, your daughters! Sell them to me, sell me your children!"
"Maitre D! Maitre D!"
"And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and its not okay because if they take my stapler then ill set the building on fire."
> I'm for civil liberties as much as the next guy, and I agree that filters generally suck, but how hard is it really for an adult to ask another adult to turn off the filters?
Not at all. How hard is it for a minor in the library to ask for that? My tax dollars are paying to have sites on gay rights and censorship blocked.
Take it from someone who's mercurial enough to occasionally throw out all his work and tell everyone to go to hell (done it with my projects directory on my machine, done it with a MOO, done it with more personal connections) that whereas I'm simply borderline cyclothymic, this guy strikes me as a full-blown manic depressive. He's probably on an uptick after a long period being down (oh, about 6 months), and he'll probably resume some grandiose project such as his innovative new OS when he moves up past baseline (incidentally Dave, fitting it in a mere 8 megs is not impressive -- I got your 8 meg scripting language and kernel in lisp right here).
Whether he needs or wants treatment isn't for me or any of us to say, but you gotta realize that if he really is bipolar, he's gonna be mercurial, and give him at least a little slack and wait for the dust to settle before condemning him.
> Set your own house in order, before chastising other people, would seem to be the relevant...
This is precisely why I can't stand arguments about hypocrisy. What if he didn't have the unregistered software? Would he then be in the right, his idea perfectly acceptable? I realize that this inversion is patently invalid, but so is the tu quoque argument. It makes your argument look so weak, you will capitalize on any barely thing that's not even germane to the issue that you're avoiding attacking directly.
Maybe I'm not communicating it well... unless you've got something really damning, pointing and shouting "hypocrisy" at your opponents is lame. Even if you can manage to take someone down a peg, it still usually does nothing to their own argument.
> Along the way, if you feel you have something to contribute, please share.
I tried, but the editors were too busy posting stories about Mozilla release candidates.
MathML. It's supported, but only in pure XML pages. This means that on legacy HTML sites, like Slashdot and K5, I can't fully get across the brilliance of my scientific and mathematical ideas, which is a lose-lose situation.
HTML doesn't support namespaces, which makes picking out your embedded mathml a little problematic. Ideally the <OBJECT> tag would support XML (or HTML). In the meantime, use an iframe -- true, it won't work on slashdot, but slashdot won't accept your mathml anyway.