I use telnet clients from time to time, in the lab. You can use it connect and send data to any old port, not just 23. I would never run the telnet daemon though, and seven times never on a box that's exposed to the public Internet.
Telnet to other ports is a GREAT way to learn how protocols work.
Here are some exercises: From a DOS prompt, try: C:> telnet www.google.com 80 GET
GET won't be echoed, but you can see the retrieval of a web page. You can try all commands that are part of the HTTP protocol, including the exchange of cookies, posting data, etc.
However, Fedora officials said they don't believe that the attacker was able to push any changes to the Fedora package system or make any actual changes to the infrastructure.
What do you mean you "don't believe"? You don't have logs?
Thankfully, I am on Windows, so I don't have to wonder whether hackers are conducting malicious activity.
So a former vice president gets credit for inventing the internet, and this vice president can get credit for the creation of PGP! Wonderful.
You know, I hear this crap a lot, and it really bothers me as someone who was actually involved in a lot of the process at the time. He certainly didn't invent the internet, but if it had not been his pet project, we would have never gotten to the point we are today, as it was quite a bit of his influence that led to much of the anti bell sentiment to the legislation and regulation, which if you look long term, is a significant aberration in the FCC / Congress historical record, and it certainly was reversed as much as possible once the next administration came to power. I mean look at how the FCC / Congress have done in regards to the net neutrality issue, which really is only an issue due to the actions and attitudes of the previous administration's FCC.
I'm not sure what I said that set you off. What was the "crap" that I said?
I said a former vice president gets credit for inventing the internet. Is that not true? I hear people say that all the time, including Leno, slashdot readers, girls in bars, etc.
I was very careful to word that in a non-controversial way. I, too, was involved in the process of the internet in the later-early days - early to mid '80's onward.
Sometimes I think Gore supporters just look for something to jump on. When what I said was carefully worded and factual.
On the other hand, take your typical liberal arts graduate. Sure, they may not have learned how to perform advanced math on hex numbers while in college,
I find this characterization of the "typical liberal arts graduate" to be inaccurate and even somewhat offensive.
I have a liberal arts degree, and went to college with some extremely smart people. And, yes, you are correct, I was not taught how to perform advanced math on hex numbers while in college; I was performing math on hex numbers in elementary school - reading memory and disk dumps and coding in assembly.
In my experience, liberal arts graduates are far better prepared for jobs coming out of college than non liberal arts college graduates. And looking at the career success of the graduates 25 years later, it's really no comparison, in my experience. The career success rate of the liberal arts graduates that I know far exceeds the typical college graduate that I know.
I suppose it is possible that I went to one of the top liberal arts colleges.
Because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate: it is no longer possible to elect good leaders in the USA, and the country is doomed.
I wouldn't rule out the possibility of electing good leaders, on account of Obama's failures. After all, he had near-zero leadership experience in the past.
"By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP."
So a former vice president gets credit for inventing the internet, and this vice president can get credit for the creation of PGP! Wonderful.
It seems that the article's author leaps to the conclusion that a lack of engineers and scientists in politics is a bad thing for innovation. I would like to see evidence of that.
In fact, one can argue the opposite: that engineers and scientists focused on engineering and science, rather than politics, is a better way to insure innovation.
But since this article was probably not written by a scientist, I suppose we're unlikely to see any scientific methods used in his argument.
Be careful with fire safes. They are generally designed and rated for paper, not electronic media, and will get too hot for electronics to survive. Be sure the safe you get is rated for electronic media. Also such electronic media rated safes I've seen are really designed for disaster not security, a claw hammer can probably open them. If you are just storing your family photos this is probably a plus.
Just print out the ones and zeros on paper, and store it in a fire safe.
Or for advanced data compression, print it in hex.
um, no. 0.333... is the decimal expansion of 1/3. It just has a clumsy decimal (base-10) expansion. The ternary (base 3) expansion is quite simple: 0.1.
Or IS it that simple: I thought the ternary expansion of decimal 1/3 was (base 3) 0.1000....
Next you're going to tell me that (base 3) 0.1 == (base 3) 0.1000....
I'm probably one of the few on Slashdot that thinks patents are a good thing.
But I would love to see the process changed whereby patent proposals were posted on a wiki website, inviting the public to cite prior art (or to present arguments as to why the patent should not be granted, with a comment rating system, so that people could vote on the comments) before the patent was granted. This would just help the patent examiners be more educated..... I think I'll patent that idea.
I stand by the premise of my previous post, but the math is even better than I had stated. I'd like to correct that (in bold):
But you get the GREATER of 70% of the sale price, or 20% of the MSRP (which would be 1€). If they sell it for 1€, you get 1€. If they sell it for 4€, you get 2.8€. If they sell it for more than 1,43€, you get MORE than 1€!! So you get at least 1€. Which is what you wanted.
Slashdot Mirror
whoosh
I hope some day the city government of Buffalo enacts some bill that gets a /. story
(+5 Subtle, Clever, AND Funny.)
I wish I had mod points!
However, contrary to the summary, it doesn't eliminate the need for strategic voting.
The summary doesn't say it eliminates the need for strategic voting. It says:
This reduces strategic voting,
Shoot, you got (Score 5: Funny), while my comment 12 minutes earlier apparently got buried.
In Soviet Russia, spam deletes you.
or
In Soviet Russia, SpamAssassin executes you.
In Soviet Russia, spam blocks you.
I prefer:
In Soviet Russia, spam deletes you.
or
In Soviet Russia, SpamAssassin executes you.
I use telnet clients from time to time, in the lab. You can use it connect and send data to any old port, not just 23. I would never run the telnet daemon though, and seven times never on a box that's exposed to the public Internet.
Telnet to other ports is a GREAT way to learn how protocols work.
Here are some exercises: From a DOS prompt, try:
C:> telnet www.google.com 80
GET
GET won't be echoed, but you can see the retrieval of a web page. You can try all commands that are part of the HTTP protocol, including the exchange of cookies, posting data, etc.
Or try telnet-ing into a pop server.
I only recently discovered what the hell does "fedora" mean apart from a Linux distro.
Red Hat Fedora
Apple MacIntosh (McIntosh Apples)
Sun SOLARis
There are a lot of plays on words out there in the tech field.
However, Fedora officials said they don't believe that the attacker was able to push any changes to the Fedora package system or make any actual changes to the infrastructure.
What do you mean you "don't believe"? You don't have logs?
Thankfully, I am on Windows, so I don't have to wonder whether hackers are conducting malicious activity.
So a former vice president gets credit for inventing the internet, and this vice president can get credit for the creation of PGP! Wonderful.
You know, I hear this crap a lot, and it really bothers me as someone who was actually involved in a lot of the process at the time. He certainly didn't invent the internet, but if it had not been his pet project, we would have never gotten to the point we are today, as it was quite a bit of his influence that led to much of the anti bell sentiment to the legislation and regulation, which if you look long term, is a significant aberration in the FCC / Congress historical record, and it certainly was reversed as much as possible once the next administration came to power. I mean look at how the FCC / Congress have done in regards to the net neutrality issue, which really is only an issue due to the actions and attitudes of the previous administration's FCC.
I'm not sure what I said that set you off. What was the "crap" that I said?
I said a former vice president gets credit for inventing the internet. Is that not true? I hear people say that all the time, including Leno, slashdot readers, girls in bars, etc.
I was very careful to word that in a non-controversial way. I, too, was involved in the process of the internet in the later-early days - early to mid '80's onward.
Sometimes I think Gore supporters just look for something to jump on. When what I said was carefully worded and factual.
For advice on stuffing your resume with keywords and experimental results, see
Classic and modern job searching tips.
http://fulldecent.blogspot.com/2010/10/classic-and-modern-job-searching-tips.html
Just don't mention that you are a "specialist" in something.
The word "specialist" contains the word "cialis", which can trip some poor spam filters, throwing your resume into the spam folder.
(I'm not sure if I really believe this "tip" that was told to me by a placement expert, but I found it humorous.)
On the other hand, take your typical liberal arts graduate. Sure, they may not have learned how to perform advanced math on hex numbers while in college,
I find this characterization of the "typical liberal arts graduate" to be inaccurate and even somewhat offensive.
I have a liberal arts degree, and went to college with some extremely smart people. And, yes, you are correct, I was not taught how to perform advanced math on hex numbers while in college; I was performing math on hex numbers in elementary school - reading memory and disk dumps and coding in assembly.
In my experience, liberal arts graduates are far better prepared for jobs coming out of college than non liberal arts college graduates. And looking at the career success of the graduates 25 years later, it's really no comparison, in my experience. The career success rate of the liberal arts graduates that I know far exceeds the typical college graduate that I know.
I suppose it is possible that I went to one of the top liberal arts colleges.
Because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate: it is no longer possible to elect good leaders in the USA, and the country is doomed.
I wouldn't rule out the possibility of electing good leaders, on account of Obama's failures.
After all, he had near-zero leadership experience in the past.
Charismatic, yes. But a Leader? yet to be proven.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html [cnet.com]
"By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP."
So a former vice president gets credit for inventing the internet, and this vice president can get credit for the creation of PGP! Wonderful.
You KNOW Jar Jar Binks will be in there somewhere.
Otherwise, they'd ruin a perfectly good trilogy.
Volume 4 only took 28 years to create.
Imagine how long it would have taken him, if Knuth had an email account and had to read email every day!
Actually, for advanced compression, simply print out the ones. Assume the rest are zeros.
It seems that the article's author leaps to the conclusion that a lack of engineers and scientists in politics is a bad thing for innovation. I would like to see evidence of that.
In fact, one can argue the opposite: that engineers and scientists focused on engineering and science, rather than politics, is a better way to insure innovation.
But since this article was probably not written by a scientist, I suppose we're unlikely to see any scientific methods used in his argument.
So, let me get this straight.
In base 3, 0.0222222... == 0.1
In base 10, 0.0999999... == 0.1
so
In base 3, 0.222... == 1 and
in base 10, 0.999... == 1
and since 1 in base 3 == 1 in base 10
then obviously 2 in base 3 == 9 in base 10.
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Be careful with fire safes. They are generally designed and rated for paper, not electronic media, and will get too hot for electronics to survive. Be sure the safe you get is rated for electronic media. Also such electronic media rated safes I've seen are really designed for disaster not security, a claw hammer can probably open them. If you are just storing your family photos this is probably a plus.
Just print out the ones and zeros on paper, and store it in a fire safe.
Or for advanced data compression, print it in hex.
um, no. 0.333... is the decimal expansion of 1/3. It just has a clumsy decimal (base-10) expansion. The ternary (base 3) expansion is quite simple: 0.1.
Or IS it that simple:
I thought the ternary expansion of decimal 1/3 was (base 3) 0.1000....
Next you're going to tell me that (base 3) 0.1 == (base 3) 0.1000....
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Not to nit-pick.... I'm just trying to understand:
if you solve one NP complete problem in polynomial time ... you solve them all in polynomial time.
Do you mean you CAN solve them all in polynomial time? or that you DO solve them all in polynomial time?
Are you saying that this guy who supposedly solved 3-SAT solved a bunch of problems all at once?
Or are credit cards an incredibly stupid idea? Nothing says "hack/steal my wallet" like turning into a cash machine.
There, fixed it for ya.
I'm probably one of the few on Slashdot that thinks patents are a good thing.
But I would love to see the process changed whereby patent proposals were posted on a wiki website, inviting the public to cite prior art (or to present arguments as to why the patent should not be granted, with a comment rating system, so that people could vote on the comments) before the patent was granted. This would just help the patent examiners be more educated. .... I think I'll patent that idea.
Cool, someone's going to create a profile for me on a dating site!
I hope they let me know if I get laid.
I stand by the premise of my previous post, but the math is even better than I had stated. I'd like to correct that (in bold):
But you get the GREATER of 70% of the sale price, or 20% of the MSRP (which would be 1€). If they sell it for 1€, you get 1€. If they sell it for 4€, you get 2.8€. If they sell it for more than 1,43€, you get MORE than 1€!! So you get at least 1€. Which is what you wanted.