I believe that site was foreign in nature if that means anything at all.... (maybe that site uses PHP3's feature??)
Basically, the site Unpoison is made for assigns a unique umpteen-bit hexademcial number to you (and stores it somewhere) that is appended to their site's URL-- then they set up a program that decodes this information automagically (and retrieves all of your data).
The bad thing about how this company does it is you have no way to shut it off. With cookies, you do. That makes me sad.
LAMBERTVILLE, MICH (AP) - On early thursday morning, McDonalds, Subway and BurgerKing all announced simulateneously that they will be giving their employees a $3,000 voucher to purchase a system.
Employees there were rather pissed off. One employee, who wants to remain anonymous states, "Fscking McDonalds. We already have enough fscking computers at fscking McDonalds. You think they would _TRY_ to improve the quality of their hamburgers before wasting $3,000 on every god damned fscking employee in this joint. HELL, THEY ARE ALL TOO STUPID TO EVEN KNOW HOW TO USE A COMPUTER." Upon hearing this, the store manager at Lambertville, Michigan, sedated his employee and submitted him to the ELECTRO-SHOCK THERAPY room.
The computers in question were not owned by Northwest Airlines-- they were owned by the union and/or employees! Read the fricking article..
I am _very_ curious if the judge would have allowed this to happen if it didn't involve national transit...
Remember Reagen firing the Air Traffic Controllers?? I don't either, but they were disrupting traffic.
Remember President Harrison? sending in the Army to break up the great Pittsburg Rail strike during the late 1800s? I don't either, but they were disrupting traffic.
It's not _really_ the same thing, here-- because it is already over with. However, the judge might have made the conenction and decided that it was "legal."
What can we do about this! Isn't this America?
It is going to make me start using encryption, though-- and I hope that everyone else with the know-how does too..
About the site license deal-- I didn't know how much it was, so I made a (wrong, I imagine) guess... And about the client using Unix-- I wasn't talking about the technical elite-- I was talking about the freshmen and business majors who will never know (or care) what Unix is. And about Michigan paying big $$$$$ to Microsoft for the deal, I don't believe it-- not for a second.
What you don't understand-- by paying Microsoft that $5, you are in fact increasing their products ten fold because....
1) After you graduate, your license will run up and you will be forced to purchase a new version of Visual Studio (with a REAL license this time) for $2000
2) You will convince your pointy-haired boss that you NEED Visual Studio for productive work, so he will be forced to shell out $2000x100 for all of his employees.
3) A client your company has is using a *nix variant and you don't know how to do it... You convince them to switch to Microsoft and they pay the same thing your pointy haired boss did.
They are only building a client base. They don't give a care about your education. Word.
Granted, these attacks probably made these companies lose mass $$$ in revenue, so it's a not a real good thing for them....
BUT it may actually make people want to "hurry" the switch to IPv6! If I understand correctly, in IPv6, if you spoof, the routers (or something like that) wont forward your packet (and if it makes a log of it!) providing no way to fully mask your identity....
With IPv6 man, woman, child, chicken and sheep could have an IP address!!
Starting with SuSE 6.0, sound support was already compiled into the kernel-- you just had to know where to look..
At least that's what their webpage told me... After a couple man-years hacking away trying to get my antique SB16 to work, I just installed (and bought) a license to OSS!
It's a good thing too. By the way, what is "C" code?
I am pretty sure it beat out RedHat, Debian and all the others because the competition was held over in Europe. SuSE is a German-based distro, while none of the others are. BTW- SuSE 6.1 ruled, SuSE 6.3 sucked. Why??? For starters, the directory structure is wacked and it screws up most of the poorly configured GNU-Autoconf applications, making compiling a pain in the ass. Or maybe I am just dumb.
It's painfully obvious that the public _still_ doesn't understand that this company is crap. If the public really, truely, did, the company's staff would have left in a sudden Exodus to good jobs.
Their flame-contest? It's a way to show all of the companies seriously considering investing in these guys that, hey, "All those bad things said about us were in this flame contest. They weren't serious!"
Is it our responsibility to ruin this company? Will Linux still be mone after they fail? If not, then I think the community should do something. If so, screw it and let them and anyone that invests in them lose their money.
People! You need to wake up and smell the coffee! This article was entirely wrong because in the not so distant future, everyone and their brother will realize that the *BSDs and NTs run their server software better.
In test after test, Linux has been shown to suck at networking after a certain threshold. This threshold is what seperates the men from boys, IMHO.
And IT professionals know about this.. They are very leary to use Linux for anything less than a print manager because of the headaches, hassles and slow downs it will cause due to scalability.
What Linux really needs, and I mean _REALLY_ needs, is dedicated developers to the kernel that will make it more suitable for larger purposes. Granted, it's already reliable as all get-out, but it needs to be fast.
Then, and only then, will the rest of the server market wake up and smell the coffee. (this is the portion of the market that actually have $$$ to spend) When this happens, there will be a great windfall for all.
Another key problem that could make or break our favorite kernel is the desktop usability factor. Even with Gnome/KDE/Your favorite WM it all still reeks of a bad hack. (no offense to the developers, but you need to consult UI experts)
Please note- I am not BASHING linux in anyway.. I am just restating what has been said numerous times-- the programmers need to take heed and make their software useful, the Kernel developers need to take heed and make it faster (this will probably involve changing the scheduling process around etc), and the Linux user group needs to stop making asses of themselves. (i.e., Slashdot posts)
So, in the words of the worst computer movie ever, "Hackers of the World Unite!" (or give up and switch to BSD)
Have you been smoking crack? Anything done in C can be done in C++ and vice versa.. They are programming languages and that is what they do (everything you want them to).
If you have problems with your programs eating RAM or CPU cycles, you need to look no further than your bathroom mirror.
And speaking of mirrors: You don't see your reflection in the mirror. Your reflection sees you.
Let's all take a moment to think about what that means..
But Java is important. I can tell you for fact that one major company I worked for is abandoning all platform-dependant software ( statistical packages, database systems) for the platform indepedance of Java.
The reason your school isn't offering Java is because they are behind with the times and the Prof's aren't out in the real world getting their noses wet.
There is a _good_ reason why Java is so slow, and this should be immediately obvious to any programmer in C or Assembly...
Java has _A LOT_ of type checking done during run time. If you overwrite an array in Java, it throws an Exception.. If you do it in C or C++, no one really gives two **its..
There are more intricies with Java that make it impossible for the code to be as fast as assembly because the language REQUIRES that these run-time checks be performed. If it doesn't do the checks, it isn't Java.
So sorry, no matter how advanced your compiler is, if it is Java it will always be _slower_ than a compiled language with not as nearly as many type checks.
It would only be blank if you didn't precache the television show... This would require tons of memory, but I think a couple of the televison servers have the capacity to record a prime time telecast..
Of course, you would have to watch it four hours later or the next day.. But you'd be advertisement free!
All five codes are the ISDN numbers of one of the prizes.. and none of the titles fit unless you make up arbitrary spacing/naming conventions/etc rules...
And it's not the author's name because Cryptonimicon has only one author..... Hrmm...
As I read throught the bulk of the users' comments, it strikes me that only one made a mention of feeling sorry or bad that he died (and that was only for selfish reasons).
One of the greatest men in the CS field died and all you guys can talk about is optimality of Huffman encoding.
Ask yourself these questions... A) What did I ever make in grad-school that is still being used today B) Why should I care that he died?
His death represents a signifigant turning point in the CS field; in some ways, it's starting the second generation..
Any CS person from now on won't be able to say that they were alive at the same time Dr. Huffman was.
I think the *only* real way out of this is a major push to IP6 so we can actually get some real identities..
Granted, someone might break IP6, too-- but, that's the same as someone burning their fingerprints off to foil the fingerprint identification system (spoofing ip).
Oh, and if the internet weren't global, this might be all possible. If a random Japan native nuked my house, would the FBI *really* care?
No.
But its just something we'll all have to live with- to each his own, I guess. It's time we all stopped thinking about the "internet" as one giant computer that can be controlled;
IT CAN'T!
Can your phone company stop a prank call before you complain about it?
Does the pizza delivery place still ask you for your phone number EVEN THOUGH they have it on caller-ID ?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, it is for the same company. Whoever posted that tricked all of us by saying "sevenval" insead of "7Val".
WE WERE FOOLED!
It's call Unpoison..
I believe that site was foreign in nature if that means anything at all.... (maybe that site uses PHP3's feature??)
Basically, the site Unpoison is made for assigns a unique umpteen-bit hexademcial number to you (and stores it somewhere) that is appended to their site's URL-- then they set up a program that decodes this information automagically (and retrieves all of your data).
The bad thing about how this company does it is you have no way to shut it off. With cookies, you do. That makes me sad.
Anyways, the freshmeat URL here
The author's homepage and description of why he thinks it's a "bad thing." here.
And the company that he dislikes for using it. 7Val.
Actually I am from Ottawa Lake and have to go to Lambertville to get some nappy fast food.
LAMBERTVILLE, MICH (AP) - On early thursday morning, McDonalds, Subway and BurgerKing all announced simulateneously that they will be giving their employees a $3,000 voucher to purchase a system.
Employees there were rather pissed off. One employee, who wants to remain anonymous states, "Fscking McDonalds. We already have enough fscking computers at fscking McDonalds. You think they would _TRY_ to improve the quality of their hamburgers before wasting $3,000 on every god damned fscking employee in this joint. HELL, THEY ARE ALL TOO STUPID TO EVEN KNOW HOW TO USE A COMPUTER." Upon hearing this, the store manager at Lambertville, Michigan, sedated his employee and submitted him to the ELECTRO-SHOCK THERAPY room.
Am I reading the results of this correctly??? Does this _REALLY_ display PI or are you yanking my chain!!!
Did you even read the NWA article? They were granted a search warrant for computers that didn't even own.
Next time, stick your foot in your mouth before your post.
The computers in question were not owned by Northwest Airlines-- they were owned by the union and/or employees! Read the fricking article..
I am _very_ curious if the judge would have allowed this to happen if it didn't involve national transit...
Remember Reagen firing the Air Traffic Controllers?? I don't either, but they were disrupting traffic.
Remember President Harrison? sending in the Army to break up the great Pittsburg Rail strike during the late 1800s? I don't either, but they were disrupting traffic.
It's not _really_ the same thing, here-- because it is already over with. However, the judge might have made the conenction and decided that it was "legal."
What can we do about this! Isn't this America?
It is going to make me start using encryption, though-- and I hope that everyone else with the know-how does too..
About the site license deal-- I didn't know how much it was, so I made a (wrong, I imagine) guess... And about the client using Unix-- I wasn't talking about the technical elite-- I was talking about the freshmen and business majors who will never know (or care) what Unix is. And about Michigan paying big $$$$$ to Microsoft for the deal, I don't believe it-- not for a second.
What you don't understand-- by paying Microsoft that $5, you are in fact increasing their products ten fold because....
1) After you graduate, your license will run up and you will be forced to purchase a new version of Visual Studio (with a REAL license this time) for $2000
2) You will convince your pointy-haired boss that you NEED Visual Studio for productive work, so he will be forced to shell out $2000x100 for all of his employees.
3) A client your company has is using a *nix variant and you don't know how to do it... You convince them to switch to Microsoft and they pay the same thing your pointy haired boss did.
They are only building a client base. They don't give a care about your education. Word.
Granted, these attacks probably made these companies lose mass $$$ in revenue, so it's a not a real good thing for them....
BUT it may actually make people want to "hurry" the switch to IPv6! If I understand correctly, in IPv6, if you spoof, the routers (or something like that) wont forward your packet (and if it makes a log of it!) providing no way to fully mask your identity....
With IPv6 man, woman, child, chicken and sheep could have an IP address!!
If you would have read that chapter, you will have, in fact, discovered that you just said EXACTLY what Jon Katz was saying---
thank you for wasting my time
Starting with SuSE 6.0, sound support was already compiled into the kernel-- you just had to know where to look..
At least that's what their webpage told me... After a couple man-years hacking away trying to get my antique SB16 to work, I just installed (and bought) a license to OSS!
It's a good thing too. By the way, what is "C" code?
I am pretty sure it beat out RedHat, Debian and all the others because the competition was held over in Europe. SuSE is a German-based distro, while none of the others are. BTW- SuSE 6.1 ruled, SuSE 6.3 sucked. Why??? For starters, the directory structure is wacked and it screws up most of the poorly configured GNU-Autoconf applications, making compiling a pain in the ass. Or maybe I am just dumb.
It's painfully obvious that the public _still_ doesn't understand that this company is crap. If the public really, truely, did, the company's staff would have left in a sudden Exodus to good jobs.
Their flame-contest? It's a way to show all of the companies seriously considering investing in these guys that, hey, "All those bad things said about us were in this flame contest. They weren't serious!"
Is it our responsibility to ruin this company? Will Linux still be mone after they fail? If not, then I think the community should do something. If so, screw it and let them and anyone that invests in them lose their money.
People! You need to wake up and smell the coffee! This article was entirely wrong because in the not so distant future, everyone and their brother will realize that the *BSDs and NTs run their server software better.
In test after test, Linux has been shown to suck at networking after a certain threshold. This threshold is what seperates the men from boys, IMHO.
And IT professionals know about this.. They are very leary to use Linux for anything less than a print manager because of the headaches, hassles and slow downs it will cause due to scalability.
What Linux really needs, and I mean _REALLY_ needs, is dedicated developers to the kernel that will make it more suitable for larger purposes. Granted, it's already reliable as all get-out, but it needs to be fast.
Then, and only then, will the rest of the server market wake up and smell the coffee. (this is the portion of the market that actually have $$$ to spend) When this happens, there will be a great windfall for all.
Another key problem that could make or break our favorite kernel is the desktop usability factor. Even with Gnome/KDE/Your favorite WM it all still reeks of a bad hack. (no offense to the developers, but you need to consult UI experts)
Please note- I am not BASHING linux in anyway.. I am just restating what has been said numerous times-- the programmers need to take heed and make their software useful, the Kernel developers need to take heed and make it faster (this will probably involve changing the scheduling process around etc), and the Linux user group needs to stop making asses of themselves. (i.e., Slashdot posts)
So, in the words of the worst computer movie ever, "Hackers of the World Unite!" (or give up and switch to BSD)
Thanks
Have you been smoking crack? Anything done in C can be done in C++ and vice versa.. They are programming languages and that is what they do (everything you want them to).
If you have problems with your programs eating RAM or CPU cycles, you need to look no further than your bathroom mirror.
And speaking of mirrors:
You don't see your reflection in the mirror. Your reflection sees you.
Let's all take a moment to think about what that means..
But Java is important. I can tell you for fact that one major company I worked for is abandoning all platform-dependant software ( statistical packages, database systems) for the platform indepedance of Java.
The reason your school isn't offering Java is because they are behind with the times and the Prof's aren't out in the real world getting their noses wet.
I suggest you trasnfer immediately.
There is a _good_ reason why Java is so slow, and this should be immediately obvious to any programmer in C or Assembly...
Java has _A LOT_ of type checking done during run time. If you overwrite an array in Java, it throws an Exception.. If you do it in C or C++, no one really gives two **its..
There are more intricies with Java that make it impossible for the code to be as fast as assembly because the language REQUIRES that these run-time checks be performed. If it doesn't do the checks, it isn't Java.
So sorry, no matter how advanced your compiler is, if it is Java it will always be _slower_ than a compiled language with not as nearly as many type checks.
Unix was open source until AT&T (in 1984 i think) finally decided to end Mr. Ritchie's field day and claim it was their intellectual property.
Anywho, anyone want to help port Multics to my box?
Wouldn't hand-delivered disks provide a higher bandwith than AOL?
It would only be blank if you didn't precache the television show... This would require tons of memory, but I think a couple of the televison servers have the capacity to record a prime time telecast..
Of course, you would have to watch it four hours later or the next day.. But you'd be advertisement free!
They should put a web-cam in :
- The Loch-Ness Lake
- Bill Clinton's Pants
- Monica Lewinski's Mouth
- Random low-class family rooms
- Ben Stein's podium (on his gameshow)
- Directly up my ass
oh, yeah-- first post!Bzzzzz; wrong.
All five codes are the ISDN numbers of one of the prizes.. and none of the titles fit unless you make up arbitrary spacing/naming conventions/etc rules...
And it's not the author's name because Cryptonimicon has only one author..... Hrmm...
Yeah...
As I read throught the bulk of the users' comments, it strikes me that only one made a mention of feeling sorry or bad that he died (and that was only for selfish reasons).
One of the greatest men in the CS field died and all you guys can talk about is optimality of Huffman encoding.
Ask yourself these questions... A) What did I ever make in grad-school that is still being used today B) Why should I care that he died?
His death represents a signifigant turning point in the CS field; in some ways, it's starting the second generation..
Any CS person from now on won't be able to say that they were alive at the same time Dr. Huffman was.
And that makes me sad.
I think the *only* real way out of this is a major push to IP6 so we can actually get some real identities..
Granted, someone might break IP6, too-- but, that's the same as someone burning their fingerprints off to foil the fingerprint identification system (spoofing ip).
Oh, and if the internet weren't global, this might be all possible. If a random Japan native nuked my house, would the FBI *really* care?
No.
But its just something we'll all have to live with- to each his own, I guess. It's time we all stopped thinking about the "internet" as one giant computer that can be controlled;
IT CAN'T!
Can your phone company stop a prank call before you complain about it?
Does the pizza delivery place still ask you for your phone number EVEN THOUGH they have it on caller-ID ?
Does this make sense at all?