Nitpick: it's GBP, Great Britain Pounds. The codes are defined in ISO 4217. (They usually start with the same code as the ISO 3166 country code, which is GB for the UK.)
Our town public library filters out words like that from the public-access Web terminals.
A couple of years ago, I was reading a friend's journal online, where he seemed to say that someone had sent him an E. Another page showed me a list of " ing lists". It turned out that they block out a certain set of words from all pages-- and one of the words was "mail"! (They have a special room with computers which let you read email, and you have to pay for that, so I guess that must be why.) Of course nobody ever has a legitimate reason to look for sexual health information on the Internet, so predictably "sex" was another word being filtered. One of the local bus routes is Stagecoach Express route X5, and the library's system removed "sex" from the link to "SEx5.html", thus rendering it useless.
Well, the clipboard is a property of the environment, rather than the OS. But there's certainly at least one environment that allows this: GNU screen.
Screen has a concept of a buffer file that can be used to store or load the clipboard. The name of this file is defined in your screenrc, so it can vary from system to system, but it's often called/tmp/screen-xchg or (better for multi-user systems) ~/.screen_exchange. The keystroke ^A< reads this file and ^A> writes it; ^A> will also flash up a message telling you what the name of the file is (for example, Copybuffer written to "/tmp/screen-xchg").
Blaming software fashions on SFV is just like blaming flu outbreak on a SVV (stupid virus victim).
Not so. The "stupid" part of SFV means something like "susceptible to memetic infection". So in making an analogy with biological viruses, you'll need to change "stupid" to something which connotes susceptibility to viral invasion (such as sleep deprivation, old age or stress).
It doesn't solve the whole problem of spam, no. It's one possible way to deal with one particular aspect of the problem: forging From addresses will become harder. This is a major annoyance and it'd be good to have the hole closed.
On a global scale, it's not so recent, and it's not just Verisign. A bunch of the ccTLDs have been indulging in this unpleasant behaviour for a while:.ac,.cc,.cx,.mp,.nu,.ph,.pw,.sh,.td,.tk,.tm, and.ws (of course, some of those are run by the same registrar as one another). I was shocked when I first saw this, but I never thought the rot would spread into.com and.net.:/
But when you look at the guy, and wonder if he got paid for each usage of the photo
The photo's page on gettyimages says "Release Information: This image has a signed model release", so it sounds like he didn't get paid a cent for each usage.
Does anyone remember the dedication message which came with the original ZIP?
The file format of the files created by these programs, which file format is original with the first release of this software, is hereby dedicated to the public domain. Further, the filename extension of.ZIP, first used inconnection with data compression software on
the first release of this software, is also hereby dedicated to the public domain, with the fervent and sincere hope that it will not be attempted to be appropriated by anyone else for their exclusive
use, but rather that it will be used to refer to data compression and librarying software in general, of a class or type which creates
files having a format generally compatible with this software.
Guess things have changed a good deal since Phil Katz passed away...
But most people don't have DNS on their home computers.
If a computer needs to be addressed, it can and should have a name in the DNS. Getting a DNS entry for your computer is trivially easy even if you don't have your own domain. There are only two reasons for not bothering to set up a name: either the machine doesn't commonly need to be addressed (because it runs no servers), or you actually prefer to type the IP address, and can remember it easily. The fact that IPv6 addresses aren't often easy to remember is just all the more reason to set up a name.
"Weblog" is a bit ambiguous: it could also mean the contents of my/var/log/apache/access.log. (And that same file also shows that the rest of the world does appear to give a damn.)
And how do they identify your account? Magic, or RFID from your wallet?
I suppose there are two ways this could be implemented: like knowing a bank account number, or like knowing a credit card number. If someone knows your bank account number, they can't get money out of it without a prior arrangement between you, the bank and the merchant. If they know your credit card number, they can. If the people implementing things such as RFID customer identification have any common sense (and it's true that assuming that about anyone is often a big if) it should be implemented more like a bank account number than a credit card number.
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I'd like Mozilla more if I didnt look like a dinosaur geek everytime it starts up.
mozilla -nosplash is your friend.
No.
The number 5 was used a while back for an experimental protocol (see section 8.7), so this is 6. The even/odd rule is nothing to do with this.
37.99 BPS (british pounds sterling?)
Nitpick: it's GBP, Great Britain Pounds. The codes are defined in ISO 4217. (They usually start with the same code as the ISO 3166 country code, which is GB for the UK.)
I wonder if the British bookstores buy books back and resell them in later semesters?
Yes, they do. (I'd guess that complaining about the price of books is universal among students. :) )
Our town public library filters out words like that from the public-access Web terminals.
A couple of years ago, I was reading a friend's journal online, where he seemed to say that someone had sent him an E. Another page showed me a list of " ing lists". It turned out that they block out a certain set of words from all pages-- and one of the words was "mail"! (They have a special room with computers which let you read email, and you have to pay for that, so I guess that must be why.) Of course nobody ever has a legitimate reason to look for sexual health information on the Internet, so predictably "sex" was another word being filtered. One of the local bus routes is Stagecoach Express route X5, and the library's system removed "sex" from the link to "SEx5.html", thus rendering it useless.
A rather interesting discussion blew up around this on the town newsgroup. We even had one of the librarians trying to give a justification of the system.
sometimes the most paranoid among us can still be on to something.
Not the best choice of adjective: leaving aside the question of what Dan Bernstein thinks about anything, in security, paranoia is a survival trait. :)
...i.e. the Bourne shell, from which Perl's use of backtick is directly taken.
Python uses backtick to cast a value into a string (print 'The value of x is ' + `x` + '.' means that all the arguments of the +s will be strings).
Well, the clipboard is a property of the environment, rather than the OS. But there's certainly at least one environment that allows this: GNU screen.
Screen has a concept of a buffer file that can be used to store or load the clipboard. The name of this file is defined in your screenrc, so it can vary from system to system, but it's often called /tmp/screen-xchg or (better for multi-user systems) ~/.screen_exchange. The keystroke ^A< reads this file and ^A> writes it; ^A> will also flash up a message telling you what the name of the file is (for example, Copybuffer written to "/tmp/screen-xchg" ).
So what you do is:
And there you have it.
Blaming software fashions on SFV is just like blaming flu outbreak on a SVV (stupid virus victim).
Not so. The "stupid" part of SFV means something like "susceptible to memetic infection". So in making an analogy with biological viruses, you'll need to change "stupid" to something which connotes susceptibility to viral invasion (such as sleep deprivation, old age or stress).
Or use Speakeasy, who don't mind if you run servers off a residential DSL line. I have no connection with them other than being a customer.
It doesn't solve the whole problem of spam, no. It's one possible way to deal with one particular aspect of the problem: forging From addresses will become harder. This is a major annoyance and it'd be good to have the hole closed.
Section 6.1 of their RFC covers this.
Briefly:
RMX allows the recipient to look up information using a greater range of possible keys than just the sending IP address;
SPF reuses a pre-existing part of the DNS (TXT records) rather than adding a new RR type as RMX does;
the design of SPF lets the spoofed domain's admins know who's spoofing their address (because the spoofer's IP address is part of the lookup).
Doesn't your copyright expire as soon as you do?
No-- currently seventy years after your death in the US. IANAL.
BTW: Does anybody know what they're talking about when they claim that other TLDs have implemented something like SiteFinder?
Here: .ac .cc .cx .mp .nu .ph .pw .sh .td .tk .tm .ws .museum. (I posted something similar last time a similar story came up.)
On a global scale, it's not so recent, and it's not just Verisign. A bunch of the ccTLDs have been indulging in this unpleasant behaviour for a while: .ac, .cc, .cx, .mp, .nu, .ph, .pw, .sh, .td, .tk, .tm, and .ws (of course, some of those are run by the same registrar as one another). I was shocked when I first saw this, but I never thought the rot would spread into .com and .net. :/
But when you look at the guy, and wonder if he got paid for each usage of the photo
The photo's page on gettyimages says "Release Information: This image has a signed model release", so it sounds like he didn't get paid a cent for each usage.
Does anyone remember the dedication message which came with the original ZIP?
The file format of the files created by these programs, which file format is original with the first release of this software, is hereby dedicated to the public domain. Further, the filename extension of .ZIP, first used inconnection with data compression software on
the first release of this software, is also hereby dedicated to the public domain, with the fervent and sincere hope that it will not be attempted to be appropriated by anyone else for their exclusive
use, but rather that it will be used to refer to data compression and librarying software in general, of a class or type which creates
files having a format generally compatible with this software.
Guess things have changed a good deal since Phil Katz passed away...
Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating...
But most people don't have DNS on their home computers.
If a computer needs to be addressed, it can and should have a name in the DNS. Getting a DNS entry for your computer is trivially easy even if you don't have your own domain. There are only two reasons for not bothering to set up a name: either the machine doesn't commonly need to be addressed (because it runs no servers), or you actually prefer to type the IP address, and can remember it easily. The fact that IPv6 addresses aren't often easy to remember is just all the more reason to set up a name.
I could even call the toilet to see if anyone is using it.
MIT got there first: http, finger.
There's a difference between LJ, the codebase, and LJ.com, the site. LJ.com is owned by a for-profit business called Danga Interactive, Inc.. LJ also has a community to discuss how to make money from LJ.
(I have no connection with LJ other than keeping a journal there-- the above is mostly just stuff I found with Google.)
"Weblog" is a bit ambiguous: it could also mean the contents of my /var/log/apache/access.log. (And that same file also shows that the rest of the world does appear to give a damn.)
No, it comes from a town in France called Evian-les-Bains.
I remember reading a rant by C.S. Lewis describing this very thing...
That sounds like this one here (about three-quarters of the way down the page).
And how do they identify your account? Magic, or RFID from your wallet?
I suppose there are two ways this could be implemented: like knowing a bank account number, or like knowing a credit card number. If someone knows your bank account number, they can't get money out of it without a prior arrangement between you, the bank and the merchant. If they know your credit card number, they can. If the people implementing things such as RFID customer identification have any common sense (and it's true that assuming that about anyone is often a big if) it should be implemented more like a bank account number than a credit card number.