Re:Mod up (was:Mod parent down (was:Mod parent up)
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Saddam's Inbox Hacked
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Then maybe we should expand CIA and FBI and other non techie acronyms. Seriously, using WMD isn't a/. only thing, it's on CNN and yahoo at least. I don't think it is unreasonable for them to have used it and it's too stupid of an actual phrase to bother typing out.
Re:All Saddam's email are belong to us!
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One thing to consider is that a lot of these atrocities don't come out in the open until many years later. 50 years from now, there may be someone else in another forum saying "I really don't think it's fair to compare the X of today with the US of 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago"
Plus, a lot of these were less than 50 years ago. The Sarin, Soman, Tabun and VX civilian tests were from 1962-1973 and the Native eugenics was in 1976. That was only 12 years before Saddam used Sarin on the Kurds.
The original poster is certainly wrong when they said GW is worse than Saddam, but GW's only been in power for 2 years, Saddam's been there for 23. I think if you add up all the atrocities the U.S. government has done in the last 23 years (known and unknown, to it's own people and to foreigners) it would outpace what Saddam has done in that time, but then again, the U.S. has a lot more influence over the world.
Uh, that's true for the other countries too. the reason why Iraqi reporters get thrown in jail is because they break laws. Freedom comes from not having those laws in place. Lets look at the scant infomarion from the link:
Arrests are often because they refuse to reveal their sources in court. Also, since the 11 September attacks, several journalists have been arrested for crossing security lines at some official buildings.
The first part is definitely an abridgement of freedom of the press. Whether you agree or not that a government should be able to force a journalist to reveal their sources, it still means that there is less freedom of the press.
The second one is a little shakey, but noting the wording ("several" vs. "often") it seems like this isn't a common case, it just happened several times. One can still argue that it is an abridgement of freedom of the press, though. Yes, we need some secure areas, but it may be that not all areas this happened at need to be secure. It's hard to know from the tiny blurb here.
Maybe the metrics were stacked to make the U.S. looked bad. Maybe it is brazen reporters crossing lines that got the U.S. bumped from 16 to 17, but the first issue is one of concern. It's like saying "look at those brazen reporters, exposing faults of big business or our government and not telling our government who blew the whistle."
Or maybe this country isn't as free as it says it is.
Do you have a link with U.S. involvement in Saddam's rise to presidency? The link in my sig talks about their involvement with him as a result of the Iran Iraq war and the Iranian Revolution, but I haven't read anything on how Saddam got where he is.
Re:Suit and Tie do not make the programmer.
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Suit Up Or Ship Out?
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I disagree with this. I've had times where I've worked even up to 108 hours in a week and the fact is that I got a lot more done in that time than I would have in 40 hours. Maybe not as much as in 108 hours over 3 weeks, but there were always other time factors that made it neccessary to do that amount, such as once the site had already launched and there were severe problems with it (I was not on the original programming team).
There is no way I could keep that up forever though, only being able to do it every now and then, but it some people can be productive in those circumstances.
I'm curious as to why you say that the variable bit rate of mp3 is a windows bug. I've written an mp3 parser (not decoder/encoder, though), and everything I read said that this was by design, and the fact that the bit rate is part of each frame seems to imply this.
The article makes reference to the fact that this is like the swimming pool vaccuums. I have a polaris for my pool and the path it takes is completely random, it isn't even smart enough to do things like and expanding circle, etc. However, after about 15-20 minutes it always has the pool completely cleaned. You'd be surprised at how well a random walk can cover an area. Plus, you really don't need to get every part of your floor 100% clean every time. If you do this every other day, you'll probably keep the floor clean enough that it won't show.
I tried the Windows port of OpenOffice. It was impressive from a "it opened my word document" perspective, but it was actually pretty hard to use. I like to bullet things alot and there weren't the standard controls for bulletting/indenting that I was used to. Plus the bullets in the documents I opened had a grey backdrop, so the whole document was black on white, except these grey squares on each bullet.
It probably takes some getting used to, and there may be ways to add those controls to the toolbar, but my first impression wasn't great.
Possibly, but it's still pretty bad. When I was in Portugal I enjoyed the coffee. Before and after my trip, I couldn't find a coffee shop over here that sold coffee that I would drink (it's always too watery). I will drink espresso at some places, but it's very hit-or-miss and still not as good.
I agree with you, kind of. The problem here is that they are trying to assign causation: redheads need more anethetic because they feel more pain. There's nothing here that supports that. Instead, taking a needle and pricking people with verious hair colours would determine a hair-color/pain senstitivity link. There are just too many other factors, most notably how redheads process the anethesic. Maybe they need more because they have a higher tolerance for outside chemical changes.
But it does show that redheads need more anethetic on average, that's what correlation is.
The PCs I have here boot the debian install discs fine, but don't boot the Windows XP or 2000 discs. The 2000 wasn't a pirated discs, as another person in this thread suggested. It had the whole funky hologram on the label side etc etc. The XP one was a backup but I don't know how it was done (incidentally, the installs I've done are for work so they aren't "warez").
Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 requires you to make boot disks if you don't have some version Windows already installed. It's a pretty big pain in the ass.
Re:It isn't about them eating the pythons...
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The Python Cookbook
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It didn't want to eat you then. Constrictors strike their prey with their mouth to get a good grip on them before they very quickly wrap their prey. Then then patiently wait until their prey breathes out, and on each exhalation, tighten their grip and do not allow it to inhale. Eventually, the prey loses consciousness due to lack of oxygen, and then dies. Often, if the prey is too lare, the python will coil around it and squeeze the body while pushing it out of the coil, inorder to dislocate the bones, making it easier for ingestion.
You can see the first part of this phenomenon (strike and wrap) in this file, where a 14 foot snake we had in my wife's reptile rescue begins the process of eating a chicken.
A snake crawling on you and then constricting is usually doing it because they are unsure of their "footing". It's a natural response, and occurs when the tree they are in is blown by a gust of wind. These squeezes can often be fatal, because the human being squeezed will being to panic and this makes the snake hold on tighter. Because of this, it's important to never wrap even a 5 footer around your neck, leaving part of it under the arm. If you are being constricted by a snake, the best thing to do is to have someone there who knows what to do. You have to stay still, while they unwrap the snake from you starting with the tail. Even the 15 footer we have right now isn't strong enough to resist a from-the-tail unwrapping because its muscles just aren't made that way. Unwrapping from the head is almost futile, however, as it is like armwrestling a guy with a 1 foot thick arm, and you have to move his hand 7 feet.
That is one sweet looking car. I just watched "Freejack" on the weekend and I'm reminded of the cars in that movie. If I were to be wealthy to the point of being carted everywhere in a limo, this would be my choice.
>there is little you can do from a system or procedural perspective beyond keeping up with patches
That's true for all systems on all OS's. Or is Slapper just a figment of the Internet's imagination?
My comments were related to your discussion of how IE was the only client software on the list, and your surprise that Outlook didn't make the list. My comments followed a discussion of a configuration solution and procedural solution to the problem of Outlook viruses. I don't see why you would ask me if that statement is true for all systems on all OSes since I already provided a counter example. I don't see the relevance of Slapper, as, AFAIU, it infects server software.
I like dbVisualizer . It works with any Java 2.0 drivers to give you TOAD like access to the database. I doesn't have everything TOAD gives you (no wizards), but it does relational mapping and you can have all your databases in one tool (I have Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL on there).
I did this a while ago when my roomate-at-the-time was sharing one of my computers. Workes really well. Since then I've thought it would be cool to have an OE/Outlook virus that would do this and mail itself on. Thus, all the people who do click these damn things will get infected and never have that problem again, while the people who don't click them don't really need the protection anyway.
Outlook and IE have different problems, in my mind. Outlook is bad because the attack can be pushed directly to you, but, for the most part, you can prevent the attack through configuration of the server to not pass on attachments with certain extentions or even mostly procedurally by not opening such attachement (though, IIRC, one bug didn't require you to make that mistake). With IE, an attack is harder: you have to control part of the network that the person you want to attack voluntarily goes to, but there is little you can do from a system or procedural perspective beyond keeping up with patches.
One thing to note is that keeping up with patches is not enough for securely using IE. Microsoft has had a bad track record for not providing a proper patch until the bug is fully exposed, so there are constantly windows where you are vulnerable. For example, there is presently a bug in the certificate software that allows a man-in-the-middle attack on an SSL connection, making the authentication useless (you are just as vulnerable to an attack with or without it). Because of this I wouldn't online bank with it.
Yet dispite this, Outlook has had a worse track record for security attacks in the wild. Many outlook vectored viruses have done things such as emailing random documents from your disk. It wouldn't take much to take these viruses and modify them to find and send Money or Quicken files to a foreign email address.
Lets not take notice of the fact that the people who grow/sell/distribute those perfectly safe bottles of liquor and cigarettes have plenty fo money for kidnaping.(I'm sure you'll respond with the ever present, "It's the U.S.'s fault because fighting alcohol and nicotine use makes prices go up")
While drunk on the alcohol they're on, addicts tend to do things most people frown uppon. An alcoholic might think its OK to drive to the gas station. Because he's drunk off his ass he drives right into someones little girl. Oh but he's just doing what he wants in the privacy of his own home.
A mother who smokes cigarettes will inevitably be seen by her children. They get the message that cigarettes are good. They smoke cigarettes every day like mommy and die of emphasema, just like mommy.
Perhaps she'll forget to feed her kids because shes too tired after her alcohol binge.
Lets not worry about the health effects that from time to time make someone sick. They have to go to the doctor to get seen. They've spent thier money on Jack Daniels or vodka or Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum or whatever so tey can't afford it. MY tax dollars go to pay the doctor bills and welfare checks because someone, in the privacy of thier own home, decided to get drunk again instead of getting a job.
Do some research youself and see what the extended physiological effects of alcohol and cigarettes have on the human body.
Alcohol and nicotine aren't illegal simply out of tradition. I'l admit that the government did the wrong thing to try to keep people away from chew, but that doesn't mean even responsible users will not suffer ill effects.
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Then maybe we should expand CIA and FBI and other non techie acronyms. Seriously, using WMD isn't a /. only thing, it's on CNN and yahoo at least. I don't think it is unreasonable for them to have used it and it's too stupid of an actual phrase to bother typing out.
One thing to consider is that a lot of these atrocities don't come out in the open until many years later. 50 years from now, there may be someone else in another forum saying "I really don't think it's fair to compare the X of today with the US of 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago"
Plus, a lot of these were less than 50 years ago. The Sarin, Soman, Tabun and VX civilian tests were from 1962-1973 and the Native eugenics was in 1976. That was only 12 years before Saddam used Sarin on the Kurds.
The original poster is certainly wrong when they said GW is worse than Saddam, but GW's only been in power for 2 years, Saddam's been there for 23. I think if you add up all the atrocities the U.S. government has done in the last 23 years (known and unknown, to it's own people and to foreigners) it would outpace what Saddam has done in that time, but then again, the U.S. has a lot more influence over the world.
The first part is definitely an abridgement of freedom of the press. Whether you agree or not that a government should be able to force a journalist to reveal their sources, it still means that there is less freedom of the press.
The second one is a little shakey, but noting the wording ("several" vs. "often") it seems like this isn't a common case, it just happened several times. One can still argue that it is an abridgement of freedom of the press, though. Yes, we need some secure areas, but it may be that not all areas this happened at need to be secure. It's hard to know from the tiny blurb here.
Maybe the metrics were stacked to make the U.S. looked bad. Maybe it is brazen reporters crossing lines that got the U.S. bumped from 16 to 17, but the first issue is one of concern. It's like saying "look at those brazen reporters, exposing faults of big business or our government and not telling our government who blew the whistle."
Or maybe this country isn't as free as it says it is.
Do you have a link with U.S. involvement in Saddam's rise to presidency? The link in my sig talks about their involvement with him as a result of the Iran Iraq war and the Iranian Revolution, but I haven't read anything on how Saddam got where he is.
I disagree with this. I've had times where I've worked even up to 108 hours in a week and the fact is that I got a lot more done in that time than I would have in 40 hours. Maybe not as much as in 108 hours over 3 weeks, but there were always other time factors that made it neccessary to do that amount, such as once the site had already launched and there were severe problems with it (I was not on the original programming team).
There is no way I could keep that up forever though, only being able to do it every now and then, but it some people can be productive in those circumstances.
I'm curious as to why you say that the variable bit rate of mp3 is a windows bug. I've written an mp3 parser (not decoder/encoder, though), and everything I read said that this was by design, and the fact that the bit rate is part of each frame seems to imply this.
Most MP3 players won't do VBR, though.
The article makes reference to the fact that this is like the swimming pool vaccuums. I have a polaris for my pool and the path it takes is completely random, it isn't even smart enough to do things like and expanding circle, etc. However, after about 15-20 minutes it always has the pool completely cleaned. You'd be surprised at how well a random walk can cover an area. Plus, you really don't need to get every part of your floor 100% clean every time. If you do this every other day, you'll probably keep the floor clean enough that it won't show.
I tried the Windows port of OpenOffice. It was impressive from a "it opened my word document" perspective, but it was actually pretty hard to use. I like to bullet things alot and there weren't the standard controls for bulletting/indenting that I was used to. Plus the bullets in the documents I opened had a grey backdrop, so the whole document was black on white, except these grey squares on each bullet.
It probably takes some getting used to, and there may be ways to add those controls to the toolbar, but my first impression wasn't great.
Possibly, but it's still pretty bad. When I was in Portugal I enjoyed the coffee. Before and after my trip, I couldn't find a coffee shop over here that sold coffee that I would drink (it's always too watery). I will drink espresso at some places, but it's very hit-or-miss and still not as good.
I agree with you, kind of. The problem here is that they are trying to assign causation: redheads need more anethetic because they feel more pain. There's nothing here that supports that. Instead, taking a needle and pricking people with verious hair colours would determine a hair-color/pain senstitivity link. There are just too many other factors, most notably how redheads process the anethesic. Maybe they need more because they have a higher tolerance for outside chemical changes.
But it does show that redheads need more anethetic on average, that's what correlation is.
The PCs I have here boot the debian install discs fine, but don't boot the Windows XP or 2000 discs. The 2000 wasn't a pirated discs, as another person in this thread suggested. It had the whole funky hologram on the label side etc etc. The XP one was a backup but I don't know how it was done (incidentally, the installs I've done are for work so they aren't "warez").
The knowledgebase article for creating the floopies are here for 2000 and here for XP.
Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 requires you to make boot disks if you don't have some version Windows already installed. It's a pretty big pain in the ass.
A good example of this is Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hallow".
This is the link I think you are referring to.
It was closed for people who own the software rightfully, but not for someone who kazaa'd it. See this law for the wording.
I also fnd it mor rdbl but mor trs
It didn't want to eat you then. Constrictors strike their prey with their mouth to get a good grip on them before they very quickly wrap their prey. Then then patiently wait until their prey breathes out, and on each exhalation, tighten their grip and do not allow it to inhale. Eventually, the prey loses consciousness due to lack of oxygen, and then dies. Often, if the prey is too lare, the python will coil around it and squeeze the body while pushing it out of the coil, inorder to dislocate the bones, making it easier for ingestion.
You can see the first part of this phenomenon (strike and wrap) in this file, where a 14 foot snake we had in my wife's reptile rescue begins the process of eating a chicken.
A snake crawling on you and then constricting is usually doing it because they are unsure of their "footing". It's a natural response, and occurs when the tree they are in is blown by a gust of wind. These squeezes can often be fatal, because the human being squeezed will being to panic and this makes the snake hold on tighter. Because of this, it's important to never wrap even a 5 footer around your neck, leaving part of it under the arm. If you are being constricted by a snake, the best thing to do is to have someone there who knows what to do. You have to stay still, while they unwrap the snake from you starting with the tail. Even the 15 footer we have right now isn't strong enough to resist a from-the-tail unwrapping because its muscles just aren't made that way. Unwrapping from the head is almost futile, however, as it is like armwrestling a guy with a 1 foot thick arm, and you have to move his hand 7 feet.
That is one sweet looking car. I just watched "Freejack" on the weekend and I'm reminded of the cars in that movie. If I were to be wealthy to the point of being carted everywhere in a limo, this would be my choice.
>there is little you can do from a system or procedural perspective beyond keeping up with patches
That's true for all systems on all OS's. Or is Slapper just a figment of the Internet's imagination?
My comments were related to your discussion of how IE was the only client software on the list, and your surprise that Outlook didn't make the list. My comments followed a discussion of a configuration solution and procedural solution to the problem of Outlook viruses. I don't see why you would ask me if that statement is true for all systems on all OSes since I already provided a counter example. I don't see the relevance of Slapper, as, AFAIU, it infects server software.
Spoken like someone who's installed very little "off the net" packages on RedHat.
While it's good to have a reminder every now and then of why I switched to Debian, every time I use it is a reminder of why I stay.
I like dbVisualizer . It works with any Java 2.0 drivers to give you TOAD like access to the database. I doesn't have everything TOAD gives you (no wizards), but it does relational mapping and you can have all your databases in one tool (I have Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL on there).
That's the one I was thinking of. I didn't know there was another.
I did this a while ago when my roomate-at-the-time was sharing one of my computers. Workes really well. Since then I've thought it would be cool to have an OE/Outlook virus that would do this and mail itself on. Thus, all the people who do click these damn things will get infected and never have that problem again, while the people who don't click them don't really need the protection anyway.
Sorry, don't have the list.
Outlook and IE have different problems, in my mind. Outlook is bad because the attack can be pushed directly to you, but, for the most part, you can prevent the attack through configuration of the server to not pass on attachments with certain extentions or even mostly procedurally by not opening such attachement (though, IIRC, one bug didn't require you to make that mistake). With IE, an attack is harder: you have to control part of the network that the person you want to attack voluntarily goes to, but there is little you can do from a system or procedural perspective beyond keeping up with patches.
One thing to note is that keeping up with patches is not enough for securely using IE. Microsoft has had a bad track record for not providing a proper patch until the bug is fully exposed, so there are constantly windows where you are vulnerable. For example, there is presently a bug in the certificate software that allows a man-in-the-middle attack on an SSL connection, making the authentication useless (you are just as vulnerable to an attack with or without it). Because of this I wouldn't online bank with it.
Yet dispite this, Outlook has had a worse track record for security attacks in the wild. Many outlook vectored viruses have done things such as emailing random documents from your disk. It wouldn't take much to take these viruses and modify them to find and send Money or Quicken files to a foreign email address.
Lets not take notice of the fact that the people who grow/sell/distribute those perfectly safe bottles of liquor and cigarettes have plenty fo money for kidnaping.(I'm sure you'll respond with the ever present, "It's the U.S.'s fault because fighting alcohol and nicotine use makes prices go up")
While drunk on the alcohol they're on, addicts tend to do things most people frown uppon. An alcoholic might think its OK to drive to the gas station. Because he's drunk off his ass he drives right into someones little girl. Oh but he's just doing what he wants in the privacy of his own home.
A mother who smokes cigarettes will inevitably be seen by her children. They get the message that cigarettes are good. They smoke cigarettes every day like mommy and die of emphasema, just like mommy.
Perhaps she'll forget to feed her kids because shes too tired after her alcohol binge.
Lets not worry about the health effects that from time to time make someone sick. They have to go to the doctor to get seen. They've spent thier money on Jack Daniels or vodka or Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum or whatever so tey can't afford it. MY tax dollars go to pay the doctor bills and welfare checks because someone, in the privacy of thier own home, decided to get drunk again instead of getting a job.
Do some research youself and see what the extended physiological effects of alcohol and cigarettes have on the human body.
Alcohol and nicotine aren't illegal simply out of tradition. I'l admit that the government did the wrong thing to try to keep people away from chew, but that doesn't mean even responsible users will not suffer ill effects.