yes. It was. Its command was "go ahead forward". So it covered 1km of flat desert land till it crashed on the very first cactus that appeared and got stuck.
They say GM food is not dangerous. BULLSHIT. they don't recognize the need of keeping garden vegetables in their proper place!
Did they all forget about the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes ? Imagine what would happen if it was an Attack of Genetically Modified Tomatoes ? We would not stand a chance. Civilization as we know would be destroyed.
Don't forget that it has already been demonstrated that intelligence is an universal constant, and the number of people on Earth tends to rise.
So, for technology-aware people, that commits the most serious crimes (specially fraud), this step will be mostly ineffective, yes.
But there have been lots of people who got arrested because they believed that they couldn't be traced back if they were using an anonymous service. Usually related to smaller felonies, like harassment, threatening, etc.
Actually thats not the biggest MS giveaway. I received a letter from Bill Gates himself that said:
Subject: FW: Must Read!!!! Bill Gates (fwd)
Hello everybody, My name is Bill Gates. I have just written up an e-mail tracing program that traces everyone to whom this message is forwarded to. I am experimenting with this and I need your help. Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches 1000 people everyone on the list will receive $1000 at my expense. Enjoy.
Your friend, Bill Gates
I have already forwarded it to 900 people. Almost there.
I've been poking around in Slashdot's archives, looking up nerd behavior. What I found is basically what many suspected all along: The age has little effect on the chances of nerds getting laid. Perhaps it's because 80% of the nerds don't get laid at all. So it doesn't matter if the nerd in questions is 16, 25, or 65. His chances are equally null.
Yes, I am not insane, I meant compression instead of encryption, and I am aware it'd be no better than ROT 13. I wrote that when I was sleepy and in a hurry.
And, mind you, modem users are not so minority. Not everyone lives in a place where 1 Mbps DSL is available for $50. I wonder I did. Here where I live a 256 Kbps DSL goes for about $50/mo. And don't forget overseas connections, wich are tipically slower, RTT times higher, and sometimes packet loss can happen, what, added to TCP low-start, can be a pain. So a file size reduction is a big plus.
Anyway, the fact remains. APPARENTLY IE 6.0 on XP does not request compressed connections. At least mine doesn't. And I don't see any reason for such.
I was using tcpflow to monitor the connections, and I noticed something strange. It seems most IE versions (like 5, for instance) append the following string on the request connection:
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
that tells the server it can send compressed data. Strangely, I notice that if I access the very same site using IE 6 + patch Q312461 on XP, it DOES NOT send such string, thus all my requests return unencrypted.
I checked, and I am not using a proxy, and on advanced options, Use HTTP 1.1 is checked allright.
How can I enable compression ? It *SHOULD* be default. Has somebody else noticed this strange behavior ?
Out of curiosity, but are moderators on drugs ? What's Insightful or Funny on this ?
by Kargan on 04:17 AM January 23rd, 2002 (Score:4, Funny) (#2886986)
(User #250092 Info) http://slashdot.org/ [ Neutral ]
Who exactly is John Romero?
Man: Lamers are dangerous, so if you see one where people are swimming, you shout, 'look out, there are lamers!'
There is a very interesting article about TCP that has more details on this. It's worth reading the whole article.
For those who don't have time/patience to read the full article, here's the most relevant part:
"Satellite-based services pose a set of unique issues to the network designer. Most notably, these issues include delay, bit errors, and bandwidth.
When using a satellite path, there is an inherent delay in the delivery of a packet due to signal propagation times related to the altitude of communications satellites. Geo-stationary orbit spacecraft are located at an altitude of some 36,000 km, and the propagation time for a signal to pass from an earth station directly below the satellite to the satellite and back is 239.6 ms. If the earth station is located at the edge of the satellite view area, this propagation time extends to 279.0 ms. In terms of a round trip that uses the satellite path in both directions, the RTT of a satellite hop is between 480 and 560 ms.
The strength of a radio signal falls in proportion to the square of the distance traveled. For a satellite link, the signal propagation distance is large, so the signal becomes weak before reaching its destination, resulting in a poor signal-to-noise ratio. Typical BERs for a satellite link today are on the order of 1 error per 10 million bits (1 ¥ 10-7). Forward error correction (FEC) coding can be added to satellite services to reduce this error rate, at the cost of some reduction in available bandwidth and an increase in latency due to the coding delay. "
I still prefer Doctor Brown's Mr. Fusion, that appeared in Back to the Future III. It runs with banana peels, cans, whatever. Plus it can get you back in time.
It has a major drawback, though. It only runs on a Delorean like this or this .
Well, probably moderators who smoke are going to lower my karma for this, but...
I think Canada's government may know the economic impact of smoking, not only healthy-wise but also related to lower production (smoke-breaks, more time sick, etc etc).
They probably wanted to do some pressure against this pro-smoke site. The only legal way they had was this.
And also, by using a flag, the smokers could lead some [stupid] people to think the official position of the government was being pro-smoker. Anyway, a flag gives a more "official" look on the site.
I know system admins (if they can be called such) that don't know how to patch. Granted, it's not an intuitive process.
Also. some are not updating from the last kernel, wich requires more than 1 patch.
I slso believe that such tool, that downloaded as many patches as needed, should be explained and incentivated in the kerne's site motd. If they don't show it on the front page, and say it's an advantage to the user, then few people are going to get it.
I don't think you should be modded down, because I also agree Windows (2000, XP) would be much more user-friendly than, for instance, a slack 8 + kde 2.2.
And I'll be more bold. I'll even say that a Linux distribution requires contant maintanance to stay secure, while Windows XP has automatic updates.
Don't consider me anti-linux. I do use Linux, but I don't recommend it to beginners who are not inclined to read books and books on how to use it. However, if the person really wants to learn hard, then I recommend linux.
Most beginners don't even know the difference between a file and a folder. Will they grasp the concept of devices and symlinks ? Fat chance.
You have most [dumb] users, for who Windows XP would be the best solution. And a handfull of [geek] students that would love linux, and could learn a lot using it. So why should you stick to just one OS? Use dual boot and have the best of both worlds. This way, they all can learn in their own pace.
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yes. It was. Its command was "go ahead forward". So it covered 1km of flat desert land till it crashed on the very first cactus that appeared and got stuck.
So they can still serve you even if you're too drunk to be capable of asking for another drink.
Not only bacteria, but Mutant plants, Mutant mice and strange behaving worms.
Because then the biker would smoke the bike rather than ride it.
If it depends on Tony Blair, aka US joyful puppy, then the UK will have DRM.
This is sad. So sad.
Real computer vision systems by 2020
Computers with the CPU power and memory of the human brain by 2040
Completely robotic fast food restaurants in 2030
Skynet will become self-aware at 2:14am EDT August 29, 2097
Skynet will crash at 5:25am EDT August 29, 2097 as it was based on Windows XP 3000
They say GM food is not dangerous. BULLSHIT. they don't recognize the need of keeping garden vegetables in their proper place!
Did they all forget about the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes ? Imagine what would happen if it was an Attack of Genetically Modified Tomatoes ? We would not stand a chance. Civilization as we know would be destroyed.
Just say NO to tomatoes
Don't forget that it has already been demonstrated that intelligence is an universal constant, and the number of people on Earth tends to rise.
So, for technology-aware people, that commits the most serious crimes (specially fraud), this step will be mostly ineffective, yes.
But there have been lots of people who got arrested because they believed that they couldn't be traced back if they were using an anonymous service. Usually related to smaller felonies, like harassment, threatening, etc.
If they develop another format, how are they going to call it ?
Provably DVD*R
or DVD^R
I have already forwarded it to 900 people. Almost there.
I've been poking around in Slashdot's archives, looking up nerd behavior. What I found is basically what many suspected all along: The age has little effect on the chances of nerds getting laid. Perhaps it's because 80% of the nerds don't get laid at all. So it doesn't matter if the nerd in questions is 16, 25, or 65. His chances are equally null.
>Excuse me??? I have no idea how your comment got modded "4, Insightful," as this appears to be total flamebait.
He(or she?) has a point, and it's not flamebait. And if I had moderation points, I'd give another +1 for that message. It deserves a +5.
Yes, I am not insane, I meant compression instead of encryption, and I am aware it'd be no better than ROT 13. I wrote that when I was sleepy and in a hurry.
And, mind you, modem users are not so minority. Not everyone lives in a place where 1 Mbps DSL is available for $50. I wonder I did. Here where I live a 256 Kbps DSL goes for about $50/mo. And don't forget overseas connections, wich are tipically slower, RTT times higher, and sometimes packet loss can happen, what, added to TCP low-start, can be a pain. So a file size reduction is a big plus.
Anyway, the fact remains. APPARENTLY IE 6.0 on XP does not request compressed connections. At least mine doesn't. And I don't see any reason for such.
I run mod_gzip on my servers.
I was using tcpflow to monitor the connections, and I noticed something strange. It seems most IE versions (like 5, for instance) append the following string on the request connection:
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
that tells the server it can send compressed data.
Strangely, I notice that if I access the very same site using IE 6 + patch Q312461 on XP, it DOES NOT send such string, thus all my requests return unencrypted.
I checked, and I am not using a proxy, and on advanced options, Use HTTP 1.1 is checked allright.
How can I enable compression ? It *SHOULD* be default. Has somebody else noticed this strange behavior ?
Yeah. I imagine some guy calling the radio station:
DJ: Hi, you're live now. What's your name?
guy: David.
DJ: And what music do you want, son ?
guy: I want the preemptible kernel patch.
DJ: Oh, so you like low latency, uh ?
guy: Yep. I sure do.
DJ: Ok, here it goes. We'll now play Preemptible Kernel Patch Opus 1, No. 1. Trio Sonata in E Minor
I just wish they'll be able to achieve this great feat of engineering: Transparent female bathrooms.
Go, scientist, go.
Get iptables for Linux, run make patch-o-matic, and install this [optional] target:
TTL - This target is used to modify the time to live field in the IP header. It is only valid in the mangle table.
--ttl-set ttl Set the TTL to the given value.
--ttl-dec ttl Decrement the TTL by the given value.
--ttl-inc ttl Increment the TTL by the given value.
Out of curiosity, but are moderators on drugs ? What's Insightful or Funny on this ?
by Kargan on 04:17 AM January 23rd, 2002 (Score:4, Funny) (#2886986)
(User #250092 Info) http://slashdot.org/ [ Neutral ]
Who exactly is John Romero?
Man: Lamers are dangerous, so if you see one where people are swimming, you shout, 'look out, there are lamers!'
Moderation Totals: Insightful=2, Funny=1, Total=3.
Yes. According to this distance calculator, the distance between New York and Tokyo is 6760 miles (10879 km).
Compare this to a satellite at an altitude of 36,000 Km, and consider the data has to go up and down.
That's the reason they lay fiber optical cables overseas instead of using satellites wich, I guess, wo0uld be cheaper.
There is a very interesting article about TCP that has more details on this. It's worth reading the whole article.
For those who don't have time/patience to read the full article, here's the most relevant part:
"Satellite-based services pose a set of unique issues to the network designer. Most notably, these issues include delay, bit errors, and bandwidth.
When using a satellite path, there is an inherent delay in the delivery of a packet due to signal propagation times related to the altitude of communications satellites. Geo-stationary orbit spacecraft are located at an altitude of some 36,000 km, and the propagation time for a signal to pass from an earth station directly below the satellite to the satellite and back is 239.6 ms. If the earth station is located at the edge of the satellite view area, this propagation time extends to 279.0 ms. In terms of a round trip that uses the satellite path in both directions, the RTT of a satellite hop is between 480 and 560 ms.
The strength of a radio signal falls in proportion to the square of the distance traveled. For a satellite link, the signal propagation distance is large, so the signal becomes weak before reaching its destination, resulting in a poor signal-to-noise ratio. Typical BERs for a satellite link today are on the order of 1 error per 10 million bits (1 ¥ 10-7). Forward error correction (FEC) coding can be added to satellite services to reduce this error rate, at the cost of some reduction in available bandwidth and an increase in latency due to the coding delay. "
I still prefer Doctor Brown's Mr. Fusion, that appeared in Back to the Future III. It runs with banana peels, cans, whatever. Plus it can get you back in time.
It has a major drawback, though. It only runs on a Delorean like this or this .
Well, probably moderators who smoke are going to lower my karma for this, but...
I think Canada's government may know the economic impact of smoking, not only healthy-wise but also related to lower production (smoke-breaks, more time sick, etc etc).
They probably wanted to do some pressure against this pro-smoke site. The only legal way they had was this.
And also, by using a flag, the smokers could lead some [stupid] people to think the official position of the government was being pro-smoker. Anyway, a flag gives a more "official" look on the site.
That's what I meant. Publicized in large, friendly letters on the very first page of the kernel d/l site.
I know system admins (if they can be called such) that don't know how to patch. Granted, it's not an intuitive process.
Also. some are not updating from the last kernel, wich requires more than 1 patch.
I slso believe that such tool, that downloaded as many patches as needed, should be explained and incentivated in the kerne's site motd. If they don't show it on the front page, and say it's an advantage to the user, then few people are going to get it.
I don't think you should be modded down, because I also agree Windows (2000, XP) would be much more user-friendly than, for instance, a slack 8 + kde 2.2.
And I'll be more bold. I'll even say that a Linux distribution requires contant maintanance to stay secure, while Windows XP has automatic updates.
Don't consider me anti-linux. I do use Linux, but I don't recommend it to beginners who are not inclined to read books and books on how to use it. However, if the person really wants to learn hard, then I recommend linux.
Most beginners don't even know the difference between a file and a folder. Will they grasp the concept of devices and symlinks ? Fat chance.
You have most [dumb] users, for who Windows XP would be the best solution. And a handfull of [geek] students that would love linux, and could learn a lot using it. So why should you stick to just one OS? Use dual boot and have the best of both worlds. This way, they all can learn in their own pace.