Fans of
Monty Python's "Spamalot"
who signed up for a newsletter on the Broadway musical's official Web site may end up getting, well, spammed a lot.
A security glitch
- now fixed - exposed the names and postal and e-mail addresses of more than 31,000 people to savvy computer users.
When told by e-mail message about the breach, several people who had signed up for the "Spamalot" list said they were unsurprised, given the state of Internet security and the aggressiveness of spammers. Several noted that there was something appropriately Pythonesque about the incident. After all, Internet historians say that the use of the word spam to refer to junk e-mail messages has its roots in a 1970 Monty Python sketch, in which all conversation in a cafe is drowned out by a group of Vikings chanting the word over and over. The sketch and its song about Spam, the meat product, were adapted for the new musical.
"Are you sure they didn't do it on purpose?" joked one list subscriber, Matthew J. H. Baya of Ellsworth, Me. "Talk about guerrilla marketing."
12.03.2005, 20:48
Hannes
just
added support for
the visual Rhino debugger
to Helma. Something exciting to explore! I guess this is a good reason to switch my practice back from remote development to local development, since mentioning the word "visual" together with "my freebsd servers" unavoidably forms an oxymoron.
11.03.2005, 17:10
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"In their day, Pyramid, SCO, Apollo, DEC, Sun, Silicon Graphics, Gould and others fought ferocious scorched-earth wars trying to win customers' minds and money."
"Why is all this relevant? Because the UNIX wars didn't end and, consequently, the "last man standing" is still Microsoft / Intel. "
"Windows is a monopoly because short-sighted open source geeks and UNIX weenies were too busy squabbling over whether RPM was better than build-from-source or Gnome versus KDE, etc, ad nauseam."
"Let me make a prediction for you: The open source movement is not going to hurt Microsoft to any significant degree. But it'll put Sun out of business. Good move, guys! Now, do you hear the sound of distant laughter from Redmond?"
http://www.ranum.com/editorials/divide-conquer/
07.03.2005, 19:20
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Council Presidency Adopts Software Patent Agreement Against Council's Rules. Opponents are furious that the EU Council
has approved the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive
.
• Luxembourg negated the Council's own Rules of Procedure, which state that a B-item (which is at the same time a request to remove an A item) can only be rejected by the a majority of the Council, and not just by the Presidency. (art 3.8)
• The objecting countries seem to have forgotten to request removal of the A-item from the agenda. Rules 3.1 + 3.7 would have given any single country the right to have the A-item removed, because the Luxemburg presidency had failed to insert it more than 14 days earlier. This is how Poland has removed A-items from the Agricultural & Fishery Council twice in the past.
Here's the full
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
statement.
The directive will now be passed to European Parliament, which can reject or amend the proposal, for a second reading.
And
what will Switzerland do
if this really goes through?
07.03.2005, 15:40
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http://czv.com/zones/beastie/freebsd/freebsdweb1j.gif
06.03.2005, 21:05
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Signature
quote of the day:
"Never trust a man who can count to 1024 on his fingers"
But it begs the question: Why?
06.03.2005, 19:59
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It does not take more than a few minutes to stroll around
the whole city
and meet half its residents (
see video
).
06.03.2005, 13:04
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SPF hasn't been doing a very good job to fight the
FUD Microsoft
is spreading lately. So this article published by the Computer Business Online Report is a
gasp of fresh air
.
http://tinyurl.com/5dy2m
05.03.2005, 10:05
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> Ludivines, the "Green Fairy" of absinthe
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> First Look At Solaris 10
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> EU Commission Declines Patent Debate Restart
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> Alan Kay's wisdom guiding the OpenLaszlo roadmap towards Mocha?
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> 1 Kilo
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> Re: FreeBSD logo design competition
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> Schweizer Sagen
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> Europas Eidgenossen
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> XMLHttpRequest glory
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> Art Nouveau La Chaux-de-Fonds 2005-2006
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> The Beastie Silhouette
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> The Number One Nightmare
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> Safe and Idempotent Methods such as HEAD and TRACE
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> Sorry, you have been verizoned.
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> Daemons and Pixies and Fairies, Oh My!
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> Sentient life forms as MIME-attachments: RFC 1437
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> Anno 2004: CZV
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> Web Developer Extension for Firefox
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> Refactoring until nothing is left
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> Brendan, never tired of providing Javascript support
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> Catching XP in just 20 Minutes
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> Designing the Star User Interface
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> Rhino, Mono, IKVM. Or: JavaScript the hard way
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> Re: SCO
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> Judo
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> Convergence on abstraction and on browser-based Console evaluation
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> Today found out that inifinite uptimes are still an oxymoron
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> New aspects of woven apps
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> Original Contribution License (OCL) 1.0
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> Unified SPF: a grand unified theory of MARID
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> BSD is designed. Linux is grown.
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> 5 vor 12 bei 10 vor 10
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> Mocha vs Helma?
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> Schattenwahrheit: Coup d'etat underway against the Cheney Circle?
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> Abschluss Bilaterale II Schweiz-EU
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> From Adam Smith to Open Source
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> Linux - the desktop for the rest of them
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> Big Bang
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> Leaky Hop Objects
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> Return Path Rewriting (RPR) - Mail Forwarding in the Spam Age
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> Microsoft Discloses Huge Number Of Windows Vulnerabilties
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> Steuerungsabgabe statt Steuern
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> Anno 2003: deployZone
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> The war against terror
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> The war against terror (continued)
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> The relativity of Apple's market share
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> Are humans animals?
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> Server-side Javascript
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> Anno 1999: Der Oberhasler
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> Anno 1998: crossnet
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> Think different
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> Geschwindigkeit vs Umdrehungszahl
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> Anno 1997: Xmedia
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> "The meaning of life is to improve the quality of all life"
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> Anno 1996: CZV
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> How do I set a DEFAULT HTML-DOCUMENT?
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> Crossnet - der kollektive Intellekt der Schweiz
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> Global Screen Design Services
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> Anno 1993: Macro-micro navigator
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> Anno 1992: Intouch i-station
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> Anno 1991: mediacube
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> Anno 1990: RasterOps
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> Anno 1989: Lambada by Kaoma
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> Anno 1988: Perfect by Fairground Attraction
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> Anno 1968: Mony Mony and People Got to Be Free
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> August 28th 1968: William Buckley Vs Gore Vidal
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