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i can see your point — if the sexiest geek alive contest is not the best place to look for sexy geek girls, then i really don't know what is. yes, it's cute that this look of 2001 sexiest geek was inspired by this sandra bullock's look, but was it the most sexy clothing on the contest? i mean, it's a contest for the sexiest geek, right? so it's supposed to show some sexy bikini or lingerie, right? do i not get something here? that's not that i don't like her, the photo from the article could be better (in fact, i was wondering if it's not one of those onion kind of articles when i saw it — you know, like the linux developer gets laid), but i guess she looks kinda cool here and here (a little makeup and she could be quite sexy i guess) — however i'm looking for pictures in somehow more erotic clothes and poses. do you know any place where i could find some?

Lose all hope.

The mind boggles. . . Can you see Detroit asking for a piece of Used Car Sales ? A Home-builder demanding a piece of home re-sales ? I've seen that authors and publishers have tried. . .but haven't had the sheer unmitigated gall to try to get their profits codified into law like the RIAA, and to a lesser extent, the MPAA. . . .

But, on the bright side, somehow, I don't think they'll get the Congress to fall for this one. . . .

Don't Symantec's Norton AntiVirus and McAfee both have holes to let Magic Lantern barge right in?

"An Associated Press article [since removed from their web] then reported that "at least one antivirus software company, McAfee Corp., contacted the FBI ... to ensure its software wouldn't inadvertently detect the bureau's snooping software and alert a criminal suspect."

I got a response later that day: No, even a file that ends in .jpg could contain a virus. Don't open any attachments.

I was amazed that somebody would actually make such a statement, and was going to make a reply but I realized I probably wouldn't be able to convince him if he was just making blanket statements without any reasoning to back it up. Now, after doing a search for the original article, I see that my letter was posted to the site. Maybe it did some good. Or maybe they just pointed and laughed at me. Whatever, I refuse to care if the staff of Wired doesn't like me.

Give people simple advice if that's all they want, but don't make sweeping generalizations (such as ""). The people who took the article seriously are going to be laughed at if they make those statements in the company of knowledgable IT people.

I got a response later that day: No, even a file that ends in .jpg could contain a virus. Don't open any attachments.

I was amazed that somebody would actually make such a statement, and was going to make a reply but I realized I probably wouldn't be able to convince him if he was just making blanket statements without any reasoning to back it up. Now, after doing a search for the original article, I see that my letter was posted to the site. Maybe it did some good. Or maybe they just pointed and laughed at me. Whatever, I refuse to care if the staff of Wired doesn't like me.

Give people simple advice if that's all they want, but don't make sweeping generalizations (such as ""). The people who took the article seriously are going to be laughed at if they make those statements in the company of knowledgable IT people.

Wired also has a very interesting article this month on Jen-Hsun Huang's (CEO of Nvidia) plans to obsolete the CPU.

You think that's bad... check out the lead Wired article today.

Why don't you ask Bill Joy what he thinks.

A wireless alliance has formed between the likes of Nokia, Microsoft, Intel, Walt Disney Co.

Do we really want companies like Microsoft, Intel, and Disney in an alliance over wireless?

"Boeing and Lockheed are battling head-to-head to build the strike fighter of the future, a sleek, smart aircraft that will carry tomorrow's Air Force, Navy, and Marines - if it can fight its way out of the Pentagon."

the carnivore stuff runs linux

Boy you got some free karma, because it doesn't. It runs on Win2k. If you don't mind having an FBI file, you should really spend time at this site to learn more about Carnivore.

Was this really sponsored my Microsoft? Is there proof of that?

A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.

Wired has an article from almost a week ago titled Did MS Pay for Open-Source Scare.

This was also in wired about 5 years ago, you can find it here.

Trevor Baylis, idea man behind the Freeplay radio, had previously been working on the Electric shoe charger. But that domain and light searching reveal no sign of its fruition. This story mentions the shoe model charging a mobile device like a phone.
Here is the BBC story on the wind up model from July 2001.
Here is the Wired story from January of this year.

Well, Sun swears that their operating system source code is worth exactly $80 million.

That might not work out to be more on a per-byte basis than the Everquest account, but try amassing 80,000 Everquest accounts worth one grand apiece.

From Steven Levy's recent Wired article:

"I've got to ask you," I say. "How long do you envision this rule of the universe to be?"
"I'm guessing it's really very short."
"Like how long?"
"I don't know. In Mathematica, for example, perhaps three, four lines of code."
"Four lines of code?"
"That's what I'm guessing..."

A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.

Statements like these, from the paper, are also pure rethoric:

"Before the Pentagon and other federal agencies make uninformed decisions to alter the very foundation of computer security, they should study the potential consequences carefully."

What it comes down to is that a group of people with a pompous name, a conservative ax to grind, with funding from Microsoft, and with few security-related credentials put out a paper saying that the government shouldn't use open source and linking open source to terrorism in some underhanded way. What a surprise. The conservatives in this country have been using fear of terrorism to push a pro-corporate and anti-democractic agenda since 9/11.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander; anyone can put a backdoor into an OSS program, but anyone can also see it. With closed source, you're trusting that the vendor won't put one in. Of course, now you're assuming that (1) the vendor has no malicious intent and (2) that they keep their code completely safe. Of course, that could never happen...

The choice to subscribe to a company's service is a right which cannot be taken away from you.

You will not die without broadband. You will not die without the Internet. Probably, your life will be enriched without it.

At one point in time, the telephone was often labled a trivial toy of limited use and predicted to fade into obscurity. Now, the telephone is a key tool for everything from business and employment to emergency service to communications with geographically distant friends and family. It is an indispensible part of many modern societies.

One can live without a telephone. But you will find yourself seriously limited by it unless you move to an environment where such technology isn't commonly used. You NEED phone access.

Neal Stephenson makes an interesting observation in his article Mother Earth Mother Board. Bell sent the world on a technological devolved shunt. For a time, the world's telecommunications technology was digital, ableit of limited capacity. There were some theories towards increasing that capacity but they hadn't panned out (although they are actually the basis of technology being used today). And then Bell had us all going to analog. Its taken us centuries to get back to digital.

And now we have the Internet. It has the potential to not only absorb the roles of the telephone, but push the realms of communication and data (if it hasn't already). But much of that relies on broadband.

And because of that, the same concerns which have driven the telecomunications industry through its analog telephone days will continue to drive it well in the the Internet age. What has made telephone service important and ensured that it would be available to all (within some reason) will also eventually drive broadband access.

This guy was like you. There are places you can go if you need to talk to someone about your depression and Internet addiction. There are lots of resources that can help.

You can look at a historical graph of their stock price and pinpoint almost the exact moment when people realized that Etoys.com was nothing more than some money-grubbing lawsuit-happy suits who would rather use the courts as a business case than the traditional way (e.g., have a plan on how to make a profit yourself without relying on government handouts).

RIP Etoys; say Hi to Beelzebub for me.

What you said reminded me of the toy Furbies that were popular a while ago. If you put two of them together, they start talking to each other.

how about someone writing this article up?

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53021, 00 . tml

It seems like everyday more and more Governments are using Linux as a solution to their computing needs. Checkout what the NSA is working on for Linux (including source). EVEN the US government is using Linux ( micro$oft home base) is located !!
Here's an intresting article from Wired that covers Linux use expansion into governments. Finally the government is waking up to the fact that our tax dollars do not havto goto those greedy bastards.

It seems like everyday more and more Governments are using Linux as a solution to their computing needs. Checkout what the NSA is working on for Linux (including source). EVEN the US government is using Linux ( micro$oft home base) is located !!
Here's an intresting article from Wired that covers Linux use expansion into governments. Finally the government is waking up to the fact that our tax dollars do not havto goto those greedy bastards.

For the 3rd time on this thread http://www.wired.com/news_drop/palmpilot/story/0,1 325,52973,00.html

"A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution."

Did MS Pay for Open-Source Scare?

Quote:

A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.

"We support a diverse array of public policy organizations with which we share a common interest or public policy agenda such as the de Tocqueville Institution," the spokesman wrote in an e-mail.

Then it hit me, they must be using this to replay dvd versions of production tests under linux :)

Link (on page 3): "Sure, a digital shot is steady. It doesn't have to ride through the gate of a
projector. And, sure, it's as clean as the OR in a major hospital. That's exactly what's
wrong with it. Film has a molecular structure called grain; even a still of just a flower in a
vase has life because of the grain, because of the molecules in the film. Especially if you
sit in the first five rows of any movie theater, you know what I'm talking about. The
screen is alive. The screen is always alive with chaos and excitement, and that will
certainly be gone when we convert to a digital camera and a digital projector. I was one
of the first people to use digital technology to enhance my films, but I'm going to be the
last person to use digital technology to shoot my movies."

It may be interesting join this approach to the one exposed by Wolfram in his new 1200-page book "A new kind of science", which states that all the systems in the universe are the result of computations based on simple rules (Cellular Automata as a computation model) and that a "computational equivalence rule" exists, so that all these systems (eventually contained one into other, ending up in the whole universe) are the result of "equivalent" computational models.
Check this article on wired, or the whole book :) and, if you have (a lot of) spare time, think about it.
cheers.

Remember when there were interesting stories in Wired? It seems like another lifetime ago.

Remember when there were interesting stories in Wired? It seems like another lifetime ago.

Federal and state police legally intercepted approximately 2.3 million
conversations and pager communications in 2001, spending about $72
million in the process, the federal court system's annual report says.

The true number of authorized wiretaps is likely to be far greater.
This week's figures do not include all U.S. Customs surveillance --
some of their records were lost in the destruction of the World Trade
Center -- or those super-secret investigations done under the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act.

The total number of wiretaps jumped 25 percent from 2000. Drug-related
crimes were the cause of 78 percent of them.

And this is the interesting bit:

Only court-authorized wiretaps appear in the report, not illegal ones performed
in violation of state and federal law. In 1999, the Los Angeles County Public
Defender's office estimated that the local police illegally under-reported actual
wiretaps by a factor of ten.

Also check out Wired Magazine's article on Wolfram and his contention that everything can be broken down into just a few lines of simple code.

Also check out Wired Magazine's article on Wolfram and his contention that everything can be broken down into just a few lines of simple code.

It seems to me that this may actually be bad news to those hopefull for an open source victory. Their partnership didn't help the Germans out too much last time. Let's hope they get it right this time.

I like this line, "IBM technology put the blitz into the blitzkrieg."

Check out Lost in Space for some of the bizarre goings on. And it wasn't all related to management and space issues.

This is just the successor to their previous "iDon'tWork" program.

(sorry, it was too irresistable)

Sigh ...

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Locally, at the University I work at, a research group tried this and it failed, in part because faculty and students have really different modes of operation. Faculty spend most of their time in meetings with students, and tend to do their real thinking offsite. Students need a consistent and quiet place to work. So, the faculty enjoy walking around and running in to students, but students just want to show up to the same desk and pick up where they left off.

Too bad no one at Sun reads Wired.

Having my entire operation on a laptop sure makes it easier to migrate between home and office. If
Sun made laptops (remember Voyager?), then they would probably embrace what pretty much everyone else has: Give people laptops, fast home access,
good applications support, VPN etc.

One side advantage: I'm much easier to reach by phone when at home then when I'm at work in a building with notoriously poor cell phone connectivity.

Locally, at the University I work at, a research group tried this and it failed, in part because faculty and students have really different modes of operation. Faculty spend most of their time in meetings with students, and tend to do their real thinking offsite. Students need a consistent and quiet place to work. So, the faculty enjoy walking around and running in to students, but students just want to show up to the same desk and pick up where they left off.

Too bad no one at Sun reads Wired.

Having my entire operation on a laptop sure makes it easier to migrate between home and office. If
Sun made laptops (remember Voyager?), then they would probably embrace what pretty much everyone else has: Give people laptops, fast home access,
good applications support, VPN etc.

One side advantage: I'm much easier to reach by phone when at home then when I'm at work in a building with notoriously poor cell phone connectivity.

Not coincidentally, the company tanked soon after this started, and had to be sold in order to survive. In their new offices, traditional offices are the rule of the day.

This is not really the first win/linux virus. There was a cross platform virus over a year ago. Wired had an article on it, as did f-secure.com. This may be more malicious, but the first was GPL'd.

Here is a Wired article on it.

Too late. They already have.