Interestingly, "mbox" format is another one of those standards without a standard, just like cookies.
It started basically as a storage convention for the mail command. Then, other programs started using it. Some of those programs were written to depend on certain information appearing on the line after the "From " and others didn't.
When I contributed to KMail 2 back in the day, on of my patches was to change what KMail put into the "From " lines of mailbox files because mutt or pine users (forget which) were complaining that KMail was broken because it wrote "From aaa@aaa" followed by the date with the hour set to midnight. This broke one of the other readers that expected the sender's email address and an actual timestamp.
Anyway, long story short, mbox format is plagued by similar though less serious problems to cookies. The biggest of which is that it is actually not a standard, but a convention.
It is cited in one of the articles, but it has been known for some time that many Asians and Eurporeans have some Neanderthal DNA. The director of KNOME has even more Neanderthal DNA than does Ozzy.
Except that robots.txt is not enforceable in any way. Spiders can ignore your robots.txt, and I've even seen some that actually spider what's in robots.txt looking for the "juicy" stuff.
One solution that an associate came up with was to put a url in the robots.txt that could not be reached from the normal site. The URL, when accessed, would run a program that instantly blocked the client IP address in the server's firewall. After implementing this, he very quickly accumulated thousands of entries in the firewall table.
Read more carefully please. The OP said "That was the reason the original Apple 2 was successful. You didn't have to know how to wield a soldering iron to have an affordable home computer." At the time the Apple ][ was released, the late '70s, that was pretty much true.
I think it is more like the incumbent energy supply industry really doesn't like solar panels on individual homes. They want to keep you suckling at their teat.
If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box.
One little mistake in the script and you fuck up the whole organization.
It is also easier to fix scripted errors because the error is identical in all places. I often find myself using sed to make complicated changes to config files and keeping backups or putting the changed config into a temporary file to get diffs of the results. In the odd case that something gets messed up in production, then it is usually another sed command or two to fix it.
With a GUI it is harder to verify that you are making the desired changes beforehand, and if you do mess it up royally, then you are usually touching all of the configs individually with the GUI to fix your mistake.
With the cli in the hands of someone who know what they are doing, the fixes can be implemented in seconds (or less).
Unfortunately, the TSA has impressive statistics for the number of bottles of water and shampoo, small knives, etc. that they confiscate every day.
As far as I know, 0 terrorist attacks on air planes have truly been thwarted by passenger action. The United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania can't really be counted as a success because the plane still crashed and everyone on board was killed. The success was partial because the plane was stopped from hitting its ultimate target, which was likely the White House or the Capitol.--It likely would have been shot down by fighters that had already been scrambled for that purpose, however, had the passengers not "succeeded."
The shoe bomber and the underpants bomber were not really stopped by passengers, either, though passengers did intervene. They were both thwarted ultimately by their own incompetence.
That said, I do agree that much of what the TSA does is pointless. Note that I'm sarcastic above when I mention their "impressive" statistics.
Fox News is a subsidiary of News Corp., but you know that. They won't mention it.
It would be funny if this is illegal and Murdoch and his corporations are brought up on charges of providing aid and comfort to the enemy. It would be very funny, but it won't happen.
I think every news network should trumpet this news. That the parent corporation of Fox News is doing business with.... Communists! And not the "good" communists in China, either, but the crazy, "We want to nuke the world," "our leader is a divinity to be worshipped," communists of North Korea.
Having gone for jury duty in two states, I can tell you that what you say is not always the case.
I served on a jury in Kentucky in 1999 or so, and the other jurors struck me as intelligent, level-headed people. We were there to do our civic duty and we did it well, I think. We returned our verdict based on the evidence presented at trial. That is what was asked of us and that *is* what we did.
Fast forward about 8 to 10 years and I was called to jury duty in Massachusetts. I was saddened by the number of people deliberately lying in an effort to get out of jury duty. What I saw were a bunch of selfish, self-centered consumers, rather than citizens who were willing to do their civic duty to at least attempt to preserve the notion of a fair trial in this country.
My number was called and I sat in the box. The attorneys have the right to strike jurors for any reason. I was called to the bench to answer questions about my previous jury service and about a past experience as a witness in a trial. I answered those questions as truthfully as I could given the amount of time that had elapsed since either had occurred. One of the attorneys decided to strike me based on my answers to those questions, or perhaps for some other reason. (Ironically, I "got out of" jury duty faster than the people who were lying about knowing something about the case, or being biased, etc.)
It sickens me when I hear people say things like "too dumb to get out of jury duty." That attitude has contributed to the decline of the criminal justice system in the USA. It's not the only factor, of course, but it is part of the problem when people do not want to participate in something that is vital to freedom in our country.
Trouble with that is these students are then set loose on the world and allowed to vote. Maybe they should be taught to understand sarcasm and understand logic. Assignments such as this one are a great way to do that.
Of course, as one of my friends, who is a retired school teacher put it in a school board meeting, "By the time these kids get to us [high school teachers and administration] they're already fucked up." That is, by the time they get to high school, it is too late to educate them, particularly the kids who come from homes where education is not valued and the parents do not take an active role in their children's education. My wife is also a high school teacher and deals with the apathy of parents and students on a daily basis. I had contempt for public education in America when I was run through it as a child, and my contempt has only deepened as I've seen it from the outside and heard the stories of my wife's experiences.
The lawyers for the manufacturer of Kleenex® brand tissues would like to differ with you in a court of law. You see, they still defend the Kleenex® trademark in the U.S.
That's a nice sentiment, but the real problem is that we're cavemen. We've evolved for living in caves, running around mostly naked, killing things and eating them. We haven't really evolved past that point.
Despite all of our technological sophistication and our science, the vast majority of the population doesn't understand how any of it works.--It may as well be magic.
They also don't understand how their governments and international organizations really function. Socially, they are still in the stone age with only their closest social group drawing any empathy. Everyone else is the "other" and doesn't count.
Nah, we're generally too stupid to rise to that level of sophistication. We need bigger pre-fontal lobes, but most would just settle for bigger boobs on women.
At least the universe won't miss us when we're gone.
Seriously, I think the claims of the patent are far too vague. It covers any kind of lookup you could do based on information in the email headers. No specific mechanism for doing this is defined. I really, really hope someone with a clue litigates this.
If anything, this should be a federal tax. The very definition of Interstate Commerce is I live in Massachusetts and I purchase something from California, that is then shipped a couple of thousand miles through many states to get to me. What about that doesn't look like Interstate Commerce to you? What about that looks like something that an individual state should have the right to tax and regulate and not the Federal gov't?
Heh, that reminds me... During debates for the election to replace the late Senator Kennedy between Martha Coakely, Scott Brown, and the independent candidate named Kennedy (no relation). I watched very carefully and listened very carefully and came to the following conclusion:
"Two prostiticians and a guy who's smart, but doesn't stand a chance."
When it came time to vote, I voted for Kennedy (no relation). If you keep voting for prostiticians, that's what you'll get. Though, it's looking more and more like it is time to move on to the third box that supports the pillars of, so called, democracy. I don't know, maybe Voltaire was right after all. I just have to find a nation filled with people that I could consider peers, but looking around no such place seems to exist.
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Interestingly, "mbox" format is another one of those standards without a standard, just like cookies.
It started basically as a storage convention for the mail command. Then, other programs started using it. Some of those programs were written to depend on certain information appearing on the line after the "From " and others didn't.
When I contributed to KMail 2 back in the day, on of my patches was to change what KMail put into the "From " lines of mailbox files because mutt or pine users (forget which) were complaining that KMail was broken because it wrote "From aaa@aaa" followed by the date with the hour set to midnight. This broke one of the other readers that expected the sender's email address and an actual timestamp.
Anyway, long story short, mbox format is plagued by similar though less serious problems to cookies. The biggest of which is that it is actually not a standard, but a convention.
It is cited in one of the articles, but it has been known for some time that many Asians and Eurporeans have some Neanderthal DNA. The director of KNOME has even more Neanderthal DNA than does Ozzy.
That isn't exactly news.
I don't get it, either. I mean, I'd rather spend my money on hookers and booze.
Except that robots.txt is not enforceable in any way. Spiders can ignore your robots.txt, and I've even seen some that actually spider what's in robots.txt looking for the "juicy" stuff.
One solution that an associate came up with was to put a url in the robots.txt that could not be reached from the normal site. The URL, when accessed, would run a program that instantly blocked the client IP address in the server's firewall. After implementing this, he very quickly accumulated thousands of entries in the firewall table.
Read more carefully please. The OP said "That was the reason the original Apple 2 was successful. You didn't have to know how to wield a soldering iron to have an affordable home computer." At the time the Apple ][ was released, the late '70s, that was pretty much true.
I think it is more like the incumbent energy supply industry really doesn't like solar panels on individual homes. They want to keep you suckling at their teat.
If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box.
One little mistake in the script and you fuck up the whole organization.
It is also easier to fix scripted errors because the error is identical in all places. I often find myself using sed to make complicated changes to config files and keeping backups or putting the changed config into a temporary file to get diffs of the results. In the odd case that something gets messed up in production, then it is usually another sed command or two to fix it.
With a GUI it is harder to verify that you are making the desired changes beforehand, and if you do mess it up royally, then you are usually touching all of the configs individually with the GUI to fix your mistake.
With the cli in the hands of someone who know what they are doing, the fixes can be implemented in seconds (or less).
You say that like it's a good thing.
Anecdotes are not data.
Unfortunately, the TSA has impressive statistics for the number of bottles of water and shampoo, small knives, etc. that they confiscate every day.
As far as I know, 0 terrorist attacks on air planes have truly been thwarted by passenger action. The United flight that crashed in Pennsylvania can't really be counted as a success because the plane still crashed and everyone on board was killed. The success was partial because the plane was stopped from hitting its ultimate target, which was likely the White House or the Capitol.--It likely would have been shot down by fighters that had already been scrambled for that purpose, however, had the passengers not "succeeded."
The shoe bomber and the underpants bomber were not really stopped by passengers, either, though passengers did intervene. They were both thwarted ultimately by their own incompetence.
That said, I do agree that much of what the TSA does is pointless. Note that I'm sarcastic above when I mention their "impressive" statistics.
Well, there is a lot more of "everyone" to be half of.....
Fox News is a subsidiary of News Corp., but you know that. They won't mention it.
It would be funny if this is illegal and Murdoch and his corporations are brought up on charges of providing aid and comfort to the enemy. It would be very funny, but it won't happen.
I think every news network should trumpet this news. That the parent corporation of Fox News is doing business with .... Communists! And not the "good" communists in China, either, but the crazy, "We want to nuke the world," "our leader is a divinity to be worshipped," communists of North Korea.
Having gone for jury duty in two states, I can tell you that what you say is not always the case.
I served on a jury in Kentucky in 1999 or so, and the other jurors struck me as intelligent, level-headed people. We were there to do our civic duty and we did it well, I think. We returned our verdict based on the evidence presented at trial. That is what was asked of us and that *is* what we did.
Fast forward about 8 to 10 years and I was called to jury duty in Massachusetts. I was saddened by the number of people deliberately lying in an effort to get out of jury duty. What I saw were a bunch of selfish, self-centered consumers, rather than citizens who were willing to do their civic duty to at least attempt to preserve the notion of a fair trial in this country.
My number was called and I sat in the box. The attorneys have the right to strike jurors for any reason. I was called to the bench to answer questions about my previous jury service and about a past experience as a witness in a trial. I answered those questions as truthfully as I could given the amount of time that had elapsed since either had occurred. One of the attorneys decided to strike me based on my answers to those questions, or perhaps for some other reason. (Ironically, I "got out of" jury duty faster than the people who were lying about knowing something about the case, or being biased, etc.)
It sickens me when I hear people say things like "too dumb to get out of jury duty." That attitude has contributed to the decline of the criminal justice system in the USA. It's not the only factor, of course, but it is part of the problem when people do not want to participate in something that is vital to freedom in our country.
Time is an illusion. It exists solely in your head because you believe it does. Even Aristotle knew this.
Fuck doing business with India or Indian corporation/nationals.
Trouble with that is these students are then set loose on the world and allowed to vote. Maybe they should be taught to understand sarcasm and understand logic. Assignments such as this one are a great way to do that.
Of course, as one of my friends, who is a retired school teacher put it in a school board meeting, "By the time these kids get to us [high school teachers and administration] they're already fucked up." That is, by the time they get to high school, it is too late to educate them, particularly the kids who come from homes where education is not valued and the parents do not take an active role in their children's education. My wife is also a high school teacher and deals with the apathy of parents and students on a daily basis. I had contempt for public education in America when I was run through it as a child, and my contempt has only deepened as I've seen it from the outside and heard the stories of my wife's experiences.
The lawyers for the manufacturer of Kleenex® brand tissues would like to differ with you in a court of law. You see, they still defend the Kleenex® trademark in the U.S.
Call me a cynic.
That's a nice sentiment, but the real problem is that we're cavemen. We've evolved for living in caves, running around mostly naked, killing things and eating them. We haven't really evolved past that point.
Despite all of our technological sophistication and our science, the vast majority of the population doesn't understand how any of it works.--It may as well be magic.
They also don't understand how their governments and international organizations really function. Socially, they are still in the stone age with only their closest social group drawing any empathy. Everyone else is the "other" and doesn't count.
Nah, we're generally too stupid to rise to that level of sophistication. We need bigger pre-fontal lobes, but most would just settle for bigger boobs on women.
At least the universe won't miss us when we're gone.
Hi, my name is Yucca Mountain. I'd like to disagree with you about the costs of nuclear energy.
Your lawyer is right. All you can do is sue them.
Your other option is just don't put stuff up on the web if you don't want people/corporations ripping it off. They will, you know.
Seriously, I think the claims of the patent are far too vague. It covers any kind of lookup you could do based on information in the email headers. No specific mechanism for doing this is defined. I really, really hope someone with a clue litigates this.
EXIF data can be faked as well. When it comes to digital media, you can trust nothing.
My quack, err physician, has said that blaming anti-depressants for depression and suicide is like blaming heart medication for heart attacks.
The man truly is insane.
It's worse than that. He's a Jehovah's Witness!
If anything, this should be a federal tax. The very definition of Interstate Commerce is I live in Massachusetts and I purchase something from California, that is then shipped a couple of thousand miles through many states to get to me. What about that doesn't look like Interstate Commerce to you? What about that looks like something that an individual state should have the right to tax and regulate and not the Federal gov't?
Heh, that reminds me... During debates for the election to replace the late Senator Kennedy between Martha Coakely, Scott Brown, and the independent candidate named Kennedy (no relation). I watched very carefully and listened very carefully and came to the following conclusion:
"Two prostiticians and a guy who's smart, but doesn't stand a chance."
When it came time to vote, I voted for Kennedy (no relation). If you keep voting for prostiticians, that's what you'll get. Though, it's looking more and more like it is time to move on to the third box that supports the pillars of, so called, democracy. I don't know, maybe Voltaire was right after all. I just have to find a nation filled with people that I could consider peers, but looking around no such place seems to exist.