Unfortunately, none of the apps we tried including Freebase include support at this time for the WDS parameters introduced with AirPort Extreme. In the case of Freebase, we couldn't even get it to connect to our Airport Extreme bases. If you have better luck, email me.
We had problems getting the previous version of the Java-based configurator and JRE to work for some people, but due to overwhelming demand (to put it mildly) we're giving it another go tonight and will update the article. Thanks for the prod.
Wired published the compete DeCSS Perl script, with an explanation of how it worked, under the headline "DVD Hacking for Dummies," three years ago. No one noticed.
What Juan Carlos probably meant was: Why is it supposedly controversial to publish something that's already all over the Net? I wrote the story, and I would agree with him. Yes, I've explained how Slammer works in a way non-programmers can hopefully understand. Just as important, we have new data that show how fast it really spread. Is that going to turn teenagers into evil crackers, or is it going to get the kind of people who read Wired - executives, Congress, other journalists - to look at network security more seriously? We think the latter, and we also think it's just a good story that hasn't been told from this angle before.
I plead guilty to the "wannabe" charge, though. Those who can, do. Those who can't, write magazine articles.
I'm surprised Wired doesn't link to the online MS press release
I filed that story an hour after Mundie's talk, long before a transcript was available.
Generally I don't report from press releases at all, for the obvious reasons. But a transcript of a talk I'd attended, yes, that I would have linked to.
Newsweek always moves articles to the paid archive after two weeks. So many people sent me the censorship claim that I talked to senior people at MSNBC and Newsweek about it anyway (I promise I gave them a little guff about breaking URLs as opposed to at least linking to a payment option).
There are also 20+ million print copies out there, as well as the Nexis archive. It would be pretty hard to make a Newsweek story disappear.
Glad you brought that up. One can only fit so much info into a 1,000-word news story, but Palladium will supposedly include a migration strategy to deal with machine replacement, backups, and such. No hard details yet, though.
I can't help worrying that any encrypted storage system could somehow get into a buggy state where I can't read my own email, even with emacs.
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Mann argues that we need to give the government - specifically, the U.S. government - the power to wisely regulate the Internet so corporate interests don't overrun it. Anyone who who disagrees is broadbrushed as a "libertarian" (I'm not) and a "hacker" (I wish).
On the contrary, it's long-term experience that leads tech-savvy Net users to believe that top-down regulation would be ineffective. And in the wake of the Communications Decency Act, the Telecommunications Act, and the Microsoft trial, why is it naive to doubt the US government could wisely or effectively control the Internet?
I've used PayPal or just plain cash in an envelope so they can't send it back or not cash it. At one show I just emptied my wallet into the FSF donation jar as "the least I could do for emacs." Of course I don't think twenty bucks here and there will keep anyone afloat financially, but a couple of recipients have said it's a motivational vote of value for their work.
You can also link to their sites, raising their rankings in search engines over time.
Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters is Barr's account of his own ten years at Microsoft. The company's internal culture is much more complicated than the typical portrayal of Gates and his devoted minions. At the same time, the whole Allchin/Silberberg split on Windows vs Internet strategy portrayed in Breaking Windows is definitely the key to understanding why the company makes the decisions it does.
Read the first page of The Gulag Archipelago for a better take on the effect of being arrested on the arrestee.
The idea that Sklyarov is so damaging and dangerous to society that he needs to be physically restrained and detained is hard to swallow. If he were the CEO of an American company that sold the same type of software, I doubt he'd have been arrested. There'd be a brusque exchange of letters among lawyers, maybe a conf call on the Polycom with Adobe and the feds, but no handcuffs and jail. Or if he were a college student giving away free printouts of eBooks on the street in Berkeley, he might get a talking-to. But no, he's a Russian and a computer programmer, which seems to make him doubly dangerous and doubly mistreatable - break out the cuffs.
I didn't believe you, so I checked myself. Amazing, given the attention any email virus gets. The obvious inference: No one in the press thinks readers will be convinced that Dmitry's case matters to them as much as they thought Code Red did.
Dunno about that - I work for the largest independent magazine publisher in the world and have published things like DeCSS code and Ed Felten's paper with the full consent of the guys at the top. If people want to keep Dimitry's name in the news, they should look at what Chandra Levy's parents and lawyer did: Find ways to dole out one newsworthy tidbit on the story per day. "Dimitry still in jail" gets old fast, even if it's important.
Paul Boutin | Wired magazine | Senior Editor | and artloop groupie
Pivotal moment: Getting caught reading Tau Zero in 6th grade class by hiding it inside a textbook (which I'd already read cover-to-cover, I mean come on people:-)).
Paul Boutin | writer unfit to tie Poul Anderson's sandals and amateur search engine optimization consultant
One wonders why, if the above is true, you are checking back in here to read the replies to your own post.
By contrast, we *all* know why this link to search engine optimization is here.;-)
But seriously, you've got a good point. I'm following the same model these days - giving away free search engine optimization advice online and sticking to print media and broadcast TV/radio for my journalism career. It just seems to be what audiences want.
That said, Wednesdays without Filler just won't be the same.
It's great to have tools that estimate the load time of your Web pages, but on every project I've worked on, using an inexpensive handheld stopwatch to measure the waiting times observed by humans (which is, usually, what you really care about) made the difference between a well-trafficked site and one that made surfers reach for the back button -- our server logs would show instant differences in traffic when we put out better optimized interfaces. I just read a study that said 1 in 5 e-shoppers who abandon shopping carts before buying do so because the site was loading too slowly. Automated test software often misses factors such as page layout time, network interaction between server and client (try reading Slashdot posts on Mac IE5), and real-world hiccups that can't be extrapolated by parsing a file from your test server.
Here' an article on site optimization I wrote a couple of years ago.
Thanks, this has been helpful feedback about the gift prices. We were, honestly, striving to find lower-cost alternatives to the PS2 and P4 -- 50 percent of the items are intentionally lower than the PS2's list price of $299, and we asked the O'Reilly Beowulf book author) to spec the cheapest usable cluster he was comfortable suggesting. But I guess we should have lowballed it even futher. I'd be interested to hear what price ceilings we should use if we were to do something like this again. You can post here or email me.
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One of the requirements for list items was that they be *available*
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Yep, we're busted, as noted in an earlier post. Thanks for keeping us on our toes.
Since none of the posts I read suggested a specific GPS, I contacted retailers and professional surveyors to ask what their favorite was. The GlobalMap 100, which won lots of awards when it was introduced in '98, was a clear favorite, despite newer models on the market. Maybe you should take a little more pride in your work on it.
Cute, but really, that isn't the kind of list we're creating. We realized parents were already bidding up Playstation2 and a few other status gifts that aren't the best thing to give budding hackers and scientists anyway. So we're going to suggest better ways to spend $1500 than buying a scalped PS2. For that price, you could almost put My First Beowulf Cluster under the tree.
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Unfortunately, none of the apps we tried including Freebase include support at this time for the WDS parameters introduced with AirPort Extreme. In the case of Freebase, we couldn't even get it to connect to our Airport Extreme bases. If you have better luck, email me.
We tried it, but it doesn't support the WDS parameters yet.
We had problems getting the previous version of the Java-based configurator and JRE to work for some people, but due to overwhelming demand (to put it mildly) we're giving it another go tonight and will update the article. Thanks for the prod.
Wired published the compete DeCSS Perl script, with an explanation of how it worked, under the headline "DVD Hacking for Dummies," three years ago. No one noticed.
I plead guilty to the "wannabe" charge, though. Those who can, do. Those who can't, write magazine articles.
If you spot the "demonstrating genuine leadership" letter, send it to these folks who've listed 74 and climbing.
I'm surprised Wired doesn't link to the online MS press release
I filed that story an hour after Mundie's talk, long before a transcript was available.
Generally I don't report from press releases at all, for the obvious reasons. But a transcript of a talk I'd attended, yes, that I would have linked to.
Newsweek always moves articles to the paid archive after two weeks. So many people sent me the censorship claim that I talked to senior people at MSNBC and Newsweek about it anyway (I promise I gave them a little guff about breaking URLs as opposed to at least linking to a payment option).
There are also 20+ million print copies out there, as well as the Nexis archive. It would be pretty hard to make a Newsweek story disappear.
Hi Norbrook,
Glad you brought that up. One can only fit so much info into a 1,000-word news story, but Palladium will supposedly include a migration strategy to deal with machine replacement, backups, and such. No hard details yet, though.
I can't help worrying that any encrypted storage system could somehow get into a buggy state where I can't read my own email, even with emacs.
On the contrary, it's long-term experience that leads tech-savvy Net users to believe that top-down regulation would be ineffective. And in the wake of the Communications Decency Act, the Telecommunications Act, and the Microsoft trial, why is it naive to doubt the US government could wisely or effectively control the Internet?
Paul Boutin | Wired magazine
You can also link to their sites, raising their rankings in search engines over time.
Paul Boutin | pro journalist | amateur search engine optimization hacker
Paul Boutin | professional journalist, amateur search engine optimization consultant
The idea that Sklyarov is so damaging and dangerous to society that he needs to be physically restrained and detained is hard to swallow. If he were the CEO of an American company that sold the same type of software, I doubt he'd have been arrested. There'd be a brusque exchange of letters among lawyers, maybe a conf call on the Polycom with Adobe and the feds, but no handcuffs and jail. Or if he were a college student giving away free printouts of eBooks on the street in Berkeley, he might get a talking-to. But no, he's a Russian and a computer programmer, which seems to make him doubly dangerous and doubly mistreatable - break out the cuffs.
Paul Boutin | professional journalist and amateur search engine optimization consultant (well, at least to my wife)
Paul Boutin | Wired Magazine | Senior Editor | and amateur search engine optimization consultant
Paul Boutin | Wired magazine | Senior Editor | and artloop groupie
Paul Boutin | writer unfit to tie Poul Anderson's sandals and amateur search engine optimization consultant
One wonders why, if the above is true, you are checking back in here to read the replies to your own post. By contrast, we *all* know why this link to search engine optimization is here. ;-)
But seriously, you've got a good point. I'm following the same model these days - giving away free search engine optimization advice online and sticking to print media and broadcast TV/radio for my journalism career. It just seems to be what audiences want.
That said, Wednesdays without Filler just won't be the same.
Here' an article on site optimization I wrote a couple of years ago.
Thanks, this has been helpful feedback about the gift prices. We were, honestly, striving to find lower-cost alternatives to the PS2 and P4 -- 50 percent of the items are intentionally lower than the PS2's list price of $299, and we asked the O'Reilly Beowulf book author) to spec the cheapest usable cluster he was comfortable suggesting. But I guess we should have lowballed it even futher. I'd be interested to hear what price ceilings we should use if we were to do something like this again. You can post here or email me.
One of the requirements for list items was that they be *available*
Yep, we're busted, as noted in an earlier post. Thanks for keeping us on our toes.
Since none of the posts I read suggested a specific GPS, I contacted retailers and professional surveyors to ask what their favorite was. The GlobalMap 100, which won lots of awards when it was introduced in '98, was a clear favorite, despite newer models on the market. Maybe you should take a little more pride in your work on it.
No wonder I keep falling asleep even after ten of those things. :-) Thanks for the correction.
Cute, but really, that isn't the kind of list we're creating. We realized parents were already bidding up Playstation2 and a few other status gifts that aren't the best thing to give budding hackers and scientists anyway. So we're going to suggest better ways to spend $1500 than buying a scalped PS2. For that price, you could almost put My First Beowulf Cluster under the tree.