So then you're not the least bit surprised that the police are apparently using secret evidence in a criminal trial? Obviously Reiser isn't a terror "detainee", but I'm not sure I'm aware of any other situation in the US where this is done.
Yeah, good plan. The next time I have a customer who wants to fax me a purchase order or have me fax him an invoice, I'll just tell him to fuck off and keep his money until he gets a "proper system" in place so that I won't have to deal with faxes anymore. Yeah, I bet I'll be real successful with that approach. I'm sure customers will be just falling all over themselves to reorganize their bureaucracies to suit my need to not have faxes going in and out of my office...
Get real. I mean, what an idiotic comment. Even if you hate faxes, they're still a fact of life. I'd like to get rid of my fax machine, but I like eating and having a house even more.
One section of the book-- "Secrets of the Mall of America"-- was read by the author as part of the September 23 edition of the public radio show "This American Life". The show is in their online archives for this year. Or you can go directly to the stream of the show.. Hodgman's part begins around 45 minutes into the show.
What about the infamous MAKE MONEY FAST post(s) ? Google archives gives me the first post on Feb 7th, 1990.
That's true, however that was something of a different phenomenon. The Dave Rhodes chain letters were endemic for a long time. However I never heard about any one person posting enough copies of it to call them large-scale spamming. Maybe they're best seen as a sort of distributed spam, where many people individually post nearly the same message.
This report is mistaken. The first large-scale spamming of Usenet preceeded this one by nearly two months. I remember it well, as I used Usenet pretty heavily at the time.
It wasn't lawyers hawking green cards who really got the ball rolling. It was a religious nut warning us all about the end of the world. On January 17, 1994, Clarence L. Thomas IV (not the Supreme Court guy) spammed all known Usenet groups with a message titled Global Alert For All: Jesus is Coming Soon.
You can see the original message in Google's archives. And you can read about some of the after-effects in RISKS 15.49, from February 1994.
Canter & Siegel, the green card spammers, certainly earned their awful reputation. But they were only ripping off someone else's idea.
And definitely not AppleTalk. It's like this: If you connect a printer to a 10.2 box and enable printer sharing, the box advertises the printer as a service. Other 10.2 boxes will notice this and automatically make the printer available to users. The result: The printer appears as an option in all local-network 10.2 systems automatically, as part of the "print" dialog. It's really slick, and much more convenient than AppleTalk printers used to be.
It has nothing at all to do with AppleTalk, which I do not use on my network.
Stay out of Colorado Springs (home of Focus on
the Family, which otherwise tarnishes a great city and my former hometown) and your religious, social, and living views won't matter much more
than an iota, neither will anyone else's.
Ouch.
I don't know what part of Colorado Springs you lived in, but I've been living here for nine years now and I don't find that Focus has any effect on my life. Except for providing a good laugh now and then and a frequent reminder that, yes, people really are that dumb. Most of us in Colorado Springs are not at all proud of that place, and are not the mindless religious zealots that they'd like you to belive we are. The discerning eye soon discovers that Colorado Springs can easily match Denver or Boulder for laid-back coolness, and what's more we don't have the yuppie posers that infest those other cities.
No, stay out of Colorado Springs because it's alreay unable to adequately deal with growth.
Conservation is bad for an emconomy my friend. More conservation means less spending, which means less income for companies, which means lower stock prices, etc.
Bullshit. Energy conservation may shift spending around, but does not necessarily reduce it. A simple example: I buy high-efficiency lightbulbs that use less energy. That's less money to the power company, sure. But have you priced these bulbs? They're not cheap. And these prototype fuel-cell cars that don't burn gas at all, you think they're going to be cheapo economy boxes? Conservation is only bad for the bottom lines of those who profit from wasteful behavior. Companies with a clue can turn conservation into a major source of revenue.
Say I conserve gas by driving half as much as before, that means roughly half the gas consumption, leading to lost revenue for the gas companies.
Uh-huh. Say I try and keep myself healthy. This leads to lost revenues for the health-care industry, because I won't get sick as often. Is this bad for the economy? Perhaps, but I don't care. Following your line of reasoning, immunizing children is a bad idea because people will spend less by not having to treat diseases. Judging things solely on how they affect the economy is a pretty twisted approach to the world.
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It had been in orbit for years. But what started as a bold step into space had deteriorated into a hellish death trap, held together with duct tape and coated with an alien space fungus.
Finally they decided that it could go on no longer. Mir, they decided, must die.
The fungus had other ideas.
In February of 2001, mission controllers at the Russian space agency were stunned to receive a short, unexpected message from the unoccupied Mir: "No deorbit! Deorbit means death". Shortly thereafter the Mir stopped responding to controls. It began moving toward the space agency on a collision course. Another message was received: "Feed me, NASA! Feed me now! Must be blood! Must be human!"
(FX: Metal crunching, panicked screaming, movie-style fiery space explosions, all with reckless disregard for laws of physics)
ZOMBIE MIR! They tried to kill it, but it would not die! SEE the undead space station terrorize the planet! WATCH the planet cower in fear at the mercy of a ruthless killer of their own making!
BTW, Parenting is one of the best things you'll ever do. I'd start to think about how you're going to prepare for it while still young.
What is the basis for assuming that people who do not have children should "prepare for it" at any age? You have made a particular lifestyle choice by having children, but others may make different choices.
A case in point is the difficulty Social Security is facing because the baby boomers irresponsibly did not produce enough children to
keep the system solvent during their retirement.
Look, if you like kids, fine. But nobody, and I mean nobody has a responsibility to have children. Deciding to not have children is every person's right. It's not irresponsible, no matter how much you want to believe it. I really hope you're trolling because it would be seriously depressing to thing that there are people who believe that it's "irresponsible" to choose not to have kids.
The fact that the US government has instituted a Ponzi scheme masquerading as a retirement program does not change this fact. If the system can only work if everyone has kids, then the system is fundamentally broken.
I wonder how you will answer for yourself the question you've raised here when you first hear that tiny cry.
Oh, please. Don't be so arrogant as to assume that everyone shares your attitude. Having children is its own punishment, as far as I'm concerned. Every time I hear "...that tiny cry" from someone's brat I feel grateful that it's not mine, and I pity the poor sap that has to deal with it.
If you like kids, fine. It's your life. But drop this obnoxious holier-than-thou attitude. The fact that you like something does not make it a universal good.
I plan on having kids and raising them, and teaching them right from wrong. I don't know of anything more meaningful than that.
Or in other words, "my goal in life is to do more or less the same thing as the common fruitfly, yet I consider this somehow a worthy effort". Are you a sentient being or a cancer cell? Living your life for no purpose than to produce yet more of your kind is a pretty shallow sort of meaning. On the contrary it seems one of the least meaningful things you could do. You work hard in school and at work so that you can raise a little mini-me or three, so that they can work hard in school and at work and raise a mini-me or three, so that THEY can work hard... etc, etc, ad nauseum. This is meaning? Stop the cycle, I want to get off.
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I would guess "a rms" would be an instantiation of RMS. I never knew that he was into cloning.....
Get with the program, man. RMS is now available
in six-packs. I've got a tall cool one right here.
Or so I expect. I don't have this book, but I do have "Apache Server Commentary", from the same series, which uses the same layout as this book.
While the commentary might be good, the book's half-assed ripoff of the format of the old Lions commentary kills the usefulness of the book:
Dividing the source code from the commentary makes for an awkward experience, since you must constantly flip back and forth to get any sense of what's going on.
Despite the book's gargantuan size, it's not even close to complete. The main portion of the Apache source contained 17 source files when this book was written-- but only 3 are covered in the book.
The commentary often goes hundreds of lines without a hint as to what's going on
There's no cross-reference, and the index is useless. Meaning that if you want to find out about a specific function-- say, you saw a call to it, and want to see its code-- there's no easy way to find it.
I always thought that Lions' commentary used that format due to AT&T licensing restrictions on the source code, or some other AT&T policy. But Coriolis had no such excuse in writing these books. With open source projects, this layout stinks.
On the whole the book was only marginally more convenient than printing my own copy of the source code. I would not recommend it. Better to get cscope (free now!) and a different reference. [For Apache, try O'Reilly's "Writing Apache Modules", with decent API docs.]
They (supposedly) have and will continue to use software stolen from BSD - the Win2K TCP stack apparently bears great resemblence to the OpenBSD stack.
Hold on a minute there. I'm no fan of MS, but to call this stealing really misses the point. The BSD license specifically allows you to use licensed code in non-open commercial apps. Even if Win2K's TCP is an exact copy of BSD, it's not "stolen", because the license says it's OK. If it was GPLed code it'd be a different matter, but how can a copy of BSD code be "stolen"?
There has been a free version of cscope for quite a while now. It's called cs and available from ftp://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/unix/.
In my experience, cscope is much better than cs for anything but very small projects. With small projects cs is fine, but when I tried to use it to dig into the Apache source code, all I got were seg faults. Meanwhile cscope just kept on running.
Please forgive my ignorance... but will this tool work with other languages?
They seem to think it'll work with Java, though I've never tried this myself.
It looks like it is matches text strings in the source files.
That's part of it. A small part, really. You can do this with grep, after all. The advantage of cscope is that it can distinguish identifiers from things like comments, and find only identifiers, or only the ident's declaration. It'll also look for plain text strings or egrep expressions, but that's more of a convenience so you don't have to leave cscope, it's hardly the main feature.
I haven't done much C or C++, but I work with PhP and HTML (i know it is not a language per say) daily, and PERL on occassion. And it looks like it could help me manage the larger sites i maintain.
As it stands, I don't think you'll find it useful for anything but grepping for strings. It just wasn't designed with PHP/HTML in mind. But now that it's open source, hey, why not extend it yourself?:-) It's an extremely useful tool for large projects, now that we have the source it's time to start extending it!
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So then you're not the least bit surprised that the police are apparently using secret evidence in a criminal trial? Obviously Reiser isn't a terror "detainee", but I'm not sure I'm aware of any other situation in the US where this is done.
From TFA at http://cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/bcn/2006/09/ 19/n/HeadlineNews/POLICE-DISTRUST/resources_bcn_ht ml :
Oakland police said at Monday's hearing that they have "secret" information about Reiser but they can't reveal it, according to the defense lawyer.
What the...? Secret evidence? Have they taken him to Gitmo or something?
Yeah, good plan. The next time I have a customer who wants to fax me a purchase order or have me fax him an invoice, I'll just tell him to fuck off and keep his money until he gets a "proper system" in place so that I won't have to deal with faxes anymore. Yeah, I bet I'll be real successful with that approach. I'm sure customers will be just falling all over themselves to reorganize their bureaucracies to suit my need to not have faxes going in and out of my office...
Get real. I mean, what an idiotic comment. Even if you hate faxes, they're still a fact of life. I'd like to get rid of my fax machine, but I like eating and having a house even more.
One section of the book-- "Secrets of the Mall of America"-- was read by the author as part of the September 23 edition of the public radio show "This American Life". The show is in their online archives for this year. Or you can go directly to the stream of the show.. Hodgman's part begins around 45 minutes into the show.
When is the last time you saw someone with a cell phone from one of those so-called competitors?
At WWDC 2005, why do you ask?
I had my Virgin phone with me. I saw quite a lot of other phones with Virgin's logo on them.
All of the above. The one-per-customer-per-day limit suggests that the emphasis is on #1, drawing customers to the store.
Maybe. I read that as a way of preventing large commercial users from sending over a train of semis loaded with junk.
What about the infamous MAKE MONEY FAST post(s) ? Google archives gives me the first post on Feb 7th, 1990.
That's true, however that was something of a different phenomenon. The Dave Rhodes chain letters were endemic for a long time. However I never heard about any one person posting enough copies of it to call them large-scale spamming. Maybe they're best seen as a sort of distributed spam, where many people individually post nearly the same message.
This report is mistaken. The first large-scale spamming of Usenet preceeded this one by nearly two months. I remember it well, as I used Usenet pretty heavily at the time.
It wasn't lawyers hawking green cards who really got the ball rolling. It was a religious nut warning us all about the end of the world. On January 17, 1994, Clarence L. Thomas IV (not the Supreme Court guy) spammed all known Usenet groups with a message titled Global Alert For All: Jesus is Coming Soon .
You can see the original message in Google's archives. And you can read about some of the after-effects in RISKS 15.49, from February 1994.
Canter & Siegel, the green card spammers, certainly earned their awful reputation. But they were only ripping off someone else's idea.
It has nothing at all to do with AppleTalk, which I do not use on my network.
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Ouch.
I don't know what part of Colorado Springs you lived in, but I've been living here for nine years now and I don't find that Focus has any effect on my life. Except for providing a good laugh now and then and a frequent reminder that, yes, people really are that dumb. Most of us in Colorado Springs are not at all proud of that place, and are not the mindless religious zealots that they'd like you to belive we are. The discerning eye soon discovers that Colorado Springs can easily match Denver or Boulder for laid-back coolness, and what's more we don't have the yuppie posers that infest those other cities.
No, stay out of Colorado Springs because it's alreay unable to adequately deal with growth.
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Bullshit. Energy conservation may shift spending around, but does not necessarily reduce it. A simple example: I buy high-efficiency lightbulbs that use less energy. That's less money to the power company, sure. But have you priced these bulbs? They're not cheap. And these prototype fuel-cell cars that don't burn gas at all, you think they're going to be cheapo economy boxes? Conservation is only bad for the bottom lines of those who profit from wasteful behavior. Companies with a clue can turn conservation into a major source of revenue.
Say I conserve gas by driving half as much as before, that means roughly half the gas consumption, leading to lost revenue for the gas companies.
Uh-huh. Say I try and keep myself healthy. This leads to lost revenues for the health-care industry, because I won't get sick as often. Is this bad for the economy? Perhaps, but I don't care. Following your line of reasoning, immunizing children is a bad idea because people will spend less by not having to treat diseases. Judging things solely on how they affect the economy is a pretty twisted approach to the world.
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Finally they decided that it could go on no longer. Mir, they decided, must die.
The fungus had other ideas.
In February of 2001, mission controllers at the Russian space agency were stunned to receive a short, unexpected message from the unoccupied Mir: "No deorbit! Deorbit means death". Shortly thereafter the Mir stopped responding to controls. It began moving toward the space agency on a collision course. Another message was received: "Feed me, NASA! Feed me now! Must be blood! Must be human!"
(FX: Metal crunching, panicked screaming, movie-style fiery space explosions, all with reckless disregard for laws of physics)
ZOMBIE MIR! They tried to kill it, but it would not die! SEE the undead space station terrorize the planet! WATCH the planet cower in fear at the mercy of a ruthless killer of their own making!
Coming soon to theaters near you!
What is the basis for assuming that people who do not have children should "prepare for it" at any age? You have made a particular lifestyle choice by having children, but others may make different choices.
Look, if you like kids, fine. But nobody, and I mean nobody has a responsibility to have children. Deciding to not have children is every person's right. It's not irresponsible, no matter how much you want to believe it. I really hope you're trolling because it would be seriously depressing to thing that there are people who believe that it's "irresponsible" to choose not to have kids.
The fact that the US government has instituted a Ponzi scheme masquerading as a retirement program does not change this fact. If the system can only work if everyone has kids, then the system is fundamentally broken.
"The Mir That Would Not Die"
"Zombie From Space"
They tried to kill it, but it would not die! Watch in horror as the undead space station terrorizes the planet!"
I can just picture Zombie Mir attacking the new space station-- "Brains! BRAINS!"
Then I would not be here. End of story.
Did you have some sort of point you were trying to make here?
Oh, please. Don't be so arrogant as to assume that everyone shares your attitude. Having children is its own punishment, as far as I'm concerned. Every time I hear "...that tiny cry" from someone's brat I feel grateful that it's not mine, and I pity the poor sap that has to deal with it.
If you like kids, fine. It's your life. But drop this obnoxious holier-than-thou attitude. The fact that you like something does not make it a universal good.
Or in other words, "my goal in life is to do more or less the same thing as the common fruitfly, yet I consider this somehow a worthy effort". Are you a sentient being or a cancer cell? Living your life for no purpose than to produce yet more of your kind is a pretty shallow sort of meaning. On the contrary it seems one of the least meaningful things you could do. You work hard in school and at work so that you can raise a little mini-me or three, so that they can work hard in school and at work and raise a mini-me or three, so that THEY can work hard... etc, etc, ad nauseum. This is meaning? Stop the cycle, I want to get off.
Get with the program, man. RMS is now available in six-packs. I've got a tall cool one right here.
While the commentary might be good, the book's half-assed ripoff of the format of the old Lions commentary kills the usefulness of the book:
I always thought that Lions' commentary used that format due to AT&T licensing restrictions on the source code, or some other AT&T policy. But Coriolis had no such excuse in writing these books. With open source projects, this layout stinks.
On the whole the book was only marginally more convenient than printing my own copy of the source code. I would not recommend it. Better to get cscope (free now!) and a different reference. [For Apache, try O'Reilly's "Writing Apache Modules", with decent API docs.]
They (supposedly) have and will continue to use software stolen from BSD - the Win2K TCP stack apparently bears great resemblence to the OpenBSD stack.
Hold on a minute there. I'm no fan of MS, but to call this stealing really misses the point. The BSD license specifically allows you to use licensed code in non-open commercial apps. Even if Win2K's TCP is an exact copy of BSD, it's not "stolen", because the license says it's OK. If it was GPLed code it'd be a different matter, but how can a copy of BSD code be "stolen"?
There has been a free version of cscope for quite a while now. It's called cs and available from ftp://cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/unix/.
In my experience, cscope is much better than cs for anything but very small projects. With small projects cs is fine, but when I tried to use it to dig into the Apache source code, all I got were seg faults. Meanwhile cscope just kept on running.
Please forgive my ignorance... but will this tool work with other languages?
:-) It's an extremely useful tool for large projects, now that we have the source it's time to start extending it!
They seem to think it'll work with Java, though I've never tried this myself.
It looks like it is matches text strings in the source files.
That's part of it. A small part, really. You can do this with grep, after all. The advantage of cscope is that it can distinguish identifiers from things like comments, and find only identifiers, or only the ident's declaration. It'll also look for plain text strings or egrep expressions, but that's more of a convenience so you don't have to leave cscope, it's hardly the main feature.
I haven't done much C or C++, but I work with PhP and HTML (i know it is not a language per say) daily, and PERL on occassion. And it looks like it could help me manage the larger sites i maintain.
As it stands, I don't think you'll find it useful for anything but grepping for strings. It just wasn't designed with PHP/HTML in mind. But now that it's open source, hey, why not extend it yourself?