I got probably no less than 50 recruitment flyers my senior year of college. And they were *targeted* I was a physics major, and every single letter referenced this.......
Where on earth did you hear that? I find that truly hard to believe that the proposal was remotely feasible for that cost. If you had a reference, that would be great....
eh... this may be splitting hairs again here, but isn't it possible to build a XUL engine from the ground up if you wanted to? I think that makes it distinctly *not* proprietary.... I mean,the w3c has all sorts of standards, some of which haven't even been implemented at all -- are they proprietary until at least two engines are built to handle them?
no one even has my gmail account yet... and I'm still getting spamorized. Surely the spammers are just using common usernames "@gmail.com" and are getting lucky.... can't google find these bastards?
This is a slippery slope argument, though. At some point the grammar becomes so atrocious that it *can't* be understood. This was the crux of the article -- that other people were unable to understand the emails and had to have them clarified. I would say that correct spelling and grammar is valuable to society.
"It is impossible that any developed country's educational system could operate that way for more than a decade or two"
Perhaps true, but this assumes that people in positions of power actually care about what happens more than a decade or two from now. In an age where CEOs regularly sell their own companies short, are people thinking of long term profit any more? We'll all be dead......
But imagine you have your machine plugged into your cable modem, and it gets hacked.... the IP of the traceback would point right to....... your computer.
Pretty much every comment has been disparaging... like "oooh... what do we need this for?"
I can think of one case where it would be useful: hearing impaired individuals.... Imagine trying to shout across a a street or something to a deaf friend.. not going to work. but if you could wave and message them, then it allows communication over "earshot" distances easier.
Obviously you should change your password on the router itself so that random drivebys don't screw with your settings.... but if you're running ssh, ssl, etc. how dangerous is it to leave your access point open? There seems to be a group of people in the thread that are like "geeze idiots, my AP is like fort knox". The other crowd says "I leave mine open INTENTIONALLY".
I'm sort of one of these people that dreams of the day when we have a huge community mesh and people can tell their cell phone carriers to piss off.... but I don't want to leave my access point open if some bonehead is going to hack my box.
Anyway, I've never seen anybody tell me the difference between 1) plugging your machine into your cable modem directly and walling up your machine by shutting ports down, etc. and 2) having a wireless access point. Is having a machine on an insecure access point any more dangerous than having a machine hooked up to the open internet on a cable modem or some such?
I mean, the wired internet really is one big network after all, and there are risks associated with being on it. If you're not behind a firewall, wired or wireless, what's the difference?
It's probably the cable TV guys they're talking about here..... they'll probably go to TCP/IP based content on demand eventually or something like that anyway... so they add a cable modem extension to the box, charge a fraction of what "computer broadband" costs (even though you & i know it's the same damn thing) and presto! people without PCs have broad band.
i can't image DSL providers being that intrested in something like this, but almost everybody has cable these days... it wouldn't take too much for a cable ISP to send you radio down your coax.
This pisser behind all this is the poor guy went to school for 4 years... My mom works at Wal-Mart in the photo center, after 4 years experience she's a photolab manager and makes about $30k. And she MADE money those four years rather than spent it on tuition, books, etc. So you're telling me your friend spent 4 years at Rice and has a degree in engineering (no offense to my mom, but something requiring way more technical skill that managing a photo lab) and he's happy to be making $30k!?
I don't mind working for my money, but doesn't a technical education afford you some better jumping point? Is the market really that bad?
Of course, I'm in graduate school after my physics degree so I'm the big shmuck here.... a wise man once said "Graduate school is the snooze bar on the alarm clock of life."
Isn't this some story where Gates came to Next computers with a plan to develop for the platform, and then they made him wait in the waiting room for ages or something stupid like that.... and then Gates vowed to never develop for the Next platform? I'm paraphrasing here, but maybe someone can fill in the details.
"Can you feel it, nothing can save ya For this is the season of catching the vapors"
I don't believe any hardware with a flash demo and no pricing information. Sorry. Anyone want to bet me a beer that this thing will be on the vaporware awards next year?
I'm confused.. could you clarify what you mean by:
"One biggie is that text windows work much better on linux"
I have actually found the opposite.... there is lots of great ways the GUI integrates directly with the CLI (ie pbpaste, pbcopy, and the infamous open command)... the keyboard shortcuts tend to be fairly uniform throughout the system, and with things like Perl Pad, you can take advantage of perl scripts operating on things selected with the mouse from global keyboard shortcuts (the services menu)... this kind of system-wide integration you just don't find with the current multitude of GUI toolkits for Linux.
You also might want to take a look at these scripts for Finder/Terminal interaction... I've found them very useful.
This is in addition to perl, awk, sed, grep, and all the other unix CLI tools we know and love.
In my opinion, the great advantage of Mac OS X over linux is the access to commercial software... I can run Macromedia Freehand right next to my gnuplot. I didn't "resist the temptation" to install OSS tools... in fact, it was precisely this synergy between great open source and commercial software which drew me to Mac OS X from Linux.
That and the USB hardware support...:)
Not that I believe in operating system religious wars, but peek around some more on that Mac OS X system... I think you'll find that with practice and maybe some third party tweaking (remember when you learned linux...) you'll be just as productive if not maybe a tad more on the mac. (Though I guess this depends on *exactly* what you're doing.. mileage may vary)
one of which is in "findings" , the other is here:
" 2) the Department of Justice should use all existing law enforcement tools to investigate and prosecute those who send bulk commercial e-mail to facilitate the commission of Federal crimes, including the tools contained in chapters 47 and 63 of title 18, United States Code (relating to fraud and false statements); chapter 71 of title 18, United States Code (relating to obscenity); chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code (relating to the sexual exploitation of children); and chapter 95 of title 18, United States Code (relating to racketeering), as appropriate. "
Also, the second point of number 1 you make isn't valid.. this law applies to non-solicited commercial email, defined as follows rather specifically:
"(A) IN GENERAL- The term `commercial electronic mail message' means any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service (including content on an Internet website operated for a commercial purpose).
(B) TRANSACTIONAL OR RELATIONSHIP MESSAGES- The term `commercial electronic mail message' does not include a transactional or relationship message."
So your "any email could be spam" comment isn't really applicable. Any non solicited commerical email is spam, and I think that's pretty reasonable.
For your point on 2, I think the law is fair.... I mean spam is obnoxious, but how much actual physical damage could you really claim from one guy? I mean unless some guy bombs the inbox of something critical to public safety, then I think there should be reasonable limits set. I could imagine some pissed off jury setting a penalty of millions of dollars from some poor aoler trying to peddle fishing hooks or something.
And as for 3, at least those organizations are ostensibly trying to do something for the public good, and not trying to scam you or simply make a buck. Whether such organizations aren't actually just trying to make a buck is a subject of other debate, but I can see why they should deserve a different status.
Anyway, in summary from my interpretation I think the law is pretty reasonable, though being a Virginian I am a little annoyed about the supercession of state law.
actually, upon closer inspection, i misinterpreted the question. the question is "is the 3 button mouse dead?" and "if you don't use one, what do you use?"
so i guess the answers are: "yes" and "a scroll wheel mouse, stupid., if i'm interpreting correctly.
i take back my pissy troll.... cut me some slack, it's early in my time zone.
i like the idea, but i have trouble using the marble and holding down the button to do "drags"..... maybe i'm just that uncoordinated. or maybe i didn't play enough centipede as a kid.
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I got probably no less than 50 recruitment flyers my senior year of college. And they were *targeted* I was a physics major, and every single letter referenced this.......
Yeah... let's not forget Sen. Hollings....
Where on earth did you hear that? I find that truly hard to believe that the proposal was remotely feasible for that cost. If you had a reference, that would be great....
eh... this may be splitting hairs again here, but
isn't it possible to build a XUL engine from the ground up if you wanted to? I think that makes it distinctly *not* proprietary.... I mean,the w3c has all sorts of standards, some of which haven't even been implemented at all -- are they proprietary until at least two engines are built to handle them?
yeah, what's the deal with that?
no one even has my gmail account yet... and I'm still getting spamorized. Surely the spammers are just using common usernames "@gmail.com" and are getting lucky.... can't google find these bastards?
This is a slippery slope argument, though. At some point the grammar becomes so atrocious that it *can't* be understood. This was the crux of the article -- that other people were unable to understand the emails and had to have them clarified. I would say that correct spelling and grammar is valuable to society.
I thought he was talking about making a bike that
distributed WiFi... like this:
http://www.magicbike.net/
I read half the discussions about being a fat ass before
I realized what the hell was going on...
that'll teach me not to follow the links.
"It is impossible that any developed country's educational system could operate that way for more than a decade or two"
Perhaps true, but this assumes that people in positions of power actually care about what happens more than a decade or two from now. In an age where CEOs regularly sell their own companies short, are people thinking of long term profit any more? We'll all be dead......
But imagine you have your machine plugged into your cable modem, and it gets hacked.... the IP of the traceback would point right to....... your computer.
What's the difference?
Pretty much every comment has been disparaging... like "oooh... what do we need this for?"
I can think of one case where it would be useful: hearing impaired individuals.... Imagine trying to shout across a a street or something to a deaf friend.. not going to work. but if you could wave and message them, then it allows communication over "earshot" distances easier.
Obviously you should change your password on the router itself so that random drivebys don't screw with your settings.... but if you're running ssh, ssl, etc. how dangerous is it to leave your access point open? There seems to be a group of people in the thread that are like "geeze idiots, my AP is like fort knox". The other crowd says "I leave mine open INTENTIONALLY".
I'm sort of one of these people that dreams of the day when we have a huge community mesh and people can tell their cell phone carriers to piss off.... but I don't want to leave my access point open if some bonehead is going to hack my box.
Anyway, I've never seen anybody tell me the difference between 1) plugging your machine into your cable modem directly and walling up your machine by shutting ports down, etc. and 2) having a wireless access point. Is having a machine on an insecure access point any more dangerous than having a machine hooked up to the open internet on a cable modem or some such?
I mean, the wired internet really is one big network after all, and there are risks associated with being on it. If you're not behind a firewall, wired or wireless, what's the difference?
funny.... all my lcds seem to turn into mirrors in
bright sunlight.
Most people already have "broadband" -- cable TV
It's probably the cable TV guys they're talking about here..... they'll probably go to
TCP/IP based content on demand eventually or something like that anyway... so they add a cable modem extension to the box, charge a fraction of what "computer broadband" costs (even though you & i know it's the same damn thing)
and presto! people without PCs have broad band.
i can't image DSL providers being that intrested in something like this, but almost everybody has cable these days... it wouldn't take too much for a cable ISP to send you radio down your coax.
This pisser behind all this is the poor guy went to school for 4 years... My mom works at Wal-Mart in the photo center, after 4 years experience she's a photolab manager and makes about $30k. And she MADE money those four years rather than spent it on tuition, books, etc. So you're telling me your friend spent 4 years at Rice and has a degree in engineering (no offense to my mom, but something requiring way more technical skill that managing a photo lab) and he's happy to be making $30k!?
I don't mind working for my money, but doesn't a technical education afford you some better jumping point? Is the market really that bad?
Of course, I'm in graduate school after my physics degree so I'm the big shmuck here.... a wise man once said "Graduate school is the snooze bar on the alarm clock of life."
Isn't this some story where Gates came to Next computers with a plan to develop for the platform, and then they made him wait in the waiting room for ages or something stupid like that.... and then Gates vowed to never develop for the
Next platform? I'm paraphrasing here, but maybe someone can fill in the details.
A wise man once said:
"Can you feel it, nothing can save ya
For this is the season of catching the vapors"
I don't believe any hardware with a flash demo and no
pricing information. Sorry. Anyone want to bet me a beer
that this thing will be on the vaporware awards next year?
smells like a perl script to me... probably "travesty"
on the last two comments.
funny, though... tee-hee.
I'm confused.. could you clarify what you mean by:
:)
"One biggie is that text windows work much better on linux"
I have actually found the opposite.... there is lots of great ways the GUI integrates directly with the CLI (ie pbpaste, pbcopy, and the infamous open command)... the keyboard shortcuts tend to be fairly uniform throughout the system, and with things like Perl Pad, you can take advantage of perl scripts operating on things selected with the mouse from global keyboard shortcuts (the services menu)... this kind of system-wide integration you just don't find with the current multitude of GUI toolkits for Linux.
You also might want to take a look at these scripts for Finder/Terminal interaction... I've found them very useful.
This is in addition to perl, awk, sed, grep, and all the other unix CLI tools we know and love.
In my opinion, the great advantage of Mac OS X over linux is the access to commercial software... I can run Macromedia Freehand right next to my gnuplot. I didn't "resist the temptation" to install OSS tools... in fact, it was precisely this synergy between great open source and commercial software which drew me to Mac OS X from Linux.
That and the USB hardware support...
Not that I believe in operating system religious wars, but peek around some more on that Mac OS X system... I think you'll find that with practice and maybe some third party tweaking (remember when you learned linux...) you'll be just as productive if not maybe a tad more on the mac. (Though I guess this depends on *exactly* what you're doing.. mileage may vary)
none of them are nearly as funny as
Angrybot.
"My credit card's not rejected, YOU'RE rejected!"
I'm confused... how does AT&T get around this?
I see what you mean about the importance of making
the "bulk" distinction. Though doesn't the law do that?
I guess I should read it a 3rd time.
Am I the only one who can use the "Find" function of my browser?
:)
0) go to the page with the law
1) Do Edit->Find or something similar
2) type "bulk"
3) profit!
1. "bulk" is included, twice in the document:
one of which is in "findings" , the other is here:
" 2) the Department of Justice should use all existing law enforcement tools to investigate and prosecute those who send bulk commercial e-mail to facilitate the commission of Federal crimes, including the tools contained in chapters 47 and 63 of title 18, United States Code (relating to fraud and false statements); chapter 71 of title 18, United States Code (relating to obscenity); chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code (relating to the sexual exploitation of children); and chapter 95 of title 18, United States Code (relating to racketeering), as appropriate. "
Also, the second point of number 1 you make isn't valid.. this law applies to non-solicited commercial email, defined as follows rather specifically:
"(A) IN GENERAL- The term `commercial electronic mail message' means any electronic mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product or service (including content on an Internet website operated for a commercial purpose).
(B) TRANSACTIONAL OR RELATIONSHIP MESSAGES- The term `commercial electronic mail message' does not include a transactional or relationship message."
So your "any email could be spam" comment isn't really applicable. Any non solicited commerical email is spam, and I think that's pretty reasonable.
For your point on 2, I think the law is fair.... I mean spam is obnoxious, but how much actual physical damage could you really claim from one guy? I mean unless some guy bombs the inbox of something critical to public safety, then I think there should be reasonable limits set. I could imagine some pissed off jury setting a penalty of millions of dollars from some poor aoler trying to peddle fishing hooks or something.
And as for 3, at least those organizations are ostensibly trying to do something for the public good, and not trying to scam you or simply make a buck. Whether such organizations aren't actually just trying to make a buck is a subject of other debate, but I can see why they should deserve a different status.
Anyway, in summary from my interpretation I think the law is pretty reasonable, though being a Virginian I am a little annoyed about the supercession of state law.
That is brilliant....
actually, upon closer inspection, i misinterpreted the question. the question is "is the 3 button mouse dead?"
and "if you don't use one, what do you use?"
so i guess the answers are: "yes" and "a scroll wheel mouse, stupid., if i'm interpreting correctly.
i take back my pissy troll.... cut me some slack, it's
early in my time zone.
i like the idea, but i have trouble using the marble and holding down the button to do "drags"..... maybe i'm just that uncoordinated. or maybe i didn't play enough centipede as a kid.