In some alternate universe, your friend Schroedinger ate the toast, complaining about the cat hair in the butter. The cat survived to barf green grass into unnoticed corners of the carpet where the green had enough time to settle in. As Niven pointed out in one of his early stories, in a Schroedinger multiverse, no actions really have consequences. You can ignore the cat's screams. They really didn't happen.
Wouldn't it be fairly simple to use one of the standard blocking tools for this, then unlock www.anonymizer.com or similar?
My employer uses smartfilter, but allows anonymizer access. I presume that they look at a sampling of the anonymizer urls to see if they are reasonable. Whatever you may think og this in an employment situation (I'm happy with it), I can see it working in a home environment.
Someone working under such a regime could expect me to judge a call to "hotlesbians4u.com" differently than "lawreview.com/people_vs_Lesbian_bookstore_inc". Allowing a tracked bypass gets rid of the accidental links, and allows links in the cases where the kid's sober second thought is "I should be allowed to go there." If we disagree with his conclusions here, it is an opportunity for constructive parenting.
(Warning - Advice on parenting by single male. Use with caution. However, my parents let me look up anything that I felt the need to look up)
When searching Google for a cached copy of the professor's comments on the reviews (currently removed from the review site at his request), I found many references to this lawsuit.
I don't like listening to long interviews unless I'm driving at the time. I would rather read them. Is there any site on the web that you can point to a web-based audio file (Real audio or mp3 or whatever) and provide a babel-quality text translation? Such a site could cache the text for popular audio files.
The site could market itself to the hearing-impaired, but would likely find more users such as myself who just plain prefer their information as text.
(What would be the intellectual property rules on this? If the audio is freely available, would an automated (or manual) translation be allowed? I think back to the CNN (or was it Time) instant transcripts for the first portion of the OJ trial... as a new transcript of a freely-available audio item, they were allowed. Whatever service it was stopped presenting them for an unknown reason about halfway through the trial, but did not remove the earlier listings.)
I submitted a news item (declined) about an elementary school student-run website that allowed anonymous commentary about other students. The school administration handed out 3-day suspensions to the website sysadmins because "it is impossible to determine the identities of the people posting the hateful material".
My example was Canadian (we have different libel rules than USA) and administrative rather than judicial, but both my example and this one offer important issues in libel vs free speech.
My preference is towards open speech, but I have been the victim of false allegations that did serious harm to me. I did not pursue a libel case in the one case because of futile political convictions (fight falsehoods with facts, not lawsuits), and in the other case because fighting rumours with lawsuits would only re-enforce the "loser" reputation that the falsehoods were spreading. The loser prof will not gain respect from any students by stifling expression. He will only force the commentary onto Usenet or some offshore site.
If free speech becomes impossible in America, I'm sure that "tonga" (or wherever.cc or.nu are based) would be willing to trade in free speech sites. I'm sure that agents in various Carribean islands would be willing to register site names for you for a trivial handling fee.
I think the important distinction is that none of the apps I use under Linux look for script code in their documents. [...] If I want to give you these scripted capabilities, I must send a seperate file that you must treat differently than a normal document file. This is the key point, and we should keep this in mind when adding features to any applications that we work on.
Separation of data from programs is an important point to us geezers who got formal education in the mainframe era. We miss the distinction in the era where half of a user's data sits under C:\windows, and the other half is under "c:\program files". (I'm not an expert at Unix - forgive my misperceptions) Keeping the programs out of/home is the first step. Keeping a mindset that exectuable is separate from content as you describe is important in those cases where the executable (eg vim macro) ends up in user space.
What if the latest version of Emacs, or GNOME, or Apache got infected with a very small, innocuous alteration? Say, along with the above programs, the source compiled a slightly different version of man or ps, or even ftp?
Wait a week, then try it.
There are enough bored hackers around, that any semi-popular product with a new release will inspire "Hmmm - I wonder what changed". By inspecting the source. By comparing distributed binaries to recompiled binaries.
I was twenty in '77. "A New Hope" was a powerful movie for me. I didn't see it until August because I was EXPECTING a movie for 11 year olds, but it wasn't.
Episode 5 was even better, even if we had to ignore the dangling endings.
Episodes 6 and 1 marked the transition into toy infomercial. I hated "Jedi" and was disappointed by TPM.
For those of us who were adults in '77, Star Wars was still magic. But to appreciate the latest two episodes, we must recapture a preteen perspective to enjoy it. Bah!
I've already had the speaker re-attached in my StarTac (under warranty.) But I'm happy with the phone. I bought the smaller battery (17 hours standby digital) that fits flush, and kept the oversized battery it came with (30 hours digital standby) as a spare.
Sometimes, in fringe analog areas, I can hear people perfectly, but they cannot hear me. I wonder if the analog transmit power is lower on this phone.
Overall, I'm happy with mine. I'd probably buy the same model again if I were buying again. I paid C$160 plus a two year lock-in at $20/month.
BillPay was simple to implement...we still recieve our bills, we just use it to pay them.
Don't all banks provide this option? My bank has a web-based service for free (well, wrapped up into their monthly charge). It works with either your 16-digit ATM card number or a cookie you explicitly tell it to save, plus two passwords. If you don't save the cookie, you can use it from any browser. (though they don't advise using a browser with 40-bit encryption).
My previous bank had a similar service, but required their custom software, and a hefty service charge.
My only objection to the Canada Trust system is that my wife and I cannot set each other up as bills to the other. To hand off money to someone else requires either a phone call or a next-business-day service.
poplar trees were really that much better then say oak trees, wheet, or algee [in a pond].
He mentions that the poplar can grow roots from bark, and thus that you can plant a STICK instead of a sapling and have a reasonable chance of success. So that would write off oaks.
I didn't have the time to read the whole article, so I didn't see if he addresses the rest of your questions. It's plausible that he's depending on the wood as a long-term sequestration of the contaminants. If you end up with heavy metals or PCBs incorporated into a log, then you can stack the cordwood somewhere and they'll stay out of the biosphere for a significant time.
But he was talking about using trees to handle (heavy?) metals, and also talking about using the wood as fuel for the poor. I don't see how both can work. If you use the tree to handle lead, the lead has to go somewhere. If you then burn the tree to heat a home, the lead goes right back into the atmosphere. Or into the welfare mother.
The Mars Polar Lander also deployed two small "penetrator" probes, both called Deep Space 2
These are never mentioned in the discussions of "What happenned to the lander". I was wondering why they were never mentioned, as they would distinguish between an incident early in the landing process (braking thrusters) from an incident late in the landing process (microswitches to detect successful landing).. A problem with the landing would not affect these early-released probes.
Nobody in the know really expected either of the penetrators to work," explains why nobody focusses on these as a diagnostic aid to analyze the main failure. This part of the quote explains a lot to me.
My note here is a reminder to people to read the "...more" after the first screenful of Tau Zero's note runs up against/.'s inline size limit.
I keep waiting for someone to do it better. We now have the Systran engine in both altavista and go.com, both of them willing to mangle anything you throw at them for free.
I notice that The Register keeps quoting L&H translations, but I'm too cheap to pay for one. Is there any non-systrans site on the web?
Well, There may always be a bablefish, but its usefulness will always be what we've learned to expect from babel. I use Babel to translate SAP commentary, and it's useful. But weird.
An example from the quoted site is
In Linus Torvalds ' office I felt directly as at home. Torvalds - style genuine in the SuSE t Shirt - acknowledged that he had begun with Transmeta, because he finally times which other one to make wanted than in each case Linux, Linux. It did not express it, it suggested however nevertheless that it Linux had out-hung in the meantime quite to the neck. And there the function was to participate as a chief architect in the code Morphing software (CMS) a welcome alternation and a large challenge.
Don't give users 10 ways to close a window, for example.
I like windows because they give me options. If my hand is already on the mouse, I like the right-corner "X". If my office toolbar occludes that corner (because ICQ stole space from my desktop AFTER logging in) I double-click on the logo box in the left corner. If I'm not already on the mouse, I use alt-F4. Though I seldom use them, I'm offended if alt-space (alt-hyphen for a subwindow)-Close or alt-File {close or exit} don't work.If the software can adapt to the user, you keep more users happy. The non-MS world wonders why more users are happy in MS, but then talk about forcing the user to do it in a limited number of ways.
I agree that there are UI issues with allowing my toolbar application to occlude my "current-window" controls. Taking those controls away would not be the answer.
Uniformity OK, I agree with this one. Is it too late? I like the look of Gnome, but have never used it more than a half hour or so at demos. The rest of the world seems to like KDE better, perhaps because of its year head start (?). Other friends seem to use their programs as direct clients of the window manager without a desktop layer (I'm out of my depth here. Please correct gently rather than flames if I've misinterpreted).
Elegance I can't define elegance either, but I know what I like. I *SAY* that I don't put much stake in sizzle rather than the steak, but it's largely the "feel" of the desktop that makes gnome look better to me than KDE in the demos.
The main thrust of this message was my objection to the point about reducing user's choices in how to do simple things. Rate it up or down on that paragraph.
I believe that the NAME is from LeGuin, but the idea of hyperwave radio is much older. Perhaps the oldest might be Blish's "Dirac Transmitter" or Heinlein's telepaths.
The Dirac Transmitter got turned into a time machine info transmitter in a later installment of the series. I think Einstein and Feynman would prefer it that way.
Um, You mean it's disturbing that the patent on a masturbation pump references another patent on "bending a glass plane" as prior art? OUCH!
I don't know how to read these patent documents. The dates at the top are 1993 and 1996, clearly long after the commercial introduction of accujac. But the date at the bottom shows some Swiss publication in 1932 (with a dead hyperlink). Which is the date of this patent?
There are too many PCS (digital cellular) technologies out there. My telco has chosen "800 MHz CDMA" as the technology to use. When I roam outside of my two-province telco, I fall back to analog mode. (On my mini phone, analog roars through the microscopic battery in a few hours)
We can be assured of worldwide service when your phone is willing to autoswitch between GSM/TDMA/CDMA and then find the frequency at 800/900/1700/1900 MHz.
Each airship itself is an unmanned drone which flies at 20Km, there isn't a surface to air missile in existence which can fly that high.
You may wish to mention this to a certain Gary Powers.
Powers had engine problems. He dropped to a lower altitude to get enough air into his engines to restart them. (though I guess when your engines are out, dropping to a lower altitude is inevitable). Eventually he dropped into range of the routine fighter jets that the USSR had trailing him. I don't remember if he was shot down by a chase jet or a ground missile, but he wasn't flying at the intended altitude at the time.
Deep Impact didn't suck too bad. At least the science didn't make me gag. And I could understand why characters were doing the things that they were doing.
Contact didn't work for me, but lots of my science-literate friends were not too upset with it.
, it has nothing at all to do with copyright or patent law,
The link to IBM's patent search site has already been posted a few times. I'll repost it here so it threads with the above comment. I don't know how to read patents, so I can't tell what the claims are on it. I would appreciate someone explaining how to read the document. So far as I can tell, the patent is for a "decorative enclosure" that looks like the enclosed drawings. In other words, it does sound like a trademark issue. But the documents are labelled patent.
The Motorola page is down now (slashdotted), but when I saw it a second ago, it looked like they were pushing *TWO* different distros. One distro was three-nines availability for embedded equipment, and the other was 5-nines availability for HA equipment.
Ditto. I wrote a cheque for approx C$12,000 to clear a personal debt once I had sold my house. The guy I wrote it to is the kind of guy that normally has about $40 in his account.
The bank took about 20 minutes making various phone calls before clearing the cheque, but they did clear it and deposit into his account.
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In some alternate universe, your friend Schroedinger ate the toast, complaining about the cat hair in the butter. The cat survived to barf green grass into unnoticed corners of the carpet where the green had enough time to settle in. As Niven pointed out in one of his early stories, in a Schroedinger multiverse, no actions really have consequences. You can ignore the cat's screams. They really didn't happen.
My employer uses smartfilter, but allows anonymizer access. I presume that they look at a sampling of the anonymizer urls to see if they are reasonable. Whatever you may think og this in an employment situation (I'm happy with it), I can see it working in a home environment.
Someone working under such a regime could expect me to judge a call to "hotlesbians4u.com" differently than "lawreview.com/people_vs_Lesbian_bookstore_inc". Allowing a tracked bypass gets rid of the accidental links, and allows links in the cases where the kid's sober second thought is "I should be allowed to go there." If we disagree with his conclusions here, it is an opportunity for constructive parenting.
(Warning - Advice on parenting by single male. Use with caution. However, my parents let me look up anything that I felt the need to look up)
One example was on Winmag last October.
Another example is marked November but my employer's smartfilter won't let me go there.
Even ZDnet carried it in October.
The site could market itself to the hearing-impaired, but would likely find more users such as myself who just plain prefer their information as text.
(What would be the intellectual property rules on this? If the audio is freely available, would an automated (or manual) translation be allowed? I think back to the CNN (or was it Time) instant transcripts for the first portion of the OJ trial ... as a new transcript of a freely-available audio item, they were allowed. Whatever service it was stopped presenting them for an unknown reason about halfway through the trial, but did not remove the earlier listings.)
My example was Canadian (we have different libel rules than USA) and administrative rather than judicial, but both my example and this one offer important issues in libel vs free speech.
My preference is towards open speech, but I have been the victim of false allegations that did serious harm to me. I did not pursue a libel case in the one case because of futile political convictions (fight falsehoods with facts, not lawsuits), and in the other case because fighting rumours with lawsuits would only re-enforce the "loser" reputation that the falsehoods were spreading. The loser prof will not gain respect from any students by stifling expression. He will only force the commentary onto Usenet or some offshore site.
If free speech becomes impossible in America, I'm sure that "tonga" (or wherever .cc or .nu are based) would be willing to trade in free speech sites. I'm sure that agents in various Carribean islands would be willing to register site names for you for a trivial handling fee.
Separation of data from programs is an important point to us geezers who got formal education in the mainframe era. We miss the distinction in the era where half of a user's data sits under C:\windows, and the other half is under "c:\program files". (I'm not an expert at Unix - forgive my misperceptions) Keeping the programs out of /home is the first step. Keeping a mindset that exectuable is separate from content as you describe is important in those cases where the executable (eg vim macro) ends up in user space.
Wait a week, then try it.
There are enough bored hackers around, that any semi-popular product with a new release will inspire "Hmmm - I wonder what changed". By inspecting the source. By comparing distributed binaries to recompiled binaries.
Episode 5 was even better, even if we had to ignore the dangling endings.
Episodes 6 and 1 marked the transition into toy infomercial. I hated "Jedi" and was disappointed by TPM.
For those of us who were adults in '77, Star Wars was still magic. But to appreciate the latest two episodes, we must recapture a preteen perspective to enjoy it. Bah!
Sometimes, in fringe analog areas, I can hear people perfectly, but they cannot hear me. I wonder if the analog transmit power is lower on this phone.
Overall, I'm happy with mine. I'd probably buy the same model again if I were buying again. I paid C$160 plus a two year lock-in at $20/month.
Don't all banks provide this option? My bank has a web-based service for free (well, wrapped up into their monthly charge). It works with either your 16-digit ATM card number or a cookie you explicitly tell it to save, plus two passwords. If you don't save the cookie, you can use it from any browser. (though they don't advise using a browser with 40-bit encryption).
My previous bank had a similar service, but required their custom software, and a hefty service charge.
My only objection to the Canada Trust system is that my wife and I cannot set each other up as bills to the other. To hand off money to someone else requires either a phone call or a next-business-day service.
He mentions that the poplar can grow roots from bark, and thus that you can plant a STICK instead of a sapling and have a reasonable chance of success. So that would write off oaks.
I didn't have the time to read the whole article, so I didn't see if he addresses the rest of your questions. It's plausible that he's depending on the wood as a long-term sequestration of the contaminants. If you end up with heavy metals or PCBs incorporated into a log, then you can stack the cordwood somewhere and they'll stay out of the biosphere for a significant time.
But he was talking about using trees to handle (heavy?) metals, and also talking about using the wood as fuel for the poor. I don't see how both can work. If you use the tree to handle lead, the lead has to go somewhere. If you then burn the tree to heat a home, the lead goes right back into the atmosphere. Or into the welfare mother.
(as bluGill Said)
These are never mentioned in the discussions of "What happenned to the lander". I was wondering why they were never mentioned, as they would distinguish between an incident early in the landing process (braking thrusters) from an incident late in the landing process (microswitches to detect successful landing).. A problem with the landing would not affect these early-released probes.
Nobody in the know really expected either of the penetrators to work," explains why nobody focusses on these as a diagnostic aid to analyze the main failure. This part of the quote explains a lot to me.
My note here is a reminder to people to read the "...more" after the first screenful of Tau Zero's note runs up against /.'s inline size limit.
I keep waiting for someone to do it better. We now have the Systran engine in both altavista and go.com, both of them willing to mangle anything you throw at them for free.
I notice that The Register keeps quoting L&H translations, but I'm too cheap to pay for one. Is there any non-systrans site on the web?
An example from the quoted site is
In Linus Torvalds ' office I felt directly as at home. Torvalds - style genuine in the SuSE t Shirt - acknowledged that he had begun with Transmeta, because he finally times which other one to make wanted than in each case Linux, Linux. It did not express it, it suggested however nevertheless that it Linux had out-hung in the meantime quite to the neck. And there the function was to participate as a chief architect in the code Morphing software (CMS) a welcome alternation and a large challenge.
I like windows because they give me options. If my hand is already on the mouse, I like the right-corner "X". If my office toolbar occludes that corner (because ICQ stole space from my desktop AFTER logging in) I double-click on the logo box in the left corner. If I'm not already on the mouse, I use alt-F4. Though I seldom use them, I'm offended if alt-space (alt-hyphen for a subwindow)-Close or alt-File {close or exit} don't work.If the software can adapt to the user, you keep more users happy. The non-MS world wonders why more users are happy in MS, but then talk about forcing the user to do it in a limited number of ways.
I agree that there are UI issues with allowing my toolbar application to occlude my "current-window" controls. Taking those controls away would not be the answer.
Uniformity OK, I agree with this one. Is it too late? I like the look of Gnome, but have never used it more than a half hour or so at demos. The rest of the world seems to like KDE better, perhaps because of its year head start (?). Other friends seem to use their programs as direct clients of the window manager without a desktop layer (I'm out of my depth here. Please correct gently rather than flames if I've misinterpreted).
Elegance I can't define elegance either, but I know what I like. I *SAY* that I don't put much stake in sizzle rather than the steak, but it's largely the "feel" of the desktop that makes gnome look better to me than KDE in the demos.
The main thrust of this message was my objection to the point about reducing user's choices in how to do simple things. Rate it up or down on that paragraph.
This is scary. Once you distribute this program, then you can never patent anything? Or at least not earn anything from any patents ever?
This license does not seem to restrict the patent provision AT ALL! It appears to open up ALL patents owned by the distributor to public use.
Does Microsoft corporation distribute this product? Can we get Amazon to distribute it?
The Dirac Transmitter got turned into a time machine info transmitter in a later installment of the series. I think Einstein and Feynman would prefer it that way.
I don't know how to read these patent documents. The dates at the top are 1993 and 1996, clearly long after the commercial introduction of accujac. But the date at the bottom shows some Swiss publication in 1932 (with a dead hyperlink). Which is the date of this patent?
We can be assured of worldwide service when your phone is willing to autoswitch between GSM/TDMA/CDMA and then find the frequency at 800/900/1700/1900 MHz.
You may wish to mention this to a certain Gary Powers.
Powers had engine problems. He dropped to a lower altitude to get enough air into his engines to restart them. (though I guess when your engines are out, dropping to a lower altitude is inevitable). Eventually he dropped into range of the routine fighter jets that the USSR had trailing him. I don't remember if he was shot down by a chase jet or a ground missile, but he wasn't flying at the intended altitude at the time.
Deep Impact didn't suck too bad. At least the science didn't make me gag. And I could understand why characters were doing the things that they were doing.
Contact didn't work for me, but lots of my science-literate friends were not too upset with it.
, it has nothing at all to do with copyright or patent law,
The link to IBM's patent search site has already been posted a few times. I'll repost it here so it threads with the above comment. I don't know how to read patents, so I can't tell what the claims are on it. I would appreciate someone explaining how to read the document. So far as I can tell, the patent is for a "decorative enclosure" that looks like the enclosed drawings. In other words, it does sound like a trademark issue. But the documents are labelled patent.
The Motorola page is down now (slashdotted), but when I saw it a second ago, it looked like they were pushing *TWO* different distros. One distro was three-nines availability for embedded equipment, and the other was 5-nines availability for HA equipment.
Their block diagram shows one cable going to the keyboard and another going to the reset input.
It looks like you can give a hardware reset, not gust the nerve pinch.
Ditto. I wrote a cheque for approx C$12,000 to clear a personal debt once I had sold my house. The guy I wrote it to is the kind of guy that normally has about $40 in his account.
The bank took about 20 minutes making various phone calls before clearing the cheque, but they did clear it and deposit into his account.
Banks reserve the right to stall for a day b