Beginning of the end of the internet, more like. Predictably Microsoft's "solution" to spam will only work for users on Microsoft systems running Internet Explorer. pine on Linux? I don't think that's gonna run an ActiveX control somehow...
When ISPs block everyone not running "spamproofed" clients, Billy's dream of 100% market share isn't far away. Reject this nonsense and support the original intent of the designers and engineers who built the net - end to end communications using platform agnostic standards.
For god's sake, how many more times will Slashdot fall for crap from this bunch of cowboys? mi2g are the archetypal media whores, they have no clue, no idea what they're talking about but they have the uncanny ability to tune a press release for maximum meaningless security. These 'surveys' they put out every do often are utterly meaningless, based on nothing. They're nothing more than a bunch of bullshitters who should be ignored. Five minutes with Google will turn up all the proof you need, failing that go search www.ntk.net.
In the past, during periods of strong rhythmic thumping on an exercise device, the solar arrays on docked Soyuz and Progress craft can be observed to jiggle.
Is it just me or... does that kinda imply that the microgravity research is basically impossible on the ISS? accelerations sufficiently large to flex portions of the structure will be enough to fsck anything dependent on zero gee.
Yes I know they're not doing any science _now_ but I thought the original idea (before Columbia) was to do something useful up there one day.
y'all have sound on work computers? How come?
Perhaps it's a US vs UK thing. I don't remember the last time I had a PC with speakers. I've been using headphones plugged into the headphone ckjack on teh front of the CD drive for music for as long as PCs have had CDs.
...and for what it's worth, Divine Invasions is the best Dick biography I've read; it covers his early desperate struggle to survive and make a living writing, his interest in Gnosticism, the strange 5-2-72 incident (in which he believed information about an illness his son was suffering, which was completely without symptoms, was communicated directly to him in a beam of light from some external entity or intelligence. He rushed the kid to hospital where after lots of tests they confirmed that said child was indeed suffering from the potentially fatal condition.)... his somewhat turbulent emotional life... his drug use... the mysterious military raid on his house... his psychiatric breakdowns... and so on. Anyway, highly recommended for the interested student of PKD.
My favourite PKD quote, taken from some notes for a speech he gave at a Canadian SF convention, is in my sig (in a somewhat shortened form, but the meaning of what he said is preserved.) Clear evidence that saturating your brain with vast quantities of mind-bending drugs *can* have a beneficial effect on the quality of your work - albeit at the price of rendering you paranoia-crippled, emotionally fscked up and generally A Bit Strange.
(Note to wannabee authors: in the 40s, 50s and 60s many jazz musicians got into very, very bad drugs because they wanted to emulate Charlie Parker. Of course it didn't work - a mediocre talent with an opiate addiction is still a mediocre talent. )
> Find me a linux app that can parse sendmail logs and let me go through > and say "show me all of the messages sent through server x that were > to or from user y", and then print the results with "to", "from", > "subject", and delivery status? >
*application*? You're joking, right? This is a shell one-liner ffs...
- off the top of my head, and without sight of the logfile format, but that's roughly how you'd do it. And thanks to the power of the GPL, some nice people have actually written software to allow you to do this on Windows (namely, Cygwin) and it's available now, free of charge.
Please, save your fingers and don't bother posting your standard unsupported, pseudo-authoritative guff about climate change being due to solar flares. Special -5 to anyone trying to link the last week's CME frenzy with climate change.
My personal arbitary list of bookmark'd climate change stories now includes the "Polar Bears likely to become extinct as North Polar icecap will melt completely in summer".
good grief, what a disaster that would be. I'm sure there'd be a flock of resignations pretty damn quickly if that happened (from Google, that is, not Microsoft.) Yikes!!!
Eh? Surely bllfrnch has not mistaken an old cliche ironically used in a sig (presumably by a Diebold employee, though that's not clear) for some sort of official policy statement?
Whilst I'm posting, my take on this whole thing: I still cannot understand why on earth the US moved away from the pencil-and-paper, put-an-X-in-the-box system used (AFAIK) by the rest of the world (certainly that's how it works here in the UK.) Simple, cheap, robust, reliable, transparent... why complicate a system that's already a model of simplicity and correctness? Can someone explain to me what the problem is that 'voting machines' (of any sort, including the mechanical punched-card type) are trying to solve, exactly?
I actually worked as a volunteer in a General Election back in 1987 - this included sitting outside the polling station politely asking voters how they voted as they were leaving, aka 'exit polls' done to give the parties an idea of how things are going. Of course people don't have to answer and many didn't. At the count, all the candidates and their agents, pluys local party workers, official observers etc can all stand around watching the ballot boxes coming in, being emptied out, counted & sorted. If there's a close result, the losing candidate has the right (which is often exercised) to call for a recount. Because the bits of paper are all still there it's easy to do this. Organised, mass tampering with ballots is for all practical purposes impossible in this system - there's too much oversight, checks & balances & transparency. Of course, the first-past-the-post electoral system itself sucks, and we should have proportional representation:), but the simple question of how many votes each candidate got is pretty much a solved problem. It's just, y'know, counting, really...
Is this general related to the US General featured in the news today as having been caught giving sermons in loony right-wing churches, in full uniform, telling people that the war on terror is a war of Christians against Satan?? Buck Turgidson where are you now...
the more stupid patents like this are granted, the greater the vested interest of those controlling the laws (corporates) in either getting the lawes fixed, or the Patent Office reformed.
ACTIVE X CONTROL?!?!?!? Oh, no. Oh dear Lord no, not that. Please not ActiveX controls... this will kill the web. I mean it. When any site that currently uses Flash, Java, RealMedia, Quicktime, mpegs,.. is essentially Windows-only, that's it - game over - the WWW is now AOL worldwide (Global AOL... GAOL... hmmm). Still looking on the brightside, the tsunami of catastrophic security disasters will probably help hasten the final demise of Microsoft.
>>Corporate Technologies USA, Inc. is offering hackers $250US and up >>as part > >In the real world, a "consultant" would be charging $250 AN HOUR, at >a bare minimum. > >Wake up and smell the coffee, dudes. They're using you as slave >labor.
You've got to be dreaming. I'm a professional pen-tester and my chargeout rate is about a grand a day (sterling), er, about $1500 a day. I take home about 1750 (sterling) a month, er, approx. $140/day.
> I like the capsule approach the best for transporting humans into space.
But - and this is a big but - it doesn't look like something from Farscape. OK, I know what I sound like, but hear me out! "The Right Stuff" was just repeated on TV here, and the saying that hit me was "You know what makes this thing fly? _funding_!" One reason the Shuttle worked (as in: kept flying) so long as it has was, frankly, that it LOOKS GREAT - if you don't know enough engineering to worry about what might go wrong. Personally I watched one STS launch live over the net five or six year ago, & realised that it was just too scary. If something Bad happened, I didn't want to be seeing it live; and the more I thought (and read) about it, the more obvious it became that it was only a matter of time. There's just too much that can go wrong with the stack.
This is also why the unmanned exploratory probes have been so successful. Count the number of pages of National Geographic devoted to pretty false-colour images of Europa, Io, Mars etc in the last couple of decades! Pretty pictures == (indirectly) funding. Now, an Apollo (or Gemini!) style launcher with a capsule on the top doesn't look terribly exciting in these days of hundreds of LEO and geo-sync satellites. Likewise the same old pictures of astronauts and cosmonauts turning somersaults in mid-air, etc. Well the only thing that looks at all interesting apart from (a) low earth orbit and (b) the planet itself, FROM orbit, is, well, the Moon and Mars.
Frankly I think there are too many naive techno-evangelist types in the "space fan" community. If there any reason to do it apart from "it looks cool" or "we have to beat the Russians", you'd be doing it. Perhaps things will change if China tries to get there; personally I doubt it, though. We (the West) don't compete against China any more - we trade with her. Global manufacturing industry is pretty much relocating over there. Whatever the people may think, the powers that be (who write the cheques) don't regard China as a militarily aggressive menace in the way the Soviet Union was.
Ah, but it doesn't! That's my point... it/looks/ like the right place, doesn't it... but three screens along it turns out to be something completely different. Hence my rant about the terrible UI!
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When ISPs block everyone not running "spamproofed" clients, Billy's dream of 100% market share isn't far away. Reject this nonsense and support the original intent of the designers and engineers who built the net - end to end communications using platform agnostic standards.
For god's sake, how many more times will Slashdot fall for crap from this bunch of cowboys? mi2g are the archetypal media whores, they have no clue, no idea what they're talking about but they have the uncanny ability to tune a press release for maximum meaningless security. These 'surveys' they put out every do often are utterly meaningless, based on nothing. They're nothing more than a bunch of bullshitters who should be ignored. Five minutes with Google will turn up all the proof you need, failing that go search www.ntk.net.
Is it just me or... does that kinda imply that the microgravity research is basically impossible on the ISS? accelerations sufficiently large to flex portions of the structure will be enough to fsck anything dependent on zero gee.
Yes I know they're not doing any science _now_ but I thought the original idea (before Columbia) was to do something useful up there one day.
y'all have sound on work computers? How come? Perhaps it's a US vs UK thing. I don't remember the last time I had a PC with speakers. I've been using headphones plugged into the headphone ckjack on teh front of the CD drive for music for as long as PCs have had CDs.
I don't think the Republic of South Africa have a space program yet?
heh, never thought of that! Good guess, though I was thinking of something a little more prosaic...
If you were reading Slashdot last night, or used IRC, you'd know the answer to this
...and for what it's worth, Divine Invasions is the best Dick biography I've read; it covers his early desperate struggle to survive and make a living writing, his interest in Gnosticism, the strange 5-2-72 incident (in which he believed information about an illness his son was suffering, which was completely without symptoms, was communicated directly to him in a beam of light from some external entity or intelligence. He rushed the kid to hospital where after lots of tests they confirmed that said child was indeed suffering from the potentially fatal condition.)... his somewhat turbulent emotional life... his drug use... the mysterious military raid on his house... his psychiatric breakdowns... and so on. Anyway, highly recommended for the interested student of PKD.
(Note to wannabee authors: in the 40s, 50s and 60s many jazz musicians got into very, very bad drugs because they wanted to emulate Charlie Parker. Of course it didn't work - a mediocre talent with an opiate addiction is still a mediocre talent. )
> it is NOT a foregone conclusion that SCO will lose
>
Oh, yes it is!
> and say "show me all of the messages sent through server x that were
> to or from user y", and then print the results with "to", "from",
> "subject", and delivery status?
>
*application*? You're joking, right? This is a shell one-liner ffs...
$ grep logfile [serverIP] | grep userX | grep userY | awk '{$2 $4 $6 $8}'
- off the top of my head, and without sight of the logfile format, but that's roughly how you'd do it. And thanks to the power of the GPL, some nice people have actually written software to allow you to do this on Windows (namely, Cygwin) and it's available now, free of charge.
You're welcome.
Thanks, Slashdot, for giving me a good chuckle first thing in the morning (waddaya mean, 10:30am isn't first thing?!)
Very amusing. It'll never work.
http://www.macboy.com/cartoons/ballmer/
Warning - you'll want to hover your mouse pointer over your volume controls if there are other people about
My personal arbitary list of bookmark'd climate change stories now includes the "Polar Bears likely to become extinct as North Polar icecap will melt completely in summer".
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast07se
http://earth.agu.org/revgeophys/s
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http://www.whoi.edu/home/a
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/u
http://www.observer.co.uk/interna
http://www.spacedaily.com/news
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?
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good grief, what a disaster that would be. I'm sure there'd be a flock of resignations pretty damn quickly if that happened (from Google, that is, not Microsoft.) Yikes!!!
Whilst I'm posting, my take on this whole thing: I still cannot understand why on earth the US moved away from the pencil-and-paper, put-an-X-in-the-box system used (AFAIK) by the rest of the world (certainly that's how it works here in the UK.) Simple, cheap, robust, reliable, transparent... why complicate a system that's already a model of simplicity and correctness? Can someone explain to me what the problem is that 'voting machines' (of any sort, including the mechanical punched-card type) are trying to solve, exactly?
I actually worked as a volunteer in a General Election back in 1987 - this included sitting outside the polling station politely asking voters how they voted as they were leaving, aka 'exit polls' done to give the parties an idea of how things are going. Of course people don't have to answer and many didn't. At the count, all the candidates and their agents, pluys local party workers, official observers etc can all stand around watching the ballot boxes coming in, being emptied out, counted & sorted. If there's a close result, the losing candidate has the right (which is often exercised) to call for a recount. Because the bits of paper are all still there it's easy to do this. Organised, mass tampering with ballots is for all practical purposes impossible in this system - there's too much oversight, checks & balances & transparency. Of course, the first-past-the-post electoral system itself sucks, and we should have proportional representation :), but the simple question of how many votes each candidate got is pretty much a solved problem. It's just, y'know, counting, really...
Is this general related to the US General featured in the news today as having been caught giving sermons in loony right-wing churches, in full uniform, telling people that the war on terror is a war of Christians against Satan?? Buck Turgidson where are you now...
I'd say my sitting here, and typing into slashdot is pretty strong evidence I was born at some point in the past.
Well, no, because you're just a bunch of bits in a very big simulation being run by benevolent alien beings. Or possibly bored alien teenagers.
See here: Simulation Argument
the more stupid patents like this are granted, the greater the vested interest of those controlling the laws (corporates) in either getting the lawes fixed, or the Patent Office reformed.
ACTIVE X CONTROL?!?!?!? Oh, no. Oh dear Lord no, not that. Please not ActiveX controls... this will kill the web. I mean it. When any site that currently uses Flash, Java, RealMedia, Quicktime, mpegs,.. is essentially Windows-only, that's it - game over - the WWW is now AOL worldwide (Global AOL... GAOL... hmmm). Still looking on the brightside, the tsunami of catastrophic security disasters will probably help hasten the final demise of Microsoft.
>>Corporate Technologies USA, Inc. is offering hackers $250US and up
>>as part
>
>In the real world, a "consultant" would be charging $250 AN HOUR, at
>a bare minimum.
>
>Wake up and smell the coffee, dudes. They're using you as slave
>labor.
You've got to be dreaming. I'm a professional pen-tester and my chargeout rate is about a grand a day (sterling), er, about $1500 a day. I take home about 1750 (sterling) a month, er, approx. $140/day.
> When I first read the title, I thought it was "Get Paid For Crack?"
>
>Where where?
On a streetcorner near you, now!!
> I like the capsule approach the best for transporting humans into space.
But - and this is a big but - it doesn't look like something from Farscape. OK, I know what I sound like, but hear me out! "The Right Stuff" was just repeated on TV here, and the saying that hit me was "You know what makes this thing fly? _funding_!" One reason the Shuttle worked (as in: kept flying) so long as it has was, frankly, that it LOOKS GREAT - if you don't know enough engineering to worry about what might go wrong. Personally I watched one STS launch live over the net five or six year ago, & realised that it was just too scary. If something Bad happened, I didn't want to be seeing it live; and the more I thought (and read) about it, the more obvious it became that it was only a matter of time. There's just too much that can go wrong with the stack.
This is also why the unmanned exploratory probes have been so successful. Count the number of pages of National Geographic devoted to pretty false-colour images of Europa, Io, Mars etc in the last couple of decades! Pretty pictures == (indirectly) funding. Now, an Apollo (or Gemini!) style launcher with a capsule on the top doesn't look terribly exciting in these days of hundreds of LEO and geo-sync satellites. Likewise the same old pictures of astronauts and cosmonauts turning somersaults in mid-air, etc. Well the only thing that looks at all interesting apart from (a) low earth orbit and (b) the planet itself, FROM orbit, is, well, the Moon and Mars.
Frankly I think there are too many naive techno-evangelist types in the "space fan" community. If there any reason to do it apart from "it looks cool" or "we have to beat the Russians", you'd be doing it. Perhaps things will change if China tries to get there; personally I doubt it, though. We (the West) don't compete against China any more - we trade with her. Global manufacturing industry is pretty much relocating over there. Whatever the people may think, the powers that be (who write the cheques) don't regard China as a militarily aggressive menace in the way the Soviet Union was.
Ah, but it doesn't! That's my point... it /looks/ like the right place, doesn't it... but three screens along it turns out to be something completely different. Hence my rant about the terrible UI!