i've always wanted one of those but am waiting until they come out with the model that doesn't require the 'proprietary dotted paper'... if i can use it as a corbon copy maker on normal paper i'll buy one, not before.
with gmail to my pop3 account i don't even need a browser anymore.
but to stay on topic, i've never found an email client for windows i like, period. eudora in days of old was great, but has become too bloated. thunderbird, to me, has the same bloat. i don't need lots of 'features' in my email client, just a really good way to organize everything (read: o.c.d.)...
firefox, likewise, comes without a lot of the bloat that mozilla ships with. on boot up, i can start and be browsing with firefox before the startup services (avg, etc, etc) complete starting up. before, i'd have 5 ie's open by clicking the icon too many times while shit was loading.
aside from you wrecklessly imagining your suby will handling like a ferrari, there is nothing wrong with what you said.
to see a spot as a good tactical advantage for something, or to know enough about engineering to know where to put some explosives to maximize demolition is interesting/useful in military application/etc, but you know well enough that you aren't going to go buy a rifle JUST so you can go sit in that spot and shoot people. it's common sense.
same shit with television. kids mimicing what they see on WWF wrestling doesn't mean WWF is violent. it's acting. no one told the kids (parents).
i play the GTA series pretty regularly... i've only once found myself wishing i had a minigun on-hand (in pocket?): the security line at the airports.
i'd bet there is more of an animal instinct in us to want to kill than any game may cause to bring out. if doom (and or marilyn manson for that matter) caused those kids to do what they did, we'd see a WHOLE lot more of it.
video games as a baby sitter would probably yeild the results you are questioning. give a kid GTA III when he's 6, and let him play and play and play so you don't have to watch him, and there is a possibilty by the time he's 11 (still playing) he wants to steal cars and run over people shooting out the window with a sub-machine gun (no right from wrong without parental guidance?)
i'd never heard any reports about the columbine kids' home lives... abused? molested? or maybe just beat up by jocks? or taunted... kids can be really really cruel to one another, especially the 'popular' ones.
but i doubt video games had much to do with it. it's entertainment. i watched dirty harry movies when i was 8 and 9... but i had my mom and dad to ask about what i'd seen.
i just had a thought that kind of applies to a psudo-ask-slashdot of my own. i have to remains of a stripped down compaq laptop (k6-2/333) which would be ideal... the cpu almost doesn't need a fan, and with a better heatsink than can be attached in a laptop case, could work fine. it only has one pcmcia slot, so do you go with the pcmcia network card and usb filesystem or vice versa? it has on board video and keyboard, or maybe usb wireless combo... but it has no moving parts ever since i removed the 2.5" drive... you can find these laptops for $150 sometimes in local comp. shops... mount it in an well filtered mostly air tight box, and you won't even need to clean it often...
you left out the word 'distributed' and then you wouldn't have to to worry about each none, unless it was the only reachable link to the next available node.
exactly. there is a mass of people who will buy whatever is presented to them. it's the label's fault they have nothing to present. they're obsessed with the bottom line and don't allow bands they find to develop fully, which is why they've turned to these short lived one-hit wonder things, and dumping them when it becomes unpopular (new kids... etc)
i suppose if you talk to ANY musician they'll tell you there is a market for it, but that's the whole game. and to try tapping in, like anything else in the 'free' market theory, it takes that big foot in the door (clear channel) to make it worthwhile (unless you are doing the music thing STRICTLY for the music)...
but clear channel acts like a special interest group to the major labels, pump out crap 15x daily, you have no CHOICE but to a) buy it or b) spend a lot of time searching local band websites and p2p networks for semi-decent music.
hip-hop took twenty years to become 'acceptable to the masses', and now >= half of it is worthless. outkast got a grammy for their pop-radio-friendly song, but never once noticed for their stuff about poverty and racism etc etc. cultural stuff like that isn't anecdotal (sp?)...
Oh please. If this hypothetical band is truly talented, someone will sign them. We all claim to love the free market.. just not when it makes decisions that we don't agree with.
this is going off topic, but there is nothing more un-true than what you said. i can PERSONALLY think of ten or tweleve artists that deserve more mainstream exposure only given to 'friends of the conglomerates' more than ashlee simpson, or the backstreet boys, or nsync, or a*teens, or any of those other crappy prefabricated clusters of 'attractive performers' created to make sales based on sex appeal. you think 13 years old girls like n*sync because of the strong message the present? or is it just conincidence that each of these pre-fabs each have one of 1) sporty type 2) preppy type 3) grungy type 4) casual type people in them? it's ALL marketing, but giving the shaft to 'talented' performers.
i have a friend in LA, now 36... who swears up and down, despite her PHENOMINAL talent, has been told she is 'too old to market', and has since reverted to self promotion and training of younger talent for the horrors of the music industry (essentially)... she is a great producer, and a great songwriter. you comment is crap.
or perhaps a way to plug it into your self, using your own natural bio-electric currents. the longer you are online, the less actualy energy YOU have. that would solve the 'leaching' issue, but gets into serious health implications.
hell i don't even use a store's bathroom without buying coffee or something. i almost wet myself in line once waiting for an old lady to buy her coffee with a check. why do people still use checks? now, in the event of an emergancy, i piss first and purchase later.
i'd say (without RingTFA) that a lot of the concern is just that you do sit there and drink only 2 coffee's in a hour. at 3 pounds/euros/dollars, it's not that same as if it was a bottomless cup of drip brew for 1 euro/dollar/pound. you are taking up a whole seat, but probably actually taking up a whole booth with your papers and laptop... a booth that could better accomodate 3 people each buying 3 euro coffee's and only planning on staying for their cigarette, and going back to their workplace.
i have a hard time believing that shops are concerned with the minimal ammounts of power cellphones and laptop requires, but when you camp out with them waiting for your device to power up fully, you are costing them 'geniune' revenue (unless you are producing it for them, by having a meal over that span of your two hours).
personally, not being able to smoke in coffee shops (most, in america i've found, especially the west [i call it the 'left'] coast) prevents me from spending any real ammount of time in them (20 minutes for two coffee's, and probably only one to go)...
it's the same reason mcdonald's chairs are so uncomfortable: they don't want you there. not just you (the geek with the laptop), anyone. they want you to drive through, or eat and get the hell out, cause more people could be sitting there...
It's a bit of a fuss about nothing. Quote: "Somebody's got to pay for that electricity." Yes, the customer. They might say "if everybody came in and did it..." well, for 12 hours, there are 10 people drawing 100W, that's 12kWh, that's about 70p for the day. Boohoo.
again, not about the electricity: and 40 pounds/hr lost to the booth(s) lost by people camping and treating a restaurant as a workplace.
now i fully appreciate all the wifi spots about, and places like that are fully EXPECTING people to stay put for a few hours (hourly wifi access), but shops with less than 15 chairs are not making a fortune (or possibly even survivng) by having you work in a corner all afternoon.
Personally, I don't read personal blogs much. Most are low quality.
i read some personal ones, but seldom just 'find them'... it's useually if i'd met someone in a different state or country, and they had one, i'll read it too see what they are upto... most of them are run by 13-17 year olds who giggle about someone being cute, or getting dumped or something...
i've actually limited my blog-reading to sites with rss/xml feeds, so i don't have to look at the horid designs (as much)...
Repeat after me: A Social Security Number is not an authentication key.
word.
even worse, big companies with automated systems only want the last 4, or your billing address zip code (which is on the envelope the new credit card shipped with, coincidentally...) and worse, they use it time after time and can't seem to stop asking you to repeat all this publically available information to identify youself between transfers to different depts or whatever.
seriously though... if you were the father of a daughter you would too understand that a father loves his daughter more than anything and would lie about her death if he suspected he could get into her email / im account to make sure she isn't having sex or worse, smoking pot (which we all know to be an evil gateway drug into more sex and coke and god knows what)...
what purpose would a father have asking for his daughter's email account access? she's dead? go mourne. you have funeral arrangements and whatnot to take care of. common sense man, c'mon.
now on another hand, a lot of ISP's provide a way to reset your password manually (rather than send to an email address, whatever) with say the last four digits of your social and your mother's maiden name, or whatever. a father knows those things, he know's your 'first pet's name', and most other security related stuff. it is seemingly successful against identity theft style attacks, but when a family member has the information already...
i would have presented the question as to 'what would reading her email provide?' and told him to use our automated system for his snooping. please hold.
i always thought coralcache should release a binary client / server (one that's not hard to setup... have you ever tried to install and get running coral? its hard enough to compile much less run..) so hoards of people (like/.) would be able to cache distributed(ly) (is that a word?) the sites. make/. the cache server, and all the people running the clients have the/. links converted to (like).nyud.edu coral-cache links.
i think coral is great, but it only cache's after someone implicitly visits it through the cache link. if/. upon posting started the 'cache-dot' by visiting the link, the/. effect would be neutralized. the bandwidth savvy would have the client installed and enjoy the potentially faster cache'd, distributed, web (forced refreshes recheck new content)...
there are a lot of potential security problems with allowing data from unknown hosts right into your browser, potential cahce-modifications locally, or virus injections, etc. but with enough foresight, and skilled enough developers, coral cache as a firefox plugin might not be such a bad idea.
big sites like/. being the 'servers', and anyone who wants to contribute picks a 'server'.. the servers mirror cache's much like dns updates... the clients under a server report their cache's, and the server determines where to load-balance out the incoming connections.
i'd dedicate 20k up for cache servering or whatever.
i like the idea. it wouldn't limit the actual USE of web-based bandwidth, but it would certianinly keep a good portion of it off the backbones. i lived a a mile from where osdn has their office in beaverton, or... so by this rationale, if osdn was a cache server, my dsl would be the only step between me and ungodly ammounts of cache bandwidth. i can imagine things would speed up significantly.
nice try, but no. glad you're not my defense attorney.
with all the IANAL comments around, i wonder if anyone here actually is a layer. the laws of propability say there would be a couple, but no one ever starts a post with "IAAL, SO: words."
Today, we have two languages (XHTML and CSS) instead of one (HTML), and while it certainly does a lot to improve interoperability and platform independence, it is two languages to learn, not one. Throw in stuff like JavaScript, and you have even more.
but XHTML is a substantially stripped down version of HTML. not allowing you easy fixes like bgcolor etc, etc. i'll admit the CSS is overly compilicated, but that's what makes it + XHTML so robust.
i've recently been fascinated with the css zen garden http://csszengarden.com with their single page of XHTML and an infinite ammount of layout possibilities.
my higginsforpresident.net site has four or five simple styles available like 'themes' but only change a css file call in the head tag. the page remains the same regardless. and i can use lynx if i need to, and a lot of the time prefer to.
but they successfully do search with some fuzziness. i am forever copy/pasting a line of dmesg output into the search box, and 9 times out of 10 come up with some mailserv thread talking about a problem identical to mine. i find it very useful.
it's not MircoSoft Trillian 3.0, just trillian... add that MS, and shit hits the fan. i would be willing to bet the distributed nature of the im is what/. is excited about. (becuase damn everything/. looks at as a mass *NEEDS* distributed architecture in order to survive.
i was aiming more for satire. if your passphrase is in fact 'I exercise... Amendment' you have already given away the incriminating evidence... If you simply say 'I exercise.. yadda' the pass-phrase can be whatever, because you aren't required to divulge it. But you are correct, there is no use of using the 5th's text as a passphrase. The 4th seems more appropriate.
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i've always wanted one of those but am waiting until they come out with the model that doesn't require the 'proprietary dotted paper' ... if i can use it as a corbon copy maker on normal paper i'll buy one, not before.
with gmail to my pop3 account i don't even need a browser anymore.
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but to stay on topic, i've never found an email client for windows i like, period. eudora in days of old was great, but has become too bloated. thunderbird, to me, has the same bloat. i don't need lots of 'features' in my email client, just a really good way to organize everything (read: o.c.d.)
firefox, likewise, comes without a lot of the bloat that mozilla ships with. on boot up, i can start and be browsing with firefox before the startup services (avg, etc, etc) complete starting up. before, i'd have 5 ie's open by clicking the icon too many times while shit was loading.
aside from you wrecklessly imagining your suby will handling like a ferrari, there is nothing wrong with what you said.
to see a spot as a good tactical advantage for something, or to know enough about engineering to know where to put some explosives to maximize demolition is interesting/useful in military application/etc, but you know well enough that you aren't going to go buy a rifle JUST so you can go sit in that spot and shoot people. it's common sense.
same shit with television. kids mimicing what they see on WWF wrestling doesn't mean WWF is violent. it's acting. no one told the kids (parents).
i play the GTA series pretty regularly ... i've only once found myself wishing i had a minigun on-hand (in pocket?): the security line at the airports.
... abused? molested? or maybe just beat up by jocks? or taunted ... kids can be really really cruel to one another, especially the 'popular' ones.
... but i had my mom and dad to ask about what i'd seen.
i'd bet there is more of an animal instinct in us to want to kill than any game may cause to bring out. if doom (and or marilyn manson for that matter) caused those kids to do what they did, we'd see a WHOLE lot more of it.
video games as a baby sitter would probably yeild the results you are questioning. give a kid GTA III when he's 6, and let him play and play and play so you don't have to watch him, and there is a possibilty by the time he's 11 (still playing) he wants to steal cars and run over people shooting out the window with a sub-machine gun (no right from wrong without parental guidance?)
i'd never heard any reports about the columbine kids' home lives
but i doubt video games had much to do with it. it's entertainment. i watched dirty harry movies when i was 8 and 9
i just had a thought that kind of applies to a psudo-ask-slashdot of my own. i have to remains of a stripped down compaq laptop (k6-2/333) which would be ideal ... the cpu almost doesn't need a fan, and with a better heatsink than can be attached in a laptop case, could work fine. it only has one pcmcia slot, so do you go with the pcmcia network card and usb filesystem or vice versa? it has on board video and keyboard, or maybe usb wireless combo ... but it has no moving parts ever since i removed the 2.5" drive ... you can find these laptops for $150 sometimes in local comp. shops ... mount it in an well filtered mostly air tight box, and you won't even need to clean it often ...
you left out the word 'distributed' and then you wouldn't have to to worry about each none, unless it was the only reachable link to the next available node.
just like the next story, sorta.
exactly. there is a mass of people who will buy whatever is presented to them. it's the label's fault they have nothing to present. they're obsessed with the bottom line and don't allow bands they find to develop fully, which is why they've turned to these short lived one-hit wonder things, and dumping them when it becomes unpopular (new kids ... etc)
...
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i suppose if you talk to ANY musician they'll tell you there is a market for it, but that's the whole game. and to try tapping in, like anything else in the 'free' market theory, it takes that big foot in the door (clear channel) to make it worthwhile (unless you are doing the music thing STRICTLY for the music)
but clear channel acts like a special interest group to the major labels, pump out crap 15x daily, you have no CHOICE but to a) buy it or b) spend a lot of time searching local band websites and p2p networks for semi-decent music.
hip-hop took twenty years to become 'acceptable to the masses', and now >= half of it is worthless. outkast got a grammy for their pop-radio-friendly song, but never once noticed for their stuff about poverty and racism etc etc. cultural stuff like that isn't anecdotal (sp?)
Oh please. If this hypothetical band is truly talented, someone will sign them. We all claim to love the free market.. just not when it makes decisions that we don't agree with.
... who swears up and down, despite her PHENOMINAL talent, has been told she is 'too old to market', and has since reverted to self promotion and training of younger talent for the horrors of the music industry (essentially) ... she is a great producer, and a great songwriter. you comment is crap.
this is going off topic, but there is nothing more un-true than what you said. i can PERSONALLY think of ten or tweleve artists that deserve more mainstream exposure only given to 'friends of the conglomerates' more than ashlee simpson, or the backstreet boys, or nsync, or a*teens, or any of those other crappy prefabricated clusters of 'attractive performers' created to make sales based on sex appeal. you think 13 years old girls like n*sync because of the strong message the present? or is it just conincidence that each of these pre-fabs each have one of 1) sporty type 2) preppy type 3) grungy type 4) casual type people in them? it's ALL marketing, but giving the shaft to 'talented' performers.
i have a friend in LA, now 36
i figured in light of current events he'd of skipped the 'communist' remark and gone right into 'terrorist'. terrorism is the communism of the 00's.
or perhaps a way to plug it into your self, using your own natural bio-electric currents. the longer you are online, the less actualy energy YOU have. that would solve the 'leaching' issue, but gets into serious health implications.
hell i don't even use a store's bathroom without buying coffee or something. i almost wet myself in line once waiting for an old lady to buy her coffee with a check. why do people still use checks? now, in the event of an emergancy, i piss first and purchase later.
only in america.
[patiently waiting my twenty seconds]
i'd say (without RingTFA) that a lot of the concern is just that you do sit there and drink only 2 coffee's in a hour. at 3 pounds/euros/dollars, it's not that same as if it was a bottomless cup of drip brew for 1 euro/dollar/pound. you are taking up a whole seat, but probably actually taking up a whole booth with your papers and laptop ... a booth that could better accomodate 3 people each buying 3 euro coffee's and only planning on staying for their cigarette, and going back to their workplace.
...
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i have a hard time believing that shops are concerned with the minimal ammounts of power cellphones and laptop requires, but when you camp out with them waiting for your device to power up fully, you are costing them 'geniune' revenue (unless you are producing it for them, by having a meal over that span of your two hours).
personally, not being able to smoke in coffee shops (most, in america i've found, especially the west [i call it the 'left'] coast) prevents me from spending any real ammount of time in them (20 minutes for two coffee's, and probably only one to go)
it's the same reason mcdonald's chairs are so uncomfortable: they don't want you there. not just you (the geek with the laptop), anyone. they want you to drive through, or eat and get the hell out, cause more people could be sitting there
It's a bit of a fuss about nothing. Quote: "Somebody's got to pay for that electricity." Yes, the customer. They might say "if everybody came in and did it..." well, for 12 hours, there are 10 people drawing 100W, that's 12kWh, that's about 70p for the day. Boohoo.
again, not about the electricity: and 40 pounds/hr lost to the booth(s) lost by people camping and treating a restaurant as a workplace.
now i fully appreciate all the wifi spots about, and places like that are fully EXPECTING people to stay put for a few hours (hourly wifi access), but shops with less than 15 chairs are not making a fortune (or possibly even survivng) by having you work in a corner all afternoon.
Personally, I don't read personal blogs much. Most are low quality.
... it's useually if i'd met someone in a different state or country, and they had one, i'll read it too see what they are upto ... most of them are run by 13-17 year olds who giggle about someone being cute, or getting dumped or something ...
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i read some personal ones, but seldom just 'find them'
i've actually limited my blog-reading to sites with rss/xml feeds, so i don't have to look at the horid designs (as much)
*@securityfocus.com i would say makes up pretty close to that...
Repeat after me: A Social Security Number is not an authentication key.
word.
even worse, big companies with automated systems only want the last 4, or your billing address zip code (which is on the envelope the new credit card shipped with, coincidentally...) and worse, they use it time after time and can't seem to stop asking you to repeat all this publically available information to identify youself between transfers to different depts or whatever.
seriously though ... if you were the father of a daughter you would too understand that a father loves his daughter more than anything and would lie about her death if he suspected he could get into her email / im account to make sure she isn't having sex or worse, smoking pot (which we all know to be an evil gateway drug into more sex and coke and god knows what) ...
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what purpose would a father have asking for his daughter's email account access? she's dead? go mourne. you have funeral arrangements and whatnot to take care of. common sense man, c'mon.
now on another hand, a lot of ISP's provide a way to reset your password manually (rather than send to an email address, whatever) with say the last four digits of your social and your mother's maiden name, or whatever. a father knows those things, he know's your 'first pet's name', and most other security related stuff. it is seemingly successful against identity theft style attacks, but when a family member has the information already
i would have presented the question as to 'what would reading her email provide?' and told him to use our automated system for his snooping. please hold.
i always thought coralcache should release a binary client / server (one that's not hard to setup
i think coral is great, but it only cache's after someone implicitly visits it through the cache link. if
there are a lot of potential security problems with allowing data from unknown hosts right into your browser, potential cahce-modifications locally, or virus injections, etc. but with enough foresight, and skilled enough developers, coral cache as a firefox plugin might not be such a bad idea.
big sites like
the clients under a server report their cache's, and the server determines where to load-balance out the incoming connections.
i'd dedicate 20k up for cache servering or whatever.
i like the idea. it wouldn't limit the actual USE of web-based bandwidth, but it would certianinly keep a good portion of it off the backbones. i lived a a mile from where osdn has their office in beaverton, or
nice try, but no. glad you're not my defense attorney.
with all the IANAL comments around, i wonder if anyone here actually is a layer. the laws of propability say there would be a couple, but no one ever starts a post with "IAAL, SO: words."
Today, we have two languages (XHTML and CSS) instead of one (HTML), and while it certainly does a lot to improve interoperability and platform independence, it is two languages to learn, not one. Throw in stuff like JavaScript, and you have even more.
but XHTML is a substantially stripped down version of HTML. not allowing you easy fixes like bgcolor etc, etc. i'll admit the CSS is overly compilicated, but that's what makes it + XHTML so robust.
i've recently been fascinated with the css zen garden http://csszengarden.com with their single page of XHTML and an infinite ammount of layout possibilities.
my higginsforpresident.net site has four or five simple styles available like 'themes' but only change a css file call in the head tag. the page remains the same regardless. and i can use lynx if i need to, and a lot of the time prefer to.
but they successfully do search with some fuzziness. i am forever copy/pasting a line of dmesg output into the search box, and 9 times out of 10 come up with some mailserv thread talking about a problem identical to mine. i find it very useful.
it's not MircoSoft Trillian 3.0, just trillian ... add that MS, and shit hits the fan. i would be willing to bet the distributed nature of the im is what /. is excited about. (becuase damn everything /. looks at as a mass *NEEDS* distributed architecture in order to survive.
i was aiming more for satire. if your passphrase is in fact 'I exercise ... Amendment' you have already given away the incriminating evidence ... If you simply say 'I exercise .. yadda' the pass-phrase can be whatever, because you aren't required to divulge it. But you are correct, there is no use of using the 5th's text as a passphrase. The 4th seems more appropriate.
it's not often you see a CmdrTaco post this deep into a thread.
I think you win.
or maybe use the 4th as the public/decoy and the 5th as your private.
try getting a judge to understand when you recite THAT under oath when asked for the passphrase for you private key.
confusion, everywhere.