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Stopping Killer Asteroids
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And of course, when you do get a self-sufficient colony going somewhere else, they're going to have their own agenda. Sort of like Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, or longer term, Asimov's Foundation.
But... I offer two cliches that are none the less true:
Earth is humanity's cradle. Sooner or later, you have to grow up;
Ships are safe in harbor... but that's not what ships are for.
About Stratford -- My ex's aunt saved a newspaper clipping from Mr. Shatner's "big break" in 1956(?) -- he took over the lead role in Henry V when Christopher Plummer was felled by a kidney stone. It was apparently quite a performance -- the dear lady described it movingly, including the part where the entire ensemble encircled him at the end, giving him their own standing ovation.
So, Mr. Shatner, what's next? Should we assume it'll still be a few years before you're ready to take on Lear? How about Falstaff?
I saw a spammer webforum once -- one of the members started spamming it, and all the rest were royally PO'ed about it. The irony was completely lost on them.
Unfortunately this common-sense approach has already been shot down in flames. Remember the site where you had to prove that you owned the physical CD before you could access an online copy of it? That should have withstood legal challenge -- but it didn't. The recording industry somehow found the best judge money can buy....
Just got back from LISA, where all the good presentations were double-booked and the CD-ROM of the slides cost another couple hundred over and above the $695 (Usenix member's price!) for the conference itself. I don't think I'll be going to the next one -- not if they don't at least include an electronic copy of the procedings.
Saw the blurb in the LISA program (it appeared as "Overzealous Security Administrators Are Breaking the Internet" -- sheah, right, let's put six exclamation points on it) but had no idea what it was about until I got to this article.
Score one for/. Let's do Dan Klein on "Constitutional and Financial Arguments Against Spam" next.
Except that there are already Jabber -> proprietary gateways. I can imagine Cerulean adding Jabber support to Trillian -- why not? they've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Good point on the clients -- Exodus had no problem finding my server and hooking up. I was a bit surprised that Gaim with the default Jabber plugin (in RH 8.0) didn't offer a server selection box, though.
Need to spend some more time poking around jabber.com, I guess; the additional features aren't obvious and I can't find a price tag anywhere. ("Contact us" -- via email -- is all over the site.)
Actually installed a Jabber server yesterday. Should have dug a little deeper though; I got it from jabber.com instead of jabber.org, so it's going to expire in a month or so. (Duh.) Well, guess I've got some time to straighten that out.
What really makes me shake my head, though, is the client they provided. It's locked on the jabber.com server. What's up with that? They sell you a server, and then give you a client that you can only use with a server they didn't sell you?!
Would not want to lose 'both Mozilla and Phoenix' -- but losing just Mozilla wouldn't make me cry one tear. Phoenix is exactly what I've been looking for because it understands that a Web browser shouldn't be doing mail and news. If the Phoenix project drives that point home to Mozilla, more power to them! Putting mail and news into a web browser is "a wrong thing," and as we all know...
Why? For putting his revoked keys and new keys into his Bugtraq message. Okay, it's putting your money where your mouth is, in one sense... but it was also one damn big chunk of noise, much longer than his (reasonably long already) text.
Bad form. I'd expect more class from someone who's claiming to be clued.
Better yet, "If (my address) shows up on a list you bought or rented, it is a 100% certainty you're being ripped off. Sue the bastard for fraud. Have a nice day."
I was surprised last night to find that NL had literally 100 times as many hits as Google for the children's story, "The Hobyahs". Two for Google vs over 200 for NL.
Now, that's unlikely to be what's driving the NSA decision but it sure makes me wonder how "deep" Google really is.
I am sorry to say it but, I beleive that a direct hit it what is needed to force our governments to take action.
But then they'll say "Oh, gee, something like that only happens once every 5,000 years, so we have lots of time before the next one now that it's finally happened."
I'd script it this way:
Bruce Willis: "On average? What does that mean?"
Jeff Goldblum: "It means we're about due for three of these."
Bruce Willis: "Oh."
... the far side would be the dark side as far as you're concerned. The amount of radio crap we're spewing makes the work those guys are doing even more amazing, and sticking a robot observatory on the far side of a stable platform like Luna could produce some really cool results.
Remember, the money isn't spent in space -- it's spent right here on earth in order to get into space.
I don't want my Palm(tm) build into my clothes; I change my clothes MUCH more often than I change my hardware.
But it would be nice to get something roughly Palm sized (and clip-on, not inserted, thankyoujustthesame) that would do what my current Palm and cell phone do. Wouldn't mind having it connect to a Jabra style earbud and maybe, just maybe, some sort of headsup display.
FWIW, Hello Direct, the overpriced headset people, are now selling Bluetooth printer cards and Bluetooth headsets. Same price as 802.b hardware, apparently.
Apple sent a truly gung-ho demonstrator to the NY PC Users Group meeting after Internet World to put OS X through its paces, and I ended up with my first Mac soon after.
I like it so far, but the idea of dropping half a grand on Redmondware sort of defeats my purpose in buying a non-Wintel machine. Trolltech's site says that Qt3 comes in a Mac OS X version, but I'm fuzzy on how much of KDE is Qt "skeleton" vs C "muscle." Could someone make a SWAG at how much effort would be involved in creating a working KOffice for the Mac?
If you're running procmail, a kind soul posted a couple of Perl scripts here in Slashdot just a week or two ago that automate the process of Spamcop reporting.
That process is in two steps -- submitting, then reading the summary of what what Spamcop found and "pulling the trigger," and I wouldn't recommend automating both parts. Quite often Spamcop will respond that the offending ISP "doesn't care," or has already closed the offending account -- in those cases there's no point in tying up Spamcop's resources any further.
I try real hard to ignore spammers, but when one wiggles past my filters you'd better believe I invest the time to ruin his day.
Considering that at least one of guys who's slamming PayPal is also spamming most of Usenet, I'd be tempted to give them the benefit of the doubt. He's at least one can short of a sixpack.
Now if PBS will just refrain from making any more movies out of his short stories...
Aw, c'mon. "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" was a hoot -- the closest anyone in the USA ever came to capturing the low-budget good humor of a Doctor Who episode. Raul Julia rocked, and what's-her-name was quite fetching in his Venus on the Half-Shell fantasy.
Also, we provide volunteers to convert your document. You can send it in html or text, we'll convert it, and you maintain it from there. Perhaps you weren't aware of that.
No, I wasn't aware of it, because the LDP page doesn't offer that sensible alternative... or at least, I couldn't find it. Being told "it's our way or the highway" right off the bat does not exactly encourage the would-be volunteer to keep looking.
That said, I am glad to hear there is a way for someone who has already invested in HTML to contribute.
...or rewrite from scratch
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The LDP and Debian
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Ouch. Someone once came to my modest how-to site, then sent me a screed worthy of RMS demanding that I contribute it to the LDP. I went there, found out that in order to do so I would have to learn LinuxDoc or SGML, and promptly lost all interest.
It's a pity; I think I have a knack for creating usable documentation (and it's safer than asking me to write kernel patches, anyway); but that's one flaming hoop too many to jump through.
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And of course, when you do get a self-sufficient colony going somewhere else, they're going to have their own agenda. Sort of like Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, or longer term, Asimov's Foundation.
But... I offer two cliches that are none the less true:
So, Mr. Shatner, what's next? Should we assume it'll still be a few years before you're ready to take on Lear? How about Falstaff?
I saw a spammer webforum once -- one of the members started spamming it, and all the rest were royally PO'ed about it. The irony was completely lost on them.
Signing someone up properly is no more "double opt-in" than checking the signature on a credit card is "double billing." It's confirmed opt-in.
Unfortunately this common-sense approach has already been shot down in flames. Remember the site where you had to prove that you owned the physical CD before you could access an online copy of it? That should have withstood legal challenge -- but it didn't. The recording industry somehow found the best judge money can buy....
Just got back from LISA, where all the good presentations were double-booked and the CD-ROM of the slides cost another couple hundred over and above the $695 (Usenix member's price!) for the conference itself. I don't think I'll be going to the next one -- not if they don't at least include an electronic copy of the procedings.
/. Let's do Dan Klein on "Constitutional and Financial Arguments Against Spam" next.
Saw the blurb in the LISA program (it appeared as "Overzealous Security Administrators Are Breaking the Internet" -- sheah, right, let's put six exclamation points on it) but had no idea what it was about until I got to this article.
Score one for
Except that there are already Jabber -> proprietary gateways. I can imagine Cerulean adding Jabber support to Trillian -- why not? they've got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Need to spend some more time poking around jabber.com, I guess; the additional features aren't obvious and I can't find a price tag anywhere. ("Contact us" -- via email -- is all over the site.)
What really makes me shake my head, though, is the client they provided. It's locked on the jabber.com server. What's up with that? They sell you a server, and then give you a client that you can only use with a server they didn't sell you?!
Would not want to lose 'both Mozilla and Phoenix' -- but losing just Mozilla wouldn't make me cry one tear. Phoenix is exactly what I've been looking for because it understands that a Web browser shouldn't be doing mail and news. If the Phoenix project drives that point home to Mozilla, more power to them! Putting mail and news into a web browser is "a wrong thing," and as we all know...
I just registered ms666.com. See you on the ramparts!
Why? For putting his revoked keys and new keys into his Bugtraq message. Okay, it's putting your money where your mouth is, in one sense... but it was also one damn big chunk of noise, much longer than his (reasonably long already) text.
Bad form. I'd expect more class from someone who's claiming to be clued.
Better yet, "If (my address) shows up on a list you bought or rented, it is a 100% certainty you're being ripped off. Sue the bastard for fraud. Have a nice day."
I'll pay up with a smile. Do we have a deal?
(Dang, my .sig never seemed so apt....)
Now, that's unlikely to be what's driving the NSA decision but it sure makes me wonder how "deep" Google really is.
I'd script it this way:
Bruce Willis: "On average? What does that mean?"
Jeff Goldblum: "It means we're about due for three of these."
Bruce Willis: "Oh."
Remember, the money isn't spent in space -- it's spent right here on earth in order to get into space.
But it would be nice to get something roughly Palm sized (and clip-on, not inserted, thankyoujustthesame) that would do what my current Palm and cell phone do. Wouldn't mind having it connect to a Jabra style earbud and maybe, just maybe, some sort of headsup display.
FWIW, Hello Direct, the overpriced headset people, are now selling Bluetooth printer cards and Bluetooth headsets. Same price as 802.b hardware, apparently.
I like it so far, but the idea of dropping half a grand on Redmondware sort of defeats my purpose in buying a non-Wintel machine. Trolltech's site says that Qt3 comes in a Mac OS X version, but I'm fuzzy on how much of KDE is Qt "skeleton" vs C "muscle." Could someone make a SWAG at how much effort would be involved in creating a working KOffice for the Mac?
That process is in two steps -- submitting, then reading the summary of what what Spamcop found and "pulling the trigger," and I wouldn't recommend automating both parts. Quite often Spamcop will respond that the offending ISP "doesn't care," or has already closed the offending account -- in those cases there's no point in tying up Spamcop's resources any further.
I try real hard to ignore spammers, but when one wiggles past my filters you'd better believe I invest the time to ruin his day.
Now the film version of Millennium, OTOH....
No, I wasn't aware of it, because the LDP page doesn't offer that sensible alternative... or at least, I couldn't find it. Being told "it's our way or the highway" right off the bat does not exactly encourage the would-be volunteer to keep looking.
That said, I am glad to hear there is a way for someone who has already invested in HTML to contribute.
It's a pity; I think I have a knack for creating usable documentation (and it's safer than asking me to write kernel patches, anyway); but that's one flaming hoop too many to jump through.