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  1. The Ugly T-Shirt on Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sounds like the Ugly T-Shirt from William Gibson's _Zero History_.

  2. NAT problem on ATT's WAP gateway? on AT&T Glitch Connects Users To Wrong Accounts · · Score: 1

    Might have been a NAT problem on ATT's WAP gateway.

  3. Re:Contracting has a lot of cons - beware. on Switching to Contracting? · · Score: 1

    (Rambling...) My rule of thumb is that if you can live comfortable at $1000x/year, then you should bill $x/hour. That is, if you want your salary to be $50,000/year, bill at $50/hour.

    Keep in mind that you have lots of overhead (tools, telecom, electricity, insurance, training, travel), and lots of nonbillable time (vacation, sick, training, travel). A good target is to bill for 45 weeks/year.

  4. Re:Not Quite on Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even easier: in USPTO database, it is labeled "United States Patent Application". Patents that have been granted are labeled "United States Patent", without the word Application.

  5. You need magicbike. on Temporary Wireless Service For An Outdoors Event? · · Score: 0
  6. Duct tape is your friend on Remote Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    If you find the air inputs and cover them with duct tape, you'll never be drunk again.

  7. uubp (Unix-to-Unix beer protocol) on Acknowledging Great Free Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is an old protocol based on uucp. See the uubp man page for more information.

  8. Re:News: Technology Solves the Problem on Workplace Privacy Lacking · · Score: 1
    Um, surely you've heard of communication channels, haven't you?

    From Merriam-Webster's definition of "channel": 1d : a means of communication or expression: as (1) : a path along which information (as data or music) in the form of an electrical signal passes (2) plural : a fixed or official course of communication

  9. News: Technology Solves the Problem on Workplace Privacy Lacking · · Score: 1

    In related events, smart people noted that it's possible to encrypt your email channel and your web channel. These smart people mentioned tools such as ssh, and commented that they work.

  10. The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Are Computer Graphics A Fine Art? · · Score: 1

    It's a really good art school. They offer courses that use computer as the medium.

  11. Yup on Are Computer Graphics A Fine Art? · · Score: 1
    How to Undo with Oil Paint: Let it dry. Paint over it. Painters always do this.

    Oil on canvas is a "valid" medium. Oil on canvas allows "undo." Media that allow "undo" are valid. PhotoShop, Gimp, et al, allow "undo." PhotoShop, Gimp, et al, are valid.

  12. Re:e-gold on Using Gold As Online Currency · · Score: 1
    Do you have evidence of that raid? E-gold appears to be up and running.

    The nice e-gold people make themselves sound trustworthy. They have a nice story about how they hold the gold in trust for you. It seems credible enough.

    I used to be keen on the idea of e-gold. I used to have an e-gold account. I used to advertise it as a way to pay me for EBay transactions. The only problem was that nobody was interested in paying me through e-gold--the US dollar seems to be the de facto world monetary standard. My market wasn't interested in paying through e-gold, so I lost interest in e-gold.

  13. Try executing commands via email on SSH Connections Thru The Firewall? · · Score: 1

    I've done this to get through unusable firewalls. Send a command to your email account; run a server within the firewall that retrieves and executes authorized email messages. I built a tool, Remote, that you can use to do this.

  14. Re:I think that covers more than the logo on SSH Claims Trademark Infringement by OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    It's a "drawing" trademark, which, as you quote, covers a claim for SSH "IN STYLIZED FORM." We're free to use SSH as a name as long as we don't use a similar stylized form.

  15. Re:i am afraid not... on SSH Claims Trademark Infringement by OpenSSH · · Score: 1
    Sorry about the dead links.

    The "live" trademark claim is specifically for an ssh logo. Logo claims are different from word claims. Having a registered mark on a logo prevents people from using a similar logo. It doesn't prevent people from using the same sequence of letters as the name of a product.

  16. OpenSSH does not infringe! on SSH Claims Trademark Infringement by OpenSSH · · Score: 5
    Check the USPTO trademark database. My search for "ssh" turned up a few hits. There's one match for a withdrawn trademark application on the word "SSH". Since the application was withdrawn, he has no claim.

    There's a live claim on an SSH logo . This one is valid. It prevents others from using the logo. It doesn't prevent others from using the word "SSH".

    There are a few other SSHs of no significance to this issue. His claim that OpenSSH infringes on his trademark is BS.

  17. ACM code of ethics on Ethics In Computer Consulting · · Score: 1

    The ACM's code of ethics is a good place to start.

  18. Boston Globe link to the story on Stop, Light. · · Score: 1
  19. Which companies are in on this? on DeCSS Author Arrested · · Score: 1

    Is Disney one of the culprits? I ask because I own some Disney stock. I'll dump it if Disney is one of the bad guys here. I don't want to be part-owner of one of the comanies doing this.

  20. I know someone who worked on this project on Spies in the Forests · · Score: 1
    Last year I met a guy who was doing post-graduate research at the speech lab of a European university. He said he had worked on this project in the US. According to him, the US government routinely monitors international phone calls that originate or terminate in the US. (It's illegal to tap calls that originate and terminate in the US, but apparently it's OK to tap calls that originate or terminate elsewhere.) The use speaker-independent speech recognition to transcribe voices to text; the text can be scanned for key words.

    He seemed credible. He described the mundaneness of most of the calls, and how little information content most of them contained. For example:

    • Hi mom, how are you?
    • Good, how are you?
    • Good. I miss you.
    • I miss you too.
    • I went to a museum today, mom.
    • ...
  21. Harvard CS courses on Distance Learning Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Harvard Extension has some distance education courses, although no distance-only degree. I'm taking one of these courses now as a local student. Lectures are video taped and published on a web site two days later. As a local student, I've used the web-based lectures for two purposes: to catch a lecture I missed due to traveling for work, and to re-watch some lecture snippets while studying for an exam. In both cases, everything was great. In fact, for studying, watching the important parts of one of the lectures saved my skin.

    Bottom line: They don't have a distance-only degree, but this course and others are very good and are available to distance learners.

  22. Linux sometimes not the solution on NT vs. Linux - Mindcraft Vindicates Itself · · Score: 1

    Sometimes for the usual reasons, e.g. I need to be able to run something like Quick Books for my business.

    Sometimes for an unusual reason: I run a gateway/NAT on NT because I need to connect to my clients' offices through their Windows-based VPNs. The VPN client software doesn't exist for Linux.

  23. Linux sometimes not the solution on NT vs. Linux - Mindcraft Vindicates Itself · · Score: 1

    Sometimes for the usual reasons, e.g. I need to be able to run something like Quick Books for my business.

    Sometimes for an unusual reason: I run a gateway/NAT on NT because I need to connect to my clients' offices through their Windows-based VPNs.