I needed to clear some room, and did a "rm -rf stuff otherstuff *~", with the *~ to get rid of backupfiles. Oops. Never mix * and -r when rm'ing . . . one little extra space, and I clobbered ~.
to make matters worse,this was on my old laptop, and I couldn't find the floppy with the backup of the only important file--a 2/3 written journal article!
fortunately I use lyx, which is a text format. I piped dd through strings to a (huge) file on the dos partition, and got back most of my paper (but had to search through multiple contending versions. A better Idea would have been to use tr or sed to strip out everything outside the 32-127 range (plus/n, etc.), and then gone to work with that, as I did lose all my equations and a bit of formatting . . .
And the only reason that *it* was a success is that that woman (in Michigan?) raised a hullabo when someone said, "bra." The series was only meant for half a season, but people watched it because of the attention she gave it.
Kind of like the topless donut shops that pop up in California: an incredibly stupid idea, but you're pretty much guaranteed that NOW will show up and protest, getting you press coverage, and the thing works for a few months (before succumbing to the "incredibly stupid idea" thing).
If memory serves, one of the problems remaining to be solved is that the water table sometimes reaches above the level at which they plan to store the waste (every hundred years or two--but this is designed for thousands!).
The DOE is putting this in terms of a decision now, but the decision was made more then ten years ago.
The DOE was ordered to study a list of sites, and to build at the site on the list which was safest. Not told to determine if any of the sites were adequate, but to choose the best and go forward.
The list was: Yucca Mountain.
That's it. No second candidate. Along the way, the general press in Nevada took to labeling the laws "Screw Nevada I" and "Screw Nevada II". Senator Johnston of Louisiana had the votes to push them through. When a professor at UNLV got a little to noisy about the problems with the site, UNLV received a supercomputer to shut him up (really. They never quite figured out what to do with it, but that's another story.) And then the building where DOE housed the project studing earthquake safety took over a million dollars in damage from--you guessed it!--a routine (for the region) earthquake.
I'm a Nevadan, and my permanent home is in Las Vegas, about 100 miles from this site. I have absolutely no qualms about a nuclear storage facility that close to my home run by scientists. I'm terrified of what's being done here, though.
One more time: There was not a study to see whetheror not the site was safe. Therewas a study to prove that this site was safer than, uhh, nothing.
I'd feel a lot betterif this was turned over to the state (heavens, no, not the local governement. Look at the last couple of mayors of LV: Oscar Goodman, who became wealthy denying there was a mob while representing it; Jan Laverty Jones, commercial girl for the Fletcher Jones car dealerships who showed up at times in a chicken suit or in a black velvet jumpsuit as her own evil twin . . . [and if memoy serves, her opponent was worse!]). Fortunate, I live in county:)
this was also what was used for pre-release reviews. Journalists all "discovered" the "problem" with dr-dos. Add on to this that this was the *only* encrypted code in windows, requiring a hardware debugger to figure out what was happening, and the fact that MS entered pricing contracts that lockedout dr-dos by charging a lower total contract that required a royalty on every machine sold than for a royalty for every copy shipped . . .
Sun is pushing $400 thin terminals. Bandwidth hogs (these aren't X terminals), and everything is done on the server. At $400/seat for something you plug in and forget for five years, the savings cover a nice expensive sun server in no time . . .
If there were no unix for a platform, there would be opportunities for a software vendor. There would also be opportunities for a vendor with a notably superior solution. There is *no* incentive for a hardware manufacturer to have tis own unix. One of the more important things linux has done has been to provide a common reference point--prior to this, it wasn't feasible for vendors to settle on a competitor's *nix as a standard., due to the admission involved. Now that there's a non-competitor that *is* the standard, it's economically more efficient to the hardware vendor to back that.
used to be an option on wget to get it to ignore robots.txt? . ..[*evil grin*] or, how about the next great outlook virus. Before spreading, it hits every link on that page:)
>Shifman points out that the site she referenced
>wasn't on the search engines,
He doesn't point this out; he claims this. It seems highly unlikely given the rest of the background that google never found a link to this site. My immediate reaction was that it was far more likely that he couldn't handle a search engine, either.
>First off, it should be noted that almost all the
>players in this little cast (except for Shifman)
>are members of anti-spam Usenet groups.
that was rather hard to miss from the page,yes.
>In this case, it appears that while Bernard's
>emails were sent in bulk, they were not sent to
>random emails. He seemed to have made an honest
>attempt to ensure that only HR Departments
>receieved his mail.
That hardly seems to be the case at all. It appears that he hoped some would be forwarded to HR departments. I receive these, and there's no reason any half-way intelligent person could have assumed my address to be appropriate.
I once accompanied my complaint to abuse@ with a comment about the clear lack of skills of someone who would spam for this type of employement. I cc'd the spammer, and got quite a similar response. I have no idea if it was this person or not.
>Thus, the emails were bulk and they were
>unsolicited, but they were sent to addresses
>posted on the websites of the target companies
>STRICTLY for the purpose of receivin job requests
>and resumes.
yes, he claims this. From this and otther addresses he spammed, it doesn't appear to be even close to the truth.
Yes,they had fun with him. And he *was* entertaining. After the initial complaint, they did nothing but respond to his antics.
hawk, who dealtwith his shareof kooks while practicing law.
then what we call intelligence will be some type of weighted mean, and some version or another of the central limit theorem will apply, and we get a normal distribution.
Most of you, however, will runn in horror,screaming, at the proofs of this:)
It's fully free, not GPL. YOu can give it away, turn it proprietary, charge an outrageous price, use it to plan a nuclear attack on Australia, or to engage in the violent overthrow of the government. About the only thing you *can't* do is remove the copyright when you place it under the GPL:)
I am a lawyer, but am probably not licensed in your jurisdiction. This is not legal advice, but a statement of general principles. If you apply this to your own situation, you are a moron.
Entrapment is a criminal doctrine, not civil. It applies to the police going too far--convincing someone to commit a crime they otherwise would not (simply asking or offering the crime isn't enough.). THink of Delorean (sp?). The goverment harassed a man with a failing business with repeated opportunities to commit a lucrative time, after repeatedly being told no. They *created* the criminal. This is a far cry from a one time offer.
WHile this doesn't apply, the doctrine of "estoppel" could potentially apply. In a nutshell, this doctrine says, "even though you may be legally correct, your own conduct makes it inequitable for you to be able to make that argument, so you can't."
It would probably be a close call as described above.
> Personally all I ever needed was System 3.0 and MacPaint.
Newbie. The only reason anyone needed System 3 was if they had to make a macrwrite document with more than 512 paragraphs (or 2048 paragraphs if they had one of theose funky 512k fatmacs).
the whole thing went downhill when they went to 800k drives, and our computers no longer sang to us . . .
[ok, for those 14 year old moderators who won't understand the reference, the original 400k drives changed the speed of the drive rather than the write speed to put more on the outer sectors, resulting in the machine humming.]
>It's like the goodies that NPR station pledge
>drives gives away. The people would give
>anyway, but the momento (the football in this
>case) is a fun way to frame it.
You're *grossly* underestimating the worship of "Joe Pa" in this state:) The sky is blue and white because he wants it that way, and of the two choices for the Alumni Association credit card, I believe he has the Nittany Lion itself beat hands down. Many donations in many places would occur anyway. In this particular case, though . . .
well, at least little ones:) Every five or ten years or so, a senatator takes a swing at another. The ages involved tend to make it easy to separate, them . . .
I've tried to try mozilla. at one point the.9.4 port built under FreeBSD, and then again with the.9.5 binary, but I haven't succeeded since. I'm really more interested in lynx using the cookies it saves in the file, anyway:) [It stopped doing this after builiding the most recent version.]
>By your logic here, I could market my operating
>system as "Nerdsoft Windows(c)"
>and be in the clear.
According to statements made by Microsoft at the time, you would be in the clear, yes. They gave this example . . . however, "Nerdsoft" is a bad choice of names, *that* might infringe on Microsoft. However, change it to "Nerdware Windows," and they claimed that you could do this.
I regularly use Penn State's Paterno library, which has been paid for by, guess who? The annual auction of autographed footballs alone pays for a significant number of books.
I'm flatly opposed to *any* athletic scholarships unless either a) the program completely supports itself, or b) it can actually show that the scholarship will pay for itself in increased ticket sales or some such. I'll waffle on increased alumni givings for winning teams; it would be too tough to prove.
hawk, who went to a University that cancelled football entirely over the damage to undergraduate education that would have been caused by complying with that stupid NCAA rule that would have forced it into division I, rather than using less than half the allowed scholarships in division II (and mostly either half or quarter, at that!)
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to make matters worse,this was on my old laptop, and I couldn't find the floppy with the backup of the only important file--a 2/3 written journal article!
fortunately I use lyx, which is a text format. I piped dd through strings to a (huge) file on the dos partition, and got back most of my paper (but had to search through multiple contending versions. A better Idea would have been to use tr or sed to strip out everything outside the 32-127 range (plus
hawk, wiser now
hawk
Kind of like the topless donut shops that pop up in California: an incredibly stupid idea, but you're pretty much guaranteed that NOW will show up and protest, getting you press coverage, and the thing works for a few months (before succumbing to the "incredibly stupid idea" thing).
hawk
hawk
The DOE was ordered to study a list of sites, and to build at the site on the list which was safest. Not told to determine if any of the sites were adequate, but to choose the best and go forward.
The list was: Yucca Mountain.
That's it. No second candidate. Along the way, the general press in Nevada took to labeling the laws "Screw Nevada I" and "Screw Nevada II". Senator Johnston of Louisiana had the votes to push them through. When a professor at UNLV got a little to noisy about the problems with the site, UNLV received a supercomputer to shut him up (really. They never quite figured out what to do with it, but that's another story.) And then the building where DOE housed the project studing earthquake safety took over a million dollars in damage from--you guessed it!--a routine (for the region) earthquake.
I'm a Nevadan, and my permanent home is in Las Vegas, about 100 miles from this site. I have absolutely no qualms about a nuclear storage facility that close to my home run by scientists. I'm terrified of what's being done here, though.
One more time: There was not a study to see whetheror not the site was safe. Therewas a study to prove that this site was safer than, uhh, nothing.
I'd feel a lot betterif this was turned over to the state (heavens, no, not the local governement. Look at the last couple of mayors of LV: Oscar Goodman, who became wealthy denying there was a mob while representing it; Jan Laverty Jones, commercial girl for the Fletcher Jones car dealerships who showed up at times in a chicken suit or in a black velvet jumpsuit as her own evil twin . . . [and if memoy serves, her opponent was worse!]). Fortunate, I live in county
hawk, nevadan
really? Does writing java now endanger your immortal soul?
:)
hawk
hawk
I think you can order them separately, but they're not X-terminals. You'd need something (vnc?) that can talk to them.
hawk
hawk
hawk
And there's a bit of spite involved, too
If there were no unix for a platform, there would be opportunities for a software vendor. There would also be opportunities for a vendor with a notably superior solution. There is *no* incentive for a hardware manufacturer to have tis own unix. One of the more important things linux has done has been to provide a common reference point--prior to this, it wasn't feasible for vendors to settle on a competitor's *nix as a standard., due to the admission involved. Now that there's a non-competitor that *is* the standard, it's economically more efficient to the hardware vendor to back that.
hawk, who has a paper on this on his web site.
hawk
post post script (after after the writing)
hawk
>Shifman points out that the site she referenced
>wasn't on the search engines,
He doesn't point this out; he claims this. It seems highly unlikely given the rest of the background that google never found a link to this site. My immediate reaction was that it was far more likely that he couldn't handle a search engine, either.
hawk
>players in this little cast (except for Shifman)
>are members of anti-spam Usenet groups.
that was rather hard to miss from the page,yes.
>In this case, it appears that while Bernard's
>emails were sent in bulk, they were not sent to
>random emails. He seemed to have made an honest
>attempt to ensure that only HR Departments
>receieved his mail.
That hardly seems to be the case at all. It appears that he hoped some would be forwarded to HR departments. I receive these, and there's no reason any half-way intelligent person could have assumed my address to be appropriate.
I once accompanied my complaint to abuse@ with a comment about the clear lack of skills of someone who would spam for this type of employement. I cc'd the spammer, and got quite a similar response. I have no idea if it was this person or not.
>Thus, the emails were bulk and they were
>unsolicited, but they were sent to addresses
>posted on the websites of the target companies
>STRICTLY for the purpose of receivin job requests
>and resumes.
yes, he claims this. From this and otther addresses he spammed, it doesn't appear to be even close to the truth.
Yes,they had fun with him. And he *was* entertaining. After the initial complaint, they did nothing but respond to his antics.
hawk, who dealtwith his shareof kooks while practicing law.
Most of you, however, will runn in horror,screaming, at the proofs of this
hawk
hawk
Entrapment is a criminal doctrine, not civil. It applies to the police going too far--convincing someone to commit a crime they otherwise would not (simply asking or offering the crime isn't enough.). THink of Delorean (sp?). The goverment harassed a man with a failing business with repeated opportunities to commit a lucrative time, after repeatedly being told no. They *created* the criminal. This is a far cry from a one time offer.
WHile this doesn't apply, the doctrine of "estoppel" could potentially apply. In a nutshell, this doctrine says, "even though you may be legally correct, your own conduct makes it inequitable for you to be able to make that argument, so you can't."
It would probably be a close call as described above.
hawk, common law lawyer
Newbie. The only reason anyone needed System 3 was if they had to make a macrwrite document with more than 512 paragraphs (or 2048 paragraphs if they had one of theose funky 512k fatmacs).
the whole thing went downhill when they went to 800k drives, and our computers no longer sang to us . . .
[ok, for those 14 year old moderators who won't understand the reference, the original 400k drives changed the speed of the drive rather than the write speed to put more on the outer sectors, resulting in the machine humming.]
hawk, who bought a 128k *and* an external drive.
>It's like the goodies that NPR station pledge
:) The sky is blue and white because he wants it that way, and of the two choices for the Alumni Association credit card, I believe he has the Nittany Lion itself beat hands down. Many donations in many places would occur anyway. In this particular case, though . . .
>drives gives away. The people would give
>anyway, but the momento (the football in this
>case) is a fun way to frame it.
You're *grossly* underestimating the worship of "Joe Pa" in this state
hawk
hawk
>system as "Nerdsoft Windows(c)"
>and be in the clear.
According to statements made by Microsoft at the time, you would be in the clear, yes. They gave this example . . . however, "Nerdsoft" is a bad choice of names, *that* might infringe on Microsoft. However, change it to "Nerdware Windows," and they claimed that you could do this.
hawk
I'm flatly opposed to *any* athletic scholarships unless either a) the program completely supports itself, or b) it can actually show that the scholarship will pay for itself in increased ticket sales or some such. I'll waffle on increased alumni givings for winning teams; it would be too tough to prove.
hawk, who went to a University that cancelled football entirely over the damage to undergraduate education that would have been caused by complying with that stupid NCAA rule that would have forced it into division I, rather than using less than half the allowed scholarships in division II (and mostly either half or quarter, at that!)