What an excellent idea, having all your identities conveniently managed by Windows.
No more having to log out of Hotmail to check another mailbox, or forgetting to delete your signature from an anonymous posting.
It'll save time when propagating worms, too -- you just have to receive the worm once on your work email account and it can forward itself using your work identity, your home identity, any of the pseudonymous identities you use to post on the not-quite-mainstream newsgroups and discussion forums, etc. It can even mix and match the contact lists for an amusing effect!
Well, a libc can easily be a meg or more, and with most Windowseses you need to read the entire thing into RAM to call any given function. And then you need to page it out to that swap file on that FAT partition when you need RAM for something else..
(whatever happened to my right of happiness??).
I believe you're entitled to "pursuit of happiness". This probably means you have a right to attempt to track down and install an ad blocker, although of course this hasn't been tested in court yet.
I first encountered noisy banner ads on a Finnish financial daily paper's website. They had ads that made a noise exactly like a Nokia phone receiving a pager message. Each ad would loop three times per page view, i.e. pretty much constantly when you were browsing the site. Not surprisingly the site got rid of the ads pretty fast.
And when do you actually want to "search the whole company" anyway?
Has anyone ever found any useful information through one of those "powered by Google" search boxes on various company websites? It's the sad state of the AI art that if you go to www.frobozz.com and enter "Frobozz 5110 Windows 2000 driver" in the search box, then depending on the size of the company you'll get either no matches at all, or a dozen pages of links to press releases, marketing material, and mailing list digests that happen to contain your keywords in several unrelated emails.
Web search engines are marginally suitable for indexing the web, because we don't have anything better. They're almost totally useless for searching a single website for a specific small piece of information, which is what people tend to be looking for when they visit a company's site.
Actually in the last presidential election approximately 15 thousand votes of 3.2 million were rejected, making the rejection rate 0.47%. Votes are hand counted, and the results are generally out a few hours after the polls close.
Of course hand counting each vote costs tax money that, some might argue, would be better spent on other projects such as national defense or subsidies to their favorite industry.
And that's supposed to stop Asimov books from rolling out?:p
Slashdot won't let me set the font sizes right, but look for Mirage: Isaac Asimov's Robot Mystery by Mark W Tiedemann, with "Asimov" stretched across the cover in 48-point all caps and "by Mark W Tiedemann" in a 6-point footnote at the bottom. Or any of a dozen similar titles that have been popping up for some time..
Not that I've read any, I imagine it must be like reading Star Trek novels.
Well, I've found sz over an ssh connection quite useful, and I wasn't even on crack at the time.
I was using Tera Term Pro (a free terminal emulator with an ssh plugin for the Windows platform I was forced to use) to ssh to a host across a couple of NAT's, and it's a *lot* easier to just say "sz *" and have the terminal emulator receive it than to try to set up an FTP tunnel across two opposing NAT's:p
I don't know if scp was available for Windows at that time, but even if I'd had it, I think I'd still have preferred sz, since with scp I'd have had to either copy the files in several hops or piece together an ssh tunnel across the consecutive hosts to from my windows box to the final host.
And convenience aside, it was a deliciously nostalgic moment seeing those familiar zmodem start transfer strings pop into the terminal screen;)
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It'll save time when propagating worms, too -- you just have to receive the worm once on your work email account and it can forward itself using your work identity, your home identity, any of the pseudonymous identities you use to post on the not-quite-mainstream newsgroups and discussion forums, etc. It can even mix and match the contact lists for an amusing effect!
Seriously, who would bet Windows will not leak information between your identities? Microsoft's C compilers insert arbitrary chunks of your disk into compiled binaries!
if(!extinct) {fork(); buildBetterWeapon();}
Well, a libc can easily be a meg or more, and with most Windowseses you need to read the entire thing into RAM to call any given function. And then you need to page it out to that swap file on that FAT partition when you need RAM for something else..
(whatever happened to my right of happiness??). I believe you're entitled to "pursuit of happiness". This probably means you have a right to attempt to track down and install an ad blocker, although of course this hasn't been tested in court yet.
Web search engines are marginally suitable for indexing the web, because we don't have anything better. They're almost totally useless for searching a single website for a specific small piece of information, which is what people tend to be looking for when they visit a company's site.
Of course hand counting each vote costs tax money that, some might argue, would be better spent on other projects such as national defense or subsidies to their favorite industry.
Slashdot won't let me set the font sizes right, but look for Mirage: Isaac Asimov's Robot Mystery by Mark W Tiedemann, with "Asimov" stretched across the cover in 48-point all caps and "by Mark W Tiedemann" in a 6-point footnote at the bottom. Or any of a dozen similar titles that have been popping up for some time..
Not that I've read any, I imagine it must be like reading Star Trek novels.
I was using Tera Term Pro (a free terminal emulator with an ssh plugin for the Windows platform I was forced to use) to ssh to a host across a couple of NAT's, and it's a *lot* easier to just say "sz *" and have the terminal emulator receive it than to try to set up an FTP tunnel across two opposing NAT's :p
I don't know if scp was available for Windows at that time, but even if I'd had it, I think I'd still have preferred sz, since with scp I'd have had to either copy the files in several hops or piece together an ssh tunnel across the consecutive hosts to from my windows box to the final host.
And convenience aside, it was a deliciously nostalgic moment seeing those familiar zmodem start transfer strings pop into the terminal screen ;)