i know this would be a hack, and not quite (understatement) as secure as a ground-up reimplementation, but:
how much of a difference would it make to assign each executable its own "user" space - ie, executables have access to whatever the user has access to, so implement an interface framework to always run executables as their own user (unless directed otherwise by trusted real user)? this would seem to define another layer of security, with all the security checks already in place for users.
next implement interface for users to run apps...
could then a simple(?) tmp redirect to "user-app" space take care of the global tmp access problem as well?
Is anyone even trying to build more plants? Or is it just too lucrative to sit and watch the cash roll in the door, as prices quadruple for the same power you were selling two years ago. Yeah, you could've built another plant, spent more money, and you'd still be making less than you are now, owning less plants, creating a scarcity of resources... and you've got a damn good argument for the scarcity not being artificial, don't you?
power suppliers used to be under control of the resellers - and the resellers do have to put up some pretense of looking good. suppliers don't. part of the reason there's a crisis is unscheduled maintenance, and another part is plants that haven't been adequately upgraded to environmental standards - and there's no excuse for that, there's a captive market.
but the captive market is the problem, and what better position to be in than a utility in a captive market?
watch the $$$ roll by... where is it going? plant owners. what kind of incentive is that?
No one is being "prevented" from building power plants. It's not impossible.
In California, however, your costs are greater and the time to build is greater because of environmental regulations. These regulations are needed.
It's ridiculous that none have been built, since it's pretty much a sure win for the power supplier. Demand will go up. What they don't realize is that unless they get their heads out of their asses and build some compliant plants, it's their heads that will roll for price-fixing. And your head getting removed from your neck while it's inserted in your ass is, I'd guess, not an entirely pleasant experience.
If it just gets worse, the State will flex its regulatory muscle again, and it's only going to be even more reactionary a movement than the deregulation movement. It will hurt - again.
So these are like the little floppy records you used to get as a kid? Those were always really good quality.
Seriously - this is really not a great idea. Always looking for your little ring-thingy to make the disc not damage your hardware when it wobbles off the platter (will it play in vertical mount drives..?)... about as fun as the stupid codes for prizes inside Spite(TM) bottle-caps that ask you to go to a web site and then hand out personal information to get an ID just to check the code.... dumb, dumb, dumb.
a lot 'o' money. if this is a real auction, having it posted to slashdot is like a dream come true.
baybuy1@aol.com is going to be quite happy with this new and improved slashdot effect, if this auction is real. i would like to point out that there is no selling history, though...
you're right, but until enough "regular folks" (people that would have some pretty interesting explanations of what a "chording keyboard" might be) buy these things and discover that the shrunken QWERTY is just not ideal, they'll be making them shrunken QWERTY.
until people understand why they need a different keyboard, they will not want one. that's the main interface, that's your fallback - what are you going to do if you don't understand how to make it do your bidding?
from the linked article (which is only an appendix to a massive journalistic project)- bold type is my emphasis:
"We're a wicked throwaway society." Plastic packaging and fast-food containers may seem wasteful, but they actually save resources and reduce trash. The typical household in Mexico City buys fewer packaged goods than an American household, but it produces one-third more garbage, chiefly because Mexicans buy fresh foods in bulk and throw away large portions that are unused, spoiled or stale. Those apples in Dittersdorf's slide, protected by plastic wrap and foam, are less likely to spoil. The lightweight plastic packaging requires much less energy to manufacture and transport than traditional alternatives like cardboard or paper. Food companies have switched to plastic packaging because they make money by using resources efficiently. A typical McDonald's discards less than two ounces of garbage for each customer served -- less than what's generated by a typical meal at home.
Plastic packaging is routinely criticized because it doesn't decay in landfills, but neither does most other packaging, as William Rathje, an archaeologist at the University of Arizona, has discovered from his excavations of landfills. Rathje found that paper, cardboard and other organic materials -- while technically biodegradable -- tend to remain intact in the airless confines of a landfill. These mummified materials actually use much more landfill
space than plastic packaging, which has steadily been getting smaller as manufacturers develop stronger, thinner materials. Juice cartons take up half the landfill space occupied by the glass bottles they replaced; 12 plastic grocery bags fit in the space occupied by one paper bag.
so, uh, yeah - some Mexican families produce a greater initial bulk of garbage, but it's made up of mostly fresh, unprocessed organic food products. which biodegrade extremely quickly, unlike other "organic" products like paper (or worse packaging materials), which has been processed and condensed so that you're basically waiting for a hyperdense portion of a tree to biodegrade. it also lacks othe natural factors (various critters) that will help the process. that will, of course, take longer than a mostly-eaten apple.
comparing easily compostable waste mass to plastic and other petroleum waste that will take (at least) many hundreds of years to biodegrade is an absolute farce - it's comparing apples and plastic wrap, and they're just not the same thing.
similar quality journalism pervades the rest of that article. the plastic waste might be lighter day by day, but it doesn't go away, either. when was the last time anybody saw plastic detritus?
i'd also like to point out that a large part of McDonald's waste is carried out of the store by customers, and thus is probably not accounted for with those numbers.
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Here in San Francisco, we voted on machine-readable cards, which were then stuffed into an envelope and delivered by hand to the poll workers. In other words, even if the machines did validity verification, you wouldn't have known about it if your vote was invalid. Not a chance.
And due to the anonymous nature of the vote, no one would ever be able to tell you about it, either.
This does not discount stupidity of people who punched two holes, nor does it discount the fact that those people may have tried to write on the ballot to distinguish one hole as the "right" one. Not everyone understands what "machine-readable" entails.
...implies that they are NOT one and the same. nobody said triggers were external. there's nothing wrong with that statement at face value, and unless you've read the book, you're not providing much of a critique of the author's opinion. if you have read it, i'd be curious to know why you think what you do, because you're still not explaining yourself given the author's supposed criticism.
Here's the real showstopper in that page - it's not the rendering time. I'm using a pentium pro 200 with well over 300 MB RAM...
i started that page loading in a separate window.
as i type this, most of the navigation controls (in netscape 4.75 unde win95) are gone, and little bits of the desktop are showing through. i tried to reply to the parent in a new window: "NETSCAPE CANNOT CREATE EMPTY DOCUMENT" or some such thing. (i'm just using the same window now, before i reboot.)
i tried to save a file from a different page, and not only was the file save window rendered badly, the fonts inside that window were all wrong.
...my junior year of high school. A woman who was almost completely off the high school pop scale - an intelligent, free thinking, artsy sort of girl - decided that she would "run" for homecoming queen.
She said that if she were chosen, she would shave her head. Guess what happened.
It was really interesting. She was chosen, she "accepted the honor," but the evidence was there, staring you in the face: if you're prepared to tailor your appearance to popular demand, then you too can win these contests. She just put it in a different light, in a very intentional and thought -provoking way.
I hope it wasn't just those of us that were already thinking about the system that found this situation meaningful and informative. I hope a few other people - the ones who thought the whole thing was a joke - got the point too.
I really question the wisdom of setting up this interface w/o making sure that the back end (the examination process) is robust enough to process these applications with a high-quality result. I foresee the patent examiners getting even farther behind than they are now, and letting things slip even worse than they do now to try and relieve some of the pressure.
Unless, and I think this is possible, they're bringing this template to the applicants to take the load off the people inside the USPTO, whose job it is to put every patent application received into the stupid template. This way, they save themselves some work.
I know this seems backwards and inefficient, but trust me - I work at IBM. We know this shit.
would it be unreasonable to link a whois -ish query to the database to take points off sites which were referred by sites having the same owners / contact info / whatever?
Microsoft's source codes are the most coveted in the multibillion-dollar industry. With access to them,
competitors could write programs and challenge Microsoft's products. Hackers also could use the codes to identify software flaws, making break-ins and virus-writing easier.
no OSS trolling necessary in this article. none at all. this is a horrible incident and microsoft deserves sympathy for its hardship.
how about something like what you describe rigged with a proximity smartdevice detector in sequence on either side?
in other words, anybody can walk through, anytime, without looking like they're doing anything different, but without the key to the proximity device, any magnetic data gets destroyed?
Actually, if 50% plus 1 person in his voting district favor abortion
then the politician should waffle and do almost nothing, with a slight favor towards abortion. Perhaps approval for some legislation that will make its true effects known after said politician leaves office.
While you're correct and perhaps (+1, Insightful) about the degree of fragmentation within and between our two major parties, you're missing an important distinction. That huge list of political parties you pointed to contained parties with political views ranging through the political spectrum from the radical to the reactionary.
in my opinion, our "liberal" democrats are closer to moderate or conservative, and our "conservative" republicans range from moderate to reactionary. where's the left?
more important, where's the balance?
average americans have proven over time that they are remarkably rooted in a moderately conservative political base. as a nation, we dismiss groups like the greens and the libertarians and the socialists and the communists as loonies. we don't even want to hear their arguments, their viewpoints or their names (unless it's in a humorous context).
John McCain's agenda was markedly different from George Bush's which is markedly different from Pat Robertson's. Al Gore and Bill Bradley were representing completely different interests and constituencies than Jesse Jackson.
markedly different when viewed under a myopic american political lens, but markedly similar when viewed under the spectrum. does that mean that we're all surprisingly enlightened, or just that we don't have too much to choose from?
As for that quote being an attack on the internet, yes it was, but I also believe it was a slip of the toungue cause by so much media coverage blaming the internet for the rampage.
oh yes, i want a president who, when he gets the slightest bit stressed, starts spouting sensationalist media propaganda. yeah, a nationally televised debate is probably a lot of stress, but on a presidential scale? naahhh...
your anecdotal evidence, by the way, does not invalidate anybody else's anecdotal evidence. it's anecdotal evidence. at best, the most it can do is convince someone that a generalization is in fact a generalization.
my gawd, politics are entertaining... until you remember that millions upon millions of people are picking your environment for you, and that most of them aren't thinking. i love our (american) democracy.
"...the point haired boss in the cartoon is an exageration..."
Not really, in my experience. For the last year I've been working at a large blue company. Over the course of this time I was informally introduced by a co-worker to the Peter Principle, which is apparently a management model (or a model of management, depending on your flavor of cynicism).
I think the basic idea is this: in an organization, people tend to be promoted when they do their job well enough for a long enough period of time. Eventually, this will lead to some sort of managerial position. People will be promoted until they are no longer fit to be promoted by whatever standards are applicable. The problem lies therein: people are promoted until they are no longer fit to be promoted. This means that the positions that people achieve (and stagnate in) are those positions which they are simply not quite competent to hold.
This leads to a gradual accumulation of incompetent mid-level management, which (being to some degree incompentent) promotes more of the same. If your organization has some luck, the incompetency will level off at some point below the lead executive level, but that still means that there's a line of stupidity that must be crossed before anything of any real importance gets done.
You end up with a whole class of management that is interested solely in maintaining their position and appearing to make numbers appear to be in their favor... but not too much, because then additional responsibility comes along and the fact that they just don't know what they're doing is obvious to higher-level management, not just the people below them. In a worse scenario, upper management will knowingly keep these mid-level incompetents because they're not threatening.
It's a vicious cycle, and I'm not enjoying it terribly much.
Minidiscs do allow direct digital copying, depending on the model you buy. What they will not do is make copies of a copy digitally - this is part of Sony's generational copy protection, can't remember the name. You can only copy a master... and they are trying to integrate this with CD players, etc., so that it works across digital media. Sony saw this thing coming a while ago.
It's actually kinda nice in certain situations when you don't have a lawyer... no one can copy your music digitally, but you can always make more copies since you have the master.
Allowing only first-generation copying (unlimited) seems pretty fair to me.
Look at this utter shite - he doesn't even begin the html, much less close anything else...:
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how much of a difference would it make to assign each executable its own "user" space - ie, executables have access to whatever the user has access to, so implement an interface framework to always run executables as their own user (unless directed otherwise by trusted real user)? this would seem to define another layer of security, with all the security checks already in place for users.
next implement interface for users to run apps...
could then a simple(?) tmp redirect to "user-app" space take care of the global tmp access problem as well?
does any of this make sense?
Is anyone even trying to build more plants? Or is it just too lucrative to sit and watch the cash roll in the door, as prices quadruple for the same power you were selling two years ago. Yeah, you could've built another plant, spent more money, and you'd still be making less than you are now, owning less plants, creating a scarcity of resources... and you've got a damn good argument for the scarcity not being artificial, don't you?
but the captive market is the problem, and what better position to be in than a utility in a captive market?
watch the $$$ roll by... where is it going? plant owners. what kind of incentive is that?
In California, however, your costs are greater and the time to build is greater because of environmental regulations. These regulations are needed.
It's ridiculous that none have been built, since it's pretty much a sure win for the power supplier. Demand will go up. What they don't realize is that unless they get their heads out of their asses and build some compliant plants, it's their heads that will roll for price-fixing. And your head getting removed from your neck while it's inserted in your ass is, I'd guess, not an entirely pleasant experience.
If it just gets worse, the State will flex its regulatory muscle again, and it's only going to be even more reactionary a movement than the deregulation movement. It will hurt - again.
Seriously - this is really not a great idea.
Always looking for your little ring-thingy to make the disc not damage your hardware when it wobbles off the platter (will it play in vertical mount drives..?)... about as fun as the stupid codes for prizes inside Spite(TM) bottle-caps that ask you to go to a web site and then hand out personal information to get an ID just to check the code.... dumb, dumb, dumb.
http://linux.almaden.ibm.com/linux/demopkg/TechEx
i was pretty sure i saw something about that come through here a few months ago, and i was right. it looks pretty damn useful to me...
read it here
it's worth your time if you are a carpentry geek (old-skool tech).
baybuy1@aol.com is going to be quite happy with this new and improved slashdot effect, if this auction is real. i would like to point out that there is no selling history, though...
until people understand why they need a different keyboard, they will not want one. that's the main interface, that's your fallback - what are you going to do if you don't understand how to make it do your bidding?
"We're a wicked throwaway society." Plastic packaging and fast-food containers may seem wasteful, but they actually save resources and reduce trash. The typical household in Mexico City buys fewer packaged goods than an American household, but it produces one-third more garbage, chiefly because Mexicans buy fresh foods in bulk and throw away large portions that are unused, spoiled or stale. Those apples in Dittersdorf's slide, protected by plastic wrap and foam, are less likely to spoil. The lightweight plastic packaging requires much less energy to manufacture and transport than traditional alternatives like cardboard or paper. Food companies have switched to plastic packaging because they make money by using resources efficiently. A typical McDonald's discards less than two ounces of garbage for each customer served -- less than what's generated by a typical meal at home.
Plastic packaging is routinely criticized because it doesn't decay in landfills, but neither does most other packaging, as William Rathje, an archaeologist at the University of Arizona, has discovered from his excavations of landfills. Rathje found that paper, cardboard and other organic materials -- while technically biodegradable -- tend to remain intact in the airless confines of a landfill. These mummified materials actually use much more landfill space than plastic packaging, which has steadily been getting smaller as manufacturers develop stronger, thinner materials. Juice cartons take up half the landfill space occupied by the glass bottles they replaced; 12 plastic grocery bags fit in the space occupied by one paper bag.
so, uh, yeah - some Mexican families produce a greater initial bulk of garbage, but it's made up of mostly fresh, unprocessed organic food products. which biodegrade extremely quickly, unlike other "organic" products like paper (or worse packaging materials), which has been processed and condensed so that you're basically waiting for a hyperdense portion of a tree to biodegrade. it also lacks othe natural factors (various critters) that will help the process. that will, of course, take longer than a mostly-eaten apple.comparing easily compostable waste mass to plastic and other petroleum waste that will take (at least) many hundreds of years to biodegrade is an absolute farce - it's comparing apples and plastic wrap, and they're just not the same thing.
similar quality journalism pervades the rest of that article. the plastic waste might be lighter day by day, but it doesn't go away, either. when was the last time anybody saw plastic detritus?
i'd also like to point out that a large part of McDonald's waste is carried out of the store by customers, and thus is probably not accounted for with those numbers.
Here in San Francisco, we voted on machine-readable cards, which were then stuffed into an envelope and delivered by hand to the poll workers. In other words, even if the machines did validity verification, you wouldn't have known about it if your vote was invalid. Not a chance.
And due to the anonymous nature of the vote, no one would ever be able to tell you about it, either.
This does not discount stupidity of people who punched two holes, nor does it discount the fact that those people may have tried to write on the ballot to distinguish one hole as the "right" one. Not everyone understands what "machine-readable" entails.
triggers or external logic
...implies that they are NOT one and the same. nobody said triggers were external. there's nothing wrong with that statement at face value, and unless you've read the book, you're not providing much of a critique of the author's opinion. if you have read it, i'd be curious to know why you think what you do, because you're still not explaining yourself given the author's supposed criticism.
i started that page loading in a separate window.
as i type this, most of the navigation controls (in netscape 4.75 unde win95) are gone, and little bits of the desktop are showing through. i tried to reply to the parent in a new window: "NETSCAPE CANNOT CREATE EMPTY DOCUMENT" or some such thing. (i'm just using the same window now, before i reboot.)
i tried to save a file from a different page, and not only was the file save window rendered badly, the fonts inside that window were all wrong.
nice. very nice.
She said that if she were chosen, she would shave her head. Guess what happened.
It was really interesting. She was chosen, she "accepted the honor," but the evidence was there, staring you in the face: if you're prepared to tailor your appearance to popular demand, then you too can win these contests. She just put it in a different light, in a very intentional and thought -provoking way.
I hope it wasn't just those of us that were already thinking about the system that found this situation meaningful and informative. I hope a few other people - the ones who thought the whole thing was a joke - got the point too.
Unless, and I think this is possible, they're bringing this template to the applicants to take the load off the people inside the USPTO, whose job it is to put every patent application received into the stupid template. This way, they save themselves some work.
I know this seems backwards and inefficient, but trust me - I work at IBM. We know this shit.
would it be unreasonable to link a whois -ish query to the database to take points off sites which were referred by sites having the same owners / contact info / whatever?
no OSS trolling necessary in this article. none at all. this is a horrible incident and microsoft deserves sympathy for its hardship.
in other words, anybody can walk through, anytime, without looking like they're doing anything different, but without the key to the proximity device, any magnetic data gets destroyed?
it doesn't stop any other form of data, but
- it's a link in a system
hm?Actually, if
This is what you're really describing.50% plus 1 person in his voting district favor abortion
then the politician should waffle and do almost nothing, with a slight favor towards abortion. Perhaps approval for some legislation that will make its true effects known after said politician leaves office.
left - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - right
radical - liberal - moderate - conservative - reactionary
in my opinion, our "liberal" democrats are closer to moderate or conservative, and our "conservative" republicans range from moderate to reactionary. where's the left?
more important, where's the balance?
average americans have proven over time that they are remarkably rooted in a moderately conservative political base. as a nation, we dismiss groups like the greens and the libertarians and the socialists and the communists as loonies. we don't even want to hear their arguments, their viewpoints or their names (unless it's in a humorous context).
John McCain's agenda was markedly different from George Bush's which is markedly different from Pat Robertson's. Al Gore and Bill Bradley were representing completely different interests and constituencies than Jesse Jackson.
markedly different when viewed under a myopic american political lens, but markedly similar when viewed under the spectrum. does that mean that we're all surprisingly enlightened, or just that we don't have too much to choose from?
and really - why is that?
oh yes, i want a president who, when he gets the slightest bit stressed, starts spouting sensationalist media propaganda. yeah, a nationally televised debate is probably a lot of stress, but on a presidential scale? naahhh...
your anecdotal evidence, by the way, does not invalidate anybody else's anecdotal evidence. it's anecdotal evidence. at best, the most it can do is convince someone that a generalization is in fact a generalization.
my gawd, politics are entertaining... until you remember that millions upon millions of people are picking your environment for you, and that most of them aren't thinking. i love our (american) democracy.
Not really, in my experience. For the last year I've been working at a large blue company. Over the course of this time I was informally introduced by a co-worker to the Peter Principle, which is apparently a management model (or a model of management, depending on your flavor of cynicism).
I think the basic idea is this: in an organization, people tend to be promoted when they do their job well enough for a long enough period of time. Eventually, this will lead to some sort of managerial position. People will be promoted until they are no longer fit to be promoted by whatever standards are applicable. The problem lies therein: people are promoted until they are no longer fit to be promoted. This means that the positions that people achieve (and stagnate in) are those positions which they are simply not quite competent to hold.
This leads to a gradual accumulation of incompetent mid-level management, which (being to some degree incompentent) promotes more of the same. If your organization has some luck, the incompetency will level off at some point below the lead executive level, but that still means that there's a line of stupidity that must be crossed before anything of any real importance gets done.
You end up with a whole class of management that is interested solely in maintaining their position and appearing to make numbers appear to be in their favor... but not too much, because then additional responsibility comes along and the fact that they just don't know what they're doing is obvious to higher-level management, not just the people below them. In a worse scenario, upper management will knowingly keep these mid-level incompetents because they're not threatening.
It's a vicious cycle, and I'm not enjoying it terribly much.
it would probably be less offensive to settle on the dark side... that way there won't be so much glare on the monitors.
Minidiscs do allow direct digital copying, depending on the model you buy. What they will not do is make copies of a copy digitally - this is part of Sony's generational copy protection, can't remember the name. You can only copy a master... and they are trying to integrate this with CD players, etc., so that it works across digital media. Sony saw this thing coming a while ago.
It's actually kinda nice in certain situations when you don't have a lawyer... no one can copy your music digitally, but you can always make more copies since you have the master.
Allowing only first-generation copying (unlimited) seems pretty fair to me.
Look at this utter shite - he doesn't even begin the html, much less close anything else...:
<BASE HREF="http://mimic.arcadeheaven.com/">
<head>
<title>Mimic - The Generic Hardware Emulator</title>
<!All code in this file is (c)2000 Beaver Technologies, All rights reserved>
<!Click Rotater (RotateIt) is owned by Michael Beaver>
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