Long ago, I went to a talk by the author of MacWrite. He mentioned that at one point, text deletion was done by selecting the text and dragging it to the trash can. That was quickly rejected by test users.
The domain is in fact registered to someone in Virginia. But note the phony phone number.
Registrant:
Fountainhead Media (MACOMBSHERIFF-DOM)
19950 Denby
Portsmouth, VA 23708
US
Domain Name: MACOMBSHERIFF.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Stanley, Michael (36687838P) fountainhead_463@hotmail.com
Fountainhead Media
19950 Denby
Portsmouth, VA 23708
US
999-999-9999
Technically, I agree completely. I'd like to see people running NSA Secure Linux or LOMAC with a browser that can run content in a compartment where it can't do anything but display on the screen. But Microsoft is unable to implement that. I'm saying that it's time to turn off the ability to execute programs sent in E-mail unless and until the mail client and OS are able to deal with them safely. That must be off by default in today's environment.
If you followed the news lately, you would have read
that the first vulnerability and the corresponding proof-of-concept exploit
after the MS win2k source leak involved a buffer overflow caused by a hex-edited
image file.
We already have unskippable DVD ads. Commercial skipping has been removed from PVRs. The logical step is unskippable commercials for broadcast TV.
Here's how it will work.
If you've watched at least three minutes of a program, you will be prohibited from changing the channel during the next commercial. Mute, power off, and volume reduction will also be disabled. User control returns after three minutes of commercials or when released by the broadcaster.
This prevents people from stealing program content by not watching the commercials.
It's time to just block all E-mail attachments.
If you want to send a file, do it some other way, like uploading it to a server for explicit download.
Allow PDF, GIF, and JPEG at the firewall and in the mail client. That's it.
Microsoft needs to turn off the "feature" that clicking on a mail attachment runs it. It should just be "viewed", with a dumb viewer. It should be impossible to launch programs from mail attachments.
Users should have to explictly save to a file and run to do that.
MAILING ADDRESS
7765 LAKE WORTH ROAD
SUITE 341
LAKE WORTH FL 33467
Officer/Director Detail
HADHAZY, ALLAN E
7765 LAKE WORTH ROAD
LAKE WORTH FL 33467
Their primary business is porno video chat. Beyond that, Hadhazy had once owned "exclusive rights" to the
first Internet-enabled dildo, but that product line was apparently unsuccessful.
I suspect that if they actually implement this,
and it seems to work, there will be people somewhere behind the scenes running it. It won't really be automatic.
Rather than fooling around with PDA and WiFi crap, the Audio Spotlight technology would be much more effective for ghosts. This has real potential in retail: "The red one is perfect for you".
If you haven't been following the aftermath of Enron and WorldCom, here's how that's finally unwinding.
At Enron, Glisan was convicted and is in the pen.
(He's inmate #20293-179 at FDC Houston.) Fastow has pled guilty and is awaiting sentencing, which comes after he has "cooperated". He's cooperating. Skilling, the former CEO, has been indicted. Ken Lay is still unindicted, but that may yet happen.
At Worldcom, Sullivan just pled guilty, and Ebbers, the former CEO, has just been indicted.
It takes a while. But there is some justice left.
Let's wait and see what happens with SCO.
That sounds right. They might actually be able to make a semi-legitimate contract claim against a customer who was an SCO licensee. No way are they going to win against a Linux user on copyright grounds alone.
Since they scheduled the announcement for their earnings call, the numbers must be truly awful this quarter. If they had good numbers to report, they wouldn't need a distraction like this.
Their site puts Mozilla into an infinite reload loop. They're probably trying to do something annoying involving a forced ad, but Mozilla is resisting.
I maintained Deathwatch, the list of doomed dot-coms. It's still up, with the predicted death dates and a current stock chart.
Most of the stock charts now say "Chart not available for this symbol", of course.
Wierdly, some of them are still trading. Ziplink (ZIPL) is quoted at $0.0001 on NASDAQ. Their web site is still up, although most of the pages are bad links.
Their last news item is "ZipLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZIPL), a wholesale Internet connectivity provider, today announced that the company plans to suspend its operations effective today, November 17, 2000."
Despite this, the stock is still tradable, and a few people trade it each day.
In other news, next year's Coke can will have a slightly smaller "dynamic ribbon" logo. Liquid Tide is discontinuing the "Fresh Spring" version and adding an unperfumed option. The Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 box will have the new east span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge on the front. Dell Computers is experimenting with ultradark green cases in selected markets. And the new Ford Bronco will have aggressively squared-off styling.
US currency doesn't have RFID tags yet, but it looks like the Hitachi Mu-Chip RFID tag may be going into the Japanese 10,000 yen note soon. This device runs at 2.45GHz, and is 0.4mm square. Early versions required an external antenna (which could be a line of conductive ink), but the newest version supposedly has an onboard antenna and is suitable for embedding in currency.
This chip doesn't have collision avoidance, though. So a stack of bills wouldn't be individually readable.
So the technology isn't quite here yet to do it right, but it's getting close. Currently, you can get collision avoidance or tiny size, but not both. Good collision avoidance combined with fast data transfers is hard, and it's wanted by retailers, who want to be able to read out each box in a carton individually. That could be thousands of items. That's do-able, but not with the low-cost tags yet. Retailers want to get tag costs down to around $0.02. Realistically, today RFID tags cost upwards of $0.25.
True public key challenge/response hasn't made it into the smallest tags, either. Challenge/response is available in keyring size and in credit card size, and is used for access control applications.
But the low end tags can't do that yet.
Two more years, and this will really be happening. But not yet.
EV1 Servers provides low-cost dedicated servers for adult Webmasters
...
"Adult customers represent a significant proportion of EV1Servers' user base," he says. "I can't give you exact stats, because we don't review and rate content hosted on our network. But I can tell you that adult users are highly valued members of our community." -- Robert Marsh, EV1 CEO.
This is a microcontroller application
on
DIY HVAC
·
· Score: 1
Well, first off, you don't really want to run your HVAC from a PC. You want some little microcontroller doing the job. You might talk to that from a PC, but don't put the PC in charge.
The next logical step is to put in some passive motion detectors, so that when nobody is home, the HVAC system knows it.
The previous champion in Really Oversized Coffee-Table Books was Helmut Newton's SUMO, at 65 pounds. It costs $3000 and comes with its own metal stand. It's a collection of mildly erotic prints. Modernbook in Palo Alto had one on display for months.
So this guy comes out with a book that is seven feet tall, weighs 133 pounds, and costs $10,000. This is an achievement of sorts, but as Molly Ivins once pointed out, once you've seen a one-ton cheese, a two-ton cheese isn't that impressive.
All that ended decades ago.
No manned submersible in operation today can go to the deepest part of the ocean. All the undersea habitats are defunct except for Aquarius, which the University of North Carolina now owns and struggles to fund. It's over.
Manned operations in the deep ocean never became cheaper or safer. They're possible, but not useful.
Deep ocean work belongs to robots today.
Much the same thing has happened to space. All remaining manned space operations are ego trips for governments. All useful work is unmanned.
Someday this may change, but it won't be done using chemically fueled rockets.
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Long ago, I went to a talk by the author of MacWrite. He mentioned that at one point, text deletion was done by selecting the text and dragging it to the trash can. That was quickly rejected by test users.
We already have viruses that spam. Now we'll have viruses that spam and use more compute cycles computing sending keys.
Fountainhead Media (MACOMBSHERIFF-DOM)
19950 Denby
Portsmouth, VA 23708
US
Domain Name: MACOMBSHERIFF.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Stanley, Michael (36687838P)
fountainhead_463@hotmail.com
Fountainhead Media
19950 Denby
Portsmouth, VA 23708
US
999-999-9999
You'll buy another one, and it will have the latest DRM. That's why they made television addictive.
Yes, this breaks lots of stuff. Tough.
I discovered that vulnerability back in August, 2000. So yes, I do know about it.
Cell phone compression won't carry the voice well in the presence of background noise. Cell phone data rates are very low.
If you've watched at least three minutes of a program, you will be prohibited from changing the channel during the next commercial. Mute, power off, and volume reduction will also be disabled. User control returns after three minutes of commercials or when released by the broadcaster.
This prevents people from stealing program content by not watching the commercials.
Allow PDF, GIF, and JPEG at the firewall and in the mail client. That's it.
Microsoft needs to turn off the "feature" that clicking on a mail attachment runs it. It should just be "viewed", with a dumb viewer. It should be impossible to launch programs from mail attachments. Users should have to explictly save to a file and run to do that.
I noticed that too, but it's not clear whether they are transcription errors or in the original. Was this an OCR of a printout, or what?
Is the actual memo, without ESR's blitherings and typos, available in its original form? That would be valuable.
3918 VIA POINCIANA
SUITE 5
LAKE WORTH FL 33467
MAILING ADDRESS
7765 LAKE WORTH ROAD
SUITE 341
LAKE WORTH FL 33467
Officer/Director Detail
HADHAZY, ALLAN E
7765 LAKE WORTH ROAD
LAKE WORTH FL 33467
Their primary business is porno video chat. Beyond that, Hadhazy had once owned "exclusive rights" to the first Internet-enabled dildo, but that product line was apparently unsuccessful.
I suspect that if they actually implement this, and it seems to work, there will be people somewhere behind the scenes running it. It won't really be automatic.
Rather than fooling around with PDA and WiFi crap, the Audio Spotlight technology would be much more effective for ghosts. This has real potential in retail: "The red one is perfect for you".
At Enron, Glisan was convicted and is in the pen. (He's inmate #20293-179 at FDC Houston.) Fastow has pled guilty and is awaiting sentencing, which comes after he has "cooperated". He's cooperating. Skilling, the former CEO, has been indicted. Ken Lay is still unindicted, but that may yet happen.
At Worldcom, Sullivan just pled guilty, and Ebbers, the former CEO, has just been indicted.
It takes a while. But there is some justice left. Let's wait and see what happens with SCO.
Since they scheduled the announcement for their earnings call, the numbers must be truly awful this quarter. If they had good numbers to report, they wouldn't need a distraction like this.
Their site puts Mozilla into an infinite reload loop. They're probably trying to do something annoying involving a forced ad, but Mozilla is resisting.
Wierdly, some of them are still trading. Ziplink (ZIPL) is quoted at $0.0001 on NASDAQ. Their web site is still up, although most of the pages are bad links. Their last news item is "ZipLink, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZIPL), a wholesale Internet connectivity provider, today announced that the company plans to suspend its operations effective today, November 17, 2000."
Despite this, the stock is still tradable, and a few people trade it each day.
In other news, next year's Coke can will have a slightly smaller "dynamic ribbon" logo. Liquid Tide is discontinuing the "Fresh Spring" version and adding an unperfumed option. The Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 box will have the new east span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge on the front. Dell Computers is experimenting with ultradark green cases in selected markets. And the new Ford Bronco will have aggressively squared-off styling.
This chip doesn't have collision avoidance, though. So a stack of bills wouldn't be individually readable.
So the technology isn't quite here yet to do it right, but it's getting close. Currently, you can get collision avoidance or tiny size, but not both. Good collision avoidance combined with fast data transfers is hard, and it's wanted by retailers, who want to be able to read out each box in a carton individually. That could be thousands of items. That's do-able, but not with the low-cost tags yet. Retailers want to get tag costs down to around $0.02. Realistically, today RFID tags cost upwards of $0.25.
True public key challenge/response hasn't made it into the smallest tags, either. Challenge/response is available in keyring size and in credit card size, and is used for access control applications. But the low end tags can't do that yet.
Two more years, and this will really be happening. But not yet.
-
EV1 Servers provides low-cost dedicated servers for adult Webmasters
...
"Adult customers represent a significant proportion of EV1Servers' user base," he says. "I can't give you exact stats, because we don't review and rate content hosted on our network. But I can tell you that adult users are highly valued members of our community." -- Robert Marsh, EV1 CEO.
Ref: Host4Porn.comEV1 even links to that article.
The next logical step is to put in some passive motion detectors, so that when nobody is home, the HVAC system knows it.
So this guy comes out with a book that is seven feet tall, weighs 133 pounds, and costs $10,000. This is an achievement of sorts, but as Molly Ivins once pointed out, once you've seen a one-ton cheese, a two-ton cheese isn't that impressive.
All that ended decades ago. No manned submersible in operation today can go to the deepest part of the ocean. All the undersea habitats are defunct except for Aquarius, which the University of North Carolina now owns and struggles to fund. It's over.
Manned operations in the deep ocean never became cheaper or safer. They're possible, but not useful. Deep ocean work belongs to robots today.
Much the same thing has happened to space. All remaining manned space operations are ego trips for governments. All useful work is unmanned.
Someday this may change, but it won't be done using chemically fueled rockets.