The most popular story in the Seattle Times online was about the guy getting his colon punctured by a horse. Maybe popularity shouldn't be the most important criteria about what is published.
Using the nofollow attribute basically makes google result ordering useless... right?
I'm a big Crimson fan, ever since I saw Yes and King Crimson circa May, 1973, Santa Monica Civic. Bill Bruford played in both. Have seen most of the iterations of King Crimson since then (except the last). Have a memory of Greg Lake singing Epitaph at California Jam. I also remember Emerson playing a grand piano while it did a slow barrel roll...
More recently, I took my wife to see Fripp and the California Guitar mumblesomething at a small place in the OC. The guitarists would play fantastic versions of Wipeout or whatever, then Fripp would make funky feedback sounds, to great applause. Wife didn't get that at all.
The stock market return is overstated because it doesn't count bankruptcies or companies that fall out of a given index.
Real estate investment tends to use leveraged dollars to increase return. That only doesn't work if you buy at the peak of a market and then have to sell before the next upswing (which is how flippers usually mess up).
Personally, I've made about an order of magnitude more money with real esate investments, with approximately equal dollars between stocks and real estate, over 25 years.
But I still have to work. Dammit. Should have put all the dollars into real estate.
Easy as pie for a bank robber. Just walk in, hand the teller a note. Everyone knows the tellers are trained to comply.
Have you not been reading the news lately? Hint, google for CardSystems Solutions. It is much easier to social engineer a faceless corporation.
Really, nothing will change until some real non-repudiation is built into the hardware.
As to the OP:
I particularly like his assertion that everything is backwards. Not so sure I like what he says about RFC's being driven by customers - he seems to have missed the whole corporate "buy-MS-products" problem, while complaining about their OS - it seems naïve to think you could just get a bunch of CEO's to demand things like that. And I don't think his bit about IETF in a vacuum being a good thing (for network security) is necessarily correct either - the original Morris worm alone should obviously shoot that down. I think all the original networking RFC's could be considered documentation legitimizing hacks, and there is nothing there that could be considered secure design.
The worst for me was August 1973. Heavy smog inversion layer in LA, 100+F. Fixing washing machines in the worst slums in LA. They'd lock up several large garbage bins with rotting garbage in the unventilated room with the washing machines. Kids pissing in the hall.
yeah, for years I had a sig file that said "See your system administrator? I AM the @#$^%#$ System administrator!" Later I substrd Database Administrator ("See your Database Administrator" is in several of the Oracle errors).
Other faves over the years:
The one asking if you are sure you want to run time backwards on various unii.
"User error on device" in RSTS.
ODBC errors that show the website is not logging the errors to its error loggin database: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8 &th=ac56db48597d3f2c&rnum=2
I also worked for a place with such a theme (I hope it wasn't the Olde Same Place!) Of course, they were doing a y2k project, and had named one y2k. Fortunately I checked the http://www.uspto.gov before I pointed it out... someone had indeed trademarked y2k beer... Anyone ever seen any? Boolean search the trademarks there for y2k and beer to see the variants, some have expired.
Step back to 95 and tell me who predicted 2000 or 2001
As a matter of fact, I did. Some predictions were way off (like the one about IBM being worth 0 - I only said that as a long shot for a Nick Peterly(sp?) article. Others were right on.
I said "There will be a big shakeout over the next couple of years. Concentrate
more on the concepts and general techniques across tools, as the tools are
in a rapid change phase. "[1996]
And:"We can prognosticate that the bill is going to try to merge NT & 95, as
a marketing ploy if nothing else. So this means there will be a lot
of different configurations, interoperability will be key. Anyone
who can juggle databases with webservers will have quite an advantage
(disclaimer: I am a database person, to me flat web pages are a fad.
Database webservers, as boring and "data processing" as that sounds,
are where the real value lie.). "[1996]
"There will be 3 ISP's, evolved from phone or Cable companies. I wish
I knew which 3." [1996]
As far as complaining about alpha architecture going away, they do have a road map to the itanium. So what?
We are approaching the end of Moore's law for silicon, but that doesn't mean the law is invalidated - it just means plenty of work in the new types of computer (as others have posted), and perhaps some new concepts in parallelism and non-binary logic.
Most of them let you hit the escape key to skip intro.
I've been getting a gazillion letters from a company I bought some "free" software from,
for more free software, which winds up being a few
bucks for shipping/handling of some crappy stuff on a cd that he never looks at twice. I seem to have mentally blocked it - maybe Ohio Distinctive? Several have dual english/spanish modes, to learn the other one, but he just doesn't seem interested (although he does in meatspace). Kid's now 5.5, and loves the Reader Rabbit, Richard Scary, Miss Spider, Sesame Street, Broderbrund stuff. He now knows Mac stuff from kindergarten, too. The stuff is helping teach him to read, so I can teach him unix.
All in all, the lapware is definitely worth it. It is another mode of entertainment to give mommy a break, and show gamma how to use a computer. Yes, you have to watch out for computer addiction, set time limits. He hardly remembers we have a Playstation 2 (so far...).
Now I just have to figure out how to get mommy excited about the computer, so I don't have to do the installs and reboots (stupid MS crappy OS!)...
A lot of the kids web sites are starting to have games too, but many are flash based (urrrpp). Nick has some neat stuff, ties in with Blues Clues and stuff.
I think the principal (PAL??? yeah, right) should have realized that extremely bright kids who spend too much time on the computer are going to take things very, very literally.
This is what most people who advocate very strict interpretations of criminal statutes miss. Not everybody interprets things the same way. So they don't react the same way. It is not a coincidence that many very bright people are paranoid - if you are good at following all the branches that may occur from an action, you can easily see many that are horrible - and it is easy to give too much weight to unlikely possibilities.
I think most school administrators are very arrogant, and stop feeling that some kids might actually be special, even when it is staring them in the face. But the same mistake is made by those who expect people to react predictably to anything. How often do people react to a suspension by committing suicide? Is it an Indian cultural thing?
The problem arises when young and impressionable minds see things that are bad, they have no context for evaluation. So if they see pictures of gang rapes, for example, they may decide that that is a cool thing to do.
There is in general no upper limit on stupidity, but preteens and younger teens are just discovering the limits of behavior, and so by adult standards do extremely stupid things. Of course, some adults never have learned the proper limits, and perhaps this is why.
Yes, I'm arguing a fairly direct causality here, but I'm not ruling out more indirect links either.
Sorry if this makes some people think I'm screaming/drooling "Save the children!!!!," but I'm not. I find that sort of thing embarrassing and wish people wouldn't do it. But such is life when dealing with the young of mammals.
I am arguing that society creates limits, and this should be explicitly acknowledged, examined minutely, and causitive factors brought to light and dealt with in a reasonable manner. Simply letting everyone see everything will have some predictably bad results. The ubiquity of the internet doesn't allow us to say "well the parents should know everything their kids are doing all the time." Bang-bang Maggie's little hammer came down on Homer's head...
Well, since this is nothing new, I'll repeat the same ol':
As one who has had innocuous sites unfairly blocked, I believe there should be international treaties and national laws that both require notification to blockees and have substantial penalties for incorrect blocking.
As a parent, I think blocking is a good thing. However, any methodology boils down to accountability - how do you know who is surfing, how do you know who is providing the content? I think there is actually a simple answer to this: Allow freedom. Require accountability.
How can this work in a practical sense without infringing on civil liberties? Simple: Have the default setup on OS's and computers explain the users have to opt-out of letting the chip echo its serial number if they want open access to everything. Allow the users to adjust this setting on the fly. So, if you want to let gramma surf the web safely and buy new shoes or whatever, she has the accountability. If you want be an anonymous porn king, you can turn off the id. If you want to anonymously buy shoes, it's up to the vendor to choose whether to allow that - I suspect few would, the credit card companies would strongly support accountability. The great unwashed masses can get their Time/Disney opiates, er, video stream feeds, and those who want to rant about the greatness of Hitler's amphetamine use can do their thing.
A side effect of this would be to allow scenarios such as freenet. Wouldn't that be a good thing?
I used to do this with bmp/jpg/etc. Take any program that can convert between lossy and non-lossy formats. Take an interesting picture - the best one I tried was off some BBS, picture of topless well-endowed girl. cycle between all the formats. The lossy ones tend to enhance contrast. Take result and wallpaper. The end result is very Andy Warhol... in one case I had it up at a job for months, and people commented how pretty it was. However, if one were to mention the original picture, one could not help but see it... kinda like not thinking about elephants...
Actually, the story specifically says that
Microsoft has rejected buying Napster,
When they say "Equity position" what they really mean is "We're going to put a minority of 900 pound apes on your board of directors, and if you don't do what we want, they will sit on you."
My apartment is down
from 18 fone lines (fone company would send investigators out every few months to see
if I was running a bookie joint) to just 4 lines and a T1.
My friend rented an office in the early '80's in Isla Vista. He was pretty happy because it had previously been (an early) Kinko's and had several phone lines already installed.
Even in the last few years I've had issues trying to convince Pac Bell not to multiplex lines to my house, without paying the hundreds of dollars for "data conditioning." Thank household god images for cable modems.
Even as recently as the mid-90's one of my buddies paid for me to have another phone line in my house for his users to dial up locally. It was cheaper for him to pay me to have a phone line call-forwarded to his line, than for him to have a line in his house that didn't cost his users from my area. Haven't been able to get to get to the list yet to see if that one is on it (darn./ers!:-)
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The most popular story in the Seattle Times online was about the guy getting his colon punctured by a horse. Maybe popularity shouldn't be the most important criteria about what is published.
Using the nofollow attribute basically makes google result ordering useless... right?
Can't believe no one mentioned the soundtrack of pRon0 03-December/007280.html
http://mailman.xmission.com/pipermail/zorn-list/2
I'm a big Crimson fan, ever since I saw Yes and King Crimson circa May, 1973, Santa Monica Civic. Bill Bruford played in both. Have seen most of the iterations of King Crimson since then (except the last). Have a memory of Greg Lake singing Epitaph at California Jam. I also remember Emerson playing a grand piano while it did a slow barrel roll...
More recently, I took my wife to see Fripp and the California Guitar mumblesomething at a small place in the OC. The guitarists would play fantastic versions of Wipeout or whatever, then Fripp would make funky feedback sounds, to great applause. Wife didn't get that at all.
The stock market return is overstated because it doesn't count bankruptcies or companies that fall out of a given index.
Real estate investment tends to use leveraged dollars to increase return. That only doesn't work if you buy at the peak of a market and then have to sell before the next upswing (which is how flippers usually mess up).
Personally, I've made about an order of magnitude more money with real esate investments, with approximately equal dollars between stocks and real estate, over 25 years.
But I still have to work. Dammit. Should have put all the dollars into real estate.
So, has the IRS contacted you about the taxes you own on what the options were worth when they were given to you?
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-255818.html
Someone didn't take kindly to the proselytizing religious groups, so printed up and posted flyers that said something like:
Jump For Jesus!
10AM Tuesday, Stork Tower
Stork Tower is a tall tower with a carillon in it. Simple, direct, plausible, a great prank.
Violated: Your new name is too close to a Depeche Mode album title.
Easy as pie for a bank robber. Just walk in, hand the teller a note. Everyone knows the tellers are trained to comply.
Have you not been reading the news lately? Hint, google for CardSystems Solutions. It is much easier to social engineer a faceless corporation.
Really, nothing will change until some real non-repudiation is built into the hardware.
As to the OP:
I particularly like his assertion that everything is backwards. Not so sure I like what he says about RFC's being driven by customers - he seems to have missed the whole corporate "buy-MS-products" problem, while complaining about their OS - it seems naïve to think you could just get a bunch of CEO's to demand things like that. And I don't think his bit about IETF in a vacuum being a good thing (for network security) is necessarily correct either - the original Morris worm alone should obviously shoot that down. I think all the original networking RFC's could be considered documentation legitimizing hacks, and there is nothing there that could be considered secure design.
The worst for me was August 1973. Heavy smog inversion layer in LA, 100+F. Fixing washing machines in the worst slums in LA. They'd lock up several large garbage bins with rotting garbage in the unventilated room with the washing machines. Kids pissing in the hall.
I posted this a while back, and some people thought it was too true to be funny. Others saw the humor.
How to decode an Oracle DBA Want-Ad
yeah, the system error messages file was usually the first thing we ran through all dem programs.
jg
yeah, for years I had a sig file that said
8 &th=ac56db48597d3f2c&rnum=2
"See your system administrator? I AM the @#$^%#$ System administrator!" Later I substrd Database Administrator ("See your Database Administrator" is in several of the Oracle errors).
Other faves over the years:
The one asking if you are sure you want to run time backwards on various unii.
"User error on device" in RSTS.
ODBC errors that show the website is not logging the errors to its error loggin database: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
Well, if you have it implanted in your nose to thwart kidnapping, the kidnappers might...
Cut off your nose to spite cyberspace.
Anything automated can be auto-returned.
How 'bout Canter & Seigel?
A search for mofo on http://whois.net gets some pretty good names. Network Solutions [spit] says imofo.net is available... should we have a /. race?
I also worked for a place with such a theme (I hope it wasn't the Olde Same Place!) Of course, they were doing a y2k project, and had named one y2k. Fortunately I checked the http://www.uspto.gov before I pointed it out... someone had indeed trademarked y2k beer... Anyone ever seen any? Boolean search the trademarks there for y2k and beer to see the variants, some have expired.
Step back to 95 and tell me who predicted 2000 or 2001
As a matter of fact, I did. Some predictions were way off (like the one about IBM being worth 0 - I only said that as a long shot for a Nick Peterly(sp?) article. Others were right on.
I said "There will be a big shakeout over the next couple of years. Concentrate more on the concepts and general techniques across tools, as the tools are in a rapid change phase. "[1996]
And:"We can prognosticate that the bill is going to try to merge NT & 95, as a marketing ploy if nothing else. So this means there will be a lot of different configurations, interoperability will be key. Anyone who can juggle databases with webservers will have quite an advantage (disclaimer: I am a database person, to me flat web pages are a fad. Database webservers, as boring and "data processing" as that sounds, are where the real value lie.). "[1996]
"There will be 3 ISP's, evolved from phone or Cable companies. I wish I knew which 3." [1996]
As far as complaining about alpha architecture going away, they do have a road map to the itanium. So what?
We are approaching the end of Moore's law for silicon, but that doesn't mean the law is invalidated - it just means plenty of work in the new types of computer (as others have posted), and perhaps some new concepts in parallelism and non-binary logic.
jg
--
Most of them let you hit the escape key to skip intro.
I've been getting a gazillion letters from a company I bought some "free" software from,
for more free software, which winds up being a few
bucks for shipping/handling of some crappy stuff on a cd that he never looks at twice. I seem to have mentally blocked it - maybe Ohio Distinctive? Several have dual english/spanish modes, to learn the other one, but he just doesn't seem interested (although he does in meatspace). Kid's now 5.5, and loves the Reader Rabbit, Richard Scary, Miss Spider, Sesame Street, Broderbrund stuff. He now knows Mac stuff from kindergarten, too. The stuff is helping teach him to read, so I can teach him unix.
All in all, the lapware is definitely worth it. It is another mode of entertainment to give mommy a break, and show gamma how to use a computer. Yes, you have to watch out for computer addiction, set time limits. He hardly remembers we have a Playstation 2 (so far...).
Now I just have to figure out how to get mommy excited about the computer, so I don't have to do the installs and reboots (stupid MS crappy OS!)...
A lot of the kids web sites are starting to have games too, but many are flash based (urrrpp). Nick has some neat stuff, ties in with Blues Clues and stuff.
jg
--
I think the principal (PAL??? yeah, right) should have realized that extremely bright kids who spend too much time on the computer are going to take things very, very literally.
This is what most people who advocate very strict interpretations of criminal statutes miss. Not everybody interprets things the same way. So they don't react the same way. It is not a coincidence that many very bright people are paranoid - if you are good at following all the branches that may occur from an action, you can easily see many that are horrible - and it is easy to give too much weight to unlikely possibilities.
I think most school administrators are very arrogant, and stop feeling that some kids might actually be special, even when it is staring them in the face. But the same mistake is made by those who expect people to react predictably to anything. How often do people react to a suspension by committing suicide? Is it an Indian cultural thing?
OK, you are crazy.
The problem arises when young and impressionable minds see things that are bad, they have no context for evaluation. So if they see pictures of gang rapes, for example, they may decide that that is a cool thing to do.
There is in general no upper limit on stupidity, but preteens and younger teens are just discovering the limits of behavior, and so by adult standards do extremely stupid things. Of course, some adults never have learned the proper limits, and perhaps this is why.
Yes, I'm arguing a fairly direct causality here, but I'm not ruling out more indirect links either.
Sorry if this makes some people think I'm screaming/drooling "Save the children!!!!," but I'm not. I find that sort of thing embarrassing and wish people wouldn't do it. But such is life when dealing with the young of mammals.
I am arguing that society creates limits, and this should be explicitly acknowledged, examined minutely, and causitive factors brought to light and dealt with in a reasonable manner. Simply letting everyone see everything will have some predictably bad results. The ubiquity of the internet doesn't allow us to say "well the parents should know everything their kids are doing all the time." Bang-bang Maggie's little hammer came down on Homer's head...
Well, since this is nothing new, I'll repeat the same ol':
As one who has had innocuous sites unfairly blocked, I believe there should be international treaties and national laws that both require notification to blockees and have substantial penalties for incorrect blocking.
As a parent, I think blocking is a good thing. However, any methodology boils down to accountability - how do you know who is surfing, how do you know who is providing the content? I think there is actually a simple answer to this: Allow freedom. Require accountability.
How can this work in a practical sense without infringing on civil liberties? Simple: Have the default setup on OS's and computers explain the users have to opt-out of letting the chip echo its serial number if they want open access to everything. Allow the users to adjust this setting on the fly. So, if you want to let gramma surf the web safely and buy new shoes or whatever, she has the accountability. If you want be an anonymous porn king, you can turn off the id. If you want to anonymously buy shoes, it's up to the vendor to choose whether to allow that - I suspect few would, the credit card companies would strongly support accountability. The great unwashed masses can get their Time/Disney opiates, er, video stream feeds, and those who want to rant about the greatness of Hitler's amphetamine use can do their thing.
A side effect of this would be to allow scenarios such as freenet. Wouldn't that be a good thing?
Workers on strike again?
I used to do this with bmp/jpg/etc. Take any program that can convert between lossy and non-lossy formats. Take an interesting picture - the best one I tried was off some BBS, picture of topless well-endowed girl. cycle between all the formats. The lossy ones tend to enhance contrast. Take result and wallpaper. The end result is very Andy Warhol... in one case I had it up at a job for months, and people commented how pretty it was. However, if one were to mention the original picture, one could not help but see it... kinda like not thinking about elephants...
Actually, the story specifically says that Microsoft has rejected buying Napster,
When they say "Equity position" what they really mean is "We're going to put a minority of 900 pound apes on your board of directors, and if you don't do what we want, they will sit on you."
And I had hair back then!!!
./ers! :-)
*chuckle* me too!
My apartment is down from 18 fone lines (fone company would send investigators out every few months to see if I was running a bookie joint) to just 4 lines and a T1.
My friend rented an office in the early '80's in Isla Vista. He was pretty happy because it had previously been (an early) Kinko's and had several phone lines already installed.
Even in the last few years I've had issues trying to convince Pac Bell not to multiplex lines to my house, without paying the hundreds of dollars for "data conditioning." Thank household god images for cable modems.
Even as recently as the mid-90's one of my buddies paid for me to have another phone line in my house for his users to dial up locally. It was cheaper for him to pay me to have a phone line call-forwarded to his line, than for him to have a line in his house that didn't cost his users from my area. Haven't been able to get to get to the list yet to see if that one is on it (darn