Where are the rules? Just the grid isn't much help; for example the clue N.*X.X.X.*E on a length 9 line might be NXxXxXE (length 7).
A colleague has just looked at the solution and my hypothesis is that each regex fully describes the line (i.e./^clue$/) but it would be nice to be sure...
It's supposed to be easier to remember because you remember the composite image, and not the words themselves. You can choose images that are easy to remember (something based on goatse perhaps) and construct a phrase from there -- at the same time you meet the suggestion of a password that is so foul you would never tell another person what it is, thus preventing that whole password sharing problem. Double win. Except you have to remember goatse every time you log in. http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1829
If he's strong, noble, a warrior and "he wouldn't pick [the ring] up if [he] found it lying in the road", then why the hell doesn't HE take it into Mordor?
Because Denethor didn't sent him to the Council, he sent Boromir instead. Arguably one of Sauron's most powerful weapons against Gondor was the demoralisation of Denethor, and part of that would surely have been encouraging his over-reliance on the weaker son Boromir. Had Faramir attended the Council representing Gondor, his qualities would probably have been recognised and the whole story would have been different.
For "neatness" of epic storytelling, Aragorn should have been the person to destroy the Ring, atoning for the actions of his ancestor Isildur... something tells me that if Tolkien wrote that, LoTR would not have been so interesting or successful.
As soon as they're signed up and migrated, that customer service will vanish away like early morning mist... they're simply not worth that much to Microsoft, except as a press release and a jump in the Netcraft figures.
Wha I am certain of is this: when I'm in charge, we'll have none of this 'multiple language' crap. Everyone will speak Esperanto, or else.
Esperanto? That's very Euro-centric of you. Generally inaccessible to non European linguistic heritages. English is a very mutable language, which explains it's worldwide use - from my experiences of Esperanto, it's more brittle.
Actually, if you want to be context neutral, you should be promoting Lojban
"'Ctrl+Alt+Del,' " the U.S. Army noted in a recent study, "is as basic as 'ABC.'"
Are they really saying that rebooting a PC is as fundamental and commonplace as reading??
Sure, we like to joke that Windows is unstable; "The US Army reports that every time they try to read an email message, they have to reboot Windows". It's so sad that people put up with such instability from their OS and applications.
Elite, of course, from the BBC B. I still have a copy of the unofficial windows port somewhere, too...
Really, where do you think the term "1337" even *came* from? Get a history, people.
Then Doom - to a certain extent Wolf3D, but Doom really made that step up from earlier games. And because of Doom, the Quake games. But it's Doom that really rocks:-)
These days it's BZFlag:-) Forget playing against crappy AIs, playing against crappy real people is much more fun!
If you use a Creative Commons license that might meet his standards, he still won't endorse it because the Creative Common "brand" allows licenses that he doesn't like.
I don't like the GFDL - therefore I must not endorse the GPL, because the GNU "brand" allows licensing that is restrictive?
IIRC the proper description of Tridge's investigations into BitKeeper wasn't "reverse engineering", but discovering the "help" command when telnetting to the BK server.
Which version of history are we now supporting?
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Correct, the ZX80 had no sound chip, but the video output was on a standard TV VHF channel. IIRC it could only drive the screen while waiting for keyboard input, and stopped the signal while calculating. The change in display mode would cause 'noise' from the TV - but it was very difficult to control.
The ZX81 improved matters slightly, you could elect to run the machine in FAST mode, which switched off the display under control of your BASIC or Z80 assembler program. Do enough mode switches, and your 'noise' becomes 'sound', and eventually 'music':-)
There were plenty of programs published for the ZX81 to allow it to make music using this side-effect of the TV. So your memory is pretty much correct, it's possible (I didn't use a ZX80, so I can't say it was definately possible there, but it definately worked on a ZX81)
If a business makes a patch to a piece of code that is undergoing regular external development/security patching, like a browser, there are significant costs in maintaining the status of that patch when the parent updates.
If the parent authors don't accept your patch, you have the choice of either abandoning the patch, the product, or re-applying the patch regularly (including when it can no longer be automatically applied in the build process, when the underlying app has changed significantly)
Only the largest organisations can make that sort of investment. The GP is still correct - it's responsiveness to customers that makes you successful, not automatically the open-ness of your code.
Open Source is not very important. Open Standards are.
100% true. Somehow, the Microsoft TCP/IP stack (yes, which was _once_ "open source" but is now closed source) still manages to work on the Internet - we don't have a M$-Internet and a FLOSS-Internet that cannot share the same websites.
Instead, we have M$-browsers and FLOSS-browsers that cannot share the same websites...:-(
Now, if you are working on confidential data, you have an interest in FLOSS software regardless of data format, so that you can verify there are no security leaks or callbacks within it.
Naturally, if you do not have the capability to analyse the code yourself, you still have to trust someone else, but FLOSS says you are effectively trusting the whole world's supply of experts in this area, whereas M$ say "trust us - even though we won't tell you who is working on it".
DDos - $50k once, or you cease to be able to generate income. That $50k represents an infinite proportion of your annual income.
Or Secure Infrastructure - $50k per year, and you can continue to rake in $millions per year. That $50k represents a small percentage of your annual income.
Yet another word-based typing device? My sector of the target gadget-geek market, the ones who buy things just for the sake of it, don't type many words.
We type commandline, perl, XML, stuff like that.
My letter frequency counts for the stuff I need to do (i.e. not Slashdot) are way out of line with the letter frequency counts of "Standard English Text". Plus I use a whole load of punctuation, and some that just doesn't exist in that text.
You're conflating stored data with transmitted data.
Well, I basically don't trust the powers that be to differentiate between methods in the same way that we do. Every router on the planet can be described as a "store and forward" device if you want, because that's what they do - they just try to reduce the store time to a minimum. So there's a legal precedent for recording all traffic through a router without invoking the protections of Wiretap, and therefore not having to worry about extending Patriot over Wiretap.
Now, obviously, the intent of a router is the same as a wired relay in a phone system - and quite possibly you could argue that a wired relay was a store-and-forward system, because it's not the same electron that comes out the other side, and that therefore Wiretap explicitly covers store-and-forward.
But it seems like that would be too much to expect of the current, and all likely future administrations.
Oh, and if they tap you, or try to get a warrant and fail, they've got to let you know within 90 days of ceasing surveilance (or of the denial of the warrant application).
Unless it's Patriot-related, in which case you'll never know. And it'll *all* be Patriot-related, won't it?
Many people react to distcc by thinking that they need to find large gobs of code to compile, or there's no point distributing. Then they decide that the OS is the thing to compile, and they end up (correctly) with Gentoo (although possibly for the wrong reasons).
After all, they have loads of old machines running Linux around the house, doing nothing, so they may as well be used to compile...
But that whole scenario is a false saving. It's a great learning exercise, and has value that way, but it's not a magic bullet to "performance" and efficiency.
I'm generally happy taking Debian's packages. I occasionally want to build their packages with different options, so I have to grab the source, build it, and make a deb for my own repository to farm out. I guess Gentoo would make that part of my life easier:-)
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Where are the rules? Just the grid isn't much help; for example the clue N.*X.X.X.*E on a length 9 line might be NXxXxXE (length 7). A colleague has just looked at the solution and my hypothesis is that each regex fully describes the line (i.e. /^clue$/) but it would be nice to be sure ...
It's supposed to be easier to remember because you remember the composite image, and not the words themselves. You can choose images that are easy to remember (something based on goatse perhaps) and construct a phrase from there -- at the same time you meet the suggestion of a password that is so foul you would never tell another person what it is, thus preventing that whole password sharing problem. Double win. Except you have to remember goatse every time you log in. http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1829
So with this technique, a password of "correct horse battery staple" would be detected, but "Tr0ub4dor" would not (http://xkcd.com/936/)...
We did ...
If he's strong, noble, a warrior and "he wouldn't pick [the ring] up if [he] found it lying in the road", then why the hell doesn't HE take it into Mordor?
... something tells me that if Tolkien wrote that, LoTR would not have been so interesting or successful.
Because Denethor didn't sent him to the Council, he sent Boromir instead. Arguably one of Sauron's most powerful weapons against Gondor was the demoralisation of Denethor, and part of that would surely have been encouraging his over-reliance on the weaker son Boromir. Had Faramir attended the Council representing Gondor, his qualities would probably have been recognised and the whole story would have been different.
For "neatness" of epic storytelling, Aragorn should have been the person to destroy the Ring, atoning for the actions of his ancestor Isildur
As soon as they're signed up and migrated, that customer service will vanish away like early morning mist ... they're simply not worth that much to Microsoft, except as a press release and a jump in the Netcraft figures.
a ddy_2005_super_bowl_ad_followed_by_huge_gains.html - GoDaddy are currently the world's largest hosting operation, with over 5.5 million hostnames.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/02/03/go_d
Cykey http://www.bellaire.demon.co.uk/newcykey.htm
:-)
I have one here, it's a bit of a pain with IR connection, but once you have the receiver set up it works fine.
The chording style they use here took me literally an hour to learn ~22 letters of the alphabet on, which matched the claim on the manual
I still have their Excellent 1990 PDA, the AgendA http://www.bellaire.demon.co.uk/cykey.htm
Wha I am certain of is this: when I'm in charge, we'll have none of this 'multiple language' crap. Everyone will speak Esperanto, or else.
Esperanto? That's very Euro-centric of you. Generally inaccessible to non European linguistic heritages. English is a very mutable language, which explains it's worldwide use - from my experiences of Esperanto, it's more brittle.
Actually, if you want to be context neutral, you should be promoting Lojban
"'Ctrl+Alt+Del,' " the U.S. Army noted in a recent study, "is as basic as 'ABC.'"
Are they really saying that rebooting a PC is as fundamental and commonplace as reading??
Sure, we like to joke that Windows is unstable; "The US Army reports that every time they try to read an email message, they have to reboot Windows". It's so sad that people put up with such instability from their OS and applications.
Elite, of course, from the BBC B. I still have a copy of the unofficial windows port somewhere, too ...
:-)
:-) Forget playing against crappy AIs, playing against crappy real people is much more fun!
Really, where do you think the term "1337" even *came* from? Get a history, people.
Then Doom - to a certain extent Wolf3D, but Doom really made that step up from earlier games. And because of Doom, the Quake games. But it's Doom that really rocks
These days it's BZFlag
If you use a Creative Commons license that might meet his standards, he still won't endorse it because the Creative Common "brand" allows licenses that he doesn't like.
I don't like the GFDL - therefore I must not endorse the GPL, because the GNU "brand" allows licensing that is restrictive?
IIRC the proper description of Tridge's investigations into BitKeeper wasn't "reverse engineering", but discovering the "help" command when telnetting to the BK server.
Which version of history are we now supporting?
Correct, the ZX80 had no sound chip, but the video output was on a standard TV VHF channel. IIRC it could only drive the screen while waiting for keyboard input, and stopped the signal while calculating. The change in display mode would cause 'noise' from the TV - but it was very difficult to control.
:-)
The ZX81 improved matters slightly, you could elect to run the machine in FAST mode, which switched off the display under control of your BASIC or Z80 assembler program. Do enough mode switches, and your 'noise' becomes 'sound', and eventually 'music'
There were plenty of programs published for the ZX81 to allow it to make music using this side-effect of the TV. So your memory is pretty much correct, it's possible (I didn't use a ZX80, so I can't say it was definately possible there, but it definately worked on a ZX81)
How many crimes does Monkeyboy have to commit before he is held to account?
What?? Ballmer is President of the US now?
Remember IEFBR14 ... which didn't have the bug described in any released version of MVS or OS.
:-) but not true.
...
f br14.html
It's a lovely story of course
I just updated wikipedia with the counterclaim
http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/oreilly/more-ie
That's a theoretical benefit, not a real one.
If a business makes a patch to a piece of code that is undergoing regular external development/security patching, like a browser, there are significant costs in maintaining the status of that patch when the parent updates.
If the parent authors don't accept your patch, you have the choice of either abandoning the patch, the product, or re-applying the patch regularly (including when it can no longer be automatically applied in the build process, when the underlying app has changed significantly)
Only the largest organisations can make that sort of investment. The GP is still correct - it's responsiveness to customers that makes you successful, not automatically the open-ness of your code.
The Google Suggestion toolbar functionality (suggests matches as you type search terms) isn't in this new toolbar!
Open Source is not very important. Open Standards are.
... :-(
100% true. Somehow, the Microsoft TCP/IP stack (yes, which was _once_ "open source" but is now closed source) still manages to work on the Internet - we don't have a M$-Internet and a FLOSS-Internet that cannot share the same websites.
Instead, we have M$-browsers and FLOSS-browsers that cannot share the same websites
Now, if you are working on confidential data, you have an interest in FLOSS software regardless of data format, so that you can verify there are no security leaks or callbacks within it.
Naturally, if you do not have the capability to analyse the code yourself, you still have to trust someone else, but FLOSS says you are effectively trusting the whole world's supply of experts in this area, whereas M$ say "trust us - even though we won't tell you who is working on it".
DDos - $50k once, or you cease to be able to generate income. That $50k represents an infinite proportion of your annual income.
Or Secure Infrastructure - $50k per year, and you can continue to rake in $millions per year. That $50k represents a small percentage of your annual income.
Pure economics, or simple sums?
The temptation
If my PDA can't make phone calls, then it's useless.
... things like that.
What's the point of storing my contact details on a unit that can't use any of them?
Give me a phone, or nothing. Nokia Communicators, Treo
Then, if it's got a phone, it needs ppp dialup or gprs. If it's got that, it needs ssh.
Yet another word-based typing device? My sector of the target gadget-geek market, the ones who buy things just for the sake of it, don't type many words.
:-)
We type commandline, perl, XML, stuff like that.
My letter frequency counts for the stuff I need to do (i.e. not Slashdot) are way out of line with the letter frequency counts of "Standard English Text". Plus I use a whole load of punctuation, and some that just doesn't exist in that text.
I've used an AgendA microwriter http://www.bellaire.demon.co.uk/cykey.htm and CyKey for many years now, on and off. Great for text. Sucks for coding.
Mind you, it might be a good device for bloggers. They're not in my market segment
You're conflating stored data with transmitted data.
Well, I basically don't trust the powers that be to differentiate between methods in the same way that we do. Every router on the planet can be described as a "store and forward" device if you want, because that's what they do - they just try to reduce the store time to a minimum. So there's a legal precedent for recording all traffic through a router without invoking the protections of Wiretap, and therefore not having to worry about extending Patriot over Wiretap.
Now, obviously, the intent of a router is the same as a wired relay in a phone system - and quite possibly you could argue that a wired relay was a store-and-forward system, because it's not the same electron that comes out the other side, and that therefore Wiretap explicitly covers store-and-forward.
But it seems like that would be too much to expect of the current, and all likely future administrations.
It's not like the FBI has an easy time of obtaining a wire tap.
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But, as the First Circuit Appeals Court have recently ruled, store/forward data is not covered under wiretap regulations, so your example is invalid. See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/30/2
Oh, and if they tap you, or try to get a warrant and fail, they've got to let you know within 90 days of ceasing surveilance (or of the denial of the warrant application).
Unless it's Patriot-related, in which case you'll never know. And it'll *all* be Patriot-related, won't it?
No, I wasn't completely trolling ...
...
:-)
Many people react to distcc by thinking that they need to find large gobs of code to compile, or there's no point distributing. Then they decide that the OS is the thing to compile, and they end up (correctly) with Gentoo (although possibly for the wrong reasons).
After all, they have loads of old machines running Linux around the house, doing nothing, so they may as well be used to compile
But that whole scenario is a false saving. It's a great learning exercise, and has value that way, but it's not a magic bullet to "performance" and efficiency.
I'm generally happy taking Debian's packages. I occasionally want to build their packages with different options, so I have to grab the source, build it, and make a deb for my own repository to farm out. I guess Gentoo would make that part of my life easier