Assuming you can get power, at least sporadically, take a Macbook. Install the latest Xcode, give homebrew control of your/usr/local and install all the homebrew packages that seem useful. Install npm, node, and useful-sounding Node packages. Install rvm, the latest Ruby, and Gems that seem useful. Ditto for any other language or tool you think you might be interested in.
Get Dash, and download all the docsets that seem useful.
Pick an offline-website download solution and load up useful-seeming websites.
Install VMWare, any other OS(s) you are interested in, rinse and repeat.
Make sure you can make a pilgrimage to the one Starbucks (has to be ONE) to get the stuff you forgot.
A lot of posters are missing the point, and stating that it's understandable that he didn't know about Plato, given it's limited availability.
Perhaps excusable. I read Computer Lib/Dream Machines and, yes, that was my first knowledge of Plato. And I was a Computer Science student and hobbyist.
But what he stated is that he did not have the opportunity to learn about computers. That's total nonsense. He apparently just avoided it. Any college student in engineering, social sciences, etc. in the 70's would have plenty of opportunity to take conventional classes, and in most schools they would have been required.
He must have thought those big round glowing tubes were a new experimental kind of light bulb.
Oh. U. Chicago. U Illinois(Urbana). Not the same. Too bad he went to the wrong school.
I visited in the 70's when I was in college to attend some talk about Plato and to see it in action.
Strange that my third-tier college in Detroit gave every student the "opportunity" to learn programming skills, and required it in many curriculums - certainly for any of the sciences, including political. Indeed, those of us in Computer Science were constantly bitching about the engineers and "those SPSS people" hogging the terminals. (That's why we developed some software for booting them off of their terminal...)
(In fact - like Bill Gates - I learned in high school first. We were lucky to have an IBM 1620, though. I didn't have to steal time-sharing!)
Was U. Chicago that far behind? Or did our Education Secretary just make a bad judgment that it would not be useful to him?
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First off, please don't post links to crappy sites that make you force-quit your browser and make nonsense statements like this:
> The W3C Geolocation service determins location by the browser providing GPS location (if available) and signal strengths of visible WiFi annoucements.
W3C Geolocation is a standard for some Javascript functions that browsers can implement to allow sites to get geolocation information. It is up to each browser's author to decide to implement it or not, and what method(s) they will use to determine location. That is also dependent on hardware - does the computer/device have GPS? Wifi?
It is YOUR BROWSER supplying the bogus information. First thing, try another browser. Try turning GPS if you have it on your computer/device) on/off. Try turning Wifi on/off.
WiFi geolocation works from databases of router IDs that are collected by Google, other "drive by" operations, self-reporting, correlation with other knowledge, etc. which is stored in a database. There are several such databases that a browser might use. Google/whoever drives down your street, notices WiFi signals, and logs the ID and location. Device geolocation sees that you pick up one or more WiFi signals that are present in the database.
First off, it's ridiculou to run your own Email server today. If you really insist, do it in a data center with a VPS and your own domain with proper DNS records including PTR.
Beyond that, it's common for big, low-cost/free email hosts to reject mail coming from dynamic IP pools used for consumer accounts. It has nothing to do with Comcast per se - they will block Comcast, Cox, ATT, whatever. It's an easy way to block a lot of undesirable sources at low cost. It saves them the support cost of dealing with complaints by reducing their spam volume significantly.
You are not going to get your IP unblocked. You will just waste your time trying to get dozens or hundreds of email hosts to unblock you. Maybe a few of them might.
If you look at your Comcast agreement you will almost certainly find that - like most consumer broadband - your intended use violates the TOS. This is not why your mail is being blocked, though. It's because others realize that there's no good reason to run a mail server in your home, and plenty of bad ones.
If I am ever kidnapped, I will be sure to remember this!
I can use Tor to post an "anonymous" tip, and then the FBI can rescue me quickly!
Maybe I cant get surreptitious Internet access, I can convince the kidnappers to use the Tip site to taunt the FBI! Get them to think I'm on their side. "Hey we can use TOR to tell the FBI how badly f*cked-up they are!
- give up the free 30-day "float" I enjoy by using credit cards - subject my checking account to daily fluctuations rather than dealing with my financial business once a month - give up the ability to access credit when making a purchase - give up any recourse if the merchant screws me - expose my bank account directly to potential fraudulent activity - give up my privacy - bank like a poor person - trust these weasels who are the most exploitative merchants in the U.S.
I had given some thought to the form of protest that might be most effective. I imagined consumers walking up to CVS counters with a stack of stuff, trying to pay for it with Apple Pay, and then leaving it on the counter when told they couldn't use Apple Pay.
But I've got something better. It's an alternative system of payment. It's green. It's made of paper. And it has the lowest transaction cost. Most merchants - at least if they were smart - love this form of payment, although they do give up any ability to track customers through their payments.
I'd suggest that, as a protest, we set a day when everybody uses this alternative form of payment, called "paper money". Let's save up all our purchases for a week or a month, and then go out on a big splurge to stock-up - by taking these so-called "greenbacks" to the merchants who have NOT joined this anti-consumer coalition, as thanks for not going along with these greedy boobs.
| None of this would be an issue if Apple would allow for alternative stores
They do. You can set-up an Enterprise store.
However, it is only for your own Enterprise. Currently, you can't even have an app that is for use by, say, clients or suppliers to some Enterprise.
I expect this policy to change. I think that the purchase of TestFlight is a precursor.
No, I don't expect to see "alternative stores" for the public. But I think they will be more flexible about Enterprise apps, such that partners can use the apps as well.
| I can't really see soldering their stuff in uncontrolled atmosphere either, you need clean room conditions
Huh?
When I worked at Widcomm, we did a lot of prototype assembly with these kinds of parts. We hired a part time worker who came in after her day job soldering this stuff all day. The little workstation in the corner of our lab worked just fine. You need to get proper equipment and somebody who knows how to use it.
These speed tests are basically meaningless. There are too many factors that might affect the throughput and latency from your desktop or device to any given site.
Meaningful tests might include:
- local link test to neighborhood node, Internet access point - your ISP would need to install test servers in local (neighborhood, at least for cable setups) nodes and wherever traffic exits their network to the Internet. This would allow you to test latency and throughput within your ISPs own system. Obviously, this ultimately limits possible Internet speeds. Your ISP almost certainly already has these kinds of test servers. But they may or may not expose them or advertise them to users.
- A test employing MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS test servers. This would at least attempt to assess your available bandwidth "to the Internet".
You should not have any reasonable expectation of achieving the maximum theoretical throughput of your "Internet connection" to any given site. Or any one site at all. I do not know why people obsess so over these meaningless tests.
The order is roughly reversed, the bottom two are already dead. And we can only hope that the third from the bottom would die but it won't.
No real justification is made, save for a couple of code examples for each language that the author finds somehow absurd. Oh, and he marched out the Twitter argument for Ruby. Yes, it's true: not every language is suitable for every purpose! No, Ruby was not appropriate to use for EVERYTHING to bring Twitter to scale.
While putting.net on the list won't make it die, I wish the author would put Java on the list. It won't die either, but we can hope.
| Your point is absurd. How does a parent giving blood assess the capability of a child in a way comparable to an academic test?
It demonstrates supportive parents. This probably correlates with the student future success in school. It demonstrates a willingness and desire to advance.
| It's entirely possible that one child of a family will be Harvard-worthy, and the other totally useless. Not to mention that a hard-working individual from an unambitious family absolutely shouldn't be held back by that.
That's great if you have a wealthy educational system as we have (or had) in the U.S.
A hard-working individual from an unambitious family will likely have other opportunities to get a little extra credit. Or, at least, one would hope so.
This goes back 2 years, but just hit the news wires today:
LA JOLLA — UC San Diego has been targeted by a series of cyber attackers seeking access to sensitive research and other data since 2012 and officials say the so-called advanced persistent threat has prompted the campus to take steps to bolster its security.
The initial security breach, detected in June 2012, involved the use of stolen passwords by hackers targeting computer servers. University information technology security director John Denune said that no work was lost and no critical research data was accessed.
It's easy to poke fun at this, but maybe it's not so silly.
How much is a "point" worth? (What is the point scale?) If it's a 100-point scale, this might push somebody over the line by a half-grade (in our typical U.S. grading system).
If the parent gives blood as a result, it might mean that they are a good citizen looking out for the welfare of everyone, and that they are concerned about their child's future. This would seem positive for the child's education. If a child is teetering on the edge of some grade category or entrance requirement, then who's to say this isn't as valid as knowledge testing.
Well, it IS an entrance requirement, and so the intent must be to predict future results. So, it seems to have some relevance to me. Sure, it's a bit arbitrary and clearly tied to some unrelated state goal. But might be predictive of future results. The family goes along with the system and pitches-in to help, and so the child will likely do better in school.
It's not much different than considering non-grade aspects for entrance. Yes, the very idea of an entrance requirement for high school (other than making an appearance for n years) is foreign to westerners. But we also do have some tradition of giving some little "extra credit" or recognition for community participation - e.g. clubs and activities, etc. for entrance to college, or to some selective schools, etc. How is this that much different? Yea, it's about the parent, not the child, but I think it is seen as more of a family unit.
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Assuming you can get power, at least sporadically, take a Macbook. Install the latest Xcode, give homebrew control of your /usr/local and install all the homebrew packages that seem useful. Install npm, node, and useful-sounding Node packages. Install rvm, the latest Ruby, and Gems that seem useful. Ditto for any other language or tool you think you might be interested in.
Get Dash, and download all the docsets that seem useful.
Pick an offline-website download solution and load up useful-seeming websites.
Install VMWare, any other OS(s) you are interested in, rinse and repeat.
Make sure you can make a pilgrimage to the one Starbucks (has to be ONE) to get the stuff you forgot.
Shave a yak. I mean, for real...
A lot of posters are missing the point, and stating that it's understandable that he didn't know about Plato, given it's limited availability.
Perhaps excusable. I read Computer Lib/Dream Machines and, yes, that was my first knowledge of Plato. And I was a Computer Science student and hobbyist.
But what he stated is that he did not have the opportunity to learn about computers. That's total nonsense. He apparently just avoided it. Any college student in engineering, social sciences, etc. in the 70's would have plenty of opportunity to take conventional classes, and in most schools they would have been required.
He must have thought those big round glowing tubes were a new experimental kind of light bulb.
Oh. U. Chicago. U Illinois(Urbana). Not the same. Too bad he went to the wrong school.
I visited in the 70's when I was in college to attend some talk about Plato and to see it in action.
Strange that my third-tier college in Detroit gave every student the "opportunity" to learn programming skills, and required it in many curriculums - certainly for any of the sciences, including political. Indeed, those of us in Computer Science were constantly bitching about the engineers and "those SPSS people" hogging the terminals. (That's why we developed some software for booting them off of their terminal...)
(In fact - like Bill Gates - I learned in high school first. We were lucky to have an IBM 1620, though. I didn't have to steal time-sharing!)
Was U. Chicago that far behind? Or did our Education Secretary just make a bad judgment that it would not be useful to him?
FYI fimble.com is listed in poster's SlashDot home page, and is specifically mentioned by him in at least one post on this thread.
Either he's a spammer, or his PC got hacked.
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First off, please don't post links to crappy sites that make you force-quit your browser and make nonsense statements like this:
> The W3C Geolocation service determins location by the browser providing GPS location (if available) and signal strengths of visible WiFi annoucements.
W3C Geolocation is a standard for some Javascript functions that browsers can implement to allow sites to get geolocation information. It is up to each browser's author to decide to implement it or not, and what method(s) they will use to determine location. That is also dependent on hardware - does the computer/device have GPS? Wifi?
It is YOUR BROWSER supplying the bogus information. First thing, try another browser. Try turning GPS if you have it on your computer/device) on/off. Try turning Wifi on/off.
WiFi geolocation works from databases of router IDs that are collected by Google, other "drive by" operations, self-reporting, correlation with other knowledge, etc. which is stored in a database. There are several such databases that a browser might use. Google/whoever drives down your street, notices WiFi signals, and logs the ID and location. Device geolocation sees that you pick up one or more WiFi signals that are present in the database.
First off, it's ridiculou to run your own Email server today. If you really insist, do it in a data center with a VPS and your own domain with proper DNS records including PTR.
Beyond that, it's common for big, low-cost/free email hosts to reject mail coming from dynamic IP pools used for consumer accounts. It has nothing to do with Comcast per se - they will block Comcast, Cox, ATT, whatever. It's an easy way to block a lot of undesirable sources at low cost. It saves them the support cost of dealing with complaints by reducing their spam volume significantly.
You are not going to get your IP unblocked. You will just waste your time trying to get dozens or hundreds of email hosts to unblock you. Maybe a few of them might.
If you look at your Comcast agreement you will almost certainly find that - like most consumer broadband - your intended use violates the TOS. This is not why your mail is being blocked, though. It's because others realize that there's no good reason to run a mail server in your home, and plenty of bad ones.
Wake up and realize it's not 1995.
Good luck!
If I am ever kidnapped, I will be sure to remember this!
I can use Tor to post an "anonymous" tip, and then the FBI can rescue me quickly!
Maybe I cant get surreptitious Internet access, I can convince the kidnappers to use the Tip site to taunt the FBI! Get them to think I'm on their side. "Hey we can use TOR to tell the FBI how badly f*cked-up they are!
I've got my Pan Am Moon First Flight Club membership card!
See the subject line.
Sure, I want to:
- give up the free 30-day "float" I enjoy by using credit cards
- subject my checking account to daily fluctuations rather than dealing with my financial business once a month
- give up the ability to access credit when making a purchase
- give up any recourse if the merchant screws me
- expose my bank account directly to potential fraudulent activity
- give up my privacy
- bank like a poor person
- trust these weasels who are the most exploitative merchants in the U.S.
I had given some thought to the form of protest that might be most effective. I imagined consumers walking up to CVS counters with a stack of stuff, trying to pay for it with Apple Pay, and then leaving it on the counter when told they couldn't use Apple Pay.
But I've got something better. It's an alternative system of payment. It's green. It's made of paper. And it has the lowest transaction cost. Most merchants - at least if they were smart - love this form of payment, although they do give up any ability to track customers through their payments.
I'd suggest that, as a protest, we set a day when everybody uses this alternative form of payment, called "paper money". Let's save up all our purchases for a week or a month, and then go out on a big splurge to stock-up - by taking these so-called "greenbacks" to the merchants who have NOT joined this anti-consumer coalition, as thanks for not going along with these greedy boobs.
Um. Didn't Esquire or GQ or some glossy magazine of that sort in need of editorial filler profile 2600? Like.... 20 years or so ago?
OK, so maybe the profiled Captain Crunch. Same difference.
I vaguely recall, but the dementia seems to be kicking-in.
| None of this would be an issue if Apple would allow for alternative stores
They do. You can set-up an Enterprise store.
However, it is only for your own Enterprise. Currently, you can't even have an app that is for use by, say, clients or suppliers to some Enterprise.
I expect this policy to change. I think that the purchase of TestFlight is a precursor.
No, I don't expect to see "alternative stores" for the public. But I think they will be more flexible about Enterprise apps, such that partners can use the apps as well.
I liked Slashdot when the stuff pushed on us was just from nerds with strong opinions who happened to be in control of the site.
Don't want your carrier messing with your traffic?
Use HTTPS.
| I can't really see soldering their stuff in uncontrolled atmosphere either, you need clean room conditions
Huh?
When I worked at Widcomm, we did a lot of prototype assembly with these kinds of parts. We hired a part time worker who came in after her day job soldering this stuff all day. The little workstation in the corner of our lab worked just fine. You need to get proper equipment and somebody who knows how to use it.
But, yea, the budget is ridiculously inadequate.
These speed tests are basically meaningless. There are too many factors that might affect the throughput and latency from your desktop or device to any given site.
Meaningful tests might include:
- local link test to neighborhood node, Internet access point - your ISP would need to install test servers in local (neighborhood, at least for cable setups) nodes and wherever traffic exits their network to the Internet. This would allow you to test latency and throughput within your ISPs own system. Obviously, this ultimately limits possible Internet speeds. Your ISP almost certainly already has these kinds of test servers. But they may or may not expose them or advertise them to users.
- A test employing MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS test servers. This would at least attempt to assess your available bandwidth "to the Internet".
You should not have any reasonable expectation of achieving the maximum theoretical throughput of your "Internet connection" to any given site. Or any one site at all. I do not know why people obsess so over these meaningless tests.
The order is roughly reversed, the bottom two are already dead. And we can only hope that the third from the bottom would die but it won't.
No real justification is made, save for a couple of code examples for each language that the author finds somehow absurd. Oh, and he marched out the Twitter argument for Ruby. Yes, it's true: not every language is suitable for every purpose! No, Ruby was not appropriate to use for EVERYTHING to bring Twitter to scale.
While putting .net on the list won't make it die, I wish the author would put Java on the list. It won't die either, but we can hope.
| Your point is absurd. How does a parent giving blood assess the capability of a child in a way comparable to an academic test?
It demonstrates supportive parents. This probably correlates with the student future success in school. It demonstrates a willingness and desire to advance.
| It's entirely possible that one child of a family will be Harvard-worthy, and the other totally useless. Not to mention that a hard-working individual from an unambitious family absolutely shouldn't be held back by that.
That's great if you have a wealthy educational system as we have (or had) in the U.S.
A hard-working individual from an unambitious family will likely have other opportunities to get a little extra credit. Or, at least, one would hope so.
Oh, while it isn't clear from the article I linked, a local TV news story this morning said that they were apparently targeting medical research data.
And (as was mentioned in the article) the attack apparently came from China via hacked systems in S. Korea.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news...
This goes back 2 years, but just hit the news wires today:
LA JOLLA — UC San Diego has been targeted by a series of cyber attackers seeking access to sensitive research and other data since 2012 and officials say the so-called advanced persistent threat has prompted the campus to take steps to bolster its security.
The initial security breach, detected in June 2012, involved the use of stolen passwords by hackers targeting computer servers. University information technology security director John Denune said that no work was lost and no critical research data was accessed.
I actually got a letter from a dentist saying that their office was broken into and medical records taken. I believe that's a HIPAA requirement.
It's easy to poke fun at this, but maybe it's not so silly.
How much is a "point" worth? (What is the point scale?) If it's a 100-point scale, this might push somebody over the line by a half-grade (in our typical U.S. grading system).
If the parent gives blood as a result, it might mean that they are a good citizen looking out for the welfare of everyone, and that they are concerned about their child's future. This would seem positive for the child's education. If a child is teetering on the edge of some grade category or entrance requirement, then who's to say this isn't as valid as knowledge testing.
Well, it IS an entrance requirement, and so the intent must be to predict future results. So, it seems to have some relevance to me. Sure, it's a bit arbitrary and clearly tied to some unrelated state goal. But might be predictive of future results. The family goes along with the system and pitches-in to help, and so the child will likely do better in school.
It's not much different than considering non-grade aspects for entrance. Yes, the very idea of an entrance requirement for high school (other than making an appearance for n years) is foreign to westerners. But we also do have some tradition of giving some little "extra credit" or recognition for community participation - e.g. clubs and activities, etc. for entrance to college, or to some selective schools, etc. How is this that much different? Yea, it's about the parent, not the child, but I think it is seen as more of a family unit.
At least they didn't hire Barney.