OK, it seems that I need a serious clue-stick. You say: "DUL is not a blacklist", and you then say that it is actually a list used to filter email from certain IP addresses. What forms of filtering would not be defacto blacklisting? For large volumes of mail, I would think that refusing any emails from those IPs would be the only fast method of filtering. Is that not blacklisting? For small volumes, the filter could be porous, but by the very nature of the small mail volume, that means that there would still be a large volume of email swallowed by the bigger providers.
I really like that. I propose that there be two versions - in-state and out-of-state. Those of us who don't live in NY and still want one could get official NY license plates (not valid for placing on a car and driving with, but still produced by NY state).
Why are you posting? I thought the point of the blackout was to force the 'management' to sit up and listen to the voices of the masses. (Or listen to the silence when they stop talking, if you like.) Was this the perfect exception? I really am curious. Why?
chrisd, thank you for the apology. I for one am still not happy, but I understand the error, and the brightest part here is that you put thought into the timing. (Not that everyone will give you credit for that, but not everyone's a sweetheart like me.:)
I hate it when that sort of thing happens. "Oops, was that my girlfriend, or the whole address book. Hmm, I guess I'll know in a few minutes."
I hadn't even thought about that. Wow, the damage is spreading across the net as we speak.
Somewhere in Silicon Valley:
"Oh, good a commercial, I can check Kuro5hin. Man, those Lone Gunmen are in a tight spot, maybe Mulder will show up to save them in the nick of time. Hmm, a new article, let's look at the Slashdot box. What's that headline? 'The Lone Gunmen are Dead?!?!?!' Nooooooo!" And he yells it loud enough for his entire "X-files night party" to hear him. And he's an outcast for four weeks. Till he announces that he has tickets for EP2 for everyone.
The uproar is the/. junkies (me included) each venting his spleen. Hey, it's like a reward for checking Slashdot on the weekend (helping the ad rates for the slow weekend period, BTW) - BUT, the reward is a kick in the "groin of our entertainment".
The uproar will die down, and turn into burning resentment for a week or four - till Clone Wars comes out in a month (25 days and counting!). The noise is "the sound of a million voices suddenly crying out", but this noise won't be quiet as soon.
I'm ticked about this (I flamed quite hot earlier), but I wouldn't put this in the category of journalistic integity. But exageration is also a form of humor.:)
If I were watching these last episodes as they came out (instead of taping for viewing in a month or two) I would be TICKED OFF that one of the most popular sci-fi series had a major plot point published on Slashdot before it's seen by all of the continental US. (As it is, I'm only watching the rest of the series out of loyalty to the original 7 years I loved the show.)
Yup, that story was posted at 8:20 pm Pacific Daylight Time, 40 minutes before X-files starts.
Before I can see the episode in Seattle (major/. hangout, I believe), the death of some major characters is put on the front page.
Sheesh, it should have been in the [Read More] section with a spoiler warning. Publish it, but give me a chance to experience it first.
How can anything that happened here be construed as censorship?
It's the "New-Speak". Anytime someone is told "You can't say that", it's called Censorship!!!! (Cue ominous music, announcer speaks: 'Run for the hills. Hoard food. Kiss your children goodbye. The world ends now.' Pictures of panic in the background; in fact, the scene is the Orcs rampaging through Hobbitown in Frodo's water-mirror-vision, LoTR: Fellowship of The Ring. <breathe> )
It doesn't matter whether it's some kids yelling fire in a theater, or a reporter publishing the Top-Secret troop movements during a conflict/war/police-action, or library computers used by the community (whoops, that restriction is actually "responsible parenting"; with a whole community being the parents), if some perceived authority does something you don't like, label it as BAD (images of starving children &/or elderly, references to Hitler/Nazis, etc.) and proceed to press the perceived authority to change their horrible ways.
Secret Decoder Ring: Restricting 1 is NOT censorship, restricting 2 IS censorship (but I would argue the only appropriate kind of censorship), restricting 3 IS censorship.
Sounds a whole lot like the "Ministry of Peace" in Babylon 5. According to this section of The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, the "Ministry of Peace" first shows up in episode 217, which jives with what I remember. The really cool political stuff got started in late Season 2 (~22 episodes per season, so 217 is near the end, and yes, by the second season, they were pretty much in order. I know, I have them all on tape.:) and was going full strength in Season 3.
If you want a fun way to learn about incremental loss of freedoms, if you want to see how to make people glad that you are creating a police state, watch Seasons 2 & 3. (Well, watch the whole 5 Season series[+ movies!], but that's more for fun than the current exercise.) Look for the "Ministry of Peace", "Nightwatch", anything to do with PsyCops (watch the PsyCop advertisement in slow-motion;), and the general change in tone of everything having to do with politics.
I'm a casual student of human nature, and of politics/history, so seeing the things that I knew about manipulation and power-building played out in front of me was incredible, like reading about a sport and then getting to see it played in person by professionals. It was so cool, and so scary. "We arrest because we care."
Bingo. Funny thing is, that credit line beneath the headline is one of the first things I look for when I am reading a newspaper. I guess I have to create a similar habit for online news feeds too.
... usurping some of the functions built into popular browsers designed by Microsoft Corp. and Netscape Communications, a unit of AOL Time Warner Inc.
MSNBC mentions the parent company of "Netscape Communications", but doesn't mention their own relationship to "Microsoft Corp." I know that everyone in the world knows who MS is, and that most people above room temperature can figure out that "MSNBC" is somehow related to "MS", but the article doesn't say anything, at any time, about that relationship. "We're reporting on a news item that effects our parent/partner company, but we won't make that relationship explicit in the article." It strikes me as either arrogant ('everyone knows who we are, we don't need to say anything') or deceitful ('if we don't mention that MS owns us, maybe people won't look for bias in the article').
To contrast, Slashdot is very good about disclosing corporate relationships when reporting something, even though this audience is practically guaranteed to already know what they are telling us. ("Really, you mean OSDN owns slashdot?!?! I thought that the OSDN banner up there was decorative. Wow, I'm glad you mentioned this.")
There might be a legal problem with posting some code here. If the code wasn't actually OS/GPL (as a few have postulated), then the poster might have a legal problem with his company, disclosing company property, etc.
Until the TelCos are one per county/state, when you will have to do their bidding to get connection. And they can get to that state, all that is needed is for big companies to convince government that they aren't really a monopoly, after all there are... 3 other companies which provide service. Neglecting to mention that none of those companies serve this area.
Take a deep breath, and look at MSN Communities, they have users, mail lists, calendars, archival places, chat rooms, and some more stuff. You have to deal with MSN EULAs and the like, but that's what you have to deal with when you are using a free service.
It took three transatlantic phone calls, an e-mail and a week of waiting for them to come up with the answer:...
If we assume that Apple is based in the USA (Cupertino, CA seems a safe assumption:), then our friend Finlay was in the Europe area; his email is through British Telecommunications. I don't see how Apple's NDA and other contracts can even be held as legal in the country Finlay resides in. Oh, wait, Jon Johansen was arrested in Norway; silly me, US corps don't need real laws with real jurisdiction, some threats to a foreign nation will do.
When I was on an internship near Silicon Valley a few years ago, I showed a co-worker a "Ban DiHydrogen-MonOxide" website, thinking that he'd get a good laugh from the satire. He was trying to remember what DHMO was!:) He didn't believe me when I told him that it was H2O - water. He just kept saying, "I heard about this stuff in chemistry." The topper, he had a degree in Industrial Engineering. (Basically a fancy way of saying usability/prettiness engineer before the Web took over.)
BTW, I like your self-reply. I hope it doesn't get modded down.
Where else can you find the needed mobile cooling for a dozen over-clocked boxen and their CRTs. (Education can't afford LCDs for mobile learning. But if the administrators 'need' LCDs, they'll get 'em.)
I need to get my lobotomy reversed: How did you ruin your keyboard, and how is that related to the humor of the article? Yeah the article is painfully funny and ironic - but how does that affect your keyboard?
I am sorry I ment to say our customers get thier hands on the game.
Notice the subtle mis-spellings in the MS Press Release. This is a direct insult to the online community, which suffers from an unfair stereotype, namely that the members of the community are poor at the mechanics of communication - specifically spelling and grammar. The mis-spellings are a left-handed recognition of the online community, however, we cannot analyze the grammar of the Press Release to determine if it is also meant as an insult, for the "grammar" of the typical press release violates many grammatical rules, and separating this tendancy from any attempts to convey a subtle message is much too difficult.
This approach is also common with nuclear power plants, which must be run 24/7 to achieve peak efficiency. During off-peak hours, the nuc-plant energy is used to pump water from a reservoir at a low elevation to one at a higher elevation. Then the water is run through turbines/generators during peak hours.
This is a bit out of the ordinary, usually nuclear power is used to provide the base level of power needed for an area, with other types of generation used to keep up with peak demand.
My office email is filled with people mailing MS Word documents to me for Web-related projects. Often there's nothing in these documents but plain text and some bolded topic headlines. If I try to convert them to HTML to make my job easier, it doesn't work, because MS litters Word-generated HTML with styles and nonstandard tags that only IE5 can understand, all to make the Web page look as much like the Word doc as possible.
HTML Tidy, a program available from the World Wide Web Consortium, will strip out the junk from Word-to-HTML documents you've converted to HTML. Go to the HTML Tidy web page and search for "Support for Word2000" - it should be a page or two down.
You can grab binaries for several OSs, binaries of other programs which have incorporated Tidy into themselves, or get the source. Hope that this works for you.
Slashdot Mirror
In the same section, less than a week later, with exactly the same link, while the old story is still visible in the Slashbox.
What am I missing?
I really like that. I propose that there be two versions - in-state and out-of-state. Those of us who don't live in NY and still want one could get official NY license plates (not valid for placing on a car and driving with, but still produced by NY state).
Jesse fighting for free-speech in video games, kinda cool. I wonder if free speech in games would have any legal bearing on code as speech.
Why are you posting? I thought the point of the blackout was to force the 'management' to sit up and listen to the voices of the masses. (Or listen to the silence when they stop talking, if you like.) Was this the perfect exception? I really am curious. Why?
I hate it when that sort of thing happens. "Oops, was that my girlfriend, or the whole address book. Hmm, I guess I'll know in a few minutes."
I hadn't even thought about that. Wow, the damage is spreading across the net as we speak.
Somewhere in Silicon Valley:
"Oh, good a commercial, I can check Kuro5hin. Man, those Lone Gunmen are in a tight spot, maybe Mulder will show up to save them in the nick of time. Hmm, a new article, let's look at the Slashdot box. What's that headline? 'The Lone Gunmen are Dead?!?!?!' Nooooooo!" And he yells it loud enough for his entire "X-files night party" to hear him. And he's an outcast for four weeks. Till he announces that he has tickets for EP2 for everyone.
That's a funny picture in my head.
The uproar is the /. junkies (me included) each venting his spleen. Hey, it's like a reward for checking Slashdot on the weekend (helping the ad rates for the slow weekend period, BTW) - BUT, the reward is a kick in the "groin of our entertainment".
The uproar will die down, and turn into burning resentment for a week or four - till Clone Wars comes out in a month (25 days and counting!). The noise is "the sound of a million voices suddenly crying out", but this noise won't be quiet as soon.
I'm ticked about this (I flamed quite hot earlier), but I wouldn't put this in the category of journalistic integity. But exageration is also a form of humor. :)
"... journalistic integrity", that is too funny.
Oops, couldn't be bothered.
If I were watching these last episodes as they came out (instead of taping for viewing in a month or two) I would be TICKED OFF that one of the most popular sci-fi series had a major plot point published on Slashdot before it's seen by all of the continental US. (As it is, I'm only watching the rest of the series out of loyalty to the original 7 years I loved the show.)
Yup, that story was posted at 8:20 pm Pacific Daylight Time, 40 minutes before X-files starts.
Before I can see the episode in Seattle (major /. hangout, I believe), the death of some major characters is put on the front page.
Sheesh, it should have been in the [Read More] section with a spoiler warning. Publish it, but give me a chance to experience it first.
It doesn't matter whether it's some kids yelling fire in a theater, or a reporter publishing the Top-Secret troop movements during a conflict/war/police-action, or library computers used by the community (whoops, that restriction is actually "responsible parenting"; with a whole community being the parents), if some perceived authority does something you don't like, label it as BAD (images of starving children &/or elderly, references to Hitler/Nazis, etc.) and proceed to press the perceived authority to change their horrible ways.
Secret Decoder Ring: Restricting 1 is NOT censorship, restricting 2 IS censorship (but I would argue the only appropriate kind of censorship), restricting 3 IS censorship.
If you want a fun way to learn about incremental loss of freedoms, if you want to see how to make people glad that you are creating a police state, watch Seasons 2 & 3. (Well, watch the whole 5 Season series[+ movies!], but that's more for fun than the current exercise.) Look for the "Ministry of Peace", "Nightwatch", anything to do with PsyCops (watch the PsyCop advertisement in slow-motion ;), and the general change in tone of everything having to do with politics.
I'm a casual student of human nature, and of politics/history, so seeing the things that I knew about manipulation and power-building played out in front of me was incredible, like reading about a sport and then getting to see it played in person by professionals. It was so cool, and so scary. "We arrest because we care."
Bingo. Funny thing is, that credit line beneath the headline is one of the first things I look for when I am reading a newspaper. I guess I have to create a similar habit for online news feeds too.
To contrast, Slashdot is very good about disclosing corporate relationships when reporting something, even though this audience is practically guaranteed to already know what they are telling us. ("Really, you mean OSDN owns slashdot?!?! I thought that the OSDN banner up there was decorative. Wow, I'm glad you mentioned this.")
BTW, I thought this was funny:
So don't read it, because we aren't publishing it.There might be a legal problem with posting some code here. If the code wasn't actually OS/GPL (as a few have postulated), then the poster might have a legal problem with his company, disclosing company property, etc.
Take a deep breath, and look at MSN Communities, they have users, mail lists, calendars, archival places, chat rooms, and some more stuff. You have to deal with MSN EULAs and the like, but that's what you have to deal with when you are using a free service.
When I was on an internship near Silicon Valley a few years ago, I showed a co-worker a "Ban DiHydrogen-MonOxide" website, thinking that he'd get a good laugh from the satire. He was trying to remember what DHMO was! :) He didn't believe me when I told him that it was H2O - water. He just kept saying, "I heard about this stuff in chemistry." The topper, he had a degree in Industrial Engineering. (Basically a fancy way of saying usability/prettiness engineer before the Web took over.)
BTW, I like your self-reply. I hope it doesn't get modded down.
Oh to have mod points.
And it's easy to keep the Mountain Dew cold. :)
Clueless in Seattle.
This is a bit out of the ordinary, usually nuclear power is used to provide the base level of power needed for an area, with other types of generation used to keep up with peak demand.
You can grab binaries for several OSs, binaries of other programs which have incorporated Tidy into themselves, or get the source. Hope that this works for you.