Take two toilet paper spindle tubes and place one over each eye. Then put the tubes in contact with each image. This ensures that each eye is only viewing the correct image.
When your wife/GF comes in asks what the hell you are doing- tell her you are looking for martians on the Intra-Web. Watch her leave the room- quickly.
Windows XP is a well built OS. It almost never crashes, it's very compatible with a wide range of hardware, and setup/configuration is a breeze.
Bill Gates is not a bad person. He is down to earth, a geek at heart- a humanitarian and philanthipist who believes that the money he earns should be used in service to humanity.
The MPAA is just trying to protect the copyrighted works of the companies it represents.
Maybe there really is some of proprietary Sco code in Linux. And you know, revealing it before Sco has its date in court would not be fair to the litigants.
no... wait that last one just went too far... I recant.
I certainly don't think he's an idiot. And I don't think you have a very good grasp of how sarcasm works, because I did not perceive your comment as sarcasm either. When in doubt, always remember the words of Oscar Wilde "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit"
Here's a great page that shows the making of those motorcycles. I remember thinking they were very cool when I was a kid. Less than impressive now... http://www.kesigndesign.com/code/galactc6. htm
I couldn't help it... I got an image of a Dr. Whoesque robotic Steve Ballmer rolling around an expo stage, chanting in his metallic voice: "*Developers*, *Developers*, *Developers*"
...unless the administrator keeps detailed logs of everybody's account use - which is not required by law - she may well not know who was swapping files.
This is offtopic, but I have noticed the increased use of the 'she' pronoun to describe positions that are in all honesty dominated by males. Is this a form of Grammatical Gender Affirmitive Action?
I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it does sound funny to my ears, and distracts from whatever the actual object of the sentence is.
I remember there was a good post on Kuroshin a while back advocating the creation of a gender neutral pronoun. I think they (ha!) promoted the idea of using 'They' which is often used (incorrectly) in place of he/she.
I am in favor of the creation of a new word to avoid the confusion between third person singular and plural.
The word I propose is 'e'. It takes the common portion of 'she' and 'he'.
The possesive pronouns are a bit more difficult as they only have 'h' in common, and as it is a consonant, it is impossible to pronounce.
For the gender neutral possesive pronoun, I suggest 'hiers' which is a nice blending of 'hers' and 'his'. For 'Her' and 'Him', similarly I suggest 'Hierm'
I wouldn't call RMS a fanatic, or maybe it's all relative, in which case I suppose I'm a fanatic too.
Just because his words were printed in a communist newspaper doesn't make them wrong.
This portion especially I found salient and insightful:
Stallman said that vigorous efforts are on to colonise the world of computer users by a few big monopoly computer companies and called for resisting this phenomenon by spreading the network of free software movement. He called upon countries like India to emphatically reject the Wipo Copyright Treaty which is intended to further strengthen the grip of big business on the markets. "The World Intellectual Property Organisation does not represent public interest and the people must likened software programmes to recipes and said preventing sharing of software was like asking neighbours not to share their recipes. "It is morally wrong to make people promise that they will never share. As it is we don't always share everything with everybody, so why create barriers?", asked Stallman. He cautioned particularly against allowing Microsoft to peddle its software in thousands of Indian schools. "Bill Gates donations of computers to Indian schools is really aimed at getting children hooked on to licensed software. It is a bit like selling cigarettes to children." He called for encouraging the usage of free software among Indian students.
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Here is the text of a recent interview with the reclusive security wonk from Crain's New York Business.
On the job with...
Gary Morse Founder and CEO Razorpoint Security
Keeping a company's computer systems and networks secure from intruders used to be the responsibility of mid-level IT managers. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, the job landed on the desk of company CEOs. Executives in all sorts of industries woke up to the fact that security--of everything from the front door to the mailroom PC--has to be a top management concern.
The new consciousness has proved a boon for companies like Razorpoint Security, which was founded in Manhattan in 2000 and saw its business take off after the attacks. Razorpoint tests just how secure a company's network is by trying to hack into it. The company then does the follow-up work of fixing problems and performing regular network audits. Crainsny.com's Judy Messina talks with Razorpoint founder and CEO Gary Morse.
Crainsny.com: Describe what Razorpoint does.
Gary Morse: In the simplest terms, you can think of us as professional hackers. We're tech professionals who in the past have built large-scale networks, including major sites on the Internet. That helps us know where the pitfalls in systems are and how to break things. Once we find vulnerabilities, we demonstrate them in a very comprehensive report. If we're able to crack passwords, for example, we'll show the list of passwords or a screen shot of them. We want to drive the point home.
Then, one of the three things happens. The company has trained staff who are capable of fixing the problems and they use our report as a roadmap. Others ask us to do the remediation for them. In the third category, and this is coming up more and more, is the client who is overwhelmed and understaffed, and we go in and act as their temporary IT security arm for a while.
Crainsny.com: How do you convince executives that their networks are vulnerable?
Gary Morse: At one firm half the executive board wanted to bring us in and the other half was on the fence. They had all the buzzwords, the firewalls, all the security products you're supposed to have. But when they finally hired us, in less than one week we had control of every device on their network - every server, every desktop computer, every laptop. We even logged on to the system as the president and we wrote an email in his name. The screen shot of that email was one of the prominent pieces in our presentation to the executive board. We had to break the report in two pieces it was so big.
Crainsny.com: What are the most common holes you find in computer systems?
Gary Morse: There's everything from the seemingly insignificant to the colossally devastating. You can have a poorly configured web server or mail server sitting next to a server with financial information. One time, we found a fax machine talking to a phone system so that a document on somebody's work station was being sent over the network as if it were being faxed. Somebody had set up the connection and forgot about it.
Crainsny.com: What do companies need to do to make their systems secure?
Gary Morse: They need to think about what services they truly need in order to be online. Security is a process not a product. There is no shrink wrapped thing you take off a shelf and install. New vulnerabilities are coming out every hour.
Crainsny.com: What changes did you see after 9/11?
Gary Morse: We saw more security awareness. The bar was raised quite a bit. People who had been on the fence about doing regular security audits were certainly calling us a lot more than we were calling them. The year 2002 was a big year for us. We grew roughly 300%.
Crainsny.com: You said new vulnerabilities are surfacing every day. What should companies be preparing themselves for?
Gary Morse: Web and web application vulnerabilities and wireless security issues are going to be concerns. In the past year, a lot of w
Steve Ballmer's Comments on BSD
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· Score: 3, Informative
Relates equally to OpenBSD, kind of a backhanded compliment to the BSDs over Linux.
The way things are structured today, from a licensing perspective, in the Linux world nobody will ever commercialise Linux the way the Sun commercialised FreeBSD. For some customers, that can be viewed as advantageous. But customers will never really know who stands behind this product. If the lead developer for this component chooses to do something else with his life, who will carry on the mantle for that? The fact that it will never be commercialised is assured by the GPL. The GPL licensing form does that, as opposed to the open-source license for FreeBSD, where you could say Sun took it and commercialised it and can say that they own it. Nobody can ever do that (with GPL).
Well, as I said, I don't have a TV, so I wouldn't really know, but that linked article-- although from an Australian paper-- seems to be only reporting on the American Emmy awards. I do know that the Sopranos is showing here (and fairly popular) but I haven't heard of 6 Feet under showing.
Those Divx CDs are much in demand in my circle of friends, as once you watch the first episode, you are hooked...
It's all about the freedom to choose
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Rabid TiVo Fanaticism
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I don't have a TV, but I have a 21 inch monitor and a broadband connection.
I watch TV programs, but only by downloading the Divx(s) and playing them. I'm in Australia, and I watch Six Feet Under which is not available here in Australia. So far I'm half way through season 2.
Beyond just the Tivos, I wonder if the commercial TV industry has file trading on the radar. With DVD player out there now that play Divx and Xvid, why would someone wait for Thursdays at 8:00 ?
"Must See TV", is becoming commercialess, "anytime I'm Free TV".
Unless I'm mistaken I did not see anything about a TV tuner to go with this chipset in the Tom's hardware review. I think the other review may have mistaken "TV Out" with "TV Tuner". A TV tuner would be a different kettle of fish, and would be quite noticible on a motherboard, as it requires a faraday cage to protect it from EMR coming from the other components.
In case anyone is wondering, "Fiestaware" is any ceramic dishes painted with a very Brady Bunchish orange paint. It turns out the paint contains a lot of uranium oxide, and is shows up quite well when a Geiger counter is put next to it.
Here is a site describing FiestaWare with pictures of the Geigercounter resting on top of it.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucle ar / ucbuy.html#c2
That's a good point, I guess the memory wipe Idea wouldn't work for him, still -a lot of time has passed, I suppose it's plausible that Uncle Owen may have forgotten about this particular droid. Human's have been known to make mistakes... from time to time...
When Annakin reunites with C3p0 on the farm in Episode II, c3p0 has obviously spent years there languishing through Anakin's adolelesence, so why is that when C3p0 goes to the farm AGAIN in episode IV, he doesn't recognise it? I think it's a fairy large plot hole that could be filled with some revisionist history on Episode IV.
Maybe C3p0 takes a blaster hit which fries his memory, while escaping from the Emperial Ship , or maybe the Jawa's wipe it.
I use my all in wonder card to record movies and my favorite shows to mpeg2. I then use Flask and virtualdub to convert that to divx and burn it to CD. I can edit out the commercials of my favorite shows and start my own library, or share Saturday Night Live CDs to friends, or share them through Kazaa. That is the real advantage of something like this over Tivo.
I can't wait for the day when I can go, "hey what was that Trek episode where the Enterprise was trapped in a spider like web. hmm..."
1. Search in Kazaa for "Tholian Web"
2. 1 minute download using my Mega-Hyper-DSL
3. Yess! pop the corn, and watch the old school masters
"...the interface that Eazel tried to design was an undisciplined and uninformed hodgepodge (my apologies to my friends Andy and Bud, but there was a severe lack of interface science in their work). "
I have to agree wholeheartedly. When will we all learn that the prettiest, "differentist" UI is not necessarily the best.
A good example would be comparing Vi with MS Word XP. They both edit text, but I'll take ugly 'ol Vi any day over Clippy and his cohorts.
Gravity increasing over time due to space dust
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Mapping Gravity
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Is it possible that gravity can increase over the lifespan of a planet? I read recently
that 50,000 tons of space dust fall on the earth every day.
Maybe in the time of dinosaurs the earth actually had lighter gravity. Let's see-
50,000 tons of dust X 50 million years = 2,500,000,000,000 (that's 2 trillion tons of dust) that would be enough to effect gravity wouldn't it.
I'm sure my math is off, and that the earth must also lose a fair amount of matter via outgassing etc- But it would explain why such impossible beasts like the brontosaurus were
able to stand under their own weight.
All this from a space agency that forbade its astronauts from hugging Tito on camera during his weeklong visit to the international space station, and which for years balked at even giving a name to the orbital complex. (It's now called Alpha thanks to its gutsy first commander.)
That is the most idiotic thing I've heard in a long time. If you were not a proponent of privatising space exploration, you should be after reading that paragraph.
Nasa's budget for 2001 is 14,035,300. Yes folks, that's 14 billion dollars. Take a significant fraction of that- Say 3 billion dollars and offer it to the first organisation that puts people on Mars for over a month and returns them.
Privatise the space station and make it pay for itself via advertising and space tourists. ("Yum, nothing tastes better than a hot Domino's Pizza in 0 gravity, and it still arrived in less than 30 minutes!")
Replace the aging white elephant space shuttle with cheaper heavy lift boosters.
Use the rest of the money for holding up core Nasa programs like the Hubble.
Just my two cents... flame throwers- Ready... aim...
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for the mention DeathCow.
Thanks for the recommendation anonymous coward. I concur. ( :
www.videosift.com
Just trying it out now. Should make my life easier (as all things Googly do). My only qualm is that I don't see PDF thumbnails.
Take two toilet paper spindle tubes and place one over each eye. Then put the tubes in contact with each image. This ensures that each eye is only viewing the correct image.
When your wife/GF comes in asks what the hell you are doing- tell her you are looking for martians on the Intra-Web. Watch her leave the room- quickly.
Windows XP is a well built OS. It almost never crashes, it's very compatible with a wide range of hardware, and setup/configuration is a breeze.
Bill Gates is not a bad person. He is down to earth, a geek at heart- a humanitarian and philanthipist who believes that the money he earns should be used in service to humanity.
The MPAA is just trying to protect the copyrighted works of the companies it represents.
Maybe there really is some of proprietary Sco code in Linux. And you know, revealing it before Sco has its date in court would not be fair to the litigants.
no... wait that last one just went too far... I recant.
I certainly don't think he's an idiot. And I don't think you have a very good grasp of how sarcasm works, because I did not perceive your comment as sarcasm either. When in doubt, always remember the words of Oscar Wilde "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit"
Here's a great page that shows the making of those motorcycles. I remember thinking they were very cool when I was a kid. Less than impressive now.... htm
http://www.kesigndesign.com/code/galactc6
Well, I for one welcome our new human overlords..
oh wait...
I couldn't help it... I got an image of a Dr. Whoesque robotic Steve Ballmer rolling around an expo stage, chanting in his metallic voice: "*Developers*, *Developers*, *Developers*"
This is offtopic, but I have noticed the increased use of the 'she' pronoun to describe positions that are in all honesty dominated by males. Is this a form of Grammatical Gender Affirmitive Action?
I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it does sound funny to my ears, and distracts from whatever the actual object of the sentence is.
I remember there was a good post on Kuroshin a while back advocating the creation of a gender neutral pronoun. I think they (ha!) promoted the idea of using 'They' which is often used (incorrectly) in place of he/she.
I am in favor of the creation of a new word to avoid the confusion between third person singular and plural.
The word I propose is 'e'. It takes the common portion of 'she' and 'he'.
The possesive pronouns are a bit more difficult as they only have 'h' in common, and as it is a consonant, it is impossible to pronounce.
For the gender neutral possesive pronoun, I suggest 'hiers' which is a nice blending
of 'hers' and 'his'. For 'Her' and 'Him', similarly I suggest 'Hierm'
Thank your for your attention.
Just because his words were printed in a communist newspaper doesn't make them wrong.
This portion especially I found salient and insightful:
Stallman said that vigorous efforts are on to colonise the world of computer users by a few big monopoly computer companies and called for resisting this phenomenon by spreading the network of free software movement. He called upon countries like India to emphatically reject the Wipo Copyright Treaty which is intended to further strengthen the grip of big business on the markets. "The World Intellectual Property Organisation does not represent public interest and the people must likened software programmes to recipes and said preventing sharing of software was like asking neighbours not to share their recipes. "It is morally wrong to make people promise that they will never share. As it is we don't always share everything with everybody, so why create barriers?", asked Stallman. He cautioned particularly against allowing Microsoft to peddle its software in thousands of Indian schools. "Bill Gates donations of computers to Indian schools is really aimed at getting children hooked on to licensed software. It is a bit like selling cigarettes to children." He called for encouraging the usage of free software among Indian students.
For the record, this is really whacked.
a. Family License: If You are a Family or Individual, You agree to the following terms of this Section 1.1.a: LindowsOS is a modular operating system made up of individual software components (each individual software component and all accompanying documentation, enhancements, upgrades and extensions thereto are referred to herein as "Software Program(s)") that were created either by Lindows or various individuals and entities ("Third Parties"). Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Lindows grants You a non-exclusive license to use the object code form of LindowsOS for Your personal use in accordance with the accompanying documentation. You may download and use LindowsOS on multiple computers owned, leased or rented by You; provided, however, You and members of Your Household (a "Household" consists of those individuals that currently reside with You) are the only individuals with the right to use Your licensed copy(ies) of LindowsOS. For example, if You have a desktop computer at home and a laptop computer which You travel with, You may download a copy of LindowsOS on both machines for the personal use of members of Your Household and You. You agree that You are responsible for the members of Your Household's compliance with the terms of this Agreement as though they were You and had agreed to all terms and conditions herein. Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein, You may not (and shall not allow any member of Your Household or any other Third Party to) (i) remove any product identification or other notices; (ii) copy LindowsOS (other than for back-up purposes, for Your personal use on Your multiple machines as set forth in this Section 1.1.a, or for archival purposes); (iii) provide, lease, lend, use for timesharing or service bureau purposes or otherwise use or allow others to use LindowsOS to or for the benefit of Third Parties, or (iv) modify LindowsOS or incorporate LindowsOS into or with other software, except as may be provided for in this agreement.
Here is the text of a recent interview with the
reclusive security wonk from Crain's New York Business.
On the job with...
Gary Morse
Founder and CEO
Razorpoint Security
Keeping a company's computer systems and networks secure from intruders used to be the responsibility of mid-level IT managers. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, the job landed on the desk of company CEOs. Executives in all sorts of industries woke up to the fact that security--of everything from the front door to the mailroom PC--has to be a top management concern.
The new consciousness has proved a boon for companies like Razorpoint Security, which was founded in Manhattan in 2000 and saw its business take off after the attacks. Razorpoint tests just how secure a company's network is by trying to hack into it. The company then does the follow-up work of fixing problems and performing regular network audits. Crainsny.com's Judy Messina talks with Razorpoint founder and CEO Gary Morse.
Crainsny.com: Describe what Razorpoint does.
Gary Morse: In the simplest terms, you can think of us as professional hackers. We're tech professionals who in the past have built large-scale networks, including major sites on the Internet. That helps us know where the pitfalls in systems are and how to break things. Once we find vulnerabilities, we demonstrate them in a very comprehensive report. If we're able to crack passwords, for example, we'll show the list of passwords or a screen shot of them. We want to drive the point home.
Then, one of the three things happens. The company has trained staff who are capable of fixing the problems and they use our report as a roadmap. Others ask us to do the remediation for them. In the third category, and this is coming up more and more, is the client who is overwhelmed and understaffed, and we go in and act as their temporary IT security arm for a while.
Crainsny.com: How do you convince executives that their networks are vulnerable?
Gary Morse: At one firm half the executive board wanted to bring us in and the other half was on the fence. They had all the buzzwords, the firewalls, all the security products you're supposed to have. But when they finally hired us, in less than one week we had control of every device on their network - every server, every desktop computer, every laptop. We even logged on to the system as the president and we wrote an email in his name. The screen shot of that email was one of the prominent pieces in our presentation to the executive board. We had to break the report in two pieces it was so big.
Crainsny.com: What are the most common holes you find in computer systems?
Gary Morse: There's everything from the seemingly insignificant to the colossally devastating. You can have a poorly configured web server or mail server sitting next to a server with financial information. One time, we found a fax machine talking to a phone system so that a document on somebody's work station was being sent over the network as if it were being faxed. Somebody had set up the connection and forgot about it.
Crainsny.com: What do companies need to do to make their systems secure?
Gary Morse: They need to think about what services they truly need in order to be online. Security is a process not a product. There is no shrink wrapped thing you take off a shelf and install. New vulnerabilities are coming out every hour.
Crainsny.com: What changes did you see after 9/11?
Gary Morse: We saw more security awareness. The bar was raised quite a bit. People who had been on the fence about doing regular security audits were certainly calling us a lot more than we were calling them. The year 2002 was a big year for us. We grew roughly 300%.
Crainsny.com: You said new vulnerabilities are surfacing every day. What should companies be preparing themselves for?
Gary Morse: Web and web application vulnerabilities and wireless security issues are going to be concerns. In the past year, a lot of w
Those Divx CDs are much in demand in my circle of friends, as once you watch the first episode, you are hooked...
I watch TV programs, but only by downloading the Divx(s) and playing them. I'm in Australia, and I watch Six Feet Under which is not available here in Australia. So far I'm half way through season 2.
Beyond just the Tivos, I wonder if the commercial TV industry has file trading on the radar. With DVD player out there now that play Divx and Xvid, why would someone wait for Thursdays at 8:00 ?
"Must See TV", is becoming commercialess, "anytime I'm Free TV".
Who needs this? a $10 cantenna gets a 30 mile range, and now they even look nice on your desk
Unless I'm mistaken I did not see anything about a TV tuner to go with this chipset in the Tom's hardware review. I think the other review may have mistaken "TV Out" with "TV Tuner". A TV tuner would be a different kettle of fish, and would be quite noticible on a motherboard, as it requires a faraday cage to protect it from EMR coming from the other components.
In case anyone is wondering, "Fiestaware" is any ceramic dishes painted with a very Brady Bunchish orange paint. It turns out the paint contains a lot of uranium oxide, and is shows up quite well when a Geiger counter is put next to it.
e ar / ucbuy.html#c2
Here is a site describing FiestaWare with pictures of the Geigercounter resting on top of it.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucl
That's a good point, I guess the memory wipe Idea wouldn't work for him, still -a lot of time has passed, I suppose it's plausible that Uncle Owen may have forgotten about this particular droid. Human's have been known to make mistakes... from time to time...
When Annakin reunites with C3p0 on the farm in Episode II, c3p0 has obviously spent years there languishing through
Anakin's adolelesence, so why is that when C3p0 goes to the farm AGAIN in episode IV, he doesn't recognise it? I think
it's a fairy large plot hole that could be filled with some revisionist history on Episode IV.
Maybe C3p0 takes a blaster
hit which fries his memory, while escaping from the Emperial Ship , or maybe the Jawa's wipe it.
I can't wait for the day when I can go, "hey what was that Trek episode where the Enterprise was trapped in a spider like web. hmm..."
The quote:
"...the interface that Eazel tried to design was an undisciplined and uninformed hodgepodge (my apologies to my friends Andy and Bud, but there was a severe lack of interface science in their work). "
I have to agree wholeheartedly. When will we all learn that the prettiest, "differentist" UI is not necessarily the best.
A good example would be comparing Vi with MS Word XP. They both edit text, but I'll take ugly 'ol Vi any day over Clippy and his cohorts.
Is it possible that gravity can increase over the lifespan of a planet? I read recently
that 50,000 tons of space dust fall on the earth every day.
Maybe in the time of dinosaurs the earth actually had lighter gravity. Let's see-
50,000 tons of dust X 50 million years = 2,500,000,000,000 (that's 2 trillion tons of dust) that would be enough to effect gravity wouldn't it.
I'm sure my math is off, and that the earth must also lose a fair amount of matter via outgassing etc- But it would explain why such impossible beasts like the brontosaurus were
able to stand under their own weight.
All this from a space agency that forbade its astronauts from hugging Tito on camera during his weeklong visit to the international space station, and which for years balked at even giving a name to the orbital complex. (It's now called Alpha thanks to its gutsy first commander.)
That is the most idiotic thing I've heard in a long time. If you were not a proponent of privatising space exploration, you should be after reading that paragraph.
Nasa's budget for 2001 is 14,035,300. Yes folks, that's 14 billion dollars. Take a significant fraction of that- Say 3 billion dollars and offer it to the first organisation that puts people on Mars for over a month and returns them.
Privatise the space station and make it pay for itself via advertising and space tourists. ("Yum, nothing tastes better than a hot Domino's Pizza in 0 gravity, and it still arrived in less than 30 minutes!")
Replace the aging white elephant space shuttle with cheaper heavy lift boosters.
Use the rest of the money for holding up core Nasa programs like the Hubble.
Just my two cents... flame throwers- Ready... aim...