"Well, Scandinavia was ice covered until a few thousand years ago, so if you're seeing more signs of immigrants from 45 000 years ago there than in other parts compared to those who arrived 10 000 years ago I wonder if you're not just seeing a random effect, since for practical purposes there wasn't any population there 10 000 years ago." It definitely was a population in Scandinavia 10 000 years ago, in the north of Norway there are lots of archeological remains from at 10 000 years ago. People were living near the sea. Sea levels were quite much lower back then, but the coastline wasn't entirely covered by ice 10 000 years ago. Those people are as far as we can see the ancestors of many of the people living in the area today. TA
Is this other satellite your'e thinking of the Ikonos satellite? If so, the resolution of Ikonos isn't 10-15 meters, it's 1 meter. Too bad with quickbird though. There has been a lot of investment in the ground segment for that one. TA
Unfortunately, you are right. It's just so that we only learn by our mistakes, and our own mistakes only.. we don't learn much from other people's mistakes. So, if you want the students to make two or more floppy copies you'll just have to wait. First inform them about the possibility, but then wait for the student to get burned. After that the student will happily make two, three, four backups of everything. After some months or a year the student will start to slip back to the old behaviors, that'll last until the next floppy fails. TA
You are arguing that, among other things, that the employer can monitor your mail etc. because he owns the network it runs on. That's flawed logic if I ever saw it. Of course somebody else than yourself owns the network! The telecom. company owns the network I'm phoning and mailing from at home, it's their property, does that give them a right to monitor my phone and mail? Does it? TA
Why on Earth to you think that you have "sold yourself"? You haven't and you shouldn't. Are you a prostitute? You have sold a part of your working capability to your employer and that's all. The employer can monitor what he gets back by monitoring your work output, not your goddam mail or phone conversations! He doesn't OWN you! Be slave labour if you want to, and let the rest of us stay human. TA
No no no. You don't have to mark mail [Personal] or anything like that. After all, it wouldn't work when somebody sends you an incoming mail, not knowing that it's your work mail address. The solution is infinitely much simpler: Create a work mail account that's clearly non-personal, e.g. 'aix-support@company.com', 'feedback@company.com' etc. Then automatically archive those mails, make an intranet web interface, put several people on the list of that's useful, or switch to other people while you're on holiday or on mission. This solves a whole bunch of problems: 1: Separation between business/important mails that should be archived and your own volatile and/or private mail. 2: Business customers have one clearly marked "professional" mail address to refer to. 3: No risk of important mails being overlooked or not handled (because you're away or whatever). 4: No need for anybody snooping into your incoming and outgoing mail. TA
No, the logic isn't right. The bank owns the property I'm living in, according to the law (because it's gonna be a long long time until it's paid). They own the property. Why does that give them a right to monitor everything I do inside their property? What I can't understand is why so many of you guys are prepared to be treated like a slave, a property, a "resource" of your employer. I don't know why so many of you guys are so willing to accept that you are "owned" by your employer, that you're nothing but a mindless robot and that you can be treated as just any bookshelf or basket. I don't know about you but I sell my working capability to the employer, I'm not selling myself. The employer monitor my work performance by my output, he doesn't measure it by comparing it to my theorethical work performance. After all, that's not what I'm selling him. I'm selling some of my capability, not my whole self. TA
The bank owns my house. The bank owns my car. At least until they're paid, but according to the law they're the bank's until they're paid. Now, does that mean that the bank gets a right to record my conversations in the house? In the car? What I'm asking is: Why do you think that because somebody owns the environment you're in, that they also get the rigth to record, listen in to, open etc. everything that *you* own? Why? Why not let them put cameras in the washrooms then? TA
In my opinion your logic in flawed. And, to answer your question, there are many people here where I work who receives many more than your "5-10 mails" (snail-mail) every week. Much more. And I have my guitars delivered at work, because it's convenient (better than the shipper leaving them on the lawn!). So what? Why would the employer mind? Well, obviously they can start to wonder, ok fine. Then just ask for God's sake! Why would the employer have to *open* the mail? And where I live it is in fact illegal by law. The way it works here is that anything shipped/mailed here will be opened by the secretaries if, and only if, the company's address is first, i.e. if it says To: Company ltd. Att: Somebody then the secretaries will open it. On the other hand, if it says To: Somebody Company ltd. (rest of address) it will never be opened, even if the sender in fact meant it as business mail. The person "Somebody" will then have to open it, and if it's business then get the content registered with the secretaries. Works great and is in accordance with the law. And of course we treat email the same way! If it's for the employer or the boss or to be archived the sender will have to send the email to a business, not personal, mail account. Works absolutely great, and anything else is IMO criminal. And employer wouldn't dream of it either. TA
Think of ordinary (snail) mail. Somebody is sending you a personal or otherwise private letter, either to your working address because that's the only address they have, or your post office has temporarily re-addressed mail to you to your working address because your're moving or something. Now, do you think it's right that your boss can open your private mail? Obviously if it's snail mail or "e"-mail this is no different. TA
It's 'mail', not 'e-main' or 'email' or any other braindead 'e'-thing. What's the 'e' got to do with it? Why not 'o' for 'optical'? Most of the mail transport these days is optical anyway, or will be very soon. And after that? What when the final transport to your brain goes via neuronic material, do you still want to call it 'e'-mail? Rubbish. It's "mail" and it's been "mail" for the last twenty years, at least among hackers and Unix people. The other, road-based version is called "snail mail". TA
The web site just says that you have to have cookies enabled to access it. Now I wonder what they want that for. No way I'm visiting sites with such ridiculous setups, bye-bye lego.
TA
Well the first thing I want to do is to teach the darn program about Emacs key codes! Even FrameMaker understands those. I hate it when soffice does something absolutely insane when I press ctrl-A to go to the beginning of the line! TA
-z3 should be perfectly ok if you're on a slow link (say, over in Europe). The faster your link is the lower your compression setting should be. That been said, there's not much use going over -z3 though, and if you go to the highest rate you will load the server quite a bit for little or no gain. Morale: Stay at -z3 or lower, and if you're on a fast link go for -z1 or no compression. TA
Hm, if they really avoid.edu and.mil etc. now then that really shows that the way to handle the spammers is to really late them feel the heat. In other words, it's of no use at all to simply filter spam with a procmail filter or something. Somehow we must let them feel our reaction, and the first thing to do is to detect the spam while the SMTP connection is still up, and reject it at that stage. Then either the open relays in between will notice what's happening, or the ISPs. And finally the spammer. Even better if this makes somebody trace the spammer and file a suit. But don't just filter or delete spam, passive action is of no use! TA (I wonder why my postings show up as AC lately, I'm really TA)
It's always been super-annoying that the braindead wristwatches don't know anything abut leap years, summertime and so on. Why can't the stupid thing handle that itself, just like all computers do? (at least those with/usr/share/timezone). That by itself is enough for me to want to run Linux (or *BSD) on the wristwatch. I'm fed up of that damn braindead Casio digital watch I have. TA
So if you let the designers and the reflex augmentation proxy writers bang it out against each other for a while then we should have real, working AI up and running much quicker than otherwise:-) TA
The point isn't that shutting down anything in the U.S. won't shut down computers in the UK (or anywhere), of course it won't. The Internet isn't anything without its cables (and satellite links etc), so the point is really: Are there links around the U.S. lines in case the U.S. shuts down? I notice that sometimes even my intra-European connections go through U.S. lines (crossing the Atlantic twice!). TA
Global warming? The computers I use haven't contributed anything extra to global warming even though I run 24x7 on some of them. Not all computers are like Intel CPUs. Except for a laptop I'm using all the others use the same amount of power wether they're idle or not. TA (in the top 100)
We're quite careful with using correct terms here, aren't we? For example, we don't like that crackers 'steal' the 'hacker' name. So please note that we SF fans hate that our stuff is called 'SciFi'. What Analog writes about is SF, not SciFi. As Isaac Asimov put it, '"Godzilla" is SciFi'. TA
I really wonder what's eating Bob Metcalfe. He pours out the most ridiculous claims and statements about Linux and some other stuff. Methinks the man has a problem. TA
The whole point of me learning to touch type when I was 15 was because I hate handwriting! Why would I ever want to go backwards like that? I can write much faster on a keyboard than by hand. I can't handwrite as fast as I can think so I mess up and write the wrong letters and so on. No such problem with typing. It doesn't make sense to come up with backwards technology. Give us something that is more efficient than a keyboard and we're talking. Voice input? I think I want something that doesn't make me look like a lunatic, it's bad enough to see those idiots in town just standing there and babbling into their hands-free, invisible mobile phones. TA
If I want to actually create something I want it totally quiet. No music and no computer noise or anything. Music is ok while reading news or something but not for creative coding. TA
You don't have to be military or anything to need one of these. I carried the laptop to and from work for half a year, that was enough for the LCD screen to lose one third of the right field and the whole thing to get generally loose. The cabling and silly plastic connectors for the GSM phone and pcmcia adapter is now kept together with string and rubber band. That toughbook is exactly what I need, I wanted one the moment I saw one advertised some months ago. Did I mention that it has a built-in GSM phone too? Antenna comes out of the top of the LCD screen, no more cabling&connectors to break. TA
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"Well, Scandinavia was ice covered until a few thousand years ago, so if you're seeing more signs of immigrants from 45 000 years ago there than in other parts compared to those who arrived 10 000 years ago I wonder if you're not just seeing a random effect, since for practical purposes there wasn't any population there 10 000 years ago."
It definitely was a population in Scandinavia 10 000 years ago, in the north of Norway there are lots of archeological remains from at 10 000 years ago. People were living near the sea. Sea levels were quite much lower back then, but the coastline wasn't entirely covered by ice 10 000 years ago. Those people are as far as we can see the ancestors of many of the people living in the area today.
TA
Is this other satellite your'e thinking of the Ikonos satellite? If so, the resolution of Ikonos isn't 10-15 meters, it's 1 meter. Too bad with quickbird though. There has been a lot of investment in the ground segment for that one.
TA
Unfortunately, you are right. It's just so that we only learn by our mistakes, and our own mistakes only.. we don't learn much from other people's mistakes. So, if you want the students to make two or more floppy copies you'll just have to wait. First inform them about the possibility, but then wait for the student to get burned. After that the student will happily make two, three, four backups of everything. After some months or a year the student will start to slip back to the old behaviors, that'll last until the next floppy fails.
TA
You are arguing that, among other things, that the employer can monitor your mail etc. because he owns the network it runs on. That's flawed logic if I ever saw it. Of course somebody else than yourself owns the network! The telecom. company owns the network I'm phoning and mailing from at home, it's their property, does that give them a right to monitor my phone and mail? Does it?
TA
Why on Earth to you think that you have "sold yourself"? You haven't and you shouldn't. Are you a prostitute? You have sold a part of your working capability to your employer and that's all. The employer can monitor what he gets back by monitoring your work output, not your goddam mail or phone conversations! He doesn't OWN you! Be slave labour if you want to, and let the rest of us stay human.
TA
No no no. You don't have to mark mail [Personal] or anything like that. After all, it wouldn't work when somebody sends you an incoming mail, not knowing that it's your work mail address.
The solution is infinitely much simpler: Create a work mail account that's clearly non-personal, e.g. 'aix-support@company.com', 'feedback@company.com' etc. Then automatically archive those mails, make an intranet web interface, put several people on the list of that's useful, or switch to other people while you're on holiday or on mission. This solves a whole bunch of problems:
1: Separation between business/important mails that should be archived and your own volatile and/or private mail.
2: Business customers have one clearly marked "professional" mail address to refer to.
3: No risk of important mails being overlooked or not handled (because you're away or whatever).
4: No need for anybody snooping into your incoming and outgoing mail.
TA
No, the logic isn't right. The bank owns the property I'm living in, according to the law (because it's gonna be a long long time until it's paid). They own the property. Why does that give them a right to monitor everything I do inside their property?
What I can't understand is why so many of you guys are prepared to be treated like a slave, a property, a "resource" of your employer. I don't know why so many of you guys are so willing to accept that you are "owned" by your employer, that you're nothing but a mindless robot and that you can be treated as just any bookshelf or basket. I don't know about you but I sell my working capability to the employer, I'm not selling myself. The employer monitor my work performance by my output, he doesn't measure it by comparing it to my theorethical work performance. After all, that's not what I'm selling him. I'm selling some of my capability, not my whole self.
TA
The bank owns my house. The bank owns my car. At least until they're paid, but according to the law they're the bank's until they're paid. Now, does that mean that the bank gets a right to record my conversations in the house? In the car? What I'm asking is: Why do you think that because somebody owns the environment you're in, that they also get the rigth to record, listen in to, open etc. everything that *you* own? Why? Why not let them put cameras in the washrooms then?
TA
In my opinion your logic in flawed. And, to answer your question, there are many people here where I work who receives many more than your "5-10 mails" (snail-mail) every week. Much more. And I have my guitars delivered at work, because it's convenient (better than the shipper leaving them on the lawn!). So what? Why would the employer mind? Well, obviously they can start to wonder, ok fine. Then just ask for God's sake! Why would the employer have to *open* the mail? And where I live it is in fact illegal by law. The way it works here is that anything shipped/mailed here will be opened by the secretaries if, and only if, the company's address is first, i.e. if it says
To: Company ltd.
Att: Somebody
then the secretaries will open it. On the other hand, if it says
To: Somebody
Company ltd.
(rest of address)
it will never be opened, even if the sender in fact meant it as business mail. The person "Somebody" will then have to open it, and if it's business then get the content registered with the secretaries. Works great and is in accordance with the law.
And of course we treat email the same way! If it's for the employer or the boss or to be archived the sender will have to send the email to a business, not personal, mail account. Works absolutely great, and anything else is IMO criminal. And employer wouldn't dream of it either.
TA
Think of ordinary (snail) mail. Somebody is sending you a personal or otherwise private letter, either to your working address because that's the only address they have, or your post office has temporarily re-addressed mail to you to your working address because your're moving or something. Now, do you think it's right that your boss can open your private mail?
Obviously if it's snail mail or "e"-mail this is no different.
TA
It's 'mail', not 'e-main' or 'email' or any other braindead 'e'-thing. What's the 'e' got to do with it? Why not 'o' for 'optical'? Most of the mail transport these days is optical anyway, or will be very soon. And after that? What when the final transport to your brain goes via neuronic material, do you still want to call it 'e'-mail? Rubbish. It's "mail" and it's been "mail" for the last twenty years, at least among hackers and Unix people. The other, road-based version is called "snail mail".
TA
The web site just says that you have to have cookies enabled to access it. Now I wonder what they want that for. No way I'm visiting sites with such ridiculous setups, bye-bye lego.
TA
It used to take five days to compile X11R5 on our old Sun SLC workstation. So what, we just did something else in the meantime :-)
TA
Well the first thing I want to do is to teach the darn program about Emacs key codes! Even FrameMaker understands those. I hate it when soffice does something absolutely insane when I press ctrl-A to go to the beginning of the line!
TA
-z3 should be perfectly ok if you're on a slow link (say, over in Europe).
The faster your link is the lower your compression setting should be. That been said, there's not much use going over -z3 though, and if you go to the highest rate you will load the server quite a bit for little or no gain. Morale: Stay at -z3 or lower, and if you're on a fast link go for -z1 or no compression.
TA
Hm, if they really avoid .edu and .mil etc. now then that really shows that the way to handle the spammers is to really late them feel the heat. In other words, it's of no use at all to simply filter spam with a procmail filter or something. Somehow we must let them feel our reaction, and the first thing to do is to detect the spam while the SMTP connection is still up, and reject it at that stage. Then either the open relays in between will notice what's happening, or the ISPs. And finally the spammer. Even better if this makes somebody trace the spammer and file a suit. But don't just filter or delete spam, passive action is of no use!
TA (I wonder why my postings show up as AC lately, I'm really TA)
It's always been super-annoying that the braindead wristwatches don't know anything abut leap years, summertime and so on. Why can't the stupid thing handle that itself, just like all computers do? (at least those with /usr/share/timezone).
That by itself is enough for me to want to run Linux (or *BSD) on the wristwatch. I'm fed up of that damn braindead Casio digital watch I have.
TA
So if you let the designers and the reflex augmentation proxy writers bang it out against each other for a while then we should have real, working AI up and running much quicker than otherwise :-)
TA
The point isn't that shutting down anything in the U.S. won't shut down computers in the UK (or anywhere), of course it won't. The Internet isn't anything without its cables (and satellite links etc), so the point is really: Are there links around the U.S. lines in case the U.S. shuts down? I notice that sometimes even my intra-European connections go through U.S. lines (crossing the Atlantic twice!).
TA
Global warming? The computers I use haven't contributed anything extra to global warming even though I run 24x7 on some of them. Not all computers are like Intel CPUs. Except for a laptop I'm using all the others use the same amount of power wether they're idle or not.
TA (in the top 100)
We're quite careful with using correct terms here, aren't we? For example, we don't like that crackers 'steal' the 'hacker' name. So please note that we SF fans hate that our stuff is called 'SciFi'. What Analog writes about is SF, not SciFi. As Isaac Asimov put it, '"Godzilla" is SciFi'. TA
I really wonder what's eating Bob Metcalfe. He pours out the most ridiculous claims and statements about Linux and some other stuff. Methinks the man has a problem.
TA
The whole point of me learning to touch type when I was 15 was because I hate handwriting! Why would I ever want to go backwards like that? I can write much faster on a keyboard than by hand. I can't handwrite as fast as I can think so I mess up and write the wrong letters and so on. No such problem with typing.
It doesn't make sense to come up with backwards technology. Give us something that is more efficient than a keyboard and we're talking. Voice input? I think I want something that doesn't make me look like a lunatic, it's bad enough to see those idiots in town just standing there and babbling into their hands-free, invisible mobile phones.
TA
If I want to actually create something I want it totally quiet. No music and no computer noise or anything. Music is ok while reading news or something but not for creative coding.
TA
You don't have to be military or anything to need one of these. I carried the laptop to and from work for half a year, that was enough for the LCD screen to lose one third of the right field and the whole thing to get generally loose. The cabling and silly plastic connectors for the GSM phone and pcmcia adapter is now kept together with string and rubber band. That toughbook is exactly what I need, I wanted one the moment I saw one advertised some months ago. Did I mention that it has a built-in GSM phone too? Antenna comes out of the top of the LCD screen, no more cabling&connectors to break.
TA