The one thing you really need in this day and age is a way to keep track of passwords. Then you can have long, un-guessable, unique passwords for all those blogs, wikis, e-mail accounts, and online calendars you set up. And no, using "e-mail me whichever minor variation on my standard password I chose for this site but can't figure out right now" is not good enough. I use KeePass (or, as I prefer to capitalize it, KeepAss) which works great as a secure password database. I keep three or four copies of the database on various thumb drives in various locations (can't be too careful, you know, if some building burns down). Even if your mail account is hacked, they're not going to get your bank account too. The peace of mind will in itself help you stay organized!
A personal Subversion (source control) database is great for things like lists, letters, papers, coding projects, Ph.D. theses, etc.
As for photos? I just stick them in a dated folder when the camera starts getting full. Once a year, I pick the ten or fifteen best and put them in an online gallery for family and friends to view. I assure you, that's all anyone wants to see, and nobody cares if they're not in perfect chronological order.
Me too! You beat me to it. Although I would add that "Do It Yourself, Beeyotch" is a pretty good philosophy overall (not to mention a handy way to get fired from tech support jobs quickly).
How that Native American tribe gets people to do the Skywalk thing, I have no idea.
In the retail world, it's called "justification of purchase." By the time you've driven 5 hours out of your way into the desolate desert, then paid $82 per person just to get through the gates, you'll be goddamned if you're going to wimp out at the last minute and go home without walking out onto the glass (however tepidly)! More power to the Hualapais for creating a revenue source that doesn't involve gambling.
Personally, I was able to walk right to the edge of the Canyon and down the trails, but admittedly had a death-grip on my young'uns wrist and/or shirt collar the entire time.
I totally agree. There's a database somewhere that holds all registered name changes, at least in the USA. Either it's public information already, or it will be leaked one day (not sure which). Either way, point a very small app at it, and name changes become utterly useless for hiding your past.
The US military, for one, is on to your wisdom. As one commander noted (citation needed), a paper (or Tyvek) map with a bullet hole in it is still mostly a map, whereas a GPS with a bullet hole in it is a doorstop.
FYI: That moderately sloped grassy area along most on-ramps is commonly known as an "alternate off ramp".
In Texas, we just drive off the side wherever we want to get to the feeder road. Making these ruts is how we let the highway department know (as a courtesy) where they need to build new exit ramps.
Mod parent up! Best coverage of this subject material ever, if a bit baffling at times to wade through the antiquated sentence structure.
My favorite was the guy who created a stock venture during one of the financial bubbles with a title something like, "An Undertaking Of Great Advantage, But Nobody To Know What It Is". Thousands of pounds invested, then the owner wisely took off and was never identified.
Given a film of two people talking a computer with decent AI would catagorize objects, identify people versus say a lamp, determine the people are engaged in action (versus a lamp just sitting there) making that relevant, hear the sound coming from the people then infer they are talking (making the link.) Then paralell the computer would filter out the chair, and various scenery in the thread now processing "CONVERSATION".
This may be the most succinct review I've ever read of "My Dinner With Andre"!
The only other option would be for porn, but the abuse of the device would be awful.
It wouldn't be the first time in tech history that porn has led the way in technological innovation. Unsavory mental images aside, adoption of technology by millions of horny young people with credit cards can lower price barriers and/or create critical mass for adoption by the rest of you. Er, I mean, the rest of US!
O mighty and infallible implementers of the Holy Word of the Lord, I am very disappointed. You need to put "/**" at the beginning of that comment, or it will not show up in the Javadocs.
Right, this is not "a lawsuit over data visualization" (assuming the maps are even somewhat accurate). It's a lawsuit over very intentional near-infringement (via rhyming) on a well-known slogan.
Not sure what the police code for that one is. But in any case, I believe all wireless companies are criminally deceptive in nearly everything they do, so I hope there's a way for both of them to lose.:-)
I second that too. Sounds like a great story, and one that may have stood the test of time despite the technological advances we've had since the 60s. (You haven't kept going back in time and improving the plot, have you?)
Better yet, I regularly eavesdrop by sticking both earbuds in and pretending I can't hear people near me. They'll say almost anything out loud as long as I throw out a little air guitar and cymbal hits when they glance over. Some days the office gossip gets so good in the neighboring cubicles, I forget to start the music.
Here is the scan of Kleinrock's notes from that day, which was October 29th (giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "early October"): http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/LK/Inet/1stmesg.html. It was October 30th before they got it to work without crashing (nothing's ever easy). Kleinrock is still alive and still at UCLA, and these scans are on his own university web site, so that seems pretty authoritative to me.
I'm having doubts too, after seeing this yesterday at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/LK/Inet/1stmesg.html. It's a scan of Leonard Kleinrock's lab notebook of this event, which is dated Oct. 29th, and it seems they didn't get the whole message across without crashing until Oct. 30th. He's still at UCLA, it happened in his lab, and this is his university web site.
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The one thing you really need in this day and age is a way to keep track of passwords. Then you can have long, un-guessable, unique passwords for all those blogs, wikis, e-mail accounts, and online calendars you set up. And no, using "e-mail me whichever minor variation on my standard password I chose for this site but can't figure out right now" is not good enough. I use KeePass (or, as I prefer to capitalize it, KeepAss) which works great as a secure password database. I keep three or four copies of the database on various thumb drives in various locations (can't be too careful, you know, if some building burns down). Even if your mail account is hacked, they're not going to get your bank account too. The peace of mind will in itself help you stay organized!
A personal Subversion (source control) database is great for things like lists, letters, papers, coding projects, Ph.D. theses, etc.
As for photos? I just stick them in a dated folder when the camera starts getting full. Once a year, I pick the ten or fifteen best and put them in an online gallery for family and friends to view. I assure you, that's all anyone wants to see, and nobody cares if they're not in perfect chronological order.
At last... my new prog-rock power trio has a suitable band name. Thanks!
Me too! You beat me to it. Although I would add that "Do It Yourself, Beeyotch" is a pretty good philosophy overall (not to mention a handy way to get fired from tech support jobs quickly).
*hums a few bars of "My Old Kentucky Home"*
*runs and ducks*
In the retail world, it's called "justification of purchase." By the time you've driven 5 hours out of your way into the desolate desert, then paid $82 per person just to get through the gates, you'll be goddamned if you're going to wimp out at the last minute and go home without walking out onto the glass (however tepidly)! More power to the Hualapais for creating a revenue source that doesn't involve gambling.
Personally, I was able to walk right to the edge of the Canyon and down the trails, but admittedly had a death-grip on my young'uns wrist and/or shirt collar the entire time.
I totally agree. There's a database somewhere that holds all registered name changes, at least in the USA. Either it's public information already, or it will be leaked one day (not sure which). Either way, point a very small app at it, and name changes become utterly useless for hiding your past.
The US military, for one, is on to your wisdom. As one commander noted (citation needed), a paper (or Tyvek) map with a bullet hole in it is still mostly a map, whereas a GPS with a bullet hole in it is a doorstop.
In Texas, we just drive off the side wherever we want to get to the feeder road. Making these ruts is how we let the highway department know (as a courtesy) where they need to build new exit ramps.
One has to assume that it would be accompanied by a viral marketing campaign...
Mod parent up! Best coverage of this subject material ever, if a bit baffling at times to wade through the antiquated sentence structure.
My favorite was the guy who created a stock venture during one of the financial bubbles with a title something like, "An Undertaking Of Great Advantage, But Nobody To Know What It Is". Thousands of pounds invested, then the owner wisely took off and was never identified.
Dick Cheney would be proud to swing by this company party to pick up his yearly pension check.
This may be the most succinct review I've ever read of "My Dinner With Andre"!
It wouldn't be the first time in tech history that porn has led the way in technological innovation. Unsavory mental images aside, adoption of technology by millions of horny young people with credit cards can lower price barriers and/or create critical mass for adoption by the rest of you. Er, I mean, the rest of US!
Ah yes, the obscure but moving "7-13-9 haiku" format. Nicely done.
I agree with that 110%!
That Scott Adams is a genius, for finding a way to charge defense-contractor prices for a relatively useless board game?
Dear Penthouse Forum,
While ordering lunch one day, I mentioned my recent promotion to the two tall, buxom identical twins giggling and gossiping behind the counter...
OK. But now how do I get the crayon markings off my Kindle screen, so I can turn the page?
With apologies to anyone currently undergoing transplant surgery, aren't we all liver people?
(Ahh... there's so much bile on Slashdot...)
O mighty and infallible implementers of the Holy Word of the Lord, I am very disappointed. You need to put "/**" at the beginning of that comment, or it will not show up in the Javadocs.
Right, this is not "a lawsuit over data visualization" (assuming the maps are even somewhat accurate). It's a lawsuit over very intentional near-infringement (via rhyming) on a well-known slogan.
Not sure what the police code for that one is. But in any case, I believe all wireless companies are criminally deceptive in nearly everything they do, so I hope there's a way for both of them to lose. :-)
I second that too. Sounds like a great story, and one that may have stood the test of time despite the technological advances we've had since the 60s. (You haven't kept going back in time and improving the plot, have you?)
Better yet, I regularly eavesdrop by sticking both earbuds in and pretending I can't hear people near me. They'll say almost anything out loud as long as I throw out a little air guitar and cymbal hits when they glance over. Some days the office gossip gets so good in the neighboring cubicles, I forget to start the music.
Here is the scan of Kleinrock's notes from that day, which was October 29th (giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "early October"): http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/LK/Inet/1stmesg.html. It was October 30th before they got it to work without crashing (nothing's ever easy). Kleinrock is still alive and still at UCLA, and these scans are on his own university web site, so that seems pretty authoritative to me.
I'm having doubts too, after seeing this yesterday at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/LK/Inet/1stmesg.html. It's a scan of Leonard Kleinrock's lab notebook of this event, which is dated Oct. 29th, and it seems they didn't get the whole message across without crashing until Oct. 30th. He's still at UCLA, it happened in his lab, and this is his university web site.