Surely everyone uses variants of the cyberpunk login (Which sadly no longer works on WSJ online like it did for so many years -- but I'm sure one of the variants still does)? Or slashdot/slashdot? I mean, I have entire fake personalities I use for just these occasions. Link away! most/.ers know better than to give email addresses that are used for anything but spamcatchers.
Traffic dropping is a no-brainer: registration requires a bit more than click-and-drool, so that rules AOLers out, but I'd wager only a small percentage of the total drop is due to people concerned about privacy.
Which is a shame, but such is life.
Feed inaccurate data to the collectors, and have fun.
What needs to happen now is that they should set up an intranet with direct links into IMDB.com for the movies playing, IRC within each theater and a general IRC, and a message system to order food. (without waiting for someone to come by and grab your card)
Dear Mom, (Fucking Clippy! I know I'm writing a fucking letter, get the fuck out of my face, I've already fucking turned you off and uninstalled you three times today!) I hope you are doing well. I am writing from my new XP (piece of shit...) computer. How's Dad? (still boinging his secretary, I wonder?). Write me.
Dear Son, (What is this paperclip doing? Honey, there's a paperclip on my screen! Yes dear, just click 'close') Are you OK? Your last letter was very rude (Damned ingrate), and hurt our feelings. (We fucking paid for your college and this damned computer you're using to insult us)
damn those people for working on Linux projects without getting paid for it! What were they THINKING??? Giving away their work hours like they were free beer!
Some people just don't understand capitalism, I swear. </sarcasm>
You seem to forget that this was, at a point, an awesome company doing really cool shit. I worked for a month at my dotcom without pay (except in loot, which wasn't adequate for the pay), but after that we dissolved and went our separate ways.
But I'd've never let 350,000 build up in debt, much less on a credit card I was responsible for.
before we find out that the color is actually khaki, and there's some alternate universe next door that's colored IBM/corporate blue, and that our neighborhood of universes is actually some wageslave in a cubicle trying to figure out the question to 42.
I think we should get gift certificates for beer, so we can remember what it was like to have "free as in speech" and "free as in beer" while avoiding "free as in puppies" BigEvilAds
first, the already-hammered screenshot effect. Some systems (infraworks comes to mind) disable various features (cut, copy, paste, screenshots, etc) in the filesystem (which restricts it to Windoze) (but doesn't address the person with a video-out card recording on a VCR, or photos of the screen, etc.
Secondly, this means that the private keys to your documents are stored on a server accessible via a website! Boggle! Have we not learned anything about the general security of most web services? And even presuming it has technical security, how secure is their identification scheme? Passwords, mostly, with no out-of-band ID system. Hi, I'm Santy Claus. My password is 122502 .
Sigh. All these wonderful sounding ideas, and me without my cluestick.
I (I mean, er, an anonoymous reader. I was working at a competitor at the time, and wouldn't dream of slamming) submitted this when it was approved. It's sad that it's being enforced.
Because some geek would say:
"KiBbles and MIPS, KiBbles and MIPS, I'm gonna get me some KiBbles and MIPS" every time s/he got access to the mainframe, and drive everyone else crazy, that's why.
Sorry, every time I see that, I imagine two sticks of ram bouncing around on a Dance Dance Revolution game and wonder what the technological advancement of RAM being able to memorize of Boom Boom Dolla' backwards and trading spots has to do with anything useful.
(totally off topic. This is what 50 karma caps are FOR)
Texas Senator Barrientos, who supported the move to.08 and, worse, legislation that allows a cop to take your driver's license away (90 days) if you refuse to submit to a breathalyzer on the spot (regardless of if you are drunk or not), was caught DWI this Thanksgiving.
Making manslaughter caused by unsafe driving carry a harsher sentence is the better solution to these problems. Make people do time for real crime, not thought crime.
I am in the process of applying to the Corps' IT program in South America. If you get your act together, I beleive there's a pretty big push for IT in early July (which means you need to start the process NOW). You can read about my progress in applying at GriffJon.com/Travel.
There's also GeekCorps, but they're a bit more limited in scope.
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Except that:
"The site www.segway.com is running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 on Linux." (Quote Netcraft)
So, um. Something's fishy. (I saw the same IE5-ish error in Moz 0.9.6)
This certainly explains why the gov't backed off of the MS case (beyond the economy-in-the-bucket angle). Combine this, the DMCA, the SSSCA, and the FBI not being held to be in line with the DMCA and SSSCA, and you have this:
Only OSes with gov't-licensed security and DRM standards installed can be sold/installed/run legally. This means Microsoft, and possibly Mac. (I'm sure *BSD and Linux will be able to get certified, after going through a many-month/year-long certification obstable course and re-programming cycle). Backdoors will be inserted (if Magic Lantern isn't installed outright as a feature...)
And naturally, reverse engineering any of this (to close the backdoor, fix/change crypto, remove the MAgic Lantern virus, etc.) is highly illegal.
Anyone remember the sample dialog from a game included in the Paranoia! RPG? Let's revise:
Hacker 1: "The MS Crypto API uses ROT13!"
Hacker 2: "No way it could be ROT13! You lie! COMMIE!" *zap zap zap* (Hacker 1 dies)
Hacker 3: "How can you know it wasn't ROT13?? You looked! COMMIEE!" *zap zap zap* (Hacker 2 dies)
Hacker 4: "How do you know what ROT13 is? COMMIE!!" *zap zap zap* (Hacker 3 dies)
Hacker 5: "How do you know that ROT13 is even cryptographic? COMMIE!!" *zap zap zap* (Hacker 4 dies)
Hacker 6: "Ubj qb lbh xabj gung vg'f abg? PBZZVR!!" *zap zap zap* (Hacker 5 dies)
Hacker 7: "You are SO dead." *zap zap zap* (Hacker 6 dies)
(and so on)
I have noticed a total lack in game quality compared to some of the classics. I mean, Civ II is/still/ fun. As are things like Tetris, Metroid, Duck Hunt... even Centipede. Today's games seem to rely on pretty graphics. But seriously, there hasn't been that much change in FPSs since Wolf3d (OK, 3d maps and jumping) that hasn't been in more powerful graphics engines.
I just want to be back in a maze composed of many small, twisting passages, all different.
I'll be laughing my ass off if it turns out that even with a hardware lockdown, XBox is programmed to DirectX and that provides portability back to (MS-running or emulating well) PCs.
I agree, tho--the longtime advantage of consoles was their lack of variety--every console (of the same model) had the exact same hardware config, so you could (if you cared) program very unportable games that ran the hardware to its precise limits to give awesome performance. It also provided stability, as there wasn't that infinite permutation cluster of hardware conflicts and differences.
As consoles get closer to stripped-down PCs, I wonder if this will change?
Obviously we knew there was going to be some form of romance there, but remember at the end of Ep 1? We thought Anakin's mother getting killed was going to be a central reason for him going to the Dark Side. I think we have a different angle on that, thanks to the trailer.
I watchted it anyway, but then again, I won't be in the states when it gets released, so...
This actually available in OSX (duh) and in Win2k (and XP, I presume). For 2k (and prolly XP) you have to buy an addon called WindowFX that does all sort of crazy UI things, but the best reason is to be able to set transparencies. Also, virtual desktops (to allow for multiple, full-screen apps to run parallel would be great to see worked into the mainstream (I hear XP has an implementation of this, and, of course, Linux WMs have done this for ages).
I'd love to see more intelligent auto-arrangement of windows, as long as I could specify what intelligent meant and override it.
The best possible improvement to UI would be more features available to reduce reliance on the mouse for basic computing needs, and more education about these. Everyone--even my dad--should know alt-tab switches windows, and ctrl-tab switches focus within an app (sometimes).
Transparency of course reduces the number of window switches you have to make if you can keep an eye on one window while computing above it, and helps that way.
The parent comment, of WinXP demanding more power (matching well with Moore's Law and Intel development, unsurprisingly). Technology has to run as fast as it can just to provide the user with the same speed of interaction, because every time processor speed makes an advance, MS bloatware adds slew of features that return the computer to the nomral speed we're used to.
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that."
--Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Who discovered this in the first place? I mean, really. The guy was using Opera or Mozilla hopefully, and why would an intelligent soul like that ever hit MSN.com?
OH, I guess they were using NS 4.72 and didn't know any better perhaps?
More interestingly, do they have a really painful system for letting search robots in (giving all strange user-agent strings), or are they blocking them out as well?
Oooooh. I just had a wicked idea for the next time they try this. Get the ADA types on their backs. LAst I heard, ADA-compliant sites require Lynx accessibility for voice-navigatioh and text-to-speech description of the page.
This is exactly why we need a good union for IT and/or web designers, so we can actually have some weight to throw around when MS does crap like this. You don't let us into MSN? BANG. All the sites we design are now refusing IE connections. You get a few people running things like/., Wired, WSJ and other big name sites, you start turning heads...
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Surely everyone uses variants of the cyberpunk login (Which sadly no longer works on WSJ online like it did for so many years -- but I'm sure one of the variants still does)? Or slashdot/slashdot? I mean, I have entire fake personalities I use for just these occasions. Link away! most /.ers know better than to give email addresses that are used for anything but spamcatchers.
Traffic dropping is a no-brainer: registration requires a bit more than click-and-drool, so that rules AOLers out, but I'd wager only a small percentage of the total drop is due to people concerned about privacy.
Which is a shame, but such is life.
Feed inaccurate data to the collectors, and have fun.
Or mr bright laptop glowing screen.
What needs to happen now is that they should set up an intranet with direct links into IMDB.com for the movies playing, IRC within each theater and a general IRC, and a message system to order food. (without waiting for someone to come by and grab your card)
Dear Mom,
(Fucking Clippy! I know I'm writing a fucking letter, get the fuck out of my face, I've already fucking turned you off and uninstalled you three times today!)
I hope you are doing well. I am writing from my new XP (piece of shit...) computer. How's Dad? (still boinging his secretary, I wonder?). Write me.
Dear Son,
(What is this paperclip doing? Honey, there's a paperclip on my screen! Yes dear, just click 'close')
Are you OK? Your last letter was very rude (Damned ingrate), and hurt our feelings. (We fucking paid for your college and this damned computer you're using to insult us)
damn those people for working on Linux projects without getting paid for it! What were they THINKING??? Giving away their work hours like they were free beer!
Some people just don't understand capitalism, I swear.
</sarcasm>
You seem to forget that this was, at a point, an awesome company doing really cool shit. I worked for a month at my dotcom without pay (except in loot, which wasn't adequate for the pay), but after that we dissolved and went our separate ways.
But I'd've never let 350,000 build up in debt, much less on a credit card I was responsible for.
before we find out that the color is actually khaki, and there's some alternate universe next door that's colored IBM/corporate blue, and that our neighborhood of universes is actually some wageslave in a cubicle trying to figure out the question to 42.
Sigh. I miss Adams.
I think we should get gift certificates for beer, so we can remember what it was like to have "free as in speech" and "free as in beer" while avoiding "free as in puppies" BigEvilAds
first, the already-hammered screenshot effect. Some systems (infraworks comes to mind) disable various features (cut, copy, paste, screenshots, etc) in the filesystem (which restricts it to Windoze) (but doesn't address the person with a video-out card recording on a VCR, or photos of the screen, etc.
Secondly, this means that the private keys to your documents are stored on a server accessible via a website! Boggle! Have we not learned anything about the general security of most web services? And even presuming it has technical security, how secure is their identification scheme? Passwords, mostly, with no out-of-band ID system. Hi, I'm Santy Claus. My password is 122502 .
Sigh. All these wonderful sounding ideas, and me without my cluestick.
I (I mean, er, an anonoymous reader. I was working at a competitor at the time, and wouldn't dream of slamming) submitted this when it was approved. It's sad that it's being enforced.
Because some geek would say:
"KiBbles and MIPS, KiBbles and MIPS, I'm gonna get me some KiBbles and MIPS" every time s/he got access to the mainframe, and drive everyone else crazy, that's why.
Sorry, every time I see that, I imagine two sticks of ram bouncing around on a Dance Dance Revolution game and wonder what the technological advancement of RAM being able to memorize of Boom Boom Dolla' backwards and trading spots has to do with anything useful.
Then I blink, and the image IS STILL THERE.
Boom Boom Boom...
Hey! Isn't prime number research prosecutable under the DMCA? They should shut those pirates down! A whole network of people trying to hack DVDs!
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What follows is my favorite prime number, wihch fun unzipping properties:
48565078965739782930984189469428613770744208735
(totally off topic. This is what 50 karma caps are FOR) .08 and, worse, legislation that allows a cop to take your driver's license away (90 days) if you refuse to submit to a breathalyzer on the spot (regardless of if you are drunk or not), was caught DWI this Thanksgiving.
Texas Senator Barrientos, who supported the move to
Making manslaughter caused by unsafe driving carry a harsher sentence is the better solution to these problems. Make people do time for real crime, not thought crime.
Damnit. Thou shalt put http:// in front of all URLs. Mr. Taco said so.
That url again is: http://www.griffjon.com/travel
I am in the process of applying to the Corps' IT program in South America. If you get your act together, I beleive there's a pretty big push for IT in early July (which means you need to start the process NOW). You can read about my progress in applying at GriffJon.com/Travel.
There's also GeekCorps, but they're a bit more limited in scope.
Except that:
"The site www.segway.com is running Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 on Linux." (Quote Netcraft)
So, um. Something's fishy. (I saw the same IE5-ish error in Moz 0.9.6)
This certainly explains why the gov't backed off of the MS case (beyond the economy-in-the-bucket angle). Combine this, the DMCA, the SSSCA, and the FBI not being held to be in line with the DMCA and SSSCA, and you have this:
Only OSes with gov't-licensed security and DRM standards installed can be sold/installed/run legally. This means Microsoft, and possibly Mac. (I'm sure *BSD and Linux will be able to get certified, after going through a many-month/year-long certification obstable course and re-programming cycle). Backdoors will be inserted (if Magic Lantern isn't installed outright as a feature...)
And naturally, reverse engineering any of this (to close the backdoor, fix/change crypto, remove the MAgic Lantern virus, etc.) is highly illegal.
Anyone remember the sample dialog from a game included in the Paranoia! RPG? Let's revise:
Hacker 1: "The MS Crypto API uses ROT13!"
Hacker 2: "No way it could be ROT13! You lie! COMMIE!" *zap zap zap* (Hacker 1 dies)
Hacker 3: "How can you know it wasn't ROT13?? You looked! COMMIEE!" *zap zap zap* (Hacker 2 dies)
Hacker 4: "How do you know what ROT13 is? COMMIE!!" *zap zap zap* (Hacker 3 dies)
Hacker 5: "How do you know that ROT13 is even cryptographic? COMMIE!!" *zap zap zap* (Hacker 4 dies)
Hacker 6: "Ubj qb lbh xabj gung vg'f abg? PBZZVR!!" *zap zap zap* (Hacker 5 dies)
Hacker 7: "You are SO dead." *zap zap zap* (Hacker 6 dies)
(and so on)
I have noticed a total lack in game quality compared to some of the classics. I mean, Civ II is /still/ fun. As are things like Tetris, Metroid, Duck Hunt... even Centipede. Today's games seem to rely on pretty graphics. But seriously, there hasn't been that much change in FPSs since Wolf3d (OK, 3d maps and jumping) that hasn't been in more powerful graphics engines.
I just want to be back in a maze composed of many small, twisting passages, all different.
I'll be laughing my ass off if it turns out that even with a hardware lockdown, XBox is programmed to DirectX and that provides portability back to (MS-running or emulating well) PCs.
I agree, tho--the longtime advantage of consoles was their lack of variety--every console (of the same model) had the exact same hardware config, so you could (if you cared) program very unportable games that ran the hardware to its precise limits to give awesome performance. It also provided stability, as there wasn't that infinite permutation cluster of hardware conflicts and differences.
As consoles get closer to stripped-down PCs, I wonder if this will change?
Obviously we knew there was going to be some form of romance there, but remember at the end of Ep 1? We thought Anakin's mother getting killed was going to be a central reason for him going to the Dark Side. I think we have a different angle on that, thanks to the trailer.
I watchted it anyway, but then again, I won't be in the states when it gets released, so...
Sweet freeware! Last time I'd looked (last time I was spending lots of time on a 2k box) all I found was FX. Thanks for the links!
This actually available in OSX (duh) and in Win2k (and XP, I presume). For 2k (and prolly XP) you have to buy an addon called WindowFX that does all sort of crazy UI things, but the best reason is to be able to set transparencies. Also, virtual desktops (to allow for multiple, full-screen apps to run parallel would be great to see worked into the mainstream (I hear XP has an implementation of this, and, of course, Linux WMs have done this for ages).
I'd love to see more intelligent auto-arrangement of windows, as long as I could specify what intelligent meant and override it.
The best possible improvement to UI would be more features available to reduce reliance on the mouse for basic computing needs, and more education about these. Everyone--even my dad--should know alt-tab switches windows, and ctrl-tab switches focus within an app (sometimes).
Transparency of course reduces the number of window switches you have to make if you can keep an eye on one window while computing above it, and helps that way.
The parent comment, of WinXP demanding more power (matching well with Moore's Law and Intel development, unsurprisingly). Technology has to run as fast as it can just to provide the user with the same speed of interaction, because every time processor speed makes an advance, MS bloatware adds slew of features that return the computer to the nomral speed we're used to.
"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that."
--Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Who discovered this in the first place? I mean, really. The guy was using Opera or Mozilla hopefully, and why would an intelligent soul like that ever hit MSN.com?
/., Wired, WSJ and other big name sites, you start turning heads...
OH, I guess they were using NS 4.72 and didn't know any better perhaps?
More interestingly, do they have a really painful system for letting search robots in (giving all strange user-agent strings), or are they blocking them out as well?
Oooooh. I just had a wicked idea for the next time they try this. Get the ADA types on their backs. LAst I heard, ADA-compliant sites require Lynx accessibility for voice-navigatioh and text-to-speech description of the page.
This is exactly why we need a good union for IT and/or web designers, so we can actually have some weight to throw around when MS does crap like this. You don't let us into MSN? BANG. All the sites we design are now refusing IE connections. You get a few people running things like