I don't really think it matters that much whether it's open or closed source. What boggles my mind is...
She said many poll workers did not wait for the full six-minute activation procedure to occur and then became nervous and uncertain."
What are they running over there, WinXP on a P90?
Whatever the hard/software combo, shouldn't it be embedded? More or less instant on? It sounds like they just slapped some propietary software over a commodity hardware/OS solution. Kind of weak.
I know of and have ordered from a number of smaller online stores that sell self-produced as well as indie and major label releases and tend to promote the former two pretty heavily (at least giving them reviews on the websites). These include Village Records and Miles of Music among others.
Since Tallman appears to be something of a hard rock/metal band, neither of these places (which focus on Americana/Alt.country) will be up your alley but there are likely to be similar places where you can find some lovin'.
Other obvious ideas are getting your stuff up on mp3.com, audiogalaxy, etc. Find some online radio shows that feature music of your genre and make sure they have your stuff. College and other community radio stations often have a few hard/metal shows that are always looking for new (not nu) stuff to showcase. Whenever your guys are out of town playing gigs, make sure to get them on at least a college radio program in whatever bumfuck town you're in. The 5 people listening to the show when you're on is 5 more people who otherwise never would have heard of you.
Fun to play with, but not practical for production since a determined attacker would wade through the data to get your real SSID
Congratulations, you seem to be the only one who has gotten it (or bothered to read the actual page cited in the article). This is merely a proof of concept. They've simply written a proggy that allows you to hide your real AP among a bunch of fake ones. I don't see where he's claiming this is the be-all-end-all of wireless security, simply that it would make life more difficult for the random dork surfing for APs.
Why does Jones need a home that includes a movie theater that seats 20 and wine cellar accessible only by fingerprint scan? According to Jones, "I like to build things and change the world."
Translation: "Because I've got more money than god and I can't think of anything useful to do with it."
I'm pulling this out of my ass, but every new Mac OS X install comes with Apache as the webserver.
Put a few thousand of those personal/small biz websites up there and you might add something to the numbers. Not 6% or anything crazy like that but I'm sure it's had some effect.
Agreed. And what we gotta do is get rid of the stupid CARP, overturn the unconstitutional DMCA and start making the RIAA our bitch.
KPIG is a pretty good station and it's nice to see they're streaming again, but to me, the sacrifices (shitty quality, REAL streams and the subscription -- at least it's commercial free) seem like too much was given away to please the RIAA. I hope this is only a short-term solution while their lawyers are busy trying to overturn the CARP/DMCA rulings. But I won't hold my breath.
Don't forget the other two things they blamed...shitty hardware and stupid people. Throw those together with a Windows OS and you're bound to have the BSOEF (election fraud).
In Pioneer Courthouse Square, before t-mobile, there was a weak AP on channel 11, and personaltelco on channel 1. Logically, you would assume a for-pay service interested in providing quality would use channel 6.
So, this sounds like an easy fix. PersonalTelco should change to channel 6.
Exactly. Sure, Personal Telco has the moral high ground (which is worth exactly fuck all in most situations) and T-mobile/Starbucks are being ass monkeys about this but why not just change to channel 6 and be done with it?
Actually, the more I think about it, perhaps that's exactly what they plan to do but only after they get a ton of free publicity from this "conflict." I don't suppose I can blame them for milking the big guys for free PR.
If you wish to continue being a sysadmin, the academic world will be a touch more free-wheeling but with more bullshit politics (YMMV of course) and less money. That said, even at our relatively impoverished NY state institution, the fresh hardware rolls in on a daily basis. You may get paid shite but you'll have neat toys. Oh and BTW, we, the end users, still think you're a malicious asshole who thinks a MAC address means the location of a particular piece of Apple branded hardware.
If you want to move into bioinformatics (which is what all the cool kids are doing these days) you will need at least an advanced CS degree, preferably with an advanced biology degree (MS is usually fine) to go along with it. A friend of mine got hired on with a 6 figure salary at IBM-Watson to join their bioinformatics group with a tenuous grasp of FreeBSD as his only non Visual Basic programming experience simply because he had (most of) a PhD in Molecular/Cellular Biology. As you're no doubt aware, CS folk are unfortunately a dime a dozen these days. CS/Bio folk however are a rarer breed and are compensated as such. You may find it in your best interest to get an advanced Bio/Chem/Physics degree if this is the way you want to go.
All that said however, if I ever have to get a job outside of academia I think I'll kill myself. Welcome to the party. We have margaritas on the 7th floor every Friday afternoon. Come by if you get the chance.
By any chance, are you in your in your mid- to late- twenties? Many people stop getting into new music in that timeframe, and have been for 25-30 years.
Gawd, ain't it the truth.
It's disturbing me, but after college it's really difficult to get exposed to new music. The death of napster doesn't help.
I had the same problem. Went from being a college radio DJ and being exposed to new bands on a daily basis to being a grad student and basically only buying new music from the 6 or 7 bands I liked the most when I was in college.
Joining a listserv dedicated to one of those (now split up and fragmented into 2-3 other bands)however has made a huge difference in my musical life. Although the list is technically dedicated to the members of this band, the people on the list have wide ranging musical tastes and I have been exposed to tons of new music that I would never have otherwise heard.
Family heirloom. Even before my wife and I got engaged, she told me she wanted a ring that had belonged to her great-grandfather's first wife who died in a pneumonia epidemic in 1908 or something. It's an absolutely beautifully detailed platinum ring with lots of filligree, etching and cutouts and a 1+ ct diamond. Appraisers have put in in the USD 6-8K range but I've also had jewelers tell us they couldn't make it themselves for less than $10K.
Smoke one if you've got one. If not, estate sales are a good way to go.
I'm going to go pick this one up, but for another book with a nice ratio of how/why info to recipes, try Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything." It's organized like most cookbooks (all the beef recipes here, all the potato recipes over there) but each section starts off with 5-20 pages of basics on the ingredient in question and cooking techniques.
It's already been covered many a time, but DAMN would I love to see OS X on Intel hardware.
Alright, I've been hearing this refrain since OS X Beta first came out and I finally have to ask. What exactly would be so cool about having OS X on x86 hardware? Is there something about the x86 architecture that would make the BSD core run much better than it does on PPC hardware? Or is it just the idea of finally having a usable, decent, attractive OS to load on all that cheap, commodity hardware?
Does anyone actually think that an x86 port of OS X would run faster on a 2.5GHz P4 than it does on a 1GHz PPC? No fucking way. They'd cripple it even if they could get it to run as fast as on PPC hardware, just to give you a taste of the good life...the first one's always free.
Didn't Sony eventually spread their cheeks, though? Now that Forgent is lubed with Sony's money, they'll slip into the cheeks of the others, all the easier.
Actually I mentioned that at the end of the original post. They bent over and took it like it was bad hentai or something. We're all truly fucked now.
I think it's time to buy stock in the company that makes KY Jelly
You mean Johnson & Johnson? Their stock looks like shit and they've got JPEGs on their site....they're going down!
Frist of all, there's absolutely nothing cool going on in Albany so there's no sort of "scene" to ruin (as there was in Austin).
So why Albany? Cheap (for the Northeast) housing, low overall cost of living, reasonable climate (I'd rather be cold than hot personally) and it's a decent transportation hub. Unlike Austin, Albany has a real airport. It's also less than a 3 hour drive to Boston and New York, 4 hours to Montreal and Philly and 6 hours to DC and Toronto. In other words, it's near stuff and it's cheap to live there.
Albany has a pretty decent state university (not UT but that's a plus in my book) and a medical school as well as a burgeoning biotech industry. Seems like as good a place as any to set up something like this.
The patent dates back to 1986, before everybody and their dog was going around patenting every half-baked idea that fell out of someone's ass, so it's quite likely that the patent is legitimate (or at least as legitimate as these things get). The problem is that they've sat on this patent, not requiring licensing or enforcing it for the past 15+ years and only now, when every company on the planet that makes something electronic is using JPEG as their compression scheme do they decide to enforce it.
IANAL but I know that in order to be able to license copyrights and trademarks for a fee, owners are required to pursue infringement when it happens, otherwise they basically lose the right to the trademark/copyright. Is there a similar provision for patents? It's not like some bizarre little no-name company is the only one to have been using JPEG compression for the last 16 years...it's been all over the place. Shouldn't they have had to enforce this patent sooner in order to be able to license it now?
That said, this company (Forgent? Who the fuck are they?) is basically going up against Sony, Kodak, Adobe, Microsoft, etc. Are they really so stupid to think that these guys are going to just spread their cheeks for them without a fight? I don't think so.
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ps...I just noticed this link over at El Reg that mentions that Sony already ponied up. Wussies.
Heck, don't we all have our own mail-order suppliers for gene sequences?
If you've got a credit card and a mailing address, you certainly do have your own mail order supplier for DNA sequences. In fact, you've gotquite a few to choose from.
Another problem is that researchers can go months, even years on wrong information, and theories. If these were published, yes theres a possibility they could be discounted, but they could be perpetuated, with lots of wrong data all over the place.
How is this different from any other science. I mean, in physics, there's lots of papers out there that will eventually be shown to be wrong. That's how science is supposed to work.
Agreed. However it's not so much that people don't want to publish things that will be disproven as it is that they don't want to publish negative data. This is a real problem as the above poster points out. If you have 3 or 4 labs pursuing the same project, you could end up with them all pursuing the same dead end leads wasting years of work and hundreds of thousands of public research dollars. If on the other hand, the first group to get those negative results had published them (and part of the problem is that there isn't really anywhere to publish negative results) then that group would have had another publication on their collective roster and the other groups could have avoided wasting time on money on this line of investigation.
It's a shame that biology has become so profitable. Hoarding data and discoveries is not how science advances. The history of chemsitry and physics are ample illustrations of that fact.
FWIW there is still plenty of sharing going on in biology. The genome projects (human, mouse, yeast and others) are good examples of that. Sure, there's the private, Celera stuff out there but the public projects at NIH-NCBI and EBI-Ensembl are excellent examples of those.
1. ThinkSecret is less than useless, since their rumor hit miss ratio is equal to "dart board" methods.
Actually, Think Secret's hit:miss ratio is closer to that of the famous "drunk howler monkey dartboard" method which is to say that they rarely even get the dart near the board, nevermind actually hitting something useful.
IIRC, most of the naysayers when HavenCo first proposed this business weren't saying anything about whether or not an independent, non-government controllable web service provider would be able to make money. Online gambling sites will take care of that for the forseeable future.
Rather, most of the questions about the viability of this project had to do with whether or not Sealand really was an independent republic (as they contend) or just a hunk of concrete in British territorial waters (as the British gov't contends). While it's great to see that they're hosting more than just farm animal pr0n and are actually making money, it remains to be seen how much longer the UK gov't will allow this to continue unchallenged and whether or not Sealand and HavenCo will be able to withstand a legal/police challenge when it comes.
Did you notice that there's no NYC street team? Send these folks out into Times Square on a Saturday afternoon and I give them each 45 seconds before their stuff is stolen.
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I don't really think it matters that much whether it's open or closed source. What boggles my mind is...
She said many poll workers did not wait for the full six-minute activation procedure to occur and then became nervous and uncertain."
What are they running over there, WinXP on a P90?
Whatever the hard/software combo, shouldn't it be embedded? More or less instant on? It sounds like they just slapped some propietary software over a commodity hardware/OS solution. Kind of weak.
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I know of and have ordered from a number of smaller online stores that sell self-produced as well as indie and major label releases and tend to promote the former two pretty heavily (at least giving them reviews on the websites). These include Village Records and Miles of Music among others.
Since Tallman appears to be something of a hard rock/metal band, neither of these places (which focus on Americana/Alt.country) will be up your alley but there are likely to be similar places where you can find some lovin'.
Other obvious ideas are getting your stuff up on mp3.com, audiogalaxy, etc. Find some online radio shows that feature music of your genre and make sure they have your stuff. College and other community radio stations often have a few hard/metal shows that are always looking for new (not nu) stuff to showcase. Whenever your guys are out of town playing gigs, make sure to get them on at least a college radio program in whatever bumfuck town you're in. The 5 people listening to the show when you're on is 5 more people who otherwise never would have heard of you.
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Fun to play with, but not practical for production since a determined attacker would wade through the data to get your real SSID
Congratulations, you seem to be the only one who has gotten it (or bothered to read the actual page cited in the article). This is merely a proof of concept. They've simply written a proggy that allows you to hide your real AP among a bunch of fake ones. I don't see where he's claiming this is the be-all-end-all of wireless security, simply that it would make life more difficult for the random dork surfing for APs.
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Why does Jones need a home that includes a movie theater that seats 20 and wine cellar accessible only by fingerprint scan?
According to Jones, "I like to build things and change the world."
Translation: "Because I've got more money than god and I can't think of anything useful to do with it."
It's all about the Switch.
I'm pulling this out of my ass, but every new Mac OS X install comes with Apache as the webserver.
Put a few thousand of those personal/small biz websites up there and you might add something to the numbers. Not 6% or anything crazy like that but I'm sure it's had some effect.
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Gotta do what you gotta do, I guess.
Agreed. And what we gotta do is get rid of the stupid CARP, overturn the unconstitutional DMCA and start making the RIAA our bitch.
KPIG is a pretty good station and it's nice to see they're streaming again, but to me, the sacrifices (shitty quality, REAL streams and the subscription -- at least it's commercial free) seem like too much was given away to please the RIAA. I hope this is only a short-term solution while their lawyers are busy trying to overturn the CARP/DMCA rulings. But I won't hold my breath.
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Don't forget the other two things they blamed...shitty hardware and stupid people. Throw those together with a Windows OS and you're bound to have the BSOEF (election fraud).
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Since I don't have mod points at the moment, consider this a virtual +1: Funny mod point. And a virtual +1: True 'dat mod point as well.
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Exactly. Sure, Personal Telco has the moral high ground (which is worth exactly fuck all in most situations) and T-mobile/Starbucks are being ass monkeys about this but why not just change to channel 6 and be done with it?
Actually, the more I think about it, perhaps that's exactly what they plan to do but only after they get a ton of free publicity from this "conflict." I don't suppose I can blame them for milking the big guys for free PR.
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If you wish to continue being a sysadmin, the academic world will be a touch more free-wheeling but with more bullshit politics (YMMV of course) and less money. That said, even at our relatively impoverished NY state institution, the fresh hardware rolls in on a daily basis. You may get paid shite but you'll have neat toys. Oh and BTW, we, the end users, still think you're a malicious asshole who thinks a MAC address means the location of a particular piece of Apple branded hardware.
If you want to move into bioinformatics (which is what all the cool kids are doing these days) you will need at least an advanced CS degree, preferably with an advanced biology degree (MS is usually fine) to go along with it. A friend of mine got hired on with a 6 figure salary at IBM-Watson to join their bioinformatics group with a tenuous grasp of FreeBSD as his only non Visual Basic programming experience simply because he had (most of) a PhD in Molecular/Cellular Biology. As you're no doubt aware, CS folk are unfortunately a dime a dozen these days. CS/Bio folk however are a rarer breed and are compensated as such. You may find it in your best interest to get an advanced Bio/Chem/Physics degree if this is the way you want to go.
All that said however, if I ever have to get a job outside of academia I think I'll kill myself. Welcome to the party. We have margaritas on the 7th floor every Friday afternoon. Come by if you get the chance.
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I've always fantasized about a table that would have...
Dude...you really need better fantasies.
I had the same problem. Went from being a college radio DJ and being exposed to new bands on a daily basis to being a grad student and basically only buying new music from the 6 or 7 bands I liked the most when I was in college.
Joining a listserv dedicated to one of those (now split up and fragmented into 2-3 other bands)however has made a huge difference in my musical life. Although the list is technically dedicated to the members of this band, the people on the list have wide ranging musical tastes and I have been exposed to tons of new music that I would never have otherwise heard.
Just my USD 0.02.
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Family heirloom. Even before my wife and I got engaged, she told me she wanted a ring that had belonged to her great-grandfather's first wife who died in a pneumonia epidemic in 1908 or something. It's an absolutely beautifully detailed platinum ring with lots of filligree, etching and cutouts and a 1+ ct diamond. Appraisers have put in in the USD 6-8K range but I've also had jewelers tell us they couldn't make it themselves for less than $10K.
Smoke one if you've got one. If not, estate sales are a good way to go.
I'm going to go pick this one up, but for another book with a nice ratio of how/why info to recipes, try Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything." It's organized like most cookbooks (all the beef recipes here, all the potato recipes over there) but each section starts off with 5-20 pages of basics on the ingredient in question and cooking techniques.
How to fscking spell.
Peace? Shapping? Jeebus Kriste!
It's already been covered many a time, but DAMN would I love to see OS X on Intel hardware.
Alright, I've been hearing this refrain since OS X Beta first came out and I finally have to ask. What exactly would be so cool about having OS X on x86 hardware? Is there something about the x86 architecture that would make the BSD core run much better than it does on PPC hardware? Or is it just the idea of finally having a usable, decent, attractive OS to load on all that cheap, commodity hardware?
Does anyone actually think that an x86 port of OS X would run faster on a 2.5GHz P4 than it does on a 1GHz PPC? No fucking way. They'd cripple it even if they could get it to run as fast as on PPC hardware, just to give you a taste of the good life...the first one's always free.
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Didn't Sony eventually spread their cheeks, though? Now that Forgent is lubed with Sony's money, they'll slip into the cheeks of the others, all the easier.
Actually I mentioned that at the end of the original post. They bent over and took it like it was bad hentai or something. We're all truly fucked now.
I think it's time to buy stock in the company that makes KY Jelly
You mean Johnson & Johnson? Their stock looks like shit and they've got JPEGs on their site....they're going down!
Frist of all, there's absolutely nothing cool going on in Albany so there's no sort of "scene" to ruin (as there was in Austin).
So why Albany? Cheap (for the Northeast) housing, low overall cost of living, reasonable climate (I'd rather be cold than hot personally) and it's a decent transportation hub. Unlike Austin, Albany has a real airport. It's also less than a 3 hour drive to Boston and New York, 4 hours to Montreal and Philly and 6 hours to DC and Toronto. In other words, it's near stuff and it's cheap to live there.
Albany has a pretty decent state university (not UT but that's a plus in my book) and a medical school as well as a burgeoning biotech industry. Seems like as good a place as any to set up something like this.
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The patent dates back to 1986, before everybody and their dog was going around patenting every half-baked idea that fell out of someone's ass, so it's quite likely that the patent is legitimate (or at least as legitimate as these things get). The problem is that they've sat on this patent, not requiring licensing or enforcing it for the past 15+ years and only now, when every company on the planet that makes something electronic is using JPEG as their compression scheme do they decide to enforce it.
IANAL but I know that in order to be able to license copyrights and trademarks for a fee, owners are required to pursue infringement when it happens, otherwise they basically lose the right to the trademark/copyright. Is there a similar provision for patents? It's not like some bizarre little no-name company is the only one to have been using JPEG compression for the last 16 years...it's been all over the place. Shouldn't they have had to enforce this patent sooner in order to be able to license it now?
That said, this company (Forgent? Who the fuck are they?) is basically going up against Sony, Kodak, Adobe, Microsoft, etc. Are they really so stupid to think that these guys are going to just spread their cheeks for them without a fight? I don't think so.
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ps...I just noticed this link over at El Reg that mentions that Sony already ponied up. Wussies.
Heck, don't we all have our own mail-order suppliers for gene sequences?
If you've got a credit card and a mailing address, you certainly do have your own mail order supplier for DNA sequences. In fact, you've got quite a few to choose from.
Molson isn't even good
True. Perhaps they'd have more of a claim on the beer.shit domain. Of course they'd have to fight Anheuser-Busch for that one.
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BTW...now we're both on "the list."
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IIRC, most of the naysayers when HavenCo first proposed this business weren't saying anything about whether or not an independent, non-government controllable web service provider would be able to make money. Online gambling sites will take care of that for the forseeable future.
Rather, most of the questions about the viability of this project had to do with whether or not Sealand really was an independent republic (as they contend) or just a hunk of concrete in British territorial waters (as the British gov't contends). While it's great to see that they're hosting more than just farm animal pr0n and are actually making money, it remains to be seen how much longer the UK gov't will allow this to continue unchallenged and whether or not Sealand and HavenCo will be able to withstand a legal/police challenge when it comes.
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Did you notice that there's no NYC street team? Send these folks out into Times Square on a Saturday afternoon and I give them each 45 seconds before their stuff is stolen.
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