Many a medical tool has gone to never come back
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Due to changes in medical knowledge, plenty of 'tools' used in medical practices have fallen into disuse because the underlying medical theory has been dis-proven.
As an example, I present to you the Tobacco smoke enema device. How many of these do you think are still in use today? Do you really want tobacco smoke blown up your backside when you just have been pulled out of the water with a set of bellows and a pipe? Yet in the 17th and 18th centuries they hung these things all along the river Thames to help 'warm' people just pulled out of the water.
The server doesn't respond anymore, no coral cache is available either, and mirrordot only has the text of the article and broken images, so here are some links to other sites reporting on the concept car, with pictures:
What, you mean they took a timemachine to register it over 3 years ago? Or d'ya think that Korean squatter got a tip from a tarrot card reader on the domain? The domain prosco.com was registered in July 2001 after all..
Yes, I wanted to reply to this question in exactly the same way!
Technology is not the ultimate solution for everything. Your baby was carried by it's mum in her belly for 9 months. You should not abandon it once it is born. Instead, read up on Attachment Parenting and keep the baby close, 24/7. It will cry far less, you'll greatly reduce the risks for SIDS, and your baby can continue to get an early start at learning about the world around it; it will pick up far more of the world around it when kept close to you.
Just invest in a good carrying cloth, such as a Slendang (Indonesian sling), or some such. I can heartely recommend the Moby Wrap, for example, it is the best we've tried so far, my wife and I fight over who gets to carry our youngest in it. Beats the price of any baby monitor hands down.
I think Knoda sounds like an exact match. Feature list:
* define and delete databases;
* create, alter and delete tables and indices;
* add, change and delete data in tables;
* define, execute and store sql queries;
* define, execute and store queries with a "query by example" GUI;
* import and export CSV data;
* define and use forms;
* define and print reports; and
* write your own extensions using the integrated Python interpreter as scripting language
This is the Open Source equivalent of MS Access and Filemaker, except that it can use any database backend (native MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite support, plus ODBC). The report and form designers are full WYSIWYG GUIs, like the commercial counterparts.
Possible disadvantage? It requires KDE3, so it does require quite some extra bagage you don't normally find on a Mac OS X system, but it *should* work.
A no-litigation contract with Microsoft for the next 10 years? Look out for the safe-haven FUD to come from SUN Real Soon Now (TM).
<tinfoilhat> Remember how both Microsoft and Sun took out a hefty license with SCO? Looks like Sun figured out a strategy they hope will get them customers; hype the Linux Patent and Copyright-infringement FUD and provide a 'painless' migration path for all those CIOs running around like scared headless chickens. </tinfoilhat>
Except that ESR does indeed play a damn mean flute.. So what if he attributes his skill to some higher being?
(I heard ESR at the Eight Python Conference, when Barry Warsaws band The Cravin' Dogs played and ESR just fetched his flute unannounced and joined in for a jam. Sorry, couldn't find any online photos anymore and no sound recordings where made; here is a report instead).
We ran SpamAssassin on Python.org and Zope.org for a considerable lenght of time. We had, however, many false-positives to deal with (we manually checked everythiong that scored everything between 5 and 10 points on the SpamAssassin scale). Usually, we had to review between 10 and 15 messages a day like this.
We recently switched to SpamBayes, and our false-positive rate so far is 6 out of 2200+ spams (almost 12 days of traffic, with certain foreign charactersets, malformed email headers and blacklisted email bounced and not included in this number), mostly because we are still in training mode.
On top of that, because SpamBayes is written in Python, we can integrate it directly into Exim with Greg Ward's elspy, whereas we had to run SpamAssassin in a separate process, which occasionally bombed out. Way much faster this way!
SpamBayes was originally conceived by Tim Peters and co at Python Labs, who improved on the orginal algorithm considerably. From there on out, many people helped tune and perfect the implementation, making it the most effective Baysian-based spam filtering tool currently available (IMNSHO).
Mark Hammond then wrote the Outlook plugin, which, admittedly, is considerably more code than SpamBayes, but not SpamBayes itself.
For the complete background on why SpamBayes is so good at what it does, and it's history, see:
Note that the spambayes core has been developed by Tim Peters of the PythonLabs team, someone who has tons of experience with statistical schemes and the fine-tuning of them. The results from this filter so far have been fenomenal.
For those able to read Dutch, read Karin Spaink's(famous for her Church of Scientology clashes) story on how she got sued in Belgium for an article she wrote in a Dutch newspaper.
Note that Apple is first and foremost a hardware company; the software is the icing on the hardware cake. This is why it makes sense for them to Open Source the ici^H^H^Hsoftware; it adds value to the hardware. Besides, Darwin won't run on anything else *but* their hardware, so more downloads means people need more hardware.
Microsoft, on the other hand, sells only sofware and is thus dependant on controlling the distribution of their milkco^Wsoftware packages.
There is, of course, on exception to this, the X-Box. And Sony has taken the lead by Open Sourcing their Playstation APIs under their Linux for Playstation program. Now that's a path where the Open Source hardware icing could make sense.
The Halloween 2 memo specifically lists Software Patents as a way to battle Open Source Software and Linux threats. I bet they won't be afraid to use this patent when they feel cornered by OSS or Linux. Martijn Pieters, Software Engineer Digital Creations,
Creators of Zope
Duh? Mozilla gone? What about M15, expected in about a week? What about al the hard work still going on at Mozilla.org?
Netscape 6 beta 1 is but the first branded Mozilla browser. It is based on Mozilla, as Stronghold and Red Hat Secure Server are based on Apache. It adds features, has it's own version of the UI (which is completely replacable, not just the pictures on the buttons)
Whatch out for more browsers based on the Mozilla core. Mozilla itself is aimed at the developer, but there will be 'easy' versions, kids versions, embedded versions, etc. Long live Mozilla!
You got it wrong last time with all the fuss about a discussion on security related bugs in bugzilla, instead presenting it as a decision. Please get your journalistic facts straight.
Abused tracking is, of course, but this is such a clumsy method that it is not likely to spread.
Indeed, I'm not too concerned about this being patented since the URL http://bgfv3wz0.software-patents-are-bad.com/ has no obvious advantage over http://www.software-patents-are-bad.com/bgfv3wz0/.
Actually, there is:
Your software becomes much simpler, you don't have to rewrite every URL.
You can use absolute URLs within your site (/About/ instead of../../../About/), so you can reuse navigational elements throughout your site at every level and it reduces the chance on errors.
Not exactly prior art since it wasn't that long ago and in any case toth doesn't log, but still that makes it obvious in my book. Same problem as ever though: what's "obvious" to a bunch of web developers who read RFCs is not generally "obvious" to bunch of patent clerks who read the National Enquirer
And this is where the problem lies. Maybe because this is still a pending patent you have a fighting chance, but not with statement like "I just had a good laugh over the idea with a client before I heard of this patent". We will have to have proof. Guilty until proven innocent.
dynamic content doesn't get cached by proxies, but images present in dynamic pages get very well cached. With location poisoning, this caching is not possible. So caching matters!
And who says you get the images from the [sessionid].website.url server? You can still serve your images from www.website.url. And any other static content, so caching works on that just fine. Actually, this is what slashdot does. Just look at the source of this page, and pay attention to the URL of every image.
Fact is, e-commerce needs state. State can be maintained by using cookies or using session IDs in the URL. Up until now this was done using the path portion of the URL, or the query string. These people figured out you could use the hostname as well.
With all three these techniques you loose cachability of the object the URL points to, but this will not prevent a good site desingner from using static, constant URLs for static, constant content.
As much as I am opposed to software patents, the idea is a clever use of the available resources and techniques. And I don't think there is any prior art.
If you want to fight this, you will have to come up with better arguments. Have a look at "Against Software Patents" for some amunition. Note that this document is 9 years old, so the amunition might be a bit weak. However, some good public momentum behind it might just get something done.
Slashdot Mirror
Due to changes in medical knowledge, plenty of 'tools' used in medical practices have fallen into disuse because the underlying medical theory has been dis-proven.
As an example, I present to you the Tobacco smoke enema device. How many of these do you think are still in use today? Do you really want tobacco smoke blown up your backside when you just have been pulled out of the water with a set of bellows and a pipe? Yet in the 17th and 18th centuries they hung these things all along the river Thames to help 'warm' people just pulled out of the water.
Mirror including the famed image
Ja, jeg snakker Norsk.
To the vicinity of Tønsberg.
1) Norway
2) Nothing. Moving this December, in time for Scandinavian Christmas.
The Dutch ISP XS4All has a very long history of both active and pro-active defense of their customer rights. It is currently leading an international petition against the EU plans for data retention, for example. It also started case against the Dutch government over wiretapping.
In the past it has on a regular bases stood up to defend their customer rights, including a long running spat against the Church of Scientology and a case of freedom of expression even if it is about derailing German trains.
Last but not least XS4All actively sues spammers (sorry, Dutch only).
That didn't take long
What, you mean they took a timemachine to register it over 3 years ago? Or d'ya think that Korean squatter got a tip from a tarrot card reader on the domain? The domain prosco.com was registered in July 2001 after all..
Yes, I wanted to reply to this question in exactly the same way!
Technology is not the ultimate solution for everything. Your baby was carried by it's mum in her belly for 9 months. You should not abandon it once it is born. Instead, read up on Attachment Parenting and keep the baby close, 24/7. It will cry far less, you'll greatly reduce the risks for SIDS, and your baby can continue to get an early start at learning about the world around it; it will pick up far more of the world around it when kept close to you.
Just invest in a good carrying cloth, such as a Slendang (Indonesian sling), or some such. I can heartely recommend the Moby Wrap, for example, it is the best we've tried so far, my wife and I fight over who gets to carry our youngest in it. Beats the price of any baby monitor hands down.
Martijn Pieters, father of 3, tech geek.
I think Knoda sounds like an exact match. Feature list:
* define and delete databases;
* create, alter and delete tables and indices;
* add, change and delete data in tables;
* define, execute and store sql queries;
* define, execute and store queries with a "query by example" GUI;
* import and export CSV data;
* define and use forms;
* define and print reports; and
* write your own extensions using the integrated Python interpreter as scripting language
This is the Open Source equivalent of MS Access and Filemaker, except that it can use any database backend (native MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite support, plus ODBC). The report and form designers are full WYSIWYG GUIs, like the commercial counterparts.
Possible disadvantage? It requires KDE3, so it does require quite some extra bagage you don't normally find on a Mac OS X system, but it *should* work.
A no-litigation contract with Microsoft for the next 10 years? Look out for the safe-haven FUD to come from SUN Real Soon Now (TM).
<tinfoilhat>
Remember how both Microsoft and Sun took out a hefty license with SCO? Looks like Sun figured out a strategy they hope will get them customers; hype the Linux Patent and Copyright-infringement FUD and provide a 'painless' migration path for all those CIOs running around like scared headless chickens.
</tinfoilhat>
Except that ESR does indeed play a damn mean flute.. So what if he attributes his skill to some higher being?
(I heard ESR at the Eight Python Conference, when Barry Warsaws band The Cravin' Dogs played and ESR just fetched his flute unannounced and joined in for a jam. Sorry, couldn't find any online photos anymore and no sound recordings where made; here is a report instead).
Akamai's DNS servers appear to be MIA. Did someone find the Akamai Achilles heel?
This means Microsoft.com, Applce.com, Google.com and many other sites don't resolve right now. Oops.
Mark Pratt of Beehive, Germany, has relaunched the SourceXchange idea:
Open SourceXperts.com
Complete with the lame eX. It only launched on 10 November, so be gentle with yor 'how quiet here' comments.
We ran SpamAssassin on Python.org and Zope.org for a considerable lenght of time. We had, however, many false-positives to deal with (we manually checked everythiong that scored everything between 5 and 10 points on the SpamAssassin scale). Usually, we had to review between 10 and 15 messages a day like this.
We recently switched to SpamBayes, and our false-positive rate so far is 6 out of 2200+ spams (almost 12 days of traffic, with certain foreign charactersets, malformed email headers and blacklisted email bounced and not included in this number), mostly because we are still in training mode.
On top of that, because SpamBayes is written in Python, we can integrate it directly into Exim with Greg Ward's elspy, whereas we had to run SpamAssassin in a separate process, which occasionally bombed out. Way much faster this way!
Way more hot damn!
Mark Hammond then wrote the Outlook plugin, which, admittedly, is considerably more code than SpamBayes, but not SpamBayes itself.
For the complete background on why SpamBayes is so good at what it does, and it's history, see:
- SpamBayes Background
Marc's is not the only application frontend for SpamBayes, here is a list of others:- SpamBayes Applications
No apologies for this my pedantry offered.How many dupes will we get on this item? At least you took more'n a day to dupe this one!
Note that the spambayes core has been developed by Tim Peters of the PythonLabs team, someone who has tons of experience with statistical schemes and the fine-tuning of them. The results from this filter so far have been fenomenal.
For those able to read Dutch, read Karin Spaink's(famous for her Church of Scientology clashes) story on how she got sued in Belgium for an article she wrote in a Dutch newspaper.
Note that Apple is first and foremost a hardware company; the software is the icing on the hardware cake. This is why it makes sense for them to Open Source the ici^H^H^Hsoftware; it adds value to the hardware. Besides, Darwin won't run on anything else *but* their hardware, so more downloads means people need more hardware.
Microsoft, on the other hand, sells only sofware and is thus dependant on controlling the distribution of their milkco^Wsoftware packages.
There is, of course, on exception to this, the X-Box. And Sony has taken the lead by Open Sourcing their Playstation APIs under their Linux for Playstation program. Now that's a path where the Open Source hardware icing could make sense.
The Halloween 2 memo specifically lists Software Patents as a way to battle Open Source Software and Linux threats. I bet they won't be afraid to use this patent when they feel cornered by OSS or Linux.
Martijn Pieters, Software Engineer
Digital Creations, Creators of Zope
Netscape 6 beta 1 is but the first branded Mozilla browser. It is based on Mozilla, as Stronghold and Red Hat Secure Server are based on Apache. It adds features, has it's own version of the UI (which is completely replacable, not just the pictures on the buttons)
Whatch out for more browsers based on the Mozilla core. Mozilla itself is aimed at the developer, but there will be 'easy' versions, kids versions, embedded versions, etc. Long live Mozilla!
You got it wrong last time with all the fuss about a discussion on security related bugs in bugzilla, instead presenting it as a decision. Please get your journalistic facts straight.
Martijn Pieters, Software Engineer
Digital Creations, Creators of Zope
Martijn Pieters, Software Engineer
Digital Creations, Creators of Zope
Your software becomes much simpler, you don't have to rewrite every URL.
You can use absolute URLs within your site (/About/ instead of ../../../About/), so you can reuse navigational elements throughout your site at every level and it reduces the chance on errors.
And this is where the problem lies. Maybe because this is still a pending patent you have a fighting chance, but not with statement like "I just had a good laugh over the idea with a client before I heard of this patent". We will have to have proof. Guilty until proven innocent.Martijn Pieters, Software Engineer
Digital Creations, Creators of Zope
And who says you get the images from the [sessionid].website.url server? You can still serve your images from www.website.url. And any other static content, so caching works on that just fine. Actually, this is what slashdot does. Just look at the source of this page, and pay attention to the URL of every image.
Fact is, e-commerce needs state. State can be maintained by using cookies or using session IDs in the URL. Up until now this was done using the path portion of the URL, or the query string. These people figured out you could use the hostname as well.
With all three these techniques you loose cachability of the object the URL points to, but this will not prevent a good site desingner from using static, constant URLs for static, constant content.
As much as I am opposed to software patents, the idea is a clever use of the available resources and techniques. And I don't think there is any prior art.
If you want to fight this, you will have to come up with better arguments. Have a look at "Against Software Patents" for some amunition. Note that this document is 9 years old, so the amunition might be a bit weak. However, some good public momentum behind it might just get something done.
Martijn Pieters, Software Engineer
Digital Creations, Creators of Zope