That was my initial impression, scanned the article for evidence of the 'tinfoil-hat' syndrome, but found this instead:
Firstenberg... graduated from Cornell University with a degree in mathematics and a minor in physics.
Now, I'm not about to say that he can't be a 'whackjob' because he is a university graduate, but it does seem to throw water on the 'he's just some random nutcase' angle I was expecting to hear.
Then again...
A series of public forums were launched, in which technophiles argued in favor of the service, and the anti-wireless folks -- including a woman who appeared at one meeting wearing dark sunglasses and protective headgear to ward off stray signals -- insisted that the plan was dangerous.
I do feel sorry for anyone who has problems which they are only able to attribute to unseen forces like radio waves, microwaves, magnetic fields, etc.. but showing up wearing protective headgear is hard to take seriously (in the absence of any scientific/medical evidence).
Seriously, Simson was acquitted of the criminal murder charges, and then was successfully sued in civil court for (what, liability for killing Goldman, right?)
If they had brought another criminal case against him for the same crimes (charging manslaughter instead of murder), that would be double jeapordy, right?
This has got to be similar, I would think. MS was found guilty of breaking federal law, and is reaching settlment with the government on the penalty.
Several states have also brought a case against MS, that settlement was rejected, right?
This is another 'injured' party coming forward to prove the damages MS inflicted so they can get their 'just compensation'.
Thanks for the link, although/. inserts spaces into it to stop page widening, the correct link is this
Just a funny OT, the 404 message is very interesting on that site... some cool javascript black magic happening there, apparently...
The requested document is totally not here!
No/404 here.
Even tried multi times.
Nothing helped.
I'm really depressed about this.
You see, I'm just a web server..._
*sigh*
Man, I'm so depressed I could just cry.
And then where would we be, I ask you?
It's not pretty when a web server cries.
And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway?
Just because I'm a web server,
and possibly a manic depressive one at that?
Why does that give you the right to tell me what to do?_
MTV used to air them late at night years ago when they were first-run on nick. I could never really understand why R&S was on nick. I loved that show, used to stay up and tape it when it was on MTV, didn't even know about it being on nick at that point.
That was before I had any kids. Funny now how my wife and I dive for the remote when R&S comes on (nick still shows it on weekends from time to time). Funny thing too how I sit and watch Zim with them, but I flinch at letting them watch R&S. Too over the top, I guess.
>I am also pretty sure they would use the classic RH distro to create a user friendly... OS for use as a desktop for Joe User.
One thing missing that could make that a good posibility... being able to buy a machine with this pre-installed.
I'd almost like to see what kind of business AOL could do selling "AOL PCs" with a pre-installed redhat, a linux AOL client and wine. Wonder if AOL could partner with Dell or Gateway or somebody to offer something like this?
No, I had similar issues that seemed to start right after 9/11. Zim was (almost) never on when it was scheduled (9/8 Fridays), even though TV Guide, TiVo *and* nick.com all agreed on when it should be on. I called AT&T to try to find out what they knew, they said they piped a direct feed from the sat and didn't change times of shows or anything.
I started to notice that Zim would change slots with 'Hey Arnold' at random, so I started to TiVo that show as well. Then it was 'Fairly Odd Parents'... I started to get the feeling Nick didn't want anyone to see Zim if they could help it. I noticed that the ads for Zim disappeared.
It's a shame. My kids (8 and 5) loved the sow and I really got into watching it with them. I got the feeling that the network wasn't very comfortable with the show in the first place, and what happened in September made them even more leery about putting it on.
...or maybe not, just seems wierd that the show wasn't given much of a chance to catch on and grow.
Have to give it a try, then. I haven't had half life installed on my machine for a whil, have to dig it out this weekend and install the mod. I've stayed away from mp games lately because of my sucky connection since @home went under and AT&T threw us onto their sucky network.
I think its a good game. I like the atmosphere of the SP game. It isn't new or groundbreaking, but it has kept my interest since I got it for x-mas. (flame-throwing a room full of nazis and hearing their screams of agony... well, *I* like it!)
Seen those mini cd business cards? They're starting to put all kinds of stuff on those mini CDs, one neat aspect is that the CD does not need to be round. The business card ones I've seen are more-or-less business card shaped. I've even seen mini CDs is the shape of a duck. I think they will work in just about any cdrom drive made in the last few years.
Similar kind of scare tactic here in Chicago last summer.
The radio spot said something to the effect that the BSA gets most of its tips from former or current disgruntled employees. Then went on to add, If your company has no former or current disgruntled employees, you can disregard this announcement. Otherwise, contact blah blah blah during this grace period. The BSA *will* be returning to the Chicago area later this year to follow up on all anonymous tips it receives, and you can save yourself and your company big headaches by making sure you are in compliance *now*!
Man, that sounded really out of line. It is one thing to try to get companies to pay for all the software it uses, yet another to use tactics like these.
The random viewer dial-in introductions (_over_ the show!) were just too much.
I had set my TiVo up to season pass TNG when I saw TNN (_not_ "The Nashville Network", now "The _National_ Network"... we're not just for hicks anymore, no no no) was going to air it. I was horrified when I sat down to watch. Ok, the little bar at the bottom and the resulting squashed picture are pretty bad, but not the end of the world.
What I really disliked was "Jim Joe Bob" calling in to tell you "You're watchin' Star Trek, 'next gen'ration on the new TNN!" which TNN played over the show.
No, they didn't play them over a logo prior to the actual show coming back from commercial, these were played as the actual show started, OVER DIALOGUE!!
Thanks. Word 2000 doesn't have the help/product updates thing, but I did find the filter on the office downloads site and it does have the 'copy as HTML' option for copying text out of a word doc.
Getting them to change their behavior is probably only half the battle here. Making an attempt to impart a clue in the process is important as well.
Ok, so a lot of word senders wouldn't know (or care) about proprietary/non-preprietary file formats. Maybe some percentage will scratch their heads and think about it. Isn't it worth the effort to try?
"Hey Jack, I'd really like to look at that file you sent me, but it is in word and we don't use Microsoft products here if we can avoid them (evil monopoly and all that). Can you resend that file as html or text (you can do a 'save as...'), please? Word uses a proprietary format that Microsoft keeps changing with every version, and it is tough for us non-Microsoft users to deal with it. Thanks for your help!
No, they aren't going to prowl the internet for intel on terrorists, they need technology to analyse the mountain of info they have already collected, but don't have the manpower to analyze.
>a determined terrorist could still get to it if he wanted.
Wouldn't even need to get directly to it, in theory. Dropping a few mortars on it from a distance would likely have as much effect as getting in a planting a bomb. Not much potential for carting some of the stuff away, so I'm assuming you'd just want to release some of it where it's stored.
I'd much rather have it buried in one spot under millions of tons of granite than sitting out in the open at locations scattered around the country. Transporting it from all these locations to Nevada is going to be tricky. Imagine the nightmare of shipping this stuff by train all across the country.
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>Some people are whackjobs
... graduated from Cornell University with a degree in mathematics and a minor in physics.
That was my initial impression, scanned the article for evidence of the 'tinfoil-hat' syndrome, but found this instead:
Firstenberg
Now, I'm not about to say that he can't be a 'whackjob' because he is a university graduate, but it does seem to throw water on the 'he's just some random nutcase' angle I was expecting to hear.
Then again...
A series of public forums were launched, in which technophiles argued in favor of the service, and the anti-wireless folks -- including a woman who appeared at one meeting wearing dark sunglasses and protective headgear to ward off stray signals -- insisted that the plan was dangerous.
I do feel sorry for anyone who has problems which they are only able to attribute to unseen forces like radio waves, microwaves, magnetic fields, etc.. but showing up wearing protective headgear is hard to take seriously (in the absence of any scientific/medical evidence).
>their tax dollars
You mean the USPS is not entirely funded by postage?
interestingly, a search for more evil than satan himself on microsoft.com returns only one result:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (a code example)
not yet
Well, if they got away with doing this to OJ...
Seriously, Simson was acquitted of the criminal murder charges, and then was successfully sued in civil court for (what, liability for killing Goldman, right?)
If they had brought another criminal case against him for the same crimes (charging manslaughter instead of murder), that would be double jeapordy, right?
This has got to be similar, I would think. MS was found guilty of breaking federal law, and is reaching settlment with the government on the penalty.
Several states have also brought a case against MS, that settlement was rejected, right?
This is another 'injured' party coming forward to prove the damages MS inflicted so they can get their 'just compensation'.
...or something
Interesting idea, why don't you ask taco? ;-)
Thanks for the link, although /. inserts spaces into it to stop page widening, the correct link is this
/404 here.
Just a funny OT, the 404 message is very interesting on that site... some cool javascript black magic happening there, apparently...
The requested document is totally not here!
No
Even tried multi times.
Nothing helped.
I'm really depressed about this.
You see, I'm just a web server..._
*sigh*
Man, I'm so depressed I could just cry.
And then where would we be, I ask you?
It's not pretty when a web server cries.
And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway?
Just because I'm a web server,
and possibly a manic depressive one at that?
Why does that give you the right to tell me what to do?_
and it appears to continue indefinitely
MTV used to air them late at night years ago when they were first-run on nick. I could never really understand why R&S was on nick. I loved that show, used to stay up and tape it when it was on MTV, didn't even know about it being on nick at that point.
That was before I had any kids. Funny now how my wife and I dive for the remote when R&S comes on (nick still shows it on weekends from time to time). Funny thing too how I sit and watch Zim with them, but I flinch at letting them watch R&S. Too over the top, I guess.
I thought palm was a completely seaparate spun-off company by now?
Or do they just have their own tracking stock?
No, this leads me to beleive they are totally separate now.
3Com's revenues don't benefit Palm much, I would guess.
>I am also pretty sure they would use the classic RH distro to create a user friendly ... OS for use as a desktop for Joe User.
One thing missing that could make that a good posibility... being able to buy a machine with this pre-installed.
I'd almost like to see what kind of business AOL could do selling "AOL PCs" with a pre-installed redhat, a linux AOL client and wine. Wonder if AOL could partner with Dell or Gateway or somebody to offer something like this?
No, I had similar issues that seemed to start right after 9/11. Zim was (almost) never on when it was scheduled (9/8 Fridays), even though TV Guide, TiVo *and* nick.com all agreed on when it should be on. I called AT&T to try to find out what they knew, they said they piped a direct feed from the sat and didn't change times of shows or anything.
I started to notice that Zim would change slots with 'Hey Arnold' at random, so I started to TiVo that show as well. Then it was 'Fairly Odd Parents'... I started to get the feeling Nick didn't want anyone to see Zim if they could help it. I noticed that the ads for Zim disappeared.
It's a shame. My kids (8 and 5) loved the sow and I really got into watching it with them. I got the feeling that the network wasn't very comfortable with the show in the first place, and what happened in September made them even more leery about putting it on.
...or maybe not, just seems wierd that the show wasn't given much of a chance to catch on and grow.
Have to give it a try, then. I haven't had half life installed on my machine for a whil, have to dig it out this weekend and install the mod. I've stayed away from mp games lately because of my sucky connection since @home went under and AT&T threw us onto their sucky network.
I think its a good game. I like the atmosphere of the SP game. It isn't new or groundbreaking, but it has kept my interest since I got it for x-mas. (flame-throwing a room full of nazis and hearing their screams of agony... well, *I* like it!)
Seen those mini cd business cards? They're starting to put all kinds of stuff on those mini CDs, one neat aspect is that the CD does not need to be round. The business card ones I've seen are more-or-less business card shaped. I've even seen mini CDs is the shape of a duck. I think they will work in just about any cdrom drive made in the last few years.
Similar kind of scare tactic here in Chicago last summer.
The radio spot said something to the effect that the BSA gets most of its tips from former or current disgruntled employees. Then went on to add, If your company has no former or current disgruntled employees, you can disregard this announcement. Otherwise, contact blah blah blah during this grace period. The BSA *will* be returning to the Chicago area later this year to follow up on all anonymous tips it receives, and you can save yourself and your company big headaches by making sure you are in compliance *now*!
Man, that sounded really out of line. It is one thing to try to get companies to pay for all the software it uses, yet another to use tactics like these.
>Microsoft would get killed by a judge
:-)
Yah, we've already seen how much Microsoft has to fear from "the judge".
The random viewer dial-in introductions (_over_ the show!) were just too much.
I had set my TiVo up to season pass TNG when I saw TNN (_not_ "The Nashville Network", now "The _National_ Network"... we're not just for hicks anymore, no no no) was going to air it. I was horrified when I sat down to watch. Ok, the little bar at the bottom and the resulting squashed picture are pretty bad, but not the end of the world.
What I really disliked was "Jim Joe Bob" calling in to tell you "You're watchin' Star Trek, 'next gen'ration on the new TNN!" which TNN played over the show.
No, they didn't play them over a logo prior to the actual show coming back from commercial, these were played as the actual show started, OVER DIALOGUE!!
What the hell is that?!
Reminds me of Steve Martin in "The Jerk" writing out one million checks, each for "One dollar, and 28 cents!"
That was a LOTD on Bluesnews the other day. I thought it was fake at first.
the hell is wrong with that guy!
Thanks. Word 2000 doesn't have the help/product updates thing, but I did find the filter on the office downloads site and it does have the 'copy as HTML' option for copying text out of a word doc.
Perfect, thanks.
Getting them to change their behavior is probably only half the battle here. Making an attempt to impart a clue in the process is important as well.
Ok, so a lot of word senders wouldn't know (or care) about proprietary/non-preprietary file formats. Maybe some percentage will scratch their heads and think about it. Isn't it worth the effort to try?
"Hey Jack, I'd really like to look at that file you sent me, but it is in word and we don't use Microsoft products here if we can avoid them (evil monopoly and all that). Can you resend that file as html or text (you can do a 'save as...'), please? Word uses a proprietary format that Microsoft keeps changing with every version, and it is tough for us non-Microsoft users to deal with it. Thanks for your help!
> There's an add-on download for word2000
In what form? Is this a MS add-on? This sounds interesting, I'd like to check it out if you have a links or something?
That seems worse, somehow.
> I give these terrorist orgs more credit than to think that they have truly useful data somewhere online
;-]
google has some cached already, so why not?
No, they aren't going to prowl the internet for intel on terrorists, they need technology to analyse the mountain of info they have already collected, but don't have the manpower to analyze.
>a determined terrorist could still get to it if he wanted.
Wouldn't even need to get directly to it, in theory. Dropping a few mortars on it from a distance would likely have as much effect as getting in a planting a bomb. Not much potential for carting some of the stuff away, so I'm assuming you'd just want to release some of it where it's stored.
I'd much rather have it buried in one spot under millions of tons of granite than sitting out in the open at locations scattered around the country. Transporting it from all these locations to Nevada is going to be tricky. Imagine the nightmare of shipping this stuff by train all across the country.