If as you say there wasn't a way to funnel the energy the EFF creates into the electoral process, why not help them find a way? Did they reject your help?
I trust the EFF. With a new organization, you have to earn credibility from scratch. I'm not passing judgement, just wondering about how you decided to form yet another organization.
I just called my local phone company two days ago and had them switch off my AT&T service. Now my new plan, with the local carrier, costs more per minute, but has no monthly fees, no signup fee, no cancellation fee, no taxes and it won't have any per minute charges either, because I'm not going to use it! We have moved over to Skype for all long distance, including local toll calls.
Even calling 20 miles away is cheaper with Skype. Not to mention out of state and international. Two cents a minute to everywhere we call. Very nice.
OQO's keyboard size is an issue, but the real pity with the keyboard is that they squandered the space they did have available. The layout is extremely wasteful of horizontal space.
The unused space to the left of the keyboard is huge. They also passed on putting the mouse device among the keys as on an IBM Thinkpad, instead putting it in its own dedicated large, wasteful swath of horizontal territory.
They could have put non-alphabetical keys to the left of the querty down in an additional row, but they did not. On the left side the shift key alone is as wide as two other keys!
And having a numeric keypad taking up space on the right seems like extremely stuck thinking. Who uses those any more? If you need a calculator, you can use a touch screen calculator. Need to dial the phone? Same thing. Or there is the solution Treo used. If you're really such a numbers person that you need a dedicated numberpad, use a peripheral. OQO makes the majority of us who want to buy the device suffer for the few of us who are accountants.
So many missed opportunities to make this keyboard actually touch typeable... In the end it is simply a thumb keyboard. But other than that surprising flaw, the device looks very cool! Hopefully we will see clones that have decent keyboard layouts.
I haven't thought this completely through, but something tells me there are a couple possible security problems opened up by this practice:
1) I get hold of a copy of your tarball. Maybe we're on the same system, or maybe I find it on a CD, or maybe I'm your ISP, or your proxy provider, or whoever. Now I can redistribute your file to as many people as possible, in order to get you in trouble with the company that is tracking the IDs. This must be a known issue with all watermarking schemes, I suppose.
2) If the company has to distribute a new MD5 with every file, and if I can get in the middle between their download site and the world, I can inject the ID and MD5 hash of my enemy's file into the outgoing streams. Same effect as number 1, the user pointed to by that ID gets in trouble.
I there a name for this kind of security problem? We could call it the let's-you-and-him-fight problem, maybe.
This would be a great application for a P2P network. Donate 100GB of storage space, and it gets you 20GB of 4X redundant space "out there" in the P2P ether. The remaining 20GB is for overhead and slack for system management. A subset of the 20GB could be encrypted, leaving the other files in plaintext so the service could detect duplicates in order to save space.
The problem with the current online services is the paltry amount of storage, and the cost. The problem with USB drives, CDs, DVDs, etc. is they 1) do not keep themselves up to date, and 2) go away if your house burns down. It's hard to solve both 1 and 2 with non-networked media.
My understanding is that when you hire someone to do creative work, you own the copyright for that creative work. The fact that a) people exist who claim otherwise, and b) contracts exist where this ownership is explicitly acknowledged or, alternately, waived, should not change the fact that by default you own the copyright.
Sounds like it's time someone started making a registry of dweeby photographers, so we can know who to avoid.
Remember that old advice about how you can understand how (in)accurate the media really is? Find a subject you know very well, and see how many mistakes they make when they cover it. When you realize that the media makes mistakes of that same magnitude on virtually every story they cover, not just on the stories in your topic... well, it's an eye opener.
Wikipedia, from that standpoint, is at the opposite end of the spectrum from traditional, commercial journalism. Its authors have all the time in the world to get things right, check facts, correct bad wording, improve clarity. The quality of the entries is generally astounding. And if anything is wrong with an entry, we readers can become writers and correct it ourselves! Very nice. Thanks, fellow Wikipedia contributors!
In all the speculation/.ers are doing about the reasons for this protocol's existence, one reason is missing: Glory for the inventor. Notice the press release made a point to work in the name of the "inventor." His ego is a big part in this.
when I use Windows. After a random amount of time, sometimes even before I can log in, or if not, usually within an hour or two, it just freezes solid. Nothing moves, not even the cursor or the clock.
This never, ever happens when I boot into Linux on the same machine.
We can't trust a survey released by a carrier to be published in a way that gives the whole picture.
From the article: "For example, we have provided our customers access to more than 440 new cell sites in the last 6 months here in the greater Chicago area."
Interesting choice of words there. "provided our customers access to". That looks like it means (but hides the fact that) they are including partnerships with other providers. So yes, customers have access, but (unsaid) they might have to pay hefty roaming charges to actually use that access.
Some of my first C programs were playing with reading files byte by byte and outputting sounds based on the byte values. That was fun; should try it again sometime. You can hear the difference between different kinds of files, text versus binary for example.
Virtual economies could be a good breeding ground for ideas about how to gain economic advantage. Just as real world memes are part of virtual economies, memes that emerge in virtual economies will cross over into the real world. So, for example, it should be possible to see the seeds of future criminal schemes by observing behavior on the edges of acceptability in virtual economies.
Just as they copy everything else Amazon does, B&N has now copied the free shipping for orders of $25 and up. We'll see how long that lasts. But what they haven't matched is that at Amazon, you pay no taxes.
>for n in 1 2 3; do echo $n; done >Out of curiosity, how would that loop be done in tcsh?
I don't know how you would do it as a one-liner. That's one of the reasons I prefer bash -- after doing a for loop, I can just Ctrl-P back to it if I need to do it again, or do it again with edits.
In tcsh, you do:
> foreach n (1 2 3) foreach? echo $n foreach? end
But this is not on one line. So then if you do Ctrl-P to get back the foreach line, that's all you get -- the first line. You may have had some complicated stuff inside the foreach, and you then have to manually cut and paste it. Or you can just make the whole thing into a shell script, a much better idea. But as far as I know there's no way to do the whole thing in one line using tcsh. If I'm wrong, someone please show us an example that works!
Also with that for command in bash, you can put in other commands on the same line. Not surprising, but here's how to do it, since the man page is as usual about as clear as mud:
for n in 1 2 3; do echo "doing ls $n"; ls; echo "done with ls $n"; done
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They can just start adding crack to the food. Solved.
If as you say there wasn't a way to funnel the energy the EFF creates into the electoral process, why not help them find a way? Did they reject your help?
I trust the EFF. With a new organization, you have to earn credibility from scratch. I'm not passing judgement, just wondering about how you decided to form yet another organization.
IT is hard. It's hard work. I know.
I see on the TV screens how hard it is.
In the major corporation where I work, they just bought 100+ Dell desktops with Windows XP installed.
First thing that happened once these desktops got in the building? IT wiped the hard drives and installed Linux.
I think this is because our corporate deal with Dell gives us a few vanilla configuration options, instead of the full suite of Dell flexibility.
Sorry, the state PUCs regulate the *maximum* prices. The phone companies could charge less if they wanted to. But they don't want to.
In short, the PUCs are there to keep the greedy phone companies in check.
You probably have been duped by the script they read to people who complain to customer service about their extra fees.
I just called my local phone company two days ago and had them switch off my AT&T service. Now my new plan, with the local carrier, costs more per minute, but has no monthly fees, no signup fee, no cancellation fee, no taxes and it won't have any per minute charges either, because I'm not going to use it! We have moved over to Skype for all long distance, including local toll calls.
Even calling 20 miles away is cheaper with Skype. Not to mention out of state and international. Two cents a minute to everywhere we call. Very nice.
I've also been suggesting this for years. I'm too lazy to search for the older posts, but here is one from July:
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Of course what matters, though, is not talking about ideas, but *doing* them.
OQO's keyboard size is an issue, but the real pity with the keyboard is that they squandered the space they did have available. The layout is extremely wasteful of horizontal space.
The unused space to the left of the keyboard is huge. They also passed on putting the mouse device among the keys as on an IBM Thinkpad, instead putting it in its own dedicated large, wasteful swath of horizontal territory.
They could have put non-alphabetical keys to the left of the querty down in an additional row, but they did not. On the left side the shift key alone is as wide as two other keys!
And having a numeric keypad taking up space on the right seems like extremely stuck thinking. Who uses those any more? If you need a calculator, you can use a touch screen calculator. Need to dial the phone? Same thing. Or there is the solution Treo used. If you're really such a numbers person that you need a dedicated numberpad, use a peripheral. OQO makes the majority of us who want to buy the device suffer for the few of us who are accountants.
So many missed opportunities to make this keyboard actually touch typeable... In the end it is simply a thumb keyboard. But other than that surprising flaw, the device looks very cool! Hopefully we will see clones that have decent keyboard layouts.
"Don't be lame" to their corporate motto.
I haven't thought this completely through, but something tells me there are a couple possible security problems opened up by this practice:
1) I get hold of a copy of your tarball. Maybe we're on the same system, or maybe I find it on a CD, or maybe I'm your ISP, or your proxy provider, or whoever. Now I can redistribute your file to as many people as possible, in order to get you in trouble with the company that is tracking the IDs. This must be a known issue with all watermarking schemes, I suppose.
2) If the company has to distribute a new MD5 with every file, and if I can get in the middle between their download site and the world, I can inject the ID and MD5 hash of my enemy's file into the outgoing streams. Same effect as number 1, the user pointed to by that ID gets in trouble.
I there a name for this kind of security problem? We could call it the let's-you-and-him-fight problem, maybe.
This would be a great application for a P2P network. Donate 100GB of storage space, and it gets you 20GB of 4X redundant space "out there" in the P2P ether. The remaining 20GB is for overhead and slack for system management. A subset of the 20GB could be encrypted, leaving the other files in plaintext so the service could detect duplicates in order to save space.
The problem with the current online services is the paltry amount of storage, and the cost. The problem with USB drives, CDs, DVDs, etc. is they 1) do not keep themselves up to date, and 2) go away if your house burns down. It's hard to solve both 1 and 2 with non-networked media.
'nuff said.
My understanding is that when you hire someone to do creative work, you own the copyright for that creative work. The fact that a) people exist who claim otherwise, and b) contracts exist where this ownership is explicitly acknowledged or, alternately, waived, should not change the fact that by default you own the copyright.
Sounds like it's time someone started making a registry of dweeby photographers, so we can know who to avoid.
Remember that old advice about how you can understand how (in)accurate the media really is? Find a subject you know very well, and see how many mistakes they make when they cover it. When you realize that the media makes mistakes of that same magnitude on virtually every story they cover, not just on the stories in your topic... well, it's an eye opener.
Wikipedia, from that standpoint, is at the opposite end of the spectrum from traditional, commercial journalism. Its authors have all the time in the world to get things right, check facts, correct bad wording, improve clarity. The quality of the entries is generally astounding. And if anything is wrong with an entry, we readers can become writers and correct it ourselves! Very nice. Thanks, fellow Wikipedia contributors!
Thank you for that very important clarification. People get that confused often, as I obviously would know.
In all the speculation /.ers are doing about the reasons for this protocol's existence, one reason is missing: Glory for the inventor. Notice the press release made a point to work in the name of the "inventor." His ego is a big part in this.
when I use Windows. After a random amount of time, sometimes even before I can log in, or if not, usually within an hour or two, it just freezes solid. Nothing moves, not even the cursor or the clock.
This never, ever happens when I boot into Linux on the same machine.
We can't trust a survey released by a carrier to be published in a way that gives the whole picture.
From the article: "For example, we have provided our customers access to more than 440 new cell sites in the last 6 months here in the greater Chicago area."
Interesting choice of words there. "provided our customers access to". That looks like it means (but hides the fact that) they are including partnerships with other providers. So yes, customers have access, but (unsaid) they might have to pay hefty roaming charges to actually use that access.
...the British scientific information ministers finally admitted it failed?? I thought they were holding out hope until the 2038 rollover.
>This is who owns 800-513-4524
>UniPoint Services / 512 735 1200
Now what would be really nice is if you could teach us how to find that information ourselves, for any 8xx number.
Some of my first C programs were playing with reading files byte by byte and outputting sounds based on the byte values. That was fun; should try it again sometime. You can hear the difference between different kinds of files, text versus binary for example.
Seeing as how the two rovers are stone deaf, all the talk of "waking the rover up to the tune of (foo)" is pretty ironic.
Virtual economies could be a good breeding ground for ideas about how to gain economic advantage. Just as real world memes are part of virtual economies, memes that emerge in virtual economies will cross over into the real world. So, for example, it should be possible to see the seeds of future criminal schemes by observing behavior on the edges of acceptability in virtual economies.
Just as they copy everything else Amazon does, B&N has now copied the free shipping for orders of $25 and up. We'll see how long that lasts. But what they haven't matched is that at Amazon, you pay no taxes.
>for n in 1 2 3; do echo $n; done
>Out of curiosity, how would that loop be done in tcsh?
I don't know how you would do it as a one-liner. That's one of the reasons I prefer bash -- after doing a for loop, I can just Ctrl-P back to it if I need to do it again, or do it again with edits.
In tcsh, you do:
> foreach n (1 2 3)
foreach? echo $n
foreach? end
But this is not on one line. So then if you do Ctrl-P to get back the foreach line, that's all you get -- the first line. You may have had some complicated stuff inside the foreach, and you then have to manually cut and paste it. Or you can just make the whole thing into a shell script, a much better idea. But as far as I know there's no way to do the whole thing in one line using tcsh. If I'm wrong, someone please show us an example that works!
Also with that for command in bash, you can put in other commands on the same line. Not surprising, but here's how to do it, since the man page is as usual about as clear as mud:
for n in 1 2 3; do echo "doing ls $n"; ls; echo "done with ls $n"; done