Here's the relevant section of the page from EPIC. I only included one link, the one to the most important form.
=== snip === Stopping Junk Mail with Post Office Prohibitory Orders
Individuals may obtain a prohibitory order to stop junk mail from being sent to a residence. This order can be obtained through a law that prohibits the mailing of advertising materials "which the addressee in his sole discretion believes to be erotically arousing or sexually provocative." Practically, this means that individuals can obtain a prohibitory order against any junk mail sender.
Individuals wishing to obtain a prohibitory order should visit their local post office for "Form 1500" or click on the link provided below.
The Attorney General's office no longer sues under this statute to obtain damages. However, individuals should still obtain prohibitory orders against junk mailers. By doing so, marketers who engage in saturation mailings (heavily-discounted mailings delivered to every residence in the area that are usually addressed with "Postal Customer" or "Resident") must adjust their address lists so that the materials are no longer sent to the address with the prohibitory order. This results in higher costs to junk mailers.
* Application for Listing and/or Prohibitory Order (Form 1500), United States Postal Inspection Service.
* 39 U.S.C. Sect. 3008, Prohibition of pandering advertisements.
* Rowan v. U.S. Post Office, 397 U.S. 728 (1970). "In today's complex society we are inescapably captive audiences for many purposes, but a sufficient measure of individual autonomy must survive to permit every householder to exercise control over unwanted mail...Today's merchandising methods, the plethora of mass mailings subsidized by low postal rates, and the growth of the sale of large mailing lists as an industry in itself have changed the mailman from a carrier of primarily private communications, as he was in a more leisurely day, and have made him an adjunct of the mass mailer who sends unsolicited and often unwanted mail into every home. It places no strain on the doctrine of judicial notice to observe that whether measured by pieces or pounds, Everyman's mail today is made up overwhelmingly of material he did not seek from persons he does not know. And all too often it is matter he finds offensive."
* Unsolicited Sexually Oriented Advertising, United States Postal Inspection Service.
* Stop Unsolicited Sexually Oriented Advertising in Your Mail, United State Postal Inspection Service.
* Postal Bulletin PB 21977, United State Postal Inspection Service, July 30, 1998. "The prohibitory order. This order aids in protecting customers from receiving pandering advertisements through the mail. An addressee may obtain a prohibitory order against the mailer of an advertisement that the addressee determines, in his or her sole discretion, to be offering matter for sale that is erotically arousing or sexually provocative, as defined in title 39, United States Code, 3008. Postmasters may not refuse to accept a Form 1500 because the advertisement in question does not appear to be sexually oriented. Only the addressee may make that determination. The order prohibits the mailer from sending any further mail to the applicant (and his or her eligible minor children included in the application), effective on the 30th calendar day after the mailer receives the order."
* U.S. Laws on Direct Mail, Junkbusters.
I don't see this as a micropayment system. In my mind, micropayments are so small that there is no decision involved -- at the most a penny, but normally much less, so for example, projecting into an imaginary future, if micropayments were ubiquitous, a full day of surfing would add up to around the same cost as a day of today's broadband, say, near a dollar for everything for the day.
Most of the posts about Amazon's one-click patent should be moderated off-topic. Maybe this one too, but I'll risk that to make a point in favor of Amazon. It's really too bad Amazon got painted as bad guys for the one-click patent, even if that was a trivial and laughable patent.
I advocate buying from Amazon to reward their giving so many features to end users. We take Amazon for granted now, but we should be thankful for their accomplishments. Amazon is chock full of cool features that might have existed in labs or in peoples imaginations, but weren't available for real users until Amazon put them out there: purchase circles, user reviews, multiple competing industry reviews, page previews, author interviews, people-who-bought-this-also-bought info, real-time best seller lists, real-time popularity indicators, wish lists, user-created theme lists, recommendation agents, used book stores/zshops, great searching and great sorting of results... all on the same site, in one place, easily navigable -- fantastic. Really, it's one thing to have an idea and hack it up for a few geek friends to use, it's another thing to put such a powerful toolset as Amazon is in the hands of millions of ordinary users. Not only does Amazon lead the industry, it really created online book selling the way it is today. If it were not for Amazon, the Barnes & Noble online site would probably look a lot like bookstore.com, or worse maybe even B Dalton's web site.
Amazon rocks, and the APIs are just one more example of that.
I wonder if it would be possible for a future aircraft to stay up most of the time by just gliding, using computer vision (low power laser rangefinders along with GPS, maybe?) to detect thermals, then computation to plan routes to ride those thermals upwards, then glide downwards to the next thermal. This could conserve a lot of power, which could be used only when absolutely needed.
Yeah I know there are gliders now, but I'm talking about something that basically stays up for weeks or months at a time.
Maybe they have some mathematicians on board, and are going to analyze the data according to Zipf's law and try to fill in the gaps on a Zipf distribution. In that case the few sparse data points they are going to get would be a little help, though it sounds like an iffy exercise.
One difficult unknown is how much of their potential audience in the ultimate bidding price range has been reached? There are several filters -- awareness of the opportunity, interest, probably also need some awareness of Ebay, and having a personal assistant who can do this stuff would also help, for those busy people with ability to pay high dollars. Again sounds iffy, but maybe they have a good plan.
In my opinion one of the best things about the internet is its ability to (help people) shine light in dark corners.
Especially with more people making the Internet read/write instead of read-only, with blogs and Wikis for example.
As DRM systems come into play, I wonder if they will also be applied to text, not just music and video. If so, that will lock up more content, and be a serious barrier to information flow. Imagine if 90% of slashdot outbound links became pay-per-view. Maybe the silver lining of such a scenario would be that blogs and other bottom-up content would have even more importance.
This post from DesScorp has a few serious inaccuracies.
It was not the case that "apparently Chinese intelligence had penetrated the Los Alamos lab". On the contrary, it was apparently the case that Chinese intelligence had obtained secrets about nuclear warheads that could only have come from a contractor OUTSIDE of the lab, someone further downstream in the weapons production process. Although the discovery of this leak led investigators to look initially at Los Alamos, Los Alamos was eventually ruled out as the source of the information.
Interest in Wen Ho Lee continued, for a variety of reasons, but mostly, in my opinion, because he was a convenient scapegoat for perceived problems at the time.
Later, after an inspection of his lab computer, he was discovered to have backed up some of his data on to magnetic tapes. This led to an entirely separate and different legal case, the case that ended up being brought against him.
But that case was a crock. The data he backed up, or "downloaded" as the prosecutors liked to say, was the code he was working with along with supporting libraries and other parts of the build environment. He had had experience with computers at the Lab crashing and losing data. Also he knew there was a RIF (Reduction In Force) coming up, and the way those work at the Lab is sometimes someone is RIF'ed and then almost immediately re-hired, only to have to rebuild their work environment (computing environment) from scratch. Defenders of Lee have pointed out that wanting to avoid having to rebuild his work environment from scratch was a perfectly innocent motivation for having made tapes.
I own a security brochure from Los Alamos Lab which urges workers to "_Always_ Back Up Your Data On Cartridges or Tapes." It does not say "tell the backup department to back up your data." It basically says do it yourself. The brochure is not classified, but refers to both classified and unclassified data.
Back to DesCorp's post. "The investigation focused on Lee..." again, there were two investigations, two different cases, the first was found to be ridiculous (the data couldn't have come from Los Alamos); the second was ginned up to help the prosecuting entities avoid embarassment.
By the way, contrary to what is often implied in the media, Lee did not take the tapes home. They remained in the secure area of the lab, behind a tall fence with gates that have iris scanners, palm print scanners, metal man cages, 24 hour armed guards, etc. etc.
At the end of Lee's final hearing, at which he was released, the judge in the case apologized to Lee and pointed out that Lee was also owed an apology from the other branches of government.
Which leads to the final and most serious inaccuracy in DesCorp's post, about the historical view of the case now, after the fact. Washington insiders (other than a few paranoid diehards) do not think the botching of the case involved letting a spy get away. Rather, they think the botching of the case was in fingering the wrong man. Vernon Loeb, the intelligence reporter for the Washington Post, has affirmed in writing that this is his understanding of what people in Washington think. It's probably not neccessary to point out that he is someone who has his finger pretty well on the pulse of the Washington intelligence community.
Be sure to include a copyright notice in your message. You might want to specify some restrictions like no backups, no copies, no printouts, no tape storage, no conversion, etc.
Top Three, make that four
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Crime Prediction
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· Score: 2, Funny
Easy. The top four, at least:
1. Speeding 2. Rolling stops 3. Sodomy 4. Jaywalking
They're going to have to apply some scoring other than frequency to make this useful.
Mozilla question: can I relocate the Home button?
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Mozilla Project Turns 5
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· Score: 0, Offtopic
It sure would be great to get rid of the "Personal Toolbar" and still have the home button easily accessible somewhere.
OK, I'll have to start using Alt-Home more. But that requires yet another place for my hands to have to wander off the querty keys. I still want a single click button (which also rules out the Go->Home menu entry).
Is there any way to add a Home button to the navigation bar?
I get a sneaking suspicion Home is kept in the personal tool bar just to encourage people to have "The Mozilla Organization" and "Latest Builds" right their in their faces. A bit of self-promotion on the part of the toolbar coders, perhaps?
What exactly do I need to buy? And other FAQs
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HDTV via GNU Radio
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· Score: 2, Interesting
What exactly do I need to buy to start playing with this?
I'm more interested in the radio part than the TV part, but either way, the site doesn't give any indication of whether this is within the reach of the average geek or not.
What do we need, a TV tuner card with FM, or no card at all (is that why it's called software radio)?
If a card is needed, which cards satisfy BOTH of the following two conditions: 1) the card works under Linux/BSD and 2) the card is actually still available on the market today. (I ask that last part because of experience with old cards being supported, but not available in stores, for other functions like video and networking). And how much does the card cost? Is an antenna required? How much does everything cost?
You're not the first one to think of this, but you are one of the few I've seen who have articulated it. Most people who talk about wireless networks don't make the leap to talking about a free wireless backbone. Here are a couple more comments about this:
Developers, please refrain from making validation so anal that it becomes unusable. People like Jennifer 8 Lee (NYT reporter) should be able to enter their name into a web form name field, for example. And sometimes people want to enter letters into phone number fields, for valid reasons (like spelling a phone number to help the recipient remember it, or to make a point). Please don't make things too restrictive.
Replying to my own post... how lame is that. One more thing.
I know the project has a home page, at another link, with a good overview. But that is missing the point. The current users, when told the project is going open source, are going to be provided (in all likelihood) with the SourceForge link, and it _is_ going to look intimidating the way that summary is written now. They might even wonder if this will be the new face of the project, replacing the home page they are familiar with. This is true even if they are explicitly told that the old home page will continue, because users do not read... they just skim. And skimming the SourceForge page will freak them out.
It would help to have a real summary of what the project is on the SourceForge Summary page. The way you have the Summary page set up now, when your (probably not-quite-as-geeky-as-you) users look at the pointer you provide them to SourceForge, they are going to be overwhelmed by how technical and intimidating it all looks.
I've seen a lot of SourceForge (and other, for that matter) projects that have this same issue. When you go to the Summary page to try to figure out what a project is all about, it instead says something like: Updated new version to fix build issues. Which is almost exactly the kind of content you have on yours now. Not very informative, and not very reassuring to normal users who tend to fear the unknown.
So while this would help your case a lot, I think it is also good advice in general for all SourceForge project owners: Write a blurb that clearly explains what your project is about! Hope this helps.
The.zip format has great inroads into the corporate world, whereas PGP is still a geek's toy. By leveraging (cough) the massive usage numbers, they could be successful with this. Of course, it remains to be seen what features they want to add. But enough zip files fly around corporate networks without security, that it does make sense to improve PKZip in that area.
On the other hand, WinZip has a a head start, as the preferred way to deal with zip files for most people. And the PKWare website seems to come up blank on Mozilla, not an encouraging sign.
But what I really want is security for my PDA data, so it is secure over the network, and secure on the hard drive of any PC, even a PC that others have access to. Can zip help with this? Not sure.
Any system that allows consumers to purchase songs one song at a time (at a low one-song price), rather than as expensive packages (like CDs) that contain unwanted songs at a high price, will go a long way toward helping small artists get recognition.
The author is making a classic mistake, thinking that the security must be perfect in order to be effective.
The systems do not have to be perfectly secure to be effective. They just have to encourage most consumers to follow the rules set down by the copyright holders.
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Role of Religion?
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Ask Larry Wall
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Larry,
I remember reading at some point that you are a Christian, and there have been suggestions that some of your early missionary impulses (a desire to do good, help others) are perhaps part of the zeal you have put into Perl over the years.
Preferring a scientific view, I am not religious, and have no desire to be. Perhaps there is a God, but if there is, I think he/she has no opposable thumbs; in other words, has no power to change anything; reality is just playing out according to the laws of physics (whatever those are).
Please tell us how in the world a scientific or at least technical mind can believe in God, and what role religion has played in your work on Perl.
Thanks for doing this interview, and thanks for Perl!
Slashdot Mirror
Here's the relevant section of the page from EPIC. I only included one link, the one to the most important form.
=== snip ===
Stopping Junk Mail with Post Office Prohibitory Orders
Individuals may obtain a prohibitory order to stop junk mail from being sent to a residence. This order can be obtained through a law that prohibits the mailing of advertising materials "which the addressee in his sole discretion believes to be erotically arousing or sexually provocative." Practically, this means that individuals can obtain a prohibitory order against any junk mail sender.
Individuals wishing to obtain a prohibitory order should visit their local post office for "Form 1500" or click on the link provided below.
The Attorney General's office no longer sues under this statute to obtain damages. However, individuals should still obtain prohibitory orders against junk mailers. By doing so, marketers who engage in saturation mailings (heavily-discounted mailings delivered to every residence in the area that are usually addressed with "Postal Customer" or "Resident") must adjust their address lists so that the materials are no longer sent to the address with the prohibitory order. This results in higher costs to junk mailers.
* Application for Listing and/or Prohibitory Order (Form 1500), United States Postal Inspection Service.
* 39 U.S.C. Sect. 3008, Prohibition of pandering advertisements.
* Rowan v. U.S. Post Office, 397 U.S. 728 (1970). "In today's complex society we are inescapably captive audiences for many purposes, but a sufficient measure of individual autonomy must survive to permit every householder to exercise control over unwanted mail...Today's merchandising methods, the plethora of mass mailings subsidized by low postal rates, and the growth of the sale of large mailing lists as an industry in itself have changed the mailman from a carrier of primarily private communications, as he was in a more leisurely day, and have made him an adjunct of the mass mailer who sends unsolicited and often unwanted mail into every home. It places no strain on the doctrine of judicial notice to observe that whether measured by pieces or pounds, Everyman's mail today is made up overwhelmingly of material he did not seek from persons he does not know. And all too often it is matter he finds offensive."
* Unsolicited Sexually Oriented Advertising, United States Postal Inspection Service.
* Stop Unsolicited Sexually Oriented Advertising in Your Mail, United State Postal Inspection Service.
* Postal Bulletin PB 21977, United State Postal Inspection Service, July 30, 1998. "The prohibitory order. This order aids in protecting customers from receiving pandering advertisements through the mail. An addressee may obtain a prohibitory order against the mailer of an advertisement that the addressee determines, in his or her sole discretion, to be offering matter for sale that is erotically arousing or sexually provocative, as defined in title 39, United States Code, 3008. Postmasters may not refuse to accept a Form 1500 because the advertisement in question does not appear to be sexually oriented. Only the addressee may make that determination. The order prohibits the mailer from sending any further mail to the applicant (and his or her eligible minor children included in the application), effective on the 30th calendar day after the mailer receives the order."
* U.S. Laws on Direct Mail, Junkbusters.
=== snip ===
I don't see this as a micropayment system. In my mind, micropayments are so small that there is no decision involved -- at the most a penny, but normally much less, so for example, projecting into an imaginary future, if micropayments were ubiquitous, a full day of surfing would add up to around the same cost as a day of today's broadband, say, near a dollar for everything for the day.
There is a widely cited paper on the topic of how learning can guide evolution. Abstract here:
How learning can guide evolution
Can anyone find an online version of the full article?
Most of the posts about Amazon's one-click patent should be moderated off-topic. Maybe this one too, but I'll risk that to make a point in favor of Amazon. It's really too bad Amazon got painted as bad guys for the one-click patent, even if that was a trivial and laughable patent.
I advocate buying from Amazon to reward their giving so many features to end users. We take Amazon for granted now, but we should be thankful for their accomplishments. Amazon is chock full of cool features that might have existed in labs or in peoples imaginations, but weren't available for real users until Amazon put them out there: purchase circles, user reviews, multiple competing industry reviews, page previews, author interviews, people-who-bought-this-also-bought info, real-time best seller lists, real-time popularity indicators, wish lists, user-created theme lists, recommendation agents, used book stores/zshops, great searching and great sorting of results... all on the same site, in one place, easily navigable -- fantastic. Really, it's one thing to have an idea and hack it up for a few geek friends to use, it's another thing to put such a powerful toolset as Amazon is in the hands of millions of ordinary users. Not only does Amazon lead the industry, it really created online book selling the way it is today. If it were not for Amazon, the Barnes & Noble online site would probably look a lot like bookstore.com, or worse maybe even B Dalton's web site.
Amazon rocks, and the APIs are just one more example of that.
I wonder if it would be possible for a future aircraft to stay up most of the time by just gliding, using computer vision (low power laser rangefinders along with GPS, maybe?) to detect thermals, then computation to plan routes to ride those thermals upwards, then glide downwards to the next thermal. This could conserve a lot of power, which could be used only when absolutely needed.
Yeah I know there are gliders now, but I'm talking about something that basically stays up for weeks or months at a time.
Maybe they have some mathematicians on board, and are going to analyze the data according to Zipf's law and try to fill in the gaps on a Zipf distribution. In that case the few sparse data points they are going to get would be a little help, though it sounds like an iffy exercise.
One difficult unknown is how much of their potential audience in the ultimate bidding price range has been reached? There are several filters -- awareness of the opportunity, interest, probably also need some awareness of Ebay, and having a personal assistant who can do this stuff would also help, for those busy people with ability to pay high dollars. Again sounds iffy, but maybe they have a good plan.
In my opinion one of the best things about the internet is its ability to (help people) shine light in dark corners.
Especially with more people making the Internet read/write instead of read-only, with blogs and Wikis for example.
As DRM systems come into play, I wonder if they will also be applied to text, not just music and video. If so, that will lock up more content, and be a serious barrier to information flow. Imagine if 90% of slashdot outbound links became pay-per-view. Maybe the silver lining of such a scenario would be that blogs and other bottom-up content would have even more importance.
This post from DesScorp has a few serious inaccuracies.
It was not the case that "apparently Chinese intelligence had penetrated the Los Alamos lab". On the contrary, it was apparently the case that Chinese intelligence had obtained secrets about nuclear warheads that could only have come from a contractor OUTSIDE of the lab, someone further downstream in the weapons production process. Although the discovery of this leak led investigators to look initially at Los Alamos, Los Alamos was eventually ruled out as the source of the information.
Interest in Wen Ho Lee continued, for a variety of reasons, but mostly, in my opinion, because he was a convenient scapegoat for perceived problems at the time.
Later, after an inspection of his lab computer, he was discovered to have backed up some of his data on to magnetic tapes. This led to an entirely separate and different legal case, the case that ended up being brought against him.
But that case was a crock. The data he backed up, or "downloaded" as the prosecutors liked to say, was the code he was working with along with supporting libraries and other parts of the build environment. He had had experience with computers at the Lab crashing and losing data. Also he knew there was a RIF (Reduction In Force) coming up, and the way those work at the Lab is sometimes someone is RIF'ed and then almost immediately re-hired, only to have to rebuild their work environment (computing environment) from scratch. Defenders of Lee have pointed out that wanting to avoid having to rebuild his work environment from scratch was a perfectly innocent motivation for having made tapes.
I own a security brochure from Los Alamos Lab which urges workers to "_Always_ Back Up Your Data On Cartridges or Tapes." It does not say "tell the backup department to back up your data." It basically says do it yourself. The brochure is not classified, but refers to both classified and unclassified data.
Back to DesCorp's post. "The investigation focused on Lee..." again, there were two investigations, two different cases, the first was found to be ridiculous (the data couldn't have come from Los Alamos); the second was ginned up to help the prosecuting entities avoid embarassment.
By the way, contrary to what is often implied in the media, Lee did not take the tapes home. They remained in the secure area of the lab, behind a tall fence with gates that have iris scanners, palm print scanners, metal man cages, 24 hour armed guards, etc. etc.
At the end of Lee's final hearing, at which he was released, the judge in the case apologized to Lee and pointed out that Lee was also owed an apology from the other branches of government.
Which leads to the final and most serious inaccuracy in DesCorp's post, about the historical view of the case now, after the fact. Washington insiders (other than a few paranoid diehards) do not think the botching of the case involved letting a spy get away. Rather, they think the botching of the case was in fingering the wrong man. Vernon Loeb, the intelligence reporter for the Washington Post, has affirmed in writing that this is his understanding of what people in Washington think. It's probably not neccessary to point out that he is someone who has his finger pretty well on the pulse of the Washington intelligence community.
Here's his "contact me" web form.
= Offices.Contact
http://www.senate.gov/~hatch/index.cfm?FuseAction
Be sure to include a copyright notice
in your message. You might want to
specify some restrictions like no
backups, no copies, no printouts,
no tape storage, no conversion, etc.
Easy. The top four, at least:
1. Speeding
2. Rolling stops
3. Sodomy
4. Jaywalking
They're going to have to apply some scoring other than frequency to make this useful.
It sure would be great to get rid of the "Personal Toolbar" and still have the home button easily accessible somewhere.
OK, I'll have to start using Alt-Home more. But that requires yet another place for my hands to have to wander off the querty keys. I still want a single click button (which also rules out the Go->Home menu entry).
Is there any way to add a Home button to the navigation bar?
I get a sneaking suspicion Home is kept in the personal tool bar just to encourage people to have "The Mozilla Organization" and "Latest Builds" right their in their faces. A bit of self-promotion on the part of the toolbar coders, perhaps?
What exactly do I need to buy to start playing with this?
I'm more interested in the radio part than the TV part, but either way, the site doesn't give any indication of whether this is within the reach of the average geek or not.
What do we need, a TV tuner card with FM, or no card at all (is that why it's called software radio)?
If a card is needed, which cards satisfy BOTH of the following two conditions: 1) the card works under Linux/BSD and 2) the card is actually still available on the market today. (I ask that last part because of experience with old cards being supported, but not available in stores, for other functions like video and networking). And how much does the card cost? Is an antenna required? How much does everything cost?
Someone please clue us in. Thanks.
You're not the first one to think of this, but you are one of the few I've seen who have articulated it. Most people who talk about wireless networks don't make the leap to talking about a free wireless backbone. Here are a couple more comments about this:
Re: next, forward packets
Mesh Networks
and this story which, like so many others about wireless networks, doesn't quite go far enough toward what you are suggesting:
New Wireless Technologies
Developers, please refrain from making validation so anal that it becomes unusable. People like Jennifer 8 Lee (NYT reporter) should be able to enter their name into a web form name field, for example. And sometimes people want to enter letters into phone number fields, for valid reasons (like spelling a phone number to help the recipient remember it, or to make a point). Please don't make things too restrictive.
Very nice sound design job on the navbars at the top of the dragonslair3d.com web site.
Replying to my own post... how lame is that. One more thing.
I know the project has a home page, at another link, with a good overview. But that is missing the point. The current users, when told the project is going open source, are going to be provided (in all likelihood) with the SourceForge link, and it _is_ going to look intimidating the way that summary is written now. They might even wonder if this will be the new face of the project, replacing the home page they are familiar with. This is true even if they are explicitly told that the old home page will continue, because users do not read... they just skim. And skimming the SourceForge page will freak them out.
It would help to have a real summary of what the project is on the SourceForge Summary page. The way you have the Summary page set up now, when your (probably not-quite-as-geeky-as-you) users look at the pointer you provide them to SourceForge, they are going to be overwhelmed by how technical and intimidating it all looks.
I've seen a lot of SourceForge (and other, for that matter) projects that have this same issue. When you go to the Summary page to try to figure out what a project is all about, it instead says something like: Updated new version to fix build issues. Which is almost exactly the kind of content you have on yours now. Not very informative, and not very reassuring to normal users who tend to fear the unknown.
So while this would help your case a lot, I think it is also good advice in general for all SourceForge project owners: Write a blurb that clearly explains what your project is about! Hope this helps.
The .zip format has great inroads into the corporate world, whereas PGP is still a geek's toy. By leveraging (cough) the massive usage numbers, they could be successful with this. Of course, it remains to be seen what features they want to add. But enough zip files fly around corporate networks without security, that it does make sense to improve PKZip in that area.
On the other hand, WinZip has a a head start, as the preferred way to deal with zip files for most people. And the PKWare website seems to come up blank on Mozilla, not an encouraging sign.
But what I really want is security for my PDA data, so it is secure over the network, and secure on the hard drive of any PC, even a PC that others have access to. Can zip help with this? Not sure.
What's the deal with NASA data? Especially Hubble data? Sure would be nice to make some screensavers without those unsightly logos on them.
:-)
e s/images_index.php3
Oh, yeah... just remembered a nice bookmark!
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImag
The NASA Earth Observatory. Don't know how open, though.
Here's a link to the story on Yahoo!
/ 20021111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/hacker_investigation_1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap
Any system that allows consumers to purchase songs one song at a time (at a low one-song price), rather than as expensive packages (like CDs) that contain unwanted songs at a high price, will go a long way toward helping small artists get recognition.
One question -- maybe you've tried this, but just in case not: did you try accessing Yahoo! mail via pg1.yahoo.com/raw
?
The author is making a classic mistake,
thinking that the security must be perfect
in order to be effective.
The systems do not have to be perfectly
secure to be effective. They just have to
encourage most consumers to follow the
rules set down by the copyright holders.
--
Larry,
I remember reading at some point that you are a
Christian, and there have been suggestions that
some of your early missionary impulses (a desire
to do good, help others) are perhaps part of the
zeal you have put into Perl over the years.
Preferring a scientific view, I am not religious,
and have no desire to be. Perhaps there is a
God, but if there is, I think he/she has no
opposable thumbs; in other words, has no power to
change anything; reality is just playing out
according to the laws of physics (whatever those
are).
Please tell us how in the world a scientific or
at least technical mind can believe in God,
and what role religion has played in your
work on Perl.
Thanks for doing this interview, and thanks
for Perl!
Ack. I did preview, but missed my own math blunder: 197 million divided by 10 is 19.7 million.
So that big number number should be even bigger.
And Creationist -> creationist.