Lucky you. In my zip code, packages from Amazon.com are routinely disappeared. You'd think Amazon would notice and use UPS, but they keep sending regular mail.
There's nothing like going to the post office to report a missing shipment and hearing the guy in front of you reporting a missing shipment.
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that Griffin Bell locked him away as a material witness during the Carter Administration... you know, for giving money to CREEP and supporting the Watergate break-in.
Remember back when GUIs were new and Macs came with a Tutorial that would walk you through the basics?
Here's how to select one thing, how to select multiple things, what are files, what is the clipboard, etc.
Does anyone else think that lack of good, basic tuturials are a major omission in modern OSes? Seems like they could bring a lot clueless users up to speed.
Yeah, what a mess. It makes you wish that someone could work up an alternate, optional email network that worked on a postage basis-- similar to snail mail but with much lower costs and digital efficiency.
Each message would require a certain (trivial) amount of e-postage within the network, or cost more if it had to pass through a gateway to another controlled network.
Mail sent to addresses on the existing SMTP network wouldn't cost more to send, but would optionally carry a one-time "return postage" key.
Mail coming FROM the existing SMTP network with a valid key would be allowed through (and the postage deducted from your account or escrow), otherwise it would be blocked and the sender urged to use the postage-enabled network instead.
Seems like the best of both worlds-- power users would maintain mailboxen on the "free" internet for things like lists and public contact (and filter spam), while most others would opt for the spam-free but slightly more expensive postage network. USPS anyone? UN? WTO? (heh)
I've been using Mozilla 1.2alpha and I'm already addicted to Typeahead Find-- land on a page, type / then a search string, and moz scrolls right to the first match on the page. No Ctrl-F, no dialog box!
Typeahead Find: the best thing to happen to browsers since the scroll wheel.
I'm building a CMS that spans multiple virtual sites on the same server, and I considered implementing a single-sign-on system where if you logged into one site on the server, you would be able to access any other site in the CMS (as long as you were a member of that site as well!) without having to log in again.
I nearly built it, because I'm constantly switching from site to site and it's a pain to log in so often. But then the following (purely fictional, I assure you) scenario occurred to me:
"Hey dude, when I go to whaleporn.org on your computer, it has you logged in as *ladyDolphin69*! What's up with that?!? I never knew you were into big mammals..."
SSO is akin to spooky action at a distance: log in to one place and you've logged into them all. No thanks.
The best use I can think of for something like this is multichannel video from one server-- if you can drop two or more of these cards in a mid-range box you could make all kinds fun multi-display distractions on the cheap.
Virtual fishtank on three walls of your cubicle! Whee!
Lets say that we switch to a hydrogen economy, and over the next 100 years we leak several billion cubic feet of it into the atmosphere... what are the effects? Will we miss it?
How will massive amounts of accidental hydrogen emissions compare to massive amounts of purposeful CO2 emissions?
Don't be so nearsighted! Severe cases of CT are often found in assembly-line workers (such as the claimant in this case). It is hardly limited to people who sit at their terminals all day.
Some of the worst cases I've read about were minimum-wage butchers at meat processing plants. Try cutting 3000 pieces of meat in one day if you think that moving your mouse hurts.
That's what unprocessed NWS doppler radar always looks like-- the radar scans at a very low angle, so buildings, boats, even ocean waves in the vicinity of the radar station on Long Island create that halo of noise.
I think that open source can apply to hardware, too.
Given parts and plans, a whole cottage industry could spring up as a workaround to the DMCA, manufacturing "retro" audio and video gear that uses free codecs and public formats. Seems like there'd be more than enough demand from geeks and audiophiles to compete with the "mass" electronics manufacturers.
Completely potshot, completely random, and yet reliable enough for some pretty high-level stuff, neat.
I've heard that the US Military has for some time been using microwave transmitters to heat large sections of the upper atmosphere in order to achieve the same radio-reflective effect with less guesswork.
>They have used highly advanced social >engineering to take advantage of the fact the >people are sheep, and further bred and >proliferated the sheep mentality.
Sheep are made into sheep by other sheep-- after all, how many corporate executives can actually make an original decision? I think that gives the non-sheep, the wolves and shepherds, a little more breathing room.
Lets say that I stream an mp3 playlist from the media server in my living room to a workstation in the garage so that I can listen to my music while I fix my car. Is that an internet broadcast?
What if I pick up the stream on my workstation at work? Is it only an "Internet Broadcast" if I share it with my friends? I can give my CD to a friend without violating the law. How is this different?
I wish the RIAA would concentrate their efforts on seeking restitution for commercial piracy that has actually occurred instead of trying to do an end-run on our civil liberties in advance of any violation of the law. They seem to hold the mistaken belief that, left to our own devices, we will all become criminals at the first opportunity.
I am innocent of bringing down the record industry until proven guilty!
What do you mean "forged"? That email has your electronic signature on it, which makes it legally binding, etc etc.--- can you prove it WASN'T you that pressed the send button?
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Didya notice the sasquatch strolling on the beach below her house? Methinks that's the *real* reason she doesn't want this photo published.
>I've never seen packages arrive late.
Lucky you. In my zip code, packages from Amazon.com are routinely disappeared. You'd think Amazon would notice and use UPS, but they keep sending regular mail.
There's nothing like going to the post office to report a missing shipment and hearing the guy in front of you reporting a missing shipment.
I think this is what happened to Elvis!!!
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that Griffin Bell locked him away as a material witness during the Carter Administration... you know, for giving money to CREEP and supporting the Watergate break-in.
Remember back when GUIs were new and Macs came with a Tutorial that would walk you through the basics?
Here's how to select one thing, how to select multiple things, what are files, what is the clipboard, etc.
Does anyone else think that lack of good, basic tuturials are a major omission in modern OSes? Seems like they could bring a lot clueless users up to speed.
Yeah, what a mess. It makes you wish that someone could work up an alternate, optional email network that worked on a postage basis-- similar to snail mail but with much lower costs and digital efficiency.
Each message would require a certain (trivial) amount of e-postage within the network, or cost more if it had to pass through a gateway to another controlled network.
Mail sent to addresses on the existing SMTP network wouldn't cost more to send, but would optionally carry a one-time "return postage" key.
Mail coming FROM the existing SMTP network with a valid key would be allowed through (and the postage deducted from your account or escrow), otherwise it would be blocked and the sender urged to use the postage-enabled network instead.
Seems like the best of both worlds-- power users would maintain mailboxen on the "free" internet for things like lists and public contact (and filter spam), while most others would opt for the spam-free but slightly more expensive postage network. USPS anyone? UN? WTO? (heh)
Surprised not to see samples in the review-- how could you have your hands on one of these and not upload a video of your dog or something?
I've been using Mozilla 1.2alpha and I'm already addicted to Typeahead Find-- land on a page, type / then a search string, and moz scrolls right to the first match on the page. No Ctrl-F, no dialog box!
Typeahead Find: the best thing to happen to browsers since the scroll wheel.
I'm building a CMS that spans multiple virtual sites on the same server, and I considered implementing a single-sign-on system where if you logged into one site on the server, you would be able to access any other site in the CMS (as long as you were a member of that site as well!) without having to log in again.
I nearly built it, because I'm constantly switching from site to site and it's a pain to log in so often. But then the following (purely fictional, I assure you) scenario occurred to me:
"Hey dude, when I go to whaleporn.org on your computer, it has you logged in as *ladyDolphin69*! What's up with that?!? I never knew you were into big mammals..."
SSO is akin to spooky action at a distance: log in to one place and you've logged into them all. No thanks.
The best use I can think of for something like this is multichannel video from one server-- if you can drop two or more of these cards in a mid-range box you could make all kinds fun multi-display distractions on the cheap.
Virtual fishtank on three walls of your cubicle! Whee!
Lets say that we switch to a hydrogen economy, and over the next 100 years we leak several billion cubic feet of it into the atmosphere... what are the effects? Will we miss it?
How will massive amounts of accidental hydrogen emissions compare to massive amounts of purposeful CO2 emissions?
Don't be so nearsighted! Severe cases of CT are often found in assembly-line workers (such as the claimant in this case). It is hardly limited to people who sit at their terminals all day.
Some of the worst cases I've read about were minimum-wage butchers at meat processing plants. Try cutting 3000 pieces of meat in one day if you think that moving your mouse hurts.
According to the securityfocus article, he was able to access Yahoo's content management system by masquerading as a host on their intranet.
Does that mean that anybody at Yahoo with a mind to can change news stories at will, without even so much as a password? Trusting company, if so.
That's what unprocessed NWS doppler radar always looks like-- the radar scans at a very low angle, so buildings, boats, even ocean waves in the vicinity of the radar station on Long Island create that halo of noise.
Skies are clear here in Manhattan.
I think that open source can apply to hardware, too.
Given parts and plans, a whole cottage industry could spring up as a workaround to the DMCA, manufacturing "retro" audio and video gear that uses free codecs and public formats. Seems like there'd be more than enough demand from geeks and audiophiles to compete with the "mass" electronics manufacturers.
Completely potshot, completely random, and yet reliable enough for some pretty high-level stuff, neat. I've heard that the US Military has for some time been using microwave transmitters to heat large sections of the upper atmosphere in order to achieve the same radio-reflective effect with less guesswork.
>They have used highly advanced social >engineering to take advantage of the fact the >people are sheep, and further bred and >proliferated the sheep mentality.
Sheep are made into sheep by other sheep-- after all, how many corporate executives can actually make an original decision? I think that gives the non-sheep, the wolves and shepherds, a little more breathing room.
I say let them bleat cake.
Lets say that I stream an mp3 playlist from the media server in my living room to a workstation in the garage so that I can listen to my music while I fix my car. Is that an internet broadcast?
What if I pick up the stream on my workstation at work? Is it only an "Internet Broadcast" if I share it with my friends? I can give my CD to a friend without violating the law. How is this different?
I wish the RIAA would concentrate their efforts on seeking restitution for commercial piracy that has actually occurred instead of trying to do an end-run on our civil liberties in advance of any violation of the law. They seem to hold the mistaken belief that, left to our own devices, we will all become criminals at the first opportunity.
I am innocent of bringing down the record industry until proven guilty!
This looks like the kind of thing you could put footstraps on and type with your feet! Yay, now I can drink beer AND eat pizza while I write.
Built in breathalyzer uses Bluetooth to disable your car keys above a certian blood alcohol level.
Can also tell if soda is flat.
What do you mean "forged"? That email has your electronic signature on it, which makes it legally binding, etc etc.--- can you prove it WASN'T you that pressed the send button?