Thanks - I had only seen big dog from BD. This is a serious leap forward. It doesn't seem to run, but it does what it does in 3d and autonomously (less power/control cables). Amazing.
In general free expression / free speech has limits. You can't, in the classic example, yell "Fire" in a crowded movie theater and expect to evade prosecution on free speech grounds. I think that's the general basis for prosecution of these guys: in general you can't incite a crowd to become violent and expect free speech protections. That's different from planning to incite a crowd to become violent which is probably protected..
I'm really curious to know if there's an ape-servant that says "no" as the original movie mentions. It's a great concept and I am little worried that super-ape escape concept is going to put paid to the original storyline..
It's a good point. There's another story that makes a compelling case for a single event / group that won the war (not that the two stories are mutually exclusive). Told in the book "A Man Called Intrepid" the basic concept was that the pre-OSS crew got Hitler and the Nazi leadership all fired up about how America didn't take them seriously, via intentionally intercepted mail, so that when Japan declared war on the US, Hitler did too b/c he wanted to show the US how powerful he was (what other reason, beyond a paper treaty which Hitler often failed to honor, is there for him to declare war on the US at that moment?).
If Hitler hadn't declared war on the US right after Pearl Harbor, the book argues, the US might have turned west towards Japan solely, and UK would have been in deep trouble, possibly resulting in a solidified Nazi Europe with detente with the US and Russia.. Hmm.
Great book anyway - and a nice balance to reading up on Bletchley.
Thanks! Have you tried a generic touchscreen stylus on it (e.g., http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028YFQ5U)? What I hear is that while a lot of tablet touchscreen are good for fingers, their resolution and response time is too poor to make effective hand-writing capture devices.. All input welcome!
How's the screen input quality? Specifically can you write on it with any stylus? I want a tablet for pen-like notetaking and can't find one that gets good reviews on this front.. Thanks!
I use GeekISP.com to run my mail servers. It's basically one guy who knows BSD running a shared server business. It's an awesome set of services - I get linux shell access, postgres and mysql, can run python, php or ruby apps, serve anon and multi-user login ftp, and he gives great mail services. His spam filtering system (using grey lists) eliminates virtually all spam.
The squirrel mail UI for web access is not great though, and that's where you're going to need to roll your own. He can handle the SMTP services to/from your account reliably and give you great spam protection, but the UI layer you'll have to solve elsewhere. Personally, I just forward from GeekISP to gmail (and fork a copy to my local thunderbird account so I don't rely on gmail to have the only copy of all my email). But since you're bailing on large company, web-based email services, some other posters have given good suggestions as to what UI to install. But for my two cents, geekisp hasn't let me down in the 5+ years I've been using them, and I'd recommend simplifying your problems by using a reliable third party like geekisp to manage your core email services.
I've also noticed that you can write almost anything you want if you footnote it and link to basically any semi-authoritative article on a subject that mostly relates to the article (it doesn't have to have anything to do with your actual point). So the obsession with citations, while I understand it on principle, is basically ineffective b/c blackhats who want to inject intentional noise/bad info are not deterred. And it probably dissuades a lot of friendly people with the right intentions..
Yeah really. I thought the punch line to this story would be "..and then they promptly lost the private key that encrypted all that data."
Encryption doesn't solve much on its own - it's the process that surrounds the encryption (key and passphrase management, decryption environments, etc) that matter just as much..
Totally agree - it's just a horrible chart. The notion of given arithmetic projections on the small amount of data available for SSD's is ridiculous, especially given that failure rates for all the drives for which there are data over an extended period are all geometric.
As Niels Bohr might have remarked, any conclusions drawn from data on that chart "would not even be wrong."
In the retail market and from a net revenue perspective, you've got a point, but I do want to point out that it's Google buying a *thousand* patents from IBM and not the other way around..
It works fine for me about 99.5% of the time. The 1/2% with SO can be a PITA - generally can be solved by uninstalling SO on one of the machines, removing lingering files and reinstalling. I haven't had any file loss problems, but periodically the sync does bunge up. But it's usually fairly obvious it's failed and I uninstall and can get it working.
Not perfect but find me an alternative that does sync better and has mac, window, linux, iphone and android clients and I'll switch!
I have Ubuntu running on a portable USB drive too, but even after messing with the casperfs stuff, I can't figure how to get a persistent drive storage (granted I'm a linux idiot). Any links or helpful tips? (realizing this is way OT). Thanks!
I can confirm from inside the federal gov't that you're precisely right. One agency was running IE6 in 2008 when I visited. They all hated it but for 'security reasons' they weren't allowed to upgrade. The reason? Not b/c IE7 was less secure but b/c they hadn't done a security 'analysis' of it, so it wasn't cleared for use (never mind that the rest of the world has done so, and it was possible to determine with a high degree of confidence that IE7 was more secure by googling the topic for half an hour or less). It's that kind of tortured logic that makes gov't IT such a spectacular pain in the ass and so ineffective..
In my assessment of the jury I was on, if anyone else had been the foreman, we would have arrived at a decision to either acquit or convict of murder. At one point there were 10 of 12 on board with murder 2, and in the end came around to the fact that the evidence didn't support that, even though most of us "knew" that this was "probably" what he did.
My point is that if my jury experience represents a common case (and my anecdotal conversations with others from serious crime juries hasn't proven me wrong), then smaller juries might be worse not better (fewer chances to get a rational person on the panel working with the rest to help them get to where they need to/should go)..
I was the jury foreman on a murder trial and I'm really glad in that case there was only one jury b/c there were some real nutjobs on both sides (acquital and top punishment regardless of facts). By forcing the jury to stick to the process of evaluating the facts, we were able to reach a verdict (vol manslaughter) that was supported by the evidence. If I voted my "instinct" I probably would have gone to murder, and a lot of people on the jury wanted to do that, rather than look at what the evidence could prove. Some others didn't want to follow the law and wanted to acquit b/c the guy was poor and black. In the end, they responded to rational arguments but it took a week and made me realize how decisions get made in most jury rooms: pure biased intuition and unreasoned, evidence free conversation.
I would agree with this. Time will tell, but they definitely are changing. I had a chance to meet with a few senior people at MS recently and their attitude as compared to the attitude of people in similar positions at MS I met with 15 years ago is dramatic. They're now all "Aw shucks, we want to do the right thing, how can we help?"
I also was able to meet with some (middle management) people at Google and their attitude reminded me very strongly of MS's behavior 15 years ago: They don't listen to what others say and what they say often implies: "We're the smartest people on the planet, the world revolves around us, if you don't want to work with us and use our stuff, you're just an idiot."
So it think I can conclude that Google sees themselves as "winning" the way that MS saw themselves winning in the late 90's.
So I wouldn't be at all surprised to see MS start incorporating more effective open source interoperability with their stuff now. MS' current existential threat is no longer seen as Linux and GPL/FOSS, it's seen as Google, Apple and Facebook.. (All closed source companies.) Ergo their "new attitude" towards F/OSS.
Are you're saying Nixon didn't resign b/c Congress was going to impeach him on charges of authorizing the break-in to Watergate? And that Deep Throat wasn't dishing on that specific issue in back channel to WaPo reporters?
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This is the best thing you can do for strangers on your network: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html
lol - for real. You got me. Good one.
Thanks - I had only seen big dog from BD. This is a serious leap forward. It doesn't seem to run, but it does what it does in 3d and autonomously (less power/control cables). Amazing.
In general free expression / free speech has limits. You can't, in the classic example, yell "Fire" in a crowded movie theater and expect to evade prosecution on free speech grounds. I think that's the general basis for prosecution of these guys: in general you can't incite a crowd to become violent and expect free speech protections. That's different from planning to incite a crowd to become violent which is probably protected..
I'm really curious to know if there's an ape-servant that says "no" as the original movie mentions. It's a great concept and I am little worried that super-ape escape concept is going to put paid to the original storyline..
It's a good point. There's another story that makes a compelling case for a single event / group that won the war (not that the two stories are mutually exclusive). Told in the book "A Man Called Intrepid" the basic concept was that the pre-OSS crew got Hitler and the Nazi leadership all fired up about how America didn't take them seriously, via intentionally intercepted mail, so that when Japan declared war on the US, Hitler did too b/c he wanted to show the US how powerful he was (what other reason, beyond a paper treaty which Hitler often failed to honor, is there for him to declare war on the US at that moment?).
If Hitler hadn't declared war on the US right after Pearl Harbor, the book argues, the US might have turned west towards Japan solely, and UK would have been in deep trouble, possibly resulting in a solidified Nazi Europe with detente with the US and Russia.. Hmm.
Great book anyway - and a nice balance to reading up on Bletchley.
That is a king mother of euphemisms there. Well done!
Don't care - so long as I get a reasonably fine pen point with low lag from the ink when writing.. Any thoughts?
Thanks! Have you tried a generic touchscreen stylus on it (e.g., http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0028YFQ5U)? What I hear is that while a lot of tablet touchscreen are good for fingers, their resolution and response time is too poor to make effective hand-writing capture devices.. All input welcome!
How's the screen input quality? Specifically can you write on it with any stylus? I want a tablet for pen-like notetaking and can't find one that gets good reviews on this front.. Thanks!
I use GeekISP.com to run my mail servers. It's basically one guy who knows BSD running a shared server business. It's an awesome set of services - I get linux shell access, postgres and mysql, can run python, php or ruby apps, serve anon and multi-user login ftp, and he gives great mail services. His spam filtering system (using grey lists) eliminates virtually all spam.
The squirrel mail UI for web access is not great though, and that's where you're going to need to roll your own. He can handle the SMTP services to/from your account reliably and give you great spam protection, but the UI layer you'll have to solve elsewhere. Personally, I just forward from GeekISP to gmail (and fork a copy to my local thunderbird account so I don't rely on gmail to have the only copy of all my email). But since you're bailing on large company, web-based email services, some other posters have given good suggestions as to what UI to install. But for my two cents, geekisp hasn't let me down in the 5+ years I've been using them, and I'd recommend simplifying your problems by using a reliable third party like geekisp to manage your core email services.
Thank you. Now I get it. Hopefully someone with mod points can use them on your post. +5 Informative!
I've also noticed that you can write almost anything you want if you footnote it and link to basically any semi-authoritative article on a subject that mostly relates to the article (it doesn't have to have anything to do with your actual point). So the obsession with citations, while I understand it on principle, is basically ineffective b/c blackhats who want to inject intentional noise/bad info are not deterred. And it probably dissuades a lot of friendly people with the right intentions..
Yeah really. I thought the punch line to this story would be "..and then they promptly lost the private key that encrypted all that data."
Encryption doesn't solve much on its own - it's the process that surrounds the encryption (key and passphrase management, decryption environments, etc) that matter just as much..
Totally agree - it's just a horrible chart. The notion of given arithmetic projections on the small amount of data available for SSD's is ridiculous, especially given that failure rates for all the drives for which there are data over an extended period are all geometric.
As Niels Bohr might have remarked, any conclusions drawn from data on that chart "would not even be wrong."
In the retail market and from a net revenue perspective, you've got a point, but I do want to point out that it's Google buying a *thousand* patents from IBM and not the other way around..
It works fine for me about 99.5% of the time. The 1/2% with SO can be a PITA - generally can be solved by uninstalling SO on one of the machines, removing lingering files and reinstalling. I haven't had any file loss problems, but periodically the sync does bunge up. But it's usually fairly obvious it's failed and I uninstall and can get it working.
Not perfect but find me an alternative that does sync better and has mac, window, linux, iphone and android clients and I'll switch!
Trees grow themselves!
I have Ubuntu running on a portable USB drive too, but even after messing with the casperfs stuff, I can't figure how to get a persistent drive storage (granted I'm a linux idiot). Any links or helpful tips? (realizing this is way OT). Thanks!
I can confirm from inside the federal gov't that you're precisely right. One agency was running IE6 in 2008 when I visited. They all hated it but for 'security reasons' they weren't allowed to upgrade. The reason? Not b/c IE7 was less secure but b/c they hadn't done a security 'analysis' of it, so it wasn't cleared for use (never mind that the rest of the world has done so, and it was possible to determine with a high degree of confidence that IE7 was more secure by googling the topic for half an hour or less). It's that kind of tortured logic that makes gov't IT such a spectacular pain in the ass and so ineffective..
In my assessment of the jury I was on, if anyone else had been the foreman, we would have arrived at a decision to either acquit or convict of murder. At one point there were 10 of 12 on board with murder 2, and in the end came around to the fact that the evidence didn't support that, even though most of us "knew" that this was "probably" what he did.
My point is that if my jury experience represents a common case (and my anecdotal conversations with others from serious crime juries hasn't proven me wrong), then smaller juries might be worse not better (fewer chances to get a rational person on the panel working with the rest to help them get to where they need to/should go)..
I was the jury foreman on a murder trial and I'm really glad in that case there was only one jury b/c there were some real nutjobs on both sides (acquital and top punishment regardless of facts). By forcing the jury to stick to the process of evaluating the facts, we were able to reach a verdict (vol manslaughter) that was supported by the evidence. If I voted my "instinct" I probably would have gone to murder, and a lot of people on the jury wanted to do that, rather than look at what the evidence could prove. Some others didn't want to follow the law and wanted to acquit b/c the guy was poor and black. In the end, they responded to rational arguments but it took a week and made me realize how decisions get made in most jury rooms: pure biased intuition and unreasoned, evidence free conversation.
I would agree with this. Time will tell, but they definitely are changing. I had a chance to meet with a few senior people at MS recently and their attitude as compared to the attitude of people in similar positions at MS I met with 15 years ago is dramatic. They're now all "Aw shucks, we want to do the right thing, how can we help?"
I also was able to meet with some (middle management) people at Google and their attitude reminded me very strongly of MS's behavior 15 years ago: They don't listen to what others say and what they say often implies: "We're the smartest people on the planet, the world revolves around us, if you don't want to work with us and use our stuff, you're just an idiot."
So it think I can conclude that Google sees themselves as "winning" the way that MS saw themselves winning in the late 90's.
So I wouldn't be at all surprised to see MS start incorporating more effective open source interoperability with their stuff now. MS' current existential threat is no longer seen as Linux and GPL/FOSS, it's seen as Google, Apple and Facebook.. (All closed source companies.) Ergo their "new attitude" towards F/OSS.
Are you're saying Nixon didn't resign b/c Congress was going to impeach him on charges of authorizing the break-in to Watergate? And that Deep Throat wasn't dishing on that specific issue in back channel to WaPo reporters?