I'm used to make, vim and text based debugging. The IDE ended up seeming clumsy to me (I know, I'm weird....)
The webforms (aspx) stuff is componentized html. It's not that much different then any other raw html editing (the component nature makes it substantially easier to seperate form/content).
I'm no MS fanboy, but the dotnet SDK makes me quite happy.
Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send
Jon Postel
The parent raises and important point, one that the Internet (and HTML) was designed around. The appearance of early web pages was akin to gopher (look it up) browsers guessing was not a serious problem. Graphic sensibilities don't come into the picture for several years.
You know, I had a strong password generator on my website for a while, but then I realized that most people paranoid enough to use a generator would be paranoid that I would be logging all strong password requests...
There are a stack of javascript base password generators (look up javascript password generators and ignore the bogus "web site protection" scripts). Now, I'm sure the truly paranoid won't be placated, but...
If I respect the paper, I don't have much issue with giving them some marketing info. What I do have issue with is keeping track of a lot of IDs to logon. There are half a dozen "national" papers (Washington Post most certainly among them) that I am likley to want to read online any given week. I do not want to keep track of all those identities though.
If I deposit my savings at a bank, that doesn't make it the bank's property. Perhaps they *manage* over $1-trillion of other people's assets.
All large banks loan pretty much all of those assets (sometimes even more). While "ownership" seems a little hazy here, the standard you've suggested does seem to indicate ownership of teh loans. A loan is written solely between the bank and the borrower. The depositer has no (direct anyhow) connection to the lent money (this makes the "manage" qualifier hazy as well).
Bill didn't invent the Operating System, or the Word Processor, or a Web Browser. What Bill did was to enter each of those spaces and offer what people were looking for at the cheapest price with some innovative features. Linux/OSS may be offering an interesting proposition, but the products speak for themselves. Linux/OSS is like the imitation product made by people who are smart enough to figure out how to make a clone and tweak a few things. Now, imagine you are at a counter of a camera store. The salesperson behind the counter shows you a $300 Canon camera, and a $50 Kanan. Do you buy the Kanan, made by people smart enough to roughly clone the original and maybe add a few differences?
This summarizes pretty simply as
Bill makes copies something, then it's good
If others copy something, then it's a cheap copy, and not good
Brand name is the measure of all things
Not particularly persuasive...
Not to mention any of the vast list of OSS originated ideas that MS copies (often poorly).
How many UCal Berkley strings are resident in your WIN32 directory?
[snip] I know zero, count 'em, zero people for whom area code has any relevance.
Shorthand response
7+-2
Longer response.
7 digits is the right number to remember. I see no compelling reason not to limit to the best extent we can, the length of phone numbers.
Because of cell phones, area codes are irrelevant [snip]
Within a carrier network maybe. From anywhere else, this is not so. The advent of number portability makes this more of an issue. Calls originating from another carriers network are not routed ASN style, but regionally, AKA area codes. While the extra routing penalty imposed may not have enough time delay to be noticeable (I have no info on this) it certainly introduces a lot of chaos. Given 7+-2 I believe the cost signifigantly outweighs the benefit.
Another way of looking at this, IP routing is geographically and class based.
> Which would you rather have, a lawyer who sued who you told her to sue, > or a lawyer who used her own judgement on who was worth sueing.
This seems foolhardy, part of what a lawyer provide is advice. I want a lawyer I can work with, but I do not presume to have better legal sense then my lawyer.
To reframe the issue, would you want an architect to make design choices in concert with you, or would you want them to blindly implement your every whim.
This is the basic point of the article by the way. The author thinks the RIAA is adopting a legal strategy that will backfire, despite narrow legal advantages.
If it's truly your signature, then you are liable for fraud, but that is a matter to be determined by the courts. The $50 limitation comes AFTER you call in the stolen card report. They cancel your card, and you are liable for a maximum of $50 from the moment of call-in)
The liability limit is a safeguard, but far from sufficient. I've known at least one person with stolen identity, and that took most of a year to work through the ramifications. To add to this, that person worked at the bank that issued the cards.
There are several problems (probably more then what I'm listing here....)
1) Credit Reporting information is not protected. You can be effectively cutoff from modern financial life with no recourse (no checks, no credit, and signifigantly reduced employability).
2) You need to discover the fraud before the liability waiver is invoked. This can often be extremely difficult (in more sophisticated thefts you will never be mailed a staement to check!)
3) The beauracratic wheels often are relentless regardless of legal constaints. This was the primary issue with my aquaintence dealt with. Reversing charges in one month does not mean those charges will not continue to keep reocurring in future statements.
Of course IANAL, but I've at least watched this issue for a while.
> I keep hearing on/. about this thing called a Constitution > which guarantees one to be innocent until proven guilty. > I guess that only applies selectively according > to the whims of geeks? Rights exist to protect > ALL whether you agree with or even like others.
There is no constitutional "right" that applies here.
The constitution refers to restrictions on governmental bodies, not individual citizens. Nothing in the constitution mentions Slashdotters at all, and the closest parallel would mention something about "freedom of the press".
Short of libel, Slashdotters are constitutionally free to post there opinions about anyones gult or innocence.
Please detail how you opt out via "not subscribiung to there service...
As I can see it, there are two interpretations, both problematic.
a) no local phone service all-together (the drawbacks to this should be obvious)
b) Using a CLEC. While this on the surface sounds good, I rather doubt it. No CLEC is actually going to build out a physical plant (it doesn't make economic sense) so your call is being carried by the RBOC at some point anyways. As a transity provider, they may be under even less legal or economic obligation then they are as your phone company.
I'd like to see a little more intelligent discussion of pricing (yeah I know, this is slashdot...)
This product occupies a strange space, somewhere between a temporary generator and a high-end UPS. I checked the Coleman site for pricing on real generators, and (as consistent with my experience elsewhere) the pricing was "call us".
Any ideas on the real pricing of generator systems?
I'm not worried about personel cost to maintain (though I'm sure that's a real cost) but just the generator itself and the related infrastructure (venting etc.) as well as the related regulatory information.
A lot of people ask me about setting up backup power; I've talked to enough folks to get a good idea of what's at stake, but I'd love to hear more.From what little I can see, this fuel cell might actually be a viable option for many of those folks.
> A generic (Honda, or something) gasoline generator
Have you actually tried that? I think you'd be in for a rude shock. Power quality will almost certainly cost you a lot more then the 10K that the fuel cell would set you back.
Exhaust concerns aside (as others have noted) and legal concerns (any hosting/computer business that attempts to make that a real part of there strategy is flouting a whole lot of OSHA regs) I have real doubts that it would work at all.
Having actually seen someone try to make that work (they knew better but were in a tight spot) power quality is a real killer. Both the equipment itself (how many servers are you willing to kill with bad power) and the UPS (which in the case of my freind, wisely quit accepting such wildly out of spec power) will probably fail.
More to the point, this product is positioned somewhat oddly, it's not a UPS (which everyone here sense is your best bang for the buck) yet it's not really a generator (not hot swappable nor running at the loads that a real generator can). I'm not sure how you'd price that.
I can venture a guess as to what is going on here. I'm pretty sure that AOL still uses Tymenet and Sprintnet to offer their dial-up service. That means it's PPP over X.25 rather then a standard modem connection
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Do you have pointers such lists?
That's not my experience.
I'm used to make, vim and text based debugging. The IDE ended up seeming clumsy to me (I know, I'm weird....)
The webforms (aspx) stuff is componentized html. It's not that much different then any other raw html editing (the component nature makes it substantially easier to seperate form/content).
I'm no MS fanboy, but the dotnet SDK makes me quite happy.
The parent raises and important point, one that the Internet (and HTML) was designed around. The appearance of early web pages was akin to gopher (look it up) browsers guessing was not a serious problem. Graphic sensibilities don't come into the picture for several years.
Use antiword instead of strings.
Works pretty well (It allows me to use mutt relatively painlessly in a corporate environment).
Quadruple rot13....
One better then triple DES
You purchase the Office Developers package. This give you the runtime package. It is not free, but upon purchase is freely distributable.
There are a stack of javascript base password generators (look up javascript password generators and ignore the bogus "web site protection" scripts). Now, I'm sure the truly paranoid won't be placated, but...
Mr Brooks was the 360 project manager. The books audience is project managers (read "bosses"). He was fully aware of organizational politics.
I have!
It's not horrible (thouogh I'd rather not recieve it). It comes in spurts, but averages 1-2 a month.
It may be because I was once a print subscriber.
Thanks for the great post.
You may be interested in feedback.
If I respect the paper, I don't have much issue with giving them some marketing info. What I do have issue with is keeping track of a lot of IDs to logon. There are half a dozen "national" papers (Washington Post most certainly among them) that I am likley to want to read online any given week. I do not want to keep track of all those identities though.
All large banks loan pretty much all of those assets (sometimes even more). While "ownership" seems a little hazy here, the standard you've suggested does seem to indicate ownership of teh loans. A loan is written solely between the bank and the borrower. The depositer has no (direct anyhow) connection to the lent money (this makes the "manage" qualifier hazy as well).
Thus the $1 trillion is likely accurate.
This summarizes pretty simply as
Not particularly persuasive...
Not to mention any of the vast list of OSS originated ideas that MS copies (often poorly).
How many UCal Berkley strings are resident in your WIN32 directory?
I, for one, found the question useful. I normally use nonags, but was glad to see other sites, in particualr pricelesswares.com.
Asking people can be lazy, but it can also take advantage of all our collective experience.
Shorthand response
Longer response.
7 digits is the right number to remember. I see no compelling reason not
to limit to the best extent we can, the length of phone numbers.
Within a carrier network maybe. From anywhere else, this is not so. The advent
of number portability makes this more of an issue. Calls originating from
another carriers network are not routed ASN style, but regionally, AKA
area codes. While the extra routing penalty imposed may not have enough time
delay to be noticeable (I have no info on this) it certainly introduces a
lot of chaos. Given 7+-2 I believe the cost signifigantly outweighs the
benefit.
Another way of looking at this, IP routing is geographically and class based.
> Which would you rather have, a lawyer who sued who you told her to sue,
> or a lawyer who used her own judgement on who was worth sueing.
This seems foolhardy, part of what a lawyer provide is advice. I want a lawyer I can work with, but I do not presume to have better legal sense then my lawyer.
To reframe the issue, would you want an architect to make design choices in concert with you, or would you want them to blindly implement your every whim.
This is the basic point of the article by the way. The author thinks the RIAA is adopting a legal strategy that will backfire, despite narrow legal advantages.
> And besides, what is the point?
$0.02 a minute
Makes sense to me
If it's truly your signature, then you are liable for fraud, but that is a matter to be determined by the courts. The $50 limitation comes AFTER you call in the stolen card report. They cancel your card, and you are liable for a maximum of $50 from the moment of call-in)
The liability limit is a safeguard, but far from sufficient. I've known at least one person with stolen identity, and that took most of a year to work through the ramifications. To add to this, that person worked at the bank that issued the cards.
There are several problems (probably more then what I'm listing here....)
1) Credit Reporting information is not protected. You can be effectively cutoff from modern financial life with no recourse (no checks, no credit, and signifigantly reduced employability).
2) You need to discover the fraud before the liability waiver is invoked. This can often be extremely difficult (in more sophisticated thefts you will never be mailed a staement to check!)
3) The beauracratic wheels often are relentless regardless of legal constaints. This was the primary issue with my aquaintence dealt with. Reversing charges in one month does not mean those charges will not continue to keep reocurring in future statements.
Of course IANAL, but I've at least watched this issue for a while.
> I keep hearing on /. about this thing called a Constitution
> which guarantees one to be innocent until proven guilty.
> I guess that only applies selectively according
> to the whims of geeks? Rights exist to protect
> ALL whether you agree with or even like others.
There is no constitutional "right" that applies here.
The constitution refers to restrictions on governmental bodies, not individual citizens. Nothing in the constitution mentions Slashdotters at all, and the closest parallel would mention something about "freedom of the press".
Short of libel, Slashdotters are constitutionally free to post there opinions about anyones gult or innocence.
Please detail how you opt out via "not subscribiung to there service...
As I can see it, there are two interpretations, both problematic.
a) no local phone service all-together (the drawbacks to this should be obvious)
b) Using a CLEC. While this on the surface sounds good, I rather doubt it. No CLEC is actually going to build out a physical plant (it doesn't make economic sense) so your call is being carried by the RBOC at some point anyways. As a transity provider, they may be under even less legal or economic obligation then they are as your phone company.
I'm running debian on a mac. The Lexmark supplied drivers do not help me. Sometimes source is a necessity.
I'd like to see a little more intelligent discussion of pricing (yeah I know, this is slashdot...)
This product occupies a strange space, somewhere between a temporary generator and a high-end UPS. I checked the Coleman site for pricing on real generators, and (as consistent with my experience elsewhere) the pricing was "call us".
Any ideas on the real pricing of generator systems?
I'm not worried about personel cost to maintain (though I'm sure that's a real cost) but just the generator itself and the related infrastructure (venting etc.) as well as the related regulatory information.
A lot of people ask me about setting up backup power; I've talked to enough folks to get a good idea of what's at stake, but I'd love to hear more.From what little I can see, this fuel cell might actually be a viable option for many of those folks.
> A generic (Honda, or something) gasoline generator
Have you actually tried that? I think you'd be in for a rude shock. Power quality will almost certainly cost you a lot more then the 10K that the fuel cell would set you back.
Exhaust concerns aside (as others have noted) and legal concerns (any hosting/computer business that attempts to make that a real part of there strategy is flouting a whole lot of OSHA regs) I have real doubts that it would work at all.
Having actually seen someone try to make that work (they knew better but were in a tight spot) power quality is a real killer. Both the equipment itself (how many servers are you willing to kill with bad power) and the UPS (which in the case of my freind, wisely quit accepting such wildly out of spec power) will probably fail.
More to the point, this product is positioned somewhat oddly, it's not a UPS (which everyone here sense is your best bang for the buck) yet it's not really a generator (not hot swappable nor running at the loads that a real generator can). I'm not sure how you'd price that.
I can venture a guess as to what is going on here. I'm pretty sure that AOL still uses Tymenet and Sprintnet to offer their dial-up service. That means it's PPP over X.25 rather then a standard modem connection