The guy you're thinking of is Philippe Kahn, note that TP wasn't ONLY for DOS (it also ran on TRS-80 model IV and probably other Z80 targets), and I have NO CLUE what the hell made you think of him, because I can't see anything in TFA related to a Philip. Or a Khan. Unless some slashbot was trolling, "Khhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"
My theory is that somebody got into a man hole, stuck a loaded shotgun into a large, multi-purpose conduit, and pulled the trigger.
Then some pellets continued to travel a km before making contact with something.
Not as unlikely as your scenarious, but not probable either. A full klick sounds a little long for a shotgun.. Although, shooting into a tube can do wierd things with range due to muzzle gas emmissions and so forth.
WOW, I thought I was old a couple of years back when I turned 040! Of course, I too have a lot of computer memories, I have been programming since I was 011. And I learned basic TTL logic and how to count in binary up to 10000 when I was 111. I must have burnt myself with a soldering iron -1 times that year!
I'm sure there are plenty of other factual errors in TFA, then. I only skimmed and spotted the "2K VIC-20" part.
I don't think a VIC-20 would even RUN with only 2K of RAM installed (and to get so little, you'd have to take a soldering iron to the main board). They shipped with 5KB RAM with 3583 bytes free for BASIC programs. Some of that would be around 0-page, some of it must be mapped higher for video.
> Why do you have to bring the devices back to their previous state? Why can't you just reset them and reload their drivers instead?
You're kidding, right?
Just how the hell do you expect the software layer to know what you've just done?
Let's say, you're connected to a dumb terminal at 38400 bps. You reset the driver, which initializes at 9600. Now when you wake up from sleep, your terminal application is busted.
I could make ENDLESS lists of examples. That's just a really easy one.
You don't even need to have special properties for ad-serving domains -- put a short timeout on ALL domains and then use proxy-autoconfig to determine which sites get proxied and which don't.
Assuming you don't care about any of the other SQUID benefits (e.g. LAN-wide cache)
> CD-R, CD-RW was one schism, that looks trivially comprehensible compared to > the acronym soup of DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-ROM, etc. Then the HD/Bluray war.
You said, it brother.
I once witnessed the following discussion between a sales droid and a customer in a major department store:
C: (looking at blank media) What's the difference between the DVD minus R and the DVD plus R? SD: The DVD plus R, you can read and write to it. The minus R is, well, you can only write to it, you can't read from it
Not only that... but did you know that the machine you're surfing from is broadcasting an IP address?!?! Every time you connect to the Internet, send email or submit a private information to a web site, you are broadcasting this unique address. With this address, someone can immediately begin attacking your computer!!!!1!!!1!!
Goodbye to the magnetic tape world. Where the sharks of the RI-double-A howl. Then throw out his copy of gay penthouse And show him how to surf up some pron.
I have one of those. Unfortunately, it doesn't actually say "Engineer's Hammer" on it. I bought it because it reminded me of a certain mythologically excellent hammer.
When I tell a tech, "Hey, pass me Mjolnir!".. They will go to my tool box and retrieve the correct hammer. Either that, or they will be chided for possessing insufficient leetness.
> Smilies were part of BBS culture long before then.
Interesting, where are you from?
Not around here they weren't. I started BBSing in 1985, heavily in 1987, but didn't get into Fidonet until... 1991? And I was never into LD BBSing.
I'm quite certain of the date smileys became part of my "online lexicon" because I remember where I was when somebody said "turn your head, sideways, dumb-ass".
Too bad you can't google for:-)
> The term "emoticon" came around a lot later, and I suppose > it's more descriptive, but honestly I thought at the time > it was a clumsy coinage that wouldn't stick.
If it makes you feel any better, I thought that FTP-with-pictures (HTTP) would be a passing fad. Whoops. My mistake there was not realizing that the hyper part of HTTP was different than the graphical part of Excalibur BBS systems.
...but emoticons didn't come into *popular* usage until sometime around 1992 by recollections. I remember staring at:-) on a green-screen Zenith z19 terminal, hooked up to a hard-wire modem going to an IBM mainframe running VM/CMS trying to figure out what the fuck it meant.
Before smileys, we used to write shit like *grin* or . Or write weird things after our names betwen LPAREN and RPAREN.
> Sample 1,000 people who've had their liberty severely curtailed by some > scofflaw, and see if they don't think this is a jolly good idea.
My house has been robbed. Twice. I lost of a LOT of irreplaceable stuff both times.
If you put a camera in front of my house relaying data back to Police HQ, and told me it was GUARANTEED to prevent further break-ins... I would tell you to take that camera and shove it up your ass.
Try stuffing something into your website that relies on a calculation (or other action) done in dynamically-generated javascript. Then validate that on the back end.
I have yet to have anybody add code to their spam engine to incorporate a javascript interpreter. They just move on to the next target. Even clicking a checkbox with javascript has been enough.
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Maybe we could get Con Kolivas to take over kernel stewardship?
The guy you're thinking of is Philippe Kahn, note that TP wasn't ONLY for DOS (it also ran on TRS-80 model IV and probably other Z80 targets), and I have NO CLUE what the hell made you think of him, because I can't see anything in TFA related to a Philip. Or a Khan. Unless some slashbot was trolling, "Khhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"
My theory is that somebody got into a man hole, stuck a loaded shotgun into a large, multi-purpose conduit, and pulled the trigger.
Then some pellets continued to travel a km before making contact with something.
Not as unlikely as your scenarious, but not probable either. A full klick sounds a little long for a shotgun.. Although, shooting into a tube can do wierd things with range due to muzzle gas emmissions and so forth.
I am *so* glad I took an AI half credit in school.
.emacs-custom.el!
Without it, I would surely have missed out on SO MANY slashdot jokes. And
(Thanks, yours was quite funny)
Just hire a Chinese spam gang to spam the mail server at 127.0.0.1!
Sounds like a plan to me. I'd like to FIST SCO too, right after I FIST Bill Gates.
WOW, I thought I was old a couple of years back when I turned 040! Of course, I too have a lot of computer memories, I have been programming since I was 011. And I learned basic TTL logic and how to count in binary up to 10000 when I was 111. I must have burnt myself with a soldering iron -1 times that year!
(Thanks for the link -- email sent)
I'm sure there are plenty of other factual errors in TFA, then. I only skimmed and spotted the "2K VIC-20" part.
I don't think a VIC-20 would even RUN with only 2K of RAM installed (and to get so little, you'd have to take a soldering iron to the main board). They shipped with 5KB RAM with 3583 bytes free for BASIC programs. Some of that would be around 0-page, some of it must be mapped higher for video.
> Why do you have to bring the devices back to their previous state? Why can't you just reset them and reload their drivers instead?
You're kidding, right?
Just how the hell do you expect the software layer to know what you've just done?
Let's say, you're connected to a dumb terminal at 38400 bps. You reset the driver, which initializes at 9600. Now when you wake up from sleep, your terminal application is busted.
I could make ENDLESS lists of examples. That's just a really easy one.
You don't even need to have special properties for ad-serving domains -- put a short timeout on ALL domains and then use proxy-autoconfig to determine which sites get proxied and which don't.
Assuming you don't care about any of the other SQUID benefits (e.g. LAN-wide cache)
DEFER is not supported by Firefox. Nor Safari, for that matter.
> CD-R, CD-RW was one schism, that looks trivially comprehensible compared to
> the acronym soup of DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-ROM, etc. Then the HD/Bluray war.
You said, it brother.
I once witnessed the following discussion between a sales droid and a customer in a major department store:
C: (looking at blank media) What's the difference between the DVD minus R and the DVD plus R?
SD: The DVD plus R, you can read and write to it. The minus R is, well, you can only write to it, you can't read from it
*jesus fucking christ*
If you're ever interviewing for an office assistant, the following question is often entertaining:
"Please describe the purpose of widow and orphan control"
You could be all like, hey look how leet MY program is! And then you'd be all like
I r0x0r d00d, eye yam s0 1337!!!1!11!!
The only problem with that is that every time you rebuilt the program, you'd have to update the manual with new pointer addresses.
Not only that... but did you know that the machine you're surfing from is broadcasting an IP address?!?! Every time you connect to the Internet, send email or submit a private information to a web site, you are broadcasting this unique address. With this address, someone can immediately begin attacking your computer!!!!1!!!1!!
He just needs to say
Goodbye to the magnetic tape world.
Where the sharks of the RI-double-A howl.
Then throw out his copy of gay penthouse
And show him how to surf up some pron.
I have one of those. Unfortunately, it doesn't actually say "Engineer's Hammer" on it. I bought it because it reminded me of a certain mythologically excellent hammer.
.. They will go to my tool box and retrieve the correct hammer. Either that, or they will be chided for possessing insufficient leetness.
When I tell a tech, "Hey, pass me Mjolnir!"
> Smilies were part of BBS culture long before then.
... 1991? And I was never into LD BBSing.
:-)
Interesting, where are you from?
Not around here they weren't. I started BBSing in 1985, heavily in 1987, but didn't get into Fidonet until
I'm quite certain of the date smileys became part of my "online lexicon" because I remember where I was when somebody said "turn your head, sideways, dumb-ass".
Too bad you can't google for
> The term "emoticon" came around a lot later, and I suppose
> it's more descriptive, but honestly I thought at the time
> it was a clumsy coinage that wouldn't stick.
If it makes you feel any better, I thought that FTP-with-pictures (HTTP) would be a passing fad. Whoops. My mistake there was not realizing that the hyper part of HTTP was different than the graphical part of Excalibur BBS systems.
Are you Finnish?
...but emoticons didn't come into *popular* usage until sometime around 1992 by recollections. I remember staring at :-) on a green-screen Zenith z19 terminal, hooked up to a hard-wire modem going to an IBM mainframe running VM/CMS trying to figure out what the fuck it meant.
Before smileys, we used to write shit like *grin* or . Or write weird things after our names betwen LPAREN and RPAREN.
Dumbass.
The Rights of the People are not what is written in some document. There are NATURAL rights.
For example, I doubt I could find a document that says you have the right to breathe freely. Yet I suspect you would argue that you do.
You must understand that codification of members of of a group does not modify the group itself.
> Sample 1,000 people who've had their liberty severely curtailed by some
> scofflaw, and see if they don't think this is a jolly good idea.
My house has been robbed. Twice. I lost of a LOT of irreplaceable stuff both times.
If you put a camera in front of my house relaying data back to Police HQ, and told me it was GUARANTEED to prevent further break-ins... I would tell you to take that camera and shove it up your ass.
What, you can't stand perfectly still for a minute or two?
Clearly, then, you must be a hyped-up drug terrorist.
Try stuffing something into your website that relies on a calculation (or other action) done in dynamically-generated javascript. Then validate that on the back end.
I have yet to have anybody add code to their spam engine to incorporate a javascript interpreter. They just move on to the next target. Even clicking a checkbox with javascript has been enough.
> Has Linux kernel development always been this ... arbitrary ?
Once upon a time... When "Linux" came on a stack of floppies.
There was just this one kernel developer. And whatever the fuck he felt like that day, shipped.
It's LESS arbitrary these days by a significant margin.