I use three stratagys... One is to use old commands used on old computers for low priority accounts (stuff I don't really care about) I use a combonation of favoret numbers (such as some of the numbers of my birthday or old vic20 poke codes) and again old commands or the cryptic names of hardware I have on my desk [not my main computer but my old XTs monitor things like that] I'll also just not bother and have the computer remeber my passwords for me. or save them in a password file.. I've been moving more and more to the password file.. saving them on a backup flopy and keeping the flopy in a safe place. This seems to work very well.
cross fingers...
I prefer to let the computer automaticly enter passwords for me. This is how I usually rembered my passwords for BBSes I call during the 1980s and early 1990s... when the terminal program didn't support it I'd make a macro for each BBS.. when the terminal didn't support macors I wrote the passwords down.. I hated writing anything down but thats life
I try to make my passwords as hard to remeber as posable now a days...
The whole idea of patents is to patent NEW and NOVILE ideas. This is pritty much just a web server caching system hardly a new idea. Even if they did come up with a novile way of implementing it (most likely how they got the pattent) it's not novile and not worth a patent.
It's patents like this that throw the whole idea of IP into question. It's vertually imposable for an indupendent inventor to get a patent on anything (thats as it should be) but anyone with money can patent garbage and commen sence.
Tomarow I patent using unix commands as curse words when an NT box crashes.
Accually it isn't but the days of passwords being effective are over. A cracker can guess a password by using old tecniques detailed in security books published in the 1980s. Such tecniques like "hack/hack" weren't very dangerous at the time but did provide a useful understanding of how a cracker could break in. Today a cracker could effectively use hack/hack or other published tecnqiues. Hack/Hack BTW is a tecnique publised in "Outside the Inner Circle" In short it's "enter everything" not very effective over a 300 baud modem with a SysAdm reading the logs of 100 to 500 users logging in a day with only 10 to 50 mistakes to look over. Today with 56k and up and logs so long a SysAdm could sleep reading through the mistakes log and miss over 1,000 bad passwords from one source.
Also more and more "real world" users use easy passwords in some cases they are even recomended that they use easy passwords (easy to rember = easy to guess).
Also a cracker could grep passwords over Internet trafic if the password itself isn't encripted. In the past a landline connection was secure enough to not worry about crackers.
Finnaly many less tech savy types in the paperwork side of the job aren't going to think about the implications of giving someone a password over the phone. "Uhh gee like didn't you just GIVE WAY the ONLY means of verifying the user?" "No I just gave em there password" Passwords are good but only as a part of a whole security system.
This deal kinda reminds me of the puzzle of what happends when StarWars Storm Troopers attack Star Trek RedShirts? [RedShirts allways die, Storm Troopers allways miss]
How is this? People who have set up similer partnerships with RadioShack [X10, Zoomer, IBM Aptiva] have ended up not doing so well out of the deal. Microsoft has a habbit of screwing people over.
The intent of posting to slashdot is to convay a thought not to make a proffit and in essence by the news relaying your comments they have done nothing more than comply with your desire to have your comments be known. I also doupt they came to this conclusion with just your one comment as I personally came to this conclusion of/.ers long ago. It's also a sentiment I agree with. Still to have comments sliced up, predigested and spoon fed is very annoying. Part of Slashdot is the lack of sterilising of comments. Spelling errors and all. People hearing a news story about the general sentiment of/.ers could get the wrong idea and to say the least they'll have absolutly no understanding of the depth from this deceptive simplification. It's not so simple as a comparason of government intrusion and Microsofts monopolistic ways. There is a greater consern of the damage that could be done to non-monopoltisic busnesses or even cases where a busness earned market control and mainatins it with quality not market exclusion. It's not like Windows is accually a bad product but more of an oversold product. Who would like to say the Commodore 64 sucks? Now use it as an Internet server. Get the picture? But grand simplications of my opinion of Windows could be reduced to the two words "Windows Sucks" but I'd never say that becouse it's not true. Windows is mearly insuffecent for most people. This depth of idealism is what comes with being able to see the accual comments. Real world views do not comform to sound bytes and/. allows anyone to refer back to the comments in question. But that ability to inform dosn't make a hill of beens when the news dosn't make use of it.
The only thing I was intrested was the improved signal quality. The grater range. But that turns out to be vaperware. Oh well.. I don't care if the picture quality improves I just want to be shure I get a picture under harsh conditions.
I see for the long term Microsoft repositinging Windows so they can compeate better. Marketting Windows where it really dose preform the best. Windows CE moved from PDAs where it dose poorly to game consoles as Windows preforms quite well as a game platform. Windows NT moved from server to workstation/home market. Windows 9x moved into the obsolete catagory and joins MsDos in the oblivion pile.
Microsoft moves from software develupment to open source tech support. Getting contracts from open sorce authers to provide open source tech support in exchange for funding the open source develupment. But leaving the open source develupment itself outside of Microsofts offices. Instead they focuse on marketting/hyping the software they support... even more so when they get an exclusive something that would be hard to get.
About 10 to 20 years from now I see a monopoly forming in the tech support department. I believe it will NOT be Microsoft, IBM, RedHat, Andover or any of the other current major players. It may be a current bit player with some history and I have a few names but I'd rather not say who as they are really cool companys right now. Most likely it'll be a new company that opens for busness a few years from now and builds it's history. A company with problems. Posably run by a reformed spammer.
All I can say is if someone starts playing tech support monoploly games with us thats a company to back off from.
Thats just my vision.. I'm not a visionary I'm a lunatic with a flashlight.:)
In this months Income Opportunities it is recomended that you have access to your web maintainner at a moments notice becouse you can't wait a few months to make changes to your pages. Where as application programmers are expected to be months even years between releaces web develupers have to make changes quickly.
Annother problem to face is portability. C is portable but not portable enough. C code made for Linux might not work on Solarus and most certenly will not work on Windows NT.
Finnaly Perl has simply been around for a while. Other languages like TCL and Python while nice do not have the years of CGI scripts. It's easy to download a program for Linux just FTP Unix code and it should work out of the box. This is due to how long Unix has been in use for networking. Even when Linux was new code for it dates back to the foundations of the Internet. It's also easy to find apps for Windows as it's easy to port Dos apps to Windows and Windows runs Dos apps this gives Windows access to apps predating Windows. Also Dos can run CP/M apps (Under emulation) and it's easy to port CP/M apps to Dos so in a round about way Windows users have access to apps dating back to the 1970s and the days of S100s.
In pritty much the same way it's easy to find Perl CGI code. Perl has been used for CGI for so long there is much more CGI perl code available than there is CGI code for anything else and reinventing the wheel is also going to create unwanted delays.
When I test perl code on my system and then upload it to my web site it should work but with C code it should NOT work unless my webprovider uses exactly the same system I do and I sereously doupt thats the case.
peer review prevents in a larg part crackpot ideas like "The world hatched from a larg egg", "The world is flat" and "The moon is a dary product". But he's right about holding us back. Iconoclasts and ecentrics break the mold they leap ahead. What I dislike about the whole notion of track records for iconoclasts and ecentrics is they are wrong more often than not. They are mearly smart about how the approch a new idea. Instead of disguarding a new notion as a status que type might they are careful not to burry themselfs within the idea. If you build a world around an idea and the single idea falls your toast.
He is pointing out that oil may be renuable. But toss that out the window for a moment becouse the next comment in support of creative thinking accually is based on oil not being renuable.
We think so much "in the box" that when gass started becomming to expensive instead of using that to move us away from oil into other fule sorces and into more expensive electric cars we saw only the economic side and setforth to preserve our ability to continue to depeate this resorce. While preserving all current notions suggested an unothedox action we chouse to react inside a narrow set of rules and fix a problem that leaving it to fix itself would solve many other problems along the way. Instead the one problem is fixed and the more sereous issues stay in place. Iconoclasts and ecentrics have a place in our hyper cultre [ohh a new treandy catch phrase.. everyone say "Hyper culture"] but it's a pocket and not mainstream. They exist to dusript mainstream and keep us from becoming lemmings ready to jump off the cliff. They are often wrong occasionally right, and represent our modern day harratics.
Having said that I need to point out that I have been described as an ecentric so my defence of ecentrics is like a programmer on a Windows develupmean team defending Windows. And as allwase I could be wrong but thats something all those who think "outside the box" must live with. Thinking "in the box" has the vertue of allways being right.. or at least beleving you are...
I've been using compressionless GIFs... I get sick of people making pages that are IE only so I'm happy to know there is a way to make pages that that exclude IE with out going out of your way. But it's generally a bad idea to make pages that exclude a browser even if that browser is MSIE. So I'll stick with compressionless
1] The Americans Conducted an ILLEGAL blockade of an Island [Cuba]. It's not illegal to pull a blockaid for any reason or even for no reason at all. It's wrong but in politics wrong + lame excuse = right
3] Kosovo. I thought that was a UN deal.. shows you how much I know. NATO exists to attack... It's the United States property pritty much and yeah it's pritty much US aggenda all the way. A lot of flowery notions Seriously, but it comes down to a largish defence platform that makes it posable for us to fry the world 3 times over and fell good we have such power. It scares me that such is needed, or if not needed... exists.
Seriously, Americans have never obey a treaty unless its to their advantage I'm not shure why anyone bothers with treatys anyway.. each side is shure the other will break it and rushes to break it first. Everyone seems fine with folowing any given treaty so long as they think the other side will too. But paranoia ends up rulling the day and it all becomes nothing more than ink on paper with no meaning what so ever.
Well after all spammers are pritty much 99.44% scam artists anyway. Who in there right mind would advertise with spam if they knew they were alienating 90% of there potental costummers? Only a scam artist would want a quick load of costumers with little chance of repeate busness and no chance of expantion.
So in all honnestly I'm supprised spammers havn't been gun down before for non-spam related busness details.
On the other hand spammers do seem to believe pop culture and the idea is now planted firmly in our geek minds. Nevere mind the fact that we'd never accually kill annother human being even if we barely recognise em as such. We are geeks and play violent video games so according to popculture we are dangerous violent blood thirsty psycopathic misfits.
I see a new first person shooter comming out... Geek revenge.. or "Spam Hunters". Include on the game CD a howto on accually tracking down spammers and giving them das boot. Finnaly direct players to call it a tranning program "Heh,heh,heh" simi-demonicly. On the box front "The #1 spam elimination tool - Guns, bombs and psycopaths mag" Maybe include a compemetry issue of this fictional mag in the box:) Ok enough.. I have work to do... not related to spam however... By the way.. Spammers beware.. we are psycopaths now and we know where you live..... muahahahaha
In spite of the intresting "nitro" comments it should only take an icecube to cool the sensor down if it's exposed. One would think it would not be burryed deep within the soda machine where it could cool the sensor down itself along with the sodas.
However one of the news reports I heard on this suggests that this is all handled by remote controll and the machines are not indupendent. This could mean the soda machines get the tempiture for the area the same way I do.. over the Internet. I use wmWeather to get my local weather and it shouldn't be a big effort for a soda machine to do the same.
Accually reading Cokacolas responce I wonder if this has anything to do with price. It's posable Coke is just extending the old coke finger into giving vending maching owners Internet controll. One of the things an owner COULD do is jack up the price when it gets hot but he can do that anyway just not by remote.
However a hack for the remote controlled coke machine would be to break it's Internet connection late at night when it's cold. Or better yet.. just stock up late at night. There are enough night geeks that your local night geek can get the sodas for the day geeks.
If the soda machine is at your office and has an internal sensor then just make shure it's inside where it's nice and cold.
Soda machines are mostly for people who are unwilling to travle to the store. Thats a wide range of people accually from the terminally lazy to the terminally overworked. As such even if a store is only accrost the street the person lacks ether the time or the willpower (some times both) to cross the street for a better price. However this isn't the same as Microsoft if it's unreasonable you just turn your nose up and walk away. At 75 degrees a 50 cent soda looks good at 120 a $2 soda looks good but as it gets colder 50 cents seems to be asking way to much. By adjusting the price the machine addapts to demand. There is an advantage here for caffine freak night owls like myself. Now I'm just waiting for those things to be connected to the Internet so I can monitor the price drop... Wooohoo soda at 5 cents... time to buy...
Just from what I have read so far I can tell it's a personality profile type program. Such programs have been around for personal use for a long time. They all come with a disclammer stating that the program isn't reliable. It'll be based on the preconseptions of the auther. If a psycologest feels his own basic personaly profile program isn't reliable then consider the reliablity of an indepth personality profile program writen by a security company.
It takes very little effort to come up with a cleaver name. Example: Story where the good guys hunt down a super powered cybernetic killer [not a very creative plot BTW] name: CyberDeath.com, PsycCom.com, DigitialDeath.com
Busness: Sells CDs with PD, Freeware and Shareware on them [I think we all know a few of those] InfoMania, Futerama[ok so thats a TV show], ZenDisk, OpenCD
Just add.com and theres your domain.
On the other hand a patent usually takes a great deal of effort to develup... at least thats the idea. Example: New microprocesor design How ever some patent reform is in order to get rid of "genertic" patents.. Example: Ability to save credit card numbers on webserver.. Compression technology that gets widely used for years before the patent holder says anything.. [How long can a patent go unenforced before it becomes invalid?] And my all time favoret.... patent on a COLOR!! Barbie Pink... Should you really be able to do that?
This dosn't stop civil sutes. At first I was hoping for something that would deal with all thies people doing nothing more than snagging up domains for resale. Mind you most of the good names are in use but the few left overs are being held captive and thats not fair to new busnesses. But this won't do anything about that. This law is really redundent anyway. It dosn't do anything not allready covered by IP law.
Usually when people see a young busness person they treat it like a glorifyed leminade stand. It's hard to be taken sereously when people think you should be flipping burgers. Way to often people expect the young busness person will give up when he gets bord or the busness will eventually fail. This is totally with out justification. It usually drives young busness people to hire adult salespeople to represent them in public and keep his age a secret. People allways seem supprised when kids make it big yet it happends quite a bit. It dose take a specal tallent but when it's there it takes off. Maybe Comdex will think twice before trying to keep a child prodigy from setting up a booth.
One thing such experences do teach young busness people is responsability. He'll be responsable and wait for retirement before he gets sloshed. IPO the sucker and then hire a CEO to run things and retire. or do it the old way and just sell out to a compeating busness. Then get sloshed on the good stuff. No regrets:)
It's intresting that usually a person can presume the public looks down on Microsoft for any given activity and be right. Microsoft has generated such a name for themselfs it's hard to believe they don't have some hidden agenda in what ever they are doing. But where chartable giving is conserned it's hard to consider a hidden agenda.
The mumbling is a gimmic and you'll find that it's not exclusive to explainning whats going on in the computer. How often do people in real life mumble what they are thinking like they do in movies? It's something writers have to do to avoid losing the audence or go into elabrate and boring explenations. The other stupid things that happen in story plots are just the writers ignorence. This dosn't mean that a more tech savy writer can't make a good script just that there are more of "them" than there are of "us". If you have 100 scripts on viruses and only 1 by someone who accually knows what a virus is then you have a 100 in 1 chance of getting a movie with a clue. Even if you DO get a good movie script then you have to worry about the producer who has pritty much spent most of his life in entertainment. Unless you can teach him what he needs to know in order to not blow the realism of the movie he will. Then theres the specal effects people. As specal effects get computerised at least they will seem more and more realistic and have less computers blowing up and blowing smoke and flashing red lights when theres a software problem. Basicly even if you get the script right there are so many computer illetrate people pawing over it that it'll come out dorky anyway. Or you could write it with as many stupid refrences as posable describe viruses as life forms and get away with it....
Not all of "them" are bad people. You wouldn't know if someone was born wealthy or not if they don't ACT wealthy. If instead they act like decent people. There is a certen advantage to keeping wealth a secret. Wealthy BRATS however are left to be rased by people who are busy kissing up to the kids parents so thies kids get rased thinking they are roialty of some sort. This has been my experence anyway.. as allways I could be wrong..
Open source is hurt every bit as much as closed source when someone steals software. Closed source we allready know about... theft of service and of hard work by hard working programmers. Not just Microsoft but people in companys compeating against Microsoft are also effected.
If stealing software wasn't posable whos to say the theaf would even use the same product? Often the justification for the theft is the theaf would have NEVER paid for it. Thats fine by me you don't have to use THAT product you can use free software or cheaper commertal alternitives. But instead of using cheaper alternitives or free alternitives the theaf steals Microsofts titles. That dosn't just hurt Microsoft.. that hurts everyone who's trying to provide you with an alternitive to Microsoft....
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Wires Central is the name of my workshop. In 1992 my workshop burned to the ground and my home was damaged. The city condemed it and the people who were dealing with the insurence didn't folow through:( The short version of the story is 4 months later I got an appartment. Thankfully my friends helpped me through it all.
Anyway thats sad to hear... Everybody lets comfort Hemos and help him through this.... Hugs and best wishes to Hemos from Das evil Felinoid type person:)
I hope this doesn't pass, because the legitimate business of domain anticipation will be lost. I hope it dose pass. Rember Linux.com was registured to prevent abuse of the name. I've also heard a horror story where someone registured a domain just to sell it to someone he knew who wanted that same domain name.
The "Bad faith" standard won't even slow people who registure massive ammounts of domains just for resale and thats said becouse that practace is really annoying.
This is quite an intresting point yet it makes Kazes point in a few ways.
You interpreted the whole argument as being in support of an opinion. It's not instead it's mearly in support of the free expression of that opinion. This shows that a person can look at what someone is saying and preceave the text incorrectly. By having a form where persons can not be censored it becomes imposable for people to censor ideas they themselfs don't fully understand.
When I tried to quote you I found while your comments were poetic and artful they also have the athetic of losing meaning when quoted. If I were to quote you I'd be taking you out of context and making you sound like you said something you didn't. Here again censorship becomes dangerous. By using only a sample of your words you could be villifyed and then by censoring you it puts an end to anyone putting your words in context.
We all interpret by our experences and opinions and that can occasionaly put us in a position of misunderstanding. Anyone in such a position who is also capable of censorship is dangerous.
Of course there is the whole value of life argument (re Abortion and unpluging life support etc) but that whole debate is a whole carnival of misunderstandings. It seems clear to me that both sides misunderstand each other. Only under a open public debate of years, posably decades in legth could that ever be resolved.
The whole idea of giving a parent the right to kill a child after birth really sickens me but in my mind thats no justifcation for censorship or the extream treatment of the messanger. I prefer to debate my oponent into oblivion that to stone him to death and I'd like the same consideration when I wish to state my opinion.
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I use three stratagys...
One is to use old commands used on old computers for low priority accounts (stuff I don't really care about)
I use a combonation of favoret numbers (such as some of the numbers of my birthday or old vic20 poke codes) and again old commands or the cryptic names of hardware I have on my desk [not my main computer but my old XTs monitor things like that]
I'll also just not bother and have the computer remeber my passwords for me. or save them in a password file..
I've been moving more and more to the password file.. saving them on a backup flopy and keeping the flopy in a safe place.
This seems to work very well.
cross fingers...
I prefer to let the computer automaticly enter passwords for me. This is how I usually rembered my passwords for BBSes I call during the 1980s and early 1990s...
when the terminal program didn't support it I'd make a macro for each BBS.. when the terminal didn't support macors I wrote the passwords down.. I hated writing anything down but thats life
I try to make my passwords as hard to remeber as posable now a days...
The whole idea of patents is to patent NEW and NOVILE ideas.
This is pritty much just a web server caching system hardly a new idea.
Even if they did come up with a novile way of implementing it (most likely how they got the pattent) it's not novile and not worth a patent.
It's patents like this that throw the whole idea of IP into question.
It's vertually imposable for an indupendent inventor to get a patent on anything (thats as it should be) but anyone with money can patent garbage and commen sence.
Tomarow I patent using unix commands as curse words when an NT box crashes.
Accually it isn't but the days of passwords being effective are over.
A cracker can guess a password by using old tecniques detailed in security books published in the 1980s. Such tecniques like "hack/hack" weren't very dangerous at the time but did provide a useful understanding of how a cracker could break in.
Today a cracker could effectively use hack/hack or other published tecnqiues.
Hack/Hack BTW is a tecnique publised in "Outside the Inner Circle" In short it's "enter everything" not very effective over a 300 baud modem with a SysAdm reading the logs of 100 to 500 users logging in a day with only 10 to 50 mistakes to look over. Today with 56k and up and logs so long a SysAdm could sleep reading through the mistakes log and miss over 1,000 bad passwords from one source.
Also more and more "real world" users use easy passwords in some cases they are even recomended that they use easy passwords (easy to rember = easy to guess).
Also a cracker could grep passwords over Internet trafic if the password itself isn't encripted. In the past a landline connection was secure enough to not worry about crackers.
Finnaly many less tech savy types in the paperwork side of the job aren't going to think about the implications of giving someone a password over the phone.
"Uhh gee like didn't you just GIVE WAY the ONLY means of verifying the user?" "No I just gave em there password"
Passwords are good but only as a part of a whole security system.
This deal kinda reminds me of the puzzle of what happends when StarWars Storm Troopers attack Star Trek RedShirts?
[RedShirts allways die, Storm Troopers allways miss]
How is this?
People who have set up similer partnerships with RadioShack [X10, Zoomer, IBM Aptiva] have ended up not doing so well out of the deal.
Microsoft has a habbit of screwing people over.
The intent of posting to slashdot is to convay a thought not to make a proffit and in essence by the news relaying your comments they have done nothing more than comply with your desire to have your comments be known. /.ers long ago. It's also a sentiment I agree with. /.ers could get the wrong idea and to say the least they'll have absolutly no understanding of the depth from this deceptive simplification. /. allows anyone to refer back to the comments in question. But that ability to inform dosn't make a hill of beens when the news dosn't make use of it.
I also doupt they came to this conclusion with just your one comment as I personally came to this conclusion of
Still to have comments sliced up, predigested and spoon fed is very annoying. Part of Slashdot is the lack of sterilising of comments. Spelling errors and all.
People hearing a news story about the general sentiment of
It's not so simple as a comparason of government intrusion and Microsofts monopolistic ways. There is a greater consern of the damage that could be done to non-monopoltisic busnesses or even cases where a busness earned market control and mainatins it with quality not market exclusion.
It's not like Windows is accually a bad product but more of an oversold product. Who would like to say the Commodore 64 sucks? Now use it as an Internet server. Get the picture?
But grand simplications of my opinion of Windows could be reduced to the two words "Windows Sucks" but I'd never say that becouse it's not true. Windows is mearly insuffecent for most people.
This depth of idealism is what comes with being able to see the accual comments.
Real world views do not comform to sound bytes and
The only thing I was intrested was the improved signal quality. The grater range. But that turns out to be vaperware.
Oh well..
I don't care if the picture quality improves I just want to be shure I get a picture under harsh conditions.
Naa just failed to get Cobalt stock
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I see for the long term Microsoft repositinging Windows so they can compeate better. Marketting Windows where it really dose preform the best. Windows CE moved from PDAs where it dose poorly to game consoles as Windows preforms quite well as a game platform.
Windows NT moved from server to workstation/home market. Windows 9x moved into the obsolete catagory and joins MsDos in the oblivion pile.
Microsoft moves from software develupment to open source tech support. Getting contracts from open sorce authers to provide open source tech support in exchange for funding the open source develupment. But leaving the open source develupment itself outside of Microsofts offices. Instead they focuse on marketting/hyping the software they support... even more so when they get an exclusive something that would be hard to get.
About 10 to 20 years from now I see a monopoly forming in the tech support department.
I believe it will NOT be Microsoft, IBM, RedHat, Andover or any of the other current major players. It may be a current bit player with some history and I have a few names but I'd rather not say who as they are really cool companys right now.
Most likely it'll be a new company that opens for busness a few years from now and builds it's history. A company with problems. Posably run by a reformed spammer.
All I can say is if someone starts playing tech support monoploly games with us thats a company to back off from.
Thats just my vision.. I'm not a visionary I'm a lunatic with a flashlight.
In this months Income Opportunities it is recomended that you have access to your web maintainner at a moments notice becouse you can't wait a few months to make changes to your pages.
Where as application programmers are expected to be months even years between releaces web develupers have to make changes quickly.
Annother problem to face is portability. C is portable but not portable enough. C code made for Linux might not work on Solarus and most certenly will not work on Windows NT.
Finnaly Perl has simply been around for a while. Other languages like TCL and Python while nice do not have the years of CGI scripts.
It's easy to download a program for Linux just FTP Unix code and it should work out of the box. This is due to how long Unix has been in use for networking. Even when Linux was new code for it dates back to the foundations of the Internet.
It's also easy to find apps for Windows as it's easy to port Dos apps to Windows and Windows runs Dos apps this gives Windows access to apps predating Windows. Also Dos can run CP/M apps (Under emulation) and it's easy to port CP/M apps to Dos so in a round about way Windows users have access to apps dating back to the 1970s and the days of S100s.
In pritty much the same way it's easy to find Perl CGI code. Perl has been used for CGI for so long there is much more CGI perl code available than there is CGI code for anything else and reinventing the wheel is also going to create unwanted delays.
When I test perl code on my system and then upload it to my web site it should work but with C code it should NOT work unless my webprovider uses exactly the same system I do and I sereously doupt thats the case.
peer review prevents in a larg part crackpot ideas like "The world hatched from a larg egg", "The world is flat" and "The moon is a dary product".
But he's right about holding us back. Iconoclasts and ecentrics break the mold they leap ahead.
What I dislike about the whole notion of track records for iconoclasts and ecentrics is they are wrong more often than not. They are mearly smart about how the approch a new idea. Instead of disguarding a new notion as a status que type might they are careful not to burry themselfs within the idea. If you build a world around an idea and the single idea falls your toast.
He is pointing out that oil may be renuable. But toss that out the window for a moment becouse the next comment in support of creative thinking accually is based on oil not being renuable.
We think so much "in the box" that when gass started becomming to expensive instead of using that to move us away from oil into other fule sorces and into more expensive electric cars we saw only the economic side and setforth to preserve our ability to continue to depeate this resorce.
While preserving all current notions suggested an unothedox action we chouse to react inside a narrow set of rules and fix a problem that leaving it to fix itself would solve many other problems along the way. Instead the one problem is fixed and the more sereous issues stay in place.
Iconoclasts and ecentrics have a place in our hyper cultre [ohh a new treandy catch phrase.. everyone say "Hyper culture"] but it's a pocket and not mainstream. They exist to dusript mainstream and keep us from becoming lemmings ready to jump off the cliff.
They are often wrong occasionally right, and represent our modern day harratics.
Having said that I need to point out that I have been described as an ecentric so my defence of ecentrics is like a programmer on a Windows develupmean team defending Windows.
And as allwase I could be wrong but thats something all those who think "outside the box" must live with. Thinking "in the box" has the vertue of allways being right.. or at least beleving you are...
I've been using compressionless GIFs...
I get sick of people making pages that are IE only so I'm happy to know there is a way to make pages that that exclude IE with out going out of your way.
But it's generally a bad idea to make pages that exclude a browser even if that browser is MSIE.
So I'll stick with compressionless
1] The Americans Conducted an ILLEGAL blockade of an Island [Cuba].
It's not illegal to pull a blockaid for any reason or even for no reason at all.
It's wrong but in politics wrong + lame excuse = right
3] Kosovo.
I thought that was a UN deal.. shows you how much I know.
NATO exists to attack... It's the United States property pritty much and yeah it's pritty much US aggenda all the way.
A lot of flowery notions Seriously, but it comes down to a largish defence platform that makes it posable for us to fry the world 3 times over and fell good we have such power.
It scares me that such is needed, or if not needed... exists.
Seriously, Americans have never obey a treaty unless its to their advantage
I'm not shure why anyone bothers with treatys anyway.. each side is shure the other will break it and rushes to break it first.
Everyone seems fine with folowing any given treaty so long as they think the other side will too.
But paranoia ends up rulling the day and it all becomes nothing more than ink on paper with no meaning what so ever.
Well after all spammers are pritty much 99.44% scam artists anyway.
:)
Who in there right mind would advertise with spam if they knew they were alienating 90% of there potental costummers?
Only a scam artist would want a quick load of costumers with little chance of repeate busness and no chance of expantion.
So in all honnestly I'm supprised spammers havn't been gun down before for non-spam related busness details.
On the other hand spammers do seem to believe pop culture and the idea is now planted firmly in our geek minds. Nevere mind the fact that we'd never accually kill annother human being even if we barely recognise em as such.
We are geeks and play violent video games so according to popculture we are dangerous violent blood thirsty psycopathic misfits.
I see a new first person shooter comming out... Geek revenge.. or "Spam Hunters".
Include on the game CD a howto on accually tracking down spammers and giving them das boot.
Finnaly direct players to call it a tranning program "Heh,heh,heh" simi-demonicly.
On the box front "The #1 spam elimination tool - Guns, bombs and psycopaths mag"
Maybe include a compemetry issue of this fictional mag in the box
Ok enough.. I have work to do... not related to spam however...
By the way.. Spammers beware.. we are psycopaths now and we know where you live..... muahahahaha
In spite of the intresting "nitro" comments it should only take an icecube to cool the sensor down if it's exposed.
One would think it would not be burryed deep within the soda machine where it could cool the sensor down itself along with the sodas.
However one of the news reports I heard on this suggests that this is all handled by remote controll and the machines are not indupendent.
This could mean the soda machines get the tempiture for the area the same way I do.. over the Internet.
I use wmWeather to get my local weather and it shouldn't be a big effort for a soda machine to do the same.
Accually reading Cokacolas responce I wonder if this has anything to do with price. It's posable Coke is just extending the old coke finger into giving vending maching owners Internet controll.
One of the things an owner COULD do is jack up the price when it gets hot but he can do that anyway just not by remote.
However a hack for the remote controlled coke machine would be to break it's Internet connection late at night when it's cold.
Or better yet.. just stock up late at night. There are enough night geeks that your local night geek can get the sodas for the day geeks.
If the soda machine is at your office and has an internal sensor then just make shure it's inside where it's nice and cold.
Soda machines are mostly for people who are unwilling to travle to the store. Thats a wide range of people accually from the terminally lazy to the terminally overworked.
As such even if a store is only accrost the street the person lacks ether the time or the willpower (some times both) to cross the street for a better price.
However this isn't the same as Microsoft if it's unreasonable you just turn your nose up and walk away. At 75 degrees a 50 cent soda looks good at 120 a $2 soda looks good but as it gets colder 50 cents seems to be asking way to much.
By adjusting the price the machine addapts to demand. There is an advantage here for caffine freak night owls like myself.
Now I'm just waiting for those things to be connected to the Internet so I can monitor the price drop... Wooohoo soda at 5 cents... time to buy...
Just from what I have read so far I can tell it's a personality profile type program.
Such programs have been around for personal use for a long time. They all come with a disclammer stating that the program isn't reliable.
It'll be based on the preconseptions of the auther.
If a psycologest feels his own basic personaly profile program isn't reliable then consider the reliablity of an indepth personality profile program writen by a security company.
It takes very little effort to come up with a cleaver name.
.com and theres your domain.
:)
Example:
Story where the good guys hunt down a super powered cybernetic killer [not a very creative plot BTW]
name: CyberDeath.com, PsycCom.com, DigitialDeath.com
Busness: Sells CDs with PD, Freeware and Shareware on them [I think we all know a few of those]
InfoMania, Futerama[ok so thats a TV show], ZenDisk, OpenCD
Just add
On the other hand a patent usually takes a great deal of effort to develup... at least thats the idea.
Example: New microprocesor design
How ever some patent reform is in order to get rid of "genertic" patents..
Example: Ability to save credit card numbers on webserver..
Compression technology that gets widely used for years before the patent holder says anything..
[How long can a patent go unenforced before it becomes invalid?]
And my all time favoret.... patent on a COLOR!!
Barbie Pink...
Should you really be able to do that?
Enough rambling from me
This dosn't stop civil sutes.
At first I was hoping for something that would deal with all thies people doing nothing more than snagging up domains for resale.
Mind you most of the good names are in use but the few left overs are being held captive and thats not fair to new busnesses.
But this won't do anything about that.
This law is really redundent anyway. It dosn't do anything not allready covered by IP law.
Usually when people see a young busness person they treat it like a glorifyed leminade stand. It's hard to be taken sereously when people think you should be flipping burgers.
:)
Way to often people expect the young busness person will give up when he gets bord or the busness will eventually fail. This is totally with out justification. It usually drives young busness people to hire adult salespeople to represent them in public and keep his age a secret.
People allways seem supprised when kids make it big yet it happends quite a bit.
It dose take a specal tallent but when it's there it takes off.
Maybe Comdex will think twice before trying to keep a child prodigy from setting up a booth.
One thing such experences do teach young busness people is responsability. He'll be responsable and wait for retirement before he gets sloshed.
IPO the sucker and then hire a CEO to run things and retire. or do it the old way and just sell out to a compeating busness.
Then get sloshed on the good stuff.
No regrets
It's intresting that usually a person can presume the public looks down on Microsoft for any given activity and be right.
Microsoft has generated such a name for themselfs it's hard to believe they don't have some hidden agenda in what ever they are doing.
But where chartable giving is conserned it's hard to consider a hidden agenda.
The mumbling is a gimmic and you'll find that it's not exclusive to explainning whats going on in the computer. How often do people in real life mumble what they are thinking like they do in movies? It's something writers have to do to avoid losing the audence or go into elabrate and boring explenations.
The other stupid things that happen in story plots are just the writers ignorence. This dosn't mean that a more tech savy writer can't make a good script just that there are more of "them" than there are of "us". If you have 100 scripts on viruses and only 1 by someone who accually knows what a virus is then you have a 100 in 1 chance of getting a movie with a clue.
Even if you DO get a good movie script then you have to worry about the producer who has pritty much spent most of his life in entertainment. Unless you can teach him what he needs to know in order to not blow the realism of the movie he will.
Then theres the specal effects people. As specal effects get computerised at least they will seem more and more realistic and have less computers blowing up and blowing smoke and flashing red lights when theres a software problem.
Basicly even if you get the script right there are so many computer illetrate people pawing over it that it'll come out dorky anyway.
Or you could write it with as many stupid refrences as posable describe viruses as life forms and get away with it....
Not all of "them" are bad people.
You wouldn't know if someone was born wealthy or not if they don't ACT wealthy. If instead they act like decent people. There is a certen advantage to keeping wealth a secret.
Wealthy BRATS however are left to be rased by people who are busy kissing up to the kids parents so thies kids get rased thinking they are roialty of some sort.
This has been my experence anyway.. as allways I could be wrong..
Open source is hurt every bit as much as closed source when someone steals software.
Closed source we allready know about... theft of service and of hard work by hard working programmers.
Not just Microsoft but people in companys compeating against Microsoft are also effected.
If stealing software wasn't posable whos to say the theaf would even use the same product?
Often the justification for the theft is the theaf would have NEVER paid for it. Thats fine by me you don't have to use THAT product you can use free software or cheaper commertal alternitives.
But instead of using cheaper alternitives or free alternitives the theaf steals Microsofts titles.
That dosn't just hurt Microsoft.. that hurts everyone who's trying to provide you with an alternitive to Microsoft....
Wires Central is the name of my workshop. In 1992 my workshop burned to the ground and my home was damaged. The city condemed it and the people who were dealing with the insurence didn't folow through :(
:)
The short version of the story is 4 months later I got an appartment. Thankfully my friends helpped me through it all.
Anyway thats sad to hear...
Everybody lets comfort Hemos and help him through this....
Hugs and best wishes to Hemos from Das evil Felinoid type person
I hope this doesn't pass, because the legitimate business of domain anticipation will be lost.
I hope it dose pass.
Rember Linux.com was registured to prevent abuse of the name. I've also heard a horror story where someone registured a domain just to sell it to someone he knew who wanted that same domain name.
The "Bad faith" standard won't even slow people who registure massive ammounts of domains just for resale and thats said becouse that practace is really annoying.
This is quite an intresting point yet it makes Kazes point in a few ways.
You interpreted the whole argument as being in support of an opinion. It's not instead it's mearly in support of the free expression of that opinion.
This shows that a person can look at what someone is saying and preceave the text incorrectly.
By having a form where persons can not be censored it becomes imposable for people to censor ideas they themselfs don't fully understand.
When I tried to quote you I found while your comments were poetic and artful they also have the athetic of losing meaning when quoted. If I were to quote you I'd be taking you out of context and making you sound like you said something you didn't.
Here again censorship becomes dangerous. By using only a sample of your words you could be villifyed and then by censoring you it puts an end to anyone putting your words in context.
We all interpret by our experences and opinions and that can occasionaly put us in a position of misunderstanding. Anyone in such a position who is also capable of censorship is dangerous.
Of course there is the whole value of life argument (re Abortion and unpluging life support etc) but that whole debate is a whole carnival of misunderstandings. It seems clear to me that both sides misunderstand each other.
Only under a open public debate of years, posably decades in legth could that ever be resolved.
The whole idea of giving a parent the right to kill a child after birth really sickens me but in my mind thats no justifcation for censorship or the extream treatment of the messanger.
I prefer to debate my oponent into oblivion that to stone him to death and I'd like the same consideration when I wish to state my opinion.