Subject: AOL blocking LiveJournal.com, try two
From: Evan Martin
To: postmaster@aol.com
Organization: Danga Interactive
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:23:40 -0700
Hello,
I mailed you yesterday about a problem we're having interoperating with AOL member pages. (I have included that text below.)
Since we haven't heard back from you, we've instituted a temporary workaround. However, this is not a technically correct solution, nor will it work in all cases.
In technical terms: we rewrite URLs to AOL member pages to use FTP instead of HTTP so there is no Referer header sent.
Because we haven't heard back from you, I can only hope that this problem was accidentally caused by some automated system process, and eventually you will be able to fix it. If there is anything more we can do to help speed that process, please let us know.
A metamaterial lens "allows focusing almost two orders of magnitude higher than is possible with conventional lenses,"
If I am reading this correctly, this would have huge implications for the data storage industry. In respect to current technology, this would allow them to make DVDs hold more data then previously imagined. If you increase the ability to focus, you decrease the amount of area needed for each track on the DVD.
I recently designed a web application for a customer and it was build it ColdFusion. Now as it got closer and closer for them to pay me, it became apparent they were only going to pay me 7K instead of the 15K I was contracted for. So I encrypted the source code using a simple ColdFusion encryption program. Now the encryption is easily breakable, but they didn't know that. When they went to edit the code on their server it was entirely encrypted.
I told them if they wanted the source code they had to pay me...
Let just say I ended up getting paid pretty quickly...
They claim that this DNA computer can perform over 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of current computers, but wouldn't you have to take into account the time it took to setup and read the answer?
I totally agree with you. Without sounding like I walked 50 miles in snow to get to school, I remember when downloading 10K off a BBS was a big deal and you made sure you started it right before dinner (or going to bed). But I learned how to install my modem, build my own computers, configure IRQs and jumper settings. Back then you couldn't exactly call up Dell and order a $500 PC.
I also agree with you that most 'kids' get into computers because of music or games. Then the smart (or determined) ones would go further and learn something about their computer but it was usually to help their frame rate or burn their favorite artist to CD.
I learned computers because they interested me. Because I wanted to know not just what I could do with them but how they worked. And I learned...
It's really weird how you mentioned the old cars having tons of room to work and being 'hackable'. One of my cars is a 66 Mustang. It has plenty of room to work under the hood. And what is even more strange, and I didn't notice it till now, I do to that car what I do to computers. I dive right in and figure out how it works without worrying too much about breaking things. Strange similarity.
If I had to take a guess, I think most people of upcoming generations will view the computer as an entertainment device (or work device) and won't discover computers as you or I know them till they begin really working with them in high school or college instead of before that, as I did. I also wonder what kind of effect, if any, it will have on future computing and the computer workforce.
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Yeah and it wouldn't do much good to import it because of the DVD Region difference...
Wow, I seriously had no idea it was that big. I mean I've heard of it, but that is about it. I could believe that more people in America would watch it because of the sheer size we are to Japan. I wonder if you could took out the population difference, where would it be more popular?
How many people watch this? It wasn't sarcastic at all.
Also, I wasn't blanketing the teenage population as a whole. OBVIOUSLY there are kids obsessed with computers. I knew that. I was more referring to kids that watched cartoons and even moreso indirectly asking a question as to if kids that watched these cartoons were interested in computers.
How many people seriously watch this? Am I mistaken saying that just 'kids' do? I know my tweleve year old syster does, but I didn't think anybody past say, o, fourteen watched this kind of thing...
Also shows the next generation coming up. At tweleve I was learning to program and learning everything and anything I could about computers. I guess 'kids' of today see the computer as some of us see cars or lightbulbs and don't have the excitement or interest in computers anymore.
I don't know where I read it but I remember that Dvorak was designed for speed but the old typewriters kept getting jammed so they came up with QWERTY to slow people down...
People need to realize that the Supreme Court isn't going to make a ruling as to the status of Microsoft.
They are appealing it to the Supreme Court. What this means is that Microsoft is asking for the Supreme Court to review the previous courts' rulings and make sure that they are legal and not biased. They can order a new trial, but not hold their own trial. If the Supreme Court rules that something was illegal or was biased, then they will order a new trial, but not decide the fate of Microsoft.
I live in Pinellas County, which is just across the bridge from Tampa, and apparently they have had cameras installed for a long while in Ybor City. Ybor is the area of town where all the clubs and bars are. It is known as the party area of Tampa Bay. This leads me to wonder if this "scanning" technology has been in place for some time...
Slashdot Mirror
Is where I would look....
http://sourceforge.net/
From: http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_biz/195987 .html
Subject: AOL blocking LiveJournal.com, try two
From: Evan Martin
To: postmaster@aol.com
Organization: Danga Interactive
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:23:40 -0700
Hello,
I mailed you yesterday about a problem we're having interoperating with AOL member pages. (I have included that text below.)
Since we haven't heard back from you, we've instituted a temporary workaround. However, this is not a technically correct solution, nor will it work in all cases.
In technical terms: we rewrite URLs to AOL member pages to use FTP instead of HTTP so there is no Referer header sent.
Because we haven't heard back from you, I can only hope that this problem was accidentally caused by some automated system process, and eventually you will be able to fix it. If there is anything more we can do to help speed that process, please let us know.
-- Evan from LiveJournal.com
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/Change Log-2.6.0-test2
If he's a midget and only works 20 hours a week, wouldn't it be 2.25 people working??
Would relativity play into the fact that these standards are being based on time?
Shouldn't it be One Life?
1/2 * 2 = 1
Yeah, probably will be Slashdotters... ;)
Since this violates the speed of light, would you see the light leave the lens before it entered??
A metamaterial lens "allows focusing almost two orders of magnitude higher than is possible with conventional lenses,"
If I am reading this correctly, this would have huge implications for the data storage industry. In respect to current technology, this would allow them to make DVDs hold more data then previously imagined. If you increase the ability to focus, you decrease the amount of area needed for each track on the DVD.
Actually, they are 210 MB / 24 Min.
I've got a pack sitting here....
I recently designed a web application for a customer and it was build it ColdFusion. Now as it got closer and closer for them to pay me, it became apparent they were only going to pay me 7K instead of the 15K I was contracted for. So I encrypted the source code using a simple ColdFusion encryption program. Now the encryption is easily breakable, but they didn't know that. When they went to edit the code on their server it was entirely encrypted.
I told them if they wanted the source code they had to pay me...
Let just say I ended up getting paid pretty quickly...
Wasn't there a place to download all 600+ megs of the code??
They claim that this DNA computer can perform over 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of current computers, but wouldn't you have to take into account the time it took to setup and read the answer?
Does anybody have a URL or information about the project when they decoded the DNA? I remember seeing it a while back but can't remember where.
Thanks!
I think Mercedes developed it. There's cool flash demos on the the Mercedes site: http://www.mbusa.com
You are correct it's a shame it's off topic...
I totally agree with you. Without sounding like I walked 50 miles in snow to get to school, I remember when downloading 10K off a BBS was a big deal and you made sure you started it right before dinner (or going to bed). But I learned how to install my modem, build my own computers, configure IRQs and jumper settings. Back then you couldn't exactly call up Dell and order a $500 PC.
I also agree with you that most 'kids' get into computers because of music or games. Then the smart (or determined) ones would go further and learn something about their computer but it was usually to help their frame rate or burn their favorite artist to CD.
I learned computers because they interested me. Because I wanted to know not just what I could do with them but how they worked. And I learned...
It's really weird how you mentioned the old cars having tons of room to work and being 'hackable'. One of my cars is a 66 Mustang. It has plenty of room to work under the hood. And what is even more strange, and I didn't notice it till now, I do to that car what I do to computers. I dive right in and figure out how it works without worrying too much about breaking things. Strange similarity.
If I had to take a guess, I think most people of upcoming generations will view the computer as an entertainment device (or work device) and won't discover computers as you or I know them till they begin really working with them in high school or college instead of before that, as I did. I also wonder what kind of effect, if any, it will have on future computing and the computer workforce.
Yeah and it wouldn't do much good to import it because of the DVD Region difference...
Wow, I seriously had no idea it was that big. I mean I've heard of it, but that is about it. I could believe that more people in America would watch it because of the sheer size we are to Japan. I wonder if you could took out the population difference, where would it be more popular?
And none of it is on the Sci-Fi channel...
I was seriously asking a question.
How many people watch this? It wasn't sarcastic at all.
Also, I wasn't blanketing the teenage population as a whole. OBVIOUSLY there are kids obsessed with computers. I knew that. I was more referring to kids that watched cartoons and even moreso indirectly asking a question as to if kids that watched these cartoons were interested in computers.
How many people seriously watch this? Am I mistaken saying that just 'kids' do? I know my tweleve year old syster does, but I didn't think anybody past say, o, fourteen watched this kind of thing...
Also shows the next generation coming up. At tweleve I was learning to program and learning everything and anything I could about computers. I guess 'kids' of today see the computer as some of us see cars or lightbulbs and don't have the excitement or interest in computers anymore.
I don't know where I read it but I remember that Dvorak was designed for speed but the old typewriters kept getting jammed so they came up with QWERTY to slow people down...
Yeah, because you know, eye color has everything to do with retinal scans...
People need to realize that the Supreme Court isn't going to make a ruling as to the status of Microsoft.
They are appealing it to the Supreme Court. What this means is that Microsoft is asking for the Supreme Court to review the previous courts' rulings and make sure that they are legal and not biased. They can order a new trial, but not hold their own trial. If the Supreme Court rules that something was illegal or was biased, then they will order a new trial, but not decide the fate of Microsoft.
I live in Pinellas County, which is just across the bridge from Tampa, and apparently they have had cameras installed for a long while in Ybor City. Ybor is the area of town where all the clubs and bars are. It is known as the party area of Tampa Bay. This leads me to wonder if this "scanning" technology has been in place for some time...