Just did a write-up on Wonderland. Development resources are no longer being applied to the project. From what I'm reading the community is going to keep it going, but it's still disappointing to hear that something so forward thinking is being cut from the vine.
"One of the researchers hopes that this could lead to artificially reducing the amount of sleep required in your average human."
Great, another non-problem close to being solved. Thanks science. All I need now is a 3rd arm so that I can work my Blackberry while typing on my laptop. Perhaps they can solve my pesky habit of taking "breaks from work".
How is it that all this technology and progress is enabling us to work even more? Wasn't all this crap supposed to make our lives easier and not harder? What will sleeping less accomplish exactly? Will it allow me to tweet more? Wonderful. Will it increase my happiness? I highly doubt it.
I'd mod this up if I could. It's the best peripheral I have ever used. It feels like a big old vintage trackball from Missile Command or Centipede, and it has a bunch of good options for the 4 buttons and the mousewheel. It's very precise and easy to control. Great for massive copying and pasting jobs.
So how much easier would a more mature micropayment system make almost every information transaction? Hell, at this point Second Life Lindens are starting to look like a good currency for this type of thing.
Just came here to say this and it's worth repeating. Total agreement with [not already in use].
The label "idiot" is something the tech/geek community seems to throw about liberally and it sort of makes me ashamed.
I find a lot of people brand someone an "idiot" because they don't share the same obsessive attention to detail that they do to one particular subject, but then turn around and wonder why that person is a success at another endeavor.
Just different strokes. Everyone can't be good at everything, and just because DudeFellaX is good at Perl, doesn't mean he knows sweet dick all about making money too like DudeFellaY might.
From another view.. you, dear article submitter, could be the idiot.
I agree with that, but there are still many fiddly fingers in between, and many ways to capture unregistered domain queries (including HOST queries to DNS servers if someone tries to surf to www.UNREGISTERDDOMAIN.com for example). It's a lucrative enough market that it would be worth the effort.
And of course we can't hold major tier network providers above reproach, since humans are involved. All it takes is one or two disgruntled network admins.
As noted, yep. But at least you can cut down on the variables if you're using a more reputable web front-end. Mark has gone on the record to make whois search privacy an issue.
I'm more than just not surprised by this, I've known it without proof for years. Doing queries for total junk domains, and then three or four days later finding out that those domains had been registered? Too weird. And that was years ago.
One of the problems stem from the fact that any whois query can be sniffed (or SNORTed) if it passes over the wrong network hop anyway, so there isn't much you can do unless you're ready on the trigger to register the domain almost immediately. One thing you CAN do if you're going to do web queries (because not everybody has a whois command line installed) is query via;
I don't know what's going on with your machine, but I've upgraded several to Leopard with none of the odd bugs you appear to have. My pre-Leopard release of Cyberduck works fine, and continues to do so. I also use X (rarely) and that works.
Regarding the Cyberduck thing it was the interaction between Cyberduck and external apps that Cyberduck calls to edit files that was zorked. Actually using Cyberduck to transfer files still worked, but editing on the fly was completely gone. As for X, my Gimp is busted along with a couple of other compiled apps.
I actually am one of those fanboys and I've gotta admit I'm very surprised by the number of issues that have come up with this release. These aren't small issues either. From the perspective of a sysadmin;
- X is hosed. - Finder takes up large amounts of CPU at odd, mainly inconvenient times. - It's much less graceful than 10.4, even in Tiger's early releases. - There have been more than one borked upgrade that I've been witness to, which is brand new to me. - First day of use I nearly lost my keychain, and it's still not 100% right. - The new tmp layout broke a few key native OS X apps (Cyberduck, but the dev of Cyberduck was quick on the fix!) - Weird arbitrary menu re-shuffling that seems out of the norm for Apple's usually anal layout and design philosophy (WTF is going on in the Network Prefs? It's been simple and straightforward since OS 8, and now it's like a circus). - Longer and more frequent pauses in this release. I'm sensitive to the difference between perceptually slow and really, truly slow, and these are truly slow pauses.
There IS good of course, some of the new features I actually dismissed turn out to be awesome, like, not willing to downgrade back to 10.4 awesome, so I'm going to tough it out. But if I had to turn back time I'd wait until some time next year to order my copy.
As it is now I jumped the gun on ordering and I upgraded a bunch of clients to 10.5, to my present dismay (including my wife). Basically I bought on the good feelings I had towards 10.4.8-> and this release hasn't lived up to that standard.
So it's not that Apple is never bad, but what is new is the WAY that this is bad.
Ditto here. I was very glad I actually went through it as it actually explains a lot of attitudes I've been trying to correct in myself for at least the past decade.
For those of you who are too, ahem, busy, to read the article it says that if you create an environment where the child's ego and self-worth are linked to his or her intelligence they will likely avoid situations that will challenge them intellectually.
There's a new, weird surge of mini devices coming. Palm's entry was kinda neat but really failed to live up to some of the promises of the other devices coming out.
It's sensible; they're waiting to see how hard the Eee fails in this arena before they try to launch. They'll either compete directly with the Eee and the others or they'll learn from the failures of the Eee and we'll see an even neater (can I say that, neatER?) device from Palm.
I still love my Sony Clie, and I wish Palm the best, I'd really like to see a new Palm device that had a fair chance at rekindling the good old days of the Palm Pilot.
PS. I'm not damning the Eee pre-maturely, I'd love to see it flourish as well but I'm not holding my breath. Every time Asus raises the price a hair every tech forum goon places bets on it's death. What makes me think they may be right is that these cheapskates are it's primary market. If they aren't willing to buy it at $300 or even $400, they probably never would have seriously purchased it at $260 or whatever the limbo stick was at.
While at 15 my life was nowhere near as rocky as yours sounded, I had a similar experience at about that time. I remember staring blankly at this lady as she at first tried to figure out what I was going to do with my life and then ended the conversation on a defeated note when we didn't come to a conclusion.
What I got from that was; never take career advice from someone who's job is solely to tell kids what they want to be when they grow up. If they were so good at picking a life out for themselves they probably wouldn't be guidance councillors.
And yeah, forcing kids to pick a path at 13 or 14 or however old Grade 9 is now, is absurd. Anything under let's say 18 and they're standing on some really thin, speculative ice.
I'm tiring of fanboyism from every camp, Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows, Sun, all of them. I'm instituting an oath of "Computer Secularism".
This sounds funny, but really the only way computers are going to get better is if we praise and are critical of the best and worst of ALL offerings. Not just sticking to whatever platform we happen to check our mail on at the time.
I use every one (except for Sun, but my current job doesn't require it), and I have to be honest, they all have strengths and weaknesses that are notable. I even secretly think some of Vista's features are neat.
Glad to see everyone has solved the Fermi Paradox just by reminding us that space is big and by quoting Douglas Adams ad nauseum. Guess we can close the book on that one. No Python references for us? I think that would sew it up tight.
Sarcasm aside this thread has so much supposition about the intelect, ability, advancement, logic and morality of any possible alien life it's mind blowing, and not in a good way. I don't think we can presume to understand an alien intelligence even if it did show up.
I've read some comments that proposed that if an alien life form advanced enough to actually mobilize the technology to reach us that they would be so intellectually superior that they would have no interest in us, or at least no malevolence towards us because they would be so enlightened. That's a massive guess that puts a lot of faith in the development path of "intelligent" life. If you think of Humanity as a possible median point for cruelty and benevolence (as we often paint ourselves in Sci-Fi), that still leaves a lot of terrifying room for a bad encounter.
Anyway tl;dr it's a paradox. It's genuinely weird. There's no simple explanation. Space is big, but life should be plentiful if the explanation of abiogenesis holds (local chemicals spontaneously live). It should be plentiful if the explanation of exogenisis holds (space junk has space mold)? Dammit it's just weird!
From an ergonomic standpoint I really don't have to move my hands that much to manipulate my environment. I've felt a great improvement in my overall speed and comfort.
With a population in the billions, energy shortages looming, etc, why in the crap would every house in the US need a robot? What purpose would they even serve if they were placed there?
Do we need more servants? Like, really?
Sometimes the fancies of billionaires make me just shake my head in disbelief. This is Lucas and DivX, this is Oprah and anything she's ever said about priorities...
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-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set --name SSH --rsource -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 8 --rttl --name SSH --rsource -j LOG --log-prefix "SSH_brute_force "
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 8 --rttl --name SSH --rsource -j DROP
Stops 'em *somewhat* dead. If you want to whitelist hosts so they are not impacted by this rule, just add;
-A INPUT -s your.ip.address -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
Before the throttling ruleset.
Just did a write-up on Wonderland. Development resources are no longer being applied to the project. From what I'm reading the community is going to keep it going, but it's still disappointing to hear that something so forward thinking is being cut from the vine.
"One of the researchers hopes that this could lead to artificially reducing the amount of sleep required in your average human."
Great, another non-problem close to being solved. Thanks science. All I need now is a 3rd arm so that I can work my Blackberry while typing on my laptop. Perhaps they can solve my pesky habit of taking "breaks from work".
How is it that all this technology and progress is enabling us to work even more? Wasn't all this crap supposed to make our lives easier and not harder? What will sleeping less accomplish exactly? Will it allow me to tweet more? Wonderful. Will it increase my happiness? I highly doubt it.
I'd mod this up if I could. It's the best peripheral I have ever used. It feels like a big old vintage trackball from Missile Command or Centipede, and it has a bunch of good options for the 4 buttons and the mousewheel. It's very precise and easy to control. Great for massive copying and pasting jobs.
Here's some related desk pr0n...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simoncarr/3415723327/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simoncarr/1691475117/
This is the largest stumbling block, sure. Also while reading the times I'm sure it would be inconvenient to be attacked by flying penises.
see subj.
So how much easier would a more mature micropayment system make almost every information transaction? Hell, at this point Second Life Lindens are starting to look like a good currency for this type of thing.
Just came here to say this and it's worth repeating. Total agreement with [not already in use].
The label "idiot" is something the tech/geek community seems to throw about liberally and it sort of makes me ashamed.
I find a lot of people brand someone an "idiot" because they don't share the same obsessive attention to detail that they do to one particular subject, but then turn around and wonder why that person is a success at another endeavor.
Just different strokes. Everyone can't be good at everything, and just because DudeFellaX is good at Perl, doesn't mean he knows sweet dick all about making money too like DudeFellaY might.
From another view.. you, dear article submitter, could be the idiot.
Yes let's turn off the televisions in waiting rooms so we can peruse home reno magazines from 1993 instead.
best keyboard I've ever owned. Control instead of caps-lock? So much better than I ever expected.
I agree with that, but there are still many fiddly fingers in between, and many ways to capture unregistered domain queries (including HOST queries to DNS servers if someone tries to surf to www.UNREGISTERDDOMAIN.com for example). It's a lucrative enough market that it would be worth the effort.
And of course we can't hold major tier network providers above reproach, since humans are involved. All it takes is one or two disgruntled network admins.
As noted, yep. But at least you can cut down on the variables if you're using a more reputable web front-end. Mark has gone on the record to make whois search privacy an issue.
One of the problems stem from the fact that any whois query can be sniffed (or SNORTed) if it passes over the wrong network hop anyway, so there isn't much you can do unless you're ready on the trigger to register the domain almost immediately. One thing you CAN do if you're going to do web queries (because not everybody has a whois command line installed) is query via;
https://www.easywhois.com/
Note httpS. I can certify that Mark J doesn't do domain tasting, that's not the business EasyDNS is in. So if you do do a query via EasyWhois it's not going to get snagged after 24 hours (at least not from our end).
[ Disclaimer: Yeah I work for EasyDNS
I don't know what's going on with your machine, but I've upgraded several to Leopard with none of the odd bugs you appear to have. My pre-Leopard release of Cyberduck works fine, and continues to do so. I also use X (rarely) and that works.
Regarding the Cyberduck thing it was the interaction between Cyberduck and external apps that Cyberduck calls to edit files that was zorked. Actually using Cyberduck to transfer files still worked, but editing on the fly was completely gone. As for X, my Gimp is busted along with a couple of other compiled apps.
I actually am one of those fanboys and I've gotta admit I'm very surprised by the number of issues that have come up with this release. These aren't small issues either. From the perspective of a sysadmin;
- X is hosed.
- Finder takes up large amounts of CPU at odd, mainly inconvenient times.
- It's much less graceful than 10.4, even in Tiger's early releases.
- There have been more than one borked upgrade that I've been witness to, which is brand new to me.
- First day of use I nearly lost my keychain, and it's still not 100% right.
- The new tmp layout broke a few key native OS X apps (Cyberduck, but the dev of Cyberduck was quick on the fix!)
- Weird arbitrary menu re-shuffling that seems out of the norm for Apple's usually anal layout and design philosophy (WTF is going on in the Network Prefs? It's been simple and straightforward since OS 8, and now it's like a circus).
- Longer and more frequent pauses in this release. I'm sensitive to the difference between perceptually slow and really, truly slow, and these are truly slow pauses.
There IS good of course, some of the new features I actually dismissed turn out to be awesome, like, not willing to downgrade back to 10.4 awesome, so I'm going to tough it out. But if I had to turn back time I'd wait until some time next year to order my copy.
As it is now I jumped the gun on ordering and I upgraded a bunch of clients to 10.5, to my present dismay (including my wife). Basically I bought on the good feelings I had towards 10.4.8-> and this release hasn't lived up to that standard.
So it's not that Apple is never bad, but what is new is the WAY that this is bad.
Ditto here. I was very glad I actually went through it as it actually explains a lot of attitudes I've been trying to correct in myself for at least the past decade.
For those of you who are too, ahem, busy, to read the article it says that if you create an environment where the child's ego and self-worth are linked to his or her intelligence they will likely avoid situations that will challenge them intellectually.
Actually really interesting stuff.
Slightly more fun than brushing your teeth.
It's sensible; they're waiting to see how hard the Eee fails in this arena before they try to launch. They'll either compete directly with the Eee and the others or they'll learn from the failures of the Eee and we'll see an even neater (can I say that, neatER?) device from Palm.
I still love my Sony Clie, and I wish Palm the best, I'd really like to see a new Palm device that had a fair chance at rekindling the good old days of the Palm Pilot.
PS. I'm not damning the Eee pre-maturely, I'd love to see it flourish as well but I'm not holding my breath. Every time Asus raises the price a hair every tech forum goon places bets on it's death. What makes me think they may be right is that these cheapskates are it's primary market. If they aren't willing to buy it at $300 or even $400, they probably never would have seriously purchased it at $260 or whatever the limbo stick was at.
Hmm, site doesn't work... moving on to next link.
*rinse and repeat for all sites that block Firefox*
What I got from that was; never take career advice from someone who's job is solely to tell kids what they want to be when they grow up. If they were so good at picking a life out for themselves they probably wouldn't be guidance councillors.
And yeah, forcing kids to pick a path at 13 or 14 or however old Grade 9 is now, is absurd. Anything under let's say 18 and they're standing on some really thin, speculative ice.
This sounds funny, but really the only way computers are going to get better is if we praise and are critical of the best and worst of ALL offerings. Not just sticking to whatever platform we happen to check our mail on at the time.
I use every one (except for Sun, but my current job doesn't require it), and I have to be honest, they all have strengths and weaknesses that are notable. I even secretly think some of Vista's features are neat.
Glad to see everyone has solved the Fermi Paradox just by reminding us that space is big and by quoting Douglas Adams ad nauseum. Guess we can close the book on that one. No Python references for us? I think that would sew it up tight.
Sarcasm aside this thread has so much supposition about the intelect, ability, advancement, logic and morality of any possible alien life it's mind blowing, and not in a good way. I don't think we can presume to understand an alien intelligence even if it did show up.
I've read some comments that proposed that if an alien life form advanced enough to actually mobilize the technology to reach us that they would be so intellectually superior that they would have no interest in us, or at least no malevolence towards us because they would be so enlightened. That's a massive guess that puts a lot of faith in the development path of "intelligent" life. If you think of Humanity as a possible median point for cruelty and benevolence (as we often paint ourselves in Sci-Fi), that still leaves a lot of terrifying room for a bad encounter.
Anyway tl;dr it's a paradox. It's genuinely weird. There's no simple explanation. Space is big, but life should be plentiful if the explanation of abiogenesis holds (local chemicals spontaneously live). It should be plentiful if the explanation of exogenisis holds (space junk has space mold)? Dammit it's just weird!
I'm not THAT fat (yet)! :)
Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite 2
$60~
Kensington Expert Mouse
$100~
From an ergonomic standpoint I really don't have to move my hands that much to manipulate my environment. I've felt a great improvement in my overall speed and comfort.
Do we need more servants? Like, really?
Sometimes the fancies of billionaires make me just shake my head in disbelief. This is Lucas and DivX, this is Oprah and anything she's ever said about priorities...