I think this is more in the vein of "fine, we can't use that against him, but he just told his lawyer that they're going to blow the Sears tower on Christmas". Letting one individual go free on something that is not admissible is a small price to pay if it might save a lot of people.
Scary thing is that once the precedent is set to ignore it in some cases, it will be ignored in others and in some cases inadmissibility will be ignored because of the seriousness of the crime. Bush was right...we will never be the same after Sept 11. I miss Sept 10.
Don't like ads and banners and pop-ups and pop-unders, etc? Take a look at things like WebWasher and Junkbuster. It can certainly keep the sighted among us from ripping our eyes out in frustration as the whole interface hangs waiting to load that pop-up. No doubt that will help those who do not have the benefit of sight from getting to the core of what they seek on the WWW.
Babelfish seems to say the sig means something like "World Above". Which just goes to show that this is nothing new, just that it has become hardware capable so that it becomes portable and fast enough to translate in real time. Definitely has military use. Of course, that's also probably badly translated, showing the limits of the tech.
Isn't this just a step away from an English to Mandarin translator, in itself a step away from being a universal translator for the most common Eurasian languages? You know this has military implications, with a US Tour of Duty over Taiwan. And Carnivore usage is pretty much guaranteed if this isn't already spawned from that project.
Still, doesn't this type of tech get in the way of learning new langauges? Learning languages is known to foster some good brain wiring in early ages, so this tech throws that out the window if people are no longer going to need to learn the language. Just take out your C-Pen, scan the text, and it will speak the text into your bluetooth connected earpiece.
Makes me wonder if other tech that we introduce to our kids will affect them, making them too dependent on the tech. Those PalmPCs are great to help you remember things, but I know I start to rely on it and become more forgetful. Or maybe this will be a boon because we have so many things to remember that it no longer fits in our skulls. Time will tell.
His early vision of satellites and space stations will be read on until space stations are as mundane as that broom in your closet and the astronauts are but janitors in space.
It only takes one book for an author to be remembered forever, and I think 50 years from now The Stand will, for lack of a better word, stand out as King's best work. Especially if some lunatic smallpox carrier initiates what we all think is going to happen.
The authors you've read more of are more likely prolific writers of crap so they'll be as easily forgotten as magazine contributors of 90 years ago. Imagine, no more "Star Trek novels vs Star Trek canon" wars! Most of the junk sci-fi swept off the shelves by...the crap novels of tomorrow. But that is as it should be.
Those are my favorite three Philip K Dick books, having read all three in one week about four summers ago. And don't forget all the movies that have been made based on his stories...
Not all winners, but many will endure, so Philip K. Dick has my top vote. Not quite the same, but Brendan DuBios' Resurrection Day reminds me of his writing.
Ah, for the day that the bottom will drop out of monitor pricing like it has with memory. A 15" monitor for $30, a 17" monitor for $50, 19" for $80 and $100 for a 21" monitor. I drool for the future.
For now, there's still window managers, toolbars, and minimizing whatever you're not using.
Corporations are good because they are money amplifiers. A good example everyone should be able to understand is that without corporations, you end up with countries like Afghanistan that revel in their barbarism. With corporations, you reach for the stars and are hated for it by the Afghanistans of the world. Yet, we strive on.
These money amplifiers allow more businesses, technologies and innovation, feeding on itself. Without that ability to grow, you're stuck hiding in caves and hoping your next meal falls from the sky. The only reason we seem complacent in the West is because we have made calm, peaceful lives for ourselves where we don't have to worry about roving extremists crushing our lives overnight.
There is, of course, the other extreme where corporations make all the laws in their favor, taking the rights away from citizens, possibly those not even in their country. Wealth is not everything, "smelling roses" and all that. So long as people understand the balance of law and move against anything that threatens what they feel is their way of life, then they are under control. Freedom is vigilance.
If you're a gambler, check ebay for these. They were selling for $199 before September, but now they have disappeared off the Best Buy shelves and are creeping up in price close to the retail price. The problem is you don't get the warranty with these since most are pre-opened store models. A buddy of mine got one of these but had to pay $50 for Turtle Beach to repair it after it died from overheating. That plus shipping means you should just buy it off a store.
Decrypting files is *not* the same thing as decrypting the filesystem. Given the choice of encrypting files, the end-user is going to get frustrated with having to type passwords each time they access a file and will end up not encrypting something important. By making a drive letter or filesystem encrypted, the user is forced to do it, thereby ensuring that security procedures are happening.
Remember that security is a process, not a technology bandaid. The most devious users will find a way to work around things that are not convenient and this screw the whole system. Reprimanding or firing the employee does nothing to get back the information that has been lost, so it cannot be left up to "maybes" and "shoulds".
It's easy to smash the laptop open and take out the hard drive. The real value of the laptop is the data, so when they take that drive and connect it to a similar machine that doesn't have any fingerprint or smartcard or security fob or SecurID protection, then you've still lost. Encrypting the hard drive or portions of it as with PGPDisk is still the most secure.
My guess is that the server makes sure that everything in an HTML file that is considered revenue generating is loaded by an IP address within a certain amount of time, and if not it displays the stupidity of the company running the site.
How are people running through WAP gateways and text based browsers supposed to see their little ads *and* get their message; won't work.
This looks like the bottom of the barrel in scraping away the last of the free goodies on the Internet. Now that companies are acting like they have a right to impose a fee on us for their content, we can boycott sites that use this. After all, no one goes to Doubleclick.com because of their advertising policies, so this is a logical extension.
How can we get around this? Any proxy software should just load all images and discard them rather than not load them. To get around that, they may load some Javascript to see if images by certain tags exist within the page, which means pages are about to get a lot heavier with respect to what they are displaying. This is where companies like Google win.
And what happens when we begin blocking the popup or text that explains their "watch or pay" policy? Will we be bound by text that we have not read? We've already seen that such a thing has been thrown out of court for licenses that are not immediately readable.
Read up a little on Afghanistan. This was posted to Slashdot last week and has some good insight into how they are barely a country and hardly even consider themselves as such. As the Mujahideen they weren't much more than some allied tribes, one of which is now the majority group that runs the Taliban, and the rest of which fell under the Northern Alliance.
The word seems older than that. It comes from the czech for slave and has roots to Indo-European words connected to orphan and work.
robotnoun
A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.
A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.
[Czech, from robota, drudgery. See orbh- in Indo-European Roots.]
roboticadjective Word History: Robot is a word that is both a coinage by an individual person and a borrowing. It has been in English since 1923 when the Czech writer Karel apek's play R.U.R. was translated into English and presented in London and New York. R.U.R., published in 1921, is an abbreviation of Rossum's Universal Robots; robot itself comes from Czech robota, "servitude, forced labor," from rab, "slave." The Slavic root behind robota is orb-, from the Indo-European root *orbh-, referring to separation from one's group or passing out of one sphere of ownership into another. This seems to be the sense that binds together its somewhat diverse group of derivatives, which includes Greek orphanos, "orphan," Latin orbus, "orphaned," and German Erbe, "inheritance," in addition to the Slavic word for slave mentioned above. Czech robota is also similar to another German derivative of this root, namely Arbeit, "work" (its Middle High German form arabeit is even more like the Czech word). Arbeit may be descended from a word that meant "slave labor," and later generalized to just "labor."
WEP is in place as a minor deterrent in case someone comes by. It is definitely not our only access, but no one gets access unless they crack our WEP since the system is set to reject unencrypted data. No unencrypted traffic goes through that access point as that network is dedicated to that use.
Sun needs to put something in StarOffice that will be better than MSOffice components or even something new that MSOffice doesn't have. Project management software is expensive, so if they give a clone of MSProject away that's a big lead. How about team collaboration software? Video conferencing? Bundling Mozilla with StarOffice instead of that silly browser they use now. They don't have a chat client in there yet. And I still see that damn HotJava browser popping up when you log into the CDE desktop the first time; that's got to be a waste of human resources to continue supporting/developing that thing. Yeah, a lot of these things can be installed by any savvy sysadmin, but they need to bundle to fight fire with supernovas. Anything else is just trailing MS by copying MSOffice's capabilities after each generation of the software. Not good enough.
Sun's motivation for putting so much effort into something they give away for free is to stem the increasing blood flow of people moving from expensive Sparc desktop hardware to cheap cheap cheap (did I say cheap?) PC desktop hardware. Their continuing production of Solaris X86 is a hedge for the day the Sparc gives way as a desktop platform. Sparc on the server end just can't be beat, but they can't win on the desktop. So far StarOffice just seems like too much of a kludge to win, but at least it's an alternative.
We also treat the wireless security as a joke. We're using an access point located outside our firewall behind another firewall. All clients using the access point get back into the corporate network using the same VPN software they use while on the road. In fact, they are now set up so they never turn the VPN software off.
Anyone breaking the security of our access point gets plain old Internet access and doesn't get into the corporate net.
Ah, then an extraction operation is in order. Is there such a thing as Freshcode so that it can immediately be dupicated elsewhere? The value, I feel, is not in something like Freshcode (if it exists), but in the staff that searches the net and populates the pages with usable information.
You'll note that Freshmeat handles more than just what is available for Debian, so you fall under the contingency "what if the Debian caretakers all spontaneously combust" or something more realistic. I realise that Debian would be harder to kill since it is using the Internet in its proper distributed sense rather than a certain rouge chapeaux'd stock, but there are environments where Linux itself, in any of its forms, is not an option.
What do you need in AppWatch that Freshmeat didn't provide? Being that AppWatch, specializing in listing free software, is providing a subset of what Freshmeat lists, couldn't Freshmeat just provide a filter for searches based on licensing that would just give you the same functionality? They already keep track of license types, and this type of filterng is available in the advanced version of the simple search they now have on their home page when you register.
Freshmeat always seems timely and deals in all the apps I use, even some really minor ones that I don't think I'd ever use. Always used them, so here's hoping they don't suffer the same demise. I see a long painful road of this ahead of us and the few willing to starve a little for their cause are going to make it to the end.
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I think this is more in the vein of "fine, we can't use that against him, but he just told his lawyer that they're going to blow the Sears tower on Christmas". Letting one individual go free on something that is not admissible is a small price to pay if it might save a lot of people.
Scary thing is that once the precedent is set to ignore it in some cases, it will be ignored in others and in some cases inadmissibility will be ignored because of the seriousness of the crime. Bush was right...we will never be the same after Sept 11. I miss Sept 10.
Don't like ads and banners and pop-ups and pop-unders, etc? Take a look at things like WebWasher and Junkbuster. It can certainly keep the sighted among us from ripping our eyes out in frustration as the whole interface hangs waiting to load that pop-up. No doubt that will help those who do not have the benefit of sight from getting to the core of what they seek on the WWW.
Babelfish seems to say the sig means something like "World Above". Which just goes to show that this is nothing new, just that it has become hardware capable so that it becomes portable and fast enough to translate in real time. Definitely has military use. Of course, that's also probably badly translated, showing the limits of the tech.
Isn't this just a step away from an English to Mandarin translator, in itself a step away from being a universal translator for the most common Eurasian languages? You know this has military implications, with a US Tour of Duty over Taiwan. And Carnivore usage is pretty much guaranteed if this isn't already spawned from that project.
Still, doesn't this type of tech get in the way of learning new langauges? Learning languages is known to foster some good brain wiring in early ages, so this tech throws that out the window if people are no longer going to need to learn the language. Just take out your C-Pen, scan the text, and it will speak the text into your bluetooth connected earpiece.
Makes me wonder if other tech that we introduce to our kids will affect them, making them too dependent on the tech. Those PalmPCs are great to help you remember things, but I know I start to rely on it and become more forgetful. Or maybe this will be a boon because we have so many things to remember that it no longer fits in our skulls. Time will tell.
His early vision of satellites and space stations will be read on until space stations are as mundane as that broom in your closet and the astronauts are but janitors in space.
I'm normally a Tom Clancy, Lord of the Rings, Turtledove reader. Due to recent events, things like Black Hawk Down, The War for God, and
From Beirut to Jerusalem are now on my reading list.
It only takes one book for an author to be remembered forever, and I think 50 years from now The Stand will, for lack of a better word, stand out as King's best work. Especially if some lunatic smallpox carrier initiates what we all think is going to happen.
The authors you've read more of are more likely prolific writers of crap so they'll be as easily forgotten as magazine contributors of 90 years ago. Imagine, no more "Star Trek novels vs Star Trek canon" wars! Most of the junk sci-fi swept off the shelves by...the crap novels of tomorrow. But that is as it should be.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Ubik
The Man In the High Castle
Those are my favorite three Philip K Dick books, having read all three in one week about four summers ago. And don't forget all the movies that have been made based on his stories...
Total Recall, Minority Report, Bladerunner, Drug Taking and the Arts, Screamers, Impostor, and Confessions of a Crap Artist.
Not all winners, but many will endure, so Philip K. Dick has my top vote. Not quite the same, but Brendan DuBios' Resurrection Day reminds me of his writing.
Ah, for the day that the bottom will drop out of monitor pricing like it has with memory. A 15" monitor for $30, a 17" monitor for $50, 19" for $80 and $100 for a 21" monitor. I drool for the future.
For now, there's still window managers, toolbars, and minimizing whatever you're not using.
Corporations are good because they are money amplifiers. A good example everyone should be able to understand is that without corporations, you end up with countries like Afghanistan that revel in their barbarism. With corporations, you reach for the stars and are hated for it by the Afghanistans of the world. Yet, we strive on.
These money amplifiers allow more businesses, technologies and innovation, feeding on itself. Without that ability to grow, you're stuck hiding in caves and hoping your next meal falls from the sky. The only reason we seem complacent in the West is because we have made calm, peaceful lives for ourselves where we don't have to worry about roving extremists crushing our lives overnight.
There is, of course, the other extreme where corporations make all the laws in their favor, taking the rights away from citizens, possibly those not even in their country. Wealth is not everything, "smelling roses" and all that. So long as people understand the balance of law and move against anything that threatens what they feel is their way of life, then they are under control. Freedom is vigilance.
Are they still sucky at using NIS to match to Windows domain users? I haven't found anyone that does exactly what Network Appliances does for cheap.
If you're a gambler, check ebay for these. They were selling for $199 before September, but now they have disappeared off the Best Buy shelves and are creeping up in price close to the retail price. The problem is you don't get the warranty with these since most are pre-opened store models. A buddy of mine got one of these but had to pay $50 for Turtle Beach to repair it after it died from overheating. That plus shipping means you should just buy it off a store.
sounds like "You've got DMCA violation!". Wonder if AOL will jump on that bandwagon.
Decrypting files is *not* the same thing as decrypting the filesystem. Given the choice of encrypting files, the end-user is going to get frustrated with having to type passwords each time they access a file and will end up not encrypting something important. By making a drive letter or filesystem encrypted, the user is forced to do it, thereby ensuring that security procedures are happening.
Remember that security is a process, not a technology bandaid. The most devious users will find a way to work around things that are not convenient and this screw the whole system. Reprimanding or firing the employee does nothing to get back the information that has been lost, so it cannot be left up to "maybes" and "shoulds".
It's easy to smash the laptop open and take out the hard drive. The real value of the laptop is the data, so when they take that drive and connect it to a similar machine that doesn't have any fingerprint or smartcard or security fob or SecurID protection, then you've still lost. Encrypting the hard drive or portions of it as with PGPDisk is still the most secure.
My guess is that the server makes sure that everything in an HTML file that is considered revenue generating is loaded by an IP address within a certain amount of time, and if not it displays the stupidity of the company running the site.
How are people running through WAP gateways and text based browsers supposed to see their little ads *and* get their message; won't work.
This looks like the bottom of the barrel in scraping away the last of the free goodies on the Internet. Now that companies are acting like they have a right to impose a fee on us for their content, we can boycott sites that use this. After all, no one goes to Doubleclick.com because of their advertising policies, so this is a logical extension.
How can we get around this? Any proxy software should just load all images and discard them rather than not load them. To get around that, they may load some Javascript to see if images by certain tags exist within the page, which means pages are about to get a lot heavier with respect to what they are displaying. This is where companies like Google win.
And what happens when we begin blocking the popup or text that explains their "watch or pay" policy? Will we be bound by text that we have not read? We've already seen that such a thing has been thrown out of court for licenses that are not immediately readable.
Note, the Marantz RC5000 is the same device as the Pronto TSU2000.
Read up a little on Afghanistan. This was posted to Slashdot last week and has some good insight into how they are barely a country and hardly even consider themselves as such. As the Mujahideen they weren't much more than some allied tribes, one of which is now the majority group that runs the Taliban, and the rest of which fell under the Northern Alliance.
The word seems older than that. It comes from the czech for slave and has roots to Indo-European words connected to orphan and work.
robot noun
A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance. A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control. A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.
[Czech, from robota, drudgery. See orbh- in Indo-European Roots.]
robotic adjective
Word History: Robot is a word that is both a coinage by an individual person and a borrowing. It has been in English since 1923 when the Czech writer Karel apek's play R.U.R. was translated into English and presented in London and New York. R.U.R., published in 1921, is an abbreviation of Rossum's Universal Robots; robot itself comes from Czech robota, "servitude, forced labor," from rab, "slave." The Slavic root behind robota is orb-, from the Indo-European root *orbh-, referring to separation from one's group or passing out of one sphere of ownership into another. This seems to be the sense that binds together its somewhat diverse group of derivatives, which includes Greek orphanos, "orphan," Latin orbus, "orphaned," and German Erbe, "inheritance," in addition to the Slavic word for slave mentioned above. Czech robota is also similar to another German derivative of this root, namely Arbeit, "work" (its Middle High German form arabeit is even more like the Czech word). Arbeit may be descended from a word that meant "slave labor," and later generalized to just "labor."
WEP is in place as a minor deterrent in case someone comes by. It is definitely not our only access, but no one gets access unless they crack our WEP since the system is set to reject unencrypted data. No unencrypted traffic goes through that access point as that network is dedicated to that use.
And just as an example of real project management software, see Primavera. That's the stuff you build bridges with.
Sun needs to put something in StarOffice that will be better than MSOffice components or even something new that MSOffice doesn't have. Project management software is expensive, so if they give a clone of MSProject away that's a big lead. How about team collaboration software? Video conferencing? Bundling Mozilla with StarOffice instead of that silly browser they use now. They don't have a chat client in there yet. And I still see that damn HotJava browser popping up when you log into the CDE desktop the first time; that's got to be a waste of human resources to continue supporting/developing that thing. Yeah, a lot of these things can be installed by any savvy sysadmin, but they need to bundle to fight fire with supernovas. Anything else is just trailing MS by copying MSOffice's capabilities after each generation of the software. Not good enough.
Sun's motivation for putting so much effort into something they give away for free is to stem the increasing blood flow of people moving from expensive Sparc desktop hardware to cheap cheap cheap (did I say cheap?) PC desktop hardware. Their continuing production of Solaris X86 is a hedge for the day the Sparc gives way as a desktop platform. Sparc on the server end just can't be beat, but they can't win on the desktop. So far StarOffice just seems like too much of a kludge to win, but at least it's an alternative.
We also treat the wireless security as a joke. We're using an access point located outside our firewall behind another firewall. All clients using the access point get back into the corporate network using the same VPN software they use while on the road. In fact, they are now set up so they never turn the VPN software off.
Anyone breaking the security of our access point gets plain old Internet access and doesn't get into the corporate net.
Ah, then an extraction operation is in order. Is there such a thing as Freshcode so that it can immediately be dupicated elsewhere? The value, I feel, is not in something like Freshcode (if it exists), but in the staff that searches the net and populates the pages with usable information.
You'll note that Freshmeat handles more than just what is available for Debian, so you fall under the contingency "what if the Debian caretakers all spontaneously combust" or something more realistic. I realise that Debian would be harder to kill since it is using the Internet in its proper distributed sense rather than a certain rouge chapeaux'd stock, but there are environments where Linux itself, in any of its forms, is not an option.
What do you need in AppWatch that Freshmeat didn't provide? Being that AppWatch, specializing in listing free software, is providing a subset of what Freshmeat lists, couldn't Freshmeat just provide a filter for searches based on licensing that would just give you the same functionality? They already keep track of license types, and this type of filterng is available in the advanced version of the simple search they now have on their home page when you register.
Freshmeat always seems timely and deals in all the apps I use, even some really minor ones that I don't think I'd ever use. Always used them, so here's hoping they don't suffer the same demise. I see a long painful road of this ahead of us and the few willing to starve a little for their cause are going to make it to the end.