How does buying used make a difference? It's not like your name was associated with the CPU ID from the start -- it becomes associated by what you do with it. The main problem is that these ID's can leave a trail, not that they might reveal your name. Once somebody has decided to snoop on you, the trail can be found. This could potentially be like someone going through your files (i.e. depending on what you use the net for, they could find some of the same info they would on receipts and invoices, etc.)
Bad logic here. First you equate "more usable" with "dumber" and then you say that making the interface dumber will make it less usable. So you think that following the author's suggestions on making your interface more usable will make it unusable?
Ebay, etc., are one source (the problem with older systems on ebay is that the shipping costs more than the item:-) but off-line auctions are your best bet. The classified ads of your local paper probably has an "auctions" heading and there's probably one day a week (Sunday or Saturday, probably) when the local auction houses put their ads in there (once you know who they are, find out about the auctions they don't advertise). Also, look up the government surplus auctions in your area (they probably aren't advertised). Once you find the right sources, you really can find alot for next to nothing.
Um. You're accusing them of illegal activity? A pyramid scheme is an investment scam that uses the investment of later investors to pay earlier ones. Process Tree is more like MLM, which is legal -- but it's not quite MLM because you're signing up supliers, not customers or sales reps (that is, none of the people in this MLM-type structure are putting any money in). If the whole thing falls apart tomorrow, that's too bad but nobody got hurt. Nothing is required of you other than what other distributed computing projects require -- if you're willing to participate in such a project for for free, then you've got nothing to lose. That was my reasoning, anyway.
1) You could only use the trademark with regards to the lemonade stand -- you couldn't get the trademark on Unix Lemonade and then use it to sell computers
2) In order to get the domain taken away from someone, the effective date on your trademark would have to be earlier than the "record created on" date on the domain's whois record. Now, if you can prove that you've been selling Unix Lemonade since January 18, 1976, then you could have that date as the effective date even if you don't register it until next week (the name of your company and your products are your trademarks even if you don't register them -- registration just makes it easier to defend them).
Is that bad? (not that I've made any money yet, much less "each time someone clicks the link"). I think the link is certainly of interest to slashdotters (backed up by the fact that 170 of them have used the link in my sig to sign up), and using a link in a sig to promote a site which may earn money for the poster is not an unusual practice. I'd probably have a link to them even if they didn't have an affiliate program -- and why give a for-profit company promotion for free when they're willing to pay for it? Anyway, the posibility of earning any money with them is still months away, at least. And the payout amount still remains to be determined -- if I were really looking to make a lot of money from an affiliate link, I think I could find better terms than that.
Anyway, I'm working on a site (anthology.org -- not much to it yet) that will be a directory of online texts. Though, more and more it seems that some sort of active involvement is necessary to support this type of thing -- rather than just cataloging. Shouldn't be horribly expensive as far as major philanthropic activities go $2000 for a RAQ server and $300-500 a month to host it.
BTW, let me know if there are archives missing from my anthology.org list.
Quote from the story: A second flaw, also discovered by Internet Security Systems, could then allow a user to gain full control of the computer. In this second flaw, an intruder working inside the Piranha console can select the "change password" option, then tack a line of computer instructions on the end of the new password. The code, which can do anything the Web server itself can do, will then be executed by the computer, according to researcher Allen Wilson, who discovered both flaws. This is the serious part of the security issue, obviously. Just resetting the password, as is suggested above, is not going to solve the problem.
The way a particle changes when observed is that you have to bounce a photon or electron of it, (or whatever your microscope is using), in order for a signal to come back to your eye.
And OF COURSE bouncing an electron off a particle is going to affect its state.
Um... I'm no physics whiz but I don't think the fact that you're observing is what causes the photon or electron to bounce off of it. Yes, I need light to see but you seem to be saying that the fact that I am looking at something is the cause of the light.
Secondly, the point is not that "something happens" (which your theory would explain) but that something entirely different happens each time and that there is no testable reason for this difference outside of the observer.
This CNN story is more informative and has better pictures.
The part I found amazing was that, in this conversion, the shuttle cockpit lost 25 pounds of weight. Now, CRT's aren't the lightest thing in the world, so those old dials and guages must have been pretty heavy
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The thing that's confusing me is: who is MS trying to convince? Will the business users really be swayed by the fact that PocketPC can play music and video? Will the MP3-downloaders really get one of these to carry their tunes? Usually MS identifies their market and goes all out after that most important group (e.g. the current ad campaign about the reliability of Windows2000).
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That's odd... I guess Microsoft is willing to admit that Expedia has the Earth rotating the wrong way. I would figured that they would have just lobbied Congress to develop a nuke large enough to make the Earth spin the "correct" direction.
Um. You are reading too much into this -- they aren't admitting anything.
Look at the headline:Explorapedia Nature: Earth Rotates in Wrong Direction Now, you could take this either way, but if you had to choose one or the other, I'd say "Earth Rotates the Wrong Directon" sounds more like they're blaming the actual planet, not the software.
The "Summary" is the same: When you run Explorapedia and use the Exploratron to look at the Earth spinning, the Earth rotates in the wrong direction. Again, they aren't definitively saying that it's the Earth on your computer screen that's incorrect.
Next, is the "Status" of the problem. Here's where it gets scary: Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Explorapedia, World of Nature, version 1.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available. They are "researching" the problem? They know exactly what the problem is and the software solution would be, clearly, to make the earth image rotate the other way. But, it seems to me that they are looking for "other options"
anyone driving while talking on a cellphone should be shot. If it is a completely hands-free set, that's ok, but
I read a newspaper article about a study that had recently been done, which indicated that using a hands-free model was no improvement -- i.e. it is the distraction of a telephone conversation that is the problem, not the manual use of the phone. Which, to bring this thread back on topic, may be a good reason to stick to those more basic forms of communication.
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For the question about buttons, you life would probably be easier if you used wordless icons accompanied by text -- I personally don't think it makes much sense to use GIF/JPEG/PNG to represent text in any case. But if you really need to use graphics to represent text, make it part of the variable subsitution -- img src="$language$button_name.gif"
Part of the answer depends on what you want the site to look like for the user. Most Canadian web sites start off with a splash/welcome page where the user chooses English or French (e.g. Canada Post). Personally, I would want a bit more functionality on the first page.
I think that, in any case, you need to make sure that any repeated design element only occurs once so you never need to make the same change in multiple places to redign the site. THis seems sort of obvious, but it's hard to be more specific without more details about your project. I have always tended (when using SSI) to have the "actual" html file contain the content and call the design up from a single template -- and have been very happy with this approach. You need to decide whether you are adding another decision layer to this (e.g. from content+design to content+design+ language -- or just stay with content+design and make seperate pages for seperate languages)
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I assume the university currently holds the copyright? (If not, let us know who does) In any case, I think the actual authors' desires would cary some weight, even if they no longer have legal control of the material.
In general, before you try to convince people, make sure you know exactly who needs to be convinced. There is probably one person or group in charge of making these decisions for the university and the more other people you talk to about it, the more "No"s you will need to turn into "Yes"s
I would use the argument that releasing it under Open Content License is akin to having it published in an academic journal -- other academics can repeat your experiment, make modifications (improvements, even) and report their results, thus improving the system for everybody. This is really exactly how an academic community is supposed to work, and it could be difficult to argue against this, if it is presented right. With others already asking to use the system, you can really talk it up as a "rare opportunity" that will be great for the school. Don't apologize as though you're asking the school to give up something -- present it so that it will be a (hopefully, only hypothetical:-) person who opposes the Open Content idea looks like the one who is asking the school to give up something.
If getting the money is really an issue, maybe you could propose the type of two-tier system that OSS companies use -- where you pay for "full support" (however you define that), but can still get the free download.
Define "expert" -- who is "enonymous.com" and why do I care what they say? Currently their web server appears to have gone down hard (any URL under their domain returns the error "the requested resource is in use") so I don't know what they call themselves but from what I've read on the other links posted here, I wouldn't call them "privacy experts" -- more like a market research firm (which some might consider the opposite, as they are in the business of gathering and sharing data). See the mailing list post linked above.
Perhaps this is part of the problem? For these people to criticize the privacy policies of other internet companies seems like a conflict of interest, as these are either their competition or potential customers.
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Hmm. If you consider Yahoo to be a solution... There are plenty of web-based calendar programs on freshmeat and CGI Resources Index... If none of these already accepts input from the Palm Calendar, adding this capability shouldn't be too dificult (I'm assuming the Palm Calendar API is published)
Um, I've seem plenty of articles about Stallman that mentioned his hair and beard and blue jeans. I think it's part of the "this isn't your normal business/political-type" but it is getting a bit tired.
BTW, the author of the article is female (I know, that doesn't necessarily prove anything but still...)
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Probably not supposed to be a comprehensive list of topics there, but just in case... a brief history of PGP/PGPi would demonstrate almost all the issues you seem to intend to cover
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Well, if you actually click on the link and go to the FAQ, it says 256Kbps upstream
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How does buying used make a difference? It's not like your name was associated with the CPU ID from the start -- it becomes associated by what you do with it. The main problem is that these ID's can leave a trail, not that they might reveal your name. Once somebody has decided to snoop on you, the trail can be found. This could potentially be like someone going through your files (i.e. depending on what you use the net for, they could find some of the same info they would on receipts and invoices, etc.)
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Bad logic here. First you equate "more usable" with "dumber" and then you say that making the interface dumber will make it less usable. So you think that following the author's suggestions on making your interface more usable will make it unusable?
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Ebay, etc., are one source (the problem with older systems on ebay is that the shipping costs more than the item :-) but off-line auctions are your best bet. The classified ads of your local paper probably has an "auctions" heading and there's probably one day a week (Sunday or Saturday, probably) when the local auction houses put their ads in there (once you know who they are, find out about the auctions they don't advertise). Also, look up the government surplus auctions in your area (they probably aren't advertised). Once you find the right sources, you really can find alot for next to nothing.
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Um. You're accusing them of illegal activity? A pyramid scheme is an investment scam that uses the investment of later investors to pay earlier ones. Process Tree is more like MLM, which is legal -- but it's not quite MLM because you're signing up supliers, not customers or sales reps (that is, none of the people in this MLM-type structure are putting any money in). If the whole thing falls apart tomorrow, that's too bad but nobody got hurt. Nothing is required of you other than what other distributed computing projects require -- if you're willing to participate in such a project for for free, then you've got nothing to lose. That was my reasoning, anyway.
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2) In order to get the domain taken away from someone, the effective date on your trademark would have to be earlier than the "record created on" date on the domain's whois record. Now, if you can prove that you've been selling Unix Lemonade since January 18, 1976, then you could have that date as the effective date even if you don't register it until next week (the name of your company and your products are your trademarks even if you don't register them -- registration just makes it easier to defend them).
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Is that bad? (not that I've made any money yet, much less "each time someone clicks the link"). I think the link is certainly of interest to slashdotters (backed up by the fact that 170 of them have used the link in my sig to sign up), and using a link in a sig to promote a site which may earn money for the poster is not an unusual practice. I'd probably have a link to them even if they didn't have an affiliate program -- and why give a for-profit company promotion for free when they're willing to pay for it? Anyway, the posibility of earning any money with them is still months away, at least. And the payout amount still remains to be determined -- if I were really looking to make a lot of money from an affiliate link, I think I could find better terms than that.
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Anyway, I'm working on a site (anthology.org -- not much to it yet) that will be a directory of online texts. Though, more and more it seems that some sort of active involvement is necessary to support this type of thing -- rather than just cataloging. Shouldn't be horribly expensive as far as major philanthropic activities go $2000 for a RAQ server and $300-500 a month to host it.
BTW, let me know if there are archives missing from my anthology.org list.
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Quote from the story: A second flaw, also discovered by Internet Security Systems, could then allow a user to gain full control of the computer. In this second flaw, an intruder working inside the Piranha console can select the "change password" option, then tack a line of computer instructions on the end of the new password. The code, which can do anything the Web server itself can do, will then be executed by the computer, according to researcher Allen Wilson, who discovered both flaws.
This is the serious part of the security issue, obviously. Just resetting the password, as is suggested above, is not going to solve the problem.
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Okay, so I forgot about how electron microscopes work -- but my second point still stands
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Secondly, the point is not that "something happens" (which your theory would explain) but that something entirely different happens each time and that there is no testable reason for this difference outside of the observer.
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The part I found amazing was that, in this conversion, the shuttle cockpit lost 25 pounds of weight. Now, CRT's aren't the lightest thing in the world, so those old dials and guages must have been pretty heavy
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Look at the headline:Explorapedia Nature: Earth Rotates in Wrong Direction Now, you could take this either way, but if you had to choose one or the other, I'd say "Earth Rotates the Wrong Directon" sounds more like they're blaming the actual planet, not the software.
The "Summary" is the same: When you run Explorapedia and use the Exploratron to look at the Earth spinning, the Earth rotates in the wrong direction. Again, they aren't definitively saying that it's the Earth on your computer screen that's incorrect.
Next, is the "Status" of the problem. Here's where it gets scary: Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Explorapedia, World of Nature, version 1.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available. They are "researching" the problem? They know exactly what the problem is and the software solution would be, clearly, to make the earth image rotate the other way. But, it seems to me that they are looking for "other options"
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For the question about buttons, you life would probably be easier if you used wordless icons accompanied by text -- I personally don't think it makes much sense to use GIF/JPEG/PNG to represent text in any case. But if you really need to use graphics to represent text, make it part of the variable subsitution -- img src="$language$button_name.gif"
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I think that, in any case, you need to make sure that any repeated design element only occurs once so you never need to make the same change in multiple places to redign the site. THis seems sort of obvious, but it's hard to be more specific without more details about your project. I have always tended (when using SSI) to have the "actual" html file contain the content and call the design up from a single template -- and have been very happy with this approach. You need to decide whether you are adding another decision layer to this (e.g. from content+design to content+design+ language -- or just stay with content+design and make seperate pages for seperate languages)
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It has been released on videocassette (e.g. VHS) but not on DVD (i.e. disc).
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In general, before you try to convince people, make sure you know exactly who needs to be convinced. There is probably one person or group in charge of making these decisions for the university and the more other people you talk to about it, the more "No"s you will need to turn into "Yes"s
I would use the argument that releasing it under Open Content License is akin to having it published in an academic journal -- other academics can repeat your experiment, make modifications (improvements, even) and report their results, thus improving the system for everybody. This is really exactly how an academic community is supposed to work, and it could be difficult to argue against this, if it is presented right. With others already asking to use the system, you can really talk it up as a "rare opportunity" that will be great for the school. Don't apologize as though you're asking the school to give up something -- present it so that it will be a (hopefully, only hypothetical :-) person who opposes the Open Content idea looks like the one who is asking the school to give up something.
If getting the money is really an issue, maybe you could propose the type of two-tier system that OSS companies use -- where you pay for "full support" (however you define that), but can still get the free download.
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Perhaps this is part of the problem? For these people to criticize the privacy policies of other internet companies seems like a conflict of interest, as these are either their competition or potential customers.
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Hmm. If you consider Yahoo to be a solution... There are plenty of web-based calendar programs on freshmeat and CGI Resources Index... If none of these already accepts input from the Palm Calendar, adding this capability shouldn't be too dificult (I'm assuming the Palm Calendar API is published)
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BTW, the author of the article is female (I know, that doesn't necessarily prove anything but still...)
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Probably not supposed to be a comprehensive list of topics there, but just in case... a brief history of PGP/PGPi would demonstrate almost all the issues you seem to intend to cover
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