Pauline Kael in The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/ quotes Greta Garbo at seeing "Beauty and the Beast" by Jean Cocteau. She thought the unencumbered actor was a disappointment without all those details. (Alas, only the Disney cartoon review (1991) is online)
Down at the bottom of the Neuron web page is an encoded program which I cannot fathom. It decodes itself and executes itself. "Hiveware exploder"! Does anyone know what it's doing?
Before Micro$oft, IBM was in charge of flawed software. In the 1960-70s they developed a time-sharing system for mainframes called CMS. You logged in to your virtual machine and had a virtual mini-disk of your own files, and mounted and read other mini-disks containing the "SYSTEM" and applications and data. After reading the directory of such a virtual drive into your VM, CMS would run a specially-named "On Access" shell script that could be set there
by the disk's owner. These could ask for a password or just run some accounting, etc. But you were not in control of what they did. Most casual users never used the feature and were even unaware of how to set it up. So hackers would write little scripts that jumped
onto your mini-drive, to spread to those who
later accessed your files. It was a kinder, gentler time, of course, so although they could erase or patch files, I never saw any worse than a cryptic "we are control your..." sort of message. I first saw this in early 1978, but the system was a few years on by then.
If everyone knew that a 42-oz oatmeal silo was a perfect receptacle for discarded CDs, would it be feasible to collect lots more and actually recover and reuse the ingredients? What if the great annual computer festivals and flea markets offered bins or shipping containers? Would the response of the responsible justify the cost? Has anyone run a successful recycling program?
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Pauline Kael in The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/ quotes Greta Garbo at seeing "Beauty and the Beast" by Jean Cocteau.
She thought the unencumbered actor was a disappointment without all those details.
(Alas, only the Disney cartoon review (1991) is online)
Down at the bottom of the Neuron web page is an encoded program which I cannot fathom. It decodes itself and executes itself. "Hiveware exploder"!
Does anyone know what it's doing?
Before Micro$oft, IBM was in charge of flawed software. ..." sort of message.
In the 1960-70s they developed a time-sharing system for mainframes called CMS.
You logged in to your virtual machine and had a virtual mini-disk of your own files,
and mounted and read other mini-disks containing the
"SYSTEM" and applications and data.
After reading the directory of such a virtual drive into your VM, CMS would
run a specially-named "On Access" shell script that could be set there
by the disk's owner. These could
ask for a password or just run some accounting, etc.
But you were not in control of what they did.
Most casual users never used the feature and
were even unaware of how to set it up.
So hackers would write little scripts that jumped
onto your mini-drive, to spread to those who
later accessed your files.
It was a kinder, gentler time, of course, so although they could erase or patch files, I never
saw any worse than a cryptic "we are control your
I first saw this in early 1978, but the system was
a few years on by then.
If everyone knew that a 42-oz oatmeal silo was a
perfect receptacle for discarded CDs,
would it be feasible to collect lots more and
actually recover and reuse the ingredients?
What if the great annual computer festivals and flea
markets offered bins or shipping containers?
Would the response of the responsible justify the cost?
Has anyone run a successful recycling program?