I've since stopped using OS/2, and haven't found any replacement that works as good as that did. (Honestly, I haven't looked too hard in recent years.) Sometimes I think about bringing an os/2 box back just for tvfs.
This is very cool. Does anyone know how to do this with DJBDNS? I started thinking about it the night verisign turned on the wildcards, but promptly forgot to look any further.
iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3 player/downloader. The iRATE server has a large database of music. You rate the tracks and it uses your ratings and other peoples to guess what you'll like. The tracks are downloaded from websites which allow free and legal downloads of their music.
Windows and linux versions, debian packages even.
Granted, you're not going to get anything you've been hearing on the radio.. And for me, most of the songs suck. But a few have been good, and finding good music I haven't heard is pretty sweet.
I'm american, and around here a paki is the store you buy your booze at. Short for package store. I'm pretty sure this is strictly a new england thing, and possibly just a connecticut thing.
Except, the tag probably will be used for the price, and the tags eventually won't be on the outside of the package, but installed somewhere inside, at the point of manufacture.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Ok, so the next step is an RFID chip in the price tagger, which triggers the camera. or have the camera monitor constantly, keeping a backlog of 1 day or so, so that they have video of the vandalism. That'd probably work better and be less exploitable, but the RFID in the price gun would be more fun to implement.
It's really no different than the tags in books and cds and whatnot which they already have everywhere.
I'm not a lawyer, but from my POV, i'd expect they're on LESS shaky ground if they say:
"Excuse me sir, you set off our alarm.. It says you have a pack of unpaid-for razor blades that was recently taken off the shelf in aisle 12-B."
-vs-
"Excuse me sir, you set off our alarm.. Can we check your bags? It might just be a tag that didn't get disabled, or something you've got on you from some other store... but we're supposed to check anyway.. If you don't let us check, we'll have to detain you till the police get here."
As for the cameras, I really don't know why they think they need them. But this is what RFID is for. each tag has (or should have) a unique ID. the tags generally have up to 2k (lower-case k) of storage space, which can be read/write or write-once. The cheaper ones are write-once, and they'd be more useful for this kind of stuff anyways.
Where? Either I don't get it (entirely possible, i'm on my first cup of coffee, and full of cold meds), or you don't understand what the "RF" part of "RFID" means.
Not unless you maul the package, take out the rfid chip, and hide it in your sock. If you put it back, the store knows, because hey look, the 8 pack of blades just showed up back in stock. If you put it down elsewhere, the RFID reader at the door never sees it leave, so it never sounds the alarm.
Besides, it won't be long before they can track items anywhere in the store with RFID, at which point when you put your 8 pack of blades in with the potato chips, they'll send a stock boy out to put 'em back.
Threads like this are a wonderful place to load up your friends/foes list. If someone has nothing better to say than "this is a fucking stupid thing to post, you are stupid, and your family eats poo." then it's very doubtful they'll ever post anything i want to read. Foes list. On the otherhand, there's some really good posts here about WHY this might not currently work, or how to make it work, or how it might be made to work in the future. Friends list. +1 bonus to friends, -1 to foes, signal to noise ratio greatly increases.
Manhole covers are round because a circular cover can cover an opening of largest minor axis using the least amount of metal. It's the solution to a minimax problem.
You certainly aren't being efficient if you use a round cover to cover a square hole. Round manhole covers are round because they are designed to cover round holes.
three dimensions. an equalateral triangle's widest point, as you said, its edge. it has narrower points tho, the narrowest being its height (perpendicular from the center of one edge to the point opposite).
Pass it through sideways, with one point in one corner of the hole, and an edge at a second corner, vertical.
manhole covers, when they are round, are round because the manhole is round. manholes are often round because its an easy shape to make, is structurally sound, and is a nice shape for a person to crawl down.
There are other shapes that won't fit down the hole they're covering.
And there are pleanty of non-round manholes, which means that manholes aren't by definition round. So the question is akin to 'why are cars red?'.... They're not red. Some of them are red, and the reason those ones are red is because they're red. Round manholes are round because they are round.
Err, I don't think so. This just requires spammers to use more simultaneous connections to overcome the slowdown; it doesn't really increase their network requirements much, only their host CPU requirements. 20,000 simultaneous TCP connections from one process is quite possible with/dev/kqueue under FreeBSD, for example; and you can do the same, but with a bit more CPU wasted, using plain old select() on almost any Unix.
So, instead of throttling back per connection, you throttle back per connecting IP. Joe Spammer opens 20k connections to my SMTP box & starts sending spam, he gets throttled back to 5kB/s *total*.
Or if what he's sending appears to be spam, limit him to 10 simultaneous connections.
...at this point, wouldn't it be a good idea to pick ONE of the scripting languages, and make it a co-standard?
Good idea. And since no one else has stepped forward, I'll decide for you. From now on, all of your everything shall be done in ObjectREXX. Tell your friends.
Why would i want this instead of a credit card (or a debit card)?
Maybe i'm missing something big, but here's how i see it:
Moneo: you transfer your money to the card up front, so you're no longer making interest on your bank account.
Credit card: you pay 30 days AFTER you spend your money, thereby continuing to make interest.
Moneo: anual fee of 6 to 13 dollars.
Credit card: no fees at all, as long as you pay it off every month.
Moneo: loose it, there goes your money.
Credit card: loose it, report it, no loss.
Moneo: no added consumer protection that i can see..
Credit card: tons of consumer protection
It sounds like there will also be added hassle of 'recharging' the moneo card, and mentally remembering how much is left (only $107 can be stored on it..)
And as far as the 'you can use it for small purchases' argument goes.. I regularly use my credit card for purchases as small as a can of soda, or a burger at mcdonalds (tho i've been laying off the greeseburgers lately)
Well, at last he includes a link to a screenshot of MSBOB running in vmware, running in KDE. wtf? is that the one worthwhile image to include in a review of the new gnome desktop?
Er, and you need a PC card reader to put the pc card in.. and a computer to put that in.. and some way to power the computer.. hell, this thing ain't that small. It barely fits in the back of a pickup.
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That actually seems quite reasonable, compared to most. It doesn't demand anything, threaten you with legal crap, and says "please" and "thank you"
Here's how
I've since stopped using OS/2, and haven't found any replacement that works as good as that did. (Honestly, I haven't looked too hard in recent years.) Sometimes I think about bringing an os/2 box back just for tvfs.
a multia if i recall. I had one in my trunk in the late 90s playing mp3s. Sweet little box, I still have it but it hasn't been powered on in ages.
This is very cool. Does anyone know how to do this with DJBDNS? I started thinking about it the night verisign turned on the wildcards, but promptly forgot to look any further.
iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3 player/downloader. The iRATE server has a large database of music. You rate the tracks and it uses your ratings and other peoples to guess what you'll like. The tracks are downloaded from websites which allow free and legal downloads of their music.
Windows and linux versions, debian packages even.
Granted, you're not going to get anything you've been hearing on the radio.. And for me, most of the songs suck. But a few have been good, and finding good music I haven't heard is pretty sweet.
I'm american, and around here a paki is the store you buy your booze at. Short for package store. I'm pretty sure this is strictly a new england thing, and possibly just a connecticut thing.
Who do I sue when your canyonero tips over onto my wife & kids in their volvo wagon, killing both you and them?
Except, the tag probably will be used for the price, and the tags eventually won't be on the outside of the package, but installed somewhere inside, at the point of manufacture.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Ok, so the next step is an RFID chip in the price tagger, which triggers the camera. or have the camera monitor constantly, keeping a backlog of 1 day or so, so that they have video of the vandalism. That'd probably work better and be less exploitable, but the RFID in the price gun would be more fun to implement.
It's really no different than the tags in books and cds and whatnot which they already have everywhere.
I'm not a lawyer, but from my POV, i'd expect they're on LESS shaky ground if they say:
"Excuse me sir, you set off our alarm.. It says you have a pack of unpaid-for razor blades that was recently taken off the shelf in aisle 12-B."
-vs-
"Excuse me sir, you set off our alarm.. Can we check your bags? It might just be a tag that didn't get disabled, or something you've got on you from some other store... but we're supposed to check anyway.. If you don't let us check, we'll have to detain you till the police get here."
As for the cameras, I really don't know why they think they need them. But this is what RFID is for. each tag has (or should have) a unique ID. the tags generally have up to 2k (lower-case k) of storage space, which can be read/write or write-once. The cheaper ones are write-once, and they'd be more useful for this kind of stuff anyways.
Where? Either I don't get it (entirely possible, i'm on my first cup of coffee, and full of cold meds), or you don't understand what the "RF" part of "RFID" means.
Not unless you maul the package, take out the rfid chip, and hide it in your sock. If you put it back, the store knows, because hey look, the 8 pack of blades just showed up back in stock. If you put it down elsewhere, the RFID reader at the door never sees it leave, so it never sounds the alarm.
Besides, it won't be long before they can track items anywhere in the store with RFID, at which point when you put your 8 pack of blades in with the potato chips, they'll send a stock boy out to put 'em back.
They don't need to search you. If you have it on you, the RFID reader picks it up.
Once the interface is as refined as, say, that of OS X, we can concentrate on the eye-candy.
Who is this "we" you speak of?
and a horrible abuse of karma bonus...
Threads like this are a wonderful place to load up your friends/foes list. If someone has nothing better to say than "this is a fucking stupid thing to post, you are stupid, and your family eats poo." then it's very doubtful they'll ever post anything i want to read. Foes list. On the otherhand, there's some really good posts here about WHY this might not currently work, or how to make it work, or how it might be made to work in the future. Friends list. +1 bonus to friends, -1 to foes, signal to noise ratio greatly increases.
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laptop + wireless + couch, or recliner, or bed, or porch, or hammock, or lawn, or garage, or kitchen, or sometimes even a chair & desk.
Manhole covers are round because a circular cover can cover an opening of largest minor axis using the least amount of metal. It's the solution to a minimax problem.
You certainly aren't being efficient if you use a round cover to cover a square hole. Round manhole covers are round because they are designed to cover round holes.
--sean
three dimensions. an equalateral triangle's widest point, as you said, its edge. it has narrower points tho, the narrowest being its height (perpendicular from the center of one edge to the point opposite).
Pass it through sideways, with one point in one corner of the hole, and an edge at a second corner, vertical.
--Sean
(p.s. -- These work tho.)
manhole covers, when they are round, are round because the manhole is round. manholes are often round because its an easy shape to make, is structurally sound, and is a nice shape for a person to crawl down.
... They're not red. Some of them are red, and the reason those ones are red is because they're red. Round manholes are round because they are round.
There are other shapes that won't fit down the hole they're covering.
And there are pleanty of non-round manholes, which means that manholes aren't by definition round. So the question is akin to 'why are cars red?'.
--Sean
Why would you designate someone as "Foe" just because you don't agree with one thing they said...
My foe list is full of trolls & folks that like to complain about duplicate stories. You're in it for this one.
Err, I don't think so. This just requires spammers to use more simultaneous connections to overcome the slowdown; it doesn't really increase their network requirements much, only their host CPU requirements. 20,000 simultaneous TCP connections from one process is quite possible with /dev/kqueue under FreeBSD, for example; and you can do the same, but with a bit more CPU wasted, using plain old select() on almost any Unix.
So, instead of throttling back per connection, you throttle back per connecting IP. Joe Spammer opens 20k connections to my SMTP box & starts sending spam, he gets throttled back to 5kB/s *total*.
Or if what he's sending appears to be spam, limit him to 10 simultaneous connections.
--Sean
Good idea. And since no one else has stepped forward, I'll decide for you. From now on, all of your everything shall be done in ObjectREXX. Tell your friends.
--Sean
Why would i want this instead of a credit card (or a debit card)?
Maybe i'm missing something big, but here's how i see it:
Moneo: you transfer your money to the card up front, so you're no longer making interest on your bank account.
Credit card: you pay 30 days AFTER you spend your money, thereby continuing to make interest.
Moneo: anual fee of 6 to 13 dollars.
Credit card: no fees at all, as long as you pay it off every month.
Moneo: loose it, there goes your money.
Credit card: loose it, report it, no loss.
Moneo: no added consumer protection that i can see..
Credit card: tons of consumer protection
It sounds like there will also be added hassle of 'recharging' the moneo card, and mentally remembering how much is left (only $107 can be stored on it..)
And as far as the 'you can use it for small purchases' argument goes.. I regularly use my credit card for purchases as small as a can of soda, or a burger at mcdonalds (tho i've been laying off the greeseburgers lately)
--sean
Well, at last he includes a link to a screenshot of MSBOB running in vmware, running in KDE. wtf? is that the one worthwhile image to include in a review of the new gnome desktop?
--Sean
Er, and you need a PC card reader to put the pc card in.. and a computer to put that in.. and some way to power the computer.. hell, this thing ain't that small. It barely fits in the back of a pickup.