Re:On no, not another learning experience!
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Bookmarked. In return, $1 Wireless Interface (I dunno why he's got a copy of the Circuit Cellar article. Didn't expect the All-seeing Google eye?)
Re:Just when it was getting hard . . .
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Hard? Better go buy the Feb issue of Circuit Cellar while you still can. (Or just read this guy's copy of it)
On no, not another learning experience!
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[..] and even memorize the RFID signals of devices like the Mobil SpeedPass.
That gives me lots of confidence in the security of Speedpass cards. I predict wonderful "learning experiences" as RFID reading/duplicating technology moves down to individuals. Of course, legal threats are already being used to try to keep that genie in the bottle. (Previous story on Slashdot about nasty letters to people who bought smartcard readers for legitimate reasons.) Sure, that'll work...
No worry, $cientology says that they helped cure people of radiation from Chernoyl. Oh yeah, I'm sure many people were saved from radiation by Elronic methods. Ghouls.
Cute, but the JW church has frequently proclamed the (coming) end of the world even without that. 1975 was the last predicted end. (The founding of Microsoft? Aiiieee!)
Re:What about large spam networks?
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So long as spammers can control these zombies, there's really not a whole lot that can be done about spam.
Unfortunately, there is. Blocking outgoing port 25 and DUL blocklists that block email from dial-ups and most home ADSL/Cable IP addresses will block a lot of spam sent directly from zombies. (As well as reverse DNS lookup, and newer schemes.) They're pain-in-the-ass solutions because they stop small users who know what they're doing from running their own direct outgoing mail servers. (Smarthosting is still an option.) Spammers can still send via the zombie's ISP, but even black-hat ISPs frown at that.
And a little more of the trust that the net was built on trickles away, killed by spammers.
Re:Great picture of Bill?!?
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Not a picture, but if you can dig up an old copy of the Bill'n'Opus screen saver, there's some nice digs at him. (I'm trying to remember if the shipping version had his head blowing off during a demo then his body kicking it around the stage. One of those might have been removed during the Flying Toaster fix.)
Oddly enough, the next release of Windows after that included faxing which did a number on Delrina's main income source WinFax. Coincidence!
In the beginning, MS MAIL and later Exchange didn't use SMTP.
In the begining, it was Network Courier until MS bought them (1990?). It did a nice job of doing inter-office email via 2400 bps modems using spare 8 MHz 8088 PC clones. Of course, Power Point was a new app, Word documents didn't inflate every time you looked at them, and no one sent huge file attachments to everyone in the company... "Those were happier times."
Keep in mind that the DMA estimating $11.7 billion is like Al Ralsky or any other spam king bragging about how successful he is.
I wouldn't trust what the DMA said were hard facts. Their estimates aren't worth spit.
They'll probably pad their resumes, go job hunting and lie through their faceplates:
"Vaporators! Sir -- My first job was programming binary load lifters...very similar to your vaporators. You could say..."
"Do you speak Bocce?"
"Of course I can, sir. It's like a second language for me...I'm as fluent in Bocce..."
For English to Japanese, hopefully they'll have a switch for whether the "speaker" is male or female. I knew someone who learned Japanese from his girlfriend and apparently that gave an interesting impression when he spoke.;)
Aggregators also filter and concentrate. If they get their good ideas from somewhere else, but filter out the bad ideas, then that's a valuable service. (Good, bad.. are just labels for ideas that spread or don't in the blog zeitgeist.)
With current trends in television, we'll get Celebrity Monster Survivor. Set on Skull Island, each week famous giant monsters will cooperate to perform tasks for their team. At the end of each week, a monster will be butt-kicked off the island. At the end, when a single monster remains, the losers will get to come back and slag the winner. (And I mean slag.) Romance, shocking revelations, monster wupp-ass!
If the MPAA wants to control my television, they can buy one for me and keep it somewhere. Hopefully they'll send me a postcard of it so I can brag about how cool it is.
That depends on how they've done it. Since everyone insists on turning email programs into contact managers, I assume that you can get the local weather for a particular contact? That might be nice if you're talking on the phone with that contact. It would certainly be useful if you're about to hop on a plane to visit him. (Pack shorts or parka? Both?)
Hopefully features like this can be turned off. I don't want a lookup of the weather, map info and driving instructions everytime I click on a contact.
For new mail notification, I wish that mail programs would provide lots of hooks for external apps.
I might want to an audio notification--but I might want to first check if (a) I'm sleeping, (b) I'm having a higher priority meeting/phone call, (c) vary the audio notification depending on the email, (d) flash the lights if I'm deaf YIC!, (e) page me, (f) ???
Granted if the program is open source, I can do what I want, but that's frequently too much information. I just want documented hooks, not a whole parts list.
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They're working on it. Japanese conference states robots' rules of order
Bookmarked. In return, $1 Wireless Interface (I dunno why he's got a copy of the Circuit Cellar article. Didn't expect the All-seeing Google eye?)
Hard? Better go buy the Feb issue of Circuit Cellar while you still can. (Or just read this guy's copy of it)
That gives me lots of confidence in the security of Speedpass cards. I predict wonderful "learning experiences" as RFID reading/duplicating technology moves down to individuals. Of course, legal threats are already being used to try to keep that genie in the bottle. (Previous story on Slashdot about nasty letters to people who bought smartcard readers for legitimate reasons.) Sure, that'll work...
How about about "Chernobyl...18 Up"? Like the continuing 7 Up .. 42 Up series of documentary films, this story has a while to go. (eevil NY Times link)
No worry, $cientology says that they helped cure people of radiation from Chernoyl. Oh yeah, I'm sure many people were saved from radiation by Elronic methods. Ghouls.
And a number of people used to lick their paint-brush (to straighten the bristles) while painting it on. *ouch*!
That idiot has obviously never seen pictures of "swimming pool" reactors with the blue Cherenkov glow.
Cute, but the JW church has frequently proclamed the (coming) end of the world even without that. 1975 was the last predicted end. (The founding of Microsoft? Aiiieee!)
Unfortunately, there is. Blocking outgoing port 25 and DUL blocklists that block email from dial-ups and most home ADSL/Cable IP addresses will block a lot of spam sent directly from zombies. (As well as reverse DNS lookup, and newer schemes.) They're pain-in-the-ass solutions because they stop small users who know what they're doing from running their own direct outgoing mail servers. (Smarthosting is still an option.) Spammers can still send via the zombie's ISP, but even black-hat ISPs frown at that.
And a little more of the trust that the net was built on trickles away, killed by spammers.
Oddly enough, the next release of Windows after that included faxing which did a number on Delrina's main income source WinFax. Coincidence!
In the begining, it was Network Courier until MS bought them (1990?). It did a nice job of doing inter-office email via 2400 bps modems using spare 8 MHz 8088 PC clones. Of course, Power Point was a new app, Word documents didn't inflate every time you looked at them, and no one sent huge file attachments to everyone in the company... "Those were happier times."
Perhaps you're thinking of Miyamoto Musashi of IBM Japan, and his Book of the Five Rings?
Keep in mind that the DMA estimating $11.7 billion is like Al Ralsky or any other spam king bragging about how successful he is. I wouldn't trust what the DMA said were hard facts. Their estimates aren't worth spit.
"Vaporators! Sir -- My first job was programming binary load lifters...very similar to your vaporators. You could say..."
"Do you speak Bocce?"
"Of course I can, sir. It's like a second language for me...I'm as fluent in Bocce..."
For English to Japanese, hopefully they'll have a switch for whether the "speaker" is male or female. I knew someone who learned Japanese from his girlfriend and apparently that gave an interesting impression when he spoke. ;)
Aggregators also filter and concentrate. If they get their good ideas from somewhere else, but filter out the bad ideas, then that's a valuable service. (Good, bad .. are just labels for ideas that spread or don't in the blog zeitgeist.)
With current trends in television, we'll get Celebrity Monster Survivor. Set on Skull Island, each week famous giant monsters will cooperate to perform tasks for their team. At the end of each week, a monster will be butt-kicked off the island. At the end, when a single monster remains, the losers will get to come back and slag the winner. (And I mean slag.) Romance, shocking revelations, monster wupp-ass!
The main part of the "military-class security", is that you can eat the computer if captured.
If we keep packing computing power into landfill, we're going to get Stynet. (A creepy new meaning to GIGO.)
If the MPAA wants to control my television, they can buy one for me and keep it somewhere. Hopefully they'll send me a postcard of it so I can brag about how cool it is.
But I like programming! :)
Hasn't Microsoft said that OE has no future?
Hopefully features like this can be turned off. I don't want a lookup of the weather, map info and driving instructions everytime I click on a contact.
I might want to an audio notification--but I might want to first check if (a) I'm sleeping, (b) I'm having a higher priority meeting/phone call, (c) vary the audio notification depending on the email, (d) flash the lights if I'm deaf YIC!, (e) page me, (f) ???
Granted if the program is open source, I can do what I want, but that's frequently too much information. I just want documented hooks, not a whole parts list.
Of course, this was a user review.
Maytag should use this to help out their Lonely Guy tm washer repairman.