That you say 'adreneline junkie' alone shows that you know nothing of the sport. You remind me of that idiot Mike Vandeman troll on rec.bicycles.off-road several years ago.
Please don't claim to be an expert on something that you have never even attempted yourself. BTW, you are much safer in freefall and under canopy than you will *EVER* be driving your car, or even walking down the sidewalk.
You obviously know nothing about the sport. When I used to skydive, it was a really peaceful, serene experience. In addition, you can play, and if you screw up, just get stable and try again. In other 'extreme' sports you don't get a second chance. Screw up a backflip on a bmx bike; break your neck.
I always felt safer in freefall than I ever did driving my car. The former my life is in my own hands. The latter, my life is in the idiot's who crosses the yellow line.
Indeed. I posted about this on a similar topic a couple of days ago. Business method patents, and software patents are both ridiculous. Patents should be for physical inventions, and physical inventions only. You can patent your circuitboard, but not the method used to communicate with it.
Furthermore, you should have to come up with a prototype within a reasonable amount of time. Patenting ideas is stupid. I shouldn't be able to patent a time machine, for example. If you can't come up with a working prototype within a given amount of time, you lose that patent, while those who can come up with a prototype should have the right to patent.
I've had lots of neat ideas. I didn't bother patenting them, however, because I didn't have the means nor the skill to make them a reality.
Also, don't forget that RFID can be woven into clothing. Nothing like walking into a retailer and have them know everything you are wearing (socks and underwear too!) and where you bought it from. Or even knowing what is in your shopping bag so they can more effectively target you with their sales droids.
WTF can't they do it manually? It's just keeping track of seats on planes for fsck's sake. Sure, they may not be able to accomodate everyone right away, but they could certainly do better than "nobody can fly at all because our computer system crashed". If a restaurant loses their computer, they don't stop admitting people. They just go back to paper orders/receipts.
Patents should be limited to physical inventions. They should also be REVOKED if the person/company filing the patent cannot provide a working prototype within a reasonable amount of time (ie, I certainly can't patent a warp drive, but I could patent something like a hocky puck that acts like a hovercraft to play with on a basketball court)..yeah, I came up with that idea and then a couple of years later, somebody had made that exact toy. DOH!!!
Ideas and mathematical formulas (including computer programs) should NOT be patentable.
Umm. I doubt many people would be able to get a handle on the mathematics required to become an Aerospace or Mechanical engineer without taking a class or being tutored. So no, a university is definitely not useless to teach engineers.
Computer programming of any type, OTOH, can be easily self-taught. Engineers do *that* on their own all the time (I know that I did). Coding is just one tool of many that an engineer will use.
Thanks for the CGI::IRC info! I've been using a java app on my own web page (very slow to download the first time). This thing looks like a winner! Of course, we have a Q&A scheduled on my site tomorrow, so I have to decide whether to rush to implement this or stay with the java client for now...*sigh*
I agree. One that really sticks out is all of the javascript dynamic menus. I always thought that by now there would be a tag for this purpose. Seems like a logical tag to add to the specs. I have a use for it, for sure (i'm one of those who also refuses to use javascript for core functionality)
Well, to some people, life is much more than their job. I tried very hard not to move when I was unemployed a few years back. I lived close to some of the best singletrack on the east coast (Michaux state forest in Pennsylvania...Jeremiah Bishop and Chris Eatough always mention it as their favorite place to ride/race). Eventually I ended up moving to Elizabethtown, but I still have trails nearby, and am close enough to michaux to still go up there every now and then, including the races.
For those unfamiliar, singletrack implies mountain biking:) Jeremiah Bishop and Chris Eatough are world champion endurance racers.
If people really want to filter crap, then make a known equivalent of '.notxxx'. Then the filter-happy can block everything but. Blocking more than they wanted to? Too bad.
Ah, but some of us have hardware that this would be *perfect* for. My toshiba libretto 110, as a perfect example. I can have a *max* of 64Meg of memory in that thing, and even overclocked it is 'only' 266MHz.
What works well for me is mimedefang with spamassassin. My "It's Spam for sure" threshold is now about 3 points after a year or so of bayesian training. Most stuff I really want to look at comes in at -3 or less.
In mimedefang:
554 reject spamhaus sbl/xbl in filter_sender. This list is easy for people to get off of if they aren't spammers. Just tell them that is why they are rejected. Spammers, of course, won't even pay attention to the 554 and continue to hammer on your server *sigh*
have spamassassin continue to do the RBL checks anyway, as those other lists will add to the score (but we don't want to just reject on anything but spamhaus)
configure sendmail to use greet_pause (1000ms on my server)
reject helos that claim to be your own server in filter_sender
reject helos that are not a fqdn or ip address in filter_sender(just make sure that the helo has a dot in between something...spammers and zombies LOVE using single-word helos)
have mimedefang just discard anything that is above a certain spamassassin threshold in filter_end
You wouldn't believe how much stuff gets outright rejected just by checking the helo, greet_pause, and spamhaus. Spamassassin gets the rest.
I really don't know how I managed to run sendmail without mimedefang before.
I use aliases for every internet thing that I need to use an email address with. And the ONLY one that ever gets hit with spam? My slashdot address. Go figure.
Indeed. You can also run Bind on windows, yet people insist on using Microsoft's buggy, standards-be-damned DNS instead. They'll argue that this is necessary for Active Directory to work properly. Incorrect. (I'm fighting that battle at work right now).
As a poster above pointed out, this may be the artificial connection limit because he is using a 'personal' version of windows and not server? This type of artificial limit, of course, would not exist in open source software unless there were a good reason for it, or it was easily controllable by those using the software.
Sorry to reply to my own post. The other problem, of course, is single companies insisting on registering every trademark they own as a domain name. Also a dumb practice..Net and.com for the same company, maybe, but I don't like that either.
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Please don't claim to be an expert on something that you have never even attempted yourself. BTW, you are much safer in freefall and under canopy than you will *EVER* be driving your car, or even walking down the sidewalk.
I always felt safer in freefall than I ever did driving my car. The former my life is in my own hands. The latter, my life is in the idiot's who crosses the yellow line.
Furthermore, you should have to come up with a prototype within a reasonable amount of time. Patenting ideas is stupid. I shouldn't be able to patent a time machine, for example. If you can't come up with a working prototype within a given amount of time, you lose that patent, while those who can come up with a prototype should have the right to patent.
I've had lots of neat ideas. I didn't bother patenting them, however, because I didn't have the means nor the skill to make them a reality.
Also, don't forget that RFID can be woven into clothing. Nothing like walking into a retailer and have them know everything you are wearing (socks and underwear too!) and where you bought it from. Or even knowing what is in your shopping bag so they can more effectively target you with their sales droids.
WTF can't they do it manually? It's just keeping track of seats on planes for fsck's sake. Sure, they may not be able to accomodate everyone right away, but they could certainly do better than "nobody can fly at all because our computer system crashed". If a restaurant loses their computer, they don't stop admitting people. They just go back to paper orders/receipts.
Patents should be limited to physical inventions. They should also be REVOKED if the person/company filing the patent cannot provide a working prototype within a reasonable amount of time (ie, I certainly can't patent a warp drive, but I could patent something like a hocky puck that acts like a hovercraft to play with on a basketball court)..yeah, I came up with that idea and then a couple of years later, somebody had made that exact toy. DOH!!!
Ideas and mathematical formulas (including computer programs) should NOT be patentable.
ActiveX using code-signing for its security model. We all know how secure that is. Microsoft, as always, just doesn't get it.
Computer programming of any type, OTOH, can be easily self-taught. Engineers do *that* on their own all the time (I know that I did). Coding is just one tool of many that an engineer will use.
Some computer geek you are. I run firefox on a toshiba libretto (Pentium 233 with only 64MB of memory). Works fine.
Remove the libnullplugin from your main firefox plugins directory.
make a bookmark keyword for google (or your engine of choice), and then just type "google foo" in the location bar.
Thanks for the CGI::IRC info! I've been using a java app on my own web page (very slow to download the first time). This thing looks like a winner! Of course, we have a Q&A scheduled on my site tomorrow, so I have to decide whether to rush to implement this or stay with the java client for now...*sigh*
I agree. One that really sticks out is all of the javascript dynamic menus. I always thought that by now there would be a tag for this purpose. Seems like a logical tag to add to the specs. I have a use for it, for sure (i'm one of those who also refuses to use javascript for core functionality)
So how long before somebody finds a way to do something maliciuos through this to your server? SQL injection / etc?
If it causes such a hassle, and has so many security problems, why still use it? Mod_perl with embedded perl seems like a good option.
For those unfamiliar, singletrack implies mountain biking :) Jeremiah Bishop and Chris Eatough are world champion endurance racers.
What I saw of it I liked, but waking up after key sequences, I don't know what was going on. Guess I can watch it again 2nite.
If people really want to filter crap, then make a known equivalent of '.notxxx'. Then the filter-happy can block everything but. Blocking more than they wanted to? Too bad.
Ah, but some of us have hardware that this would be *perfect* for. My toshiba libretto 110, as a perfect example. I can have a *max* of 64Meg of memory in that thing, and even overclocked it is 'only' 266MHz.
Firefox runs ok, but anything lighter on an old 266MHz machine that only has 64Meg of ram is welcome.
In mimedefang:
You wouldn't believe how much stuff gets outright rejected just by checking the helo, greet_pause, and spamhaus. Spamassassin gets the rest.
I really don't know how I managed to run sendmail without mimedefang before.
I use aliases for every internet thing that I need to use an email address with. And the ONLY one that ever gets hit with spam? My slashdot address. Go figure.
Indeed. You can also run Bind on windows, yet people insist on using Microsoft's buggy, standards-be-damned DNS instead. They'll argue that this is necessary for Active Directory to work properly. Incorrect. (I'm fighting that battle at work right now).
As a poster above pointed out, this may be the artificial connection limit because he is using a 'personal' version of windows and not server? This type of artificial limit, of course, would not exist in open source software unless there were a good reason for it, or it was easily controllable by those using the software.
Sorry to reply to my own post. The other problem, of course, is single companies insisting on registering every trademark they own as a domain name. Also a dumb practice. .Net and .com for the same company, maybe, but I don't like that either.