but it would be pretty easy to write a little script that searched for "spam-friendly" and similar search terms on Overture, Google, etc, and clicked through those links.
Pretty soon, ISPs would have to stop advertising those services. They'd have to resort to mis$pelling s+earch Te(rms like in a SP.AM mess(age, thereby cutting down the effectiveness considerably.
Of course, anti-spam services would probably take a lot of collateral damage from an approach like this. Innocents getting caught and torn apart by the mob show the fundamental problem with the vigilante approach.
by the way i found out that i am 30% Jewish a couple of months ago so i don't think i can be considered an anti Semite.
30% ? That's a pretty strange number when you think that people tend have ancestors in integral powers of two (excluding cases of incest). Unless I've forgotten something about mathematics, it just doesn't work.
But in any case, yes, you can be Jewish and Antisemitic at the same time. It's not even uncommon, just like I can be a misanthrope and a human being, fergzample.
There was a great library at Pergamum. It was a competitor to Alexandria, and may have had around 200,000 volumes. Supposedly, the contents of the library at Pergamum were given as a gift to Cleopatra by Mark Antony. I'm not sure where this was chronologically with respect to the destruction of the library at Alexandria.
Then, even before, there was King Assurbanipal of Assyria, who in 650 BC created a great library. He had copies made of thousands of years worth of Sumerian tablets. In fact, it's unlikely we'd have even a tiny fraction of the surviving Sumerian information if he hadn't done that. His library had 22,000 volumes (clay tablets). I don't know what number of those are still extant and intact.
That's why I back up all my CDROMs onto clay tablets. As the marketroids tell me, it's a robust archival medium for assuring SOHO data persistence!
Yeah, it's old tech. Yeah, it's big. Yeah, the backlight sucks, and the data transfer rate is only 14.4.
But it's incredibly stable, and works very well as a phone and a PDA. It's digital/analog on Verizon, so I have coverage just about anywhere in the US where there is cell coverage at all. I've had maybe one crash in the last year, and I overclock it by 30%.
I keep phone numbers, calendar, to-do, tide tables, a few full e-texts, encrypted password aggregator, some personal database tools, metro maps, a handful of games, an ssh client, and some utilities on it.
(It runs Palm OS 3.1, has 8M of memory, and can be had on eBay for around $50)
I suppose the system could look like a paranoid's nightmarish control system. After all, I could easily use it to monitor all my girlfriend's activities, when she comes and goes, what visitors are at the house, etc. But that's a double-edged sword -- she can monitor me just as easily. Then again, either of us have the ability to go and deactivate the system (or delete files). I can see how a system like this could be a divorce lawyer's wet dream.
We've been living in this house for four years. In the first two years, we were burglarized twice -- that's enough to induce some paranoia. Where I grew up, you left your doors unlocked and your car keys hanging by the front door, so it's a real mental shift for me.
In any case, the cameras are just a backup system in case the alarm system doesn't stop a burglar, and they somehow escape the teeth of my vicious, vicious housecat.
I have a security system for my house running on an older version of Motion. This is what can happen when a gadget-freak has a paranoid girlfriend...
The system has more than three and fewer than nine cameras, some obvious, some concealed in and around the house. Each camera goes into a BT878-compatible card (some dedicated cards, some multiport).
When motion is detected, I can capture on the order of 10-15 fps (not at stunning resolution, admittedly, but 320x240 pixels is good enough for me). If there is motion on two or more cameras, the frame rate decreases. Captured images are saved as timestamped JPEGs in a hierarchical directory structure, along with MPEGs that are assembled of each incident. This is not a particularly mighty machine; it's an Athlon 1800+ with 512MB memory. The limiting factor tends to be the PCI bus when you have a lot of cameras.
Motion supports some nice features. You can set noise and motion detection threshholds on a per-camera basis. You can use a 256-level grayscale image for a sensitivity map, so you can mask certain regions out or decrease their contribution to triggering the recording (useful if plants sway in the breeze). You can label individual cameras with descriptive text ("Front Door"), and all frames are time and date stamped.
I have some custom scripts that manage disk space consumption, deleting the oldest data when drive capacity goes below a set level. I can maintain several week's worth of data in normal conditions. I monitor my setup with a secured Apache setup that groks the file layout, and provides some additional telemetry.
If you need to view data in realtime (normally, I don't), you can use something like Cambozola. If you look at the Motion email archives, you'll find postings on how to run multiple Cambozola applets in a single browser window.
You can do cool stuff, like linking motion detection alarms to scripts. When a known burglary suspect was seen casing the joint, I had some of the cameras send an email to page my phone when they detected motion. Some of the images captured were useful for the police in an ongoing investigation.
Also noteworthy, Motion has one of the friendliest and most helpful communities of any OS project I've been involved with. The mailing list is a great resource, and the maintainers will often go out of their way to help on even the most bone-headed newbie configuration questions on unsupported hardware.
Having been hit by a car while on a motorized cycle here in Los Angeles, and listening to the EMTs progressively giving up on saving the guy on the neighboring gurney (a motorcycle crash victim) while bleeding, hurting, and waiting to be stitched up, I'd be very unlikely to go on public roads on a motorcycle of any sort. Hearing EMTs react in horror to a person's condition is pretty traumatic ("Oh my god! OK, forget about the legs, they'll have to come off, but let's see if we can at least save that one arm.")
Trying to veer back onto topic, though, having a few high capacity CF cards works. I'm a little distrustful of how they stand up to rough transport (a similar problem exists with the Apacer, of course), foreign airport X-Ray machines, etc.
One advantage of a CDR solution is you can burn multiple copies. You can give digital copies of pictures to people in mere minutes, which is useful in developed countries. Still, a CDR-based solution does have that single-point-of-failure problem.
I guess in the end, it comes down to a question of personal priorities and style.
I dunno. You probably don't shoot as many pictures as some of us do.
A sustained 3 fps chews up memory like a mofo, especially when you're shooting at 3008 x 2000.
My philosophy is shoot 'em all, and sort it out when you get home. The time spent during traveling is best spent experiencing everything; I'll have plenty of time to sort and organize when I get back home.
Does exactly what you're describing. Fairly small, runs on 110-240VAC at 50-60Hz. Writes CDs at something like 24x. You can burn multiple cards to a single CD (multisession), or a single card to multiple CDs (spanning) depending on your relative CD/Flash capacities.
It'll play your pictures as a slide show on a TV, or play DVDs, if that's what you're looking for. You can use it as a USB external CD drive for your computer, if you want. I haven't used either of these features. It does not have a built-in LCD for viewing pictures (there is one for copy status).
Aluminum actually oxidizes pretty severely in some conditions.
Most aluminum we deal with is actually coated by a tough but fine layer of alumina oxide (Al2O3). Iron, when it rusts, flakes off molecules of FeO2, but aluminum clings to its layer of oxide, so it does make it pretty durable.
But expose it to chlorine or OH- ions, and you'll get serious degradation.
If you want chemically inert metal to etch your data into, I suggest gold. Sure, it scratches easily, but it'll be stolen and melted into jewelry long before the scratches seriously degrade your data.
I keep meaning to upgrade to the 7135. I'd like the extra storage. I've been tempted by the Treo 600 as well. But my 6035 is just so stable. I read all the scary stories on the smartphone discussion boards, and hold off upgrading. One of these days, though...
On a side note, I have been arrested before and they took my phone away, so it doesn't do me much good in this case.
I suspect that when Emma got arrested, they took away her book(s) as well. But I like the quote, and think of it using the more general definition for "arrested," i.e., when one is stuck, and unable to act, like when waiting for a dentist, or in line at the DMV.
That was 4116s, too. I can't believe I spent nearly an order of magnitude too much, since I watched prices in 80-Micro and Byte like a hawk.
My (ahem) memory could be failing, but I think this may have been more recent than 1981...
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A review of GEAP from 1983:
http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n7/48_G ea p_Dot_Writer.php
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The mincube font was great.
But there was also the shield-like banner font, which (tying this all back together) would have been awesome for use on D&D character sheets. My buddy who had it had bought all of their font packages.
I still have the TRS-80 in the garage somewhere. I don't know if it still runs. But I never had GEAP myself. I'm not sure if I even have copies of printouts from it anywhere. Hell, it's only been... er... twenty years.
Damn, now I feel even older.
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Yeah, that manual was fun. And the printer was so cool. Built-in support for bold and italics? Damn! Such technology!
I especially remember how the printer would work if you printed one custom character at a time (using BASIC), instead of building a buffer with all of your characters. The print head would do this crazy dance where it would print each character, then back up a bit, then print the next character, etc. It took me a long time to figure that one out.
Later, someone released software called Graphics Editor And Printer (GEAP), which allowed multiline fonts, etc. It was awesome, and, although I couldn't afford it myself, I designed many a font on a friend's machine.
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I remember writing a character-generator on my old TRS-80. It didn't fit into 4k, so you had to run it in two stages, loading part II from the cassette (at least if you were an MU or a Cleric, so you could pick your spells).
Later, when I got an Espon MX-80 printer with the graphics update kit, I was able to create "fonts" (with characters as wide as they wanted to be, so long as they were 8 dots tall) to make the character sheets look better. The last iteration drew little 8-dot-tall swords and skulls horizontally across the top of the page.
The questions in the survey seem designed to prove a point rather than gather useful information.
There needs to be a lot more context.
Under what contract was the code written? Ownership is not just some nebulous attribute of code; it's something that is negotiated and licensed and written into licenses and contracts.
For example, nothing stops you from bringing your own code library from company to company if you have the ownership of that code written unambiguously into all applicable contracts, and all of the copyright licenses tolerate it. You'd be wise to heavily document that you're doing it as well, and that you have the agreement of all involved parties.
Similarly, reverse engineering an application is only illegal when the license forbids it. Using code from other sources depends on its license: you can't just copy GPL code into a project, for example, without complying with all terms of the license. With some licenses, however, you are free to use the code however you see fit.
The survey needs to be a lot more specific if they want to get information that's actually useful.
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but it would be pretty easy to write a little script that searched for "spam-friendly" and similar search terms on Overture, Google, etc, and clicked through those links.
Pretty soon, ISPs would have to stop advertising those services. They'd have to resort to mis$pelling s+earch Te(rms like in a SP.AM mess(age, thereby cutting down the effectiveness considerably.
Of course, anti-spam services would probably take a lot of collateral damage from an approach like this. Innocents getting caught and torn apart by the mob show the fundamental problem with the vigilante approach.
by the way i found out that i am 30% Jewish a couple of months ago so i don't think i can be considered an anti Semite.
30% ? That's a pretty strange number when you think that people tend have ancestors in integral powers of two (excluding cases of incest). Unless I've forgotten something about mathematics, it just doesn't work.
But in any case, yes, you can be Jewish and Antisemitic at the same time. It's not even uncommon, just like I can be a misanthrope and a human being, fergzample.
There was a great library at Pergamum. It was a competitor to Alexandria, and may have had around 200,000 volumes. Supposedly, the contents of the library at Pergamum were given as a gift to Cleopatra by Mark Antony. I'm not sure where this was chronologically with respect to the destruction of the library at Alexandria.
Then, even before, there was King Assurbanipal of Assyria, who in 650 BC created a great library. He had copies made of thousands of years worth of Sumerian tablets. In fact, it's unlikely we'd have even a tiny fraction of the surviving Sumerian information if he hadn't done that. His library had 22,000 volumes (clay tablets). I don't know what number of those are still extant and intact.
That's why I back up all my CDROMs onto clay tablets. As the marketroids tell me, it's a robust archival medium for assuring SOHO data persistence!
Yeah, it's old tech. Yeah, it's big. Yeah, the backlight sucks, and the data transfer rate is only 14.4.
But it's incredibly stable, and works very well as a phone and a PDA. It's digital/analog on Verizon, so I have coverage just about anywhere in the US where there is cell coverage at all. I've had maybe one crash in the last year, and I overclock it by 30%.
I keep phone numbers, calendar, to-do, tide tables, a few full e-texts, encrypted password aggregator, some personal database tools, metro maps, a handful of games, an ssh client, and some utilities on it.
(It runs Palm OS 3.1, has 8M of memory, and can be had on eBay for around $50)
Hey! Be nice!
I suppose the system could look like a paranoid's nightmarish control system. After all, I could easily use it to monitor all my girlfriend's activities, when she comes and goes, what visitors are at the house, etc. But that's a double-edged sword -- she can monitor me just as easily. Then again, either of us have the ability to go and deactivate the system (or delete files). I can see how a system like this could be a divorce lawyer's wet dream.
We've been living in this house for four years. In the first two years, we were burglarized twice -- that's enough to induce some paranoia. Where I grew up, you left your doors unlocked and your car keys hanging by the front door, so it's a real mental shift for me.
In any case, the cameras are just a backup system in case the alarm system doesn't stop a burglar, and they somehow escape the teeth of my vicious, vicious housecat.
Try Motion.
I have a security system for my house running on an older version of Motion. This is what can happen when a gadget-freak has a paranoid girlfriend...
The system has more than three and fewer than nine cameras, some obvious, some concealed in and around the house. Each camera goes into a BT878-compatible card (some dedicated cards, some multiport).
When motion is detected, I can capture on the order of 10-15 fps (not at stunning resolution, admittedly, but 320x240 pixels is good enough for me). If there is motion on two or more cameras, the frame rate decreases. Captured images are saved as timestamped JPEGs in a hierarchical directory structure, along with MPEGs that are assembled of each incident. This is not a particularly mighty machine; it's an Athlon 1800+ with 512MB memory. The limiting factor tends to be the PCI bus when you have a lot of cameras.
Motion supports some nice features. You can set noise and motion detection threshholds on a per-camera basis. You can use a 256-level grayscale image for a sensitivity map, so you can mask certain regions out or decrease their contribution to triggering the recording (useful if plants sway in the breeze). You can label individual cameras with descriptive text ("Front Door"), and all frames are time and date stamped.
I have some custom scripts that manage disk space consumption, deleting the oldest data when drive capacity goes below a set level. I can maintain several week's worth of data in normal conditions. I monitor my setup with a secured Apache setup that groks the file layout, and provides some additional telemetry.
If you need to view data in realtime (normally, I don't), you can use something like Cambozola. If you look at the Motion email archives, you'll find postings on how to run multiple Cambozola applets in a single browser window.
You can do cool stuff, like linking motion detection alarms to scripts. When a known burglary suspect was seen casing the joint, I had some of the cameras send an email to page my phone when they detected motion. Some of the images captured were useful for the police in an ongoing investigation.
Also noteworthy, Motion has one of the friendliest and most helpful communities of any OS project I've been involved with. The mailing list is a great resource, and the maintainers will often go out of their way to help on even the most bone-headed newbie configuration questions on unsupported hardware.
Having been hit by a car while on a motorized cycle here in Los Angeles, and listening to the EMTs progressively giving up on saving the guy on the neighboring gurney (a motorcycle crash victim) while bleeding, hurting, and waiting to be stitched up, I'd be very unlikely to go on public roads on a motorcycle of any sort. Hearing EMTs react in horror to a person's condition is pretty traumatic ("Oh my god! OK, forget about the legs, they'll have to come off, but let's see if we can at least save that one arm.")
Trying to veer back onto topic, though, having a few high capacity CF cards works. I'm a little distrustful of how they stand up to rough transport (a similar problem exists with the Apacer, of course), foreign airport X-Ray machines, etc.
One advantage of a CDR solution is you can burn multiple copies. You can give digital copies of pictures to people in mere minutes, which is useful in developed countries. Still, a CDR-based solution does have that single-point-of-failure problem.
I guess in the end, it comes down to a question of personal priorities and style.
I dunno. You probably don't shoot as many pictures as some of us do.
A sustained 3 fps chews up memory like a mofo, especially when you're shooting at 3008 x 2000.
My philosophy is shoot 'em all, and sort it out when you get home. The time spent during traveling is best spent experiencing everything; I'll have plenty of time to sort and organize when I get back home.
I use the Apacer Disc Steno II.
Works fine.
Does exactly what you're describing. Fairly small, runs on 110-240VAC at 50-60Hz. Writes CDs at something like 24x.
You can burn multiple cards to a single CD (multisession), or a single card to multiple CDs (spanning) depending on your relative CD/Flash capacities.
It'll play your pictures as a slide show on a TV, or play DVDs, if that's what you're looking for. You can use it as a USB external CD drive for your computer, if you want. I haven't used either of these features. It does not have a built-in LCD for viewing pictures (there is one for copy status).
Aluminum actually oxidizes pretty severely in some conditions.
Most aluminum we deal with is actually coated by a tough but fine layer of alumina oxide (Al2O3). Iron, when it rusts, flakes off molecules of FeO2, but aluminum clings to its layer of oxide, so it does make it pretty durable.
But expose it to chlorine or OH- ions, and you'll get serious degradation.
If you want chemically inert metal to etch your data into, I suggest gold. Sure, it scratches easily, but it'll be stolen and melted into jewelry long before the scratches seriously degrade your data.
I keep meaning to upgrade to the 7135. I'd like the extra storage. I've been tempted by the Treo 600 as well. But my 6035 is just so stable. I read all the scary stories on the smartphone discussion boards, and hold off upgrading. One of these days, though...
On a side note, I have been arrested before and they took my phone away, so it doesn't do me much good in this case.
I suspect that when Emma got arrested, they took away her book(s) as well. But I like the quote, and think of it using the more general definition for "arrested," i.e., when one is stuck, and unable to act, like when waiting for a dentist, or in line at the DMV.
Which only meets some of your criteria...
Kyocera 6035:
Resolution is lower than you specify, battery life is good, back light is dreadful.
Still, I've read many a book using it. And since I always have my phone with me, I always have something to read.
"Always carry a book with you, because you never know when you might be arrested." -- Emma Goldman
Of course, none of these are very good as passwords (mostly vulnerable to dictionary attacks), but amusing nonetheless:
Mr.Root
logout
friend
friend and enter
open sesame
open tahini
open the door HAL
admit1
lemmeIN
hey,babe
what'syoursign?
Since I'm a little slow, the last two had me puzzled. It was explained to me that they were "pass words," i.e., words used in making passes.
I bought the memory with the full earnings of a summer job doing mailing lists for a local boutique.
Previously, I'd built a memory upgrade board with 2102s, which was a lot more work. I did a lot of wire-wrapping that year.
I suspect that was actually from later than 1981.
In 1980, I spent $269 for 16k RAM for my TRS-80.
That was 4116s, too. I can't believe I spent nearly an order of magnitude too much, since I watched prices in 80-Micro and Byte like a hawk.
My (ahem) memory could be failing, but I think this may have been more recent than 1981...
Check this out! The things Google can find for you...
G ea p_Dot_Writer.php
A review of GEAP from 1983:
http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n7/48_
The mincube font was great.
... er ... twenty years.
But there was also the shield-like banner font, which (tying this all back together) would have been awesome for use on D&D character sheets. My buddy who had it had bought all of their font packages.
I still have the TRS-80 in the garage somewhere. I don't know if it still runs. But I never had GEAP myself. I'm not sure if I even have copies of printouts from it anywhere. Hell, it's only been
Damn, now I feel even older.
Yeah, that manual was fun. And the printer was so cool. Built-in support for bold and italics? Damn! Such technology!
I especially remember how the printer would work if you printed one custom character at a time (using BASIC), instead of building a buffer with all of your characters. The print head would do this crazy dance where it would print each character, then back up a bit, then print the next character, etc. It took me a long time to figure that one out.
Later, someone released software called Graphics Editor And Printer (GEAP), which allowed multiline fonts, etc. It was awesome, and, although I couldn't afford it myself, I designed many a font on a friend's machine.
I remember writing a character-generator on my old TRS-80. It didn't fit into 4k, so you had to run it in two stages, loading part II from the cassette (at least if you were an MU or a Cleric, so you could pick your spells).
Later, when I got an Espon MX-80 printer with the graphics update kit, I was able to create "fonts" (with characters as wide as they wanted to be, so long as they were 8 dots tall) to make the character sheets look better. The last iteration drew little 8-dot-tall swords and skulls horizontally across the top of the page.
Ah yes, those were the days.
Exactly.
Well said!
And, really, when we get right down to it, sales ARE our only solid measure of quality.
Ah, yes, that's why I'd rather scarf a Big Mac than go to a fine French Restaurant.
Sales are our only solid measure of popularity. Call me a dirty elitist bastard, but popularity and quality are two very, very different things.
Well, yes and no. There are cases where a work is both "good art" and "religiously preachy," and some of these are quite successful in the market.
For example, I could make a strong argument that U2* was both good art *and* religiously preachy.
Similarly, C. S. Lewis' Narnia books were reasonably good art and quite religiously preachy.
* U2 was a rock'n'roll band popular before some of you were born, and after some of you were in college.
Maybe he just doesn't swing that way.
This did happen in San Francisco, after all.
still got a chance?
They won't reinstate the draft until *after* the election.
Fortunately, I'm too old by now to be drafted into the infantry. Maybe the CS Corps, or something, but not trench combat for me.
The questions in the survey seem designed to prove a point rather than gather useful information.
There needs to be a lot more context.
Under what contract was the code written? Ownership is not just some nebulous attribute of code; it's something that is negotiated and licensed and written into licenses and contracts.
For example, nothing stops you from bringing your own code library from company to company if you have the ownership of that code written unambiguously into all applicable contracts, and all of the copyright licenses tolerate it. You'd be wise to heavily document that you're doing it as well, and that you have the agreement of all involved parties.
Similarly, reverse engineering an application is only illegal when the license forbids it. Using code from other sources depends on its license: you can't just copy GPL code into a project, for example, without complying with all terms of the license. With some licenses, however, you are free to use the code however you see fit.
The survey needs to be a lot more specific if they want to get information that's actually useful.