I get really uneasy when I hear about the built-in firewall in Windows Longhorn. I mean, really all a software firewall does is get in between specified ports on the network and the applications that want to listen to them. And then I think of the programmers at Microsoft, setting up the default install of Longhorn, thinking, "Oh, we can leave this program listening on port X. It might not check its inputs for buffer overflows, but the firewall will take care of that." And then I predict that the default setup for the firewall will block off ports required by Everquest 3, so it will get turned off. And then those vulnerable programs are out there listening on sockets they shouldn't be, all because it was easier to apply a band aid in the form of a firewall than to write secure software instead. </rant>
The Science Museum or Minnesota is currently showing an exhibit "Robots + Us". Part of the exhibit is the Robot cafe, which seemed mostly to be a home for AI press clippings and a very old counter-top juke box controller. But they did have a framed sign titled "Rules". The first three were what you'd expect. The fourth was "a robot must bus his own dishes". I laughed. My eight-year-old didn't get it. Time to start him on the Caves of Steel, I think.
(and yes, that was a long time ago) we loved the music coming out then. Remember Adam Ant? Antmusic was going to be the next big thing.
The thing is, teenagers are going to like whatever they think everybody else likes. The ones who don't get beaten up and end up posting to slashdot. Music companies know this, and push millions of marketing dollars into whatever is distinguishable from "last years" music.
The architectural differences in your analogy are: MS cars have a button on the outside of the hood that dumps the oil. This is a feature that users demanded, but when the people who implemented it did not consider that someone other than the authorized driver might want to push it.
What I don't get is how the Use Taxes in various states (Minnesota has one, spookily equal to the sales tax) are constitutional. It seems to me like an attempt to regulate interstate or international commerce, which should be the responsibility of the Federal Government.
They would be if they were equally applied. Cheddar is an identifiable region, with a distinctive style of cheese. However, it was denied GI status. Likewise, I don't see much hope of ever being to pick up a bottle of pilsner and knowing for sure that is was brewed in Pilsen.
My Agenda is rotting in a drawer somewhere. They never did deliver on Outlook synchronization (at least, not that I heard), and that meant I couldn't use it at work.
Search google for pages in Portugese with the word "cona", then "translate this page" on the first link and you get this perversion:
" MY CURIOUS TOUPEIREX:
ALREADY WE CAME BACK Of the MISSION THAT In them TOOK the LISBON... or EITHER TO FOLLOW MY BROTHER-in-law CELESTINO To SUCH NECESSITY GAY TO TAKE OFF CLEAN IF IT WOULD BE GAY OR NOT. I, the CELESTINO, COUSIN ILDA, NEIGHBOR ARMANDINA And the SISTER Of It, the CONSTANCY PREPARED A GOOD MERENDA And Set It WAY Of the CAPARICA."
That would be the W2K3 Server that calls itself NT5.1 if you ask it for WINVER?
True, Windows 2003 wouldn't be possible if 90% of its codebase was from the WinNT 3.1 kernel, but I would be surprised if much less than 90% of the WinNT 3.1 kernel is still in Windows 2003.
"Currently producing for and guest-hosting NPR's "The Connection" for WBUR in Boston, Gail Harris has been a print and broadcast journalist for more than 30 years."
I give up. Why are so many people interested in Gail Harris?
If your answer involves R-ing TFA, I'm not interested.
Probably not when they abetted your rebellion in 1776, or when you took advantage of the whole of Europe being at war with Napoleon to invade Canada in 1812. Maybe when they gave you that big green statue in New York in c.1876, but even there was a lot of resistance, mostly due to the cost of the plinth. The dough boys were probably chuckling when they arrived in France in 1917, when there had been continuous fighting on French soil for three years.
I hate the French as much as anyone, but it's because of reasons like their lowest-in-Europe per-capita soap consumption. When it comes to fighting, you Americans still owe the French.
Have the end user call into a modem at your office. That way your coworker gets to pollute your intranet rather than the internet, and not only will you be able to VNC into the box to fix it without cooperation from Comcast, you will have an excellent incentive to do so!
I was pretty heavily into Usenet in 1995. C&S caused a huge increase in the number of posts in the groups I subscribed to. Mostly, those were people complaining about C&S, but it was a pretty significant event, even for netizens.
C&S huge innovation was that it *wasn't* cross-posted. They left a bot running all weekend to post identical messages to every newsgroup. That's why it was such a bitch to cancel them all.
Ever notice how there aren't any photos of G. W. Bush protesting anything? Has everything that has happened since he reached the age of majority met with his approval? And if so, how come things are such a mess now?
And all it shows is that he was at a rally against an unpopular war, in which he had fought, at the same time as a soon-to-be unpopular actress. It's not like he was shaking hands with Saddam Hussein.
This brings up a pet peeve of mine. "watch" windows in modern debuggers have the friendly feature of being able to display the return value of funtions. The following are true stories.
Colleague #1 has a problem in a for() loop. To keep track of where he is in the loop, he puts i++ in the watch window. Then he gets really confused when i goes from 0 to 2 to 4 and so on.
Colleague #2 is using C# to read something from a configuration file. The call to Read() is not returning any data, but the call to Read() in the watch window is showing the correct number of bytes.
As if people on cellphones weren't bad enough, now every few miles a tube is going to drop down in front of you, require you to take a hand off the controls to pull it to your mouth, and blow into it, otherwise the engine is going to cut out.
How about requiring that every car be sold with a hands-free cellphone adapter?
I don't know that GWB has the power to strip US-born atheists of their nationality. However, it is impossible for a foreign-born atheist to become a US citizen without either breaking the law or compromising their principles.
Now, many atheists have become US citizens, and some of them (e.g. James Randi) are quite vocal atheists. The usual way to do this is to be sworn in to citizenship as part of a group, and to remain silent while the rest of them say "under God".
I have a couple of problems with this approach. One is that a country where I have to break that country's laws to become a citizen isn't really a country I want to be a citizen of. The other is that my main problem with the Pledge of Allegiance is that my allegiance goes to the Constitution, not the flag. The US Government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed, and its power from the Constitution. The Pledge of Allegiance is the only formal statement of that consent, and it's been ballsed up by legislators who did not understand (or disagreed with) the intent of the Founders.
At least they have observations. And astronomers in general are a genial bunch. Anyone who finds (and this is the most likely case) that there is dark matter, but not nearly enough of it, is assured of nothing more that a few years of ostracism before enough new scientists come into the field who don't have the same emotional investment in dark matter theories.
Compare that to the potential fate of the poor wretch who disproves the Riemann Hypothesis, and undoes almost all progress in pure mathematics since the beginning of the 20th century. I know for a fact that there is a basement in Cambridge where this person will live out their days being forced to review unsolicited "proofs" of duplicating the cube, trisecting the angle, and squaring the circle.
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I get really uneasy when I hear about the built-in firewall in Windows Longhorn. I mean, really all a software firewall does is get in between specified ports on the network and the applications that want to listen to them. And then I think of the programmers at Microsoft, setting up the default install of Longhorn, thinking, "Oh, we can leave this program listening on port X. It might not check its inputs for buffer overflows, but the firewall will take care of that." And then I predict that the default setup for the firewall will block off ports required by Everquest 3, so it will get turned off. And then those vulnerable programs are out there listening on sockets they shouldn't be, all because it was easier to apply a band aid in the form of a firewall than to write secure software instead.
</rant>
The Science Museum or Minnesota is currently showing an exhibit "Robots + Us". Part of the exhibit is the Robot cafe, which seemed mostly to be a home for AI press clippings and a very old counter-top juke box controller. But they did have a framed sign titled "Rules". The first three were what you'd expect. The fourth was "a robot must bus his own dishes".
I laughed. My eight-year-old didn't get it. Time to start him on the Caves of Steel, I think.
(and yes, that was a long time ago) we loved the music coming out then. Remember Adam Ant? Antmusic was going to be the next big thing.
The thing is, teenagers are going to like whatever they think everybody else likes. The ones who don't get beaten up and end up posting to slashdot. Music companies know this, and push millions of marketing dollars into whatever is distinguishable from "last years" music.
The architectural differences in your analogy are: MS cars have a button on the outside of the hood that dumps the oil. This is a feature that users demanded, but when the people who implemented it did not consider that someone other than the authorized driver might want to push it.
What I don't get is how the Use Taxes in various states (Minnesota has one, spookily equal to the sales tax) are constitutional. It seems to me like an attempt to regulate interstate or international commerce, which should be the responsibility of the Federal Government.
They would be if they were equally applied. Cheddar is an identifiable region, with a distinctive style of cheese. However, it was denied GI status. Likewise, I don't see much hope of ever being to pick up a bottle of pilsner and knowing for sure that is was brewed in Pilsen.
I have to admit though, it would be no more than the Washington press corp deserve.
I have to say that the ones I saw in Auckland were quite beautiful and had very soft wool.
My Agenda is rotting in a drawer somewhere. They never did deliver on Outlook synchronization (at least, not that I heard), and that meant I couldn't use it at work.
Search google for pages in Portugese with the word "cona", then "translate this page" on the first link and you get this perversion:
" MY CURIOUS TOUPEIREX:
ALREADY WE CAME BACK Of the MISSION THAT In them TOOK the LISBON... or EITHER TO FOLLOW MY BROTHER-in-law CELESTINO To SUCH NECESSITY GAY TO TAKE OFF CLEAN IF IT WOULD BE GAY OR NOT. I, the CELESTINO, COUSIN ILDA, NEIGHBOR ARMANDINA And the SISTER Of It, the CONSTANCY PREPARED A GOOD MERENDA And Set It WAY Of the CAPARICA."
Worse than goatse!
No steel buildings here, only ceramics, some plastics, or adobe-type products.
Personally, I live in Visual Studio, but I can see that certain arty types may live in Photoshop. Is that what you meant?
That would be the W2K3 Server that calls itself NT5.1 if you ask it for WINVER?
True, Windows 2003 wouldn't be possible if 90% of its codebase was from the WinNT 3.1 kernel, but I would be surprised if much less than 90% of the WinNT 3.1 kernel is still in Windows 2003.
"Currently producing for and guest-hosting NPR's "The Connection" for WBUR in Boston, Gail Harris has been a print and broadcast journalist for more than 30 years."
I give up. Why are so many people interested in Gail Harris?
If your answer involves R-ing TFA, I'm not interested.
Probably not when they abetted your rebellion in 1776, or when you took advantage of the whole of Europe being at war with Napoleon to invade Canada in 1812. Maybe when they gave you that big green statue in New York in c.1876, but even there was a lot of resistance, mostly due to the cost of the plinth. The dough boys were probably chuckling when they arrived in France in 1917, when there had been continuous fighting on French soil for three years.
I hate the French as much as anyone, but it's because of reasons like their lowest-in-Europe per-capita soap consumption. When it comes to fighting, you Americans still owe the French.
Have the end user call into a modem at your office. That way your coworker gets to pollute your intranet rather than the internet, and not only will you be able to VNC into the box to fix it without cooperation from Comcast, you will have an excellent incentive to do so!
s/1995/1994/
But Usenet was still useable in 1995. It wasn't until later that it degenerated to the state it's in today.
I was pretty heavily into Usenet in 1995. C&S caused a huge increase in the number of posts in the groups I subscribed to. Mostly, those were people complaining about C&S, but it was a pretty significant event, even for netizens.
C&S huge innovation was that it *wasn't* cross-posted. They left a bot running all weekend to post identical messages to every newsgroup. That's why it was such a bitch to cancel them all.
I doubt his hair was that grey when he was at Yale.
Ever notice how there aren't any photos of G. W. Bush protesting anything? Has everything that has happened since he reached the age of majority met with his approval? And if so, how come things are such a mess now?
And all it shows is that he was at a rally against an unpopular war, in which he had fought, at the same time as a soon-to-be unpopular actress. It's not like he was shaking hands with Saddam Hussein.
This brings up a pet peeve of mine. "watch" windows in modern debuggers have the friendly feature of being able to display the return value of funtions. The following are true stories.
Colleague #1 has a problem in a for() loop. To keep track of where he is in the loop, he puts i++ in the watch window. Then he gets really confused when i goes from 0 to 2 to 4 and so on.
Colleague #2 is using C# to read something from a configuration file. The call to Read() is not returning any data, but the call to Read() in the watch window is showing the correct number of bytes.
As if people on cellphones weren't bad enough, now every few miles a tube is going to drop down in front of you, require you to take a hand off the controls to pull it to your mouth, and blow into it, otherwise the engine is going to cut out.
How about requiring that every car be sold with a hands-free cellphone adapter?
Suppose a private company sold software with malicious code included to subvert security. How would anyone outside the company know?
By the words "TurboTax" in big letters on the box.
-1 Troll.
I don't know that GWB has the power to strip US-born atheists of their nationality. However, it is impossible for a foreign-born atheist to become a US citizen without either breaking the law or compromising their principles.
Now, many atheists have become US citizens, and some of them (e.g. James Randi) are quite vocal atheists. The usual way to do this is to be sworn in to citizenship as part of a group, and to remain silent while the rest of them say "under God".
I have a couple of problems with this approach. One is that a country where I have to break that country's laws to become a citizen isn't really a country I want to be a citizen of. The other is that my main problem with the Pledge of Allegiance is that my allegiance goes to the Constitution, not the flag. The US Government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed, and its power from the Constitution. The Pledge of Allegiance is the only formal statement of that consent, and it's been ballsed up by legislators who did not understand (or disagreed with) the intent of the Founders.
</rant>
Good cultural languages provide plenty of affordances to mitigate the unspeakable
This is Slashdot. You might want to turn down the eloquence a bit. Very quotable, though.
At least they have observations. And astronomers in general are a genial bunch. Anyone who finds (and this is the most likely case) that there is dark matter, but not nearly enough of it, is assured of nothing more that a few years of ostracism before enough new scientists come into the field who don't have the same emotional investment in dark matter theories.
Compare that to the potential fate of the poor wretch who disproves the Riemann Hypothesis, and undoes almost all progress in pure mathematics since the beginning of the 20th century. I know for a fact that there is a basement in Cambridge where this person will live out their days being forced to review unsolicited "proofs" of duplicating the cube, trisecting the angle, and squaring the circle.