I was listening to KYW (the local CBS radio station) and heard a name from my childhood coming back at me - a friend had gone to Seattle to protest.
The protests weren't the riots, the riots were radicalists. There were valid protests there. People seem not to realize it.
Needless to say, she was very very upset about it. She had travelled all the way out there from Wesleyan, and then got classified as a radical.
*sigh* people claim they know all from looking at a segment of trees or the forest. I don't claim I know the radicalists or the protestors, but I do know that people are being shortsighted. Let's see the whole thing.
So many things couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams coming out of the blue
Secure is not a term you can throw around - you don't have a "secure" system or an "insecure" system. You can't say l/p is "secure." It's secure to a degree.
On that note, I'd say an https connection is secure enough. I'd prefer a zero-crypto verification on the client computer as well as an l/p, but I've always been an advent of zero.
My only question is why it hasn't been implemented. It doesn't provide 100% guarantee of verification, but run enough times it approaches a statistical equivalent to there being someone else using your l/p and is therefore as secure, but doesn't transfer anything which can be hashed back to the original.
On a more practical implementation, you could look for something like SideCar, etc, that implements Kerberos for a double authentication, although that would still be an l/p solution (although a different l/p, of course, providing two tiers, but that's both confusing to users and to implementation).
Why not just encrypt the email with a 128-bit key? Of course, it could get rerouted if someone was persistent enough, and perchance decrypted, but that's very secure.
*shrug* just some ideas.
So many things couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams coming out of the blue
I disagree to there being no point of having a webserver in your pocket. Admittedly, for starters, it will not be online 24/7. That's the nature of a handheld. The recent 2.4 mbit cellular development may change that, but the whole matter is still way too expensive to make a website feasible.
However, when docked, I could see a web interface as opposed to hotsync to be _very_ useful. Perhaps it's just me, but I really think i'd like that.
*shrug*
So many things couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams coming out of the blue
I know, I was tired and it was late:) I meant to be funny too, but I'm not:P
But the main point is that Pine had to be written safely. So does Outlook. Pine may be easier, but outlook can be more beneficial in the end. We just need good code. So many things couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams coming out of the blue
Taken from the website, they're estimating a cost of $10 an hour of music - at 81 hours, that's $810. A very steep price for an MP3 player.
Also, it's got 10 megs of integral DRAM for caching MP3 music, thus spinning up and down the HD occasionaly.
My question is the following: Doesn't spinning up and down that much severely reduce the lifecycle of the hard drive, and isn't a ten minute cache an "best-case" kind of thing? I'd assume most songs are 5 minutes, and you don't know if the user is going to want to play the next song in the set, or whatever.
It's been proven, though, that HDs these days can take high shocks (witness implementations in cars, etc, that ended up not needing any padding). I'm sure, though, that Compaq has put the HD in some sort of gel.
So many things couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams coming out of the blue
Um, hello. Many years pine wasn't secure - text sequences escaping to shells, etc.
Text ain't any securer than an html page. We just need better browsers. So many things couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams coming out of the blue
Yes, I understand that. And no, I don't want Mosaic-2000 in the classrooms, I don't honestly think anything should have been done to this kid, etc.
But the full wrath of society should had every right to be brought down on Columbine, and Katz seems to want to avoid that. So many things couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams coming out of the blue
I have very strong views on certain subjects, and that will show in this post. So for those who don't want to hear them, for those who believe this world is, say, race-blind, etc...please don't read this article.
And I don't intend it as flamebait either.
I'm reminded, by the segregation of these kids, of the segregation of the blacks. I'm too young to remember it, so what I garner is from history books and recollections from friends. It sounded like a horrible time to be a black (I don't use African-American, not to be insulting, but because of the points I shall bring up later). I believe it is quite evident that the situation has improved - John Street has just been elected Mayor of Philadelphia, something that wouldn't have happened fifty or so years ago.
But let us take a look at the flip side. If one were to listen to a lot of rap music these days, the most common word in the lyrics is most likely "nigger". If I, a WASP through and through, were to say nigger in the hood, I would promptly be trounced (most likely:). I honor the fact that the black culture has taken this insulting word and used it among themselves and turned it into a friendship greeting, even. I find that admirable.
I don't know a single white who uses that word now, or would even dare to.
The racism, imo, has flipped, and now there are massive black supremacist movements, etc, where once it was white. Now if you claim to be a white supremacist, you're a racist. If you're black, you're praised (well, depending on your tactics, but in general yeah).
So how does this relate to Post-Columbine stuff?
Yes, the geeks are getting segregated. Yes, it isn't fair. Yes, the mass populace is using the wrong tactics to make our lives safer and more fulfilling.
But every single post I've seen to/. about the Hellmouth has been a raging tirade by john katz or someone. It's been "we've been raked across the coals, they should learn."
To paraphrase, "shootings do happen in schools". They should never happen.
This is geek supremacy. It is as wrong as jocks stuffing people into trash cans. It's fought in a way that we like, and so we support it.
I for one won't.
I will not say that this kid did not deserve his treatment. I think the harshness of it was extreme, but the kid was a disciplinary problem. Him being so isn't just an insular thing about him, it will affect other classmates and hurt their learning experiences.
All I seem to hear these days is "Joe so and so is a disciplinary problem. He's an outcast. Let's support him!" "He's a murder!" "Oh, well, so? he's an outcast. Outcasts like us are better!"
Enough with all this.
~~Dan So many things couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams coming out of the blue
The article talks about all secure authentication, but this isn't the case. Almost all e-commerce sites use a DB for their user authentication.
However, my previous company (name left out) used secure logins requiring a user/domain to allow client companies to access their information. We had a good 50 companies as our clients.
The article is interesting as it does not denote the pricing of CALs and, as I was not the purchaser, I don't remember the cost of them. And, admittedly, 50 users at, say, 200 a pop while expensive is not, well, unmanageable. ($10000) Considering the servers we ran are easily on the magnitude of 100 grand, a 10% raise in price can be handled.
If the license turns out to be 1000 like NS's web server licenses, then we start having problems.
My current company, however, only uses a database backend for non-company logins (ie, people who don't already have a user account).
In a way, MS is almost trying to convince people to use SQL server or, unfortunate for them, Oracle.
But the step that M$ seems to be taking is, imho, the wrong direction. A lot of complaints at MS that aren't about buggy sw or fanatical raving are that the MS licensing scheme is far too expensive and complex. Obviously, they aren't listening to us.
I say we let them know how we feel.
Jobe So many things couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams coming out of the blue
The point was to use the IPv4 representation of 127.0.0.1 (which is, nicely, much shorter and easier to type).
I believe the author wanted full IPv6 support, not just an IPv6-aware application that still uses IPv4 as its front end. So many things couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams coming out of the blue
I feel that everyone is missing a very important point here. GAIM is not AIM. AIM is based on the Oscar protocol, whereas GAIM (and TiK, and the Java client, Quick Buddy, and Tac, and others) are based on the Open TOC protocol. Completely documented, etc, and maybe slightly lacking in features atm but still working. There has been some concern in the TiK community recently as our web page (hosted by AOL) has disappeared, but if AOL is merely asking GAIM to remove the logo but is still providing free servers for a free protocol, I feel that them merely asking GAIM to remove the logo is not very important. So yeah.
Note - above page for TiK does not work afaik - ymmv
This is very true. To be quite honest, I'm all against it. My current buying is mainly done because the speakers on my computer aren't good enough to play my MP3's at a quality I like, and I don't yet have an mp3 playa for my car:-( (donations are welcome, hee hee).
Although what Jupiter is advocating - wiping out MP3's by aggressively marketing a digital standard that they _can_ control, I would rather suggest aggressively marketing _free_ MP3's (think of it!) which entice a user to buy the full album. Time and again my burned CDs scratch - they do not compare to an actual god-honest pressed one.
Yet another large company jumps on the Linux bandwagon. But hey, I'm not complaining. It seems you have to register for support for the free software - I haven't looked far enough, but if the support isn't free, I wouldn't consider the software free...Would you?
The components are dated and the information is out of spec. I assume the whole thing is a joke - some of the pictures look just like an original PC spraypainted black. Hey! I've got one running still (with an 8088) so you know what? I'm going to paint it black and sell it too!
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I was listening to KYW (the local CBS radio station) and heard a name from my childhood coming back at me - a friend had gone to Seattle to protest.
The protests weren't the riots, the riots were radicalists. There were valid protests there. People seem not to realize it.
Needless to say, she was very very upset about it. She had travelled all the way out there from Wesleyan, and then got classified as a radical.
*sigh* people claim they know all from looking at a segment of trees or the forest. I don't claim I know the radicalists or the protestors, but I do know that people are being shortsighted. Let's see the whole thing.
So many things couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams coming out of the blue
Secure is not a term you can throw around - you don't have a "secure" system or an "insecure" system. You can't say l/p is "secure." It's secure to a degree.
On that note, I'd say an https connection is secure enough. I'd prefer a zero-crypto verification on the client computer as well as an l/p, but I've always been an advent of zero.
My only question is why it hasn't been implemented. It doesn't provide 100% guarantee of verification, but run enough times it approaches a statistical equivalent to there being someone else using your l/p and is therefore as secure, but doesn't transfer anything which can be hashed back to the original.
On a more practical implementation, you could look for something like SideCar, etc, that implements Kerberos for a double authentication, although that would still be an l/p solution (although a different l/p, of course, providing two tiers, but that's both confusing to users and to implementation).
Why not just encrypt the email with a 128-bit key? Of course, it could get rerouted if someone was persistent enough, and perchance decrypted, but that's very secure.
*shrug* just some ideas.
So many things couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams coming out of the blue
I disagree to there being no point of having a webserver in your pocket. Admittedly, for starters, it will not be online 24/7. That's the nature of a handheld. The recent 2.4 mbit cellular development may change that, but the whole matter is still way too expensive to make a website feasible.
However, when docked, I could see a web interface as opposed to hotsync to be _very_ useful. Perhaps it's just me, but I really think i'd like that.
*shrug*
So many things couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams coming out of the blue
I know, I was tired and it was late :) I meant to be funny too, but I'm not :P
But the main point is that Pine had to be written safely. So does Outlook. Pine may be easier, but outlook can be more beneficial in the end. We just need good code.
So many things couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams coming out of the blue
Taken from the website, they're estimating a cost of $10 an hour of music - at 81 hours, that's $810. A very steep price for an MP3 player.
Also, it's got 10 megs of integral DRAM for caching MP3 music, thus spinning up and down the HD occasionaly.
My question is the following: Doesn't spinning up and down that much severely reduce the lifecycle of the hard drive, and isn't a ten minute cache an "best-case" kind of thing? I'd assume most songs are 5 minutes, and you don't know if the user is going to want to play the next song in the set, or whatever.
It's been proven, though, that HDs these days can take high shocks (witness implementations in cars, etc, that ended up not needing any padding). I'm sure, though, that Compaq has put the HD in some sort of gel.
So many things couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams coming out of the blue
Um, hello. Many years pine wasn't secure - text sequences escaping to shells, etc.
Text ain't any securer than an html page. We just need better browsers.
So many things couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams coming out of the blue
Yes, I understand that. And no, I don't want Mosaic-2000 in the classrooms, I don't honestly think anything should have been done to this kid, etc.
But the full wrath of society should had every right to be brought down on Columbine, and Katz seems to want to avoid that.
So many things couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams coming out of the blue
I have very strong views on certain subjects, and that will show in this post. So for those who don't want to hear them, for those who believe this world is, say, race-blind, etc...please don't read this article.
:). I honor the fact that the black culture has taken this insulting word and used it among themselves and turned it into a friendship greeting, even. I find that admirable.
/. about the Hellmouth has been a raging tirade by john katz or someone. It's been "we've been raked across the coals, they should learn."
And I don't intend it as flamebait either.
I'm reminded, by the segregation of these kids, of the segregation of the blacks. I'm too young to remember it, so what I garner is from history books and recollections from friends. It sounded like a horrible time to be a black (I don't use African-American, not to be insulting, but because of the points I shall bring up later). I believe it is quite evident that the situation has improved - John Street has just been elected Mayor of Philadelphia, something that wouldn't have happened fifty or so years ago.
But let us take a look at the flip side. If one were to listen to a lot of rap music these days, the most common word in the lyrics is most likely "nigger". If I, a WASP through and through, were to say nigger in the hood, I would promptly be trounced (most likely
I don't know a single white who uses that word now, or would even dare to.
The racism, imo, has flipped, and now there are massive black supremacist movements, etc, where once it was white. Now if you claim to be a white supremacist, you're a racist. If you're black, you're praised (well, depending on your tactics, but in general yeah).
So how does this relate to Post-Columbine stuff?
Yes, the geeks are getting segregated. Yes, it isn't fair. Yes, the mass populace is using the wrong tactics to make our lives safer and more fulfilling.
But every single post I've seen to
To paraphrase, "shootings do happen in schools". They should never happen.
This is geek supremacy. It is as wrong as jocks stuffing people into trash cans. It's fought in a way that we like, and so we support it.
I for one won't.
I will not say that this kid did not deserve his treatment. I think the harshness of it was extreme, but the kid was a disciplinary problem. Him being so isn't just an insular thing about him, it will affect other classmates and hurt their learning experiences.
All I seem to hear these days is "Joe so and so is a disciplinary problem. He's an outcast. Let's support him!"
"He's a murder!"
"Oh, well, so? he's an outcast. Outcasts like us are better!"
Enough with all this.
~~Dan
So many things couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams coming out of the blue
The article talks about all secure authentication, but this isn't the case. Almost all e-commerce sites use a DB for their user authentication.
However, my previous company (name left out) used secure logins requiring a user/domain to allow client companies to access their information. We had a good 50 companies as our clients.
The article is interesting as it does not denote the pricing of CALs and, as I was not the purchaser, I don't remember the cost of them. And, admittedly, 50 users at, say, 200 a pop while expensive is not, well, unmanageable. ($10000) Considering the servers we ran are easily on the magnitude of 100 grand, a 10% raise in price can be handled.
If the license turns out to be 1000 like NS's web server licenses, then we start having problems.
My current company, however, only uses a database backend for non-company logins (ie, people who don't already have a user account).
In a way, MS is almost trying to convince people to use SQL server or, unfortunate for them, Oracle.
But the step that M$ seems to be taking is, imho, the wrong direction. A lot of complaints at MS that aren't about buggy sw or fanatical raving are that the MS licensing scheme is far too expensive and complex. Obviously, they aren't listening to us.
I say we let them know how we feel.
Jobe
So many things couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams coming out of the blue
The point was to use the IPv4 representation of 127.0.0.1 (which is, nicely, much shorter and easier to type).
I believe the author wanted full IPv6 support, not just an IPv6-aware application that still uses IPv4 as its front end.
So many things couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams coming out of the blue
So yeah.
Note - above page for TiK does not work afaik - ymmv
Jezzball
This is very true. To be quite honest, I'm all against it. My current buying is mainly done because the speakers on my computer aren't good enough to play my MP3's at a quality I like, and I don't yet have an mp3 playa for my car :-( (donations are welcome, hee hee).
Although what Jupiter is advocating - wiping out MP3's by aggressively marketing a digital standard that they _can_ control, I would rather suggest aggressively marketing _free_ MP3's (think of it!) which entice a user to buy the full album. Time and again my burned CDs scratch - they do not compare to an actual god-honest pressed one.
Well, that's enough from here.
Jezzball.
Yet another large company jumps on the Linux bandwagon. But hey, I'm not complaining. It seems you have to register for support for the free software - I haven't looked far enough, but if the support isn't free, I wouldn't consider the software free...Would you?
Jezzie Ballie
The components are dated and the information is out of spec. I assume the whole thing is a joke - some of the pictures look just like an original PC spraypainted black. Hey! I've got one running still (with an 8088) so you know what? I'm going to paint it black and sell it too!
I guess if ppl are sick of cleaning up after their dogs, it's ok....otherwise, c'mon now...i ain't gonna wrestle with no machine.
:)
Well...mebbe I will
divx shouldn't be allowed - it impinges on ownership - eventually, like isp's, divx will get to unlimited usage. But until then, it's not worth it.