user manual, installation manual (down). If they go out of biz, or decide not to support it, you're screwed. There's an unintegrated RF to IR converter, only 101* local channels (within the spot beam for your "home" area), no PPV, buggy receiver software from RCA/Thompson (power-cycle panacea the tech support harps on, and neither Thompson nor DirecTV will acknowledge, much less fix), and only their proprietary, custom receiver. Not to mention the $3500 price. Sounds like this PoS RCA DirecTV receiver I have that makes wierd noises when you scroll the guide, and randomly resets and freezes. LMAO!! The user manual claims "change channels when signals are weak because satellite signals are like broadcast ones" is bullshit, DirecTV and DISH, which use the exact same digital signal transmission techniques for their datastreams, use a more-or-less unified digital (TDM) datastream, except for the spot (locals; tend to be "stronger") and three satellite positions geostationary orbital. More "Quality" equipment w/ slick advertising.
A simple, active, multi-phase patch antenna w/o LNBs (you add your own/installer provides) (for DISH & DirecTV, similar to one dish directv/dish quad LNBs, but sorta ghetto plus dish's locals on 61.5*) would be suffient w/ a wider range could be sold for the same and other purposes, and even used where a normal antenna wouldn't fit/be desired in a fixed location and at odd angles.
I worked at Stanford over the summer in an IS dept, where their centralized "ITSS" NOC dept. disconnected every machine via scans every two hours and switch rules that did not apply the MS03-039 patch before an arbitrary date, which created an unnecessary and artifical emergency in our dept. Stanford is definitely run like a non-profit, the people there dont really know what they're doing. There's no firewalls anywhere and everyone's machine is a public IP, so anyone can host an FTP warez site. Most every machine at Stanford is a Mac OS 9.x or Windows 2000 Pro, and a few OS X's and XP machines. Additionally, many other universities do not have firewalls, including UC Davis. I believe that MIT has most of their student's machines firewalled.
But, in support of UF's position, schools have cover-their-asses when it comes to I.P. and P2P issues since their big corporate donors can threaten to withhold funding. Also, it is almost ethically justifiable to block P2P, since the only few legitimate uses are (but not limited to) finding patches and sharing public-domain works. But, if colleges start blocking certain sites, then the line between protectionism and censorship begins to blurr. If these schools would firewall
@stake, eeye, and iss have all agreed w/ microsoft not to release details of even potential exploits until the microsoft has had 30 days to "evaluate" them, leaving admins and the public unnecessarily exposed to vulnerabilities. This is completely unacceptable, and contrary to the scientific peer-review process of real science. If you know there's a problem, you speak out, suggest a fix, and hopefully the appropriate parties will be responsible enough to take action. Additionally, others have to be able to VERIFY and REPRODUCE findings, a critical part of *real* research. But microsoft's tactic is to force so-called security "research" companies (who are in it for money, not necessarily for altruistic research or making things more secure) into a lop-sided, biases "standards" NGO, the "Organization for Internet Safety" (OIS), which Microsoft is a member. (read this). What they are proposing is censorship, hiding information until they can find a fix, so that only the hackers will know what's broken. Talk about the fox guarding the hen-house!!!
Additionally, the director of research for @stake, Chris Wysopal, is effectively lobbying congress to give teeth to the OIS, and more power to microsoft and their buddies.
OIS = @stake, BindView, SCO, Foundstone, Guardent, ISS, Microsoft, NAI, Oracle, SGI, Symantec. sounds like the stone cutter's guild to me.
Eeye seems to be left out for obvious reasons, they oppose this secretive "research." Read eeye's Marc Maiffret's (chief hacking officer) thoughts on things to a congressional subcommittee here.
"windows corrupts, microsoft corrupts absolutely."
ea puts "not for resale by owner" on all their games. how exactly does me buying this game not allow me to sell it? i'll do whatever i damn well please, even set fire to it if i want.
i had a hd die due to a short in the PSU, so i called ibm and asked what to do. after asking a few times and an email, i got info on what "not to do" *wink,wink*. basically, it boils down to getting a HD with the same MLC code, which there are about 3-5 for every model. ebay is the cheapest place, because the refurb and spare parts distributors wont want to talk to you. $60 later on ebay and assurances the MLC code was right, i got the drive and swapped board, viola! it works! i DDed that sucker as fast as you could imagine.
that this stunt may actually save SCO whether it wins or loses. Some polly-ana companies are going to pay up, regardless, to ensure their own business models remain safe.
Security through obscurity is not much security at all. If a construction crew hits some vital choke-point example you're screwed, but if you have an alternate route (physical redundancy and packetized network), then only capacity is temporarily lost.
This map is a good thing; it shows where redundancies need to be added. The whole nature of the Internet (IP routing) allows for routing packets around choke-points and outages. That was the point of the DARPA project, to have a data communication system that could survive a nuclear attack, much like the highway system was added so "people could escape in an emergency." As to power and other utilities, it just shows that our infrastructure is not that good, that we need more redundancies in the "grid." From knowledgeable sources, I hear that in the 1980s and even now, there are many choke-points where there are no redundancies.
The electrical "grid" is more like a bus than a fully-connected network. Even in urban centers, the utilities are rarely planned (San Jose has some of the worst "planning" of utilities imaginable) and often are interrupted by construction crews that seem to be tearing up the road repeatedly for no obvious reasons. And then the city repaves it, and they're out there next week tearing up the recently repaved roads. No wonder why this state doesn't have any money, and why San Jose has the worst roads in the nation, even though it is in a mild climate. *cough* Union corruption, back-room deals, and inefficient(&corrupt) bureaucracies (state && local). */cough*
*sirens* "Do you have a licensed RFID for that carton of milk, buddy? What about those eggs? Let me run the RFID scanner... (progress bar...) It seems your milk has expired and your fruit has broken the speed limit of 100 mph. And your pen's RFID seems to have been tampered with, I'll have to write you a DMCA ticket."
Screw making duck-tape smaller... Make a pocket for duck-tape rolls! Heck, make a carrying bag for duck-tape. Wear a gold neck chain and proudly display your roll. Heck, put a roll of toliet paper on there too. Get some plastic sheeting, and you're ready for anything!
Yeah, I remember that... it was very impressive. I believe that a dog has superior computational power and discrimination abilities that could easily be more accurate and reliable than some piece of technology. How much/hard would it cost to train a dog to do this? Imagine... if we have specialized dogs for certain functions... eventually will have purpose-bred species of animals/plants for very specific tasks (*cough* babel-fish:). Also, I remember something about a UV camera system for dermatologists. Btw, have you ever looked at your skin in a mirror w/ a black-light (CCUV flourescent), you can see differences in tissues in you skin not visible in white light.
Health care in the U.S. is, for the most part, privatized. If you don't have, at least, basic health insurance, you're basically screwed. You have to prove that your about to die to get basic emergency services. If you have any money at all, the hospitals are relentless in collections. The #1 reason for bankruptcy in the US is medical bills, usually as the result of major illness (on average of $50k+). Hospitals are worse than the shops of used-car dealerships; they both charge you for things you don't ask for, need, or even get! In fact, they'll often double-bill. There's no estimate, up-front pricing, and you agree to arbitrary rates that are not disclosed until after rendered. It's why you need to bring someone along that writes down everything that happens, every medication and every procedure. You can try to negotiate prices, since everything's always negotiable from some position.
The problem is that most western governments consider people outside the borders to be expendable. What are 10, 1,000, or 1,000,000 dead to them when it's not their people or in their country (esp. if there's no resources/trade)? Again, who's gonna try to clean up the mess? The US as usual? The UN seems to be as ineffectual and impotent as usual when it comes to global health care (minus the WHO efforts). Throwing $1B or $10B at it when it's a $10T job just doesn't cut it. But when 2/3 of the UN's members are basically non-democratic autocracies, the welfare of other people aren't high on their agendas. Too bad we don't live in an enlightened, benevolent dictatorship where the best person to do the job is appointed.:( )
If SARS becomes a perennial threat and reaches the same prevalence as the common cold, it could be a preventable/limitable catastrophe. Since most medicine works in a reactionary-mode and there were no cases in the US, we will be totally unprepared as usual. As usual, supply and demand will kick in and only the rich will get any of the limited supplies. If a stock-pile were built up, it could be possible to have enough to deal with the situation. The problem is two-fold: 1) cost and 2) expiry-ness of medications. The costs maybe prohibitive to manufacture enough of a given antibiotic or other medicine in scales enough to satisfy the needs. And, the investment in a stock-pile maybe unnecessary.
However, SARS has the potential to make the 1918 Spanish Flu look like a paper-cut. Especially among immigrant populations, dorms, and urban centers, where the dense living conditions provide perfect transmission environments. I don't have the answer or know exactly what needs to be fixed, but the status quo is not so good. Cookie-cutter, Lemming-ish, reactionary solutions == bad.
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Don't you feel sorry for the shmoe wearing this? He must feel about as good as a Mickey Mouse actor at Disneyland getting constantly kicked in the balls by hyper-active, sugar-crazed ten year-olds. It's like carrying a sign on your head that says to kids "my nuts are your punching bag and there's nothing I can do about it, because your parents can get me fired."
Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to just staticly mount some flat-panels and have them centrally controlled via UHF or something? Oh wait, that's a TV. All this extra technology to replace something that could be done a lot cheaper and easier by using a little planning.
Also, is labor in Asia so cheap now that it costs less to hire someone to stand there than a 1" OD x 6 ft pole of aluminum? Might as well hire some people to fan you w/ palm-frawns too.
"A measured SPL in excess of 140 dB will result in immediate disqualification." http://www.termpro.com/dbdrag/rules/2002/rules02.h tml
What a stupid "sport," if u can call it that. "Oooh, I can spend more money than anybody else and hire an EE to do a finite element analysis on my ricey car." Maybe mfgrs should preinstall "BQuiet" (dynomat clone) so u dont hear a car from the outside. The truth is that people don't want to hear your car, if you want to be deaf, it's your perogative. Besides, if you dynomat, you get a higher SPL.;) My Olds Brougham gets hella SPL inside, and all you hear from the outside are faint thumps. It's these cheap-ass, plastic, asian, rice-burners that dont contain the sound that's the problem.
American astronaut syndrome... all these air force types are trying to get into space, anyway they can, even to play w/ bubbles or water or whatever NASA claims their "science" experiments are for. Maybe they should focus on more practical science at lower costs. We need to do more with less, and risking crews for no reason is just plain stupid.
The prob is that the FCC is controlled by corporations, and so you have to pay for moving electrons around and for sampling the EMF. Next thing you know, they'll tax the air and charge money for it. Anything to make a buck. You know there's a setup that costs about $1k that gives you 2000+ channels for $0/month pretty much anywhere in the world?
Also, "poetic justice" is another form of dramatic irony. See also, "Shawshank Redeption, The" [Movie] and "Macbeth" [Screenplay]
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dicti on ary&va=irony
Iro.ny Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -nies Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler Date: 1502 1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony 2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance 3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
So, does that stop dial-up users from sending email too? What about the fools on PPPoE? What about certain pesky subnets in Korea that have been hijacked by hackers? Most of the culprits are wide-open, insecure K-12 schools operating networks here and abroad, and the complicity of some fly-by-nite shizters in asia and elsewhere.
That's what revision 0.1 is supposed to fix. Geez, gimme a break. You think i proof-read anything I post? Nawh. I didnt need a formal lang course though, no... I took a compiler course, the superset of all that shit. " Implement a C compiler in hardware." We talked about it. Though C is not a CFG.;) Humble pie? You mean, I have foot-in-mouth disease? I always have known that. It's funny getting modded down to 0 when I know what I'm talking about but transpose a few chars because I have lysdexia. My point was that the set of things you need to know for classical regexps is very small, and the normal *nix regexps isn't much bigger, and the GNU regexps have some nice features... all-in-all, they aren't that bad. Besides, the animal book from o'reily i think covered it pretty good, and wasn't 500 pgs.
* = except their own spam and their VAR partners and other 3rd parties.
Yahoo!, AOL abolish spam and pop-ups**
** = except their own, of course.
This is another attempt of companies using reverse-issue support to get their way, to be seen as so-called do-gooders, but in reality they're making back-room deals to slip their exclusions in to rig the system in their favor. It's another day of lobbying as usual in Congress, w/ some nice "conference" vacations, comps and perks to get some ear-time. *wink-wink, nudge-nudge*
Maybe Xenu didn't pay up there SCO license for 1st amendment rights? I mean who likes/is a Scitlglts anyhow? They aren't a religion, and I just use them as a comparison to patent whores and black-box, monolithic engineering. I'm not saying that you have to be a red-book-toting Communist to support OSS/GNU/GPL, it's just ironical the sort of fanaticism involved in platform/editor/political flame wars. I wonder what would happen if the gov't mandated that all software should go free, non-commercial open source (w/ some NDA blah blah EULA crap) after 10 years. Then we would be able to laugh at all the bugs in Windoze using some nifty code-coverage/CASE tools.;)
I'm sorry... Lindows is a shameless attempt to take something that is free and repackage it as something that costs money to compete/look like something that costs more money. Lindows is not free and not GPL compatible, so how do they get away with using GPL'd stuff? "The pricing of Click N' Run software has changed from $49.95 a year to $4.95 a month" That means it's $60 a year!!! I think the OSS/GPL community should focus on making a seriously usable, more efficient and stable UI w/ a simple and powerful API. Maybe ditch X & C? I think that Java, Python, AOP, self-generating code (like LISP) and langugages w/ embedded expert knowlege systems (something like JESS) are the future... platform specific apps are headed for the dust-bin of history: C does not scale well and there's too many hacks/incompatibilities/evil things and C++ polymorphism is a inconsistent, incomplete kludge. You can argue and justify *NIX & C all day long, but the security issues (strcmp, gets) and wild pointers give programs zero protection, almost like each program is an old skool DOS machine, where it can go wild writing shit everywhere w/ pointers w/o security. I propose that programs and libraries have defensive security models *built-in*, so that private data is actually secured, in a real way.
Is there a blue and red pill interface? Or do I have to eat a monitor displaying the Aqua UI?
Btw, there outta be a rule that open source/free/GPL'd projects must reuse as much code as possible from other projects, that way some embedded db doesn't use linear searches and insertion sort.
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A simple, active, multi-phase patch antenna w/o LNBs (you add your own/installer provides) (for DISH & DirecTV, similar to one dish directv/dish quad LNBs, but sorta ghetto plus dish's locals on 61.5*) would be suffient w/ a wider range could be sold for the same and other purposes, and even used where a normal antenna wouldn't fit/be desired in a fixed location and at odd angles.
I worked at Stanford over the summer in an IS dept, where their centralized "ITSS" NOC dept. disconnected every machine via scans every two hours and switch rules that did not apply the MS03-039 patch before an arbitrary date, which created an unnecessary and artifical emergency in our dept. Stanford is definitely run like a non-profit, the people there dont really know what they're doing. There's no firewalls anywhere and everyone's machine is a public IP, so anyone can host an FTP warez site. Most every machine at Stanford is a Mac OS 9.x or Windows 2000 Pro, and a few OS X's and XP machines. Additionally, many other universities do not have firewalls, including UC Davis. I believe that MIT has most of their student's machines firewalled.
But, in support of UF's position, schools have cover-their-asses when it comes to I.P. and P2P issues since their big corporate donors can threaten to withhold funding. Also, it is almost ethically justifiable to block P2P, since the only few legitimate uses are (but not limited to) finding patches and sharing public-domain works. But, if colleges start blocking certain sites, then the line between protectionism and censorship begins to blurr. If these schools would firewall
@stake, eeye, and iss have all agreed w/ microsoft not to release details of even potential exploits until the microsoft has had 30 days to "evaluate" them, leaving admins and the public unnecessarily exposed to vulnerabilities. This is completely unacceptable, and contrary to the scientific peer-review process of real science. If you know there's a problem, you speak out, suggest a fix, and hopefully the appropriate parties will be responsible enough to take action. Additionally, others have to be able to VERIFY and REPRODUCE findings, a critical part of *real* research. But microsoft's tactic is to force so-called security "research" companies (who are in it for money, not necessarily for altruistic research or making things more secure) into a lop-sided, biases "standards" NGO, the "Organization for Internet Safety" (OIS), which Microsoft is a member. (read this). What they are proposing is censorship, hiding information until they can find a fix, so that only the hackers will know what's broken. Talk about the fox guarding the hen-house!!!
Additionally, the director of research for @stake, Chris Wysopal, is effectively lobbying congress to give teeth to the OIS, and more power to microsoft and their buddies.
OIS = @stake, BindView, SCO, Foundstone, Guardent, ISS, Microsoft, NAI, Oracle, SGI, Symantec. sounds like the stone cutter's guild to me.
Eeye seems to be left out for obvious reasons, they oppose this secretive "research." Read eeye's Marc Maiffret's (chief hacking officer) thoughts on things to a congressional subcommittee here.
"windows corrupts, microsoft corrupts absolutely."
ea puts "not for resale by owner" on all their games. how exactly does me buying this game not allow me to sell it? i'll do whatever i damn well please, even set fire to it if i want.
here's another site that shows you how to do the swap.
i had a hd die due to a short in the PSU, so i called ibm and asked what to do. after asking a few times and an email, i got info on what "not to do" *wink,wink*. basically, it boils down to getting a HD with the same MLC code, which there are about 3-5 for every model. ebay is the cheapest place, because the refurb and spare parts distributors wont want to talk to you. $60 later on ebay and assurances the MLC code was right, i got the drive and swapped board, viola! it works! i DDed that sucker as fast as you could imagine.
that this stunt may actually save SCO whether it wins or loses. Some polly-ana companies are going to pay up, regardless, to ensure their own business models remain safe.
This map is a good thing; it shows where redundancies need to be added. The whole nature of the Internet (IP routing) allows for routing packets around choke-points and outages. That was the point of the DARPA project, to have a data communication system that could survive a nuclear attack, much like the highway system was added so "people could escape in an emergency." As to power and other utilities, it just shows that our infrastructure is not that good, that we need more redundancies in the "grid." From knowledgeable sources, I hear that in the 1980s and even now, there are many choke-points where there are no redundancies.
The electrical "grid" is more like a bus than a fully-connected network. Even in urban centers, the utilities are rarely planned (San Jose has some of the worst "planning" of utilities imaginable) and often are interrupted by construction crews that seem to be tearing up the road repeatedly for no obvious reasons. And then the city repaves it, and they're out there next week tearing up the recently repaved roads. No wonder why this state doesn't have any money, and why San Jose has the worst roads in the nation, even though it is in a mild climate. *cough* Union corruption, back-room deals, and inefficient(&corrupt) bureaucracies (state && local). */cough*
*sirens* "Do you have a licensed RFID for that carton of milk, buddy? What about those eggs? Let me run the RFID scanner... (progress bar...) It seems your milk has expired and your fruit has broken the speed limit of 100 mph. And your pen's RFID seems to have been tampered with, I'll have to write you a DMCA ticket."
Screw making duck-tape smaller... Make a pocket for duck-tape rolls! Heck, make a carrying bag for duck-tape. Wear a gold neck chain and proudly display your roll. Heck, put a roll of toliet paper on there too. Get some plastic sheeting, and you're ready for anything!
... and paint a big-ass "IBM roolz, SCO drools" in blue on the sidewalk, street, buildings, and just about everywhere.
Yeah, I remember that... it was very impressive. I believe that a dog has superior computational power and discrimination abilities that could easily be more accurate and reliable than some piece of technology. How much/hard would it cost to train a dog to do this? Imagine... if we have specialized dogs for certain functions... eventually will have purpose-bred species of animals/plants for very specific tasks (*cough* babel-fish :). Also, I remember something about a UV camera system for dermatologists. Btw, have you ever looked at your skin in a mirror w/ a black-light (CCUV flourescent), you can see differences in tissues in you skin not visible in white light.
Health care in the U.S. is, for the most part, privatized. If you don't have, at least, basic health insurance, you're basically screwed. You have to prove that your about to die to get basic emergency services. If you have any money at all, the hospitals are relentless in collections. The #1 reason for bankruptcy in the US is medical bills, usually as the result of major illness (on average of $50k+). Hospitals are worse than the shops of used-car dealerships; they both charge you for things you don't ask for, need, or even get! In fact, they'll often double-bill. There's no estimate, up-front pricing, and you agree to arbitrary rates that are not disclosed until after rendered. It's why you need to bring someone along that writes down everything that happens, every medication and every procedure. You can try to negotiate prices, since everything's always negotiable from some position.
:( )
The problem is that most western governments consider people outside the borders to be expendable. What are 10, 1,000, or 1,000,000 dead to them when it's not their people or in their country (esp. if there's no resources/trade)? Again, who's gonna try to clean up the mess? The US as usual? The UN seems to be as ineffectual and impotent as usual when it comes to global health care (minus the WHO efforts). Throwing $1B or $10B at it when it's a $10T job just doesn't cut it. But when 2/3 of the UN's members are basically non-democratic autocracies, the welfare of other people aren't high on their agendas. Too bad we don't live in an enlightened, benevolent dictatorship where the best person to do the job is appointed.
If SARS becomes a perennial threat and reaches the same prevalence as the common cold, it could be a preventable/limitable catastrophe. Since most medicine works in a reactionary-mode and there were no cases in the US, we will be totally unprepared as usual. As usual, supply and demand will kick in and only the rich will get any of the limited supplies. If a stock-pile were built up, it could be possible to have enough to deal with the situation. The problem is two-fold: 1) cost and 2) expiry-ness of medications. The costs maybe prohibitive to manufacture enough of a given antibiotic or other medicine in scales enough to satisfy the needs. And, the investment in a stock-pile maybe unnecessary.
However, SARS has the potential to make the 1918 Spanish Flu look like a paper-cut. Especially among immigrant populations, dorms, and urban centers, where the dense living conditions provide perfect transmission environments. I don't have the answer or know exactly what needs to be fixed, but the status quo is not so good. Cookie-cutter, Lemming-ish, reactionary solutions == bad.
Don't you feel sorry for the shmoe wearing this? He must feel about as good as a Mickey Mouse actor at Disneyland getting constantly kicked in the balls by hyper-active, sugar-crazed ten year-olds. It's like carrying a sign on your head that says to kids "my nuts are your punching bag and there's nothing I can do about it, because your parents can get me fired."
Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to just staticly mount some flat-panels and have them centrally controlled via UHF or something? Oh wait, that's a TV. All this extra technology to replace something that could be done a lot cheaper and easier by using a little planning.
Also, is labor in Asia so cheap now that it costs less to hire someone to stand there than a 1" OD x 6 ft pole of aluminum? Might as well hire some people to fan you w/ palm-frawns too.
That's my 3.14159... cents
"A measured SPL in excess of 140 dB will result in immediate disqualification." http://www.termpro.com/dbdrag/rules/2002/rules02.h tml
;) My Olds Brougham gets hella SPL inside, and all you hear from the outside are faint thumps. It's these cheap-ass, plastic, asian, rice-burners that dont contain the sound that's the problem.
What a stupid "sport," if u can call it that. "Oooh, I can spend more money than anybody else and hire an EE to do a finite element analysis on my ricey car." Maybe mfgrs should preinstall "BQuiet" (dynomat clone) so u dont hear a car from the outside. The truth is that people don't want to hear your car, if you want to be deaf, it's your perogative. Besides, if you dynomat, you get a higher SPL.
American astronaut syndrome... all these air force types are trying to get into space, anyway they can, even to play w/ bubbles or water or whatever NASA claims their "science" experiments are for. Maybe they should focus on more practical science at lower costs. We need to do more with less, and risking crews for no reason is just plain stupid.
The prob is that the FCC is controlled by corporations, and so you have to pay for moving electrons around and for sampling the EMF. Next thing you know, they'll tax the air and charge money for it. Anything to make a buck. You know there's a setup that costs about $1k that gives you 2000+ channels for $0/month pretty much anywhere in the world?
Also, "poetic justice" is another form of dramatic irony. See also, "Shawshank Redeption, The" [Movie] and "Macbeth" [Screenplay]
i on ary&va=irony
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dict
Iro.ny
Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -nies
Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler
Date: 1502
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony
So, does that stop dial-up users from sending email too? What about the fools on PPPoE? What about certain pesky subnets in Korea that have been hijacked by hackers? Most of the culprits are wide-open, insecure K-12 schools operating networks here and abroad, and the complicity of some fly-by-nite shizters in asia and elsewhere.
That's what revision 0.1 is supposed to fix. Geez, gimme a break. You think i proof-read anything I post? Nawh. I didnt need a formal lang course though, no... I took a compiler course, the superset of all that shit. " Implement a C compiler in hardware." We talked about it. Though C is not a CFG. ;) Humble pie? You mean, I have foot-in-mouth disease? I always have known that. It's funny getting modded down to 0 when I know what I'm talking about but transpose a few chars because I have lysdexia. My point was that the set of things you need to know for classical regexps is very small, and the normal *nix regexps isn't much bigger, and the GNU regexps have some nice features... all-in-all, they aren't that bad. Besides, the animal book from o'reily i think covered it pretty good, and wasn't 500 pgs.
* = except their own spam and their VAR partners and other 3rd parties.
Yahoo!, AOL abolish spam and pop-ups**
** = except their own, of course.
This is another attempt of companies using reverse-issue support to get their way, to be seen as so-called do-gooders, but in reality they're making back-room deals to slip their exclusions in to rig the system in their favor. It's another day of lobbying as usual in Congress, w/ some nice "conference" vacations, comps and perks to get some ear-time. *wink-wink, nudge-nudge*
Maybe Xenu didn't pay up there SCO license for 1st amendment rights? I mean who likes/is a Scitlglts anyhow? They aren't a religion, and I just use them as a comparison to patent whores and black-box, monolithic engineering. I'm not saying that you have to be a red-book-toting Communist to support OSS/GNU/GPL, it's just ironical the sort of fanaticism involved in platform/editor/political flame wars. I wonder what would happen if the gov't mandated that all software should go free, non-commercial open source (w/ some NDA blah blah EULA crap) after 10 years. Then we would be able to laugh at all the bugs in Windoze using some nifty code-coverage/CASE tools. ;)
I'm sorry... Lindows is a shameless attempt to take something that is free and repackage it as something that costs money to compete/look like something that costs more money. Lindows is not free and not GPL compatible, so how do they get away with using GPL'd stuff? "The pricing of Click N' Run software has changed from $49.95 a year to $4.95 a month" That means it's $60 a year!!! I think the OSS/GPL community should focus on making a seriously usable, more efficient and stable UI w/ a simple and powerful API. Maybe ditch X & C? I think that Java, Python, AOP, self-generating code (like LISP) and langugages w/ embedded expert knowlege systems (something like JESS) are the future... platform specific apps are headed for the dust-bin of history: C does not scale well and there's too many hacks/incompatibilities/evil things and C++ polymorphism is a inconsistent, incomplete kludge. You can argue and justify *NIX & C all day long, but the security issues (strcmp, gets) and wild pointers give programs zero protection, almost like each program is an old skool DOS machine, where it can go wild writing shit everywhere w/ pointers w/o security. I propose that programs and libraries have defensive security models *built-in*, so that private data is actually secured, in a real way.
Is there a blue and red pill interface? Or do I have to eat a monitor displaying the Aqua UI?
Btw, there outta be a rule that open source/free/GPL'd projects must reuse as much code as possible from other projects, that way some embedded db doesn't use linear searches and insertion sort.
Haha... something for nothing, eh? That's called "free as in free-beer" software, i mean *BSD license. ;)