I've got no problem with keeping people under a certain age out of certain movies. First of all, we do it often enough anyways - don't drive until you're sixteen, no cigs until you're 18 - I'm OK with that. Plus, I'm usually glad when I go to see a movie and there aren't young children there. Usually makes for a better experience. However, in this case, when the mother in question cleared the kids, that should've been that. Jon's response was good, except for one thing - he should've asked for the manager right away. Don't harass the front-line kid. He didn't make the rules, he's just required to enforce them. GO right to management in times like that. It'll save you grief.
OK, so as I understand this, what happened is that MS basically wrote their own Instant Messenger, that communicates with AOL's IM. Well, so what? Currently, I run LICQ under RH5.2. LICQ isn't supported by Mirabilis, and they don't provide any help to the developers. The developers figured out the protocol, and wrote another copy. Since this seems like what MS is doing, I have zero problem with it. If they figured it out, and are using it, then more power to them.
AC Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama" has an example of something like this - he wears a pair of, for lack of a better term, "decoder glasses", and only he can see what's on his screen. Difference was that these seemed to be encoded, so that you wouldn't simply need a polarizer to create this effect. Is there any work being done in this area, sort of a "visual encryption"?
I got no problem with the discount club tactic - that's fine with me. However, whenever anyone asks me for my ID/DL, I never hand it to them. My wallet has a little flip-up plastic cover thing, sorta like what you see when cops have that little flip-up badge dealie. Whenever anyone asks to see my ID, I hold that up, and they can look at it until their eyes fall out, for all I care. No one has ever asked me for any more then that.
Who says they need to throw it away? Friggin Christ - they could get you to put your fingerprints RIGHT ON THE DAMN CARD. Then, there's nothing to keep. No one's talking about a global fingerprint database - that's something you guys made up on your own.
Not necessarily. They could, in fact, put your fingerprints on the card for the purpose of determining if you belong to the card. Crazy, you say? Well, the Congreeman proposing this legislation is very again illegal immigration - so I'd be willing to bet this is what he had in mind, to make sure that you can't use someone else's card, or it'd be harder to counterfeit the cards.
1. ALL businesses do this. Period. 2. AOL says they will only do this with legal court action - i.e., a search warrant.
3. If you've got a problem with the consequences, don't freaking do it. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. NOTE: Parse crime as action, not illegal activity.
Basically, it comes down to this - don't say it online if you wouldn't in real life, and don't worry about this supposed "invasion of privacy". There is none. This article is a fluff piece about the relationship between the local sheriff and AOL. This is nothing new. If you think your ISP/university/ADSL provider/whatever wouldn't release information asked for in a warrant, I got a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in.
I didn't see anything in the CNN article about the recovery team tossing explosives onboard after recovering Gus. I did see something about the explosive bolts used to take the hatch off - maybe that's what you read? Those are standard on space vehicles.
I'd just be happy to see hardware manufacturers manufacture a standard board for once. Companies like Packard Bell, HP and Compaq manufacture these shitty boards that have proprietary plug-in cards. My gf had a Compaq system that had a proprietary freaking modem. Talk about re-inventing the wheel. Friend of mine had a HP that used a riser for expansion cards - and his case was BIGGER then my standard-board case. Total crapola. I'll be happy when they make these cases easy to open, easy to get into, and easy to upgrade.
While I agree that Harvard is making a big mistake shutting the whole site down, and by destroying the site itself, the fact remains that we don't really know what the hey is going on. We've got Kevin's righteous indignation side of the story, and a reply from the now-vilified JP. No one here(at least no one admitting) has seen the offensive material, or knows what happened behind the scenes to get to this point. Yeah, it sucks that the site is down, but WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION. For instance, two days ago, around my office, people were talking about helping that "nice little Honduran boy who made it all the way from Central America to New York!" Come to find out the kid lived in Miami, and was only smart enough to make up a nicely believable story. Moral: Give the story time to develop, without jumping right on the banner headline: "POPULAR SITE SHUT DOWN BY JERK!"
I've been a Slashdot reader for a while, and I gotta say I could see this coming. I was thinking, and CT's summary seems to agree, that Slashdot was getting to the point where something was going to have to suffer - content, stability, bandwith, Rob's sanity.....and that Slashdot was either going to have to take a huge quality hit or get some help. The decision to be acquired was, IMHO, a step towards keeping Slashdot as much the same as it could. All Web sites must forever grow, and change, or remain stagnant and unpopular. Slashdot has had many changes over the years, and this is just one of them. CT and the rest will still be around, and if Slashdot does, by some chance, become a total piece of junk, then we'll move on. I doubt this'll happen - Slashdot's sellability is in it's readership, and a major revamping would kill the property. However, I hope there won't be posting censorship - i.e., can I now say that Andover.net sucks dirty donkey balls? I'm just curious - I only recall hearing the name in passing, and am unaware of any problems with them. Regardless, congrats guys, for making it to the big time. BTW - are you still gonna operate mainly out of GH2.0, or do you have ot move?
OK, I gotta question here. Anonymous Guy(AG) has lawyers defending him. The article makes that clear. How did Xircom get together with these people? Did she contact them and say "I'm the lawyer for the guy you're ticked at."? Is she court appointed, and doesn't actually know her client? How does she even prove her client's the guy?
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My boss is using one of these services. Scary? Nope. The company I work for pays for this pipe to the 'Net - pays for the machine I use it with, pays me for my time while I am here. It's not censorship when he tells me what I can and cannot do with his stuff on his time - it's called "employment". if he did it to me when I was home, THAT would be censorship.
1. Not "cancelled". "Postponed". The finale was POSTPONED. It'll be shown later.
2. The WB felt that graduation violence was inappropriate around the time of graduations. They did what they felt was the responsible thing.
3. THey have the rights to Buffy. THey can do whatever the heck they want with it.
4. You have no inalienable right to watch TV. THe WB is not compelled to ever show this episode.
5. It's a TV show. Chill. I didn't freak out last night when the audio feed of the finale of DS9 cut out. It's still just TV.
6. This is not a breaking sort of spy story to sneak copies of the Buffy finale out of the WB vault. Eveyr copy or transcript I have seen so far is from Canadian viewer who saw it/ taped it when it broadcast there. We are the Internet and have the power? Bull. You are Canadian and have a VCR.
WIth all the stuff in the world to worry about today, let's not get our undies in a bunch over the finale of one fantasy TV show.
PS: I caught a later episode of the DS9 finale. Wow. Now there's some good TV!
This is going to have a few minor repercussions, but I predict it'll turn out a lot like American Prohibition - interesting idea, but almost impossible to implement, and even harder to justify.
Oh, come on now - what exactly did Torvalds do to deserve a Doctorate in Math? Honorary degrees are being given out these days for things they have no business being given out for. I'm all for honorary degrees honoring someone who did something that they idn't have academic training for. For instance, my university this year is giving an Honorary Doctorate of mathematics to Dr Somebody, PHd, Mathematics. The guy has THE REAL THING, and they are giving him an honorary one! What kind of crap is that? If someone wants to give Linus Honorary doctorate in CS, then maybe. But, let's stop this knee-jerk give-out-an-honorary-degree-to-every-schmo-for-any -thing-they-do-for-anysubject crap.
If you haven't seen "Entrapment" yet, do so - it's got an interesting way to get aroung this problem, and it didn't seem too "techie" - seemed reasonably doable.
it'll get even worse when more people hook refrigerators and crap up to the Net....I think it's funny that I have my own IP address now, and that's for a cable modem that does no serving. Looks like we better either get the new IP address standard into place, or start restricting new Net machines....come to think of it, the second might not be a bad idea....
I'm currently taking a term off schol to do some co-op work for a large company. The working environment and such is fine, but the stress is definetly there. I'm not so sure anymore that this is going to be my life's work - thankfully, however, there are a lot of things to do with a good Computer Science degree...
I've been a Bresnan Cable subscriber twice now - once as a cable TV owner, and once as a cable TV and cable modem owner. It seems that every time a repairman comes out, for whatever reason, I end up getting all the pay cable channels, sometimes for a couple days, sometimes for months on end. It seems to always be confusion as to who should take care of turning them off. The cable modem people say it's the cable people - the cable people don't want to bother coming out. Kind of an interesting quagmire.
If anyone is interested in getting a cable modem, especially from Bresnan or @Home, then heed my warning - it's a bitch. Mind you, the service itself is pretty good, but the actual customer service blows. If anyone wants details, email me - I won't post it here, the story gets a little long. However, nothings beats having your machine online 24-7; it's sort of addicting.:-)
". PS Does anyone believe that the Melissa virus caused $480,000 worth of damage? I seriously doubt even $20,000. "
I'd say 480,000 is a pretty good estimate. The company I work for, which I will not name, spent a whole lot of time and effort on this, even though we weren't hit all that hard. In addition, we took a lot of early precautions that stopped Melissa from being all that bad. Keep in mind, with the press coverage this got, there were a lot of people from above throwing resources at it. I'd say we probably had 1/4 - 1/3 of our people working on this for the better part of two days, including some overtime, because we're busy even without some jerk's idea of a practical joke. With the companies that were hit even harder, and had to take machines and servers down, I wouldn't be surprised if 480000 dollars was the damage tally.
Sorry about the possible empty comment above - didn't notice which button had focus when I hit enter. Anyhow, I don't normally like anything AOL does - but this is one of those cases where there seems to be some true BS going on. I perused observers.net before posting here(Gotta be fair, all) and the complaints I read are pretty cheap. "I didn't like x, or what x did, so i quit". Well, there you go. I think these people misunderstand the use of the word "volunteer". Yes, they got some compensation. When I volunteered for the food bank, someone bought us all lunch. I spent four hours more there then I planned. Now, because of those four hours, and my compensatory lunch, does this mean that I deserve payment for that time? I don't think so.
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I've got no problem with keeping people under a certain age out of certain movies. First of all, we do it often enough anyways - don't drive until you're sixteen, no cigs until you're 18 - I'm OK with that. Plus, I'm usually glad when I go to see a movie and there aren't young children there. Usually makes for a better experience. However, in this case, when the mother in question cleared the kids, that should've been that. Jon's response was good, except for one thing - he should've asked for the manager right away. Don't harass the front-line kid. He didn't make the rules, he's just required to enforce them. GO right to management in times like that. It'll save you grief.
I caught the video, on ZDTV I think. It was pretty funny - and Wyle did do a pretty good job of looking/sounding like him
Quote of the Day: HTACCESS/Apache can kiss my butt.
OK, so as I understand this, what happened is that MS basically wrote their own Instant Messenger, that communicates with AOL's IM. Well, so what? Currently, I run LICQ under RH5.2. LICQ isn't supported by Mirabilis, and they don't provide any help to the developers. The developers figured out the protocol, and wrote another copy. Since this seems like what MS is doing, I have zero problem with it. If they figured it out, and are using it, then more power to them.
Only if Fabio rides the damn thing.....
AC Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama" has an example of something like this - he wears a pair of, for lack of a better term, "decoder glasses", and only he can see what's on his screen. Difference was that these seemed to be encoded, so that you wouldn't simply need a polarizer to create this effect. Is there any work being done in this area, sort of a "visual encryption"?
I got no problem with the discount club tactic - that's fine with me. However, whenever anyone asks me for my ID/DL, I never hand it to them. My wallet has a little flip-up plastic cover thing, sorta like what you see when cops have that little flip-up badge dealie. Whenever anyone asks to see my ID, I hold that up, and they can look at it until their eyes fall out, for all I care. No one has ever asked me for any more then that.
Who says they need to throw it away? Friggin Christ - they could get you to put your fingerprints RIGHT ON THE DAMN CARD. Then, there's nothing to keep. No one's talking about a global fingerprint database - that's something you guys made up on your own.
Not necessarily. They could, in fact, put your fingerprints on the card for the purpose of determining if you belong to the card. Crazy, you say? Well, the Congreeman proposing this legislation is very again illegal immigration - so I'd be willing to bet this is what he had in mind, to make sure that you can't use someone else's card, or it'd be harder to counterfeit the cards.
1. ALL businesses do this. Period.
2. AOL says they will only do this with legal court action - i.e., a search warrant.
3. If you've got a problem with the consequences, don't freaking do it. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
NOTE: Parse crime as action, not illegal activity.
Basically, it comes down to this - don't say it online if you wouldn't in real life, and don't worry about this supposed "invasion of privacy". There is none. This article is a fluff piece about the relationship between the local sheriff and AOL. This is nothing new. If you think your ISP/university/ADSL provider/whatever wouldn't release information asked for in a warrant, I got a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in.
I didn't see anything in the CNN article about the recovery team tossing explosives onboard after recovering Gus. I did see something about the explosive bolts used to take the hatch off - maybe that's what you read? Those are standard on space vehicles.
I'd just be happy to see hardware manufacturers manufacture a standard board for once. Companies like Packard Bell, HP and Compaq manufacture these shitty boards that have proprietary plug-in cards. My gf had a Compaq system that had a proprietary freaking modem. Talk about re-inventing the wheel. Friend of mine had a HP that used a riser for expansion cards - and his case was BIGGER then my standard-board case. Total crapola. I'll be happy when they make these cases easy to open, easy to get into, and easy to upgrade.
While I agree that Harvard is making a big mistake shutting the whole site down, and by destroying the site itself, the fact remains that we don't really know what the hey is going on. We've got Kevin's righteous indignation side of the story, and a reply from the now-vilified JP. No one here(at least no one admitting) has seen the offensive material, or knows what happened behind the scenes to get to this point. Yeah, it sucks that the site is down, but WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION. For instance, two days ago, around my office, people were talking about helping that "nice little Honduran boy who made it all the way from Central America to New York!" Come to find out the kid lived in Miami, and was only smart enough to make up a nicely believable story. Moral: Give the story time to develop, without jumping right on the banner headline: "POPULAR SITE SHUT DOWN BY JERK!"
I've been a Slashdot reader for a while, and I gotta say I could see this coming. I was thinking, and CT's summary seems to agree, that Slashdot was getting to the point where something was going to have to suffer - content, stability, bandwith, Rob's sanity.....and that Slashdot was either going to have to take a huge quality hit or get some help. The decision to be acquired was, IMHO, a step towards keeping Slashdot as much the same as it could. All Web sites must forever grow, and change, or remain stagnant and unpopular. Slashdot has had many changes over the years, and this is just one of them. CT and the rest will still be around, and if Slashdot does, by some chance, become a total piece of junk, then we'll move on. I doubt this'll happen - Slashdot's sellability is in it's readership, and a major revamping would kill the property. However, I hope there won't be posting censorship - i.e., can I now say that Andover.net sucks dirty donkey balls? I'm just curious - I only recall hearing the name in passing, and am unaware of any problems with them. Regardless, congrats guys, for making it to the big time. BTW - are you still gonna operate mainly out of GH2.0, or do you have ot move?
OK, I gotta question here. Anonymous Guy(AG) has lawyers defending him. The article makes that clear. How did Xircom get together with these people? Did she contact them and say "I'm the lawyer for the guy you're ticked at."? Is she court appointed, and doesn't actually know her client? How does she even prove her client's the guy?
My boss is using one of these services. Scary? Nope. The company I work for pays for this pipe to the 'Net - pays for the machine I use it with, pays me for my time while I am here. It's not censorship when he tells me what I can and cannot do with his stuff on his time - it's called "employment". if he did it to me when I was home, THAT would be censorship.
1. Not "cancelled". "Postponed". The finale was POSTPONED. It'll be shown later.
2. The WB felt that graduation violence was inappropriate around the time of graduations. They did what they felt was the responsible thing.
3. THey have the rights to Buffy. THey can do whatever the heck they want with it.
4. You have no inalienable right to watch TV. THe WB is not compelled to ever show this episode.
5. It's a TV show. Chill. I didn't freak out last night when the audio feed of the finale of DS9 cut out. It's still just TV.
6. This is not a breaking sort of spy story to sneak copies of the Buffy finale out of the WB vault. Eveyr copy or transcript I have seen so far is from Canadian viewer who saw it/ taped it when it broadcast there. We are the Internet and have the power? Bull. You are Canadian and have a VCR.
WIth all the stuff in the world to worry about today, let's not get our undies in a bunch over the finale of one fantasy TV show.
PS: I caught a later episode of the DS9 finale. Wow. Now there's some good TV!
This is going to have a few minor repercussions, but I predict it'll turn out a lot like American Prohibition - interesting idea, but almost impossible to implement, and even harder to justify.
Oh, come on now - what exactly did Torvalds do to deserve a Doctorate in Math? Honorary degrees are being given out these days for things they have no business being given out for. I'm all for honorary degrees honoring someone who did something that they idn't have academic training for. For instance, my university this year is giving an Honorary Doctorate of mathematics to Dr Somebody, PHd, Mathematics. The guy has THE REAL THING, and they are giving him an honorary one! What kind of crap is that? If someone wants to give Linus Honorary doctorate in CS, then maybe. But, let's stop this knee-jerk give-out-an-honorary-degree-to-every-schmo-for-any -thing-they-do-for-anysubject crap.
If you haven't seen "Entrapment" yet, do so - it's got an interesting way to get aroung this problem, and it didn't seem too "techie" - seemed reasonably doable.
it'll get even worse when more people hook refrigerators and crap up to the Net....I think it's funny that I have my own IP address now, and that's for a cable modem that does no serving. Looks like we better either get the new IP address standard into place, or start restricting new Net machines....come to think of it, the second might not be a bad idea....
I'm currently taking a term off schol to do some co-op work for a large company. The working environment and such is fine, but the stress is definetly there. I'm not so sure anymore that this is going to be my life's work - thankfully, however, there are a lot of things to do with a good Computer Science degree...
What's wrong with Web pages that end in .htm?
I've been a Bresnan Cable subscriber twice now - once as a cable TV owner, and once as a cable TV and cable modem owner. It seems that every time a repairman comes out, for whatever reason, I end up getting all the pay cable channels, sometimes for a couple days, sometimes for months on end. It seems to always be confusion as to who should take care of turning them off. The cable modem people say it's the cable people - the cable people don't want to bother coming out. Kind of an interesting quagmire.
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If anyone is interested in getting a cable modem, especially from Bresnan or @Home, then heed my warning - it's a bitch. Mind you, the service itself is pretty good, but the actual customer service blows. If anyone wants details, email me - I won't post it here, the story gets a little long. However, nothings beats having your machine online 24-7; it's sort of addicting.
". PS Does anyone believe that the Melissa virus caused $480,000 worth of damage? I seriously doubt even $20,000.
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I'd say 480,000 is a pretty good estimate. The company I work for, which I will not name, spent a whole lot of time and effort on this, even though we weren't hit all that hard. In addition, we took a lot of early precautions that stopped Melissa from being all that bad. Keep in mind, with the press coverage this got, there were a lot of people from above throwing resources at it. I'd say we probably had 1/4 - 1/3 of our people working on this for the better part of two days, including some overtime, because we're busy even without some jerk's idea of a practical joke. With the companies that were hit even harder, and had to take machines and servers down, I wouldn't be surprised if 480000 dollars was the damage tally.
Sorry about the possible empty comment above - didn't notice which button had focus when I hit enter. Anyhow, I don't normally like anything AOL does - but this is one of those cases where there seems to be some true BS going on. I perused observers.net before posting here(Gotta be fair, all) and the complaints I read are pretty cheap. "I didn't like x, or what x did, so i quit". Well, there you go. I think these people misunderstand the use of the word "volunteer". Yes, they got some compensation. When I volunteered for the food bank, someone bought us all lunch. I spent four hours more there then I planned. Now, because of those four hours, and my compensatory lunch, does this mean that I deserve payment for that time? I don't think so.