The OP could just be looking for some general ideas to get going (or to rule out bad ones before proceeding).
Exactly! Which is more likely to give you new and interesting ideas: a Google search which returns the 50 most popular ideas in a field, or asking a forum of your million closest friends? Google is awesome for finding answers to well-defined questions. It kinda sucks for figuring out what questions you want to ask in the first place.
Businesses operate at the discretion of, and under the laws of, the community they operate in. If that community has anti-discrimination laws, the business must comply with them.
What about the business owner's freedom of speech - in particular, the right not to? Take the print shop example. Say your primary business is making coloring books for preschoolers, and someone wants to hire you to print hardcore porn. Don't you have the right so say that no, you don't want to get involved in something you don't wish to participate in, even if only for religious / moral / taste reasons?
That's not the same as refusing to do business with a protected minority.
I thought Americans were against building an Empire. Apparently not.
Oh please. First, even if you don't want to claim a country as a territory, you still have to do a certain amount of rebuilding unless you want it to be even worse than before. That's not imperialism; that's being realistic. Second, I haven't heard anyone claim that this manual is actually in use. The military plans and practices for lots of things that will probably never come to pass.
and restrictions on labor unions & political parties.
Chapter 8: Building A New Government (new since Iraq mission)
It directly advocates warrantless searches,
Chapter 2: The Element Of Surprise
And it directly advocates the extensive use of 'psychological operations' (propaganda) to make these and other 'population & resource control' measures more palatable.
Chapter 3: Getting The Locals On Your Side
Honestly, WTF would you think would be in an operations manual? This is standard stuff for every army in the world. I mean, warrantless searches? My mind boggles that anyone would ever suspect otherwise.
I doubt it. If the competitor is able to send mailings without being blacklisted , then there are no honeypot addresses in there.
... or they have a sysadmin who knows a little about SMTP, and your boss was the only person in the world who actually received that email. It's a cinch to send email through telnet, you know.
At least in FireFox, your bookmarks just exist as a plain ol' HTML file in your profile directory. You don't need any special tools to sync that across multiple machines, you just copy it between machines (or better, use FireFox Portable off a thumbdrive).
But without a syncing mechanism, you have to be meticulous about making sure you always to it. What if you add 20 bookmarks at home and a different 20 at work between copies? You'd have to decide which 20 was more important so that you can overwrite the others.
I'm kind of opposed to native Firefox solutions on general principals, though. That doesn't work so well if you also want to use your bookmarks from IE at the office and Safari on your iPhone (disclaimer: I have neither - work with me here). Sites like del.icio.us are a much better idea, in my opinion, although I don't like the idea of giving up control over your own data.
check foxmarks you can tell it where to ftp your bookmarks to if you don't want to use their servers.
That's not a bad idea. My only problem with it is that it's very Firefox-centric. Opera and Konqueror (and Lynx and Links) can do useful things with RSS without getting an FTP client involved.
How worried are you about control (i.e., is your concern that you have continued access,
Very. Actually, that's my entire motivation. I don't really understand people who meticulously build giant forests of del.icio.us links, hoping that it never turns into a pay site or goes offline.
or is your concern that others not have access)?
Not so much. If you want to look at the weather radar in my area, more power to ya.:-)
If you are only concerned about continued/full access to your data, delicious has what I find to be a very acceptable statue quo:
That's better, but then you still have to deal with the fact that the system you're used to using is no longer available. Hence my desire to run my own: once I get it working, it'll keep going as long as I want to maintain it.
Google Sync, Del.icio.us, etc. are spiffy, but I want to control my own data. I have a webserver and the willingness to get in over my head, so what's a geek to do to host this for himself? I'd settle for just keeping the bookmarks.
I have a Drupal 5 site up and running. Ideally, I'd like to be able to add a bunch of bookmarks to it, then make an RSS feed of them. Then I could let my browsers turn that feed into bookmark folders. Unfortunately, I've only been able to get an RSS feed of links to pages on my own site, and then would have to clink on the links on those pages to get to the real sites (example: my bookmark would be to mysite/bookmarks/slashdot, and that page would have a link to here). Ick. Has anyone else had success with such a thing?
From what I understand, ZFS is fast not memory efficient.
Nitpick: it definitely likes a lot of RAM, but it doesn't necessarily use it inefficiently. Car analogy: a semi truck is fuel efficient, even though it's gas mileage is a lot lower than a sedan's.
One of the time-honored Slashdot memes is that any mention of old technology turns into one-upsmanship that usually ends with someone mixing gluons in the early universe.
It's almost as hard to try out the changes you made as it is for kernel developers... slightly easier, especially for debugging, but you still need to either shut down everything you are doing to run a new build or have multiple development systems.
Can't you run your development X on a different tty? I'm ignorant about such things, so maybe that's not possible.
And if network transparency is not the reason for these performance degrations then it's something else.
X apps are much faster on my Eee PC than they are on my Mac. I think the common point is that X on Mac isn't very good. That doesn't mean that the authors are bad - maybe there's just something about OS X that doesn't lend itself to X on top of it - but I'd hate to have to use it as my main X server.
That depends on whether you think it is acceptable to compel someone to reveal something like that.
Oh, I do: as long as it's not the government doing the compelling.
Just once it'd be fun to hear that the local mafia don's PC got infected because his wife wanted cute smileys, and that the local prosecutor is frustrated by the lack of direct evidence linking the don to what they found down by the river.
Since the virus seems to only use one key, can't we just infect a file with known content and reverse the key by comparing the original/infected versions?
No. Plaintext isn't xor'ed with the key itself, but with a stream of data created using the key as one of the inputs. Similarly, I only have one GPG encryption key, but good luck reverse engineering it even given known plaintext.
Go ahead and claim otherwise. Maybe both were being told at the same time. Maybe you can accuse me of lying, just like I can accuse you of lying.
Why would I accuse you of lying? Both hypotheses were bandied about during that timeframe, back before they had enough data to tell which was actually happening.
I believe a lot of people claiming this are confused by "nuclear winter" which was popularized around 1983.
Nah. I was taught about cooling in the 70s, the idea being that smog particulates would raise the Earth's albedo, causing water to freeze into white ice, further raising the Earth's albedo, etc.
Again, I'm absolutely not arguing against global warming, just presenting anecdotal evidence to the people who claim for whatever reason that the opposite was never taught.
People are running crappy software that got hacked, or
People did something dumb like running an.exe that someone mailed them.
Either way, this seems like a pretty strong (if harsh) lesson for end users. If #1, use better software, like your geek friends have been telling you this for years. That doesn't have to mean installing Ubuntu; it could just mean upgrading from IE6 to Firefox (or IE7), or from Outlook Express to Thunderbird (or Gmail). If #2, then haven't you been told about 1,000 times not to do that? Now do you see why?
I truly feel bad for people who get nailed for this, in almost exactly the same way I feel bad for my kids when they touch the stove after I've told them it was hot.
I don't know whether they believe only old, right-wing fossils still read newspapers or whether they're having trouble recruiting quality staff on the wages they're willing to pay.
I have never, not once, heard anyone describe the Times as conservative.:-)
Wired has always published its share of articles written with a smart-ass or tongue-in-cheek tone, and its audience both likes them and understands that they're not intended to be taken as gospel.
They've also had plenty of non-mainstream material that was dead serious. I subscribe to Wired, and although I haven't read that article yet, I wouldn't be surprised if it was completely straightforward and factual. They're one of the last magazines I expect to pander to conventional wisdom (except for the "Ask Wired"-style columns where they tell people that it's illegal to rip CDs and other such idiocy), so I wouldn't be surprised if they had an article about the best drugs.
Incidentally, 2600 had a good article on nootropic drugs a couple issues ago, but I halfway expect it to be followed up some day with "Hacking 2600 Readers: Convincing Geeks to Give Themselves Parkinsons". Even if I weren't old and boring with kids and a mortgage, I wouldn't try stuff out of it.
I believe in Global Warming, and I think I've made that pretty clear. I didn't so much as hint otherwise. I was replying only to the people who don't believe that Global Cooling was ever presented as fact, as if they admit that it was and then was later dispelled, then Global Warming must also be untrue. Well, you and I both know that's not the case.
So why the personal attack? We're not even in disagreement here, and I certainly didn't do anything to call for that. You usually have interesting things to say, and it's beneath you to act this way.
Reference: My kindergarten, first, second, and third grade teachers. We were taught "global cooling" as fact in public elementary schools, and that if we didn't stop polluting the Earth and blocking all the sunlight then our grandchildren would freeze to death.
I'm dead serious about that and not exaggerating in the slightest. That is what the mainstream public school science curriculum was teaching in my part of the world. I know it's fashionable to deny that global cooling was ever taken seriously, but I assure you that a lot of kids from my generation were taught to be terrified of it.
The practice of labeling the act of infringement as "piracy" actually predates copyright itself. Even prior to the 1709 enactment of the Statute of Anne, generally recognized as the first copyright law, the Stationers' Company of London in 1557 received a Royal Charter giving the company a monopoly on publication and tasking it with enforcing the charter. Those who violated the charter were labeled pirates as early as 1603.
"Piracy" has included copyright infringement for more than 400 years. Don't feel bad; I didn't know that either until recently.
"The incremental search in UNA is so novel that we're patenting it. That's right, we're patenting a feature we're giving away for free. The incremental search interface allows you to navigate documents with theoretical maximum efficiency. You can jump to wherever you want in the document by typing just half a keystroke more than the minimum number of characters necessary to differentiate that position from others. You can't do better than that. People were blown away by the incremental search feature of Idea 7.0, but we've got something better than that."
I'll go you one further: N-BRAIN, fuck you. Before, you were just another company trying to sell a commoditized product to people who didn't know any better. Now that I know you're one of those assholes who wants to actively make my life harder by patenting the most obvious, time-tested tools of my trade, I now actively hate you and wish your company dead. That means that any time N-BRAIN comes up in conversation, I'll make sure everyone listening knows you're a bunch of patent trolls on your way down.
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For probably 90% of the people paying extra to get XP, that's functionally identical to getting only XP.
Exactly! Which is more likely to give you new and interesting ideas: a Google search which returns the 50 most popular ideas in a field, or asking a forum of your million closest friends? Google is awesome for finding answers to well-defined questions. It kinda sucks for figuring out what questions you want to ask in the first place.
What about the business owner's freedom of speech - in particular, the right not to? Take the print shop example. Say your primary business is making coloring books for preschoolers, and someone wants to hire you to print hardcore porn. Don't you have the right so say that no, you don't want to get involved in something you don't wish to participate in, even if only for religious / moral / taste reasons?
That's not the same as refusing to do business with a protected minority.
Oh please. First, even if you don't want to claim a country as a territory, you still have to do a certain amount of rebuilding unless you want it to be even worse than before. That's not imperialism; that's being realistic. Second, I haven't heard anyone claim that this manual is actually in use. The military plans and practices for lots of things that will probably never come to pass.
Chapter 23: Recruiting The Locals
pervasive surveillance,Chapter 1: Know What The Enemy Is Up To
censorship,Chapter 15: Maintaining Classified Data
press controlChapter 15: Maintaining Classified Data
and restrictions on labor unions & political parties.Chapter 8: Building A New Government (new since Iraq mission)
It directly advocates warrantless searches,Chapter 2: The Element Of Surprise
And it directly advocates the extensive use of 'psychological operations' (propaganda) to make these and other 'population & resource control' measures more palatable.Chapter 3: Getting The Locals On Your Side
Honestly, WTF would you think would be in an operations manual? This is standard stuff for every army in the world. I mean, warrantless searches? My mind boggles that anyone would ever suspect otherwise.
Whoosh
... or they have a sysadmin who knows a little about SMTP, and your boss was the only person in the world who actually received that email. It's a cinch to send email through telnet, you know.
But without a syncing mechanism, you have to be meticulous about making sure you always to it. What if you add 20 bookmarks at home and a different 20 at work between copies? You'd have to decide which 20 was more important so that you can overwrite the others.
I'm kind of opposed to native Firefox solutions on general principals, though. That doesn't work so well if you also want to use your bookmarks from IE at the office and Safari on your iPhone (disclaimer: I have neither - work with me here). Sites like del.icio.us are a much better idea, in my opinion, although I don't like the idea of giving up control over your own data.
That's not a bad idea. My only problem with it is that it's very Firefox-centric. Opera and Konqueror (and Lynx and Links) can do useful things with RSS without getting an FTP client involved.
Very. Actually, that's my entire motivation. I don't really understand people who meticulously build giant forests of del.icio.us links, hoping that it never turns into a pay site or goes offline.
or is your concern that others not have access)?Not so much. If you want to look at the weather radar in my area, more power to ya. :-)
If you are only concerned about continued/full access to your data, delicious has what I find to be a very acceptable statue quo:That's better, but then you still have to deal with the fact that the system you're used to using is no longer available. Hence my desire to run my own: once I get it working, it'll keep going as long as I want to maintain it.
Google Sync, Del.icio.us, etc. are spiffy, but I want to control my own data. I have a webserver and the willingness to get in over my head, so what's a geek to do to host this for himself? I'd settle for just keeping the bookmarks.
I have a Drupal 5 site up and running. Ideally, I'd like to be able to add a bunch of bookmarks to it, then make an RSS feed of them. Then I could let my browsers turn that feed into bookmark folders. Unfortunately, I've only been able to get an RSS feed of links to pages on my own site, and then would have to clink on the links on those pages to get to the real sites (example: my bookmark would be to mysite/bookmarks/slashdot, and that page would have a link to here). Ick. Has anyone else had success with such a thing?
Trying to escape a period?
Nitpick: it definitely likes a lot of RAM, but it doesn't necessarily use it inefficiently. Car analogy: a semi truck is fuel efficient, even though it's gas mileage is a lot lower than a sedan's.
You must be new here.
No, really.
One of the time-honored Slashdot memes is that any mention of old technology turns into one-upsmanship that usually ends with someone mixing gluons in the early universe.
Can't you run your development X on a different tty? I'm ignorant about such things, so maybe that's not possible.
X apps are much faster on my Eee PC than they are on my Mac. I think the common point is that X on Mac isn't very good. That doesn't mean that the authors are bad - maybe there's just something about OS X that doesn't lend itself to X on top of it - but I'd hate to have to use it as my main X server.
Oh, I do: as long as it's not the government doing the compelling.
Just once it'd be fun to hear that the local mafia don's PC got infected because his wife wanted cute smileys, and that the local prosecutor is frustrated by the lack of direct evidence linking the don to what they found down by the river.
No. Plaintext isn't xor'ed with the key itself, but with a stream of data created using the key as one of the inputs. Similarly, I only have one GPG encryption key, but good luck reverse engineering it even given known plaintext.
Why would I accuse you of lying? Both hypotheses were bandied about during that timeframe, back before they had enough data to tell which was actually happening.
I believe a lot of people claiming this are confused by "nuclear winter" which was popularized around 1983.Nah. I was taught about cooling in the 70s, the idea being that smog particulates would raise the Earth's albedo, causing water to freeze into white ice, further raising the Earth's albedo, etc.
Again, I'm absolutely not arguing against global warming, just presenting anecdotal evidence to the people who claim for whatever reason that the opposite was never taught.
So, there are two possibilities here:
Either way, this seems like a pretty strong (if harsh) lesson for end users. If #1, use better software, like your geek friends have been telling you this for years. That doesn't have to mean installing Ubuntu; it could just mean upgrading from IE6 to Firefox (or IE7), or from Outlook Express to Thunderbird (or Gmail). If #2, then haven't you been told about 1,000 times not to do that? Now do you see why?
I truly feel bad for people who get nailed for this, in almost exactly the same way I feel bad for my kids when they touch the stove after I've told them it was hot.
I have never, not once, heard anyone describe the Times as conservative. :-)
Wired has always published its share of articles written with a smart-ass or tongue-in-cheek tone, and its audience both likes them and understands that they're not intended to be taken as gospel.They've also had plenty of non-mainstream material that was dead serious. I subscribe to Wired, and although I haven't read that article yet, I wouldn't be surprised if it was completely straightforward and factual. They're one of the last magazines I expect to pander to conventional wisdom (except for the "Ask Wired"-style columns where they tell people that it's illegal to rip CDs and other such idiocy), so I wouldn't be surprised if they had an article about the best drugs.
Incidentally, 2600 had a good article on nootropic drugs a couple issues ago, but I halfway expect it to be followed up some day with "Hacking 2600 Readers: Convincing Geeks to Give Themselves Parkinsons". Even if I weren't old and boring with kids and a mortgage, I wouldn't try stuff out of it.
OK, geekoid, this is a personal message.
I believe in Global Warming, and I think I've made that pretty clear. I didn't so much as hint otherwise. I was replying only to the people who don't believe that Global Cooling was ever presented as fact, as if they admit that it was and then was later dispelled, then Global Warming must also be untrue. Well, you and I both know that's not the case.
So why the personal attack? We're not even in disagreement here, and I certainly didn't do anything to call for that. You usually have interesting things to say, and it's beneath you to act this way.
Reference: My kindergarten, first, second, and third grade teachers. We were taught "global cooling" as fact in public elementary schools, and that if we didn't stop polluting the Earth and blocking all the sunlight then our grandchildren would freeze to death.
I'm dead serious about that and not exaggerating in the slightest. That is what the mainstream public school science curriculum was teaching in my part of the world. I know it's fashionable to deny that global cooling was ever taken seriously, but I assure you that a lot of kids from my generation were taught to be terrified of it.
You used Wikipedia as proof. Let's see what else it says:
"Piracy" has included copyright infringement for more than 400 years. Don't feel bad; I didn't know that either until recently.
I'll go you one further: N-BRAIN, fuck you. Before, you were just another company trying to sell a commoditized product to people who didn't know any better. Now that I know you're one of those assholes who wants to actively make my life harder by patenting the most obvious, time-tested tools of my trade, I now actively hate you and wish your company dead. That means that any time N-BRAIN comes up in conversation, I'll make sure everyone listening knows you're a bunch of patent trolls on your way down.
By the way, here's a Usenet references to incremental search in Emacs from 1986. Seriously, go screw yourself with your patent application.