I've seen this done to compare the speed of online stockbrokers (Schwab, E-trade, Ameritrade, etc. - more than 20 in all). Don't have a URL handy, though...
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No, if anything - the post I replied to was off-topic. As is yours....
Gore and party haven't "hacked" the Florida election process - they've simply invoked the existing election statutes, seeking the truth about how many votes were actually cast for both candidates. It's called the democratic process. When (more) accurate counts have been completed, then let the fair results stand, whichever candidate wins.
Dubya and party _are_ attempting to "crack" the process, what with obstructionist tactics by their (Bush campaign co-chair) Secretary of State, unfounded inflammatory allegations, irresponsible rhetoric, actions to disenfranchise minority voters, systematic fraud (adding voter registration numbers to over 4,700 absentee ballots in direct contravention of black-letter election law), and violent intimidation of local election officials (and that's just what's known so far, yet to be investigated and adjudicated).
However, I agree with you that the Furby hardware hack _is_ a hack.
Netscape gives you the options to: (1) Accept all cookies, (2) Accept only cookies that get sent back to their originating server, (3) Disable all cookies. In addition, you can select: Warn me before accepting any cookies. There is no distinction between temporary (session specific) and stored (persistent) cookies.
Disabling all cookies breaks many websites, while choosing Warn mode causes continual interruptions to accept/reject dozens of cookies, so most people just give up and accept all or most cookies. If you visit subscription websites, you must either enable cookies or type username/password pairs every time you want to access each site.
I want my browser to:
(A) Allow me to enable non-persistent cookies.
(B) Let me decide which sites to accept stored cookies from, and which cookies to keep.
(C) Remember my choices for accepted/rejected sources and destinations of cookies.
(D) Use pattern matching to "learn" about sites from which I want to reject all cookies categorically.
(E) Enable me to specify a blacklist of names from which cookies are automatically rejected if the name appears anywhere in the cookie-id.
I'd also like to be able to cull my cookies - deleting them and moving their cookie-ids and source/target URLs to point to/dev/null or 127.0.0.1. One can sort of take this last step now by entering the offending URLs in the Hosts file, but it's somewhat a pain to do it by hand.
wouldn't have parsed the acronymn DLL as "Down Load Link" instead of "Dynamic Load Library." (They really said this - see the preface, page iv or thereabouts).
This might lead one to suspect that much of this "independent" report was copied directly from documentation supplied by the FBI itself, i.e., the Appendices, which - conveniently enough - were redacted from the materials released.
I've seen stats indicating that EE/CS advanced degrees have actually been _declining_ recently. (Sorry, no links. Does anyone have pointers?)
Three points:
1) Some of the richest guys on the planet are college dropouts - Gates, Ellison, Allen, etc. This certainly must have had an impact not lost on todays students.
2) Academic CS curriculums are typically behind the curve - after all, the professors are teaching what they learned 5-10 years ago, and most of them don't keep up with new technology (with some few exceptions, where they're involved). If you're not at the top half-dozen schools, then it's likely you're not cutting-edge in computing.
3) A lot of people have chucked their academic tracks to start/join dot.com businesses for major bucks (actually paid or promised... someday). The very recent dot.com implosion might have dampened this, but still... a chance to make $50-100K per annum as a Java coder has to be a no-brainer to a young person faced with the alternative of barely surviving on a grad-school stipend. Only dedicated academics can resist the seductive lure of near-term middle-class status as opposed to anticipating years of academic serfdom. Most schools haven't dealt with this well, yet. One hopes they'll wake up and liberalize work-study programs (any reports from the front lines?).
About 25 years ago, I was offerred a similar choice - take an appointment as the Director of the Computer Center at a college, or continue in my commercial job at a local service bureau. It wasn't a tough decision - so I declined their kind offer. And I've never seriously regretted that decision (despite therefore foregoing participating in the Internet's slow motion formative struggles). Sure, I missed being involved in the academic environment, but I've also earned much more, especially in the last 10-15 years.
Thanks. I just wish you'd logged-in so others who browse at +1 or above might have seen your comment.
I deplore the occasional (hell, endemic) lack of careful expression here. Yeah, you've got all the 7337 HaX0r5 teeny-boppers and the occasional typo (everyone does), but some failings are too consistent - Taco _always_ writes "then" for "than" and other employees repeatedly make other glaring spelling and grammatical errors. Oh well.
Almost reminds me of IBM Systems Programmers who couldn't spell many English words correctly, construct a coherent sentence, or string two sentences together into anything remotely resembling a persuasive argument - but they _could_ code ASM/JCL/REXX perfectly. I miss Will Zachmann's Canopus forum on Compuserve.
The traditional fee model for software is _not_ leasing - it's licensing, plus maintenance. You buy a license to use a particular release, in perpetuity, i.e., in effect, you own it. Then, if you wish, you can also purchase maintenance rights, meaning you get upgrades, patches, etc. See IBM's licensing of OS/2 releases, plus their optional Software Choice subscription. If you buy a release, it runs forever. (Yes, IBM is changing this, but OS/2 doesn't have enough momentum to support costly ongoing maintenance.)
The difference is that Microsoft is proposing to sell cripple-ware that _stops_ working (at least to some extent initially, but they will tighten it over time) after a year.
However, I don't see how they can really enforce this - it will be too easy to backup everything, then restore modules and registry entries, and/or change system dates. The ways to get around this ill-conceived scheme will be common knowledge about a week after the first "leases" expire. But it will be a pain, and even the dumbest PHBs will eventually wake up to all the hassles Microsoft will be imposing. It will be like copy-protection schemes - it will get hacked, but users _will_ resent the aggravation. Then they'll vote with their feet. Aggressively screwing your customers isn't good for business - just ask Computer Associates if they learned this lesson over the recent years.
some time ago - or rather, they never converted to MS Office. Most lawyers use WordPerfect, and WordPerfect is _required_ by courts in many jurisdictions. For an example, see this (PDF file, page 2). The reasons for this are historical; WordPerfect had much better formatting controls than the early releases of MS Word. (When the IBM PC first came out, I recommended WordPerfect to a friend who worked as a legal secretary, and I'm sure she's _still_ using it today, all these many years later.)
Open source StarOffice should develop a WordPerfect file format default option and keyboard/formatting workalike regime, like QuattroPro had a Lotus123 workalike option (for awhile, until Lotus sued Borland about it, IIRC). Then StarOffice might become very attractive to law offices (cost savings, rock-stable OS, low-pain user transition). Lawyers and legal secretaries _really_ hate losing billable time to crashes. Convert law schools, then MBA schools... business will follow, somewhat later.
But the real reason the MS Office/.Net subscription model is likely to fizzle is that it's now an _explicit_ treadmill. Heretofore business could kid itself to upgrade for "new features" and naively think it would have the option to forego future upgrades. For example, Ernst & Young (70,000 users) initially elected not to upgrade to Windows98, prohibited it completely for a year. But Microsoft has just (rather arrogantly) removed all potential for this sort of self-deception. So much for their incremental seduction marketing model in the business community.
ICANN seems to be drifting, rudderless (from so many conflicting agendas, i.e., corporate arm-twisting, academic waffling, etc.) into the rocks on a lee shore. This ain't no way to run a world, folks. They need to either find some principles, and the backbone to make them stick, or... admit failure (declare victory?) and get out of the business.
What's needed? Well, a few things - or so, at least, it seems to me: (1) Strict rules about who can register a domain-name in a particular TLD space (e.g., a.com _must_ be a _legitimate_ registered business, an.edu _must_ be an established and _accredited_ educational institution, etc.); (2) each domain must be the _only_ domain owned by a specific business or other entity (no fair buying up everything that's similar, no registering multiple identities); (3) speculative domain-registration should be outlawed (establish a business legally, _then_ register the domain-name); (4) establish rules (with teeth!) to suppress trademark, brand-name, and typo-squatting abuses.
If ICANN doesn't get its act together in these areas, moves towards national legislation and interminable negotiations about international agreements (worse messes) will be inevitable. ICANN needs to be drafting proposed legislation in all venues, worldwide, to define the Internet naming conventions, procedures, rules, and remedies.
He wasn't talking about the power emitted by the satellites, but rather, by the Iridium phones themselves. Those _do_ have to be much more powerful than ordinary cellphones in order to reach satellites dozens of miles in space (anyone know the altitude of Iridium satellites?). And the Iridium phone's antenna is just centimeters from the user's skull. So that doctor's radiation concern does seem somewhat plausible.
That's not what he said at all. Read his ruling, here.
He reviewed the relevent statutes, noted the conflicting requirements of the certification deadline and the time needed for recounts, opined that the Legislature would not have provided for recounts but intended them impractical to conclude, both deferred to and cautioned the Secretary of State to apply appropriate discretion, and observed that the results may be challenged in Circuit Court within ten days of certification.
That last point is a veiled admonition to the Secretary of State to "do the right thing" or risk being handed her partisan head in Circuit Court (perhaps his) in short order.
Saw this yesterday, linked at "UserFriendly." It rocks!
Lots of small businesses and home LANs (2 - 25 PCs, with T1/Cable/xDSL) need something like this. GUI for configuration, no maintenance (read, Staff), good security. If I didn't already have a strong software firewall (Injoy), I'd order one today. I'm going to recommend this to a friend who needs a minimal broadband firewall server.
If you'll note the pictures, they're on a road _inside_ a fence next to what looks like a public road. It appears they're _not_ off the armory compound, but just invited a couple of girlfriends in for their weekend drill of exercising the howitzer. Note that the _guys_ involved aren't recognizable in any of the pictures (but they could still get in trouble if Swiss authorities care to look into this lark). Maybe weekend picnics with M109's, complete with girlfriends, are normal over there in Switzerland. They're not _firing_ the thing, after all (at least, not in the pictures), just running it a little (and crushing a dead HD). Just good clean fun on an otherwise dull Swiss weekend.
Snort! Your "feeling" is learning that the car _might_ back out in front of you, so you slow down. So far, it _has_ twice, thus reinforcing your newfound caution.
If this learning trait persists, you might survive.
You're right. But you overlooked the individual's upbringing [insert "nature vs nurture" argument here], historical context (see Martin Heidigger), experiences and opportunities, as well as random chance.
For example, if young Adolf hadn't been wounded on the losing side in a war that ended with great hardships imposed on his country, culminating in financial meltdown amid a worldwide depression in a climate of domestic despair and upheaval, well... he'd likely have lived a poor and uneventful life. Character matters, context also.
See "The Boys From Brazil" (Gregory Peck plays Dr. Mengele).
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I've seen this done to compare the speed of online stockbrokers (Schwab, E-trade, Ameritrade, etc. - more than 20 in all). Don't have a URL handy, though...
No, if anything - the post I replied to was off-topic. As is yours....
Gore and party haven't "hacked" the Florida election process - they've simply invoked the existing election statutes, seeking the truth about how many votes were actually cast for both candidates. It's called the democratic process. When (more) accurate counts have been completed, then let the fair results stand, whichever candidate wins.
Dubya and party _are_ attempting to "crack" the process, what with obstructionist tactics by their (Bush campaign co-chair) Secretary of State, unfounded inflammatory allegations, irresponsible rhetoric, actions to disenfranchise minority voters, systematic fraud (adding voter registration numbers to over 4,700 absentee ballots in direct contravention of black-letter election law), and violent intimidation of local election officials (and that's just what's known so far, yet to be investigated and adjudicated).
However, I agree with you that the Furby hardware hack _is_ a hack.
Netscape gives you the options to: (1) Accept all cookies, (2) Accept only cookies that get sent back to their originating server, (3) Disable all cookies. In addition, you can select: Warn me before accepting any cookies. There is no distinction between temporary (session specific) and stored (persistent) cookies.
/dev/null or 127.0.0.1. One can sort of take this last step now by entering the offending URLs in the Hosts file, but it's somewhat a pain to do it by hand.
Disabling all cookies breaks many websites, while choosing Warn mode causes continual interruptions to accept/reject dozens of cookies, so most people just give up and accept all or most cookies. If you visit subscription websites, you must either enable cookies or type username/password pairs every time you want to access each site.
I want my browser to:
(A) Allow me to enable non-persistent cookies.
(B) Let me decide which sites to accept stored cookies from, and which cookies to keep.
(C) Remember my choices for accepted/rejected sources and destinations of cookies.
(D) Use pattern matching to "learn" about sites from which I want to reject all cookies categorically.
(E) Enable me to specify a blacklist of names from which cookies are automatically rejected if the name appears anywhere in the cookie-id.
I'd also like to be able to cull my cookies - deleting them and moving their cookie-ids and source/target URLs to point to
wouldn't have parsed the acronymn DLL as "Down Load Link" instead of "Dynamic Load Library." (They really said this - see the preface, page iv or thereabouts).
This might lead one to suspect that much of this "independent" report was copied directly from documentation supplied by the FBI itself, i.e., the Appendices, which - conveniently enough - were redacted from the materials released.
I've seen stats indicating that EE/CS advanced degrees have actually been _declining_ recently. (Sorry, no links. Does anyone have pointers?)
Three points:
1) Some of the richest guys on the planet are college dropouts - Gates, Ellison, Allen, etc. This certainly must have had an impact not lost on todays students.
2) Academic CS curriculums are typically behind the curve - after all, the professors are teaching what they learned 5-10 years ago, and most of them don't keep up with new technology (with some few exceptions, where they're involved). If you're not at the top half-dozen schools, then it's likely you're not cutting-edge in computing.
3) A lot of people have chucked their academic tracks to start/join dot.com businesses for major bucks (actually paid or promised... someday). The very recent dot.com implosion might have dampened this, but still... a chance to make $50-100K per annum as a Java coder has to be a no-brainer to a young person faced with the alternative of barely surviving on a grad-school stipend. Only dedicated academics can resist the seductive lure of near-term middle-class status as opposed to anticipating years of academic serfdom. Most schools haven't dealt with this well, yet. One hopes they'll wake up and liberalize work-study programs (any reports from the front lines?).
About 25 years ago, I was offerred a similar choice - take an appointment as the Director of the Computer Center at a college, or continue in my commercial job at a local service bureau. It wasn't a tough decision - so I declined their kind offer. And I've never seriously regretted that decision (despite therefore foregoing participating in the Internet's slow motion formative struggles). Sure, I missed being involved in the academic environment, but I've also earned much more, especially in the last 10-15 years.
Thanks. I just wish you'd logged-in so others who browse at +1 or above might have seen your comment.
I deplore the occasional (hell, endemic) lack of careful expression here. Yeah, you've got all the 7337 HaX0r5 teeny-boppers and the occasional typo (everyone does), but some failings are too consistent - Taco _always_ writes "then" for "than" and other employees repeatedly make other glaring spelling and grammatical errors. Oh well.
Almost reminds me of IBM Systems Programmers who couldn't spell many English words correctly, construct a coherent sentence, or string two sentences together into anything remotely resembling a persuasive argument - but they _could_ code ASM/JCL/REXX perfectly. I miss Will Zachmann's Canopus forum on Compuserve.
The traditional fee model for software is _not_ leasing - it's licensing, plus maintenance. You buy a license to use a particular release, in perpetuity, i.e., in effect, you own it. Then, if you wish, you can also purchase maintenance rights, meaning you get upgrades, patches, etc. See IBM's licensing of OS/2 releases, plus their optional Software Choice subscription. If you buy a release, it runs forever. (Yes, IBM is changing this, but OS/2 doesn't have enough momentum to support costly ongoing maintenance.)
The difference is that Microsoft is proposing to sell cripple-ware that _stops_ working (at least to some extent initially, but they will tighten it over time) after a year.
However, I don't see how they can really enforce this - it will be too easy to backup everything, then restore modules and registry entries, and/or change system dates. The ways to get around this ill-conceived scheme will be common knowledge about a week after the first "leases" expire. But it will be a pain, and even the dumbest PHBs will eventually wake up to all the hassles Microsoft will be imposing. It will be like copy-protection schemes - it will get hacked, but users _will_ resent the aggravation. Then they'll vote with their feet. Aggressively screwing your customers isn't good for business - just ask Computer Associates if they learned this lesson over the recent years.
some time ago - or rather, they never converted to MS Office. Most lawyers use WordPerfect, and WordPerfect is _required_ by courts in many jurisdictions. For an example, see this (PDF file, page 2). The reasons for this are historical; WordPerfect had much better formatting controls than the early releases of MS Word. (When the IBM PC first came out, I recommended WordPerfect to a friend who worked as a legal secretary, and I'm sure she's _still_ using it today, all these many years later.)
Open source StarOffice should develop a WordPerfect file format default option and keyboard/formatting workalike regime, like QuattroPro had a Lotus123 workalike option (for awhile, until Lotus sued Borland about it, IIRC). Then StarOffice might become very attractive to law offices (cost savings, rock-stable OS, low-pain user transition). Lawyers and legal secretaries _really_ hate losing billable time to crashes. Convert law schools, then MBA schools... business will follow, somewhat later.
But the real reason the MS Office/.Net subscription model is likely to fizzle is that it's now an _explicit_ treadmill. Heretofore business could kid itself to upgrade for "new features" and naively think it would have the option to forego future upgrades. For example, Ernst & Young (70,000 users) initially elected not to upgrade to Windows98, prohibited it completely for a year. But Microsoft has just (rather arrogantly) removed all potential for this sort of self-deception. So much for their incremental seduction marketing model in the business community.
Yeah, and it's a shame LA didn't _prosecute_ the crooked cops, but just let them retire to Idaho.
A cop who lies in court should lose his pension. A cop who falsifies evidence should go to prison.
Yahoo had a role, earlier. Now? It's just old news. I wouldn't pay a dime to access Yahoo.
WTF? Clicking on the linked page finds:
Exception in article: ns9999184 : org.xml.sax.SAXException: FWK005 parse may not be called while parsing.
I'm using Netscape 4.61 (OS/2). Maybe I'll reboot into Linux Mandrake 7.0 and try it using Netscape 4.73 (IIRC).
Yes, but if AMD releases SMP-capable Thunderbirds/Hammers and chipsets soon, they'll take a chunk of the Workstation market.
ICANN seems to be drifting, rudderless (from so many conflicting agendas, i.e., corporate arm-twisting, academic waffling, etc.) into the rocks on a lee shore. This ain't no way to run a world, folks. They need to either find some principles, and the backbone to make them stick, or... admit failure (declare victory?) and get out of the business.
.com _must_ be a _legitimate_ registered business, an .edu _must_ be an established and _accredited_ educational institution, etc.); (2) each domain must be the _only_ domain owned by a specific business or other entity (no fair buying up everything that's similar, no registering multiple identities); (3) speculative domain-registration should be outlawed (establish a business legally, _then_ register the domain-name); (4) establish rules (with teeth!) to suppress trademark, brand-name, and typo-squatting abuses.
What's needed? Well, a few things - or so, at least, it seems to me: (1) Strict rules about who can register a domain-name in a particular TLD space (e.g., a
If ICANN doesn't get its act together in these areas, moves towards national legislation and interminable negotiations about international agreements (worse messes) will be inevitable. ICANN needs to be drafting proposed legislation in all venues, worldwide, to define the Internet naming conventions, procedures, rules, and remedies.
"The Free Software movement needs to remove itself from the 'public' internet so that our rights can be forever gaurded."
Why build a big public VPN using IPsec?
And don't forget the maxim: "An honest politician is one that _stays_ bought."
But judges are usually fairly straight-up characters - does Judge Sidney Harris have an email address? I'd like to congratulate him.
Rambus sucks, and richly deserves all the truckloads of shit they're going to have to eat someday....
He wasn't talking about the power emitted by the satellites, but rather, by the Iridium phones themselves. Those _do_ have to be much more powerful than ordinary cellphones in order to reach satellites dozens of miles in space (anyone know the altitude of Iridium satellites?). And the Iridium phone's antenna is just centimeters from the user's skull. So that doctor's radiation concern does seem somewhat plausible.
That's not what he said at all. Read his ruling, here.
He reviewed the relevent statutes, noted the conflicting requirements of the certification deadline and the time needed for recounts, opined that the Legislature would not have provided for recounts but intended them impractical to conclude, both deferred to and cautioned the Secretary of State to apply appropriate discretion, and observed that the results may be challenged in Circuit Court within ten days of certification.
That last point is a veiled admonition to the Secretary of State to "do the right thing" or risk being handed her partisan head in Circuit Court (perhaps his) in short order.
Saw this yesterday, linked at "UserFriendly." It rocks!
Lots of small businesses and home LANs (2 - 25 PCs, with T1/Cable/xDSL) need something like this. GUI for configuration, no maintenance (read, Staff), good security. If I didn't already have a strong software firewall (Injoy), I'd order one today. I'm going to recommend this to a friend who needs a minimal broadband firewall server.
You should:
(a) Seek professional mental-health treatment
(b) Set up a [*uniquely* British] humor website
(c) Both.
Upon some consideration, I'd suggest option (c).
If you'll note the pictures, they're on a road _inside_ a fence next to what looks like a public road. It appears they're _not_ off the armory compound, but just invited a couple of girlfriends in for their weekend drill of exercising the howitzer. Note that the _guys_ involved aren't recognizable in any of the pictures (but they could still get in trouble if Swiss authorities care to look into this lark). Maybe weekend picnics with M109's, complete with girlfriends, are normal over there in Switzerland. They're not _firing_ the thing, after all (at least, not in the pictures), just running it a little (and crushing a dead HD). Just good clean fun on an otherwise dull Swiss weekend.
Snort! Your "feeling" is learning that the car _might_ back out in front of you, so you slow down. So far, it _has_ twice, thus reinforcing your newfound caution.
If this learning trait persists, you might survive.
I ordered my dead Athlon chip about a year ago. But I never thought to drill a hole in it to memorialize several hundred dollars up in smoke.
You're right. But you overlooked the individual's upbringing [insert "nature vs nurture" argument here], historical context (see Martin Heidigger), experiences and opportunities, as well as random chance.
For example, if young Adolf hadn't been wounded on the losing side in a war that ended with great hardships imposed on his country, culminating in financial meltdown amid a worldwide depression in a climate of domestic despair and upheaval, well... he'd likely have lived a poor and uneventful life. Character matters, context also.
See "The Boys From Brazil" (Gregory Peck plays Dr. Mengele).
"Ad Astra Per Aspera" means "To Stars, Aspiration" or, less literally (and more literately) "The Stars My Destination."
There's nothing about roads, rough or otherwise, in the latin.