HorseHockey. Back then a MAJOR threat to liberty was the large corporations, like the British East Indies (India?) Company, which in India at least had private armies and acted much in the role of a local government. Companies back then, especially corporations, had even more power than they have now, including private military organizations with power of arrest and imprisonment. Read some of the early Richard Sharpe novels, or Kipling, for descriptions of British corporate armies in India.
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My library catalog claims that it was published as Starship:
AUTHOR Aldiss, Brian Wilson, 1925-
TITLE Non-stop / by Brian Wilson.
EDITION [Book Club ed.]
PUBLISHER New York, N.Y. : Carrol & Graf, 1989.
DESCRIPTION 182 p. ; 22 cm.
NOTES "Previously published in the United States as Starship."
OTHER AUTHOR Aldiss, Brian Wilson, 1925- Starship.
If you hate animated gifs in banner ads as much as I do, then I doubt you'll ever want your programs to run ads.
Opera since v.4 has had the option to disable animation in GIFs. I have it turned off. The animations play once and stop, it's wonderful!
Opera also has selective acceptance and blocking of cookies by server or domain built right in - no need to maintain a junkbuster block list outside Opera.
Opera also masquerades as IE4 or 5 or Mozilla 3 or 4.73 as well as identifying itself as Opera, so you can usually beat the wierd-site display "bugs" that are really lousy, non-standard implementations of HTML.
I use it and like it... paid for it back while it was still v3 and while I was a student.
So which is a better implementation for development of portable perl code (stuff that will run on Win32 and Linux boxen and *BSD boxen), indigo or activestate? If you have to develop on a Winbox, which I do for now...
Also, which has a smaller footprint for something I can haul around and dump on client machines for network management?
>> In some other countries, such as Germany or the USA,
Doesn't the German constitution prohibit the govt. from logging all phone calls as a result of Nazi use of phone-call logs to crush some of the Resistance movements?
I can't understand why the US citizenry doesn't rise up in arms and disallows the retention of phone logs by government-licensed teleopolies....
Using the.US domain requires your domain be whatever.city.st.us (e.g. geoapps.tucson.az.us), which is wa-a-a-y too long even if it is free. Our local highschool band chose to pay for sabinoband.com (should have been.org) rather than use the free domain sabinoband.tucson.az.us just because people "are used to.com".
One thing I haven't seen in all the vilification of Symantec for this is any indication of whether or not their other products, like NAV & pcAnywhere, also return your WinInfo without your permission or knowledge. Does anyone have the ability to test this? I can't...
Seems to me what is needed to make this (Robust 404s) work is a database whereby all the URLs that refer to your pages go first, to be redirected to your page. When you change a page, you notify the database and off-site redirections follow the moved page. If you're careful on your own site, you never kill off a URL but instead have it refer forward.... doesn't work, of course, if your main URL moves but. Of course, this may be what the original article talks about, but it's either 404 or/.ed so I can't read it.
Yeah, I read the local fishwrapper. I can skim it while eating brekker or on the can. Also read the local alternative daily. Both have websites with the same content, but for random access and speed of reading the papers have it all over sitting at a desk reading a phosphorescent version.
I think IBM makes one... it's called the TrackPoint keyboard. It's a little pricey - $165. http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/Sale sNav?partnum=01K1260&cntry=840&lang=en_U S
Once you start adding a few tapes, DDS-2 is cheaper than Travan. The break-even is somewhere around 10 tapes. Plus the last time I looked you couldn't clean the Travan drives, while the DDS-2 can be cleaned with a cleaning cartridge.
Current prices from CDW Sony SDT-7200/BM DDS-2 drive $440 10 DDS-2 tapes $9-10 ea $100 total $540
Seagate TR-4 Travan drive $240 10 TR-4 tapes $31-32 ea $320 total $560
I'll use something similar, but add 2 or 3 characters related to the site. E.G. if I'm working at IBM I'll add HAL at the beginning or end of the phrase. I've used the first letters of a number of things, like the mountain ranges around my home town (not where I live now), or the major streets N to S, or...
Did any of you go over and look at the thread that triggered this? It's about 10 messages, the first of which was posted by "heinlein" (his real name) describing his experiences setting up sendmail's smarthost. It's just the subject line for a message. Sheesh...
The Tucson city council just proposed a 5% end-use tax, to be paid by those who order _ANYTHING_ by mail-order, on-line, or from any other ex-Tucson source. They're doing this "to level the playing field" so that Tucson businesses don't have the disadvantage of having to collect the local 7% (5% state, 2% city) sales tax. Can't find any on-line references to it yet; the local newspapers don't put the local news online, just the fluff.
If I can find a DSL-enabled office site outside the city, I think it's time to move....
When I first saw this I thought it might be a Tempest in a T-pot, but it actually has some potential.
I can see the cops grabbing onto this one and developing a car-stopper -- imagine if they'd had one of these to "shoot down" OJ Simpson during the white Bronco chase.
A good side effect of this would be an end to the wacko-driver videos shot from helicopters.
Do you think this might be the end of the flying cop-ter that intrudes upon us from above?
>> >> I equate the freedom to program with the freedom of speech; IMO software patents are violating that freedom.
>> What if a sculptor said he equated freedom to assemble physical objects with freedom of expression? Would you accept that as an argument against patenting machines?
Wny not? Check out this URL: http://www.freenation.org/fnf/a/f31l1.html
The first few paragraphs:
----------------------------------------------- A Dispute Among Libertarians
The status of intellectual property rights (copyrights, patents, and the like) is an issue that has long divided libertarians. Such libertarian luminaries as Herbert Spencer, Lysander Spooner, and Ayn Rand have been strong supporters of intellectual property rights. Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, was ambivalent on the issue, while radical libertarians like Benjamin Tucker in the last century and Tom Palmer in the present one have rejected intellectual property rights altogether.
When libertarians of the first sort come across a purported intellectual property right, they see one more instance of an individual's rightful claim to the product of his labor. When libertarians of the second sort come across a purported intellectual property right, they see one more instance of undeserved monopoly privilege granted by government.
I used to be in the first group. Now I am in the second. I'd like to explain why I think intellectual property rights are unjustified, and how the legitimate ends currently sought through the expedient of intellectual property rights might be secured by other, voluntary means. -----------------------------------------------
Makes a VERY strong case for abolishing all patents, copyrights, and the like....
If you do, you'd better pray that the Canadian govt doesn't fall prey to the same anti-privacy, anti-liberty sentiment that has infected the US govt. Prayer is all you'll have because you can't protect your rights yourself - Canada has someo f the most restrictive gun-laws on the books.
Agreed. If all the win-users I have to support had 1 crash/day each, I'd never hear the end of it. Most go days between lockups; the lucky ones longer. Of course, most of them shut down their machines every night, too.
I had DOS users who went months without rebooting. Unfortunately none of the DOS apps we relied on will make the turn to 4-digit years or I'd still have them there.
At http://www.hartscientific.com/official_y2k.htm. Early in the page is the following snippet:
>> None of our products except the readout thermometers and software described in the next paragraph use a date and therefore do not have any Year 2000 compliance issues.
Parsing this I get: "None of our products... does not have any Year 2000 compliance issues."
I wonder if their lawyers can read or write English?
Slashdot Mirror
>> known _communist_
Try Libertarian. Check esr's home page before posting ID-ten-T stuff like this.
HorseHockey. Back then a MAJOR threat to liberty was the large corporations, like the British East Indies (India?) Company, which in India at least had private armies and acted much in the role of a local government. Companies back then, especially corporations, had even more power than they have now, including private military organizations with power of arrest and imprisonment. Read some of the early Richard Sharpe novels, or Kipling, for descriptions of British corporate armies in India.
My library catalog claims that it was published as Starship:
AUTHOR Aldiss, Brian Wilson, 1925-
TITLE Non-stop / by Brian Wilson.
EDITION [Book Club ed.]
PUBLISHER New York, N.Y. : Carrol & Graf, 1989.
DESCRIPTION 182 p. ; 22 cm.
NOTES "Previously published in the United States as Starship."
OTHER AUTHOR Aldiss, Brian Wilson, 1925- Starship.
Opera since v.4 has had the option to disable animation in GIFs. I have it turned off. The animations play once and stop, it's wonderful!
Opera also has selective acceptance and blocking of cookies by server or domain built right in - no need to maintain a junkbuster block list outside Opera.
Opera also masquerades as IE4 or 5 or Mozilla 3 or 4.73 as well as identifying itself as Opera, so you can usually beat the wierd-site display "bugs" that are really lousy, non-standard implementations of HTML.
I use it and like it ... paid for it back while it was still v3 and while I was a student.
So which is a better implementation for development of portable perl code (stuff that will run on Win32 and Linux boxen and *BSD boxen), indigo or activestate? If you have to develop on a Winbox, which I do for now ...
Also, which has a smaller footprint for something I can haul around and dump on client machines for network management?
Nice post ...
...
>> In some other countries, such as Germany or the USA,
Doesn't the German constitution prohibit the govt. from logging all phone calls as a result of Nazi use of phone-call logs to crush some of the Resistance movements?
I can't understand why the US citizenry doesn't rise up in arms and disallows the retention of phone logs by government-licensed teleopolies....
In freedom from all this
Angus
I beg to differ. The latest version can support IMAP. And David Harris is in the final throes of adding IMAP support to his mail server, Mercury/32.
From http://www.pmail.com/overviews/o vw_ winpmail.htm:
Pegasus Mail.... can send and receive Internet mail on its own using standard protocols (SMTP, IMAP and POP3). ...
Yeah, I caught that too. Bookpool has it for $5 less than ThinkGeek. But maybe that's because they're not paying Hemos a commission ;-)
Using the .US domain requires your domain be whatever.city.st.us (e.g. geoapps.tucson.az.us), which is wa-a-a-y too long even if it is free. Our local highschool band chose to pay for sabinoband.com (should have been .org) rather than use the free domain sabinoband.tucson.az.us just because people "are used to .com".
One thing I haven't seen in all the vilification of Symantec for this is any indication of whether or not their other products, like NAV & pcAnywhere, also return your WinInfo without your permission or knowledge. Does anyone have the ability to test this? I can't ...
Seems to me what is needed to make this (Robust 404s) work is a database whereby all the URLs that refer to your pages go first, to be redirected to your page. When you change a page, you notify the database and off-site redirections follow the moved page. If you're careful on your own site, you never kill off a URL but instead have it refer forward .... doesn't work, of course, if your main URL moves but. Of course, this may be what the original article talks about, but it's either 404 or /.ed so I can't read it.
'Tain't answering right now. What good is a DNS service if something like slashdotting it overwhelms it?
Yeah, I read the local fishwrapper. I can skim it while eating brekker or on the can. Also read the local alternative daily. Both have websites with the same content, but for random access and speed of reading the papers have it all over sitting at a desk reading a phosphorescent version.
Give O'Reilly credit - they have put the out-of-print edition of _Learning Perl_ online at http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/
I think IBM makes one ... it's called the TrackPoint keyboard. It's a little pricey - $165. http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/Sale sNav?partnum=01K1260&cntry=840&lang=en_U S
Once you start adding a few tapes, DDS-2 is cheaper than Travan. The break-even is somewhere around 10 tapes. Plus the last time I looked you couldn't clean the Travan drives, while the DDS-2 can be cleaned with a cleaning cartridge.
Current prices from CDW
Sony SDT-7200/BM DDS-2 drive $440
10 DDS-2 tapes $9-10 ea $100 total $540
Seagate TR-4 Travan drive $240
10 TR-4 tapes $31-32 ea $320 total $560
I'll use something similar, but add 2 or 3 characters related to the site. E.G. if I'm working at IBM I'll add HAL at the beginning or end of the phrase. I've used the first letters of a number of things, like the mountain ranges around my home town (not where I live now), or the major streets N to S, or ...
Did any of you go over and look at the thread that triggered this? It's about 10 messages, the first of which was posted by "heinlein" (his real name) describing his experiences setting up sendmail's smarthost. It's just the subject line for a message. Sheesh ...
The Tucson city council just proposed a 5% end-use tax, to be paid by those who order _ANYTHING_ by mail-order, on-line, or from any other ex-Tucson source. They're doing this "to level the playing field" so that Tucson businesses don't have the disadvantage of having to collect the local 7% (5% state, 2% city) sales tax. Can't find any on-line references to it yet; the local newspapers don't put the local news online, just the fluff.
....
If I can find a DSL-enabled office site outside the city, I think it's time to move
When I first saw this I thought it might be a Tempest in a T-pot, but it actually has some potential.
I can see the cops grabbing onto this one and developing a car-stopper -- imagine if they'd had one of these to "shoot down" OJ Simpson during the white Bronco chase.
A good side effect of this would be an end to the wacko-driver videos shot from helicopters.
Do you think this might be the end of the flying cop-ter that intrudes upon us from above?
>> >> I equate the freedom to program with the freedom of speech; IMO software patents are violating that freedom.
....
>> What if a sculptor said he equated freedom to assemble physical objects with freedom of expression? Would you accept that as an argument against patenting machines?
Wny not? Check out this URL:
http://www.freenation.org/fnf/a/f31l1.html
The first few paragraphs:
-----------------------------------------------
A Dispute Among Libertarians
The status of intellectual property rights (copyrights, patents, and the like) is an issue that has long divided libertarians. Such libertarian luminaries as Herbert Spencer, Lysander Spooner, and Ayn Rand have been strong supporters of intellectual property rights. Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, was ambivalent on the issue, while radical libertarians like Benjamin Tucker in the last century and Tom Palmer in the present one have rejected intellectual property rights altogether.
When libertarians of the first sort come across a purported intellectual property right, they see one more instance of an individual's rightful claim to the product of his labor. When libertarians of the second sort come across a purported intellectual property right, they see one more instance of undeserved monopoly privilege granted by government.
I used to be in the first group. Now I am in the second. I'd like to explain why I think intellectual property rights are unjustified, and how the legitimate ends currently sought through the expedient of intellectual property rights might be secured by other, voluntary means.
-----------------------------------------------
Makes a VERY strong case for abolishing all patents, copyrights, and the like
TANSTAAFL.
If you do, you'd better pray that the Canadian govt doesn't fall prey to the same anti-privacy, anti-liberty sentiment that has infected the US govt. Prayer is all you'll have because you can't protect your rights yourself - Canada has someo f the most restrictive gun-laws on the books.
me, too.
Agreed. If all the win-users I have to support had 1 crash/day each, I'd never hear the end of it. Most go days between lockups; the lucky ones longer. Of course, most of them shut down their machines every night, too.
I had DOS users who went months without rebooting. Unfortunately none of the DOS apps we relied on will make the turn to 4-digit years or I'd still have them there.
At http://www.hartscientific.com/official_y2k.htm. Early in the page is the following snippet:
... does not have any Year 2000 compliance issues."
>> None of our products except the readout thermometers and software described in the next paragraph use a date and therefore do not have any Year 2000 compliance issues.
Parsing this I get: "None of our products
I wonder if their lawyers can read or write English?