Both of those are decent solutions. Alternatively, Google could rework their algorithms to take this into account./. is a popular enough site for them to notice and to merit some action. Heck, I'm reasonably sure *someone* there has read this comment thread.
At least two weeks, not up to.
on
Space Lichens
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
"Up to two weeks?"
No, "At *least* two weeks". They were exposed for 15 days and were unchanged.
Lichen and spores are sure durable; I wouldn't be surprised if they could survive basically indefinitely in a cold vacuum.
Actually it says that it thermally decomposes into HF and PFIB, and that respirators are necessary for cleaning it up in the event of a fire. Sounds like the parent comment is correct; if it boils, it releases hydroflouric acid into the atmosphere, and you'd best be somewhere else.
This is a big problem. not. Just take the data and push it through a one-way hash (like the aforementioned password transformation) before encoding it on the card.
(a quote from the NYTimes article; with apologies to Meredith Wilson)
Oh, you got trouble, my friend.
Right here, I say trouble right here in Garden Grove
Why, sure, I'm a CounterStrike player
Certainly mighty proud to say,
I'm always mighty proud to say it
I consider the hours I spend with a mouse in my hand are golden
Help you cultivate danger sense and a cool head and a keen eye
Didja ever go an' try an' take an ambush-proof room
by yourself armed only with a Glock-17?
But just as I say it takes judgement, brains and maturity
to kill in a hostile setting
I say that any boob can take and pop a cap in some shlub
And I call that sloth,
the first big step on the road to the depths of degradation
I say first- boiling down the special K,
then mixing up a batch of meth
And the next thing you know your son is playin' for money in a "Kid R0ck" t-shirt
and listenin' to a some big out-o'-town jasper
Hear him tell about LAN parties
Not a wholesome boink party, no,
but an orgy where they sleep down right on the floor
Like to see some droopy goth chick sitting on your poor boy's ****?
Make your blood boil, well, I should say
Now, folks let me show you what I mean
You got one, two, three, four, five, fifty weapons in the game
Weapons that mark the difference between a gentleman and a corpse
With a capital 'C' -- and that rhymes with 'C' -- and that stands for CounterStrike.
Paying postage is a fact of life. Get over it, or sign up for automatic bill payment -- most of your creditors probably have this available. Call up the billing department and have them either automatically charge your credit card or deduct from your checking account.
Call me paranoid, but I'm not willing to have my bills paid "automatically". I prefer to have the chance to look at the bill and see what the company has goofed on this month before sending them anything. Before I send them the money, I'm in a position of power -- I have the money, and they don't. If they've done something wrong, the pressure of proof is on them to figure it out so they can get their money. If I have already payed them, there is much less incentive for them to resolve the issue in a timely fashion.
And this isn't just idle speculation. ALL of the first FIVE bills I got from AT&T had errors on them, always in AT&T's favor, ranging from the amusing to the ridiculous. My cable/phone company routinely "forgets" that we have a package deal, or fails to credit the account as promised for service problems (an all-too-frequent occurrance), and so on. I refuse to let these people have free access to my credit card or checking account.
See, those companies are charged the postage for the envelopes when they *buy* the envelopes, not when the envelopes are actually mailed. There is a flat charge the Post Office charges for each envelope, which includes the return postage.
The price per envelope is fairly cheap, but significant, which is why most utilities nowadays make you put your own stamp on envelopes - IMHO, a particularly annoying bit of cheapness on the part of these companies. I'm half-tempted to remove 33 cents (or whatever it is now) from each of my bills to cover my postage costs.
So dropping those Business Reply envelopes in the mail is just causing problems for your poor mail carrier, and is not costing the company anything extra.
Yes, I actually code, and I have to disagree that you need the newest, fastest, most bestest computer to surf the web, or even to have the coolest, most advanced features. The problem really is that Netscape, and Mozilla, and IE, are all written on code bases created in 1996 and 1997, and have enormous amounts of legacy code hidden within them. Also, they are enormous projects with multiple conflicting parts, and on top of that, they listen to their customers too much, leading to feature creep.
For contrast, I submit iCab, a German browser (unfortunately Mac-only at this point), which implements (correctly, I might add) the HTML 4.0 standards, supports all those fancy features you describe (barring javascript, which is coming, and CSS, which is a bit underimplemented right now), weighs in at a whopping 3 megs on disk, and absolutely flies.
How do they do it? Well, iCab is the work of a single programmer (Alexander Clauss), and as such, has not grown to the point yet where (as most of us have experienced) time spent in communication between the parts of the project exceeds actual coding time.
Also, their design aim is different. IE and NS both plan on making money by driving revenue back to their parent companies. This forces IE to hawk Micro$oft products, and NS to serve up AOL ads. In contrast, iCab will be asking a very reasonable ($30, I think) price for the software, completely eliminating the need to embed advertising in the application. In fact, there are filtering features in the browser to filter out annoying banner ads, based on size or originating URL - one of my favorite features.
If only we could convince them to either release the source or accept a co-author to port it to Linux...
Seems like making bugtraq into a distributed 'get your bugs here!' system a la Gnutella would be a very useful way to combat this sort of information filtering.
Once again people seem to think you can legislate information flow without instituting a totalitarian regime.
I had the much smaller vision of requesting a small (10c-$1) donation for reading my short stories, payable by PayPal or some other convenient method. Silly of me not to realize Stephen King was already on his way to doing this.
I see it as more of "Shareware Fiction" rather than some sort of donation paradigm, however.
I have a Palm VII, which has a notorious lack of cases available for it. So I made one, using plexiglass and leather. Basically I wanted a hard case with some padding inside, so I bevelled edges onto the plexiglass, epoxied it into a box with no top, and used felt to pad the insides. Then I covered the whole thing in black leather, and attached a triangular belt loop so I could hang the case at odd angles -- the Palm VII is a bit tall to fit with any comfort on my hip if it's lying straight up and down.
Cleverly, I haven't scanned in any pictures of it yet, but I can do that and update this comment...
TMH I have a Palm VII, which has a notorious lack of cases available for it. So I made one, using plexiglass and leather. Basically I wanted a hard case with some padding inside, so I bevelled edges onto the plexiglass, epoxied it into a box with no top, and used felt to pad the insides. Then I covered the whole thing in black leather, and attached a triangular belt loop so I could hang the case at odd angles -- the Palm VII is a bit tall to fit with any comfort on my hip if it's lying straight up and down.
Cleverly, I haven't scanned in any pictures of it yet, but I can do that and update this comment...
My dad, when faced with the problem of naming new servers, has a few rules:
Names must be short (Names should be easy to spell and remember
It's helpful to have some easy-to-remember theme.
For example, when he got a bunch of new Sun boxes, he named them for various Sun gods: Apollo, Ra, Utu, etc.
Personally, I name computers for their personalities. My Mac is strong and slow to anger -- hence, it is fangorn. My Linux box exists only to take notes -- hence, it is scribe.
Sterling and Gibson anyone?
on
Generations
·
· Score: 1
No, no; this is much more along the lines of Vernor Vinge's Singularity; that as humanity gets more and more connected, and the things they use to interact get smarter and faster, generations will begin to pass in minutes. A good example of his thoughts on this are the reminiscences of the people who lived closer to the Singularity in Marooned In Realtime - a *great* book, if you can find it.
Slashdot Mirror
Both of those are decent solutions. Alternatively, Google could rework their algorithms to take this into account. /. is a popular enough site for them to notice and to merit some action. Heck, I'm reasonably sure *someone* there has read this comment thread.
"Up to two weeks?"
No, "At *least* two weeks". They were exposed for 15 days and were unchanged.
Lichen and spores are sure durable; I wouldn't be surprised if they could survive basically indefinitely in a cold vacuum.
(RTFL?)
Actually it says that it thermally decomposes into HF and PFIB, and that respirators are necessary for cleaning it up in the event of a fire. Sounds like the parent comment is correct; if it boils, it releases hydroflouric acid into the atmosphere, and you'd best be somewhere else.
This is a big problem. not. Just take the data and push it through a one-way hash (like the aforementioned password transformation) before encoding it on the card.
TMH
just a reminder, the folks over at eff.org can always use your support. TMH
(a quote from the NYTimes article; with apologies to Meredith Wilson)
Oh, you got trouble, my friend.
Right here, I say trouble right here in Garden Grove
Why, sure, I'm a CounterStrike player
Certainly mighty proud to say,
I'm always mighty proud to say it
I consider the hours I spend with a mouse in my hand are golden
Help you cultivate danger sense and a cool head and a keen eye
Didja ever go an' try an' take an ambush-proof room
by yourself armed only with a Glock-17?
But just as I say it takes judgement, brains and maturity
to kill in a hostile setting
I say that any boob can take and pop a cap in some shlub
And I call that sloth,
the first big step on the road to the depths of degradation
I say first- boiling down the special K,
then mixing up a batch of meth
And the next thing you know your son is playin' for money in a "Kid R0ck" t-shirt
and listenin' to a some big out-o'-town jasper
Hear him tell about LAN parties
Not a wholesome boink party, no,
but an orgy where they sleep down right on the floor
Like to see some droopy goth chick sitting on your poor boy's ****?
Make your blood boil, well, I should say
Now, folks let me show you what I mean
You got one, two, three, four, five, fifty weapons in the game
Weapons that mark the difference between a gentleman and a corpse
With a capital 'C' -- and that rhymes with 'C' -- and that stands for CounterStrike.
Oh, we *really* got trouble.
Paying postage is a fact of life. Get over it, or sign up for automatic bill payment -- most of your creditors probably have this available. Call up the billing department and have them either automatically charge your credit card or deduct from your checking account.
Call me paranoid, but I'm not willing to have my bills paid "automatically". I prefer to have the chance to look at the bill and see what the company has goofed on this month before sending them anything. Before I send them the money, I'm in a position of power -- I have the money, and they don't. If they've done something wrong, the pressure of proof is on them to figure it out so they can get their money. If I have already payed them, there is much less incentive for them to resolve the issue in a timely fashion.
And this isn't just idle speculation. ALL of the first FIVE bills I got from AT&T had errors on them, always in AT&T's favor, ranging from the amusing to the ridiculous. My cable/phone company routinely "forgets" that we have a package deal, or fails to credit the account as promised for service problems (an all-too-frequent occurrance), and so on. I refuse to let these people have free access to my credit card or checking account.
See, those companies are charged the postage for the envelopes when they *buy* the envelopes, not when the envelopes are actually mailed. There is a flat charge the Post Office charges for each envelope, which includes the return postage.
The price per envelope is fairly cheap, but significant, which is why most utilities nowadays make you put your own stamp on envelopes - IMHO, a particularly annoying bit of cheapness on the part of these companies. I'm half-tempted to remove 33 cents (or whatever it is now) from each of my bills to cover my postage costs.
So dropping those Business Reply envelopes in the mail is just causing problems for your poor mail carrier, and is not costing the company anything extra.
For contrast, I submit iCab, a German browser (unfortunately Mac-only at this point), which implements (correctly, I might add) the HTML 4.0 standards, supports all those fancy features you describe (barring javascript, which is coming, and CSS, which is a bit underimplemented right now), weighs in at a whopping 3 megs on disk, and absolutely flies.
How do they do it? Well, iCab is the work of a single programmer (Alexander Clauss), and as such, has not grown to the point yet where (as most of us have experienced) time spent in communication between the parts of the project exceeds actual coding time.
Also, their design aim is different. IE and NS both plan on making money by driving revenue back to their parent companies. This forces IE to hawk Micro$oft products, and NS to serve up AOL ads. In contrast, iCab will be asking a very reasonable ($30, I think) price for the software, completely eliminating the need to embed advertising in the application. In fact, there are filtering features in the browser to filter out annoying banner ads, based on size or originating URL - one of my favorite features.
If only we could convince them to either release the source or accept a co-author to port it to Linux...
Seems like making bugtraq into a distributed 'get your bugs here!' system a la Gnutella would be a very useful way to combat this sort of information filtering.
Once again people seem to think you can legislate information flow without instituting a totalitarian regime.
TMH
my baby black, baby black, baby black, baby black, baby black, baby black, baby black, baby... baby black hole! Sorry just slipped out. TMH
Write a virus and crash the internet!
Download DOS scripts and monopolize your school's computing resources!
Alternatively, analyze existing viruses and scripts, and learn how to find security holes and how to write software that doesn't have them.
TMH
Damn. I should have copyrighted this earlier.
I had the much smaller vision of requesting a small (10c-$1) donation for reading my short stories, payable by PayPal or some other convenient method. Silly of me not to realize Stephen King was already on his way to doing this.
I see it as more of "Shareware Fiction" rather than some sort of donation paradigm, however.
TMH
for it. So I made one, using plexiglass and leather. Basically I
wanted a hard case with some padding inside, so I bevelled edges
onto the plexiglass, epoxied it into a box with no top, and used
felt to pad the insides. Then I covered the whole thing in black
leather, and attached a triangular belt loop so I could hang the
case at odd angles -- the Palm VII is a bit tall to fit with any
comfort on my hip if it's lying straight up and down.
Cleverly, I haven't scanned in any pictures of it yet, but I can
do that and update this comment...
TMH I have a Palm VII, which has a notorious lack of cases available
for it. So I made one, using plexiglass and leather. Basically I
wanted a hard case with some padding inside, so I bevelled edges
onto the plexiglass, epoxied it into a box with no top, and used
felt to pad the insides. Then I covered the whole thing in black
leather, and attached a triangular belt loop so I could hang the
case at odd angles -- the Palm VII is a bit tall to fit with any
comfort on my hip if it's lying straight up and down.
Cleverly, I haven't scanned in any pictures of it yet, but I can
do that and update this comment...
TMH
My dad, when faced with the problem of naming new servers, has a few rules:
For example, when he got a bunch of new Sun boxes, he named them for various Sun gods: Apollo, Ra, Utu, etc.
Personally, I name computers for their personalities. My Mac is strong and slow to anger -- hence, it is fangorn. My Linux box exists only to take notes -- hence, it is scribe.
No, no; this is much more along the lines of
Vernor Vinge's Singularity; that as humanity
gets more and more connected, and the things
they use to interact get smarter and faster,
generations will begin to pass in minutes. A
good example of his thoughts on this are the
reminiscences of the people who lived closer
to the Singularity in Marooned In Realtime -
a *great* book, if you can find it.
And I could be booting four -- just run MacOS under BeOS via SheepShaver...
I don't see why this is a big new idea.