If the US Navy wants to look at NT source code, I'm sure they can. They can't put as many eyealls on it as there are on the Linux kernel sources, however. --
As I expected, using <foo> does work. It's just that if you post from the preview page, the text box no longer says <foo>, it says , and that gets stripped because it's not an allowed html tag. --
In html mode, I can put (ampersand)lt; in the article, press preview, and see the less-than symbol. Then, when I press post, I get different results. I was hit by this behaviour a long time ago but I assumed it had been fixed.
Aaaah. I see. When you go to the preview, the text in the input box is changed (the html entity is changed into the symbol it stands for) and if you submit from the preview page rather than backing up and then submitting, this is what happens. Let's see what happens when I submit directly. <test> --
Gah, the hoary ol' slippery slope argument. Think about it for a second--using that, you can get to whatever kind of hell you want from the most innocuous starting point. Works to convince the ignorant and unsophisticated, I suppose. Ya need better than that to bamboozle the/. crowd. Hoser.
Hell, with that argument you might even convince the ignorant and unsophisticated that key escrow schemes, face recognition, voice recognition and store credit cards are going to take away their privacy! You're right. You need better than that to bamboozle the/. crowd. --
I've been thinking along these lines lately. I discovered mh and instantly loved the philosophy behind it. For those not in the know, mh isn't a single program. You're never "in" mh, you're just "in" bash (or whatever you prefer). When you want to read the next mail, you issue a command, "next". When you want to see a list of messages, you issue the "scan" command. I'd like to take this kind of thinking a little further. For a long time, the move has been toward making everything graphical, because it's supposedly simpler, easier, and more friendly. However, think about how you talk to the ultimate data processing machines, those that we want our computers to ultimitely be able to mimic: people. Do you use any icons? Click anything? No, you just talk to them. When we want to start talking to our computers, all the work that's been put into GUIs is doesn't help one bit. The command line is the starting point for that work and I think there's a lot to gain by working on a smarter commandline right now. That's not to say that GUIs will or should die out. They have their place. It's just that that place isn't "everywhere". --
Ed Cummings (Bernie S.) has been in prison since the spring of 1995 and is the first person to have been imprisoned without bail for something as harmless as possession of a modified Radio Shack tone dialer. He is also being charged with possession of a computer (no joke) and software which could be used to modify a cellular phone. This case is significant in that if successful in prosecuting him, the government would be able to prosecute almost any one of us because the tones and the information in his possession are very easy to get ahold of.
This is 2600's interpretation. Text from the indictment:
VIOLATIONS: 18 U.S.C. S1029(a)(5) (Possession of modified telecommunication instruments - 2 counts) 18 U.S.C. S1029(a)(6) (Possession of hardware and software used for altering telecommunications instruments - 1 count)
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COUNT THREE
THE GRAND JURY CHARGES THAT:
On or about March 15, 1995, at Villanova, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, defendant EDWARD E. CUMMINGS, knowingly and with intent to defraud did possess and have custody and control of hardware and software, that is an IBM "Think Pad" laptop computer and computer disks, used for altering and modifying telecommunications instruments to obtain unauthorized access to telecommunications service. In violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1029(a)(6).
What software that was isn't clear:
The government had found data on a commercial diskette in Bernie S.'s possession which they say was related to cellular fraud in California. While Bernie says he has no idea what it is they're referring to, the odds of a jury being able to understand how someone could have a diskette and not be held accountable for every bit of data on it seemed uncomfortably slim.
It's the paper ribbon. You can tear it off and staple it to the relevant documents. I found these things useless at first (plus, their user interface doesn't work like I expected) but they're actually much more handy than any calculator program I've seen. With a program, you need to start or switch to the program and maybe put the keyboard focus in the right place before you get to do your calculations and when you're done, you need to switch back to whatever you were doing before. I haven't seen a calculator program that shows you a log of your recent entries like you'd see on the ribbon either. --
Actually, if memory serves, and if what I read was true, all Americans who own a computer, a modem, and a communication program are guilty of the same crime they put Bernie S away for. What was it again? --
I'm very happy, however, to see the standardisation going on with dates. ISO-8601 is catching on in a big way. Finally, we won't have to wonder if 01(random separator)02 is February 1 or January 2. "1999-09-21 16:44:05.24 +00:00" and "09-21 16:45" are examples of ISO-8601 dates. (Most) Europeans give up their day-precedes-month convention, Americans give up the 12 hour clock, and everybody gains something much bigger.
PS. Can someone answer definitively the question "Is noon 12 pm or 12 am?"? I once witnessed a long argument about that and I don't remember there having been a result. --
I know Americans are just learning about the metric system so I'll try to inform rather than deride. You don't say kph (and certainly not in all caps). You say km/h. It would be nice if Americans could do things like everybody else this once. --
Try not to do that. Nicolas MONNET made a point about roleplaying. Personally, I think that point is pretty much negated by the man going through with the meeting -- or do I? I'm not sure. I can imagine him being into roleplaying sick shit like that and then going to the meeting, seeing a woman and not a 13 year old girl and thinking "oh what a relief, I thought maybe she really was 13, boy would that have been embarrassing!". I don't know how highly I'd rate that possibility if I were on the jury, though.
Anyway, obviously Nicolas and I are morons in your view and not only that, we're sick morons because we're "siding with" the accused. Fuck, I don't know why we even go on living. --
You know, I'm pretty sure there are decent, non-paedophilic homosexuals out there and that they are just as good at being scout leaders to unprejudiced children with unprejudiced parents as heterosexuals are. --
this is vapourware of sorts. He hasn't been convicted. Innocent until proven guilty, right? You've said it a thousand times, now live by it.
That doesn't stop anyone from discussing what he is or deserves if he's found guilty, we should just be careful to qualify our statements with "if he's guilty" or speak in general terms. Most people seem to be doing this, actually. --
Looking forward to it. However, could you please tell us right at the start how to pronounce the name? (And no, "like char in C" isn't a satisfactory answer:-) --
You seem to know what you're talking about so I'm worried I may be missing something, but I don't see why Motorola needs to feel magnanimous to contribute optimisations for their chips to gcc. Wouldn't they just need good business sense? Anything that increases the value of their processors must be a good thing for them. Or is vectorizing loops so hard a problem that they'd spend more than they'd gain? --
White House spokeswoman Nanda Chitre said the move, which was announced Thursday, affected software and hardware and was intended to benefit the economy, preserve privacy, serve the national security interest and protect law enforcement capabilities.
"Serving the national security interest" and "protecting law enforcement capabilities" were apparently not the reasons for restricting export in the first place. We have always been at war with Eurasia. --
Microsoft Paper Airplane Designer. It was supposed to allow you to fold a virtual sheet of paper every which way to come up with new paper airplane designs. Then you could print a sheet with fold lines and presumably logos on the wings or whatever. I never saw the program in action, and I don't think it was very successful. However, I did think it was a cool, innovative, idea. --
I hate many people. I hate hypocrites, liars, slanderers. I hate crooked politicians, crooked cops, crooked union reps, and crooks in general. Don't you hate anyone? I think it's perfectly OK to hate people based on their actions. I don't think that's silly at all.
You obviously think I hate some people based not on what they have done, but on their race, sex, sexuality, or religion. I can understand why you'd think that. After all, I did praise Charlton Heston's speech to the Free Congress Foundation "in which he made inflammatory remarks regarding women, gays and lesbians, and African Americans; while at the same time trivializing the Holocaust." (according to this Violent Policy Center's article). In praising the speech, I am in very bad company (David Duke, Stormfront, etc.) so I should have expected their stink to rub off on me. However, if you think for a moment, you'll see that agreeing with someone on one point doesn't necessarily make you agree with them on another point unless the latter follows from the former. So the question is, does "I hate niggers" follow from "I like the Heston speech"?
No. It doesn't. Most people who are racist will probably like the speech, but being a racist isn't the only possible reason for liking the speech. Similarly, x=0 => sin(x)=0 but sin(x)=0 !=> x=0.
If you're interested in this subject, read the speech and the condemnations. You might want to also read the thread that the poster I'm replying to is talking about. --
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If the US Navy wants to look at NT source code, I'm sure they can. They can't put as many eyealls on it as there are on the Linux kernel sources, however.
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As I expected, using <foo> does work. It's just that if you post from the preview page, the text box no longer says <foo>, it says , and that gets stripped because it's not an allowed html tag.
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Aaaah. I see. When you go to the preview, the text in the input box is changed (the html entity is changed into the symbol it stands for) and if you submit from the preview page rather than backing up and then submitting, this is what happens. Let's see what happens when I submit directly. <test>
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I bet a phrasebook on www.cabdriverspeak.com would get lots of hits.
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I've been thinking along these lines lately. I discovered mh and instantly loved the philosophy behind it. For those not in the know, mh isn't a single program. You're never "in" mh, you're just "in" bash (or whatever you prefer). When you want to read the next mail, you issue a command, "next". When you want to see a list of messages, you issue the "scan" command. I'd like to take this kind of thinking a little further. For a long time, the move has been toward making everything graphical, because it's supposedly simpler, easier, and more friendly. However, think about how you talk to the ultimate data processing machines, those that we want our computers to ultimitely be able to mimic: people. Do you use any icons? Click anything? No, you just talk to them. When we want to start talking to our computers, all the work that's been put into GUIs is doesn't help one bit. The command line is the starting point for that work and I think there's a lot to gain by working on a smarter commandline right now. That's not to say that GUIs will or should die out. They have their place. It's just that that place isn't "everywhere".
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It's the paper ribbon. You can tear it off and staple it to the relevant documents. I found these things useless at first (plus, their user interface doesn't work like I expected) but they're actually much more handy than any calculator program I've seen. With a program, you need to start or switch to the program and maybe put the keyboard focus in the right place before you get to do your calculations and when you're done, you need to switch back to whatever you were doing before. I haven't seen a calculator program that shows you a log of your recent entries like you'd see on the ribbon either.
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Actually, if memory serves, and if what I read was true, all Americans who own a computer, a modem, and a communication program are guilty of the same crime they put Bernie S away for. What was it again?
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I'm very happy, however, to see the standardisation going on with dates. ISO-8601 is catching on in a big way. Finally, we won't have to wonder if 01(random separator)02 is February 1 or January 2. "1999-09-21 16:44:05.24 +00:00" and "09-21 16:45" are examples of ISO-8601 dates. (Most) Europeans give up their day-precedes-month convention, Americans give up the 12 hour clock, and everybody gains something much bigger.
PS. Can someone answer definitively the question "Is noon 12 pm or 12 am?"? I once witnessed a long argument about that and I don't remember there having been a result.
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I know Americans are just learning about the metric system so I'll try to inform rather than deride. You don't say kph (and certainly not in all caps). You say km/h. It would be nice if Americans could do things like everybody else this once.
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Sorry, bad taste, couldn't resist.
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Anyway, obviously Nicolas and I are morons in your view and not only that, we're sick morons because we're "siding with" the accused. Fuck, I don't know why we even go on living.
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You know, I'm pretty sure there are decent, non-paedophilic homosexuals out there and that they are just as good at being scout leaders to unprejudiced children with unprejudiced parents as heterosexuals are.
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That doesn't stop anyone from discussing what he is or deserves if he's found guilty, we should just be careful to qualify our statements with "if he's guilty" or speak in general terms. Most people seem to be doing this, actually.
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I saw it too. Stories have popped in and out of existence on slashdot before. Let's not assume the worst. Remember, Rob can't even spell beta :-)
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Looking forward to it. However, could you please tell us right at the start how to pronounce the name? (And no, "like char in C" isn't a satisfactory answer :-)
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www.perchance.com
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You seem to know what you're talking about so I'm worried I may be missing something, but I don't see why Motorola needs to feel magnanimous to contribute optimisations for their chips to gcc. Wouldn't they just need good business sense? Anything that increases the value of their processors must be a good thing for them. Or is vectorizing loops so hard a problem that they'd spend more than they'd gain?
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How the hell can you patent something like this?
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"Serving the national security interest" and "protecting law enforcement capabilities" were apparently not the reasons for restricting export in the first place. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
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Microsoft Paper Airplane Designer. It was supposed to allow you to fold a virtual sheet of paper every which way to come up with new paper airplane designs. Then you could print a sheet with fold lines and presumably logos on the wings or whatever. I never saw the program in action, and I don't think it was very successful. However, I did think it was a cool, innovative, idea.
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...if you assume they have a windows based installation program that they want the beta group to test. I don't know if that's the case, though.
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You obviously think I hate some people based not on what they have done, but on their race, sex, sexuality, or religion. I can understand why you'd think that. After all, I did praise Charlton Heston's speech to the Free Congress Foundation "in which he made inflammatory remarks regarding women, gays and lesbians, and African Americans; while at the same time trivializing the Holocaust." (according to this Violent Policy Center's article). In praising the speech, I am in very bad company (David Duke, Stormfront, etc.) so I should have expected their stink to rub off on me. However, if you think for a moment, you'll see that agreeing with someone on one point doesn't necessarily make you agree with them on another point unless the latter follows from the former. So the question is, does "I hate niggers" follow from "I like the Heston speech"?
No. It doesn't. Most people who are racist will probably like the speech, but being a racist isn't the only possible reason for liking the speech. Similarly, x=0 => sin(x)=0 but sin(x)=0 !=> x=0.
If you're interested in this subject, read the speech and the condemnations. You might want to also read the thread that the poster I'm replying to is talking about.
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