> Watching his face during "I AM your father" was priceless. I can only imagine that I looked the same way seeing them the first time at his age (9).
I guess your son managed to skip the 'Toy Story' saga, huh? Because all kids nowadays know that Darth Vader looks and sounds like Zerg and Zerg clearly states 'I AM your father', at which point Buzz falls into the shaft screaming 'Noooooooo!!!!!'
Nice long tirade you have there. The only problem is you are wrong. There is a fairly good chance that at least some of the web pages viewing those webmails are recoverable in swap space, file slack space, and unallocated space.
> 'The decision (German) does not mean that T-Online is now obliged to delete all their IP-logs, the customers first need to complain.
Yes it does. Maybe not yet, but soon as German ISPs get these complaints by the hundreds daily the only way to handle the requests will be to just change their log retention policy and delete them all after n days.
You should draft an official document stating that you have consulted with experts, curiously named 'Anonymous Coward', and are following their recommendations.
> Funny.. Though a simple checksum wouldn't be very good. A simple log entry would through it off. A checksum per directory would be better. *If one was to nitpick about the details..*
A simple checksum is exactly what he needs. If a single entry in a log file has changed that means the drive was booted into or otherwise changed. It's no longer admissible in court.
They have to make a copy and work off the copy. Even booting the drive renders it 'tainted'.
"Loud and clear," said Billy, "Loud and clear". Billy then went home, told his parents he was quitting the Scouts, and will be going for his MBA after high school. "Forget all this camping crap, I want 3 Porches and a mistress!"
If spending all day on WoW results in you losing your job, with the bad consequences of having no job then that is a PROBLEM. If spending all day on Second Life *IS* your job, with the good consequences of a paying job then that is *NOT* a problem.
Well, it isn't any more of a problem than being a workaholic in any other career. If you never 'come home' you may lose your wife/girlfriend.
Well, there's the real answer. I should start using IMAP instead of POP. That gets me other benefits like reading my mail from my laptop as well (now I use remote desktop to the desktop to read my mail from my laptop).
Do you, or anyone, know of an IMAP server that can pop mail down from an ISP?
> So, why do you want attachments in a separate directory? > I'm curious, because I think I might have a way for Thunderbird to do what you want it to
Because my mailboxes, all totalled, are about 50MB. Eudora is a little slow sorting, searching, etc through mailboxes with several thousand messages in them. My attachments folder is, all totalled, about 300MB. If this 300MB was embedded inline in my emails, uuencoded or base-64 encoded, as they were when they originally arrived, manipulating my mailboxes would be 5 times slower. Also, I can archive my collection of documents, including my email, onto a single 650MB CD, without the attachments. The attachments get archived less frequently on their own CD. If they were embedded in the mails I couldn't do this.
So what's your idea to change Thunderbird to automatically extract attachments when mail arrives, save it in a separate folder, and present it as part of the email when viewing?
How did we go from 'Congress shall pass no law... abridging the freedom of speech' to this asinine idea that anybody can say anything anywhere about anyone and if anyone tries to stop it they are violating 'freedom of speech'? (this is not specifically to the parent, just a common misconception)
I've got news for everyone: This law only applies to the government passing laws that stop the freedom of speech. Anyone else can make any rules they like about speech. A website can censor your posts. A business can limit what you say in it's building. Your neighbor can tell you to shut up. None of those are violating your 'freedom of speech'.
I also use Eudora (I paid for it). There is nothing else that worked as well for me.
Outlook stores everything in one huge binary blob, just waiting to get corrupted. Terrible. With Eudora I know that no matter what happens I can get my emails out.
Thunderbird is an attractive alternative, but it stores attachments with the emails. For me this would give me mailboxes in the Gigs. Eudora automatically separates the attachments into a separate directory and puts a link to the file in the actual email.
> the physical formats are a lot harder to destory. It doesn't take much to delete a digital copy.
You must not have kids.
About 50% of my physical DVDs have been destroyed beyond usability by my kids scratching them when inserted and removing them. I've paid the Disney tax more than once for the same material. So far my kids haven't managed to damage a single bit of the movies on my file server. Oh, and for those that say when the hard drive goes so does all your media, don't be an idiot. Make backups.
> Without giving spoilers for anyone who didn't see Serenity, I think there are several pretty clear reasons that it couldn't carry on, at least not with anything like the same atmosphere as the original Firefly series
Hey, speaking of no-more-Firefly-ever... I would really like Joss Whedon to reveal what 'Book's big secret was. The movie didn't reveal it, and we will never find out now...
> The one that takes into account the increased level of carelessness during activities perceived as low-risk?
If the actual data supports that then yes. Otherwise no. Using actuarial statistics, we don't care what the explanations are, just the results. If the data suprises us with a high level of deaths from nose-picking, then that would be a high risk activity.
> Nobody was able to do it. The trick was that if you printed out the 1's and 0's using a certain column width, it drew a picture
Then they aren't the brightest bulbs are they? I am not an expert of any kind but my first thought would be to view it in rows and columns. My first guess for the dimensions would be to check if the number of bits is a prime number. If so, there would only be ONE choice for the width and height. I'll bet anyone smart enough to send a message to the stars would think of that and encode it that way...
> what people tell you they want and what people actually want are very different things
It's the difference between scientists and engineers trying to decide what activities seem more dangerous, and actuarians using real historical data to rate activities. Guess which method insurance companies use when their money is on the line...
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> Watching his face during "I AM your father" was priceless. I can only imagine that I looked the same way seeing them the first time at his age (9).
I guess your son managed to skip the 'Toy Story' saga, huh?
Because all kids nowadays know that Darth Vader looks and sounds like Zerg and Zerg clearly states 'I AM your father', at which point Buzz falls into the shaft screaming 'Noooooooo!!!!!'
Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic Gods" was the story that got me interested in artificial life 20 years ago!
There isn't going to be much wildlife left after these things start taking out every cat that wanders by.
And if they can tell the difference between a cat and a person, they have another problem:
"Sir, the cast of Cats is attacking the border!"
Nice long tirade you have there. The only problem is you are wrong.
There is a fairly good chance that at least some of the web pages viewing those webmails are recoverable in swap space, file slack space, and unallocated space.
> 'The decision (German) does not mean that T-Online is now obliged to delete all their IP-logs, the customers first need to complain.
Yes it does. Maybe not yet, but soon as German ISPs get these complaints by the hundreds daily the only way to handle the requests will be to just change their log retention policy and delete them all after n days.
You should draft an official document stating that you have consulted with experts, curiously named 'Anonymous Coward', and are following their recommendations.
> Funny.. Though a simple checksum wouldn't be very good. A simple log entry would through it off. A checksum per directory would be better. *If one was to nitpick about the details..*
A simple checksum is exactly what he needs. If a single entry in a log file has changed that means the drive was booted into or otherwise changed. It's no longer admissible in court.
They have to make a copy and work off the copy.
Even booting the drive renders it 'tainted'.
"Loud and clear," said Billy, "Loud and clear". Billy then went home, told his parents he was quitting the Scouts, and will be going for his MBA after high school.
"Forget all this camping crap, I want 3 Porches and a mistress!"
If spending all day on WoW results in you losing your job, with the bad consequences of having no job then that is a PROBLEM.
If spending all day on Second Life *IS* your job, with the good consequences of a paying job then that is *NOT* a problem.
Well, it isn't any more of a problem than being a workaholic in any other career. If you never 'come home' you may lose your wife/girlfriend.
Well, there's the real answer. I should start using IMAP instead of POP. That gets me other benefits like reading my mail from my laptop as well (now I use remote desktop to the desktop to read my mail from my laptop).
Do you, or anyone, know of an IMAP server that can pop mail down from an ISP?
> So, why do you want attachments in a separate directory?
> I'm curious, because I think I might have a way for Thunderbird to do what you want it to
Because my mailboxes, all totalled, are about 50MB. Eudora is a little slow sorting, searching, etc through mailboxes with several thousand messages in them. My attachments folder is, all totalled, about 300MB. If this 300MB was embedded inline in my emails, uuencoded or base-64 encoded, as they were when they originally arrived, manipulating my mailboxes would be 5 times slower.
Also, I can archive my collection of documents, including my email, onto a single 650MB CD, without the attachments. The attachments get archived less frequently on their own CD. If they were embedded in the mails I couldn't do this.
So what's your idea to change Thunderbird to automatically extract attachments when mail arrives, save it in a separate folder, and present it as part of the email when viewing?
> "free speech" is not something we really have
... abridging the freedom of speech' to this asinine idea that anybody can say anything anywhere about anyone and if anyone tries to stop it they are violating 'freedom of speech'? (this is not specifically to the parent, just a common misconception)
How did we go from 'Congress shall pass no law
I've got news for everyone: This law only applies to the government passing laws that stop the freedom of speech. Anyone else can make any rules they like about speech. A website can censor your posts. A business can limit what you say in it's building. Your neighbor can tell you to shut up. None of those are violating your 'freedom of speech'.
I also use Eudora (I paid for it).
There is nothing else that worked as well for me.
Outlook stores everything in one huge binary blob, just waiting to get corrupted. Terrible. With Eudora I know that no matter what happens I can get my emails out.
Thunderbird is an attractive alternative, but it stores attachments with the emails. For me this would give me mailboxes in the Gigs. Eudora automatically separates the attachments into a separate directory and puts a link to the file in the actual email.
>> don't be an idiot. Make backups.
> Same goes for your Disney DVDs. Duh much?
What do you think is on my file server now? Duh right back at'cha!
> the physical formats are a lot harder to destory. It doesn't take much to delete a digital copy.
You must not have kids.
About 50% of my physical DVDs have been destroyed beyond usability by my kids scratching them when inserted and removing them. I've paid the Disney tax more than once for the same material.
So far my kids haven't managed to damage a single bit of the movies on my file server.
Oh, and for those that say when the hard drive goes so does all your media, don't be an idiot. Make backups.
> Without giving spoilers for anyone who didn't see Serenity, I think there are several pretty clear reasons that it couldn't carry on, at least not with anything like the same atmosphere as the original Firefly series
Hey, speaking of no-more-Firefly-ever... I would really like Joss Whedon to reveal what 'Book's big secret was. The movie didn't reveal it, and we will never find out now...
Thank God I'm not wasting all of my time surfing web sites.
(reload)(reload)(reload)(reload)Yay, new article!
> AI to Monitor Foreign Press for Threats
Ummm... who's AI?
AI GORE?
> The one that takes into account the increased level of carelessness during activities perceived as low-risk?
If the actual data supports that then yes. Otherwise no.
Using actuarial statistics, we don't care what the explanations are, just the results.
If the data suprises us with a high level of deaths from nose-picking, then that would be a high risk activity.
Oops, my bad. Right, I meant the product of two primes.
Now watch hundreds of vengeful slashdotters descend on my parent post with the fury of a thousand grammar mistakes!
> Nobody was able to do it. The trick was that if you printed out the 1's and 0's using a certain column width, it drew a picture
Then they aren't the brightest bulbs are they? I am not an expert of any kind but my first thought would be to view it in rows and columns. My first guess for the dimensions would be to check if the number of bits is a prime number. If so, there would only be ONE choice for the width and height. I'll bet anyone smart enough to send a message to the stars would think of that and encode it that way...
> what people tell you they want and what people actually want are very different things
It's the difference between scientists and engineers trying to decide what activities seem more dangerous, and actuarians using real historical data to rate activities. Guess which method insurance companies use when their money is on the line...
> what a waste of space. How much of my life will I spend watching TV. Good thing we might be able to record all that soon...
So the future will entail me watching a video of me watching a video of me watching a video of me.
Sounds exciting.
>> re-education camp
> Mao's dead [...] welcome to 2006
Practice Falun Gong much lately?
Christianity?