3 billion lusers on the net, 3 billion lusers, take one down, bash them around, 3 billion lusers on the net.
It has taken 2 solid decades to convince most people that drinking a beer while driving is a bad idea and if they do it, they will go to jail. How are you going to convince the average joe that his insecure computer is a real problem. I could see people at the local bar saying "Hey guys, I found out my computer was sending out millions of porn messages." "I got one of thouse." "Me too and did you check the hooters on that 1st picture?"
The line is connected to a port on the switch. At that point the cost of doing 911 is nothing since the copper pair has been paid for as has the port on the line card. If the exchange is in an area with high growth then it may not make sense but in old established areas it doesn't cost them anything to just leave it.
You will find that 411 or a limited number of other numbers will also work. You can use the phone to call the phone co to ask them to turn you back on.
The Aussies picked '000'. The problem is that for international calls its '00'+country code. Now figure that most PABXs like using '0' to get an outside line. 55% of the country has parents that weren't born in the country so the number of people who dial international is quite high. Now get used to outside line+'00'+country code at work and try it from your home and you get telstra asking if you want fire,police or ambo.
There is also a problem that Telstra has forced mobile phone operators to use '112' or '000' for emergency numbers. If you turn on the keyboard lock on a nokia phone and then dial 112 or 000 it connects. That can happen in a purse or pocket.
The best bit they keep wondering why they get so many prank '000' calls.
At least Kermit, Bert and Ernie are no longer telling the kids to dial 911 but a recent survey showed many Aussie kids thought it was the correct number to call.
Anyone want to write a tool? Say maybe a dig-diff program... $ dig-diff spamer.com ns1 ns2 ns3 ns4 ns5 spmer.com is 1.2.3.4 from ns3 and 4.5.6.7 from ns5
November of 2000 I was in a plane flying from Tahiti to Auckland and the people sitting next to me had been there for a sales conference dealing with film. I was taking picture of the islands and coral heads we were flying over. The woman introduced herself and said she had just been to a conference and asked me how many rolls of film I used on my holiday. I told her I didn't use and and and pull the memory card out of the camera and said I it took like 300 pictures and I had six more. She wasn't happy with that answer.
What that IS the point, I don't care. I look at the code as its running on the CPU or VM. For 90% of it, its trivial to figure out things like loops, assignment, calculations etc. Data structures show up cleanly as well. For some nasty C++ its sometimes quicker to debug the assembly than it is to figure out what is going on in the maze of twisty classes. The source may lie but the CPU doesn't.
Does anyone have a copy of the program xyzzy? Its a very old FORTRAN program that changes all the variable names to combinations of xyz as well as cleans up unneeded whitespace.
They already did. Too bad they picked the wrong 60% to stop making and now we are left with what does show up and its starting to look like about 3 good movies a year.
The procedural stuff will remain the same. The OOD is getting a decent syntax and will no longer be a bolted on hack.
Perl started life as shell script with a built in sed and awk. It has since grown.
The regex stuff in perl 5 is just like sed and grep as far as new user is concerned. The simple regex stuff won't change with perl 6 and the concepts are the same. Perl 6 is going to change the shortcut symbols for the regex expressions.
Perl5 have has a =~ operator that is going to get replaced with a ~~ operator. The ~~ will work in many places where the perl5 =~ won't work. This is part of the push to make perl more orthogonal.
Perl6 will also deal with unicode out of the box with no real issues. Perl5's unicode was a bit of a hackjob as the coders learned along the way. Not that unicode is understood, it will be done right. Some of perl6 seems to be intended to get rid of bad practices based on the concept that "all the world is ascii". For example in Perl upto 6 you can say [a-zA-Z] to mean letters but that won't pickup up the latin-8 char set. Perl6is going to make it harder to say that and easy to say "Letters in the current language".
The list processing may get to the point that it is on the same level as lisp.
Perl6 appears to about about 18 months away so if your going to wait, its a long wait.
Damian Conway gave a great talk on this just a few days ago. If you get a chance to hear him talk, take it.
To any company that has a full time HR department, it looks like you got hired after a long time of being a bum then didn't work out. And you didn't work out very quickly. HR people that read it that way will never even let the tech people see your name on a list.
HR departments aren't there to hire new people, they are there to filter. Can you trust your HR dept to filter? Thats why most good fortune 500 jobs are through contacts. Joe in IT tells the HR guy "we have a new position that going to open up and we want to hire Bob because we know he can do it".
No. The idea was to give the gov't something to nail people with when they couldn't bust a group for something specific. Its like nailing Capone for tax evasion when that was a mild crime compared to most he was investigated about.
The proof of attempted extortion may not be too hard.
From what I've seen, most people are quite happy in what ever rut they have managed to dig their self into as long as they can stay there and maintain their lifestyle.
Until this century most people who were ostracized from society had little chance of survival so anyone whtat was different were effectivly killed off except for the very few that were strong enough to relocate or colonize.
What planet are you from? Humans define themselves mostly by how alike they are to others. People who are different are isolated or even kicked out of the society.
You can vote by not selecting any of the people on the list. There are other things to vote for than the president. If enough people just don't vote for either of the idiots, then maybe the people running the parties will work harder to find decent canidates however in a typical election the number of people that don't pick one of the two major parties is so small it doesn't matter.
But you could buy a real big cultured diamond and slice off all the faces and end up with two stones with no etchings and no documented history of being a fake and the pawn shops could not tell what happended. Diamond resale prices then head to zero for smaller stones.
I've wondered if that was why some of his friends are willing to loan him very large amounts of cash when they know they will never see the money again. Is it a bet they might walk away with rights to songs that will be wortha fortue over the next 100 or so years?
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Even more fun is a federal law that can put you in jail and hit you with a huge fine if you mess with the emission equipment. I've got a '74 mgb and I can't replace its carb with an aftermarket one without violating the federal law. The fact that the original carb didn't meet emissions when it was new and is much worse than the older carbs and the aftermarket holly carb was designed to meet the emissions don't change the fact that its illeagal to use either option. There is a very limited amount of things you can do to parts of the emissions system.
There is a way to submit an Invention Disclosure Document to the Patent Office that they will hold for two years. I assume they get checked in the internal prior art search. They cost $10 and I expect that someone in the open source movement should start sending them in for every linux kernel patch. I suspect its the only way low cost way to to keep someone else from getting a patent.
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Putting wifi in the airport works the same way as serving nasty food on a short flight. It means fewer irate passengers because they have something to do.
It didn't cost that much to save the stuff at the Air Force museum thats just a few miles away from where the tower is now.
It sounds like there are have been a few gravy train proposals so far and thats where the figures come from. If NASA published this under the SBIR program, I'm guessing you could find solutions that cost far less.
The Fosters brothers were the ones who came up with the idea of using refergeration and beer together. They got kicked out of NY during one of the minor probations and went to Australia where they started selling cold beer. They then headed over to Canada.
I would buy Canadian Fosters if I could get it here but the local Fosters is so bad, no one in their right mind would try to import it. Also there are no giant beer cans here. I'm not sure where the oil can concept came from but I haven't ever seen any evidence that it came from Australia.
The density argument is nonsense. 90% of the country has a population less than 1 person per sq km and they aren't getting broadband at all for a long time. The other 10% is very densly populated and is even more densly populated than the highest denity 10% of the US. Sydney and Melbourne are both bigger than Chicago now in population, area and density.
I can tell its having problems. Its unemployment is the lowest its been in a very long time and might be the lowest its ever been. Its currency is stable with a slight increase. The economy is growing.
I wonder if this agreement means the US will set up a working holiday scheme like the Aussies have with about 1/2 of the world. Some how I expect that bit got ignored but would be very good for both the US and Australia.
In the 1930's most good record stores also had recording equipment because they were effectivly the label. They let the RIAA and friends tell them how to run their business for so long they forgot they have other options.
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3 billion lusers on the net, 3 billion lusers, take one down, bash them around, 3 billion lusers on the net.
It has taken 2 solid decades to convince most people that drinking a beer while driving is a bad idea and if they do it, they will go to jail. How are you going to convince the average joe that his insecure computer is a real problem. I could see people at the local bar saying "Hey guys, I found out my computer was sending out millions of porn messages." "I got one of thouse." "Me too and did you check the hooters on that 1st picture?"
The line is connected to a port on the switch. At that point the cost of doing 911 is nothing since the copper pair has been paid for as has the port on the line card. If the exchange is in an area with high growth then it may not make sense but in old established areas it doesn't cost them anything to just leave it.
You will find that 411 or a limited number of other numbers will also work. You can use the phone to call the phone co to ask them to turn you back on.
The Aussies picked '000'. The problem is that for international calls its '00'+country code. Now figure that most PABXs like using '0' to get an outside line. 55% of the country has parents that weren't born in the country so the number of people who dial international is quite high. Now get used to outside line+'00'+country code at work and try it from your home and you get telstra asking if you want fire,police or ambo.
There is also a problem that Telstra has forced mobile phone operators to use '112' or '000' for emergency numbers. If you turn on the keyboard lock on a nokia phone and then dial 112 or 000 it connects. That can happen in a purse or pocket.
The best bit they keep wondering why they get so many prank '000' calls.
At least Kermit, Bert and Ernie are no longer telling the kids to dial 911 but a recent survey showed many Aussie kids thought it was the correct number to call.
Anyone want to write a tool?
Say maybe a dig-diff program...
$ dig-diff spamer.com ns1 ns2 ns3 ns4 ns5
spmer.com is 1.2.3.4 from ns3 and 4.5.6.7 from ns5
November of 2000 I was in a plane flying from Tahiti to Auckland and the people sitting next to me had been there for a sales conference dealing with film. I was taking picture of the islands and coral heads we were flying over. The woman introduced herself and said she had just been to a conference and asked me how many rolls of film I used on my holiday. I told her I didn't use and and and pull the memory card out of the camera and said I it took like 300 pictures and I had six more. She wasn't happy with that answer.
What that IS the point, I don't care. I look at the code as its running on the CPU or VM. For 90% of it, its trivial to figure out things like loops, assignment, calculations etc. Data structures show up cleanly as well. For some nasty C++ its sometimes quicker to debug the assembly than it is to figure out what is going on in the maze of twisty classes. The source may lie but the CPU doesn't.
Does anyone have a copy of the program xyzzy? Its a very old FORTRAN program that changes all the variable names to combinations of xyz as well as cleans up unneeded whitespace.
They already did. Too bad they picked the wrong 60% to stop making and now we are left with what does show up and its starting to look like about 3 good movies a year.
The IOCCC evidence seems to show C as worse:
such as this roman number generator
The procedural stuff will remain the same. The OOD is getting a decent syntax and will no longer be a bolted on hack.
Perl started life as shell script with a built in sed and awk. It has since grown.
The regex stuff in perl 5 is just like sed and grep as far as new user is concerned. The simple regex stuff won't change with perl 6 and the concepts are the same. Perl 6 is going to change the shortcut symbols for the regex expressions.
Perl5 have has a =~ operator that is going to get replaced with a ~~ operator. The ~~ will work in many places where the perl5 =~ won't work. This is part of the push to make perl more orthogonal.
Perl6 will also deal with unicode out of the box with no real issues. Perl5's unicode was a bit of a hackjob as the coders learned along the way. Not that unicode is understood, it will be done right. Some of perl6 seems to be intended to get rid of bad practices based on the concept that "all the world is ascii". For example in Perl upto 6 you can say [a-zA-Z] to mean letters but that won't pickup up the latin-8 char set. Perl6is going to make it harder to say that and easy to say "Letters in the current language".
The list processing may get to the point that it is on the same level as lisp.
Perl6 appears to about about 18 months away so if your going to wait, its a long wait.
Damian Conway gave a great talk on this just a few days ago. If you get a chance to hear him talk, take it.
To any company that has a full time HR department, it looks like you got hired after a long time of being a bum then didn't work out. And you didn't work out very quickly. HR people that read it that way will never even let the tech people see your name on a list.
HR departments aren't there to hire new people, they are there to filter. Can you trust your HR dept to filter? Thats why most good fortune 500 jobs are through contacts. Joe in IT tells the HR guy "we have a new position that going to open up and we want to hire Bob because we know he can do it".
No. The idea was to give the gov't something to nail people with when they couldn't bust a group for something specific. Its like nailing Capone for tax evasion when that was a mild crime compared to most he was investigated about.
The proof of attempted extortion may not be too hard.
From what I've seen, most people are quite happy in what ever rut they have managed to dig their self into as long as they can stay there and maintain their lifestyle.
Until this century most people who were ostracized from society had little chance of survival so anyone whtat was different were effectivly killed off except for the very few that were strong enough to relocate or colonize.
What planet are you from?
Humans define themselves mostly by how alike they are to others. People who are different are isolated or even kicked out of the society.
You can vote by not selecting any of the people on the list. There are other things to vote for than the president. If enough people just don't vote for either of the idiots, then maybe the people running the parties will work harder to find decent canidates however in a typical election the number of people that don't pick one of the two major parties is so small it doesn't matter.
But you could buy a real big cultured diamond and slice off all the faces and end up with two stones with no etchings and no documented history of being a fake and the pawn shops could not tell what happended. Diamond resale prices then head to zero for smaller stones.
I've wondered if that was why some of his friends are willing to loan him very large amounts of cash when they know they will never see the money again. Is it a bet they might walk away with rights to songs that will be wortha fortue over the next 100 or so years?
Even more fun is a federal law that can put you in jail and hit you with a huge fine if you mess with the emission equipment. I've got a '74 mgb and I can't replace its carb with an aftermarket one without violating the federal law. The fact that the original carb didn't meet emissions when it was new and is much worse than the older carbs and the aftermarket holly carb was designed to meet the emissions don't change the fact that its illeagal to use either option. There is a very limited amount of things you can do to parts of the emissions system.
There is a way to submit an Invention Disclosure Document to the Patent Office that they will hold for two years. I assume they get checked in the internal prior art search. They cost $10 and I expect that someone in the open source movement should start sending them in for every linux kernel patch. I suspect its the only way low cost way to to keep someone else from getting a patent.
Putting wifi in the airport works the same way as serving nasty food on a short flight. It means fewer irate passengers because they have something to do.
Maybe flying along a motorway takes less energy because of the rising air.
It didn't cost that much to save the stuff at the Air Force museum thats just a few miles away from where the tower is now.
It sounds like there are have been a few gravy train proposals so far and thats where the figures come from. If NASA published this under the SBIR program, I'm guessing you could find solutions that cost far less.
Fosters in made in Canada.
The Fosters brothers were the ones who came up with the idea of using refergeration and beer together. They got kicked out of NY during one of the minor probations and went to Australia where they started selling cold beer. They then headed over to Canada.
I would buy Canadian Fosters if I could get it here but the local Fosters is so bad, no one in their right mind would try to import it. Also there are no giant beer cans here. I'm not sure where the oil can concept came from but I haven't ever seen any evidence that it came from Australia.
The density argument is nonsense. 90% of the country has a population less than 1 person per sq km and they aren't getting broadband at all for a long time. The other 10% is very densly populated and is even more densly populated than the highest denity 10% of the US. Sydney and Melbourne are both bigger than Chicago now in population, area and density.
I can tell its having problems. Its unemployment is the lowest its been in a very long time and might be the lowest its ever been. Its currency is stable with a slight increase. The economy is growing.
I wonder if this agreement means the US will set up a working holiday scheme like the Aussies have with about 1/2 of the world. Some how I expect that bit got ignored but would be very good for both the US and Australia.
In the 1930's most good record stores also had recording equipment because they were effectivly the label. They let the RIAA and friends tell them how to run their business for so long they forgot they have other options.