It's too bad Google doesn't have one of those things where you can watch everyone's search scrolling down the screen live. I bet there would be a lot of "pictures of mountains" searches right about now.
What's the state of ZeroConf on Linux? How long before the major distributions have out-of-the-box support for Rendezvous? What would be required to make that happen?
Also, what exactly are the security implications? Obviously there are certain things you don't want to broadcast to just anybody! Rendezvous could make wardriving even easier...
Python is dog-slow compared to C++, inherently. Implying that it somehow isn't, or even worse, that it can be faster, or still worse, that it can be massively faster, strikes me as silly.
He didn't say Python is faster than C++, he said an app he wrote in Python was faster than a really badly written older version of the app that had been written by somebody else who didn't know what they were doing in C++. Yes, this is possible.
Mozilla 1.21 is much faster than Mozilla 0.7, and they're written in the same language. Why do you suppose that is?
Or, since Hotmail sucks and Spamcop's webmail doesn't:
joe@xyz.com ---> you@spamcop.net
temp123@xyz.com ---> you@spamcop.net
spam123@xyz.com ---> you@spamcop.net
Spamcop only costs $30/year, and makes it easy to report spam, in a clear and consistent way that makes it easy for ISPs to take action. Shouldn't you do your part to help prevent spam, instead of just blocking it?
(I'm not affiliated with Spamcop, I just really like their service.)
Legitimate opt-in mailing lists are not spam, but may look very much like it. I know which mailing lists I've signed up for, and which ones I haven't; they both have opt-out links, although I'd be surprised if the one on the spam worked. How will a router tell the difference?
As another poster mentioned, Amazon.com is based in Seattle. According to their site, "Items sold by Amazon.com LLC and shipped to destinations in the states of Washington or North Dakota are subject to tax."
Presumably this new tax deal wouldn't affect Washington businesses, if they don't normally collect sales tax from out-of-state residents anyway?
What this means is that California residents who previously bought items tax free from Amazon, a Washington company, will now be taxed. So unfortunately it affects ME...
So this means powells.com has a competitive advantage over amazon.com, since Powell's ("the world's largest bookstore") is based in Portland and won't charge you sales tax while Amazon will?
Straus thinks the real test of theory will be to look at the specific neurons that control hiccups and suckling. If the team is right, he says, most of the nerve cells that are active during suckling should also be active when we hiccup.
So, they just came up with a wild hare-brained idea, and they could very well be completely wrong, because nobody's actually tested it yet. Or am I missing something?
Since I personally believe in Creation rather than Evolution, I'm skeptical anyway. It was once thought the appendix was an evolutionary leftover and no longer served any useful purpose, until we figured out what it was for.
I live in Oregon, where there is no sales tax. If I go to the store and buy something marked at $19.99, and hand them a $20 bill, they'll give me a penny change.
As an Oregon resident, I can drive to Washington, buy something that would normally have a sales tax, show them my Oregon driver's license, and they'll waive the tax. I believe this is because Washington decided to exempt Oregon residents from paying sales tax so Washington businesses could remain competitive; I would have to pay sales tax when visiting any other state, and I think a California resident would have to pay Washington sales taxes.
Anyway, if I'm buying online from a company based California, will I be charged taxes by the state of California?
If someone from California buys online from a company based in Oregon, will the Oregon company have to charge them California sales tax? That hardly makes sense. So if not, does this mean Oregon companies who do nationwide sales online have an advantage over their competition in other states, because there's no sales tax here but the competition will now begin charging sales tax? That sounds like a good deal to me; our local economy certainly needs the help.
Sorry to be blunt, but so what? A 1966 Ford Mustang in mint condition is beyond what I can afford -- doesn't mean I have the right to have one. I guess I'll just need to keep my Toyota pick-up.
Technically you're right of course - I just meant to explain the rationalization that most of these people go through.
I seriously question your argument. *IF* they are connecting with an EXTRA computer, they *ARE* in fact using bandwidth they they didn't agree to pay for. If you are suggesting that only one computer is used at a time, I can see that argument. But if only ONE computer is being used at a time, there would be no need to worry about this method of detection as it will ONLY show one computer, right? BOTH wouldn't be connected to the gateway at the same time, right?
I'm not saying they're not using bandwidth they didn't agree to pay for (due to the service agreement that specifies only one computer may be used), I'm saying (depending on the particular individual's usage, not true for all people) they're not ACTUALLY using any more bandwidth than if they had only one computer.
Consider this example: say I've got two computers, and I'm signed onto AIM on one, and I'm surfing the web on the other. Bandwidth is being used on both computers (nothing compared to FTPing an ISO, but still, it's bandwidth). However, the bandwidth being used is exactly the same as what I'd be using if I had AIM and Mozilla both running on the same computer, which would be perfectly legitimate. Dividing the same bandwidth usage among multiple computers in my house - but using NAT to mask this so it looks the same from the ISP's perspective - would be a violation of some ISPs' terms of service.
Fortunately this is all hypothetical; my ISP doesn't suck.;-)
All those single-computer use clauses are evil anyway. A DSL line gives you X bandwidth, so X bandwidth is what you use, regardless of how many machines you multiplex it to. Arbitrary fees for extra machines behind the connection are just more ways to rape^H^H^H^Hmilk the customer.
If you have two computers, they figure you're going to be using more bandwidth than if you only had one. for example, if you and your wife are both surfing the web at the same time, more bandwidth is being used than if you only had one computer (so only one of you could be surfing at a time). If this is generally true, then the ISP has a higher cost for users with two computers than for users with one (remember that the ISP has to pay for bandwidth from their backbone providers; they don't pay a flat monthly rate like you do).
Of course, in many cases this is not true. I have several computers, and I use far less bandwidth than the guy with only a single PC who leaves Kazaa running 24/7.
If you want 10 machines to share an internet connection, sign up with a company which doesn't care or charge for how many computers share the connection OR pay for the additional machines for ISPs who do.
Not everyone has a choice among multiple broadband ISPs, or their choice may be limited to companies that all have a similar TOS. The additional fee for extra machines may be beyond what they can afford, and they may not be using any additional bandwidth, meaning the extra cost to the ISP is zero. Under these circumstances, violating the TOS seems like a reasonable thing to many people.
Personally, I blame the FCC for allowing this to happen. But that's just me.
...or at least that's what everybody said about the iMac four and a half years ago.
The only reason most people use floppy drives is A) because a driver or something comes on floppy, or B) an emergency boot disk for when the OS is hosed, C) making one of the above to be used in another machine, or D) transporting small files (Word documents) between computers.
A) is easily solved: the companies who currently ship floppies need to ship CDs instead. CDs are pretty cheap; this is not unreasonable. But, there's no motivation to do it as long as everyone has a floppy drive. Dell removing floppies (and others following suit) is a good motivator.
B) isn't an issue on new versions of Windows since it won't boot from a floppy anyway. PC users tend to forget that OS CDs are bootable!
C) is an issue for those of us with a 486 in the corner. Yes, I need a floppy drive in that machine, since it won't boot from CD. That's my only floppy drive, though.
D) can be done just as well (better!) with a USB keychain. Bigger capacity, and they work on nearly any computer. As far as I know, they're even bootable.
Look's really nice, but only the Windows iPod (with FAT32) is supported. Wonder if there will be support for the Mac iPod (with HFS+).
Does Linux have HFS+ support yet? I know HFS support has been there for a long time, but I don't remember seeing HFS+. I would think this would be the only problem.
but people with standard keyboards cann't access other 'language sites' without using character map
Mac OS makes it really easy to type most accented characters in the standard 8-bit ASCII character set with a normal US keyboard, in addition to providing a character map (Key Caps). So, I can easily type domain names in languages like Spanish, German, etc. That doesn't help me with languages that use other character sets like Russian, Japanese, etc. but I can't read those languages anyway, and if I could, I'm sure I'd figure out a way to type them.
How the heck do you mistype an ASCII URL so you get non-ASCII characters? Do you have some kind of funky keyboard that produces non-ASCII characters? I'd love to see such a fucked up keyboard. Geez, if you want to use non-standard keyboard setups or weird ass keyboards then deal with it. For those of us with standard ASCII keyboards there IS NO PROBLEM. You'd have to go out of your way to type these characters.
That's because you've never used a computer in a non-English-speaking country. On a Spanish keyboard, the Ñ key is right next to the L key. On a French keyboard, the Ù key is right next to the M key (which is next to the L key, which seems pretty strange to me, along with A and Q being reversed from what we're used to). So yes, it's easy to make these typos if you use a non-US keyboard layout.
Doesn't that assume that users only look up the names of webservers?
Yes. I believe they said an e-mail protocol will work too, I don't remember which one.
The user receives unhelpful "Connection refused" messages, instead of being prompted to correct their typo by a "Can't find..." message.
They also assume that everyone runs Internet Explorer, which by default simply displays the unhelpful "The page could not be displayed" or redirects to MSN's search engine. Being redirected to a Verisign plugin page won't seem too strange to these users.
Using/dev/urandom you never know, you may randomly get a Metallica song and then you're screwed.
Nope, you're thinking of patents. If you get a Metallica song out of/dev/urandom, it's fine, because their copyright doesn't apply if you produced it independently.
Is McDonald's the best at burgers simply because they have the highest sales? The only thing that McDonald's really did right was by hitting a happy medium of price, quality, speed and convenience.
Explain to me again how a school buying more expensive hardware that isn't generally used in the real world is going to help my kid get a better education?
The whole "generally used in the real world" argument is utter nonsense. You should teach kids computing concepts, not specific applications or systems, because by the time they graduate, the specific applications and systems they used will be obsolete anyway, but the concepts still apply. It doesn't matter if a kid learns about computers on Mac OS X, Windows XP, KDE, Gnome, Mac OS 8, or Windows 95. They'll have to adjust later anyway.
However, there are two distinct advantages of not using Windows in school: first, since the student is likely to be using Windows at home, teaching them something else at school gives them a broader base of experience than what they might otherwise have exposure to, which will make it easier to adjust to other systems in the future. Second, it shows them that there are viable alternatives to Microsoft, so if they later choose to run Windows, it will at least be a real choice.
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It's too bad Google doesn't have one of those things where you can watch everyone's search scrolling down the screen live. I bet there would be a lot of "pictures of mountains" searches right about now.
Try the Google Viewer maybe?
What's the state of ZeroConf on Linux? How long before the major distributions have out-of-the-box support for Rendezvous? What would be required to make that happen?
Also, what exactly are the security implications? Obviously there are certain things you don't want to broadcast to just anybody! Rendezvous could make wardriving even easier...
Python is dog-slow compared to C++, inherently. Implying that it somehow isn't, or even worse, that it can be faster, or still worse, that it can be massively faster, strikes me as silly.
He didn't say Python is faster than C++, he said an app he wrote in Python was faster than a really badly written older version of the app that had been written by somebody else who didn't know what they were doing in C++. Yes, this is possible.
Mozilla 1.21 is much faster than Mozilla 0.7, and they're written in the same language. Why do you suppose that is?
Or, since Hotmail sucks and Spamcop's webmail doesn't:
Spamcop only costs $30/year, and makes it easy to report spam, in a clear and consistent way that makes it easy for ISPs to take action. Shouldn't you do your part to help prevent spam, instead of just blocking it?
(I'm not affiliated with Spamcop, I just really like their service.)
Legitimate opt-in mailing lists are not spam, but may look very much like it. I know which mailing lists I've signed up for, and which ones I haven't; they both have opt-out links, although I'd be surprised if the one on the spam worked. How will a router tell the difference?
Thanks for the clarification.
As another poster mentioned, Amazon.com is based in Seattle. According to their site, "Items sold by Amazon.com LLC and shipped to destinations in the states of Washington or North Dakota are subject to tax."
Presumably this new tax deal wouldn't affect Washington businesses, if they don't normally collect sales tax from out-of-state residents anyway?
What this means is that California residents who previously bought items tax free from Amazon, a Washington company, will now be taxed. So unfortunately it affects ME...
So this means powells.com has a competitive advantage over amazon.com, since Powell's ("the world's largest bookstore") is based in Portland and won't charge you sales tax while Amazon will?
Straus thinks the real test of theory will be to look at the specific neurons that control hiccups and suckling. If the team is right, he says, most of the nerve cells that are active during suckling should also be active when we hiccup.
So, they just came up with a wild hare-brained idea, and they could very well be completely wrong, because nobody's actually tested it yet. Or am I missing something?
Since I personally believe in Creation rather than Evolution, I'm skeptical anyway. It was once thought the appendix was an evolutionary leftover and no longer served any useful purpose, until we figured out what it was for.
I live in Oregon, where there is no sales tax. If I go to the store and buy something marked at $19.99, and hand them a $20 bill, they'll give me a penny change.
As an Oregon resident, I can drive to Washington, buy something that would normally have a sales tax, show them my Oregon driver's license, and they'll waive the tax. I believe this is because Washington decided to exempt Oregon residents from paying sales tax so Washington businesses could remain competitive; I would have to pay sales tax when visiting any other state, and I think a California resident would have to pay Washington sales taxes.
Anyway, if I'm buying online from a company based California, will I be charged taxes by the state of California?
If someone from California buys online from a company based in Oregon, will the Oregon company have to charge them California sales tax? That hardly makes sense. So if not, does this mean Oregon companies who do nationwide sales online have an advantage over their competition in other states, because there's no sales tax here but the competition will now begin charging sales tax? That sounds like a good deal to me; our local economy certainly needs the help.
Sorry to be blunt, but so what? A 1966 Ford Mustang in mint condition is beyond what I can afford -- doesn't mean I have the right to have one. I guess I'll just need to keep my Toyota pick-up.
;-)
Technically you're right of course - I just meant to explain the rationalization that most of these people go through.
I seriously question your argument. *IF* they are connecting with an EXTRA computer, they *ARE* in fact using bandwidth they they didn't agree to pay for. If you are suggesting that only one computer is used at a time, I can see that argument. But if only ONE computer is being used at a time, there would be no need to worry about this method of detection as it will ONLY show one computer, right? BOTH wouldn't be connected to the gateway at the same time, right?
I'm not saying they're not using bandwidth they didn't agree to pay for (due to the service agreement that specifies only one computer may be used), I'm saying (depending on the particular individual's usage, not true for all people) they're not ACTUALLY using any more bandwidth than if they had only one computer.
Consider this example: say I've got two computers, and I'm signed onto AIM on one, and I'm surfing the web on the other. Bandwidth is being used on both computers (nothing compared to FTPing an ISO, but still, it's bandwidth). However, the bandwidth being used is exactly the same as what I'd be using if I had AIM and Mozilla both running on the same computer, which would be perfectly legitimate. Dividing the same bandwidth usage among multiple computers in my house - but using NAT to mask this so it looks the same from the ISP's perspective - would be a violation of some ISPs' terms of service.
Fortunately this is all hypothetical; my ISP doesn't suck.
All those single-computer use clauses are evil anyway. A DSL line gives you X bandwidth, so X bandwidth is what you use, regardless of how many machines you multiplex it to. Arbitrary fees for extra machines behind the connection are just more ways to rape^H^H^H^Hmilk the customer.
If you have two computers, they figure you're going to be using more bandwidth than if you only had one. for example, if you and your wife are both surfing the web at the same time, more bandwidth is being used than if you only had one computer (so only one of you could be surfing at a time). If this is generally true, then the ISP has a higher cost for users with two computers than for users with one (remember that the ISP has to pay for bandwidth from their backbone providers; they don't pay a flat monthly rate like you do).
Of course, in many cases this is not true. I have several computers, and I use far less bandwidth than the guy with only a single PC who leaves Kazaa running 24/7.
If you want 10 machines to share an internet connection, sign up with a company which doesn't care or charge for how many computers share the connection OR pay for the additional machines for ISPs who do.
Not everyone has a choice among multiple broadband ISPs, or their choice may be limited to companies that all have a similar TOS. The additional fee for extra machines may be beyond what they can afford, and they may not be using any additional bandwidth, meaning the extra cost to the ISP is zero. Under these circumstances, violating the TOS seems like a reasonable thing to many people.
Personally, I blame the FCC for allowing this to happen. But that's just me.
...or at least that's what everybody said about the iMac four and a half years ago.
The only reason most people use floppy drives is A) because a driver or something comes on floppy, or B) an emergency boot disk for when the OS is hosed, C) making one of the above to be used in another machine, or D) transporting small files (Word documents) between computers.
A) is easily solved: the companies who currently ship floppies need to ship CDs instead. CDs are pretty cheap; this is not unreasonable. But, there's no motivation to do it as long as everyone has a floppy drive. Dell removing floppies (and others following suit) is a good motivator.
B) isn't an issue on new versions of Windows since it won't boot from a floppy anyway. PC users tend to forget that OS CDs are bootable!
C) is an issue for those of us with a 486 in the corner. Yes, I need a floppy drive in that machine, since it won't boot from CD. That's my only floppy drive, though.
D) can be done just as well (better!) with a USB keychain. Bigger capacity, and they work on nearly any computer. As far as I know, they're even bootable.
Look's really nice, but only the Windows iPod (with FAT32) is supported. Wonder if there will be support for the Mac iPod (with HFS+).
Does Linux have HFS+ support yet? I know HFS support has been there for a long time, but I don't remember seeing HFS+. I would think this would be the only problem.
It's been, what, five years since HFS+ came out?
Well anyway, VeriSign isn't using UTF-8 domain names, it's using it's own, Internet Explorer only, proprietary domain name protocol.
It's not proprietary just because nobody else has implemented it yet. It's open and documented.
but people with standard keyboards cann't access other 'language sites' without using character map
Mac OS makes it really easy to type most accented characters in the standard 8-bit ASCII character set with a normal US keyboard, in addition to providing a character map (Key Caps). So, I can easily type domain names in languages like Spanish, German, etc. That doesn't help me with languages that use other character sets like Russian, Japanese, etc. but I can't read those languages anyway, and if I could, I'm sure I'd figure out a way to type them.
How the heck do you mistype an ASCII URL so you get non-ASCII characters? Do you have some kind of funky keyboard that produces non-ASCII characters? I'd love to see such a fucked up keyboard. Geez, if you want to use non-standard keyboard setups or weird ass keyboards then deal with it. For those of us with standard ASCII keyboards there IS NO PROBLEM. You'd have to go out of your way to type these characters.
That's because you've never used a computer in a non-English-speaking country. On a Spanish keyboard, the Ñ key is right next to the L key. On a French keyboard, the Ù key is right next to the M key (which is next to the L key, which seems pretty strange to me, along with A and Q being reversed from what we're used to). So yes, it's easy to make these typos if you use a non-US keyboard layout.
Doesn't that assume that users only look up the names of webservers?
Yes. I believe they said an e-mail protocol will work too, I don't remember which one.
The user receives unhelpful "Connection refused" messages, instead of being prompted to correct their typo by a "Can't find..." message.
They also assume that everyone runs Internet Explorer, which by default simply displays the unhelpful "The page could not be displayed" or redirects to MSN's search engine. Being redirected to a Verisign plugin page won't seem too strange to these users.
Using /dev/urandom you never know, you may randomly get a Metallica song and then you're screwed.
/dev/urandom, it's fine, because their copyright doesn't apply if you produced it independently.
/dev/urandom produces something patented, though, you're screwed.
Nope, you're thinking of patents. If you get a Metallica song out of
If
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." - Linus Torvalds
Call him and offer to change his long distance service.
FYI, the correct accents: déjà vu
Is McDonald's the best at burgers simply because they have the highest sales? The only thing that McDonald's really did right was by hitting a happy medium of price, quality, speed and convenience.
Seen on McDonald's french fries:
America's favorite fries!*
* by sales volume.
Anybody working on one? If we can find a good way to add support to GNUstep, I bet we could port this app fairly easily. (If it's a Cocoa app, natch.)
AFAIK, iTunes is Carbon, not Cocoa, and it sounds like iCommune is an iTunes plugin (until it gets rewritten).
Explain to me again how a school buying more expensive hardware that isn't generally used in the real world is going to help my kid get a better education?
The whole "generally used in the real world" argument is utter nonsense. You should teach kids computing concepts, not specific applications or systems, because by the time they graduate, the specific applications and systems they used will be obsolete anyway, but the concepts still apply. It doesn't matter if a kid learns about computers on Mac OS X, Windows XP, KDE, Gnome, Mac OS 8, or Windows 95. They'll have to adjust later anyway.
However, there are two distinct advantages of not using Windows in school: first, since the student is likely to be using Windows at home, teaching them something else at school gives them a broader base of experience than what they might otherwise have exposure to, which will make it easier to adjust to other systems in the future. Second, it shows them that there are viable alternatives to Microsoft, so if they later choose to run Windows, it will at least be a real choice.