Ohhhhhhh! She was the one who... yeah, I remember now! The Game, the stage play, biting his tongue. OK, I remember her, and yeah, she certainly was. That was terribly amusing. I was thinking the other one was Brown.
Any other geeks want to put together some money for a round trip to japan with a few crates full of hamburgers?
"Gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, herpes, genital warts... some girls are carriers of multiple diseases. I had one girl whose herpes sores had spread so far she couldn't walk any more,"
You go on ahead, I think I'll stay home this time.
In one of his Author's Notes he said he didn't actually intend to make her a lesbian, she just kind of came out seeming that way. A lot of people wrote to him and complained that he didn't do a good job expressing what a real lesbian is like, and it's because he wasn't thinking of that at all.
It's been years, though, so I really don't remember.
I always loved the Author's Note at the end of (nearly) every book.
Damn straight. BBEdit is simply amazing. Not just for HTML; it's pretty sweet for most programming languages too. It's handy to be able to double-click a command I've just typed, select a menu option and have it show me that command in the Perl documentation. On Mac OS X it can tell me whether the code compiles cleanly or if there are any errors, and show me where the errors are. Cut and paste some code into a function and need to indent it farther in? No problem, just a couple of keystrokes to shift it over. Too many features to begin to describe, really.
AOL's proposed solution, which was submitted to the IETF. Nobody, including AOL, really takes it seriously. I'm not entirely sure why.
Basically, the concept is this: anyone - AOL or Microsoft or Yahoo or Joe Blow down the street - can run their own IM service. Every IM user has a username/screen name, and every IM service has a domain name (aol.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, joeblow.net). All you need to send an IM from one service to another is the username and domain, which would look like an e-mail address and might actually be an e-mail address.
When you send e-mail from one address to another, you send the message to your (ISP's) SMTP server, which looks up the domain name you're sending the message to, gets the SMTP server defined in the MX (mail exchange) record for the domain, and sends the message there. Under this proposal, a new record type would be added to DNS, an IMX record that specifies which server can handle IM connections.
So, say you're on Yahoo Messenger. You want to send an IM to another Yahoo user, Yahoo takes care of that and it's nobody else's business. You want to send an IM to an AOL user, you send it to Yahoo's servers, Yahoo lookup aol.com and contacts the server defined in the IMX record. For security AOL looks up the IMX record for yahoo.com too, and they do a three-way handshake. The message is sent, and it appears to the AOL user like an IM that came from joebob@yahoo.com.
Of course for redundancy and load balancing there can be multiple IMX records, just like there can be multiple MX records for e-mail. It's been awhile since I read the proposal; there's more to it than that. It may not be perfect, but it would have been an open standard that anyone could use, not limited to just the big companies.
Damn right. Can we petition Apple to bring these back in USB? I've got a USB Pro keyboard, and after awhile I was able to get used to it, but after two years I still don't like it. The Apple Extended Keyboard was absolutely perfect. The right feel, and all the keys in the right place - what is it with keyboard manufacturers that refuse to put the backslash where it belongs?
I used to do all this by hand. It took waaaaaay too much time. Now I have a $3/month subscription to Spamcop, which I've been using for the past year, and I have been VERY pleased with the service. I, too, highly recommend it.
I also work at an ISP, and nearly all the spam complaints I've seen come from Spamcop. Most of the customers whose service we suspend are running Microsoft Exchange which comes pre-configured as an open relay; some aren't competent enough to understand why they need to disable it and some simply forgot to disable it (I spoke to one customer who simply wanted to run a Web server; he'd just reinstalled Windows and had forgotten that the mail server runs by default).
You walk into the lobby of a company you're doing business with. You're a guest in their lobby. They have a button with a warning saying not to push it. It's their button. If you push it, they'll find out (if it didn't do anything bad, there wouldn't be a sign). You can assume there may be an alarm or some other immediate indication that the button has just been pushed, thus drawing attention to yourself. Seems pretty obvious to me that you're not gonna get anyone pushing that button, except for people who WANT to cause trouble, but that's not your clientele (but could be their kids, if they bring their kids with them).
Your assertion that morality can only be supported by appeal to superstition is patently ridiculous. I don't have to believe in your creation myth to know that killing people is unacceptable.
If you believe every human being is given life by a divine Creator and He has said that murder is wrong, then you MUST believe that murder is wrong.
If you believe that humans evolved from the same ancestor as chimpanzees, and will later evolve into a new and improved species, and the only real difference between a human and another animal is that we happen to be generally in control of things at the moment, then you MAY believe that murder is wrong. You MAY believe that killing cows and pigs is wrong too, or you may like eating beef and pork. Generally most people agree that murdering humans is wrong, slaughtering pigs is OK, mistreating animals is wrong... If you think about it, it's not really set in stone, is it?
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reason."
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Untill Flash is at a point to where they write versions for ALL platforms instead of giving M$ platforms at version 6.0, while all the others remain at 5.0, then I don't think they should be given ANY credit for being open source advocates.
Since when does open source mean non-Windows platforms?
Perhaps if Flash were released as open source, members of the community would help port the latest version to other platforms faster than Macromedia can do it themselves?
Uhh, yeah, Slashdot (and obviously OSDN, Slashdot's parent company) are funded by Microsoft, among many other advertisers. Do the advertisers have any control over the content of the site? I like to think not.
Don't forget that most of Slashdot's readers use Internet Explorer on Windows.;-)
There are laws. Who gave them monopoly? They earned it because they have foresight.
Yes, and as others have pointed out here, having a monopoly is not illegal. There's nothing wrong with that. That's not what they've been convicted of.
Of course they've done good. They've also been convicted of breaking the law. Should we look the other way when Microsoft abuses their monopoly power, just because they've made computers more widespread? Should we look the other way when the county sherrif steals money, just because he's helped protect our community? Should we look the other way when a priest molests a child, just because he's done so much good in the church?
Think about what you're saying, and quit trolling for Microsoft.
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Ohhhhhhh! She was the one who... yeah, I remember now! The Game, the stage play, biting his tongue. OK, I remember her, and yeah, she certainly was. That was terribly amusing. I was thinking the other one was Brown.
Damn, I should read those again.
In one of his Author's Notes he said he didn't actually intend to make her a lesbian, she just kind of came out seeming that way. A lot of people wrote to him and complained that he didn't do a good job expressing what a real lesbian is like, and it's because he wasn't thinking of that at all.
It's been years, though, so I really don't remember.
I always loved the Author's Note at the end of (nearly) every book.
Damn straight. BBEdit is simply amazing. Not just for HTML; it's pretty sweet for most programming languages too. It's handy to be able to double-click a command I've just typed, select a menu option and have it show me that command in the Perl documentation. On Mac OS X it can tell me whether the code compiles cleanly or if there are any errors, and show me where the errors are. Cut and paste some code into a function and need to indent it farther in? No problem, just a couple of keystrokes to shift it over. Too many features to begin to describe, really.
AOL's proposed solution, which was submitted to the IETF. Nobody, including AOL, really takes it seriously. I'm not entirely sure why.
Basically, the concept is this: anyone - AOL or Microsoft or Yahoo or Joe Blow down the street - can run their own IM service. Every IM user has a username/screen name, and every IM service has a domain name (aol.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com, joeblow.net). All you need to send an IM from one service to another is the username and domain, which would look like an e-mail address and might actually be an e-mail address.
When you send e-mail from one address to another, you send the message to your (ISP's) SMTP server, which looks up the domain name you're sending the message to, gets the SMTP server defined in the MX (mail exchange) record for the domain, and sends the message there. Under this proposal, a new record type would be added to DNS, an IMX record that specifies which server can handle IM connections.
So, say you're on Yahoo Messenger. You want to send an IM to another Yahoo user, Yahoo takes care of that and it's nobody else's business. You want to send an IM to an AOL user, you send it to Yahoo's servers, Yahoo lookup aol.com and contacts the server defined in the IMX record. For security AOL looks up the IMX record for yahoo.com too, and they do a three-way handshake. The message is sent, and it appears to the AOL user like an IM that came from joebob@yahoo.com.
Of course for redundancy and load balancing there can be multiple IMX records, just like there can be multiple MX records for e-mail. It's been awhile since I read the proposal; there's more to it than that. It may not be perfect, but it would have been an open standard that anyone could use, not limited to just the big companies.
Me too. That robot is cool.
Too many engines ignore spider.txt.
That's because they're looking for robots.txt. No wonder you're having problems.
Damn right. Can we petition Apple to bring these back in USB? I've got a USB Pro keyboard, and after awhile I was able to get used to it, but after two years I still don't like it. The Apple Extended Keyboard was absolutely perfect. The right feel, and all the keys in the right place - what is it with keyboard manufacturers that refuse to put the backslash where it belongs?
Not sure about other states, but Oregon's list makes it illegal for telemarketers in different states to call me.
other major carriers (e.g. Sprint, UUNet, etc.)
Um, we're talking about UUNet here, in case you missed that.
That jumped out at me too.
I used to do all this by hand. It took waaaaaay too much time. Now I have a $3/month subscription to Spamcop, which I've been using for the past year, and I have been VERY pleased with the service. I, too, highly recommend it.
I also work at an ISP, and nearly all the spam complaints I've seen come from Spamcop. Most of the customers whose service we suspend are running Microsoft Exchange which comes pre-configured as an open relay; some aren't competent enough to understand why they need to disable it and some simply forgot to disable it (I spoke to one customer who simply wanted to run a Web server; he'd just reinstalled Windows and had forgotten that the mail server runs by default).
My bad, I misread that. :-\
You walk into the lobby of a company you're doing business with. You're a guest in their lobby. They have a button with a warning saying not to push it. It's their button. If you push it, they'll find out (if it didn't do anything bad, there wouldn't be a sign). You can assume there may be an alarm or some other immediate indication that the button has just been pushed, thus drawing attention to yourself. Seems pretty obvious to me that you're not gonna get anyone pushing that button, except for people who WANT to cause trouble, but that's not your clientele (but could be their kids, if they bring their kids with them).
If you believe every human being is given life by a divine Creator and He has said that murder is wrong, then you MUST believe that murder is wrong.
If you believe that humans evolved from the same ancestor as chimpanzees, and will later evolve into a new and improved species, and the only real difference between a human and another animal is that we happen to be generally in control of things at the moment, then you MAY believe that murder is wrong. You MAY believe that killing cows and pigs is wrong too, or you may like eating beef and pork. Generally most people agree that murdering humans is wrong, slaughtering pigs is OK, mistreating animals is wrong... If you think about it, it's not really set in stone, is it?
Untill Flash is at a point to where they write versions for ALL platforms instead of giving M$ platforms at version 6.0, while all the others remain at 5.0, then I don't think they should be given ANY credit for being open source advocates.
Since when does open source mean non-Windows platforms?
Perhaps if Flash were released as open source, members of the community would help port the latest version to other platforms faster than Macromedia can do it themselves?
Uhh, yeah, Slashdot (and obviously OSDN, Slashdot's parent company) are funded by Microsoft, among many other advertisers. Do the advertisers have any control over the content of the site? I like to think not.
;-)
Don't forget that most of Slashdot's readers use Internet Explorer on Windows.
There are laws. Who gave them monopoly? They earned it because they have foresight.
Yes, and as others have pointed out here, having a monopoly is not illegal. There's nothing wrong with that. That's not what they've been convicted of.
This isn't a knock against linux or other *nix's just points out what the weakest links are.
And a working Sorenson codec available for Linux is a good step toward closing some of those gaps.
Of course they've done good. They've also been convicted of breaking the law. Should we look the other way when Microsoft abuses their monopoly power, just because they've made computers more widespread? Should we look the other way when the county sherrif steals money, just because he's helped protect our community? Should we look the other way when a priest molests a child, just because he's done so much good in the church?
Think about what you're saying, and quit trolling for Microsoft.
so this is finally over...
Uh, no, the judge still has to make a decision. And then it may be appealed. Sorry.
Anyone know the status of mod_ssl for 1.3.26?
Really, there is nothing to difficult about:
./configure
make
su
make install
Yeah, ever install Mozilla that way? How about XFree86? On a PII/300? After downloading the tarball on 56k? There are advantages to binary packages.
Damn it, I was just about ready to go buy a GBA. Oh well.
While .edu is run by a group of Universities.
.edu is managed by Verisign, is it not?