The solution: put a spamproofed email address (like sketerpot@chase30003.14159.com minus pi) in an anchor tag (or, if you're down with the DOM, a span tag and just insert the anchor tag later), and have your javascript replace it with a mailto-linked non-spamproofed email address. For humans with javascript-enabled browsers, you'll see the unmunged address, which you can click on or copy and paste to your webmail. Spambots get nothing. Non-javascript humans deal with the spamproofing. Problem solved, unless you use too complex spamproofing. "sketerpot@chase30003.14159.com minus pi" is pushing it.
The first question would be acceptable in very few instances, like math-help@somewhere.edu, and it excludes a lot of humanity. Hell, I had trouble getting 10 and 6, and I'm not even sure I'm right.
Your second question is a good idea just as a hint for the first question.
Your third question is the easiest, but it might be hard to generate lots of those.
As a consequence of their firing Mr. Mims, I have refused to buy "Scientific American" for the last several years.
In that case, count yourself as lucky: you've missed the issue in which they attack creationism in a major article. (I, OTOH, count myself as lucky that I subscribe; I liked that article.)
Aieee! Tainted meat KILLED MY SAMURAI! I didn't have a unicorn horn, Amaterasu Omikami (sp?) was mad at me and decided to write me off because he has the morals and manners of a spoiled child, and now I'm dead.
Ulch - that meat was tainted! You feel deathly sick. Do you want your posessions identified?
Personally, I think spires should count. I'm tired of the whole "we've got the biggest building now, nyaa nyaa!" thing, and spires could end it once and for all. Why? Three words: the space elevator. If it counts as a "spire", then whatever base it sits on can be called the "tallest building in the world", and no amount of sticking dirigible docks on the empire state building or this new thing in Taipei can change it.
Either that or the stupid spire rule will go away. Either way, I forsee only good coming of the whole thing.
Those might also help with Puritansim, the haunting fear that somewhere, someone may be happy. (Apologies to H. L. Mencken, especially if I've misspelled his name)
VeriSign today announced that, after a massive public outcry over their SiteFinder service, would be replacing it with the new PornFinder service.
"It's what people use the internet for, and a great innovation in making the internet more usable and friendly to businesses," said the VeriSign CEO, "particularly the ones that give us money and carry our banner ads."
Critics said that PornFinder was an inferior substitute for what other sites already offer, and should be done by browsers. VeriSign executives, however, failed to see the difference.
"I don't see how this could cause any instability. I mean, this is a lot cheaper than paying Microsoft to put our feature in all the internet browsers," said What's-his-name. "And we get money from it! That's what I'm talking about when I say making the web friendlier for businesses---using our monopoly over part of the web to increase our profits!"
Doing that hurts your intrinsic economic integrity. The only way to fix it is to hire people who know about stochastic stuff and make sure that they're orthogonal to dynamic synergists.
I beleieve you're thinking of GNOME Storage. Looks cool.
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Alright, then truncate he tables in winfs. I don' think you can roll that back, which is why it's so fast.
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That might be a good idea if you have a disk much bigger than you need. The filesystem could, say, write a new copy, and if it ran out of copy space it would overwrite the oldest copies. It's not something you could rely on, but it could be pretty convenient to undo changes you never anticipated having to undo.
That would be rather difficult; the security has got to be ridiculously tight. However, they could try finding a likely X-Prize team or two and funding them. Sure, the government help would disqualify the team for the X-Prize, but they'd get to latch on to a small space program with minimal investment.
I would agree to refer to different distributions as OSes, but there's one part I take issue with:
I'm not going to rename any projects I do GNU/ because they use GNU tools, and as far as I've seen nobody has suggested to do so.
If you were going to rename your project (which you're correct in saying that nobody has ever suggested), it would be <project>/GNU[/Linux], because it would indicate that your peoject was running on top of GNU, rather than the other way around. Probably pedantic, but I think everyone is entitled to a small allotment of nitpickiness.
They're not supposed to be identical. One is a zip file, the other is a.torrent file. It's just reassuring to have the checksums up somewhere (if only I knew I could trust them).
I've always thought pledging allegiance to some flag is a bit quaint. It makes no sense. And pledging allegiance to your country each and every day.. doesn't that strike you folks as a bit forced? A bit nationalistic? More the sort of thing schoolkids in China or North-Korea would have to do, rather than kids in a democratic country?
No, it strikes us as a tribute to our freedom that every day Our Nation's Children recite a loyalty oath. It's the way things have always been done, and "under God" is the way it's always been. And our national motto was never anything but "In God We Trust", and certainly nothing as accepting of diversity as "E Pluribus Unum".
Ow, and the "under God" thing. Well, the US were kinda founded by people who didn't appreciate having religion forced through their throats, so it's only courtesy to, well, do unto others..
The US were founded by people who wanted FREEDOM OF RELIGION, which doesn't mean freedom from religion, which is why the government should officially recognize that Christianity is the truth and Americans are Christian and DIE YOU EUROPEAN COMMIE SCUM!
I'm going to get me some Freedom Fries, with lots of sarcasm sauce. BTW, thanks. Your post is the sanest and most compelling I've seen in this article yet.
Perhaps this would be irrelevant if, say, Kazaa were to implement a general category mechanism. Perhaps the protocol does this, but the clients that I know of sure don't. It would be nice to just click the "university" category and search for stuff.
Yes, the sooner the better. I want my gigabit ethernet! Ah hell, I'll take what I can get. It looks like lots of others are willing to take what they can get too---and max it out. Anyway, local transfers are cheaper than non-local transfers, and that's what matters.
Bittorrent would, however, be good for those vaguely plausible 100 mebibyte powerpoints. I think that Waste would be a good idea for students to use if they get fed up with the whole "know who gets what files while still using the term 'P2P'" thing. After all, the university would have some trouble stopping them.
How are the transfer rates to other computers in the same dorm? If I understand the article correctly, this is an internal thing. Still, it's good to know that the students get i2 access in their dorms.
Plus, think of the sharing potential. One could share class notes (I have a friend who takes his class notes using a pda, writes straight to latex. The resulting.dvi files were VERY much sought after), material between universities, get data from a course I don't remember and I need to remember *right now*, etc.
That does sound like a great idea, and the best application for this that I can think of. I'm doing something similar for my math notes, only using LyX instead of a Palm and raw LaTeX. I'm considering figuring out some way of leaving them to posterity (I'm taking my time on them, even including graphs and trying to explain the concepts readably) but I have a nasty suspicion that posterity (I'm in the "advanced senior math" class in high school, and we get some nasty posterity) would sneer at them. Oh well; the least I can do is post them on my web site.
Imagine something like that, but done by more students. You could eventually accumulate enough notes to publish (after a good deal of editing) a textbook of class notes. Imagine how cool it would be to get a collection like that without the trouble of having to make acquaintances and weasel their notes away from them long enough to xerox them. As an aside, though:.dvi files? You'd think that somebody would make.ps or.pdf versions, although in my experience Acrobat renders LaTeX PDFs rather poorly.
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The solution: put a spamproofed email address (like sketerpot@chase30003.14159.com minus pi) in an anchor tag (or, if you're down with the DOM, a span tag and just insert the anchor tag later), and have your javascript replace it with a mailto-linked non-spamproofed email address. For humans with javascript-enabled browsers, you'll see the unmunged address, which you can click on or copy and paste to your webmail. Spambots get nothing. Non-javascript humans deal with the spamproofing. Problem solved, unless you use too complex spamproofing. "sketerpot@chase30003.14159.com minus pi" is pushing it.
Your second question is a good idea just as a hint for the first question.
Your third question is the easiest, but it might be hard to generate lots of those.
Phstt. Like that's ever going to happen....
In that case, count yourself as lucky: you've missed the issue in which they attack creationism in a major article. (I, OTOH, count myself as lucky that I subscribe; I liked that article.)
Then again, I could just say that my finger slipped as I was typing "she". They put the S key so close to the no-op key....
Ulch - that meat was tainted! You feel deathly sick. Do you want your posessions identified?
Either that or the stupid spire rule will go away. Either way, I forsee only good coming of the whole thing.
It looks like a good Wiki, though.
Those might also help with Puritansim, the haunting fear that somewhere, someone may be happy. (Apologies to H. L. Mencken, especially if I've misspelled his name)
"It's what people use the internet for, and a great innovation in making the internet more usable and friendly to businesses," said the VeriSign CEO, "particularly the ones that give us money and carry our banner ads."
Critics said that PornFinder was an inferior substitute for what other sites already offer, and should be done by browsers. VeriSign executives, however, failed to see the difference.
"I don't see how this could cause any instability. I mean, this is a lot cheaper than paying Microsoft to put our feature in all the internet browsers," said What's-his-name. "And we get money from it! That's what I'm talking about when I say making the web friendlier for businesses---using our monopoly over part of the web to increase our profits!"
VeriSign stock prices are up 15% today.
Doing that hurts your intrinsic economic integrity. The only way to fix it is to hire people who know about stochastic stuff and make sure that they're orthogonal to dynamic synergists.
I beleieve you're thinking of GNOME Storage. Looks cool.
Alright, then truncate he tables in winfs. I don' think you can roll that back, which is why it's so fast.
That might be a good idea if you have a disk much bigger than you need. The filesystem could, say, write a new copy, and if it ran out of copy space it would overwrite the oldest copies. It's not something you could rely on, but it could be pretty convenient to undo changes you never anticipated having to undo.
Personally, I'm ready for peace. If you are too, then I congratulate you for that, whatever your religious/political/etc. beliefs may or may not be.
That would be rather difficult; the security has got to be ridiculously tight. However, they could try finding a likely X-Prize team or two and funding them. Sure, the government help would disqualify the team for the X-Prize, but they'd get to latch on to a small space program with minimal investment.
I'm not going to rename any projects I do GNU/ because they use GNU tools, and as far as I've seen nobody has suggested to do so.
If you were going to rename your project (which you're correct in saying that nobody has ever suggested), it would be <project>/GNU[/Linux], because it would indicate that your peoject was running on top of GNU, rather than the other way around. Probably pedantic, but I think everyone is entitled to a small allotment of nitpickiness.
Offtopic side note: RMS seemed happy when someone claimed to use KDE/GNU/Linux.
They're not supposed to be identical. One is a zip file, the other is a .torrent file. It's just reassuring to have the checksums up somewhere (if only I knew I could trust them).
No, it strikes us as a tribute to our freedom that every day Our Nation's Children recite a loyalty oath. It's the way things have always been done, and "under God" is the way it's always been. And our national motto was never anything but "In God We Trust", and certainly nothing as accepting of diversity as "E Pluribus Unum".
Ow, and the "under God" thing. Well, the US were kinda founded by people who didn't appreciate having religion forced through their throats, so it's only courtesy to, well, do unto others..
The US were founded by people who wanted FREEDOM OF RELIGION, which doesn't mean freedom from religion, which is why the government should officially recognize that Christianity is the truth and Americans are Christian and DIE YOU EUROPEAN COMMIE SCUM!
I'm going to get me some Freedom Fries, with lots of sarcasm sauce. BTW, thanks. Your post is the sanest and most compelling I've seen in this article yet.
Perhaps this would be irrelevant if, say, Kazaa were to implement a general category mechanism. Perhaps the protocol does this, but the clients that I know of sure don't. It would be nice to just click the "university" category and search for stuff.
Yes, the sooner the better. I want my gigabit ethernet! Ah hell, I'll take what I can get. It looks like lots of others are willing to take what they can get too---and max it out. Anyway, local transfers are cheaper than non-local transfers, and that's what matters.
Bittorrent would, however, be good for those vaguely plausible 100 mebibyte powerpoints. I think that Waste would be a good idea for students to use if they get fed up with the whole "know who gets what files while still using the term 'P2P'" thing. After all, the university would have some trouble stopping them.
How are the transfer rates to other computers in the same dorm? If I understand the article correctly, this is an internal thing. Still, it's good to know that the students get i2 access in their dorms.
That does sound like a great idea, and the best application for this that I can think of. I'm doing something similar for my math notes, only using LyX instead of a Palm and raw LaTeX. I'm considering figuring out some way of leaving them to posterity (I'm taking my time on them, even including graphs and trying to explain the concepts readably) but I have a nasty suspicion that posterity (I'm in the "advanced senior math" class in high school, and we get some nasty posterity) would sneer at them. Oh well; the least I can do is post them on my web site.
Imagine something like that, but done by more students. You could eventually accumulate enough notes to publish (after a good deal of editing) a textbook of class notes. Imagine how cool it would be to get a collection like that without the trouble of having to make acquaintances and weasel their notes away from them long enough to xerox them. As an aside, though: .dvi files? You'd think that somebody would make .ps or .pdf versions, although in my experience Acrobat renders LaTeX PDFs rather poorly.