How can a newspaper setup an IT system that completely hides every trace (including emails, phone calls notes, logs and so forth) of an anonymous source's identity?
Simple: keep the anonymous source out of the IT system. No technological system is entirely secure, and obviously subpoenas are the magic key to open them. But if there are no e-mails, no logs, no electronic notes... they can't be turned over.
Yeah, I loved entering IP addresses in decimal. It was so intuitive and simple to convert each octet to binary, then enter that as a single decimal integer.
Mozilla predates Internet Explorer by quite a large margin.
How's that? The current Mozilla browsers can trace their lineage back to Mosaic Netscape, but IE can trace its development lineage back to Spyglass Mosaic. Both were launched as clones of NCSA Mosaic at about the same time, in the early 1990s.
Something I like to do with my cartooning friends is something you could (with some fudging of definitions) call "open source comics". One person draws a panel, then passes it on to the next, who draws another, and so on. At the end, you usually have something far funnier than any one person could have come up with in the same amount of time.
Of course not everyone's comfortable with the process of sequential-art storytelling, so maybe instead you could produce an "open source" drawing of a beach scene, or the company cube farm, or whatever. To increase the parallel to open-source development, do it on a dry-erase board, and give everyone an eraser and pen, so they can modify each other's work. If you're lucky, you'll get some people contributing rough ideas (the owner of the company being crushed by a piano), others improving on that (changing the piano into a giant stapler), and still others tweaking things with finishing touches (e.g. adding the word "Swingline" to the stapler or coloring it red), and the "I can't code^H^H^H^Hdraw" folks adding word balloons ("We need to talk about your TPS reports!"). Then at the end, take a digital photo of the result, and make copies (either on paper or distributed by e-mail) for everyone to take with them and fork to their heart's content.
Of course this demo depends on people playing nice (i.e. no Wikipedia-style vandalism), and it'd probably help to stack the deck a little with some people you know will fill some of these roles. But it illustrates the whole concept of open source in terms that non-geeks should grok.
I found the LSAT tougher than the GRE CS. But I suppose that's probably because I took it cold, without even seeing a practice test or asking anyone what kinds of questions would be on it. (I just wanted to see if I could have gotten into law school. Dad's a lawyer; it's an Oedipus thang.) Still, I scored in the 90th percentile, so it wasn't that hard. {grin}
It was surprisingly analytical. As a geek, I'm embarrassed to admit that I got most stuck on the logic puzzles ("Amy is taller than Bruce. Charles and Dorothy are cousins. If Bruce is a dentist, then Edgar is shorter than Charles..... Who is Amy's boss?") because I choked and couldn't remember how to solve them short of a brute-force attack (for which I didn't have time). I guess I managed to make up for it on the essay/argument portion, which (IMNSHO) I aced.
I took the GRE CS exam back in '87, so this obsolete info probably won't help you a durn bit, but old people like to talk to younguns about back when they were your age, so shut up and pretend to listen. {toothless smile}
My prep (aside from 3.5 years of CS classes) consisted solely of getting the practice test [PDF] (it wasn't available online at the time {smile}) and making sure I understood the questions it asked. In particular I recall the regular expressions stuff puzzling me (I got the concept, but didn't grok their syntax), so I compared the questions with the answers and reverse-engineered it. If you can figure out the practice test, you'll probably do OK on the real one. And if you can't... maybe the exam should identify that? Sorry, but I'm just not a big fan of teaching-for-the-test education.
I only scored in the 92nd percentile (compared to 98-99th for the general test sections), so maybe more prep would've been helpful. But I prefer to blame the fact that I had traveled from Aberdeen to the wrong university in the wrong part of Glasgow (clueless American exchange student that I was) and didn't discover this mistake until late the night before the exam, after I'd gotten a room nearby and was trying to figure out where I had to go in the morning. So I had to get up early, catch the very first bus of the day, and finally sprint a couple blocks to get there before they closed the doors.
Will apple open the hardware specifications so linux would work perfectly?
There doesn't appear to be any problem with that with the current PPC models. If Yellow Dog can get Linux running well on a PowerMac G5 (and by all accounts they have), I don't see why anyone would have any trouble getting an x86 distro running just as well on a (PM)^2.
I have no idea how good it is, but Ferris State University's Grand Rapids MI campus launched a game-design program a couple years ago. For what it's worth, I (an employee of Ferris' art-and-design college) have just been assigned to take over tech support for them, so I'll be getting a better picture of the program in the coming months.
I'm surprised the article didn't suggest better keyboard support. IMHO, this has been the Mac GUI's biggest weakness compared to Windows for 20 years. As I go back and forth between the two, it's the one thing I find myself muttering about on the Mac. It's only in the last couple revs of OS X that they finally gave us the option of accessing the menu using the keyboard (with an awkward keyboard shortcut), and the general support for accessing dialog controls, etc. via the keyboard is still spotty at best. Having to reach for the mouse every time I want to select a non-default dialog option is a waste of productivity.
Windows - which initially listed the mouse as merely "recommended" - has always had much stronger keyboad support. But I suppose with the Windows GUI shoving this feature under the rug (e.g. the Alt-key underlines turned off by default), I suppose I'm swimming against the tide asking for this.
I wonder if anyone's gotten out of a ticket by showing how inaccurate most speed-check methods can be.
I managed to successfully contest a ticket back in the early 1990s, by invoking the laws of physics... or at least the plausibility of a 4-cylinder Ford Festiva and a police cruiser both accomplishing the feats of acceleration the officer's testimony required.
According to the officer, I had pulled onto the highway and accelerated from on-ramp speed to over 75mph, then he managed to accelerate from 55mph (the speed limit on this stretch of highway) to first overtake me, then match and clock my speed... all before I noticed him directly behind me (lights flashing), and pulled off onto the shoulder, only a mile away. Given that this would have had to happened in less than a minute at the alleged speeds involved (not bloody likely), and the fact that my personalized license plate ("GAY") suggested a motive for this officer to wrongfully pull me and my boyfriend over on our way home from the local "gay pride" festival, the magistrate threw the ticket out.
Maybe you should wait until you actually see someone harming a child before you project your own psychotic hysteria onto a situation you don't know much of anything about.
Get help for yourself first.
Seriously. Show this thread to your shrink, and you can be sure he'll want to talk about it.
Repeating what I wrote at the time of Jimmy's last public appearance:
May your dilithium crystals be fully charged, your matter/anti-matter reaction balanced, your wee bairns well cared for, and I wish you a safe and painless transport to your final shore leave.
I'm not trying to argue one side of the copyright debate or the other here, but please choose a position and be consistent about it: either you respect the copyright (in which case you don't put these books on the web without permission in the first place) or you don't respect it (in which case you leave off the notice lecturing people not to do it).
I recommend using XPlite/2000lite/98lite to keep a Windows installation lean enough to run on old hardware. These started out as a hack to remove IE from Win98, but have evolved into general-purpose tools for deactivating the parts of Windows you don't need/want. I use them to run Windows on machines over 8 years old.
A lot Win9X's security comes from the fact that it was never packaged by MS as a server, so it doesn't have stuff like IIS installed by default and begging to be exploited.
Back in those days it was still a feasible option to actually disconnect someone from the internet. If a site was mismanaged and/or ill-behaved, you could complain to the folks who had connected them to the net, and (if the problem was bad enough) get them taken off. And if a network ignored such complaints and served as a haven for harmful activity, you could get them taken off. The net was self-policing in that respect, and a much less malevolent place. Unfortunately, as the net grew, and getting on the net came to be seen as a right (of anyone with the cash) rather than a privilege (for those who agreed to behave responsibly), this became effectively impossible. Granted, there was potential for abuse of his kind of informal system (e.g. the Backbone [There Is No] Cabal), but it seemed to work better than the current arms race.
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I've always found that to be true early in the dating process.
Simple: keep the anonymous source out of the IT system. No technological system is entirely secure, and obviously subpoenas are the magic key to open them. But if there are no e-mails, no logs, no electronic notes... they can't be turned over.
Yeah, I loved entering IP addresses in decimal. It was so intuitive and simple to convert each octet to binary, then enter that as a single decimal integer.
How's that? The current Mozilla browsers can trace their lineage back to Mosaic Netscape, but IE can trace its development lineage back to Spyglass Mosaic. Both were launched as clones of NCSA Mosaic at about the same time, in the early 1990s.
Of course not everyone's comfortable with the process of sequential-art storytelling, so maybe instead you could produce an "open source" drawing of a beach scene, or the company cube farm, or whatever. To increase the parallel to open-source development, do it on a dry-erase board, and give everyone an eraser and pen, so they can modify each other's work. If you're lucky, you'll get some people contributing rough ideas (the owner of the company being crushed by a piano), others improving on that (changing the piano into a giant stapler), and still others tweaking things with finishing touches (e.g. adding the word "Swingline" to the stapler or coloring it red), and the "I can't code^H^H^H^Hdraw" folks adding word balloons ("We need to talk about your TPS reports!"). Then at the end, take a digital photo of the result, and make copies (either on paper or distributed by e-mail) for everyone to take with them and fork to their heart's content.
Of course this demo depends on people playing nice (i.e. no Wikipedia-style vandalism), and it'd probably help to stack the deck a little with some people you know will fill some of these roles. But it illustrates the whole concept of open source in terms that non-geeks should grok.
I found the LSAT tougher than the GRE CS. But I suppose that's probably because I took it cold, without even seeing a practice test or asking anyone what kinds of questions would be on it. (I just wanted to see if I could have gotten into law school. Dad's a lawyer; it's an Oedipus thang.) Still, I scored in the 90th percentile, so it wasn't that hard. {grin}
It was surprisingly analytical. As a geek, I'm embarrassed to admit that I got most stuck on the logic puzzles ("Amy is taller than Bruce. Charles and Dorothy are cousins. If Bruce is a dentist, then Edgar is shorter than Charles. .... Who is Amy's boss?") because I choked and couldn't remember how to solve them short of a brute-force attack (for which I didn't have time). I guess I managed to make up for it on the essay/argument portion, which (IMNSHO) I aced.
My prep (aside from 3.5 years of CS classes) consisted solely of getting the practice test [PDF] (it wasn't available online at the time {smile}) and making sure I understood the questions it asked. In particular I recall the regular expressions stuff puzzling me (I got the concept, but didn't grok their syntax), so I compared the questions with the answers and reverse-engineered it. If you can figure out the practice test, you'll probably do OK on the real one. And if you can't... maybe the exam should identify that? Sorry, but I'm just not a big fan of teaching-for-the-test education.
I only scored in the 92nd percentile (compared to 98-99th for the general test sections), so maybe more prep would've been helpful. But I prefer to blame the fact that I had traveled from Aberdeen to the wrong university in the wrong part of Glasgow (clueless American exchange student that I was) and didn't discover this mistake until late the night before the exam, after I'd gotten a room nearby and was trying to figure out where I had to go in the morning. So I had to get up early, catch the very first bus of the day, and finally sprint a couple blocks to get there before they closed the doors.
There doesn't appear to be any problem with that with the current PPC models. If Yellow Dog can get Linux running well on a PowerMac G5 (and by all accounts they have), I don't see why anyone would have any trouble getting an x86 distro running just as well on a (PM)^2.
(That's a PowerMac Pentium-M, natch.)
I'm all for the follow-up research, but... how much to just backup the tapes to DVD?
Buy a Mac Plus. It's completely silent.*
*Except for the floppy drive, of course.
And about 10 years to get fully deployed. There are machines still running unpatched copies of Windows 98 and IE 5.0 out there.
I hope they give us several years' notice, so that we can all go out and buy New-DST-compliant VCRs along with our HDTV-compliant TVs.
As a kid, I was always relieved by the time change in October. Is there anything lamer than daylight trick-or-treating?
I have no idea how good it is, but Ferris State University's Grand Rapids MI campus launched a game-design program a couple years ago. For what it's worth, I (an employee of Ferris' art-and-design college) have just been assigned to take over tech support for them, so I'll be getting a better picture of the program in the coming months.
Windows - which initially listed the mouse as merely "recommended" - has always had much stronger keyboad support. But I suppose with the Windows GUI shoving this feature under the rug (e.g. the Alt-key underlines turned off by default), I suppose I'm swimming against the tide asking for this.
You misspelled "amature".
I managed to successfully contest a ticket back in the early 1990s, by invoking the laws of physics... or at least the plausibility of a 4-cylinder Ford Festiva and a police cruiser both accomplishing the feats of acceleration the officer's testimony required.
According to the officer, I had pulled onto the highway and accelerated from on-ramp speed to over 75mph, then he managed to accelerate from 55mph (the speed limit on this stretch of highway) to first overtake me, then match and clock my speed... all before I noticed him directly behind me (lights flashing), and pulled off onto the shoulder, only a mile away. Given that this would have had to happened in less than a minute at the alleged speeds involved (not bloody likely), and the fact that my personalized license plate ("GAY") suggested a motive for this officer to wrongfully pull me and my boyfriend over on our way home from the local "gay pride" festival, the magistrate threw the ticket out.
Get help for yourself first.
Seriously. Show this thread to your shrink, and you can be sure he'll want to talk about it.
What part of "what business is it of yours" did you find hard to understand? No one else gets to run your life; you don't get to run anyone else's.
Repeating what I wrote at the time of Jimmy's last public appearance: May your dilithium crystals be fully charged, your matter/anti-matter reaction balanced, your wee bairns well cared for, and I wish you a safe and painless transport to your final shore leave.
If it were, then the Mac II, the SE/30, and everything after the Classic hasn't been a true Mac. And those PowerPC models... {shiver}
Dropping Apple for another machine running a different OS seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
If it's in the public domain, then don't put a freakin' copyright notice on it! How hard is this to grasp?
Or in other words, "Don't do what I just did."
I'm not trying to argue one side of the copyright debate or the other here, but please choose a position and be consistent about it: either you respect the copyright (in which case you don't put these books on the web without permission in the first place) or you don't respect it (in which case you leave off the notice lecturing people not to do it).
I recommend using XPlite/2000lite/98lite to keep a Windows installation lean enough to run on old hardware. These started out as a hack to remove IE from Win98, but have evolved into general-purpose tools for deactivating the parts of Windows you don't need/want. I use them to run Windows on machines over 8 years old.
A lot Win9X's security comes from the fact that it was never packaged by MS as a server, so it doesn't have stuff like IIS installed by default and begging to be exploited.
Back in those days it was still a feasible option to actually disconnect someone from the internet. If a site was mismanaged and/or ill-behaved, you could complain to the folks who had connected them to the net, and (if the problem was bad enough) get them taken off. And if a network ignored such complaints and served as a haven for harmful activity, you could get them taken off. The net was self-policing in that respect, and a much less malevolent place. Unfortunately, as the net grew, and getting on the net came to be seen as a right (of anyone with the cash) rather than a privilege (for those who agreed to behave responsibly), this became effectively impossible. Granted, there was potential for abuse of his kind of informal system (e.g. the Backbone [There Is No] Cabal), but it seemed to work better than the current arms race.