Is. I use it daily. Though every once it a while I try to access some content and get told, "Sorry. That's only for @home users." You can drag my static IP and DSL line from my cold, dead fingers. Well, the static IP. I'd happly convert to an OC-3 if I could afford it.:)
I routinely test my web pages in Lynx. In fact, a web seminar I attended back before they axed the training budget made a big deal about calling Lynx the "ADA Compliant browser," meaning that if your page runs and is navigable in Lynx, screen reading software, etc., should have no trouble with it. Even my photo album works just fine in Lynx. Though why you'd try to view a photo album in a text browser is beyond me....
Can't say I actually do much with it normally, though.
They've patented their line of stem cells (which seems quite odd in an of itself since they didn't actually invent them), and the method by which they obtained them. The patent can be viewed online at
uspto.gov. Presumably there's nothing to prevent someone else from developing a line (and, in fact, if there are 60+ lines, this surely has happened) using a different process.
I don't think the goal is necessarily to migrate to AIX. IBM makes its money off the hardware; when you have a solid revenue stream like that, open source software is an ally, not a foe.
Because a lot of people want to run executable code on their web pages. To do that, you have two options: a Netscape-style plugin, or an ActiveX control. ActiveX controls are an IE-only monstrosity, but Netscape-style plugins (used to) work in both, so if you used a plugin, you got IE and Netscape support with a single implementation.
We had planned to do this very thing with a project I'm working on. Looks like we'll have to revisit it. Moan.
There's always someone in orbit now -- ISS is permanently manned. There's also a shuttle in space, delivering a new space station crew among other things. Presumably they're doing OK -- they had a space walk yesterday, according to Excite's news feed.
You can (relatively) easily prove the correctness of your algorithm. It should be pretty trivial. Proving the correctness of the code that implements the algorithm is quite a bit more difficult, however.
I live in Indiana, and in both counties in which I've voted we used an electronic voting system. I presume it's pretty secure but have never really worried that much about it. I don't know where you'd begin trying to crack it - it accumulates votes electornically so as soon as the polls close the poll workers can
query the device and get the counts. It also apparantly (judging from the sound) prints each ballot internally, which would be good in case someone managed to clear its memory (by zapping it with an electric shock or something).
I'm not sure a touch screen is a good idea, though. These "Microvote" machines have a paper ballot inside, so there's no concern of someone wandering in early on and swapping "Mickey Mouse" for "Donald Duck" on the screen. Also, every touch screen I've ever seen has gotten finger print smudges quite badly. Toward the end of the day you could see who'd gotten the most votes by which buttons had the most smudges. And someone who was really into it might be able to scan fingerprints and figure out who voted for whom.
I've also voted once with a paper ballot (absentee because I was going to be out of town on election day and we had a hotly contended mayoral election -- we had higher turnout for that election than we get for Presidential elections!). I have no idea how secure that was either, but I did seal my ballot in an envelope with no identifying marks, which I then put inside the absentee ballot envelope which had my voter ID, etc. so they could let the poll workers know I'd voted and couldn't vote on election day.
And yes, it does seem every time you turn around we're electing somebody for something.:) We have congressional elections every two years (1/3 of them each time, serving for a 6 year term), and Presidential elections every 4 years. Of course, there's also state and local elections -- even the dog catcher is an elected position around here!
On a related note, I'm not as concerned as some by the low voter turnout in America. I think our next Presidential election will have a higher than normal turnout, as people who don't vote because they don't think their vote will make any difference turn out, but in general Americans who don't vote don't vote because they don't care: our system works and the differences between the candidates are relatively minor. Nobody is going to try to repeal the 1st or 4th Amendments, for instance. There are no Hitlers up for election in America.:)
It's entirely possible (likely in fact) that I'm confused, but I was under the impression they bailed on the hardware because they couldn't get FCC Class B certification.
I really liked the Geekport, but was just out of college, recently married, and had too many bills at the time to buy one.
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An. An MSCE, I see.:-P
The hosts file is the first place the machine looks to look up host names (before DNS). This gives it the effect of overriding DNS (and speeding things up). It's generally used for sites with a number of static hosts and no local DNS (my home LAN, for instance, has DNS entries for my wife's machine, my Linux box, and my laptop), or for providing an alias to a site with no DNS (or an unweildy DNS). My home machine also has a link in to our test machine here in the office; it's "domain name" is something like "bandwidth-brokers-corpis.com-fortwayne-subnet636- ip235" or something equally hideous. At home, I access it as "phdfw.":)
In this example, you add an entry that points hotmail at 127.0.0.1 or something, so that attempts to hit hotmail fail (because they go to the wrong IP address).
If you'd read the article before posting comments on it, you'd have seen that they are filled with helium, although recent research suggests that Hindenberg didn't burn because of the hydrogen, but because of a flammable skin.
I've been there (it was Zaire at the time). Gorgeous land and a lot of extremely friendly people trying to live simple, peaceful lives. Something to remember is that wars don't last forever, they don't involve everybody (well, rarely), and in any war there are lots of honorable people on both (or in this case, all 5) sides.
There are still plenty of horrible commercials. Just no more of *their* horrible commercials.:) Why doesn't the/. crowd scream about all our TV shows getting interrupted every few minutes for ads like they do about pop-up, banner, and pop-under ads?
I can't speak for USB, but I do know that RS-232 is (supposed to be) extremely robust against such things. You can hook it up backwards, inside out, shorted, grounded, connected to the power supply, etc. and while it may not work, it won't cause any damage.
I wish the article had given more details. Sounds to me like a crappy motherboard manufacturer trying to blame their problems on someone else. Kind of like Ford blaming Firestone for tire failures even though Ford was running the tires out of spec to overcome another basic design flaw in their car.
You can't sue someone because somebody misuses their product. If I kill your puppy by putting drain cleaner in his food dish, you can't sue the drain cleaner manufacturer.
I think Microsoft would be safe. This is clearly not the intended use of their product.
Right, but the same people who think that Microsoft invented long file names (seems my Apple//e supported much longer than 8.3 file names) will think that the links are put there by the web site author. So it gets filtered through the "what does this web site think" filter and not the "what does Microsoft think" filter.
Are you the same AC who reported this a few days ago in another topic (where it was also off topic, even if true). Since neither CBS nor CNN seems to have any information on it, I have my doubts about its accuracy.
I thought that only applied to ILEC's. My DSL allowed me to get rid of my second line -- I pay just a couple bucks more for the DSL than I did for the second line.
I pay $32.50/mo to Very-off for my DSL line, and $19.95 to my ISP for service (including a static IP). Never paid a penny for setup. So that puts me in your general vicinity.
And I routinely peg my 768kbps download speed.
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MediaOne allows you to run servers? When I was trying to decide between cable and DSL, that was a deciding factor: Comcast@Home made an enormous deal about not running ANY servers on their network. Seems that, among other things, cable networks aren't all that great at returning data back upstream.
And I'll bet he rolls over in his grave every time someone returns a movie to the video store. Sometimes you want to buy and re-read (or re-view) the work, sometimes you want to save a buck and just rent it. No big deal. Certainly nothing to trouble the Founding Fathers over.
It's apparantly not changing any content. What is is doing, in effect, is stealing traffic from your competitors. This is quite possibly a trademark violation (like Circuit City putting a big Best Buy sign out front to trick people intending to go to Best Buy into going to Circuit City instead).
It's much like putting your competitor's trademarks in your "meta" tags to get search engine hits for your competitor to show your site. You can use generics, but not trademarks. That's the whole point of a trademark.
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Is. I use it daily. Though every once it a while I try to access some content and get told, "Sorry. That's only for @home users." You can drag my static IP and DSL line from my cold, dead fingers. Well, the static IP. I'd happly convert to an OC-3 if I could afford it. :)
I routinely test my web pages in Lynx. In fact, a web seminar I attended back before they axed the training budget made a big deal about calling Lynx the "ADA Compliant browser," meaning that if your page runs and is navigable in Lynx, screen reading software, etc., should have no trouble with it. Even my photo album works just fine in Lynx. Though why you'd try to view a photo album in a text browser is beyond me....
Can't say I actually do much with it normally, though.
They've patented their line of stem cells (which seems quite odd in an of itself since they didn't actually invent them), and the method by which they obtained them. The patent can be viewed online at uspto.gov. Presumably there's nothing to prevent someone else from developing a line (and, in fact, if there are 60+ lines, this surely has happened) using a different process.
I don't think the goal is necessarily to migrate to AIX. IBM makes its money off the hardware; when you have a solid revenue stream like that, open source software is an ally, not a foe.
Because a lot of people want to run executable code on their web pages. To do that, you have two options: a Netscape-style plugin, or an ActiveX control. ActiveX controls are an IE-only monstrosity, but Netscape-style plugins (used to) work in both, so if you used a plugin, you got IE and Netscape support with a single implementation.
We had planned to do this very thing with a project I'm working on. Looks like we'll have to revisit it. Moan.
There's always someone in orbit now -- ISS is permanently manned. There's also a shuttle in space, delivering a new space station crew among other things. Presumably they're doing OK -- they had a space walk yesterday, according to Excite's news feed.
You can (relatively) easily prove the correctness of your algorithm. It should be pretty trivial. Proving the correctness of the code that implements the algorithm is quite a bit more difficult, however.
I live in Indiana, and in both counties in which I've voted we used an electronic voting system. I presume it's pretty secure but have never really worried that much about it. I don't know where you'd begin trying to crack it - it accumulates votes electornically so as soon as the polls close the poll workers can query the device and get the counts. It also apparantly (judging from the sound) prints each ballot internally, which would be good in case someone managed to clear its memory (by zapping it with an electric shock or something).
I'm not sure a touch screen is a good idea, though. These "Microvote" machines have a paper ballot inside, so there's no concern of someone wandering in early on and swapping "Mickey Mouse" for "Donald Duck" on the screen. Also, every touch screen I've ever seen has gotten finger print smudges quite badly. Toward the end of the day you could see who'd gotten the most votes by which buttons had the most smudges. And someone who was really into it might be able to scan fingerprints and figure out who voted for whom.
I've also voted once with a paper ballot (absentee because I was going to be out of town on election day and we had a hotly contended mayoral election -- we had higher turnout for that election than we get for Presidential elections!). I have no idea how secure that was either, but I did seal my ballot in an envelope with no identifying marks, which I then put inside the absentee ballot envelope which had my voter ID, etc. so they could let the poll workers know I'd voted and couldn't vote on election day.
And yes, it does seem every time you turn around we're electing somebody for something. :) We have congressional elections every two years (1/3 of them each time, serving for a 6 year term), and Presidential elections every 4 years. Of course, there's also state and local elections -- even the dog catcher is an elected position around here!
On a related note, I'm not as concerned as some by the low voter turnout in America. I think our next Presidential election will have a higher than normal turnout, as people who don't vote because they don't think their vote will make any difference turn out, but in general Americans who don't vote don't vote because they don't care: our system works and the differences between the candidates are relatively minor. Nobody is going to try to repeal the 1st or 4th Amendments, for instance. There are no Hitlers up for election in America. :)
Why can't ThinkGeek ship caffiniated products to Sweden or Belgium? Surely it's not a controlled substance??? Certainly not in those countries!
It's entirely possible (likely in fact) that I'm confused, but I was under the impression they bailed on the hardware because they couldn't get FCC Class B certification.
I really liked the Geekport, but was just out of college, recently married, and had too many bills at the time to buy one.
An. An MSCE, I see. :-P
The hosts file is the first place the machine looks to look up host names (before DNS). This gives it the effect of overriding DNS (and speeding things up). It's generally used for sites with a number of static hosts and no local DNS (my home LAN, for instance, has DNS entries for my wife's machine, my Linux box, and my laptop), or for providing an alias to a site with no DNS (or an unweildy DNS). My home machine also has a link in to our test machine here in the office; it's "domain name" is something like "bandwidth-brokers-corpis.com-fortwayne-subnet636- ip235" or something equally hideous. At home, I access it as "phdfw." :)
In this example, you add an entry that points hotmail at 127.0.0.1 or something, so that attempts to hit hotmail fail (because they go to the wrong IP address).
If you'd read the article before posting comments on it, you'd have seen that they are filled with helium, although recent research suggests that Hindenberg didn't burn because of the hydrogen, but because of a flammable skin.
I've been there (it was Zaire at the time). Gorgeous land and a lot of extremely friendly people trying to live simple, peaceful lives. Something to remember is that wars don't last forever, they don't involve everybody (well, rarely), and in any war there are lots of honorable people on both (or in this case, all 5) sides.
Keep your dream. Work for peace when you can.
There are still plenty of horrible commercials. Just no more of *their* horrible commercials. :) Why doesn't the /. crowd scream about all our TV shows getting interrupted every few minutes for ads like they do about pop-up, banner, and pop-under ads?
I can't speak for USB, but I do know that RS-232 is (supposed to be) extremely robust against such things. You can hook it up backwards, inside out, shorted, grounded, connected to the power supply, etc. and while it may not work, it won't cause any damage.
I wish the article had given more details. Sounds to me like a crappy motherboard manufacturer trying to blame their problems on someone else. Kind of like Ford blaming Firestone for tire failures even though Ford was running the tires out of spec to overcome another basic design flaw in their car.
The problem on the cable modem networks isn't boneheaded admins. It's silly people who didn't realise they had IIS running on their NT system.
Still seems draconian to me. "We're going to close the intersection of Pine and Elm because there are too many accidents there."
You can't sue someone because somebody misuses their product. If I kill your puppy by putting drain cleaner in his food dish, you can't sue the drain cleaner manufacturer.
I think Microsoft would be safe. This is clearly not the intended use of their product.
Right, but the same people who think that Microsoft invented long file names (seems my Apple //e supported much longer than 8.3 file names) will think that the links are put there by the web site author. So it gets filtered through the "what does this web site think" filter and not the "what does Microsoft think" filter.
Supposing this does turn out to contradict general relativity. Would that mean faster-than-light travel is back in the realm of possibility?
Are you the same AC who reported this a few days ago in another topic (where it was also off topic, even if true). Since neither CBS nor CNN seems to have any information on it, I have my doubts about its accuracy.
I thought that only applied to ILEC's. My DSL allowed me to get rid of my second line -- I pay just a couple bucks more for the DSL than I did for the second line.
I pay $32.50/mo to Very-off for my DSL line, and $19.95 to my ISP for service (including a static IP). Never paid a penny for setup. So that puts me in your general vicinity.
And I routinely peg my 768kbps download speed.
MediaOne allows you to run servers? When I was trying to decide between cable and DSL, that was a deciding factor: Comcast@Home made an enormous deal about not running ANY servers on their network. Seems that, among other things, cable networks aren't all that great at returning data back upstream.
And I'll bet he rolls over in his grave every time someone returns a movie to the video store. Sometimes you want to buy and re-read (or re-view) the work, sometimes you want to save a buck and just rent it. No big deal. Certainly nothing to trouble the Founding Fathers over.
We have laws to handle that. That would be a clear violation of trademark law. This is dancing on the edge, but that would be open and shut.
It's apparantly not changing any content. What is is doing, in effect, is stealing traffic from your competitors. This is quite possibly a trademark violation (like Circuit City putting a big Best Buy sign out front to trick people intending to go to Best Buy into going to Circuit City instead).
It's much like putting your competitor's trademarks in your "meta" tags to get search engine hits for your competitor to show your site. You can use generics, but not trademarks. That's the whole point of a trademark.