Of course, then they will sue anyone else using the term "Bank", because as we all know, Microsoft(r) Bank(r) is a registered trademark, and everyone else must be a trademark violator!
Most of the questions here seem to relate either to Xanth or Space Tyrant.
Do you get any feedback/comments on your other novels or series, such as Macroscope or the Omnivore/Orn/OX trilogy? Which of your series is your favorite and why?
OK, I'll be up front about this... I admit I haven't read anything of yours recently. (The last I read was "... And Eternity").
However, I recall in the postscripts to several of the Incarnations novels, you described going from CP/M to DOS as your writing platform. How was the change from DOS/Windows to Linux?
As an LA resident, I can tell you that their so-called reporters tend to take the xxAA's word for granted. They almost never question the "billions in piracy" claims.
Though at least this article did mention at the very end that Universal tried to kill the VCR, and that it wound up saving the movie industry.
Does anyone really fall for 'Have a bigger penis in 3 days'
You mean I won't have a BIGGER PENIS in 3 days, so that the HORNY TEENS won't want me and I won't need that HERBAL VIAGRA? I guess I'll have to fall back on my PHD FROM AN UNACCREDITED UNIVERITY to pick up women, after I get OUT OF DEBT by REFINANCING MY MORTGAGE!
Plus, this is about sharing information with anybody, anytime, anywhere, for no reason whatsoever expect that somebody thought it was worthwhile and that other people might enjoy it.
It reminds me of the 80's when the cable companies insisted you pay for every TV hooked up - no splitters unless they were authorized. This was fixed and it was decided that the cables companies rights ended at the wall to your house.
This was still going on as late as 1995. When I moved back into my condo after repairs from the Northridge quake, TW cable insisted I pay a hookup fee for all three drops, because their records showed that I only had one TV connected. Of course, all three drops were there when I moved in 8 years earlier.
Considering the mediocre technical skill level of the typical cable modem ISP, proving that the customers actually did the uncapping will be quite a trick.
Maybe \b{that's} why the took the computers? To provide evidence of uncapping? Instructions/software whatever?
N.B. I think that calling the FBI for a TOS violation is excessive. And as others have pointed out, if they claim Cable is a communications service in court, it could come back to bite them on the ass, w.r.t. sharing lines.
Actually, the PoA does refer to "THE G-d". It uses the capitalized form "G-d", which refers to the monotheistic Judeo-Christian-Islamic diety, though Muslims would say "Allah", and Jews would probably use JHVH, or some euphemism such as Hashem or Hakadosh Baruch Hu.
and yet you would think that atheists wouldn't care about that "under god" clause because they believe in no higher being.
Hardly. I'm Jewish. Now imagine how I'd feel if "under Jesus" was in the PoA. I don't believe in Jesus as the messiah, but I'd be pissed as hell. Same thing.
We had a system we were building (about 250K lines). If you pounded on it continuously, it ran fine. However, if you left it alone for about 2 hours, it would crash.
Turns out that there was a bug in the (homegrown) executive's timer queue logic.
Another one on the same system.... We were just about to go into FQT (this was a DoD contract), and an error code pops up. Now the problem was, that this happened 6 hours into a 10 hour test, that required 8 people to run various machines. Not fun.
The machines were communicating via tactical radios using analog FSK communications, so what they wound up doing was this: They hooked a stereo tape deck into the system, ran the scenario, and recorded all communications. Then they played it back, only to the system that had the problem.
The system was running a Z8000 at the time, nice chip but no memory protection. Turns out it was a third order effect (A corrupts B, which causes C to be corrupted, leading to the error), caused by a -1 index being used somewhere.
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Had something similar. We were working with a TI 34020 GSP (grafix processor). And for the life of me, I couldn't get TI's CCITT Group IV Fax library to run correctly.
For those of you too young to remember, the 340x0 series was a BIT-addressable machine. You could set the word size anywhere from 1 to 32 bits.
Turns out that our HW guys had a bug. The processor's RAM worked fine in 16-bit access mode, but when you accessed the low byte of a word in 8-bit mode, the high byte mirrored it. Of course, the fax library used byte arithmetic.
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Wow! Somebody actually noticed!
Of course, then they will sue anyone else using the term "Bank", because as we all know, Microsoft(r) Bank(r) is a registered trademark, and everyone else must be a trademark violator!
I think Phillips has already done that.
Life was invented by John Conway.
Most of the questions here seem to relate either to Xanth or Space Tyrant.
Do you get any feedback/comments on your other novels or series, such as Macroscope or the Omnivore/Orn/OX trilogy? Which of your series is your favorite and why?
OK, I'll be up front about this... I admit I haven't read anything of yours recently. (The last I read was "... And Eternity").
However, I recall in the postscripts to several of the Incarnations novels, you described going from CP/M to DOS as your writing platform. How was the change from DOS/Windows to Linux?
Remember that bulk mail (aka junk mail) subsidizes postage in the US (recent postage increases notwithstanding).
If they go to "spam", then postage goes up even more.
As an LA resident, I can tell you that their so-called reporters tend to take the xxAA's word for granted. They almost never question the "billions in piracy" claims.
Though at least this article did mention at the very end that Universal tried to kill the VCR, and that it wound up saving the movie industry.
even if it's not an accredited school
Hey, I get email offering me college degrees from them all the time!
Yep, I told it to filter EVERYTHING except my address book and my "safe list", and spam still gets through.
I guess that the coders didn't quite understand the concept of:
if (!find(address_book_list,address) && !find(safe_list,address))
message_is_spam();
Does anyone really fall for 'Have a bigger penis in 3 days'
You mean I won't have a BIGGER PENIS in 3 days, so that the HORNY TEENS won't want me and I won't need that HERBAL VIAGRA? I guess I'll have to fall back on my PHD FROM AN UNACCREDITED UNIVERITY to pick up women, after I get OUT OF DEBT by REFINANCING MY MORTGAGE!
Why? Do you think the flight might corrupt his Precious Bodily Fluids?
Plus, this is about sharing information with anybody, anytime, anywhere, for no reason whatsoever expect that somebody thought it was worthwhile and that other people might enjoy it.
Alas, the Web used to be that way, too...
It reminds me of the 80's when the cable companies insisted you pay for every TV hooked up - no splitters unless they were authorized. This was fixed and it was decided that the cables companies rights ended at the wall to your house.
This was still going on as late as 1995. When I moved back into my condo after repairs from the Northridge quake, TW cable insisted I pay a hookup fee for all three drops, because their records showed that I only had one TV connected. Of course, all three drops were there when I moved in 8 years earlier.
BZZT! It was developed by Northrop in the B-49(?), and fully implemented in the B-2.
. I wonder if we can use this map to somehow take out spam.
Sorry dude, but nuking spammers doesn't work.
Can we attach them to sharks heads?
Except for the exploit, it sounds exactly like what Cliff Stoll described in "Cuckoo's Egg". (The exploit there was the GnuEMACS mail exploit).
Nobody was interested until the CIA got involved.
But Dexter and Mandark aren't teenagers yet!!!
Considering the mediocre technical skill level of the typical cable modem ISP, proving that the customers actually did the uncapping will be quite a trick.
Maybe \b{that's} why the took the computers? To provide evidence of uncapping? Instructions/software whatever?
N.B. I think that calling the FBI for a TOS violation is excessive. And as others have pointed out, if they claim Cable is a communications service in court, it could come back to bite them on the ass, w.r.t. sharing lines.
Cliff Stoll quotes a CIA guy in "The Cuckoo's Egg":
In G-d* we trust, everyone else we polygraph.
* I don't type out His name in full.
Actually, the PoA does refer to "THE G-d". It uses the capitalized form "G-d", which refers to the monotheistic Judeo-Christian-Islamic diety, though Muslims would say "Allah", and Jews would probably use JHVH, or some euphemism such as Hashem or Hakadosh Baruch Hu.
and yet you would think that atheists wouldn't care about that "under god" clause because they believe in no higher being.
Hardly. I'm Jewish. Now imagine how I'd feel if "under Jesus" was in the PoA. I don't believe in Jesus as the messiah, but I'd be pissed as hell. Same thing.
Here's one I inherited.
We had a system we were building (about 250K lines). If you pounded on it continuously, it ran fine. However, if you left it alone for about 2 hours, it would crash.
Turns out that there was a bug in the (homegrown) executive's timer queue logic.
Another one on the same system.... We were just about to go into FQT (this was a DoD contract), and an error code pops up. Now the problem was, that this happened 6 hours into a 10 hour test, that required 8 people to run various machines. Not fun.
The machines were communicating via tactical radios using analog FSK communications, so what they wound up doing was this: They hooked a stereo tape deck into the system, ran the scenario, and recorded all communications. Then they played it back, only to the system that had the problem.
The system was running a Z8000 at the time, nice chip but no memory protection. Turns out it was a third order effect (A corrupts B, which causes C to be corrupted, leading to the error), caused by a -1 index being used somewhere.
Had something similar. We were working with a TI 34020 GSP (grafix processor). And for the life of me, I couldn't get TI's CCITT Group IV Fax
library to run correctly.
For those of you too young to remember, the 340x0 series was a BIT-addressable machine. You could set the word size anywhere from 1 to 32 bits.
Turns out that our HW guys had a bug. The processor's RAM worked fine in 16-bit access mode, but when you accessed the low byte of a word in 8-bit mode, the high byte mirrored it. Of course, the fax library used byte arithmetic.