I bet the InFusion device is missing the same thing as every other WiFi device (eg. the wireless ZyXel VoIP phone).. it can't authenticate on the wireless authentication gateway that is at universities, pay-"Hot spots" etc.
How about some sort of XMLRPC protocol, so this authentication could be automated? It still sucks that I have to fire up my browser to enter my username/password, which is store in there anyway..
Mutual Obligation has always been about punishment, not improving work prospects
-1, Ignorant.
The idea in Australia, as well in the rest of the world, is to make it sufficiently unattractive to recieve welfare. If it was about punishment, welfare itself should be taken away altogether and replaced with jailtime.
It's about making the jump from "Doing nothing, getting welfare" to "Doing a job, getting a salary" as smooth as possible when a proper job turns up.
Skilled labor will always have a higher entry salary than unskilled, and thus this groups incentive is obviously economic. Unskilled labor will have an entry salary, typically closer to the poverty line, which is obviously also where the welfare check would be. This group will need another incentive, such as getting a noncrappy job, to leave(*) welfare. The more pleasant being on welfare is, the more noncrappy the job would have to be.
I don't hate poor people and I recognize that wellfunctioning welfare is paramount to keep societies running smooth. Niether do I mind paying taxes to run it. But getting ''free'' government money is a very dangerous situation for almost anybody.
(*) No, it's not explicitly the choice of the enemployed person wether to leave welfare, though there are various tools for a person to get back into the program, such as getting fired.
International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode
That's all fine and dandy.. but how about spoofing IDN-names? Consider sjælland.dk. I'm going to spoof you, so I'll have you go to sjælland.dk (with the 'a' obscured) (neither link works)
Who's gonna notice?
A better solution would be to display a big, ugly warning if you click on a link with an encoded latin letter in it - that would never(?) be for a legit purpose - and perhaps even redirect you to the real site.
He's been called a loser, a geek, a Peter Pan who refuses to grow up and get a life. A few days ago, someone called him a "bum" for the first time.
"I don't really care how people label me," Tweiten says. "If they are so narrow-minded and can only see that one aspect of me, I kind of pity them."
I'm not narrowminded. My mind is so wide, I can't decide wether to label him a loser, a geek, a Peter Pan or a bum. Hey, I think I'll label him every single one of those, right at the same time. he!
hm hm.. And freedom is incompatible with begin rightwing?
I just think we ought to admit and build governmental and administrative infrastructure to deal with it.
So Wikipedia should be a government operation? Without the ultimate free market (is that rightwing enough for you?) that the internet is, Wikipedia would never have happened.
Boycot anything if you'd like. I, for one, doesn't boycot leftwing music and media. I just read NYT critically and enjoy U2 without letting Bono influence my being a conservative.
The pricing on the goods can be constituted as an offer. On accepting the offer, a contract is entered. The new pricing (bar code) can be viewed as a counter-offer. If the cashier accepts, the counter-offer is accepted and a contract is entered, making it a legal sale.
No. A barcode isn't just a price, but a code representing an item, which in the cashregister is linked to a price.
If you put the barcode from a pack of chewinggum on a mountainbike, the barcode still represents the offering of gum at $0.77, and that is the offer the contract is concerning. The fact that you are carrying a $300 bike out of the store is just theft.
I really can't imagine neither of these sites would say something naughty about the MPAA if they would be the reason the sites has to shut down, so what *could* the reason be ?
A "we know we probably can't nail you properly, but our lawyers can make life tough on you for years to come - so just leave town, and do it tonight" - deal?
"60% of your grade will be based on assigment 3: Obtain employment in an internationally renowed security cooperation and document your saving of the world. Report is due March 15th."
Their webserver is actually written in obfuscated c++.. Sure, it's slow, but the binary plays a technoversion of Star Sprangled Banner when piped through/dev/dsp..
I've been searching for a really good argument against softwarepatents, and they all seen to center around some semi-marxist anti-large-corporation basis, such as "GIF and MP3 is patented and OBVIOUSLY that is bad". Really, that isn't obvious in any sense or way. Neither GIF nor MP3 is trivial, and PNG and Ogg Vorbis took years to emerge and mature. This may og may not be a good counter-argument, but nobody cared to explain why LZW and MP3 is trivial..
Patents on software are just as wrong as expanding the patent system to literature. With patents on story elements, no movie could be published without having to firstly check whether there is any general idea in the storyline that someone patented during the last 20 years. Here's an example: At first sight, Dirty Dancing and Titanic are two very distinct movies. However, if there were patents on story elements, then the makers of Dirty Dancing could have sued the studio of Titanic. Both movies have a scene in which a poor boy takes a rich girl from a party of her social peers to a dancing party of his group, and she enjoys it. Dirty Dancing came out only nine years before Titanic, so any patent would still have been in force. No one knows whether James Cameron had that Dirty Dancing scene in mind as he wrote the Titanic script. Maybe Cameron never saw Dirty Dancing but the patent (if it existed) could be used against him anyway.
I assume that you are confused how a christian party can be leftwing.
Well, that obviously depends on what right/left scale you measure it on. If it is the "All things good are left-wing"-scale, and you believe that non-secular political organisations are evil, well, then they are clearly right-wing.
Another often used scale (in european politics, at least) is the "more/less immigration-friendly". This is not a fully conscious use, but more of a consequence of the lefts need to group everybody immigration-sceptic or worse with the nazists (whom, it's been established, are the extreme right. Probably due to them being racist.). I don't know where Family first stands, but they probably don't like moslems.
Then there is personal/political freedoms vs. security. It is ideologically close to the following scale, but in reality this is more often a function of popularism. On this scale this initiative is truly right wing. As are both Bush and Kerry.
A more classic scale: more/less economic freedom. Socialist economy (high taxes, government owned production) is left wing, Adam Smith's invisible hand is right wing. On this scale Family first is somewhat leftwing. And I think this might be the scale the poster had in mind.
The very classic scale is from the french parliament in 1700-1800-something. The revolutionists sat on the left side and the government-bearing sat on the right. The reason for the rise of the alternative scales is the absense of serious revolutionaries in modern politics.
My point? It makes no sense to talk about right and left wing for any other purpose than to distance your own political platform from that of those you don't like.
I am a conservative in the classic, british sense. Which is liberalism (again, in the classic sense, ie. Adam Smith, forget that Berkeley-liberalism) with a touch of government to protect the weakest. I consider myself very rightwing, but then again I consider the nazis very leftwing. So call me what you want.
Why don't they do this test with an OS like *BSD (or Linux), with its highly-tuned networking stack?
Because Microsoft has a marketing budget and Caltech/CERN don't give a rats ass what software it runs when it's the network infrastructure they're showing off..
Hey, this what's your ICQ#? 57007188888 How about yours? 16085588888
[on the phone]Yes, with a p, not a b.... P!.. no, there's a dash.. right.... no, capitalisation doesn't matter.. no.. ok, then, a capital P, right.. yes, dot net,.. n-e-t.. no, not dot net dot com, just dot net.
Whatever the administration[1] does is wrong. If there is another attack, whatever they were doing wasn't enough. If there isn't another attack, whatever they were doing was too harsh.
Indeed. Yet, it is much easier to spread FUD than to clean up hundred+ dead bodies while a bearded man is laughing on CNN.
The most important virtue a politician can hold, is the integrity to know and do whats right - not what will look best. And that is a virtue seldomly seen these days.
Well, if he did care, he'd have to contact you to try to resolve the issue before going to court.. And surely, no-one would make copies they wouldn't be prepared to pay for.. or whatever..
Anyway, the problem is not paying the guy - it's getting access to the hi-res originals. No guy, no originals, no hi-quality reprints.
Besides, if you're mostly going to work with small files, why not just put them on a USB memory stick and carry them around with you?
Because my archived projects folder is 800 mb of (mostly) small files. And because I want my stuff in one place, so I don't have to deal with multiple versions - and that one place shouldn't be a theft- and destruction-prone memorystick.
Because my images directory is 6 gb, yet well organised and few of the single files are over one megabyte in size.
Besides, another important point of this idea is to have your own programs and its configuration with you.
That's true - and I do that myself (although the drive would be more like 20 minutes.. but involving getting *out*:-| )
But it depends on what kind of work you do. Adding a few users to a Win2003 server and sharing a directory (which is what I do over VNC) or anything that takes less than half an hour is alright over VNC. But my nerves would really wear out if I were to type a paper or a long email over a lagging VNC-connection.
Of course you are right with respect to bandwidth - but we are still going to face the problem with latency. I believe we are a long way from obtaining ISDN-like latency on the 'normal' internet.
I still believe this is the right way to go. Computers have immense power (for desktop use, anyway) so it's not resonable to sacrifice bandwidth for lower local CPU use.
It's not like we are not going to use all that extra bandwidth. Fiber-internet to the door just means cable-tv over the internet;)
Don't you remember the day when 14 PC's sharing an ISDN was considered fast?:)
Running VNC or X remotely? Why is this so revolutionary?
Do real work in VNC/X/Remote Desktop over a 128 kbs DSL and you know the answer to that.
This will run stuff on the local machine, and limit lags to filetransfers. I can live with a lag of a second or two when I save a file - NEVER a lag of 100-200 ms or even more everytime I hit a key or click my mouse - and this is the reality of X/VNC over anything but very fast connections.
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I bet the InFusion device is missing the same thing as every other WiFi device (eg. the wireless ZyXel VoIP phone) .. it can't authenticate on the wireless authentication gateway that is at universities, pay-"Hot spots" etc.
How about some sort of XMLRPC protocol, so this authentication could be automated? It still sucks that I have to fire up my browser to enter my username/password, which is store in there anyway..
Mutual Obligation has always been about punishment, not improving work prospects
-1, Ignorant.
The idea in Australia, as well in the rest of the world, is to make it sufficiently unattractive to recieve welfare. If it was about punishment, welfare itself should be taken away altogether and replaced with jailtime.
It's about making the jump from "Doing nothing, getting welfare" to "Doing a job, getting a salary" as smooth as possible when a proper job turns up.
Skilled labor will always have a higher entry salary than unskilled, and thus this groups incentive is obviously economic. Unskilled labor will have an entry salary, typically closer to the poverty line, which is obviously also where the welfare check would be. This group will need another incentive, such as getting a noncrappy job, to leave(*) welfare. The more pleasant being on welfare is, the more noncrappy the job would have to be.
I don't hate poor people and I recognize that wellfunctioning welfare is paramount to keep societies running smooth. Niether do I mind paying taxes to run it. But getting ''free'' government money is a very dangerous situation for almost anybody.
(*) No, it's not explicitly the choice of the enemployed person wether to leave welfare, though there are various tools for a person to get back into the program, such as getting fired.
Without DNS, domain spoofing would've been kinda impossible...
Yeah, but IP-spoofing would rule the day. Mwahahaha.
International Domain Names are now displayed as punycode
.. but how about spoofing IDN-names? Consider sjælland.dk. I'm going to spoof you, so I'll have you go to sjælland.dk (with the 'a' obscured) (neither link works)
That's all fine and dandy
Who's gonna notice?
A better solution would be to display a big, ugly warning if you click on a link with an encoded latin letter in it - that would never(?) be for a legit purpose - and perhaps even redirect you to the real site.
He's been called a loser, a geek, a Peter Pan who refuses to grow up and get a life. A few days ago, someone called him a "bum" for the first time.
"I don't really care how people label me," Tweiten says. "If they are so narrow-minded and can only see that one aspect of me, I kind of pity them."
I'm not narrowminded. My mind is so wide, I can't decide wether to label him a loser, a geek, a Peter Pan or a bum. Hey, I think I'll label him every single one of those, right at the same time. he!
hm hm.. And freedom is incompatible with begin rightwing?
I just think we ought to admit and build governmental and administrative infrastructure to deal with it.
So Wikipedia should be a government operation? Without the ultimate free market (is that rightwing enough for you?) that the internet is, Wikipedia would never have happened.
Boycot anything if you'd like. I, for one, doesn't boycot leftwing music and media. I just read NYT critically and enjoy U2 without letting Bono influence my being a conservative.
The pricing on the goods can be constituted as an offer. On accepting the offer, a contract is entered. The new pricing (bar code) can be viewed as a counter-offer. If the cashier accepts, the counter-offer is accepted and a contract is entered, making it a legal sale.
No. A barcode isn't just a price, but a code representing an item, which in the cashregister is linked to a price.
If you put the barcode from a pack of chewinggum on a mountainbike, the barcode still represents the offering of gum at $0.77, and that is the offer the contract is concerning. The fact that you are carrying a $300 bike out of the store is just theft.
I really can't imagine neither of these sites would say something naughty about the MPAA if they would be the reason the sites has to shut down, so what *could* the reason be ?
A "we know we probably can't nail you properly, but our lawyers can make life tough on you for years to come - so just leave town, and do it tonight" - deal?
"60% of your grade will be based on assigment 3: Obtain employment in an internationally renowed security cooperation and document your saving of the world. Report is due March 15th."
You have fluorescent lights in your livingroom?
I'm shocked.
Their webserver is actually written in obfuscated c++ .. Sure, it's slow, but the binary plays a technoversion of Star Sprangled Banner when piped through /dev/dsp ..
Anyway, the argument, as presented:
I assume that you are confused how a christian party can be leftwing.
Well, that obviously depends on what right/left scale you measure it on. If it is the "All things good are left-wing"-scale, and you believe that non-secular political organisations are evil, well, then they are clearly right-wing.
Another often used scale (in european politics, at least) is the "more/less immigration-friendly". This is not a fully conscious use, but more of a consequence of the lefts need to group everybody immigration-sceptic or worse with the nazists (whom, it's been established, are the extreme right. Probably due to them being racist.). I don't know where Family first stands, but they probably don't like moslems.
Then there is personal/political freedoms vs. security. It is ideologically close to the following scale, but in reality this is more often a function of popularism. On this scale this initiative is truly right wing. As are both Bush and Kerry.
A more classic scale: more/less economic freedom. Socialist economy (high taxes, government owned production) is left wing, Adam Smith's invisible hand is right wing. On this scale Family first is somewhat leftwing. And I think this might be the scale the poster had in mind.
The very classic scale is from the french parliament in 1700-1800-something. The revolutionists sat on the left side and the government-bearing sat on the right. The reason for the rise of the alternative scales is the absense of serious revolutionaries in modern politics.
My point? It makes no sense to talk about right and left wing for any other purpose than to distance your own political platform from that of those you don't like.
I am a conservative in the classic, british sense. Which is liberalism (again, in the classic sense, ie. Adam Smith, forget that Berkeley-liberalism) with a touch of government to protect the weakest. I consider myself very rightwing, but then again I consider the nazis very leftwing. So call me what you want.
Why don't they do this test with an OS like *BSD (or Linux), with its highly-tuned networking stack?
Because Microsoft has a marketing budget and Caltech/CERN don't give a rats ass what software it runs when it's the network infrastructure they're showing off..
Hey, this what's your ICQ#?
.. no, capitalisation doesn't matter .. no .. ok, then, a capital P, right .. yes, dot net, .. n-e-t.. no, not dot net dot com, just dot net.
57007188888
How about yours?
16085588888
[on the phone]Yes, with a p, not a b.... P!.. no, there's a dash.. right..
arrrrrrrg
Whatever the administration[1] does is wrong. If there is another attack, whatever they were doing wasn't enough. If there isn't another attack, whatever they were doing was too harsh.
Indeed. Yet, it is much easier to spread FUD than to clean up hundred+ dead bodies while a bearded man is laughing on CNN.
The most important virtue a politician can hold, is the integrity to know and do whats right - not what will look best. And that is a virtue seldomly seen these days.
They DID crash ..
But before the rotors were able to produce enough buoyant force they hit each other.
Well, if he did care, he'd have to contact you to try to resolve the issue before going to court .. And surely, no-one would make copies they wouldn't be prepared to pay for .. or whatever ..
Anyway, the problem is not paying the guy - it's getting access to the hi-res originals. No guy, no originals, no hi-quality reprints.
Besides, if you're mostly going to work with small files, why not just put them on a USB memory stick and carry them around with you?
Because my archived projects folder is 800 mb of (mostly) small files. And because I want my stuff in one place, so I don't have to deal with multiple versions - and that one place shouldn't be a theft- and destruction-prone memorystick.
Because my images directory is 6 gb, yet well organised and few of the single files are over one megabyte in size.
Besides, another important point of this idea is to have your own programs and its configuration with you.
When I do programming, email, wordprocessing etc, my workfiles usually fits within what can be shipped over a 128 kbit line in resonable time.
Really, it doensn't suck that I can get to all of my files instantly over SSH. Sure, it would suck less if it was really, really fast.
But what would suck even more, would be for me to not be able to get to that one file in my archive where I did that cool trick, when I need it.
That's true - and I do that myself (although the drive would be more like 20 minutes .. but involving getting *out* :-| )
But it depends on what kind of work you do. Adding a few users to a Win2003 server and sharing a directory (which is what I do over VNC) or anything that takes less than half an hour is alright over VNC. But my nerves would really wear out if I were to type a paper or a long email over a lagging VNC-connection.
Of course you are right with respect to bandwidth - but we are still going to face the problem with latency. I believe we are a long way from obtaining ISDN-like latency on the 'normal' internet.
;)
:)
I still believe this is the right way to go. Computers have immense power (for desktop use, anyway) so it's not resonable to sacrifice bandwidth for lower local CPU use.
It's not like we are not going to use all that extra bandwidth. Fiber-internet to the door just means cable-tv over the internet
Don't you remember the day when 14 PC's sharing an ISDN was considered fast?
Sun's has had this working for years on Sun Ray thin clients.
Yeah, we've got a setup of 300 rays at my university - and it's really cool..
However - it runs on a dedicated 100 mbit switched network. And that is hardly the state of any location on the internet.
Rays are just not an option over slow (as in both bandwidth and latency) links.
Running VNC or X remotely? Why is this so revolutionary?
Do real work in VNC/X/Remote Desktop over a 128 kbs DSL and you know the answer to that.
This will run stuff on the local machine, and limit lags to filetransfers. I can live with a lag of a second or two when I save a file - NEVER a lag of 100-200 ms or even more everytime I hit a key or click my mouse - and this is the reality of X/VNC over anything but very fast connections.