Not only despenses paper, but wipes for you. The only downside is the hands are small like that of a a 5 year old. If your ok with that, perhaps you'll enjoy this
- Urinal Cake ($30,000)
Not only does it sanitize, it has a spiffy sent, and compliments you if you eat Asparagus and take a piss
- Anal Wart Cream ($50,000)
Just like the toilet paper, just applies cream... can be purchased as addon.
- Vibrating {male gental} ($100,000)
Not only will it stimulate the G-Spot, but it can find it! As if that isn't good enough, it can talk dirty. When you throw it out, it will give you half of all the money it has, as well as it's house.
but at least it's on the radar. Perhaps that means they will start taking us geeks seriously when we notice a patern in the interuption of our TV Signal?
This isn't intended to start a freedom of speach flame... want that? Don't bother replying. Pure opinion here...
preface I was asked just today to provide links to a commercial website, who apparantly feels either my google pagerank is beneficial to them, or they feel I get enough traffic to help them. Did I do it? Absolutely not.
I get a few of these.
Why don't I? I don't think it's ethical. I base my blog on myself. I consider it a reflection of me. Anything I post, I believe in. I post sources I trust, things I find interesting, beliefs I hold, ideas I want to share.
If I don't believe, trust, rely on it... I don't post it.
why a law?
Because the media is growing. Bloggers are clearly part of the information fabric of our world. And that's not changing. IMHO if your sponsored by someone, it should clearly be stated. Same if you talk about your employer.
A simple "(my employer)", or "(sponsor)" covers it perfectly.
Fark has also been said to link to stuff that's it's paid for. No clue if that's really true or not (though sometimes I do question).
IMHO we should hold the net to the same standards... were geeks, we believe in the net to it's full potential (I know I do).
Slashdot does it all the time. They link to a NewsForge article.... they say that.
Conclusion
It's the only way to make sure people view the internet as a somewhat legitimate news source. We don't allow it on the air, or tv, or in print. Why allow it online? Accurate information is essential the the internet's viability as a useful medium.
This isn't a hard concept either. If you recieve a kickback, or have a relation to another site.... note it clearly.
That is the difference between a reputable website, and one that isn't.
>Pipelining already works, most clients just don't use it.
Actually, there are lots of compatibility issues do to how some servers handle it. See here
My proposal is to create a new HTTP, that in order to claim support... you must support it.
> Nearly all web servers already support gzip. HTTP 1.1 supports arbitrary compression protocols.
> Any server/client can add 7zip support right now, just put it in the "accept" header.
Only a handful implement it. It's very under used. CPU is cheaper than bandwidth at this point. 7-zip tends to be faster, and better compression.
This is why http 1.1 sucks right now... because nobody takes advantage of the ability to get performance, because they are afraid to break things.
We need a protocol that is designed for performance. Transfering plain data is archaic and unnecessary....
we can also just go back to plain-email... aka pen and paper. But is that efficient?
XML isn't the problem... it's the pipeline it uses. HTTP needs to branch a 2.0, with strict standards to adhere to. It needs to be geared towards performance TODAY, not for compatibility with 1995 webservers.
We need to look towards http 2.0. What I would want:
- pipelining that works, so that it could be enabled for use on any server that supports http 2.0 - gzip and 7zip support. - All data is compressed by default (a few excludes such as.gz files,.zip files etc. since that would be pointless). - Option to initiate persistant connection (remove the stateless protocol concept), via a http header on connect. This would allow for a whole new level for web applications via SOAP/XML.
There are tons of other things that could be enhanced for today's uses.
My family's computer got rediculus. Mine personally is clean as a mormon girl on prom night.
So here is what I did:
- All users are "limited" on windows - Firefox installed - IE ActiveX security tightened - Spybot S&D scan once a week - AdAware scan once a week - Norton AV scans once a week... scans all incoming files/email. Silently blocks/deletes all it catches. - SpywareBlaster installed (prevents hijackers on IE) - Windows Firewall Enabled - Have a hardware firewall in my router - XP SP2 installed, with autoupdate enabled.
Between all those measures... it's been clean for 4 months now. Not 1 problem. It's as good as day 1.
IMHO you have to counteract it. can't sit and wait to see if a problem forms.
The G4 is a great chip... but the G5 is sooo much better.
Seeing it in the new iMac, and Mac Mini, made me think they have been getting closer and closer to toppling the heat issue.
My hopes for the laptop are as follows: - Price range from $1,499-$2,899 - Ship with 512 MB RAM - USB2/Firewire 800 Ports - 15" display or better - Decent graphics card. - MiniPCI slot for network card, so you can upgrade - CPU @ 2 GHz - 7200 RPM ATA/100 HD via Hitachi
Computer security these days is becoming more and more related to national security.
We need a simple bill (preferably a UN decision that countries agree to abide by and enforce among their citizens).
1. All vendors must provide an email contact for security issues. 2. There will be 1 official list for security disclosures. Mantained internationally. 3. The vendor gets 48hr advanced notification. To allow them to patch/research if it's high profile. 4. If vendor feels the security issue is extremely critical to safety/welfare, they may ask the offical list for extended time. In which only governmental agencies will have acess to the issue. Not the general public. 5. Fix/workaround must go to another list. This list will be publically accessible to anyone.
Last regulation is simple:
*no* charge may be issued for security fixes. All security patches must be made available free of charge to a paying customer.
Reasons:
1. Central place to know of security issues. Rather than checking several places. 2. Ability to keep critial problems away from public knowledge until the vendor when it's serious. 3. Make it easy to find out and research issues.
The current situation is to ad-hoc and spread out. It's very hard to manage.
Am I one of the only ones who prefers usability, stability, and performance... to eye candy?
I'd rather it work on an old ATI Rage PRO.
Why?
Simply because that means good performance for modern computing. If the minimum is "latest and greatest"... Ugh.
Nor do I like the idea of upgrading hardware around my OS. If anything I want to upgrade because I need it for my job. Not because of some 3D glitter covered start menu.
Call me crazy... but performance is much more important.
Why doesn't Microsoft invest this effort in security?
If they said getting a new more powerful computer would make me more secure (perhaps some integrated trojan detection... integrated tightly)... yea, I could see that being beneficial.
But do I really need to get new hardware... for eye candy?
1) Firefox doesn't allow me to open multiple browser windows by using a bound keyboard shortcut (CTRL+ALT+E) (yes I know about CTRL+T..)
Why not CTRL+T?
2) Just as MSIE has the annoying, hard-to-get-rid-of "Links" folder in its Favorites menu, Firefox has its own required "Bookmark" directory which it will not let you delete.
Ok, I've got to ask why you would want to delete that directory. It's the top level. ROOT. You have to have a top level. This is like saying "I don't like having a monitor. I want to read right off the Hard Drive.
3) Firefox still renders many pages oddly. Yes, I know this is because a lot of web pages have been developed with MSIE's bugs in mind. Regardless, it is still annoying.
This will be toppled soon... - New release based on trunk, will have many improvement to gecko rendering engine. - Reporter tool will allow you to report broken/blocked websites to the evangelism team with ease. Were hoping to land it soon.
4) I've got buttons on my Logitech keyboard that are bound to launch certain websites. However, when I make Firefox my default browser and I try to use these buttons nothing happens. I know this is related to how IE is intertwined with Windows, but still, it is another reason why I am sticking with IE for now.
There are a dozen hacks to get it working. It's more a Logitech issue. Your friend google will fix it for you.
I show an image of a car, and the computer knows, the make, model.
I show an screenshot of a TV show where they remove the product name/brand from the product... it can ID the product.
Facial recognition is not to bad at this point (though it seems lots of the pioneers are going under). Nobody seems to have successfully applied it to objects.
I think that has much more use... think about it: 1. Indexing and searching images/video 2. Explaining TV to the blind or impaired. More than just dialog, it could explain what the scene is.
Imagine being able to open up something like iPhoto, and just search for "dolphin" to find your picture of you at sea world. No need to add keywords, or anything. It's all automatic.
IMHO that will make tons of information accessible to many people.
Ok, I admitted to being a geek a long time ago, but here's what I'm thinking:
Take Apple's new MAC Mini, which is 2" in height (slightly over 1U). Put several of them on a metal tray. Why? Because it can become a makeshift blade server. Granted your limited to Firewire, USB, and 10/100 Ethernet. Regardless, for rather low cost, you can get some decent power. All with 2U of rack space. IMHO that's pretty cool. Looks like it's a pretty simple way to get a cluster. You could even use it for some decent web hosting. 1 as a DB server, 1 or 2 as an Apache server, and perhaps a squid proxy. Mail, DNS. Each could have their own redundancy. All in 2U of rack space.
That's amazingly low cost for having so many CPU's, and being able to spread out your load on several physical systems.
They even recieved a VCR and answering machine as gifts... still in the boxes.
It's histerical when they call and we aren't home. They don't understand the concept of talking to a robot who takes your message... it's silly to them. Making for some comical messages.
So I don't think my grandparents will be hopping on this product.
would rather they get a cell phone. But no... invisible wires are scairy... might trip on them.
But the majority of business-class america is white middle aged males.:-(
How will they do this? They can't invoke things like the Patriot Act on them. That would be unconstitutional.
Then again... we know every Arab in North America participated in 9/11. Or at least that's what our government has been trying to get us all to believe.
So lets go into random offices, and arrest business men... since we need to get the WMD.
Slashdot Mirror
Beer Software Distribution
Should have known.
A distro dedicated to beer...how wonderful.
So when will we see Windows XP "Hard Lemonade" Edition?
- Urinal Cake ($30,000)
- Anal Wart Cream ($50,000)
- Vibrating {male gental} ($100,000)
Didn't microsoft give us some source code?
A rather small mention...
but at least it's on the radar.
Perhaps that means they will start taking us geeks seriously when we notice a patern in the interuption of our TV Signal?
It's an invasion!
Yep...you got that.
This isn't intended to start a freedom of speach flame... want that? Don't bother replying. Pure opinion here...
preface
I was asked just today to provide links to a commercial website, who apparantly feels either my google pagerank is beneficial to them, or they feel I get enough traffic to help them. Did I do it? Absolutely not.
I get a few of these.
Why don't I?
I don't think it's ethical. I base my blog on myself. I consider it a reflection of me. Anything I post, I believe in. I post sources I trust, things I find interesting, beliefs I hold, ideas I want to share.
If I don't believe, trust, rely on it... I don't post it.
why a law?
Because the media is growing. Bloggers are clearly part of the information fabric of our world. And that's not changing. IMHO if your sponsored by someone, it should clearly be stated. Same if you talk about your employer.
A simple "(my employer)", or "(sponsor)" covers it perfectly.
Fark has also been said to link to stuff that's it's paid for. No clue if that's really true or not (though sometimes I do question).
IMHO we should hold the net to the same standards... were geeks, we believe in the net to it's full potential (I know I do).
Slashdot does it all the time. They link to a NewsForge article.... they say that.
Conclusion
It's the only way to make sure people view the internet as a somewhat legitimate news source. We don't allow it on the air, or tv, or in print. Why allow it online? Accurate information is essential the the internet's viability as a useful medium.
This isn't a hard concept either. If you recieve a kickback, or have a relation to another site.... note it clearly.
That is the difference between a reputable website, and one that isn't.
Actually, there are lots of compatibility issues do to how some servers handle it. See here
My proposal is to create a new HTTP, that in order to claim support... you must support it.
Only a handful implement it. It's very under used. CPU is cheaper than bandwidth at this point. 7-zip tends to be faster, and better compression.
This is why http 1.1 sucks right now... because nobody takes advantage of the ability to get performance, because they are afraid to break things.
We need a protocol that is designed for performance. Transfering plain data is archaic and unnecessary....
we can also just go back to plain-email... aka pen and paper. But is that efficient?
XML isn't the problem... it's the pipeline it uses. HTTP needs to branch a 2.0, with strict standards to adhere to. It needs to be geared towards performance TODAY, not for compatibility with 1995 webservers.
I think that's where the true problem lies. HTTP.
.gz files, .zip files etc. since that would be pointless).
We need to look towards http 2.0. What I would want:
- pipelining that works, so that it could be enabled for use on any server that supports http 2.0
- gzip and 7zip support.
- All data is compressed by default (a few excludes such as
- Option to initiate persistant connection (remove the stateless protocol concept), via a http header on connect. This would allow for a whole new level for web applications via SOAP/XML.
There are tons of other things that could be enhanced for today's uses.
HTTP is the problem. Not XML
My family's computer got rediculus. Mine personally is clean as a mormon girl on prom night.
So here is what I did:
- All users are "limited" on windows
- Firefox installed
- IE ActiveX security tightened
- Spybot S&D scan once a week
- AdAware scan once a week
- Norton AV scans once a week... scans all incoming files/email. Silently blocks/deletes all it catches.
- SpywareBlaster installed (prevents hijackers on IE)
- Windows Firewall Enabled
- Have a hardware firewall in my router
- XP SP2 installed, with autoupdate enabled.
Between all those measures... it's been clean for 4 months now. Not 1 problem. It's as good as day 1.
IMHO you have to counteract it. can't sit and wait to see if a problem forms.
A totalitarian dictator of intelectual property?
Boy does that make an interesting job title.
?Tzar of Intelectual Property?
I've been waiting forever for a G5 laptop.
The G4 is a great chip... but the G5 is sooo much better.
Seeing it in the new iMac, and Mac Mini, made me think they have been getting closer and closer to toppling the heat issue.
My hopes for the laptop are as follows:
- Price range from $1,499-$2,899
- Ship with 512 MB RAM
- USB2/Firewire 800 Ports
- 15" display or better
- Decent graphics card.
- MiniPCI slot for network card, so you can upgrade
- CPU @ 2 GHz
- 7200 RPM ATA/100 HD via Hitachi
Computer security these days is becoming more and more related to national security.
We need a simple bill (preferably a UN decision that countries agree to abide by and enforce among their citizens).
1. All vendors must provide an email contact for security issues.
2. There will be 1 official list for security disclosures. Mantained internationally.
3. The vendor gets 48hr advanced notification. To allow them to patch/research if it's high profile.
4. If vendor feels the security issue is extremely critical to safety/welfare, they may ask the offical list for extended time. In which only governmental agencies will have acess to the issue. Not the general public.
5. Fix/workaround must go to another list. This list will be publically accessible to anyone.
Last regulation is simple:
*no* charge may be issued for security fixes. All security patches must be made available free of charge to a paying customer.
Reasons:
1. Central place to know of security issues. Rather than checking several places.
2. Ability to keep critial problems away from public knowledge until the vendor when it's serious.
3. Make it easy to find out and research issues.
The current situation is to ad-hoc and spread out. It's very hard to manage.
They can just say it's another "Deep Impact" probe.
:-D
Nobody would even know
The supreme court has said that teaching about the Bible in public schools is acceptable... since it did have a signifigant impact in western history.
They can't perform a sermon, but they can teach it from a historical perspective, and teach how it played a key role in history.
Now does the bible need to carry a sticker that it's a theory and not a fact?
Under the same principle, I'd say it's a fair compromise. Both can't be scientifically proven (at least not yet). Both have lots of believers.
And yes, I'm a catholic.
Even windows users have a C:\ prefixing all their directories.
Am I one of the only ones who prefers usability, stability, and performance... to eye candy?
I'd rather it work on an old ATI Rage PRO.
Why?
Simply because that means good performance for modern computing. If the minimum is "latest and greatest"... Ugh.
Nor do I like the idea of upgrading hardware around my OS. If anything I want to upgrade because I need it for my job. Not because of some 3D glitter covered start menu.
Call me crazy... but performance is much more important.
Why doesn't Microsoft invest this effort in security?
If they said getting a new more powerful computer would make me more secure (perhaps some integrated trojan detection... integrated tightly)... yea, I could see that being beneficial.
But do I really need to get new hardware... for eye candy?
Come on Microsoft. Less is more.
What makes a good teacher is one who can relate the theories to the student.
You can be brilliant... and still be a terrible teacher.The best teachers can take even the most abstract things and make students see why they need to understand it.
A good teacher can also decide how in depth is necessary for a student.
IMHO the best teachers I have had excelled in this. The worst lacked this skill.
Why not CTRL+T?
Ok, I've got to ask why you would want to delete that directory. It's the top level. ROOT. You have to have a top level. This is like saying "I don't like having a monitor. I want to read right off the Hard Drive.
This will be toppled soon...
- New release based on trunk, will have many improvement to gecko rendering engine.
- Reporter tool will allow you to report broken/blocked websites to the evangelism team with ease. Were hoping to land it soon.
There are a dozen hacks to get it working. It's more a Logitech issue. Your friend google will fix it for you.
I got my iPod... with virtually no effort.
So it does work.
You ended up being the looser on that deal.
If you really want to know the details, they are here.
IMHO "Software Licensing" is more of a "scheme"
When will these things become a bit lower in price?
It's either clean out my wallet... or get a dinky cheap PDA.
At least with cell phones the price may be super inflated... but at least they get subsidized with a plan.
Perhaps it's time for 802.11b hotspot providers to subsidize PDA's? Get a plan for 2 years, and get a cheaper PDA?
Most likely would get geeky PDA's in more consumer hands... more customers.
That IMHO is the real prize in imaging right now.
I show an image of a car, and the computer knows, the make, model.
I show an screenshot of a TV show where they remove the product name/brand from the product... it can ID the product.
Facial recognition is not to bad at this point (though it seems lots of the pioneers are going under). Nobody seems to have successfully applied it to objects.
I think that has much more use... think about it:
1. Indexing and searching images/video
2. Explaining TV to the blind or impaired. More than just dialog, it could explain what the scene is.
Imagine being able to open up something like iPhoto, and just search for "dolphin" to find your picture of you at sea world. No need to add keywords, or anything. It's all automatic.
IMHO that will make tons of information accessible to many people.
Information is only useful if you can find it.
We should really start keeping a list of companies, and products shown in adware, and those benefiting from the resarch in spyware.
Make people who use these techniques "labeled".
Problem is, most people don't even know who these companies are. If you advertise in adware... or you use spyware for marketing research...
your name should be on a virtual billboard.
Want to take them down? Make sure they don't benefit from spyware.
They even recieved a VCR and answering machine as gifts... still in the boxes.
It's histerical when they call and we aren't home. They don't understand the concept of talking to a robot who takes your message... it's silly to them. Making for some comical messages.
So I don't think my grandparents will be hopping on this product.
would rather they get a cell phone. But no... invisible wires are scairy... might trip on them.
Now even laser pointers are WMD...
:-(
But the majority of business-class america is white middle aged males.
How will they do this? They can't invoke things like the Patriot Act on them. That would be unconstitutional.
Then again... we know every Arab in North America participated in 9/11. Or at least that's what our government has been trying to get us all to believe.
So lets go into random offices, and arrest business men... since we need to get the WMD.
well, in name only.
They had a website where you can submit your name to be burnt onto a Gold CD, which was attached to the impactor.
I figured it was my only way of saying I was in space.
And the only way to say that I pulled a Bruce Willis (armageddon).