> reality is the only word in the english language that should ALWAYS be written in quotes
Shouldn't that be "reality" is the only word in the english language that should ALWAYS be written in quotes ?
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> The merchants are screwed, where else can they go?
http://www.setco.org/
SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) doesn't seem to have caught on though - setting up electronic wallets with certificates is much more hassle than just sending a credit card number.
A long lunch break is fine if you aren't working in the kind of job described in the article, where you get in trouble for taking an extra 5 minutes on a break to get a bagel.
(The first time I changed jobs was soon after a takeover, and a lot of other people were openly looking at the same time, so turning up in a suit for a change and taking a few hours off was no problem - I even borrowed a co-workers company car to go to one interview.)
http://www.djvu.com/cgi-bin/products/products.pl
lists DjVu Solo 3.0 (encoder for single pages only) as a free download. Could you use that?
http://www.djvu.att.com still has source for the reference library for people wanting to write viewers, but an encoder would be harder - I guess there might be patent issues too.
They are currently
http://www.who.int. I'd never heard of.int before, but the IANA say it's for "organizations established by international treaties between or among national governments", and it's in RFC 1591.
(.un seems to be free as a two-letter pseudo-country code (cf..eu) if there is a need to distinguish UN related organizations from other international ones.)
"It is easy to make an office more entertaining than the average person's home. Most people have a TV at home but they don't have friends with whom to watch it."
I have a family at home which means a lot more to me than TV. I like where I work, but one of the things I like is that working 70 hour weeks is something that happens occasionally when there is a crisis, not the norm.
Version 1.0 could include a cryptographic hash of a text message included in version 1.1, version 1.1 could inclue a hash of a message appearing in 1.2, and so on. This would let users know that that a newly posted version was indeed from the original authors, without identifying those authors.
Have a look at the Guy Fawkes Protocol
Released December 1991
http://www.ugsolutions.com/products/iman/about_i man/historytext.shtml
However, it might not count - it had an X (Motif) UI, and a relational database underneath, but it's not clear how separated your layers/tiers have to be. Does the UI/client have to be a separate process from the application code, or is being on X sufficient for that (i.e. is the X server itself your "very thin client")?
> So you needn't buy a Motif library. Motif itself is (beer) free now on Open Source OSes. They hope to make it fully free/open later. See http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/
What idiot would be running win9x on an SMP box anyway? Anyone who has to occasionally use win9x as well as NT, Linux, BeOS, or other OSes that do use SMP, and doesn't want to use another box to do it.
It isn't entirely a Linux version, but "A key component is L4Linux, the Linux server on top of the L4 microkernel; it services standard Linux applications. In addition, separate real time components - designed from scratch - provide deterministic service to real time applications." (They also have their own GPL'ed implementation of the L4 microkernel
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> Not all the laws mentioned are stupid:
and, as you said, not all the laws are true. (The archery one is false).
It is illegal to leave baggage unattended.
Airports like Heathrow have constant reminders that unattended baggage may be removed and destroyed, but I've never seen a suggestion it was a criminal offense to leave it. (Under some circumstances I guess it could be wasting police time or behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace).
The Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Act 1996 and Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 don't seem to mention it, though the latter is only a summary. There is a section about searches of unaccompanied goods.
It is t here now. (Why is preview showing me "t here" when I have "there" in the text? View source shows the space. Happens with both HTML Formatted and Plain Old Text. Oh well.)
If it was designed to do what it did, it definitely wasn't ethical. If (as seems almost certain) the massive infestation was the result of bugs, and it was not intended to spread so fast or to act as a DoS attack on infected machines, then it didn't do exactly what was required...
There is a posting by Bruce Schneier in sci.crypt entitled "New U.S. Crypto Regulations (advance copy: do not distribute)". It han't reached DejaNews when I searched just now. It isn't signed (which is consistent with Bruce's usual postings), but it looks like a lot of work for a forgery or spoof. "open source code" is mentioned in the introduction, and "non-commercial encryption source-code" in the body.
"Encryption source code controlled under 5D002 which would be considered publicly available under Section 734.3(b)(3) and which is not subject to any proprietary commercial agreement or restriction is released from EI controls and may be exported or re-exported without review under License Exception TSU, provided you have submitted to BXA notification of the export, accompanied by the Internet address (e.g. URL) or copy of the source code by the time of export."
In 1987 or 1988 I wrote some code that parsed a date entered by the user, converting it to the form stored in a database - among other things it guessed which century was intended if a two digit year was entered. I can't believe it was a new idea then, or that using it on a database of existing dates isn't equally obvious. (In fact, surely the very fact that so many other people have been using it independently proves that it is obvious). (AFAIR, my code will get the 2100 leap year wrong, but someone will have to fix the 2038 bug in the language it uses before that matters).
I know of one company that uses element names. Everything also has a one or two letter alias (the standard symbol, e.g. H, He, Li, etc.), and the last octet of the IP address is the atomic number.
Y2K *is* a leap year, 2000 is divisible by 400. Our concern is that many people still get this wrong, as you have just demonstrated. See also http://www.interlog.com/~r937/lycomplaint.html http://www.mitre.org/research/y2k/docs/LEAP.html http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/2000_a_leap_ year.html
I just want to know what an amiga can do my current dual pent.2 can't. According to another poster, be picked up for $20. I like my Amiga, but I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone as a new machine unless they had a specific use in mind for it. For some types and budgets of video work it might still be better than a PC.
I never want to have to do more than put gas and windshield wiper fluid in my car in order to drive it. That's how computers *HAVE* to be.
Then you have to pay someone else to check your oil and coolant levels, change them or top them up when necessary, check the air pressure in your tires, and so on. Maybe it's worth it for you to pay someone else to do that once a week, but if your Mom doesn't want $400 of Microsoft OS, what makes you think she wants a computer that *NEEDS* a professional sysadmin to be usable? (And knowing that if your CV joint gaiter comes off you should repack it with grease and replace the gaiter immediately is a lot cheaper than having a mechanic tell you next service that something expensive you didn't care about needs replacing now.)
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I believe Ken Thompson wrote a paper on it
Reflections on Trusting Trust (I remembered enough about it that Google didn't need much dredging).
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> reality is the only word in the english language that should ALWAYS be written in quotes
Shouldn't that be "reality" is the only word in the english language that should ALWAYS be written in quotes ?
--
> The merchants are screwed, where else can they go?
http://www.setco.org/
SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) doesn't seem to have caught on though - setting up electronic wallets with certificates is much more hassle than just sending a credit card number.
A long lunch break is fine if you aren't working in the kind of job described in the article, where you get in trouble for taking an extra 5 minutes on a break to get a bagel.
(The first time I changed jobs was soon after a takeover, and a lot of other people were openly looking at the same time, so turning up in a suit for a change and taking a few hours off was no problem - I even borrowed a co-workers company car to go to one interview.)
http://www.djvu.com/cgi-bin/products/products.pl
lists DjVu Solo 3.0 (encoder for single pages only) as a free download. Could you use that?
http://www.djvu.att.com still has source for the reference library for people wanting to write viewers, but an encoder would be harder - I guess there might be patent issues too.
They are currently http://www.who.int. I'd never heard of .int before, but the IANA say it's for "organizations established by international treaties between or among national governments", and it's in RFC 1591.
.eu) if there is a need to distinguish UN related organizations from other international ones.)
(.un seems to be free as a two-letter pseudo-country code (cf.
"It is easy to make an office more entertaining than the average person's home. Most people have a TV at home but they don't have friends with whom to watch it."
I have a family at home which means a lot more to me than TV. I like where I work, but one of the things I like is that working 70 hour weeks is something that happens occasionally when there is a crisis, not the norm.
> UP is the only place left to go
There's a lot of deep ocean we haven't seen yet, let alone established a permanent presence in.
Version 1.0 could include a cryptographic hash of a text message included in version 1.1, version 1.1 could inclue a hash of a message appearing in 1.2, and so on. This would let users know that that a newly posted version was indeed from the original authors, without identifying those authors.
Have a look at the Guy Fawkes Protocol
Released December 1991i man/historytext.shtml
http://www.ugsolutions.com/products/iman/about_
However, it might not count - it had an X (Motif) UI, and a relational database underneath, but it's not clear how separated your layers/tiers have to be. Does the UI/client have to be a separate process from the application code, or is being on X sufficient for that (i.e. is the X server itself your "very thin client")?
> the last amiga mag just folded
There is still the new magazine AmigaActive.
> So you needn't buy a Motif library.
Motif itself is (beer) free now on Open Source OSes. They hope to make it fully free/open later. See http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/
What idiot would be running win9x on an SMP box anyway?
Anyone who has to occasionally use win9x as well as NT, Linux, BeOS, or other OSes that do use SMP, and doesn't want to use another box to do it.
It isn't entirely a Linux version, but "A key component is L4Linux, the Linux server on top of the L4 microkernel; it services standard Linux applications. In addition, separate real time components - designed from scratch - provide deterministic service to real time applications." (They also have their own GPL'ed implementation of the L4 microkernel
It is in the google cache.
and, as you said, not all the laws are true. (The archery one is false).
Airports like Heathrow have constant reminders that unattended baggage may be removed and destroyed, but I've never seen a suggestion it was a criminal offense to leave it. (Under some circumstances I guess it could be wasting police time or behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace).
The Prevention of Terrorism (Additional Powers) Act 1996 and Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989 don't seem to mention it, though the latter is only a summary. There is a section about searches of unaccompanied goods.
It is t here now.
(Why is preview showing me "t here" when I have "there" in the text? View source shows the space. Happens with both HTML Formatted and Plain Old Text. Oh well.)
If it was designed to do what it did, it definitely wasn't ethical. If (as seems almost certain) the massive infestation was the result of bugs, and it was not intended to spread so fast or to act as a DoS attack on infected machines, then it didn't do exactly what was required...
There is a posting by Bruce Schneier in sci.crypt entitled "New U.S. Crypto Regulations (advance copy: do not distribute)". It han't reached DejaNews when I searched just now. It isn't signed (which is consistent with Bruce's usual postings), but it looks like a lot of work for a forgery or spoof.
"open source code" is mentioned in the introduction, and "non-commercial encryption source-code" in the body.
"Encryption source code controlled under 5D002 which would be considered publicly available under Section 734.3(b)(3) and which is not subject to any proprietary commercial agreement or restriction is released from EI controls and may be exported or re-exported without review under License Exception TSU, provided you have submitted to BXA notification of the export, accompanied by the Internet address (e.g. URL) or copy of the source code by the time of export."
In 1987 or 1988 I wrote some code that parsed a date entered by the user, converting it to the form stored in a database - among other things it guessed which century was intended if a two digit year was entered. I can't believe it was a new idea then, or that using it on a database of existing dates isn't equally obvious.
(In fact, surely the very fact that so many other people have been using it independently proves that it is obvious).
(AFAIR, my code will get the 2100 leap year wrong, but someone will have to fix the 2038 bug in the language it uses before that matters).
I know of one company that uses element names. Everything also has a one or two letter alias (the standard symbol, e.g. H, He, Li, etc.), and the last octet of the IP address is the atomic number.
Y2K *is* a leap year, 2000 is divisible by 400.l _ year.html
Our concern is that many people still get this wrong, as you have just demonstrated.
See also
http://www.interlog.com/~r937/lycomplaint.html
http://www.mitre.org/research/y2k/docs/LEAP.htm
http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/2000_a_leap
I just want to know what an amiga can do my current dual pent.2 can't.
According to another poster, be picked up for $20. I like my Amiga, but I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone as a new machine unless they had a specific use in mind for it. For some types and budgets of video work it might still be better than a PC.
That's how computers *HAVE* to be.
Then you have to pay someone else to check your oil and coolant levels, change them or top them up when necessary, check the air pressure in your tires, and so on. Maybe it's worth it for you to pay someone else to do that once a week, but if your Mom doesn't want $400 of Microsoft OS, what makes you think she wants a computer that *NEEDS* a professional sysadmin to be usable?
(And knowing that if your CV joint gaiter comes off you should repack it with grease and replace the gaiter immediately is a lot cheaper than having a mechanic tell you next service that something expensive you didn't care about needs replacing now.)
> Figure the U.S. population as 245 million
Pretty close - 270,311,756 (July 1998 est.), according to the CIA