On page ii of any give book, right after the copyright page, Include a Robots.txt file.:-)
Disallow:/Index
Disallow:/chapter 1
Disallow:/chapter 2
Disallow:/chapter 3
Disallow:/chapter 14
Disallow:/chapter 15
Disallow:/chapter 16/steamy love scene/
Disallow:/book cover
There was the embedded unique ID code in Pentium III chips.
There are cookies.
There are Persistent Identification Elements.
All long as you surf or use the net, you and your browsing can be tracked. A piece of advice that I give grandmas and people new to computers when I do the community workshops is that one should never do anything on the net that they wouldn't do in public.
Persoanlly, I am suprised that 58% of people delete cookies. I'd be suprised if 30% of the people on the net knew what a cookie was. Other than oreo. I wonder if that 58% inclued people that reinstall their OS when they get bogged down, Or maybe that one time they installed and ran Ad-Aware only when they heard of it.
I'm seeing a lot of Bashing going on for both EA and Ubisoft. What gives? Both produce/distribute great games. (Do they really make thier own games?) Currently on my hard drive I have by EA: Battlefield 1942 and MAdden 2004. On My harddrive from Ubisoft is IL2 forgotten battles and (or whatever the expansion is called).
I am hoping some good will come out of this: I cannot stand the patching system for IL2 and the ability to play online... Anyone who has tried to play online with IL@ knows this. Madden and BF1942 online are easy. Maybe if nothing else there can still be great games with a more streamlined method of finding online opponents and patches.
Several years ago I taught some workshops to teachers to let them learn the joys of email. I made apoint to show them that email was not sure and anything written can be read by anyone with some knowledge. After sending some emails back and forth as a class, I logged into the mail server and showed them what they had written to each other. Even though they were upset that I could see the email, they walked away remembering the message:
Don't send anything in the email that you don't want printed in the classified ads of the local paper. Because sending email is like sending a postcard. Every postman between here and there can read what you've said.
What makes me wonder is that these "terrorist" were sending email that was unencrypted? [tinfoil hat] Or maybe, the NSA were able to get backdoors to encryption technology and that what what is passively being listened to. [/tinfoil]
I'm sure he would know all about legalities of what you were wanting to know.
Some things off the top of my head (So what if this is April 1st):
How names work alphabetically? What if you son/daughter publishes a book. I bet the Library of Congress will have a shit-fit trying to index it by author's name.
How the hell is it supposed to be pronounced? Brad? Brfourd? B-R-Four-D?
Your son/daughter will become a geek like you. You're a geek. You posted on/. on April 1st. Your children being geeks will be enough torture through grade school. Why make it worse?
I waant to be there when your son/daughter enlists in the military and the Drill Instructor goes Ape-Shit on your kid.
(Wed Oct 20, '99 )
A researcher at the University of New Mexico has modified the Doom source to visualize processes and kill them! Finally you can really enjoy killing that Netscape process that just won't die!
NPR this morning was stating that Microsoft will appeal (Wow that is a suprise). They said that an Appeal could last up to seven years. In that time, longhorn v2 will be out and support for XP will be cut off. This will make the case a moot point. Even if they loose the appeal, Microsoft won't pay.
Swift justice, it seems, works just as fast in Europe as it does here.:-)
One of the thing I hate about living in a town with a small library, is that I miss out on things like this. I will have to order these other two books. Thanks for the suggestions.
OK, Maybe it was originally a trilogy: Wizard of Earthsea Tombs of Autan The Farthest Shore
But in 2001 Leguin published Tehanu. The earthsea trilogy is now called the Earthsea Cycle. Of all of The Earthsea cycle books, Tehanu really showcases LeGuin's political and feminist slants. (This is a good thing I believe). Tombs of Autan had some and the other two books required a little more digging to get into her philosophy.
If you want to read some great LeGuin I would reccomend: Always coming home and The Dispossessed. Both of these books are very thought provoking and well worth the time to read. There was an edition of Always coming home publihsed with a cassette tape of the music and poetry that was created by the societies described in the book. Wonderul stuff.
"Grain grows best in shit" Ursula K LeGuin
(Tinyurl links got to amazon Please use fewer 'junk' characters. )
Strange, my DSL provider was down for the entier day on the 11th. And now Hotmail is down for an entire day. I think there is some sort of new tracking software being installed all over the net to see who is swapping files with whom.
English: Hello. I am in Iraq. My Grid Coordinates are XY76543421, and I think that I may shoot at some guy that is pissing on the only tree out here.
In German: Hallo. Ich bin im Irak. Meine Koordinaten des Rasterfeldes sind XY76543421, und ich denke, daB ich in irgendeine Einzelperson dieses pissing im einzigen Baum in Richtung zu drauBen werfen kann hier.
Into French: Hallo. Je suis en Iraq. Mes coordonnees du champ de trame sont XY76543421, et moi-meme pensent que je peux jeter celui-ci dans un particulier pissing dans le seul arbre en direction dehors ici.
Back into English: Hallo. I am in Iraq. My co-ordinates of the field of screen are XY76543421, and myself think that I can throw this one in a private individual pissing in the only steering shaft outside here.
I'm on top of the virus situation. But my wife and kids aren't. Boom, My computer get teh latest mydoom.beagle.XXX varient and sends out 17,093,983,234 emails while I am away for the weekend. I'll be damned if I pay for that much email.
before the internet, before TV, before radio, before books, ideas were spread by talking. A perosn would hear something, and if the person liked this idea, he/she would propigate this idea. It the person really liked this idea, then he/she would pass this idea down to his/her children. back in the old days, there were, for want of a better term, "Story guilds" would passon information and it would be spread....Then came books (The first best seller then is now one of the top movies). With books, people that were so inclined would read these ideas and pass the idea onto others. Nobility and Clergy read and the ideas they kept and passed on pretty much became law. Then with Radio and the birth of modern mass media, people would listen to ideas, and the ideas that were accpted were talked about and sometime these ideas affected people in interesting ways. Same thing with TV. But by the time TV came along, the ideas weren't ideas per say, they were gossippy comments on Dick van Dyke's wife (50's) to Janet's boob (2004). Now with the internet, some people are propagating ideas again. (Some are not.) But as always, the ideas are coming from other sources and the ideas that are being accepted are being passed on. Anecdote: On a quiz with my class, I asked to briefly explain communism, capitalism, and so forth...A student answered this: Communism: All your profits are belong to us Great answer that assimulated ideas from the net and spread them around. What am I getting at? It ok that others borrow/steal/copy ideas. Ideas are meant to be shared and debated. To own an idea and say, "Mine" is like trying to own the air you breathe. You can;t stop it from spreading.
They vids aren't that exciting. If you are looking for pr0^h^h^h Cool manga type mechs, but if you are interested in human-robitc compatability, this is nice.
Each video is basically a guy walking around in circles for a minute or so. So if you've seen one, you've seen 'em all.:-) But as the downloads at berkley were getting slower and slower, I offer a mirror of the three vid clips:
I'm afraid that this is going to be the course of all good free/open source software projects. I work in an envioronment that uses Free software for our servers because the schools can't afford others. We've been using Mitel's SME Server (E-Smith for you old-schoolers) for quite a while. Recently Mitel is dropping support for this. This announcement came right after Redhat's shakeup a while back. Free/swan is an excellent tool that we've been using to connect schools and homes. Anyway, I'm afraid that education will suffer, which in turn will lead to everyone's suffering.
I was going to mod you down, but thought I'd reply instaed....
Read some of the articles. This is not the end for Ultima... Ultima Online will now be run from California, and development of Ultima X will continue on the west coast.
ultima Online will still continue. I'm sure it will change, especially if people take the sevrense package instead of relocating. But it will still be there.
Even though they look cool, to impress me, they should be able to run a web server that doesn't go down when mentioned on/.
Long Term Problem...
on
Space Burial
·
· Score: 0, Insightful
OK, This is just me, I know. But if we start getting burried in space or some firey ball because someone set the controls for the heart of the sun (I'm listening to floyd at the moment--forgive me), Anyway, if we started shooting ourselves in space, then the saying, "To dust you shall return" will not have meaning.
I've always taken comfort that my compost will be used for future generations a millenia from now as I've decomposed and have been sucked up by some plant and eaten by a cow and then either worshiped or eated depending on the part of the world the cow is living at that given time.
Question: how many people will have to be tossed into space, how many resources will have to be tossed into space along with the people to make a difference on the long term resources of our planet?
The Gov't is putting measures in the money. It takes time. Before teh new muti-colored 20's came out, there were identifier strips inside. One day when I got some cash from teh bank, I got some 50's. I noticed one of the fifties was odd and sure enough, the strip was for a 20 dollar bill.
One of the easiest forms of counterfeiting is to just bleach ink out of hte money and reprint it for a higher denomination. HP color lasers make this easy.
Slashdot Mirror
On page ii of any give book, right after the copyright page, Include a Robots.txt file. :-)
/Index /chapter 1 /chapter 2 /chapter 3 /chapter 14 /chapter 15 /chapter 16/steamy love scene/ /book cover
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
[use preview, flogger]
On page ii of any give book, right after the copyright page, Include a Robots.txt file. :-)
Disallow: /Index
Disallow: /chapter 1
Disallow: /chapter 2
Disallow: /chapter 3
Disallow: /chapter 14
Disallow: /chapter 15
Disallow: /chapter 16/steamy love scene/
Disallow: /book cover
There was the embedded unique ID code in Pentium III chips.
There are cookies.
There are Persistent Identification Elements.
All long as you surf or use the net, you and your browsing can be tracked. A piece of advice that I give grandmas and people new to computers when I do the community workshops is that one should never do anything on the net that they wouldn't do in public.
Persoanlly, I am suprised that 58% of people delete cookies. I'd be suprised if 30% of the people on the net knew what a cookie was. Other than oreo. I wonder if that 58% inclued people that reinstall their OS when they get bogged down, Or maybe that one time they installed and ran Ad-Aware only when they heard of it.
Jan 22, 1973, seems to be the date that personal responibility was abolished by the supreme court.
Like or dislike the decision, I've read in places that this is when we stopped being accountable for our actions.
I'm seeing a lot of Bashing going on for both EA and Ubisoft. What gives? Both produce/distribute great games. (Do they really make thier own games?) Currently on my hard drive I have by EA: Battlefield 1942 and MAdden 2004. On My harddrive from Ubisoft is IL2 forgotten battles and (or whatever the expansion is called). I am hoping some good will come out of this: I cannot stand the patching system for IL2 and the ability to play online... Anyone who has tried to play online with IL@ knows this. Madden and BF1942 online are easy. Maybe if nothing else there can still be great games with a more streamlined method of finding online opponents and patches.
this was my first encounter with an Orithopter. ;-)
Sex in a can .
:-)
Don't ask me how I know this.
You can watch the CAM here. There is a nice view of the volcano.
Several years ago I taught some workshops to teachers to let them learn the joys of email. I made apoint to show them that email was not sure and anything written can be read by anyone with some knowledge. After sending some emails back and forth as a class, I logged into the mail server and showed them what they had written to each other. Even though they were upset that I could see the email, they walked away remembering the message:
Don't send anything in the email that you don't want printed in the classified ads of the local paper. Because sending email is like sending a postcard. Every postman between here and there can read what you've said.
What makes me wonder is that these "terrorist" were sending email that was unencrypted? [tinfoil hat] Or maybe, the NSA were able to get backdoors to encryption technology and that what what is passively being listened to. [/tinfoil]
Some things off the top of my head (So what if this is April 1st):
How names work alphabetically? What if you son/daughter publishes a book. I bet the Library of Congress will have a shit-fit trying to index it by author's name.
How the hell is it supposed to be pronounced? Brad? Brfourd? B-R-Four-D?
Your son/daughter will become a geek like you. You're a geek. You posted on /. on April 1st. Your children being geeks will be enough torture through grade school. Why make it worse?
I waant to be there when your son/daughter enlists in the military and the Drill Instructor goes Ape-Shit on your kid.
:-)
Nice article.
Details can be found Here
(Wed Oct 20, '99 ) A researcher at the University of New Mexico has modified the Doom source to visualize processes and kill them! Finally you can really enjoy killing that Netscape process that just won't die!
NPR this morning was stating that Microsoft will appeal (Wow that is a suprise). They said that an Appeal could last up to seven years. In that time, longhorn v2 will be out and support for XP will be cut off. This will make the case a moot point. Even if they loose the appeal, Microsoft won't pay.
:-)
Swift justice, it seems, works just as fast in Europe as it does here.
One of the thing I hate about living in a town with a small library, is that I miss out on things like this. I will have to order these other two books. Thanks for the suggestions.
OK, Maybe it was originally a trilogy:
Wizard of Earthsea
Tombs of Autan
The Farthest Shore
But in 2001 Leguin published Tehanu. The earthsea trilogy is now called the Earthsea Cycle. Of all of The Earthsea cycle books, Tehanu really showcases LeGuin's political and feminist slants. (This is a good thing I believe). Tombs of Autan had some and the other two books required a little more digging to get into her philosophy.
If you want to read some great LeGuin I would reccomend: Always coming home and The Dispossessed. Both of these books are very thought provoking and well worth the time to read. There was an edition of Always coming home publihsed with a cassette tape of the music and poetry that was created by the societies described in the book. Wonderul stuff.
"Grain grows best in shit" Ursula K LeGuin
(Tinyurl links got to amazon Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
)
Strange, my DSL provider was down for the entier day on the 11th. And now Hotmail is down for an entire day. I think there is some sort of new tracking software being installed all over the net to see who is swapping files with whom.
:-)
[/tinfoil hat]
English:
Hello. I am in Iraq. My Grid Coordinates are XY76543421, and I think that I may shoot at some guy that is pissing on the only tree out here.
In German:
Hallo. Ich bin im Irak. Meine Koordinaten des Rasterfeldes sind XY76543421, und ich denke, daB ich in irgendeine Einzelperson dieses pissing im einzigen Baum in Richtung zu drauBen werfen kann hier.
Into French:
Hallo. Je suis en Iraq. Mes coordonnees du champ de trame sont XY76543421, et moi-meme pensent que je peux jeter celui-ci dans un particulier pissing dans le seul arbre en direction dehors ici.
Back into English:
Hallo. I am in Iraq. My co-ordinates of the field of screen are XY76543421, and myself think that I can throw this one in a private individual pissing in the only steering shaft outside here.
Meaning: WTF?
I'm on top of the virus situation. But my wife and kids aren't. Boom, My computer get teh latest mydoom.beagle.XXX varient and sends out 17,093,983,234 emails while I am away for the weekend. I'll be damned if I pay for that much email.
before the internet, before TV, before radio, before books, ideas were spread by talking. A perosn would hear something, and if the person liked this idea, he/she would propigate this idea. It the person really liked this idea, then he/she would pass this idea down to his/her children. back in the old days, there were, for want of a better term, "Story guilds" would passon information and it would be spread....Then came books (The first best seller then is now one of the top movies). With books, people that were so inclined would read these ideas and pass the idea onto others. Nobility and Clergy read and the ideas they kept and passed on pretty much became law.
Then with Radio and the birth of modern mass media, people would listen to ideas, and the ideas that were accpted were talked about and sometime these ideas affected people in interesting ways.
Same thing with TV. But by the time TV came along, the ideas weren't ideas per say, they were gossippy comments on Dick van Dyke's wife (50's) to Janet's boob (2004).
Now with the internet, some people are propagating ideas again. (Some are not.) But as always, the ideas are coming from other sources and the ideas that are being accepted are being passed on.
Anecdote: On a quiz with my class, I asked to briefly explain communism, capitalism, and so forth...A student answered this:
Communism: All your profits are belong to us
Great answer that assimulated ideas from the net and spread them around.
What am I getting at? It ok that others borrow/steal/copy ideas. Ideas are meant to be shared and debated. To own an idea and say, "Mine" is like trying to own the air you breathe. You can;t stop it from spreading.
(breaks over...no time to proofread... sorry)
They vids aren't that exciting. If you are looking for pr0^h^h^h Cool manga type mechs, but if you are interested in human-robitc compatability, this is nice.
:-) But as the downloads at berkley were getting slower and slower, I offer a mirror of the three vid clips:
Each video is basically a guy walking around in circles for a minute or so. So if you've seen one, you've seen 'em all.
Bleex-part1.mpeg(18)
Bleex-part2.mpeg(21 meg)
Bleex-part3.mpeg(23 meg)
[/karmawhoring]
I'm afraid that this is going to be the course of all good free/open source software projects. I work in an envioronment that uses Free software for our servers because the schools can't afford others. We've been using Mitel's SME Server (E-Smith for you old-schoolers) for quite a while. Recently Mitel is dropping support for this. This announcement came right after Redhat's shakeup a while back. Free/swan is an excellent tool that we've been using to connect schools and homes. Anyway, I'm afraid that education will suffer, which in turn will lead to everyone's suffering.
I was going to mod you down, but thought I'd reply instaed....
... Ultima Online will now be run from California, and development of Ultima X will continue on the west coast.
Read some of the articles.
This is not the end for Ultima
ultima Online will still continue. I'm sure it will change, especially if people take the sevrense package instead of relocating. But it will still be there.
Even though they look cool, to impress me, they should be able to run a web server that doesn't go down when mentioned on /.
OK, This is just me, I know. But if we start getting burried in space or some firey ball because someone set the controls for the heart of the sun (I'm listening to floyd at the moment--forgive me), Anyway, if we started shooting ourselves in space, then the saying, "To dust you shall return" will not have meaning.
I've always taken comfort that my compost will be used for future generations a millenia from now as I've decomposed and have been sucked up by some plant and eaten by a cow and then either worshiped or eated depending on the part of the world the cow is living at that given time.
Question: how many people will have to be tossed into space, how many resources will have to be tossed into space along with the people to make a difference on the long term resources of our planet?
It has been a long time since 5 meg video files posted on slashdot haven;t been, well, slashdotted. mirror is at this spot.
OK, I'll bite.
The Gov't is putting measures in the money. It takes time. Before teh new muti-colored 20's came out, there were identifier strips inside. One day when I got some cash from teh bank, I got some 50's. I noticed one of the fifties was odd and sure enough, the strip was for a 20 dollar bill.
One of the easiest forms of counterfeiting is to just bleach ink out of hte money and reprint it for a higher denomination. HP color lasers make this easy.
Gotta go...no time to spellcheck.