Or how Alanis puts it in her songs... unfortunate.
C'mon, now you're just being insensitive (okay, I think that's Jann Aarden, but I can't tell the difference between any of them anyway, I guess that's kind of ironic...).
From the Radix complaint: Beyond images, the traits of Radix' characters share strikingly similarities with MIT's proposal. Radix features characters who "scan" for life forms, wear invincible body armor, can become invisible, and display physical skills enhanced by machinery. MIT described its future solders as "seemingly invincible warriors protected by armor and endowed with superhuman capabilities such as the ability to leap over 20-foot walls." MIT also claimed its soldier could become invisible.
Addendum: It was also found that other shocking similarities existed between the MIT proposal and the comicbook life of Radix: both worlds are presumed to be dominated by bipedal, hairless, land-dwelling, predatory mammals requiring regular, rapid respiration & dietary sustenance to maintain optimal levels of mobility and to maintain their internally-regulated body temperatures.
...the only way (that I know of) to secure mail is PGP. By the way, I've made a brief HOWTO....
That should have read, "...the only way (that I know of) to secure all your mail is to get all your friends to use PGP...."
Unfortunately, the corporate world will most likely never adopt this (because most SPAM programs and "newsletter" mailers don't cross-reference their e-mail databases with PGP key servers), so you'd have to have one e-mail address for all your Amazon.com accounts and pr0n mailing list subscriptions, and one for real, two-way communications, but then you're back to square one.
So I guess we're hosed unless we all start using some new e-mail paradigm. Unfortunately, PGP seems a little too involved for my dad to bother with, and I can't imagine I'm alone in knowing someone too lazy to use PGP (even in it's current, integrated-with-many-mailers state).
They might see that it is SMTP traffic, but they can't see what you wrote.
Unfortunately, SSL on the client <-> mail server is only part of the equation. Unless every instance of a forwarding mail server uses SSL for the mail server <-> mail server pipe, it's all for naught.
Don't get me wrong, I still use (and require my users to use) authenticated SMTPS, but the only way (that I know of) to secure mail is PGP.
By the way, I've made a brief HOWTO on that very subject at http://bogosian.net/~matt/pgpmail.html. It's being served over an particular cable broadband ISP connection (uh-oh), so please use the Google cache as a mirror.
The article mentions something about no longer needing computer animation to film something like a bullet in slow motion.
Maybe I'm painfully naive here, but I'm not sure how this adds value.
12,000 fps with a max of 120 frames = 1/10th of a second played back at 30 fps = 4 seconds of film.
Besides, I would think that setting up the physical effect would (by now) be much more costly than doing it in CG.
I *can* understand how this might benefit us by being able to capture fast events (like some electrical/light or celestial phenomena, etc.) in more detail in order to understand them better, but I fail to see a justifiable cost/benefit ratio for the filmmaker....
...integrating e-mail and calendaring into the same window?
I understand the legitimacy of being e-mailed new/change meeting requests, etc., but WTF is this irrational draw towards Outlook? Why isn't WebCalendar (or Meeting Maker for that matter) and your favorite desktop mailer (or SquirrelMail and your favorite browser) an equally good solution? Please don't tell me it's because of those gawd-awful blackberry things.
Does anyone else find it slightly ironic that VeriSign (you know, the company that markets itself as the electronic ID validator) is now responsible for damages resulting from a forged letter? I realize it was Network Solutions at the time, but this can't be good for their image....
Then again, they could always spin it and say, "See? See why you need to pay our monopoly^W company $xxx.95 for a VeriSign-certified PGP key?"
The manufacturers wouldn't make them if people didn't want them.
Do you really know what you want? Ever heard the phrase "something I didn't know existed, but now can't live without?"
What about the old adage about the two shoe salesmen that go to Etheopia. The first calls back to the home office and says, "no one wears shoes here, there's no market," and packs up to go home. The second calls the home office and says, "no one wears shoes here, we can dominate the market, send all available supply."
The marketers make people want their products (yes, this includes you). Next time you're thinking of buying something on impulse, ask yourself why, and dig deep to find and answer. You may be surprised....
Am I really willing to go to the poor house over this issue? Am I really willing to throw away a fair job, an OK home, and my car?
Freedom, n.
1. nothing to lose
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), abolitionist, orator and columnist for The Liberator, paraphrasing John Philpot Curran
I guess we're all either slaves to another, or slaves to our own libery. I'll leave the choice up to you.
I doubt the worm is going to bother to follow redirect requests.
Besides https://microsoft.com/ would chew up more cycles on their end....
All kidding aside, with a redirection rule, the worm may not follow it, but at least it cleans up the logs a little. Plus, Apache's default error page and it's default redirect page are about the same size (for the bandwidth conscious).
Just add the following to your httpd.conf at the root level (so they are inherited by all of your <VirtualHost>s as well):
RedirectMatch/default.ida https://www.microsoft.com/
RedirectMatch/robots.txt https://www.microsoft.com/
RedirectMatch/root.exe https://www.microsoft.com/
RedirectMatch/cmd.exe https://www.microsoft.com/
For those of you who think these are a bit too general (they match quite a few URLs), or if you have legitimate destinations which are matched by the above patterns, I'm sure they can be modified to suit your needs....
A lot of tools (like vi & emacs) rely heavily on the QWERTY layout as well. Just look at the letter navigation keys in vi: i, j, k, l (I think this is different in vim, but I'm not sure). In emacs, C-x, C-c isn't nearly as quick to type on Dvorak (but then again maybe that's a good think for any of us who've done it inadvertently while trying to C-x, something-else), and you can forget about the ease of C-x, C-c, C-v for cut, copy, paste in most GUIs.
Apple had an interesting idea of providing a keyboard layout (available at least with OS X) which is Dvorak by day (with just the shift, or caps modifiers), and QWERTY by night (with any of the control modifiers). This way, the positional benefits of keyboard shortcuts remained.
I'm sure one could create an Xmodmap file or keymap file which would create a similar layout. Alternatively, FingerWorks has come up with a compromise between the two layouts, which, they claim, requires less time to retrain, and remains truer to QWERTY. You still don't get the "copy" in cut, copy, paste, but it may be worth a look....
Cage scorned the idea that 4'33" was a "silent piece.
That's because it was meant as performance art. The idea was the that the "music" came not from the composer, but the audience. Cage would sit at the piano and open the lid covering the keys. People would grow silent, expecting some action to take place, and some recognizable sound to emerge. After a while, they would begin to feel uncomfortable, and perhaps whisper to their neighbor. Cage would close the lid on the keys some time into the piece signifying the end of the first movement, then open it again signifying the end of the second, and finally close it again signifying the end of the piece. It was different each time because the sounds came from the audience's reactions from increasing discomfort/anger/humor/whatever. The idea that this could be replicated on CD kind of defeats the purpose of the original intention.
I also doubt that any specific performance (even a recorded one) could be copyrighted in this fashion without acrediting each and every audible audience member...but then again, that depends on where the microphone was placed..., but tell that to the lawyers.
It's still fabricated data. Of course, so is FFT, so maybe I'm wrong...that would invalidate any digital voice analysis (but then again, maybe that's the correct thing to do)....
I'm sorry, but any footage that is interpolated or derived from existing frames cannot be admissible in court. It should be considered as speculation. If it isn't then we have some serious problems.
I'm all for the added benefits to pr0n, though....:)
Business logic should be separate from the database, with triggers and stored procedures used primarily for data integrity issues.
Okay, this is wildly off-topic, but before we start a design war here, perhaps this could use some clarification/extension.... It is widely agreed that, for maintenance purposes, business logic should be implemented in as few disparate systems as conveniently possible. It might, in fact (at least with PL/SQL, triggers and other constraints), be entirely possible to implement the business logic of an application in the database itself. However, as many of us know, stored procedures may be fine (if not sometimes a little performance poor), until you have to change them.
It is pretty much generally considered a pain in the ass to have to change certain aspects of business logic when implemented at the database layer. This being the case, if you move some functionality to a higher level, you should either move the rest of it or make damn well sure you have the best development documentation in the history of commercial software development. I've lost count of the number of inexplicable erroneous behaviors I've come across which were the result of duplicate/forgotten functionality in the database that needed to be altered for one release or another.
A database is for data storage and retrieval. Features which help ensure data integrity are welcome and necessary. Features which try and convince me of the values of executing Java code inside the database are highly suspect IMO.
I'll grant that I have yet to read the text, but what database implementation hasn't ``broken'' SQL by providing extended APIs & semantics wherever (in)appropriate?
At least with Postgres, each SQL command's documentation has a dedicated Compatibility section indicating it's relative standards compliance (often times the functionality of a command will, in Postgres, be a superset of that defined by SQL92, so if you just stay within the bounds of SQL92, you should be fine for most nonesoteric commands). I've found Postgres's documentation to be quite refreshing in this respect. I know exactly where I'm going off the beaten path and how far before I even try to use the command in an implementation. I wish Oracle's docs were that lucid.
There have been studies to attempt to show a lesser incidents of carpal tunnel syndrome in smokers for the frequent breaks, etc. However, there have also been some studies which claim that smoking actually aggravates repetative stress injuries(check here and here for some findings).
If you want the best of both worlds (i.e., lots of breaks without depriving your nerves of oxygen), I'd suggest getting a large water bottle and sipping from it all day long. Fill it up every time it gets empty (that's one break per). If you do it right (depending on the size of the bottle), you should go through it two or three times per day. The real payoff is that it forces you to get up and go to the bathroom about as often (if not more so) as your smokin' coworkers. If you don't forget to wash your hands, it probably keeps your desk cleaner too.
This is somewhat redundant, but if you're going to include condoms, I wouldn't include a huge amount. Condoms are free through the health services department of every campus I've ever been on. Besides, if you get her a gross, you're implying she'll have to use it within about six months (latex degrades over time, and I wouldn't want to use a condom that was six months old, even if it was still in the unopened wrapper):).
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Or how Alanis puts it in her songs... unfortunate.
C'mon, now you're just being insensitive (okay, I think that's Jann Aarden, but I can't tell the difference between any of them anyway, I guess that's kind of ironic...).
Somone probably thought this was a great deep and meaningfull peice of modern art....
It's like that bulked-up guy from Faces Of Death MCXVII who films himself pulling off his own head....
While I'm at it, will the people that insist on using the word "literally" to mean metaphorically....
Yeah, I'm anxious to see people start using words in their correct contexts as well.
Shooting yourself in the foot all the time will only drive away those casual fans, and hence revenue.
Actually, retaining fan loyalty is one of the demands of the strike.
From the Radix complaint: Beyond images, the traits of Radix' characters share strikingly similarities with MIT's proposal. Radix features characters who "scan" for life forms, wear invincible body armor, can become invisible, and display physical skills enhanced by machinery. MIT described its future solders as "seemingly invincible warriors protected by armor and endowed with superhuman capabilities such as the ability to leap over 20-foot walls." MIT also claimed its soldier could become invisible.
Addendum: It was also found that other shocking similarities existed between the MIT proposal and the comicbook life of Radix: both worlds are presumed to be dominated by bipedal, hairless, land-dwelling, predatory mammals requiring regular, rapid respiration & dietary sustenance to maintain optimal levels of mobility and to maintain their internally-regulated body temperatures.
...the only way (that I know of) to secure mail is PGP. By the way, I've made a brief HOWTO....
That should have read, "...the only way (that I know of) to secure all your mail is to get all your friends to use PGP...."
Unfortunately, the corporate world will most likely never adopt this (because most SPAM programs and "newsletter" mailers don't cross-reference their e-mail databases with PGP key servers), so you'd have to have one e-mail address for all your Amazon.com accounts and pr0n mailing list subscriptions, and one for real, two-way communications, but then you're back to square one.
So I guess we're hosed unless we all start using some new e-mail paradigm. Unfortunately, PGP seems a little too involved for my dad to bother with, and I can't imagine I'm alone in knowing someone too lazy to use PGP (even in it's current, integrated-with-many-mailers state).
They might see that it is SMTP traffic, but they can't see what you wrote.
Unfortunately, SSL on the client <-> mail server is only part of the equation. Unless every instance of a forwarding mail server uses SSL for the mail server <-> mail server pipe, it's all for naught.
Don't get me wrong, I still use (and require my users to use) authenticated SMTPS, but the only way (that I know of) to secure mail is PGP.
By the way, I've made a brief HOWTO on that very subject at http://bogosian.net/~matt/pgpmail.html. It's being served over an particular cable broadband ISP connection (uh-oh), so please use the Google cache as a mirror.
The article mentions something about no longer needing computer animation to film something like a bullet in slow motion.
Maybe I'm painfully naive here, but I'm not sure how this adds value.
12,000 fps with a max of 120 frames = 1/10th of a second played back at 30 fps = 4 seconds of film.
Besides, I would think that setting up the physical effect would (by now) be much more costly than doing it in CG.
I *can* understand how this might benefit us by being able to capture fast events (like some electrical/light or celestial phenomena, etc.) in more detail in order to understand them better, but I fail to see a justifiable cost/benefit ratio for the filmmaker....
...integrating e-mail and calendaring into the same window?
I understand the legitimacy of being e-mailed new/change meeting requests, etc., but WTF is this irrational draw towards Outlook? Why isn't WebCalendar (or Meeting Maker for that matter) and your favorite desktop mailer (or SquirrelMail and your favorite browser) an equally good solution? Please don't tell me it's because of those gawd-awful blackberry things.
Untill there is a standard calendar protocol, and that protocol is supported by exchange, you won't be able to get rid of it.
What ever happened to iCalendar, sometimes known as vCalendar?
Aren't there any LDAP-based solutions or proposals?
Does anyone else find it slightly ironic that VeriSign (you know, the company that markets itself as the electronic ID validator) is now responsible for damages resulting from a forged letter? I realize it was Network Solutions at the time, but this can't be good for their image....
Then again, they could always spin it and say, "See? See why you need to pay our monopoly^W company $xxx.95 for a VeriSign-certified PGP key?"
From the article: ``If the speed of light was close to infinity immediately after the Big Bang....''
WTF is "close to infinity"? I'm not a mathematician, so maybe that's the problem, but I cannot parse this statement....
The manufacturers wouldn't make them if people didn't want them.
Do you really know what you want? Ever heard the phrase "something I didn't know existed, but now can't live without?"
What about the old adage about the two shoe salesmen that go to Etheopia. The first calls back to the home office and says, "no one wears shoes here, there's no market," and packs up to go home. The second calls the home office and says, "no one wears shoes here, we can dominate the market, send all available supply."
The marketers make people want their products (yes, this includes you). Next time you're thinking of buying something on impulse, ask yourself why, and dig deep to find and answer. You may be surprised....
Am I really willing to go to the poor house over this issue? Am I really willing to throw away a fair job, an OK home, and my car?
Freedom, n.
1. nothing to lose
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), abolitionist, orator and columnist for The Liberator, paraphrasing John Philpot Curran
I guess we're all either slaves to another, or slaves to our own libery. I'll leave the choice up to you.
...online pacemakers and viral ubiquity was the whole strategy behind Hailstorm. Since MS abaondoned it, we should be safe, right?
You are absolutely right. That's what I get for copy/paste group search/replace without proofreading. Maybe MS is right...maybe it is user error.... :)
I doubt the worm is going to bother to follow redirect requests.
/default.ida https://www.microsoft.com/ /robots.txt https://www.microsoft.com/ /root.exe https://www.microsoft.com/ /cmd.exe https://www.microsoft.com/
Besides https://microsoft.com/ would chew up more cycles on their end....
All kidding aside, with a redirection rule, the worm may not follow it, but at least it cleans up the logs a little. Plus, Apache's default error page and it's default redirect page are about the same size (for the bandwidth conscious).
Just add the following to your httpd.conf at the root level (so they are inherited by all of your <VirtualHost>s as well):
RedirectMatch
RedirectMatch
RedirectMatch
RedirectMatch
For those of you who think these are a bit too general (they match quite a few URLs), or if you have legitimate destinations which are matched by the above patterns, I'm sure they can be modified to suit your needs....
...unix seems to be designed for qwerty....
A lot of tools (like vi & emacs) rely heavily on the QWERTY layout as well. Just look at the letter navigation keys in vi: i, j, k, l (I think this is different in vim, but I'm not sure). In emacs, C-x, C-c isn't nearly as quick to type on Dvorak (but then again maybe that's a good think for any of us who've done it inadvertently while trying to C-x, something-else), and you can forget about the ease of C-x, C-c, C-v for cut, copy, paste in most GUIs.
Apple had an interesting idea of providing a keyboard layout (available at least with OS X) which is Dvorak by day (with just the shift, or caps modifiers), and QWERTY by night (with any of the control modifiers). This way, the positional benefits of keyboard shortcuts remained.
I'm sure one could create an Xmodmap file or keymap file which would create a similar layout. Alternatively, FingerWorks has come up with a compromise between the two layouts, which, they claim, requires less time to retrain, and remains truer to QWERTY. You still don't get the "copy" in cut, copy, paste, but it may be worth a look....
Cage scorned the idea that 4'33" was a "silent piece.
That's because it was meant as performance art. The idea was the that the "music" came not from the composer, but the audience. Cage would sit at the piano and open the lid covering the keys. People would grow silent, expecting some action to take place, and some recognizable sound to emerge. After a while, they would begin to feel uncomfortable, and perhaps whisper to their neighbor. Cage would close the lid on the keys some time into the piece signifying the end of the first movement, then open it again signifying the end of the second, and finally close it again signifying the end of the piece. It was different each time because the sounds came from the audience's reactions from increasing discomfort/anger/humor/whatever. The idea that this could be replicated on CD kind of defeats the purpose of the original intention.
I also doubt that any specific performance (even a recorded one) could be copyrighted in this fashion without acrediting each and every audible audience member...but then again, that depends on where the microphone was placed..., but tell that to the lawyers.
It's still fabricated data. Of course, so is FFT, so maybe I'm wrong...that would invalidate any digital voice analysis (but then again, maybe that's the correct thing to do)....
I'm sorry, but any footage that is interpolated or derived from existing frames cannot be admissible in court. It should be considered as speculation. If it isn't then we have some serious problems.
:)
I'm all for the added benefits to pr0n, though....
Business logic should be separate from the database, with triggers and stored procedures used primarily for data integrity issues.
Okay, this is wildly off-topic, but before we start a design war here, perhaps this could use some clarification/extension.... It is widely agreed that, for maintenance purposes, business logic should be implemented in as few disparate systems as conveniently possible. It might, in fact (at least with PL/SQL, triggers and other constraints), be entirely possible to implement the business logic of an application in the database itself. However, as many of us know, stored procedures may be fine (if not sometimes a little performance poor), until you have to change them.
It is pretty much generally considered a pain in the ass to have to change certain aspects of business logic when implemented at the database layer. This being the case, if you move some functionality to a higher level, you should either move the rest of it or make damn well sure you have the best development documentation in the history of commercial software development. I've lost count of the number of inexplicable erroneous behaviors I've come across which were the result of duplicate/forgotten functionality in the database that needed to be altered for one release or another.
A database is for data storage and retrieval. Features which help ensure data integrity are welcome and necessary. Features which try and convince me of the values of executing Java code inside the database are highly suspect IMO.
I'll grant that I have yet to read the text, but what database implementation hasn't ``broken'' SQL by providing extended APIs & semantics wherever (in)appropriate?
At least with Postgres, each SQL command's documentation has a dedicated Compatibility section indicating it's relative standards compliance (often times the functionality of a command will, in Postgres, be a superset of that defined by SQL92, so if you just stay within the bounds of SQL92, you should be fine for most nonesoteric commands). I've found Postgres's documentation to be quite refreshing in this respect. I know exactly where I'm going off the beaten path and how far before I even try to use the command in an implementation. I wish Oracle's docs were that lucid.
I'll admit, you probably wouldn't want to build and enterprise on-line retail site which has millions of transactions per month with a few instances of Postgres, but the author's comments makes me wonder how much time he's actually spent with these tools.
Smoking prevents carpal tunnel syndrome.
There have been studies to attempt to show a lesser incidents of carpal tunnel syndrome in smokers for the frequent breaks, etc. However, there have also been some studies which claim that smoking actually aggravates repetative stress injuries(check here and here for some findings).
If you want the best of both worlds (i.e., lots of breaks without depriving your nerves of oxygen), I'd suggest getting a large water bottle and sipping from it all day long. Fill it up every time it gets empty (that's one break per). If you do it right (depending on the size of the bottle), you should go through it two or three times per day. The real payoff is that it forces you to get up and go to the bathroom about as often (if not more so) as your smokin' coworkers. If you don't forget to wash your hands, it probably keeps your desk cleaner too.
This is somewhat redundant, but if you're going to include condoms, I wouldn't include a huge amount. Condoms are free through the health services department of every campus I've ever been on. Besides, if you get her a gross, you're implying she'll have to use it within about six months (latex degrades over time, and I wouldn't want to use a condom that was six months old, even if it was still in the unopened wrapper) :).
Then again, a gross might be about right....