Wow, a voluntary Mulberry user. Did you actually buy it, or do you go to a school that has a site license?
Heh, I wish my school used Mulberry. As it is, they are forcing everyone off the old Unix mail (your choice of pine, elm, mail, POP, IMAP, Hydra WebMail, or hell 'vi' if you're a masochist like my boss) into Outlook/Exchange. Barf.
Yes, I actually bought Mulberry way back in the beginning of 1999. I wanted to use IMAP, and all Eudora after 3.x just sucked. I downloaded a free demo, and was hooked. But that's partly because of the way I read mail - I filter with procmail and various perl widgets into about 30 different mailboxes, and Mulberry works really well for that (cabinets, favorites, etc). I also like the multiple window-type interface, instead of the more popular MDI mail interfaces like Outlook or Mozilla (ick). I guess it's because I'm a Mac user at heart, although these days I spend more time in Linux.
By the way, Cyrusoft has been great to me. I bought my license over 4 years ago, and up until a few months ago (when version 3 was released) I was still entitled to the latest versions for free. I even tried to buy the PGP plugin, and they wouldn't take my money! Since I had a v1.4 licence they gave me the plugins for free. When I've emailed them with bug reports/feature requests, my messages have been answered by the actual developers, and sometimes Cyrus himself. Best $35 I've ever spent!
Really? Everyone I know uses pine, Eudora, or Mail.app - you should be careful about making assumptions
I agree, Moz has a nice browser but the mail client is ponderous and unpleasant. I use Mulberry on Linux, OS X, Windows, and I used to run it on Solaris. It's just awesome!
You have, perhaps, not heard of the speculative practice of shorting stock.
If you look at SCOX short interest ratio, you'll see it's 0.6 - which is very, very, low. Shorting is probably not the reason the price is staying up, it seems that there really are a lot of investors drinking SCO's kool-aid.
Does anyone know if RH Advanced Server is redistributable? The 5-year life cycle is really appealing, if I could just download the updates. (which is what I do now, I don't bother with up2date).
But I've never seen ISO's available for AS. Anyone know why not?
Well, one of my goals in college was to break the speed of sound with a nerf ball. We hit mach 1.3 with a modified potato gun and the little
"ballistic balls". I can assure you, at those speeds a nerf ball is incredibly destructive. I can't even imagine what it would have done to a spacecraft's wing.
If you're wondering how we measured the speed, we used two metal foil strips with current running through them, such that it would generate a square wave when the foils were broken. We captured the signal with a computer soundcard, and just counted the samples to measure the period of the wave.
Can't this be taken as a sign of tacit approval in the life-plus-fifty copyright that exists now? Is that what we want?
Even worse, it seems like it could open the door for endless copyright, as long as the owner continues to pay the fee. It seems to imply that only works with no commercial value are worthy of the public domain. This makes me a little uneasy...
Yes, demaria (above) explains this pretty well. Certainly it's not hard to trick the filter (you could tunnel everything through SSH on port 22, and nobody would be the wiser), but that isn't necessarily the point. It's still useful if you can (mostly) trust your users not to cause mischief.
To better illustrate how this might work, consider this packet:
If I was a Microsoft shareholder, I would want to sack any Microsoft board of directors that used the company's resources for anything other than increasing the bottom-line.
Really? Does that mean if a company had the opportunity to take action resulting in the deaths of many, many people, that you as a shareholder would be in favor of it as long as it benefitted the "bottom line"? That saddens me, and certainly such things happen (not really talking about MS here, it could be any company).
But many investors' wishes are more complex than that. Witness the growing number of "socially responsible" mutual funds. Those investors (and I'm one of them) have more on their mind than driving the stock price up at any cost.
If you go to the space.com website, they show you that in that shot, Jupiter is about 7 times farther away from the viewpoint, but it still appears dramatically larger than earth in the full image.
This is partly due to the long focal length of the lens. It distorts perspective, the same way a photographer can make the moon apear much larger by taking the picture with a long telephoto, at a distance from the subject.
But no doubt, it was inspiring to see Earth and Jupiter in the same frame together.
Quoth the spammer: "But carriers should be held accountable when they submit to anti-spam groups. Terminating services to companies' such as my own without any legal reason to do so is not the democracy that we should all be living."
My biggest problem with this statement is there is a legal reason to terminate service. Spamming is almost always forbidden in the terms of service that are agreed upon when a new account is opened. The inviolability of a contract is a major foundation of our system of government.
and the poster says: 1) This is not a democracy. We're a democratic republic. There's a big difference.
Yeah, we've all heard that a zillion times, but you should know that the modern meaning of "Democracy" usually means "Democratic republic". Yes, to the federalists "Democracy" meant "Direct democracy" which they equated with "mob rule" and lawlessness, just like the word "people" in "We the people" meant rich, white, lawyers. Well, times have changed. Lecturing folks about the difference between democracies and republics usually just makes you look like a wing nut.
Terahertz radiation lies on the boundary between radio and light waves and is far more difficult to detect and analyse than either, but is of huge interest for medical, security, environmental and communication uses;
If this is so groundbreaking, why do they fail to mention that "terahertz radiation" also goes by another name: infrared?
If it's so hard to detect and analyze, how come my $10 radio-shack universal remote control can do it?
As someone who participates in Buy Nothing Day, and digs Adbusters in general, I feel I need to respond to some of the comments here.
The point of Buy Nothing Day is not to "stick it to the retailers!", or to reduce consumption directly. Obviously, participants will buy what they need on some other day.
The point is to raise awareness of an issue. Black Friday was chosen as symbolic of the problem, but it could be any day. It's sort of analogous to fasting: you don't do it to "stick it to the farmers!", nor do you expect to lose weight. People who fast are doing so for some other reason, because of the way it alters their perception of the world.
Buy Nothing Day is the same way. I encourage readers to try it this year. Coffee or lunch downtown? Nope, that's off limits today. What about that special computer cable you need to complete your latest project, or the cool new book that caught your eye, or god forbid that new pop album? It'll have to wait 'till tomorrow.
The headline isn't just misleading, it's just plain wrong. The story is less than an hour old and there are already a fistful of comments pointing this out.
If any of the editors are reading this thread, the headline needs to be corrected!
BTW, I reread the summary a few times, and it seems that the person who submitted the story got it right. The poster makes no mention of any sort of horizontal gene transfer between the corn and soy, but only claims the crops were "accidentally mixed", which is what happened. It's Hemos who fscked this one up.
To the poster who located this, that's just beautiful! I particularly love the crosshair right over her home. You can almost see the smartbomb falling down her chimney in the next instant...
Note to John Ashcroft and freinds: I'm just kidding with the part about the bomb. Really. I'm a pacifist. It's a JOKE.
Impossible seems like a pretty weird word to ever use in this sort of situation.
Except that they didn't use the word 'impossible'... you can thank the slashdot editor for that bit of nonsense. The article actually claims it is "computationally infeasible" to break the larger keys.
However Intentia isn't alone in its accusations. Three other Scandinavian companies Nordea, the region's biggest bank; Fortum, the Finnish energy group; and Sweco, a small Swedish consultancy also claim that their results were published by Reuters ahead of their official release, the FT reports.
The obvious conclusion from this... is that Reuters is in posession of a time machine.
Can you clarify whether you intend to purchase a motherboard, or make one? IMO, the main board is the piece that makes a "CPU" into a "computer".
If the answer is that you want to buy a PowerMac, IBM RS/6000, etc motherboard, than I would say you haven't "built your own" anything. If you do intend to make your own main board, than nobody here on slashdot can help you.
Bandwidth is a commodity like water or electricity: cheap, but not infinite.
This statement seems to be repeated a lot in this discussion, in various forms. I think you are right, but there is a key difference with bandwidth: it can't be stored.
With water or power, the amount of water or coal that isn't used today can be saved, and used tomorrow. So it makes sense to meter it as a commodity.
Bandwidth is different. If the pipe sits idle, that bandwidth is gone forever. It can't be stored and used later. So it doesn't make sense to charge people for a resource that is going to go to waste otherwise.
What I'd prefer is a traffic-shaping scheme that just adjusts a user's priority based on their usage.
If the pipes start to get full, and you're one of the heavier users that month, your packets are the first to get dropped. On the other hand, at 3 am when the network is idle, your traffic would be unrestricted since there are few other users competing for that bandwidth.
A system like this would be fair to everyone, and still address the problem of "bandwidth hogs".
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Wow, a voluntary Mulberry user. Did you actually buy it, or do you go to a school that has a site license?
Heh, I wish my school used Mulberry. As it is, they are forcing everyone off the old Unix mail (your choice of pine, elm, mail, POP, IMAP, Hydra WebMail, or hell 'vi' if you're a masochist like my boss) into Outlook/Exchange. Barf.
Yes, I actually bought Mulberry way back in the beginning of 1999. I wanted to use IMAP, and all Eudora after 3.x just sucked. I downloaded a free demo, and was hooked. But that's partly because of the way I read mail - I filter with procmail and various perl widgets into about 30 different mailboxes, and Mulberry works really well for that (cabinets, favorites, etc). I also like the multiple window-type interface, instead of the more popular MDI mail interfaces like Outlook or Mozilla (ick). I guess it's because I'm a Mac user at heart, although these days I spend more time in Linux.
By the way, Cyrusoft has been great to me. I bought my license over 4 years ago, and up until a few months ago (when version 3 was released) I was still entitled to the latest versions for free. I even tried to buy the PGP plugin, and they wouldn't take my money! Since I had a v1.4 licence they gave me the plugins for free. When I've emailed them with bug reports/feature requests, my messages have been answered by the actual developers, and sometimes Cyrus himself. Best $35 I've ever spent!
Really? Everyone I know uses pine, Eudora, or Mail.app - you should be careful about making assumptions
I agree, Moz has a nice browser but the mail client is ponderous and unpleasant. I use Mulberry on Linux, OS X, Windows, and I used to run it on Solaris. It's just awesome!
Assuming it's bang/buck, and buck = 0, then bang/buck is Undefined. (division by zero!)
The original poster is right, it's +INF. Here's a nice introduction to hyperreal numbers.
You have, perhaps, not heard of the speculative practice of shorting stock.
If you look at SCOX short interest ratio, you'll see it's 0.6 - which is very, very, low. Shorting is probably not the reason the price is staying up, it seems that there really are a lot of investors drinking SCO's kool-aid.
Does anyone know if RH Advanced Server is redistributable? The 5-year life cycle is really appealing, if I could just download the updates. (which is what I do now, I don't bother with up2date).
But I've never seen ISO's available for AS. Anyone know why not?
... could be possible terorist weapons :)
Well, one of my goals in college was to break the speed of sound with a nerf ball. We hit mach 1.3 with a modified potato gun and the little "ballistic balls". I can assure you, at those speeds a nerf ball is incredibly destructive. I can't even imagine what it would have done to a spacecraft's wing.
If you're wondering how we measured the speed, we used two metal foil strips with current running through them, such that it would generate a square wave when the foils were broken. We captured the signal with a computer soundcard, and just counted the samples to measure the period of the wave.
Can't this be taken as a sign of tacit approval in the life-plus-fifty copyright that exists now? Is that what we want?
Even worse, it seems like it could open the door for endless copyright, as long as the owner continues to pay the fee. It seems to imply that only works with no commercial value are worthy of the public domain. This makes me a little uneasy...
To better illustrate how this might work, consider this packet:
This is clearly web traffic, even if we ignore that fact that it's on port 80, you can see evidence of http in the data itself.Now this SSH packet could be carrying anything... it's hard to tell. Still, certain applications might have patterns, as suggested.
If I was a Microsoft shareholder, I would want to sack any Microsoft board of directors that used the company's resources for anything other than increasing the bottom-line.
Really? Does that mean if a company had the opportunity to take action resulting in the deaths of many, many people, that you as a shareholder would be in favor of it as long as it benefitted the "bottom line"? That saddens me, and certainly such things happen (not really talking about MS here, it could be any company).
But many investors' wishes are more complex than that. Witness the growing number of "socially responsible" mutual funds. Those investors (and I'm one of them) have more on their mind than driving the stock price up at any cost.
If you go to the space.com website, they show you that in that shot, Jupiter is about 7 times farther away from the viewpoint, but it still appears dramatically larger than earth in the full image.
This is partly due to the long focal length of the lens. It distorts perspective, the same way a photographer can make the moon apear much larger by taking the picture with a long telephoto, at a distance from the subject.
But no doubt, it was inspiring to see Earth and Jupiter in the same frame together.
Quoth the spammer: "But carriers should be held accountable when they submit to anti-spam groups. Terminating services to companies' such as my own without any legal reason to do so is not the democracy that we should all be living."
My biggest problem with this statement is there is a legal reason to terminate service. Spamming is almost always forbidden in the terms of service that are agreed upon when a new account is opened. The inviolability of a contract is a major foundation of our system of government.
and the poster says: 1) This is not a democracy. We're a democratic republic. There's a big difference.
Yeah, we've all heard that a zillion times, but you should know that the modern meaning of "Democracy" usually means "Democratic republic". Yes, to the federalists "Democracy" meant "Direct democracy" which they equated with "mob rule" and lawlessness, just like the word "people" in "We the people" meant rich, white, lawyers. Well, times have changed. Lecturing folks about the difference between democracies and republics usually just makes you look like a wing nut.
IIS runs only 25% (and sinking) of webservers, yet ALL mass-infections so far hit it and none Apache which runs over 60%.
I don't know where you got that idea. There have been two MAJOR Apache worms in the past year.
Terahertz radiation lies on the boundary between radio and light waves and is far more difficult to detect and analyse than either, but is of huge interest for medical, security, environmental and communication uses;
If this is so groundbreaking, why do they fail to mention that "terahertz radiation" also goes by another name: infrared? If it's so hard to detect and analyze, how come my $10 radio-shack universal remote control can do it?
As someone who participates in Buy Nothing Day, and digs Adbusters in general, I feel I need to respond to some of the comments here.
The point of Buy Nothing Day is not to "stick it to the retailers!", or to reduce consumption directly. Obviously, participants will buy what they need on some other day.
The point is to raise awareness of an issue. Black Friday was chosen as symbolic of the problem, but it could be any day. It's sort of analogous to fasting: you don't do it to "stick it to the farmers!", nor do you expect to lose weight. People who fast are doing so for some other reason, because of the way it alters their perception of the world.
Buy Nothing Day is the same way. I encourage readers to try it this year. Coffee or lunch downtown? Nope, that's off limits today. What about that special computer cable you need to complete your latest project, or the cool new book that caught your eye, or god forbid that new pop album? It'll have to wait 'till tomorrow.
Try it and see, you might be surprised...
The headline isn't just misleading, it's just plain wrong. The story is less than an hour old and there are already a fistful of comments pointing this out.
If any of the editors are reading this thread, the headline needs to be corrected!
BTW, I reread the summary a few times, and it seems that the person who submitted the story got it right. The poster makes no mention of any sort of horizontal gene transfer between the corn and soy, but only claims the crops were "accidentally mixed", which is what happened. It's Hemos who fscked this one up.
I'd happily pay, if you guys would promise to use the money to buy some English as a Second Language courses. Maybe a spell checker.
Amen to that. Remember people, less is for continuous quantities (less water), and fewer is for discrete quantities (fewer people).
Here's my mirror.
To the poster who located this, that's just beautiful! I particularly love the crosshair right over her home. You can almost see the smartbomb falling down her chimney in the next instant...
Note to John Ashcroft and freinds: I'm just kidding with the part about the bomb. Really. I'm a pacifist. It's a JOKE.
And looking through his user profile, he's also a rocket scientist. Wow.
The link in the summary seems to point to the wrong memo. Here's the correct one.
Impossible seems like a pretty weird word to ever use in this sort of situation.
Except that they didn't use the word 'impossible'... you can thank the slashdot editor for that bit of nonsense. The article actually claims it is "computationally infeasible" to break the larger keys.
From The Register article:
However Intentia isn't alone in its accusations. Three other Scandinavian companies Nordea, the region's biggest bank; Fortum, the Finnish energy group; and Sweco, a small Swedish consultancy also claim that their results were published by Reuters ahead of their official release, the FT reports.
The obvious conclusion from this... is that Reuters is in posession of a time machine.
Can you clarify whether you intend to purchase a motherboard, or make one? IMO, the main board is the piece that makes a "CPU" into a "computer".
If the answer is that you want to buy a PowerMac, IBM RS/6000, etc motherboard, than I would say you haven't "built your own" anything. If you do intend to make your own main board, than nobody here on slashdot can help you.
Bandwidth is a commodity like water or electricity: cheap, but not infinite.
This statement seems to be repeated a lot in this discussion, in various forms. I think you are right, but there is a key difference with bandwidth: it can't be stored.
With water or power, the amount of water or coal that isn't used today can be saved, and used tomorrow. So it makes sense to meter it as a commodity.
Bandwidth is different. If the pipe sits idle, that bandwidth is gone forever. It can't be stored and used later. So it doesn't make sense to charge people for a resource that is going to go to waste otherwise.
What I'd prefer is a traffic-shaping scheme that just adjusts a user's priority based on their usage.
If the pipes start to get full, and you're one of the heavier users that month, your packets are the first to get dropped. On the other hand, at 3 am when the network is idle, your traffic would be unrestricted since there are few other users competing for that bandwidth.
A system like this would be fair to everyone, and still address the problem of "bandwidth hogs".