other single-eye head-mounted displays i've played with have been quite easy to see. no winking needed. they're generally designed so that the light from the screen comes in perfectly parallel so it's like looking at an infinately large screen that is infinitely far away; very easy for your eyes to focus on. there are plenty of people like Steve Mann or Greg Priest-Dorman who have been wearing them for *years* without problems. furthermore, the single eye displays tend to have fewer problems with making people dizzy.
for a real wearable that you're actually wearing 16 hours a day, the most problematic thing is usually the comfort of the physical device. ordinary glasses get uncomfortable after awhile; glasses with bulky LCD display units attached to them get really uncomfortable if they don't fit *perfectly*.
SecureIIS offers websites running Microsoft Internet Information Server a broad range of protection from common vulnerabilities, both known and unknown. Because SecureIIS does not protect against specific vulnerabilities, but classes of vulnerabilities, it allows for a much more far reaching layer of security.
SecureIIS is certainly doing a good job of protecting their website from that common class of vulnerabilities called "running IIS";-)
i would have to agree that this is mostly a good thing. maine public schools (like most others in the country) are horribly underfunded and misfunded (i watched helplessly every year as my old school voted to lower teachers' salaries and cut educational program after educational program while increasing the budget of the football team. high schools in rural maine are like winos begging for change from the state saying "we just need the money for some food; we won't buy booze with it, honest". if you give them a cash handout, it will just go towards buying new football equipment. even if you specify that the money's only to be used for education, they'll just cut the same amount from other areas of the education budget and move it to sports.). i'm happy to see them getting any support at all from the state government.
my fear is that in most rural schools, the teachers know next to nothing about computers (they're certainly not being paid enough to buy their own computer and home internet access is still all but impossible to get in many areas of the state). just having access to computers is a lot more than many of the students used to have and will be a major benefit. but teaching with computers is an entirely different game than teaching with chalkboards and textbooks. if the teachers don't have the knowledge and experience to work them into their lesson in a positive way, they're missing out on a lot of the potential benefit.
without the right educational training, there's a real possibility of harm being done. computers can easily distract them from the teaching of the actual classes. or worse, it can lull the teachers and administration into a false sense of security: "look, we're high-tech. all our students have fancy new laptops, we must be educating them really well; no need to evaluate our pedagogical practices!"
is if i had a way of decreasing the ranking of my own site for particular search terms.
eg, my site used to be called '/dev/random' but i changed the name when i realized that it was in the search engines for that term and that most people who were searching for '/dev/random' probable weren't looking for my weblog. i'd love to have some kind of 'anti-keyword' meta tag that i could use to tell the googlebots that i'd rather not be associated with that search term anymore.
i know... somewhat off topic and boring... sue me.
digit comes from the latin digitus for finger. it has nothing to do with "di". that should be pretty obvious since we also already use digit to refer to base 10 numbers.
what if you don't have an internet connection? are you now excluded from running windows if you aren't connected? that sounds pretty silly to me. for one thing it means that no windows XP machine can be "air gap" secured, so you'll need to run another OS to store your really sensitive data. --
we actually had to implement a simple ACL for ext2 in an operating systems class i took at columbia. it wasn't all that hard (50-60hrs for a couple undergrads). as far as i can tell though, it would not be trivial to do it kernel-wide. without some major re-architecturing, you would really have to implement the ACL for each filesystem seperately. --
they'll hook people with this the same way they hook people on the rest of their stuff: when you buy a new PC, it will come with the subscription version already installed and the first year will be free. who the hell upgrades MS software (specifically, Office) currently? everyone i know just gets new versions when they upgrade their machine. --
first of all, read the FAQ. it's sort of covered in there (see 4.2)
basically, spam is a concern but not as much as might be thought since the caching that the nodes do eventually dumps unpopular information. if the spam isn't requested, it goes away. stuff that people actually want will eventually replace it. --
Microsoft can't even migrate its Hotmail service from Sun machines to NT because NT isn't scalable and reliable enough, but yet they say others are ready and able to make this jump.
actually, hotmail runs on FreeBSD (see netcraft.com).
but yeah, i think as long as hotmail isn't running NT or 2000, microsoft doesn't have much ground to stand on here.
I have actually learned/am learing C++ on a collegiate level. I can say that they do not offer Java in the CS department. This is a reflection in the fact that Java is not important for what programmers actually do in the world.
i'm a Computer Engineering major at Columbia University and our CS department is in the process of phasing out most C and C++ from the curriculum in favor of Java. while it may be true that currently, C++ is more popular in the "real world" i don't think that it's because of its merits or java's shortcomings. i think it has much more to do with the fact that C/C++ is older, more people know it, and programmers are reluctant to switch from something that they know well to something totally new. but i think that with time more and more programmers will gravitate towards java for many purposes.
i also think that a good deal of java's reputation as being slow and buggy isn't very well founded. what most people know of java is that they load a webpage with an applet, their system bogs down, then netscape crashes (and possibly takes the system with it if you're unlucky enough to be running an unstable OS). based on their experiences with a few of these bad applets (which were probably written by some junior high kid while sniffing glue) within netscape's oh-so-stable applet environment (remember, this is netscape we're talking about; i've got a function key bound to 'killall -9 netscape' for a reason), they go on to slander java. i've done a significant amount of programming in both java and C++ and i've honestly been surprised at how fast java applications (not applets) run with a decent RTE (running java stuff on solaris is very sweet).
i certainly do not want to sound like i'm saying that java is inherently "better" than C++. they are both excellent languages with very different strengths and weeknesses. i would certainly never think of trying to do any system programming in java, but at this point i would think twice about using C++ for writing large application programs. (although java does need to improve a lot on the GUI front. Swing? ick.)
i guess my point is that we should not be so quick to dismiss java as a "real" programming language. its main shortcomings at this point seem to lie not with the language itself or the idea behind it but with things like RTE implementations.
But you're being naive if you think that's what napster is being used for
i never said that i thought it was being used mostly for legal purposes. i'm well aware that napster is used largely for illegal stuff. same for other perfectly legal technologies like hotline and large chunks of usenet and irc. my point is that it's not "totally illegal."
Napster cant turn a blind eye and say "we didn't know it would be used illegally" when it's painfully obvious that it is.
so should we ban every piece of software, or every piece of technology for that matter, that could be used for illegal purposes? encryption could very obviously be used to conduct drug deals, does that mean that it should be illegal? or do we just ban the ones that wealthy powerful corporations (or agencies) with lots of lawyers want banned?
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The NYPD has more or less done this: http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/07/21/lucky _bag_opera.php
list comprehensions are fun.
off the top of my head,
would be written in python as:
(which i personally find much more readable) and
would be written in python as:
and the find_all version just wouldn't have '[0]' at the end.
and the weird sort would be something like:
except that python's sort is in-place, so you'd really want to have that list in a variable if you intended to do anything with the results:
most python programmers would shun that use of lambda though and do things in a slightly longer but more obvious fashion.
time to buy a touchstream keyboard.
luckily, i've been too lazy to 'emerge sync' lately...
It's okay for me to pinch something, so long as I don't give due credit?
no, it's okay for you to pinch nothing, so long as you don't give due credit.
law is subtle and stuff.
or, you could just count on them using something like IE or Outlook.
IE ignores the mimetype of files instead looking at the first 256 bytes of the file to determine what it is and how to handle it. this allows you to do things like embed html with javascript or vbscript inside images and have it executed when viewed. probably could stick activex components in there too.
are you on crack?
i've been following the WaSP closely for years and i don't recall them ever having any problems with mozilla.
please post a link if you think i'm wrong.
"happiness in slavery" off the 'broken' ep.
you don't get the popups if you use a browser like mozilla that will let you disable them. hmm... maybe a conspiracy between slashdot and mozilla... :)
other single-eye head-mounted displays i've played with have been quite easy to see. no winking needed. they're generally designed so that the light from the screen comes in perfectly parallel so it's like looking at an infinately large screen that is infinitely far away; very easy for your eyes to focus on. there are plenty of people like Steve Mann or Greg Priest-Dorman who have been wearing them for *years* without problems. furthermore, the single eye displays tend to have fewer problems with making people dizzy.
for a real wearable that you're actually wearing 16 hours a day, the most problematic thing is usually the comfort of the physical device. ordinary glasses get uncomfortable after awhile; glasses with bulky LCD display units attached to them get really uncomfortable if they don't fit *perfectly*.
SecureIIS offers websites running Microsoft Internet Information Server a broad range of protection from common vulnerabilities, both known and unknown. Because SecureIIS does not protect against specific vulnerabilities, but classes of vulnerabilities, it allows for a much more far reaching layer of security.
SecureIIS is certainly doing a good job of protecting their website from that common class of vulnerabilities called "running IIS" ;-)
i've survived two different maine high schools (drhs and mssm) and am now working for the columbia center for new media teaching and learning.
i would have to agree that this is mostly a good thing. maine public schools (like most others in the country) are horribly underfunded and misfunded (i watched helplessly every year as my old school voted to lower teachers' salaries and cut educational program after educational program while increasing the budget of the football team. high schools in rural maine are like winos begging for change from the state saying "we just need the money for some food; we won't buy booze with it, honest". if you give them a cash handout, it will just go towards buying new football equipment. even if you specify that the money's only to be used for education, they'll just cut the same amount from other areas of the education budget and move it to sports.). i'm happy to see them getting any support at all from the state government.
my fear is that in most rural schools, the teachers know next to nothing about computers (they're certainly not being paid enough to buy their own computer and home internet access is still all but impossible to get in many areas of the state). just having access to computers is a lot more than many of the students used to have and will be a major benefit. but teaching with computers is an entirely different game than teaching with chalkboards and textbooks. if the teachers don't have the knowledge and experience to work them into their lesson in a positive way, they're missing out on a lot of the potential benefit.
without the right educational training, there's a real possibility of harm being done. computers can easily distract them from the teaching of the actual classes. or worse, it can lull the teachers and administration into a false sense of security: "look, we're high-tech. all our students have fancy new laptops, we must be educating them really well; no need to evaluate our pedagogical practices!"
is if i had a way of decreasing the ranking of my own site for particular search terms.
eg, my site used to be called '/dev/random' but i changed the name when i realized that it was in the search engines for that term and that most people who were searching for '/dev/random' probable weren't looking for my weblog. i'd love to have some kind of 'anti-keyword' meta tag that i could use to tell the googlebots that i'd rather not be associated with that search term anymore.
i know... somewhat off topic and boring... sue me.
digit comes from the latin digitus for finger. it has nothing to do with "di". that should be pretty obvious since we also already use digit to refer to base 10 numbers.
unfortunately, every music store i've been to won't let you return an opened cd for anything but another copy of the same cd.
so be sure you check the store's return policy carefully before you try this and don't open it.
what if you don't have an internet connection? are you now excluded from running windows if you aren't connected? that sounds pretty silly to me. for one thing it means that no windows XP machine can be "air gap" secured, so you'll need to run another OS to store your really sensitive data.
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we actually had to implement a simple ACL for ext2 in an operating systems class i took at columbia. it wasn't all that hard (50-60hrs for a couple undergrads). as far as i can tell though, it would not be trivial to do it kernel-wide. without some major re-architecturing, you would really have to implement the ACL for each filesystem seperately.
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they'll hook people with this the same way they hook people on the rest of their stuff: when you buy a new PC, it will come with the subscription version already installed and the first year will be free. who the hell upgrades MS software (specifically, Office) currently? everyone i know just gets new versions when they upgrade their machine.
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first of all, read the FAQ. it's sort of covered in there (see 4.2)
basically, spam is a concern but not as much as might be thought since the caching that the nodes do eventually dumps unpopular information. if the spam isn't requested, it goes away. stuff that people actually want will eventually replace it.
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freenet is being developed in java. java runs on macOS (about as well as it runs anywhere else...)
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Microsoft can't even migrate its Hotmail service from Sun machines to NT because NT isn't scalable and reliable enough, but yet they say others are ready and able to make this jump.
actually, hotmail runs on FreeBSD (see netcraft.com).
but yeah, i think as long as hotmail isn't running NT or 2000, microsoft doesn't have much ground to stand on here.
I have actually learned/am learing C++ on a collegiate level. I can say that they do not offer Java in the CS department. This is a reflection in the fact that Java is not important for what programmers actually do in the world.
i'm a Computer Engineering major at Columbia University and our CS department is in the process of phasing out most C and C++ from the curriculum in favor of Java. while it may be true that currently, C++ is more popular in the "real world" i don't think that it's because of its merits or java's shortcomings. i think it has much more to do with the fact that C/C++ is older, more people know it, and programmers are reluctant to switch from something that they know well to something totally new. but i think that with time more and more programmers will gravitate towards java for many purposes.
i also think that a good deal of java's reputation as being slow and buggy isn't very well founded. what most people know of java is that they load a webpage with an applet, their system bogs down, then netscape crashes (and possibly takes the system with it if you're unlucky enough to be running an unstable OS). based on their experiences with a few of these bad applets (which were probably written by some junior high kid while sniffing glue) within netscape's oh-so-stable applet environment (remember, this is netscape we're talking about; i've got a function key bound to 'killall -9 netscape' for a reason), they go on to slander java. i've done a significant amount of programming in both java and C++ and i've honestly been surprised at how fast java applications (not applets) run with a decent RTE (running java stuff on solaris is very sweet).
i certainly do not want to sound like i'm saying that java is inherently "better" than C++. they are both excellent languages with very different strengths and weeknesses. i would certainly never think of trying to do any system programming in java, but at this point i would think twice about using C++ for writing large application programs. (although java does need to improve a lot on the GUI front. Swing? ick.)
i guess my point is that we should not be so quick to dismiss java as a "real" programming language. its main shortcomings at this point seem to lie not with the language itself or the idea behind it but with things like RTE implementations.
here's one that definately should not have smell
Just imagine a super slimy goo that....[snip]... Goo Politics...
:)
don't we already have this on earth?
...sorry. cheap shot i know. i'll go hang my head in shame now...
But you're being naive if you think that's what napster is being used for
i never said that i thought it was being used mostly for legal purposes. i'm well aware that napster is used largely for illegal stuff. same for other perfectly legal technologies like hotline and large chunks of usenet and irc. my point is that it's not "totally illegal."
Napster cant turn a blind eye and say "we didn't know it would be used illegally" when it's painfully obvious that it is.
so should we ban every piece of software, or every piece of technology for that matter, that could be used for illegal purposes? encryption could very obviously be used to conduct drug deals, does that mean that it should be illegal? or do we just ban the ones that wealthy powerful corporations (or agencies) with lots of lawyers want banned?