Did you see how hard I punched that frigging guy? Seriously, I whonked his head on the toilet, swung him around by the leg into the wall, and shot him all full of mercury or something, and I got nowhere.
Finally!
--Agent Smith.
I take it that you didn't even bother to RTFA. It says it has roots in windows 2000 but it is NOT windows 2000, a derivative may be but NOT windows 2000.
Yeah, you're right on target! It's like Windows July 2000. Wait, it's second-generation, so more like Windows October 2000.
This might be "US citizen's-only" technically, but the report itself is available on the web here. It's a 1.5MB PDF. You can also request a free printed copy of this or any GAO report here. (This report is GAO-05-383.)
And therein lies one of the problems I've always had with Star Wars and Star Trek. Are you telling me that in a world with hand-held weapons that can supposedly level/vaporize small mountains you are going to pull out your bat'leth or lightsaber and duke it out hand to hand?
At least the Dune universe tried to handle this issue intelligently. They too featured a lot of hand-to-hand combat, but that's because the shield generators everyone wore would react badly with laserlight--like a small hydrogen bomb, as I recall. Lasers became de facto forbidden in conflict.
I won't be a fan of Ipods until the play my ogg files
As another respondent points out, ipodlinux can do this now. Also, Cringely (and others) have pointed out that as of 10.4 iTunes ships with Ogg and WMA icons, though not currently supported.
And 10.4 gives us a peek at another evolution of iTunes, which is the inevitable expansion of the system to carry additional audio file formats. Looking at the unused iTunes icons that shipped with your new version of 10.4, you'll notice icons for currently-not-supported ogg vorbis and Windows Media Audio (wma), as well as several others including a variety of video formats, too.
Something to talk to your friends about is innumeracy. There's really no excuse for an educated person to be so terrible at math that they cannot balance a checkbook without a calculator. I had a friend in college that did not know how to "borrow". I was just flabbergasted. John Allen Paulos' book is a little dated, but still quite effective at convincing friends that they should maybe try a little harder. You also need to be engaging. I've explained the cardinality of infinite sets to "lay" people. It's very cool, and you can see it dawn in them that some "infinities" are bigger than others. Maybe I'll blog that. Hmm.
Heard about it on NPR. Free rent, free furniture, plasma screens, etc. All for 50 bureaucrats that won't actually do any research--they are strictly oversight. SF is hoping the Center will attract biotech firms to set up offices and labs in the city. A "prestige" coup. I kind of doubt it. You can get a lot more labspace a LOT cheaper not too far away. Not to mention the fact that a lot of biotech companies (Amgen, Genentech, IDEC, &c.) already have big centers in the state and don't need to set up facilities to land the bids.
That's what I'm after. I don't need games, keyboards, mMode, text messages, SMS, IntarWebs, etc. I just want a phone. Preferably one without sidetalking.
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Your comment is a much better stated version of my concern. Couldn't I set up a site that points to a site I want "tested"? Would the ISP need to know about your plans to have a freshet of directed attacks on a server under their auspices? What kinds of port scans and probes of the rest of the ISP's infrastructure will be incurred by folks looking for an "in" to the network the IIS server in question is on?
Isn't this technically illegal?
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IANAL, but isn't this sort of thing illegal? I was trying to compare it to a homeowner saying, "Come and take my TV if you think you can--I'll give you a cherry popsicle." But chances are, you have a pretty good idea if the homeowner actually owns that home or not--he's probably living there. He's got a deed, etc. I don't see how I can determine that Roger Grimes actually owns the server running HackIIS Contest or not. Even if he does, does that make it OK for me to break in and alter his database? After all,
A successful hack includes:
Successful web site defacement (subject to the limitations as indicated below)
Modification of web server or database computers
Proven knowledge of content located in "hidden" Microsoft Word document.
Proven knowledge of other content found on the web server or database computer.
I think they really need to have a lawyer right the release for someone to enter this contest. It just doesn't seem right. Or am I a victim of propaganda?
I'd be willing to wager that Microsoft's customers are pretty darned happy - everytime M$FT gets angry at the competition, their customers are rewarded with a vast new generation of ably-crafted products [often given away for free].
Their customers may be rewarded with the free software, but the shareholders get a little pissed at all the free goodies being churned out by MSFT. It's all good if Microsoft can leverage the free stuff into market domination (good for the shareholders, though a little morally murky given the guilty verdicts), but sniping at Google just because it's got effective PR is a waste of time.
Now, to pick a random operating system, the MS Windows trademark is for: G & S: computers and components therefor, computer peripherals, and computer programs in the field of graphical applications, and manuals therefor sold as a unit.
Seriously. I can't think of a really good thing that came out of Redmond for the last quarter. They were exposed as SCO supporters and badmouthed by IBM, they paid an enormous fine to the EU for anti-trust shenanigans, they came out as bizarrely anti-consumer ("Communists!") just as Firefox started making news (cover of Wired, NYT articles, &c). Nevermind the new bouts of worms and SP2 screwups that booched a bunch of companies. Roll all this up in a delay for their next-gen OS while Apple starts KILLING everyone with iTunes/iPods/mindshare penetration and you have a recipe for crappy sales. It's amazing it's not worse.
Actually, Excel has one thing going for it that a lot of in-house developed stuff doesn't: The functions it uses are qualified for use in a cGMP setting under 21 CFR Part 11. This PDF shows how to go through validation on a spreadsheet. I can assure you, it's a goddamn cakewalk when compared to validating against in-house code. The company I worked for used the formulas in Excel's Help Files in their SOP's and bammo! As long as you used ROUND() properly, all you had to do was run some test data.
You hit the nail right on the head. I am very particular with my AdBlock usage. I remember seeing the screenshots at the extension website with filters like */ad/*. I thought, "That's a little draconian. I don't mind seeing an ad that's not a huge pain in the ass." Sure enough, some ads take up tons of screen real estate, some creep across the screen, some blink and twitch and scare my Mom--those have to go, but I usually try to narrow down the filter to who's actually annoying me (questionmarket.com, are you listening!?)
I've never actually visited those sites--I don't see why I have to receive images from them, especially if they are offensive. (That's offensive as in "Of, relating to, or designed for attack." I still see Google Ads, I still see the ads on Penny Arcade. They aren't presented in a manner that obtrudes. That's what matters.
Mohammed Atta's luggage was lost in the quick layover in Boston, MA. (He flew from Portland, ME to Boston to the WTC). They found his wallet, passport, and a letter to his family explaining his martyrdom in it.
While it may be that the sentence makes perfect sense to you--and I'm glad it does--that does not mean that the author (perhaps not willing to spend the necessary time to improve his prose) should be so easily forgiven for using lengthy clauses and asides; meaningful though they may be, in a sentence clearly intended to introduce us to the topic at hand, as it were.
'In California, police will be able in 2008 to take DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony, whether the person is convicted or not, under a law approved by voters in November.'
For those that think you can just have the record expunged if you are found innocent, here's the fine print from the statute. (Source is here, page 143):
(a)A person whose DNA profile has been included in the data bank pursuant to this chapter shall have his or her DNA specimen and sample destroyed and searchable database profile expunged from the data bank program pusuant to the procedures set forth in subdivision (b) if the person has no past or present offense or pending charge which qualifies that person [for inclusion] and there is otherwise no legal bases for retaining the specimen or sample or searchable profile.
(b)Pursuant to subdivision (a), a person who has no past or present qualifying offense, and for whom there otherwise is no legal basis for retaining the specimen or sample or searchable profile, may make a written request to have his or her specimen and sample and searchable database profile expunged from the data bank program if:
Following arrest, no accusatory pleading has been filed within the applicable period allowed by law charging the person with a qualifying offense as set forth [earlier] or if the charges which served as the basis for including the DNA profile [in the data bank] have been dismissed prior to adjudication by a trier of fact;
The underlying conviction or disposition serving as the basis for including the DNA profile has been reversed and the case dismissed;
The person has been found factually innocent of the underlying offense [pusuant to statute]; or
The defendent has been found not guilty or the defendent has been acquitted of the underlying offense.
(c)(1)The person requesting the data bank entry to be expunged must send a copy of his or her request to the trial court of the county where the arrest occured, or that entered the conviction or rendered disposition in the case, to the [lab], and to the prosecuting attorney of the county in which he or she was arrested or, convicted, or adjudicated, with proof of service on all parties. The court has the discretion to grant or deny the request for expungement. The denial of a request for expungement is a nonappealable order and shall not be reviewed by petition or writ.
Emphasis mine. So even if you jump through the damn complicated hoops, a judge can just say "No" and you are done--it's there for good. That's some great law, California! As for the earlier poster that thinks this is OK because we leave DNA everywhere anyway, like Gattaca--that movie did not represent this situation as a GOOD THING. It was a dystopian vision, not something to begrudgingly accept.
Cripes. Did Canseco get it wrong, or just the reviewer? Here's a link. It's used a solvent for a lot of chemical applications and it's used in NMR almost to exclusion as the solvent of choice. It's considered kind of dangerous because of the rapid uptake through the skin--spy novels use it a lot as a delivery mechanism for nefarious compounds. I remember when working with concentrated HF we had to have a DMSO cream nearby to flood the bloodstream with calcium ions to keep HF from killing us if exposed. Good times.
Empire Strikes Back was the best of the three original Star Wars films principally because it was dark and did not have Ewoks or (Exsqueeze me?) Jar Jar and the acting was much better
I think the telling thing is that Empire was not written nor directed by George Lucas; credit there to Brackett & Kasdan and Kershner respectively. Lucas' writing is sophomoric and his direction is pretty damn bad to say the least. Even good actors become crappy in his milquetoast hands. My friend had the best summary critique of Return of the Jedi ever: "Too many muppets." All those ewoks, the stupid little thing in Jabba's house, the stupid band, &c. They aren't fantastical creatures if you look at them and see a muppet.
As for showing it during The O.C., who cares, or expected differently? Fox is just trying to marry its hot properties. That's the other problem: Fox sees Star Wars and The O.C. as pretty much the same thing. Star Wars will bring in x dollars over y weeks--there's no sense of the non-monetary aspect of the saga. It's just a franchise. The people that grew up with the first set of movies want it to be more.
I think we could all stand a glance at Brin's essays again, just to revel in this Lucas-bashing.
Yep, I'm with you guys. Here's two of my OMM favorites: the Crate Review System, which introduced the STC ratio for video games. That is, the "Start-to-Crate" ratio. How long into a game until you see your first crate. I still think of this when I see a crate--just smashed some today in Ratchet and Clank. They were crates of money.
And the infamous Asheron's Call Beta Log. This was amazing. Pretty much sums up MMMMMPORPPRPPRPPGS.
I disagree, but I think this is semantics. He copied the material to another media (in this case, format); one that is more easily made available to others. This is realistically no different from copying an LP to cassette. Are you arguing that his use of JHymn actually violkates the -law-, because he can access material he owns in a different way? That seems like a rather shallow attack.
Violating a license is a lot different form violating the law.
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Did you see how hard I punched that frigging guy? Seriously, I whonked his head on the toilet, swung him around by the leg into the wall, and shot him all full of mercury or something, and I got nowhere. Finally! --Agent Smith.
This might be "US citizen's-only" technically, but the report itself is available on the web here. It's a 1.5MB PDF. You can also request a free printed copy of this or any GAO report here. (This report is GAO-05-383.)
Something to talk to your friends about is innumeracy. There's really no excuse for an educated person to be so terrible at math that they cannot balance a checkbook without a calculator. I had a friend in college that did not know how to "borrow". I was just flabbergasted. John Allen Paulos' book is a little dated, but still quite effective at convincing friends that they should maybe try a little harder. You also need to be engaging. I've explained the cardinality of infinite sets to "lay" people. It's very cool, and you can see it dawn in them that some "infinities" are bigger than others. Maybe I'll blog that. Hmm.
Here's your answer.
Heard about it on NPR. Free rent, free furniture, plasma screens, etc. All for 50 bureaucrats that won't actually do any research--they are strictly oversight. SF is hoping the Center will attract biotech firms to set up offices and labs in the city. A "prestige" coup. I kind of doubt it. You can get a lot more labspace a LOT cheaper not too far away. Not to mention the fact that a lot of biotech companies (Amgen, Genentech, IDEC, &c.) already have big centers in the state and don't need to set up facilities to land the bids.
That's what I'm after. I don't need games, keyboards, mMode, text messages, SMS, IntarWebs, etc. I just want a phone. Preferably one without sidetalking.
Your comment is a much better stated version of my concern. Couldn't I set up a site that points to a site I want "tested"? Would the ISP need to know about your plans to have a freshet of directed attacks on a server under their auspices? What kinds of port scans and probes of the rest of the ISP's infrastructure will be incurred by folks looking for an "in" to the network the IIS server in question is on?
I think they really need to have a lawyer right the release for someone to enter this contest. It just doesn't seem right. Or am I a victim of propaganda?
Seriously. I can't think of a really good thing that came out of Redmond for the last quarter. They were exposed as SCO supporters and badmouthed by IBM, they paid an enormous fine to the EU for anti-trust shenanigans, they came out as bizarrely anti-consumer ("Communists!") just as Firefox started making news (cover of Wired, NYT articles, &c). Nevermind the new bouts of worms and SP2 screwups that booched a bunch of companies. Roll all this up in a delay for their next-gen OS while Apple starts KILLING everyone with iTunes/iPods/mindshare penetration and you have a recipe for crappy sales. It's amazing it's not worse.
That's why, for one.
Right now my filter has entries like:
I've never actually visited those sites--I don't see why I have to receive images from them, especially if they are offensive. (That's offensive as in "Of, relating to, or designed for attack." I still see Google Ads, I still see the ads on Penny Arcade. They aren't presented in a manner that obtrudes. That's what matters.
Mohammed Atta's luggage was lost in the quick layover in Boston, MA. (He flew from Portland, ME to Boston to the WTC). They found his wallet, passport, and a letter to his family explaining his martyrdom in it.
Do you know what the gripe is now?
(a)A person whose DNA profile has been included in the data bank pursuant to this chapter shall have his or her DNA specimen and sample destroyed and searchable database profile expunged from the data bank program pusuant to the procedures set forth in subdivision (b) if the person has no past or present offense or pending charge which qualifies that person [for inclusion] and there is otherwise no legal bases for retaining the specimen or sample or searchable profile.
(b)Pursuant to subdivision (a), a person who has no past or present qualifying offense, and for whom there otherwise is no legal basis for retaining the specimen or sample or searchable profile, may make a written request to have his or her specimen and sample and searchable database profile expunged from the data bank program if:
(c)(1)The person requesting the data bank entry to be expunged must send a copy of his or her request to the trial court of the county where the arrest occured, or that entered the conviction or rendered disposition in the case, to the [lab], and to the prosecuting attorney of the county in which he or she was arrested or, convicted, or adjudicated, with proof of service on all parties. The court has the discretion to grant or deny the request for expungement. The denial of a request for expungement is a nonappealable order and shall not be reviewed by petition or writ.
Emphasis mine. So even if you jump through the damn complicated hoops, a judge can just say "No" and you are done--it's there for good. That's some great law, California! As for the earlier poster that thinks this is OK because we leave DNA everywhere anyway, like Gattaca--that movie did not represent this situation as a GOOD THING. It was a dystopian vision, not something to begrudgingly accept.
Cripes. Did Canseco get it wrong, or just the reviewer? Here's a link. It's used a solvent for a lot of chemical applications and it's used in NMR almost to exclusion as the solvent of choice. It's considered kind of dangerous because of the rapid uptake through the skin--spy novels use it a lot as a delivery mechanism for nefarious compounds. I remember when working with concentrated HF we had to have a DMSO cream nearby to flood the bloodstream with calcium ions to keep HF from killing us if exposed. Good times.
As for showing it during The O.C., who cares, or expected differently? Fox is just trying to marry its hot properties. That's the other problem: Fox sees Star Wars and The O.C. as pretty much the same thing. Star Wars will bring in x dollars over y weeks--there's no sense of the non-monetary aspect of the saga. It's just a franchise. The people that grew up with the first set of movies want it to be more.
I think we could all stand a glance at Brin's essays again, just to revel in this Lucas-bashing.
And the infamous Asheron's Call Beta Log. This was amazing. Pretty much sums up MMMMMPORPPRPPRPPGS.
Violating a license is a lot different form violating the law.