Dartmouth could cover a fairly large area with a few dozen wireless access points, rather than running fiber to every home.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
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It's not totally down. I'm in the middle of mirroring it with wget. I'm seeing requests repeat 30+ times (running at a rate of 1 req/sec) before getting a successful copy.
I'll bet someone is running a denial of service attack.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
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>> Wherever you go you see closed shops and it is not just doors-locked
>> closed but sheet-metal-welded-on-the-front closed,
>> windows-removed-and-built-with-bricks closed, doors were being welded shut
dbrutus writes: Highly paid, rigid labor markets are on full display in France and Germany. Compared to our unemployment rate, they're perenially stuck at 10% give or take, a much worse figure
The US unemployment rate is calculated differently than France's and Germany's. The US rate is really a count of "unemployed, minus several large groups that don't count."
Seasonal workers and students out of work? Oh, they don't count.
Unemployed who have given up on interviewing? Oh, they don't count either.
If the rates were calculated the same way, the US unemployement rate would be very close to France's and Germany's.
I just started reading Decrypted Secrets by Friedrich Bauer and it's become my current favorite book as it covers cryptography and cryptanalysis and gives a great, personal history of these fields and their practical applications.
Case law is too important for there not to be a cheap and convenient electronically searchable index. Access - inexpensive and convenient access - is crucial.
Either Lexis and WestLaw should do the right thing here, or the government should invest in putting cases on-line at least so Google can index them.
In at least one of the early Ultimas (I, II, or III) on the Apple ][+, if you hit CTRL-RESET at the right moment during boot, you got the Applesoft "]" prompt and could LIST THE PROGRAM!
I get his point. I agree with his point. Saying "you don't like it? write your own!" is missing the point.
If we want Linux to be an OS for everyone, it has to do basic things well, and it has to do them consistently.
UI is the first thing users see. If it's not done well enough (I was going to say "done right," but then remembered MS Windows) you will not become a mainstream OS.
Video is one of the killer applications. Good video player UIs are not hard to do, but the open source audio and video players look like they are designed by people who have basement music studios and think that patch panels are a good idea.
And I'm glad that they're developing video players, because they understand the technology.
But they don't understand users.
Users want a simple interface that does the Right Thing. Users want a simple install, or better, no install at all as the player is already there. Users do not expect surprise or novelty. They expect oatmeal. Always the same, always hot, no hidden jalapeno peppers.
When you build a house, you want a hammer that works. You do not expect that you will need to build your own hammer, or contribute to a hammer design project.
Video is similar - it's a basic application and it's not new. It's hard to do it right. And for people to use it, both the video technology and the end-user experience have to be nearly perfect. Get the basics right first, and you will win. Spend your limited resources on skins and widgets and you will lose.
Even if Verizon deletes the logs every day, the subpoena (request) can force them to retain the logs as evidence.
This is the real cost to the ISP. Dealing with each of these requests, changing their log scripts, and handing over the data.
If the subpoena is particularly broad and the ISP is large, a subpoena can mean keeping gigabytes of data that the ISP would normally send to/dev/null.
It's an interesting question. Last month, I did an extensive search on Medline and on the net, and while I didn't find credible research demonstrating a link between cancer and low-power 2.4GHz radiation in humans, I did find a study showing damage in cell cultures.
So it is possible that our 20-100mW 802.11b radios have some effect on us besides reading Slashdot from the bathroom.
Slashdot Mirror
The answer is "no."
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
http://www.3m.com/us/home_leisure/filtrete/
Here's a description of how the filtrete works.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/wn03/wn03-1 /wn03-101.html
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
I'll bet someone is running a denial of service attack.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
http://www.warblogging.com/
Breaking news, analysis, also covers related events in the US. Cynical slant.
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
An Iraqi blogger. Hoax? It's well done
>> Wherever you go you see closed shops and it is not just doors-locked
>> closed but sheet-metal-welded-on-the-front closed,
>> windows-removed-and-built-with-bricks closed, doors were being welded shut
http://volokh.blogspot.com/
Excellent analysis of causes and outcomes. Breaking news, too.
http://www.sgtstryker.com/
Military / conservative perspective on Iraq and the news. Liberal and conservative views in the discussions.
http://www.defensetech.org/
It's all about the gear. The Slashdot of war technology.
http://timblair.blogspot.com/
Conservative and irreverant news analysis
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/
http://uswarblog.tripod.com/warblog/
http://www.nowarblog.org/
"Stand Down: The Left-Right Blog opposing an invasion of iraq"
http://www.back-to-iraq.com/
Back to Iraq 2.0
http://www.warblogs.cc/
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Highly paid, rigid labor markets are on full display in France and Germany. Compared to our unemployment rate, they're perenially stuck at 10% give or take, a much worse figure
The US unemployment rate is calculated differently than France's and Germany's. The US rate is really a count of "unemployed, minus several large groups that don't count."
Seasonal workers and students out of work? Oh, they don't count.
Unemployed who have given up on interviewing? Oh, they don't count either.
If the rates were calculated the same way, the US unemployement rate would be very close to France's and Germany's.
--Pat
Are there other books like this out there?
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
So it's not Windows.
Ba-da-bing. Thank you, you're a great audience. I'll be here all week.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat
--Pat
--Pat
Either Lexis and WestLaw should do the right thing here, or the government should invest in putting cases on-line at least so Google can index them.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Lt Colonel Oliver North, reporting for duty!
--Pat
In at least one of the early Ultimas (I, II, or III) on the Apple ][+, if you hit CTRL-RESET at the right moment during boot, you got the Applesoft "]" prompt and could LIST THE PROGRAM!
--Pat
Actually, the law has plenty to say about legally aquiring copyrighted material without paying for it. It's called "fair use."
--Pat
Do you deal with word in the image tests without requiring the user to read the word? How?
--Pat
If we want Linux to be an OS for everyone, it has to do basic things well, and it has to do them consistently.
UI is the first thing users see. If it's not done well enough (I was going to say "done right," but then remembered MS Windows) you will not become a mainstream OS.
Video is one of the killer applications. Good video player UIs are not hard to do, but the open source audio and video players look like they are designed by people who have basement music studios and think that patch panels are a good idea.
And I'm glad that they're developing video players, because they understand the technology.
But they don't understand users.
Users want a simple interface that does the Right Thing. Users want a simple install, or better, no install at all as the player is already there. Users do not expect surprise or novelty. They expect oatmeal. Always the same, always hot, no hidden jalapeno peppers.
When you build a house, you want a hammer that works. You do not expect that you will need to build your own hammer, or contribute to a hammer design project.
Video is similar - it's a basic application and it's not new. It's hard to do it right. And for people to use it, both the video technology and the end-user experience have to be nearly perfect. Get the basics right first, and you will win. Spend your limited resources on skins and widgets and you will lose.
--Pat
No, he's just admitting that his time is worthless.
Ba-da-bing! Thank you, I'll be here all week.
--Pat
This is the real cost to the ISP. Dealing with each of these requests, changing their log scripts, and handing over the data.
If the subpoena is particularly broad and the ISP is large, a subpoena can mean keeping gigabytes of data that the ISP would normally send to /dev/null.
--Pat
--Pat
Of course many things can have an effect on cell cultures.
So experimenters account for this by comparing the culture under study to a control culture.
--Pat
It's an interesting question. Last month, I did an extensive search on Medline and on the net, and while I didn't find credible research demonstrating a link between cancer and low-power 2.4GHz radiation in humans, I did find a study showing damage in cell cultures.
So it is possible that our 20-100mW 802.11b radios have some effect on us besides reading Slashdot from the bathroom.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu