Well, I've got to admit that things like IRC and e-mail make maintaining a long distance relationship much less expensive than it used to be. My grrl (kytiara@/.) and I met through mutual friends, and were friends for a little over a year when things started happening... unfortunately, I was 600 miles away, at college, when that happened. So, the initial 3 months of our romance was limited to short visits, lots of e-mail, and a lot of IRC msg'ing. Followed by 4 months of good, real-life spending time together, our relationship strengthened, and now, we're apart again until Thanksgiving.
It's painful and difficult to be separated from the one you love, but being able to communicate in one form or another practically 24 hours a day makes it somewhat more bearable.
then you've got a bit of a pain -- you could use BO2K!;) Seriously though, if you've got world-routable IP's on the desktops, than its pretty clear that the technical staff is clueless, so that's a non-issue.
I'd seriously beg to differ with you on this one... in many companies (especially those like internet providers and such), you certainly will need routable IP's to the desktop... if not for actual real need, then because the people working on those desktops, the admins and coders, will refuse to take proxied connections or flaky performance from NAT/IPmasq. Sure, if you're talking about sales and marketing, it's not a problem to use IPmasq/NAT./Andrew
First off, I can definitely see where these kids came from in terms of being outcasts in school. During my first two years of high school, I attended a normal public HS in New England. Happily, I moved on to a sort of magnet-school program for students with aptitude in science and math before I went postal. I'm not sure if I could ever be driven to the point that these kids were, but I can definitely see how others might get to that point.
When discussing things like this, the primary cause of frustration becomes a lack of expression on the part of the outcast. Many students are oppressed by their peers, teachers, and administrators, and aren't allowed to express themselves as they see fit. That's a huge problem.
On the other hand, however, many teens lack the capability to simply express themselves even if they *are* given the chance. I often get frustrated at my lack of "creative expression" in reality. When I feel strongly about something, and I wish to somehow express that, I feel limited by language, art, prose, poetry, or whatever the media du jour is. I just can't express my emotions a lot of the time. Such issues might also lead to the same sort of tragic explosion of "expression" that we've seen in Colorado.
That's just Perl, only in stuff with.pl, and only stuff that I wrote for one job last year. I guess if I include all the stuff I wrote for classes, for fun, etc... it puts me in the 20k range. Yipes!
1) Yup. I do it all the time. You can build your own coax -> optical S/PDIF converter for a few bucks, or go out and buy a MidiMan CO2 bidirectional converter for around $80. It's built *very* well, and I love mine. I make many copies of stuff via my AWE64 onto my '702.
2) The shock resistance is great. The only way it skips is if you shake it (and I mean *shake*... like, the to the point that you hear the mechanism inside smacking around the inside of the case) for a good 20 seconds or so, and even then, it only interrupts for a second or two.
I was honestly expecting EDtv to suck when I attended a sneak preview here in Ann Arbor, Michigan with my girlfriend. Having seen "The Truman Show," with which EDtv shares a great deal of basic plot ideas, I worried that the comedic nature might trivialize the ideas.
However, after leaving EDtv, I was disturbed by just how much more tragic the whole thing was than "The Truman Show." In Truman, the movie ended in a more or less happy manner when Truman discovered the world beyond his dome. Instead, in EDtv, it pointed out that people will naturally attempt to utilize the fortune and misfortune of others as personal gain (epitomized by Ed's brother).
Also, even more tragic was the fact that Ed got caught between all of the problems in his life and the threat of being financially destroyed for the rest of his natural life because of a heinous contract.
Basically, "The Truman Show" took place in a sterile world, where the audience was merely a reflection of Truman and had virtually no role in the show, and it had the whole ship-in-a-bottle feel to it. "This could never happen." EDtv, on the other hand, left the impression that this *could* easily happen in today's media-driven entertainment industry.
I think that's the scariest lesson of all, and EDtv did a good job of conveying it, regardless of its few shortcomings.
I don't have pictures of it (unfortunately), but I took pieces of an old Seagate ST-235 (I think), and trimmed 'em down, and used stiffened wire to link everything together... when I finished, it was an articulated hand reaching up out of a base composed of random geek-cruft (a few crushed Jolt cans, random printouts, etc.)
It was a fun project that I did in my junior year of high school... I just wish I still had it somewhere. The other kids liked to take pieces of it and generally cause damage. *sigh*
Now, okay... turn around and tell me that the authors of all the mp3 software out there shouldn't distribute mp3 players because of all the illegal copying of songs that goes on. I'm sorry, but I've stopped ripping CD's in their entirety, and instead, rip a few tracks in low quality, and hand those out to convince people to buy the CD's. Understood, I can't force people to be ethical, but I can limit my contribution to the unethical uses of a medium while still utilizing the medium for good.
My point? Emulators are good. ROM's are good. People are evil and unethical, and download ROM's that they have no legal right to have. Remedying the situation is a complex issue. Perhaps the game manufacturers should make legitimate copies of the emulators available for owners of their systems, and distribute ROM's that are compatible with the emulators.
Just one idea of an infinite number that could be used to fix the problem...
I've thought of this as a potential vulnerability for well over a year, since the early Samba attacks came out (and worked against kernel.org, for that matter). I tested them against kernel.org, then promptly reported the bug to them (and it was fixed within a day). But, that begs the question, if an unmotivated, bored attacker could break in and *think* about dropping a trojan horse, a dedicated, malicious attacker could have perhaps edited a code segment in the Linux kernel, or in any piece of the site, and had that change spread VERY quickly. And if it was a kernel-level trojan, it might not have been noticed, even by now. Programs as large as the Linux kernel don't receive comprehensive source reviews often enough to make a judgement on the security of the code.
See, what we need, is a centralized server, that is highly secured, that carries md5sums for all major Linux system software, that can be trusted. Now, this means treating it the same as a really huge kerberos keyserver... if someone DOES compromise it, we're in trouble.
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:18:06 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Hobgood To: talkback@archiecomics.com Cc: mrhit@aol.com Subject: VERONICA.ORG Domain Name: a plea for sanity
Hello there.
I'm a concerned netizen who finds your lack of regard for personal originality and personal freedoms (as well as civil liberties) a horrible example of corporate America.
By trying to get the young Veronica Sams (and her parents) to give up the domain "veronica.org," you're setting a poor example for other companies. This domain is clearly not in competition with yours in any way. Have you sued the developers of the Internet for their usage of the terms "Veronica" and "Archie" as Internet search tools that have been around for longer than the web? No, you haven't.
If you continue to disregard the possibility that this young girl (all of a eighteen months old, and very cute, I might add) is not out to get you and your profits, I'll be forced to begin a campaign among local comic collectors (many of which I'm close friends with) to denounce your company and the twisted ideals which you represent.
I find your closed-minded attempts to strip a toddler of her web presence to be highly deplorable and disgusting.
If you take action against Veronica Sams and her family, I suggest you also take action against the following (and this is by no means a comprehensive list):
- Owners of all the following domains: veronica.nl veronica.net archie.org jughead.org betty.net
(ad nauseum)
- The following authors of common software programs: Peter Deutsch, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan (authors of the "Archie" FTP search tool released in 1990 University of Nevada (authors of the "Veronica" Gopher search tool released, on Nov. 17 1992) Rhett Jones (University of Utah) (author of "Jughead", another Gopher search tool, released in 1993)
Recall, by no means is this a comprehensive list of all uses of your trademarks from the Archie Comic Book series. Make sure to eliminate all of them, or your precious earnings will be threatened by things completely outside of your market!
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I've got to admit that things like IRC and
e-mail make maintaining a long distance relationship much less expensive than it used to be. My grrl (kytiara@/.) and I met through mutual friends, and were friends for a little over a year when things started happening... unfortunately, I was 600 miles away, at college, when that happened. So, the initial 3 months of our romance was limited to short visits, lots of e-mail, and a lot of IRC msg'ing. Followed by 4 months of good, real-life spending time together, our relationship strengthened, and now, we're apart again until Thanksgiving.
It's painful and difficult to be separated from the one you love, but being able to communicate in one form or another practically 24 hours a day makes it somewhat more bearable.
got world-routable IP's on the desktops, than
its pretty clear that the technical staff is clueless, so that's a non-issue.
I'd seriously beg to differ with you on this one... in many companies (especially those like internet providers and such), you certainly will need routable IP's to the desktop... if not for actual real need, then because the people working on those desktops, the admins and coders, will refuse to take proxied connections or flaky performance from NAT/IPmasq. /Andrew
Sure, if you're talking about sales and marketing, it's not a problem to use IPmasq/NAT.
First off, I can definitely see where these kids came from in terms of being outcasts in school. During my first two years of high school, I attended a normal public HS in New England. Happily, I moved on to a sort of magnet-school program for students with aptitude in science and math before I went postal. I'm not sure if I could ever be driven to the point that these kids were, but I can definitely see how others might get to that point.
When discussing things like this, the primary cause of frustration becomes a lack of expression on the part of the outcast. Many students are oppressed by their peers, teachers, and administrators, and aren't allowed to express themselves as they see fit. That's a huge problem.
On the other hand, however, many teens lack the capability to simply express themselves even if they *are* given the chance. I often get frustrated at my lack of "creative expression" in reality. When I feel strongly about something, and I wish to somehow express that, I feel limited by language, art, prose, poetry, or whatever the media du jour is. I just can't express my emotions a lot of the time. Such issues might also lead to the same sort of tragic explosion of "expression" that we've seen in Colorado.
/Andrew
$ wc `find . -name '*.pl'` | tail -1
.pl, and only stuff that I wrote for one job last year. I guess if I include all the stuff I wrote for classes, for fun, etc... it puts me in the 20k range. Yipes!
9874 33521 274122 total
That's just Perl, only in stuff with
1) Yup. I do it all the time. You can build your own coax -> optical S/PDIF converter for a few bucks, or go out and buy a MidiMan CO2 bidirectional converter for around $80. It's built *very* well, and I love mine. I make many copies of stuff via my AWE64 onto my '702.
2) The shock resistance is great. The only way it skips is if you shake it (and I mean *shake*... like, the to the point that you hear the mechanism inside smacking around the inside of the case) for a good 20 seconds or so, and even then, it only interrupts for a second or two.
Well... here's a review to give you all some food for thought.
o vsmd.shtml
http://upgradecenter.net/reviews/peripherals/ri
I'm a happy user of the MD-MS702 for a year now, not an employee for Sharp or Sony. =P
/Andrew
Whitehouse.net got hacked, not whitehouse.gov. The remnants of a hack (or just a satirical web design) are still on that site.
Misunderstandings are a bitch.
I was honestly expecting EDtv to suck when I attended a sneak preview here in Ann Arbor, Michigan with my girlfriend. Having seen "The Truman Show," with which EDtv shares a great deal of basic plot ideas, I worried that the comedic nature might trivialize the ideas.
However, after leaving EDtv, I was disturbed by just how much more tragic the whole thing was than "The Truman Show." In Truman, the movie ended in a more or less happy manner when Truman discovered the world beyond his dome. Instead, in EDtv, it pointed out that people will naturally attempt to utilize the fortune and misfortune of others as personal gain (epitomized by Ed's brother).
Also, even more tragic was the fact that Ed got caught between all of the problems in his life and the threat of being financially destroyed for the rest of his natural life because of a heinous contract.
Basically, "The Truman Show" took place in a sterile world, where the audience was merely a reflection of Truman and had virtually no role in the show, and it had the whole ship-in-a-bottle feel to it. "This could never happen." EDtv, on the other hand, left the impression that this *could* easily happen in today's media-driven entertainment industry.
I think that's the scariest lesson of all, and EDtv did a good job of conveying it, regardless of its few shortcomings.
I'd love to have a terabit pipe running into my home... now I just need a terabit interface for my brain. Yay!
/Andrew
I don't have pictures of it (unfortunately), but I took pieces of an old Seagate ST-235 (I think), and trimmed 'em down, and used stiffened wire to link everything together... when I finished, it was an articulated hand reaching up out of a base composed of random geek-cruft (a few crushed Jolt cans, random printouts, etc.)
It was a fun project that I did in my junior year of high school... I just wish I still had it somewhere. The other kids liked to take pieces of it and generally cause damage. *sigh*
Now, okay... turn around and tell me that the authors of all the mp3 software out there shouldn't distribute mp3 players because of all the illegal copying of songs that goes on. I'm sorry, but I've stopped ripping CD's in their entirety, and instead, rip a few tracks in low quality, and hand those out to convince people to buy the CD's. Understood, I can't force people to be ethical, but I can limit my contribution to the unethical uses of a medium while still utilizing the medium for good.
My point? Emulators are good. ROM's are good. People are evil and unethical, and download ROM's that they have no legal right to have. Remedying the situation is a complex issue. Perhaps the game manufacturers should make legitimate copies of the emulators available for owners of their systems, and distribute ROM's that are compatible with the emulators.
Just one idea of an infinite number that could be used to fix the problem...
I've thought of this as a potential vulnerability for well over a year, since the early Samba attacks came out (and worked against kernel.org, for that matter). I tested them against kernel.org, then promptly reported the bug to them (and it was fixed within a day). But, that begs the question, if an unmotivated, bored attacker could break in and *think* about dropping a trojan horse, a dedicated, malicious attacker could have perhaps edited a code segment in the Linux kernel, or in any piece of the site, and had that change spread VERY quickly. And if it was a kernel-level trojan, it might not have been noticed, even by now. Programs as large as the Linux kernel don't receive comprehensive source reviews often enough to make a judgement on the security of the code.
See, what we need, is a centralized server, that is highly secured, that carries md5sums for all major Linux system software, that can be trusted. Now, this means treating it the same as a really huge kerberos keyserver... if someone DOES compromise it, we're in trouble.
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:18:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew Hobgood
To: talkback@archiecomics.com
Cc: mrhit@aol.com
Subject: VERONICA.ORG Domain Name: a plea for sanity
Hello there.
I'm a concerned netizen who finds your lack of regard for personal originality and personal freedoms (as well as civil liberties) a horrible example of corporate America.
By trying to get the young Veronica Sams (and her parents) to give up the domain "veronica.org," you're setting a poor example for other companies. This domain is clearly not in competition with yours in any way. Have you sued the developers of the Internet for their usage of the terms "Veronica" and "Archie" as Internet search tools that have been around for longer than the web? No, you haven't.
If you continue to disregard the possibility that this young girl (all of a eighteen months old, and very cute, I might add) is not out to get you and your profits, I'll be forced to begin a campaign among local comic collectors (many of which I'm close friends with) to denounce your company and the twisted ideals which you represent.
I find your closed-minded attempts to strip a toddler of her web presence to be highly deplorable and disgusting.
If you take action against Veronica Sams and her family, I suggest you also take action against the following (and this is by no means a comprehensive list):
- Owners of all the following domains:
veronica.nl
veronica.net
archie.org
jughead.org
betty.net
(ad nauseum)
- The following authors of common software programs:
Peter Deutsch, Alan Emtage, and Bill Heelan
(authors of the "Archie" FTP search tool released in 1990
University of Nevada
(authors of the "Veronica" Gopher search tool released, on Nov. 17 1992)
Rhett Jones (University of Utah)
(author of "Jughead", another Gopher search tool, released in 1993)
Recall, by no means is this a comprehensive list of all uses of your trademarks from the Archie Comic Book series. Make sure to eliminate all of them, or your precious earnings will be threatened by things completely outside of your market!
Thanks for your time,
/Andrew
I want the matrix (seek Gibson if you don't know)... and I want it now. =)
/Andrew