The references were entirely relevant, in my reading. The students asked for a justification for the rejection, and reviews if available; furthermore they implied that this was normal practice.
The response cited several papers showing that giving reasons for rejection is (a) less common than was implied, (b) frequently non-informative. So it was a justification for giving no justification.
I agree it was a little turgid, but unlike the paper itself, it did make sense.
I agree that would be great. A stopgap measure that I saw on the subway in Budapest is to simply have timers that count up, resetting when a train leaves the station. So you know when the last train was there, and can use that to gauge how long your wait will probably be.
(Yes, we use proxies for this information, like how many other people are on the platform; and it doesn't let you know when there's a snafu and the next train won't be for 25 minutes. Like I said, a stopgap, but I think a handy one.)
Did anybody else think -- what the hell is LexisNexis doing with peoples' Social Security numbers? But it turns out that this is a subsidiary that gathers up consumer data. So it's not that you have to key in your SSN before doing a Lexis search these days.
Though I'm sure Ashcroft^H^H^H^H^H Gonzales would like that idea...
To: customerservice@orbitz.com From: <me> Subject: request Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:02:46 -0500
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If possible I would also like to secure a standing agreement permitting me to include text links to the Orbitz homepage in future emails, including but not limited to two such emails I intend to send in the month of April.
Finally, because some of my friends and family are not yet Orbitz members, I request a "separate linking agreement" between Orbitz and my fucking email outbox, so that I may direct such persons to the Orbitz registration page at: https://www.orbitz.com/Secure/ViewNewMemberRe g? z=e57r&r=d&signInType=explicit
"Scientific American has an interesting article about how a pair of students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology registered "microsoft.com" with Verisign, using the Russian Cyrillic letters "c" and "o". Even though it is a completely different domain, the two display identically (the article uses the term "homograph"). The work was done for a paper in the Communications of the ACM (the paper itself is not online). The article characterizes attacks using this spoof as "scary, if not entirely probable," assuming that a hacker would have to first take over a page at another site. I disagree: sending out a mail message with the URL waiting to be clicked ("Bill Gates will send you ten dollars!") is just one alternate technique. While security problems with Unicode have been noted here before, this might be a new twist."
Incidentally, it seems that Slashdot's ASCII-only URL reporting system successfully deflects such spoofing here:
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I write my papers in TeX, mainly because it's so easy to create equations. In general though, as a layout language to produce documents that look just how I want, it's a fucking nightmare.
Tarnation also went way overboard on cheesy iMovie special effects. But it was an arresting story, and I agree it's remarkable that it could be produced for so little money.
t+2 days: Junior Slashdot editor makes reference to joke, thinks he's funny.
On the other hand, this at least indicates that samzenpus is, you know, reading Slashdot. Just think of the dupe reduction that could be achieved if all Slashdot editors did the same...
I have spent the time to follow a lot of his stories to excruciating details, and I have yet to find one that didn't pan out.
Do you remember the "Kerry affair" story that Drudgepoundedfordays, until finally the "woman involved" said it was ridiculous and pointed out that there was no substance to the story at all? Eventually Drudge apologized.
He posts uttery false crap all the time, but because he's not a "real journalist" nobody is supposed to mind.
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The references were entirely relevant, in my reading. The students asked for a justification for the rejection, and reviews if available; furthermore they implied that this was normal practice.
The response cited several papers showing that giving reasons for rejection is (a) less common than was implied, (b) frequently non-informative. So it was a justification for giving no justification.
I agree it was a little turgid, but unlike the paper itself, it did make sense.
I agree that would be great. A stopgap measure that I saw on the subway in Budapest is to simply have timers that count up, resetting when a train leaves the station. So you know when the last train was there, and can use that to gauge how long your wait will probably be.
(Yes, we use proxies for this information, like how many other people are on the platform; and it doesn't let you know when there's a snafu and the next train won't be for 25 minutes. Like I said, a stopgap, but I think a handy one.)
Presumably he means for the U.S., which didn't declare war until (infamously) December 8, 1941.
Wow, thanks for reminding me of the era when laptops routinely cost $6000+!
Did anybody else think -- what the hell is LexisNexis doing with peoples' Social Security numbers? But it turns out that this is a subsidiary that gathers up consumer data. So it's not that you have to key in your SSN before doing a Lexis search these days.
Though I'm sure Ashcroft^H^H^H^H^H Gonzales would like that idea...
- for IBM, defending against the US Govt: lost
- for the US Govt, against Microsoft: lost
- for Al Gore, against George Bush: lost
- for SCO, against IBM: on the way to losing
So it seems like he's lost both for and against IBM, and for and against the Government. That's pretty good!Noticed that you can also use arrow keys to nudge the map, or page up/down/home/end to smoothly scroll a half-screenful. Very very nice.
Incidentally, it seems that Slashdot's ASCII-only URL reporting system successfully deflects such spoofing here: Go to paypal.com
I write my papers in TeX, mainly because it's so easy to create equations. In general though, as a layout language to produce documents that look just how I want, it's a fucking nightmare.
If you're printing papers, get a laser! And if you're printing color with any kind of significant volume, get a color laser.
For revenue from a source other than ads? You snipped out the operative part of the guy's post.
It's even better than one-button. Steve is officially selling the zero-mouse-button Mac.
Well, it depends whether you're "inside" cousins or "outside" cousins, genetically speaking...
It worked for me in the latest Camino nightly...
Tarnation also went way overboard on cheesy iMovie special effects. But it was an arresting story, and I agree it's remarkable that it could be produced for so little money.
On the other hand, this at least indicates that samzenpus is, you know, reading Slashdot. Just think of the dupe reduction that could be achieved if all Slashdot editors did the same...
The downstream river is the sole source of water for, among other places, Las Vegas.
there really is a domain name for every constituency, isn't there? that's fantastic.
I wonder who the first person to try (a) yogurt and (b) fermented alcohol was. Neither of those would appear to be tasty on first try.
Haha, and we wonder why the Middle East violence continues to spiral. You silly kids :)
Whoa you are right. The things people do...
Great answer to that question: Neither, he wrote his own (twice!), and wrote papers about the products. That's a Unix power user, defined.
Do you remember the "Kerry affair" story that Drudge pounded for days, until finally the "woman involved" said it was ridiculous and pointed out that there was no substance to the story at all? Eventually Drudge apologized.
He posts uttery false crap all the time, but because he's not a "real journalist" nobody is supposed to mind.