Boy, am I tired of this damn lie for the morse code old farts. English in morse code is still English. Hindu in morse code is still Hindu. and so on. You don't overcome language barriers with morse code, you just errect another barrier. Two peope who know morse code but otherwise have a language barrier between them still have a language barrier.
Naw, take a tip from them. You don't need your real e-mail address on the e-mail you send. Better yet, put another e-mail address on the list in the reply to field. They soon will spam each other to death.
Yea, I think I remembered the name wrong, DG1 sounds right. It was an early mono PC laptop, a nonstandard serial interface (the IBM design was so poor they changed it, but being non-standard caused it's own problems) but otherwise an amazing device for a first laptop. If you stll have it dust it off and look closely at the screen, you should see the 4 LCD displays. I don't know if this design was used for the full production run of the laptop, but it was certainly there on the early ones I saw. Very hard to detect if you're not looking for it.
It might be interesting to note that the very first PC laptop (not from IBM but from Data General, their "PC-1") was made at a time they couldn't get even full size mono LCD displays. The PC-1 display was actually made of 4 smaller LCD displays, specially made so the driver electronics were at one end and cut so closely that the pixels joined properly without showing a visable seam (although you could see it if you looked at the display while not in use rather than at the text or graphics) and without extra plastic to hide the fact.
Side note: this was also the first PC with a 3 1/4 floppy drive. Microsoft gave Data General the specs of how IBM was going to be formatting the newer size floppy and D.G. came to market first with it. They also spent a lot of effort convincing vendors to release programs on this new format media until IBM finally blessed the format.
You apparently haven't seen, like I have, a young victim of the American educational system reach for a calculator to figure out how much to deduct at the register for a 10% discount. I kid you not, she wasn't figuring out the 90%, just the 10% which she then entered as a discount. When I questioned why she used the calculator she stated quite simply that she wasn't good at math. I don't think she ever understood how I gave her the result before the calculator did or why I made a comment to her.
There's a reason they forgot to mention that. The effect of regulation like this will to be to keep many individuals and small shops from producing software. It might be a major step towards destroying Linux and other Open Source projects. Microsoft, big and rich enough to deal with any red tape and above the law when they do things illegal, will be unaffected. They will embrace it, may even be the force behind getting it started to smash those that dared to make better products.
Yes, I got it. Yea, the original post was about Iran. I mentioned that I had tried to submit a post about Iraq that was very much along similar lines. (Obvoiusly we don't need to give Iraq a proxy server to protect them against the government, we are the government, but our government is doing things in both countries to give people the same freedom on the Internet that it is taking away from its own citizens.) It would be nice if either of these countries did something to help us.
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A good thing to do even with the store bought ones. I use an X10 lamp dimmer on mine, but have also used a wall mount lamp dimmer to replace a wall switch for a friend. After these things get hot they generally get very active and it results in too many too small blobs of lava to be enjoyable. With a dimmer you can adjust the flow to suit your preferences even when the lamp warns up.
Who do you think they are trying to block when they set it up so it only accepts connections from Iranian IP addresses? Hint: They wouldn't really care much if some Russian used it to get a little more political freedom, or if some Libian did the same.
If you haven't guessed it yet, then ask yourself where they are doing just the opposite.
This goes right along with the submission I made last weekend that was rejected about the news stories of the US Setting up an uncensored Internet cafe in Sadam's old home town. My point being that we are making a big deal of doing it over there with tax money taken from American citizens, but at the same time we are forcing our libraries here to install filtering software and worse. My local library used to even have a number of freely accessable Internet terminals, now you can't even use one without having a library card scanned as an ID when you do (any guesses if they store all visted URL's with that and even track web based e-mail you might send or receive?).
It might be OK to spend Amreican tax payers' money on free (as in speech) Internet access for the second most oil rich country in the world, although others might disagree. But it's certainly not OK to spend those tax dollars to give them more freedoms than we have here.
Not quite - usually you just keep how many of a particular product, like 50 green towels, in the database, not 50 rows with the unique ID for each towel in the store.
This is another level of bean counting that is going to drive everyone insane. Everytime the inventory gets out of sync someone is going to have to account for it.
Amen. The problem gets much worse for small items like a pack of gum. I can't see them tracking every pack by a unique ID and marking it off inventory. And I would expect there would be major problems with any inventory system that tried to track small items like this. And the first time a store finds out they gave away an entire shipment of merchandise because it had not properly been scanned in when it was received at the store, the idea of just ignoring items that scan but don't match the database will go out the widow, and they will gladly charge you for the gum you already bought but you carried back ito the store in your pocket.
One of the advantages being promoted for the tags is that you'll be ableto take a shopping cart, just run it through the checkout line, and the scanner and RFID tags will quickly add up everything in your cart. You can expect this technology to become as prevalent as bar codes are now. But with such a system and tags that are not disabled after you leave the store, you're likely to end up being charged again for your shirt, or watch, or underware or shoes or some item in your pocket with an embedded tag if you are close to the cart when it is scanned. It will become the new way of scamming the customers, soon to exceed the scan prices often being higher than the shelf price but never being lower.
Why in the world use NiCads, with all of the toxic problems related to cadimum, when NiMH battery technology would have let them build safer batteries with about 3x the power capacity and without other NiCad problems like the memory effect? In two weeks will we read that this was just another hoax repeated on slashdot? (And why can't I find the story from last night of the hoax about the guy with his "new theory of time" either by scanning back articles or using the search tool and looking for words like hoax or "red flag"? I know it was there yesterday, was does it seem to be removed today?)
My first writer was 2x (first reader 1x).
But that's not to say the writer still works; it quickly lost the ability to write to CDRW's and only would make "readable" CDRs at 1x after a while. Hardly the drive I would want to trust to write long term storage discs. So the point still stands, there was advice that if you want to preserve data the longest write at 1x, but I know of no available equipment that will do that. Is 4 4x good enough? Heck, it sounds like 1x isn't good enough, I would hate to save stuff at 4x based on just your hunch. But I haven't been able to find any real since about the article, such as brands tested, speeds used and so on. It's a very ancidotal story at this point, was hardly worth posting if there is no data to back it up.
After all it's UK citizens who pay for the BBC through our license fee. We paid for the programmes to be made initially.
Yea, that makes a lot of sense. Maybe we in the U.S. should set up a nice firewall to keep the damn brits out of our country's data too. Better yet, go to the EU and file a claim against the UK using the Internet, after all, WE paid to develope it.
That's what the world needs, lots of little I want to share your IP but keep mine additudes all over the Internet. Perhaps the Brits can start a new Internet Philosphy: "Your Information wants to be free."
Oh, I expect they gave him a lot more than just a dictionary to bu... er... obtain this decision. But if he had wanted a dictionary they would have likely given him that too.
OK, I don't read Dutch. But I figured I could spot brand names, I read the English "summary: and then went to the Dutch article, but I saw nothing at all giving me any idea what brands they tested, what brands were bad, and most importantly, what brands survived. Can anyone provide a link to this information?
Interesting theory, but my 48x Lite-on drive doesn't seem to let me burn at less than 4x, under Nero or NTI software. What new equipment will still burn at 1x?
This story is from an AU domain. It talks about the doll being released in Melbourne, and talks about how popular the doll has been here in the U.S. since it was released last November. So had anyone in the U.S. even heard of it before now?
I agree completely. None of this says that Gnumeric and the other free spreadsheets are not fantastic tools. But when the pro Gnumeric fanatics start claiming Gnumeric Now Supports All Excel Worksheet Functions and then resort to name calling and suggesting that one should not call attention to a questionable claim because they paid nothing for the spreadsheet, they realy show their childishness and make the open source movement (which I support and promote) look bad.
Gnumeric Now Supports All Excel Worksheet Functions
All functions, as defined by their list of functions, is somewhat different than Gnumeric working the same as Excell. For example, I would be amazed if the graphs embedded in spreadsheets and generated from the data look anything like they do in Excell; they certainly were not ever readable in the versions of Gnumeric I've used.
Sure, they have a function that calls something that supposedly makes graphs, but the graphs just ain't right. And A.F.A.I.K. this function was on their "already working" list the last time I checked.
I also want to see memos that I've attached to cells in my spreadsheet not vanish when imported into Gnumeric, as well as graphics embedded in a cell. Does anyone know if these now supposedly work?
I mean, this isn't about just "voice over internet".... it's about a phone service that happens to use the net.
Just the opposite. It's about data, and it's none of the state's business what my data is or what protocol I wrap it in. If they can regulate VoIP data then they could also regulate you capturing a wave file of your voice and sending it by FTP or as e-mail to a friend. And if they can do that then they might as well stick their fingers into everything you send or even everything you do with your computer.
That's John Ashcroft and Homeland Security and Echelon's job, to snoop into every single corner of your life, not the state government's.
Don't spend time trying to filter-- get an obscure email adress like saf4502@E8Hkl3.biz
This is a pretty bogus "fix". It might work if you set up such an account and never use it, but if it's used and gets into a spam database the computers can proprigate this e-mail address just like they can any other. The spam database computers simply don't care if the name is "joe" or "saf4502", they deal with both exactly the same. All you'll really do is make it harder for you to pass along an e-mail address verbally to someone.
Spammers get these addresses any number of ways. Many are harvested tens of thousands at a time. If you ever use that e-mail address in a usenet news group, for example, it will get harvested. Of course, you can munge it and give instructions in the post for how someone wanting to reply should unmunge it (replace the number in my name with the square root of the number) but realistically few are going to bother to go to extra work to unmunge an e-mail address, so if you made a post to really try to get some information back rather than to just hear yourself talk, that's a big waste.
Same if you want to post a contact e-mail on your website.
Businesses you deal with are even less likely to unmunge your e-mail address, and if they do you certainly have no protection that they are not the ones about to sell their mailing list database to a spammer.
And even if you just keep your e-mail adderess for close personal contacts, one of them may eventually come across what they think is a "cute" electronic greeting card site on the web and give them your address to send some damn picture of a dancing bunny, or use your e-mail address on some site with an "e-mail to a friend" link for a story they think you would be interested in, or even just let their computer get infested with some worm that goes through address books, and your adddress is in some spam database, soon to be in thousands. Having a hard to remember e-mail address is no more protection than having an easy to use one is.
I even created a dummy e-mail address one time on Mindspring, with a very uncommon name and numbers. Never used it. It started getting spam after a while. Either Mindspring sold the names, or they had a bad security system and some employee sold the names, or they had a really bad security system and someone hacked in and harvested the names.
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Boy, am I tired of this damn lie for the morse code old farts. English in morse code is still English. Hindu in morse code is still Hindu. and so on. You don't overcome language barriers with morse code, you just errect another barrier. Two peope who know morse code but otherwise have a language barrier between them still have a language barrier.
Naw, take a tip from them. You don't need your real e-mail address on the e-mail you send. Better yet, put another e-mail address on the list in the reply to field. They soon will spam each other to death.
Yea, I think I remembered the name wrong, DG1 sounds right. It was an early mono PC laptop, a nonstandard serial interface (the IBM design was so poor they changed it, but being non-standard caused it's own problems) but otherwise an amazing device for a first laptop. If you stll have it dust it off and look closely at the screen, you should see the 4 LCD displays. I don't know if this design was used for the full production run of the laptop, but it was certainly there on the early ones I saw. Very hard to detect if you're not looking for it.
Side note: this was also the first PC with a 3 1/4 floppy drive. Microsoft gave Data General the specs of how IBM was going to be formatting the newer size floppy and D.G. came to market first with it. They also spent a lot of effort convincing vendors to release programs on this new format media until IBM finally blessed the format.
You apparently haven't seen, like I have, a young victim of the American educational system reach for a calculator to figure out how much to deduct at the register for a 10% discount. I kid you not, she wasn't figuring out the 90%, just the 10% which she then entered as a discount. When I questioned why she used the calculator she stated quite simply that she wasn't good at math. I don't think she ever understood how I gave her the result before the calculator did or why I made a comment to her.
There's a reason they forgot to mention that. The effect of regulation like this will to be to keep many individuals and small shops from producing software. It might be a major step towards destroying Linux and other Open Source projects. Microsoft, big and rich enough to deal with any red tape and above the law when they do things illegal, will be unaffected. They will embrace it, may even be the force behind getting it started to smash those that dared to make better products.
Yes, I got it. Yea, the original post was about Iran. I mentioned that I had tried to submit a post about Iraq that was very much along similar lines. (Obvoiusly we don't need to give Iraq a proxy server to protect them against the government, we are the government, but our government is doing things in both countries to give people the same freedom on the Internet that it is taking away from its own citizens.) It would be nice if either of these countries did something to help us.
A good thing to do even with the store bought ones. I use an X10 lamp dimmer on mine, but have also used a wall mount lamp dimmer to replace a wall switch for a friend. After these things get hot they generally get very active and it results in too many too small blobs of lava to be enjoyable. With a dimmer you can adjust the flow to suit your preferences even when the lamp warns up.
If you haven't guessed it yet, then ask yourself where they are doing just the opposite.
It might be OK to spend Amreican tax payers' money on free (as in speech) Internet access for the second most oil rich country in the world, although others might disagree. But it's certainly not OK to spend those tax dollars to give them more freedoms than we have here.
Amen. The problem gets much worse for small items like a pack of gum. I can't see them tracking every pack by a unique ID and marking it off inventory. And I would expect there would be major problems with any inventory system that tried to track small items like this. And the first time a store finds out they gave away an entire shipment of merchandise because it had not properly been scanned in when it was received at the store, the idea of just ignoring items that scan but don't match the database will go out the widow, and they will gladly charge you for the gum you already bought but you carried back ito the store in your pocket.
One of the advantages being promoted for the tags is that you'll be ableto take a shopping cart, just run it through the checkout line, and the scanner and RFID tags will quickly add up everything in your cart. You can expect this technology to become as prevalent as bar codes are now. But with such a system and tags that are not disabled after you leave the store, you're likely to end up being charged again for your shirt, or watch, or underware or shoes or some item in your pocket with an embedded tag if you are close to the cart when it is scanned. It will become the new way of scamming the customers, soon to exceed the scan prices often being higher than the shelf price but never being lower.
Why in the world use NiCads, with all of the toxic problems related to cadimum, when NiMH battery technology would have let them build safer batteries with about 3x the power capacity and without other NiCad problems like the memory effect? In two weeks will we read that this was just another hoax repeated on slashdot? (And why can't I find the story from last night of the hoax about the guy with his "new theory of time" either by scanning back articles or using the search tool and looking for words like hoax or "red flag"? I know it was there yesterday, was does it seem to be removed today?)
Again, just a hunch with no test data to support it.
My first writer was 2x (first reader 1x). But that's not to say the writer still works; it quickly lost the ability to write to CDRW's and only would make "readable" CDRs at 1x after a while. Hardly the drive I would want to trust to write long term storage discs. So the point still stands, there was advice that if you want to preserve data the longest write at 1x, but I know of no available equipment that will do that. Is 4 4x good enough? Heck, it sounds like 1x isn't good enough, I would hate to save stuff at 4x based on just your hunch. But I haven't been able to find any real since about the article, such as brands tested, speeds used and so on. It's a very ancidotal story at this point, was hardly worth posting if there is no data to back it up.
Yea, that makes a lot of sense. Maybe we in the U.S. should set up a nice firewall to keep the damn brits out of our country's data too. Better yet, go to the EU and file a claim against the UK using the Internet, after all, WE paid to develope it.
That's what the world needs, lots of little I want to share your IP but keep mine additudes all over the Internet. Perhaps the Brits can start a new Internet Philosphy: "Your Information wants to be free."
Oh, I expect they gave him a lot more than just a dictionary to bu... er... obtain this decision. But if he had wanted a dictionary they would have likely given him that too.
OK, I don't read Dutch. But I figured I could spot brand names, I read the English "summary: and then went to the Dutch article, but I saw nothing at all giving me any idea what brands they tested, what brands were bad, and most importantly, what brands survived. Can anyone provide a link to this information?
Interesting theory, but my 48x Lite-on drive doesn't seem to let me burn at less than 4x, under Nero or NTI software. What new equipment will still burn at 1x?
This story is from an AU domain. It talks about the doll being released in Melbourne, and talks about how popular the doll has been here in the U.S. since it was released last November. So had anyone in the U.S. even heard of it before now?
I agree completely. None of this says that Gnumeric and the other free spreadsheets are not fantastic tools. But when the pro Gnumeric fanatics start claiming Gnumeric Now Supports All Excel Worksheet Functions and then resort to name calling and suggesting that one should not call attention to a questionable claim because they paid nothing for the spreadsheet, they realy show their childishness and make the open source movement (which I support and promote) look bad.
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All functions, as defined by their list of functions, is somewhat different than Gnumeric working the same as Excell. For example, I would be amazed if the graphs embedded in spreadsheets and generated from the data look anything like they do in Excell; they certainly were not ever readable in the versions of Gnumeric I've used. Sure, they have a function that calls something that supposedly makes graphs, but the graphs just ain't right. And A.F.A.I.K. this function was on their "already working" list the last time I checked.
I also want to see memos that I've attached to cells in my spreadsheet not vanish when imported into Gnumeric, as well as graphics embedded in a cell. Does anyone know if these now supposedly work?
Just the opposite. It's about data, and it's none of the state's business what my data is or what protocol I wrap it in. If they can regulate VoIP data then they could also regulate you capturing a wave file of your voice and sending it by FTP or as e-mail to a friend. And if they can do that then they might as well stick their fingers into everything you send or even everything you do with your computer.
That's John Ashcroft and Homeland Security and Echelon's job, to snoop into every single corner of your life, not the state government's.
This is a pretty bogus "fix". It might work if you set up such an account and never use it, but if it's used and gets into a spam database the computers can proprigate this e-mail address just like they can any other. The spam database computers simply don't care if the name is "joe" or "saf4502", they deal with both exactly the same. All you'll really do is make it harder for you to pass along an e-mail address verbally to someone.
Spammers get these addresses any number of ways. Many are harvested tens of thousands at a time. If you ever use that e-mail address in a usenet news group, for example, it will get harvested. Of course, you can munge it and give instructions in the post for how someone wanting to reply should unmunge it (replace the number in my name with the square root of the number) but realistically few are going to bother to go to extra work to unmunge an e-mail address, so if you made a post to really try to get some information back rather than to just hear yourself talk, that's a big waste.
Same if you want to post a contact e-mail on your website.
Businesses you deal with are even less likely to unmunge your e-mail address, and if they do you certainly have no protection that they are not the ones about to sell their mailing list database to a spammer.
And even if you just keep your e-mail adderess for close personal contacts, one of them may eventually come across what they think is a "cute" electronic greeting card site on the web and give them your address to send some damn picture of a dancing bunny, or use your e-mail address on some site with an "e-mail to a friend" link for a story they think you would be interested in, or even just let their computer get infested with some worm that goes through address books, and your adddress is in some spam database, soon to be in thousands. Having a hard to remember e-mail address is no more protection than having an easy to use one is.
I even created a dummy e-mail address one time on Mindspring, with a very uncommon name and numbers. Never used it. It started getting spam after a while. Either Mindspring sold the names, or they had a bad security system and some employee sold the names, or they had a really bad security system and someone hacked in and harvested the names.