I scoreeed [pretty low because emy cranky old laptop has a flakey keyeboard and letteres sometimes bounce. Noteabley the E key does, but otheres do as well.
Bummere about that.
My Dell is a Latitude CPxJ -- P3-650 with 256M of Ram. It's old, but I found out quite by accident that it works with the newer Inspiron batteries (75Uf IIRC)
I bought a lot of 6 "bad" ones on eBay, planning to take 'em apart and assemble one or two good ones from the individual cells. Turns out I had two perfectly good ones, and now my old Dell runs for 8-9 hours, with the WiFi card and moderatly heavy disk use. If I'm doing local compiles (I'm a Java developer) then I can shorten it to 6 hours, but I've got to use the disk a LOT to get it down to 6.
When Apple released the Newton, they knew that the handwriting recognition wouldn't work well for all users right out of the box, so they shipped a game which let the Newton learn how to recognize your particular handwriting. When USRobotics released the Pilot (later to become the Palm Pilot) they knew that the handwriting recognition wouldn't work well for all users right out of the box, so they shipped a game which let the user learn how to write the Pilot's particular handwriting.
I can sit in a college library and browse people's laptops as if they are on a trusted network.
Cool! So, what kind of MP3 collection does the average college student have on their laptop these days? This "library" you speak of sounds like iTunes, but without the credit-card part!
"We won't list the sites that are reported to be infected in order to prevent further abuse, but the list is long and includes businesses that we presume would normally be keeping their sites fully patched," the group stated on its Web site.
I don't buy it. If your goal is to have the problem fixed, then name names, contact the affected companies so they can fix it (or have their contracted webmasters fix it) and move on. The whole thing stinks of FUD tactics, and the last line in the article seals it for me:
NetSec's Houlahan advocated drastic action.
"I told my wife, unless it is absolutely necessary and unless you are going to a site like our banking site, stay off the Internet right now," he said.
I just received my ActionTec GT-701(?) last week, and find that it's running a linux kernel. It's got 802.11g, a single 10/100 port, functions as a USB NIC, and also happens to be my new DSL modem.
If anyone's curious, reply to this and I'll log into it again and get the kernel version specifics.
The key question is What does a pHD actually mean?
It means a Doctorate Degree in Philosophy. The first half of "Philosophy" means love, and the latter half means knowledge.
I think the guy demonstrated that he loved other things (getting published, being right, showing up his peers, whatever) more than he loved knowledge.
It's not the same thing as CCNE certificate, and I think the Uni in question was perfectly justified in saying that this guy doesn't demonstrate a love of knowledge.
Taking this action will add to the credibility of anyone ELSE who has a PhD from the University of Constance.
"hehe, what about all the other platforms there's a JVM for? Like, uh, OS X? Solaris?"
You're forgeting the Java moto. "Write once, run once, mabey twice, three times if your lucky".
Back in 99, Symantec (of Visual Cafe fame) sent me a flyer for a new Java Debugger. They were trying to play off of Java's motto, but "Write once, Debug everywhere" made me laugh really hard.
We had monthly orders at my last employer. I bought three pounds, a coworker ordered two, and the office bought 5. Brought the per-pound price down to $11 including shipping.
Then at one point they had a sale on Black Cat that put our per-pound price to $8.90, which is cheaper than the local supermarket's coffee.
Bummer that my old company is not around anymore.
There is a quality of freshness to the cup that I have only tasted in coffee I ordered directly from this roaster, who ships it the day he roasts it
I'd put in a pitch for Intelligentsia too. They also ship the day they roast, and Black Cat Blend makes great espresso.
Don't trust me? Take a look at my nick
I worked for 10 years for U S WEST (regional Bell Operating Company in the midwest/western US)
In 1997, the union went on strike for about 2 weeks, and those of us not union got to fill in for them.
In the first week, one section of the company (AIN Lab in Denver) had a 2-year backlog of orders cleared out, and 2 replacement workers were staying on top of the order flow. This lab was staffed by 4 Union folks.
Within the first three days, my center (Residential Repair Call Handling center in Des Moines) was closing more trouble tickets, with fewer repeat problems, and with shorter hold-times for callers. This center was staffed at approx 40% of the Union workers.
I have studied economics, history, and sociology. When Organized labor was getting started in the US, it was a powerful force for good.
In the telecom sector in the US, organized labor has created an adversarial relationship along an imaginary line ("labor" vs "management") which puts customer service about 4th in the priority list. It has also created a situation where workers have no real incentive to do any better than half-assed work. There is no "carrot" because a worker who excels is not rewarded, but rather gets grief from her coworkers for making them look bad. There is no "stick" because it's virtually impossible to get fired.
The world at large may be worse off without organized labor.
The phone companies in the US have a reputation throughout the world for bumbling incompetence, and we have the Unions to thank for that.
True story: I was programming since around 9th grade, but my first formal course (CS-120, introduction to data structures) was taught by a guy named Bruce Gilland.
Bruce did the basic course just fine, but at one point he told us "Someday, you'll just get stuck. You'll be trying to solve some problem, and nothing will work. When this happens, don't keep banging your head on the keyboard. Get up, go get a beer, relax and come back to it later. Trust me."
Now Bruce didn't just hide in the University, he worked for Ball Aerospace. Ground control systems for satelites, IIRC. So while I had never been stuck before, I remembered his advice.
A few years later, I was doing the "Survey of Programming Languages" and I got stuck. It wasn't a difficult language (C++) but I just jammed. So I got up, got a beer, came back 10 minutes later and it was GREAT! The code just flowed forth, and everything worked dandy.
Following year, I was in the graduate level AI course trying to use LISP. The first assignment went fine (tic tac toe or something) but the second one was to code Othello using a min-max algorithm.
12 beers later, and that damn thing still didn't work.
With a larger payload, you can probably afford to drop from a higher altitude.
You'll have a tough time selling that theory to the firefighters who are on the ground.
Precision is still very important, not just to conserve payload, but to get the payload in the right spot. --
I guess that means I'm getting 100mbps dsl in 2005?
Only if you move to Tokyo
Joking aside, the $100/mo 100Mbps connections only work because of the population density. Where I live will not see 100Mbps anytime in the near future for anywhere NEAR that price, simply because the infrastructure to support it would cost way too much per subscriber. Why nobody is selling at this rate in downtown LA or NYC is a mystery to me, though.
There may be workers that filter through the images to help with the training of the system. After all how is it going to learn unless there is a mechanism that detects right and wrong responces.
Reasonable at this stage of the project. But why not just spend an afternoon with Google's Image Search until you get a good query string? Presto! You've got a corpus of images that will keep your human verifier busy for the rest of the year.
Slashdot Mirror
I scoreeed [pretty low because emy cranky old laptop has a flakey keyeboard and letteres sometimes bounce. Noteabley the E key does, but otheres do as well.
Bummere about that.
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My Dell is a Latitude CPxJ -- P3-650 with 256M of Ram. It's old, but I found out quite by accident that it works with the newer Inspiron batteries (75Uf IIRC)
I bought a lot of 6 "bad" ones on eBay, planning to take 'em apart and assemble one or two good ones from the individual cells. Turns out I had two perfectly good ones, and now my old Dell runs for 8-9 hours, with the WiFi card and moderatly heavy disk use. If I'm doing local compiles (I'm a Java developer) then I can shorten it to 6 hours, but I've got to use the disk a LOT to get it down to 6.
It's dark in here. You're likely to be eaten by a grue.
When Apple released the Newton, they knew that the handwriting recognition wouldn't work well for all users right out of the box, so they shipped a game which let the Newton learn how to recognize your particular handwriting.
When USRobotics released the Pilot (later to become the Palm Pilot) they knew that the handwriting recognition wouldn't work well for all users right out of the box, so they shipped a game which let the user learn how to write the Pilot's particular handwriting.
Bummer how things progress sometimes.
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Apple rocks!
And Bush is responsible for it!
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Today, if the boss catches me reading /. I can say "I only do it during long compiles, honest!"
This could ruin EVERYthing!
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I can sit in a college library and browse people's laptops as if they are on a trusted network.
Cool!
So, what kind of MP3 collection does the average college student have on their laptop these days? This "library" you speak of sounds like iTunes, but without the credit-card part!
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The linked article was crappy, but thanks to Lars T for pointing out the US-CERT and SANS disucssions on the topic.
I don't buy it.
If your goal is to have the problem fixed, then name names, contact the affected companies so they can fix it (or have their contracted webmasters fix it) and move on.
The whole thing stinks of FUD tactics, and the last line in the article seals it for me: Puleeeeeze
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I just received my ActionTec GT-701(?) last week, and find that it's running a linux kernel. It's got 802.11g, a single 10/100 port, functions as a USB NIC, and also happens to be my new DSL modem.
If anyone's curious, reply to this and I'll log into it again and get the kernel version specifics.
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"Which do you prefer, and why?"
I'm currently working for someone who'a about halfway in between the two bosses. Sigh.
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The key question is What does a pHD actually mean?
It means a Doctorate Degree in Philosophy. The first half of "Philosophy" means love, and the latter half means knowledge.
I think the guy demonstrated that he loved other things (getting published, being right, showing up his peers, whatever) more than he loved knowledge.
It's not the same thing as CCNE certificate, and I think the Uni in question was perfectly justified in saying that this guy doesn't demonstrate a love of knowledge.
Taking this action will add to the credibility of anyone ELSE who has a PhD from the University of Constance.
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So you've got win98 running on it now? Wow, with the functionality you just added to your device, I've just got one word for you:
PWN3D!!!1!
Don't mind me, I'm just posting this from my account with a 3rd-party ISP and a DSL line from Qwest.
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We had monthly orders at my last employer. I bought three pounds, a coworker ordered two, and the office bought 5. Brought the per-pound price down to $11 including shipping.
Then at one point they had a sale on Black Cat that put our per-pound price to $8.90, which is cheaper than the local supermarket's coffee.
Bummer that my old company is not around anymore.
I caan atttttessst ttoooo thaaatttt. Juussst goot baaacckkk ffroommm Staarbuccckksss...anddd myy haaandds aaaree shaaakiing......
Wuss.
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There is a quality of freshness to the cup that I have only tasted in coffee I ordered directly from this roaster, who ships it the day he roasts it
I'd put in a pitch for Intelligentsia too. They also ship the day they roast, and Black Cat Blend makes great espresso.
Don't trust me? Take a look at my nick
I worked for 10 years for U S WEST (regional Bell Operating Company in the midwest/western US)
In 1997, the union went on strike for about 2 weeks, and those of us not union got to fill in for them.
In the first week, one section of the company (AIN Lab in Denver) had a 2-year backlog of orders cleared out, and 2 replacement workers were staying on top of the order flow. This lab was staffed by 4 Union folks.
Within the first three days, my center (Residential Repair Call Handling center in Des Moines) was closing more trouble tickets, with fewer repeat problems, and with shorter hold-times for callers. This center was staffed at approx 40% of the Union workers.
I have studied economics, history, and sociology. When Organized labor was getting started in the US, it was a powerful force for good.
In the telecom sector in the US, organized labor has created an adversarial relationship along an imaginary line ("labor" vs "management") which puts customer service about 4th in the priority list.
It has also created a situation where workers have no real incentive to do any better than half-assed work. There is no "carrot" because a worker who excels is not rewarded, but rather gets grief from her coworkers for making them look bad. There is no "stick" because it's virtually impossible to get fired.
The world at large may be worse off without organized labor.
The phone companies in the US have a reputation throughout the world for bumbling incompetence, and we have the Unions to thank for that.
--
True story: I was programming since around 9th grade, but my first formal course (CS-120, introduction to data structures) was taught by a guy named Bruce Gilland.
Bruce did the basic course just fine, but at one point he told us "Someday, you'll just get stuck. You'll be trying to solve some problem, and nothing will work. When this happens, don't keep banging your head on the keyboard. Get up, go get a beer, relax and come back to it later. Trust me."
Now Bruce didn't just hide in the University, he worked for Ball Aerospace. Ground control systems for satelites, IIRC. So while I had never been stuck before, I remembered his advice.
A few years later, I was doing the "Survey of Programming Languages" and I got stuck. It wasn't a difficult language (C++) but I just jammed. So I got up, got a beer, came back 10 minutes later and it was GREAT! The code just flowed forth, and everything worked dandy.
Following year, I was in the graduate level AI course trying to use LISP. The first assignment went fine (tic tac toe or something) but the second one was to code Othello using a min-max algorithm.
12 beers later, and that damn thing still didn't work.
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With a larger payload, you can probably afford to drop from a higher altitude.
You'll have a tough time selling that theory to the firefighters who are on the ground.
Precision is still very important, not just to conserve payload, but to get the payload in the right spot.
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Metric system?!?
Go away! We like our rulers!
Thomas Jefferson once said that the people get the rulers they deserve.
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I guess that means I'm getting 100mbps dsl in 2005?
Only if you move to Tokyo
Joking aside, the $100/mo 100Mbps connections only work because of the population density. Where I live will not see 100Mbps anytime in the near future for anywhere NEAR that price, simply because the infrastructure to support it would cost way too much per subscriber.
Why nobody is selling at this rate in downtown LA or NYC is a mystery to me, though.
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