You're right, this thread is OT, but: if you are willing to "suffer" by providing a single valid email address and password, and squirreling it away with the other 200 random email addresses and passwords you provide such sites, you can register once on each computer and then forget about it. That's what I do.
the NYTimes requires a valid email address, and giving it to them is a sure-fire way to increase your daily spam intake.
This is rubbish. I give them a tailored email, so I can tell if that email is used for anything I don't want, and in addition, they have appropriate policies to control communications from them. No spam here.
Simson Garfinkel ran a blog entry a few days ago about detecting overuse of his home network and tracing it to unauthorized WLAN access by his teenage neighbor who then got affected by a Kazaa virus. Nearly got his broadband shut off from over-use.
He'd left it open to facilitate use by visitors, but no longer.
I didn't refer to the google cache of the article because the google cache isn't intended to bypass site registration policies.
Why can't people register, for free, without complaining?
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On the whole, I agree. I read the Time Ships a while ago and couldn't make it past the first 30 pages (my limit before putting down a book due to lack of interest). I found the first two Manifold books to be OK, but couldn't stomach the third.
I certainly agree that Vinge does a better job with this genre.
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If you're seriously suggesting it's open to doubt, try comparing this post (the first "Aens" made) with this one, from several months earlier.
Sold.
Has anyone done a bot to automatically detect such duplication? Seems easy, even with the occasional edit to give it a different checksum.
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Actually, the mixed reviews had me still guessing. Then I saw a response to a post saying this account was probably linked to various other troll accounts. So either this is indeed a troll (which subsequent responses agree) or the people throwing darts at it are trolls.
Only at slashdot could people spend more time worrying about bogus postings than the real content.
I use Quicken, so there's little reason to keep old non-tax-related bills for reference. I keep the most recent bills in file folders, replacing the older version of the same bill when each one goes in.
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Your review of Quicksilver should be modded offtopic, since this article was about a completely different book. Accidental or troll?
It's not clear it was our secret as much as their hypotheses about our possible intent. Not quite the same thing. Of course, if Schlesinger's comment was said in secret and this is something they now declassified, then the US side has every right to gripe if they weren't informed.
Of course, they could have said it was fine by them, for all any of us knows. We'll find out if the US retaliates with their own embarrassing declassification I guess.
My solution turned out to be a new blend of beans... I went to my local Peet's and had them blend a 50/50 mix of decaf Sumatra with a regular Sumatra
I'm curious, was this really so much more convenient than simply buying both and mixing them as you make the coffee? Or is it more a matter of willpower, in that if the coffee is already 50% decaf you can't be tempted to go full blast?
Yup, that's what I meant, thanks. And I agree, bike lanes make the most sense, but in their infinite wisdom, or infinite age, the cities that don't want it on their sidewalks don't tend to have bike lanes. I don't recall bike lanes in my last visit to Manhattan...
Ah. Well, actually, I could go both ways. I would actually love to have one, but it's overpriced, which is why its sales are so poor. I think it is indeed a neat invention despite all the hype preceding its release.
In any case, I think you were right, you got the year wrong, since it was released in 2002.
Yeah, I saw a demo of this, and was pretty impressed, though eventually I decided that paraphrasing wasn't nearly as interesting as simply identifying the big news... so I went back to Google News. Now I just read CNN, the New York Times (print), and Slashdot, and I figure that between the three, everything's covered.
Your best evidence for this government intrusion into our lives is a 5 year old Will Smith movie? Are you planning on pointing to Independence Day next as evidence for how dangerous computer virus' are?
Nope... Terminator 3. So what if it starred the gov of California instead of the Prince of Bel-Air, it was a Scary Movie....
I referred to the companies (IBM and AT&T) as being "benign" and "lumbering" today, not their research labs
Ok, now that I read this and went back to your first post, I see how I misconstrued your comment.
Now I get to debate whether it's fair to classify both entire corporations as "benign, lumbering giants":-). And in fact a similar discussion applies, in that AT&T was a monopolistic giant that has been felled, while IBM was a monopolistic giant that has IMHO been transformed. It's still huge, sure, but it's far from lumbering and the implication (in my interpretation) of benign as minimizing its impact does not apply. You may have had a different meaning in mind. I certainly disagree with that characterization of IBM in its present form.
I didn't "equate" them. I pointed out that it will take decades to determine whether MSR is mainly a short-lived accumulation of good researchers, or whether they will be able to rise to the same level of achievement as Bell Labs and IBM research.
But your previous note made it sound like that level was not very high: you referred to them as "benign" and "lumbering"!
I fully agree that MSR hasn't had a huge impact thus far, but I don't think it's fair to equate AT&T and IBM's research arms in this fashion. AT&T's research has declined considerably in recent years as its (pseudo-)monopoly in long distance has dried up, and IMHO the company has done only a so-so job in translating research into practice, and in particular revenue for the company. Yet even then, no one can deny AT&T's impact with such things as the transistor, UNIX, C++, etc.
On the other hand, IBM Research has done pretty well, though it too has gone through hard times. Its contributions to open-source are substantial, and at the same time, it's much more in touch with the demands of the company.
Now, if someone had beaten me to it and moderated my parent as flamebait perhaps I'd have kept quiet....
All true. The one thing to keep in mind is that real estate does occasionally go down. Money's latest issue has a column that's really kind of scary. It says someone predicts that as historically low interest rates rise, the actual sales prices of homes may fall significantly.
I'm currently in more debt than I've ever been. I have $100,000 outstanding on a house I got....
Assuming your house is worth more than you owe on it, I don't know that this is truly "debt" in the same sense as someone who owes credit card issuers. A debt that is secured by an asset is a completely different animal.
So right, not all "debt" is bad. But neither would I call you in debt over a mortgage. Our friendly scam victim is not only in debt, he's in the doghouse and all that brown stuff that lies around outside that doghouse.
I used to have a Lands End laptop bag, which was sturdy and versatile, though it looked shabby once the umbrella I kept in its outer pocket wore a small hole in the side -- affecting appearance but not function.
I then got a Coach leather bag as a gift. It's also been quite sturdy, and I've been happy, but when I recently moved to an IBM T40 laptop I found with its oversize battery, it barely fit in the designated space -- so it won't serve your purposes but might be of use to others.
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If the NYT is paying Google for these hits, and no longer cares about registration, then indeed it's its own problem.
Thanks for the explanation.
You're right, this thread is OT, but: if you are willing to "suffer" by providing a single valid email address and password, and squirreling it away with the other 200 random email addresses and passwords you provide such sites, you can register once on each computer and then forget about it. That's what I do.
This is rubbish. I give them a tailored email, so I can tell if that email is used for anything I don't want, and in addition, they have appropriate policies to control communications from them. No spam here.
Will the madness never end?
He'd left it open to facilitate use by visitors, but no longer.
I didn't refer to the google cache of the article because the google cache isn't intended to bypass site registration policies.
Why can't people register, for free, without complaining?
I certainly agree that Vinge does a better job with this genre.
Sold.
Has anyone done a bot to automatically detect such duplication? Seems easy, even with the occasional edit to give it a different checksum.
Only at slashdot could people spend more time worrying about bogus postings than the real content.
I use Quicken, so there's little reason to keep old non-tax-related bills for reference. I keep the most recent bills in file folders, replacing the older version of the same bill when each one goes in.
Your review of Quicksilver should be modded offtopic, since this article was about a completely different book. Accidental or troll?
Of course, they could have said it was fine by them, for all any of us knows. We'll find out if the US retaliates with their own embarrassing declassification I guess.
I'm curious, was this really so much more convenient than simply buying both and mixing them as you make the coffee? Or is it more a matter of willpower, in that if the coffee is already 50% decaf you can't be tempted to go full blast?
Yup, that's what I meant, thanks. And I agree, bike lanes make the most sense, but in their infinite wisdom, or infinite age, the cities that don't want it on their sidewalks don't tend to have bike lanes. I don't recall bike lanes in my last visit to Manhattan...
In any case, I think you were right, you got the year wrong, since it was released in 2002.
Hey, I left off a bullet item in my list:
Yeah, I saw a demo of this, and was pretty impressed, though eventually I decided that paraphrasing wasn't nearly as interesting as simply identifying the big news... so I went back to Google News. Now I just read CNN, the New York Times (print), and Slashdot, and I figure that between the three, everything's covered.
Nope... Terminator 3 . So what if it starred the gov of California instead of the Prince of Bel-Air, it was a Scary Movie....
If Ralsky actually admits the use of hijacked computers, doesn't this put him in jeopardy of other laws besides CAN-SPAM?
Ok, now that I read this and went back to your first post, I see how I misconstrued your comment.
Now I get to debate whether it's fair to classify both entire corporations as "benign, lumbering giants" :-). And in fact a similar discussion applies, in that AT&T was a monopolistic giant that has been felled, while IBM was a monopolistic giant that has IMHO been transformed. It's still huge, sure, but it's far from lumbering and the implication (in my interpretation) of benign as minimizing its impact does not apply. You may have had a different meaning in mind. I certainly disagree with that characterization of IBM in its present form.
But your previous note made it sound like that level was not very high: you referred to them as "benign" and "lumbering"!
On the other hand, IBM Research has done pretty well, though it too has gone through hard times. Its contributions to open-source are substantial, and at the same time, it's much more in touch with the demands of the company.
Now, if someone had beaten me to it and moderated my parent as flamebait perhaps I'd have kept quiet....
All true. The one thing to keep in mind is that real estate does occasionally go down. Money's latest issue has a column that's really kind of scary. It says someone predicts that as historically low interest rates rise, the actual sales prices of homes may fall significantly.
Assuming your house is worth more than you owe on it, I don't know that this is truly "debt" in the same sense as someone who owes credit card issuers. A debt that is secured by an asset is a completely different animal.
So right, not all "debt" is bad. But neither would I call you in debt over a mortgage. Our friendly scam victim is not only in debt, he's in the doghouse and all that brown stuff that lies around outside that doghouse.
I then got a Coach leather bag as a gift. It's also been quite sturdy, and I've been happy, but when I recently moved to an IBM T40 laptop I found with its oversize battery, it barely fit in the designated space -- so it won't serve your purposes but might be of use to others.