Yeah,you're probably right. All we did was turn out a manufacturing Company President, two VP's of IT, three medical doctors, a chemist, a writer, and a statistics professor from our core group of friends there.
For years and years, we put columnist Mike Royko's socks on the list. He had moved from the Sun-Times to the Tribune and done a commercial that ran something like -
"So, Mike, now that you're at the Tribune have you changed anything?"
"Only my socks."
The year they ran this commercial we put his socks on the list, figuring it was a good gag for one year. Royko, however, was really mean to the first group to ask him for his socks and printed a column berating the Scavenger Hunt and the U of C.
That's all it took. Pretty much until he died, Mike Royko's socks were on the list, guaranteeing he'd be bothered by geeks every year.
I think a lot of the reason why there hasn't been press coverage of the theft on the level you might expect has to do with the nature of science versus literature.
Scientific texts are always evolving and subject to verification, repudiation, clarification, and refinement. As such, they are living ideas that don't reside on a dusty page only.
Literature, on the other hand, is much more like magic. One can't prove that Hamlet was crazy. One can't demonstrate scientifically and early in the text that Dimsdale is the father of Hester Prynne's child. As such, the actual object that originates literature is more "interesting" to the average person since it represents the genesis of an idea or a story, while a scientific text is seen as more the capturing of laws and facts that exist without regard to Man.
Check out this article about a $200 million dollar megaflop computer. Cf. to the article above (in slashdot) about a 10 teraflop box from standard PC parts.
No there's a Mac version. The one disadvantage on Mac is that under Windows, if you use a VPN client they'll even bundle it for you (well, they will if you're big enough) and launch it transparently to the user. That doesn't work with their Mac version and you have to launch the tunnel after the IP connection is up.
We use the Nortel Contivity client for PC and Mac with it and on the PC the user never knows they've launched a client. The Mac guys are fewer in our company and tend to be more clueful so the extra click hasn't been a real problem.
Go with iPass if you can. They contract with a bunch of different ISPs around the world.
When you call, your "call experience" is logged and reported for billing but also for quality control. If the number you dialed was busy or poor quality, the number will drop down the list of numbers for that city for everybody using the dialer. Thus, the ISP has incentive to keep the lines high-quality (since they don't get paid if you don't use their lines) and you get the best known number wherever you travel.
Additionally, in a corporate setting, it uses radius for authentication. We use Steel-belted RADIUS to authenticate it against our Win2K domain, but you could use a built in tool.
No, I don't make money from them. In fact I pay money to them, but I'm actually satisfied with this one vendor.
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"My cat's breath smells like cat food."
Certainly the point value should be revised upwards...
'course, in my day they were gender separated. I had the job of making people sign the "Who's banging whom" book between the two dorms after 10:00pm.
Work-study forever!
"So, Mike, now that you're at the Tribune have you changed anything?"
"Only my socks."
The year they ran this commercial we put his socks on the list, figuring it was a good gag for one year. Royko, however, was really mean to the first group to ask him for his socks and printed a column berating the Scavenger Hunt and the U of C.
That's all it took. Pretty much until he died, Mike Royko's socks were on the list, guaranteeing he'd be bothered by geeks every year.
You R0xx0r BTW, IMHO.
I was going to post something similar, but you beat me to it.
This could Hel-sink-i the whole industry. They'll be Finnish-ed!
That goat-related porn will be on this domain within an hour of it coming live.
And the scarier thing is - I was intrigued.
For bibliophiles, this room is right up there with the old reading room at the British Museum or the Library of Congress' reading room.
Scientific texts are always evolving and subject to verification, repudiation, clarification, and refinement. As such, they are living ideas that don't reside on a dusty page only.
Literature, on the other hand, is much more like magic. One can't prove that Hamlet was crazy. One can't demonstrate scientifically and early in the text that Dimsdale is the father of Hester Prynne's child. As such, the actual object that originates literature is more "interesting" to the average person since it represents the genesis of an idea or a story, while a scientific text is seen as more the capturing of laws and facts that exist without regard to Man.
Check out this article about a $200 million dollar megaflop computer. Cf. to the article above (in slashdot) about a 10 teraflop box from standard PC parts.
"The jacket fit." - Why there was a Johnny Bravo.
Yes, now we know what the DNS attack was for...
Larry Ellison hates Gates and MS and has an awful lot of scratch to finance an attack.
We've got Microsoft on the... oh, sorry, never mind.
I want to work where you work. My users are Microsoft to the bone.
Dune was a great book. I don't think if ever needed a sequel. I certainly was never able to get through any of the subsequent books.
But then,I thought they shouldn't have made Star Wars I and II, either. Oh wait, I was right on that one.
We have to supply our own trash.
ACK.
The company's mailing address is in Panama. Might make a lawsuit against them difficult.
We did. It looked solid, but iPass was cheaper for our usage pattern. It might even out if you're bigger than us (6000 users approx.).
No there's a Mac version. The one disadvantage on Mac is that under Windows, if you use a VPN client they'll even bundle it for you (well, they will if you're big enough) and launch it transparently to the user. That doesn't work with their Mac version and you have to launch the tunnel after the IP connection is up.
We use the Nortel Contivity client for PC and Mac with it and on the PC the user never knows they've launched a client. The Mac guys are fewer in our company and tend to be more clueful so the extra click hasn't been a real problem.
Go with iPass if you can. They contract with a bunch of different ISPs around the world.
When you call, your "call experience" is logged and reported for billing but also for quality control. If the number you dialed was busy or poor quality, the number will drop down the list of numbers for that city for everybody using the dialer. Thus, the ISP has incentive to keep the lines high-quality (since they don't get paid if you don't use their lines) and you get the best known number wherever you travel.
Additionally, in a corporate setting, it uses radius for authentication. We use Steel-belted RADIUS to authenticate it against our Win2K domain, but you could use a built in tool.
No, I don't make money from them. In fact I pay money to them, but I'm actually satisfied with this one vendor.