take a cue from mother nature
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Windows in 2020
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Yeah, the corn analogy is excellent. What's that saying they used to have back in the short-sighted 20th century? "You find something that works - you stick with it!" Yeah, maybe that works in the imaginary world of permanence, but take a cue from the mother of us all: You find something that works, attack it with everything you've got - virus, plague, famine, pestilence - until it goes extinct. It may be just a little red worm now, but someday it'll grow up to be Shai Hulud!
The bit about the subscription system's reverberating side-effects rings awfully true too. Proprietary and convoluted file-formats can only do so much to bring about the American(TM) dream of planned obsolescence. But mark my words: Subscription software is flawed in its genes and doomed to fail. Anything that goes straight to profit-motive without providing added value to the consumer *cough*antitrust*cough* just seems a little dubious.
Personally, I'm getting one of my hotshot Windows geek buddies to whip up a nice short hack to disable the automatic shutoff for my own personal use. Want one? It'll be printed on T-shirts next year in rebus sistena verse.
Well, as if Agent Smith could "get out" if he wanted to... That would imply that there is some means to "rise up" from THE Matrix into the "Real World."
Obviously the best place for a sequel to take place is in the "Real World," because that's where the machines ultimately rule. That's where the final war needs to take place.
But recall also that you can't just go around unplugging everybody. People have to be "willing" to leave, and prepared to "let go."
I can't imagine a dumb plot surrounding such an intensely spiritual issue. Honestly, how many people do you know who would trade their SUVs and cel phones and - ahem - cool computers to wake up in a barren wasteland surrounded by giant robotic insects and "squiddies"?
Ha, I didn't think so.
I wonder, then, how much more willing these same inerred minds will be once they spend a bit of time in what Neo describes in the final voice-over as a world without controls, without rules, and without agents.
It seems to me that in the plot of the first film there was a bit of a corny element in the love Trinity develops for Neo. Surely this can't be the kind of love that this whole series is about!? If it's going to try and live up its thinly-veiled Buddhist world-view then the only remedy for humanity is a Bhodisattva (in the form of Neo) who deals directly with the problems of human attachment. That's a broader kind of love that - yeah I know - just doesn't play well in an action movie.
One friend of mine decried the corruption of the concept of Maya in The Matrix because to her mind it was a foul idea that the whole of humanity is reduced to a kind of social-structure-junky and that there's no remorse or reflection in the wake of killing these beings. In a way, she felt, this was basically promulgating a Fundamentalist paranoid world-view in the guise of a Noble Truth.
Maybe she's right. I'd like to see some of these themes addressed in this sequel, but I doubt the fine Wachowski brothers will stop having fun long enough to consider these questions.
Re:An ETHICAL way to Anti-Virus
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Code Red III
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· Score: 1
...and that script, whatever else it does should simply *not respond* or print anything back to the virus. I believe that if you just let the script hang the virus assumes there's nobody listening and moves on....
And then automatically firewall...!
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Code Red III
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· Score: 1
And it occurs to me that an even better addition to the script would be to automagically add the incoming IP address to the firewall chain/table to block it forevermore - or at least for a few weeks until the weather subsides.
I found that by simply adding about 5 IP ranges to my computer's built-in firewall I got rid of *all* the code red attacks. (This computer hasn't been running 24/7 so it's been pretty well hidden.)
The key is that Code Red stops learning about your IP once you stop allowing it to find you. Once you block all the *existing* attackers the chances of *new* attackers appearing is lessened quite a bit.
An ETHICAL way to Anti-Virus
on
Code Red III
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Hi,
I've been watching my Apache log as I get hit about every 10 minutes by Code Red. For each source IP address I've been doing a reverse lookup and if successful then notifying the webmaster of the source domain about the infected computer on their network.
I'd like to automate this process and generate a "form" email, filling in the relevant details, but I'm not sure how to cause a script to be invoked by a change in the Apache log, except to maybe run a 5 minute cron job that grabs all the Code Red attacks and then renames the log file.
An example of the email I've been sending is this:
Hi,
Just a note to let you know that a copy of the Code Red virus is on your network attacking my web server. The source IP address is: 207.151.xxx.xxx which a reverse lookup shows as xxx.xxx.gdsl.nwc.net . If this is a customer on your network then please pass on to that individual that they need to reboot their NT/W2K server and possibly reinstall their OS. They will also need to get a patch from Microsoft to correct this vulnerability.
This is probably a very miniscule thing to do, but it does - in a way - inoculate against the virus, at least on consumer DSL networks, and in a manner that is both ethical and - like a virus - fairly contagious. I've heard a lot of buzz in places like Slashdot about making an "anti-virus" but why haven't I heard this kind of thing suggested before?
So do these particles generate mass and "weight" continuously or just once in awhile? Are causes and effects always linked by invisble forces or is there some kind of collaboration going on? Somebody explain this counter-intuitive particle obsession to me. All I see everywhere I look is is-ness!
-------- Windows? Oh yeah, that's this cute little thing I run on my Mac.... It's almost like its own OS!
Re:Almost as convenient
on
PHP Security
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· Score: 1
I prefer this snippet to get form values into globals:
foreach ($HTTP_POST_VARS as $k=>$v)
$$k=$v;
This way you still get your globals but you get only them from the POST. No matter what you do in your code you can't hide from a spoofed POST but at least you can avoid spoofed GET vars.
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Not only is Microsoft's strategy a huge overarching Titanic but they are deploying it into a water full of fast, killer icebergs. Since they know there's no chance of getting by on real value alone they have to integrally TIE it to the next generation lagoon blue OS with an X pointlessly in the name.
They should call it.TIE instead of.NET.
Of course you can't - for example - run Sherlock on Windows, so if a Softie wants to do what Sherlock does he needs to either get a Mac or use a Sherlock substitute.
At what point does leveraging your unique "features" become an exercise in monopolization?? Is it purely a function of limiting access to other platforms? Or must they leverage the inherent file-less nature of remote database storage to create inaccessible and non-exportable proprietary file formats?
When it comes to MS and the mighty morphing power of intellectual property "rights", what's in it for them is what they can keep hidden away from the rest of the planet.
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
All Apple really needs to do is decide to only support certain components - "Apple Certified" and write the drivers for those and those alone, then as long as you had a CHRP box you could use any of the supported components.
Of course that's just their opening act. After that there's an onslaught of component-makers suddenly porting over their device drivers to Darwin, and the whole cycle that Windows once spawned will begin again - only this time you won't have to buy a special pass from BillG to get a peek at the API calls for the OS. But you will have to give Apple $130 if you want to use their GUI, the Cocoa APIs, and the intense graphics services of Quartz, OpenGL, and QuickTime.
What's going to happen in the long run is kind of weird for Apple. Already there are a dozen or more GUIs that build on X-Windows and provide all the WIMP we need. Nothing precludes this from happening on MacOS X and in fact it's already underway. What's going to matter for Apple in the long run is that they protect their sources of revenue - currently that's a lot of precious holy hardware with an appliance-like styling and intent. There are good reasons to tie the OS to the hardware when you consider what would happen to that whole side of Apple's business and their emotional investment in the promise of the PowerPC.
What I forsee is not MacOS on your average PC. The only option for Apple is to make their own Intel or AMD boxen with very specific hardware support for the standard ports we find in all Macs - Firewire, USB, Ethernet, ATA.... Yep, that's got to be it.
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Well there's something to be said for the whole shared process we're going through right now - us and the rest of nature I mean. I'm not personally a bit worried. Certainly the human race, like weeds, will be culled by nature when our own environments become unlivable and overrun with disease. This is far far off, past your grandchildren's lifetime probably, but it's the inevitable course of nature. The human race will be brought close to extinction but will be saved by its diversity. At best a really nasty plague could only take out 25% of us - if that.
On the other hand, once humans are depopulated the rest of nature will continue on its day to day course of evolution as usual, branching and diversifying again.
Not even a major comet collision could take out all of us. Our distant cousins in the deep sea vents will see to that.
We have a lot of space, and I say we branch out and make some use of it, live our space age science fiction lives, learn the same stupid lessons over and over again for eternity as our limbs get all funky from adapting to the low gravity of Mars....
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
I threw out my TV over 5 years ago, and everything changed. I no longer found myself choosing sides in pointless debates about fluff. I found that my view of the world at large was no longer colored by the corporate angle presented by TV news reports. I learned that even without TV I still don't have enough time to fulfill all my creative projects. I discovered that indeed the art of conversation is not dead, and furthermore that there's a whole world of literature out there just waiting to be read - and not just made into a TV movie of the week.
Of course I now spend a good 4 hours a night on the internet! But here in this worldwide forum I'm discovering a multivarious universe of pluralistic view I never see on TV.
So what's SlashDot doing posting a story about a possible TV show about food-preparation that may happen to feature master thespian William Shatner?
Perhaps because Iron Chef represents the same ideals as SlashDot itself! Using weird and limited resources to produce something of dubious edibility that is summarily critiqued by a large panel of nonentities.
Perhaps because William Shatner - like William Gibson and Jerry Pournelle - has produced classic works of science fiction in a very particular idiom.
Next time couldn't we get an interview with the cast(aways) of Survivor instead?
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Regardless of how Microsoft spins it I find this article silly. They first talk about the would-be Yahoo's of recent months who have gone down the toilet. Then they start comparing that kind of foolishness with Open Source, as if it mattered. Yeah, a lot of fools rush into ventures and screw themselves. That's got nothing to do with providing Source Code as a part of the product. Source Code is simply a value-added item that you can use to both entice and educate your users. Go ahead and release it under a license that forbids them from mentally processing the code, but Jesus, you ought to get a floor-plan when you buy your freakin' house, man!
What makes a company's products valuable is the artistry and wizardry behind them. I'm sorry to hear that Microsoft doesn't want to share. No surprises. Fine with me. But I still want to contribute to worthwhile projects that are GPL'ed, BSD'ed, and APSL'ed. Their licenses allow me to take part and contribute, for god's sake. That's all any good developer needs or cares about. I can still get paid for my gringe work in the intelligent and rock-stable part of the net economy: among the builders for hire.
Don't be fooled. Microsoft would like to "fork" the world of licensing models with its crimson tide and are, it seems, trying to entice users with the promise of greater wealth. The only licensing restriction: Thou shalt hold out for more money!
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Hey, if money is the problem then the solution is simple. Reform the legal system so that if anyone wants to sue someone else (i.e., hold a pissing contest) then they have to put up the funds UP FRONT to support the contest! That way Joe Blow and Microsoft can both have the legal counsel they want - and need - to fulfill their little show.
Why not? Money is just a consensual illusion anyways....
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
"Free health care is a medical-property destroyer," Allchin said. "I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the health business and the medical-property business."
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
"Free sex is a sexual-property destroyer," Allchin said. "I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the sex business and the sexual-property business."
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Need I say more? As a web developer I've preferred MacOS for all my graphics and text editing tools for obvious reasons, but always my deeper development has been on a Linux box over on the other side of the room.
Now with MacOS X I see the amazing promise of having mySQL databases running along with BBEdit and an integrated perl interpreter linked through mod-perl to Apache... all right on my G4 right here.
Maybe I'll keep my Linux box around as a server or test-bed but damn I think I got the best of all worlds with MacOS X. (And it'll serve PDF and print media pretty good too.)
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
I'm sorry, kids, but any language that is tied to a single OS - as C# is destined to be - is nothing but a scripting extension. I don't care how many bells and whistles the language has.
C was created specifically to emulate a "universal cpu" and to make it easier to write software across platforms. C++ extended that mission with the added benefit of reusable code (cross-application). C# is a step in the wrong direction if it pretends to be a language in the same class as others with 'C' in the name.
As far as I can see it's main innovations are little more than invisible methods.
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
click-hold: basically only implemented in browsers, not the macOS in general, nor the finder (unless you count click-and-a-half for zooming through folders).
menus: since macOS 8 menus have been "sticky." you are referring to system 7
in fact a whole lot of postings here indicate people who haven't used the macOS since those less colorful days - or have never used it at all! No wonder this thread is unable to have more than 16% of its posts moderated to 2 or higher....
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
When my domain expired I didn't find out from NSI. I learned it because the domain no longer worked. No word from NSI whatsoever. Very odd. Why wouldn't they ask me, "hey what to renew?" and collect their fee? I intend to re-register my domain, but I'm in no hurry since it's unlikely anyone would grab it from me (unusual name).
A quick check of NSI shows my old domain name is available. My domain expired some time after February. Maybe NSI is only sitting on domains that are desirable. Or maybe just dot-coms (mine was a dot-org). In any case, it looks like there may be some method to their behavior, so keep watch for those domain auctions!
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Intel Announces Pentium® [version] Brand Name For New Microprocessor
SANTA CLARA, Calif., [date] - Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Pentium® [version] processor brand name for its new generation of desktop microprocessors (formerly code-named [codename]).
The new Pentium® [version] name builds upon one of the world's most recognized brands to convey the most powerful personal computing experience. Scheduled to be introduced in the [segment] of [year], the new Pentium® [version] processor is based on revolutionary technology designed to maximize performance today and in the future, keeping consumers on the cutting edge of the [latest fad].
"Around the world, PC users associate the [insert name here] brand with the highest PC performance, compatibility and quality available," said Pam Pollace, vice president, Intel Sales and Marketing Group, and director, Worldwide Marketing Operations. "Computer users will be able to instantly recognize the Pentium® [version] processor as Intel's newest high-performance microprocessor."
The Intel Pentium® [version] processor logo will become part of the Intel Inside® program, the largest co-opted advertising program in the world.
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Yes, the legal system should be changed to prevent this kind of frivolous litigation. Unfortunately corporate lawyers are encouraged to file lawsuits on behalf of their respective corporations - even when they know that such lawsuits are baseless and stupid.
So here's a thought: Isn't the threat of a lawsuit a form of assault or threat? We live in a culture and economy which lives and dies by the dollar. To threaten a relatively defenseless individual with legal action is tantamount to threatening to harm them. The legal system should be altered so that individuals have legal remedies when they are bullied this way.
For example, the owner of The Dialectizer should be able to sue the Bank of America for the very act of making a frivolous threat. The corporation would then have to provide an appropriate redress, paying The Dialectizer's legal fees and paying damages for causing the site owner to suffer, etc...
-------- Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, the corn analogy is excellent. What's that saying they used to have back in the short-sighted 20th century? "You find something that works - you stick with it!" Yeah, maybe that works in the imaginary world of permanence, but take a cue from the mother of us all: You find something that works, attack it with everything you've got - virus, plague, famine, pestilence - until it goes extinct. It may be just a little red worm now, but someday it'll grow up to be Shai Hulud!
The bit about the subscription system's reverberating side-effects rings awfully true too. Proprietary and convoluted file-formats can only do so much to bring about the American(TM) dream of planned obsolescence. But mark my words: Subscription software is flawed in its genes and doomed to fail. Anything that goes straight to profit-motive without providing added value to the consumer *cough*antitrust*cough* just seems a little dubious.
Personally, I'm getting one of my hotshot Windows geek buddies to whip up a nice short hack to disable the automatic shutoff for my own personal use. Want one? It'll be printed on T-shirts next year in rebus sistena verse.
Well, as if Agent Smith could "get out" if he wanted to... That would imply that there is some means to "rise up" from THE Matrix into the "Real World."
Obviously the best place for a sequel to take place is in the "Real World," because that's where the machines ultimately rule. That's where the final war needs to take place.
But recall also that you can't just go around unplugging everybody. People have to be "willing" to leave, and prepared to "let go."
I can't imagine a dumb plot surrounding such an intensely spiritual issue. Honestly, how many people do you know who would trade their SUVs and cel phones and - ahem - cool computers to wake up in a barren wasteland surrounded by giant robotic insects and "squiddies"?
Ha, I didn't think so.
I wonder, then, how much more willing these same inerred minds will be once they spend a bit of time in what Neo describes in the final voice-over as a world without controls, without rules, and without agents.
It seems to me that in the plot of the first film there was a bit of a corny element in the love Trinity develops for Neo. Surely this can't be the kind of love that this whole series is about!? If it's going to try and live up its thinly-veiled Buddhist world-view then the only remedy for humanity is a Bhodisattva (in the form of Neo) who deals directly with the problems of human attachment. That's a broader kind of love that - yeah I know - just doesn't play well in an action movie.
One friend of mine decried the corruption of the concept of Maya in The Matrix because to her mind it was a foul idea that the whole of humanity is reduced to a kind of social-structure-junky and that there's no remorse or reflection in the wake of killing these beings. In a way, she felt, this was basically promulgating a Fundamentalist paranoid world-view in the guise of a Noble Truth.
Maybe she's right. I'd like to see some of these themes addressed in this sequel, but I doubt the fine Wachowski brothers will stop having fun long enough to consider these questions.
...and that script, whatever else it does should simply *not respond* or print anything back to the virus. I believe that if you just let the script hang the virus assumes there's nobody listening and moves on....
And it occurs to me that an even better addition to the script would be to automagically add the incoming IP address to the firewall chain/table to block it forevermore - or at least for a few weeks until the weather subsides.
I found that by simply adding about 5 IP ranges to my computer's built-in firewall I got rid of *all* the code red attacks. (This computer hasn't been running 24/7 so it's been pretty well hidden.)
The key is that Code Red stops learning about your IP once you stop allowing it to find you. Once you block all the *existing* attackers the chances of *new* attackers appearing is lessened quite a bit.
Hi,
I've been watching my Apache log as I get hit about every 10 minutes by Code Red. For each source IP address I've been doing a reverse lookup and if successful then notifying the webmaster of the source domain about the infected computer on their network.
I'd like to automate this process and generate a "form" email, filling in the relevant details, but I'm not sure how to cause a script to be invoked by a change in the Apache log, except to maybe run a 5 minute cron job that grabs all the Code Red attacks and then renames the log file.
An example of the email I've been sending is this:
Hi,
Just a note to let you know that a copy of the Code Red virus is on your network attacking my web server. The source IP address is: 207.151.xxx.xxx which a reverse lookup shows as xxx.xxx.gdsl.nwc.net . If this is a customer on your network then please pass on to that individual that they need to reboot their NT/W2K server and possibly reinstall their OS. They will also need to get a patch from Microsoft to correct this vulnerability.
This is probably a very miniscule thing to do, but it does - in a way - inoculate against the virus, at least on consumer DSL networks, and in a manner that is both ethical and - like a virus - fairly contagious. I've heard a lot of buzz in places like Slashdot about making an "anti-virus" but why haven't I heard this kind of thing suggested before?
So do these particles generate mass and "weight" continuously or just once in awhile? Are causes and effects always linked by invisble forces or is there some kind of collaboration going on? Somebody explain this counter-intuitive particle obsession to me. All I see everywhere I look is is-ness!
--------
Windows? Oh yeah, that's this cute little thing I run on my Mac.... It's almost like its own OS!
I prefer this snippet to get form values into globals:
foreach ($HTTP_POST_VARS as $k=>$v)
$$k=$v;
This way you still get your globals but you get only them from the POST. No matter what you do in your code you can't hide from a spoofed POST but at least you can avoid spoofed GET vars.
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Right on! Mod this up to full mast.
.TIE instead of .NET.
Not only is Microsoft's strategy a huge overarching Titanic but they are deploying it into a water full of fast, killer icebergs. Since they know there's no chance of getting by on real value alone they have to integrally TIE it to the next generation lagoon blue OS with an X pointlessly in the name.
They should call it
Of course you can't - for example - run Sherlock on Windows, so if a Softie wants to do what Sherlock does he needs to either get a Mac or use a Sherlock substitute.
At what point does leveraging your unique "features" become an exercise in monopolization?? Is it purely a function of limiting access to other platforms? Or must they leverage the inherent file-less nature of remote database storage to create inaccessible and non-exportable proprietary file formats?
When it comes to MS and the mighty morphing power of intellectual property "rights", what's in it for them is what they can keep hidden away from the rest of the planet.
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Psst...
All Apple really needs to do is decide to only support certain components - "Apple Certified" and write the drivers for those and those alone, then as long as you had a CHRP box you could use any of the supported components.
Of course that's just their opening act. After that there's an onslaught of component-makers suddenly porting over their device drivers to Darwin, and the whole cycle that Windows once spawned will begin again - only this time you won't have to buy a special pass from BillG to get a peek at the API calls for the OS. But you will have to give Apple $130 if you want to use their GUI, the Cocoa APIs, and the intense graphics services of Quartz, OpenGL, and QuickTime.
What's going to happen in the long run is kind of weird for Apple. Already there are a dozen or more GUIs that build on X-Windows and provide all the WIMP we need. Nothing precludes this from happening on MacOS X and in fact it's already underway. What's going to matter for Apple in the long run is that they protect their sources of revenue - currently that's a lot of precious holy hardware with an appliance-like styling and intent. There are good reasons to tie the OS to the hardware when you consider what would happen to that whole side of Apple's business and their emotional investment in the promise of the PowerPC.
What I forsee is not MacOS on your average PC. The only option for Apple is to make their own Intel or AMD boxen with very specific hardware support for the standard ports we find in all Macs - Firewire, USB, Ethernet, ATA.... Yep, that's got to be it.
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Well there's something to be said for the whole shared process we're going through right now - us and the rest of nature I mean. I'm not personally a bit worried. Certainly the human race, like weeds, will be culled by nature when our own environments become unlivable and overrun with disease. This is far far off, past your grandchildren's lifetime probably, but it's the inevitable course of nature. The human race will be brought close to extinction but will be saved by its diversity. At best a really nasty plague could only take out 25% of us - if that.
On the other hand, once humans are depopulated the rest of nature will continue on its day to day course of evolution as usual, branching and diversifying again.
Not even a major comet collision could take out all of us. Our distant cousins in the deep sea vents will see to that.
We have a lot of space, and I say we branch out and make some use of it, live our space age science fiction lives, learn the same stupid lessons over and over again for eternity as our limbs get all funky from adapting to the low gravity of Mars....
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
we need to be very careful to regulate it, so that situations such as those in The Matrix and Terminator don't occur.
Yes, we must prevent things from degrading to the point where only Keanu can save us.
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
I threw out my TV over 5 years ago, and everything changed. I no longer found myself choosing sides in pointless debates about fluff. I found that my view of the world at large was no longer colored by the corporate angle presented by TV news reports. I learned that even without TV I still don't have enough time to fulfill all my creative projects. I discovered that indeed the art of conversation is not dead, and furthermore that there's a whole world of literature out there just waiting to be read - and not just made into a TV movie of the week.
Of course I now spend a good 4 hours a night on the internet! But here in this worldwide forum I'm discovering a multivarious universe of pluralistic view I never see on TV.
So what's SlashDot doing posting a story about a possible TV show about food-preparation that may happen to feature master thespian William Shatner?
Perhaps because Iron Chef represents the same ideals as SlashDot itself! Using weird and limited resources to produce something of dubious edibility that is summarily critiqued by a large panel of nonentities.
Perhaps because William Shatner - like William Gibson and Jerry Pournelle - has produced classic works of science fiction in a very particular idiom.
Next time couldn't we get an interview with the cast(aways) of Survivor instead?
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
I don't know how easy it is to teach yourself the engineering involved in this kind of adventure.
Oh come on!! It's not like this is rocket sci----
Oh shit, never mind!
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Regardless of how Microsoft spins it I find this article silly. They first talk about the would-be Yahoo's of recent months who have gone down the toilet. Then they start comparing that kind of foolishness with Open Source, as if it mattered. Yeah, a lot of fools rush into ventures and screw themselves. That's got nothing to do with providing Source Code as a part of the product. Source Code is simply a value-added item that you can use to both entice and educate your users. Go ahead and release it under a license that forbids them from mentally processing the code, but Jesus, you ought to get a floor-plan when you buy your freakin' house, man!
What makes a company's products valuable is the artistry and wizardry behind them. I'm sorry to hear that Microsoft doesn't want to share. No surprises. Fine with me. But I still want to contribute to worthwhile projects that are GPL'ed, BSD'ed, and APSL'ed. Their licenses allow me to take part and contribute, for god's sake . That's all any good developer needs or cares about. I can still get paid for my gringe work in the intelligent and rock-stable part of the net economy: among the builders for hire.
Don't be fooled. Microsoft would like to "fork" the world of licensing models with its crimson tide and are, it seems, trying to entice users with the promise of greater wealth. The only licensing restriction: Thou shalt hold out for more money!
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Hey, if money is the problem then the solution is simple. Reform the legal system so that if anyone wants to sue someone else (i.e., hold a pissing contest) then they have to put up the funds UP FRONT to support the contest! That way Joe Blow and Microsoft can both have the legal counsel they want - and need - to fulfill their little show.
Why not? Money is just a consensual illusion anyways....
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
"Free health care is a medical-property destroyer," Allchin said. "I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the health business and the medical-property business."
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
"Free sex is a sexual-property destroyer," Allchin said. "I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the sex business and the sexual-property business."
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
I am a programmer, and as such my attitude is and always must be:
Rewrites are always necessary.
Management must get out of the way and support it at all cost.
Only then will Good Code rule the world.
--------
Yeah, I'm a Mac programmer. You got a problem with that?
Need I say more? As a web developer I've preferred MacOS for all my graphics and text editing tools for obvious reasons, but always my deeper development has been on a Linux box over on the other side of the room.
Now with MacOS X I see the amazing promise of having mySQL databases running along with BBEdit and an integrated perl interpreter linked through mod-perl to Apache... all right on my G4 right here.
Maybe I'll keep my Linux box around as a server or test-bed but damn I think I got the best of all worlds with MacOS X. (And it'll serve PDF and print media pretty good too.)
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I'm sorry, kids, but any language that is tied to a single OS - as C# is destined to be - is nothing but a scripting extension. I don't care how many bells and whistles the language has.
C was created specifically to emulate a "universal cpu" and to make it easier to write software across platforms. C++ extended that mission with the added benefit of reusable code (cross-application). C# is a step in the wrong direction if it pretends to be a language in the same class as others with 'C' in the name.
As far as I can see it's main innovations are little more than invisible methods.
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two corrections...
click-hold: basically only implemented in browsers, not the macOS in general, nor the finder (unless you count click-and-a-half for zooming through folders).
menus: since macOS 8 menus have been "sticky." you are referring to system 7
in fact a whole lot of postings here indicate people who haven't used the macOS since those less colorful days - or have never used it at all! No wonder this thread is unable to have more than 16% of its posts moderated to 2 or higher....
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My 2 cents:
When my domain expired I didn't find out from NSI. I learned it because the domain no longer worked. No word from NSI whatsoever. Very odd. Why wouldn't they ask me, "hey what to renew?" and collect their fee? I intend to re-register my domain, but I'm in no hurry since it's unlikely anyone would grab it from me (unusual name).
A quick check of NSI shows my old domain name is available. My domain expired some time after February. Maybe NSI is only sitting on domains that are desirable. Or maybe just dot-coms (mine was a dot-org). In any case, it looks like there may be some method to their behavior, so keep watch for those domain auctions!
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Intel Announces Pentium® [version] Brand Name For New Microprocessor
SANTA CLARA, Calif., [date] - Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Pentium® [version] processor brand name for its new generation of desktop microprocessors (formerly code-named [codename]).
The new Pentium® [version] name builds upon one of the world's most recognized brands to convey the most powerful personal computing experience. Scheduled to be introduced in the [segment] of [year], the new Pentium® [version] processor is based on revolutionary technology designed to maximize performance today and in the future, keeping consumers on the cutting edge of the [latest fad].
"Around the world, PC users associate the [insert name here] brand with the highest PC performance, compatibility and quality available," said Pam Pollace, vice president, Intel Sales and Marketing Group, and director, Worldwide Marketing Operations. "Computer users will be able to instantly recognize the Pentium® [version] processor as Intel's newest high-performance microprocessor."
The Intel Pentium® [version] processor logo will become part of the Intel Inside® program, the largest co-opted advertising program in the world.
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
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Dodge, a perfect example!
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Apple: "Think Different"
Dodge: "Dodge. Different."
Intel: "Pentium Different"
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Yes, the legal system should be changed to prevent this kind of frivolous litigation. Unfortunately corporate lawyers are encouraged to file lawsuits on behalf of their respective corporations - even when they know that such lawsuits are baseless and stupid.
So here's a thought: Isn't the threat of a lawsuit a form of assault or threat? We live in a culture and economy which lives and dies by the dollar. To threaten a relatively defenseless individual with legal action is tantamount to threatening to harm them. The legal system should be altered so that individuals have legal remedies when they are bullied this way.
For example, the owner of The Dialectizer should be able to sue the Bank of America for the very act of making a frivolous threat. The corporation would then have to provide an appropriate redress, paying The Dialectizer's legal fees and paying damages for causing the site owner to suffer, etc...
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