You'd expect this of the Bay area (I assume you mean SF bay, since LA is a bay, also)? You'd expect this in the home of Xerox PARC, Oracle, Apple, PDI, Pixar, Lawrence Livermore, and Cisco? You really expect a high level of gullibility and ignorance here? This is where you have the highest concentrations of geeks and/. readers in the entire state. I'm not sure what happened to Berkeley, but hey -- she bangs, she bangs!
Just because one of the city council members has a degree from Stanford (a) doesn't mean they are broadly educated, and (b) doesn't mean they were an advocate of the proposed ban.
Back when I was a clueless newbie, years ago, I set up a server, innocently leaving it as an open relay (this was the base configuration for Sendmail at that time). Within a few weeks, I got irate messages from people being spammed, some of whom, fortunately, included an informative snippet from one of the blackhole servers that told me what the problem was. I secured my servers, and I have learned to periodically check the open relay testers when I do reconfiguration (to make sure I didn't miss anything).
What most cable modem people don't realize when they connect to a broadband line is that every one of them is potentially a server, capable of spewing all kinds of crap. They see a machine on their desk, not really grokking its connectedness to the rest of the world, and that that connectedness is a two-way street.
As for rights, it's no different from using the public highways, except that the possible consequence to the public of ignorance is only monetary, not fatal. If they won't take the responsibility to educate themselves, then somebody else has to do it for them, or "take them off the road."
While cleaning up my spam traps this morning, about 1/3 of it was from attbi.com and comcast.com. They need to climb down the ladder a ways, and start looking seriously at those who are only sending out maybe 10,000 emails a day. It should be easy to identify and whitelist those who are legitimately running very busy mailing lists, and detect which are unwitting spam fountains.
I am amused by all the people who are saying "I dumped my unreliable IBM drives. I'll never use IBM again!! I am sticking -- to MAXTOR!" My own experience with Maxtor makes this sound to me like saying "I'm dumping my crappy Camry and sticking to Yugo from now on!"
I've seen many Maxtor failures, SCSI & IDE both, which is why it was very disturbing when they bought Quantum. Did that make their whole line reliable? I doubt it, since I've seen two drives fail badly since then (friends, not mine).
Onceuponatime, it was Seagate that everybody was saying "I'll never use again!" about, then they bought CDC, and suddenly they were the hallmark of reliability. It seems like all companies have a few lemons from time to time that make their reputation sour.
So for those of you saying you'll avoid Hitachi like the plague, just remember, your favorite brand is probably one that used to be known as "avoid this like the plague." Which is how I still feel about Maxtor.
Of course, with the theories about MS being behind SCO's campaign, and SCO attacking itself to gain sympathy, it's obvious Microsoft isn't calling the shots. Nothing has hurt MS in the market more than the easy proliferation of viruses and owned machines.
All fluorescents have ballasts. They have to, because a gas discharge tube is a dead short across the mains, so something MUST limit the current. The ballast in a CF is inside that bulky base that keeps them from fitting into many fixtures that are designed for Edison bulbs. It's also what makes them so much more expensive than full-size fluorescent tubes. It's also what usually dies when they are put into closed fixtures that trap heat.
I've run calculations on the difference between fluorescents and LEDs, and the LEDs do come out worse in lumens per watt, but it's a lot easier to run them from low voltage, and limiting non-reactive current is much easier.
Full-size FL lights are just as good at color rendering (or better) than CF lights, which is why many photographers use them for studio lighting (I'm an artist, and I use 160 Watts of fluorescent for work lighting). I've never seen a comparison (or even a claim) of color rendering for LEDs.
...if any of those tracking tools would work against someone who only reads their Email with MUTT on a text console? Heck, even when people send me legitimate attachments, I have to save them to look at them (no X client).
It sucks less.
Lasix does nothing for performance. It is to reduce the incidence of bleeding in the esophagus. In fact, because it lowers blood pressure, it might slightly impair performance (but not so much as breathing blood would). Bute is not a painkiller, but is an anti-inflammatory, much like an NSAID. When human athletes are barred for life for taking aspirin before a race, I'll accept that American racing is a haven for performance drugs.
Being concerned about security AFTER pictures are posted to the internet is ludicrous. Every place I've been where security was an issue, cameras were banned (as were recording devices of any kind), and employees had to submit to search in order to ensure that the policy was being obeyed. To state that security is the reason for his firing after the fact smacks of an arbitrary application of policy. Will they now ban cameras in that area that has been stated as a "secure" area? Somehow I seriously doubt it.
Does anybody believe that if he had taken a picture of a pallet of X-boxes being shipped out, and said "Praise Be to the Glory of Microsoft!" that he would have been fired? I know I don't.
Yeah, this was obviously written by somebody who has never BEEN an Executive Secretary (or administrative assistant or whatever). You try telling your boss that what he wants today is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what he wanted last week and see how far it gets you. In order to REALLY bury your job be sure to keep notes and feed his own words back to him.
Given the RIAA's hamhanded mafioso tactics in the past, I can predict two things:
1) Indy musicians sharing their own catalog will get sued, because of the "excessive" numbers of MP3s on their websites. This will bankrupt many of them as they try to prove that they own what they created. Anybody want to place bets on the RIAA's accuracy, focus and integrity? After all, these are the people who lay claim to all music produced by anybody anywhere. If just creating a search engine that MIGHT be used to find files that MIGHT contain music can cost you your life's savings, imagine what actually creating unauthorized music files using your own TALENT could cost!
2) RIAA software geniuses will be unable to find music files cleverly hidden in the OGG format (at least until somebody whacks them with a clue stick)
Every time I tried using WordPerfect, I'd end up deleting the invisible </B> code...
Codes in WP are paired. There's no way to delete an ending code without deleting the opening code. The result of deleting the ending bold code (which is <b> not </B> would be to unbold what's to the left of it. You might have had this problem in WordStar, or HTML, but it can't happen in WordPerfect.
If Word allowed reveal codes, you'd see just how much crap is hidden in your document (which is why Word documents grow infinetely, the more they are edited), and it would be a lot easier to debug formatting problems.
Word only uses an Object-Attribute model if you strictly use Styles. I find the paragraph style notes to the left of text display in Chapter Edit mode very useful in Pagemaker. Something of that sort would be a real boon to Open Office.
Well, like any language, it gets easier when you learn the idioms, rather than trying to speak another language using the syntax of your native language. A little intelligence will always create more compact and elegant code than a generic code-munger. That's why nobody who speaks sign language uses finger-spelling (unless there's no option).
What's wrong with:
sub MyFunction{print "$_[0]\n$_[1]"}
Not very versatile, but that was the routine specified.
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Darl McBride files suit against Louisiana Tech, saying "This is one more example of how SCO innovation has been misappropriated."
You'd expect this of the Bay area (I assume you mean SF bay, since LA is a bay, also)? You'd expect this in the home of Xerox PARC, Oracle, Apple, PDI, Pixar, Lawrence Livermore, and Cisco? You really expect a high level of gullibility and ignorance here? This is where you have the highest concentrations of geeks and /. readers in the entire state. I'm not sure what happened to Berkeley, but hey -- she bangs, she bangs!
Just because one of the city council members has a degree from Stanford (a) doesn't mean they are broadly educated, and (b) doesn't mean they were an advocate of the proposed ban.
What does "CHA" mean?
Back when I was a clueless newbie, years ago, I set up a server, innocently leaving it as an open relay (this was the base configuration for Sendmail at that time). Within a few weeks, I got irate messages from people being spammed, some of whom, fortunately, included an informative snippet from one of the blackhole servers that told me what the problem was. I secured my servers, and I have learned to periodically check the open relay testers when I do reconfiguration (to make sure I didn't miss anything).
What most cable modem people don't realize when they connect to a broadband line is that every one of them is potentially a server, capable of spewing all kinds of crap. They see a machine on their desk, not really grokking its connectedness to the rest of the world, and that that connectedness is a two-way street.
As for rights, it's no different from using the public highways, except that the possible consequence to the public of ignorance is only monetary, not fatal. If they won't take the responsibility to educate themselves, then somebody else has to do it for them, or "take them off the road."
While cleaning up my spam traps this morning, about 1/3 of it was from attbi.com and comcast.com. They need to climb down the ladder a ways, and start looking seriously at those who are only sending out maybe 10,000 emails a day. It should be easy to identify and whitelist those who are legitimately running very busy mailing lists, and detect which are unwitting spam fountains.
I am amused by all the people who are saying "I dumped my unreliable IBM drives. I'll never use IBM again!! I am sticking -- to MAXTOR!" My own experience with Maxtor makes this sound to me like saying "I'm dumping my crappy Camry and sticking to Yugo from now on!" I've seen many Maxtor failures, SCSI & IDE both, which is why it was very disturbing when they bought Quantum. Did that make their whole line reliable? I doubt it, since I've seen two drives fail badly since then (friends, not mine).
Onceuponatime, it was Seagate that everybody was saying "I'll never use again!" about, then they bought CDC, and suddenly they were the hallmark of reliability. It seems like all companies have a few lemons from time to time that make their reputation sour.
So for those of you saying you'll avoid Hitachi like the plague, just remember, your favorite brand is probably one that used to be known as "avoid this like the plague." Which is how I still feel about Maxtor.
Of course, with the theories about MS being behind SCO's campaign, and SCO attacking itself to gain sympathy, it's obvious Microsoft isn't calling the shots. Nothing has hurt MS in the market more than the easy proliferation of viruses and owned machines.
All fluorescents have ballasts. They have to, because a gas discharge tube is a dead short across the mains, so something MUST limit the current. The ballast in a CF is inside that bulky base that keeps them from fitting into many fixtures that are designed for Edison bulbs. It's also what makes them so much more expensive than full-size fluorescent tubes. It's also what usually dies when they are put into closed fixtures that trap heat. I've run calculations on the difference between fluorescents and LEDs, and the LEDs do come out worse in lumens per watt, but it's a lot easier to run them from low voltage, and limiting non-reactive current is much easier. Full-size FL lights are just as good at color rendering (or better) than CF lights, which is why many photographers use them for studio lighting (I'm an artist, and I use 160 Watts of fluorescent for work lighting). I've never seen a comparison (or even a claim) of color rendering for LEDs.
...if any of those tracking tools would work against someone who only reads their Email with MUTT on a text console? Heck, even when people send me legitimate attachments, I have to save them to look at them (no X client). It sucks less.
Lasix does nothing for performance. It is to reduce the incidence of bleeding in the esophagus. In fact, because it lowers blood pressure, it might slightly impair performance (but not so much as breathing blood would). Bute is not a painkiller, but is an anti-inflammatory, much like an NSAID. When human athletes are barred for life for taking aspirin before a race, I'll accept that American racing is a haven for performance drugs.
Being concerned about security AFTER pictures are posted to the internet is ludicrous. Every place I've been where security was an issue, cameras were banned (as were recording devices of any kind), and employees had to submit to search in order to ensure that the policy was being obeyed. To state that security is the reason for his firing after the fact smacks of an arbitrary application of policy. Will they now ban cameras in that area that has been stated as a "secure" area? Somehow I seriously doubt it.
Does anybody believe that if he had taken a picture of a pallet of X-boxes being shipped out, and said "Praise Be to the Glory of Microsoft!" that he would have been fired? I know I don't.
Yeah, this was obviously written by somebody who has never BEEN an Executive Secretary (or administrative assistant or whatever). You try telling your boss that what he wants today is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of what he wanted last week and see how far it gets you. In order to REALLY bury your job be sure to keep notes and feed his own words back to him.
Given the RIAA's hamhanded mafioso tactics in the past, I can predict two things:
1) Indy musicians sharing their own catalog will get sued, because of the "excessive" numbers of MP3s on their websites. This will bankrupt many of them as they try to prove that they own what they created. Anybody want to place bets on the RIAA's accuracy, focus and integrity? After all, these are the people who lay claim to all music produced by anybody anywhere. If just creating a search engine that MIGHT be used to find files that MIGHT contain music can cost you your life's savings, imagine what actually creating unauthorized music files using your own TALENT could cost!
2) RIAA software geniuses will be unable to find music files cleverly hidden in the OGG format (at least until somebody whacks them with a clue stick)
Way to go, RIAA!
Every time I tried using WordPerfect, I'd end up deleting the invisible </B> code...
Codes in WP are paired. There's no way to delete an ending code without deleting the opening code. The result of deleting the ending bold code (which is <b> not </B> would be to unbold what's to the left of it. You might have had this problem in WordStar, or HTML, but it can't happen in WordPerfect.
If Word allowed reveal codes, you'd see just how much crap is hidden in your document (which is why Word documents grow infinetely, the more they are edited), and it would be a lot easier to debug formatting problems.
Word only uses an Object-Attribute model if you strictly use Styles. I find the paragraph style notes to the left of text display in Chapter Edit mode very useful in Pagemaker. Something of that sort would be a real boon to Open Office.
Well, like any language, it gets easier when you learn the idioms, rather than trying to speak another language using the syntax of your native language. A little intelligence will always create more compact and elegant code than a generic code-munger. That's why nobody who speaks sign language uses finger-spelling (unless there's no option).
What's wrong with:
sub MyFunction{print "$_[0]\n$_[1]"}
Not very versatile, but that was the routine specified.