I use godaddy, directnic, and stargateinc for registering several sites. godaddy has the cheapest rates by far, so that is where I will eventually transfer all of my domains. I do my own hosting and dns, so there's no worry about ip addresses.
When I first got on the web, I hosted some sites on directnic, and they SUCKED. They inserted ads into my pages, very poorly done too, so I couldn't validate my pages. When I decided to switch to my own hosting, the bastards removed my whole site instantly with no warning - they didn't even give me two days for the dns changes to propagate, so I was off the net for a while.
Another "feature" of go-daddy is their willingness to play rough. They were one of the first to sue verisign for their site-finder "service", and I seem to remember them suing some other losers trying to ruin the internet. I don't know their motives, but they chose the right side, and that counts for something. $5 for a.us domain name doesn't hurt, either.
Use an exacto knife, scrape the rollers, hope the junk falls out. I do this pretty regularly, and when I tell others about it, they lament on all the mice they've replaced over the years. Usually they can be saved quite easily. When I switched to an optical mouse, problem solved, except that the accuracy sucked and I couldn't use it on my glass table. Oh well, gotta get back to scraping my mouse. Thanks for the reminder, and editors: what were you thinking?
In order to process your application for assistance,
it must be certified as being translated correctly by an approved translation program, such as the easy to use and inexpensive Windoze Triple OT.NUT sucker servant obfuscating cistern with patented translation technology. Unauthorized (pirated) translations will be returned via cruise missle.
I like your sig... I heard the joke before, but it ended like this:... and the three most powerful men in the world are named bush, d1ck, and colin.
Please excuse off-topic post, but I had no other way of responding to you.
Because of hackers and free thinkers, email can be dangerous to the company. My god, emails could come from just about anyone! They might even come from someone who is not paying the company a damn penny to send the email! Better yet, my phone only charges for outgoing emails... so a user who uses crontab to send email reminders, procmail to forward interesting words from incoming emails, or a free web-form-email-based pager program to get small messages from friends gets all that functionality for free (with their paid cell phone contract from AT&T and some ingenuity). It's better for the company to stick to proprietary communications solutions completely under their control, so as to be able to charge for each bit they allow to reach you. Oh yeah, they also need to convince you that the tried and true, effective, standard, indispensable and ubiquitous thing called email is a niche market.
In the interests of full disclosure, I wrote the pager url above, and my dad used to work for AT&T. I'm reluctantly willing to endure the onslaught of weird messages to my cellphone (user=Peter only - please do not harrass my other users who don't opt for anonymity) for the opportinity to share and stress test my free pager service. Better yet, create an account for yourself or friends and harrass them instead.
I sure hope that all of you nasty hackers are fined and jailed! This interview is copyrighted material, and by decrypting certain portions of the interview you may be commiting an illegal act under the DMCA. Have a nice day:)
Microsoft's Most Generous Contribution.
on
Inside the Tuna Can
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I know no facts, this is conjecture: They say the project is funded by Microsoft, which is only a fraction of the story. I'd guess there are a couple of people working on this project, and a hell of a lot of computer time. Figure $100-200k per person (includes pay, tuition, university claimed overhead, etc). Figure $50-100k for the computers or computer time (including costs for administrator?). Microsoft's contribution is nothing, and in reality is probably "market value of zero cost donated software", with a possible condition or expectation that the pretty fish tanks have prettier butterflies pasted onto the corners. That said, the project is real cool, and does have scientific merit in my opinion, as the goal is modeling the actual movement mechanism of fish in a virtual 3-D tank. The
added benefit is the projection to 2-D on the corridor walls. And by the way, we're talking a very small section of the corridor, right?
Clause 9 in the GPL has a statement about applying "any later version" of the GPL to a work by a modifier of the original. Granted, the original author has to explicitly state this or not select a version number in the first place. I don't believe the "similar in spirit" phrase carries any legal weight. What is to prevent the FSF from being subverted and releasing licenses which effectively makes most GNU software BSD-like (or worse), thereby giving a huge advantage to the proprietary competition?
This looks to me like an image of an ordinary star saturating the ccd (the cross), with some small portion of the exposure time suffering from a tracking problem (the diagonal smear). Many telescopes have a cross-shaped support for the imaging device within the light path, and what results is a cross-shaped diffraction peak around bright stars. Or, saturation of the pixels under a bright image bleeds out along the principal directions of the ccd. Notice how the cross is aligned with the up and down directions of the image?
Stealing boxes of tea off a ship and throwing them into Boston Harbor was a criminal act, but today we in America view it as morally justified, because it was in protest of "taxation without representation" by the British. Is Serebryany's act morally justified as well? The technology described in the papers he stole will be used to prevent you from freely viewing movies which are up to and over 70 years old. The writers of our constitution would certainly have had a problem with this. They said a copyright should be 14 years (I think), or at least "for a limited time". Serebryany committed an illegal act, which we should all view as morally justified,
since it was directed against technology designed to repress our constitutional freedoms. FREE SEREBRYANY! This is the reason, I believe, why this post belongs in the "your rights online" section.
type of spam. I sure hope I don't start getting unsolicited emails like "INCREASE YOUR LIBIDO with processed meat", "LOSE WEIGHT with artificial meat", OR "REFINANCE YOUR HOME to invest in fantastic meat invention". I just can't handle spam about spam. Please.
Here's a real mystery which we still can't figure out: Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer space probes. This one, like the dark energy problem, hints at fundamental problems with our view of the universe.
Let's get at the crux of the issue - why do we fear the inevitable erosion of our privacy? Because we feel our laws are unjust, and we don't want to be caught breaking them. Maybe if we fix some of our laws, privacy will remain an issue only for prudes and violent criminals. Someone will always have a tool to violate your privacy.
We must ensure there are reasonable laws protecting your private information, and lessen the possibility the leaked information can be used against you.
Shame on those who replied rudely to this person! If this poster is for real, you might have just alienated him/her not only from you, but from your cause as well. All of us learn of these things for the first time, so relax and be informative instead of just angry.
Some random possibilities:
1. Blog excessively at work, get fired.
2. Work is slow, blog in spare time, both excuse for layoff.
3. Offensive or anti-employer blog, excuse for firing.
4. Already unemployed, bored, bogged down, blog.
5. Blog, post email address, receive spam, become unproductive from said spam, get fired.
6. Good technology worker, keeps up to date with slashdot blogs, has karma envy, must blog or feel inadequate, affects his performance at work, gets fired.
7. Blogging coder uses his own product, gets hooked, no time to create or deliver future merchandise, loses job
8. Bloggers criticize entrenched powers, who
give them a bad name through big media, leading
to negative view of bloggers, leading to layoffs for blogging.
9. The typical 50% random correlation between completely unrelated concepts such as unemployment and blogging, which many interpret falsely as a trend.
10. The above is a typical blog rant. BLOGGING GUARANTEES UNEMPLOYMENT! Anyone want to hire me? Prove me wrong, please.
I see one positive and many negatives, as
long as there is a winner in this battle
of the two titans over the masses. Of course the positive will take the form of negating a negative, so we're losers to begin or end with in any case.
Expand your mind!
Teleport the expanding nuclear fireball into
outer space. Teleport the cloud of vx gas into Redmond. For every problem technology introduces, two other problems are fixed, and further technology eliminates the originally introduced problem too.
That's the whole point. The creation of, the use of, and tinkering with technology is being made illegal. Sue adobe for trying to take away your rights, not me for pointing out the obvious. (yes, I know your post was just as serious as mine)
I was just about to release to the world the greatest invention ever, when I read Sklyarov's article, and that part about the lockpick possibly being illegal got to me! I realized a teleporter could be used to bypass shrink-wrap licenses, pop cd's out of thir unopened jewelbox vaults, or maybe even make "secure" adobe pdf documents useful (I haven't figured that one out yet, but it MAY be possible). Sorry, world! My lawyer has advised me to destroy all the evidence, make my lab notebooks useless by converting them to MS-WORD format, and additionally to re-format my brain to avoid any chance of this big-media-busting technology being used against me in court.
I'll believe it when the gadgets are in my hands.
Could it be that these announcements are just
used as bargaining chips during the regular meetings with the friendly software licensing department at Microsoft? This smells too much like the Home Depot fiasco reported in
slashback yesterday.
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I use godaddy, directnic, and stargateinc for registering several sites. godaddy has the cheapest rates by far, so that is where I will eventually transfer all of my domains. I do my own hosting and dns, so there's no worry about ip addresses. .us domain name doesn't hurt, either.
When I first got on the web, I hosted some sites on directnic, and they SUCKED. They inserted ads into my pages, very poorly done too, so I couldn't validate my pages. When I decided to switch to my own hosting, the bastards removed my whole site instantly with no warning - they didn't even give me two days for the dns changes to propagate, so I was off the net for a while.
Another "feature" of go-daddy is their willingness to play rough. They were one of the first to sue verisign for their site-finder "service", and I seem to remember them suing some other losers trying to ruin the internet. I don't know their motives, but they chose the right side, and that counts for something. $5 for a
Use an exacto knife, scrape the rollers, hope the junk falls out. I do this pretty regularly, and when I tell others about it, they lament on all the mice they've replaced over the years. Usually they can be saved quite easily. When I switched to an optical mouse, problem solved, except that the accuracy sucked and I couldn't use it on my glass table. Oh well, gotta get back to scraping my mouse. Thanks for the reminder, and editors: what were you thinking?
In order to process your application for assistance, it must be certified as being translated correctly by an approved translation program, such as the easy to use and inexpensive Windoze Triple OT .NUT sucker servant obfuscating cistern with patented translation technology. Unauthorized (pirated) translations will be returned via cruise missle.
I like your sig... I heard the joke before, but it ended like this: ... and the three most powerful men in the world are named bush, d1ck, and colin.
Please excuse off-topic post, but I had no other way of responding to you.
Because of hackers and free thinkers, email can be dangerous to the company. My god, emails could come from just about anyone! They might even come from someone who is not paying the company a damn penny to send the email! Better yet, my phone only charges for outgoing emails... so a user who uses crontab to send email reminders, procmail to forward interesting words from incoming emails, or a free web-form-email-based pager program to get small messages from friends gets all that functionality for free (with their paid cell phone contract from AT&T and some ingenuity). It's better for the company to stick to proprietary communications solutions completely under their control, so as to be able to charge for each bit they allow to reach you. Oh yeah, they also need to convince you that the tried and true, effective, standard, indispensable and ubiquitous thing called email is a niche market.
In the interests of full disclosure, I wrote the pager url above, and my dad used to work for AT&T. I'm reluctantly willing to endure the onslaught of weird messages to my cellphone (user=Peter only - please do not harrass my other users who don't opt for anonymity) for the opportinity to share and stress test my free pager service. Better yet, create an account for yourself or friends and harrass them instead.
I sure hope that all of you nasty hackers are fined and jailed! This interview is copyrighted material, and by decrypting certain portions of the interview you may be commiting an illegal act under the DMCA. Have a nice day :)
I know no facts, this is conjecture: They say the project is funded by Microsoft, which is only a fraction of the story. I'd guess there are a couple of people working on this project, and a hell of a lot of computer time. Figure $100-200k per person (includes pay, tuition, university claimed overhead, etc). Figure $50-100k for the computers or computer time (including costs for administrator?). Microsoft's contribution is nothing, and in reality is probably "market value of zero cost donated software", with a possible condition or expectation that the pretty fish tanks have prettier butterflies pasted onto the corners. That said, the project is real cool, and does have scientific merit in my opinion, as the goal is modeling the actual movement mechanism of fish in a virtual 3-D tank. The added benefit is the projection to 2-D on the corridor walls. And by the way, we're talking a very small section of the corridor, right?
Clause 9 in the GPL has a statement about applying "any later version" of the GPL to a work by a modifier of the original. Granted, the original author has to explicitly state this or not select a version number in the first place. I don't believe the "similar in spirit" phrase carries any legal weight. What is to prevent the FSF from being subverted and releasing licenses which effectively makes most GNU software BSD-like (or worse), thereby giving a huge advantage to the proprietary competition?
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This looks to me like an image of an ordinary star saturating the ccd (the cross), with some small portion of the exposure time suffering from a tracking problem (the diagonal smear). Many telescopes have a cross-shaped support for the imaging device within the light path, and what results is a cross-shaped diffraction peak around bright stars. Or, saturation of the pixels under a bright image bleeds out along the principal directions of the ccd. Notice how the cross is aligned with the up and down directions of the image?
Stealing boxes of tea off a ship and throwing them into Boston Harbor was a criminal act, but today we in America view it as morally justified, because it was in protest of "taxation without representation" by the British. Is Serebryany's act morally justified as well? The technology described in the papers he stole will be used to prevent you from freely viewing movies which are up to and over 70 years old. The writers of our constitution would certainly have had a problem with this. They said a copyright should be 14 years (I think), or at least "for a limited time". Serebryany committed an illegal act, which we should all view as morally justified, since it was directed against technology designed to repress our constitutional freedoms. FREE SEREBRYANY! This is the reason, I believe, why this post belongs in the "your rights online" section.
type of spam. I sure hope I don't start getting unsolicited emails like "INCREASE YOUR LIBIDO with processed meat", "LOSE WEIGHT with artificial meat", OR "REFINANCE YOUR HOME to invest in fantastic meat invention". I just can't handle spam about spam. Please.
Here's a real mystery which we still can't figure out: Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer space probes. This one, like the dark energy problem, hints at fundamental problems with our view of the universe.
Let's get at the crux of the issue - why do we fear the inevitable erosion of our privacy? Because we feel our laws are unjust, and we don't want to be caught breaking them. Maybe if we fix some of our laws, privacy will remain an issue only for prudes and violent criminals. Someone will always have a tool to violate your privacy. We must ensure there are reasonable laws protecting your private information, and lessen the possibility the leaked information can be used against you.
Shame on those who replied rudely to this person! If this poster is for real, you might have just alienated him/her not only from you, but from your cause as well. All of us learn of these things for the first time, so relax and be informative instead of just angry.
Some random possibilities:
1. Blog excessively at work, get fired.
2. Work is slow, blog in spare time, both excuse for layoff.
3. Offensive or anti-employer blog, excuse for firing.
4. Already unemployed, bored, bogged down, blog.
5. Blog, post email address, receive spam, become unproductive from said spam, get fired.
6. Good technology worker, keeps up to date with slashdot blogs, has karma envy, must blog or feel inadequate, affects his performance at work, gets fired.
7. Blogging coder uses his own product, gets hooked, no time to create or deliver future merchandise, loses job
8. Bloggers criticize entrenched powers, who give them a bad name through big media, leading to negative view of bloggers, leading to layoffs for blogging.
9. The typical 50% random correlation between completely unrelated concepts such as unemployment and blogging, which many interpret falsely as a trend.
10. The above is a typical blog rant. BLOGGING GUARANTEES UNEMPLOYMENT! Anyone want to hire me? Prove me wrong, please.
I see one positive and many negatives, as long as there is a winner in this battle of the two titans over the masses. Of course the positive will take the form of negating a negative, so we're losers to begin or end with in any case.
Expand your mind! Teleport the expanding nuclear fireball into outer space. Teleport the cloud of vx gas into Redmond. For every problem technology introduces, two other problems are fixed, and further technology eliminates the originally introduced problem too.
That's the whole point. The creation of, the use of, and tinkering with technology is being made illegal. Sue adobe for trying to take away your rights, not me for pointing out the obvious. (yes, I know your post was just as serious as mine)
I was just about to release to the world the greatest invention ever, when I read Sklyarov's
article, and that part about the lockpick possibly being illegal got to me! I realized a teleporter could be used to bypass shrink-wrap licenses, pop cd's out of thir unopened jewelbox vaults, or maybe even make "secure" adobe pdf documents useful (I haven't figured that one out yet, but it MAY be possible). Sorry, world! My lawyer has advised me to destroy all the evidence, make my lab notebooks useless by converting them to MS-WORD format, and additionally to re-format my brain to avoid any chance of this big-media-busting technology being used against me in court.
I'll believe it when the gadgets are in my hands. Could it be that these announcements are just used as bargaining chips during the regular meetings with the friendly software licensing department at Microsoft? This smells too much like the Home Depot fiasco reported in slashback yesterday.