Colby Cosh has a very interesting post on this issue (despite being a Canuck, and subject to the ban.) Sample:
...if a ban doesn't work in practice... it can't meet Oakes.[a test of 'constitutionality' under Canadian law.]...it would actively help free the hands of Canadian webloggers and reporters if our foreign cousins were to be aggressive about "publishing" the substance of the Brault testimony outside the reach of Canadian law.
You can also look
into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between
mp3 players never before fantasized. And for the suit that has
everything, Executve Pong.
'All the best hackers I know are
gradually switching to Macs.'
Then why isn't Openstep more popular? Is it that if you have a Mac you don't need it? Or is it because most of the 'switchers' are recent converts, and Openstep will pick up in popularity for their non-Apple systems later?
I'm sure it's not. There are other things (like the ability to touch-type) that I'm sure play into it, but those things are pretty much given if you're typing any faster than X WPM (I'm not sure what X is, exactly. Let's say 40.)
Also, typing speed would cause general errors, not homophones
Not necessarily. My experience is that keyboarding errors (like 'teh') are pretty constant up until the point I hit my typing stride. If I try to type faster than I'm able to, they'll shoot way up. Homophonic mistakes almost never appear when I'm laboring over a difficult bit of writing, yet they creep in when I'm well within my typing speed limit.
Similarly, homophonic mistakes almost never appear in my (slow) handwriting. I don't know stenography, so I don't have personal experience with a high-speed writing system. (Of course, every stenographic system that I'm aware of is based on phonics. Coincidence? )
Is this really common? I thought it was just me. It's only been
happening over the last couple of years.
And how long have you been blogging?
I've never seen anything written on this, but (as the responses here indicate) it does happen. People who would never confuse "it's" and "its" when writing something out in longhand will make that mistake if they're dashing off a 60WPM riposte on Slashdot. Typing speed seems to be the critical factor.
It's a "thousand" typed by someone who types faster than you:) Beginning typists tend to make errors based on the proximity of keys (pwned) or transposition (teh). Experienced typists tend to make homophonic mistakes (there/their), prob. because typing is more nearly akin to talking for them.
To bring this back to topic: The kid had it coming.
an iPod user has
the least reason to switch, as Apple has done such a good job of
making iTunes work
That's the hook, actually. Joe Windows thinks, "Oh, this iTunes thing is slick." Now, instead of thinking of Apple as some has-been computer manufacturer, he's thinking of them as a company that does slick hardware and software. Next time he's looking for a computer, he's more likely to give a Mac a look.
Now when
writing your next email, you can feel like a disk jockey:
You got me thinking... How cool would it be to have a desktop click wheel? It could even be shaped like a little turntable with an LP. Not sure how the functionality would be mapped to the Finder interface, but it'd look cool.
Yes. If I put out a book called 33 pages which consists of 33 blank
pages, then you could sue me for copyright infringement.
I don't think so. You can't copyright a title, so that's not covered. Ditto for number of pages. I think the only way he'd have a case is if the cover art was too similar...
Google for 'mac osx rootkit' turns up about 3000 hits, the top being
an osx rootkit.
That rootkit doesn't sound too scary: This is the initial Public Release of the OS X RootKit. This type of rootkit should be easy to defend against if you really care about your computer. Keep your system up to date and patched.
Most of the other hits are references to the Opener trojan.
Let's try Windows: Results 1 - 10 of about 87,500 for windows rootkit Top result? Rootkit A program for hacking root.
Slashdot Mirror
Colby Cosh has a very interesting post on this issue (despite being a Canuck, and subject to the ban.) Sample:
Next year, ONE April Fools story. Got that? ONE! Maybe that way you'll put some thought into making it Funny/Insightful/WorthFsckingReading.
You can link to everyone else's cleverness in a Slashback (remember those?) style roundup.
That is all. Carry on.
You can also look into the new iPod accessory iCopulate which allows intimacy between mp3 players never before fantasized. And for the suit that has everything, Executve Pong.
BoingBoing had this yesterday. :-P
maybee after she got her sidekicked hacked...
She got Nicole hacked? That's hot.
Here's the next joke article:
*Groan* I forgot what day it was... the longest day of the year for slashdot readers...
This is just a typical shitty slashdot writeup.
Worse than typical: "225 hours instead of a 500k fine." Subject? Verb? Anyone? Bueller?
Do you pronounce that "Mac OS Ex" or "Mac OS Ten"? Most people I know use the former, but the latter also makes sense...
The Apple folks say 'ten' (I think because 'Ex' can have negative implications) but everyone I know says 'Ex' (prob. b/c it sounds a bit cooler.)
'All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs.'
Then why isn't Openstep more popular? Is it that if you have a Mac you don't need it? Or is it because most of the 'switchers' are recent converts, and Openstep will pick up in popularity for their non-Apple systems later?
THe homophones seem to occur at any speed,
Of course, you might just have a problem with homophones...
That can't be all there is to it.
I'm sure it's not. There are other things (like the ability to touch-type) that I'm sure play into it, but those things are pretty much given if you're typing any faster than X WPM (I'm not sure what X is, exactly. Let's say 40.)
Also, typing speed would cause general errors, not homophones
Not necessarily. My experience is that keyboarding errors (like 'teh') are pretty constant up until the point I hit my typing stride. If I try to type faster than I'm able to, they'll shoot way up. Homophonic mistakes almost never appear when I'm laboring over a difficult bit of writing, yet they creep in when I'm well within my typing speed limit.
Similarly, homophonic mistakes almost never appear in my (slow) handwriting. I don't know stenography, so I don't have personal experience with a high-speed writing system. (Of course, every stenographic system that I'm aware of is based on phonics. Coincidence? )
Is this really common? I thought it was just me. It's only been happening over the last couple of years.
And how long have you been blogging?
I've never seen anything written on this, but (as the responses here indicate) it does happen. People who would never confuse "it's" and "its" when writing something out in longhand will make that mistake if they're dashing off a 60WPM riposte on Slashdot. Typing speed seems to be the critical factor.
WTF is a "thowsand"?
It's a "thousand" typed by someone who types faster than you :) Beginning typists tend to make errors based on the proximity of keys (pwned) or transposition (teh). Experienced typists tend to make homophonic mistakes (there/their), prob. because typing is more nearly akin to talking for them.
To bring this back to topic: The kid had it coming.
and already the site is 404
Not to me, but I use lynx and seem to have less problems with overloaded servers.
Anyway, from TFA: Also planned for the release, due out next year, is F-Spot, a personal photo management application.
What are they going to call the next version? ;-)
it is a simple change in the NetInfo Manager to go from tsch to bash.
Yes, and you'll have to change it yourself if you've upgrade to Panther from a previous version of OS X. (Unless you prefer tcsh, of course.)
You can also change it via the terminal, as someone else has pointed out.
an iPod user has the least reason to switch, as Apple has done such a good job of making iTunes work
That's the hook, actually. Joe Windows thinks, "Oh, this iTunes thing is slick." Now, instead of thinking of Apple as some has-been computer manufacturer, he's thinking of them as a company that does slick hardware and software. Next time he's looking for a computer, he's more likely to give a Mac a look.
Now when writing your next email, you can feel like a disk jockey:
You got me thinking... How cool would it be to have a desktop click wheel? It could even be shaped like a little turntable with an LP. Not sure how the functionality would be mapped to the Finder interface, but it'd look cool.
Yes. If I put out a book called 33 pages which consists of 33 blank pages, then you could sue me for copyright infringement.
I don't think so. You can't copyright a title, so that's not covered. Ditto for number of pages. I think the only way he'd have a case is if the cover art was too similar...
BTW, IANAL
it is dumb to sell "songs" that are actually nothing more than silence. i think that is pretty ridiculous.
Not at all! Have you never been talking in a bar when the jukebox starts blaring? I would have loved to been able to buy a minute of silence!
Forbidden in Germany and restricting the freedom of speech are..., glorification of violence, ...
They don't have video games or action movies in Germany?
Read More... | 6 bytes in body
Six more bytes? I HAD to click through...
Actually, this is the great promise of grid computing. Once it becomes ubiquitous, people will stop trying to imagine Beowulf clusters!
Of course, Soviet Russia broke up, and we still hear about that...
Google for 'mac osx rootkit' turns up about 3000 hits, the top being an osx rootkit.
That rootkit doesn't sound too scary: This is the initial Public Release of the OS X RootKit. This type of rootkit should be easy to defend against if you really care about your computer. Keep your system up to date and patched.
Most of the other hits are references to the Opener trojan.
Let's try Windows: Results 1 - 10 of about 87,500 for windows rootkit Top result? Rootkit A program for hacking root.
Endangered? Not here... ;-)
I would like to see a bill that prohibits congress from awkwardly wording bill names to create acronyms.
I agree. We can call it the No Acronyms May Exist act.
Wait...
No link to Popular Mechanics? They've had a web presence since '96 or so. Give them some love, editors.