Re:Hosting IRC is asking for a BSA 'investigation'
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IRC in the Dog House?
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Part of the reason Napster lost out was because the software did not provide "signficant non-infringment uses", as would be required by historical cases (VCRs).
I think most legitimate IRC servers could argue this point and win.
We use that at my university for housing employees. Of course, because of the number of employees we have, Kronos is making us buy 500 more liscences for the 30 more people we have that need access (I don't know the current numbers, but I'm pretty sure the number total is probably around 150).
So, I'm still stuck with paper timecards until either Kronos pulls its head out of its ass, or the Uni comes up with something better.
Every time the space shuttle launches, there is a risk. You're riding an explosion out to the sky. Personally, that would make me feel rather unsafe.
We have a very brave group of people who are willing to risk their lives going up in it, but that doesn't make it safe. Even the good track record the space program has still had setbacks - see Challenger. See Apollo 1. See the recent space shuttle explosion.
This is a thin (think slice of paper here), hard to see, easily defendable position in the deep Pacific. Even if it does come down, it's not likely to do much damage (although I'm not sure how much "not much" is, simply because it hasn't been decided how thick this thing will be), and it's in the middle of nowhere.
There's lots of towns in Montana, but none of them get hit by much terrorism: They're not visible enough. This wouldn't be either.
Terrorist threats are not the issue here. Dont' make them the issue.
The benefits are the same as have always been in the space program, only with a much lower startup cost.
Many of the benefits of space do not come from advances in rocket engines or anything like that, they come from spinoffs of the space program.
Tools designed to examine telescope photos for any variety of things have been converted for use in medical uses: the MRI is a simple example of this.
Hand tools were first developed for the Apollo space missions.
Pretty much anything involving miniaturization has its roots, at some point, in the space program.
The space program has a wide range of benefits that many people will never realize, however, everywhere you go, there they are. Whether it be benefits in the medical field, or benefits in other fields, space has always benefited us.
The space elevator simply takes the cost of getting to space out of the space program. Rather than spending almost all of your energy getting out of the gravity well, you spend it out in space where it belongs. You can easily bring materials and supplies into space, and with the ISS going up now... that's something that will be needed.
Which would you prefer - costly, dangerous shuttle trips for the next umpteen years, or an easy, safe, fairly cheap (aside from startup cost) transport to the stars?
That was always what I thought as well. If a human can read it without any prompting, why can't a spambot?
Then again, I have always used that method of hiding my email address for newsgroup postings, despite the fact that I thought it wouldn't really work. Good to know that it does, I suppose.
I'm actually interested in how well spambots deal with something like the email address listed at this page listing my contact info. Do they parse html info and realize that this is just a normal email address in a table, or is that confusing enough that they don't see it?
To be honest, most of the people who do understand higher math also have to pull out the calculators.
My Calculus teacher always told us he was going to have to start an "arithmetic for calc students" class. We'd get the calc right, and then we'd screw up in adding 3+2.
Then again, maybe we're all just idiots.
Re:Thank you for sharing!
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Google Hacks
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The Internet has always been a place for those among us who feel the need to share the meaningless tidbits of our lives to do so.
Weblogs? Whose crazy idea was that? Just somebody who thought he could write a bit of information that other people might want to read.
People have always and will always use the Internet to share information that other people don't care about. 99% of the internet is crap. If it wasn't, why would we need books on how to search the internet to get past the crap?
Personally, I enjoy sharing my little sections of life. I enjoy telling other people about what I had for lunch, where I was last night, what my opinion is on the schooling system at UIUC. I enjoy reading the daily struggles and tribulations of several dozen other people who I've formed groups with online.
I use a journal to track my own life as well as keeping track of others, and I enjoy it. I enjoy the escape it provides, and I enjoy the communcation tool it has become for me.
But most of all, when I see a book on the internet that I want to buy, I enjoy being able to wander over to my journal and posting about it.
Hey, even/. offers a journal feature, doesn't it?
That's what I thought.
Re:Hey wait a minute...
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Google Hacks
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Personally, I've always found this to be the case. As long as I properly term my searches, I've never had problems with finding sites.
Occasionally I throw full questions at Google, or a full sentence, and see what it makes of it, just for fun. It's generally pretty good.
The only problem I have is that it cuts out my words sometimes, then I have to go back and use quotes. Quite annoying in the limited cases it doest happen.
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Part of the reason Napster lost out was because the software did not provide "signficant non-infringment uses", as would be required by historical cases (VCRs). I think most legitimate IRC servers could argue this point and win.
A few screenshots up at this site show the game in action - nothing major though.
A few nice servers running, one with 5 players right now. Looks like a nice game.
We use that at my university for housing employees. Of course, because of the number of employees we have, Kronos is making us buy 500 more liscences for the 30 more people we have that need access (I don't know the current numbers, but I'm pretty sure the number total is probably around 150). So, I'm still stuck with paper timecards until either Kronos pulls its head out of its ass, or the Uni comes up with something better.
Every time the space shuttle launches, there is a risk. You're riding an explosion out to the sky. Personally, that would make me feel rather unsafe.
We have a very brave group of people who are willing to risk their lives going up in it, but that doesn't make it safe. Even the good track record the space program has still had setbacks - see Challenger. See Apollo 1. See the recent space shuttle explosion.
This is a thin (think slice of paper here), hard to see, easily defendable position in the deep Pacific. Even if it does come down, it's not likely to do much damage (although I'm not sure how much "not much" is, simply because it hasn't been decided how thick this thing will be), and it's in the middle of nowhere.
There's lots of towns in Montana, but none of them get hit by much terrorism: They're not visible enough. This wouldn't be either.
Terrorist threats are not the issue here. Dont' make them the issue.
The benefits are the same as have always been in the space program, only with a much lower startup cost.
Many of the benefits of space do not come from advances in rocket engines or anything like that, they come from spinoffs of the space program.
Tools designed to examine telescope photos for any variety of things have been converted for use in medical uses: the MRI is a simple example of this.
Hand tools were first developed for the Apollo space missions.
Pretty much anything involving miniaturization has its roots, at some point, in the space program.
The space program has a wide range of benefits that many people will never realize, however, everywhere you go, there they are. Whether it be benefits in the medical field, or benefits in other fields, space has always benefited us.
The space elevator simply takes the cost of getting to space out of the space program. Rather than spending almost all of your energy getting out of the gravity well, you spend it out in space where it belongs. You can easily bring materials and supplies into space, and with the ISS going up now... that's something that will be needed.
Which would you prefer - costly, dangerous shuttle trips for the next umpteen years, or an easy, safe, fairly cheap (aside from startup cost) transport to the stars?
I know my choice.
That was always what I thought as well. If a human can read it without any prompting, why can't a spambot?
Then again, I have always used that method of hiding my email address for newsgroup postings, despite the fact that I thought it wouldn't really work. Good to know that it does, I suppose.
I'm actually interested in how well spambots deal with something like the email address listed at this page listing my contact info. Do they parse html info and realize that this is just a normal email address in a table, or is that confusing enough that they don't see it?
I had an AE-1 Program I used in a photo class last semester. I think that camera took pictures for me: Never before have I taken so many good shots.
To be honest, most of the people who do understand higher math also have to pull out the calculators.
My Calculus teacher always told us he was going to have to start an "arithmetic for calc students" class. We'd get the calc right, and then we'd screw up in adding 3+2.
Then again, maybe we're all just idiots.
The Internet has always been a place for those among us who feel the need to share the meaningless tidbits of our lives to do so.
/. offers a journal feature, doesn't it?
Weblogs? Whose crazy idea was that? Just somebody who thought he could write a bit of information that other people might want to read.
People have always and will always use the Internet to share information that other people don't care about. 99% of the internet is crap. If it wasn't, why would we need books on how to search the internet to get past the crap?
Personally, I enjoy sharing my little sections of life. I enjoy telling other people about what I had for lunch, where I was last night, what my opinion is on the schooling system at UIUC. I enjoy reading the daily struggles and tribulations of several dozen other people who I've formed groups with online.
I use a journal to track my own life as well as keeping track of others, and I enjoy it. I enjoy the escape it provides, and I enjoy the communcation tool it has become for me.
But most of all, when I see a book on the internet that I want to buy, I enjoy being able to wander over to my journal and posting about it.
Hey, even
That's what I thought.
Personally, I've always found this to be the case. As long as I properly term my searches, I've never had problems with finding sites. Occasionally I throw full questions at Google, or a full sentence, and see what it makes of it, just for fun. It's generally pretty good. The only problem I have is that it cuts out my words sometimes, then I have to go back and use quotes. Quite annoying in the limited cases it doest happen.