I have ADB keyboards and my primary machine is a Blue & White G3 (upgraded to G4) that still has ADB ports and I still ordered two of these. Mainly because the machine is on a USB KVMA switch and I don't like having to keep so many keyboards around. And that it has a power key on the keyboard is a plus since I had to move the power switch of the B&W to make room for more internal drives than it was designed to accomodate. (The power switch on the G4 Cube's monitor, serving as the B&W's second display, won't start up the B&W.)
And as I have more ADB-only computers than I have ADB keyboards (are there any NuBus USB cards?), this will help that achieve balance. At least until I can get a good and affordable ADB KVM for them.
But I still have to have a PS/2 keyboard for the PC for some tasks like some Linux boot CDs that have queries that need answering before they've loaded USB drivers, and sometimes I can't wait the 15-30 seconds it takes for Windows XP to re-recognize returning USB devices.
Oh, I remember it. It consisted of the last line of an episode of Strange Luck where Chance Harper (a.k.a. Alex Saunders) is told this by his brother, Eric Saunders (a.k.a. Arthur Vandenberg):
"If anything happens to me that sounds suspicious and you hear about it, I'd like you to do me a favor and call a friend of mine. He works at the FBI. He's one of the only people I can really trust. His name is Mulder."
Nothing more came out of the crossover, and nothing more to substantiate it. However, it is a stronger crossover than a joke line from The Visitor where the agents' boss threatened to give their case over to two other agents "in the basement". Much like Chicago Hope making a comment about "that other hospital".
Still, The X-Files is part of the largest TV series connection I've ever seen: The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen (spinoff), Strange Luck (letter from Alex to Chance), Millennium (Frank Black on TX-F), Homicide: Life on the Street (Detective Munch), and Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Homicide: Life on the Street, and The Beat (other Det. Munch connections). The only one I've missed is the last, and that's because there was no UPN station in my area when it was on (technically there still isn't one). That's 10 shows, and would have been 11 if Picket Fences hadn't backed out.
And that's still not counting special TV movies or computer games.
Special note: the setting of all those shows also establish a show on their TVs called Homicide: Life on the Street. (An actual criminal was chased onto a location shoot and surrendered to the cast of the show, so they re-enacted it by having the show's characters chased onto a location shoot and surrendering to the characters of another show of the same name.) So a show in a show doesn't necessarily negate a crossover, though The X-Files playing on TVs in the background of Millennium is pushing it.
Not that a final alien invasion in an X-Files movie would effect the end of all of the ongoing Law & Order series. Yet consider the absence of but current reference to Eleanor Frutt's baby on the practice, born on cancelled series Gideon's Crossing.
I don't count Mulder and Scully appearing on The Simpsons; that would be silly, and would then tie into a series that ended by revealing it was all in the imagination of a single autistic child. Have fun tracing that down.
Back to the topic, I think we dodged a bullet by not having a crossover between Farscape and Stargate SG-1 (wormholes, Ancients, and Egyptian artifacts). I sure hope Sci-Fi Channel doesn't try to shoehorn one in in this wrap-up. Neither one needs the boost, unlike The Invisible Man and The Chronicle.
Consider also that if you sign up for network access at some universities, unless you provide them with a unique (and acceptable to them) host name, they will encode your name, dorm name, and room number as your host name in their DNS servers, which will be revealed to every website you visit.
And even if you do provide a unique host name, the personal information may still be available to anyone who knows to look in the DNS records.
Did I mention that they also sell electronic copies of the student directory to outsiders?
Then there's the university ID you must carry and provide on demand that doesn't just contain your social security number, it IS your SSN. With no clear way to have it be anything else. Both students and campus employees.
I signed up for that as well. I also made sure I enabled it before putting my current contact information on my domain, which was partially out of date for over half a year.
I've been getting an increasing amount of spam at my contact address for my domain ever since two companies contracted with a data mining company to recover the e-mail address for my accounts with them, when that address was not required by nor provided to them.
deal with 365 DAYS worth of video just to take the 10 minutes I might even remotely [care] about.
More like you're wearing a TiVo that retains the last 30 minutes of what you've seen and after you've seen something interesting, you capture it and put it in a kept recording.
For parents, it would be like having Ender Wiggins' monitor on your children.
Will there also be an sPDTP, a cryptographically secure version for those who want to secure the set of trusted peers away from the prying eyes of those outside the clique?
FR6: The OP client must be able to discern the motives of the operator of the OP server and not run if those motives are not pure.
Discussion: Since it cannot be assumed that the operators of the OP server will always have the best motives, the OP client must be able to reject requests from the OP server if the operator of the server has an evil (or illegal) intent.
Um, isn't this a functional impass in the protocol?
"Man, those picketers sure are annoying. Sure, these may have legitimate complaints, but I really don't like unionized workers."
"Ya know, I bet I could fits them all in da trunk of my Caddy, boss." __
As you say, he could have used a different analogy: a phone booth, a Volkswagon Beetle, or a restroom stall. Something more whimsical than ominous. Of all the comparisons he could have used, the trunk of a Cadillac isn't a good choice.
And I'm not the only one to note the negative overtones of the comparison. While some suggest its correlation to kidnapping (esp. children), those of us who are older know of the value of a large trunk for clandestine corpse disposal ahead of its value for sneaking into a drive-in movie or the comfortable concealment of a vampire cop in daytime.
But how many mod chip users are interested in making honest backups? You could probably fit them all into the trunk of a Cadillac, with space left over for a spare tire.
Nice. Say making backups is fine, but suggest you'd like to see those that do it tossed into the trunk of a Cadillac, with the implied dumping them in the river with cement overshoes, or burial in the forest, or other methods of "disappearance" that brings to mind. Shows how he feels about the legitimate uses.
Even unvoiced, talking about fitting people into the trunk of a Cadillac is violent imagery. It could be about any opposing minority population you'd like removed.
And why? Because they get in the way of demonizing the whole shebang, so let's get them out of the way now. Time to throw out the bathwater, nevermind the baby.
Not only is there the price drop of $30, but FYE has a $30 rebate on top of that, bringing it down to $119.99.
But be careful! The rebate applies to units with a specific UPC code and does not appear to apply to the Holiday Bundle that includes Tetris Worlds, Clone Wars, and 2 months free Xbox Live. Further, my local FYE had removed the original UPC barcode on the holiday bundle and replaced it with a different one.
But don't despair just yet. My local FYE put their stamp and a note on the rebate form that they are substituting the unit and requesting that the rebate be honored. On top of that, I got a promise that if the rebate was not honored that they would honor it in store themselves.
On a different note, be aware that some of the stores that do price matching are themselves very nitpicky and may not honor a price match against a different bundle package. You might have make some lies of omission to get them to do it, or be very convincing.
How long of a name can it take? Could I run it named as Dead Sole Rock Cod Turbot Haddock White Baith the Plaices Fish Bream Mackerel Salmon Poached Salmon Poached Salmon In a White Wine Sauce Salmon Meuniere and Helen Shapiro Flambe'?
If anything, it could give them a way to continue to profit via licensing their DRM and continuing iPod (hardware!) sales while getting out from under their resurgent legal battles with The Beatles' label by ending their music store.
and remember the final FUD point (assuming this is the same as in America) they don't get you for downloading! it's uploading. this is the big one to try to scare people off. though of course, not sharing ruins the network ultimately.
And they can't even get that right. No one is uploading. Really, no one. They are passively serving to those who download from them. To cast them as uploaders is to make them look like they're actively sharing music when many don't even realize that their P2P software automatically offers to serve to others everything they download. (It doesn't help that the software also claims the users are uploading.)
Displaying what you have is not an invitation for others to take.
The linked article is one of the few that gets this right, even to the point of using scare quotes around "serial uploaders" which calls attention the misuse of the term.
That's like saying your phone called the caller by being ready to ring.
The point of view is properly placed on the human that triggers the transfer, whenever feasible, and is not transferable. Only when it is not feasible it is on the anthropomorphized machine that established the connection, such as a TiVo uploading viewer information and downloading guide data. And even then, the anthropomorphized machine is really just symbolic of the programmer that told it to do that.
In FTP, "get" is downloading and "put" is uploading, no matter where the machines are in relation to you or each other, nor the size of the machines. You can't flip the POV.
It's understandable that people don't get this. Even writers for 60 Minutes can't keep straight who calls whom on the telephone when computers are involved. They think TiVo calls your home.
It upsets me that people won't get this and would rather misuse these technical terms that were given specific scientific meaning. Especially those who work in the field and should know better.
If the commercials become invasive, I'll just cancel everything and buy the DVDs of the shows I like.
If they even make it to DVD with the drop in first-run ratings as more people do as you would.
It would take a major trend of people turning off from TV to get producers to seriously consider direct-to-DVD series releases as a viable market. Except then the ads will be recorded to the DVDs in unskippable form, and it will unlikely you'll find ads from anyone other than national vendors.
Advertisers will chase you down no matter what you do. Compare spam that employs more and more creative methods to bypass filters.
Except occasionally, like was done with the first run of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, they may put in a commercial break which is only 30 seconds long in total. Just as you're releasing the contents your bladder, the show is suddenly back on!
I haven't seen anyone do this since the advent of DVRs. I may not be watching the shows that still do it, but it could become more common/make a comeback.
I prefer simply "about:". I have so many browsers installed, including obsolete browsers with security flaws, that I prefer the browser identify itself first so I can confirm which one and what version I'm running. And all the content is local.
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I have ADB keyboards and my primary machine is a Blue & White G3 (upgraded to G4) that still has ADB ports and I still ordered two of these. Mainly because the machine is on a USB KVMA switch and I don't like having to keep so many keyboards around. And that it has a power key on the keyboard is a plus since I had to move the power switch of the B&W to make room for more internal drives than it was designed to accomodate. (The power switch on the G4 Cube's monitor, serving as the B&W's second display, won't start up the B&W.)
And as I have more ADB-only computers than I have ADB keyboards (are there any NuBus USB cards?), this will help that achieve balance. At least until I can get a good and affordable ADB KVM for them.
But I still have to have a PS/2 keyboard for the PC for some tasks like some Linux boot CDs that have queries that need answering before they've loaded USB drivers, and sometimes I can't wait the 15-30 seconds it takes for Windows XP to re-recognize returning USB devices.
I really need to learn to wait a few days before installing things.
;)
But the coal mines of software updating need canaries like you.
It's been done. 2002. Just not up now, unless it is running at another address somewhere.
But I haven't heard of any earlier Apple IIs being accessible via Telnet, and not any `GBBS "Pro"' systems.
Still, The X-Files is part of the largest TV series connection I've ever seen: The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen (spinoff), Strange Luck (letter from Alex to Chance), Millennium (Frank Black on TX-F), Homicide: Life on the Street (Detective Munch), and Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Homicide: Life on the Street, and The Beat (other Det. Munch connections). The only one I've missed is the last, and that's because there was no UPN station in my area when it was on (technically there still isn't one). That's 10 shows, and would have been 11 if Picket Fences hadn't backed out.
And that's still not counting special TV movies or computer games.
Special note: the setting of all those shows also establish a show on their TVs called Homicide: Life on the Street. (An actual criminal was chased onto a location shoot and surrendered to the cast of the show, so they re-enacted it by having the show's characters chased onto a location shoot and surrendering to the characters of another show of the same name.) So a show in a show doesn't necessarily negate a crossover, though The X-Files playing on TVs in the background of Millennium is pushing it.
Not that a final alien invasion in an X-Files movie would effect the end of all of the ongoing Law & Order series. Yet consider the absence of but current reference to Eleanor Frutt's baby on the practice, born on cancelled series Gideon's Crossing.
I don't count Mulder and Scully appearing on The Simpsons; that would be silly, and would then tie into a series that ended by revealing it was all in the imagination of a single autistic child. Have fun tracing that down.
Back to the topic, I think we dodged a bullet by not having a crossover between Farscape and Stargate SG-1 (wormholes, Ancients, and Egyptian artifacts). I sure hope Sci-Fi Channel doesn't try to shoehorn one in in this wrap-up. Neither one needs the boost, unlike The Invisible Man and The Chronicle.
Did you miss The X-Files' crossover episode?
Consider also that if you sign up for network access at some universities, unless you provide them with a unique (and acceptable to them) host name, they will encode your name, dorm name, and room number as your host name in their DNS servers, which will be revealed to every website you visit.
And even if you do provide a unique host name, the personal information may still be available to anyone who knows to look in the DNS records.
Did I mention that they also sell electronic copies of the student directory to outsiders?
Then there's the university ID you must carry and provide on demand that doesn't just contain your social security number, it IS your SSN. With no clear way to have it be anything else. Both students and campus employees.
I signed up for that as well. I also made sure I enabled it before putting my current contact information on my domain, which was partially out of date for over half a year.
I've been getting an increasing amount of spam at my contact address for my domain ever since two companies contracted with a data mining company to recover the e-mail address for my accounts with them, when that address was not required by nor provided to them.
No print taken for me in Nebraska, and they managed to take my picture only once.
Now if I could only find out what data is encoded in that 2-D barcode on the back.
And our DMV does sell its driver's license data to private companies.
deal with 365 DAYS worth of video just to take the 10 minutes I might even remotely [care] about.
More like you're wearing a TiVo that retains the last 30 minutes of what you've seen and after you've seen something interesting, you capture it and put it in a kept recording.
For parents, it would be like having Ender Wiggins' monitor on your children.
Like an atypical label won't be enough of a tip-off.
Will there also be an sPDTP, a cryptographically secure version for those who want to secure the set of trusted peers away from the prying eyes of those outside the clique?
Just because an protocol is proposed on 1 April doesn't mean someone won't try to implement it. Consider RFC 2549.
"Man, those picketers sure are annoying. Sure, these may have legitimate complaints, but I really don't like unionized workers."
"Ya know, I bet I could fits them all in da trunk of my Caddy, boss."
__
As you say, he could have used a different analogy: a phone booth, a Volkswagon Beetle, or a restroom stall. Something more whimsical than ominous. Of all the comparisons he could have used, the trunk of a Cadillac isn't a good choice.
And I'm not the only one to note the negative overtones of the comparison. While some suggest its correlation to kidnapping (esp. children), those of us who are older know of the value of a large trunk for clandestine corpse disposal ahead of its value for sneaking into a drive-in movie or the comfortable concealment of a vampire cop in daytime.
"Didn't you take your medicine?"
"Sure I did. Worked like a charm, too. But for some reason, an hour later I was sick again."
Even unvoiced, talking about fitting people into the trunk of a Cadillac is violent imagery. It could be about any opposing minority population you'd like removed.
And why? Because they get in the way of demonizing the whole shebang, so let's get them out of the way now. Time to throw out the bathwater, nevermind the baby.
Not only is there the price drop of $30, but FYE has a $30 rebate on top of that, bringing it down to $119.99.
But be careful! The rebate applies to units with a specific UPC code and does not appear to apply to the Holiday Bundle that includes Tetris Worlds, Clone Wars, and 2 months free Xbox Live. Further, my local FYE had removed the original UPC barcode on the holiday bundle and replaced it with a different one.
But don't despair just yet. My local FYE put their stamp and a note on the rebate form that they are substituting the unit and requesting that the rebate be honored. On top of that, I got a promise that if the rebate was not honored that they would honor it in store themselves.
On a different note, be aware that some of the stores that do price matching are themselves very nitpicky and may not honor a price match against a different bundle package. You might have make some lies of omission to get them to do it, or be very convincing.
How long of a name can it take? Could I run it named as Dead Sole Rock Cod Turbot Haddock White Baith the Plaices Fish Bream Mackerel Salmon Poached Salmon Poached Salmon In a White Wine Sauce Salmon Meuniere and Helen Shapiro Flambe'?
(/code won't let me use é.)
If anything, it could give them a way to continue to profit via licensing their DRM and continuing iPod (hardware!) sales while getting out from under their resurgent legal battles with The Beatles' label by ending their music store.
and remember the final FUD point (assuming this is the same as in America) they don't get you for downloading! it's uploading. this is the big one to try to scare people off. though of course, not sharing ruins the network ultimately.
And they can't even get that right. No one is uploading. Really, no one. They are passively serving to those who download from them. To cast them as uploaders is to make them look like they're actively sharing music when many don't even realize that their P2P software automatically offers to serve to others everything they download. (It doesn't help that the software also claims the users are uploading.)
Displaying what you have is not an invitation for others to take.
The linked article is one of the few that gets this right, even to the point of using scare quotes around "serial uploaders" which calls attention the misuse of the term.
That's like saying your phone called the caller by being ready to ring.
The point of view is properly placed on the human that triggers the transfer, whenever feasible, and is not transferable. Only when it is not feasible it is on the anthropomorphized machine that established the connection, such as a TiVo uploading viewer information and downloading guide data. And even then, the anthropomorphized machine is really just symbolic of the programmer that told it to do that.
In FTP, "get" is downloading and "put" is uploading, no matter where the machines are in relation to you or each other, nor the size of the machines. You can't flip the POV.
It's understandable that people don't get this. Even writers for 60 Minutes can't keep straight who calls whom on the telephone when computers are involved. They think TiVo calls your home.
It upsets me that people won't get this and would rather misuse these technical terms that were given specific scientific meaning. Especially those who work in the field and should know better.
Threatening who? Uploaders? Who is uploading? There are downloaders and people who serve files to downloaders, but hardly anyone uploads.
Downloading is pulling. Uploading is pushing. One does not imply the other; they exist separately.
If the commercials become invasive, I'll just cancel everything and buy the DVDs of the shows I like.
If they even make it to DVD with the drop in first-run ratings as more people do as you would.
It would take a major trend of people turning off from TV to get producers to seriously consider direct-to-DVD series releases as a viable market. Except then the ads will be recorded to the DVDs in unskippable form, and it will unlikely you'll find ads from anyone other than national vendors.
Advertisers will chase you down no matter what you do. Compare spam that employs more and more creative methods to bypass filters.
Except occasionally, like was done with the first run of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, they may put in a commercial break which is only 30 seconds long in total. Just as you're releasing the contents your bladder, the show is suddenly back on!
I haven't seen anyone do this since the advent of DVRs. I may not be watching the shows that still do it, but it could become more common/make a comeback.
I prefer simply "about:". I have so many browsers installed, including obsolete browsers with security flaws, that I prefer the browser identify itself first so I can confirm which one and what version I'm running. And all the content is local.