Just to add a me-three to this. I get the same thing. BUT, I get it twice, once for my regular email address, and once for the email address I use for managing my department's technical reports. That second one always starts with:
Hrm, I was under the impression that you were required to file for a patent (or at least a provisional patent) within one year of either the first publication or first offer of sale of whatever widget you want to patent.
This would certainly fit with the contention that these are fat32 patents only, which were developed and released within a few years of the 1995 filing.
Yes, that's generally how it works with the state lists. In new york for example, I just got a new phone number which I registered with the do not call list earlier today. According to the new york website the next list gets distributed on April 1st and doesn't actually become binding until May 1st. When I signed my old phone number up for the same service, it took a similar amount of time.
I should also note that once the list became active the number of calls I was receiving dropped down from 3 or 4 a day to less than 2 a week.
You've got to be careful about poking around like that. Imagine what would have happened if she were a freak like me and cross-correlated her html access and referer logs with the originating IP addresses on all of her incoming emails.
A few months back a girl that I met previously and was talking to a lot on the phone did some checking up on me via google (or some similar search engine) before we were going to meet up again.
On the phone one night we had a conversation that went something like this:
Her: I have a confession to make. Me: Oh boy... lets have it. Her: I looked you up on the web and found your web page. Me: *snicker* Me: I knew that.
I then proceded to give her the dates, times, and the names of the people whose computers she used to search the net.
Oh, I do this too. Unfortunatly someone heard me typing in the background once. JUST ONCE! Now, whenever I pause to think about anything on the phone he accuses me of looking it up on the net (which is a good bet;) ).
In general you are correct, but in this case I think it had more to do with the amount each contributed.
This paper stems from a research project that Kahil did in Jon Katz's cryptography class at Columbia back in the Fall of 2001. I believe the project was inspired by one of Katz's other papers (the one in this paper's references by Katz and Schneier).
I was in this class... obviously Kahil did a much better job than I did.
Maybe they're planning on releasing all of their footage of the event on their web site in format only viewable with quicktime 6. Seems like a good way to get people to upgrade.
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That kind of flexibility, which allows the programmer to mold the language to fit
his (and his tasks) needs, is really what makes Lisp great to work with.
So I take it that in this passage you are just trying to make it absolutely clear that programming is a man's job.;)
My father tells the story of a guy working at an auto assembly plant who took home an entire car -- piece by piece!
Your father is probably a Johnny Cash fan (One piece at a time, its on The Essential Johnny Cash, but I don't know what album it came from originally).
The professors are basically useless if you refuse to spend the time to perpare for each class by doing the reading beforehand. They are useless if you don't pay attention in class, or if you don't go to class because you have better things to do. They are useless if you don't bother to ask them any questions or even make an attempt to interact with them. They are useless if you personally decide to learn the material on your own and not to bother with them.
But that's not their fault. You are the one who makes the decision whether or not to engage them in the learning process. I'm not condeming you for making that decision, there were (and still are) plenty of classes that I personally chose not to go to and to learn the material by myself. But it wasn't because the professors were bad, it was because I had other things to do with my time, or I was just too damn lazy that semester. I don't try to blame them for my own decisions.
In defence of Columbia, I've been here for 6 years now, first as an undergrad, then as a masters student and now as a PhD student. I've taken every single regularly offered class in the department, litteraly dozens of classes, and with exactly two exceptions[*], I have never had a truely useless professor.
It's nice to know that all my money has gone to the free teachings of Google.
You are the person who ultimatly decides how your education is spent. Its really a shame that you've chosen to waste it like that.
[*] You will be hard pressed to find a university without its share of boneheaded faculty members, so I can't hold it against the school for having one or two of them.
You're right, its not usually put in a web directory. HOWEVER, it is usually put in an ftp directory. (If you look at a wu-ftp install, the home directory is something like/home/ftp and there is almost always a bin dir in there with at least ls installed in it).
Someone mentioned yesterday that ftp was open on their server and that you could log in and poke around as anonymous. The anonymous login is closed now, but you can still see that ftp is open.
So my guess now is that they just have the main html directory pointed to the main ftp directory.
Maybe there was a bin a directory (with ls in it) on the original server and they just zipped the whole web html directory and unpacked on the new server.
Folks this magnificent troll is actually a reincarnation (probably the same person, given that the quality is about the same) of this one. Moderators, p-p-p-please mod this accordingly. Its embarrassing to see this at the top of the comments.
Just a side note about your having killed Robert Anton Wilson. According to the everything 2 entry you pointed to, google didn't have a record of your post.
I don't know if you noticed it, but when google extended their archive back its now there:
Absolutely. But not only do they have to make sure that he understands emergency procedures and make sure that he's mentally capable (as the first poster suggested) for the flight, but they also have to make sure that he's physically capable. The multi-g conditions during the launch could very easily kill someone if the have some sort of physical problem. Somehow I don't think having passangers dying of heartattacks halfway up is a good way to drum up business.
killall exists on both linux and solaris boxes but they do different things.
On linux killall kills off processes by name. So if you ran a killall -9 with no process name, you would end up with a usage message.
On solaris boxes killall kills all active process. You don't specify anything other than the signal to send. So if you ran killall -9 you would kill everything and you would kill it in such away that none of them would be able to catch the signal and close cleanly.
Look in/usr/sbin the next time you log into a sun box.
Main Entry: mote
Pronunciation: 'mOt
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English mot, from Old English; akin to Middle Dutch &
Frisian mot sand
Date: before 12th century
: a small particle : SPECK
So basically you're saying that a point is a speck... very insightfuly;)
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Just to add a me-three to this. I get the same thing. BUT, I get it twice, once for my regular email address, and once for the email address I use for managing my department's technical reports.
That second one always starts with:
Dear Dr. Report...
You're right it won't, but the high blood preasure associated with those degrees will.
This would certainly fit with the contention that these are fat32 patents only, which were developed and released within a few years of the 1995 filing.
A good, snarky one liner.
I should also note that once the list became active the number of calls I was receiving dropped down from 3 or 4 a day to less than 2 a week.
So they remove floppy drives from the machines, leave the price the same, then charge 150 bucks to put a drive back in.
Thanks dell.
You've got to be careful about poking around like that. Imagine what would have happened if she were a freak like me and cross-correlated her html access and referer logs with the originating IP addresses on all of her incoming emails.
A few months back a girl that I met previously and was talking to a lot on the phone did some checking up on me via google (or some similar search engine) before we were going to meet up again.
On the phone one night we had a conversation that went something like this:
Her: I have a confession to make.
Me: Oh boy... lets have it.
Her: I looked you up on the web and found your web page.
Me: *snicker*
Me: I knew that.
I then proceded to give her the dates, times, and the names of the people whose computers she used to search the net.
Oh, I do this too. Unfortunatly someone heard me typing in the background once. JUST ONCE! Now, whenever I pause to think about anything on the phone he accuses me of looking it up on the net (which is a good bet ;) ).
In general you are correct, but in this case I think it had more to do with the amount each contributed.
This paper stems from a research project that Kahil did in Jon Katz's cryptography class at Columbia back in the Fall of 2001. I believe the project was inspired by one of Katz's other papers (the one in this paper's references by Katz and Schneier).
I was in this class... obviously Kahil did a much better job than I did.
Maybe they're planning on releasing all of their footage of the event on their web site in format only viewable with quicktime 6. Seems like a good way to get people to upgrade.
So I take it that in this passage you are just trying to make it absolutely clear that programming is a man's job. ;)
...and it didn't cost me a dime.
My father tells the story of a guy working at an auto assembly plant who took home an entire car -- piece by piece!
Your father is probably a Johnny Cash fan (One piece at a time, its on The Essential Johnny Cash, but I don't know what album it came from originally).
Professors are essentially useless.
Seesh, well aren't you a sweetheart...
The professors are basically useless if you refuse to spend the time to perpare for each class by doing the reading beforehand. They are useless if you don't pay attention in class, or if you don't go to class because you have better things to do. They are useless if you don't bother to ask them any questions or even make an attempt to interact with them. They are useless if you personally decide to learn the material on your own and not to bother with them.
But that's not their fault. You are the one who makes the decision whether or not to engage them in the learning process. I'm not condeming you for making that decision, there were (and still are) plenty of classes that I personally chose not to go to and to learn the material by myself. But it wasn't because the professors were bad, it was because I had other things to do with my time, or I was just too damn lazy that semester. I don't try to blame them for my own decisions.
In defence of Columbia, I've been here for 6 years now, first as an undergrad, then as a masters student and now as a PhD student. I've taken every single regularly offered class in the department, litteraly dozens of classes, and with exactly two exceptions[*], I have never had a truely useless professor.
It's nice to know that all my money has gone to the free teachings of Google.
You are the person who ultimatly decides how your education is spent. Its really a shame that you've chosen to waste it like that.
[*] You will be hard pressed to find a university without its share of boneheaded faculty members, so I can't hold it against the school for having one or two of them.
You're right, its not usually put in a web directory. HOWEVER, it is usually put in an ftp directory. (If you look at a wu-ftp install, the home directory is something like /home/ftp and there is almost always a bin dir in there with at least ls installed in it).
Someone mentioned yesterday that ftp was open on their server and that you could log in and poke around as anonymous. The anonymous login is closed now, but you can still see that ftp is open.
So my guess now is that they just have the main html directory pointed to the main ftp directory.
Maybe there was a bin a directory (with ls in it) on the original server and they just zipped the whole web html directory and unpacked on the new server.
yep... its called trolling, and for all they complain about it, those editors are surprisingly good at it
But at least its a stupid april fools joke from someone else's stupid site.
That works in netscape, it didn't work in IE, so I figured I'd cover all bases.
They apparently don't want people linked directly too it so they banned anything with certain referer fields (like slashdot).
Follow the URL, copy it from the location bar, go to some other site, then paste it back in. That should take care of it.
(With apologies to Goats)
Folks this magnificent troll is actually a reincarnation (probably the same person, given that the quality is about the same) of this one. Moderators, p-p-p-please mod this accordingly. Its embarrassing to see this at the top of the comments.
I got my copy from that batch (Feiner's class)... I've used it exactly twice.
Just a side note about your having killed Robert Anton Wilson. According to the everything 2 entry you pointed to, google didn't have a record of your post.
I don't know if you noticed it, but when google extended their archive back its now there:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:ic58%40jo ve.acs.unt.edu+dead&hl=en&selm=ic58.761882362%40jo ve&rnum=1
Absolutely. But not only do they have to make sure that he understands emergency procedures and make sure that he's mentally capable (as the first poster suggested) for the flight, but they also have to make sure that he's physically capable. The multi-g conditions during the launch could very easily kill someone if the have some sort of physical problem. Somehow I don't think having passangers dying of heartattacks halfway up is a good way to drum up business.
killall exists on both linux and solaris boxes but they do different things.
On linux killall kills off processes by name. So if you ran a killall -9 with no process name, you would end up with a usage message.
On solaris boxes killall kills all active process. You don't specify anything other than the signal to send. So if you ran killall -9 you would kill everything and you would kill it in such away that none of them would be able to catch the signal and close cleanly.
Look in /usr/sbin the next time you log into a sun box.
Your final point is mote,
I quote www.m-w.com:
Main Entry: mote Pronunciation: 'mOt Function: noun Etymology: Middle English mot, from Old English; akin to Middle Dutch & Frisian mot sand Date: before 12th century : a small particle : SPECK
So basically you're saying that a point is a speck... very insightfuly ;)