One of the measures of how dangerous a device is is the amount of time from the second you fsck up to the moment it's too late to save you. By that measure, subs are more dangerous than the space shuttles. Thought I'd share.
Now waitadoggoneminuteheah!
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Spy v. Spy
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Compare these quotes: Haight said. "It's just the way the security of our software works. It won't allow (anti-spy) software to run." And a few words later:
. SpectorSoft says its software is for monitoring, not spying, and tells purchasers to always advise computer users they are being monitored.
Well, if that is the case, why is he bothering
to disable WhosWatchingMe? Grrrr. People who
lie so blithely piss me off.
(Disclaimer: not directly relevant,
but I thought I'd share.)
My email address is scannable from Usenet
posts made when I was young and foolish,
so there is no hope of it not being available
to spammers. But, since using Spamcop, my spam levels decreased, and today at 9 AM MST, for the
first time in years I checked my mail and it
was spam free. I'm starting to suspect that
spammers now keep lists of email addresses
of people who are vigilant in reporting spam,
and deleting them from their lists. (My hope is,
that the CDs in which my email address resides,
are now considered "no good," not just my address.) So, there is hope.
When I was a young'un, we had to get our porn
the old fashioned way! We had to canvas
the subway station newsstands, convenience and
grocery stores, and bookstores in our area
and find out the hard way which clerks were
willing to sell the stuff to us. And we had to
go out after school, in the raging wind and
snow to do it, uphill, both ways
and relay our information at the lunch table, and
half the time the clerk would change his mind
after the 4th sale and we'd have to find someone
else.. And that's the way it was and
we liked it! We loved it! Kids these days... Flibberty, flubberty, floom.. They should
get their porn the way I did. It builds
character.
Think Afghanistan is hard? Try Mozambique.
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Robot Mine Smasher
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Some of the minefields there were hit by massive
floods recently. Now the mines are shifted,
so mine maps are no good, and they're oriented
every which way. Build a robot that can
handle that, and you will prove yourself a
major stud.
Unless I'm misreading, this means that
$WEB_MONKEY[0] at $SITE[0] can't put a
link like this: <img src="http://$SITE[1]/image.jpeg">
without being smacked down by
the admins at $SITE[1]. In the early
days of the Web people who resented such
linking would hack Apache to demand the
right referrer before serving an image.
It's still the better solution in my view,
but the courts are right to intervene.
When I'm cruising for pr0n, it gets to me quickly.
If all I do is cruise the Web during certain
hours, I want my bits coming quickly, and at
an affordable price. If however, I decide to set
up a server and use up more bandwidth on average,
then yes, I'll be willing to pay more. Better
this than have rules of use against servers.
(And yess, I'll slashdot-proof my box with
mod_throttle).
This goes far beyond that. Here we have
people getting shortchanged for their wages,
and fired if they complain too much about it.
I've done factory work, I even came close
to punching out a foreman. I know there is no
way to make the work less shitty. But to
fudge payroll ought to be a capital offense.
In high school I was among the people who
could stretch the chess players into human
pretzels, but it seems my school's administration
is unique in making it damn clear to us jocks
that this would not be tolerated. You know
the whole sportsmanship ethic thing? There's
the idea that it's not sportsmanlike to
roughhouse with someone who does not want to.
It got drilled into us, and made for a better
environment for all.
The one area where science fiction
has influence on Anglophone society
at large (i.e. not just geeks) is the
constant introduction of idioms into
general usage. People who make their living
tracking the evolution of the English
language do need to keep an eye on
science fiction.
I've had to take a
long hiatus from my
project for various reasons, but now
that the appeal was lost, I plan to restart it.
On my list of things is to change from my
style of translation to
Jonathan Baccash's,
which is better in several ways, while
retaining my code's ability to deal
with preprocessor directives (which Mr. Baccash's
code lacks). If anyone feels like sending me
diffs, I'd be much obliged.
They're first time offenders who confessed.
They're high school students who would otherwise
be preparing to be drafted to the Israeli army
soon, and the government will not want to
disrupt that if it isn't necessary. Finally,
they are from a town that is notorious for
inducing boredom for its teenagers. They may
get a few months, but I wouldn't count on it,
and they'll get assigned to the Ma'asiahu prison,
where conditions are very good (it's Israel's
prison for first time offenders, and it's probably
the only place in the world you could call
a re-education camp without irony.)
Let's see here. Stone city? Check. Submerged? Check.
Interesting angled stone mentioned in some articles?
Check. Sounds like R'Lyeh to me! Let's go party with
C'thulhu...!
If the FBI is going to use methods like this,
how long before the next Windows System Pack
saves them the work by logging PGP passwords
and sends them off by some mechanism pre-arranged
with the FBI?
The assassinations would not be okay in
a country with a functioning legal system.
Under the conditions Israel is in, there
is no functioning legal system.
And there is a difference between killing
an official of a terrorist group and killing
any poor schmuck of the wrong ethnic group.
Israel's assassinations are targeted at high
officials of organizations like Hamas. Hamas's
assassinations are targeted at any Jew. In 1967,
Israel was under a naval blockade when she attacked. The settlement policy is meant to ensure
that a Palestinian state would not be used as
a stepping stone to Israel's destruction, as
listed in the PLO's Conquest by Stages plan of
1974. And Syria is on the list. Israel is not
a girl scout on its own. Israel is a girl scout
compared to her neighbors.
Israel discriminates against minorities. I'm Israeli, but I'm not two-faced enough to say otherwise. Arabs in Israel have fewer opportunities than Jews. But guess what:
Syria, our neighbor to the north, has a law requiring Syrian Jews to stay within their home towns at all times. There are old Jews in Damascus who have not left the city in their entire lives. How's that for discrimination?
Or, let's turn our gaze to Egypt. Nasser, many years ago, confiscated properties from many groups of people, mainly the Jews, Greeks, Copts and Maltese, but also rich Muslim Egyptians. Of those four groups, guess which one is not eligible for restoration of the confiscated properties, nor for compensation. You get one guess.
Let's hop one over, to Lybia, where in his first year in power, Khadaffi confiscated the homes of all the Jews, but forbade them from leaving. Italian arm twisting prevented this spectacle from continuing. They were shipped to Sicily, hence to Israel. Lybia is now Jew-free.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of racism in the Arab World. Israel is angelic in comparison.
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One of the measures of how dangerous a device
is is the amount of time from the second
you fsck up to the moment it's too late
to save you. By that measure, subs are more
dangerous than the space shuttles.
Thought I'd share.
Compare these quotes: Haight said. "It's just the way the security of our software works. It won't allow (anti-spy) software to run." And a few words later: . SpectorSoft says its software is for monitoring, not spying, and tells purchasers to always advise computer users they are being monitored. Well, if that is the case, why is he bothering to disable WhosWatchingMe? Grrrr. People who lie so blithely piss me off.
(Disclaimer: not directly relevant, but I thought I'd share.) My email address is scannable from Usenet posts made when I was young and foolish, so there is no hope of it not being available to spammers. But, since using Spamcop, my spam levels decreased, and today at 9 AM MST, for the first time in years I checked my mail and it was spam free. I'm starting to suspect that spammers now keep lists of email addresses of people who are vigilant in reporting spam, and deleting them from their lists. (My hope is, that the CDs in which my email address resides, are now considered "no good," not just my address.) So, there is hope.
1. None at all. Good for security. A naming
convention is a nice shortcut when a script
kiddie is portscanning.
2. Naming conventions. (I.e. name the
Web server "Tolkein-Place-Names", the
mail server "Famous-Composers", et cetera.)
When I was a young'un, we had to get our porn the old fashioned way! We had to canvas the subway station newsstands, convenience and grocery stores, and bookstores in our area and find out the hard way which clerks were willing to sell the stuff to us. And we had to go out after school, in the raging wind and snow to do it, uphill, both ways and relay our information at the lunch table, and half the time the clerk would change his mind after the 4th sale and we'd have to find someone else.. And that's the way it was and we liked it! We loved it! Kids these days... Flibberty, flubberty, floom.. They should get their porn the way I did. It builds character.
Some of the minefields there were hit by massive
floods recently. Now the mines are shifted,
so mine maps are no good, and they're oriented
every which way. Build a robot that can
handle that, and you will prove yourself a
major stud.
Unless I'm misreading, this means that
$WEB_MONKEY[0] at $SITE[0] can't put a
link like this: <img src="http://$SITE[1]/image.jpeg">
without being smacked down by
the admins at $SITE[1]. In the early
days of the Web people who resented such
linking would hack Apache to demand the
right referrer before serving an image.
It's still the better solution in my view,
but the courts are right to intervene.
When I'm cruising for pr0n, it gets to me quickly. If all I do is cruise the Web during certain hours, I want my bits coming quickly, and at an affordable price. If however, I decide to set up a server and use up more bandwidth on average, then yes, I'll be willing to pay more. Better this than have rules of use against servers. (And yess, I'll slashdot-proof my box with mod_throttle).
This goes far beyond that. Here we have people getting shortchanged for their wages, and fired if they complain too much about it. I've done factory work, I even came close to punching out a foreman. I know there is no way to make the work less shitty. But to fudge payroll ought to be a capital offense.
In high school I was among the people who
could stretch the chess players into human
pretzels, but it seems my school's administration
is unique in making it damn clear to us jocks
that this would not be tolerated. You know
the whole sportsmanship ethic thing? There's
the idea that it's not sportsmanlike to
roughhouse with someone who does not want to.
It got drilled into us, and made for a better
environment for all.
"Then, a miracle occurs."
First underwater ruins are found, now
new forms of squid.. Apropos, any news
from the boys at McMurdo Station?
The one area where science fiction has influence on Anglophone society at large (i.e. not just geeks) is the constant introduction of idioms into general usage. People who make their living tracking the evolution of the English language do need to keep an eye on science fiction.
I've had to take a long hiatus from my project for various reasons, but now that the appeal was lost, I plan to restart it. On my list of things is to change from my style of translation to Jonathan Baccash's, which is better in several ways, while retaining my code's ability to deal with preprocessor directives (which Mr. Baccash's code lacks). If anyone feels like sending me diffs, I'd be much obliged.
They're first time offenders who confessed. They're high school students who would otherwise be preparing to be drafted to the Israeli army soon, and the government will not want to disrupt that if it isn't necessary. Finally, they are from a town that is notorious for inducing boredom for its teenagers. They may get a few months, but I wouldn't count on it, and they'll get assigned to the Ma'asiahu prison, where conditions are very good (it's Israel's prison for first time offenders, and it's probably the only place in the world you could call a re-education camp without irony.)
Let's see here. Stone city? Check. Submerged? Check.
Interesting angled stone mentioned in some articles?
Check. Sounds like R'Lyeh to me! Let's go party with
C'thulhu...!
That alone deserves a Nobel prize, for
well, something..
If the FBI is going to use methods like this,
how long before the next Windows System Pack
saves them the work by logging PGP passwords
and sends them off by some mechanism pre-arranged
with the FBI?
That is still angelic by world standards.
The assassinations would not be okay in
a country with a functioning legal system.
Under the conditions Israel is in, there
is no functioning legal system.
And there is a difference between killing
an official of a terrorist group and killing
any poor schmuck of the wrong ethnic group.
What kind of threat are a bunch of farmers,
you ask? Depends. Usually the grove cuttings
are done in response to sniper activity.
And if you think cutting olive groves is
severe, you don't know the Middle East.
Do you know of a site with credit card
processing to funnel money to Jewish
terror groups? If so, phone the FBI.
Israel's assassinations are targeted at high officials of organizations like Hamas. Hamas's assassinations are targeted at any Jew. In 1967, Israel was under a naval blockade when she attacked. The settlement policy is meant to ensure that a Palestinian state would not be used as a stepping stone to Israel's destruction, as listed in the PLO's Conquest by Stages plan of 1974. And Syria is on the list. Israel is not a girl scout on its own. Israel is a girl scout compared to her neighbors.
dhimmi.com is a good start.
Israel discriminates against minorities. I'm Israeli, but I'm not two-faced enough to say otherwise. Arabs in Israel have fewer opportunities than Jews. But guess what:
Syria, our neighbor to the north, has a law requiring Syrian Jews to stay within their home towns at all times. There are old Jews in Damascus who have not left the city in their entire lives. How's that for discrimination?
Or, let's turn our gaze to Egypt. Nasser, many years ago, confiscated properties from many groups of people, mainly the Jews, Greeks, Copts and Maltese, but also rich Muslim Egyptians. Of those four groups, guess which one is not eligible for restoration of the confiscated properties, nor for compensation. You get one guess.
Let's hop one over, to Lybia, where in his first year in power, Khadaffi confiscated the homes of all the Jews, but forbade them from leaving. Italian arm twisting prevented this spectacle from continuing. They were shipped to Sicily, hence to Israel. Lybia is now Jew-free.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of racism in the Arab World. Israel is angelic in comparison.