See "All your base are belong to us"
spelled in Martian rocks.
On a more serious note: erosion patterns
on earth are well-studied and characterised.
Not so on Mars. 100 years from now every
formation on Mars will have an explanation.
Iran is currently awash with Afghani heroin.
Things are not going well, and that is part of
why the crackdown is happening. Iranians
are using these cybercafes to communicate
their discontent to the world and to themselves,
and crime is one of the thigns causing it.
Watch Citizen Kane, specifically the
childhood scene. There are many details
that were put there in order to show Charlie's
relationship with the three other characters
(while Charlie plays in the yard pretending to
be a Union soldier, his mother opens the
window to hear him, and his father later
closes it to shut the draft). Welles put those
details in to show to which of the two Charlie
was closer.
Try to show these details if you have to
display the movie on a screen and capture
the scene with an analog recorder.
For instance, in Muslim countries women aren't leered at and treated as sex objects, because society conditions them not to.
You are wrong. You don't see American women
shy away from a mastectomy (in case of breast
cancer) for fear of losing their husband's
favor. You do see that in Muslim countries.
Airplane hijacked, flown into building..
on
First Arcology?
·
· Score: 1
Prior to Columbine, I had joked
about improving the Boston skyline
by giving the Pru this treatment.
Now.. If this thing is built,
somebody's bound to try 747ing into it.
They exist. Usually with gear mechanisms
(remember those Lego blocks?) that run
along the shaft and are used by gears on
the cab (with onboard motor).
What I wonder is: what if a typhoon
(or typhoon-earthquake combo) gets this
sucker?
The Petronas has what, 50% vacancy?
on
First Arcology?
·
· Score: 2
Prior to the Big Asian Crash came the
Big Asian Bubble (natch) which was the
prompt for the Petronas.
If this is a harbinger of an even bigger
bubble, I'm stocking up on those second-hand
Y2K goodies.
You should realize that using advertising
as a way to pay for radio and television was
David Sarnoff's idea, and it was greeted with
such skepticism that he had to leave Marconi
Radio and start his own company to set it up.
In many other countries television owners have
to pay a regular fee that goes to pay for the
government stations. (Or had to..)
However, in Israel, if they detect a TV oscillator
from your apartment they don't bust down doors
over it. It's not worth it.
Police investigating the vandalism and
rapes of Woodstock '99 have posted images on
the Web. Quite frankly, sending cops to a live
crime scene with digital cameras (or using press
photos), or cops soliciting images from bystanders, bothers me not one bit.
Crime in the US declined considerably
in the 90's, without CCTV. While CCTV
didn't cause the rise in crime in Britain
(Theodore Dalrymple has some ideas on what did),
it is not that good an answer to it.
Software comes in two forms nowadays, it seems:
1. "Not for mission critical applications."
and
2. "We told you it's not for mission critical applications!"
This needs to change. There needs to be a
grade of software that its programmers will
stand behind. It should be governed
by slow and laborious reviews, written by
programmers certified for it. In other words,
we need a software version of the rigors of
civil engineering. (How often does a bridge come
with a disclaimer?) It should be expensive,
(for enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,
but also the price gets steep), and it should
come without deadlines. When a piece of software
can kill, the author should not be afraid to
miss his deadlines.
I saw the northern lights last night,
for the first time in my life. It was
beautiful. Too bad my camera couldn't
catch it. But to be in NM to see it was
a special touch.
1. In the Midrashim (Jewish legends from
0 through 300 AD) there's a story of a rabbi
who joins an Arab on the trade routes and
reaches the place where the earth meets the sky.
This should be no surprise, as Jewish cosmology
started out derived from Babylonian cosmology,
with a Heaven, Earth, and Sheol.
2. Herodotos discusses a Phoenician ship
that circled Africa (clockwise)
in the heydey of the
Persian empire. The Phoenicians come back
after 2 years and report that at one
point during their journey the sun rose
and set to starboard. (This would be
at the Cape of Good Hope.) Herodotos,
being a flat earther, says he does not believe them. This is how we know the trip
actually took place.
Last time I met Steve Mann..
on
License to Sit
·
· Score: 2
I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
The man can so easily talk your ears off,
that it's easy to be intimidated by him
and walk off, which I did. Later I learned
who he was, and soon he was en route to
Toronto. Pity. It's well worth it to have
your ears talked off by him. Glad to
see he hasn't changed a bit.
As a side note, is there a legal test for "computer geek?"
Yes. Someone who can write DeCSS on his own.
One of the important battles here is to
make sure that "computer geeks" do not
become a legally privileged class.
Note how it is the "computer geeks"
who are fighting to make sure they do
not become privileged.
Slashdot Mirror
Congradulations, fellas.
See "All your base are belong to us"
spelled in Martian rocks.
On a more serious note: erosion patterns
on earth are well-studied and characterised.
Not so on Mars. 100 years from now every
formation on Mars will have an explanation.
Iran is currently awash with Afghani heroin.
Things are not going well, and that is part of
why the crackdown is happening. Iranians
are using these cybercafes to communicate
their discontent to the world and to themselves,
and crime is one of the thigns causing it.
Watch Citizen Kane, specifically the
childhood scene. There are many details
that were put there in order to show Charlie's
relationship with the three other characters
(while Charlie plays in the yard pretending to
be a Union soldier, his mother opens the
window to hear him, and his father later
closes it to shut the draft). Welles put those
details in to show to which of the two Charlie
was closer.
Try to show these details if you have to
display the movie on a screen and capture
the scene with an analog recorder.
That's why I advocated sexh as the new name.
Embarassing for tech support,
but damn easy to remember.
For instance, in Muslim countries women aren't leered at and treated as sex objects, because society conditions them not to.
You are wrong. You don't see American women
shy away from a mastectomy (in case of breast
cancer) for fear of losing their husband's
favor. You do see that in Muslim countries.
Prior to Columbine, I had joked
about improving the Boston skyline
by giving the Pru this treatment.
Now.. If this thing is built,
somebody's bound to try 747ing into it.
They exist. Usually with gear mechanisms
(remember those Lego blocks?) that run
along the shaft and are used by gears on
the cab (with onboard motor).
What I wonder is: what if a typhoon
(or typhoon-earthquake combo) gets this
sucker?
Prior to the Big Asian Crash came the
Big Asian Bubble (natch) which was the
prompt for the Petronas.
If this is a harbinger of an even bigger
bubble, I'm stocking up on those second-hand
Y2K goodies.
For Princeton not to DTRT here
would be far more expensive in the long run.
Of all the people who deserve to be given
the squeeze in this economy, television
networks have got to rank in the top.
The phreak who told John Draper
(i.e. Captain Crunch) that one
can whistle the 2600 tone was
blind. No, really.
You should realize that using advertising
as a way to pay for radio and television was
David Sarnoff's idea, and it was greeted with
such skepticism that he had to leave Marconi
Radio and start his own company to set it up.
In many other countries television owners have
to pay a regular fee that goes to pay for the
government stations. (Or had to..)
However, in Israel, if they detect a TV oscillator
from your apartment they don't bust down doors
over it. It's not worth it.
Police investigating the vandalism and
rapes of Woodstock '99 have posted images on
the Web. Quite frankly, sending cops to a live
crime scene with digital cameras (or using press
photos), or cops soliciting images from bystanders, bothers me not one bit.
Just sayin'.
Crime in the US declined considerably in the 90's, without CCTV. While CCTV didn't cause the rise in crime in Britain (Theodore Dalrymple has some ideas on what did), it is not that good an answer to it.
#define RANT 1
#define BLEARYNESS 1
Software comes in two forms nowadays, it seems:
1. "Not for mission critical applications."
and
2. "We told you it's not for mission critical applications!"
This needs to change. There needs to be a
grade of software that its programmers will
stand behind. It should be governed
by slow and laborious reviews, written by
programmers certified for it. In other words,
we need a software version of the rigors of
civil engineering. (How often does a bridge come
with a disclaimer?) It should be expensive,
(for enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,
but also the price gets steep), and it should
come without deadlines. When a piece of software
can kill, the author should not be afraid to
miss his deadlines.
I saw the northern lights last night,
for the first time in my life. It was
beautiful. Too bad my camera couldn't
catch it. But to be in NM to see it was
a special touch.
If you take Hannum's code, unwrap
that macro, and run it through
c2eng, you get 92 lines of English.
Small enough for a t-shirt.
The link to Electronic Frontiers
Australia is misspelled.
Long time exile from Oz here, wondering
if that is related to SA being the
first state to get this daft.
1. In the Midrashim (Jewish legends from
0 through 300 AD) there's a story of a rabbi
who joins an Arab on the trade routes and
reaches the place where the earth meets the sky.
This should be no surprise, as Jewish cosmology
started out derived from Babylonian cosmology,
with a Heaven, Earth, and Sheol.
2. Herodotos discusses a Phoenician ship
that circled Africa (clockwise)
in the heydey of the
Persian empire. The Phoenicians come back
after 2 years and report that at one
point during their journey the sun rose
and set to starboard. (This would be
at the Cape of Good Hope.) Herodotos,
being a flat earther, says he does not believe them. This is how we know the trip
actually took place.
I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life.
The man can so easily talk your ears off,
that it's easy to be intimidated by him
and walk off, which I did. Later I learned
who he was, and soon he was en route to
Toronto. Pity. It's well worth it to have
your ears talked off by him. Glad to
see he hasn't changed a bit.
It doesn't matter whether we use Kafka
or Orwell to explain these issues to
the general public, when Joe Sixpack
hasn't read either of them.
I hope I'm wrong.