Re:What a scoop! - Good Photoblog example
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Photoblog Revolution
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An intelligent blog is the Synchronicity of Indeterminacy. The blogger combines a randomly selected image with an original one-minute short story inspired by the photo. Amusing and surreal juxtapositions result.
Electoral-vote.com, a leading source of data on the American presidential race, reports having been hit by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks yesterday and today, which is election day in the U.S.
The site, which tracks state-by-state polling data to project the outcome of the presidential race, is operated by academic Andrew Tanenbaum, based in the Netherlands, the author of the Minix microkernel. It was referenced on slashdot.org yesterday (11/1) as well, revealing that Andrew Tanenbaum was the site master
Looks like there is heavy turnout even here in Milwaukee. On the Net also - looks like sites are being hammered.
If you feel even slashdot is being slashdotted today, you're probably right - I've got some graphs on Internet Load and response time http://selfaudit.blogspot.com/2004/11/internet-loa d-during-election-day.htmlat my blog - interestingly, although response times are through the roof and 5 routers have fallen off, overall load is not increased.
Blackboxvoting.org has breaking news that the Diebold machines were hacked 6 weeks ago and Election Officials are asking all servers to be unplugged from the telephone lines & Internet
I'm blogging live today, as usual
The faulty log with 3 missing hours (9:52pm to 1:31am) is here
India conducted a full-scale electronic election earlier this year successfully - few of the EVMs were connected or hacked
If you live in Australia, you are probably more interested in the Melbourne Cup, held every First Tuesday of November - I've just blogged about it - and the winner.
Odds-on favorite, Makybe Diva (11-4) from Great Britain, ridden by G Boss, won the Melbourne Cup for the second time.
Aided by a perfect ride from Glen Boss, who also rode her to victory in last year's Cup, Makybe Diva proved too strong for Irish raider and topweight Vinnie Roe with outsider Zazzman third.
Given that one incubent has held her cup, it might not be too far a stretch to reckon that Mr Bush's odds just improved. Per Instapundit, the Electronic Markets have Mr Bush winning by a nose
Larry King Tonight said that exit polls would start about 1 PM - most reliable information will materialize after 6 PM - stay tuned to the blogosphere - instapundit.com, drudgereport.com, blog.johnkerry.com, www.georgewbush.com/blog
The concept of the phoneme as a classification method and teaching aid was utilized by a reading method called Ladybird in the 1970s. I learnt reading using the Ladybird books - flash cards of common words, with the sound being repeated by the parent - I was reading by 2.
I'm not sure, but there are NLP programs that use this concept to 'learn' language.
Re:This "story" is click bait - but it's topical
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Pre-Election Discussion
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That's primarily because it's top of the mind for everyone.
The tech areas are still covered extensively, including FreeBSD.
More to the topic, though, I'm blogging live on the current Center of the Free World - Milwaukee, where both the Leader and the Contender are right now - Good music, lots of rain, hot coffee and the regular blather.
Tomorrow night will be a long haul, with all the coffee needed.
WiMax may seem like a promising technology for unfettering WiFi, but it is actually more palatable to the large telcos because of the high setup costs for a MAN-scale network.
It is, in effect the new frontier for innovation by companies such as Alvarion. Intel is pushing hard in this areas as they see this domain as an untapped area where they can gain traction.
Of course, WiMax, is being promised as that solution to the perennial problem, the Last Mile , which is kind of what this guy is trying to illustrate.
Unfortunately though, the cost of driving a truck around, far outweighs the benefit of providing bandwidth for 'free' - One is reminded of the old calculation for the bandwidth of a truck, somewhat updated here, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of an Interstellar Truck"
Upper management often issues orders such as "Clean up the system at any cost!" Yet when these same managers get recommendations for pre-emptive security implementation, too often chief information security officers are told, "The budget for this quarter has been exceeded. Ask me again later in the year."
Information security is a challenging and technologically rewarding profession. Unfortunately, those responsible for carrying out information security often are not given the authority and budget to get the work done.
Security is everybody's responsibility. The creation of a secure IT environment is not just the responsibility of your organization's IT staff. Everyone in the organization has the responsibility to respect and implement the corporate security policies.
What's the lesson here? Well, Apple's not on your side, even if you're an Apple customer. If you buy into a proprietary platform where the music industry gets a veto, you're scr0d. Every time you buy an iPod, you are financing legal and technical countermeasures aimed at taking away legitimate features that enable you to do more with your lawfully acquired music and hardware
I'm sorry if you were offended - it was a purely personal preference not intended to offend. The cost alone was a dealbreaker in my mind. Also, I have a jukebox for all my music so uploading it is easier than duplicating all of it.
That being said, the iPod does have excellent design & styling, has a great user interface and that's why we're talking about iPod killers, not Creative-killers.
What bugged me most about the iPod is the not inconsiderable additional outlay I would have to make on cables, adaptors, etc. In my mind at least, the iPOd was dead. Over the last two months, I have picked up two Creative Nomad Muvo TX FM players - they are only 256 MB each - I actually like that because it gives me a constant chance to decide my daily playlist on my computer
Furthermore, The player itself converts effortlessly into a USB drive for those urgent file copy needs. Also, it plays FM, looks slick, has a single-button interface and the wife loves it - two players for $160 total.
Finally, WMP 10 killed my constant usage of iTunes as well mainly because of the Sync List feature.
The news that Apple is willing to turn off features in its iTunes, a la 4.7, is not surprising and I, for one, am glad I do not have an iPod.
There is something to be said about a true multi-party system like India or other democracies, where for the most part, have to govern as a coalition, representing diverse interests and state-level parties, who otherwise might not have a voice.
A good illustration of this came in the inability of the far-right party that held power in India till this year to execute the agenda of their core base, and hew to a 'Common Minimum Programme'
To remind one of the reality of direct voting through electronic machines that did not get hacked in India might be to belabor the obvious, yet it is what happened. The close similarity of the Republicans and Democrats makes one feel they are 'oppo-sames'
I believe something fantastic has already happened - the humorous, social video release of Eminem's Mosh - as I read somewhere on the NET - it makes Fahrenheit 911 look like a Republican recruiting video.
Eminem's appearance on SNL tonight was unremarkable and evidently an attempt at carpe diem, or in this case, carpe jugulum - I've blogged about this point in my blog.
This may be becauseAmerican fear tends to be forward-looking, about the Day After Tomorrow in effect, with a hope of just-in-time salvation, or rapture.
The tendency is also to hope that things can or will only get better.
In effect, the election is seen as an exit hatch to a better ending, or another chance at getting it right.
You dont need a Nader mask - just close your eyes, squint and imagine an old man tolling a warning drum and marching towards a gaggle of union activists & capitalist fatcats - pretty scary, I guess.
The challenge however, is that enterprise-like structures tend to favor controlled dialog over free thought and expression. The calcification of processes becomes in effect a reason to follow them in the first place, rather than a means to derive a result.
An example of what can happen if unchecked collaboration is allowed to proliferate came recently at Wikipedia when the editors 'froze' the entry for George W Bush, due to incessant partisan rewriting of his biography. Other sites one notices as 'frozen' include India.
Edit Wars that could ensue over a page on a wiki, enterprise or otherwise, are a new form of combat, where quite literally, the wars are won with words, not guns. Of course, it raises the question 'Qui custodet, ipsos custodes?', originally 'an excoriation of female perfidy in Juvenal'
First level tech support is terrible - I call up their techie staff - got their number when I needed help setting up my network. Those guys are very knowledgeable.
I use Lingo as my exclusive phone service - I cancelled my POTS line after two days - SBC was very difficult to cancel when I told them I was going to VOIP
I have had absolutely no problems for the last two months. I get an amazing price - $19.99 for unlimited US, Western Europe & Canada, and the first three months absolutely free.
I can't imagine not having the convenience of VOIP. The online bonuses - email voicemail, detailed billing, etc are good too. Ob. referral - contact my id for a ref bonus:)
Does anyone catch the parodies/tributes? Bond music, FF, the whole theme is itself a takeoff/tribute/filch from Alan Moore's the Watchmen & Busier's Astro City - now those are graphic novels I'd recommend over all franchised simulacra
Should do well - Can't wait myself
The impact will be limited because of the restrictive contracts with the music companies - they hold the power.
There's not much flexibility on 49-cent and 99-cent items - the business model of Dollar Tree and more.
The competition might get interesting if one of the online stores decided to specialize in quality indie music - to the extent of introducing a convenient interface that allowed people/indie bands to upload music for free and listeners to listen/purchase/rate music and thereby drive attention to lesser known bands
Slashdot Mirror
An intelligent blog is the Synchronicity of Indeterminacy. The blogger combines a randomly selected image with an original one-minute short story inspired by the photo. Amusing and surreal juxtapositions result.
The site, which tracks state-by-state polling data to project the outcome of the presidential race, is operated by academic Andrew Tanenbaum, based in the Netherlands, the author of the Minix microkernel. It was referenced on slashdot.org yesterday (11/1) as well, revealing that Andrew Tanenbaum was the site master
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Live internet load on my blog
If you feel even slashdot is being slashdotted today, you're probably right - I've got some graphs on Internet Load and response time http://selfaudit.blogspot.com/2004/11/internet-loa d-during-election-day.htmlat my blog - interestingly, although response times are through the roof and 5 routers have fallen off, overall load is not increased.
I'm blogging live today, as usual
The faulty log with 3 missing hours (9:52pm to 1:31am) is here
India conducted a full-scale electronic election earlier this year successfully - few of the EVMs were connected or hacked
Larry King Tonight said that exit polls would start about 1 PM - most reliable information will materialize after 6 PM - stay tuned to the blogosphere - instapundit.com, drudgereport.com, blog.johnkerry.com, www.georgewbush.com/blog
I'm not sure, but there are NLP programs that use this concept to 'learn' language.
The tech areas are still covered extensively, including FreeBSD.
More to the topic, though, I'm blogging live on the current Center of the Free World - Milwaukee, where both the Leader and the Contender are right now - Good music, lots of rain, hot coffee and the regular blather.
Tomorrow night will be a long haul, with all the coffee needed.
It is, in effect the new frontier for innovation by companies such as Alvarion. Intel is pushing hard in this areas as they see this domain as an untapped area where they can gain traction.
This article is informational: http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp%3FArticleID%3D 3753
Of course, WiMax, is being promised as that solution to the perennial problem, the Last Mile , which is kind of what this guy is trying to illustrate.
Unfortunately though, the cost of driving a truck around, far outweighs the benefit of providing bandwidth for 'free' - One is reminded of the old calculation for the bandwidth of a truck, somewhat updated here, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of an Interstellar Truck"
From the article,
Upper management often issues orders such as "Clean up the system at any cost!" Yet when these same managers get recommendations for pre-emptive security implementation, too often chief information security officers are told, "The budget for this quarter has been exceeded. Ask me again later in the year."
Information security is a challenging and technologically rewarding profession. Unfortunately, those responsible for carrying out information security often are not given the authority and budget to get the work done.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02627t.pdfTHere is the definition(pdf) of the Homeland security Dept's responsibility charter, for want of a better word
From another source, possibly not popular in these circles, is a paper on "Security Considerations for Information Security"http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security /bestprac/bpent/sec2/seconaa.mspx
An excerpt:
related: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/30/apple_to_ipod _owners.html
What's the lesson here? Well, Apple's not on your side, even if you're an Apple customer. If you buy into a proprietary platform where the music industry gets a veto, you're scr0d. Every time you buy an iPod, you are financing legal and technical countermeasures aimed at taking away legitimate features that enable you to do more with your lawfully acquired music and hardware
The Google guys had their own Halloween - http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/10/boo-who_3 0.html
Not sure if there was pumpkin pie
That being said, the iPod does have excellent design & styling, has a great user interface and that's why we're talking about iPod killers, not Creative-killers.
Furthermore, The player itself converts effortlessly into a USB drive for those urgent file copy needs. Also, it plays FM, looks slick, has a single-button interface and the wife loves it - two players for $160 total.
Finally, WMP 10 killed my constant usage of iTunes as well mainly because of the Sync List feature.
The news that Apple is willing to turn off features in its iTunes, a la 4.7, is not surprising and I, for one, am glad I do not have an iPod.
Bang! Bang!
I did not - valid point. Care to cite any references if known?
A good illustration of this came in the inability of the far-right party that held power in India till this year to execute the agenda of their core base, and hew to a 'Common Minimum Programme'
To remind one of the reality of direct voting through electronic machines that did not get hacked in India might be to belabor the obvious, yet it is what happened. The close similarity of the Republicans and Democrats makes one feel they are 'oppo-sames'
Eminem's appearance on SNL tonight was unremarkable and evidently an attempt at carpe diem, or in this case, carpe jugulum - I've blogged about this point in my blog.
The tendency is also to hope that things can or will only get better.
In effect, the election is seen as an exit hatch to a better ending, or another chance at getting it right.
Other useful charts are at http://navigators.com/stats.html
A map of global internet connectivity is http://navigators.com/globe16b.gifhere
The real question is - where does the Internet go from here?
More scary though, look at http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/28/the_strangers _scarie.html for a truly scary Halloween costume, that's all too real
The challenge however, is that enterprise-like structures tend to favor controlled dialog over free thought and expression. The calcification of processes becomes in effect a reason to follow them in the first place, rather than a means to derive a result.
An example of what can happen if unchecked collaboration is allowed to proliferate came recently at Wikipedia when the editors 'froze' the entry for George W Bush, due to incessant partisan rewriting of his biography. Other sites one notices as 'frozen' include India.
Edit Wars that could ensue over a page on a wiki, enterprise or otherwise, are a new form of combat, where quite literally, the wars are won with words, not guns. Of course, it raises the question 'Qui custodet, ipsos custodes?', originally 'an excoriation of female perfidy in Juvenal'
First level tech support is terrible - I call up their techie staff - got their number when I needed help setting up my network. Those guys are very knowledgeable.
I have had absolutely no problems for the last two months. I get an amazing price - $19.99 for unlimited US, Western Europe & Canada, and the first three months absolutely free.
I can't imagine not having the convenience of VOIP. The online bonuses - email voicemail, detailed billing, etc are good too. Ob. referral - contact my id for a ref bonus:)
The rates to the rest of the world are good too
Does anyone catch the parodies/tributes? Bond music, FF, the whole theme is itself a takeoff/tribute/filch from Alan Moore's the Watchmen & Busier's Astro City - now those are graphic novels I'd recommend over all franchised simulacra Should do well - Can't wait myself
There's not much flexibility on 49-cent and 99-cent items - the business model of Dollar Tree and more.
The competition might get interesting if one of the online stores decided to specialize in quality indie music - to the extent of introducing a convenient interface that allowed people/indie bands to upload music for free and listeners to listen/purchase/rate music and thereby drive attention to lesser known bands