In 1986 I flew from LA to Toronto via Chicago with an Atari 400. You might remember they had the slot for the cartridge completely encased in Aluminum. In Chicago going north they freaked out at this and made me open it up. Ok. On the way back, at Chicago going south I was carrying a 100 year old sterling fish serving knife and fork, they REALLY freaked out over this and damn near didn't let me on the plane. Sure it looks deadly but it's ornate and not even remotely sharp. They ignored the Atari.
The last flight I was on they xrayed my stuff then hand inspected all the crap in my pockets, including a leather keycase with a zippered compartment. The nice but really dumb lady opened the keycase, felt it through and through and handed it back to me without openeing the zipper where she would have found a sterling Tiffany Swiss army knife. Helloooooooo?
My mother once had a pair of nail scissors confiscated. She bought a new set inside the airport at one of those cheesy airport stores once she was past security.
The point is the secutity searches are remarkably inconsistant.
And wern't really terribly significant to the overall evolution of man in the big scheme of thigns.
Smithsonian magaznine once ran an article on exotic fruits (cherimoya, starfruit etc) and the next months issue had a letter from an irate redenck asking them why they did this and didn't run an article about AMERICAN foods. The magazines response was that the only native America foods were blueberries, cranberries and jerusalem artichokes.
Actually I think there were 5, but don't rememeber the other two (and am not really sure cranberries was actually one of them).
Consumer NTSC sucks. Broadcast NTSC is fookin amazing. I worked at Sony Canada in the broadcast center for a while and seeing video come off a D2 deck into a DVM monitor you'd never recognize it as NTSC.
I also found a non NTSC HDTV VTR and monitor in the back room that was in for repair from the National Film Board and loaded a tape and pressed play. MY GOD! The color bars at the beginning were so crisp you could have cut them with a razor blade.
This was 1991. I note with disgust HDTV is still not out some 13 years later; widescreen NTSC doesn't cut it, sorry.
Disclaimer: if you see commercials on CBC that's my software that compiles and plays those dub reels to air. But don't look at me I don't watch TV.
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But this wasn't exactly my first computer, that happened to be an IBM 1130 with punched cards, a 2501 card reader (the fast one!) and an 1132 printer (the slow one!) in 1970. Later we upgraded to a 5 megabyte multi platter drive and a Logicon ripoff of a 1403 printer for about 100K.
Our beast had 8K of honest to God core. Typing in almost any of the McCraken FORTRAN progams of the day was a non starter - they wouldn't run in 8K.
I learned I/O double buffering on that machine, wrote a program called "news" that did a bulletin board thing, learned why reentrancy was important, learned what macros were, what index registers did and could single step program through the console. It had lights and switches. I miss lights and switches.
Of course I was supposed to be going to math, english and history classes, but somehow I muddled through.
I have pictures. If sufficiently provoked I can produce them.
Leo Schwab, who hangs out here occasionally ran afoul of Pixar in 1987 over Red's Dream.
I can recommend Leo as a houseguest. He fixed my toilet that year as well when I put him up so he could attend some convention in Anaheim. What a multi-talented guy.
In almost every technical community I belong to (which is many) spam is the overwhelming # 1 problem. We've tried everything; few things work well and at the end of the day there's still a large amount of incoming data I pay for (94% last month) that had to get here just to be filtered out. I operate a lot of mailing lists, some of which are older than some of the people posting here and operate many many public legacy addresses. I get about thousands of spams a day to my own personal mailbox, about 40-100 a day make it through my filters; if I maintain them in near real time only about 30 a day get through. There are several hundred addresses here with similar spam loads. Unmetered commercial connections are almost unheard of here in Canada, I pay by the byte. This is starting to get very expensive.
While I do spend time every day fighting spam I will admit to having been lax about sending mail to abuse@-the-usual-offenders.domain
Is it worth trying to organize a concerted effort to organize, at the very least, the/. community to write to abuse@ for every single piece of spam for at least a week, and perhaps longer - maybe a month.
I realise this won't help the coopted PCs, but I'd be happey to get verizon, comcast, attbi and the like to do something. My mail filters are bidirectional; they apply to both ingress and egress. Nobody has spammed from any of my servers, ever. (I don't have dialin users and am very careful who I hand out accounts to. I have to know you well for you to get an account here)
If every ISP had egress filtering and spammers lost their connectivity very quickly there would be no spam.
Somebody is providing connectivity to these spam happy people and there are far more of us than there are of them....
There may be a price to pay for this. The more active anti spammers I know get an abnormally large number of attempted breakins and hacks.
Forwarned is forarmed. But I think perhaps it's worth a try.
If you go back and read your net.history you'd see this was a predictable outcome to a meeting of Tramposch (WIPO) Shaw (ITU) and Heath (ISOC) at an OECD meeting in Ottawa in 1996.
Don't kid yourselves, the UN knows it can't do this, the ITU, who have long been seeking relevence in a post TCP/IP workd will be their instrument.
As one of the founders of the alternative root movement I couldn't be happier about this. The more control that is siggested the more people relalize their own DNS servers edge control the internet and that there is no central control.
Under his plan, the United States would have permanent presidency of an Icann oversight committee. The International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, and the International Chamber of Commerce would also have permanent membership, as would the World Intellectual Property Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development."
I think the ITU controlling the net is wonderfull. I could't be happier about this.
For those of you who are serious, go read Malamud's account of the ITU. And keep in mind how sleazy these guys are.
Any of you who want to be a publically accessible nameserver for the ORSC root zone, drop me a line. Apparantly we're getting to be a bit popular and need to spread out the load a bit. Yo u guys are starting to chew up quite a bit of bandwidth.
"Also, we've done well with Reduce and Recycle, but how are we doing with Re-use? It seems to me that much rad "waste" is just a resource for which nobody has tried hard enough to find a use"
1) Boyer moore (sp?) search algorithm. 2) The one - that I forgot the name of - that says when you have a list of stuff and somebody picks something, move it up one position in the list. Over time the most commonly picked ones are at the top.
These were published, I think, in the CACM in the 80s.
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In 1986 I flew from LA to Toronto via Chicago with an Atari 400. You might remember they had the slot for the cartridge completely encased in Aluminum. In Chicago going north they freaked out at this and made me open it up. Ok. On the way back, at Chicago going south I was carrying a 100 year old sterling fish serving knife and fork, they REALLY freaked out over this and damn near didn't let me on the plane. Sure it looks deadly but it's ornate and not even remotely sharp. They ignored the Atari.
The last flight I was on they xrayed my stuff then hand inspected all the crap in my pockets, including a leather keycase with a zippered compartment. The nice but really dumb lady opened the keycase, felt it through and through and handed it back to me without openeing the zipper where she would have found a sterling Tiffany Swiss army knife. Helloooooooo?
My mother once had a pair of nail scissors confiscated. She bought a new set inside the airport at one of those cheesy airport stores once she was past security.
The point is the secutity searches are remarkably inconsistant.
My 9 year old daugher bought me a hammer. I opened it, thanked her and she said "that's cause you broke mine you bastard, now I can borrow yours".
And wern't really terribly significant to the overall evolution of man in the big scheme of thigns.
Smithsonian magaznine once ran an article on exotic fruits (cherimoya, starfruit etc) and the next months issue had a letter from an irate redenck asking them why they did this and didn't run an article about AMERICAN foods. The magazines response was that the only native America foods were blueberries, cranberries and jerusalem artichokes.
Actually I think there were 5, but don't rememeber the other two (and am not really sure cranberries was actually one of them).
Oh come on. Nearly everybody dated your sister.
Consumer NTSC sucks. Broadcast NTSC is fookin amazing. I worked at Sony Canada in the broadcast center for a while and seeing video come off a D2 deck into a DVM monitor you'd never recognize it as NTSC.
I also found a non NTSC HDTV VTR and monitor in the back room that was in for repair from the National Film Board and loaded a tape and pressed play. MY GOD! The color bars at the beginning were so crisp you could have cut them with a razor blade.
This was 1991. I note with disgust HDTV is still not out some 13 years later; widescreen NTSC doesn't cut it, sorry.
Disclaimer: if you see commercials on CBC that's my software that compiles and plays those dub reels to air. But don't look at me I don't watch TV.
But this wasn't exactly my first computer, that happened to be an IBM 1130 with punched cards, a 2501 card reader (the fast one!) and an 1132 printer (the slow one!) in 1970. Later we upgraded to a 5 megabyte multi platter drive and a Logicon ripoff of a 1403 printer for about 100K.
Our beast had 8K of honest to God core. Typing in almost any of the McCraken FORTRAN progams of the day was a non starter - they wouldn't run in 8K.
I learned I/O double buffering on that machine, wrote a program called "news" that did a bulletin board thing, learned why reentrancy was important, learned what macros were, what index registers did and could single step program through the console. It had lights and switches. I miss lights and switches.
Of course I was supposed to be going to math, english and history classes, but somehow I muddled through.
I have pictures. If sufficiently provoked I can produce them.
Gee, that's only, what 15 year old technology? I guess it's not legitimate until it's released as Microsoft use.NET (tm) ?
"Duh. Double Duh" - Weemba
_The Wizard of Speed and Time_ should be a lesson; God help anybody that tries this. Really.
Leo Schwab, who hangs out here occasionally ran afoul of Pixar in 1987 over Red's Dream.
I can recommend Leo as a houseguest. He fixed my toilet that year as well when I put him up so he could attend some convention in Anaheim. What a multi-talented guy.
I'm doing some research on a few things.
Got it.
My newsfeed is hosed. no usenet for me, for now.
send me mail
You people have names ?
What if we all did this?
/. community to write to abuse@ for every single piece of spam for at least a week, and perhaps longer - maybe a month.
In almost every technical community I belong to (which is many) spam is the overwhelming # 1 problem. We've tried everything; few things work well and at the end of the day there's still a large amount of incoming data I pay for (94% last month) that had to get here just to be filtered out. I operate a lot of mailing lists, some of which are older than some of the people posting here and operate many many public legacy addresses. I get about thousands of spams a day to my own personal mailbox, about 40-100 a day make it through my filters; if I maintain them in near real time only about 30 a day get through. There are several hundred addresses here with similar spam loads. Unmetered commercial connections are almost unheard of here in Canada, I pay by the byte. This is starting to get very expensive.
While I do spend time every day fighting spam I will admit to having been lax about sending mail to abuse@-the-usual-offenders.domain
Is it worth trying to organize a concerted effort to organize, at the very least, the
I realise this won't help the coopted PCs, but I'd be happey to get verizon, comcast, attbi and the like to do something. My mail filters are bidirectional; they apply to both ingress and egress. Nobody has spammed from any of my servers, ever. (I don't have dialin users and am very careful who I hand out accounts to. I have to know you well for you to get an account here)
If every ISP had egress filtering and spammers lost their connectivity very quickly there would be no spam.
Somebody is providing connectivity to these spam happy people and there are far more of us than there are of them....
There may be a price to pay for this. The more active anti spammers I know get an abnormally large number of attempted breakins and hacks.
Forwarned is forarmed. But I think perhaps it's worth a try.
Until MIT sends me more spam than China does that is.
I own my piece, you own your piece, there is no "public" component.
If you go back and read your net.history you'd see this was a predictable outcome to a meeting of Tramposch (WIPO) Shaw (ITU) and Heath (ISOC) at an OECD meeting in Ottawa in 1996.
Don't kid yourselves, the UN knows it can't do this, the ITU, who have long been seeking relevence in a post TCP/IP workd will be their instrument.
As one of the founders of the alternative root movement I couldn't be happier about this. The more control that is siggested the more people relalize their own DNS servers edge control the internet and that there is no central control.
"Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh plans to propose, at the private meeting, that Icann be placed under the umbrella of the United Nations communications task force, which gives equal status to government, private sector and nongovernmental organizations.
Under his plan, the United States would have permanent presidency of an Icann oversight committee. The International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, and the International Chamber of Commerce would also have permanent membership, as would the World Intellectual Property Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development."
Looks like they're IAHC'ing IAHC.
IBM 1130. Punched cards. 1971.
What a stupid instruction set. Life didn't get good until I'd worked past PDP-8's and got onto PDP-11's
and it's been all downhill since then.
Segments are for worms. BALR this, bitch.
Is it just me or are we recycling 20 year old usenet posts?
I wrote embedded software for 25 years, in assembler with no O/S. This is one of the scariest things I've ever heard, and about the stupidest.
Literally, the LAST thing ATM firmware needs is Windows.
From this day on I will not use a Diebold ATM machine again, ever. They are not, in my opinion, safe to use.
Baaaaaaaaaaa.
I think the ITU controlling the net is wonderfull. I could't be happier about this.
For those of you who are serious, go read Malamud's account of the ITU. And keep in mind how sleazy these guys are.
Any of you who want to be a publically accessible nameserver for the ORSC root zone, drop me a line. Apparantly we're getting to be a bit popular and need to spread out the load a bit. Yo u guys are starting to chew up quite a bit of bandwidth.
"Also, we've done well with Reduce and Recycle, but how are we doing with Re-use? It seems to me that much rad "waste" is just a resource for which nobody has tried hard enough to find a use"
The SCO building needs a new lobby floor I hear.
1) Boyer moore (sp?) search algorithm.
2) The one - that I forgot the name of - that says when you have a list of stuff and somebody picks something, move it up one position in the list. Over time the most commonly picked ones are at the top.
These were published, I think, in the CACM in the 80s.
He may be one of my better friends and a bit starkers but his V8 shit does work well and without the V6 hassles.
IP addresses are the least of my concerns.
And 2,000,000 person hours of design by committee won't fix that bloated piece of shit.
There are lots more miles left in the V4 core transport though that people are just figuring out.
You don't need v6 to use 128 bit addressing.