I know that there's a lot of jobs out there for truckers now, but I bet their endpoints or cycles don't really change much. Why not automate those first? Or perhaps the trucks could be replaced with large conveyor-belt systems that follow the current freeway routes, and have similar numbers of workers.
After that's done, a lot of the long-range traffic burden has been reduced. Then new vehicles can be equipped with a four-pole sensor system: on two diagonally-opposed corners, there are antennae that simultaneously broadcast a randomly-generated n-digit number. On the other two corners, there are receivers. With this setup, the approximate size and location of any vehicle can be determined. With a 100-foot broadcast radius, most multi-vehicle collisions could be automatically avoided. Roadway boundaries could be determined by broadcasting points set up to broadcast a specific number (like 1).
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It is that huge chasm between 'edit' and 'command' modes, along with the "optimizations" in command mode that are geared towards the QWERTY keyboard layout (HJKL for movement? not so easy/intuitive in Dvorak-* layouts...) that keep me away from vi. By 'chasm', I mean the fact that you have to jump all the way to the escape key and then come back. And what about being in command mode and (accidently) trying to enter text? Suddenly you've just executed some set of commands (which can presumably be undone), but you don't necessarily realize it right away. Oh... and if your only complaint is that the Ctrl key is difficult to reach, why not remap it in place of Caps Lock (or just switch the mapping of the two)?
I'm not going to claim that emacs is the epitome of greatness, nor that vi is evil. It's just that emacs seems to work a lot better for me than vi does.
For the sites I do traffic analysis for, I've noticed that certain end-users will have their IP address change during a session (i.e., between one page request and another, often within minutes or even seconds of each other). AOL users seem to be in this situation, along with one other major ISP (I forget which). When the IP changes that often, I started trying to figure out other ways to count unique visitors. I still haven't come up with anything particularly good.
So, if the main users of the sites in TFA are from AOL (or some such), the 10 to 1 effect is one of the likely possibilities.
However, TFA does appear to use speculation rather than actual numbers...
In a broader sense, 'this administration' really refers to the current state of (US) government, the one that's had its politicians bought by industry many times over in (US) history (Rockefeller is a name that comes to mind, along with steel industry...). In what sense has any of this changed appreciably within the last 100 years? New business arenas, same old tactics.
Now, if there were a way to effect permanent positive change on that model, I'd readily support it...
As funny as it is to say that, it doesn't address the poster's question. It might be good to avoid working with this 'broken' machine -- so broken that the app. can't be filled out? so broken that it's a privacy violation to be required to use it? not sure what the poster means by 'broken'... -- and the manager said no. So asking for alternate options (including potential legal recourse) seems reasonable.
I think the 'why do I need to know how to use a computer to stock shelves' question is one potential argument, and the poster is looking for others.
I tried the "uberman's sleep schedule" for two weeks about three years ago. The first week was rough, but the second went pretty well. The rigidity really is a crucial factor... I overslept once and couldn't get back into the schedule (on the 13th or 14th day).
I've been working up a plan to get a schedule like this going again, but it's really tricky due to the various circumstances of real life... separate weekend activities/schedules from the rest of the week, parties or dates might last more than three hours... it's almost a catch-22 scenario for everyone past the age of four or so.
But the 'thirty minutes every four hours' schedule isn't the only alternative... as another poster mentioned, sleeping in a couple separate blocks also works -- e.g., a 3-1-2-2 schedule (a total of eight hours sleep with one block of 3 hours, a block of 1 hour, and so on), or similar. I've heard rumors from some psychology friends that the most effective sleep schedule is different for each person; perhaps experimenting with a few representative schedules is worth trying.
There is some good discussion on this very topic on everything2, just follow the wikipedia link through (e2 probably doesn't have quite as much server power): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uberman_sleep_schedul e.
Soooo... the state becomes a bottleneck. Sounds like a simple DoS consisting of billions of email addresses (automated/repeated) could take out most implementations pretty quickly.
That, or a 'fence' spammer could negotiate with other spammers and send lists to this system, diff the 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable', and pass out the 'acceptable' addresses to any spammer that could be affected by the law, then pass out the 'unacceptable' addresses to the rest. This is the same as providing a list of 'kid email addresses' to 'anyone who wants them'.
I've found that debugging loops can be tedious in most of the 'normal' ways of going about it. I finally got sick of lots of 'print' output and discovered that using 'warn' statements and trapping the '__WARN__' signal (using a BEGIN) provided an especially effective method of debugging loops: store the warning text as the key of a hash where the value is incremented each time. Inside an END block, write the contents of the hash to your favorite stream.
This method will debug loops of all kinds, and if each 'warn' is labeled well, it's very easy to see what happened.
(Note: the above may or may not depend on the use of '#!/usr/bin/perl -w' (warnings) as your interpreter.)
No kidding! And why would it be illegal for me to pull out a guitar/piano, pick out chords/notes that I find to fit the song, and post those with the lyrics I've been able to discern? It's like the industry forgets that fan activity is what keeps people adopting and buying their products...
Not sure what you want, but if the html/css is yours, you can add css sections to cover the:hover attribute (like a:link:hover, etc.). Using a global:hover isn't usually all that helpful though (for color changes anyways).
Otherwise, good point... if Microsoft lost every one of its disgruntled employees, it would barely register (except for the high-profile ones, of course).
Normally I'd side with all those screaming "DUPE!", but this is a new article on theregister about this issue (1200 GMT 2005-09-01), so it's not like the links or even the summary are duped. Especially since this time they're talking about the recall rather than the discovery of the virus.
As an aside, what was up with the first article? A link to a babelfish translation... was no english version available? If that's all we had two or three days ago, it seems to me that this new article reference is a good thing.
Considering the type of meals I eat, ~$20 is most definitely in the ballpark of a week of meals, and ~$30 would cover a week for me for sure. But that's all on a tight budget in the US; I'm sure that for the Malaysians that same ~$20 to ~$30 would make for luxurious eating for that one or two weeks.
But then I'd rather buy a game where there's a good chance of many hours of game-time with good replay value... most movies don't have either from what I can see.
I for one will start practicing some (more) of these basic things. While the 'confidence' comment was listed as a neurofeedback result, practicing healthy eating, exercising, and doing mental 'workouts' will probably have a similar effect.
That, and just like any other 'typical' guy hanging out on/. I'm desperate for some real female attention...;-)
The easy answer is to have one in-house server as a mirror of a 'real' update server, then point in-house machines at the in-house update server. All the major distributions I've worked with (debian, redhat, suse) have the ability to point the local machine at any update server.
Since copyright is a 'legal monopoly' on a given 'work', it should be severely limited:
- limited in time (other poster(s) have covered this): probably 5 years and only a single (lesser?) renewal available
- must always be attributed to a single person, never a corporation or an estate (but is otherwise entirely transferable)
- a 'derivative work' has a shorter limitation, say 2 years, again with a single (further limited?) renewal
- if a given work has a patent covering it, it cannot be copyrighted (and filing a patent causes copyright to be lost); e.g., the source code for a given software application cannot be copyrighted if the application has been patented
- a copyright holder has at most 6 (12) months to engage a copyright violation, i.e., legal action must start within 6 months of discovery of said violation and within 12 months of the time of the violation itself
There seems to be plenty wrong with copyright laws as they are, but those are a start...
Good argument, in the midst of some other good arguments countering it. There's a couple different levels of "the website's author put this here" though.
First, there's the explicit "website author makes a direct contract with a single entity for a specific image (cycle)/flash cycle". Megatokyo currently works this way, for example. I don't block anything there (yet) since the ads have already been culled for flashy/jittery/annoyance factors.
Then there's hosting frames, where the website's author doesn't necessarily control the whole page presented to the end-user (like keenspace, I think). The site author(s) may or may not have ads within their space, but the outer frame does. I block the outer frame items on these, usually because the second major kind of ads are the ones that appear there.
The second major kind of ads are the "passed around to every advertiser" kind, like the atdmt.com, advertising.com, doubleclick.net, etc. kind. I block these without a second thought, as they do not appear to be culled for content whatsoever.
No social right to block them? I beg to differ. Same social right as I have to turn my radio down during ads (i.e., replace ads with silence), or to change the station. Same social right I have to turn the TV off or mute it during commercials. Actually, I have to modify that. Same social right I have to not own or purposely watch a TV.
Doh! s/none of the stock styles/none of the 0.65 stock styles/. But it shouldn't matter, as the going claim is that the style engine is backwards compatible. Oh well.
Normally I'd agree. In this case, blackbox being as lightweight as it is, and having very little in the way of external dependencies, I went for the upgrade as soon as I saw it. Not a mistake per se, except that almost none of the stock styles work properly (read: invisible menu text, font/border/margin sizes changing wildly). Fortunately, one of the stock styles still worked well enough to navigate. I drilled through the new wiki site to find the 'full example' style for 0.70 and dropped that in. The second unfortunate turn is that the full example also has the invisible text problem. After about an hour of tweaking and paring down it was usable, but the whole experience leaves me with, "yep, you're right to hold off on this one."
Of course, it's possible that there are some conflicts with old (0.65) files on that box...
The "people trusting their intuition" part is pretty much right-on, but throwing out intuition is a bad idea too.
I started playing with an open question in mathematics a while back (the "twin prime conjecture"). Within the first month of working on it, I had arrived at quite a few interesting conclusions related to the problem and come up with some new and unique (to me) ways of looking at it.
I've spent the past four years proving that several of those initial observations were correct. Repeatedly.
The "gut reactions" that I had in that first month got me a long ways into the problem. Taking the time to prove the various results took me a long ways further: it got me less interested in the problem (a long-term form of ADD?), it vetted out many of my mistaken reactions (there were plenty of these), showed me how strong a couple of the initial month's ideas are, and allowed me to see the broader scope of the problem and the related ideas I came up with.
But that's the thing in mathematics: with any given problem, you try what you know about (gut reactions); if that doesn't work and you decide to keep working at it, you may have an incredibly difficult process to work through to find the solution (if one exists), but that part of the process is valuable in itself for when you might be faced with a similar problem in the future.
Same for "gut reactions" in real life... just like I didn't rush out and publish my twin primes findings right away, it's usually not a good idea to make irreversible decisions right away. You just keep the gut reactions in mind as you move forward and make decisions based on the reconciliation of your initial reactions with long-term knowledge of the subject.
"Carrying the analogy further..." I think the terms work out better as "the newest virus/spyware that harvests info becomes a phishing net" and "the development machine for new viruses/spyware becomes a phishing boat". The 'ocean' and 'average AOLer' are spot-on, but 'smarter geeks' could potentially be viewed rather as the smaller phish that the 'net' just couldn't catch (where relative phish size does not directly relate to catch value).
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I know that there's a lot of jobs out there for truckers now, but I bet their endpoints or cycles don't really change much. Why not automate those first? Or perhaps the trucks could be replaced with large conveyor-belt systems that follow the current freeway routes, and have similar numbers of workers.
After that's done, a lot of the long-range traffic burden has been reduced. Then new vehicles can be equipped with a four-pole sensor system: on two diagonally-opposed corners, there are antennae that simultaneously broadcast a randomly-generated n-digit number. On the other two corners, there are receivers. With this setup, the approximate size and location of any vehicle can be determined. With a 100-foot broadcast radius, most multi-vehicle collisions could be automatically avoided. Roadway boundaries could be determined by broadcasting points set up to broadcast a specific number (like 1).
It is that huge chasm between 'edit' and 'command' modes, along with the "optimizations" in command mode that are geared towards the QWERTY keyboard layout (HJKL for movement? not so easy/intuitive in Dvorak-* layouts...) that keep me away from vi. By 'chasm', I mean the fact that you have to jump all the way to the escape key and then come back. And what about being in command mode and (accidently) trying to enter text? Suddenly you've just executed some set of commands (which can presumably be undone), but you don't necessarily realize it right away. Oh... and if your only complaint is that the Ctrl key is difficult to reach, why not remap it in place of Caps Lock (or just switch the mapping of the two)?
I'm not going to claim that emacs is the epitome of greatness, nor that vi is evil. It's just that emacs seems to work a lot better for me than vi does.
For the sites I do traffic analysis for, I've noticed that certain end-users will have their IP address change during a session (i.e., between one page request and another, often within minutes or even seconds of each other). AOL users seem to be in this situation, along with one other major ISP (I forget which). When the IP changes that often, I started trying to figure out other ways to count unique visitors. I still haven't come up with anything particularly good.
So, if the main users of the sites in TFA are from AOL (or some such), the 10 to 1 effect is one of the likely possibilities.
However, TFA does appear to use speculation rather than actual numbers...
In a broader sense, 'this administration' really refers to the current state of (US) government, the one that's had its politicians bought by industry many times over in (US) history (Rockefeller is a name that comes to mind, along with steel industry...). In what sense has any of this changed appreciably within the last 100 years? New business arenas, same old tactics.
Now, if there were a way to effect permanent positive change on that model, I'd readily support it...
As funny as it is to say that, it doesn't address the poster's question. It might be good to avoid working with this 'broken' machine -- so broken that the app. can't be filled out? so broken that it's a privacy violation to be required to use it? not sure what the poster means by 'broken'... -- and the manager said no. So asking for alternate options (including potential legal recourse) seems reasonable.
I think the 'why do I need to know how to use a computer to stock shelves' question is one potential argument, and the poster is looking for others.
Am I the only one that read the title like this: "Gecko has such a large memory footprint that advances in memory technology were necessary..."?
Not that I actually notice Gecko being a memory hog or anything...
I tried the "uberman's sleep schedule" for two weeks about three years ago. The first week was rough, but the second went pretty well. The rigidity really is a crucial factor... I overslept once and couldn't get back into the schedule (on the 13th or 14th day).
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I've been working up a plan to get a schedule like this going again, but it's really tricky due to the various circumstances of real life... separate weekend activities/schedules from the rest of the week, parties or dates might last more than three hours... it's almost a catch-22 scenario for everyone past the age of four or so.
But the 'thirty minutes every four hours' schedule isn't the only alternative... as another poster mentioned, sleeping in a couple separate blocks also works -- e.g., a 3-1-2-2 schedule (a total of eight hours sleep with one block of 3 hours, a block of 1 hour, and so on), or similar. I've heard rumors from some psychology friends that the most effective sleep schedule is different for each person; perhaps experimenting with a few representative schedules is worth trying.
There is some good discussion on this very topic on everything2, just follow the wikipedia link through (e2 probably doesn't have quite as much server power): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uberman_sleep_schedu
Soooo... the state becomes a bottleneck. Sounds like a simple DoS consisting of billions of email addresses (automated/repeated) could take out most implementations pretty quickly.
That, or a 'fence' spammer could negotiate with other spammers and send lists to this system, diff the 'acceptable' and 'unacceptable', and pass out the 'acceptable' addresses to any spammer that could be affected by the law, then pass out the 'unacceptable' addresses to the rest. This is the same as providing a list of 'kid email addresses' to 'anyone who wants them'.
I've found that debugging loops can be tedious in most of the 'normal' ways of going about it. I finally got sick of lots of 'print' output and discovered that using 'warn' statements and trapping the '__WARN__' signal (using a BEGIN) provided an especially effective method of debugging loops: store the warning text as the key of a hash where the value is incremented each time. Inside an END block, write the contents of the hash to your favorite stream.
This method will debug loops of all kinds, and if each 'warn' is labeled well, it's very easy to see what happened.
(Note: the above may or may not depend on the use of '#!/usr/bin/perl -w' (warnings) as your interpreter.)
No kidding! And why would it be illegal for me to pull out a guitar/piano, pick out chords/notes that I find to fit the song, and post those with the lyrics I've been able to discern? It's like the industry forgets that fan activity is what keeps people adopting and buying their products...
Not sure what you want, but if the html/css is yours, you can add css sections to cover the :hover attribute (like a:link:hover, etc.). Using a global :hover isn't usually all that helpful though (for color changes anyways).
Nitpick... 200/61000 ~ 0.003 = 0.3%.
Otherwise, good point... if Microsoft lost every one of its disgruntled employees, it would barely register (except for the high-profile ones, of course).
Normally I'd side with all those screaming "DUPE!", but this is a new article on theregister about this issue (1200 GMT 2005-09-01), so it's not like the links or even the summary are duped. Especially since this time they're talking about the recall rather than the discovery of the virus.
As an aside, what was up with the first article? A link to a babelfish translation... was no english version available? If that's all we had two or three days ago, it seems to me that this new article reference is a good thing.
Considering the type of meals I eat, ~$20 is most definitely in the ballpark of a week of meals, and ~$30 would cover a week for me for sure. But that's all on a tight budget in the US; I'm sure that for the Malaysians that same ~$20 to ~$30 would make for luxurious eating for that one or two weeks.
But then I'd rather buy a game where there's a good chance of many hours of game-time with good replay value... most movies don't have either from what I can see.
Err... umm... I guess you mean 28 degrees celsius/centigrade? At 28 degrees fahrenheit I think it would be quite easy to make snow.
I for one will start practicing some (more) of these basic things. While the 'confidence' comment was listed as a neurofeedback result, practicing healthy eating, exercising, and doing mental 'workouts' will probably have a similar effect.
/. I'm desperate for some real female attention... ;-)
That, and just like any other 'typical' guy hanging out on
Always at the beginning? Interesting... (substr($_, 1)).
"... distributed patch management..."
The easy answer is to have one in-house server as a mirror of a 'real' update server, then point in-house machines at the in-house update server. All the major distributions I've worked with (debian, redhat, suse) have the ability to point the local machine at any update server.
Since copyright is a 'legal monopoly' on a given 'work', it should be severely limited:
- limited in time (other poster(s) have covered this): probably 5 years and only a single (lesser?) renewal available
- must always be attributed to a single person, never a corporation or an estate (but is otherwise entirely transferable)
- a 'derivative work' has a shorter limitation, say 2 years, again with a single (further limited?) renewal
- if a given work has a patent covering it, it cannot be copyrighted (and filing a patent causes copyright to be lost); e.g., the source code for a given software application cannot be copyrighted if the application has been patented
- a copyright holder has at most 6 (12) months to engage a copyright violation, i.e., legal action must start within 6 months of discovery of said violation and within 12 months of the time of the violation itself
There seems to be plenty wrong with copyright laws as they are, but those are a start...
Good argument, in the midst of some other good arguments countering it. There's a couple different levels of "the website's author put this here" though.
First, there's the explicit "website author makes a direct contract with a single entity for a specific image (cycle)/flash cycle". Megatokyo currently works this way, for example. I don't block anything there (yet) since the ads have already been culled for flashy/jittery/annoyance factors.
Then there's hosting frames, where the website's author doesn't necessarily control the whole page presented to the end-user (like keenspace, I think). The site author(s) may or may not have ads within their space, but the outer frame does. I block the outer frame items on these, usually because the second major kind of ads are the ones that appear there.
The second major kind of ads are the "passed around to every advertiser" kind, like the atdmt.com, advertising.com, doubleclick.net, etc. kind. I block these without a second thought, as they do not appear to be culled for content whatsoever.
No social right to block them? I beg to differ. Same social right as I have to turn my radio down during ads (i.e., replace ads with silence), or to change the station. Same social right I have to turn the TV off or mute it during commercials. Actually, I have to modify that. Same social right I have to not own or purposely watch a TV.
Yes, but on whose midnight did the 'pranks' start, and on whose noon are they supposed to end?
Doh! s/none of the stock styles/none of the 0.65 stock styles/. But it shouldn't matter, as the going claim is that the style engine is backwards compatible. Oh well.
"... no rush to upgrade... "
Normally I'd agree. In this case, blackbox being as lightweight as it is, and having very little in the way of external dependencies, I went for the upgrade as soon as I saw it. Not a mistake per se, except that almost none of the stock styles work properly (read: invisible menu text, font/border/margin sizes changing wildly). Fortunately, one of the stock styles still worked well enough to navigate. I drilled through the new wiki site to find the 'full example' style for 0.70 and dropped that in. The second unfortunate turn is that the full example also has the invisible text problem. After about an hour of tweaking and paring down it was usable, but the whole experience leaves me with, "yep, you're right to hold off on this one."
Of course, it's possible that there are some conflicts with old (0.65) files on that box...
The "people trusting their intuition" part is pretty much right-on, but throwing out intuition is a bad idea too.
I started playing with an open question in mathematics a while back (the "twin prime conjecture"). Within the first month of working on it, I had arrived at quite a few interesting conclusions related to the problem and come up with some new and unique (to me) ways of looking at it.
I've spent the past four years proving that several of those initial observations were correct. Repeatedly.
The "gut reactions" that I had in that first month got me a long ways into the problem. Taking the time to prove the various results took me a long ways further: it got me less interested in the problem (a long-term form of ADD?), it vetted out many of my mistaken reactions (there were plenty of these), showed me how strong a couple of the initial month's ideas are, and allowed me to see the broader scope of the problem and the related ideas I came up with.
But that's the thing in mathematics: with any given problem, you try what you know about (gut reactions); if that doesn't work and you decide to keep working at it, you may have an incredibly difficult process to work through to find the solution (if one exists), but that part of the process is valuable in itself for when you might be faced with a similar problem in the future.
Same for "gut reactions" in real life... just like I didn't rush out and publish my twin primes findings right away, it's usually not a good idea to make irreversible decisions right away. You just keep the gut reactions in mind as you move forward and make decisions based on the reconciliation of your initial reactions with long-term knowledge of the subject.
"Carrying the analogy further..." I think the terms work out better as "the newest virus/spyware that harvests info becomes a phishing net" and "the development machine for new viruses/spyware becomes a phishing boat". The 'ocean' and 'average AOLer' are spot-on, but 'smarter geeks' could potentially be viewed rather as the smaller phish that the 'net' just couldn't catch (where relative phish size does not directly relate to catch value).