What's to stop someone concealing an illegal fluid in a compartment hidden by the opaque milk? Or worse, concealing the fluid by swallowing it in a sealed bag?
We could make better use of deep x-ray scanning machines, and trained spotters who stop and interview people who stand out from the crowd in any way. I read yesterday that El Al airlines have been interviewing *all* passengers for years to combat terrorist attacks, and that they have predicted for some time that the rest of the world will end up needing to do the same.
I'm also an INTP, and being surrounded by piles of stuff sounds familiar. Generally each pile (or region of a larger pile) has a common subject, usually a project or task that I'm working on. Context switching between tasks means changing to a different pile. Interestingly my email is also sorted by project in a similar way.
What I have found useful is to have a 'current' version of each email folder, and an 'archive' version containing the same list of folder names for emails that have been dealt with already. I also have an 'ancient history' folder where I keep really old projects out of the way. This way it's more clear what I still need to deal with, but I can search my archive of past dealings with people when necessary. Like you though I find I stick with this organization only for a while, then it all builds up into confusion until I bother to drag the emails over to the archive!
A shredder is best, but if you don't have one then you can at least tear your mail into several pieces through the important details (credit card number, etc). Then put half of the pieces into a wastepaper basket that you only empty occasionally, and the other half straight in with the main trash. That way it at least becomes harder for someone to gather all the pieces and reassemble them to give your full details.
They only rewrite http://www.google.com/, and not http://www.google.com/googlegroups nor http://groups-beta.google.com , so I can see the munged version the parent poster mentioned.
I've realised since my earlier post that you can in fact view the correctly formatted version in the new google groups anyway, by clicking on "show options" followed by "Show original". They do still hide parts of email addresses in this mode, however.
FWIW, I've found that if you go to http://www.google.com/webhp instead, it doesn't seem to transfer you to google.co.uk. Of course that's a longer link to type, though:-)
I imagine they rewrite the link for people that hadn't heard you can limit a search to UK pages. Presumably it only works if your hostname ends with.co.uk, or some domain name that they know is from the UK.
Try the copy on UK Google Groups, which looks much better. Hopefully Google won't alter the link automatically (they now change google.com to google.co.uk in the UK).
We've had a similar transmitter in our house for a few years now, and I do recommend it for parties. Basically, the setup is:
1. Switch on machine with mp3 store 2. Create vast randomised playlist 3. Switch on the transmitter 4. Switch on every radio in the house 5. Open case of beer / chosen drink 6. Party party party!
And voila, synchronised music in every room that wants it.
One issue though is that we have to drop the output power of the transmitter to avoid interfering with anyone else's radio - here in the UK they don't take too kindly to that.
You can still reach any of the pages linked by copying and pasting the link URL into a separate browser window, rather than clicking on it. It looks like they are checking the referer, and only displaying that message if you followed a link specifically from slashdot.org.
You people with 64-bit machines may laugh now, but your time will come! Admittedly you have around 292 billion years to prepare, though...
Seriously, though, are we likely to still be using very many 32-bit processors 33 years from now? I suppose one problem area might be lightweight embedded chips.
Couldn't agree more. My career started as result of those early command line machines, somewhat by accident. I had an Amstrad CPC464 to play games, but got fed up waiting five minutes every time for a game to load from cassette tape. So I started trying to find out what else this machine did, and why the infernal thing always rudely replied "Syntax error" whenever I said "Hello" to it.
A year on I had taught myself enough BASIC to write my own small games, and 15 years on I'm finishing my PhD in Computer Science. But when I see today's computers, I do wonder whether I'd have ended up where I am if that Amstrad had instead been a dumbed-down machine with a "user-friendly" GUI.
Interestingly, I also heard a few years ago that there were some very good software developers starting to appear in developing countries, because they only had old machines to develop on. As I found myself, this makes it more important to write efficient, compact code instead of bloatware. 40Kb of memory and a 4Mhz processor force you to really think about how to get the most out of your machine.
Leaving aside the questionable irony of this software, I do wonder how well it will work in the long term. One of the problems I've already experienced when removing spyware is programs that hijack the anti-spyware software itself, usually by sabotaging the spyware definition files as soon as they are downloaded.
If Microsoft starts distributing this as standard software, should we expect to see more spyware that avoids removal in this way? Will users have to reinstall the software, or run it from a boot disk, every time they want to clean their system?
I've tried several tests and Google seems to be filtering out any query that contains the phrase "mail" and a ".", hence catching "email slashdot.org", "mailer-daemon@domain.com", "mailman frontdoor.org" etc.
Slashdot Mirror
What's to stop someone concealing an illegal fluid in a compartment hidden by the opaque milk? Or worse, concealing the fluid by swallowing it in a sealed bag?
We could make better use of deep x-ray scanning machines, and trained spotters who stop and interview people who stand out from the crowd in any way. I read yesterday that El Al airlines have been interviewing *all* passengers for years to combat terrorist attacks, and that they have predicted for some time that the rest of the world will end up needing to do the same.
I'm also an INTP, and being surrounded by piles of stuff sounds familiar. Generally each pile (or region of a larger pile) has a common subject, usually a project or task that I'm working on. Context switching between tasks means changing to a different pile. Interestingly my email is also sorted by project in a similar way.
What I have found useful is to have a 'current' version of each email folder, and an 'archive' version containing the same list of folder names for emails that have been dealt with already. I also have an 'ancient history' folder where I keep really old projects out of the way. This way it's more clear what I still need to deal with, but I can search my archive of past dealings with people when necessary. Like you though I find I stick with this organization only for a while, then it all builds up into confusion until I bother to drag the emails over to the archive!
A shredder is best, but if you don't have one then you can at least tear your mail into several pieces through the important details (credit card number, etc). Then put half of the pieces into a wastepaper basket that you only empty occasionally, and the other half straight in with the main trash. That way it at least becomes harder for someone to gather all the pieces and reassemble them to give your full details.
They only rewrite http://www.google.com/, and not http://www.google.com/googlegroups nor http://groups-beta.google.com , so I can see the munged version the parent poster mentioned.
I've realised since my earlier post that you can in fact view the correctly formatted version in the new google groups anyway, by clicking on "show options" followed by "Show original". They do still hide parts of email addresses in this mode, however.
FWIW, I've found that if you go to http://www.google.com/webhp instead, it doesn't seem to transfer you to google.co.uk. Of course that's a longer link to type, though :-)
.co.uk, or some domain name that they know is from the UK.
I imagine they rewrite the link for people that hadn't heard you can limit a search to UK pages. Presumably it only works if your hostname ends with
Try the copy on UK Google Groups, which looks much better. Hopefully Google won't alter the link automatically (they now change google.com to google.co.uk in the UK).
;-)
So, about that $5.00...
We've had a similar transmitter in our house for a few years now, and I do recommend it for parties. Basically, the setup is:
1. Switch on machine with mp3 store
2. Create vast randomised playlist
3. Switch on the transmitter
4. Switch on every radio in the house
5. Open case of beer / chosen drink
6. Party party party!
And voila, synchronised music in every room that wants it.
One issue though is that we have to drop the output power of the transmitter to avoid interfering with anyone else's radio - here in the UK they don't take too kindly to that.
You can still reach any of the pages linked by copying and pasting the link URL into a separate browser window, rather than clicking on it. It looks like they are checking the referer, and only displaying that message if you followed a link specifically from slashdot.org.
:-)
Let the slashdotting recommence
You people with 64-bit machines may laugh now, but your time will come! Admittedly you have around 292 billion years to prepare, though...
Seriously, though, are we likely to still be using very many 32-bit processors 33 years from now? I suppose one problem area might be lightweight embedded chips.
I can see it now...
"Dial-a-Laptop" menu:
Whizz-bang laptop.......... $2000
Bang-crash laptop........... $600
Extra toppings................. $150 each
Free delivery on orders over $1000!
Couldn't agree more. My career started as result of those early command line machines, somewhat by accident. I had an Amstrad CPC464 to play games, but got fed up waiting five minutes every time for a game to load from cassette tape. So I started trying to find out what else this machine did, and why the infernal thing always rudely replied "Syntax error" whenever I said "Hello" to it.
A year on I had taught myself enough BASIC to write my own small games, and 15 years on I'm finishing my PhD in Computer Science. But when I see today's computers, I do wonder whether I'd have ended up where I am if that Amstrad had instead been a dumbed-down machine with a "user-friendly" GUI.
Interestingly, I also heard a few years ago that there were some very good software developers starting to appear in developing countries, because they only had old machines to develop on. As I found myself, this makes it more important to write efficient, compact code instead of bloatware. 40Kb of memory and a 4Mhz processor force you to really think about how to get the most out of your machine.
Leaving aside the questionable irony of this software, I do wonder how well it will work in the long term. One of the problems I've already experienced when removing spyware is programs that hijack the anti-spyware software itself, usually by sabotaging the spyware definition files as soon as they are downloaded.
If Microsoft starts distributing this as standard software, should we expect to see more spyware that avoids removal in this way? Will users have to reinstall the software, or run it from a boot disk, every time they want to clean their system?
I've tried several tests and Google seems to be filtering out any query that contains the phrase "mail" and a ".", hence catching "email slashdot.org", "mailer-daemon@domain.com", "mailman frontdoor.org" etc.