Even researchers can't keep up with the bombardment of papers. Sometimes, you get more information from the BBC having a 2 week session of information about HIV or whatever simply because it rolls up and summarizes...
Heres the punchline:
1. First documented human case of HIV c.a. 1960. No, not the infamous canadian airline steward.
2. First (estimated) crossover from simians to humans. c.a. 1936.
Ouch.
As a sidenote, my jewish nude artist's model's friends knew about this disease *before* the squabble between Gallo and Luc what's his name and before it even had the name HLTV-3.
This was c.a. 1982. I hadn't seen any information in SciAm or anywhere else (ok, I *used* to read Nature, but I'm a sad person).
Don't let the stuff about immunity make you complacent. Wear a sock. Heck, wear serious protection. Stay alive.
Agreed. If it's a good idea for slashdot it ought to be in "new products" or something like that. But, it *is* an area of interest. Despite (most of our) fantasies about Linux, and other more civilized OSS things, most of us in our day jobs have to live (at least to eat) in the pig trough that is amess windows. Believe me. I am not an employee.
So, for now, quit grumbling. I for one am puzzled as to why.net takes a great leap backwards (mao style) and forces me to think in terms of code when it ought to be a form resource:-. A dialog manager (hey: this is 20 years after the mac), and delegates aka callbacks to modify it... (ok, scream at me code puritans).
In the meantime, I'll go draw some more pretty dragon curves with Python/Tk... (and frag someone) Sometimes teaching teaches the least teachable person...
Read the groklaw article, and indeed, given that Sun give java away free, the only people kodak ought to be going after are the customers *using* java. Whoops. Does this start to look familiar?
This nonsense will finally end when someone pushes the absurdity *deliberately* to the limit. Are you listening IBM? (If they went after everyone who infringed their patents, we'd all be in court..).
Which raises the interesting question. Could the legal system be/.ed by enough absurd (but interesting) cases? (or is that terrorism?)
Yep, and Burt Rutan was the guy who designed "Voyager" (the plane that flew round the world on one tank of gas). His brother Dick + Janet Yeager were the pilots.
He's also working with Steve Fossett + Sir Richard Branson on a *new* project where Mr.Fossett plans to do the same round the world trip *solo*.
One funny thing here: Sir Richard Branson is the *backup* pilot - even though he doesn't have a pilots license.
Awesome engineering. Thank god they don't believe in computers. Can you imagine Windows CE or XP **AARRGGHH ?
Oh boy - even with a flakey link I got to watch it go all the way up, and to my eyes at least it looked as if the roll started early during the burn, and for a couple of seconds got faster.
When the guy on the ground went oh uh, I didn't breath.
Rutan said that Mike Melvill was told he could abort, but that guy has real balls of steel, he just stuck to it...
Wow. Loved that view from space. How many people do you think will *kill* for that view even at $200,000 in a couple of years?
Awesome. Nice to be able to say that the pilot *really* burned rubber!
Hope everyone else remembered to start breathing again. I haven't had *this* much fun since a 10 year old + Apollo 11...
From what I heard, Melvill cut the burn a little early so perhaps with a little luck (Sunday or Monday according to Burt) they'll go even higher. (hopefully not heaven).
I live in Athens GR, and once a *gecko* crapped on my file server keyboard!! Took me several hours to calm down, and several weeks to clean the keyboard (hey: use telnet).
...at isc.sans.org (internet storm center). Do not use the one from microsoft. It *sucks*. Watch dshield (like a hawk). Read www.cert.org. read "comp.risks" (usenet).
Nope. My brain may be slower (I was sending email to a colleague at 1.30 a.m.). But - have you checked for *worms* and stuff (try ctrl + shift + escape and check for stuff like "bargains.exe" etc.)
Sigh. You know what I was doing for a customer on friday...
I've never noticed any sluggishness on modern LCD's or indeed submarine stuff. That is old LCD behaviour. UT2004 feels ok on mine, and just occasionally I hit the zone. Not bad when you consider I'm 45.
Doom 3 on the other hand is a whole different issue. I wish it was an NVidia (scream).
Any *private* organization still has to abide by any *international* treaties entered into by a Government. Even a US one. Heck, guys do you really be the Idiot remembered by history as the "guy who made mars alive?" We want to look for life there, not *take* it with us.
and we have to watch out. Those pesky rats, cats and other stuff have *ALREADY* done enough damage on *this* planet.
I love your sentiment, just as I love the smell of napalm in the morning, but a hacker is not a mere programmer. Hackers *hate* programming. They'd rather be "not feeding the pigeons in the park" (obligatory zen buddhist joke).
Don't ask me about this. (chuckles).
(Hey moderator do you think some sucker will bite on this bait?)
I'd never *dream* of calling myself a hacker or indeed an expert (god forbid). It's for the universe to decide. Not me. No sir. I just struggle to make sense of an arbitary universe in which I happen to play with this stuff.
I wish I was as good as that guy who did safe cracking whilst working on the manhattan project. (or that guy who ended up playing with fonts (cos they're pretty) rather than finishing the Art of Computer Programming.
So you know who my heroes and *true* hackers are right?
If you don't you very definitely aren't a hacker. Sorry.
Sadly it doesn't prove they're smart. I met a guy some time around 1990 who wrote the "Pixel" virus. Worked with him. Yes. We *almost* broke his legs and nailed him to a tree. But you see (at least for that bad guy) he *wasn't* a bad guy. Thought he was clever. Not stupid for sure. Plenty of education. Actually a smart guy but a dumb virus author. I'm pretty certain he won't do that again. No challenge really. (chuckling I guess he might even be working for the NSA). But, I'm not scared that that Sasser guy got to work for a security firm. If he was working for me he would have to "pay his dues" (anyone knowing blues or jazz understands). Then I'll *start* to trust him. Eventually. But not real quickly. One day he *will* be a fine citizen of the software world. He's not that right now. They are not talented. Those of us who would love to use worms et al to create big fucking supercomputers hate them. I for one *want* to use technology to help people. But then again I didn't *need* classes in ethics. Somebody explain why anyone does...
I know that Keith Emerson used to take an axe to these things, but uh. hacking hammonds. Oh boy. *tell me more* . I'm really intrigued. (Sigh) I like theatre aka cinema organs too but only our worst enemy in Seattle can afford that stuff....
How can you do things quickly with this stuff? The amp took a *LONG* time to warm up. (valves and stuff) and the main organ was a real bitch. Albeit a very pretty one. I still love all those drawbars and that *delicious* piece of ergonomics the "reversed colour keys to preset instruments". No serious keyboard player (even with 10kg of skag in his veins) could *miss* hitting B flat to flip the instrument. Many newer designs miss this piece of exquisite engineering...
But not quite. It's a sine wave scratched on that tonewheel . Oh Yes. Additive synthesis. When I got to meet a serious Hammond organ (not one of the newer ones I also got to meet a blind guy who was blind from birth and spent his life trying to teach despite his blindness. Ouch. I *want* that instrument. It was *beautiful*. But you need a seriously reinforced floor before you consider wheeling one in, and worse... One year after my parents inflicted this on me Neil was making that first step on the moon. Sometimes I like being older than most of the folks here... Got to enjoy being old sometimes.
I love electro mechanical stuff. Once, when I was a mere 8-9 year old kid, I got to be teached "how to play" music on a *real* hammond organ. No No. You think you know what I'm saying but you don't.
It had *TWO* switches to switch it on.
I still remember why.
It's great fun to drop this gorgeous stuff on the the newbies out there. Hey even a few old timers will scratch their heads, but there really was a good technical reason for the *two* switches.
Hey. You do it in order to scare the monsters. But. You knew that. What surprises me is that a stone deaf self taught man from Russia has dreams that would boggle a tech savvy person from (oh it is) the 21st century. Just like that Indian mathmagician he *scares* me. But I love it when it reminds me how dumb I am. (cough) MS does this every day but it's not the same. Let's play global thermonuclear war (big grin). Or even (chuckles) drink some tea.
I hate to give you the bad news. I nod and enjoy your wonderful engineering thought. But then again I live in the *real* world. (I can handle + being overloaded for string ops, because it's not awfully surprising. Heck I love Python. So you know I'm not the CEO or the guy with pointy hair.
But, I still have nightmares about how *this* sort of code could have bad surprises....
a = b + c
(universe explodes)
Ouch. I really thought it was adding two numbers. Sorry. I hate to think of my evil twin (of two decades less ancientness) George deciding that yes "+" means do some demonic thing with a matrix I wouldn't consider fun on a a good day.
I'm going to take out my old friend the chain saw and persuade him of the (chuckle) lack of wisdom there...
Damn good engineering tool. I was looking for an excuse to use it.
Sorry, but I have to be honest about this. I want to see arthur c. clarke as a living breathing passenger stepping out of of SpaceshipOne. God knows he might not get to see SpaceShipTwo. (Before you chuckle, Burt already knows what that delicious toy is). He won't stop (because Burt is a man like that hero of mine Mike Faraday who will burn fun into your soul...)
Once upon a time this man (Arthur) helped shape my dreams. I don't want him to die without the priviledge and honor of being able to see just a little of what he dreamt of. We can not any of us be engineers if we lose sight of this.
Mark me down as a troll. I seriously don't care.
I'll stick with this even if you point a gun at my head. I hope that/.ers will see that we have to work fast. He *isn't* a well man, but I have to say this very loudly. (and god knows I can't scream like our Sci Fi friend Jerry)
Courage isn't the issue. If you *ask* Arthur if he'd like to go up he couldn't say no. Coming back alive is irrelevant. He's still an engineer. I hope he gets the *choice* to say no. Nobody should say it for him.
Sorry everybody but you can see I care about this. I hate what those two rattlesnakes do to star trek as well (but who cares.. the BBC is doing hitchhikers guide. I'll go ask my friend Marvin).
I thought *Arthur* owned this idea. Hey, he invented it. I don't care who makes a space elevator , if it can be made then
a: it will cost. b: It will make the historical thing about the panama canal look seriously easy. Go become a good historian (hint: don't invest). c: It won't happen real soon.
But, we can do some of this technology slowly. Perhaps not on the same scale , but Arthur himself understands that atomic bond limits make it unlikely that we can do it as far as we'd like to see.
He likes to dream. That's why we love him. Heck. He did get it right a few blinks of a chickens nose ago, and couldn't patent it.
Never underestimate how much we love Sir Arthur. If there was any justice in the world he wouldn't be an ill man in a wheelchair. He'd be a passenger on spaceshipone. He deserves it. Please Mr. Rutan, you know he wouldn't care if he got back to the ground breathing... I for one would *love* Arthur to be our first hacker in space. But I'd love to suggest that he has to take the ashes of his New York nemesis up with him. Even though Ike hated flying.
Hey, Arthur. Consider it your revenge.
Do slashdotters understand this old timers joke or not?
Eh. You mean Music over IP or Voice over telepathy. We'd love to contribute to the EFF. The bad news is that until a while back I was homeless and out on the street. Sorry. Still broke.
I'm still struggling to come to terms with being able to laugh about it.
Sigh you sound like a medic. If I had bigger balls I might have done that. It hurts just knowing we can't give easy answers for diseases like this.
But (going technical for a mo) in the real world the things which produce antibiotics produce a big chemical cocktail of other things. Most of those *seem* to be inactive. My gut instinct spells "shotgun". What do you think? I wonder if we should look again at the crud that was in that mold to begin with (hey you know what I mean..)
P.S: You should submit a script for this to the BBC. Heck with their wondrous friends at WGBH they would make an *excellent* story on Horizon. or the discovery channel. Personally, I'd like John Carpenter to direct it so people *REALLY* get scared. They need to. I'd hate to get this one.
I was homeless a couple of years back, and I practiced *avoiding* anywhere with loads of other people. Hey, I don't want to end up like Doc Holiday. (If I cough it's because I smoke).
Slashdot Mirror
Even researchers can't keep up with the bombardment
of papers. Sometimes, you get more information from
the BBC having a 2 week session of information about
HIV or whatever simply because it rolls up and
summarizes...
Heres the punchline:
1. First documented human case of HIV c.a. 1960.
No, not the infamous canadian airline steward.
2. First (estimated) crossover from simians to
humans. c.a. 1936.
Ouch.
As a sidenote, my jewish nude artist's model's
friends knew about this disease *before* the
squabble between Gallo and Luc what's his name
and before it even had the name HLTV-3.
This was c.a. 1982. I hadn't seen any information
in SciAm or anywhere else (ok, I *used* to read
Nature, but I'm a sad person).
Don't let the stuff about immunity make you complacent. Wear a sock. Heck, wear serious
protection. Stay alive.
Agreed. If it's a good idea for slashdot it ought
.net takes a great leap backwards (mao style) and forces me to think in terms of code when it ought to be a form resource :-. A dialog
to be in "new products" or something like that.
But, it *is* an area of interest. Despite (most of
our) fantasies about Linux, and other more civilized OSS things, most of us in our day jobs have to live (at least to eat) in the pig trough that is amess windows. Believe me. I am not an employee.
So, for now, quit grumbling. I for one am puzzled
as to why
manager (hey: this is 20 years after the mac),
and delegates aka callbacks to modify it...
(ok, scream at me code puritans).
In the meantime, I'll go draw some more pretty dragon curves with Python/Tk... (and frag someone)
Sometimes teaching teaches the least teachable person...
I think he's made a *big* mistake. Nobody is
going to want to know him in his *own home town*
anymore.
Imagine, the next time he goes into a bar.
(call 911).
Read the groklaw article, and indeed, given that
/.ed by enough absurd (but interesting) cases? (or is that terrorism?)
Sun give java away free, the only people kodak
ought to be going after are the customers *using*
java. Whoops. Does this start to look familiar?
This nonsense will finally end when someone pushes
the absurdity *deliberately* to the limit. Are you
listening IBM? (If they went after everyone who
infringed their patents, we'd all be in court..).
Which raises the interesting question. Could the
legal system be
Yep, and Burt Rutan was the guy who designed "Voyager" (the plane that flew round the world on
one tank of gas). His brother Dick + Janet Yeager
were the pilots.
He's also working with Steve Fossett + Sir Richard
Branson on a *new* project where Mr.Fossett plans
to do the same round the world trip *solo*.
One funny thing here: Sir Richard Branson is the
*backup* pilot - even though he doesn't have a
pilots license.
Awesome engineering. Thank god they don't believe
in computers. Can you imagine Windows CE or XP
**AARRGGHH ?
Oh boy - even with a flakey link I got to watch it
...
go all the way up, and to my eyes at least it looked
as if the roll started early during the burn, and
for a couple of seconds got faster.
When the guy on the ground went oh uh, I didn't
breath.
Rutan said that Mike Melvill was told he could abort, but that guy has real balls of steel, he
just stuck to it...
Wow. Loved that view from space. How many people
do you think will *kill* for that view even at
$200,000 in a couple of years?
Awesome. Nice to be able to say that the pilot
*really* burned rubber!
Hope everyone else remembered to start breathing
again. I haven't had *this* much fun since a 10
year old + Apollo 11
From what I heard, Melvill cut the burn a little
early so perhaps with a little luck (Sunday or
Monday according to Burt) they'll go even higher.
(hopefully not heaven).
I live in Athens GR, and once a *gecko* crapped
on my file server keyboard!!
Took me several hours to calm down, and several
weeks to clean the keyboard (hey: use telnet).
Same here, just noise but when I looked it was 22:09
there so I guess you'd just get noise.
...at isc.sans.org (internet storm center). Do
not use the one from microsoft. It *sucks*.
Watch dshield (like a hawk). Read www.cert.org.
read "comp.risks" (usenet).
and still lose too much time..
Nope. My brain may be slower (I was sending email to
a colleague at 1.30 a.m.). But - have you checked for *worms* and stuff (try ctrl + shift + escape
and check for stuff like "bargains.exe" etc.)
Sigh. You know what I was doing for a customer on
friday...
I've never noticed any sluggishness on modern LCD's
or indeed submarine stuff. That is old LCD behaviour.
UT2004 feels ok on mine, and just occasionally I hit the zone. Not bad when you consider I'm 45.
Doom 3 on the other hand is a whole different issue. I wish it was an NVidia (scream).
Any *private* organization still has to abide by
any *international* treaties entered into by a Government. Even a US one.
Heck, guys do you really be the Idiot remembered by
history as the "guy who made mars alive?" We want to look for life there, not *take* it with us.
and we have to watch out. Those pesky rats, cats and
other stuff have *ALREADY* done enough damage on *this* planet.
I love your sentiment, just as I love the smell of napalm in the morning, but a hacker is not a mere
programmer. Hackers *hate* programming. They'd
rather be "not feeding the pigeons in the park"
(obligatory zen buddhist joke).
Don't ask me about this. (chuckles).
(Hey moderator do you think some sucker will bite on
this bait?)
I'd never *dream* of calling myself a hacker or indeed an expert (god forbid). It's for the universe to decide. Not me. No sir. I just struggle to make sense of an arbitary universe
in which I happen to play with this stuff.
I wish I was as good as that guy who did safe cracking whilst working on the manhattan project.
(or that guy who ended up playing with fonts (cos they're pretty) rather than finishing the Art of Computer Programming.
So you know who my heroes and *true* hackers are right?
If you don't you very definitely aren't a hacker.
Sorry.
Sadly it doesn't prove they're smart. I met a guy
some time around 1990 who wrote the "Pixel" virus.
Worked with him. Yes. We *almost* broke his legs
and nailed him to a tree. But you see (at least for
that bad guy) he *wasn't* a bad guy. Thought he was
clever. Not stupid for sure. Plenty of education.
Actually a smart guy but a dumb virus author. I'm
pretty certain he won't do that again. No challenge
really. (chuckling I guess he might even be working
for the NSA). But, I'm not scared that that Sasser guy got to work for a security firm. If he was working for me he would have to "pay his dues" (anyone knowing blues or jazz understands). Then
I'll *start* to trust him. Eventually.
But not real quickly. One day he *will* be a fine
citizen of the software world. He's not that right now.
They are not talented. Those of us who would love
to use worms et al to create big fucking supercomputers hate them. I for one *want* to use
technology to help people. But then again I didn't
*need* classes in ethics.
Somebody explain why anyone does...
How come necrophilia was ever *legal* in California?
I know that Keith Emerson used to take an axe to
these things, but uh. hacking hammonds. Oh boy.
*tell me more* . I'm really intrigued. (Sigh) I like
theatre aka cinema organs too but only our worst
enemy in Seattle can afford that stuff....
How can you do things quickly with this stuff? The
amp took a *LONG* time to warm up. (valves and stuff)
and the main organ was a real bitch. Albeit a very
pretty one. I still love all those drawbars and
that *delicious* piece of ergonomics the "reversed
colour keys to preset instruments". No serious
keyboard player (even with 10kg of skag in his veins) could *miss* hitting B flat to flip the
instrument. Many newer designs miss this piece
of exquisite engineering...
Are Hammond still alive and well? I hope so.
But not quite. It's a sine wave scratched on that
tonewheel . Oh Yes. Additive synthesis. When I got
to meet a serious Hammond organ (not one of the newer
ones I also got to meet a blind guy who was blind
from birth and spent his life trying to teach
despite his blindness. Ouch. I *want* that instrument. It was *beautiful*. But you need a seriously reinforced floor before you consider wheeling one in, and worse... One year after my
parents inflicted this on me Neil was making that first step on the moon. Sometimes I like being older than most of the folks here...
Got to enjoy being old sometimes.
I love electro mechanical stuff. Once, when I was
a mere 8-9 year old kid, I got to be teached "how to
play" music on a *real* hammond organ. No No. You think you know what I'm saying but you don't.
It had *TWO* switches to switch it on.
I still remember why.
It's great fun to drop this gorgeous stuff on the the
newbies out there.
Hey even a few old timers will scratch their heads, but there really was a good technical reason for the *two* switches.
Enjoy and be puzzled.
Hey. You do it in order to scare the monsters.
But. You knew that. What surprises me is that a stone
deaf self taught man from Russia has dreams that would boggle a tech savvy person from (oh it is) the
21st century. Just like that Indian mathmagician he
*scares* me. But I love it when it reminds me how
dumb I am. (cough) MS does this every day but it's
not the same. Let's play global thermonuclear war (big grin). Or even (chuckles) drink some tea.
I hate to give you the bad news. I nod and enjoy
.
your wonderful engineering thought. But then again
I live in the *real* world. (I can handle + being
overloaded for string ops, because it's not awfully
surprising. Heck I love Python. So you know I'm not
the CEO or the guy with pointy hair.
But, I still have nightmares about how *this* sort
of code could have bad surprises....
a = b + c
(universe explodes)
Ouch. I really thought it was adding two numbers.
Sorry. I hate to think of my evil twin (of two
decades less ancientness) George deciding that
yes "+" means do some demonic thing with a matrix
I wouldn't consider fun on a a good day
I'm going to take out my old friend the chain saw
and persuade him of the (chuckle) lack of wisdom
there...
Damn good engineering tool. I was looking for an
excuse to use it.
Oh Shit. Yes. We'd forgotten that guy. He invented
multi stage rockets too. God damn. It's pre 9.am
I for one would welcome our carbon nanotube masters.
The old joke about russians invented everything bites
sometimes (chuckles).
Sorry, but I have to be honest about this. I want to
/.ers will see that we have to
see arthur c. clarke as a living breathing passenger
stepping out of of SpaceshipOne. God knows he might
not get to see SpaceShipTwo. (Before you chuckle, Burt already knows what that delicious toy is).
He won't stop (because Burt is a man like that
hero of mine Mike Faraday who will burn fun into
your soul...)
Once upon a time this man (Arthur) helped shape my dreams.
I don't want him to die without the priviledge and
honor of being able to see just a little of what he
dreamt of. We can not any of us be engineers if we
lose sight of this.
Mark me down as a troll. I seriously don't care.
I'll stick with this even if you point a gun at my head. I hope that
work fast. He *isn't* a well man, but I have to say this very loudly. (and god knows I can't scream like our Sci Fi friend Jerry)
Courage isn't the issue. If you *ask* Arthur if he'd like to go up he couldn't say no. Coming back
alive is irrelevant. He's still an engineer. I hope he gets the *choice* to say no. Nobody should
say it for him.
Sorry everybody but you can see I care about this.
I hate what those two rattlesnakes do to star trek
as well (but who cares.. the BBC is doing hitchhikers guide. I'll go ask my friend Marvin).
I thought *Arthur* owned this idea. Hey, he invented it. I don't care who makes a space elevator , if it
can be made then
a: it will cost.
b: It will make the historical thing about the panama
canal look seriously easy. Go become a good historian (hint: don't invest).
c: It won't happen real soon.
But, we can do some of this technology slowly.
Perhaps not on the same scale , but Arthur himself
understands that atomic bond limits make it unlikely that we can do it as far as we'd like to see.
He likes to dream. That's why we love him. Heck. He did get it right a few blinks of a chickens
nose ago, and couldn't patent it.
Never underestimate how much we love Sir Arthur.
If there was any justice in the world he wouldn't
be an ill man in a wheelchair. He'd be a passenger
on spaceshipone. He deserves it. Please Mr. Rutan,
you know he wouldn't care if he got back to the
ground breathing...
I for one would *love* Arthur to be our first hacker in space. But I'd love to suggest that he
has to take the ashes of his New York nemesis
up with him. Even though Ike hated flying.
Hey, Arthur. Consider it your revenge.
Do slashdotters understand this old timers joke or
not?
Eh. You mean Music over IP or Voice over telepathy.
We'd love to contribute to the EFF. The bad news is
that until a while back I was homeless and out on
the street. Sorry. Still broke.
I'm still struggling to come to terms with being able
to laugh about it.
Wish you well.
Sigh you sound like a medic. If I had bigger balls I
might have done that. It hurts just knowing we can't
give easy answers for diseases like this.
But (going technical for a mo) in the real world
the things which produce antibiotics produce a big
chemical cocktail of other things. Most of those *seem* to be inactive. My gut instinct spells "shotgun". What do you think? I wonder if we
should look again at the crud that was in that
mold to begin with (hey you know what I mean..)
P.S: You should submit a script for this to the BBC.
Heck with their wondrous friends at WGBH they would make an *excellent* story on Horizon. or
the discovery channel. Personally, I'd like John Carpenter to direct it so people *REALLY* get scared. They need to. I'd hate to get this one.
I was homeless a couple of years back, and I practiced *avoiding* anywhere with loads of
other people. Hey, I don't want to end up like
Doc Holiday. (If I cough it's because I smoke).
Please scare people about this. They need to be.
No really. Emacs and Java. Oh it's so pretty isn't it. (Except it should have been in Lisp).