If you're not on windows, you're probably not going to be visiting mcafee's site.
it should read "3% of visitors to mcafee's site who took a spyware quiz are unable to spot every spyware site from a screenshot of part of the webpage."
Async work is very annoying when the whole system is one state machine.
Hence, large-scale async work is often based on every data transfer between modules being sent along with a PULSE or READY signal. Of course, every module has to be designed so that its output is ready when it propagates the pulse... otherwise there's bogus output into the next module. Basically, one module having the propagation delay timed incorrectly can kill the whole system. BUT, with fast logic, your system will simply run as fast as the hardware can handle...
Commercial async processors have been around for AGES -- but modern logic IC-based processors are rarely build and sold on a large scale, being mostly experimental designs.
My sister got a brand new computer monitor and everyone in my family thought it needed to be replaced because it seemed to be having serious issues.
We're halfway between two towers, and as an earlier poster said, some days every 10-15 minutes the phone generates interference, probably from switching towers.
Some days, when her phone was near the monitor, the monitor would turn funny colors and have weird lines across it and flicker like CRAZY every once in a while. Solution? Keep phone away. =)
Yeah... genes shouldn't be private things (copyrighted by corporations), but I don't think they have to be hidden things (unresearched and unpublished). Google wants to make a public database. what's wrong with that? What's wrong with _any_ public proliferation of information about what's inside our bodies (speaking generically, I wouldn't want *my* exact genes being pubilshed next to my name and SSN)?
I guess it's in the interest of being fair, since not everybody has client-side macros... but it's an alien concept to me, disallowing scripting in games, because I grew up on CircleMUD, where you could do things like: alias zap cast 'magic missile' $1 ; cast 'color burst' $1 But anybody has access to server-side scripting like that, so it's fair...
What's interesting is there's a free, open-source MMO that my friend plays... he modified his client to automatically repeat the same command every 10 seconds or something and got yelled at for it; but he could've sat there and clicked the mouse every 10 seconds and achieved the same thing... it just let him accomplish more in the game without devoting as much time to it, since he could take his attentoin away and watch TV (at least until he got messaged or something). It seems MMO admins want everybody to spend lots of time playing their game, rather than have any sort of skill (and I don't mean programming skill, although you might count that too). For Blizzard, this is obvious, since you pay to play, but for a free MMO, it doesnt make much sense.. except perhaps to make sure the early-adopters don't get ousted from their thrones by newbies (an aristocracy?)
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Are you sure you don't mean codeine?
I know Coca-Cola had cocaine when it was first invented, and many sodas at the time were considered medically beneficial, but aside from that...
Well! I am delighted to see that you are finding ways to move forward. =) Sometimes people (with any sort of difficulty, not just the topic at hand) get too overwhelmed and give up, which is unfortunate:-(
One interesting thing that often crops up with mental diagnoses is that some people will hide behind a label. Suppose you're labeled as ADD, or manic-depressive, or asperger's, etc. Sometimes people pretend like a problem is untreatable and that there's no point in trying to overcome it, work around it, manage it, or even cope with it. Usually people with the Asperger's diagnosis have sophisticated analytical mental tools that they can adapt to certain types of problems, like social scenarios, or emotionally difficult situations; I should hope most people with a diagnosis of Asperger's find ways to adapt instead of living a slightly dimmed life. It would be unfortunate if someone was told they were "too autistic to pass for normal" and simply internalized that as a literal statement...
I likely had Asperger's syndrome, or at least I was diagnosed with it as a child. Luckily, over time I have managed to apply numerous types of analyses to social situations. This has allowed me to pass for normal when need be. I don't believe I was seriously stricken with the symptoms, but I was extremely socially awkward when I was young. Teachers took notice and made remarks to my parents. People still find me to be an unusual element in social settings, but I don't find one-on-one conversations difficult, so I have friendships and a love life. It's difficult to put myself in someone else's shoes. People tell me that I live in my own world, that I seem like I must've come from an alien planet, that I regard the world as an experiment with which I can tinker, that I am unwilling to participate in group conversations and activities. Whatever. They can take me for who I am. I don't feel that I'm unable to be socially involved; it's just that it is often very complicated to map oneself appropriately into a given social circumstance.
The purpose of LGBT groups is usually just to give people who feel out-of-place a home. Sometimes there are LGBT activism, dating, or topic-discussion groups, but a lot of LGBT gatherings or LGBT social groups are more just symbols of pride.. like having a LGBT distributed.net team or something. I'm not sure what the woman's intent was in creating the group, but it almost seems like WoW is doing a don't-ask-don't-tell approach to eliminating sexual harrassment. If sexual orientation is part of contemporary life, what reason is there for eliminating it from fantasy worlds?
Some things ARE often said to stir up trouble; chances are that a "communist pride", "white power", or "hetero warriors" guild would be considered offensive to a majority of players, and those sorts of things would be discouraged. But, unless they have reason to believe a LGBT guild would make a significant number of players uncomfortable... I dunno. Maybe I'm missing something. I'm not familiar with WoW and I don't know how much of a social game it is (is there a lot of role-playing? is there a lot of interaction with other players, or not?)
Maybe you could argue that there's no reason to have a LGBT-specific guild, but then if someone wanted to make a "slashdot users' guild" or "U.K. players' guild", you'd have to deny those because of irrelevancy to the game, also.
I think they feel that this may stir up some gay-bashers, but, I would argue that the people who are being actively aggressive toward others (the gay-bashers) should be punished. Perhaps the LGBT guild was intended to annoy some gay-bashers in the game, but that's passive-aggressive.. I wouldn't really call it a case of harrassment. If I put a "I vote democrat!" bumper sticker on my car, does that mean I'm harrassing republicans?
Fun idea: create a firefox plugin (I know similar things exist, but this would be lightweight and geared toward this specific feature) that lets users submit the real destination to most of these links (since most are of the form go.php?target=somedatabasekey and aren't user/session-specific, at least not yet) and then other users can bypass the redirect pages and fuck with the link counts (also, save time on page loads)---of course, you'd have to make sure a handful of users were submitting the links, so you could wean out the trolls, and you'd probably want the link-submission plugin to load random extra redirection links off of the page to fuck with the click tracking.
It'd be sort of like that dontbugme plugin or the plugins where a bunch of random users can add their comments to a webpage for other plugin users to see...
How about this... stick a camcorder in front of your TV. "Invisible Light" indeed. Fix any video flicker in software.
They put little codes in the corner of some frames? Oh, okay. Design an analog filter to catch those and stick it in front of the camcorder.
As for music... even if they find ways of putting things into the audio that a computer's audio capture devices could still pick up on... just attach a microphone to some filtering circuitry. Tada!!
Uh, actually what I tend to do is create an encrypted partition on my disk, move all sensitive plaintext there, and create symlinks. I enter a password on bootup, and all my data becomes unlocked... the kernel stores my key in kernel memory and never swaps it out to disk, of course (although I like to have an encrypted swapspace, too)
I've never quite understood the "Don't post copyrighted lyrics" thing. What sales are being lost? Are there really companies that just "Sell lyrics"? I understand that there is definitely a market for selling sheet music or tabs (I guess it's a service to help people who can't play things by ear, although I don't feel like they're selling "information" that isn't already part of the sell of the CD/vinyl/cassette itself), but is there a market for _selling_lyric_sheets_? Did I miss something? If you buy music, do you not have permission to know what the words are? Why do some artists act like the lyrics are a big secret and you're not supposed to be able to understand them or you're not supposed to know what they're singing about?
I'm really lost on this one. I do understand why companies might not want other people to _make_money_ off of lyrics, for example, suppose an artist has a homepage with lyrics which generates them some ad revenue, but everybody obtains the lyrics through google which redirects them to other sites and generates ad revenue for people who didn't write the lyrics. But why would companies care if Joe Schmoe posts their favorite songs' lyrics on their nonprofit homepage, or somebody has a nonprofit fan site with lyrics of an artist's songs?
I guess there are people who write lyrics just to sell them to be used in songs by artists who don't write (just perform), but once they're used in a song, I still think my point about "when you buy a song do you not have permission to know what the words are" is valid.
If I'm not understanding something, can somebody please explain to me what I'm not understanding? I'm an artists who writes, records, and performs, and I don't understand why I would want to keep my lyrics a secret or why I should care if somebody posts my lyrics on the internet.
Perhaps there are some artists who don't really make money off of their music but instead just have fans because of their image? Their image might include something like "I'm too cool for my lyrics to be understandable/intelligible" but that's really the only case I can think of for when an artist would potentially lose anything from someone posting their lyrics.
Actually, I was wondering what kind of domain puns were possible, and there are at least two, at least in my dictionary... $ grep eu$/usr/share/dict/words adieu lieu
I think his best option is to distribute packages for various common distros, and a few statically-linked tarballs for everything else. Another thing that comes to mind is CPU optimizations; I don't know if he's thuoght of this, but is he distributing generic 80386-compatible packages, or things designed to run on MMX or 3dNow! chips?
Kermit and distributed.net are examples of places where you can almost always find a binary for your system. Those might not be bad places to look to figure out what sorts of binaries people actually find themselves needing. You're right---there aren't going to be millions of Ubuntu users out there, but for those that are there, static linking might be okay. It's true that security fixes in shared libraries aren't going to fix the same flaws in statically linked binaries, but if someone is using a non-mainstream distribution, they're more likely to be more security-conscious anyway, and probably will only run binaries they didn't compile themselves under special UIDs or chroot jails, so it's probably not a big issue.
Automagically-obfuscated source code is always an option, although remember it's only obfuscation, so if someone figures out your secrets, you're out of luck. Of course, obfuscated source code isn't that much different from assembled code, sicne you can always disassemble/reverse-engineer binaries to get some form of obfuscated source...
Interestingly, many anoretics get a "fasting high"---eating a very low-calorie diet tends to produce feelings of mental clarity and some extra energy. Or perhaps it's the excitement of losing weight... who knows?
As crude as this comment is, I agree on some points. When working with like 40 tracks at once, LOTS of vertical scrolling is involved, which seems unnecessary. Frequently, audacity will chew up disk space saving a million possible 'undos' (can be handy, though...) It doesn't always get timing perfect on recording, and if playback is interrupted momentarily (another process grabs the cpu, etc), the tracks will get out of sync. The compressor plugin needs work (it actually seems to function as an expander most of the time!!), there needs to be a sliding window extension to the normalize plugin (and some better way of finding a DC offset than taking a pure average, which is what I think it does?), and I wish I could make the equalizer remember my settings.
All of that being said, I don't think the GUI is bad. Audacity has tons of really nice features. It is a shame it moves so slowly, though. I managed to record something with it recently, though; in fact, most of my recent recordings (yes, i know, i suck) have used audacity (most anything with a.flac file).
ecasound does some things audacity doesn't do, or ecasound does them better, though, so mixing the two can prove helpful. I used to use purely ecasound, but you just can't go in and align things, or easily apply plugins to fractions of a file, not at least without a lot of effort...
Audacity isn't protools, but it has the possibility of getting most of the way there (to be honest, most of protools' fancy features come from 3rd-party plugins, anyway).
Also, it's very difficult to scrape out eyeballs with a spoon; usually, a spork, or grapefruit spoon, yields better results, while still retaining the scooping effect.
Produced. It was mandated after some HIV scares within the last year. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3644303.stm (Some idiot mod probably thinks I'm making some sort of dumb joke about the promiscuity of west-coasters, judging from my "troll" moderation. Oh well. It's just slashdot. *g*)
I just hope this isn't another one of those things where the lists are never cleaned out.
My university is blocking me from checking my email on the engineering network. Why? Because in february someone living in this dorm tried to log in as root. Now, after a new semester has started, *I'm* getting blocked, becuase I now have that IP. Why do people never clean out these lists?
I have something like 50 people from high school, 40 from college, 30 from various clubs and grou pactivities, 20 professional contacts, some coworkers, maybe 30 scattered across the internet... and these people typically have multiple SNs on multiple services. Buddy lists that are limited to a couple hundred contacts just don't cut it. Even if you only talk to a few dozen people, what about the multiple SNs each person is likely to have? If you only have one level of security (only one permit/deny list?), you might have multiple screen names with different permit/deny lists---for example, to keep your personal and professional lives separate. Or, how about the screen name for your phone or hiptop? You probably don't want every single person you know to be permitted to message your phone, if it costs you money. How about bots and automated services? Those use up buddy list slots, too.
The multiple service issue is a problem, but even if we were all on one universal system, that system would need to be flexible. I need probably three layers of permit/deny style security and a contact list that can grow up to 400 or 500.
The mess of multiple SNs on multiple services is somewhat alleviated by gaim's Contact versus Person system, but even that has its limitations (aliases are currently implemented on two levels in a mildly inconsistent manner).
I yearn for the day when IM is flexible enough... and when everybody else only has one IM id (but will they ever, if the system can't meet most people's needs?)
Just because someone has bigger fish to fry doesn't mean he doesn't want an appetizer.
If you let copyright infringers off of the hook because there are rapists on the loose, and you let rapists off of the hook because there are terrorists on the loose, pretty soon you'll have to let everyone off of the hook for some reason or another.
Of course, it doesn't make sense to devote large amounts of money to something that's not an important issue at the moment (but making a press release doesn't imply anything about budgeting). For example, (and this is just my opinion here), we're spending too much money on the "Drug War."
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If you're not on windows, you're probably not going to be visiting mcafee's site.
it should read "3% of visitors to mcafee's site who took a spyware quiz are unable to spot every spyware site from a screenshot of part of the webpage."
Async work is very annoying when the whole system is one state machine.
Hence, large-scale async work is often based on every data transfer between modules being sent along with a PULSE or READY signal. Of course, every module has to be designed so that its output is ready when it propagates the pulse... otherwise there's bogus output into the next module. Basically, one module having the propagation delay timed incorrectly can kill the whole system. BUT, with fast logic, your system will simply run as fast as the hardware can handle...
Commercial async processors have been around for AGES -- but modern logic IC-based processors are rarely build and sold on a large scale, being mostly experimental designs.
My sister got a brand new computer monitor and everyone in my family thought it needed to be replaced because it seemed to be having serious issues.
We're halfway between two towers, and as an earlier poster said, some days every 10-15 minutes the phone generates interference, probably from switching towers.
Some days, when her phone was near the monitor, the monitor would turn funny colors and have weird lines across it and flicker like CRAZY every once in a while. Solution? Keep phone away. =)
Yeah... genes shouldn't be private things (copyrighted by corporations), but I don't think they have to be hidden things (unresearched and unpublished). Google wants to make a public database. what's wrong with that? What's wrong with _any_ public proliferation of information about what's inside our bodies (speaking generically, I wouldn't want *my* exact genes being pubilshed next to my name and SSN)?
I guess it's in the interest of being fair, since not everybody has client-side macros... but it's an alien concept to me, disallowing scripting in games, because I grew up on CircleMUD, where you could do things like: alias zap cast 'magic missile' $1 ; cast 'color burst' $1
But anybody has access to server-side scripting like that, so it's fair...
What's interesting is there's a free, open-source MMO that my friend plays... he modified his client to automatically repeat the same command every 10 seconds or something and got yelled at for it; but he could've sat there and clicked the mouse every 10 seconds and achieved the same thing... it just let him accomplish more in the game without devoting as much time to it, since he could take his attentoin away and watch TV (at least until he got messaged or something). It seems MMO admins want everybody to spend lots of time playing their game, rather than have any sort of skill (and I don't mean programming skill, although you might count that too). For Blizzard, this is obvious, since you pay to play, but for a free MMO, it doesnt make much sense.. except perhaps to make sure the early-adopters don't get ousted from their thrones by newbies (an aristocracy?)
Are you sure you don't mean codeine?
I know Coca-Cola had cocaine when it was first invented, and many sodas at the time were considered medically beneficial, but aside from that...
Remind me to go unprotect my blog, so I can help ADVISE!!!!
Well! I am delighted to see that you are finding ways to move forward. =) :-(
Sometimes people (with any sort of difficulty, not just the topic at hand) get too overwhelmed and give up, which is unfortunate
One interesting thing that often crops up with mental diagnoses is that some people will hide behind a label.
Suppose you're labeled as ADD, or manic-depressive, or asperger's, etc. Sometimes people pretend like a problem is untreatable and that there's no point in trying to overcome it, work around it, manage it, or even cope with it.
Usually people with the Asperger's diagnosis have sophisticated analytical mental tools that they can adapt to certain types of problems, like social scenarios, or emotionally difficult situations; I should hope most people with a diagnosis of Asperger's find ways to adapt instead of living a slightly dimmed life.
It would be unfortunate if someone was told they were "too autistic to pass for normal" and simply internalized that as a literal statement...
I likely had Asperger's syndrome, or at least I was diagnosed with it as a child.
Luckily, over time I have managed to apply numerous types of analyses to social situations.
This has allowed me to pass for normal when need be.
I don't believe I was seriously stricken with the symptoms, but I was extremely socially awkward when I was young.
Teachers took notice and made remarks to my parents.
People still find me to be an unusual element in social settings, but I don't find one-on-one conversations difficult, so I have friendships and a love life.
It's difficult to put myself in someone else's shoes.
People tell me that I live in my own world, that I seem like I must've come from an alien planet, that I regard the world as an experiment with which I can tinker, that I am unwilling to participate in group conversations and activities.
Whatever. They can take me for who I am. I don't feel that I'm unable to be socially involved; it's just that it is often very complicated to map oneself appropriately into a given social circumstance.
The purpose of LGBT groups is usually just to give people who feel out-of-place a home. Sometimes there are LGBT activism, dating, or topic-discussion groups, but a lot of LGBT gatherings or LGBT social groups are more just symbols of pride.. like having a LGBT distributed.net team or something.
I'm not sure what the woman's intent was in creating the group, but it almost seems like WoW is doing a don't-ask-don't-tell approach to eliminating sexual harrassment.
If sexual orientation is part of contemporary life, what reason is there for eliminating it from fantasy worlds?
Some things ARE often said to stir up trouble; chances are that a "communist pride", "white power", or "hetero warriors" guild would be considered offensive to a majority of players, and those sorts of things would be discouraged.
But, unless they have reason to believe a LGBT guild would make a significant number of players uncomfortable...
I dunno. Maybe I'm missing something. I'm not familiar with WoW and I don't know how much of a social game it is (is there a lot of role-playing? is there a lot of interaction with other players, or not?)
Maybe you could argue that there's no reason to have a LGBT-specific guild, but then if someone wanted to make a "slashdot users' guild" or "U.K. players' guild", you'd have to deny those because of irrelevancy to the game, also.
I think they feel that this may stir up some gay-bashers, but, I would argue that the people who are being actively aggressive toward others (the gay-bashers) should be punished.
Perhaps the LGBT guild was intended to annoy some gay-bashers in the game, but that's passive-aggressive.. I wouldn't really call it a case of harrassment.
If I put a "I vote democrat!" bumper sticker on my car, does that mean I'm harrassing republicans?
Fun idea: create a firefox plugin (I know similar things exist, but this would be lightweight and geared toward this specific feature) that lets users submit the real destination to most of these links (since most are of the form go.php?target=somedatabasekey and aren't user/session-specific, at least not yet) and then other users can bypass the redirect pages and fuck with the link counts (also, save time on page loads)---of course, you'd have to make sure a handful of users were submitting the links, so you could wean out the trolls, and you'd probably want the link-submission plugin to load random extra redirection links off of the page to fuck with the click tracking.
It'd be sort of like that dontbugme plugin or the plugins where a bunch of random users can add their comments to a webpage for other plugin users to see...
How about this... stick a camcorder in front of your TV. "Invisible Light" indeed. Fix any video flicker in software.
They put little codes in the corner of some frames? Oh, okay. Design an analog filter to catch those and stick it in front of the camcorder.
As for music... even if they find ways of putting things into the audio that a computer's audio capture devices could still pick up on... just attach a microphone to some filtering circuitry. Tada!!
Congress, go do something useful---please.
Uh, actually what I tend to do is create an encrypted partition on my disk, move all sensitive plaintext there, and create symlinks.
I enter a password on bootup, and all my data becomes unlocked... the kernel stores my key in kernel memory and never swaps it out to disk, of course (although I like to have an encrypted swapspace, too)
I've never quite understood the "Don't post copyrighted lyrics" thing. What sales are being lost? Are there really companies that just "Sell lyrics"? I understand that there is definitely a market for selling sheet music or tabs (I guess it's a service to help people who can't play things by ear, although I don't feel like they're selling "information" that isn't already part of the sell of the CD/vinyl/cassette itself), but is there a market for _selling_lyric_sheets_? Did I miss something? If you buy music, do you not have permission to know what the words are? Why do some artists act like the lyrics are a big secret and you're not supposed to be able to understand them or you're not supposed to know what they're singing about?
I'm really lost on this one. I do understand why companies might not want other people to _make_money_ off of lyrics, for example, suppose an artist has a homepage with lyrics which generates them some ad revenue, but everybody obtains the lyrics through google which redirects them to other sites and generates ad revenue for people who didn't write the lyrics. But why would companies care if Joe Schmoe posts their favorite songs' lyrics on their nonprofit homepage, or somebody has a nonprofit fan site with lyrics of an artist's songs?
I guess there are people who write lyrics just to sell them to be used in songs by artists who don't write (just perform), but once they're used in a song, I still think my point about "when you buy a song do you not have permission to know what the words are" is valid.
If I'm not understanding something, can somebody please explain to me what I'm not understanding? I'm an artists who writes, records, and performs, and I don't understand why I would want to keep my lyrics a secret or why I should care if somebody posts my lyrics on the internet.
Perhaps there are some artists who don't really make money off of their music but instead just have fans because of their image? Their image might include something like "I'm too cool for my lyrics to be understandable/intelligible" but that's really the only case I can think of for when an artist would potentially lose anything from someone posting their lyrics.
Actually, I was wondering what kind of domain puns were possible, and there are at least two, at least in my dictionary... /usr/share/dict/words
$ grep eu$
adieu
lieu
I think his best option is to distribute packages for various common distros, and a few statically-linked tarballs for everything else. Another thing that comes to mind is CPU optimizations; I don't know if he's thuoght of this, but is he distributing generic 80386-compatible packages, or things designed to run on MMX or 3dNow! chips?
Kermit and distributed.net are examples of places where you can almost always find a binary for your system. Those might not be bad places to look to figure out what sorts of binaries people actually find themselves needing. You're right---there aren't going to be millions of Ubuntu users out there, but for those that are there, static linking might be okay. It's true that security fixes in shared libraries aren't going to fix the same flaws in statically linked binaries, but if someone is using a non-mainstream distribution, they're more likely to be more security-conscious anyway, and probably will only run binaries they didn't compile themselves under special UIDs or chroot jails, so it's probably not a big issue.
Automagically-obfuscated source code is always an option, although remember it's only obfuscation, so if someone figures out your secrets, you're out of luck. Of course, obfuscated source code isn't that much different from assembled code, sicne you can always disassemble/reverse-engineer binaries to get some form of obfuscated source...
Why not just put your IE and web stuff in a special subtree and chroot before fork+exec'ing?
Oh, wait, does windows even have anything like that...?
I'm not trying to start a flame war, I'm honestly wondering.
Interestingly, many anoretics get a "fasting high"---eating a very low-calorie diet tends to produce feelings of mental clarity and some extra energy. Or perhaps it's the excitement of losing weight... who knows?
Interesting idea:
(1) create one tinyurl which contains encrypted data
(2) create another tinyurl which contains the decryption key
Never access them from the same IP nor around the same time, and nobody will ever know what you're hiding.
As crude as this comment is, I agree on some points.
.flac file).
When working with like 40 tracks at once, LOTS of vertical scrolling is involved, which seems unnecessary. Frequently, audacity will chew up disk space saving a million possible 'undos' (can be handy, though...)
It doesn't always get timing perfect on recording, and if playback is interrupted momentarily (another process grabs the cpu, etc), the tracks will get out of sync. The compressor plugin needs work (it actually seems to function as an expander most of the time!!), there needs to be a sliding window extension to the normalize plugin (and some better way of finding a DC offset than taking a pure average, which is what I think it does?), and I wish I could make the equalizer remember my settings.
All of that being said, I don't think the GUI is bad. Audacity has tons of really nice features. It is a shame it moves so slowly, though.
I managed to record something with it recently, though; in fact, most of my recent recordings (yes, i know, i suck) have used audacity (most anything with a
ecasound does some things audacity doesn't do, or ecasound does them better, though, so mixing the two can prove helpful.
I used to use purely ecasound, but you just can't go in and align things, or easily apply plugins to fractions of a file, not at least without a lot of effort...
Audacity isn't protools, but it has the possibility of getting most of the way there (to be honest, most of protools' fancy features come from 3rd-party plugins, anyway).
Also, it's very difficult to scrape out eyeballs with a spoon; usually, a spork, or grapefruit spoon, yields better results, while still retaining the scooping effect.
Produced. It was mandated after some HIV scares within the last year.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3644303.stm
(Some idiot mod probably thinks I'm making some sort of dumb joke about the promiscuity of west-coasters, judging from my "troll" moderation. Oh well. It's just slashdot. *g*)
Not in California, actually.
Condoms are mandatory in all porn to cut down on STDs.
I just hope this isn't another one of those things where the lists are never cleaned out.
My university is blocking me from checking my email on the engineering network. Why? Because in february someone living in this dorm tried to log in as root. Now, after a new semester has started, *I'm* getting blocked, becuase I now have that IP. Why do people never clean out these lists?
I have something like 50 people from high school, 40 from college, 30 from various clubs and grou pactivities, 20 professional contacts, some coworkers, maybe 30 scattered across the internet... and these people typically have multiple SNs on multiple services.
Buddy lists that are limited to a couple hundred contacts just don't cut it.
Even if you only talk to a few dozen people, what about the multiple SNs each person is likely to have?
If you only have one level of security (only one permit/deny list?), you might have multiple screen names with different permit/deny lists---for example, to keep your personal and professional lives separate. Or, how about the screen name for your phone or hiptop? You probably don't want every single person you know to be permitted to message your phone, if it costs you money.
How about bots and automated services? Those use up buddy list slots, too.
The multiple service issue is a problem, but even if we were all on one universal system, that system would need to be flexible. I need probably three layers of permit/deny style security and a contact list that can grow up to 400 or 500.
The mess of multiple SNs on multiple services is somewhat alleviated by gaim's Contact versus Person system, but even that has its limitations (aliases are currently implemented on two levels in a mildly inconsistent manner).
I yearn for the day when IM is flexible enough... and when everybody else only has one IM id (but will they ever, if the system can't meet most people's needs?)
Just because someone has bigger fish to fry doesn't mean he doesn't want an appetizer.
If you let copyright infringers off of the hook because there are rapists on the loose, and you let rapists off of the hook because there are terrorists on the loose, pretty soon you'll have to let everyone off of the hook for some reason or another.
Of course, it doesn't make sense to devote large amounts of money to something that's not an important issue at the moment (but making a press release doesn't imply anything about budgeting). For example, (and this is just my opinion here), we're spending too much money on the "Drug War."