"allows scheduled archiving instructions to be set"
I wrote a program to do just this, since WinZip didn't have it and others cost lots of money or sucked. Finally, I can use tried and true software for auto-archiving... Wonder how flexible their implementation is though?...
Call me ignorant, but isn't the ability of HTTP version 2 supposed to act as the intermediary between calls to the server without re-posting an entire page? I thought this was where browsers were headed, like ASP.NET's "SmartNavigation" @Page directive? Please educate me.
Using the miss-spelling "beta" was actually intentional. MSN Spaces lists the word "Beta" at the top of their page and people very often miss-spell the proper word "betta". So, I used both of these as a springboard for placement. I then used the new "visibility" for the term "beta fish" to launch placement of the actual term "betta fish". http://spaces.msn.com/members/eswanson/Blog/cns!1p dVO89fmNKwqmwfervd6IGg!310.entry
As you can see, I have achieved relatively high rankings for both terms with hardly any effort:
I had performed a similiar expiriment with my blog http://spaces.msn.com/members/eswanson/Blog/cns!1p dVO89fmNKwqmwfervd6IGg!238.entry with great success. Utilizing the word "beta" that appeared on EVERY page of MSN Spaces, I was able to get one of the top placements for "Beta Fish". My expiriment quickly generated further ideas for targeted-Blog comments on other's Blogs with links back to the targeted-Blog entries.
The key was to simply make regular targeted-entries in the Blog and comments that did not "abuse" the target keywords. Search engines already do a "decent" job of preventing keyword abuse, but the Blog may be a current loophole.
Now, my expiriment was "not-for-profit" and I sincerely worry about the future abuse of this great technology, the Blog. Google, MSN, and other search engines already have a lot of work controlling the many factors for proper search-engine placement/ranking. It will be interesting to see what the future holds.
This isn't a new idea, but it still holds great potential.
My New Year's resolution was to read my quote book, "20,000 Quips & Quotes" by Even Esar. I've always been one to enjoy Harper's Index http://www.harpers.org/MostRecentIndex.html rather than read the daily news.
Weekend Read?! Weeks to read...
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I tried reading that book and returned it to the library owing dollars in late fines, having finished 1/5 of the story... I suppose it was entertaining. But, I'd rather read the Britannica. I'm sure it's like sports... Spectator vs. Participant. I don't like watching. Besides, Jacobs probably wouldn't read his book either.
So, according to the odds of dying in an accident of any kind, I should rest 95.7% assured that I will most likely die of an "internal cause of mortality". Hmm... that leaves me sleeping well at night. I can hope for things like Cancer and other diseases or just to plain-ol' die somewhere.
The last few conversations that I have read regarding "end of the world", or at least "end of humankind" scenarios, I have not seen the point made that, although the trigger for ultimate extinction may be caused by such events as disease, starvation, asteroids, global warming, etc., the actual cause for extinction or mass-population-reduction will ultimately be the battle to survive.
WAR, more than likely, will result as resources run low and budgets can no longer afford expensive R&D on "fixes" to the resource problem.
Giving humans credit for something, there is a chance some of us can and will survive, but the end looks bleak unless more people take the responsibility for others futures upon themselves.
After nudging him for more info, I got the following: "learning to make or program games,robots and what to use in order to make them."
Let me translate for you... Very few kids want to be educated. All of them want to learn. When it comes to technology, it has to be easy-entry, FUN, and scalable! Did I mention fun? With the advanced games available to kids and increasing computer/internet usage, many teens are savy to technology and quick to pick it up. Start easy enough to get everyone going, but make the difficulty level scalable for the more advanced kids and quick learners. My recommendation is that you integrate as much of the new and exciting technologies out there, using media spins (like RobotWars, etc.), to gain interest. Unfortunately, technology usually appeals to the boys, so you will have to go the extra mile to get the girls interested. Have a simple contest for the girls, integrate a chat room during the education process, etc.
The suggested means of creating a password is either for those people who require or desire an ultra-secure password (perhaps for encrypting/decrypting a rotating list of long and random passwords, like for PasswordSafe) or could be for generating short, concise passwords using the formulas.
If the system supports long passwords, then a simple passphrase, like random song lyrics or rare quotes, etc. would be the simple solution, noting that you simply need to change your password before a person could "break" your password using brute force. (as suggested on the Microsoft blog above)
Obviously this doesn't protect you from things like malware or getting tricked into telling someone your password, but that's not what we're discussion at the moment...
I have a password list (based on the English language and science/mathematical equations) that goes into rotation after one has been used. Separate passwords for Operating System, each email account, general web applications, online banking, etc. Once used, it goes into rotation at the bottom of the list. Each password gets updated. How do I remember them all? I don't! I remember 1 password changed each month that encrypts/decrypts my password list using a program that I wrote that also generates an additional "discovered" token appended to my password for the encryption key that can be retrieved and appended when decrypting.
Obviously this only works for computer-related passwords. PINs and other passwords require a much more human element to keeping them secure.
Perhaps integrate science table codes into your password or other known reference "codes" to known items (such as dates for historic events). What's the number for Einsteinium? Use that in your password...
For example, the following uses the atomic weight of Einsteinium, year the Human Genome Project completed, traditional formula for Einsteinium (III) iodide, and a hint that the formula both references the III iodide and not II and is not the Hill system formula. "My252BrainWasMapped2003WithThe3rdColorE SI3NotHill "
Of course, this password is incredibly long, but things like dates, chemical formulas, periodic table mappings, physics formulas, or algebraic formulas, all provide a concise means of generating short passwords that can be looked up if you ever forget them.
Similiar to encryption, you have now encoded your password with keys that are easy to remember, or lookup if you can't remember (Date of Mt. Rushmoore Dedication ceremony + Formula for Benzene).
I think the Platform support says it all...
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I just found FreeOS...
http://www.freeos.com/ lists NetBSD as supporting 30 platforms. Perhaps this is now even more with the v2.0 release? That's amazing!
My step-son's use of the computer is limited to academics. Once in a GREAT while, he is allowed to search online for his hobby, drawing. He's allowed to play his XBox only on the weekends. During the weekdays, he's limited to his academics, chores, hobbies, and spending time outside.
Is there a way for handicap people to defend against people pushing them over in their new "i-foot"? I assume they are considering a seat belt complete with voice activation and possibly safety padding?
Just playing devil's advocate and imagining a worst case scenario here...
Why don't we send a clincher message to people that think source code ought to be "secret", by not giving them any comments, ideas, suggestions, and/or replies, because we want to keep them "secret".
"Hey, what do you think of this software?"
"Can I see the source code?"
"No! I need to be able to sell it!"
"Oh... I think nothing of it."
"What?!"
"I'm a consultant, I need to be able to sell my opinions!"
Oh wait... then we would just be propogating the "secrets".
Seems to me that when programming syntax gets in the way of readability, that's when comments are necessary...
Any comments on the statement above not being readable enough?
I'm certain some standards body out there has attempted to define an XML schema for baseline programming out there... Seems to me this would be the most readable (by humans and computers combined), but also with the most overhead. I'd "never" program in it! Even in XML, the technology that helps make things more readable (and a whole lot of other stuff), there are multiple sub-sets of languages...
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"allows scheduled archiving instructions to be set"
I wrote a program to do just this, since WinZip didn't have it and others cost lots of money or sucked. Finally, I can use tried and true software for auto-archiving... Wonder how flexible their implementation is though?...
Has the concept of parental controls been discussed? Placing password-protected limits on the PlayStation, XBox, etc?
This will completely ruin the premise of shooting out the lights in Splinter Cell!
So, is he allowed to shake his own machines without the TILT going off?
I like that there is only 1 sponsored link for alternative search engines in Google... Coincidence or integrated intentions?
Call me ignorant, but isn't the ability of HTTP version 2 supposed to act as the intermediary between calls to the server without re-posting an entire page? I thought this was where browsers were headed, like ASP.NET's "SmartNavigation" @Page directive? Please educate me.
Using the miss-spelling "beta" was actually intentional. MSN Spaces lists the word "Beta" at the top of their page and people very often miss-spell the proper word "betta". So, I used both of these as a springboard for placement. I then used the new "visibility" for the term "beta fish" to launch placement of the actual term "betta fish".p dVO89fmNKwqmwfervd6IGg!310.entry
http://spaces.msn.com/members/eswanson/Blog/cns!1
As you can see, I have achieved relatively high rankings for both terms with hardly any effort:
Google "beta fish":
http://www.google.com/search?q=beta+fish
Google "betta fish":
http://www.google.com/search?q=betta+fish
I had performed a similiar expiriment with my blog http://spaces.msn.com/members/eswanson/Blog/cns!1p dVO89fmNKwqmwfervd6IGg!238.entry with great success. Utilizing the word "beta" that appeared on EVERY page of MSN Spaces, I was able to get one of the top placements for "Beta Fish". My expiriment quickly generated further ideas for targeted-Blog comments on other's Blogs with links back to the targeted-Blog entries.
The key was to simply make regular targeted-entries in the Blog and comments that did not "abuse" the target keywords. Search engines already do a "decent" job of preventing keyword abuse, but the Blog may be a current loophole.
Now, my expiriment was "not-for-profit" and I sincerely worry about the future abuse of this great technology, the Blog. Google, MSN, and other search engines already have a lot of work controlling the many factors for proper search-engine placement/ranking. It will be interesting to see what the future holds.
This isn't a new idea, but it still holds great potential.
My New Year's resolution was to read my quote book, "20,000 Quips & Quotes" by Even Esar. I've always been one to enjoy Harper's Index http://www.harpers.org/MostRecentIndex.html rather than read the daily news.
I tried reading that book and returned it to the library owing dollars in late fines, having finished 1/5 of the story... I suppose it was entertaining. But, I'd rather read the Britannica. I'm sure it's like sports... Spectator vs. Participant. I don't like watching. Besides, Jacobs probably wouldn't read his book either.
So, according to the odds of dying in an accident of any kind, I should rest 95.7% assured that I will most likely die of an "internal cause of mortality". Hmm... that leaves me sleeping well at night. I can hope for things like Cancer and other diseases or just to plain-ol' die somewhere.
In general, humans fail to think of the future.
The last few conversations that I have read regarding "end of the world", or at least "end of humankind" scenarios, I have not seen the point made that, although the trigger for ultimate extinction may be caused by such events as disease, starvation, asteroids, global warming, etc., the actual cause for extinction or mass-population-reduction will ultimately be the battle to survive.
WAR, more than likely, will result as resources run low and budgets can no longer afford expensive R&D on "fixes" to the resource problem.
Giving humans credit for something, there is a chance some of us can and will survive, but the end looks bleak unless more people take the responsibility for others futures upon themselves.
My step-son says, "Um... robots would be cool."
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After nudging him for more info, I got the following:
"learning to make or program games,robots and what to use in order to make them."
Let me translate for you...
Very few kids want to be educated. All of them want to learn. When it comes to technology, it has to be easy-entry, FUN, and scalable! Did I mention fun? With the advanced games available to kids and increasing computer/internet usage, many teens are savy to technology and quick to pick it up. Start easy enough to get everyone going, but make the difficulty level scalable for the more advanced kids and quick learners. My recommendation is that you integrate as much of the new and exciting technologies out there, using media spins (like RobotWars, etc.), to gain interest. Unfortunately, technology usually appeals to the boys, so you will have to go the extra mile to get the girls interested. Have a simple contest for the girls, integrate a chat room during the education process, etc.
Of course, I must mention the SlashDot article about the Japanese teenage-girl phenomenonal influence on technology from last week:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/09/16352
I hope that helps.
The suggested means of creating a password is either for those people who require or desire an ultra-secure password (perhaps for encrypting/decrypting a rotating list of long and random passwords, like for PasswordSafe) or could be for generating short, concise passwords using the formulas.
If the system supports long passwords, then a simple passphrase, like random song lyrics or rare quotes, etc. would be the simple solution, noting that you simply need to change your password before a person could "break" your password using brute force. (as suggested on the Microsoft blog above)
Obviously this doesn't protect you from things like malware or getting tricked into telling someone your password, but that's not what we're discussion at the moment...
I have a password list (based on the English language and science/mathematical equations) that goes into rotation after one has been used. Separate passwords for Operating System, each email account, general web applications, online banking, etc. Once used, it goes into rotation at the bottom of the list. Each password gets updated. How do I remember them all? I don't! I remember 1 password changed each month that encrypts/decrypts my password list using a program that I wrote that also generates an additional "discovered" token appended to my password for the encryption key that can be retrieved and appended when decrypting.
Obviously this only works for computer-related passwords. PINs and other passwords require a much more human element to keeping them secure.
Fun stuff...
Perhaps integrate science table codes into your password or other known reference "codes" to known items (such as dates for historic events). What's the number for Einsteinium? Use that in your password...
E SI3NotHill "
For example, the following uses the atomic weight of Einsteinium, year the Human Genome Project completed, traditional formula for Einsteinium (III) iodide, and a hint that the formula both references the III iodide and not II and is not the Hill system formula.
"My252BrainWasMapped2003WithThe3rdColor
Of course, this password is incredibly long, but things like dates, chemical formulas, periodic table mappings, physics formulas, or algebraic formulas, all provide a concise means of generating short passwords that can be looked up if you ever forget them.
Similiar to encryption, you have now encoded your password with keys that are easy to remember, or lookup if you can't remember (Date of Mt. Rushmoore Dedication ceremony + Formula for Benzene).
I just found FreeOS...
http://www.freeos.com/ lists NetBSD as supporting 30 platforms. Perhaps this is now even more with the v2.0 release? That's amazing!
Read the article below for comparisons of free operating systems...
http://www.freeos.com/compare/
I submitted a request to Microsoft for a .NET Framework API library to this so-called "brain reading cap". They haven't gotten back to me.
Could we finally have an answer to discovering if people in comas really can hear you and control the thoughts of their brain?
Perhaps this has already been done and I'm out of the loop on this one...
So many applications for use, so little brain activity!
My step-son's use of the computer is limited to academics. Once in a GREAT while, he is allowed to search online for his hobby, drawing. He's allowed to play his XBox only on the weekends. During the weekdays, he's limited to his academics, chores, hobbies, and spending time outside.
Is there a way for handicap people to defend against people pushing them over in their new "i-foot"? I assume they are considering a seat belt complete with voice activation and possibly safety padding?
Just playing devil's advocate and imagining a worst case scenario here...
Why don't we send a clincher message to people that think source code ought to be "secret", by not giving them any comments, ideas, suggestions, and/or replies, because we want to keep them "secret".
"Hey, what do you think of this software?"
"Can I see the source code?"
"No! I need to be able to sell it!"
"Oh... I think nothing of it."
"What?!"
"I'm a consultant, I need to be able to sell my opinions!"
Oh wait... then we would just be propogating the "secrets".
I think the next generation of Laser Tag will be the 1st application of this technology.
"His approach is refreshing when so much is written by opinionated members of the 'Microsoft is the source of all evil' camp."
:)
I prefer to be called "honest" and not "opinionated".
Seems to me that when programming syntax gets in the way of readability, that's when comments are necessary...
Any comments on the statement above not being readable enough?
I'm certain some standards body out there has attempted to define an XML schema for baseline programming out there... Seems to me this would be the most readable (by humans and computers combined), but also with the most overhead. I'd "never" program in it! Even in XML, the technology that helps make things more readable (and a whole lot of other stuff), there are multiple sub-sets of languages...