The Canadian equivalent to Social Security Numbers is Social Insurance Numbers or S.I.N.
The name too ironic! Of course, SINs are misused like SS#'s.
It used to be you didn't need a SIN until you got your first job (at -maybe- 16 years old)
but now many parents are required to get one for their kid's Registered Education Savings Plan
(RESP) - sometimes in the first year of the baby's life. Welcome to the system, Junior!
Yes, I agree, if you want smart tags you
should have to insert a meta tag turning it
on. I was just trying to be realistic.
There's precedent for this sort of thing:
Deja's "X-NoArchive: yes" in Usenet and
the robots meta tags in web pages. In both
these cases if you leave out the tag you
posting/page is processed.
Yuck, those names -.coop and.museum - that
ICANN came up with are soo stupid and so
arbitrary! Why can't co-op's be in.org
- they probably are already. While co-op's
are a fine class of organization - there
are many other equally fine kinds of orgs.
And museums! Probably archives are more
important on the net. The TLDs show there
is some weird sort of bias going on in ICANN.
I'm all for the 17576 TLDs. Lets register
17576tlds.org
By the way, 26 ^ 3 = 17576, that's only the letters. How about all the base64 characters?!
64 ^ 3 = 262144
Imagine the possibilities!
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I agree - a terrific idea.
Why have a committee have a huge debate
over whether this TLD should exist and
another one should not. Just let them
all exist and let the market decide
which are the good ones!
... that's the problem. Everyone knows
that McDonalds and other fast food places
are tacky, bad for your body and turn kids
into robots. But you don't want the gov't
to make a law that says "tacky is illegal".
I would be in the streets protecting in favor of
bad taste!
Something that *can* be legislated (and should be, in my opinion) is the use of washable (ie normal) dishes when the customer is going to "eat in". I hear some cities have thought about that. Why package up the food when the customer is just going to up it in 20 seconds and then discard the packing
Also, I heard a McDonalds in Quebec City before
the summit boarded its self up and removed signs.... They KNOW they are hated!!
One of the main causes so of Foot and Mouth
diseases is the monoculture that is agriculture
in industrialized countries. In other words, there is hardly any variety in the crop or animals raised. Viruses don't often infect more than one species (I know Foot and Mouth does) so the more species you have the safer you are.
The same with Operating Systems. The dominance of Microsoft and in particular their insecure mail client causes more trouble that it would otherwise if there was a variety out the.
Reducing the number of species/platforms, which is
which what markets forces do is actually not
good economic sense.
RealMapping, Quova, BorderControl, EdgeScape.
That's what the article seems to be saying.
If your business does something that illegal
somewhere - and what isn't - then you'll
have to subscribe to a geolocator.
But I don't get Yahoo doesn't just filter on
the.fr domain.
Boeing buys Linux/Beowolf cluster to design rocket
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My 2 cents worth about developing under Microsoft...
I found a bug in the C++ compiler - arrrg.
Cost me tons of time. Then when I went
to report the bug here:
http://support.microsoft.com/Support/visualc/repor t... its says "Bug Reporting Unavailable"
(follow the link - its been broken for at least a week and still is). Since I can't report
this bug it almost certianly won't be fixed
in the next release arrrg.
By the way, what do you think? It would
help me to have this bug fixed but it
would also help the evil empire. Do you
help them by reporting bugs?
Ooops, I just heard the MS lawyer say that the reason Internet Explorer was unremovable in OSR2
was so developers would be able to just see
check the version of the OS and know what was there for them to exploit. (Not his exact words.)
But the
Microsoft Developer Network GetVersionEx() page
says otherwise:
Identifying the current operating system is usually not the best way to determine whether a particular operating system feature is present. This is because the
operating system may have had new features added in a redistributable DLL. Rather than using GetVersionEx to determine the operating system platform or
version number, test for the presence of the feature itself. For more information, see Operating System Version.
Must be tough being MS's lawyer - you have to keep so may lies straight in your head.
In Cryptonomicon Waterhouse actually used something like this. He had a encrypted long distance phone call with his pal Allan Turning.
They encrypted the conversion by using a long stream of random bits played from a record player.
Both sides played the record and then (presumably) destroyed the record.
The problem with the professor's plan is that there would be lots of people using the same "record" and it wouldn't be destroyed. Oh yeah, its impossible to save it - really?
"The workings of the new UI rely on a side-by-side sharing requirements structure. As a solution for
versioning problems and DLL Hell, Microsoft strongly suggests that applications adopt a side-by-side
versioning strategy. As seen in the implementation of ComCtl version 6, side-by-side components are the
future of Windows development. This section gives you an overview about what's new for side-by-side
sharing for Windows XP. MSDN will be publishing an article in March 2001 that looks into this topic in more
depth."
From
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/techart/winxpintro.htm
This
google search
lists a bunch of DCE-RPC projects for Linux.
I have never understood why Samba was
such a big deal on Linux but DCE-RPC never
was talked about as much.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree - this term has always bugged me too.
Speaking of bugs, it reminds of an image of a caterpillar devouring leaf after green leaf in a tree.
It used to be you didn't need a SIN until you got your first job (at -maybe- 16 years old) but now many parents are required to get one for their kid's Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) - sometimes in the first year of the baby's life. Welcome to the system, Junior!
Sun pack for Apple powerbooks
There's precedent for this sort of thing: Deja's "X-NoArchive: yes" in Usenet and the robots meta tags in web pages. In both these cases if you leave out the tag you posting/page is processed.
At the very least, M$ should provide an option for site which don't want smart tags - eg:
[meta name="smart-tag" content="no"]
Then we can turn it off on our sites.
If they had any balls they'd make FrontPage
insert this code by default.
I'm all for the 17576 TLDs. Lets register 17576tlds.org
By the way, 26 ^ 3 = 17576, that's only the letters. How about all the base64 characters?! 64 ^ 3 = 262144
Imagine the possibilities!
I agree - a terrific idea. Why have a committee have a huge debate over whether this TLD should exist and another one should not. Just let them all exist and let the market decide which are the good ones!
Something that *can* be legislated (and should be, in my opinion) is the use of washable (ie normal) dishes when the customer is going to "eat in". I hear some cities have thought about that. Why package up the food when the customer is just going to up it in 20 seconds and then discard the packing
Also, I heard a McDonalds in Quebec City before the summit boarded its self up and removed signs. ... They KNOW they are hated!!
The Register has a copy of the paper here. I loved the bit where they looked up a patent.
Why not just change:
typedef long int __time_t;
into:
typedef unsigned long int __time_t;
The same with Operating Systems. The dominance of Microsoft and in particular their insecure mail client causes more trouble that it would otherwise if there was a variety out the.
Reducing the number of species/platforms, which is which what markets forces do is actually not good economic sense.
But I don't get Yahoo doesn't just filter on the .fr domain.
Space contractor Boeing buys Linux-AMD supercomputer for use in designing the new Delta IV rocket that launches satellites into space.
By the way, what do you think? It would help me to have this bug fixed but it would also help the evil empire. Do you help them by reporting bugs?
Hello, R Ford.
The problem with the professor's plan is that there would be lots of people using the same "record" and it wouldn't be destroyed. Oh yeah, its impossible to save it - really?
I don't thing Waterhouse would be impressed.
"The workings of the new UI rely on a side-by-side sharing requirements structure. As a solution for versioning problems and DLL Hell, Microsoft strongly suggests that applications adopt a side-by-side versioning strategy. As seen in the implementation of ComCtl version 6, side-by-side components are the future of Windows development. This section gives you an overview about what's new for side-by-side sharing for Windows XP. MSDN will be publishing an article in March 2001 that looks into this topic in more depth." From http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL= /library/techart/winxpintro.htm
This google search lists a bunch of DCE-RPC projects for Linux. I have never understood why Samba was such a big deal on Linux but DCE-RPC never was talked about as much.
The name is unfortunate XML is supposed to mean X Window + HTML but, of course, its confused with, well, XML.
is here
What's up with that? Why wouldn't RedHat just put in the regular whois? Maybe have do in the latest version (7.0) which I don't yet have.
Do they mean a....terminal?