You don't want the happy drugs? Wow. I got some Tylenol 3 and some magic liquid drops that I could put into my eye to numb them for about 30 minutes. I won't lie to say that the recovery period did suck a bit. But with books on CD, absolute darkness and a jacuzzi tub I'd go so far as to say it was bearable.
No, the flap never fully bonds with the eye again. You are always at risk from one 3 Stooges re-enactment from having her flap hang-out. What we have reached here however is the crossroads of long-term gain for short-term pain.
In my case I deemed it worth the pain, you chose the easy / risky alternative. Both essentially come with lifetime guarantees, get an annual eye test and if vision degrades measurably you can get it touched up so risk is a relative term in this case.
The method the Navy uses has been available to civilians for years now. I should know - I had it. In LASIK SURGERY the potential for the flap to come apart exists because only the outer edge of where the cut is made heals. You recover in 3 - 5 days instead of 5 - 8 with PRK. But with PRK you don't have the heebie geebie factor of eye flaps busting loose. In fact most eye doctors will recommend PRK to those under 30 with any kind of an active lifestyle for sports, scuba diving, etc.
While taking a week or more off work is tough for some - YOU'RE PUTTING FRIKKIN' LASERS IN YOUR EYES in either way. Why not take the more permanent / durable approach? Don't chose 'Hi Dr. Nick' budget solution either. That's just stupid.
I'm used to getting the regular overdose'ing of googlewhore'ing.
And since I'm a googlewhore, I readily enjoy and appreciate this.
But Sonywhore'ing? Don't like it, don't want it!
Slashdot is starting to suck just a little more every day.
When did it jump the shark?
I have been, and I immediately got the reference. In fact in light of the recent hubub about Discovery Channel doing an on-playa episode of some new pseudo-reality-tv show and paying BM.Org an undisclosed amount of money had me comparing Burning Man to a child growing through the years - now at age 20 beginning to finally grow out into the world comfortably. Very much like open source with Linux taking many of the first hard steps for the larger communities to follow after (regional communities growing in Seattle, Texas, Vancouver, Ontario and around the world or subsequent open source softwares. It was eerie to read this intro chapter drawing that same comparison.
I'm just coming from the dust perspective more than O'Reilly I guess;)
They are a LLC - Limited Liability Corporation.
The distinction between these analogies is laughable because Disney is 100% FOR PROFIT corporation. The BORG (Burning Man Organization tongue in cheek moniker) may not be 'non-profit' but their goals are the defined on a more social and artistic nature.
I've been going to Burning Man for five years now and while I may agree that they are not doing it perfect, but they're doing it a heck of a lot better than anything else out there. The "hippie movement"'s high water mark broke years ago, this new social movement is still gathering it's energy and Burning Man is but one beachhead pushing out against the right wing world.
And how ridiculous is $200 when you break it down by comparison to what equivelent situations exist.
If it is just $10 / night to go camping in a national park and $20 / night to go to a huge club in major metropolitan centers. That's still $210 for a week. For those who 'get it' Burning Man offers so much more to their spirits that others who don't often can't comprehend why one takes such a arduous trip into the desert.
As I said, it was not my summary, it was from the conference. I'd suggest you direct such questions / comments to the presenter - in that case Eric Allman CTO for Sendmail.
Your welcome anonymous coward! I always love that term...Whether right, wrong, indifferent or sarcastic, atleast I'm willing to stand up and be recognized for the opinions of which I am speaking.
SPF is also the basis for the SenderID framework.
M$ has basically repackaged it and while they aren't admitting they are going to license this if they get the approval for what they've applied (and it would be very stupid for them to try and make this a for-$$$ approach implementation) the potential for that to occur exists.
How is validation performed? SPF - RFC2821 MAIL FROM address, "Bounce" or "envelope from" address Sender ID - RFC2822 PRA FROM address DKIM / DK - Designated "singer" address/RFC2822 FROM address
Strengths SPF - Reduces bounce messages where the victim receives errors for mail they didn't send Sender ID - Validates the identity most users see and reduces the threat to phishing. DKIM / DK - Provides end-to-end validation over multiple hops (i.e. forwarding)
MTA Updates? SPF - Receiving update required. Sender ID - Receiving update required. DKIM / DK - Sender / Receiving MTA update required.
Weaknesses SPF - Only validates the last hop Sender ID - Only validates the last hop DKIM / DK - Can be "broken" by imperceptible changes (and FWD: >'s in messages)
Publishing / Signing SPF - Easy. Publish and maintain in DNS. Sender ID - Easy. Publish and maintain in DNS. DKIM / DK - Create keys & publish in DNS.
Mailing Lists SPF - Easy. Sender ID - Easy. DKIM / DK - Hard
Forwarding SPF - Hard. Sender ID - Requires a header added. DKIM / DK - Easy
Performance SPF - Negotiable. ISPS may cache to improve. Sender ID - Negotiable. ISPS may cache to improve. DKIM / DK - 5 - 10% processing CPU
Do you remember that first time you watched an Indiana Jones movie and thought how cool it'd be to have your very own 'little red line' cataloging your travels? Ever wonder 'just how close' or 'really far off' you were to your friends on the playa one night when you said to meet up with friends and it never worked out? Misguided in your travels to find 'something' that you thought you knew where was?
Well thanks to a GPS unit, some conversion software and the google maps API I've finally started making my own Indiana Jones red-line (http://www.oastler.ca/maps/dynamic.html)
The next step would be put another 'layer' on top to allow your friends to all upload their tracks of where they are and - for those privacy minded folks out there - have it broadcast the waypoints / track by wifi to the server and you can play Where's Waldo - errr Where's Jamie - whenever you want.
The tie-in to infoWindows to pictures I take is already 1/2 way done too, just not sure how to get Picasa XML extract and this to tie together or if I even need Picasa to do that.
I hate to admit it - because, you know, all the fraudulent things that have happened to people with PayPal and eBay - but I have to say that PayPal is starting to do things well.
Require you to put in your work phone number and then an automated system phones it and asks you to authenticate what is onscreen by touchpad. Atleast with this method of authentication the hackers have to spoof more than one method of communication and would leave a rather sizeable paper trail of changing account data.
Not like reading the extra 3 digits off your card into a computer system so that someone else can steal those digits and reuse 'em.
This post started out with better ambitions. Stupid boob tube, oh how you distract me!
Backwards Thinking:
I would LOVE for someone - you know, one of those people who have a lot of free time and desire to do lots of in-depth research - were to write down ALL the things someone CAN do and get less jail time than they would with this new proposal.
I'm not talking about OJ Simpson and the people with high priced lawyers, I'm talking the letter of the law. Can someone do a hit and run on a pedestrian, be caught on video tape, but plead guilty and only serve 2 years time if the person only got a broken leg? What seriously heinous acts can be committed?
Forward Thinking:
This is GREAT! Remember the movie BLOW - not that I'm going to provide any links to it or nothing for fear they may THINK I own an illegal copy and hunt me down. Johnny Depp goes in for charges of marijuana grow-op'ing and comes out with a bachelors degree in cocaine smuggling. Just THINK of the possibilities where all the 15 year old script kiddies get tossed in jail for 3 years for sharing their music and movies. They'll come out knowing how to get free phone calls for life, how to properly encrypt their communications, and hax0r the internet like The Rat in that terribly realistic movie The Core.
Go on George, sign that bill! Just make sure my legal system north of the 49th parallel has a spine to stand up to your judicial stupidocrity. And while I don't believe stupidocrity is a word, I'm sure someone (aka The Monkey Presidential Puppet) will bastardize the english language enough sooner or later to say it live on CNN.
It would indeed. I use all my measly 3 weeks vacation every year to do the trip including a week to relax in a national park somewhere on my way back. It's also a shining example of creativity and resourcefulness of artists and technofreaks.
Plus blowing stuff up is way fun!
Finally an environment I was BUILT to survive in.
Having gone to the desert at the end of August for the last 4 years, I know DUST. I know the feeling of contact lenses gritty with it, zippers of tents being destroyed after only one week exposure to it, taking a shower feeling dry and fresh for all of maybe 5 seconds before your skin has that fine gritty coating on it again.
Bring on the moon!
I'll hax0r the interweb to get for myself.
Geeks with confidence, substance and style.
God help us all.
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Re-Imagining Apple
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· Score: 3, Funny
Guy: "You're cute, can I get your number?"
Girl: "Sure, got a cell phone?"
Guy: "Better, an iPhone!"
Girl: "My number is 596-6"
Guy: "Woaaaah, hold on there missy....This is the latest and greatest new technology. You don't just start punching keys for the number, that so 2002! I'll just boot up my laptop so I can sync to my cell phone so I can add a new contact with your details.
Girl: "Whatever. Later g44k!"
Now, if they had voice-recognition for adding contacts along with dialing, that might be ok. But the cell phone background noice filtering in general does not seem to be where it is needed to have this work well...yet.
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You don't want the happy drugs? Wow. I got some Tylenol 3 and some magic liquid drops that I could put into my eye to numb them for about 30 minutes. I won't lie to say that the recovery period did suck a bit. But with books on CD, absolute darkness and a jacuzzi tub I'd go so far as to say it was bearable.
No, the flap never fully bonds with the eye again. You are always at risk from one 3 Stooges re-enactment from having her flap hang-out. What we have reached here however is the crossroads of long-term gain for short-term pain.
In my case I deemed it worth the pain, you chose the easy / risky alternative. Both essentially come with lifetime guarantees, get an annual eye test and if vision degrades measurably you can get it touched up so risk is a relative term in this case.
The method the Navy uses has been available to civilians for years now. I should know - I had it. In LASIK SURGERY the potential for the flap to come apart exists because only the outer edge of where the cut is made heals. You recover in 3 - 5 days instead of 5 - 8 with PRK. But with PRK you don't have the heebie geebie factor of eye flaps busting loose. In fact most eye doctors will recommend PRK to those under 30 with any kind of an active lifestyle for sports, scuba diving, etc.
While taking a week or more off work is tough for some - YOU'RE PUTTING FRIKKIN' LASERS IN YOUR EYES in either way. Why not take the more permanent / durable approach? Don't chose 'Hi Dr. Nick' budget solution either. That's just stupid.
I'm used to getting the regular overdose'ing of googlewhore'ing.
And since I'm a googlewhore, I readily enjoy and appreciate this.
But Sonywhore'ing? Don't like it, don't want it!
Slashdot is starting to suck just a little more every day.
When did it jump the shark?
>Don't knock what you do not know.
;)
I have been, and I immediately got the reference. In fact in light of the recent hubub about Discovery Channel doing an on-playa episode of some new pseudo-reality-tv show and paying BM.Org an undisclosed amount of money had me comparing Burning Man to a child growing through the years - now at age 20 beginning to finally grow out into the world comfortably. Very much like open source with Linux taking many of the first hard steps for the larger communities to follow after (regional communities growing in Seattle, Texas, Vancouver, Ontario and around the world or subsequent open source softwares. It was eerie to read this intro chapter drawing that same comparison. I'm just coming from the dust perspective more than O'Reilly I guess
They are a LLC - Limited Liability Corporation. The distinction between these analogies is laughable because Disney is 100% FOR PROFIT corporation. The BORG (Burning Man Organization tongue in cheek moniker) may not be 'non-profit' but their goals are the defined on a more social and artistic nature. I've been going to Burning Man for five years now and while I may agree that they are not doing it perfect, but they're doing it a heck of a lot better than anything else out there. The "hippie movement"'s high water mark broke years ago, this new social movement is still gathering it's energy and Burning Man is but one beachhead pushing out against the right wing world. And how ridiculous is $200 when you break it down by comparison to what equivelent situations exist. If it is just $10 / night to go camping in a national park and $20 / night to go to a huge club in major metropolitan centers. That's still $210 for a week. For those who 'get it' Burning Man offers so much more to their spirits that others who don't often can't comprehend why one takes such a arduous trip into the desert.
As I said, it was not my summary, it was from the conference. I'd suggest you direct such questions / comments to the presenter - in that case Eric Allman CTO for Sendmail.
Your welcome anonymous coward! I always love that term...Whether right, wrong, indifferent or sarcastic, atleast I'm willing to stand up and be recognized for the opinions of which I am speaking.
SPF is also the basis for the SenderID framework. M$ has basically repackaged it and while they aren't admitting they are going to license this if they get the approval for what they've applied (and it would be very stupid for them to try and make this a for-$$$ approach implementation) the potential for that to occur exists.
I just got back New York and the http://www.emailauthentication.org/summit2005/agen da.html/ Email Authentication Summit that covered all of these topics. Here's the last one page summary on all 3 (SPF, Sender ID, DKIM)
How is validation performed?
SPF - RFC2821 MAIL FROM address, "Bounce" or "envelope from" address
Sender ID - RFC2822 PRA FROM address
DKIM / DK - Designated "singer" address/RFC2822 FROM address
Strengths
SPF - Reduces bounce messages where the victim receives errors for mail they didn't send
Sender ID - Validates the identity most users see and reduces the threat to phishing.
DKIM / DK - Provides end-to-end validation over multiple hops (i.e. forwarding)
MTA Updates?
SPF - Receiving update required.
Sender ID - Receiving update required.
DKIM / DK - Sender / Receiving MTA update required.
Weaknesses
SPF - Only validates the last hop
Sender ID - Only validates the last hop
DKIM / DK - Can be "broken" by imperceptible changes (and FWD: >'s in messages)
Publishing / Signing
SPF - Easy. Publish and maintain in DNS.
Sender ID - Easy. Publish and maintain in DNS.
DKIM / DK - Create keys & publish in DNS.
Mailing Lists
SPF - Easy.
Sender ID - Easy.
DKIM / DK - Hard
Forwarding
SPF - Hard.
Sender ID - Requires a header added.
DKIM / DK - Easy
Performance
SPF - Negotiable. ISPS may cache to improve.
Sender ID - Negotiable. ISPS may cache to improve.
DKIM / DK - 5 - 10% processing CPU
Do you remember that first time you watched an Indiana Jones movie and thought how cool it'd be to have your very own 'little red line' cataloging your travels? Ever wonder 'just how close' or 'really far off' you were to your friends on the playa one night when you said to meet up with friends and it never worked out? Misguided in your travels to find 'something' that you thought you knew where was? Well thanks to a GPS unit, some conversion software and the google maps API I've finally started making my own Indiana Jones red-line (http://www.oastler.ca/maps/dynamic.html) The next step would be put another 'layer' on top to allow your friends to all upload their tracks of where they are and - for those privacy minded folks out there - have it broadcast the waypoints / track by wifi to the server and you can play Where's Waldo - errr Where's Jamie - whenever you want. The tie-in to infoWindows to pictures I take is already 1/2 way done too, just not sure how to get Picasa XML extract and this to tie together or if I even need Picasa to do that.
I hate to admit it - because, you know, all the fraudulent things that have happened to people with PayPal and eBay - but I have to say that PayPal is starting to do things well.
Require you to put in your work phone number and then an automated system phones it and asks you to authenticate what is onscreen by touchpad. Atleast with this method of authentication the hackers have to spoof more than one method of communication and would leave a rather sizeable paper trail of changing account data.
Not like reading the extra 3 digits off your card into a computer system so that someone else can steal those digits and reuse 'em.
This post started out with better ambitions. Stupid boob tube, oh how you distract me!
Backwards Thinking: I would LOVE for someone - you know, one of those people who have a lot of free time and desire to do lots of in-depth research - were to write down ALL the things someone CAN do and get less jail time than they would with this new proposal. I'm not talking about OJ Simpson and the people with high priced lawyers, I'm talking the letter of the law. Can someone do a hit and run on a pedestrian, be caught on video tape, but plead guilty and only serve 2 years time if the person only got a broken leg? What seriously heinous acts can be committed? Forward Thinking: This is GREAT! Remember the movie BLOW - not that I'm going to provide any links to it or nothing for fear they may THINK I own an illegal copy and hunt me down. Johnny Depp goes in for charges of marijuana grow-op'ing and comes out with a bachelors degree in cocaine smuggling. Just THINK of the possibilities where all the 15 year old script kiddies get tossed in jail for 3 years for sharing their music and movies. They'll come out knowing how to get free phone calls for life, how to properly encrypt their communications, and hax0r the internet like The Rat in that terribly realistic movie The Core. Go on George, sign that bill! Just make sure my legal system north of the 49th parallel has a spine to stand up to your judicial stupidocrity. And while I don't believe stupidocrity is a word, I'm sure someone (aka The Monkey Presidential Puppet) will bastardize the english language enough sooner or later to say it live on CNN.
It would indeed. I use all my measly 3 weeks vacation every year to do the trip including a week to relax in a national park somewhere on my way back. It's also a shining example of creativity and resourcefulness of artists and technofreaks. Plus blowing stuff up is way fun!
Finally an environment I was BUILT to survive in. Having gone to the desert at the end of August for the last 4 years, I know DUST. I know the feeling of contact lenses gritty with it, zippers of tents being destroyed after only one week exposure to it, taking a shower feeling dry and fresh for all of maybe 5 seconds before your skin has that fine gritty coating on it again. Bring on the moon!
I'll hax0r the interweb to get for myself.
Geeks with confidence, substance and style.
God help us all.
Guy: "You're cute, can I get your number?" Girl: "Sure, got a cell phone?" Guy: "Better, an iPhone!" Girl: "My number is 596-6" Guy: "Woaaaah, hold on there missy....This is the latest and greatest new technology. You don't just start punching keys for the number, that so 2002! I'll just boot up my laptop so I can sync to my cell phone so I can add a new contact with your details. Girl: "Whatever. Later g44k!" Now, if they had voice-recognition for adding contacts along with dialing, that might be ok. But the cell phone background noice filtering in general does not seem to be where it is needed to have this work well...yet.