Well before the sites mentioned in the WSJ article, the folks at
UIUC NCSA (who begat Mosaic, from which sprung Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox), had a
What's New site that did what indexed the best of the web (which the article describes as the orignin of blogging), but UIUC started doing it in 1993 - that's even before Yahoo.
The NCSA What's New index does not seem to be archived any longer at UIUC, but rather at Netscape. That's puzzling to me, since I think it's an absolutely essential part of the history of the growth of the web.
their vehicle will six and be the size of a semi trailer truck and will cost you a billion dollars to make a 500 mile round trip. good acceleration though.
She could just vacuum the carpet up and wait for the gasses to dissipate.
Not quite. From: www.nema.org/lamprecycle/epafactsheet-cfl.pdf
Safe cleanup precautions: If a CFL breaks in your home, open nearby windows to disperse any vapor that may escape, carefully sweep up the fragments (do not use your hands) and wipe the area with a disposable paper towel to remove all glass fragments. Do not use a vacuum. Place all fragments in a sealed plastic bag and follow disposal instructions above.
Using a vacuum cleaner will risk sucking the mercury off the floor and spewing it into the air as vapor, which is what you do not want. Be careful out there.
I am probably stronger than Stephen Hawking, but neither of us is strong enough to lift my house. Stephen Hawking is probably smarter than me, but neither of us is smart enough to explain how the universe popped into existence. If Hawking thinks he can explain the origin of the universe, maybe he's not so smart. If he's just guessing, well, I can just guess too.
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/etc is et cetera.
And dsw, the predecessor to rm -i, has a
more amusing etymology. I've been hacking UNIX since v6. If I needed a source of reliable UNIX history, I would not turn to the Gnome project, and I would not turn to Norway. If you want an authoritative answer, ask Dennis Ritchie. If you want a reliable answer, try an old USENIX hacker, or UNIX historian Peter Salus.
This is, unfortunately, not a new problem. Israel addresses the problem in a more sensible way than the USA does. I see that other references to Israel in this thread are mostly anti-Israel jingoism (so far) but I won't address that.
Israel's approach is borne of being surrounded by enemies and inundated by non-friends. They deal with it by having intelligent people working in their security forces, including at the airport. They frisk you (usually with a metal detector wand) when you enter any gathering place - restaurant, bus station, theater, museum, post office, etc. They use profiling, political correctness be damned. Their security practices seem intelligent - you don't have to take off your shoes when you run their usual airport security gauntlet, and a grandmother traveling with her family isn't going to get run through the same ringer as a suspicious young person.
Israel deals with real terror threats every day. They defuse real attacks every day. Maybe they know what they're doing.
And what do you think would have happened if these things had been bombs, disguised as creepy little advertisements, and the police ignored them?
What if my empty lunch bag that I threw into the trash was a bomb? What if my bicycle was a bomb, my car? These terrists put the devices where they would be easily seen. They have been in place for two to three weeks in ten large American cities. "Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said he'll seek to punish those responsible." For what, inducing panic? So who should be punished, the folks who placed the flashy lights or the government officials who flipped out over nothing?
Am I mistaken, or are this guy's statistics based on there being one other colony of "aliens" in the galaxy? What if there are a hundred colonies or a million? (A recent popular guess for number of starts in the milky way is 100 billion).
I call bullshit. IP doesn't do collision detection, so that change wouldn't have helped much at all; moreover, to have no collision detection before that change would have required building your own tranceivers.
I'm not a net hacker and I don't know the implementation details of that old net system. So I can't defend my claim about the cause of the corruption being collisons, with full confidence. But I am certain that we had a home-brewed non-TCP/IP protocol running on our ethernet cable, and if more than one person used it at a time, transfers were corrupted. The transceivers, which were boxes outside the computers attached to the cable with stinger/vampire taps, may have been doing collision detection, or maybe not.
If you weren't careful about the spacing between taps, other users might not see you on the net. The spacing problem was true of all thicknet, but the one-at-a-time problem was peculiar to our software implementation.
In the early 80's, I was working for a company that did lots of its own kernel hacking on UNIX and VMS systems. They had a habit of implementing lots of their own software systems, rather than using standard ones. Some were not very clever. For instance, they had a communication "protocol" that ran over ethernet cable, but it didn't handle collisions. Yes, we had thick ethernet running to every office, and when anyone wanted to use it, they'd run out in the hall and yell to make sure it wasn't in use. If there was contention, data would be corrupted. Eventually, we punted on this stupidity and used TCP/IP.
The article barely mentions
HAKMEM, but the invsqrt hack is reminiscent of the HAKMEM
programming hacks, which were published in 1972. Several of these hacks use bit fiddling with magic constants to perform tasks in straight-line code, that you would ordinarily think of doing with iteration.
HAKMEM is classic bathroom reading for hackers. If you want to do it up old-school, print a copy from
original scans, double-sided.
Adele Goldberg delveloped Smalltalk at Xerox PARC. Seminal GUI and OO programming system. Probably fits in there somewhere between Daryl Hannah and Paris Hilton.
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The NCSA What's New index does not seem to be archived any longer at UIUC, but rather at Netscape. That's puzzling to me, since I think it's an absolutely essential part of the history of the growth of the web.
their vehicle will six and be the size of a semi trailer truck and will cost you a billion dollars to make a 500 mile round trip. good acceleration though.
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT3728480
The good sysadmins release the cables using the clips. The bad sysadmins use tin snips.
I am not a flamer. I am a person of combustion.
I am probably stronger than Stephen Hawking, but neither of us is strong enough to lift my house. Stephen Hawking is probably smarter than me, but neither of us is smart enough to explain how the universe popped into existence. If Hawking thinks he can explain the origin of the universe, maybe he's not so smart. If he's just guessing, well, I can just guess too.
/etc is et cetera. And dsw, the predecessor to rm -i, has a more amusing etymology. I've been hacking UNIX since v6. If I needed a source of reliable UNIX history, I would not turn to the Gnome project, and I would not turn to Norway. If you want an authoritative answer, ask Dennis Ritchie. If you want a reliable answer, try an old USENIX hacker, or UNIX historian Peter Salus.
Israel's approach is borne of being surrounded by enemies and inundated by non-friends. They deal with it by having intelligent people working in their security forces, including at the airport. They frisk you (usually with a metal detector wand) when you enter any gathering place - restaurant, bus station, theater, museum, post office, etc. They use profiling, political correctness be damned. Their security practices seem intelligent - you don't have to take off your shoes when you run their usual airport security gauntlet, and a grandmother traveling with her family isn't going to get run through the same ringer as a suspicious young person.
Israel deals with real terror threats every day. They defuse real attacks every day. Maybe they know what they're doing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Pearl
http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/06/43/5/kreb s.html c lellan.html
http://www.rehab.research.va.gov/jour/05/42/6/mac
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5466213.html
I thought they were taking advantage of the local earthquakes.
Am I mistaken, or are this guy's statistics based on there being one other colony of "aliens" in the galaxy? What if there are a hundred colonies or a million? (A recent popular guess for number of starts in the milky way is 100 billion).
It is deceptive to describe suicide simply as a killing. "Woman killed herself" or "Woman killed by her own greed" would be clearer.
If you weren't careful about the spacing between taps, other users might not see you on the net. The spacing problem was true of all thicknet, but the one-at-a-time problem was peculiar to our software implementation.
In the early 80's, I was working for a company that did lots of its own kernel hacking on UNIX and VMS systems. They had a habit of implementing lots of their own software systems, rather than using standard ones. Some were not very clever. For instance, they had a communication "protocol" that ran over ethernet cable, but it didn't handle collisions. Yes, we had thick ethernet running to every office, and when anyone wanted to use it, they'd run out in the hall and yell to make sure it wasn't in use. If there was contention, data would be corrupted. Eventually, we punted on this stupidity and used TCP/IP.
The scanners at the supermarket make enough errors when they're tallying my groceries. Why would I trust them to scan my brain?
LogOn! Apply directly to forehead!
Adult entertainment is often a driving force in new technology. I don't understand why this is newsworthy or why it's a problem.
And they say 1 pint, and you have to remember 0.47317 litres. Tag, you're it.
28 g of prevention is worth .454 kg of cure. Ick!
The perfect choise for all those dear ones who were going to receive another lump of coal this year.
HAKMEM is classic bathroom reading for hackers. If you want to do it up old-school, print a copy from original scans, double-sided.
Adele Goldberg delveloped Smalltalk at Xerox PARC. Seminal GUI and OO programming system. Probably fits in there somewhere between Daryl Hannah and Paris Hilton.