There is a free version of Movable Type, available on our site, which like all versions of Movable Type consists of the exact same code. There's no crippleware, no nagware. We trust you. We never said this is the last free version of Movable Type.
The only thing this does is a) allow SixApart to eat, and b) allow large corporations to buy MT. I know plenty of organisations that want to use it, but couldn't even look at it until it cost more than nothing. Many procurement processes can't deal with Free.
From backroom hobby to multinational company in three years: Good for them, frankly.
The same way you can hear the sound if someone taps on an airtight window. The vibrations travel through the glass. They only have to be in air when they hit your ear. That is it in a vacuum is irrelevant: all it means is that whatever is making the noise is touching the ISS (i.e. part of it.)
It's true - Shazam is really quite impressive. It's never failed on me, and I've tried it with some *really* obscure stuff. Of course, the next thing to do is to screenscrape the shazam personal page (or forward on the SMS), and link that to a p2p network, so you can shazam something, and when you get home your machine has downloaded it.
It's not complex - because you don't need to know the SSID to access an open node - you just need to know it's there in the first place. The additional information in a warchalking mark is totally superfluous.
But fine, if you don't want to know that a big curly X on a wall means "Wireless bandwidth here" then go without. nerr nerrrdy nerrr nerrr.
Meanwhile, I totally agree about the name. It is misleading: but it, and the use of chalk for that matter, were just chosen because, well, they sound cool.
As for why an icon and not a flyer - well, because iconography is inherently more understandable. Why have roadsigns that are symbols and not words? Because they're easy to understand, and to see.
Have a look at Warchalking.org - Matt Jone's site, for better examples.
Because this isn't the point of warchalking. Most warchalkers - and I made the first ever warchalking mark - use them to mark out their own open nodes, for the sake of others using them. I've seen many many warchalking marks around London, and none of them is for an unintentionally available network.
The FBI's whole premise is bollocks, and you shouldn't assume that because it's possible to mark up a wlan that isn't yours that people actually do.
As Matt's server screams in the dark London night, you could spell my name right...HammerslEy
Anyhow, the pic on Matt's site shows the rune to my wireless node. It's in Kensington, just round the corner from Imperial College. A T1. Help yourself.
Read some of Hannah Arendt. She is one proponent of the, now classic, J-Curve Theory of Rising and Declining Satisfaction.
The idea, basically, is that all is well until the public's expectation for change becomes greater than the rate of change allowed by the government. When that happens, you get a revolution.
This is why Reform is so dangerous to totalitarian regimes - it's not the reform itself, but the rate of reform that does the 'damage'. Gorbachev wanted to reform the USSR's Communist Party - but he went too slowly, the people's expectations got too high, and the Berlin Wall fell.
The same is happening in China, and not just in the Internet-space. Economic reform almost caused a revolution - which manifested inself in the Tiananmen Square protests - because it was percievd as going too slowly, and NOT because the Chinese wanted the supposed end result of a Western-Style liberal democracy.
It's actually the process of change that people want, and not the end result. (which is good, as it means we have things like, you know, Progress).
The Reg's Liverpool striker link is, apart from funny, wrong: I would think this is the real Meijer, along with his contacts. A nice polite email of support might be good. Nice. Polite.
To understand this, you have to harken back to the days when movies were shown continuously in theaters and audiences were allowed to sit through multiple showings of the same movie--the start times were published, and if you came in late you simply sat through the next showing until you came to the point "where you came in." This is not that long ago--I remember when this used to be the practice.
The coming attractions reel would be spliced onto the end of the last reel of the movie, hence trailer. From the perspective of the audience member who arrived on time or a little early, the coming attractions would appear before the feature, even though technically it was at the end.
"Preview" just refers to the fact that it is a "preview" of a forthcoming movie. Grammatically, this is more correct, or else the "preview of The Two Towers" would actually be the "preview of The F of R, which shows clips from TTT."
sigh all you like. It's still illegal. Breaking the law does not change it: only reasoned rational argument can.
Just saying "fuck you I can take it anyway" and quoting the bits.v.atoms debate is not going to make any difference. It's theft, purely theft, and a lack of respect for that law - regardless of campaigning against it - mirrors itself automatically to the laws you do respect, from the legal enforcement of the gpl to the legal boundaries stopping me from taking your car. You steal my music/code, I take your car. No difference at all from a legal standpoint.
You can't change a law by breaking it, bo matter how stupid it is. and I tend to agree it's stupid.
and it probably happened just the same way as it would in any organisation... Pointy Bearded Boss tells computer-guy to 'make the computer secure' or something. Computer guy thinks "Bollocks to that, we're in the arse end of Afghanistan, who's going to come and get it?",uses the default available, and goes for a coffee. PBB gives him a slap on the back and everyone has a nice glowy feeling.
Next thing, al-qaeda is owned by the l33t nsa haxors, and their credit card numbers are all over irc.
there's no way a highschool kid can afford to buy all the music he/she wants to listen to on a part time job flipping burgers
Yeah, and you know what? I can't afford that motorbike I want to ride on my salary, but it doesn't make it right to steal one.
You can't afford it, then you can't have it.
That's life, kid. Deal with it. Buy a radio. Grow up.
It depends on the application. P2P systems need not be on the open web, or open to all comers: Jxta is very nice for developing P2P systems that work within corporate intranets, for example.
Take a P2P Knowledge Management system, I just made up in my fevered imagination. Small daemons on each employees PC offering different services, or search results, for queries sent scuttling around the network ala Gnutella. The query "Bob's Expenses" hitting the legal guy's machine could return one result, or service, hitting the accountants could provide another...
Off the top of my head, sure, but I'd bet plenty of firms would pay for that kind of thing. It's cheaper than buying big servers, for a start.
He can't be the POTUS, he's not a natural-born American, and the constitution says the POTUS must be so. There was a survey done once, I think around the Papa Bush era that said Arnold would walk the election if he could stand - like Reagan, there was an idea he'd go for Governor of California first.
Happily for the those of us in the rest of the world that find the idea of electing a man to lead a country because he happens to be a bit of a self improver and in a few films utterly terrifying, it's not allowed.
It's the same reason Madelein Albright didn't stand.
Absolutely nothing. I speak three languages myself, and spent two years teaching English in China. It's just that I speak my languages as they are taught and not as they are spoken , and I had to teach "Proper" English, and not the same language I would speak to my "mates" with "down the pub".
It's a great deal more difficult to learn idiomatic usage - and I would venture to say almost impossible given the isolation this alleged Afghan would have been under for the past five years, especially given no proper schooling for that time.
There are plenty of English structures that native speakers use all the time that are totally incomprehensible to non-native speakers. Even from one English-speaking region to another you find mutual misunderstanding, and this gulf is all the greater between the idiomatic English of the sort in Katz's letter, and the sort of English you would naturally learn or be taught as someone living in a rural village in Afghanistan.
It's nothing to do with his ability to learn English, just his ability to learn idiomatic English under those conditions.
Still, the guy must be brilliant - not only has he got a five year old Commodore to get onto the Apple site, with a five year old browser, over non-existent phone lines but he's planning on spending five years wages on an ipod too?
It's bollocks.
I've been to the area and know the sort of conditions. First up, if anyone is using email in Afghanistan it is not over the standard POTS. If much of that is still remaining, it is in no way any condition to get a data connection over. Internet connections in Afghanistan are satellite (Bin Laden's is, so are the Aid Agencies and the journalists). So unless our hero has a either a sat phone, or a 3ft dish in his back garden, I doubt he sent an email from anywhere in the area.
"Junis's e-mail -- routed to Kabul, then Islamabad, then London" is not the way it would go - if I remember correctly, the main Pakistani bandwidth goes via Singapore. Unless Katz means this email was sent to someone in Kabul who forwarded it to someone etc etc etc.
In which case I'd hazard a guess to say the first passing was on paper, not electronically.
Next, "Junis, a computer geek obsessed with Linux, had first e-mailed me years ago while I was writing for Hotwired. He was genial and obsessed with American culture. He loved martial arts movies, anything to do with Star Wars, and rap. He was perhaps the Taliban's prime kind of target. (Now he's furiously trying to download movies he's missed and is mesmerized by open source and Slashdot.)"
Well, Hotwired's URL was first registered on 21-Apr-1994, but Katz's first writings were on Netizen. That started in 1996. The Taliban took Kabul in 1996, so Junis must have been quick. Obsessed with Linux then, sure - but now mesmerized by open source?
Which brings us to I thought they were going to get Microsoft," he wrote. "I guess not."
How did he know of the court case? Meanwhile, where did he learn perfectly idiomatic English? "Get" Microsoft? I "guess not"?
Temptation Island? Survivor? Riight - an area that until a week ago was isolated from the rest of the world is now aware and anticipatory of a tv show that is not even being aired on a nearby satellite network?
I'd love to believe this, I really would. But it's smelly as all hell, not to mention the highly dubious "they did it all for the toys" politics.
Still, if JK posts the email, with the headers, I'll be happy to believe, and drink a toast to Junis and his friends.
Still, XML is only a way how to describe data, that might be often in their structure relational. Why do not store data in their native form and create XML documents out of database on fly by filters?
Quite. Not only would the XML markup probably take more space than the data itself, but storing it as XML seems to be not only pointless, but also a little shortsighted. What if your XML spec changes? What if you want the data in another form?
Just storing the data and then dynamically creating the XML doc on the fly is sooo much easier.
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There's no bait or switch going on here at all. There is still a free version available, it's not crippled in any way:
The only thing this does is a) allow SixApart to eat, and b) allow large corporations to buy MT. I know plenty of organisations that want to use it, but couldn't even look at it until it cost more than nothing. Many procurement processes can't deal with Free.
From backroom hobby to multinational company in three years: Good for them, frankly.
The same way you can hear the sound if someone taps on an airtight window. The vibrations travel through the glass. They only have to be in air when they hit your ear. That is it in a vacuum is irrelevant: all it means is that whatever is making the noise is touching the ISS (i.e. part of it.)
It's true - Shazam is really quite impressive. It's never failed on me, and I've tried it with some *really* obscure stuff. Of course, the next thing to do is to screenscrape the shazam personal page (or forward on the SMS), and link that to a p2p network, so you can shazam something, and when you get home your machine has downloaded it.
If you're in the UK, dial 2580 on your mobile...
Why don't the personal telco people rent out space on the dual T1s to Starbucks. Everyone wins that way.
It's not complex - because you don't need to know the SSID to access an open node - you just need to know it's there in the first place. The additional information in a warchalking mark is totally superfluous.
But fine, if you don't want to know that a big curly X on a wall means "Wireless bandwidth here" then go without. nerr nerrrdy nerrr nerrr.
You may have been reading articles written by the clue-lacking. The NYT piece is good. BusinessWeek isn't bad either.
Meanwhile, I totally agree about the name. It is misleading: but it, and the use of chalk for that matter, were just chosen because, well, they sound cool.
As for why an icon and not a flyer - well, because iconography is inherently more understandable. Why have roadsigns that are symbols and not words? Because they're easy to understand, and to see.
Have a look at Warchalking.org - Matt Jone's site, for better examples.
Because this isn't the point of warchalking. Most warchalkers - and I made the first ever warchalking mark - use them to mark out their own open nodes, for the sake of others using them. I've seen many many warchalking marks around London, and none of them is for an unintentionally available network.
The FBI's whole premise is bollocks, and you shouldn't assume that because it's possible to mark up a wlan that isn't yours that people actually do.
Quite right. Also, once the technology is available, teleporting the debris to the centre of the sun wouldn't be that hard or costly either.
I take your point, but I think Matt's reasoning (which I agree with) is that to get online via a wireless node you have to know where it is.
To find out where it is, you have to online. Unless you see a visual clue - this is one way of doing that. My consume node is the one in the picture.
As Matt's server screams in the dark London night, you could spell my name right...HammerslEy
Anyhow, the pic on Matt's site shows the rune to my wireless node. It's in Kensington, just round the corner from Imperial College. A T1. Help yourself.
No, really, I was. Mod it as funny all you like...
:-)
It rocked, by the way. Well done to Dave and Danny and all the rest
I'm blogging live from the stage
Read some of Hannah Arendt. She is one proponent of the, now classic, J-Curve Theory of Rising and Declining Satisfaction.
The idea, basically, is that all is well until the public's expectation for change becomes greater than the rate of change allowed by the government. When that happens, you get a revolution.
This is why Reform is so dangerous to totalitarian regimes - it's not the reform itself, but the rate of reform that does the 'damage'. Gorbachev wanted to reform the USSR's Communist Party - but he went too slowly, the people's expectations got too high, and the Berlin Wall fell.
The same is happening in China, and not just in the Internet-space. Economic reform almost caused a revolution - which manifested inself in the Tiananmen Square protests - because it was percievd as going too slowly, and NOT because the Chinese wanted the supposed end result of a Western-Style liberal democracy.
It's actually the process of change that people want, and not the end result. (which is good, as it means we have things like, you know, Progress).
The Reg's Liverpool striker link is, apart from funny, wrong: I would think this is the real Meijer, along with his contacts. A nice polite email of support might be good. Nice. Polite.
ooh - that's nasty.
But it seems to have been fixed. At least in today's nightly build...(2002050608)
I have.
Many times: it's why I now use Mozilla (well, that and the tabbed browsing and...and...and...) and Ad Aware.
Mostly it seems to be dialler programs for offshore ISPs. Porn, basically.
Use IE unprotected for a while, then run AdAware - it's quite scary.
Trailers have always been shown before the film: Origins of the word trailer says:
"Preview" just refers to the fact that it is a "preview" of a forthcoming movie. Grammatically, this is more correct, or else the "preview of The Two Towers" would actually be the "preview of The F of R, which shows clips from TTT."
sigh all you like. It's still illegal. Breaking the law does not change it: only reasoned rational argument can.
Just saying "fuck you I can take it anyway" and quoting the bits.v.atoms debate is not going to make any difference. It's theft, purely theft, and a lack of respect for that law - regardless of campaigning against it - mirrors itself automatically to the laws you do respect, from the legal enforcement of the gpl to the legal boundaries stopping me from taking your car. You steal my music/code, I take your car. No difference at all from a legal standpoint.
You can't change a law by breaking it, bo matter how stupid it is. and I tend to agree it's stupid.
and it probably happened just the same way as it would in any organisation... Pointy Bearded Boss tells computer-guy to 'make the computer secure' or something. Computer guy thinks "Bollocks to that, we're in the arse end of Afghanistan, who's going to come and get it?" ,uses the default available, and goes for a coffee. PBB gives him a slap on the back and everyone has a nice glowy feeling.
Next thing, al-qaeda is owned by the l33t nsa haxors, and their credit card numbers are all over irc.
bummer for the sysadmin.
there's no way a highschool kid can afford to buy all the music he/she wants to listen to on a part time job flipping burgers
Yeah, and you know what? I can't afford that motorbike I want to ride on my salary, but it doesn't make it right to steal one.
You can't afford it, then you can't have it. That's life, kid. Deal with it. Buy a radio. Grow up.
It depends on the application. P2P systems need not be on the open web, or open to all comers: Jxta is very nice for developing P2P systems that work within corporate intranets, for example.
Take a P2P Knowledge Management system, I just made up in my fevered imagination. Small daemons on each employees PC offering different services, or search results, for queries sent scuttling around the network ala Gnutella. The query "Bob's Expenses" hitting the legal guy's machine could return one result, or service, hitting the accountants could provide another...
Off the top of my head, sure, but I'd bet plenty of firms would pay for that kind of thing. It's cheaper than buying big servers, for a start.
He can't be the POTUS, he's not a natural-born American, and the constitution says the POTUS must be so. There was a survey done once, I think around the Papa Bush era that said Arnold would walk the election if he could stand - like Reagan, there was an idea he'd go for Governor of California first.
Happily for the those of us in the rest of the world that find the idea of electing a man to lead a country because he happens to be a bit of a self improver and in a few films utterly terrifying, it's not allowed.
It's the same reason Madelein Albright didn't stand.
Absolutely nothing. I speak three languages myself, and spent two years teaching English in China. It's just that I speak my languages as they are taught and not as they are spoken , and I had to teach "Proper" English, and not the same language I would speak to my "mates" with "down the pub".
It's a great deal more difficult to learn idiomatic usage - and I would venture to say almost impossible given the isolation this alleged Afghan would have been under for the past five years, especially given no proper schooling for that time.
There are plenty of English structures that native speakers use all the time that are totally incomprehensible to non-native speakers. Even from one English-speaking region to another you find mutual misunderstanding, and this gulf is all the greater between the idiomatic English of the sort in Katz's letter, and the sort of English you would naturally learn or be taught as someone living in a rural village in Afghanistan.
It's nothing to do with his ability to learn English, just his ability to learn idiomatic English under those conditions.
I'd love to believe this, but no.
Still, the guy must be brilliant - not only has he got a five year old Commodore to get onto the Apple site, with a five year old browser, over non-existent phone lines but he's planning on spending five years wages on an ipod too?
It's bollocks.
I've been to the area and know the sort of conditions. First up, if anyone is using email in Afghanistan it is not over the standard POTS. If much of that is still remaining, it is in no way any condition to get a data connection over. Internet connections in Afghanistan are satellite (Bin Laden's is, so are the Aid Agencies and the journalists). So unless our hero has a either a sat phone, or a 3ft dish in his back garden, I doubt he sent an email from anywhere in the area.
"Junis's e-mail -- routed to Kabul, then Islamabad, then London" is not the way it would go - if I remember correctly, the main Pakistani bandwidth goes via Singapore. Unless Katz means this email was sent to someone in Kabul who forwarded it to someone etc etc etc.
In which case I'd hazard a guess to say the first passing was on paper, not electronically.
Next, "Junis, a computer geek obsessed with Linux, had first e-mailed me years ago while I was writing for Hotwired. He was genial and obsessed with American culture. He loved martial arts movies, anything to do with Star Wars, and rap. He was perhaps the Taliban's prime kind of target. (Now he's furiously trying to download movies he's missed and is mesmerized by open source and Slashdot.)"
Well, Hotwired's URL was first registered on 21-Apr-1994, but Katz's first writings were on Netizen. That started in 1996. The Taliban took Kabul in 1996, so Junis must have been quick. Obsessed with Linux then, sure - but now mesmerized by open source?
Which brings us to I thought they were going to get Microsoft," he wrote. "I guess not."
How did he know of the court case? Meanwhile, where did he learn perfectly idiomatic English? "Get" Microsoft? I "guess not"?
Temptation Island? Survivor? Riight - an area that until a week ago was isolated from the rest of the world is now aware and anticipatory of a tv show that is not even being aired on a nearby satellite network?
I'd love to believe this, I really would. But it's smelly as all hell, not to mention the highly dubious "they did it all for the toys" politics.
Still, if JK posts the email, with the headers, I'll be happy to believe, and drink a toast to Junis and his friends.
Still, XML is only a way how to describe data, that might be often in their structure relational. Why do not store data in their native form and create XML documents out of database on fly by filters?
Quite. Not only would the XML markup probably take more space than the data itself, but storing it as XML seems to be not only pointless, but also a little shortsighted. What if your XML spec changes? What if you want the data in another form?
Just storing the data and then dynamically creating the XML doc on the fly is sooo much easier.