Think back 15 years. We had the Mac, Mac Plus, Mac SE. In recent years were the iMac, iMac DV, iMac SE. Apple loves to re-use concepts -- my old toaster Mac had a SuperDrive.
I'd love to see an iMac equivalent of the IIci or the LC3. Flat panel, compact desktop case, one or two expansion slots, and much cheaper than the pro towers. Basically, what the Cube should have been. It can be done. They have the technology. But is Lord Steve willing to do it?
Pretty much every civilization with roots in ancient Mesopotamia (a la Tigris and Euphrates) has its own tale of The Great Flood. Joseph Campbell wrote about this. Atlantis, Noah, Numenor, etc.
Remember that anyone can write a Cease and Desist letter. Remember that lawyers are not required to be honest in such letters.
Their job is to convince the "offending" person that it would be a bad idea to piss off their employer. The C&D is basically a more business-like version of sending a 200 pound hired goon to your door.
In my neighborhood, Comcast owns a small box attached to the back of each house. It contains the cable line that comes in from the street, a 3-way coax splitter, and three cable lines that go to the three floors of the house.
If I want to have cable TV in my bedroom and the rec room, I either have to pay Comcast an extra fee (so they can send a guy to screw the coax into the splitter box), or as you say, I can be a dishonest thief.
The place that your cable company wants to go... I live there already.
Suppose I have a secret page, like:
http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/secret?password=administ rator
Then it's a pretty crappy secret. Plaintext passwords sent via GET are weaker than the 4 bit encryption in a DVD or something.
Suppose this page has some links on it, and someone (maybe me, maybe my manager) clicks them to go to another site (http://elsewhere.com/).
If the page is really truly supposed to be secret, then it won't have external links, and you'll filter it out of your web logs too. Or you could just suck.
Google doesn't kill secrets. PHBs and MCSEs kill secrets.
First, having a smaller installed base (rarity) is not the same as purposefully hiding insecure practices (obscurity). It may not be any better, but it's completely different. Watch your terminology -- it's like saying that a social engineering attack is a kernel exploit.
Second, although I wouldn't want to rely on it, security through rarity is a statistical fact. MacOS has about 5% of computer marketshare, but it suffers from much less than 5% of vulnerabilities -- viruses, exploits, root kits, etc. There's a lot of black hats out there who just don't own (or 0WN) Macs.
Close. Little Boy was the 2nd bomb -- Nagasaki, plutonium sphere. It needed shaped charges to compress the sphere to criticality.
Fat Man was the 1st bomb -- Hiroshima, uranium cylinders. It was an insanely simple design. The calculations can be done by any 3rd year nuclear engineering student.
You make a solid cylinder of enriched U235 whose mass is a smidge below critical. You also make a cylindrical shell of enriched U235, similar mass, whose inner radius is just big enough for the previous rod. When time comes, shoot the rod into the shell. Boom! 10 kilotons, every time (U235 bombs don't scale upwards much).
The only hard part is making bomb-grade U235, which requires a huge factory.
My wife has become quite the geekess. Last month she decided the ethernet cable in her laptop bag was the wrong size, so she got out our spool of Cat5e and crimped a new one. Damn, I love her.
Anyways, she's tired of carrying her phone and her Palm and her pager. So we found the Treo, SmartPhone, and I300. Anyone have hands-on tales about them?
Do any of them really work as well as the separate components do? I've heard some of them are like a complete Palm with a crappy phone strapped on, while others are a decent phone with a weak PDA wedged inside. And do any of them have good synergy across the features?
...and I'll say it every time an Internet Tax story shows up. Please tell your Congressperson:
Internet commerce should be taxed exactly the same as phone sales and mail orders, because they're the same damn thing.
No more, no less; no sooner, no later.
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Remember that like most game systems, the console is sold at a loss, which the manufacturer recoups via game licensing fees. Microsoft loses at least $100 for every XBox they sell, with the red ink expected to approach $1 billion over the next 3 years.
So, all the M$ haters here have a simple choice -- buy an XBox. Buy several. Turn it into a PVR / mp3 Jukebox / file server. At $299 it's a nice piece of hardware.
They do not want our food. Our McDonalds. Our Pepsi.
Wrong. Sure, there are a handful of fundamentalists who sincerely think that the commercialist lifestyle is a capital crime. Similarly, there are some in the US who believe that God hates fags (of course, the same people eat shellfish, wear poly-cotton blends, and don't support slavery). But I digress.
Do you know why Timothy McVeigh became a terrorist? Because he couldn't pass the physical for Army Special Forces. That's all it took to swing a man 180 degrees. Exclusion --> Bitterness --> Hate --> Revenge.
It's the same for 90% of US-haters in the world. They'd love to have some of the western luxury that they see on BayWatch. But they live under a regime that stays in power thanks to US support.
Compare to Iran. 20 years ago they hated us fiercely. We left them to do their own thing. Today the younger 50% of the population loves american stuff. Another 10 years for a few more old ayatollahs to die and we'll be best pals.
Unless we piss them off again with gunboat diplomacy.
The moral arguments for war in Vietnam were murky.
Sounds just like what you're saying now, IMO. "If we don't stop the [communists/terrorists] this time, they'll go on to [conquer the world/blow up more stuff], so we have to [send in the military/send in the military]".
In any case, I don't give a rat's ass about the moral arguments. If they mattered (other than as propaganda), we would have dragged Saddam out of Baghdad (and not supported him in the first place).
I'm talking about practical chances of success, and that's where the Vietnam analogy fits like a glove. We have no idea where the al Qaeda leaders are hiding. If we start getting close, they can hide in several other countries. And even if we catch them, there's plenty of other guys ready to take their place.
But most importantly, take a look at Vietnam today. They're turning capitalist. They love cell phones and american stuff. We lost with guns; we won with butter.
If someone is going to say that they are driven by some supernatural force to kill you,
More propaganda. Islamic militants don't "hate freedom", and all that "Allah commands you" stuff is just there to recruit more Red Shirts.
The leaders do it because American foreign policy often results in a whole bunch of refugee muslims who are willing to be led. If the CIA had kept out of Afghanistan in the 1980s, today it would be another poor but stable former Soviet state (like all of the other *stan's to the north of it).
The War on Terrorism (tm) is going to be just like the War on Drugs.
Yes, passenger planes are required to be airworthy after losing an engine. However, take-off is the most engine-intensive part of the flight. The plane is way below cruising speed, with maximum weight (full fuel tanks), and busy converting thrust into altitude.
So even though it's built to survive take-off at half power, you need a good pilot who knows what to do with a sluggish, off-balance, flying brick.
I read a nice article (not sure if was on slashdot)
Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! Moderators, please do not Not NOT mark a comment "Informative" if it makes a scientific claim without providing any hard links to back it up.
A quick google search, for example, led me to several potentially informative web sites, such as:
When you use the "Identify as MSIE 5.0" option in Opera, it still includes the string "Opera" in the User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; your_platform_here) Opera 5.0 [en]
MSN.com is blocking any agent that contains the string "Opera", which means none of the built-in options will work.
I wonder why they aren't doing the same with "Gecko" or even "Linux"? Maybe they've got a meta-rule that changes the blockages randomly over time, in order to generate more banner impressions from geeks trying to figure out the pattern?
I use Analog exclusively (well, after DNSTran for name lookups and Perl to sort out sub-logs) and I have found little reason to complain. As Stephen mentioned, you can use ReportMagic to prettify the output. I don't bother.
My only complaint is Stephen's dogmatic insistence on not performing any form of speculative analysis. For example, he refuses to even attempt visitor counting, path tracking, etc. The sort of stuff that bosses like to see, whether or not it's strictly accurate.
Stephen could put WebTrends out of business with a couple hours of coding, but he has his principles.
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Think back 15 years. We had the Mac, Mac Plus, Mac SE. In recent years were the iMac, iMac DV, iMac SE. Apple loves to re-use concepts -- my old toaster Mac had a SuperDrive.
I'd love to see an iMac equivalent of the IIci or the LC3. Flat panel, compact desktop case, one or two expansion slots, and much cheaper than the pro towers. Basically, what the Cube should have been. It can be done. They have the technology. But is Lord Steve willing to do it?
Pretty much every civilization with roots in ancient Mesopotamia (a la Tigris and Euphrates) has its own tale of The Great Flood. Joseph Campbell wrote about this. Atlantis, Noah, Numenor, etc.
I've been responsible for wiring the office building [ . . . ] we had only run one drop to each office,
You've just admitted to gross incompetence as a networking professional. What next?
...I'm going to Disneyland...
Remember that anyone can write a Cease and Desist letter. Remember that lawyers are not required to be honest in such letters.
Their job is to convince the "offending" person that it would be a bad idea to piss off their employer. The C&D is basically a more business-like version of sending a 200 pound hired goon to your door.
In my neighborhood, Comcast owns a small box attached to the back of each house. It contains the cable line that comes in from the street, a 3-way coax splitter, and three cable lines that go to the three floors of the house.
... I live there already.
If I want to have cable TV in my bedroom and the rec room, I either have to pay Comcast an extra fee (so they can send a guy to screw the coax into the splitter box), or as you say, I can be a dishonest thief.
The place that your cable company wants to go
"Don't steal music"
:-)
Here's a treat for paranoiacs: the Invisible bit on the iPod's music folder probably counts as a protection mechanism under the DMCA.
I love Macs, but Apple's lawyers are absolutely rabid. It could happen.
Then it's a pretty crappy secret. Plaintext passwords sent via GET are weaker than the 4 bit encryption in a DVD or something.
Suppose this page has some links on it, and someone (maybe me, maybe my manager) clicks them to go to another site (http://elsewhere.com/).If the page is really truly supposed to be secret, then it won't have external links, and you'll filter it out of your web logs too. Or you could just suck.
Google doesn't kill secrets. PHBs and MCSEs kill secrets.First, having a smaller installed base (rarity) is not the same as purposefully hiding insecure practices (obscurity). It may not be any better, but it's completely different. Watch your terminology -- it's like saying that a social engineering attack is a kernel exploit.
Second, although I wouldn't want to rely on it, security through rarity is a statistical fact. MacOS has about 5% of computer marketshare, but it suffers from much less than 5% of vulnerabilities -- viruses, exploits, root kits, etc. There's a lot of black hats out there who just don't own (or 0WN) Macs.
No. Mac may have some "security through rarity", but OS X is not obscured. Neither are its web services nor its SQL implementations.
So I have to ask, what are you talking about?Umm...I don't think the GIMP is a reason to use LinuxPPC instead of OS X.
If it runs on *BSD/ppc, either it runs on OS X now, or it will soon.
Close. Little Boy was the 2nd bomb -- Nagasaki, plutonium sphere. It needed shaped charges to compress the sphere to criticality.
Fat Man was the 1st bomb -- Hiroshima, uranium cylinders. It was an insanely simple design. The calculations can be done by any 3rd year nuclear engineering student.
You make a solid cylinder of enriched U235 whose mass is a smidge below critical. You also make a cylindrical shell of enriched U235, similar mass, whose inner radius is just big enough for the previous rod. When time comes, shoot the rod into the shell. Boom! 10 kilotons, every time (U235 bombs don't scale upwards much).
The only hard part is making bomb-grade U235, which requires a huge factory.
My wife has become quite the geekess. Last month she decided the ethernet cable in her laptop bag was the wrong size, so she got out our spool of Cat5e and crimped a new one. Damn, I love her.
Anyways, she's tired of carrying her phone and her Palm and her pager. So we found the Treo, SmartPhone, and I300. Anyone have hands-on tales about them?
Do any of them really work as well as the separate components do? I've heard some of them are like a complete Palm with a crappy phone strapped on, while others are a decent phone with a weak PDA wedged inside. And do any of them have good synergy across the features?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned security yet.
Remember Tempest? Who needs ultra-senstitive EM gear to pick up blips in your monitor timing, when you can broadcast everything you do on radio...
No more, no less; no sooner, no later.
Remember that like most game systems, the console is sold at a loss, which the manufacturer recoups via game licensing fees. Microsoft loses at least $100 for every XBox they sell, with the red ink expected to approach $1 billion over the next 3 years.
So, all the M$ haters here have a simple choice -- buy an XBox. Buy several. Turn it into a PVR / mp3 Jukebox / file server. At $299 it's a nice piece of hardware.
Wrong. Sure, there are a handful of fundamentalists who sincerely think that the commercialist lifestyle is a capital crime. Similarly, there are some in the US who believe that God hates fags (of course, the same people eat shellfish, wear poly-cotton blends, and don't support slavery). But I digress.
Do you know why Timothy McVeigh became a terrorist? Because he couldn't pass the physical for Army Special Forces. That's all it took to swing a man 180 degrees. Exclusion --> Bitterness --> Hate --> Revenge.
It's the same for 90% of US-haters in the world. They'd love to have some of the western luxury that they see on BayWatch. But they live under a regime that stays in power thanks to US support.
Compare to Iran. 20 years ago they hated us fiercely. We left them to do their own thing. Today the younger 50% of the population loves american stuff. Another 10 years for a few more old ayatollahs to die and we'll be best pals.
Unless we piss them off again with gunboat diplomacy.
Sounds just like what you're saying now, IMO. "If we don't stop the [communists/terrorists] this time, they'll go on to [conquer the world/blow up more stuff], so we have to [send in the military/send in the military]".
In any case, I don't give a rat's ass about the moral arguments. If they mattered (other than as propaganda), we would have dragged Saddam out of Baghdad (and not supported him in the first place).
I'm talking about practical chances of success, and that's where the Vietnam analogy fits like a glove. We have no idea where the al Qaeda leaders are hiding. If we start getting close, they can hide in several other countries. And even if we catch them, there's plenty of other guys ready to take their place.
But most importantly, take a look at Vietnam today. They're turning capitalist. They love cell phones and american stuff. We lost with guns; we won with butter.
If someone is going to say that they are driven by some supernatural force to kill you,More propaganda. Islamic militants don't "hate freedom", and all that "Allah commands you" stuff is just there to recruit more Red Shirts.
The leaders do it because American foreign policy often results in a whole bunch of refugee muslims who are willing to be led. If the CIA had kept out of Afghanistan in the 1980s, today it would be another poor but stable former Soviet state (like all of the other *stan's to the north of it).
The War on Terrorism (tm) is going to be just like the War on Drugs.
No. A better analogy is: "if someone car-jacks your sister and drives off a cliff, should you shoot his mom?"
Should we have not fought the Civil War? [or WW2 or Revolutionary War]Afghanistan in 2001 is much Much MUCH more like Vietnam in 1961 than it is like Europe in 1941 or America in 1861. Think about that.
Yes, passenger planes are required to be airworthy after losing an engine. However, take-off is the most engine-intensive part of the flight. The plane is way below cruising speed, with maximum weight (full fuel tanks), and busy converting thrust into altitude.
So even though it's built to survive take-off at half power, you need a good pilot who knows what to do with a sluggish, off-balance, flying brick.
Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! Moderators, please do not Not NOT mark a comment "Informative" if it makes a scientific claim without providing any hard links to back it up.
A quick google search, for example, led me to several potentially informative web sites, such as:etc, etc, etc. Don't just spout off random crap that you think you heard once.
Google means never having to say "I don't remember".
In addition to MozCalander, and MozOffice, the Mozilla organization has annouced MozSink,
Now if only they'd add a MozColander plugin for the MozSink, I'd have a complete toolkit to make Mac-n-Cheese on the desktop.
GHz Athlon + GeForce3 are hot enough to boil the water, and you put the noodles in an AWT container object of course.
When you use the "Identify as MSIE 5.0" option in Opera, it still includes the string "Opera" in the User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; your_platform_here) Opera 5.0 [en]
MSN.com is blocking any agent that contains the string "Opera", which means none of the built-in options will work.
I wonder why they aren't doing the same with "Gecko" or even "Linux"? Maybe they've got a meta-rule that changes the blockages randomly over time, in order to generate more banner impressions from geeks trying to figure out the pattern?
I use Analog exclusively (well, after DNSTran for name lookups and Perl to sort out sub-logs) and I have found little reason to complain. As Stephen mentioned, you can use ReportMagic to prettify the output. I don't bother.
My only complaint is Stephen's dogmatic insistence on not performing any form of speculative analysis. For example, he refuses to even attempt visitor counting, path tracking, etc. The sort of stuff that bosses like to see, whether or not it's strictly accurate.
Stephen could put WebTrends out of business with a couple hours of coding, but he has his principles.
Please take the following statement as a mantra, and pass it along to your local CongressGoon:
Internet commerce should be taxed exactly the same as phone sales and mail orders.
No more, no less; no sooner, no later.
Oh, that's pretty common these days.