Maccentral has the story. Sony paid Connectix and acquired the rights to Virtual GameStation. It's the Microsoft strategy -- "if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em".
I think this explains why girls do better than boys when younger, but worse later, in education.
I think this explains that you're trolling. Have you done any study of this problem? Based on my experience as a middle & high school math teacher, personal reading, and literature reviews, it's pretty clear that math gender issue can be explained very effectively by social factors. Peer pressure and media influence shunt girls into supporting roles and focus them on appearance over accomplishment.
scientifically shown that they have . . .
Show me the money, euroderf. Any post that claims "science has shown" something without providing a valid URL should be modded down immediately.
Put a Wintel-formatted floppy (1.44M, ZIP, JAZ, LS-120, whatever) into a Macintosh.
Okey dokey. I put a preformatted floppy in my 1998 PowerBook, OS 8.6. Copied the file "three monkeys.jpeg". Took floppy to a Dell desktop, Win98. Long file name is just fine. Copied the file "parental-controls.gif". Took floppy back to the Mac. Both file names were retained just fine. (31 character maximum, of course, until March 24th.)
That said, there is one area that long names get screwed up -- ISO 9660 CDs. HFS, Joliet, and Rock Ridge all store their long file names differently. Very few CD burning packages are triple compatible, so anyone left out usually gets stuck with 8.3 names instead. There's a freeware fix for Mac though.
Of course they have. It now contains its own miniature modem that tracks all of your software and internet usage. Didn't you see the expose on Lone Gunmen?
Seriously though, W2K already gets pissed off if you dare try to use its Restore CD (not an Install CD any more, and not your CD at all) on anything but the exact machine you bought. Why would Whistler do any less?
Of course anonymity predates the Internet. I simply wasn't talking about it.
When vinnythenose said "well, there used to be no fear of retribution" I assumed he was referring to Internet speech, since there has always been retribution for real world speech.
Sure, there was a time where there was no fear of retribution from corporations. But more generally, there has always been a fear of retribution from the powerful,
Not on the Internet, not always. 15 years ago you could post pretty much ANY outlandish flamebait you wanted without fear. I remember spewing some deep out-there crap in the 80's that would get me disconnected, fired, and/or sued into oblivion if I put my name on it today.
The elder days, when the net was a benevolent anarchy and there were only two kinds of authority: peer respect, and your sysadmin. It was a good thing and a bad thing.
Guess they were just being coy. 3 hours ago when I submitted the article, there were no links on the front page or in products, it wasn't available in the store, and it wasn't indexed in the site's search engine.
Ack. My mistake, thanks for making me find some answers.
Here's the story -- as a favor, I maintain a dozen Win9x PCs in my department. A couple years ago, I noticed one that stupidly had C: as a read/write guest share. Then I went around the room and discovered that all of them were ready to do this -- all you had to do is right click "Sharing", switch from "Not Shared" to "Shared As...", and C: would be open to the public.
Ever since then I've assumed that this was Windows default. After a few tests and phone calls I found the truth. The IT guy who set up these PCs in the first place was lazy and wanted to handle tech support without leaving his desk. It was part of his standard config. How dumb is that?
Sorry for the false alarm, and thanks for the replies.
Windows file sharing is so fucking stupid -- why on earth would they set it up so the default share is "all users: full access"??? Any reasonable person must infer that Microsoft WANTS people to give their hard drives to the internet at large.
Of course, there are plenty of other idiots in town -- how many remote holes are there in the default RedHat install? And that's without even having to click a button that says "enable file sharing".
ShareSniffer should be viewed as a wake-up call to OS vendors in general. The default settings should not Not NOT open your computer to remote takeovers!!!
I'm just happy Bioware threw out DirectX, and specifically DirectPlay.
11:26.13 BioDon Yes, DirectX locks you to Windows. Early on we prevented that problem.
11:26.25 Briareos No DirectPlay then?
11:26.41 BioDon No, we are using the standard socket library.
Writing their own network code from scratch seems overkill though. Perhaps they should look at OpenPlay.
"only six of 30 children picked the black Barbie, regardless of dress." That's just a scientific "fact", right?
if this were "Science" in the adult world, it would also be a controversial study. Not because it's wrong to ask people about preferences, but because there's not enough detail in the study to understand *why*
Those are excellent questions for someone reviewing or judging her project. Perhaps you're right that sociology experiments at an elementary school should be held to a higher standard than typical kid stuff with tadpoles or rock collections. But the decision still should be based on scientific merit. Call over the blue ribbon panel and ask them to find flaws in her reasoning.
Science should be judged on its science, not on administrative policy.
He didn't invent it (and never claimed that, either), but he did advocate a fast open network from the late 70s on, and got a bunch of funding for it in 1991. Universities and researchers had built a free internet from the beginning -- giving them a fat backbone helped keep it free after business got involved.
Stating "http://127.0.0.1/ is a website with images of teenagers having sex" is not an act that harms anyone
Providing access to child porn harms the children in the photos. That is the legal basis why pedo stuff is regulated more harshly than just about anything else (except for media content owned by multinationals, sigh). Many organizations argue this position much more clearly than I do.
If that's not illegal, I don't know why this would be.
Not the same at all. Channel One is a one-way broadcast. They send 10 minutes of signal (with a couple minutes of ordinary commercials) but they get no information back from the schools. The ads are targeted in the same way that MTV is targeted -- teenagers buy stuff like acne pads, scooters, and cola. Duh. Annoying, but I'd like to see you find ANY law it violates.
Collecting web click data without consent is A Bad Thing. Doing it on children under 13 is definitely a federal crime.
I'm reading this thread using Mozilla 0.8 (2001021502) Wallstreet MacOS 8.6 vga out to a Dell monitor, and the widget works fine. Perhaps it's interacting badly with your video card &/or driver?
if they would just fix Mac IE's stability
I want to know where the heck IE 5.5 went. It was demoed at MacHack last summer. I can only guess they postponed it until the OS X release party.
The Berkeley group presented a mathematical explanation of how WEP could be attacked, but as far as I could tell they never actually went out and did it against a real live network.
Their description said it would require sitting there and recording all packets sent for an entire day or so. Then you still have to play cryptographic games and make guesses about what plaintext corresponds to what data. Are there downloadable kits to do this?
this is exactly equivalent to the GIF trick, because he's waited until the OpenSSH name is well established before acting.
Actually, there's one significant difference, and it's heavily in OpenSSH's favor. Unisys has a patent on LZW compression. Patents are legally binding at the discretion of the holder and may be prosecuted at will (or not) until they expire.
Tatu has a trademark on the name SSH. Trademarks only remain valid so long as they are agressively protected. 3Com has a really funny page about this topic. Since Tatu has implicitly allowed numerous outside groups to use the SSH name, he's probably lost his claim to it already.
The satelite is NOT being run by NASA, it is being run by Johns Hopkins.
This is more or less true. But APL is operating under NASA supervision.
it is the first deep space craft to be run by someone other than NASA.
This is false. APL has run several space missions previous to NEAR. My father worked on FUSE and is now doing MSX. I wouldn't doubt it if other research labs did as well.
We've got a pretty stiff admission test (you had to score high on the SAT in 7th or 8th grade), but the computer science course is fabulous. Hmm...they may have changed the syllabus recently. The original version is still being taught by the Boston CTY Alumni.
One key difference. 3dfx was a hardware manufacturer that made worthwhile products. They lost when other manufacturers surpassed them. OTOH, Rambus is a pile of patents that does not manufacture ANYTHING.
The patents cover fundamental principles of memory cell access, not just one specific implementation. It's up there with patenting the hyperlink. If they don't get overturned, every computer buyer in the world has to pay Rambus for the next several years. How's that for a business model?
most studies have found hemp which you post so innocently, often is used as a stepping stone to higher drugs.
Bzzt. What studies are you referring to? Show me the URL.
I bet they were funded by either the US Govt war on drugs or by the tobacco industry or both. In reality hemp has almost no THC, and America's legal drugs are the real gateways:
If saved locally, the filename on most computers should be html40.ps.gz for the applications to recognize the file type.
This section bugged me too. IMO, the real mistake in that example is theirs by choosing an inaccurate file name. If it's a gzip archive of a postscript file, it should be named html40.ps.gz on their end, not html40.ps.
BTW, most HTML files are sent without the content encoding command. Here's some example HTTP headers passed when I hit the Preview button:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 18:25:37 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24
Cache-control: private
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
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Maccentral has the story. Sony paid Connectix and acquired the rights to Virtual GameStation. It's the Microsoft strategy -- "if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em".
I think this explains that you're trolling. Have you done any study of this problem? Based on my experience as a middle & high school math teacher, personal reading, and literature reviews, it's pretty clear that math gender issue can be explained very effectively by social factors. Peer pressure and media influence shunt girls into supporting roles and focus them on appearance over accomplishment.
scientifically shown that they have . . .Show me the money, euroderf. Any post that claims "science has shown" something without providing a valid URL should be modded down immediately.
Okey dokey. I put a preformatted floppy in my 1998 PowerBook, OS 8.6. Copied the file "three monkeys.jpeg". Took floppy to a Dell desktop, Win98. Long file name is just fine. Copied the file "parental-controls.gif". Took floppy back to the Mac. Both file names were retained just fine. (31 character maximum, of course, until March 24th.)
That said, there is one area that long names get screwed up -- ISO 9660 CDs. HFS, Joliet, and Rock Ridge all store their long file names differently. Very few CD burning packages are triple compatible, so anyone left out usually gets stuck with 8.3 names instead. There's a freeware fix for Mac though.
Stop. Don't say another word about Bleem. It does not compare to VGS. The geeks at Connectix are freaking masters of emulation.
Sheesh, 3.5MB just for that? Learn to optimize, man! Giant dithered gif89a is a terrible waste of bandwidth.
Here's an example of how to do gif-mation on a reasonable scale.
Of course they have. It now contains its own miniature modem that tracks all of your software and internet usage. Didn't you see the expose on Lone Gunmen?
Seriously though, W2K already gets pissed off if you dare try to use its Restore CD (not an Install CD any more, and not your CD at all) on anything but the exact machine you bought. Why would Whistler do any less?
When vinnythenose said "well, there used to be no fear of retribution" I assumed he was referring to Internet speech, since there has always been retribution for real world speech.
Not on the Internet, not always. 15 years ago you could post pretty much ANY outlandish flamebait you wanted without fear. I remember spewing some deep out-there crap in the 80's that would get me disconnected, fired, and/or sued into oblivion if I put my name on it today.
The elder days, when the net was a benevolent anarchy and there were only two kinds of authority: peer respect, and your sysadmin. It was a good thing and a bad thing.
Then we grew up.
Guess they were just being coy. 3 hours ago when I submitted the article, there were no links on the front page or in products, it wasn't available in the store, and it wasn't indexed in the site's search engine.
Ack. My mistake, thanks for making me find some answers.
Here's the story -- as a favor, I maintain a dozen Win9x PCs in my department. A couple years ago, I noticed one that stupidly had C: as a read/write guest share. Then I went around the room and discovered that all of them were ready to do this -- all you had to do is right click "Sharing", switch from "Not Shared" to "Shared As...", and C: would be open to the public.
Ever since then I've assumed that this was Windows default. After a few tests and phone calls I found the truth. The IT guy who set up these PCs in the first place was lazy and wanted to handle tech support without leaving his desk. It was part of his standard config. How dumb is that?
Sorry for the false alarm, and thanks for the replies.Windows file sharing is so fucking stupid -- why on earth would they set it up so the default share is "all users: full access"??? Any reasonable person must infer that Microsoft WANTS people to give their hard drives to the internet at large.
Of course, there are plenty of other idiots in town -- how many remote holes are there in the default RedHat install? And that's without even having to click a button that says "enable file sharing".
ShareSniffer should be viewed as a wake-up call to OS vendors in general. The default settings should not Not NOT open your computer to remote takeovers!!!
I'm just happy Bioware threw out DirectX, and specifically DirectPlay.
Writing their own network code from scratch seems overkill though. Perhaps they should look at OpenPlay .
if this were "Science" in the adult world, it would also be a controversial study. Not because it's wrong to ask people about preferences, but because there's not enough detail in the study to understand *why*
Those are excellent questions for someone reviewing or judging her project. Perhaps you're right that sociology experiments at an elementary school should be held to a higher standard than typical kid stuff with tadpoles or rock collections. But the decision still should be based on scientific merit. Call over the blue ribbon panel and ask them to find flaws in her reasoning.
Science should be judged on its science, not on administrative policy.
He didn't invent it (and never claimed that, either), but he did advocate a fast open network from the late 70s on, and got a bunch of funding for it in 1991. Universities and researchers had built a free internet from the beginning -- giving them a fat backbone helped keep it free after business got involved.
Providing access to child porn harms the children in the photos. That is the legal basis why pedo stuff is regulated more harshly than just about anything else (except for media content owned by multinationals, sigh). Many organizations argue this position much more clearly than I do.
Not the same at all. Channel One is a one-way broadcast. They send 10 minutes of signal (with a couple minutes of ordinary commercials) but they get no information back from the schools. The ads are targeted in the same way that MTV is targeted -- teenagers buy stuff like acne pads, scooters, and cola. Duh. Annoying, but I'd like to see you find ANY law it violates.
Collecting web click data without consent is A Bad Thing. Doing it on children under 13 is definitely a federal crime.
I'm reading this thread using Mozilla 0.8 (2001021502) Wallstreet MacOS 8.6 vga out to a Dell monitor, and the widget works fine. Perhaps it's interacting badly with your video card &/or driver?
if they would just fix Mac IE's stabilityI want to know where the heck IE 5.5 went. It was demoed at MacHack last summer. I can only guess they postponed it until the OS X release party.
The Berkeley group presented a mathematical explanation of how WEP could be attacked, but as far as I could tell they never actually went out and did it against a real live network.
Their description said it would require sitting there and recording all packets sent for an entire day or so. Then you still have to play cryptographic games and make guesses about what plaintext corresponds to what data. Are there downloadable kits to do this?
Actually, there's one significant difference, and it's heavily in OpenSSH's favor. Unisys has a patent on LZW compression. Patents are legally binding at the discretion of the holder and may be prosecuted at will (or not) until they expire.
Tatu has a trademark on the name SSH. Trademarks only remain valid so long as they are agressively protected. 3Com has a really funny page about this topic. Since Tatu has implicitly allowed numerous outside groups to use the SSH name, he's probably lost his claim to it already.
This is more or less true. But APL is operating under NASA supervision.
it is the first deep space craft to be run by someone other than NASA.This is false. APL has run several space missions previous to NEAR. My father worked on FUSE and is now doing MSX. I wouldn't doubt it if other research labs did as well.
We've got a pretty stiff admission test (you had to score high on the SAT in 7th or 8th grade), but the computer science course is fabulous. Hmm...they may have changed the syllabus recently. The original version is still being taught by the Boston CTY Alumni.
One key difference. 3dfx was a hardware manufacturer that made worthwhile products. They lost when other manufacturers surpassed them. OTOH, Rambus is a pile of patents that does not manufacture ANYTHING.
The patents cover fundamental principles of memory cell access, not just one specific implementation. It's up there with patenting the hyperlink. If they don't get overturned, every computer buyer in the world has to pay Rambus for the next several years. How's that for a business model?
Bzzt. What studies are you referring to? Show me the URL.
I bet they were funded by either the US Govt war on drugs or by the tobacco industry or both. In reality hemp has almost no THC, and America's legal drugs are the real gateways:
The article also says the spider silk gig is just a test, and the scientist wants to use goats to make medicines. These critters are axolotl tanks !
This section bugged me too. IMO, the real mistake in that example is theirs by choosing an inaccurate file name. If it's a gzip archive of a postscript file, it should be named html40.ps.gz on their end, not html40.ps.
BTW, most HTML files are sent without the content encoding command. Here's some example HTTP headers passed when I hit the Preview button: