Unfortunately, that only works in-memory since files are sequences of octets (bytes), which only have 8 bits. So you have to convert your ints to octets somehow when saving. So you have to pick a Unicode Transformation Format... such as UTF-8 or UTF-16.
What's with people assuming that UTF-8 is ASCII? Its not. UTF-8 is a multibyte representation, that just happens to coincide with ASCII for characters 0 through 127.
The original poster talked not about "the same as ASCII" but about "ASCII compatible". And if you have text that's in ASCII, then it's automatically in UTF-8 as well since, as you said, for characters 0 to 127 the ASCII bytes are the same as UTF-8 bytes.
(Of course, this breaks if you have a language that uses a superset of ASCII such as iso-8859-1, but if you have only have characters from "real" ASCII, then UTF-8 has the same representation as ASCII.)
I'm dismayed to find that they publish using proprietary formats. Namely PDF and Postscript. Wouldn't it, thus, cost money to save to those formats?
As far as I know, you don't need a licence to produce PostScript. Just get the language reference and start churning out PostScript, like you would with LaTeX. Heck, a whole lot of word processors can either save to PostScript natively or via a printer driver, which is often free. (For example, PS is the lingua franca of printing on most Linux platforms AFAIK.)
Why not use LaTex or just plain old HTML 4?
HTML is not such a good idea for wide parts of the scientific community IMO since it doesn't include good support for things such as equations or special symbols, without the need to resort to images for all those things. At least not until more browsers implement MathML or a fairly well-stocked Unicode font (which would help with symbols but not with equations that go beyond <sup> and <sub>).
That whole spin-off bullshit is plain nonsense. It's a notion worthy of the old Communist Bloc countries that the best way to develop better Velcro is not to invest a few thousand in an Earth-bound Velcro lab, but to first build a multi-billion dollar booster, a multi-billion dollar space lab, and send up million-dollar astronauts - all in the hope of getting some better fucking Velcro as a free fucking spinoff.
As I understand it, there wouldn't have been Velcro without the space program. The spinoff was not "better Velcro", it was "Velcro" in the first place, because they needed something that would keep things in place under zero-gravity conditions. So your "Earth-bound Velcro labs" would not have been built because people might not have thought of the concept until much later -- it wasn't really an itch that needed to be scratched on earth; people didn't know what they were missing.
Plus, with a browser, you can scroll back half a page, and let the slow writer in the room get that last figure, while you go on with the talk. With ppt, it's back the whole page, and wait for the one slow guy, or the hell with the slow guy and go ahead with the talk
Depends... a lot of presentations on the web are basically a converted slide show, so you'd have the same problems.
Which reminds me how much I dislike documentation only coming in "slideshow" format where I have to keep clicking "next section" (I believe latex2html, or some such, is a popular culprit). Having everything in one big long page can be quite a bit easier to read IMO.
In a related story, Gutenberg was "overwhelmed by guilt" when he witnessed recent blatant fabrication of news by manipulative corporate editors.
This is sort of what I feel about Phil Z.'s "responsibility" in this case. Sure, terrorists use encryption. They also send their letters inside envelopes instead of on postcards and use telephones instead of megaphones. They probably also drive cars and drink water. So let's sue the postal services, telephone companies, car manufacturers, and Mother Nature in all companies possible for supporting terrorists. (Or, like someone else said, should Boeing's boss feel guilt about manufacturing "flying bombs"? Or the Wright Brothers?)
Crypto can have both good and bad uses, but by itself, it's not good or bad. Nearly every tool can be used for good or for bad.
How do you reconcile these two, somewhat differing, views?
I'm not Phil Z., but my guess would be that his quote could be extended to something like "I would not acquiesce to any back doors in PGP [if I still had the power to make that decision]". So if they want to build in a back door and ask him what he thinks, he'll say no, but since he's no longer with NAI, there's not a lot he could do about it if they decided to go ahead and put it in anyway.
The article praised google's use of text advertisements that appear at the top of the search list because they confuse web surfers who think they are search results.
As cetan pointed out, they do stand out as different from search results; they have a different background colour, for one. And, of course, because Google's results are consistently very useful and relevant.
So why are we all feel-goody about google?
As for me: because the ads that are there are not images -- which means, among other things, that they (a) don't take a long time to load, and (b) don't blink or flash or hop around annoyingly.
The patent office would then be charged to award the patents with the most merit
Er, I'm sure you've seen examples of some pretty weird patents having been awarded, despite the fact that some people think the thing was obvious to an expert or covered by prior art *cough*One-Click*cough*. Obviously, patent offices are already out of their depth in evaluating the merits of a patent application. What makes you think they will be able to copy with this additional level of scrutiny and evaluation that you're asking for?
So there should be no major problem at that level, when on martian ground at least.
You've got your answer right there -- what people are worried about is not so much the effects of living on Mars but of the trip there and back, which will occur in microgravity since 1G all the way there would cost way too much fuel.
Depends on how it's spelled. apparently means "elementary attainments"; is "itch"; and is "clothing". I'm not sure how it means "gentle", unless you mean the "soyo" of "soyokaze", which seems to mean "gentle breeze" -- but I don't know whether that soyo appears in other contexts (and is not usually read "soyo").
But if I understand correctly, Soyo is a Taiwanese company whose Chinese name is (read mei2jie2 and meaning maybe something like "victorious plum"). http://www.soyo.com.tw/chinese/com-profile.htm gives their company profile in Chinese and appears to explain where the word SOYO comes from; unfortunately, I don't know enough Chinese to understand what they are saying.
Who cares about SSL? SSL is important for maybe one billionth billionth of the time your data is in someone elses hands. Ok, so the data is encrypted in transfer. Who cares, when the recieving company is happily saving away your data on a NT machine running It Isnt Secure?
Or if the data is encrypted with SSL during transfer but then appended to a file that lives below the docroot and whose name can be guessed from some hidden parameters in the form? I, er, heard that this happened to a University's online bookstore (they've since fixed it); while the hole was open one could supposedly read all about other people's orders: credit card numbers, email addresses, etc.
are they non-profit or do they charge you money since they are a company??
Both. You do know the difference between income and profit, don't you? Profit is when they take in more money than they need to pay their expenses (this often gets paid out to shareholders or the like). If they earn money which gets paid out again in expenses, they have income but they're not turning a profit.
Another thing I've used is tagging all my newsgroup posts with the date. This way, I can tell when someone scraped my address off Usenet. But I can also write a little program that filters email and rejects mail to an address that's older than, say, one month. Since Usenet is a pretty fast medium usually, that should be enough time to reply.
Of course, that would discriminate against those who have a huge backlog, so combine it with another thing I use: use a Reply-To address in Usenet posts. Real people will click 'Reply' and the mail goes to that address; harvesters will use the 'From' address more often than not (because they can get at it without downloading the complete headers for all articles in the newsgropu) and get filtered out.
as you stop dealing with particular companies so you just direct email to the appropriate address to/dev/null - sorted:-)
Or just direct email to abuse@badcompany.com -- if you asked for email to that address to stop and they don't comply with that, they can read it themselves.
We can require a training class before anybody is allowed to use e-mail.
That's not such a bad idea IMO. It should also be required for Usenet. It used to be required that people demonstrate that they had read the basic netiquette guidelines before they were "let loose" on the full thing. This might slow down "endless September".
I recall that MS also had to settle with Synet (not Sprynet) on the name Interner Explorer.
And in Germany, there's a company that claims trademark rights to the term 'Explorer' and sues people who link to the program 'FTP Expl*r*r' (my asterisks). They also claim to have settled with Microsoft over MS's rights to use the term 'Explorer' for the Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer products in Germany.
I guess the only way to make that scheme work is become the resident of my own
autonomous, sovereign nation where I can effectively control the local laws.
It's not enough to control the laws if you're the only resident of your sovereign nation -- who's going to enforce them?
What I'd love to see is a law instituted that requires any SPAM to have a very specific header and footer
Some places have already tried this AFAIK, mandating something such as 'ADV: ' at the beginning of the subject line. It's still going to clog up the bandwidth, of course, and possibly your mailbox, unless you have the filtering directly in your SMTP daemon.
allow me to filter out spam and/or bounce it back to the sender, with a 'no such recipient' mail.
In order to be really effective, I think you really need to filter this in the SMTP daemon, so you can give the spmmer an SMTP error response. This means that the best things to test against are:
Originating IP address
Sender's email adress, as specified in the envelope
Recipient email address, as specified in the envelope
Looking inside the contents would also work, but then you couldn't send the error return code until the whole message has been transmitted and stored locally somewhere -- and it might be ignored.
If you wait until the mail was accepted to analyse it and return a "no such recipient" mail or whatever, it means that the SMTP conversation ended with a "success" code, which often indicates "good address" to spamware -- and there's no guarantee that any of
The envelope sender, or
The address(es) in the From: and/or Reply-To: headers
will be correct, so your mail will probably bounce anyway.
Then there's the fact that lots of spammers mail through open relays and so don't even see the SMTP conversation with your system, and even if they do, they probably don't care about bounces since they go to the address they forged rather than to their own account. It's just a lot cheaper to blast spam to the same one million addresses over and over than to clean up after yourselves and remove bounced addresses from your list.
The MIT copy has URLs for the images that look like this: src="MIRACLES OF THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS_files/1950STROE.jpeg". Ick -- spaces aren't legal in URLs. Escaping them as %20 works if you want to look at them individually, but the browser won't be able to show them inline.
So I can't publish what laws I'm living under, because I don't own the copyright? That makes sense, now we just need a legislative body that use them, and we've got a *secret* law.
Reminds me of a story I read in a Dilbert book, where Scott Adams quotes an email from a reader:
<fair use>
Shortly after taking my first job, I submitted a trip report and expense account only to have it returned to my desk because one item "violated company policy." Being a concerned employee, I immediately contacted the soon-to-be-retired career bureaucrat in charge, expressed my contrition, and requested a copy of the company policies so as to avoid another violation. The bureaucrat informed that company policies were secret and not for general distribution, as then "everyone would know them."
</fair use>
So, we're held accountable to the laws but we're not allowed to know them or tell anyone else about them.
(And I always thought anything that was "law" was public domain by default, since it applies to and belongs to everybody.)
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Especially if the "head of sales group" used the MS Outlook plugin where it looks up the keys for all the recipients automatically.
Unfortunately, that only works in-memory since files are sequences of octets (bytes), which only have 8 bits. So you have to convert your ints to octets somehow when saving. So you have to pick a Unicode Transformation Format... such as UTF-8 or UTF-16.
Cheers,
Philip
The original poster talked not about "the same as ASCII" but about "ASCII compatible". And if you have text that's in ASCII, then it's automatically in UTF-8 as well since, as you said, for characters 0 to 127 the ASCII bytes are the same as UTF-8 bytes.
(Of course, this breaks if you have a language that uses a superset of ASCII such as iso-8859-1, but if you have only have characters from "real" ASCII, then UTF-8 has the same representation as ASCII.)
Cheers,
Philip.
As far as I know, you don't need a licence to produce PostScript. Just get the language reference and start churning out PostScript, like you would with LaTeX. Heck, a whole lot of word processors can either save to PostScript natively or via a printer driver, which is often free. (For example, PS is the lingua franca of printing on most Linux platforms AFAIK.)
HTML is not such a good idea for wide parts of the scientific community IMO since it doesn't include good support for things such as equations or special symbols, without the need to resort to images for all those things. At least not until more browsers implement MathML or a fairly well-stocked Unicode font (which would help with symbols but not with equations that go beyond <sup> and <sub>).
Cheers,
Philip.
And under CP/M, it was essentially:
strcpy(fname, "FOO C ");
Cheers,
Philip
As I understand it, there wouldn't have been Velcro without the space program. The spinoff was not "better Velcro", it was "Velcro" in the first place, because they needed something that would keep things in place under zero-gravity conditions. So your "Earth-bound Velcro labs" would not have been built because people might not have thought of the concept until much later -- it wasn't really an itch that needed to be scratched on earth; people didn't know what they were missing.
Depends... a lot of presentations on the web are basically a converted slide show, so you'd have the same problems.
Which reminds me how much I dislike documentation only coming in "slideshow" format where I have to keep clicking "next section" (I believe latex2html, or some such, is a popular culprit). Having everything in one big long page can be quite a bit easier to read IMO.
This is sort of what I feel about Phil Z.'s "responsibility" in this case. Sure, terrorists use encryption. They also send their letters inside envelopes instead of on postcards and use telephones instead of megaphones. They probably also drive cars and drink water. So let's sue the postal services, telephone companies, car manufacturers, and Mother Nature in all companies possible for supporting terrorists. (Or, like someone else said, should Boeing's boss feel guilt about manufacturing "flying bombs"? Or the Wright Brothers?)
Crypto can have both good and bad uses, but by itself, it's not good or bad. Nearly every tool can be used for good or for bad.
--
Esli epei eto cumprenan, shris soa Sfaha.
I'm not Phil Z., but my guess would be that his quote could be extended to something like "I would not acquiesce to any back doors in PGP [if I still had the power to make that decision]". So if they want to build in a back door and ask him what he thinks, he'll say no, but since he's no longer with NAI, there's not a lot he could do about it if they decided to go ahead and put it in anyway.
As cetan pointed out, they do stand out as different from search results; they have a different background colour, for one. And, of course, because Google's results are consistently very useful and relevant.
As for me: because the ads that are there are not images -- which means, among other things, that they (a) don't take a long time to load, and (b) don't blink or flash or hop around annoyingly.
Er, I'm sure you've seen examples of some pretty weird patents having been awarded, despite the fact that some people think the thing was obvious to an expert or covered by prior art *cough*One-Click*cough*. Obviously, patent offices are already out of their depth in evaluating the merits of a patent application. What makes you think they will be able to copy with this additional level of scrutiny and evaluation that you're asking for?
There's a really extensive one at http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/critdate.htm, by J R Stockton.
You've got your answer right there -- what people are worried about is not so much the effects of living on Mars but of the trip there and back, which will occur in microgravity since 1G all the way there would cost way too much fuel.
Depends on how it's spelled. apparently means "elementary attainments"; is "itch"; and is "clothing". I'm not sure how it means "gentle", unless you mean the "soyo" of "soyokaze", which seems to mean "gentle breeze" -- but I don't know whether that soyo appears in other contexts (and is not usually read "soyo").
But if I understand correctly, Soyo is a Taiwanese company whose Chinese name is (read mei2jie2 and meaning maybe something like "victorious plum"). http://www.soyo.com.tw/chinese/com-profile.htm gives their company profile in Chinese and appears to explain where the word SOYO comes from; unfortunately, I don't know enough Chinese to understand what they are saying.
Cheers,
Philip.
So airlines have started allowing CD and DVD players onboard a plane?
Or if the data is encrypted with SSL during transfer but then appended to a file that lives below the docroot and whose name can be guessed from some hidden parameters in the form? I, er, heard that this happened to a University's online bookstore (they've since fixed it); while the hole was open one could supposedly read all about other people's orders: credit card numbers, email addresses, etc.
Both. You do know the difference between income and profit, don't you? Profit is when they take in more money than they need to pay their expenses (this often gets paid out to shareholders or the like). If they earn money which gets paid out again in expenses, they have income but they're not turning a profit.
I've been doing this for a while as well.
Another thing I've used is tagging all my newsgroup posts with the date. This way, I can tell when someone scraped my address off Usenet. But I can also write a little program that filters email and rejects mail to an address that's older than, say, one month. Since Usenet is a pretty fast medium usually, that should be enough time to reply.
Of course, that would discriminate against those who have a huge backlog, so combine it with another thing I use: use a Reply-To address in Usenet posts. Real people will click 'Reply' and the mail goes to that address; harvesters will use the 'From' address more often than not (because they can get at it without downloading the complete headers for all articles in the newsgropu) and get filtered out.
Or just direct email to abuse@badcompany.com -- if you asked for email to that address to stop and they don't comply with that, they can read it themselves.
That's not such a bad idea IMO. It should also be required for Usenet. It used to be required that people demonstrate that they had read the basic netiquette guidelines before they were "let loose" on the full thing. This might slow down "endless September".
And in Germany, there's a company that claims trademark rights to the term 'Explorer' and sues people who link to the program 'FTP Expl*r*r' (my asterisks). They also claim to have settled with Microsoft over MS's rights to use the term 'Explorer' for the Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer products in Germany.
It's not enough to control the laws if you're the only resident of your sovereign nation -- who's going to enforce them?
Some places have already tried this AFAIK, mandating something such as 'ADV: ' at the beginning of the subject line. It's still going to clog up the bandwidth, of course, and possibly your mailbox, unless you have the filtering directly in your SMTP daemon.
In order to be really effective, I think you really need to filter this in the SMTP daemon, so you can give the spmmer an SMTP error response. This means that the best things to test against are:
Looking inside the contents would also work, but then you couldn't send the error return code until the whole message has been transmitted and stored locally somewhere -- and it might be ignored.
If you wait until the mail was accepted to analyse it and return a "no such recipient" mail or whatever, it means that the SMTP conversation ended with a "success" code, which often indicates "good address" to spamware -- and there's no guarantee that any of
will be correct, so your mail will probably bounce anyway.
Then there's the fact that lots of spammers mail through open relays and so don't even see the SMTP conversation with your system, and even if they do, they probably don't care about bounces since they go to the address they forged rather than to their own account. It's just a lot cheaper to blast spam to the same one million addresses over and over than to clean up after yourselves and remove bounced addresses from your list.
Cheers,
Philip
Try http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/sci/1950STROM. html. That appears to be where the MIT copy is from, anyway (do a "view source" and look for "saved from url").
The MIT copy has URLs for the images that look like this: src="MIRACLES OF THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS_files/1950STROE.jpeg". Ick -- spaces aren't legal in URLs. Escaping them as %20 works if you want to look at them individually, but the browser won't be able to show them inline.
Reminds me of a story I read in a Dilbert book, where Scott Adams quotes an email from a reader:
<fair use>
</fair use>So, we're held accountable to the laws but we're not allowed to know them or tell anyone else about them.
(And I always thought anything that was "law" was public domain by default, since it applies to and belongs to everybody.)