patent this idea: authoring of commercially-oriented unsolicited email specifically formatted to defeat X antispam measure (like spamassassin say).
Another idea might be to protect spam utilities using the DMCA -- if you use it, you're not allowed to figure out how it works, and you're not allowed to circumvent its spam protection.
Thought I doubt either would work, it'd be ironic to use stupid laws for protection for a change.
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Slashdot covered this two days ago. The editors aren't reading their own output again.
Remember, incompetent editors, you can be replaced by a program.
(For those lacking humor, this is supposed to be funny).
Okay, shaitand, that's all fine and good that you and your wife make sexist comments to each other, but there's a huge difference. You and your wife are married. If you can honestly say that you made sexist comments to your wife before you knew her, I'd be very very surprised. You are more than welcome to throw political correctness out the window with a friend or lover, of course, and that's your right.
My point is that slashdot is a public message forum, and the start of this thread is a sexist comment made by someone that doesn't know anybody here. So women are sitting at home, alone, on their computers, reading his message. This is not the same thing as being in a comedy club with other women, hearing the same words. It is, dare I say, less offensive in that situation because it is less threatening; there are more women than there are comedians in the club, and everybody knows it, so the dynamic is completely different.
Since this thread has completely derailed from the intended topic, I'll stop there....
1) Put an item in the crontab to "defix" your fix after a few weeks. 2) Blame the problem on buggy software. 3) Profit! 4) (Optional, but highly recommended) Repeat
One of the problems I've always had with the compost heap is that, at least in the summer, it catches fire every once in a while. Decomposing vegetables generate a lot of heat, and even in my open-air compost pile (just a big pile with a wire mesh fence around it), fires start. Usually once once or twice in the summer, and never much more than smoldering, so it's easy to see the smoke, wander over, stir it up with a rake to get the hot parts on the outside, and throw some water on it.
The small space of his heap and mostly-solid sides are enough to trap in a lot of heat though...What would happen if it started smoldering? I realize that oxygen might be the limiting reactant in this case, but what if there is enough airflow to keep it going? Hopefully the plastic bin he uses isn't too flammable!
Hey...you mean we have to read a manual to get this stuff to work? But I want it now!
Joking aside, he still has a point about needing a machine running OS X Server. The ad makes it out that having a Jaguar client will just work, without the need for a third computer...
Weird. I could have sworn someone like Richard Thompson wrote it. I remember my father told me this so I went and looked, and found a copyright on the lyrics belonging to someone else. Maybe it was a dream though?
Wow, is this really the Linux mission statement? I thought it was more about making a great operating system for free, not controlling the market.
This article really doesn't say anything, and says the above quite wrongly I think. I doubt Microsoft will ever give away windows...that would be an interesting day if they did. Over here in East Germany, almost everybody uses StarOffice because it's free and just as good. Free Windows and Free StarOffice...nobody would complain (except microsoft)!
(btw the Liberal Arts thing was joke, no offense please : )
And IT'S a good thing too, because those Liberal Arts majors are probably saying, "Obviously this was written by a math major as it lacks a basic understanding of English," when they saw your IGNORANCE when it comes to spelling. Also of INTEREST would be your grammatically correct prose.
A COMMENT under your post said something about your spelling already.
(btw the math major thing was A joke, no offense please).
But really, I jest. Though hopefully this will be a lesson to ya!
Largely off-topic but entertaining nonetheless. In the words of Gorka (A New Jersey resident):
I'm from New Jersey, I don't expect too much
If the world ended today, I would adjust.
I'm from New Jersey, no I don't talk that way
I watched too much TV when I was young
I'm from New Jersey, my mom's Italian
I've read those mafia books, we don't belong.
Girls from New Jersey who have that great big hair
They're found in shopping malls, I will take you there
I'm from New Jersey, it's not like Texas
There is no mystery, I can't pretend
I'm from New Jersey, it's like Ohio,
But even more so, imagine that
I know which exit, and where I'm bound,
Tolls on the parkway they will slow you down.
New Jersey people, they will surprise you
'Cause they're not expected to do too much
They will try harder, they may go further,
'Cause they never think that they are good enough
I'm from New Jersey, I don't expect too much
If the world ended today I would adjust
I would adjust
I would adjust
Actually who wrote the original version of this song? I'm having trouble remembering now...Anyway fwiw, I'm from South Jersey myself. We don't have the accent, but it's exit 7a, we have far too many shopping malls, the italian mobsters are everywhere, and it's slightly hilly/grassy with cows all over the place.
Sometimes packages are only available of older versions of a program (for example, gaim). Is the bug still in the latest version of the program from the author? Or has 's maintainer just not made a new version of the package? A lot of times this is the case, so emailing the author wastes their time. Your best bet is usually to go with the package maintainer. If the bug hasn't been fixed yet, they'll either work on the bug or tell the author about it...
And the fact that the cheating could corrupt the results
Read the article. The cheating doesn't corrupt the results of the effort...this isn't like the distributed.net challenge problem where people could say they checked a portion of the keyspace when in fact they hadn't. If someone's transmitting stuff out there, it won't be overlooked because of the cheaters.
Chuckle. Was kind of wondering about that. It'd be like saying "Joe Smith, a long time Microsoft Word user, has just released his latest book."
People aren't interested in the tools used to make the product, unless they're the company that makes the tools and are making a press release:). TBH I'm surprised that hesheboy's email address isn't something@wolfram.com;-).
Hm...not in my experience. I've used 3c905's, intel pro100b's, and adaptec 2940uw's that were for PCs (they had pc microcode on the cards). They all work fine under linuxppc, you just have to make sure the drivers are compiled with the right endianness. The 2940 worked with a microcode flasher (had to update the instructions on the card's bios to have mac instructions, which is tricky because the pc versions have a smaller bios than the mac versions....someone made a stripped version tho), but I had to go and get the latest "unstable" nic drivers from donald becker and replace the drivers in the kernel.
Apple's motherboards (at least the g3 and up ones) support pci 2.2, so there's technically no difference between the cards they can take and the cards a pc can take. You'll only run into trouble if the drivers expect different microcode on the card..
Re:Like Hollywood doesn't have enough problems
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Superhero Smackdown
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· Score: 2
Batman is just a wannabe, "me too" rip-off of The Shadow, the original non-super-hero master of the night.
Wrong:). I'd like to call attention to the fact that The Shadow was hardly human. He could, iirc, fly (or at least jumper higher than normal, some kind of control of gravity...), he had the power of language (he could understand any language, even if he'd never heard it before), and had a limited form of mind control which would let him be invisible. How's he a non-super-hero? He also had a whole squad of people helping him fight crime...as many as 3 or 4 people would be with him.
Oh yeah, and last I checked, The Shadow didn't exist in the DC Universe:).
They stole this story from last weekend's Twinkin' out with Red Mage (a weekly article on Nuklear Power). A fabulous online comic with the most amazing art....
Re:Like Hollywood doesn't have enough problems
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Superhero Smackdown
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· Score: 3, Interesting
As far as batman v superman goes, I distinctly remember batman taking a swing at superman after robin got killed off. he just about broke his hand. come on, it's a no-contest
But Batman has defeated Superman several times. You can say all you want about him using kryptonite or getting help, or whatever, but he still won.
Batman has a distinct advantage over everyone in JLA. 1) He's the world's best fighter, hands down. 2) He's the world's smartest detective, hands down. And he has a third advantage, he's not a superhero, he's a normal human. People, especially superheroes, always underestimate him.
predator versus aliens, however is an idea that people are actually looking forward to. I think ever since predator 2, where there was an alien skull on display, people have been dying to watch the two races go at it.
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patent this idea: authoring of commercially-oriented unsolicited email specifically formatted to defeat X antispam measure (like spamassassin say).
Another idea might be to protect spam utilities using the DMCA -- if you use it, you're not allowed to figure out how it works, and you're not allowed to circumvent its spam protection.
Thought I doubt either would work, it'd be ironic to use stupid laws for protection for a change.
May I make a nomination:
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Slashdot covered this two days ago. The editors aren't reading their own output again.
Remember, incompetent editors, you can be replaced by a program.
(For those lacking humor, this is supposed to be funny).
Heh. The moderators are dumb today, I would have given this a +1 funny....
I backed up my life on a perishable dvd. Damn you Atlantic, Damn you all to hell!!!
This message is protected with ROT-26. Any attempt to decrypt it or reverse-engineer the encryption algorithm is a violation of the DMCA.
I should still be allowed to make a backup copy of my CD....that's not quite breaking into someone's house.
If you reply to this message, I'll sue you.
Godwin's Law.
Okay, shaitand, that's all fine and good that you and your wife make sexist comments to each other, but there's a huge difference. You and your wife are married. If you can honestly say that you made sexist comments to your wife before you knew her, I'd be very very surprised. You are more than welcome to throw political correctness out the window with a friend or lover, of course, and that's your right.
My point is that slashdot is a public message forum, and the start of this thread is a sexist comment made by someone that doesn't know anybody here. So women are sitting at home, alone, on their computers, reading his message. This is not the same thing as being in a comedy club with other women, hearing the same words. It is, dare I say, less offensive in that situation because it is less threatening; there are more women than there are comedians in the club, and everybody knows it, so the dynamic is completely different.
Since this thread has completely derailed from the intended topic, I'll stop there....
1) Put an item in the crontab to "defix" your fix after a few weeks.
2) Blame the problem on buggy software.
3) Profit!
4) (Optional, but highly recommended) Repeat
Especially when you follow their recommendation:
We recommend that common rooms be located in the middle of the aircraft and private rooms toward the front and rear.
Mm Mm Mm, nothing quite like the centripital force of being at the ends of a large rotating object.
One of the problems I've always had with the compost heap is that, at least in the summer, it catches fire every once in a while. Decomposing vegetables generate a lot of heat, and even in my open-air compost pile (just a big pile with a wire mesh fence around it), fires start. Usually once once or twice in the summer, and never much more than smoldering, so it's easy to see the smoke, wander over, stir it up with a rake to get the hot parts on the outside, and throw some water on it.
The small space of his heap and mostly-solid sides are enough to trap in a lot of heat though...What would happen if it started smoldering? I realize that oxygen might be the limiting reactant in this case, but what if there is enough airflow to keep it going? Hopefully the plastic bin he uses isn't too flammable!
Shave the Whales!
Seriously, what happens if some sort of large mamalian marine animal walks (er, swims) into a tidal power generator?
And what effect does this have on coastal erosion (good or bad)?
Obviously it's going to have some environmental impact. I'd rather that we spend extra time analyzing it now then paying the price for it later.
. . I suddenly see a perfect plot for a comic book . . . intriguing . . .
A superhero doped with arsenic, making him able to conduct electricity one way but not the other? What would you call him? The Human Diode?
Hey...you mean we have to read a manual to get this stuff to work? But I want it now!
Joking aside, he still has a point about needing a machine running OS X Server. The ad makes it out that having a Jaguar client will just work, without the need for a third computer...
Weird. I could have sworn someone like Richard Thompson wrote it. I remember my father told me this so I went and looked, and found a copyright on the lyrics belonging to someone else. Maybe it was a dream though?
Neo...the matrix has you.
The Linux strategy is to undercut Microsoft,
Wow, is this really the Linux mission statement? I thought it was more about making a great operating system for free, not controlling the market.
This article really doesn't say anything, and says the above quite wrongly I think. I doubt Microsoft will ever give away windows...that would be an interesting day if they did. Over here in East Germany, almost everybody uses StarOffice because it's free and just as good. Free Windows and Free StarOffice...nobody would complain (except microsoft)!
(btw the Liberal Arts thing was joke, no offense please : )
And IT'S a good thing too, because those Liberal Arts majors are probably saying, "Obviously this was written by a math major as it lacks a basic understanding of English," when they saw your IGNORANCE when it comes to spelling. Also of INTEREST would be your grammatically correct prose.
A COMMENT under your post said something about your spelling already.
(btw the math major thing was A joke, no offense please).
But really, I jest. Though hopefully this will be a lesson to ya!
Largely off-topic but entertaining nonetheless. In the words of Gorka (A New Jersey resident):
I'm from New Jersey, I don't expect too much
If the world ended today, I would adjust.
I'm from New Jersey, no I don't talk that way
I watched too much TV when I was young
I'm from New Jersey, my mom's Italian
I've read those mafia books, we don't belong.
Girls from New Jersey who have that great big hair
They're found in shopping malls, I will take you there
I'm from New Jersey, it's not like Texas
There is no mystery, I can't pretend
I'm from New Jersey, it's like Ohio,
But even more so, imagine that
I know which exit, and where I'm bound,
Tolls on the parkway they will slow you down.
New Jersey people, they will surprise you
'Cause they're not expected to do too much
They will try harder, they may go further,
'Cause they never think that they are good enough
I'm from New Jersey, I don't expect too much
If the world ended today I would adjust
I would adjust
I would adjust
Actually who wrote the original version of this song? I'm having trouble remembering now...Anyway fwiw, I'm from South Jersey myself. We don't have the accent, but it's exit 7a, we have far too many shopping malls, the italian mobsters are everywhere, and it's slightly hilly/grassy with cows all over the place.
Sometimes packages are only available of older versions of a program (for example, gaim). Is the bug still in the latest version of the program from the author? Or has 's maintainer just not made a new version of the package? A lot of times this is the case, so emailing the author wastes their time. Your best bet is usually to go with the package maintainer. If the bug hasn't been fixed yet, they'll either work on the bug or tell the author about it...
And the fact that the cheating could corrupt the results
Read the article. The cheating doesn't corrupt the results of the effort...this isn't like the distributed.net challenge problem where people could say they checked a portion of the keyspace when in fact they hadn't. If someone's transmitting stuff out there, it won't be overlooked because of the cheaters.
Chuckle. Was kind of wondering about that. It'd be like saying "Joe Smith, a long time Microsoft Word user, has just released his latest book."
:). TBH I'm surprised that hesheboy's email address isn't something@wolfram.com ;-).
People aren't interested in the tools used to make the product, unless they're the company that makes the tools and are making a press release
Hm...not in my experience. I've used 3c905's, intel pro100b's, and adaptec 2940uw's that were for PCs (they had pc microcode on the cards). They all work fine under linuxppc, you just have to make sure the drivers are compiled with the right endianness. The 2940 worked with a microcode flasher (had to update the instructions on the card's bios to have mac instructions, which is tricky because the pc versions have a smaller bios than the mac versions....someone made a stripped version tho), but I had to go and get the latest "unstable" nic drivers from donald becker and replace the drivers in the kernel.
Apple's motherboards (at least the g3 and up ones) support pci 2.2, so there's technically no difference between the cards they can take and the cards a pc can take. You'll only run into trouble if the drivers expect different microcode on the card..
Batman is just a wannabe, "me too" rip-off of The Shadow, the original non-super-hero master of the night.
:). I'd like to call attention to the fact that The Shadow was hardly human. He could, iirc, fly (or at least jumper higher than normal, some kind of control of gravity...), he had the power of language (he could understand any language, even if he'd never heard it before), and had a limited form of mind control which would let him be invisible. How's he a non-super-hero? He also had a whole squad of people helping him fight crime...as many as 3 or 4 people would be with him.
:).
Wrong
Oh yeah, and last I checked, The Shadow didn't exist in the DC Universe
They stole this story from last weekend's Twinkin' out with Red Mage (a weekly article on Nuklear Power). A fabulous online comic with the most amazing art....
As far as batman v superman goes, I distinctly remember batman taking a swing at superman after robin got killed off. he just about broke his hand. come on, it's a no-contest
:).
But Batman has defeated Superman several times. You can say all you want about him using kryptonite or getting help, or whatever, but he still won.
Batman has a distinct advantage over everyone in JLA. 1) He's the world's best fighter, hands down. 2) He's the world's smartest detective, hands down. And he has a third advantage, he's not a superhero, he's a normal human. People, especially superheroes, always underestimate him.
predator versus aliens, however is an idea that people are actually looking forward to. I think ever since predator 2, where there was an alien skull on display, people have been dying to watch the two races go at it.
Well, I think we know who won that fight, then