Yahoo.com will let you use a POP server if you agree to let them send you advertisements. This is sort of an opt-in scheme. I do not use the POP server, and yahoo has not sent me any spam, which is as it should be.
Geocities also runs a pop server, and the accounts are free.
mail.com will forward e-mail to another account. I use their startrekmail.com as my spam drop, which forwards to another account that I have on another service. If I ever get too much spam from startrekmail, I will just register another name.
I've noticed that accounts at netscape.net and altavista.net collect spam even when the accounts are unused. I have pdrap@netscape.net and pdrap@altavista.net and both are full of spam though I've never used them. Stay far far away from those.
Keyboards scan in the same pattern, all the time. If you know the pattern, then you just get the timing of the keyclicks and from that you can figure out what keys were pressed.
Instead, keyboards should be scanned in a random pattern, and the time of keyboard clicks will not be helpful to determine what key was struck.
Sanitization of war??? Are you living in another galaxy?
The history of war in this century has been one of increasing messiness. In WWI, probably 10 actual military people were killed for every 1 civilian. In WWI, it was probably about 1 military person for every 1 civilian (remember the Russians lost millions of soldiers). Then later in Korea and Vietnam, the tables turned, and the civilians suffered horrendously more than the militaries.
Before we introduce any more weapons into the wars we fight, we've got to consider how these can be targeted. It's bad enough when military people die. It's even worse when innocents and non-combatants die.
I just have to say that it's no big trick to catch someone offguard with a sarchastic message. It happens so often that it definitely should be the LAW that posters of sarchastic comments are liable for any and all misunderstanding of their messages.
I'd even go so far as to say that all sarchastic messages should be outlawed, with jailtime as a punishment.
You're right about that. I've seen footage of Bill talking about business stuff, and also footage of Bill talking about computer or technical stuff that Microsoft is researching. There is a big difference. He seems to enjoy talking about the new technology more than the boring business stuff. How ironic that Microsoft is better known for the business stuff, but not known to innovate in technology!
This development environment supports Tcl? And I can compose and compile my programs *on the device*? I'm not interested in taking my desktop computer to the beach, but a smaller device would interest me. Why would I want to program on the beach when I could be enjoying the water and sun? Well, because I can get paid working at the beach, and that's slightly better than getting paid working in an office with no windows!
I know that I might be asking a lot from such a small device, but I am patient, and I'm taking good care of my Newton, so it should last until a very powerful replacement comes along.
Anyway, to the guy who said that the keyboard makes up for lousy handwriting: I know what you're saying. Even if my handwriting was good, I can still type more easily than I can make fine real-time millimeter precision trajectory adjustments to a stylus.
What would be the point of running Linux on a Palm? Because I won't buy a Palm unless it does. With the keyboard, Linux would actually be usable. Without the keyboard, I'll just stick with my Newton.
I want to use a real programming language to write my own apps to run on a Palm. I don't want to pay anyone for the tools. I don't want to use an IDE environment. I want to use vi and a command line compiler, and that's all.
I don't see why Linux wouldn't be the perfect OS for a palm device.
Let me turn the question around: why would you want a keyboard on a Palm?
#1 - How do you figure my request for a Linux environment on a Palm offtopic? The article was about a keyboard for a palm. Why the heck would someone need a keyboard for a Palm if they wanted to only keep appointments? My message was strictly ON topic. On the other hand, you were whining about moderators. Here's a nickel kid, now go to the meta-moderator page and start being part of the solution and stop being part of the precipitate.
#2 - I've checked out the Palm for Linux page, and the install looked more difficult than I would like.
3COM should fix their machine to allow others to load the operating system of their choice. I have the same general beef about Psion's new machine. You've got to jump through hoops to get Linux to load up, because the machine expects to run only the factory installed OS.
With this keyboard, the Palm could be a real machine. An implementation of Linux and a compiler would round it out as the world's lightest workstation. I would buy a Palm if it was easy to put Linux on it.
Contrary to what Polit-Korrekt disliking Rush Limbaugh says, making the on-line world accessable to blind people is a worthy thing. You might even benefit because Lynx would be more workable, and Lynx is a damn sweet browser.
I've heard great things about Debian, and since Corel is based on Debian, would it make much sense to install a minimal Corel to take advantage of the easy install, then use Debian's package manager to keep everything up to date in the future?
I've got a Debian CD on its way to me right now, and I can't wait to give it a shot. Red Hat's been good, but I want to try out something else.
Hey kid, here's a nickel. Go get yourself a Slashdot login id.
(Poor paraphrase of my favorite Dilbert Cartoon!)
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Oh, this is beautiful. Thanks for all the great information. I think that I will get debian going as my system of choice. I've ordered a CD for my first Debian install, but it's great to know that future upgrades can be done automatically, and fairly painlessly through a modem.
Very soon after the KAL airliner was shot down in 1983, the news outlets here in the U.S. were playing audio tapes of the Soviet jet fighter pilot's communications with his superiors.
Well, how do you suppose we got the audio tape of the pilot? The Soviets were denying the entire incident at the beginning. They certainly wouldn't have handed over the tapes.
The NSA has satellites which receive radio transmissions in thousands or millions of frequencies, like high tech scanners. All those conversations are recorded just in case they are needed later. I don't know if this specific incident relied on the purported voice-recognition technology of Echelon. The specific conversation could theoretically have been located manually, given the time and location of the shootdown.
Anyway, it's just another anecdote related to Echelon.
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OK, I'm one of those insane people who downloads each RedHat release over a modem.
It's actually quite painless, I use wget -c and over the course of a few nights I can suck down the entire thing over my blazing fast 33.6K line.
My question is this: Does the Debian package manager have support for partial and interrupted upgrades? It would be nice to upgrade my system a little bit at a time, because I'd be doing it over a modem. Is that possible? I'd also like to do it automatically. I don't want to have to have the package manager list out the dependencies so I would have to download and install the packages manually.
Nice article. If I had the moderator points, I'd give you one for sure.
Now, I read what you said about the bad part of easier voting, and I disagree with you. It seems that your main beef is that easier voting has made it easier to cheat. Well, that's true. But so far nobody's implemented the process correctly.
Using ID cards? What a joke. Easily forged by teenagers. Signatures? Also a joke. Easily forged by teenagers.
An easy voting process implemented with a secure cryptographically based protocol would not be trivial to break. Voting would be easier, and more difficult to defraud.
Easy secure voting would preserve the election as an accurate model of a civil war, which you presented to us.
Wow, this is huge huge news. All the numbers I see are two years old, and they are around 10 million users.
How many people use Linux now?
It just occurred to me that hard drives are shipped blank. Maybe we can get Seagate to pre-load Linux on their hard drives at the factory! Just pop the hard disk in the machine and boot it up. If you want to put the disk in a non-Linux capable machine, no big deal. Just format and install whatever you want on it, exactly as if the drive was blank.
Faster computers make things more secure, not less. If I add one bit to my key, then to encrypt that key with just one more bit will hardly be noticeable. Encryption will go really fast.
But, decrypting the key with one more bit will require twice as many attempts in a brute force search.
See how that relationship works to make things more secure as computers get faster? Just make your keys longer. The only problem is remembering a passphrase long enough to make a long key.
I happen to agree with SciAm in the case of defending against a Russian attack. It definitely would be impossible to stop all the missles that Russia could potentially launch at us.
However, in the case of a North Korea, a defense would be workable. In the near future, they could send only a few missles, possibly only one, our way. We could stop that attack, but at an extremely high price tag. And, after a few years, particularly if N Korea gets their economy on track, they could send quite a few more missles our way, negating our defense. In the long term disarmament is a very sane thing to do. It would buy security for a longer period of time than a defense would.
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Yahoo.com will let you use a POP server if you agree to let them send you advertisements. This is sort of an opt-in scheme. I do not use the POP server, and yahoo has not sent me any spam, which is as it should be.
Geocities also runs a pop server, and the accounts are free.
mail.com will forward e-mail to another account. I use their startrekmail.com as my spam drop, which forwards to another account that I have on another service. If I ever get too much spam from startrekmail, I will just register another name.
I've noticed that accounts at netscape.net and altavista.net collect spam even when the accounts are unused. I have pdrap@netscape.net and pdrap@altavista.net and both are full of spam though I've never used them. Stay far far away from those.
Keyboards scan in the same pattern, all the time. If you know the pattern, then you just get the timing of the keyclicks and from that you can figure out what keys were pressed.
Instead, keyboards should be scanned in a random pattern, and the time of keyboard clicks will not be helpful to determine what key was struck.
Sanitization of war??? Are you living in another galaxy?
The history of war in this century has been one of increasing messiness. In WWI, probably 10 actual military people were killed for every 1 civilian. In WWI, it was probably about 1 military person for every 1 civilian (remember the Russians lost millions of soldiers). Then later in Korea and Vietnam, the tables turned, and the civilians suffered horrendously more than the militaries.
Before we introduce any more weapons into the wars we fight, we've got to consider how these can be targeted. It's bad enough when military people die. It's even worse when innocents and non-combatants die.
Ahahahaha! Gotcha dude! I was just being sarchastic! hehehe, that was too easy.
Your dictionary is bad. Look up innovate. Innovate is not equivalent to incremental improvement.
I just have to say that it's no big trick to catch someone offguard with a sarchastic message. It happens so often that it definitely should be the LAW that posters of sarchastic comments are liable for any and all misunderstanding of their messages.
I'd even go so far as to say that all sarchastic messages should be outlawed, with jailtime as a punishment.
You're right about that. I've seen footage of Bill talking about business stuff, and also footage of Bill talking about computer or technical stuff that Microsoft is researching. There is a big difference. He seems to enjoy talking about the new technology more than the boring business stuff. How ironic that Microsoft is better known for the business stuff, but not known to innovate in technology!
This development environment supports Tcl? And I can compose and compile my programs *on the device*? I'm not interested in taking my desktop computer to the beach, but a smaller device would interest me. Why would I want to program on the beach when I could be enjoying the water and sun? Well, because I can get paid working at the beach, and that's slightly better than getting paid working in an office with no windows!
I know that I might be asking a lot from such a small device, but I am patient, and I'm taking good care of my Newton, so it should last until a very powerful replacement comes along.
Anyway, to the guy who said that the keyboard makes up for lousy handwriting: I know what you're saying. Even if my handwriting was good, I can still type more easily than I can make fine real-time millimeter precision trajectory adjustments to a stylus.
What would be the point of running Linux on a Palm? Because I won't buy a Palm unless it does. With the keyboard, Linux would actually be usable. Without the keyboard, I'll just stick with my Newton.
I want to use a real programming language to write my own apps to run on a Palm. I don't want to pay anyone for the tools. I don't want to use an IDE environment. I want to use vi and a command line compiler, and that's all.
I don't see why Linux wouldn't be the perfect OS for a palm device.
Let me turn the question around: why would you want a keyboard on a Palm?
#1 - How do you figure my request for a Linux environment on a Palm offtopic? The article was about a keyboard for a palm. Why the heck would someone need a keyboard for a Palm if they wanted to only keep appointments? My message was strictly ON topic. On the other hand, you were whining about moderators. Here's a nickel kid, now go to the meta-moderator page and start being part of the solution and stop being part of the precipitate.
#2 - I've checked out the Palm for Linux page, and the install looked more difficult than I would like.
3COM should fix their machine to allow others to load the operating system of their choice. I have the same general beef about Psion's new machine. You've got to jump through hoops to get Linux to load up, because the machine expects to run only the factory installed OS.
With this keyboard, the Palm could be a real machine. An implementation of Linux and a compiler would round it out as the world's lightest workstation. I would buy a Palm if it was easy to put Linux on it.
Yes, it's a wonderful world we live in...
...until you suddenly find yourself blind.
Contrary to what Polit-Korrekt disliking Rush Limbaugh says, making the on-line world accessable to blind people is a worthy thing. You might even benefit because Lynx would be more workable, and Lynx is a damn sweet browser.
I've heard great things about Debian, and since Corel is based on Debian, would it make much sense to install a minimal Corel to take advantage of the easy install, then use Debian's package manager to keep everything up to date in the future?
I've got a Debian CD on its way to me right now, and I can't wait to give it a shot. Red Hat's been good, but I want to try out something else.
Hey kid, here's a nickel. Go get yourself a Slashdot login id.
(Poor paraphrase of my favorite Dilbert Cartoon!)
Oh, this is beautiful. Thanks for all the great information. I think that I will get debian going as my system of choice. I've ordered a CD for my first Debian install, but it's great to know that future upgrades can be done automatically, and fairly painlessly through a modem.
Very soon after the KAL airliner was shot down in 1983, the news outlets here in the U.S. were playing audio tapes of the Soviet jet fighter pilot's communications with his superiors.
Well, how do you suppose we got the audio tape of the pilot? The Soviets were denying the entire incident at the beginning. They certainly wouldn't have handed over the tapes.
The NSA has satellites which receive radio transmissions in thousands or millions of frequencies, like high tech scanners. All those conversations are recorded just in case they are needed later. I don't know if this specific incident relied on the purported voice-recognition technology of Echelon. The specific conversation could theoretically have been located manually, given the time and location of the shootdown.
Anyway, it's just another anecdote related to Echelon.
OK, I'm one of those insane people who downloads each RedHat release over a modem.
It's actually quite painless, I use wget -c and over the course of a few nights I can suck down the entire thing over my blazing fast 33.6K line.
My question is this: Does the Debian package manager have support for partial and interrupted upgrades? It would be nice to upgrade my system a little bit at a time, because I'd be doing it over a modem. Is that possible? I'd also like to do it automatically. I don't want to have to have the package manager list out the dependencies so I would have to download and install the packages manually.
Well, a German was the first person to think of freezing potatoes.
Nice article. If I had the moderator points, I'd give you one for sure.
Now, I read what you said about the bad part of easier voting, and I disagree with you. It seems that your main beef is that easier voting has made it easier to cheat. Well, that's true. But so far nobody's implemented the process correctly.
Using ID cards? What a joke. Easily forged by teenagers.
Signatures? Also a joke. Easily forged by teenagers.
An easy voting process implemented with a secure cryptographically based protocol would not be trivial to break. Voting would be easier, and more difficult to defraud.
Easy secure voting would preserve the election as an accurate model of a civil war, which you presented to us.
Microsoft? Who are they? The last time I ran anything from Microsoft on my home machine, I owned a 386SX with Windows 3.0 on it.
And, take a look at my project. The link is in the header of this message.
What have YOU done for Linux lately, hoser!
Wow, this is huge huge news. All the numbers I see are two years old, and they are around 10 million users.
How many people use Linux now?
It just occurred to me that hard drives are shipped blank. Maybe we can get Seagate to pre-load Linux on their hard drives at the factory! Just pop the hard disk in the machine and boot it up. If you want to put the disk in a non-Linux capable machine, no big deal. Just format and install whatever you want on it, exactly as if the drive was blank.
Faster computers make things more secure, not less. If I add one bit to my key, then to encrypt that key with just one more bit will hardly be noticeable. Encryption will go really fast.
But, decrypting the key with one more bit will require twice as many attempts in a brute force search.
See how that relationship works to make things more secure as computers get faster? Just make your keys longer. The only problem is remembering a passphrase long enough to make a long key.
You sit at the dirty end of a particle accelerator all day, and you worry about cancer from a dinky radio?
You say pro-disarmament like it's a bad thing!
I happen to agree with SciAm in the case of defending against a Russian attack. It definitely would be impossible to stop all the missles that Russia could potentially launch at us.
However, in the case of a North Korea, a defense would be workable. In the near future, they could send only a few missles, possibly only one, our way. We could stop that attack, but at an extremely high price tag. And, after a few years, particularly if N Korea gets their economy on track, they could send quite a few more missles our way, negating our defense. In the long term disarmament is a very sane thing to do. It would buy security for a longer period of time than a defense would.
What is the age of consent on Mars? I would imagine that it's something like 8 years old or thereabouts.
(Before taking exception, engage orbit period calculater)