In the novelization of "Star Wars", this character is actually written as "THX-1138", a tip of the hat to Lucas' prior film. Instead the number "1138" shows up as "prisoner transfer from cell block 1138", a few minutes later.
People are visually oriented, so remembering pictures is easy, especially compared to a mess of uppercase, lowercase and symbols.
Uh, some people. I'd have to name each picture to remember it, and then remember the names. I'm a part of the 5% of the population that doesn't deal well with picture recall, and a particularly bad case of that. Let's hope this system is never mandatory for any system I have to use. It's bad enough for icons without tooltips.
I wrote a WebTechniques column over 4 years ago to show how to make unbookmarkable links. It's really not that hard. Not rocket science.
As an aside, it's sad that WebTechniques has decided to pull the plug on all the useful-to-developer content starting with their March 2002 issue. I'm sure it'll be missed as a resource. I was very happy with the 70 columns I got to write for them, and I'll miss that particular outlet.
We are suspending the US Constitution bit-by-bit, in a "cooking the frog" way.
Why don't we just declare martial law for the time being and get it over with? This inch-by-inch destruction of true freedom in the name of "protecting freedom" is getting more annoying every day.
A major problem with this method is that most potential employers, landlords and utility companies DEMAND a local, home number be on file. I have been refused service because of this.
But is there a demand that you answer it when called?
I've got a home phone line that I use for my home alarm system. It's also the number I give out to the average Joe who wants "my home phone number", but never anyone I'm interested in talking to (for
them, I give them my always-on-my-belt cell phone).
I have one ringer on in the very far end of the house. I hear it ring
occasionally (when the DVD player isn't on), but I don't answer it.
I couldn't care less. It's like having a lightning rod for useless calls. {grin}
the original authors of Learning Perl were Schwartz and Christiansen.
No. I was the sole original author of Learning Perl, and Larry Wall provided a foreword. Tom was originally intended to be merely a reviewer of the second edition, but used his influence to become a co-author of the second edition (and get me moved off the team for the third Camel). I'm not allowed to discuss my feelings publicly on either of those movements. But I'm very happy to have created a Christiansen-free third edition of the llama, which I think stands head-and-shoulders above either of the previous two editions, thanks to a significant contribution from my senior trainer, Tom Phoenix.
We have argued that these laws are overbroad and/or vague: that they make illegal ordinary activities, and/or they are indeterminate by a person of reasonable intelligence as to the applicability of the act.
Overbroad laws lead to "selective prosecution", which is constitutionally disallowed. If every single person who violated ORS 164.377 in Oregon were to be prosecuted (using the most liberal definition of the terms "alter" and "authorize"), the courts would flooded every day. Hence, to even exist, these laws have to be enforced only when there's some other agenda, and that's no longer justice: that's a big stick in the wrong hands.
I wonder where they got the number of "200" for SOL's that are still alive. I've got one in my storage room, and nobody's bothered to ask me if I had one. {grin}
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The timing of Learning Perl 3rd Ed was unfortunate, and precluded it from being included in Perl CD 2nd Ed. From what I was told, this was the only factor in its non-inclusion.
As an example of succesfully proving an "intent" circumstantially where there was none in fact, take a look
at my ongoing case.
As a fellow computer professional, would it make more sense to you to "hack in to get my own email" as the prosecutor offered, or to believe me when I say that I was doing this to show that my former sysadmin group was failing to maintain proper security? Yeah, I thought so.
To this day, the prosecutor still claims that he doesn't understand the case. And yet, he managed to share that confusion with the jury in such a way that I'm still a felon, awaiting yet another round of appeals to support a greater common good.
Yes, my methods may have been lousy, and I certainly didn't get prior approval for what I thought would be a no-brainer, but my intent was to help the people that had paid my bills for five years, not harm them.
I can say that they budget less this year than they do last year, thanks to all the dot-bombs. Training seems to be viewed as a soft expense: one of the first to jettison when times start to look bad.
Back a few years ago, I wrote in a column of mine about setting the User Agent string for a Perl LWP fetch to something odd like "Mozilla/3.0 (Sony Playstation)". Looks like I was off only in the version number. {grin}
Figure a coder makes US$40,000 a year minimum. That's a LOT of Paypal donations - I've never heard of anything like this happening.
Well, the moral equivalent happened to sponsor Damian Conway for a year of Perl Development. In a few short weeks, $53,000 was raised to free him from his year's salary at the University so he could focus on Perl development.
It's my understanding that there are two camps here:
Those who believe that the DTD URI is a real live URL to be fetched
to contain the DTD
Those who believe that the DTD URI is merely a URI, to distinguish
that DTD from all other possible DTDs in the world.
All AOL-Netscape did was mess with the heads of the first camp. Those
who were in the second camp are still chugging away fine.
It's also my understanding that those who developed XML are firmly
in the second camp. Yes, a URI-to-URL mapping mechanism needs
to be developed for DTD URIs. But just because that's not in place,
let's not rank on Netscape for their choice to make the one-to-one
trivial mapping no longer valid for RSS 0.91.
I've got most of the code in my
"Am I Hooter Not?" WebTechniques column, which appeared two months before these guys were interviewed. Hmm. I wonder who gave the WT editors the idea for this story. {grin}
The passwords from brillig were obtained by typing "cat/etc/passwd". The passwords from the SSD YP cluster were obtained by typing "ypcat passwd". Nothing was protected.
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In the novelization of "Star Wars", this character is actually written as "THX-1138", a tip of the hat to Lucas' prior film. Instead the number "1138" shows up as "prisoner transfer from cell block 1138", a few minutes later.
Didn't say whether they spent more time at Solitaire or at rebooting after a BSOD, or reinstalling their software.
Maybe if the BSOD was made to resemble Solitaire, it'd be less threatening?
... for GnuPG to have 100000 bit keys? Quickly?
I don't find that post as interesting as a slightly earlier post I made, which I claim is the first announcement on Usenet of a remotely exploitable security hole.
As an aside, it's sad that WebTechniques has decided to pull the plug on all the useful-to-developer content starting with their March 2002 issue. I'm sure it'll be missed as a resource. I was very happy with the 70 columns I got to write for them, and I'll miss that particular outlet.
Geeks on the High Seas!. I've been on 7, and they're a lot of fun, and a lot of learning too, having access to experts at all hours during the week.
Why don't we just declare martial law for the time being and get it over with? This inch-by-inch destruction of true freedom in the name of "protecting freedom" is getting more annoying every day.
I've got a home phone line that I use for my home alarm system. It's also the number I give out to the average Joe who wants "my home phone number", but never anyone I'm interested in talking to (for them, I give them my always-on-my-belt cell phone). I have one ringer on in the very far end of the house. I hear it ring occasionally (when the DVD player isn't on), but I don't answer it. I couldn't care less. It's like having a lightning rod for useless calls. {grin}
three times before I figured out that it didn't mean "a coffee can", because I was trying to figure out how to drink from multiple cans instead.
We have argued that these laws are overbroad and/or vague: that they make illegal ordinary activities, and/or they are indeterminate by a person of reasonable intelligence as to the applicability of the act.
Overbroad laws lead to "selective prosecution", which is constitutionally disallowed. If every single person who violated ORS 164.377 in Oregon were to be prosecuted (using the most liberal definition of the terms "alter" and "authorize"), the courts would flooded every day. Hence, to even exist, these laws have to be enforced only when there's some other agenda, and that's no longer justice: that's a big stick in the wrong hands.
I wonder where they got the number of "200" for SOL's that are still alive. I've got one in my storage room, and nobody's bothered to ask me if I had one. {grin}
The timing of Learning Perl 3rd Ed was unfortunate, and precluded it from being included in Perl CD 2nd Ed. From what I was told, this was the only factor in its non-inclusion.
As a fellow computer professional, would it make more sense to you to "hack in to get my own email" as the prosecutor offered, or to believe me when I say that I was doing this to show that my former sysadmin group was failing to maintain proper security? Yeah, I thought so.
To this day, the prosecutor still claims that he doesn't understand the case. And yet, he managed to share that confusion with the jury in such a way that I'm still a felon, awaiting yet another round of appeals to support a greater common good.
Yes, my methods may have been lousy, and I certainly didn't get prior approval for what I thought would be a no-brainer, but my intent was to help the people that had paid my bills for five years, not harm them.
I can say that they budget less this year than they do last year, thanks to all the dot-bombs. Training seems to be viewed as a soft expense: one of the first to jettison when times start to look bad.
Back a few years ago, I wrote in a column of mine about setting the User Agent string for a Perl LWP fetch to something odd like "Mozilla/3.0 (Sony Playstation)". Looks like I was off only in the version number. {grin}
So, it can happen.
Since it seems that whenever anything falls out of the sky, they always aim it at Australia.
Usually just to the local pub.
If this is "expungement", it won't apply to me, because at the moment I have multiple felonies. No go.
- Those who believe that the DTD URI is a real live URL to be fetched
to contain the DTD
- Those who believe that the DTD URI is merely a URI, to distinguish
that DTD from all other possible DTDs in the world.
All AOL-Netscape did was mess with the heads of the first camp. Those who were in the second camp are still chugging away fine.It's also my understanding that those who developed XML are firmly in the second camp. Yes, a URI-to-URL mapping mechanism needs to be developed for DTD URIs. But just because that's not in place, let's not rank on Netscape for their choice to make the one-to-one trivial mapping no longer valid for RSS 0.91.
I've got most of the code in my "Am I Hooter Not?" WebTechniques column, which appeared two months before these guys were interviewed. Hmm. I wonder who gave the WT editors the idea for this story. {grin}
The passwords from brillig were obtained by typing "cat /etc/passwd". The passwords from the SSD YP cluster were obtained by typing "ypcat passwd". Nothing was protected.
I did some things that I was later told to stop, yes.
But please don't paint me as such a defiant fool.