“You have the right to remain silent”
-marine with M-16
Washington Times Article (corrected)
Depending on how you feel on the .Mac issue, there is a petition for you!
.Mac Services Overpriced Concerns
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Just two links:
John Gilmore sues to challenge ID requirements for flying.
Happy reading.
All in all, it was not the best of keynotes, but it was still fun. I was able to arrange to have the satelite broadcast of the keynote played here on campus. Several members of the IT staff joined Elizabeth, Braz, Matt, Liz, and myself for the festivities.
Plenty of other Mac sites will be covering the events, so I won’t go into those details. The new iMac is cool, but not that big of a deal. The fact that they will be charging for formerly free Mac.com features stinks, but is quite understandable. iTunes 3 is a nice upgrade, but probably not as big a deal as some might like us to think. iSync is cool, and will be nice when it works with the Palm.
So what do I think? Well, Apple did not do anything ground-breaking today. Although I would have liked it if they had, I can understand why it might not be the best thing in today’s economic times. If they had introduced something great and new, I don’t know that people would go out and buy it like crazy, so they seem to be taking the slow and steady approach.
In the end I want Apple to do well, so I can put up with one not so great keynote.
So I am in class today again for this product whose name I shall not name. The topic is the web based portion of the product.
And the instructor is a moron. –
Now I am sure that this guy is quite well versed in his product, but his knowledge of HTML is severely lacking. Apparently the <p> tag is not the ‘paragraph’ tag like we all thought it was, no, it is the ‘print’ tag.
And apparently the and the tags are “Advanced” HTML tags. I don’t know what level that makes my pages. Somewhere around “godlike” I guess.
These are only examples of this class. ::sigh::
I don’t even know what to say about this. I feel like we are entering a new era of McCarthyism, only worse.
The government website. - Look specifically at the Operation TIPS program.
Send your money to the ACLU now. –
From the article.
Highlighting the scope of the surveillance network, TIPS volunteers are being recruited primarily from among those whose work provides access to homes, businesses or transport systems. Letter carriers, utility employees, truck drivers and train conductors are among those named as targeted recruits.
Spam is evil. Spammers are tricky. –
So I don’t like spam, I don’t think any person really does. So I have been trying to limit the amount of spam I actually see.
Initially I started with using a program that I wrote (rbl-milter) which tags messages that come from open relays. That worked quite well for a while and was catching about 75%-90% of messages with almost no false positives.
But the spammers have been getting more tricky and my hit rate was dropping, and after seeing one too many “Increase your bust size” emails I decided to add another line of defense, SpamAssasin.
Now SpamAssasin does lots of tests and builds a score for each message, so I think it will work better.
At least until the spammers get more tricky.
This is the obligatory entry explaining why I am writing this webpage.
Read on if you are interested. —
There are a few reasons why I am writing this page.
One is that I have seen what some of my friends have been able to do with their web logs (BTW, I despise the term ‘blog’) and I thought it might be interesting to try it.
Second is that I do not currently have a place to throw little tidbits of information that I find useful, interesting, or noteworthy. This will be it.
Third, well, it gives me something to play with when I get bored.
So there you have it. My grand and glorious reasons. I hope you are satisfied.