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Comment OK, seriously then... (Score 2) 223

Assuming you can get power, at least sporadically, take a Macbook. Install the latest Xcode, give homebrew control of your /usr/local and install all the homebrew packages that seem useful. Install npm, node, and useful-sounding Node packages. Install rvm, the latest Ruby, and Gems that seem useful. Ditto for any other language or tool you think you might be interested in.

Get Dash, and download all the docsets that seem useful.

Pick an offline-website download solution and load up useful-seeming websites.

Install VMWare, any other OS(s) you are interested in, rinse and repeat.

Make sure you can make a pilgrimage to the one Starbucks (has to be ONE) to get the stuff you forgot.

Comment Missing the point (Score 3, Interesting) 134

A lot of posters are missing the point, and stating that it's understandable that he didn't know about Plato, given it's limited availability.

Perhaps excusable. I read Computer Lib/Dream Machines and, yes, that was my first knowledge of Plato. And I was a Computer Science student and hobbyist.

But what he stated is that he did not have the opportunity to learn about computers. That's total nonsense. He apparently just avoided it. Any college student in engineering, social sciences, etc. in the 70's would have plenty of opportunity to take conventional classes, and in most schools they would have been required.

Comment Wow, does this guy have a blind spot (Score 1) 134

He must have thought those big round glowing tubes were a new experimental kind of light bulb.

Oh. U. Chicago. U Illinois(Urbana). Not the same. Too bad he went to the wrong school.

I visited in the 70's when I was in college to attend some talk about Plato and to see it in action.

Strange that my third-tier college in Detroit gave every student the "opportunity" to learn programming skills, and required it in many curriculums - certainly for any of the sciences, including political. Indeed, those of us in Computer Science were constantly bitching about the engineers and "those SPSS people" hogging the terminals. (That's why we developed some software for booting them off of their terminal...)

(In fact - like Bill Gates - I learned in high school first. We were lucky to have an IBM 1620, though. I didn't have to steal time-sharing!)

Was U. Chicago that far behind? Or did our Education Secretary just make a bad judgment that it would not be useful to him?

Comment Re:FOUND IT! (Score 1) 405

Verified this as shown above. Mod parent up! ROFLMAO!

Hostkarma blacklist Removal Form

Your reverse DNS is correct! - mail.fimble.com
The IP address for the reverse lookup name matches the original IP - RDNS Information

This is a list from our log files showing the activity from IP address 23.31.69.157. Our system stores information for 4 days. /ip-log/karma.log.12:virus 23.31.69.157 fimble.com NOTQUIT [S=5 - FakeMX NoQuit] X=tarbaby H=mail.fimble.com [23.31.69.157] HELO=[fimble.fimble.com] F=[lollypop@fimble.com] T=[terrydw@mkl.com] S=[Feeling adventurous tonight? Multiple mega hot lasses, free access!]

Please review the above list. It might alert you to an existing problem on your end that you need to look into and deal with. If you have been hacked or you have a virus problem and are still sending spam you will be relisted. If what you are seeing here is clearly a false positive or you have fixed the problem then please do use the remove option below to be delisted. We do not want to block any good email that you are sending. Actual removal will take place in the next 5 minute cycle. Because of DNS caching however other systems might remember the old information longer. If we have wrongly listed you please accept our sincere apologies for the error.

Comment YOUR BROWSER is supplying this information... (Score 0) 100

First off, please don't post links to crappy sites that make you force-quit your browser and make nonsense statements like this:

> The W3C Geolocation service determins location by the browser providing GPS location (if available) and signal strengths of visible WiFi annoucements.

W3C Geolocation is a standard for some Javascript functions that browsers can implement to allow sites to get geolocation information. It is up to each browser's author to decide to implement it or not, and what method(s) they will use to determine location. That is also dependent on hardware - does the computer/device have GPS? Wifi?

It is YOUR BROWSER supplying the bogus information. First thing, try another browser. Try turning GPS if you have it on your computer/device) on/off. Try turning Wifi on/off.

WiFi geolocation works from databases of router IDs that are collected by Google, other "drive by" operations, self-reporting, correlation with other knowledge, etc. which is stored in a database. There are several such databases that a browser might use. Google/whoever drives down your street, notices WiFi signals, and logs the ID and location. Device geolocation sees that you pick up one or more WiFi signals that are present in the database.

Comment It's a common anti-spam strategy - accept it (Score 1) 405

First off, it's ridiculou to run your own Email server today. If you really insist, do it in a data center with a VPS and your own domain with proper DNS records including PTR.

Beyond that, it's common for big, low-cost/free email hosts to reject mail coming from dynamic IP pools used for consumer accounts. It has nothing to do with Comcast per se - they will block Comcast, Cox, ATT, whatever. It's an easy way to block a lot of undesirable sources at low cost. It saves them the support cost of dealing with complaints by reducing their spam volume significantly.

You are not going to get your IP unblocked. You will just waste your time trying to get dozens or hundreds of email hosts to unblock you. Maybe a few of them might.

If you look at your Comcast agreement you will almost certainly find that - like most consumer broadband - your intended use violates the TOS. This is not why your mail is being blocked, though. It's because others realize that there's no good reason to run a mail server in your home, and plenty of bad ones.

Wake up and realize it's not 1995.

Good luck!

Comment Great resource for the kidnapped! (Score 0) 41

If I am ever kidnapped, I will be sure to remember this!

I can use Tor to post an "anonymous" tip, and then the FBI can rescue me quickly!

Maybe I cant get surreptitious Internet access, I can convince the kidnappers to use the Tip site to taunt the FBI! Get them to think I'm on their side. "Hey we can use TOR to tell the FBI how badly f*cked-up they are!

Comment This is flame bait, right? (Score 1) 631

Sure, I want to:

- give up the free 30-day "float" I enjoy by using credit cards
- subject my checking account to daily fluctuations rather than dealing with my financial business once a month
- give up the ability to access credit when making a purchase
- give up any recourse if the merchant screws me
- expose my bank account directly to potential fraudulent activity
- give up my privacy
- bank like a poor person
- trust these weasels who are the most exploitative merchants in the U.S.

I had given some thought to the form of protest that might be most effective. I imagined consumers walking up to CVS counters with a stack of stuff, trying to pay for it with Apple Pay, and then leaving it on the counter when told they couldn't use Apple Pay.

But I've got something better. It's an alternative system of payment. It's green. It's made of paper. And it has the lowest transaction cost. Most merchants - at least if they were smart - love this form of payment, although they do give up any ability to track customers through their payments.

I'd suggest that, as a protest, we set a day when everybody uses this alternative form of payment, called "paper money". Let's save up all our purchases for a week or a month, and then go out on a big splurge to stock-up - by taking these so-called "greenbacks" to the merchants who have NOT joined this anti-consumer coalition, as thanks for not going along with these greedy boobs.

Comment Re:alternative store (Score 2) 145

| None of this would be an issue if Apple would allow for alternative stores

They do. You can set-up an Enterprise store.

However, it is only for your own Enterprise. Currently, you can't even have an app that is for use by, say, clients or suppliers to some Enterprise.

I expect this policy to change. I think that the purchase of TestFlight is a precursor.

No, I don't expect to see "alternative stores" for the public. But I think they will be more flexible about Enterprise apps, such that partners can use the apps as well.

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