Comment Does it include... (Score 1) 134
...this web surfing session to read this article?
Submission + - High School TED Class thanked by Chris Anderson (mvschool.com)
An anonymous reader writes: An independent school in Dayton, OH has created a class around the videos and philosophy of the TED conferences that has reached a global audience itself. Students in the class not only discuss and dissect selected presentations — this year's group actually created their own response videos in a YouTube channel set up by their teacher. Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED, even directly responded to the class' thank yous in a personal and touching off-the-cuff video.
Submission + - Last surviving ENIAC programmer has died. (nytimes.com)
fatherjoecode writes: "Jean Bartik passed away on 4 April 2011. She "was the last surviving member of the group of women who programmed the Eniac, ..., which is credited as the first all-electronic digital computer". For must of my life I was mistaken in the belief that the films of the woman who turned the dials of ENIAC were following programming instructions from someone else. It turns these women were the programmers and their contributions went unrecognized for many decades."
Submission + - Google's Electric Car Scheme Kills the Road Trip? (i4u.com)
i4u writes: There's nothing more emblematic of the American spirit than the road trip. It's the most authentic expression of the feeling of Manifest Destiny that doesn't involve, y'know, murdering people. Few things in life do more to clear your head and revitalize your soul than a lonely drive through the desert or up and down a mountainous coast. Road trips are the best...but we might be the last generation to truly enjoy them.
Google wants robots to drive our cars.
Google wants robots to drive our cars.
Submission + - Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars (nytimes.com) 1
b0bby writes: The NY Times reports that "Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobbying for legislation that would make Nevada the first state where they could be legally operated on public roads. ...The two bills, which have received little attention outside Nevada’s Capitol, are being introduced less than a year after the giant search engine company acknowledged that it was developing cars that could be safely driven without human intervention. "
Submission + - Mainstream Media Looks at Anonymous (guardian.co.uk)
ScuttleMonkey writes: "In an uncharacteristically accurate writeup of Anonymous, the Guardian has published a look at the assembled mob behind the mask. A great place to send those unfamiliar with who or what Anonymous really is. 'This collective identity belongs to no one in particular, but is at the disposal of anyone who knows its rules and knows how to apply them. Anonymous, the collective identity, is older than Anonymous, the hacktvist group – more to the point, I propose that the hacktivist group can be understood as an application of Anonymous, the collective identity.'"
Comment Re:Ma Bell Stifled Innovation? (Score 2) 354
Not positive, but I think MadKeithV was paraphrasing Life of Brian:
"All right. But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health... What have the Romans ever done for us?"
"All right. But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health... What have the Romans ever done for us?"
Submission + - CMU Eliminates O-O Studies (wordpress.com) 1
fatherjoecode writes: "According to this blog post from professor Robert Harper, the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science department is removing the required study of O-O from the Freshman curriculum: "Object-oriented programming is eliminated entirely from the introductory curriculum, because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum." It goes on to say that "a proposed new course on object-oriented design methodology will be offered at the sophomore level for those students who wish to study this topic." Is O-O dying?"
Comment Re:The latest five pictures... (Score 1) 211
Your "pictures of Chrisq" page must be humongous.
Comment Muppet Order Pizza Through a DOS PC (Score 1) 63
Love those old IBM coffee break films with the Muppets. I'm still looking for one of these films where two Muppets try and order a pizza through a DOS PC with an external modem. Like most computer endeavors it doesn't work the first time and like most computer geeks the two Muppets try and again and again and again. It's hilarious.
Comment Re:Until... (Score 1) 147
someone urinates in the cooling liquid, that is.
Just keep Tyler Durden out of the computer room and you'll be fine.
Comment Yes but... (Score 1, Insightful) 413
...can you use it while driving 90mph?
Comment Reminds me of this story... (Score 1) 134
...about the Tiger Team in the Patch entry of the Jargon Lexicon:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/P/patch.html
Submission + - Yahoo Spam Filters Block Effort to Help Fight Spam (blogspot.com)
fatherjoecode writes: I was wondering if any one else has had this problem. Over the past couple of weeks I've had issues with Yahoo mail blocking my admittedly small efforts to fight spam. Every day I'd forward the messages in my spam folder to organizations like SpamCop.net, spam@uce.gov, and coldrain.net. However this past week or two I'm only able to forward maybe one or two messages a day before it started to block me from doing so with the following message:
Your message was not sent
Your account has been temporarily blocked from sending messages.
This block can be caused by sending messages that trigger our spam filters,
or by having too many recipients in one email. We encourage you to review
the contents and recipient list of your message, and try sending it at after an
hour or two. Doing so will usually resolve the matter. If you are still unable to
send messages after a 24-hour period, please read our FAQ for more
information and to request Customer Care assistance.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Thanks,
The Yahoo! Mail Team
Of course I've contacted "The Yahoo! Mail Team" multiple times and I've changed my password. So far nada and now the problem is starting up on another Yahoo mail account that I forward spam messages from.
This issue is especially problematic with SpamCop because after 24 hours the timestamps in the headers of the spam messages become stale and SpamCop won't process them, so I end up deleting most of them. It's a sad irony that my endeavors to help in this fight against spam are being thwarted by the very Yahoo feature that is itself trying to protect email users by identifying spam sources within Yahoo mail. While I totally understand the purpose of this effort and applaud the work being done; In my case it's overreaching and needs to be tweaked in some way. Possibly if the the application could look at the recipient email list to see if they're being sent to spam fighting organizations first before deciding whether or not to block the account.
Your message was not sent
Your account has been temporarily blocked from sending messages.
This block can be caused by sending messages that trigger our spam filters,
or by having too many recipients in one email. We encourage you to review
the contents and recipient list of your message, and try sending it at after an
hour or two. Doing so will usually resolve the matter. If you are still unable to
send messages after a 24-hour period, please read our FAQ for more
information and to request Customer Care assistance.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Thanks,
The Yahoo! Mail Team
Of course I've contacted "The Yahoo! Mail Team" multiple times and I've changed my password. So far nada and now the problem is starting up on another Yahoo mail account that I forward spam messages from.
This issue is especially problematic with SpamCop because after 24 hours the timestamps in the headers of the spam messages become stale and SpamCop won't process them, so I end up deleting most of them. It's a sad irony that my endeavors to help in this fight against spam are being thwarted by the very Yahoo feature that is itself trying to protect email users by identifying spam sources within Yahoo mail. While I totally understand the purpose of this effort and applaud the work being done; In my case it's overreaching and needs to be tweaked in some way. Possibly if the the application could look at the recipient email list to see if they're being sent to spam fighting organizations first before deciding whether or not to block the account.
Comment Re:One has to wonder (Score 1) 282
That would depend on the circumstances, but generally I'd say no. It would not be an abuse of its monopoly power. IE6 has been around since 2001 and the first version of FF was released in 2004. If Bing decided to drop support for FF v1.0 I don't see how that would be a problem.
