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2004/6/25-26 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:31003 Activity:nil |
6/24 Interesting background column on Iraq's interim prime minister: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4064-2004Jun24.html |
2004/6/25-26 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:31004 Activity:nil |
6/24 Is there a way to download a mail folder from say hotmail to my own computer, or the whole account, other than forwarding to myself or click and save them one by one? \_ for yahoo, there's something called yahoo pops. you might find something similar for hotmail. \_ MrPostman, a Java pop3 proxy that allow you to use regular pop3 client to download hotmail / yahoo email. \_ try outlook or outlook express: link:csua.org/u/7xi |
2004/6/25 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Recreation/Music] UID:31005 Activity:nil |
6/24 http://www.onefinalnote.com/reviews/v/various-artists/no-w-now.asp |
2004/6/25 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:31006 Activity:nil |
6/24 Bush is God's gift to mankind. Clinton is a child rapist. \_ Stop bringing facts into this thread. \_ He's not bringing facts. He's just some ranting Republican. \_ Why do you hate America? \_ I don't hate America. I'm just saying that OP said nothing factual. \_ But you said you hate Bush. So surely, you must hate America. You also like Clinton so you also support child rapists. \_ where's that guy that says "strawman! strawman!"?? This is definitely the right moment for him! |
2004/6/25-26 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:31007 Activity:very high |
6/24 Ebert on Fahrenheit 9/11: "Fahrenheit 9/11" is a compelling, persuasive film, at odds with the White House effort to present Bush as a strong leader. He comes across as a shallow, inarticulate man, simplistic in speech and inauthentic in manner. http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/cst-ftr-moore24f.html \_ Just curious but do they call this "Fahrenheit 11/9" in "Queen's English" speaking countries? \_ bbc calls it exactly what we do. \_ Ebert hates America. Boycott Ebert. \_ Actually, 9 out of 11 movie critics on http://movies.yahoo.com love it. \_ Exactly. 9 out of 11 liberal media critics hate America. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Fahrenheit911-1133649 \_ I *may* actually go see this, but I don't want to give MM my money, so I'll buy a ticket to White Chicks instead and sneak into the F911 theater. \_ Ah, the principled conservative... \_ No. A conservative has no interest in wasting their time watching the propaganda of a proven liar. I wouldn't want to see it at a free screening. It's a waste of time. The ticket price isn't the issue. \_ Does a conservative wasting his time posting/reading motd? \_ Yes. It's a better use of my time than seeing Michael Moore's propaganda. Sometimes things posted here are actually true, context and backed by solid references. If the motd were my only source of information on the world I would have a more accurate picture than Michael Moore provides. \_ I will freely give my money to MM. \_ Send him a check. Why are you bothering us? \_ Why don't you want to give him your money? If you don't want to give him money, don't see the film. If you think he's a liar (as I believe has been shown) why would you sink to lying to see his movie? -emarkp \_ I agree 100% with emarkp \_ I think people who host Fox News are proven lying scumbags. But I still watch FNC just to keep an open mind. I tell you, the more I watch it the lower opinion I have of the Republican party and their media arm. \_ Sure, but if you were a Nielsen family would you lie on your TV diary? -emarkp \_ We are a Nielsen family. Well, we were on Real People back in the late 70s for being Nielsens... What was the question? --erikred \_ Proven lying scumbags? Perhaps youd care to share what was said and then back that up with a reference? Proven means you have proof. \_ I've read both the positive and negative reviews and I'm curious to see who I agree with, but at the same time, I do not wish to promote this kind of "documentary" film-making so that real documentaries like Spellbound, Home Movie, and Fast Cheap and Out of Control don't get brushed aside. I think MM and movies like SuperSizeMe and the critical acclaim they are getting is the beginning of a really bad trend akin to the horrible reality television trend we are currently infected with. -op \_ You mean like "The Octopus", "The Jungle", "Unsafe at any Speed", "The American Way of Death", "Silent Spring" or any of those other recent expose' hit pieces? Yeah, they are really just horribly self-serving and opportunistic. \_ I think it's hilarious that you're comparing "The Jungle" with Super Size Me which is nothing more than Jackass:The Movie for the liberal elite. \_ Yeah, I think "Unsafe at any Speed" matches up pretty well with the crap the MM produces. \_ So split the difference. Go see a matinee after opening weekend. That way you're not giving him much money. -emarkp \_ Just realized another advantage: you'll have the theater to yourself. -emarkp \_ He probably would anyway in most places. \_ Here in LA on a friday night there was a lively crowd, complete with voter registration booths, seething hatred, and anti-Bush bumper stickers. Santa Monica rocks. -- ilyas |
2004/6/25-26 [Health/Disease/General] UID:31008 Activity:high |
6/24 Insomnia, to the death: http://csua.org/u/7x5 (NY Times) \_ Did someone here say that he or she had worked on similar problems? If so, with whom? \_ The topic is quite interesting, but the writing style is barely tolerable. E.g., "Lugaresi, a popular teacher at the University of Bologna, is a playful man with an easy manner. In one sense he is quintessentially Italian: the only time I saw him truly upset was when, after taking me to an expensive restaurant, he found out I didn't drink wine. But he is also ambitious and willing to think outside the conventions of Italian medicine." WTF!? Are the conventions of Italian (read "Eye-talian") that different from "normal" medicine? \_ Don't you see shit like this all the time: she was a Asian \_ Don't you see shit like this all the time: she is a Asian female but she rises above the confine of eastern tradition and breathes through her nose. What's the fuss? \_ I hate that shit. Stereotypes are very popular with the lazy writer. \_ "Paper of record" is a (positive) stereotype too. NYT itself prefers to clasim "all news that fit to print" itself prefers to claim "all news that fit to print" even though it is no less ridiculous. Nuance is for the thinking man (and woman). Don't expect it from ANY news source. \_ I do see quite often and it always annoys me, but it's particularly goading to see in "The Paper of Record" (though the Magazine is certainly fluffier than the paper). - op of comment \_ You hit the nail on the head. The Magazine part is supposed to be much chummier than the regular NYT. But I'm with you: if I wanted fluff, I'd wait for the novelization. --op \_ Maybe we should write a group CSUA MOTD letter to the editor. "Dear Editor, Mongoloid, Esq., ..." \_ Great Fortuna's Wheel! Is that a true Ignatius lover? \_ I noticed there was no mention of any of them commiting suicide or requesting euthanasia. |
2004/6/25-26 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:31009 Activity:high |
6/24 Yay, IE6 vulnerability that affects fully patched systems, that allows local machine access (downloading and running any .exe) on previewing an e-mail or browsing a web site (including pop-up)! System administrators rejoice! http://csua.org/u/7xe \_ IE on mac os x not affected, supposedly. :-) \_ The payload is a Windows executable, but I wonder if the same IE hole doesn't exist on Macs too... \_ It's probably not as easy to execute arbitrary due to diff. in underlying API. Also the mac division of MS is complete separate and semi-autonomous/forgotten from the rest. \_ But the report I read from the "Get the Facts" Roadshow said that Microsoft is the fastest at fixing security holes! \_ That's because their security holes are all the same. They just keep on making the same mistakes over and over again. Besides, how hard is it to fix a buffer overrun hole? \_ Infect yourself! (with a "harmless" one) http://62.131.86.111/security/idiots/repro/installer.htm It overwrites C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe and runs the new one, then restores it when it's done. \_ Gee, this sounds like GREAT advice. \_ Has no visible effect on safari. \_ sploit only affects IE, and probably only on Windows. |
2004/6/25-26 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China] UID:31010 Activity:insanely high |
6/25 Why did both the Mongols and the Manchus move their capitals to Beijing when they conquered China respectively? Why would a superior country want to move its capital from home to the inferior country that it conquered? \_ Haven't you ever read The Prince by Machiavelli? A full explanation of why it's a good idea to move your rule to conquered territory is contained in that. \_ Your lack of historical knowledge is truly appalling. The Mongols and the Manchus conquered China with the help of other Chinese factions. In order to maintain China as a unified whole it was always necessary to keep the capital in Beijing. Also, the Mongol hordes were nomadic so they didn't exactly have a concept of centralized government or planning. In order to rule China proper they had to inherit the vast bureaucracy of the previous dynasty. \_ I see. My historial knowledge only came from three years of Chinese Histroy classes in high school plus all those Mandarin TV dramas on Ch26 over the years. \_ next time stay awakey \_ next time stay awake \_ Thanks, Pai Mei. Now, go ahead and eat those fish heads. \_ I would like to add several things. First. Beijing was a small town prior to Mogols established its dynasty. The logic behind establishing a city up in the north is that, believe or not, they want to be able to bail out relatively easily in case things went wrong (which it did in a relatively a short time of 120 years). Ming Dynasty, the dynasty established by ethnic Hans, originally established the capital in Nanjing. It took a political coup and an emporer of grand vision to decide that it's easier to finish those mongols off if the capital is up north. Manchus, the dynasty after that, decided that they really don't need to burn down the perfectly fine palace like all other ruling family did. So, they inheired the palace and expanded. Mind you that at the time, Manchuria was three times larger than what present Manchuria was. So, lattatude wise, it was pretty close the centered. -kngharv [motd formatd: learn to queue in line] \_ Thanks for the insight! -- OP \_ I am sure OP was a troll but just to amend what you wrote. Beijing has been a town of varying significance for a very long time, going back to at least to the 11th century BC when it was the capital of the principality of Yan. There were many periods prior to the Mongol when it was not a small town. many periods prior to the Mongol when it was >> a small town. \_ nah, before the Mongols invaded China, northern China was already conquered by the Jurchens and it is called the Jin. Southern China is called the Sung (or Southern Sung, after it lost the north). Jin fell in 1234, and Mongols started building Daidu (Beijing) in 1267. Sung survived until 1279. I think the Mongols were just too lazy to move again. Daidu is also close to the capital of Jin and the capital of the Liao, so it's not like it's built out of nowhere. Same for the Manchus, they did not have a tight grip on southern China until much later after they conquered the north, so they already established the capital in the north. \_ All the stuff you said didn't contradict with what I mentioned. Again, there are a lot of historical reasons why Beijing became a city of importance. And to the Han Chauvinist below, Beijing became important mainly due to minority tribe's effort. Important Han capitals are LuoYang, KaiFeng, and to lesser extent, ChangAn. -mutt blood \_ ok ok, I don't disagree with you. Another reason is simply that the capital followed the economic center of the country, which was originally further west in chang'an and luoyang with its rich loess plains. later on, due to weather changes, that region became less important. And then whomever ruled the Zhong Yuan plain, the biggest undivided (by rivers and mountains) piece of real estate of China, tend to eventually conquer and rule the whole country, so the capital moved there (kaifung, liao and jin capitals, daidu, ...). Economic center later shifted further to the south, so sometimes, a southern capital was also viable. Another argument is that China's threats historically (and in modern times too) tend to come from the north, so it was better to have the capital there to better deal with these threats. Army became more centrally controlled (to reduce chance of regional "warlords" becoming too powerful), but then it needed to be closer to where the external threat was. Having it in the Yangtze region would mean the reaction time would be way too slow for any disturbance in the north. \_ Better housing? And easier to govern the country from a more central location? Just my guess. \_ Central location is the most common capital placement, though border changes may leave the original capital in an unusual position (Washington DC). \_ But Beijing's location is strikingly similar to Washington DC. It was already not the central location when they moved the capitals there. \_ better babes! \_ Have you been to beijing? \_ GWB has and he agrees. \_ GWB isn't looking for tail. You mean Clinton. \_ GWB went to Beijing decades ago so he could cuz \_ GWB went to Beijing decades ago cuz of the hot babes there. He admitted as much. \_ Have you been to Mongolia? \_ Are you gay? \_ I like this beijing babe: http://starfaye.free.fr/english/Bio1.htm \_ This is not a babe. This is a stick insect in a sweater. She is Manchu / Jurchen ... whose ancestors ruled northern China when the Mongols invaded. \_ Why did the europeans move their capitals to america? \_ They did? Wasn't London still the British capital back then, for example? \_ That's the capital for the folks left behind. \_ why not? really, why not? Things like this happened more often in history (not just in China) than you may have heard. \_ Because they knew their civilization sucked, and in the long run, their only hope was to get assimilated into the Great Han Civilization - Great Han Chauvinist their only hope was to get assimilated into the Great Han Civilization - Great Han Chauvinist \_ ohh please, I can almost guarentee that you are a mutt too. It's impossible to find pure Han in China after thousands of years of wild sex. \_ can't you tell what is a troll? \_ unfortunately, there are small number of people who really think that way, I am afraid this is not. \_ But you are wrong in this case. Real Han Chauvinists don't call themselves Chauvinist, except for this one kook on the usenet. By the way, do you have some historical grievances against the Great Han Civilization? Did we subject your lesser barbaric "civilization" to annual tribute of material goods and beautiful women, as acknowledgement of our superiority? Did we administer a tender loving chastisement on your minor tribe when you tried to rebel like a naughty child? Believe me, it's for your own good, and only helps to pull you out of your miserable stone-age barbaric existence. Learn to live with it or be conquered. Either way you will be assimilated into the Great Han Civilization. Don't choose the painful way. - Great Han Chauvinist \_ Why do you hate Mongols? \_ Goddamn Mongolian! You break down my shitty wall last time! |
2004/6/25-26 [Finance/Investment] UID:31011 Activity:high |
6/25 What is a commmon ratio between wholesale and normal retail prices? I assume it exists as economic forces would equilize widely unequal margins. \_ totally depends on the type of goods and their cost \_ Margin - cost ratio should be relatively uniform or people all flock to trade the ones with higher profit. \_ uh, no. -tom \_ You poor idealistic fool. \_ You say what I learned in Econ 1 is wrong? \_ No, I say you don't understand what they were telling you in Econ 1. Wholesale vs. retail price is only one of many factors in determining profit margin. -tom \_ I think >5% for new cars, 1-2% for groceries. \_ I think you are thinking of net not gross. \_ If you don't move a lot of volume, you ned a higher markup to cover \_ If you don't move a lot of volume, you need a higher markup to cover your overhead (think jewelery). If you move a lot of product (milk in grocery stores) or your product is very expensive (cars) than you can cover overhead with a smaller margin. \_ Is there a place to look up actual stat. for different classes of product? \_ My mom is in retail (women's clothing) and she normally doubles the wholesale cost. She gives her employees 30% off, which is what she considers her break-even point. \- hello since i am stuck in my office for 45 min ... the econ1 is view roughly "in competitive markets rents or surplus profits cannot be extracted". this means the return on capital is about the same. in other words, what a company selling plums or highend stereos makes on a $1m of investment isnt going to be too different [as well as the returns at different stages of the pipeline ... assuming each stage is competitive]. how ever costs != wholesale cost. obviously in the case of safeway, s significant portion of the safeway price of a tomato is going to be what they are paying their supplier. in the case of diamond, there is the advertising, in the case of highend stereos, you have to invest more in salesmen than you do if you are selling tomatos. naturally this is wildly simplified and it's not immediately obvious when a mkt is competitive. in fact you may go backwards and look to see if excess profits appear to be present somewhere as a sign of mkt power ... although i dont know too much about econometrics in terms of what can be observed cheeply/accurately and with fair preceision. so it may be reasonable to ask what the w'sale/retail markup is in some domain [although what that domain is isnt clear ... mcdonald probably has larger margins on coke and fries than 99cent double cheeseburgers] but that is not a "globallly conserved property" ... also it is unclear over what large domain you would expect equillibriation ... states, nations, world, local markets etc. microecon is the basics for this question but then you can do into econometrics or IO. IO is pretty interesting. |
2004/6/25-26 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:31012 Activity:kinda low |
6/25 Wow, that's neat. Firefox 0.9 doesn't load http://drudgereport.com. (gets stuck loading the ad) Is that a bug or a feature? \_ worked for me then i hit reload now it doesnt work. ff.9 actually, it loaded just took a while. ie took a while as well. \_ Do you have http pipelining enabled? Does it not work at all, or just take a very long time? Finally, are you blocking the ads? I'm trying to reduce a test case; I've seen this on http://cnn.com too. \_ I turned on pipelining via modifying prefs.js, and it still takes ~ 30 seconds to load either way. IE loads drudgereport right away. Apparently the banner ad is slow -- this stalls firefox, but IE renders the rest of the page anyway. The firefox pop-up blocker option on/off does not affect this. \_ The ad server seems not to be up at all. It stalls both mozilla and IE for me. \_ Actually, I was thinking that pipelining was causing the problem (eg, by forcing the page rendering to wait for the img data)... also, about:config >>> prefs.js |
2004/6/25-26 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:31013 Activity:insanely high |
6/25 What percent of security holes would be solved by banning strcpy() in favor of strncpy()? \_ probably not much, since they're all coming to be php bugs these days. \_ Or using Java instead of C (no buffer overrun)? \_ It is not always possible to use java. I have customers who tell me that they will not allow a jvm to run on their systems for security reasons (the sun jvm cannot be audited by their internal code reviewers). For such people the only choice is C (don't tell me to write a network application in lisp, just don't). I have other customers who need software that will run within a 16 mb memory footprint. Unless you use Java MicroEdition it is not possible to get java to standup and do something useful on such systems. Even with ME, it is tough since lots of libs aren't available in ME. \_ Any other cool things Java invented that we should know about? -- ilyas \_ I'm not sure that the PP said or implied anything that this response is relevant to. Perhaps if you externalized your wit a little more, your point would be less obscure. \_ Sorry I wasn't trying to be witty. It's a bit of a sore point with me when people advocate the worst possible language with good_feature_001. For instance "We chose perl because perl has GC." -- ilyas \_ heh, my favourite feature in any programming language is how much I'd be paid to program in it. Currently msvc++ 6.0 is my mostest fav. language. - pst \_ Ahh, okay. Thanks for clarifying. \_ You should probably inform all those fortune 500 companies out there that they're using the worst possible language then. \_ Ah yes, the Fortune 500, the yardstick of technological sanity, and general common sense. -- ilyas \_ OK, academia, global 2000, most web shops, most enterprise software companies... \_ We've had similar arguments on the motd many times before, and I tire of them. They boil down to "popular!=good". Anyone familiar with MS Windows knows this. Let's change the subject, shall we? -- ilyas \_ But "popular != bad". Get off of your Ocaml horse and join the rest of us grunts. \_ I like things other than ocaml. I even think ruby's kind of neat (if only someone would get off their lazy ass and write a good compiler for it). Anyways, it's true that popular != bad, but if you think Java == good, I weep for your immortal soul. -- ilyas \_ I weep for your soul if you think the mess that is functional programming is good. \_ Want a hanky? I am well aware this is a troll, but I ll try to speak in good faith. I don't know where you got the idea that I like 'functional programming.' I like things like lisp, and it is true that lisp is more 'functional' than Java, but lisp is also more 'object oriented' than Java, since CLOS is much more powerful than Java's object system, and lisp is also more 'procedural' than Java, if for no other reason than because it doesn't have the moronic statement/expression duality. Languages that I tend to like tend to be multi-paradigm languages. The radical idea being that different jobs require different approaches. -- ilyas \_ wow. get a slow ass application just to avoid using strncpy \_ have you checked out the latest in Java with regards to performance? It's not 1997 anymore... \_ yes, 30 times slower than C++, 15 times slower than .Net \_ we're talking about a real implementation, not your half-baked hobbyist implementation. \_ then again we didn't use super servers for the java application \_ It's not really an answerable question, but if you're in a position to encourage/mandate its use, it's a good idea-- note also the strl* family from openbsd. Having BSD code is nice because you can wedge it into systems that don't provide it themselves. \_ strncpy sucks too; it's not guaranteed to null-terminate the destination string. Use strncat instead. \_ I would recommend using snprintf instead of the str* functions. snprintf will tell you if the buffer size has been exceeded, while the others won't. Also snprintf guarantees that the string will be null terminated. \_ snprintf wasn't added to the C standard library until C99, but most people still have C89 implementations. Also, although many libraries provided their own snprintf function, the exact behavior varies slightly from implementation to implementation. |
2004/6/25-26 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:31014 Activity:kinda low |
6/25 http://www.freepress.net/rules FCC attempt to relax media ownership rules overturned yesterday. \_ So... do the new regulation disagree with the constitution of \_ So... do the new regulations disagree with the constitution of some existing law? \_ Clearly this is a result of the ring wing controlled fascist BushCo state thwarted in their attempt to gain control of the ring wing controll fascist business owned media conglomerates! \_ no, it's the corporate controlled BushCo state thwarted in their attempt to further reduce competition and alternative voices. -tom |
2004/6/25-27 [Computer/SW/OS/Misc, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:31015 Activity:nil |
6/25 If you are running ISC Dhcpd 3.0.1rc{12,13} consider upgrading to rc14: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-174A.html |
2004/6/25-26 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:31016 Activity:nil |
6/25 OpenBSD SMP support now available on Opteron: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20040625160304 |
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