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The WMV format wouldn't ordinarily be a problem; lots of video players everywhere can play that fine. Even WMV streams are ordinarily OK. It's just that something freaky is going on with these particular streams.
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Well, so much for that one =P
Cybersquatter email
From: "Thomas Li" <mybestnames@gmail.com>

Subject: important domain names: octopart.cn & octopart.com.cn

Dear Sirs,

We have octopart.cn & octopart.com.cn and found that the domains are useful for you if you want to explore China market.

We can really consider selling them out if you are interested in them.

Please get back to us with your kind offer.

Thanks

Regards,

Thomas
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I think the real reason has to do with piles.
This becomes more and more true as your processors are more spread out all over the world, sometimes in remote locations. I heard google chooses data center locations based on proximity and access to power, which is probably very limiting.
Some researchers have implemented in software toy ecosystems which eventually developed viruses and parasites and prey-predator cycles and what not. The very first one, by the way, was implemented in Lisp (cited and commented upon in the book "Complexity" by Roger Lewin.)

Now doing it with Windows machines adds a sarcastic/sadistic tone to the whole thing.
Well, the buncha windows instances running under a RAMd-up VMWARE server is pretty easy to cover (if a bit costly).

You'd probably want to run a couple of different versions of virus and spyware checkers (for variety) on the various Windows machines (not being much a Windows guy, I couldn't make any great suggestions here, but Norton, McAfee, etc come to mind).

The next part would be some sort of client to report back to a monitoring server the infection status of each box. You'd have to come up with a scale to determine level of infection, and (ideally) how the infection got there. From that point, you display everything on an NMS system of sorts. His graphic reminded me a lot of the OpenView screens we used to watch back in the late 90's, mostly for the randomness of the machine layouts and the interconnected lines.

After that, it's just a matter of how/where you display the NMS screen.

Could this whole thing be hosted in something like the Amazon S3 environment, allowing for many people to view the screen remotely?
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I'm trying to please the parents with a good Christmas list and having trouble. Happily, most of what I love is free! I'd like to hear what other folks are asking for so I can steal your ideas.
for non-minified source you probably need to checkout the source from their repository instead of downloading releases.

I don't think perl is an acceptable replacement for javascript in a web application. The idea here would be to date validation or manipulation without communicating to a server.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7116290.stm
<-- All but one has comma inside. Inexplicable, that one.
all your base belong to octopart.cn
My list so far:
-Lost Season 1 DVD Set
The trouble is that it's still vaporware at this stage. I'm very glad that Google, with its brains & money, is going into the power business -- but I'm not going to get excited over a press release saying that someday somehow they might make clean power cheaper than coal. I'm waiting for some real results.
Easy. Facebook was seen as the in thing on campus. If you had a Facebook profile, you were hip and cool and cutting edge. After a few months in 2004 it got to the point that not having a profile meant people simply forgot who you were (because they couldn't read your profile like they could everyone elses). Obviously it influenced none of your close friends, but people you just met would judge you by your profile and decide whether or not to include you in the future.

It was also a great way to find your friend's hot friends and set up a meeting somehow.

The fact you had to give them your college email address and a password was no barrier. Heck, not having to choose a user name or design your profile yourself made it easier to sign up.

(I can answer this since I was in college at the time it got started.)
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octopart.cn and octopart.com.cn were registered on 3/10/07. we launched on 3/05/07.
New Tool DVD that comes out in December

Sushi making kit (I spend way too much eating out)

Some nice comfy headphones for the cube at work

XFX 8800GT

Dell WFP-2407HC 24" Monitor

Obviously the $270 vid card and $600 monitor aren't coming to me gift wrapped... more accepting cash donations towards those than asking for them.
I don't think you've really answered his question. If not having a profile meant people simply forgot who you were, then you're talking about a time when facebook was already big.
I recommend a little more detail on what you are looking for. Are you mostly Linux (I assume)? Do you need someone with Cisco or other router experience? Etc. etc.
We got a similar email when we launched i-conserve.com (also with the chinese domain name).
I think Doctorow overstates the awkwardness of ignoring a friend request. People do it all the time, I know I do, and I've never accepted a 'top friends' request.

There's a hidden benefit if people use the 'ignore' feature properly: you get a better idea of who your friends are. Someone ignoring a friend request can be very telling.
I think it would fit perfectly! Someone on the site all day needs to get off and go do something else productive =)
Most. Overused. Rhetorical. Device. Ever.
Yep, we got one too. Idiots.
Yes, eval() is much slower than it's call() equivalent.
You could give the player the option to trade points for extra lives.
We got one, too, at Scribd. Maybe they read news.ycombinator.
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Beware! all those chinese domains are tainted with lead.
When the iPhone came out I had a great idea to actually implement this... unfortunately there were too many road blocks, the main one being that the carriers don't tell you where the cell towers are. http://tlrobinson.net/blog/?p=24

A company called Navizon ( http://www.navizon.com/ ) has such a product, and they rely on users to wardrive for WiFi and cell towers.
ClamAV might be a good choice for virus detection. It's open source so you can probably configure it to not delete the viruses.
They're wrong. I made ridiculous amounts of money from the long tail of the blogosphere. It's all about establishing credibility and then creative monetization.
cyber-squatters lie somewhere between the scammers and spammers on my internet jackass shitlist.
[London/NYC] Songkick looking for a music loving hacker.
We posted a job ad on news.yc at the start of the summer when we were just starting on YC.

We said we were 1 hacker short of a sandwich and that we were really into music and machine learning.

We found Lee through news.yc, an exceptional javascript and ruby hacker who quickly became an essential member of our team.

Since then we've launched and secured funding from an amazing group of seed investors and angels spanning London, New York and California.

We're still at an early stage and looking for another amazing hacker to join us. The sort of stuff we love is:

- machine learning

- functional programming

- extracting cool stuff from humongous data sets

- music, and especially lots of concerts

We want someone whose drive and creativity will dramatically change our business and will be generous with stock and salary.

Email founders at songkick if this sounds like you.
Care to share how, or do I have to buy your book?
Sneaky way to get some karma, submit the 2nd page instead of the 1st page of the article to get past the URL filter. Maybe I will submit the "Print View" page a week from now.
Plays very nicely.

One comment is that it's not obvious that you can go through the rings in any order, so the first level where you might want to do this seems extremely hard at first and is jarring compared to the previous couple of levels which were cakewalks. Maybe a little flashing info at the beginning of that level that tells you that you can go in any order at all.

Also, the first two levels were just way too easy, maybe, and a little boring.

It would be more fun if there were more reason to boost. A time bar at the bottom or top of the screen that starts full and ticks down to zero as an indication of how much bonus you will get when you finish would be a great indicator of where you are for time and I can totally see the user trying to boost at the end or throughout trying to finish the level while the time bar is at a more full state.
Became a popular poker blogger (which in that tiny niche means 1k-2k readers a day) and established two related startups to monetize it, using the credibility I'd earned. And the book did OK, but less overall than I make in a good month off of my two website.
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Outstanding! Cant stop playing.
I definitely agree with the 'normal' job comment. I'm just curious about the concept of standing all day to code.

I guess the good thing about it is that it can force you to take regular breaks, even if the break consists of just sitting down.
Yeah, I agree that you should be able to do all of those examples, but if I wanted 2/9/7 to mean the same thing; there would need to be some sort of addiditional indication that I go day month year, (september second is a good example, september 13th would have been unambigious)
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While talking to my friend stan I was quite surprised to see his non-tech ways of hiding porn from his girlfriend in his windows box. Which he thinks is a genius method. What he basically does is make a bunch of folders with different, confusing, not-so-interesting names and hide his stash deep deep inside the subfolders. Something like this (not his actual computer):
Cool. The tool DVD is something I didn't know about. Do you have any more details on it? toolshed.down.net didn't have the announcement somewhere I could see it.
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this is called enterprising. They aren't pretending to be you, they are just buying generic domain names that might be useful to someone in the future. You can either buy them from them, or give them a pass.... that's your choice.

But it seems like you're offended that they offered them to you and that's a waste of energy.
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They provide no value to anyone and hold intellectual property hostage for nothing other than their own personal gain.

What you call "enterprising" I call "pigs feeding at the trough".

Maybe they should find a way to provide value to someone else instead of domain squatting. Now, THERE'S your waste of energy.
These are not "cybersquatters". Octo and Part are generic terms.

One of the domains I own is a combination of a word that means "software" and another word that means "place you like to go". I got it for a developers site... and then after I got it I discovered that there was an italian maker of luxury goods whose trademark is that word - apparently the combination of these two english words makes another word completely in italian.

Am I cybersquatting? I've considered selling this domain to them because its much better than the one that they are currently using. If I sell it to them, then they will be getting a better domain at a price that they think is fair (or they wouldn't be buying it).

Some may say I'm being opportunistic and this is wrong- well, I say that my intent was elsewhere and this was a surprise coincidence... but that my intent isnt' really relevant. If I'd registered the name then I have perfect rights to it-- after all if they'd wanted it, why didn't they register it? If I register it and several years later they decide they want it-- what gives them the right to demand that I give it to them for free?

Finally, the truth is that I didn't register this domain, I bought it at auction. so, what's to say what a fair price is?

The idea that these people are "cybersquatters" is an idea of entitlement-- its based on the false notion that you somehow have a right to domain names, even though you didn't register them when they were free.

This is false. Domain names are an open territory- if you think of it and register it, its yours. If you later realize you should have registered it, then its you're error, not the error of the preson who did register it.

They arent' scamming you, they are asking for compensation for the risk they took in registering it. If hte price they ask is higher than the value of the domain (and if you have foo.com then foo.cn isn't really that valuable, is it?) then just don't buy it and let the owner of foo.cn use it for whatever they want.... why should you care?

If they are using a domain to pretend to be you-- then that would be one thing, and that's what cybersquatting really means.

But domain speculation, like real estate speculation, is a perfectly legitimate activity. Where does one get the idea that all names of a certain category should belong to them even though they couldn't be bothered to register them?

(Speaking in general here, not to the original poster since he didn't express much of an opinion, other than to misuse the word cybersquatter)
Oh damn, I'm going to miss it. Good thing I got bumped back a few weeks so I'll get a chance to watch another one first.
I'm not really a fan of the genre, which I call "see how well you can maneuver some hard to control object", but it's very well done.

I do like the casual flash gaming market a lot though.
They are providing value- they risked their own capital to speculate on a domain name that might be valuable in the future... just like anyone who buys swampland hoping to drain it. They took risk, they identified a customer for their property, etc. All these things add value.

They aren't holding intellectual property hostage. And by the way, when is personal gain evil? Do you go to work each day primarily to benefit other people, rather than yourself:?

They are providing added value, they registered a domain that someone else didn't think of.

The problem here is, that you regret not registering it, and so you, rather than accepting blame for your own failure, are blaming the person who was smarter or faster than you.

Back in the 1990s, I looked up USWeb.com. I almost registered it, but was on the fence, then went back three days later to register it and found that it had been taken the day after I thought of it-- and that company became a big company eventually before the bust.

Were they holding my intellectual property hostage? No.

Where does this sense of entitlement come from? IT reminds me of people who build a house in a neighborhood and then complain because a walmart gets built nearby... as if they think they somehow have property rights in the land that walmart bought. LOL.
Desks with adjustable height are great. Being able to change positions throughout the day is well worth the cost. Long work sessions are far more comfortable since I began using one.

I've got the 72" version of this: http://anthro.com/cpage.aspx?ssid=12

Their stuff is very, very solid.
In the example, parallelization annotations were used and the speedup is not impressive.
after playing it some more and a bit to much the feature I want is the ability to reverse the controls if I want. so up is up and down is down. Little button at the bottom of the screen is needed or maybe an option at the start.
If you want email to be looked at and be delivered why would you use HTML?
No. They are speculating, which does not generate wealth.
Did anything every come of their push for more energy efficient computers?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/technology/26google.html?e...
Will there be a non-live version afterwards?
It seems that the "power law" has something to do with becoming more powerful?
You assert three times that they are providing value, but never explain how they are adding value. Can you please provide a concrete example of how this adds value?
Sounds like BitGeek is sending your emails ;)
Excuse me if this is a bad idea, since I ditched the social network trend after a few minutes on Friendster some years ago.

It seems that the design ought to have however many different levels of friends you want, with the inner circles seeing everything on your page that the outer circles can see, plus some more, without necessarily knowing the name of the circle they're in. That way you could have Public (not friended at all) < Acquaintances < Business associates < Family < Close friends (or vice versa, or combining the previous two, depending on how you relate to your family) < Secret circle of shame.

Or a directed acyclic graph instead of a single path, I guess, as long as you only allow people access to that feature if they promise they understand how to use it. (Whose social life is that complicated?)
Well, they provide protection against other domain squatters! :)

"It's a nice domain name you have there; it would be bad if something happened to it..."
I guess it's more automated than that; they probably monitor registry updates with robots.
Yes. The beauty of Justin.TV is that everything anyone broadcasts on our system is archived forever.

I'll post a link to the archive of Leah's talk when it's over.
Most virus scan software could be configured to report back to a central location. All you need to do is set it up so the client VM only detect and report but do not remove/clean. Then write a software to scan the monitoring log of the main station every 5 minutes for entry. The software will then do a lookup on either McAfee or Norton's virus library on everything that was detected and depending on the item's "threat level" it'll be visually represented differently.

Maybe each VM could be a tree and each spam email will be a leaf... each virus will be a fruit... any exploit will be a bug and something that's bad enough to kill it will be a snake... :D
Agreed, being able to experiment is awesome.

I keep wondering if I could rig up a work environment where I'm lying flat on my back, on the floor, with an LCD panel mounted far enough above my head that I won't hit it when I get up.

The big show-stopper, as far as I can see, is that I can't touch-type so I'd have to mount a keyboard somewhere roughly above my neck or chest where I could see it... but then I think my arms would get tired quickly.
Pretty cool. Although it's a little jarring to see the mortgage form ask for a loan amount in dollars and cents. I've heard of microcredit, but...
Um, pretty pictures and proportional text? Not everyone promotes their site features primarily to the digerati, you know.
Maybe you should re-read the story. There's 1 designer and 1 developer in the company.
It can generate wealth in markets where accurate prices lead to more efficient allocation of the resources needed to produce the good in question.

That's great for physical commodities, but it doesn't take a genius to see that this doesn't do any good with domain names. It takes a committed libertarian to fail to see that, though.
I did it once. Worth doing! I was coding at someone else's house and they had a standing desk and sitting desk. I was at the standing desk all day, partly out of necessity and partly out of curiosity.

By the end of the day, my feet were a little sore and I was a little more tired than otherwise, but I felt more active while I was doing it. I would like to try it again before committing to a new desk, however. Now that I've been reminded of it, I'm already thinking of how I can try that at my place.
Would you complain if someone opened an outdoor testing facility for smelly firecrackers next to your house?

LOL right back at ya, especially if you think J. Random Shopper has enough time or interest to keep track of "bad PR", and somehow that will solve your problems for you. It doesn't work that way, which is why we reality-based types have zoning ordinances.
i like it alot
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The domain could be taken by a competitor, not in order to use it, but to prevent you from using it.

Or it could be taken by somebody for whom the domain name also made sense. For example, someone who sells paintings of octopusses.

Also, by keeping the domain name available to you, they provide a service to you at no present cost.
This is rather slick. I've used Perl's Date::Manip. It would be nice to move that to the browser but Date::Manip still seems to do a better job. For instance, Date::Manip will resolve "First tue in nov" or "third wed in june" while datejs doesn't. The kiko date parser worked really well. I understand they wrote it themselves?

http://search.cpan.org/~sbeck/Date-Manip-5.48/Manip.pod
very cool. nice and simple, i love the three graphics explaining game play at the bottom. controls seem a but un-intuitive though.. up/down are reversed, and left/right might be a better fit
well there was transition. when people realized, hey i can invite everyone to my party and not actually have to go around inviting people or posting signs around campus. if you weren't on facebook, you weren't finding out about the parties. simple.

really, every decision of the masses can be attributed to laziness?
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Marginal cost as in the cost of generating X+1 Watts versus X Watts. With coal, you dig for more coal; with solar, you wait for more sunlight. The systems (coal plants, photovoltaic systems) are capital costs.
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Really? It's obvious to me (and you) that sex.com is worth more than american-rivet-supply-corporation.net, but the question of how much more the first is worth is one that should have ramifications -- for example, if sex.com just goes to the first person to register it, it may end up as a popular, disappointing sexual education site -- if it goes to whoever pays the most, it's going to do whatever earns the most.

If someone else has a better use for octopart.cn, they'll buy it; if the Octoparts are the best possible users, they'll pay for it. If octopart.cn is worth more than X, where X is what they pay to get it, they're still ahead (just less so than they could be). If not, octopart.cn is overpriced from their perspective, and will end up going to whoever thinks it's cheap.
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Any free open source javascript form builders like Wufoo's out there? I'd love to get one for Utility Mill.
Yeah xkcd is just too funny. I love his physics jokes, cause it just so happens I'm learning physics atm and they make sense.

My favorite is his comic about naming his kid

Robert'); DROP TABLE STUDENTS; --

lmao. I'm so naming my kid

Timmy'); Drop Table *; --
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Agreed.
Nothing that is as polished as to what WuFoo's done. Which is why they charge and people are willing to pay for it.
I run a site kinda like this.

If you have a "digg clone" and it doesn't gain enough critical traction, sadly, you just end up with a bunch of spammers anyway. What's the point of public submissions then?
Yep. It might be time to look @ options like EngineYard, etc.

But it's more fun to scale things yourself =)