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Impeach Bush

If even a small part of what Seymour Hersh says is true, then we are truly truly fucked.

I think it is about time we started seriously, seriously discussing impeachment.

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The Jobs Grunt giving presentations at the Apple Store Soho just waxed poetic about the new 2.5 gigabyte G5s....

oops.

yet another post about gmail first impressions

Now that I've made the plunge and switched entirely to gmail, I am googling daily for external interfaces to gmail.

http://www.email2pop.com now offers a pop3/smtp interface to gmail. This sounds useful, but I would really like to see something that will work on unix. I envision a nice imap interface proxy that could run as a daemon on my system. The biggest irritant so far is the lack of notifications when I get a new email.

Gtray is a windows program that at least notifies you when you've received new mail.

Another reason for imap support is offline archiving. There are many clients that can cache an imap server's mailboxes. Offline storage and searching are a powerful feature that gmail doesn't have yet. There must be a way...

Jon Postel, a remembrance of sorts

On Farber's IP list today:

From:   dave_@_farber.net

Subject: [IP] [spam] letter from Jon Postel

Date: June 10, 2004 8:56:39 AM EDT

To:   ip_@_v2.listbox.com

Reply-To:   dave_@_farber.net







Begin forwarded message:



From: Peter Bachman 

Date: June 10, 2004 3:00:56 AM EDT

To: dave_@_farber.net

Subject: [spam] letter from Jon Postel





Dave,



Got an email addressed from Jon Postel today. Of course it was an infected

W32.Netsky.D Worm that had scanned through someone's hard drive for email

addresses, and not an message from the great beyond being channeled through

a DSL connection.



Still it's a self-generated ironic comment by the network, on the sad state of

email within the network. The great computational expense generated by

sending spam out into the network is obviously wasted on trying to sell

Viagra; that much bandwidth and computing power is evolving into something

else; perhaps a very primitive early form of network intelligence that's

linking up bits of information in odd, but somewhat predictable ways.



Now if the "random spam monkeys" can type up and send me an unpublished mss

from William_Shakespeare@stratford-upon-avon.co.uk I can make money fast.

I'll be waiting near the trash bin of my bayseian filters looking for

submissions.



Cheers,



Peter Bachman



peterb_@_cequs.com



Can a machine think?



"You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me

precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a

machine which will do just that"  J. von Neumann 1948 Princeton, NJ





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Jon Postel, in the parental sense, truly the father of the internet, died in 1998. I'm not quite sure what to make of this event. Suffice it to say that it is strangely moving.

Missed Marketing Opportunities

BUT WHERE ARE THE FREMEN MOTIFS?

Fuckers

I had finally gotten to the point where my disgust at Apple had reached the point that I told myself I wasn't going to buy any more Apple Products.

And then they introduce this. As somebody who just bought a mini wireless router, that has an external power supply for $70, the question is, "Is device worth $129?"

Had I not already spent the money, yes.

Fuckers.