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Where do they come up with these graphics? See Andy Grove's disembodied head.[Preaching to the Perverted]
Good quote from the article: "So bootlegged-movie viewing is still largely restricted to college campuses, where students have the bandwidth and the time for such frivolity."
9:27:39 PM 
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During Schneier's talk I was sitting next to David Reed, who I quoted here on Sunday. Schneier took a really cheap shot at SOAP, one that I've heard repeated often -- that it was designed to circumvent firewalls. He said it in a really obnoxious way, he said that SOAP is compatible with firewalls in the same way bullets are compatible with skulls. The audience snickered. I didn't. I know that SOAP was not designed to circumvent firewalls, it was designed to be compatible with scripting environments, which, at the time the decision was made, 1998, generally had HTTP support baked in. We wanted make it easy for them to add SOAP support to their implementations. Later in his talk, Schneier said that firewalls were basically useless because they were never configured properly. I took the mike myself later, and called him on it. He said "I think we have some SOAP experts here." Oy. He made a mistake, that can be forgiven. But security, which is such a crucial issue, should not be mixed with other messages. Jon Udell, who I respect enormously said that Schneier was the leading authority on security. My impression, and it's just an impression, is that this kind of praise has gone to his head. [Scripting News]
9:22:27 PM
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When I took my seat, David Reed said something to me privately, that was more important than anything anyone had said at the session, it bears repeating. "We should just be able to help each other," he said. Amen to that. When you've been through all the nasty battles and survived, something Reed can claim, this is what you end up wanting. If Sun wants to look good, they can go out of their way to help Microsoft. If Schneier wants to be an authority on security, he can't use that to bash Microsoft (which is probably where the dissing of SOAP was coming from). Even if people don't have the experience to know the person on stage is misleading, these kind of arguments create discomfort and distrust. A security expert must be almost perfect about deserving trust, or else who do you look to for advice when security becomes an issue. I have fresh experience with this, from the outages earlier this month. I got help from a lot of people. No one used the occasion to pitch their pet agenda. This philosophy helped us dig out of the hole. There were a lot of things in Schneier's talk that rang true, and for that I am grateful. But I am digusted by the side agendas he brought into the discussion, in areas where I know the truth, and the expert is lying, this breaks all trust. [Scripting News]
9:20:25 PM
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I really should get some sleep. I've been awake since 5 pm.
9:47:22 AM
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Also via Fark: one of the funniest exchanges between movie critics ever:
Roeper: You do when you're going up against another Jedi dude who's also got super-duper mind powers!
Ebert: You've just got to go like this [makes a mind-reading gesture]. You're Yoda, nobody can stop you.
9:43:52 AM
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Also stepping into the right will be Ron Palillo, who played "Sweathog" Arnold Horshack on "Welcome Back, Kotter," to face Dustin Diamond, best known as Screech on "Saved by the Bell." [PageSix.com, via Fark]
Screech in a fight... Sweet...
9:41:38 AM
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Hooray! (Scroll down; GhostScript converted it wacky. This is only so far, but it's a good step forward.)
8:51:37 AM
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