Clueless in Berkeley

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""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..."

""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..." 08/27/2004 01:45 PM

Clueless bank

Clueless bank 02/10/2004 03:56 PM
I have an account at Imperial Capital Bank (yes, I know – there are countless jokes to be made of that name). I have it mostly because their interest rate on their checking account is quite good (1.92%, for now ...). Actually, that's the only reason I have an account there. Anyway, I have a check for some GBP laying around, so I called them to find out what they'd charge and which exchange rate they'd use and so...

Clueless In Seattle

Clueless In Seattle 06/19/2004 04:30 AM
Can there be some psychological basis to Microsoft court behavior? By Robert X. Cringely, PBS (via MyAppleMenu)

Rise of the Clueless

Rise of the Clueless 07/19/2004 09:54 AM
In Wired's July issue, Contributing writer Cory Doctorow writes about the movie I, Robot, in a slam at the late Dr. Isaac Asimov titled Rise of the Machines. I would rather Wired had found someone who had actually read more than two or three Asimov short stories. There is a lot in this article that is debatable but presented as concrete fact, and other "facts" which are downright false.

Many UK citizens still clueless about
Wi-Fi

Many UK citizens still clueless about
Wi-Fi 04/14/2005 10:07 PM

"USS Clueless - The truth is..."

"USS Clueless - The truth is..." 05/02/2004 08:40 AM

"Captain of the Clueless"

"Captain of the Clueless" 12/25/2004 11:30 PM

USS Clueless - The truth is...

USS Clueless - The truth is... 04/30/2004 04:57 AM
Steven Den Beste: The Truth Is .. brilliant article .. IRRITATED

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USS Clueless - How to fight

USS Clueless - How to fight 07/17/2004 04:59 AM
what to do if you have to fight a terrorist on a plane .. has already been brought to bear on this subject .. Steven Den Beste .. ballpoint pen .. (‡) .. bellicose

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Lay contends he was clueless about fraud

Lay contends he was clueless about fraud 07/14/2004 08:32 PM

"USS Clueless - Another hammer blow"

"USS Clueless - Another hammer blow" 12/22/2003 08:54 PM

USS Clueless - Another hammer blow

USS Clueless - Another hammer blow 12/22/2003 05:32 AM
Steven den Beste notes the dynamics behind Lybia's capitulation .. Another hammer blow

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USS Clueless - Saddam's trial

USS Clueless - Saddam's trial 12/19/2003 03:48 PM
In fact, what I think we're seeing is fear, panic and desperation.I think those commentators have made the mistake of taking the leftists at their word. For example, Tacitus comments acidly on leftist claims that Saddam's trial would lack "legitimacy" un

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Clueless Old Media, Continued

Clueless Old Media, Continued 06/24/2004 02:30 PM

Cyberjournalist is reporting a truly weird situation, in which the CMP media sites are refusing referrals from Google News. The claim is that Google's referrals are somehow "outside the bounds of fair use" -- whatever that means. Hello?

USS Clueless - A letter from Tehran

USS Clueless - A letter from Tehran 12/02/2003 04:52 PM
STEVEN DEN BESTE:

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Cardholders clueless on chip and pin

Cardholders clueless on chip and pin 08/13/2004 05:01 AM
Chaotic Xmas in prospect for retailers

USS Clueless - American robustness

USS Clueless - American robustness 01/27/2004 04:41 AM
The latest from Steven Den Beste

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Clueless Article About Canada's Wi-Fi
Scene

Clueless Article About Canada's Wi-Fi
Scene 02/16/2004 01:25 PM
This writer seems to enjoy writing as though he's an authority when it's clear he's not: He's read all the hype about Wi-Fi but gets enough wrong that he obviously hasn't done his own research. His general point is that Canada is behind the United States in deploying hotspots. But he hasn't got very good research to back that up. His strongest piece of evidence seems to be a conversation he had recently with one computer programmer who had never heard of Wi-Fi. He goes on to say that the market is primed to change dramatically because Canada's largest carriers said they'd create a unified standard to let customers roam between their networks. This so-called standard was developed without any of the major existing Canadian Wi-Fi operators, such as FatPort, and none of the four carriers involved had deployed hotspots when they set the roaming standard. It's also just a "standard" (how they'll handle billing, etc.), not a roaming deal. So the carriers could deploy networks and still not roam. (Meanwhile, FatPort has built hundreds of locations and secured roaming with several international networks.) He also pointed to a recent study that said no hotspots' business model could succeed if the only revenue source was connection fees. That study is bad news for cafes in the U.S., he says, because many of them offer access for free. But the two aren't related. Free hotspot operators have a totally different business model than those that charge. He closes by pointing out "guerilla Wi-Fi warriors" in Canada who warchalk. Warchalking is a great idea and testament to the community behind Wi-Fi, but who has actually seen a symbol? If this writer's point is that Wi-Fi hasn't taken off in Canada, then it's doubtful that people there are actually warchalking....

Parents clueless about kids online

Parents clueless about kids online 07/21/2004 05:55 AM
Need to get 'Web wise'

Why many companies are clueless about
monitoring IM issues

Why many companies are clueless about
monitoring IM issues 09/01/2004 11:56 AM
Risks associated with having electronic communications subpoenaed during lawsuits or regulatory investigations have prompted some businesses to establish policies to address email concerns, but many firms are clueless when it comes to handling instant messaging issues.

USS Clueless - Human Rights digital
watch

USS Clueless - Human Rights digital
watch 12/14/2003 02:51 PM
savagely Fisking Human Rights Watch, .. Steven den Beste .. USS Clueless .. rant

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Clueless user: ditch the victim
mentality

Clueless user: ditch the victim
mentality 04/28/2004 10:26 AM
Opinion Get with the security programme

White knight defends clueless users

White knight defends clueless users 04/30/2004 07:49 AM
Letters: But not from robobollards

Thousands of clueless web surfers + a
good aggregation engine

Thousands of clueless web surfers + a
good aggregation engine 12/19/2004 03:36 PM
Yoz has a brilliant brilliant brilliant idea. Or, to put it another way... Tired: Third-world data-processing sweatshops Wired: Thousands of clueless web surfers + a good aggregation engine I, too, kiss the mighty Yoz brain....

Clueless newbie award: Scott Sassa of
Friendster

Clueless newbie award: Scott Sassa of
Friendster 08/31/2004 05:31 PM
Clueless newbie award: Scott Sassa of Friendster .. cancel your account in protest .. Joyce's husband, Tim .. fire

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Clueless MCSE DeVry Grad Reviews Mac
mini

Clueless MCSE DeVry Grad Reviews Mac
mini 02/05/2005 09:11 PM

First UK Phishing Arrest - Catching
Clueless Kids Instead Of Real Criminals

First UK Phishing Arrest - Catching
Clueless Kids Instead Of Real Criminals 04/29/2004 11:56 AM
Over in the UK the police are especially happy after they've tracked down and arrested someone for running a phishing scam. They say this is the first UK arrest for phishing. However, like a similar case in the US, it sounds like this was just one individual who wasn't particularly sophisticated in running a phishing scam. Most such scams are run by organized crime groups - but, so far, no one has been able to track them down. So, while it's good that we're catching some people, it's unlikely to do very much to slow down most of these scams.

"Citizen Smash sure can write a great
post about pro-War Protesting against
clueless anti-war protesters"

"Citizen Smash sure can write a great
post about pro-War Protesting against
clueless anti-war protesters" 06/25/2004 03:22 PM

Berkeley DB 4.2.52

Berkeley DB 4.2.52 04/13/2004 12:36 PM
Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application

Berkeley DB 4.3.27

Berkeley DB 4.3.27 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application

Berkeley DB XML 2.0.9

Berkeley DB XML 2.0.9 01/03/2005 02:28 PM
A native XML database with XQuery access.

How Berkeley Can You Be?

How Berkeley Can You Be? 10/29/2003 01:16 AM
I finally got around to sorting through and captioning the photos I took of the How Berkeley Can You Be? parade and Art Car fest that was held in Berkeley at the end of September. Going through the pictures reminded me of some of the reasons I like living in Berkeley so much. Sure, people regularly overdo political correctness here, and there were a lot of "Only in Berkeley" groups and moments in the parade, but on the whole it was an amazing display of the diversity, creativity and sense of humor that make this a fun place to live. There were also a lot of self-mocking groups poking fun at Berkley. I love it when people retain the ability to laugh at themselves, and it is a highly desirable quality for living in Berkeley. Luckily, it is also a frequently displayed quality. One of the stars of the parade was the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir, an art car from Houston Texas, of all places. 5 miles of wiring that must have taken months of work to put together, all for a bunch of plastic fish and lobsters who sing while being conducted by large crustacean. It sounds silly, but it was wonderful. I could track its progress down University Avenue by the gales of laughter is spawned as it passed by. After the parade, people crowded around for hours and were treated to special performances by the Choir. I got some good photos. If it comes to your town, don't miss it. Or it even has its own website, with a very funny account of its construction, you can check it out at www.sashimitabernaclechoir.org....

The Berkeley Pit Mascot

The Berkeley Pit Mascot 04/14/2005 06:53 PM
"The Auditor", an amazing dog, lived a long life in one of the harshest environments, the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. The mine site has no vegetation, the water in the pit is full of heavy metals and very acidic (pH 2.5) and yet the Auditor held on long after mining operations halted. He has inspired a web site and even an art project.

Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC

Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC 12/17/2003 11:53 AM
Hunting aliens and beyond

Lab Notes from UC Berkeley

Lab Notes from UC Berkeley 12/11/2003 01:13 PM
In this issue of Lab Notes from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering:

* Grabbing waste heat from industry to warm your apartment
* Engineering our water resources against El Nino
* Simulating cyber-attacks on a microscale model of the Net

I hope you enjoy it! Link

Discovering Berkeley DB

Discovering Berkeley DB 11/25/2003 10:23 PM

I'm working on a project at the moment which involves exporting a whole bunch of data out of an existing system. The system is written in Perl and uses Berkeley DB files for most of its storage.

I'd never done anything with Berkeley DB before, but luckily Python has a module which seems to do all of the hard work for me:

>>> db = bsddb.btopen('xpand.db')
>>> db.keys()[0:10]
[':archives:index.html', ':art:test.html', ... 
>>> db[':art:test.html']
'template;front.tp\x01\x01'
>>> 

The Berkeley DB libraries are maintained by Sleepycat Software. Unfortunately, their site is completely saturated with marketing jargon. Our customers rely on Berkeley DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data management for their mission-critical applications. Great - now what does it do exactly?

Some digging around turned up the real information: the Berkeley DB Tutorial and Reference Guide, which contains pretty much everything you could possible want to know about the technology. It turns out that at a basic level Berkeley DB is just a very high performance, reliable way of persisting dictionary style data structures - anything where a piece of data can be stored and looked up using a unique key. The key and the value can each be up to 4 gigabytes in length and can consist of anything that can be crammed in to a string of bytes, so what you do with it is completely up to you. The only operations available are "store this value under this key", "check if this key exists" and "retrieve the value for this key" so conceptually it's pretty simple - the complicated stuff all happens under the hood.

It seems like a great alternative to a full on relational database for simple applications, although I'm slightly confused by the license which allows free use for open source products but requires a license for commercial applications. Does that mean that if I use the bsddb Python module in a commercial app I need to get a license from Sleepycat?

ScienceMatters@Berkeley

ScienceMatters@Berkeley 09/22/2004 06:16 AM
David Pescovitz: In this month's issue of my research digest ScienceMatters@Berkeley...

* Flipping the Switch on Cancer: Improving the effectiveness of Cancer drugs one molecule at a time.
* Think Molecularly, Act Globally: Studying the atmosphere from a converted spy plane.
* Quantum Computing's Magnetic Attraction: A new spin on magnetic atoms.
* The secret history of Vitamin B-12

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At CFP 2004 in Berkeley

At CFP 2004 in Berkeley 04/21/2004 12:54 PM
This week I'm at the ACM's 14th Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP), at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley (walking distance from my house). There are good sessions on issues such as e-voting and digital rights management, and savvy...

My Berkeley Voting Experience

My Berkeley Voting Experience 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
I took my absentee ballot over to my polling place in Berkeley this morning around 11 AM to drop it off. The polling place has the dreadful Diebold touch screen machines that are known to be extremely vulnerable to fraud. There was about a 10 minutes wait, then people were being asked "Paper or Machine". About half the people chose paper, and there was a long table at one end of the polling place where people were sitting and filling out the paper ballots (no real secrecy possible, but on the other hand no one had to use the table). I went by the Cheeseboard on my way home. Downtown and North Berkeley were empty in a way they never are at 11 AM on a weekday -- I'm guessing and hoping that lots of people are either in a battleground state or were at home calling voters to encourage them to vote....
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