User talk:Lee J Haywood

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Naming convention for television articles

Hi. Seeing as you were once previously interested in a naming convention, I'd like to invite you to vote on adoption of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television). Voting is taking place on the Talk page and ends on Sep 13 2004. -- Netoholic 23:24, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I would like you to reconsider your vote on Wikipedia:Naming conventions (television). The policy as it is written may well be the one that is finally adopted but it is my contention that the process of establishing that policy was not carried out in the correct manner. A proper poll, and an associated level of discussion, allowing those interested in the subject to express an opinion and cast their vote, needs to be carried out. The original "straw poll" had no publicised deadline, the "policy" page was written while interested parties continued to vote. I and several other users would like to see the process restarted from scratch. Rather than vote to endorse a unilaterally declared "policy", we feel that we should be given the chance to cast our vote for one or more choices, as is the norm for such matters. Mintguy (T) 22:44, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

TV Naming conventions.

At some point in the past you expressed an opinion on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television). I have instigated a new poll on that page. I am hoping that this poll will properly allow all users who have an interest in the subject to express their views fairly before we come to a consensus. I have scrapped the poll that was previously in place on that page because I believe that it was part of an unfair procedure that was going against the majority view. I am appealing to all users who contribute to that page to approve my actions. I would appreciate it if you could take the time and trouble to read the page carefully and express an opinion and vote as you see fit. Mintguy (T) 16:57, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Tikkun Olam and Self-Actualization

You keep adding "This is related to tikkun olam in the Jewish tradition — using one's skills to fix what is broken in the world." to the description of Self-Actualization in Maslow's hierarchy of needs. They really are not related. Tikkun Olam relates to making the world better, while self-actualization deals with realizing ones own nature. Please stop readding this.  — Benna

I've done no such thing. I have only reverted vandalism which you have apparently mis-attributed to me.  — Lee J Haywood 19:58, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I am sorry then, It seems I must have read the history wrong.

Emileigh Rohn

Thanks for picking up my slack. :) - UnlimitedAccess 09:58, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for introducing me to some interesting new music...  — Lee J Haywood 18:33, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

birthday paradox

The article still needs to be changed to remove the ambiguity. The average reader cannot possibly be expected to work out the order of evaluation from a convention that they know nothing about, regardless of whether it is technically correct or not.

Everyone learns that convention in about 6th or 7th grade. What you're writing here is like suggesting that people who don't read English will fail to understand this article and therefore it should be written in simple grunts. Yes, there are people who just don't understand mathematics, but those people will not be reading articles like this one. Michael Hardy 22:36, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

What's "6th grade"? I don't live in America, so I'm not subject to the same education system as you. Just because people are taught an arbitrary order of evaluation as children does not mean that they will remember it when they are adults. You only have to look at the extremely poor quality of English that most people (even professionals) use to see how quickly they forget things that they do not use regularly.

As a computer programmer I would never rely on a convention, but rather ensure that sufficient parentheses are used to remove all ambiguity and doubt from the reader's mind. Even with my knowledge of degree-level mathematics I object to the assumption that the correct convention has been used in the article, and being forced to check that it is correct. You seem to be heavily biased in believing that people who use mathematics (but are not mathematicians) should understand the details of the subject as well as you do, which is an unreasonable assumption on Wikipedia which has a very broad audience.

— Lee J Haywood 08:48, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Why "NPOV" the article concearning the Internatioal UFO Museum ?

I've been to this place myself when I was in NM. doing some prospecting and Metal Detecting. All this museum has is period artifacts, alleged derbis from the crashed UFO or UFOs, some material that depicts the alleged treatment of and coercion of the people by the US Army to silence them and make them compliant,among other things of this sort. There are some of the "Original" witnesses, their children that was involved in the UFO incident still around. One of these discussed the matter with me. I am NOT repeating it here, due to protocols regarding profanity on the Wikipedia site. Evidentally, the guy was'nt too thrilled about being treated in a rough manner by the military when this incident happened. I do appreciate that you cleaned up the external links.The guy that contacted me was elderly,maybe in his mid 80s.

So, why the NPOV ? Martial Law 19:16, 22 October 2005 (UTC) :)

It was just a quick way of referring to my change of "This place has all of the period artifacts" (changed to "many") and/or "No one can miss this building". Some of your text read more like a brochure than an encyclopaedia article – though I wasn't complaining about it, just summarising my changes. You should put your notes about the witnesses on the article's discussion page, not here. Thanks.  — Lee J Haywood 06:06, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Naming conventions for television shows (again)

I saw that you were active in the first vote for naming conventions of television program(mes). Well it has raised it's ugly head again and I would appreciate any comments you have to make about my new proposal for naming television shows. Please leave comments here. Thanks! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 21:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Pie Charts

I updated the why pie charts are bad section. Your comments are welcome. --Chrispounds 00:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Pi vandalism

This is the guy from 70.73.77.83 who changed the 50th digit of pi in the feynman point article... writing from a different computer. Sorry about that. It was to prove a point to my principal about how even minor inaccuracies can be fixed quickly. How did you notice the vandalism? Where you just checking citations or have you memorized pi or what?

Any changes to an article, whether vandalism or not, show up in the watch lists of all users that are currently watching that article. Personally, I allow Wikipedia to add any article that I have edited in the past to my watch list. I had already confirmed that the current digits for pi were correct, so any change is obviously going to be wrong. Vandalising is generally a waste of time – it takes little time to undo, and since Wikipedia is a non-profit organisation that explicitly allows you to make any edits you want then the vandal isn't actually doing anything clever or worthwhile. Thanks.   — Lee J Haywood 12:32, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images on your user page

Hi. Sorry to bother you but you should probably remove the fair use images displayed on your home page. They are a pretty clear violation of #9 of the fair use policy. Let me know if you have any questions. —Wknight94 (talk) 17:52, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Done – thanks for pointing this out. I much prefer to showcase my photographs anyway, even if they're not very interesting. Thanks again.   — Lee J Haywood 20:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Time tunnel

Why have you removed Time Tunnel from series with time travel?Dogru144 09:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

The list only contains series that include some episodes with time travel. The Time Tunnel doesn't fall into that category because it is actually ABOUT time travel itself, so it goes into the category time travel television series – indeed, it is already there. This is explained at the top of the article (List of television series that include time travel). Sorry for any confusion, but I did replace it with an appropriate warning. Thanks.   — Lee J Haywood 11:32, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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AJAX and authentication

I'm curious, is the ajax auth lib you worked on free/open source, or is it something you did for an employer, or maybe just for the sake of doing it? I am a software engineer, and our team are now doing an account management module. Currently usernames and passwords are submitted as plain text over SSL; passwords are salted in the database. Nonces would be a good improvement, hence my interest in the topic.

And do you really use vim with dvorak!? :) --Cameltrader 17:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm writing a web-based messaging system. I am doing it for the fun of it, in my own time, but the idea is to install it at work for inter-departmental communication (my job is as a programmer). Although I keep writing web servers from scratch (again, for the fun of it :) I'm not so good with SSL or public-key cryptography in general. Ironically, I've done the opposite to what you've said – I have hashed passwords and nonces going both ways but I forgot to salt the passwords, so I'll do that next. The machine I'm going to install my web server on is only semi-secure, and my intention is to prevent snooping (as I have had bad experiences with my previous attempts) – which also means I have to implement secure authentication, as well as encrypting files, etc. I'm integrating an SMTP client (written years ago, for fun obviously) into the web server to verify a user's identity with an initial e-mail link.

I'm afraid I've gone from a fairly trivial message sending interface to a full-blown project that will take a long time to complete, but at least using Dvorak and vim helps me go fairly quickly. (; If you're designing a protocol from scratch, nonces are fairly trivial to implement so long as you have good random number generation. I don't think you should rely on someone else's library, especially as they're usually badly written with poor commenting. You can use a random number, sequence counter and the session key to create a hash which is in turn used as a nonce. My favourite trick is to pre-compute a big table of random numbers and then encrypt them with varying keys to generate brand-new tables super-quick. I'm curious as to why you're not using a standard form of authentication, such as LDAP or RADIUS, etc.?

If you want to discuss my authentication coding further, please use my web site (on my user page) to get my e-mail address. I have implemented digest access authentication successfully in C in another open source project, but I haven't fully completed the project itself (mostly due to illness) and so haven't released it yet. Thanks.  — Lee J Haywood 18:44, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I see. I'd prefer to delegate any security-related responsibilities to an LDAP directory too, but we have a requirement to store everything in the DB. Secure random number generation is handled by Java's SecureRandom, there haven't been performance issues so far. Thanks for responding. --Cameltrader 19:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

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