Spam still happens, spam blasters can generate random likely-to-exist addresses and ship out all the e-mail they want in the hopes they'll hit a few that really do exist.
For example, andrew@aol.com, adam@aol.com, aardvark@aol.com...
Yeah, fiber is costly now, but if it's used en masse, it'll almost certainly be cheaper, besides providing an incentive for developing new and less-expensive ways to produce and implement it. In the meantime, why not either have the government subsidize the fiber rollout, or have them threaten to cut all the subsidies they've been providing to telcos who have done nothing but halt buildout, raise prices, and meter/shape bandwidth?
Excuse me, you make a valid point that marriage has generally been used to promote procreation, but I must take issue with your view that:
"Gays contribute nothing to the marriage equation. They are simply looking for a free ride - whatever that means. Likely that means insurance discounts, so on and so on."
One of the reasons that gay activists are pushing for legal recognization akin to heterosexual marriage is that in many places, you have to be related or married to a person to get visitation rights should your significant other be in prison, the hospital, etc. It can be fairly irksome to discover that, while you and your partner have been together for 20 years without legal recognization of that fact, you aren't allowed to visit him or her when ill because you aren't technically his or her spouse. Furthermore, the "it's not legal, it doesn't fly" attitude can also extend to deciding inheritances, if the deceased's will isn't up to par.
Granted, many will doubtless enjoy reaping the advantages of joint-filing taxes, health insurance benefits, and the like, but there's no excuse to make a bad situation worse by refusing your partner the right to see you in a time of need. Whether visitation laws themselves are the problem or not, and whatever the purpose of marriage may be, this is an obvious area of the current legal disparity between heterosexual and homosexual partnerships.
I actually installed IE 3.03 on my 386 box just because I couldn't figure out how to get TCP/IP installed and configured any other way. It's a real kick trying to find "mainstream" sites that are still compatible with it -- quite a short list. Google, thankfully, is one of them.
On point 1, does that mean that you could just make a program that will go through a set of files, take pixel (0,0) from each and give it a random RGB value, and the hashes would be different enough just from that that they wouldn't match up with searches for known images' hashes?
My school put up a filter lately that's locked out nearly any proxy, so we can't bypass the blocks on last.fm and Pandora. Looks like I just found my next music provider to work to in networking and Java.:)
Think about it: The Internet is so massive that as one organization blocks one service, one or ten more spring up. Blocks are futile; hopefully they'll learn someday. Discretion is what we should be teaching the children.
I have a 10-year-old ThinkPad 600E (500MHz PIII, 320MB PC-100, 8GB HDD) that I run the latest version of Zenwalk on. The OS is lightweight, highly responsive, simple but easy to navigate, and doesn't bloat itself with multiple applications per function. The laptop has a bit of a problem with web browsing, but that's only because of Flash; Opera does a fine job even on JavaScript-heavy sites like Facebook. Highly recommended...even if the latest version of the xnetpkg package manager does really suck.
I can't support your idea more heartily. I've amassed a collection of about 150 old LPs mostly from thrift stores and out-of-the-way record stores, because I like classic rock and they fit a teenage budget. All the same, I play my MP3s more often, since I don't have to wander over to the other side of the room to flip them.:)
No no no, the way to get to other planets is to embrace the past. I mean, Captain Kirk and crew carried all their important data on tape cartridges, and flew the ship by pressing actual buttons and sliders, remember?
Why not continue the CD-era tradition of "remaster" releases? Lots of digital music is sold in relatively low-quality MP3 files. As time goes by, the audio equipment and music industries alike could promote better-sounding equipment *and* higher-quality releases, such as on FLAC, to supplant the cheap iPod dock speakers and MP3/AAC files that the populace buys today. I wouldn't mind an audiophile revival to replace the "make it small and pretty" trend.
The MMORPG Maple Story uses this method for entering your PIN. It's highly annoying to input, personally, but apparently botting the game is big business and they have to go to these extreme measures to stop it. No, they aren't afraid someone's gonna pull a Van Eck on a user's keyboard, they're worried about the user himself.:)
everything2 is the only site I've found so far that combines the link-filled nature of Wikipedia articles with an amateur (and sometimes very good) literary and artistic community. I can get lost in both sites for hours at a time, but e2 indulgences usually produce a little more meaning.
That gateway's very handy. I'm in no hurry to get a cell phone (maybe I'll purchase a prepaid in case my car breaks down), because I spend all my time communicating via the computer; on the other hand, my girlfriend is seldom at the computer but her cell phone never leaves her side. I e-mail her, she texts me, problem solved.:)
I use Damn Small Linux and I will agree it is fast...once hardware detection's completed. Is there any way to store the results of the detection routine, so that instead of checking for the presence of all hardware at every. single. bootup...it'll read the config from a textfile and just load those drivers straight off? That would make DSL probably five times faster to boot.
htmlgoodies.com is where I started out in web coding. The beginners HTML tutorials do a great job of explaining every step of the way. The site is a lot more cluttered by ads and whatnot than it used to be, but the spirit is still there.
Yes, I realize that extensions take up space. However, when I first started using Firefox 3, it was relatively stable and I was pleased to watch it pack the memory usage down significantly as opposed to FF2. However, once I added on a few extensions (all five of them: DownThemAll, Foxmarks, ReloadEvery, Skype, TubeStop), the memory usage problem was as bad or worse than it had been in FF2, and Firefox also seems prone to random crashes. While the return of the memory hogging problem may not thus be out of the ordinary, I'm pretty sure that these crashes are.
But not every user (always) wants bleeding-edge updates. They just want updates that work, and such a database would go a long way to ensure people who are wary of trying Firefox that there are ways to make sure it stays stable.
I think that Mozilla really ought to set up a program that not only approves extensions to be posted on their own database, but thoroughly checks them to confirm that they won't slow down Firefox, or make it less stable. Because really, the only reason that I use Firefox and not Opera is because of the wealth of extensions (Adblock particularly)...but these extensions are probably what makes it such an unstable, memory-hogging PITA and why I am considering just switching to Opera and dealing with less extensibility. I hate playing Russian roulette with my system because I need a program that syncs my bookmarks.
Well, I was reading/. toward the end of a class and wasn't running on very much sleep. It's possible my sarcasm detector was shut off to save energy.:)
Depends on the media. I collect a lot of old audio (because I like the music, and it's the cheapest legal way to get most of it), so I have 40-year-old 8-track tapes that sound a bit muddy, but could certainly still play back data encoded in the way the GP described.
Of course, many other 8-tracks of the same vintage have "rotted" and shed their lubricant and whatnot, but baking a tape will often help to pull it back together for one or two passes to dub it onto another medium. Tape can break, but can always be respliced in a few seconds -- maybe add in parity or something to the encoded data, for the necessary redundancy?
And of course, don't buy cheap tape. I'd expect you'd get a lot more life out of classic Scotch or BASF magnetic tape than you would from whatever brand is still on the shelves of Sam Goody. In any event, keep it isolated from moisture and I'm pretty confident a tape would last 25 years.
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Spam still happens, spam blasters can generate random likely-to-exist addresses and ship out all the e-mail they want in the hopes they'll hit a few that really do exist.
For example, andrew@aol.com, adam@aol.com, aardvark@aol.com...
Yeah, fiber is costly now, but if it's used en masse, it'll almost certainly be cheaper, besides providing an incentive for developing new and less-expensive ways to produce and implement it. In the meantime, why not either have the government subsidize the fiber rollout, or have them threaten to cut all the subsidies they've been providing to telcos who have done nothing but halt buildout, raise prices, and meter/shape bandwidth?
Excuse me, you make a valid point that marriage has generally been used to promote procreation, but I must take issue with your view that:
"Gays contribute nothing to the marriage equation. They are simply looking for a free ride - whatever that means. Likely that means insurance discounts, so on and so on."
One of the reasons that gay activists are pushing for legal recognization akin to heterosexual marriage is that in many places, you have to be related or married to a person to get visitation rights should your significant other be in prison, the hospital, etc. It can be fairly irksome to discover that, while you and your partner have been together for 20 years without legal recognization of that fact, you aren't allowed to visit him or her when ill because you aren't technically his or her spouse. Furthermore, the "it's not legal, it doesn't fly" attitude can also extend to deciding inheritances, if the deceased's will isn't up to par.
Granted, many will doubtless enjoy reaping the advantages of joint-filing taxes, health insurance benefits, and the like, but there's no excuse to make a bad situation worse by refusing your partner the right to see you in a time of need. Whether visitation laws themselves are the problem or not, and whatever the purpose of marriage may be, this is an obvious area of the current legal disparity between heterosexual and homosexual partnerships.
I actually installed IE 3.03 on my 386 box just because I couldn't figure out how to get TCP/IP installed and configured any other way. It's a real kick trying to find "mainstream" sites that are still compatible with it -- quite a short list. Google, thankfully, is one of them.
Just making sure, I'm not really knowledgeable on how hashes work and whatnot. Thanks. :)
On point 1, does that mean that you could just make a program that will go through a set of files, take pixel (0,0) from each and give it a random RGB value, and the hashes would be different enough just from that that they wouldn't match up with searches for known images' hashes?
CrossOver Chromium is exactly what you're looking for. It's not officially by Google, but ported by CodeWeavers, the WINE folks.
My school put up a filter lately that's locked out nearly any proxy, so we can't bypass the blocks on last.fm and Pandora. Looks like I just found my next music provider to work to in networking and Java. :)
Think about it: The Internet is so massive that as one organization blocks one service, one or ten more spring up. Blocks are futile; hopefully they'll learn someday. Discretion is what we should be teaching the children.
I have a 10-year-old ThinkPad 600E (500MHz PIII, 320MB PC-100, 8GB HDD) that I run the latest version of Zenwalk on. The OS is lightweight, highly responsive, simple but easy to navigate, and doesn't bloat itself with multiple applications per function. The laptop has a bit of a problem with web browsing, but that's only because of Flash; Opera does a fine job even on JavaScript-heavy sites like Facebook. Highly recommended...even if the latest version of the xnetpkg package manager does really suck.
I can't support your idea more heartily. I've amassed a collection of about 150 old LPs mostly from thrift stores and out-of-the-way record stores, because I like classic rock and they fit a teenage budget. All the same, I play my MP3s more often, since I don't have to wander over to the other side of the room to flip them. :)
No no no, the way to get to other planets is to embrace the past. I mean, Captain Kirk and crew carried all their important data on tape cartridges, and flew the ship by pressing actual buttons and sliders, remember?
Why not continue the CD-era tradition of "remaster" releases? Lots of digital music is sold in relatively low-quality MP3 files. As time goes by, the audio equipment and music industries alike could promote better-sounding equipment *and* higher-quality releases, such as on FLAC, to supplant the cheap iPod dock speakers and MP3/AAC files that the populace buys today. I wouldn't mind an audiophile revival to replace the "make it small and pretty" trend.
The MMORPG Maple Story uses this method for entering your PIN. It's highly annoying to input, personally, but apparently botting the game is big business and they have to go to these extreme measures to stop it. No, they aren't afraid someone's gonna pull a Van Eck on a user's keyboard, they're worried about the user himself. :)
everything2 is the only site I've found so far that combines the link-filled nature of Wikipedia articles with an amateur (and sometimes very good) literary and artistic community. I can get lost in both sites for hours at a time, but e2 indulgences usually produce a little more meaning.
And hey, Slashdot links to it, too. :)
That gateway's very handy. I'm in no hurry to get a cell phone (maybe I'll purchase a prepaid in case my car breaks down), because I spend all my time communicating via the computer; on the other hand, my girlfriend is seldom at the computer but her cell phone never leaves her side. I e-mail her, she texts me, problem solved. :)
So all we have to do is place a wall of mirrors around the island? Awesome!
No no no, as John Lennon said, a man in a flaming pie came to him in a dream and said "From now on you will be the Beatles with an 'a.'" :)
And as the history books are more likely to say, the Beatles were first the Silver Beetles. So I would say that the insect heritage is obvious.
I use Damn Small Linux and I will agree it is fast...once hardware detection's completed. Is there any way to store the results of the detection routine, so that instead of checking for the presence of all hardware at every. single. bootup...it'll read the config from a textfile and just load those drivers straight off? That would make DSL probably five times faster to boot.
htmlgoodies.com is where I started out in web coding. The beginners HTML tutorials do a great job of explaining every step of the way. The site is a lot more cluttered by ads and whatnot than it used to be, but the spirit is still there.
Best. Comment. Ever.
Yes, I realize that extensions take up space. However, when I first started using Firefox 3, it was relatively stable and I was pleased to watch it pack the memory usage down significantly as opposed to FF2. However, once I added on a few extensions (all five of them: DownThemAll, Foxmarks, ReloadEvery, Skype, TubeStop), the memory usage problem was as bad or worse than it had been in FF2, and Firefox also seems prone to random crashes. While the return of the memory hogging problem may not thus be out of the ordinary, I'm pretty sure that these crashes are.
But not every user (always) wants bleeding-edge updates. They just want updates that work, and such a database would go a long way to ensure people who are wary of trying Firefox that there are ways to make sure it stays stable.
I think that Mozilla really ought to set up a program that not only approves extensions to be posted on their own database, but thoroughly checks them to confirm that they won't slow down Firefox, or make it less stable. Because really, the only reason that I use Firefox and not Opera is because of the wealth of extensions (Adblock particularly)...but these extensions are probably what makes it such an unstable, memory-hogging PITA and why I am considering just switching to Opera and dealing with less extensibility. I hate playing Russian roulette with my system because I need a program that syncs my bookmarks.
Well, I was reading /. toward the end of a class and wasn't running on very much sleep. It's possible my sarcasm detector was shut off to save energy. :)
Depends on the media. I collect a lot of old audio (because I like the music, and it's the cheapest legal way to get most of it), so I have 40-year-old 8-track tapes that sound a bit muddy, but could certainly still play back data encoded in the way the GP described.
Of course, many other 8-tracks of the same vintage have "rotted" and shed their lubricant and whatnot, but baking a tape will often help to pull it back together for one or two passes to dub it onto another medium. Tape can break, but can always be respliced in a few seconds -- maybe add in parity or something to the encoded data, for the necessary redundancy?
And of course, don't buy cheap tape. I'd expect you'd get a lot more life out of classic Scotch or BASF magnetic tape than you would from whatever brand is still on the shelves of Sam Goody. In any event, keep it isolated from moisture and I'm pretty confident a tape would last 25 years.