An optimal light-bulb would be cheap to buy, energy efficient and not break (for the consumer). An optimal ligh-bulb for the few companies selling them would be cheap to produce, expensive to sell and would have to be replaced at regular intervals.
Phillips spent millions of dollars researching light bulbs. Not to make them last longer. Nooo!!! To make them last shorter.
You're a much hardier soul than I if you'd be willing to live for extended periods of time without electric refrigeration to keep food from spoiling quickly. I suppose we could go back to the days of ice delivery, but I doubt the cost per Joule would be less than what on-site refrigeration costs.
Modern food preparation techniques allow it to be kept without refrigeration, like vacuum-packing, irradiation. And let's not forget the old methods such as salting, smoking and whatnot...
When you count the pounds of shit per kilowatt/hour, nuclear is the CLEANEST power possible.
The french have well understood that (hence their nose-thumbing at the US regarding Irak), 75% of their power is nuclear. And they neatly solved the nuclear "waste" problem: their waste is plutonium and they make bombs out of it, so they very, very, very carefully guard it so it won't escape in the water table...
After close to 15,000 deaths due to the heat wave in France, the government admitted that their health care system is overly complex and is in need a overhaul. Is this the model we are supposed to follow?
This was not the health-care system's fault. It was rather the fault of people DUMPING their elderly parents in hospices and forgetting them there.
Privatizing strategic resources like railroads, [...] has always been a disaster
Railroads and city transit system not only used to be private, but were immensely profitable, to the point of being major source of economic chaos. For example, Samuel Insull was a streetcar tycoon in Chicago, and his stock manipulation helped much to precipitate the 1929 stock crash.
Railroads stopped being profitable transporting people when the governments started pouring HUGE sums of money in maintaining public roads for the use of the automobile, thus encouraging it's use to the point of rendering transit unprofitable, and forcing government to buy out failing transit systems.
If government hadn't interfered in the transportation scene, automobile use would be marginal, as there would be so few private roads that would be so expensive to take, and the restricted automobile market would mean that they would remain toys for the rich.
What's the big deal anyway? The thing uses proprietary hardware, so in order to reproduce it, you'd also have to have the masks to make the chips anyways. So they stand to lose nothing by not publishing the source.
You obviously both haven't read the proposal. The list is updated IN THE CLEAR, so there is NO WAY of telling who uses it. The updates are PGP-signed for authentication purposes. Having it encrypted totally defeats the purpose of having it widespreadly used. If there would be a list of registered users, that would represent a terrific single point of failure that would be mecilessly DDOSed if it would ever be unveiled to spammers.
Larry Wall is now employed by O'Reilly which is the number 1 publisher of perl books, does a lot of perl training, etc. so there is a business model behind it.
That explains why PERL is so arcane and obtuse: to generate a market for PERL books!!!
In the private sector (the internet is a network of PRIVATELY-OWNED NETWORKS, there is no place for a "justice system". Those network operators are perfectly allowed to BLOCK TRAFFIC THEY DON'T WANT FROM THEIR NETWORKS.
There is at least one gaping hole in your argument, namely that blacklists are also suppressing free speech. You Suck.
You're the one that suck, sockpuppett. Spammers have inserted a crank in your nether region and are turning it, sock.
Spamming isn't frea speach, it's theft of ressources. Nowhere in the world advertisements are considered frea speach; it is perfectly legitimate for PRIVATE NETWORK OWNERS to restrict traffic on THEIR OWN NETWORKS as they see fit. Hence the use of blocklists to cut access to the CRIMINAL PARASITES, RESSOURCE STEALING that SPAMMERS ARE.
The idea is to provide a distributed RBL, using only proven recipes and technology.
The list is a re-emplementation of a DNS-dased RBL, so to allow current MTAs to access it without modification.
The RBL servers are distributed, PRIVATE AND SECRET, in order to avoid being DDOSed. The servers are ordinary BIND, whose zone file is updated by a process to be implemented.
Those willing to use the RBL service have to run their own DNS server - they are free, however, to allow other trusted people to use their services; only them are going to be affected by an eventual DDOS, but not other users of the DRBL.
The RBL information is distributed via USENET. USENET has proven it's ability to survive all sorts of attacks in the past. It has survived the church of scientology, therefore it will survive chickenboners. It's distributed nature makes it quite invulnerable to the kind of DDOS attacks that currently affect centralized DNS RBLs.
The list maintainer posts PGP-signed updates to USENET via a network of trusted volunteers who do it from dynamic IP addresses of disposable dialup accounts. For safety, the IP addresses are changed immediately following the posting of updates, in order to avoid being DDOSed.
Authentification agaisnt spoofing and flood attempts is provided by the PGP signature.
The RBL users then scan USENET for the updates, who, once authenticated, are used to update the zone files on their private and secret DNS servers.
You have failed to address my question, which is how your logic
is unique to driving. Almost everything we do is done in a public place, and
thus defined by your warped world-view as a PUBLIC ACTION. Your
argument can be applied exactly the same way to justify 24/7 audio and visual
monitoring to everyone who is not in a personal residence, the elimination
of cash and recording of all financial transactions, tracking everything we
ever check out from a library, etc.
My logic is unique to driving because, unlike walking or riding
a bicycle, driving involves hurling a big mass of metal at a high rate of speed,
which translates as a lot of kinetic energy. Therefore there is a great potential
for public harm, thus justifying the need for constant monitoring of driving
actions.
No one bitches that aircraft are already fitted with event recorders, and that
their flight paths are carefully monitored by radar and by the obligation of
submitting flight plans.
So either you are against the entire concept of privacy (unless you define
privacy to mean only things that happen in your home, which is
not what society in general or our laws mean by privacy, in which case you
should start using a different word), or you are unable to follow your flawed
arguments to their natural conclusions.
Privacy is anything I do that does not have the risk of killing many other
people. When you drive a car, your driving actions are subject to monitoring
by a following police officer. The event recorder is no way different from that.
People have a fundamental right to privacy, despite what every government
entity thinks. If they have a need to violate it, take it to a judge, get
a couple of cops, and stake you out. Its rediculous for a car I purchased
to tattletale on me. If a car is speeding in the desert when no one else is
around, is it a crime?
Is it ridiculous for an aircraft to be a tattletale on it's pilots? Or for
a locomotive to be on it's crew? Or for a truck to it's driver? The duty of
policemen is to watch motorists and monitor them for traffic law violations.
The event recorder merely automates the data-gathering part of it, and is able
to provide policemen accurate objective data in order to better assess the situation.
Speeding is not a crime, it's a misdemeanor.
Pervasive intrusions like these car monitors are disgusting. Imagine
if your hands transparently recorded what happened within one foot of your
crotch, and anyone with a reason could download the data. Then
tell me these pervasive intrusions are a good thing.
Either you think your car is an extension of your sex organs (I am not ashamed
to admit that I masturbate 2-3 times a day), or you fail to realize that monitoring
how one manoeuvers a car on a public road has absolutely has ZERO expectation
of privacy.
It is the property of the State, just like the license plates. You're
not allowed to tamper or disconnect it anymore than you are allowed to do
the same with your license plates.
Odd. How come I've seen so many thousands of old number plates out there
then for collectors or hillbillies to decorate their walls with? Why has the
state not demanded them all back?
They don't demand them back because it would be useless to do so; just like
credit card that are still the credit card company's property. They instead
themand that you destroy the card (try this instead of cutting it in two: put
it in the oven at about 200. You'll never believe what happens!!!).
AFAICT, you can't tamper with it with the intent to defraud, but if you
can't tamper period, how are you supposed to attach the tax-payment sticker
each year?
This is not tampering. It is updating or validating them.
What troubles me about traffic laws is that they aren't focused on safety
but revenue. If the city/county/whatever required you to take traffic lessons
at THEIR expense, would they write tickets even if the little box said you
were going 150 in a 100 zone?
Think of it as a tax on the stupid... Feels better, eh?
Slashdot Mirror
(And for those who know, follow it just for the funny explanation at the bottom).
Now crawl back under that rock you came from, l'il fritter-critter.
The french have well understood that (hence their nose-thumbing at the US regarding Irak), 75% of their power is nuclear. And they neatly solved the nuclear "waste" problem: their waste is plutonium and they make bombs out of it, so they very, very, very carefully guard it so it won't escape in the water table...
Shortsighted management does.
But, unfortunately, since shortsighted management is a hallmark of private entreprise...
I'd like to see a beow...
Never mind.
The french government has been subverted by bourgeois of anglo-saxon allegiance.
Railroads stopped being profitable transporting people when the governments started pouring HUGE sums of money in maintaining public roads for the use of the automobile, thus encouraging it's use to the point of rendering transit unprofitable, and forcing government to buy out failing transit systems.
If government hadn't interfered in the transportation scene, automobile use would be marginal, as there would be so few private roads that would be so expensive to take, and the restricted automobile market would mean that they would remain toys for the rich.
What's the big deal anyway? The thing uses proprietary hardware, so in order to reproduce it, you'd also have to have the masks to make the chips anyways. So they stand to lose nothing by not publishing the source.
You obviously both haven't read the proposal. The list is updated IN THE CLEAR, so there is NO WAY of telling who uses it. The updates are PGP-signed for authentication purposes. Having it encrypted totally defeats the purpose of having it widespreadly used. If there would be a list of registered users, that would represent a terrific single point of failure that would be mecilessly DDOSed if it would ever be unveiled to spammers.
You'll find that it solves:
- bloat
- incompatibility between widgets
- programming complexity
- antialiasing
- alpha channels
- buffering
X is nearly 20 years old, and it shows it's age. It should be led to rest.Google for "Joe Job".
In the private sector (the internet is a network of PRIVATELY-OWNED NETWORKS, there is no place for a "justice system". Those network operators are perfectly allowed to BLOCK TRAFFIC THEY DON'T WANT FROM THEIR NETWORKS.
What part of MY NETWORK, MY RULES don't you get?
Spamming isn't frea speach, it's theft of ressources. Nowhere in the world advertisements are considered frea speach; it is perfectly legitimate for PRIVATE NETWORK OWNERS to restrict traffic on THEIR OWN NETWORKS as they see fit. Hence the use of blocklists to cut access to the CRIMINAL PARASITES, RESSOURCE STEALING that SPAMMERS ARE.
Now, sock, why don't you eat shit and die???
Who's the moron who moderated that sockpuppet as "insightful"? Spam is THEFT of ressources and as such is CRIMINAL.
The list is a re-emplementation of a DNS-dased RBL, so to allow current MTAs to access it without modification.
The RBL servers are distributed, PRIVATE AND SECRET, in order to avoid being DDOSed. The servers are ordinary BIND, whose zone file is updated by a process to be implemented.
Those willing to use the RBL service have to run their own DNS server - they are free, however, to allow other trusted people to use their services; only them are going to be affected by an eventual DDOS, but not other users of the DRBL.
The RBL information is distributed via USENET. USENET has proven it's ability to survive all sorts of attacks in the past. It has survived the church of scientology, therefore it will survive chickenboners. It's distributed nature makes it quite invulnerable to the kind of DDOS attacks that currently affect centralized DNS RBLs.
The list maintainer posts PGP-signed updates to USENET via a network of trusted volunteers who do it from dynamic IP addresses of disposable dialup accounts. For safety, the IP addresses are changed immediately following the posting of updates, in order to avoid being DDOSed.
Authentification agaisnt spoofing and flood attempts is provided by the PGP signature.
The RBL users then scan USENET for the updates, who, once authenticated, are used to update the zone files on their private and secret DNS servers.
I'd like to see a beowulf cluster of those dropped on this guy's 'nads.
Now what's next? Managers should be expected to listen to engineers???
My logic is unique to driving because, unlike walking or riding a bicycle, driving involves hurling a big mass of metal at a high rate of speed, which translates as a lot of kinetic energy. Therefore there is a great potential for public harm, thus justifying the need for constant monitoring of driving actions.
No one bitches that aircraft are already fitted with event recorders, and that their flight paths are carefully monitored by radar and by the obligation of submitting flight plans.
Privacy is anything I do that does not have the risk of killing many other people. When you drive a car, your driving actions are subject to monitoring by a following police officer. The event recorder is no way different from that.
Is it ridiculous for an aircraft to be a tattletale on it's pilots? Or for a locomotive to be on it's crew? Or for a truck to it's driver? The duty of policemen is to watch motorists and monitor them for traffic law violations. The event recorder merely automates the data-gathering part of it, and is able to provide policemen accurate objective data in order to better assess the situation.
Speeding is not a crime, it's a misdemeanor.
Either you think your car is an extension of your sex organs (I am not ashamed to admit that I masturbate 2-3 times a day), or you fail to realize that monitoring how one manoeuvers a car on a public road has absolutely has ZERO expectation of privacy.
No way. You CHOOSE to drive. No one forces you to live 40 kilometers from your work or in the boondocks where there is no public transportation.
They don't demand them back because it would be useless to do so; just like credit card that are still the credit card company's property. They instead themand that you destroy the card (try this instead of cutting it in two: put it in the oven at about 200. You'll never believe what happens!!!).
This is not tampering. It is updating or validating them.
Think of it as a tax on the stupid... Feels better, eh?