From the article:...lowercase text is read faster than uppercase text.
This could also explain why nobody likes to read email where the other person uses all caps.
The MIDPOINT of the cable will be in geosynch orbit. This is at 32K miles. The remainder of the cable is outside of this, to counterbalance the pull of gravity on the lower portion of the cable.
After all, my current laptop is what... 14" x 12" x 2"? I want the darn thing to be as thin as a piece of paper... and if it folds up, so much the better. The heck with the fancy displays.
After reading the most recent decision for blocking the FTC's do-not-call registry, it seems like there is a simple solution. The judge's reasoning was that since the Gov't didn't treat all telemarketing calls equally (e.g., political and religious calls aren't blocked), it was taking to big a part in things.
Solution: Provide a mechanism for us to block ALL calls, including religious and political calls. It should be easy enough to set up a list of check boxes on the do-not-call registry web site, identifying various kinds of calls. That way, if you wanted to block religious and political, but accept the sales pitches, you could do so.
But then again, can you see the people in Gov't who make these rules blocking themselves from making such calls?
"For example, when a consumer buys what he thinks is a 150 gigabyte hard drive, the plaintiffs said, he actually gets only 140 gigabytes of storage space. That missing 10 gigabytes, they claim, could store an extra 2,000 digitized songs or 20,000 pictures. "
Digitized songs? Hasn't the RIAA made a determination that these must be pirated material? This means that only music pirates and similar scum have an interest in measuring hard disk in Gigabytes rather than 1000 Megabytes.
NASA did a great job getting us to the moon during the cold war, but it has since turned into a bureaucratic machine, as highlighted in the Columbia post mortem report. I doubt this will change in the future, regardless of any efforts to do so, because bureaucracy is the nature of such agencies.
It would be MUCH better if the Government provided incentives to the various companies who are attemping to build space transportation systems. Those folks will be in it for profit, and their isn't any profit in destroying your launch systems to meet a schedule.
Re:Cairo? Bill Gates will be contacting them.
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I doubt it. Isn't NT about to be End-of-Lifed soon anyway?
...feeds the info back into the central computer system, so Doctor Memory can track people's movements through the park in realtime.
I know this isn't precisely on topic, but with the coming of nanotechdevices, how long will it be before a park like Disney can stamp the hand of every person entering the park with an ink containing nanotransmitters, so that EVERYONE's movement is tracked?
Yes, this may discourage the current crop of telemarketers, but I just want to know who gets the cash if one is busted. If its me, I welcome all callers. Checks may be made out to...
The only thing that would make this scheme different that current identification methods is the automatic notification (by email) any time the URU identity is used:
It... will e-mail them every time their ID is requested
I suspect that someone's URU ID could be misused by someone else as easily as any other ID, but at least you would find out about such misuse before the cops/creditors come pounding on your door.
What will remain is a universe full of black holes, which after trillions of years will explode to leave nothing but dark energy.
This is true... unless there is another mechanism that transforms some of the dark energy back to normal matter. This could result in a classic steady state model.
I use Opera 6.0. I've got 7.0 loaded as well, but haven't paid for it yet. MUCH better browser than IE for many purposes. I still have to keep IE & Netscape around for those pages that DON'T follow the standards (or rather, are tailored to run on IE non-standard).
This is comperable to the computing power in desktops we will probably see by 2010.
Earthlike planets are impossible!
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The circumstances that allow intelligent life to develop are just too unlikely to ever occur. Therefor, I propose that it is just a mistaken assumption to believe that there ever was such a place as Earth... and even if there was, intelligent life never would have developed.
Hmmmm... reading some of the political news, this is probably correct.
If a company changes its policies in this way... dump 'em.
That's what I did with the minute I heard about Yahoo!'s change of policy. I immediately turned off their &@^% preferences, and changed all of the references for email and such to something fictitious. Only used them for web mail anyway. Instead, I'm using my private domain server, even if it costs more.
I suspect that Yahoo! and others of its ilk won't much care that I don't use their service. There are enough computer-neophytes out there who don't know enough to turn off the spam preferences, much less understand their loss of privacy.
Yeah, yeah, I know this post is too late for anyone to read, but I thought I'd say it anyway. After reading this article, I not only went to reset my opt-outs, I changed all my personal information to something more appropriate... like a fake address and phone number.
Face it, Yahoo! is on a slippery slope, and going down fast. Every time they pull one of these shenanigans, they loose customers. I was already cutting loose from their e-mail due to the no-free-pop decision. I use their my.yahoo as my default browser home page, but about one more such "marketing decision", and I'll be moving over to MSN or some Lycos.
An encryption algorythim using a one-shot key known to both sender and recipient is nothing new. Definitely has a higher potential security than other methods. But not very practical for repeat business (eg, a secure web store).
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1.5 GB?
Noone could ever use more than 640 Kb of memory... er, oops...
This is something I might consider getting for my kids... if at 13 and 6 they hadn't already outgrown it.
From the article: ...lowercase text is read faster than uppercase text.
This could also explain why nobody likes to read email where the other person uses all caps.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? The Adventures of Tom Sawyer??? This is what they're keeping away from kids? Perhaps they'll ban Dr. Suess next.
A number of the other titles on that list were REQUIRED READING when I was in HS (and younger). Evidently the standards are chaning for the worse.
The MIDPOINT of the cable will be in geosynch orbit. This is at 32K miles. The remainder of the cable is outside of this, to counterbalance the pull of gravity on the lower portion of the cable.
After all, my current laptop is what... 14" x 12" x 2"? I want the darn thing to be as thin as a piece of paper... and if it folds up, so much the better. The heck with the fancy displays.
After reading the most recent decision for blocking the FTC's do-not-call registry, it seems like there is a simple solution. The judge's reasoning was that since the Gov't didn't treat all telemarketing calls equally (e.g., political and religious calls aren't blocked), it was taking to big a part in things.
Solution: Provide a mechanism for us to block ALL calls, including religious and political calls. It should be easy enough to set up a list of check boxes on the do-not-call registry web site, identifying various kinds of calls. That way, if you wanted to block religious and political, but accept the sales pitches, you could do so.
But then again, can you see the people in Gov't who make these rules blocking themselves from making such calls?
"For example, when a consumer buys what he thinks is a 150 gigabyte hard drive, the plaintiffs said, he actually gets only 140 gigabytes of storage space. That missing 10 gigabytes, they claim, could store an extra 2,000 digitized songs or 20,000 pictures. "
Digitized songs? Hasn't the RIAA made a determination that these must be pirated material? This means that only music pirates and similar scum have an interest in measuring hard disk in Gigabytes rather than 1000 Megabytes.
Remember Edgar Rice Burrough's Mars books?
NASA did a great job getting us to the moon during the cold war, but it has since turned into a bureaucratic machine, as highlighted in the Columbia post mortem report. I doubt this will change in the future, regardless of any efforts to do so, because bureaucracy is the nature of such agencies.
It would be MUCH better if the Government provided incentives to the various companies who are attemping to build space transportation systems. Those folks will be in it for profit, and their isn't any profit in destroying your launch systems to meet a schedule.
I doubt it. Isn't NT about to be End-of-Lifed soon anyway?
I know this isn't precisely on topic, but with the coming of nanotechdevices, how long will it be before a park like Disney can stamp the hand of every person entering the park with an ink containing nanotransmitters, so that EVERYONE's movement is tracked?
Yes, this may discourage the current crop of telemarketers, but I just want to know who gets the cash if one is busted. If its me, I welcome all callers. Checks may be made out to...
The only thing that would make this scheme different that current identification methods is the automatic notification (by email) any time the URU identity is used:
It... will e-mail them every time their ID is requestedI suspect that someone's URU ID could be misused by someone else as easily as any other ID, but at least you would find out about such misuse before the cops/creditors come pounding on your door.
What will remain is a universe full of black holes, which after trillions of years will explode to leave nothing but dark energy.
This is true... unless there is another mechanism that transforms some of the dark energy back to normal matter. This could result in a classic steady state model.
I use Opera 6.0. I've got 7.0 loaded as well, but haven't paid for it yet. MUCH better browser than IE for many purposes. I still have to keep IE & Netscape around for those pages that DON'T follow the standards (or rather, are tailored to run on IE non-standard).
This is comperable to the computing power in desktops we will probably see by 2010.
The circumstances that allow intelligent life to develop are just too unlikely to ever occur. Therefor, I propose that it is just a mistaken assumption to believe that there ever was such a place as Earth... and even if there was, intelligent life never would have developed.
Hmmmm... reading some of the political news, this is probably correct.
Not strictly true. I have an MSN account, since you need one to use their IM. But I never ever use the email.
Haven't ever seen a bit of spam in that account either. Just the occasional message from MSN (maybe once a month).
If a company changes its policies in this way... dump 'em.
That's what I did with the minute I heard about Yahoo!'s change of policy. I immediately turned off their &@^% preferences, and changed all of the references for email and such to something fictitious. Only used them for web mail anyway. Instead, I'm using my private domain server, even if it costs more.
I suspect that Yahoo! and others of its ilk won't much care that I don't use their service. There are enough computer-neophytes out there who don't know enough to turn off the spam preferences, much less understand their loss of privacy.
- "The law's terms, if you will, are a sham."
- "Every witness has testified that the statute can't be applied according to its own terms,"
- "What right does the government have to require this kind of filtering system?"
Yeah, yeah, I know this post is too late for anyone to read, but I thought I'd say it anyway. After reading this article, I not only went to reset my opt-outs, I changed all my personal information to something more appropriate... like a fake address and phone number.
Face it, Yahoo! is on a slippery slope, and going down fast. Every time they pull one of these shenanigans, they loose customers. I was already cutting loose from their e-mail due to the no-free-pop decision. I use their my.yahoo as my default browser home page, but about one more such "marketing decision", and I'll be moving over to MSN or some Lycos.
The ISP will then tell customer that they'll only get help if they're using that package.
This isn't a real big help. I have found that most times I know more about the ISP's network than the average support rep does.An encryption algorythim using a one-shot key known to both sender and recipient is nothing new. Definitely has a higher potential security than other methods. But not very practical for repeat business (eg, a secure web store).
Now Red Hat is spamming us.