I forgot to mention the crux of that article I linked to above. WombatControl is wrong when he argues that 96% of DU is passed from the body within 24 hours. That refers to natural uranium that we all have. The form of uranium we are talking about here is ceramic DU, which permanently stays in the body's internal organs.
Cigarette smoke was not proven to be a causative factor for lung cancer for decades. Proving DU is even harder because you cannot just expose perfectly chosen test subjects to DU. You only get accidentally exposed subjects who are not necessary good control groups.
All you have is that correlation; when there is high DU use, there are high rates of birth defects and illnesses. You cannot argue reverse causation. You can say there is no evidence proving causation, but that's the same as saying there is no evidence disproving causation.
So we are left with the ultimate test: would you expose your family to DU, if it poses absolutely no health risk at all? Think about it.
Economic theory says that monopolies are always
deleterious. It has nothing to do with putting people out of work; quite the contrary. Money not spent lining the pockets of Elsevier and others will be spent for other, hopefully better purposes.
Monopolies are not always bad. They are just bad most of the time. There are cases where a monopoly is preferable. Such instances of so-called "natural monopolies" include distributors of electricity or telephone lines, where having one company send lines into all houses rather than having five or six sets of phone poles all over the place.
Actually this proves beyond a shadow of doubt that he's an idiot. He would have attached the phone into the car headlights/parking lights for recharging if he were a real geek!
Instead he get's caught trying to change a battery... Stupid. [ Reply to This ]
Every time I read one of these stories of a guy wigging out because his girlfriend dumped him, I always think, "Hey, Chief, do ya think she was on to something?" I mean, girl dumps boy. Boy stalks her using GPS. Maybe she was onto something in dumping him?
Apparently, the US patent system is quite loose with issuing patents. Yes, it asks for unobviousness and prior art, etc., but basically anyone can get a patent.
However, patents are as worthless as the paper they are on until they are defended against infringement. Because of the precedent doctrines, once you lose a patent defense, you effectively lose the patent. So while this may seem scary, MS probably will not prevail in a lawsuit.
The question is whether MS will sue someone poor and can't defend themselves. This is bad PR for them. Additionally, it doesn't get rid of all the infringers. You have to enforce your patents in order to keep them.
You are right. But here, we are talking about an E-MAIL standard. And while free open-source software doesn't dominate the market, it does make up a strong percentage of the market. Why bother shoving a patent-encumbered format in this field? It just seems like a pointless task. You could just NOT SQUANDER your good will and just remove the patents or donate them to a not-for profit.
An installing Windows XP. And installing SP2. And then installing the drivers. And then installing the software. And then running virus and spybot scans.
Communism is a political point of view. To officially ostracize anyone because of their politics is always the first-step towards tyranny. It presupposes that being Communist (or rather Socialist) makes you more likely to be a spy, but this is not necessarily true. Look at the spies that caused America the most damage: Robert Ames, Greenglass, Hannsen. They are all trueblue Americans. They make the best spies.
The article seems to suggest that hackers angry at the founder "selling out" were threatening him. Really? The guy lives in a gated community and a person managed to stick a note on his door and escaped unnoticed? I don't think so.
The guy might have just created this to get a good reason to sell the business. "Oh, it's so popular that people are trying to kill me. I'm not cashing out because, uh, the business might be illegal, etc."
This automation, if conducted by large ISPs, will really make spam less profitable. Google compares mail from all of its members to figure out which is spam: if it is not a mailing list, and sends the roughly the same message to many people, then it is considered spam. And then you get spam reports from your users. So if ISPs did the same thing and shared blacklists, then spammers would have to register a whole bunch of domainnames.
Also, I sit behind a NAT/SPI firewall. I use my software firewall to completely BAN Internet Explorer from reaching the Internet, too. I allow it only to reach http://*.windowsupdate.com/.
He spelled honors in the proper British spelling, and "mooving" was obviously a pun, you want honours spelled honors how about next time YOU invent the language instead of leaving it to Europe? Wait America didn't exist yet, first come, first serve, get over it. fucking Americans
Well someone still hasn't gotten over the Revolution.
Sore losers.
Don't worry, you create the languages, and then we'll keep you from having to learn German.
Pah, I don't know. I could sit here trying to explain my jokes for hours and hours until the cows come home and sometimes I'd still be wasting my breath.
OK, that's it. I've milked this for all it's worth now.
Ha. It is ironic that you, of anyone, would deign to explain humor to anyone.
Essentially, the US is living beyond its means. Its deficit is unsustainable in the long term, as is the value of the US dollar. If China or Japan decides to pull the pin, your economy goes down the toilet for years to come.
I'm not worried. If that day comes, we'll just invade you.
Scientifically, nanotechnology refers to the strange characteristics of materials with really small sizes rather than really small machines. The wrinkle-free stain defender type things on your pants, for example, are actually really small fibers that qualify as nanotechnology, along with tiny airbag sensors.
This is not quite nanotechnology because the entire wafer is still really big.
I have a Pentium IV E 3.0 Ghz. I need a huge Thermaltake solid copper heatsink and an extraordinarily loud fan and many case fans to cool the sucker off when playing DOOM III.
If it dissipated less heat, my computer would dissipate less sound. = )
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I forgot to mention the crux of that article I linked to above. WombatControl is wrong when he argues that 96% of DU is passed from the body within 24 hours. That refers to natural uranium that we all have. The form of uranium we are talking about here is ceramic DU, which permanently stays in the body's internal organs.
Cigarette smoke was not proven to be a causative factor for lung cancer for decades. Proving DU is even harder because you cannot just expose perfectly chosen test subjects to DU. You only get accidentally exposed subjects who are not necessary good control groups.
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All you have is that correlation; when there is high DU use, there are high rates of birth defects and illnesses. You cannot argue reverse causation. You can say there is no evidence proving causation, but that's the same as saying there is no evidence disproving causation.
So we are left with the ultimate test: would you expose your family to DU, if it poses absolutely no health risk at all? Think about it.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180333p-15
Monopolies are not always bad. They are just bad most of the time. There are cases where a monopoly is preferable. Such instances of so-called "natural monopolies" include distributors of electricity or telephone lines, where having one company send lines into all houses rather than having five or six sets of phone poles all over the place.
Just for our information.
Only on Slashdot will this be modded with +1 Informative. I mean, it is informative, but still.
And she is, though.
Yeah, but. But. She's hot.
Or is this mod humor?
The date of the article was June 10, 2004. Maybe this was in another time zone or something so it was more recent than I thought?
Every time I read one of these stories of a guy wigging out because his girlfriend dumped him, I always think, "Hey, Chief, do ya think she was on to something?" I mean, girl dumps boy. Boy stalks her using GPS. Maybe she was onto something in dumping him?
Hey, All.
Apparently, the US patent system is quite loose with issuing patents. Yes, it asks for unobviousness and prior art, etc., but basically anyone can get a patent.
However, patents are as worthless as the paper they are on until they are defended against infringement. Because of the precedent doctrines, once you lose a patent defense, you effectively lose the patent. So while this may seem scary, MS probably will not prevail in a lawsuit.
The question is whether MS will sue someone poor and can't defend themselves. This is bad PR for them. Additionally, it doesn't get rid of all the infringers. You have to enforce your patents in order to keep them.
You are right. But here, we are talking about an E-MAIL standard. And while free open-source software doesn't dominate the market, it does make up a strong percentage of the market. Why bother shoving a patent-encumbered format in this field? It just seems like a pointless task. You could just NOT SQUANDER your good will and just remove the patents or donate them to a not-for profit.
Of course patent-encumbered standards will never take. Why do companies even hope that it will? Do they remember what happened to IBM and MCA?
An installing Windows XP. And installing SP2. And then installing the drivers. And then installing the software. And then running virus and spybot scans.
Communism is a political point of view. To officially ostracize anyone because of their politics is always the first-step towards tyranny. It presupposes that being Communist (or rather Socialist) makes you more likely to be a spy, but this is not necessarily true. Look at the spies that caused America the most damage: Robert Ames, Greenglass, Hannsen. They are all trueblue Americans. They make the best spies.
The article seems to suggest that hackers angry at the founder "selling out" were threatening him. Really? The guy lives in a gated community and a person managed to stick a note on his door and escaped unnoticed? I don't think so.
The guy might have just created this to get a good reason to sell the business. "Oh, it's so popular that people are trying to kill me. I'm not cashing out because, uh, the business might be illegal, etc."
This automation, if conducted by large ISPs, will really make spam less profitable. Google compares mail from all of its members to figure out which is spam: if it is not a mailing list, and sends the roughly the same message to many people, then it is considered spam. And then you get spam reports from your users. So if ISPs did the same thing and shared blacklists, then spammers would have to register a whole bunch of domainnames.
Also, I sit behind a NAT/SPI firewall. I use my software firewall to completely BAN Internet Explorer from reaching the Internet, too. I allow it only to reach http://*.windowsupdate.com/.
Well someone still hasn't gotten over the Revolution.
Sore losers.
Don't worry, you create the languages, and then we'll keep you from having to learn German.
Deal?
Ha. It is ironic that you, of anyone, would deign to explain humor to anyone.
Suck on that for a while.
I'm not worried. If that day comes, we'll just invade you.
You misspelled "honors" as "honours" and "moving" as "mooving".
Damn Brits.
No humans can be "Mind-Bogginglingly useful?"
I disagree. http://www.nportman.com/
Actually, 1/r^2 is not the rate for two-dimensional spread of radiation. It is 1/r^3 or something in three dimensions.
It seems as though we slashdotted the link in a response to the main story! Gooooooo Slashdot!!!!
Scientifically, nanotechnology refers to the strange characteristics of materials with really small sizes rather than really small machines. The wrinkle-free stain defender type things on your pants, for example, are actually really small fibers that qualify as nanotechnology, along with tiny airbag sensors.
This is not quite nanotechnology because the entire wafer is still really big.
I have a Pentium IV E 3.0 Ghz. I need a huge Thermaltake solid copper heatsink and an extraordinarily loud fan and many case fans to cool the sucker off when playing DOOM III.
If it dissipated less heat, my computer would dissipate less sound. = )
Will