Yeah, there will always be hypochondriacs. However, in the past, patients used to blindly trust their doctors. These days, doctors have to convince their patients that they have made a correct diagnosis. I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing.
A buddy of mine had severe sinus congestion. His doctor told him to take Afrin. Over the course of several years, his sinus congestion became worse. His doctor performed all sorts of exotic therapies, and continued to recommend Afrin. Thanks to Google, and Wikipedia, he discovered that long term use of Afrin can cause a dependency, and actually make the symptoms worse. A second opinion by another doctor confirmed his internet diagnosis, and he is doing much better.
His next phase prototype should have a 10-20 HP IC engine (lawn tractor motor, etc.) for the prime mover, and the output shaft of his device needs to be connected to a dynamometer/load absorber of some type.
Screw that! Just get a couple of multimeters and hook them up to those electric motors. Measure the current and voltage at any given point, and multiply. (assuming these are DC motors)
Money spent on e.g. breast cancer awareness goes towards raising awareness of breast cancer
Except some of those charities explicitly say, "For the Cure." If they are spending the money on awareness and not finding a cure, that is flagrant false advertising.
I'm surprised that these "money mules" actually get money from this operation. While looking for a job, I received these emails all of the time. I always thought the check was fake, and they were hoping you wired the money before the bank discovers it isn't legit.
I've heard quite a few people here on Slashdot talk about how useful Python is as a substitute for MATLAB. Honestly, I don't get it. Python is trying to be a language for both hard core programming, and scientific programing. These two disciplines have very different needs. I don't want to load 20 modules before I can begin coding. I just want to input my algorithm and get a result I expect (not 5/2=2).
It seems that version 3.0 has gotten better for us scientific users. However, I think the programmers out there are now dissatisfied.
From what I understand, this bug was discovered by someone who calls himself "Bobby Tables." However, there appears to be no records of such person in any school system computers.
You wouldn't be allowed to keep the money you made.
major electronic markets including Nasdaq and NYSE Arca announced they would cancel stock trades that occurred between 11:40 a.m. PDT and noon PDT if the prices were 60% higher or lower than the last price quoted at 11:40 a.m.
What's being talked about here isn't the general decline in the market today, but a very suspicious "blip" that occurred in a huge number of stock prices at 2:45 EST, followed by immediate recovery.
Hey, if I was an evil computer "hacker," this is how I would make my money. Hack into the right machines and make a few billion trades with other people's money. Then make a few corresponding trades with my own money. It will take a very long time to sort out what happened, and they may never figure out who was responsible. Sounds like the perfect crime.
Private industry is doing all sorts of analysis of you as a consumer to provide you better service and to let them make more profit. But the same consumer that's okay with private industry doing that is not okay, in a knee-jerk reaction, with government doing that.
No, I'm not okay with private industry doing that either.
How about flash and java working properly out of the box?
Which raises the question. Is the 64-bit version of Flash in the repositories yet? I've been using it for over a year now, no problems other than Hulu deciding to block it for some reason.
P.S. I don't care if it's alpha. It runs better than that nspluginwrapper hack they use now. At least give the user the option to install it from the repositories.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
This type of thing happens all of the time in the auto industry. Instead of regulating output, the government goes and regulates hardware. Regulating hardware stifles innovation. In some cases it encourages the wrong kind of innovation.
For example, the British government used to tax vehicles based on engine bore size only. This resulted in engines with small bore sizes and relatively large strokes.
I work in diesel engines. The government is increasingly pushing to mandate specificemissions technologies to reduce emissions. Right now, engine manufacturers only have to meet emissions standards. However, if the government mandates these technologies, better solutions may never be developed. Furthermore, the government would be creating monopolies for the companies that hold patents on this technology.
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As made up words go, google-itis is particularly stupid, since it literally means "inflammation or irritation of the google."
The sad part is, the term was coined by a doctor.
Sounds like somebody didn't do well on their latin root's and suffixes exam...
Yeah, there will always be hypochondriacs. However, in the past, patients used to blindly trust their doctors. These days, doctors have to convince their patients that they have made a correct diagnosis. I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing.
What I really need Bing to do is find a good doctor that will take my insurance.
A buddy of mine had severe sinus congestion. His doctor told him to take Afrin. Over the course of several years, his sinus congestion became worse. His doctor performed all sorts of exotic therapies, and continued to recommend Afrin. Thanks to Google, and Wikipedia, he discovered that long term use of Afrin can cause a dependency, and actually make the symptoms worse. A second opinion by another doctor confirmed his internet diagnosis, and he is doing much better.
Someone posted about a tool called "Scantool" on Ubuntuforums a few years ago.
His next phase prototype should have a 10-20 HP IC engine (lawn tractor motor, etc.) for the prime mover, and the output shaft of his device needs to be connected to a dynamometer/load absorber of some type.
Screw that! Just get a couple of multimeters and hook them up to those electric motors. Measure the current and voltage at any given point, and multiply. (assuming these are DC motors)
The only problem is that the mechanical diesels don't achieve emissions very near to modern systems.
As a diesel performance engineer, I can verify that statement. Electronic controls were implemented to meet emissions requirements.
Why not provide manual overrides for things like door locks and windows.
Jaguar has such an override for their electronic transmission.
Money spent on e.g. breast cancer awareness goes towards raising awareness of breast cancer
Except some of those charities explicitly say, "For the Cure." If they are spending the money on awareness and not finding a cure, that is flagrant false advertising.
Had their algorithm not suited Cell, the PS3 would have been an absurd choice.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of the features of the Cell disabled under the OtherOS option?
I'm surprised that these "money mules" actually get money from this operation. While looking for a job, I received these emails all of the time. I always thought the check was fake, and they were hoping you wired the money before the bank discovers it isn't legit.
I've heard quite a few people here on Slashdot talk about how useful Python is as a substitute for MATLAB. Honestly, I don't get it. Python is trying to be a language for both hard core programming, and scientific programing. These two disciplines have very different needs. I don't want to load 20 modules before I can begin coding. I just want to input my algorithm and get a result I expect (not 5/2=2).
It seems that version 3.0 has gotten better for us scientific users. However, I think the programmers out there are now dissatisfied.
From what I understand, this bug was discovered by someone who calls himself "Bobby Tables." However, there appears to be no records of such person in any school system computers.
At the least, keep performance sensitive drives away from large sources of environmental vibration, such as your AC unit and so forth.
I used to do data acquisition work on 6,000 hp locomotives. You want to see bad disk performance...
Personally, I haven't found many Wii games I'm interested in buying. It seems like you buy Wii Sports and that's about it.
From the LA Times.
Traders are middlemen, but they facilitate transactions.
Brokers are middlemen, but they facilitate transactions.
Traders speculate with their own money.
What's being talked about here isn't the general decline in the market today, but a very suspicious "blip" that occurred in a huge number of stock prices at 2:45 EST, followed by immediate recovery.
Hey, if I was an evil computer "hacker," this is how I would make my money. Hack into the right machines and make a few billion trades with other people's money. Then make a few corresponding trades with my own money. It will take a very long time to sort out what happened, and they may never figure out who was responsible. Sounds like the perfect crime.
until Jarlsberg is blocked by all of the major security providers?
Cutting edge technology.
This person puts a new meaning to the term "hacker."
You definitely feel right on the edge of safe. Yet it stands out like no other "museum" I've been to.
Feels right on the edge of being called a "museum" too. Sounds more like an amusement park.
I guess the question is, is it an awesome museum or crappy amusement park?
No, I'm not okay with private industry doing that either.
How about flash and java working properly out of the box?
Which raises the question. Is the 64-bit version of Flash in the repositories yet? I've been using it for over a year now, no problems other than Hulu deciding to block it for some reason.
P.S. I don't care if it's alpha. It runs better than that nspluginwrapper hack they use now. At least give the user the option to install it from the repositories.
Groups have managed to disconnect botnets from their controllers during spam floods, and that does effectively stop spam from being sent.
Your post advocates a
(X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
This type of thing happens all of the time in the auto industry. Instead of regulating output, the government goes and regulates hardware. Regulating hardware stifles innovation. In some cases it encourages the wrong kind of innovation.
For example, the British government used to tax vehicles based on engine bore size only. This resulted in engines with small bore sizes and relatively large strokes.
I work in diesel engines. The government is increasingly pushing to mandate specific emissions technologies to reduce emissions. Right now, engine manufacturers only have to meet emissions standards. However, if the government mandates these technologies, better solutions may never be developed. Furthermore, the government would be creating monopolies for the companies that hold patents on this technology.