I'd like to see what the logic is behind the local build restrictions, it doesn't on the face of it, make sense to me.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the Firefox plugin which will allow the user to select inside any web based search field to be included in the toolbar drop down menu for specific searches, ala Icab. (http://www.icab.de) In this way the user can use every kind of google search there is,(and others) right from the toolbar.
"The new method involves running electricity through water that has a very high temperature. As the water molecule breaks up, a ceramic sieve separates the oxygen from the hydrogen. The resulting hydrogen has about half the energy value of the energy put into the process, the developers say. Such losses may be acceptable, or even desirable, because hydrogen for a nuclear reactor can be substituted for oil, which is imported and expensive, and because the basic fuel, uranium, is plentiful.
The idea is to build a reactor that would heat the cooling medium in the nuclear core, in this case helium gas, to about 1,000 degrees Celsius, or more than 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. The existing generation of reactors, used exclusively for electric generation, use water for cooling and heat it to only about 300 degrees Celsius.
The hot gas would be used two ways. It would spin a turbine to make electricity, which could be run through the water being separated. And it would heat that water, to 800 degrees Celsius. But if electricity demand on the power grid ran extremely high, the hydrogen production could easily be shut down for a few hours, and all of the energy could be converted to electricity, designers say.
The goal is to create a reactor that could produce about 300 megawatts of electricity for the grid, enough to run about 300,000 window air-conditioners, or produce about 2.5 kilos of hydrogen per second. When burned, a kilo of hydrogen has about the same energy value as a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline. But fuel cells, which work without burning, get about twice as much work out of each unit of fuel. So if used in automotive fuel cells, the reactor might replace more than 400,000 gallons of gasoline per day." - http://www.ceramatec.com/
But, we can get the high heat for hydrogen from TCP, http://www.changingworldtech.com http://www .discover.com/issues/jul-04/features/any thing-into-oil
Not sure how close ceramatec.com is? They seem closer than
"The Thermal Conversion Process, or TCP, mimics the earth's natural geothermal process by using water, heat and pressure."
http://69.18.157.103/what/index.asp
So, rather than risk the issues with Nuclear power; using a TCP facility to clean up a chemical waste dump and bring oils and hydrogen to the local populace. Note: not included in their website but in other articles, the size of their facilities can either be huge or small, small being something which can be fitted on the back of an 18 wheeler.
I don't know how large the facility would need to be to safely deal with the heats necassary for making hydrogen, but we may be looking at a "Light industrial complex." answer.
What about using most of googles services to actual push forward democracy in the U.S.? Well, let's see...
We've got blogger, so we'll need a map interface to pass around, say, how about this one?
http://www.pierogi2000.com/graphics/LombardiPatR ob ertson.jpg http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_ 1487185.html"
Mark Lombardi did his work with 3x5 index cards, so making software to publish a map shouldn't be so hard. http://politicalfriendster.stanford.edu ww w.theyrule.net
They already have GPL'd working model in the U.K.!
So now everyone is making their maps and passing them around and like blogs, we're all vetting them for accuracy and lots of people are working with different estimates and niche information, alone or in groups, so we're all personally involved.
Hmm. Maybe a bunch of people would get together and pool micropayments to get a particularly hard question, Google Answered...<URL:
Well, that's a lot of people. So, we'd probably ask google to use their Google Compute to keep it up and running.
Heck, I can't think of a lab feature they have that wouldn't be useful to this.
Now, I wonder if google can figure out a marketing angle, say we all need better or specialised CPU's for this sort of thing, that would help..I guess bulk buying via orkut or blogger.. but I'm mixing democracy with capitalism here, so let's go back to the original point.
This would do it, I just want to add, let's stay away from Java and javascript based mapping software because it's intensive to run and fulla holes.
We've also read MS is reconstituting their IE team, which means we'll see an upgrade, very possibly something built from the core up, if only to take advantage of all the new cool things they'll want to emulate. There are a couple of things that are missing so far from the conversation: Trust and in that, javascript.
I don't see Javascript as a secure way of getting around the net, and I'm wholly uncomfortable adding this new widget or plug-in, willy nilly. Who says the next plug-in isn't a hijacker?
What do I know? I don't trust MS. I don't trust them to build, using this model, something which won't go awry.
I "trust" open source Mozilla doesn't put a plugin up on their site unless it's been vetted.
Am I going to trust any and all websites who want me to run their plugins? No way: Not unless I was on a simplified "Internet device", no way, if it's my home/work machine.
Who might I trust to download plugins from? Google. 'Cause they'll be my portal and they have a company statement against spyware.
If Google has a policy concern over a possible or clear violation, will they *not* erase the group outright, as Yahoo does but perhaps notify the moderators to correct the issue, therebye giving the moderators time to save/backup the list if they do have to go somewhere else?
Where are the scripts for pulling the content off Yahoo groups and transferring it to google groups?
Tax Preparers Peddle High Priced Tax Refund Loans Millions Skimmed from the Working Poor and the U. S. Treasury http://www.consumerfed.org/taxpreparers. PDF (Pdf) Html version available from google cache
Consumer Federation of America National Consumer Law Center January 31, 2002
Findings/Executive Summary
Refund anticipation loans (RALs) are usurious short-term loans secured by the taxpayer's tax refund, which often includes the Earned Income Tax Credit. Loans cost from 67% to 774% APR. RALs share many characteristics of fringe financial products such as rent-to-own, payday loans, and car title pawns, which target vulnerable low-to moderate- income consumers who can least afford their triple-digit interest rates.
The refund anticipation loan industry primarily consists of commercial tax preparers and the banks that provide the loans. Banks are used to evade state usury and small loan rate caps. In 2000, consumers paid an estimated $810 million in RAL fees. Tax refund loan costs siphon off an estimated $324 million in loan fees and cost an additional $670 million in tax preparation, electronic filing fees, and check cashing fees every year from the Earned Income Tax Credit (ETIC), the largest federal anti-poverty program. Forty percent of taxpayers who get a RAL are EITC recipients. EITC recipients often get a RAL because they do not have the cash in hand to pay the fees for commercial tax preparation services needed to file the complex forms and to avoid IRS audits of EITC filings.Many consumers who get a refund anticipation loan do not even know they have taken out a loan against their tax refund. For many years, some commercial tax preparers have been accused of misleading consumers about the loan transactions and of receiving kickbacks from banks.
There is very little federal governmental regulation of RALs. Although the IRS has issued rules requiring tax preparers to advertise RALs as loans, enforcement has been left to class action lawsuits and state enforcement agencies. The IRS does not regulate the loan fees. The states' ability to do so is hampered by federal law. The IRS is under a mandate from Congress to expand electronic tax filing to 80% of filed returns by 2007. Electronic filing is a driving force behind refund anticipation loans. The IRS reinstated a controversial Debt Indicator service that lowers the risk of RALs for the commercial tax preparers and partner banks, yet the costs of RALs have not decreased proportionately.
Refund Anticipation Loans Are Usurious Small Loans
Refund anticipation loans (RALs) are part of the fringe financial industry which includes pawns, car title pawns, payday loans, and rent-to-own transactions. RALs provide quick credit to vulnerable consumers at a steep price, including the potential risk of ruined credit ratings and debt collection harassment. RALs target low- to moderate-income consumers with few resources and great financial needs. Consumers often are mislead into thinking of RALs as "quick refunds," not understanding that they are loans.
Instead of waiting to receive tax refunds, RAL customers borrow against part or all of their expected tax refund. The tax refund may include the Earned Income Tax Credit, a federally provided benefit for poor working families that is generally distributed in a lump sum through the tax system.
The Price of RALS
Consumers pay three fees to get a refund anticipation loan: a fee to a commercial tax preparer for filling out the federal and state tax forms, typically $60 to $300; a fee for the electronic filing, with the average fee being $40; and a loan fee to the lender, typically set on a sliding scale based on the amount of the expected refund. Typical loan fees range from $29 to $89,but can be as high as half the refund.
What the consumer receives in hand is the refund minus the loan fee, the tax preparation fee, and the electronic filing fee. The total amount of the three
"The more precise your equipment, the smaller the interval, but the interval can get infinitely smaller." Infinity is not a progression, it's a symbol for a state. So, it's not "can get infinitely smaller" but "is infinitely smaller".
How about getting the news sent to my homepage so I can pull up my homepage and have the articles I'm most likely to want to see. Just feed 'em to me, I'll set it up. What I can't do so far is have all these disparate news feeds come up and a blurb which adequately describes them, but with/. moderators, I could.
Advertising? I'll tell ya what: I'll give you a breakdown of the kinds of ads I want to see. They come up on my homepage or my/. page & when I respond to the ad the info is held by/. (OSDN): My personal information doesn't go to the retailer! Ever.
Then you count up all the folks who want in and a bulk buying deal is submitted to the retailer. Then I get an ad, if the deal goes through telling me "You've Won!..all we need is your credit card." I'm used to that.
Of course the more people who join into the deal..why we could get another price break or a special promotion..either of which could bring in more buyers.
If/. could make this work, I would even answer detailed questionaire's so the ads I would get would be tailored to my hardware and software needs, to my specific household needs...you dreaming with me here, kids? I get what I want. You get to be the middle man who protects my privacy above all else. The retailer gets detailed demographics, access and buyers who'll underwrite their costs. Of course if I can follow up with the retailer from a referal page about subsequent purchases then/. gets a referral bonus.
Encryption in Company Networks Foiled The encrypting of e-mails in company networks is foiled if it is done in a Microsoft Exchange/Outlook 9x/200x environment...
Re:Fire resistant? Or toxic smoke as it burns?
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For fire resistant concrete, (Polymers)
check out http://www.geopolymer.org/techno2.html
http://www.geopolymer.org/techno6.html
Wander the site, there's more good stuff. I'd love to see an interview with the guy behind this work!
Wire their Condo's so they've instant access to their doctors' office, so their whole unit can be wired for the Nurses station somewhere in the condo complex, so they can continue to program and be socially connected. Those of them who own houses outside of the complex will then see the value in upgrading their homes so ya'll can get your PHD's off campus in a great old, sdsl connected place.
HUD has to install high speed lines because the congress has mandated all their materials be up to date & new, so we don't accidently build slums. This means the HUD housing complex's have a center for training folks & the apartments are wired for fast connections.
He's right about the ISP being the best place to start, what I don't know about is why would I use Alexa? Alexa sends my habits back to their servers.
I'd rather my ISP brought me the information and services I was looking for and blocked the retailers and everyone else from tracking my path.
I already have to trust the ISP, why trust anyone else?
Doesn't the ISP have the most to gain from keeping me on their portal, as convergance comes about? Don't they have the most to gain by using My extra CPU cycles? I want my ISP to give me frequent flier miles! I'll turn 'em in for a better coprocessor or two and then they can use those extra CPU cycles, how's that?
I'll tell them what my hardware needs are, and they go find the retailer, and I get a banner when the price is right. Oh, and that banner? It doesn't take me to the retailers site; It just signs me up for the group buy.
I want my ISP to guard my privacy like nothin' else, and for it, I'll pay. Hey, I can lose my privacy and use any of the freebie ISP's? But what will I pay for? What would you pay for? Privacy.
Now, if they could offer me ASP services that I can't afford to purchase, they could charge me more. I'm looking for a really really good searchbot. Heck, if they could offer me that, I'd
let them have hardrive space!
Josh Drvsh
Privacy.nu is still down, however.
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The email forwarder www.privacy.nu
is still down, which is rather sad, has anyone anymore information than what is on the front page? "Catastrophic hard drive failure?"
It's nice to know there was so much outpouring and support fo K'shin, but I'd like to see privacy.nu get some help as well.
"How about making a cell phone that doesn't need to be labelled with radiation warning?"
You're right, it would be a a good next step, the question is how to do it right. We need shielded headsets, because with radiation only two things suffice: Distance and shielding. I don't know how distance would be accomplished, anything I come up with would just be some form of wireless; this means more exposure not less, as the intensity of the beams is worse than the handhelds. Wireless headsets? You're head is now an antennae. Wires can be shielded, casings can be shielded, so we're all going to have to look like short wave radio geeks for a 'til the technology matures. Big deal.
The other thing they can do with phones? Add them into our PDA's and for those kids, add them into a Book/PDA. Watch the cartoon Inspector Gadget, if you want a viable looking model. (Not the movie, before the movie...)
My intentisn't to pick on e-gold, but on this practice in general. "I agree to $foo, $bar, and $baz, but you can change them any time you want." Why do you accept this?'
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Some of us don't "Accept" it, so much as we don't have the time to be on the phone with customer service that often;follow up in email and follow that up the corpladder w/ email, and phone calls. I see no reason for Paypal, etc.,etc. to not let me be anonymous. I think Iescrow modified my billing address because they hadn't stated items would ship in my name, but paypal insists. Odd, my company would get it to my mailstop faster via my corporate initials (which aren't my real initials). I'd love to have an internet account like X.com which would allow me to keep a minimum of funds and overdraft protection, for Paypal, so even if someone did get my account info, they simply couldn't get much from it. (www.x.com just stopped allowing POS transfers. An internet account that's slower than my brick and mortar. Not wise)
If you got my money, backed by visa, would you care if you knew my name?
"For example, what do people see as the future revenue streams for this type of work? Can advertising and IPOs sustain them indefinitely? Will the trend be towards a lot of very specific niche media (like this one) or towards large entities with a higher degree of filtering? " Whether you know it or not, you've hit on the answer, only halfways. Searchbots, who has the money to pay for the really good ones? Large entities. Why would I work with them? I won't until and unless they assure my privacy. The ISP will work via a portal/homepage to bring to me whatever I'm looking for via a searchbot. Why will I trust them,? 'Cause I'd leave without being able to trust them and so that's what they'll need most. I'll never go to a retailer; the retailer will submit their sale based on my preferances but all my personal ID info will be blocked by the ISP. If What I want, 100,000 people want, we'll drive the price down and the banner ad will be the ISP alerting me that now the item is available as group buy. As for content, well, I'll need the ISP's expensive software to filter/coordinate/ "smartly bring" what all I'm really looking for. As I learn what I have to ask for, to get what I want, their software will improve. For things I don't mark as being a work in progress, they'll be able to share it with others. Heck, if I really trust them they might get access to my spare CPU's. They'll figure it out, especially as they move into convergence. Josh Drvsh
Slashdot Mirror
I'd like to see what the logic is behind the local build restrictions, it doesn't on the face of it, make sense to me.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the Firefox plugin which will allow the user to select inside any web based search field to be included in the toolbar drop down menu for specific searches, ala Icab. (http://www.icab.de) In this way the user can use every kind of google search there is,(and others) right from the toolbar.
"The new method involves running electricity through water that has a very high temperature. As the water molecule breaks up, a ceramic sieve separates the oxygen from the hydrogen. The resulting hydrogen has about half the energy value of the energy put into the process, the developers say. Such losses may be acceptable, or even desirable, because hydrogen for a nuclear reactor can be substituted for oil, which is imported and expensive, and because the basic fuel, uranium, is plentiful.
w .discover.com/issues/jul-04/features/any thing-into-oil
7 /6 900038_SolarHydrogen/ (http://www.pureenergysystems.com)
The idea is to build a reactor that would heat the cooling medium in the nuclear core, in this case helium gas, to about 1,000 degrees Celsius, or more than 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. The existing generation of reactors, used exclusively for electric generation, use water for cooling and heat it to only about 300 degrees Celsius.
The hot gas would be used two ways. It would spin a turbine to make electricity, which could be run through the water being separated. And it would heat that water, to 800 degrees Celsius. But if electricity demand on the power grid ran extremely high, the hydrogen production could easily be shut down for a few hours, and all of the energy could be converted to electricity, designers say.
The goal is to create a reactor that could produce about 300 megawatts of electricity for the grid, enough to run about 300,000 window air-conditioners, or produce about 2.5 kilos of hydrogen per second. When burned, a kilo of hydrogen has about the same energy value as a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline. But fuel cells, which work without burning, get about twice as much work out of each unit of fuel. So if used in automotive fuel cells, the reactor might replace more than 400,000 gallons of gasoline per day."
- http://www.ceramatec.com/
But, we can get the high heat for hydrogen from TCP,
http://www.changingworldtech.com
http://ww
Not sure how close ceramatec.com is? They seem closer than
http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2004/08/2
Who are working on the same kind of thing, using ceramics to get hydrogen.
So, is the Thermal Conversion process a workable alternative?
By signing this into law, he's just opened the door to a lawsuit. Thanks, Gov!
"The Thermal Conversion Process, or TCP, mimics the earth's natural geothermal process by using water, heat and pressure."
http://69.18.157.103/what/index.asp
So, rather than risk the issues with Nuclear power; using a TCP facility to clean up a chemical waste dump and bring oils and hydrogen to the local populace. Note: not included in their website but in other articles, the size of their facilities can either be huge or small, small being something which can be fitted on the back of an 18 wheeler.
I don't know how large the facility would need to be to safely deal with the heats necassary for making hydrogen, but we may be looking at a "Light industrial complex." answer.
What about using most of googles services to actual push forward democracy in the U.S.? Well, let's see...
R ob ertson.jpg http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_ 1487185.html"
w w.theyrule.net
4 /0 7/18/new_full_source_.php
We've got blogger, so we'll need a map interface to pass around, say, how about this one?
http://www.pierogi2000.com/graphics/LombardiPat
Mark Lombardi did his work with 3x5 index cards, so making software to publish a map shouldn't be so hard.
http://politicalfriendster.stanford.edu
w
Now, let's see, we need information.
Oh, look:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/news/archives/200
They already have GPL'd working model in the U.K.!
So now everyone is making their maps and passing them around and like blogs, we're all vetting them for accuracy and lots of people are working with different estimates and niche information, alone or in groups, so we're all personally involved.
Hmm. Maybe a bunch of people would get together and pool micropayments to get a particularly hard question, Google Answered...<URL:
Well, that's a lot of people. So, we'd probably ask google to use their Google Compute to keep it up and running.
Heck, I can't think of a lab feature they have that wouldn't be useful to this.
Now, I wonder if google can figure out a marketing angle, say we all need better or specialised CPU's for this sort of thing, that would help..I guess bulk buying via orkut or blogger..
but I'm mixing democracy with capitalism here, so let's go back to the original point.
This would do it, I just want to add, let's stay away from Java and javascript based mapping software because it's intensive to run and fulla holes.
We've also read MS is reconstituting their IE team, which means we'll see an upgrade, very possibly something built from the core up, if only to take advantage of all the new cool things they'll want to emulate. There are a couple of things that are missing so far from the conversation: Trust and in that, javascript.
I don't see Javascript as a secure way of getting around the net, and I'm wholly uncomfortable adding this new widget or plug-in, willy nilly. Who says the next plug-in isn't a hijacker?
What do I know? I don't trust MS. I don't trust them to build, using this model, something which won't go awry.
I "trust" open source Mozilla doesn't put a plugin up on their site unless it's been vetted.
Am I going to trust any and all websites who want me to run their plugins? No way: Not unless I was on a simplified "Internet device", no way, if it's my home/work machine.
Who might I trust to download plugins from? Google. 'Cause they'll be my portal and they have a company statement against spyware.
Is their policy better than Yahoo?
If Google has a policy concern over a possible or clear violation, will they *not* erase the group outright, as Yahoo does but perhaps notify the moderators to correct the issue, therebye giving the moderators time to save/backup the list if they do have to go somewhere else?
Where are the scripts for pulling the content off Yahoo groups and transferring it to google groups?
Tax Preparers Peddle High Priced Tax Refund Loans
Millions Skimmed from the Working Poor and the U. S. Treasury
http://www.consumerfed.org/taxpreparers. PDF
(Pdf) Html version available from google cache
Consumer Federation of America
National Consumer Law Center
January 31, 2002
Findings/Executive Summary
Refund anticipation loans (RALs) are usurious short-term loans secured by the taxpayer's tax
refund, which often includes the Earned Income Tax Credit. Loans cost from 67% to 774%
APR. RALs share many characteristics of fringe financial products such as rent-to-own,
payday loans, and car title pawns, which target vulnerable low-to moderate- income
consumers who can least afford their triple-digit interest rates.
The refund anticipation loan industry primarily consists of commercial tax preparers and the
banks that provide the loans. Banks are used to evade state usury and small loan rate caps. In
2000, consumers paid an estimated $810 million in RAL fees. Tax refund loan costs siphon off an estimated $324 million in loan fees and cost an additional $670 million in tax preparation, electronic filing fees, and check cashing fees every year from the Earned Income Tax Credit (ETIC), the largest federal anti-poverty program. Forty percent of taxpayers who get a RAL are EITC recipients. EITC recipients often get a RAL because they do not have the cash in hand to pay the fees for commercial tax preparation services needed to file the complex forms and to avoid IRS audits of EITC filings.Many consumers who get a refund anticipation loan do not even know they have taken out a loan against their tax refund. For many years, some commercial tax preparers have been accused of misleading consumers about the loan transactions and of receiving kickbacks from banks.
There is very little federal governmental regulation of RALs. Although the IRS has issued
rules requiring tax preparers to advertise RALs as loans, enforcement has been left to class
action lawsuits and state enforcement agencies. The IRS does not regulate the loan fees. The
states' ability to do so is hampered by federal law. The IRS is under a mandate from Congress to expand electronic tax filing to 80% of filed returns by 2007. Electronic filing is a driving force behind refund anticipation loans. The IRS reinstated a controversial Debt Indicator service that lowers the risk of RALs for the commercial tax preparers and partner banks, yet the costs of RALs have not decreased proportionately.
Refund Anticipation Loans Are Usurious Small Loans
Refund anticipation loans (RALs) are part of the fringe financial industry which includes
pawns, car title pawns, payday loans, and rent-to-own transactions. RALs provide quick credit to vulnerable consumers at a steep price, including the potential risk of ruined credit ratings and debt collection harassment. RALs target low- to moderate-income consumers with few resources and great financial needs. Consumers often are mislead into thinking of RALs as "quick refunds," not understanding that they are loans.
Instead of waiting to receive tax refunds, RAL customers borrow against part or all of
their expected tax refund. The tax refund may include the Earned Income Tax Credit, a federally provided benefit for poor working families that is generally distributed in a lump sum through the tax system.
The Price of RALS
Consumers pay three fees to get a refund anticipation loan: a fee to a commercial tax
preparer for filling out the federal and state tax forms, typically $60 to $300; a fee for the
electronic filing, with the average fee being $40;
and a loan fee to the lender, typically set on a sliding scale based on the amount of the expected refund. Typical loan fees range from $29 to $89,but can be as high as half the refund.
What the consumer receives in hand is the refund minus the loan fee, the tax preparation fee, and the electronic filing fee. The total amount of the three
"The more precise your equipment, the smaller the interval, but the interval can get infinitely smaller." Infinity is not a progression, it's a symbol for a state. So, it's not "can get infinitely smaller" but "is infinitely smaller".
Quibble.
How about getting the news sent to my homepage so I can pull up my homepage and have the articles I'm most likely to want to see. Just feed 'em to me, I'll set it up. What I can't do so far is have all these disparate news feeds come up and a blurb which adequately describes them, but with /. moderators, I could.
/. page & when I respond to the ad the info is held by /. (OSDN): My personal information doesn't go to the retailer! Ever.
/. could make this work, I would even answer detailed questionaire's so the ads I would get would be tailored to my hardware and software needs, to my specific household needs...you dreaming with me here, kids? I get what I want. You get to be the middle man who protects my privacy above all else. The retailer gets detailed demographics, access and buyers who'll underwrite their costs. Of course if I can follow up with the retailer from a referal page about subsequent purchases then /. gets a referral bonus.
Advertising? I'll tell ya what: I'll give you a breakdown of the kinds of ads I want to see. They come up on my homepage or my
Then you count up all the folks who want in and a bulk buying deal is submitted to the retailer. Then I get an ad, if the deal goes through telling me "You've Won!..all we need is your credit card."
I'm used to that.
Of course the more people who join into the deal..why we could get another price break or a special promotion..either of which could bring in more buyers.
If
Want to play a game with real time data to try to solve the worlds' energy & political issues?
Overview:
http://www.worldgame.org/
Game:
http://www.osearth.com/
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/data/anw-26 .02.02-007/
Encryption in Company Networks Foiled
The encrypting of e-mails in company networks is foiled if
it is done in a Microsoft Exchange/Outlook 9x/200x environment...
For fire resistant concrete, (Polymers)
check out http://www.geopolymer.org/techno2.html
http://www.geopolymer.org/techno6.html
Wander the site, there's more good stuff. I'd love to see an interview with the guy behind this work!
Wire their Condo's so they've instant access to their doctors' office, so their whole unit can be wired for the Nurses station somewhere in the condo complex, so they can continue to program and be socially connected. Those of them who own houses outside of the complex will then see the value in upgrading their homes so ya'll can get your PHD's off campus in a great old, sdsl connected place.
What do you mean old ladies don't program?!
HUD has to install high speed lines because the congress has mandated all their materials be up to date & new, so we don't accidently build slums. This means the HUD housing complex's have a center for training folks & the apartments are wired for fast connections.
$30.00 USD per individual copy
5 pack $149.75 USD
10 pack $280.00 USD
He's right about the ISP being the best place to start, what I don't know about is why would I use Alexa? Alexa sends my habits back to their servers.
I'd rather my ISP brought me the information and services I was looking for and blocked the retailers and everyone else from tracking my path.
I already have to trust the ISP, why trust anyone else?
Doesn't the ISP have the most to gain from keeping me on their portal, as convergance comes about? Don't they have the most to gain by using My extra CPU cycles? I want my ISP to give me frequent flier miles! I'll turn 'em in for a better coprocessor or two and then they can use those extra CPU cycles, how's that?
I'll tell them what my hardware needs are, and they go find the retailer, and I get a banner when the price is right. Oh, and that banner? It doesn't take me to the retailers site; It just signs me up for the group buy.
I want my ISP to guard my privacy like nothin' else, and for it, I'll pay. Hey, I can lose my privacy and use any of the freebie ISP's? But what will I pay for? What would you pay for? Privacy.
Now, if they could offer me ASP services that I can't afford to purchase, they could charge me more. I'm looking for a really really good searchbot. Heck, if they could offer me that, I'd
let them have hardrive space!
Josh Drvsh
The email forwarder www.privacy.nu is still down, which is rather sad, has anyone anymore information than what is on the front page? "Catastrophic hard drive failure?" It's nice to know there was so much outpouring and support fo K'shin, but I'd like to see privacy.nu get some help as well.
"How about making a cell phone that doesn't need to be labelled with radiation warning?" You're right, it would be a a good next step, the question is how to do it right. We need shielded headsets, because with radiation only two things suffice: Distance and shielding. I don't know how distance would be accomplished, anything I come up with would just be some form of wireless; this means more exposure not less, as the intensity of the beams is worse than the handhelds. Wireless headsets? You're head is now an antennae. Wires can be shielded, casings can be shielded, so we're all going to have to look like short wave radio geeks for a 'til the technology matures. Big deal. The other thing they can do with phones? Add them into our PDA's and for those kids, add them into a Book/PDA. Watch the cartoon Inspector Gadget, if you want a viable looking model. (Not the movie, before the movie...)
My intentisn't to pick on e-gold, but on this practice in general. "I agree to $foo, $bar, and $baz, but you can change them any time you want." Why do you accept this?'
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Some of us don't "Accept" it, so much as we don't have the time to be on the phone with customer service that often;follow up in email and follow that up the corpladder w/ email, and phone calls. I see no reason for Paypal, etc.,etc. to not let me be anonymous. I think Iescrow modified my billing address because they hadn't stated items would ship in my name, but paypal insists. Odd, my company would get it to my mailstop faster via my corporate initials (which aren't my real initials). I'd love to have an internet account like X.com which would allow me to keep a minimum of funds and overdraft protection, for Paypal, so even if someone did get my account info, they simply couldn't get much from it. (www.x.com just stopped allowing POS transfers. An internet account that's slower than my brick and mortar. Not wise)
If you got my money, backed by visa, would you care if you knew my name?
So I bought the T-shirt. So sue me already. I
"For example, what do people see as the future revenue streams for this type of work? Can advertising and IPOs sustain them indefinitely? Will the trend be towards a lot of very specific niche media (like this one) or towards large entities with a higher degree of filtering? " Whether you know it or not, you've hit on the answer, only halfways. Searchbots, who has the money to pay for the really good ones? Large entities. Why would I work with them? I won't until and unless they assure my privacy. The ISP will work via a portal/homepage to bring to me whatever I'm looking for via a searchbot. Why will I trust them,? 'Cause I'd leave without being able to trust them and so that's what they'll need most. I'll never go to a retailer; the retailer will submit their sale based on my preferances but all my personal ID info will be blocked by the ISP. If What I want, 100,000 people want, we'll drive the price down and the banner ad will be the ISP alerting me that now the item is available as group buy. As for content, well, I'll need the ISP's expensive software to filter/coordinate/ "smartly bring" what all I'm really looking for. As I learn what I have to ask for, to get what I want, their software will improve. For things I don't mark as being a work in progress, they'll be able to share it with others. Heck, if I really trust them they might get access to my spare CPU's. They'll figure it out, especially as they move into convergence. Josh Drvsh