I've had a fax machine in my home for 10 years now, and we've never received an unsolicited fax. For some reason I don't believe that you're receiving spam via your fax machine, unless its your local pizza delivery man, in which case one phonecall would end it.
Its like being mugged, not reporting it, and then blaming the police for not stopping the criminal, even though they don't know its happenning... but I don't believe its happenning from the get-go. Not 6-9 spam faxes per day atleast. I dunno though, maybe you work for a company thats reliant on those faxes.
There's a boat-load of laws against un-solicited faxes in the US. It could probably be applied to such a device. If not, then the the laws against it would come falling out of the sky.
The theory of what the dark matter actually is that I seem to like the most is that its dead white dwarf stars that have cooled beyond the limit which is visible by today's telescopes. This would mean that the vast majority of stars are therefore small whitedwarf stars, and that there's a whole hell of a lot of them. WIMPs, MACHOs, etc. they're just patch work. Neat ideas with absolutely no backup evidence. White Dwarves on the other hand have more potential. I wish I had a link to some info... I'll need to find one.
it merely means that we can detect all of the regular, baryonic matter that we believe to be present based on our calculations.
Actually this is suggesting that there may be still baryonic mass out there that we _can't_ detect. I've always considered WIMPs to be a hack at describing something we obviously don't fully understand. They're pretty much using patch-work to show how everything operates. I personally believe that the majority of the mass in the Universe is just dead white dwarves that are so cool that we can't detect them. I believe this because the halos of quasars (which didn't really have "halos" since they weren't barred or spiralled) were so active with young zero age main sequence stars that they had to have gone somewhere. It may be just as radical a theory, but I saw a talk a couple weeks ago that has me convinced.
I'd just like to say that this backs up my argument that WIMPS (weakly interacting massive particles) do not exist and that they're a hack to explain something thats unknown. This newly detected gas, as well as newly discovered evidence of very very small and less luminous white dwarf stars removes part of the need for WIMPs to explain things.
Oh spare me. There's obvious precautions and carelessness. Try asking JPL how NASA communicates with any of their space probes. What frequency, packet transfer protocol, etc. and they won't tell you. I know this first hand. We're not talking about a laptop being stolen or an unknown linux box plugged into a wall at los alamos, we're talking about a satelite of which hundreds of people are involved with. They are very, VERY careful from a controlling perspective, with good reason.
Actually it has absolutely nothing to do with that program. Its a security group I used to belong to, but haven't done anything with for a while. That company thought the name was cool and took it for their product. Lame++
Why don't they just read the stuff and write a SAMBA client thats "closed" source, and release it with no restrictions. That way the only way MS could know if they were violating the copyright would be if they themselves hacked the program to see what it does.
They can distribute whatever they want, so long as: - They allow people to _GET_ the source... you don't have to privide source with binaries. - That they don't modify the license.
I'd be willing to guess that the executables they changed still has the GPL in them../prog --license;
As for their license being attached. I'm willing to make a guess that its for their programs and not the GPL'd programs. Besides, I have never heard of anyone knowingly violate the GPL. Its usually some clueby lawyer thinking he's doing his job.
I remember there being a non-executable stack patch for the 2.0.x kernel, but for one reason or another it was upgraded for newer kernels. Anyone know if anyone has been working on something like this? There were some problems with it, for example, I believe JDK wouldn't work, and other such things that manipulate the stack in weird ways would have the same problem. I don't know if they were just issues that could be worked out, or if the system was fundamentally flawed in that area.
Katz, I think its fairly obvious to everyone that you are neither a geek, nor oppressed, and that you used this event for your own personal benefit.
I for one, do not agree with you, in any way whatsoever that the shooters are victims of anything but their own hatred and psychotic dissillusionment.
Yes, people get picked on, and yes it hurts. I've been picked on plenty, and I never had a supportive roll-model to explain to me the real issues of the abuse. I've also never killed anyone or wanted to kill anyone. Whats the difference between Klebold, Harris and me? I have a conscience, while they never did. For whatever reasons and influences that brought them to that cold uncaring state, they are still psychopathic killers who are on the scale of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dalmer, etc., and I do not and never ever will care a fleeting fuck about their nurishment, their rights or their suffering which may have influenced their actions.
One of the fundamental properties which separates humans from animals is the fact that humans can determine right from wrong, good from bad. Klebold and Harris knew that what they were doing was wrong. They knew that what they were doing was killing. They knew that they were willing to spare nobody for their own self-gain and revenge. They are not victims; they're cold-blooded killers.
When you say "the killers were victims of a different sort", you're simply filling in the void of cause and justifying their actions. You're declaring victims like an accident attorney. Regardless of whether someone truely is a victim of some form of abuse, you never ever encourage vengence by justifying their violence. This is the primary reason why I hate your writing and have you filtered.
As for proceeds for this crap, I'd say donate it to the families of the half-dozen or so disabled kids from the Collumbine incident. Help put one of them through college.
Just because you did not copyright something doesn't mean its not copyrighted. Everything I say is copyrighted, regardless of whether I put a (c) or not. I can write a book. If someone takes it and publishes it, and says "it didn't have a copyright notice on it", they'll still get raped in court. Therefore, I believe that publishing people's comments is still copyrighted by author, regardless of whether there's a claim or not.
You're seriously dodging the question. Your feelings on the matter is that Be is a threat to your software because they do not allow you to maintain/develop/support your IP if its closed source. If you're worried that they'll do a better job than you, then you are effectively stating that you believe closed source to be a better form of software development. If I'm wrong, then please tell me what your feelings on the matter are.
As far as bandwidth, did anyone notice a significant slowdown after terraserver opened? If there's too much traffic, it'll slow down, and fewer people will go to it. Its like an economics problem. umm... you're just a fool if you actually believe that you can attribute lack of bandwidth to terraserver. I think there are more worthy targets like the mp3 revolution, and other warez. .... I'd also take Oracle 8i over SQL Server anyday... but then again, you're the expert on Internet technology;-)
No offense, but nobody downloads the entire database of any sky survey. Anything over a 100 MB is not accessible to the public. If this is like any other digital sky survey, then what they'll do is let people punch in coordinates and see that area of sky.
So bandwidth is not an issue, simply because the people setting up the projects are smart enough to know the extremity of their data and their bandwidth cap.
I'm actually pretty surprised that this got moderated up.
Doesn't the search for heavenly bodies require analysis over time, and not simply an image? I mean, for one thing, most of what we're discovering these days aren't visual elements anyway; they're things like extrasolar planets, quasars, and black holes, things that you can't really find with a visual survey of the sky. About the only real visual things you might spot are comets and/or asteroids, but detection of those bodies generally requires a bit more than simply a sky survey, and you'll still need photographs of that area over time.
Absolutely. The only way to do anything useful, other than plot the positions of certain objects in space, you need to have a telescope and lots of time. You need to look at spectra, measure variability in magnitudes, etc. for stars. For bodies like comets and asteroids, this is totally useless. For those, you need to have time with live data. The only way to discover these things is by taking successive images of the same area, and checking to see whats moving between the images (they call it blinking).
Other than being a neat project to look at the stars, this has very little scientific research. The only thing I could come up for a use of it is to wait 100 years, and do another survey and measure the proper motions of the stars more precisely between the two images. This is simply just a neat toy.
Don't get me wrong however, I'm very happy that they're generating astronomy awareness.
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Maybe your dog has just been drinking from the fish boal too much, and freaking out the fish. That would explain why he's peeing a lot, as well as the crazy fish. Ockham's Razor at its finest.
I've always interpretted the 2nd Amendment as being the right for the people to have an Army. Back when this was created, there really was no governmental army. The soldiers were volunteers defending themselves from external forces, not internal. I see the 2nd Amendment as being obsolete now that we have a national army. The people still control the country. The people still believe in freedoms. I've never considered the right to a well organized militia to be the right to go out and buy a hand gun.
And forget about the line drawing crap. Nothing in life is black or white, so thats a very lame argument.
As for the security of the nation vs. the security of the individual: this country is founded specificly around upholding the rights of the individual. So when one person gets shot by a psycho (or 500, 5000 people, etc.), its a threat to national security. There really is no difference.
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Regardless of whether or not Winzip was used to extract the archive, they'll lose, and they'll go through hell in the process in the courts.
I've had a fax machine in my home for 10 years now, and we've never received an unsolicited fax. For some reason I don't believe that you're receiving spam via your fax machine, unless its your local pizza delivery man, in which case one phonecall would end it.
Its like being mugged, not reporting it, and then blaming the police for not stopping the criminal, even though they don't know its happenning... but I don't believe its happenning from the get-go. Not 6-9 spam faxes per day atleast. I dunno though, maybe you work for a company thats reliant on those faxes.
There's a boat-load of laws against un-solicited faxes in the US. It could probably be applied to such a device. If not, then the the laws against it would come falling out of the sky.
The theory of what the dark matter actually is that I seem to like the most is that its dead white dwarf stars that have cooled beyond the limit which is visible by today's telescopes. This would mean that the vast majority of stars are therefore small whitedwarf stars, and that there's a whole hell of a lot of them.
WIMPs, MACHOs, etc. they're just patch work. Neat ideas with absolutely no backup evidence.
White Dwarves on the other hand have more potential. I wish I had a link to some info... I'll need to find one.
it merely means that we can detect all of the regular, baryonic matter that we believe to be present based on our calculations.
Actually this is suggesting that there may be still baryonic mass out there that we _can't_ detect. I've always considered WIMPs to be a hack at describing something we obviously don't fully understand. They're pretty much using patch-work to show how everything operates. I personally believe that the majority of the mass in the Universe is just dead white dwarves that are so cool that we can't detect them. I believe this because the halos of quasars (which didn't really have "halos" since they weren't barred or spiralled) were so active with young zero age main sequence stars that they had to have gone somewhere. It may be just as radical a theory, but I saw a talk a couple weeks ago that has me convinced.
I'd just like to say that this backs up my argument that WIMPS (weakly interacting massive particles) do not exist and that they're a hack to explain something thats unknown. This newly detected gas, as well as newly discovered evidence of very very small and less luminous white dwarf stars removes part of the need for WIMPs to explain things.
Oh spare me. There's obvious precautions and carelessness. Try asking JPL how NASA communicates with any of their space probes. What frequency, packet transfer protocol, etc. and they won't tell you. I know this first hand. We're not talking about a laptop being stolen or an unknown linux box plugged into a wall at los alamos, we're talking about a satelite of which hundreds of people are involved with. They are very, VERY careful from a controlling perspective, with good reason.
I think scientists are mostlikely smart enough to sit the thing on a private network behind a firewall ;)
Actually it has absolutely nothing to do with that program. Its a security group I used to belong to, but haven't done anything with for a while. That company thought the name was cool and took it for their product. Lame++
Why don't they just read the stuff and write a SAMBA client thats "closed" source, and release it with no restrictions. That way the only way MS could know if they were violating the copyright would be if they themselves hacked the program to see what it does.
... but remember, I'm no lawyer.
Have you asked them for the source?
They can distribute whatever they want, so long as:
./prog --license;
- They allow people to _GET_ the source... you don't have to privide source with binaries.
- That they don't modify the license.
I'd be willing to guess that the executables they changed still has the GPL in them.
As for their license being attached. I'm willing to make a guess that its for their programs and not the GPL'd programs. Besides, I have never heard of anyone knowingly violate the GPL. Its usually some clueby lawyer thinking he's doing his job.
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I remember there being a non-executable stack patch for the 2.0.x kernel, but for one reason or another it was upgraded for newer kernels. Anyone know if anyone has been working on something like this? There were some problems with it, for example, I believe JDK wouldn't work, and other such things that manipulate the stack in weird ways would have the same problem. I don't know if they were just issues that could be worked out, or if the system was fundamentally flawed in that area.
Katz, I think its fairly obvious to everyone that you are neither a geek, nor oppressed, and that you used this event for your own personal benefit.
I for one, do not agree with you, in any way whatsoever that the shooters are victims of anything but their own hatred and psychotic dissillusionment.
Yes, people get picked on, and yes it hurts. I've been picked on plenty, and I never had a supportive roll-model to explain to me the real issues of the abuse. I've also never killed anyone or wanted to kill anyone. Whats the difference between Klebold, Harris and me? I have a conscience, while they never did. For whatever reasons and influences that brought them to that cold uncaring state, they are still psychopathic killers who are on the scale of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dalmer, etc., and I do not and never ever will care a fleeting fuck about their nurishment, their rights or their suffering which may have influenced their actions.
One of the fundamental properties which separates humans from animals is the fact that humans can determine right from wrong, good from bad. Klebold and Harris knew that what they were doing was wrong. They knew that what they were doing was killing. They knew that they were willing to spare nobody for their own self-gain and revenge. They are not victims; they're cold-blooded killers.
When you say "the killers were victims of a different sort", you're simply filling in the void of cause and justifying their actions. You're declaring victims like an accident attorney. Regardless of whether someone truely is a victim of some form of abuse, you never ever encourage vengence by justifying their violence. This is the primary reason why I hate your writing and have you filtered.
As for proceeds for this crap, I'd say donate it to the families of the half-dozen or so disabled kids from the Collumbine incident. Help put one of them through college.
Just because you did not copyright something doesn't mean its not copyrighted. Everything I say is copyrighted, regardless of whether I put a (c) or not. I can write a book. If someone takes it and publishes it, and says "it didn't have a copyright notice on it", they'll still get raped in court. Therefore, I believe that publishing people's comments is still copyrighted by author, regardless of whether there's a claim or not.
Amen to that.
Bravo. States his point very well.
You're seriously dodging the question. Your feelings on the matter is that Be is a threat to your software because they do not allow you to maintain/develop/support your IP if its closed source. If you're worried that they'll do a better job than you, then you are effectively stating that you believe closed source to be a better form of software development. If I'm wrong, then please tell me what your feelings on the matter are.
As far as bandwidth, did anyone notice a significant slowdown after terraserver opened? If there's too much traffic, it'll slow down, and fewer people will go to it. Its like an economics problem.
.... I'd also take Oracle 8i over SQL Server anyday... but then again, you're the expert on Internet technology ;-)
umm... you're just a fool if you actually believe that you can attribute lack of bandwidth to terraserver. I think there are more worthy targets like the mp3 revolution, and other warez.
So bandwidth is not an issue, simply because the people setting up the projects are smart enough to know the extremity of their data and their bandwidth cap.
I'm actually pretty surprised that this got moderated up.
Absolutely. The only way to do anything useful, other than plot the positions of certain objects in space, you need to have a telescope and lots of time. You need to look at spectra, measure variability in magnitudes, etc. for stars. For bodies like comets and asteroids, this is totally useless. For those, you need to have time with live data. The only way to discover these things is by taking successive images of the same area, and checking to see whats moving between the images (they call it blinking).
Other than being a neat project to look at the stars, this has very little scientific research. The only thing I could come up for a use of it is to wait 100 years, and do another survey and measure the proper motions of the stars more precisely between the two images. This is simply just a neat toy.
Don't get me wrong however, I'm very happy that they're generating astronomy awareness.
Maybe your dog has just been drinking from the fish boal too much, and freaking out the fish. That would explain why he's peeing a lot, as well as the crazy fish.
Ockham's Razor at its finest.
Anyone know if this absolutely requires direct line of site? Or can this be used within buildings and such as well?
I've always interpretted the 2nd Amendment as being the right for the people to have an Army. Back when this was created, there really was no governmental army. The soldiers were volunteers defending themselves from external forces, not internal. I see the 2nd Amendment as being obsolete now that we have a national army. The people still control the country. The people still believe in freedoms. I've never considered the right to a well organized militia to be the right to go out and buy a hand gun.
And forget about the line drawing crap. Nothing in life is black or white, so thats a very lame argument.
As for the security of the nation vs. the security of the individual: this country is founded specificly around upholding the rights of the individual. So when one person gets shot by a psycho (or 500, 5000 people, etc.), its a threat to national security. There really is no difference.