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Besides Linux, they even got Minix and Xinu in there, which were both written from scratch, and are published in their entirety in books. Hmm...
I get it now! They took a chart that had lots of Unix -like operating systems on it (i.e. Xinu, Linux, etc.) and when they came out, and they added some dashed lines to hook them all up! In particular the dashed green line from V7 Unix to Sinix to Unicos and Xinu (which they didn't quite actualy connect) and then down and over to the start of Linux.
Didn't they realize that adding lines to a chart doesn't make it true?!?
You're missing the concept of a "swing vote", and assuming there is only a single issue in elections.
Minority groups who will vote on a particular issue exclusively get a lot of power in our electoral system, and by design.
If a candidate has 48% of the vote and he can get a 3% block to vote for him by taking up a single issue, he often will do so to put himself over the top.
This explains the influence of the so-called Religious Right in the United States, for example, which the Republican party has co-opted. It's orthagonal to the main Republican agenda (which is ensuring that the rich get richer) and simply by paying lip service to the Right to Life crowd you get an extra 10% voting block. And all you have to do is make it incrementally harder for poor people to get abortions now and then.
Before I get modded off-topic, let me say I am not advocating for or against the Right to Life folks in this post, I'm merely pointing out that the Republicans are taking advantage of their single-issue-voting propensity to keep their party in the majority. If they could get Gay Rights advocates without losing the Religious Right, I suspect they would, but the Religious Right is a stronger voting block...
That argument would hold water if we were burning the whole plant, or even the whole nut. Instead we're burning the shell, which is only a percentage of the carbon taken out of the air by the plant, which also grew the nut meat, some leaves, etc.
Also, if you read the article you refer to, they point out that letting stuff like this rot produces methane, which is a more potent greenhouse gas than the C02 is.
While the "engine" for a bicycle does yeild CO2
into the atmosphere, it is all CO2 from renewable
resources (i.e. food), and growing food, eating it, and generating power from it is a net carbon loss from the atmosphere, since
nearly all the carbon for the plant comes from the air,
not all of the plant is eaten, and
not all of the carbon produced is released into
the air.
So, good joke, but using food as a fuel is the Right Thing to do for global warming. That's why those fuel cells that run on sugar they're working on is such a good idea...
As a youth I had great trouble like this; the thing that worked for me was to get on your basic whole-grains, no-additives, natural-foods kind of diet. This got me from the point where they were ready to put me on Ritalyn for hyperactivity to
the point where I was paying attention to my work
rather than what everyone else in class was doing.
The vending-machine diet is exactly the wrong thing for some of us when it comes to concentration...
It looks like I simply didn't wait the 3 decades for the webpage stuff to finish downloading -- either that or they've fixed something since. As of today, it works just fine.
The pages are all made by MicroSoft Visual Studio 7.0:
<html>
<head>
<title>National Do Not Call Registry</title>
<meta content="Microsoft Visual Studio 7.0" name="GENERATOR">
<meta name="keywords" content="National Do Not Call Registry, telemarketers, FTC, Mobile Phone, Home Phone, Registration, Do Not Call"/>
<meta content="C#" name="CODE_LANGUAGE">
<meta content="JavaScript" name="vs_defaultClientScript">
<meta content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5" name="vs_targetSchema">
Which currently doesn't show up in Mozilla *at all*.
Now does Microsoft intentionally make their Visual Studio stuff (not to mention the latest PowerPoint, etc.) generate almost-HTML that
don't display in Mozilla? You be the judge...
Many people fall into the "if the spell checker liked it it must be okay" trap. Many variations
are possible, but my favorite is to run "Jabberwocky" through a spell checker and tell it
to "Just fix it". A friend of mine used to have
the results from an old Macintosh spellchecker on his wall...
While I agree there are issues, I disagree with
one or two of the points above:
Load on mail servers should go down, as it is less overhead to
look up if sender S is on recipient R's white
list already than it is to run 75 content filter
algorithms and compute the score, etc. And you can
do it before you actually accept the body of the email.
Your second point and your third point don't play together well -- if they're all different, it makes it much harder for spammers to reply to them.
If spammers figure out how to reply to them, they at least have to start using reply addresses that work to the first order; a first step to other forms of remediation.
The later points are fixable:
When you make your first order with the company they send you your email confirmation,
and they have to have a person reply to the
responder that first time. From then on they can email you. A person is generally involved with the order anyway, so it isn't that much overhead.
You make a whitelist reply have headers like any other delivery error report. People have been sending bounce e-mails for decades, and
RFCs describe how to avoid bounce-bounces.
Of course, to work at all the system has to work in a symmetric situation -- you must automatically whitelist folks to whom you send e-mail, otherwise you can't receive their auto-responder query...
The thing to do is bring up issues in designs like this that might be a problem, and try to solve them; not to say "It's a bad idea because I can think of 20 potential problems".
... In fact, I used to fix it for a living [AT&T Tier IV hotline support...] including cutting field patches for customers. So I've seen mainly the worst of it, so take my comments with that in mind, but...
I can't think of any of it that would be worth
contributing to either Linux or {Free,Open,Net}BSD.
Unfortunately, what may make it hard for folks to deal with in the legal case, is that there was very little that was clever or elegant in the SystemV kernel -- any item you might find mentioned in a POSIX standard (i.e a process, an inode, etc.) was pretty much stored in the kernel in the most trivial way possible.
So someone else implementing to that standard could easily pick the same trivial implementation
to store the similar entities, and how do you prove whether it was from someone who's seen the SystemV code, and whether they "stole" it?
But basically, I suspect it will end up like a plagurism suit for music, where someone tries to claim that someone "stole" the 1-4-5 chord progression from their song.
For starters, it's essential that the old addressing scheme be a straightforward subset of the new one.
Actually, it is. There is a whole block of IPv6 which is the IPv4 address space. So if your
IPv4 address is 10.20.30.40 your IPV6 address
is:0a14:1e28 (you convert the bytes to hex).
The IPV6 designers spent (and continue to spend) far more time on the migration issues than on the actual protocol changes.
Actually, Military spending is the least efficient way to employ people via government spending.
Education (i.e. hiring more teachers, reducing class sizes, etc.) is the most effiecient way to employ people via government spending.
For example, according to the
National Priorities Project website, for the cost of
our little excursion into Iraq, we could have
hired 1,541,037 Elementary School Teachers.
The problem with military spending is that huge portions of the expenditure end up in the pockets of the CEOs of the military-industrial complex companies (McDonnel-Douglas, etc.). This especially when you count the billions of dollars
of unrequested added weapons that Congress has the U.S. Military purchase.
Another huge chunk of Military spending (especially when you use the military, as in Iraq) is simply sent overseas to Arab countries to buy oil.
- If the United Nations ordered the United States to disarm, we wouldn't either.
- While British troops did use the smallpox trick,
according to
this reference, so did we:
See Ann F. Ramenofsky, Vectors of Death: The Archaeology of European Contact (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987):
Among Class I agents, Variola major holds a unique position. Although the virus is most frequently transmitted through droplet infection, it can survive for a number of years outside human hosts in a dried state (Downie 1967; Upham 1986). As a consequence, Variola major can be transmitted through contaminated articles such as clothing or blankets (Dixon 1962). In the nineteenth century, the U.S. Army sent contaminated blankets to Native Americans, especially Plains groups, to control the Indian problem (Stearn and Stearn 1945). [p. 148]
See also Robert L. O'Connell, Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression (NY and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989):
- The claims of Iraq "being connected to" Bin Laden have never stated that they did so at any given time. My point was that a claim that vague is easily made about the United States as well.
We understand you've been considering switching from Microsoft software to an Open Source operating system.
Yes... Before you do that, you might want to consider how embarrasing it might be when people find out you've been watching Debbie Does Dallas on your office PC.
Oh Mr. Jones, blackmail is such an ugly word...
And will you be buying another thousand Office licenses? Wonderful! So nice to do business with you Mr. Jones...
It's very simple. Take nearly any statement about Iraq and the United States, swap the two countries
names throughout and see if it doesn't still hold.
The United States has Weapons of Mass Destruction,
and is in fact the only country to ever use nuclear weapons on a civilian population. (Hiroshima)
The United States has biological weapons, and has in the past used biological attacks against unwanted minority populations (Native Americans given smallpox-laden blankets)
The United States has supported terrorist groups,
even, in particular, Osama Bin Laden. (When he was fighting the Russians in Afghanistan)
So in summary, nearly every argument based on facts that I've seen to date argues at least as strongly that the United States should be invaded, and be forced to disarm.
Now that may in fact be true as well, but it seems a poor set of arguments for the United States leadership to use.
All that says is that, under that law, the
person sending e-mail spam is doubly in trouble.
They are sending an unsolicited adverizement to a
fax machine.
They also are sending one without their phone
number.
And of course, as long as it doesn't have a
printer connected, the *sending* machine may not
be a FAX machine. But its still illegal to send
the adverisement to a FAX machine, regardles what
you use to send it, right?
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Besides Linux, they even got Minix and Xinu in there, which were both written from scratch, and are published in their entirety in books. Hmm...
I get it now! They took a chart that had lots of Unix -like operating systems on it (i.e. Xinu, Linux, etc.) and when they came out, and they added some dashed lines to hook them all up! In particular the dashed green line from V7 Unix to Sinix to Unicos and Xinu (which they didn't quite actualy connect) and then down and over to the start of Linux.
Didn't they realize that adding lines to a chart doesn't make it true?!?
If a candidate has 48% of the vote and he can get a 3% block to vote for him by taking up a single issue, he often will do so to put himself over the top.
This explains the influence of the so-called Religious Right in the United States, for example, which the Republican party has co-opted. It's orthagonal to the main Republican agenda (which is ensuring that the rich get richer) and simply by paying lip service to the Right to Life crowd you get an extra 10% voting block. And all you have to do is make it incrementally harder for poor people to get abortions now and then.
Before I get modded off-topic, let me say I am not advocating for or against the Right to Life folks in this post, I'm merely pointing out that the Republicans are taking advantage of their single-issue-voting propensity to keep their party in the majority. If they could get Gay Rights advocates without losing the Religious Right, I suspect they would, but the Religious Right is a stronger voting block...
So you're saying that once they get the ATM to spew all of its cash, it will then shut down? Isn't that too late? :-).
Also, if you read the article you refer to, they point out that letting stuff like this rot produces methane, which is a more potent greenhouse gas than the C02 is.
Sun Rays are nice, but you can go even cheaper if you get a low-cost PC ( A iDOT Lindows Webstation box, perhaps?), and Knoppix with the Encrypted Persistent Home Directory which you can save on a USB pen drive...
- nearly all the carbon for the plant comes from the air,
- not all of the plant is eaten, and
- not all of the carbon produced is released into
the air.
So, good joke, but using food as a fuel is the Right Thing to do for global warming. That's why those fuel cells that run on sugar they're working on is such a good idea...Besides science fiction, Asimov wrote quite a few good non-fiction books on the sciences, etc.
The vending-machine diet is exactly the wrong thing for some of us when it comes to concentration...
I second that; I've worked at Fermilab over 10 years, and I still think it's neat...
It looks like I simply didn't wait the 3 decades for the webpage stuff to finish downloading -- either that or they've fixed something since. As of today, it works just fine.
<html>
<head>
<title>National Do Not Call Registry</title>
<meta content="Microsoft Visual Studio 7.0" name="GENERATOR">
<meta name="keywords" content="National Do Not Call Registry, telemarketers, FTC, Mobile Phone, Home Phone, Registration, Do Not Call"
<meta content="C#" name="CODE_LANGUAGE">
<meta content="JavaScript" name="vs_defaultClientScript">
<meta content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisens
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href="css/style.css">
<script src="WebTrendScript.js" language="Javascript1.1"></script>
</head>
Which currently doesn't show up in Mozilla *at all*.
Now does Microsoft intentionally make their Visual Studio stuff (not to mention the latest PowerPoint, etc.) generate almost-HTML that don't display in Mozilla? You be the judge...
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Load on mail servers should go down, as it is less overhead to
look up if sender S is on recipient R's white
list already than it is to run 75 content filter
algorithms and compute the score, etc. And you can
do it before you actually accept the body of the email.
-
Your second point and your third point don't play together well -- if they're all different, it makes it much harder for spammers to reply to them.
- If spammers figure out how to reply to them, they at least have to start using reply addresses that work to the first order; a first step to other forms of remediation.
The later points are fixable:- When you make your first order with the company they send you your email confirmation,
and they have to have a person reply to the
responder that first time. From then on they can email you. A person is generally involved with the order anyway, so it isn't that much overhead.
- You make a whitelist reply have headers like any other delivery error report. People have been sending bounce e-mails for decades, and
RFCs describe how to avoid bounce-bounces.
Of course, to work at all the system has to work in a symmetric situation -- you must automatically whitelist folks to whom you send e-mail, otherwise you can't receive their auto-responder query...The thing to do is bring up issues in designs like this that might be a problem, and try to solve them; not to say "It's a bad idea because I can think of 20 potential problems".
I can't think of any of it that would be worth contributing to either Linux or {Free,Open,Net}BSD.
Unfortunately, what may make it hard for folks to deal with in the legal case, is that there was very little that was clever or elegant in the SystemV kernel -- any item you might find mentioned in a POSIX standard (i.e a process, an inode, etc.) was pretty much stored in the kernel in the most trivial way possible.
So someone else implementing to that standard could easily pick the same trivial implementation to store the similar entities, and how do you prove whether it was from someone who's seen the SystemV code, and whether they "stole" it?
But basically, I suspect it will end up like a plagurism suit for music, where someone tries to claim that someone "stole" the 1-4-5 chord progression from their song.
Actually, it is. There is a whole block of IPv6 which is the IPv4 address space. So if your IPv4 address is 10.20.30.40 your IPV6 address is :0a14:1e28 (you convert the bytes to hex).
The IPV6 designers spent (and continue to spend) far more time on the migration issues than on the actual protocol changes.
Education (i.e. hiring more teachers, reducing class sizes, etc.) is the most effiecient way to employ people via government spending. For example, according to the National Priorities Project website, for the cost of our little excursion into Iraq, we could have hired 1,541,037 Elementary School Teachers.
The problem with military spending is that huge portions of the expenditure end up in the pockets of the CEOs of the military-industrial complex companies (McDonnel-Douglas, etc.). This especially when you count the billions of dollars of unrequested added weapons that Congress has the U.S. Military purchase.
Another huge chunk of Military spending (especially when you use the military, as in Iraq) is simply sent overseas to Arab countries to buy oil.
[For the humor impaired, this is sarcasm]
You should see Neal Gunton's spambot_trap page. The side of good is fighting back...
You can find a list here.
- If the United Nations ordered the United States to disarm, we wouldn't either.
- While British troops did use the smallpox trick, according to this reference, so did we:
- The claims of Iraq "being connected to" Bin Laden have never stated that they did so at any given time. My point was that a claim that vague is easily made about the United States as well.
Yes... Before you do that, you might want to consider how embarrasing it might be when people find out you've been watching Debbie Does Dallas on your office PC.
Oh Mr. Jones, blackmail is such an ugly word...
And will you be buying another thousand Office licenses? Wonderful! So nice to do business with you Mr. Jones...
The United States has Weapons of Mass Destruction, and is in fact the only country to ever use nuclear weapons on a civilian population. (Hiroshima)
The United States has biological weapons, and has in the past used biological attacks against unwanted minority populations (Native Americans given smallpox-laden blankets)
The United States has supported terrorist groups, even, in particular, Osama Bin Laden. (When he was fighting the Russians in Afghanistan)
So in summary, nearly every argument based on facts that I've seen to date argues at least as strongly that the United States should be invaded, and be forced to disarm. Now that may in fact be true as well, but it seems a poor set of arguments for the United States leadership to use.
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They are sending an unsolicited adverizement to a
fax machine.
-
They also are sending one without their phone
number.
And of course, as long as it doesn't have a printer connected, the *sending* machine may not be a FAX machine. But its still illegal to send the adverisement to a FAX machine, regardles what you use to send it, right?