I always figured that a service like Passport, especially with microsoft's abysmal track record in security, would be a wholesale clearinghouse for identity theft.
You may as well put your personal information and credit card numbers ROT13'ed in your sig.
According to Accu-Weather, the world's leading commercial forecaster, "Global air temperatures as measured by land-based weather stations
show an increase of about 0.45 degrees Celsius over the past century. This may be no more than normal climatic variation...[and] several biases
in the data may be responsible for some of this increase."
Satellite data indicate a slight cooling in the climate in the last 18 years. These satellites use advanced technology and are not subject to the "heat island" effect around major cities that alters ground-based thermometers.
Projections of future climate changes are uncertain. Although some computer models predict warming in the next century, these models are very limited. The effects of cloud formations, precipitation, the role of the oceans, or the sun, are still not well known and often inadequately
represented in the climate models --- although all play a major role in determining our climate. Scientists who work on these models are quick to
point out that they are far from perfect representations of reality, and are probably not advanced enough for direct use in policy implementation.
Interestingly, as the computer climate models have become more sophisticated in recent years, the predicted increase in temperature has been lowered.
Are humans causing the climate to change?
98% of total global greenhouse gas emissions are natural (mostly water vapor); only 2% are from man-made sources.
By most accounts, man-made emissions have had no more than a minuscule impact on the climate. Although the climate has warmed slightly in the last 100 years, 70% percent of that warming occurred prior to 1940, before the upsurge in greenhouse gas emissions from industrial
processes. (Dr. Robert C. Balling, Arizona State University)
A Gallup survey indicated that only 17% of the members of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Society thought the warming of the 20th century was the result of an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
Why just settle for boycotting Alta-Vista... Why can't we block them from indexing our websites.
Is there a webmaster organization with enough members to confront Alta Vista and tell them that if they persist in this action that we will charge them for every webpage that they index?
After they move most of their customers over to the subscription model, I wonder how many upgrades they will produce that contain more code than a version number bump?
The entire MS product line is being renamed with.net suffixes, reflecting a change of the company's philosphy away from selling operating systems to selling products that will be used on the network. Gates compares this change in company philosophy to the change from DOS to Windows and says that it is a "bet the company thing."
We can only hope.
It is not necessary that we succeed, it just necessary that everyone else fail. BG
I'd almost given up hope of this question being posted. Thanks for your responses and I'll try some of them out. (At the moment we have each of the cable modems connected to dedicated pc's in various parts of the building, which works, but seems to be a waste when most of the modems are sitting idle a fair amount of the time.)
Up here in Toronto the press have been making a big deal about the anniversary of the event and how much security in the schools is being beefed up etc. If the press hadn't made a big deal of it, I'm sure this would have been a non-event. Instead we're getting news reports of violent incidents at schools all over the city.
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microsoft windows was actually announced to crush potential competition from Visi-on.
I always figured that a service like Passport, especially with microsoft's abysmal track record in security, would be a wholesale clearinghouse for identity theft.
You may as well put your personal information and credit card numbers ROT13'ed in your sig.
No it isn't
Ca Li Ma is the sign
Caution
Live
Animals
with part of the lettering of each word obscured by dirt.
Personally, I think the "Global Warming Crisis" is a crock. These guys say it much more eloquantly than I can, and even have facts to back it up.
Global Warming - The Cooler Heads Coalition.
To briefly summarize their point of view
According to Accu-Weather, the world's leading commercial forecaster, "Global air temperatures as measured by land-based weather stations show an increase of about 0.45 degrees Celsius over the past century. This may be no more than normal climatic variation...[and] several biases in the data may be responsible for some of this increase."
Satellite data indicate a slight cooling in the climate in the last 18 years. These satellites use advanced technology and are not subject to the "heat island" effect around major cities that alters ground-based thermometers.
Projections of future climate changes are uncertain. Although some computer models predict warming in the next century, these models are very limited. The effects of cloud formations, precipitation, the role of the oceans, or the sun, are still not well known and often inadequately represented in the climate models --- although all play a major role in determining our climate. Scientists who work on these models are quick to point out that they are far from perfect representations of reality, and are probably not advanced enough for direct use in policy implementation.
Interestingly, as the computer climate models have become more sophisticated in recent years, the predicted increase in temperature has been lowered.
Are humans causing the climate to change?
98% of total global greenhouse gas emissions are natural (mostly water vapor); only 2% are from man-made sources.
By most accounts, man-made emissions have had no more than a minuscule impact on the climate. Although the climate has warmed slightly in the last 100 years, 70% percent of that warming occurred prior to 1940, before the upsurge in greenhouse gas emissions from industrial processes. (Dr. Robert C. Balling, Arizona State University)
A Gallup survey indicated that only 17% of the members of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Society thought the warming of the 20th century was the result of an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
Why just settle for boycotting Alta-Vista... Why can't we block them from indexing our websites.
Is there a webmaster organization with enough members to confront Alta Vista and tell them that if they persist in this action that we will charge them for every webpage that they index?
Don't you mean "The Land of the Fee"
After they move most of their customers over to the subscription model, I wonder how many upgrades they will produce that contain more code than a version number bump?
According to Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations the quote was made by Benjamin Disraeli.
Chord keyboards do exist.
Check this link out http://www.nanopac.com/Keyboard.htm
I've allways wanted to buy one of these keyboards, but never got around to it.
I've heard rumours that the "official" name was the rodentiometer and that the smallest detectable unit of mouse movement is called a "mickey".
Can't remember where I read that though.
I think you're wrong about that. It was Sculley who screwed up and gave away the licence to the Mac Look and Feel.
>Remember that they have never been on trial for anything to do with customers, only rivals.
Of course they have.
Windows-related class-action lawsuit
Windows refunds
Microsoft temps
there are many more if you'd care to look them up....Yahoo search
The entire MS product line is being renamed with .net suffixes, reflecting a change of the company's philosphy away from selling operating systems to selling products that will be used on the network. Gates compares this change in company philosophy to the change from DOS to Windows and says that it is a "bet the company thing."
We can only hope.
It is not necessary that we succeed, it just necessary that everyone else fail. BG
"Ethically" what is the difference between wearing fur and wearing leather?
I've yet to see any activists demonstrating at biker gatherings though.
I'd almost given up hope of this question being posted. Thanks for your responses and I'll try some of them out. (At the moment we have each of the cable modems connected to dedicated pc's in various parts of the building, which works, but seems to be a waste when most of the modems are sitting idle a fair amount of the time.)
I wonder if Stallone's bike in the movie ran on visual basic too?
Up here in Toronto the press have been making a big deal about the anniversary of the event and how much security in the schools is being beefed up etc.
If the press hadn't made a big deal of it, I'm sure this would have been a non-event. Instead we're getting news reports of violent incidents at schools all over the city.
Can anyone tell me if LinuxPPC supports multiple monitors, and if so how to implement it? Thanks.