Most swimming pools have lights which illuminate the water. People frequently pee in swimming pools, making them a kind of toilet. There's your prior art
Guided missle destroyers and frigates are often deployed alone or in small task forces (vs. being part of a carrier battle group). Every navy in the world has at least a couple of this kind of ship. The former USSR built a whole lot of Kashin and Krivak class boats; and the Russians have been selling them off to everyone and their brother, who have been in turn refitting them with modern missiles and fire control systems.
I suspect that a space battle would strongly resemble a naval engagement between DDGs and FFGs
Of course, that just means that instead of King George we'll have his idiot brother occupying the White House in 2008, with the same old crooks pulling the strings behind the scenes.
A spacecraft would be no more able to dodge incoming missiles than a naval ship can. It would be pretty much like modern naval warfare without aircraft, and in 3 dimensions instead of 2. It would come down to offensive missles against anti-missiles and point defenses.
Orbits are very predictable, and any real-world spacecraft will have a very limited amount of delta-vee with which to maneuver.
Even with realistic sci-fi technology like fusion drive, space battles would still be boring as hell. Read Protector by Larry Niven for a realistic take on space combat.
The GOP loves big business, especially those who's CEOs are old school chums or large financial supporters of the party leadership. Big business doesn't want competition, they want total monopolistic control of their market.
Small private businesses are irrelevant to the GOP because they can't afford big enough bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H campaign contributions.
Come on, did you really expect a "study" about X funded by someone who sells X to not be self-serving?
That's about as likely as Microsoft funding a study that concludes "Linux is better than Windows" or Jerry Fallwell saying "Gee, maybe there's something to what that Mohammad guy said after all".
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Diogenes Laertius summarized Epicurian philosophy in On the Ethical End by saying:
"I know not how to conceive the good, apart from the pleasures of taste, of sex, of sound, and the pleasures of beautiful form."
If you stop buying penis enlargement pills, etc. Spam would stop.
Not necessarily. This assumes that the spammers are making money selling some dubious product. Certianly, some are. However, a lot of spammers are making their money by selling their spamming service to other unscrupulous individuals & companies.
If I'm a spammer and I'm charging $5000 up front to send 50 million emails hawking penis pills on behalf of some other sleazeball, I'm getting paid regardless of whether or not he sells a single pill. Of course, if I'm really (smart|sleazy) I'll demand up-front payment AND a percentage of the gross sales:-) That way if he does actually make any money, I get paid twice.
With some things, the only difference between the brand-name product and the generic product is the logo and packaging (EG Motrin vs store-brand ibuprofin). With other things there's a real difference in quality between brands (EG Toyota vs Hundai). The trick is knowing when brand matters and when it doesn't.
In 2001? a friend of mine got a great deal at fry's on 1gb DIMMs. This is when memory was PRICY. A weekend of testing found the good ones, the rest went back.
This attitude presumes that your (or your friend's) time is worth nothing.
The difference beteen cheap and expensive RAM is only latency
BZZT. Wrong. The difference is *quality*. Not all chips coming off the same wafer are of equal quality. Some are very good and run better than spec, some perform within spec, some are borderline and will perform erraticly, and some are totally borked.
A reputable manufacturer tests the parts and only sells those that are within spec and discards the marginal ones. Dishonest vendors will sell marginal parts and hope they work well enough to foist them off on someone.
Todays lesson is that cheap parts are inexpensive because they are crap quality.
If you want it to work right, buy parts from a tier-1 vendor from a reputable reseller. Buying brand-x crap might be cheaper today, but it's more expensive in the long run as you'll have to replace it sooner, and waste more of your time tracking down wierd errors caused by flakey hardware.
I hope the lesson wasn't too expensive for you. Next time, shell out a few extra bucks and get Crucial or Kingston RAM.
There is a practice among unscrupulous vendors to sell factory discards as if they were good parts. I don't have the link handy, but there was a story here on/. a few months ago on the topic.
IMHO It is just as appropriate to apply the moniker "piracy" to this form of fraud as it is to apply it the unauthorized duplication of copyrighted media or the counterfeiting of designer logo clothing.
Number two, one need not find hash collisions in order to poison P2P networks. Just hack up a client that claims to have a file with a certain hash, but delivers chunks of random garbage to swarming peers
That attack can be easily defeated by having clients report bad chunks back to the tracker, or to each other. Every time EVILHOST sends me a corrupt chunk, I send the tracker a message informing them about that fact. This will let the tracker keep track of any host that is consistently sending out garbage. This way, when I get a list of peers who have the chunk I want, I can exclude any ones which have been spewing too much garbage. This will quickly blacklist any peer who's intentionally trying to poison the network.
So tell me: exactly how many hours a week do you personally spend reviewing the Firefox code?
I review the Firefox code every time I run it and notice and report some odd behavior. I review it every time I send a crash report in.
Auditing the source code line by line is not the only way to review code -- functional testing is a less direct but effective way to improve the quality of the software.
Consider a state funded library system. It makes selections of what books and periodicals to carry. It probably doesn't supply girlie magazines.
Bad analogy. With print media, you have to spend more money to get more content. Since libraries have to decide how to spend their finite budget (and what will fit in their finite shelf space), they spend it on what will benefit the most people. With the internet, you get EVERYTHING by default for the same price -- it costs MORE money to get LESS content.
it 100% within its rights to limit its own internet service.
First off, the government does not have any rights -- the People have rights. What the government has are powers. Those powers are granted and limited by the US Constitution and the Constitutions of the various states.
As to your assertion that the Government has the power to filter a public internet connection: the Supreme Court says otherwise. The Constitution places limits on what the Government is allowed to do. Congress and the states keep passing internet filtering laws, despite the fact that the courts keep finding them unconstitutional and striking them down.
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I suspect that a space battle would strongly resemble a naval engagement between DDGs and FFGs
Of course, that just means that instead of King George we'll have his idiot brother occupying the White House in 2008, with the same old crooks pulling the strings behind the scenes.
A spacecraft would be no more able to dodge incoming missiles than a naval ship can. It would be pretty much like modern naval warfare without aircraft, and in 3 dimensions instead of 2. It would come down to offensive missles against anti-missiles and point defenses.
There's a reason there's a law called the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
A true Republican president would be fighting against the trusts, unlike the corporate whore who occupies the White House.
Orbits are very predictable, and any real-world spacecraft will have a very limited amount of delta-vee with which to maneuver.
Even with realistic sci-fi technology like fusion drive, space battles would still be boring as hell. Read Protector by Larry Niven for a realistic take on space combat.
Small private businesses are irrelevant to the GOP because they can't afford big enough bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H campaign contributions.
Buying cheap parts is penny wise and pound foolish. Buying good quality equipment from the start saves you money in the long term.
That's about as likely as Microsoft funding a study that concludes "Linux is better than Windows" or Jerry Fallwell saying "Gee, maybe there's something to what that Mohammad guy said after all".
If I'm a spammer and I'm charging $5000 up front to send 50 million emails hawking penis pills on behalf of some other sleazeball, I'm getting paid regardless of whether or not he sells a single pill. Of course, if I'm really (smart|sleazy) I'll demand up-front payment AND a percentage of the gross sales :-) That way if he does actually make any money, I get paid twice.
A reputable manufacturer tests the parts and only sells those that are within spec and discards the marginal ones. Dishonest vendors will sell marginal parts and hope they work well enough to foist them off on someone.
I don't like to have to RMA a part I just bought because it was DOA.
I don't like having a defective part damage other components (unlikely with RAM, but a piece of shit power supply can toast an entire system)
If you want it to work right, buy parts from a tier-1 vendor from a reputable reseller. Buying brand-x crap might be cheaper today, but it's more expensive in the long run as you'll have to replace it sooner, and waste more of your time tracking down wierd errors caused by flakey hardware.
I hope the lesson wasn't too expensive for you. Next time, shell out a few extra bucks and get Crucial or Kingston RAM.
IMHO It is just as appropriate to apply the moniker "piracy" to this form of fraud as it is to apply it the unauthorized duplication of copyrighted media or the counterfeiting of designer logo clothing.
Looks like Mr. Michael Dell of Texas fell behind on his tribute to King George.
Auditing the source code line by line is not the only way to review code -- functional testing is a less direct but effective way to improve the quality of the software.
As to your assertion that the Government has the power to filter a public internet connection: the Supreme Court says otherwise. The Constitution places limits on what the Government is allowed to do. Congress and the states keep passing internet filtering laws, despite the fact that the courts keep finding them unconstitutional and striking them down.