If there is no reliable source of refrigeration (like, for example in a battle field or a country without a working power grid), the $20 can might actually be a better deal.
The public switched telephone network will never die.
Packet based systems are too unreliable. You need to be able to reach 911, etc reliably, lives depend on it. How many times packets just get dropped? "Connection timed out" errors, etc? Much more than phone system failures. And with circuit swtiching, you know immediately and with certainty if the next link is up, and can provide feedback right away that the lines are down, allowing immediate rerouting (at best) or giving a notice to the user, such as a fast busy signal (at worst). With IP, you just have to wait for a timeout and then report it down, and it might have just been really overloaded.
Also, dropped packets in an open conversation will cause severe artifacts in the audio. With circuit switching, once the circuit is up, it is up, unless some equipment or lines fail. No loss in quality due to dropped packets, or because your path over the net speed dropped from 64 kbps to 24 kbps due to congestion, and now YOU sound like you have (nasal) congestion to the other end because there isn't enough bandwidth to make the audio sound right.
And if an IP link fails, it takes a while to know. Did the other person go silent, is the line dead, just congested, what? With circuit switching, you can tell immediately.
IP is not the way for telephony.
As long as there is a public telephone network, there will need to be interconnects between it and the Internet.
Reasons the terrorists have for attacking us in the first place??
Do you *agree* with Osama Bin Laden?
Yeah, everybody as a reason for doing things. What was the reason for 9/11? Pure evil.
They *DO* want to destroy our freedom and our whole way of life. Al Qaida has told us to convert to (their distorted version of) Islam.
Want to make the USA like Iran? As for our foreign policy, do you want to allow a Second Holocaust when Israel gets attacked because we refuse to support it?
The War on Terror was fought in my hometown. I am from New York originally, and the terrorists struck that city and took down the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The war in Iraq is just a continuation of the war started in NYC and Washington DC on 9/11.
WE didn't start anything.
Unless you count defending Israel so that there isn't a Second Holocaust. Many of the people in the surrounding countries have stated they "want to push the Jews into the sea".
More wasted bandwidth = more bandwidth needed. More bandwidth needed = more profits for bandwidth providers.
As for direct email campaigns, I believe they'd help Kerry more than Bush. Why? Because the incumbent (whether loved, hated, or somewhere in between) is well known, as are his positions. If a Democrat was in office, the Republicans would benefit more from direct email.
What someone killed on September 11 might say if they could:
When they blew up the bus in Israel, I didn't say anything, because I wasn't Israeli. When they attacked the USS Cole, I didn't say anything, because I wasn't in the military.
Then they attacked the World Trade Center, and now I'm dead and can't say anything.
Speak out against terror, not those trying to protect us. Yeah, the Department of Homeland Security ain't perfect, are you? Didn't think so.
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Perhaps the Department of "Justice" should be renamed the Department of Legal Affairs.
Anyone think that perhaps the real attack has already occurred? And that we are contributing to it?
Just spreading "news" that there will be an attack is disruptive in and of itself.
Look at how much time and effort has already been sucked up by this.
Wouldn't that be iHad? :)
You are not stealing from anyone if you buy a region free DVD player.
Stealing is the unlawful taking of property, not merely hurting someone's profits.
Am I stealing from Opera because I am using Mozilla as my web browser?
No.
Genetic engineering can override human nature.
Just knock out the genes for the undesirable behaviors.
If there is no reliable source of refrigeration (like, for example in a battle field or a country without a working power grid), the $20 can might actually be a better deal.
Never mind people using ammonium nitrate for bombs, you just told them how they can use it to get high.
Believe it or not, the gov't probably thinks that is a bigger threat.
Who has the bigger budget, the DEA or the ATF?
Plasma torches exist in the real world.
Do a Google search.
Make it a requirement of the class that you provide a license to the teacher to do so.
Copyright problem solved.
Sure, the student can refuse, but the teacher can then refuse to give the student a grade.
Another fine example of technology giving with one hand and taking away with another.
Ironic that the Internet makes it easier to cheat, and to catch cheaters.
More proof that technology is often quite socially neutral.
Sounds easier to actually write the paper the honest way.
Anyone think plagiarism checking companies might be secretly owned by a custom term paper writing companies?
Making pre-written cookie cutter papers (their competition) less useful would help them.
Just like anti-virus companies making viruses - create a need for your market.
In Las Vegas, they don't even need to have that.
:)
The gov't can just hire the hackers that hacked the Vegas phone switches.
The public switched telephone network will never die.
Packet based systems are too unreliable. You need to be able to reach 911, etc reliably, lives depend on it. How many times packets just get dropped? "Connection timed out" errors, etc? Much more than phone system failures. And with circuit swtiching, you know immediately and with certainty if the next link is up, and can provide feedback right away that the lines are down, allowing immediate rerouting (at best) or giving a notice to the user, such as a fast busy signal (at worst). With IP, you just have to wait for a timeout and then report it down, and it might have just been really overloaded.
Also, dropped packets in an open conversation will cause severe artifacts in the audio. With circuit switching, once the circuit is up, it is up, unless some equipment or lines fail. No loss in quality due to dropped packets, or because your path over the net speed dropped from 64 kbps to 24 kbps due to congestion, and now YOU sound like you have (nasal) congestion to the other end because there isn't enough bandwidth to make the audio sound right.
And if an IP link fails, it takes a while to know. Did the other person go silent, is the line dead, just congested, what? With circuit switching, you can tell immediately.
IP is not the way for telephony.
As long as there is a public telephone network, there will need to be interconnects between it and the Internet.
Reasons the terrorists have for attacking us in the first place??
Do you *agree* with Osama Bin Laden?
Yeah, everybody as a reason for doing things. What was the reason for 9/11? Pure evil.
They *DO* want to destroy our freedom and our whole way of life. Al Qaida has told us to convert to (their distorted version of) Islam.
Want to make the USA like Iran? As for our foreign policy, do you want to allow a Second Holocaust when Israel gets attacked because we refuse to support it?
The War on Terror was fought in my hometown. I am from New York originally, and the terrorists struck that city and took down the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The war in Iraq is just a continuation of the war started in NYC and Washington DC on 9/11.
WE didn't start anything.
Unless you count defending Israel so that there isn't a Second Holocaust. Many of the people in the surrounding countries have stated they "want to push the Jews into the sea".
And people tend to congregate with other people of similar geekiness.
Hence Slashdot.
If the filter uses a challenge response instead of dropping the message on failure - it can be just as effective and let legitimate email through.
Something as simple as just replying to the spam bounce message (with an embedded token) could cause the message to make it through.
Spammers who don't have legitimate return addresses or who don't respond to their emails - won't get through.
Don't worry, the spammers are reading this and will find a way around that soon enough.
The same reason why Al-Qaida watches CNN and Fox News.
Spam helps the telecom and internet industry.
More wasted bandwidth = more bandwidth needed.
More bandwidth needed = more profits for bandwidth providers.
As for direct email campaigns, I believe they'd help Kerry more than Bush. Why? Because the incumbent (whether loved, hated, or somewhere in between) is well known, as are his positions. If a Democrat was in office, the Republicans would benefit more from direct email.
As far as I know, I have never done anything anywhere that would cause someone to think of me as a potential terrorist.
Posting to Slashdot perhaps?
Yeah, but he wasn't flying Southwest airlines so that ain't it. :)
What someone killed on September 11 might say if they could:
When they blew up the bus in Israel, I didn't say anything, because I wasn't Israeli. When they attacked the USS Cole, I didn't say anything, because I wasn't in the military.
Then they attacked the World Trade Center, and now I'm dead and can't say anything.
Speak out against terror, not those trying to protect us. Yeah, the Department of Homeland Security ain't perfect, are you? Didn't think so.
Hey, you still have the liberty to bitch on Slashdot.
Just buy PC-DOS instead. :)