While it'd be inconsequential to me to put up 10c to send each message (or probably even $1 if my employment related emails didn't count) it doesn't scale well between different countries.
Third world countries will find that sort of money a huge barrier to entry for sending email.
Similarly this will be open to google ad type exploitation. People will set up email addresses and sign up to all sorts of solicited and unsolicited email just to collect the cash. Again for people in poorer countries this might be a practical job.
Surely if you pay a fine covering the cost of your stolen music collection until the end of your life, then you can keep building your collection (unless of course you exceeed the 1M songs Y!MU has)
I'm not that familiar with the south of scotland. Despite having lived the vast majority of my life there, i've never spent much time anywhere south of edinburgh.
As far as the highlands go, i'd recommend skipping Aviemore. My opinion is that the west coast is far more beautiful. The island of Skye (you can drive there) is probably an excellent choice. The scenery is spectacular and it's enough off the beaten track that it's not horribly touristy.
My email is graha dot ms at graha dot ms if you want to have a more convenient discussion:)
- Curry at King's Balti (it's BYOB so a case of beer should do three of you) - For a decent pub in that area try the Abbey - For something trendier my wife and I love Bar Kohl on George 4th Bridge, not very scottish but they have an impressive vodka selection. - Obviously the castle is a must-do if you are into that kind of thing (not so exciting for a native)
For more traditional food (depending on your wealth) I can happily recommend the Witchery. For something a bit more affordable try the Marque (there are 2 of them i think).
Also don't try to do it all.
I can spend weeks in the hebridies islands, another week or two for orkney - trying to do a rushed tour of everything will leave you exhausted.
Bear in mind that it may take a LOT longer to get places. Travelling interstate here you can easily keep up an 80-90mph average, in scotland (particularly in the north) you'll average nearer 40.
Obviously everything will ultimately fail. I know that the semiconductor industry make the same part, test it to see how fast it is, then sell it as different models based on the test results.
I was surprised that some reasonable proportion of hard drives sold have errors on them at that point in time.
Part of me wonders if this explains the anecdotal stories that SCSI disks are more reliable than their cheaper ATA counterparts - even when they use the same physical hardware. Perhaps (and this is blind speculation) the drives with fewer errors get sold to the customers willing to pay more.
i know all disks ultimately fail, but it's frustrating that some can be really abused and run for years, when others die abruptly.
While working at said hard disk company i had one of their smaller disks sitting on the end of a steel ruler on my desk. I spun round on my chair, as i do when i'm thinking, and hit the other end of the ruler with my elbow. This of course launched the disk across the room, slamming it against the wall.
Given that I was in the process of writing software to diagnose failure's I was quite excited about this accident. Of course i return the disk to the test setup and there's nothing wrong.
In my experience, the only sure fire way to have a disk fail is to place any piece of important, but un-backed-up, work on it.
Having written some diagnostic tools for a smaller hard disk maker (who i'll refrain from naming) it's amazing to me that disks work at all.
Most systems can identify and patch out bad sectors so that they aren't used. What surprised me is that the manufacturers have their own bad sector table, so when you get the disk it's fairly likely that there are already bad areas which have been mapped out.
Secondly the raw error rate was astoundingly high. It's been quite a few years but it was somewhere between on error in every 10E5 to 10E6 bits. So it's not unusual to find a mistake in every megabyte read. Of course CRC picks up this error and hides that from you too.
Granted this was a few years ago, but i wouldn't be surprised if it's as bad (or even worse) now.
Say you have a libary of 100 cds with an average pricepoint of $15.
Instead why not take that $1500, invest it at maybe 4% apr, and you'll get back the $60/year you need to subscribe to yahoo.
By purchasing cds you tie up captial which is essentially being used to license your music anyway.
Also i'd say that subscription based services ARE more likely to gaurantee future access to your music. If yahoo fold then you just subscribe to raphsody instead and you'll stil have the million + songs that you had with y!.
I've seen a few people who can text as fast as i can think. Even seen someone sending mesages 'blind' with the phone under the table in a resturant while carrying on a conversation (in her second language).
I'm guessing you can't do t9 if you aren't looking at the screen.. but either way is pretty quick when you get used to it.
Just remember how long it used to take you to write a troll comment on slashdot, now you can do it in seconds.
In the UK, the plan I was on (which admittedly had free line rental) would charge me 45p (about 70c) a minute if i wanted to call rival cellphone networks, vs 10p (about 17c) per text message.
Given the fact that a lot of communication etiher took place in classes or in bars, it's far easier to not be either whispering or screaming into your phone.
Admittedly the US favors voice calls and they dont penalize you for calling other networks - which probably explains why text msging isn't so big here.
I tried loading some big pages and some pages off slowish sites and certainly didn't notice any difference.
It's already been uninstalled here. Right now i'm on a fairly slow dsl connection and expected to see a reasonable difference - but nothing remarkable.
You should be able to make the dhcp server give them the address of some linux box as the primary gateway.
With a bit of iptables goodness you could route all their web requests to your own server and display an informative page.
Their virus might still be spewing out traffic but it wouldn't route onto the internet, and by giving offenders private ips you could stop them hitting other local machines.
Anyone that's smart enough to change their mac address, should be smart enough to keep spyware and viruses off their system.
Also my school used to require that students REGISTER their mac address in order to get access, and the switches / dhcp server would only allow registered macs in.
Yeah i know there are lots of similar concepts. Some house arrest systems are tied to GPS.
My point was really that if you sentence someone to use gps tracking then it's fine. Equally you can probably trade them early release for agreeing to use gps tracking.
However requiring that all sex offenders, even those who have technically repaid their debt to society, to be punished further is not ok.
I know that rehabilitation doesn't work well, but my suspicion is that we dont provide many offenders with the support they need to become functional members of society again.
Corrections isn't supposed to be entirely about punishment and locking people up - it's supposed to be about 'correcting' them.
Would be to sentence them to 25 years in prison then 10 years of monitoring. I can't see how this could be legal to apply retroactively. Paying your debt to society isn't like paying your comcast bill; they government can't increase the penalties every time they feel like it.
I think a bigger improvement would be to make failure to register as a sex offender into a felony - i believe it's currently a misdemeanor. That way we'd at least have a bit more security in knowing if they live nearby.
I get quite a bit of spam that I probably did opt in for 5 or 10 years ago. Unfortuantely some of if requires that you send an unsubscribe message FROM the email address that they sent the spam too.
My of my 'legacy' email addresses forward to my inbox and i cant easily send email from them. Obviously I could change my mailer to set an appropriate from address - but it's easier just to mark it as spam.
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Perhaps the first charge between a sender and receiver could be waived.
So if someone claims your message as spam, you can be informed, you can remove their address from your list and get off without paying.
But that's now a new way to abuse the system.
Also spammers can put up bonds with stolen credit cards...
While it'd be inconsequential to me to put up 10c to send each message (or probably even $1 if my employment related emails didn't count) it doesn't scale well between different countries.
Third world countries will find that sort of money a huge barrier to entry for sending email.
Similarly this will be open to google ad type exploitation. People will set up email addresses and sign up to all sorts of solicited and unsolicited email just to collect the cash. Again for people in poorer countries this might be a practical job.
If you buy 100 cds at $15 a pop, then you'll have an investment of $1500.
If you invest that $1500 at 4% then you'll get a return of about $60/year which is exactly what Y! costs.
Surely if you pay a fine covering the cost of your stolen music collection until the end of your life, then you can keep building your collection (unless of course you exceeed the 1M songs Y!MU has)
I'm not that familiar with the south of scotland. Despite having lived the vast majority of my life there, i've never spent much time anywhere south of edinburgh.
:)
As far as the highlands go, i'd recommend skipping Aviemore. My opinion is that the west coast is far more beautiful. The island of Skye (you can drive there) is probably an excellent choice. The scenery is spectacular and it's enough off the beaten track that it's not horribly touristy.
My email is graha dot ms at graha dot ms if you want to have a more convenient discussion
Well that depends what you do.
:(
As a software development consultant i pretty much have to run the platform the end user wants, and in my case that's predominantly windows.
i'd love to be paid well to develop linux software, but that's not happening for me right now
It's probably based on the platform you use to work on.
When i was at school i predominantly surfed from linux, at work it's predominantly solaris, and when i change jobs i'll be back to windows.
If you are in the computer field then you pretty much run whatever OS is required for your job.
If you are in edinburgh here's my "must do" list
- Curry at King's Balti (it's BYOB so a case of beer should do three of you)
- For a decent pub in that area try the Abbey
- For something trendier my wife and I love Bar Kohl on George 4th Bridge, not very scottish but they have an impressive vodka selection.
- Obviously the castle is a must-do if you are into that kind of thing (not so exciting for a native)
For more traditional food (depending on your wealth) I can happily recommend the Witchery. For something a bit more affordable try the Marque (there are 2 of them i think).
Also don't try to do it all.
I can spend weeks in the hebridies islands, another week or two for orkney - trying to do a rushed tour of everything will leave you exhausted.
Bear in mind that it may take a LOT longer to get places. Travelling interstate here you can easily keep up an 80-90mph average, in scotland (particularly in the north) you'll average nearer 40.
Obviously everything will ultimately fail. I know that the semiconductor industry make the same part, test it to see how fast it is, then sell it as different models based on the test results.
I was surprised that some reasonable proportion of hard drives sold have errors on them at that point in time.
Part of me wonders if this explains the anecdotal stories that SCSI disks are more reliable than their cheaper ATA counterparts - even when they use the same physical hardware. Perhaps (and this is blind speculation) the drives with fewer errors get sold to the customers willing to pay more.
i know all disks ultimately fail, but it's frustrating that some can be really abused and run for years, when others die abruptly.
While working at said hard disk company i had one of their smaller disks sitting on the end of a steel ruler on my desk. I spun round on my chair, as i do when i'm thinking, and hit the other end of the ruler with my elbow. This of course launched the disk across the room, slamming it against the wall.
Given that I was in the process of writing software to diagnose failure's I was quite excited about this accident. Of course i return the disk to the test setup and there's nothing wrong.
In my experience, the only sure fire way to have a disk fail is to place any piece of important, but un-backed-up, work on it.
Having written some diagnostic tools for a smaller hard disk maker (who i'll refrain from naming) it's amazing to me that disks work at all.
Most systems can identify and patch out bad sectors so that they aren't used. What surprised me is that the manufacturers have their own bad sector table, so when you get the disk it's fairly likely that there are already bad areas which have been mapped out.
Secondly the raw error rate was astoundingly high. It's been quite a few years but it was somewhere between on error in every 10E5 to 10E6 bits. So it's not unusual to find a mistake in every megabyte read. Of course CRC picks up this error and hides that from you too.
Granted this was a few years ago, but i wouldn't be surprised if it's as bad (or even worse) now.
Presumably it'll result in new and possibly cool methods to access the information they've paid to create.
Hopefully for the bbc profit = "wide distribution of knowledge", not that traditional profit = "massive bonuses for executives"
Say you have a libary of 100 cds with an average pricepoint of $15.
Instead why not take that $1500, invest it at maybe 4% apr, and you'll get back the $60/year you need to subscribe to yahoo.
By purchasing cds you tie up captial which is essentially being used to license your music anyway.
Also i'd say that subscription based services ARE more likely to gaurantee future access to your music. If yahoo fold then you just subscribe to raphsody instead and you'll stil have the million + songs that you had with y!.
I've seen a few people who can text as fast as i can think. Even seen someone sending mesages 'blind' with the phone under the table in a resturant while carrying on a conversation (in her second language).
I'm guessing you can't do t9 if you aren't looking at the screen.. but either way is pretty quick when you get used to it.
Just remember how long it used to take you to write a troll comment on slashdot, now you can do it in seconds.
In the UK, the plan I was on (which admittedly had free line rental) would charge me 45p (about 70c) a minute if i wanted to call rival cellphone networks, vs 10p (about 17c) per text message.
Given the fact that a lot of communication etiher took place in classes or in bars, it's far easier to not be either whispering or screaming into your phone.
Admittedly the US favors voice calls and they dont penalize you for calling other networks - which probably explains why text msging isn't so big here.
i figured you'd be able to get a stream cipher in there without adding more than a couple of milliseconds.
I'd imagine stream compression would be a harder problem than stream encryption.
Of course you've still got to do some sort of shared key or PK exchange, but that's call setup latency so it's no big deal.
I've got 3mbps/1mbps fixed wireless here for $58/month and i can get 5mb/5mb for $400/mo.
I'm in fairly rural area where i'd imagine demand is pretty low... surely in an urban area they should be able to offer it even cheaper.
I tried loading some big pages and some pages off slowish sites and certainly didn't notice any difference.
It's already been uninstalled here. Right now i'm on a fairly slow dsl connection and expected to see a reasonable difference - but nothing remarkable.
The majority of sex offenders released from prison in the US have received no treatment.
Some will be treated in the community after release, but many will be unsupervised.
Perhaps the money that this would cost would be better spent providing rehabilitative programs.
After all it really only needs them to remove their gps tracker for an hour or so to go rape someone.
You should be able to make the dhcp server give them the address of some linux box as the primary gateway.
With a bit of iptables goodness you could route all their web requests to your own server and display an informative page.
Their virus might still be spewing out traffic but it wouldn't route onto the internet, and by giving offenders private ips you could stop them hitting other local machines.
Anyone that's smart enough to change their mac address, should be smart enough to keep spyware and viruses off their system.
Also my school used to require that students REGISTER their mac address in order to get access, and the switches / dhcp server would only allow registered macs in.
Yeah i know there are lots of similar concepts. Some house arrest systems are tied to GPS.
My point was really that if you sentence someone to use gps tracking then it's fine. Equally you can probably trade them early release for agreeing to use gps tracking.
However requiring that all sex offenders, even those who have technically repaid their debt to society, to be punished further is not ok.
I know that rehabilitation doesn't work well, but my suspicion is that we dont provide many offenders with the support they need to become functional members of society again.
Corrections isn't supposed to be entirely about punishment and locking people up - it's supposed to be about 'correcting' them.
Would be to sentence them to 25 years in prison then 10 years of monitoring. I can't see how this could be legal to apply retroactively. Paying your debt to society isn't like paying your comcast bill; they government can't increase the penalties every time they feel like it.
I think a bigger improvement would be to make failure to register as a sex offender into a felony - i believe it's currently a misdemeanor. That way we'd at least have a bit more security in knowing if they live nearby.
I get quite a bit of spam that I probably did opt in for 5 or 10 years ago. Unfortuantely some of if requires that you send an unsubscribe message FROM the email address that they sent the spam too.
My of my 'legacy' email addresses forward to my inbox and i cant easily send email from them. Obviously I could change my mailer to set an appropriate from address - but it's easier just to mark it as spam.