Azureus puts itself in the tray in windows. I'm sure they need some win32 API to do that, but they must have a way to detecting what OS the java app is runnning under and then make the appropriate calls Anyway, my point is that there is already a java open source project that uses the windows system tray without breaking portability, so it can be done.
During a recent vacation to Universal Studios in Florida I had a chance to use what I assume are the same type of lockers. It worked reasonably well for me, but the person I was with had a lot of trouble getting it to read her fingerprint. There was also one reader that was in direct sunlight during part of the day, and would not read anyones fingerprint during that time.
There is one computer with a fingerprint reader and a touch screen for a bank of lockers. When renting the locker you had to put your finger on the reader twice. Once the computer had two reads that matched for you, it would give you a locker number, you put your stuff in it and push the button to lock it. When you come back you have to remember your locker number and enter that on a touch screen, then present your finger to the reader again. When your fingerprint matches, the system unlocks your locker and you get your stuff.
I see two possible reasons why you might not want to use your ISP's smtp server.
The first is a situation I was in a few months ago. I use a laptop for most of my email. I move that laptop from one location to another frequently. While I am on the network at work, I am using one ISP. While I am at home I used a different dial-up ISP. They ran two different SMTP servers. I can only configure my email program to connect to one at a time, so every time I wanted to send email from a different location I had to re-configure my email program. iname.com used to have a SMTP server you could use as long as you had a Reply-To line that included an iname.com email address. They have discontinued this ( I'm guessing because of spammers ), but for a little while this gave me a solution that did not require reconfiguring my email.
The second situation I can think of is one I have not personally expirienced... yet. That would be when your ISP's SMTP server sucks. It may not be configured correctly. It may delay your email for hours while it twiddles its thumbs. Or maybe your ISP's SMTP server is blocked by the server you are trying to send mail to.
One other thought on the subject. I don't want my ISP blocking any of my outgoing connection attempts. It starts with port 25. What is next? They start blocking the port Napster is on? Maybe IRC is evil now because some people trade warez on there, so they block that. Eventually the only port we will be able to use would be port 80, and I think that would make quite a few of us rather unhappy.
Is there any chance that this would also apply to scrambled cable channels? If you are paying for basic cable, and the cable company chooses to send the scrambled channels to you also, wouldn't the same "get it off his property" apply?
It seems to me that if you want to lower the voting age, we should also lower the required age for a lot of other things. Yes, if you are 16 you aren't allowed to vote, but you also aren't allowed to enter into contracts, you aren't allowed to buy cigarettes, and if you commit a crime it gets wiped from your record (mostly) when you turn 18. A 16 year old is still a minor, and technically their parents are still responsible for them, therefore they are not responsible for their own actions, therefore they shouldn't be allowed to vote. If you want to change this, then campain to change the age when you are no longer a minor. Once you take all the rest of the responsibilities that go along with being an adult on yourself, I will have no problem with giving you the right to vote also.
The hand geometry system that I have seen will adapt to gradual changes in your hand. It will change the signature data stored for you hand as it changes over time. However, I suspect that if you break your hand you would have to go through the enrolment process again. Another question I think you should be asking is this. What happens during the time that your hand is broken and you have a cast on it. The hand geometry system is not going to read your hand through the cast.
I'll admit that I probably haven't read enough on this issue to post the following, but I am going to anyway.
Does this ruling cover only linking, or does it also cover plain text URLs? If I put the URL on my site, and don't make it a link, and you have to copy it and paste it into the location of your browser is that considered illegal by this ruling?
Is the United States a democracy or a republic? Unfortunately, the answer is politically and definitively confusing. Our form of government is both a democracy and a republic. Fortunately, the debate is beginning all over again and it was started by ordinary people who feel that our government is out of control.
Aren't there articles in the Microsoft Knowledge base that have solutions that require a bootable system disk? It seems to me that I had a problem with NT one time and the Microsoft documented solution required that I make a boot disk with 95. I thought that was bad at the time because they kind of assumed that I had a copy of both OSs available. Now, if they remove bootable floppies are they going to go back and update the solutions to the problems that require them?
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Ditto. Exactly what I was going to post.
Azureus puts itself in the tray in windows. I'm sure they need some win32 API to do that, but they must have a way to detecting what OS the java app is runnning under and then make the appropriate calls Anyway, my point is that there is already a java open source project that uses the windows system tray without breaking portability, so it can be done.
During a recent vacation to Universal Studios in Florida I had a chance to use what I assume are the same type of lockers. It worked reasonably well for me, but the person I was with had a lot of trouble getting it to read her fingerprint. There was also one reader that was in direct sunlight during part of the day, and would not read anyones fingerprint during that time.
There is one computer with a fingerprint reader and a touch screen for a bank of lockers. When renting the locker you had to put your finger on the reader twice. Once the computer had two reads that matched for you, it would give you a locker number, you put your stuff in it and push the button to lock it. When you come back you have to remember your locker number and enter that on a touch screen, then present your finger to the reader again. When your fingerprint matches, the system unlocks your locker and you get your stuff.
Reread the article. 1/1000th of 1 percent. That is 1 in 100,000, not 1 in 1000.
Or they desire for it to fit on one of those CDs that fit inside your wallet so a legitimate user can have it with them wherever they go.
I see two possible reasons why you might not want to use your ISP's smtp server.
... yet. That would be when your ISP's SMTP server sucks. It may not be configured correctly. It may delay your email for hours while it twiddles its thumbs. Or maybe your ISP's SMTP server is blocked by the server you are trying to send mail to.
The first is a situation I was in a few months ago. I use a laptop for most of my email. I move that laptop from one location to another frequently. While I am on the network at work, I am using one ISP. While I am at home I used a different dial-up ISP. They ran two different SMTP servers. I can only configure my email program to connect to one at a time, so every time I wanted to send email from a different location I had to re-configure my email program. iname.com used to have a SMTP server you could use as long as you had a Reply-To line that included an iname.com email address. They have discontinued this ( I'm guessing because of spammers ), but for a little while this gave me a solution that did not require reconfiguring my email.
The second situation I can think of is one I have not personally expirienced
One other thought on the subject. I don't want my ISP blocking any of my outgoing connection attempts. It starts with port 25. What is next? They start blocking the port Napster is on? Maybe IRC is evil now because some people trade warez on there, so they block that. Eventually the only port we will be able to use would be port 80, and I think that would make quite a few of us rather unhappy.
Is there any chance that this would also apply to scrambled cable channels? If you are paying for basic cable, and the cable company chooses to send the scrambled channels to you also, wouldn't the same "get it off his property" apply?
It seems to me that if you want to lower the voting age, we should also lower the required age for a lot of other things. Yes, if you are 16 you aren't allowed to vote, but you also aren't allowed to enter into contracts, you aren't allowed to buy cigarettes, and if you commit a crime it gets wiped from your record (mostly) when you turn 18. A 16 year old is still a minor, and technically their parents are still responsible for them, therefore they are not responsible for their own actions, therefore they shouldn't be allowed to vote. If you want to change this, then campain to change the age when you are no longer a minor. Once you take all the rest of the responsibilities that go along with being an adult on yourself, I will have no problem with giving you the right to vote also.
The hand geometry system that I have seen will adapt to gradual changes in your hand. It will change the signature data stored for you hand as it changes over time. However, I suspect that if you break your hand you would have to go through the enrolment process again. Another question I think you should be asking is this. What happens during the time that your hand is broken and you have a cast on it. The hand geometry system is not going to read your hand through the cast.
I'll admit that I probably haven't read enough on this issue to post the following, but I am going to anyway. Does this ruling cover only linking, or does it also cover plain text URLs? If I put the URL on my site, and don't make it a link, and you have to copy it and paste it into the location of your browser is that considered illegal by this ruling?
Maybe before we worry about these decisions affecting the future of democracy, we should worry about whether or not we have a democracy to begin with.
From http://www.realdemocracy.com/demorep.htm
Is the United States a democracy or a republic? Unfortunately, the answer is politically and definitively confusing. Our form of government is both a democracy and a republic. Fortunately, the debate is beginning all over again and it was started by ordinary people who feel that our government is out of control.
Aren't there articles in the Microsoft Knowledge base that have solutions that require a bootable system disk? It seems to me that I had a problem with NT one time and the Microsoft documented solution required that I make a boot disk with 95. I thought that was bad at the time because they kind of assumed that I had a copy of both OSs available. Now, if they remove bootable floppies are they going to go back and update the solutions to the problems that require them?