You've never heard of "Black Diamond bottled water"? (Well, probably not, it is or was a minor company.) It sells/sold recycled water from a sewage plant at premium prices.
Yes, Teddy Roosevelt was the essentially the founder of the conservation movement (along with John Muir, Ansel Adams, etc.). And he was a big game hunter. He created the national park system. But he also believed that only the rich would have an opportunity to enjoy them. He was consistently favoring certain wealthy interests. (I believe he also founded the FDA after his son got poisoned by some bad food.) And he founded "Trust Busting". But he chose his battles carefully, and didn't offend his core supporter...except that he didn't hold enough support so that when he ran for re-election he had to create a new political party, the Bull Moose Party, to promote him. (This didn't work. He had popular support, but the Democrats and the Republicans both held the levers of power in different places. The design of the system intentionally renders third parties ineffective. That's why a plurality is sufficient to elect a candidate. If a majority were required, it would be a different story.)
Actually, there ARE enough sources of fresh water to import. At least currently. The problem is that the importation is expensive when you need to do it at a long distance. And global warming means an increased supply of fresh water...just not evenly distributed and not where it used to be, either. You might need to collect rain that currently falls on the ocean...Also a single iceberg contains enough fresh water to supply a large area for a long time. And the rate of iceberg formation has increased. (Also the rate at which new icebergs melt, so you need to catch them quickly, and isolate them from salt water.)
Not really. The *concept* of "fighting fire with fire" is taken from forestry management, where a backfire is used to deny the original fire the fuel it needs to grow. It can be very tricky to manage, but if done properly, it's quite effective.
So if what they're doing it providing free access to the works that TPB is alleged to be illegally distributing, then "fighting fire with fire" is a valid metaphor. Even to the point of having lots of inherent dangers.
Note that this is quite distinct from (and orthogonal to?) "us against them". Certainly neither concept excludes the other. Or inherently includes it either.
OTOH, I don't believe the copying of the web site is legal, no matter what the spokesman says. But that's another matter.
One could clearly do that, but the identification would need to be by, as you said, IP address. And that's not specific to an individual...certainly not over a long period of time. Static IP addresses almost don't exist any longer (unless you are using v6). And if an ISP uses a NAT, then it would hit the customers of that ISP almost at random.
P.S.: Solid gold wouldn't work as a case. It's too soft. You need to alloy in some copper or something to make it harder. 24K gold might work, though. It seems pretty hard in a ring, but I've never seen a large sheet of it, so I don't really know if it's strong enough.
That it's a misspelling of profitable is a reasonable hypothesis. But it's also reasonable to guess that it might be some "term of art" specific to the financial community. (I haven't checked.)
OK, now I've checked, and Google doesn't recognize it, so your hypothesis gains strength.
IIRC, there was a story about a "Zombie Apocalapse" test message that was to be used on that net. I think the idea was supposed to be that it was so clearly a test message, that nobody would think it anything else.
This sounds like through some kind of glitch that message actually got released. There was probably no hacking involved.
HP *used* to be a good company. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be true any longer. I suspect that this decision was made back before the recent boards took control, and that at the time it was a good decision. I also suspect that you should re-evaluate it against current HP products, support, and practices. And that if you were to do so, you would pick a different vendor to standardize on.
Still, that process is a real nuisance, so I can understand why inertia has kept you with HP.
That was the old theory. Currently, IIUC, it is only believed to apply if there is no atmosphere. If there is an atmosphere, its circulation redistributes the heat...though slowly enough that there is, indeed, a huge difference in temperatures between the day side and the night side. Naturally, exact details depend on the composition of the atmosphere. (If Venus were tidally locked, it wouldn't change much of anything.)
If you have a tidally locked planet with an atmosphere, the air will be rising on the sunwards side, blowing horizontally to the night side, where it will cool, descend, and then return to the sunwards side.
So, to repeat the other poster, "Windy". The theory doesn't apply only to gas giants. (IIRC, some early modeling of Mercury even predicted this kind of pattern on Mercury, where the only gasses would be some of the heavier inert gasses and, of course, Mercury. And Gadolinium.)
I'm quite sure they *were* working on them. But apparently rather slowly. Perhaps they didn't intend the fixes to appear until the next version of Java, so they wouldn't need to admit there ever were any problems.
Personally, I consider online banking to be inherently insecure. So I don't have it enabled on my accounts. It's not just Java, there have been several ssh exploits. Either alone is enough that I avoid online banking.
For brokerages it would be a more problematical approach, as they don't tend to have offices as local as do banks. But I would be dubious about depending on it. (Not that phone calls to your broker are any better.) The rule there is, I think, don't invest any money you can't afford to lose. (Which is the rule even without the on-line component.)
Well, to be fair, many of the US *people* didn't give them much empathy either. It wasn't as bad as it is portrayed on TV, but it was pretty bad. And many of the people who were most abusive were in very powerful positions. Which means that the actualy suffering was considerably WORSE than is shown on TV.
OTOH, there are currently more AmerInds living than existed when Columbus "discovred" the place. (And I'm not counting the ones who have been thoroughly assimilated.) But their cultures have been largely destroyed.
It is interesting to speculate how things would have worked out if the "French and Indian War" hadn't encouraged the white settlers to think of the indians as "savage brutes". (The French taught scalping to the indians at that time.) But it's also clear that large numbers of settlers weren't willing to grant any rights to other humans when they weren't forced to. Fraud and deceit was used against the Indians ever since Henry Hudson "bought" Manhattan island. (Rumor says he bought it from a tribe that didn't live there. Other rumor says that they thought of it more as a long-term lease. And a few claim that the indians felt they got a fair price. No particants are available to testify.)
Well, it doesn't need to be a real fax machine. A computer simulation would work perfectly. And if you never expect to receive a fax, you can junk the received messages automatically every night.
OTOH, if you have any friends that might want to call you, that's a really unpleasant thing to do to them. So you'd better marry that app to a whitelist that skips the FAX signal.
I'd prefer a real blacklist. Actually, I'd prefer a greylist, where if a number that isn't recognized calls me they get a recorded message saying to please hang up and call back. Combine that with a blacklist and a whitelist and you have a workable system...until it gets popular enough that the scammers autorecognize the greylist message.
That said, I basically agree with you. The anti-comettition nature of governmental rulings should be a MAJOR embarassment. I have a harder time blaming the corporations for using the unjust regulations to extract money. What I blame them for is corrupting the government and the regulators.
OTOH, bandwidth over long distances isn't cheap. Not if you want it to be at all reliable. I don't know what a reasonable cost would be, and in a state authorized monopoly (well...not *exactly* monopoly, as there are several players in the game, but few enough to conspire on prices) one can't really even guess what a fair price would be.
I may know about the existence of Pirate Bay, but I decline to use their wares. Their ethics may be higher than those of the MPAA, but that's an extremely low bar.
It's not that they are paragons of efficiency and politeness. They clearly aren't. It's merely that the rest are worse. (Well, since the post office went private, they've gotten a lot worse...but there are plausible reasons why that don't have anything to do with going private. But it *sure* didn't get better. Not even briefly.)
I'm not certain whether to call Android a linux distro or not. It clearly could be. And even were it one, there is NOTHING about linux that would prevent this same thing from happening. We aren't talking about a virus here, or a worm, we're talking about an application that the user installs. And no linux distro that I'm aware of prevents you from installing applications from untrusted sources. I frequently install software from a relatively unknown source. (Less so now that Sourceforge and GitHub have come into existence, admittedly...but how thoroughly do *they* vet the applications that they host?) The fact that I need to compile an application doesn't make it safe.
So, there's nothing about this story, except popularity, that wouldn't apply to ANY linux variant.
Ummm...the Torries were not chased out. The British army was. Large portions withdrew into Canada. (More than once IIRC.) For that matter, when Cornwallis surrendered, his army did not become prisoners, they left. Chased out seems a reasonable description. I believe that considerably more revolutionaries were killed than British soldiers. Esp. if you consider deaths due to disease caused by overexposure and malnutrition.
OTOH, please note that North America was a side-show to Britain. And the side that became the US was propped up by the French, who were also contesting with Britain in Europe.
N.B.: During the Revolutionary War the populace of the area was about 1/3 loyal to the crown, 1/3 favoring the revolutionaries, and 1/3 wishing to avoid the matter. (Actually, that last number is probably a considerable underestimat, and some people were in more than one camp.)
His point was that they can be resolved based around evidence. (He may be wrong, but that was his point.) And that they intentionally aren't resolved because nobody powerful wants to resolve them. (Or, perhaps, that not enough powerful people want to resolve them.)
E.g., a claim that recognizing homosexual marriage would weaken heterosexual marriage is possible to resolve though evidence. The claim is that not only it isn't done, but that it is intentionally not done.
It may be both boring and evil, but that doesn't mean it isn't what's happening.
Personally, I don't believe that it's a consicously chosen plan, but one that has evolved in the system, with individual legislators merely acting on their own perceived self-interest. But I also think it's an accurate description. (At least if you extend the explanation as the original poster has done above. There are reasonable interpretations of the original statement that are narrow-minded and viscious, but when he extended his statement it was made clear that those weren't the interpretations that he intended.)
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You've never heard of "Black Diamond bottled water"? (Well, probably not, it is or was a minor company.) It sells/sold recycled water from a sewage plant at premium prices.
That's an insightfully humorous comment.
Yes, Teddy Roosevelt was the essentially the founder of the conservation movement (along with John Muir, Ansel Adams, etc.). And he was a big game hunter. He created the national park system. But he also believed that only the rich would have an opportunity to enjoy them. He was consistently favoring certain wealthy interests. (I believe he also founded the FDA after his son got poisoned by some bad food.) And he founded "Trust Busting". But he chose his battles carefully, and didn't offend his core supporter...except that he didn't hold enough support so that when he ran for re-election he had to create a new political party, the Bull Moose Party, to promote him. (This didn't work. He had popular support, but the Democrats and the Republicans both held the levers of power in different places. The design of the system intentionally renders third parties ineffective. That's why a plurality is sufficient to elect a candidate. If a majority were required, it would be a different story.)
Actually, there ARE enough sources of fresh water to import. At least currently. The problem is that the importation is expensive when you need to do it at a long distance. And global warming means an increased supply of fresh water...just not evenly distributed and not where it used to be, either. You might need to collect rain that currently falls on the ocean...Also a single iceberg contains enough fresh water to supply a large area for a long time. And the rate of iceberg formation has increased. (Also the rate at which new icebergs melt, so you need to catch them quickly, and isolate them from salt water.)
Desalinization is probably cheaper.
Not really. The *concept* of "fighting fire with fire" is taken from forestry management, where a backfire is used to deny the original fire the fuel it needs to grow. It can be very tricky to manage, but if done properly, it's quite effective.
So if what they're doing it providing free access to the works that TPB is alleged to be illegally distributing, then "fighting fire with fire" is a valid metaphor. Even to the point of having lots of inherent dangers.
Note that this is quite distinct from (and orthogonal to?) "us against them". Certainly neither concept excludes the other. Or inherently includes it either.
OTOH, I don't believe the copying of the web site is legal, no matter what the spokesman says. But that's another matter.
One could clearly do that, but the identification would need to be by, as you said, IP address. And that's not specific to an individual...certainly not over a long period of time. Static IP addresses almost don't exist any longer (unless you are using v6). And if an ISP uses a NAT, then it would hit the customers of that ISP almost at random.
IOW, yes, you can, but it's a really bad idea.
You're probably right. I don't follow jewlery, so I probably got two differnt product confused.
I don't think you've priced gold recently.
P.S.: Solid gold wouldn't work as a case. It's too soft. You need to alloy in some copper or something to make it harder. 24K gold might work, though. It seems pretty hard in a ring, but I've never seen a large sheet of it, so I don't really know if it's strong enough.
That it's a misspelling of profitable is a reasonable hypothesis. But it's also reasonable to guess that it might be some "term of art" specific to the financial community. (I haven't checked.)
OK, now I've checked, and Google doesn't recognize it, so your hypothesis gains strength.
IIRC, there was a story about a "Zombie Apocalapse" test message that was to be used on that net. I think the idea was supposed to be that it was so clearly a test message, that nobody would think it anything else.
This sounds like through some kind of glitch that message actually got released. There was probably no hacking involved.
HP *used* to be a good company. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be true any longer. I suspect that this decision was made back before the recent boards took control, and that at the time it was a good decision. I also suspect that you should re-evaluate it against current HP products, support, and practices. And that if you were to do so, you would pick a different vendor to standardize on.
Still, that process is a real nuisance, so I can understand why inertia has kept you with HP.
You're in good company. That was the general belief befor around 1960. (Maybe '70 or '80) when the first air circulation models were run.
That was the old theory. Currently, IIUC, it is only believed to apply if there is no atmosphere. If there is an atmosphere, its circulation redistributes the heat...though slowly enough that there is, indeed, a huge difference in temperatures between the day side and the night side. Naturally, exact details depend on the composition of the atmosphere. (If Venus were tidally locked, it wouldn't change much of anything.)
If you have a tidally locked planet with an atmosphere, the air will be rising on the sunwards side, blowing horizontally to the night side, where it will cool, descend, and then return to the sunwards side.
So, to repeat the other poster, "Windy". The theory doesn't apply only to gas giants. (IIRC, some early modeling of Mercury even predicted this kind of pattern on Mercury, where the only gasses would be some of the heavier inert gasses and, of course, Mercury. And Gadolinium.)
I'm quite sure they *were* working on them. But apparently rather slowly. Perhaps they didn't intend the fixes to appear until the next version of Java, so they wouldn't need to admit there ever were any problems.
Personally, I consider online banking to be inherently insecure. So I don't have it enabled on my accounts. It's not just Java, there have been several ssh exploits. Either alone is enough that I avoid online banking.
For brokerages it would be a more problematical approach, as they don't tend to have offices as local as do banks. But I would be dubious about depending on it. (Not that phone calls to your broker are any better.) The rule there is, I think, don't invest any money you can't afford to lose. (Which is the rule even without the on-line component.)
Well, to be fair, many of the US *people* didn't give them much empathy either. It wasn't as bad as it is portrayed on TV, but it was pretty bad. And many of the people who were most abusive were in very powerful positions. Which means that the actualy suffering was considerably WORSE than is shown on TV.
OTOH, there are currently more AmerInds living than existed when Columbus "discovred" the place. (And I'm not counting the ones who have been thoroughly assimilated.) But their cultures have been largely destroyed.
It is interesting to speculate how things would have worked out if the "French and Indian War" hadn't encouraged the white settlers to think of the indians as "savage brutes". (The French taught scalping to the indians at that time.) But it's also clear that large numbers of settlers weren't willing to grant any rights to other humans when they weren't forced to. Fraud and deceit was used against the Indians ever since Henry Hudson "bought" Manhattan island. (Rumor says he bought it from a tribe that didn't live there. Other rumor says that they thought of it more as a long-term lease. And a few claim that the indians felt they got a fair price. No particants are available to testify.)
Well, it doesn't need to be a real fax machine. A computer simulation would work perfectly. And if you never expect to receive a fax, you can junk the received messages automatically every night.
OTOH, if you have any friends that might want to call you, that's a really unpleasant thing to do to them. So you'd better marry that app to a whitelist that skips the FAX signal.
I'd prefer a real blacklist. Actually, I'd prefer a greylist, where if a number that isn't recognized calls me they get a recorded message saying to please hang up and call back. Combine that with a blacklist and a whitelist and you have a workable system...until it gets popular enough that the scammers autorecognize the greylist message.
You are overstating the case.
That said, I basically agree with you. The anti-comettition nature of governmental rulings should be a MAJOR embarassment. I have a harder time blaming the corporations for using the unjust regulations to extract money. What I blame them for is corrupting the government and the regulators.
OTOH, bandwidth over long distances isn't cheap. Not if you want it to be at all reliable. I don't know what a reasonable cost would be, and in a state authorized monopoly (well...not *exactly* monopoly, as there are several players in the game, but few enough to conspire on prices) one can't really even guess what a fair price would be.
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I may know about the existence of Pirate Bay, but I decline to use their wares. Their ethics may be higher than those of the MPAA, but that's an extremely low bar.
It's not that they are paragons of efficiency and politeness. They clearly aren't. It's merely that the rest are worse. (Well, since the post office went private, they've gotten a lot worse...but there are plausible reasons why that don't have anything to do with going private. But it *sure* didn't get better. Not even briefly.)
I'm not certain whether to call Android a linux distro or not. It clearly could be. And even were it one, there is NOTHING about linux that would prevent this same thing from happening. We aren't talking about a virus here, or a worm, we're talking about an application that the user installs. And no linux distro that I'm aware of prevents you from installing applications from untrusted sources. I frequently install software from a relatively unknown source. (Less so now that Sourceforge and GitHub have come into existence, admittedly...but how thoroughly do *they* vet the applications that they host?) The fact that I need to compile an application doesn't make it safe.
So, there's nothing about this story, except popularity, that wouldn't apply to ANY linux variant.
Ummm...the Torries were not chased out. The British army was. Large portions withdrew into Canada. (More than once IIRC.) For that matter, when Cornwallis surrendered, his army did not become prisoners, they left. Chased out seems a reasonable description. I believe that considerably more revolutionaries were killed than British soldiers. Esp. if you consider deaths due to disease caused by overexposure and malnutrition.
OTOH, please note that North America was a side-show to Britain. And the side that became the US was propped up by the French, who were also contesting with Britain in Europe.
N.B.: During the Revolutionary War the populace of the area was about 1/3 loyal to the crown, 1/3 favoring the revolutionaries, and 1/3 wishing to avoid the matter. (Actually, that last number is probably a considerable underestimat, and some people were in more than one camp.)
His point was that they can be resolved based around evidence. (He may be wrong, but that was his point.) And that they intentionally aren't resolved because nobody powerful wants to resolve them. (Or, perhaps, that not enough powerful people want to resolve them.)
E.g., a claim that recognizing homosexual marriage would weaken heterosexual marriage is possible to resolve though evidence. The claim is that not only it isn't done, but that it is intentionally not done.
It may be both boring and evil, but that doesn't mean it isn't what's happening.
Personally, I don't believe that it's a consicously chosen plan, but one that has evolved in the system, with individual legislators merely acting on their own perceived self-interest. But I also think it's an accurate description. (At least if you extend the explanation as the original poster has done above. There are reasonable interpretations of the original statement that are narrow-minded and viscious, but when he extended his statement it was made clear that those weren't the interpretations that he intended.)