I think you're getting it backwards. The problem here isn't 419 scammers trying to rip off deaf computer sellers; the problem is 419ers pretending to be deaf people, and trying to scam hearing computer sellers.
Under an authenticated system, hearing people would be able to call deaf people just as they can now. The only change would be that deaf people would need to authenticate in order to place an outgoing call.
Yes, this places an additional burden on deaf people, who would have to sign up for a password and use it each time they made an outgoing call. But it seems to me, were I deaf, that authenticating would be preferable to having 2 out of 3 recipients hang up on me because they assumed I'm a 419er.
Perhaps optional authentication would work better: if the deaf person authenticates, then the CA says "This is an authenticated relay call", otherwise he says "This is a non-authenticated relay call" (and possibly gets hung up on).
Why are these answers different? Discuss, compare & contrast.
Well, one hypothesis is that Israeli-on-Arab violence is generally carried out using the resources of the entire nation: it's usually the army that does it. Any such violence requires the support of a sizeable percentage of the population.
Arab-on-Israeli violence, on the other hand, can be carried out using as few as half a dozen people.
The result is that, in the event of an "official" ceasefire, Israeli hotheads won't be able to launch missiles at Arabs, but Arab hotheads can fairly easily continue suicide bombing.
Right, because after all, the U.S. Agriculture Department says America has 749 million acres of forestland. In 1920, we had 735 million acres of forest.
Isn't it convenient how your argument makes so much sense when you leave out that pesky "old growth" in front of "forest" when referring to the DoA statistics?
Even the article which you yourself link to acknowledges that much of that 749 million acres of "forestland" is actually reclaimed farmland, not old-growth forest at all.
I'm getting really tired of hearing this "argument".
The musician gets a FAR bigger cut, you pay less ($5/cd on average, in my experience, for buying direct from the artist), and best of all, the RIAA gets nothing.
I wish I could find CD's from my favorite Indie bands for $5. Heck, I'd even go to $10. But when a band is selling their 5 CD's for $18 apiece plus tax/shipping and I want them all...well, we're rapidly closing in on $100 here. The temptation to buy one (to assuage the guilt) and copy 4 from friends is strong.
What they don't understand, I think, is that $18 for a CD is insulting, and more people would buy their CD's if they didn't feel insulted. Since the production costs are sunk costs and the marginal cost to produce a CD is maybe a dollar or so, isn't 5*9=$45 profit better than 1*17=$17 profit?
Or maybe I'm just a cheap bastard and everybody else just goes ahead and buys the $18 CD's. That could be it, too.
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I thought the music was great in the Fallout series as well. Does anybody know the title of the track that played in San Francisco's Chinatown in Fallout 2?
On a different note, was anybody else as disappointed by Fallout: Tactics as I was?
It sounds like the thing you like about PDF is that you can save a local copy. But you can do that with html, too:
wget -r -l0 http://site.com/
Even easier would be if site owners would provide you with a tar file, so you can save a copy with just one click.
I dislike having to download a HUGE PDF, and then load up my PDF viewer every time I want to look at the docs. Plus, all the page breaks are annoying, as are the sized-for-print fonts.
Perhaps you can tell me how to mentally block the 687 spams that were in one of my mailboxes this morning? I find it difficult to ignore the 5 minutes it takes for Mozilla to clean out (most of) the crap and toss it in the trash. Spam at this level is no different from a DOS attack.
Okay, help me out here. The article says that cooling with water leads to corrosion, so they're using liquid sodium instead. Then they use the sodium to boil water.
I can understand why they don't want water corroding away at the area around the uranium, thereby releasing U into the surroundings. What I don't understand is why they're not worried about the water corroding a hole in the heat exchanger and coming into contact with the sodium, causing an explosion.
You'd think they'd rather have uranium-contaminated water slowly leaking out of the reactor, rather than a large explosion scattering uranium dust all over the surrounding countryside. Can somebody clarify why the latter isn't a problem?
You probably don't realise just how weird American money looks to us; it's all the same size, it's all the same colour
Hey, I have a question. Over here we have nifty machines which will accept bills of $1, $5, $10, and $20 denominations. This reduces the number of cashiers needed at gas stations and subway ticket booths and the like. I assume that part of the reason that this is possible is that all the currency is the same size and shape. Do you folks have these kind of multi-bill readers in places with different-sized currency?
So, tell me, if I'm a counterfitter, why wouldn't I just copy the older bills and 'age' them in the washing machine?
Well, if I were a storekeeper, and somebody walked in and handed me a well-aged 1975 $20 bill, I'm probably going to look at it a little more closely than I will look at a new note that everybody's using to pay with.
And the most obnoxious feature of the law was that some authors outlived their copyright. Their most popular works would go into public domain while they were still alive and counting on the income.
Gosh, how obnoxious. It's just like how I painted this guy's garage only fifty years ago, and already he's stopped paying me! I was counting on that income! How am I supposed to support myself if people don't keep paying me for work I did long, long ago?
You're going to be waiting quite a while. Ever hear of the second law of thermodynamics?
Now, if what you want is something to convert a difference in temperature into electricity, well, that's just a turbine, and we have those. The difficulty lies in finding temperature differences large enough to make the construction of a turbine worthwhile.
A nuclear (or coal) power plant is just one way of creating such a temperature difference.
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Dude, did you even bother to skim the article? Because it talks in some detail about environmental concerns.
How this got a +5 mod is beyond me. Kinda makes me think we need a (-1 RTFA) mod.
I think you're getting it backwards. The problem here isn't 419 scammers trying to rip off deaf computer sellers; the problem is 419ers pretending to be deaf people, and trying to scam hearing computer sellers.
Under an authenticated system, hearing people would be able to call deaf people just as they can now. The only change would be that deaf people would need to authenticate in order to place an outgoing call.
Yes, this places an additional burden on deaf people, who would have to sign up for a password and use it each time they made an outgoing call. But it seems to me, were I deaf, that authenticating would be preferable to having 2 out of 3 recipients hang up on me because they assumed I'm a 419er.
Perhaps optional authentication would work better: if the deaf person authenticates, then the CA says "This is an authenticated relay call", otherwise he says "This is a non-authenticated relay call" (and possibly gets hung up on).
Well, one hypothesis is that Israeli-on-Arab violence is generally carried out using the resources of the entire nation: it's usually the army that does it. Any such violence requires the support of a sizeable percentage of the population.
Arab-on-Israeli violence, on the other hand, can be carried out using as few as half a dozen people.
The result is that, in the event of an "official" ceasefire, Israeli hotheads won't be able to launch missiles at Arabs, but Arab hotheads can fairly easily continue suicide bombing.
Isn't it convenient how your argument makes so much sense when you leave out that pesky "old growth" in front of "forest" when referring to the DoA statistics?
Even the article which you yourself link to acknowledges that much of that 749 million acres of "forestland" is actually reclaimed farmland, not old-growth forest at all.
I'm getting really tired of hearing this "argument".
I wish I could find CD's from my favorite Indie bands for $5. Heck, I'd even go to $10. But when a band is selling their 5 CD's for $18 apiece plus tax/shipping and I want them all...well, we're rapidly closing in on $100 here. The temptation to buy one (to assuage the guilt) and copy 4 from friends is strong.
What they don't understand, I think, is that $18 for a CD is insulting, and more people would buy their CD's if they didn't feel insulted. Since the production costs are sunk costs and the marginal cost to produce a CD is maybe a dollar or so, isn't 5*9=$45 profit better than 1*17=$17 profit?
Or maybe I'm just a cheap bastard and everybody else just goes ahead and buys the $18 CD's. That could be it, too.
Erm...what do you make the chits out of? Chunks of rock?
I thought the music was great in the Fallout series as well. Does anybody know the title of the track that played in San Francisco's Chinatown in Fallout 2?
On a different note, was anybody else as disappointed by Fallout: Tactics as I was?
It sounds like the thing you like about PDF is that you can save a local copy. But you can do that with html, too:
wget -r -l0 http://site.com/
Even easier would be if site owners would provide you with a tar file, so you can save a copy with just one click.
I dislike having to download a HUGE PDF, and then load up my PDF viewer every time I want to look at the docs. Plus, all the page breaks are annoying, as are the sized-for-print fonts.
No, I expect that very few of the people who typed the books in, actually took them from bookstores without paying for them.
Or was that not what you meant?
Okay, when you put it that way, I guess it could work.
I still don't see any sipping involved, though. Does it slurp also?
So I want to know how they manage to "sip" power from the warmth of the water. Last I checked, things didn't work like that.
Perhaps you can tell me how to mentally block the 687 spams that were in one of my mailboxes this morning? I find it difficult to ignore the 5 minutes it takes for Mozilla to clean out (most of) the crap and toss it in the trash. Spam at this level is no different from a DOS attack.
I get email all the time about how to have a persistent boner. I'm not quite sure, though, what that has to do with bullying.
Is it just my browser, or is that page really colored blue-on-blue?
Global warming. hth.
Okay, help me out here. The article says that cooling with water leads to corrosion, so they're using liquid sodium instead. Then they use the sodium to boil water.
I can understand why they don't want water corroding away at the area around the uranium, thereby releasing U into the surroundings. What I don't understand is why they're not worried about the water corroding a hole in the heat exchanger and coming into contact with the sodium, causing an explosion.
You'd think they'd rather have uranium-contaminated water slowly leaking out of the reactor, rather than a large explosion scattering uranium dust all over the surrounding countryside. Can somebody clarify why the latter isn't a problem?
Hey, I have a question. Over here we have nifty machines which will accept bills of $1, $5, $10, and $20 denominations. This reduces the number of cashiers needed at gas stations and subway ticket booths and the like. I assume that part of the reason that this is possible is that all the currency is the same size and shape. Do you folks have these kind of multi-bill readers in places with different-sized currency?
Well, if I were a storekeeper, and somebody walked in and handed me a well-aged 1975 $20 bill, I'm probably going to look at it a little more closely than I will look at a new note that everybody's using to pay with.
I see. So, in which state were you educated before you moved to Winnipeg?
Gosh, how obnoxious. It's just like how I painted this guy's garage only fifty years ago, and already he's stopped paying me! I was counting on that income! How am I supposed to support myself if people don't keep paying me for work I did long, long ago?
So, it's been 4 years since the RIAA last saw any of my money. I wonder how many others have sworn off them.
This might make a good poll idea...
You're going to be waiting quite a while. Ever hear of the second law of thermodynamics?
Now, if what you want is something to convert a difference in temperature into electricity, well, that's just a turbine, and we have those. The difficulty lies in finding temperature differences large enough to make the construction of a turbine worthwhile.
A nuclear (or coal) power plant is just one way of creating such a temperature difference.
"Slashdot T-Shirt Contest Winners"?
When I first read that, I thought it said "Slashdot Wet T-Shirt Contest Winners".
Given the crowd here, I'm not so sure that's something I want to see.