Back in 2000-2001 there were already 15 million domains (estimated)
These aren't email domains though; they are web domains- a rather different thing. And a lot of them are hosted by somebody else, and the number of hosts is far, far smaller.
It's not that these things don't degrade the prion- they all do, and reduce the infectivity, but it's just that in order for it not to be infectious, you have to get every last molecule, and most of them leave some behind. Last time I heard I think the approved technique to decontaminate a medical instrument was triple autoclave or something, but it wasn't guaranteed, and in most cases disposal was the prefered option; but that was some time ago, I'm not up on the current protocols.
B. CRLs don't scale. Period. There's a reason why PKIs hardly ever get past 100K users.
They scale enough though- the number of email domains is presumably much less than 100K.
C. Someone to sue...only in the US is that an attractive feature.
Oh I don't know. Quite a lot of spam seems to come from America, so even foreign people can sue them in America:-)
My take is that this is a problem that is hard enough to address even partially---adding the burden of a massive worldwide PKI deployment would make it impossible. Verisign or Thawte would love it.
What massive? It's just a database of public keys of servers and a flag against it as to whether it is thought to be well managed or not. It's probably distributable using bittorrent or something. And it's a black hole list too- if Yahoo starts sending out spam; they're gone.
This is just a stop-gap attempt to migrate closer to what is ultimately the only way to control spam: trusted hosts (also known as whitelisting).
Not quite- I mean how do you know that a piece of email (spam) is from the trusted host that it says it is from? Only a cryptographic key can help with that- simply trusting the email is never, ever going to fly. I think this proposal has legs- it critically depends on the implementation however.
Keynes studied this kind of 'make work' and generally reckoned it's a distinctly bad idea. Most economists agree.
That aside, socialistic space programs like NASA (sorry, but that's pretty much what a government funded program like NASA amounts to) are unable to grow, and being a monopoly, NASA has very little incentive to become more cost-effective. The historical record shows that the inflation adjusted NASA budget is roughly fixed (within a factor of 2). That's a political reality-no huge growth is likely; business atleast has the chance to grow; and often has a much bigger incentive to reduce costs, which allows growth also; via lower prices.
This analysis suggest that the US government should ramp down NASA, and encourage private industry to take up the slack. It's the only thing that makes any sense in the long run; it's the only way to get to Space in any big way.
Yeah that's what I thought; perhaps it's the other way around- the people with normal insulin processing can drink coffee without any degree of problems, whereas the people with problems- coffee makes them feel weird so they avoid it.
Therefore if you can drink 6 cups of coffee a day, you probably won't get diabetes.
Anyway, that's my theory and it is as consistent with the evidence as any other, as far as I can see.
I don't really know too much about VoIP, but what happens when the power goes out?
There's a simple solution for that. It's called a cell phone. Works great during a powercut. Welcome to the late, rather than the early 20th century. The combination of VOIP and cell phone gives you high availability *and* cheapness.
is a 1km diameter crater in the middle of a 70 by 10km square. That means there's about a 1 in 700 chance that Beagle actually landed in it. There's probably, a say, 1 in 10 chance that the landing bags blew up on landing.
I thought the Lord of the Rings series was a great set of books. I can't wait for someone to make a movie out of it.
Never read it. Still, talking of movies, have you seen Return of the King yet? I'm hoping they'll bring out a book of it, but I guess it's only just out, so we'll have to wait.
If history is anything to go by, that contraption won't be worth a thing until SpaceShipThreePointOne is built.
You know, that's probably not an entirely silly thing to say. I mean this thing had only been up 15 minutes or so when it crashed. Scary looking pictures- I think it's not supposed to swerve off the runway like that:-)
Does this remind you of any particular Windows version? It kinda reminds me of Windows 95.:-)
Still, atleast they aren't selling seats to it yet.
You'd basically have to reverse engineer the software, back to some other form of programming language - probably ASM.
Off-hand- I'd probably stick a debugger on it, viewing the code at assembler level, and trace the carriage return in from the OS; or something like that. I mean the OS has to call or return to IE when the carriage return is hit; there can't be that many places in the code where it is waiting for input- stick a breakpoint on all of them, and whichever one gets hit after you click on the carriage return is starting to process the code. Run it multiple times with different input and pretty soon you should start to see the patterns.
It's not especially easy, but it's doable, I've done stuff like that before. It's easier if you have the source code, but it's just slower if you don't.
I know plenty of people who flew Concorde; they were pretty ordinary. It was expensive, but not that expensive. A special occasion, not outrageous expense. Also you could get charter flights, they were even cheaper.
Maybe 800 pounds (~$1200) one way from London to New York (going the other way was much more expensive, because it avoided the overnight red-eye, and tended to be booked out.)
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RTFA, the light output from the sun is the same...
It's obvious why this is happening
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Gaia is getting hot from global warming, so she is turning down the blinds.
Actually I think the governments of the world only officially have regulatory jurisdiction to 60,000 feet.
Nope.
Governments have regulatory jurisdiction wherever they damn well please; it doesn't mean they can enforce it of course. When you have things zooming above your head in orbit, concepts like 'airspace' clearly don't apply, and governments usually draw the line somewhere.
Class A Airspace starts at 18,000 feet and ends at FL600 - 60,000 feet. Above that it's uncontrolled as far as the FAA in concerned.
It's uncontrolled, but that doesn't mean that you don't have to have permission from the FAA to fly up there- it says that air traffic control and stuff like that don't apply. Anyway, I'm not an expert, but I've been to presentations by people who are experts (e.g. the AST, who are the arm of the FAA who are (probably) dealing with rocketry launch authorisations), and 100km is the defacto standard (but not every regulation follows the standard...)
There's a semi-official definition of space. Anything below 100km is atmospheric, and the FAA takes jurisdiction. Above 100km, it's space, and nobody much does; until reentry.
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These aren't email domains though; they are web domains- a rather different thing. And a lot of them are hosted by somebody else, and the number of hosts is far, far smaller.
- boiling
- heat treatment
- burning
- bleach
- radiation
- burying in soil for more than a year
It's not that these things don't degrade the prion- they all do, and reduce the infectivity, but it's just that in order for it not to be infectious, you have to get every last molecule, and most of them leave some behind. Last time I heard I think the approved technique to decontaminate a medical instrument was triple autoclave or something, but it wasn't guaranteed, and in most cases disposal was the prefered option; but that was some time ago, I'm not up on the current protocols.They scale enough though- the number of email domains is presumably much less than 100K.
C. Someone to sue...only in the US is that an attractive feature.
Oh I don't know. Quite a lot of spam seems to come from America, so even foreign people can sue them in America :-)
My take is that this is a problem that is hard enough to address even partially---adding the burden of a massive worldwide PKI deployment would make it impossible. Verisign or Thawte would love it.
What massive? It's just a database of public keys of servers and a flag against it as to whether it is thought to be well managed or not. It's probably distributable using bittorrent or something. And it's a black hole list too- if Yahoo starts sending out spam; they're gone.
Not quite- I mean how do you know that a piece of email (spam) is from the trusted host that it says it is from? Only a cryptographic key can help with that- simply trusting the email is never, ever going to fly. I think this proposal has legs- it critically depends on the implementation however.
But a document that exceeds 60 pages does exceed 50 pages.
That aside, socialistic space programs like NASA (sorry, but that's pretty much what a government funded program like NASA amounts to) are unable to grow, and being a monopoly, NASA has very little incentive to become more cost-effective. The historical record shows that the inflation adjusted NASA budget is roughly fixed (within a factor of 2). That's a political reality-no huge growth is likely; business atleast has the chance to grow; and often has a much bigger incentive to reduce costs, which allows growth also; via lower prices.
This analysis suggest that the US government should ramp down NASA, and encourage private industry to take up the slack. It's the only thing that makes any sense in the long run; it's the only way to get to Space in any big way.
I'm planning to move house to the ISS.
(With apologies to Douglas Adams)
Therefore if you can drink 6 cups of coffee a day, you probably won't get diabetes.
Anyway, that's my theory and it is as consistent with the evidence as any other, as far as I can see.
Unlikely. They've got backup power supplies.
There's a simple solution for that. It's called a cell phone. Works great during a powercut. Welcome to the late, rather than the early 20th century. The combination of VOIP and cell phone gives you high availability *and* cheapness.
No current space transport device reaches escape velocity becuase you would get astrounaut pate on the back of the cockpit.
Um. No.
I don't think that's the way to bet somehow.
'Sfunny that's true of GPS too. GPS is still a useful system; yes, you can theoretically get stomped on.
it realy does seem like licensing without guarantee of service...
Yes, well, neither does the internet.
The military can shut you down and creat exclusion zones
Yes, well, that's life. If it is really bad you complain to your politician.
and they could theoretically raise the licensing fee at a later date
Yes. Death and Taxes.
Never read it. Still, talking of movies, have you seen Return of the King yet? I'm hoping they'll bring out a book of it, but I guess it's only just out, so we'll have to wait.
Just wish more people had walked away from Windows 95 :-)
You know, that's probably not an entirely silly thing to say. I mean this thing had only been up 15 minutes or so when it crashed. Scary looking pictures- I think it's not supposed to swerve off the runway like that :-)
Does this remind you of any particular Windows version? It kinda reminds me of Windows 95. :-)
Still, atleast they aren't selling seats to it yet.
Yes, of course! The subpoena will mention them by name.
Off-hand- I'd probably stick a debugger on it, viewing the code at assembler level, and trace the carriage return in from the OS; or something like that. I mean the OS has to call or return to IE when the carriage return is hit; there can't be that many places in the code where it is waiting for input- stick a breakpoint on all of them, and whichever one gets hit after you click on the carriage return is starting to process the code. Run it multiple times with different input and pretty soon you should start to see the patterns.
It's not especially easy, but it's doable, I've done stuff like that before. It's easier if you have the source code, but it's just slower if you don't.
Maybe 800 pounds (~$1200) one way from London to New York (going the other way was much more expensive, because it avoided the overnight red-eye, and tended to be booked out.)
RTFA, the light output from the sun is the same...
Gaia is getting hot from global warming, so she is turning down the blinds.
Maybe he used the same method NASA uses.
Oi! Who the heck are you to call Rutan a liar?!
Nope.
Governments have regulatory jurisdiction wherever they damn well please; it doesn't mean they can enforce it of course. When you have things zooming above your head in orbit, concepts like 'airspace' clearly don't apply, and governments usually draw the line somewhere.
Class A Airspace starts at 18,000 feet and ends at FL600 - 60,000 feet. Above that it's uncontrolled as far as the FAA in concerned.
It's uncontrolled, but that doesn't mean that you don't have to have permission from the FAA to fly up there- it says that air traffic control and stuff like that don't apply. Anyway, I'm not an expert, but I've been to presentations by people who are experts (e.g. the AST, who are the arm of the FAA who are (probably) dealing with rocketry launch authorisations), and 100km is the defacto standard (but not every regulation follows the standard...)
There's a semi-official definition of space. Anything below 100km is atmospheric, and the FAA takes jurisdiction. Above 100km, it's space, and nobody much does; until reentry.