I get about 30 messages a day from this guy's "Allied Marketing Promotions Inc." on my Yahoo account. They usually arrive in chunks of 5-10 messages at a time, all peddling different "products", mostly the same spam fare such as mortgages and pills of one sort or another. It started about two weeks ago but Yahoo's spam filter still hasn't caught on...
Definitely someone with an aluminum bat deficiency.
concerning most government's and the rights given to citizens
I think that's one of the big misconceptions the public has. Rights aren't given to us by the government (although they are supposed to be secured by it), those rights are inherently and originally ours..."inalienable" as someone once put it. Once people start taking ownership of those rights they'll take issue with the government saying, "We'll need to take your rights BACK for a while so we can make them extra-secure."
(I realize it was just a coincidental way you formed the phrase. Not trying to detract from your statements...)
Most stories have his parents doing the suing on their own accord. I haven't heard a word about how the kid actually feels or if he even wanted to take legal action. My thoughts are that he didn't, because it would give his already-trampled private life that much more public exposure.
I could very well be wrong, so anyone have any info about the kid?
the solid reliability of nuclear power, proved through over 40 years of operation worldwide
But that stable nuclear power has always been under the care of extremely well-trained professionals. Remember when computers were the domain of scientists who kept them in controlled environments (not talking about atmosphere) and knew how they worked? There was a very, very small chance of malfunction. Now fast forward to today where anyone who can read can basically work with a computer and where crashes or mishaps are virtually hourly with a single machine. Now take nuclear generators out of the hands of professionals and give them to the average homeowner who knows only enough to know when the lights suddenly go out. Unless there are some serious advances in radiation containment or leak-prevention, I do not want any sort of radioactive fuel-powered devices in mine or my neighbor's hands.
There was a time in the 1950's or so when many people foresaw small nuclear power generators in every home. Now, hydrogen doesn't have nearly as many hazardous issues to deal with (that we know of) as nuclear power or even other current forms of energy, but household-based powerplants still seem a bit unlikely.
I'll have to check, but I don't think the Shuttles are made to bring such large objects down from orbit. The re-entry procedures are run virtually entirely by a computer which has the Shuttle's weight programmed into it and the Hubble, if not very heavy, would throw off the balance of the Shuttle and make it harder for the computer to correct for deviations. (This is what they said happened to the Columbia, the flight characteristics of the Shuttle changed too quickly for the computer to compensate and further worsened the damage.)
I'll use their car analogy here: If a person steals the unlocked car with the keys in the engine, do you really think that same person is going to buy a car of their own, regardless of whether they stole the car or not?
WOW....he keeps going, this is the best part (in response to headless cease-and-desist letters, notably the Penn State incident):
We are not accessing anybody's "property," and we are certainly not violating anybody's personal rights. We are doing exactly the same thing that every other infringer is doing.
Record companies don't want to lock music up -- after all, why would people buy it if they could not listen to it in the way that they wanted?
DOES THIS GUY LISTEN TO HIMSELF? If the RIAA wants us to listen to music the way we want, why don't they let us GIVE THEM MONEY for things like music downloads or at least some sort of "approved" form of media other than $25 CDs that we can listen to however and wherever we wish?
Haven't read it all so far, but this is just blaring...
Nobody is really "sharing" as we traditionally think of the term. Sharing involves lending something to somebody, and while it is on loan, the owner no longer has it. "Sharing" in the P2P context has become a euphemism for "copying." That copying is neither legal nor ethical.
So...why do they say copying music files is "stealing"? Nobody loses any physical property, nothing of monetary value, but yet "copying" is equal to "stealing" in their minds... From an ethical perspective, when individuals engage in illegal copying, they are taking money out of the pockets of all of the people who have put their hard work into making the music
Yeah, and from an ethical perspective suing a student for creating a search engine and letting him go for merely all he's worth is just dandy.
Is it just me, or is the government becoming that annoying 12-year-old at your weekly D&D game?
NSA: I want INVISIBILITY AMULETS!!! Homeland: Then I want a +5 Ring of DOOM!! FTC: If they get that then I want a secret +8 Sword of SLICING! GM: *Moves to Canada*
...that this Bob guy is just a clever program that glues buzzwords together with random English words. Really, it's hard to figure out what this article is saying...Bluetooth is dying because it solves only one problem and isn't 802.11?
Wait a minute, this "guy" works at Microsoft...RUN FOR YOUR LIVES MICROSOFT BOB IS SENTIENT!
I've found it useful to wait a bit into the year before buying electronics. Two or three weeks into the semester you'll have a feel for your classes and college in general. You'll know exactly what you want/need to help yourself along, plus most large-ish colleges have a lot of good deals on not only computers, but a bunch of other electronics deemed "useful." If your college isn't big enough to have stuff like this there's always other students to buy second-hand off of like you do with textbooks. I'd bring a cheap-o desktop that can do the basics and save your money till you get your bearings.
1. What if the Orbiter that is damaged can't dock or is unable to dock with the ISS? The Columbia was not equipped to dock with the ISS, and even if it was it didn't have to fuel or rocket power to get to it. 2. Repairing a Shuttle in orbit is an extremely tricky proposition. The ISS would have to store parts and tools in the Station, which would take up an enormous amount of space. Think about how many different things that could break to make a Shuttle unable to re-enter. They'd have to have almost an extra Shuttle's worth of parts. That and the physical aspects of anything but minor repair are extremely inhibitive. Zero-G is not an ideal environment for construction/repair.
...that law is going to get passed with a lame acronym like RUCEA (Reduction of Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail Act). Come on! Can't they be like all the other politicians and base their legislation around cool buzzwords like PATRIOT and NET???
If we're going to get anything done we need to get with it!
Slashdot Mirror
RFC2223 - Instructions to RFC Authors
RFC 0825 - Request for comments on Requests For Comments
Partial mirror if you just want to see the general idea of it (still 950k worth of text):
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I get about 30 messages a day from this guy's "Allied Marketing Promotions Inc." on my Yahoo account. They usually arrive in chunks of 5-10 messages at a time, all peddling different "products", mostly the same spam fare such as mortgages and pills of one sort or another. It started about two weeks ago but Yahoo's spam filter still hasn't caught on...
Definitely someone with an aluminum bat deficiency.
Snopes has a better picture, along with links to video here.
Ahh, that's what I was going for. Thanks for the refinement.
the US wants to keep space peaceful, but that can't last forever
Once you prepare for war, you've already started the war.
concerning most government's and the rights given to citizens
I think that's one of the big misconceptions the public has. Rights aren't given to us by the government (although they are supposed to be secured by it), those rights are inherently and originally ours..."inalienable" as someone once put it. Once people start taking ownership of those rights they'll take issue with the government saying, "We'll need to take your rights BACK for a while so we can make them extra-secure."
(I realize it was just a coincidental way you formed the phrase. Not trying to detract from your statements...)
Most stories have his parents doing the suing on their own accord. I haven't heard a word about how the kid actually feels or if he even wanted to take legal action. My thoughts are that he didn't, because it would give his already-trampled private life that much more public exposure.
I could very well be wrong, so anyone have any info about the kid?
the solid reliability of nuclear power, proved through over 40 years of operation worldwide
But that stable nuclear power has always been under the care of extremely well-trained professionals. Remember when computers were the domain of scientists who kept them in controlled environments (not talking about atmosphere) and knew how they worked? There was a very, very small chance of malfunction. Now fast forward to today where anyone who can read can basically work with a computer and where crashes or mishaps are virtually hourly with a single machine.
Now take nuclear generators out of the hands of professionals and give them to the average homeowner who knows only enough to know when the lights suddenly go out. Unless there are some serious advances in radiation containment or leak-prevention, I do not want any sort of radioactive fuel-powered devices in mine or my neighbor's hands.
There was a time in the 1950's or so when many people foresaw small nuclear power generators in every home. Now, hydrogen doesn't have nearly as many hazardous issues to deal with (that we know of) as nuclear power or even other current forms of energy, but household-based powerplants still seem a bit unlikely.
I'll have to check, but I don't think the Shuttles are made to bring such large objects down from orbit. The re-entry procedures are run virtually entirely by a computer which has the Shuttle's weight programmed into it and the Hubble, if not very heavy, would throw off the balance of the Shuttle and make it harder for the computer to correct for deviations. (This is what they said happened to the Columbia, the flight characteristics of the Shuttle changed too quickly for the computer to compensate and further worsened the damage.)
A second.
Be nice as well.
I'll use their car analogy here:
If a person steals the unlocked car with the keys in the engine, do you really think that same person is going to buy a car of their own, regardless of whether they stole the car or not?
So...we can trade our MP3's now?
Record companies don't want to lock music up -- after all, why would people buy it if they could not listen to it in the way that they wanted?
DOES THIS GUY LISTEN TO HIMSELF? If the RIAA wants us to listen to music the way we want, why don't they let us GIVE THEM MONEY for things like music downloads or at least some sort of "approved" form of media other than $25 CDs that we can listen to however and wherever we wish?
Haven't read it all so far, but this is just blaring...
Nobody is really "sharing" as we traditionally think of the term. Sharing involves lending something to somebody, and while it is on loan, the owner no longer has it. "Sharing" in the P2P context has become a euphemism for "copying." That copying is neither legal nor ethical.
So...why do they say copying music files is "stealing"? Nobody loses any physical property, nothing of monetary value, but yet "copying" is equal to "stealing" in their minds...
From an ethical perspective, when individuals engage in illegal copying, they are taking money out of the pockets of all of the people who have put their hard work into making the music
Yeah, and from an ethical perspective suing a student for creating a search engine and letting him go for merely all he's worth is just dandy.
Is it just me, or is the government becoming that annoying 12-year-old at your weekly D&D game?
NSA: I want INVISIBILITY AMULETS!!!
Homeland: Then I want a +5 Ring of DOOM!!
FTC: If they get that then I want a secret +8 Sword of SLICING!
GM: *Moves to Canada*
...that this Bob guy is just a clever program that glues buzzwords together with random English words. Really, it's hard to figure out what this article is saying...Bluetooth is dying because it solves only one problem and isn't 802.11?
Wait a minute, this "guy" works at Microsoft...RUN FOR YOUR LIVES MICROSOFT BOB IS SENTIENT!
I've found it useful to wait a bit into the year before buying electronics. Two or three weeks into the semester you'll have a feel for your classes and college in general. You'll know exactly what you want/need to help yourself along, plus most large-ish colleges have a lot of good deals on not only computers, but a bunch of other electronics deemed "useful." If your college isn't big enough to have stuff like this there's always other students to buy second-hand off of like you do with textbooks. I'd bring a cheap-o desktop that can do the basics and save your money till you get your bearings.
Any yes, lots of powerstrips.
This guy is right...
If you want to help the lads chip away at their mounting bandwidth bills, please consider dropping a dime in their kitty.
:)
/humor
humor
Also, please consider helping by not posting a link to their site on Slashdot for crying out loud.
Two Problems:
1. What if the Orbiter that is damaged can't dock or is unable to dock with the ISS? The Columbia was not equipped to dock with the ISS, and even if it was it didn't have to fuel or rocket power to get to it.
2. Repairing a Shuttle in orbit is an extremely tricky proposition. The ISS would have to store parts and tools in the Station, which would take up an enormous amount of space. Think about how many different things that could break to make a Shuttle unable to re-enter. They'd have to have almost an extra Shuttle's worth of parts. That and the physical aspects of anything but minor repair are extremely inhibitive. Zero-G is not an ideal environment for construction/repair.
I think we've found Bill's secret lair.
If we're going to get anything done we need to get with it!
That alien has the closest resemblance of Mr. T I have ever seen, human or not...