Actually, in a FWD car the effect would be to have the front end lift up a bit when the back end was pressed down by the spoiler. This is the exact opposite of the desired effect!
I'll be happy with this kind of solution if I can opt out by domain. Otherwise this will be completely impractical for ISPs and those with lots of domains and email addresses.
I bet that if this does get implemented the registries get swamped with requests just like the do-not-call ones.
They're already proven monopolists. What you're saying is that they should be allowed to "kill again" before anything can or should be done about it. Sorry, I disagree.
It sounds pretty good to hear a company was "selected" until you hear that less than 300 companies selected themselves to "compete" and 100 of thesewere "selected" as the "top 100." Not bad odds for the companies that opt to spend the dough...
This sounds almost as bad as those J.D.Powers things where every company seems to win because the categories are rigged with categories something like "Best mid size imported sedan in initial quality" and "Best mid size import sedan in the first two years."
What about the case of Yasser Esam Hamdi a U.S. Citizen born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana now being held in Guantanimo. He certainly is a "legitimate citizen." Nobody is questioning that fact....
"The Pentagon source said Hamdi's status as a U.S. citizen will not affect the government's ability to try him as a "battlefield detainee" -- rather than trying him in civilian courts, like Walker Lindh."
It seems to me that the U.S. government is doing what it wants to do and is making the rules up as it goes along. And yes -- the "media" is buying this and regurgitating just what it's being fed.
First, the data is publicly available. Just go here
and enter an airline/flight number.
Second, the above assumes you have a particular flight in mind. Planes are all over the place and if you don't care which one you hit you can just aim and shoot in LOTS of places. You can also wait for the desired airline brand to fly over and do this as they regularly fly low while preparing to land.
If you had read the article you would have seen that they were showing their brand new web site to their employees when they discovered this. Since then the site has gone live. Why would they want to announce the "banned" address?
Not so. The law was set aside and the whole thing has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court which is expected to hear oral arguments sometime in the next few months. Read more about it here:
What is to prevent a "registered traveler" from doing something nefarious? Nothing! None of the 9/11 band of bad guys hid their identities. They didn't have to or want to. They (at least the leaders) wanted to die and to let everyone know who did what. Besides, their MO -- planes as missiles -- will probably not work anymore on commercial jets.
While the TSA scrambles to secure airports terrorists will likely just find another way to accomplish their goals while the rest of us stand in a "security" line designed to make us feel safer.
Does anyone else remember the bogus Pan Am security screening fee from years back? They didn't actually do extra screening but the impression of doing more made the passengers feel better...
So, don't use any of their software and then you have nothing to worry about. Look what it says: "By using the Licensed Software..." If they had instead said "By using the network connection..." things would be a bit different.
Exactly -- and IMNSHO once Network Slowlutions
started suggesting that everyone should get.com.net and.org versions of their names to "protect"
their interests (so they could sell 3x as many
names) all bets were off...
It is now impossible
to tell what type of organization you are dealing
with based on their domain name. I run the web site for one nonprofit whose.org name was already taken so they have a.com. This
seems to bother nobody. It's like 800 numbers
vs. 888, 877, 866, etc.
77,000 tons is a lot -- but it's not enough. Yucca Mountain will be *more* than full with the waste we have now, not to mention what's still being produced. Check this out:
...Even if Yucca is approved, built, and safely filled with nuclear waste, the industry's waste problem will still remain unsolved. Yucca Mountain will have a maximum capacity of 77,000 tons of high-level waste. Even if no new nuclear plants are built, existing plants will produce about 105,000 metric tons of wastes by the end of their lifetimes, according to DOE's Allen Benson. They will produce even more if, as the Bush administration has proposed, reactors receive extensions of their operating licenses.
Even if it is built and used as planned, there
will still be thousands of tons of nuclear waste left sitting all over the country.
But if you pirated the software then you don't have a copy of the license agreement.
Because of the way a lot of software is sold and the fact that many folks don't register their software the manufacturer has no clue who has purchased it.
I'm not at all in favor of the strong-arm tactics being used here, but it seems to me the BSA folks have the right to ask about licenses and that by sticking one's head up and saying "Okay!" the employer of the anonymous coward in question here has volunteered to be made an example for others.
I can't believe you missed the details!
It was only $199. It included a little box that has an IDE interface. This screws onto the back of the unit. The hard drive (supplied) fits inside the PS2. The price also includes a keyboard and mouse. Not bad!
UMG is making every effort to eliminate these problems as soon as possible.
No they are not. This is a blatant lie. If they didn't put messed up data on the CDs in the first place then all of these problems would go away*.
(*This is true except in the rare case of a CD that was accidentally produced improperly, as opposed to the intentionally-bad CDs they are getting set to release.)
The $7.5M was not really what the domain was worth or what was paid for it. It may look that way at first, but if you look at the facts you'll see that it was really a way to get the guy who sold it to come on board and to also garner publicity by paying a big name for the domain.
It turned out to be more of a signing bonus at the expense of shareholders.
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Actually, in a FWD car the effect would be to have the front end lift up a bit when the back end was pressed down by the spoiler. This is the exact opposite of the desired effect!
To quote an AT&T ad from a few years ago, "You will."
I can't believe this was only suggested once in 700+ replies. What a game!
When I last looked at the bill on the House website it had no cosponsors. That's a good sign!
I bet that if this does get implemented the registries get swamped with requests just like the do-not-call ones.
This sounds almost as bad as those J.D.Powers things where every company seems to win because the categories are rigged with categories something like "Best mid size imported sedan in initial quality" and "Best mid size import sedan in the first two years."
It seems to me that the U.S. government is doing what it wants to do and is making the rules up as it goes along. And yes -- the "media" is buying this and regurgitating just what it's being fed.
The original thread is here: HOWTO: Annoy a Spammer
The subsequent metathread on this is here: Spammer Gets Spam Mailed
Second, the above assumes you have a particular flight in mind. Planes are all over the place and if you don't care which one you hit you can just aim and shoot in LOTS of places. You can also wait for the desired airline brand to fly over and do this as they regularly fly low while preparing to land.
http://www.ala.org/cipa/
While the TSA scrambles to secure airports terrorists will likely just find another way to accomplish their goals while the rest of us stand in a "security" line designed to make us feel safer.
Does anyone else remember the bogus Pan Am security screening fee from years back? They didn't actually do extra screening but the impression of doing more made the passengers feel better...
It is now impossible to tell what type of organization you are dealing with based on their domain name. I run the web site for one nonprofit whose .org name was already taken so they have a .com. This
seems to bother nobody. It's like 800 numbers
vs. 888, 877, 866, etc.
Sounds like the failure was in what connected the booster rocket and the test plane, not the booster rocket itself...
Even if it is built and used as planned, there will still be thousands of tons of nuclear waste left sitting all over the country.
Because of the way a lot of software is sold and the fact that many folks don't register their software the manufacturer has no clue who has purchased it.
I'm not at all in favor of the strong-arm tactics being used here, but it seems to me the BSA folks have the right to ask about licenses and that by sticking one's head up and saying "Okay!" the employer of the anonymous coward in question here has volunteered to be made an example for others.
I'd like to see them start telling their advertisers that they are tracking 20 billion people ;-)
-- Anything specifically labeled "Professional" isn't.
No they are not. This is a blatant lie. If they didn't put messed up data on the CDs in the first place then all of these problems would go away*.
It turned out to be more of a signing bonus at the expense of shareholders.