picked from ficix.fi page: "Finnish Communication and Internet Exchange (FICIX) is the exchange point of the Finnish Internet. FICIX was founded in 1993 by Eunet Finland Oy, HTC (Helsinki Telephone Company) and PTT (Posts and Telecommunications), which made an agreement on interconnecting Finnish IP networks. In 2001, FICIX was re-organised as an association named as Finnish Communication and Internet Exchange, FICIX."
FICIX is finnish ISP interconnection point. Operators take care of international traffic by other means. Traffic within one ISP is not visible there neither, naturally.
One of these near-miss asteroids _should_ be used for real life evaluation of asteroid nudging.
1) Plan beforehands, reserve ammunition 2) *kapow* 3) Analyze and learn.
A stone like this would provide excellent material for evaluating different methods; is it better to nuke the stone, mount a rocket or do something else.
I'd start with something like that...... quote... The walking forest machine is Plustech's best-known innovation. The goal of product development was to create a machine that has the best possible working stability and minimum impact on the terrain
The walking machine adapts automatically to the forest floor. Moving on six articulated legs, the harvester advances forward and backward, sideways and diagonally. It can also turn in place and step over obstacles. Depending on the irregularity of the terrain, the operator can adjust both the ground clearance of the machine and heigh of each step..../quote...
"Caller pays" has been the name of the game for more than a decade in Europe in mobile networks.
The idea that the called party should pay for receiving the call has always been quite strange; I do not understand why such a decision is made in the US.
Surveys are OK, telemarketers are OK because they do pay for calling me. Whether or not I want to talk with with them is my choice and it does not cost me any money.... reporting from Helsinki, Finland
I understand your points and am not into drunken driving. My GFs father was killed by drunken driver several years ago.
What is not important is not the exact case that I just described. What is important that: Who takes the responsibility to disallow the vehicle to move?
Does "the car" know better than the potential driver? Does "the car" know how important it is to be able to drive ?
If I can't get my buddy (or victim of some other accident) to hospital and he/she dies, who is to take responsibility ? Technology or human ?
I vote for human.
As much as I am against the BigBrother society, "calling the cops" is more humane thing to do compared to "killing the car temporarily". Luckily these are not the only two options.
Disabling the car ain't such a good idea e.g. in the following scenario:
Me and my buddies are in the summer cottage in the middle of.... nowhere sipping happily moonshine.
Someone hits his foot with an axe while trying to cut wood into sauna stove and starts to bleed heavily.
Obvious solution: Use mobile phone to call up the ambulance ? Great, but if that is not a feasible solution for some reason or another, the wounded HAS to be taken to hospital.
Which is worse:
1) With the car disabled, my buddy bleeds to death ?
2) Carefully drive the minimun possible distance to reach medical facilities with buddy on the back seat ?
"... to have the delivery agent blackhole (delete) this spam as it arrives based on the source IP..."
I remember some months / years ago seeing a mention about "tar pit" approach. This method slows down the TCP or SMTP conversation between target and the spammer. This mechanism slows down the spammer and ties her resources (unfortunately, also the targets resources...)
I do not remember any URLs related but these should be easy to find.
I know something about Finland, I've lived here for my whole life (little less than 30 years) and been working in datacom area for the last six years.
Short messages are indeed popular in Finland; my parents (born -47 and -48), my girlfriends parents (same age) and practically all the people I communicate with, can use and do use short messages.
Youngsters / teenagers are quite hooked up; there are articles on the finnish newspapers considering the situation on weekly basis.
Sending a short message costs approximately 0.16 USD (or same amount in Euros) and it's quite possible to create a huge bill by using these... There are a couple of GSM operators in Finland, the price of the message is approximately the same.
There are plenty of online services made available by finnish telecom operators and third parties. Among these services are bank services, weather services, email-sms-email converters, sms-fax converters, directory services etc etc.
Seems that the Sun download server is quite busy... Anyone know of mirror site ? Anyone at Sun reading this ? Official mirror site could be a good idea ?
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Join to EFF and ACLU. Be happy to pay for membership. Donate, if you can.
I wonder how many europeans (as myself) are card-carrying members of ACLU. I certainly am and will be in the future as well.
http://www.aclu.org/
http://www.eff.org/
picked from ficix.fi page: "Finnish Communication and Internet Exchange (FICIX) is the exchange point of the Finnish Internet. FICIX was founded in 1993 by Eunet Finland Oy, HTC (Helsinki Telephone Company) and PTT (Posts and Telecommunications), which made an agreement on interconnecting Finnish IP networks. In 2001, FICIX was re-organised as an association named as Finnish Communication and Internet Exchange, FICIX."
FICIX is finnish ISP interconnection point. Operators take care of international traffic by other means. Traffic within one ISP is not visible there neither, naturally.
> Ted Kennedy is known to associate with
> traitors, rapists and loose women. Would
> you want to sit next to him ?
"What would Jesus do?"
Your future employer might be interested as well as the insurance company.
Are you pregnant ? With HIV ? (Former) drug user ?
I consider these quite personal issues but the employer might be very interested about these when considering whether to employ you or not.
Hogbert
Does it make a difference ?
The bank offices were closed; they did not do business. No data was lost but the customers were not given service. No good.
Hogbert
One of these near-miss asteroids _should_ be used for real life evaluation of asteroid nudging.
1) Plan beforehands, reserve ammunition
2) *kapow*
3) Analyze and learn.
A stone like this would provide excellent material for evaluating different methods; is it better to nuke the stone, mount a rocket or do something else.
Hogbert
Innovation at its best:
... ... quote ...
... /quote ...
The walking forest machine by Plustech.
http://www.plustech.fi/Walking1.html
I'd start with something like that
The walking forest machine is Plustech's best-known innovation.
The goal of product development was to create a machine that has
the best possible working stability and minimum impact on the
terrain
The walking machine adapts automatically to the forest floor.
Moving on six articulated legs, the harvester advances forward
and backward, sideways and diagonally. It can also turn in
place and step over obstacles. Depending on the irregularity of
the terrain, the operator can adjust both the ground clearance of
the machine and heigh of each step.
Old news.
... reporting from Helsinki, Finland
"Caller pays" has been the name of the game for more than a decade in Europe in mobile networks.
The idea that the called party should pay for receiving the call has always been quite strange; I do not understand why such a decision is made in the US.
Surveys are OK, telemarketers are OK because they do pay for calling me. Whether or not I want to talk with with them is my choice and it does not cost me any money.
I found out the following some time ago....
8 59 -1&q=proud+of+our+products%2C+services%2C+and+tech nology%2C+nothing+matches+the+pride+we&btnG=Google +Search
:)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8
"It it's good, why change it"
Yes, sure.
I understand your points and am not into drunken driving. My GFs father was killed by drunken driver several years ago.
What is not important is not the exact case that I just described. What is important that: Who takes the responsibility to disallow the vehicle to move?
Does "the car" know better than the potential driver? Does "the car" know how important it is to be able to drive ?
If I can't get my buddy (or victim of some other accident) to hospital and he/she dies, who is to take responsibility ? Technology or human ?
I vote for human.
As much as I am against the BigBrother society, "calling the cops" is more humane thing to do compared to "killing the car temporarily". Luckily these are not the only two options.
Excuse me too, but...
.... nowhere sipping happily moonshine.
Disabling the car ain't such a good idea e.g. in the following scenario:
Me and my buddies are in the summer cottage in the middle of
Someone hits his foot with an axe while trying to cut wood into sauna stove and starts to bleed heavily.
Obvious solution: Use mobile phone to call up the ambulance ? Great, but if that is not a feasible solution for some reason or another, the wounded HAS to be taken to hospital.
Which is worse:
1) With the car disabled, my buddy bleeds to death ?
2) Carefully drive the minimun possible distance to reach medical facilities with buddy on the back seat ?
I know that I would choose "2".
not fulltime job; just copy and paste to http://spamcop.net/ Been doing that for some time. Easy and painless.
"... to have the delivery agent blackhole (delete) this spam as it arrives based on the source IP ..."
...)
I remember some months / years ago seeing a mention about "tar pit" approach. This method slows down the TCP or SMTP conversation between target and the spammer. This mechanism slows down the spammer and ties her resources (unfortunately, also the targets resources
I do not remember any URLs related but these should be easy to find.
I sure would love to do the same.
...
Unfortunately it is quite hard for us europeans to call US 800-numbers and let the spammers pay the bill.
I would not mind if anyone told me how to do the trick
I know something about Finland, I've lived here for my whole life (little less than 30 years) and been working in datacom area for the last six years.
Short messages are indeed popular in Finland; my parents (born -47 and -48), my girlfriends parents (same age) and practically all the people I communicate with, can use and do use short messages.
Youngsters / teenagers are quite hooked up; there are articles on the finnish newspapers considering the situation on weekly basis.
Sending a short message costs approximately 0.16 USD (or same amount in Euros) and it's quite possible to create a huge bill by using these... There are a couple of GSM operators in Finland, the price of the message is approximately the same.
There are plenty of online services made available by finnish telecom operators and third parties. Among these services are bank services, weather services, email-sms-email converters, sms-fax converters, directory services etc etc.
have a nice day
PCI only, right ...
The board seems to be nice, but two versions of the board are not sufficient if the guys want to support all relevant architectures.
It is my feeling that Compact PCI should be mentioned here as well. Without cPCI version, I am not interested.
happy hacking
Seems that the Sun download server is quite busy ... Anyone know of mirror site ? Anyone at Sun reading this ? Official mirror site could be a good idea ?
An alle Microsoft Internetexplorer 3.0x Benutzer.
Die Star Division Homepage sehr aufwendig. Zuaufwendig für ihren Microsoft Internetexplorer 3.0x.
Damit Sie diese Seiten aufrufen können brauchen Sie ein StarOffice 4.0/5.1, Netscape 3.x/ 4.x oder MSIE 4.x.
Wir bitten um ihr Verständnis.
I hate it when this happens...