I find it deeply, deeply disturbing that corporate greed can find more sympathy with judges than "national security".
Not that I ever thought that PGP should be restricted, either in source or in binary, but, fuck, national security should be a much bigger hammer with which to thump software than unadulterated money-grubbing.
If a waterblock springs a gushing leak, I'm out a CPU, a motherboard, RAM, a video card, etc
Actually, if you're using de-ionised, distilled water, you won't be. Use a dehumidifier to dry them gently and thoroughly and the components should all be fine.
Corrosion and shorting problems occur when you're using water that's impure (pure water is nonconductive). If you get stuff drying straight away it will be fine.
Now, I'm not any kind of expert on US law (other than knowing that the DMCA blows chunks pretty hard), but this latest claim by SCO sounds a lot like racketeering. Since they're throwing claims around all over the place it'd be a federal case, too.
As Singh said in the article, it's extortion based on fraud and that sounds mighty like a corrupt, racketeering effort to me. I think that federal charges would take the wind out of McBribe's sails.
The parent's a TROLL! Tee Are Oh Ell Ell!
Fucking stupid moderators.
As every other follow-up post has attested, and as I will also attest, the same wall charger that I got with my original Nokia 5110 coming on four years ago still works just fine with phones on sale today.
I'm not sure about Nagasaki, but Hiroshima has a background radioactivity count that is only very slightly higher than normal. Even at ground zero.
So, as it currently stands, there's not much that microbes could do to "cure" Hiroshima. It's already highly populated after having to recover from near-total population loss, and I seem to recall reading somewhere that it has a birth defect rate that's the same as other Japanese cities. So much for the nuclear waste zone.
Some places in the US elect their judges. Maybe they ALL should be subject to election by the local folks.
How about none of them be subject to election? If you're elected, you need to campaign. Campaigns cost money. Look at what's happened to the US government for a perfect example of how campaign contributions pervert due process.
Once they get convicted, the Senators don't have to worry about them voting again.
Whether or not you realised it, this is a very insightful observation.
Since P2P users obviously aren't too concerned (the poor reporting following the 4/7 weekend to the contrary) about these coming laws, why not just remove their ability to have any say on the laws at all?
It's probably not the intention of the bill, but it sure does smell bad that elected officials are looking to support big-money campaign contributors by removing the voting rights of people who those contributors don't like.
a cantilever based electronic nose that has the potential to detect a single molecule.
That's fine, but can it do the job as well as a dog's nose? A book I read about working dogs (drug, arson, etc) was saying that a dog can detect, at a distance, concentrations of a part-per-trillion that electronic detectors are unable to detect at the source.
We had a similar system here in New Zealand, where calls were charged in some obscure way that the ISPs were making money from people dialling up. Telecom (the telco that owns all the lines) had some obscure deal with Clear (the competition, who use Telecom's lines) where if a Telecom customer called a Clear customer, Telecom would pay Clear something like 2c/min.
There's nothing obscure about it. It's international practice. What isn't international practice is one party charging the other party nearly double. Clear were getting a couple of cents a minute from Telecom for calls originating from (A party) the Telecom network that terminated in (B party) the Clear network. Calls with the A and B reversed were about twice as expensive for Clear.
The way the free ISPs got in on the act was by taking a cut of the interconnect revenue that Telecom had to pay Clear. Known as arbitrage, it's another international practice. i4free, the first of the free ISPs, was raking in tens-of-thousands of dollars of arbitrage a month by operating as a call sink (where calls from one network to another last for extended durations). They're now suing Telecom for $18m because of their actions in changing the interconnect structure.
Yeah, your PC will piss all over anything less than a 72xx. However, your PC will also take many times longer to boot, consumes considerably more rack space and power, and has that most evil of sins: Moving parts.
Of course, if you were to use one of those funky flash IDE drives you could do the whole thing without an HDD and then you'd be talking negligible power consumption and no moving parts. You still lose on the rack space thing, though.
You'd probably get an Insightful mod from me, if I had mod points and hadn't already posted, but:
If you want to fall back to a cold war/MAD mentality, here's a worst case scenario for you. Say that twenty years from now China launches an unexpected nuclear ICBM assult against the US. At the same time Chinese hackers attempt to infiltrate every known computer in NORAD and any SDI systems. Would you want the computers to automatically destroy themselves, thereby eliminating any chance of a timely defense or counterattack, or assume that the hackers haven't got full access and keep the computers going as long as possible since the other alternative is death?
If missile control/defence networks operate through networks that could be attacked from China, then the US really does deserve the nuclear annihilation that would befall it. Systems that have absolutely horrific consequences associated with their failure should never be attached to generally accessible systems.
That's why our military security is completely segmented. The whole concept of need to know basis
And, as with the military, if you compromise high enough up the chain you can do a WHOLE lot of damage. Senior military officials don't just have military drivers because of their rank - The drivers also have guns.
There's a reason former US presidents get USSS protection for quite some time (now 10 years, formerly life) after leaving office - What they know remains highly prejudicial to national security after they go.
The problem with computers is that you can force them to reveal everything they know without leaving them catatonic with drugs or physically destroyed - In theory, nobody would ever know.
This biological concept of security needs to use the full biological model of sacrifical guards. The body repels invaders by sacrificing cells to attack the invader. A computer that merrily allows an intruder to work its way back through the network until they can read everything is no use.
Maybe create switches that have fusible links on the network ports that can be destroyed with a command from within the network? Make the links cheap and easy to replace, so that it's not a major imposition to fix if someone does it maliciously or accidentaly. A physically "down" network port is absolute security against a remote attacker, particularly when a computer only has a single NIC.
You're either trolling, or wearing blinkers.
Grid computing isn't meant to be used for home users. It's meant to be used for computing tasks that would otherwise be run on super computers - Modelling molecular flow patterns and tectonic plate movements, to name but two. The implication that I read was not home users, but mobile users - Scientists and engineers who're out of the office and need an answer fast.
There are companies out there that would love to be able to run computationally intensive modelling, but can't afford the systems they need to get it done in a reasonable amount of time.
Stop thinking in terms of things that you would use it for, and start thinking big but not enormous. There's plenty of stuff out there.
If the governments of China and other countries are really smart, they will make english instruction mandatory
Mandatory isn't enough. It also needs to be high quality.
The problem with trying to learn English is the language structure - Or lack thereof. I'm not an English student, so I don't know all the proper terms, but I do know that English is a prick of a language to learn because of its unstructured nature.
When you're learning by rote from a teacher who barely speaks the language themselves, of course you're going to have difficulty. There's a reason why native English speakers are in huge demand in Asia as teachers of the English language.
But...but...that means spell-checking our posts...and using punctuation correctly...and, my God, grammar?!?
The horror, the horror.
Oh won't somebody think of the children?
Oh, wait, someone did. And decided that it's more important to not call a child a failure than to teach them how to read and write correctly.
I mean, what the fuck is up with the whole apostrophe saga? It's not like they're difficult to use. Don't get me started on their/there/they're either.
If accepting mediocrity is the price of retaining a child's self esteem, then fuck their self esteem and shred it GOOD!
When you copt that CD from your friend you are not stealing from your friend. However, you are destroying the opportunity of the record company to sell you a copy. That is a real cost that is now lost. You have shrunk the market.
Only if I would otherwise have bought the CD. If I would not have bought the CD, then nobody has lost anything (and, in fact, the manufacturer of the blank CD I used is up a few cents).
You have bought the RIAA line that every copied CD is a lost sale. Personally, I rarely buy CDs. Most of what's new these days is shit.
I bought the Evanescence album at the weekend, the first CD I've bought in about six months. I bought it because I got a copy from a friend and I liked enough of the tracks (actually I like the whole album) that I could justify spending the money on it. If I hadn't liked it, the copy wasn't depriving anyone of anything since I wouldn't have bought the album otherwise.
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I find it deeply, deeply disturbing that corporate greed can find more sympathy with judges than "national security".
Not that I ever thought that PGP should be restricted, either in source or in binary, but, fuck, national security should be a much bigger hammer with which to thump software than unadulterated money-grubbing.
And I shall be the Spelling Police and tell you that the word is spelt "grammar".
Sheesh, even the language nazis are faulty these days.
This link works better
Maybe "A sterilised woman taking 'the Pill'"?
Corrosion and shorting problems occur when you're using water that's impure (pure water is nonconductive). If you get stuff drying straight away it will be fine.
Now, I'm not any kind of expert on US law (other than knowing that the DMCA blows chunks pretty hard), but this latest claim by SCO sounds a lot like racketeering. Since they're throwing claims around all over the place it'd be a federal case, too.
As Singh said in the article, it's extortion based on fraud and that sounds mighty like a corrupt, racketeering effort to me. I think that federal charges would take the wind out of McBribe's sails.
Fucking stupid moderators.
As every other follow-up post has attested, and as I will also attest, the same wall charger that I got with my original Nokia 5110 coming on four years ago still works just fine with phones on sale today.
So, as it currently stands, there's not much that microbes could do to "cure" Hiroshima. It's already highly populated after having to recover from near-total population loss, and I seem to recall reading somewhere that it has a birth defect rate that's the same as other Japanese cities. So much for the nuclear waste zone.
I used to work for CallPlus (the parent company of i4free) as a network engineer. I know quite a bit about the whole situation, from the inside :P
Since P2P users obviously aren't too concerned (the poor reporting following the 4/7 weekend to the contrary) about these coming laws, why not just remove their ability to have any say on the laws at all?
It's probably not the intention of the bill, but it sure does smell bad that elected officials are looking to support big-money campaign contributors by removing the voting rights of people who those contributors don't like.
The way the free ISPs got in on the act was by taking a cut of the interconnect revenue that Telecom had to pay Clear. Known as arbitrage, it's another international practice. i4free, the first of the free ISPs, was raking in tens-of-thousands of dollars of arbitrage a month by operating as a call sink (where calls from one network to another last for extended durations). They're now suing Telecom for $18m because of their actions in changing the interconnect structure.
Yeah, your PC will piss all over anything less than a 72xx. However, your PC will also take many times longer to boot, consumes considerably more rack space and power, and has that most evil of sins: Moving parts.
Of course, if you were to use one of those funky flash IDE drives you could do the whole thing without an HDD and then you'd be talking negligible power consumption and no moving parts. You still lose on the rack space thing, though.
If missile control/defence networks operate through networks that could be attacked from China, then the US really does deserve the nuclear annihilation that would befall it. Systems that have absolutely horrific consequences associated with their failure should never be attached to generally accessible systems.
There's a reason former US presidents get USSS protection for quite some time (now 10 years, formerly life) after leaving office - What they know remains highly prejudicial to national security after they go.
The problem with computers is that you can force them to reveal everything they know without leaving them catatonic with drugs or physically destroyed - In theory, nobody would ever know.
This biological concept of security needs to use the full biological model of sacrifical guards. The body repels invaders by sacrificing cells to attack the invader. A computer that merrily allows an intruder to work its way back through the network until they can read everything is no use.
Maybe create switches that have fusible links on the network ports that can be destroyed with a command from within the network? Make the links cheap and easy to replace, so that it's not a major imposition to fix if someone does it maliciously or accidentaly. A physically "down" network port is absolute security against a remote attacker, particularly when a computer only has a single NIC.
Grid computing isn't meant to be used for home users. It's meant to be used for computing tasks that would otherwise be run on super computers - Modelling molecular flow patterns and tectonic plate movements, to name but two. The implication that I read was not home users, but mobile users - Scientists and engineers who're out of the office and need an answer fast.
There are companies out there that would love to be able to run computationally intensive modelling, but can't afford the systems they need to get it done in a reasonable amount of time.
Stop thinking in terms of things that you would use it for, and start thinking big but not enormous. There's plenty of stuff out there.
but 600 pounds? Sheesh, that's just being mean.
The problem with trying to learn English is the language structure - Or lack thereof. I'm not an English student, so I don't know all the proper terms, but I do know that English is a prick of a language to learn because of its unstructured nature.
When you're learning by rote from a teacher who barely speaks the language themselves, of course you're going to have difficulty. There's a reason why native English speakers are in huge demand in Asia as teachers of the English language.
Oh, wait, someone did. And decided that it's more important to not call a child a failure than to teach them how to read and write correctly.
I mean, what the fuck is up with the whole apostrophe saga? It's not like they're difficult to use. Don't get me started on their/there/they're either.
If accepting mediocrity is the price of retaining a child's self esteem, then fuck their self esteem and shred it GOOD!
who read "Pehaps you can measure the popularity of an MMOG based on its auction potential", and immediately thought of this story?
You have bought the RIAA line that every copied CD is a lost sale. Personally, I rarely buy CDs. Most of what's new these days is shit.
I bought the Evanescence album at the weekend, the first CD I've bought in about six months. I bought it because I got a copy from a friend and I liked enough of the tracks (actually I like the whole album) that I could justify spending the money on it. If I hadn't liked it, the copy wasn't depriving anyone of anything since I wouldn't have bought the album otherwise.
Particularly when it occurs over the major holiday weekend for the world's largest population of 'net users.
Damnit, why do I never have mod points when I want them!?