It is a quite intresting (and from a business stand point, ) read. My only problem with the Breif Amicus Curiae that AOl filed which was on the site linked, many of the lines are typed over multiple times such that it is impossible to read what had been written. While I am applauding AOL for this voicing of their protection of privacy that they have put forth, it would be much better if they didn't keep half of what they said private as well...
Please elaborate on how Tetracyclin works to render null that "form of protection." That I was aware, Tetracyclin was similar to some steroids (yes, antibiotic steroid-- the good kind) and it was mainly used to prevent scarring (eg. keloid scars).
Ever forget where you put your private key, had an expired key, or forgotten (even briefly) your passphrase?
The problems with this form of contraception are quite extensive, and fairly hard to work around (IMHO). For starters, when the origional "key" is created, the time from there and to when your spouse is given the key as well offers much time for the key to have parts mutated -- keep in mind, everything mutates (just to what degree), and since these are in different enviornments, they will have different mutinagens (they more than likely wouldn't mutate down the same path anyway). That is a very significant problem... what if your private key mutated one way, and the public key mutated a completely different way? It doesn't work too well.
Secondly, what if the key used to patch this genetic modification (the one to be put into the spouse upon desire of contraception) gets lost or destroyed? Nothing is perfectly safe.
Because I am too lazy to type much more, what about when the couple in question gets a divorce? While it is not anyone's immediate desire to get a divorce right after they get married (well... aside from Dennis Rodman), the thought should still cross the average couple's mind when considering something like this before they get "patched."
In conclusion, it is probably too difficult to implament this as a contraceptive due to mutation, human error, and the lawsuit facter. While this works fine for less extensive creatures w/ limited Gene structures, this will more than likely not work well w/ humans who live much longer, and will be prone to many more things which could effect the genetic modification. Public keys don't usually mutate, walk off, or sue your bitch ass for sole rights to the anti-encrypto_sperm. It's a really nice thought though
Hrm, pardon my reference, but what kind of crack have you been smoking? While I can see some truth in the first two of your rebuttals, the third one is innacurate. Yes, we owe a lot to Xerox, but Xerox made the buisness choice to sell their GUI to Apple- Apple did not steal it.
Xerox made this choice because the management at Xerox saw no room for a GUI in (what was then) today's world, but the creative genuises at Apple saw just the opposit.
Apple might have borrowed a few things from Microsoft throughout the years, but on the whole, Microsoft has taken so much more from the start. Neither Apple nor Microsoft stole any part of the origional GUI from Xerox.
Easily. The server (as of writing) has had over 10,000 hits for it's HTTP engine being started today. See the stats for yourself. With 188 max HTTP connections, it is currently at 155 (as of page load). Such a creation serving up all these pages in so little time (thanks to the/. effect) and while the speed is crawling, the server has not crashed. I find this very intresting. I must admit, this is an excellent channel (/.) to publicize any new creation, and thus the imfamous/. effect is self inflicted...
This is true, the US only wants to impose tarrifs on the unfriendlies. Look at the context for why the tarrif would be imposed on the Data Haven--the server was brought there to avoid taxes, and accordingly, they can impose a tarrif on a specific line of goods, or a company from a certian country so as to avoid improperly resticting other goods/services that the country offers. I will cite the tarrif on Japaniese motorcycles in the early '70s just to try and improve "The Hog's" sales (which was taxable). They didn't put a tarrif on other items from Japan at that time, just the cycles. So they can tarrif these server havens, or just a line or company that comes from such a haven.
IMHO, I think that it should not be applied "to mail order when both the sender and recipient reside in the same state." It is my opinion that they should tax the Internet sales based upon what state the server resides in, not the client. If a New Yorker or Michigander goes to Canada, do they get their respective state's tax rate? No. While this differs slightly such that in one you are actually in a diffrent location, and the other just pulling info from it--in both cases the transaction actually occurs where the server resides (whether computer based or a real person). I think the afformentioned should be seen the same in the eyes of tax law; you get the tax rate of the state that the server resides in.
I will address some flaws that are not addressed with the previous reply's content.
The problem with such assumptions is the weather. Imagine looking through a fog bank--you can't too well, and if it is thick fog, you can't at all. Now imagine being a satalite many miles away trying to look through all the clouds. Then we throw in the dust in the air, then other water vapor, and now we can throw in heat wave distortions (the mirage effect over hot pavement, or over a grill that "bends" the image in the other side). You can try to deal with the heat by shooting the picture at night, but then you loose much illumination. The ideal photography times are a cool morning, or just before sun set on a cool day when there is no cloud cover to 1.)block the shot, or 2.) absorb heat and keep the region warm (blanket effect). There is still dust and other space debris getting in your way, so it would be very difficult to actually read the date of a coin on the ground even if the Hubble and other sats could do such a thing in the first place.
*sigh* not to be precieved as a troll or a flamer with this statement, and I mean not to offend anyone, but one of the main ways analysists tell "male" and "female" is by breast size. Because of this, not all females are identified as such. Some males that are... um, large in the chest, are counted as females (assuming the lower region is not visible). Aside from these "features," one can not truly determine the gender of males vs. females.
While this is cool in the fact that it will make Intel's chips cooler which means more energy efficient which translates to can be made faster, I question how this is a major breakthrough in the technology. Intel has been using the same basic archetecture for the past 20 years. I will admit that they have made many developments in size and relitive speed, but all they seem to be doing is making the chip smaller and slapping a larger heatsink on. I'll think this is much more intresting when they develop a transistor that is less than 0.05 nm. (*disclamer* - my spelling may suck, but take the time to look past mere gramatical errors)
That's what I am wondering: So what? If Verizon thinks they are the only people that have to deal with spam in this world, they are sadly mistaken. I have had many accounts at Hotmail that became so pathetically bombarded every day that I quit checking them; I don't think that Verizon has much to complain about--they are not treated very diffrently when it comes to spammers. In addition, I don't think they have too much room to complain when they have so much spam coming from them...
How can OS X support for the x86 archeticture (sp?) be vaporware when Apple said themselves that they are not going to port it for sure?
"Yeah, so you are planning on building a whole cluster farm the size of a refridgerator and selling it to the public ehh?"
"Um, no... I never said I was going to in the first place. I said we would think about doing it." "So then it must be vaporware, right?"
It really doesn't need the full 128MB RAM (I only have 64), and the 1.5GB is for everything (including but not limited to var, usr, Users, and the system itself), not just the system. While I did have a quite large swapfile, both the GUI (Mac OS X), and the core (Darwin) are not slow. Since I mentioned Darwin, how many people realize that the core is not just BSD!!! It is part MACH and parts of various flavors of BSD to form Darwin. Also, Mac OS X !=Darwin. OS X is essentially a GUI shell, and Darwin is the real operating system; it is kind of like x-windows (as far as the shell part) but a lot less buggy. Darwin can be run without OS X on top of it too.
Easily. I use no floppy's and have not for over a year now. If the computer I want to get information to is far away, I use the thing called "the Internet." If it is quite close, I use what we in the industry refer to as "a LAN." If all else failed, I use "a zip disk..." Floppies are too prone to errors, and do not store enough data.
This is agreed mostly. We should never switch to a "popular vote" method. It allows for exactly what you said. Unfortunately, if we do not change the current method, candidates will only campaign in the urban areas of swing states. This is bad. IMHO, we should switch to a system where it is still electorial, but each electorial district is allowed one vote, and the winner of the district will get that one vote. This allows for:
Widespread campaiging: the current system, and taking out the electoral college will allow for campaigning in the large urban areas.
Better representation of political beliefs compaired to the current system: States are not republican or democratic, they are quite varied. If a breakdown of political beliefs were to be applied to a electoral district map, one would find that the people of any given district usually vote the same party-wise.
Allows for better (more accurate?) results, and quicker: each state takes forever to get answers in (read:Flordia, Oregon), so why wait? These delay problems will not be found as easily when we know that the majority of the districts has already voted a certain way - we won't have to wait for the possibility of other districts changing the way a State turns out.
So can someone give me a reason that breaking it into electoral districts rather than doing it by state, please, feel free to tell me-but do not flame.
A friend works for a company that cannot just give away older computers to needy schools because of liability purposes, so instead they are practically forced to partake in a computer "recycling" program. What is so odd is that they must pay a fee to do this (it is massivly enterprise level, so this is not an insignificant fee), yet the recycling company takes salvagable components and turns around to sell them making a double profit. It seems like the company should see some of those secondary profits from the resale of components, or shouldn't get charged a fee at all. I suppose that is what people get for wanting to be nice and generous these days *sigh*...
A few years ago when I was still in HS I was challenged by some (non-geek) friends to get around bess. I accomplished this feat in less than a min. How you may ask? Bess is only half of the block. If a school does not set up their TCPIP settings right, the smart kids can tell their browser to directly connect to the internet instead of connecting through a proxy (in the Preferences). Assuming a school has properly specified the subnets and declaired the ability for only specific subnets to access unfiltered, all you had to do was change your subnet and select directly connect. As poor of a job Bess did when filtering, the schools do not do a good job implementing it either. In the end, one may ask what is the point of filtering anyway because if a person wants porn, well suffice to say there is more than one way to skin a cat.
The only problem about arbornet is the fact that they do not allow POP. It is quite a nice system none the less (I've been using it for a few years now with no major problems).
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The Tower G4 does not have a floppy drive. It can have a zip thougth. No Mac since Yosemite and the origional iMacs has had floppy drives standard.
I am quite satisfied by yahoo!s email service. I have been using it for quite some time and only reciently have I gotten spam from non-legitimate companies. It is a whole lot better than Hotmail--with Hotmail I get some 40-60 spams a day. Whenever I use POP to check that account, the whole thing usually gets filtered out and only one or two emails remain.
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I may have spoken too soon before establishing proper facts- it appears my winblows client is tripping out on me, and was overlapping lines.
Macx
It is a quite intresting (and from a business stand point, ) read. My only problem with the Breif Amicus Curiae that AOl filed which was on the site linked, many of the lines are typed over multiple times such that it is impossible to read what had been written. While I am applauding AOL for this voicing of their protection of privacy that they have put forth, it would be much better if they didn't keep half of what they said private as well...
Macx
Please elaborate on how Tetracyclin works to render null that "form of protection." That I was aware, Tetracyclin was similar to some steroids (yes, antibiotic steroid-- the good kind) and it was mainly used to prevent scarring (eg. keloid scars).
Macx
Here's a kicker for ya to toss around;
Ever forget where you put your private key, had an expired key, or forgotten (even briefly) your passphrase?
The problems with this form of contraception are quite extensive, and fairly hard to work around (IMHO). For starters, when the origional "key" is created, the time from there and to when your spouse is given the key as well offers much time for the key to have parts mutated -- keep in mind, everything mutates (just to what degree), and since these are in different enviornments, they will have different mutinagens (they more than likely wouldn't mutate down the same path anyway). That is a very significant problem... what if your private key mutated one way, and the public key mutated a completely different way? It doesn't work too well.
Secondly, what if the key used to patch this genetic modification (the one to be put into the spouse upon desire of contraception) gets lost or destroyed? Nothing is perfectly safe.
Because I am too lazy to type much more, what about when the couple in question gets a divorce? While it is not anyone's immediate desire to get a divorce right after they get married (well... aside from Dennis Rodman), the thought should still cross the average couple's mind when considering something like this before they get "patched."
In conclusion, it is probably too difficult to implament this as a contraceptive due to mutation, human error, and the lawsuit facter. While this works fine for less extensive creatures w/ limited Gene structures, this will more than likely not work well w/ humans who live much longer, and will be prone to many more things which could effect the genetic modification. Public keys don't usually mutate, walk off, or sue your bitch ass for sole rights to the anti-encrypto_sperm. It's a really nice thought though
Macx
Hrm, pardon my reference, but what kind of crack have you been smoking? While I can see some truth in the first two of your rebuttals, the third one is innacurate. Yes, we owe a lot to Xerox, but Xerox made the buisness choice to sell their GUI to Apple- Apple did not steal it.
Xerox made this choice because the management at Xerox saw no room for a GUI in (what was then) today's world, but the creative genuises at Apple saw just the opposit.
Apple might have borrowed a few things from Microsoft throughout the years, but on the whole, Microsoft has taken so much more from the start. Neither Apple nor Microsoft stole any part of the origional GUI from Xerox.
Macx
Easily. The server (as of writing) has had over 10,000 hits for it's HTTP engine being started today. See the stats for yourself. With 188 max HTTP connections, it is currently at 155 (as of page load). Such a creation serving up all these pages in so little time (thanks to the /. effect) and while the speed is crawling, the server has not crashed. I find this very intresting. I must admit, this is an excellent channel (/.) to publicize any new creation, and thus the imfamous /. effect is self inflicted...
Macx
This is true, the US only wants to impose tarrifs on the unfriendlies. Look at the context for why the tarrif would be imposed on the Data Haven--the server was brought there to avoid taxes, and accordingly, they can impose a tarrif on a specific line of goods, or a company from a certian country so as to avoid improperly resticting other goods/services that the country offers. I will cite the tarrif on Japaniese motorcycles in the early '70s just to try and improve "The Hog's" sales (which was taxable). They didn't put a tarrif on other items from Japan at that time, just the cycles. So they can tarrif these server havens, or just a line or company that comes from such a haven.
Macx
Sorry; not interstate, but intercountry.
Macx
That is when federal juristiction becomes applicable for interstate tariffs.
Macx
IMHO, I think that it should not be applied "to mail order when both the sender and recipient reside in the same state." It is my opinion that they should tax the Internet sales based upon what state the server resides in, not the client. If a New Yorker or Michigander goes to Canada, do they get their respective state's tax rate? No. While this differs slightly such that in one you are actually in a diffrent location, and the other just pulling info from it--in both cases the transaction actually occurs where the server resides (whether computer based or a real person). I think the afformentioned should be seen the same in the eyes of tax law; you get the tax rate of the state that the server resides in.
Macx
I will address some flaws that are not addressed with the previous reply's content.
The problem with such assumptions is the weather. Imagine looking through a fog bank--you can't too well, and if it is thick fog, you can't at all. Now imagine being a satalite many miles away trying to look through all the clouds. Then we throw in the dust in the air, then other water vapor, and now we can throw in heat wave distortions (the mirage effect over hot pavement, or over a grill that "bends" the image in the other side). You can try to deal with the heat by shooting the picture at night, but then you loose much illumination. The ideal photography times are a cool morning, or just before sun set on a cool day when there is no cloud cover to 1.)block the shot, or 2.) absorb heat and keep the region warm (blanket effect). There is still dust and other space debris getting in your way, so it would be very difficult to actually read the date of a coin on the ground even if the Hubble and other sats could do such a thing in the first place.
Macx
*sigh* not to be precieved as a troll or a flamer with this statement, and I mean not to offend anyone, but one of the main ways analysists tell "male" and "female" is by breast size. Because of this, not all females are identified as such. Some males that are... um, large in the chest, are counted as females (assuming the lower region is not visible). Aside from these "features," one can not truly determine the gender of males vs. females.
Macx
While this is cool in the fact that it will make Intel's chips cooler which means more energy efficient which translates to can be made faster, I question how this is a major breakthrough in the technology. Intel has been using the same basic archetecture for the past 20 years. I will admit that they have made many developments in size and relitive speed, but all they seem to be doing is making the chip smaller and slapping a larger heatsink on. I'll think this is much more intresting when they develop a transistor that is less than 0.05 nm.
(*disclamer* - my spelling may suck, but take the time to look past mere gramatical errors)
Macx
That's what I am wondering: So what? If Verizon thinks they are the only people that have to deal with spam in this world, they are sadly mistaken. I have had many accounts at Hotmail that became so pathetically bombarded every day that I quit checking them; I don't think that Verizon has much to complain about--they are not treated very diffrently when it comes to spammers. In addition, I don't think they have too much room to complain when they have so much spam coming from them...
Macx
How can OS X support for the x86 archeticture (sp?) be vaporware when Apple said themselves that they are not going to port it for sure?
Macx
It really doesn't need the full 128MB RAM (I only have 64), and the 1.5GB is for everything (including but not limited to var, usr, Users, and the system itself), not just the system. While I did have a quite large swapfile, both the GUI (Mac OS X), and the core (Darwin) are not slow.
Since I mentioned Darwin, how many people realize that the core is not just BSD!!! It is part MACH and parts of various flavors of BSD to form Darwin. Also, Mac OS X !=Darwin. OS X is essentially a GUI shell, and Darwin is the real operating system; it is kind of like x-windows (as far as the shell part) but a lot less buggy. Darwin can be run without OS X on top of it too.
Macx
Easily. I use no floppy's and have not for over a year now. If the computer I want to get information to is far away, I use the thing called "the Internet." If it is quite close, I use what we in the industry refer to as "a LAN." If all else failed, I use "a zip disk..." Floppies are too prone to errors, and do not store enough data.
Macx
It is only the NEC's because (as it said in the article [echo "READ IT"]) it was only part of a limited batch. It is no biggie.
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Intresting comment to note:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/11/29/2011
Macx
So can someone give me a reason that breaking it into electoral districts rather than doing it by state, please, feel free to tell me-but do not flame.
Macx
A friend works for a company that cannot just give away older computers to needy schools because of liability purposes, so instead they are practically forced to partake in a computer "recycling" program. What is so odd is that they must pay a fee to do this (it is massivly enterprise level, so this is not an insignificant fee), yet the recycling company takes salvagable components and turns around to sell them making a double profit.
It seems like the company should see some of those secondary profits from the resale of components, or shouldn't get charged a fee at all.
I suppose that is what people get for wanting to be nice and generous these days *sigh*...
Mr. Macx
A few years ago when I was still in HS I was challenged by some (non-geek) friends to get around bess. I accomplished this feat in less than a min. How you may ask? Bess is only half of the block. If a school does not set up their TCPIP settings right, the smart kids can tell their browser to directly connect to the internet instead of connecting through a proxy (in the Preferences). Assuming a school has properly specified the subnets and declaired the ability for only specific subnets to access unfiltered, all you had to do was change your subnet and select directly connect. As poor of a job Bess did when filtering, the schools do not do a good job implementing it either. In the end, one may ask what is the point of filtering anyway because if a person wants porn, well suffice to say there is more than one way to skin a cat.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
******
The only problem about arbornet is the fact that they do not allow POP. It is quite a nice system none the less (I've been using it for a few years now with no major problems).
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
******
The Tower G4 does not have a floppy drive. It can have a zip thougth. No Mac since Yosemite and the origional iMacs has had floppy drives standard.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
******
I am quite satisfied by yahoo!s email service. I have been using it for quite some time and only reciently have I gotten spam from non-legitimate companies. It is a whole lot better than Hotmail--with Hotmail I get some 40-60 spams a day. Whenever I use POP to check that account, the whole thing usually gets filtered out and only one or two emails remain.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
******
I can see this happening -- infact, I do this anyway, but with a laptop that I provide.
-Mr. Macx
Moof!
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