Riiight... good one - and have Mordac the Preventer of Information Services turn him in to Corporate Rent-a-Cops (oops, sorry Mr. Internet Police, I mean "Corporate Security") as a security risk?
I would tend to agree. If you estimate a small nuclear reactor at 8 tons, and even if the reactor weight only made up 1/4 of the weight of the plant/ship, and even if the entire reactors and the entire ship were fashioned from just plain old steel, you still have 64 tons (2 reactors * 8 tons * 4) of steel worth $500 a ton at the going price which is $32,000 just for the raw materials. Not to mention all of the work you'd have to do to turn that steel into working nuclear reactors and a floating power plant.
Absolutely. If I remember correctly, CB transmitters are limited (FCC rules) to a maximum of 4W transmitted power. My cell phone, I think, transmits at no more than 0.3W. On the other hand, even with the lowest Technician class Amateur Radio license you can operate transmitters that emit up to several hundreds of watts. For example, my Ham transceiver in my truck will transmit at up to 50W. It's easy to see the benefit of strong communication signals - especially when repeater towers (cell phone towers, public safety repeaters, or even Ham radio repeaters) are taken down in a disaster.
Well, you have to realize that most people in Kansas are at work at 1:48 in the afternoon - not like the millionaires who have nothing else to do, and lazy reporters who get paid to go see things like this. On the other hand, I think a large proportion of KSU Salina was probably out on the field to see history being made on their campus - as well as a lot of folks from other parts of Kansas. I suspect reporters from Canada just don't know how to count...
As ShakaUVM stated in a previous post, the problem with spam is forged return addresses. As another poster mentioned, spam is really a social problem. The problem is, one or two dumbheads loose in the world can cripple a great technology (email).
So, spam is a social problem - a few people are a nuisance. But the problem is, right now - even if we pass great anti-spam laws, we really have no good way of knowing who is sending a message. So what if it came from ip address 3.14.15.92? Spammer joe can disconnect from that address right after he sends said spam, and nobody wants ISPs' logs to be able to be subpeonaed, do we?!?
So spam is a social problem, but we have no way of tracking the offenders. I think an authentication-by-encryption scheme is a Good Thing, but wait - I think there are such standards already out there.
The STARTTLS extension for SMTP, in RFC 2487, allows SMTP traffic to be transported over a TLS (SSL) connection - also allowing for the same type of CA-signed certificates that HTTPS is famous for. So now we can tell exactly what mail server mail is coming from - and we can refuse mail from uncertified hosts, or prosecute abusive hosts.
Anyway, correct me if I've misunderstood anything; what think ye all?
Anyone else notice anything wrong with this petition on petitiononline.com? When I load it, it only shows "178 signatures"...? (I know there were a lot more than that yesterday...?!?)
A petition with 4600+ signers (and going up fast) is at http://www.petitiononline.com/icanndns/petition.ht ml - not sure if there's another link to it or not.
That must be right... Not many CO's here in Kansas offer DSL access; not many of the rural CO's would be as profitable (read "lucrative") for SBC as the bigger cities and towns.
I wonder what SBC would be like if it was further deregulated... For example, here in Manhattan you can get DSL from any ISP you want to: you can a.) buy DSL for $40/month from SBC, or you can b.) buy DSL from someplace else for $10/month or more *plus* $40/month to SBC. Hmm.. doesn't take a genius to figger out who people will buy from.
April 14, 2011: I sit down at my new copy of Windows 2010 to fill out my tax return. A dialog box pops up - "Sorry, but your computer and 36 million of its comrade workstations are busy working on Bill Gates' tax return. Try back again in a day or two..."
Well, if you take energy out of a system (like the ocean) you cool it down, right? So maybe if we get enough of these suckers, we can refreeze all those icebergs that are breaking off down in Antarctica...
What are the copyright or other legal issues to republishing news stories collected from web sites? The Newsblaster site clearly states where the information comes from - like every good college student is taught to cite information sources. On the other hand, on the bottom of many of the stories is the notice: "Copyright 2002 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed." Is collecting and condensing news stories "republishing" - does this violate copyright stuff?
What innovations has Microsoft Research come up with? Oh, you mean like the concept of linking files to save space - heard that Microsoft just thought of that recently. Too bad it's not available on Unix.
And why does it take a "Research" team to implement a protocol? Seems like a programmer should just be able to read the rfc's and implement it.
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Riiight... good one - and have Mordac the Preventer of Information Services turn him in to Corporate Rent-a-Cops (oops, sorry Mr. Internet Police, I mean "Corporate Security") as a security risk?
Right, based on the NOTAM the center of the no-fly zone is at 37.658889N,119.125556W.
I would tend to agree. If you estimate a small nuclear reactor at 8 tons, and even if the reactor weight only made up 1/4 of the weight of the plant/ship, and even if the entire reactors and the entire ship were fashioned from just plain old steel, you still have 64 tons (2 reactors * 8 tons * 4) of steel worth $500 a ton at the going price which is $32,000 just for the raw materials. Not to mention all of the work you'd have to do to turn that steel into working nuclear reactors and a floating power plant.
Absolutely. If I remember correctly, CB transmitters are limited (FCC rules) to a maximum of 4W transmitted power. My cell phone, I think, transmits at no more than 0.3W. On the other hand, even with the lowest Technician class Amateur Radio license you can operate transmitters that emit up to several hundreds of watts. For example, my Ham transceiver in my truck will transmit at up to 50W. It's easy to see the benefit of strong communication signals - especially when repeater towers (cell phone towers, public safety repeaters, or even Ham radio repeaters) are taken down in a disaster.
Well, you have to realize that most people in Kansas are at work at 1:48 in the afternoon - not like the millionaires who have nothing else to do, and lazy reporters who get paid to go see things like this. On the other hand, I think a large proportion of KSU Salina was probably out on the field to see history being made on their campus - as well as a lot of folks from other parts of Kansas. I suspect reporters from Canada just don't know how to count...
As ShakaUVM stated in a previous post, the problem with spam is forged return addresses. As another poster mentioned, spam is really a social problem. The problem is, one or two dumbheads loose in the world can cripple a great technology (email).
So, spam is a social problem - a few people are a nuisance. But the problem is, right now - even if we pass great anti-spam laws, we really have no good way of knowing who is sending a message. So what if it came from ip address 3.14.15.92? Spammer joe can disconnect from that address right after he sends said spam, and nobody wants ISPs' logs to be able to be subpeonaed, do we?!?
So spam is a social problem, but we have no way of tracking the offenders. I think an authentication-by-encryption scheme is a Good Thing, but wait - I think there are such standards already out there.
The STARTTLS extension for SMTP, in RFC 2487, allows SMTP traffic to be transported over a TLS (SSL) connection - also allowing for the same type of CA-signed certificates that HTTPS is famous for. So now we can tell exactly what mail server mail is coming from - and we can refuse mail from uncertified hosts, or prosecute abusive hosts.
Anyway, correct me if I've misunderstood anything; what think ye all?
Anyone else notice anything wrong with this petition on petitiononline.com? When I load it, it only shows "178 signatures" ...? (I know there were a lot more than that yesterday...?!?)
A petition with 4600+ signers (and going up fast) is at http://www.petitiononline.com/icanndns/petition.ht ml - not sure if there's another link to it or not.
That must be right... Not many CO's here in Kansas offer DSL access; not many of the rural CO's would be as profitable (read "lucrative") for SBC as the bigger cities and towns.
I wonder what SBC would be like if it was further deregulated... For example, here in Manhattan you can get DSL from any ISP you want to: you can a.) buy DSL for $40/month from SBC, or you can b.) buy DSL from someplace else for $10/month or more *plus* $40/month to SBC. Hmm.. doesn't take a genius to figger out who people will buy from.
Probably not very fast, but: another mirror.
April 14, 2011: I sit down at my new copy of Windows 2010 to fill out my tax return. A dialog box pops up - "Sorry, but your computer and 36 million of its comrade workstations are busy working on Bill Gates' tax return. Try back again in a day or two..."
Well, if you take energy out of a system (like the ocean) you cool it down, right? So maybe if we get enough of these suckers, we can refreeze all those icebergs that are breaking off down in Antarctica...
What are the copyright or other legal issues to republishing news stories collected from web sites? The Newsblaster site clearly states where the information comes from - like every good college student is taught to cite information sources. On the other hand, on the bottom of many of the stories is the notice: "Copyright 2002 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed." Is collecting and condensing news stories "republishing" - does this violate copyright stuff?
Probably real, according to http://www.fent.net/archive/troll.html :
"... will NEVER post on Slashdot" - so much for that, eh?
(I'm losing the first moderation points I've ever had by posting here, but it should be worth it...)
What innovations has Microsoft Research come up with? Oh, you mean like the concept of linking files to save space - heard that Microsoft just thought of that recently. Too bad it's not available on Unix.
And why does it take a "Research" team to implement a protocol? Seems like a programmer should just be able to read the rfc's and implement it.