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The issue of spam is not an issue of free speech, its' an issue of theft of service and of fraud.
And the answer is a total re-write of the SMTP specification and standard to allow accountability and traceability of email messages
. ..that "information brokers" of this sort have an implicit obligation to formally notify the objects of such searches, as to the nature of each search and the buyer. This still wouldn't protect someone who was using a "straw" buyer, but would go a long way to protect people from stalkers. . .
200 articles do not make one an expert. Otherwise, "Ed Anger" of the "Weekly World News" would be well-repected pundit.
Solar cells have low efficiency of power generation, as opposed to turbogenerators. OTOH, they have no moving parts. I think that mirrors and a working fluid would require less capital maintenance in the long run.
So who needs Solar Panels ? Use mirrors to heat a working fluid, run the resultant gas through a turbine. Solar cells aren't the ONLY way to harness sunlight, and certainly aren't the most efficient. . .
Uh, how do you think an ICBM works ? The weapons have heat shields, just like the old Apollo/Gemini/Mercury capsules, or like the Shuttle Tiles. . .
Of course, from orbit, you COULD just drop rocks, and do some heavy damage. ..kinetic energy of a 5-ton rock, from a hundred or so miles up, is literally astronomical.
I also remember a concept called "Thor": basically smart crowbars of high-strenghth alloy, with a sensor on the front end, and guidance fins on the back. . . drop a canister or two of these on a tank division, watch it go boom VERY quickly. . .
Perhaps. If you call a product that has been under development for 5+ years, has been promising, and failing to deliver, on Open Beta for the better part of two years, and had the gall to sell "preview CD's" last fall, and THEN pushing back the release date yet again a few days after the Preview CD's hit the market.
The real trick would be electrical/net connectivity: a raised floor also suggests in-floor outlets. And, as a side-effect, you also have a stash area for your more politically incorrect items. Or, if you're REALLY paranoid, a hidey-hole ala the Millenium Falcon in the original Star Wars, aka Episode 4. . .
You really want your leadership to have freedom of mobility. You also don't want them showing up looking like they flew economy everywhere they go. Do you really want your representatives vicitimized by luggage handlers?
Let's see. ..what CAN'T they fly Coach: the rest of us do. And as for baggage handlers, why not subject them to the joys of our new Federalized (and supposedly "Professionalized". ..) Baggage Handlers and screeners. Thay're SUPPOSEDLY there to represent us, as opposed to being the Senator from Disney or whereever.
Then again, if **I** was running things, I'd have Congresscritters and Senators living in general-issue family housing on any of the local military bases in the DC area. After all, if it's good enough for our boys and girls in uniform, it oughta be good enough for a Congressman or Senator....
If someone wants to pay out cash for a clean version of "Titanic", let 'em. And, if someone wants to hire a Leo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet lookalike, and fill in the love scenes with some hard-core, let 'em. It's a big world, and we all don't like the same things. . .
I recall an article in Scientific American in the early 1980s that was talking about "shaped" nuclear explosions. Unfortunately, their online archive only goes back to 1993, and this was 1982-83 as I recall. . ..so no reference. Sorry.
However, it seems logical that by shaping the initial portions of an nuclear explosion, just as you would with conventional explosives, you should be able to achieve SOME degree of directional channelling of the energies. Mind you, what I know of nuclear weapons design can be written in VERY large letters on a VERY small piece of paper. . . but as I recall, the SciAm article made it seem plausible, even suggested engineering uses for shaped nukes. ...
Let's see. . . analog cable. Lay wire, occaisional amplifier on circuit. Old technology, thus cheap. Costs sunk anywhere from 5 to 25 years ago for infrastructure.
Now. ..digital cable. Whole new signal-processing infrastructure, new set-top boxes. Amplifiers will need to amplify AND regenerate the signal: digital signals tend to go to much over a given distance without active regeneration. Hence, the 185M Cat5 limit, or the chain of 5 devices rule when laying out network wiring/infrastructure. Lots of new stuff. Operating cost will likely be less, but have you forgotten about implementation costs ???
. . ..then again, everybody thinks Windoze is wonderful, and Bill Gates is on the short list for sainthood.
I'm going to assume that your intended is a one-of-a-kind woman. So why does she deserve the same sort of engagement ring that everyone and his brother gets ??
I bought my wife an antique amethyst ring at a jeweler's Estate Sale. Pretty, different, and most of all, UNIQUE, just like my wife. She loved it. Mind you, I spent several hours going through the estate jewelry for just the the right piece, but my wife was worth it. She still is. Isn't YOURS worth some unusual effort as well ???
As one of your supporters, who worked on both your campaign for Governor and Senator, I am appalled to find that you have co-sponsored S.2395, 'Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002'.
Initially, the bill appears to be a legitimate defense of the property rights of the intellectual property community, and if it only went that far, I would support it wholeheartedly: piracy and copyright infringement are serious problems. However, the extent of the bill is so far over-reaching, that the secondary effects of the bill will likely produce a "boomerang effect" in the future.
Why, you may ask, do I think this ? Consider the world in a few years, when Digital Rights Management (DRM) is incorporated into consumer products and operating systems. Microsoft is ALREADY working on this in their "Palladium" initiative, and intends to integrate this technology into consumer Windows in the future.
Now put yourself in the position of a small software company, or of a small band of musicians.
The 'Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002' would make it nearly impossible for anyone to publish new software or produce new music for electronic play, unless they had purchased, at high expense, a official digital watermark acceptable to consumer electronics and/or computers.
While this prediction may seem a bit exaggerated, I point out the recent effective death of Internet Radio. ..from too-high licensing fees. The same large organizations who did this back this measure as well.
Great music, great software, and great computers usually start small, and on a shoe-string. Obvious examples are a small college band from Blacksburg that made it big: the Dave Matthews Band. Or a small company that wrote and sold a BASIC language compiler, and grew. . . into Microsoft. Or a couple of guys who started hi-tech in a garage: both Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer started that way. Or, for that matter, a single grad student, who wrote the core of a major operating system: Linus Torvalds and Linux.
Under the long-term effects of S.2395, none of these would be possible in the future. Senator Allen, S.2395 looks good in the short term, but its' long-term effects on software, computers, and music are no less than devastating. I urge you to both revoke your co-sponsorship of this bill, and to vote against it when and if it comes to the floor of the Senate. . . .
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The issue of spam is not an issue of free speech, its' an issue of theft of service and of fraud. And the answer is a total re-write of the SMTP specification and standard to allow accountability and traceability of email messages
. . .besides, if you want THAT, you need Pat Buchanan. His speeches are ALWAYS better in the original German. . . .
. . .that "information brokers" of this sort have an implicit obligation to formally notify the objects of such searches, as to the nature of each search and the buyer. This still wouldn't protect someone who was using a "straw" buyer, but would go a long way to protect people from stalkers. . .
Solar cells have low efficiency of power generation, as opposed to turbogenerators. OTOH, they have no moving parts. I think that mirrors and a working fluid would require less capital maintenance in the long run.
So who needs Solar Panels ? Use mirrors to heat a working fluid, run the resultant gas through a turbine. Solar cells aren't the ONLY way to harness sunlight, and certainly aren't the most efficient. . .
Uh, how do you think an ICBM works ? The weapons have heat shields, just like the old Apollo/Gemini/Mercury capsules, or like the Shuttle Tiles. . . Of course, from orbit, you COULD just drop rocks, and do some heavy damage. . .kinetic energy of a 5-ton rock, from a hundred or so miles up, is literally astronomical.
I also remember a concept called "Thor": basically smart crowbars of high-strenghth alloy, with a sensor on the front end, and guidance fins on the back. . . drop a canister or two of these on a tank division, watch it go boom VERY quickly. . .
You may recall, we fought a revolution over that, two-hundred-odd years ago. . .
With a bounty of, say, 50% of the seized assets used in, or gained as a result of said criminal activity, it could be a VERY nice living (evil grin)
Best thing would be to work out an agreement where Lexmark allows anyone's cartridge to be used and Lexmark gets some licensing fees or whatever.
Why ? Just because Lexmark chose a bad business model, everyone is supposed to support them ? I think not. . .
Shadowbane was even listed (#8) in Wired's Vaporware for 2002. . .
"character x" is planning to nuke "target y". . .
Just imagine an ECHELON analysis of that. . .
The real trick would be electrical/net connectivity: a raised floor also suggests in-floor outlets. And, as a side-effect, you also have a stash area for your more politically incorrect items. Or, if you're REALLY paranoid, a hidey-hole ala the Millenium Falcon in the original Star Wars, aka Episode 4. . .
You'd think, getting caught once or twice at it. . .
Let's see. . .what CAN'T they fly Coach: the rest of us do. And as for baggage handlers, why not subject them to the joys of our new Federalized (and supposedly "Professionalized". . .) Baggage Handlers and screeners. Thay're SUPPOSEDLY there to represent us, as opposed to being the Senator from Disney or whereever.
Then again, if **I** was running things, I'd have Congresscritters and Senators living in general-issue family housing on any of the local military bases in the DC area. After all, if it's good enough for our boys and girls in uniform, it oughta be good enough for a Congressman or Senator....
If someone wants to pay out cash for a clean version of "Titanic", let 'em. And, if someone wants to hire a Leo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet lookalike, and fill in the love scenes with some hard-core, let 'em. It's a big world, and we all don't like the same things. . .
We don't have the technology. . . yet.
. . . .the Slashdot Effect is just a virtual Flash Crowd. . .
However, it seems logical that by shaping the initial portions of an nuclear explosion, just as you would with conventional explosives, you should be able to achieve SOME degree of directional channelling of the energies. Mind you, what I know of nuclear weapons design can be written in VERY large letters on a VERY small piece of paper. . . but as I recall, the SciAm article made it seem plausible, even suggested engineering uses for shaped nukes. . ..
Now. . .digital cable. Whole new signal-processing infrastructure, new set-top boxes. Amplifiers will need to amplify AND regenerate the signal: digital signals tend to go to much over a given distance without active regeneration. Hence, the 185M Cat5 limit, or the chain of 5 devices rule when laying out network wiring/infrastructure. Lots of new stuff. Operating cost will likely be less, but have you forgotten about implementation costs ???
I'm going to assume that your intended is a one-of-a-kind woman. So why does she deserve the same sort of engagement ring that everyone and his brother gets ??
I bought my wife an antique amethyst ring at a jeweler's Estate Sale. Pretty, different, and most of all, UNIQUE, just like my wife. She loved it. Mind you, I spent several hours going through the estate jewelry for just the the right piece, but my wife was worth it. She still is. Isn't YOURS worth some unusual effort as well ???
Oops. I screwed up: I mistook UVa (Charlottesville) with Virginia Tech (Blacksburg). . . My bad. . .
As one of your supporters, who worked on both your campaign for Governor and Senator, I am appalled to find that you have co-sponsored S.2395, 'Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002'.
Initially, the bill appears to be a legitimate defense of the property rights of the intellectual property community, and if it only went that far, I would support it wholeheartedly: piracy and copyright infringement are serious problems. However, the extent of the bill is so far over-reaching, that the secondary effects of the bill will likely produce a "boomerang effect" in the future.
Why, you may ask, do I think this ? Consider the world in a few years, when Digital Rights Management (DRM) is incorporated into consumer products and operating systems. Microsoft is ALREADY working on this in their "Palladium" initiative, and intends to integrate this technology into consumer Windows in the future.
Now put yourself in the position of a small software company, or of a small band of musicians. The 'Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002' would make it nearly impossible for anyone to publish new software or produce new music for electronic play, unless they had purchased, at high expense, a official digital watermark acceptable to consumer electronics and/or computers.
While this prediction may seem a bit exaggerated, I point out the recent effective death of Internet Radio. . .from too-high licensing fees. The same large organizations who did this back this measure as well.
Great music, great software, and great computers usually start small, and on a shoe-string. Obvious examples are a small college band from Blacksburg that made it big: the Dave Matthews Band. Or a small company that wrote and sold a BASIC language compiler, and grew. . . into Microsoft. Or a couple of guys who started hi-tech in a garage: both Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer started that way. Or, for that matter, a single grad student, who wrote the core of a major operating system: Linus Torvalds and Linux.
Under the long-term effects of S.2395, none of these would be possible in the future. Senator Allen, S.2395 looks good in the short term, but its' long-term effects on software, computers, and music are no less than devastating. I urge you to both revoke your co-sponsorship of this bill, and to vote against it when and if it comes to the floor of the Senate. . . .
. . .or has everyone else forgotten "Lois and Clark". . .
. . .then we NEED Raimi to direct. And after Spiderman, that WOULD be a movie to remember.....
I've met him. A politician with a clue is a rare thing. Let's not lose him . . . .