IANAL, but as I recall, merchants MUST accept cash as payment. Recall the fine print on those bills: "Legal tender for all debts, public and private". . .
As I recall, the United States is not signatory to the Moon Treaty, and as such, it has no effect on the US or commercial activities therein. . .
We are, however, signatory to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which does not rule out commercial activity, but doesn't exactly encourage it, either. . .
... has anyone looked into what The Artemis Project is up to lately ?? THEY were planning a private moonshot years ago. . . .
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Why is McDonalds everywhere ? Because they sell a product that a great number of people like. They modify their sales for each culture, and continue to sell what the local population wants, in a quick, efficient, and profitable manner.
That's why there are McDonald's nearly everywhere on the planet. Simple Darwinian Evolution: they've found a niche environment, and are exploiting it to the utmost of their ability.
Now, some people don't like McDonald's, either for culinary or psycho-political reasons. That's their choice. But they're greatly outnumbered by those that do.
Now, as to the "mid-East culture".
Which one ? Egypt is VERY different from Saudi Arabia, and likewise from Turkey or Iran. Which of these is this "mid-East Culture" which you refer to ?
And besides, unless locked down, EVERY culture changes over time from other influences. Reality: deal with it. . . .
. ..if you think about it, that is EXACTLY the reputation a good intelligence agency would want those outside of it to think it has: dim and backwards...
Which is why there are "Hall Walkers". Employees who do nothing. ..anymore. A desk, and no work. They have literally nothing more to do than walk the halls.
The story of the Hall Walkers has been around for years: my only experience with No Such Agency was in teaching a pilot course for them: they were switching from Unix to Windows NT, if you can believe it, and the follow-on training courses are still ongoing: I only finished teaching the pilot course 15 months ago. . .
Having once been part of our fine gubbermint, I saw a lot of that. Notices were generally posted in places so obscure at to make the Hitchhiker's Guide seem like Open Government. You know, in the third sub-basement of a locked building, behind a door marked "beware of the jaguar". I admit having no specific knowledge of the case in point, but I've seen fixes like that put in many, many times. ...
. ..when @Home dropped my connection, first claiming it was a regional outage, then a local one, and finally, on Friday afternoon of a 3-day weekend, admitted that it was maintenance on the local TV-Cable plant that knocked everyone on my loop offline, and they'd have to re-provision everyone on our loop, the first available tech can get to you in 4 weeks. ..oh, and your payment for next month was due today, when can we expect to recieve it ????
And they wonder why @Home is in trouble. I don't get those problems with my DSL line (which came available to me about a week or so before my @Home service dropped off the face of the earth. ..). . .
. . . going TOTALLY private with the IP. And filling the pills with lots of wild-tangent-generating substances to send copycats off on multiple directions... Or worse still, finding a way to COPY-PROTECT a pill. ..
Concept: I see a capsule, that if broken open or exposed to air, would chemically change the contents. Is it possible ? I have no idea. Will the Pharmaceutical Companies look ? That's a sucker bet: they're probably ALREADY looking at it. ..
Nice job, Brazil. You may have won this battle, but you just lost the war. . .
. ..the American Citizens and Permanent Residents being held in the People's Republic of China are being held on ESPIONAGE charges: while 99.999999999 percent sure these are trumped up, you can't really make an espionage charge equivalent to the (unspoken, but DMCA bottom line) charge of pissing off a Corporation.
...we had whiz kids doing stuff via computer that totally blew away our teachers too. Confounding "adults" was the game. Sound familiar ??
Yes, these were the "good old days" of paper tape and punchcards, but other than the number of teen techno-whizzes going up dramatically (and in lockstep with the general availability of inexpensive and widespread computing. . . ) the details have changed, but the picture remains the same. . .
They're all development variants of our production servers. I built them all with the same install script. I can only assume developer tweaks have diverged the boxen enough over the 8 months I've been here. . .
is that people still haven't patched. I have several managed webservers at a co-lo site, and to play it safe, asked them it they'd installed it yet.
And was asked when they could re-boot the boxen, a fairly strong indication that they hadn't installed a routine security patch until I asked about it. ..
Luckily, Cringely gave me an idea for a quick fix: since our Maintenance Window on the boxen is 0-dark-early in the morning, and the worm hits at 0000 GMT tonight (8 Eastern, 4 Pacific), TURN YOUR NT/2000 boxes back a day, and then reboot early tomorrow morning, and re-set your date to the correct one...
Of course, if they'd listened to me and used Apache, we wouldn't be having this problem...
. ..and while we're at it, go to one OS and one CPU/Architecture. Microsoft, Intel, ATI, and Creative/SoundBlaster will love it. Of course, with no competition, quality will drop (hmm, HOW many Win2K patches in the last few weeks ??), and who needs new features anyway ???
. ..arrest the employees of the Adobe Moscow office ??? After all, ADOBE is breaking Russian law. . . oops, nearest office is in Sweden. However, they DO have an agent in Russia:
Russia
AZ-Graphics Co.
24 Pravda Street, Office 706
Pressa Entrance
Moscow 125865
Russia
Tel: (+7) 095-257-45-23
Fax: (+7) 095-251-42-49
(taken from Adobe's European Support Page
Actually, I'm surprised that there HASN'T been a counter-arrest in Russia, or a uproar from the Duma. . . .
Except that the allegedly illegal conduct took place outside the United States, and was completely legal where it was done. The only actions he took in this country, as far as I understand the situation, were:
Attending DEFCON
Giving a presentation on weaknesses in Adobe's PDF format
Arresting him FOR MAKING A PRESENTATION about software sold in a place that is not under the DMCA ??? What WAS that ripping sound, oh, nevermind, just the Bill of Rights, and he was speaking at a HACKER convention, and hackers are evil and dangerous and look funny and smell wierd and. . .
Constitutional issues aside, I'd say Dmitri is going to become a very rich man. . .
The problem with SPS energy is political, not technical. Consider the proclivities of your "average" environmental protestor, especially as regarding technology. I'm painting a broad brush here, but it seems, as far as I've seen, that Luddism seems to go hand-in-hand with major environmental activism.
Now, imagine the reaction to beaming power down to a rectenna using microwave radiation. As soon as the word "radiation" gets mentioned, expect people to go ballistic.
If you beam power down via infrared laser, you'll get "death beam" cries.
The REAL problem with the whole situation is the massive level of scientific illiteracy. . .
No, warm/hot Coke is actually a pretty impressive cleaning agent. I was in Brazil several years ago, when the cops started putting tickets directly on windshields, using some kind of "super adhesive" that they'd use to take it off when you paid the ticket. We're talking full sheet of paper, dead-centered on the windshield.
I'd gotten ticketed for something, and a local kid offered to get the ticket off for me, for about $5 equivalent: he just soaked it in Coca-Cola in the sun, and it came off without a trace in less than 10 minutes. . .
...The McDonnell-Douglas / USAF project to build an SSTO from mostly off-the-shelf parts. Unfortunately, politics killed it, in favor of the Lockheed-Martin X-33 "VentureStar". An accquaintance of mine, Mitchell Burnside-Clapp was one of the DC-X pilots, and now runs his own effort to build a SSTO.
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IANAL, but as I recall, merchants MUST accept cash as payment. Recall the fine print on those bills: "Legal tender for all debts, public and private". . .
We are, however, signatory to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which does not rule out commercial activity, but doesn't exactly encourage it, either. . .
. .. has anyone looked into what The Artemis Project is up to lately ?? THEY were planning a private moonshot years ago. . . .
That's why there are McDonald's nearly everywhere on the planet. Simple Darwinian Evolution: they've found a niche environment, and are exploiting it to the utmost of their ability.
Now, some people don't like McDonald's, either for culinary or psycho-political reasons. That's their choice. But they're greatly outnumbered by those that do.
Now, as to the "mid-East culture".
Which one ? Egypt is VERY different from Saudi Arabia, and likewise from Turkey or Iran. Which of these is this "mid-East Culture" which you refer to ?
And besides, unless locked down, EVERY culture changes over time from other influences. Reality: deal with it. . . .
I'm HOPING all of this is a cover story. . .
The story of the Hall Walkers has been around for years: my only experience with No Such Agency was in teaching a pilot course for them: they were switching from Unix to Windows NT, if you can believe it, and the follow-on training courses are still ongoing: I only finished teaching the pilot course 15 months ago. . .
PETA will object. Send Lawyers instead: same characteristics, not as loveable, and nobody will complain. . .
Having once been part of our fine gubbermint, I saw a lot of that. Notices were generally posted in places so obscure at to make the Hitchhiker's Guide seem like Open Government. You know, in the third sub-basement of a locked building, behind a door marked "beware of the jaguar". I admit having no specific knowledge of the case in point, but I've seen fixes like that put in many, many times. . ..
And they wonder why @Home is in trouble. I don't get those problems with my DSL line (which came available to me about a week or so before my @Home service dropped off the face of the earth. . .). . .
Concept: I see a capsule, that if broken open or exposed to air, would chemically change the contents. Is it possible ? I have no idea. Will the Pharmaceutical Companies look ? That's a sucker bet: they're probably ALREADY looking at it. . .
Nice job, Brazil. You may have won this battle, but you just lost the war. . .
Are you sure it was not with a bang, but a whimper ?
But, even still, the hypocrisy is astounding. . .
I thought Hotmail ran on BSD. . .or at least it did before the NT Switchover Fiasco, after which they quietly switched back. . .
Yes, these were the "good old days" of paper tape and punchcards, but other than the number of teen techno-whizzes going up dramatically (and in lockstep with the general availability of inexpensive and widespread computing. . . ) the details have changed, but the picture remains the same. . .
They're all development variants of our production servers. I built them all with the same install script. I can only assume developer tweaks have diverged the boxen enough over the 8 months I've been here. . .
Except all of my IIS boxen use Indexing Services. Wierd. . .
Most of my local IIS boxen did not require a reboot, 2 did. Damned if I know why, either. . .ya gotta LOVE Windows (NOT!)
And was asked when they could re-boot the boxen, a fairly strong indication that they hadn't installed a routine security patch until I asked about it. . .
Luckily, Cringely gave me an idea for a quick fix: since our Maintenance Window on the boxen is 0-dark-early in the morning, and the worm hits at 0000 GMT tonight (8 Eastern, 4 Pacific), TURN YOUR NT/2000 boxes back a day, and then reboot early tomorrow morning, and re-set your date to the correct one...
Of course, if they'd listened to me and used Apache, we wouldn't be having this problem...
. . .and while we're at it, go to one OS and one CPU/Architecture. Microsoft, Intel, ATI, and Creative/SoundBlaster will love it. Of course, with no competition, quality will drop (hmm, HOW many Win2K patches in the last few weeks ??), and who needs new features anyway ???
Russia
AZ-Graphics Co.
24 Pravda Street, Office 706
Pressa Entrance
Moscow 125865
Russia
Tel: (+7) 095-257-45-23
Fax: (+7) 095-251-42-49
(taken from Adobe's European Support Page
Actually, I'm surprised that there HASN'T been a counter-arrest in Russia, or a uproar from the Duma. . . .
- Attending DEFCON
- Giving a presentation on weaknesses in Adobe's PDF format
Freedom of association, freedom of speech.So, what laws did he break WHILE IN THE USA ???
Constitutional issues aside, I'd say Dmitri is going to become a very rich man. . .
Now, imagine the reaction to beaming power down to a rectenna using microwave radiation. As soon as the word "radiation" gets mentioned, expect people to go ballistic.
If you beam power down via infrared laser, you'll get "death beam" cries.
The REAL problem with the whole situation is the massive level of scientific illiteracy. . .
I'd gotten ticketed for something, and a local kid offered to get the ticket off for me, for about $5 equivalent: he just soaked it in Coca-Cola in the sun, and it came off without a trace in less than 10 minutes. . .
Some Links to DC-X:
The really sad thing is, we'd likely almost be at the operational SSTO stage now, if we hadn't killed DC-X. . ..