I'm assuming that the limited amount of power the rover has access to would forbid the use of Java, would that be right?
Well, J2ME runs on cellphones, right? That is a restricted power environment. The original intent of Java was for small devices. As far as control from the ground, yes that is true, but it's not real time because of the rather long distances... you would certainly want some autonomy in the rover.
This is why I hate the language used in patents & other legel documents - they are purposly obfuscated so that the patent is granted, when if it clearly stated "email addresses and URLs",
In any patent the most important part is the claims. The claims in this patent state clearly email addresses and URLs.
Being bathed in electromagnetic radiation for 5 hours every day is not nice on your body.
When are you moving to another planet then? Everybody on this one is bathed in electromagnetic fields (i.e. the one that makes compasses point North) from birth.
if this new system lets them drop their damn overbearing blacklists, I'm all for it.
And people want to sue blackhole sites like MAPS out of business. THAT would mean every little mom and pop would maintain their OWN blacklist. Good luck getting off 69,105 blacklists. Your IP and domain would become useless.
I don't know how good the Yahoo system will be, but all the more power to them. At least they are trying.
Unemployement rates are also verified with household surveys. In many cases such surveys find that people who have been unemployed have actually found employment by starting a small business etc. that doesn't show up in normal employment roles. Usually the household survey rate is fairly close to the number generated from unemployment insurance recipients.
I took a look at your 'spam analysis'. It is very, very simplistic and naive. For example you make the statement:
"anti-spam people build up these massive lists of internet addresses and whatnot to try to block spammers from getting spam through but, by forging headers, using proxies, etc these spammers bypass these filters. What's really pathetic about this ill-conceived plan to stop spam is that spammers don't use static IPs to send spam."
The fact is that current blackholes recognize dynamic IPs as a primary source of spam, and list them. Detection of dynamic IPs as spam origin points is one to the oldest spam filtering techniques.
HTML does not allow for the obfuscation of links. You cannot insert random crap into an <img src="http://something.com/image.jpg"> or it won't show up.
Not correct at all. HTML links support a wide variety of encoding schemes including use of alternative character sets. The o in something could actually be replaced by something in Cyrillic that LOOKS like an o, but isn't at all.
The fact is like many people who have used the internet for a long time, and have some programming skills, I have written filters myself. I have also tested a large number of products written by others, and the conclusion is inescapable. Blackholing is one of the most powerful anti-spam tools. Some people like you get bent because they have problems with it, but with large ISPs like AOL recieving billions of spams a day, it's a fact of life. Suing MAPS etc. out of existance will only force individual organizations to maintain their own lists, and then you will REALLY have a problem. At least with the current situation you know where to go to challenge a listing.
WRONG. They are doing plenty to help me. I was getting over 600 spams per day into the several email accounts I use. The day installed a black list based spam filter my spam dropped by over 99%. The blacklists solved a major problem for me.
Blacklists cost legitimate businesses and ISP customers money
Tough. Until legitmate businesses and ISPs come up with some way for me to use email without being flooded by illegal crap, I will use these filters.
If it invades my privacy, my pocket book
I am SORRY, but you have zero, and I mean ZERO sympathy from me. I will operate my computer EXACTLY as I please, and that surely means my inbox is going to be filtered using one or more blacklists until there is an alternative.
Maybe it will finally wake up the idiots in charge of the lists so they finally do something productive to stop spam
Right. These guys are absolute heros. They HAVE done something that stops spam. You haven't done squat to stop spam. In fact, you want to put the spam stoppers out of business. If you don't like it, well it's UP TO YOU TO COME UP WITH AN ALTERNATIVE. Not them, they are doing their part to stop spam. Maybe you don't like how they are doing it, but YOU are offering ZERO alternatives.
Now, what are YOU doing to stop spam? How are you part of the solution?
Advocating suing blackhole services is NOT being constructive.
could someone please explain why microsoft is generally anti-choice?
Because they cram their OS down the throats of computer sellers. It is not easy to buy a desktop without MS installed, nearly impossible to buy a laptop without MS installed.
Because they cram all of Office down your throat when all you want is MS Word.
windows is built to give people the opportunity to choose whatever they want to do.
What if I want to uninstall Internet Explorer?
look at windows media player - it plays EVERYTHING.
It plays stuff so long as it doesn't run into DRM issues.
apple on the other hand forces people to do certain things
Apple has the same problems MS has. The issue is that there are other choices than MS and Apple. Choices that give you REAL freedom.
If you blacklist my IP you've just stolen money from me.
The reason you are getting blacklisted is because you are sharing an IP space with people who are sending illegal spam. THEY are the ones that are costing you money, not people who are trying to avoid getting overwhelmed by this garbage.
You should be writing your congressman and ISP requesting that they write stronger laws, and enforce the ones on the books.
Imaine if a citizen set up a road block on a highway just because they heard criminals used it. When cops break into the wrong house, they get sued. So should blacklist runners.
Imagine if somebody was calling your house 700 times a day with ads for porn, illegal drugs, fraudulent offers and attempts to steal your credit information. Wouldn't you take severe and immediate action to block those phone calls? Even if it meant that you might miss some calls from legal telemarketers?
Well, where I am in NJ I have a choice between two broadband services -
Verizon DSL at $29.95/mo 768/256 with some WiFi hotspot access in NY city.
-or-
Optimum Online (Cable) $49.95/mo 10000/1000.
The thing with these is that while OOL has jaw-dropping raw speed, how often can you find a server that is going to give you 1 KB sec throughput? When you get it you can download a CD-ROM in about 10 minutes - but...
Anyway I signed up for OOL mostly because it was available before Verizon DSL, but I suspect that except for those days when I am downloading a Linux distro DSL would be just as good.
No, you don't understand. For certain tech consumer goods, the price over time falls to the cost of manufacturing.
That is a very small percentage of the tech good market. For example a so called 'commodity' PC as sold by Best Buy has many components in it whose cost is much greater than the manufacturing cost. The disk drive has Winchester technologies licensed from IBM. Intel gets a 62% gross margin on it's CPUs. Microsoft gets an 80+% margin on the OS. Phillips gets something for that CD logo. Best Buy itself makes a profit on everything it sells.
Get out your Econ 101 book. Price is determined by the intersection of the supply and demand curves. The supply curve is a plot of supply vs. price and time. When a new tech product hits the market the supply/price curve is high. With time it drops as manufacturing techniques improve. That doesn't make price equivalent to manufacturing cost though - there are many many other factors involved.
If companies overbuild capacity price can drop below manufacturing cost (like what has happened with DRAM several times).
If we had a frictionless market system where nobody wanted to make a profit, capital costs were zero, time to build a factory was zero, there were no cartels, no taxes, no patents, no subsidies, no tariffs etc. THEN maybe we could have a situation where price and manufacturing cost were directly related. But we don't have that. So price and manufacturing cost can't be directly correlated.
The Big Three didn't worry about Toyota and Honda until the 1980's because of the low priced foreign competition. They rested on their laurels turning out mediocre cars at best.
The feedback from the Japanese executives regarding their eventual siting of plants in the US is rather interesting - the success they had was due to the poor quality of American management rather than the American worker whom they thought was much better than the Japanese worker.
I wonder if the same sort of thing will eventually turn out to be true in the IT areas. If so it would suggest that the combination of American management and offshored programmer would be very vulnerable to foreign managed companies using American programmers.
This is similar to the concept that what really should be offshored is American management - these are the guys who are really making a lot more than the workers, are more likely to be corrupt and so on.
If I were a VC or somebody with a good looking business plan I would be very interested in bypassing the whole American management system and implementing a reverse structure like the Japanese currently have.
And yes, there are those amazing pharma companies who are making new drugs which are ultra cheap compared to the American ones due to.. I'm assuming this.. the low cost of research
I am kind of curious about how this can be - the main cost of making a new drug is the FDA approval process, which has to be done in the US.
Balance will be when much of the wealth in America is shifted to India and the like.
The problem with thinking of this sort is the assumption that economics is a zero sum game. It isn't. Despite the movement of manufacturing jobs offshore and all the hand-wringing about it the fact is that the US economy had continued to grow pretty well during this offshoring.
Another falacy is that job loss to developing economies is a one way street and that these job losses are permanent. No such thing. Do you know what country had the biggest percentage loss in manufacturing jobs last year? China, that's who. They had a 15% loss in manufacturing jobs last year. Do you you know who gained manufacturing jobs? Canada. The basic reason is that China's investment in infrastructure has been poor, wages have gone up, and automation in other, higher wage countries have made China an expensive place to manufacture compared to countries who have made infrastructure investments.
The problem is that during these changes there will be people who are dislocated. Governments need to deal with these dislocations with training and so on. Subsidies and interference with free trade is the wrong approach because you are trying to delay the inevetable rather than take advantage of the changes.
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LOL. It got mention on the "selling it" page in the back, where CR publishes small items showing misleading, maybe fradulent ads.
Where does Oracle fit into the Evil vs. Not Evil scale?
It's White Evil as opposed to the Black Evil of SCO and Microsoft.
I'm assuming that the limited amount of power the rover has access to would forbid the use of Java, would that be right?
Well, J2ME runs on cellphones, right? That is a restricted power environment. The original intent of Java was for small devices. As far as control from the ground, yes that is true, but it's not real time because of the rather long distances... you would certainly want some autonomy in the rover.
This is why I hate the language used in patents & other legel documents - they are purposly obfuscated so that the patent is granted, when if it clearly stated "email addresses and URLs",
In any patent the most important part is the claims. The claims in this patent state clearly email addresses and URLs.
It seems to me that the British Government has way too much time on it's hands and is in need of downsizing and budget cuts.
I'm sure all the cars going the wrong way would easily crash the software.
I can only imagine what driving on the right would do.
Wouldn't such a system be better as a replacement for air travel?
Probably, but it would have to go through a lot of back yards to get from NY to LA. Air travel avoids the NIMBY factor a lot better.
Being bathed in electromagnetic radiation for 5 hours every day is not nice on your body.
When are you moving to another planet then? Everybody on this one is bathed in electromagnetic fields (i.e. the one that makes compasses point North) from birth.
if this new system lets them drop their damn
overbearing blacklists, I'm all for it.
And people want to sue blackhole sites like MAPS out of business. THAT would mean every little mom and pop would maintain their OWN blacklist. Good luck getting off 69,105 blacklists. Your IP and domain would become useless.
I don't know how good the Yahoo system will be, but all the more power to them. At least they are trying.
Unemployement rates are also verified with household surveys. In many cases such surveys find that people who have been unemployed have actually found employment by starting a small business etc. that doesn't show up in normal employment roles. Usually the household survey rate is fairly close to the number generated from unemployment insurance recipients.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
I took a look at your 'spam analysis'. It is very, very simplistic and naive. For example you make the statement:
"anti-spam people build up these massive lists of internet addresses and whatnot to try to block spammers from getting spam through but, by forging headers, using proxies, etc these spammers bypass these filters. What's really pathetic about this ill-conceived plan to stop spam is that spammers don't use static IPs to send spam."
The fact is that current blackholes recognize dynamic IPs as a primary source of spam, and list them. Detection of dynamic IPs as spam origin points is one to the oldest spam filtering techniques.
HTML does not allow for the obfuscation of links. You cannot insert random crap into an <img src="http://something.com/image.jpg"> or it won't show up.
Not correct at all. HTML links support a wide variety of encoding schemes including use of alternative character sets. The o in something could actually be replaced by something in Cyrillic that LOOKS like an o, but isn't at all.
The fact is like many people who have used the internet for a long time, and have some programming skills, I have written filters myself. I have also tested a large number of products written by others, and the conclusion is inescapable. Blackholing is one of the most powerful anti-spam tools. Some people like you get bent because they have problems with it, but with large ISPs like AOL recieving billions of spams a day, it's a fact of life. Suing MAPS etc. out of existance will only force individual organizations to maintain their own lists, and then you will REALLY have a problem. At least with the current situation you know where to go to challenge a listing.
They're not solving anything.
WRONG. They are doing plenty to help me. I was getting over 600 spams per day into the several email accounts I use. The day installed a black list based spam filter my spam dropped by over 99%. The blacklists solved a major problem for me.
Blacklists cost legitimate businesses and ISP customers money
Tough. Until legitmate businesses and ISPs come up with some way for me to use email without being flooded by illegal crap, I will use these filters.
If it invades my privacy, my pocket book
I am SORRY, but you have zero, and I mean ZERO sympathy from me. I will operate my computer EXACTLY as I please, and that surely means my inbox is going to be filtered using one or more blacklists until there is an alternative.
Maybe it will finally wake up the idiots in charge of the lists so they finally do something productive to stop spam
Right. These guys are absolute heros. They HAVE done something that stops spam. You haven't done squat to stop spam. In fact, you want to put the spam stoppers out of business. If you don't like it, well it's UP TO YOU TO COME UP WITH AN ALTERNATIVE. Not them, they are doing their part to stop spam. Maybe you don't like how they are doing it, but YOU are offering ZERO alternatives.
Now, what are YOU doing to stop spam? How are you part of the solution?
Advocating suing blackhole services is NOT being constructive.
could someone please explain why microsoft is generally anti-choice?
Because they cram their OS down the throats of computer sellers. It is not easy to buy a desktop without MS installed, nearly impossible to buy a laptop without MS installed.
Because they cram all of Office down your throat when all you want is MS Word.
windows is built to give people the opportunity to choose whatever they want to do.
What if I want to uninstall Internet Explorer?
look at windows media player - it plays EVERYTHING.
It plays stuff so long as it doesn't run into DRM issues.
apple on the other hand forces people to do certain things
Apple has the same problems MS has. The issue is that there are other choices than MS and Apple. Choices that give you REAL freedom.
If you blacklist my IP you've just stolen money from me.
The reason you are getting blacklisted is because you are sharing an IP space with people who are sending illegal spam. THEY are the ones that are costing you money, not people who are trying to avoid getting overwhelmed by this garbage.
You should be writing your congressman and ISP requesting that they write stronger laws, and enforce the ones on the books.
Imaine if a citizen set up a road block on a highway just because they heard criminals used it. When cops break into the wrong house, they get sued. So should blacklist runners.
Imagine if somebody was calling your house 700 times a day with ads for porn, illegal drugs, fraudulent offers and attempts to steal your credit information. Wouldn't you take severe and immediate action to block those phone calls? Even if it meant that you might miss some calls from legal telemarketers?
I have Optimum, and I get measured 2300 Kbps
There is something wrong somewhere if that is all you are getting. Try a speed test:
ftp://ftp1.optonline.net/pub/test64
You should get about 10,000 Kbps
Well, where I am in NJ I have a choice between two broadband services -
Verizon DSL at $29.95/mo 768/256 with some WiFi hotspot access in NY city.
-or-
Optimum Online (Cable) $49.95/mo 10000/1000.
The thing with these is that while OOL has jaw-dropping raw speed, how often can you find a server that is going to give you 1 KB sec throughput? When you get it you can download a CD-ROM in about 10 minutes - but...
Anyway I signed up for OOL mostly because it was available before Verizon DSL, but I suspect that except for those days when I am downloading a Linux distro DSL would be just as good.
SCO: We had low level talks with Google about a Linix license.
Google:
I mean where are the comments from Google? What sort of nonsense reporting is this?
Low level talks could be anything - including somebody leaving a voicemail.
No, you don't understand. For certain tech consumer goods, the price over time falls to the cost of manufacturing.
That is a very small percentage of the tech good market. For example a so called 'commodity' PC as sold by Best Buy has many components in it whose cost is much greater than the manufacturing cost. The disk drive has Winchester technologies licensed from IBM. Intel gets a 62% gross margin on it's CPUs. Microsoft gets an 80+% margin on the OS. Phillips gets something for that CD logo. Best Buy itself makes a profit on everything it sells.
Get out your Econ 101 book. Price is determined by the intersection of the supply and demand curves. The supply curve is a plot of supply vs. price and time. When a new tech product hits the market the supply/price curve is high. With time it drops as manufacturing techniques improve. That doesn't make price equivalent to manufacturing cost though - there are many many other factors involved.
If companies overbuild capacity price can drop below manufacturing cost (like what has happened with DRAM several times).
If we had a frictionless market system where nobody wanted to make a profit, capital costs were zero, time to build a factory was zero, there were no cartels, no taxes, no patents, no subsidies, no tariffs etc. THEN maybe we could have a situation where price and manufacturing cost were directly related. But we don't have that. So price and manufacturing cost can't be directly correlated.
The Big Three didn't worry about Toyota and Honda until the 1980's because of the low priced foreign competition. They rested on their laurels turning out mediocre cars at best.
The feedback from the Japanese executives regarding their eventual siting of plants in the US is rather interesting - the success they had was due to the poor quality of American management rather than the American worker whom they thought was much better than the Japanese worker.
I wonder if the same sort of thing will eventually turn out to be true in the IT areas. If so it would suggest that the combination of American management and offshored programmer would be very vulnerable to foreign managed companies using American programmers.
This is similar to the concept that what really should be offshored is American management - these are the guys who are really making a lot more than the workers, are more likely to be corrupt and so on.
If I were a VC or somebody with a good looking business plan I would be very interested in bypassing the whole American management system and implementing a reverse structure like the Japanese currently have.
And yes, there are those amazing pharma companies who are making new drugs which are ultra cheap compared to the American ones due to.. I'm assuming this.. the low cost of research
I am kind of curious about how this can be - the main cost of making a new drug is the FDA approval process, which has to be done in the US.
Balance will be when much of the wealth in America is shifted to India and the like.
The problem with thinking of this sort is the assumption that economics is a zero sum game. It isn't. Despite the movement of manufacturing jobs offshore and all the hand-wringing about it the fact is that the US economy had continued to grow pretty well during this offshoring.
Another falacy is that job loss to developing economies is a one way street and that these job losses are permanent. No such thing. Do you know what country had the biggest percentage loss in manufacturing jobs last year? China, that's who. They had a 15% loss in manufacturing jobs last year. Do you you know who gained manufacturing jobs? Canada. The basic reason is that China's investment in infrastructure has been poor, wages have gone up, and automation in other, higher wage countries have made China an expensive place to manufacture compared to countries who have made infrastructure investments.
The problem is that during these changes there will be people who are dislocated. Governments need to deal with these dislocations with training and so on. Subsidies and interference with free trade is the wrong approach because you are trying to delay the inevetable rather than take advantage of the changes.
and founding dictatorships in South America
Name one country in South America that currently has a dictatorship.
Floopjizzle enlargement patch!
Martian meds without prescription!
Martian sex tape!
Make credits fast at home!
Martian real estate cheap, move to Mars, instant weight loss.
Martian calcium sand better than coral!
University of Mars Diplomas FAST!
Extended warantees on your rover!!!
A letter to you from the Bank of Mars.
Martian export minister needs your help.
I bet their ping time is shit, though...
Unless you are a Martian.