Its core consists mainly of densely-packed neutrons, with a sprinkling of protons and typically 3 times as many electrons as protons
So the core is negatively charged? What part of the neutron star has the balancing positive charge? And more importantly: why?? What keeps the charge separated?
My lawyers will be contacting Intentia re licence fees for their use of my invention -- URLs that are publicly accessible, but not actually linked from the site's index page.
The really sweet thing is that once they've paid me, they can use the DMCA to go after Reuters, since clearly it's a technological protection mechanism they've circumvented....
I started getting snail-mail from "The Private Eye Clinic". Meant nothing to me; but my sister had mentioned that she was thinking of getting a private detective's licence, so I figured they'd got my address from her, and were direct-marketing me. Into the rubbish bin. Regularly, for almost a year.
Then I got a threatening letter from a lawyer. Turns out "The Private Eye Clinic" was a group of opthalmologists, one of whom I'd seen for an eye examination (and paid no attention to the cutesey business name of the clinic). They wanted me to pay the bill.
For that matter, almost any mail that arrives for me in a window-face envelope from a source I don't recognise, particularly if my name is mis-spelled, risks being junked.
I'm on the verge of blocking the whole of.tw,.kr, and.hk . But if I could instead filter on character set, I'd greatly prefer to do that. I've no idea what the content is -- it might be highly useful info -- IF I could read Chinese or Korean.
The examples McNealy quotes of giving up a little bit of personal info for a greater benefit are good ones, and no doubt many people would be happy to make those trades. The thing is, I choose in each case whether to make the tradeoff or keep my personal info to myself. If I choose not to allow ambulance drivers to access my medical record (one of McNealy's examples) that's my decision, not some bloody capitalist or bureaucrat deciding for me. And I need to have available to me the info required to make a free, informed choice.
.... Micrsoft has specifically told us not to get our panties in a bunch... most of the
internet reports are WRONG (including mine above) in some form or another... no one has it right yet, and not to
believe them. We'll have more info closer to Beta 2. But the system is going to be non-invasive, and all of the
arguments we're having have already been had within MS.
Well that's a relief. I'll stop worrying about it then.
While there is no evidence that any changes have been made to the [MS source] codes.... any unauthorized alterations to Microsoft's products would raise broad questions about the trustworthiness of some of the world's most widely used software applications.
Right. Because they've always been so reliable and trustworthy until now.
put an emergency procedure in place for 'rapid-separations' where all of a person's accounts are identified, marked for immediate back-up, and locked down until the situation is clarified
Sound housekeeping, of course -- but I think it has to be used with discretion. Just off the top of my head I can think of two hypothetical scenarios where prematurely activating such a procedure could have a negative outcome:
(S)he's such a valuable employee (eg only geek in the shop who knows how the server works) that on consideration mgt decides to overlook the gigabytes of pr0n -- but employee finds accts frozen and quits in a huff. Next day server crashes and outside consultants take a week to rebuild it.
Employee given "final warning" and told to return to work -- finds accts frozen and sues for harrassment.
NYU promises that the "vitalbook" will contain not only all required books but also all recommended texts. The corollary is that no professor can be permitted to recommend any book (for any subject) unless the publisher of that book has entered an agreement with Vitalviewer.
If I were a publisher who hasn't entered such a contract, I'd be lobbying all the professors, and making sure they understood how this is going to limit their flexibility to decide what books should be used.
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Scanned this article pretty quickly, and first up I read it as "future hackers may find that their buttocks betray them".
Led to some fascinating speculations before I realised this was something I'd already read in New Scientist.
My lawyers will be contacting Intentia re licence fees for their use of my invention -- URLs that are publicly accessible, but not actually linked from the site's index page.
(Proof of concept published Sep-07.)
The really sweet thing is that once they've paid me, they can use the DMCA to go after Reuters, since clearly it's a technological protection mechanism they've circumvented....
I started getting snail-mail from "The Private Eye Clinic". Meant nothing to me; but my sister had mentioned that she was thinking of getting a private detective's licence, so I figured they'd got my address from her, and were direct-marketing me. Into the rubbish bin. Regularly, for almost a year.
Then I got a threatening letter from a lawyer. Turns out "The Private Eye Clinic" was a group of opthalmologists, one of whom I'd seen for an eye examination (and paid no attention to the cutesey business name of the clinic). They wanted me to pay the bill.
For that matter, almost any mail that arrives for me in a window-face envelope from a source I don't recognise, particularly if my name is mis-spelled, risks being junked.
I'm on the verge of blocking the whole of .tw, .kr, and .hk . But if I could instead filter on character set, I'd greatly prefer to do that. I've no idea what the content is -- it might be highly useful info -- IF I could read Chinese or Korean.
If not, WTF was I doing voting last 2000-Oct?
The examples McNealy quotes of giving up a little bit of personal info for a greater benefit are good ones, and no doubt many people would be happy to make those trades. The thing is, I choose in each case whether to make the tradeoff or keep my personal info to myself. If I choose not to allow ambulance drivers to access my medical record (one of McNealy's examples) that's my decision, not some bloody capitalist or bureaucrat deciding for me. And I need to have available to me the info required to make a free, informed choice.
Well that's a relief. I'll stop worrying about it then.
Right. Because they've always been so reliable and trustworthy until now.
I'm tempted to conclude you're not using NetBEUI, but it seems prudent to ask -- it's not on any machine in the network, is it?
(S)he's such a valuable employee (eg only geek in the shop who knows how the server works) that on consideration mgt decides to overlook the gigabytes of pr0n -- but employee finds accts frozen and quits in a huff. Next day server crashes and outside consultants take a week to rebuild it.
Employee given "final warning" and told to return to work -- finds accts frozen and sues for harrassment.
Of course IANAL, nor even an HR person....
Senator Alston is . He was referring to "extremely offensive material, such as paedophilia".
NYU promises that the "vitalbook" will contain not only all required books but also all recommended texts. The corollary is that no professor can be permitted to recommend any book (for any subject) unless the publisher of that book has entered an agreement with Vitalviewer. If I were a publisher who hasn't entered such a contract, I'd be lobbying all the professors, and making sure they understood how this is going to limit their flexibility to decide what books should be used.