This is interesting. The court is basically saying that if you can do "everyday life tasks" (brushing your hair, cooking dinner, whatever), you're not disabled for the purposes of the ADA. But on my disability policy, it states that if I can't do my regular job, they consider me disabled. Since my job (like most of yours) involves lots of typing, losing both legs wouldn't make me disabled, but C-T would. So now the question is, how does this court decision affect my policy? Can I expect a call from my agent telling me they've changed their definition to line up with the court?
I wonder if too much p53 is the cause of progeria (the sydrome whereby a person's body ages decades in only a few years)? Interesting to think that this serendipitus discovery could help those poor kids, maybe.
This is wrong on so many levels it's painful to read. But all I'm going to point out is that California's energy crisis was not the result of deregulation, as it never occurred. What really happened is that the State told power resellers they could only charge a fixed amount for power, but wholesalers could charge whatever they wanted. This led to power utilities selling energy for *less then they paid for it*. There's no way any company can stay in business very long under those circumstances.
Given that example of government interferance in the market, why do you think anything different would happen if they got their dirty hands into the Internet business?
I used to work for a cable modem ISP (until they went out of business last January). People sucking up an inordinate amount of bandwidth on "consumer" accounts were a huge drain on our resources. Usually it was spammers or people running high volume websites at home, but we also had a few folks with as many as 30 computers on one cable modem. We were only charging them $50 a month, but they were eating up almost an entire T1 all by themselves. Losing $1000 a month to one customer is not a good way to stay in business.
It got so bad in one area we actually started putting together a database of MAC addresses, trying to map them to individual customers (even with NAT, the MAC address of the original computer is in the packet). Unfortunately, that project was just starting when the company filed for bankruptcy.
That said, an easier and more effective solution would be to put QOS restraints on people. Who cares how many devices are hanging off one network connection? It's the bandwidth they're using that's important. And if bandwidth were limited to cable modem customers they wouldn't be so eager to share what they have with all their neighbors.
Excellent point. This is the same reason, after all, why the Navy switched from battleships with 16" guns to cruisers and Tomahawks: most home users, when they do have a long range weapon system (I keep mine in the garage) choose cruise missiles over large cannons everytime. And unfortunately, it will stay this way until particle cannons come down in price enough for the average person to have one at home.
In all seriousness, the reason Windows is as prevalant in the military as it is is simply the same reason it's prevalant in the civilian world: Windows is the de facto standard. It has nothing to do with "what admins are running at home." To even suggest otherwise would imply that Flag and General Officers give a rat's ass what the troops want/like.
"The question of privacy vs. human life isn't a very fair one. Should EVERYONE give up their privacy for a single person's life? Or does it have to be a dozen people? Or 50%? Where's the line."
I can't believe you actually asked this question. If you can't see that even one human life is worth more than six billion "private" emails (which are anything but if you're not using heavy encryption, anyway), then you have some serious problems.
"Going to hell?" When was there ever paradise on earth??? Short of the garden of Eden, which likely didn't exist except as a metaphor, there has never been a time when assholes weren't running rampant through our world. Face it, people are inherintly evil and selfish. They always have been, they always will be, get used to it.
"...and if there was anyplace else in the country that would have one other than central Cali it would probably be here. "
Really? Seems like there's at least one in Arizona (I pass it every day commuting between work and home) and last I heard one in Oregon. And as far as I know, there are no Fry's in Central California (though there are several in both LA and the Bay Area..central California is the area of land between those two).
"Ah, but since we are passing in "DAY=3000", they can see what the date is. Thus, when they start seeing stuff like "DAY=3000", they might start wondering.... "
Then just edit your cookies file manually, increasing the expiration date to something absurd (like June, 2034). Duh.
I don't know about hotel rooms, but cash won't work for rental cars.
Techincally, you are correct. But you can leave a deposit in the form of a cashier's check, usually for the amount they would lock on your credit card (~$250 - $500).
FYI, many "check cards" have daily limits.
Actually, if you call your bank and tell them it's really you, they'll usually put the charge through. Those limits are in place because, unlike credit cards, debit cards are pretty much cash. Once the money is out of your account, you can't get it back without suing the merchant. And no bank wants to be a part of that kind of hassle, which is why they don't absorb losses from debit cards like they do credit cards. So the limits are really for your protection.
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"(you have a right to be private about your affairs, there's no inherent right to be anonymous in public)."
I hate to point out (what is to me) the obvious, but if homo sapiens were to find out that dolphins really are intelligent and capable of language and culture, how long do you think it would be before some jackass declared war on them? Or tried to convert them to their religion (there's an interesting idea, if dolphins are intelligent, do they have souls? if they have souls, do they need to be "saved"?)
That said, language without tool use is like writing a Perl script without an interpreter: it does nothing. Until dolphins can create their own tools, either through us really uplifting them or a la the oft quoted Onion article, we can't really consider them intelligent.
"For the record, Rob Tillotson has created Pyrite, which was compatible to Python 1.5, for the Palm. He has some of the details at http://www.pyrite.org"
"Schools have plenty of problems, but this isn't one of them. Unless my parents and the dozens of other teacher friends of theirs I have met socially are part of some vast conspiracy... "
That would be the obvious conclusion....
Bullshit. Golden Rice is designed to keep people from going blind, not just starving (they can avoid that with regular rice). It doesn't have Vitamin A, it has beta carotine, the precursor to vitamin A and a much needed nutrient for the eye. As for why poor people can't get it, reference this article in Reason Magazine. Basically, some ecofreaks/neoluddites (like Greenpeace) won't let it see the light of day. They've even gone so far as to threaten violence to keep it out of the supposedly pure ecosystem.
Yes, there are some issues with patents that are getting in the way, but that has more to do with European bureaucracy than "profit hungry capitalists" (who happy to have food hungry mouths to feed themselves, so of course they want to make money).
Check for toll free phone numbers via whois. If their office is convenient to you, drive by and say "hi". Better yet, put up (anonymous) flyers around their neighborhood stating that they are child molesters or some other horrendous creature (note: IANAL, so this one may have crossed the line).
While I don't like the idea of any ISP (even UUNET or one of it's subs) getting hit this hard by spam, it'll take just this level of interuption of service before companies like UUNET start taking spam seriously. If a significant number (>5%) of the million customers affected by this cancelled their accounts, or even just demanded free service for a month or two, that would be just the right incentive for Pipex/UUNET to go after the originators of this spam full bore. Once they've done that once, their legal and security departments should be more able/willing to go after others in the future.
I was just about to submit a post on how funny this is, and how their lawyers would be working around the clock suing everyone who goes to their site, when I went to the site myself and read the copyright notice. You left out an important bit:
"The publisher allows the following exception: information may be retrieved and copied for personal use only, so long as the end result is not directly or directly for a business or commerce, or provides any gain, financial, material or otherwize."
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This is interesting. The court is basically saying that if you can do "everyday life tasks" (brushing your hair, cooking dinner, whatever), you're not disabled for the purposes of the ADA. But on my disability policy, it states that if I can't do my regular job, they consider me disabled. Since my job (like most of yours) involves lots of typing, losing both legs wouldn't make me disabled, but C-T would. So now the question is, how does this court decision affect my policy? Can I expect a call from my agent telling me they've changed their definition to line up with the court?
I wonder if too much p53 is the cause of progeria (the sydrome whereby a person's body ages decades in only a few years)? Interesting to think that this serendipitus discovery could help those poor kids, maybe.
Yeah, The Register would never publish something like this.
Cory
Probably around the same time we in the US do.
This is wrong on so many levels it's painful to read. But all I'm going to point out is that California's energy crisis was not the result of deregulation, as it never occurred. What really happened is that the State told power resellers they could only charge a fixed amount for power, but wholesalers could charge whatever they wanted. This led to power utilities selling energy for *less then they paid for it*. There's no way any company can stay in business very long under those circumstances.
Given that example of government interferance in the market, why do you think anything different would happen if they got their dirty hands into the Internet business?
So much for Taco Bell's foray into the tech sector, someone else can now boast of having the hot new handheld.
Cory
I used to work for a cable modem ISP (until they went out of business last January). People sucking up an inordinate amount of bandwidth on "consumer" accounts were a huge drain on our resources. Usually it was spammers or people running high volume websites at home, but we also had a few folks with as many as 30 computers on one cable modem. We were only charging them $50 a month, but they were eating up almost an entire T1 all by themselves. Losing $1000 a month to one customer is not a good way to stay in business.
It got so bad in one area we actually started putting together a database of MAC addresses, trying to map them to individual customers (even with NAT, the MAC address of the original computer is in the packet). Unfortunately, that project was just starting when the company filed for bankruptcy.
That said, an easier and more effective solution would be to put QOS restraints on people. Who cares how many devices are hanging off one network connection? It's the bandwidth they're using that's important. And if bandwidth were limited to cable modem customers they wouldn't be so eager to share what they have with all their neighbors.
Cory
In all seriousness, the reason Windows is as prevalant in the military as it is is simply the same reason it's prevalant in the civilian world: Windows is the de facto standard. It has nothing to do with "what admins are running at home." To even suggest otherwise would imply that Flag and General Officers give a rat's ass what the troops want/like.
"The question of privacy vs. human life isn't a very fair one. Should EVERYONE give up their privacy for a single person's life? Or does it have to be a dozen people? Or 50%? Where's the line."
I can't believe you actually asked this question. If you can't see that even one human life is worth more than six billion "private" emails (which are anything but if you're not using heavy encryption, anyway), then you have some serious problems.
"Going to hell?" When was there ever paradise on earth??? Short of the garden of Eden, which likely didn't exist except as a metaphor, there has never been a time when assholes weren't running rampant through our world. Face it, people are inherintly evil and selfish. They always have been, they always will be, get used to it.
"...and if there was anyplace else in the country that would have one other than central Cali it would probably be here. " Really? Seems like there's at least one in Arizona (I pass it every day commuting between work and home) and last I heard one in Oregon. And as far as I know, there are no Fry's in Central California (though there are several in both LA and the Bay Area..central California is the area of land between those two).
"Ah, but since we are passing in "DAY=3000", they can see what the date is. Thus, when they start seeing stuff like "DAY=3000", they might start wondering.... "
Then just edit your cookies file manually, increasing the expiration date to something absurd (like June, 2034). Duh.
Cory
How come when Netscape said this about Microsoft, Microsoft was the bad guy?
Cory
Techincally, you are correct. But you can leave a deposit in the form of a cashier's check, usually for the amount they would lock on your credit card (~$250 - $500).
FYI, many "check cards" have daily limits.
Actually, if you call your bank and tell them it's really you, they'll usually put the charge through. Those limits are in place because, unlike credit cards, debit cards are pretty much cash. Once the money is out of your account, you can't get it back without suing the merchant. And no bank wants to be a part of that kind of hassle, which is why they don't absorb losses from debit cards like they do credit cards. So the limits are really for your protection.
This from an AC?
That said, language without tool use is like writing a Perl script without an interpreter: it does nothing. Until dolphins can create their own tools, either through us really uplifting them or a la the oft quoted Onion article, we can't really consider them intelligent.
Your link is broken. Try this instead.
Seriously, if you're going to post a link, can't you set it as a *real* link, so people don't have to highlight and paste?
"Schools have plenty of problems, but this isn't one of them. Unless my parents and the dozens of other teacher friends of theirs I have met socially are part of some vast conspiracy... " That would be the obvious conclusion....
I wish I had some mod points right now; you deserve +1, Funny.
Yes, there are some issues with patents that are getting in the way, but that has more to do with European bureaucracy than "profit hungry capitalists" (who happy to have food hungry mouths to feed themselves, so of course they want to make money).
Also, pick up a copy of the bat book.
Check for toll free phone numbers via whois. If their office is convenient to you, drive by and say "hi". Better yet, put up (anonymous) flyers around their neighborhood stating that they are child molesters or some other horrendous creature (note: IANAL, so this one may have crossed the line).
While I don't like the idea of any ISP (even UUNET or one of it's subs) getting hit this hard by spam, it'll take just this level of interuption of service before companies like UUNET start taking spam seriously. If a significant number (>5%) of the million customers affected by this cancelled their accounts, or even just demanded free service for a month or two, that would be just the right incentive for Pipex/UUNET to go after the originators of this spam full bore. Once they've done that once, their legal and security departments should be more able/willing to go after others in the future.
"The publisher allows the following exception: information may be retrieved and copied for personal use only, so long as the end result is not directly or directly for a business or commerce, or provides any gain, financial, material or otherwize."