If you leave your door open and someone comes in, they won't be convicted of "Breaking and Entering." They can just be charged with "Entering" (trespassing?). And if they take something, then maybe theft too. They're all separate, AFAIK. Maybe I got the terms wrong, but I hope my little nitpick is understood.
First of all, it's perfectly possible to have digital TV that is recordable. In fact, it's a lot harder to impliment digital TV with copy protection, just becuase it's an add-on. The poster you are replying to isn't blindly standing in the way of progress. He simply objects to the more complicated, more-resrictive form that it is taking.
Second, I just want to rant for a bit: Posts like yours are really lame. They just bug me. I mean no offense to you personally, but just taking someone else's post and replacing some key terms with other ones is, IMO, stupid. Your post doesn't really say anything. Yet, you leave it there as if it is some profound revelation. Everyone, please knock it off.
Ha! That's very good. Excellent use of a smiley too. I've had my sig for quite awhile and you're the first to make that observation about it.
It's not really a quote, though. Note the lack of quotation marks. It's more of a comment, as indicated by the well-known C-style comment delimiters. It's also attributable to me, as I am logged-in and therefore not Anonymous.
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What about the question mark in your own statement? Can't you make your point without that little crutch? It's the mark of a bad writer. The same thing goes for exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, suing the people he asked to probe his server is a bit much. But would you mind if he were able to sue spammers for faking their way into his server?
Relay controls must be based on IP address, not sender email address. Other secure options include SMTP Auth and POP-before-SMTP.
"Must be," huh? That's exactly what this guy is upset about. Who are these people who are telling him how to configure his mail servers? Who are they to tell him how much security is enough.
He maintains that no one should be lying in order to relay using his server, and I agree. Sure, locking it down is a good technological way to prevent abuse. But, maybe this guy would rather see a law against forged headers. Anyway, as far as he's concerned, his server IS locked down, assuming no one fasifies his identity to get into it. Similarly, if he restricted relaying based on IP address, his server would then be "secure" assuming nobody breaks into his house or sneaks onto his wireless network, etc.
Being a lawyer, I think this guy's real goal is to get some kind of law passed or legal precident set. Without that, a technological solution has little power behind it if it's bypassed.
I think the valleys you are noticing have more to do with allowing traffic on the road too soon after [re]paving. The asphalt needs time to dry, or "set," or whatever it does.
I'm basing this claim on my experiece when my parents had their driveway repaved a few years ago. The weather was hot, and we parked our cars on the driveway a little too soon afterwards. The tires left little indentations. We noticed this, and resumed parking in the street for a few more days. Now, we have no problems. Even in hot weather.
I hope someone more knowledgeable can back me up on this.
I'm with you. I received a call while driving on the highway once. I talked for a minute or two, then hung up. Then I realized that I barely knew what I had been doing while on the phone. I had no idea if cars had passed me, or what exits I'd passed, or anything.
Maybe I could "learn" to pay attention to the road, but I doubt it. And it's no good to just have one hand free anyway.
Motherboard power - 7. Doesn't stand out much, no big problems.
What about the AT-style connectors? I seem to recall that it was possible to hook them up backwards, and if you did, your motherboard would be fried. You had to make sure the black cables were in the middle, I think.
ATX at least fixed that little problem.
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Why is it that there seem to be many Americans that believe that the USA invented the concepts of democracy, freedom and liberty?
I think it's because the schools aren't teaching much History. The big push is in science and Engineering, from what I've seen. There is very little time to teach the history of our country alone, much less the World's. It's very easy to assume freedom was invented in the U.S. when you've only ever been taught about it in relation to the U.S.
I just graduated from college (Computer Engineering Degree). For my Engineering degree, I was not required to take any History courses. This is no surpise, I guess.
Back in high school, though I think I was only required to take one History course. It went over the entire known history of the World in a single semester. If you fell asleep for 15 minutes, you could easily miss things such as, say, the Roman Senate.
Now then, I was also required to take a "Government" class (aka Civics), where you learn all about the the government, Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc. Then there was a Law class, where all these subjects come up again.
When I lived in Virginia (for Elementary School), they taught a lot of local history too. A major portion of this includes Revolutionary War, the reasons behind it, the principles involved, and the formation of the United States.
From reading all the comments, I have to conclude that just about everything is overpriced. Everyone pays too much for stuff. So maybe it all evens out. Don't worry about it.
...is a little bit of a stretch when we cannot reproduce these things in a lab using "ideal" conditions.
I remember reading something in my high school biology textbook about a successful experiment to create simple organic molecules using "lightning."
My memory is hazy, but I think they had a tank of water and minerals ("primordial soup") that they zapped with electricity. After awhile, they detected the presence of simple organic molecules. Which ones, I don't remember. Amino acids, maybe?
In any case, for someone who knows biology, let's say a "biologist," once you've figured out where these molecules came from. It's not hard to imagine how they eventually combined into more complex molecules, cells, and eventually multi-celled organisms.
Please excuse my lapses in biology. It's been awhile since I studied it. I can dig out my book if you need a reference, though.
Uhm...nope. It is using the media exactly as designed. The ability to place those restrictions on the disc is part of the DVD design.
Actually, he's talking about the media: the shiny, spinning discs, and the LASER read heads that can access any part of a disc in mere milliseconds. Milliseconds!! Compare this to tape media, where it used to take minutes to get from one end of the tape to the other.
What's upsetting, of course, is now that we have this nice, speedy medium, what do they do with it? They design a format with restrictions in it, to make it more like tape. It's backwords. It's annoying.
To make your links work, even with Javascript or popups disabled, you can do something like this:
<A HREF="somewhere.html" onClick="your_popup_function( 'somewhere.html'); return false;">Link to somewhere</A>
If JavaScript is enabled, the popup will pop up, and the "return false" part will prevent the href from being followed in the original window. If JavaScript is disabled, the href will be followed normally. I'm not sure of the behavior when Javascript is enabled, but popups are not. I guess it won't work if all popups are disabled, but I know it will work in Mozilla if just unrequested popups are disabled.
Maybe you knew this already, but I found it useful.
Actually, I believe utility companies are in fact required to give you service. It's one of the conditions for being allowed to have a monopoly in a given area.
BTW, replies that do nothing but mimic the parent post, merely changing a few words, are lame and overused. IMHO.
I think the ACLU is a joke, we have the supreme court to do what the ACLU thinks is their job.
The thing about the Supreme Court (or any court) is that they cannot make a decision on an issue unless they have a case in front of them that addresses that issue. You may think the ACLU is irrelevant, but I think they are an important part of bringing issues to the courts' attention.
The ACLU may just be publishing reports on Cable Monopolies now, but someday these issues will go to court, and the ACLU will probably be involved somehow - providing legal expertise, evidence (this report??), money, etc.
I think you answered the question already. Other clients, such as NFS, are too immature on Windows. Maybe they gave up in the face of Samba. I'd guess Samba has an edge over anything else on Windows, because it requires very little special set-up on the client-side.
Only in a dictatorship could you get away with calling such a Mobile Space Attack Platform a "Death Star".
IIRC, only the Rebels referred to them as "Death Stars." In fact, I can recall the Emperor referring to "this fully operational Battle Station" in Ep6. I'm pretty sure someone-or-other does this in Ep4 as well.
Why stop there? You could also make these paper transaction cards reusable - don't tie them to any single account. Each one would still have a unique serial number on it. For convenience, they could be available in nice, round-numbered denominations: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20. I don't know about puppies or kittens, but you could put portraits of dead presidents on them, I think.
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If you leave your door open and someone comes in, they won't be convicted of "Breaking and Entering." They can just be charged with "Entering" (trespassing?). And if they take something, then maybe theft too. They're all separate, AFAIK. Maybe I got the terms wrong, but I hope my little nitpick is understood.
Second, I just want to rant for a bit: Posts like yours are really lame. They just bug me. I mean no offense to you personally, but just taking someone else's post and replacing some key terms with other ones is, IMO, stupid. Your post doesn't really say anything. Yet, you leave it there as if it is some profound revelation. Everyone, please knock it off.
It's not really a quote, though. Note the lack of quotation marks. It's more of a comment, as indicated by the well-known C-style comment delimiters. It's also attributable to me, as I am logged-in and therefore not Anonymous.
What about the question mark in your own statement? Can't you make your point without that little crutch? It's the mark of a bad writer. The same thing goes for exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, suing the people he asked to probe his server is a bit much. But would you mind if he were able to sue spammers for faking their way into his server?
I meant to say "I think that this guy, being a lawyer..."
He maintains that no one should be lying in order to relay using his server, and I agree. Sure, locking it down is a good technological way to prevent abuse. But, maybe this guy would rather see a law against forged headers. Anyway, as far as he's concerned, his server IS locked down, assuming no one fasifies his identity to get into it. Similarly, if he restricted relaying based on IP address, his server would then be "secure" assuming nobody breaks into his house or sneaks onto his wireless network, etc.
Being a lawyer, I think this guy's real goal is to get some kind of law passed or legal precident set. Without that, a technological solution has little power behind it if it's bypassed.
I'm basing this claim on my experiece when my parents had their driveway repaved a few years ago. The weather was hot, and we parked our cars on the driveway a little too soon afterwards. The tires left little indentations. We noticed this, and resumed parking in the street for a few more days. Now, we have no problems. Even in hot weather.
I hope someone more knowledgeable can back me up on this.
I'm with you. I received a call while driving on the highway once. I talked for a minute or two, then hung up. Then I realized that I barely knew what I had been doing while on the phone. I had no idea if cars had passed me, or what exits I'd passed, or anything.
Maybe I could "learn" to pay attention to the road, but I doubt it. And it's no good to just have one hand free anyway.
What about the AT-style connectors? I seem to recall that it was possible to hook them up backwards, and if you did, your motherboard would be fried. You had to make sure the black cables were in the middle, I think.
ATX at least fixed that little problem.
I think it's because the schools aren't teaching much History. The big push is in science and Engineering, from what I've seen. There is very little time to teach the history of our country alone, much less the World's. It's very easy to assume freedom was invented in the U.S. when you've only ever been taught about it in relation to the U.S.
I just graduated from college (Computer Engineering Degree). For my Engineering degree, I was not required to take any History courses. This is no surpise, I guess.
Back in high school, though I think I was only required to take one History course. It went over the entire known history of the World in a single semester. If you fell asleep for 15 minutes, you could easily miss things such as, say, the Roman Senate.
Now then, I was also required to take a "Government" class (aka Civics), where you learn all about the the government, Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc. Then there was a Law class, where all these subjects come up again.
When I lived in Virginia (for Elementary School), they taught a lot of local history too. A major portion of this includes Revolutionary War, the reasons behind it, the principles involved, and the formation of the United States.
Now, on to the next story...
I remember reading something in my high school biology textbook about a successful experiment to create simple organic molecules using "lightning."
My memory is hazy, but I think they had a tank of water and minerals ("primordial soup") that they zapped with electricity. After awhile, they detected the presence of simple organic molecules. Which ones, I don't remember. Amino acids, maybe?
In any case, for someone who knows biology, let's say a "biologist," once you've figured out where these molecules came from. It's not hard to imagine how they eventually combined into more complex molecules, cells, and eventually multi-celled organisms.
Please excuse my lapses in biology. It's been awhile since I studied it. I can dig out my book if you need a reference, though.
Actually, he's talking about the media: the shiny, spinning discs, and the LASER read heads that can access any part of a disc in mere milliseconds. Milliseconds!! Compare this to tape media, where it used to take minutes to get from one end of the tape to the other.
What's upsetting, of course, is now that we have this nice, speedy medium, what do they do with it? They design a format with restrictions in it, to make it more like tape. It's backwords. It's annoying.
zapfie? Is that [derived from] your name? Just wondering, because my last name is Zapf.
<A HREF="somewhere.html" onClick="your_popup_function( 'somewhere.html'); return false;">Link to somewhere</A>
If JavaScript is enabled, the popup will pop up, and the "return false" part will prevent the href from being followed in the original window. If JavaScript is disabled, the href will be followed normally. I'm not sure of the behavior when Javascript is enabled, but popups are not. I guess it won't work if all popups are disabled, but I know it will work in Mozilla if just unrequested popups are disabled.
Maybe you knew this already, but I found it useful.
BTW, replies that do nothing but mimic the parent post, merely changing a few words, are lame and overused. IMHO.
Bah. To clarify, both controllers are on-board. The non-Promise, integrated-into-the-Via-chipset IDE controller is the one that's only ATA-66.
Red Hat's current beta also uses gcc 3.1, right? If so, that's another big distro on top of things - and one vendors tend to single out anyway.
The thing about the Supreme Court (or any court) is that they cannot make a decision on an issue unless they have a case in front of them that addresses that issue. You may think the ACLU is irrelevant, but I think they are an important part of bringing issues to the courts' attention.
The ACLU may just be publishing reports on Cable Monopolies now, but someday these issues will go to court, and the ACLU will probably be involved somehow - providing legal expertise, evidence (this report??), money, etc.
I think you answered the question already. Other clients, such as NFS, are too immature on Windows. Maybe they gave up in the face of Samba. I'd guess Samba has an edge over anything else on Windows, because it requires very little special set-up on the client-side.
IIRC, only the Rebels referred to them as "Death Stars." In fact, I can recall the Emperor referring to "this fully operational Battle Station" in Ep6. I'm pretty sure someone-or-other does this in Ep4 as well.
Funny post though, almost as good as my favorite R2R2 is the baddest mofo post.
Why stop there? You could also make these paper transaction cards reusable - don't tie them to any single account. Each one would still have a unique serial number on it. For convenience, they could be available in nice, round-numbered denominations: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20. I don't know about puppies or kittens, but you could put portraits of dead presidents on them, I think.