When MSN Messenger starts, it opens an Internet Explorer window with some advertainment. If you click on any of the links in that window, they also open Internet Explorer. My default browser is Mozilla.
Logicreate is a similar free PHP tool kit that works with your existing PHP-4 installation.
http://logicreate.com/
Here are some sites created with it:
http://tapinternet.com/index.php/clients/
Ty uses it to handle all of the online ordering for Beanie Babies, which can exceed $10 Million/month.
One cool feature is the context sensitive search. Since it presents different views to customers, partners, and internal people, when the CEO searches for "Secret Project" he sees the secret project, but when customers search, they don't see it.
DISCLAIMER: I have no direct finanical involement with Logicreate or Tap Internet. Well, they once bought me pizza.
Since our family has dropped our land line and moved to cell phones exclusively, we've been blessed with very few telemarketing calls.
However, as more and more cell phone plans allow for free nights and weekends, the justification that telemarketers can't call you because you're paying for that air time wanes, and we're likely to see changes in telemarketing laws that allow calls to cell phones during those periods.
Docbook generates neat and professional HTML and PDF documents cross referenced as you require. It also does PostScript suitable for most professional printers.
http://www.docbook.org/
Like HTML, it supports embedding all media types, including images, videos, sounds, and Java Applets.
Government Mandate Generating More Waiste?
on
Japan's War On E-Waste
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
A government mandate requring manufacturers to recycle 50% of the parts of new televions will encourage manufacturers to continue making older, better understood, CRT based TVs.
New TVs based on LCD technology use much less than 1/2 the raw materials, but those components probably aren't as frequently recycled.
Therefore, consumers don't get the technology that they prefer, and more waste is generated. Thanks, government!
The answer: Charge a fee based on how nasty the stuff is to dispose of properly. Those components that get recycled are free of fees. The higher the fee - the more stuff that gets recycled - or not built in the first place, as people switch to other products not so environmentally damaging.
The problem with the answer: What would be the fee on a gallon of gas or a TV? No one can really be sure.
"At 30+ mph, the rolling effect would likely protect the head and neck (IF you are wearing a helmet)"
Even with a helmet, brain sheer can cause TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) or death. To visualize this, imagine holding a bowl full of half set jello and shaking it violently.
Becoming a human basket ball after an accident might cause more TBI rather than less. Unfortunately, the published articles didn't address this topic, but some additional head and neck protection (including possibly a cone like projection around the head and neck, as in "Snow Crash") may help riders walk away from potentially deadly accidents.
Was the title of a thread in the dist-obj mailing list in which your writings were a serious topic of discussion.
While you support stable technology such as AOLServer with TCL scripting, under what circumstances would you consider a fancy XML, Java, 3 tiered, buzzword compliant solution such as Cocoon?
There are a lot of pseudo embedded DOS based systems out there. My previous employer had a remote access concentrator product in this category, and paid a non-trivial sum per box to Microsoft for DOS 5.0, a product that Microsoft refused to support. Unfortunately, I was unable to convince management to give Free DOS a try.
Has Free DOS made any progress in these types of markets? Are people using Free DOS to replace MS-DOS in these pseudo embedded systems?
This is an impossible security quagmire. You can't give out software to be run on someone else's system (with or without source code), and prevent them from modifying it.
The trick to better security may be to engage the help of those who might otherwise thwart it. Many of the people who are cleverly optimizing SETI@Home would be good people to design sophisticated mechanisms to detect and prevent program modifications.
To what extent do you believe that software patents are defendable as a mechanism for the government to promote R&D that leads to greater wealth? What limits would you place on patents?
Alternatively, to what extent do you promote copyrights for the same purpose? What limits would you place on copyright? To what extent should copyright owners be allowed to restrict reverse engineering?
Did this study draw any conclusions regarding internet usage in other American ethnic groups? What were percentages of internet connectivity when normalized against household income? I'm not sure that the data in this artical allows us to paint a complete picture about internet access and ethnicity in America. For example, it may be that internet access appears to be doubling (percentage wise) every year for all ethnic groups, but income factors are creating a temporary lag in usage percentage among various ethnic groups. If that is true, then all American ethnic groups mentioned would achieve near 100% connectivity within 4 years. PS: Some of these comments are just downright racist.
If you're concerned about this issue, and are a voter in one of the following US states:
Arizona Alaska Georgia Hawaii Kansas Louisiana Massachusetts Michigan Mississippi Montana Maine Missouri Nevada North Dakota Oregon Tennessee Texas South Carolina Washington West Virginia
Then you have a Senator on the Commerce Committee. Give them a phone call and let them know how you feel about this issue.
Arizona U.S. Senator John McCain 241 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone number (202)224-2235 Fax number (202)228-2862
Alaska SENATOR TED STEVENS WASHINGTON, DC, OFFICE 522 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING UNITED STATES SENATE WASHINGTON, DC 20510 PHONE -- (202) 224-3004 FAX -- (202) 224-2354
Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham 329 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 (202) 224-4822 michigan@abraham.senate.gov
Montana Conrad Burns Washington Office 187 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 202/224-2644 202/224-8594 fax 202-224-8616 TDD line
Washington Slade Gorton Washington, D.C. Office 730 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-3441 (202) 224-9393 (fax)
Mississippi Trent Lott Washington, DC SR-487 WASHINGTON, DC 20510 (202) 224-6253 FAX (202) 224-2262
Texas Kay Bailey Hutcheson Washington Office 284 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-4304 202-224-5922 202-224-0776 (FAX) 202-224-5903 (TDD) E-Mail: senator@hutchison.senate.gov
Maine Olympia J. Snowe Senator Olympia J. Snowe 250 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-1903 202-224-5344 In Maine, dial toll free: 1-800-432-1599
Missouri John Ashcroft Hart Senate Office Building Room 316 Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-6154 Fax: (202) 228-0998
Tennessee Bill Frist 416 Russel Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, D.C. Phone number: 202/224-3344 TDD number: 202/224-1911 e-mail address: senator_frist@frist.senate.gov Mailing Address: Senator Bill Frist United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510-4205
Kansas Sam Brownback Senator Sam Brownback Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20510 Phone: (202) 224-6521 Fax: (202) 228-1265
South Carolina Ernest F. Hollings Washington, D.C. 125 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 (202)224-6121
Hawaii Daniel K. Inouye Washington D.C. 722 Hart Building Washington, D.C. 20510-1102 202-224-3934
West Virginia John D. Rockefeller IV Washington, DC Office 531 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-6472 fax: (202) 224-7665
Massachusetts John F. Kerry Washington, DC United States Senate Washington, DC 20510-2102 tel:(202) 224-2742 fax:(202) 224-8525
Louisiana John B. Breaux WASHINGTON, D.C. 516 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515-1803 (202) 224-4623 (202) 224-1986 (TDD) HOURS: 9:00AM-6:00PM (EST)
Nevada Richard H. Bryan Washington, D.C. 269 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 (202) 224-6244
North Dakota Byron L. Dorgan WASHINGTON, D.C. 713 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-2551 Fax (202) 228-4466
Oregon Ron Wyden WASHINGTON, DC 516 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 (202) 224-5244
Georgia Max Cleland Washington Office 461 Senate Dirksen Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone (202) 224-3521 Fax (202) 224-0072
"My interpretation is that of the dangers encountered upon the development of the internet."
Sorry, but if I were your teacher, I'd claim that you focused on a narrow slice of the whole topic, and I probably wouldn't understand what you were talking about.
Here is a brief outline describing the kind of topics that I would expect your teacher to anticipate. Each topic tries to tie in with what your teacher has heard in relation to it. It may be a book, a movie, a historical event, or a potential threat.
1) Privacy A) Individual from government ("Enemy of the State") (Encryption export/control) B) Individual from business ("Business @ the speed of thought") C) Individual from other individuals 1. online stalking ("The Net") (The Diagnosis Murder with an online killer) 2. ease of information retrieval (Geneology info from the Mormons online) D) Encrypted Communications 1. Government (WW 2 and Enigma) (NSA) 2. Business (EU claims USAUK steals trade secrets) 3. Individuals (terrorism and organized crime) E) Anonymity (Anonymous re-mailers)
2) Living your life online A) Online dating (some movie here) ("You've got mail") B) Telecommuting ("The Net")
2) Objectionable Material A) Racist speech (Hate sites) B) Dangerous information 1. Bomb making (Littleton) 2. Chemical, biological, or nuclear weapon plans (Aum Shinrikyo and the Tokyo sarin gas attack) C) Protecting children 1. Parental monitoring 2. Filtering software in the home (That teen who offers information on cracking filtering software) D) Schools (Recent Supreme court decisions defending the right's of High School students to have web pages insulting teachers/staff)
3) National Issues A) Filtering software in libaries (Supreme court cases) B) Legislating Content/Censorship (Communications Decency Act) (Old "Time" cover story with kid looking at computer) C) Hacking (Government web sites hacked) (Credit card numbers stolen) (Kevin Mitnick) (The Cuckoo's Egg) D) Intellectual Property (Warez) (MP3, Diamond Rio, and RIAA)
5) International Issues A) Use of filters 1. China (a lot) 2. Australia (some) 3. US (none) B) Information Warfare ( CIA and Kosovo ) ( Web site attacks in Kashmir )
4) Business A) Use of internet at work 1. Monitoring 2. Filtering 3. Liability 4. When you work at home. (Recent Harvard case) B) E-commerce ( Disintermediation and the "death" of retail) ( Getting perscription drugs online )
These are the types of main stream American topics in which your teacher is probably interested. Of course, I'm assuming that you're enrolled in an American High School.
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My dad had one of those books of projects for the great outdoors.
It included instructions on creating your own Tepee and lounge chairs made of rows of freshly cut saplings.
We would have had to clear an acre of forest to complete that project.
GnomeMeeting requires that you open no more than 17 ports for the "worst case" configuration.
= 0& faqpage=x269.html
If your firewall supports H.323 forwarding and you only want to make outbound calls, you're done.
Forward TCP port 1720 to your computer if you want to accept incomming calls.
If your gateway doesn't support H.323 forwarding:
Forward TCP port range [30000-30010]
Forward UDP port range [5000-5003]
99% of configurations are done here.
If you're using a gatekeeper, you must also forward UDP port range [5010-5013].
That's 17 ports in the worst case.
Here's the link in the FAQ.
http://www.gnomemeeting.org/index.php?rub=3&pos
When MSN Messenger starts, it opens an Internet Explorer window with some advertainment. If you click on any of the links in that window, they also open Internet Explorer. My default browser is Mozilla.
More height begets more money.
More money begets better health care.
Better health care begets a longer, healthier life.
So why won't doctor's help short people grow?
Logicreate is a similar free PHP tool kit that works with your existing PHP-4 installation.
http://logicreate.com/
Here are some sites created with it:
http://tapinternet.com/index.php/clients/
Ty uses it to handle all of the online ordering for Beanie Babies, which can exceed $10 Million/month.
One cool feature is the context sensitive search. Since it presents different views to customers, partners, and internal people, when the CEO searches for "Secret Project" he sees the secret project, but when customers search, they don't see it.
DISCLAIMER: I have no direct finanical involement with Logicreate or Tap Internet. Well, they once bought me pizza.
Since our family has dropped our land line and moved to cell phones exclusively, we've been blessed with very few telemarketing calls.
However, as more and more cell phone plans allow for free nights and weekends, the justification that telemarketers can't call you because you're paying for that air time wanes, and we're likely to see changes in telemarketing laws that allow calls to cell phones during those periods.
Docbook generates neat and professional HTML and PDF documents cross referenced as you require. It also does PostScript suitable for most professional printers.
http://www.docbook.org/
Like HTML, it supports embedding all media types, including images, videos, sounds, and Java Applets.
A government mandate requring manufacturers to recycle 50% of the parts of new televions will encourage manufacturers to continue making older, better understood, CRT based TVs.
New TVs based on LCD technology use much less than 1/2 the raw materials, but those components probably aren't as frequently recycled.
Therefore, consumers don't get the technology that they prefer, and more waste is generated. Thanks, government!
The answer: Charge a fee based on how nasty the stuff is to dispose of properly. Those components that get recycled are free of fees. The higher the fee - the more stuff that gets recycled - or not built in the first place, as people switch to other products not so environmentally damaging.
The problem with the answer: What would be the fee on a gallon of gas or a TV? No one can really be sure.
"At 30+ mph, the rolling effect would likely protect the head and neck (IF you are wearing a helmet)"
Even with a helmet, brain sheer can cause TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) or death. To visualize this, imagine holding a bowl full of half set jello and shaking it violently.
Becoming a human basket ball after an accident might cause more TBI rather than less. Unfortunately, the published articles didn't address this topic, but some additional head and neck protection (including possibly a cone like projection around the head and neck, as in "Snow Crash") may help riders walk away from potentially deadly accidents.
Fill out the form.
Press "Register by mail".
Get a stamp and envelope, and mail it to this address (Also on the form).
MAIL PREFERENCE SERVICE
ATTN: DEPT: 6538045
DIRECT MARKETING ASSOCIATION
P.O. BOX 282
CARMEL NY 10512
Repeat in 5 years.
Works well for me.
CAN-2002-0840 ... We thank Matthew Murphy for notification of this issue.
CAN-2002-0843 .... We thank David Wagner for the responsible notification and disclosure of this issue.
While you support stable technology such as AOLServer with TCL scripting, under what circumstances would you consider a fancy XML, Java, 3 tiered, buzzword compliant solution such as Cocoon?
Some days, I do read the newspaper:
Detroit News
Detroit Free Press
'Nuff said.
There are a lot of pseudo embedded DOS based systems out there. My previous employer had a remote access concentrator product in this category, and paid a non-trivial sum per box to Microsoft for DOS 5.0, a product that Microsoft refused to support. Unfortunately, I was unable to convince management to give Free DOS a try.
Has Free DOS made any progress in these types of markets? Are people using Free DOS to replace MS-DOS in these pseudo embedded systems?
This is an impossible security quagmire. You can't give out software to be run on someone else's system (with or
without source code), and prevent them from modifying it.
The trick to better security may be to engage the help of those who might otherwise thwart it. Many of the people who
are cleverly optimizing SETI@Home would be good people to design sophisticated mechanisms to detect and prevent
program modifications.
To what extent do you believe that software patents are defendable as a mechanism for the government to promote R&D that leads to greater wealth? What limits would you place on patents?
Alternatively, to what extent do you promote copyrights for the same purpose? What limits would you place on copyright? To what extent should copyright owners be allowed to restrict reverse engineering?
Did this study draw any conclusions regarding internet usage in other American ethnic groups? What were percentages of internet connectivity when normalized against household income? I'm not sure that the data in this artical allows us to paint a complete picture about internet access and ethnicity in America. For example, it may be that internet access appears to be doubling (percentage wise) every year for all ethnic groups, but income factors are creating a temporary lag in usage percentage among various ethnic groups. If that is true, then all American ethnic groups mentioned would achieve near 100% connectivity within 4 years. PS: Some of these comments are just downright racist.
If you're concerned about this issue, and are a voter in one of the following US states:
Arizona
Alaska
Georgia
Hawaii
Kansas
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
Montana
Maine
Missouri
Nevada
North Dakota
Oregon
Tennessee
Texas
South Carolina
Washington
West Virginia
Then you have a Senator on the Commerce Committee. Give them a phone call and let them know how you feel about this issue.
Arizona
U.S. Senator John McCain
241 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone number (202)224-2235
Fax number (202)228-2862
Alaska
SENATOR TED STEVENS
WASHINGTON, DC, OFFICE
522 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
UNITED STATES SENATE
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
PHONE -- (202) 224-3004
FAX -- (202) 224-2354
Michigan
Senator Spencer Abraham
329 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510
(202) 224-4822
michigan@abraham.senate.gov
Montana
Conrad Burns
Washington Office
187 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
202/224-2644
202/224-8594 fax
202-224-8616 TDD line
Washington
Slade Gorton
Washington, D.C. Office
730 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3441
(202) 224-9393 (fax)
Mississippi
Trent Lott
Washington, DC
SR-487
WASHINGTON, DC 20510
(202) 224-6253
FAX (202) 224-2262
Texas
Kay Bailey Hutcheson
Washington Office
284 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4304
202-224-5922
202-224-0776 (FAX)
202-224-5903 (TDD)
E-Mail: senator@hutchison.senate.gov
Maine
Olympia J. Snowe
Senator Olympia J. Snowe
250 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-1903
202-224-5344
In Maine, dial toll free: 1-800-432-1599
Missouri
John Ashcroft
Hart Senate Office Building
Room 316
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-6154
Fax: (202) 228-0998
Tennessee
Bill Frist
416 Russel Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, D.C.
Phone number: 202/224-3344
TDD number: 202/224-1911
e-mail address: senator_frist@frist.senate.gov
Mailing Address:
Senator Bill Frist
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-4205
Kansas
Sam Brownback
Senator Sam Brownback Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-6521
Fax: (202) 228-1265
South Carolina
Ernest F. Hollings
Washington, D.C.
125 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202)224-6121
Hawaii
Daniel K. Inouye
Washington D.C.
722 Hart Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-1102
202-224-3934
West Virginia
John D. Rockefeller IV
Washington, DC Office
531 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-6472
fax: (202) 224-7665
Massachusetts
John F. Kerry
Washington, DC
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510-2102
tel:(202) 224-2742
fax:(202) 224-8525
Louisiana
John B. Breaux
WASHINGTON, D.C.
516 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515-1803
(202) 224-4623
(202) 224-1986 (TDD)
HOURS: 9:00AM-6:00PM (EST)
Nevada
Richard H. Bryan
Washington, D.C.
269 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-6244
North Dakota
Byron L. Dorgan
WASHINGTON, D.C.
713 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-2551
Fax (202) 228-4466
Oregon
Ron Wyden
WASHINGTON, DC
516 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-5244
Georgia
Max Cleland
Washington Office
461 Senate Dirksen Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone (202) 224-3521
Fax (202) 224-0072
"My interpretation is that of the dangers encountered upon the development of the internet."
Sorry, but if I were your teacher, I'd claim that you focused on a narrow slice of the whole topic, and I probably wouldn't understand what you were talking about.
Here is a brief outline describing the kind of topics that I would expect your teacher to anticipate. Each topic tries to tie in with what your teacher has heard in relation to it. It may be a book, a movie, a historical event, or a potential threat.
1) Privacy
A) Individual from government
("Enemy of the State")
(Encryption export/control)
B) Individual from business
("Business @ the speed of thought")
C) Individual from other individuals
1. online stalking
("The Net")
(The Diagnosis Murder with an online killer)
2. ease of information retrieval
(Geneology info from the Mormons online)
D) Encrypted Communications
1. Government
(WW 2 and Enigma)
(NSA)
2. Business
(EU claims USAUK steals trade secrets)
3. Individuals
(terrorism and organized crime)
E) Anonymity
(Anonymous re-mailers)
2) Living your life online
A) Online dating
(some movie here)
("You've got mail")
B) Telecommuting
("The Net")
2) Objectionable Material
A) Racist speech
(Hate sites)
B) Dangerous information
1. Bomb making
(Littleton)
2. Chemical, biological, or nuclear weapon
plans
(Aum Shinrikyo and the Tokyo sarin gas
attack)
C) Protecting children
1. Parental monitoring
2. Filtering software in the home
(That teen who offers information on
cracking filtering software)
D) Schools
(Recent Supreme court decisions defending
the right's of High School students to
have web pages insulting teachers/staff)
3) National Issues
A) Filtering software in libaries
(Supreme court cases)
B) Legislating Content/Censorship
(Communications Decency Act)
(Old "Time" cover story with kid looking
at computer)
C) Hacking
(Government web sites hacked)
(Credit card numbers stolen)
(Kevin Mitnick)
(The Cuckoo's Egg)
D) Intellectual Property
(Warez)
(MP3, Diamond Rio, and RIAA)
5) International Issues
A) Use of filters
1. China (a lot)
2. Australia (some)
3. US (none)
B) Information Warfare
( CIA and Kosovo )
( Web site attacks in Kashmir )
4) Business
A) Use of internet at work
1. Monitoring
2. Filtering
3. Liability
4. When you work at home.
(Recent Harvard case)
B) E-commerce
( Disintermediation and the "death"
of retail)
( Getting perscription drugs online )
These are the types of main stream American topics in which your teacher is probably interested. Of course, I'm assuming that you're enrolled in an American High School.