U-235 is not "highly radioactive" - if it were, then we wouldn't have any left around. Highly radioactive sources quickly decay. The problem with fission is more the neutrons which hit all the surrounding equipment; that all then becomes radioactive.
I would agree with him in one regard - a compander and an equalizer will only severely distort the music. Every band in an equalizer that is moved from null will cause phase distortions; very grating to listen to if your system is linear enough to pass them through. If it's not, then there are other problems you need to attend to first! Macintosh amps are pretty, but if you want quality, get Levinson or similar.
One correction to your otherwise excellent post: there is a LOT of commercial support, more than I expected. Check out the page at OpenBSD dedicated to listing the support by country
Privacy became a US constitutional level issue with the Roe v. Wade decision. That's where an imputed right of privacy was originally made up. So whether you think Roe v. Wade was an abomination or a cause for celebration, that's where US constitutional privacy guarantees come from - the justices claimed it was "implicit", and their decision made it explicit (unless it's overturned some day).
Jack Ryan was not mentioned by name in Rainbow Six; apparently the messy divorce Mr. Clancy was going through involved intellectual property rights on the name "Jack Ryan", so his novel at the time didn't mention him once by name.
They're generated using the MAC address of your NIC (if one is present); so reading the GUID table would be a way to track computers - an ID like Intel's much disliked CPU ID was.
If you'd love to check it out, but the links on cvshome.org point to wincvs.org for TortoiseCVS, and that domain, according to NSI whois:
Record expires on 08-Mar-2001.
So try this link instead, it works!
Set up a box on your domain with phony data, but setup identically to their lame machine. Publish information about "see how easy it is to break into this poorly set up box" to all your current, prospective, and lost customers. Do this as a new regular service, with a new exploit featured each month/two months/whatever. Encourage your customers to break in following instructions, then mention that you know none of your current customers would be vulnerable to this.
That's a clean way to do it without honking them off. And you might get a lot of business from other lost customers as a bonus.
RAMBUS is going to appeal? Heck, Infineon ought to appeal the Virginia limitation of damages cap - shouldn't the cap be {damages + legal fees(trebled)} just to keep these bozos from frivolous suits?
He says "The goal of the G.P.L. is sweeping up all of the intellectual property that has been contributed" and "people aren't very sophisticated about the implications of what open source means" and "This viral aspect of the G.P.L. poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organization making use of it". Okay so he doesn't like the GPL - but MS used BSD's TCP stack, so I guess the BSD license is groovy. Funny, he didn't mention that in his speech.
Walid's patent is filed in July 1999; was IETF working before that time is the key question
Look at whois from internic.net & see the trail:
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I'm sure this will never be mod-ed up unless the mod's are more openminded than Taco - but here's what happened to MS, and it wasn't because of their network architecture - and this attack could have happened to any site on the net.
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the.com,.net, and.org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BUT.LUNIX.SUCKS- BY BIRTH.ARTISTICCHEESE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD. CO M
MICROSOFT.COM.SE.FAIT.HAX0RIZER.PAR.TOUT.LE.ZOY. OR G
MICROSOFT.COM.OWNED.BY.MAT.HACKSWARE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.N-AIME.BILL.QUE.QUAND.IL.N-EST.PAS .N U
MICROSOFT.COM.MUST.STOP.TAKEDRUGS.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SOON.GOING.TO.THE.DEATHCORPORAT IO N.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SECRETLY.RUN.BY.ILLUMINATI.TERR OR ISTS.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOTHING.BUT.A.MONSTER.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NO.MATCH.FOR.THE.UEBER-GEEKS.AT .J IMPHILLIPS.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BUT.LINUX.SUCKS-FOREVER.ART IS TICCHEESE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.BORING.COMPARED.TO.TEENEXTREME. CO M
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.AT.THE.MERCY.OF.DETRIMENT.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM.INSPIRES.COPYCAT.WANNABE.SUBVERSIV ES.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.NO.LINUXCLUE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.HACKED.BY.PSYKOJOKO.ON.A.ROOT-NETW OR K.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.HACKED.BY.HACKSWARE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.GUTS.NL
MICROSOFT.COM.FAIT.VRAIMENT.DES.LOGICIELS.A.TROI S. FRANCS.DOUZE.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM.ER.IKKE.NO.I.FORHOLD.TIL.LATHANS.N ET
MICROSOFT.COM.AINT.WORTH.SHIT.KLUGE.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:29:23 EST
The Registry database contains ONLY.COM,.NET,.ORG,.EDU domains and
Registrars.
Back in 1986, Argonne National Labs tested an inherently safe reactor; one that easily survived the Chernobyl and the Three Mile Island error conditions without human intervention, and without any negative consequences. It uses metallic Uranium for the fuel, instead of UF6 (Uranium HexaFluoride). Read more about this important development at Argonne's site yourself (look for EBR-II on the page).
If you want expert opinion on the projectors, I recommend the Projector Expert web site. In particular, see the details in the article about upcoming 2048x1536 displays - and read some of his past reviews about the TI and other display systems. Fascinating reading.
No, it's.GOV - they asked and helped the government go after M$ for their own commercial gain, and therefore they're tied to the government now. So it's.GOV for them!
According to his own page, Vinod Valloppillil is still working at M$, now on the Proxy Server team. Just one more thing easily checked if you look on a search site. Come on guys, it only takes a second or three...
I was told by GTE (now Verizon) that my home was too far for DSL. Three times. So I called Covad instead, and through my great local ISP (oz.net), I got signed up. Then GTE put in a line with a half-ringer on the circuit, so it tested bad from the CO. Fixing that was supposed to be quick, but GTE took about 6 weeks and nothing happened. So I got in touch with the state regulatory agency that determines the rates GTE can charge, and lodged a complaint. The next day, three GTE droids with a supervisor showed up and fixed the line. The day after that, Covad came in, and in 30 minutes I was up and flying. Covad and oz.net have been 100% reliable so far (six months or so).
So the bottom line advice is: the states grant monopoly positions to the Verizons and other local providers, in return for setting their rates. So go lodge formal complaints with the people who set their rates. Here in Washington State, USWorst was told to REDUCE their rates on ISDN a while ago due to the complaints and rotten service they'd provided.
"Radio stations don't infringe on copyright". True, radio stations pay do however significant amounts of royalties (don't know the amount myself, I was a techie and not on the financial side) through BMI and ASCAP every year. When I was in radio, we had to record every piece of music played for a week - including backgrounds for commercials, segments we looped for news intros, etc. These were then used to calculate our royalty payments for the year.
Just adopt the English concept of "loser pays". If you file a suit because you weigh 400 pounds and a 150 pound labelled ladder broke, and the suit is lost, you pay both sides' attorney fees. IMHO this would keep a lot of cases out of court - lawyers would take cases only where their client was willing to pay (i.e., had a principle to go for) or the defendant was pretty clearly in the wrong.
Soap Lake, WA does exist, the zip code is 98851- look it up on the USPS web site if you're skeptical. Red Robin is very near the MS campus, and is very popular with MicroSerfs.
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U-235 is not "highly radioactive" - if it were, then we wouldn't have any left around. Highly radioactive sources quickly decay. The problem with fission is more the neutrons which hit all the surrounding equipment; that all then becomes radioactive.
I would agree with him in one regard - a compander and an equalizer will only severely distort the music. Every band in an equalizer that is moved from null will cause phase distortions; very grating to listen to if your system is linear enough to pass them through. If it's not, then there are other problems you need to attend to first! Macintosh amps are pretty, but if you want quality, get Levinson or similar.
One correction to your otherwise excellent post: there is a LOT of commercial support, more than I expected. Check out the page at OpenBSD dedicated to listing the support by country
Privacy became a US constitutional level issue with the Roe v. Wade decision. That's where an imputed right of privacy was originally made up. So whether you think Roe v. Wade was an abomination or a cause for celebration, that's where US constitutional privacy guarantees come from - the justices claimed it was "implicit", and their decision made it explicit (unless it's overturned some day).
Jack Ryan was not mentioned by name in Rainbow Six; apparently the messy divorce Mr. Clancy was going through involved intellectual property rights on the name "Jack Ryan", so his novel at the time didn't mention him once by name.
They're generated using the MAC address of your NIC (if one is present); so reading the GUID table would be a way to track computers - an ID like Intel's much disliked CPU ID was.
If you'd love to check it out, but the links on cvshome.org point to wincvs.org for TortoiseCVS, and that domain, according to NSI whois: Record expires on 08-Mar-2001. So try this link instead, it works!
That's a clean way to do it without honking them off. And you might get a lot of business from other lost customers as a bonus.
RAMBUS is going to appeal? Heck, Infineon ought to appeal the Virginia limitation of damages cap - shouldn't the cap be {damages + legal fees(trebled)} just to keep these bozos from frivolous suits?
Walid's patent is filed in July 1999; was IETF working before that time is the key question
I'm sure this will never be mod-ed up unless the mod's are more openminded than Taco - but here's what happened to MS, and it wasn't because of their network architecture - and this attack could have happened to any site on the net.
.com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
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. CO M
. OR G
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R OR ISTS.NET
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.COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BUT.LUNIX.SUCKS
MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD
MICROSOFT.COM.SE.FAIT.HAX0RIZER.PAR.TOUT.LE.ZOY
MICROSOFT.COM.OWNED.BY.MAT.HACKSWARE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.N-AIME.BILL.QUE.QUAND.IL.N-EST.PA
MICROSOFT.COM.MUST.STOP.TAKEDRUGS.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SOON.GOING.TO.THE.DEATHCORPORA
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SECRETLY.RUN.BY.ILLUMINATI.TER
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOTHING.BUT.A.MONSTER.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NO.MATCH.FOR.THE.UEBER-GEEKS.A
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BUT.LINUX.SUCKS-FOREVER.AR
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.BORING.COMPARED.TO.TEENEXTREME
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.AT.THE.MERCY.OF.DETRIMENT.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM.INSPIRES.COPYCAT.WANNABE.SUBVERSI
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.NO.LINUXCLUE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.HACKED.BY.PSYKOJOKO.ON.A.ROOT-NET
MICROSOFT.COM.HACKED.BY.HACKSWARE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.GUTS.NL
MICROSOFT.COM.FAIT.VRAIMENT.DES.LOGICIELS.A.TRO
MICROSOFT.COM.ER.IKKE.NO.I.FORHOLD.TIL.LATHANS.
MICROSOFT.COM.AINT.WORTH.SHIT.KLUGE.ORG
MICROSOFT.COM
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:29:23 EST
The Registry database contains ONLY
Registrars.
Back in 1986, Argonne National Labs tested an inherently safe reactor; one that easily survived the Chernobyl and the Three Mile Island error conditions without human intervention, and without any negative consequences. It uses metallic Uranium for the fuel, instead of UF6 (Uranium HexaFluoride). Read more about this important development at Argonne's site yourself (look for EBR-II on the page).
Here is the original documentation on gopher.
And even has HTML interfaces. Try NASA's archieplex for example. or this one. Or try another or yet another.
No, it's .GOV - they asked and helped the government go after M$ for their own commercial gain, and therefore they're tied to the government now. So it's .GOV for them!
According to his own page, Vinod Valloppillil is still working at M$, now on the Proxy Server team. Just one more thing easily checked if you look on a search site. Come on guys, it only takes a second or three...
I was told by GTE (now Verizon) that my home was too far for DSL. Three times. So I called Covad instead, and through my great local ISP (oz.net), I got signed up. Then GTE put in a line with a half-ringer on the circuit, so it tested bad from the CO. Fixing that was supposed to be quick, but GTE took about 6 weeks and nothing happened. So I got in touch with the state regulatory agency that determines the rates GTE can charge, and lodged a complaint. The next day, three GTE droids with a supervisor showed up and fixed the line. The day after that, Covad came in, and in 30 minutes I was up and flying. Covad and oz.net have been 100% reliable so far (six months or so). So the bottom line advice is: the states grant monopoly positions to the Verizons and other local providers, in return for setting their rates. So go lodge formal complaints with the people who set their rates. Here in Washington State, USWorst was told to REDUCE their rates on ISDN a while ago due to the complaints and rotten service they'd provided.
"Radio stations don't infringe on copyright". True, radio stations pay do however significant amounts of royalties (don't know the amount myself, I was a techie and not on the financial side) through BMI and ASCAP every year. When I was in radio, we had to record every piece of music played for a week - including backgrounds for commercials, segments we looped for news intros, etc. These were then used to calculate our royalty payments for the year.
Just adopt the English concept of "loser pays". If you file a suit because you weigh 400 pounds and a 150 pound labelled ladder broke, and the suit is lost, you pay both sides' attorney fees. IMHO this would keep a lot of cases out of court - lawyers would take cases only where their client was willing to pay (i.e., had a principle to go for) or the defendant was pretty clearly in the wrong.
Soap Lake, WA does exist, the zip code is 98851- look it up on the USPS web site if you're skeptical. Red Robin is very near the MS campus, and is very popular with MicroSerfs.