Erm, I thought this was an article about a standards office allowing people to have their own unicode character. I had my credit card out ready to buy one...then the site appeared.
Guess it depends on where your chair is. I know I keep mine at the bottom of the well and I've sustained some nasty injuries which I blame on the G's and not on the fact that my head bounced of the wall 14 times.
There's actually one of these jobbies in the UK that someone has bought and opened to the public. I visited two years ago and it's really fascinating. This particular one is diguised as a cottage (with a suspicious looking free-standing antenae in the garden. There were still the old computers (severely old), gas masks etc.
I wouldn't fancy living there though. The water tanks and sanitation system looked questionable and it lacked any kind of homeliness. The prime minister's quarters was the best in there and was still rank.
Re:Leonard was also interested in Cryonics.
on
RIP: Leonard Zubkoff
·
· Score: 1
Cryonics does work -- I have fresh ice cubes every day.
I get kicks out of the latest PC games and I'm 25.
Games are more impressive to look at now but the long-time appeal has gone. Or maybe I don't have the time to play them for days on end any more so it just seems that way.
Every era has its classics. Just because I missed the early console games (I was too young to appreciate them) doesn't mean they were not classics.
A classic can be defined as a game with long lasting appeal that added something revolutionary to the field. Many classics even defined a whole genre of gaming.
Then what is to stop a company hiring a team of scapegoats? Cheap, deposable workers, possibly from less advantaged backgrounds just to blame for a company's wrong doings. This is exactly what happens now when things go wrong for a company so why wouldn't it continue with personal responsibility.
Just make the company fines bigger. A company is a being, it's just like a person. It cares selfishly about itself like a person does, as it is the aggregate of its workers. If a company is at risk of a substantial fine (20% of its worth say) then it will be less inclined to break the law as the managers will punish the wrong doers more severely and improve the processes.
If a company can shift the blame onto an individual when it is in trouble then it will do exactly that. A company shouldn't be allowed to do this. It is at fault for any of its employee's actions.
But the Rabbit phones were billed as an alternative to phoneboxes at a time when mobile phones were not so prolific. In this context, the fact they cannot receive calls is not that important.
I remember these quite well. The idea was that as people bought the phones, they would get a base station they plug in at home that anyone nearby could also use. Unfortunately nobody bought them, so there was no reception, so nobody bought them...
I still occasionally see the signs around. There was one at a train station. Think it might be City Thameslink but I could be wrong.
> When its uneconomical to send spam, people will > stop sending it
This is not true. As the rate of spam drops, the response rate to the spam that does get through rises, as does its value. So basically, adding filters makes it economical to send spam to the few market survivors who will be able cover their costs and make a profit on the amount they charge their clients.
NPR clearly state that they do not record any of their visitors personal information:
Like all other Web servers, NPR's Web server automatically creates log files for each visitor who accesses our site. These "access logs" allow us to make our site more useful to our visitors. The access logs do NOT record a visitor's name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, or any other personally-identifying information.
However, I visited www.npr.org/mycreditcardnumberis45431234567890andm ynameisBobRivers and I'm pretty sure my details are being recorded;)
You could of course make a device dependant to its owner by powering it with blood. A sensor would continuously authenticate the DNA.
Of course, if you created a global database of DNA you could eventually find the other 1 in 100,000 (or whatever) that share your DNA, but that's still quite good authentication.
It would also solve the flat battery problem: eat a banana.
If we stop and think for two seconds I believe the answer is quite obvious. It is likely, though without having some inside information I cannot know, that they are using the number of visits to these sites as a way of billing their clients for what is effectively 'portal' services. Microsoft increases traffic to these sites, the sites gain more advertising revenue and so pay Microsoft per visitor. Of course it could they are using the information for other purposes....:)
Slashdot Mirror
Erm, I thought this was an article about a standards office allowing people to have their own unicode character. I had my credit card out ready to buy one...then the site appeared.
Guess it depends on where your chair is. I know I keep mine at the bottom of the well and I've sustained some nasty injuries which I blame on the G's and not on the fact that my head bounced of the wall 14 times.
There's actually one of these jobbies in the UK that someone has bought and opened to the public. I visited two years ago and it's really fascinating. This particular one is diguised as a cottage (with a suspicious looking free-standing antenae in the garden. There were still the old computers (severely old), gas masks etc.
I wouldn't fancy living there though. The water tanks and sanitation system looked questionable and it lacked any kind of homeliness. The prime minister's quarters was the best in there and was still rank.
Cryonics does work -- I have fresh ice cubes every day.
I get kicks out of the latest PC games and I'm 25.
Games are more impressive to look at now but the long-time appeal has gone. Or maybe I don't have the time to play them for days on end any more so it just seems that way.
Every era has its classics. Just because I missed the early console games (I was too young to appreciate them) doesn't mean they were not classics.
A classic can be defined as a game with long lasting appeal that added something revolutionary to the field. Many classics even defined a whole genre of gaming.
Then what is to stop a company hiring a team of scapegoats? Cheap, deposable workers, possibly from less advantaged backgrounds just to blame for a company's wrong doings. This is exactly what happens now when things go wrong for a company so why wouldn't it continue with personal responsibility.
Just make the company fines bigger. A company is a being, it's just like a person. It cares selfishly about itself like a person does, as it is the aggregate of its workers. If a company is at risk of a substantial fine (20% of its worth say) then it will be less inclined to break the law as the managers will punish the wrong doers more severely and improve the processes.
If a company can shift the blame onto an individual when it is in trouble then it will do exactly that. A company shouldn't be allowed to do this. It is at fault for any of its employee's actions.
But the Rabbit phones were billed as an alternative to phoneboxes at a time when mobile phones were not so prolific. In this context, the fact they cannot receive calls is not that important.
I still occasionally see the signs around. There was one at a train station. Think it might be City Thameslink but I could be wrong.
> When its uneconomical to send spam, people will
> stop sending it
This is not true. As the rate of spam drops, the response rate to the spam that does get through rises, as does its value. So basically, adding filters makes it economical to send spam to the few market survivors who will be able cover their costs and make a profit on the amount they charge their clients.
Just tell them to fork off.
I'm sorry, but it would be too totally confusing when the whole world adapts metric time apart from the U.S.
However, I visited www.npr.org/mycreditcardnumberis45431234567890and
It didn't work? Must have been DoS'd then. ;)
Of course, if you created a global database of DNA you could eventually find the other 1 in 100,000 (or whatever) that share your DNA, but that's still quite good authentication.
It would also solve the flat battery problem: eat a banana.
If we stop and think for two seconds I believe the answer is quite obvious. It is likely, though without having some inside information I cannot know, that they are using the number of visits to these sites as a way of billing their clients for what is effectively 'portal' services. Microsoft increases traffic to these sites, the sites gain more advertising revenue and so pay Microsoft per visitor. Of course it could they are using the information for other purposes....:)