Point green types who are anti-space at this. After all, it's not like money spent on space was shoveled into rockets and fired to Mars. (No comment on the proposed manned mission.) Think of all the work on light-weight instruments that perform under hostile conditions--Turn them around and monitor the environment on Earth. We'd better learn how other planets work, because this one didn't come with a man page!
It's based on the 1919 Nickle Resolution (and not Trudeau at all, oops), and it's all very very debatable (Scroll down a little.) In practical terms, the government of Canada should be told and approve (which it probably won't). Tony Blair's government seen fit to ignore that. (I'm shocked.)
But exclusive if you're a Canadian. It's all political. It might be possible if the Canadian parliament agreed, but that won't happen. It caused a serious flap with Whitehall when Conrad Black was lorded, and he renounced his Canadian citizenship.
I suspect that this was passed by Pierre Trudeau so that John Diefenbaker couldn't be knighted, but I have a nasty imagination.
I almost expect to see spam offering them like doctorates from "prestigious unaccedited institutions". Of course, as a Canadian, I can't be knighted. (The top-downsized Lord Conrad Black renounced his citizenship.) In defence of Sir Bill, he and his wife probably give far more to charity than Lord Black.
Bill may be a knight, but he would have to work at it to becomes an offical samurai like Karl Beattie: "Now he has his own Samurai armour and sword and has sworn to protect his emperor with his life."
Wrong flashback. I was thinking of when Vir said it in In the Shadow of Zha'dum. Not that the head on a pike bit matches too well. I'm sure he's not really evil, just.. oh wait, incomming message...
Message to bgates@mikerowesoft.com blocked by challenge/response spam protection system. Please answer the following question and your email will be passed to your destination:
That would not work, as the spammers would just set up their own sendmail servers and pump out spam to their heart's content.
Many spammers already have zombie proxy farms to send their email. All they have to do is upgrade their trojan software and they can distribute the calculation. The second or two of calculation might be noticable on 0wn3d boxes, but if people didn't notice the heavy traffic before, what are the odds?
It is unfortunate that our "representatives" in the federal government, instead of fighting spam, have instead gone out and legalized it.
Keep in mind that Microsoft was one of the companies that lobbied for the current US CAN-SPAM law. Perhaps this is how spam will be eliminated: In two years, it will no longer be called spam.
In the "filters, expensive computation for e-mail and the digital equivalent to stamps" bit, his first solution is actually a puzzle/challenge-response system rather than filters.
One, which he called human interaction, would send a puzzle back to the
sender. The puzzle would be designed so that only a human could solve it.
The e-mail would be accepted only if the puzzle were solved.
None of his solutions are very new or stunning. All of these have been subjected to the Hash of Death on Slashdot before. I'd say step one should be to fix all those trojaned boxes acting as spammer proxies. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Gates?
On the page, there's an ad graphic that's a bit distracting: Behind the woman and the Harrisdirect text, there's something large, pink, out of focus, curved, with a smaller rose-coloured something in lower-middle. Just what is that supposed to be?
The MOC image of the Spirit lander and its landing site was acquired using a new technique that was pioneered by the MGS project in 2003. Called "cPROTO" (for Pitch and Roll Only Targeted Observation with planetary motion compensation), the approach allows MOC, which normally takes pictures 1.5 meters (5 feet) per pixel to 12 meters (40 feet) per pixel, to acquire images with a higher resolution. By pitching the MGS spacecraft at a rate faster than it orbits around Mars, and moving it in a way that compensates for the rotation of the planet, MOC is able to obtain images with a down-track resolution of about 50 cm/pixel (~20 inches/pixel), although the cross-track resolution remains ~1.5 m/pixel (5 ft/pixel). These images have a better signal-to-noise ratio than typical 1.5 m/pixel MOC images, as well. This technique allows the lander and other details not normally visible in a full-resolution MOC image to be seen.
The Mars Global Surveyor is sending back pictures of Spirit, the other bits, 1st through 4th bounces, the other bounces, and the other other bounces...
They're also trying to get some shots of Beagle 2 to see what happened.
I remember when it was going from 8 bit to 16 bit. Since most applications were manipulating 8 bit characters, was 16 bit really going to provide a speed advantage, and was it worth converting a large installed software base? Weren't the extra bits just for bragging rights?
More registers and huge amounts of ram usually carried the argument back then too. I rarely use my 3 MHz 8085 these days.:^)
The story was filed Jan. 23, 2004. 01:00 AM (EST?) so possibly at that time they were down 3% and it picked up later.
Why would Reuters put such a negative bias on it? (Or at least allow Reed Stevenson to do so.) I don't follow financial reporting, so I don't have any correction factor to apply. Time to see how other reports are spinning it?
I've always wanted to see the same constellations from a planet other than Earth. Dunno why, just seems significant to me.
For fun, you could always take a trip to the opposite latitude (north/south) on Earth. The Moon will be the right angle in the sky, but upside-down and going backwards. Most of the constellations will be different and the ones that aren't will be upside-down.
I don't know about you, but I'd hold on to something solid before looking up.
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They checked Anakin for miticlorines and found the highest level ever, but they forgot to check for whiney, D'OH!
You can get a better look at it if you copy/paste the picture into an editor and balance the gamma up a bit. Umm, what's on the computer to the right?
He's probably cursing and swearing because this page is being displayed in the browser. (Look closer.)
Point green types who are anti-space at this. After all, it's not like money spent on space was shoveled into rockets and fired to Mars. (No comment on the proposed manned mission.) Think of all the work on light-weight instruments that perform under hostile conditions--Turn them around and monitor the environment on Earth. We'd better learn how other planets work, because this one didn't come with a man page!
It's based on the 1919 Nickle Resolution (and not Trudeau at all, oops), and it's all very very debatable (Scroll down a little.) In practical terms, the government of Canada should be told and approve (which it probably won't). Tony Blair's government seen fit to ignore that. (I'm shocked.)
I suspect that this was passed by Pierre Trudeau so that John Diefenbaker couldn't be knighted, but I have a nasty imagination.
Were he Canadian, he couldn't be knighted at all. He would have to settle for an Order of Canada.
Bill may be a knight, but he would have to work at it to becomes an offical samurai like Karl Beattie: "Now he has his own Samurai armour and sword and has sworn to protect his emperor with his life."
In my experience, hematite usually indicates the presence of New Age shops with all those polished stones.
I thought I got it rather spot on. :^P (I guess that makes me the millionth monkey?)
Many spammers already have zombie proxy farms to send their email. All they have to do is upgrade their trojan software and they can distribute the calculation. The second or two of calculation might be noticable on 0wn3d boxes, but if people didn't notice the heavy traffic before, what are the odds?
Keep in mind that Microsoft was one of the companies that lobbied for the current US CAN-SPAM law. Perhaps this is how spam will be eliminated: In two years, it will no longer be called spam.
From this article:
None of his solutions are very new or stunning. All of these have been subjected to the Hash of Death on Slashdot before. I'd say step one should be to fix all those trojaned boxes acting as spammer proxies. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Gates?And yes, I did read the article .. mostly ..
Ahh! So you're saying that while the Spirit is willing, the flash is weak?
Argh! I thought I added the link (Preview is for whmips!)
They're also trying to get some shots of Beagle 2 to see what happened.
More registers and huge amounts of ram usually carried the argument back then too. I rarely use my 3 MHz 8085 these days. :^)
Why would Reuters put such a negative bias on it? (Or at least allow Reed Stevenson to do so.) I don't follow financial reporting, so I don't have any correction factor to apply. Time to see how other reports are spinning it?
This Reuters story in the Toronto Star puts a different spin on the numbers. I assume that they're both using the same numbers?
For fun, you could always take a trip to the opposite latitude (north/south) on Earth. The Moon will be the right angle in the sky, but upside-down and going backwards. Most of the constellations will be different and the ones that aren't will be upside-down.
I don't know about you, but I'd hold on to something solid before looking up.
At a guess, "ping water.mars"?
Of course, it was probably the Venusian railway network where Elron Hubbard claimed he was almost hit by a train...