Historically, it has been quite necessary to work in order to feed oneself. Hell, if you use a pedantic definition of work from physics, it seems more desirable to work to feed oneself than to not.
I imagine that laying a new contiguous stretch would often be cheaper than splicing splicing splicing (of course, you could space your breaks to make sure it wasn't), and if I didn't start looking for evidence of tampering after the 2nd break, I would after the 3rd.
Probably. Residential systems are pretty expensive and require a fair amount of ground contact (which is part of what drives the cost); industrial quantities would probably require enormous fields, to the point of impracticality.
Changes in solar output may take a long time to effect global temperature, but the daily cycle of heating and cooling, and seasons, are effects of the sun. I suppose those things average out for the globe, but it would really suck to go without the sun for even a couple of days.
I'm not real confident it would work, but that situation could easily be dealt with by requiring reasonable documentation of expenses (reasonable meaning, in part, that you don't get to charge yourself $1,000,000 per ounce for gold, or $5,000 for a person-hour) and only issuing patents to entities that developed them.
I'm not real concerned about the consequences of making the filing process somewhat burdensome, especially because some guy is his garage would be able to document actual time and materials fairly easily, but would have a hard time ginning up documentation for enormous dollar values.
The AC is confused though; researchers did all of that, they even have some sort of access to the randomly generated domain list (I get the impression that they have the algorithm, rather than doing some sort of playforward attack as is being discussed here) that is checked for downloads. The core issue is that there had not been anything to download, so all they were able to do was (potentially) confound the operators.
I would go so far as to say that they have been attacking the p2p vector, but since it requires the cooperation of the administrators of the compromised machines, they didn't get very far.
You are using revenue for 3 months which probably isn't the best figure (they have to spend some of the increase in revenues in order to obtain the revenues). If you compare the $388 million to the quarterly income, it is a bit more than 9%, compared to annual income, it is closer to 2.5%.
I wonder if a patent system that was locked to development cost (say, you get to recover up to 50 times your development cost and then the patent expires) would be more sane. It doesn't seem like this patent could have cost much more than a few hundred thousand dollars (at the absurd top), so how does it serve society to reward them with hundreds of millions of dollars (ultimately, this money is coming from Microsoft's customers...)?
The presence of a spammer TLD in an email would certainly provide strong, useful information for filters, but there really isn't any reason for DNS to bother resolving scam.pillz, it can just pop up a not found. So it creates yet another stupid hassle to deal with, but the entire $185,000 TLD is rendered completely impotent simply by dropping.pillz from your DNS.
Some level of forgiveness makes sense, but a TLD that is only used for scams is a lot less poisonous than giving a shady registrar rights to sell on a TLD with other legitimate users (like the current situation with.com,.cn, and so on).
There's an interesting article in a recent Scientific American (sorry, don't remember what issue, sometime in the last 8 months or so) that discusses research into how nicotine works. There is growing evidence that rather than actually triggering pleasure, the nicotine insinuates itself into the pleasure mechanism and makes it difficult to experience pleasure without taking nicotine.
So the line between physiological and psychological might be pretty blurry.
Make it stronger (and use a light roast, they generally have more caffeine), and drink ~40 fl. oz. (within a couple of hours). Note that Starbucks isn't particularly strong.
If that doesn't make you feel a little jittery or give you a 'rush', then you can say you don't get it, a cup or two a day probably wouldn't work for most people.
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If you have a radio band receiver that is as directional as the eye, I bet you could make a lot of money with it.
Sorry, English is not prescriptive.
Historically, it has been quite necessary to work in order to feed oneself. Hell, if you use a pedantic definition of work from physics, it seems more desirable to work to feed oneself than to not.
Indeed, they are a plague.
I imagine that laying a new contiguous stretch would often be cheaper than splicing splicing splicing (of course, you could space your breaks to make sure it wasn't), and if I didn't start looking for evidence of tampering after the 2nd break, I would after the 3rd.
Still, effort fail. If I think 5 people are going to read something that I am writing, I take the time to read it at least once myself.
Probably. Residential systems are pretty expensive and require a fair amount of ground contact (which is part of what drives the cost); industrial quantities would probably require enormous fields, to the point of impracticality.
I prevent car accidents by driving a picnic table.
Man, there actually isn't even time.
Changes in solar output may take a long time to effect global temperature, but the daily cycle of heating and cooling, and seasons, are effects of the sun. I suppose those things average out for the globe, but it would really suck to go without the sun for even a couple of days.
You should pay more for your history.
I'm not real confident it would work, but that situation could easily be dealt with by requiring reasonable documentation of expenses (reasonable meaning, in part, that you don't get to charge yourself $1,000,000 per ounce for gold, or $5,000 for a person-hour) and only issuing patents to entities that developed them.
I'm not real concerned about the consequences of making the filing process somewhat burdensome, especially because some guy is his garage would be able to document actual time and materials fairly easily, but would have a hard time ginning up documentation for enormous dollar values.
The AC is confused though; researchers did all of that, they even have some sort of access to the randomly generated domain list (I get the impression that they have the algorithm, rather than doing some sort of playforward attack as is being discussed here) that is checked for downloads. The core issue is that there had not been anything to download, so all they were able to do was (potentially) confound the operators.
I would go so far as to say that they have been attacking the p2p vector, but since it requires the cooperation of the administrators of the compromised machines, they didn't get very far.
You are using revenue for 3 months which probably isn't the best figure (they have to spend some of the increase in revenues in order to obtain the revenues). If you compare the $388 million to the quarterly income, it is a bit more than 9%, compared to annual income, it is closer to 2.5%.
I wonder if a patent system that was locked to development cost (say, you get to recover up to 50 times your development cost and then the patent expires) would be more sane. It doesn't seem like this patent could have cost much more than a few hundred thousand dollars (at the absurd top), so how does it serve society to reward them with hundreds of millions of dollars (ultimately, this money is coming from Microsoft's customers...)?
The presence of a spammer TLD in an email would certainly provide strong, useful information for filters, but there really isn't any reason for DNS to bother resolving scam.pillz, it can just pop up a not found. So it creates yet another stupid hassle to deal with, but the entire $185,000 TLD is rendered completely impotent simply by dropping .pillz from your DNS.
Some level of forgiveness makes sense, but a TLD that is only used for scams is a lot less poisonous than giving a shady registrar rights to sell on a TLD with other legitimate users (like the current situation with .com, .cn, and so on).
Just a smidgen further and you would be entirely incoherent.
150,000 strangers died today. Picking 5 of them and feeling bad about it is awful damn close to insanity.
I find it hard to believe that even half of existing porn domains would disappear.
As long as DNS providers are not obligated to honor every TLD, it will only be truly awful, not terribly, terribly, shitty.
Apparently. Or have they started showing a profit?
Dude, you would complain about a blowjob.
There's an interesting article in a recent Scientific American (sorry, don't remember what issue, sometime in the last 8 months or so) that discusses research into how nicotine works. There is growing evidence that rather than actually triggering pleasure, the nicotine insinuates itself into the pleasure mechanism and makes it difficult to experience pleasure without taking nicotine.
So the line between physiological and psychological might be pretty blurry.
There is at least a possibility that the caffeine is ruining the sleep that you are getting.
For me, I end up feeling less rested the next day if I consume much caffeine after about noon.
You mean the stuff that isn't in the PET bottles used for commercially bottled water?
Make it stronger (and use a light roast, they generally have more caffeine), and drink ~40 fl. oz. (within a couple of hours). Note that Starbucks isn't particularly strong.
If that doesn't make you feel a little jittery or give you a 'rush', then you can say you don't get it, a cup or two a day probably wouldn't work for most people.