A rootkit can hide its activity, so this isn't as good as a firewall, but it is easier, and you'll at least be able to figure out if you have a non-rootkit infection.
There are lots of pharmaceutical stimulants that meet your 'taken in moderate doses, does not pose a risk to human health' standard. And there are lots of people that ingest far more caffeine than is healthy, and a big part of the reason they are doing it is to avoid the withdrawal symptoms that come with stopping its use.
Caffeine is convenient because it is hard to accidentally overdose with it and it is relatively easy to discontinue consumption of it, but it isn't risk free.
And where did anybody suggest not listening to doctors? I like to listen to them, and then try to understand why the said so(because of things like ulcers being primarily infection related rather than stress related and such).
Actually, I was reaching more for one persons behavioral deficiency being another persons within the range of normal behavior. Doctors are more informed about what average behavior is and more informed about the effects and consequences of taking various drugs, but they are still making a value judgment about what 'normal' behavior is, because even though they pretty much start from the average, they still decide how much deviation they are going to call normal(and there isn't some concrete, graduated scale that can be used to measure behavior, they are perceptive, so there isn't any definition of a standard deviation).
It seems like it would work well as a complement to cameras, so that you didn't need to have as many cameras to keep track of things, and that you could spend less time worrying about the cameras, as you could use the motion tracking to key into interesting time periods in the camera footage.
And the identity obfuscation you mention would work, but it would require both participants to be willing participants, so it is still somewhat helpful if something goes down.
My media player of choice, Foobar 2000, uses less than 2% of the power of one of the cores in this 18 month old laptop. It doesn't need to be parallelized. Sometimes, it is handy to take music stored in one format and convert it to another format. That is easy to parallelize, just launch a bunch of tasks(threads or processes, whatever), one for each song until you don't have any cores left.
How many general programming tasks fall in between, where they don't run fast enough on one core and don't naturally break into units that can be split across cores? I'm not a professional software developer, but I don't think there are very many of those tasks that need to be stuffed into the 'general programming' category.
Dishwashers and Laundry machines are technology that does all the work and people more or less just watch them. They are fantastic. I don't want to go back to the days where most people could only afford one or two shirts, and only afford to have them cleaned a couple of times a month(maybe...).
Surely that isn't the kind of thing you are talking about, but it is the kind of thing that is going to come out of the tireless march of technology. I am sure that there will be lots of people that wrap themselves in a ridiculous cocoon of technology, but most people will use technology the same way they have used it for the last 5,000 years -- to spend less time doing things they don't enjoy and more time doing things they enjoy or find rewarding in some other way.
It depends a lot on how hard it is raining. I guess it might make the choice more difficult if you could only get the umbrella by having it glued to your hand, because short of that, you could just chuck it on the ground when you didn't need it anymore.
Are the populated parts of Canada more sparsely populated than the populated parts of the United States? (my impression is that Canada is slightly more urbanized than the US, basically because of the Yukon)
The make a net income in excess of $1 billion a month. They would recover from a disastrous deal in less than two years(because they have $19 billion in cash; 19+24=43, close enough to the offer of $45 billion)
They are trying to acquire Yahoo because they think it is a cheap way to gain revenue and they think they can operate Yahoo more effectively than Yahoo is currently operating Yahoo. Maybe they can't improve Yahoo all that much, but they still wouldn't lose all of the $45 billion asking price, so they are willing to try.
Sure. If I had a $1000 TV and a $1000 audio system, I wouldn't hesitate to spend $50 extra to feel better about the quality of the cable I was buying, but all of the 'magic' properties that get attributed to analog cables get even worse when they get tried out on cables for digital applications -- "higher ones", "lower zeros", "doesn't slow your bits down", and so on, when all you need to know is that the cable meets the specifications for whatever standard it claims to meet the specifications for("Never pay more than Monster prices" isn't really bad start, they care enough about the marketability of their name to make stuff that works and they also overcharge, so anything more expensive is even more full of bull).
The Flickr videos are limited to 90 seconds. I would imagine that they are offering it as part of being the 'destination' for media captured with a digital camera, rather than a system for distributing video of any and all sorts.
(The walled garden aspect is a bit of a bummer, but Flickr and many other sites offer pretty reasonable APIs that allow for the extraction of most of the content of a user account, and people write scripts to pull from one service and push to another all the time. The situation could be better, but it isn't horrible.)
The requirement for ethanol in fuel is actually related to the concerns about the toxicity of MTBE, the oxidizer that ethanol replaced. The use of corn ethanol as a gasoline replacement, rather than as an additive, is almost purely a result of lobbying and poor government policy, it is not a well reasoned response to concerns about CO2 emissions.
Some anyway. There are lots of other inputs, and much of the price of liquor is simply product placement, not something that actually reflects cost. For reference, nominal energy prices have increased quite a bit in the last few years and it has hardly shown up in retail prices.
They make local market dents all the time. The cumulative effect is pretty much nil, but I'm sure that they impact prices and availability in a given city or region fairly often.
I don't think it is misleading at all. It might be a little esoteric(because most people don't have any prior knowledge of the nominal power of the sun or a good grasp of just how short the pulse is), but it doesn't draw the reader into a poor conclusion, it just leaves the poor conclusion available.
I generally take "brighter...the surface of the sun" to refer to intensity and to naturally refer to the output for some area.
(Your point that it doesn't mean very much stands, but it is kind of neat that we pathetic humans can touch the power of the universe, so I understand why they refer to it)
I'm simply saying that as a user of your system, I would likely spend much more time 'fighting' spam than I would ever end up saving as a result of my efforts, so I don't think I would end up staying a user(and I think most people would react similarly). So, to say it another way, I think that the (figurative) costs outweigh the (figurative) benefits, even accounting for warm fuzzy altruistic feelings from fighting the good fight.
And I'm not sure that your comparing all subprime mortgage writers to slave traffickers really falls into the 'quibble' category.
See, the 'greed' of oil companies doesn't stop tomorrow. They want to profit today, tomorrow, and forever.
Also, OPEC would probably like the price of oil to go down, they don't like it when people get all hot and bothered about moving away from oil as an input, and nothing gets people hot and bothered like high energy prices, but, for instance, Saudi Arabia doesn't really have a whole lot of extra capacity that they can bring online, so they can't really do anything about the price.
You are proposing increasing the price of dealing with the spam, and I don't see that it would lead to a significant reduction(because there are lots of people doing the things you are talking about already, and still).
And I would point out that there is nothing intrinsically bad about a sub prime mortgage. It allows someone who wants a house and is willing to pay a high price for it to participate in the market. They were heartily misused by nearly the entire industry, but that doesn't imply anything about any individual mortgage.
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Short of a firewall, you can use something like TCPView to look for unexplained network activity:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx
A rootkit can hide its activity, so this isn't as good as a firewall, but it is easier, and you'll at least be able to figure out if you have a non-rootkit infection.
There are lots of pharmaceutical stimulants that meet your 'taken in moderate doses, does not pose a risk to human health' standard. And there are lots of people that ingest far more caffeine than is healthy, and a big part of the reason they are doing it is to avoid the withdrawal symptoms that come with stopping its use.
Caffeine is convenient because it is hard to accidentally overdose with it and it is relatively easy to discontinue consumption of it, but it isn't risk free.
And where did anybody suggest not listening to doctors? I like to listen to them, and then try to understand why the said so(because of things like ulcers being primarily infection related rather than stress related and such).
Actually, I was reaching more for one persons behavioral deficiency being another persons within the range of normal behavior. Doctors are more informed about what average behavior is and more informed about the effects and consequences of taking various drugs, but they are still making a value judgment about what 'normal' behavior is, because even though they pretty much start from the average, they still decide how much deviation they are going to call normal(and there isn't some concrete, graduated scale that can be used to measure behavior, they are perceptive, so there isn't any definition of a standard deviation).
Please come up with a handwaving explanation of how this doesn't apply to coffee.
Thanks.
How do you separate 'truly do need to take' from 'benefit from taking'?
Why should the people who simply benefit be beholden to your definition of needing?
It seems like it would work well as a complement to cameras, so that you didn't need to have as many cameras to keep track of things, and that you could spend less time worrying about the cameras, as you could use the motion tracking to key into interesting time periods in the camera footage.
And the identity obfuscation you mention would work, but it would require both participants to be willing participants, so it is still somewhat helpful if something goes down.
My media player of choice, Foobar 2000, uses less than 2% of the power of one of the cores in this 18 month old laptop. It doesn't need to be parallelized. Sometimes, it is handy to take music stored in one format and convert it to another format. That is easy to parallelize, just launch a bunch of tasks(threads or processes, whatever), one for each song until you don't have any cores left.
How many general programming tasks fall in between, where they don't run fast enough on one core and don't naturally break into units that can be split across cores? I'm not a professional software developer, but I don't think there are very many of those tasks that need to be stuffed into the 'general programming' category.
Turkey.
Dishwashers and Laundry machines are technology that does all the work and people more or less just watch them. They are fantastic. I don't want to go back to the days where most people could only afford one or two shirts, and only afford to have them cleaned a couple of times a month(maybe...).
Surely that isn't the kind of thing you are talking about, but it is the kind of thing that is going to come out of the tireless march of technology. I am sure that there will be lots of people that wrap themselves in a ridiculous cocoon of technology, but most people will use technology the same way they have used it for the last 5,000 years -- to spend less time doing things they don't enjoy and more time doing things they enjoy or find rewarding in some other way.
I'll bet you a nickle it won't.
It depends a lot on how hard it is raining. I guess it might make the choice more difficult if you could only get the umbrella by having it glued to your hand, because short of that, you could just chuck it on the ground when you didn't need it anymore.
Are the populated parts of Canada more sparsely populated than the populated parts of the United States? (my impression is that Canada is slightly more urbanized than the US, basically because of the Yukon)
It isn't geography, it's regulation.
Microsoft is awash in not just cash, but income:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT
The make a net income in excess of $1 billion a month. They would recover from a disastrous deal in less than two years(because they have $19 billion in cash; 19+24=43, close enough to the offer of $45 billion)
They are trying to acquire Yahoo because they think it is a cheap way to gain revenue and they think they can operate Yahoo more effectively than Yahoo is currently operating Yahoo. Maybe they can't improve Yahoo all that much, but they still wouldn't lose all of the $45 billion asking price, so they are willing to try.
Yahoo is still trying to poison the deal:
http://news.google.com/news?q=yahoo+google+ad+deal
(this is fresh news, get it while it's hot)
Sure. If I had a $1000 TV and a $1000 audio system, I wouldn't hesitate to spend $50 extra to feel better about the quality of the cable I was buying, but all of the 'magic' properties that get attributed to analog cables get even worse when they get tried out on cables for digital applications -- "higher ones", "lower zeros", "doesn't slow your bits down", and so on, when all you need to know is that the cable meets the specifications for whatever standard it claims to meet the specifications for("Never pay more than Monster prices" isn't really bad start, they care enough about the marketability of their name to make stuff that works and they also overcharge, so anything more expensive is even more full of bull).
The Flickr videos are limited to 90 seconds. I would imagine that they are offering it as part of being the 'destination' for media captured with a digital camera, rather than a system for distributing video of any and all sorts.
(The walled garden aspect is a bit of a bummer, but Flickr and many other sites offer pretty reasonable APIs that allow for the extraction of most of the content of a user account, and people write scripts to pull from one service and push to another all the time. The situation could be better, but it isn't horrible.)
The requirement for ethanol in fuel is actually related to the concerns about the toxicity of MTBE, the oxidizer that ethanol replaced. The use of corn ethanol as a gasoline replacement, rather than as an additive, is almost purely a result of lobbying and poor government policy, it is not a well reasoned response to concerns about CO2 emissions.
Have you looked carefully at the actual variation in solar output that accompanies the solar cycle?
Some anyway. There are lots of other inputs, and much of the price of liquor is simply product placement, not something that actually reflects cost. For reference, nominal energy prices have increased quite a bit in the last few years and it has hardly shown up in retail prices.
They make local market dents all the time. The cumulative effect is pretty much nil, but I'm sure that they impact prices and availability in a given city or region fairly often.
I don't think it is misleading at all. It might be a little esoteric(because most people don't have any prior knowledge of the nominal power of the sun or a good grasp of just how short the pulse is), but it doesn't draw the reader into a poor conclusion, it just leaves the poor conclusion available.
Perhaps the ocean is very large and most of the 'chemicals' in the rail cars are not environmentally persistent?
I generally take "brighter...the surface of the sun" to refer to intensity and to naturally refer to the output for some area.
(Your point that it doesn't mean very much stands, but it is kind of neat that we pathetic humans can touch the power of the universe, so I understand why they refer to it)
I'm simply saying that as a user of your system, I would likely spend much more time 'fighting' spam than I would ever end up saving as a result of my efforts, so I don't think I would end up staying a user(and I think most people would react similarly). So, to say it another way, I think that the (figurative) costs outweigh the (figurative) benefits, even accounting for warm fuzzy altruistic feelings from fighting the good fight.
And I'm not sure that your comparing all subprime mortgage writers to slave traffickers really falls into the 'quibble' category.
Are you insane? Do you have any idea how much money oil companies are spending developing deep water reservoirs?
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/IBD-0001-24359703.htm
See, the 'greed' of oil companies doesn't stop tomorrow. They want to profit today, tomorrow, and forever.
Also, OPEC would probably like the price of oil to go down, they don't like it when people get all hot and bothered about moving away from oil as an input, and nothing gets people hot and bothered like high energy prices, but, for instance, Saudi Arabia doesn't really have a whole lot of extra capacity that they can bring online, so they can't really do anything about the price.
You are proposing increasing the price of dealing with the spam, and I don't see that it would lead to a significant reduction(because there are lots of people doing the things you are talking about already, and still).
And I would point out that there is nothing intrinsically bad about a sub prime mortgage. It allows someone who wants a house and is willing to pay a high price for it to participate in the market. They were heartily misused by nearly the entire industry, but that doesn't imply anything about any individual mortgage.