I am a member of ISOC. As long as I have been a memeber, ISOC has never done anything shady. I think them getting control of.org is a VERY GOOD THING. Become informed before you bash them, I challenge anyone to come up with anything ISOC has done that harmed the internet community.
I was thinking Belize actually. Looks like a nice place and, the laws look somewhat relxed. Anybody interested in helping to organize a mass exodus of techies to a small (and hopefully very supportive) country? Belize is at the top of my list so far (after a couple of years of research) but, any suggestions of possible countries are welcome.
I believe he is referring to the cache in RAM on the machine, not the cache memory on the drive. Many operating systems use unused RAM to cache what has been read off of the drive. This would pose a problem.
You obviously don't know anybody who uses excessively. After about 6 months of 25+ pills a week, the long term effects rear their ugly heads (my favorite is the paranoia, oh the paranoia.) If you don't do it so often, and most don't do it nearly often enough for the bad ones, you will notice almost no effects at all. And it is generally cheaper than a night of drinking. But, look at the long term effects of alchohol, when consumed in extreme quantity, and it does not look so bad.
> okay so education will stop someone from OD'ing?
No, but that is not the governments problem. It is the person who took its. If you want to be sure about not overdosing, don't take drugs, see, problem solved. And the only people who die are the ones who choose to take that risk (which, I believe, is a choice a person should be allowed to make.)
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Yes, it is better than tug of war between corporations and other corporations. ICANN is becoming a commercial entity. That is NOT good, another system needs to be put in place. It is very unethical of a standards body to do this, and I think they fall into the same general category. I think these people should be volenteers. Many standards bodies charge to be part of them, and people still participate, I do not think finding people to do this would be a problem. I do not think they should take a salary. I think finding places to host the root servers would be no problem at all, although I think a university (come on MIT, we all know you have the money, Stanford, what about you?) would be best. I think the naming rules should be changed to first one to register it owns it, and can do whatever they want with it, unless they let registration lapse (current TLDs reserved and controlled by the root, keep them under the same rules. I think any tld should be allowed, let it be part of the registerable domain names, allow, up to 10 per person (or corporate entity), and keep the rules that simple... it will sort itself out. this will allow a solution to the technical problem without letting it become a political one. New versions can even be voted in, (with backward compatability being a big thing.) hint rfc process hint. Make these the rules, and go from there. I think that would fix most of their problems.
As of right now, card readers (all of them can also write) are not that expensive, the security comes in the form of encrypted data on the card. It would be about as difficult as decrypting an SSL session to get the data from the card.
The best way of life yet realized? Do you speak for everyone on this planet? You certainly do not speak for me. You say the US is about freedom and security. Freedom and security are conflicting goals, you cannot have both. Security necessarily takes away freedom. A balance can be achieved by governing only interactions between people, some freedom is lost, some security is gained, but only the minimum needed to ensure individuals do not interact in a way that is detrimental to one of them without consent. That should be the purpose of government, to find the correct balance. The purpose of the US seems to be to force the way of life of the majority on the minority. The strong oppress the weak. This is the way of life, it is the accepted way, but do not try to suggest it is something else. The US is not about freedom, it is not about security, it is not about balance, it is about the majority oppressing the minority. This is the nature of a democracy (and a replublic). It is an ideal form of government only for those of the majority. Think of how many crimes have no victim other than the one who commits them (drug laws come to mind). These acts harm nobody but the one who does them, yet, they are crimes. I call this an unneccesary loss of freedom, as they serve no purpose other than to force the ideals of the majority on the minority. You, sir, seem to be in the majority, try looking at things from another perspective.
is to extend SMTP to include the ability to require a username/password to send mail. I realize this would not solve all problems but, it is a better solution than the current kludge most people use (requiring a POP3 login first). It will take a while to become supported, but then again, it is a good first step.
The point of OOP is to protect you from yourself. There is nothing you can do with OOP that cannot be accomplised in structural or procedural languages. For instance a class in C++ really gives you nothing more than a structure and functions designed to operate on that structure in C. The difference being that the programmer must use the member functions to manipulate the data (unless they are public of course). This is more of a hinderence than a help on complex problems, as there are times that you will need to make many small manipulations to the data but, they do not need to be reused (making them worthless as a function, unless you think it makes the code clearer in some way.) Stick with C for complex problems. Use C++ when the staff is inexperienced (or not very good), or when your problem will fit very nicely into an OO framework (which does not happen often with complex problems.)
NEVER give out your "real" e-mail address. Use a free one for sites on which you must supply one, and only check that when you have to reply to a confirmation. In addition, if someone randomly guesses your e-mail address (which does happen occasionally), manually send a rejection. They will think that the address is invalid and, you will not be added to their list. It is also a good idea either to turn off HTML or to set your mail client not to process images unless told to(this keeps the shady people who use an image to see if you got the e-mail.) I hope this helps (and by the way, the address above is not my real address). I also immediately send a copy of the spam and a note to the origination ISP and server administrator (not using my normal address). It really works well, I have only gotten 3 pieces of spam in the last 2 years (and I receive upwards of 20 e-mails a day.)
I spent several years working on a mainframe(IBM S/390). I have long hair, do not wear a tie, and once did not show up at work for half a year, because the time they were open happened to clash with my current sleeping schedule. They had no problem with this as long as eveything got done on time. I could work for 160 hours in a row and take the rest of the month off if I wanted to (and did this occasionally). Not everyone who works on a mainframe works from 9 - 5.
I can't speak for canada but, the normal pricing in the US is approx 1,500 for a T1 (with internet access) or 30,000 for a T3. These prices are monthly.
yes, I refuse to use recursive functions unless I know ahead of time how many times it will recurse. otherwise you are limiting how much data the program can process. On a side note, a non-recursive solutions is NEVER much more work than a recursive one. and for those who try to use the towers of hanoi problem, I solved it in less lines of code with non-recursive than the example for recursive.
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I am a member of ISOC. As long as I have been a memeber, ISOC has never done anything shady. I think them getting control of .org is a VERY GOOD THING. Become informed before you bash them, I challenge anyone to come up with anything ISOC has done that harmed the internet community.
I was thinking Belize actually. Looks like a nice place and, the laws look somewhat relxed. Anybody interested in helping to organize a mass exodus of techies to a small (and hopefully very supportive) country? Belize is at the top of my list so far (after a couple of years of research) but, any suggestions of possible countries are welcome.
I believe he is referring to the cache in RAM on the machine, not the cache memory on the drive. Many operating systems use unused RAM to cache what has been read off of the drive. This would pose a problem.
yes, but once every year or so, they take a break from that commercial. Usually it is a fairly short one though...
I thought the best line was: "Hey its a neuraliz.. "
You obviously don't know anybody who uses excessively. After about 6 months of 25+ pills a week, the long term effects rear their ugly heads (my favorite is the paranoia, oh the paranoia.) If you don't do it so often, and most don't do it nearly often enough for the bad ones, you will notice almost no effects at all. And it is generally cheaper than a night of drinking. But, look at the long term effects of alchohol, when consumed in extreme quantity, and it does not look so bad.
> okay so education will stop someone from OD'ing?
No, but that is not the governments problem. It is the person who took its. If you want to be sure about not overdosing, don't take drugs, see, problem solved. And the only people who die are the ones who choose to take that risk (which, I believe, is a choice a person should be allowed to make.)
I drive 40MPH over (and I do believe in statistics), but that is what insurance is for ( =
Try exporting the entry point. Sadly, I have do this far too often (I use BCB4).
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
Yes, it is better than tug of war between corporations and other corporations. ICANN is becoming a commercial entity. That is NOT good, another system needs to be put in place. It is very unethical of a standards body to do this, and I think they fall into the same general category. I think these people should be volenteers. Many standards bodies charge to be part of them, and people still participate, I do not think finding people to do this would be a problem. I do not think they should take a salary. I think finding places to host the root servers would be no problem at all, although I think a university (come on MIT, we all know you have the money, Stanford, what about you?) would be best. I think the naming rules should be changed to first one to register it owns it, and can do whatever they want with it, unless they let registration lapse (current TLDs reserved and controlled by the root, keep them under the same rules. I think any tld should be allowed, let it be part of the registerable domain names, allow, up to 10 per person (or corporate entity), and keep the rules that simple... it will sort itself out. this will allow a solution to the technical problem without letting it become a political one. New versions can even be voted in, (with backward compatability being a big thing.) hint rfc process hint. Make these the rules, and go from there. I think that would fix most of their problems.
As of right now, card readers (all of them can also write) are not that expensive, the security comes in the form of encrypted data on the card. It would be about as difficult as decrypting an SSL session to get the data from the card.
The best way of life yet realized? Do you speak for everyone on this planet? You certainly do not speak for me. You say the US is about freedom and security. Freedom and security are conflicting goals, you cannot have both. Security necessarily takes away freedom. A balance can be achieved by governing only interactions between people, some freedom is lost, some security is gained, but only the minimum needed to ensure individuals do not interact in a way that is detrimental to one of them without consent. That should be the purpose of government, to find the correct balance. The purpose of the US seems to be to force the way of life of the majority on the minority. The strong oppress the weak. This is the way of life, it is the accepted way, but do not try to suggest it is something else. The US is not about freedom, it is not about security, it is not about balance, it is about the majority oppressing the minority. This is the nature of a democracy (and a replublic). It is an ideal form of government only for those of the majority. Think of how many crimes have no victim other than the one who commits them (drug laws come to mind). These acts harm nobody but the one who does them, yet, they are crimes. I call this an unneccesary loss of freedom, as they serve no purpose other than to force the ideals of the majority on the minority. You, sir, seem to be in the majority, try looking at things from another perspective.
is to extend SMTP to include the ability to require a username/password to send mail. I realize this would not solve all problems but, it is a better solution than the current kludge most people use (requiring a POP3 login first). It will take a while to become supported, but then again, it is a good first step.
The point of OOP is to protect you from yourself. There is nothing you can do with OOP that cannot be accomplised in structural or procedural languages. For instance a class in C++ really gives you nothing more than a structure and functions designed to operate on that structure in C. The difference being that the programmer must use the member functions to manipulate the data (unless they are public of course). This is more of a hinderence than a help on complex problems, as there are times that you will need to make many small manipulations to the data but, they do not need to be reused (making them worthless as a function, unless you think it makes the code clearer in some way.) Stick with C for complex problems. Use C++ when the staff is inexperienced (or not very good), or when your problem will fit very nicely into an OO framework (which does not happen often with complex problems.)
NEVER give out your "real" e-mail address. Use a free one for sites on which you must supply one, and only check that when you have to reply to a confirmation. In addition, if someone randomly guesses your e-mail address (which does happen occasionally), manually send a rejection. They will think that the address is invalid and, you will not be added to their list. It is also a good idea either to turn off HTML or to set your mail client not to process images unless told to(this keeps the shady people who use an image to see if you got the e-mail.) I hope this helps (and by the way, the address above is not my real address). I also immediately send a copy of the spam and a note to the origination ISP and server administrator (not using my normal address). It really works well, I have only gotten 3 pieces of spam in the last 2 years (and I receive upwards of 20 e-mails a day.)
A guru who admits to knowing VB... not likely.
I spent several years working on a mainframe(IBM S/390). I have long hair, do not wear a tie, and once did not show up at work for half a year, because the time they were open happened to clash with my current sleeping schedule. They had no problem with this as long as eveything got done on time. I could work for 160 hours in a row and take the rest of the month off if I wanted to (and did this occasionally). Not everyone who works on a mainframe works from 9 - 5.
You can't write a program of more than a couple hundred lines that compiles the first time?
I think my best is around 6000 (in C).
Guru status comes when you can write a couple tens of thousands without any errors.
I can't speak for canada but, the normal pricing in the US is approx 1,500 for a T1 (with internet access) or 30,000 for a T3. These prices are monthly.
At fifty miles, not a chance in hell. The absolute best (and this is really pushing it, with much lowered transmission rates) is about five miles.
I believe it is the RED book standard, not orange.
my first language WAS assembly, even worse x86 assembly.
yes, I refuse to use recursive functions unless I know ahead of time how many times it will recurse. otherwise you are limiting how much data the program can process. On a side note, a non-recursive solutions is NEVER much more work than a recursive one. and for those who try to use the towers of hanoi problem, I solved it in less lines of code with non-recursive than the example for recursive.