Joker.com is also one of the registrars that is most uncooperative when you try to leave them. Of which this is added proof. "Auto-locking" is just their way of saying "we don't implement icann policy, their default won't be ours".
It's like a spammer saying "we will only send you e-mail you opt in for, but we'll opt you in by default, as a service".
MAC adresses are universally unique identifiers, except for a few duplicate runs in cheap-ass brand NICs.
It's just that they cannot be authenticated in any way. It's like allowing only people who claim to be you on your network, rather than people who can prove it in some way.
Or just install it to a network share and have it use the user's homedirectory (or a network share) to store settings. Works better than MSIs, in my experience..
Personally, I think Kurzweil's 20 year estimates are overly optimistic, although the general principles of what he talks about do hold up...
Of course you're forgetting that to his superiorly maintenanced body and mind 200 years may seem like only 20.. Just like the all-too-familiar trademarked Microsoft Seconds, where "38 seconds remaining" in the windows explorer actually means "see you next week, buddy".
Yeah what's that ultra violet lamp all about? It's in UK crime programs as well -- the blue glow lamp will find evidence of blood that's been washed and scrubbed off any surface. Does anyone know if this is for real? Hmmm, perhaps I should use google... naaah couldn't be arsed.
Don't you watch the discovery channel? Luminol is the stuff they spray on the crime scene, then they look at it in the black light. It's not all crazy magic, this one's actually chemistry.
If I had mod points this morning I'd mod both you dumb motherfuckers down. Grandpa I'd mod flamebait for asking such a stupid fucking question (Remote attackers can delete files. Why should I bother to upgrade?), and you I'd mod offtopic, which is how all "mod parent x" posts should be moderated.
They give Anonymous Cowards mod points now? Oy gevalt!
You cannot have "rights" end with the death of an author, since the "author" might be killed in a plane crash next week - well before the people he licensed those rights to have the opportunity to recoup. I know that's a dirty word, but the fact is rights that cannot be traded have no value, and some rights are what gives artists value.
Monetary value is what I think you mean. Obviously, even things that cost nothing have value (as in; linux? love?).
Rights end at the time of death all the time. While it's inconvenient, death puts a stop to deals all the time. What happens to your cell phone contract? The lease on you house? Still businesses enter into these contracts with mere mortals.
You cannot make them die with the author, since those rights would then have substantially less value (imagine if his rights to the white Album died the day Lennon was shot - all that money from the inevitable "death windfall" made by the remaining beatles and the record companies and nothing at all to his widow and son? No Justice there.)
The remaining beatles not being dead they would still have had a claim. The widow and son? Well, when your local neighborhood wageslave dies, the widow and son usually don't get wages for the work the dead man isn't doing, do they? Where's the justice in that?
And besides, copyright is there to promote science and the arts, not Yoko and Damien's wellbeing. It's not like they weren't well off already, surely they'd saved up for a rainy day.
Actually, those rights were already sold, so who benefits? Corporations (at least, the corporation that owns the copyright, not the corporations that want to reproduce the works el cheapo - the big guys vs the small guys), and not the public.
The constitution clearly spells out the formla - that those rights are to be a limited time, and they be exclusive - meaning I can license my work to you and not your competitor
The constitution doesn't preclude you from entering into non-exclusive licenses. That's why the GPL is constitutional, for example.
Actually, the constitution allows congress to make such laws, but mandatory licensing is also A-OK.
Without this exlcusive right to license, artists and creators of all flavors - even programmers who work under contract - would have even less protection from corporate exploitation.
Programmers who work under contract typically produce works-for-hire and are afforded no copyright protection at all, not even moral rights (e.g. the right of attribution).
Then again, nothing is, second law of thermodynamics and all that.
But it's easier to switch from energy converted from oil to energy converted from, say, solar energy by settling on an intermediary carrier - like electricity or hydrogen. The technologies for both of which aren't fully worked out yet (fully electrical cars are way off, and the intricacies of a hydrogen infrastructure are as yet untested except for some busses running on the stuff).
Another promising candidate is bio-diesel; on the plus side you can easily convert a diesel engine today - on the down side harvesting and processing the crops "costs" more energy (according to some studies) than you're getting in the biodiesel from the solar energy the crops grew on.
kx have an interesting product.. 10-100x as fast as you "legacy " database, by which they mean oracle et al of course, and specialized for time-series (which is a big deal if you deal with those).
I don't think oracle is quite the fastest general-purpose SQL(semi)compliant RDBMS there is - it trades speed in favor of integrity.
Also, if databases were ueber-efficient at executing SQL queries, there'd be no great need to use server side stored procedures to speed things up.
And, last time I checked, google didn't run oracle, and for a reason.
No, actually, four should do the trick, (as in the four color theorem, my bad. (It's always a Good Idea to have more channels though, because you will want to split up cells in subcells that might overlap, and cells won't be perfectly hexagonal..)
I can only see the merging of WiFi and GSM if hell freezes over or when the telcos can charge for both the use of the GSM part of the connection and the WiFi.
How about they charge you the same whether your calls originate from WiFi or from GSM, or perhaps a smallish discount (a few cents per minute)?
People will still want to use the service, because they can now expand their coverage themselves, especially indoors.
That would be very interesting for corporations that have cellphone contracts for their employees, cellphone VPNs etc. Especially if they get to handle the on-VPN traffic internally if both are on WiFi (leaving the cell operator to handle out-of-company calls).
That would make cell companies competitors for cordless phone/PBX/VOIP products.
1. Would this mean that ISPs who blanket metro areas could theoretically steal all the voice traffic currently going over cell networks?
If the handsets support a setting where they connect to any anonymous network automatically, then perhaps. Don't think they will though. Also, I don't expect there will be any provisions in the telco's standard to reimburse whoever runs the WiFi network; the most you can expect is some discount on your per minute charges, and better indoor coverage.
2. Would the ISPs have the bandwidth to carry all that?
A GSM voice channel runs at 9600 bps, so a one megabit SDSL connection at 1:1 (no) overbooking can carry about 100 of those. The ISPs run that sort of capacity to your home and most of your neighbors, so, no problems if they had to run a line to a basestation every 1 or 2 miles. In fact, that's what the cell networks do (though they use T1 lines rather than SDSL).
3. Would they want it? No. Blanketing a metro area with WiFi is hard. Preferably, you'd want to have your own licensed spectrum so people's home (or competitors') WiFi connections don't interfere with your network.
Also, only 3 802.11b/g channels don't overlap - you'd prefer having at least 6 non-overlapping channels to make hexagonshaped cells.
If you go with big cells, you piss off a lot of people by causeing interference on their WiFi and your capacity is limited, if you go with small cells you have better capacity, but people with higher strength signals can drown you out, and you need a lot of base stations.
Licensed/managed spectrum is the way to go to cover a metro area. That's not to say "companies know best" - if they licensed a hunk of spectrum to some HAMs to come up with a metro area WiFi network they'd do just as well.
1) make sure you're standards-compliant 2) find out what is broken in IE and fix it, allowing small deviations from the standards if need be 3) redesign the hacks in #2 if they break in mozilla
This usually means a site works well in both major browser families, and as an added bonus sticking close (enough) to the standards means it will usually at least be accessible on e.g. a pocket pc. (Though of course, heavily javascript/DHTML/DOM-driven user interfaces will always break if you scale down to less capable browsers).
The philips saa7134 has stereo sound, good picturequality, and isn't expensive (asus brand board at computerland.nl since you're living in The Netherlands).
The windows application that asus bundles sucks (it's way to slow) and if you use DScaler, you'll have to enter the channels manually, but after that you're golden (except DScaler doesn't do PVR yet).
There's linux support for the card as well. The chipset was bundled by medion/aldi in their low-end cheap-ass computers, so they're quite prolific.
No on-board encoding or tv-out though.
I chose the philips chips over bt848/hauppage for the better picture and sound quality. If you insist on hardware encoding though, you'll end up with a more expensive card - that usually have better picture quality than lowend hauppage wintv cards anyway.
Ancient Athens had secret ballots. They placed either a white or black marble into a vase. The color of the ball could not be observed as they put their hand (holding the marble) into the vase.
The marbles being oftentimes spherical, this is where the name ball-ot derives from.
The things you learn in high-school..
Though IIRC there were earlier examples of secret ballots, going back to either ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia, I forget which.
# If you don't take it in with you at night, at least lock the back wheel with a second U-lock. (Just leave the second one locked to the rack when you're not there.)
If you use an added lock, use a different type of lock. Most thieves specialize in one type of lock. Confronted with two different ones, they'll opt for a bike that's less complicated to steal.
And remember, just because it's a U-lock doesn't necessarily mean it's a good lock. There are a lot of cheap U-locks out there (even if they're sold to you for a large sum) that can be easily cracked by simply inserting a bar and twisting, or by fiddling with the cylinder lock.
A $10 U-lock is NOT as good as a $300 chain and lock combination (used on motorbikes for example).
Consumer reports-type organizations and which-buy type magazines test locks every once in a while to see how long it takes a seasoned professional to open it - look for the ones that take 10 minutes to open (no lock is invulnerable), rather than 10 seconds.
Dunno about the states, but round these here parts they're often even certified and graded in classes (A, B, C) and insurance companies often require a certain grade of lock.
Don't pay off your cards one-by-one. Consolidate your debt and get a lower interest rate. Credit card interest rates are practically theft.
There are a lot of spammy looking websites for debt consolidation, so check out your local not-for-profit organisations that are into this. I'd imagine they have flyers at your university or town hall or something. Also, there are special programs to consolidate federal student loans.
On the bright side, these kids are off to something far more enjoyable. While they were in Technology, they worked long hours for little reward, and were often mistreated and stressed out. Now they work in jobs like construction or plumbing where the hours are fewer and the work more fulfilling. Let this be a lesson: never enter a corporate field unless you're SURE that's what you want.
I think a pertinent question you should ask yourself when considering a carreer is; what would you do if you had a million dollars? If the answer is "two chicks at the same time", then indeed, why not opt for a field like construction?
Even picking up the burnt remains of, say, a torched down software company's building can still feel rewarding, because it's a honest day's work.
And in the end, who wants to be sitting in a cubicle from their twenties right until they're fifty? Although it would be nice to have that kind of job security..
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Joker.com is also one of the registrars that is most uncooperative when you try to leave them. Of which this is added proof. "Auto-locking" is just their way of saying "we don't implement icann policy, their default won't be ours".
It's like a spammer saying "we will only send you e-mail you opt in for, but we'll opt you in by default, as a service".
MAC adresses are universally unique identifiers, except for a few duplicate runs in cheap-ass brand NICs.
It's just that they cannot be authenticated in any way. It's like allowing only people who claim to be you on your network, rather than people who can prove it in some way.
Or just install it to a network share and have it use the user's homedirectory (or a network share) to store settings. Works better than MSIs, in my experience..
Personally, I think Kurzweil's 20 year estimates are overly optimistic, although the general principles of what he talks about do hold up...
Of course you're forgetting that to his superiorly maintenanced body and mind 200 years may seem like only 20.. Just like the all-too-familiar trademarked Microsoft Seconds, where "38 seconds remaining" in the windows explorer actually means "see you next week, buddy".
linkification extension for firefox for copy-and-pasting impaired.
Not safe for work link? No kidding! If masturbating won't make you blind, thehun.com's color scheme will!
Yeah what's that ultra violet lamp all about? It's in UK crime programs as well -- the blue glow lamp will find evidence of blood that's been washed and scrubbed off any surface. Does anyone know if this is for real? Hmmm, perhaps I should use google... naaah couldn't be arsed.
Don't you watch the discovery channel? Luminol is the stuff they spray on the crime scene, then they look at it in the black light. It's not all crazy magic, this one's actually chemistry.
you act like they don't sell digital cameras...
That's fine, Kodak doesn't act like it either. Pieces of crap they are.
If I had mod points this morning I'd mod both you dumb motherfuckers down. Grandpa I'd mod flamebait for asking such a stupid fucking question (Remote attackers can delete files. Why should I bother to upgrade?), and you I'd mod offtopic, which is how all "mod parent x" posts should be moderated.
They give Anonymous Cowards mod points now?
Oy gevalt!
Very cool info!
You cannot have "rights" end with the death of an author, since the "author" might be killed in a plane crash next week - well before the people he licensed those rights to have the opportunity to recoup. I know that's a dirty word, but the fact is rights that cannot be traded have no value, and some rights are what gives artists value.
Monetary value is what I think you mean. Obviously, even things that cost nothing have value (as in; linux? love?).
Rights end at the time of death all the time. While it's inconvenient, death puts a stop to deals all the time. What happens to your cell phone contract? The lease on you house? Still businesses enter into these contracts with mere mortals.
You cannot make them die with the author, since those rights would then have substantially less value (imagine if his rights to the white Album died the day Lennon was shot - all that money from the inevitable "death windfall" made by the remaining beatles and the record companies and nothing at all to his widow and son? No Justice there.)
The remaining beatles not being dead they would still have had a claim. The widow and son? Well, when your local neighborhood wageslave dies, the widow and son usually don't get wages for the work the dead man isn't doing, do they? Where's the justice in that?
And besides, copyright is there to promote science and the arts, not Yoko and Damien's wellbeing. It's not like they weren't well off already, surely they'd saved up for a rainy day.
Actually, those rights were already sold, so who benefits? Corporations (at least, the corporation that owns the copyright, not the corporations that want to reproduce the works el cheapo - the big guys vs the small guys), and not the public.
The constitution clearly spells out the formla - that those rights are to be a limited time, and they be exclusive - meaning I can license my work to you and not your competitor
The constitution doesn't preclude you from entering into non-exclusive licenses. That's why the GPL is constitutional, for example.
Actually, the constitution allows congress to make such laws, but mandatory licensing is also A-OK.
Without this exlcusive right to license, artists and creators of all flavors - even programmers who work under contract - would have even less protection from corporate exploitation.
Programmers who work under contract typically produce works-for-hire and are afforded no copyright protection at all, not even moral rights (e.g. the right of attribution).
Sellotape? You must mean "sticky backed plastic".... ;-)
...is that it isn't an energy *source*.
Then again, nothing is, second law of thermodynamics and all that.
But it's easier to switch from energy converted from oil to energy converted from, say, solar energy by settling on an intermediary carrier - like electricity or hydrogen. The technologies for both of which aren't fully worked out yet (fully electrical cars are way off, and the intricacies of a hydrogen infrastructure are as yet untested except for some busses running on the stuff).
Another promising candidate is bio-diesel; on the plus side you can easily convert a diesel engine today - on the down side harvesting and processing the crops "costs" more energy (according to some studies) than you're getting in the biodiesel from the solar energy the crops grew on.
Gentlemen, place your bets now.
I think you mean %HOMEPATH% and/or %USERPROFILE% ;-)
I don't think oracle is quite the fastest general-purpose SQL(semi)compliant RDBMS there is - it trades speed in favor of integrity.
According to some TPC benchmarks, Oracle is in fact the fastest.
Benchmarks, schmenchmarks. Does Oracle's license even permit publishing your own benchmarks?
kx have an interesting product.. 10-100x as fast as you "legacy " database, by which they mean oracle et al of course, and specialized for time-series (which is a big deal if you deal with those).
I don't think oracle is quite the fastest general-purpose SQL(semi)compliant RDBMS there is - it trades speed in favor of integrity.
Also, if databases were ueber-efficient at executing SQL queries, there'd be no great need to use server side stored procedures to speed things up.
And, last time I checked, google didn't run oracle, and for a reason.
No, actually, four should do the trick, (as in the four color theorem, my bad.
(It's always a Good Idea to have more channels though, because you will want to split up cells in subcells that might overlap, and cells won't be perfectly hexagonal..)
I can only see the merging of WiFi and GSM if hell freezes over or when the telcos can charge for both the use of the GSM part of the connection and the WiFi.
How about they charge you the same whether your calls originate from WiFi or from GSM, or perhaps a smallish discount (a few cents per minute)?
People will still want to use the service, because they can now expand their coverage themselves, especially indoors.
That would be very interesting for corporations that have cellphone contracts for their employees, cellphone VPNs etc. Especially if they get to handle the on-VPN traffic internally if both are on WiFi (leaving the cell operator to handle out-of-company calls).
That would make cell companies competitors for cordless phone/PBX/VOIP products.
1. Would this mean that ISPs who blanket metro areas could theoretically steal all the voice traffic currently going over cell networks?
If the handsets support a setting where they connect to any anonymous network automatically, then perhaps. Don't think they will though.
Also, I don't expect there will be any provisions in the telco's standard to reimburse whoever runs the WiFi network; the most you can expect is some discount on your per minute charges, and better indoor coverage.
2. Would the ISPs have the bandwidth to carry all that?
A GSM voice channel runs at 9600 bps, so a one megabit SDSL connection at 1:1 (no) overbooking can carry about 100 of those. The ISPs run that sort of capacity to your home and most of your neighbors, so, no problems if they had to run a line to a basestation every 1 or 2 miles. In fact, that's what the cell networks do (though they use T1 lines rather than SDSL).
3. Would they want it?
No. Blanketing a metro area with WiFi is hard. Preferably, you'd want to have your own licensed spectrum so people's home (or competitors') WiFi connections don't interfere with your network.
Also, only 3 802.11b/g channels don't overlap - you'd prefer having at least 6 non-overlapping channels to make hexagonshaped cells.
If you go with big cells, you piss off a lot of people by causeing interference on their WiFi and your capacity is limited, if you go with small cells you have better capacity, but people with higher strength signals can drown you out, and you need a lot of base stations.
Licensed/managed spectrum is the way to go to cover a metro area. That's not to say "companies know best" - if they licensed a hunk of spectrum to some HAMs to come up with a metro area WiFi network they'd do just as well.
A better approach is;
1) make sure you're standards-compliant
2) find out what is broken in IE and fix it, allowing small deviations from the standards if need be
3) redesign the hacks in #2 if they break in mozilla
This usually means a site works well in both major browser families, and as an added bonus sticking close (enough) to the standards means it will usually at least be accessible on e.g. a pocket pc. (Though of course, heavily javascript/DHTML/DOM-driven user interfaces will always break if you scale down to less capable browsers).
The philips saa7134 has stereo sound, good picturequality, and isn't expensive (asus brand board at computerland.nl since you're living in The Netherlands).
The windows application that asus bundles sucks (it's way to slow) and if you use DScaler, you'll have to enter the channels manually, but after that you're golden (except DScaler doesn't do PVR yet).
There's linux support for the card as well. The chipset was bundled by medion/aldi in their low-end cheap-ass computers, so they're quite prolific.
No on-board encoding or tv-out though.
I chose the philips chips over bt848/hauppage for the better picture and sound quality. If you insist on hardware encoding though, you'll end up with a more expensive card - that usually have better picture quality than lowend hauppage wintv cards anyway.
Ancient Athens had secret ballots. They placed either a white or black marble into a vase. The color of the ball could not be observed as they put their hand (holding the marble) into the vase.
The marbles being oftentimes spherical, this is where the name ball-ot derives from.
The things you learn in high-school..
Though IIRC there were earlier examples of secret ballots, going back to either ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia, I forget which.
# If you don't take it in with you at night, at least lock the back wheel with a second U-lock. (Just leave the second one locked to the rack when you're not there.)
If you use an added lock, use a different type of lock. Most thieves specialize in one type of lock. Confronted with two different ones, they'll opt for a bike that's less complicated to steal.
And remember, just because it's a U-lock doesn't necessarily mean it's a good lock. There are a lot of cheap U-locks out there (even if they're sold to you for a large sum) that can be easily cracked by simply inserting a bar and twisting, or by fiddling with the cylinder lock.
A $10 U-lock is NOT as good as a $300 chain and lock combination (used on motorbikes for example).
Consumer reports-type organizations and which-buy type magazines test locks every once in a while to see how long it takes a seasoned professional to open it - look for the ones that take 10 minutes to open (no lock is invulnerable), rather than 10 seconds.
Dunno about the states, but round these here parts they're often even certified and graded in classes (A, B, C) and insurance companies often require a certain grade of lock.
Don't pay off your cards one-by-one. Consolidate your debt and get a lower interest rate. Credit card interest rates are practically theft.
There are a lot of spammy looking websites for debt consolidation, so check out your local not-for-profit organisations that are into this. I'd imagine they have flyers at your university or town hall or something. Also, there are special programs to consolidate federal student loans.
On the bright side, these kids are off to something far more enjoyable. While they were in Technology, they worked long hours for little reward, and were often mistreated and stressed out. Now they work in jobs like construction or plumbing where the hours are fewer and the work more fulfilling. Let this be a lesson: never enter a corporate field unless you're SURE that's what you want.
I think a pertinent question you should ask yourself when considering a carreer is; what would you do if you had a million dollars?
If the answer is "two chicks at the same time", then indeed, why not opt for a field like construction?
Even picking up the burnt remains of, say, a torched down software company's building can still feel rewarding, because it's a honest day's work.
And in the end, who wants to be sitting in a cubicle from their twenties right until they're fifty? Although it would be nice to have that kind of job security..