Online, we are supposed to be anonymous... That's why doubleclick's tracking was such an outrage. Not to mention that they were doing it secretly.
I know what it's like to be followed around. I know what it's like to be a teenager today. If you walk into a store, you must planning to steal something, so you are followed.
Many people are followed around by cameras. The best example would have to be las vegas where there are so many casino's with their own cameras that anything that happens on the street is captured and giving to the police.
Al the current taxes on Fuel are due to violation of pollution statues in the US. When you have a fuel that does not polute, you cannot tax it the same way. On the other hand, even if they try taxing it, it would be nearly impossible to justify. i.e. It is sold right now without any excess tax. Also, never underestimate the power of the farmer's union... If a tax on rubing alcohol is proposed, the union wil throw it's weight and crush it quickly if it promised to decrease their profits, or risks preventing the fuel from catching on. Such things have happened in the past.
For anybody that wan't to convince the world to switch from Petrol, here's what you do...
1. Get diesel engine manufacturers to use pure rubbing alcohol as a fuel source. Alcohol is easy to produce (any left over crops can be mde into fuel) and the price will go down as the demand increases. Plus, the regulations are getting so strict on Trucks that the price drop for fuel would be immediate, Trucks would right away meet every healt and plution code there is, and all smog equipment would be a thing of the past.
#2. Once truck are using rubbing alochol as a fuel source, it will be carried by most gas stations. At that point it will be trivial matter to convince consumers to buy your alcohol burning cars because the fuel is available everywhere, cleaner than gas, and likely cheaper.
There are many other advantages to Alcohol, but I don't feel it would be beneficial to cover them here. Never fail a smog test, all taxes on Gas will not apply to Alcohol, our skys will clear up because alcohol's only byproducts are Carbond Dioxide (what people exhale) and some water. Smog equipment is a thing or the past, farmers will have no trouble growing crops to make fuel from, and with such an easially renewable resource, competition among makers will drop prices. Not to mention that we woulld be completely free of OPEC or any foreign country's control.
You know, I'm weary of testing any "Alpha" software, let alone living on an "Alpha" space station. Perhaps I'll wait until it's at least considered "Beta" and then consider trying it out.
While I'm a privacy advocate myself, I don't see anything wrong with having cameras in public areas. We all know we are on camera in a gas station, or elevator, I don't see why the same type of observation in public streets is such a concern as long as private areas like homes, offices, etc. aren't violated.
Yeah, you remember the first completely Fly-By-Wire plane? Something called the B2 stealth bomber? We all know how horrible it is. We would be sooooo much better off if we didn't have fly-by-wire and we wouldn't have to put up with planes like the B2 at all.
After reading that CA was go for class action lawsuits, and thinking of Silicon Valley, and all the tech industry that would love to get their M$ blood-money back, I remembered the line from "Escape from L.A.":
You may have survived Clevland
You may have Escaped from New York
But you're in Los Angeles now
(the GPL, for instance) People (in America, at least) don't like Communism and are likely to be wary of anything resembling it.
Yeah! Just look at how the first time everyone say napster they ran away screeming... Oh, and not to mention how corporations and the press completely ignore GNU/Linux.
My appologies, I should have said 'wave' instead of 'frequency'. My point does not change however... If a color is not acurately reproduced it is due to equipment failure and not lack of the 'missing prime'. The current spectrum does indeed cover every color we can see.
I think the funniest thing about this fourm is the idiots that replied before you! It was god for a laugh at least!
Yeah, take that! It's a good thing verisign is in charge otherwise we might have half-assed companies in place that would grant a certificate to anyone who claimed to be a Microsoft employee...
Light is like any other wave... When two waves cross paths the signals are added or subtracted from each other. I don't know who lied to you, but it is indeed the frequency of the light signal being changed. About the only thing out biology has to do with it is the range of light we can see. In other words, it is a mathematical proof that there are only three primary colors (or four for those that insist on counting lack of light as well). Any part of the spectrum that cannot be reproduced is a result of bad equiment that doesn't have the light frequeny quite right (like out monitors and TVs)
Don't look forward to seeing the masses of developers migrate to BSD (My preference being OpenBSD) because of the licensing terms.
Microsoft used the source code for Kerbos and rewrote it to be non-interoperable with the opensource implimentation and because it was under the BSD license they were not required to release their changes to the public.
I believe Micro$oft already made a compression librart for DOS and Window$ that does this very same thing... It was called drivespace I believe. In fact my hard drive data was reduced to 0% many times I used it.
16 megs... You know bzip2 is pretty good compression! But that's besides the point.
What I'm envisioning is a place in AIM config that they can specify what MD5Sum they want to report to AOL, similar to Opera's feature of pretending to be Internet Explorer or Netscape just by changing the header info. This way the users could go to a web site when they can't login and copy/paste the MD5Sum for the week. Of course if AOL get's real defensive then the complete list might be needed.
It's not like the Server is getting the MD5Sum of the client itself... It sends a request for an MD5Sum and AIM sends it. All libfaim needs to do is recognize the MD5 handshake and send back the MD5Sum for a valid AIM client. I can guarantee it's perfectly legal to include the MD5Sum of a commercial program in libfaim.
One very clear trend I've noticed with Windows is when it progresses, it looks more and more like a Unix OS. Many things like Scrollbar for the Command Prompt and Home directory in the root C: drive are just a small fraction of the similarities one can find, but what I thought was most interesting was WindowsCE's removal of drive letters and (surprise) making everything on the filesystem relative to root (\ in Windows).
I wonder if these changes are done to simulate a Unix environment, or are these just improvements for Windows which mimic Unix because it was done right the first time?
I've said this same thing over and over again... As soon as FreeNET gets search capability (downloads a list of all available files from connected hosts and updates the list every few minutes) it will kill Gnutella because your bandwidth matters little, popular files are automatically mirrored so you don't end up being the only person making something available, and people are anonymous...
While I love hearing about spy stories as much as the next guy, what happened here is nothing to boast about... In movies, James Bond and other famous spies lead thrilling lives and are always saving the world from evil. In reality, spies cause death. People die because of information spies pick-up, from knowledge that so-so is a spy for this country, to atomic weapons secrets that leave this world in fear of destruction. I really think this subject should be looked upon with thoughts more torwards reality and less torwards the picture-perfect super-spy senarios hat come out of hollywood. In real life the good-guys get killed too.
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Online, we are supposed to be anonymous... That's why doubleclick's tracking was such an outrage. Not to mention that they were doing it secretly.
I know what it's like to be followed around. I know what it's like to be a teenager today. If you walk into a store, you must planning to steal something, so you are followed.
Many people are followed around by cameras. The best example would have to be las vegas where there are so many casino's with their own cameras that anything that happens on the street is captured and giving to the police.
Al the current taxes on Fuel are due to violation of pollution statues in the US. When you have a fuel that does not polute, you cannot tax it the same way. On the other hand, even if they try taxing it, it would be nearly impossible to justify. i.e. It is sold right now without any excess tax. Also, never underestimate the power of the farmer's union... If a tax on rubing alcohol is proposed, the union wil throw it's weight and crush it quickly if it promised to decrease their profits, or risks preventing the fuel from catching on. Such things have happened in the past.
For anybody that wan't to convince the world to switch from Petrol, here's what you do...
1. Get diesel engine manufacturers to use pure rubbing alcohol as a fuel source. Alcohol is easy to produce (any left over crops can be mde into fuel) and the price will go down as the demand increases. Plus, the regulations are getting so strict on Trucks that the price drop for fuel would be immediate, Trucks would right away meet every healt and plution code there is, and all smog equipment would be a thing of the past.
#2. Once truck are using rubbing alochol as a fuel source, it will be carried by most gas stations. At that point it will be trivial matter to convince consumers to buy your alcohol burning cars because the fuel is available everywhere, cleaner than gas, and likely cheaper.
There are many other advantages to Alcohol, but I don't feel it would be beneficial to cover them here. Never fail a smog test, all taxes on Gas will not apply to Alcohol, our skys will clear up because alcohol's only byproducts are Carbond Dioxide (what people exhale) and some water. Smog equipment is a thing or the past, farmers will have no trouble growing crops to make fuel from, and with such an easially renewable resource, competition among makers will drop prices. Not to mention that we woulld be completely free of OPEC or any foreign country's control.
Let me know when duct tape comes into play and I'll feel right at home on that space station...
You know, I'm weary of testing any "Alpha" software, let alone living on an "Alpha" space station. Perhaps I'll wait until it's at least considered "Beta" and then consider trying it out.
While I'm a privacy advocate myself, I don't see anything wrong with having cameras in public areas. We all know we are on camera in a gas station, or elevator, I don't see why the same type of observation in public streets is such a concern as long as private areas like homes, offices, etc. aren't violated.
Yeah, you remember the first completely Fly-By-Wire plane? Something called the B2 stealth bomber? We all know how horrible it is. We would be sooooo much better off if we didn't have fly-by-wire and we wouldn't have to put up with planes like the B2 at all.
After reading that CA was go for class action lawsuits, and thinking of Silicon Valley, and all the tech industry that would love to get their M$ blood-money back, I remembered the line from "Escape from L.A.":
You may have survived Clevland
You may have Escaped from New York
But you're in Los Angeles now
And this F**king town can kill anybody
Yeah! Just look at how the first time everyone say napster they ran away screeming... Oh, and not to mention how corporations and the press completely ignore GNU/Linux.
My appologies, I should have said 'wave' instead of 'frequency'. My point does not change however... If a color is not acurately reproduced it is due to equipment failure and not lack of the 'missing prime'. The current spectrum does indeed cover every color we can see.
I think the funniest thing about this fourm is the idiots that replied before you! It was god for a laugh at least!
Yeah, take that! It's a good thing verisign is in charge otherwise we might have half-assed companies in place that would grant a certificate to anyone who claimed to be a Microsoft employee...
Light is like any other wave... When two waves cross paths the signals are added or subtracted from each other. I don't know who lied to you, but it is indeed the frequency of the light signal being changed. About the only thing out biology has to do with it is the range of light we can see. In other words, it is a mathematical proof that there are only three primary colors (or four for those that insist on counting lack of light as well). Any part of the spectrum that cannot be reproduced is a result of bad equiment that doesn't have the light frequeny quite right (like out monitors and TVs)
I'll have to go for #4
"Huh? Did they post anything different then usual?"
You know, if they had been stealing code, Windows wouldn't suck as much as it does now...
Is it coincidence or truth in advertising that when you go to buy BeOS it says "Limited time only" "This offer won't last long"...
.sigs too--
--Yes, I hate
I can't name anything off the top of my head, but there are thousands of things I've searched for but couldn't find due to an overabundance of results that didn't relate to the subject... and trust me, I really know how to search on the net. I admit Google has brought to occurance of these down, but occasionally you'll find something that can't be narrowed down to less than 20,000 hits.
Microsoft used the source code for Kerbos and rewrote it to be non-interoperable with the opensource implimentation and because it was under the BSD license they were not required to release their changes to the public.
I believe Micro$oft already made a compression librart for DOS and Window$ that does this very same thing... It was called drivespace I believe. In fact my hard drive data was reduced to 0% many times I used it.
How did I know I would be modded down as 'flamebait'
16 megs... You know bzip2 is pretty good compression! But that's besides the point.
What I'm envisioning is a place in AIM config that they can specify what MD5Sum they want to report to AOL, similar to Opera's feature of pretending to be Internet Explorer or Netscape just by changing the header info. This way the users could go to a web site when they can't login and copy/paste the MD5Sum for the week. Of course if AOL get's real defensive then the complete list might be needed.
It's not like the Server is getting the MD5Sum of the client itself... It sends a request for an MD5Sum and AIM sends it. All libfaim needs to do is recognize the MD5 handshake and send back the MD5Sum for a valid AIM client. I can guarantee it's perfectly legal to include the MD5Sum of a commercial program in libfaim.
One very clear trend I've noticed with Windows is when it progresses, it looks more and more like a Unix OS. Many things like Scrollbar for the Command Prompt and Home directory in the root C: drive are just a small fraction of the similarities one can find, but what I thought was most interesting was WindowsCE's removal of drive letters and (surprise) making everything on the filesystem relative to root (\ in Windows).
I wonder if these changes are done to simulate a Unix environment, or are these just improvements for Windows which mimic Unix because it was done right the first time?
I've said this same thing over and over again... As soon as FreeNET gets search capability (downloads a list of all available files from connected hosts and updates the list every few minutes) it will kill Gnutella because your bandwidth matters little, popular files are automatically mirrored so you don't end up being the only person making something available, and people are anonymous...
Okay, so they made 'firewire'-wireless© Wouldn't that mean they have just developed 'fire' ? Inquiring minds want to know!
While I love hearing about spy stories as much as the next guy, what happened here is nothing to boast about... In movies, James Bond and other famous spies lead thrilling lives and are always saving the world from evil. In reality, spies cause death. People die because of information spies pick-up, from knowledge that so-so is a spy for this country, to atomic weapons secrets that leave this world in fear of destruction. I really think this subject should be looked upon with thoughts more torwards reality and less torwards the picture-perfect super-spy senarios hat come out of hollywood. In real life the good-guys get killed too.