the first thing I'd do would be to decide to ignore parts of the Geneva conventions
...especially if your technologically superior adversary had already chosen to ignore parts of the Geneva convention (oh, say, on torture). You don't even have to sacrifice the moral high ground.
At some point in the future, this will lead to a driverless car, which will lead to more cost savings from the reduction and almost total elimination of human error accidents.
The driverless car, which is meant to work in a cooperative environment (that is, cooperating with other driverless cars), seems like something that could actually be viable.
This tank, on the other hand, is a preposterous idea.
I will guarantee you that with US$10,000 worth of materials I can destroy any autonomous land vehicle created in the next 20 years.
Let's say C sets its termination rates lower than A and B.
Every time a C customer dials an A number, C still has to pay high A termination rates, and they can either pass them on to their customers or lose money on the call.
Meanwhile, A can offer its own customers a discount on calls to C numbers, without losing anything. C is then left without any price advantage, but has considerably lower mean revenue per air minute.
As long as the market is structured so that sellers set their competitors' rates rather than their own, it will always be distorted and tend toward high prices. It's a fundamental flaw in the European caller-pays model.
If we take two carriers A and B, and their clients 1 and 2. A has an agreement with B about how much it costs for A when 1 calls 2, and vice-versa. This price is of course offset to 1. if A wants a better agreement, so he can give 1 a lower price, he has to offer something in return: a better price on B's agreement.
But why would A want to do this? If A and B don't make this agreement, they both keep a higher price (which means more revenues from termination fees) and are in no danger of losing customers.
The reason is because the US does not use dedicated area codes for cellphones like most other countries do.
That's not the reason. There are mobile-device area codes (e.g., 917) and if it were desired (or desirable), they could be implemented nationwide.
The receiver-pays billing system is a specific policy choice.
There are only two ways to keep termination costs under control.
1) Strictly regulate them: "You may only charge up to US$0.02/minute to terminate a call."
2) Allow the market to sort it out: "Call costs will be borne by the customer, so they have the opportunity to switch to a different carrier if the price is too high."
Not surprisingly (given the prevailing dogma) US regulators chose to go with the free-market approach.
The European system creates a market failure that requires aggressive regulatory intervention because carriers have little incentive to reduce the amount they charge other carriers' customers to call their own customers.
Clearly, who makes the call is the party who has the necessity to communicate, not the receiving end. Why continue to bill in a way that contradicts basic economic reasoning???
Basic economic reasoning stipulates that you get more efficient markets when the people who are paying for a service have market power.
If you do it the European way, the people who are paying for a call have no ability to select a different provider for the bulk of the charge.
That's why the American way is economically more rational, it's why settlement costs are so much lower in the USA, it's why a growing number of Asian countries are doing it that way, it's why Australia is considering switching, and it's why everyone will do it that way in the long run (unless flat-rate billing takes over first).
My take on this is in order to keep people from viewing the source they need to disable all browsers right click capabilities AND the context menu portion of view source. After all, if they don't do that they are leaving their doors and windows unlocked. How do you expect to keep a thief out of your house? Dumb asses.
I really, really worry that you might not be speaking sarcastically.
This story is about randomising the location of entry points in RAM, not on file storage. Drivers for flash devices already automatically try to spread out the writes to avoid concentrations of wear.
Hardware Posted by Hemos on Wednesday November 11, @10:11AM
Reminds me of one of my biggest pet peeves about Slashdot:
The story posting date doesn't contain the year! It's not anywhere on the page!
Whenever I find an old Slashdot story via Google, it's almost impossible to figure out when it was actually posted. In order to get a reliable sense of its vintage, I have to sift through the comments and analyse the relative density of "hot grits" vs "all your base" comments.
There is an Opera mobile browser available, and it acts quite nice.
Not for me. The trial version expired the day after I installed it, and I've never been able to get it to work again. I did not change the clock on my phone.
If that's how well the trial works, I'm not that eager to plunk down $24 for the real thing.
.nato was the first 4 letter tld. It was added when a general called IANA and insisted it be put in back in the 80s. It was removed by Postel as cruft around 96 or 97 when somebody pointed out it was still in the root zone file.
Before.arpa, which was created on the same day as.com,.net,.mil,.org, and.edu?
"dotcom" is well-understood in any language spoken by people who use computers.
I will agree that.biz is the stupidest thing since reusable toilet paper. On the other hand, it's slowly gaining the same universal recognition of "dotcom" - people are starting to know that "dotcom" means "web site" and that "dotbiz" means "spammer".
Personally I think.com should be for international companies/entities, with local companies using local domains.
But almost every company dreams of one day being global. And if they have that ambition, they need to snap up.com now, before someone else does. And since they have it anyway, why postpone the hassle of getting their users to know the.com version of their domain? And so, why waste time on the cctld?
when a patient is told, $3500.00 to save that tooth and put a crown on it or $490.00 to yank it out. Guess what the poor person ($35,000 or less) is going to do?
If they're smart, they'll take some vacation days and fly to Thailand. For $2000 they can have the trip of a lifetime and get an excellent root canal and crown done. Almost all of that is airfare.
The lowest 6-digit user ID I could find using my genius googling skills was Shimbo (100005). Someone with a Slashdot subscription can see when he/she made his/her first post.
At the beginning I didn't see any point to an account. I never created an account until I needed to change the preferences. I bet thats true of a lot of the 200K people.
I think so too. By rights, all 300K of us should have 3-digit UIDs.
I must say I haven't had problems with this, despite darkening the doors of countless hotels in dozens of countries every year. On long trips I travel with my trusty Sipura SPA-1001, on shorter ones I just use Eyebeam on the MacBook. Both approaches pretty much always work. I'm about to pick up a Nokia E-Series with SIP support, I understand that may be a bit trickier. But it doesn't support Skype in any case, so I'll be stuck with whatever stunning (harr harr) connectivity I can get from it.
You are incorrect in your belief. You can not use SkypeOut unless you have money in your account. It does not, however, cost anything to dial 1-800 numbers.
I believe that you are incorrect in your belief that I am incorrect in my belief.
I just installed Skype in a virtual machine wherein it had never been previously installed. I created a new account using an email address that had never been used for Skype before. I then punched in the toll-free number for an airline in the USA and it immediately connected. FWIW, I am in Asia.
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...especially if your technologically superior adversary had already chosen to ignore parts of the Geneva convention (oh, say, on torture). You don't even have to sacrifice the moral high ground.
The driverless car, which is meant to work in a cooperative environment (that is, cooperating with other driverless cars), seems like something that could actually be viable.
This tank, on the other hand, is a preposterous idea.
I will guarantee you that with US$10,000 worth of materials I can destroy any autonomous land vehicle created in the next 20 years.
And do what?
Let's say C sets its termination rates lower than A and B.
Every time a C customer dials an A number, C still has to pay high A termination rates, and they can either pass them on to their customers or lose money on the call.
Meanwhile, A can offer its own customers a discount on calls to C numbers, without losing anything. C is then left without any price advantage, but has considerably lower mean revenue per air minute.
As long as the market is structured so that sellers set their competitors' rates rather than their own, it will always be distorted and tend toward high prices. It's a fundamental flaw in the European caller-pays model.
But why would A want to do this? If A and B don't make this agreement, they both keep a higher price (which means more revenues from termination fees) and are in no danger of losing customers.
That's not the reason. There are mobile-device area codes (e.g., 917) and if it were desired (or desirable), they could be implemented nationwide.
The receiver-pays billing system is a specific policy choice.
There are only two ways to keep termination costs under control.
1) Strictly regulate them: "You may only charge up to US$0.02/minute to terminate a call."
2) Allow the market to sort it out: "Call costs will be borne by the customer, so they have the opportunity to switch to a different carrier if the price is too high."
Not surprisingly (given the prevailing dogma) US regulators chose to go with the free-market approach.
The European system creates a market failure that requires aggressive regulatory intervention because carriers have little incentive to reduce the amount they charge other carriers' customers to call their own customers.
Basic economic reasoning stipulates that you get more efficient markets when the people who are paying for a service have market power.
If you do it the European way, the people who are paying for a call have no ability to select a different provider for the bulk of the charge.
That's why the American way is economically more rational, it's why settlement costs are so much lower in the USA, it's why a growing number of Asian countries are doing it that way, it's why Australia is considering switching, and it's why everyone will do it that way in the long run (unless flat-rate billing takes over first).
Even for the whole damn week last August when we couldn't access our email at all?
Plaxo also makes your address book easier to manage by shrinking it. I know I've deleted and stopped dealing with anyone who spammed me from Plaxo.
I really, really worry that you might not be speaking sarcastically.
It sounds like everyone else is talking about the OS crashing, whereas you are talking about individual apps crashing.
This story is about randomising the location of entry points in RAM, not on file storage. Drivers for flash devices already automatically try to spread out the writes to avoid concentrations of wear.
Reminds me of one of my biggest pet peeves about Slashdot:
The story posting date doesn't contain the year! It's not anywhere on the page!
Whenever I find an old Slashdot story via Google, it's almost impossible to figure out when it was actually posted. In order to get a reliable sense of its vintage, I have to sift through the comments and analyse the relative density of "hot grits" vs "all your base" comments.
Not for me. The trial version expired the day after I installed it, and I've never been able to get it to work again. I did not change the clock on my phone.
If that's how well the trial works, I'm not that eager to plunk down $24 for the real thing.
Before .arpa, which was created on the same day as .com, .net, .mil, .org, and .edu?
I hope they didn't pay Verisign rates!
"dotcom" is well-understood in any language spoken by people who use computers.
I will agree that .biz is the stupidest thing since reusable toilet paper. On the other hand, it's slowly gaining the same universal recognition of "dotcom" - people are starting to know that "dotcom" means "web site" and that "dotbiz" means "spammer".
But almost every company dreams of one day being global. And if they have that ambition, they need to snap up .com now, before someone else does. And since they have it anyway, why postpone the hassle of getting their users to know the .com version of their domain? And so, why waste time on the cctld?
If they're smart, they'll take some vacation days and fly to Thailand. For $2000 they can have the trip of a lifetime and get an excellent root canal and crown done. Almost all of that is airfare.
Thanks very much to both of you who responded.
Does the default Debian Etch installation activate pygrub? I don't see any mention of it in any of the files in the xen config directory.
If there's any useful information on that site it's well-hidden. A search for "pygrub" turns up zero results. I suspect you are just spamming.
The lowest 6-digit user ID I could find using my genius googling skills was Shimbo (100005). Someone with a Slashdot subscription can see when he/she made his/her first post.
I think so too. By rights, all 300K of us should have 3-digit UIDs.
I must say I haven't had problems with this, despite darkening the doors of countless hotels in dozens of countries every year. On long trips I travel with my trusty Sipura SPA-1001, on shorter ones I just use Eyebeam on the MacBook. Both approaches pretty much always work. I'm about to pick up a Nokia E-Series with SIP support, I understand that may be a bit trickier. But it doesn't support Skype in any case, so I'll be stuck with whatever stunning (harr harr) connectivity I can get from it.
I believe that you are incorrect in your belief that I am incorrect in my belief.
I just installed Skype in a virtual machine wherein it had never been previously installed. I created a new account using an email address that had never been used for Skype before. I then punched in the toll-free number for an airline in the USA and it immediately connected. FWIW, I am in Asia.
I don't believe you need to have any money in your SkypeOut account to dial +1800 numbers.