But I sorta doubt they'll use it to track down spammers and sue them for patent infringement
Why not? Habeas tracks down and sues spammers for copyright infringement when they abuse the Habeas Haiku, this could be used in a similar way. Spamming is a legal grey area and it is risky trying to sue for damages, but copyright and patent infringement is a much safer prospect, and easier to prove too.
The BBC News site has been carrying a summary of a Nature article on this since yesterday. The telling quote is "The observations, from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, do not rule out ice". The conclusion seems to have been that the ice might still be present, but rather than being thick sheets can only be in small grains or thin sheets. There is also the possiblity of sub-surface ice since the probes can only reach to a depth of several meters into the surface dust.
Roll on the ESA's Smart 1 probe next year which will hopefully resolve the issue.
Given their intentions, I'd say that if they manage to achieve their goals of profitable lunar mining then they will be able to return that aid with interest. Whether they will or not is another matter of course, but they could well become the wealthiest nation on the planet if they can pull this off.
In a way it's kind of like how to spend aid in a country suffering from famine. Spending all of the money on food and water is a short term solution, but building a robust irrigation system will fix the problem long-term; you need to hit the right balance. Strip mining the moon is China's long term solution; why should they care if they don't have the arable land to feed over a billion people if they can simple buy the stuff from elsewhere?
"If I see further, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants" - Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to Robert Hooke.
No one is doubting the phenomonal rate of progress made during the sixties and early seventies by the US and USSR. Like Newton, the Chinese seem to have their sights set further than their predecessors and intend on exploiting space more directly than using it as a research platform.
Give me a break; run the figures through a half-decent spreadsheet package and SCOX is a buy because it's still trending up. This is probably the clearest for a layperson to see; there is a clear linear trend since the announcement of the court case, with a few hiccups along the way.
Of course, buying just on the say so of a trend analysis is not sound financial advice...
Interesting that you should bring up Stalin, another big fan of revising the "official" records to expunge subjects and persons out of favour from the official records. Stalin's first efforts of media control were in the printed media too, but editing of photographs and the other media followed fairly quickly.
I don't think Stalin went so far as to edit his own family though...
I don't think the "extras" sacrifice as much space as you think. A standard Red Book audio CD can hold (very roughly) 650MB of data or 70min of music. To put it another way, for each 9MB of data space, you lose about one minute of audio. So, you can provide 60 minutes of CD audio, which is pretty good for a regular CD, and have 90MB for any second session data, DRM audio, video clips and whatever.
Probably not. When I was learning about logic circuits way back when we tried wiring circuits completely at random just to see what would happen. Almost invariably the initial chaos of the breadboarded circuit would stabilise either into a static state or oscillation between two or three set states within a dozen clocks. The longest times to stabilisation that we got were in the mid twenties. A simple demonstration of the principle that inside every chaotic system is order trying to get out.
Supposed you have a suspect IP, "A.B.C.D". You start by reversing the octets: "D.C.B.A", then perform an A lookup, not a PTR, against the host "D.C.B.A.sbl.spamhaus.org". If it returns 127.0.0.2, then you have a win^H^H^H loser! To perform a check against other DNSBL providers, simply replace the "sbl.spamhaus.org" with the appropriate host, for example "bl.spamcop.org".
Also, note that you do not have to query directly against the DNSBL DNS server because it's just another host in the DNS heirarchy.
Yeah, I know all that, I've even done it myself on occasion, ridden the ride up and dropped the stock before the big fall, not quite day trading but not far from it - week/month trading maybe. Ultimately though, there is going to be a group of people who buy the stock at a higher price than they can ever hope to sell it for (my "fools"). In the SCO case that's quite a chunk of change given that the current market value is in the region of 7-10 times what the stock was worth before this started.
While I think that I understand shorting in principle, I'm having a hard time understanding those who are enabling the SCO shorts. When the case falls apart and SCO is thrown to the wolves, their stock is going to go down so hard and fast that while those who hold the shorts are going to be able to make a profit, those who are ultimately going to end up holding the slips of paper representing SCO's post-case value are probably not.
On the otherhand, SCO's stock is still trending upwards since the announcement of the case back in May, so there is definately money there for the truly canny investor. But, all in all, I'd rather have my portfolio's tech sector money in Novell at the moment... Oh wait... I do!;)
I'm waiting for Episode 3 to show how and why R2 lost his flying rockets, and when his holographic projector was downgraded.
You say that now, but this is Lucas we are talking about. I think it far more likely that by the time we get the original trilogy on DVD that R2 will have THX sound to go with his IMAX sized hologram and jet out of the Dagobah swamp.
Actually the Nigerian 419 spams often have one of a hell of a lot of effort put into them. There is a psychological review of one of these things knocking around somewhere if you feel like exercising your Ninja Google skills. The summary was that they are very carefully crafted to bait as many people as possible, the odd spelling/grammer error might be attributed to it being from someone for whom English is not their first language, and so on. Basically, the things are seeded with all sorts of psychological hooks to grab you, and the human mind tends to skip over the ones that don't apply.
Now however, we are getting a lot of copycats on board who miss this rather subtle point and the language errors are simply down to the author having a low intellect. Case in point; a day or two ago I got one of these scams from some loser with such stunning imagination that the best name he could come up with for his late father's company was "ACME".
And the fools who bought SCO stock thinking they were going to get rich, but didn't quite dump the stock before the inevitable crash when the case collapses. I can't say I'm feeling sympathetic though.
I'd have to say yes and no on that. Ice floats, so with a glass brim full of water and an ice cube floating in it, some of the ice will be *above* the rim. This is the whole point of the demonstration; that the melting ice *doesn't* cause the glass to overflow as it melts. If on the otherhand the combined volume of ice and water is level with the rim, then none of your science students are going think the glass will overflow.
Incidentally, if you freeze a glass of water the glass usually breaks, as I discovered when trying to make icepops when I was about five or so. Mother was not amused.:(
Not quite. 300 pages to totally lock down a Cisco router regardless of its specific configuration or specification with explainations as to precisely why you want to make the changes and what might happen if you don't. There are also guides to Windows (various versions) and email security too. None for Linux yet, but I suppose that can be summarised as "Install NSA Secure Linux".;) You can find them here, by the way - well worth a look at some point, even if you don't deal with the specific subject matter but in the same area.
Nevermind London, the buildings and the people in them would have been replaced eventually. It's a monarchy too, so it's a case of "The King is dead! Long live the King!". The revived concept of an elected government on the otherhand, only a few decades old at that time, would not have recovered for a much longer time. If he had been successful, Guy Fawkes would have devastated democracy *way* more than any damage he might have inflicted on London.
As to the response, well, we have a good parallel for that, don't we? Guy Fawkes launched a religiously motivated attack at heart of the the "infidel" symbol of power. So did Usama bin Laden, and given what happened there, in the context of the times another knee-jerk purge of English Catholisism would almost certainly have ensued.
But if Microsoft are going to take this approach, then what about extending it to spammers? Microsoft must spend a hell of a lot more the that $250,000 on hardware, bandwidth and stafff to deal with all the spam going to hotmail accounts, so it could actually save them money.
Or does Microsoft actually make money from spam? I seem to call they were not exactly a staunch supporter of anti-spam legislation recently.
Actually, you have some factual errors too since displacement is relative to *mass* not to volume. Water is kind of funny in that the solid has more volume than the liquid for a given mass due to the chemical structures, so 1KG of ice has more volume than 1KG of water, as you state. But if you put some ice cubes in a glass, fill it to the brim with water and then let the ice melt, it will still be full to the brim with no overflow because the mass remains constant. And that's in an ideal world, before you account for the losses due to evaporation. The section of the ice sticking out of the water is the difference in *volume* between the mass of the water in the ice cube in its liquid and solid states.
People getting confused when relating this to the melting of the polar caps is due to the fact that while the northern cap is largely over water and they think of the ice cube in a glass thing. But that's not the end of the story. The bulk of the southern ice mass *is* over land, and a good chunk of ice in the north is too, plus the temperature rise necessary to melt the caps would almost certainly cause a rise in the snowline and meltage of other inland ice.
In a nutshell, ice mass supported by the oceans can melt without causing the seas to rise, but ice supported by land will cause the seas to rise. Note: I seem to recall that "supported by" is not the same as "directly over", but it's a *long* time since I did any geography.
Pretty good primer for all the newbies out there, which is a good thing - we need to create some links and mirrors to get the thing high up on the Google rankings! One thing thing though; in the anti-spoofing section you might want to add the line:
access-list 111 deny ip 169.254.0.0 0.0.255.255 any
which is used for APIPA ("Automatic Private IP Addressing", the serverless "DHCP" thing) which a lot of people overlook. Also, while looking for that I spotted that you have the wrong subnet masks for 172.16.0.0 (it's a/12 not a/16) and 192.168.0.0 (it's a/16, not a/8), so you should have:
access-list 111 deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any access-list 111 deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any
Couldn't see anything else obvious to suggest, but I've only scanned it so far.
I think you misunderstand me. Sure, I can see the "benefits" to a Big Brother entity of having static IPs everywhere, but that wasn't my point. Having dealt with RIPE it's already impossible to get a/24 for 200 workstations because of NAT. Imagine what the reaction would be if A.N.Other Telco asked for a/8 for its 3G network. I suspect the laughter from RIPE's offices in Amsterdam would be heard right across Europe.
Mobile Internet and Internet appliances are largely a green field technology; what better place to start a widescale deployment of IPv6. I personally don't give a damn about the billions of IP addresses that I personally can have, I want the enhanced security features! And yes, I am aware that would entail a static IP and so on with all the Big Brother issues you allude to.
Probably none since IPv6 allocations don't work that way, plus can you imagine having a routing table with over six *billion* entries? You can however do some nice tricks with DNS to achieve a similar result; essentially you split the DNS record into two halves, one being the ISP and the other being your "private" address. If you have multiple ISPs then the private address can remain the same while you update the ISP part as required. It was intended as an enhancement to the DNS round-robin loadsharing technique, but can be used for other things too.
I *really* can't see an RIR agreeing to assign the huge numbers of IPs that would be required to give each Internet enabled household appliance or phone a DHCP address for the duration of the connection, let alone a static IP, when NAT is a viable option.
I think we are much more likely to see the first widescale commercial IPv6 deployments in the fields of VoIP, mobile Internet devices and household devices, communicating via a gateway to the IPv4 Internet. Hopefully this will then provide the catalyst necessary to start the global deployment of IPv6 so we can all start to benefit from the enhanced features and security that it offers.
Oh, puhleeeze let it be soon! With the range of Bluetooth, they'll have to send so many spams to get their 0.00001% hit rates that their fingers will fall off through exteme RSI and the bastards won't be able to send us email spam either.;)
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Why not? Habeas tracks down and sues spammers for copyright infringement when they abuse the Habeas Haiku, this could be used in a similar way. Spamming is a legal grey area and it is risky trying to sue for damages, but copyright and patent infringement is a much safer prospect, and easier to prove too.
Roll on the ESA's Smart 1 probe next year which will hopefully resolve the issue.
In a way it's kind of like how to spend aid in a country suffering from famine. Spending all of the money on food and water is a short term solution, but building a robust irrigation system will fix the problem long-term; you need to hit the right balance. Strip mining the moon is China's long term solution; why should they care if they don't have the arable land to feed over a billion people if they can simple buy the stuff from elsewhere?
No one is doubting the phenomonal rate of progress made during the sixties and early seventies by the US and USSR. Like Newton, the Chinese seem to have their sights set further than their predecessors and intend on exploiting space more directly than using it as a research platform.
Of course, buying just on the say so of a trend analysis is not sound financial advice...
I don't think Stalin went so far as to edit his own family though...
I don't think the "extras" sacrifice as much space as you think. A standard Red Book audio CD can hold (very roughly) 650MB of data or 70min of music. To put it another way, for each 9MB of data space, you lose about one minute of audio. So, you can provide 60 minutes of CD audio, which is pretty good for a regular CD, and have 90MB for any second session data, DRM audio, video clips and whatever.
Probably not. When I was learning about logic circuits way back when we tried wiring circuits completely at random just to see what would happen. Almost invariably the initial chaos of the breadboarded circuit would stabilise either into a static state or oscillation between two or three set states within a dozen clocks. The longest times to stabilisation that we got were in the mid twenties. A simple demonstration of the principle that inside every chaotic system is order trying to get out.
Also, note that you do not have to query directly against the DNSBL DNS server because it's just another host in the DNS heirarchy.
While I think that I understand shorting in principle, I'm having a hard time understanding those who are enabling the SCO shorts. When the case falls apart and SCO is thrown to the wolves, their stock is going to go down so hard and fast that while those who hold the shorts are going to be able to make a profit, those who are ultimately going to end up holding the slips of paper representing SCO's post-case value are probably not.
On the otherhand, SCO's stock is still trending upwards since the announcement of the case back in May, so there is definately money there for the truly canny investor. But, all in all, I'd rather have my portfolio's tech sector money in Novell at the moment... Oh wait... I do! ;)
You say that now, but this is Lucas we are talking about. I think it far more likely that by the time we get the original trilogy on DVD that R2 will have THX sound to go with his IMAX sized hologram and jet out of the Dagobah swamp.
Now however, we are getting a lot of copycats on board who miss this rather subtle point and the language errors are simply down to the author having a low intellect. Case in point; a day or two ago I got one of these scams from some loser with such stunning imagination that the best name he could come up with for his late father's company was "ACME".
And the fools who bought SCO stock thinking they were going to get rich, but didn't quite dump the stock before the inevitable crash when the case collapses. I can't say I'm feeling sympathetic though.
Let me guess... "Libelous Legal Practice"??? ;)
Incidentally, if you freeze a glass of water the glass usually breaks, as I discovered when trying to make icepops when I was about five or so. Mother was not amused. :(
Not quite. 300 pages to totally lock down a Cisco router regardless of its specific configuration or specification with explainations as to precisely why you want to make the changes and what might happen if you don't. There are also guides to Windows (various versions) and email security too. None for Linux yet, but I suppose that can be summarised as "Install NSA Secure Linux". ;) You can find them here, by the way - well worth a look at some point, even if you don't deal with the specific subject matter but in the same area.
As to the response, well, we have a good parallel for that, don't we? Guy Fawkes launched a religiously motivated attack at heart of the the "infidel" symbol of power. So did Usama bin Laden, and given what happened there, in the context of the times another knee-jerk purge of English Catholisism would almost certainly have ensued.
Or does Microsoft actually make money from spam? I seem to call they were not exactly a staunch supporter of anti-spam legislation recently.
People getting confused when relating this to the melting of the polar caps is due to the fact that while the northern cap is largely over water and they think of the ice cube in a glass thing. But that's not the end of the story. The bulk of the southern ice mass *is* over land, and a good chunk of ice in the north is too, plus the temperature rise necessary to melt the caps would almost certainly cause a rise in the snowline and meltage of other inland ice.
In a nutshell, ice mass supported by the oceans can melt without causing the seas to rise, but ice supported by land will cause the seas to rise. Note: I seem to recall that "supported by" is not the same as "directly over", but it's a *long* time since I did any geography.
You are talking about hockey and *don't* want a fight? What kind of freak are you??? ;)
access-list 111 deny ip 169.254.0.0 0.0.255.255 any
which is used for APIPA ("Automatic Private IP Addressing", the serverless "DHCP" thing) which a lot of people overlook. Also, while looking for that I spotted that you have the wrong subnet masks for 172.16.0.0 (it's a /12 not a /16) and 192.168.0.0 (it's a /16, not a /8), so you should have:
access-list 111 deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any
access-list 111 deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any
Couldn't see anything else obvious to suggest, but I've only scanned it so far.
Mobile Internet and Internet appliances are largely a green field technology; what better place to start a widescale deployment of IPv6. I personally don't give a damn about the billions of IP addresses that I personally can have, I want the enhanced security features! And yes, I am aware that would entail a static IP and so on with all the Big Brother issues you allude to.
Probably none since IPv6 allocations don't work that way, plus can you imagine having a routing table with over six *billion* entries? You can however do some nice tricks with DNS to achieve a similar result; essentially you split the DNS record into two halves, one being the ISP and the other being your "private" address. If you have multiple ISPs then the private address can remain the same while you update the ISP part as required. It was intended as an enhancement to the DNS round-robin loadsharing technique, but can be used for other things too.
I think we are much more likely to see the first widescale commercial IPv6 deployments in the fields of VoIP, mobile Internet devices and household devices, communicating via a gateway to the IPv4 Internet. Hopefully this will then provide the catalyst necessary to start the global deployment of IPv6 so we can all start to benefit from the enhanced features and security that it offers.
Oh, puhleeeze let it be soon! With the range of Bluetooth, they'll have to send so many spams to get their 0.00001% hit rates that their fingers will fall off through exteme RSI and the bastards won't be able to send us email spam either. ;)