Ugh! Believe-it-or-not, indeed. Reminds me of a story I once read, set in a town where the painters got a law forbidding a homeowner to paint his own house. I think the barbers had gotten a similar law against men shaving themselves. It was nuts.
The Court seems to have correctly construed a rotten law in this case, although I'd like to think it made them ill to have to draw such conclusions. It reads like something out of the depths of the Stalinist nightmare.
The difference between interstate and intrastate radio emissions is whether your receiver is on the same side of the border as his transmitter. Since electromagnetic fields don't observe political boundaries, I can't think of any other meaningful distinction.
*sigh* FCC's job *is* to embody the public interest in our common use of limited communication resources. If they're doing it wrong then we should instruct our representatives to tell them how to do it right.
You can certainly vote against whoever appoints the incumbents at FCC and, if enough people agree with you, get a replacement who will put in people you'd approve. Go right ahead and do it. Talk to the candidates and make sure they understand what you want and why you think it would be good for the country. Talk to anybody who will listen and do your best to convince them that they should see things your way.
Huh? But, but...the FCC is bad, see any/. article on communication, how can they do anything good? Shouldn't they be done away with pronto, so that, uh, huge corporations will regain their God-given right to, uh, force us to use their stuff instead of our own...ohhh, my brain hurts!:-) for the sarcasm-impaired. I agree with the parent.
Whatever it does or doesn't do about insider trading, it seems to make the suits' financial machinations a little easier to follow.
A lot of corporations are taking such measures on their own. I've voted in favor of every one I've been asked about, whether board- or stockholder-initiated. You want to reward my senior managers by giving them a stake in continued good performance of the business? pay them with stock, not options.
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Hmmm, for some time I've thought that scrubbing off, sandblasting, or painting over graffiti is the wrong way to go -- it just leaves a tempting blank field for the next vandal. Much better to grab a can of paint and throw random splashes over the mess. I think it makes a powerful statement.
P.S. no vigilantism, please; only spoil stains on walls that you personally own.
[Install programs to a wide-open directory instead of a properly secured one.]
"You'd be suprised how much all of a sudden works out of the box."
That's precisely what I'm afraid of. What you describe is the software equivalent of hanging your front-door key on a nail next to the door, outside. Or the usual idiotic advice you get from tech support: "just add Everyone to Power Users or Administrators".
If you don't want to make it easy for malevolent strangers on some other continent to update your databases,.INIs, etc. while you sleep then you have to actually secure the machine. Finding out what one or two things an individual broken program needs is not very hard and much much safer.
There are a couple of other problems as well. Some incorrectly-designed installers don't even *ask* where you want the software; they just dump it wherever the developer thought would be most humorous. And you assume that the root of the C: drive still permits wide-open access, when on a well-run host it should not.
Many years ago there was one called Mowbot. It had sensors to detect a buried wire at the edge of your property, something like those "invisible fence" gadgets for dogs. You could also lead it around on an electronic "leash" for fine control of trimming.
When running freely it would just bounce off the wires at a somewhat random angle. So, no neat stripes, and some "wasted" motion going over patches already cut, but eventually it would cover the whole area.
It used a big disc with four X-acto blades for the cutter. Very very sharp, but the single screw holding each would allow the blade to swing back mostly harmlessly should the Mowbot encounter a firm object such as your shoe.
There are a lot of good or at least interesting ideas in the Mowbot, and it's so old that any patents may have expired.
No, I never used one myself. Check _Popular Science_ back numbers for a writeup.
See also an old book, _Build Your Own Working Robot_, for some perhaps dated ideas on designing autonomous vehicles for the home.
Depends on how you think. I married one of those "let's go see *a movie*" types, but if I didn't already know which movie I wanted to watch I wouldn't have come to the theater.
Since the game doesn't seem to require any facts or correct figuring, why not just pass the hat and set up the John Smith Institute to write up and publish whatever we believe, or want others to believe? That would appear to be the norm.
*sigh* Next semester, try to stay awake when you retake Statistics 101, especially the first-day lecture on the difference between cases and aggregate measures.
Of course it doesn't mean that. It means that if you add up all the incomes and divide by the number of people then you get 37,800, or something like that. The whole purpose of taking an average is to remove the variation among cases. It's not surprising to find that the mean is a number which occurs in *none* of the cases.
Okay. Hmmm, cut'n'paste works differently in MS Windows. Highlighting alone doesn't do the job. Did you try hitting CTRL-C (terrible choice!) to copy the current selection to the clipboard, before trying to paste the selection onto Firefox?
Actually I have to work with MS Windows at my job and I do have Firefox there, but I do all the work I can on Linux and haven't had occasion to try pasting onto the Windows version. So you're right, I was unaware of any discrepancy. Thanks!
Funny, I ditched the last 1994 Linux app.s only a year ago. They ran just fine, since I hadn't removed the 1994-vintage libc versions they wanted, or the old loader. I don't throw away old libraries very often.
There is no fact to face. Ripping up the APIs won't fix buggy insecure code. Careful review and repair will. The Windows APIs are a mess, but that has nothing to do with the problem MS are currently addressing.
Most of the programs "broken by SP2" were already broken, but worked anyway because the OS was broken in a complementary way.:-/ One half of the problem is now fixed, allowing us to see the other half clearly.
98 maybe, but XP is mainly NT with a few new syscalls and a ton of added chrome. If it won't run on XP chances are it won't run on equivalently configured NT4. NT may not be secure enough to suit you out of the box, but it is securable. Win/DOS (everything from 1.0 through ME) isn't and that's probably the reason these programs ever ran anywhere.
Blame MS for their own mistakes, but not for the thousands of broken-as-designed programs from other sources.
Right-click? I guess you mean Button 3, which is indeed the context-menu button in Mozilla 1.6 as well. Button 2 is the middle one, probably the roller on your pointing device. Here it means, "link to the URL that's in the selection buffer". (Unless the pointer is over a real link; then it means, "follow that link in a new tab.")
Nobody cared whether it was a privilege, a right, or a wrong, until the cities filled up with vehicles and we needed some rules to sort out the mess. You don't recall the debate because it took place long before you or I had been born.
Out on the open prairie you can drive your car, or horse, any old way you please and probably not bother, or even meet, anyone. When you are one of a sea of vehicles, you're almost sure to cause and be caused trouble if there are no rules.
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Ugh! Believe-it-or-not, indeed. Reminds me of a story I once read, set in a town where the painters got a law forbidding a homeowner to paint his own house. I think the barbers had gotten a similar law against men shaving themselves. It was nuts.
The Court seems to have correctly construed a rotten law in this case, although I'd like to think it made them ill to have to draw such conclusions. It reads like something out of the depths of the Stalinist nightmare.
The difference between interstate and intrastate radio emissions is whether your receiver is on the same side of the border as his transmitter. Since electromagnetic fields don't observe political boundaries, I can't think of any other meaningful distinction.
*sigh* FCC's job *is* to embody the public interest in our common use of limited communication resources. If they're doing it wrong then we should instruct our representatives to tell them how to do it right.
You can certainly vote against whoever appoints the incumbents at FCC and, if enough people agree with you, get a replacement who will put in people you'd approve. Go right ahead and do it. Talk to the candidates and make sure they understand what you want and why you think it would be good for the country. Talk to anybody who will listen and do your best to convince them that they should see things your way.
Huh? But, but...the FCC is bad, see any /. article on communication, how can they do anything good? Shouldn't they be done away with pronto, so that, uh, huge corporations will regain their God-given right to, uh, force us to use their stuff instead of our own...ohhh, my brain hurts! :-) for the sarcasm-impaired. I agree with the parent.
Whatever it does or doesn't do about insider trading, it seems to make the suits' financial machinations a little easier to follow.
A lot of corporations are taking such measures on their own. I've voted in favor of every one I've been asked about, whether board- or stockholder-initiated. You want to reward my senior managers by giving them a stake in continued good performance of the business? pay them with stock, not options.
Hmmm, for some time I've thought that scrubbing off, sandblasting, or painting over graffiti is the wrong way to go -- it just leaves a tempting blank field for the next vandal. Much better to grab a can of paint and throw random splashes over the mess. I think it makes a powerful statement.
P.S. no vigilantism, please; only spoil stains on walls that you personally own.
Not to mention, "misspelt". :-)
[Install programs to a wide-open directory instead of a properly secured one.]
.INIs, etc. while you sleep then you have to actually secure the machine. Finding out what one or two things an individual broken program needs is not very hard and much much safer.
"You'd be suprised how much all of a sudden works out of the box."
That's precisely what I'm afraid of. What you describe is the software equivalent of hanging your front-door key on a nail next to the door, outside. Or the usual idiotic advice you get from tech support: "just add Everyone to Power Users or Administrators".
If you don't want to make it easy for malevolent strangers on some other continent to update your databases,
There are a couple of other problems as well. Some incorrectly-designed installers don't even *ask* where you want the software; they just dump it wherever the developer thought would be most humorous. And you assume that the root of the C: drive still permits wide-open access, when on a well-run host it should not.
Many years ago there was one called Mowbot. It had sensors to detect a buried wire at the edge of your property, something like those "invisible fence" gadgets for dogs. You could also lead it around on an electronic "leash" for fine control of trimming.
When running freely it would just bounce off the wires at a somewhat random angle. So, no neat stripes, and some "wasted" motion going over patches already cut, but eventually it would cover the whole area.
It used a big disc with four X-acto blades for the cutter. Very very sharp, but the single screw holding each would allow the blade to swing back mostly harmlessly should the Mowbot encounter a firm object such as your shoe.
There are a lot of good or at least interesting ideas in the Mowbot, and it's so old that any patents may have expired.
No, I never used one myself. Check _Popular Science_ back numbers for a writeup.
See also an old book, _Build Your Own Working Robot_, for some perhaps dated ideas on designing autonomous vehicles for the home.
It will emphasize the use of sensible laws against actual offenses rather than dubious laws which punish all for the theoretical offenses of a few.
Depends on how you think. I married one of those "let's go see *a movie*" types, but if I didn't already know which movie I wanted to watch I wouldn't have come to the theater.
Um, so what you seem to be saying is that CDMA is superior to GSM if you already paid for CDMA. I find this unsurprising.
So, how does Acrobat Viewer look on your phone?
Ignore the phone's dinky display and pathetic keyboard -- plug a real computer into it.
Since the game doesn't seem to require any facts or correct figuring, why not just pass the hat and set up the John Smith Institute to write up and publish whatever we believe, or want others to believe? That would appear to be the norm.
Ah, but definition is everything! "The rich" means anyone not on public assistance, apparently.
Keith Laumer has written what you're looking for. For good or ill it is, at the moment, fiction, but darned good reading. Search for "Bolo".
*sigh* Next semester, try to stay awake when you retake Statistics 101, especially the first-day lecture on the difference between cases and aggregate measures.
Of course it doesn't mean that. It means that if you add up all the incomes and divide by the number of people then you get 37,800, or something like that. The whole purpose of taking an average is to remove the variation among cases. It's not surprising to find that the mean is a number which occurs in *none* of the cases.
Okay. Hmmm, cut'n'paste works differently in MS Windows. Highlighting alone doesn't do the job. Did you try hitting CTRL-C (terrible choice!) to copy the current selection to the clipboard, before trying to paste the selection onto Firefox?
Actually I have to work with MS Windows at my job and I do have Firefox there, but I do all the work I can on Linux and haven't had occasion to try pasting onto the Windows version. So you're right, I was unaware of any discrepancy. Thanks!
Funny, I ditched the last 1994 Linux app.s only a year ago. They ran just fine, since I hadn't removed the 1994-vintage libc versions they wanted, or the old loader. I don't throw away old libraries very often.
There is no fact to face. Ripping up the APIs won't fix buggy insecure code. Careful review and repair will. The Windows APIs are a mess, but that has nothing to do with the problem MS are currently addressing.
Most of the programs "broken by SP2" were already broken, but worked anyway because the OS was broken in a complementary way. :-/ One half of the problem is now fixed, allowing us to see the other half clearly.
Yeah, isn't it wonderful, they invented timesharing again, except you only get one terminal.
98 maybe, but XP is mainly NT with a few new syscalls and a ton of added chrome. If it won't run on XP chances are it won't run on equivalently configured NT4. NT may not be secure enough to suit you out of the box, but it is securable. Win/DOS (everything from 1.0 through ME) isn't and that's probably the reason these programs ever ran anywhere.
Blame MS for their own mistakes, but not for the thousands of broken-as-designed programs from other sources.
Right-click? I guess you mean Button 3, which is indeed the context-menu button in Mozilla 1.6 as well. Button 2 is the middle one, probably the roller on your pointing device. Here it means, "link to the URL that's in the selection buffer". (Unless the pointer is over a real link; then it means, "follow that link in a new tab.")
Nobody cared whether it was a privilege, a right, or a wrong, until the cities filled up with vehicles and we needed some rules to sort out the mess. You don't recall the debate because it took place long before you or I had been born.
Out on the open prairie you can drive your car, or horse, any old way you please and probably not bother, or even meet, anyone. When you are one of a sea of vehicles, you're almost sure to cause and be caused trouble if there are no rules.