I use some forms of that, and there are several services such as Spamgourmet who have automated parts of it.
It actually makes sorting spam more interesting because then you can then track individual spidered addresses and see what happens when you do certain things.
See, one problem is that telemarketers do poor screening. I have an apartment. I get all kinds of call asking if I want to refinance my mortgage.
As a general rule, I've already made my decisions about the things sold by telemarketers. I have 2 credit cards that have managed to not piss me off so far. I don't carry a balance, thus I don't care about interest rates. I already get perks, so I don't need new ones. I have DSL from a provider that lets me do whatever I want with that pipe, and I do pay a premium for that. So I will stop a telemarketer who's trying to sell me DSL simply because I value a long-term relationship with a provider who isn't going to screw with me. It saves me time and annoyance to end the pitch early.
The overall problem is that telemarketers have poisoned the well. Years ago, people might have considered a call from some strange person selling something. But because there are too many callers selling too many things who aren't adequately targeting the right audience, people have declared that entire medium of advertising to be not worth dealing with. Because of overuse of telemarketing, nobody wants to take the time to allow somebody to make their pitch.
Aye, but it sounds good on the road show and probably won't get them in more trouble with the SEC than they already will hopefully be in for running a pump-and-dump.;)
The people who need to be impressed (those who are interested in buying or selling SCO stock in large numbers) don't go to those sort of roadshows.
They don't need the resellers to pump-and-dump, so they are just grabbing whatver pennies that they can get out of there until they can hit the jackpot.
You generally haven't been able to short much of it because there are more people who want to short it than stocks in the brokerages. Most of the shares are owned by either the Canopy Group of a few other folks. The short interest is *insane* on that stock -- as in maybe 15% of the shares out on the open market and not covered by the Canopy Group and such have been short-sold.
You are a rational person. You *know* that if somebody says no, they probably mean no.
It's a bad parallel to draw, but telemarketers are the type of person who thinks that if the girl says no, they just need another drink or two. Telemarketers are not people like you and me. Every number they can't call is a person who just doesn't want to admit yet that they want whatever they are selling. Because they know that whatever useless cooking gadget that breaks in 2 weeks or less, credit card, mortgage refinancing, etc. that they are trying to sell, everybody who hears about it wants it. If they could, they'd call each and every person on the do not call list because they figure that nobody else will and they *know* you will love whatever it is that they are selling.
The overall problem is that the presence of the DNC list makes it pretty clear that all of the lines that the telemarketers have been feeding their clients and lobying legislators about are all lies. They don't call legislators, you know, so they have no normal way of knowing how bad it is. Their clients were under the impression that they were not universally reviled, just that a disproportionately noisy bunch of people were annoyed. So even if it makes their business better, they can't afford to let it lie. I have a sneaking suspicion that even if the DNC list isn't constitutional, it will discourage legitimate companies from dealing with telemarketers.
The interesting point about any sort of slot machine is that the odds can be breathtakingly close to 100% and they still make good money.
As long as, statistically, the machines pay out less than they take in, they are making some amount of money on the machine, plus whatever you spend in the rest of the place. The less you lose, the more times you will play, the more drinks you will consume, etc.
There's probably some very complex optimization equations at stake, taking into account the different machines and their respective payout, the individual machine attractiveness (i.e. the networked machines with million dollar payouts), cost of other goods, etc. that makes sure that people spend the optimum amount of time in the casino, drink the correct number of drinks, have a good time, and, statiscially, end up losing most of your money.
One of my more common-sense arguments about copy protection is that you can either restrict copying or charge for replacement media, but not both. As we know, CDs will not last forever, no matter how gingerly treated. So either let us back it up, or give us a replacement if it breaks.
This is one reason why software copy protection never worked. People who didn't want to pirate software still wanted a program to defeat it so they could make a backup.
My suggestion? Get a fscking huge memory card for the PDA to store MP3s (and rotate what's stored on the memory card) and get a Gameboy emulator for the PDA. That's two devices gone. So what if the memory card for the PDA doesn't store as much as the iPod, but you *do* want to stop looking like a gargoyle, no?
1) I have a mail form. It will only send to one mail address, it's not anything like formmail.pl.
2) I generate a unique email address with the IP address and time encoded in it. I actually could use spamgourmet to do this, but I've been doing things by hand because I want to collect some observations about how far a single address travels.
The question is weather they are listening or just using the thin edge of a wedge. Shield Technology looks to be a parallel path from a different bunch of researchers because the security problem is bad and they may not have enough time to stall user uproar before they can get everybody on the trusted computing bandwagon.
Although, to be fair, the more they attack some of the applications they claim are problems that TC is supposed to solve, the fewer remaining reasons other than DRM can be given.
Trusted Computing is dangerous, even with user permissioning because it takes Microsoft+Friends 90% to the point where they can roll out what they want. First release, EFF's way, next release, take away that feature and we're stuck. I have high hopes that if they ever were to create a DRM regeme that didn't leave adequate holes, the user uproar would manage to stifle it.
It depends on who's making the chip, not the form factor. No matter which type you are using -- CF, MemoryStick, SD, MMC, etc., it's some sort of packaging and interface chip to the same flash ram chip across all of them.
Some straightforward modifications (potentially cross-feeding propellants and some structural strengthening) to either the Atlas or Delta CCBs would result in Saturn-V levels of lifting ability. Nothing new required.
Like you said, however, we rarely need to lift huge masses. However, at some point, the economics change things. Say you have a booster that can do 10,000 kg and it costs 100 million to launch (totally made up figures). The main cost of a booster is design and construction. Materials and fuel costs play a very small factor. If you could easily lift 20,000 kg on a similar booster that also costs 100 million, you can bet that either you will be launching 2 satelites at once, with each one paying half as much as before, or you will be launching a satelite that is twice as heavy -- which means you can carry several times the propellant as before, more robust hardware, and potentially be able to spend less money squeezing out every last kilo of weight.
This can change other related economics. If telecom sats are cheap enough, they will start to look pretty good compared to the cost of maintaining fiber links. The same goes for other types of satelites. You can be that if Iridum-like systems are cheap enough, cell companies are going to be using that instead of needing to maintain cell towers.
All of this then effects launch costs further. If you know that you are launching 2-3 times the current launch rate, reusables start to look good, economies of scale start to heat up, etc. Furthermore, if you are using 3+ identical CCBs per launch, economies of scale work there, as well.
Sometimes the best thing a programmer in this situation can do is to just declare a piece of software broken beyond repair and just retract the sucker.
I mean, CIPE might have made sense before the widespread availablity of open-source, carefully crafted IPSec software. Now, your best mileage is to provide easy directions for how to build an existing, functional IPSec setup.
First, heat rises. Which means that you can use convection.
Second, I think they are deliberately making it incompatable with ATX because they want to make sure that you put a BTX motherboard in a proper case. To be quiet, they are going to have to run with as little cooling as possible for a given configuration, thus little things like having the vent holes done up properly are going to count.
Third, you are more likely to have short PCI cards than room in front of the CPU for hard drives. Sure the video cards are still huge, but most everything else is pretty small.
Fourth, the main push is for tiny motherboards, not large motherboards. The full size format is there mostly so that there will be a large enough BTX audience to make a difference.
It should be interesting to see how this plays out. From the looks of it, it doesn't look to be too dual-CPU friendly. There's not much that's strictly wrong with the ATX standard right now (There was major Baby-AT compatability problems and random headaches back in the day) so there's not as much of an incentive to switch form factors. The enthusiasts, who can be counted upon to upgrade regularly and choose whatever brightly colored, feature-filled motherboard is available, aren't going to find much of an audience. It doesn't look too friendly for 1 and 2 U rackmount systems.
But it might do some good work on replacing the LPX form factor and many of the myriad not-particularly-standard tiny ATX standards.
Of course, those who have been watching the computer market for a long time know that the case market has moved towards small cases, and then back to tower cases, several times so far. Apple didn't revolutionize the computing market with the iMac, the case has been part of your positioning ever since the who-knows-how-many colored Cray supercomputers. People loved C64-style keyboard-is-the-computer cases for a span of time. People wanted thin, sexy cases before almost everybody switched to tower cases that could be hidden under the desk. Beige Toasters like the early Macs and the PS/2 mod 25 were popular for a time, but there was a span where nobody made them.
You really want the Natural Keyboard, non-pro, non-elite, etc. It lets you tilt the keyboard backwards, which is actually better for your wrists.
The rotated delete/end/home is fine if you just get used to it, I think. The problem is that you really need to use the same keyboard everywhere to really be used to it.
The latest MS keyboards have started really screwing with things from the delete/home/end group. The Insert key is out of that group and the delete button is double-sized.
I'm really feeling like creating my own custom keyboard one of these days, I swear.:/
Watch it... In cases like these, I've heard of the left-hand getting major RSI symptoms just as soon as you switch to one-handed typing on the left hand.
You might consider taking a break and making some major lifestyle changes, not stressing out your other hand.
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Already been thought of.
I use some forms of that, and there are several services such as Spamgourmet who have automated parts of it.
It actually makes sorting spam more interesting because then you can then track individual spidered addresses and see what happens when you do certain things.
And also prevent the eventual proliferation of any applications built around running a personal server on your household computing devices.
I always figured that we'd eventually have CAVEs as the ultimate expansion of a wide-screen TV meeting the Home Theater PC video game machine.
But that's just me.
See, one problem is that telemarketers do poor screening. I have an apartment. I get all kinds of call asking if I want to refinance my mortgage.
As a general rule, I've already made my decisions about the things sold by telemarketers. I have 2 credit cards that have managed to not piss me off so far. I don't carry a balance, thus I don't care about interest rates. I already get perks, so I don't need new ones. I have DSL from a provider that lets me do whatever I want with that pipe, and I do pay a premium for that. So I will stop a telemarketer who's trying to sell me DSL simply because I value a long-term relationship with a provider who isn't going to screw with me. It saves me time and annoyance to end the pitch early.
The overall problem is that telemarketers have poisoned the well. Years ago, people might have considered a call from some strange person selling something. But because there are too many callers selling too many things who aren't adequately targeting the right audience, people have declared that entire medium of advertising to be not worth dealing with. Because of overuse of telemarketing, nobody wants to take the time to allow somebody to make their pitch.
I posted based on the most recent data I could find on the quote terminal I was looking at.
Aye, but it sounds good on the road show and probably won't get them in more trouble with the SEC than they already will hopefully be in for running a pump-and-dump. ;)
Funny. ;)
;)
The real benefit of the roadshow wasn't what happened at the roadshow, but announcing that you are having a roadshow.
The people who need to be impressed (those who are interested in buying or selling SCO stock in large numbers) don't go to those sort of roadshows.
They don't need the resellers to pump-and-dump, so they are just grabbing whatver pennies that they can get out of there until they can hit the jackpot.
You generally haven't been able to short much of it because there are more people who want to short it than stocks in the brokerages. Most of the shares are owned by either the Canopy Group of a few other folks. The short interest is *insane* on that stock -- as in maybe 15% of the shares out on the open market and not covered by the Canopy Group and such have been short-sold.
See, here's the problem.
You are a rational person. You *know* that if somebody says no, they probably mean no.
It's a bad parallel to draw, but telemarketers are the type of person who thinks that if the girl says no, they just need another drink or two. Telemarketers are not people like you and me. Every number they can't call is a person who just doesn't want to admit yet that they want whatever they are selling. Because they know that whatever useless cooking gadget that breaks in 2 weeks or less, credit card, mortgage refinancing, etc. that they are trying to sell, everybody who hears about it wants it. If they could, they'd call each and every person on the do not call list because they figure that nobody else will and they *know* you will love whatever it is that they are selling.
The overall problem is that the presence of the DNC list makes it pretty clear that all of the lines that the telemarketers have been feeding their clients and lobying legislators about are all lies. They don't call legislators, you know, so they have no normal way of knowing how bad it is. Their clients were under the impression that they were not universally reviled, just that a disproportionately noisy bunch of people were annoyed. So even if it makes their business better, they can't afford to let it lie. I have a sneaking suspicion that even if the DNC list isn't constitutional, it will discourage legitimate companies from dealing with telemarketers.
The interesting point about any sort of slot machine is that the odds can be breathtakingly close to 100% and they still make good money.
As long as, statistically, the machines pay out less than they take in, they are making some amount of money on the machine, plus whatever you spend in the rest of the place. The less you lose, the more times you will play, the more drinks you will consume, etc.
There's probably some very complex optimization equations at stake, taking into account the different machines and their respective payout, the individual machine attractiveness (i.e. the networked machines with million dollar payouts), cost of other goods, etc. that makes sure that people spend the optimum amount of time in the casino, drink the correct number of drinks, have a good time, and, statiscially, end up losing most of your money.
One of my more common-sense arguments about copy protection is that you can either restrict copying or charge for replacement media, but not both. As we know, CDs will not last forever, no matter how gingerly treated. So either let us back it up, or give us a replacement if it breaks.
This is one reason why software copy protection never worked. People who didn't want to pirate software still wanted a program to defeat it so they could make a backup.
Wow, you aren't kidding.
I could live without the bud supply, but the Galls catalog link is definately full of stuff I didn't know I need.
I don't think he needs all of those things.
My suggestion? Get a fscking huge memory card for the PDA to store MP3s (and rotate what's stored on the memory card) and get a Gameboy emulator for the PDA. That's two devices gone. So what if the memory card for the PDA doesn't store as much as the iPod, but you *do* want to stop looking like a gargoyle, no?
I provide two options.
1) I have a mail form. It will only send to one mail address, it's not anything like formmail.pl.
2) I generate a unique email address with the IP address and time encoded in it. I actually could use spamgourmet to do this, but I've been doing things by hand because I want to collect some observations about how far a single address travels.
The question is weather they are listening or just using the thin edge of a wedge. Shield Technology looks to be a parallel path from a different bunch of researchers because the security problem is bad and they may not have enough time to stall user uproar before they can get everybody on the trusted computing bandwagon.
Although, to be fair, the more they attack some of the applications they claim are problems that TC is supposed to solve, the fewer remaining reasons other than DRM can be given.
Trusted Computing is dangerous, even with user permissioning because it takes Microsoft+Friends 90% to the point where they can roll out what they want. First release, EFF's way, next release, take away that feature and we're stuck. I have high hopes that if they ever were to create a DRM regeme that didn't leave adequate holes, the user uproar would manage to stifle it.
It depends on who's making the chip, not the form factor. No matter which type you are using -- CF, MemoryStick, SD, MMC, etc., it's some sort of packaging and interface chip to the same flash ram chip across all of them.
Heavy-lift is even easier than that.
Some straightforward modifications (potentially cross-feeding propellants and some structural strengthening) to either the Atlas or Delta CCBs would result in Saturn-V levels of lifting ability. Nothing new required.
Like you said, however, we rarely need to lift huge masses. However, at some point, the economics change things. Say you have a booster that can do 10,000 kg and it costs 100 million to launch (totally made up figures). The main cost of a booster is design and construction. Materials and fuel costs play a very small factor. If you could easily lift 20,000 kg on a similar booster that also costs 100 million, you can bet that either you will be launching 2 satelites at once, with each one paying half as much as before, or you will be launching a satelite that is twice as heavy -- which means you can carry several times the propellant as before, more robust hardware, and potentially be able to spend less money squeezing out every last kilo of weight.
This can change other related economics. If telecom sats are cheap enough, they will start to look pretty good compared to the cost of maintaining fiber links. The same goes for other types of satelites. You can be that if Iridum-like systems are cheap enough, cell companies are going to be using that instead of needing to maintain cell towers.
All of this then effects launch costs further. If you know that you are launching 2-3 times the current launch rate, reusables start to look good, economies of scale start to heat up, etc. Furthermore, if you are using 3+ identical CCBs per launch, economies of scale work there, as well.
I'd go one step farther.
Sometimes the best thing a programmer in this situation can do is to just declare a piece of software broken beyond repair and just retract the sucker.
I mean, CIPE might have made sense before the widespread availablity of open-source, carefully crafted IPSec software. Now, your best mileage is to provide easy directions for how to build an existing, functional IPSec setup.
The CIPE FAQ claims that CIPE is "Industry Strength".
Aye, but the webpages for CIPE have been updated in 2003.
Aye, but with modern 200+ gig drives, it's getting harder and harder to fill those suckers up. ;)
;)
But yeah, the tiny MicroBTX cases are not intended for you.
A few things.
First, heat rises. Which means that you can use convection.
Second, I think they are deliberately making it incompatable with ATX because they want to make sure that you put a BTX motherboard in a proper case. To be quiet, they are going to have to run with as little cooling as possible for a given configuration, thus little things like having the vent holes done up properly are going to count.
Third, you are more likely to have short PCI cards than room in front of the CPU for hard drives. Sure the video cards are still huge, but most everything else is pretty small.
Fourth, the main push is for tiny motherboards, not large motherboards. The full size format is there mostly so that there will be a large enough BTX audience to make a difference.
It should be interesting to see how this plays out. From the looks of it, it doesn't look to be too dual-CPU friendly. There's not much that's strictly wrong with the ATX standard right now (There was major Baby-AT compatability problems and random headaches back in the day) so there's not as much of an incentive to switch form factors. The enthusiasts, who can be counted upon to upgrade regularly and choose whatever brightly colored, feature-filled motherboard is available, aren't going to find much of an audience. It doesn't look too friendly for 1 and 2 U rackmount systems.
But it might do some good work on replacing the LPX form factor and many of the myriad not-particularly-standard tiny ATX standards.
Of course, those who have been watching the computer market for a long time know that the case market has moved towards small cases, and then back to tower cases, several times so far. Apple didn't revolutionize the computing market with the iMac, the case has been part of your positioning ever since the who-knows-how-many colored Cray supercomputers. People loved C64-style keyboard-is-the-computer cases for a span of time. People wanted thin, sexy cases before almost everybody switched to tower cases that could be hidden under the desk. Beige Toasters like the early Macs and the PS/2 mod 25 were popular for a time, but there was a span where nobody made them.
Stock up, I fear.
:/
You really want the Natural Keyboard, non-pro, non-elite, etc. It lets you tilt the keyboard backwards, which is actually better for your wrists.
The rotated delete/end/home is fine if you just get used to it, I think. The problem is that you really need to use the same keyboard everywhere to really be used to it.
The latest MS keyboards have started really screwing with things from the delete/home/end group. The Insert key is out of that group and the delete button is double-sized.
I'm really feeling like creating my own custom keyboard one of these days, I swear.
Watch it... In cases like these, I've heard of the left-hand getting major RSI symptoms just as soon as you switch to one-handed typing on the left hand.
You might consider taking a break and making some major lifestyle changes, not stressing out your other hand.