Good thing, too. Otherwise it could've started a recursion that would've filled the universe with dwarf planets and they would've come crashing down on us.
Who should these victims be getting recourse from? The government officials who made the illegitimate requests? Or the companies that perhaps ought to have stood up for their customers, but were scared of retaliation by the government?
We require licenses of many different professions, doctors, medical professionals, accountants even. Sorry, but unfortunately, saying "I have plenty of happy customers that are willing to have me repair their computers" doesn't justify this anymore than a doctor practicing medicine without a license can say "but they're totally accepting of my care, even though I'm unlicensed."
And if the patients know this, what exactly is wrong with it?
This is one good reason why medical care costs so much in this country.
While you're at it, why not decode the data punched on each card and then just store the microfilm image and the decoded data, discarding the image of the rest of the card? That'd make things a lot more efficient.
Or just post it with dummy code for the audio, so the community will be able to contribute working code? If you're going to post it as open-source, why not let that work for you, too?
I predict that soon all web pages will be served via https rather than http. The encryption puts a heavier load on the server, but makes it impossible for such injections to be performed.
I think you're making a poor assumption, that music is going to be marketed the same way in the future as your software is currently. Opportunities for music will be much broader than distribution off a band's website.
What radio station will you listen to in the future? Are there going to BE radio stations as we know it in the future? I think (hope) we're going to see everything shifting to streaming radio in the future, with a rich selection available on your PC, your car radio, your cell phone... If you hear a song you like, hit a button and it will automatically be transferred to your catalog, with a dime deducted from your account. At ten cents a pop and the convenience of "one-click shopping" I predict people will be buying songs like never before, and getting exposure to 2 million people will indeed be possible even for a mediocre band.
10 cents is actually my price point for music; when iTunes started selling it for a buck I poo-pooed it and said I'd wait for 10 cents. If it actually happens, I'll start buying music again. If it weren't for the record labels, and independent bands were allowed to sell their own music, even a mediocre band should be able to survive on the income and a great band should make oodles and oodles of cash.
But it'd have to be BUYING the music, not renting. I want a high quality VBR MP3 or AAC file, at the minimum.
I'm going to side with them and say wifi should definitely be banned in public buildings. Not because of the allergy, but because wifi is a huge security hole if it isn't handled properly, and one shouldn't assume public institutions are capable of handling ANYTHING properly.
Not really AG-specific: Also note that multipoint video conferencing requires either echo cancellation (and ALL software echo cancellation sucks, you need still need hardware DSP units even in 2008) or headsets for everyone - one bad node can ruin they meeting - if you think an echoey 2-way conversation is bad, you should experience a 15-way conference some time (though that might need academic/military bandwidth:-) )
Just curious - why should "software" echo cancellation suck? The DSP-based cancellation *is* software, just on a DSP. Modern CPUs ought to have enough horsepower to perform the same function reasonably quickly, yes? No?
Mount the dish at ground level and put a fake rock over it. This has been a very common solution, and the rock-like covers are available from several sources for a few hundred dollars.
That's a good example of a drug having an unanticipated adverse side effect. This has happened several times, both before and after the establishment of the FDA. How about Vioxx? Did the FDA help any in that case?
We've got people worried that the lack of protection of drug company profits will reduce the release of new drugs, but having draconian restrictions on testing has also reduced the introduction of pharmaceuticals.
I'd have to opine that this system is flawed in concept, using both a dedicated swarm and especially a P2P-volunteer swarm. In the case of the volunteer swarm it would be fairly trivial for an attacker to join the swarm, discover the address of the central server and any keys needed to access it, and bypass the swarm to attack directly. However, even if the swarm were composed of dedicated machines, all that would be necessary would be to craft a seemingly-legitimate access request, and flood the central server with forwarded requests. This would tend to be worse than a direct attack due to a limited capability of forwarding attack information between peers in the swarm; a botnet member could make several access requests through each peer in the protecting swarm before it was detected and locked out; any attempt to improve the performance would require bandwidth usage within the swarm that increased exponentially with the number of peers in the swarm. A server that was attacked directly could at least quickly discover the source and filter it.
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Good thing, too. Otherwise it could've started a recursion that would've filled the universe with dwarf planets and they would've come crashing down on us.
Set Zonealarm's security level to "medium".
Who should these victims be getting recourse from? The government officials who made the illegitimate requests? Or the companies that perhaps ought to have stood up for their customers, but were scared of retaliation by the government?
White text on a blue background worked really well for me.
We require licenses of many different professions, doctors, medical professionals, accountants even. Sorry, but unfortunately, saying "I have plenty of happy customers that are willing to have me repair their computers" doesn't justify this anymore than a doctor practicing medicine without a license can say "but they're totally accepting of my care, even though I'm unlicensed."
And if the patients know this, what exactly is wrong with it?
This is one good reason why medical care costs so much in this country.
While you're at it, why not decode the data punched on each card and then just store the microfilm image and the decoded data, discarding the image of the rest of the card? That'd make things a lot more efficient.
Or just post it with dummy code for the audio, so the community will be able to contribute working code? If you're going to post it as open-source, why not let that work for you, too?
I predict that soon all web pages will be served via https rather than http. The encryption puts a heavier load on the server, but makes it impossible for such injections to be performed.
By doing this, World in Conflict avoids the snowball effect that exists in many real-time^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H real-world strategy games.
I think you're making a poor assumption, that music is going to be marketed the same way in the future as your software is currently. Opportunities for music will be much broader than distribution off a band's website.
What radio station will you listen to in the future? Are there going to BE radio stations as we know it in the future? I think (hope) we're going to see everything shifting to streaming radio in the future, with a rich selection available on your PC, your car radio, your cell phone... If you hear a song you like, hit a button and it will automatically be transferred to your catalog, with a dime deducted from your account. At ten cents a pop and the convenience of "one-click shopping" I predict people will be buying songs like never before, and getting exposure to 2 million people will indeed be possible even for a mediocre band.
10 cents is actually my price point for music; when iTunes started selling it for a buck I poo-pooed it and said I'd wait for 10 cents. If it actually happens, I'll start buying music again. If it weren't for the record labels, and independent bands were allowed to sell their own music, even a mediocre band should be able to survive on the income and a great band should make oodles and oodles of cash.
But it'd have to be BUYING the music, not renting. I want a high quality VBR MP3 or AAC file, at the minimum.
I suppose you've never heard the term "fiat currency"?
The radio channels were allocated long before tubeless intertubes were considered.
Actually they were originally allocated for "distance learning", according to the article. But I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek.
Would you rather have the mullah at the mosque two doors down yelling over a loudspeaker, or over a radio channel?
They could probably make a fortune just acting as a switching node, routing data between carriers.
I'm going to side with them and say wifi should definitely be banned in public buildings. Not because of the allergy, but because wifi is a huge security hole if it isn't handled properly, and one shouldn't assume public institutions are capable of handling ANYTHING properly.
The first thing that came to mind was, "one paramecium, two paramecia, three paramecia, four paramecia..."
Ack! Put down that microtome!
http://bittornado.com/torrents/Thicker-Than-Blood.pdf.torrent
Sorry about the off-topic reply, just trying to help people w/ their slow download.
That's what BitTorrent is for.
http://bittornado.com/torrents/Thicker-Than-Blood.pdf.torrent
Not really AG-specific: Also note that multipoint video conferencing requires either echo cancellation (and ALL software echo cancellation sucks, you need still need hardware DSP units even in 2008) or headsets for everyone - one bad node can ruin they meeting - if you think an echoey 2-way conversation is bad, you should experience a 15-way conference some time (though that might need academic/military bandwidth :-) )
Just curious - why should "software" echo cancellation suck? The DSP-based cancellation *is* software, just on a DSP. Modern CPUs ought to have enough horsepower to perform the same function reasonably quickly, yes? No?
Mount the dish at ground level and put a fake rock over it. This has been a very common solution, and the rock-like covers are available from several sources for a few hundred dollars.
Apparently it's mostly AMD machines that had some Intel-specific drivers installed.
Easiest way to fix the problem, before installing SP3, open a CMD window, and type "sc config intelppm start= disabled".
That's a good example of a drug having an unanticipated adverse side effect. This has happened several times, both before and after the establishment of the FDA. How about Vioxx? Did the FDA help any in that case?
We've got people worried that the lack of protection of drug company profits will reduce the release of new drugs, but having draconian restrictions on testing has also reduced the introduction of pharmaceuticals.
Tax-funded drug research? Yuck. I'll pass.
What about letting companies develop drugs without the huge restrictions the FDA puts on entering the market?
I'd have to opine that this system is flawed in concept, using both a dedicated swarm and especially a P2P-volunteer swarm. In the case of the volunteer swarm it would be fairly trivial for an attacker to join the swarm, discover the address of the central server and any keys needed to access it, and bypass the swarm to attack directly. However, even if the swarm were composed of dedicated machines, all that would be necessary would be to craft a seemingly-legitimate access request, and flood the central server with forwarded requests. This would tend to be worse than a direct attack due to a limited capability of forwarding attack information between peers in the swarm; a botnet member could make several access requests through each peer in the protecting swarm before it was detected and locked out; any attempt to improve the performance would require bandwidth usage within the swarm that increased exponentially with the number of peers in the swarm. A server that was attacked directly could at least quickly discover the source and filter it.