Actually I meant to say inlay rather than engraving... silver inlay on a titanium ring is really beautiful. I like reactive inlays (like silver) myself, rather than gold, as it changes color slightly week by week.
My wedding ring is pretty geeky -- it's titanium with engraving -- dots and vertical lines representing 0's and 1's, which spell out my wife's initials in binary (in 5-bit letters). I got it here; the guy that runs the place is very open into making custom-made designs.
I had thought about actually using it for something, like an encryption key -- for example if I started at a certain place on the ring, went a certain direction and counted up 7 or 8 bit ascii words, I could get a passphrase after a while, a pretty strong one. At this point all I would need to memorize for a theoretically very long passphrase would be the starting location, direction, and number of letters.
Even if the men in black kidnapped me and found my ring, they would still have a hard time figuring it out;-) Now only if I could find a titanium hat -- the tin ones are so 20th century.
making 64 bit chips is not the only way to "court" the gaming market. I'm sure intel has other plans for bigger (read: smaller) and better chips. Eventually I think they will start to make the 64's, but for now they're making chips with Hyper Threading (great for game servers).
But AMD can have both. After all, they have a patent on "Microprocessor configured to execute multiple threads including interrupt service routines", which is basically hyperthreading with another name.
So, to answer your question, yes, from the information we were given, it appears that their filtering is 99.4% successful.
Where exactly does it state that AOL users are reporting EVERY SINGLE spam that gets through to them? Answer: it doesn't. You just assumed it, and for some bizarre reason are sticking to it.
And "enemy", while a harsh sounding word, for me is just a convenient way to show certain posters at -3, guaranteeing I won't see them unless they are modded up (or respond to my posts). I could just as easily have used the "friend" category, but that would probably just confuse people.
THe T615C is not full screen. I don't care that it is higher res, after having full screen with my Handera I am not going back. Others in my office felt the same way.
Sony chose the route of multimedia brick for their full-screen models. It's not for business use.
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I own both a Handera (Palm OS) and an IPAQ 1910. I do not have to reset the Ipaq 5x a day. (I did have to reset the Handera, however, every week or so, but that was OS4).
My company made a business decision on what to upgrade to. We really wanted to keep with the Palm OS, but there was no lightweight, OS 5, full screen versions out there. The Clie's are NOT made for business and are bricks, while the Palm T|T is not full screen (and is expensive).
We settled on the 1910 because of the form factor and very low weight (it's smaller than a Palm V). This is important, as if people can't stick it in their pocket they will not use them as often. They are also cheap; $300 retail, much less than the competing OS 5 models (with our business discount we got them for $264 each). Contrary to what I always thought when I used my Palm, Palms are NOT better at being an electronic organizer for business professionals. There are lots of little tricks you can do with the PPC that you can't do with a Palm -- if you move the left/right directional buttons in the Contact list for example, you can switch between different phone/fax numbers without going into the record itself. Pretty neat, and elegant.
It's a shame because I really loved my full-screen Handera. It's incredibly ironic that Palm users, after years of complaining that PPCs were heavy and were not "simplistic", are now buying up multimedia bricks like the Clies.
but only mentions a memory stick as a media format. The stick mentioned is 4 mb
Where in hell are you getting this? I didn't see it in the articles. Besides, you can get Memory Sticks up to 1GB right now. Did you misread something?
"Richard Smith, a Massachusetts-based Internet security consultant, said the software in question is typically used by jealous husbands or wives to spy on their spouses."
Doesn't really sound like the computers were using a *nix OS, which FPM requires.
Umm, good point. Well, too late to edit my original post lol. While there are still problems with this, I have to concede this would be a good first step.
I'd add another provision... Make the company that is being advertised as liable as the spammer.
As I stated above, that would just lead to people framing their competitors. The USA isn't going to abandon the rules of evidence in legal procedings, unless of course the spammer is a terrorist;-)
Playing devil's advocate here, you still have to prove they sent the spam out, which would be that system's Achilles heel. Else what would stop people from hiring an offshore spammer to send out fake spam from a competitor?
The conclusion drawn may be oversimplified but nonetheless pragmatic: 1) forged headers should be illegal 2) a specific header entry should identify the email as unsolicited
Why does everyone in the USA assume that everyone else in the world will somehow obey US law when it is made "illegal"?
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Um, the rings don't have to match you know -- get what you want, and she gets what she wants.
Actually I meant to say inlay rather than engraving... silver inlay on a titanium ring is really beautiful. I like reactive inlays (like silver) myself, rather than gold, as it changes color slightly week by week.
My wedding ring is pretty geeky -- it's titanium with engraving -- dots and vertical lines representing 0's and 1's, which spell out my wife's initials in binary (in 5-bit letters). I got it here; the guy that runs the place is very open into making custom-made designs.
;-) Now only if I could find a titanium hat -- the tin ones are so 20th century.
I had thought about actually using it for something, like an encryption key -- for example if I started at a certain place on the ring, went a certain direction and counted up 7 or 8 bit ascii words, I could get a passphrase after a while, a pretty strong one. At this point all I would need to memorize for a theoretically very long passphrase would be the starting location, direction, and number of letters.
Even if the men in black kidnapped me and found my ring, they would still have a hard time figuring it out
making 64 bit chips is not the only way to "court" the gaming market. I'm sure intel has other plans for bigger (read: smaller) and better chips. Eventually I think they will start to make the 64's, but for now they're making chips with Hyper Threading (great for game servers).
But AMD can have both. After all, they have a patent on "Microprocessor configured to execute multiple threads including interrupt service routines", which is basically hyperthreading with another name.
or maybe allow a subscriber a higher karma cap
In the tradition of Everquest, it should be raised from 50 to 60. This IS an expansion, right?
So, to answer your question, yes, from the information we were given, it appears that their filtering is 99.4% successful.
Where exactly does it state that AOL users are reporting EVERY SINGLE spam that gets through to them? Answer: it doesn't. You just assumed it, and for some bizarre reason are sticking to it.
And "enemy", while a harsh sounding word, for me is just a convenient way to show certain posters at -3, guaranteeing I won't see them unless they are modded up (or respond to my posts). I could just as easily have used the "friend" category, but that would probably just confuse people.
You are saying AOL's spam filters have a 99.4% success rate (5.5m/1b)? Please. Why is this modded up?
Members are clicking on the "Report Spam" button to send up to 5.5 million pieces of junk email per day to AOL's anti-spam engineers
Your guess is that every single piece of spam that gets through is reported?
And how many got through?
You miss the true application for this device. It can be used to record HDTV programs. I wonder what DRM is on this thing?
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I particularly liked the shotgun someone is holding. Who needs a ring when you have a 20-gauge?
THe T615C is not full screen. I don't care that it is higher res, after having full screen with my Handera I am not going back. Others in my office felt the same way.
Sony chose the route of multimedia brick for their full-screen models. It's not for business use.
I own both a Handera (Palm OS) and an IPAQ 1910. I do not have to reset the Ipaq 5x a day. (I did have to reset the Handera, however, every week or so, but that was OS4).
My company made a business decision on what to upgrade to. We really wanted to keep with the Palm OS, but there was no lightweight, OS 5, full screen versions out there. The Clie's are NOT made for business and are bricks, while the Palm T|T is not full screen (and is expensive).
We settled on the 1910 because of the form factor and very low weight (it's smaller than a Palm V). This is important, as if people can't stick it in their pocket they will not use them as often. They are also cheap; $300 retail, much less than the competing OS 5 models (with our business discount we got them for $264 each). Contrary to what I always thought when I used my Palm, Palms are NOT better at being an electronic organizer for business professionals. There are lots of little tricks you can do with the PPC that you can't do with a Palm -- if you move the left/right directional buttons in the Contact list for example, you can switch between different phone/fax numbers without going into the record itself. Pretty neat, and elegant.
It's a shame because I really loved my full-screen Handera. It's incredibly ironic that Palm users, after years of complaining that PPCs were heavy and were not "simplistic", are now buying up multimedia bricks like the Clies.
Someone pointed out this story to Gary yesterday , interestingly enough.
You might want to check out his new MMORPG, based off his Paper-and-Pencil game Lejendary Adventure. A FAQ on the online game is here.
but only mentions a memory stick as a media format. The stick mentioned is 4 mb
Where in hell are you getting this? I didn't see it in the articles. Besides, you can get Memory Sticks up to 1GB right now. Did you misread something?
That theory is pure shit.
So much for my plan of reincarnation to keep me alive forever.
The article stated:
"Richard Smith, a Massachusetts-based Internet security consultant, said the software in question is typically used by jealous husbands or wives to spy on their spouses."
Doesn't really sound like the computers were using a *nix OS, which FPM requires.
Umm, good point. Well, too late to edit my original post lol. While there are still problems with this, I have to concede this would be a good first step.
Since when does everyone in France think that an American company, yahoo, will obey French laws and not sell nazi memorabilia?
Since Yahoo had a subsidiary operating in France, and was therefore a legal French company.
I'd add another provision... Make the company that is being advertised as liable as the spammer.
;-)
As I stated above, that would just lead to people framing their competitors. The USA isn't going to abandon the rules of evidence in legal procedings, unless of course the spammer is a terrorist
That is their Achilles heel: Follow The Money
Playing devil's advocate here, you still have to prove they sent the spam out, which would be that system's Achilles heel. Else what would stop people from hiring an offshore spammer to send out fake spam from a competitor?
The conclusion drawn may be oversimplified but nonetheless pragmatic: 1) forged headers should be illegal 2) a specific header entry should identify the email as unsolicited
Why does everyone in the USA assume that everyone else in the world will somehow obey US law when it is made "illegal"?
For the really paranoid, there are apps out there than take screen shots every time you perform an action (like click a mouse, or cut and paste).