It's possible this could lead to a whole new approach to lenses in general. Keep in mind we went from vacuum tubes to transistors to integrated circuits. This could just be a first step towards a whole new way of processing optics.
What's worse? A browser that may occasionally crash or a browser that's full of security holes?
I don't think I've ever had Firefox crash on me, although I do still occasionally come across websites that only work in IE. I avoid those unless absolutely necessary....
Here's to a successful mission AND an equally successful landing.
Digressing...
I can still vividly recall the Challenger disaster vividly. I was in highschool in NH. Not the one Christa McAuliffe was from, but then NH is a small state so everybody was psyched. A friend told me he heard about the explosion on the radio. We listened for a little while before going to the cafeteria for lunch. One of the women serving lunch asked if I was ok (I guess I looked really pale) and I told her what had happened. She chuckled & said I must be joking. I snapped back at her, and I still remember it clearly: "Do you have a radio in here? Then turn it on!", then left. When I came back for more food a little while later they did have a radio on and she was incredibly apologetic. That's one of those days I'll probably remember for the rest of my life.
if you see the flash tutorial about how it works, they first send warning messages about the spam being sent and only when there is no response from them, such a step is taken.
And MAPS, which claims a similar notification policiy has been sued how many times for blacklisting spammers?
Of course for the spammer to file a lawsuit, they would have to come out from under their rock.
Not necessarially. If Blue Security screws up & DoS's a "legit" opt-in mail e-mailer then all bets would be off. They're human - they'll eventually make a mistake. And besides, the headquarters of Blue Security is here in the litigation capitol of the world...
My initial knee-jerk reaction to this was "Why not the US, after all, we invented it?". But after thinking about it for a few seconds it occured to me that since the internet is global you really need a global entity to be ultimately responsible for it. If there was a single global government then it'd be a no-brainer, but since the closest thing we have is the UN then why not? Yeah, I realize that there are all sorts of arguments like the UN is incompetent, etc. but when you're talking about something that impacts the entire world what better and more universally recognized body do we currently have?
Unfortunately it seems that many people on this small speck of intergalactic dust that we all call home have vastly different views of just exactly what the "world" is...
within a couple weeks at most the spammers will find another way arround it as they have everything else.
Do you even understand how SPF works? It sure sounds like you don't. It's meant to prevent spammers from forging domains, not to put an end to all spam. If you own your own domain then something like SPF can be a HUGE help if your domain name is used to forge spam.
Not at all. If I get a phone call and the CallerID says "unavailable", "out of area" or "private" then I don't even bother to answer it.
If my incoming e-mail doesn't have SPF headers then it bumps up the scores in SpamAssassin. If the score gets too high then the e-mail gets filtered & I never see it.
Despite the fact that I have a 4-track recorder that I used to use a fair amount to mix sound effects for my theater-related work, I probably haven't used it in a couple of years. These days I do all my mixing on my PC using a software-based 4-track editor then dump the output directly onto a CD or minidisk.
I live fairly close to the Comp USA store in Woburn, so that's usually my first stop. Only if I can't find what I'm looking for there (or Staples next door) then I'll head down to the Micro Center on Mem Drive... The only time I may head there first is if, like you, I need a cable, adapter, etc. that I'm 90% certian Comp USA won't have.
But this guy doesn't have a leg to stand on. After only the first few lines of the article I knew he'd been a target of a blacklisting.
As an admin of a small mailserver hosting a handful of private domains I'm a very happy user of various DNS blacklists. I use some blacklists to reject ALL e-mail from countries like Korea & China due to the constant flood of spam from those countries. I also use other blacklists in conjunction with SpamAssassin to more accurately deal with spam. If you don't like the way I manage my mailserver then tough! I probably don't want e-mail from you anyway. If you have a LEGITIMATE problem with being blacklisted then e-mail me another way (like from gmail, hotmail, etc) and I'll consider whitelisting you. I've also got a few specific mailservers whitelisted exactly because I was asked (nicely!) to do so.
As TFA clearly states, cellphones adjust their power output as necessary - the closer the cell tower the weaker the signal a phone puts out. With a picocell on board the airplane all the phones would put out a minimal signal. If the picocell wasn't there then the phones would have to significantly increase their power output to reach the terrestrial towers 40,000 feet below.
Back in the early days of ANH, before it was renamed as episode 4, I heard stories that the entire saga was meant to be 3 trilogies. The first trilogy focused on the boy who would become Vader, the second 3 focused on his downfall, and the last 3 focused on the rebuilding of the republic and the final defeat of the Empire. I also recall being told that the only characters who would exist in all 9 episodes would be R2D2 and C3PO. I have no idea if this is based on fact or not but there is a synopsis of episodes 7-9 supposedly written by Lucas himself.
Actually Apple had a desktop search as part of the Mac OS at least as far back as 1998. I forget what it was called but it came with a bunch of pre-defined search sites and you could download and add plugins from other sites as well. It was part of the OS search feature, though, and not a plug-in to a web browser.
FTFA: it claims its technology can also destroy already shared files on peer to peer networks.
So are they claiming that their "virtual algorithm" includes the ability to delete files or what? Or do they seem to think flooding P2P networks with bogus data equates to destroying shraed data? If their technology can damage files on my hard drive then they could end up in a lot of hot water if it deletes a single legitimite file or otherwise corrupts unrelated data.
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It's possible this could lead to a whole new approach to lenses in general. Keep in mind we went from vacuum tubes to transistors to integrated circuits. This could just be a first step towards a whole new way of processing optics.
What's worse? A browser that may occasionally crash or a browser that's full of security holes?
I don't think I've ever had Firefox crash on me, although I do still occasionally come across websites that only work in IE. I avoid those unless absolutely necessary....
Um, it's $200,000 for the trip, not $20,000. The $20K is just for the downpayment to reserve a spot on one of the trips.
Here's to a successful mission AND an equally successful landing.
Digressing...
I can still vividly recall the Challenger disaster vividly. I was in highschool in NH. Not the one Christa McAuliffe was from, but then NH is a small state so everybody was psyched. A friend told me he heard about the explosion on the radio. We listened for a little while before going to the cafeteria for lunch. One of the women serving lunch asked if I was ok (I guess I looked really pale) and I told her what had happened. She chuckled & said I must be joking. I snapped back at her, and I still remember it clearly: "Do you have a radio in here? Then turn it on!", then left. When I came back for more food a little while later they did have a radio on and she was incredibly apologetic. That's one of those days I'll probably remember for the rest of my life.
if you see the flash tutorial about how it works, they first send warning messages about the spam being sent and only when there is no response from them, such a step is taken.
And MAPS, which claims a similar notification policiy has been sued how many times for blacklisting spammers?
Of course for the spammer to file a lawsuit, they would have to come out from under their rock.
Not necessarially. If Blue Security screws up & DoS's a "legit" opt-in mail e-mailer then all bets would be off. They're human - they'll eventually make a mistake. And besides, the headquarters of Blue Security is here in the litigation capitol of the world...
All it'll take is one spammer to file a lawsuit against these guys to stop them dead in their tracks.
My initial knee-jerk reaction to this was "Why not the US, after all, we invented it?". But after thinking about it for a few seconds it occured to me that since the internet is global you really need a global entity to be ultimately responsible for it. If there was a single global government then it'd be a no-brainer, but since the closest thing we have is the UN then why not? Yeah, I realize that there are all sorts of arguments like the UN is incompetent, etc. but when you're talking about something that impacts the entire world what better and more universally recognized body do we currently have?
Unfortunately it seems that many people on this small speck of intergalactic dust that we all call home have vastly different views of just exactly what the "world" is...
Between the Great Firewall of China and the fact that many sites blackhole all e-mail from China to deflect spam this almost seems like the next logical step...
I'm happy with XP.
I never upgraded the machine I run Windows on from 2000. Why upgrade to XP when everything I need runs on 2000?
Now I'm gonna start getting spam from Dole touting their miracle cancer cure...
are available over at Groklaw.
within a couple weeks at most the spammers will find another way arround it as they have everything else.
Do you even understand how SPF works? It sure sounds like you don't. It's meant to prevent spammers from forging domains, not to put an end to all spam. If you own your own domain then something like SPF can be a HUGE help if your domain name is used to forge spam.
I dunno, but hasn't this failed with caller ID?
Not at all. If I get a phone call and the CallerID says "unavailable", "out of area" or "private" then I don't even bother to answer it.
If my incoming e-mail doesn't have SPF headers then it bumps up the scores in SpamAssassin. If the score gets too high then the e-mail gets filtered & I never see it.
Despite the fact that I have a 4-track recorder that I used to use a fair amount to mix sound effects for my theater-related work, I probably haven't used it in a couple of years. These days I do all my mixing on my PC using a software-based 4-track editor then dump the output directly onto a CD or minidisk.
I live fairly close to the Comp USA store in Woburn, so that's usually my first stop. Only if I can't find what I'm looking for there (or Staples next door) then I'll head down to the Micro Center on Mem Drive... The only time I may head there first is if, like you, I need a cable, adapter, etc. that I'm 90% certian Comp USA won't have.
then no matter how "good" MS makes it then it'll never beat bittorrent.
In other words, it'll never beat bittorrent.
But this guy doesn't have a leg to stand on. After only the first few lines of the article I knew he'd been a target of a blacklisting.
As an admin of a small mailserver hosting a handful of private domains I'm a very happy user of various DNS blacklists. I use some blacklists to reject ALL e-mail from countries like Korea & China due to the constant flood of spam from those countries. I also use other blacklists in conjunction with SpamAssassin to more accurately deal with spam. If you don't like the way I manage my mailserver then tough! I probably don't want e-mail from you anyway. If you have a LEGITIMATE problem with being blacklisted then e-mail me another way (like from gmail, hotmail, etc) and I'll consider whitelisting you. I've also got a few specific mailservers whitelisted exactly because I was asked (nicely!) to do so.
Bottom line - my server, my rules.
As TFA clearly states, cellphones adjust their power output as necessary - the closer the cell tower the weaker the signal a phone puts out. With a picocell on board the airplane all the phones would put out a minimal signal. If the picocell wasn't there then the phones would have to significantly increase their power output to reach the terrestrial towers 40,000 feet below.
Turns into a smoldering crater thanks to /.
I'm moving to France!
Back in the early days of ANH, before it was renamed as episode 4, I heard stories that the entire saga was meant to be 3 trilogies. The first trilogy focused on the boy who would become Vader, the second 3 focused on his downfall, and the last 3 focused on the rebuilding of the republic and the final defeat of the Empire. I also recall being told that the only characters who would exist in all 9 episodes would be R2D2 and C3PO. I have no idea if this is based on fact or not but there is a synopsis of episodes 7-9 supposedly written by Lucas himself.
Actually Apple had a desktop search as part of the Mac OS at least as far back as 1998. I forget what it was called but it came with a bunch of pre-defined search sites and you could download and add plugins from other sites as well. It was part of the OS search feature, though, and not a plug-in to a web browser.
FTFA: it claims its technology can also destroy already shared files on peer to peer networks.
So are they claiming that their "virtual algorithm" includes the ability to delete files or what? Or do they seem to think flooding P2P networks with bogus data equates to destroying shraed data? If their technology can damage files on my hard drive then they could end up in a lot of hot water if it deletes a single legitimite file or otherwise corrupts unrelated data.