If the police have non lethal weapons, it will simply encourage them to use them.
Example. In London the other day a domestic was ended by the police shooting the bloke with one of these anti-riot guns. It may well have been warranted but I think the precendent is dangerous.
I forsee the use of stun guns for giving a bit of lip back to officers. Peacefull protests will be broken up with whichever weapon they have in their arsenal.
Had one guy ask me why his web sites never got into the search engines and why mine were always on the first page of search results despite him trying to "submit" his sites multiple times. I've never "submitted" a site to a search engine.
The pages are about much the same stuff. When I looked at his sites, everything was flash and javascript linking while mine simply provide *useful content* with relatively vanilla HTML. When I told him this, he looked at me like I didn't know what I was talking about and insisted that I must have some secret tags which the search engines use. I don't even use the meta description tags.
As a result, my pages get 10 hits for every one his get.
Some people are just too dumb to give advice to.
LOL that's a great idea.
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Start sending letters as a pornographer to the honorable senators thanking them for introducing the legislation and asking how much you can contribute to their campaigns.
Include a free sample by way of thanks.
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Lighten up--we're the nicest dominant power the world has seen yet.
Hate to point it out to you, but you're only in the 50th year of "America as a superpower". There's plenty of time for America to turn into imperial Rome, complete with blood sports and massacres of the christians.
But, see, the thing is, this mandates DRM - to Hollywood's specs - not only in Windows, but in Linux, *BSD, MacOS, PalmOS, and every single device I own. That's unreasonable.
It's not just unreasonable. It's impossible to enforce. It'll be like prohibition or the war against drugs all over again with the police and federal authorities getting their arses kicked very publically while pretending that they are acually making a difference.
You *know* that one of the first things that they'll do if this stuff ever becomes popular is to sell virtual advertising space. Adverts won't just be static billboards. They'll jump out at you.
At the moment, IP VI is just a name to most network and systems administrators. My Linux boxes have VI support but I've never looked at it.
When there's available information about where to get addresses, configuring routes, netmasks, gateways, setting up name services etc. All the admin stuff that's done on a daily basis with IP IV.
At the moment nobody knows what they have to do in order to setup and use IP VI.
Obviously the intel kit's cheaper but if you need a large number of servers in a small space, or were paying by rackspace they were pretty nifty.
Now, if someone were to create a small 1U case for say, the recent FlexATX motherboards or similar, which held multiple AMD based servers per 1U case, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one interested.
Remember that the spam still has to be readable to the end users so they can't chuck in random garbage all over the place.
The checksum routines can pick parts of a message to checksum, they don't have to do the whole thing, say the 5th and 25th lines of the message so the spammer will have to generate changes all over the whole file.
The modified spam will end up in the checksum database just like the original spam. The end users will be just as protected.
The checksum database is transient, the checksums age and are removed.
What the spammer actually has to do is clean up his mailing lists and remove the poison addresses. Otherwise every time he hits one, the rest of his mail run is wasted, but this means hard work and checking harvested addresses individually. And they have to continue checking them as they harvest them.
Typically the aliases point to my account, but as soon as they abuse the address and start spamming, and most do, I repoint the alias to my Razor trollbox.
Spam's gone from my box and anyone else using Razor is also protected.
This is just a bullshit story made up to take the heat off elsewhere. It'll never ever happen.
Some minister has some bad news that they don't want to get into the headlines so they've released this utter flight of fancy to distract the morons that run news desks.
I ride all year round in the UK and these days bike jackets are *completely* waterproof, warm at 90mph on the Motorway in freezing weather and breathable.
The Hein Gericke Voyager II jacket is a good example, though, like all sequels, not as good as the original Voyager I.
Gloves are a bigger issue. HG Pathan three finger gloves are fantastic for all but below zero temperatures, but I might be persuaded to use electric gloves if they were simple to use.
I don't like heated grips on bikes. Bike electrics are dodgy at the best of times without throwing heated grips into the mix.
Again, HG do some fantastic non electric 3 finger gloves that are waterproof and warm in all but the coldest freezing fog.
I don't work for Hein Gericke BTW, just use some of their products.
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You don't need electric heating to be warm on a bike. Just get a decent quality bike jacket that was made this decade.
Hein Gericke do some reasonable ones at reasonable prices. They breathe, do keep you warm at 90 on the motorway in winter, and are completely waterproof. I use one and ride daily in the UK, renowned for it's warm sunny weather, in all seasons.
Heated jackets are popular because the rest of you are all PFFs.
Of course, IBM on the other hand, took linux seriously and now have a profitable product that is being very well received in the market and which *is* saving businesses lots of money.
The IBM architectures you decided on are exotic compared to the Sun Quad SMP box and don't sound like you benchmarked the appropriate tools, or even like against like.
That's the MS mantra and just look at the devastation that any muppet who knows 10 lines of VB can unleash on *everyone* who buys into the Windows + Outlook + IIS + IE + Office monoculture that they sell.
Monocultures *do* have lower costs, they can reproduce with less effort, but WTF do you think that sexual reproduction evolved? It happened because species without diversity get *wiped out* very easily. You show me an environment where all the code is the same and I'll show you an environment that can be taken out in one fell swoop.
Just look at the world around you, all the interesting life forms use sexual reproduction to increase diversity. Life tells me that monocultures are the wrong way to go.
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If the police have non lethal weapons, it will simply encourage them to use them.
Example. In London the other day a domestic was ended by the police shooting the bloke with one of these anti-riot guns. It may well have been warranted but I think the precendent is dangerous.
I forsee the use of stun guns for giving a bit of lip back to officers. Peacefull protests will be broken up with whichever weapon they have in their arsenal.
Had one guy ask me why his web sites never got into the search engines and why mine were always on the first page of search results despite him trying to "submit" his sites multiple times. I've never "submitted" a site to a search engine.
The pages are about much the same stuff. When I looked at his sites, everything was flash and javascript linking while mine simply provide *useful content* with relatively vanilla HTML. When I told him this, he looked at me like I didn't know what I was talking about and insisted that I must have some secret tags which the search engines use. I don't even use the meta description tags.
As a result, my pages get 10 hits for every one his get.
Some people are just too dumb to give advice to.
Start sending letters as a pornographer to the honorable senators thanking them for introducing the legislation and asking how much you can contribute to their campaigns.
Include a free sample by way of thanks.
Hate to point it out to you, but you're only in the 50th year of "America as a superpower". There's plenty of time for America to turn into imperial Rome, complete with blood sports and massacres of the christians.
It's not just unreasonable. It's impossible to enforce. It'll be like prohibition or the war against drugs all over again with the police and federal authorities getting their arses kicked very publically while pretending that they are acually making a difference.
I think it'll be quite fun to watch actually.
http://www.opencores.org/
You *know* that one of the first things that they'll do if this stuff ever becomes popular is to sell virtual advertising space. Adverts won't just be static billboards. They'll jump out at you.
And a way of getting proper addresses, not just test ones.
At the moment, IP VI is just a name to most network and systems administrators. My Linux boxes have VI support but I've never looked at it.
When there's available information about where to get addresses, configuring routes, netmasks, gateways, setting up name services etc. All the admin stuff that's done on a daily basis with IP IV.
At the moment nobody knows what they have to do in order to setup and use IP VI.
Cheaper to build an ix86 based system these days and with flexatx motherboards and cases you can get fairly small. Example:
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/product.php?subcat=4
Obviously the intel kit's cheaper but if you need a large number of servers in a small space, or were paying by rackspace they were pretty nifty.
Now, if someone were to create a small 1U case for say, the recent FlexATX motherboards or similar, which held multiple AMD based servers per 1U case, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one interested.
You're assuming that they checksum the entire message. No need to do that.
Seriously, I don't particularly care about the bandwidth as long as the mails don't get to my mailbox.
Remember that the spam still has to be readable to the end users so they can't chuck in random garbage all over the place.
The checksum routines can pick parts of a message to checksum, they don't have to do the whole thing, say the 5th and 25th lines of the message so the spammer will have to generate changes all over the whole file.
The modified spam will end up in the checksum database just like the original spam. The end users will be just as protected.
The checksum database is transient, the checksums age and are removed.
What the spammer actually has to do is clean up his mailing lists and remove the poison addresses. Otherwise every time he hits one, the rest of his mail run is wasted, but this means hard work and checking harvested addresses individually. And they have to continue checking them as they harvest them.
Typically the aliases point to my account, but as soon as they abuse the address and start spamming, and most do, I repoint the alias to my Razor trollbox.
Spam's gone from my box and anyone else using Razor is also protected.
Who says you have to checksum the entire body of the message?
You can pick bits of the messages to checksum, say the 5th to the 10th from last line. Exactly the bits the spammer wants you to read.
This is just a bullshit story made up to take the heat off elsewhere. It'll never ever happen.
Some minister has some bad news that they don't want to get into the headlines so they've released this utter flight of fancy to distract the morons that run news desks.
I ride all year round in the UK and these days bike jackets are *completely* waterproof, warm at 90mph on the Motorway in freezing weather and breathable.
The Hein Gericke Voyager II jacket is a good example, though, like all sequels, not as good as the original Voyager I.
Gloves are a bigger issue. HG Pathan three finger gloves are fantastic for all but below zero temperatures, but I might be persuaded to use electric gloves if they were simple to use.
I don't like heated grips on bikes. Bike electrics are dodgy at the best of times without throwing heated grips into the mix.
Again, HG do some fantastic non electric 3 finger gloves that are waterproof and warm in all but the coldest freezing fog.
I don't work for Hein Gericke BTW, just use some of their products.
You don't need electric heating to be warm on a bike. Just get a decent quality bike jacket that was made this decade.
Hein Gericke do some reasonable ones at reasonable prices. They breathe, do keep you warm at 90 on the motorway in winter, and are completely waterproof. I use one and ride daily in the UK, renowned for it's warm sunny weather, in all seasons.
Heated jackets are popular because the rest of you are all PFFs.
http://razor.sourceforge.net/
Hmm? Can we, can we?
What d'ya think? Anyone want to post odds?
IBM are giving out VMs on some of their mainframes.
Of course, IBM on the other hand, took linux seriously and now have a profitable product that is being very well received in the market and which *is* saving businesses lots of money.
Sun doesn't have anything quite like it.
The IBM architectures you decided on are exotic compared to the Sun Quad SMP box and don't sound like you benchmarked the appropriate tools, or even like against like.
Mainframe: I/O throughput, *massive* loads.
SP: *parallel* clusters, CPU, *fast* network.
You'd have been better with an S80... Sorry, "pSeries".
That's the MS mantra and just look at the devastation that any muppet who knows 10 lines of VB can unleash on *everyone* who buys into the Windows + Outlook + IIS + IE + Office monoculture that they sell.
Monocultures *do* have lower costs, they can reproduce with less effort, but WTF do you think that sexual reproduction evolved? It happened because species without diversity get *wiped out* very easily. You show me an environment where all the code is the same and I'll show you an environment that can be taken out in one fell swoop.
Just look at the world around you, all the interesting life forms use sexual reproduction to increase diversity. Life tells me that monocultures are the wrong way to go.
Got it?