We tried that in Europe, just before WorldWarII. The result was that one modern, well armed and organised army ran over all other states' armies.
You may not like it, but when someone decides to threaten you, your only option is to be able to hit him where it hurts, and have him now that you can.
That said, I don't think an arms race will cut it against fundamentalistic islamic states. Hit them where it hurts isn't just killing them. They would consider themselves martyrs and double their efforts (well, not those you killed, but others).
The primary source of E.Coli is feces (i.e.shit). It lives (and helps) in your digestive system. It survives outside for a relative long period, longer than most bacteria.
Thus E.Coli (Escheria Coli) is used as an indicator for bacteria in drinking water in general. Drinking water that is contaminated with E.Coli probably is contaminated with sewer water.
I don't understand it either. But while I live in the Netherlands, I still prefer US download sites over EU sites most of the time. I don't know why it is, but apparently there's more bandwidth between Amsterdam and the US than there is between Amsterdam and Munich.
Besides, telephone batteries would last muc shorter. Many telephones have a much larger standby time than speaking time. This is because during calls much more transmissions take place and thus more energy is used, than during standby, at which time there's only some polling the 'server'
When you do routing, esp in the center of the population, the maximum amount of energy would be used all the time. Thus, a 50 hr telephone would only last about 1/2 an hour. That's just not acceptable.
If I understand IP well enough. All they seem to do is spoof to another IP every 0.x seconds. Hence probably the billions of IP addresses too.
Maybe they have a lot of destination addresses too, but somewhere, somehow this has to be routed to the receiving end. Of course, it could be the central server, but then that would be nothing but a router.
Of course, one could also split an encrypted file/text in blocks, and send those in a particular order to/from a number of IP addresses. Kind of like a key. But that would be a pointless excercise: from 8ip's to 8 ip's would be equivalent to 6 bits extra keyspace (2^6 possibilities). It would just be just a little harder to get all of the traffic.
I'm a professional programmer myself. I try to contribute to open source myself. So most of the software I write in my own time, I give away.
But when I'm hired to do a job, I'm getting paid for my time. Anything I write during that time, is my employers: he paid for it. Heck, most of the times it's the employers ideas and wishes that I express in code, thus it's partially his on that ground too.
That said, I always try to encourage my employers to open up the source. I've never succeeded in that, tho.
By this argument, napster isn't p2p: both users log in to a server, after which they are connected to each other. Or they connect to their ISP's before connecting to each other.
The telephone is a prime example: both peers (phones) send data and receive data through a network, directly to each other. The data just happens to be sound. It's an example that I had not thought about. It's the first time I actually feel narrow minded. I (we) should think broader than just computer(networks).
To be frank, I'm getting quite tired of this whole intellectual rights business. Patent here, DVD there. I really think the best thing to do is let it go out of hand sometime. Preferably if some company succeeds to succesfully sue the US government about an important patent over something not too silly. Let's see if someone wakes up.
Unfortunately, this is very short sighted. I agree with you on the quality of W2k.
But, in about 3 years, Microsoft will stop supporting W2k. Any bug or hole that is found thereafter won't be patched. Thus, by then, you'll have two choices: live with a vulnerable OS, or switch to another OS, a newer version of windows most likely.
Of course, all of these (expensive) migrations are an opportunity for open source products to move in. After all, if a (large) company decides not to support a product anymore, you can always do it yourself (being a large company). Might be cheaper than migrating to yet another version of software (be it an OS or an application)
Unused bits in packets, be it IP or another protocol, could be used for a subliminal channel. So your statement that they should always left alone isn't always true. The paranoid among us should always clear them.
That said, most of the time you're probably right most of the time. Why fiddle with them when they're of no concern to you?
Why wont have AMD have 0.13 by the end of this year? In this business, half a year is a very long time.
And if it isn't 0.13 micron technology, they probably will have access to other improvements. As was said before in this discussion, the desktop PC's don't _need_ more speed. It's always handy, but for most tasks the things are fast enough.
For servers more power is always useful. But then again, quality and reliability are too. I hate to think of the time a machine has to have multiple processors, just to keep it stable. For that's where we're heading, if we keep pushing
All that has happened, basically, is Napster asked permission to use the database, and got that permission. Of course they pay for it's use, which is good. Thus, the company has no excuse to let individuals pay for their services: the costs will already be covered.
CDDB is a public database(sort of). Napster wants to use that database to prevent the illegal copying of music. Of course a lot of moral issues are involved. Should all music be free/Free? Is the RIAA's greed justifiable? Is copying music wrong or right? Who owns information? Etc.
The issue here is none of our business. A company using data from a _public_ database to control the use over it's _own_ application, is up to them. They don't claim to own the information. They just use the information which they have access to. What they do with it is up to them.
as decribed in applied cryptography (from snyder or something, if my memory serves me correctly).
The problem of those is synchronizing them, as is it here. The only thing new to me here is making the stream publicly available.
My girlfriend is a PHD student, and she is currently doing research in medical technology. Recently she's had a demonstration of this device. After that demonstration, they were allowed to handle the machine and try some manipulations.
From what I understood:
1. This is not an intelligent robot, but a tool for the surgeon. Sensors are connected to the surgeons hands and arms, and they are transmitted to the operational device. It still is the surgeon which does the operation.
2. Resistance, which I saw mentioned in one of the other responses, is simulated to the surgeon doing the operation. Thus, a more 'natural' feel is created.
3. This device and devices like it are great tools for Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS). Because the opening doesn't have to be large at all, and devices can be sterilized, this greatly reduces the risk of infection.
4. If developments continue along this line, and there is no reason to believe they won't, operation rooms may become obsolete for many operations: a closed sterile device is pressed against the area where the opening has to come. All that has to be sterile is the insides of the operation device.
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We tried that in Europe, just before WorldWarII. The result was that one modern, well armed and organised army ran over all other states' armies.
You may not like it, but when someone decides to threaten you, your only option is to be able to hit him where it hurts, and have him now that you can.
That said, I don't think an arms race will cut it against fundamentalistic islamic states. Hit them where it hurts isn't just killing them. They would consider themselves martyrs and double their efforts (well, not those you killed, but others).
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Wow. It's been so long that I actually had to think what you were talking about. When the coin dropped, I was lauging out loud. Thank you!
Wow, do I long back to that ugly beige thing with the greasy brown keyboard.
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Kool-ade powder works really well as a toilet cleaner(the ascorbic acid?)
ascorbic acid == vitamine c. Healthy toilet cleaner <g>
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It has to be able to show up at spring training 200 pounds overweight ...
Geeesh. And it already weighs 2,700 pounds.
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One of myh favorites:
//trust me, it works
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The primary source of E.Coli is feces (i.e.shit). It lives (and helps) in your digestive system. It survives outside for a relative long period, longer than most bacteria.
Thus E.Coli (Escheria Coli) is used as an indicator for bacteria in drinking water in general. Drinking water that is contaminated with E.Coli probably is contaminated with sewer water.
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click here for a story about it.
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Try using Java apps with a gui. But that's not what you meant, right?
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I don't understand it either. But while I live in the Netherlands, I still prefer US download sites over EU sites most of the time. I don't know why it is, but apparently there's more bandwidth between Amsterdam and the US than there is between Amsterdam and Munich.
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Ahead, the makers of Nero, are German. So it wouldn't be illegal for them, but it would be illegal for people from the USA to use it.
Land of the free? Don't think so.
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Besides, telephone batteries would last muc shorter. Many telephones have a much larger standby time than speaking time. This is because during calls much more transmissions take place and thus more energy is used, than during standby, at which time there's only some polling the 'server'
When you do routing, esp in the center of the population, the maximum amount of energy would be used all the time. Thus, a 50 hr telephone would only last about 1/2 an hour. That's just not acceptable.
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If I understand IP well enough. All they seem to do is spoof to another IP every 0.x seconds. Hence probably the billions of IP addresses too.
Maybe they have a lot of destination addresses too, but somewhere, somehow this has to be routed to the receiving end. Of course, it could be the central server, but then that would be nothing but a router.
Of course, one could also split an encrypted file/text in blocks, and send those in a particular order to/from a number of IP addresses. Kind of like a key. But that would be a pointless excercise: from 8ip's to 8 ip's would be equivalent to 6 bits extra keyspace (2^6 possibilities). It would just be just a little harder to get all of the traffic.
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I'm a professional programmer myself. I try to contribute to open source myself. So most of the software I write in my own time, I give away.
But when I'm hired to do a job, I'm getting paid for my time. Anything I write during that time, is my employers: he paid for it. Heck, most of the times it's the employers ideas and wishes that I express in code, thus it's partially his on that ground too.
That said, I always try to encourage my employers to open up the source. I've never succeeded in that, tho.
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By this argument, napster isn't p2p: both users log in to a server, after which they are connected to each other. Or they connect to their ISP's before connecting to each other.
The telephone is a prime example: both peers (phones) send data and receive data through a network, directly to each other. The data just happens to be sound. It's an example that I had not thought about. It's the first time I actually feel narrow minded. I (we) should think broader than just computer(networks).
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To be frank, I'm getting quite tired of this whole intellectual rights business. Patent here, DVD there. I really think the best thing to do is let it go out of hand sometime. Preferably if some company succeeds to succesfully sue the US government about an important patent over something not too silly. Let's see if someone wakes up.
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Unfortunately, this is very short sighted. I agree with you on the quality of W2k.
But, in about 3 years, Microsoft will stop supporting W2k. Any bug or hole that is found thereafter won't be patched. Thus, by then, you'll have two choices: live with a vulnerable OS, or switch to another OS, a newer version of windows most likely.
Of course, all of these (expensive) migrations are an opportunity for open source products to move in. After all, if a (large) company decides not to support a product anymore, you can always do it yourself (being a large company). Might be cheaper than migrating to yet another version of software (be it an OS or an application)
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It's just the last thing on the specs that makes me doubt that there will be linux drivers for this:
Recommendation: "IBM recommends Windows 2000 Professional for business."
Too bad, it looks great
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Unused bits in packets, be it IP or another protocol, could be used for a subliminal channel. So your statement that they should always left alone isn't always true. The paranoid among us should always clear them.
That said, most of the time you're probably right most of the time. Why fiddle with them when they're of no concern to you?
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Why wont have AMD have 0.13 by the end of this year? In this business, half a year is a very long time.
And if it isn't 0.13 micron technology, they probably will have access to other improvements. As was said before in this discussion, the desktop PC's don't _need_ more speed. It's always handy, but for most tasks the things are fast enough.
For servers more power is always useful. But then again, quality and reliability are too. I hate to think of the time a machine has to have multiple processors, just to keep it stable. For that's where we're heading, if we keep pushing
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You have to pay anyway. It's just that time == money. You choose your currency.
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Alert: this is not a troll!
All that has happened, basically, is Napster asked permission to use the database, and got that permission. Of course they pay for it's use, which is good. Thus, the company has no excuse to let individuals pay for their services: the costs will already be covered.
CDDB is a public database(sort of). Napster wants to use that database to prevent the illegal copying of music. Of course a lot of moral issues are involved. Should all music be free/Free? Is the RIAA's greed justifiable? Is copying music wrong or right? Who owns information? Etc.
The issue here is none of our business. A company using data from a _public_ database to control the use over it's _own_ application, is up to them. They don't claim to own the information. They just use the information which they have access to. What they do with it is up to them.
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as decribed in applied cryptography (from snyder or something, if my memory serves me correctly). The problem of those is synchronizing them, as is it here. The only thing new to me here is making the stream publicly available.
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Great. Now you can have the dog fetch your laptop. I hope that they find a way to prevent it getting soaked at the same time
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My girlfriend is a PHD student, and she is currently doing research in medical technology. Recently she's had a demonstration of this device. After that demonstration, they were allowed to handle the machine and try some manipulations.
From what I understood:
1. This is not an intelligent robot, but a tool for the surgeon. Sensors are connected to the surgeons hands and arms, and they are transmitted to the operational device. It still is the surgeon which does the operation.
2. Resistance, which I saw mentioned in one of the other responses, is simulated to the surgeon doing the operation. Thus, a more 'natural' feel is created.
3. This device and devices like it are great tools for Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS). Because the opening doesn't have to be large at all, and devices can be sterilized, this greatly reduces the risk of infection.
4. If developments continue along this line, and there is no reason to believe they won't, operation rooms may become obsolete for many operations: a closed sterile device is pressed against the area where the opening has to come. All that has to be sterile is the insides of the operation device.
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I do read and speak english (well, sort of anyway), but I only understand half of the actual GPL text. It's not english, it's legalese.
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