Do you think because TurboTax sent you email they have the right to know every time you read it, your email address, your current IP address, and the usual stuff sent during an HTTP transfer?
A few weeks ago they tried that. They sent email to customers telling them about the new version of their program. Look at the bottom of the source of the email and you see a URL for a transparent pixel image, with a key being sent to info.turbotax.com.
Because you used to use their program, they provided you with new information about it, and you tried to read the mail, do you think they are entitled to know that? Would it have been okay if they used an email Return-Receipt instead?
"Imagine how much better life in third-world countries would be if just a fraction of the intelligence and energy that have gone into building the Internet had been applied to subsistance-level agriculture."
Imagine how much better life in third-world countries would be if just a fraction of the people laboring at subsistence-level agriculture was freed by unlimited agriculture so they can use their intelligence and energy to improve their country.
Starvation is caused by uneven distribution caused by political reasons.
Some is political, some is economic, some is distance. All 6 billion humans could fit in Texas with each man, woman, and child having as much room as a small house each. Imagine distributing all the world's food to such a focused location. Imagine the reduced profit for rice farmers in Asia if they had to pay for transport halfway around the world...just as American wheat farmers have extra expenses in moving their crop halfway around the world now, to places which are productive enough to have money to buy it.
Toss in some unmoderated articles with the MetaModeration mix, with random simulated moderation. Have a small chance that the MetaModerator's action will actually do the indicated moderation.
The present MetaModeration only moderates articles which moderators chose to touch. It does not moderate the moderation done by not altering an article. So toss in some unmoderated articles.
They say they'll post fixed drivers on their site soon. I hope their Linux driver will be GPL'ed. Toshiba's MS drivers never saw the light of day on my laptop.
So when the main web server is not working someone yells "Elvis Lives!" And the proper reply is... "Well, play that funky Reset rhythm, and let him die again?"
Look at recent stuff on the home page. It's running on Linux now, but apparently it was on NT two boots ago. Maybe it's advocating Linux now, but not out of not trying other things.
Just chat with the people around you, including girls. Wherever you're at. Stores, supermarket, movies, bowling alley. Invite some of them to events you like. You'll find someone you like. And if they like you when you're being yourself then that's better than having them meet a different you at home.
Of course, the examples of looking for people in bars is fine if you're looking for someone who likes bars...unless bars are the socially agreed upon neutral place to go to find a mate.
Oh, yeah, my qualifications: Yup, I'm not a pretty sight. Apparently adequate enough somehow to been able to choose a beautiful lady for my wife. Now we have techno-talking kids.
"Just how malleable is the brain? How easily can a person overcome the forces -- genetic and environmental -- that shape a creature from birth?"
That makes it sound as if all the forces are external, as if the person and his brain can't apply any growth forces. So everyone is a victim of their environment, as they can't think for themselves and do anything different than they are told. Just go flip your burgers, pay half your wages in taxes, and vote for us because we'll tell you what is best for you. The new discovery is that the brain installs new neurons in the approximate location of old neurons, so the brain is always rebuilding itself. So the nature is to allow continued learning. The new neurons are similar to the old, but do not have exactly the same training as the old neurons..they learn what to do based on what you are experiencing and trying to do right now.
I heard a radio headline several weeks ago that Priceline was patenting the reverse auction process which they use. Makes me want to patent stupid patenting processes.
Whether your ISP can keep up is less dangerous if you can switch to another ISP.
Here in US West, you buy DSL service from US West. That gets your data from your Ethernet cable to the Ethernet gear in the telephone company building. Then your packets drop into the digital network (in this area I think it's an ATM cloud) and they pop out on your ISP's connection. You are allowed to select an ISP. So if you are not satisfied with one ISP you tell US West to direct your packets to your new ISP.
Most cable TV data systems only let your connect to the ISP being run by the cable company.
In both cases your bandwidth is shared with others at some point. On cable, it's probably shared with all your neighbors. On DSL, it's shared with everyone in the same DSL interface in the phone office, and in your ISP's connections... but the DSL shared points are 10/100Mpbs Ethernet links or faster rather than the cable modem speeds.
Actually, their poor web server has been like that all morning. The last several hours not only has the HTTP server been refusing to respond, but even DNS queries are often failing. Fortunately, on Britannica's time scale they have 50 years to fix the problems.
There was a recent announcement that the IRS was moving to IRS.Gov, where it used to be at IRS.Treas.Gov. A similar violation of the RFC.
As I've been politically active, I asked NIC.Gov if I can register my name under.Gov also. I wonder how large a staff they'll need to monitor when political clubs drop below the registration requirements and get de-registered.
But I am surprised that AlGore didn't already get GOP.Gov registered to the GOvernment Printing office...
"I think I should be able to have old and new on there at once... "
Well, if you should be able to then make it so. Well, if you don't want to make kernel changes which allow such things then try some things in lilo.conf.
If the "map" option can be specified for several image entries then you could have separate maps for various kernels (test it with links to the "old" map entry first and last, with the "new" kernel and the "new" map entry in the middle, so the new will only happen if multiple ones are recognized).
Or you could have several root partitions, with different/boot directories. Or put the new kernel root on a floppy...
As mentioned in the previous Slashdot discussion, the March 1999 "Scientific American" mentioned this, and a letter to the editor reply mentioned that reactions with higher energy happen in Earth's own atmosphere. After many millions of years of such activity, we haven't been destroyed yet. We can also see that it hasn't happened to eight other planets, moons, and the Sun.
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Suppose people will demand I pay them if I batter them with a really good awful pun?
A few weeks ago they tried that. They sent email to customers telling them about the new version of their program. Look at the bottom of the source of the email and you see a URL for a transparent pixel image, with a key being sent to info.turbotax.com.
Because you used to use their program, they provided you with new information about it, and you tried to read the mail, do you think they are entitled to know that? Would it have been okay if they used an email Return-Receipt instead?
The present MetaModeration only moderates articles which moderators chose to touch. It does not moderate the moderation done by not altering an article. So toss in some unmoderated articles.
They say they'll post fixed drivers on their site soon. I hope their Linux driver will be GPL'ed. Toshiba's MS drivers never saw the light of day on my laptop.
So when the main web server is not working someone yells "Elvis Lives!"
And the proper reply is... "Well, play that funky Reset rhythm, and let him die again?"
Ah, the ultimate would be the Gray Lensmen.
Psst..Buddy, want some luciferin-producing marigolds to plant under your trees? Only $200, but they'll keep the trees lit all summer...
Just chat with the people around you, including girls. Wherever you're at. Stores, supermarket, movies, bowling alley. Invite some of them to events you like. You'll find someone you like. And if they like you when you're being yourself then that's better than having them meet a different you at home.
Of course, the examples of looking for people in bars is fine if you're looking for someone who likes bars...unless bars are the socially agreed upon neutral place to go to find a mate.
Oh, yeah, my qualifications: Yup, I'm not a pretty sight. Apparently adequate enough somehow to been able to choose a beautiful lady for my wife. Now we have techno-talking kids.
You noticed I used the Cone of Silence when I sent the message, and omitted even the Subject? That's Secret!
I heard a radio headline several weeks ago that Priceline was patenting the reverse auction process which they use. Makes me want to patent stupid patenting processes.
Here in US West, you buy DSL service from US West. That gets your data from your Ethernet cable to the Ethernet gear in the telephone company building. Then your packets drop into the digital network (in this area I think it's an ATM cloud) and they pop out on your ISP's connection. You are allowed to select an ISP. So if you are not satisfied with one ISP you tell US West to direct your packets to your new ISP.
Most cable TV data systems only let your connect to the ISP being run by the cable company.
In both cases your bandwidth is shared with others at some point. On cable, it's probably shared with all your neighbors. On DSL, it's shared with everyone in the same DSL interface in the phone office, and in your ISP's connections... but the DSL shared points are 10/100Mpbs Ethernet links or faster rather than the cable modem speeds.
Actually, their poor web server has been like that all morning. The last several hours not only has the HTTP server been refusing to respond, but even DNS queries are often failing. Fortunately, on Britannica's time scale they have 50 years to fix the problems.
More like a typo by a million monkeys, who happened to type coherent sentences. At least coherent enough to be edited to something legible.
The 1970's? Um.. "Emergency!", the first paramedic TV show? They put an IV in everyone.
Actually, the 1970s also included "Medical Center" and the end of "Marcus Welby", both of which enjoyed showing medical puzzles.
Unfortunately, Get Smart was very accurate. Oh, I'm sorry, were you saying something while I was under the Cone of Silence?
As I've been politically active, I asked NIC.Gov if I can register my name under .Gov also. I wonder how large a staff they'll need to monitor when political clubs drop below the registration requirements and get de-registered.
But I am surprised that AlGore didn't already get GOP.Gov registered to the GOvernment Printing office...
Well, if you should be able to then make it so.
Well, if you don't want to make kernel changes which allow such things then try some things in lilo.conf.
If the "map" option can be specified for several image entries then you could have separate maps for various kernels (test it with links to the "old" map entry first and last, with the "new" kernel and the "new" map entry in the middle, so the new will only happen if multiple ones are recognized).
Or you could have several root partitions, with different /boot directories. Or put the new kernel root on a floppy...
The phone line simulator is only needed if the modems don't have a way to ignore the missing dialtone, and if the modems do not work on a bare wire.
So 15 fibers would be enough to carry one T1 channel per person in the USA. Distribution is left as an exercise for the reader.
As mentioned in the previous Slashdot discussion, the March 1999 "Scientific American" mentioned this, and a letter to the editor reply mentioned that reactions with higher energy happen in Earth's own atmosphere. After many millions of years of such activity, we haven't been destroyed yet. We can also see that it hasn't happened to eight other planets, moons, and the Sun.