The idea of completly electronic money seems to me is every bit as flawed as the fiat we use in day to day transactions, in the sense that there are no direct limits on how much money is generated.
When there are entities generating money out of nothing like the Fed, and engaging in fractional reserve banking, like regular banks, it forces normal people to speculate in order to preserve the value of their savings. When gold was used as money, money preserve its value and there had been little net inflation over the thousands of years that gold and silver were used as money.
Therefore it's better to migrate to some more stable alternatives that are 100% backed by gold. These currencies exist and can be used to buy anything that can be paid with a credit card.
Yahoo used to be a pretty cool mail service, a place to have a permanent email address regardless of where you were at, but that has changed, now they have removed some of the best features pop and forwarding, and you have to put up with ads and spam.
And then they want you to pay through the nose for the pop and forwarding. For 25MB extra storage space I was already paying $30 per year, which should be more than enough to cover their costs for my account.
Fortunately Yahoo is not the only one in this space. Of course, there is hotmail, but unfortunately it's even worse, i.e. spam and only 2mb storage space, so it's better to try something else.
Emailaddresses.com has a list of free web based emails and for a fee emails. I'll probably be switching to Runbox.com which offers 100MB for 3 years for $59, with no ads and a lot more features than yahoo offers for the same price.
hushmail.com might be a good one if you always run IE as your web browser.
I'd be interested to know of any other decent web and pop email service alternatives.
The Fusor, a device created by Farnsworth (also known for having invented TV), has did this decades ago.
A google query on the fusor yields thousands of results.
It produces fusion with all the neutrons and radiation. While the Fusor doesn't come close to the breakeven point, in terms of energy usage, it seem to me like a much more worthwhile as an investment or an experiment (if you don't mind the neutrons), than "Cold Fusion" and Sonoluminicense.
This is the obviously the biggest thing when it comes to frozen organs. As soon as one could freeze and restore a human brain it will be possible to be 'freezed off' until a far away point in the future, when all ailments have been cured. This may make it possible in the near future for people to actually live forever. The progress that has been shown with transplanting frozen rat ovaries, means that unlimited human lifespans can't be too far off.
The Incas were far from "primitive." They had metallurgy, architecture, and over 103 species of potato. They did lack gunpowder.
Their fall to Spain was much more due to their lack of immunity to smallpox than anything the Spanish intentionally did.
What politically correct stuff you've been reading? The Inca's were defeated before they even had a chance of contracting any diseases.
They were defeated by Pizarro, the first Spaniard that went over there with only 180 soldiers, to explore mostly, and then realized that they either had to fight or be had.
The Spaniards faced an army of 80000 Incan soldiers, and things looked grim for them. But they managed to pull off their ambitious plan of striking panic in the Incan ranks. It succeeded so well, that they used the same tactic in several following battles where they were similarly outnumbered.
That was the end of the vast Incan empire. In a matter of weeks. No time for any diseases to spread.
Because TV content is payed for by ads doesn't mean it's free, it means you're paying for it with everything else you buy.
Is it fair that people who never watch TV (like me for example) have to pay for others' TV shows?
I very much welcome the introduction of devices like TiVo. Sneaking in hidden fees, and giving the illusion of getting TV for free, when it never really was, has been unethical from the beginning.
Ideally if enough people used these devices, we would see TV move to a pay-per-view model for new shows, and old shows for free. This means TV could become some kind of real entertainment instead of a means of getting people to watch commercials.
I don't agree with you that the open source community can't produce games. Do you remember the days Xtank, and nettrek? In their day they were far better than their lame-PC based equivalents such as wing commander.
If their support for the development community is good I don't see why it couldn't be successful. For example if they provide a good scripting 3-D API (like disney is using) for perl/python/pike scripting languages, then this could take off even more than the MUD phenomenon.
Besides, the hardware seems pretty neat. I'd like to get one of these boxes to use as my router or secondary server.
At $799 it's not a really good value. For that price you could get an Athlon, at some of the cheaper PC manufacturers with 256MB of RAM.
Of course, the NanoPC's design is neater, but I wouldn't consider buying it unless it came with Ethernet built-in. It's not even an add-on option! If it came with FireWire built-in also, I would actually buy it right now.
If the NanoPC was improved with these two features built-in, and had a reasonable price, I think it'd be a killer product. One could get away from having big inconvinient boxes that need to be opened up all the time, and instead have a bunch of smaller components that can be hot-plugged into each other, as it's suitable at the moment.
The spooks need an excuse to spend their days browsing through pr0n! Just like the cops have to look at pr0n to find pedophiles, so does the CIA, to find terrorists. It's not for pleasure of course, they're just looking for "hidden messages"
I guess that the real difference here is what is cheaper: people or computers? A hard question to answer; the supply of both is getting more plentiful all the time.
Banning it just because some fellow is involved in scientology. Why shouldn't they be allowed to keep their beliefs like everybody else?
It's been said that scientology is not a religion, it's a cult, that infiltrates goverments and institutions. If this criteria was applied fairly, then the entire M$ product would be banned, as they attempt to infiltrate and influence the goverment. Not only that but just about everything else would be banned as well. How about GNU? They infiltrate Comapnies, and Universities, and try to influence those too.
Then there are those stories about how people have been abused by scientology. They volunteered to do whatever they did. It's their own fault. I myself have been approached by scientology, gave them a "no thank you", and they went away. It wasn't difficult to do.
If there's something that I've liked about anime, is that it is much more free, than western artforms, in that it doesn't consciously try to teach a moral (or at least the same morals). The best part of it, is that it is pretty far away from political correctness.
Just face it, Political Correct Anime, would just be the same plain boring stuff that you see on american tv.
Also I find it very ironic that you mention women being oppressed in America. Real facts prove, that it is men that are being oppressed, and that your behavior is just driving this oppression, with real consequences such as an alarmingly high suicide rate among american males. For the real facts, about oppression, see here, and here.
This is interesting. Have the adaptations that these animals have that allow them to freeze without consequences been identified? Do you know where to find more information?
As somebody mentioned earlier, there are now robots that can get their drivers license. They don't have to start from scratch.
Also, I'm sure they can make a lot of progress before actually testing this thing on a real F1 reace car. They can use those little go-carts that are used for auto racing for kids. This is where people with a talent for F1 racing are found. If it works for finding talent in people, why not robots?
This guy is on bail. If he even says something inappropiate he can be thrown into prison again.
Anything he says must be taken with a grain of salt, remembering that in a way he is very extortionable by the FBI, and other law-enforcement agencies, that want to have this DNA bank.
Mitnick's obviously a clever thoughtful guy. That doesn't mean he is principled and he's always going to say what's beneficial for humanity, especially when his selfish interests are at stake.
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There is no need to have security concerns about this watch. Tiny cameras can be hidden in all sorts of places. For example, way back when there weren't any digital cameras, people developed cameras that looked like buttons from a shirt. Also on matchboxes, I'm sure you can probably do a google search and find cameras way, way stealthier than this wristwatch.
I'm sure that SSL is going to be more popular now than it was before, but you're unlikely to see most sites, like/. running on SSL. Why? Well, an SSL server can only serve about 10% of the requests of a regular web server because the encryption takes so much processor time. There are hardware solutions that can offload the SSL processing from the CPU, but all of them are expensive.
Yeah, I know working in IT, or programming has its disadvantages. I'm thinking of moving into management or sales myself, might be less work, and more fun. Just bullshit all day, no work.
I thought it was kind of funny what you think about Germany. I've lived there forseveral years. I think you made the right decision in not taking the job there. I mean, with $70k a year over there, you'll pay over 35k/year in taxes, and housing is more expensive, no tax breaks for mortgage payments. With the kinds of taxes they have in Europe for gas, and anything related to cars, you'dl be lucky to afford one, with that salary.
If I understand this story correctly, the commercial version PGP supports key escrow, and it does so by encrypting the message with a normal public key, as well as practically copying it with this ADK.
Now wouldn't it be possible to re-implement this standard with, say gpg? Except that instead of encrypting twice the same message, we encrypt two different messages. Now when the FBI/CIA/NSA/KGB/BND/MI5 comes to snoop, they think that they're seeing everything but they're not.
They asked for key escrow, but we can use it against them.
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you forgot to mention that since he is jewish. he must know what he is talking about.
The idea of completly electronic money seems to me is every bit as flawed as the fiat we use in day to day transactions, in the sense that there are no direct limits on how much money is generated.
When there are entities generating money out of nothing like the Fed, and engaging in fractional reserve banking, like regular banks, it forces normal people to speculate in order to preserve the value of their savings. When gold was used as money, money preserve its value and there had been little net inflation over the thousands of years that gold and silver were used as money.
Therefore it's better to migrate to some more stable alternatives that are 100% backed by gold. These currencies exist and can be used to buy anything that can be paid with a credit card.
Such as:
ebullion
egold
System Imager can be used to automate remote installs, updates, software distribution and data distribution.
To configure the system after the software installation there is System Config which integrates into System Imager.
Yahoo used to be a pretty cool mail service, a place to have a permanent email address regardless of where you were at, but that has changed, now they have removed some of the best features pop and forwarding, and you have to put up with ads and spam.
And then they want you to pay through the nose for the pop and forwarding. For 25MB extra storage space I was already paying $30 per year, which should be more than enough to cover their costs for my account.
Fortunately Yahoo is not the only one in this space. Of course, there is hotmail, but unfortunately it's even worse, i.e. spam and only 2mb storage space, so it's better to try something else.
Emailaddresses.com has a list of free web based emails and for a fee emails. I'll probably be switching to Runbox.com which offers 100MB for 3 years for $59, with no ads and a lot more features than yahoo offers for the same price.
hushmail.com might be a good one if you always run IE as your web browser.
I'd be interested to know of any other decent web and pop email service alternatives.
The Fusor, a device created by Farnsworth (also known for having invented TV), has did this decades ago.
A google query on the fusor yields thousands of results.
It produces fusion with all the neutrons and radiation. While the Fusor doesn't come close to the breakeven point, in terms of energy usage, it seem to me like a much more worthwhile as an investment or an experiment (if you don't mind the neutrons), than "Cold Fusion" and Sonoluminicense.
This is the obviously the biggest thing when it comes to frozen organs. As soon as one could freeze and restore a human brain it will be possible to be 'freezed off' until a far away point in the future, when all ailments have been cured. This may make it possible in the near future for people to actually live forever. The progress that has been shown with transplanting frozen rat ovaries, means that unlimited human lifespans can't be too far off.
So they're not going to detect the original, but they WILL detect any hacker-modified clones?
Maybe Magic Lantern comes with a signed certificate from Verisign?
I try to access it and then I get...
Access Denied
Sadly, your client "Nutscrape/1.0 (Multix; 8-bit)" violates the automated access guidelines posted at arXiv.org, and is consequently excluded.
If you believe this determination to be in error, see http://arXiv.org/denied.html for additional information.
Why is it that in order for me to see a 'scientific' research paper my privacy has to be violated?
Their fall to Spain was much more due to their lack of immunity to smallpox than anything the Spanish intentionally did.
What politically correct stuff you've been reading? The Inca's were defeated before they even had a chance of contracting any diseases.
They were defeated by Pizarro, the first Spaniard that went over there with only 180 soldiers, to explore mostly, and then realized that they either had to fight or be had.
The Spaniards faced an army of 80000 Incan soldiers, and things looked grim for them. But they managed to pull off their ambitious plan of striking panic in the Incan ranks. It succeeded so well, that they used the same tactic in several following battles where they were similarly outnumbered.
That was the end of the vast Incan empire. In a matter of weeks. No time for any diseases to spread.
Because TV content is payed for by ads doesn't mean it's free, it means you're paying for it with everything else you buy.
Is it fair that people who never watch TV (like me for example) have to pay for others' TV shows?
I very much welcome the introduction of devices like TiVo. Sneaking in hidden fees, and giving the illusion of getting TV for free, when it never really was, has been unethical from the beginning.
Ideally if enough people used these devices, we would see TV move to a pay-per-view model for new shows, and old shows for free. This means TV could become some kind of real entertainment instead of a means of getting people to watch commercials.
I don't agree with you that the open source community can't produce games. Do you remember the days Xtank, and nettrek? In their day they were far better than their lame-PC based equivalents such as wing commander.
If their support for the development community is good I don't see why it couldn't be successful. For example if they provide a good scripting 3-D API (like disney is using) for perl/python/pike scripting languages, then this could take off even more than the MUD phenomenon.
Besides, the hardware seems pretty neat. I'd like to get one of these boxes to use as my router or secondary server.
3) They're not really fighting against the tax cuts.
Yeah, it does. In fact it's probably some kind of black-hole time-machine, built by the aliens. The media never tells the truth..
Of course, the NanoPC's design is neater, but I wouldn't consider buying it unless it came with Ethernet built-in. It's not even an add-on option! If it came with FireWire built-in also, I would actually buy it right now.
If the NanoPC was improved with these two features built-in, and had a reasonable price, I think it'd be a killer product. One could get away from having big inconvinient boxes that need to be opened up all the time, and instead have a bunch of smaller components that can be hot-plugged into each other, as it's suitable at the moment.
The spooks need an excuse to spend their days browsing through pr0n! Just like the cops have to look at pr0n to find pedophiles, so does the CIA, to find terrorists. It's not for pleasure of course, they're just looking for "hidden messages"
I guess that the real difference here is what is cheaper: people or computers? A hard question to answer; the supply of both is getting more plentiful all the time.
Banning it just because some fellow is involved in scientology. Why shouldn't they be allowed to keep their beliefs like everybody else?
It's been said that scientology is not a religion, it's a cult, that infiltrates goverments and institutions. If this criteria was applied fairly, then the entire M$ product would be banned, as they attempt to infiltrate and influence the goverment. Not only that but just about everything else would be banned as well. How about GNU? They infiltrate Comapnies, and Universities, and try to influence those too.
Then there are those stories about how people have been abused by scientology. They volunteered to do whatever they did. It's their own fault. I myself have been approached by scientology, gave them a "no thank you", and they went away. It wasn't difficult to do.
If you don't like it, don't watch it, then.
If there's something that I've liked about anime, is that it is much more free, than western artforms, in that it doesn't consciously try to teach a moral (or at least the same morals). The best part of it, is that it is pretty far away from political correctness.
Just face it, Political Correct Anime, would just be the same plain boring stuff that you see on american tv.
Also I find it very ironic that you mention women being oppressed in America. Real facts prove, that it is men that are being oppressed, and that your behavior is just driving this oppression, with real consequences such as an alarmingly high suicide rate among american males. For the real facts, about oppression, see here, and here.
This is interesting. Have the adaptations that these animals have that allow them to freeze without consequences been identified? Do you know where to find more information?
I think there is.
As somebody mentioned earlier, there are now robots that can get their drivers license. They don't have to start from scratch.
Also, I'm sure they can make a lot of progress before actually testing this thing on a real F1 reace car. They can use those little go-carts that are used for auto racing for kids. This is where people with a talent for F1 racing are found. If it works for finding talent in people, why not robots?
This guy is on bail. If he even says something inappropiate he can be thrown into prison again.
Anything he says must be taken with a grain of salt, remembering that in a way he is very extortionable by the FBI, and other law-enforcement agencies, that want to have this DNA bank.
Mitnick's obviously a clever thoughtful guy. That doesn't mean he is principled and he's always going to say what's beneficial for humanity, especially when his selfish interests are at stake.
There is no need to have security concerns about this watch. Tiny cameras can be hidden in all sorts of places. For example, way back when there weren't any digital cameras, people developed cameras that looked like buttons from a shirt. Also on matchboxes, I'm sure you can probably do a google search and find cameras way, way stealthier than this wristwatch.
I'm sure that SSL is going to be more popular now than it was before, but you're unlikely to see most sites, like /. running on SSL. Why? Well, an SSL server can only serve about 10% of the requests of a regular web server because the encryption takes so much processor time. There are hardware solutions that can offload the SSL processing from the CPU, but all of them are expensive.
Yeah, I know working in IT, or programming has its disadvantages. I'm thinking of moving into management or sales myself, might be less work, and more fun. Just bullshit all day, no work.
I thought it was kind of funny what you think about Germany. I've lived there forseveral years. I think you made the right decision in not taking the job there. I mean, with $70k a year over there, you'll pay over 35k/year in taxes, and housing is more expensive, no tax breaks for mortgage payments. With the kinds of taxes they have in Europe for gas, and anything related to cars, you'dl be lucky to afford one, with that salary.
If I understand this story correctly, the commercial version PGP supports key escrow, and it does so by encrypting the message with a normal public key, as well as practically copying it with this ADK.
Now wouldn't it be possible to re-implement this standard with, say gpg? Except that instead of encrypting twice the same message, we encrypt two different messages. Now when the FBI/CIA/NSA/KGB/BND/MI5 comes to snoop, they think that they're seeing everything but they're not.
They asked for key escrow, but we can use it against them.