So should I make my web sites hard to read in the hope that potential customers will remember more about what is being shown to them ?
Or will they just leave earlier as it is too much hard work; or perhaps remember the stuff but not where they saw it ?
If I start sending out millions of rubbish messages, will they be able to pick out my true correspondence (just a few dozen emails per day) under the sea of rubbish ?
Maybe spammers are cleverer than we thought they were: all that they have ever wanted is private communications.
RTFM: ten years of work, not a ten year old laptop. Presumably he moved his files onto his new (now stolen) laptop when he bought it.
Many people do this.
OK: I get the point about not questioning that is, after all, what faith is all about.
So if someone (else) believes in god — what do they believe in ? Which religion ?
Christianity ? Islam ? Judaism ? Hinduism ? Norse Gods ? The Force (Jedi) ?...
Oh -dear -- another decision that requires some rationalisation.
Oh - I am a questioner by nature, so want to push for answers.
The pope visited the UK recently. The one statement that he made that really made me boggle was when he complained that people were trying to rationalise religion.
Presumably (says I having read the article but not knowing much more about this) the mechanical switches:
will not generate electromagnetic radiation. This will eliminate the need for tempest protection, ie the bad guys can't evesdrop by picking up radio waves — although I wonder if they could ''listen'' to the clacking of the relays
will not be succeptible to destruction by EMP (electromagnetic pulse)
To be prior art it has to be published somewhere.... typical of our secretive & paranoid government to lock this sort of stuff away.
Just as they did at the end of WW2 - destroying the computers at Bletchley Park.
AIX's SMIT did this, or rather it wrote the commands that it executed to achieve what you asked it to do.
This meant that you could learn: look at what it did and find out about which CLI commands to run.
You could also take them, build them into a script, copy elsewhere,...
My kneejerk reaction was that the government is being fucking stupid.
The government is not being stupid... talk up another story about terrorists... keep the population worried about being blown up by [insert current bad boys here]. A population that is scared is easier to abuse and keep under control.
I thought that they were going to say what is done with all those bytes that are downloaded and not used.
Also what happens to music that you no longer like but you do not safely dispose of by putting to/dev/null?
It meant that they could raid his house and get a copy of everything that he had, possibly then loosing some of it for him.
If it was a civil action then they would not have been able to do this.
What is dreadful is that the ''other side'' (ie the police in this case) get an immediate advantage.
This is abuse of power.
Is this control of them being able to speak to the media, or control of what they say once they can speak ?
I suppose that it is probably moot since a scientist who says something that differs from what the govt wants them to say will never get permission to speak again.
When, years ago, the soviets did this they were, rightly, lambasted.
I feel that they should not have -- they were lazy, attempting a short cut. I suspect that they still billed their full fee as if they had done a proper job.
Wait a bit, track them, record when they break the speed limit, publish those times and require them to show that they were only speeding when responding to some emergency, not just going home.
It is commonly accepted that a woman can abort a fetus up to 20.. 24 weeks (depending on which country/...), ie she can decide the fate of the fetus up to that date.
So: if a woman was to decide that some of those cells from an abortion or miscarriage could be used by medical research -- what right do any of
the rest of us have to comment about her decision ?
Oh - the religious people; those who know better than the rest of us on the basis of some myths for which they have no real evidence.
Well - if they object so much then please do not take advantage of any medical treatments that are as a result of what they consider to
be immoral/whatever acts and leave the rest of us alone.
Government is supposed to provide an environment in which citizens can flourish, in exchange for a reasonable amount of taxation.
More and more government is looking at citizens as sources of money so that it can continue to run its offices, these are becoming ends in themselves. This is getting all the worse
since governements agreed to repay the gambling debts of the banks.
I have 5 wastebins & boxes: compostible (garden, cardboard, bits of food), paper, metals+plastics, glass, everything else. I admit that it is a pain sorting things out, it is much easier to chuck everthing in the big black bag (== everthing else).
But I think that it is a pain worth doing, we (in the UK) are running out of holes in the ground.
The things that are very hard are those that are neither one nor the other, eg: fresh juice cartons: waxed paper carton with a plastic pourer and lid. They can't go into one of the boxes and pulling it to bits is just too time consuming.
The supermarkets could help by making things that were easier to recycle.
I like it when my black bin is empty, or almost, when the bin men come -- please lean on your suppliers to make life easier for people like me.
But I thought that the point of the big bang was that the universe started out from a single point, so everything (or the precursor to everything) was in one place -- ie everything in contact with everything else???
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So should I make my web sites hard to read in the hope that potential customers will remember more about what is being shown to them ? Or will they just leave earlier as it is too much hard work; or perhaps remember the stuff but not where they saw it ?
Maybe spammers are cleverer than we thought they were: all that they have ever wanted is private communications.
A DETERGENT for God's sake!
Maybe the young lady was hopeing that her bubbles would Deter Gents from doing her harm. Her mistake was that Officer Bubbles is not a gentleman.
RTFM: ten years of work, not a ten year old laptop. Presumably he moved his files onto his new (now stolen) laptop when he bought it. Many people do this.
I somehow doubt it. They make great words about being on the ''right'' side and then lie through their teeth when it suits them.
The initial design of JBoss was on a napkin, then they wondered what else they could do with the napkin .....
So if someone (else) believes in god — what do they believe in ? Which religion ? Christianity ? Islam ? Judaism ? Hinduism ? Norse Gods ? The Force (Jedi) ? ...
Oh -dear -- another decision that requires some rationalisation.
Oh - I am a questioner by nature, so want to push for answers.
If we don't rationalise - then what are we ?
Both attributes that the military would like.
It seems that we now know that God plays billiards instead :-)
they sent their poets to the salt mines, ... in the UK we sent their poetry there instead!
I have read some of the modern poets, a salt mine seems like the best destination for much of what they produced ....
To be prior art it has to be published somewhere .... typical of our secretive & paranoid government to lock this sort of stuff away.
Just as they did at the end of WW2 - destroying the computers at Bletchley Park.
I liked SMIT.
My kneejerk reaction was that the government is being fucking stupid.
The government is not being stupid ... talk up another story about terrorists ... keep the population worried about being blown up by [insert current bad boys here]. A population that is scared is easier to abuse and keep under control.
OK, I know that you are being funny, but this happened in England. Here we have the NHS so it would have been free. Anyway: our unit of currency is £.
I thought that they were going to say what is done with all those bytes that are downloaded and not used. Also what happens to music that you no longer like but you do not safely dispose of by putting to /dev/null?
It meant that they could raid his house and get a copy of everything that he had, possibly then loosing some of it for him. If it was a civil action then they would not have been able to do this. What is dreadful is that the ''other side'' (ie the police in this case) get an immediate advantage. This is abuse of power.
When, years ago, the soviets did this they were, rightly, lambasted.
I feel that they should not have -- they were lazy, attempting a short cut. I suspect that they still billed their full fee as if they had done a proper job.
Wait a bit, track them, record when they break the speed limit, publish those times and require them to show that they were only speeding when responding to some emergency, not just going home.
So they wind up & pursuade facebook that they ought to throw them some money on a frivolous action.
Oh - the religious people; those who know better than the rest of us on the basis of some myths for which they have no real evidence. Well - if they object so much then please do not take advantage of any medical treatments that are as a result of what they consider to be immoral/whatever acts and leave the rest of us alone.
Government is supposed to provide an environment in which citizens can flourish, in exchange for a reasonable amount of taxation. More and more government is looking at citizens as sources of money so that it can continue to run its offices, these are becoming ends in themselves. This is getting all the worse since governements agreed to repay the gambling debts of the banks.
The things that are very hard are those that are neither one nor the other, eg: fresh juice cartons: waxed paper carton with a plastic pourer and lid. They can't go into one of the boxes and pulling it to bits is just too time consuming. The supermarkets could help by making things that were easier to recycle.
I like it when my black bin is empty, or almost, when the bin men come -- please lean on your suppliers to make life easier for people like me.
But I thought that the point of the big bang was that the universe started out from a single point, so everything (or the precursor to everything) was in one place -- ie everything in contact with everything else???