I've always wondered how WW2 would have ended if Fat Man and Little Boy had been ready to drop in, say, the spring of 1944.
or maybe the Swedes were white, and not Asian.
I don't think it would have mattered. The Krauts were white, too, as they vociferously reminded the world.
The only issue would have been delivering the gadgets to Berlin. Would have saved the Russians the bother of disposing of Onkel Adolf's remains. In any case, General Le May and the rest of them were not overly concerned about collateral damage in either theater.
What I don't understand is why this particular Orwellian outrage had to wait for the development of GPS.
The technology to record speed over time existed back in the 1950's! You know, perhaps a maximum speed indication, resettable before each rental. Or, more expensively, a strip recorder. Sure, it would have been clunky and analog and would not have included location info, but it sure as hell would have been good enough to catch 90 mph!
You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you let the police come in and see that you weren't growing any pot, stupid.
Jawohl, Herr Führer! What kind of fucking country do you want to live in, jerk?
I would rather that the government be aware of people who are growing hydroponic tomatoes than have the government be unaware of actual criminals building fertilizer bombs in their garages.
The chief problem with these taps was the lack of real time access to the output and the need for periodic visits to retrieve the tapes and change the batteries. The missions required two subs -- one to hack the cable, and one to lead the Soviets on a chase in case of detection.
According to Blind Man's Bluff, there were plans afoot to solve the access problem (for the Barents Sea tap, at least) by running a cable to Greenland. The ultimate tee!
If we're talking IPv6, then I'm very concerned because I don't want to see every company on the planet sucking up billions of addresses per application. That would make the increase to 128 bits pointless.
With 128 bits, you could have 3e29 companies using a billion addresses each. 98 bits for the company address, plus 30 bits for each company to play with.
OK. You've made the case why Above.net is not obligated to carry Macromedia's traffic. But what about Above.net's customers? Above.net has deliberately failed and deceived them. They should receive 100% refunds of their fees!
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Actually, the Supreme Court has ruled that requiring you to identify yourself violates your right of free speech.
A few years back, the fascists at the Ohio Elections Commission attempted to impose a fine upon a lady named McIntyre for distributing anonymous leaflets opposing a school levy. Ohio law required political communications to identify their source. To their great credit, the Supremes reversed the fine. You can read more about it here.
Charles Emory Smith, the former postmaster general, predicted in The Brooklyn Eagle in 1900 that one day every household would be linked to every other by means of pneumatic tubes. Around the turn of the century, there were even several proposals to build a system between North America and Europe.
Anyone have any good designs for a high capacity router? For starters, I think there should be a hub in Memphis.
What about security? E.g., how do you guard against DDOS (dynamite denial of service)?
Does it bother anyone else that the kid who's pursuing this got a patent for the idea?
You are right. It fails as a patent on two grounds: (1) It's obvious, and (2) It's a discovery (actually a rediscovery), and you can't patent discoveries, if I understand patent law correctly.
I know of a McDonald's that was sited and built before drive thru was hot. So, when they added a drive thru, it was on the wrong side of the building, and they built a conveyer belt to carry the orders overhead from the kitchen to the drive-thru booth. They hand-carry ice cream cones. Everything else (except the soft drinks -- they have an automatic beverage machine beside the cashier for those) goes on the conveyer.
Open 24 hrs next to an interstate. They do twice the gross of a normal McD.
A while back a read about how they got rid of one of the Generalissimo's henchman (a general or some such). They put a shaped charge bomb in the saddle bag of a bicycle parked alongside the parade route. The bike was positioned so that it would be opposite the limo's back seat just as the front of the vehicle reached a light pole. Concealed by the light pole was a photocell gadget. The whole contraption was armed by radio control. Once armed, the bomb went off at exactly the right moment when the limo's front bumper reached the photocell.
So what happens if in a fit of drunken insanity you charge more than you can pay in a month on your charge card? I.E. if you put $15,000 on a credit card, how is that worse than $15,000 on a charge card?
That's easy. If you're the type that does stuff like that, you don't have a charge card:).
Charge card issuers are a little more selective about who gets to be a cardmember. Charge cards and credit cards are different businesses. Back about ten years ago, when American Express introduced their Optima credit card, they got hit with an unexpected spate of credit losses. Turned out there's a knack to running a credit card operation. Different class of people, you know. And American Express simply lacked the necessary experience in the field.
Why on earth would you ever use a debit card when service charge free credit cards are a dime a dozen?
With a debit card, the bread is extracted directly and instantly from your bank account. If there's an error or fraud, it's up to you to force them to restore the lost funds.
With a credit card, you just call up and dispute the charge. Usually, they'll just erase the charge and hit the poor merchant with a chargeback. If they don't, it's still up to them to come after you for payment. Plus, pretty much all credit cards offer a 25 day float period, during which you have the use of their money interest free.
Several years ago, my bank sent me a new ATM card with a funny looking long number on it, together with a Mastercard logo. I called customer service and asked if it was really a Mastercard and if one could post charges to it without my PIN. The answer was yes. When I made it clear that was the wrong answer, the nice young lady said she'd take care of it right away. A new card with an old-style number and without the MC logo arrived the next day.
What it comes down to is possession. If a fraudulent or erroneous charge is posted to your debit card, in the limit, you have to sue the bank. But if a wrong charge is posted to your charge or credit card, if push comes to shove, the card company has to sue you.
I prefer the latter situation. I see no reason to use debit cards when my mailbox is stuffed with service-charge free credit cards.
If Yahoo had any spine, it would have given Judge Gomez the finger anyway.
If Yahoo ignored the French government, the French government could have Yahoo employees in France arrested, their equipment impounded, and other nasty things.
That would be a minor hit to Yahoo's bottom line and a major hit to some newly unemployed Frogs.
Since you are obviously the sysadmin for your large company, you know for a fact that there are no logs anywhere showing who was connected to which VPN port when, etc....
Of course, if you're wrong, and there are in fact logs, they would probably surface, should you utter sufficiently noxious bytes over your net connection.
Surely we respect their body of laws as much as we expect other nations to respect ours, right?
Nonsense. We must insist that a body of laws merit respect before we respect it. Laws that conflict with the First Amendment are not worthy.
As for Taiwan flouting our IP law, that situation has existed since long before the internet. All the net adds is a new way to place the orders you could have placed by snail mail or phone years ago.
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Does Jack Straw work at your bank?
Actually, there's tons of free cooz on the net, with at most an over 18 click required. E.g., THE HUN'S YELLOW PAGES.
Seems to work pretty well!
Try searching for 'facials'. Then toggle the "mature content" filter on and off.
or maybe the Swedes were white, and not Asian.
I don't think it would have mattered. The Krauts were white, too, as they vociferously reminded the world.
The only issue would have been delivering the gadgets to Berlin. Would have saved the Russians the bother of disposing of Onkel Adolf's remains. In any case, General Le May and the rest of them were not overly concerned about collateral damage in either theater.
The technology to record speed over time existed back in the 1950's! You know, perhaps a maximum speed indication, resettable before each rental. Or, more expensively, a strip recorder. Sure, it would have been clunky and analog and would not have included location info, but it sure as hell would have been good enough to catch 90 mph!
(Best guess, having just looked it up on the Acronym Finder.)
According to Blind Man's Bluff , there were plans afoot to solve the access problem (for the Barents Sea tap, at least) by running a cable to Greenland. The ultimate tee!
With 128 bits, you could have 3e29 companies using a billion addresses each. 98 bits for the company address, plus 30 bits for each company to play with.
OK. You've made the case why Above.net is not obligated to carry Macromedia's traffic. But what about Above.net's customers? Above.net has deliberately failed and deceived them. They should receive 100% refunds of their fees!
A few years back, the fascists at the Ohio Elections Commission attempted to impose a fine upon a lady named McIntyre for distributing anonymous leaflets opposing a school levy. Ohio law required political communications to identify their source. To their great credit, the Supremes reversed the fine. You can read more about it here.
Anyone have any good designs for a high capacity router? For starters, I think there should be a hub in Memphis.
What about security? E.g., how do you guard against DDOS (dynamite denial of service)?
You are right. It fails as a patent on two grounds: (1) It's obvious, and (2) It's a discovery (actually a rediscovery), and you can't patent discoveries, if I understand patent law correctly.
Open 24 hrs next to an interstate. They do twice the gross of a normal McD.
It's time to deprecate New York! No need to throw good money after bad.
So, do tell us ... what is the best search engine in the world?
A while back a read about how they got rid of one of the Generalissimo's henchman (a general or some such). They put a shaped charge bomb in the saddle bag of a bicycle parked alongside the parade route. The bike was positioned so that it would be opposite the limo's back seat just as the front of the vehicle reached a light pole. Concealed by the light pole was a photocell gadget. The whole contraption was armed by radio control. Once armed, the bomb went off at exactly the right moment when the limo's front bumper reached the photocell.
That's easy. If you're the type that does stuff like that, you don't have a charge card :).
Charge card issuers are a little more selective about who gets to be a cardmember. Charge cards and credit cards are different businesses. Back about ten years ago, when American Express introduced their Optima credit card, they got hit with an unexpected spate of credit losses. Turned out there's a knack to running a credit card operation. Different class of people, you know. And American Express simply lacked the necessary experience in the field.
With a debit card, the bread is extracted directly and instantly from your bank account. If there's an error or fraud, it's up to you to force them to restore the lost funds.
With a credit card, you just call up and dispute the charge. Usually, they'll just erase the charge and hit the poor merchant with a chargeback. If they don't, it's still up to them to come after you for payment. Plus, pretty much all credit cards offer a 25 day float period, during which you have the use of their money interest free.
Several years ago, my bank sent me a new ATM card with a funny looking long number on it, together with a Mastercard logo. I called customer service and asked if it was really a Mastercard and if one could post charges to it without my PIN. The answer was yes. When I made it clear that was the wrong answer, the nice young lady said she'd take care of it right away. A new card with an old-style number and without the MC logo arrived the next day.
I prefer the latter situation. I see no reason to use debit cards when my mailbox is stuffed with service-charge free credit cards.
Of course, if you're wrong, and there are in fact logs, they would probably surface, should you utter sufficiently noxious bytes over your net connection.
...except under subpoena.
Nonsense. We must insist that a body of laws merit respect before we respect it. Laws that conflict with the First Amendment are not worthy.
As for Taiwan flouting our IP law, that situation has existed since long before the internet. All the net adds is a new way to place the orders you could have placed by snail mail or phone years ago.