i cant see that being the real problem. If the students are downloading porn / using p2p apps from a private broadband account, the university cant be held accountable. The reason they block those apps on their own networks, is that they can have the biggest can of whoopass opened on them for allowing it to go on.
Hmmmm, i have to say that i think calling chess a "sport" is stretching the term somewhat. "competitive game" yes.......but surely NOONE thinks of it as a sport?
Awaiting the negative mods from fellow chessplayers.
"I'd prefer to see some requirements put in place that completely remove control of the jet from anyone on board and puts it in the hands of a security group on the ground as soon as there are any questionable issues on-board. Some manner in which the plane cannot be flown by terrorists as the control over the aircraft leaves as soon as its taken over"
Yeah - and as soon as you have this sort of facility available, the terrorists dont even have to hijack the plane itself......they just have to hack the comms / hijack the command centre and then take over lots of planes and crash them into whatever place they want.
Impact yes.....*huge* i is debatable. US involvement didnt "win" the war as is portrayed by the US media/holywood....what is certain however is that it probably shortened WW2 by several years. Without american intervention the war would likely have carried on until nearer 1950.
I dont see how it is a bad idea. You AGREE your insurance price at the beginning of the year, and then at the end, based on your driving characteristics/distance driven etc - you are given a rebate.
I would guess that the basic quote would have to be pretty competitive anyway - but they really ARE giving something back to the careful drivers. I kinda like the idea.
Perhaps the lack of option for more powerful graphics card is a result of the design specs. (design spec as in the artistic design as opposed to technological design). Such a lot is packed into such a tight form factor, that you have to wonder about heat dissapation. I would wager money that higher end graphic chipsets were tried, but that their increased performance/heat production was an issue and thus a lower end chipset was chosen.
in the UK, a public bar can offer spirits in EITHER 25ml or 35ml (1/4gill) measures. They have to apply for their licence to do so, and somewhere prominent in the bar there will be a plaque advising the patrons of which of those volumes a "standard measure" is.
And to make it worse, if you are in england/wales, you generally have to drink it up before 11pm as thats when the bars close. In Scotland however, its a WHOLE different matter:D Thank god for scottish licensing laws!:D
man...i KNOW that pain! The problem is that its completely unfeasable to go through 1000 pieces of suspected spam every few days, to make sure you havent killed a legitimate email. The longer this stupidity with spam goes on, the more i am willing to entertain microsofts/other big companies ideas of email "stamps" ie having to carry out a computationally intensive "payment".
"In addition you could evaluate it by length. maybe a word that meets the spam criteria but it 15+ characters long is excluded."
An interesting idea. I havent myself had many spam emails with VERY long names (of which systematic organic nomenclature would be a subset). The only problem - as ever - is that as soon as spam sending f*ckers know about exceptions, it will only be a minute until you see "1,3-benzodioxole-5-methyl-buy-your-v1a9ra-from-me -now-you-gullible-fool"
Sigh......i guess until we have a new technological solution to spam, ie maybe one of the computationally intensive task based email qualifications - this will be a mute point.
Both describe morhpine, however, C18H21NO3 could ALSO equally apply to N-[2-(1,3-Benzodioxol-5-yl) ethyl]-N-(2-ethoxybenzyl)amine.
Both of these examples show types of names that could commonly come up in an email. Also, i should mention that both these molecules are relatively simple, we could expect much more (cant give real examples for commercial reasons) complicated compound names each and every day.
The problem for chemists is that systematic nomenclature requires large molecules to have compound names (compound as in "lots-of-words-put-together-with-15'-or,more-names -in-there" as opposed to chemical compound). Since systematic names have many of the same characteristics as spam (ie lots of "-" "," "'" etc)...it could be a problem - especially when the parent to my original comment suggested a purely dictionary based effort - ie , if there is a word not in there - its a spam email.
....and you must remember that chemists such as myself, will sometimes send an email to a colleague containing the systematic chemical name of a chemical which has just been synthesised for the first time. There is no way a dictionary based check would pass that, as we are effectively creating new "dictionary entries" each day.
"What new discoveries come in math? Do derivatives change at all? How bout sine and cosine? Hmm?"
Insightfull????? More like TROLL! I think you will find there are many journals dedicated to publishing new "discoveries" in mathematics. You argument smacks of ignorance.
As for "new editions", Noone has to buy any such thing. A second hand relatively modern edition of a textbook will suffice in many cases.
Yeah, they watch them alright.......they watch the same 30 minute segment of military parades etc repeated over and over again for the vast majority of transmission time.
Am i missing something? I thought to be employed by the armed forces as a linguist, you have to be fluent in a foreign language already. Are you saying that you are going to be employed as a linguist and then they will teach you the language from scratch???????
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You seem to have forgotten the final step:
5) Profit!
(awaits an ass-whooping by the mods)
i cant see that being the real problem. If the students are downloading porn / using p2p apps from a private broadband account, the university cant be held accountable. The reason they block those apps on their own networks, is that they can have the biggest can of whoopass opened on them for allowing it to go on.
Maybe the university has a really good pr0n filter / p2p block.
Yeah, but to use definition 3 - you could argue that someone making sculpture, or knitting is engaged in sport.
Hmmmm, i have to say that i think calling chess a "sport" is stretching the term somewhat. "competitive game" yes.......but surely NOONE thinks of it as a sport?
Awaiting the negative mods from fellow chessplayers.
"I'd prefer to see some requirements put in place that completely remove control of the jet from anyone on board and puts it in the hands of a security group on the ground as soon as there are any questionable issues on-board. Some manner in which the plane cannot be flown by terrorists as the control over the aircraft leaves as soon as its taken over"
Yeah - and as soon as you have this sort of facility available, the terrorists dont even have to hijack the plane itself......they just have to hack the comms / hijack the command centre and then take over lots of planes and crash them into whatever place they want.
i deny it.
Impact yes.....*huge* i is debatable. US involvement didnt "win" the war as is portrayed by the US media/holywood....what is certain however is that it probably shortened WW2 by several years. Without american intervention the war would likely have carried on until nearer 1950.
I dont see how it is a bad idea. You AGREE your insurance price at the beginning of the year, and then at the end, based on your driving characteristics/distance driven etc - you are given a rebate.
I would guess that the basic quote would have to be pretty competitive anyway - but they really ARE giving something back to the careful drivers. I kinda like the idea.
Perhaps the lack of option for more powerful graphics card is a result of the design specs. (design spec as in the artistic design as opposed to technological design). Such a lot is packed into such a tight form factor, that you have to wonder about heat dissapation. I would wager money that higher end graphic chipsets were tried, but that their increased performance/heat production was an issue and thus a lower end chipset was chosen.
just to clarify.....a bar can offer either 25ml or 35ml measures. NOT both.
Sorry for not being clearer.
(hangs head in shame)
in the UK, a public bar can offer spirits in EITHER 25ml or 35ml (1/4gill) measures. They have to apply for their licence to do so, and somewhere prominent in the bar there will be a plaque advising the patrons of which of those volumes a "standard measure" is.
:D Thank god for scottish licensing laws! :D
And to make it worse, if you are in england/wales, you generally have to drink it up before 11pm as thats when the bars close. In Scotland however, its a WHOLE different matter
man...i KNOW that pain! The problem is that its completely unfeasable to go through 1000 pieces of suspected spam every few days, to make sure you havent killed a legitimate email. The longer this stupidity with spam goes on, the more i am willing to entertain microsofts/other big companies ideas of email "stamps" ie having to carry out a computationally intensive "payment".
"In addition you could evaluate it by length. maybe a word that meets the spam criteria but it 15+ characters long is excluded."
e -now-you-gullible-fool"
An interesting idea. I havent myself had many spam emails with VERY long names (of which systematic organic nomenclature would be a subset). The only problem - as ever - is that as soon as spam sending f*ckers know about exceptions, it will only be a minute until you see "1,3-benzodioxole-5-methyl-buy-your-v1a9ra-from-m
Sigh......i guess until we have a new technological solution to spam, ie maybe one of the computationally intensive task based email qualifications - this will be a mute point.
Well, to start. V = Vanadium
y -
Also, systematic chemical formualas are not of the form C18H21NO3 etc...... a systematic chemical formula would be something like:
5alpha,6alpha)-7,8-Didehydro-4,5-epoxy-3-methox
17-methylmorphinan-6-ol
Both describe morhpine, however, C18H21NO3 could ALSO equally apply to N-[2-(1,3-Benzodioxol-5-yl) ethyl]-N-(2-ethoxybenzyl)amine.
Both of these examples show types of names that could commonly come up in an email. Also, i should mention that both these molecules are relatively simple, we could expect much more (cant give real examples for commercial reasons) complicated compound names each and every day.
The problem for chemists is that systematic nomenclature requires large molecules to have compound names (compound as in "lots-of-words-put-together-with-15'-or,more-names -in-there" as opposed to chemical compound). Since systematic names have many of the same characteristics as spam (ie lots of "-" "," "'" etc)...it could be a problem - especially when the parent to my original comment suggested a purely dictionary based effort - ie , if there is a word not in there - its a spam email.
....and you must remember that chemists such as myself, will sometimes send an email to a colleague containing the systematic chemical name of a chemical which has just been synthesised for the first time. There is no way a dictionary based check would pass that, as we are effectively creating new "dictionary entries" each day.
"What new discoveries come in math? Do derivatives change at all? How bout sine and cosine? Hmm?"
Insightfull????? More like TROLL! I think you will find there are many journals dedicated to publishing new "discoveries" in mathematics. You argument smacks of ignorance.
As for "new editions", Noone has to buy any such thing. A second hand relatively modern edition of a textbook will suffice in many cases.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the worst film i have ever seen was Gigli. A truly embarassing and cringeworth piece of film making.
Just wait for the next release in his lineup. BLASTERbar.
I think you will find that "Eg." is an abbreviation of exempli gratia (for example), and thus his point is valid.
ahem....history......
Olympics of GREEK times. The big fuss about it being back "home" in Athens kinda gives the game away!
Yeah, they watch them alright.......they watch the same 30 minute segment of military parades etc repeated over and over again for the vast majority of transmission time.
You didnt happen to study at the George W. Bush School of Diplomacy did you ?
What a charming message.
"But one thing's for sure, this poster has absolutely no clue what he's talking about."
;-)
Hey come on now, at least he is posting in the right place........this IS slashdot!
Am i missing something? I thought to be employed by the armed forces as a linguist, you have to be fluent in a foreign language already. Are you saying that you are going to be employed as a linguist and then they will teach you the language from scratch???????