I don't think any intellectually honest Slashdotter out there would assert that the vaunted 'information wants to be free' catch phrase should be interpreted as 'free as in beer'. Information is most certainly not free...
"Information wants to be free" is quite different from "Information is free".
In any case, it's been my experience that information struggles pretty hard to escape, and often succeeds.
However, for many outsiders, it's hard to understand how cliques reconcile seemingly contrarian views. For example, many US Republicans are against abortion but in favour of the death penalty...
It is no more a contradiction to oppose abortion and support the death penalty that to do the opposite (as I do).
When it comes to online user reviews, the situation gets a bit sticky. The reviews are hosted on the company's site... but something that claims to be "user reviews" implicitly indicates that these are the comments from all the users who cared to enter a comment.
No it doesn't. It merely says that these are customer reviews rather than the yammerings of the company's salesmen. It does not imply that they are all of the customer reviews nor even a random subset thereof.
Anyone who takes such reviews seriously is an idiot.
That's certianly worth a try but some ISPs have their smtp servers set up to only relay mail with From headers that match one of their own domains so they might reject him anyway.
In my experience they only look at the envelope-from (I have Exim rewrite it). I don't understand why they do this, though.
In my township we already have a highly reliable, open-source voting mschine that provides a complete paper trail. It consists of a 100 year old tin and wood box that we place our paper ballots in.
> In theory you could just make a whole swarm of > cheap 10 cm mirrors that fly in formation and > form a composite mirror. The difficulty would be > keeping their positions precisely aligned.
As I mentioned elsewhere, you don't need to keep them extremely closely aligned: you need only measure their alignment precisely so that you can compensate.
> At optical wavelengths, they could keep station > using very small thrusters perfectly well to > within the required tolerances.
You don't actually need to station-keep to within the required tolerances. You just need to measure that accurately. The station-keeping merely has to keep you within the dynamic range of your adaptive optics.
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> Ever hear about electron drift?
I think you are trying to say "electromigration".
Then there's the tin whisker and tin pest problems being brought to us care of the EU's new solder regulations...
> A very noisy planet will still stand out since > it will be generating much more radio noise than > the surroundings.
Not true. The total output of all the radio transmitters in use today is much less than the thermal radiation from the Earth integrated over the same band. If all those transmitters were using UWB the effect would be to raise the apparent noise level by an imperceptible amount.
> Saying that wide band communications is less > visible than narrow band communications is like > saying that white light is less visible than red > light.
No, it's like saying that a dim laser is visible against a bright white background, but a dim white light is not.
The 2.4GHz clock is generated inside the CPU, multiplied up from the external clock by a PLL. A few microwatts may get out, but it's just RF. All it can do is heat things up. Your balls are already being cooked by conducted heat, so don't worry about the RF.
I knew of a guy at Michigan State in the sixties who spent some time before each date sitting naked on a wicker chair with the seat cut out, his scrotum dangling in hot water.
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It's mu-metal you want for that hat. A couple of refrigerator magnets wouldn't hurt, either.
Great. It figures that when the schools decide to switch to Linux they would choose the worst distribution available.
In any case, it's been my experience that information struggles pretty hard to escape, and often succeeds.
Anyone who takes such reviews seriously is an idiot.
In my township we already have a highly reliable, open-source voting mschine that provides a complete paper trail. It consists of a 100 year old tin and wood box that we place our paper ballots in.
They mean absolute brightness.
> How well do you think it would go over if the
> Government started mandating that everybody has
> to turn over fingerprints at birth?
You mean as in national IDs with biometric data? It will go over very well as long as they say it is "to fight terror".
> In theory you could just make a whole swarm of
> cheap 10 cm mirrors that fly in formation and
> form a composite mirror. The difficulty would be
> keeping their positions precisely aligned.
As I mentioned elsewhere, you don't need to keep them extremely closely aligned: you need only measure their alignment precisely so that you can compensate.
> At optical wavelengths, they could keep station
> using very small thrusters perfectly well to
> within the required tolerances.
You don't actually need to station-keep to within the required tolerances. You just need to measure that accurately. The station-keeping merely has to keep you within the dynamic range of your adaptive optics.
> Ever hear about electron drift?
I think you are trying to say "electromigration".
Then there's the tin whisker and tin pest problems being brought to us care of the EU's new solder regulations...
> Aha but we have yet no proof that the finite
> serious of neurones are what cause consciousness
> in humans.
In the absence of an objective, testable definition of consciousness it is impossible to prove anything about it (or even that it exists).
If the words involved are common words such as 'windows' and the markets are unrelated it's tough nuts.
> Unlawful reading?
Only in Canada.
> A mule has no sex organs
This is not true.
> A very noisy planet will still stand out since
> it will be generating much more radio noise than
> the surroundings.
Not true. The total output of all the radio transmitters in use today is much less than the thermal radiation from the Earth integrated over the same band. If all those transmitters were using UWB the effect would be to raise the apparent noise level by an imperceptible amount.
> Saying that wide band communications is less
> visible than narrow band communications is like
> saying that white light is less visible than red
> light.
No, it's like saying that a dim laser is visible against a bright white background, but a dim white light is not.
The 2.4GHz clock is generated inside the CPU, multiplied up from the external clock by a PLL. A few microwatts may get out, but it's just RF. All it can do is heat things up. Your balls are already being cooked by conducted heat, so don't worry about the RF.
I knew of a guy at Michigan State in the sixties who spent some time before each date sitting naked on a wicker chair with the seat cut out, his scrotum dangling in hot water.
> ...breaks down the ranking by world, continent,
> and country.
So where is the list of worlds and which is #1? Surely not Earth!
> Swedish lawmakers have made downloading of
> copyrighted material illegal...
So that leaves Project Gutenberg and what else?
Keep them naked and make them live under a bush eating grubs and berries. No technology at all: no clothing, no cooking, no housing.
'Technology' is not a synonym for 'computers'.
What's needed is an application that will search all of these databases and provide a unified interface to the user.
> Far as I can tell though, most ICs are pretty
> standard and available.
Million gate FPGAs stuffed full of the manufacturer's "IP" (plus some licensed stuff such as dsp cores) are not "standard and available".