Where does SPA fit into this? My unterstanding was that they would only allow POP if authenticated through SPA - which means you have to use some flavor of outlook.
It would be great if they allowed pure POP3 but I can't believe it.
That's the great thing about Windows XP, as soon as you figure out one protocol, they'll change it and upgrade all the users instantly. You'll never be able to stay on top of it!
so let me get this straight - injuries from silicone breast implants are real because people feel they have been hurt, but carpal tunnel syndrome isn't real because geeks feel they have been hurt??
The even set it up to check their work or school POP accounts
And that is the problem - I would actually use it if I could check hotmail through POP but nooo - then I would miss all the ads. On the other hand, MS is more than happy to check my POP email for me.
similar problem with MSN (my girlfriend has it). She can check her mail through POP but only using SPA (Secure Password Authentication) which is only available through outlook and outlook express which means I can't use any client I choose. Isn't email supposed to be convenient? Or am I missing something. AOL, MSN, Hotmail - these are all more trouble than they are worth!
What is the difference fundamentally between saying
"that piece of software you own can only be used on OSes that we approve of"
and "that DVD you own can only be played on devices we approve of"
>>"GPL" your music. THEN go to RIAA and see if they will distribute it.
They won't even talk to you - and they don't have to. There are plenty of other "artists" waiting in line. The greedy ones are always very cooperative.
How many bands out there today show signs of actual talent? Very few I think. The conclusion I draw is that talent is not as important as the willingness to cooperate.
Agree with all your points except the conclusion. There is no chance that the US will declare war on china to get these guys back - not even if the Chinese slowly disembowel them on live television (CNN would carry that btw).
A far more likely path to war IMHO is that the US puts its tail between its legs and backs down - over the next few months/years China tests the waters more and more by increasing its aggression - the US continues to look the other way - China invades Taiwan - US looks the other way - China sees how easy it is to expand, how much the industrial capability of Taiwan helps their economy, and how happy and proud their people are the whole thing - eventually, a much stronger China than we see today invades a country sufficiently important enough that the other nations of the world (US included I would hope) have no choice but to go to war.
If this doesn't sound familiar review your history books of the 1930's. The world looked the other way when Hitler became increasingly aggressive. The big difference today is that a World War is likely to erupt into a nuclear war - and then it's adios muchachos
So what should we do? Well, try this on for size: We park a couple of carrier battle groups off their coast and since they've already demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to avoid ramming us, we proceed to shoot down anything that looks like a MiG 21. You know, just in case. Then Bush calls them up and says "hey, wanna go back to the way things were?"
>>Remember, the rotor diameter is artificially small for its weight because it has to be able to land on a carrier
I agree that it can't autorotate due to the small rotor diameter, but I'm pretty sure the diameter is dictated by the need to tilt them along side the fuselage. I can't imagine why large rotors would prevent landing on a carrier. There seems to be lots of room on deck and the rotors can be folded when taken below deck. On the other hand, if the rotors were any larger they would cut into the sides of the aircraft.
IANAL, but I've noticed that everything I buy says "without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose"
So, what would you argue?
1. Politician looks for an entity that has money.
2. Politician proposes legislation to control, tax, or otherwise put the squeeze on said entity.
3. Entity gets scared and begins to lobby congress and provide kickback to politician.
4. When politicians pockets are sufficiently lined, legislation goes away.
This is a staple of Chinese period films. In a film set in modern times (for example, the standard Hong Kong police movies that you've seen Jakie Chan in) the fight scenes are slightly more realistic. I think that the general consensus is that the real masters of martial arts lived in medieval times. What better way to show it than by depictions of flight?
Another staple of Chinese period films is what I can only describe as a wandering plot. Its like they tried to tell three or four stories at once. Good examples of this are _The Bride with White Hair_ and _A Chinese Ghost Story_
You just have to accept these things in the same way that you have to accept the water droplet thing in anime... ^_^;
It is time consuming, but quite possible to fire civilian government employees. I'm an Army officer and have personally fired two civilians. Talk to your Civilian Personnel Office and read the regulations. More importantly, study the rules of their union. Specifically, the union says you have to counsel them with witnesses present each time they fail to meet an objective you have set for them. Eventually, you develop a paper trail indicating poor performance and they get canned. Admittedly, it takes a while and everyone hates you for it, but if you are in a leadership position that's part of your job.
The reason there are such stringent rules is that a) they have a union that fights for them (techies take note) and b) there is a serious over-sensitivity in the government to what may be considered abuse, harassment, or discrimination.
Learn from the government sector because any sufficiently large bureaucracy tends to get that way. The lesson here - know the rules and use them to your favor. It's like hacking!
is to just get a second cat. They are free after all and I see no reason why they wouldn't work if connected in series.
Of course, I understand your desire to make it uber-cool with the addition of a switch. But wouldn't it be fun to go back to the same radio shack to ask for another scanner and when the say "what happened to the first one?" you say "um, it doesn't seem to work right anymore."
When will companies start being held legally accountable for these types of inexcusable security oversights?
Where the hell do they get off throwing lawyers at innocent people for violating their "property" and then making no effort what so ever to protect my property (specifically, my personal information)?
How about if I make DC sign an EULA that says "if you lose positive control of this information (last name, first name, address) then you owe me $10K for every piece of junk mail I get as a result"
Whatever happened to the idea of send a small program to a site to sift through its data and make intelligent choices about what to send back to the client?
As opposed to the Gnutella, Napster, even HTTP protocols in which every request results in a huge number of hits and lots of extraneous file transfers.
There is an explanation of why it took so long to bring m-net back up somewhere on the site, but the story goes something like this:
- The main admin guy has a real job, and couldn't get to it right away.
- The servers had recently been moved to a location that was pretty far away and only accessable during the day.
- They needed new hardware anyway, so before they began any kind of fix, they went out purchased a new server.
- And of course, they didn't want to bring up a new system that had the same security flaw in it.
Have you ever had to recover a hacked system? Not a flame. Just curious.
which is great because it allows me to have multiple personalities. I use different signatures and email addresses when I post to rec.arts.anime than I would use to correspond with a potential employer. That newsgroup is just an example, but the point is that there are things I do (which are not illegal) that I prefer to keep private, yet I would still like to be able to uniquely identify myself.
The problem here is that to allow voting electronically, you first have to insure that everyone gets only one vote. The government would no-doubt do that through a law that says "you can only have one sig" and that's something I find disturbing.
We use Exchange Server where I work. I'd love to quit using Outlook but I can't find a client (preferably free) that allows me to access the address list on the server. It's probably just an LDAP server but I haven't experimented with it too much.
I'd be interested to hear what mail clients other people are using on Windows and Linux and how well they work with Exchange Server. Personally, I think Eudora Light is the best thing out there for Windows (but I can't live without the Exchange address book).
Just last night I started read Stephenson's book _Snow Crash_ in which he makes the assertion that programmers are nothing more than factory workers. Today, I see Bob Young compare programmers to auto mechanics.
Will open-source turn programming into a blue collar job?
EPLRS, which is the location-finding part of this, uses spread spectrum burst transmission and sends very small packets of data. I am told (though I admit it sounds too good to be true) that it is virtually impossible to use direction-finding equipment to pinpoint the user's location. We don't have the technology to do it and neither does the enemy.
The people who make decisions about purchasing this kind of stuff are smart enough to ask the same questions as you. More importantly, they know what artillery does to signal sites that's give away their positions. So don't sweat it. Personally, I am more worried about my boss being able to track my location. Questions like "Why did you spend all day at that location?" are way too much micro-management for my tastes.
This is intended as just one more way to give situational awareness to soldiers, and in that respect it's a good thing (tm)
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Where does SPA fit into this? My unterstanding was that they would only allow POP if authenticated through SPA - which means you have to use some flavor of outlook.
It would be great if they allowed pure POP3 but I can't believe it.
That's the great thing about Windows XP, as soon as you figure out one protocol, they'll change it and upgrade all the users instantly. You'll never be able to stay on top of it!
And that is the problem - I would actually use it if I could check hotmail through POP but nooo - then I would miss all the ads. On the other hand, MS is more than happy to check my POP email for me.
similar problem with MSN (my girlfriend has it). She can check her mail through POP but only using SPA (Secure Password Authentication) which is only available through outlook and outlook express which means I can't use any client I choose. Isn't email supposed to be convenient? Or am I missing something. AOL, MSN, Hotmail - these are all more trouble than they are worth!
What is the difference fundamentally between saying
"that piece of software you own can only be used on OSes that we approve of"
and "that DVD you own can only be played on devices we approve of"
Maybe it was that for the kiddies, but for me it was something that I could point to and say "look at all the NT systems that get hacked"
>>"GPL" your music. THEN go to RIAA and see if they will distribute it.
They won't even talk to you - and they don't have to. There are plenty of other "artists" waiting in line. The greedy ones are always very cooperative.
How many bands out there today show signs of actual talent? Very few I think. The conclusion I draw is that talent is not as important as the willingness to cooperate.
Agree with all your points except the conclusion. There is no chance that the US will declare war on china to get these guys back - not even if the Chinese slowly disembowel them on live television (CNN would carry that btw).
A far more likely path to war IMHO is that the US puts its tail between its legs and backs down - over the next few months/years China tests the waters more and more by increasing its aggression - the US continues to look the other way - China invades Taiwan - US looks the other way - China sees how easy it is to expand, how much the industrial capability of Taiwan helps their economy, and how happy and proud their people are the whole thing - eventually, a much stronger China than we see today invades a country sufficiently important enough that the other nations of the world (US included I would hope) have no choice but to go to war.
If this doesn't sound familiar review your history books of the 1930's. The world looked the other way when Hitler became increasingly aggressive. The big difference today is that a World War is likely to erupt into a nuclear war - and then it's adios muchachos
So what should we do? Well, try this on for size: We park a couple of carrier battle groups off their coast and since they've already demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to avoid ramming us, we proceed to shoot down anything that looks like a MiG 21. You know, just in case. Then Bush calls them up and says "hey, wanna go back to the way things were?"
Sigh - it'll never happen but it's fun to dream.
>>Remember, the rotor diameter is artificially small for its weight because it has to be able to land on a carrier
I agree that it can't autorotate due to the small rotor diameter, but I'm pretty sure the diameter is dictated by the need to tilt them along side the fuselage. I can't imagine why large rotors would prevent landing on a carrier. There seems to be lots of room on deck and the rotors can be folded when taken below deck. On the other hand, if the rotors were any larger they would cut into the sides of the aircraft.
IANAL, but I've noticed that everything I buy says "without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose"
So, what would you argue?
This is how it works:
1. Politician looks for an entity that has money.
2. Politician proposes legislation to control, tax, or otherwise put the squeeze on said entity.
3. Entity gets scared and begins to lobby congress and provide kickback to politician.
4. When politicians pockets are sufficiently lined, legislation goes away.
Wash, rinse, repeat
oh yeah, and a netgear NIC... just one though.
- flying? jumping 20 feet in the air?
This is a staple of Chinese period films. In a film set in modern times (for example, the standard Hong Kong police movies that you've seen Jakie Chan in) the fight scenes are slightly more realistic. I think that the general consensus is that the real masters of martial arts lived in medieval times. What better way to show it than by depictions of flight?Another staple of Chinese period films is what I can only describe as a wandering plot. Its like they tried to tell three or four stories at once. Good examples of this are _The Bride with White Hair_ and _A Chinese Ghost Story_
You just have to accept these things in the same way that you have to accept the water droplet thing in anime... ^_^;
If I were her, I'd get some yellow tights and call myself Rain-Bow
It is time consuming, but quite possible to fire civilian government employees. I'm an Army officer and have personally fired two civilians. Talk to your Civilian Personnel Office and read the regulations. More importantly, study the rules of their union. Specifically, the union says you have to counsel them with witnesses present each time they fail to meet an objective you have set for them. Eventually, you develop a paper trail indicating poor performance and they get canned. Admittedly, it takes a while and everyone hates you for it, but if you are in a leadership position that's part of your job.
The reason there are such stringent rules is that a) they have a union that fights for them (techies take note) and b) there is a serious over-sensitivity in the government to what may be considered abuse, harassment, or discrimination.
Learn from the government sector because any sufficiently large bureaucracy tends to get that way. The lesson here - know the rules and use them to your favor. It's like hacking!
is to just get a second cat. They are free after all and I see no reason why they wouldn't work if connected in series.
Of course, I understand your desire to make it uber-cool with the addition of a switch. But wouldn't it be fun to go back to the same radio shack to ask for another scanner and when the say "what happened to the first one?" you say "um, it doesn't seem to work right anymore."
of going into radio shack for a fine-braid soldering iron, a spool of solder, some wire...
:Cue:Cat
And a "free"
Bwa ha ha ha
Oh shit, I broke it.
Sorry guys. How much do I owe you?
When will companies start being held legally accountable for these types of inexcusable security oversights?
Where the hell do they get off throwing lawyers at innocent people for violating their "property" and then making no effort what so ever to protect my property (specifically, my personal information)?
How about if I make DC sign an EULA that says "if you lose positive control of this information (last name, first name, address) then you owe me $10K for every piece of junk mail I get as a result"
Whatever happened to the idea of send a small program to a site to sift through its data and make intelligent choices about what to send back to the client?
As opposed to the Gnutella, Napster, even HTTP protocols in which every request results in a huge number of hits and lots of extraneous file transfers.
There is an explanation of why it took so long to bring m-net back up somewhere on the site, but the story goes something like this:
- The main admin guy has a real job, and couldn't get to it right away.
- The servers had recently been moved to a location that was pretty far away and only accessable during the day.
- They needed new hardware anyway, so before they began any kind of fix, they went out purchased a new server.
- And of course, they didn't want to bring up a new system that had the same security flaw in it.
Have you ever had to recover a hacked system? Not a flame. Just curious.
which is great because it allows me to have multiple personalities. I use different signatures and email addresses when I post to rec.arts.anime than I would use to correspond with a potential employer. That newsgroup is just an example, but the point is that there are things I do (which are not illegal) that I prefer to keep private, yet I would still like to be able to uniquely identify myself.
The problem here is that to allow voting electronically, you first have to insure that everyone gets only one vote. The government would no-doubt do that through a law that says "you can only have one sig" and that's something I find disturbing.
We use Exchange Server where I work. I'd love to quit using Outlook but I can't find a client (preferably free) that allows me to access the address list on the server. It's probably just an LDAP server but I haven't experimented with it too much.
I'd be interested to hear what mail clients other people are using on Windows and Linux and how well they work with Exchange Server. Personally, I think Eudora Light is the best thing out there for Windows (but I can't live without the Exchange address book).
Just last night I started read Stephenson's book _Snow Crash_ in which he makes the assertion that programmers are nothing more than factory workers. Today, I see Bob Young compare programmers to auto mechanics.
Will open-source turn programming into a blue collar job?
EPLRS, which is the location-finding part of this, uses spread spectrum burst transmission and sends very small packets of data. I am told (though I admit it sounds too good to be true) that it is virtually impossible to use direction-finding equipment to pinpoint the user's location. We don't have the technology to do it and neither does the enemy.
The people who make decisions about purchasing this kind of stuff are smart enough to ask the same questions as you. More importantly, they know what artillery does to signal sites that's give away their positions. So don't sweat it. Personally, I am more worried about my boss being able to track my location. Questions like "Why did you spend all day at that location?" are way too much micro-management for my tastes.
This is intended as just one more way to give situational awareness to soldiers, and in that respect it's a good thing (tm)
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