Check your logs. Did you find lots of bad addresses? Basicly did you find that someone (on a fast link) would hit your mail server with about 30 addresses of guessed user ids, disconnect and try again with a different set? If so, let me know. If you have any govermental or infrastructure clients, I've got a phone number of who you need to contact.
I had someone (from a uu.net dialup) try something like 122,000 userid on my domain. They hit aliases that had never been used. Hiding isn't a solution.
Ever heard of caller id? it works great. You set up the digital ras to only let calls in that send their number (or arange with the phone co to get all numbers) and then keep a database of spamer phones numbers. A few tricks with a radius server and you know when they call back.
Pangaea had to be a result of something late in the planet formation stage of the earth or else the planet would have been more uniform. I wonder if some form of life was here before whatever event cuased pangaea (and the moon?)
Chlorophyll and mitochondria are an essential part of every typical cell but these things look like they used to live indpendant of their now required host cells. Odd thing is the O2 is quite toxic to both of them. They also have a very low rate of mutations.
If its not readable in Lynx, then its illegal according to the Americans with Disabilitys act.
Of course he had to disclose
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He was paid a "kings ransom" for the clock. (well almost, I know the details, if you don't read the book).
The King's Ransom was paid to solve a real problem that just isn't getting solved but needed to be. That 20,000 pounds (about several million dollars by todays rates) saved the British Empire millions of pounds and increased its ability to hold its growing empire.
I think the US goverment should take a lesson from this and offer a billion dollars as a prize for the things that need to be solved like cure for the common cold or aids. Right now the common cold cost the country about hundred of billions of dollars a year in lost productivity, makes about 6 billion for the drug compaines and is a major killer of older people. Offering the person (not company) that comes up with a solution to the problem a billion dollars is quite an incentive for a solution.
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They are quite spinelss when it comes to attacks. There is a new type of spaming attack using fast networks and adaptive guessing that can hit a server with hundred of thousands of messages in a very short time. Right now the writer is adjusting the code and when its released, it will nail a number of large computer system all over the world including the US goverments. I handed them all the data they need to prosecute this idiot but they choose to ignore it.
I used to for as a contractor for DISA (they run/own the computers for the US AF and other branches) and the only time we could get anyone excited about attempted hacks was by informally asking the OSI guys if they had time to drop by and hassle some kid. When that happened, it involved two guys in cheap suits dropping by some kids house and asking a few questions.
I like how they talk about the 1998 event. At that time hadn't learned their lession yet.
What is needed is give every company and household one 7 digit number. Then give everyone else a 14+ digit number. I don't need an easy to remember number for my modem, fax, cell phone.
I heard that going from 7 digits to 10 increased wrong numbers by 43%.
Maybe the real problem is that there are too many people in the house of representaives. If their numbers were smaller, then the larger states would have slightly less power as well. The original ratio was an average of 5 reps per state. That would mean there should be 250 reps now, not the 435. A smaller house would have other advantages as well since it would become more effective. Once a political group gets too large, it gets seperated along lines which is not helpful. Think about compaines, if you work in a place with 250 people, you will interact with more of them than if there are 500 people since the boundrys are less defined.
I've looked into this problem in the past. TeX was considered briefly for early web content but PC's were too damn slow to be useful. Now PCs are fast enough to run the TeX engine in what appears to be real time.
For those that have just used LaTeX and not TeX, TeX is very powerful. You do have full control over where ever single letter goes if you want it. Its a complete programming language and is a well designed system. Its major weakness is lack of good vector and raster graphics. It is powerful enough to do things like make decissions based on its page size but the rules will need to be tweeked for things like WAP phones since the hints on page layout were designed for letter and book sized paper. There had been packages in the past that would do a very good job rendering TeX documents on vt320 terminals.
LaTeX won't quite fit the bill of what is needed for the web as its currently used. It would be quite simple to write a package like LaTeX for the web that meets the requirements of how the web works. Such a system if properly deisgned would allow things to print out correctly as well as behave correctly on the screen. That means things like floating foot notes on the screen and pritned at the bottom of the page on dead tree versions.
For this to become wide spread, all it would require is that the code exists and the results be shown to a few marketters. I know my companys head of sales would force the entire site in to TeX if it fixed the printing problem. It wouldn't matter if 99.9% of the customers couldn't read it.
It seems strange to me that so many states have a all or none voting system. What happened to reason? This would not have been a problem if they had allocated votes in some reasonable way like say 12 votes for republicans, 12 for the democrats and 1 for misc/other. There's talk about changing the constitution but its not what's broken. It says the state gets to pick its electors anyway it wants. In this case the states voting system is broken.
This could get very interesting if the Florida legislator decided to do something rash.
This spring has been quite wet for Victoria (a southern state of Australia). The wind patterns this year have been different than they had been for the last few years so that might have an effect on the amount of CFCs in Tasmania.
I wonder if the high rates of sunburn in Austraila has anything to do with people avoid the sun like crazy for the last 30+ years. I've been sunburn in Floridia, New Zealand, Egypt, Tahiti and even Kanas but I have never been sunburnt in Oz. I don't wear sunscreen unless I'm going to be spending a week on a boat (in places like Cairns).
Makes me wonder if people aren't building up natural defenses becuase of long term uses of sunscreen as a crutch.
Its not just South America that has this problem. Spain has it too.
English and German have an advantage that they let people talk about devices and machines and processes. These are the things that were vital at the end of the industrial revolution and I expect that is why areas that spoke thouse language are doing much better now. Both languages allow new words to be added quickly. Thats why there are 600,000+ words in an unabridged dictionary about about 20k offical words in French.
Spanish had that flexiblity once long ago. It allowed them to talk about things like navgation and contracts and it let them rule the world. The same is true for Dutch which allowed for complex contract details that described what happend when things didn't go as planed. Stock option "calls" and "puts" are are result of that tradition.
A society is limited by its language and there are many examples of this. Natives of Australia couldn't count till the white man came. They had no words for numbers. If they needed to talk about more than one, they repeated the word but only once and that meet their needs. They had the concept of singular and plural but not three. This seems odd but if you look at very old Hewbrew they didn't have words for numbers much more than 20. The "forty" that is in so many places in the bible didn't mean 4x10 it simply had the meaning of "lots". Later when they had a need to count thigns with some precision, their word for forty started meaning 4x10. The Romans were limited with their spoken numbers which lead to taxation abuse. How did they say XI? "ten remove one".
There seems to limits of what people in the past could talk about due to their language. Another example is the Egyptans couldn't talk about travel very well.
I wonder how long it will be until the romance languages will be spoken with out the gender on nouns. As an english speaker the concept seems to be as stupid as the spelling rules for english words.
I was recently forced to use some of my vaction time. I've been with the company for about two years and I've still got at least 4 weeks of time I could take this year.
I used to be a high dollar contractor in the midwest and after I quit from the last job I was going to visit Australia for 3 months to travel around. Beeing a typical geek, I went to a local computer trade show and was harasing a company about their limited range of products when they decided to hire me. The pay isn't great (compared to what I used to make its quite pathetic), I rarely work more than 10 hrs in any given day and I rarely ever do more than 45 in a week. I get more vaction time than I can use. They don't have a problem buying some of the toys I want and they alwasy have a number of interesting projects to work on.
The best advantage of working here is that some Aussie women love American accents:-)
Star Wars had some digital work that was done at 6000x4000.
Right now good film (the stuff they use for IMAX) is in the range of 20,000 lines per inch.
At least Lucas has enough fans and money to sucessfuly lower the bar one more time.
I suspect that in 20 years people will look back at these movies and say "that was made in the '00. You can tell because of the crudy resolution".
Thats no different than the current way of being able to judge when a movie was made to about 5 years based on excessive color (can you say intoduction of technicolor?), excessive sound (can you say THX?)
In general movies are getting more expensive to make and this may just make it so they can be done at a much ruduced cost which could allow other not so well funded people to make movies (like these people)
Back when OkieSU got their first Intel Hypercube (128? 286 cpus in a box-- wow), I heard from someone that wrote the benchmark code for Intel say that the benchmarks are the processing level "guaranteed to never be exceeded"
Australia has 7,686,850 sq km (from cia -- can they be trusted?)
Thats 2967909.4 sq mi (according to units(1))
so for 13k public toilets that results in
one for every 228.3 sq miles or 591.3 sq km
or in the terms they expressed.0016 toilets per sq km.
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GM Tabacco is widespread and very people know about it. It appears that its spread predated the FDA's rules or maybe its just exempt since its not a drug and its not food.
Keep in mind that Watson and Crick at Cambridge and Rosalind Franklin's work at Kings College was paid for by research grants from tabacco companies. Looks like thye've been working on GM crops since least 1950. The've been doing tricks with adding fungi since before WW I when American tabacco was much prefered over the other options.
By the way Franklin looks like one of the orignal Geek girls. Too bad she died of cancer at age 37 or else she would have been in the running for a Nobel prise.
that won't work. The US postoffice disposes of things like bricks attached to postage paid envelopes. Remember the junk mailers are the friends of the post office which is why their return junk mail cost them less than your letter to a friend.
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From what I've seen, they love sales@ and webmaster@. I get email for those and I've never used them with my domain.
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A common fern has more base pairs than almost everything else but is also one of the oldest things that is still here.
Check your logs. Did you find lots of bad addresses? Basicly did you find that someone (on a fast link) would hit your mail server with about 30 addresses of guessed user ids, disconnect and try again with a different set? If so, let me know. If you have any govermental or infrastructure clients, I've got a phone number of who you need to contact.
I had someone (from a uu.net dialup) try something like 122,000 userid on my domain. They hit aliases that had never been used. Hiding isn't a solution.
Ever heard of caller id? it works great. You set up the digital ras to only let calls in that send their number (or arange with the phone co to get all numbers) and then keep a database of spamer phones numbers. A few tricks with a radius server and you know when they call back.
Pangaea had to be a result of something late in the planet formation stage of the earth or else the planet would have been more uniform. I wonder if some form of life was here before whatever event cuased pangaea (and the moon?)
Chlorophyll and mitochondria are an essential part of every typical cell but these things look like they used to live indpendant of their now required host cells. Odd thing is the O2 is quite toxic to both of them. They also have a very low rate of mutations.
If its not readable in Lynx, then its illegal according to the Americans with Disabilitys act.
He was paid a "kings ransom" for the clock. (well almost, I know the details, if you don't read the book).
The King's Ransom was paid to solve a real problem that just isn't getting solved but needed to be. That 20,000 pounds (about several million dollars by todays rates) saved the British Empire millions of pounds and increased its ability to hold its growing empire.
I think the US goverment should take a lesson from this and offer a billion dollars as a prize for the things that need to be solved like cure for the common cold or aids. Right now the common cold cost the country about hundred of billions of dollars a year in lost productivity, makes about 6 billion for the drug compaines and is a major killer of older people. Offering the person (not company) that comes up with a solution to the problem a billion dollars is quite an incentive for a solution.
They are quite spinelss when it comes to attacks. There is a new type of spaming attack using fast networks and adaptive guessing that can hit a server with hundred of thousands of messages in a very short time. Right now the writer is adjusting the code and when its released, it will nail a number of large computer system all over the world including the US goverments. I handed them all the data they need to prosecute this idiot but they choose to ignore it.
I used to for as a contractor for DISA (they run/own the computers for the US AF and other branches) and the only time we could get anyone excited about attempted hacks was by informally asking the OSI guys if they had time to drop by and hassle some kid. When that happened, it involved two guys in cheap suits dropping by some kids house and asking a few questions.
I like how they talk about the 1998 event. At that time hadn't learned their lession yet.
"widespread anxiety" on re-entry? More like "what do you mean I can't call that field op in Iraq? -- what do you mean their phone company went bust?"
What is needed is give every company and household one 7 digit number. Then give everyone else a 14+ digit number. I don't need an easy to remember number for my modem, fax, cell phone.
I heard that going from 7 digits to 10 increased wrong numbers by 43%.
Why is it a problem? I don't use my phone to call my ISP.
Maybe the real problem is that there are too many people in the house of representaives. If their numbers were smaller, then the larger states would have slightly less power as well. The original ratio was an average of 5 reps per state. That would mean there should be 250 reps now, not the 435. A smaller house would have other advantages as well since it would become more effective. Once a political group gets too large, it gets seperated along lines which is not helpful. Think about compaines, if you work in a place with 250 people, you will interact with more of them than if there are 500 people since the boundrys are less defined.
I've looked into this problem in the past. TeX was considered briefly for early web content but PC's were too damn slow to be useful. Now PCs are fast enough to run the TeX engine in what appears to be real time.
For those that have just used LaTeX and not TeX, TeX is very powerful. You do have full control over where ever single letter goes if you want it. Its a complete programming language and is a well designed system. Its major weakness is lack of good vector and raster graphics. It is powerful enough to do things like make decissions based on its page size but the rules will need to be tweeked for things like WAP phones since the hints on page layout were designed for letter and book sized paper. There had been packages in the past that would do a very good job rendering TeX documents on vt320 terminals.
LaTeX won't quite fit the bill of what is needed for the web as its currently used. It would be quite simple to write a package like LaTeX for the web that meets the requirements of how the web works. Such a system if properly deisgned would allow things to print out correctly as well as behave correctly on the screen. That means things like floating foot notes on the screen and pritned at the bottom of the page on dead tree versions.
For this to become wide spread, all it would require is that the code exists and the results be shown to a few marketters. I know my companys head of sales would force the entire site in to TeX if it fixed the printing problem. It wouldn't matter if 99.9% of the customers couldn't read it.
It seems strange to me that so many states have a all or none voting system. What happened to reason? This would not have been a problem if they had allocated votes in some reasonable way like say 12 votes for republicans, 12 for the democrats and 1 for misc/other. There's talk about changing the constitution but its not what's broken. It says the state gets to pick its electors anyway it wants. In this case the states voting system is broken.
This could get very interesting if the Florida legislator decided to do something rash.
This spring has been quite wet for Victoria (a southern state of Australia). The wind patterns this year have been different than they had been for the last few years so that might have an effect on the amount of CFCs in Tasmania.
I wonder if the high rates of sunburn in Austraila has anything to do with people avoid the sun like crazy for the last 30+ years. I've been sunburn in Floridia, New Zealand, Egypt, Tahiti and even Kanas but I have never been sunburnt in Oz. I don't wear sunscreen unless I'm going to be spending a week on a boat (in places like Cairns).
Makes me wonder if people aren't building up natural defenses becuase of long term uses of sunscreen as a crutch.
Its not just South America that has this problem. Spain has it too.
English and German have an advantage that they let people talk about devices and machines and processes. These are the things that were vital at the end of the industrial revolution and I expect that is why areas that spoke thouse language are doing much better now. Both languages allow new words to be added quickly. Thats why there are 600,000+ words in an unabridged dictionary about about 20k offical words in French.
Spanish had that flexiblity once long ago. It allowed them to talk about things like navgation and contracts and it let them rule the world. The same is true for Dutch which allowed for complex contract details that described what happend when things didn't go as planed. Stock option "calls" and "puts" are are result of that tradition.
A society is limited by its language and there are many examples of this. Natives of Australia couldn't count till the white man came. They had no words for numbers. If they needed to talk about more than one, they repeated the word but only once and that meet their needs. They had the concept of singular and plural but not three. This seems odd but if you look at very old Hewbrew they didn't have words for numbers much more than 20. The "forty" that is in so many places in the bible didn't mean 4x10 it simply had the meaning of "lots". Later when they had a need to count thigns with some precision, their word for forty started meaning 4x10. The Romans were limited with their spoken numbers which lead to taxation abuse. How did they say XI? "ten remove one".
There seems to limits of what people in the past could talk about due to their language. Another example is the Egyptans couldn't talk about travel very well.
I wonder how long it will be until the romance languages will be spoken with out the gender on nouns. As an english speaker the concept seems to be as stupid as the spelling rules for english words.
Not everyones red and green are at the same area. It seems that there are common variations that shift the red or green slightly one way.
One question is that if you have more color vision, is that at the expense of something else?
Most humans that live in cities today don't use their night vision at all. It take 1/2 hr after the last bright exposure for it even to work.
I was recently forced to use some of my vaction time. I've been with the company for about two years and I've still got at least 4 weeks of time I could take this year.
:-)
I used to be a high dollar contractor in the midwest and after I quit from the last job I was going to visit Australia for 3 months to travel around. Beeing a typical geek, I went to a local computer trade show and was harasing a company about their limited range of products when they decided to hire me. The pay isn't great (compared to what I used to make its quite pathetic), I rarely work more than 10 hrs in any given day and I rarely ever do more than 45 in a week. I get more vaction time than I can use. They don't have a problem buying some of the toys I want and they alwasy have a number of interesting projects to work on.
The best advantage of working here is that some Aussie women love American accents
The week in Tahiti was nice.
Star Wars had some digital work that was done at 6000x4000.
Right now good film (the stuff they use for IMAX) is in the range of 20,000 lines per inch.
At least Lucas has enough fans and money to sucessfuly lower the bar one more time.
I suspect that in 20 years people will look back at these movies and say "that was made in the '00. You can tell because of the crudy resolution".
Thats no different than the current way of being able to judge when a movie was made to about 5 years based on excessive color (can you say intoduction of technicolor?), excessive sound (can you say THX?)
In general movies are getting more expensive to make and this may just make it so they can be done at a much ruduced cost which could allow other not so well funded people to make movies (like these people)
Back when OkieSU got their first Intel Hypercube (128? 286 cpus in a box-- wow), I heard from someone that wrote the benchmark code for Intel say that the benchmarks are the processing level "guaranteed to never be exceeded"
Australia has 7,686,850 sq km (from cia -- can they be trusted?) .0016 toilets per sq km.
Thats 2967909.4 sq mi (according to units(1))
so for 13k public toilets that results in
one for every 228.3 sq miles or 591.3 sq km
or in the terms they expressed
GM Tabacco is widespread and very people know about it. It appears that its spread predated the FDA's rules or maybe its just exempt since its not a drug and its not food.
Keep in mind that Watson and Crick at Cambridge and Rosalind Franklin's work at Kings College was paid for by research grants from tabacco companies. Looks like thye've been working on GM crops since least 1950. The've been doing tricks with adding fungi since before WW I when American tabacco was much prefered over the other options.
By the way Franklin looks like one of the orignal Geek girls. Too bad she died of cancer at age 37 or else she would have been in the running for a Nobel prise.
that won't work. The US postoffice disposes of things like bricks attached to postage paid envelopes. Remember the junk mailers are the friends of the post office which is why their return junk mail cost them less than your letter to a friend.
From what I've seen, they love sales@ and webmaster@. I get email for those and I've never used them with my domain.