If your MP wants the extention, ask for a real extention. Life+200 years would mean the Grimm brothers familys could collect everything Disney ever made.
If adding 20 years is good, then adding 150 should be even better right?
While the drugs they mention might be legit, they way they are providing them is a violation of the laws of most countries. Also in the US, its very illegal to offer drugs (of any kind) to children in a school zone. All it takes is getting one of the spamers into the county with the right type of "hang 'em high" judge and spamers world wide will notice. You can get life in prision for selling illegal enlargment pills out side your local school, and there is no difference if thats done via email except you also get to thorw in wire fraud charges as well.
They aren't in business because two people that wanted to buy their product got spamed and refused to even consider them again. In a business with that few customers, it killed the company. There should be bits of the Revolution Helicopters sotry in googles usenet cache.
A guy who works at the local pub has written a coffee table picture book on Napal but hes a bit short of cash for the 1st order so he spent what little money he had on what he was sold as a "million opt-in". The test run of about 100 worked fine and he got nearly 100 new visitors on his web site. The full run increased the visitors to his web site by about 5 a day for a few days. Now hes anoyed millions of people, out a few thousnad dollars in spaming fees and may never get tee 1st run of his book done. Of course the spamers are better off since they now have his money.
The only solution to spamers is to put them in jail. Many break laws and get away with it. Anyone know of a prosecutor & judge that doesn't like people offering illegal drugs to kids and is willing to put someone in jail for a long time to prove that point?
What are the odds that a high school band will make it big? Its far less than the odds of making it as a NFL player (There are about 2000 NFL players, about 100 top 40 bands a year).
The record industry doesn't sell music, they sell small plastic things which they have to produce and get into stores. They don't want too many songs out there because it confuses their customers (who are the record store). Their business model is messed up and they aren't about to fix it. Until someone comes along and breaks the RIAA, I don't expect to even hear much new good music.
All of the bands that have songs on www.ozmp3.com don't make much money at all selling CDs. They make their money by doing live gigs. The only band that moves a large number of CD's gives 1/2 of the money to the local eye hospital. Some of the others have recovered the costs of getting the CDs made. Some haven't.
Most of the musicians I've talked to lately are just doing covers and will be the next target by the RIAA. Its a copyright violation to do covers in most most cases and few places are paying for the rights. I only know of one band that has paid for the copyright rights to do the songs.
When a/. story happens, you can buy puts on a stock and then get calls a few hours latter. What happens is the price takes a tumble and then the auto systems decide the price is right to buy and the large mutual funds buy enough to push the price up. The reverse can happen on good news as well. Aren't you glad all your retirement funds are in systems that are so well thought out?
Ever file on the file system is referenced by an inode (you can think of it as the files real name), and every directory entry points to an inode. Once you open a file, the OS just uses it's inode, not its name and the name can go away. While every filename points to an inode, not all inodes need to have names. Also several filenames can point to the same inode (thats called hard links in unix).
Chernobyl dumped about 7 tons of radio active isotopes into the air. Funny thing is smokers are putting about 42 tons of radio active potassium-40 ions into the air every year.
Chernobyl happened because they couldn't build any more plants and they needed more power so they risked increasing the power output of one of the existing reactors. While they were doing the work, some of the systems were shut down. Had they had the ability to order a low cot reactor like the one in the story, the accident would not have happened.
Three mile island had also been running tests to increase its power output.
refine it again. Except thats illegal thanks to stupid laws proposed by idiots that do not understand. You can't even do research on reacotr waste in the US. All the "reactor waste" that is used for research in the US is specially made in small research reactors like the one sitting in the middle of an upscale houseing development in Columbia Missouri.
If you have an accident you lose 5 billion of a power plant because all the existing plant (in the US) are based on a horid old design from the 1960s when many of the concepts were new. In the 1960s power plants were manual operations with huge teams of people looking at guages and twisting knobs and automation wasn't properly considered for a couple of decades but all the nuke plants are still based on the old concept. Now the greenies have managed to kill off all future research (except in Japan) and the result is Japan will start putting these in place all over the world. Soon China will start putting them in as well since there isn't enougn oil/coal to power Europe/North America and 10% of China all to the same level.
Its to make it easy to parse. An Aussie number would be published as 03-9123-4567 compared to a US number of 800-555-1212. The old numbers used to be 03-123-4567 but they ran out of numbers in the two cities (that are bigger than Chicago now). They tack on an 8 or a 9 on all the major cities and then everyone has an 8 digit local number. They might have considered a 039-123-4567 which would make sense since dial 035-123-4567 is a long distance call so the 1st 3 digits are an area code. The problem is how do you take a stream of digits and figure out if you need to parse it as 039.123.4567 or 03.9123.4567.
Once nice effect of leading 0 is when you throw in PBX systems that allso need a leading 0. Then add in an internation call to NZ will start 00-11-64 but the emergency number is 000. Now after all day of dailing international numbers, go to the pub, have a few beers and then dial a friend overseas (most Aussies know lots of people out of the country). The result is a 30% of the calls to 000 aren't intended. Another cool trick is most nokia phones will let you dial 000 (and 112) even if their keypad is locked. Its amazing how easy it is to get the 0 button pressed three times when all the ohter buttons are locked out.
I wonder if Oscar the groutch is still teaching the local kids how to dial 911...
You've covered why the US phone number system is broken. My grandmothers phone was KIngman-something so the real phone number was 54X-XXXX but you could get by with just the last 5 digits since there were so few phones in the exchange. That was common over most of the US till 30 years ago. Then compaines started getting direct dial extentions and then fax and then computer lines and a massive growth in the number of lines. How ever most of the new lines don't need a human friendly number. In fact I would prefer if my 2nd line had a 30 digit number.
What should have happened is they should have reserved the x1y exchange codes as a indicator that the number is big and then threw in a few check codes and offered every business two human friendly numbers, every house one friendly number and given everyone else the messy ones. had that been done, nearly every one in the US could still call locals with a 7 digit number a the number of misdialled numbers would be way down and it would be impossable to block dial all the long numbers.
I got some number wrong. The CIA claims the GDP is US$528 billion (est 2002). The ave income in 2000 was about AU$34,000 times 21 million people is about au$680 billion but I'm think the 34k/yr is just for thouse that work so the numbers might be closer to 1/2 that. Either way 9% of that total gets dumped into investments through the superfunds.
I'm glad I don't deal with them but the funds that I used to invest in had massive problems with stupid investments which is a common problem with mutual funds. They have $X amount of money they must invest every week. Then on the 1st and 15th they have $Y they also must invest. I'm sure its easy the 1st few weeks to find something good to invest in but after a while all the good stuff is gone and the law says it must be invested. Where is Fidelity going to put a billion dollers next week?
I just found out that the Aussie superannuation funds are now buying houses and empty lots. No wonder people can't afford homes anymore, clueless investment firms have billions of dollars they have to put somewhere and they only thing left is homes which they seem happy to pay double for. The super funds in Oz now have $130 million a week they have to invest which is 9% of the countries income.
The problem is who is buying from the spamers? Its not the end customers, its the people pushing their junk. They are the ones paying the spam shops.
This small point seems to be missed by most of the posters here.
Its just like an adverting agency. An adverting company doen't get paid to get you to buy soap, they get paid by convincing the soap company to part with some money.
Been there done that. Its called X.400 and the last x.400 mail server I saw cost $20,000. That didn't include the certs. It also would choke under a moderate load.
Any other mail solutions requires that the ISP do things properly and that isn't going to happen.
Getting around in an airport today can waste huge amoutns of time. For example I can get to the local airport 20 minutes before departure and still get on the plane if a large number of other factors are right such as its not the morning or evening rush and there normal gate is being used so I don't have to count on a shuttle and no group is on strike. Other times I may need to be there two hours before hand and in some airports 4 hours is pushing it.
Of course the solution to that nonsense would be put the final check in time on the ticket. There are only two people on most planes that care what time the plane leaves and they get the front seats. Most everyone else needs to know what time they need to be in the check in line.
Your preaching to the wrong group. When Standard Oil was broken up, it was split into 20 parts and each part would compete with other parts. When people started talking about breaking up MS, most of the/. crowd thought it would be good to have a MS-OS and MS-application group. That was just stupid. MS should bave been broken up into one company that got say excel and NT and a second company that got Word and Flight sim and no OS, one one that got power point and ME/XP or whatever. Too bad none of that ever happened.
How about when my server (which doesn't run any version of windows) gets nailed by millions of windows boxes all over the world. Is that my fault? Who is to blame. Right now it seems that no one is to blame but I've got a big bandwidth bill I get to pay soon.
I didn't agree to Bill's terms of service even if shrink wrap EULA are 100% legal.
They are responsible unless they allow an esay way to apply that patch. That means I should be able to go down to the local computer shop and buy an patched full install of win98/winME/whatever for less than $5. Anything less is simply incompetence.
I just reloaded a friends win98 box. The recomended patches were going to take 4 hours to do assuming they would work but it turns out that somehow the script engine was broken so the "accpet" button would never become active. The result is there is no reasonable way to patch that machine. MS is 100% at fault for that.
Last week I wrote a letter to MS about their problem. It turns out that a large number of windows machines have been nailing my server thanks to the swen worm. Its amazing how many machines are either in Microsoft's own domain or from their partners who are infected. I'm asking them to compenstate me for just the software owned my MS that wasn't properly patched. If things had been slightly different the real damages could have been in the range of over AU$50,000. MS treats thier software insecurity as a joke and their customers are clueless and someone has to take responsibility. If they won't do it by themselves maybe its time to get the courts to decide.
I have been working on the model that PC's can't turst each other. I'm finding that the model is unworkable without very smart switches and the cisco 29xx that I have don't count as smart enough. While I have been able to lock down some things, every time I do tests, the access lists leak like a sive. Maybe its time to buy a PC full of quad ethernet cards and set it up as a router.
Many people have lots of details about the internal structure of cisco IOS since it was common to get at that in the years that DARPA folded into DISA and Cisco was tring to gain market share from Novell. Most of those people no longer work for that group but how many still have source code sitting at home?
Not that it would matter much. Cisco IOS on an AGS+ was rock solid compared to most of the crud out there at the time (say fingerd and washu ftpd).
Besides if cisco joins up with linksys, it puts them in the same group as 3com and their GPL code theft. I reported this to GNU and 3com's latest "fix" has taken out GNU tar, GNU zip and other open source code but you can't get that without a new service contract. The result is 99% of all 3com NBX phone systems are running GNU code with no source. I was sold the device as it being "open" and it contained GPL code so I want source but as far as I can tell GNU backed down in a way that will keep me from ever supporting them or their projects ever again. Is anyone here listed in the GNU Tar files that doesn't like this situation? I've got the email address of 3com's attys.
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But are any of the tags that work well in multi-read situations available in bulk for under a $1 and can hang out on (or in) a cow for three years? I think as soon as someone figures out a better way to read the tags than a cheap AM type radio circut that RFID may be useful. After all a GPS reciver picks up much weaker signals and does far more with them than a typical rfid reader which cost 10 times what a GPS reciver will.
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If your MP wants the extention, ask for a real extention.
Life+200 years would mean the Grimm brothers familys could collect everything Disney ever made.
If adding 20 years is good, then adding 150 should be even better right?
While the drugs they mention might be legit, they way they are providing them is a violation of the laws of most countries. Also in the US, its very illegal to offer drugs (of any kind) to children in a school zone. All it takes is getting one of the spamers into the county with the right type of "hang 'em high" judge and spamers world wide will notice. You can get life in prision for selling illegal enlargment pills out side your local school, and there is no difference if thats done via email except you also get to thorw in wire fraud charges as well.
They aren't in business because two people that wanted to buy their product got spamed and refused to even consider them again. In a business with that few customers, it killed the company. There should be bits of the Revolution Helicopters sotry in googles usenet cache.
A guy who works at the local pub has written a coffee table picture book on Napal but hes a bit short of cash for the 1st order so he spent what little money he had on what he was sold as a "million opt-in". The test run of about 100 worked fine and he got nearly 100 new visitors on his web site. The full run increased the visitors to his web site by about 5 a day for a few days. Now hes anoyed millions of people, out a few thousnad dollars in spaming fees and may never get tee 1st run of his book done. Of course the spamers are better off since they now have his money.
The only solution to spamers is to put them in jail. Many break laws and get away with it. Anyone know of a prosecutor & judge that doesn't like people offering illegal drugs to kids and is willing to put someone in jail for a long time to prove that point?
What are the odds that a high school band will make it big? Its far less than the odds of making it as a NFL player (There are about 2000 NFL players, about 100 top 40 bands a year).
The record industry doesn't sell music, they sell small plastic things which they have to produce and get into stores. They don't want too many songs out there because it confuses their customers (who are the record store). Their business model is messed up and they aren't about to fix it. Until someone comes along and breaks the RIAA, I don't expect to even hear much new good music.
All of the bands that have songs on www.ozmp3.com don't make much money at all selling CDs. They make their money by doing live gigs. The only band that moves a large number of CD's gives 1/2 of the money to the local eye hospital. Some of the others have recovered the costs of getting the CDs made. Some haven't.
Most of the musicians I've talked to lately are just doing covers and will be the next target by the RIAA. Its a copyright violation to do covers in most most cases and few places are paying for the rights. I only know of one band that has paid for the copyright rights to do the songs.
When a /. story happens, you can buy puts on a stock and then get calls a few hours latter. What happens is the price takes a tumble and then the auto systems decide the price is right to buy and the large mutual funds buy enough to push the price up. The reverse can happen on good news as well. Aren't you glad all your retirement funds are in systems that are so well thought out?
Ever file on the file system is referenced by an inode (you can think of it as the files real name), and every directory entry points to an inode. Once you open a file, the OS just uses it's inode, not its name and the name can go away. While every filename points to an inode, not all inodes need to have names. Also several filenames can point to the same inode (thats called hard links in unix).
Chernobyl dumped about 7 tons of radio active isotopes into the air. Funny thing is smokers are putting about 42 tons of radio active potassium-40 ions into the air every year.
Chernobyl happened because they couldn't build any more plants and they needed more power so they risked increasing the power output of one of the existing reactors. While they were doing the work, some of the systems were shut down. Had they had the ability to order a low cot reactor like the one in the story, the accident would not have happened.
Three mile island had also been running tests to increase its power output.
refine it again. Except thats illegal thanks to stupid laws proposed by idiots that do not understand. You can't even do research on reacotr waste in the US. All the "reactor waste" that is used for research in the US is specially made in small research reactors like the one sitting in the middle of an upscale houseing development in Columbia Missouri.
If you have an accident you lose 5 billion of a power plant because all the existing plant (in the US) are based on a horid old design from the 1960s when many of the concepts were new. In the 1960s power plants were manual operations with huge teams of people looking at guages and twisting knobs and automation wasn't properly considered for a couple of decades but all the nuke plants are still based on the old concept. Now the greenies have managed to kill off all future research (except in Japan) and the result is Japan will start putting these in place all over the world. Soon China will start putting them in as well since there isn't enougn oil/coal to power Europe/North America and 10% of China all to the same level.
Its to make it easy to parse. An Aussie number would be published as 03-9123-4567 compared to a US number of 800-555-1212. The old numbers used to be 03-123-4567 but they ran out of numbers in the two cities (that are bigger than Chicago now). They tack on an 8 or a 9 on all the major cities and then everyone has an 8 digit local number. They might have considered a 039-123-4567 which would make sense since dial 035-123-4567 is a long distance call so the 1st 3 digits are an area code. The problem is how do you take a stream of digits and figure out if you need to parse it as 039.123.4567 or 03.9123.4567.
Once nice effect of leading 0 is when you throw in PBX systems that allso need a leading 0. Then add in an internation call to NZ will start 00-11-64 but the emergency number is 000. Now after all day of dailing international numbers, go to the pub, have a few beers and then dial a friend overseas (most Aussies know lots of people out of the country). The result is a 30% of the calls to 000 aren't intended. Another cool trick is most nokia phones will let you dial 000 (and 112) even if their keypad is locked. Its amazing how easy it is to get the 0 button pressed three times when all the ohter buttons are locked out.
I wonder if Oscar the groutch is still teaching the local kids how to dial 911...
You've covered why the US phone number system is broken. My grandmothers phone was KIngman-something so the real phone number was 54X-XXXX but you could get by with just the last 5 digits since there were so few phones in the exchange. That was common over most of the US till 30 years ago. Then compaines started getting direct dial extentions and then fax and then computer lines and a massive growth in the number of lines. How ever most of the new lines don't need a human friendly number. In fact I would prefer if my 2nd line had a 30 digit number.
What should have happened is they should have reserved the x1y exchange codes as a indicator that the number is big and then threw in a few check codes and offered every business two human friendly numbers, every house one friendly number and given everyone else the messy ones. had that been done, nearly every one in the US could still call locals with a 7 digit number a the number of misdialled numbers would be way down and it would be impossable to block dial all the long numbers.
Does it matter? I don't care who is doing the electing (or the fixing) if I get to do the nominating.
I got some number wrong. The CIA claims the GDP is US$528 billion (est 2002). The ave income in 2000 was about AU$34,000 times 21 million people is about au$680 billion but I'm think the 34k/yr is just for thouse that work so the numbers might be closer to 1/2 that. Either way 9% of that total gets dumped into investments through the superfunds.
I'm glad I don't deal with them but the funds that I used to invest in had massive problems with stupid investments which is a common problem with mutual funds. They have $X amount of money they must invest every week. Then on the 1st and 15th they have $Y they also must invest. I'm sure its easy the 1st few weeks to find something good to invest in but after a while all the good stuff is gone and the law says it must be invested. Where is Fidelity going to put a billion dollers next week?
I just found out that the Aussie superannuation funds are now buying houses and empty lots. No wonder people can't afford homes anymore, clueless investment firms have billions of dollars they have to put somewhere and they only thing left is homes which they seem happy to pay double for. The super funds in Oz now have $130 million a week they have to invest which is 9% of the countries income.
The problem is who is buying from the spamers? Its not the end customers, its the people pushing their junk. They are the ones paying the spam shops.
This small point seems to be missed by most of the posters here.
Its just like an adverting agency. An adverting company doen't get paid to get you to buy soap, they get paid by convincing the soap company to part with some money.
Been there done that. Its called X.400 and the last x.400 mail server I saw cost $20,000. That didn't include the certs. It also would choke under a moderate load.
Any other mail solutions requires that the ISP do things properly and that isn't going to happen.
Getting around in an airport today can waste huge amoutns of time. For example I can get to the local airport 20 minutes before departure and still get on the plane if a large number of other factors are right such as its not the morning or evening rush and there normal gate is being used so I don't have to count on a shuttle and no group is on strike. Other times I may need to be there two hours before hand and in some airports 4 hours is pushing it.
Of course the solution to that nonsense would be put the final check in time on the ticket. There are only two people on most planes that care what time the plane leaves and they get the front seats. Most everyone else needs to know what time they need to be in the check in line.
Your preaching to the wrong group. When Standard Oil was broken up, it was split into 20 parts and each part would compete with other parts. When people started talking about breaking up MS, most of the /. crowd thought it would be good to have a MS-OS and MS-application group. That was just stupid. MS should bave been broken up into one company that got say excel and NT and a second company that got Word and Flight sim and no OS, one one that got power point and ME/XP or whatever. Too bad none of that ever happened.
How about when my server (which doesn't run any version of windows) gets nailed by millions of windows boxes all over the world. Is that my fault? Who is to blame. Right now it seems that no one is to blame but I've got a big bandwidth bill I get to pay soon.
I didn't agree to Bill's terms of service even if shrink wrap EULA are 100% legal.
They are responsible unless they allow an esay way to apply that patch. That means I should be able to go down to the local computer shop and buy an patched full install of win98/winME/whatever for less than $5. Anything less is simply incompetence.
I just reloaded a friends win98 box. The recomended patches were going to take 4 hours to do assuming they would work but it turns out that somehow the script engine was broken so the "accpet" button would never become active. The result is there is no reasonable way to patch that machine. MS is 100% at fault for that.
Last week I wrote a letter to MS about their problem. It turns out that a large number of windows machines have been nailing my server thanks to the swen worm. Its amazing how many machines are either in Microsoft's own domain or from their partners who are infected. I'm asking them to compenstate me for just the software owned my MS that wasn't properly patched. If things had been slightly different the real damages could have been in the range of over AU$50,000. MS treats thier software insecurity as a joke and their customers are clueless and someone has to take responsibility. If they won't do it by themselves maybe its time to get the courts to decide.
I have been working on the model that PC's can't turst each other. I'm finding that the model is unworkable without very smart switches and the cisco 29xx that I have don't count as smart enough. While I have been able to lock down some things, every time I do tests, the access lists leak like a sive. Maybe its time to buy a PC full of quad ethernet cards and set it up as a router.
Many people have lots of details about the internal structure of cisco IOS since it was common to get at that in the years that DARPA folded into DISA and Cisco was tring to gain market share from Novell. Most of those people no longer work for that group but how many still have source code sitting at home?
Not that it would matter much. Cisco IOS on an AGS+ was rock solid compared to most of the crud out there at the time (say fingerd and washu ftpd).
Besides if cisco joins up with linksys, it puts them in the same group as 3com and their GPL code theft. I reported this to GNU and 3com's latest "fix" has taken out GNU tar, GNU zip and other open source code but you can't get that without a new service contract. The result is 99% of all 3com NBX phone systems are running GNU code with no source. I was sold the device as it being "open" and it contained GPL code so I want source but as far as I can tell GNU backed down in a way that will keep me from ever supporting them or their projects ever again. Is anyone here listed in the GNU Tar files that doesn't like this situation? I've got the email address of 3com's attys.
But are any of the tags that work well in multi-read situations available in bulk for under a $1 and can hang out on (or in) a cow for three years? I think as soon as someone figures out a better way to read the tags than a cheap AM type radio circut that RFID may be useful. After all a GPS reciver picks up much weaker signals and does far more with them than a typical rfid reader which cost 10 times what a GPS reciver will.