Not exactly. The Internet is less like the inside of your house, more like a very public, highly trafficked thoroughfare.
My house is on a very public, highly trafficked thoroughfare. My computer isn't "the internet" it's on the internet, just like my house is on a street.
If someone rang my door bell every single day and tried to sell me a "No Solicitors" sign, I'd probably be on trial for first degree murder.
Windows Messanger is not a public service. Using it to send pop-ups is breaking and entering. Just because a door isn't locked doesn't mean you can enter.
I appreciate all your explanations here and have now read much of part 15. I'm curious about your above comment.
Are you talking about WiFi or some other system? How did you determine someone had an illegal system? And why did you care?
I have the skills and equipment (at work) to make the measurements, but it seems like a lot of work to do it that way. I also don't live or work in a crowded city, so I've never had any problems. I had to travel two blocks from my house to find someone else with an access point.
Where I grew up we called them Tyme machines as in Tyme is money. When we moved to another state we got some pretty strange looks until we learned to call them ATMs.
RFID presents the same looming threat as bar codes.
The problem with trying to make a point and be funny at the same time is that it's often hard for people to be sure of the point. I'm going to assume you are saying that RFID represents no more threat to consumers than bar codes. I'm also going to say that's not true.
RFID has better range, stealth and uniqueness over bar codes and that makes them a bigger danger. If RFID wasn't more powerful, Walmart wouldn't want it. That extra "power" can be used for good and evil.
I think the benefits far outway the dangers, especially for nerds. If people start wearing RFID chips, it will be a lot more fun than wardriving. Only a fool would argue that RFID chips will never be abused.
Enter about:config then look at network.http.max-connections through network.http.proxy.pipelining. You can make the page load very very fast by changing these values.
You can change these for IE in the registry. Like all benchmarks the above test only tells about a specific work load.
Martian seasons are more irregular than Earth's. This is because it has an eccentric orbit, which also causes a milder variation in the north than in the south.
Spring 171 days
Summer 199 days
Fall 171 days
Winter 146 days
Contrary to what many think, the frequency at which microwave ovens operate, 2.45 GHz, is not tuned to the maximum absorption frequency of water. That frequency is actually closer to 10 GHz, and if ovens operated there, food would be heated even less inside, since the bulk of the radiation would be absorbed at or near the surface due to the short wavelength.
We have dual receivers, but I haven't kept up. A search shows a poor system (on 28 April 2004).
It looks like plane 2 is entire empty. And the slots in plane 1 and 3 are each only half full.
Unless they launch a whole bunch more, it's no longer a GPS alternative.
Is there anything else anyone thinks I should burn with it?
Glass softens and flows not much hotter than the zinc melts. In the article pennies melted in seconds, so glass should be easy.
I know enough about glass to warn you it might explode while heating and cooling. It can even "explode" after it's been cool for a while depending on the annealing. Try small peices over copper.
I'm not sure I know the difference. Could you tell me if I'm right. I think the difference between free and fee is it an r. Of course the blurb actually lists prices, so saying free and fee looks similar isn't a valid excuse.
I'm glad to see someone else lost it on this thread. I lost it when I hit the two minite limit for the third time. While waiting I added swearing to my comment thinking it would fail again. It didn't fail. I'm calmer now, but I'm not proud of using the f-word here. (for the record, it's different AC comment, only the editors can track it to me, I hope.)
Everything in the Slashdot comment section happens too fast. Posting early is the best way to get modded up. Using mod points early is the best way to have an effect. This leads to everyone rushing and being really stupid. If I want to write a long well written comment, no one will notice it. Bonus points don't help, because most people use every bonus they have with every post. I don't have a solution or I'd start my own Slashdot.
For this comment IP refers to copyrights and patents, not trademarks and trade secrets.
I hate our current IP system too. Few people seem to even understand why it exists. All the responces you got state that it's to prevent theft of ideas. This is a mentality that's grown up as a result of IP laws, not the reason for them. Jefferson himself said that he didn't want people to think they could own ideas.
The reason for IP protection is simple. If I have really great idea, I might keep it secret if I feel that's how I will get the best use out of it. Keeping the idea secret is not best of society. To improve this the governemnt offers a deal. Let people know your secret and you get excluse use to it for a limited time. Or as the U.S. constitution words it, "The Congress shall have Power . . . To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." This is important because it trumps the first amendment, my right say whatever I want, even if someone else said it first.
The problem is IP protection just keeps getting bigger and bigger. There's no balance in the system anymore. People no long see the purpose as promoting the arts, but promoting profits for artist, which is not the same thing. With the easy ability to transfer the these exclusive rights, today's laws often don't promote the profits of authors and inventors, but the profits of large corporations.
IP law was intended to be an incentive to share ideas so others could use them. Now the laws seem designed to give soemone total control and profit from an idea forever, something I feel does not promote the progress of science and the useful arts.
I think all universities have similar tunnels. Mine did too. There is one thing special about UT that no one here has mentioned. I don't have a link (someone?), but there's a long tunnel going from UT to the northwest. It was the start of a failed subway. It might pass under very important places. It might just be embarassing. There might be no connection.
Every time I see a pop-up that defeats my pop-up blocking, first I'll for damned sure never buy that product. In addition, I will never go to the hosting website again. And I'll make damned sure they know why.
I've done that, but more often I reconfigure my blocker. I use Proxomitron to block both ads and pop-ups. It uses regular expressions, so it only takes me a few minutes to come up with a new rule for the website. I don't mind simple ads, but animations drive me nuts.
Some websites don't work with Proxomitron, if they are ad free, I use the bypass feature. If they have ads, I follow your system.
Cool, what's that about? I found this written by Wietse Venema the author/maintianer for postfix:
When used with a real-time SPAM filter, this approach allows Postfix
to reject mail before the SMTP mail transfer completes, so that
Postfix does not have to return rejected mail to the sender. Mail
that is not accepted remains the responsibility of the client.
In all other respects this content filtering approach is inferior
to the existing content filter (see FILTER_README) which processes
mail AFTER it is queued.
The problem with real-time content filtering is that the remote
SMTP client expects an SMTP reply within a deadline. As the system
load increases, fewer and fewer CPU cycles remain available to
answer within the deadline, and eventually you either have to stop
accepting mail or you have to accept unfiltered mail.
Too bad it doesn't have a counter attack mode, yet.
some ethically and financially bankrupt ex-miner might go and sell the crops to other people to eat.
Don't people also concentrate heavy metals? Maybe they could feed the food to animals, then feed the animals to people. Just think how much more concentrated the gold would be.
Since getting my ReplayTV, I've started watching less TV, while the TV I watch has gotten much better. I've read others who've had the same experience. I never expected to watch less and it's hard to explain why. I think it has to do with breaking the habit of watching whatever you can find on at the moment. Now I sit down to watch TV and if I can't find anything I've recorded and want to watch, I get back up. 80 hours of recorded TV and nothing to watch.
It's the primitive part I like about gnuplot. It's great for quick and dirty data verification plots. When I want really pretty plots for publications, I use GMT. It take forever to fine tune a GMT plot, but you can make them exactly how you want. It's also very scriptable(TM) which one of my requirements.
I've never understood how/why the GPL would be "struck down" in court.
My fear isn't that it will be struck down, my
fear is that some judge will say that's no
damages for violating GPL. Often only monetary
damages are considered and a judge might say
there's no lost profit, so no damages.
Is this likely? I have no idea.
At least one judge here believed that damage
was happening, so I feel better now.
I'm not as worried about the "environment" here. There's not enough weed killing in the wild to give this GM an advantage. It's the farmers that should fear this grass. Most grasses spread and are very persistent weeds. If I was a soybean farming using GM soybeans, I'd be pretty angry about the creation of this grass. What's next? Kudzu?
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My house is on a very public, highly trafficked thoroughfare. My computer isn't "the internet" it's on the internet, just like my house is on a street.
If someone rang my door bell every single day and tried to sell me a "No Solicitors" sign, I'd probably be on trial for first degree murder.
Windows Messanger is not a public service. Using it to send pop-ups is breaking and entering. Just because a door isn't locked doesn't mean you can enter.
How? I only know how to rewrite the contents. Where do you set it up to rewrite URLs?
Are you talking about WiFi or some other system? How did you determine someone had an illegal system? And why did you care?
I have the skills and equipment (at work) to make the measurements, but it seems like a lot of work to do it that way. I also don't live or work in a crowded city, so I've never had any problems. I had to travel two blocks from my house to find someone else with an access point.
Where I grew up we called them Tyme machines as in Tyme is money. When we moved to another state we got some pretty strange looks until we learned to call them ATMs.
The problem with trying to make a point and be funny at the same time is that it's often hard for people to be sure of the point. I'm going to assume you are saying that RFID represents no more threat to consumers than bar codes. I'm also going to say that's not true.
RFID has better range, stealth and uniqueness over bar codes and that makes them a bigger danger. If RFID wasn't more powerful, Walmart wouldn't want it. That extra "power" can be used for good and evil.
I think the benefits far outway the dangers, especially for nerds. If people start wearing RFID chips, it will be a lot more fun than wardriving. Only a fool would argue that RFID chips will never be abused.
Enter about:config then look at network.http.max-connections through network.http.proxy.pipelining. You can make the page load very very fast by changing these values. You can change these for IE in the registry. Like all benchmarks the above test only tells about a specific work load.
Spring 171 days
Summer 199 days
Fall 171 days
Winter 146 days
Sure, but who controls it? Even in democracies, policies for TLDs have been controversial. Of course, it's not like it's oil or anything.
That entire ignores the changes the courts have made to the interpretation of patent law (e.g. software and business method patents).
This is a myth. From the The Straight Dope:
I'm sure Steve Jobs doesn't think it's funny to call everything NeXT.
It looks like plane 2 is entire empty. And the slots in plane 1 and 3 are each only half full.
Unless they launch a whole bunch more, it's no longer a GPS alternative.
Glass softens and flows not much hotter than the zinc melts. In the article pennies melted in seconds, so glass should be easy.
I know enough about glass to warn you it might explode while heating and cooling. It can even "explode" after it's been cool for a while depending on the annealing. Try small peices over copper.
I'm glad to see someone else lost it on this thread. I lost it when I hit the two minite limit for the third time. While waiting I added swearing to my comment thinking it would fail again. It didn't fail. I'm calmer now, but I'm not proud of using the f-word here. (for the record, it's different AC comment, only the editors can track it to me, I hope.)
Everything in the Slashdot comment section happens too fast. Posting early is the best way to get modded up. Using mod points early is the best way to have an effect. This leads to everyone rushing and being really stupid. If I want to write a long well written comment, no one will notice it. Bonus points don't help, because most people use every bonus they have with every post. I don't have a solution or I'd start my own Slashdot.
I hate our current IP system too. Few people seem to even understand why it exists. All the responces you got state that it's to prevent theft of ideas. This is a mentality that's grown up as a result of IP laws, not the reason for them. Jefferson himself said that he didn't want people to think they could own ideas.
The reason for IP protection is simple. If I have really great idea, I might keep it secret if I feel that's how I will get the best use out of it. Keeping the idea secret is not best of society. To improve this the governemnt offers a deal. Let people know your secret and you get excluse use to it for a limited time. Or as the U.S. constitution words it, "The Congress shall have Power . . . To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." This is important because it trumps the first amendment, my right say whatever I want, even if someone else said it first.
The problem is IP protection just keeps getting bigger and bigger. There's no balance in the system anymore. People no long see the purpose as promoting the arts, but promoting profits for artist, which is not the same thing. With the easy ability to transfer the these exclusive rights, today's laws often don't promote the profits of authors and inventors, but the profits of large corporations.
IP law was intended to be an incentive to share ideas so others could use them. Now the laws seem designed to give soemone total control and profit from an idea forever, something I feel does not promote the progress of science and the useful arts.
They are rounded. The article says that one reason is that 210*297 ~= 10^6/2^4.
I think all universities have similar tunnels. Mine did too. There is one thing special about UT that no one here has mentioned. I don't have a link (someone?), but there's a long tunnel going from UT to the northwest. It was the start of a failed subway. It might pass under very important places. It might just be embarassing. There might be no connection.
I've done that, but more often I reconfigure my blocker. I use Proxomitron to block both ads and pop-ups. It uses regular expressions, so it only takes me a few minutes to come up with a new rule for the website. I don't mind simple ads, but animations drive me nuts.
Some websites don't work with Proxomitron, if they are ad free, I use the bypass feature. If they have ads, I follow your system.
Why mark them denied? When they could be DELETED!!.
Don't people also concentrate heavy metals? Maybe they could feed the food to animals, then feed the animals to people. Just think how much more concentrated the gold would be.
Since getting my ReplayTV, I've started watching less TV, while the TV I watch has gotten much better. I've read others who've had the same experience. I never expected to watch less and it's hard to explain why. I think it has to do with breaking the habit of watching whatever you can find on at the moment. Now I sit down to watch TV and if I can't find anything I've recorded and want to watch, I get back up. 80 hours of recorded TV and nothing to watch.
It's the primitive part I like about gnuplot. It's great for quick and dirty data verification plots. When I want really pretty plots for publications, I use GMT. It take forever to fine tune a GMT plot, but you can make them exactly how you want. It's also very scriptable(TM) which one of my requirements.
My fear isn't that it will be struck down, my fear is that some judge will say that's no damages for violating GPL. Often only monetary damages are considered and a judge might say there's no lost profit, so no damages.
Is this likely? I have no idea. At least one judge here believed that damage was happening, so I feel better now.
I'm not as worried about the "environment" here. There's not enough weed killing in the wild to give this GM an advantage. It's the farmers that should fear this grass. Most grasses spread and are very persistent weeds. If I was a soybean farming using GM soybeans, I'd be pretty angry about the creation of this grass. What's next? Kudzu?