In most parts of the US, telecommunications competition for the consumer doesn't exist. It's a big joke.
IF you can get DSL, it's usually 2 tiers below cable speeds (I know it doesn't HAVE to be that way, but it generally is. SpeakEasy DSL isn't available everywhere where DSL is).
In areas where there IS cable-cable competition, outfits like Comcast DO lower their prices. That's only a few cities. Everywhere else, Comcast charges $50-$60/month for Internet, AND blocks P2P AND boots off customers who are bigger consumers ('bandwidth hogs').
Verizon FIOS was an interesting development... until Verizon made a decision (at least in NH) to cancel deployment in zip codes with lower incomes.... and now are trying to pull out of the state altogether. Some installations are being completed, but most Verizon NH crews have been relocated deep into Mass as punishment for the NH Verizon workers speaking out about the sale of NH Verizon assets to some sketchy company no none's heard of.
The irony of all this is, Verizon WAS deploying FIOS in my neighborhood last year. My street was skipped over because Verizon must be invited in to wire condo developments... and it took a year for the association to ask.. now it's too late.
At one point my hometown Nashua NH was going to deploy citywide 802.11 wireless... until Verizon pressured the state capital. Yes , the same Verizon who is stonewalling new FIOS installations.
There's absolutely no reason that Internet should be $50/month and at those prices, not even universally available. It's like cell phone technology in the US being permanently 3 years behind everyone else. Government and old industry are colluding to keep the US behind the rest of the world.
All these devices keep getting better, but 'phone + Internet tablets' will ALWAYS suffer from the tradeoff between screen size, and holding an object that size to your ear. For 2 years I used a Samsung i-700 PocketPC PDA phone... neat concept, sometimes useful, but crappy as a phone.
Pretty much everything you mentioned applies to the Nokia N800 tablet... except it's not a phone, thankfully. I've had one since March and I couldn't live without it now. If I have off hours support, I can carry an N800 much more easily than a laptop...
The music/movie analogy is both wrong and off-topic.
Ticket scalping is against Patriots rules, and additionally against Mass state law. While scalping law is popular with voters, the state is choosing not to enforce the law at least for online activity. Even out of state scalpers could be reeled in, or at least banned from future sales.
And that is what this is about. The Patriots want to protect the fans, and they want to promote the sport by making it affordable to attend. It is patently obvious the Patriots could charge more for tickets, but they don't in part because there will be down years when the Pats suck, and having a loyal fan base helps the sport. In New England, we're particularly vulnerable to scalping because everyone is so traditional and there will NEVER be a second NFL team or MLB team. The problem of scarcity does not need artificial inflation.
It's sad that STATE is obviously not enforcing the law at all. The scalpers should not just be arrested, but put in a stockade on display to the fans waiting in line for tickets.
Sarcasm and dark humor is how the human psyche deals with such a dangerous, scary idea. Not everyone is this way though...
Ever hear a cancer sufferer make a wisecrack about their condition? I have, more than once.
It's obviously MORE sick to think of robot weapons, robot terrorists, and robotic 'crowd control' as soon as it is cost effective. Note that I did not say 'bug free'.
The first country with an effective robot force will be a danger to the world. It is the human cost that makes war expensive. With robots, Iraq wouldn't be a problem, neither would Iran, or East LA for that matter. Without the cost, there's no reason to EVER end a war.
Yahoo NEEDS to increase Inbox sizes... to hold all the spam Yahoo places there. Yahoo's not my main account, but after a few years I can say that GMail is WAY better at blocking spam. I must get 200 spams in my Yahoo inbox each month. With GMail, I get about 12 spams a month, and once in a while (rarely) a false positive such as a newsletter landing in the spam folder. With Yahoo, I never bother to check my Spam folder because the spam filters are so weak, why bother?
>So there's a part of the disk that is only written to rarely, and other parts of the disk that will be written to more often, because a chunk of the drive won't change.
Wrong wrong wrong. You are factually incorrect, I'm sorry.
Both you (and the moderator who modded you Informative) should read all the posts about "wear leveling", or research elsewhere then rejoin the topic so that misinformation is not spread.
I think the basis for your comment is the ASSUMPTION that data on ANY drive is contiguous, or that it should be. The above is true for spinning media, while 100% FALSE for solid state media.
All media fragments. Flash media which is already fragmented, does not suffer low transfer speeds (like a spinning drive would) -- there are no slow moving parts to 'collect' the requested data. You should NEVER attempt to keep a solid state drive de-fragmented. GOOD firmware in solid state drives will at times _DELIBERATELY fragment the media_, as part of wear leveling.
Once you get past years of conditioning about spinning platter drives, this all makes sense.
In short, with solid state media, there are NO (as you say) "parts of the disk that will be written to more often".
That's the beauty of National Public Radio (NPR), which has been making this news item #1 for weeks. The fact that they carry the BBC radio news is a HUGE boost also. Darfur has not been forgotten either.
>In most aid efforts, the US contributes almost a third of the cost.
You're both right.
What neither of you mentioned:
While you think that human nature is, all prices being equal these countries would spend the money back on US products as 'thanks', that may or may not be true. Otherwise let the damaged party prioritize how the money is spent based on their most dire needs.
What IS true is the US government REQUIRES that the money be spent on US products, or the donation is null and void. So in part it is a cynical shovel full of corporate pork. This even enriches private water companies like Coca Cola, whose water shipped from the USA is *considerably* more expensive than regional filtered water. This applies for heavy goods, electronics, etc.
Because editors are driven by the desire to "Fir5t p0st" stories. Or maybe/. editors get paid credit PER story approved? Just like a national car chain that pays bonuses to mechanics who find 'additional' problems, this leads to conflicts of interest.
Whatever it is, it's obviously a management problem at Slashdot because "samzenpus" isn't the first editor to slap a story up w/o reading. Editors here are not editors... they're READERS, and often not reading.
This problem harks to the days of Hemos posting duplicates... way way back when this was a.org domain, and a real blog.
Sometimes your workgroup is so busy that it's easier to DUPLICATE other's efforts, then check to see what they have completed. Working harder... but maybe not working smarter.:-)
>Because [Iran] their suicide bombers have been sent to Iraq.
Prove it.
Iranians (despite hardships) are better off than most of the region, including economics. Iran is hardly the breeding ground for suicide bombers that Iraq is. Iraqi's refer to most suicide bombers as "Arabs", because most come from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Kuwait (non-Arab Pakistan weighs in heavy here).
That's not to give Iran a clean bill of health, but all this linking of Iran to Iraq's problems smells like war-drums (again) to me.
The Iraqi people have already elected a government that has close ties to Iran (that's the real under-reported story here.. Ultimately what's keeping the USA *in* Iraq isn't the instability -- it's the neocon terror of Iraq and Iran becoming closer buddies. And all this is made possible by the neocon insistence that the US economy remain dependent on oil instead of diversifying).
>There is another interested party, although they would pay for/conduct such research in order to prove the opposite.
I would say that's a bit of a stretch. From an economic point of view, and understanding the profit motive, the GP's post makes perfect sense. Those interested points of view have stockholder obligation to continue the march toward uniformity. In the US, the balance of power between people and corporations is about what it was in 1775. *shrugs*
If you are trying to imply there's some sort of well funded lobby trying to say pink is for boys and blue is for girls, that's just silly. The number of people who REALLY feel that way must number in the tens.
There's really no need to envision armies of communist same-sex pinko linux liberals... flush with their Microsoft Rebate cash. You should focus your efforts on all those "DNA types", who call your children mean names like "monkey" with all their evolution hocus-pocus...
This step might not have been necessary if everyone customized (read: FIXED) their Microsoft Exchange installations, but that's never going to happen.
TZO stated that 80% of outbound relayed mail was DSN from spammer attempts. With a lot of Exchange installs, even if that server is NOT an "open relay", they WILL send out DSN's for spam relay attempts. NO mail server should send out DSNs for domains that are not their own - just reject it up front. Unfortunately that is not always true.
>Did I miss something or wouldn't the problem be solved by turning off the content of the original message in the bounce? If you can't see the original content, it removes the incentive for spammers to use that technique.
NO. Once a spam MO becomes commonplace, that technique will NEVER go away. You seem to be implying that if the "effort" is wasted in vain, then spammers will deprecate their old technique. They won't - they'll just ADD new techniques. The NDR loophole will never die.
Over the last 6 years, the US has CUT tuition and loan aid to the population.
I'm not sure if this is because cynical turncoats wanted Congress to do this, because they've ALREADY invested in China and Korea... or if they wanted Congress to do this because school expenses are the #1 recruiting tool of the US Military.
I'm inclined to believe the former, because you hear a lot of right wing complaining about "human cloning" (stem cell research)... but you don't hear those same people complaining that their 401K is fueling such development overseas. Why fuel it with money if you find it so immoral?
That's easy to answer... it's about controlling trends... bankrupt your country, as long as you can preload your investments to whatever direction you nudged them to.
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News Corporation is not so much about making money in the pure profit motive sense.
If all the world's news, culture and rational media were a giant pool of milk and honey.. then News Corp would find a way to piss in it.
I've stayed out of this technology war so far, but throughout it I have taken a dim view of HD-DVD... not just because it is technically inferior to BlueRay (as a format).. but because the HD-DVD camp WANTED this war, they got it, and they lost.
The reason BlueRay is winning is people don't care enough about games to even warrant the XB360's price tag - and Sony's higher! Where the PS3 adds value is it is a rock solid BlueRay player. Over time these "movie only" PS3 installs will get a couple of games here and there (I have only 5 discs for my PS2... not a big console junkie).
One of the best criticisms of BlueRay has always been "Sure, it's the superior format but REMEMBER BETA??". Sure do. I also remember Laserdisc. I've yet to get a HD player, but it's pretty much a given it will be BR... especially with a PS3 price cut coming this fall. About time the best format wins, instead of the one with the best marketing.
This does not settle anything except that the fellow charged does not have the money to contest. Practically speaking, most people will bend over when asked to pay $400 or risk a fight that costs $4,000.
Many an expert witness would testify that the person's actions did not violate the technical aspects of the law, as it is written. A competent lawyer would find this an easy win WITHOUT even challenging the law itself.
You can't play music out your window - to the sidewalk - with a sign that says "don't listen".
Trespassing does not even apply here - on private commercial property that is open to the public, you can not be arrested just because the owner does not like you. The owner however does have the power to ask you to LEAVE.. and if you do not then you are trespassing.
All emotion aside, the 802.11 protocol does not allow for ambiguity. Clients ask for "authorization", and the AP either grants it or it denies it. In this case, the fact is:access WAS granted by the owner's AP. Period. Now on the other hand, if you were to smash the authentication and access scheme to gain access without authorization - that is what the law should protect against.
Clever naming of the AP does not a binding contract make either, or many slashdot users would be naming their open APs "blow me".:)
This law is at the very least overly broad and miswritten. Try this in a real city not some hick white bread town, where there would be a population of lawyers who would itch for an easy win like this.
Lawyers don't work for free unless there's a big settlement. People wonder why so many big lawsuits fly about? When the law is abused, it's not worth it to "do the right thing" and fight the charges, if the BEST you can hope for is clearing your name and winning 100% (and not a penny more) of your legal costs. There is nothing to deter legal abuse like this - no one ever loses their job for injustice.
Now, it WOULD be tempting to fight this IF being found innocent meant the District Attorney had to serve the term he threatened you with.
>According to the SPEC sheet, the MTTF was 2,000,000 hours.
I don't think it's appropriate to measure flash life in terms of MTBF. Apples and oranges. Oversimplified, there's wear happening to a running hard drive even if there's no read/writes. On a SD card there's "no" wear if there's no writes.
flash memory "wears out" after NNN writes. A good flash chip will distribute that wear evenly over the chip (and I suspect this may be done even if it 'fragments' the file). So the lifetime of a flash media is based on the quality of the media, the amount of writes, and the amount of free space on the flash (because, again, the writes will be distributed and more empty space means greater balance).
I don't have an answer either.:) It depends on your OS even, and how often you patch it, since the very act of uncompressing system patches and updating the OS will affect the "MTBF" of the flash drive. There's also the variable of swap file usage.
Personally, I'd rather see laptops with an internal array of SD memory slots that I can boot off of. This would allow the user to enlarge their disk by plugging in extra cards and incrementally replacing them.
>PNRP... Makes me wonder what Apple will come up with next in that field.
How about Zeroconf (Bonjour)? You can already use Zeroconf to replace DNS, DHCP, and SMB(NMB) and uPNP... among other things. It's a broadcast discovery and configuration service. Now of course broadcast does not directly run across router links/subnets unless you make it so (on the other hand, any chatty P2P can be routinely blocked by admins).
Zeroconf is not an Apple-only solution.. lots of the tier-one printer companies and consumer-level NAS hardware providers have products or projects which employ zeroconf.
It's funny how work began on PNRP after Bonjour landed in the hands of Apple testers, and almost 4 years after Apple's publication of their working group specs. This is just Microsoft catching up...
I remember using anti-aliased fonts in "Spectrum 512", a terrific graphics package for the Atari ST series computer. With it, you could optimize images for TV. If you could not afford an Amiga, this was a very impressive way of generating titles and graphics for video. The Atari ST had a composite NTSC output port and the horsepower to drive it.
I remember the same technique used on the Atari 8-bit computers, in the monochrome "Graphics Mode 8" level. By offsetting the *placement* of pixels, you could accomplish new colors. The effect was used (but less noticable) in lower-res modes, which also had more color, but you could choose between "smoothing" OR "more colors".
Note that these were COMMON techniques on computers that hooked to TVs, and also to CGI monitors. It was especially useful on the Apple 2c computer which had a monochrome high res mode like the Atari 8-bit.
I see a lot of posts here confusing these old techniques with "anti-aliasing". This is NOT the technique used -- anti-aliasing simply blends the difference between 2+ contrasting pixels. These old techniques did not do that - they CALCULATED the placement of pixels to take advantage of "display artifacts" - and generate perceived resolutuins (or color range) higher than the hardware was intended to deliver.
It would be difficult for someone else to argue Apple's prior art if Apple is un-interested in the battle, so this patent is not going anywhere.
Almost 3 years ago I opted for a "converged" phone, a Samsung SCH-i700 PDA phone from Verizon. It was pretty nice, but DAILY use exposed the shortcomings of using a handheld as a phone. Yet there were times that the device was pretty damn convenient, when I needed to Remote Desktop, VNC, or get a "more featured" browser.
Nokia realized that putting a phone in a PDA is dumb, and they have avoided this mistake in their N series tablets. Until wireless data is universal and cheap, there's no point building the expense of a PHONE into your PDA. There's even less point in using a PDA as a phone.
Things are better today -- you can get a "normal" phone with data, and bluetooth modem support. Your PDA becomes "agnostic" about who provides the data layer - 802.11, bluetooth, or the US cell phone cartels. It doesn't matter anymore. Now you have real choices.
The Nokia N800 is the closest thing now to a perfect portable Internet tablet. You don't need to know Linux. It just "works". Developers are finding the device is a DREAM to develop on, combining Linux + GTK to make an open platform for anyone to use and develop on. Desktop Linux apps are being polished and ported over. And applications like 'Maemo Mapper (GPS)' are awesomely free.
You don't get a lot of free apps with Windows CE platforms... and many of the free apps there suffer from developer disinterest. WinCE software dies when the author becomes too busy with life/etc, while Linux and GPL software has a life all its own.
Some will complain about the N800's lack of CDMA/G3 data support, but this is GOOD -- really that is what your phone is for. Same thing with the keyboard... buy your OWN bluetooth keyboard if you want one. This was these 2 features do not bulk up the dimensions of the device.
If you want a "bigger" tablet, the Pepper Pad 3 seems interesting. If you want something that is truly portable, the Nokia N800 is the platform to beat now.
PS - the media player isn't horrible, but it suffers from limitations like any closed source media player. The media player has GOOD format support... many formats except no OGG support. The free 'Canola' media player offers a MythTV-like interface, touchscreen, and it plays just about anything you throw at it. Video performance on this is VERY good for a handheld.
Oh yeah, there's a webcamera built in and meeting software. Now we have to wait for Skype and GnomeMeeting so we can ditch the Nokia meeting app...:-)
... something about "starving them [vmware] of their oxygen supply" probably indicates the fate of VMWAre.
MS will be using more than 1 method to dissuade people from using vmware:
1) Make Virtual PC free 2) Prohibit some MS OS's from running under vmware 3) Make "virtual ready" client licenses of Windows OS more expensive (which affects any VM... but they have to tread carefully here and not specify vmware as the reason. Big deal if VPC is affected see #4 4) Special price bundles and servers for Virtual PC hosting MS OS's, server packs, etc. 5) The killer is when MS goes after VM's site bread and butter: migration and management tools. What's VMWare going to do to retaliate against Microsoft's bread and butter?? (Release a compatible OS, release an office suite?? come on...)
Competing with Microsoft is like playing roshambo with Cartman.
>For some reason, he keeps getting crazier and crazier, seemingly for the sake of promoting himself,
Why don't we try asking him? But you go first, I'll stand over here OK?:-)
I'm sure we'll get a pistol-waving rant how it's ALL OF US that are crazy. See it's due to all the flouride in our water. Eric's keen on avoiding flouride completely.
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In most parts of the US, telecommunications competition for the consumer doesn't exist. It's a big joke.
IF you can get DSL, it's usually 2 tiers below cable speeds (I know it doesn't HAVE to be that way, but it generally is. SpeakEasy DSL isn't available everywhere where DSL is).
In areas where there IS cable-cable competition, outfits like Comcast DO lower their prices. That's only a few cities. Everywhere else, Comcast charges $50-$60/month for Internet, AND blocks P2P AND boots off customers who are bigger consumers ('bandwidth hogs').
Verizon FIOS was an interesting development... until Verizon made a decision (at least in NH) to cancel deployment in zip codes with lower incomes.... and now are trying to pull out of the state altogether. Some installations are being completed, but most Verizon NH crews have been relocated deep into Mass as punishment for the NH Verizon workers speaking out about the sale of NH Verizon assets to some sketchy company no none's heard of.
The irony of all this is, Verizon WAS deploying FIOS in my neighborhood last year. My street was skipped over because Verizon must be invited in to wire condo developments... and it took a year for the association to ask.. now it's too late.
At one point my hometown Nashua NH was going to deploy citywide 802.11 wireless... until Verizon pressured the state capital. Yes , the same Verizon who is stonewalling new FIOS installations.
There's absolutely no reason that Internet should be $50/month and at those prices, not even universally available. It's like cell phone technology in the US being permanently 3 years behind everyone else. Government and old industry are colluding to keep the US behind the rest of the world.
All these devices keep getting better, but 'phone + Internet tablets' will ALWAYS suffer from the tradeoff between screen size, and holding an object that size to your ear. For 2 years I used a Samsung i-700 PocketPC PDA phone... neat concept, sometimes useful, but crappy as a phone.
Pretty much everything you mentioned applies to the Nokia N800 tablet... except it's not a phone, thankfully. I've had one since March and I couldn't live without it now. If I have off hours support, I can carry an N800 much more easily than a laptop...
The music/movie analogy is both wrong and off-topic.
Ticket scalping is against Patriots rules, and additionally against Mass state law. While scalping law is popular with voters, the state is choosing not to enforce the law at least for online activity. Even out of state scalpers could be reeled in, or at least banned from future sales.
And that is what this is about. The Patriots want to protect the fans, and they want to promote the sport by making it affordable to attend. It is patently obvious the Patriots could charge more for tickets, but they don't in part because there will be down years when the Pats suck, and having a loyal fan base helps the sport. In New England, we're particularly vulnerable to scalping because everyone is so traditional and there will NEVER be a second NFL team or MLB team. The problem of scarcity does not need artificial inflation.
It's sad that STATE is obviously not enforcing the law at all. The scalpers should not just be arrested, but put in a stockade on display to the fans waiting in line for tickets.
Sarcasm and dark humor is how the human psyche deals with such a dangerous, scary idea. Not everyone is this way though...
Ever hear a cancer sufferer make a wisecrack about their condition? I have, more than once.
It's obviously MORE sick to think of robot weapons, robot terrorists, and robotic 'crowd control' as soon as it is cost effective. Note that I did not say 'bug free'.
The first country with an effective robot force will be a danger to the world.
It is the human cost that makes war expensive. With robots, Iraq wouldn't be a problem, neither would Iran, or East LA for that matter. Without the cost, there's no reason to EVER end a war.
Taxpayer's aren't paying for ANYTHING in the Bush administration.. it's all thank-you loans from China, Debai, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Worried yet?
PS - It's extraordinarily difficult to sue the government. You need not worry about telcos standing up for us at anyone's expense.
chocbar31, meet vista.
Yahoo NEEDS to increase Inbox sizes... to hold all the spam Yahoo places there.
Yahoo's not my main account, but after a few years I can say that GMail is WAY better at blocking spam.
I must get 200 spams in my Yahoo inbox each month.
With GMail, I get about 12 spams a month, and once in a while (rarely) a false positive such as a newsletter landing in the spam folder.
With Yahoo, I never bother to check my Spam folder because the spam filters are so weak, why bother?
>So there's a part of the disk that is only written to rarely, and other parts of the disk that will be written to more often, because a chunk of the drive won't change.
Wrong wrong wrong. You are factually incorrect, I'm sorry.
Both you (and the moderator who modded you Informative) should read all the posts about "wear leveling", or research elsewhere then rejoin the topic so that misinformation is not spread.
I think the basis for your comment is the ASSUMPTION that data on ANY drive is contiguous, or that it should be.
The above is true for spinning media, while 100% FALSE for solid state media.
All media fragments.
Flash media which is already fragmented, does not suffer low transfer speeds (like a spinning drive would) -- there are no slow moving parts to 'collect' the requested data.
You should NEVER attempt to keep a solid state drive de-fragmented.
GOOD firmware in solid state drives will at times _DELIBERATELY fragment the media_, as part of wear leveling.
Once you get past years of conditioning about spinning platter drives, this all makes sense.
In short, with solid state media, there are NO (as you say) "parts of the disk that will be written to more often".
That's the beauty of National Public Radio (NPR), which has been making this news item #1 for weeks. The fact that they carry the BBC radio news is a HUGE boost also. Darfur has not been forgotten either.
Is their no oil in Burma?
>In most aid efforts, the US contributes almost a third of the cost.
You're both right.
What neither of you mentioned:
While you think that human nature is, all prices being equal these countries would spend the money back on US products as 'thanks', that may or may not be true. Otherwise let the damaged party prioritize how the money is spent based on their most dire needs.
What IS true is the US government REQUIRES that the money be spent on US products, or the donation is null and void. So in part it is a cynical shovel full of corporate pork. This even enriches private water companies like Coca Cola, whose water shipped from the USA is *considerably* more expensive than regional filtered water. This applies for heavy goods, electronics, etc.
Because editors are driven by the desire to "Fir5t p0st" stories. /. editors get paid credit PER story approved?
.org domain, and a real blog.
:-)
Or maybe
Just like a national car chain that pays bonuses to mechanics who find 'additional' problems, this leads to conflicts of interest.
Whatever it is, it's obviously a management problem at Slashdot because "samzenpus" isn't the first editor to slap a story up w/o reading. Editors here are not editors... they're READERS, and often not reading.
This problem harks to the days of Hemos posting duplicates... way way back when this was a
Sometimes your workgroup is so busy that it's easier to DUPLICATE other's efforts, then check to see what they have completed.
Working harder... but maybe not working smarter.
>Because [Iran] their suicide bombers have been sent to Iraq.
Prove it.
Iranians (despite hardships) are better off than most of the region, including economics.
Iran is hardly the breeding ground for suicide bombers that Iraq is.
Iraqi's refer to most suicide bombers as "Arabs", because most come from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Kuwait (non-Arab Pakistan weighs in heavy here).
That's not to give Iran a clean bill of health, but all this linking of Iran to Iraq's problems smells like war-drums (again) to me.
The Iraqi people have already elected a government that has close ties to Iran (that's the real under-reported story here.. Ultimately what's keeping the USA *in* Iraq isn't the instability -- it's the neocon terror of Iraq and Iran becoming closer buddies. And all this is made possible by the neocon insistence that the US economy remain dependent on oil instead of diversifying).
>There is another interested party, although they would pay for/conduct such research in order to prove the opposite.
I would say that's a bit of a stretch. From an economic point of view, and understanding the profit motive, the GP's post makes perfect sense.
Those interested points of view have stockholder obligation to continue the march toward uniformity. In the US, the balance of power between people and corporations is about what it was in 1775. *shrugs*
If you are trying to imply there's some sort of well funded lobby trying to say pink is for boys and blue is for girls, that's just silly. The number of people who REALLY feel that way must number in the tens.
There's really no need to envision armies of communist same-sex pinko linux liberals... flush with their Microsoft Rebate cash. You should focus your efforts on all those "DNA types", who call your children mean names like "monkey" with all their evolution hocus-pocus...
TZO Dynamic DNS people did this 3 months ago.
This step might not have been necessary if everyone customized (read: FIXED) their Microsoft Exchange installations, but that's never going to happen.
TZO stated that 80% of outbound relayed mail was DSN from spammer attempts.
With a lot of Exchange installs, even if that server is NOT an "open relay", they WILL send out DSN's for spam relay attempts. NO mail server should send out DSNs for domains that are not their own - just reject it up front. Unfortunately that is not always true.
>Did I miss something or wouldn't the problem be solved by turning off the content of the original message in the bounce? If you can't see the original content, it removes the incentive for spammers to use that technique.
NO. Once a spam MO becomes commonplace, that technique will NEVER go away.
You seem to be implying that if the "effort" is wasted in vain, then spammers will deprecate their old technique. They won't - they'll just ADD new techniques. The NDR loophole will never die.
Over the last 6 years, the US has CUT tuition and loan aid to the population.
I'm not sure if this is because cynical turncoats wanted Congress to do this, because they've ALREADY invested in China and Korea... or if they wanted Congress to do this because school expenses are the #1 recruiting tool of the US Military.
I'm inclined to believe the former, because you hear a lot of right wing complaining about "human cloning" (stem cell research)... but you don't hear those same people complaining that their 401K is fueling such development overseas. Why fuel it with money if you find it so immoral?
That's easy to answer... it's about controlling trends... bankrupt your country, as long as you can preload your investments to whatever direction you nudged them to.
News Corporation is not so much about making money in the pure profit motive sense.
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If all the world's news, culture and rational media were a giant pool of milk and honey.. then News Corp would find a way to piss in it.
Oh, other possibly News Corp dirty tricks:
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>The war is over, Blue Ray won. Sad.
The war is over... yay!
I've stayed out of this technology war so far, but throughout it I have taken a dim view of HD-DVD... not just because it is technically inferior to BlueRay (as a format).. but because the HD-DVD camp WANTED this war, they got it, and they lost.
The reason BlueRay is winning is people don't care enough about games to even warrant the XB360's price tag - and Sony's higher! Where the PS3 adds value is it is a rock solid BlueRay player. Over time these "movie only" PS3 installs will get a couple of games here and there (I have only 5 discs for my PS2... not a big console junkie).
One of the best criticisms of BlueRay has always been "Sure, it's the superior format but REMEMBER BETA??". Sure do. I also remember Laserdisc. I've yet to get a HD player, but it's pretty much a given it will be BR... especially with a PS3 price cut coming this fall. About time the best format wins, instead of the one with the best marketing.
This does not settle anything except that the fellow charged does not have the money to contest. Practically speaking, most people will bend over when asked to pay $400 or risk a fight that costs $4,000.
:access WAS granted by the owner's AP. Period. Now on the other hand, if you were to smash the authentication and access scheme to gain access without authorization - that is what the law should protect against.
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Many an expert witness would testify that the person's actions did not violate the technical aspects of the law, as it is written.
A competent lawyer would find this an easy win WITHOUT even challenging the law itself.
You can't play music out your window - to the sidewalk - with a sign that says "don't listen".
Trespassing does not even apply here - on private commercial property that is open to the public, you can not be arrested just because the owner does not like you. The owner however does have the power to ask you to LEAVE.. and if you do not then you are trespassing.
All emotion aside, the 802.11 protocol does not allow for ambiguity. Clients ask for "authorization", and the AP either grants it or it denies it. In this case, the fact is
Clever naming of the AP does not a binding contract make either, or many slashdot users would be naming their open APs "blow me".
This law is at the very least overly broad and miswritten. Try this in a real city not some hick white bread town, where there would be a population of lawyers who would itch for an easy win like this.
Lawyers don't work for free unless there's a big settlement. People wonder why so many big lawsuits fly about? When the law is abused, it's not worth it to "do the right thing" and fight the charges, if the BEST you can hope for is clearing your name and winning 100% (and not a penny more) of your legal costs. There is nothing to deter legal abuse like this - no one ever loses their job for injustice.
Now, it WOULD be tempting to fight this IF being found innocent meant the District Attorney had to serve the term he threatened you with.
>According to the SPEC sheet, the MTTF was 2,000,000 hours.
:) It depends on your OS even, and how often you patch it, since the very act of uncompressing system patches and updating the OS will affect the "MTBF" of the flash drive. There's also the variable of swap file usage.
I don't think it's appropriate to measure flash life in terms of MTBF. Apples and oranges. Oversimplified, there's wear happening to a running hard drive even if there's no read/writes. On a SD card there's "no" wear if there's no writes.
flash memory "wears out" after NNN writes. A good flash chip will distribute that wear evenly over the chip (and I suspect this may be done even if it 'fragments' the file). So the lifetime of a flash media is based on the quality of the media, the amount of writes, and the amount of free space on the flash (because, again, the writes will be distributed and more empty space means greater balance).
I don't have an answer either.
Personally, I'd rather see laptops with an internal array of SD memory slots that I can boot off of. This would allow the user to enlarge their disk by plugging in extra cards and incrementally replacing them.
>PNRP... Makes me wonder what Apple will come up with next in that field.
How about Zeroconf (Bonjour)?
You can already use Zeroconf to replace DNS, DHCP, and SMB(NMB) and uPNP... among other things. It's a broadcast discovery and configuration service. Now of course broadcast does not directly run across router links/subnets unless you make it so (on the other hand, any chatty P2P can be routinely blocked by admins).
Zeroconf is not an Apple-only solution.. lots of the tier-one printer companies and consumer-level NAS hardware providers have products or projects which employ zeroconf.
It's funny how work began on PNRP after Bonjour landed in the hands of Apple testers, and almost 4 years after Apple's publication of their working group specs. This is just Microsoft catching up...
I remember using anti-aliased fonts in "Spectrum 512", a terrific graphics package for the Atari ST series computer. With it, you could optimize images for TV. If you could not afford an Amiga, this was a very impressive way of generating titles and graphics for video. The Atari ST had a composite NTSC output port and the horsepower to drive it.
I remember the same technique used on the Atari 8-bit computers, in the monochrome "Graphics Mode 8" level. By offsetting the *placement* of pixels, you could accomplish new colors. The effect was used (but less noticable) in lower-res modes, which also had more color, but you could choose between "smoothing" OR "more colors".
Note that these were COMMON techniques on computers that hooked to TVs, and also to CGI monitors. It was especially useful on the Apple 2c computer which had a monochrome high res mode like the Atari 8-bit.
I see a lot of posts here confusing these old techniques with "anti-aliasing". This is NOT the technique used -- anti-aliasing simply blends the difference between 2+ contrasting pixels. These old techniques did not do that - they CALCULATED the placement of pixels to take advantage of "display artifacts" - and generate perceived resolutuins (or color range) higher than the hardware was intended to deliver.
It would be difficult for someone else to argue Apple's prior art if Apple is un-interested in the battle, so this patent is not going anywhere.
I second this opinion.
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Almost 3 years ago I opted for a "converged" phone, a Samsung SCH-i700 PDA phone from Verizon. It was pretty nice, but DAILY use exposed the shortcomings of using a handheld as a phone. Yet there were times that the device was pretty damn convenient, when I needed to Remote Desktop, VNC, or get a "more featured" browser.
Nokia realized that putting a phone in a PDA is dumb, and they have avoided this mistake in their N series tablets. Until wireless data is universal and cheap, there's no point building the expense of a PHONE into your PDA. There's even less point in using a PDA as a phone.
Things are better today -- you can get a "normal" phone with data, and bluetooth modem support. Your PDA becomes "agnostic" about who provides the data layer - 802.11, bluetooth, or the US cell phone cartels. It doesn't matter anymore. Now you have real choices.
The Nokia N800 is the closest thing now to a perfect portable Internet tablet. You don't need to know Linux. It just "works". Developers are finding the device is a DREAM to develop on, combining Linux + GTK to make an open platform for anyone to use and develop on. Desktop Linux apps are being polished and ported over. And applications like 'Maemo Mapper (GPS)' are awesomely free.
You don't get a lot of free apps with Windows CE platforms... and many of the free apps there suffer from developer disinterest. WinCE software dies when the author becomes too busy with life/etc, while Linux and GPL software has a life all its own.
Some will complain about the N800's lack of CDMA/G3 data support, but this is GOOD -- really that is what your phone is for. Same thing with the keyboard... buy your OWN bluetooth keyboard if you want one. This was these 2 features do not bulk up the dimensions of the device.
If you want a "bigger" tablet, the Pepper Pad 3 seems interesting. If you want something that is truly portable, the Nokia N800 is the platform to beat now.
PS - the media player isn't horrible, but it suffers from limitations like any closed source media player. The media player has GOOD format support... many formats except no OGG support. The free 'Canola' media player offers a MythTV-like interface, touchscreen, and it plays just about anything you throw at it. Video performance on this is VERY good for a handheld.
Oh yeah, there's a webcamera built in and meeting software. Now we have to wait for Skype and GnomeMeeting so we can ditch the Nokia meeting app...
... something about "starving them [vmware] of their oxygen supply" probably indicates the fate of VMWAre.
MS will be using more than 1 method to dissuade people from using vmware:
1) Make Virtual PC free
2) Prohibit some MS OS's from running under vmware
3) Make "virtual ready" client licenses of Windows OS more expensive (which affects any VM... but they have to tread carefully here and not specify vmware as the reason. Big deal if VPC is affected see #4
4) Special price bundles and servers for Virtual PC hosting MS OS's, server packs, etc.
5) The killer is when MS goes after VM's site bread and butter: migration and management tools. What's VMWare going to do to retaliate against Microsoft's bread and butter?? (Release a compatible OS, release an office suite?? come on...)
Competing with Microsoft is like playing roshambo with Cartman.
>For some reason, he keeps getting crazier and crazier, seemingly for the sake of promoting himself,
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Why don't we try asking him? But you go first, I'll stand over here OK?
I'm sure we'll get a pistol-waving rant how it's ALL OF US that are crazy. See it's due to all the flouride in our water. Eric's keen on avoiding flouride completely.