don't forget that chewing gum is a controlled substance.
jehovah's witnesses are considered a dangerous cult and their members are jailed and their literature destroyed.
fellatio without vaginal sex (consensual or not) is a crime, for which you can be imprisoned for life. this law is still actively used for prosecutions to this day.
saying "fuck you" or making an obscene gesture to a woman is a criminal offense under section 509 of the singapore penal code.
wimaxforum is hilarious. out of the 100's of parties registered as a "wimax forum member", only 4 or 5 are even working on actual product.
what is funny is that the wimax forum was predicting shipping products in _2004_. then they bumped it up to 2005. it's now the latter part of 2005 and they still haven't even finished testing. every wimax vendor I have talked to says 1H 2006, some are even saying 2H 2006.
as for deploying this stuff yourself right now -- forget it. you need an FCC license to do so. maybe in a year or two they will have stuff which operates in unlicensed bands, but right now and the immediate future -- no.
all current testing is taking place outside north america in asia and other countries where licensing is lax or nonexistent.
However, telephone solicitation is very important to business, to charities, and to political organizations. How do we balance their needs with citizens' wants?
simple. free speech DOES NOT OVERRIDE AN INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THEIR OWN HOME.
you do not have a right to force your speech on an unwilling recipient. period.
if you want to know what terrifies the MPAA/RIAA more than anything else, it's ipradio and iptv.
iptv/ipradio threaten the distribution models that corporations have traditionally controlled from top to bottom.
expect them to start ramming legislation down everyones throats to kill this before it gets off the ground. a few cries of 9/11 and "think of the children" (and under the table dollar bills) should do it.
the laws of entropy means the information may not be in any remotely recongizable form or even distinguishable from background noise.
i mean really, do you expect eg notes scribbled on parchment to be recognizable after a billion years? it's hard enough gleaning information from artifacts just a few thousand years old. what kind of things would a civilization have to build to survive a billion? seems to me the safest place to store data longterm would be inside a small moon placed in orbit, since geological changes would pretty much erase anything on a large planet on geological timescales.
the mars rovers may be looking in the wrong place entirely:)
68k, z80, 65xx, z80, mips, sh4, etc are trivial to emulate at far faster speeds than you could ever buy in real silicon. hardly any point in using real chips.
the really fun stuff is wigner energy stored from neutron flux. while graphite exhibits the most severe effects, metals can store it too. there's nothing like spontaneously explosive metals to ruin your day.
er no, "fossil fuels" are not used for making plastic. "fossil fuels" are used for making vehicles move. plastic is made from processing crude, not from processing gasoline.
jesus fucking christ. many of the people who weren't able to evacuate were the elderly, disabled, over 10,000 people in hospitals alone. i guess you're saying the patients should have just got up out of their hospital beds and walked away?
new orleans also has one of the lowest % of automobile ownership in the nation, and one of the highest poverty rates. it's not like everyone who chose to stay behind could afford to just get in a car/bus/etc and leave the area. many had no money, no family, no place to go.
you're a miserable asshole for blaming the victims.
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certainly goes a long way to explaining why rediffmail sucks so hard.
what about the fact yahoo abandoned qmail? too embarassing?
don't forget that chewing gum is a controlled substance.
jehovah's witnesses are considered a dangerous cult and their members are jailed and their literature destroyed.
fellatio without vaginal sex (consensual or not) is a crime, for which you can be imprisoned for life. this law is still actively used for prosecutions to this day.
saying "fuck you" or making an obscene gesture to a woman is a criminal offense under section 509 of the singapore penal code.
nice place.
the problem is almost everything else in that band frequency hops too. so when something goes on the fritz it kills the whole band.
wimaxforum is hilarious. out of the 100's of parties registered as a "wimax forum member", only 4 or 5 are even working on actual product.
what is funny is that the wimax forum was predicting shipping products in _2004_. then they bumped it up to 2005. it's now the latter part of 2005 and they still haven't even finished testing. every wimax vendor I have talked to says 1H 2006, some are even saying 2H 2006.
as for deploying this stuff yourself right now -- forget it. you need an FCC license to do so. maybe in a year or two they will have stuff which operates in unlicensed bands, but right now and the immediate future -- no.
all current testing is taking place outside north america in asia and other countries where licensing is lax or nonexistent.
"just hit delete"?
nice.
you sound like a telemarketer.
However, telephone solicitation is very important to business, to charities, and to political organizations. How do we balance their needs with citizens' wants?
simple. free speech DOES NOT OVERRIDE AN INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THEIR OWN HOME .
you do not have a right to force your speech on an unwilling recipient. period.
pretty simple, really.
I present to you... THE TELECRAPPER 2000 TELEMARKETER INTERCEPTION SYSTEM
Yeah but that is wasting my time.
My friend, you need the Telecrapper 2000. Waste their time without wasting yours! Hilarity ensues. Fun for the whole family!
first amendment? look at the DMCA for an example, and look at how the DMCA has been abused to curtail free speech.
doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell that podcasting and iptv are next.
don't need to lose the first amendment. just need bad laws.
if you want to know what terrifies the MPAA/RIAA more than anything else, it's ipradio and iptv.
iptv/ipradio threaten the distribution models that corporations have traditionally controlled from top to bottom.
expect them to start ramming legislation down everyones throats to kill this before it gets off the ground. a few cries of 9/11 and "think of the children" (and under the table dollar bills) should do it.
if you need another reason not to use qmail, this is a good one.
the laws of entropy means the information may not be in any remotely recongizable form or even distinguishable from background noise.
:)
i mean really, do you expect eg notes scribbled on parchment to be recognizable after a billion years? it's hard enough gleaning information from artifacts just a few thousand years old. what kind of things would a civilization have to build to survive a billion? seems to me the safest place to store data longterm would be inside a small moon placed in orbit, since geological changes would pretty much erase anything on a large planet on geological timescales.
the mars rovers may be looking in the wrong place entirely
qmail isnt the fastest. it may be the most secure, but it's not fastest.
the qmail license scares a lot of people away though, the rest get scared off by djb's ego.
qmail was designed primarily to be secure. it's not designed to be fast.
yahoo doesn't use qmail anymore. they replaced it with an inhouse-built mta.
68k, z80, 65xx, z80, mips, sh4, etc are trivial to emulate at far faster speeds than you could ever buy in real silicon. hardly any point in using real chips.
Wheres +1 humility when you need it, dammit.
NASA uses both the hydrogen and oxygen. And gosh darn it, they use the water generated too :D
what's the point of arguing with a script? ever tried arguing with a telemarketer? same thing.
the really fun stuff is wigner energy stored from neutron flux. while graphite exhibits the most severe effects, metals can store it too. there's nothing like spontaneously explosive metals to ruin your day.
er no, "fossil fuels" are not used for making plastic. "fossil fuels" are used for making vehicles move. plastic is made from processing crude, not from processing gasoline.
mind not reading from a script next time?
you got pwned buddy. deal with it.
elitism is teh r0x0r, d00d.
that wasn't the question, nor my point.
the point was, if a civilization existed billions of years ago, would there be any way of detecting it?
it's also entirely possible that even if life on mars existed billions of years ago, nothing detectable may be left today.
jesus fucking christ. many of the people who weren't able to evacuate were the elderly, disabled, over 10,000 people in hospitals alone. i guess you're saying the patients should have just got up out of their hospital beds and walked away?
new orleans also has one of the lowest % of automobile ownership in the nation, and one of the highest poverty rates. it's not like everyone who chose to stay behind could afford to just get in a car/bus/etc and leave the area. many had no money, no family, no place to go.
you're a miserable asshole for blaming the victims.