Because, when the DNS was established the internet was primarily a U.S. phenomena. The TLDs that were established were primarily for the U.S. name space. As the Internet went global these same TLDs became artificially valuable because they were the only ones that did not have a two digit country code suffix.
Anyways, who ever said all.com,.net, and.org's where U.S. based?
Just out of curiosity, but if we send people to Mars, how in the hell are they supposed to get back? I mean, are they going to set up a launch pad themselves, or will they send a space limo over to pick them up? Is the atmosphere of Mars similar to Earth's?
The escape velocity of Mars is 5.03kps as compared with Earth's 11.2kps escape velocity. That figure is based on its gravaty.
As for the atmosphere, here is more info out of a Newsletter from the Coconino Astronomical Society about what is in the atmosphere and how they know. You may want to read the whole letter at http://www.lowell.edu/cas/news/2002_sep. pdf (warning! it gets boring fast).
In order to determine if a gas is retained by a planet, the following formula is used.
Escape velocity of molecules = the square root of (2 times Boltzmann's constant times the effective temperature / molecular weight times the mass of the hydrogen atom).
The escape velocity of Mars is three miles per second. Therefore, Mars has carbon dioxide and no water vapor in its atmosphere. Carbon dioxide has a molecular weight of 44; water has a molecular weight of 18. Obviously, water vapor requires much less energy to escape the Martian gravitational pull than carbon dioxide. Hydrogen and helium molecules are not present in any of the inner planets because of their atomic weights of one and four, respectively...
He didn't have windows/dos/fat partitions at all. he downloaded freedos and used a ramdrive to flash his videocard's bios. thats all that was wrong. the ATI driver checks to make sure the videocard is an ATI card. It should just check for an ATI chipset. Sounds like a problem ATI will pacth in the next release.
to see "Starcraft" and "console only" and think of some half mix between a MUD and bad ascii art starcraft units? Game: You NEW level one probe was just producted! You: Command Probe 34 to Mine A11 Game: Probe 34 has now benn sent to mine map coords A11 and will arrive in 13 seconds. Game: We have detected enemy troop movement in area e15, Press A to zoom to, B to zoom to unit being attacked or C for a general overview. You: C Game: a:..........P.P..PPM b:...BB..BM.P......P c:..BG.............. d:..ZZZ....Z........ e:..BC..*..E.E.E.... f: BCBC*....eE.EE....
Not to dog on ATI or Nvidia but 400 bucks for a video card is just to much. Sure it can pump out 200+ fps but it kind of gets pointless after 30. what can the humen eye sample at? 24 fps(guess) or so? Cards like this are made to stroke egos, and mine is big enough. I can only pray it doesn't fall into the wrong hands (sucky gamers that cry lag).
Their reasoning to why they can "restrict" you from hurting or killing yourself is because if you do succeed then you will become a community burden.
IE, if you go on the newest roller-coaster at "King Death Park" named "Limb-Torrent" and you loose your arm then as a US citizen you'll be driven to the nearest hospital, airlifted to another, looked at, probed, pinched, and fixed. Now, for some reason medical prices are inflated to such a rate that even if you have insurance it won't be enough to cover this cost. $1500 bucks for a five mile ride in the back of an ambulance? $10k for a doctor to tell you you've lost a limb. $30k for another to actual do something about it. $5k a nurse, he needs four. One hundred million billion kajillion dollars for Doctor Evil to not blow up the earth and so on. So the tax payer eats the cost of you loosing a limb.
I do not agree with this at all but I do see the logic.
Kimberly and Jessica Bailey of Pomona, N.Y., died after their roller coaster car slipped on a 35-foot incline that started the ride. The car plummeted backward and rounded a 90-degree turn, ejecting both. They were thrown against a steel support structure.
So, the two deaths where from an accidental derailing. How will limiting the G forces of the ride when it's working (NOT broken) fix this? A better law would have something to do with safety and equipment checks. Or better yet, amend the law of gravity and outlaw inertia. Politicians can do anything you know.
In other news, some of the top Wall Street brass asked the internet today if they wouldn't mind picking one IM protocol and port to make it easier to ban/snoop at work. The internet responded by eating the free lunch provided for the meeting, and then promptly leaving.
Goku did blow himself up to kill cell but cell came back using picolo's cells to regenerate his perfect body. Gohan then killed him (permently (well until he get broght back from hell in DBGT for about 5 secs before he gets slaped down again)) with a super kamahamaha(ep. 191) The kamahamaha starts at the begin of the ep and finishes at the end of it. 20 mins for one ungodly attack.
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you have some good points but there is one big differance between the taxation without representation of say, England and early America and this. One is a forced tax which you have to pay to live and not goto jail, while the other is more of a service charge then a tax(but still a tax!). This tax can't get _really_ out of hand because people won't let it. If they tried to charge an extra $500.00 for a domainname it wouldn't take long before their root servers are not used and everyone turns to another, better(?)[OpenNIC], set of rootservers. They're are other servers out there that you can use.
Taxation without representation doesn't really apply here because you are repesented as the customer. It would be like calling the price of a bigmac a tax and then demanding a vote to set the price on it. If BurgerKing up'd the price of the bigmac to $500.00 people would just goto TacoBell or another fast food place and BurgerKing would be doomed. The only thing that changes in the world of icann/rootservers is that you don't see the alternatives placed right next to ICANN with bright signs saying "EAT HERE". And unless your a network admin you shouldn't care. After all, thats who gives you the name servers you use. (Note: yes, i know, you can change the nameservers you use blah blah blah resolv.conf blah blah. Just keep in mine the gerneral public doesn't really know or, to a degree, care to change their settings.)
In short ICANN is a service and you pay service tax. Should we get a say in the tax's price? Sure and we do, everytime we buy a domainname from them.
I lost the video feed just as Stuart Lynn was saying that the 25 cent per domain name fee wasn't a tax. I agree. That is rhetoric. Someone wrote to me today and asked why I thought this wasn't a tax. I wrote back: "It's a fee for services. It's like going into McDonalds, ordering french fries, and then calling the price of the fries 'a french fry tax.' ICANN coordinates the management of the domain name system. If you operate a registry or registrar, you get a direct benefit from that. Likewise, if you're a domain name registrant."
Tax:
a: a charge usually of money imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes
b: a sum levied on members of an organization to defray expenses
It IS a tax but it's also a justified one. Face it, someone should have to help out in the cost and i doubt anyone would if it wasn't manitory. Hell, would you pay income tax if on the form was a checkbox for 'Do you want to help fund your gov? Y/n.'
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Because, when the DNS was established the internet was primarily a U.S. phenomena. The TLDs that were established were primarily for the U.S. name space. As the Internet went global these same TLDs became artificially valuable because they were the only ones that did not have a two digit country code suffix.
.com, .net, and .org's where U.S. based?
Anyways, who ever said all
to make an 80 Watt clock/radio.
The escape velocity of Mars is 5.03kps as compared with Earth's 11.2kps escape velocity. That figure is based on its gravaty.
As for the atmosphere, here is more info out of a Newsletter from the Coconino Astronomical Society about what is in the atmosphere and how they know. You may want to read the whole letter at http://www.lowell.edu/cas/news/2002_sep. pdf (warning! it gets boring fast).
In order to determine if a gas is retained by a planet, the following formula is used.
Escape velocity of molecules = the square root of (2 times Boltzmann's constant times the effective temperature / molecular weight times the mass of the hydrogen atom).
The escape velocity of Mars is three miles per second. Therefore, Mars has carbon dioxide and no water vapor in its atmosphere. Carbon dioxide has a molecular weight of 44; water has a molecular weight of 18. Obviously, water vapor requires much less energy to escape the Martian gravitational pull than carbon dioxide. Hydrogen and helium molecules are not present in any of the inner planets because of their atomic weights of one and four, respectively
Of the 129 drives that functioned, 69 still had recoverable files on them and 49 contained "significant personal information"
thats 5000 cc numbers on 49 drives?
102 credit cards numbers per drive?!
i smell bullshit...
maybe one of theose drives belonged to scripted kiddie with a cc# generator..
product *plug* money.
product *plug* money.
product *plug* money.
With the PoP release, Sony improved the encryption so that it used a larger key which was more securely chosen.
So i guess the old key of '12345' is out and the new key of '[r@k d1z 0n3 u wh0r3z' will be used.
I almost want to get this thing just to try my hat at cracking it.
I think it was just a programer doing a standard check (helo vidocard. who are you?) and a QA department with every and only ATI cards.
RTA -F(polite)
He didn't have windows/dos/fat partitions at all. he downloaded freedos and used a ramdrive to flash his videocard's bios. thats all that was wrong. the ATI driver checks to make sure the videocard is an ATI card. It should just check for an ATI chipset. Sounds like a problem ATI will pacth in the next release.
Well, in this case RTFE. (EULA).
Eula eh? that thing you have to crack open the software box for making it a bitch to return?
to see "Starcraft" and "console only" and think of some half mix between a MUD and bad ascii art starcraft units?
..........P.P..PPM ...BB..BM.P......P ..BG.............. ..ZZZ....Z........ ..BC..*..E.E.E....
Game: You NEW level one probe was just producted!
You: Command Probe 34 to Mine A11
Game: Probe 34 has now benn sent to mine map coords A11 and will arrive in 13 seconds.
Game: We have detected enemy troop movement in area e15, Press A to zoom to, B to zoom to unit being attacked or C for a general overview.
You: C
Game:
a:
b:
c:
d:
e:
f: BCBC*....eE.EE....
#1, Gates, William H III
46 , self made
Source: Technology, Microsoft (quote, executives, news)
Net Worth: $43,000 mil down
Hometown: Seattle , WA
Marital Status: married , 2 children
WOW! when did bill get some?
off ATI's site: RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB AGP $399
Not to dog on ATI or Nvidia but 400 bucks for a video card is just to much. Sure it can pump out 200+ fps but it kind of gets pointless after 30. what can the humen eye sample at? 24 fps(guess) or so? Cards like this are made to stroke egos, and mine is big enough. I can only pray it doesn't fall into the wrong hands (sucky gamers that cry lag).
Their reasoning to why they can "restrict" you from hurting or killing yourself is because if you do succeed then you will become a community burden.
IE, if you go on the newest roller-coaster at "King Death Park" named "Limb-Torrent" and you loose your arm then as a US citizen you'll be driven to the nearest hospital, airlifted to another, looked at, probed, pinched, and fixed. Now, for some reason medical prices are inflated to such a rate that even if you have insurance it won't be enough to cover this cost. $1500 bucks for a five mile ride in the back of an ambulance? $10k for a doctor to tell you you've lost a limb. $30k for another to actual do something about it. $5k a nurse, he needs four. One hundred million billion kajillion dollars for Doctor Evil to not blow up the earth and so on. So the tax payer eats the cost of you loosing a limb.
I do not agree with this at all but I do see the logic.
Kimberly and Jessica Bailey of Pomona, N.Y., died after their roller coaster car slipped on a 35-foot incline that started the ride. The car plummeted backward and rounded a 90-degree turn, ejecting both. They were thrown against a steel support structure.
So, the two deaths where from an accidental derailing. How will limiting the G forces of the ride when it's working (NOT broken) fix this? A better law would have something to do with safety and equipment checks. Or better yet, amend the law of gravity and outlaw inertia. Politicians can do anything you know.
Actual I was thinking more of Britney Spears singing:
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catchy beat eh?
Make a song detailing how to decrypt dvds.
In other news, some of the top Wall Street brass asked the internet today if they wouldn't mind picking one IM protocol and port to make it easier to ban/snoop at work. The internet responded by eating the free lunch provided for the meeting, and then promptly leaving.
This is just lame. I wish the guy actual would have hooked up a tesla coil to his mobo. It would make for a much more interesting story.
I can't wait for the quantum computers. It'll be funny watching people try to squeeze a few more exa-flops out of thier computers via relativity.
I think we slapped his site into a last month, literaly..
http://www.thetechboard.com/ is now just a banner page that says "Coming Soon." Pity too, i was on page 3.
Totaly off topic but had to burn karma..
Goku did blow himself up to kill cell but cell came back using picolo's cells to regenerate his perfect body. Gohan then killed him (permently (well until he get broght back from hell in DBGT for about 5 secs before he gets slaped down again)) with a super kamahamaha(ep. 191) The kamahamaha starts at the begin of the ep and finishes at the end of it. 20 mins for one ungodly attack.
Can we get the IP of that AC? 207.46.230.218
thought so!
Everyone knows to _NOT_ be a terrorist you need the NSA patch. Oh wait, Windows comes with it? nevermind.
Ya. What was the EFF thinking when they made this thing. Everyone knows first-person shooters is where it's at.
you have some good points but there is one big differance between the taxation without representation of say, England and early America and this. One is a forced tax which you have to pay to live and not goto jail, while the other is more of a service charge then a tax(but still a tax!). This tax can't get _really_ out of hand because people won't let it. If they tried to charge an extra $500.00 for a domainname it wouldn't take long before their root servers are not used and everyone turns to another, better(?)[OpenNIC], set of rootservers. They're are other servers out there that you can use.
Taxation without representation doesn't really apply here because you are repesented as the customer. It would be like calling the price of a bigmac a tax and then demanding a vote to set the price on it. If BurgerKing up'd the price of the bigmac to $500.00 people would just goto TacoBell or another fast food place and BurgerKing would be doomed. The only thing that changes in the world of icann/rootservers is that you don't see the alternatives placed right next to ICANN with bright signs saying "EAT HERE". And unless your a network admin you shouldn't care. After all, thats who gives you the name servers you use. (Note: yes, i know, you can change the nameservers you use blah blah blah resolv.conf blah blah. Just keep in mine the gerneral public doesn't really know or, to a degree, care to change their settings.)
In short ICANN is a service and you pay service tax. Should we get a say in the tax's price? Sure and we do, everytime we buy a domainname from them.
RESOLVE HERE
here is a nice snip from http://icann.blog.us/categories/bucharest/
I lost the video feed just as Stuart Lynn was saying that the 25 cent per domain name fee wasn't a tax. I agree. That is rhetoric. Someone wrote to me today and asked why I thought this wasn't a tax. I wrote back: "It's a fee for services. It's like going into McDonalds, ordering french fries, and then calling the price of the fries 'a french fry tax.' ICANN coordinates the management of the domain name system. If you operate a registry or registrar, you get a direct benefit from that. Likewise, if you're a domain name registrant."
Tax:
a: a charge usually of money imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes
b: a sum levied on members of an organization to defray expenses
It IS a tax but it's also a justified one. Face it, someone should have to help out in the cost and i doubt anyone would if it wasn't manitory. Hell, would you pay income tax if on the form was a checkbox for 'Do you want to help fund your gov? Y/n.'