It's hard to prove from one observation, but I doubt it is both. The probability of sheer incompetence delivering the exact result they need is small. Incompetence would go in a random direction, equally likely to forward all emails to the public, or cause emails to be archived many times over instead of once, or all sorts of random things only one possibility of which coencides exactly with the political objectives.
The story is just alarmist garbage making sound like people are scoring RPGs or artillery pieces in back alleys. The stuff is the same surplus gas-masks, boots and canteens you've been able to buy since Moses was a boy. The "F-14 parts" are dashboard lightbulbs and tire-valve caps. Oooh a MILSPEC 3876783-4786478-3478647 instrument cable! wow!
I think that something people don't get is that there are not and never were comprehensive specifications for these formats. The specification is likely the code and nothing more. The document formats weren't conceived as a du jure standard, they are things that grew over time and evolved. Somewhere at the core you're going to find things like a C structs - from some old and forgotten compiler - being copied verbatim to disk.
Asking Microsoft for the spec will not mean simply taking an existing doc off the shelf and handing it over. It will mean either handing over the code for the old products that read and write those formats or spending person-years of effort combing through that code, constructing a specification, and then, somehow, testing the spec.
Agreed. I fired Rogers over a year ago for this exact reason -- back then they were only shaping non-encrypted P2P traffic. Their service had been degrading gradually over the years and the price going up. Today there are many better DSL providers covering nearly all of their territory. There's no need for anyone to stay with these idiots.
I suspect that they have 20,000 patents already lined up, one on each of the interesting genes. With this they could enlist others to do the leg work to figure out how to use the gene information, secure in the knowledge that they can use their patents to get a piece of whatever anyone comes up with.
Maybe if you're an only child. Otherwise it's your brother(s) and sister(s).
Brother(s) and sister(s) share 50% on average but could be more or less. Identical twins, obviously, 100%. You share with parents 50% nuclear DNA each way.
Men share more with their mum because practically speaking, the Y chromosome from dad has nothing much in it, and all the X chromosome goodness is from mummy.
For either sex, mitochondrial DNA is all from mumsie.
Now that we have someone trying to make core memory new again, what's next? Miniature mercury delay lines in the next iPod? I'm going to hold out for the new storage-scope notebook.
Whatever happened to bubble-memory anyway? It looked cool under a microscope.
Announcer: Jackie is in the pits now with Nigel. Let's go to them now: Jackie?
Jackie: Thanks Ronnie. I'm here in the pits with Nigel. Nigel: what happened this afternoon in turn 6?
Nigel: Well, it was actually in lap 24 that we noticed a problem with the Windows Update. It looked like one of the security patches wouldn't apply. When I pitted in lap 30 the crew re-installed Windows.
Jackie: We thought that was a long pit -- 22 seconds was it?
Nigel: 24. It seemed like forever. But as you saw, Victor was also having driver problems, so I didn't lose as much time on him as I feared.
Jackie: So what about turn 6?
Nigel: Well, it turns out that back in lap 24 when we had the Windows Update problem, I also picked up a Code Red worm from one of the other cars. So I started to notice performance problems going into lap 32 but as we had the lead after Victor went out, I wanted to stay in it. Through the next two laps I tried and tried to get Norton Antivirus to eliminate the Code Red, but it just wouldn't go away. Finally, entering turn 6 my car blue-screened -- I saw all the smoke in the video -- but the real problem was the loss of steering control.
Jackie: Is the Code Red worm what caused Victor's crash in lap 30?
Nigel: No, I think he was still having driver problems with is Fire-Wire brakes. That's quite an advanced system, Jackie -- you know most of the other teams are on USB brakes. Vic has the advantage in some of the faster corners, but I think there are still reliability problems.
Jackie: So what's next for your team? Will you be ready for Monaco?
Nigel: Oh, no question about Monaco -- the spare car is nearly ready. We still have to install service pack 4 on it and run the updates. Monaco's only two weeks away, so the crew will be flat out on that, but I know we'll be ready.
Jackie: Thanks so much Nigel, we wish you better luck in Monaco. Over to you Ronnie.
what they say is the world's fastest inkjet printer.
Ha! I say.
Kodak Versamark VX5000/VX5000e printing systems are designed to handle very heavy-duty production. These systems have print speeds of 150 Metres per minute, yielding more than 2,000 pages per minute, producing 100% variable data in black, spot colour or CMYK process colour, depending on the configuration.
this would appear to being EU into line with Canada as regards the legality of downloading media for personal use
I'm not sure I agree. I think the status of downloading being okay in Canada is strictly in the context of music. The Copyright Act has specific provisions for the copying of "phonograms" for personal use and provisions for a levy (tax) on blank media used for said copying.
It doesn't have any specific provisions for other types of copyrighted materials - books, photos, films - and my bet is that they would be found illegal to download/share. This has not been tested in Canada as far as I know.
Well, if gas = petrol, then you meant to say, of course,
1 Imperial Gallon = 4.546092 Litres
Have a look at SAP DB before talking about those..
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features that MySQL (and other open source DB's) just don't have, and probably won't have for Years.
SAP DB is free, open source and GPL. It also has all the best big-guy features. Not many people seem to know about it - it certainly has small mind-share. But it is the real stuff - miles ahead of MySQL.
I remember the place I was working in the mid '80s had a boatload of DECMate systems. They used a microprocessor based on a PDP-8 architecture. I bet you'd still find one of these in the junk bin at your local computer recyclers.
Team Assembly managed to change the serial number and MAC address of the xbox. After the change they managed to get onto Xbox Live (with mod-chip disabled) with a previously banned xbox
Not only that, you can arrange for any arbitrary XBox to be permanently banned! I wonder if there's a way to pollute their blacklist with so many bogus entries that they have to give up.
I doubt anyone would seriously want to go through the hassle of getting OCR to work right.
I Don't think it's that bad. I haven't tried it myself, but some other Project Gutenberg contributors have reported reasonable success with this. The depth-of-field of most flatbed scanners is very narrow, while the DOF of a digital camera is typically gargantuan. This means that fragile books can be photographed without having to flatten them out (and damage them) and without needing an expensive planetary or prism scanner. The OCR side of things would most likely be taken in stride by (shameless plug) Abbyy Finereader. Basically Finereader will reliably OCR all kinds of wacky stuff, and beats the piss out of all the others, hands down.
The CDMA providers are *nearly* as good at coverage. Their sound quality is miles better.
My experience is the opposite: GSM sounds great - as good as a land-line - while CDMA sounds like your gargling at the bottom of a well. CDMA will chearfully hold open a call - and charge you for it - when the signal quality is utterly useless. Network operators think this is great, but as a customer, I'd rather see the network busy than pay for a channel I can't use.
Re:Good for linux(?), probably not good for Sun
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What compelling reason is there to buy a Sun box over a the umpteen beige box vendors, IBM, Compaq, Dell, etc?
Well, Sun has not had to cut a deal with Microsoft in order to remain in business. If there's money to be made (different question entirely) from "major vendor" boxes for running Linux, Sun's in a position to exploit it. The "umteen vendors" have all sold their first-born to Bill. Yes, you can buy no-name, but some people need/want to buy name-brand and Sun is a name-brand that is conveniently immune to Microsoft's interference.
Explain this to James Sabzali. Mr Sabzali ran his own business in Canada, selling water purification equipment to Cuban institutions. Later he moved to Philadelphia to work directly for the chemical company Brotak, which had supplied most of the materials. Mr Sabzali was convicted of breaking trade embargo against Cuba on seven charges relating to his years in Canada and now faces a maximum sentence of more than 200 years in jail.
Now, if they don't know where you live or your e-mail address, they can sign up for Hotmail in your name, and serve the summons there. What an excellent way to leverage modern technology.
I wonder if this means the courts can serve summonses by telex, fax, pager or telephone? Can they just leave a message on your answering machine?
<beep><beep>... "You are late for court; Police are coming."
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it could really be a case of AND instead of OR
It's hard to prove from one observation, but I doubt it is both. The probability of sheer incompetence delivering the exact result they need is small. Incompetence would go in a random direction, equally likely to forward all emails to the public, or cause emails to be archived many times over instead of once, or all sorts of random things only one possibility of which coencides exactly with the political objectives.
The story is just alarmist garbage making sound like people are scoring RPGs or artillery pieces in back alleys. The stuff is the same surplus gas-masks, boots and canteens you've been able to buy since Moses was a boy. The "F-14 parts" are dashboard lightbulbs and tire-valve caps. Oooh a MILSPEC 3876783-4786478-3478647 instrument cable! wow!
I think that something people don't get is that there are not and never were comprehensive specifications for these formats. The specification is likely the code and nothing more. The document formats weren't conceived as a du jure standard, they are things that grew over time and evolved. Somewhere at the core you're going to find things like a C structs - from some old and forgotten compiler - being copied verbatim to disk.
Asking Microsoft for the spec will not mean simply taking an existing doc off the shelf and handing it over. It will mean either handing over the code for the old products that read and write those formats or spending person-years of effort combing through that code, constructing a specification, and then, somehow, testing the spec.
I wouldn't hold my breath for either.
The Americans can be trusted to bring equipment that jams 1900 and 850 Mhz CDMA, leaving the GSM 1800 and 900 bandwidth working perfectly.
And yes, I know Telstra runs a CDMA network somewhere in the outback, but this is Sydney we're talking about.
Agreed. I fired Rogers over a year ago for this exact reason -- back then they were only shaping non-encrypted P2P traffic. Their service had been degrading gradually over the years and the price going up. Today there are many better DSL providers covering nearly all of their territory. There's no need for anyone to stay with these idiots.
I suspect that they have 20,000 patents already lined up, one on each of the interesting genes. With this they could enlist others to do the leg work to figure out how to use the gene information, secure in the knowledge that they can use their patents to get a piece of whatever anyone comes up with.
Pharma patents are the worst of an evil bunch.
Maybe if you're an only child. Otherwise it's your brother(s) and sister(s).
Brother(s) and sister(s) share 50% on average but could be more or less. Identical twins, obviously, 100%. You share with parents 50% nuclear DNA each way.
Men share more with their mum because practically speaking, the Y chromosome from dad has nothing much in it, and all the X chromosome goodness is from mummy.
For either sex, mitochondrial DNA is all from mumsie.
Now that we have someone trying to make core memory new again, what's next?
Miniature mercury delay lines in the next iPod?
I'm going to hold out for the new storage-scope notebook.
Whatever happened to bubble-memory anyway? It looked cool under a microscope.
Announcer: Jackie is in the pits now with Nigel. Let's go to them now: Jackie?
Jackie: Thanks Ronnie. I'm here in the pits with Nigel. Nigel: what happened this afternoon in turn 6?
Nigel: Well, it was actually in lap 24 that we noticed a problem with the Windows Update. It looked like one of the security patches wouldn't apply. When I pitted in lap 30 the crew re-installed Windows.
Jackie: We thought that was a long pit -- 22 seconds was it?
Nigel: 24. It seemed like forever. But as you saw, Victor was also having driver problems, so I didn't lose as much time on him as I feared.
Jackie: So what about turn 6?
Nigel: Well, it turns out that back in lap 24 when we had the Windows Update problem, I also picked up a Code Red worm from one of the other cars. So I started to notice performance problems going into lap 32 but as we had the lead after Victor went out, I wanted to stay in it. Through the next two laps I tried and tried to get Norton Antivirus to eliminate the Code Red, but it just wouldn't go away. Finally, entering turn 6 my car blue-screened -- I saw all the smoke in the video -- but the real problem was the loss of steering control.
Jackie: Is the Code Red worm what caused Victor's crash in lap 30?
Nigel: No, I think he was still having driver problems with is Fire-Wire brakes. That's quite an advanced system, Jackie -- you know most of the other teams are on USB brakes. Vic has the advantage in some of the faster corners, but I think there are still reliability problems.
Jackie: So what's next for your team? Will you be ready for Monaco?
Nigel: Oh, no question about Monaco -- the spare car is nearly ready. We still have to install service pack 4 on it and run the updates. Monaco's only two weeks away, so the crew will be flat out on that, but I know we'll be ready.
Jackie: Thanks so much Nigel, we wish you better luck in Monaco. Over to you Ronnie.
Now this is fast.
what they say is the world's fastest inkjet printer.
Ha! I say.
Kodak Versamark VX5000/VX5000e printing systems are designed to handle very heavy-duty production. These systems have print speeds of 150 Metres per minute, yielding more than 2,000 pages per minute, producing 100% variable data in black, spot colour or CMYK process colour, depending on the configuration.
Now thats fast.
this would appear to being EU into line with Canada as regards the legality of downloading media for personal use
I'm not sure I agree. I think the status of downloading being okay in Canada is strictly in the context of music. The Copyright Act has specific provisions for the copying of "phonograms" for personal use and provisions for a levy (tax) on blank media used for said copying.
It doesn't have any specific provisions for other types of copyrighted materials - books, photos, films - and my bet is that they would be found illegal to download/share. This has not been tested in Canada as far as I know.
"Juindos" with the silent "j" -- and not a "w" in sight.
Here's the plan:
Pay SCO the $700.
Ask for it back, on the grounds that they do not have the right to license the "property" that they licensed for $700. (SCO would likely not refund)
Sue them in small claims court for the $700.
1 Gallon = 3.785 l
Well, if gas = petrol, then you meant to say, of course,
1 Imperial Gallon = 4.546092 Litres
features that MySQL (and other open source DB's) just don't have, and probably won't have for Years.
SAP DB is free, open source and GPL. It also has all the best big-guy features. Not many people seem to know about it - it certainly has small mind-share. But it is the real stuff - miles ahead of MySQL.
Canada does not have an equivalent to the DMCA at this time.
I remember the place I was working in the mid '80s had a boatload of DECMate systems. They used a microprocessor based on a PDP-8 architecture. I bet you'd still find one of these in the junk bin at your local computer recyclers.
Team Assembly managed to change the serial number and MAC address of the xbox. After the change they managed to get onto Xbox Live (with mod-chip disabled) with a previously banned xbox
Not only that, you can arrange for any arbitrary XBox to be permanently banned!
I wonder if there's a way to pollute their blacklist with so many bogus entries that they have to give up.
...is called "fibre optic"; hundred terabits and look ma - no wires!
Man, why can't you guys use DAB like everyone else?
I doubt anyone would seriously want to go through the hassle of getting OCR to work right.
I Don't think it's that bad. I haven't tried it myself, but some other Project Gutenberg contributors have reported reasonable success with this. The depth-of-field of most flatbed scanners is very narrow, while the DOF of a digital camera is typically gargantuan. This means that fragile books can be photographed without having to flatten them out (and damage them) and without needing an expensive planetary or prism scanner. The OCR side of things would most likely be taken in stride by (shameless plug) Abbyy Finereader. Basically Finereader will reliably OCR all kinds of wacky stuff, and beats the piss out of all the others, hands down.
The CDMA providers are *nearly* as good at coverage. Their sound quality is miles better.
My experience is the opposite: GSM sounds great - as good as a land-line - while CDMA sounds like your gargling at the bottom of a well. CDMA will chearfully hold open a call - and charge you for it - when the signal quality is utterly useless. Network operators think this is great, but as a customer, I'd rather see the network busy than pay for a channel I can't use.
Well, Sun has not had to cut a deal with Microsoft in order to remain in business. If there's money to be made (different question entirely) from "major vendor" boxes for running Linux, Sun's in a position to exploit it. The "umteen vendors" have all sold their first-born to Bill.
Yes, you can buy no-name, but some people need/want to buy name-brand and Sun is a name-brand that is conveniently immune to Microsoft's interference.
Explain this to James Sabzali. Mr Sabzali ran his own business in Canada, selling water purification equipment to Cuban institutions. Later he moved to Philadelphia to work directly for the chemical company Brotak, which had supplied most of the materials. Mr Sabzali was convicted of breaking trade embargo against Cuba on seven charges relating to his years in Canada and now faces a maximum sentence of more than 200 years in jail.
Now, if they don't know where you live or your e-mail address, they can sign up for Hotmail in your name, and serve the summons there. What an excellent way to leverage modern technology.
I wonder if this means the courts can serve summonses by telex, fax, pager or telephone? Can they just leave a message on your answering machine?
<beep><beep>... "You are late for court; Police are coming."