Sure, spam doesn't come close to (say) creating a Superfund site on the Big List O'Evil. However, it generates much more emotion because it is in all* of our faces each and every day. Furthermore, it's a tech-related problem, which sets off that "well, just FIX IT!" nerve in lots of geeks.
I only get maybe 10-20 spam messages a day, so Just Hitting Delete is still an option. But it irks me that I have to spend time downloading these messages -- and I am reminded of that every time I check my email, each and every day of the year.
* Those with spiffy and 100% functional spam filters excluded, of course.:)
I live in a large city in Pennsylvania. Despite three-plus years of empty promises from the cable company, my broadband options are:
One-way cable modem ISDN, maybe
I have a forested hill that blocks satellite, and I'm 1800 feet beyond the DSL boundary. Grrr.
Of course, I'll probably get Cable/DSL in a year or two only to become newly frustrated over all the restrictions I hear are placed on them. I would like to run my own mail server and web site, but it seems that cable companies take a dim view of this kind of activity. Double Grrr.
And finally, it seems to me that there's a world of difference between having broadband access available from one company only and having actual competition. I wonder what percentage of U.S. homes have two or more broadband options available to them.
Not that it was the greatest show ever, but it was (at least to me) realistic, anti-cliche (pointedly so at least once:)), with a good story and good, likeable characters. I hadn't realized Alan Tudyk (28 Days, A Knight's Tale) was in it, which just makes me want to watch it more.
I would definitely consider this, at least thus far, a step up for sci-fi shows. I plan to add it to my weekly schedule. No rubbing stuff all over naked babes though.:)
Of course, there's a way to address this problem with...a Word Macro!:)
Sub AutoOpen() ' ' IncludeTextBarrer Macro ' Macro created 9/13/2002 by Geoff Speare ' Created for Word 2000, use at own risk, etc. ' Dim count As Integer Dim vbFix As VbMsgBoxResult Dim blFoundOne As Boolean
blFoundOne = False For count = 1 To ActiveDocument.Fields.count
If ActiveDocument.Fields(count).Type = wdFieldIncludeText Then
blFoundOne = True
vbFix = MsgBox("An INCLUDETEXT field has been found. Would you like to lock it? " & _
"(Select All and then Ctrl-4 will unlock all fields if you change your mind.)", vbYesNo, "INCLUDETEXT Exploit Detection")
If vbFix = vbYes Then
ActiveDocument.Fields(count).Locked = True
End If
End If Next If blFoundOne Then
MsgBox "Your document may have a field which secretly includes text from another file. You may wish " & _
"to Reveal Field Codes (ALT-F9) and examine the document closely before saving or distributing it.", vbOKOnly, _
"INCLUDETEXT Exploit Detection" End If End Sub
Hey, I just realized that my high-end printing device has absolutely no hardware provision for reverse-direction printing! If I want to take the high quality document I just printed and put it back into electronic form, I have to spend hundreds of dollars* for a completely separate "scanning" device! What a ripoff!
Really, as soon as the market for this sort of capture starts to grow, someone will have a hardware solution. The first ones will be cheesy: a connecter into a separate PCI capture card, for example; but eventually a more reasonable method will become standard design.
To me, this is just the free market in action, working (more or less) as it should be.
* I know how much scanners cost. Think hyperbole.:)
I wouldn't say the article does an exceptional job of describing where the flywheels are placed, but a closed read does imply very strongly that they are outside.
Besides, 10 batteries, each the weight of a Volkswagen, might have some negative impact on the performance characteristics and power usage of your average subway train.
Of course: if the network is centralized, then the center can be attacked and disabled through normal legal channels. It probably got added as a "compromise" that didn't lose them anything -- not to mention that if the bill didn't make that definition, they'd be able to hack into virtually any server in the world.
...if such impairment does not, without authorization, alter, delete, or otherwise impair the integrity of any computer file or data residing on the computer of a file trader.
You will really want to start reading those EULAs for everything you download if this becomes law...
At least there would be a happy ending after this pilot ejected and contacted his buddies...
MS Support: "Thank you for calling Microsoft Customer support. How may I help you?" Pilot: "Locked on. Firing." --whooshing noise follows-- MS Support: "I'm sorry, we don't suppor--BOOM!" Pilot: "Circular Error Probable zero. Impact with high-order detonation. Have a nice day."
Any State Party to the Treaty may give notice of its withdrawal from the Treaty one year after its entry into force by written notification to the Depositary Governments. Such withdrawal shall take effect one year from the date of receipt of this notification."
The treaty has a legal exit clause; presumably it was put there for a reason. What's the ethical dilemma in using it?
(Obviously, the ramifications of withdrawing -- damaging relations with other space powers, starting a real space arms race, etc. -- have ethical issues associated with them...but that doesn't change the fact that the U.S. has the right, agreed to by all signatories, to opt out.)
Might as well mention Morrowind, which went gold last week and is expected in stores late next week. According tothemanypreviews out there, Morrowind looks to be more open-ended and immersive than any other RPG to date. It's only single player, but given the joys of many multiplayer RPGs, that's probably a good thing. In addition to the official site and forums, there's a good RPGPlanet site that collects most relevant information. Look for the water screenshots; they use pixel shading to get some truly impressive effects.
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...can we just cut to the chase and place a ban on any station anywhere playing "Free Falling" by Tom Petty for oh, say, the next ten years?
I like the song, but when I can't flip through the FM band without hearing it at least three times, there's a problem!
Faraday cage backpacks, anyone?
Read that page more closely...it talks about creating a /standard/ for RFID tires, and talks about them in the hypothetical ("would"...etc.).
Oops, gotta go buy a copy of Catcher in the Rye now...
They should al least put a webcam where the laser should go.
Actually, that's where the DRM-Enforcement Module goes...
You plan to make a movie big enough to haul in the huge wads of cash you need to pay Mel Gibson's script.
What a puny plan.
So make the robotic arm longer! Come on!
Sure, spam doesn't come close to (say) creating a Superfund site on the Big List O'Evil. However, it generates much more emotion because it is in all* of our faces each and every day. Furthermore, it's a tech-related problem, which sets off that "well, just FIX IT!" nerve in lots of geeks.
:)
I only get maybe 10-20 spam messages a day, so Just Hitting Delete is still an option. But it irks me that I have to spend time downloading these messages -- and I am reminded of that every time I check my email, each and every day of the year.
* Those with spiffy and 100% functional spam filters excluded, of course.
Were you born without capital letters or did you lose them in the junkyard? :)
...law schools report a sudden unexplained surge in applications.
Why, this was one rouge contractor...
And boy, are their faces red.
I live in a large city in Pennsylvania. Despite three-plus years of empty promises from the cable company, my broadband options are:
One-way cable modem
ISDN, maybe
I have a forested hill that blocks satellite, and I'm 1800 feet beyond the DSL boundary. Grrr.
Of course, I'll probably get Cable/DSL in a year or two only to become newly frustrated over all the restrictions I hear are placed on them. I would like to run my own mail server and web site, but it seems that cable companies take a dim view of this kind of activity. Double Grrr.
And finally, it seems to me that there's a world of difference between having broadband access available from one company only and having actual competition. I wonder what percentage of U.S. homes have two or more broadband options available to them.
(No spoilers here.)
:)), with a good story and good, likeable characters. I hadn't realized Alan Tudyk (28 Days, A Knight's Tale) was in it, which just makes me want to watch it more.
:)
Not that it was the greatest show ever, but it was (at least to me) realistic, anti-cliche (pointedly so at least once
I would definitely consider this, at least thus far, a step up for sci-fi shows. I plan to add it to my weekly schedule. No rubbing stuff all over naked babes though.
Of course, there's a way to address this problem with...a Word Macro! :)
Sub AutoOpen()
'
' IncludeTextBarrer Macro
' Macro created 9/13/2002 by Geoff Speare
' Created for Word 2000, use at own risk, etc.
'
Dim count As Integer
Dim vbFix As VbMsgBoxResult
Dim blFoundOne As Boolean
blFoundOne = False
For count = 1 To ActiveDocument.Fields.count
If ActiveDocument.Fields(count).Type = wdFieldIncludeText Then
blFoundOne = True
vbFix = MsgBox("An INCLUDETEXT field has been found. Would you like to lock it? " & _
"(Select All and then Ctrl-4 will unlock all fields if you change your mind.)", vbYesNo, "INCLUDETEXT Exploit Detection")
If vbFix = vbYes Then
ActiveDocument.Fields(count).Locked = True
End If
End If
Next
If blFoundOne Then
MsgBox "Your document may have a field which secretly includes text from another file. You may wish " & _
"to Reveal Field Codes (ALT-F9) and examine the document closely before saving or distributing it.", vbOKOnly, _
"INCLUDETEXT Exploit Detection"
End If
End Sub
...it requires zero configuration once you're configured properly.
Wow.
Hey, I just realized that my high-end printing device has absolutely no hardware provision for reverse-direction printing! If I want to take the high quality document I just printed and put it back into electronic form, I have to spend hundreds of dollars* for a completely separate "scanning" device! What a ripoff!
:)
Really, as soon as the market for this sort of capture starts to grow, someone will have a hardware solution. The first ones will be cheesy: a connecter into a separate PCI capture card, for example; but eventually a more reasonable method will become standard design.
To me, this is just the free market in action, working (more or less) as it should be.
* I know how much scanners cost. Think hyperbole.
Yeah, why doesn't someone just put together a Beowulf cluster of --hey! ouch! stop it!!!
I wouldn't say the article does an exceptional job of describing where the flywheels are placed, but a closed read does imply very strongly that they are outside.
Besides, 10 batteries, each the weight of a Volkswagen, might have some negative impact on the performance characteristics and power usage of your average subway train.
Of course: if the network is centralized, then the center can be attacked and disabled through normal legal channels. It probably got added as a "compromise" that didn't lose them anything -- not to mention that if the bill didn't make that definition, they'd be able to hack into virtually any server in the world.
You will really want to start reading those EULAs for everything you download if this becomes law...
At least there would be a happy ending after this pilot ejected and contacted his buddies...
MS Support: "Thank you for calling Microsoft Customer support. How may I help you?"
Pilot: "Locked on. Firing."
--whooshing noise follows--
MS Support: "I'm sorry, we don't suppor--BOOM!"
Pilot: "Circular Error Probable zero. Impact with high-order detonation. Have a nice day."
Get real. This isn't like in "Hackers" or "Johny Mnemonic" where the good guy hackers hack TV to expose The Man.
:)
No...hopefully it will be more like in "Running Man" where the good guy hackers hack TV to expose The Man.
Hm, is Richard Dawson on Chinese TV at all?
Wow, I hadn't realized that they were so low on places to dump bodies that they needed a bridge to drop them off of...
"Article XVI:
Any State Party to the Treaty may give notice of its withdrawal from the Treaty one year after its entry into force by written notification to the Depositary Governments. Such withdrawal shall take effect one year from the date of receipt of this notification."
The treaty has a legal exit clause; presumably it was put there for a reason. What's the ethical dilemma in using it?
(Obviously, the ramifications of withdrawing -- damaging relations with other space powers, starting a real space arms race, etc. -- have ethical issues associated with them...but that doesn't change the fact that the U.S. has the right, agreed to by all signatories, to opt out.)
Yeah, when I read "XP Service Pack Does the Impossible", I thought...
-- Actually fixes crash bugs?
-- Patches security holes?
-- Comes with source code under GPL?
Might as well mention Morrowind, which went gold last week and is expected in stores late next week. According to the many previews out there, Morrowind looks to be more open-ended and immersive than any other RPG to date. It's only single player, but given the joys of many multiplayer RPGs, that's probably a good thing. In addition to the official site and forums, there's a good RPGPlanet site that collects most relevant information. Look for the water screenshots; they use pixel shading to get some truly impressive effects.