Not to mention the legal implications for anyone that "buys" that notion.
Take child pornography as an example. One man's going to panic because he thinks it's on his computer, while another guy's going to use the blurred distinction between his desktop and the internet as a defense.
IMO, the more you know about the way your computer works, the better off you'll be. Knowing how to remove spyware (or avoid getting it in the first place;), set up a local firewall, and making decent passwords can protect you not only in the virtual world of the Internet, but the real world of laws and regulations.
That's only true for HTTP traffic. Generating false domain names broke a lot of other services. Like checking to see if a domain existed before accepting an email address as "From" that domain.
If someone's going to start flinging around unsolicited multi-megabyte email messages, a lot of people are going to be pissed. Many of the people still on dial-up are only their because it's enough for what they want to do. I.e. email and looking for quilting patterns.
Who's going to use a terabyte of hard drive space? It's a simple matter for them to over-book their available space.
Although I certainly can think of a couple ways to do it. Subscribe to hundreds of informational mailing lists and Google for the data you want, for one.
Since Microsoft has been the dominant OS vendor for a long time, people have written their software for Microsoft products. And since the cheapest Microsoft solution was on PCs, people wrote their code for Wintel systems.
Since the software was compiled to architecture-native code, it wasn't easily runnable on other architectures. As a result, even as Microsoft products were available for Alpha, third-party applications weren't. So people stuck with x86, 'cause that's where the software was.
And the reason the PC architecture was cheap? IBM built it that way. They liked the 8086, but it was too expensive to implement (16 bit data bus)... So Intel provided them with the 8088, which was cheaper (16 bits internal data, 8 bit external data bus. 20 bit adress bus.).
I don't know if the PowerPC architecture was available at the time.
Thunderbird disables images in a message (and performs other sanitizing operations) if you mark a message as junk. And you don't have to read a message in order to mark it.
So if you're unsure about a message, mark it as junk, read the text, then go from there.
At our house, which we built in 2001, anywhere you find RJ11, you'll find two of them. Along with two RJ45 connections. Everything's run over Cat 5e (you'd probably want to go with Cat6 now.).
The network comes together to a patch panel on a small rack in a central room. From the patch panel, they connect to a 24 port switch that a friend got cheap at a going-out-of-business auction.
Works like a dream, except the occasional miswired jack that we're still finding.
It doesn't matter how long it takes for a car to stop from 55mph, a passenger still has to lose the same amount of kinetic energy. The longer the distance used to stop the passenger, the less peak force is imparted on him. The less peak force, the less damage done to his body.
I seem to recall that US specifically suppresses certain groups from voicing their opinion.
That's a periodic phenomenon. Any time the public can be emotionally driven to support their government, it happens. The difference this time is that there's a major media distraction away from what's happening in our own country. Everyone wants to know what's going on in Iraq.
It happened during WWII (Japanese intermnent), it happened during the Red Scare(McCarthy), and it's happened as a result of the War on Terror(Nothing major that's gained the attention of the television networks yet, but once we're out of Iraq we'll probably start seeing examples.). It'll die down again.
In electronics class, my step-father build a neat little box. When it sat on anything, it was fine. You could have it on your hand, and nothing would happen. However, when picked up, it electrified its metal shell, startling anyone who gripped it.
And, of course, you had to get a good grip to pick it up.:)
They also did things like have an internal-to-the-school radio station by applying the signal to the power system. The transformer connecting the school to the power grid kept the signal from leaking into the grid.
Everyone has their own values, usually more or less derived from their parents and their religion/church. That's one of the important things about Democracy: Majority rule helps uphold the views of as many people as possible.
Certainly, most people will feel themselves limited in one form or another by the law. (Take speed limits, for example.) However, for any given specific matter, under ideal conditions, democracy helps gaurantee that most people will agree with the Law's view.
I won't go so far to say that we live under ideal conditions.
Even if you're just passing the buck, at least the sources of the pollution can be moved away from population centers. That's a major step towards improved help.
Changing the overall energy source to something green doesn't happen immediately. But in the mean time, you can still move pollution generation away from the major cities.
Hydrogen-powered and electric-powered vehicles aid that.
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Not to mention the legal implications for anyone that "buys" that notion.
;), set up a local firewall, and making decent passwords can protect you not only in the virtual world of the Internet, but the real world of laws and regulations.
Take child pornography as an example. One man's going to panic because he thinks it's on his computer, while another guy's going to use the blurred distinction between his desktop and the internet as a defense.
IMO, the more you know about the way your computer works, the better off you'll be. Knowing how to remove spyware (or avoid getting it in the first place
Uh...last I checked, Mozilla (and derivitives) had 10% browser marketshare.
That's only true for HTTP traffic. Generating false domain names broke a lot of other services. Like checking to see if a domain existed before accepting an email address as "From" that domain.
Uh, dark matter and dark energy aren't the same thing.
If someone's going to start flinging around unsolicited multi-megabyte email messages, a lot of people are going to be pissed. Many of the people still on dial-up are only their because it's enough for what they want to do. I.e. email and looking for quilting patterns.
Exactly. You aren't the average user. And what the average user doesn't use in their accounts, you'll use in yours.
So, what, the warez would be emailed to the account?
Followed by a "You've just been served" message. And anyone who doesn't respond is guilty of not showing up to court. (Or however that works.)
Who's going to use a terabyte of hard drive space? It's a simple matter for them to over-book their available space.
Although I certainly can think of a couple ways to do it. Subscribe to hundreds of informational mailing lists and Google for the data you want, for one.
Since Microsoft has been the dominant OS vendor for a long time, people have written their software for Microsoft products. And since the cheapest Microsoft solution was on PCs, people wrote their code for Wintel systems.
... So Intel provided them with the 8088, which was cheaper (16 bits internal data, 8 bit external data bus. 20 bit adress bus.).
Since the software was compiled to architecture-native code, it wasn't easily runnable on other architectures. As a result, even as Microsoft products were available for Alpha, third-party applications weren't. So people stuck with x86, 'cause that's where the software was.
And the reason the PC architecture was cheap? IBM built it that way. They liked the 8086, but it was too expensive to implement (16 bit data bus)
I don't know if the PowerPC architecture was available at the time.
Thunderbird disables images in a message (and performs other sanitizing operations) if you mark a message as junk. And you don't have to read a message in order to mark it.
So if you're unsure about a message, mark it as junk, read the text, then go from there.
Even here in the Real World, we a special language for mathematics.
The symbols and techniques don't easily translate to English.
Take, for example, "a=4 * (3 + 6)":
I might say "ae equals Four times three plus six." But that loses the meaning in favor of the order of operations.
I might say "ae equals four times open-paren three plus six close-paren." But that's clunky.
I might say "bee equals three plus six. ae equals four times bee." And that's still clunky.
Thinkpad 760XL. Maybe it was a P or PII. It's been a while since I last used it.
You'd be surprised at what one can do on an old notebook.
I had a PPro 166 notebook that was extremely useful. It ran WindowMaker and gvim just fine. That was all I needed for a mobile platform.
My desktop did any heavy lifting I needed done.
With a larger payload, you can probably afford to drop from a higher altitude. Which gives you more room to maneuver. So I suspect it's a tradeoff.
Please tell me that means they'll be nix'ed. Make them see what exactly it is that they're dissing.
At our house, which we built in 2001, anywhere you find RJ11, you'll find two of them. Along with two RJ45 connections. Everything's run over Cat 5e (you'd probably want to go with Cat6 now.).
The network comes together to a patch panel on a small rack in a central room. From the patch panel, they connect to a 24 port switch that a friend got cheap at a going-out-of-business auction.
Works like a dream, except the occasional miswired jack that we're still finding.
Can you imagine the public fear of nanotechnology if they're bombarded with insensitive advertisements about it?
Even worse if they start advertising it before it's available...then people will begin to think nanotech is all a scam.
a car doesn't withstand anything over a few MPH.
That's for consumer safety.
It doesn't matter how long it takes for a car to stop from 55mph, a passenger still has to lose the same amount of kinetic energy. The longer the distance used to stop the passenger, the less peak force is imparted on him. The less peak force, the less damage done to his body.
I seem to recall that US specifically suppresses certain groups from voicing their opinion.
That's a periodic phenomenon. Any time the public can be emotionally driven to support their government, it happens. The difference this time is that there's a major media distraction away from what's happening in our own country. Everyone wants to know what's going on in Iraq.
It happened during WWII (Japanese intermnent), it happened during the Red Scare(McCarthy), and it's happened as a result of the War on Terror(Nothing major that's gained the attention of the television networks yet, but once we're out of Iraq we'll probably start seeing examples.). It'll die down again.
With just a few floppy disks (rescue, root, and driver disks 1, 2, 3 and 4), you can install virtually the entire thing over the Internet.
But the DVDs are good for those who want all the packages available in as few discs as possible.
and lazer tag-type attachments that tell the other guy when he's been "shot".
Does the attachment automatically adjust for range? Or is the emphasis of the exercise that the person hit was exposed?
You. Need. Help.
:)
On a more playful note:
In electronics class, my step-father build a neat little box. When it sat on anything, it was fine. You could have it on your hand, and nothing would happen. However, when picked up, it electrified its metal shell, startling anyone who gripped it.
And, of course, you had to get a good grip to pick it up.
They also did things like have an internal-to-the-school radio station by applying the signal to the power system. The transformer connecting the school to the power grid kept the signal from leaking into the grid.
If you think about it, a small charge is merely painful. A larger charge can be lethal.
I can easily see this becoming regulated. With classifications, depending on the charge stored.
Who's morality? Who's "rightness"?
Everyone has their own values, usually more or less derived from their parents and their religion/church. That's one of the important things about Democracy: Majority rule helps uphold the views of as many people as possible.
Certainly, most people will feel themselves limited in one form or another by the law. (Take speed limits, for example.) However, for any given specific matter, under ideal conditions, democracy helps gaurantee that most people will agree with the Law's view.
I won't go so far to say that we live under ideal conditions.
Even if you're just passing the buck, at least the sources of the pollution can be moved away from population centers. That's a major step towards improved help.
Changing the overall energy source to something green doesn't happen immediately. But in the mean time, you can still move pollution generation away from the major cities.
Hydrogen-powered and electric-powered vehicles aid that.