And the musician's real first name is William too. Maybe he should change his.
But I will guarantee you that the journalist's parents were calling him Bill Wyman prior to the musician's adoption of the name Bill Wyman.
There are around 7000 individuals in the United States that share my first and last name (assuming the US census figures on first and last name popularity and my math is correct).
My name was even the character name of a drug dealer in the 80s show Hunter as well as the name of some imperial war machines in Star Wars. It is probably too late now to send them Cease and Desist letters though.
Your girlfriend called. She said she was happy you were so compatible (you even are compatible with her friends. imagine that), she loved your ability to communicate, but that you were too darned fast.
Most of the messages to my bugtraq address concern Nigerians with lots of money that want to send it to me.
I should add it up sometime. I bet I'm getting close to $1 billion dollars that they have offered to deposit in my account. Sure they say I can keep a percentage but really why would I give them any of the money back after it was in my account.
This method has drawbacks also. Recently some spammers have observed that my domain is configured this way and I have received some messages addressed in the form of asdkjfoaifweoi@example.com
It looks like I'll have to switch to a system where I add an alias to my account each time I give out my email address and remove it if it starts getting spammed.
If you download the author's public key today when you install widget 2.3 and tomorrow Tom Blackhat replaces both the author's public key and places a trojaned widget 2.4 you will catch it when you do the upgrade because you got the legitimate key prior to it's replacement. Only new downloaders will be screwed.
Obviously it is still better to place the public key in a secure location separate from the files but there is some use to the key system even if the key is replaced later.
Coming soon: World's Densest Husband: "You look fine dear" "Sure my secretary is prettier but she isn't as bossy as you dear"
World's Densest Politician: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" "but we have pictures" "Oh, well then I didn't like it and I didn't inhale"
World's Densest Waitress: "would you like your usual?" "yes, that sounds good" "OK and what would that be?"
* All jokes and partially humourous phrases remain the property of their original author from now til kingdom come.
Well I am not sure how these statistics will give you relevent info. These crimes were commited by a lot of individuals for a lot of different reasons instead of by an organized effort. Uniform Crime Reports - 2001
Also the crime reports do not specify whether they were shot in the street or inside a house or other structure.
I know a fair number of people that live in trailer parks but I do not know any violent ones although I'm sure there are some.
Perhaps, since statistics show that most murders are the results of arguments we should bomb all the arguers. I dare you to contradict that logic.
Small fee? $5 is not a small fee. (to me anyway). Why should I have to pay to make a payment? Screw them. A payment that arrives a few days after the due date won't hurt anything.
I see what you're saying but I would have to say there is a difference between a pure simulation where there is no human on the other end and this which I would call more of a remote control handshake.
It is absolutely not on the same level with real personal contact but I wouldn't call it worthless either. (Not that you did call it worthless.)
You can talk directly to the sidewalk merchant in person. You can probably go back and find them in the same spot if your Rollex quits working.
I see more value to the existence of the internet beyond just "Its Not Phone". Phone doesn't provide pictures and documentation and reviews.
I don't like the de-personalization of business. If I feel that a company has no soul I will move on. I want a company that tries to treat me like a human being.
There is no excuse for not having live telephone-answering customer service. Imagine if your local bookstore quit answering the phone because they do all their business in the store and none on the phone.
I quit using Amazon.com after I decided I needed to call them and discovered that their "Contact Us" page does not contain a phone number.
I encourage everyone to boycott companies that try to avoid spending money on a very necessary call center. Sprint ($5 if you want to make a credit card payment while talking to a live representative), Amazon.com (I dare you to find a phone number on the 'Contact Us' page), and any others.
I am a very big fan of the GPL and I think it belongs almost everywhere.
However I do agree that publicly funded code should not be GPL. Publicly funded code should be freely usable by GPL and commercial products.
As I see it the GPL represents a commercial type product and having publicly funded code released under the GPL is no more correct than releasing publicly funded code under the MS license.
Personally I haven't released a lot of code yet but as I see it, if I write a great improvement to TCPIP or SMTP or something I feel that BSD style license is appropriate.
If I write a mail server or other application I release it under the GPL because I want that to be the product and not just the base for a new MS or Apple product that I will see no payment for.
Software and business model patents are totally illogical. They are just written works and no more patentable than a Stephen King novel. ("a method of inducing nightmares in children and other humans")
Whoever decided they were patentable was either paid off, didn't understand what software was, or both.
Their loss. It was a terrific movie. When we went the theater was packed and everybody was laughing their heads off. I don't know why the rest of the world didn't pick up it.
All DVD players have circuitry and programming used primarily for the purpose of circumventing a copy protection. How do you think the movie gets copied from the DVD to your video screen?
Ebay and Paypal have merged so they now have an escrow service.
Also. Make sure if you are buying or selling an item you would consider expensive that you make sure the delivery is insured and guaranteed by signature.
You will have a much easier time claiming that a package was or was not delivered and the escrow service can work in your favor much more easily.
Also be aware that ebay/paypal's security department is probably going to be more concerned about a high dollar money laundering scheme than a low dollar shill scheme. Do your part by paying attention to who the other bidders are in your auction and make sure your own bids don't get out of hand. (Sure. That might not help but then again it might.)
I think it is very major. It would go a long way towards enabling the fair use that we should have but is prohibited by the DMCA.
My congressman is up for re-election so this issue is important whether this bill itself or one like it is on the table.
My congressman (Lee Terry, Nebraska) seems to be more of a supporter of artist's rights than consumer rights. This gives me the impression he is not truely representing Nebraska as, from what I gather, we import more entertainment than we export.
Wouldn't it suck if we ended up with computer professionals that shared answers and cheated off each other? Who knows, we might end up with whole groups of people all using each other's code.
As an issue you can feel free to complain about this if you like. As an individual it is important to make yourself more valuable than an unknown foreign quantity.
You have the advantage. You can have face to face access to the potential employer and you can have an easier time communicating with the employer and the other employees due to your speaking the same language and most likely even having the same accent.
If a company is bringing in H1-Bs and making them work 100 hour weeks for $10/hour you do not want to work for them. They will not treat you fairly and they will view you as livestock.
The reason for the widespread voter apathy on this issue is just that they don't realize they're getting screwed. If they catch on things could change.
The reason congress treats copyright law the way they do is so they can get re-elected. Copyright laws aren't even a big issue in nearly all elections so congress can quietly screw the general public (by lengthening copyrights by about 100 years and ensuring that there will be no public domain material for a while) and the entertainment industry will give them free money.
Until the general public catches on and possibly even starts financing candidates who represent us instead of the entertainment industry, people running for congress will continue to take money from the entertainment industry and to be swayed by their arguments without bothering to consider the other side.
(On a side note, I think if a performer can be paid for a recorded performance for the next 100 years that ditch-diggers should earn residual income as long as their ditch is in use. After all, they should get paid for their work.)
God + universe = two entities, universe = 1 entity
So you're saying the universe is God? As in, the universe itself makes all decisions about life, death, toast dropping butter side down or butter side up?
Apparently Occam never had a shot at 2 women. That may be unnecessary multiplication but there's still millions of guys who would go for it.
Occam's razer does not indicate which theory is correct. It only means that for 2 equally likely theories stick with the simpler one. The more complex one may be more correct but if you can't prove it then the fact that one theory is simpler is reason enough to stick with that idea for now.
The thing about these smart people is that they know that everything is one big guess that happens to fit the available evidence. (OK. It is actually a bunch of little guesses mixed with facts and combined into one big guess. and facts are just guesses that most of us agree on.)
Having an open mind means being open to both the idea that everything you know is right and that everything you know is wrong.
Occam's Razor (the theory of takest the simplest explanation over the more complex one) allows science to move forward and ignore some evidence that it doesn't have an explanation for because explaining that evidence involves a more complex theory.
This is a good thing. It allows science to move forward without being mired in minutiae. However it also leaves room for doubt and future breakthroughs. Don't assume the experts are right if you don't think they make any sense.
Take, for example, a blind man mapping a field with a stone elephant in the middle of it. His map will show 4 posts in the field. He could spend a lot of time examining the posts and perhaps discover their true nature as part of the stone elephant but that detracts from his goal of mapping the field. His resulting map is correct and allows him to move on to the next step, whatever that is, but it also leaves room for a future mapper to do more research and show that the 4 posts on his map actually represent a stone elephant.
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And the musician's real first name is William too. Maybe he should change his.
But I will guarantee you that the journalist's parents were calling him Bill Wyman prior to the musician's adoption of the name Bill Wyman.
There are around 7000 individuals in the United States that share my first and last name (assuming the US census figures on first and last name popularity and my math is correct).
My name was even the character name of a drug dealer in the 80s show Hunter as well as the name of some imperial war machines in Star Wars. It is probably too late now to send them Cease and Desist letters though.
Your girlfriend called. She said she was happy you were so compatible (you even are compatible with her friends. imagine that), she loved your ability to communicate, but that you were too darned fast.
And I though "Liberal Arts" were paintings of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Most of the messages to my bugtraq address concern Nigerians with lots of money that want to send it to me.
I should add it up sometime. I bet I'm getting close to $1 billion dollars that they have offered to deposit in my account. Sure they say I can keep a percentage but really why would I give them any of the money back after it was in my account.
This method has drawbacks also. Recently some spammers have observed that my domain is configured this way and I have received some messages addressed in the form of asdkjfoaifweoi@example.com
It looks like I'll have to switch to a system where I add an alias to my account each time I give out my email address and remove it if it starts getting spammed.
In my experience Outlook/OE sends mail in multipart/mixed format with a text and an html portion under that.
My rule that catches html messages based on the content-type header of the email catches only messages that are spam or from certain hotmail users.
You are partially correct.
If you download the author's public key today when you install widget 2.3 and tomorrow Tom Blackhat replaces both the author's public key and places a trojaned widget 2.4 you will catch it when you do the upgrade because you got the legitimate key prior to it's replacement. Only new downloaders will be screwed.
Obviously it is still better to place the public key in a secure location separate from the files but there is some use to the key system even if the key is replaced later.
Coming soon:
World's Densest Husband: "You look fine dear" "Sure my secretary is prettier but she isn't as bossy as you dear"
World's Densest Politician: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" "but we have pictures" "Oh, well then I didn't like it and I didn't inhale"
World's Densest Waitress: "would you like your usual?" "yes, that sounds good" "OK and what would that be?"
* All jokes and partially humourous phrases remain the property of their original author from now til kingdom come.
Well I am not sure how these statistics will give you relevent info. These crimes were commited by a lot of individuals for a lot of different reasons instead of by an organized effort. Uniform Crime Reports - 2001
Also the crime reports do not specify whether they were shot in the street or inside a house or other structure.
I know a fair number of people that live in trailer parks but I do not know any violent ones although I'm sure there are some.
Perhaps, since statistics show that most murders are the results of arguments we should bomb all the arguers. I dare you to contradict that logic.
Small fee? $5 is not a small fee. (to me anyway). Why should I have to pay to make a payment? Screw them. A payment that arrives a few days after the due date won't hurt anything.
And your right about the contractions thing.
I see what you're saying but I would have to say there is a difference between a pure simulation where there is no human on the other end and this which I would call more of a remote control handshake.
It is absolutely not on the same level with real personal contact but I wouldn't call it worthless either. (Not that you did call it worthless.)
You can talk directly to the sidewalk merchant in person. You can probably go back and find them in the same spot if your Rollex quits working.
I see more value to the existence of the internet beyond just "Its Not Phone". Phone doesn't provide pictures and documentation and reviews.
I don't like the de-personalization of business. If I feel that a company has no soul I will move on. I want a company that tries to treat me like a human being.
There is no excuse for not having live telephone-answering customer service. Imagine if your local bookstore quit answering the phone because they do all their business in the store and none on the phone.
I quit using Amazon.com after I decided I needed to call them and discovered that their "Contact Us" page does not contain a phone number.
I encourage everyone to boycott companies that try to avoid spending money on a very necessary call center. Sprint ($5 if you want to make a credit card payment while talking to a live representative), Amazon.com (I dare you to find a phone number on the 'Contact Us' page), and any others.
I am a very big fan of the GPL and I think it belongs almost everywhere.
However I do agree that publicly funded code should not be GPL. Publicly funded code should be freely usable by GPL and commercial products.
As I see it the GPL represents a commercial type product and having publicly funded code released under the GPL is no more correct than releasing publicly funded code under the MS license.
Personally I haven't released a lot of code yet but as I see it, if I write a great improvement to TCPIP or SMTP or something I feel that BSD style license is appropriate.
If I write a mail server or other application I release it under the GPL because I want that to be the product and not just the base for a new MS or Apple product that I will see no payment for.
Software and business model patents are totally illogical. They are just written works and no more patentable than a Stephen King novel. ("a method of inducing nightmares in children and other humans")
Whoever decided they were patentable was either paid off, didn't understand what software was, or both.
Their loss. It was a terrific movie. When we went the theater was packed and everybody was laughing their heads off. I don't know why the rest of the world didn't pick up it.
All DVD players have circuitry and programming used primarily for the purpose of circumventing a copy protection. How do you think the movie gets copied from the DVD to your video screen?
Ebay and Paypal have merged so they now have an escrow service.
Also. Make sure if you are buying or selling an item you would consider expensive that you make sure the delivery is insured and guaranteed by signature.
You will have a much easier time claiming that a package was or was not delivered and the escrow service can work in your favor much more easily.
Also be aware that ebay/paypal's security department is probably going to be more concerned about a high dollar money laundering scheme than a low dollar shill scheme. Do your part by paying attention to who the other bidders are in your auction and make sure your own bids don't get out of hand. (Sure. That might not help but then again it might.)
I think it is very major. It would go a long way towards enabling the fair use that we should have but is prohibited by the DMCA.
My congressman is up for re-election so this issue is important whether this bill itself or one like it is on the table.
My congressman (Lee Terry, Nebraska) seems to be more of a supporter of artist's rights than consumer rights. This gives me the impression he is not truely representing Nebraska as, from what I gather, we import more entertainment than we export.
Wouldn't it suck if we ended up with computer professionals that shared answers and cheated off each other? Who knows, we might end up with whole groups of people all using each other's code.
As an issue you can feel free to complain about this if you like. As an individual it is important to make yourself more valuable than an unknown foreign quantity.
You have the advantage. You can have face to face access to the potential employer and you can have an easier time communicating with the employer and the other employees due to your speaking the same language and most likely even having the same accent.
If a company is bringing in H1-Bs and making them work 100 hour weeks for $10/hour you do not want to work for them. They will not treat you fairly and they will view you as livestock.
The problem with this is that it flunks if you need to add 2 parameters which vary instead of just one. Your data structure becomes more complicated.
TCL Code:
foreach item {{1 1} {2 2} {8 8} {13 2} {19 27}} { foo_bar_yukims_glock [lindex $item 0] [lindex $item 1]}
I would assume a similar syntax is acceptable in some other languages
The reason for the widespread voter apathy on this issue is just that they don't realize they're getting screwed. If they catch on things could change.
The reason congress treats copyright law the way they do is so they can get re-elected. Copyright laws aren't even a big issue in nearly all elections so congress can quietly screw the general public (by lengthening copyrights by about 100 years and ensuring that there will be no public domain material for a while) and the entertainment industry will give them free money.
Until the general public catches on and possibly even starts financing candidates who represent us instead of the entertainment industry, people running for congress will continue to take money from the entertainment industry and to be swayed by their arguments without bothering to consider the other side.
(On a side note, I think if a performer can be paid for a recorded performance for the next 100 years that ditch-diggers should earn residual income as long as their ditch is in use. After all, they should get paid for their work.)
God + universe = two entities, universe = 1 entity
So you're saying the universe is God? As in, the universe itself makes all decisions about life, death, toast dropping butter side down or butter side up?
Apparently Occam never had a shot at 2 women. That may be unnecessary multiplication but there's still millions of guys who would go for it.
Occam's razer does not indicate which theory is correct. It only means that for 2 equally likely theories stick with the simpler one. The more complex one may be more correct but if you can't prove it then the fact that one theory is simpler is reason enough to stick with that idea for now.
The thing about these smart people is that they know that everything is one big guess that happens to fit the available evidence. (OK. It is actually a bunch of little guesses mixed with facts and combined into one big guess. and facts are just guesses that most of us agree on.)
Having an open mind means being open to both the idea that everything you know is right and that everything you know is wrong.
Occam's Razor (the theory of takest the simplest explanation over the more complex one) allows science to move forward and ignore some evidence that it doesn't have an explanation for because explaining that evidence involves a more complex theory.
This is a good thing. It allows science to move forward without being mired in minutiae. However it also leaves room for doubt and future breakthroughs. Don't assume the experts are right if you don't think they make any sense.
Take, for example, a blind man mapping a field with a stone elephant in the middle of it. His map will show 4 posts in the field. He could spend a lot of time examining the posts and perhaps discover their true nature as part of the stone elephant but that detracts from his goal of mapping the field. His resulting map is correct and allows him to move on to the next step, whatever that is, but it also leaves room for a future mapper to do more research and show that the 4 posts on his map actually represent a stone elephant.