Individuals lobbying congress will never acheive anything. You need a political group (EFF anyone?) that has political clout in numbers and can play the politics game on that level.
But what political group would spend its effort to ask for lower sentences for "pirates"? They risk having all their other aims tarred with the brush of "the same group that supports Open Source supports piracy" -- playing right into Balmer's hands. And most of the technical lobby groups are dominated by the CEOs, not the grass roots. They're exactly the ones pushing to make copying software equivalent to dealing crack.
Why would this be a non-profit company? This seems like it would be the first instance of asteroid mining.
Because the whole "slice it up and send it back to earth" is something the submitter made up. There's nothing about that on the foundations's site. Their aim is to so "significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid in a controlled manner by 2015" as a proof of concept for defence against colliding asteroids. That's all. No doubt they've thought about minig, but it makes sense in early stages (decades probably) to be a non-profit which allows them to get support from scientific bodies and such who could not do that for a commercial concern.
I'm curious as to why this bullshit was posted, since NOWHERE ON THEIR SITE does the foundation mention this. I think the submitter just made it up to get a catchy tag line.
think the biggest threat when moving an asteroid is not a conscious effort to destroy earth*, but an idiotic screw-up....which destroys earth*.
If they're using the method I saw on a documentary about this group, it's mounting a low thrust rocket (ion jet I think) on the asteroid and slowly deflecting the orbit. So continuous tracking and plenty of time (years) to change course, unlike the Hollywood option of planting nukes in boreholes and detonating them with 2 seconds to spare.
it may take as little as 20 to 200 people for that domain to be blacklisted.
Which is fucking overkill when the ISP being blocked has hundreds of thousands of subscribers, all of whom are blocked because of the putative actions of perhaps just one subscriber, months or years ago. And when I use webmail to get through to the few AOL.com or Netscape.com (same owners and policies), they certainly know nothng about this, and have no way to whitelist my messages. In the bounce message I'm directed to an AOL page that HAS NO INFORMATION about why my ISP has been blacklisted and certainly no mention of how to get off the blacklist.
I always type, and especially SAY "viola" because it sounds funnier. Using the wrong word also enhances the realization that the transformation implied is a false one...
Most people don't notice, those that do just think you're illiterate. You might think that people are laughing with you when you put underpants on your head at a party, but actually they're laughing at you.
Attack Bots that specifically target Indian Router IP Addresses.
Mod this "idiotic".
If you tried this, first you'd be prosecuted, because you'd be interfering with huge American companies. But before that the Indian companies would have leased a few lines to plug them directly into the US backbone, with US IPs. All you'd do is get labelled as terrorists.
I disagree. Spam already is illegal, at both the Federal and many state levels, but that means nothing if the rest of the world doesn't take similar steps. And it isn't. Spam is not a US-only problem:
It "means nothing" because the US isn't vigorously enforcing these laws.
How many spammers has the US sent to jail? Can you name one? Recently there have been a few highly hyped cases when spammers were convicted; on reading the details one finds most were John Does who never appeared in court and no one even knows who they are, let alone how to enforce the penalties. Companies that were recently given billion-dollar fines will just quietly declare bankruptcy and the owners probably have a dozen other companies to take up the slack.
In other situations, such as China, perpetuation of the gov't is more important, obviously, than protecting dissident speech.
That assumes that
"dissident speech" can be stopped
that "dissident speech" is harmful to the government
Apparently, the Beijing government, like yourself, seems to believe these are both self-apparent. However, since the advent of the fax machine and mobile phone, let alone the Internet, all governments have faced an increasingly impossible task in preventing the spread of unsanctioned information/news/propaganda. So when they do try to clamp down, as last year when local authorities tried to cover up SARS, the news quickly gets out and the rumours are much worse than allowing news to be reported as usual.
And when dissatisfaction arises, giving it an outlet allows people to demonstrate to the government their dissatisfaction (as currently in Hong Kong), where simply repressing it and pretending all is well leads to situations like North Korea today.
The quake was centered in Summara, an island in Indonesia. I bet that they got the brunt of this thing...
What's more, I hope that we in the first world waste no time getting aid over there. A lot of those countries lack the resources to deal with a tragedy on this scale.
Problem is Northern Sumatra is having a lot of political unrest. It's basically been occupied by the army for decades, who have a good line in repression. (You may have heard what they did to East Timor a few years ago before they achieved independence.) Jakarta is unlikely to allow any foreign aid groups access, though they'll probably solicit money, food etc., and promise to deliver it themselves.
From what I've heard on the news, many coastal villages, especially those built on stilt houses over the water, have been erased completely. There will never be an accurate death toll.
And many of american spammers have noticed this and started to use APNIC-area ISPs services for spamming.
Actually, no. Most spam is, according to what I've read recently, sent from zombie PCs, in the US mostly. China does come up as a home for the websites processing sales to those idiots who respond to spam.
And "APNIC" is an absurdly large area of the world -- including notably Asutralia and New Zealand. I wouldn't mind so much if people actually blacklisted the ISPs who do have something to do with spam, not just everyone on the same continent.
What the fuck was that editorialil comment supposed to mean anyway?
Every time spam comes up as a topic here we get dozens of xenophobic rednecks proudly explaining that since they've "blocked all APNIC" they "don't get any spam, and who cares about communicating with them anyway". Even in the face of data like this, I'm sure they'll continue to lecture the rest of the world on how thay have to shut down "their" spammers or be cut off.
Personally, living in Hong Kong, about 1% of my spam is local, 2-5% Nigerian, the rest American.
I've never seen it, not available here on TV. But now I could get it on DVD, is it really worth watching? My criterion would be "better than STTNG", which I found silly and pointless. I actually do care about acting, plot, and at least some nod to science amongst the hand-waving, and action is nice if it advances the plot.
JMS paid a fine to the Screen Writer's Guild every year because he wrote every episode of B5 himself to keep it consistant.
He didn't write every episode. In the first season, for instance, he wrote 12 of 22 episodes. See eg Babylon 5 logbook or any number of other fan sites.
5 did not refer to the length of the series, no more than 24 does. B5 was the fifth station.
Of course, JMS had his 5-year arc planned out befoer he started shooting. The 5 refers to the space station, the 5th of its type. But "24" does refer directly to the number of episodes -- 24/season, that's the whole gimmick, "24 hours real time = 24 hours screen time" (less commercials, for quibblers).
I know Americans are fond of verbing nouns, but adjectiving them unnecessarily is almost as painful.
Either "Martian Volcanoes May Still Erupt" or "Mars' Volcanoes May Still Erupt" would be correct. I know that similar practices are accepted when the normal adjective is inappropriate for some reason (thus the "England football team" rather than "English..."), but I can't see any reason to do so here.
>I should really check for typo's before I post
Nah, just get the SpellBound extension for Firefox 1.0 and then you can right click in any textarea/inputbox and select "Check Spelling". Nice and easy ; P
His typo was "our" for "your", so spellcheck would not have helped.
Wouldn't it be great if the "editors" of this site bothered to spellcheck the articles they post?
(With my next system upgrade I'll give Firefox a try and hopefully make fewer dumb typos myself...)
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But what political group would spend its effort to ask for lower sentences for "pirates"? They risk having all their other aims tarred with the brush of "the same group that supports Open Source supports piracy" -- playing right into Balmer's hands. And most of the technical lobby groups are dominated by the CEOs, not the grass roots. They're exactly the ones pushing to make copying software equivalent to dealing crack.
No, just looks like a complete nutcase, according to [the archive of]his website
PS -- the quoted text ("The NEA that we will choose..."); what's the URL? I can't find that on the site.
What a card.
No one is planning on blowing up the asteroid. RTFA. Pushing it gently is the idea.
(How the fuck did this get modded "insightful"?)
Because the whole "slice it up and send it back to earth" is something the submitter made up. There's nothing about that on the foundations's site. Their aim is to so "significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid in a controlled manner by 2015" as a proof of concept for defence against colliding asteroids. That's all. No doubt they've thought about minig, but it makes sense in early stages (decades probably) to be a non-profit which allows them to get support from scientific bodies and such who could not do that for a commercial concern.
I'm curious as to why this bullshit was posted, since NOWHERE ON THEIR SITE does the foundation mention this. I think the submitter just made it up to get a catchy tag line.
If they're using the method I saw on a documentary about this group, it's mounting a low thrust rocket (ion jet I think) on the asteroid and slowly deflecting the orbit. So continuous tracking and plenty of time (years) to change course, unlike the Hollywood option of planting nukes in boreholes and detonating them with 2 seconds to spare.
Which is fucking overkill when the ISP being blocked has hundreds of thousands of subscribers, all of whom are blocked because of the putative actions of perhaps just one subscriber, months or years ago. And when I use webmail to get through to the few AOL.com or Netscape.com (same owners and policies), they certainly know nothng about this, and have no way to whitelist my messages. In the bounce message I'm directed to an AOL page that HAS NO INFORMATION about why my ISP has been blacklisted and certainly no mention of how to get off the blacklist.
Most people don't notice, those that do just think you're illiterate. You might think that people are laughing with you when you put underpants on your head at a party, but actually they're laughing at you.
Mod this "idiotic".
If you tried this, first you'd be prosecuted, because you'd be interfering with huge American companies. But before that the Indian companies would have leased a few lines to plug them directly into the US backbone, with US IPs. All you'd do is get labelled as terrorists.
It "means nothing" because the US isn't vigorously enforcing these laws.
How many spammers has the US sent to jail? Can you name one? Recently there have been a few highly hyped cases when spammers were convicted; on reading the details one finds most were John Does who never appeared in court and no one even knows who they are, let alone how to enforce the penalties. Companies that were recently given billion-dollar fines will just quietly declare bankruptcy and the owners probably have a dozen other companies to take up the slack.
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."
"Hit it."
That assumes that
- "dissident speech" can be stopped
- that "dissident speech" is harmful to the government
Apparently, the Beijing government, like yourself, seems to believe these are both self-apparent. However, since the advent of the fax machine and mobile phone, let alone the Internet, all governments have faced an increasingly impossible task in preventing the spread of unsanctioned information/news/propaganda. So when they do try to clamp down, as last year when local authorities tried to cover up SARS, the news quickly gets out and the rumours are much worse than allowing news to be reported as usual.And when dissatisfaction arises, giving it an outlet allows people to demonstrate to the government their dissatisfaction (as currently in Hong Kong), where simply repressing it and pretending all is well leads to situations like North Korea today.
I use SwItime, a tiny 85kb app (c.f. Nettime, 2 Mb.) I have it scheduled to run two minutes after I go online, set and forget.
Because neither is free. He does have 7-zip, which is, and does both RAR and Zip.
Actually, Ko Phangan is off the EAST coast; the tsunami hit the WEST coast.
Problem is Northern Sumatra is having a lot of political unrest. It's basically been occupied by the army for decades, who have a good line in repression. (You may have heard what they did to East Timor a few years ago before they achieved independence.) Jakarta is unlikely to allow any foreign aid groups access, though they'll probably solicit money, food etc., and promise to deliver it themselves.
From what I've heard on the news, many coastal villages, especially those built on stilt houses over the water, have been erased completely. There will never be an accurate death toll.
Actually, no. Most spam is, according to what I've read recently, sent from zombie PCs, in the US mostly. China does come up as a home for the websites processing sales to those idiots who respond to spam.
And "APNIC" is an absurdly large area of the world -- including notably Asutralia and New Zealand. I wouldn't mind so much if people actually blacklisted the ISPs who do have something to do with spam, not just everyone on the same continent.
What the fuck was that editorialil comment supposed to mean anyway?
Every time spam comes up as a topic here we get dozens of xenophobic rednecks proudly explaining that since they've "blocked all APNIC" they "don't get any spam, and who cares about communicating with them anyway". Even in the face of data like this, I'm sure they'll continue to lecture the rest of the world on how thay have to shut down "their" spammers or be cut off.
Personally, living in Hong Kong, about 1% of my spam is local, 2-5% Nigerian, the rest American.
Wasn't that Freud's Law?
I've never seen it, not available here on TV. But now I could get it on DVD, is it really worth watching? My criterion would be "better than STTNG", which I found silly and pointless. I actually do care about acting, plot, and at least some nod to science amongst the hand-waving, and action is nice if it advances the plot.
He didn't write every episode. In the first season, for instance, he wrote 12 of 22 episodes. See eg Babylon 5 logbook or any number of other fan sites.
Of course, JMS had his 5-year arc planned out befoer he started shooting. The 5 refers to the space station, the 5th of its type. But "24" does refer directly to the number of episodes -- 24/season, that's the whole gimmick, "24 hours real time = 24 hours screen time" (less commercials, for quibblers).
I know Americans are fond of verbing nouns, but adjectiving them unnecessarily is almost as painful.
Either "Martian Volcanoes May Still Erupt" or "Mars' Volcanoes May Still Erupt" would be correct. I know that similar practices are accepted when the normal adjective is inappropriate for some reason (thus the "England football team" rather than "English..."), but I can't see any reason to do so here.
Nah, just get the SpellBound extension for Firefox 1.0 and then you can right click in any textarea/inputbox and select "Check Spelling". Nice and easy ; P
His typo was "our" for "your", so spellcheck would not have helped.
Wouldn't it be great if the "editors" of this site bothered to spellcheck the articles they post?
(With my next system upgrade I'll give Firefox a try and hopefully make fewer dumb typos myself...)