Jeez! And I thought the jpeg spec employed lossy algorithms as opposed to lossless.
With that out of the way, let me go back to my modified height balanced AVL tree. I have added a middle node queue structure that is sorted inorder.
I am under the impression that if Hotmail were running clusters of Exchange servers Microsoft would be quite vocal in the enterprise scalability of Exchange.
Ever hear of Sybase ASE? This is where Microsoft SQL Server originated from. Actually, back then, Sybase's database was known as SQL Server.:-P
Although their versions of Transact SQL have forked (slightly), Sybase and Microsoft T-SQL is still roughly 98% compatible.
If your download FreeTDS from http://www.freetds.org/ and use that instead of the Microsft or Sybase libraries and download unixODBC you will be able to develop apps that'll run on most of the *nixes or Windows. And you can switch your DBMS from Sybase to Microsoft (and vice versa) with very little effort.
Anyhoo, FreeBSD does have a port of Sybase ASE 11.0.xxx which Sybase allows you to work with and last I heard, there were no licensing fees.
"When I moved from rural Pennsylvania to the metro NY area, both my grocery and cable bills jumped 25%..."
3 words for you: Learn To Shop
I live in Los Angeles. I discovered a grocery store called Top Valu Markets (not a typo, they really do spell "Value" as "Valu"). Their regular prices on meats, poultry, eggs, dairy products, fruits and vegetables average about 50% less than major supermarkets in the area.
Really? Even though the ocean temperature is rising?"
Apparently, you failed to read and/or comprehend all of the parent posts about ice displacement.
Another example that might help you out, take a glass of saline water at 50 degrees farenheit. Crank the temperature up to 80 degrees farenheit. Has the water level risen? Perhaps microscopically but it won't be noticeable to the human eye.
Do try and keep up with the times, Superman. You must still be using DOS 2.0
"Remember the Anarchist Cookbook CD-ROM has the Al Quaeda Training Manual as well as 26 different cookbooks from a variety of sources as well as specific directories on Drugs and the BOOMB collection. In addition it has a number of Military manuals of the Navy Seals and Special Operation Forces. See the Anarchy CD-ROM section for full details. "
[Index to the Anarchist Cookbook IV, ver. 4.14]
COOKBOOK.IV: Intro by Exodus
003: Making Plastic Explosives from Bleach, 007: Solidox Bombs, 010: Thermite Bombs (NEW Rivision, 4.14) 021: Napalm, 022: Fertilizer Bomb, 029: Under water igniters 031: Chemical Equivalency List, 033: Landmines, 046: Calcium Carbide Bomb 060: Portable Grenade Launcher, 061: Basic Hacking Tutorial I, 062: Basic Hacking Tutorial II 068: Jackpotting ATM Machines, 071: Mace Substitute, 076: The Myth of the 2600hz Detector 078: Napalm II, 079: Nitroglycerin Recipe, 084: Unstable Explosives 093: Phreaker's Guide to Loop Lines, 099: The Phreak File 108: Verification Circuits, 112: Cellular Phone Phreaking, 121: "Phreaker's Phunhouse" 122: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 27 (Intro to MIDNET), 123: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 27 (The Making of a Hacker) 124: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 28 (Network Miscellany), 125: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 28 (Pearl Box Schematic) 126: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 28 (Snarfing Remote Files) 127: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 30 (Western Union, Telex, 128: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 30 (Hacking & Tymnet), 129: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 30 (The DECWRL Mail Gateway) 131: Mercury Fulminate, 133: Nitric Acid, 135: Carbon-Tet Explosive 137: Reclamation of RDX from C-4 Explosives, 155: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 1, Issue 1 (The Phone Preak's Fry-Um Guide) 164: "Red or White Powder" Propellant, 166: European Credit Card Fraud (Written by Creditman! 170: Down The Road Missle, 177: Ripping off change machines 2 178: Lockpicking the EASY way, 179: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Prelude 180: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Vol. 1, 181: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Vol. 2 182: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Vol. 3, 183: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Vol. 4 184: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Vol. 5, 185: Explosives and Propellants 187: Chemical Equivalent List 2, 188: Nitroglycerin 2 189: Cellulose Nitrate, 190: Starter Explosives 193: Revised Pipe Bombs 4.14, 195: Ammonium TriIodide 196: Sulfuric Acid / Ammonium Nitrate III, 197: Black Powder 3 198: Nitrocellulose, 199: R.D.X. (Revised 4.14) 202: Picric Acid 2, 203: Bottled Explosives 205: Fuses / Ignitors / Delays, 208: Phone Bombs 209: Special Ammunition, 210: Rocketry, 211: Pipe Cannon 2 212: Smoke Bombs 4.14, 217: LockPicking 4 219: -* THERMITE 4 *- -- The BEST rev. to 4.14
Can a judge issue an order allowing the takedown of foreign sites via hack or DDOS if they are deemed harmful to national security? Can such an order be sealed and kept from the public?
All MI-5/MI-6 has to do is contact the ISP hosting the site. Or MI-5/MI-6 can contact the foreign gov't where the site is hosted and that gov't can tell the ISP to yank the site. Hacking or DDOS is not necessary. Afterall, ISPs are in the business of staying in business.
On another note, the best terrorist training manual is the American written "The Anarchist Cookbook".
...The server is a single Pentium Xeon 3Ghz with 1 GB of RAM...
What a bunch of asshats!
My web server is a mere Pentium III Xeon dual 700mhz but I have 4 gigs of RAM. That's right! 4 gigs of sweet, beautiful, delicious, delectible RAM. Even my home computer has more RAM than Drupal's "server".
Because neither Microsoft.NET (their "Java") or Java are going to go away. Both will be around for a long time, and both are going to have to integrate.
Sockets? Did you say sockets? I write most of my stuff in c (sometimes c++). So I guess I shouldn't be commenting on Java/.NET
I've been burning DVD+-R's (4.7gb) and when I run the "verify data" option to confirm a good burn, the defective rate on my DVDs is about 1 in 5. I've had situations where the DVD burns and verifies perfectly in the burner but I cannot get it to read in another DVD reader.
Then there is the question of DVD rot. A DVD is a sandwich of two plastic layers. There is the possibility that the cement that binds these layers can become unglued.
For routine DVDs, I find myself burning 2 copies to be safe. For important DVDs I burn 3 copies (and use media from different manufacturers).
My primary DVD burner is a dual layer burner but I do not trust DVD media enough to burn dual layer discs. These 3 and 4 layer discs leave me wary of their long term reliability.
It's very clear (page 36 of 40) in their report that W2K3 was heavily tweaked (with obvious help from Microsoft) while the RedHat/Apache config was almost vanilla. Most Microsoft admins probably wouldn't even try editing the registry on a production machine since doing so may very well void any service contract they have with Microsoft.
It's also clear on page 5 of the report that on cgi performance the difference between M$ and RH is very minor, almost negligible. The 300% difference is the worst case scenario on static content. Last time I checked, PHP and perl on Apache were quite popular, and I've seen JSP running on quite a few high volume commercial news/media sites. Pure static content on Apache is more the exception than the rule.
From the webbench.pdf, page 36:
Web server performance testing under Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition consisted of making the following registry modifications to the server systems under test:
Set HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\InetInfo\Pa rameters\MaxCachedFileSize to 1048576 bytes. Set HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP\Parame ters\UriMaxUriBytes to 1048576 bytes. Set HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\N tfsDisableLastAccess to 1. Set HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip\Param eters\MaxHashTableSize to 65535.
We made the following changes to the default configuration of Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0 for use with testing that involved non-secure static and CGI-based content:
Set the CentralBinaryLoggingEnabled option to "TRUE" in the IIS Metabase.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, removed script and execute access from the document root directory that contained only static content.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, disabled the "Index This Resource" property for the main Web server.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, disabled access logging for the web server. Created a virtual directory called "cgi-bin" to store the WebBench ISAPI and CGI based dynamic content for all tests.
Set the Application Protection property to "Low (IIS Process)" for the "cgi-bin" virtual directory.
We made the following changes to the default configuration of Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0 for use with all tests:
Set the CentralBinaryLoggingEnabled option to "TRUE" in the IIS Metabase.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, removed script and execute access from the document root directory that contained only static content.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, disabled the "Index This Resource" property for the main Web server.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, disabled access logging for the web server.
Created a virtual directory called "cgi-bin" to store the WebBench ISAPI and CGI based dynamic content for all tests.
Set the Application Protection property to "Low (IIS Process)" for the "cgi-bin" virtual directory.
Using IIS 6.0, created a certificate request using a 1024-bit key. Submitted this certificate request to a system configured with Windows Server 2003 Certificate Services and generated a digital certificate. Installed the resulting certificate into IIS 6.0 for use with SSL/CGI-based testing.
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 ships with version 1.3.23 of the Apache Web server. As a result of our investigation, we made the following changes to the default Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Apache Web server configuration when testing the performance of the Apache Web server using only non-secure static data:
Enabled the mmap_static_module in the Apache configuration file httpd.conf. This allowed us to directly map the static content used by WebBench directly into system memory.
Set MaxRequestsPerChild to zero in the httpd.conf file
Set the document root directory to point to a directory on a fast RAID 0 volume.
Disabled Access Logging
Cut and pasted the URL's for over 6000 static WebB
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Sorry dude, but that is the c style of writing code on unix/linux systems.
Perl has always been a write only language that is only readable by the author. I've lost track of the number of modules on cpan.org that are stuck at version y.xx and have not been updated in a long time and only work with versions of Perl *OLDER* than 5.3 because no one is able to correct the module to work with perl v5.3+
"...but the momentum behind C# and.NET is just massive..."
Interesting point but not quite on the spot. Most of the C# programmers are Visual Basic converts..NET at the most basic level is nothing more than a wrapper around the Win32, ADO and numerous other API's and SDK's Microsoft has released over the years..NET could have easily been named Win32++ or Win32v2.
*AND* most importantly, BMI fails to take ino consideration: muscle mass.
A healthy trim male can do a significant amount of weight lifting, have 10% body fat and be considered obese via the BMI index because of all the muscle mass created by weight lifting.
A mumu wearing couch potato can have 50% body fat, be two twinkies away from a massive heart attack and have the same BMI as the healthy person.
This bill clearly targets P2P sharing (this can include bittorrent with a little legal manevering). Usenet is off the hook.
"The bill, approved by Congress on Tuesday, is written so broadly it could make a federal felon of anyone who has even one copy of a film, software program or music file in a shared folder and should have known the copyrighted work had not been commercially released."
Since torrents involve sharing a single file, it does not take a leap of faith to connect bittorrent sharers to this law. Usenet, on the other hand, resembles a pop3 mail service. Newgroup fanatics will continue to post and make available whatever they wish. Especially if they are using an anonymous NNTP provider. Bittorrent users are not so lucky. As the creator of bittorrent said in a recent interview, torrent users are not anonymous.
Why bother with Namecheap? Get a Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail account and use that for your domain registration contact.
As far as your real physical address is concerned, having that info public means virtually nothing. I get very little to zero snail mail that can be traced to someone doing a WHOIS lookup. Most of my snail mail spam comes from my membership to the local Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce provides mailing labels of its membership for a nominal fee.
"Apple's...flashy new features, programmer optimizations, and cosmetic improvements that all could have been added to older releases but are saved and introduced as the spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. Their marketing actually makes many people eager to pay for a set of major changes and incompatabilities each year...Microsoft's attempts to do this with Windows don't work nearly as well."
You are clearly a MacTARD. Everything you wrote about Apple is equally applicable to Microsoft.
A *HUGE* number of current Windows programs require Win98SE or newer. Many current Windows programs will *NOT* work on Win9x. They require Win2K or newer. There are a small number of WinXP only apps out there -- Adobe Premiere 7.0.
I am sure there are many Windoze users out there who remember going through the Win3.X to Win95 transition. Anyone who wrote a tcp/ip socket program knows what a nightmare getting it to run on Win3.X was compared to Win9x.
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...And pretty soon, this entire topic will be filled with comments by /.'ers accusing BitTorrent of "selling-out" or going "corporate".
Jeez! And I thought the jpeg spec employed lossy algorithms as opposed to lossless. With that out of the way, let me go back to my modified height balanced AVL tree. I have added a middle node queue structure that is sorted inorder.
What does Hotmail run these days?
I am under the impression that if Hotmail were running clusters of Exchange servers Microsoft would be quite vocal in the enterprise scalability of Exchange.
Ever hear of Sybase ASE? This is where Microsoft SQL Server originated from. Actually, back then, Sybase's database was known as SQL Server. :-P
Although their versions of Transact SQL have forked (slightly), Sybase and Microsoft T-SQL is still roughly 98% compatible.
If your download FreeTDS from http://www.freetds.org/ and use that instead of the Microsft or Sybase libraries and download unixODBC you will be able to develop apps that'll run on most of the *nixes or Windows. And you can switch your DBMS from Sybase to Microsoft (and vice versa) with very little effort.
Anyhoo, FreeBSD does have a port of Sybase ASE 11.0.xxx which Sybase allows you to work with and last I heard, there were no licensing fees.
"When I moved from rural Pennsylvania to the metro NY area, both my grocery and cable bills jumped 25%..."
3 words for you: Learn To Shop
I live in Los Angeles. I discovered a grocery store called Top Valu Markets (not a typo, they really do spell "Value" as "Valu"). Their regular prices on meats, poultry, eggs, dairy products, fruits and vegetables average about 50% less than major supermarkets in the area.
"Sea levels would stay the same.
Really? Even though the ocean temperature is rising?"
Apparently, you failed to read and/or comprehend all of the parent posts about ice displacement.
Another example that might help you out, take a glass of saline water at 50 degrees farenheit. Crank the temperature up to 80 degrees farenheit. Has the water level risen? Perhaps microscopically but it won't be noticeable to the human eye.
Do try and keep up with the times, Superman. You must still be using DOS 2.0
"Remember the Anarchist Cookbook CD-ROM has the Al Quaeda Training Manual as well as 26 different cookbooks from a variety of sources as well as specific directories on Drugs and the BOOMB collection. In addition it has a number of Military manuals of the Navy Seals and Special Operation Forces. See the Anarchy CD-ROM section for full details. "
[Index to the Anarchist Cookbook IV, ver. 4.14]
COOKBOOK.IV: Intro by Exodus
003: Making Plastic Explosives from Bleach, 007: Solidox Bombs, 010: Thermite Bombs (NEW Rivision, 4.14)
021: Napalm, 022: Fertilizer Bomb, 029: Under water igniters
031: Chemical Equivalency List, 033: Landmines, 046: Calcium Carbide Bomb
060: Portable Grenade Launcher, 061: Basic Hacking Tutorial I, 062: Basic Hacking Tutorial II
068: Jackpotting ATM Machines, 071: Mace Substitute, 076: The Myth of the 2600hz Detector
078: Napalm II, 079: Nitroglycerin Recipe, 084: Unstable Explosives
093: Phreaker's Guide to Loop Lines, 099: The Phreak File
108: Verification Circuits, 112: Cellular Phone Phreaking, 121: "Phreaker's Phunhouse"
122: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 27 (Intro to MIDNET), 123: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 27 (The Making of a Hacker)
124: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 28 (Network Miscellany), 125: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 28 (Pearl Box Schematic)
126: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 28 (Snarfing Remote Files)
127: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 30 (Western Union, Telex,
128: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 30 (Hacking & Tymnet), 129: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 3, Issue 30 (The DECWRL Mail Gateway)
131: Mercury Fulminate, 133: Nitric Acid, 135: Carbon-Tet Explosive
137: Reclamation of RDX from C-4 Explosives, 155: Phrack Magazine - Vol. 1, Issue 1 (The Phone Preak's Fry-Um Guide)
164: "Red or White Powder" Propellant, 166: European Credit Card Fraud (Written by Creditman!
170: Down The Road Missle, 177: Ripping off change machines 2
178: Lockpicking the EASY way, 179: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Prelude
180: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Vol. 1, 181: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Vol. 2
182: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Vol. 3, 183: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Vol. 4
184: Anarchy 'N' Explosives Vol. 5, 185: Explosives and Propellants
187: Chemical Equivalent List 2, 188: Nitroglycerin 2
189: Cellulose Nitrate, 190: Starter Explosives
193: Revised Pipe Bombs 4.14, 195: Ammonium TriIodide
196: Sulfuric Acid / Ammonium Nitrate III, 197: Black Powder 3
198: Nitrocellulose, 199: R.D.X. (Revised 4.14)
202: Picric Acid 2, 203: Bottled Explosives
205: Fuses / Ignitors / Delays, 208: Phone Bombs
209: Special Ammunition, 210: Rocketry, 211: Pipe Cannon 2
212: Smoke Bombs 4.14, 217: LockPicking 4
219: -* THERMITE 4 *- -- The BEST rev. to 4.14
Can a judge issue an order allowing the takedown of foreign sites via hack or DDOS if they are deemed harmful to national security? Can such an order be sealed and kept from the public?
All MI-5/MI-6 has to do is contact the ISP hosting the site. Or MI-5/MI-6 can contact the foreign gov't where the site is hosted and that gov't can tell the ISP to yank the site. Hacking or DDOS is not necessary. Afterall, ISPs are in the business of staying in business.
On another note, the best terrorist training manual is the American written "The Anarchist Cookbook".
Plus if you are using an anonymous proxy server, M$ has no way of back tracing to your real IP address anyways.
I bought OS/2 Warp.
Never could get it to run on my machine though.
The keyboard driver would cause the thing to lock up.
IBM eventually came out with a replacement keyboard driver but by then Windoze 95 was out and the nail was in OS/2's perverbial coffin.
Now, if IBM had shipped an OS without a buggy keyboard driver that would lock up the entire computer, well....
What a bunch of asshats!
My web server is a mere Pentium III Xeon dual 700mhz but I have 4 gigs of RAM. That's right! 4 gigs of sweet, beautiful, delicious, delectible RAM. Even my home computer has more RAM than Drupal's "server".
Because neither Microsoft .NET (their "Java") or Java are going to go away. Both will be around for a long time, and both are going to have to integrate.
Sockets? Did you say sockets? I write most of my stuff in c (sometimes c++). So I guess I shouldn't be commenting on Java/.NET
Everyone knows that BSD is dying...Oh, wait a second! I mean OpenBSD is dying. FreeBSD is alive and well.
I think Sophos is the biggest Linux/Unix AV vendor out there. I've never heard of the AV company that M$ bought.
Why bother?
OSX has, what, maybe 1/10 of 1% of the server market.
Yes, but data integrity is the real key.
I've been burning DVD+-R's (4.7gb) and when I run the "verify data" option to confirm a good burn, the defective rate on my DVDs is about 1 in 5. I've had situations where the DVD burns and verifies perfectly in the burner but I cannot get it to read in another DVD reader.
Then there is the question of DVD rot. A DVD is a sandwich of two plastic layers. There is the possibility that the cement that binds these layers can become unglued.
For routine DVDs, I find myself burning 2 copies to be safe. For important DVDs I burn 3 copies (and use media from different manufacturers).
My primary DVD burner is a dual layer burner but I do not trust DVD media enough to burn dual layer discs. These 3 and 4 layer discs leave me wary of their long term reliability.
It's very clear (page 36 of 40) in their report that W2K3 was heavily tweaked (with obvious help from Microsoft) while the RedHat/Apache config was almost vanilla. Most Microsoft admins probably wouldn't even try editing the registry on a production machine since doing so may very well void any service contract they have with Microsoft.
It's also clear on page 5 of the report that on cgi performance the difference between M$ and RH is very minor, almost negligible. The 300% difference is the worst case scenario on static content. Last time I checked, PHP and perl on Apache were quite popular, and I've seen JSP running on quite a few high volume commercial news/media sites. Pure static content on Apache is more the exception than the rule.
From the webbench.pdf, page 36:
Web server performance testing under Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition consisted of making the following registry modifications to the server systems under test:
Set HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\InetInfo\Pa rameters\MaxCachedFileSize to 1048576 bytes.
Set HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP\Parame ters\UriMaxUriBytes to 1048576 bytes.
Set HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\N tfsDisableLastAccess to 1.
Set HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip\Param eters\MaxHashTableSize to 65535.
We made the following changes to the default configuration of Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0 for use with testing that involved non-secure static and CGI-based content:
Set the CentralBinaryLoggingEnabled option to "TRUE" in the IIS Metabase.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, removed script and execute access from the document root directory that contained only static content.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, disabled the "Index This Resource" property for the main Web server.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, disabled access logging for the web server.
Created a virtual directory called "cgi-bin" to store the WebBench ISAPI and CGI based dynamic content for all tests.
Set the Application Protection property to "Low (IIS Process)" for the "cgi-bin" virtual directory.
We made the following changes to the default configuration of Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0 for use with all tests:
Set the CentralBinaryLoggingEnabled option to "TRUE" in the IIS Metabase.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, removed script and execute access from the document root directory that contained only static content.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, disabled the "Index This Resource" property for the main Web server.
Using the Microsoft Management Console, disabled access logging for the web server.
Created a virtual directory called "cgi-bin" to store the WebBench ISAPI and CGI based dynamic content for all tests.
Set the Application Protection property to "Low (IIS Process)" for the "cgi-bin" virtual directory.
Using IIS 6.0, created a certificate request using a 1024-bit key. Submitted this certificate request to a system configured with Windows Server 2003 Certificate Services and generated a digital certificate. Installed the resulting certificate into IIS 6.0 for use with SSL/CGI-based testing.
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 ships with version 1.3.23 of the Apache Web server. As a result of our investigation, we made the following changes to the default Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 Apache Web server configuration when testing the performance of the Apache Web server using only non-secure static data:
Enabled the mmap_static_module in the Apache configuration file httpd.conf. This allowed us to directly map the static content used by WebBench directly into system memory.
Set MaxRequestsPerChild to zero in the httpd.conf file
Set the document root directory to point to a directory on a fast RAID 0 volume.
Disabled Access Logging
Cut and pasted the URL's for over 6000 static WebB
Sorry dude, but that is the c style of writing code on unix/linux systems.
Perl has always been a write only language that is only readable by the author. I've lost track of the number of modules on cpan.org that are stuck at version y.xx and have not been updated in a long time and only work with versions of Perl *OLDER* than 5.3 because no one is able to correct the module to work with perl v5.3+
"...but the momentum behind C# and .NET is just massive..."
.NET at the most basic level is nothing more than a wrapper around the Win32, ADO and numerous other API's and SDK's Microsoft has released over the years. .NET could have easily been named Win32++ or Win32v2.
Interesting point but not quite on the spot. Most of the C# programmers are Visual Basic converts.
*AND* most importantly, BMI fails to take ino consideration: muscle mass.
A healthy trim male can do a significant amount of weight lifting, have 10% body fat and be considered obese via the BMI index because of all the muscle mass created by weight lifting.
A mumu wearing couch potato can have 50% body fat, be two twinkies away from a massive heart attack and have the same BMI as the healthy person.
Apple's iTunes is a proprietary format. Why is Apple good but Nikon bad?
This bill clearly targets P2P sharing (this can include bittorrent with a little legal manevering). Usenet is off the hook.
"The bill, approved by Congress on Tuesday, is written so broadly it could make a federal felon of anyone who has even one copy of a film, software program or music file in a shared folder and should have known the copyrighted work had not been commercially released."
Since torrents involve sharing a single file, it does not take a leap of faith to connect bittorrent sharers to this law. Usenet, on the other hand, resembles a pop3 mail service. Newgroup fanatics will continue to post and make available whatever they wish. Especially if they are using an anonymous NNTP provider. Bittorrent users are not so lucky. As the creator of bittorrent said in a recent interview, torrent users are not anonymous.
Why bother with Namecheap? Get a Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail account and use that for your domain registration contact.
As far as your real physical address is concerned, having that info public means virtually nothing. I get very little to zero snail mail that can be traced to someone doing a WHOIS lookup. Most of my snail mail spam comes from my membership to the local Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce provides mailing labels of its membership for a nominal fee.
What in bloody hell does this goobly dee gook mean?
"Apple's...flashy new features, programmer optimizations, and cosmetic improvements that all could have been added to older releases but are saved and introduced as the spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. Their marketing actually makes many people eager to pay for a set of major changes and incompatabilities each year...Microsoft's attempts to do this with Windows don't work nearly as well."
You are clearly a MacTARD. Everything you wrote about Apple is equally applicable to Microsoft.
A *HUGE* number of current Windows programs require Win98SE or newer. Many current Windows programs will *NOT* work on Win9x. They require Win2K or newer. There are a small number of WinXP only apps out there -- Adobe Premiere 7.0.
I am sure there are many Windoze users out there who remember going through the Win3.X to Win95 transition. Anyone who wrote a tcp/ip socket program knows what a nightmare getting it to run on Win3.X was compared to Win9x.