Then there's Microsoft. The company has an army of brainiacs working on incorporating web search into MSN and its new operating system, code-named Longhorn, due out in 2006. It plans to be able to index every user's hard drive and use the information to provide better searches. "All I'll say is that search is vitally important to us," says Chris Payne, Microsoft's executive in charge of search.
That right there is in a nutshell why Microsoft doesn't get it. Users don't want the contexts of their hard drives indexed and shipped off to the highest bidder for them to generate marketing to them. That's the equivalent of a door to door salesmen breaking into my house and taking an inventory of everything I own so he can try to sell me what I don't when he interupts what I am doing with 10 more door to door salesmen at the front door.
The problem isn't as much the mercury in the fillings as it is the total exposure you get. You get a certain amount from the fillings, sure, you get good dose every time you get a vaccination with mercury as a preservative (that's pretty much all of them), you can get some fairly large doses from certain kinds of fish (tuna, salmon) -- and it's pretty much in all of them now. You may get more if you work in certain kinds of electronics manufacturing as well.
When the total exposure is high enough, all kinds of odd problems develop. I think people are probably more likely to get sick from eating high amounts of seafood rather than from dental fillings, but I wouldn't exclude it as a factor. It's in your mouth, you can swallow them, and the mercury does leech out over time.
Since "well-regulated" means practiced, disciplined, and ready to deploy, I think you misunderstand the meaning of the phrase. The theory was that if everyone brought their own gun to the gun fight, then any country stupid enough to try to invade the US would be met with overwhelming resistance in the form of a civilian population, trained to arms, and bearing military rifles. There would be no place that an invasion could not immediately be resisted, which would buy time to raise an army and bring in the big guns.
Sort of sounds like Iraq. Everyone has an AK, and everywhere the invader goes he is resisted by the people making occupation difficult & expensive.
I'm not an old-timer and I would hate to see the loss of the code requirement for HF. The primary reason that amateur radio exists is for the public benefit.
And one of the definitions of public benefit is that the vast majority of the public can use it without a mess of stupid regulations that do nothing to enhance it's value and only serve to exclude large numbers. Yes, the airwaves ARE public. They should be allowed to be used by everyone who is willing to abide by the rules of conduct. Morse code is mostly pointless as a requirement, and many of the so called technical requirements are equally pointless for the safe & polite operation of the equipment. This isn't rocket science, the computer on my desk is infinitely more complicated than any radio. Even my watch -- with the built in cell phone, personal oraganizer, digital recorder, digital camera, and 10 fairly lame video games is more complex. I don't see a need for draconian license requirements for that.
This is proof that even without running network services and without a bunch of lusers with accounts on it, a mainframe still isn't secure. I can't wait to see what IBM's patch for this little security problem is, heh.;) --
The patch is simple: We just go back to mainframes that take several rooms of space, weight tons, and are impossible for 2 people to move without taking many many days and knocking out walls. It needs to be big enough to take more than a weekend to remove.;-)
To vary from this is a violation of the Phillips spec, and you are not allowed to put the Compact Disc logo on the resulting product. What you probably noticed was the laquer layer was thick when we started making discs, but over the years laquer has improved to the point that only a very thin layer is needed. If you leave out the laquer entirely, the aluminum oxidates rapidly, rendering the disc useless.
I have seen this. I have a music CD that has visible "pits" in the aluminum from oxidation. There does not appear to much (read any) protective layer on that CD at all. It's unplayable now. Disappointing as I liked that band.
I have to wonder if the data CD's I've had go bad suffer from the same defect. Their results of having dead CD's at less than 2 years mimic my own experiences. I have some that have lasted 5-7 years, and probably 30 out of 300 that have died in 2 or less - plus another 15 or so coasters from bad burns. Even discarding the coasters from bad burns that's a 10% failure rate. It's not god awful, but it's enough that I don't trust it to last.
He had to of defrauded thousands of people. Surely we could get him some more time. People like this are scum, and white collar crime IS the most expensive for all of us. I want to see people like this doing real time. Not 6 years. I would be happy with 12-15. 6 is too light.
Yet, it's only the disgrunted people who hold up the line. It pissed me off when someone goes through security in a fit because they have to take off his/her shoes. Normally I can get through the checkpoint at SFO in 5 minutes.
And my brother can't get through the gates at Lambert in less than an hour, and most likely will have to take a connector flight where he will get harassed again. If it's a quick stop, most likely he will miss his flght, and when he does finally get onto another flight after hassling with airport ticket people he will have to deal with security yet again. How many times do you have to rescan his thrice scanned bag? How many times does he have to present his ID and get interviewed by men with guns in a little seperate room just to take a trip a couple states away? On a recent trip from California to St Louis they even went as far as trying to make him take his leg brace off and walk through the machine without it. He has a torn MCL and can barely walk as it is for the next several weeks. What's next? Going to open up peoples colostomy bags? Cut off their leg cast? Pull their infusion pumps out of their veins and take them apart?
My brother isn't a danger to anyone. He's a professional musician on tour. About the only thing "unusual" about him is his lack of a home phone. Why bother? He's on the road more than he is home so he has a cellular and that is all.
It's gotten so bad that his band that used to fly everywhere now almost exclusively drives. It's not just the security either, it's the fees for everything as well. Can't tape together two guitars -- we have to charge you for each as one piece even though they fit into the standard size. Can't tape the case shut because the gestapo will go and cut it open again and again. He went through 6 rolls of tape just getting the band from Chapel Hill NC to LA. Because of security they missed their flight, because of security again they missed their connector flight. A short "hop" across the country became an all day affair at twice the expense. Because they missed their flight they couldn't make some of their radio interveiws and TV appearences to promote their show. They went from guys in the million miles club to guys who don't even qualify for frequent flyer programs.
(For those who don't know, if you are taking music equipment on planes you better pack it to survive an 800 lb gorilla attack! It's not uncommon to have to reassemble your gear once you get it there from vibrations and abuse.)
f National Geographic found that 90% of Americans can't find it on a map, then it's a statistic. Not a stereotype.
National Geographic had to conduct their American survey 9 times in order to obtain a result that was headline worthy. You know what result they went with? The lowest of 9 taken from Harlem.
And FedEx/UPS/DHL do operate in most areas, even outside industrial world.
It is my understanding based on information from the mid 90's that DHL operates in those countries with a very large internal blacklist, and hired a company to go and do a physical address survey in areas well known for fraud. Something on the order of 90% of shipments to certain third world nations were fraud, and 50-60% in eastern bloc countries for non B2B shipments. Fraud for B2B was still high in parts of Africa.
I would not be surprised at all if FedEx and UPS and other international shipping companies have experienced similar problems.
You can't really blame a lot of businesses for not being willing to take the risk. If you are selling laptops and making $100 a piece on them, losing 6 out of 10 you ship will put you out of business in a hurry.
The only suggestion I have for you is to call the merchant and arrange for a B2B style delivery. Reluctant merchants are far more likely to ship to a business they can look up and verify exist than a private address.
I know they gave him a full battery of allergin test and the only thing he came up positive for was peanuts. She's tried a few things, ritalin, dexedrine, and they tried some SSRI based meds and they help a bit, but they never really wound him down enough to be able to focus. There is a difference on and off of the meds but they certaintly aren't the cure-all for him that they are advertised to be. She's tried various diet modifications, and not had much luck with that either. I haven't been back out there to see in person, but I talk to her every week on the phone.
As far as time and attention goes, she gives him lots of both. She's tried the "structure every minute" advice one counselor reccomended. That didn't help much either. You can tell the kid is suffering, but I don't honestly think anyone knows how to alleviate it. Raising him in that state is roughly equivalent to raising 5 kids at once. I don't think the troll after your post realizes the toll that takes day in and day out.
here are lots of people who think ADD was invented solely to gain credit for the people who conducted the initial study, and later by the drug companies to treat the invented condition. Just wait for another newspaper to pick this story up...
I used to be in the camp that believed ADD and ADHD was completely made up... Then I took a trip to Patterson NJ to visit a friend and her son. After 7 days with them, I am an absolute believer that ADHD is a real disorder. I still feel it's probably way over diagnosed...But this kid was 100% of the time out of control to a point where anyone with even the humblist of insight into humanity could tell he wasn't normal. He rotated from electronic toy to toy much the way these executives do, but he couldn't even focus on the toy long enough to complete a task most of the time. I felt bad for her, I'm a parent myself -- but even though my daughter may be a brat, I can at least take her out somewhere and know it wont be a major issue most of the time. She might whine, complain, and the like the entire time. She may even steal the plates. But she wont run off to another table to grab the salt shakers, check the machines, and can sit still for more than 30 seconds at a time while talking non-stop for 18 hours straight. No kidding.
This kid reminded me of people in the worst state of mania, but without the delusions. Definitely something to this.
My parents have cruise control in a 93' Ford Escort wagon. After 6 trips to the shop for this wonderful little device I still have a problem. It revs uncontrollably at certain points. They've replaced all kinds of things (and refunded their money several times) and still not been able to correct it. It's got: New pumps, new electronics wiring, new computer, new relays, new cruise control circuit, new control arm, new fuel controls, new....
Now this is a *simple* device, and yet it still produces an error that can cause a fatal accident, and 7 professional certified mechanics have looked at it and been unable to resolve it -- even after several thousand dollars worth of repairs (which the Ford dealers have been nice enough to refund when none of their work has fixed the problems). Yes, the Car Talk guys failed too.
And I'm supposed to trust a device that a pilot can't switch off that has the capability to prevent the airplane from being steered? No f'ing way.
As stated, the only reason the hour works right now is because the spammers don't see this in the wild. Re-running your database script an hour later isn't a big deal.
I disagree. When you are sending 250,000,000 emails a day -- restarting that script IS a big deal. It would, in effect, make them have to do the entire thing twice. That's a pretty big hit on their resources.
Media firms acknowledge they are treading a sensitive line between preserving copyrights and satisfying the consumer. A system that introduces too many limitations will most certainly end in bad PR and a consumer backlash.
Introducing ANY new restriction on what I can do with it gets a backlash from me.
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A larger factor is actually an economic concern. The area that is cited for use (horshoe shoals) is a fishing grounds. This will add another problem to the already ailing fishing industry that has been completely bogged down by legislation.
You know, I feel real sorry for those fishers.. Yep, I sure do. These are the same fishermen using "dragnet on bottom and destroy everything" methods to fish with. If anything, having those windmills out there would keep them from using their dragnets and allow an area to recover.
Makes fishing from the beach, and fishing around the mills itself in small boats a lot better for the anglers.
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Doesn't the US have plenty of natural gas?
Plenty, but the problem is it forms in pockets that are not always profitable to cap, build piping for, and supply it to EU's. If you drive down 55 to Chicago you will see tons of little fires where they are burning off the natural gas to eventually get at the oil underneath it. It's absolute waste. They should allow the farmers to tap into that and use it to dry their crops with -- or small scale power generation. How much is a motor to run on natural gas? There is plenty of it in places like that.
The big problem with natural gas in the US is cost. It's big money to build the pipelines to ship it anywhere cheaply. You need a super huge pocket of natural gas that is going to last 30+ years to recoup your piping cost. Currently, demand is far exceeding the production of new piping facilities. So, cost go up. Natural gas is going to get seriously expensive over the next couple years because of this. It's already gotten expensive this year and hurting seriously foundaries that switched over to it and some electric utilities using it.
Converting it into LNG, you can ship it from place to place easily, but you don't want to get in an accident in one of those. Ka-boom in the worst way.
The banning of DDT, for example, caused thousands of deaths for poor and brown people worldwide due to Malaria.. But Hey! Birds are more important than people!
DDT is still plenty useful, and still being used in contolled ways to help reduce mosquito born diseases -- it's just being used more in Latin America and parts of Africa (that can afford it) than anywhere else. The real problem with DDT comes when you allow it to be used on a massive scale for agricultural purposes. Controlled spraying for mosquitos has very little impact on wildlife. DDT saves thousands of people every single year. I wish we could use it in certain areas of the US, with the appropriate regulations of course.
Most of the spam I receive is for US-based companies, even if it was actually sent from China.
We have a law to deal with this kind of organized criminal activity, it's called RICO. I fail to see any legal reason that the federal government can not apply RICO laws to spam. It's an organized illegal activity, and the people who pay spammers to send it are just as guilty and in my view just and culpable as the spammer who sends it.
Just draft a basis antispam law at the federal level -- make Ashcroft earn his money enforcing it. Tip...Tell him most spam is pronographic in nature, he spent most of his career in Missouri hassling libraries and adult film/book stores.
A few years back I used to do courier work for a company that helped CEOs (and lots of sports stars) severely reduce their tax burden. Through some legal wrangling they would create a mess of S-Corps & pay the salary back over many years. It changed the nature of the tax owed from salary to gains, and changed reduced the tax burden by about 40%. Now the real question..Legality? Borderline, but your average IRS agent wasn't going to send 20 accountants to dig through the stuff to try to get it back, it did happen occasionally and those people got *(rightly so) nailed.
Someone like Ballmer making the kind of money he does, he would be using those kinds of tricks, but they would be less effective for him because of his extreme income level. Those things can help guys making a few million a year, but when you start talking billions -- you need a new trick and I'm sure he's got them, but they are probably more focused on property taxes and the like. (Want to bet there is a Ballmer "Ranch" out there somewhere?)
The internet moves data from point A to point B, mostly without gatekeepers. What Lessig is talking about is that cable companies have been redefined as "information services" and soon so will telco's ISP service. Once that happens, it's no longer an issue of the "internet moves data from point A to point B".. It's the "internet moves data that the gatekeepers approved from point A to point B".
I honestly think we need to go the other way. Everyone ought to be able to run their own server, we don't need gatekeepers, and there isn't a shortage of bandwidth (just IP space.. Which IPv6 should take care of). I see no fundimental reason that we can't have a situation where everyone is on the same level with T1-speed service up and down. Yes, lawyers from greedy corporations will still sue, threaten, harass, and bankrupt a few unlucky people. Always has been that way... But it's a better vision than entire blocks of addresses disappearing.
I found them to be very cavalier about it all. I was very put off by that. Free elections are a serious matter, and every step should be made to make the process as accountable as possible to the will of the people.
As far as recounts go, many places don't even allow a recount if an election is not within 1-4% difference between candidates. Make your fraud greater than that, and you can't even check it under the present laws period in those areas. How is that accountable?
I want "None Of The Above" on the ballot. That's another form of accountability that is missing from our present system. If None Of The Above wins, both candidates are barred from running for that office for the next two election cycles. This is a needed failsafe to prevent bad people that the public doesn't want period -- from getting into office. I would be willing to bet that it would win at least 5% of elections the first time it got on a ballot.
I've let a few rebates go, and been mad at myself for it. However, my experience this Yule actually trying to claim them irritates me to no end.
PNY -- Denied both rebates. Reason? They paid a rebate for ram for me before. Even though it was a completely different rebate offer on a different kind of ram and it was ages ago. I expected them to pay at least one of them. A year ago (or more) they paid a rebate in about 7 weeks. Not a lot of money.
CyneDyne -- Sent in Dec 11, heard nothing, call..voice jail. $50 down the drain most likely.
Jensen (speakers) -- Sent in in November. They claim they recieved nothing. I sent them the origional reciept as per their rq, and didn't make a photocopy of it because I didn't figure I would need it. Not much I can do about it. Ripped off for $40.
Going to have to send this stuff registered mail if I ever bother with it again. I prefer just to buy online with no rebates. Less hassle, more honest. I wish I had instead of visiting Best Buy, Office Depot..etc
I'm 0 for 4 with xmas/yule rebates. That's not good, and it wasn't this bad a couple years ago.
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My favorite part of that story, about M$.
Then there's Microsoft. The company has an army of brainiacs working on incorporating web search into MSN and its new operating system, code-named Longhorn, due out in 2006. It plans to be able to index every user's hard drive and use the information to provide better searches. "All I'll say is that search is vitally important to us," says Chris Payne, Microsoft's executive in charge of search.
That right there is in a nutshell why Microsoft doesn't get it. Users don't want the contexts of their hard drives indexed and shipped off to the highest bidder for them to generate marketing to them. That's the equivalent of a door to door salesmen breaking into my house and taking an inventory of everything I own so he can try to sell me what I don't when he interupts what I am doing with 10 more door to door salesmen at the front door.
The problem isn't as much the mercury in the fillings as it is the total exposure you get. You get a certain amount from the fillings, sure, you get good dose every time you get a vaccination with mercury as a preservative (that's pretty much all of them), you can get some fairly large doses from certain kinds of fish (tuna, salmon) -- and it's pretty much in all of them now. You may get more if you work in certain kinds of electronics manufacturing as well.
When the total exposure is high enough, all kinds of odd problems develop. I think people are probably more likely to get sick from eating high amounts of seafood rather than from dental fillings, but I wouldn't exclude it as a factor. It's in your mouth, you can swallow them, and the mercury does leech out over time.
Since "well-regulated" means practiced, disciplined, and ready to deploy, I think you misunderstand the meaning of the phrase. The theory was that if everyone brought their own gun to the gun fight, then any country stupid enough to try to invade the US would be met with overwhelming resistance in the form of a civilian population, trained to arms, and bearing military rifles. There would be no place that an invasion could not immediately be resisted, which would buy time to raise an army and bring in the big guns.
Sort of sounds like Iraq. Everyone has an AK, and everywhere the invader goes he is resisted by the people making occupation difficult & expensive.
I'm not an old-timer and I would hate to see the loss of the code requirement for HF. The primary reason that amateur radio exists is for the public benefit.
And one of the definitions of public benefit is that the vast majority of the public can use it without a mess of stupid regulations that do nothing to enhance it's value and only serve to exclude large numbers. Yes, the airwaves ARE public. They should be allowed to be used by everyone who is willing to abide by the rules of conduct. Morse code is mostly pointless as a requirement, and many of the so called technical requirements are equally pointless for the safe & polite operation of the equipment. This isn't rocket science, the computer on my desk is infinitely more complicated than any radio. Even my watch -- with the built in cell phone, personal oraganizer, digital recorder, digital camera, and 10 fairly lame video games is more complex. I don't see a need for draconian license requirements for that.
This is proof that even without running network services and without a bunch of lusers with accounts on it, a mainframe still isn't secure. ;)
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I can't wait to see what IBM's patch for this little security problem is, heh.
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The patch is simple: We just go back to mainframes that take several rooms of space, weight tons, and are impossible for 2 people to move without taking many many days and knocking out walls. It needs to be big enough to take more than a weekend to remove.
To vary from this is a violation of the Phillips spec, and you are not allowed to put the Compact Disc logo on the resulting product.
What you probably noticed was the laquer layer was thick when we started making discs, but over the years laquer has improved to the point that only a very thin layer is needed.
If you leave out the laquer entirely, the aluminum oxidates rapidly, rendering the disc useless.
I have seen this. I have a music CD that has visible "pits" in the aluminum from oxidation. There does not appear to much (read any) protective layer on that CD at all. It's unplayable now. Disappointing as I liked that band.
I have to wonder if the data CD's I've had go bad suffer from the same defect. Their results of having dead CD's at less than 2 years mimic my own experiences. I have some that have lasted 5-7 years, and probably 30 out of 300 that have died in 2 or less - plus another 15 or so coasters from bad burns. Even discarding the coasters from bad burns that's a 10% failure rate. It's not god awful, but it's enough that I don't trust it to last.
He had to of defrauded thousands of people. Surely we could get him some more time. People like this are scum, and white collar crime IS the most expensive for all of us. I want to see people like this doing real time. Not 6 years. I would be happy with 12-15. 6 is too light.
Yet, it's only the disgrunted people who hold up the line. It pissed me off when someone goes through security in a fit because they have to take off his/her shoes. Normally I can get through the checkpoint at SFO in 5 minutes.
And my brother can't get through the gates at Lambert in less than an hour, and most likely will have to take a connector flight where he will get harassed again. If it's a quick stop, most likely he will miss his flght, and when he does finally get onto another flight after hassling with airport ticket people he will have to deal with security yet again. How many times do you have to rescan his thrice scanned bag? How many times does he have to present his ID and get interviewed by men with guns in a little seperate room just to take a trip a couple states away? On a recent trip from California to St Louis they even went as far as trying to make him take his leg brace off and walk through the machine without it. He has a torn MCL and can barely walk as it is for the next several weeks. What's next? Going to open up peoples colostomy bags? Cut off their leg cast? Pull their infusion pumps out of their veins and take them apart?
My brother isn't a danger to anyone. He's a professional musician on tour. About the only thing "unusual" about him is his lack of a home phone. Why bother? He's on the road more than he is home so he has a cellular and that is all.
It's gotten so bad that his band that used to fly everywhere now almost exclusively drives. It's not just the security either, it's the fees for everything as well. Can't tape together two guitars -- we have to charge you for each as one piece even though they fit into the standard size. Can't tape the case shut because the gestapo will go and cut it open again and again. He went through 6 rolls of tape just getting the band from Chapel Hill NC to LA. Because of security they missed their flight, because of security again they missed their connector flight. A short "hop" across the country became an all day affair at twice the expense. Because they missed their flight they couldn't make some of their radio interveiws and TV appearences to promote their show. They went from guys in the million miles club to guys who don't even qualify for frequent flyer programs.
(For those who don't know, if you are taking music equipment on planes you better pack it to survive an 800 lb gorilla attack! It's not uncommon to have to reassemble your gear once you get it there from vibrations and abuse.)
You obviously haven't been to a store lately. A 12 pack of Mach 3 blades at the Wal-Mart in my town is $19-20.
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Even the Sensor XL blades are like $16.
It's enough to get me to go back to using my norelco.
f National Geographic found that 90% of Americans can't find it on a map, then it's a statistic. Not a stereotype.
National Geographic had to conduct their American survey 9 times in order to obtain a result that was headline worthy. You know what result they went with? The lowest of 9 taken from Harlem.
And FedEx/UPS/DHL do operate in most areas, even outside industrial world.
It is my understanding based on information from the mid 90's that DHL operates in those countries with a very large internal blacklist, and hired a company to go and do a physical address survey in areas well known for fraud. Something on the order of 90% of shipments to certain third world nations were fraud, and 50-60% in eastern bloc countries for non B2B shipments. Fraud for B2B was still high in parts of Africa.
I would not be surprised at all if FedEx and UPS and other international shipping companies have experienced similar problems.
You can't really blame a lot of businesses for not being willing to take the risk. If you are selling laptops and making $100 a piece on them, losing 6 out of 10 you ship will put you out of business in a hurry.
The only suggestion I have for you is to call the merchant and arrange for a B2B style delivery. Reluctant merchants are far more likely to ship to a business they can look up and verify exist than a private address.
I know they gave him a full battery of allergin test and the only thing he came up positive for was peanuts. She's tried a few things, ritalin, dexedrine, and they tried some SSRI based meds and they help a bit, but they never really wound him down enough to be able to focus. There is a difference on and off of the meds but they certaintly aren't the cure-all for him that they are advertised to be. She's tried various diet modifications, and not had much luck with that either. I haven't been back out there to see in person, but I talk to her every week on the phone.
As far as time and attention goes, she gives him lots of both. She's tried the "structure every minute" advice one counselor reccomended. That didn't help much either. You can tell the kid is suffering, but I don't honestly think anyone knows how to alleviate it. Raising him in that state is roughly equivalent to raising 5 kids at once. I don't think the troll after your post realizes the toll that takes day in and day out.
here are lots of people who think ADD was invented solely to gain credit for the people who conducted the initial study, and later by the drug companies to treat the invented condition. Just wait for another newspaper to pick this story up...
I used to be in the camp that believed ADD and ADHD was completely made up... Then I took a trip to Patterson NJ to visit a friend and her son. After 7 days with them, I am an absolute believer that ADHD is a real disorder. I still feel it's probably way over diagnosed...But this kid was 100% of the time out of control to a point where anyone with even the humblist of insight into humanity could tell he wasn't normal. He rotated from electronic toy to toy much the way these executives do, but he couldn't even focus on the toy long enough to complete a task most of the time. I felt bad for her, I'm a parent myself -- but even though my daughter may be a brat, I can at least take her out somewhere and know it wont be a major issue most of the time. She might whine, complain, and the like the entire time. She may even steal the plates. But she wont run off to another table to grab the salt shakers, check the machines, and can sit still for more than 30 seconds at a time while talking non-stop for 18 hours straight. No kidding.
This kid reminded me of people in the worst state of mania, but without the delusions. Definitely something to this.
My parents have cruise control in a 93' Ford Escort wagon. After 6 trips to the shop for this wonderful little device I still have a problem. It revs uncontrollably at certain points. They've replaced all kinds of things (and refunded their money several times) and still not been able to correct it. It's got: New pumps, new electronics wiring, new computer, new relays, new cruise control circuit, new control arm, new fuel controls, new ....
Now this is a *simple* device, and yet it still produces an error that can cause a fatal accident, and 7 professional certified mechanics have looked at it and been unable to resolve it -- even after several thousand dollars worth of repairs (which the Ford dealers have been nice enough to refund when none of their work has fixed the problems). Yes, the Car Talk guys failed too.
And I'm supposed to trust a device that a pilot can't switch off that has the capability to prevent the airplane from being steered? No f'ing way.
As stated, the only reason the hour works right now is because the spammers don't see this in the wild. Re-running your database script an hour later isn't a big deal.
I disagree. When you are sending 250,000,000 emails a day -- restarting that script IS a big deal. It would, in effect, make them have to do the entire thing twice. That's a pretty big hit on their resources.
Media firms acknowledge they are treading a sensitive line between preserving copyrights and satisfying the consumer. A system that introduces too many limitations will most certainly end in bad PR and a consumer backlash.
Introducing ANY new restriction on what I can do with it gets a backlash from me.
A larger factor is actually an economic concern. The area that is cited for use (horshoe shoals) is a fishing grounds. This will add another problem to the already ailing fishing industry that has been completely bogged down by legislation.
You know, I feel real sorry for those fishers.. Yep, I sure do. These are the same fishermen using "dragnet on bottom and destroy everything" methods to fish with. If anything, having those windmills out there would keep them from using their dragnets and allow an area to recover.
Makes fishing from the beach, and fishing around the mills itself in small boats a lot better for the anglers.
Doesn't the US have plenty of natural gas?
Plenty, but the problem is it forms in pockets that are not always profitable to cap, build piping for, and supply it to EU's. If you drive down 55 to Chicago you will see tons of little fires where they are burning off the natural gas to eventually get at the oil underneath it. It's absolute waste. They should allow the farmers to tap into that and use it to dry their crops with -- or small scale power generation. How much is a motor to run on natural gas? There is plenty of it in places like that.
The big problem with natural gas in the US is cost. It's big money to build the pipelines to ship it anywhere cheaply. You need a super huge pocket of natural gas that is going to last 30+ years to recoup your piping cost. Currently, demand is far exceeding the production of new piping facilities. So, cost go up. Natural gas is going to get seriously expensive over the next couple years because of this. It's already gotten expensive this year and hurting seriously foundaries that switched over to it and some electric utilities using it.
Converting it into LNG, you can ship it from place to place easily, but you don't want to get in an accident in one of those. Ka-boom in the worst way.
The banning of DDT, for example, caused thousands of deaths for poor and brown people worldwide due to Malaria.. But Hey! Birds are more important than people!
DDT is still plenty useful, and still being used in contolled ways to help reduce mosquito born diseases -- it's just being used more in Latin America and parts of Africa (that can afford it) than anywhere else. The real problem with DDT comes when you allow it to be used on a massive scale for agricultural purposes. Controlled spraying for mosquitos has very little impact on wildlife. DDT saves thousands of people every single year. I wish we could use it in certain areas of the US, with the appropriate regulations of course.
Most of the spam I receive is for US-based companies, even if it was actually sent from China.
...Tell him most spam is pronographic in nature, he spent most of his career in Missouri hassling libraries and adult film/book stores.
We have a law to deal with this kind of organized criminal activity, it's called RICO. I fail to see any legal reason that the federal government can not apply RICO laws to spam. It's an organized illegal activity, and the people who pay spammers to send it are just as guilty and in my view just and culpable as the spammer who sends it.
Just draft a basis antispam law at the federal level -- make Ashcroft earn his money enforcing it. Tip
A few years back I used to do courier work for a company that helped CEOs (and lots of sports stars) severely reduce their tax burden. Through some legal wrangling they would create a mess of S-Corps & pay the salary back over many years. It changed the nature of the tax owed from salary to gains, and changed reduced the tax burden by about 40%. Now the real question..Legality? Borderline, but your average IRS agent wasn't going to send 20 accountants to dig through the stuff to try to get it back, it did happen occasionally and those people got *(rightly so) nailed.
Someone like Ballmer making the kind of money he does, he would be using those kinds of tricks, but they would be less effective for him because of his extreme income level. Those things can help guys making a few million a year, but when you start talking billions -- you need a new trick and I'm sure he's got them, but they are probably more focused on property taxes and the like. (Want to bet there is a Ballmer "Ranch" out there somewhere?)
are still using Windows95 here. A few of the "newer" machines have ME on them. There are even a few machines that have 3.11 on them.
The internet moves data from point A to point B, mostly without gatekeepers. What Lessig is talking about is that cable companies have been redefined as "information services" and soon so will telco's ISP service. Once that happens, it's no longer an issue of the "internet moves data from point A to point B" .. It's the "internet moves data that the gatekeepers approved from point A to point B".
I honestly think we need to go the other way. Everyone ought to be able to run their own server, we don't need gatekeepers, and there isn't a shortage of bandwidth (just IP space.. Which IPv6 should take care of). I see no fundimental reason that we can't have a situation where everyone is on the same level with T1-speed service up and down. Yes, lawyers from greedy corporations will still sue, threaten, harass, and bankrupt a few unlucky people. Always has been that way... But it's a better vision than entire blocks of addresses disappearing.
^^^^That has already happened in some states.
I found them to be very cavalier about it all. I was very put off by that. Free elections are a serious matter, and every step should be made to make the process as accountable as possible to the will of the people.
As far as recounts go, many places don't even allow a recount if an election is not within 1-4% difference between candidates. Make your fraud greater than that, and you can't even check it under the present laws period in those areas. How is that accountable?
I want "None Of The Above" on the ballot. That's another form of accountability that is missing from our present system. If None Of The Above wins, both candidates are barred from running for that office for the next two election cycles. This is a needed failsafe to prevent bad people that the public doesn't want period -- from getting into office. I would be willing to bet that it would win at least 5% of elections the first time it got on a ballot.
I've let a few rebates go, and been mad at myself for it. However, my experience this Yule actually trying to claim them irritates me to no end.
..voice jail. $50 down the drain most likely.
PNY -- Denied both rebates. Reason? They paid a rebate for ram for me before. Even though it was a completely different rebate offer on a different kind of ram and it was ages ago. I expected them to pay at least one of them. A year ago (or more) they paid a rebate in about 7 weeks. Not a lot of money.
CyneDyne -- Sent in Dec 11, heard nothing, call
Jensen (speakers) -- Sent in in November. They claim they recieved nothing. I sent them the origional reciept as per their rq, and didn't make a photocopy of it because I didn't figure I would need it. Not much I can do about it. Ripped off for $40.
Going to have to send this stuff registered mail if I ever bother with it again. I prefer just to buy online with no rebates. Less hassle, more honest. I wish I had instead of visiting Best Buy, Office Depot..etc
I'm 0 for 4 with xmas/yule rebates. That's not good, and it wasn't this bad a couple years ago.