I think the key here is that the typical use pattern for academic works is different than for works intended for the general public. Frequently the reader of an academic journal is interested only in a specific fact, and they will often be able to glean this fact from the small amount of context provided in the Google search results. This threatens the revenue model of academic journal publishers, which is a form of bundling, namely, charging the university libraries for the whole journal or for several related journals put out by the same publisher.
The Ethiopian 961 incident at least shows that it is possible for floatation devices to be useful.
(yes, i know the plane did catch a wing and break apart, and i know that some passengers drowned because they preinflated their life vests and were trapped in the flooded fuselage as a result)
Anybody with a web server must accept incoming syn packets. If they are "protected" by something like:...
Using OpenBSD pf(4):
# Non-routeable addresses. Used to detect packets with forged origins. NoRoute = "{ 127.0.0.1/8, 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12, 10.0.0.0/16, 255.255.255.255/32 }"
# don't allow anyone to spoof non-routeable addresses block in log quick on $public_interface from $NoRoute to any block out log quick on $public_interface from any to $NoRoute
An IIS server behind this isn't seeing those packets.
as another poster pointed out, it was Dick Rutan and Jeannie Yeager. The plane is now hanging in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. It does not look like a typical aircraft -- the aspect ratio of the wings is very high.
used to have the prefbar installed some time ago. I just went back and tried to install it as a normal user and it failed. (required file not found) There is a link on the page you referred to for Linux/*nix installation instructions that is 404. Additionally, there is a link for a mailing list on the page that does not exist.
It looks like development on this tool is dead. Does anyone know any different?
Now, if one wanted to make a.tm domain, e.g. uk.tm, us.tm, etc. then it would work pretty well, but that assumes (a).tm isn't already a TLD for some country (I haven't checked), (b) each country administers its.tm according to its own trademark laws, and (c) it won't matter unless we can get the f*cking lawyers out of the other domains and into the.tm domain where they belong (good luck getting parasites out of anything).
The only problem I have it trying to find the right modelines and configurations for higher resolutions and refresh rates. Things are better, configuration tools are almost complete.
Also, if you don't get the expected result, look at/var/log/XFree86.0.log. I recently had trouble because I had not set the correct hsync and vsync capabilities for my monitor, so despite the desired modelines being in there, the videocard refused to try them. The information in this file was invaluable in diagnosing the problem (grep for "not using default mode"
Im not saying Im agreeing with the parent post, but if you do, please remember that certain papers must be filed by you for a period of up to 10 years.. so you might want to do what most people in this situation does: buy a small file-safe... othervise you might end up having troubles with the IRS, and we dont want that, do we?
With regards to US personal federal income tax, the recordkeeping requirement is 3 years from filing or 2 years from payment, whichever is later. See 2002 Form 1040 Instructions (pdf), page 60.
Spam isn't hated because it is targetted advertising; precisely the opposite - SPAM is hated because it is untargetted.
Not exactly. I strongly dislike almost all advertising. If I want to buy something, I'll do the research myself. Otherwise, I resent the intrusion. Particularly when it wastes my time, abuses shared resources, takes advantage of the fact that I am at times a captive audience (eg in a movie theater), or is a blight.
The wire used for helium-cooled supercon magnets (Nb-Sn or Nb-Bi alloys) has performance envelope that limits the conditions under which it will superconduct. The factors describing this envelope are
the temperature
the current
the magnetic field
Getting to 20T was accomplished by
better alloys -- mainly higher Nb content iirc
lower temperature -- achieved by cryopumping the liquid helium (LHe)
more turns in the winding, allows higher magnetic field without increasing the current
Unfortunately, the critical field (the field at which the material goes non-superconducting) is around 20T. Since the innermost coils are sitting in a field near the field at the bore (these are toroidally wound magnets), you need to use a different material. In this case, that material is HTSC wire. This poses some big engineering problems, including making a sufficient length of the wire (measured in km), and making superconducting joints between the HTSC coil and the LTSC coils. It appears that this team has solved these problems, congrats to them.
What is needed here is both strict safety regulation and a ban or heavy tariff on goods from countries that do not enforce a basic level of similar reguations. This will force IBM and others to clean up their act and prevent them from just transfering the plants overseas.
Mod parent up.
It should not be possible to reduce manufacturing costs by offshoring in order to skirt basic workplace safety, child labor, or environmental regulations.
somehow, some AG has to start treating microsofts behavior as a criminal matter. holding managers and executives personally responsible is the only way their culture will change.
n top of everything, most of the powerful people of the bush administartion (such as Cheney, Powel and Rumsfield for example) were important people in the reagan administration.
not so.
this may be ot but the parent was modded up, so...
Cheney
was a US Congressman from Wyoming
during the Reagan administration. He was White House Chief of Staff under Ford, and Secretary of Defense under Bush I.
Just curious. I'm still fuzzy on why anybody's worried about information being collected. So far, the only problem I've had with it is now my email address is recieving 'special offers!' a couple of times a day.
doubleclick was particularly dangerous from a privacy perspective because they served ads on so many different sites. this lets them piece together a much more comprehensive picture of your online activity than any commercial site can (since your browser permits access to all dblclick cookies, even through your're browsing somewhere else).
(warning - unsubstantiated statistics to follow)
as an aside, more sites seem to be moving back to serving ads off of the same server as the
page itself (e.g. nytimes).
might be due to the with the hosts 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net trick.
Re:I'm not against IP laws, but...
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Patent Nonsense
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· Score: 2, Interesting
The patent process wasn't originally this dysfunctional. There was a time when it provided legitimate protection to inventors for a limited period of time.
the patent process also provided the public with information about the invention in exchange for that protection.
patents also must provide sufficient information for someone "skilled in the art" to reproduce the work. this reduction to practice provides some justification for granting a limited monopoly on the product, even in the case of inventions that people in the field know are possible but have not successfully reduced to practice.
Software patents fail this argument when they fail to provide source (and may not pass it even if they do).
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I think the key here is that the typical use pattern for academic works is different than for works intended for the general public. Frequently the reader of an academic journal is interested only in a specific fact, and they will often be able to glean this fact from the small amount of context provided in the Google search results. This threatens the revenue model of academic journal publishers, which is a form of bundling, namely, charging the university libraries for the whole journal or for several related journals put out by the same publisher.
The Ethiopian 961 incident at least shows that it is possible for floatation devices to be useful.
(yes, i know the plane did catch a wing and break apart, and i know that some passengers drowned because they preinflated their life vests and were trapped in the flooded fuselage as a result)
Using OpenBSD pf(4):
An IIS server behind this isn't seeing those packets.
as another poster pointed out, it was Dick Rutan and Jeannie Yeager. The plane is now hanging in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. It does not look like a typical aircraft -- the aspect ratio of the wings is very high.
used to have the prefbar installed some time ago. I just went back and tried to install it as a normal user and it failed. (required file not found) There is a link on the page you referred to for Linux/*nix installation instructions that is 404. Additionally, there is a link for a mailing list on the page that does not exist. It looks like development on this tool is dead. Does anyone know any different?
You have to install as root. I just installed it and it looks great. Somebody mod grandparent up.
I have found this modeline generator very useful.
Also, if you don't get the expected result, look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log. I recently had trouble because I had not set the correct hsync and vsync capabilities for my monitor, so despite the desired modelines being in there, the videocard refused to try them. The information in this file was invaluable in diagnosing the problem (grep for "not using default mode"
With regards to US personal federal income tax, the recordkeeping requirement is 3 years from filing or 2 years from payment, whichever is later. See 2002 Form 1040 Instructions (pdf), page 60.
For example, I have 9 computers running Seti@home.
You are clearly not paying your own electricity bills.
Spam isn't hated because it is targetted advertising; precisely the opposite - SPAM is hated because it is untargetted.
Not exactly. I strongly dislike almost all advertising. If I want to buy something, I'll do the research myself. Otherwise, I resent the intrusion. Particularly when it wastes my time, abuses shared resources, takes advantage of the fact that I am at times a captive audience (eg in a movie theater), or is a blight.
Mod me to hell, it had to be said.The wire used for helium-cooled supercon magnets (Nb-Sn or Nb-Bi alloys) has performance envelope that limits the conditions under which it will superconduct. The factors describing this envelope are
- the temperature
- the current
- the magnetic field
Getting to 20T was accomplished by- better alloys -- mainly higher Nb content iirc
- lower temperature -- achieved by cryopumping the liquid helium (LHe)
- more turns in the winding, allows higher magnetic field without increasing the current
Unfortunately, the critical field (the field at which the material goes non-superconducting) is around 20T. Since the innermost coils are sitting in a field near the field at the bore (these are toroidally wound magnets), you need to use a different material. In this case, that material is HTSC wire. This poses some big engineering problems, including making a sufficient length of the wire (measured in km), and making superconducting joints between the HTSC coil and the LTSC coils. It appears that this team has solved these problems, congrats to them.What is needed here is both strict safety regulation and a ban or heavy tariff on goods from countries that do not enforce a basic level of similar reguations. This will force IBM and others to clean up their act and prevent them from just transfering the plants overseas.
Mod parent up.
It should not be possible to reduce manufacturing costs by offshoring in order to skirt basic workplace safety, child labor, or environmental regulations.
somehow, some AG has to start treating microsofts behavior as a criminal matter. holding managers and executives personally responsible is the only way their culture will change.
This problem is compounded by the fact that by default most Windows facilities and software likes to hide the file extension.
Why doesn't Outlook/OE warn on executable attachments trying to masquerade as files of other types, to wit
sometimes it's good to use the system ...
even better, is there a way i can flood the system with fake data. multiple dobs and mothers maiden names associated with my ssn?
n top of everything, most of the powerful people of the bush administartion (such as Cheney, Powel and Rumsfield for example) were important people in the reagan administration.
not so.
this may be ot but the parent was modded up, so...
Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense under Gerald Ford. He left public life in 1977.
Cheney was a US Congressman from Wyoming during the Reagan administration. He was White House Chief of Staff under Ford, and Secretary of Defense under Bush I.
Powell was in the military until 1993.
i was gonna mod this thread but since nobody has mentioned it yet, i like YoSucker to pull Yahoo mail down to my linux box.
(warning - unsubstantiated statistics to follow)
as an aside, more sites seem to be moving back to serving ads off of the same server as the page itself (e.g. nytimes). might be due to the with the hosts 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net trick.
the patent process also provided the public with information about the invention in exchange for that protection.
patents also must provide sufficient information for someone "skilled in the art" to reproduce the work. this reduction to practice provides some justification for granting a limited monopoly on the product, even in the case of inventions that people in the field know are possible but have not successfully reduced to practice.
Software patents fail this argument when they fail to provide source (and may not pass it even if they do).
are you still allowed to vote in the other party's primary in ca? im a registered democrat, but its not like gray needs my vote this time around.
tivo isn't about hw at all. they outsource building the hw (and subsidize it as well)