I remember hearing that microwaves can store charges in the thousands of volts, at relatively high current (I forget exactly how much). CRT devices (Monitors, TVs, etc.) can also store kV charges, but only at a few mA... it's probably still more than enough to kill a person, though. As the other reply said, it's not line current that's killing these people.
They've already passed the point of no return. They've alientated and threatened their potential and actual customers to the point where huge civil litigation (or a buyout) is the only thing that can give them the capital they need to survive for more than a few months. For that matter, even the full $3 billion they're asking won't save them for very long if their income slows to a trickle. It would seem logical that SCO is looking for a buyout, but if they are, they're going about it very poorly.
This is a touchy subject, so I'm going to try and be as civil as possible about it while defending what I see as the truth. Feel free to argue my points, but I'm hoping this won't degenerate into a flame.
I din't realize faked elections where you get 100% of the vote qualified as legal.
worked for bush, albiet he did not have to get 100% of the vote he just had to have a tragedy happen to secure him into office.
You're arguing that Bush won a faked election in Nov-Dec. 2000 based on what happened in Sep. 2001? This argument is a non-sequitur: How does a faked election in which there is only one candidate have anything to do with Sep. 11 securing Bush in office anyway?
They hate us? I guess you have not been there. Last I was there, they were quite grateful for expelling Saddam after he had raped their women and looted their country.
never been there but im sure raping and looting (because you know he did this personally) is alot worse than killing how many and starting a holy war. the point is americans only understand force. i thought maybe they would wise up after 9/11 but no, they jsut crawled deeper into their hole.
The U.S. wouldn't start a "holy war" - the days when Western civilization would call a war "holy" went out with the Scientific Revolution. The argument posed in the parent topic was that Kuwait does not hate us because we stopped Saddam from invading their country 12 years ago. The argument you replied with was that America only understands force. Another non-sequitur.
Good argument. HAHAHAHAHA, I will have to try that sometime. I know, missiles landing in your backyard are not a threat.
isreal has its own problems that are alot closer to home. i think thats what he meant. has iraq ever attacked isreal with anything? have any missles of any type been found in iraq? dont missles use fuel, launching facilities, etc... where are they? oh thats right he conviently destroyed them without using them.
Yes, Iraq did attack Israel with missiles during the first Gulf War. Israel held back from retaliating (at America's request, I believe). And yes, missiles have been found in Iraq. Don't you remember the whole controversy over the (banned) Al-Samoud missiles that were found? Iraq did fire missiles at America's base in Kuwait City during the first few days of the war, but their accuracy was off.
Try watching something other than CNN once in awhile and form a rational, balanced opinion instead of the horsecrap you just tried to spew - which was of course moderated up in typical Slashdot herd liberalism mentality, regardless of its merits. It was about as insightful as a goatse post.
well that was the best thing youve said yet as CNN is very hard to the right of the political spectrum. what would you suggest he watches? fox news? seriously there is NO unbiased media in the USA. i have seen what passes for impartial journalism there and my god... you people dont even talk about sept 11 anymore. except that it was a horrible tradgedy. you dont question what your govt could have done, you dont question why things like the key bits of evidence (passport falling from plane, flight manuals in cars parked near by, drunken bragging by MUSLIMs who dont drink or go to hooters) dont make any sense at all.
You're right - all journalism is biased one way or another. Therefore, don't rely on one source. Check Google News - it's a computer-generated list of news sites that feature current articles. You can read CNN as easily as Al-Jazeera there, and it's compiled by a computer, so there's no bias in the listing. As for not talking about Sep. 11, you can't just brood over a national tragedy forever. You've got to pick up the pieces and get on with your life. There are too many things happening in 2003 to keep reporting what happened in 2001. The government obviously has paid attention t
nothing forces you to have a publicly available telephone. get a private phone from a company that DOES NOT sell/distribute your number. nothing forces you to watch television, but the channels are there, beaming onto your property filled with annoying commercials! by the same token, these annoying marketing ploys should be outlawed and the companies should be fined for marketing over these public airways (radio/tv, even any quiet marketing such as the "friends" cast drinking a budweiser should be banned and fined heavily).
Commercials fund TV and radio broadcasting stations, which in turn provide me with content. With the exception of AT&T, revenue from telemarketing calls does not help build larger networks or otherwise make my phone calling experience a better one in any way. TV marketing is a bargain. Telemarketing is an assault.
The U.S. has the most power of any country, as does Microsoft, and uses that power to bully around other countries. It forces its citizens to agree to be bound by U.S. laws, then changes them without its citizens' consent (Although every country in the world save a pure democracy does this, since the citizens themselves aren't doing the voting). It doesn't trust its citizens very much and wants to know everything that they're doing all of the time (Though they're partially justified in this because it will help them protect the country). I can easily see the similarity between the U.S. and Microsoft.
That's how direct democracy works. America's a representative democracy. A few hundred people make laws that affect millions here, and the people have no say if those few hundred people choose to ignore them.
Of course, no society can just ignore 60 million people calling for a law to be changed, so by all means, what the EFF is doing is commendable and should be continued.
I'm surprised that you managed to get DRI working with the Mobility 7500. Not only does ATI not have Mobility drivers for even Windows OSes, but agpgart won't even detect my Mobility (ATI's bridge is unsupported), leaving me with no way of getting DRI on the machine until the bridge is supported. I'd use an NVidia over an ATI any day, simply because of the drivers.
It's not that we're not writing our congressmen... it's that they're not listening, and there isn't much we can do about it if they don't. Representative democracy is overrated. 500 people should not be making laws that govern millions.
If you have some method of change to suggest other than writing to my congressmen and boycotting the RIAA, both of which I already do, I'm all ears:)
The other thing is that everyone you know would be able to see you peeking at somebody's mother in the shower, and everyone could watch them watching you, etc.
That's what puts a check on the entire system: That anyone can watch someone watching someone else. Also, though this is probably an error of omission on my part when I was posting my original message, Brinn doesn't want cameras everywhere; he's just saying that cameras are going to end up on every street sooner or later, and society would be better off if anyone could monitor the cameras, rather than just the police. He does mention that certain "indoor areas" wouldn't be monitored in his vision as well. I can't really explain it too well without referring to an excerpt from the book, though the one given on Amazon.com is a very nice summary.
Requiring music to be bought in albums is like requiring me to buy the entire Office XP suite in order to get Word or Frontpage. Even if the entire suite would be more useful (Greater art than their constituant parts), I'm still not obligated to purchase software that I don't want to purchase because I want some other piece of software. I'd just forget about the entire suite and download OpenOffice if I had to buy the entire package.
The same thing applies to image art. I won't buy all of Dali's works simply because I like the Persistance of Memory.
Sounds very much like what David Brinn says in his book, the Transparent Society. Brinn discusses a concept called the "Accountability Matrix", in which there are four types of technologies: Those that help me spy on others, those that prevent me from spying on others, those that help others spy on me, and those that prevent others from spying on me (In no particular order). To sum it up, he argues that the technologies that prevent spying only hurt society, whereas the other two help it. I'd agree, particularly after wading through difficult-to-identify spam messages.
Aside from the fact that this sets a legal precedent for any ISP, that would be punishing Verizon for trying to defend their users' privacy rights. Would AOL or MSN (Just using two popular ISPs as examples) fight for your rights just as ardently?
And you'd likely lose if Sen. Hatch's proposal becomes reality, because all someone has to do is yell "piracy!" to justify destroying your machine. Even if you won a court case, that wouldn't get you your data back. Unless you made a backup three minutes before the RIAA/thought police/whoever decided to blow your machine up, you're still going to lose data and time.
Someone here posted a link to a site called RIAA Radar a while back in some other RIAA-related article. I don't know how complete the list is (It's technically not even a list, though I imagine you could browse it if you're really interested), but it's pretty useful when looking to buy CDs while boycotting the RIAA.
Ok, so those aren't obvious carriers in the same way that you classified the filetypes that you listed. However, they are all potentially capable of carrying and delivering malicious code and, at the same time, all potentially valid attachment types.
The problem with blocking attachments is that certain filetypes are often used for virus distribution but also for valid email. Something like PIF can be blocked because no one sends PIF files as attachments. Blocking an EXE or a DOC file may have unforseen consequences, however. The solution isn't to block every suspicious filetype that comes through. Running those files through a virus scanner on the server side would probably be a good idea, though. Of course, that'd use more CPU time than just delivering the message, so messages might end up being delayed a few seconds, but it's a small price to pay.
Perhaps if SCO would actually reveal the code to the public, a version could be made that is clean of "SCO's" code. Of course, they might just get laughed at if they reveal the code.
People say that spam is a social problem, not a technical one. However, it is a technical problem, moreso than a social one, and that is why laws such as this one are not going to work: You can't sue someone until you identify them. The reason that spam is such a problem in the first place is because a large percentage of spammers (or, more likely, the spammers' mass mailing programs) go through great lengths to disguise the origin of the message. Obviously, if the message had a reliable source address, it would be much easier to track down and stop spammers, since they would have a finite number of source addresses to work with. Yes, it would create pandemonium for ISPs, but if ISPs responded (by threatening them with a $1000 per message lawsuit) to complaints about spamming quickly, it would not be a problem for long. Of course, this wouldn't work as well overseas, since there would be no such law, but so long as a new system that prevents email spoofing is implemented worldwide, the problem would still be largely under control.
The problem is actually replacing SMTP with something more reliable. It's like trying to implement IPv6... it's not going to happen in a day.
The only reason Linux isn't compatible with most hardware is because most hardware companies don't want to be bothered developing drivers for a less popular platform (*Cough* ATI). Theoretically, when Linux becomes a bit more mainstream, it will become nearly as supportive of hardware as Windows is.
I agree about the ease of use argument, though. Until Linux becomes easier to install and use, it's not going to be as popular as Windows.
The fault of the person breaking in? Yes. The game developers aren't the ones responsible for this; the people who broke into the game are. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that the game's creators will lose money as a result of this. That's good, because it provides an incentive to secure the software.
Continue to use word format. The conversion is decent as-is and will only improve with time.
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It's a program that automatically fills out web forms for you. I'm surprised anyone at all has downloaded it, since I find autocompletion the most annoying thing a web browser can do. They have a bunch of other programs now too, but they all carry the same type of spyware.
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I remember hearing that microwaves can store charges in the thousands of volts, at relatively high current (I forget exactly how much). CRT devices (Monitors, TVs, etc.) can also store kV charges, but only at a few mA... it's probably still more than enough to kill a person, though. As the other reply said, it's not line current that's killing these people.
They've already passed the point of no return. They've alientated and threatened their potential and actual customers to the point where huge civil litigation (or a buyout) is the only thing that can give them the capital they need to survive for more than a few months. For that matter, even the full $3 billion they're asking won't save them for very long if their income slows to a trickle. It would seem logical that SCO is looking for a buyout, but if they are, they're going about it very poorly.
You're arguing that Bush won a faked election in Nov-Dec. 2000 based on what happened in Sep. 2001? This argument is a non-sequitur: How does a faked election in which there is only one candidate have anything to do with Sep. 11 securing Bush in office anyway?
The U.S. wouldn't start a "holy war" - the days when Western civilization would call a war "holy" went out with the Scientific Revolution. The argument posed in the parent topic was that Kuwait does not hate us because we stopped Saddam from invading their country 12 years ago. The argument you replied with was that America only understands force. Another non-sequitur.
Yes, Iraq did attack Israel with missiles during the first Gulf War. Israel held back from retaliating (at America's request, I believe). And yes, missiles have been found in Iraq. Don't you remember the whole controversy over the (banned) Al-Samoud missiles that were found? Iraq did fire missiles at America's base in Kuwait City during the first few days of the war, but their accuracy was off.
You're right - all journalism is biased one way or another. Therefore, don't rely on one source. Check Google News - it's a computer-generated list of news sites that feature current articles. You can read CNN as easily as Al-Jazeera there, and it's compiled by a computer, so there's no bias in the listing. As for not talking about Sep. 11, you can't just brood over a national tragedy forever. You've got to pick up the pieces and get on with your life. There are too many things happening in 2003 to keep reporting what happened in 2001. The government obviously has paid attention t
The U.S. has the most power of any country, as does Microsoft, and uses that power to bully around other countries. It forces its citizens to agree to be bound by U.S. laws, then changes them without its citizens' consent (Although every country in the world save a pure democracy does this, since the citizens themselves aren't doing the voting). It doesn't trust its citizens very much and wants to know everything that they're doing all of the time (Though they're partially justified in this because it will help them protect the country). I can easily see the similarity between the U.S. and Microsoft.
That's how direct democracy works. America's a representative democracy. A few hundred people make laws that affect millions here, and the people have no say if those few hundred people choose to ignore them.
Of course, no society can just ignore 60 million people calling for a law to be changed, so by all means, what the EFF is doing is commendable and should be continued.
The people that matter to the politicians want harsher copyright laws. Congress is giving people what they want... just not the right people.
I'm surprised that you managed to get DRI working with the Mobility 7500. Not only does ATI not have Mobility drivers for even Windows OSes, but agpgart won't even detect my Mobility (ATI's bridge is unsupported), leaving me with no way of getting DRI on the machine until the bridge is supported. I'd use an NVidia over an ATI any day, simply because of the drivers.
The problem is, they're not telling us what the trouble-causing code is without signing an NDA!
It's not that we're not writing our congressmen... it's that they're not listening, and there isn't much we can do about it if they don't. Representative democracy is overrated. 500 people should not be making laws that govern millions. If you have some method of change to suggest other than writing to my congressmen and boycotting the RIAA, both of which I already do, I'm all ears :)
That's what puts a check on the entire system: That anyone can watch someone watching someone else. Also, though this is probably an error of omission on my part when I was posting my original message, Brinn doesn't want cameras everywhere; he's just saying that cameras are going to end up on every street sooner or later, and society would be better off if anyone could monitor the cameras, rather than just the police. He does mention that certain "indoor areas" wouldn't be monitored in his vision as well. I can't really explain it too well without referring to an excerpt from the book, though the one given on Amazon.com is a very nice summary.
Requiring music to be bought in albums is like requiring me to buy the entire Office XP suite in order to get Word or Frontpage. Even if the entire suite would be more useful (Greater art than their constituant parts), I'm still not obligated to purchase software that I don't want to purchase because I want some other piece of software. I'd just forget about the entire suite and download OpenOffice if I had to buy the entire package. The same thing applies to image art. I won't buy all of Dali's works simply because I like the Persistance of Memory.
Sounds very much like what David Brinn says in his book, the Transparent Society. Brinn discusses a concept called the "Accountability Matrix", in which there are four types of technologies: Those that help me spy on others, those that prevent me from spying on others, those that help others spy on me, and those that prevent others from spying on me (In no particular order). To sum it up, he argues that the technologies that prevent spying only hurt society, whereas the other two help it. I'd agree, particularly after wading through difficult-to-identify spam messages.
Aside from the fact that this sets a legal precedent for any ISP, that would be punishing Verizon for trying to defend their users' privacy rights. Would AOL or MSN (Just using two popular ISPs as examples) fight for your rights just as ardently?
And you'd likely lose if Sen. Hatch's proposal becomes reality, because all someone has to do is yell "piracy!" to justify destroying your machine. Even if you won a court case, that wouldn't get you your data back. Unless you made a backup three minutes before the RIAA/thought police/whoever decided to blow your machine up, you're still going to lose data and time.
Someone here posted a link to a site called RIAA Radar a while back in some other RIAA-related article. I don't know how complete the list is (It's technically not even a list, though I imagine you could browse it if you're really interested), but it's pretty useful when looking to buy CDs while boycotting the RIAA.
DOC, XLS, MDB, BAT, ZIP, TAR.*...
Ok, so those aren't obvious carriers in the same way that you classified the filetypes that you listed. However, they are all potentially capable of carrying and delivering malicious code and, at the same time, all potentially valid attachment types.
The problem with blocking attachments is that certain filetypes are often used for virus distribution but also for valid email. Something like PIF can be blocked because no one sends PIF files as attachments. Blocking an EXE or a DOC file may have unforseen consequences, however. The solution isn't to block every suspicious filetype that comes through. Running those files through a virus scanner on the server side would probably be a good idea, though. Of course, that'd use more CPU time than just delivering the message, so messages might end up being delayed a few seconds, but it's a small price to pay.
Perhaps if SCO would actually reveal the code to the public, a version could be made that is clean of "SCO's" code. Of course, they might just get laughed at if they reveal the code.
People say that spam is a social problem, not a technical one. However, it is a technical problem, moreso than a social one, and that is why laws such as this one are not going to work: You can't sue someone until you identify them. The reason that spam is such a problem in the first place is because a large percentage of spammers (or, more likely, the spammers' mass mailing programs) go through great lengths to disguise the origin of the message. Obviously, if the message had a reliable source address, it would be much easier to track down and stop spammers, since they would have a finite number of source addresses to work with. Yes, it would create pandemonium for ISPs, but if ISPs responded (by threatening them with a $1000 per message lawsuit) to complaints about spamming quickly, it would not be a problem for long. Of course, this wouldn't work as well overseas, since there would be no such law, but so long as a new system that prevents email spoofing is implemented worldwide, the problem would still be largely under control.
The problem is actually replacing SMTP with something more reliable. It's like trying to implement IPv6... it's not going to happen in a day.
The only reason Linux isn't compatible with most hardware is because most hardware companies don't want to be bothered developing drivers for a less popular platform (*Cough* ATI). Theoretically, when Linux becomes a bit more mainstream, it will become nearly as supportive of hardware as Windows is. I agree about the ease of use argument, though. Until Linux becomes easier to install and use, it's not going to be as popular as Windows.
The fault of the person breaking in? Yes. The game developers aren't the ones responsible for this; the people who broke into the game are. Of course, that doesn't change the fact that the game's creators will lose money as a result of this. That's good, because it provides an incentive to secure the software.
Viruses exists on dictionary.com, while virii (or viri) does not. That's good enough for me.
Continue to use word format. The conversion is decent as-is and will only improve with time.
It's a program that automatically fills out web forms for you. I'm surprised anyone at all has downloaded it, since I find autocompletion the most annoying thing a web browser can do. They have a bunch of other programs now too, but they all carry the same type of spyware.