The tactics employed by Motorola seem quite the same as the tobacco industry used regarding nicotine and tar levels and the effects of smoking on someone's health.
So can we expect Motorola (or other portable phone makers) to deny possible health damages to the same extend (with all the dirt etc) as the tobacco industry?
(I'm not sure myself of the effects of prolonged exposure to cell phones, but I think putting a 2W sender very close to your brain can't be very healthy...)
I was educated as graphic designer and learned myself webdesign before the web became mainstream. I did this for various ad-agencies for 6 years and went freelance after that. IT always had my interest, however the (back then) beta-requirements were too high for me. But IT always was there on the background, and on all my jobs I have always been involved in IT decisions and/or systems administration in some way.
My current IT sidejob involves fighting spam at a Dutch anti-spam organisation. But my money still comes from graphic and/or webdesign.
I recently installed Firefox on the home machine of an ex-coworker. Now she sort of understands things, but her daughter is the completely clueless MSN-type. So to prevent bad things from happening, I put a shortcut on her desktop to Firefox, and gave it the IE 'e'-icon.
The postings states that people seem to agree on the fact that laws can't do much in the fight against spam. I disagree on that. At the moment many countries have fairly good laws against spam. However, the problem is not with those laws, but the lack of enforcement of them. If countries aren't willing to setup a group/agency/team/etc. that has the technical expertise to trace and track the spammers and the legal abilities to use the existing laws to their full extent than those laws aren't going to be of much help.
Oh, and the correct URL for the English Spamvrij.nl website is www.free-of-spam.nl.
Data from Startrek TNG played poker
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The android Data, one of the most popular characters in TNG amongst geeks, is a fanatic poker player. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Because most modern movies are recorded in Cinemascope, which is not 16:9, but 2.35:1. So cool movies like LOTR still have a nice black bar on the top and bottom when viewed on a Shiny! 16:9 plasma screen.
Did this a few years ago...
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But with 5,25" floppies. A standard 360KB floppy could be reformatted to contain a staggering 800KB. To read them back you needed to load a 5KB driver called fm80.
Ofcourse, this practice became obsolete with the introduction of the 3,5" 1,4 MB disks.
Barry, How do you fel about SPEWS? As a blacklist it filters many spammers, but it's also known to list many innocent people (although it is explained why this happens).
Exploits for this vulnerability are already all over the internet, and the first boxes have been hacked. Just yesterday I read in a newsgroup that a Dutch ISP had a box cracked, probably because of this hole. So if you own a RaQ please take some extra care and look twice if you're safe.
The test site (which can be seen on the Transrapid site is quite close to the Dutch borders. As my dad works as a journalist in that area, he had to do a story on it once. Which included a few rounds in the train on the 8-shaped test track in Lathen, Germany. Due to some luck I normally never encounter I had the oppurtunity to go with him and thus also do a few rounds on the track. And I must say, it is nothing less than impressive. We didn't go faster than about 340 km/h, but doing that a few meters above the ground in a very silent train was an unforgetable experience. For short-long-distance (100-500 km.) this is an ideal solution. Clean, fast and just ultra-slick. I hope this system will now finally get some more attention, because it deserves it and is a very good replacement for short-distance flying and long-distance car driving. Hurray for Transrapid!
When a fire starts outside of the systemsroom you can have all the Halon gas you want, but it won't help. And if it would, the water used by the firedepartment would drown all machines. This is not just a datacenter which went up in flames, it's two wings of a whole building, which also happened to host the utwente.nl datacenter.
The Dutch LFS FTP mirror was also hosted at the University of Twente, which means it's also down. The Dutch HTTP mirror should work properly, since it's outside utwente.nl space.
Last news is that HP (Who supplied most of the UT backbone equipment) is on its way with emergency equipment to have things up and running somewhere tomorrow.
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The tactics employed by Motorola seem quite the same as the tobacco industry used regarding nicotine and tar levels and the effects of smoking on someone's health.
So can we expect Motorola (or other portable phone makers) to deny possible health damages to the same extend (with all the dirt etc) as the tobacco industry?
(I'm not sure myself of the effects of prolonged exposure to cell phones, but I think putting a 2W sender very close to your brain can't be very healthy...)
This groups-beta goed right against Google's corporate mantra of "don't be evil".
Well, they would become evil sooner or later (all big things do), so I guess this is the time.
Beer as in 'free'?
I was educated as graphic designer and learned myself webdesign before the web became mainstream. I did this for various ad-agencies for 6 years and went freelance after that. IT always had my interest, however the (back then) beta-requirements were too high for me. But IT always was there on the background, and on all my jobs I have always been involved in IT decisions and/or systems administration in some way.
My current IT sidejob involves fighting spam at a Dutch anti-spam organisation. But my money still comes from graphic and/or webdesign.
I recently installed Firefox on the home machine of an ex-coworker. Now she sort of understands things, but her daughter is the completely clueless MSN-type. So to prevent bad things from happening, I put a shortcut on her desktop to Firefox, and gave it the IE 'e'-icon.
The postings states that people seem to agree on the fact that laws can't do much in the fight against spam. I disagree on that. At the moment many countries have fairly good laws against spam. However, the problem is not with those laws, but the lack of enforcement of them. If countries aren't willing to setup a group/agency/team/etc. that has the technical expertise to trace and track the spammers and the legal abilities to use the existing laws to their full extent than those laws aren't going to be of much help.
Oh, and the correct URL for the English Spamvrij.nl website is www.free-of-spam.nl.
The android Data, one of the most popular characters in TNG amongst geeks, is a fanatic poker player. Coincidence? I don't think so.
The facts:
Spamhaus SBL record
SPEWS record
This particular spammer (Patrick de Bruin) used IP-address 202.9.156.34 for a while, in Dishnet netspace.
It's already /.'ed with only 2 comments under the story :(
Because most modern movies are recorded in Cinemascope, which is not 16:9, but 2.35:1. So cool movies like LOTR still have a nice black bar on the top and bottom when viewed on a Shiny! 16:9 plasma screen.
But with 5,25" floppies. A standard 360KB floppy could be reformatted to contain a staggering 800KB. To read them back you needed to load a 5KB driver called fm80.
Ofcourse, this practice became obsolete with the introduction of the 3,5" 1,4 MB disks.
I owned my roommates computer last nite...and she couldnt trace NOTHING! Err...yes...it would have been EASIER to go into her room...but less fun
:)
Only on Slashdot men find more joy in owning a girls pc than actually owning the actual girl
try using a IPv6 mirror, as not many people yet use IPv6 most IPv6 mirrors have some free slots.
If you have to use IIS for some reason, put a Squid proxy running on your favorite OS in front of it. It will save you a lot of trouble.
One word: sneakernet.
You mean they didn't already have a separate network? Well, I didn't think high of them anyway, but here's yet another reason why.
Barry, How do you fel about SPEWS? As a blacklist it filters many spammers, but it's also known to list many innocent people (although it is explained why this happens).
Quote:
'a phenomenon called "ballistic magnetoresistance" which is not completely understood'
Now, would you trust your data to a phenomenon that is not completely understood? I know I wouldn't
I hope they choose something else than the infamous wuftpd, or else the satellite might be doing other things then intended by the owners...
Exploits for this vulnerability are already all over the internet, and the first boxes have been hacked. Just yesterday I read in a newsgroup that a Dutch ISP had a box cracked, probably because of this hole. So if you own a RaQ please take some extra care and look twice if you're safe.
Very happy, because I *am* my own provider. I co-own a small webhoster :)
The test site (which can be seen on the Transrapid site is quite close to the Dutch borders. As my dad works as a journalist in that area, he had to do a story on it once. Which included a few rounds in the train on the 8-shaped test track in Lathen, Germany. Due to some luck I normally never encounter I had the oppurtunity to go with him and thus also do a few rounds on the track. And I must say, it is nothing less than impressive. We didn't go faster than about 340 km/h, but doing that a few meters above the ground in a very silent train was an unforgetable experience. For short-long-distance (100-500 km.) this is an ideal solution. Clean, fast and just ultra-slick. I hope this system will now finally get some more attention, because it deserves it and is a very good replacement for short-distance flying and long-distance car driving. Hurray for Transrapid!
When a fire starts outside of the systemsroom you can have all the Halon gas you want, but it won't help. And if it would, the water used by the firedepartment would drown all machines. This is not just a datacenter which went up in flames, it's two wings of a whole building, which also happened to host the utwente.nl datacenter.
The Dutch LFS FTP mirror was also hosted at the University of Twente, which means it's also down. The Dutch HTTP mirror should work properly, since it's outside utwente.nl space.
Last news is that HP (Who supplied most of the UT backbone equipment) is on its way with emergency equipment to have things up and running somewhere tomorrow.
Once again, Gentoo users wouldn't have had any problems, thanks to the wonderful portage system.