Could you come up with something that could potentially be deployed widely? I'm having trouble seeing 'Nightclub doorman' as an actual security system.
Look at it this way - do you tell all your coworkers your login password? No? Then you're practising security through obscurity.
Are you daft? Security through obscurity refers to not telling people the access method. It has nothing to do with protecting a shared secret. Good luck inventing a security system that lacks a shared secret.
the extreme cruelties and conflicts of desperation are not from lack of cadillacs. It's from fundamental issues like lack of food, water, medicine, and basic comforts.
And these are lacking because of political reasons, not an actual shortage of supply. Fixing the political problem will fix the starvation problem.
Then you spend $75 to file for a provisional patent so you can test market it and beat the bushes for investors for a year. If it flies, then you apply for full patent protection and grow a millionare. The patent protects you from being stomped on by a multibillion dollar corp who could just simply steal your invention so they could out-advertise and out-market you.
Or the large company decides that it's cheaper to steal your patented invention and bankrupt you with lawyers.
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, what the hell do you want, a Communist regime? "To every one according to their need, from everyone according to their ability"? Grow up and learn that if you apply yourself, you too can eventually make a decent income, and then bitch about how much the big bad government takes from your paycheck.
No, he's referring to the french revolution. You remember that one, right? The average worker couldn't afford to buy bread, so revolution was inevitable. The current crop of aristocrats don't seem terribly concerned with the welfare of the masses.
Fine here's a use. Take for example a small company that operates out of the employees homes. Calls are made from from personal phones, cell phones, wherever. There is one phone number that is designated as the incoming number for the company. You fake caller ID on all calls to display the main number of the caller so that you only receive a call at the main location and your customers do not end up getting someones personal answering machine when they try to return a missed call.
That's not a use. Any company worth their name will have a pbx that does that already and/or has the phone company set up to do the same.
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So, it was fool-proof until someone went and designed a better fool?
No, crappy as it was, it was reasonably safe until some idjit went and sabotged it. We're much better than the Soviets (not known for safety-minded manufacturing) at building nuke plants. We just can't because of a bunch of soft-headed fools.
Any casual look at the content of this 113kb file is enough to determine without a doubt that these are NOT infringing files. There should be a law against this type of harassment without so much as a glance at the facts.
Well, there's always Barratry. Who's going to step up for that one?
Right, but if you could get by on 100 watts, or less, then why do you need 350, 400, 500, or larger PSU?
Because you need a certain Amp rating on +5 and +12 for startup. After tahta spike, 100-200W is about normal, and you aren't likely to increase that much with upgrades - hard disks are around 5-10W, and sound cards are minimal.
I know my powerbill doubled after I built my home PC and it's not even overclocked (declocked a bit actually) and I can put my hand behind the PSU fan and feel that warm air coming out as anecdotal eveidence that AC current is being converted to heat somwhere in the box.
Yeah, that's likely. What month did you build your box? Your AC unit is probably responsible for half of that power bill, as it runs around 3kW. I can feel warm air from my computer, and it runs around 50-100W
If you're interested in using less power, get something with a Transmeta CPU or other CPU which is low power and minimize the features and components of your computer. And by all means, turn the damn thing off when you're not using it.
Or get an AMD64 (low power/high performance) turn off the monitor. You use less power than you think.
Patents expire if Microsoft and GlaxoSmithKline don't sweet-talk Congress into a delusion that repeated term extensions are good for the American economy.
When has Congress ever extended terms for patents?
Although the third company would probably be run out of business by the screaming masses shouting "your plugin is a derivative work therefor it must be made open source!"
Easily countered by specifically disclaiming plugins as derivatives, perhaps by adding language defining the plugin interface as the boundary of the product (not a lawyer). Of course, some people won't be reasoned with, but they weren't going to give you money anyway.
That's the deer's fault? Animals weren't put here so we could shoot them when they interfered with our driving habits.
We displaced the deer's predators, so now we have to take their place. Would you prefer we leave them alone so they could binge and starve and kill a lot of us?
I've often wondered why hunters don't just use a camera with a telephoto lense (the same zoom as the scope would be) with cross hairs pained on the lense...that way you can stalk and hunt all you want and nothing has to die.
I think you're missing a fundamental part of hunting. You hunt an animal, you kill it, then you eat it. If you don't like it, fine, but you don't speak for all of us.
Can I get some linkage on that? Or is it BS? (Specifically the.30-.30 WInchester part)
In order to have any chance of stopping a rifle round, you need a class 4 vest, which is heavy, expensive, and restrictive. Cops typically use class 2 or 3 vests, as most criminals use handguns, not rifles. You need a powerful round to go 500 yards accurately.
Given the cothermic limitation on implementing 'cores' (or independent dies) on one surface, it seems a clever but limited hack to increase the performance by effectively implementing multiple CPUs on the same chip.
Of course, in my experience, AMD64s are fairly cool compared to Intel's stuff. You could porbably do a dual core AMD64 at 2Ghz for way under 100W.
Who wouldn't want to be able to take summers off and work only a few hours a week..
I happen to know a few teachers. They work fairly long hours grading tests, doing lesson plans and so on. They also get to attend seminars on their summer break and usually must get an MS on their own dime within 5 years.
Really, the worst thing about this book is that it doesn't come with a poster of just a bullet-pointed list of facts and fallacies that you can nail to your office wall (or your boss's).
BUT in my quest to get out of the debt that was actually impossible to do on my own (when the vampires move you to 26% interest, and then move your bill to a irregular schedule where you have 7 days from the time its mailed to pay or you will be considered late with a $30 late fee, and BTW we just lowered your credit, so you are now over the limit and thats another $30 over the limit fee and a few months later, your original $1000 in credit card fees is now $3500 without charging anything -- I'd consider that impossible to get out of).
If they had done that to me, I'd offer $1300 paid over 12 months or nothing at all. I can't see a judge allowing 2500% in fees and charges to stand.
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Could you come up with something that could potentially be deployed widely? I'm having trouble seeing 'Nightclub doorman' as an actual security system.
Look at it this way - do you tell all your coworkers your login password? No? Then you're practising security through obscurity.
Are you daft? Security through obscurity refers to not telling people the access method. It has nothing to do with protecting a shared secret. Good luck inventing a security system that lacks a shared secret.
I still haven't heard what's wrong with SPF.
It doesn't address the problem of spam. With SPF, you get authenticated spam from some throwaway domain.
the extreme cruelties and conflicts of desperation are not from lack of cadillacs. It's from fundamental issues like lack of food, water, medicine, and basic comforts.
And these are lacking because of political reasons, not an actual shortage of supply. Fixing the political problem will fix the starvation problem.
Then you spend $75 to file for a provisional patent so you can test market it and beat the bushes for investors for a year. If it flies, then you apply for full patent protection and grow a millionare. The patent protects you from being stomped on by a multibillion dollar corp who could just simply steal your invention so they could out-advertise and out-market you.
Or the large company decides that it's cheaper to steal your patented invention and bankrupt you with lawyers.
once Indian work becomes too expensive a magic wall will stop cheap UK and US workers providing those same services.
Yeah, a magic chinese wall!
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick, what the hell do you want, a Communist regime? "To every one according to their need, from everyone according to their ability"? Grow up and learn that if you apply yourself, you too can eventually make a decent income, and then bitch about how much the big bad government takes from your paycheck.
No, he's referring to the french revolution. You remember that one, right? The average worker couldn't afford to buy bread, so revolution was inevitable. The current crop of aristocrats don't seem terribly concerned with the welfare of the masses.
Fine here's a use. Take for example a small company that operates out of the employees homes. Calls are made from from personal phones, cell phones, wherever. There is one phone number that is designated as the incoming number for the company. You fake caller ID on all calls to display the main number of the caller so that you only receive a call at the main location and your customers do not end up getting someones personal answering machine when they try to return a missed call.
That's not a use. Any company worth their name will have a pbx that does that already and/or has the phone company set up to do the same.
So, it was fool-proof until someone went and designed a better fool?
No, crappy as it was, it was reasonably safe until some idjit went and sabotged it. We're much better than the Soviets (not known for safety-minded manufacturing) at building nuke plants. We just can't because of a bunch of soft-headed fools.
Any casual look at the content of this 113kb file is enough to determine without a doubt that these are NOT infringing files. There should be a law against this type of harassment without so much as a glance at the facts.
Well, there's always Barratry. Who's going to step up for that one?
A nine drive SATA NAS with a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4, 6 fans, draws 3 amps at start up, 2 when running. (360 to 240 watts)
Most of that is the SATA drives.
That's what, 15W per drive + about 50-60 for the rest of the system? Not bad. Of course, I just checked, and most SATA disks idle at
Right, but if you could get by on 100 watts, or less, then why do you need 350, 400, 500, or larger PSU?
Because you need a certain Amp rating on +5 and +12 for startup. After tahta spike, 100-200W is about normal, and you aren't likely to increase that much with upgrades - hard disks are around 5-10W, and sound cards are minimal.
I know my powerbill doubled after I built my home PC and it's not even overclocked (declocked a bit actually) and I can put my hand behind the PSU fan and feel that warm air coming out as anecdotal eveidence that AC current is being converted to heat somwhere in the box.
Yeah, that's likely. What month did you build your box? Your AC unit is probably responsible for half of that power bill, as it runs around 3kW. I can feel warm air from my computer, and it runs around 50-100W
If you're interested in using less power, get something with a Transmeta CPU or other CPU which is low power and minimize the features and components of your computer. And by all means, turn the damn thing off when you're not using it.
Or get an AMD64 (low power/high performance) turn off the monitor. You use less power than you think.
Under what legal theory do you sue the customer of an infringing product?
Well, some SQL server customers got in trouble for using patented stuff when it got out that MS hadn't covered all of their licensing bases.
Patents expire if Microsoft and GlaxoSmithKline don't sweet-talk Congress into a delusion that repeated term extensions are good for the American economy.
When has Congress ever extended terms for patents?
Although the third company would probably be run out of business by the screaming masses shouting "your plugin is a derivative work therefor it must be made open source!"
Easily countered by specifically disclaiming plugins as derivatives, perhaps by adding language defining the plugin interface as the boundary of the product (not a lawyer). Of course, some people won't be reasoned with, but they weren't going to give you money anyway.
The heck with this.....I still prefer Mary Ann over Ginger...
My question to you: Why choose?
Cash is something that can be used to hold value, without government backing
You need some way to cut down on counterfeiting, so government backing is necessary once your population is large enough to have a printing press.
That's the deer's fault? Animals weren't put here so we could shoot them when they interfered with our driving habits.
We displaced the deer's predators, so now we have to take their place. Would you prefer we leave them alone so they could binge and starve and kill a lot of us?
I've often wondered why hunters don't just use a camera with a telephoto lense (the same zoom as the scope would be) with cross hairs pained on the lense...that way you can stalk and hunt all you want and nothing has to die.
I think you're missing a fundamental part of hunting. You hunt an animal, you kill it, then you eat it. If you don't like it, fine, but you don't speak for all of us.
Can I get some linkage on that? Or is it BS? (Specifically the .30-.30 WInchester part)
In order to have any chance of stopping a rifle round, you need a class 4 vest, which is heavy, expensive, and restrictive. Cops typically use class 2 or 3 vests, as most criminals use handguns, not rifles. You need a powerful round to go 500 yards accurately.
now they're telling me I have to get certified. Certified? To do the job I've done perfectly well so far?
Ask them for a check and time off to attend the course. I'm sure they'll come around then...
Given the cothermic limitation on implementing 'cores' (or independent dies) on one surface, it seems a clever but limited hack to increase the performance by effectively implementing multiple CPUs on the same chip.
Of course, in my experience, AMD64s are fairly cool compared to Intel's stuff. You could porbably do a dual core AMD64 at 2Ghz for way under 100W.
Who wouldn't want to be able to take summers off and work only a few hours a week..
I happen to know a few teachers. They work fairly long hours grading tests, doing lesson plans and so on. They also get to attend seminars on their summer break and usually must get an MS on their own dime within 5 years.
Really, the worst thing about this book is that it doesn't come with a poster of just a bullet-pointed list of facts and fallacies that you can nail to your office wall (or your boss's).
Or your boss.
BUT in my quest to get out of the debt that was actually impossible to do on my own (when the vampires move you to 26% interest, and then move your bill to a irregular schedule where you have 7 days from the time its mailed to pay or you will be considered late with a $30 late fee, and BTW we just lowered your credit, so you are now over the limit and thats another $30 over the limit fee and a few months later, your original $1000 in credit card fees is now $3500 without charging anything -- I'd consider that impossible to get out of).
If they had done that to me, I'd offer $1300 paid over 12 months or nothing at all. I can't see a judge allowing 2500% in fees and charges to stand.