The submitter missed the most interesting part of the entire article: the fact that this crackdown is financed mainly by spammers (the direct marketing assoc)! They probably are just trying to get rid of the most blatant illegal stuff so they can further their goal of legitamizing spam. Or they could just be cracking down on competitors with the Fed's help.
Much of the financing for the efforts, known as Operation Slam Spam, comes from the Direct Marketing Association, a trade group that wants to promote what it sees as the legitimate use of e-mail marketing.
NO IT ISN'T! Commercially developed transparent Alumina (think clear ruby/sapphire) is here, HUGE difference. Sorry Trek fans, you will have to wait longer. There will be no clear planes, no clear cases made of Alumina. If cases were transparent Alumina then they would have the same properties as silica glass and you would have a nice greenhouse effect going on slowly (or not so slowly) frying your computer.
Alumina is a mineral/glass/ceramic, Aluminum is a metal!
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I think you are getting Samuel L. Jackson who was in Star Wars AND Pulp Fiction with Laurence Fishburne who is from the Matrix but NOT Star Wars.
My advice to you would be to drop the whole CET idea and get a real CS or a real engineering degree. They will be worth a whole lot more in the long run. Or do a dual major with CS/EE and NOT a CET. A CET will cover the basics for CS and EE, but nothing more, you will have lots of general concepts but little hard core, real knowlege. Most high ranked Universities don't offer CET programs, the only ones I know that offer things like CET are 2 year programs, mid-low ranked state schools or ITT Tech trade school type places. A real technical institution like MIT/RPI/CMU etc will only offer REAL enginneering and REAL computer science. Not some strange cross CET that really doesn't explore the nuances of either.
Personally I have a dual major with CS and Electronic Art/Communication. Again, I would highly reccomend a dual major over a major that claims to combine two others. It will be more work but it will pay off in the long run.
Sure they look very similar, but not that similar. Firefox and IE look more similar than iTunes and LSong but I don't see people saying mozilla.org will be sued. If Linspire had named them iLPhoto and iLTunes then maybe there would be an issue with the name but I kind of doubt Apple would sue them just because they look somewhat similar. There are hundreds of free and open source software products that look very similar to commercial software but that is just the nature of the game. As long as they don't copy the blatently (i.e. Lindows) then they should be in the clear.
There was a substance that had similar properties produced in the past, but that fire suppression liquid was damaging the ozone layer. The new substance by Tyco is supposed to be environmentally safe.
I am no an expert in these matters but the checmical formula they give is: CF3CF2C(O)CF(CF3)2, which looks like any other CFC except for one key thing, no chlorine. It is the chlorine that breaks off normal CFCs like Freon (CCl2F2) when exposed to UV rays and in turn breaks down Ozone. However, Florine is also a very toxic chemical as it is in the same period as Chlorine and can also have the same reactions with Ozone. I am curious to see if this new compound actually is safe for the Ozone layer or is there simply some hand waving going on.
This decentralization was most definitely encouraged by the US government. It was in their best interests to get people to move out of cities, to get factories and centers of industry to move out of the cities. The trend was not accidental in the slightest bit. Things like the Eisenhower interstate system, tax increases for industries (and people) in cities and development of suburban areas were ways for the government to indirectly influence the nations infrastructure without seeming to do so.
With a decentralized system of industry and transportation the US became much more difficult to attack with nuclear weapons. Bombing a bunch of large cities would inflict major civilian casualties but for the most part, the nation could recover (if we could survive fallout).
Unfortunatly Truman and Eisenhower and whoever else came up with the plan didn't think of the long term consequences and the dependance on he foreign oil.
If any of you live in the Northeast US (well really New England and parts of NY) you can shop at Hannaford, a huge chain WITHOUT any discount cards. They don't always have the absolute lowest prices, but they are pretty close. So it is incorrect to say that all large grocery stores use the loyalty cards. Hannaford is among the largest supermarkets in New England (120+ stores) and they have no cards.
This is because the models are so complex. Currently there is an effort to model global warming NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies among other places. In the past the models have been severly lacking (due to lack of computing power), however today their model very closely parallels the climate changes in the past 50 or so years.
The most complex things are the feedback loops because for example, if you increase tempature you melt ice and decrease albedo (% of suns rays that are reflected), BUT warmer air holds more water and more water means more precipitation, and more precipitation in cold regions like Antarctica mean more ice and higher albedo. AND more water vapor in the air also means more clouds which also increases albedo.
So nothing is cut and dry, it is all interconnected, hence the lack of real numbers. It does NOT mean that global warming isn't a huge problem, all this lack of numbers means is that we don't know how severe it will be.
Incidentally, have you heard about the discovery of the largest living creature on Earth? Would you believe it's two or three miles across, and probably several thousand years old, and still growing? It's this fungus that's eating Oregon. It's a single creature. I'm not quite sure how that's determined.
Does anyone have any info about this? I tried googling but no initial luck.
Actually it will continue the vicious cycle of overpopulation that we are currently in. The more food we have, the more babies we have and the faster the population grows. It is a simple fact that healthy well fed people (especially in 3rd world nations) are going to have more kids than people who have just enough food to feed only a small family. We are probably better off trying to decrease food production instead of increase it.
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The submitter missed the most interesting part of the entire article: the fact that this crackdown is financed mainly by spammers (the direct marketing assoc)! They probably are just trying to get rid of the most blatant illegal stuff so they can further their goal of legitamizing spam. Or they could just be cracking down on competitors with the Fed's help.
Much of the financing for the efforts, known as Operation Slam Spam, comes from the Direct Marketing Association, a trade group that wants to promote what it sees as the legitimate use of e-mail marketing.
Oh, if you only knew the irony of your post =)
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/19/14Hopefully you do now!
Transparent Aluminum Is Here
NO IT ISN'T! Commercially developed transparent Alumina (think clear ruby/sapphire) is here, HUGE difference. Sorry Trek fans, you will have to wait longer. There will be no clear planes, no clear cases made of Alumina. If cases were transparent Alumina then they would have the same properties as silica glass and you would have a nice greenhouse effect going on slowly (or not so slowly) frying your computer.
Alumina is a mineral/glass/ceramic, Aluminum is a metal!
I think you are getting Samuel L. Jackson who was in Star Wars AND Pulp Fiction with Laurence Fishburne who is from the Matrix but NOT Star Wars.
Otherwise, quite funny!
Since this is /. I feel oblogated to point out your incorrect usage of begs the question
I'll just refer everyone to classic pennny arcade
My advice to you would be to drop the whole CET idea and get a real CS or a real engineering degree. They will be worth a whole lot more in the long run. Or do a dual major with CS/EE and NOT a CET. A CET will cover the basics for CS and EE, but nothing more, you will have lots of general concepts but little hard core, real knowlege. Most high ranked Universities don't offer CET programs, the only ones I know that offer things like CET are 2 year programs, mid-low ranked state schools or ITT Tech trade school type places. A real technical institution like MIT/RPI/CMU etc will only offer REAL enginneering and REAL computer science. Not some strange cross CET that really doesn't explore the nuances of either.
Personally I have a dual major with CS and Electronic Art/Communication. Again, I would highly reccomend a dual major over a major that claims to combine two others. It will be more work but it will pay off in the long run.
it was supposed to be funny... you know, ha ha laugh joke
Sure they look very similar, but not that similar. Firefox and IE look more similar than iTunes and LSong but I don't see people saying mozilla.org will be sued. If Linspire had named them iLPhoto and iLTunes then maybe there would be an issue with the name but I kind of doubt Apple would sue them just because they look somewhat similar. There are hundreds of free and open source software products that look very similar to commercial software but that is just the nature of the game. As long as they don't copy the blatently (i.e. Lindows) then they should be in the clear.
Perhaps if we all stopped spending our workdays reading slashdot, companies would regain some of their respect for American IT workers.
This decentralization was most definitely encouraged by the US government. It was in their best interests to get people to move out of cities, to get factories and centers of industry to move out of the cities. The trend was not accidental in the slightest bit. Things like the Eisenhower interstate system, tax increases for industries (and people) in cities and development of suburban areas were ways for the government to indirectly influence the nations infrastructure without seeming to do so.
With a decentralized system of industry and transportation the US became much more difficult to attack with nuclear weapons. Bombing a bunch of large cities would inflict major civilian casualties but for the most part, the nation could recover (if we could survive fallout).
Unfortunatly Truman and Eisenhower and whoever else came up with the plan didn't think of the long term consequences and the dependance on he foreign oil.
If any of you live in the Northeast US (well really New England and parts of NY) you can shop at Hannaford, a huge chain WITHOUT any discount cards. They don't always have the absolute lowest prices, but they are pretty close. So it is incorrect to say that all large grocery stores use the loyalty cards. Hannaford is among the largest supermarkets in New England (120+ stores) and they have no cards.
Sounds kind of like reading /.
This is because the models are so complex. Currently there is an effort to model global warming NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies among other places. In the past the models have been severly lacking (due to lack of computing power), however today their model very closely parallels the climate changes in the past 50 or so years.
The most complex things are the feedback loops because for example, if you increase tempature you melt ice and decrease albedo (% of suns rays that are reflected), BUT warmer air holds more water and more water means more precipitation, and more precipitation in cold regions like Antarctica mean more ice and higher albedo. AND more water vapor in the air also means more clouds which also increases albedo.
So nothing is cut and dry, it is all interconnected, hence the lack of real numbers. It does NOT mean that global warming isn't a huge problem, all this lack of numbers means is that we don't know how severe it will be.
Nevermind, I am amazingly stupid, it was the FIRST result from google when searching for "largest living creature earth fungus oregon"
http://www.extremescience.com/biggestlivingthing.h tm
I think I will apply to law school, enough with this CS crap. There really isn't an efficient way (yet) to oursource laywers to India
benefit the world's burgeoning population
Actually it will continue the vicious cycle of overpopulation that we are currently in. The more food we have, the more babies we have and the faster the population grows. It is a simple fact that healthy well fed people (especially in 3rd world nations) are going to have more kids than people who have just enough food to feed only a small family. We are probably better off trying to decrease food production instead of increase it.