Somehow I'd never bothered to wonder about whitehouse dot org before, just looked at it, and I'd love to see the faces of those who go there thinking it's an alternate way to get to dot gov.
How many of those who check whitehouse.gov to see if it's down will then check to see if they can get there through dot org or dot com, and think that what's at dot com is a "hacked" version of the dot gov?
Should you decide that you need a sig file, allow me to suggest that "Way too many of us need serious therapy. Or better games." would do quite nicely.
accidents:) hemos's house has been burned down twice i think..
Was the above moderated as flamebait as some sort of "fire" joke? Have the moderator guidelines been changed to encourage using moderation as some sort of stealth posting method?
Do you want the computer and modem to answer the phone no matter which of the three (virtual) lines rings? Do you want it to emulate a fax machine for one line, an answering machine for another, and something else for the third? Do you have anything else hooked up to that phone line besides the modem, like, for instance, a real telephone? What's the price difference between having one copper pair that answers to 3 different identities of the form (xxx) xxx-xxxx and having 3 actual copper pairs, each with its own unique (xxx) xxx-xxxx?
They aren't claiming that they own the law! They create a copyrighted work, and then a government or governments adopt that work as law. So your problem isn't with the various code writing bodies, it's with the governments adopting those codes as law.
Even if those codes weren't enshrined into law, they would still be useful and widely used. Insurance companies would demand them. Or structure their rate schedule so as to accomplish the same effect.
These things have to be created and kept current and the cost of doing so has to come from somewhere. The only choice is how directly or indirectly the end consumer pays. You can pay the electrician who buys a copy of the NEC a little more, or you can pay the insurance company a little more, or you can pay a little more for electrical supplies, or you can pay higher taxes so that government can cover the cost, or maybe you can think of some other scheme to hide from the consumer the fact that they are paying for this, but one way or the other, they will be the ones to pay for it, the money will not materialize out of thin air. Ain't no free lunch on this one.
Instead of expanding outward against the curtain it would probably be the path of lesser resistance for the heated air to expand upwards (heat rises), leaving an area of decreased air pressure behind the curtain, but that's just off the top of my head, I don't have a supercomputer handy (or a sliver of a clue how to use it to explore that theory if I did have one).
Not for those of us who worked at stations where the network news and the high school football games were piped to the studio over lines leased from the telephone company.
Also, years ago (pre-WWII) there were juke boxes where you chose your selection and it was played at a remote location and sent to your location over a telephone line.
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Said one student, "I know it's extracurricular, but I'm looking forward to disecting the Jar-Jar Binks model."
If ever a line needed to be preserved, say as someone's sig file...
"We all (well, many of us), got on the internet in an earlier time... and I'm not talking about last century."
Well, unless you mean earlier this year (2001), you are talking about last century (the 20th).
So much of my life occurred in the 20th century that when someone says something like "the (insert superlative here)of this century", it takes me a moment to realise that they're talking about the 21st.
Well, of course, I was just hitting the full hormonal hurricane of puberty when the original Flinstones television show debuted so that could have something to do with my reaction to "her", but I'm not sure that a human actress playing a fictional television character is necessarily "reality" compared to an animated television character with a human actress's voice.
Now when animated characters and their computer generated voices become indistinguishable from reality, *that* will be impressive!
Actually it's more like various bodies write building codes (one excellent example being the National Electrical Code written by the National Fire Protection Association) and then governments sort of cut and paste them into the local ordinances instead of re-inventing the wheel. The bodies which write these codes go to condsiderable expense to create these codes and have every right to copyright their work and expect you to pay for your copy. If you don't like it tell your local government that you want them to develop their own and make it available for free. Don't expect a positive response. Very few communities have the size and money to duplicate the level of expertise of the NFPA for example, and all the manufacturers of electrical supplies (wire, conduit, sockets, switches, etc) adhere to the NEC anyway, so it's easier to agree with the code that 15 amp receptacles should be wired with commonly available 14 gauge or larger copper wire instead of making a law calling for 17 amp circuits and 13 gauge wire, which would have to be custom made at a horrible price premium.
The phrase is "preaching to the choir", meaning saying stuff to people who are already convinced of what you're saying (although in real life a person's presence in a church choir, even when not a paid performer, isn't an absolute guarantee of the agreement of their religious views with those of the preacher, but I digress and weaken the analogy).
The limited edition Bowie book aside, book prices are getting ridiculous. 30 years ago an hour's worth of minimum wage would pay for 2 or 3 paperbacks, now it won't pay for one. Are they paying the writers considerably better percentage wise than before? I know the price of paper to print on has been rising steadily for a few decades now, but is it the raw materials cost that accounts for the price increase? Aren't typesetting and printing presses considerably more automated, efficient, less labor intensive, and therefore less costly than before?
When was the last time you could buy a book, read it, and then return it for a full refund because you thought it wasn't worth the cost of printing it in the first place, much less what you paid for it?
If the big guys all want to charge admission, and the little and medium size sites don't charge admission, maybe that'll get more people to check out the free sites before pushing their ISPs to subscribe and raise the monthly rate to cover the cost. This might actually be good for little sites, providing that they actually have content worth bothering with. We might even see an evolution of "broadcast" and "cable" internet channels, free but with ads, and "pay per view, or HBO type".
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Microsoft aims for DOJ, misses.
MS effort to shut down "adult" site foiled by hackers.
But seriously, won't it be something like "Microsoft and White House join together to thwart hackers" ? :-(
'Course I'm not browsing whitehouse.gov at -1.
Be sure to check out the inaugural address link.
How many of those who check whitehouse.gov to see if it's down will then check to see if they can get there through dot org or dot com, and think that what's at dot com is a "hacked" version of the dot gov?
The "F" is uppercase because it's some guy's name.
Should you decide that you need a sig file, allow me to suggest that "Way too many of us need serious therapy. Or better games." would do quite nicely.
How did you, the hypothetical newbie, know to use a somewhat computer-field specific abbreviation of the word "configuration"?
Are you referring to Fresnel, perhaps? That's pronounced as though spelled freh-nel. The "s" is silent.
Was the above moderated as flamebait as some sort of "fire" joke? Have the moderator guidelines been changed to encourage using moderation as some sort of stealth posting method?
Do you want the computer and modem to answer the phone no matter which of the three (virtual) lines rings? Do you want it to emulate a fax machine for one line, an answering machine for another, and something else for the third? Do you have anything else hooked up to that phone line besides the modem, like, for instance, a real telephone? What's the price difference between having one copper pair that answers to 3 different identities of the form (xxx) xxx-xxxx and having 3 actual copper pairs, each with its own unique (xxx) xxx-xxxx?
But this is MS. Isn't that sort of like the serpent showing up in the Garden of Eden?
Perhaps Gil-Scott Heron was mistaken and the revolution will be televised, but it'll be heavily encrypted pay-per-view.
Even if those codes weren't enshrined into law, they would still be useful and widely used. Insurance companies would demand them. Or structure their rate schedule so as to accomplish the same effect.
These things have to be created and kept current and the cost of doing so has to come from somewhere. The only choice is how directly or indirectly the end consumer pays. You can pay the electrician who buys a copy of the NEC a little more, or you can pay the insurance company a little more, or you can pay a little more for electrical supplies, or you can pay higher taxes so that government can cover the cost, or maybe you can think of some other scheme to hide from the consumer the fact that they are paying for this, but one way or the other, they will be the ones to pay for it, the money will not materialize out of thin air. Ain't no free lunch on this one.
Instead of expanding outward against the curtain it would probably be the path of lesser resistance for the heated air to expand upwards (heat rises), leaving an area of decreased air pressure behind the curtain, but that's just off the top of my head, I don't have a supercomputer handy (or a sliver of a clue how to use it to explore that theory if I did have one).
And imagine entering the lobby and hearing "Welcome to the Lunatic Hilton".
Not for those of us who worked at stations where the network news and the high school football games were piped to the studio over lines leased from the telephone company.
Also, years ago (pre-WWII) there were juke boxes where you chose your selection and it was played at a remote location and sent to your location over a telephone line.
If ever a line needed to be preserved, say as someone's sig file...
Well, unless you mean earlier this year (2001), you are talking about last century (the 20th).
So much of my life occurred in the 20th century that when someone says something like "the (insert superlative here)of this century", it takes me a moment to realise that they're talking about the 21st.
Now when animated characters and their computer generated voices become indistinguishable from reality, *that* will be impressive!
Actually it's more like various bodies write building codes (one excellent example being the National Electrical Code written by the National Fire Protection Association) and then governments sort of cut and paste them into the local ordinances instead of re-inventing the wheel. The bodies which write these codes go to condsiderable expense to create these codes and have every right to copyright their work and expect you to pay for your copy. If you don't like it tell your local government that you want them to develop their own and make it available for free. Don't expect a positive response. Very few communities have the size and money to duplicate the level of expertise of the NFPA for example, and all the manufacturers of electrical supplies (wire, conduit, sockets, switches, etc) adhere to the NEC anyway, so it's easier to agree with the code that 15 amp receptacles should be wired with commonly available 14 gauge or larger copper wire instead of making a law calling for 17 amp circuits and 13 gauge wire, which would have to be custom made at a horrible price premium.
see also: "preaching to the converted"
When was the last time you could buy a book, read it, and then return it for a full refund because you thought it wasn't worth the cost of printing it in the first place, much less what you paid for it?
If the big guys all want to charge admission, and the little and medium size sites don't charge admission, maybe that'll get more people to check out the free sites before pushing their ISPs to subscribe and raise the monthly rate to cover the cost. This might actually be good for little sites, providing that they actually have content worth bothering with. We might even see an evolution of "broadcast" and "cable" internet channels, free but with ads, and "pay per view, or HBO type".
Well, Rachel's hotter than Wilma, but I always thought Betty was pretty cute.
Incorporate your home as a non-profit shelter for orphaned hardware and take the write-offs.