Why dont we see more Eastern (China, Japan, India....) Open Source software projects when they're soo good at computers?
Do they not like the idea of free knowledge exchange?
If the US was as competitive as India is, do you think open source would be where it is today?
What happens when major providers start blacklisting their servers? Will they a) give up, b) resort to the same underhanded server-hopping techniques as the rest of the spammers or c) find a way to make blacklists illegal.
If they have the right to spam me, I reserve the right to spam them back. On to the game of 'how many religion and porn lists can I sign up their staff for?
I'm in RI and have heard this on the radio a few times. At first I looked at the auction and thought $8k (currently) was a lot for a phone number, but then considered that even months after I heard that ad on the radio, I still remember the number and that it's for a phone company. No idea which company, but I might call them if I needed a plumber.
To get that kind of long-term memory is a steal at a few thousand....
Medical = Rs 15000/- a year for misc medical expenses.
This is only 300-400 USD. Hell, I go in for a checkup and my blood test cost this much. Are medical expenses that much cheaper in India, or is the coverage a joke?
I still don't see the problem with the internet as it currently is. Sure, we have to beat back the corporations occasionally, but overall it works.
I don't understand how the porn fits in.... do they actually believe that by passing control to a government body, porn and such will disappear? These are the people who can't agree what color the sky is without several years of debate, forget coming up with a censorship standard (and even if they could, it would still be a bad thing).
Why is the first color to go on sale white? Are hardware stores unable to use the standard color additives to custom mix paint? If so, are non-standard color additives available for custom mixing?
Every decent Computer Science curriculum includes several semesters of courses in which assembly language is required, to demonstrate their knowledge of basic computer processes.
I just graduated from a large three-letter university that's reputed to have a decent CS program. Nothing in the standard CS curriculum includes ASM. Lucky for me I started off as an electrical engineering major and had to learn the basics on a simpler chip (68HC11), which paved the way for x86 assembly. I think it's made me a better programmer at all levels, and certainly a better debugger.
I think you are way off here. Maybe my college is different than yours, but in all the classes I have taken at Ga Tech I have yet to have a course where the professor chose a book that they wrote.
This statement really struck home. As a recent graduate from a major university, I've been paying a ransom for book for the last several years. One of the most expensive (and not surprisingly, lease useful) was the calculus book required for all calc classes on campus. The idea was to 'standardize' the calc classes among different professors by requiring the same text. Not big surprise that the same department head who started this initiative was a co-author of the book. During the 5 years of college, I saw 3 different revisions of the book. The only thing which changed was the page numbers, introduction, and the problem questions.
Seriously, how much has introductory calculus changed in the last 10 years? The sad part is that stuff like this is common. Many professors will require books authored by their friends who teach at other schools. These friends reciprocate. Criminal, IMO.
England's police force is lobbying to get a remote-control to stop other cars
What's wrong with the old idea of an EM Pulse Gun? Fry the car's electronics, kills the fuel injectors, stops the cars.
In all seriousness, the electronics described in the article would allow the cops to stop anyone for any reason, which is going to turn into harassment cases. Something which permanently disables the car is more likely to be used only in high speed chases and the like, where the cops are certain.
So all this does is write to the boot partition and load a barebones copy of bsd on a ramdisk? Not terribly impressive. Now if there was a script which could make a list of my RH packages, backup all my config files, generate an BSD install script, then most importantly, intelligently copy my config files from their old RH default location to the new BSD location, then I would be impressed.
Not really difficult, just time consuming. Of course, this assumes the RH system was installed through packages only, would break on most anything compiled, but the script described above would be a start.
Speedpass systems have a fixed ID. These will most likely read something from your SIM card to facilitate switching handsets, as many users do. With today's phone supporting SMS, GPRS, BlueTooth, etc, how long before someone finds a way to read your charging information from afar? 30' bluetooth range? Getting an SMS from Russia?
commercial airlines have an accident rate of 0.06 crashes per million hours of flying whereas the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk UAV used by the US military has 1600 crashes per million hours of flying
I'm sure this statistic is not at all influenced by military UAVs flying into combat zones and commercial airlines staying the hell away. Or the safety restrictions which apply to civilian commercial aircraft but don't apply to military UAVs....
As if flying wasn't scary enough! Before I just worried about engine failure and crashing into the earth, now I have to worry about the engine firing a little too long and throwing me into orbit (or worse)?
Not entirely true. No such thing as a "passive" transmitter, as the act of transmitting a circuit requires energy. EZ-Pass draws energy by passing through a time-varying magnetic field, which induces a small current, which is used to power the transmitter. Interrupt the circuit between the coil and the transmitter, and you'll effectively shut it down.
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Why dont we see more Eastern (China, Japan, India....) Open Source software projects when they're soo good at computers? Do they not like the idea of free knowledge exchange?
If the US was as competitive as India is, do you think open source would be where it is today?
What happens when major providers start blacklisting their servers? Will they a) give up, b) resort to the same underhanded server-hopping techniques as the rest of the spammers or c) find a way to make blacklists illegal.
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If they have the right to spam me, I reserve the right to spam them back. On to the game of 'how many religion and porn lists can I sign up their staff for?
Hint: it's scripted
I'm in RI and have heard this on the radio a few times. At first I looked at the auction and thought $8k (currently) was a lot for a phone number, but then considered that even months after I heard that ad on the radio, I still remember the number and that it's for a phone company. No idea which company, but I might call them if I needed a plumber.
To get that kind of long-term memory is a steal at a few thousand....
They're doing this by checking the referer, go direct to the link in a new window and you can get the original version. Sorry PalmInfoCenter!
Medical = Rs 15000/- a year for misc medical expenses.
This is only 300-400 USD. Hell, I go in for a checkup and my blood test cost this much. Are medical expenses that much cheaper in India, or is the coverage a joke?
A while back I Googled my credit card number for a laugh.
I wonder if google has a feature where I can view recent search terms...? You had a laugh, I get a giggle, we're all having fun!
I still don't see the problem with the internet as it currently is. Sure, we have to beat back the corporations occasionally, but overall it works.
I don't understand how the porn fits in.... do they actually believe that by passing control to a government body, porn and such will disappear? These are the people who can't agree what color the sky is without several years of debate, forget coming up with a censorship standard (and even if they could, it would still be a bad thing).
Why is the first color to go on sale white? Are hardware stores unable to use the standard color additives to custom mix paint? If so, are non-standard color additives available for custom mixing?
Every decent Computer Science curriculum includes several semesters of courses in which assembly language is required, to demonstrate their knowledge of basic computer processes.
I just graduated from a large three-letter university that's reputed to have a decent CS program. Nothing in the standard CS curriculum includes ASM. Lucky for me I started off as an electrical engineering major and had to learn the basics on a simpler chip (68HC11), which paved the way for x86 assembly. I think it's made me a better programmer at all levels, and certainly a better debugger.
In all seriousness, if this was a funded grant, why couldn't they afford to pay per-bug? Yes, that makes it more complicated, but much more enticing.
I wonder if there are any legal implications to this? Funding an OSS project in an indirect manner?
I think you are way off here. Maybe my college is different than yours, but in all the classes I have taken at Ga Tech I have yet to have a course where the professor chose a book that they wrote.
This statement really struck home. As a recent graduate from a major university, I've been paying a ransom for book for the last several years. One of the most expensive (and not surprisingly, lease useful) was the calculus book required for all calc classes on campus. The idea was to 'standardize' the calc classes among different professors by requiring the same text. Not big surprise that the same department head who started this initiative was a co-author of the book. During the 5 years of college, I saw 3 different revisions of the book. The only thing which changed was the page numbers, introduction, and the problem questions.
Seriously, how much has introductory calculus changed in the last 10 years? The sad part is that stuff like this is common. Many professors will require books authored by their friends who teach at other schools. These friends reciprocate. Criminal, IMO.
If the environmentalists oppose this, if they can engineer the seeds so that the plants can't have offspring (I forget what the term is)
Can't have offspring? But how will we get plants to read Slashdot?
Just auto-generate your registration
This doesn't work anymore.
Yeah, sure, let's count on busy to keep jobs from moving overseas....when they can stay here and be filled by an illegal immigrant!
I can embed an image hosted on my server, watch the logs, and get his IP address. Then, I can net send him until he capitulates!
Are you referring to an Internet Protocol Address Verifier?
England's police force is lobbying to get a remote-control to stop other cars
What's wrong with the old idea of an EM Pulse Gun? Fry the car's electronics, kills the fuel injectors, stops the cars.
In all seriousness, the electronics described in the article would allow the cops to stop anyone for any reason, which is going to turn into harassment cases. Something which permanently disables the car is more likely to be used only in high speed chases and the like, where the cops are certain.
So all this does is write to the boot partition and load a barebones copy of bsd on a ramdisk? Not terribly impressive. Now if there was a script which could make a list of my RH packages, backup all my config files, generate an BSD install script, then most importantly, intelligently copy my config files from their old RH default location to the new BSD location, then I would be impressed.
Not really difficult, just time consuming. Of course, this assumes the RH system was installed through packages only, would break on most anything compiled, but the script described above would be a start.
Now. I'm VERY sure what they did was very much illegal, and since you indicate you have a clean work history, they have no room to fire you.
How many people are hiring today without a fire-at-will clause in the contract?
Speedpass systems have a fixed ID. These will most likely read something from your SIM card to facilitate switching handsets, as many users do. With today's phone supporting SMS, GPRS, BlueTooth, etc, how long before someone finds a way to read your charging information from afar? 30' bluetooth range? Getting an SMS from Russia?
Chapter 3: Non-standard embedded java implementations....
commercial airlines have an accident rate of 0.06 crashes per million hours of flying whereas the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk UAV used by the US military has 1600 crashes per million hours of flying
I'm sure this statistic is not at all influenced by military UAVs flying into combat zones and commercial airlines staying the hell away. Or the safety restrictions which apply to civilian commercial aircraft but don't apply to military UAVs....
As if flying wasn't scary enough! Before I just worried about engine failure and crashing into the earth, now I have to worry about the engine firing a little too long and throwing me into orbit (or worse)?
So if someone can explain it to me, what's the difference? I actually thought the 'before' image looked more realistic.
Not entirely true. No such thing as a "passive" transmitter, as the act of transmitting a circuit requires energy. EZ-Pass draws energy by passing through a time-varying magnetic field, which induces a small current, which is used to power the transmitter. Interrupt the circuit between the coil and the transmitter, and you'll effectively shut it down.
Send me your EZ-pass and $5, I'll put in a small push-button switch. Only activate it when you're not out doing illegal things :-)