They already have systems that do this [challenge-response], you know. This doesn't require any changes to standards; but it does require that the sending user be clueful - and given how quickly Netsky.C spread, I think that's a hopeless cause.
In the US at least, caller-ID is not a challenge response system, it simply displays the originating phone number - and ONLY if you haven't requested that your number be hidden, and only if you live in an area that supports it.
So, what lessons can we carry from this fact to MS's suggestion of "caller ID" for email? 1. We'll still get emails that are unauthenticated, because it will take a long time for folks to upgrade MTAs to manage this - after all, there are still open relays - and 2. someone will figure out some way to sell a solution to get past the authentication system so blocked spam senders can still get through (can you say "sales@viagra.hotmail.com"???).
If they don't trust you enough to even give you Admin privileges, and you're developers (I assume you're developers if you're using Linux, and not tech typists), that means they don't value you much. They'll cut you eventually; try to find another job first and dump them.
In other words, the same exact pager that Enlightenment has had since the nineties. Lesson to be learned: in a patent-crazy society, patent defensively.
In AD 1066 France most certainly was France. Phillip the Amorous was king (wonder how he got that name). On the other hand, the Normans didn't have much Frankish blood.
The O'Reilly OS X for Unix Geeks and Running Mac OS X books should help. The former is at Jaguar right now, the latter at Panther. There's also an OS X in a Nutshell.
Let's say IBM buys them out. IBM will then be forced to refund that license money, no? Doesn't this make IBM less likely to settle by buying SCO out, and more likely to fight it out in court?(Yeah, the license money is probably chump change for IBM, but it still makes SCO a less attractive buyout target...)
1. Think of the Delta V it would take to ship a small submarine to Venus. 2. Imagine what it would take to get a small submarine to operate in 850 deg F. 3. Imagine what it would take to get a small submarine to operate in a soup of sulfuric acid, with heavy metal snow all around to soak up a lot of the heat the submarine puts out. So yeah, putting a probe on Venus is d&#$@d difficult, and the Russians deserve major respect for getting it done with the Veneras. Is it impossible? Naw. Would it be really, really damned expensive to put a Veneran variant of Spirit or Opportunity on the surface of Venus. D&#n straight.
The thing most likely to strip away Venus's atmosphere would be the Sun getting hostile. If that happens, we'd better be a LOT further away than Earth . . . If you could somehow make the Veneran atmosphere disappear, some small bit of atmosphere would probably leak back out from below the surface, but it would probably never be as thick as it is now.
You know, it's not like the Soviet Union, with whom the treaty was signed, ever adhered to the ABM. Where, exactly, do you think all of these rogue weapons have come from?
So you're saying there are rogue anti-ballistic missiles all over the place? And you were modded up "insightful." Taco, can I have my money back?
White Sands is on the ground, not in orbit. HELTF doesn't violate UN Resolution 2222 overview,
text,
which the US has signed (but the Senate has not ratified). This would. So it's not mindless Bush bashing crap, it's an awareness of the fact that the Bush Administration is perfectly willing to do the same thing (violating UN Resolutions) that it considered to be a causus belli when Iraq did it. (And you can forget the arguments about how we went into Iraq to topple a vile dictator, if that were the real reason we'd be at war with N. Korea.)
Don't oversell him. Luc Besson's fun, and I'll watch Fifth Element (the best SF movie out there with no sequel, now that Pitch Black is getting one), The Messenger, or Leon any day of the week - but he's no Kurosawa, Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, or even Wenders for that matter. I'm afraid that calling Tarantino a film school hack and Luc Besson a "real" director is a little like calling McDonald's junk food and saying that Romano's Macaroni Grill is a REAL restaurant.
it seems if they are going to do something like that, they need to get rid of the laws that can get you a DUI for just sitting in a parked car drunk.
That's a perfectly good law (unlike the stupid ignition interlock law described in the story). If you have the keys and are in the car, you've demonstrated your intention to drive. If you're planning on having too much to drink to drive, take a cab to the bar/party/etc. so there's no issue.
Not if they have enough capital on hand to expand as they wish. Remember debt means interest expense. If you can "borrow" the money from your own reserves, your only expense is loss on anticipated interest revenues, which is usually insignificant.
Fountains of Paradise (no kidding - look at handle, though I also like the playwright he stole the name from), The Songs of Distant Earth, and the stories Rescue Party, 9 Billion Names of God, and The Star. 2001 the novel is pretty good, too.
No "pure" totalitarian, "pure" capitalist countries, good point. I should have said "authoritarian capitalist countries." You see, authoritarianism does tend to cluster economic advantage in one of two ways: state ownership with oligarchic control, or monopoly ownership with oligarchic participation.
Actually, Iraq was further to the left: state-run oil company, for instance. The fact that none of the benefits trickled down from the state to the people was typical of totalitarian "socialist" countries. Published Ba'ath ideology is largely socialist, though not communist.
Indonesia. And before around 1989 or so, it was heading totalitarian. So was Chile, though it was less capitalist than many.
Capitalism like socialism is a matter of being nearer to one or the other end of a spectrum. Most states have both socialist and capitalist features. Those that are primarily capitalist are those with lots of private ownership and little regulation of the market. Thos that are primarily socialist are those with lots of government ownership and lots of regulation of the market.
In case anyone didn't get the joke: The Governor of Massachusetts is Mitt Romney, a Republican. The previous governor was Jane Swift, a Republican. Her predecessor was Argeo Paul Cellucci, a Republican. His predecessor was Bill Weld, a Republican. The current Lt. Governor, Kerry Healy, is a Republican, as were her predecessors (Swift and Cellucci). The Commissioner of Revenue (i.e., head of the Massachusetts DOR), Alan LeBovidge, the first guy interviewed in the article, was appointed by Jane Swift, and is a former VP of Coopers & Lybrand. So no, folks can blame this on the Democrats, no matter how hard they might try.
I much prefer life now, with one employer, and no state income[1] or use tax since I live in NH.
[1] Although any year now I'll become subject to NH's interest and dividends tax...
I'm guessing you don't own property. On balance, if you own your own home, the tax burden in NH is the equal of that in MA.
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They already have systems that do this [challenge-response], you know. This doesn't require any changes to standards; but it does require that the sending user be clueful - and given how quickly Netsky.C spread, I think that's a hopeless cause.
In the US at least, caller-ID is not a challenge response system, it simply displays the originating phone number - and ONLY if you haven't requested that your number be hidden, and only if you live in an area that supports it.
So, what lessons can we carry from this fact to MS's suggestion of "caller ID" for email? 1. We'll still get emails that are unauthenticated, because it will take a long time for folks to upgrade MTAs to manage this - after all, there are still open relays - and 2. someone will figure out some way to sell a solution to get past the authentication system so blocked spam senders can still get through (can you say "sales@viagra.hotmail.com"???).
Thanks. Not sure why you were modded 4 and I was modded 5, when it should have been the other way around.
If they don't trust you enough to even give you Admin privileges, and you're developers (I assume you're developers if you're using Linux, and not tech typists), that means they don't value you much. They'll cut you eventually; try to find another job first and dump them.
Ok, cough up the URL to the student group (not to the time cube, I've seen that and it is hilarious).
In other words, the same exact pager that Enlightenment has had since the nineties. Lesson to be learned: in a patent-crazy society, patent defensively.
In AD 1066 France most certainly was France. Phillip the Amorous was king (wonder how he got that name). On the other hand, the Normans didn't have much Frankish blood.
The O'Reilly OS X for Unix Geeks and Running Mac OS X books should help. The former is at Jaguar right now, the latter at Panther. There's also an OS X in a Nutshell.
The book was the second gen. The TV series was the third gen. The book came out in 1979, the TV series in 1982.
Let's say IBM buys them out. IBM will then be forced to refund that license money, no? Doesn't this make IBM less likely to settle by buying SCO out, and more likely to fight it out in court?(Yeah, the license money is probably chump change for IBM, but it still makes SCO a less attractive buyout target ...)
1. Think of the Delta V it would take to ship a small submarine to Venus. 2. Imagine what it would take to get a small submarine to operate in 850 deg F. 3. Imagine what it would take to get a small submarine to operate in a soup of sulfuric acid, with heavy metal snow all around to soak up a lot of the heat the submarine puts out. So yeah, putting a probe on Venus is d&#$@d difficult, and the Russians deserve major respect for getting it done with the Veneras. Is it impossible? Naw. Would it be really, really damned expensive to put a Veneran variant of Spirit or Opportunity on the surface of Venus. D&#n straight.
The thing most likely to strip away Venus's atmosphere would be the Sun getting hostile. If that happens, we'd better be a LOT further away than Earth . . . If you could somehow make the Veneran atmosphere disappear, some small bit of atmosphere would probably leak back out from below the surface, but it would probably never be as thick as it is now.
You know, it's not like the Soviet Union, with whom the treaty was signed, ever adhered to the ABM. Where, exactly, do you think all of these rogue weapons have come from?
So you're saying there are rogue anti-ballistic missiles all over the place? And you were modded up "insightful." Taco, can I have my money back?
No. SDI is surface to orbit/air or orbit/air to orbit/air. This is orbit to surface. Big difference.
White Sands is on the ground, not in orbit. HELTF doesn't violate UN Resolution 2222 overview, text, which the US has signed (but the Senate has not ratified). This would. So it's not mindless Bush bashing crap, it's an awareness of the fact that the Bush Administration is perfectly willing to do the same thing (violating UN Resolutions) that it considered to be a causus belli when Iraq did it. (And you can forget the arguments about how we went into Iraq to topple a vile dictator, if that were the real reason we'd be at war with N. Korea.)
Don't oversell him. Luc Besson's fun, and I'll watch Fifth Element (the best SF movie out there with no sequel, now that Pitch Black is getting one), The Messenger, or Leon any day of the week - but he's no Kurosawa, Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, or even Wenders for that matter. I'm afraid that calling Tarantino a film school hack and Luc Besson a "real" director is a little like calling McDonald's junk food and saying that Romano's Macaroni Grill is a REAL restaurant.
Ok, is this better? Hopefully those wines will age better than Indiana Jones.
And how many people have been arrested for DUI asleep in their own garage? How many?
it seems if they are going to do something like that, they need to get rid of the laws that can get you a DUI for just sitting in a parked car drunk.
That's a perfectly good law (unlike the stupid ignition interlock law described in the story). If you have the keys and are in the car, you've demonstrated your intention to drive. If you're planning on having too much to drink to drive, take a cab to the bar/party/etc. so there's no issue.
Not if they have enough capital on hand to expand as they wish. Remember debt means interest expense. If you can "borrow" the money from your own reserves, your only expense is loss on anticipated interest revenues, which is usually insignificant.
Fountains of Paradise (no kidding - look at handle, though I also like the playwright he stole the name from), The Songs of Distant Earth, and the stories Rescue Party, 9 Billion Names of God, and The Star. 2001 the novel is pretty good, too.
No "pure" totalitarian, "pure" capitalist countries, good point. I should have said "authoritarian capitalist countries." You see, authoritarianism does tend to cluster economic advantage in one of two ways: state ownership with oligarchic control, or monopoly ownership with oligarchic participation.
Actually, Iraq was further to the left: state-run oil company, for instance. The fact that none of the benefits trickled down from the state to the people was typical of totalitarian "socialist" countries. Published Ba'ath ideology is largely socialist, though not communist.
Indonesia. And before around 1989 or so, it was heading totalitarian. So was Chile, though it was less capitalist than many.
Capitalism like socialism is a matter of being nearer to one or the other end of a spectrum. Most states have both socialist and capitalist features. Those that are primarily capitalist are those with lots of private ownership and little regulation of the market. Thos that are primarily socialist are those with lots of government ownership and lots of regulation of the market.
In case anyone didn't get the joke: The Governor of Massachusetts is Mitt Romney, a Republican. The previous governor was Jane Swift, a Republican. Her predecessor was Argeo Paul Cellucci, a Republican. His predecessor was Bill Weld, a Republican. The current Lt. Governor, Kerry Healy, is a Republican, as were her predecessors (Swift and Cellucci). The Commissioner of Revenue (i.e., head of the Massachusetts DOR), Alan LeBovidge, the first guy interviewed in the article, was appointed by Jane Swift, and is a former VP of Coopers & Lybrand. So no, folks can blame this on the Democrats, no matter how hard they might try.
I much prefer life now, with one employer, and no state income[1] or use tax since I live in NH.
[1] Although any year now I'll become subject to NH's interest and dividends tax...
I'm guessing you don't own property. On balance, if you own your own home, the tax burden in NH is the equal of that in MA.