How about rumoured SCO and MS collaboration - I know SCO are in deep right now.. But one IBM, AOLTW, SONY and MS all group up - the free market will die to corporate monopoly..
That should be enough incentive never to spam again... Just think - some of these guys dont really care about your viagra ad- they just wanna stalk your family and kill them anyway... There really are psychos like that out there... And you wanna give them extra reasons to come find you?
Hehe.... Now I am just hoping that I have made it that little bit harder for spammers to sleep at night...
firmly rerailing this back on topic(almost), there has been talk of allowing certain mobile phone carriers to have repeaters along the underground. Although given the usual cattle-cart density of the passengers you would be ill advised to attempt to use a laptop there.
Dont any first class long distance trains have ethernet ports in the seats? I dont know -I dont travel first class...
The nice thing about the Eurostar is that it is run by french train companies, not British ones. Im sorry - but the french do trains a great deal better than the british do. In terms of speed, safety, cost(once inside france - rail travel is extraordinarily cheap), comfort. Even the train food isnt bad....
The only trains I concede to use in Britain now is the tube. I use coaches for long distance stuff...
"I would add to that "unless he/she has a badge," but in general I would agree."
In which case an alternative weapon would be far more appropriate - such as pepper spray, or tranq darts and a cell. Fired rubber batons would still be a major problem - should they hit a window. And if the airlines are worried about Wi-Fi interference - then a taser is out of the question...
Thats the route I would rather see us going. But I would hate to imagine what the surcharge on the ticket price is for that... I can imagine its a wopper... Considering the ubiquity of mobile phones - the cost of talk in planes is still ridiculous.
Now this is where its gone a step too far. There is no comparison between carrying a PC or electronic communication device and a firearm. A firearm is designed to kill and maim. And I am sure either a schizoid passenger(possibly terrorist) could put it to that use very well should a nasty situation arise - killing other passengers, rupturing the hull... My policy is quite clearly to never trust a human with a gun...
No sorry- I can see very well why weapons are banned from planes. But I think Wi-Fi and mobile devices could be provided for on premium flights.
Its probably not difficult at all. In fact I can imagine that encasing the flight electronics in such a way that unwanted broadcasts from the pasenger(and even crew) compartments are not able to interfere with them is probably a fairly simple matter.
But the fact that they would have to ground each plane in a fleet, then perform this work-which would probably be very expensive, then have it safety checked and verified before they refly is just a complete logistical and economical nightmare.
I would really like to use my computers, wireless devices and phone freely on planes but I urge you guys to see it from their point of view. Now if they were to have a few planes in fleet(one or two), where the phones and wi-fi are permitted, and passengers were prepared to the premium equivalent to the logistical cost of having such changes, maybe there could be a workable solution.. Of course - that premium would drop off as slowly the fleet is retrofitted with this system and it becomes a standard.
Right now - I am more outraged by the increased airport taxes - considering the killing they make on all the stores and advertising aimed at you in the airport - the tax increases passed on to the passenger means I will be taking the Eurostar this year....
Would this patent mean he could go after MS, their whole MSN system and the.NET infrastructure... That would be sweet...
Either way its a win-win for me.. It would be just the kind of case which may just highlight just how stupid and outdated IP law has become.
Either way - the guy has much bigger fish to fry than geeks at home, who have no money (I mean real bucks - not your $400 a month expendable income after tax/rent etc) anyway.. And he would acheive more for the anti-patent free software movement by trying to make an example of Apache users..
50 years (Isn't the period something like that - IANAL) may as well be 1000 years when applying it to the computer technology curve.
How about using PGP or similar(SSH-like) encryption to encrypt, then UUEncode the body of the message, and specifying this with the mime type directives.
Your mailbox, could bounce all non encoded messages. When mail from a new sender is received, your client would need to send a mail back (with a command directive) challenging their public key. The only way to get mail through a mailbox set up like this would be with authentication from the public key, otherwise subsequent mail is just bounced.
This would mean users would have to keep authentic private and public key files on their mail client, which would have to be capable of dealing with most of this (including the authentication) transparently.
As for faking email addresses - if the mail does not un-encode and decrypt in a valid way from the public key, then simply reject it.
This could also mean that you could be informed and requested if you want to accept the user -much in the way putty will ask to a accept the public key on a server. Part of the way ssh is designed is so if a key is different from that in the cache - it will inform you, so you are not too easily tricked into giving out passwords etc to a masquerading server.
Initially - users would probably sport a mailbox like this, and a normal one for other usage. But this could allow for gradual change, and runs on top of existing protocols.
The big problem is that this could mean email becomes slower as you wait for the challenges to be replied to, and although I would rather see more on the server side, how many people actually use pop3s or imaps, and would be prepared to jump to a variation with the key testing included, along with the initial mail composition going through a secure protocol to your local SMTP-like server before being encrypted and passed on to the world outside.
Anyway - its food for though for me...
How would one go about such a thing? Is it actually possible to get the parts for that? As Macs are not commoditized as such - I find such a notion very interesting but slightly intangible...
My PC is not dual processor, but beyond that, it is fairly high-end.
To be honest- if I really had the free cash to do it, I would have bought one of the funky new powerbooks (with the erie heartbeat light thingie). But I would have to wish for some pretty big royalties bonuses for that - and it aint gonna happen..
[SNIP!]quivilent of dropping millions of leaflets from an airplane for advertising purposes.[/SNIP!]
playing devils advocate again - but isnt that exactly what is being used for coelition propaganda, and wasnt this also used in afgan?
After the humanitarian crisis, someones gonna have to clear away all those damn leaflets..
I am only sorry they didnt fine him for each delivered message. Spammers should first be fined, and possibly jailed for larger offenses. Especially in the case where the receiver will pay for the spam.
They should certainly be prevented from engaging in such trade ever again - and given some stiff reasons not to.
They are people too- so why cant they take responsibility for their actions. Its just governments and large corporations that get to complain about taking responsibility for their actions...
You would actually be topping up the fuel not the enzymes. Enzymes do not actually "burn up", although they are occasionally denatured.
Think of an enzyme as a protein based catalyst - it speeds up or engineers a reaction - although it manipulates the other chemicals, the enzyme comes out of the reaction chemically the same as it went in.
Topping up methanol does not seem that far fetched. I like the sound of this technology- but i can see it being replaced by H2 fuel cells. although maybe enzymes could be used to convert readily available fuel into hydrogen for use in the fuel cell..
I dunno - there you go spoiling an otherwise perfect example of exaggeration...hehe
But then if one of the wires had come from a cap, and it had discharged across a short- then there is a possibility of very high voltages being shorted across it.
The problem is that where CPU packages used to have a ceramic surface at the top, they now have the chip itself exposed so it can dissipate heat to the heatsink quickly. Since the heatsinks do not appear to be otherwise earthed - it could well ground itself through the chip... Nasty..
It does not take many volts at all to break down the resistance in silicon. Thats why you use static sensitive bands and stuff - if you were to earth yourself through that - it may be extremely small currents, but the large incidental static voltages can blow right through CMOS transistors as I understand it.
So what? The difference is that after they get paid for it... That means fewer dirty mofos playing games on the dole(okay bad assumption- how can you afford broadband/decent machine on the dole?)
I know people who are complete ever-crack/NWN/Diablo 2 freekz, one of whom sells stuff at online auctions for real cash..
I dont really play on-line games that often - partly on account of having a life-consuming gaming job, and partly on account of having a wife, hugely active social life.
But there was a time when I would get home, update the server list while i cooked tea, eat - and frag in HL or CS until I went to bed...
Now that is an outlook I really appretiate. It almost seems that consumer buying power and voting with your feet had died out, in a world of multinational mega-corps and vast monopolies (or at best binopolies - if thats a word).
You know - there *are* alternatives to AMD and Intel - although they are not yet competative - what chance do they have without consumer support.
Otherwise we have a two-party system - when one is dirtier- we turn to the other, and then turn back later when its reversed - thus they both slowly creep into being more corrupt. Bonus karma if anyone can post a link to the Piet Hein grook on two-party systems and dirty laundry.
Part of the overclockers philosophy was born of CPU makers earlier practices - I am not sure if they are still used now.
AFAIK - What they would do is manufacture all the processors aiming to be clockable at the highest speed. Those that fail QC at the higher speed are then passed on to QC for the next lower speed.
And so on. This may mean that for any processor - you can probably get around 20-30% more out of it, maybe a lot more - but you must be aware of these instabilities.
It was only later that cooling become a more serious issue on OC processors. I remember having a couple of P90's clocked up to 133.
Of course as manufacturing tolerances got better, speeds went up, and there were few of the lower quality, slower processor being produced..
Of course in a world where most people use windows, it doesnt matter - because you are much more likely to see a software failure than an instability caused by the processor.
I am still looking forward to the point when we can all print our own processors onto paper from OpenCores.org and use those instead...
BTW - Heres an opportunity for a karma hungry slashdotter to post links to articals the silicon-on-paper technology.
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Well you have just knocked any search engines off of your site anyway... AFAIK "Robots.txt" is used to signal crawlers to ignore the site.
Many martial arts will instruct you to always go with bended knee - number one for balance, and number 2-if someone kicks a locked knee- it is very easily broken.. Krack...
As a robot builder myself - two legs are only useful from a psychological point of view - I always thought six were more functional, with an option to occasionally rear onto two. But psychologically- that would freak people out... Insects have six legs...
Its funny you say that - because one of my big considerations in writing code is to make it readable. C Code with no indenting is only useful for obfuscated C contests.
C code without comments is not allowed to be checked into our source tree here - in fact it is seen as very bad form not to put a comment on the check in as well.
Quick everybody - dont clap - you might put him out of his misery...
The moral- Grammer and spelling dont matter, content does! I dont care what language I write in- as long as it gets the job done..
Saying that there is a flipside - imagine hordes of english teachers misquoting Stoustrup and writing grotesquely misformed C code... Its happening out there somewhere... Microsoft perhaps?
Lets not forget call-charges for people on dial-ups, or other metered services. I have heard cases of hackers being charged for damages on wasted processor time - so why not charge spammers in the same way for the unauthorised usage of your mail servers resources?
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How about rumoured SCO and MS collaboration - I know SCO are in deep right now.. But one IBM, AOLTW, SONY and MS all group up - the free market will die to corporate monopoly..
That should be enough incentive never to spam again... Just think - some of these guys dont really care about your viagra ad- they just wanna stalk your family and kill them anyway... There really are psychos like that out there... And you wanna give them extra reasons to come find you?
Hehe.... Now I am just hoping that I have made it that little bit harder for spammers to sleep at night...
firmly rerailing this back on topic(almost), there has been talk of allowing certain mobile phone carriers to have repeaters along the underground. Although given the usual cattle-cart density of the passengers you would be ill advised to attempt to use a laptop there.
Dont any first class long distance trains have ethernet ports in the seats? I dont know -I dont travel first class...
The nice thing about the Eurostar is that it is run by french train companies, not British ones. Im sorry - but the french do trains a great deal better than the british do. In terms of speed, safety, cost(once inside france - rail travel is extraordinarily cheap), comfort. Even the train food isnt bad....
The only trains I concede to use in Britain now is the tube. I use coaches for long distance stuff...
Would that include interesting aromas pumped in from the lavatory? Hehe..I am sure that would keep it short...
Thats the route I would rather see us going. But I would hate to imagine what the surcharge on the ticket price is for that... I can imagine its a wopper... Considering the ubiquity of mobile phones - the cost of talk in planes is still ridiculous.
Now this is where its gone a step too far. There is no comparison between carrying a PC or electronic communication device and a firearm. A firearm is designed to kill and maim. And I am sure either a schizoid passenger(possibly terrorist) could put it to that use very well should a nasty situation arise - killing other passengers, rupturing the hull... My policy is quite clearly to never trust a human with a gun...
No sorry- I can see very well why weapons are banned from planes. But I think Wi-Fi and mobile devices could be provided for on premium flights.
Its probably not difficult at all. In fact I can imagine that encasing the flight electronics in such a way that unwanted broadcasts from the pasenger(and even crew) compartments are not able to interfere with them is probably a fairly simple matter.
But the fact that they would have to ground each plane in a fleet, then perform this work-which would probably be very expensive, then have it safety checked and verified before they refly is just a complete logistical and economical nightmare.
I would really like to use my computers, wireless devices and phone freely on planes but I urge you guys to see it from their point of view. Now if they were to have a few planes in fleet(one or two), where the phones and wi-fi are permitted, and passengers were prepared to the premium equivalent to the logistical cost of having such changes, maybe there could be a workable solution.. Of course - that premium would drop off as slowly the fleet is retrofitted with this system and it becomes a standard.
Right now - I am more outraged by the increased airport taxes - considering the killing they make on all the stores and advertising aimed at you in the airport - the tax increases passed on to the passenger means I will be taking the Eurostar this year....
Would this patent mean he could go after MS, their whole MSN system and the .NET infrastructure... That would be sweet...
Either way its a win-win for me.. It would be just the kind of case which may just highlight just how stupid and outdated IP law has become.
Either way - the guy has much bigger fish to fry than geeks at home, who have no money (I mean real bucks - not your $400 a month expendable income after tax/rent etc) anyway.. And he would acheive more for the anti-patent free software movement by trying to make an example of Apache users..
50 years (Isn't the period something like that - IANAL) may as well be 1000 years when applying it to the computer technology curve.
How about using PGP or similar(SSH-like) encryption to encrypt, then UUEncode the body of the message, and specifying this with the mime type directives.
Your mailbox, could bounce all non encoded messages. When mail from a new sender is received, your client would need to send a mail back (with a command directive) challenging their public key. The only way to get mail through a mailbox set up like this would be with authentication from the public key, otherwise subsequent mail is just bounced.
This would mean users would have to keep authentic private and public key files on their mail client, which would have to be capable of dealing with most of this (including the authentication) transparently.
As for faking email addresses - if the mail does not un-encode and decrypt in a valid way from the public key, then simply reject it.
This could also mean that you could be informed and requested if you want to accept the user -much in the way putty will ask to a accept the public key on a server. Part of the way ssh is designed is so if a key is different from that in the cache - it will inform you, so you are not too easily tricked into giving out passwords etc to a masquerading server.
Initially - users would probably sport a mailbox like this, and a normal one for other usage. But this could allow for gradual change, and runs on top of existing protocols.
The big problem is that this could mean email becomes slower as you wait for the challenges to be replied to, and although I would rather see more on the server side, how many people actually use pop3s or imaps, and would be prepared to jump to a variation with the key testing included, along with the initial mail composition going through a secure protocol to your local SMTP-like server before being encrypted and passed on to the world outside.
Anyway - its food for though for me...
How would one go about such a thing? Is it actually possible to get the parts for that? As Macs are not commoditized as such - I find such a notion very interesting but slightly intangible...
My PC is not dual processor, but beyond that, it is fairly high-end.
To be honest- if I really had the free cash to do it, I would have bought one of the funky new powerbooks (with the erie heartbeat light thingie). But I would have to wish for some pretty big royalties bonuses for that - and it aint gonna happen..
[SNIP!]quivilent of dropping millions of leaflets from an airplane for advertising purposes.[/SNIP!]
playing devils advocate again - but isnt that exactly what is being used for coelition propaganda, and wasnt this also used in afgan?
After the humanitarian crisis, someones gonna have to clear away all those damn leaflets..
I am only sorry they didnt fine him for each delivered message. Spammers should first be fined, and possibly jailed for larger offenses. Especially in the case where the receiver will pay for the spam.
They should certainly be prevented from engaging in such trade ever again - and given some stiff reasons not to.
They are people too- so why cant they take responsibility for their actions. Its just governments and large corporations that get to complain about taking responsibility for their actions...
The battery does not necessary need to be an open container. Ie a topup spout with a recessed valve or something, making spillage pretty unlikely.
You would actually be topping up the fuel not the enzymes. Enzymes do not actually "burn up", although they are occasionally denatured.
Think of an enzyme as a protein based catalyst - it speeds up or engineers a reaction - although it manipulates the other chemicals, the enzyme comes out of the reaction chemically the same as it went in.
Topping up methanol does not seem that far fetched. I like the sound of this technology- but i can see it being replaced by H2 fuel cells. although maybe enzymes could be used to convert readily available fuel into hydrogen for use in the fuel cell..
I dunno - there you go spoiling an otherwise perfect example of exaggeration...hehe
But then if one of the wires had come from a cap, and it had discharged across a short- then there is a possibility of very high voltages being shorted across it.
The problem is that where CPU packages used to have a ceramic surface at the top, they now have the chip itself exposed so it can dissipate heat to the heatsink quickly. Since the heatsinks do not appear to be otherwise earthed - it could well ground itself through the chip... Nasty..
It does not take many volts at all to break down the resistance in silicon. Thats why you use static sensitive bands and stuff - if you were to earth yourself through that - it may be extremely small currents, but the large incidental static voltages can blow right through CMOS transistors as I understand it.
So what? The difference is that after they get paid for it... That means fewer dirty mofos playing games on the dole(okay bad assumption- how can you afford broadband/decent machine on the dole?)
I know people who are complete ever-crack/NWN/Diablo 2 freekz, one of whom sells stuff at online auctions for real cash..
I dont really play on-line games that often - partly on account of having a life-consuming gaming job, and partly on account of having a wife, hugely active social life.
But there was a time when I would get home, update the server list while i cooked tea, eat - and frag in HL or CS until I went to bed...
Now that is an outlook I really appretiate. It almost seems that consumer buying power and voting with your feet had died out, in a world of multinational mega-corps and vast monopolies (or at best binopolies - if thats a word).
You know - there *are* alternatives to AMD and Intel - although they are not yet competative - what chance do they have without consumer support.
Otherwise we have a two-party system - when one is dirtier- we turn to the other, and then turn back later when its reversed - thus they both slowly creep into being more corrupt. Bonus karma if anyone can post a link to the Piet Hein grook on two-party systems and dirty laundry.
Part of the overclockers philosophy was born of CPU makers earlier practices - I am not sure if they are still used now.
AFAIK - What they would do is manufacture all the processors aiming to be clockable at the highest speed. Those that fail QC at the higher speed are then passed on to QC for the next lower speed.
And so on. This may mean that for any processor - you can probably get around 20-30% more out of it, maybe a lot more - but you must be aware of these instabilities.
It was only later that cooling become a more serious issue on OC processors. I remember having a couple of P90's clocked up to 133.
Of course as manufacturing tolerances got better, speeds went up, and there were few of the lower quality, slower processor being produced..
Of course in a world where most people use windows, it doesnt matter - because you are much more likely to see a software failure than an instability caused by the processor.
I am still looking forward to the point when we can all print our own processors onto paper from OpenCores.org and use those instead...
BTW - Heres an opportunity for a karma hungry slashdotter to post links to articals the silicon-on-paper technology.
Well you have just knocked any search engines off of your site anyway... AFAIK "Robots.txt" is used to signal crawlers to ignore the site.
Many martial arts will instruct you to always go with bended knee - number one for balance, and number 2-if someone kicks a locked knee- it is very easily broken.. Krack...
As a robot builder myself - two legs are only useful from a psychological point of view - I always thought six were more functional, with an option to occasionally rear onto two. But psychologically- that would freak people out... Insects have six legs...
Its funny you say that - because one of my big considerations in writing code is to make it readable. C Code with no indenting is only useful for obfuscated C contests.
C code without comments is not allowed to be checked into our source tree here - in fact it is seen as very bad form not to put a comment on the check in as well.
Quick everybody - dont clap - you might put him out of his misery...
The moral- Grammer and spelling dont matter, content does! I dont care what language I write in- as long as it gets the job done..
Saying that there is a flipside - imagine hordes of english teachers misquoting Stoustrup and writing grotesquely misformed C code... Its happening out there somewhere... Microsoft perhaps?
Lets not forget call-charges for people on dial-ups, or other metered services. I have heard cases of hackers being charged for damages on wasted processor time - so why not charge spammers in the same way for the unauthorised usage of your mail servers resources?