Fred sets his laptop up to log into AOL with a default account and password. The crook seals the laptop. Fred calls AOL asking what ANI-reported telephone number his account has logged in on since the theft. AOL tells Fred the phone number. Fred reports the number to the cops. The cops get reverse directory information from the phone company (without a warrant unless the number is unlisted.) The cops ask Fred to ask AOL to inform the cops upon the next login. The crook logs in again. AOL calls the cops. The phone numbers match. Cops bust down Crook's door without a warrant because they have knowledge that a crime is taking place. The crook is busted.
It's important to keep in mind that while pharmaceuticals warrant monitoring, we know for a fact that other obvious pollutants are much worse. For example, cadmium leechage from automobile systems kills orders of magnitude more fish of all kinds than anything estrogens can possibly do.
The sad fact is that the vast majority of the remaining dangerous pollutants are attributable to either coal-fired power generation or automobile use, which are both sacred cows the world over.
I think they're figuring out how to exploit its page ranking.
You're right about that. Advertiser techniques are presently far ahead of anything pagerank can do to outwit them. Some of them are getting remarkably sophisticated. For more info, search on "blogspam" for example.
It's not a win unless the EFF wins the actual case.
I think maybe you are confusing this with IBM's countersuit against SCO. In this case, there was no precident that could be set either way. (AFAIK, IANAL)
What happened at the hearing was that the judge made it clear that he was going to provide declarative relief in favor of the plaintiff, although not an injunction on the question of the fair use of all 13,000 emails. It isn't always as crystal clear from the hearing what the judge will do, but check out this comment from the Judge:
[page 4-5:] THE COURT: What if [plaintiffs]... can show that they are suffering some type of collateral damage while the DMCA [process is] taking place? In other words, what OPG alleges here is that simply taking advantage of the safe harbor [provisions] isn't an adequate remedy... for a number of reasons that they identify.... and I think I agree with them....
One very importaint thing, it became clear that because of precidents set in the Scientology case, if Diebold had sued, the court was going to have to go through all the emails and decide on a case-by-case basis which of them are subject to fair-use protections and which aren't because they contain no public-interest material or contain an overwhelming abundance of "how-to/how-not-to" information with commercial value. From a technical perspective, of course, we have already seen how some of the source code with respect to weak encryption has some of the most importaint public-interest information. There is no way any judge would be savvy enough to catch that on the first go-round, and so this would have been a real money-loser for the good guys.
Right; there's noncommercial in the sense of being an individual apart from any business, and also in the sense of not paying for the service involved. I meant in the latter sense, and the U.S. legal dictionaries aren't much help on that question. So, some lucky appeals court judge will get to decide what the word means fairly soon; as soon as Joe Random pissed-off living-room sysadmin with webmail account for his wife and kids tries to sue under the law.
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yes, please make the do-not-spam registry from MD5 hashes, please, please, please, otherwise it will be abused by those beyond the reach of U.S. law.
any persons who use goods and services....
-- www.consumerdirection.org/glos.htm
people whose wants are satisfied by using goods and services
-- www.mrc.twsu.edu/economics/passwordlessons/Lesson0 1/lesson1printgloss.htm
individuals, households, organisations, institutions, resellers and governments that purchase the products offered by other organisations.
-- wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/213/218150/glos sary.html
Those people in a market who want to exchange money for goods or services.
-- highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072345772/student_ view0/chapter_2/key_terms.html
So, far, this is fairly ambigious. Since this will soon be under the nose of an appeal court, lets have a look at a legal dictionary's definition:
one that utilizes economic goods [if you don't pay for them are they still economic?];
specif: an individual who purchases goods for personal use as distinguished from commercial use
So, apparently, not only are email users required to pay to be covered by the lay, but they can't be organizations or business users, either.
Why do I think that isn't what congress intended?
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the answer to this is something which will only be decided by high paid lawyers standing before an appeal or supreme court.
Yes, where the definition will probably turn on whether "consumers" include noncommercial clients.
The obvious defense against disappearing ink would be to use thermal reciept printers, which produces marks lasting for years if the paper isn't exposed to sunlight.
But still, how could disappearing ink be used to skew the vote? It could eliminate the paper trail, but surely for one time only, and when the tampering became obvious, forensic science could almost certainly detect the remnants of any disappearing ink that could be used in a reciept printer.
If the machine could have the paper replaced like normal reciept printers, you would be clamoring about the security of the paper record.
No, I wouldn't.
It would be nearly impossible to meaninfully compromise the paper records by tampering with the supply, at least as far as I can tell.
What could be done with ordinary reciept paper in advance of it being printed upon? Any legible tampering would be pretty pbvious after it had been over-printed.
It's easy to make people think you're perfect when your mistakes are routinely covered up.
And in case you think the list linked above ends in 1978:
April 12, 2000: The
USS Olympia, a nuclear-powered submarine docked at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sprung a leak in the reactor's water exchange system after the maintenance was completed on a faulty valve in the reactor compartment. The valve failed again and some 500 gallons of water was released into the reactor compartment. This water then drained into the reactor bilge. Six sailors were exposed to radioactivity and subsequently decontaminated with soap and water.
Given that the woman involved, if charged with extortion, would have to be tried in a Pakistani court, I doubt she could be convicted of extortion. Under U.S. laws, those medical records must be kept strictly confidential, so anyone in the U.S. threatening to expose such records for quid pro quo would be guilty of exortion. However, in Pakistan those records are merely work materials and the woman would probably be seen as within her rights to try to secure payment for the work she did.
Thermite doesn't exactly explode, because the temperature required for ignition is quite high. In commercial applications it's often ignited with a magnesium flame instead of an ordnary fuse. The hydrogen fire was plenty hot enough to provide the ignition.
Both the hydrogen and the thermite/electroprotective paint burned, but the hydrogen burned upwards, and the thermite-encrusted cloth fell down and on the victims.
Of course, our grandchildren are going to be paying through the nose, still working on the interest, because of these boondoggles.
"Fusion" indeed; that has been 20 years away for the last 50 years and probably will be for the next 50. Wind power will easily serve 100% of our energy needs, and it is already online, paying for its clean renewable self creating wealth instead of sucking up our grandchildren's tax dollars.
The problem with nanoporous carbon capacitors is that they can't hold their charge over time as well as electrolytics. Of course the little press release linked to in the parent comment doesn't say, but I'd be suprised if they get more than a few hours half-life. Another thing is that medium amounts of physical trauma to such capacitors can cause plasma arcs (i.e., fire.)
However, carbon nanostructures are perhaps the most promising areas of energy storage research. When someone finds out how to do with nanotubes what people have been doing with nanofilaments, then we're going to have hydrogen storage approaching half the energy density of gasoline, at which point fuel cell transportation becomes much more attractive. (And considerably safer than gasoline storage, although such nanotube H2 storage can be very easily engineered into a powerful bomb beyond anything you can do with gasoline.
Anyway, I also like the Lithium polymer stuff and am sure that will be the next big advance that the consumer sees.
In theory that looks good, but in practice the WinCE hardware manufacturers contract out the software to a third party, who adapt the source, obscuring the symbols from the ROM image (and monopolize their contract for revisions in the process), and then a fourth party does the audio drivers.
To answer your question, no, the most recent WinCE audio drivers I've had trouble with, for the Toshiba e740, are not on the Microsoft web site. I wonder how many of those generic drivers are used in actual hardware without modification.
One of the huge advantages that Symbian has is that as a licensed developer, you can look at the source, unlike WinCE, which ends up with very buggy audio drivers on every single one of the five WinCE platforms I've developed on. Back in v2 days, WinCE was fairly lean and reasonably real-time, although it's always had a problem with unpredictable garbage collection every 100K new()s or so. But the Win32-spawned waveIn() routines are a disgusting nightmare for both the device driver author and the API user. They suck beyond any reasonable measure. This fact results in WinCE devices with intermittent audio bugs, intermittent distortion, intermittent crashes and panics, incorrect calling semantics, and behavior inconsistent with the same Win32 functions.
People always ask why their WinCE devices don't have decent audio integration with the phone. It's because WinCE audio drivers universally stink.
Symbian, on the other hand, lets you prove your audio channels correct and step through the whole stack with your favorite debugger. I would give up stoopid Wind32 HWND semantics for that ability any day of the week. It's not "learning a new philosophy," it's, "getting rid of Microsoft's x86-based Win32 encumbarances and closed source." I am sure others who speak from experience agree.
There are no fusion power generation experiments, using He-3 or otherwise, which produce anything near a sustained output surplus. Typical sustained values are output around 30 times input power for the most advanced tokmahoks. I hope you will please correct me with an authoratative cite if I am wrong.
As if we need to subsidise shipping companies, i.e., waste fuel. Back when the constitution was written (prior to pony express etc.) it might have made sense.
So, wouldn't it be best to perfect fusion reactors (which have been estimated as about 30 years away for the past 50 years, and still are) before going after more than research quantities of fuel for them?
everyone is living off what was done in WW2, the "greatest generation".
In the case of rocketry, you mean done by Germans and lavishly appropriated by U.S. military to the shock and horror of the U.K. which lost so much to German rockets.
If the U.S. WWII generation was so great, they would have dealt with depotic "communists" with patience and economic superiority instead of going paranoid trigger-happy in Korea, Vietnam, and eventually Reagan's Afghanistan. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
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Fred sets his laptop up to log into AOL with a default account and password. The crook seals the laptop. Fred calls AOL asking what ANI-reported telephone number his account has logged in on since the theft. AOL tells Fred the phone number. Fred reports the number to the cops. The cops get reverse directory information from the phone company (without a warrant unless the number is unlisted.) The cops ask Fred to ask AOL to inform the cops upon the next login. The crook logs in again. AOL calls the cops. The phone numbers match. Cops bust down Crook's door without a warrant because they have knowledge that a crime is taking place. The crook is busted.
Orne, read what you posted. Small engines comprise 9% of the pollution they talk about.
The sad fact is that the vast majority of the remaining dangerous pollutants are attributable to either coal-fired power generation or automobile use, which are both sacred cows the world over.
You're right about that. Advertiser techniques are presently far ahead of anything pagerank can do to outwit them. Some of them are getting remarkably sophisticated. For more info, search on "blogspam" for example.
I think maybe you are confusing this with IBM's countersuit against SCO. In this case, there was no precident that could be set either way. (AFAIK, IANAL)
What happened at the hearing was that the judge made it clear that he was going to provide declarative relief in favor of the plaintiff, although not an injunction on the question of the fair use of all 13,000 emails. It isn't always as crystal clear from the hearing what the judge will do, but check out this comment from the Judge:
You can see how he's not going to go for an injunction if you read the whole hearing transcript.
One very importaint thing, it became clear that because of precidents set in the Scientology case, if Diebold had sued, the court was going to have to go through all the emails and decide on a case-by-case basis which of them are subject to fair-use protections and which aren't because they contain no public-interest material or contain an overwhelming abundance of "how-to/how-not-to" information with commercial value. From a technical perspective, of course, we have already seen how some of the source code with respect to weak encryption has some of the most importaint public-interest information. There is no way any judge would be savvy enough to catch that on the first go-round, and so this would have been a real money-loser for the good guys.
So, I am very glad this didn't go to trial.
Right; there's noncommercial in the sense of being an individual apart from any business, and also in the sense of not paying for the service involved. I meant in the latter sense, and the U.S. legal dictionaries aren't much help on that question. So, some lucky appeals court judge will get to decide what the word means fairly soon; as soon as Joe Random pissed-off living-room sysadmin with webmail account for his wife and kids tries to sue under the law.
yes, please make the do-not-spam registry from MD5 hashes, please, please, please, otherwise it will be abused by those beyond the reach of U.S. law.
That's the question. Answers vary. For example:
So, far, this is fairly ambigious. Since this will soon be under the nose of an appeal court, lets have a look at a legal dictionary's definition:
So, apparently, not only are email users required to pay to be covered by the lay, but they can't be organizations or business users, either.
Why do I think that isn't what congress intended?
Yes, where the definition will probably turn on whether "consumers" include noncommercial clients.
But still, how could disappearing ink be used to skew the vote? It could eliminate the paper trail, but surely for one time only, and when the tampering became obvious, forensic science could almost certainly detect the remnants of any disappearing ink that could be used in a reciept printer.
No, I wouldn't.
It would be nearly impossible to meaninfully compromise the paper records by tampering with the supply, at least as far as I can tell.
What could be done with ordinary reciept paper in advance of it being printed upon? Any legible tampering would be pretty pbvious after it had been over-printed.
And in case you think the list linked above ends in 1978:
P.S. IANAL
Both the hydrogen and the thermite/electroprotective paint burned, but the hydrogen burned upwards, and the thermite-encrusted cloth fell down and on the victims.
Wind power will easily serve 100% of our power geeneration needs, and it is already online, paying for its clean renewable self and creating wealth instead of sucking up our grandchildren's tax dollars.
Why should we spend a cent on fusion? We don't need any.
"Fusion" indeed; that has been 20 years away for the last 50 years and probably will be for the next 50. Wind power will easily serve 100% of our energy needs, and it is already online, paying for its clean renewable self creating wealth instead of sucking up our grandchildren's tax dollars.
However, carbon nanostructures are perhaps the most promising areas of energy storage research. When someone finds out how to do with nanotubes what people have been doing with nanofilaments, then we're going to have hydrogen storage approaching half the energy density of gasoline, at which point fuel cell transportation becomes much more attractive. (And considerably safer than gasoline storage, although such nanotube H2 storage can be very easily engineered into a powerful bomb beyond anything you can do with gasoline.
Anyway, I also like the Lithium polymer stuff and am sure that will be the next big advance that the consumer sees.
To answer your question, no, the most recent WinCE audio drivers I've had trouble with, for the Toshiba e740, are not on the Microsoft web site. I wonder how many of those generic drivers are used in actual hardware without modification.
People always ask why their WinCE devices don't have decent audio integration with the phone. It's because WinCE audio drivers universally stink.
Symbian, on the other hand, lets you prove your audio channels correct and step through the whole stack with your favorite debugger. I would give up stoopid Wind32 HWND semantics for that ability any day of the week. It's not "learning a new philosophy," it's, "getting rid of Microsoft's x86-based Win32 encumbarances and closed source." I am sure others who speak from experience agree.
I still think the whole fusion reactor thing is a boondoggle. All we need for 100% of our electricity is wind (supplemented with a little hydropower and/or fossil gas to take up the slack during periods of calm.) Unlike fusion, with grandiose schemes of going to the moon for fuel, wind is actually in production and growing like crazy, crating thousands of jobs in addition to actual commercial power.
Ask me again about fusion and going to the moon in another hundred years.
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There are no fusion power generation experiments, using He-3 or otherwise, which produce anything near a sustained output surplus. Typical sustained values are output around 30 times input power for the most advanced tokmahoks. I hope you will please correct me with an authoratative cite if I am wrong.
As if we need to subsidise shipping companies, i.e., waste fuel. Back when the constitution was written (prior to pony express etc.) it might have made sense.
So, wouldn't it be best to perfect fusion reactors (which have been estimated as about 30 years away for the past 50 years, and still are) before going after more than research quantities of fuel for them?
In the case of rocketry, you mean done by Germans and lavishly appropriated by U.S. military to the shock and horror of the U.K. which lost so much to German rockets.
If the U.S. WWII generation was so great, they would have dealt with depotic "communists" with patience and economic superiority instead of going paranoid trigger-happy in Korea, Vietnam, and eventually Reagan's Afghanistan. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.