Just one of many of the anti-free speach measures being taken by the Bush government
Ok, I just have to ask... How is fully posting comments made by the citizens freely "Anti-Free speech ? I can see if they were only publishing some comments, but not others, or something like that.
That said - why isn't this just a perl script or something to remove these fields from the incoming comments. Or are people dumb enough to embed their e-mail address/physical addresses into the comments
If you'd read the license you would see that the source must be provided.
And if YOU look, there is nothing that says they have to eat the cost of media & shipping...
10 bucks for burning/mailing a CD seems approximately reasonable - you can download it for free as well
Infiniband is a rather powerful interconnect - but not drastically better than its anncestors (see Myrinet, hippi, via, etc.), especially when you get down into system busses that won't even support 8 Gbit/sec transfer rates that Infiniband is capable of (PCI-X handles around 6.4) vs. many of the other designs use MUCH higher performing system busses
Very simple - wait for the first day run up in price, then sell it short like hell... Has worked for every other Internet IPO I have tried (RedHat, Netscape, yada yada yada)
Just kidding of course - they tend not to let you short the stock for a couple months until after the insiders are selling out
Same in the US if they make a mistake - but if they say - well you might want to try this deduction... and you say, sure why not, and it doesn't hold up in tax court (remember guilty until proven innocent) then you bear responsibility.
If however they subtract 3 from 5 and get 4 - they can be held liable for that
It is easy to get lower taxes than any software - just be a hell of a lot less conservative on what you claim as a deduction (and pray for no audit)
Actually - becareful, the Wall Street Journal annually sends a set of paperwork to 4 accountants/tax preparing firms to see what the tax bill will be. Turns out the ammount of tax owed as calculated by the four firms aren't even close. If I recall from last year the numbers were almost double from low to high
Just remember there are numbers, accountants, and taxpreparers - only the first one has anything to do with reality
You mean there are laws saying how many scholarships a school MUST offer ?
I find that quite hard to believe - I can believe that they offer some scholarships to certain applicants for various reasons, but not that they are "Legally Required" too
Can you point to a statute that would even hint at something like this so I can place any idiot that voted for this on my list of candidates I will never vote for in the future.
Realize that this isn't anti scholarships - just like I don't believe that being against forced volunteerism is anti-volunteer. People (and organizations) should be able to do what they need to with their money. The more the government gets involved the less efficient the society is
B - potentially a legal problem as any blocking mechanism that the ISP implements at the network level will, in effect, be interfering with the clients' "communication" with the website in question. The FCC might have something to say about that.
However, I'm sure there could be a way to set up a database and have people opt-in for pop-up blocking service. IANAL but I would think that them actually requesting such service would clear most legal hurdles.
I don't think the problem is with the FCC at all, the problem is once you start filtering - you loose your common carrier status - thus openning you up for all sorts of liability for things flowing through your network, what you filter for popups, but not for CHILD PORNOGRAPHY - you are a horrible horrible person. You really don't want to do anything to loose your common carrier status
As for the technology, 802.11b is probably enough for any normal sized community cafe, but you'd want g for bigger college-town setups.
Uh... why does it matter what the technology is - the router just beyond the access point is going to go into what ? A 1.5 Mbit up/down link DSL connection ?
What do you even need more than 802.11b for anyway - let me guess, you expect the custommers to be sharing file access between themselves ?
So stick with 802.11b - unless for some strange reason you can find a g AP cheaper than b.
Intel (You can find the damned URL) has this exact policy - It is convienient that one of my favorite managers has left for another company so I can use him as a reference - plus there is nothing stopping personal references.
ALWAYS keep in touch with professional contacts - you never know when you will need them (three damned jobs in 3 years now - but at least I was employed this christmas)
Ok - RFC ? I don't think soon
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This should become an informational RFC - it could be published within a month. As experimental - I don't see it surviving the IETF Last Call process. Way too many operational people that don't like mucking with DNS records - too man spammers that wouldn't like it.
If they couldn't get consensus inside the IRTF's spam working group, what makes them think they can get it in the IETF community at large (I love the note to the RFC editor - HA)
H.P. has twice as many IP addresses as MIT does (or for that matter any other organization that I am aware of)
Used to work for a company and new the lead tech for internet connectivity... Everytime we aquired a company she would look down the IANA list and go Damned - no class A.
Seems to be having problems coming up in X - probably a personal problem w/ my computers setup... after all how many people run multiple monitors/etc on their systems
Would be interested in seeing what is in this thing
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Heck I've got two
Re: Applies also to MS
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Through OEMs I would be suprised if Microsoft even had a $0.15 BOM cost. Microsoft is responsible for shipping one golden CD to each OEM that the OEM is responsible for reproducting. I would imagine that Microsoft does take a charge somewhere north of 0.15 to cover support costs (probably in the 2-3 dollars a copy range) - but even then the OEM is responsible for primary Custommer support for XP.
So you get a resume for a candidate - listing about 30-40 buzzwords that they used to get through the HR screening - I really want to get an assessment of what they actually know - so I will ask them to describe 10 or so of the buzzwords that I am familiar with, Buzzword Bingo, any score less than 8 is an automatic disqualification. And if you score a 9, you had better score very well on the true technical questions.
Then there was the guy who listed an expert network programmer, with skills in Ethernet, TCP/IP etc.
My first classic question is "How does Ethernet work ?"
I drew a blank stare, with a "I don't know" - Time to end this interview and quit wasting my time... Oh well
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To everyone that believes that large manufacturers pay $199 for a copy of Windows XP that they ship...
Uh no - it is actually somewhere in the $25 dollar range (plus the cost of any media that they ship along with it, and also first line tech support)
maybe in dorms - however in my EE labs in college - the rooms were wired like this... if anyone did anything wrong - all the power strips would blow and the room would be "instantly" safe.
Funny, as I recall - Bill gates pulls down a salary in the 300K range, with no options or stock options. This is EXTREMELY low for a fortune 100 company CEO. I would dare you to find a Fortune 100 CEO that makes less than Bill Gates does.
That said - Bill Gates retained ownership of his company unlike most other companies, so has made a huge sum of money with a very concentrated risky investment strategy that has panned out very well the last couple decades
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And you are perfectly welcome to feed as many homeless/hungry people as you want - but why must you take my money to do it. I have a hard enough time keeping a standard of living that I like - food on my table - gas in my car - savings to live on for retirement, without you taking my money from me to do something that is important to you. How would you like it if I took your money to put into my retirement account - oh wait, you are on social security and all ready doing it
By the way - speak up and quit hiding behind the guise of a anonymous coward.
Now to address you specific complaints - many (a vast majority) of people are homeless because of bad life choices (oh why do I need this school thing, heroin isn't addictive - I'll just try it once, alchol, the list goes on) that I have no sympathy for. For people who do indeed have genuine life circumstances (truly mentally challenged people, not jut people whacked out on meth) there are many programs to help them - and in fact people who make bad life choices detract from them (instead of being whacked out on drugs - they could be paying into the system as a productive member of society). Nowhere did I say that ALL not-so-well-to-do people can help themselves - I said I have no sympathy for the ones that can/could have, and didn't - which as you correctly assumed is a vast majority of them.
Generalizations are very useful - they provide the correct abstraction around problems that let us get to the root. It helps people that are being covered by the generalization to figure it out - and learn how to get out of the generalization (can't get laid - clean up your act, and go out an meet some people of the correct sex for you)
Don't care about any of them - I am just worried (bad health, drain on the health infrastructure, stupid lawsuits against McDonnald, etc.) that the much larger percentage of Americans that are fat will lead to dumber and dumber laws.
I don't care about obese people, but I do care when they start to change national policy and cause my costs to go up. Can't wait for a lawsuit saying doors are too narrow to go through, so all buildings must be refitted with doors that are 2' wider (and then why stop there). Don't even get me started on airplane rules for people that don't fit into their assigned seat.
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Ok, I just have to ask... How is fully posting comments made by the citizens freely "Anti-Free speech ? I can see if they were only publishing some comments, but not others, or something like that.
That said - why isn't this just a perl script or something to remove these fields from the incoming comments. Or are people dumb enough to embed their e-mail address/physical addresses into the comments
10 bucks for burning/mailing a CD seems approximately reasonable - you can download it for free as well
Hmmm... Didn't this go into Unix kernels almost a decade ago - Thank you Sun
Infiniband is a rather powerful interconnect - but not drastically better than its anncestors (see Myrinet, hippi, via, etc.), especially when you get down into system busses that won't even support 8 Gbit/sec transfer rates that Infiniband is capable of (PCI-X handles around 6.4) vs. many of the other designs use MUCH higher performing system busses
Just kidding of course - they tend not to let you short the stock for a couple months until after the insiders are selling out
If however they subtract 3 from 5 and get 4 - they can be held liable for that
Actually - becareful, the Wall Street Journal annually sends a set of paperwork to 4 accountants/tax preparing firms to see what the tax bill will be. Turns out the ammount of tax owed as calculated by the four firms aren't even close. If I recall from last year the numbers were almost double from low to high
Just remember there are numbers, accountants, and taxpreparers - only the first one has anything to do with reality
Personally I will be VERY happy to go back to TurboTax this year - TaxCut sucked horribly and I have liked TurboTax for almost a decade now
Moral of the story - company does what I want them to - I will send my business back to them
I find that quite hard to believe - I can believe that they offer some scholarships to certain applicants for various reasons, but not that they are "Legally Required" too
Can you point to a statute that would even hint at something like this so I can place any idiot that voted for this on my list of candidates I will never vote for in the future.
Realize that this isn't anti scholarships - just like I don't believe that being against forced volunteerism is anti-volunteer. People (and organizations) should be able to do what they need to with their money. The more the government gets involved the less efficient the society is
However, I'm sure there could be a way to set up a database and have people opt-in for pop-up blocking service. IANAL but I would think that them actually requesting such service would clear most legal hurdles.
I don't think the problem is with the FCC at all, the problem is once you start filtering - you loose your common carrier status - thus openning you up for all sorts of liability for things flowing through your network, what you filter for popups, but not for CHILD PORNOGRAPHY - you are a horrible horrible person. You really don't want to do anything to loose your common carrier status
Some things never change do they
What do you even need more than 802.11b for anyway - let me guess, you expect the custommers to be sharing file access between themselves ?
So stick with 802.11b - unless for some strange reason you can find a g AP cheaper than b.
ALWAYS keep in touch with professional contacts - you never know when you will need them (three damned jobs in 3 years now - but at least I was employed this christmas)
If they couldn't get consensus inside the IRTF's spam working group, what makes them think they can get it in the IETF community at large (I love the note to the RFC editor - HA)
Used to work for a company and new the lead tech for internet connectivity... Everytime we aquired a company she would look down the IANA list and go Damned - no class A.
Would be interested in seeing what is in this thing
Fatal server error: no screens found
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A nice business if you can get it
Then there was the guy who listed an expert network programmer, with skills in Ethernet, TCP/IP etc.
My first classic question is "How does Ethernet work ?"
I drew a blank stare, with a "I don't know" - Time to end this interview and quit wasting my time... Oh well
Uh no - it is actually somewhere in the $25 dollar range (plus the cost of any media that they ship along with it, and also first line tech support)
Would be a prime target if you could take down www.openbsd.org - of course with one remote exploit in 7 years. But it would be a claim to fame
maybe in dorms - however in my EE labs in college - the rooms were wired like this... if anyone did anything wrong - all the power strips would blow and the room would be "instantly" safe.
That said - Bill Gates retained ownership of his company unlike most other companies, so has made a huge sum of money with a very concentrated risky investment strategy that has panned out very well the last couple decades
By the way - speak up and quit hiding behind the guise of a anonymous coward.
Now to address you specific complaints - many (a vast majority) of people are homeless because of bad life choices (oh why do I need this school thing, heroin isn't addictive - I'll just try it once, alchol, the list goes on) that I have no sympathy for. For people who do indeed have genuine life circumstances (truly mentally challenged people, not jut people whacked out on meth) there are many programs to help them - and in fact people who make bad life choices detract from them (instead of being whacked out on drugs - they could be paying into the system as a productive member of society). Nowhere did I say that ALL not-so-well-to-do people can help themselves - I said I have no sympathy for the ones that can/could have, and didn't - which as you correctly assumed is a vast majority of them.
Generalizations are very useful - they provide the correct abstraction around problems that let us get to the root. It helps people that are being covered by the generalization to figure it out - and learn how to get out of the generalization (can't get laid - clean up your act, and go out an meet some people of the correct sex for you)
I don't care about obese people, but I do care when they start to change national policy and cause my costs to go up. Can't wait for a lawsuit saying doors are too narrow to go through, so all buildings must be refitted with doors that are 2' wider (and then why stop there). Don't even get me started on airplane rules for people that don't fit into their assigned seat.