There's only one true opt-out... and it's at the receiver's end.
This is really possible only if I created a unique, unguessable email address each time I gave my email out.
This is not as impossible as you think. For instance, Gmail supports the "+arbitrary_tag" convention. So email sent to:
example+listserv1@gmail.com
example+bank1@gmail.com
example+dad@gmail.com
-- all shows up in the Gmail inbox of 'example@gmail.com'.
If you started getting spam at one of the 'example+...@gmail.com', you can guess who gave your address out.
Note, Gmail's convention leaves out the 'unguessable' bit of this idea out - so spammers can easily build rules to harvest real addresses from gmail addresses containing a '+' sign.
Many (most) modern cab company cabs already have GPS units. Lots of people in cities like NY have smartphones with usable location sensing. The enhanced-911 location sensing built into mobile phones could also be used.
The amount-at-risk could vary, but for me personally, a $3 charge for a no-show is fair. For the cabbie, its' still better than nothing.
> There are already many services that schedule pickups via phone, web, and probably smart phone too > (isn't there an iPhone app for that?).
True, but there's nothing that tells the smartphone how close the cabbie is to you in realtime?
> Why should he risk a pickup fare, which may not materialize, when he can get one immediately off the > street without having to drive anywhere else to start the trip?
The question is actually the reverse - why do so many folks who've called in a cab on the phone turn up a noshow? It's lack of information: because we dont' know where the driver is, and have been burnt before when one didn't show up in time (or didn't show up at all), we get jittery and hail the next cab.
A smartphone app that gave me realtime ETA updates of _my_ cab would encourage me to wait for one. An app that automatically presented an ETA which I assent to, then automatically docks a nominal e-booking charge (say $3 as a Preauth credit card transaction) straight to the cab company (automatically applied to the trip cost on pickup, or refunded in full if ETA was exceeded, or forfeited if I was a noshow at agreed-upon coordinates) would encourage both the cabbie and passenger to stick with the arrangement.
A bluetooth close-in proximity trigger can be used to flag final application of the e-booking charge.
The Iphone 3.0 SDK has new APIs that should make this possible.
Your computer usage has probably caused myopia. Your age is probably working to hide the myopia. As we get older the eye shrinks and counteracts the 'bulging eyeball' shape of a myopic eyeball.
In this case, defamatory comments (illegal under Canadian law) were made on a website, which falls under Canadian jurisdiction. Do the Canadians not try to enforce their own law? Or do you think US free-speech laws should be 'exported' every time something happens on the internet.
Even in the US, the Unabomber posted his letters (not his bombs, mind you; his _letters_ to newspapers) (pseudo)-anonymously as well.
Should the FBI not have tried to track him down using his letters?
Ha - this may be the answer to a recent 'Ask Slashdot' article on Cross-Language Code Reuse:
Hope For Multi-Language Programming? http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/28/037256 From a comment there: There is one possible bright spot I know of in the multi-language world: the development of things like the Parrot virtual machine, which is intended to be an efficient backend for all dynamic languages, including (but not limited to) Perl 6. It seems unlikely to me that this technical achievement is going to bridge the social barriers between the camps of language advocates, but you never know, maybe I'm underestimating Larry Wall's social engineering skills.
"geez, it was a broad statement...and you say bureaucrat and I say polly...find someone else to argue with..."
Don't evade the point. Which is: the environment lobby is to blame for the passage of overzealous environmental regulations that prevented homeowners making their properties safe.
Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) and X2VNC (http://directory.fsf.org/project/x2vnc/) can be useful to 'merge' your phone and home PC screens. Move your mouse over to your android screen, copy something, paste it onto your PC application.
From Synergy website: Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.
Unless the 2% of lost votes actually matter (e.g., the race is close, or 2% is signifant for proportional representation, or it indicates a deeper systemic problem) why do they really matter?
Does Google's Chrome browser do something to this effect? I recall something about Chrome each webpage in an independent process, not as independent threads.
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You could name it ... here! ;-)
There's only one true opt-out... and it's at the receiver's end.
This is really possible only if I created a unique, unguessable email address each time I gave my email out.
This is not as impossible as you think. For instance, Gmail supports the "+arbitrary_tag" convention. So email sent to:
example+listserv1@gmail.com
example+bank1@gmail.com
example+dad@gmail.com
-- all shows up in the Gmail inbox of 'example@gmail.com'.
If you started getting spam at one of the 'example+...@gmail.com', you can guess who gave your address out.
See: http://alblue.blogspot.com/2007/05/multiple-addresses-with-gmail.html
Note, Gmail's convention leaves out the 'unguessable' bit of this idea out - so spammers can easily build rules to harvest real addresses from gmail addresses containing a '+' sign.
Many (most) modern cab company cabs already have GPS units. Lots of people in cities like NY have smartphones with usable location sensing. The enhanced-911 location sensing built into mobile phones could also be used.
The amount-at-risk could vary, but for me personally, a $3 charge for a no-show is fair. For the cabbie, its' still better than nothing.
> There are already many services that schedule pickups via phone, web, and probably smart phone too
> (isn't there an iPhone app for that?).
True, but there's nothing that tells the smartphone how close the cabbie is to you in realtime?
> Why should he risk a pickup fare, which may not materialize, when he can get one immediately off the
> street without having to drive anywhere else to start the trip?
The question is actually the reverse - why do so many folks who've called in a cab on the phone turn up a noshow? It's lack of information: because we dont' know where the driver is, and have been burnt before when one didn't show up in time (or didn't show up at all), we get jittery and hail the next cab.
A smartphone app that gave me realtime ETA updates of _my_ cab would encourage me to wait for one. An app that automatically presented an ETA which I assent to, then automatically docks a nominal e-booking charge (say $3 as a Preauth credit card transaction) straight to the cab company (automatically applied to the trip cost on pickup, or refunded in full if ETA was exceeded, or forfeited if I was a noshow at agreed-upon coordinates) would encourage both the cabbie and passenger to stick with the arrangement.
A bluetooth close-in proximity trigger can be used to flag final application of the e-booking charge.
The Iphone 3.0 SDK has new APIs that should make this possible.
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well, use memtest then.
I'd imaging BitTorrent would store received data for a much smaller time in memory than memtest would
What poor math!
20,000/100 Days = $200 dollars, day.
Yeah, for a 7 day work week
$200/24 hours = $8.33/hour
A 24 hour work day. Yeah!
TCP checksums would catch it before the user would.
http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_TCPChecksumCalculationandtheTCPPseudoHeader.htm
Your computer usage has probably caused myopia. Your age is probably working to hide the myopia. As we get older the eye shrinks and counteracts the 'bulging eyeball' shape of a myopic eyeball.
If we want an accurate headline it should be: "Violent Video games can Improve One Aspect of Vision"
In this case, defamatory comments (illegal under Canadian law) were made on a website, which falls under Canadian jurisdiction. Do the Canadians not try to enforce their own law? Or do you think US free-speech laws should be 'exported' every time something happens on the internet.
Even in the US, the Unabomber posted his letters (not his bombs, mind you; his _letters_ to newspapers) (pseudo)-anonymously as well.
Should the FBI not have tried to track him down using his letters?
you're still glowing... chill some more.
Do all new smartphones have to have infrared? A lot of mobile phones these days don't have it, and no infrared = no universal remote
Ha - this may be the answer to a recent 'Ask Slashdot' article on Cross-Language Code Reuse:
Hope For Multi-Language Programming?
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/28/037256
From a comment there:
There is one possible bright spot I know of in the multi-language world: the development of things like the Parrot virtual machine, which is intended to be an efficient backend for all dynamic languages, including (but not limited to) Perl 6. It seems unlikely to me that this technical achievement is going to bridge the social barriers between the camps of language advocates, but you never know, maybe I'm underestimating Larry Wall's social engineering skills.
I'd love to have a VM that let me use my old Lisp code, and old Perl code, in a new Java program. ... and there have been similar 'Ask Slashdots' earlier
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:slashdot.org+personal+language+reuse
> that it's not fair for porn advertisers to display sex "without her permission,"
> he didn't say his.
Where did the 'without her dad's permission' bit disappear?
Poor kid.
"geez, it was a broad statement...and you say bureaucrat and I say polly...find someone else to argue with..."
Don't evade the point. Which is: the environment lobby is to blame for the passage of overzealous environmental regulations that prevented homeowners making their properties safe.
A human life is worth more than many trees.
> $2500 in costs ***plus revegetation****
Revegetation which may have left him houseless.
There is a winner in this argument, and its not you
> You cant blame the environmental lobby.
> Blame the corrupted system full of corrupt politicians and judges that allowed this to take place.
Why?
How did corrupt politicians and judges cause the fine? If anything, it was overzealous environmental regulation and inflexible beauraucrats.
We've got to take care of our environment, but the lives of human beings are more valuable than trees.
He probably meant password-less ssh (ssh-agent authentication). This lets you click on a local icon and have the remote app run on your desktop
Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) and X2VNC (http://directory.fsf.org/project/x2vnc/) can be useful to 'merge' your phone and home PC screens. Move your mouse over to your android screen, copy something, paste it onto your PC application.
From Synergy website:
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).
Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems. Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires a password to unlock them all. Learn more about how it works.
> runs Windows applications more often than not. (Certainly more often than Vista does.)
Maybe this occasions releasing Wine on Windows itself ;)
Unless the 2% of lost votes actually matter (e.g., the race is close, or 2% is signifant for proportional representation, or it indicates a deeper systemic problem) why do they really matter?
yeah right, cancer was meant to have been cured by now too.....
Does Google's Chrome browser do something to this effect? I recall something about Chrome each webpage in an independent process, not as independent threads.
> A large part of this case revolves around whether
> Psystar has a legitimate right to tell the whole world
> what business Apple is in.
Nonsense!
Whatever this case is actually about, it is not the stuff you are stating.
Hello world - I affirm that Apple is in the browser business.
Now sue me Apple!