The idea of blaming Columbus for this is absurd. Clearly the blame lies with the Spanish government who sent Columbus exploring to begin with and therefore Spain should pay for all the world's global warming expenses. I'll submit this to a UN subcommittee for review immediately.
1) What are your problems? Not some random vague laundry list like "Wall street is bad," or "The rich suck." A short, specific, list of the things you believe are big enough problems that they warrant protesting over.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
I knew those whirled peas advocates had it all wrong.
Seriously, though, even just visualizing a good steak a minute ago calmed me down. I'm thinking this might actually be a tactic known as "distraction through hunger". It works for angry dogs too. Maybe the brain can only handle one primal urge at once.
Hmm... an employer "gives" employees a gps-enabled device with audio and video recording equipment inside. Sure. Why don't you just staple a plastic tag through their ears too?
It took a team from MIT to walk to the side of the object, look at the object and report that the object could be seen? I think this cloak managed to hide something other than the object....
Setting aside for the moment what we personally (or nationally) think might be right and wrong for the whole world (such as democracy or freedom of speech), is it Google's place to decide policy in every nation? I see two real alternatives here:
1. Google decides to determine policy (other than its own) and provides exactly what content is allowable to each country as determined by each country.
2. Google decides to ignore each country's policy requests and each country must determine to what level they will censor Google internally.
And of course, by "Google", I really mean every content provider on the internet. I can see arguments for each alternative, but I think I lean towards #2 because it doesn't place an undo burden on providers or start subjecting them to international information restriction laws or any such nonsense.
I've actually been doing a little bit of dieting over the past couple weeks because I want to trim off some pounds. I've been doing only calorie reduction without any real exercise. Using the free web site fatsecret.com, I log everything I eat and all my activity (which right now is sleeping and resting). My goal is to maintain a 500 calorie deficit each day, but some days I haven't even done that well. Nevertheless, I've lost 6 pounds in 2 weeks. Staples in my new low cal diet include: cottage cheese, fruit, Clif bars, yogurt, chicken. Make sure to get plenty of protein. Unfortunately, I do have a habit of eating out a lot, so I've done some research to determine which items I can order at some of my regular restaurants that fit into this goal.
Unfortunately, to play Jeopardy, the computer must understand answers and come up with questions. Ok, computer, here's your first answer: 42. We'll have our ancestors check back later for your question.
Just a thought about this solution (and others in general):
I think the major reason why people flippantly dismiss solutions to the spam problem is that no solution immediately solves it. Once we get past that notion and instead think about eventually turning the tide against spam, things like your solution bear more investigation.
For example, if one major sector - say, banking - or even one major company in this sector offered the ability to send certified email from their servers so that customers could be certain they were not vulnerable to phishing attacks, I bet many customers would have no problem following a simple key creation process and exchanging public keys with the bank. Or a major mail carrier, like Google, could easily get the ball rolling on this by automatically certifying emails between gmail members and including the user's public key on outgoing email (maybe optionally, but on by default).
I think a key component of this ramp-up would be that only the certification portion of the email is encrypted. So you could still read the content of the email even if you weren't interested in (or able of) using certification. This could also serve to remind you with each and every email that you have the option of participating in the certification program if you see the senders public key, without forcing you to participate. I remember getting emails in college with people's PGP key attached as a signature and wondering what it was all about.
I dunno if this specific question is answered, but I recently put this book on my to-read list:
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier.
From Publishers Weekly: "Pulitzer-winning science writer Angier (Woman: An Intimate Geography) distills everything you've forgotten from your high school science classes and more into one enjoyable book, a guide for the scientifically perplexed adult who wants to understand what those guys in lab coats on the news are babbling about, in the realms of physics, chemistry, biology, geology or astronomy...."
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Why couldn't it have been J.J. Abrams? After what he did with Star Trek, I'd trust him with just about any major reboot.
a little lens, maybe mounted over one of my eyes. And if that lens also shot red laser beams well then I think we'd have a product.
The idea of blaming Columbus for this is absurd. Clearly the blame lies with the Spanish government who sent Columbus exploring to begin with and therefore Spain should pay for all the world's global warming expenses. I'll submit this to a UN subcommittee for review immediately.
Oh and before you get to #3, it's blue.
1) What are your problems? Not some random vague laundry list like "Wall street is bad," or "The rich suck." A short, specific, list of the things you believe are big enough problems that they warrant protesting over.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Freaking Replicants.
I knew those whirled peas advocates had it all wrong.
Seriously, though, even just visualizing a good steak a minute ago calmed me down. I'm thinking this might actually be a tactic known as "distraction through hunger". It works for angry dogs too. Maybe the brain can only handle one primal urge at once.
http://cheezburger.com/View/4126230016
How about including in the safes somewhat fragile dye packs that will rupture when exposed to excessive pressure?
How about a GPS chip that gets sucked up into their bag o cash?
They did it all for the wookie. C'mon. The wookie.
Hmm... an employer "gives" employees a gps-enabled device with audio and video recording equipment inside. Sure. Why don't you just staple a plastic tag through their ears too?
Query: what is a wormhole?
Top Result: hole made by a burrowing worm
It took a team from MIT to walk to the side of the object, look at the object and report that the object could be seen? I think this cloak managed to hide something other than the object....
Everybody print out all their emails!!!
Setting aside for the moment what we personally (or nationally) think might be right and wrong for the whole world (such as democracy or freedom of speech), is it Google's place to decide policy in every nation? I see two real alternatives here:
1. Google decides to determine policy (other than its own) and provides exactly what content is allowable to each country as determined by each country.
2. Google decides to ignore each country's policy requests and each country must determine to what level they will censor Google internally.
And of course, by "Google", I really mean every content provider on the internet. I can see arguments for each alternative, but I think I lean towards #2 because it doesn't place an undo burden on providers or start subjecting them to international information restriction laws or any such nonsense.
Hooray for the good guys! Now if they could find something similar to fight viruses.
My pattern analysis indicates that if the Windows kernel tried to load it, it's a virus.
Any wagers on which one true religion will be busted next?
Fortunately, truth and our ability to discern it and believe it doesn't have anything to do with our ability to live up to it.
Former iPhones were labeled like this:
* Original iPhone = 1,1
* iPhone 3G = 1,2
* iPhone 3GS = 2,1
their efforts to avoid disappointment were stymied by the release of Windows 7.
I've actually been doing a little bit of dieting over the past couple weeks because I want to trim off some pounds. I've been doing only calorie reduction without any real exercise. Using the free web site fatsecret.com, I log everything I eat and all my activity (which right now is sleeping and resting). My goal is to maintain a 500 calorie deficit each day, but some days I haven't even done that well. Nevertheless, I've lost 6 pounds in 2 weeks. Staples in my new low cal diet include: cottage cheese, fruit, Clif bars, yogurt, chicken. Make sure to get plenty of protein. Unfortunately, I do have a habit of eating out a lot, so I've done some research to determine which items I can order at some of my regular restaurants that fit into this goal.
Unfortunately, to play Jeopardy, the computer must understand answers and come up with questions. Ok, computer, here's your first answer: 42. We'll have our ancestors check back later for your question.
Gotta love the Catholic Church, the bastions of innovation and human progress that they are. Not.
Nice troll.
If anyone's interested here's the link to the National Catholic Bioethics Center:
http://www.ncbcenter.org/
Also, there's an interesting book called "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" that you might find enlightening.
Just a thought about this solution (and others in general):
I think the major reason why people flippantly dismiss solutions to the spam problem is that no solution immediately solves it. Once we get past that notion and instead think about eventually turning the tide against spam, things like your solution bear more investigation.
For example, if one major sector - say, banking - or even one major company in this sector offered the ability to send certified email from their servers so that customers could be certain they were not vulnerable to phishing attacks, I bet many customers would have no problem following a simple key creation process and exchanging public keys with the bank. Or a major mail carrier, like Google, could easily get the ball rolling on this by automatically certifying emails between gmail members and including the user's public key on outgoing email (maybe optionally, but on by default).
I think a key component of this ramp-up would be that only the certification portion of the email is encrypted. So you could still read the content of the email even if you weren't interested in (or able of) using certification. This could also serve to remind you with each and every email that you have the option of participating in the certification program if you see the senders public key, without forcing you to participate. I remember getting emails in college with people's PGP key attached as a signature and wondering what it was all about.
I dunno if this specific question is answered, but I recently put this book on my to-read list:
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier.
From Publishers Weekly: "Pulitzer-winning science writer Angier (Woman: An Intimate Geography) distills everything you've forgotten from your high school science classes and more into one enjoyable book, a guide for the scientifically perplexed adult who wants to understand what those guys in lab coats on the news are babbling about, in the realms of physics, chemistry, biology, geology or astronomy...."