Fine. Prohibit P2P. The university owns the bandwith, they can block it, scan it, whatever. But invading the student's PC's is an invasion of privacy. This isn't even like watching employees. In a company, the PC belongs to the company, not the employee. These are the student's personal computers. The school has absolutely no right to scan the systems. The student is therefore totally liable for anything illegal found on that PC. The university should limit its power to scanning internet traffic.
That is true, but by passing legislation against spam, we will stop some of it, and keep law-abiding corporations from deciding to use spam as a marketing vehicle.
It is not a perfect solution, but spam should be considered illegal.
I guess if this gets passed, the next step would be that you had to be licensed to own a compiler, and it's use would have to be monitored and logged.
Land of the Free.
Exactly, and besides, to turn of a PDE, you turn off the fuel supply. Done.
You can turn off some rockets too, like the LOX fuel supply on the space shuttle. It is just the SRB's, that carry mixed oxidizer and fuel that are unstoppable once started.
Not really, if you RTFA, you will see that even in an internal combustion engine, where there is a so called explosion, it is really a fast flame, or deflagration. The key to the PDE is to make this deflagration turn into a supersonic explosion, that moves the flame out of the end of the tube much faster than a fast flame.
From the article: Imagine a tube, closed at one end and filled with a mixture of fuel and air. A spark ignites the fuel at the closed end, and a combustion reaction propagates down the tube. In deflagration--even in "fast flame" situations ordinarily called explosions--that reaction moves at tens of meters per second at most. But in detonation, a supersonic shock wave slams down the tube at thousands of meters per second, close to Mach 5, compressing and igniting fuel and air almost instantaneously in a narrow, high-pressure, heat-release zone.
And if you had a magnet in the pendulum, you could alter its oscilation by having an electro magnet at each end of the swing. By having an opposite charge on that electro-magnet, you could slow the osciliation slightly, and by having the same charge, you could increase it slightly. You wouldn't have to have a mechanical arm ever touch the pendulum.
Yeah, imagine if said infrastructure falls into the wrong hands... Say a greedy ISP (if such a thing really exists, I have read reports, but nothing concrete). Next thing you know we will have ISPs giving you 20 free emails a month and each additional one costs a nickle or something.
I have noticed this myself. I had always stayed away from the opt out's in spam, but decided what the hell, my email is almost not usable anyway, might as well see if it works before abandoning the address. If you look at the email, you can be pretty sure which ones come from a site that will honor their opt out clause. After a week of opting out of everything, I get almost no spam any more, and this is at a yahoo account.
Exactly. My cable access which just 2 months ago was consistantly 1.4 - 2.0 MB is now running about 600KB because of people sitting at home running Kazaa all day long. Why should the ISP happily allow that, but I risk loosing my only source of broadband access if I decide to have a FTP server so that I might access my home network from work? How much traffic will that cause? Gimme a break.
I didn't say that anything was against creationism. The argument is that if God created the entire universe, and only put inhabitants on one little planet, then it is a huge waste of space. I was simply pointing out that by using the creationists view of the world, the space that is involved is inconsequential. God could have created an infinite amout of space as easily as a finite amount of space.
I also did not make a claim that there is no other race in the universe. I admit that it is definately a possiblity, and I for one would love to be around if we ever encounter them. But because of my interpretation of the purpose of our lives here, and knowing what I do of the Bible, I must say that I think it is a long shot. According to the Bible (and if you don't believe this then that is fine. I am describing what I understand to be true.) the most important part of "creation" is humankind. The space involved in the rest of the universe doesn't matter much compared to the human soul. If the Bible is true, then I just don't see much room for other races that we can possibly encounter. That doesn't mean that there are none. There could be other races that are so far away that they are beyond our technological means to contact. Or there could be one much closer. Only time will tell. I doubt it, but would love to be wrong about this one.
As an aside here. My faith doesn't ensure or prohibit the existance of alien species, so the existance or lack thereof would not affect my beliefs. But knowing what I believe to be the purpose of our lives here, I doubt that we will ever encounter such a race. It would be great to be wrong about that, though. (As long as the Klingons aren't our first contact, anyway.)
This is an overused old argument. If creationists are correct, physical space is inconsequential. God could just as easily have made an infinite universe just to put us in, or put us in a shoebox under his bed with a few holes in the top.
From our perspective, it does seem like a waste of space, but on the grander scheme of things, all of that physical space means nothing.
Kinda like:
The stolen data includes SSNs, Bank Acount Information, Address, and Phone Numbers. It is important to not that no student's shoe sizes or nicknames were disclosed."
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If the ribbon broke, then the lower part should fall into the sea as you suggest. But I think that the upper part of the ribbon, and the satelite, which is now well above Geosyncronous orbit (in order to support the weight of the ribbon and its payload) will be hurled away from Earth. I have read that by using the uppermost part of the space elevator as a launching station, we would be able to fling craft to Mars in a fraction of the time it takes us to get there now. So I would think that the upper part of the elevator would not pose a problem to us here on the surface.
Now if something hit the ribbon and pulled the satelite too close to Geosyncronous orbit, then the whole thing might fall down, but it should all be pretty much in the same area.
Or maybe, as suggested in the response email, this is an intentional "accident" to see if they can get people to remove OpenOffice links out of frear. Every site that they scare into doing that is another small victory for Bill, and consequently, BSA.
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So what is this patch thingy, anyway?
Fine. Prohibit P2P. The university owns the bandwith, they can block it, scan it, whatever. But invading the student's PC's is an invasion of privacy. This isn't even like watching employees. In a company, the PC belongs to the company, not the employee. These are the student's personal computers. The school has absolutely no right to scan the systems. The student is therefore totally liable for anything illegal found on that PC. The university should limit its power to scanning internet traffic.
That is true, but by passing legislation against spam, we will stop some of it, and keep law-abiding corporations from deciding to use spam as a marketing vehicle.
It is not a perfect solution, but spam should be considered illegal.
I guess if this gets passed, the next step would be that you had to be licensed to own a compiler, and it's use would have to be monitored and logged. Land of the Free.
Exactly, and besides, to turn of a PDE, you turn off the fuel supply. Done. You can turn off some rockets too, like the LOX fuel supply on the space shuttle. It is just the SRB's, that carry mixed oxidizer and fuel that are unstoppable once started.
Not really, if you RTFA, you will see that even in an internal combustion engine, where there is a so called explosion, it is really a fast flame, or deflagration. The key to the PDE is to make this deflagration turn into a supersonic explosion, that moves the flame out of the end of the tube much faster than a fast flame.
From the article:
Imagine a tube, closed at one end and filled with a mixture of fuel and air. A spark ignites the fuel at the closed end, and a combustion reaction propagates down the tube. In deflagration--even in "fast flame" situations ordinarily called explosions--that reaction moves at tens of meters per second at most. But in detonation, a supersonic shock wave slams down the tube at thousands of meters per second, close to Mach 5, compressing and igniting fuel and air almost instantaneously in a narrow, high-pressure, heat-release zone.
And if you had a magnet in the pendulum, you could alter its oscilation by having an electro magnet at each end of the swing. By having an opposite charge on that electro-magnet, you could slow the osciliation slightly, and by having the same charge, you could increase it slightly. You wouldn't have to have a mechanical arm ever touch the pendulum.
We tried, but someone swapped the sugar with the salt, and he spewed coffee everywhere.
See Sig
Yeah, imagine if said infrastructure falls into the wrong hands... Say a greedy ISP (if such a thing really exists, I have read reports, but nothing concrete). Next thing you know we will have ISPs giving you 20 free emails a month and each additional one costs a nickle or something.
I agree, not a good idea.
I haven't found him yet, but I found Linda Jean Lightfoot, his partner in the Universal Direct scheme:
Linda Jean Lightfoot 51 Willowood Lane London, Oh 43140 741-857-1922
I have noticed this myself. I had always stayed away from the opt out's in spam, but decided what the hell, my email is almost not usable anyway, might as well see if it works before abandoning the address. If you look at the email, you can be pretty sure which ones come from a site that will honor their opt out clause. After a week of opting out of everything, I get almost no spam any more, and this is at a yahoo account.
On the other hand, if they let your service fall into the toilet you'll just bitch on Slashdot.
I thought that was what we were all here for.
Exactly. My cable access which just 2 months ago was consistantly 1.4 - 2.0 MB is now running about 600KB because of people sitting at home running Kazaa all day long. Why should the ISP happily allow that, but I risk loosing my only source of broadband access if I decide to have a FTP server so that I might access my home network from work? How much traffic will that cause? Gimme a break.
I didn't say that anything was against creationism. The argument is that if God created the entire universe, and only put inhabitants on one little planet, then it is a huge waste of space. I was simply pointing out that by using the creationists view of the world, the space that is involved is inconsequential. God could have created an infinite amout of space as easily as a finite amount of space.
I also did not make a claim that there is no other race in the universe. I admit that it is definately a possiblity, and I for one would love to be around if we ever encounter them. But because of my interpretation of the purpose of our lives here, and knowing what I do of the Bible, I must say that I think it is a long shot. According to the Bible (and if you don't believe this then that is fine. I am describing what I understand to be true.) the most important part of "creation" is humankind. The space involved in the rest of the universe doesn't matter much compared to the human soul. If the Bible is true, then I just don't see much room for other races that we can possibly encounter. That doesn't mean that there are none. There could be other races that are so far away that they are beyond our technological means to contact. Or there could be one much closer. Only time will tell. I doubt it, but would love to be wrong about this one.
As an aside here. My faith doesn't ensure or prohibit the existance of alien species, so the existance or lack thereof would not affect my beliefs. But knowing what I believe to be the purpose of our lives here, I doubt that we will ever encounter such a race. It would be great to be wrong about that, though. (As long as the Klingons aren't our first contact, anyway.)
This is an overused old argument. If creationists are correct, physical space is inconsequential. God could just as easily have made an infinite universe just to put us in, or put us in a shoebox under his bed with a few holes in the top.
From our perspective, it does seem like a waste of space, but on the grander scheme of things, all of that physical space means nothing.
Kinda like: The stolen data includes SSNs, Bank Acount Information, Address, and Phone Numbers. It is important to not that no student's shoe sizes or nicknames were disclosed."
If the ribbon broke, then the lower part should fall into the sea as you suggest. But I think that the upper part of the ribbon, and the satelite, which is now well above Geosyncronous orbit (in order to support the weight of the ribbon and its payload) will be hurled away from Earth. I have read that by using the uppermost part of the space elevator as a launching station, we would be able to fling craft to Mars in a fraction of the time it takes us to get there now. So I would think that the upper part of the elevator would not pose a problem to us here on the surface.
Now if something hit the ribbon and pulled the satelite too close to Geosyncronous orbit, then the whole thing might fall down, but it should all be pretty much in the same area.
anyone want to bet that PeTA is not drafting a letter as we speak?
Also, can you imagine what happens when it get /.ed?
Ever seen a bug zapper?
You know, I for one have always doubted the existance of life in Europe.
Their Response: ABUSE DENIED!
Or Maybe: RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
Or maybe, as suggested in the response email, this is an intentional "accident" to see if they can get people to remove OpenOffice links out of frear. Every site that they scare into doing that is another small victory for Bill, and consequently, BSA.
Oh, so Microsoft needs to know that you have Adobe Photoshop and 3DStudio Max installed so they can give you a wireless USB driver?
Somehow, this doesn't compute....