Actually, Dr. Mullis has been involved with a number of projects over the years that I've heard of (along with having written a book that sold rather well).
Then there is Peter Duesberg, who is in my mind the most reliable and trustworthy of the scientists involved (on both sides). I mean really, how many scientists do you know of who would purposefully trash their own conclusions even after they had been accepted by the scientific community?
The trouble is that a scientific paper is vastly different from a high school report.
every aspect of it needs to be verifiable, and that means that with few exceptions, every fact needs a reference.
If you want to include a piece of data that you learned in a high school class, you need to find a source that verifies you. If you can't find a source for your information, it shouldn't be in the paper.
Well, it may be a troll, but the fact remains that some very prominent scientists claim that the HIV -> AIS theory wasn't proven before it was adopted.
Their claim is that this exact thing happened in the early 80's, and that instead of actually reading the research that said that HIV may cause AIDS (which was inconclusive) they simply took the ball and ran with it, causing years of research to be based on the same incorrectly cited source.
Who knows what the answer is, but it's a fascinating subject to read up on.
And I suppose that you are under the mistaken impression that the business does not pay to have that dumpster emptied?
Try not paying your garbage collection bills, see how quickly your old PC stays right where you left it.
Even if you were correct, why would this only apply to computers? Why not ALL garbage?
Tweak the OS. These things almost always come with every possible service and option turned on and running at 100%.
You can squeeze loads of power out of any factory/default install just by tweaking the settings properly.
Well, it doesn't handle floating point units, which basically screws it.
Honestly, on some applications it will be just as zesty as a celeron, on some, it will be half to a third as fast. I'm sure you could get it to play divX files, though you may need to tweak it a bit first...
But wide coverage area is an important selling point in the US. Sure, NYC has a population density greater than most EU cities, but that's irrellevant because the US customer isn't just buying a phone that works in NYC, they want a phone that works in NYC AND the backwoods of upper NY where nobody lives.
To say that overall population density doesn't matter shows a complete ignorance of the economics of the situation. Despite small areas of superdensity, the majority of the US still has a tiny population density, and much of that still requires some form of cellular coverage. This means that cellular companies need to spend much more in the US to provide a basic standard of coverage.
While FCC regulation may have done something to allay this problem, it brings a number of other problems to the table as well. Sure, regulation could have caused nationwide adoption of a single format, but it also kills any innovation of other cellular technologies which may be better. It also would have neccesitated raising cellular technology to the level of general utility before it had found any widespread adoption, and before there was any certainty that it would be used by anyone but a select few of the US population.
Wow, I've never had a garage ask me to sign anything before work was started. Further, unless I specifically ask how much the work will cost they only occasionally volunteer the info.
Either way, the fact remains that an explicit agreement is not required for the customer to be liable for payment.
It all comes down to whether they could have reasonably expected the work to be free. If you go to the garage for an oil change, but don't ask how much it costs, you don't get it for free.
I'd agree that a court wouldn't neccesarily rule in his favor, but it couldn't hurt to just send in an invoice anyway.
Yeah, but those are point to point links right? Aeronet wireless bridges claim out of the box point to point bridging in excess of 25 miles. No big deal.
This is different though, this is more like a roaming point to point connection. It monitors all of the users within the area, then establishes and monitors multiple point to point connections using a phased array antennae.
Basically they get both an omnidirectional AND directional signal (not really, but that's the effect).
Yeah, but where is that 1 watt of power going to come from? That would be a great idea if it wouldn't kill your laptops battery in a half hour (random guess).
Cloudmark is good, and in conjunction with ISP filtering would probably get pretty much everthing.
I don't know if it's available for Outlook Express yet, but that's supposedly on the "to do" list.
Of course you're also filtering out all of those outlook and outlook express users who like to "decorate" their email without realizing that it adds html to their mail.
Prepare for an angry phone call from mom/grandfather about why you aren't responding to their emails about the new computer they just got...
Cloudmark does something very similar, but then goes one better. It adds your results to the results of every other user.
This would, in my opinion, add greatly to this new anti-spam tool. Have the filter customize itself to you, but at the same time have it upload your rules to a central server so that every new piece of spam doesn't have to be "discovered" by each person. Sure you'll still have your personalized rules that will take precedence, but you'll also have millions of other people helping out.
This is an excellent point. There's a reason that internet accounts are so cheap, and part of that is the small liability exposure for the ISP.
If ISP's are going to be held liable for system misconfigurations and downtime beyond pro rated compensation for lost service you can expect rates to go WAY up.
Bottom line, they tell you not to depend on the service when you sign up. The TOS explicitly states that downtime and data loss should be expected.
If I'm taking public transportation to go to work, should I be able to sue the bus company because their bus was late and I got fired? Maybe if I'm paying for dependable service (as stated in a contract), but not otherwise.
Yes, but what he's talking about is what their Standard Operating Procedure should be.
When an account is suspended should they continue to recieve mail or should they bounce it?
Where he's mistaken is in assuming that bouncing email requires a special program or setting. Really all it requires is that you delete the email address from your server, as "bounce messages" (really SMTP error messages) are designed into the systems.
""3rd party auditing of the source (which is what OpenBSD does for stuff it doesn't directly develop) won't find everything."
I thought the whole point that is touted with the code audits is that they don't let any bugs in. And to further develop on this statement, you're suggesting that having source code doesn't help any with finding bugs? I didn't know that Ballmer was right all this time."
There's a HUGE difference between not finding EVERYTHING and not finding ANYTHING. The poster was saying that even with code audits, unless they wrote the source themselves it would be very doubtful that they could find EVERY bug.
They won't have to... Think about how a stealth aircrafts defenses work. They don't defeat a missiles blast, they defeat the tracking mechanism that controls the missile.
A laser weapon would STILL have to be targetted somehow. If the radar array can't see the aircraft the laser can't track/destroy it.
The Feudal period or the Cold war are perfect examples of what happens when there isn't an established pecking order.
It may *seem* destabalizing to develop these weapons, but it really isn't. The world isn't destabilized by one country having great weapons, the world is destabilized by more than one country having the same weapons.
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Knocking on Heavens door was alright, but I wouldn't get very excited about it if I were you.
It didn't live up to the series in my opinion.
Actually, Dr. Mullis has been involved with a number of projects over the years that I've heard of (along with having written a book that sold rather well).
Then there is Peter Duesberg, who is in my mind the most reliable and trustworthy of the scientists involved (on both sides). I mean really, how many scientists do you know of who would purposefully trash their own conclusions even after they had been accepted by the scientific community?
The trouble is that a scientific paper is vastly different from a high school report.
every aspect of it needs to be verifiable, and that means that with few exceptions, every fact needs a reference.
If you want to include a piece of data that you learned in a high school class, you need to find a source that verifies you. If you can't find a source for your information, it shouldn't be in the paper.
Well, it may be a troll, but the fact remains that some very prominent scientists claim that the HIV -> AIS theory wasn't proven before it was adopted.
Their claim is that this exact thing happened in the early 80's, and that instead of actually reading the research that said that HIV may cause AIDS (which was inconclusive) they simply took the ball and ran with it, causing years of research to be based on the same incorrectly cited source.
Who knows what the answer is, but it's a fascinating subject to read up on.
A LOT Of tech is completely useless to most people. It's that silent minority for whom it IS useful that they design for.
By your rationale microwave communications dishes are tech for the sake of tech too.
And I suppose that you are under the mistaken impression that the business does not pay to have that dumpster emptied?
Try not paying your garbage collection bills, see how quickly your old PC stays right where you left it.
Even if you were correct, why would this only apply to computers? Why not ALL garbage?
Tweak the OS. These things almost always come with every possible service and option turned on and running at 100%.
You can squeeze loads of power out of any factory/default install just by tweaking the settings properly.
Well, it doesn't handle floating point units, which basically screws it.
Honestly, on some applications it will be just as zesty as a celeron, on some, it will be half to a third as fast. I'm sure you could get it to play divX files, though you may need to tweak it a bit first...
But wide coverage area is an important selling point in the US. Sure, NYC has a population density greater than most EU cities, but that's irrellevant because the US customer isn't just buying a phone that works in NYC, they want a phone that works in NYC AND the backwoods of upper NY where nobody lives.
To say that overall population density doesn't matter shows a complete ignorance of the economics of the situation. Despite small areas of superdensity, the majority of the US still has a tiny population density, and much of that still requires some form of cellular coverage. This means that cellular companies need to spend much more in the US to provide a basic standard of coverage.
While FCC regulation may have done something to allay this problem, it brings a number of other problems to the table as well. Sure, regulation could have caused nationwide adoption of a single format, but it also kills any innovation of other cellular technologies which may be better. It also would have neccesitated raising cellular technology to the level of general utility before it had found any widespread adoption, and before there was any certainty that it would be used by anyone but a select few of the US population.
I guess I just go to strange garages then.
Whatever, the point stands. Ask any lawyer.
Wow, I've never had a garage ask me to sign anything before work was started. Further, unless I specifically ask how much the work will cost they only occasionally volunteer the info.
Either way, the fact remains that an explicit agreement is not required for the customer to be liable for payment.
Well, that's not quite true...
It all comes down to whether they could have reasonably expected the work to be free. If you go to the garage for an oil change, but don't ask how much it costs, you don't get it for free.
I'd agree that a court wouldn't neccesarily rule in his favor, but it couldn't hurt to just send in an invoice anyway.
Thank you. I had the extreme displeasure of administering an OS/2 infested network in '96. I would have broken kneecaps to get rid of it.
Yeah, but those are point to point links right? Aeronet wireless bridges claim out of the box point to point bridging in excess of 25 miles. No big deal.
This is different though, this is more like a roaming point to point connection. It monitors all of the users within the area, then establishes and monitors multiple point to point connections using a phased array antennae.
Basically they get both an omnidirectional AND directional signal (not really, but that's the effect).
Yeah, but where is that 1 watt of power going to come from? That would be a great idea if it wouldn't kill your laptops battery in a half hour (random guess).
Cloudmark is good, and in conjunction with ISP filtering would probably get pretty much everthing.
I don't know if it's available for Outlook Express yet, but that's supposedly on the "to do" list.
Of course you're also filtering out all of those outlook and outlook express users who like to "decorate" their email without realizing that it adds html to their mail.
Prepare for an angry phone call from mom/grandfather about why you aren't responding to their emails about the new computer they just got...
Cloudmark does something very similar, but then goes one better. It adds your results to the results of every other user.
This would, in my opinion, add greatly to this new anti-spam tool. Have the filter customize itself to you, but at the same time have it upload your rules to a central server so that every new piece of spam doesn't have to be "discovered" by each person. Sure you'll still have your personalized rules that will take precedence, but you'll also have millions of other people helping out.
This is an excellent point. There's a reason that internet accounts are so cheap, and part of that is the small liability exposure for the ISP.
If ISP's are going to be held liable for system misconfigurations and downtime beyond pro rated compensation for lost service you can expect rates to go WAY up.
Bottom line, they tell you not to depend on the service when you sign up. The TOS explicitly states that downtime and data loss should be expected.
If I'm taking public transportation to go to work, should I be able to sue the bus company because their bus was late and I got fired? Maybe if I'm paying for dependable service (as stated in a contract), but not otherwise.
Yes, but what he's talking about is what their Standard Operating Procedure should be.
When an account is suspended should they continue to recieve mail or should they bounce it?
Where he's mistaken is in assuming that bouncing email requires a special program or setting. Really all it requires is that you delete the email address from your server, as "bounce messages" (really SMTP error messages) are designed into the systems.
is that they don't give much instruction for how to recreate their project.
Practicality issues aside, this would be a fun project fo duplicate.
""3rd party auditing of the source (which is what OpenBSD does for stuff it doesn't directly develop) won't find everything." I thought the whole point that is touted with the code audits is that they don't let any bugs in. And to further develop on this statement, you're suggesting that having source code doesn't help any with finding bugs? I didn't know that Ballmer was right all this time." There's a HUGE difference between not finding EVERYTHING and not finding ANYTHING. The poster was saying that even with code audits, unless they wrote the source themselves it would be very doubtful that they could find EVERY bug.
hydro-electric?
They won't have to... Think about how a stealth aircrafts defenses work. They don't defeat a missiles blast, they defeat the tracking mechanism that controls the missile.
A laser weapon would STILL have to be targetted somehow. If the radar array can't see the aircraft the laser can't track/destroy it.
The Feudal period or the Cold war are perfect examples of what happens when there isn't an established pecking order.
It may *seem* destabalizing to develop these weapons, but it really isn't. The world isn't destabilized by one country having great weapons, the world is destabilized by more than one country having the same weapons.