I currently use Earthlink for my dial-up. I know that it's a helluva lot more expensive than others, but they offer great newsgroup access.
I must say though, I am considering a switch to Keyon, at only $25.00/mo for 1.5 down, it seems like quite a steal. There's only one thing stopping me and what's most likely many other people. We're cheap, and there was no setup cost for dial-up. Whereas if I were to go with Keyon, there'd be a $200 setup charge, and if I were to go with any of the other services, then I'd be paying a helluva lot more every month (the next closest around here, from what I can see cost about $40.00/mo).
If the high-speed services would either remove their installation prices alltogether, or at least knock them down to a reasonable ammount, then I'm sure that both myself and many others would convert at the drop of a hat.
No. Those selective service cards that have been filled out as a pre-requisite for government financial aid for university have been around for at least the past 3 generations.
And it takes an act of congress to reinstate the draft. That's a law issue. The president can only exercise the powers given to him under the constitution and enforce the laws made by congress, not create them himself (and vetos can still get overridden, and are used quite sparingly due to the potential political ramifications).
Privay is a real concern, but worrying about this is like worrying about the fact that postmen can read your postcard when you send it. The truth is they can, but they don't give a shit.
There's a real difference here though. With the postman metaphor, it's a human, and it takes time to read each postcard, decipher each person's miniscule chicken scratch, and other stuff.
With Google, it's a computer that can scan your email, collect aggregate statistics, and apply that statistical information to your profile, or potentially red-flag you all in less time than it takes you to blink an eye. Plus whereas the postman has a memory like everybody else, the Google computers would be just like any other networked computer storage network, with a possibility for potentially endless storage retention.
Just try and see if you can find any useful data in there;)
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I think that it'd instead be the fact that you drank so damn much caffeine and won't sleep for at least a few days afterwords, weakening your immune system.
And watch out, caffeine is a diuretic (it makes you pee more water out than you take in in just the caffeine), so be sure to drink plenty of water throughout the day or else you may wake up in some hospital ward with an IV drip.
Are you saying that foreign treaties are binding, except if the president prefers to ignore them?
I read in the constitution that foreign treaties approved by the Senate are binding law; I don't see an exception for the president; further I don't find any support for your claim that "commander-in-chief" means he is "able to do what he wants with the military".
They are binding to the point where they contradict the constitution. Limiting the powers granted to the president under the constitution is a contradiction of the constatution....which the security council explicitly refused to do in this case. Nobody was convinced by Powell's presentation, and now we all know that it was indeed fraudulent.
Resolution 1441, declaring Iraq in material breech of previous resolutions, the punishment for which was to be war.
And who said anything about Powell's presentation? Who cares about it? That has absolutely nothing to do with my argument.
Of course, don't take this to mean that I whole-heartedly back our wounderful (sarcasm) leader here. I can't stand the bastage, it's just that in this respect, although he may have misrepresented all of the facts and made some bald-faced lies, he actually did something good bringing peace to the people over there.
But you seem to not realize that although we are bound by treaties made by foreign powers, it's been ruled by our supreme court that no matter what, the constitution overrules all. And the constitution says that the president is the commander-in-chief, and so that is what he is, able to do what he wants with the military, without fear of limitations by other treaties or decisions made by bodies created under them.
Not only that, but you seem to forget that under Chapters 5,6,7,8, and 12 of the charter of the UN, the security council has the right to wage war, (article 41, chapter 7). Not only that, but Saadam had been told in over 10 previous UN security council resolutions that he must open up or face reprisal, all of which he broke.
The law is the law. Just because you feel sorry for someone doesn't make what they've done any better. Just because you can look at the pre-war Iraq and see the veneer of pacificity doesn't mean that all was well. Just because there's high-profile bombings in the middle of Baghdad doesn't mean that all is worse now. I would rather have 10 or 20 people die every now and again than have thousands taken into dungeons, tortured and killed every month.
Or that may jus be becuase I'm some sort of "barbarian" that I beleive that a few high-profile killings are much better than hundreds/thousands of lower-profile killings.
This is exactly the reason that I think that Slashdot should put up some Freenet mirrors. At least then, when there's a big rush of requests, the little site's servers wouldn't get the big hits, and the bandwidth would distribute itself out like BitTorrent.
The aircraft, still in development, will be similar to a submarine that changes its buoyancy, a form of gravity, to float on the surface of the sea or cruise 300 ft below it.
What's scarrier, flying without an engine, or that the general public won't think twice about this sentence?
"It's a myth that hackers find the holes," said Nigel Beighton, who runs a research project for security firm Symantec that attempts to predict which vulnerabilities will be exploited next.
Hell, I've got an old copy of WGS Linux Pro laying around here from about '95. How's that sound, whatever FVWM came out around the time of the 1.0 kernel?
If it wasn't for the fact that so much of WinXP is based on 2000 that the vast majority of the bugs that crop up for 2000 also exist on XP.
XP is nothing more than a fancy new interface to 2000 with extensions for.NET. Granted there's a couple of new wizards and some new UI things, but the core is for the most part the same.
Keyon here in the Vegas valley just backpacks onto Cell towers with their high-gain 802.11b antennas. Plus they have some semi-proprietary technology/software that they use to be able to provide up to/over 1.5 down and up to something like 512 up (too lazy to check right now). Anyways, their service is great, and I haven't heard of any real problems with them.
Because of this, my baysean spam filter is gatering statistics as to what words/letters together create legible paragraphs, sentences, words, etc. I.e. it filters out paragraphs that aren't realistisc nor make sense.
That makes me wonder if all of this statistical data would be of use when it comes to some sort of Natural Language Processing.
And then I throw my OpenMOSIX cluster of 100 cheap 486/P1 computers at it, and that 8.000/day goes to what? 800.000? No biggie.
And if they think that in order to work every one of these computers will have to run Windows, they've gotta be kidding themselves (no idea if they do, but from their other "innovations," I'd bet that it will).
I'll just stick with my Baysean spam filtering, thank you. (I only get maybe 1 false positive a week, and the majority of those are just legitimate commercial email that could easily be taken as spam).
Hell from what I see, the vast feeling here in the US is pretty well summed up by the bumper sticker I'm seeing more and more often, "Take US out of the UN."
I'm not sure if you guys realize it, but the movie wasn't made to encompass the entire story, ever. The Wachowski brothers planned on having the Animatrix, the games, the comics, the books, and everything else also tell a part of the story.
That's why you have to watch the Animatrix to get the backstory of how the Matrix originally came to be, or play the games to get some more intra-movie events down.
Slashdot Mirror
I currently use Earthlink for my dial-up. I know that it's a helluva lot more expensive than others, but they offer great newsgroup access.
I must say though, I am considering a switch to Keyon, at only $25.00/mo for 1.5 down, it seems like quite a steal. There's only one thing stopping me and what's most likely many other people. We're cheap, and there was no setup cost for dial-up. Whereas if I were to go with Keyon, there'd be a $200 setup charge, and if I were to go with any of the other services, then I'd be paying a helluva lot more every month (the next closest around here, from what I can see cost about $40.00/mo).
If the high-speed services would either remove their installation prices alltogether, or at least knock them down to a reasonable ammount, then I'm sure that both myself and many others would convert at the drop of a hat.
Um, didn't Clinton reinstate the draft?
No. Those selective service cards that have been filled out as a pre-requisite for government financial aid for university have been around for at least the past 3 generations.
And it takes an act of congress to reinstate the draft. That's a law issue. The president can only exercise the powers given to him under the constitution and enforce the laws made by congress, not create them himself (and vetos can still get overridden, and are used quite sparingly due to the potential political ramifications).
Probably also one of those high-tech ships that were being used as spam relays a while back :)
Privay is a real concern, but worrying about this is like worrying about the fact that postmen can read your postcard when you send it. The truth is they can, but they don't give a shit.
There's a real difference here though. With the postman metaphor, it's a human, and it takes time to read each postcard, decipher each person's miniscule chicken scratch, and other stuff.
With Google, it's a computer that can scan your email, collect aggregate statistics, and apply that statistical information to your profile, or potentially red-flag you all in less time than it takes you to blink an eye. Plus whereas the postman has a memory like everybody else, the Google computers would be just like any other networked computer storage network, with a possibility for potentially endless storage retention.
Just try and see if you can find any useful data in there ;)
I think that it'd instead be the fact that you drank so damn much caffeine and won't sleep for at least a few days afterwords, weakening your immune system.
And watch out, caffeine is a diuretic (it makes you pee more water out than you take in in just the caffeine), so be sure to drink plenty of water throughout the day or else you may wake up in some hospital ward with an IV drip.
Are you saying that foreign treaties are binding, except if the president prefers to ignore them?
...which the security council explicitly refused to do in this case. Nobody was convinced by Powell's presentation, and now we all know that it was indeed fraudulent.
I read in the constitution that foreign treaties approved by the Senate are binding law; I don't see an exception for the president; further I don't find any support for your claim that "commander-in-chief" means he is "able to do what he wants with the military".
They are binding to the point where they contradict the constitution. Limiting the powers granted to the president under the constitution is a contradiction of the constatution.
Resolution 1441, declaring Iraq in material breech of previous resolutions, the punishment for which was to be war.
And who said anything about Powell's presentation? Who cares about it? That has absolutely nothing to do with my argument.
Of course, don't take this to mean that I whole-heartedly back our wounderful (sarcasm) leader here. I can't stand the bastage, it's just that in this respect, although he may have misrepresented all of the facts and made some bald-faced lies, he actually did something good bringing peace to the people over there.
But you seem to not realize that although we are bound by treaties made by foreign powers, it's been ruled by our supreme court that no matter what, the constitution overrules all. And the constitution says that the president is the commander-in-chief, and so that is what he is, able to do what he wants with the military, without fear of limitations by other treaties or decisions made by bodies created under them.
Not only that, but you seem to forget that under Chapters 5,6,7,8, and 12 of the charter of the UN, the security council has the right to wage war, (article 41, chapter 7). Not only that, but Saadam had been told in over 10 previous UN security council resolutions that he must open up or face reprisal, all of which he broke.
The law is the law. Just because you feel sorry for someone doesn't make what they've done any better. Just because you can look at the pre-war Iraq and see the veneer of pacificity doesn't mean that all was well. Just because there's high-profile bombings in the middle of Baghdad doesn't mean that all is worse now. I would rather have 10 or 20 people die every now and again than have thousands taken into dungeons, tortured and killed every month.
Or that may jus be becuase I'm some sort of "barbarian" that I beleive that a few high-profile killings are much better than hundreds/thousands of lower-profile killings.
You decide.
This is exactly the reason that I think that Slashdot should put up some Freenet mirrors. At least then, when there's a big rush of requests, the little site's servers wouldn't get the big hits, and the bandwidth would distribute itself out like BitTorrent.
How many companies these days are willing to drop money into some technology that may not turn a profit for many years?
Just look at Itanium!
We sell it for $100 over here at Gateway. (not much of a tech market in Vegas)
The aircraft, still in development, will be similar to a submarine that changes its buoyancy, a form of gravity, to float on the surface of the sea or cruise 300 ft below it.
What's scarrier, flying without an engine, or that the general public won't think twice about this sentence?
"Almost all attacks against our software are against the legacy systems," he said.
So is that what they're calling WindowsXP now?
"It's a myth that hackers find the holes," said Nigel Beighton, who runs a research project for security firm Symantec that attempts to predict which vulnerabilities will be exploited next.
... falling ...
wow, credibility meter falling
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Hell, I've got an old copy of WGS Linux Pro laying around here from about '95. How's that sound, whatever FVWM came out around the time of the 1.0 kernel?
If it wasn't for the fact that so much of WinXP is based on 2000 that the vast majority of the bugs that crop up for 2000 also exist on XP.
.NET. Granted there's a couple of new wizards and some new UI things, but the core is for the most part the same.
XP is nothing more than a fancy new interface to 2000 with extensions for
Long John Silver's should be giving a free jumbo shrimp to every person in the nation now. The thing is that a jumbo shrimp is 6" long.
Keyon here in the Vegas valley just backpacks onto Cell towers with their high-gain 802.11b antennas. Plus they have some semi-proprietary technology/software that they use to be able to provide up to/over 1.5 down and up to something like 512 up (too lazy to check right now). Anyways, their service is great, and I haven't heard of any real problems with them.
Just get a Java VM on there and use their Java clients. Easy as that.
Because of this, my baysean spam filter is gatering statistics as to what words/letters together create legible paragraphs, sentences, words, etc. I.e. it filters out paragraphs that aren't realistisc nor make sense.
That makes me wonder if all of this statistical data would be of use when it comes to some sort of Natural Language Processing.
And then I throw my OpenMOSIX cluster of 100 cheap 486/P1 computers at it, and that 8.000/day goes to what? 800.000? No biggie.
And if they think that in order to work every one of these computers will have to run Windows, they've gotta be kidding themselves (no idea if they do, but from their other "innovations," I'd bet that it will).
I'll just stick with my Baysean spam filtering, thank you. (I only get maybe 1 false positive a week, and the majority of those are just legitimate commercial email that could easily be taken as spam).
Hell from what I see, the vast feeling here in the US is pretty well summed up by the bumper sticker I'm seeing more and more often, "Take US out of the UN."
Don't shoot the messenger.
I'm not sure if you guys realize it, but the movie wasn't made to encompass the entire story, ever. The Wachowski brothers planned on having the Animatrix, the games, the comics, the books, and everything else also tell a part of the story.
That's why you have to watch the Animatrix to get the backstory of how the Matrix originally came to be, or play the games to get some more intra-movie events down.