To me, "knowingly" implies that a file is being shared with the user's knowledge. Whereas "willingly" implies the user made a conscious choice to share the file.
What we really need to do is figgure out how to make it so that spam isn't profitable. Ever.
To do that requires starting in the right place. And, that is not chasing after the spammers. It's going after their employers.
It's illegal to hire someone to commit a crime.
E.g.: It's illegal to hire a hitman to commit a murder.
Make it illegal to hire a spammer. Then go after the folks selling what the spam is advertising. They have to be easy to find or they don't make any sales.
Unless I've missed something, this is strictly a 1 hop solution.
Transceiver <-> optical fiber <-> Transceiver.
If you add a router, you now can only verify that no one has tampered with the data between you and the router. You have to trust the router to verify the data between itself and the next hop. And, you have to trust that the router itself has not been compromised.
It will get interesting if they can use Quantum Teleportation to send the photon directly to the receiver without any messy cabling.
About the only thing I miss from windows is the consistancy in the UI. Admittedly, Microsoft did violate their own standards at the drop of the hat, but Ctrl-C would always copy, Ctrl-V would always paste. I'm still stuggling to get used to Gnome Terminal's Shift-Ctrl-C and Shift-Ctrl-V.
(On *nix comsoles Ctrl-C is traditionally interrupt and Ctrl-V is traditionally literal next.) I could even get used to Shift-Ctrl-C/V if all the apps used that binding. But noooo:
Actually, if the airline prohibits it, it's probably because of a federal law. Most of what you can and cannot do on an airplane is regulated by the feds, not by the air carrier.
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Tsk! Tsk I say!
Where's your imagination?
Pneumatic tubes? Pshaw!
Matter transporters!
"Scotty,2 Big Macs, large fries, and a chocolate shake to beam up!"
Scotty: "Me transportters kenna stand the strain!"
I live in Boston. Drivers here have more than enough trouble coping with travel in two dimensions. Adding a third is a recipe for disaster.
That's a silly attitude. The addition of a third dimension also adds a lot more room to avoid other vehicles.
It also gives a lot more directions you need to look before moving.
The majority of drivers on the road today are totally clueless. They can barely keep their cars between two lines painted on the road and maintain a constant speed much less manage altitude, attitude, and heading.
I can't think of any high spped roads I've been on that haven't had some kind of physical divider between oncoming lanes, limited access points (ramps) and no cross traffic. You'll get none of that in the air.
On a highway at 50-70+ mph, all I need to worry about is:
the luser who thinks it's ok to follow 2 car lengths back at 60mph
the hotshot who's running late and trying to make up time by weaving through traffic
the women with their makeup and men with their electric razors, both driving with their knees while both hands are occupied
the little old man/woman who pulls into traffic 30mph below the speed limit.
the idiot who thinks it's ok to pass me on a 1-lace exit ramp.
In the air at 90+ mph (assuming no hover capability and a need to maintain lift) it's going to look more like a dog fight than the usual bumper to bumper crawl.
Or, maybe we'll have marked arial routes and the cars will force everyone to follow the rules. Yeah right, they'll be patches out to bypass those limits within weeks if not hours.
Hmm, I wonder what it will cost to install an 18 inch thick tinfoil^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsteel roof?
Double entendre
Electronics consumer giant Matsushita Electric was recently saved from making an embarrassing faux pas concerning its Woody multimedia PC, which is named after the cartoon character Woody Woodpecker. Matsushita was set to introduce an entry-level Woody with a touch-screen interface this summer, which it intended to call "Touch Woody." Until, that is, it was informed that in certain parts of the US, the phrase is a sexual pun on "touch wood," with "woody" being a substitute for "pecker," common slang for penis.
Speaking of peckers, Matsushita was also considering "Internet Pecker" as the name for some new Internet software for its Woody. That, too, was aborted before its erection in public caused blushes.
I've just completed stripping the WinXP crud out of my laptop (HP Pavilion ze1250, 1.5GHz mobile Athlon) and replacing it with Gentoo.
I've installed PowerNowD . Again, I haven't run it long enough to definitively say what it does for battery life, but my laptop runs so much cooler!. When I'm not putting a load on it, the PowerNowD daemon clocks the cpu down to 500MHz. If I increase the load, it clocks right back up. Before adding the daemon, GKrellM was reporting the cpu temp at ~80C, now it's usually in the low 70s.
Anyone know of a GKrellM plugin that will monitor the cpu freq?
Nobody take this the wrong way, I'm all for keeping the HST up as long as possible. But...
Have you had the experience of using a really old PC for your desktop? It would be nice to have a brand new machine, with all the bells and whistles, but the one there now works. It makes it hard to justify to the boss/spouse/etc why you should have a new machine. If you ask, you get a response roughly equivalent to "But, the one you have works." And each time it acts up, you silently hope it will finally die so you can get that new dream machine.
Now, do you suppose there may some people in NASA and/or Congress who see the HST this way? If it fails then they can justify requesting funding for a new "dream machine." I can definitely see a Congress-critter seeing this as a chance to get a nice big aerospace contract for his corporate contributers.
The ADA prohibits discrimination and ensures equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in employment, State and local government services, public accommodations, commercial facilities, and transportation. It also mandates the establishment of TDD/telephone relay services. (Public Law 336)
prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in all services, programs, and activities provided to the public by State and local governments, except public transportation services. (Title II)
prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in "places of public accommodation" (businesses and non-profit agencies that serve the public) and "commercial facilities" (other businesses). (Title III)
Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates (or beginnings and endings). "January" is derived from Janus; the beginning of a year. Janus is generally portrayed as having 2 faces, one looking forward and one looking back.
Hmm, 2 faces... two-faced...
I'm not sure if I should be concerned or amused that Microsoft chose this name for their system.
"A worse case scenario is if you have a blocked number, and you're a victim of stalking, and you're duped into calling a number the stalker set up that was routed through a VoIP line," says Jordana Beebe of the San Diego-based Privacy Right's Clearinghouse. "It could put their life in danger."
This is so over the top.
You have a stalker who knows enough about you and/or has enough access to you to trick you into calling this number that allows them to get your phone number. And that endangers your life? I could see it opening the way to harassing phone calls, but endangering your life?
Isn't the real problem that you have a stalker in the first place?
And system software. Even discounting the added development burden, with the addition of each additional platform the job of QA increases substantially. While clever QA management can minimize the burden somewhat, the complexity of multi-platform support is beyond the reach of most development organizations. Place your bets. Demand multi-platform support from your system software vendor, then build your product on the absolute fewest number of platforms possible.
So, in MicroSoft's view of the world Intel and AMD equate to multi-platform support?
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To me, "knowingly" implies that a file is being shared with the user's knowledge. Whereas "willingly" implies the user made a conscious choice to share the file.
What's the difference, legally speaking?
Are you sick of this!
Or this! Or even this! Well, you need all new Amec PermaLights!Amec Permalights never wear out and never need replacing!Order before midnight tonight and we'll include this nativity scene complete with glowing baby Jesus, absolutely free!
First, I had the credit card sized token. It survived about a week. I forgot, slipped it in a hip pocket and sat on it. CRACK! No more LCD display.
Number 2 was a key fob. That lasted about 2 weeks before the loop where it attached to the key chain broke. <Sigh>
Great fun going into the security office and saying "I did it again"
To do that requires starting in the right place. And, that is not chasing after the spammers. It's going after their employers.
It's illegal to hire someone to commit a crime.
E.g.: It's illegal to hire a hitman to commit a murder.Make it illegal to hire a spammer. Then go after the folks selling what the spam is advertising. They have to be easy to find or they don't make any sales.
Cut the roots and the tree will wither.Transceiver <-> optical fiber <-> Transceiver.
If you add a router, you now can only verify that no one has tampered with the data between you and the router. You have to trust the router to verify the data between itself and the next hop. And, you have to trust that the router itself has not been compromised.
It will get interesting if they can use Quantum Teleportation to send the photon directly to the receiver without any messy cabling.
About the only thing I miss from windows is the consistancy in the UI. Admittedly, Microsoft did violate their own standards at the drop of the hat, but Ctrl-C would always copy, Ctrl-V would always paste. I'm still stuggling to get used to Gnome Terminal's Shift-Ctrl-C and Shift-Ctrl-V. (On *nix comsoles Ctrl-C is traditionally interrupt and Ctrl-V is traditionally literal next.) I could even get used to Shift-Ctrl-C/V if all the apps used that binding. But noooo:
Actually, if the airline prohibits it, it's probably because of a federal law. Most of what you can and cannot do on an airplane is regulated by the feds, not by the air carrier.
Where's your imagination?
Pneumatic tubes? Pshaw!
Matter transporters!
"Scotty,2 Big Macs, large fries, and a chocolate shake to beam up!"
Scotty: "Me transportters kenna stand the strain!"
The majority of drivers on the road today are totally clueless. They can barely keep their cars between two lines painted on the road and maintain a constant speed much less manage altitude, attitude, and heading.
I can't think of any high spped roads I've been on that haven't had some kind of physical divider between oncoming lanes, limited access points (ramps) and no cross traffic. You'll get none of that in the air.
On a highway at 50-70+ mph, all I need to worry about is:
- the luser who thinks it's ok to follow 2 car lengths back at 60mph
- the hotshot who's running late and trying to make up time by weaving through traffic
- the women with their makeup and men with their electric razors, both driving with their knees while both hands are occupied
- the little old man/woman who pulls into traffic 30mph below the speed limit.
- the idiot who thinks it's ok to pass me on a 1-lace exit ramp.
In the air at 90+ mph (assuming no hover capability and a need to maintain lift) it's going to look more like a dog fight than the usual bumper to bumper crawl.Or, maybe we'll have marked arial routes and the cars will force everyone to follow the rules. Yeah right, they'll be patches out to bypass those limits within weeks if not hours.
Hmm, I wonder what it will cost to install an 18 inch thick tinfoil^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsteel roof?
The Making of the President 1789
You're for sale? Wow, I didn't know any politicians read /.!
I've installed PowerNowD . Again, I haven't run it long enough to definitively say what it does for battery life, but my laptop runs so much cooler!. When I'm not putting a load on it, the PowerNowD daemon clocks the cpu down to 500MHz. If I increase the load, it clocks right back up. Before adding the daemon, GKrellM was reporting the cpu temp at ~80C, now it's usually in the low 70s.
Anyone know of a GKrellM plugin that will monitor the cpu freq?
Have you had the experience of using a really old PC for your desktop? It would be nice to have a brand new machine, with all the bells and whistles, but the one there now works. It makes it hard to justify to the boss/spouse/etc why you should have a new machine. If you ask, you get a response roughly equivalent to "But, the one you have works." And each time it acts up, you silently hope it will finally die so you can get that new dream machine.
Now, do you suppose there may some people in NASA and/or Congress who see the HST this way? If it fails then they can justify requesting funding for a new "dream machine." I can definitely see a Congress-critter seeing this as a chance to get a nice big aerospace contract for his corporate contributers.
The ADA prohibits discrimination and ensures equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in employment, State and local government services, public accommodations, commercial facilities, and transportation. It also mandates the establishment of TDD/telephone relay services. (Public Law 336)
prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in all services, programs, and activities provided to the public by State and local governments, except public transportation services. (Title II)
prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in "places of public accommodation" (businesses and non-profit agencies that serve the public) and "commercial facilities" (other businesses). (Title III)
Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates (or beginnings and endings). "January" is derived from Janus; the beginning of a year. Janus is generally portrayed as having 2 faces, one looking forward and one looking back.
Hmm, 2 faces... two-faced...
I'm not sure if I should be concerned or amused that Microsoft chose this name for their system.
This is so over the top.
You have a stalker who knows enough about you and/or has enough access to you to trick you into calling this number that allows them to get your phone number. And that endangers your life? I could see it opening the way to harassing phone calls, but endangering your life?
Isn't the real problem that you have a stalker in the first place?
The actual detonation is probably handled by a MagicFire device.
And system software. Even discounting the added development burden, with the addition of each additional platform the job of QA increases substantially. While clever QA management can minimize the burden somewhat, the complexity of multi-platform support is beyond the reach of most development organizations. Place your bets. Demand multi-platform support from your system software vendor, then build your product on the absolute fewest number of platforms possible.
So, in MicroSoft's view of the world Intel and AMD equate to multi-platform support ?
tachin: Maybe because that's the whole point of the web...you know...hyperlinks and all..?
Hah! I was right the whole point of posting an article on Slashdot is to beat nomachine.com into a quivering mass of submission!
Seriously though, simply explaining what "NX" meant might have spared nomachine's server for at least a few more minutes.
- What is required to build a QC?
- What equipment do you need to create entangled particles?
- What do you use to measure the state changes?
Are we talking about something that can be realized in semiconductors or are we talking particle accellerators and supercolliders?"Oh, the white airbags don't work? Here, let me paint it blue."
Ahem, MikeRoweSoft
According to the Selective Service website, these articles are false.
Have the listeners have changed what they want?
Or, does this actually reflect the greatly reduced expectations of today's albums? (1-2 good songs and the rest are pure dreck)