so use a web based service to send and recieve faxes. You can view them, print them, recieve them as emails, either as graphics or OCR'ed for you already. Plus, your phone line is tied up, answering voice calls with the matining call of the modem.
Ok... here's a plan. You read SCO's website. (I find it a little hard to follow 'cause I don't use IE. IANAL or even a paralegal - I just sjim Gloklaw) Summarize the points SCO makes that you think are valid, and post them as a reply. People will read it and run with it, and we'll get the balance you need. Maybe that's happened already -- or maybe it hasn't because it can't be done.
Do a google groups search, I suggest the group sci.chem, on this subject. You'll discover lots of suggestions for selectively oxidizing odors without hurting equipment./. is a great place for the latest technical info, but your problem isn't technical or current. I'm sure butchers have been struggling with the very problem you describe since the 1900's
See... unlike apparantly everyone else here on/., I did read scifi for the science... Asimov's short stories, Frank Herbert's first Dune novel, etc. really stimulated me as kid. I thought, "will that be possible", "will that be what it's like", "will that be what happens to society when we achieve that technology level". I dunno what happened. Some ST:TOS, and ST:Next Gen, Bab 5 episodes, took this tack for a while. Then it all became soap operas/political correctness/overdramatic love interest in space.
Here, here. When I meet another chemist who says, "I can't cook" I say "What do you mean? You follow instructions, apply gentle heat, observe, and halt the reaction when complete. What part of that don't you do every day? On second thought, don't answer that, just work on that bench over there."
The thing about Snopes is not that they're never wrong, they're the first to admit that's not the case. What they do is, break down the reasoning in clear separate steps, that you can follow. The news wants to give you an ironic story, like this one for example, so some news announcer can read it off the teleprompter and shake their had afterward and "Um-um-um, and now sports and weather" Take this story for example [http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/nosex.asp]. I didn't buy it when I first heard it. I believe the snopesters have good arguments on why it's not true. I know people who refute the snopesters points i.e. believe a doctor would talk that way. At least give a reason why you believe it, not just "It was on the news, must be so"
This "Latin-American XP fiasco" story is just a copy of the "Chevy No-va" story. Obviously a big company like Microsoft hasn't a single Spanish speaking developer, haven't you heard? They're evil and stupid, so it must be true.
Ok, tornados don't hit my part of the US often, so I've never seen those. But a chemical plant nearby once released toxic fumes from a fire, and it wasn't on TV, the police came by to tell us to evacuate. So really, I spent a childhood listening to the *Beeeeeeeeep* in the middle of commercials. Nowadays, no beep, just silence. But I've never seen it used at all.
During the 9-11 attacks, did that beep come on the TV and radio? Some commedians have joked that it didn't so I don't know. I got my news from the web -- bbc.co.uk was fairly, and the local radio announcers gave the info as they saw it. Did the gov't even try to use the Emergency Alert System?
Seriously, I thought the alert was just for a nuclear attack by the USSR, never ment to be anything more than that -- a useless anachronism since the 1970's.
Sounds like another group of buearucrats who want some of the Patriot Act resources to pad a sagging budget.
Ya know Bill, I figure your house is probably wired for a T-1 line, but mine isn't. Sometimes, for us mere plebians, the Internet is slow or the connection fails. If I buy (borrow from a friend, get from Blockbuster or NetFlix or whatever) a DVD, I can watch the media I want to see. It's not that burdensome. P.S. broadcast TV news, sports and programing aren't disappearing soon either, content and interactivity may be meager, but they'll always be cheap enough for it not to matter
From the article...
Tereshchuk ran a small, competing patent document service that ran into trouble when he was allegedly caught removing files from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and was temporarily banned from the facility. Tereshchuk believed he was the victim of corruption at the patent office, and blamed MicroPatent, according to court records.
Now I know this is/., and big companies are automaticaly evil, and patent compaies are raping our patent system, but really know, am I the only one who thinks this this guy's "point" is a personal delusion? Release ricin because of temporary bannination? No charges, no punishment, just a temporary move because he was stealing?
Two separate threads have raised the supposition that the extorted company was crooks. Is that really true, or did you all just get the same batch as Moron? If so, remember, take the plastic off before smoking, mkay?
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Linux will survive this idiotic onslaught, and
whatever other challenges there are to come.
In some other/. story, there was a link to a finacial news web page, discussing the SCO/Linux story in simple terms for non techies. At any rate they claimed the if Linux was found to be infringing, the Open Source community would just get together and rewrite the kernel. So I wondered -- Is this possible? Possible but so impractical as to seriously hurt Linux? Could the rewrite, however impractical, improve Linux to the point that it blows the competition away?
Yeah, according to wikipedia, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloons], by the time the US analyzed the sand in the weights for diatoms and were sure they were from beaches in Japan, the staging areas were already bombed. Oh, and I really like the people drafted to fabricate them eating the yam paste because they were starving -- classic.
I know, even here on/. in a previous story , everyone said that meterorites don't land hot. It made me doubt this story, even with the Observatory and the University backing it. Meanwhile, in the same general area, the Murchison meteorite remains contentious. I just don't know anymore. I figured these topics would be at the top of a slashdot discussion.
If we knew more about the chemistry and consistancy of the dust, we might have given the solar panels a surface that the dust wouldn't cling to -- that's why we're studying it now, for the next rover. A sloping variable pitch panel, maybe with a vibrator or beater behind it to knock off the dust might work better than a wiper.
So, to review, it's
B.S. = you know
M.S. = more of the same
Ph.D. = piled higher and deeper
M.D. = much deeper
So were're only left to determine what D.D.S means... and be creative, deep deep whatever is too obvious
Hey, I heard the Monkeys got arrested... it appears they got drunk and tried to peel Bananarama.
*shudder* '80's humor, I'm embarassed that I actually wrote this down. Mod me way down, if you value our civilization.
... about the journey to a ringed
Apparantly not, we're having the same old discussion about that hazards it posed for having a nuclear power source, and dumb jokes about a character on a defunt sitcom.
Perhaps it would save some bandwith on/. if mods just decided to forgo future Cassini stories. Those who want to see the pictures know where to go.
Someone smoking while fueling? The attendant called his attention to it, and he replied, "There's no sign that says I can't". Nicotene apparantly increases knowledge of civil rights, at the expense of common sense.
How 'bout fueling while the car is running? If your car stalls while shut off, everyone else's safety is secondary to again, common sense.
How in our over protected, litigious world, they got away with making self-fueling gas stations I'll never know.
And don't get smug, New Jersey and Oregon (I think?) natives. Your attendants make the same mistakes -- and they're slow.
And here's a little fun link, nobody got hurt, suprisingly
http://www.everythingisnt.com/archives/00001265.ht m
I like this one better:
>>Whelan subjected the helicopter memo to the same >>scrutiny, and the results suggested South Korea >>was the most likely anonymous supplier of >>helicopter knowledge to Iraq.
Right. 'Cause North would never fit in the same number of pixels. Maybe not, but it boils down to someone's opinion -- and who wants to desensor a gov't report besides someone with an axe to grind?
Fine. Raise prices. More people use Win products than any others? OK. Maybe they have no choice. But some people won't upgrade, some people won't buy a better computer, some (rare) schools and librarys will use Linux instead. I went from Win95 to Win98 to XP home. And each time, I saw a stability benefit, fair 'nuf. And I saw my RAM demands increase as well. I for one have had enough.
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So you're telling me some guy should spend the rest of his life as a registered sex offender, with all of the harassment and vigilante "justice" that goes along with it, because he neglected to check the UNALLOCATED space on a second-hand computer for pr0n?
1). Define unallocated. Is it a technical definition for non-usable space, or is it deleted files that haven't been wiped.
2). He owns the computer. He didn't check it out? It had, for example, a 20 gig hard drive, but he can only see 10-15 gig. No questions? Okay, maybe that's a thin point. He bought it for some purpose and has limited practical knowledge, i.e. he can't repartition and format. OK. But he knows what spyware is -- like someone else said, maybe he heard the story 'bout the guy in England who used that explanation successfully.
3). He'll now begin legal procedings to clear his name. That could succeed, it does happen from time to time. Such outcomes don't feed the hunger of the tin-foil hat crowd, so they don't make Wired, Fark or/.
I made an assumption, so mod me down if you feel like it. When Wired said "unallocated space" they meant same partition, just the files were deleted instead of wiped with ones & zeros 20 times. People figure, fairly or unfairly, that he browsed, deliberately or not, then purged the cache. If it truly was an unmountable partition, well, still -- it was on his system, he should have some measure of responsibility for his property.
Ah well, slashdotted, so we don't know what it is. Too bad, but the segway is already doomed -- http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=segway_more_com plicated_than_it_needs_to_be
Everyone's gonna say that they've used their card dozens of times without the vendor checking the signature. There was a 20/20 story that showed, additionally, they don't even check the photo. Top it all off, they once questioned my photo (I had dropped a lot of weight, but they took it eventually anyway, so what was the point).
Bottom line, this is all pointless. Minor fraud comes in under the radar for everyone. The vendor doesn't want to annoy a customer, the credit card company doesn't want you to be hassled and have you use another card (Hey, I dumped CitiBank Visa after the guy questioned my photo -- no point in keeping it), and everyone ends up paying for $50 worth of fraud that happens everyday.
How much does counterfiting of currency cost all of us? Does anyone really care, if it's pennies on the dollar. Everyone in the world pays tons more in taxes. Obstensibly, we get something for taxes, but is it always our money's worth?
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so use a web based service to send and recieve faxes. You can view them, print them, recieve them as emails, either as graphics or OCR'ed for you already. Plus, your phone line is tied up, answering voice calls with the matining call of the modem.
Ok... here's a plan. You read SCO's website. (I find it a little hard to follow 'cause I don't use IE. IANAL or even a paralegal - I just sjim Gloklaw) Summarize the points SCO makes that you think are valid, and post them as a reply. People will read it and run with it, and we'll get the balance you need. Maybe that's happened already -- or maybe it hasn't because it can't be done.
Do a google groups search, I suggest the group sci.chem, on this subject. You'll discover lots of suggestions for selectively oxidizing odors without hurting equipment. /. is a great place for the latest technical info, but your problem isn't technical or current. I'm sure butchers have been struggling with the very problem you describe since the 1900's
See ... unlike apparantly everyone else here on /., I did read scifi for the science ... Asimov's short stories, Frank Herbert's first Dune novel, etc. really stimulated me as kid. I thought, "will that be possible", "will that be what it's like", "will that be what happens to society when we achieve that technology level". I dunno what happened. Some ST:TOS, and ST:Next Gen, Bab 5 episodes, took this tack for a while. Then it all became soap operas/political correctness/overdramatic love interest in space.
Here, here. When I meet another chemist who says, "I can't cook" I say "What do you mean? You follow instructions, apply gentle heat, observe, and halt the reaction when complete. What part of that don't you do every day? On second thought, don't answer that, just work on that bench over there."
The thing about Snopes is not that they're never wrong, they're the first to admit that's not the case. What they do is, break down the reasoning in clear separate steps, that you can follow. The news wants to give you an ironic story, like this one for example, so some news announcer can read it off the teleprompter and shake their had afterward and "Um-um-um, and now sports and weather" Take this story for example [http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/nosex.asp]. I didn't buy it when I first heard it. I believe the snopesters have good arguments on why it's not true. I know people who refute the snopesters points i.e. believe a doctor would talk that way. At least give a reason why you believe it, not just "It was on the news, must be so" This "Latin-American XP fiasco" story is just a copy of the "Chevy No-va" story. Obviously a big company like Microsoft hasn't a single Spanish speaking developer, haven't you heard? They're evil and stupid, so it must be true.
Ok, tornados don't hit my part of the US often, so I've never seen those. But a chemical plant nearby once released toxic fumes from a fire, and it wasn't on TV, the police came by to tell us to evacuate. So really, I spent a childhood listening to the *Beeeeeeeeep* in the middle of commercials. Nowadays, no beep, just silence. But I've never seen it used at all.
During the 9-11 attacks, did that beep come on the TV and radio? Some commedians have joked that it didn't so I don't know. I got my news from the web -- bbc.co.uk was fairly, and the local radio announcers gave the info as they saw it. Did the gov't even try to use the Emergency Alert System? Seriously, I thought the alert was just for a nuclear attack by the USSR, never ment to be anything more than that -- a useless anachronism since the 1970's. Sounds like another group of buearucrats who want some of the Patriot Act resources to pad a sagging budget.
Ya know Bill, I figure your house is probably wired for a T-1 line, but mine isn't. Sometimes, for us mere plebians, the Internet is slow or the connection fails. If I buy (borrow from a friend, get from Blockbuster or NetFlix or whatever) a DVD, I can watch the media I want to see. It's not that burdensome. P.S. broadcast TV news, sports and programing aren't disappearing soon either, content and interactivity may be meager, but they'll always be cheap enough for it not to matter
From the article ...
Tereshchuk ran a small, competing patent document service that ran into trouble when he was allegedly caught removing files from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and was temporarily banned from the facility. Tereshchuk believed he was the victim of corruption at the patent office, and blamed MicroPatent, according to court records.
Now I know this is /., and big companies are automaticaly evil, and patent compaies are raping our patent system, but really know, am I the only one who thinks this this guy's "point" is a personal delusion? Release ricin because of temporary bannination? No charges, no punishment, just a temporary move because he was stealing?
Two separate threads have raised the supposition that the extorted company was crooks. Is that really true, or did you all just get the same batch as Moron? If so, remember, take the plastic off before smoking, mkay?
Linux will survive this idiotic onslaught, and whatever other challenges there are to come. In some other /. story, there was a link to a finacial news web page, discussing the SCO/Linux story in simple terms for non techies. At any rate they claimed the if Linux was found to be infringing, the Open Source community would just get together and rewrite the kernel. So I wondered -- Is this possible? Possible but so impractical as to seriously hurt Linux? Could the rewrite, however impractical, improve Linux to the point that it blows the competition away?
Yeah, according to wikipedia, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloons], by the time the US analyzed the sand in the weights for diatoms and were sure they were from beaches in Japan, the staging areas were already bombed. Oh, and I really like the people drafted to fabricate them eating the yam paste because they were starving -- classic.
I know, even here on /. in a previous story , everyone said that meterorites don't land hot. It made me doubt this story, even with the Observatory and the University backing it. Meanwhile, in the same general area, the Murchison meteorite remains contentious. I just don't know anymore. I figured these topics would be at the top of a slashdot discussion.
If we knew more about the chemistry and consistancy of the dust, we might have given the solar panels a surface that the dust wouldn't cling to -- that's why we're studying it now, for the next rover. A sloping variable pitch panel, maybe with a vibrator or beater behind it to knock off the dust might work better than a wiper.
So, to review, it's B.S. = you know M.S. = more of the same Ph.D. = piled higher and deeper M.D. = much deeper So were're only left to determine what D.D.S means ... and be creative, deep deep whatever is too obvious
Hey, I heard the Monkeys got arrested ... it appears they got drunk and tried to peel Bananarama.
*shudder* '80's humor, I'm embarassed that I actually wrote this down. Mod me way down, if you value our civilization.
... about the journey to a ringed Apparantly not, we're having the same old discussion about that hazards it posed for having a nuclear power source, and dumb jokes about a character on a defunt sitcom. Perhaps it would save some bandwith on /. if mods just decided to forgo future Cassini stories. Those who want to see the pictures know where to go.
Danny, Thanks. Check is in the mail. Kisses, Willy
Someone smoking while fueling? The attendant called his attention to it, and he replied, "There's no sign that says I can't". Nicotene apparantly increases knowledge of civil rights, at the expense of common sense. How 'bout fueling while the car is running? If your car stalls while shut off, everyone else's safety is secondary to again, common sense. How in our over protected, litigious world, they got away with making self-fueling gas stations I'll never know. And don't get smug, New Jersey and Oregon (I think?) natives. Your attendants make the same mistakes -- and they're slow. And here's a little fun link, nobody got hurt, suprisingly http://www.everythingisnt.com/archives/00001265.ht m
I like this one better: >>Whelan subjected the helicopter memo to the same >>scrutiny, and the results suggested South Korea >>was the most likely anonymous supplier of >>helicopter knowledge to Iraq. Right. 'Cause North would never fit in the same number of pixels. Maybe not, but it boils down to someone's opinion -- and who wants to desensor a gov't report besides someone with an axe to grind?
Fine. Raise prices. More people use Win products than any others? OK. Maybe they have no choice. But some people won't upgrade, some people won't buy a better computer, some (rare) schools and librarys will use Linux instead. I went from Win95 to Win98 to XP home. And each time, I saw a stability benefit, fair 'nuf. And I saw my RAM demands increase as well. I for one have had enough.
Quote: So you're telling me some guy should spend the rest of his life as a registered sex offender, with all of the harassment and vigilante "justice" that goes along with it, because he neglected to check the UNALLOCATED space on a second-hand computer for pr0n? 1). Define unallocated. Is it a technical definition for non-usable space, or is it deleted files that haven't been wiped. 2). He owns the computer. He didn't check it out? It had, for example, a 20 gig hard drive, but he can only see 10-15 gig. No questions? Okay, maybe that's a thin point. He bought it for some purpose and has limited practical knowledge, i.e. he can't repartition and format. OK. But he knows what spyware is -- like someone else said, maybe he heard the story 'bout the guy in England who used that explanation successfully. 3). He'll now begin legal procedings to clear his name. That could succeed, it does happen from time to time. Such outcomes don't feed the hunger of the tin-foil hat crowd, so they don't make Wired, Fark or /.
I made an assumption, so mod me down if you feel like it. When Wired said "unallocated space" they meant same partition, just the files were deleted instead of wiped with ones & zeros 20 times. People figure, fairly or unfairly, that he browsed, deliberately or not, then purged the cache. If it truly was an unmountable partition, well, still -- it was on his system, he should have some measure of responsibility for his property.
Ah well, slashdotted, so we don't know what it is. Too bad, but the segway is already doomed -- http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=segway_more_com plicated_than_it_needs_to_be
Everyone's gonna say that they've used their card dozens of times without the vendor checking the signature. There was a 20/20 story that showed, additionally, they don't even check the photo. Top it all off, they once questioned my photo (I had dropped a lot of weight, but they took it eventually anyway, so what was the point). Bottom line, this is all pointless. Minor fraud comes in under the radar for everyone. The vendor doesn't want to annoy a customer, the credit card company doesn't want you to be hassled and have you use another card (Hey, I dumped CitiBank Visa after the guy questioned my photo -- no point in keeping it), and everyone ends up paying for $50 worth of fraud that happens everyday. How much does counterfiting of currency cost all of us? Does anyone really care, if it's pennies on the dollar. Everyone in the world pays tons more in taxes. Obstensibly, we get something for taxes, but is it always our money's worth?