The worst drive I ever had was a 1 GB Quantum. Failed in 2 weeks, just long enough to have me overwrite the old drive. Very few backups were made. Poor silly me.
I love your signature list. Does mine qualify?
Where I was working there is a concern with privacy of data. These monitors would be a huge pain, and not add too much to security. About all it would help with is on a bus or plane where others around you wouldn't be able to go find the decoding glasses.
I completely agree that Internet terrorism is a myth. We also need fewer regulations based solely on the Internet, and more enforcement of the laws we already have in place. Fraud for example is in existence in the real world too, so fraud on the Internet should be dealt with the same as a mail fraud would be.
People who want to hear some straight talk on Internet security, and the bumbling NIPC that has taken on the responsibility for it, should visit Vmyths.com There are great articles there to dispell virus myths, and also documentation of the FBI gaffes from over the years. If e-terrorism were possible, it would have made the news by now, in more than just a "science-fiction" light.
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http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/images/Sun_and_ea rth.jpg
Just a heads up to anyone, that the size may be to scale, but not the earth's distance from the sun. I still would like to see a to-scale model of the solar system. I guess a to-scal model of the galaxy, would be a "leetle deeficult" to make;-)
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Nuts! Better pack the SPF 120 sun screen. With that protection, only about 99.9999% of the UVA and UVB rays are blocked, so you would still be screwed. Best to stick with the lead parisol, people. I think lead-foil hats may catch on, not only with the crazy.
Sorry, I meant to say, "Stop supporting BIG oil." The efficiency of fuel cells, should in my opinion mean that the oil we have in North America will be an adaquate supply.
Plus we don't have to use hydrocarbons forever, since we can cultivate hydrogen using other methods. A team in California say they have cultivated an algae that gives off hydrogen gas when it digests its food. This and perhaps other innovations will be enough to produce hydrogen sources that can replace much of the oil and natural gas we use today. Ethanol is another energy source, using distilled grain, that may prove useful. Anyone know the chemical composition of ethanol?
I've been an advocate for fuel cells for almost 7 years now, since I've first heard about them. They were only in busses, because of their size, and for 2 years now GM and other companies are boasting in their ads that next year there will be a truck available to the public. We are still waiting.
Meanwhile I've heard of a fuel cell engine assisted bicycle in Europe. I do not remember the company name sadly. I don't know why most of our cities' new busses don't use fuel cells, but I bet it has to do with the cost of finding qualified repair techs, and the fact that some people still think they are science fiction. They work people. Period. Stop supporting oil, and get out there and buy something half decent for the economy and our envrionmental future.
OK OK, so the weight issue I raised was a bit of a joke. It doesn't mean that lithium batteries can't explode still, and with as little provocation as coffee being spilled on them. I'd still rather have a power source that I can "refuel" rather than plug into a wall for 2 hours.
That is a good point. Fuel cells are all fine and dandy, but until they are powering everything, and we are no longer polluting so much when we generate power, why don't we find ways to reduce our current power consumption.
Ditto to Chris Canfield's remark. Every battery contains energy, and therefore can explode one way or another. I'd prefer a lighter substance like hydrogen, over the 3 times heavier lithium, or dozens of times heavier Ni-Cd batteries.
My mouth hit the floor when I saw your signature line. Letting the Interent be run primarily by companies that have the bottom line on their mind, is not the way to foster freedom on the Internet nor in anything else. Why do you advocate large corporate CONTROL of the net, if you want to maintain your liberties?
This is completely unprofessional. The Internet needs some guidance, but I don't see it coming from large corporations.
I don't think an Internet run by the government is the best thing either. Any ideas people?
With those odds... She'll never be able to win a lottery in her life from now on. The odds of being hit by a space object, AND winning a major jackpot must be "astronomical". Anyone care to calcuate the odds?;-)
Actually, it is harder to get Student Visas now. I know someone who was screwed around by us [Canada] when trying to get a re-entry visa last year. In Hong Kong, she was able to have the staff there provide the visa on the normal schedule without problems.
I'm with you on that Kyoto thing, and this proposed law will not take effect since it is not domestically brewed. We'd prove the voting populace is a snivling bunch indeed if we allowed that sort of loss to our constitutional rights. I don't mind the ISPs keeping logs, just as long as no one looks at 'em. The RCMP now, and always should have iron clad reasons to obtain a proper search warrant before invading a citizen's privacy.
That is so true. Quit while a good thing is still going. Perpetuate the legend that way. I was writing an online log of my weekly doings, but now that I'm going back to school, I've lost some interest in it. I wouldn't want to force myself to keep it up to date, since I wouldn't enjoy that.
Very funny:-)
I still can't understand how the gif patent holder could have let things get so far out of hand. It is like saying now that when people sing Happy Birthday, they need to pay the writer's family money. Actually we should, but some things slip over into the public domain when they get too big. eg: Windows 95.
Thank you for the updated info. I was unsure if there was a surcharge on data CDs too.
Would you know where the money is explicitly going, and which CD sellers are required to collect the surcharge?
There is some tax on "music" CD-Rs in Canada, but not on "data" CD-Rs. When I heard this I said, "What!?" So you have the option of paying more for CDs that you will burn your music backups to, and the same for CDs that contain just "ordinary" data.
There has been a tax on recordable magnetic music media for more than a year now, with the proceeds supposedly going to battered musicians, or perhaps just to deter audio tape pirating, I'm not sure which...
Last year there was brief fuss when a Liberal cabinet minister in charge of Canadian Heritage, Shiela Copps, thought that a $400 surcharge on MP3 players, would be a good way to curb music piracy. I don't think the details of how to destinguish an portable MP3 player, from just another computer were able to be worked out, so this was just one reason that ill formed idea died on the table.
So much to tax, so little time. Isn't it bad enough that governments tax our purchases, now we are letting companies write taxes into their licences? Sheesh.
That is an interesting point. Although written language from English past, has already changed over even the past 15 years. Every century or so there seems to be a dramatic literary shift, and a new language is born. I'd say that the Internet will create a new version of english that will be hard to read 100 years from now, let alone 500 years.
I think the hope with finding E.T signals, is that they will be mathematically based, so in theory there will be common ground for communication.
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The worst drive I ever had was a 1 GB Quantum. Failed in 2 weeks, just long enough to have me overwrite the old drive. Very few backups were made. Poor silly me.
I love your signature list. Does mine qualify?
Please pray to the computer gods now. That is all. Isn't this story a bit like hearing the Cancer Society has been driving people around in busses.
I see nano tech as the next Atomic bomb. Once everyone has it, we'll all be huddling in our nano shelters waiting for nano-Iraq to borgify us.
Where I was working there is a concern with privacy of data. These monitors would be a huge pain, and not add too much to security. About all it would help with is on a bus or plane where others around you wouldn't be able to go find the decoding glasses.
I completely agree that Internet terrorism is a myth. We also need fewer regulations based solely on the Internet, and more enforcement of the laws we already have in place. Fraud for example is in existence in the real world too, so fraud on the Internet should be dealt with the same as a mail fraud would be.
People who want to hear some straight talk on Internet security, and the bumbling NIPC that has taken on the responsibility for it, should visit Vmyths.com There are great articles there to dispell virus myths, and also documentation of the FBI gaffes from over the years. If e-terrorism were possible, it would have made the news by now, in more than just a "science-fiction" light.
Care to share the campus with this nifty model?
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/images/Sun_and_ea rth.jpg
Just a heads up to anyone, that the size may be to scale, but not the earth's distance from the sun. I still would like to see a to-scale model of the solar system. I guess a to-scal model of the galaxy, would be a "leetle deeficult" to make ;-)
Nuts! Better pack the SPF 120 sun screen. With that protection, only about 99.9999% of the UVA and UVB rays are blocked, so you would still be screwed. Best to stick with the lead parisol, people. I think lead-foil hats may catch on, not only with the crazy.
Sorry, I meant to say, "Stop supporting BIG oil." The efficiency of fuel cells, should in my opinion mean that the oil we have in North America will be an adaquate supply.
Plus we don't have to use hydrocarbons forever, since we can cultivate hydrogen using other methods. A team in California say they have cultivated an algae that gives off hydrogen gas when it digests its food. This and perhaps other innovations will be enough to produce hydrogen sources that can replace much of the oil and natural gas we use today. Ethanol is another energy source, using distilled grain, that may prove useful. Anyone know the chemical composition of ethanol?
I've been an advocate for fuel cells for almost 7 years now, since I've first heard about them. They were only in busses, because of their size, and for 2 years now GM and other companies are boasting in their ads that next year there will be a truck available to the public. We are still waiting.
Meanwhile I've heard of a fuel cell engine assisted bicycle in Europe. I do not remember the company name sadly. I don't know why most of our cities' new busses don't use fuel cells, but I bet it has to do with the cost of finding qualified repair techs, and the fact that some people still think they are science fiction. They work people. Period. Stop supporting oil, and get out there and buy something half decent for the economy and our envrionmental future.
OK OK, so the weight issue I raised was a bit of a joke. It doesn't mean that lithium batteries can't explode still, and with as little provocation as coffee being spilled on them. I'd still rather have a power source that I can "refuel" rather than plug into a wall for 2 hours.
That is a good point. Fuel cells are all fine and dandy, but until they are powering everything, and we are no longer polluting so much when we generate power, why don't we find ways to reduce our current power consumption.
Ditto to Chris Canfield's remark. Every battery contains energy, and therefore can explode one way or another. I'd prefer a lighter substance like hydrogen, over the 3 times heavier lithium, or dozens of times heavier Ni-Cd batteries.
My mouth hit the floor when I saw your signature line. Letting the Interent be run primarily by companies that have the bottom line on their mind, is not the way to foster freedom on the Internet nor in anything else. Why do you advocate large corporate CONTROL of the net, if you want to maintain your liberties?
This is completely unprofessional. The Internet needs some guidance, but I don't see it coming from large corporations. I don't think an Internet run by the government is the best thing either. Any ideas people?
Good Observation. So she is left with the same odds as the rest of us.
With those odds... She'll never be able to win a lottery in her life from now on. The odds of being hit by a space object, AND winning a major jackpot must be "astronomical". Anyone care to calcuate the odds? ;-)
Actually, it is harder to get Student Visas now. I know someone who was screwed around by us [Canada] when trying to get a re-entry visa last year. In Hong Kong, she was able to have the staff there provide the visa on the normal schedule without problems.
I'm with you on that Kyoto thing, and this proposed law will not take effect since it is not domestically brewed. We'd prove the voting populace is a snivling bunch indeed if we allowed that sort of loss to our constitutional rights. I don't mind the ISPs keeping logs, just as long as no one looks at 'em. The RCMP now, and always should have iron clad reasons to obtain a proper search warrant before invading a citizen's privacy.
That is so true. Quit while a good thing is still going. Perpetuate the legend that way. I was writing an online log of my weekly doings, but now that I'm going back to school, I've lost some interest in it. I wouldn't want to force myself to keep it up to date, since I wouldn't enjoy that.
Very funny :-)
I still can't understand how the gif patent holder could have let things get so far out of hand. It is like saying now that when people sing Happy Birthday, they need to pay the writer's family money. Actually we should, but some things slip over into the public domain when they get too big. eg: Windows 95.
Thank you for the updated info. I was unsure if there was a surcharge on data CDs too. Would you know where the money is explicitly going, and which CD sellers are required to collect the surcharge?
Am I to assume correctly that you have South Park on Beta tapes?
There is some tax on "music" CD-Rs in Canada, but not on "data" CD-Rs. When I heard this I said, "What!?" So you have the option of paying more for CDs that you will burn your music backups to, and the same for CDs that contain just "ordinary" data.
There has been a tax on recordable magnetic music media for more than a year now, with the proceeds supposedly going to battered musicians, or perhaps just to deter audio tape pirating, I'm not sure which...
Last year there was brief fuss when a Liberal cabinet minister in charge of Canadian Heritage, Shiela Copps, thought that a $400 surcharge on MP3 players, would be a good way to curb music piracy. I don't think the details of how to destinguish an portable MP3 player, from just another computer were able to be worked out, so this was just one reason that ill formed idea died on the table.
So much to tax, so little time. Isn't it bad enough that governments tax our purchases, now we are letting companies write taxes into their licences? Sheesh.
That is an interesting point. Although written language from English past, has already changed over even the past 15 years. Every century or so there seems to be a dramatic literary shift, and a new language is born. I'd say that the Internet will create a new version of english that will be hard to read 100 years from now, let alone 500 years.
I think the hope with finding E.T signals, is that they will be mathematically based, so in theory there will be common ground for communication.