There was a certain range of social security numbers that were assigned twice. Of course they can't be changed, so the uniqness of the social security number is not guaranteed.
Winmodems, scanners, and funky all-in-one printer type things still are lacking in Linux. Quicken still rules the personal finance manager market -- GNUcash may be getting up there in the straight accounting category, but it can't connect to E*trade to download information, show as many nice graphs, etc. If quicken was fully ported to linux it'd bring linux significantly closer to the desktop market. Games would help alot too, but I understand that there are many more technical issues there.
I was thinking of doing the very same thing against the red-whatever worm that tried to take out the whitehouse.gov site -- have apache detect when the remote end requested the 'special' URL and slowly feed it/dev/zero until the remote end dropped the connection.
I had a similiar experience (from the user end) except that they didn't approach me at all, and users claimed that I made DNS break. No, I wasn't running it on a DNS server... nice +20'd, ran only at odd hours...
The people who wig out about 100% cpu usage seem to be the ones who have no concept of the 'nice' command and scheuling priorities. Plus, since ps doesn't take any appreciable CPU, they assume you are hogging it as they see 100%.
You can get a program for your Palm called CryptoInfo which stores your logins/passwords, encrypted in 128bit IDEA (or another algo, but it is one of the standard ones) until you enter your master passphrase. Very handy.
What about round-robin'ing the outgoing *packets*, and choose just one source address for things like games. Sure, all the packets come back one way, but most of these providers have decent download, just bad upload. You could speed up web-surfing by using squid to round-robin the source address.
Allow me to invite you to my 'world in the clouds'. I have used credit-cards for a long time and have only once paid a finance charge on them (I misplaced the bill). No annual fees, nice grace period, etc. Sure, use the *ATM* card has a fee, but that is a debit card, not a real credit-card.
Yes, if I were to carry a balance on the credit-cards, I would be paying through the nose in interest. However I don't, so I don't care what the interest rate is. Pay your bill when it arrives (which is always inside the grace period) and cc's are great.
I think the idea is that you are buying something of worth that is easily convertible (gold), instead of a worthless token that specifically states that it is worthless and cannot be redeemed for cash. In a way it is a return to the gold-backed standard the US govt used to hold to (long long ago) except by a third party. Now, I still don't know why one would want to go this route, but there is an appreciable differente between arcade tokens.
There are no surcharges or interest rate on credit either (for many many credit cards), unless you fail to pay off you bill every month. Hint: Spend credit like you would spend cash. Then you get the interst from the cash you kept in the bank until you had to pay off the bill. See 'float'.
If you lose your credit card, you lose max $50. If you lose your wallet, you lose the cash period.
Sort of like how I got an email from netforward.com with 'Exciting News', the news being they were changing from a free service to a pay service. Oooh how exciting!
Isn't there something else in the constitution saying that just because a right isn't specifically enumerated therein, that doesn't mean it isn't a right? Just playing the logician, but it says 'speech', not 'speech except hate speech'. Not to say that hate speech is good, though.
The verification message requires the user to perform a step to get off the list once added. Isn't this a bad idea, since a company could say that someone added person Q to their list through the website? It seems there was a/. articule about double-opt-in being the better route. Maybe the RFC should be changed to reflect that.
What about using the flicker of the 'mood lights' to give the illusion of movement in the peripheral vision? Have the mood-lights flicker when someone is coming up on you from the side.
Didn't the old computer game 'Syndicate' have a weapon styled like this? Something about dropping depleted uranium rods from space, massive kinetic energy, etc.
Perhaps you are getting value out of it in the form of lower prices; they build in the value of your information in the price of the service. Consumers don't notice this since there isn't a higher-priced 'private' account to purchase that reflects the non-discounted price.
I believe there are database packages (I've worked w/one in Oracle) that have the sales tax for every zipcode in the country. They update it every month or so.
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There was a certain range of social security numbers that were assigned twice. Of course they can't be changed, so the uniqness of the social security number is not guaranteed.
There are only 744 hours in a 31 day month. (Yes I know you already knew that, just posting for the comparison)
Winmodems, scanners, and funky all-in-one printer type things still are lacking in Linux. Quicken still rules the personal finance manager market -- GNUcash may be getting up there in the straight accounting category, but it can't connect to E*trade to download information, show as many nice graphs, etc. If quicken was fully ported to linux it'd bring linux significantly closer to the desktop market. Games would help alot too, but I understand that there are many more technical issues there.
I was thinking of doing the very same thing against the red-whatever worm that tried to take out the whitehouse.gov site -- have apache detect when the remote end requested the 'special' URL and slowly feed it /dev/zero until the remote end dropped the connection.
Where do you suppose the federal govt. gets it's money? Taxpayers. The only difference is which line of the W2 (for example) the money comes out of.
Actually it states that you can remove the icons for IE, not necessairily the application itself.
I had a similiar experience (from the user end) except that they didn't approach me at all, and users claimed that I made DNS break. No, I wasn't running it on a DNS server... nice +20'd, ran only at odd hours...
The people who wig out about 100% cpu usage seem to be the ones who have no concept of the 'nice' command and scheuling priorities. Plus, since ps doesn't take any appreciable CPU, they assume you are hogging it as they see 100%.
"Without the government courts to enforce the contract in the first place there is no contract."
I don't think Gino (to whom you owe some illegal gambling debts) will be swayed by your insistence that no court is going to uphold your contract.
You can get a program for your Palm called CryptoInfo which stores your logins/passwords, encrypted in 128bit IDEA (or another algo, but it is one of the standard ones) until you enter your master passphrase. Very handy.
What about round-robin'ing the outgoing *packets*, and choose just one source address for things like games. Sure, all the packets come back one way, but most of these providers have decent download, just bad upload. You could speed up web-surfing by using squid to round-robin the source address.
With a large enough IP space, couldn't one imbed information in the source address of the packet?
Sadly, I've yet to see a IPv6 implementation that supports IPSEC. In fact, when I tried to use freeswan w/ipv6 the machine died :
Allow me to invite you to my 'world in the clouds'. I have used credit-cards for a long time and have only once paid a finance charge on them (I misplaced the bill). No annual fees, nice grace period, etc. Sure, use the *ATM* card has a fee, but that is a debit card, not a real credit-card.
Yes, if I were to carry a balance on the credit-cards, I would be paying through the nose in interest. However I don't, so I don't care what the interest rate is. Pay your bill when it arrives (which is always inside the grace period) and cc's are great.
I think the idea is that you are buying something of worth that is easily convertible (gold), instead of a worthless token that specifically states that it is worthless and cannot be redeemed for cash. In a way it is a return to the gold-backed standard the US govt used to hold to (long long ago) except by a third party. Now, I still don't know why one would want to go this route, but there is an appreciable differente between arcade tokens.
There are no surcharges or interest rate on credit either (for many many credit cards), unless you fail to pay off you bill every month. Hint: Spend credit like you would spend cash. Then you get the interst from the cash you kept in the bank until you had to pay off the bill. See 'float'.
If you lose your credit card, you lose max $50. If you lose your wallet, you lose the cash period.
What about proxies? Doesn't squid or something change 1.1 to 1.0?
Sort of like how I got an email from netforward.com with 'Exciting News', the news being they were changing from a free service to a pay service. Oooh how exciting!
Isn't there something else in the constitution saying that just because a right isn't specifically enumerated therein, that doesn't mean it isn't a right? Just playing the logician, but it says 'speech', not 'speech except hate speech'. Not to say that hate speech is good, though.
The verification message requires the user to perform a step to get off the list once added. Isn't this a bad idea, since a company could say that someone added person Q to their list through the website? It seems there was a /. articule about double-opt-in being the better route. Maybe the RFC should be changed to reflect that.
What about using the flicker of the 'mood lights' to give the illusion of movement in the peripheral vision? Have the mood-lights flicker when someone is coming up on you from the side.
Didn't the old computer game 'Syndicate' have a weapon styled like this? Something about dropping depleted uranium rods from space, massive kinetic energy, etc.
Perhaps you are getting value out of it in the form of lower prices; they build in the value of your information in the price of the service. Consumers don't notice this since there isn't a higher-priced 'private' account to purchase that reflects the non-discounted price.
I would think that a highly heat-conductive surface would radiate the heat away faster than just air.
I believe there are database packages (I've worked w/one in Oracle) that have the sales tax for every zipcode in the country. They update it every month or so.