Ofcourse the conspiracy believers will not accept any proof. They will just counter it with a stupid explanation. This is one of the characteristics of pseudoscience; they refuse to listen to anything that might spoil their own beliefs. Right now it seems to be the radiation. While I'm certainly not an expert in that field, here is a link that explains more on the topic: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html# radiation
My carefully laid out program for backing up my data consists of these two steps:
1. If I have no space left on any harddisk, burn some of it to a CD.
2. Ehhh... ok, not two steps...
I recieve spam, and so much that I am more and more reluctant to login to my webmails, cause I know that in one single day I will have recieved 20-30 spam mails... and that's for an email address I haven't used for registration for years. It's not on any webpage. And you can't even register new accounts with this domain anymore since yahoo bought rocketmail. Yahoo's spam filter sucks hard.
I reinstalled Windows the other day, and started up my email program and when I got like 30+ spam to just one email account, I realized I forgot to backup my great blackfilter with countless of blocked domains.
Email isn't as fun as it used to be. I think people just LOVE to ruin your day, I don't think that they can possibly have any other intent, because that is the only consequence! Nothing good has ever come out from this phenomenon called spam. Nothing.
Part of the idea with email is gone once everyone starts whitelisting instead of blacklisting. If that happens, we have to have one real email and one "spam magnet". You can then use this on your website, on usenet or wherever. Then if someone sends you an email and you think this person is worthy, you can give him/her your real address. That way everyone can reach you. The problem is still that you have to wade through massive amounts of spam to catch the real ones. The only upside is that you will have an account that doesn't get any, or little, spam.
Do you think Star Trek has gotten better and better (and not only F/X-wise) since TOS? Which Star Trek series is your favorite, not counting your own show?
I just told some people who complained about spam; "You gotta be optimistic about the load of spam you get every day. Just think 'oh well, at least it can't get any worse now'". Boy, are they in for a surprise!
[...] 15.8 million messages he sent out. They promoted antispam software [...] someone read the spam about the antispam software and bought the product for $57.
It's sad enough that they have to promote antispam software by the means of spam, but for someone to actually buy it? I mean, who would take the time to read spam in order to stop spam?
Ms. Betterly says she refuses to send e-mails about adult fare, because it "disgraces society."
Well, at least Ms. Betterly is a "better" person. I am glad to hear that.
In the first week of the Triumvirate Technologies campaign, 81 orders came through from 3.5 million messages, a 0.0023% response rate.
Much ado about nothing, anyone? Seems like a lot of damage just to gain $1,555 (ok, I'm a student and $1,555 is a lot of money, but STILL!)
We have to think more than 2 years and more than 50 bucks from now. We should spend money now, if it helps reducing costs in the loooong run. It could be done, for example by establishing mines on the moon and a space dock (where you recieve the materials from the moon and build space ships) at L1. Enormous expenses, but I think that by doing this, interplanetary travel will be less expensive.
Will NASA ever get enough funding to build the L1 station, moon base and to go to Mars? Right now it seems as if everything is going painfully slow. They have ideas but no money. What's the point?
Space ex (ploration | ploitation) will be carried out by private enterprises. That is going slow too, but at least that is moving somewhere.
I just dropped my Apple Newton and apparently it does fall to the ground. It missed the student sitting under the tree, but I am sure this was nothing to worry about.
I mean, we all know how it is; to communicate with people who just doesn't get, who refuse to think. We have all gotten frustrated over them. I think that sometimes, it's just a waste of time and energy, so why bother, right?
I haven't read the article, because I can't get through to it. But I think that MS might have a chance even if they are a bit late. They were late with their internet explorer but eventually they won. Perhaps they can win this one too, but it will take a lot of work. They need to give out readers for free for all major platforms, and ofcourse implement support in IE or Windows. Perhaps even make Office plugins free so everyone can start making XDoc-documents, even with an old version of Office. Maybe then they can outcompete PDF.
Somewhere in the middle, you start to see interesting things included in the text. In the 87th paragraph there is a rather delicious sushi recipe, in the 90th paragraph, a Seinfeld quote, and in the 92nd, it said "Have you read this far, I'll buy you a Big Mac". Not many people have noticed this because it's quite the enormous mass of text.
Here in Sweden we also use the singular plurality system. And since we currently have seven different parties represented in the Riksdag (Parliament), it happens sometimes that small parties "steal" votes from others. However I'm not sure how big a problem this is, since the parties usually organize into two major blocks, with the socialists on one side and the non-socialists on the other, and sometimes with the green party on their own. That way, there will usually be a majority of some sort anyway. several parties can go together and form a government, or the biggest party can do it alone even without its own majority.
I don't know if this is common in many other countries, but I came to think about this when they said in the article that singular plurality could cause problems. If some of the parties can join in some constellation, that government may be a better alternative than if a single party has the majority and alone forms a government.
Personally I'm not completely satisfied with democracy everywhere and all the time. Yes it IS the best way to elect a leader and/or the other ministers, but a democratic society can very well make decisions, in a democratic fashion, which will lead to a society that some people would not consider to be a society that respects and protects for example the civil liberties.
Let's say the majority votes on a party that wants to limit freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom or religion, or if they wish to raise the taxes to insane levels, or violate the personal integrities of the citizens by phonetapping, or telling us how to live our lives, what to wear, what to watch on TV... would that be acceptable? No, ofcourse not. Just because it was done in a democratic fashion doesn't mean it's good. And that is what I mean when I say that not even a democratic society is necessarily good.
As I see it, the main duties of the government, any government, is to protect the freedoms, rights and liberties for us all... and NOT to do the opposite. So if that is what they do, how often do we need to change such a government? Ofcourse, if it's not doing well on the other things that they have to do, then we have a reason to change it or switch to something new. But ONLY as long as the new government do what it should do.
Democracy is not a requirement for freedom, and freedom is not necessarily a consequence of democracy.
Well if they are going to contact us, isn't it likely that they will be on the safe side regarding us knowing how to pick up the message? Radio should be the most basic form of communication in space.
NASA had a problem with the software during descent of Apollo 11, when the computer was overloaded. Also, they had hardware problems in Galileo. Not in the computer, but in the periferal comm unit or antenna.
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Ofcourse the conspiracy believers will not accept any proof. They will just counter it with a stupid explanation. This is one of the characteristics of pseudoscience; they refuse to listen to anything that might spoil their own beliefs. Right now it seems to be the radiation. While I'm certainly not an expert in that field, here is a link that explains more on the topic:# radiation
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
Run Windows! That'll slow things down. Maybe it would slow down the spreading of viruses too?
My carefully laid out program for backing up my data consists of these two steps:
1. If I have no space left on any harddisk, burn some of it to a CD.
2. Ehhh... ok, not two steps...
I am pretty sure I read when I was 4, maybe earlier. Can't really remember.
I reinstalled Windows the other day, and started up my email program and when I got like 30+ spam to just one email account, I realized I forgot to backup my great blackfilter with countless of blocked domains.
Email isn't as fun as it used to be. I think people just LOVE to ruin your day, I don't think that they can possibly have any other intent, because that is the only consequence! Nothing good has ever come out from this phenomenon called spam. Nothing.
Part of the idea with email is gone once everyone starts whitelisting instead of blacklisting. If that happens, we have to have one real email and one "spam magnet". You can then use this on your website, on usenet or wherever. Then if someone sends you an email and you think this person is worthy, you can give him/her your real address. That way everyone can reach you. The problem is still that you have to wade through massive amounts of spam to catch the real ones. The only upside is that you will have an account that doesn't get any, or little, spam.
Do you think Star Trek has gotten better and better (and not only F/X-wise) since TOS?
Which Star Trek series is your favorite, not counting your own show?
Oh, and btw, my .sig is a joke. You can't take it seriously as I think some have.
Heh, I live here too, and quite honestly i'm starting to wonder where the heck it went off to.
Indeed, why not? If everyone did it, it would work.
It's sad enough that they have to promote antispam software by the means of spam, but for someone to actually buy it? I mean, who would take the time to read spam in order to stop spam?
Well, at least Ms. Betterly is a "better" person. I am glad to hear that.
Much ado about nothing, anyone? Seems like a lot of damage just to gain $1,555 (ok, I'm a student and $1,555 is a lot of money, but STILL!)
We have to think more than 2 years and more than 50 bucks from now. We should spend money now, if it helps reducing costs in the loooong run. It could be done, for example by establishing mines on the moon and a space dock (where you recieve the materials from the moon and build space ships) at L1. Enormous expenses, but I think that by doing this, interplanetary travel will be less expensive.
Will NASA ever get enough funding to build the L1 station, moon base and to go to Mars? Right now it seems as if everything is going painfully slow. They have ideas but no money. What's the point? Space ex (ploration | ploitation) will be carried out by private enterprises. That is going slow too, but at least that is moving somewhere.
I just dropped my Apple Newton and apparently it does fall to the ground. It missed the student sitting under the tree, but I am sure this was nothing to worry about.
Probably going to end up in some private library of some shady industrial magnate or russian maffia boss.
I mean, we all know how it is; to communicate with people who just doesn't get, who refuse to think. We have all gotten frustrated over them. I think that sometimes, it's just a waste of time and energy, so why bother, right?
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/leonids_lowdown_02 1101.html
I haven't read the article, because I can't get through to it. But I think that MS might have a chance even if they are a bit late. They were late with their internet explorer but eventually they won. Perhaps they can win this one too, but it will take a lot of work. They need to give out readers for free for all major platforms, and ofcourse implement support in IE or Windows. Perhaps even make Office plugins free so everyone can start making XDoc-documents, even with an old version of Office. Maybe then they can outcompete PDF.
Somewhere in the middle, you start to see interesting things included in the text. In the 87th paragraph there is a rather delicious sushi recipe, in the 90th paragraph, a Seinfeld quote, and in the 92nd, it said "Have you read this far, I'll buy you a Big Mac". Not many people have noticed this because it's quite the enormous mass of text.
Here in Sweden we also use the singular plurality system. And since we currently have seven different parties represented in the Riksdag (Parliament), it happens sometimes that small parties "steal" votes from others. However I'm not sure how big a problem this is, since the parties usually organize into two major blocks, with the socialists on one side and the non-socialists on the other, and sometimes with the green party on their own. That way, there will usually be a majority of some sort anyway. several parties can go together and form a government, or the biggest party can do it alone even without its own majority.
I don't know if this is common in many other countries, but I came to think about this when they said in the article that singular plurality could cause problems. If some of the parties can join in some constellation, that government may be a better alternative than if a single party has the majority and alone forms a government.
Personally I'm not completely satisfied with democracy everywhere and all the time. Yes it IS the best way to elect a leader and/or the other ministers, but a democratic society can very well make decisions, in a democratic fashion, which will lead to a society that some people would not consider to be a society that respects and protects for example the civil liberties.
Let's say the majority votes on a party that wants to limit freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom or religion, or if they wish to raise the taxes to insane levels, or violate the personal integrities of the citizens by phonetapping, or telling us how to live our lives, what to wear, what to watch on TV... would that be acceptable? No, ofcourse not. Just because it was done in a democratic fashion doesn't mean it's good. And that is what I mean when I say that not even a democratic society is necessarily good.
As I see it, the main duties of the government, any government, is to protect the freedoms, rights and liberties for us all... and NOT to do the opposite. So if that is what they do, how often do we need to change such a government? Ofcourse, if it's not doing well on the other things that they have to do, then we have a reason to change it or switch to something new. But ONLY as long as the new government do what it should do.
Democracy is not a requirement for freedom, and freedom is not necessarily a consequence of democracy.
What would be worse, to force humans to be the first living beings onboard spacecrafts, or let animals go first making it safer for humans later on?
Well if they are going to contact us, isn't it likely that they will be on the safe side regarding us knowing how to pick up the message? Radio should be the most basic form of communication in space.
Since when do you HAVE to be in a team?
NASA had a problem with the software during descent of Apollo 11, when the computer was overloaded. Also, they had hardware problems in Galileo. Not in the computer, but in the periferal comm unit or antenna.
That was a hardware problem, but not a computer hardware problem.