Don't let the filing bother you. I've used my state's AG several times successfully. Basically in both situations someone was trying to rip me off, told me they were going to put me in collections if I didn't pay, and if I didn't like it to sue them. One of Spitzer's (the AG) lackeys called up and said they would be sued and made an example of if they didn't respect our contract. My credit report is free and clear and the two con artists left me alone out of fear of what could happen to them.
You are assuming that humans would be administered a dose that would cause 30% of your fat cells to die. Each molecule can only kill off one fat cell, correct? So it should be possible to figure out how many molecules are needed to kill 1% of your fat cells in a month. That might be hard on your kidneys, but if it were medically necessary (i.e. you were so fat you can't walk, and thus can't excercise -- basically the same people who qualify to have their stomach stapled) to save a life, it might be worthwhile. And, dialysis is around. Couldn't they just hook you up to a dialysis machine while your fat cells die? Perhaps it will become a new form of liposuction that will leave no scars.
I do think this may be one of the first non-mind altering drug to become a controlled substance if it gets approved because of the danger involved. Although I don't doubt there may be a way for it to be helpful, I also don't doubt stupid people will pop a bottle of pills in the hope it will just make them skinnier faster, or buy it off the black market without understanding hte risks. Then again, who am I to judge? Darwinism works because the stupid and the weak die off before they can procreate.
Actually, with all the anti-trust suits flying around, they may be taking preventive measures. Think about it, if Microsoft were to actually gain market share in the wireless device market, chances are Cisco and anybody else with a piece of the wireless pie would sue Microsoft on Anti-trust grounds, based on the fact that they have access to the Windows source code and thus can make their products work better. Granted, it may or may not be the real reason they were to gain market share, but I would seriously doubt that the $600+ Million price tag of such suits (that was what the last one in Europe went for) is equal to or greater then the profit they could make from wireless devices.
Excellent work. The OP really should contact the state attorney general. Rich people who become DAs / Attorneys General like cases like this because it can help boost them to an office of some sorts. Filing a complaint is free and they've got a great legal staff.
Can someone please post the list or an alternate link? For some reason, my company's 'WebSense' filter denies me access because it's in the 'games' category.
If you want you can use Google as a PMP (Poor Man's Proxy). Just search for the web page and view the cached result. I'd do it for you but I don't have the time.
Alot of the 150 features aren't obvious unless you know what you're looking for, but if you're the right type of person, you'll want the features. For instance, Panther now comes running an X server. This means that OS X is getting much closer to being able to just
./configure && make && make install
programs downloaded off the net. Also, for those of us who use ssh, this *should* mean we can now get X forwarding when we ssh somewhere, making us more productive.
You're right, but it's a cool toy, and if development helps further research into making some kind of cross platform machine code, that can only be good, right? I would conjecture that you should be able to create a program which could create a native x86 program from a PPC based program given the time to alter it. However, I would also conjecture my conjecture would take lots and lots and lots of work, and possibly might be harder then bringing about world peace.
Besides, the feds would shoot...California on ADA violations if we didn't.
<tongue in cheek> As much as I'd enjoy seeing another Waco like tradgedy garnering as much anti bush support as possible, do you really think it's right to wish tradgedy on those poor californians? Oh wait... </tongue in cheek>
I really like your idea, even if a lot of us don't have $25 to $50 for something that isn't an element of the set (Food, Rent, Toilet Paper). However, I think something like that might be problematic in that there are a lot of deserving things people would want to support. I.e. the FSF, EFF, (Insert Favorite Open Source Project), bail out DVD John defense fund, etc. Unfortunately things like this add up, and even if people were generous and rich, there'd be problems. Plus I think you don't take into account the % of troll accounts that are used and disposed of. There may be half a million of us though.
Did the full review include testing the device as a web server
Yup, why do you think it was slashdotted? The 400Mhz processor + 64 MB Flash + 802.11b wasn't robust enough, and the handheld began to melt when the article was posted on/. *ducks*
No. Such a proxy would have to differentiate between binary content (i.e. photos/movies/audio) and text/html. Maybe it would look at the headers, maybe it would look at whether the data looks like text. So long as the proxy saw you using binary data it probably wouldn't do anything.
So then the trivial way around it is to find a proxy that doesn't use port 80.
Yup. You got it. But, again, they don't have to allow traffic on non-standard ports. They could decide that P2P clients / games were too bandwidth hungry, and there was no income coming in from them anyways, so just have the firewall drop all outbound connections to any port other then 80. In which case you would need a proxy that used port 80 to play games.
even most linux installs come with a copy of flash installed on the browser. and if you don't have the plugin you'll see an ugle puzzle box (or whatever hte icon for a missing plugin is) wherever the add would be.
If they are only modifying traffic going in and out of port 80, you should still be able to play online games, etc. (Assuming they don't firewall off those ports). Besides, it's easy to tell whats a web page and what's binary data. Web pages usually use charachters and not weird characthers, and usually have things like
That's not necessarily true. They could set up the access point to run all connections through a proxy, or even run the wireless access point as a proxy, which basically would allow the computer to change web pages on the fly. So they could force all content to resize into a frame (or iframe, or table, or do any of a number of HTML tricks) on whatever portion of the screen they allocate for content, and then put the ad bar in. Or they could create a flash "float over" ad bar. Or they could do any of a number of things to modify the web page, without requiring the user to install any special software at all. Note this would even allow you to play games / whatever online, because it would only modify traffic going over port 80, and then only modify HTML.
My refund check better be extra fat next year....
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Why are my tax dollars funding the developers of Robosaurus again? The article was scant on info, and I am not happy that with the current budget crisis the administration is making toys to play with.
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You're assuming that we would buy a pet koala to give to people we like. From your description, I know what a lot of the people I work with are getting for Christmas.
. Unlike TCP, PacketBlast initially begins connections assuming absurdly high bandwidth, then scales down the window size until the dropped-packet rate falls to around 10%
UDP is also refered to by some as the Unreliable Datagram Protocol because, unlike TCP, there is no guarantee that a UDP packet will reach it's destination. Think of TCP as two office assistants who fax each other correspondance with the page numbers on it, and check to make sure all pages were received, and if they weren't, they request the remaining pages, and repeat until they have a complete document. Think of UDP like somebody sending a bunch of postcards through the mail. If postcards don't arrive because the mailman loses them, it will not be known and nobody would look for them.
Well I start the distributed.net client at start up and turn it off at shutdown, with it set at the minimum priority. I can still play games and do CPU intensive things. If I do something moderately intensive, and the client were on normal priority, the kernel throttles back the CPU cycles the client can get. But if I do something that needs as much of the CPU as it can get, like a 3d accelerated game, the kernel will allocate time to both the game and the client, making the game slow and choppy. So, by setting it to minimum priority, even a game is never slow and choppy. I have almost stopped noticing that it is there.
Hmmmm, you are right about the GNFS algorithm. However, if you must insist on a policy of eugenics, I request you start with lower life forms and work your way up the chain.
There are plenty of projects out there like that, you just have to search for them. I just posted a comment on the granparent about distributed.net, and I personally am working on a distributed computing project to debut in the summer looking for concatanated primes, The Catcon Project
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Don't let the filing bother you. I've used my state's AG several times successfully. Basically in both situations someone was trying to rip me off, told me they were going to put me in collections if I didn't pay, and if I didn't like it to sue them. One of Spitzer's (the AG) lackeys called up and said they would be sued and made an example of if they didn't respect our contract. My credit report is free and clear and the two con artists left me alone out of fear of what could happen to them.
I agree with you 100%. Google's page rank is so messed up I've decided to use Amazon.com's A9 instead!
You are assuming that humans would be administered a dose that would cause 30% of your fat cells to die. Each molecule can only kill off one fat cell, correct? So it should be possible to figure out how many molecules are needed to kill 1% of your fat cells in a month. That might be hard on your kidneys, but if it were medically necessary (i.e. you were so fat you can't walk, and thus can't excercise -- basically the same people who qualify to have their stomach stapled) to save a life, it might be worthwhile. And, dialysis is around. Couldn't they just hook you up to a dialysis machine while your fat cells die? Perhaps it will become a new form of liposuction that will leave no scars.
I do think this may be one of the first non-mind altering drug to become a controlled substance if it gets approved because of the danger involved. Although I don't doubt there may be a way for it to be helpful, I also don't doubt stupid people will pop a bottle of pills in the hope it will just make them skinnier faster, or buy it off the black market without understanding hte risks. Then again, who am I to judge? Darwinism works because the stupid and the weak die off before they can procreate.
Actually, with all the anti-trust suits flying around, they may be taking preventive measures. Think about it, if Microsoft were to actually gain market share in the wireless device market, chances are Cisco and anybody else with a piece of the wireless pie would sue Microsoft on Anti-trust grounds, based on the fact that they have access to the Windows source code and thus can make their products work better. Granted, it may or may not be the real reason they were to gain market share, but I would seriously doubt that the $600+ Million price tag of such suits (that was what the last one in Europe went for) is equal to or greater then the profit they could make from wireless devices.
Excellent work. The OP really should contact the state attorney general. Rich people who become DAs / Attorneys General like cases like this because it can help boost them to an office of some sorts. Filing a complaint is free and they've got a great legal staff.
You're right, but it's a cool toy, and if development helps further research into making some kind of cross platform machine code, that can only be good, right? I would conjecture that you should be able to create a program which could create a native x86 program from a PPC based program given the time to alter it. However, I would also conjecture my conjecture would take lots and lots and lots of work, and possibly might be harder then bringing about world peace.
<tongue in cheek>
As much as I'd enjoy seeing another Waco like tradgedy garnering as much anti bush support as possible, do you really think it's right to wish tradgedy on those poor californians? Oh wait...
</tongue in cheek>
I really like your idea, even if a lot of us don't have $25 to $50 for something that isn't an element of the set (Food, Rent, Toilet Paper). However, I think something like that might be problematic in that there are a lot of deserving things people would want to support. I.e. the FSF, EFF, (Insert Favorite Open Source Project), bail out DVD John defense fund, etc. Unfortunately things like this add up, and even if people were generous and rich, there'd be problems. Plus I think you don't take into account the % of troll accounts that are used and disposed of. There may be half a million of us though.
Thanks for encouraging the mods to mod me up.
No. Such a proxy would have to differentiate between binary content (i.e. photos/movies/audio) and text/html. Maybe it would look at the headers, maybe it would look at whether the data looks like text. So long as the proxy saw you using binary data it probably wouldn't do anything.
Yup. You got it. But, again, they don't have to allow traffic on non-standard ports. They could decide that P2P clients / games were too bandwidth hungry, and there was no income coming in from them anyways, so just have the firewall drop all outbound connections to any port other then 80. In which case you would need a proxy that used port 80 to play games.
even most linux installs come with a copy of flash installed on the browser. and if you don't have the plugin you'll see an ugle puzzle box (or whatever hte icon for a missing plugin is) wherever the add would be.
That's not necessarily true. They could set up the access point to run all connections through a proxy, or even run the wireless access point as a proxy, which basically would allow the computer to change web pages on the fly. So they could force all content to resize into a frame (or iframe, or table, or do any of a number of HTML tricks) on whatever portion of the screen they allocate for content, and then put the ad bar in. Or they could create a flash "float over" ad bar. Or they could do any of a number of things to modify the web page, without requiring the user to install any special software at all. Note this would even allow you to play games / whatever online, because it would only modify traffic going over port 80, and then only modify HTML.
Why are my tax dollars funding the developers of Robosaurus again? The article was scant on info, and I am not happy that with the current budget crisis the administration is making toys to play with.
You're assuming that we would buy a pet koala to give to people we like. From your description, I know what a lot of the people I work with are getting for Christmas.
Ahhhhh, I thought you had made a mistake, but now I see and understand the humour. I do hate to need to have a joke explained to me though.
UDP is also refered to by some as the Unreliable Datagram Protocol because, unlike TCP, there is no guarantee that a UDP packet will reach it's destination. Think of TCP as two office assistants who fax each other correspondance with the page numbers on it, and check to make sure all pages were received, and if they weren't, they request the remaining pages, and repeat until they have a complete document. Think of UDP like somebody sending a bunch of postcards through the mail. If postcards don't arrive because the mailman loses them, it will not be known and nobody would look for them.
Well I start the distributed.net client at start up and turn it off at shutdown, with it set at the minimum priority. I can still play games and do CPU intensive things. If I do something moderately intensive, and the client were on normal priority, the kernel throttles back the CPU cycles the client can get. But if I do something that needs as much of the CPU as it can get, like a 3d accelerated game, the kernel will allocate time to both the game and the client, making the game slow and choppy. So, by setting it to minimum priority, even a game is never slow and choppy. I have almost stopped noticing that it is there.
Hmmmm, you are right about the GNFS algorithm. However, if you must insist on a policy of eugenics, I request you start with lower life forms and work your way up the chain.
There are plenty of projects out there like that, you just have to search for them. I just posted a comment on the granparent about distributed.net, and I personally am working on a distributed computing project to debut in the summer looking for concatanated primes, The Catcon Project