Go to distributed.net and download their client. You can work on factoring RC5-74 (a 74 bit number from RSA). They've just finished up RC5-64 (A 64 bit number from RSA). If your computer finds the key, you get $1,000 and $8,000 goes to charity. They also have other distributed projects, like seti@home, including one to search for mathematical constructs known as Optimal Golumb Rulers. The best part is the client runs at the minimum priority, so you only give up cpu cycles if you don't need them. I've yet to notice any kind of lag because it was running on my machine.
If the parent had read the link, he would have seen that the exceptions to the rules are people who need your social security for it's intended purpose: a taxpayer identification number. Banks and employers need your taxpayer identification number for reporting purposes. And, if your landlord doesn't want to do business with you because you won't give your social, get 'em prosecuted for it. The link clearly states giving up a social security number must be voluntary.
The whole problem with this is selective enforcement. A law can be used by those in power only when they know it has the least chance of being overturned -- i.e. against a 12 year old sharing music over a P2P network.
That sort of solution is very impracticle to say the least. And, your post isn't funny, so I assume you're either serious, or that was a failed attempt at humour.
Ok, I concede your point. But that means that Google needs x MB per user, possibly hundreds on average. Again, how are they paying for this? Services like Hotmail and Yahoo limit storage space because they can't afford for somebody to keep 300MB in emails on their servers.
Ok, but users generally delete their spam, so they would use a negligible amount of their space for spam. Also, spam filtering happens after messages are delivered, so they still pay for the CPU usage to classify spam, and the bandwidth to receive it. So, google is still spending money without any return, right? I like the idea of having a gig of email storage and using google to search through it, but I really am hesitant to sign up, because, after all, they are making their money some way. Selling marketing info? Targeted ads at the bottom of all emails sent? Time will tell.
Look, storage space costs money. Even if we assume that google has the space already, so it's a sunk cost, and they are essentially utiliznig hard drives that are sitting in the corner, lonely and without data, they still pay money for things like T3s and whatever they have. Now, maybe they have excess capacity on bandwidth too. But, either way, in the future, as the 'net grows and they expand, they will need to purchase new equiptment when they need the drives sitting in the corner gathering dust. So at some point, it will cost Google money. So, again, how will they pay for it?
1 GB is a lot of information, and it has to cost a decent chunk of money to allocate that much storage for every user, and to pay for bandwidth for 30MB attachments, and for the rack space and electricity. How are web portals like google making back the cost of 1GB email?
My brother in law is a plumber and steam fitter. It's true that when you're an independent contractor, and own your own business, you can make lots of money. However, to get to that point you need to get trained, and certified, and pay lots of dues. And you literally do pay dues. To become a plumber, or other skilled blue collar worker you need to work as an apprentice, for $30k a year, if that, for somebody else who makes the $100k a year, until you pay off your training -- which can take years
Even then, when you finally do become a master, and can start out on your own business, that takes a lot of money and hard work. You need money to set up shop, and you need to be a certain type of person to make the business work. If you're not good at keeping books, and running the business, you will never make $100k+ a year, and will have to go back to breaking your back for somebody else, even though you might be making as much as $40k+ for them
I didn't think it made any sense either -- why would a computer be connected to the lights? However, the guy did something. What that was, I may never know.
No, B5. But he did something, because I changed the light bulb myself. So, the question becomes, what did he do? A light bulb shouldn't require a delear to change...
Well, I understand that the free mounting and balancing is a gimmick. My point is that, because of that gimmick, even though you can get tires for cheaper over the net, you can't get the mounting and balancing done for free.
I bought the software because I got close to $53 off and paid $20 to do my taxes with TurboTax. ($10 off coupon for staples + $30 rebate on the state tax software + 3% off thanks to being a business rewards member + $10 gift card to staples for buying tax software at staples and being a business rewards member == $20 tax software).
Well, it did. The brakes worked in the sense that if I hit them, they would stop the car. However, I had to hit them hard (possibly because of the fact that they were no longer powered), and I didn't feel safe on the winter streets of Buffalo (think snow 10 months a year) without ABS. So, I could have gone without them, but I didn't feel it was safe. Brakes are just one of those systems where, if anything looks to be messing up, I'm getting it fixed. If my AC went out, hey, no problem, it's too cold out to need AC anyways. But brakes? I needed those!
The problem with a lot of the expensive components is they have to be installed by the dealer, or somebody with the diagnostic tools to properly get something working. When the headline blew on my passat, I tried replacing the bulb. It didn't work, and the fuses were all good. So then I took it in to the dealer, who charged me for replacing the headlight. Thing is, he did something with his computer to get the passat to "accept" the new headlight
And it gets worse. I found I could buy tires for wholesale + shipping at some site online. So I bought them, but having them mounted on my rims and on the car cost an arm and a leg. Why? Because the "free mounting and balancing" at Firestone dealerships is only for tires you buy there, and it came to an arm and a leg -- more than I saved on the tires.
The computer that controlled the ABS on my Passat died (for no apparent reason), and it cost $2k to fix. I had to take it to close to 3 regular places, and then a dealer to finally figure out why the brakes didn't work and the brake light was lit up. The worst part about it is it's not like I could have been like, "I don't need the brakes, so I'll save money".
Alan Greenspan made a very interesting point about gold a while ago. He pointed out that virtually all of the gold that has been mined and manufactured is still in existence, and despite this fact, gold pulled from the ground is still seen as having some innate value. Irrational to an economist? Yes. Irrational to somebody conditioned to see gold as valuable because it's gold? No.
There were some articles about this on/.. Basically, the guy in charge of the XFree86 project decided to change the license terms from GPL to something which was very inconvinient for most distros. Up until this point, X.org was just a discussion group of "What should we do with XFree86"? Because XFree86 was now non free, they forked the project when it was last under the GPL, and now are looking for members to develop the newest incarnation of the X window system.
If you are going to IPO your company, traditionally you only IPO less than 51%, so the current owner(s) keep their control. Microsoft can buy up 25%, so long as 51% is not on the market, and in the hands of individuals, it won't matter what they want -- they will just be investors who have to put up with google wants to do or remove their money. Then again, if nobody owns 51% of the company, Microsoft could be a player, and gain some control. But the point is that microsoft could only get that option if the google owners give up control with the IPO.
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Go to distributed.net and download their client. You can work on factoring RC5-74 (a 74 bit number from RSA). They've just finished up RC5-64 (A 64 bit number from RSA). If your computer finds the key, you get $1,000 and $8,000 goes to charity. They also have other distributed projects, like seti@home, including one to search for mathematical constructs known as Optimal Golumb Rulers. The best part is the client runs at the minimum priority, so you only give up cpu cycles if you don't need them. I've yet to notice any kind of lag because it was running on my machine.
I have found it's all about the kind of documents you send. If you are careful about which features you use you will have no problems.
Where is the quote in your sig from?
Forgent receives financing deal from Baystar in order to pursue IP claims.
If the parent had read the link, he would have seen that the exceptions to the rules are people who need your social security for it's intended purpose: a taxpayer identification number. Banks and employers need your taxpayer identification number for reporting purposes. And, if your landlord doesn't want to do business with you because you won't give your social, get 'em prosecuted for it. The link clearly states giving up a social security number must be voluntary.
The whole problem with this is selective enforcement. A law can be used by those in power only when they know it has the least chance of being overturned -- i.e. against a 12 year old sharing music over a P2P network.
Where's the -1 disgusting mod when you need it?
That sort of solution is very impracticle to say the least. And, your post isn't funny, so I assume you're either serious, or that was a failed attempt at humour.
Ok, I concede your point. But that means that Google needs x MB per user, possibly hundreds on average. Again, how are they paying for this? Services like Hotmail and Yahoo limit storage space because they can't afford for somebody to keep 300MB in emails on their servers.
Ok, but users generally delete their spam, so they would use a negligible amount of their space for spam. Also, spam filtering happens after messages are delivered, so they still pay for the CPU usage to classify spam, and the bandwidth to receive it. So, google is still spending money without any return, right? I like the idea of having a gig of email storage and using google to search through it, but I really am hesitant to sign up, because, after all, they are making their money some way. Selling marketing info? Targeted ads at the bottom of all emails sent? Time will tell.
Look, storage space costs money. Even if we assume that google has the space already, so it's a sunk cost, and they are essentially utiliznig hard drives that are sitting in the corner, lonely and without data, they still pay money for things like T3s and whatever they have. Now, maybe they have excess capacity on bandwidth too. But, either way, in the future, as the 'net grows and they expand, they will need to purchase new equiptment when they need the drives sitting in the corner gathering dust. So at some point, it will cost Google money. So, again, how will they pay for it?
1 GB is a lot of information, and it has to cost a decent chunk of money to allocate that much storage for every user, and to pay for bandwidth for 30MB attachments, and for the rack space and electricity. How are web portals like google making back the cost of 1GB email?
The parent should not me modded Interesting
My brother in law is a plumber and steam fitter. It's true that when you're an independent contractor, and own your own business, you can make lots of money. However, to get to that point you need to get trained, and certified, and pay lots of dues. And you literally do pay dues. To become a plumber, or other skilled blue collar worker you need to work as an apprentice, for $30k a year, if that, for somebody else who makes the $100k a year, until you pay off your training -- which can take years
Even then, when you finally do become a master, and can start out on your own business, that takes a lot of money and hard work. You need money to set up shop, and you need to be a certain type of person to make the business work. If you're not good at keeping books, and running the business, you will never make $100k+ a year, and will have to go back to breaking your back for somebody else, even though you might be making as much as $40k+ for them
I didn't think it made any sense either -- why would a computer be connected to the lights? However, the guy did something. What that was, I may never know.
No, B5. But he did something, because I changed the light bulb myself. So, the question becomes, what did he do? A light bulb shouldn't require a delear to change...
Well, I understand that the free mounting and balancing is a gimmick. My point is that, because of that gimmick, even though you can get tires for cheaper over the net, you can't get the mounting and balancing done for free.
That was somewhat tongue in cheek. We probably get about 7 or 8 months of snow, but it feels like 10 most years.
I bought the software because I got close to $53 off and paid $20 to do my taxes with TurboTax. ($10 off coupon for staples + $30 rebate on the state tax software + 3% off thanks to being a business rewards member + $10 gift card to staples for buying tax software at staples and being a business rewards member == $20 tax software).
Mounted to the rims it's $20+ per tire. So I saved $25 per tire and paid $20 per tire to get them mounted on the rims, and get rid of my old tires.
Well, it did. The brakes worked in the sense that if I hit them, they would stop the car. However, I had to hit them hard (possibly because of the fact that they were no longer powered), and I didn't feel safe on the winter streets of Buffalo (think snow 10 months a year) without ABS. So, I could have gone without them, but I didn't feel it was safe. Brakes are just one of those systems where, if anything looks to be messing up, I'm getting it fixed. If my AC went out, hey, no problem, it's too cold out to need AC anyways. But brakes? I needed those!
The problem with a lot of the expensive components is they have to be installed by the dealer, or somebody with the diagnostic tools to properly get something working. When the headline blew on my passat, I tried replacing the bulb. It didn't work, and the fuses were all good. So then I took it in to the dealer, who charged me for replacing the headlight. Thing is, he did something with his computer to get the passat to "accept" the new headlight
And it gets worse. I found I could buy tires for wholesale + shipping at some site online. So I bought them, but having them mounted on my rims and on the car cost an arm and a leg. Why? Because the "free mounting and balancing" at Firestone dealerships is only for tires you buy there, and it came to an arm and a leg -- more than I saved on the tires.
The computer that controlled the ABS on my Passat died (for no apparent reason), and it cost $2k to fix. I had to take it to close to 3 regular places, and then a dealer to finally figure out why the brakes didn't work and the brake light was lit up. The worst part about it is it's not like I could have been like, "I don't need the brakes, so I'll save money".
Alan Greenspan made a very interesting point about gold a while ago. He pointed out that virtually all of the gold that has been mined and manufactured is still in existence, and despite this fact, gold pulled from the ground is still seen as having some innate value. Irrational to an economist? Yes. Irrational to somebody conditioned to see gold as valuable because it's gold? No.
There were some articles about this on /.. Basically, the guy in charge of the XFree86 project decided to change the license terms from GPL to something which was very inconvinient for most distros. Up until this point, X.org was just a discussion group of "What should we do with XFree86"? Because XFree86 was now non free, they forked the project when it was last under the GPL, and now are looking for members to develop the newest incarnation of the X window system.
If you are going to IPO your company, traditionally you only IPO less than 51%, so the current owner(s) keep their control. Microsoft can buy up 25%, so long as 51% is not on the market, and in the hands of individuals, it won't matter what they want -- they will just be investors who have to put up with google wants to do or remove their money. Then again, if nobody owns 51% of the company, Microsoft could be a player, and gain some control. But the point is that microsoft could only get that option if the google owners give up control with the IPO.