Abramoff's other business with Dennis Hastert (R-IL) included a child slavery industry in Saipan, the Northern Marianas Islands US territory (near the Phillipines). Sex slavery and manufacturing slavery (child and adult). Hastert was simultaneously covering up for Mark Foley (R-FL) while Foley was molesting House pages. Interestingly, ABC News' Brian Ross broke both stories, but hasn't yet connected them.
Do you have any sources on this other than The Daily Kos?
... the only way in which MNT could be regulated is by flooding the world with even more nanomachines to monitor everything that is going on --- in other words, a fully invasive world police state
This was discussed even in the very early days of nanotech theorizing. It was called the "Blue Goo" scenario - one of the possible ways of heading off the "Grey Goo" scenario.
The latter is where unbounded replicators get out of hand, turn EVERYTHING into more of themselves. Potentially a few get picked up by solar wind and carried to other planets, solar systems, and galaxies, where they do the same. Some consider this even worse than the mere total extinction of Earth-origin life (excluding the wild replicators), because the replicators could (and likely would) have been designed with enough error-checking and redundancy that they wouldn't evolve into anything else, and would likely kill off any other life as well, with the result that "Nothing else interesting happens for the rest of time.")
It strikes me as odd... that in an environment in which huge amounts of learning occurred for over hundreds of years before the Internet was even invented, it only takes one generation for people to become convinced that learning is impossible without the Internet.
As new media are deployed, progressively more informaion is published initially, or exclusively, on it. The Internet is now the medium of choice for cutting-edge publication of all sorts, and hardcopy academic journals, in addition to being slower, are beginning to be supplanted by their online replacements.
If you want to limit your students to learning only things printed in books, your attitude is understandable. But IMHO doing so will leave your student body "stuck in the Twentieth Century".
I think it is more of a case that the plaintiff won 11.3 million from it where the defendant can't even afford it.
Damage judgements are about how much damage was done, not about how much the defendant is able to pay. (Puntitive damage judgements are about applying a small multiplier as a punishment for malice.)
Combined with the fact she didn't have the opertunity to defend herself.
She didn't have legal council. That doesn't mean she didn't have have the opportunity to defend herself - just that she didn't have the resources to hire an expert to advise her on the ins and outs of how to do it well. Serious handicap. But not insurmountable - especially since the judge and jury are likely to cut her a lot of slack if she can't afford a lawyer.
Chosing not to show up at all is throwing in the towel.
This assessment is made by projecting into the future fixed change rates that reflect current trends in liquids production and consumption in all countries where presently the difference between the two factors is positive. The outcome of this assessment is rather worrisome."
Because the study selected the data so it WOULD look worrisome - deliberately cherry-picking the data by excluding ALL countries where the trend went the other way.
Eventually the supply will tighten - and the price will rise and STAY up, driving energy conservation and substitution of other energy sources. But this study has nothing to do with that. It is an exercise in use of a standard statistical-methods cheat to create an illusion.
They could bring up their website again by distributing an IP address -- but not their RBLs.
But the administrator of the MTA's local name server can add a reference to Spamhaus' name servers to his own nameserver's configuration and bypass the root servers. Then it all works again.
And the MTA administrator can always set up a local nameserver if he can't make the change to the one he normally would be using. (It's probably simpler than hotwiring the MTA configuration.)
Many of the rest of us don't like the current administration, either. (Even those who think that the main candidate running against it in the last election would have been disastrously worse.)
One of the downsides of the way the US government functions is that it tends to produce a choice between bad and worse - and one WILL be chosen.
Encrypting the link is good against taps outside the machine.
It doesn't help if the signals are tapped INSIDE the machine, on the unencrypted side of the process (like at the sound card).
So whether it would help against the trojan would depend on where the trojan tapped the signal.
And if the trojan taps the signal on the encrypted side, you can bet v2.0 of the trojan will get it on the unencrypted side.
Re:Very important to cool legs while riding cycle.
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Hm.. It wasn't me legs that were pouring sweat, its my head mostly, but a bit from upper-body and arms. The pattern of drops on the floor after 45 minutes was concentrated below my chin.
That's because your body is mostly trying to keep your brain cool.
But the amount of mechanical power you can get out of your muscles is limited by your ability to keep their operating temperature within spec. Dumping some of the heat from their surface lets them run at a (far) higher power level than if their cooling was entirely dependent on using the blood to carry the heat to some other heat sink.
If you're going to use a stationary bike for exercise, I strongly recommend a small fan blowing against your legs - especially the uppor portions, and that you wear shorts. Cooling the leg muscles greatly increases your power and endurance - far more than the power cost of the fan if you happen to be pedal-generating.
That's why stationary exercise bicycles sometimes have a blower, and why (absent the blower) riding an actual bicycle outdoors burns FAR more calories than riding a stationary bicycle indoors.
It's also why humans have essentially bare legs, with only enough hair for lubrication, in the first place, and why nothing is worn under kilts (which protect legs from sharp vegitation without impeding cooling): We cool better and can thus jog after most large fur-covered four-leggers until they collapse from overheating into a panting, pre-tenderized, almost self-cooked banquet.
- Use IP numbers or
- host a domain resolution for spamhaus in a local name server and configure your MTA to hit that first. (Have your nameserver serve as an unofficial secondary pointing to their primaries, and squirrel a dump of their name service just in case the court gets their primaries shut down.)
Then ICANN can pull the record and it won't do squat.
For your convenience (from nslookup):
> server 204.74.101.1 Default Server: udns2.ultradns.net Address: 204.74.101.1
> set type=soa > spamhaus.org Server: udns2.ultradns.net Address: 204.74.101.1
(I'm presuming that the spamhaus.org domain contains the servers in question. But if not, perhaps someone who actually administers an MTA using their services can follow up with the necessary info.)
Because if I didn't, "everyone" wouldn't have jumped off the cliff - violating the premise.
Same reasons you'd buy a book
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... and explain to me why I would buy anything from this store rather than just download it from somebody else for free?
Same reasons you'd buy a book, rather than scan one you borrowed from the library:
- You want a non-infringing copy. (You CAN still be sued for copying outside fair use, you know.)
- You want to reward the creator and distribution channel (either out of principle or to promote creation of more stuff you like).
- It's convenient.
Content producers in a number of media have experimented with copy inhibition technologies and generally found them unnecessary and often counter-productive to good business results. Why should music be different?
(The current rash of "piracy" is, IMHO, primarily a reaction to broken distribution and pricing policies, and recording companies will do a lot better once {if?} they get over it.)
Will these devices come with ear plugs or noise blocking head phones?
The higher the frequency, the easier it is to attenuate it.
Also: With the speed of the rotor, and thus the frequency of the noise components, well controlled, you can use a tuned exhaust port to keep the accoustic energy from escaping the engine and use it to increase the torque on the rotor. Why waste the energy as sound emission when you can use it for power?
The line doesn't make sense without the "a". So I assumed from first hearing him say it (live) that he intended to say "... for a man..." and either flubbed it in the excitement of the moment or the VOX kicked out.
Nice to hear computer analysis confirms that it was the VOX.
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Abramoff's other business with Dennis Hastert (R-IL) included a child slavery industry in Saipan, the Northern Marianas Islands US territory (near the Phillipines). Sex slavery and manufacturing slavery (child and adult). Hastert was simultaneously covering up for Mark Foley (R-FL) while Foley was molesting House pages. Interestingly, ABC News' Brian Ross broke both stories, but hasn't yet connected them.
Do you have any sources on this other than The Daily Kos?
... about politics making strange bedfellows.
... the only way in which MNT could be regulated is by flooding the world with even more nanomachines to monitor everything that is going on --- in other words, a fully invasive world police state
This was discussed even in the very early days of nanotech theorizing. It was called the "Blue Goo" scenario - one of the possible ways of heading off the "Grey Goo" scenario.
The latter is where unbounded replicators get out of hand, turn EVERYTHING into more of themselves. Potentially a few get picked up by solar wind and carried to other planets, solar systems, and galaxies, where they do the same. Some consider this even worse than the mere total extinction of Earth-origin life (excluding the wild replicators), because the replicators could (and likely would) have been designed with enough error-checking and redundancy that they wouldn't evolve into anything else, and would likely kill off any other life as well, with the result that "Nothing else interesting happens for the rest of time.")
It strikes me as odd... that in an environment in which huge amounts of learning occurred for over hundreds of years before the Internet was even invented, it only takes one generation for people to become convinced that learning is impossible without the Internet.
As new media are deployed, progressively more informaion is published initially, or exclusively, on it. The Internet is now the medium of choice for cutting-edge publication of all sorts, and hardcopy academic journals, in addition to being slower, are beginning to be supplanted by their online replacements.
If you want to limit your students to learning only things printed in books, your attitude is understandable. But IMHO doing so will leave your student body "stuck in the Twentieth Century".
I think it is more of a case that the plaintiff won 11.3 million from it where the defendant can't even afford it.
Damage judgements are about how much damage was done, not about how much the defendant is able to pay. (Puntitive damage judgements are about applying a small multiplier as a punishment for malice.)
Combined with the fact she didn't have the opertunity to defend herself.
She didn't have legal council. That doesn't mean she didn't have have the opportunity to defend herself - just that she didn't have the resources to hire an expert to advise her on the ins and outs of how to do it well. Serious handicap. But not insurmountable - especially since the judge and jury are likely to cut her a lot of slack if she can't afford a lawyer.
Chosing not to show up at all is throwing in the towel.
Oops. I misread the text. The "positive" difference was whether they're exporters, not the trend. My appologies to the authors and those quoting them.
Go ahead and panic. B-)
This assessment is made by projecting into the future fixed change rates that reflect current trends in liquids production and consumption in all countries where presently the difference between the two factors is positive. The outcome of this assessment is rather worrisome."
Because the study selected the data so it WOULD look worrisome - deliberately cherry-picking the data by excluding ALL countries where the trend went the other way.
Eventually the supply will tighten - and the price will rise and STAY up, driving energy conservation and substitution of other energy sources. But this study has nothing to do with that. It is an exercise in use of a standard statistical-methods cheat to create an illusion.
See _How to Lie with Statistics_ for more.
For some people email may just stop, at least for a while.
What does YOUR domain's MTA do if it can't resolve spamhaus.org? Pass the mail anyhow? Hold it for a later retry?
They could bring up their website again by distributing an IP address -- but not their RBLs.
But the administrator of the MTA's local name server can add a reference to Spamhaus' name servers to his own nameserver's configuration and bypass the root servers. Then it all works again.
Instructions in this post by The Blue Meanie (223473).
And the MTA administrator can always set up a local nameserver if he can't make the change to the one he normally would be using. (It's probably simpler than hotwiring the MTA configuration.)
(It was a joke. As for the quality of meat from an animal that's been run down: That's what the knives and slow fire are for.)
Many of the rest of us don't like the current administration, either. (Even those who think that the main candidate running against it in the last election would have been disastrously worse.)
One of the downsides of the way the US government functions is that it tends to produce a choice between bad and worse - and one WILL be chosen.
I wish someone would restart PGP Fone.
Encrypting the link is good against taps outside the machine.
It doesn't help if the signals are tapped INSIDE the machine, on the unencrypted side of the process (like at the sound card).
So whether it would help against the trojan would depend on where the trojan tapped the signal.
And if the trojan taps the signal on the encrypted side, you can bet v2.0 of the trojan will get it on the unencrypted side.
Hm.. It wasn't me legs that were pouring sweat, its my head mostly, but a bit from upper-body and arms. The pattern of drops on the floor after 45 minutes was concentrated below my chin.
That's because your body is mostly trying to keep your brain cool.
But the amount of mechanical power you can get out of your muscles is limited by your ability to keep their operating temperature within spec. Dumping some of the heat from their surface lets them run at a (far) higher power level than if their cooling was entirely dependent on using the blood to carry the heat to some other heat sink.
If you're going to use a stationary bike for exercise, I strongly recommend a small fan blowing against your legs - especially the uppor portions, and that you wear shorts. Cooling the leg muscles greatly increases your power and endurance - far more than the power cost of the fan if you happen to be pedal-generating.
That's why stationary exercise bicycles sometimes have a blower, and why (absent the blower) riding an actual bicycle outdoors burns FAR more calories than riding a stationary bicycle indoors.
It's also why humans have essentially bare legs, with only enough hair for lubrication, in the first place, and why nothing is worn under kilts (which protect legs from sharp vegitation without impeding cooling): We cool better and can thus jog after most large fur-covered four-leggers until they collapse from overheating into a panting, pre-tenderized, almost self-cooked banquet.
Oops. Meant to link to The Blue Meanie's instructions WITH the server addresses filled in.
... perhaps someone who actually administers an MTA using their services can follow up with the necessary info.
Indeed, TCM already posted a quick, detailed, recipe on how to add a forward to spamhaus' servers to your own name server.
Reconfigure your MTAs NOW.
- Use IP numbers or
- host a domain resolution for spamhaus in a local name server and configure your MTA to hit that first. (Have your nameserver serve as an unofficial secondary pointing to their primaries, and squirrel a dump of their name service just in case the court gets their primaries shut down.)
Then ICANN can pull the record and it won't do squat.
For your convenience (from nslookup):
> server 204.74.101.1
Default Server: udns2.ultradns.net
Address: 204.74.101.1
> set type=soa
> spamhaus.org
Server: udns2.ultradns.net
Address: 204.74.101.1
spamhaus.org
origin = need.to.know.only
mail addr = hostmaster.spamhaus.org
serial = 2006100802
refresh = 3600 (1H)
retry = 600 (10M)
expire = 2419200 (4W)
minimum ttl = 3600 (1H)
spamhaus.org nameserver = udns2.ultradns.net
spamhaus.org nameserver = udns1.ultradns.net
spamhaus.org nameserver = ns8.spamhaus.org
spamhaus.org nameserver = hq-ns.oarc.isc.org
ns8.spamhaus.org internet address = 216.168.28.44
(I'm presuming that the spamhaus.org domain contains the
servers in question. But if not, perhaps someone who
actually administers an MTA using their services can
follow up with the necessary info.)
Yeah, that's what mom said, too. B-)
If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you?
Of course.
Because if I didn't, "everyone" wouldn't have jumped off the cliff - violating the premise.
... and explain to me why I would buy anything from this store rather than just download it from somebody else for free?
Same reasons you'd buy a book, rather than scan one you borrowed from the library:
- You want a non-infringing copy. (You CAN still be sued for copying outside fair use, you know.)
- You want to reward the creator and distribution channel (either out of principle or to promote creation of more stuff you like).
- It's convenient.
Content producers in a number of media have experimented with copy inhibition technologies and generally found them unnecessary and often counter-productive to good business results. Why should music be different?
(The current rash of "piracy" is, IMHO, primarily a reaction to broken distribution and pricing policies, and recording companies will do a lot better once {if?} they get over it.)
Will these devices come with ear plugs or noise blocking head phones?
The higher the frequency, the easier it is to attenuate it.
Also: With the speed of the rotor, and thus the frequency of the noise components, well controlled, you can use a tuned exhaust port to keep the accoustic energy from escaping the engine and use it to increase the torque on the rotor. Why waste the energy as sound emission when you can use it for power?
1,000,000 rpm = 16,667 cycles/second.
Then multiply by the number of blades to get the lowest frequency component of the exhaust noise.
Assume it's 12 blades. (It's probably a lot more.) That still gets you up to 200,000 Hz.
The line doesn't make sense without the "a". So I assumed from first hearing him say it (live) that he intended to say "... for a man ..." and either flubbed it in the excitement of the moment or the VOX kicked out.
Nice to hear computer analysis confirms that it was the VOX.
I hear the first words said by the first man after first SETTING FOOT on the moon were:
"It's some kind of soft stuff. I can kick it around with my boot."
(Though I really need to get hold of a transcription or tape of the landing to check.)
The "That's one small step for {whatever...}" line was the first words said once he was STANDING on the moon. B-)