Agreed. Ciarcia took most of the techno brain of Byte with him. It was sad, really, and I let my subscription lapse shortly after.
I never jumped onto his new mouthpiece, though, because his projects started getting pretty high-threshold. (cost and commitment-wise, that is.) OH, well, now most of the stuff he worked with could be done with one PIC, one PEEL, and 20 lines of PIC basic. I guess this is progress.
Yes. Boost the sailplane to an altitude of 250 km and a Earth-relative velocity of 8 km/sec and the sailplane circumnavigates the Earth with NO further propulsion. FOREVER.
I don't know why you'd want to orbit your sailplane, though....
While this is both factual and informative, isn't it a bit misleading? Can anyone name a modern airframe (last 15 years) which is powered by a pure turbojet? Every "jet plane" you see at the airport (or in the military aerodrome) is a turbofan, of various degress of bypass. So yes, it's both a turbofan and a "jet".
Unless you can cite a specific modern counterexample?
Can't their web server just reject or redirect any page requests that don't have a referrer field of their own web site? ... Their lawyers didn't think of that, apparantly.
Which tells me that the webmonkeys are only cooperating as far as they're forced to. If the web devs wanted to, they could volunteer to turn on referrer-id blocking and make this dumbass policy stick. But it hasn't happened, so perhaps we're seeing some non-violent protest action here.
Or maybe Orbitz' webmonkey staff is stupid. (We can't rule that out without further evidence, right?)
...with regards to the NSA, means no floppies, no USB, etc... Really, meaning no ability at all.
I'm pretty sure the fine folks at Ft. Meade don't confiscate eyeballs and fingers. But admittedly, if you can't trust your personnel to not deliberately transfer data manually between nets, you might as well fire them all.
if the e-mail subject says "c1al|z", it IS spam, no reason to verify it by reading the thing.
Yeah, that helps speed-filter about 25% of the spammage I see. But what about "UPS Tracking Number" when you've just completed a bit of web-based purchasing and are actually expecting a tracking number in the e-mail? How about obscure and nearly incomprehensible subjects? I can't just crapcan those, because I subscribe to various NetBSD support lists. (If you follow *BSD mail lists, you know what I mean.)
So yes, for the majority of spam, you have to at least preview the content. If you have a slow mailserver, particularly if you use a "download on demand" (IMAP) rather than "download in advance" protocol (POP), you have to pay the content download time. And if you're foolish enough to let your MUA download remote links, that's more time before you figure out the message you're looking at is spam. (If you don't do the remote links thing, all you know is that you've got a blank e-mail. I guess that's spam. Even if it theoretically might have been something you wanted.) So 10 seconds per mail is perfectly reasonable.
Sony v. Universal clearly established the legality of timeshifting devices such as this.
"Clearly"? OK. "Permanently"? Sorry, wrong answer. Any precedent can be overturned if the plaintiff buys the appropriate combination of presiding judge, jury, and venue. And each new "infringing technology" introduced to the marketplace gives *AA another shot at re-establishing its hegemony.
That's why the Pentagon has its own weather service.
Two, in fact: Air Force Weather, and Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command. And it's still not enough. These agencies operate detection and prediction assets worldwide, but almost nothing in civilian areas. And in weather forecasting, the more data the better. So we need data from civilian agencies or companies.
Civilian contracted providers will only provide data for areas that pay well enough to justify the infrastructure and operating costs, plus profit margin. If I, a hypothetical Base Weather Officer at Nowhere Air Force Base, North Dakota, need the weather in the region of Freezeass, Montana, because it's half an hour west of us, and Weather-R-Us Inc. won't install and operate sensors at Freezeass unless the DOD pays the whole operating cost plus a hefty margin... well, great, the federal government is subsidizing a necessary service indirectly while handing out some tasty corporate charity. Yes, I know that's how it is in many governmental endeavors, but in this case direct operation is almost certainly cheaper and guaranteed better quality.
I'm curious who Apple will sue when they lose hundreds of sales because their pissiness and bullying proved to the world just what type of jackbooted (Reaction Kenneth Cole, of course) fascists they are? Maybe they'll sue themselves. Or they'll sue reality.
Great technology, great marketing, piss-for-brains legal department and executive suite. Oh, well, I could always just buy the next Amiga.
Freedom of speech when abridged by the government is against the Constitution, but there's nothing against companies limiting speech.
One little problem with that, though...what types of coercive power do corporations have that aren't actually provided by the State? We're talking about lawsuits here, lawsuits in courts of law...state and federal, governmental courts of law.
Now, if Apple had some form of force which they could directly apply, OK, the Constitution doesn't prohibit the application of that force to supress what would otherwise be free speech. But since the baseball bat in Apple's hand is the power of the State, the First Amendment does apply.
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From what I learned from DNS, whether the domain exists, or not, the same amount of queeururueeing is done.
That's not accurate. An existent domain can be quickly resolved, possibly at the first-level nameserver. A non-existent domain requires upchannel querying all the way up to the TLD root, before deciding the lookup failed. That's a lot of elapsed time, and a lot of extra traffic. And I don't think DNS systems cache "does not exist" lookups, do they? So if an email refers to a non-existent domain 5 times, it could wind up with 5 different time-consuming failed lookups.
Ah, GNUTrolling at its finest. Your id oughta be slashGNUtt.
As for Opera thanks but no thanks I have the desire to keep using as much really free software as possible promoting further development.
At least you make a token effort get back ontopic. That's commendable.
The zero-cost (i.e., "free") license for Opera doesn't affect me personally, since I haven't been a college student for years, but it seems to be a good move to me. And as a business decision, it has potential because all those students will be used to Opera; some of those may like it enough to pay for it after they leave school.
Lets hope that the US doesn't have an automated response system that watches for anything coming out of the silos. It doesn't make for good international relations to launch a couple thousand nukes in response to communications satellite.
Oh, good point, good point. Put that into the "Cost" column in the Cost-Benefit analysis for our Global Satellite Telecommunications Domination plan.
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I see folk getting their panties in a twist shouting "death!" while pointing at Maggie Simpson.
I never jumped onto his new mouthpiece, though, because his projects started getting pretty high-threshold. (cost and commitment-wise, that is.) OH, well, now most of the stuff he worked with could be done with one PIC, one PEEL, and 20 lines of PIC basic. I guess this is progress.
And if you thought getting glass fiber in your skin itched...
I don't know why you'd want to orbit your sailplane, though....
Detachable fuel tanks detach...while they're still full, and you need the fuel.
Adding complex subsystems to an already complex system increases complexity and potential failure points.
A better answer is to ground test fuel systems at all limits, and then accept the risks once airborne.
Please, no jiggawatts. I'm begging you.
Unless you can cite a specific modern counterexample?
In which case, the motto of Microsoft's legal team is "Go for the eyes, Boo, GO FOR THE EYES!"
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Their lawyers didn't think of that, apparantly.
Which tells me that the webmonkeys are only cooperating as far as they're forced to. If the web devs wanted to, they could volunteer to turn on referrer-id blocking and make this dumbass policy stick. But it hasn't happened, so perhaps we're seeing some non-violent protest action here.
Or maybe Orbitz' webmonkey staff is stupid. (We can't rule that out without further evidence, right?)
I'm pretty sure the fine folks at Ft. Meade don't confiscate eyeballs and fingers. But admittedly, if you can't trust your personnel to not deliberately transfer data manually between nets, you might as well fire them all.
Yeah, that helps speed-filter about 25% of the spammage I see. But what about "UPS Tracking Number" when you've just completed a bit of web-based purchasing and are actually expecting a tracking number in the e-mail? How about obscure and nearly incomprehensible subjects? I can't just crapcan those, because I subscribe to various NetBSD support lists. (If you follow *BSD mail lists, you know what I mean.)
So yes, for the majority of spam, you have to at least preview the content. If you have a slow mailserver, particularly if you use a "download on demand" (IMAP) rather than "download in advance" protocol (POP), you have to pay the content download time. And if you're foolish enough to let your MUA download remote links, that's more time before you figure out the message you're looking at is spam. (If you don't do the remote links thing, all you know is that you've got a blank e-mail. I guess that's spam. Even if it theoretically might have been something you wanted.) So 10 seconds per mail is perfectly reasonable.
"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's Linux all the way down."
"Clearly"? OK. "Permanently"? Sorry, wrong answer. Any precedent can be overturned if the plaintiff buys the appropriate combination of presiding judge, jury, and venue. And each new "infringing technology" introduced to the marketplace gives *AA another shot at re-establishing its hegemony.
Not just victory...Fatality...Flawless Victory
What, magic dtrace 8-ball?
"Will I ever find out why xinetd keeps freezing out?"
"Very doubtful"
Two, in fact: Air Force Weather, and Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command. And it's still not enough. These agencies operate detection and prediction assets worldwide, but almost nothing in civilian areas. And in weather forecasting, the more data the better. So we need data from civilian agencies or companies.
Civilian contracted providers will only provide data for areas that pay well enough to justify the infrastructure and operating costs, plus profit margin. If I, a hypothetical Base Weather Officer at Nowhere Air Force Base, North Dakota, need the weather in the region of Freezeass, Montana, because it's half an hour west of us, and Weather-R-Us Inc. won't install and operate sensors at Freezeass unless the DOD pays the whole operating cost plus a hefty margin... well, great, the federal government is subsidizing a necessary service indirectly while handing out some tasty corporate charity. Yes, I know that's how it is in many governmental endeavors, but in this case direct operation is almost certainly cheaper and guaranteed better quality.
Great technology, great marketing, piss-for-brains legal department and executive suite. Oh, well, I could always just buy the next Amiga.
One little problem with that, though...what types of coercive power do corporations have that aren't actually provided by the State? We're talking about lawsuits here, lawsuits in courts of law...state and federal, governmental courts of law.
Now, if Apple had some form of force which they could directly apply, OK, the Constitution doesn't prohibit the application of that force to supress what would otherwise be free speech. But since the baseball bat in Apple's hand is the power of the State, the First Amendment does apply.
Look up some resources about strategic lawsuits against public participation and see if the First Amendment shouldn't be protecting us against the uses of State force by corporate interests.
No one ever explained to me why this is bad but yelling "Movie!" in a crowded firehouse was ok.
looks like we don't have to wait for Hari Seldon and the Second Foundation to mathematicaly predict the future.
No, dammit, I can't say it.
That's not accurate. An existent domain can be quickly resolved, possibly at the first-level nameserver. A non-existent domain requires upchannel querying all the way up to the TLD root, before deciding the lookup failed. That's a lot of elapsed time, and a lot of extra traffic. And I don't think DNS systems cache "does not exist" lookups, do they? So if an email refers to a non-existent domain 5 times, it could wind up with 5 different time-consuming failed lookups.
As for Opera thanks but no thanks I have the desire to keep using as much really free software as possible promoting further development.
At least you make a token effort get back ontopic. That's commendable.
The zero-cost (i.e., "free") license for Opera doesn't affect me personally, since I haven't been a college student for years, but it seems to be a good move to me. And as a business decision, it has potential because all those students will be used to Opera; some of those may like it enough to pay for it after they leave school.
Oh, good point, good point. Put that into the "Cost" column in the Cost-Benefit analysis for our Global Satellite Telecommunications Domination plan.