Apparently Radio Shack hasn't done very good market research on this one. I mean really who's seriously going to bid for a 40,000 pound piece of junk that they won't be able to move.
Anybody know how much it costs to ship a 40,000 pound peice of junk?
If I remember correctly, College Board doesn't actually send scores (or score ranges, presumably) to schools that want to send out information to lots of students. So he'll probably get the same information that everyone else is getting! I think I got information from George Mason University, Potsdam and Deep Springs as a result of my SATs, although those could have been because of another test I wrote.
Obviously, cell phones are banned because airlines can make money off of consumers using their in flight phones for about $5-10 / minute. I'd bet that the intstruments are fine with or without cell phones.
Couldnt terrorists bring some sort of a device onto a plane that just creates radio interference? (Or... in a less suicidal way, get someone else to take it with them....)
I really hope radio interference doesn't affect the instruments as much as everyone says it does.
My High School has a computer club (or at least did at some point). Bascially, it involved a bunch of kids sitting aroung after school playing Quake. It eventually got disbanded I think because the administration found out it was just about computer games.
I think if you really want to start a computer club that is not focused on games, you'd be best off trying to find a few members first. Kids our age that like to program or advocate Free Software, etc. are hard to find. Plus, if you do, the odds that they'll want to join something so nerdy as the Computer Club is low.
I can't think of anyone in my school (of 700) that would be interested in that kind of club if I were to start one. I could certainly start one if I wanted to, but it's just not worth it.
Keep your hacking, Free Software and computer nerd side of you private -- unless you want to be a big social outcast.
That was in grade 10. When it came time for us to choose our senior level courses all of us chose Higher Level Computer science, our class consisted of 4 people. You guessed it, us 4.
And I'm sure you all regretted it... From what I hear IB HL Computer Science is the devil, even if you are a geek. (Something about a 200 page dossier...)
At my school, the best kids at computers take HL Chem and HL Physics, because they're needed to go into Computer Engineering...
So lets say you deicde to drop $20,000 on a letter to space. How do you know it gets there? Do they send the letter back after, is it a round trip thing?
And if it is, how do you know it hasn't just been half way around the world, not to our orbit and back? You can't. Do the contents smell different once they've been to space? Do they get heavier or lighter? NO!
If the $20,000 is a one-way thing, they might as well throw it out before it gets on the spaceship... claiming it contained dangerous materials, or something. And you will have no way of knowing.
Whoever actually sends a message to the space station is a moron and a fool. Just donate money to the Russians if you want, but don't fool yourself into thinking your getting something out of it!
And the Russians... wow, coming up with such a crazy scheme has got to be hard work.
Why on earth would these guys demand a jury? They'd be better off with an old judge that never uses a computer.... not a jury of American people that hate spam almost as much as we do.
Proof that spammers are stupid, I guess. Either that or they honestly believe that the American public wants their penis enlargment pills.
While the technology mentioned in the article is quite cool, it has relatively no application for cell phones. It is ridiculous to think that these sensors could harness enough energy from a ringing cell phone to power it (not to mention the whole laws of thermodynamics problem).
What the article is about is using power from vibrating pipes, engines or whatever, to power sensors or other things in places that simply can't be reached by wire, or where batteries are simply impractical. (This also implies that it is really expensive!)
I think the technology presented in the article is similar in function but totally different from the technology used in kinetic watches. The technology in kinetic watches could be really cool if it could be applied to cell phones. A detailed explanation of how this works is available on page 2 of this PDF.
Imagine cell phones powered as you move... That'd be cool. Cell phones powered when you attach them to vibrating pipes or engines? Not quite as cool -- unless you're a robot!
How is this different from the open-source Vipul's Razor, Pyzor or DCC, all of which are already in wide use through their easy integration with SpamAssassin?
Clearly a proprietary system just won't be as good because it needs, by its very nature, a lot of subscribers to be effective. Having said this, Cloudmark seems to do alright by using Razor's network.
The term ``telephone facsimile machine'' means equipment which has the capacity (A) to transcribe text or images, or both, from paper into an electronic signal and to transmit that signal over a regular telephone line, or (B) to transcribe text or images (or both) from an electronic signal received over a regular telephone line onto paper.
So let's say you don't use a phone line to connect to the internet, so Mark's claims don't really work for you, but you have a regular fax machine you'd like to see get a few more junk faxes.
(Disclaimer: please don't abuse the following free service. I'm not responsible for your actions.)
The fine folks at TPC.INT have a free e-mail to fax service. So just leave the e-mail address remote-printer.yourfirstname_yourlastname@yourtele phonenumber.iddd.tpc.int somewhere where the spam robots will find it, and voila, junk faxes for you to profit off of.
"But it's getting to be the only way to control our bandwidth."
In one 24-hour period, for example, the most popular file traded using the Gnutella network was an MP3 by rap artist "Big Tymers," which passed the network monitor 188 times.
The students should really set up their own, internal P2P network. This would put less tax on the University's external bandwidth, downloads would be quicker, and, assuming it's restricted to local users, the RIAA couldn't really prove any wrongdoing. (Although their FUD generally scares universities enough.)
Universities are generally big enough to support a network on their own. They should.
I suppose you haven't been following the SpamAssassin mailing lists then.:-) There are numerous cases of spammers adapting to specifically evade SpamAssassin.
I think it's quite safe to say that the availability of live election results before polls close is a bad thing.
Sure, you can and always will be able to get around the blackout by calling your friends out east; however, it's a lot less prevalent when election results aren't all over the TV.
I'm convinced that CNN lost the election for Gore. Since they predicted a democrat win in FL, people decided to vote for Nader (something about the percentage of votes affecting his funding). So, when CNN conviced people to stop voting democrat in FL, problems started -- and months later, Bush is your president. I'm glad the media doesn't have that power here in Canada.
This isn't a big deal. Canada's Liberal government is always handing out large sums of money to companies run by friends of minsters or friends of friends.
I'm sitting here in the relative security we have north of the border, and I just don't understand how you americans let your government gets away with this.
Just yesterday, Slashdot had a story about New York radiation therapy patients being strip searched in the subway in the name of anti-terrorism.
And now this. Another example of your rights being taken away in the name of anti-terrorism.
More recently, Canadian citizens (even ones that have been citizens for a long time) are stopped at the border and detained for questioning and registration just because they were born in one of a list of 6-7 countries. (And they say it's not racial profiling.) Is this not overkill?
Here's another interesting story. One Canadian was imprisoned for 34 days for purchasing gas at a gas station 15 metres inside U.S. territory, as locals had been doing for years, with approval, or at least acknowledgement from U.S. border officials. His crime: he had a criminal record and a rifle in the back of his truck (he was going hunting). They claim he was supposed to check in at the U.S. customs station which is another kilometre down the road (and was closed at the time)! Was he a terrorist threat? I doubt it!
And now a personal anecdote: I was canoe tripping in Quetico Provincial Park (of Ontario) and the Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe Area (of northern Minnesota). It was so refreshing to be able to travel right along the border, maybe cross it for lunch and sleep in Canada, or zig zag down the centre of a lake or river and say "Canada, U.S., Canada, U.S." (kinda like that Simpsons episode where they go to Australia) We never went through U.S. customs; in fact we couldn't even find one if we tried. Next time I go back, I won'e be surprised if I see U.S. customs posts every other lake, with motor boats buzzing around in an attempt to keep out filthy-looking canoe trippers that have been in the bush for the last 30 days. Well... they could be terrorists.
In Canada, 56% of people think that Saddam's the biggest threat to world security, and 38% say it's Bush. (The poll results are here (PDF format)) Anyone surprised?
So now, the big question is why do Americans let the government walk all over the liberties and freedoms that they hold so dear to their existance?
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Apparently Radio Shack hasn't done very good market research on this one. I mean really who's seriously going to bid for a 40,000 pound piece of junk that they won't be able to move.
Anybody know how much it costs to ship a 40,000 pound peice of junk?
If I remember correctly, College Board doesn't actually send scores (or score ranges, presumably) to schools that want to send out information to lots of students. So he'll probably get the same information that everyone else is getting! I think I got information from George Mason University, Potsdam and Deep Springs as a result of my SATs, although those could have been because of another test I wrote.
I remember hearing of a similar philosophy-type exam with the question being "Why?"
One student wrote "Why not?" and received an A. Another wrote "Because." and failed.
Canada's got a large land area, but do you think many of us actually live in the North?
:-)
The majority of Canada's population is concentrated near the border... where it's a little warmer.
Obviously, cell phones are banned because airlines can make money off of consumers using their in flight phones for about $5-10 / minute. I'd bet that the intstruments are fine with or without cell phones.
Couldnt terrorists bring some sort of a device onto a plane that just creates radio interference? (Or... in a less suicidal way, get someone else to take it with them....)
I really hope radio interference doesn't affect the instruments as much as everyone says it does.
My High School has a computer club (or at least did at some point). Bascially, it involved a bunch of kids sitting aroung after school playing Quake. It eventually got disbanded I think because the administration found out it was just about computer games.
I think if you really want to start a computer club that is not focused on games, you'd be best off trying to find a few members first. Kids our age that like to program or advocate Free Software, etc. are hard to find. Plus, if you do, the odds that they'll want to join something so nerdy as the Computer Club is low.
I can't think of anyone in my school (of 700) that would be interested in that kind of club if I were to start one. I could certainly start one if I wanted to, but it's just not worth it.
Keep your hacking, Free Software and computer nerd side of you private -- unless you want to be a big social outcast.
That is 100% true. AP Computer Science AB was a joke. I got a textbook, read through it, and got a 5. Dead easy.
Much better idea than a computer club!
That was in grade 10. When it came time for us to choose our senior level courses all of us chose Higher Level Computer science, our class consisted of 4 people. You guessed it, us 4.
And I'm sure you all regretted it... From what I hear IB HL Computer Science is the devil, even if you are a geek. (Something about a 200 page dossier...)
At my school, the best kids at computers take HL Chem and HL Physics, because they're needed to go into Computer Engineering...
So lets say you deicde to drop $20,000 on a letter to space. How do you know it gets there? Do they send the letter back after, is it a round trip thing?
And if it is, how do you know it hasn't just been half way around the world, not to our orbit and back? You can't. Do the contents smell different once they've been to space? Do they get heavier or lighter? NO!
If the $20,000 is a one-way thing, they might as well throw it out before it gets on the spaceship... claiming it contained dangerous materials, or something. And you will have no way of knowing.
Whoever actually sends a message to the space station is a moron and a fool. Just donate money to the Russians if you want, but don't fool yourself into thinking your getting something out of it!
And the Russians... wow, coming up with such a crazy scheme has got to be hard work.
Why on earth would these guys demand a jury? They'd be better off with an old judge that never uses a computer.... not a jury of American people that hate spam almost as much as we do.
Proof that spammers are stupid, I guess. Either that or they honestly believe that the American public wants their penis enlargment pills.
I couldnt stomach the legalese anymore...
Not to mention the terrible cut + paste job! (Really... it is bad.)
While the technology mentioned in the article is quite cool, it has relatively no application for cell phones. It is ridiculous to think that these sensors could harness enough energy from a ringing cell phone to power it (not to mention the whole laws of thermodynamics problem).
What the article is about is using power from vibrating pipes, engines or whatever, to power sensors or other things in places that simply can't be reached by wire, or where batteries are simply impractical. (This also implies that it is really expensive!)
I think the technology presented in the article is similar in function but totally different from the technology used in kinetic watches. The technology in kinetic watches could be really cool if it could be applied to cell phones. A detailed explanation of how this works is available on page 2 of this PDF.
Imagine cell phones powered as you move... That'd be cool. Cell phones powered when you attach them to vibrating pipes or engines? Not quite as cool -- unless you're a robot!
How is this different from the open-source Vipul's Razor, Pyzor or DCC, all of which are already in wide use through their easy integration with SpamAssassin?
Clearly a proprietary system just won't be as good because it needs, by its very nature, a lot of subscribers to be effective. Having said this, Cloudmark seems to do alright by using Razor's network.
How long until Iraq covers their missiles with a thin mirror? Could the plane with the airborne layer blow itself up if this were to happen?
...and won't use the phone much at all (unless it's to order pizza)
What? You can't order a pizza online in Germany? (You can here, in Ontario!)
The term ``telephone facsimile machine'' means equipment which has the capacity (A) to transcribe text or images, or both, from paper into an electronic signal and to transmit that signal over a regular telephone line, or (B) to transcribe text or images (or both) from an electronic signal received over a regular telephone line onto paper.
e phonenumber.iddd.tpc.int somewhere where the spam robots will find it, and voila, junk faxes for you to profit off of.
So let's say you don't use a phone line to connect to the internet, so Mark's claims don't really work for you, but you have a regular fax machine you'd like to see get a few more junk faxes.
(Disclaimer: please don't abuse the following free service. I'm not responsible for your actions.)
The fine folks at TPC.INT have a free e-mail to fax service. So just leave the e-mail address remote-printer.yourfirstname_yourlastname@yourtel
Happy spam hunting.
"But it's getting to be the only way to control our bandwidth."
In one 24-hour period, for example, the most popular file traded using the Gnutella network was an MP3 by rap artist "Big Tymers," which passed the network monitor 188 times.
The students should really set up their own, internal P2P network. This would put less tax on the University's external bandwidth, downloads would be quicker, and, assuming it's restricted to local users, the RIAA couldn't really prove any wrongdoing. (Although their FUD generally scares universities enough.)
Universities are generally big enough to support a network on their own. They should.
I suppose you haven't been following the SpamAssassin mailing lists then. :-) There are numerous cases of spammers adapting to specifically evade SpamAssassin.
I think it's quite safe to say that the availability of live election results before polls close is a bad thing.
Sure, you can and always will be able to get around the blackout by calling your friends out east; however, it's a lot less prevalent when election results aren't all over the TV.
I'm convinced that CNN lost the election for Gore. Since they predicted a democrat win in FL, people decided to vote for Nader (something about the percentage of votes affecting his funding). So, when CNN conviced people to stop voting democrat in FL, problems started -- and months later, Bush is your president. I'm glad the media doesn't have that power here in Canada.
NAI really can't control whether or not there is another open source version of SpamAssassin (under whatever name).
However, since they now employ two of the leading coders, releases might now be a lot less frequent. Hopefully, NAI will do the right thing.
This isn't a big deal. Canada's Liberal government is always handing out large sums of money to companies run by friends of minsters or friends of friends.
Why did we elect them again?
Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital and Kingston's Frontenac Public Library will also be deploying a Bell AccessZone location in the coming weeks.
They don't let you use cell phones in hospitals, but they'll let Bell put in a wireless access point in?
Is this safe?
I'm sitting here in the relative security we have north of the border, and I just don't understand how you americans let your government gets away with this.
Just yesterday, Slashdot had a story about New York radiation therapy patients being strip searched in the subway in the name of anti-terrorism.
And now this. Another example of your rights being taken away in the name of anti-terrorism.
More recently, Canadian citizens (even ones that have been citizens for a long time) are stopped at the border and detained for questioning and registration just because they were born in one of a list of 6-7 countries. (And they say it's not racial profiling.) Is this not overkill?
Here's another interesting story. One Canadian was imprisoned for 34 days for purchasing gas at a gas station 15 metres inside U.S. territory, as locals had been doing for years, with approval, or at least acknowledgement from U.S. border officials. His crime: he had a criminal record and a rifle in the back of his truck (he was going hunting). They claim he was supposed to check in at the U.S. customs station which is another kilometre down the road (and was closed at the time)! Was he a terrorist threat? I doubt it!
And now a personal anecdote: I was canoe tripping in Quetico Provincial Park (of Ontario) and the Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe Area (of northern Minnesota). It was so refreshing to be able to travel right along the border, maybe cross it for lunch and sleep in Canada, or zig zag down the centre of a lake or river and say "Canada, U.S., Canada, U.S." (kinda like that Simpsons episode where they go to Australia) We never went through U.S. customs; in fact we couldn't even find one if we tried. Next time I go back, I won'e be surprised if I see U.S. customs posts every other lake, with motor boats buzzing around in an attempt to keep out filthy-looking canoe trippers that have been in the bush for the last 30 days. Well... they could be terrorists.
In Canada, 56% of people think that Saddam's the biggest threat to world security, and 38% say it's Bush. (The poll results are here (PDF format)) Anyone surprised?
So now, the big question is why do Americans let the government walk all over the liberties and freedoms that they hold so dear to their existance?
Maybe you can answer that.
No
(Was that rhetorical too?)