I have bought something from spam: a DVD+R/RW burner from TigerDirect. I don't know if they count as spam as not, but I don't ever recall signing up for their list. It's pretty easy to get off their list though (i.e. the unsubscribe link actually works), so it's not as bad as some of the spam out there.
What the hell else has your pathetic little island done lately?
For one, they were a part of the coalition of the willing and helped us get that evil dictator Saddam Hussein and his thousands of weapons of mass destruction!
911 service is simply a phone call to 911. The question is whether or not the authorities can physically locate the phone being used to dial 911.
911 isn't very useful in true emergency situations if your location can't even be traced. If you're being burglared (sp?), you don't have time to tell them your address. You call 911, say, "There's a burglar in my home, HELP!", and run and hide. You don't wanna be caught by the burglar on the phone trying to give them directions to your house.
I take offense at this article that things are being regulated that are "better off being left alone". I'm sorry, but requiring 911 features is not an excessive regulation. So users of the VoIP services are going to have to pay more - big deal. Having 911 access is very important and often means the difference between life and death, or extinguished fire versus hundreds of thousands of dollars lost. Since the VoIP services aren't capable of being altruistic and offering a very much needed service, the government needs to step in and enforce these regulations. This is what the government is supposed to do, and is certainly not "government overstepping its bounds"!
How do we know it was actually studying rocks... maybe it was, oh, working on that Q-36 Illidium Space Modulator Death Ray?!?!
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Yeah - I read that book somewhat recently. I don't remember the book's title, but I do know it was written by Stephen Baxter (that should be enough information to get the book's title). The character's name was "Lieserl", and she was genetically engineered to grow a year in one day, and upon death, was transformed into some sort of embedded intelligence in a robot thingy that could survive immersion in the Sun.
To prevent maliciously formatted video streams from providing a backdoor into your system, type the video stream by hand and verify that it contains no malicious code.
Very nice, I didn't think you'd go through with it. Nice site, and it seems to be keeping up with the "load" perfectly so far (though I imagine if it got a +5 rating, you might be in some trouble).
I really don't think Microsoft cares any more. They certainly don't care about the security of their customers. I supposed their objective with IE was to dominate the market by packaging it with Windows, and once that was completed, they simply stopped caring about IE. They haven't updated it in over two years, and its competitors have added all sorts of useful features in the meantime. And now that these bugs have been exposed and nothing is being done about it, it's time for people to move on to using other browsers - permanently. If people aren't convinced by the merits of other browsers, maybe they'll be convinced when their "tried and true IE" allows them to be scammed/defrauded.
That's a very good point. Thermal paste is actually a pretty good insulator... the only reason it's used is because it fills in the gaps between where the chip doesn't touch the heatsink, because it transfers more heat than air. But if you have an actual layer of thermal compound between the sink and the chip, it's worse than not using any compound at all. Unfortunately, the quantity that it's sold in, as you brought up, tends to make people think they should use more than is recommended. "Why did they give me so much if I'm only supposed to use a teeny little dab?"
I don't care what element they are made out of; all I care about is that they work. If I was buying jewelry I might feel differently, but thermal paste is something you apply once and never see again. All that should matter is its performance. Then again, this could be considered false advertising, which would bother some people. But as long as it does its job, I don't care.
Also, IANAMS (I am not a materials scientist), but the liquid test agents they're using may not work if the silver is in certain molecular compounds. The best way to examine these thermal pastes would be with a scanning electron microscope. I had the priledge of using one at NIST (National Institute for Standards in Technology located in Maryland), and we examined a ring and used some sort of technique to determine that the band of the ring had 75% atomic numbers of 79 and 25% atomic numbers of 29 and the jewel of the ring had 100% atomic number of 6. (We saw all of these as relative heights in a graph of some sort of spectrum). Needless to say, the ring was 18 carat Gold (24 carat = 100%) and the diamond was real. This immensely relieved the husband, whose wife's ring had been the one examined.
Verizon respects their customers' privacy. The last time they were asked for logs, they refused, and even sent out their lawyers. My combination of dynamic IP and Verizon's commitment to privacy keeps me pretty safe from the RIAA.
When I first got my Verizon DSL, I was annoyed that I didn't get a static IP address. But now I realize the advantages of a dynamically-assigned IP address. Everytime my DSL connection reconnects, I get assigned new IP, and because my connection crashes regularly, I go through up to 10 IP addresses per day. Thank God for Verizon and their crappy connections. Try finding me now, RIAA! Nyaaah Nyaaah!!
I would've said cell phone as well. I got one a year ago, and now I just leave it off all the time. I'm on a family plan with my family. I just hated having a cell phone: people expected me to have it on me all the time and be at their beck and call. Kind of like how I hate telephones, but at least you can ignore calls and say "you weren't at home." With a cell phone there's no excuse. That's why I like e-mail: I can answer it at my convenience, and I don't have to read it the instant it comes in like I have to listen to calls the instance they come in. And don't even think answering machines are an option: when people call you, they expect to be answered immeidately, and having to leave a message is a pure annoyance. With e-mail there is no such expectation, so it's more relaxing for both parties involved.
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I have bought something from spam: a DVD+R/RW burner from TigerDirect. I don't know if they count as spam as not, but I don't ever recall signing up for their list. It's pretty easy to get off their list though (i.e. the unsubscribe link actually works), so it's not as bad as some of the spam out there.
What the hell else has your pathetic little island done lately?
For one, they were a part of the coalition of the willing and helped us get that evil dictator Saddam Hussein and his thousands of weapons of mass destruction!
All roads now lead to Linux??
911 service is simply a phone call to 911. The question is whether or not the authorities can physically locate the phone being used to dial 911.
911 isn't very useful in true emergency situations if your location can't even be traced. If you're being burglared (sp?), you don't have time to tell them your address. You call 911, say, "There's a burglar in my home, HELP!", and run and hide. You don't wanna be caught by the burglar on the phone trying to give them directions to your house.
I take offense at this article that things are being regulated that are "better off being left alone". I'm sorry, but requiring 911 features is not an excessive regulation. So users of the VoIP services are going to have to pay more - big deal. Having 911 access is very important and often means the difference between life and death, or extinguished fire versus hundreds of thousands of dollars lost. Since the VoIP services aren't capable of being altruistic and offering a very much needed service, the government needs to step in and enforce these regulations. This is what the government is supposed to do, and is certainly not "government overstepping its bounds"!
How do we know it was actually studying rocks ... maybe it was, oh, working on that Q-36 Illidium Space Modulator Death Ray?!?!
Yeah - I read that book somewhat recently. I don't remember the book's title, but I do know it was written by Stephen Baxter (that should be enough information to get the book's title). The character's name was "Lieserl", and she was genetically engineered to grow a year in one day, and upon death, was transformed into some sort of embedded intelligence in a robot thingy that could survive immersion in the Sun.
Or one of those "girlfriends" you can bid for on eBay.
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To prevent maliciously formatted video streams from providing a backdoor into your system, type the video stream by hand and verify that it contains no malicious code.
Very nice, I didn't think you'd go through with it. Nice site, and it seems to be keeping up with the "load" perfectly so far (though I imagine if it got a +5 rating, you might be in some trouble).
My 25Mhz Macintosh LC III is enough to host a webserver running Linux & Apache.
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Post a link to your website and then we'll reconsider your statement
They put out security patches each month which is sufficient.
Ummm, the monthly security patches are clearly not sufficient. Did you not read the article?
I really don't think Microsoft cares any more. They certainly don't care about the security of their customers. I supposed their objective with IE was to dominate the market by packaging it with Windows, and once that was completed, they simply stopped caring about IE. They haven't updated it in over two years, and its competitors have added all sorts of useful features in the meantime. And now that these bugs have been exposed and nothing is being done about it, it's time for people to move on to using other browsers - permanently. If people aren't convinced by the merits of other browsers, maybe they'll be convinced when their "tried and true IE" allows them to be scammed/defrauded.
At least have the balls to post non-anonymously when you make these suggestions. Why should people listen to an Anonymous Coward?
I feel a great disturbance in the force ... almost as if a whole webserver cried out in agony as it was engulfed in flames.
Deploy automobile air bags faster, using C4 explosives!
Most haikus are like
A frostbite incurred during
Nuclear winter
In George Bush's mind
This is a valid haiku
Nuclear fits in five
I'm programming Perl
My program is just one line
Took five years to write...
I wrote an A.I.
Only used two lines of Perl
Output is cryptic
That's a very good point. Thermal paste is actually a pretty good insulator ... the only reason it's used is because it fills in the gaps between where the chip doesn't touch the heatsink, because it transfers more heat than air. But if you have an actual layer of thermal compound between the sink and the chip, it's worse than not using any compound at all. Unfortunately, the quantity that it's sold in, as you brought up, tends to make people think they should use more than is recommended. "Why did they give me so much if I'm only supposed to use a teeny little dab?"
I don't care what element they are made out of; all I care about is that they work. If I was buying jewelry I might feel differently, but thermal paste is something you apply once and never see again. All that should matter is its performance. Then again, this could be considered false advertising, which would bother some people. But as long as it does its job, I don't care.
Also, IANAMS (I am not a materials scientist), but the liquid test agents they're using may not work if the silver is in certain molecular compounds. The best way to examine these thermal pastes would be with a scanning electron microscope. I had the priledge of using one at NIST (National Institute for Standards in Technology located in Maryland), and we examined a ring and used some sort of technique to determine that the band of the ring had 75% atomic numbers of 79 and 25% atomic numbers of 29 and the jewel of the ring had 100% atomic number of 6. (We saw all of these as relative heights in a graph of some sort of spectrum). Needless to say, the ring was 18 carat Gold (24 carat = 100%) and the diamond was real. This immensely relieved the husband, whose wife's ring had been the one examined.
Verizon respects their customers' privacy. The last time they were asked for logs, they refused, and even sent out their lawyers. My combination of dynamic IP and Verizon's commitment to privacy keeps me pretty safe from the RIAA.
When I first got my Verizon DSL, I was annoyed that I didn't get a static IP address. But now I realize the advantages of a dynamically-assigned IP address. Everytime my DSL connection reconnects, I get assigned new IP, and because my connection crashes regularly, I go through up to 10 IP addresses per day. Thank God for Verizon and their crappy connections. Try finding me now, RIAA! Nyaaah Nyaaah!!
"Alarm clocks were a close second..."
You need it, but damn do you want to break it sometimes.
When I read this at first, I thought it went along with SargeZT's comment, "I thought it would of been the condom."
I would've said cell phone as well. I got one a year ago, and now I just leave it off all the time. I'm on a family plan with my family. I just hated having a cell phone: people expected me to have it on me all the time and be at their beck and call. Kind of like how I hate telephones, but at least you can ignore calls and say "you weren't at home." With a cell phone there's no excuse. That's why I like e-mail: I can answer it at my convenience, and I don't have to read it the instant it comes in like I have to listen to calls the instance they come in. And don't even think answering machines are an option: when people call you, they expect to be answered immeidately, and having to leave a message is a pure annoyance. With e-mail there is no such expectation, so it's more relaxing for both parties involved.
My XP box already knows how mad I am at it.
That's a fitting number ... 69% of adults use the Internet. It's also indicative of what those adults use the internet for.