Thats a very good idea of how to do a very bad idea, but it also raises the spector of all the communications infrastructure that would entail, and the possibility of that data being stolen in transit. Much more difficult, but phishers are a determined bunch. It took all of an hour after my MC card was merged into the BOA monster before I got the first of several hundred phishing attempts from what looks like a BOA site. Yeah, sure, and pigs fly too. Taking off and landing on that ice covered strip in hell.
My previous experience with BOA was very distastefull and costly at a time in my life when I didn't have 100 dollar bills to play with. Not wanting to repeat that performance, by ATM/credit card from my bank (not BOA related) is now getting the use the MC card formerly got.
How long would it take for some 3 letter agency to show up at their door in the US?
Blow it. First they'd have to prove you did it, and pray tell, if the thing is a perfect clone, then by definition there is not going to be a way thats 100% certifiably accurate to tell them apart. You will be 100% at the mercy of the justice system, and it has amply proved many times that it doesn't have a clue, and couldn't buy one if the money was appropriated for it.
I predict the first 100 cases that lead to an arrest, they will get the wrong person 99% of the time because he's the one identified by the cloned passport. If they have the cloned passport, and the real person still has his, some judge might get it but it'll be dicey. The innocent will still be out his life savings for attorneys fees.
This whole fscking RFID thingy was a product looking for a market and the proponents don't give a shit who they kill to get that marketshare. Its been a classic case of if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bull shit. And so far all we're getting is bull shit because the dummies that authorize this crap believe the sales brochures are the word of God Almighty. I have a phrase I apply to such people and its not printable in mixed company.
If they handed me one of those things, I'd probably take a hammer to the chip just to make sure it didn't work. There is enough crap on the back of my drivers license, but at least its not copyable without me handing it to them as its a highly compacted barcode.
Mod the parent up, this person gets it. Having studied on the "Founding Fathers" off and on for the last 65+ years, I am absolutely amazed at the miss-interpretation that has been given force of law over the last 100 years, rendering our original Republic an ever more tyranical place to live. Boggles the mind. Only when one recalls Ben's reply about a "Democracy being a very bad form of government, but all the others are so much worse" does it come into a clearer focus. Unforch, the space between is being narrowed inexorably. By lowering democracy toward the "so much worse" category. At some point, the last box (ammo) Ed Howdershelt wrote about in his famous saying about the boxes (soap, ballot, jury, & ammo)to defend liberty, will be opened and used. I believe it was Jefferson who said relative to the tree of liberty needing refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants from time to time, adding "Lord help us if we go 20 years without it". Its been about 40 now since the race riots were a pandemic. Read into that what you will, I'm too old & tired to argue with anyone who hasn't read his history.
Do you have a problem with having to get a license for it?
Yes I do. Why? Because so many places that do allow for that, have such a myoptic approach as to who can and who can't, have a permit. It got so onerous in a couple of counties here in WV in the past that the legislature passed a law many years ago that basicly states that if the applicant is not a known felon, then the permit to carry MUST be issued. This is regardless of the other rights given the county sheriff that make him the supreme law of the county he was elected to serve, for a maximum of 2, 4 year terms. That also serves to help prevent the sheriff from setting up his own self-perpetuating kingdom.
They ran the every 5 year renewal fee up a bit, maybe to discourage those that don't have a 100 dollar bill & change just laying around, but thats it. I don't know if the program is self-supporting, probably not.
Just such an attitude vis-a-vis the Bill of Rights is one of the more important reasons I settled in WV 20 some years ago with full intentions of being buried here when my time is up.
BTW, you'll find my permit in my billfold IF you can get past Betsy to access it, or you are an on-duty, in uniform law officer. I'll let you fill in the blanks as to what Betsy is.
I'd rather we entrap the executive in a clamshell.
Ok, we can provide an airhole if you insist.
Humm, seems to me there would be a certain level of poetic justice if the shell was big enough for say 20 minutes worth of air, but any air holes would have to be created by whatever said executive had in his pockets at the time. As would his eventual exit from said shell. I suspect he would get out, particularly if he can attract the attention of other office workers nearby. I would also expect that the experience would instantly stop his companies use of that type of packaging.
I've gotten like some others, and have taken to going to the shop and getting my tin-snips to open the things as I have managed to gash myself on several occasions while opening those things with the usual pocket knife, and I keep them razor sharp. I've cut myself on the cut edge of the plastic more often than the knife though. Yeah, generally I'll heal, but when you are in your 70's, and have a bit of sugar, a week for you kids to heal becomes 6 weeks for me. I don't need it any more than you do.
Yeah, the more I think of that idea, the better I like it...
First, I didn't father those children, I just tried to be one to them. Second, thats the damndest bunch of circular logic I've ever heard. Third, since you obviously haven't been there and done that, I'd suggest that STFU is the next step. PLONK!
And now your kid is born with a gene that means they're 80% likely to die from some horrible disease by the age of 30. If I were that kid, I would be pissed at my parents for not choosing the screening option.
Sorry, I can't agree with that last statement, having been a step-parent to 2 of "Jerry's" kids for 17 years. Regardless of the physical problems and the fact that one has already died at age 34 of MMD, they were, and are glad to be alive. So don't try to put words in a hypothetical childs mouth, thats not what comes out when they make their wishes known.
Humm, do I detect a faint case of the pot calling the kettle black here?
Seriously, far more of my spelling mistakes are uncorrected typo's and until I got the touchpad on this lappy turned off tonight, from miss-fires of that POS.
To get back on topic, I think as their mapping techniques improve, they are going to find a hell of a lot more than todays quoted 12-15% differences. Many of those will be indicators of a disease, or a precursor marker for one. However, it still scares me that there will inevitably be those who would take upon themselves to improve on man by selectively erasing those genes known to be deleterious. Thats playing God, and God has had many tens of millions of years to both record history in these genes and to figure out what works over time scales these Johnny come lately's cannot begin to appreciate. For instance, fixing the sickle-cell problem in blacks: That gives an immunity to malaria that I as a caucasian don't have, and its entirely possible that if the sickle-cell problem was fixed, and 300 years elapsed so that the majority of the blacks were of the fixed lineage, then along comes a new variety of malaria, wipeing out 99% of them in one swell foop.
Lets not allow them to go down that slippery slope, I do not see it as being good for "man" over geological time spans. And I hope that we do not invent something that winds up sterilizing this puny little planet, but there are those who would gleefully do it. And we *think* we know who they are. But as Pogo said, we have met the enemy, and he IS us...
Even more outside the box, is antimatter affected by gravity? If you throw a positron (the antiparticle of an electron) into an electric field it will behave oppositely to an electron. Logically, if you throw any particle with antimatter into a gravitational field it will behave oppositely to conventional matter.
Somehow I have my doubts about that because that would imply a negative mass too would it not? Given this assumption though, then there is only one speed that antimatter would be traveling at, 100% of C speed. AFAIK, they weigh the same, not a -1 lb for a "pound" of antimatter. Of course we've never had a pound of it, a few micrograms at best.
But here's a WAT (Wild Assed Theory) for you:
We all know that like charges repel each other, just as the same poles on a magnet repel the next magnet when oriented so the like poles are adjacent.
What it there were a similar repulsion force between matter and matter and between antimatter and antimatter? Thats to preserve the simitry(sp) of course. BUT, since the universe we see is apparently 99.9999% (or more) matter, could it be that like is repeling like with enough push to match Einstiens "cosmological constant".
Building the detector for such a measurement might be interesting. Or has it already been done and the results say that I'm full of it?
Food for thought on an otherwise boring evening, except for the google video by Mr. Bassard, target of another post this evening. Now thats interesting as all get out to this old fart.
IBM also has one of the largest patent portfolios ever assembled. Right now, somewhere in Redmond, a Microsoft programmer is infringing on IBM patents. If MS wants to play rough, IBM will play rough. Here's a couple articles on IBM, open source, and patents
Well, I must say that I fully expected this particular turn of events. But I do have to admire the size of the balls they have in throwing down the gauntlet and showing their true colors so quickly. I figured they'd let it cool and the smell go away for at least a couple months, just to put us off our guard.
Question is, how many suse developers will be jumping off that bandwagon since IMO its plainly out of control & headed for a deadly crash? They may have been queasy about the suse/novell relationship, but in their shoes I'd positively have a bad case of diarrhea now. Or be scared shitless as the case may be.
Ladies and gentlemen, we MUST vote today in a manner that sends a message that cannot be miss-understood, we want our country back in the hands of the people, not ruled by corporate interests. Throw the bums out and lets see if new blood can't stem the tide of corporate control of our every facet of living.
Verizon has, IMNSHO, lost their common carrier status when they implemented a spam filter thats very prone to errors on the safe side, and is not bypassable without changeing your address string for all the mailing lists and friends that may want to contact me.
Classic example: I've tried to register for a goodly number of voip providers, all of which require that you reply to a message sent to your address. Out of about 10 attempts, a total of none of those messages have ever made it to my inbox, presumably filtered out as spam/undesirable traffic by verizon.
Of course its undesirable traffic for verizon since they want to preserve their landline income at all costs. Therefore the only voip service that I can use is skype, which was free of that particular PITA at the time I setup an account there.
They'll deny it if you call the tech support nums of course. But, the fact that they are doing it was only discovered by accident when my then 20 meg allocation for mail was filled up, with the spam they'd thoughtfully sorted to a different folder, and which my fetchmail suck wasn't checking. So I went to the webmail page and looked at some of it, to find that half of a mailing list I'm on was in there just because it came from a european address. I raised all kinds of hell, escalating the call 3 times before I got to someone who could fix that and did. In the meantime I had to delete each message by hand, twice, once from that directory, then once from the trash dir they keep for just in case you change your mind. That in itself is BS, if I want it deleted, by God I want it deleted without 2 more 'are you sure' things to click on. Fortunately, they do have an auto delete option you can set, but contrary to what they claim, they CAN unset it and have done so without adviseing me twice so far.
Unforch, there is no workable way to opt out of this service without changeing your online address from @verizon.net to @verizononline.net, something I'm reluctant to do, and damndably difficult to keep straight in my email agent, kmail.
So any mention of verizon and common carrier in the same conversation is an oxymoron AFAIAK.
As for spam filtering, I find spamassassin does a great job.
Yeah, I'd like to be a mouse in the corner when the FTC tries to collect. The FTC needs the authority to add another mill a day for every day they drag their feet writing the check IMNSHO. Or the legal ability to audit, and THEN set the fine at about 100k more per person in a responsible position within the company than they have in assets so the CEO's of such questionable operations lose their beemers and boats, maybe even their houses at sheriffs sale.
Seems only fair to me anyway. The only way to take the crime away from society is to make it a losing proposition at the end of the day, with some jail time if theres no assets to pay the fine with by the time it gets down to that.
Jeff Schilling only getting 24+ years for all the billions he helped bilk out of his investors is a classic case of a gross miss-carriage of justice. I think a few public burnings at the stake would clean things up a hell of a lot faster in corporate america. He likely won't serve anywhere near that 24 years as they'll release him for humanitarian reasons related to old age long before that. Bet the farm on it, then go vote the incumbents out of office tuesday, every one of them thats on the ballot and has an opponent, vote for the opponent even if he's not in your favorite party. We have got to shake them up, send a message, whatever it takes to reclaim our country.
I doubt that very much. A transistor with 100 microseconds switching speed is at least an order of magnitude slower than the original ck722 transistor from the early 1950's.
Doesn't anybody ever actually read these links? Oh wait, this is/.
Ouch! I think I'd have wanted to strangle the IT guy for that lack of attention to detail. But, OTOH, amanda could have saved the day too. Go see http://www.amanda.org/, I do a small amount of support on their mailing list, the simpler stuff that I can answer. And I run it here at home. I also wrote some wrapper scripts for it that make sure the indices and configs in use that made that tape, are also on that tape, so a bare metal recovery can be done. And this is something that you can do if your machine has room for another large, but not fast drive. They last longer, seems like the 7200 rpm models are the best at that, the 5400's are too cheap.. Amanda can use a virtual tape, a directory on a hard drive, and I have a 200GB with 180GB of it setup as 21 virtual tapes here. So my 3 machines are fairly well covered since I also rsync the important stuff nightly before amanda runs. People who visit usually ask whats that blue cable strung overhead from the house to my little shop building. Its a piece of cat5, been hanging out in the weather now for 3 years. It runs to the box that runs my milling machine when I've got time to carve parts with it.
Anyway, hopefully reinventing what you lost won't take as long because you'll remember how you did it the first time. Good luck.
The Amost-Retired handle comes from my situation, I've retired now, I was the CE at WDTV, http://www.wdtv.com/, since 1984, but locally I'm regarded somewhat as a Grand Master, so I still get sent here and there to 'put out fires' because they know it will get done. But I'm also tiring of that scene since I'll be 72 next week. I haven't caught up on my fishing yet either, and I have it on good authority that God doesn't count the time you spend fishing against your alloted time here.:-) With good weather, I'll be on the water again today for a few hours. That might mean there won't be any real progress on a room remodeling we're in the middle of (honeydo's, you've heard of them), but that will either get done or I'll fall over (shrug). It would be a lot easier done, but there should be a law that says 2 packrats can't marry. We need to have a 3 month long yard sale, and goto the dump with what don't sell. Its amazing the amount of stuff 2 people can get attached to.
Chuckle, that, at the end of the day, is Dells problem, and if they want to be screwed by M$ on a daily basis, then I'd imagine a class action lawsuit might chnage their mind. Dell has a long history of promising linux support, and everytime Michael opens his nouth, he gets a call from BG and thats the end of that.
Thats just one of the reasons I'd never buy a Dell. I thought I was somewhat insulated from that since HP is involved to a certain extent with linux, but apparently they never told the sales dweebs at Circuit City. The service guys at CC are an entirely different kettle of fish, they seem to understand.
BTW, I went thru the battery ID thingy on my HP dv5120us, and that battery is not part of the recall.
"What? Exploding laptop and you're running linux? Oh, we don't cover that."
Sorry, but I believe HP has a trademark on that phrase, as I was so exquisitly told by the circuit city folks when I indicated that the HP5320dv I'd just bought would probably have linux on it in less than 48 hours. I picked up the warranty form and said, well, I just guess the lawyers will have to sort that out now won't we? It did get FC5 installed as soon as I could make backups to dvd's, and works great with FC5 on it except for the broadcom radio in it.
In any event, this, because its Alan Cox's machine, may well be the most famous blowup yet.
I don't know what type of battery is in my HP, but its been very well behaved so far. That knocking sound? Thats me, knocking on the wood of the tabletop here.:-)
Ya know, this hovering idea sounds ok at first, but if cavity motion causes a huge loss in energy, would sideways motion also qualify?
The whole idea violates the laws of conservation of motion to me. Tapering the cavity will, if the taper results in a reduced bandwidth, result in a change in the apparent velocity of the wave using the identical mechanism that any designer of decent filters knows about regardless of the formula, even up to chebychev stuff, as signals near the edges of the bandpass always propagate thru the filter slower than signals near the center of its bandpass. We call it group delay and it can exceed 200 nanoseconds in a tv transmitter.
But I still come back to the fact that any vector thrust he gets from the endwalls is going to be exactly nullified by the vector thrust on the sidewalls as they taper toward the small end. Viewed from either end, the total wall area is the same, its just that the small end has this ring of high angle material around it to bring it up to the big ends size.
Relativity claims in such a situation are largely gobbledygook, designed to suck in the investor IMO. In any man made cavity that I'm aware of, pv is going to be enough lower than c speed that relativistic effects are minor. And I do know a bit about cavities and microwaves, I'm a broadcast engineer. One with a bit of knowledge of relativistic electron behaviour and the problems it causes in uhf transmission systems that use electron beam velocity modulation as the amplifying mechanism.
Its entirely possible about the child keeping quiet. And straight to jail for the father sent the girl a message, but I'm not sure what the message was. Could have been a demo on seeing how easy it was to get somebody you don't like killed.
OTOH, the weapon of choice that I heard about on a couple of occasions was a handy piece of firewood. Basicly used as an attention getter. It usually worked fairly well.
Possibly -- except that the social interaction is very different when a child plays almost exclusively with electronics. Physical activity is also important to one's health, and establishing a habit of exercise in a child bodes well for their future physical condition and health.
I couldn't agree with you more. The lack of exersize for anything but the fingers is at least partly responsible for the current generation of young adults that are 100 lbs overweight. At some point, there has to be a balance, and that balance will be achieved thru shorter lifespans and poorer overall health.
Yes, things are a bit different now compared to my pre-teen days, when I could, alone, get on the streetcar and go clear across Des Moines IA to go see my fraternal grandparents for an afternoon, and to get back on it near dinnertime and come home. Now, somebody would call the law & welfare would be on the scene before supper... And a fraction of a percent of such free-ranging children today would wind up molested. But back then, in the '40's, molesters didn't often make it to court, so there was less of it I believe. The childs father saw to that, and more than likely it was judged self-defense or justifiable.
Now, the law does little or nothing except prosecute that rightious parent. The end result is the kids are kept away from the potentially harmfull situations by restricting them to the house and handing them the newest video games yadda yadda. Me? I'd a hell of a lot better like to see them setting up jump ramps for their bicycles on a vacant lot, occasionally picking up a busted collarbone or such, along with the inevitable road rash. It'll heal with a bandaid and some triple-antibiotic salve. They'll understand the physical world a heck of a lot better when they've experienced the laws of nature up close and "damn that hurts" personal when they try to violate them, something they'll only visualize without comprehension about the hurt when they can take a video gun and blow the "bad" guys away by the hundreds in an afternoon of video gaming. And we wonder what makes somebody "go postal" & blow away their co-workers in wholesale numbers.
It took me 30 years to start getting overweight, I carried it for 40, and now its taking 10 to get rid of it. If I live that 10 years. But I went out and played in the summers, or worked the fields in season in my teens, something thats completely beyond the pale for todays kids that don't actually live on a farm.
Just one old farts opinion of course, take it for what its worth.
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Thats a very good idea of how to do a very bad idea, but it also raises the spector of all the communications infrastructure that would entail, and the possibility of that data being stolen in transit. Much more difficult, but phishers are a determined bunch. It took all of an hour after my MC card was merged into the BOA monster before I got the first of several hundred phishing attempts from what looks like a BOA site. Yeah, sure, and pigs fly too. Taking off and landing on that ice covered strip in hell.
My previous experience with BOA was very distastefull and costly at a time in my life when I didn't have 100 dollar bills to play with. Not wanting to repeat that performance, by ATM/credit card from my bank (not BOA related) is now getting the use the MC card formerly got.
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I have one of those too (microwave, does a bag of Orvills finest in 2 minutes).
Its still all bull shit IMNSHO. Because from the rfid's output, the passport itself can be forged.
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How long would it take for some 3 letter agency to show up at their door in the US?
Blow it. First they'd have to prove you did it, and pray tell, if the thing is a perfect clone, then by definition there is not going to be a way thats 100% certifiably accurate to tell them apart. You will be 100% at the mercy of the justice system, and it has amply proved many times that it doesn't have a clue, and couldn't buy one if the money was appropriated for it.
I predict the first 100 cases that lead to an arrest, they will get the wrong person 99% of the time because he's the one identified by the cloned passport. If they have the cloned passport, and the real person still has his, some judge might get it but it'll be dicey. The innocent will still be out his life savings for attorneys fees.
This whole fscking RFID thingy was a product looking for a market and the proponents don't give a shit who they kill to get that marketshare. Its been a classic case of if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bull shit. And so far all we're getting is bull shit because the dummies that authorize this crap believe the sales brochures are the word of God Almighty. I have a phrase I apply to such people and its not printable in mixed company.
If they handed me one of those things, I'd probably take a hammer to the chip just to make sure it didn't work. There is enough crap on the back of my drivers license, but at least its not copyable without me handing it to them as its a highly compacted barcode.
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Yes it does, on both counts. That I have no problem with, its the non-uniform application I have a problem with.
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Mod the parent up, this person gets it. Having studied on the "Founding Fathers" off and on for the last 65+ years, I am absolutely amazed at the miss-interpretation that has been given force of law over the last 100 years, rendering our original Republic an ever more tyranical place to live. Boggles the mind. Only when one recalls Ben's reply about a "Democracy being a very bad form of government, but all the others are so much worse" does it come into a clearer focus. Unforch, the space between is being narrowed inexorably. By lowering democracy toward the "so much worse" category. At some point, the last box (ammo) Ed Howdershelt wrote about in his famous saying about the boxes (soap, ballot, jury, & ammo)to defend liberty, will be opened and used. I believe it was Jefferson who said relative to the tree of liberty needing refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants from time to time, adding "Lord help us if we go 20 years without it". Its been about 40 now since the race riots were a pandemic. Read into that what you will, I'm too old & tired to argue with anyone who hasn't read his history.
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Do you have a problem with having to get a license for it?
Yes I do. Why? Because so many places that do allow for that, have such a myoptic approach as to who can and who can't, have a permit. It got so onerous in a couple of counties here in WV in the past that the legislature passed a law many years ago that basicly states that if the applicant is not a known felon, then the permit to carry MUST be issued. This is regardless of the other rights given the county sheriff that make him the supreme law of the county he was elected to serve, for a maximum of 2, 4 year terms. That also serves to help prevent the sheriff from setting up his own self-perpetuating kingdom.
They ran the every 5 year renewal fee up a bit, maybe to discourage those that don't have a 100 dollar bill & change just laying around, but thats it. I don't know if the program is self-supporting, probably not.
Just such an attitude vis-a-vis the Bill of Rights is one of the more important reasons I settled in WV 20 some years ago with full intentions of being buried here when my time is up.
BTW, you'll find my permit in my billfold IF you can get past Betsy to access it, or you are an on-duty, in uniform law officer. I'll let you fill in the blanks as to what Betsy is.
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I'd rather we entrap the executive in a clamshell.
Ok, we can provide an airhole if you insist.
Humm, seems to me there would be a certain level of poetic justice if the shell was big enough for say 20 minutes worth of air, but any air holes would have to be created by whatever said executive had in his pockets at the time. As would his eventual exit from said shell. I suspect he would get out, particularly if he can attract the attention of other office workers nearby. I would also expect that the experience would instantly stop his companies use of that type of packaging.
I've gotten like some others, and have taken to going to the shop and getting my tin-snips to open the things as I have managed to gash myself on several occasions while opening those things with the usual pocket knife, and I keep them razor sharp. I've cut myself on the cut edge of the plastic more often than the knife though. Yeah, generally I'll heal, but when you are in your 70's, and have a bit of sugar, a week for you kids to heal becomes 6 weeks for me. I don't need it any more than you do.
Yeah, the more I think of that idea, the better I like it...
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First, I didn't father those children, I just tried to be one to them.
Second, thats the damndest bunch of circular logic I've ever heard.
Third, since you obviously haven't been there and done that, I'd suggest that STFU is the next step. PLONK!
And now your kid is born with a gene that means they're 80% likely to die from some horrible disease by the age of 30. If I were that kid, I would be pissed at my parents for not choosing the screening option.
Sorry, I can't agree with that last statement, having been a step-parent to 2 of "Jerry's" kids for 17 years. Regardless of the physical problems and the fact that one has already died at age 34 of MMD, they were, and are glad to be alive. So don't try to put words in a hypothetical childs mouth, thats not what comes out when they make their wishes known.
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Humm, do I detect a faint case of the pot calling the kettle black here?
Seriously, far more of my spelling mistakes are uncorrected typo's and until I got the touchpad on this lappy turned off tonight, from miss-fires of that POS.
To get back on topic, I think as their mapping techniques improve, they are going to find a hell of a lot more than todays quoted 12-15% differences. Many of those will be indicators of a disease, or a precursor marker for one. However, it still scares me that there will inevitably be those who would take upon themselves to improve on man by selectively erasing those genes known to be deleterious. Thats playing God, and God has had many tens of millions of years to both record history in these genes and to figure out what works over time scales these Johnny come lately's cannot begin to appreciate. For instance, fixing the sickle-cell problem in blacks: That gives an immunity to malaria that I as a caucasian don't have, and its entirely possible that if the sickle-cell problem was fixed, and 300 years elapsed so that the majority of the blacks were of the fixed lineage, then along comes a new variety of malaria, wipeing out 99% of them in one swell foop.
Lets not allow them to go down that slippery slope, I do not see it as being good for "man" over geological time spans. And I hope that we do not invent something that winds up sterilizing this puny little planet, but there are those who would gleefully do it. And we *think* we know who they are. But as Pogo said, we have met the enemy, and he IS us...
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I didn't see any of that crap, but then while the videos went thru the motions of loading, they didn't play.
Maybe thats a firefox advantage?
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Even more outside the box, is antimatter affected by gravity? If you throw a positron (the antiparticle of an electron) into an electric field it will behave oppositely to an electron. Logically, if you throw any particle with antimatter into a gravitational field it will behave oppositely to conventional matter.
Somehow I have my doubts about that because that would imply a negative mass too would it not? Given this assumption though, then there is only one speed that antimatter would be traveling at, 100% of C speed. AFAIK, they weigh the same, not a -1 lb for a "pound" of antimatter. Of course we've never had a pound of it, a few micrograms at best.
But here's a WAT (Wild Assed Theory) for you:
We all know that like charges repel each other, just as the same poles on a magnet repel the next magnet when oriented so the like poles are adjacent.
What it there were a similar repulsion force between matter and matter and between antimatter and antimatter? Thats to preserve the simitry(sp) of course. BUT, since the universe we see is apparently 99.9999% (or more) matter, could it be that like is repeling like with enough push to match Einstiens "cosmological constant".
Building the detector for such a measurement might be interesting. Or has it already been done and the results say that I'm full of it?
Food for thought on an otherwise boring evening, except for the google video by Mr. Bassard, target of another post this evening. Now thats interesting as all get out to this old fart.
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IBM also has one of the largest patent portfolios ever assembled. Right now, somewhere in Redmond, a Microsoft programmer is infringing on IBM patents. If MS wants to play rough, IBM will play rough. Here's a couple articles on IBM, open source, and patents
Well, I must say that I fully expected this particular turn of events. But I do have to admire the size of the balls they have in throwing down the gauntlet and showing their true colors so quickly. I figured they'd let it cool and the smell go away for at least a couple months, just to put us off our guard.
Question is, how many suse developers will be jumping off that bandwagon since IMO its plainly out of control & headed for a deadly crash? They may have been queasy about the suse/novell relationship, but in their shoes I'd positively have a bad case of diarrhea now. Or be scared shitless as the case may be.
Ladies and gentlemen, we MUST vote today in a manner that sends a message that cannot be miss-understood, we want our country back in the hands of the people, not ruled by corporate interests. Throw the bums out and lets see if new blood can't stem the tide of corporate control of our every facet of living.
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Verizon has, IMNSHO, lost their common carrier status when they implemented a spam filter thats very prone to errors on the safe side, and is not bypassable without changeing your address string for all the mailing lists and friends that may want to contact me.
Classic example: I've tried to register for a goodly number of voip providers, all of which require that you reply to a message sent to your address. Out of about 10 attempts, a total of none of those messages have ever made it to my inbox, presumably filtered out as spam/undesirable traffic by verizon.
Of course its undesirable traffic for verizon since they want to preserve their landline income at all costs. Therefore the only voip service that I can use is skype, which was free of that particular PITA at the time I setup an account there.
They'll deny it if you call the tech support nums of course. But, the fact that they are doing it was only discovered by accident when my then 20 meg allocation for mail was filled up, with the spam they'd thoughtfully sorted to a different folder, and which my fetchmail suck wasn't checking. So I went to the webmail page and looked at some of it, to find that half of a mailing list I'm on was in there just because it came from a european address. I raised all kinds of hell, escalating the call 3 times before I got to someone who could fix that and did. In the meantime I had to delete each message by hand, twice, once from that directory, then once from the trash dir they keep for just in case you change your mind. That in itself is BS, if I want it deleted, by God I want it deleted without 2 more 'are you sure' things to click on. Fortunately, they do have an auto delete option you can set, but contrary to what they claim, they CAN unset it and have done so without adviseing me twice so far.
Unforch, there is no workable way to opt out of this service without changeing your online address from @verizon.net to @verizononline.net, something I'm reluctant to do, and damndably difficult to keep straight in my email agent, kmail.
So any mention of verizon and common carrier in the same conversation is an oxymoron AFAIAK.
As for spam filtering, I find spamassassin does a great job.
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6: It's hard to collect, even if you win!
Yeah, I'd like to be a mouse in the corner when the FTC tries to collect. The FTC needs the authority to add another mill a day for every day they drag their feet writing the check IMNSHO. Or the legal ability to audit, and THEN set the fine at about 100k more per person in a responsible position within the company than they have in assets so the CEO's of such questionable operations lose their beemers and boats, maybe even their houses at sheriffs sale.
Seems only fair to me anyway. The only way to take the crime away from society is to make it a losing proposition at the end of the day, with some jail time if theres no assets to pay the fine with by the time it gets down to that.
Jeff Schilling only getting 24+ years for all the billions he helped bilk out of his investors is a classic case of a gross miss-carriage of justice. I think a few public burnings at the stake would clean things up a hell of a lot faster in corporate america. He likely won't serve anywhere near that 24 years as they'll release him for humanitarian reasons related to old age long before that. Bet the farm on it, then go vote the incumbents out of office tuesday, every one of them thats on the ballot and has an opponent, vote for the opponent even if he's not in your favorite party. We have got to shake them up, send a message, whatever it takes to reclaim our country.
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I doubt that very much. A transistor with 100 microseconds switching speed is at least an order of magnitude slower than the original ck722 transistor from the early 1950's.
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Doesn't anybody ever actually read these links? Oh wait, this is
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Ouch! I think I'd have wanted to strangle the IT guy for that lack of attention to detail. But, OTOH, amanda could have saved the day too. Go see http://www.amanda.org/, I do a small amount of support on their mailing list, the simpler stuff that I can answer. And I run it here at home. I also wrote some wrapper scripts for it that make sure the indices and configs in use that made that tape, are also on that tape, so a bare metal recovery can be done. And this is something that you can do if your machine has room for another large, but not fast drive. They last longer, seems like the 7200 rpm models are the best at that, the 5400's are too cheap.. Amanda can use a virtual tape, a directory on a hard drive, and I have a 200GB with 180GB of it setup as 21 virtual tapes here. So my 3 machines are fairly well covered since I also rsync the important stuff nightly before amanda runs. People who visit usually ask whats that blue cable strung overhead from the house to my little shop building. Its a piece of cat5, been hanging out in the weather now for 3 years. It runs to the box that runs my milling machine when I've got time to carve parts with it.
:-) With good weather, I'll be on the water again today for a few hours. That might mean there won't be any real progress on a room remodeling we're in the middle of (honeydo's, you've heard of them), but that will either get done or I'll fall over (shrug). It would be a lot easier done, but there should be a law that says 2 packrats can't marry. We need to have a 3 month long yard sale, and goto the dump with what don't sell. Its amazing the amount of stuff 2 people can get attached to.
Anyway, hopefully reinventing what you lost won't take as long because you'll remember how you did it the first time. Good luck.
The Amost-Retired handle comes from my situation, I've retired now, I was the CE at WDTV, http://www.wdtv.com/, since 1984, but locally I'm regarded somewhat as a Grand Master, so I still get sent here and there to 'put out fires' because they know it will get done. But I'm also tiring of that scene since I'll be 72 next week. I haven't caught up on my fishing yet either, and I have it on good authority that God doesn't count the time you spend fishing against your alloted time here.
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Chuckle, that, at the end of the day, is Dells problem, and if they want to be screwed by M$ on a daily basis, then I'd imagine a class action lawsuit might chnage their mind. Dell has a long history of promising linux support, and everytime Michael opens his nouth, he gets a call from BG and thats the end of that.
Thats just one of the reasons I'd never buy a Dell. I thought I was somewhat insulated from that since HP is involved to a certain extent with linux, but apparently they never told the sales dweebs at Circuit City. The service guys at CC are an entirely different kettle of fish, they seem to understand.
BTW, I went thru the battery ID thingy on my HP dv5120us, and that battery is not part of the recall.
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I'm running 32 bit linux on it, with ndiswrapper, and thats working very well when setup by hand. NM is of course a joke.
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Thanks, discharge proceedure started now.
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"What? Exploding laptop and you're running linux? Oh, we don't cover that."
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Sorry, but I believe HP has a trademark on that phrase, as I was so exquisitly told by the circuit city folks when I indicated that the HP5320dv I'd just bought would probably have linux on it in less than 48 hours. I picked up the warranty form and said, well, I just guess the lawyers will have to sort that out now won't we? It did get FC5 installed as soon as I could make backups to dvd's, and works great with FC5 on it except for the broadcom radio in it.
In any event, this, because its Alan Cox's machine, may well be the most famous blowup yet.
I don't know what type of battery is in my HP, but its been very well behaved so far. That knocking sound? Thats me, knocking on the wood of the tabletop here.
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Ya know, this hovering idea sounds ok at first, but if cavity motion causes a huge loss in energy, would sideways motion also qualify?
The whole idea violates the laws of conservation of motion to me. Tapering the cavity will, if the taper results in a reduced bandwidth, result in a change in the apparent velocity of the wave using the identical mechanism that any designer of decent filters knows about regardless of the formula, even up to chebychev stuff, as signals near the edges of the bandpass always propagate thru the filter slower than signals near the center of its bandpass. We call it group delay and it can exceed 200 nanoseconds in a tv transmitter.
But I still come back to the fact that any vector thrust he gets from the endwalls is going to be exactly nullified by the vector thrust on the sidewalls as they taper toward the small end. Viewed from either end, the total wall area is the same, its just that the small end has this ring of high angle material around it to bring it up to the big ends size.
Relativity claims in such a situation are largely gobbledygook, designed to suck in the investor IMO. In any man made cavity that I'm aware of, pv is going to be enough lower than c speed that relativistic effects are minor. And I do know a bit about cavities and microwaves, I'm a broadcast engineer. One with a bit of knowledge of relativistic electron behaviour and the problems it causes in uhf transmission systems that use electron beam velocity modulation as the amplifying mechanism.
So this to me is all humbug.
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Its entirely possible about the child keeping quiet. And straight to jail for the father sent the girl a message, but I'm not sure what the message was. Could have been a demo on seeing how easy it was to get somebody you don't like killed.
OTOH, the weapon of choice that I heard about on a couple of occasions was a handy piece of firewood. Basicly used as an attention getter. It usually worked fairly well.
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Possibly -- except that the social interaction is very different when a child plays almost exclusively with electronics. Physical activity is also important to one's health, and establishing a habit of exercise in a child bodes well for their future physical condition and health.
I couldn't agree with you more. The lack of exersize for anything but the fingers is at least partly responsible for the current generation of young adults that are 100 lbs overweight. At some point, there has to be a balance, and that balance will be achieved thru shorter lifespans and poorer overall health.
Yes, things are a bit different now compared to my pre-teen days, when I could, alone, get on the streetcar and go clear across Des Moines IA to go see my fraternal grandparents for an afternoon, and to get back on it near dinnertime and come home. Now, somebody would call the law & welfare would be on the scene before supper... And a fraction of a percent of such free-ranging children today would wind up molested. But back then, in the '40's, molesters didn't often make it to court, so there was less of it I believe. The childs father saw to that, and more than likely it was judged self-defense or justifiable.
Now, the law does little or nothing except prosecute that rightious parent. The end result is the kids are kept away from the potentially harmfull situations by restricting them to the house and handing them the newest video games yadda yadda. Me? I'd a hell of a lot better like to see them setting up jump ramps for their bicycles on a vacant lot, occasionally picking up a busted collarbone or such, along with the inevitable road rash. It'll heal with a bandaid and some triple-antibiotic salve. They'll understand the physical world a heck of a lot better when they've experienced the laws of nature up close and "damn that hurts" personal when they try to violate them, something they'll only visualize without comprehension about the hurt when they can take a video gun and blow the "bad" guys away by the hundreds in an afternoon of video gaming. And we wonder what makes somebody "go postal" & blow away their co-workers in wholesale numbers.
It took me 30 years to start getting overweight, I carried it for 40, and now its taking 10 to get rid of it. If I live that 10 years. But I went out and played in the summers, or worked the fields in season in my teens, something thats completely beyond the pale for todays kids that don't actually live on a farm.
Just one old farts opinion of course, take it for what its worth.
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ROTFLMAO!
And thats the best I can do for sitting here with an ear to ear grin, guffawing/chuckling for anyone to hear that wants to.
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