> As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, > the proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely > non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially > if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior."
There already is such a chemical, it is called "community theater".
Zinc/aluminum alloy is ubiquitous, it is more commonly known as "pot metal" and obviously this new technology will be cheap to implement because they are going to make the batteries out of ground up broken Hot Wheels cars of which there are approximately ten million in my son's room alone.
"Most of my clients are elderly...They are also very pleasant to work with since they are talkative and apt to listen to your sensible advice. They sit with me while I do repairs and are genuinely interested in what I'm doing, how I learned it, and how they can avoid the same troubles in the future."
I don't believe you do PC support. Having some old goober stand behind you, leaning on your chair, jabbing at the screen and bleating "what's wrong with it?" and "what are you doing now?" is the single most irritating event real tech support dweebs can encounter. Nobody in any other industry would consider putting up with it for even a few moments. You are some sort of sock puppet.
"The problem is that many advocates of these systems say that any flaws will get sorted out automatically by "the market" -- and in this case I think that is simply wrong. And in fact the people on Thursday's panel can't really believe it either, because one thing we all agreed on was that Bonded Sender sucks. But has the marketplace punished Hotmail for using it? Have people left in droves because non-Bonded-Sender e-mail gets blocked? No, because if they never see it getting blocked they don't know what happens. Free markets only solve problems that are actually visible to the user."
You just described the whole SMTP protocol, not just the Blue Ribbon Guaranteed Revenue gimmick. The crazy crazy free market has not saved us from SMTP either, although SMTP is indefensibly stupid and silently loses mail, people should abandon it wholesale, but they haven't so WE NEED PEACEFIRE! Bennett GET YOUR CAPE AND PHONE BOOTH immediately! Into the breech go ye!
It would not be hard to generate VR walkthroughs using the photographs described in the article. There has been sw for a long time that can interpolate a VR walkthrough from a flat photograph (an object panorama is when you move around a VR object, ala a model of a car, rather than having the panorama move around you, ala being in a room; a walkthrough combines both).
For instance there was an astonishing product called Canoma, which existed only for Macintosh and was bought by Adobe; Canoma could generate incredible object models given nothing but an outline of a building's profile.
There are others now that are even better but I don't know the names, they're primarily used for biomedical modeling. Some can generate object models from slices (it can be important in research to generate a 3D model of, say, features of a mouse brain from slices of the brain. In this case you're interpolating a 3D model from various 1D slices of an object). Some generate wire basket models from flat photographs.
Anyway, it would not be difficult to generate neighborhood walkthroughs/flyovers using photographs from street and aerial. More interesting, it probably woulnd't be hard to generate them dynamically as requested page views. If somebody takes all the photographs first.
Can I report a blatant violation if my mailserver is in the US despite the fact I'm in the UK?
There is no procedure for reporting anything whether you're in the US or not.
CAN-SPAM does not forbid or outlaw spamming. Instead, it specifically allows and legitimizes it. Are you new?
It does not matter if they're sending to addresses that are scraped or guessed or nonexistent.
As long as they don't forge routing information in the headers, and they provide some pretense of an opt-out mechanism, it's legal, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
And if it's illegal there is nothing you can do about it either, whether you're a US citizen or not. You have to rely on the States' Attorneys General or on the Large ISP Illuminati to sue the spammers when they get around to it.
This is all okay with me really, as legislation was always a ridiculous approach to stopping spam, and this is the logical result of the legislative approach. I dropped $50 on SpamSieve for me and my wife, and I never see the stuff anymore. Go Bayesian, you won't regret it.
Flow is generally measured in volume per time, cubic feet per second, like that. These are easy to find for your river:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/pa/nwis/current?type=f lo w
Scroll to the Susquehanna, likewise:
http://pa.water.usgs.gov/durplots/stream_duratio n. html
This tells you nothing about the velocity because you don't know the size of the pipe. I don't know either, and neither of us knows how fast the Susquehanna can turn a watergen, which is the point of the excercise.
Knots: measure of boat speed. Tie knots in a long rope 50 feet apart. Definition of "feet" is literally an excercise for the reader--your foot is one foot. This work is tedious and by tradition is performed while drunk. Okay.
Heave a log over the side with the rope tied to it. The log is supposed to stay stationary so you can measure against it. Except that the log floats and it is followed by a half mile of hemp rope, and that floats too, everything is moving around, so there is a certain margin for error. We don't know what the margin is. Speed is the number of 50-foot knots shouted out per 30 seconds where the seconds are measure with an hourglass.
It's not very *accurate*.
By convention one knot is 1.15 miles per hour rounded off. Just live with it. If you really want to measure the flow just measure the damn flow. Rope is cheap at the Home Depot. Get to it.
If you call the watergen manufacturer and say "my source flows by here at five knots, I know because I tied the knots" they will probably be overcome with wonderment and give you all the gear for free. Well maybe. They will admire you for being well prepared in any case.
I don't know what the average flow of the Susquehanna is but I doubt it's really a slow river. I do know the Mississippi is typically moving about 4 knots and it is considered by boatmen to be an absolute bear to travel upstream. Recreational boating in the main Mississippi channel is near zero because the current's just too strong. I'm betting your river is faster.
A sailboat (monohull recreational boat big enough to have a galley) is making fair time if he averages six knots. Six knots is enough to generate a helluva lot of electricity using a water generator (they call them "spinners" and some of them will convert to wind generators if you get the urge). These things are not even that expensive.
Contrary to some of the alarmist nonsense being posted here, as long as you are not messing around in a wetland (swampy, boggy marshy place) and you don't propose to do any dredging, the Corps of Engineers presumes that all docks and piers for small boats will be approved for riparian use on ALL navigable waterways as long as you don't interfere with navigation. Possibly you have stronger local regulations, but get your COE permit and I think everything else will fall into place pretty easily. Sink a couple pilings, hang the spinners deep enough to keep from freezing and I expect you're in business.
It's not like this is a company using Linux to derive their core revenue (like a hosting company, for example)
Well, AZ does use Linux to derive their core revenue in a very real way. Every single terminal in every single Auto Zone store runs Linux, with a custom text-menu front end. They run on very inexpensive Siemens 486 boxes IIRC. Thousands or millions of these things in the field--without Linux they can't look up part numbers and in auto parts, part numbers mean everything.
While Apple's Print Center CUPS front-end might be quite a lot more useful than the thing you get in X11, for a real Mac app, Print Center sucks. It's unresponsive, it's unstable, it requires users to make choices they don't understand...it's awful.
One of the downsides of being a professional Mac support dweeb is having to deal with Print Center every day. We do expect quite a lot more from Macintosh GUIs and usually we get it.
Since there will be industrious engineers out in the field installing all this network gear, perhaps they could take a few moments per site and fix their Metric Korean Assload of open proxy servers. Which are so popular with 'net vermin.
This is an insidious plot to block our red-blooded American spammers from access to cutting-edge Chinese ratware. It is an outrage. Congress should intervene.
I'm currently using one of the newer crop of mail client tools commonly (mostly incorrectly) called Bayesian filters. Spamsieve is the tool in my particular case--and it absolutely rocks. Extremely effective.
For me, the [end user|anti-spam zealot|good citizen], the linguistic analysis filter has the following advantages:
--Extremely high accuracy
--No discernible performance hit
--Non-destructive, does not delete any mail
--No ethical worries over collateral damage
--No additional network traffic, lookups, waits, outages
--Completely passive, i.e. no bouncing or complaining or local blocklisting to do
--Makes NANAE and spam-l virtually obsolete so I don't have to read them anymore (the glory of this should not be underestimated by laypersons)
--No campaigning for legislation, political solutions. Impervious to the wiles of the DMA.
For you, the responsible ISP, I imagine the main disadvantage would be that you still have to deal with the spam load whether or not my MUA intercepts the spam and hides it from me.
Question: Do you see linguistic filters having a prophylactic effect in the long run? If widely adopted I think they could make spamming so pointless that it mostly withers away.
Hrm, it just occured to me that maybe a Bayesian tool could be contructed for use in marriages...interesting...
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People have a tendency to classify people into group vs. realizing each person is human and has their personality and strengths and weaknesses.
Only classifiers do that.
> As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons,
> the proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely
> non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially
> if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior."
There already is such a chemical, it is called "community theater".
Zinc/aluminum alloy is ubiquitous, it is more commonly known as "pot metal" and obviously this new technology will be cheap to implement because they are going to make the batteries out of ground up broken Hot Wheels cars of which there are approximately ten million in my son's room alone.
"Most of my clients are elderly...They are also very pleasant to work with since they are talkative and apt to listen to your sensible advice. They sit with me while I do repairs and are genuinely interested in what I'm doing, how I learned it, and how they can avoid the same troubles in the future."
I don't believe you do PC support. Having some old goober stand behind you, leaning on your chair, jabbing at the screen and bleating "what's wrong with it?" and "what are you doing now?" is the single most irritating event real tech support dweebs can encounter. Nobody in any other industry would consider putting up with it for even a few moments. You are some sort of sock puppet.
"The problem is that many advocates of these systems say that any flaws will get sorted out automatically by "the market" -- and in this case I think that is simply wrong. And in fact the people on Thursday's panel can't really believe it either, because one thing we all agreed on was that Bonded Sender sucks. But has the marketplace punished Hotmail for using it? Have people left in droves because non-Bonded-Sender e-mail gets blocked? No, because if they never see it getting blocked they don't know what happens. Free markets only solve problems that are actually visible to the user."
You just described the whole SMTP protocol, not just the Blue Ribbon Guaranteed Revenue gimmick. The crazy crazy free market has not saved us from SMTP either, although SMTP is indefensibly stupid and silently loses mail, people should abandon it wholesale, but they haven't so WE NEED PEACEFIRE! Bennett GET YOUR CAPE AND PHONE BOOTH immediately! Into the breech go ye!
What if aluminum doesn't really block the radio waves?
What if that's just something they *want* you to think?
> workers today are not overloaded with
> information.'We still want a lot of
> information.'
We do not want any more information from Bill Gates though.
But really there should be a distribution specifically for tiny apartments with inadequate spotty electricity...Fallujah Linux.
It would not be hard to generate VR walkthroughs using the photographs described in the article. There has been sw for a long time that can interpolate a VR walkthrough from a flat photograph (an object panorama is when you move around a VR object, ala a model of a car, rather than having the panorama move around you, ala being in a room; a walkthrough combines both).
For instance there was an astonishing product called Canoma, which existed only for Macintosh and was bought by Adobe; Canoma could generate incredible object models given nothing but an outline of a building's profile.
There are others now that are even better but I don't know the names, they're primarily used for biomedical modeling. Some can generate object models from slices (it can be important in research to generate a 3D model of, say, features of a mouse brain from slices of the brain. In this case you're interpolating a 3D model from various 1D slices of an object). Some generate wire basket models from flat photographs.
Anyway, it would not be difficult to generate neighborhood walkthroughs/flyovers using photographs from street and aerial. More interesting, it probably woulnd't be hard to generate them dynamically as requested page views. If somebody takes all the photographs first.
There is no procedure for reporting anything whether you're in the US or not.
CAN-SPAM does not forbid or outlaw spamming. Instead, it specifically allows and legitimizes it. Are you new?
It does not matter if they're sending to addresses that are scraped or guessed or nonexistent.
As long as they don't forge routing information in the headers, and they provide some pretense of an opt-out mechanism, it's legal, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
And if it's illegal there is nothing you can do about it either, whether you're a US citizen or not. You have to rely on the States' Attorneys General or on the Large ISP Illuminati to sue the spammers when they get around to it.
This is all okay with me really, as legislation was always a ridiculous approach to stopping spam, and this is the logical result of the legislative approach. I dropped $50 on SpamSieve for me and my wife, and I never see the stuff anymore. Go Bayesian, you won't regret it.
Flow is generally measured in volume per time, cubic feet per second, like that. These are easy to find for your river:
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/pa/nwis/current?type=
Scroll to the Susquehanna, likewise:
http://pa.water.usgs.gov/durplots/stream_durati
This tells you nothing about the velocity because you don't know the size of the pipe. I don't know either, and neither of us knows how fast the Susquehanna can turn a watergen, which is the point of the excercise.
Knots: measure of boat speed. Tie knots in a long rope 50 feet apart. Definition of "feet" is literally an excercise for the reader--your foot is one foot. This work is tedious and by tradition is performed while drunk. Okay.
Heave a log over the side with the rope tied to it. The log is supposed to stay stationary so you can measure against it. Except that the log floats and it is followed by a half mile of hemp rope, and that floats too, everything is moving around, so there is a certain margin for error. We don't know what the margin is. Speed is the number of 50-foot knots shouted out per 30 seconds where the seconds are measure with an hourglass.
It's not very *accurate*.
By convention one knot is 1.15 miles per hour rounded off. Just live with it. If you really want to measure the flow just measure the damn flow. Rope is cheap at the Home Depot. Get to it.
If you call the watergen manufacturer and say "my source flows by here at five knots, I know because I tied the knots" they will probably be overcome with wonderment and give you all the gear for free. Well maybe. They will admire you for being well prepared in any case.
I don't know what the average flow of the Susquehanna is but I doubt it's really a slow river. I do know the Mississippi is typically moving about 4 knots and it is considered by boatmen to be an absolute bear to travel upstream. Recreational boating in the main Mississippi channel is near zero because the current's just too strong. I'm betting your river is faster.
A sailboat (monohull recreational boat big enough to have a galley) is making fair time if he averages six knots. Six knots is enough to generate a helluva lot of electricity using a water generator (they call them "spinners" and some of them will convert to wind generators if you get the urge). These things are not even that expensive.
Contrary to some of the alarmist nonsense being posted here, as long as you are not messing around in a wetland (swampy, boggy marshy place) and you don't propose to do any dredging, the Corps of Engineers presumes that all docks and piers for small boats will be approved for riparian use on ALL navigable waterways as long as you don't interfere with navigation. Possibly you have stronger local regulations, but get your COE permit and I think everything else will fall into place pretty easily. Sink a couple pilings, hang the spinners deep enough to keep from freezing and I expect you're in business.
Well, AZ does use Linux to derive their core revenue in a very real way. Every single terminal in every single Auto Zone store runs Linux, with a custom text-menu front end. They run on very inexpensive Siemens 486 boxes IIRC. Thousands or millions of these things in the field--without Linux they can't look up part numbers and in auto parts, part numbers mean everything.
While Apple's Print Center CUPS front-end might be quite a lot more useful than the thing you get in X11, for a real Mac app, Print Center sucks. It's unresponsive, it's unstable, it requires users to make choices they don't understand...it's awful.
One of the downsides of being a professional Mac support dweeb is having to deal with Print Center every day. We do expect quite a lot more from Macintosh GUIs and usually we get it.
Since there will be industrious engineers out in the field installing all this network gear, perhaps they could take a few moments per site and fix their Metric Korean Assload of open proxy servers. Which are so popular with 'net vermin.
This is an insidious plot to block our red-blooded American spammers from access to cutting-edge Chinese ratware. It is an outrage. Congress should intervene.
Barry,
I'm currently using one of the newer crop of mail client tools commonly (mostly incorrectly) called Bayesian filters. Spamsieve is the tool in my particular case--and it absolutely rocks. Extremely effective.
For me, the [end user|anti-spam zealot|good citizen], the linguistic analysis filter has the following advantages:
--Extremely high accuracy
--No discernible performance hit
--Non-destructive, does not delete any mail
--No ethical worries over collateral damage
--No additional network traffic, lookups, waits, outages
--Completely passive, i.e. no bouncing or complaining or local blocklisting to do
--Makes NANAE and spam-l virtually obsolete so I don't have to read them anymore (the glory of this should not be underestimated by laypersons)
--No campaigning for legislation, political solutions. Impervious to the wiles of the DMA.
For you, the responsible ISP, I imagine the main disadvantage would be that you still have to deal with the spam load whether or not my MUA intercepts the spam and hides it from me.
Question: Do you see linguistic filters having a prophylactic effect in the long run? If widely adopted I think they could make spamming so pointless that it mostly withers away.
Hrm, it just occured to me that maybe a Bayesian tool could be contructed for use in marriages...interesting...