Thanks a lot! When I did tech support for an ISP, I had to work with that PITA. If you had one of the earlier models, it was locked in to their ISP, and when it went belly-up, you had a boat-anchor. The later ones, at least, either were reconfigurable or could be upgraded by leaving them on-line most of the night. Even then, they were nothing but trouble, especially when you had to do something with one and the caller had only one phone-line. They'd keep trying and trying to connect before letting you into the config screens to get at whatever was wrong. I'd almost re-cycled all the neurons that had those memories, but YOU had to bring them back. Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhh!
Mac/PC is a bit of a holy war. but instead of arguing it, I'm going to point out just what type of person each is best for. When Apple was designng the Mac, they surveyed artists, and set up an interface that worked the way artists work. If that's how your mind works, fine; us it, as it's best for you. If you're not artistic, as I'm not, it's wrong and feels like it. For me, a PC is better, because it comes closer to working the way I want a computer to work. My point is, find out which one feels right and stick with it. As you're setting up a site for your parents, let them experiment a little with both, and find out what makes them comfortable, then get them that.
I've had a bit of experience with this, in a small software company I worked for about ten years ago. The company researched the name they wanted to use, found it unprotected, and trademarked it. Three months after the trademark was granted, another company objected. They'd been using the name for several years, but never bothered to protect it. At this point, the company's CEO (a lawyer) sent them a letter pointing out that as they hadn't bothered to trademark the name, they had no right to try to close the barn door after the horse was gone. As the two programs had nothing in common except the name, he was nice enough to tell them they could continue to use it as long as they didn't try to use it to compete with us. If Fedora wasn't trademarked, RedHat was completely within its rights to use it and trademark it.
You don't use space mining to supply the Earth; you use it to supply space colonies. Half the energy to get to anywhere in the Solar System is going to be spent getting off of Earth. Once you're there, the costs to get anywhere else go down drastically. Using space-mined resources to build a colony is far cheaper than sending everything up from here, and that's what we're talking about. If not, we should be.
Why bother? Most of what you need is CHON: Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen. From that, and a few trace elements, you can keep a colony fed. As thees are (surprise surpise) all common elements, we will probably find more than we need on the moon. Power to extract them? Lots of sunlight and no clouds to block them. Of course, we'll need some storage, for the lunar night, but that's just a matter of good engeneering.
The main reason Iwo Jima was picked instead of someplace less defended is that it was directly under the flight path. Not only was it good as an emergency landing strip, the Japanese were using it as an anti-aircraft platform. And, to answer your question, a number of planes landed there, and some lives were saved because men got into surgery hours sooner than they would have otherwise. Iwo wasn't vital to winning the war, but the base there did its part.
I don't know what ISP you're using, but those I've experience with charge for neither uploading or downloading email. However, they do tend to have a limit of how much email you can have waiting to download; anything above that is rejected. So, what happens is that the spammer's email boxes keep getting jammed with fake responses, making it harder for the few fools that actually are insterested to get their messages through. Not only that, but most of them will give up if their first reply bounces, keeping them from ever getting a reply to the spammers.
Not here. After several rounds of this, somebody would invariably send a message to the twit using Reply All telling him not to. I know, because the ID120T would always use Reply All to tell one person not to spam the entire list with a messege sent to one person. Arrogance didn't enter into it, just blind stupidity.
"Jane is a techie, if her computer was infected she must have done it herself?"
I worked for several years as a support tech for an ISP. When Mellissa came around, most of the techs were running around like chickens with their heads cut off, while I laughed. Same thing with the Love Bug. Why? Because unlike everybody else, I used Eudora for email, not Outlook. It doesn't have the well-known security holes, so it's safe from the trojans aimed at Outlook. (OK; that's not the only reason, or the main reason I use it. But it was what kept me safe.)
The point here is, that techs are just as likely to follow the path of least effort as anybody else, and either use vulnerable software or not bother to secure what they have. Not only that, but just working as a tech doesn't mean you actually know what you're doing; I could tell numerous horror stories about techs using Reply All to ask a question about a message sent to a number of people, using "fixes" known to cause the issue to get worse, and otherwise proving that having a job as a tech doesn't make you one.
No, just proving the defendant worked in a tech field or as a tech or was studying CS isn't going to be enough, at least if the defense lawyer is any good. You're going to have to prove that he or she knew enough to have installed the trojan, had access to it and had a reason to do so. Just like with any other crime, Motive Means and Opportunity have to be demonstrated.
Anybody besides me remember Mellisa? A year later, the Love Bug struck, using the same, well documented security hole, which still hadn't been patched. Want to bet they're not including that data in the study?
Does anybody know what a lunar eclipse is supposed to do to werewolves? Do they change? Do they change back when it starts and become wolves again when it ends? Any ideas?
"Eventually, I suspect they'll reign in all the ports that are used dynamically..."
I'm not sure if you meant rein or reign, but in either case, it makes just as much sense. They will try to rein them in, and by so doing reign in them.
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What most people don't know is that Gerry had to be pressured into signing the bill. He disliked the plan for the same reason the oposite party did.
Writing that 100 times is easy now: write once, copy and past 99 times.
Thanks a lot! When I did tech support for an ISP, I had to work with that PITA. If you had one of the earlier models, it was locked in to their ISP, and when it went belly-up, you had a boat-anchor. The later ones, at least, either were reconfigurable or could be upgraded by leaving them on-line most of the night. Even then, they were nothing but trouble, especially when you had to do something with one and the caller had only one phone-line. They'd keep trying and trying to connect before letting you into the config screens to get at whatever was wrong. I'd almost re-cycled all the neurons that had those memories, but YOU had to bring them back. Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhh!
If I remember my math correctly, a sphere, although it has a finite surface, has no boundries.
Being Politically Correct is bending over backwards to avoid offending people who are buisy manipulating you by being creatively thin skinned.
I had no idea DND went back that far. It makes me wonder where Gygax got his claims to have invented it.
OS/2, BeOS, the earlier Mac OS's, Amiga, Palm OS...
Mac/PC is a bit of a holy war. but instead of arguing it, I'm going to point out just what type of person each is best for. When Apple was designng the Mac, they surveyed artists, and set up an interface that worked the way artists work. If that's how your mind works, fine; us it, as it's best for you. If you're not artistic, as I'm not, it's wrong and feels like it. For me, a PC is better, because it comes closer to working the way I want a computer to work. My point is, find out which one feels right and stick with it. As you're setting up a site for your parents, let them experiment a little with both, and find out what makes them comfortable, then get them that.
I've had a bit of experience with this, in a small software company I worked for about ten years ago. The company researched the name they wanted to use, found it unprotected, and trademarked it. Three months after the trademark was granted, another company objected. They'd been using the name for several years, but never bothered to protect it. At this point, the company's CEO (a lawyer) sent them a letter pointing out that as they hadn't bothered to trademark the name, they had no right to try to close the barn door after the horse was gone. As the two programs had nothing in common except the name, he was nice enough to tell them they could continue to use it as long as they didn't try to use it to compete with us. If Fedora wasn't trademarked, RedHat was completely within its rights to use it and trademark it.
You don't use space mining to supply the Earth; you use it to supply space colonies. Half the energy to get to anywhere in the Solar System is going to be spent getting off of Earth. Once you're there, the costs to get anywhere else go down drastically. Using space-mined resources to build a colony is far cheaper than sending everything up from here, and that's what we're talking about. If not, we should be.
Why bother? Most of what you need is CHON: Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen. From that, and a few trace elements, you can keep a colony fed. As thees are (surprise surpise) all common elements, we will probably find more than we need on the moon. Power to extract them? Lots of sunlight and no clouds to block them. Of course, we'll need some storage, for the lunar night, but that's just a matter of good engeneering.
The fuel is Hydrogen and Oxygen, created by electolyzing water, and burned back into water. No fossil fuels are needed or used in the process.
Not quite on topic, but an interesting factoid: all the signs in the Movie The Great Dictator are in Esperanto.
The main reason Iwo Jima was picked instead of someplace less defended is that it was directly under the flight path. Not only was it good as an emergency landing strip, the Japanese were using it as an anti-aircraft platform. And, to answer your question, a number of planes landed there, and some lives were saved because men got into surgery hours sooner than they would have otherwise. Iwo wasn't vital to winning the war, but the base there did its part.
Thank you. Although I've been on the Net here in Merkia for a long time, and spent years working at an ISP, I'd never heard of that. Live and learn...
I don't know what ISP you're using, but those I've experience with charge for neither uploading or downloading email. However, they do tend to have a limit of how much email you can have waiting to download; anything above that is rejected. So, what happens is that the spammer's email boxes keep getting jammed with fake responses, making it harder for the few fools that actually are insterested to get their messages through. Not only that, but most of them will give up if their first reply bounces, keeping them from ever getting a reply to the spammers.
Not here. After several rounds of this, somebody would invariably send a message to the twit using Reply All telling him not to. I know, because the ID120T would always use Reply All to tell one person not to spam the entire list with a messege sent to one person. Arrogance didn't enter into it, just blind stupidity.
I know at least two sorting algorithms that work on the order of n factorial. Do they count?
I worked for several years as a support tech for an ISP. When Mellissa came around, most of the techs were running around like chickens with their heads cut off, while I laughed. Same thing with the Love Bug. Why? Because unlike everybody else, I used Eudora for email, not Outlook. It doesn't have the well-known security holes, so it's safe from the trojans aimed at Outlook. (OK; that's not the only reason, or the main reason I use it. But it was what kept me safe.)
The point here is, that techs are just as likely to follow the path of least effort as anybody else, and either use vulnerable software or not bother to secure what they have. Not only that, but just working as a tech doesn't mean you actually know what you're doing; I could tell numerous horror stories about techs using Reply All to ask a question about a message sent to a number of people, using "fixes" known to cause the issue to get worse, and otherwise proving that having a job as a tech doesn't make you one.
No, just proving the defendant worked in a tech field or as a tech or was studying CS isn't going to be enough, at least if the defense lawyer is any good. You're going to have to prove that he or she knew enough to have installed the trojan, had access to it and had a reason to do so. Just like with any other crime, Motive Means and Opportunity have to be demonstrated.
You have it backwards; They use H for B-flat, but aside Bach did get his name into the fugue.
Anybody besides me remember Mellisa? A year later, the Love Bug struck, using the same, well documented security hole, which still hadn't been patched. Want to bet they're not including that data in the study?
Does anybody know what a lunar eclipse is supposed to do to werewolves? Do they change? Do they change back when it starts and become wolves again when it ends? Any ideas?
That's Eludium, not Illudium. I would have sworn it was an Eludium Pu-236 Explosive Space Modulator, but Q-36 seems to be right. Live and learn...
I'm not sure if you meant rein or reign, but in either case, it makes just as much sense. They will try to rein them in, and by so doing reign in them.
Really? Why do you think there's an advertising industry? If ads didn't generate income, do you think there'd be any?