I'd say make the *subnets* public and then I'd blackhole them at my gateway. Same with spammers, just blackhole the whole goddamn ISP. Eventually, ISP's would get the point.
The addition of Dec #2 and Sec 138 bring up an interesting point: How does one copyright a living document? If I make a minor revision to a Disney film every 70 years, then would the original version be public domain?
>>there's[sic] translations of the Bible that are copyrighted and these copyrights are enforced.
A derivitave of a public-domain work is also public domain. I assume you are refering to New Internation Version or the other "plain language" translations. I don't know if they are copyrighted or not, but they shouldn't be.
My church (LDS - Mormons) uses the KJV. We insert hyper-link-like annotations in the text. A word followed by a superscript has info at the bottom of the page about other signifigant appearances of that word. I'm not sure if it's copyrighted, but I'd argue that it shouldn't be.
Anyway, I have heard that derivitave works are not copyrightable, but I could be wrong.
What happens in the temples is not SECRET, it is SACRED. We do not, as a general rule, discuss sacred things with each other or with outsiders. There is no rule that says we cannot talk about it, so ask if you are interested. I'll answer anything I'm not uncomfortable discussing.
Before anyone is allowed into a temple, they have to be a member of the church. This extends from the people attendening all the way to the guy who works on the ventelation. We do make some exceptions, but then the temple has to be prepared before entry and then cleansed after they leave.
BTW, members who go are given classes that explain a lot of what happens in the temple.
As for a level system, I have never heard of that. We have a Prophet, 12 Appostles, 2 Quorums of Seventy (which have about 40 to 60 people each...go figure), Mission and Stake (state level) presidincy, District Presidency, then Wards (big churches) and Branches (small churches).
Inside an actual Ward or Branch, we have a Bishop or President (kinda like a preacher), Elders (men's) Quorum, Relief Society (women's thingy), and stuff for kids.
AFAIK, there is no level system. You don't get access to some special uber-secret book when you become $POSITION.
Anyway, I'm not ranting. Just bored and thought I'd settle your uncertianty. If you have questions, ask me.
While grits may be a southern USA fad, I find it hard to belive that Italians wouldn't know what grits are. When I was in Italy, I was served polenta. You can get it in a fried "cake" or served runny. I don't know how far back polenta goes, but it is, in effect, identical to grits.
The only major difference was color (grits are bleached white while polenta is yelleo) and when it was served (grits == breakfast; polenta == dinner).
>came along and leaned up on it wrong and it stopped working
If I packaged shugar in a gasoline can and you put it in your tank, is the car maker at fault?
If I reccomend that you check the tires once a week and you ignore that suggestion, am I at fault for your blowout?
If you refse to clean your windows and you get into a collision because of reduced visibility, can the glass be considered insecure or not robust enough for heavy driving?
What's so complicated about a 18" trench with a hole at one end and a half-bowl at the other?
Oh, you meant the other Japanese toilets. The ones in a bathroom so small that you can't figure out how to close the door while you are inside the bathroom.
I love Tokyo so much. Truck-stop ramen p0wn3z. Truck-stop bathrooms 5ux0r5.
Nope, they will just use http encapsulation or ssh tunnels.
You have to use Application-Level Filtering. If WinAmp or WinZip tries to access the internet, deny it access. Allow only Internet Explorer or Mozilla and possibly a mail client (although webmail is a better choice) to access the internet. Most Windows-based firewalls do this, but people tend to click the popup allowing them to create a rule for the new program.
Aside from sexual relations, I wonder how interpersonal relations will hold up. Being married to one person for 50+ years is already too much for most people to take. How many marriges will last for 200+ years?
I think Fort Knox is the wrong place. You were probably thinking of the New Federal Reserve Gold Repository in NYC. That may have changed after Sep 11, but I doubt it.
Someone always points out that it'd be better to do "X" vice "Y". Sure, I could spend $20 and get the next faster CPU so I don't have to overclock. The thing is, I don't have to overclock at all. I just like to.
I spent a few days lapping my heatsinks. It was fun. After a few hours of trying to get a perfect surface, it became a Zen-like experience. Repetitive motion and extreme focus brought on a uphoria that really left me feeling better than a mere "few degrees" would show. Same with rounded cables and lighted fans. I do it cuz working inside my PC is fun.
As to manufacturers making cooler CPUs, I think thay try for that in the laptop market, but gamers and Gentoo users are interested in raw speed at any cost. Heat is one of those costs. Noise is another.
How much time went into the design process for the shears? How about the time playtesting the shears to make sure they fit into the world properly? The labour is not just the coding time, but the entire systems development life cycle comes into play.
As for real shears, what about shears your grandfather owned? They may have value beyond that of the labour spent making them. They would also cary a value based on the fact that your grandfather owned them for 50 years and used them to trim his prized rosebush.
>After 10 years in space, Voyager was down to 1/2 the original power.
How can a RTG ever lose power? These things have a half-life of several thousand years. It seems like a well designed reactor would actually produce more power later in the mission to allow signal strength to be boosted.
Won't work. These DVD images basicly use "dd" and start from the beginning of the drive. They don't even pay attention to any drive partition information. You have to use the restore disk, resize and partition, then install linux.
I have never tried, but it seems you could install WinXP, resize the drive, install Linux, and then use "dd" to backup the windows partition.
On my laptop, I wanted the WinXP drive to use fat32 vice ntfs. The way I went about it was to spend about an hour on kazaa downloading WinXP. I have a license to use WinXP, and now I have a WinXP CD. It may not be legal, but it is completely ethical.
I have thought a lot about that problem. I would like to be able to have a gun, but I know that most illegal guns come from legal purchaces. Not to mention that if the flow of ammunition was stopped, most criminals would not be able to fire their guns.
Imagine having to find powder ingredentes, mix and test the powder, find spent casings, form the bullet, pack the casing, and finally, insert the bullet. That, to me, would be too much work for a criminal to go out and "gang bang".
Along with ceacing bullet production, I suggest a NRA maintained list of owners cross-referenced with the guns they own. If a firearm is recovered from the scene of a crime, then the original owner should be charged with accessory to that crime. This would make people less likely to leave the crate of Glocks on their back porch to be "stolen".
And if you ever sold a gun, you'd be damn sure to see that the license was transfered.
In exchage for the cops having access to the database, we'd get access to "assault weapons". After all, how are you going to defend your home from the Army if all you have is a shotgun?
Personally, I think that the right to bear arms should include firearms, rockets, grenades, bombs, missles, nukes, chemicals, biological agents, and strong crypto. That cop thinking about arresting me for smoking a joint needs a moment of pause to think about drug policy.
While I agree that in an ideal world it is nice to have our access logged, I'd prefer no logging at this time.
It would be nice to have everywhere we go ready for us when we get there. Have our Big-Mac waiting (money already deducted from our card) and the latest copy of Neil Stephenson's book on the table for us. No more tampon ads. Every ad would involve naked women on trampolines.
The truth is that the good that comes from tracking far outweighs the bad. Especially in an ISP. My provider should give me a pipe and nothing else. The phone company is not allowed to record your conversations wothout a court order, why should your ISP be allowed to log your packets? It's bad for you and costly for them.
Sure, it's nice to say that you can use the logs to track spammers and crackers, but the same logs can be used to see you are researching testicular cancer or ordering birth control pills.
While it's unlikely that any of this info will ever be used maliciously, I'd still like to know that the only person reading my mail is me.
I look forward to a time when end-2-end encryption is established on every transaction on the web. It's sad that it doesn't happen already. It's also sad that we have to resort to end-2-end crypto to ensure privacy.
Utah is just about 50% mormon. Salt Lake City reflects that demographic. To think that they will win based on the fact that a mormon jury will find in favor of a mormon company is a little "knee-jerk".
There are probably cases every day involving mormon and non-mormon people. If there was any real problem with racism (religionism?), I'm sure it would have come to light by now.
The real question is wheather or not the jury will be able to digest the technical information presented to them.
There is also another, bigger, issue here. We all "know" IBM will win. The reason? IBM has more money than SCO. I have a feeling that if some company sued MS based on code being misused, we'd want the small-fry to have a chance. SCO should be no different. If they lose, it may be because they were wrong. It may also be because IBM has the dough. We will probably never know for sure.
Why have mechanical linkages up front only to have servo-activated linkages in the rear? Seems like having servos would eat into your energy budget pretty quick.
People have to realize that electric cars should not have power anything. What is the point of trying to be environmentally concious when you are blasting your AC during the summer? You just can't do it.
If you want to make a statement about saving the planet, then just buy a gasoline powered car with rack-and-pinion steering, manual windows, no AC, no radio, etc... You get all the benifits of gasoline and the added bonus of using as little of it as possible.
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No, but ants are guarenteed to crawl from your hands...
I'd say make the *subnets* public and then I'd blackhole them at my gateway. Same with spammers, just blackhole the whole goddamn ISP. Eventually, ISP's would get the point.
Thanks, man, I'll download those off Kazaa as soon as I get home...:)
Dude, EMACS would be a great OS...if only it had a decent text editor...
ps...Not sure who originally said that...
The addition of Dec #2 and Sec 138 bring up an interesting point: How does one copyright a living document? If I make a minor revision to a Disney film every 70 years, then would the original version be public domain?
>>there's[sic] translations of the Bible that are copyrighted and these copyrights are enforced.
A derivitave of a public-domain work is also public domain. I assume you are refering to New Internation Version or the other "plain language" translations. I don't know if they are copyrighted or not, but they shouldn't be.
My church (LDS - Mormons) uses the KJV. We insert hyper-link-like annotations in the text. A word followed by a superscript has info at the bottom of the page about other signifigant appearances of that word. I'm not sure if it's copyrighted, but I'd argue that it shouldn't be.
Anyway, I have heard that derivitave works are not copyrightable, but I could be wrong.
What happens in the temples is not SECRET, it is SACRED. We do not, as a general rule, discuss sacred things with each other or with outsiders. There is no rule that says we cannot talk about it, so ask if you are interested. I'll answer anything I'm not uncomfortable discussing.
Before anyone is allowed into a temple, they have to be a member of the church. This extends from the people attendening all the way to the guy who works on the ventelation. We do make some exceptions, but then the temple has to be prepared before entry and then cleansed after they leave.
BTW, members who go are given classes that explain a lot of what happens in the temple.
As for a level system, I have never heard of that. We have a Prophet, 12 Appostles, 2 Quorums of Seventy (which have about 40 to 60 people each...go figure), Mission and Stake (state level) presidincy, District Presidency, then Wards (big churches) and Branches (small churches).
Inside an actual Ward or Branch, we have a Bishop or President (kinda like a preacher), Elders (men's) Quorum, Relief Society (women's thingy), and stuff for kids.
AFAIK, there is no level system. You don't get access to some special uber-secret book when you become $POSITION.
Anyway, I'm not ranting. Just bored and thought I'd settle your uncertianty. If you have questions, ask me.
While grits may be a southern USA fad, I find it hard to belive that Italians wouldn't know what grits are. When I was in Italy, I was served polenta. You can get it in a fried "cake" or served runny. I don't know how far back polenta goes, but it is, in effect, identical to grits.
The only major difference was color (grits are bleached white while polenta is yelleo) and when it was served (grits == breakfast; polenta == dinner).
>came along and leaned up on it wrong and it stopped working
If I packaged shugar in a gasoline can and you put it in your tank, is the car maker at fault?
If I reccomend that you check the tires once a week and you ignore that suggestion, am I at fault for your blowout?
If you refse to clean your windows and you get into a collision because of reduced visibility, can the glass be considered insecure or not robust enough for heavy driving?
What's so complicated about a 18" trench with a hole at one end and a half-bowl at the other?
Oh, you meant the other Japanese toilets. The ones in a bathroom so small that you can't figure out how to close the door while you are inside the bathroom.
I love Tokyo so much. Truck-stop ramen p0wn3z. Truck-stop bathrooms 5ux0r5.
Nope, they will just use http encapsulation or ssh tunnels.
You have to use Application-Level Filtering. If WinAmp or WinZip tries to access the internet, deny it access. Allow only Internet Explorer or Mozilla and possibly a mail client (although webmail is a better choice) to access the internet. Most Windows-based firewalls do this, but people tend to click the popup allowing them to create a rule for the new program.
Aside from sexual relations, I wonder how interpersonal relations will hold up. Being married to one person for 50+ years is already too much for most people to take. How many marriges will last for 200+ years?
I think Fort Knox is the wrong place. You were probably thinking of the New Federal Reserve Gold Repository in NYC. That may have changed after Sep 11, but I doubt it.
Someone always points out that it'd be better to do "X" vice "Y". Sure, I could spend $20 and get the next faster CPU so I don't have to overclock. The thing is, I don't have to overclock at all. I just like to.
I spent a few days lapping my heatsinks. It was fun. After a few hours of trying to get a perfect surface, it became a Zen-like experience. Repetitive motion and extreme focus brought on a uphoria that really left me feeling better than a mere "few degrees" would show. Same with rounded cables and lighted fans. I do it cuz working inside my PC is fun.
As to manufacturers making cooler CPUs, I think thay try for that in the laptop market, but gamers and Gentoo users are interested in raw speed at any cost. Heat is one of those costs. Noise is another.
How much time went into the design process for the shears? How about the time playtesting the shears to make sure they fit into the world properly? The labour is not just the coding time, but the entire systems development life cycle comes into play.
As for real shears, what about shears your grandfather owned? They may have value beyond that of the labour spent making them. They would also cary a value based on the fact that your grandfather owned them for 50 years and used them to trim his prized rosebush.
>After 10 years in space, Voyager was down to 1/2 the original power.
How can a RTG ever lose power? These things have a half-life of several thousand years. It seems like a well designed reactor would actually produce more power later in the mission to allow signal strength to be boosted.
Well, they all call home to MS. As far as I'm concerned, they are all trojaned :) Besides, all it's good for is playing games...
Won't work. These DVD images basicly use "dd" and start from the beginning of the drive. They don't even pay attention to any drive partition information. You have to use the restore disk, resize and partition, then install linux.
I have never tried, but it seems you could install WinXP, resize the drive, install Linux, and then use "dd" to backup the windows partition.
On my laptop, I wanted the WinXP drive to use fat32 vice ntfs. The way I went about it was to spend about an hour on kazaa downloading WinXP. I have a license to use WinXP, and now I have a WinXP CD. It may not be legal, but it is completely ethical.
I have thought a lot about that problem. I would like to be able to have a gun, but I know that most illegal guns come from legal purchaces. Not to mention that if the flow of ammunition was stopped, most criminals would not be able to fire their guns.
Imagine having to find powder ingredentes, mix and test the powder, find spent casings, form the bullet, pack the casing, and finally, insert the bullet. That, to me, would be too much work for a criminal to go out and "gang bang".
Along with ceacing bullet production, I suggest a NRA maintained list of owners cross-referenced with the guns they own. If a firearm is recovered from the scene of a crime, then the original owner should be charged with accessory to that crime. This would make people less likely to leave the crate of Glocks on their back porch to be "stolen".
And if you ever sold a gun, you'd be damn sure to see that the license was transfered.
In exchage for the cops having access to the database, we'd get access to "assault weapons". After all, how are you going to defend your home from the Army if all you have is a shotgun?
Personally, I think that the right to bear arms should include firearms, rockets, grenades, bombs, missles, nukes, chemicals, biological agents, and strong crypto. That cop thinking about arresting me for smoking a joint needs a moment of pause to think about drug policy.
While I agree that in an ideal world it is nice to have our access logged, I'd prefer no logging at this time.
It would be nice to have everywhere we go ready for us when we get there. Have our Big-Mac waiting (money already deducted from our card) and the latest copy of Neil Stephenson's book on the table for us. No more tampon ads. Every ad would involve naked women on trampolines.
The truth is that the good that comes from tracking far outweighs the bad. Especially in an ISP. My provider should give me a pipe and nothing else. The phone company is not allowed to record your conversations wothout a court order, why should your ISP be allowed to log your packets? It's bad for you and costly for them.
Sure, it's nice to say that you can use the logs to track spammers and crackers, but the same logs can be used to see you are researching testicular cancer or ordering birth control pills.
While it's unlikely that any of this info will ever be used maliciously, I'd still like to know that the only person reading my mail is me.
I look forward to a time when end-2-end encryption is established on every transaction on the web. It's sad that it doesn't happen already. It's also sad that we have to resort to end-2-end crypto to ensure privacy.
Utah is just about 50% mormon. Salt Lake City reflects that demographic. To think that they will win based on the fact that a mormon jury will find in favor of a mormon company is a little "knee-jerk".
There are probably cases every day involving mormon and non-mormon people. If there was any real problem with racism (religionism?), I'm sure it would have come to light by now.
The real question is wheather or not the jury will be able to digest the technical information presented to them.
There is also another, bigger, issue here. We all "know" IBM will win. The reason? IBM has more money than SCO. I have a feeling that if some company sued MS based on code being misused, we'd want the small-fry to have a chance. SCO should be no different. If they lose, it may be because they were wrong. It may also be because IBM has the dough. We will probably never know for sure.
Small rant follows:
Why have mechanical linkages up front only to have servo-activated linkages in the rear? Seems like having servos would eat into your energy budget pretty quick.
People have to realize that electric cars should not have power anything. What is the point of trying to be environmentally concious when you are blasting your AC during the summer? You just can't do it.
If you want to make a statement about saving the planet, then just buy a gasoline powered car with rack-and-pinion steering, manual windows, no AC, no radio, etc... You get all the benifits of gasoline and the added bonus of using as little of it as possible.
You were not thinking big enough. 90% of the people on this whole "interwebmail" thingy only think about google.com and pr0n.
What if the file you are downloading would take 2 hours to transfer across a data line?
Large database backups don't really care about latency, they only understand bandwidth.
11.6 TB / (7 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds) = 19 (ish) megabytes per second.
All in all, that's pretty nice bandwidth. Just as a simple comparison, my SDSL line does 150,000 bytes/sec.