Outfits like Sturgeon AquaFarms and Stolt Sea Farm will be watching this. I know US Sturgeon farmers have been pushing for a ban on Caspian Sea Beluga Sturgeon, and I think they are an endangered species. If there's going to be VC pushed into funding more cross species embryo research, I'd bet sturgeon farmers will be at the front of the line.
"The obvious one is the sturgeon, which only become reproductively mature around the age of ten," he said, "so perhaps you could have them reared by another species which develops much faster."
Nothing new from this cube, just wondering why Microsoft is once again biting off more than it can chew with trying to tackle so many upgrades and patches with XP SP2.
It seems unnecessary to have to make one gargantuan service pack, instead of releasing smaller service packs semi-annually, some being small, some being large depending on the demands/vulnerabilities discovered during the 6 month cycle.
They could also focus on enterprise service packs and desktop service packs separately.
Ther just doesn't seem to be any middle ground; there's linux distros and their apps which weekly release patches/upgrades, and then there's Microbloat at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Like I said, nothing new from this cube that hasn't been laid out here before, just seems like common sense isn't being applied at Redmond, and it doesn't make sense, because common sense is open source, free!
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It's interesting how the US, and many of it's citizens, selectively "recognize" UN authority and legitmacy, as in this case with the "UN Sanctions against Yugoslavia" and Bobby Fisher's case.
When it's convenient politically to the US government, the UN is a righteous body of nations whose sanctions are tantimount US law. When it's not convenient, and the UN members don't please US leaders, it's inferred they are incompetent, scammming third world tour guides trying to screw the American People.
Does anyone know how much of the info collected by a WUS server, which is also collected by windows update, is passed on to M$ by the WUS server and/or the WUS client? It all seems to me to be relevent and useful info to collect, considering you've already overcome your privacy issues by agreeing to the EULA and have purchased CALs.
Windows Update Privacy Statement (Last Updated 10/17/2003)
Windows Update is committed to protecting your privacy. To provide you with the appropriate list of updates, Windows Update must collect a certain amount of configuration information from your computer. None of this configuration information can be used to identify you. This information includes:
Operating-system version number
Internet Explorer version number
Version numbers of other software for which Windows Update provides updates
Plug and Play ID numbers of hardware devices
Region and Language setting
The configuration information collected is used only to determine the appropriate updates and to generate aggregate statistics. Windows Update does not collect your name, address, e-mail address, or any other form of personally identifiable information.
Windows Update also collects the Product ID and Product Key to confirm that you are running a validly licensed copy of Windows. A validly licensed copy of Windows ensures that you will receive on-going updates from Windows Update. The Product ID and Product Key are not retained beyond the end of the Windows Update session, unless the Product ID is not valid.
To provide you with the best possible service, Windows Update also tracks and records how many unique machines visit its site and whether the download and installation of specific updates succeeded or failed. In order to do this, the Windows operating system generates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) that is stored on your computer to uniquely identify it. The GUID does not contain any personally identifiable information and cannot be used to identify you. Windows Update records the GUID of the computer that attempted the download, the ID of the item that you attempted to download and install, and the configuration information listed above.
The Sacramento Bee did a series on environmental orgs and their practices, the good ones, the bad apples titled Environment, Inc. An article from the series, "Mission adrift in a frenzy of fund raising" cited some statistics related to how much fundraising overhead eats up contributions, and came up with 42% for the Sierra Club from IRS form 990 info and American Institute of Philanthropy. I just wish I could be a member of the local, and not fund a big marketing machine.
I think the American Institute of Philathropy and Guidestar are pretty good places to start for info. Perhaps they have info on the mailing list sharing that goes on between these npos.
Well, locally, the Sierra Club chapter is actually accomplishing some things I support, but the national organization is a whole different enchilada. I see them as no more than a lobbying firm that harvests revenue and legitimacy from the local chapters, where the real work is getting done.
Hell, they almost lost the whole org to a board take over led by former leader of Greenpeace, Capt. Paul Watson.
Nettle spells it out just the way I feel about being , as he describes it "Carpet bombed by non-profit organizations" in his blog entry "Nettle vs. Aclu Part 1", "Part 2" AND "Part 3"
An excerpt from "Nettle vs. ACLU"
However, what I was amazed to find is that the ACLU automatically gave my name and address to third parties -- and did it so swiftly that I was already receiving mailings from third parties before I received my ACLU membership packet.
I'd like to see an annual list of organizations, companies, banks, utilities that sell your address and phone numer to marketers. I expect if I sign up for a "club card" at Safeway or some other retailer, that my info is potentially up for grabs, but when I signed up with Sierra Club, my junk mail exponentially grew, and I OPTED OUT!! of the sharing info option. I think they probably kill more trees than they save. I've received 3 renewal notices from them since February of this year, and my membership expires in August!
Yeah, I was listening to Bob Brinker's MoneyTalk this weekend on the radio, and he kept bashing on IE between taking investement advice calls.
He'd take a couple of calls, then go on the attack on M$. He also lauded Firefox, and must have said the word "MOZILLA" a couple dozen times. I listen to this guy each weekend, and I've never heard him go so far off topic. He was going into importing your "Favorites", talked about extensions, themes. Blew me away, this has really P.O'ed a lot of average users.
When financial advisors like Brinker are telling their non-tech audiences about going to Firefox, you know the dam has broke. I wonder now what Mozilla is going to do with this opportunity.......
This would be useful for a hovering UAV, say like the cypher (now Cypher II aka Dragon Warrior) which could relay the image of the remote target to, conceivably, a sniper/sniper's spotter, or provide GPS coordinates to incoming aircraft for precision bombing using an Ethernet TCP/IP radio network with autorelaying capability..
This would be useful for a hovering UAV, say like the cypher (now Cypher II aka Dragon Warrior) which could relay the image of the remote target to, conceivably, a sniper/sniper's spotter, or provide GPS coordinates to incoming aircraft for precision bombing using an Ethernet TCP/IP radio network with autorelaying capability..
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Some interesting papers on the subject can be found using: RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Here's a breakdown of their resources.
Excerpt from BBC piece:
What next, a car that makes an "Oh" face?
Conspiracies......I'm fueling the black helicopters right now, hold on, I can only fuel on at a time.
Nothing new from this cube, just wondering why Microsoft is once again biting off more than it can chew with trying to tackle so many upgrades and patches with XP SP2.
It seems unnecessary to have to make one gargantuan service pack, instead of releasing smaller service packs semi-annually, some being small, some being large depending on the demands/vulnerabilities discovered during the 6 month cycle.
They could also focus on enterprise service packs and desktop service packs separately.
Ther just doesn't seem to be any middle ground; there's linux distros and their apps which weekly release patches/upgrades, and then there's Microbloat at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Like I said, nothing new from this cube that hasn't been laid out here before, just seems like common sense isn't being applied at Redmond, and it doesn't make sense, because common sense is open source, free!
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It's interesting how the US, and many of it's citizens, selectively "recognize" UN authority and legitmacy, as in this case with the "UN Sanctions against Yugoslavia" and Bobby Fisher's case. When it's convenient politically to the US government, the UN is a righteous body of nations whose sanctions are tantimount US law. When it's not convenient, and the UN members don't please US leaders, it's inferred they are incompetent, scammming third world tour guides trying to screw the American People.
OK, I added a few non-windoz
http://www.activedir.org
http://www.ntbugtraq.com/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive
FAS Secrecy News
Linux Users Group of Davis Lists
linux-wlan(tm) Project Mailing Lists
I meant to say SUS.
Does anyone know how much of the info collected by a WUS server, which is also collected by windows update, is passed on to M$ by the WUS server and/or the WUS client? It all seems to me to be relevent and useful info to collect, considering you've already overcome your privacy issues by agreeing to the EULA and have purchased CALs.
I think this is the page they wanted to link to: http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/d riversquery.xml
p rivacy.aspx?ln=en
Looks like they added BIOS info collection. This is news?
V5 privacy statement: http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/
v4 privacy statement:
Windows Update Privacy Statement (Last Updated 10/17/2003)
Windows Update is committed to protecting your privacy. To provide you with the appropriate list of updates, Windows Update must collect a certain amount of configuration information from your computer. None of this configuration information can be used to identify you. This information includes:
Operating-system version number
Internet Explorer version number
Version numbers of other software for which Windows Update provides updates
Plug and Play ID numbers of hardware devices
Region and Language setting
The configuration information collected is used only to determine the appropriate updates and to generate aggregate statistics. Windows Update does not collect your name, address, e-mail address, or any other form of personally identifiable information.
Windows Update also collects the Product ID and Product Key to confirm that you are running a validly licensed copy of Windows. A validly licensed copy of Windows ensures that you will receive on-going updates from Windows Update. The Product ID and Product Key are not retained beyond the end of the Windows Update session, unless the Product ID is not valid.
To provide you with the best possible service, Windows Update also tracks and records how many unique machines visit its site and whether the download and installation of specific updates succeeded or failed. In order to do this, the Windows operating system generates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) that is stored on your computer to uniquely identify it. The GUID does not contain any personally identifiable information and cannot be used to identify you. Windows Update records the GUID of the computer that attempted the download, the ID of the item that you attempted to download and install, and the configuration information listed above.
The Sacramento Bee did a series on environmental orgs and their practices, the good ones, the bad apples titled Environment, Inc. An article from the series, "Mission adrift in a frenzy of fund raising" cited some statistics related to how much fundraising overhead eats up contributions, and came up with 42% for the Sierra Club from IRS form 990 info and American Institute of Philanthropy. I just wish I could be a member of the local, and not fund a big marketing machine. I think the American Institute of Philathropy and Guidestar are pretty good places to start for info. Perhaps they have info on the mailing list sharing that goes on between these npos.
Well, locally, the Sierra Club chapter is actually accomplishing some things I support, but the national organization is a whole different enchilada. I see them as no more than a lobbying firm that harvests revenue and legitimacy from the local chapters, where the real work is getting done.
Hell, they almost lost the whole org to a board take over led by former leader of Greenpeace, Capt. Paul Watson.
"Nettle vs. Aclu Part 1", "Part 2" AND "Part 3"
An excerpt from "Nettle vs. ACLU"
I'd like to see an annual list of organizations, companies, banks, utilities that sell your address and phone numer to marketers. I expect if I sign up for a "club card" at Safeway or some other retailer, that my info is potentially up for grabs, but when I signed up with Sierra Club, my junk mail exponentially grew, and I OPTED OUT!! of the sharing info option. I think they probably kill more trees than they save. I've received 3 renewal notices from them since February of this year, and my membership expires in August!
Yeah, I was listening to Bob Brinker's MoneyTalk this weekend on the radio, and he kept bashing on IE between taking investement advice calls.
He'd take a couple of calls, then go on the attack on M$. He also lauded Firefox, and must have said the word "MOZILLA" a couple dozen times. I listen to this guy each weekend, and I've never heard him go so far off topic. He was going into importing your "Favorites", talked about extensions, themes. Blew me away, this has really P.O'ed a lot of average users.
When financial advisors like Brinker are telling their non-tech audiences about going to Firefox, you know the dam has broke. I wonder now what Mozilla is going to do with this opportunity.......
This would be useful for a hovering UAV, say like the cypher (now Cypher II aka Dragon Warrior) which could relay the image of the remote target to, conceivably, a sniper/sniper's spotter, or provide GPS coordinates to incoming aircraft for precision bombing using an Ethernet TCP/IP radio network with autorelaying capability. .
There are some pics, operator software screen shots, mpegs and info available to see how this particular vehicle is deployed at the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego's Advanced Systems Division Robotics program.
This would be useful for a hovering UAV, say like the cypher (now Cypher II aka Dragon Warrior) which could relay the image of the remote target to, conceivably, a sniper/sniper's spotter, or provide GPS coordinates to incoming aircraft for precision bombing using an Ethernet TCP/IP radio network with autorelaying capability. .
There are some pics, operator software screen shots, mpegs and info available to see how this particular vehicle is deployed at the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego's Advanced Systems Division Robotics program.
Man, cut me some slack here, redundant? Who had a bad day to day?
Danny Ayers has some interesting discussion on his blog about winfs and rdf. There's also discussion of Jon Udell's Questions about Longhorn.
You speak for the "silent majority". Lead on!