Recently here in NY we had a law passed to take the mercury out of vaccines (diff. kind of mercury used and not in dangerous amounts). The mother who they put on the news to hail the bill was, like me, a parent of an autistic child. However, the reason she gave for the bill was that "infants' immune systems are not well formed enough to fight the mercury". I was laughing so hard I nearly ripped something.
That's what's wrong. You protest so hard you get a bill passed and go on the news to defend it, and you lack any basic understanding of the human body. If all these people think the vaccines are harmful, so be it. But I wish they would gain some basic understanding of the body first.
My son is almost 1 - I wrote almost an exactly identical post on a newsgroup before he was born. I tried several alternatives, found that any camera that was reasonably priced was basically worthless, and I finally wound up buying a Summer brand wireless video baby monitor. The thing works FANTASTICALLY. The camera has built in infrared illumination - with the nursery completely dark we can see my son like he's got a spotlight on him, and the mic is so sensitive that if the A/C isn't on you can usually hear him breathing even though the camera's way up on the wall. Since I bought mine, they have now come out with a version that has a small handheld monitoring station rather than the clunky brick-powered unit that I have. The handheld monitor looks like a gameboy. I don't know if the vid is as high quality as the clunky one that I have though. Mine also has a button to turn the video on and off so if you want you can use it as a traditional audio-only baby monitor. I am a classic worrier and this is BY FAR the ABSOLUTELY BEST piece of equipment we bought. It allowed us to put the baby in his room very early on and not worry a bit, not to mention being able to not rush in every time we hear a noise - a quick glance at the monitor tells us he's fine. It also potentially saved his life - he had a reaction to some formula and threw up while going to sleep one time - if my wife hadn't seen it on the monitor we probably would have never noticed and I won't even speculate what might have happened. I also wanted an internet ready camera piped through my web server, forwarded to my cell with motion detection to email me when he moves, etc. but the Summer monitor wound up actually doing a fantastic job.
outlawing half the functionality of the internet? If you generalize 'P2P', couldn't I really classify almost anything, i.e. VOIP, email, IM, etc. as P2P? If I set up a SQL server the right way you can email it queries and I can set it up with tables listing what's on my machine. Throw in a list server that can deal with attachments and voila... poor man's napster.
What if I UUENCODE my software and paste it into an IM tool? When you get right down to it, even the web itself is P2P - I can search, I can download files from a specific address, I can chat with other users. A large percentage of users (no, I don't know what the percentage actually is) have their own websites now so I'm no longer just searching central servers, but rather the servers of individual users.
I can see going after someone like napster (easy on the flames, I used it too, this is pure devil's advocate) because they have a central entity and are a specific company. But consider this question - if we outlaw P2P and then phone companies and broadband providers merge via VOIP, then technically wouldn't the firmware of a standard phone be outlawed?
My suggestion to the BSA is, price the software within the reach of people who are going to use it anyway, with the pricing plan favoring volume, customer loyalty, etc. (maybe a cheap site license for a home?) and go with the shareware model - let people pirate a stripped down version but require MS/XP-style activation to get the full features. This also has the added benefit of putting the most restriction and highest profit on the features that are most unique and probably took the longest to conceive and develop, while not wasting everyone's time protecting the oh so precious code to save a file, edit text, etc., a lot of which is based on standard MS controls anyway.
"Multi-level detection and deterrence - a detection scheme that uses an algorithm to separate suspicious documents from those free of suspicion."
Ummm.... isn't that kind of stating the obvious? Kind of like saying the solution to the homeland security issue is to come up with a way to separate suspicious people from non-suspicious people..
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Recently here in NY we had a law passed to take the mercury out of vaccines (diff. kind of mercury used and not in dangerous amounts). The mother who they put on the news to hail the bill was, like me, a parent of an autistic child. However, the reason she gave for the bill was that "infants' immune systems are not well formed enough to fight the mercury". I was laughing so hard I nearly ripped something. That's what's wrong. You protest so hard you get a bill passed and go on the news to defend it, and you lack any basic understanding of the human body. If all these people think the vaccines are harmful, so be it. But I wish they would gain some basic understanding of the body first.
Next article, how to effectively serve a Flowgram that's referenced on Slashdot
"It looks like you're trying to sentence someone. Would you like some help?"
My son is almost 1 - I wrote almost an exactly identical post on a newsgroup before he was born. I tried several alternatives, found that any camera that was reasonably priced was basically worthless, and I finally wound up buying a Summer brand wireless video baby monitor. The thing works FANTASTICALLY. The camera has built in infrared illumination - with the nursery completely dark we can see my son like he's got a spotlight on him, and the mic is so sensitive that if the A/C isn't on you can usually hear him breathing even though the camera's way up on the wall. Since I bought mine, they have now come out with a version that has a small handheld monitoring station rather than the clunky brick-powered unit that I have. The handheld monitor looks like a gameboy. I don't know if the vid is as high quality as the clunky one that I have though. Mine also has a button to turn the video on and off so if you want you can use it as a traditional audio-only baby monitor. I am a classic worrier and this is BY FAR the ABSOLUTELY BEST piece of equipment we bought. It allowed us to put the baby in his room very early on and not worry a bit, not to mention being able to not rush in every time we hear a noise - a quick glance at the monitor tells us he's fine. It also potentially saved his life - he had a reaction to some formula and threw up while going to sleep one time - if my wife hadn't seen it on the monitor we probably would have never noticed and I won't even speculate what might have happened. I also wanted an internet ready camera piped through my web server, forwarded to my cell with motion detection to email me when he moves, etc. but the Summer monitor wound up actually doing a fantastic job.
1. Run Linux
2. Talk to my phone via Bluetooth
we'll wake up one day in a gated community to the following scene:
"Who are you?"
"The new number two."
"Who's number one?"
outlawing half the functionality of the internet? If you generalize 'P2P', couldn't I really classify almost anything, i.e. VOIP, email, IM, etc. as P2P? If I set up a SQL server the right way you can email it queries and I can set it up with tables listing what's on my machine. Throw in a list server that can deal with attachments and voila... poor man's napster.
What if I UUENCODE my software and paste it into an IM tool? When you get right down to it, even the web itself is P2P - I can search, I can download files from a specific address, I can chat with other users. A large percentage of users (no, I don't know what the percentage actually is) have their own websites now so I'm no longer just searching central servers, but rather the servers of individual users.
I can see going after someone like napster (easy on the flames, I used it too, this is pure devil's advocate) because they have a central entity and are a specific company. But consider this question - if we outlaw P2P and then phone companies and broadband providers merge via VOIP, then technically wouldn't the firmware of a standard phone be outlawed?
My suggestion to the BSA is, price the software within the reach of people who are going to use it anyway, with the pricing plan favoring volume, customer loyalty, etc. (maybe a cheap site license for a home?) and go with the shareware model - let people pirate a stripped down version but require MS/XP-style activation to get the full features. This also has the added benefit of putting the most restriction and highest profit on the features that are most unique and probably took the longest to conceive and develop, while not wasting everyone's time protecting the oh so precious code to save a file, edit text, etc., a lot of which is based on standard MS controls anyway.
that the hand-eye part transfers to surgery but NOT the fragging part....
"Heh heh... he thinks he made it through the surgery but wait'll he comes across the tripmine I left in his wheelchair!!!"
"Multi-level detection and deterrence - a detection scheme that uses an algorithm to separate suspicious documents from those free of suspicion." Ummm.... isn't that kind of stating the obvious? Kind of like saying the solution to the homeland security issue is to come up with a way to separate suspicious people from non-suspicious people..