Yes they can. The viruses for the most part aren't sending from the real address of the person whose computer they're on. They're forging other addresses found on the machine as the sender address.
My 2004 Jetta TDI gets 47-50 miles per US gallon highway, consistently. Nice, but not earth shattering. It's definitely more economical than anything anyone I know drives, though.
The automatics get a lot worse mileage, purportedly.
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Powered by what hydro-electricity? We've already damned just about every river in the country, and most provinces burn fossil fuels to generate electricity now. No fossil fuels means power shortages too, not just transportation problems.
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It is dirt cheap up until the moment it's virtually used up. It costs the Saudi's like $1/barrel to pump it out of the ground.
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It was 99.5 in Vancouver yesterday. A few places had it for 91 and they had multi-block lineups.
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Your quote about the Metro getting 59mpg is a complete load of fertilizer.
Actually, I had an '88 Chevy Sprint (basically the same car) and as I recall it got between 55 and 60 mpg depending how I drove it. It was damned cheap to drive.
As a Canadian, I'm sorry to say that our greatest friend and ally is responsible for the greatest human rights abuses occuring in Cuba at this time.
Give me a break. Castro hasn't stopped torturing and murdering his enemies. Yeah, what the US is doing to prisoners violates the Geneva Convention, but they're all walking out with their body parts intact and alive, which is still a lot better than a lot of people get in places like Cuba.
There are 10 million companies in the US. Spam costs essentially nothing to send. How useful will your mailbox be with 10 million "legimitate companies" mailing you daily?
does Canada value freedom and speech in all the same ways as the USA does?
Yes and no. We don't make such a big stink about it, but we have basically all the same rights you do and we actually exercise them about as often.
We have some politically correct hate crimes legislation that is anti-free speech. But, on the other hand, we don't have a Patriot Act or a DMCA. We don't imprison people without trial, and we don't have secret courts. Most of our government agents don't carry guns. We have no ATF, DEA, or other agency of the week with their guns and their attitudes.
We do have a fairly obtrusive government with high tax rates. However, we only have 2 income taxes (collected together with the same rules), 2 sales taxes (also sometimes collected together with the same rules). We have all the same bureaucratic BS, government inspectors, license issuers, etc.
Honestly, overall, I'd say Canada is just as free or more so, in terms of day to day life. For the fringe, we're a lot more free. People comitting victimless crimes are much less likely to be prosecuted, and will do much less jail time (usually none) if they are caught (for smoking dope, for instance).
I have to pay $92/month for BC medical, on top of my income taxes. That's for 2 people, so it's still a pittance (assuming either of us ever actually need it), but it is annoying.
I mean really, would anyone care that much about spam if we stopped getting it from penis pill pushers, vicodin pushers, Nigerian businessmen, and those women who are really horny?
Spam is not about content, it's about consent. If it's bulk advertising and I didn't ask for it, it's spam. Period.
Well, what those benchmarks don't show is that Reiser sucks up a lot more CPU than JFS or XFS while doing the same things (this is a design choice - they sacrifice CPU for file system performance).
My choice for a general purpose file system would be JFS (the lowest overall CPU usage). XFS probably for the PVR.
13% of Americans believe that both evolution and creationism should be taught as scientific theories in science class. 16% percent want no mention of evolution at all.
More than 25% of the public believes in astrology, that is, that the position of the stars and planets can affect people's lives.
60% of respondents agreed that "some people possess psychic powers or ESP" in a 2001 NSF study.
In 2001, 30% of NSF survey respondents agreed that "some of the unidentified flying objects that have been reported are really space vehicles from other civilizations"
Between 25% and 50% of people believe in haunted houses, ghosts or communication with the dead.
Only about half of the respondents knew that the earliest humans did not live at the same time as dinosaurs.
Seriously, it won't work. It doesn't work for people who are preaching , and it won't work for conspiracy nuts. They believe what they believe, and that's it.
Yeah, those poor dumb terrorists could never build a powerful device. Give me a break. Half these guys are engineers educated in Cairo and other modern centers. Just because they act crazy doesn't mean you should underestimate them.
You might want to take a look at the US's good friends in Saudi Arabia before you make any assumptions about the sort of regime that will be setup in Iraq.
It would be hard to find, anywhere on earth, a regime that could be more aptly described as totalitarian.
The only thing that matters to Washington is how much oil they'll sell and for how much.
Nope. You can tell that they haven't, because IE still communicates using standard HTTP. The day MS is in a position to embrace and extend HTTP, they will.
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Yes they can. The viruses for the most part aren't sending from the real address of the person whose computer they're on. They're forging other addresses found on the machine as the sender address.
Cool. Thanks for the update :)
My 2004 Jetta TDI gets 47-50 miles per US gallon highway, consistently. Nice, but not earth shattering. It's definitely more economical than anything anyone I know drives, though.
The automatics get a lot worse mileage, purportedly.
Powered by what hydro-electricity? We've already damned just about every river in the country, and most provinces burn fossil fuels to generate electricity now. No fossil fuels means power shortages too, not just transportation problems.
It is dirt cheap up until the moment it's virtually used up. It costs the Saudi's like $1/barrel to pump it out of the ground.
It was 99.5 in Vancouver yesterday. A few places had it for 91 and they had multi-block lineups.
Your quote about the Metro getting 59mpg is a complete load of fertilizer.
Actually, I had an '88 Chevy Sprint (basically the same car) and as I recall it got between 55 and 60 mpg depending how I drove it. It was damned cheap to drive.
For those others reading this, Memcached rocks as a general-purpose distributed memory cache.
It'll need to be updated to work with PHP 5, for one.
We use it, and it rocks, but its future is in doubt.
Identify theft is usually only a problem when it is used as a means for financial theft. Which does deprive the original owner of his or her money.
I read that even Congress didn't have access to the full text of the bill when they voted on it. Why should you.
As a Canadian, I'm sorry to say that our greatest friend and ally is responsible for the greatest human rights abuses occuring in Cuba at this time.
Give me a break. Castro hasn't stopped torturing and murdering his enemies. Yeah, what the US is doing to prisoners violates the Geneva Convention, but they're all walking out with their body parts intact and alive, which is still a lot better than a lot of people get in places like Cuba.
The government is telling someone what is OK and not OK to print, and you're asking "what's the big deal"?
Which part of the 1st Amendment did you not understand?
Bill of Rights
the (political) question of what should be taught in federally mandated compulsory education is not so simple. Do people have a right to be ignorant?
If people had a right to be ignorant, there wouldn't be federally mandated compulsory education. But that's a different argument.
There are 10 million companies in the US. Spam costs essentially nothing to send. How useful will your mailbox be with 10 million "legimitate companies" mailing you daily?
does Canada value freedom and speech in all the same ways as the USA does?
Yes and no. We don't make such a big stink about it, but we have basically all the same rights you do and we actually exercise them about as often.
We have some politically correct hate crimes legislation that is anti-free speech. But, on the other hand, we don't have a Patriot Act or a DMCA. We don't imprison people without trial, and we don't have secret courts. Most of our government agents don't carry guns. We have no ATF, DEA, or other agency of the week with their guns and their attitudes.
We do have a fairly obtrusive government with high tax rates. However, we only have 2 income taxes (collected together with the same rules), 2 sales taxes (also sometimes collected together with the same rules). We have all the same bureaucratic BS, government inspectors, license issuers, etc.
Honestly, overall, I'd say Canada is just as free or more so, in terms of day to day life. For the fringe, we're a lot more free. People comitting victimless crimes are much less likely to be prosecuted, and will do much less jail time (usually none) if they are caught (for smoking dope, for instance).
I have to pay $92/month for BC medical, on top of my income taxes. That's for 2 people, so it's still a pittance (assuming either of us ever actually need it), but it is annoying.
I mean really, would anyone care that much about spam if we stopped getting it from penis pill pushers, vicodin pushers, Nigerian businessmen, and those women who are really horny?
Spam is not about content, it's about consent. If it's bulk advertising and I didn't ask for it, it's spam. Period.
Reiser's definitely the way to go for your mail spools - the tail feature alone will save you a lot of drive space.
Well, what those benchmarks don't show is that Reiser sucks up a lot more CPU than JFS or XFS while doing the same things (this is a design choice - they sacrifice CPU for file system performance).
My choice for a general purpose file system would be JFS (the lowest overall CPU usage). XFS probably for the PVR.
As of 2001/2002, it seems you're wrong. People really do believe in this crap.
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/toc.htm
13% of Americans believe that both evolution and creationism should be taught as scientific theories in science class.
16% percent want no mention of evolution at all.
More than 25% of the public believes in astrology, that is, that the position of the stars and planets can affect people's lives.
60% of respondents agreed that "some people possess psychic powers or ESP" in a 2001 NSF study.
In 2001, 30% of NSF survey respondents agreed that "some of the unidentified flying objects that have been reported are really space vehicles from other civilizations"
Between 25% and 50% of people believe in haunted houses, ghosts or communication with the dead.
Only about half of the respondents knew that the earliest humans did not live at the same time as dinosaurs.
And many other interesting tidbits.
Seriously, it won't work. It doesn't work for people who are preaching , and it won't work for conspiracy nuts. They believe what they believe, and that's it.
Yeah, those poor dumb terrorists could never build a powerful device. Give me a break. Half these guys are engineers educated in Cairo and other modern centers. Just because they act crazy doesn't mean you should underestimate them.
You might want to take a look at the US's good friends in Saudi Arabia before you make any assumptions about the sort of regime that will be setup in Iraq.
It would be hard to find, anywhere on earth, a regime that could be more aptly described as totalitarian.
The only thing that matters to Washington is how much oil they'll sell and for how much.
Nope. You can tell that they haven't, because IE still communicates using standard HTTP. The day MS is in a position to embrace and extend HTTP, they will.