So you are willing to spend extra to install something to let out the HEAT in the middle of the winter, when instead you could save money on your heating bill by staying the way it is?
I, however, would have liked to make use of such a system to cool my house in the summer by using my pool as a heat sink, thus warming it up, and making it nicer to swim. same ideas though, but on a different scale.
Can I guess you are opposed to MRI's too? My grandfather, a veteran of WW II couldn't have MRI's because in gaining his two purple hearts, he also got shrapnel lodged in his skull, which because it could become dislodged in an MRI, he couldn't have. About a year ago, he had some hemoraging in his brain, and they had to basically go in blind to releave the preasure. Oddly enough, he outlived his brain surgeon, who died of a heart attack soon thereafter, although he followed himself in October. Such is life...
If he lives near las vegas, it might explain the mysterious EMP that in theory caused a bunch of car keys and other alarms to stop working. In any case, I hope his neighbors arn't trying to use WiFi to connect two computers, cause his work will probably knock anything off. Forget about FCC certification on his equipment...
My son was playing games on NickJR.com at age 2. While at the low end of the age group, the percent will be lower, at the high end, I expect it to be higher. Neilson is in the business of tracking people with $$, so 2-15 get lumped together.
The peak throughput of a single TCP connection can be computed from various factors, including the TCP window size, latency, etc. As such, they were comparing the peak throughput of a connection to the throughput of various transmission media, although they should have compared it a) against actual bandwidth values, and b) against peak TCP throughput numbers.
The real truth is that if you have 150K dialup lines all requesting different content on broadband connection (OC3 and the like), then this protocol won't mean squat.
Unfortunately, due to the fact that the source was itself the result of mpeg encoding, it could unfairly impact the ability of the various codecs to handle the content. On the flip side, much of the content people are encoding is actually decoded content, i.e. from a digital camcorder, etc.
What would be interesting is taking the original raw film footage (that hasn't been digitally compressed with a lossy method) and encoding, then comparing the results.
As a result of their new active retaliation products for DDoS attacks, Symbiot Security apparently accidentally initiated a frontal assult on the popular slashdot.org website as a result of the so-called "slashdot effect" that resulted in a sudden onslaught of traffic. Interpreting this as an intended DDoS attack, Symbiot's software retaliated against Slashdot, thus proving that retaliation tactics need to be rethought.
I just did a bit of research, and here is what I found:
Mozilla (at least 1.6) doesn't have the text encryption enabled by default
I can't even find a way to make MSIE 6 do the text encryption.
I forced a webserver to do only the text encryption and I couldn't connect to it with Mozilla or MSIE, so I can't see how many clients people expect to catch with this technique.
This idea will be attacked by everybody, spammers and anti-spammers alike. Why? Spammers won't allow the IP's to be changed because it would be the same as being kicked off. Why pay for service when you can't do anything. Anti-spammers will attack it for not getting it off the Internet completely. Either way nobody would like it. Other than that, great idea!
I had considered that for encryption, the same type of idea could be done to "encrypt" paper content, by taking a particular "pixel" and placing it in a different position on the page, apparently at random. Using the same "key", everything can be put back into place. Fairly simple concept.
In a different way to look at the lock, isn't this just detecting how the key routes the light, and as long as it matches the known "good" pattern, it unlocks the door? The same technique could be used in exactly the same way by shining the light through in a pattern and detecting the code, with no special light routing at all. Any key could be a legitimate key for any given lock, it just gets reprogramed.
Actually, Plankton is Mr. Crab's enemy. Spongebob wanted to be friends with him, but Plankton couldn't overcome his desire to get the secret formula for the crabie pattie.
An understanding of computers on it's own is worthless. It is the understanding of computers and how to make use of them to DO SOMETHING USEFUL that is the rare skill. This is what the readers of Slashdot don't understand.
If you have a knowledge of Medicine and Computers, then you use the COMBINED knowledge to advance the state of the tools that doctors use. If you have a knowledge of physics and computers, you help design models of how the universe works. If you have a knowledge of how accounting works, then you design software that helps bring Enron to it's knees. The point in this is that CS and IT is WORTHLESS unless you understand what the technology is used for, and as such, in the CS field you have as much value if not more than you did in you own field. This is because you UNDERSTAND the field you could help. The appropriate area of work is called "product management."
There is an old phrase: If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. This is the way with computers--if you have the knowledge of how things SHOULD be done, and help make that a reality, you solve the problem for a lifetime for everybody involved.
People like you ARE the ones making progress in the use of computers, not those that graduate in CS. Why? Because you help embody the knowledge of what you have learned into the systems that will be used in the future.
A little off topic I would say. Now, if you created a SCO mod which put the SCO exec staff as the monsters in a variant of the UT2003 invasion type, that would be on topic, and amusing to actually play too!
This reminds me of why the Canadians turned off their stationary radar units mounted over their highways. Apparently, several politicians received photo-tickets of them speeding with ther "girlfriends" in the car when they were married. Enough of this, and it kills the system.
On the flip side, the stores can ask for an e-mail address, or a cellphone number to contact in case of such an emergency, and the consumer can choose the method of contact if they are worried about it. Or they can take a risk and give their home info. If you are doing "bad" things, then using a private means of contact will probably help keep such things from happening.
If there wasn't a check box for "please contact me if there is a recall for a potentially life threatening issue" I would prefer if my vendor assumed that such a check box was checked. After all, the only "vendor" they are sharing your address with is the post office, and they just deliver mail to "boxholder". Have you ever tried to submit a change of address form for "boxholder" to point to the local dump? They don't take kindly to such requests...
Your privacy was ALREADY invaded if they had the info. The question isn't about privacy, it is about being notified about the problem. People that consider this an issue of privacy don't know what these cards do in the first place. This issue is about making the lack of privacy public. THAT is why the companies chose not to use the information.
Agreed. What is the point to this? To track people and what they buy. Privacy? Yea, right. The only issue here is if they reveal they TRACK what people buy to those ignorant of the fact that they do track what people buy.
As an informed (but understanding) user of one of these cards, I think that receiving recall information is one of the few directly beneficial uses of such a card, and most companies decided NOT to use it to benefit their users. This just goes to show where their hearts are at.
To illustrate the issue, assume that you bought a bottle of tylenol that had capsules laced with poison, and the lot number allowed the seller to identify all the purchasers of the lot. Would you want to be notified? Same thing, just more dramatic. Maybe it would have prevented many of the deaths that lead to Tylenol using caplets...
Actually, if I remember correctly, they didn't bother doing any other diagnostics on the Columbia wing because they didn't have a backup plan that would have allowed them to do anything anyway, and as such, why bother? If it blew up, well, thems the breaks. On the other hand, if they had a capsule available to evac the crew, then there would have been a choice, and decisions may have been made differently. Just a thought, but your point was valid.
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So you are willing to spend extra to install something to let out the HEAT in the middle of the winter, when instead you could save money on your heating bill by staying the way it is?
I, however, would have liked to make use of such a system to cool my house in the summer by using my pool as a heat sink, thus warming it up, and making it nicer to swim. same ideas though, but on a different scale.
Can I guess you are opposed to MRI's too? My grandfather, a veteran of WW II couldn't have MRI's because in gaining his two purple hearts, he also got shrapnel lodged in his skull, which because it could become dislodged in an MRI, he couldn't have. About a year ago, he had some hemoraging in his brain, and they had to basically go in blind to releave the preasure. Oddly enough, he outlived his brain surgeon, who died of a heart attack soon thereafter, although he followed himself in October. Such is life...
A new form of carbon that wasn't predicted by SciFi!
If he lives near las vegas, it might explain the mysterious EMP that in theory caused a bunch of car keys and other alarms to stop working. In any case, I hope his neighbors arn't trying to use WiFi to connect two computers, cause his work will probably knock anything off. Forget about FCC certification on his equipment...
Doesn't this mean that they would have to patent the idea of html mail?
Erik
My son was playing games on NickJR.com at age 2. While at the low end of the age group, the percent will be lower, at the high end, I expect it to be higher. Neilson is in the business of tracking people with $$, so 2-15 get lumped together.
The peak throughput of a single TCP connection can be computed from various factors, including the TCP window size, latency, etc. As such, they were comparing the peak throughput of a connection to the throughput of various transmission media, although they should have compared it a) against actual bandwidth values, and b) against peak TCP throughput numbers.
The real truth is that if you have 150K dialup lines all requesting different content on broadband connection (OC3 and the like), then this protocol won't mean squat.
Unfortunately, due to the fact that the source was itself the result of mpeg encoding, it could unfairly impact the ability of the various codecs to handle the content. On the flip side, much of the content people are encoding is actually decoded content, i.e. from a digital camcorder, etc.
What would be interesting is taking the original raw film footage (that hasn't been digitally compressed with a lossy method) and encoding, then comparing the results.
As a result of their new active retaliation products for DDoS attacks, Symbiot Security apparently accidentally initiated a frontal assult on the popular slashdot.org website as a result of the so-called "slashdot effect" that resulted in a sudden onslaught of traffic. Interpreting this as an intended DDoS attack, Symbiot's software retaliated against Slashdot, thus proving that retaliation tactics need to be rethought.
I just did a bit of research, and here is what I found:
Mozilla (at least 1.6) doesn't have the text encryption enabled by default
I can't even find a way to make MSIE 6 do the text encryption.
I forced a webserver to do only the text encryption and I couldn't connect to it with Mozilla or MSIE, so I can't see how many clients people expect to catch with this technique.
How much you want to bet that www.sco.com will now be hosted at EV1 and that this was but part of a deal that will end up lining EV1's pockets.
This idea will be attacked by everybody, spammers and anti-spammers alike. Why? Spammers won't allow the IP's to be changed because it would be the same as being kicked off. Why pay for service when you can't do anything. Anti-spammers will attack it for not getting it off the Internet completely. Either way nobody would like it. Other than that, great idea!
I had considered that for encryption, the same type of idea could be done to "encrypt" paper content, by taking a particular "pixel" and placing it in a different position on the page, apparently at random. Using the same "key", everything can be put back into place. Fairly simple concept.
In a different way to look at the lock, isn't this just detecting how the key routes the light, and as long as it matches the known "good" pattern, it unlocks the door? The same technique could be used in exactly the same way by shining the light through in a pattern and detecting the code, with no special light routing at all. Any key could be a legitimate key for any given lock, it just gets reprogramed.
What? If this were included in a patent filing, I wouldn't think anything of it, but being on Slashdot, I have to say WTF did that mean?
Actually, Plankton is Mr. Crab's enemy. Spongebob wanted to be friends with him, but Plankton couldn't overcome his desire to get the secret formula for the crabie pattie.
If it's in SGI Irix, I think that by definition, it would be considered "prior art" to just about anything used today.
An understanding of computers on it's own is worthless. It is the understanding of computers and how to make use of them to DO SOMETHING USEFUL that is the rare skill. This is what the readers of Slashdot don't understand.
If you have a knowledge of Medicine and Computers, then you use the COMBINED knowledge to advance the state of the tools that doctors use. If you have a knowledge of physics and computers, you help design models of how the universe works. If you have a knowledge of how accounting works, then you design software that helps bring Enron to it's knees. The point in this is that CS and IT is WORTHLESS unless you understand what the technology is used for, and as such, in the CS field you have as much value if not more than you did in you own field. This is because you UNDERSTAND the field you could help. The appropriate area of work is called "product management."
There is an old phrase: If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. This is the way with computers--if you have the knowledge of how things SHOULD be done, and help make that a reality, you solve the problem for a lifetime for everybody involved.
People like you ARE the ones making progress in the use of computers, not those that graduate in CS. Why? Because you help embody the knowledge of what you have learned into the systems that will be used in the future.
Erik
A little off topic I would say. Now, if you created a SCO mod which put the SCO exec staff as the monsters in a variant of the UT2003 invasion type, that would be on topic, and amusing to actually play too!
man, at least Milli Vanilli had singers.
This reminds me of why the Canadians turned off their stationary radar units mounted over their highways. Apparently, several politicians received photo-tickets of them speeding with ther "girlfriends" in the car when they were married. Enough of this, and it kills the system.
On the flip side, the stores can ask for an e-mail address, or a cellphone number to contact in case of such an emergency, and the consumer can choose the method of contact if they are worried about it. Or they can take a risk and give their home info. If you are doing "bad" things, then using a private means of contact will probably help keep such things from happening.
If there wasn't a check box for "please contact me if there is a recall for a potentially life threatening issue" I would prefer if my vendor assumed that such a check box was checked. After all, the only "vendor" they are sharing your address with is the post office, and they just deliver mail to "boxholder". Have you ever tried to submit a change of address form for "boxholder" to point to the local dump? They don't take kindly to such requests...
Erik
Your privacy was ALREADY invaded if they had the info. The question isn't about privacy, it is about being notified about the problem. People that consider this an issue of privacy don't know what these cards do in the first place. This issue is about making the lack of privacy public. THAT is why the companies chose not to use the information.
Agreed. What is the point to this? To track people and what they buy. Privacy? Yea, right. The only issue here is if they reveal they TRACK what people buy to those ignorant of the fact that they do track what people buy.
As an informed (but understanding) user of one of these cards, I think that receiving recall information is one of the few directly beneficial uses of such a card, and most companies decided NOT to use it to benefit their users. This just goes to show where their hearts are at.
To illustrate the issue, assume that you bought a bottle of tylenol that had capsules laced with poison, and the lot number allowed the seller to identify all the purchasers of the lot. Would you want to be notified? Same thing, just more dramatic. Maybe it would have prevented many of the deaths that lead to Tylenol using caplets...
Actually, if I remember correctly, they didn't bother doing any other diagnostics on the Columbia wing because they didn't have a backup plan that would have allowed them to do anything anyway, and as such, why bother? If it blew up, well, thems the breaks. On the other hand, if they had a capsule available to evac the crew, then there would have been a choice, and decisions may have been made differently. Just a thought, but your point was valid.
Better yet, have amazon collect money to pay off the debt in the name of your candidate, and the candidate that collects the most gets the job.