It is also possible to copy the cd to a hard drive and run it from there, without actually installing it. I'm not sure if the normal install needs a new partition, but this method definately doesn;t. Much better speed then the cd, obviously. at the boot screen put "knoppix tohd=/dev/hda1" to copy, and from then on "knoppix fromhd=/dev/hda" to run it from there.
With Google at least, you know the paid listings are off to the right, and know exactly where to look if your actually looking for an institution to get an education at if you search for "education." If you're looking for papers or news arcticles on education, at least the paid ads are seperated out, which it doesent sound like they will on Yahoo.
Perhaps a fee of $5-$10/year and you become a 'Registered Site'. This may eliminate a lot of the junk link sites that seem to be operating on the same methods as spam.
You think for $5-$10 a year spammers won't all have thier pages at the top? If yahoo tries to stop spammers from getting listed high, they will play the censorship card, or just offer to pay more for a higher listing, and how can Yahoo turn that down?
Chinese had a society at the time with written history that has no details of an unusual flood. The floods that happen with a frequency of 50 or 100 years in China would be considered HIGHLY unusual in the rest of the world, probably described as a plauge set forth by god. It's always been normal for huge populations to die in China from floods. In theory that story could have even come from China, although I believe one of the most popular theories for the origion of that story is the re-filling of the black sea after sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age.
Ah, napster. My first experience with it was at my high school in programming class, having the school's t1 all to myself, downloading at over a megabit. Those were the days. Even better was having an Unreal lan party in that room every day during 7th period, eventually the administration realized what we were doing and put a stop to it.
Unless its really aggressive in making this "notice" very clear, and not just hidden in a lisence agreement. Things will stay just like they are, since I believe its already required by law that you are told what you are installing although its fine if its hidden in 10 pages of law-speak. Sounds to me like a senator that wants to make a name for himself by trying to combat somthing people are concerned about, but not actually making any difference at all, similar to the CANSPAM laws.
Unlike spam, spyware controll can be completely handled by the user. So if you really want a spyware-free computer, you need to take care of it yourself, not ask the government to do it for you.
Well it wasn't RFID, but I recently got a new wallet, and there was a tag in it that was seemingly disabled after i bought it, but at one certain store i set off the scanner every time. After getting sick of having security check me over I checked everything I had on me, and found the tag in my wallet. Possibly he had the same problem, as it was mentioned that nowhere actually scans for RFID yet anyway, just traditional anti-theft tags.
Even if they know where the money is, is it really possible to figure out who had it, and what it was spent on? As far as I can tell, the only way RFID tags could be useful to the govt is if there are A LOT of them in a concentrated area, but wouldent the metal briefcase they always keep the money in in movies block the signal anyway? I really dont see any benefit to big brother from having RFID tags in money.
Using the same physics principles as submarines, a new company is planning a fuelless air ship.
Agreed. If i'm not mistaken submarines still need propellers to make them go, although this could make it cheaper/easier to attain the desired altitude.
Cats usually don't chew on cables, so this is an indicator that something is wrong.
Every cat i'v ever known loves to play with anything resembling a string. While a VGA cable may or may not be too thick for that description, things like speaker or mouse cables are a perfectly natural thing to attract a cat's attention. Bundling all your cables with simple wire ties may result in somthing too big for the cat to have any fun with. Possibly an alternative string would do the trick. My ex's cat had an elasticy string from a christmas present that it played with constantly, and was aparently very careful not to loose since it had the same string for over a year. It seemed to have quite an attachment to that silly piece of string, and never messed with any other wires in the house. Maybe the same would work for your cat.
Knowing how to code is a really important skill to have if you want to do anything in depth with computers, even if you dont want to do any real developing. If you can look at a program and grasp the general idea of how it works, it makes it a lot easier to use and troubleshoot. I myself am studying CS, and hope to get a coding job. I was required to write a compiler for one of my classes, and it helped my coding abilities a lot because I now understand the process of going from "if foo than bar() else foobar()" to machine language, and can write more optimized code because of it. This is analagous to being able to use software better because you know how it works. To really understand what you are working on, you need to understand what is going on underneath it.
So the bottom line is, if you cant handle coding, i'd suggest you change your career goals.
So essentially the cause for terrorism against the U.S. are lobbies, big oil and the friends of isreal. If we could find an alternative energy source (we could subsidize liquified coal for years, if not discover somthing better with the $89 billion + we spend in Iraq), and stay out of Isreal's buisness, there would be no reason whatsoever to interfere with middle east affairs. Did anyone notice that there are pleanty of islamic dictatorships in africa what could harbor or help potential terrorists as much as Iraq, with leaders with human rights records equal to or worse than Sadam? We don't care though, because they dont have enough oil, or are not near enough to de-stablize an oil producing region for us to care.
These days, presidents don't seem to declare war on things that can possibly be ended by a peace treat (drugs, poverty, terror, etc). Tell me, Mr Bush, is the war on terror going to be over before or after the war on drugs?
The government has a lot more to gain by declaring war on things that can't be ended by a peace treaty, because they become part of the political dogma and in turn increase the government's controll. Once somthing has been considered bad for long enough, it is just by definition bad, and a reason no longer needs to be supplied. Marijuana really isn't any worse for you then alcahol, and even has posative effects, but it has been shown quite a few times recently that voters deny legalization by a landslide, just because "its bad." The cold war ended, and the government needed a new on-going war to pour money into, and came up with the war on drugs and the war on terrorism. Bush saw the war on terrorism as a great oppritunity to unify everyone who doesn't think for themself by creating fear, and any democratic canidate who doesn't agree will be labeled as un-patriotic or inviting more attacks. Same with the war on drugs, anyone who doesn't support it is seen by the public as having no morals, and won't be elected. So the democrats are forced to follow suit on these things, and the republicans gain an upper hand by saying "hey, that was our idea."
In my opinion, the reality is that these wars just cause more damage. They create destructive drug cartels, and tell the terrorists that they succeeded in making us scared as hell, and are destroying the democratic basis of our country. People need to wake up and realize what is really happening, and think beyond the slick marketing of these wars by the government.
While drug dealers have a market that will probably never go away, and theres no other place to get your crack, there are lots of other places to find mortgages porn and "organ enhancements." Obviously someone must be buying things they see in spam, but if they could be educated not to, the problem would go away, since the marketers would realize it is ineffective. Just a simple warning on the AOL welcome page not to buy from spammers could make a huge difference. I think the key in in destroying the demand, as spam filters create new problems.
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Why in the world would ATMs need winXP? I can think of plenty of reasons why they dont, but not a single one why they do...
It is also possible to copy the cd to a hard drive and run it from there, without actually installing it. I'm not sure if the normal install needs a new partition, but this method definately doesn;t. Much better speed then the cd, obviously. at the boot screen put "knoppix tohd=/dev/hda1" to copy, and from then on "knoppix fromhd=/dev/hda" to run it from there.
With Google at least, you know the paid listings are off to the right, and know exactly where to look if your actually looking for an institution to get an education at if you search for "education." If you're looking for papers or news arcticles on education, at least the paid ads are seperated out, which it doesent sound like they will on Yahoo.
Perhaps a fee of $5-$10/year and you become a 'Registered Site'. This may eliminate a lot of the junk link sites that seem to be operating on the same methods as spam.
You think for $5-$10 a year spammers won't all have thier pages at the top? If yahoo tries to stop spammers from getting listed high, they will play the censorship card, or just offer to pay more for a higher listing, and how can Yahoo turn that down?
Chinese had a society at the time with written history that has no details of an unusual flood. The floods that happen with a frequency of 50 or 100 years in China would be considered HIGHLY unusual in the rest of the world, probably described as a plauge set forth by god. It's always been normal for huge populations to die in China from floods. In theory that story could have even come from China, although I believe one of the most popular theories for the origion of that story is the re-filling of the black sea after sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age.
I can see it now, kazza dispensing only mislabeled copies of "Feelings"
Ah, napster. My first experience with it was at my high school in programming class, having the school's t1 all to myself, downloading at over a megabit. Those were the days. Even better was having an Unreal lan party in that room every day during 7th period, eventually the administration realized what we were doing and put a stop to it.
Unless its really aggressive in making this "notice" very clear, and not just hidden in a lisence agreement. Things will stay just like they are, since I believe its already required by law that you are told what you are installing although its fine if its hidden in 10 pages of law-speak. Sounds to me like a senator that wants to make a name for himself by trying to combat somthing people are concerned about, but not actually making any difference at all, similar to the CANSPAM laws.
Unlike spam, spyware controll can be completely handled by the user. So if you really want a spyware-free computer, you need to take care of it yourself, not ask the government to do it for you.
Maybe it was the wallet which had a hidden rfid
Well it wasn't RFID, but I recently got a new wallet, and there was a tag in it that was seemingly disabled after i bought it, but at one certain store i set off the scanner every time. After getting sick of having security check me over I checked everything I had on me, and found the tag in my wallet. Possibly he had the same problem, as it was mentioned that nowhere actually scans for RFID yet anyway, just traditional anti-theft tags.
Even if they know where the money is, is it really possible to figure out who had it, and what it was spent on? As far as I can tell, the only way RFID tags could be useful to the govt is if there are A LOT of them in a concentrated area, but wouldent the metal briefcase they always keep the money in in movies block the signal anyway? I really dont see any benefit to big brother from having RFID tags in money.
Using the same physics principles as submarines, a new company is planning a fuelless air ship.
Agreed. If i'm not mistaken submarines still need propellers to make them go, although this could make it cheaper/easier to attain the desired altitude.
Cats usually don't chew on cables, so this is an indicator that something is wrong.
Every cat i'v ever known loves to play with anything resembling a string. While a VGA cable may or may not be too thick for that description, things like speaker or mouse cables are a perfectly natural thing to attract a cat's attention. Bundling all your cables with simple wire ties may result in somthing too big for the cat to have any fun with. Possibly an alternative string would do the trick. My ex's cat had an elasticy string from a christmas present that it played with constantly, and was aparently very careful not to loose since it had the same string for over a year. It seemed to have quite an attachment to that silly piece of string, and never messed with any other wires in the house. Maybe the same would work for your cat.
Knowing how to code is a really important skill to have if you want to do anything in depth with computers, even if you dont want to do any real developing. If you can look at a program and grasp the general idea of how it works, it makes it a lot easier to use and troubleshoot. I myself am studying CS, and hope to get a coding job. I was required to write a compiler for one of my classes, and it helped my coding abilities a lot because I now understand the process of going from "if foo than bar() else foobar()" to machine language, and can write more optimized code because of it. This is analagous to being able to use software better because you know how it works. To really understand what you are working on, you need to understand what is going on underneath it.
So the bottom line is, if you cant handle coding, i'd suggest you change your career goals.
So essentially the cause for terrorism against the U.S. are lobbies, big oil and the friends of isreal. If we could find an alternative energy source (we could subsidize liquified coal for years, if not discover somthing better with the $89 billion + we spend in Iraq), and stay out of Isreal's buisness, there would be no reason whatsoever to interfere with middle east affairs. Did anyone notice that there are pleanty of islamic dictatorships in africa what could harbor or help potential terrorists as much as Iraq, with leaders with human rights records equal to or worse than Sadam? We don't care though, because they dont have enough oil, or are not near enough to de-stablize an oil producing region for us to care.
These days, presidents don't seem to declare war on things that can possibly be ended by a peace treat (drugs, poverty, terror, etc). Tell me, Mr Bush, is the war on terror going to be over before or after the war on drugs?
The government has a lot more to gain by declaring war on things that can't be ended by a peace treaty, because they become part of the political dogma and in turn increase the government's controll. Once somthing has been considered bad for long enough, it is just by definition bad, and a reason no longer needs to be supplied. Marijuana really isn't any worse for you then alcahol, and even has posative effects, but it has been shown quite a few times recently that voters deny legalization by a landslide, just because "its bad." The cold war ended, and the government needed a new on-going war to pour money into, and came up with the war on drugs and the war on terrorism. Bush saw the war on terrorism as a great oppritunity to unify everyone who doesn't think for themself by creating fear, and any democratic canidate who doesn't agree will be labeled as un-patriotic or inviting more attacks. Same with the war on drugs, anyone who doesn't support it is seen by the public as having no morals, and won't be elected. So the democrats are forced to follow suit on these things, and the republicans gain an upper hand by saying "hey, that was our idea."
In my opinion, the reality is that these wars just cause more damage. They create destructive drug cartels, and tell the terrorists that they succeeded in making us scared as hell, and are destroying the democratic basis of our country. People need to wake up and realize what is really happening, and think beyond the slick marketing of these wars by the government.
While drug dealers have a market that will probably never go away, and theres no other place to get your crack, there are lots of other places to find mortgages porn and "organ enhancements." Obviously someone must be buying things they see in spam, but if they could be educated not to, the problem would go away, since the marketers would realize it is ineffective. Just a simple warning on the AOL welcome page not to buy from spammers could make a huge difference. I think the key in in destroying the demand, as spam filters create new problems.