The difference, however, is that Earth was in a position to heat up and eveolve, whereas Titan is perpetually frozen.
Until the sun starts to edge towards being a red giant... Titan will have ample opportunity to be toasty then. Admittedly, not for a period anywhere near as long as earth has enjoyed, and the surface of the sun will be much closer to Titan leading to some minor inconveniences of radiation....
You really need to try OpenBSD before you dismiss this guy. Compared to Linux, OpenBSD is MUCH better designed... Linux is "good enough" to get the job done, and has more features and hardware support than OpenBSD but it is not well architected at all.
Isn't this kind of like saying 'you really need to test drive A Corvette Vapor. Beautiful, perfect enginering design: you absolutely must check out the perfect crystal allignment in the metal used to make the intake manifold and the wasted space and wasted torque have been reduced to less than 1/10,000,000 of 1%. It doesn't come with a radio, nobody has designed tires for it, it only comes in one color, and if it ever breaks down you have to disassemble it and mail it to Lithuania for diagnostics, but it is beautifully designed.
I have no vested interest in one operating system or another: I want to turn on my computer and make it go beep when it should beep and make it emit puffs of smoke when it should emit puffs of smoke. I know precious little about what happens under the hood - the OS could have been written in binary, pig latin or american sign language for all I cane. The only thing that I care about is that I can consistently push this button and get the computer to respond with that's the wrong button, you are an idiot before my short attention span makes me start wishing that I was doing something else.
There are definitely computer purists out there who care about elegant design. I am very glad and appreciative that they are out there because if the people who know how to design operating systems did something else then I wouldn't have anything to make my box whzzz, brrrrng and clkclkclk in patterns that make me smile. But fighting over source code that I'll never see and couldn't understand if I did is irrelevant to me. I'll try anything that I can get my hands on - I have a special box I call my sandbox that gets reformatted on a regular basis (every time I push the wrong button and hose it, basically). Some versions of Linux didn't work right, some did. I'm pretty sure I tried OpenBSD and will undoubtedly do so again. But if I can't get the system up and running to the point where I can print out a test email I send to myself within 90 minutes and browse/. and thinkgeek.com in 1024x768 resolution then the system is deemed too unwieldly to recommend that others install it on their systems and the install CDs get stuffed into the dusty archive. That some developer left a comment within the kernal is entirely irrelevant to me.
But that's just me . Myopinionsare mineyoursaredifferentandifyoudon'tlikethatthenjust toobadbecausei'mnotgoingtochangeunlessyougivemegoo dreasontodoso.
Maybe instead of being lazy, the list administrators should do it in a way that at least minimizes damages. If an ISP moves a blacklisted custmoer to another IP, flag them as possible spam-friendly, and investigate further: ask the ISP whats happening, check if it's REALLY spam*. If it happens again, or the ISP give an unsatisfactory response, then flag them as spam-friendly. At that point, you can blacklist the ISPs netblock. Even skipping the second step, and only listing the netblock if the site has moved IPs within the same netblock owner would be better than it is now.
Feel free to set up a list that follows these steps. You may even get a few subscribers. Or a lot. I'll bet that you get sick of the administrative overhead after a month and you'll still have people chewing you out for blacklisting a netblock no matter what you do.
I run a small shared server, and we've been blacklisted before for a legitimate opt-in newsletter. instead of unsubscribing, someone sends to abuse@whatever and suddenly, entire netblock is listed.
And of course you were able to send the email the complainer sent as part of your confirmed opt-in process to be removed from the list, right? You were using confirmed opt-in, right? I have lots of spammers claiming that I opted in to their lists, even though they were clearly using harvested addresses used for nothing aside from posting resumes to monster-and-similar sites.
Again, for emphasis, the people who run the blacklists don't care what you, I, or anybody else think, nor are they under any obligation to do so. You are not their customer, their friend, a supplier of free beer or a source of possible sexual encounters. Any complaints directed at them is like peeing into the wind, only somewhat less effictive at keeping your comfort level high. If your emails are being blocked unfairly your -ONLY- legitimate target of complaints is the network admin who has decided to block messages originating from your server. He may listen to you. Or not. His network, his gate, his key, his rules.
If I bought 100% of the shares of eBay tomorrow then decided to block anybody with an IP address where the third octet wasn't either a prime or a sum of two cubes it would be entirely my right to do so. It would then be up to me to deal with the consequences of my actions. The math geek who wrote up the list of all prime numbers and sums of two cubes between 0 and 255 would have nothing to do with it as I would have made the decision to apply said list to my IP filters.
this is just a strongarm tactic to harass as many innocent parties as possible
You hit the nail right on the head. In fact, a fly on the wall related to me the entire conversation from the morning they decided to set this thing up:
Person 1: I'm bored this morning, how 'bout you?
Person 2: Yeah, me too, dewd. Let's start harassing as many innocent parties as we can!
Person 1: Yeah, dewd! That'd be way wicked cool!
Anyway, they shouldn't be blocking entire blocks of IPs. That doesn't even make sense. What does one guy on one IP out of hundreds or thousands who spammed for most of a day before he got caught have to do with my server which has run clean and reliable and secure and in good faith (including SPF and everything else) for the better part of a decade?
Blame the spammers' money and the greed of the ISPs. It used to be quite common for a spammer to run under his pink contract from an IP address until people got fed up and blocked that specific IP. Certain ISPs would then assign the spammer a new IP address knowingly full well what they were doing with the explicit intent of allowing that spammer to bypass the blocklists from people who were obviously and explicitly taking steps to avoid the spam. Unfortunately as it turned out truly innocent customers were being assigned a dirty IP address that had been previously sullied by a spammer. The moment their email server came online they were already blocked because of what had happened there before. Talk about unfair.
The spam-friendly ISPs forced the blacklisting of IP blocks: there was simply no other way to filter out the spam coming from those netblocks. Other users of that hosting service may be inconvenienced, but the system admin's right to take steps to prevent spam from gumming up the works of HIS OWN NETWORK outweights the right of anybody else to expect email originating from the same IP address used to send out three trillion ads for vgiara the week before to be received with open arms.
Does this catch innocent people in the crossfire? Unfortunately, yes. But with 4,228,250,625 possible IP addresses those who maintain the blacklists can't be expected to personally review each and every email asking to be whitelisted and spend time and effort determining who is telling the truth and who is following spam rule #1.
If widget.qqq has your domain blacklisted then your beef is with the admin of widget.qqq. Period. End of story. Beg him to whitelist you. Buy him a pizza. Send him some free (as in beer) beer. Serenade him at three in the morning. Send three billion statements of character witness. But his network, his gate, his key, his rules on granting admission.
Let's look at this another way: If I am throwing a party and, on the advice of my friend who told me that people who wear Mickey Mouse shirts are boring, I deny admission to people wearing Mickey Mouse shirts from whom will you beg entry and who shall be called nasty names for listening to somebody else?
Of course, that's the solution, isn't it? We must ban any and all people from publishing an opinion regarding the statistical probability that an email from a given IP address is spam.
It never says the ISP can only filter if the customer asks. To be safe the ISP could choose to filter anyway. Not sure if this is significant...
Not really. Market forces and other laws already address this. This law does nothing other than pander to a predominately Mormon population so parents can feel good that the government is doing something to protect the children and make them actually work to see all of the prawn as they spend 6 unsupervised hours/day cruising the web.
The ACLU must be having a slow month out there in Utah - this law does nothing but allow households to exercise their right to control what enters their homes as affirmed in ROWAN v. U. S. POST OFFICE DEPT. , 397 U.S. 728 (1970)
In a properly designed database file system, folders/directories should be replaced with standard queries. An example of this is the Labelling system in GMail. You can add a meta-data label to any email, which will then cause that email to appear in a virtual folder of the same name as the label.
The single most useful feature introduced in Outlook 2003 (and, by extension, Office 2003) was exactly this: the Unread Mail "folder" and all similar are not folders at all but searches across all folders to match whatever criteria was designed into the search. (All red follow up flags, for example.) I couldn't work with even a semblance of efficiency without it. Thunderbird has the same feature but since that is what I use at home I don't have as much of a use for it so can't comment on how well it works.
This sounds more like a worst case scenario of judges legislating from the bench.
Uh oh... somebody doesn't like the way something goes in court and immediately calls it 'legislating' from the bench. I wonder how he (assumption) voted in '04.
In TFA the judge says "Florida cannot contract away the statutory rights of its citizens". See that word statutory? Ever wonder what that means? The use of that particular word denotes actual, codified law in the books somewhere that guarantees those charged with a crime something along the lines of the right to understand how evidence was gathered against them.
If the state does not have a requirement of disclosure then by what basis do the judges operate?
Refer back to that word statutory - it appears that the state does have a requirement of disclosure.
How can they not apply this to speeding tickets, parking meters, or are items of revenue enhancement strictly excluded from this test?
I'll bet it does apply. Q: How does a speed gun work? A: http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1ED3343B and has an accuracy of.x +/- mph Q: How does the parking meter keep track of time A: A mechanical or electronic timekeeper which is accurate to within.001 seconds/day
Compare this with Q: How does your test meter detect alcohol and what is the accuracy A: None of your business. Q: So you're saying that if my BAC is.05 your machine could overrepresent this and show.09? A: None of your business. Q: If I eat a tuna sandwich does your machine consistently give false positives? A: None of your business. Q: If I fart will your machine generate a false positive? A: None of your business.
Can you honestly say that you don't have a problem with this? Next time you're in court I will hook you up to a polygraph. You must accept the results without question. There's a red light and a green light on the top - if the red light illuminates then you're guilty and go to jail. No, you aren't allowed to know how it works. Trade secret. But you wouldn't have a problem with this, right? After all, any judge who excludes this is obviously legislating from the bench and needs to be sued if a murderer gets off. Right?
I would love to see these judges SUED and jailed if one of the people whose case they dismiss subsequently kill someone on their next DUI.
Perhaps allowing a judge to be personally held accountable if he lets somebody back on the street after a 4th or 5th OUI conviction but to punish a judge for dismissing the charges after one's rights were violated due to improper collection of evidence is out of line. If a judge convicts a guy 10 times for OUI but the bum gets parole every time and then goes out and kills somebody you'd be on to something.
Other than that I'd say you're blowing smoke. Better hope that the testing equipment doesn't register smoke as EOH fumes or you're gonna see some jail time. Or maybe just some serious probation.
I ran w2k right up until I swapped my PII-233 for the AMD 64 which came with XP Media Center (whoop de doo) and all of the drivers for the new DVD burner, etc already installed. w2k -easily- gave me a 40% performance boost when I upped from 98. And that was before adding the extra ram. I don't think I'll ever see that kind of performance boost from windows again.
The only application that I could run under XP but not in w2k was my old copy of Lost Island of Dr Brain (I'm addicted to the music game - one of my favorites of all time) which saw w2k as some sort of alien threat but runs perfectly in 98 compatibility mode in XP. (Compatibility mode in XP is also the only thing that lets me play Alpha Centauri on the AMD 64 when I'm waxing bored... that and fast user switching are the only two advantages XP MCE has over w2k.)
Will this SP5-that-isn't-really-SP5 be available as an image I can download for when I rebuild a w2k system at some point in the future?
Seems like it's going to be an interesting continuity-versus-drama challenge in that, if Indy can't die (having drank from the Holy Grail in the previous movie), what enemies/threats does he really have for the assumed action scenes?
He doesn't have immortality - the knight was quite clear that the price of eternal life requires that one never pass over the great seal. To maintain immortality it would appear that one would have to regularly drink from the cup.
You have chosen wisely. But the Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal. That is the boundary and the price of immortality.
Of all the exotic materials they can make rings out of, one thing she would not do was make rings out of titanium. The reason? In case of certain medical emergencies (snagged in a machine, or crashed car, or whatever), they'd need to cut the ring off to free the finger (and ultimately the entire person). But no paramedic or even hospital ward is routinely equipped with tools to cut through titanium.
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we contacted our local hospital emergency room and asked if they were equipped to cut off a titanium ring in an emergency. Most hospital emergency rooms are prepared to handle almost anything, and ours assured us that it would be no problem for them.
During our 30+ years of jewelry repair experience, we've only seen a dozen or so rings that have been cut off in hospital emergency rooms, and in most of those cases the rings had been bent out-of-round and were putting painful pressure on the finger. Titanium rings are less likely to crush or bend out-of-round, so if you shut your hand in a car door or drop a heavy object on it, it might be safer to be wearing a titanium ring than a precious metal band!
Counter 2 In case of an emergency, such as an injured finger, Emergency Medical Technicians, Fire Departments, and Hospital Emergency Rooms can quickly remove titanium rings.
Several non-destructive methods for ring removal are available before resorting to cutting a ring.
In the rare event it becomes necessary to cut off a titanium ring, emergency medical professionals carry ring cutters or rotary cut-off tools that cut through metals, including our CP and Aerospace Grade Titanium. In our testing, we found that tools that will cut through steel will also cut through titanium rings.
Counter 3 Titanium rings are created with safety in mind, as there is always the possibility that a ring will need to be removed in an emergency. Tests by various manufacturers have shown that titanium rings can be manually cut with a ring cutter within a matter of minutes, and much faster using an electric ring cutting device, such as those that many paramedics use.
Counter 4 I had heard that there is a "medical emergency" issue (i.e. they can't cut the ring off of your finger with regular ring snippers) but my friend's hubby, who is an EMT, assured me that this isn't something to be concerned about, since they have different types of cutters they can use should the need arise.
If that's true, whomever designed those systems deserves to be punished severely. Why would you put all your eggs in a basket you don't own?
The same can be said of the electrical grid. And the cellular network. And the water network. And the sewage system. Or the public road infrastructure. Or the food distribution chain. Face it - virtually every aspect of modern life requires you to rely almost completely on infrastructures that you do not own.
One has to remember what the internet actually is - a system to transport data. For me it has proven to be far more reliable than the power grid - when the lights go out the internet connection at my house remains active. Should a system go down the first time a packet is dropped? Absolutely not. But that isn't the case here. What Russia is seeing is a massive widespread power failure that is probably beyond the designed tolerance. And keep in mind what else -could- be happening. Why was the sewage shunted to the river? Was it to keep it out of the basement of the local hospital?
I always wondered why it was that my cell phone always has to have 911 access, yet Ma Bell can cut my service and I get no dial tone if I don't pay my bills.
When I left my landline service and switched to cell-only (if the phone company was willing to provide DSL I would have stayed, but that's another story) I was a mite confuddled when I kept hearing a dialtone even after the account had supposedly been cancelled. Then one day I decided to test this dialtone and received a recording saying something along the lines of "service to this line has been disconnected but if you dial *pushthesenumbers you can have set up a new account immediately". I didn't test to see if 911 worked.
4 years of Comp Sci in HS 1986-1990 starting out with Turbo Pascal 3.0 - oh the joys experienced when we got all the way up to 5.5 with the improved editing system. Our lab had a utility picked up from somewhere that would automatically format the sourcecode into neatly indented, spaced and CAPed variables and whatnot. (Which some smartalec modified to reformat all sourcecode removing all lowercase letters that weren't in quotes, all formatting spaces, indents and carriage returns to try and get the entire source to redisplay on as few lines as possible.)
It was a very powerful development tool: one of the students wrote some AI routines whereby one dot chased another dot that was learning how to avoid being captured.
A few years after I graduated I heard that the AP exam had stopped using Pascal and switched to C. By then the dual 360kb floppy machines were gone from the lab as were the XL style keyboards that had seen thousands of hours of spacewar.
You've entirely missed the point. Nobody is saying that you have a right to run the OS on this chip, that chip or the other chip. They are saying that Microsoft is stupid/evil/corrupt for implementing this policy.
However, let's assume this time Microsoft really, really gets it right. If so, it won't be only malware that has a hard time on your computer. With their Palladium-- er sorry, Next Generatio-- er whatever they call it this week, your own software won't trust you. Can I play this music? Dunno, let's ask Microsoft. Can I see this movie? Dunno, let's ask Microsoft. Or more accurately, let's ask the systems Microsoft has put in place to handle permissioning.
This is not just a Microsoft thing - this is the future of computing in general. Not only will your computer check for permission to play a song, but your coffeemaker will check for permission to brew specific grounds - the Melitta One brewer is just a sneak peek at what is to come.
Let's face it - the Gillette model of revenue works. Exceptionally well. To a CEO who is focused only on increasing revenue - as CEOs are hired to do - to ignore this opportunity is a career-ending move.
I ask only two things:
1. PLEASE no Jar Jar in any way, shape, form, memory, echo, allusion, hint, reference, tribute, allegory, or any other apt words.
2. Am I the only person who has notices that George loves to use screen wipes? With every screen wipe I get this image of Homer Simpson saying "and star wipe and we're done". I'm sick of those stupid screen wipes between every scene.
Uh... why? And what does this have to do with the rest of your post, or the matter at hand?
The US Senators were written into the Constitution to ensure that the states themselves had representation in the Senate. The states could appoint and recall senators as they saw fit: donating trips on corporate jets, massive soft money donations and use of the corporate suite at the local sporting venue wouldn't hold as much influence over a Senator who had to convince the governor back home that he was doing a good and honest job.
I expect that would cross the line of States Rights. Perhaps they could enforce it for interstate transportation, but within my state I think there would be a fight against such a thing.
The feds can't order the states to comply but they can withhold funding unless they do. The 0.08 BAL for DWI is a recent example, and the national speed limit is another.
It ain't ignore the rights of the state, it is bribing them away.
What are the odds that Congress which is openly in bed with RIAA and MPAA will wait longer than a few months to tack on a rider to some wildly popular (or arcane and unreadable) piece of legislation allowing this sort of restriction to proceed as planned?
So long as the following tweaks to the system are not implemented Congress will be able to ignore the wishes of the people and grant any and all favors to their lobbyists.
No representative or senator should ever be allowed to vote on any piece of legislation which they personally have not read
Any vote on anything that involves de facto laws, rules, regulations or monetary impact of any kind must be by roll call vote
The name of the legislator who introduced or modified each line of text in each and every bill must be fully disclosed
But access at home? Suddenly there's a host of resources open to them. And yes, some kids will discover the great joy of internet pr0n. Many of them will spend a lot of time playing games or downloading music and movies.
But they'll also be able to find pretty much anything at the drop of a hat.
The assessments of knowledge in our culture have changed. It used to be about what we know. Now it's about what we can find on short notice.
The federal government is currently experiencing heavy pressure to approve subsidies for HDTV equipment for low income households who will otherwise be cut off at the time of the Great Crossover. The implication is that the ability to watch TV is a right and that anybody who can't afford a set of their own should be given one by the taxpayers.
If broadband access is a similar right, then should free computers be handed out as well? Since the dawn of this nation the local public libraries have been the point of access for all kinds of reference material otherwise inaccessable to the masses. While you have not made the explicit declaration, your argument seems to revolve around the concept that -convenient- access is the right. I reject this premise.
There are many, many goods/products/services which improve the quality of life for just about anybody who owns them. 10 years ago having a complete set of Britannica would have been marvelous. But society never had an obligation to provide them for everybody: there was public access at the library and that was good enough. I hold that the technologically literate wouldn't even be considering the point of "free access in the home for the poor" if they didn't see a means of piggybacking cheaper access for themselves onto the deal.
There are ways to ensure affordable access to more: prohibiting rate increases for phone companies that refuse to offer DSL services (are you listening, Verizon?) and allowing municipalities to offer community access as a utility akin to water/sewer/electric would be a start. Requiring all new developments of 10 units or more to provide fiber service to the curb would be another perfectly valid, reasonable requirement, just as requiring them to provide some sort of electric and water service has been for decades. And once the new development has fiber in the area, patching the surrounding neighborhoods into the line becomes very inexpensive and relatively easy. Eliminating the monopolies that companies such as Comcast enjoy and opening markets up to competition would also bring great benefit to the residents.
But again, internet access should just be considered a utility and spare the "it's for the children" argument - requiring electric service to new houses is good for everybody involved, not just the children who can now read Playboy by nightlight.
(P.S. public schooling has done far more harm to the minds of the children than lack of a T-1 line ever will.)
high speed internet access is rapidly becoming as essential to the growth and development of the mind as public education.
Yeah... just imagine what Einstein could have accomplished if he had been able to receive 50,000 ads for p3515 pills and lots and lots of juicy pr0n.
As for good, quality ejucashun with computers, there have been articles written from time to time about how teachers, tired of grading 15 page papers for the 45 chillun's in their classes have assigned a 15 slide powerpoint presentation instead. IIRC this was brought up in Scientific American a year or two back, and has surfaced elsewhere a time or three. Google exercise is left for the reader. Yep... dat der's PROGRESS! Instead of graduating vast numbers of people capable of writing, say, a grant proposal or filling out a tax form they'll be able to develop a series of powerpoint slides to defend themselves against RIAA's lawsuits or chart the length of their various bits of anatomy as they freebase their cha3p v14gr4!
After the ark came to rest the snakes approached Noah with a problem. When questioned regarding their point of concern they replied "we can't go forth and multiply - we're adders."
So Noah set out and chopped down several large trees, stripped them of bark and fastened them together to make some crude furniture. Noah proudly declared the issue resolved: "even adders can multiply using log tables".
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Until the sun starts to edge towards being a red giant... Titan will have ample opportunity to be toasty then. Admittedly, not for a period anywhere near as long as earth has enjoyed, and the surface of the sun will be much closer to Titan leading to some minor inconveniences of radiation....
It isn't? Better go tell the folks at m-w.com, dictionary.com , princeton, Webster (who included the word remediate in his 1828 dictionary)...
Isn't this kind of like saying 'you really need to test drive A Corvette Vapor. Beautiful, perfect enginering design: you absolutely must check out the perfect crystal allignment in the metal used to make the intake manifold and the wasted space and wasted torque have been reduced to less than 1/10,000,000 of 1%. It doesn't come with a radio, nobody has designed tires for it, it only comes in one color, and if it ever breaks down you have to disassemble it and mail it to Lithuania for diagnostics, but it is beautifully designed.
I have no vested interest in one operating system or another: I want to turn on my computer and make it go beep when it should beep and make it emit puffs of smoke when it should emit puffs of smoke. I know precious little about what happens under the hood - the OS could have been written in binary, pig latin or american sign language for all I cane. The only thing that I care about is that I can consistently push this button and get the computer to respond with that's the wrong button, you are an idiot before my short attention span makes me start wishing that I was doing something else.
There are definitely computer purists out there who care about elegant design. I am very glad and appreciative that they are out there because if the people who know how to design operating systems did something else then I wouldn't have anything to make my box whzzz, brrrrng and clkclkclk in patterns that make me smile. But fighting over source code that I'll never see and couldn't understand if I did is irrelevant to me. I'll try anything that I can get my hands on - I have a special box I call my sandbox that gets reformatted on a regular basis (every time I push the wrong button and hose it, basically). Some versions of Linux didn't work right, some did. I'm pretty sure I tried OpenBSD and will undoubtedly do so again. But if I can't get the system up and running to the point where I can print out a test email I send to myself within 90 minutes and browse /. and thinkgeek.com in 1024x768 resolution then the system is deemed too unwieldly to recommend that others install it on their systems and the install CDs get stuffed into the dusty archive. That some developer left a comment within the kernal is entirely irrelevant to me.
But that's just me . Myopinionsare mineyoursaredifferentandifyoudon'tlikethatthenjust toobadbecausei'mnotgoingtochangeunlessyougivemegoo dreasontodoso.
And that's the truth. :
Feel free to set up a list that follows these steps. You may even get a few subscribers. Or a lot. I'll bet that you get sick of the administrative overhead after a month and you'll still have people chewing you out for blacklisting a netblock no matter what you do.
And of course you were able to send the email the complainer sent as part of your confirmed opt-in process to be removed from the list, right? You were using confirmed opt-in, right? I have lots of spammers claiming that I opted in to their lists, even though they were clearly using harvested addresses used for nothing aside from posting resumes to monster-and-similar sites.
Again, for emphasis, the people who run the blacklists don't care what you, I, or anybody else think, nor are they under any obligation to do so. You are not their customer, their friend, a supplier of free beer or a source of possible sexual encounters. Any complaints directed at them is like peeing into the wind, only somewhat less effictive at keeping your comfort level high. If your emails are being blocked unfairly your -ONLY- legitimate target of complaints is the network admin who has decided to block messages originating from your server. He may listen to you. Or not. His network, his gate, his key, his rules.
If I bought 100% of the shares of eBay tomorrow then decided to block anybody with an IP address where the third octet wasn't either a prime or a sum of two cubes it would be entirely my right to do so. It would then be up to me to deal with the consequences of my actions. The math geek who wrote up the list of all prime numbers and sums of two cubes between 0 and 255 would have nothing to do with it as I would have made the decision to apply said list to my IP filters.
You hit the nail right on the head. In fact, a fly on the wall related to me the entire conversation from the morning they decided to set this thing up:
Person 1: I'm bored this morning, how 'bout you?
Person 2: Yeah, me too, dewd. Let's start harassing as many innocent parties as we can!
Person 1: Yeah, dewd! That'd be way wicked cool!
Blame the spammers' money and the greed of the ISPs. It used to be quite common for a spammer to run under his pink contract from an IP address until people got fed up and blocked that specific IP. Certain ISPs would then assign the spammer a new IP address knowingly full well what they were doing with the explicit intent of allowing that spammer to bypass the blocklists from people who were obviously and explicitly taking steps to avoid the spam. Unfortunately as it turned out truly innocent customers were being assigned a dirty IP address that had been previously sullied by a spammer. The moment their email server came online they were already blocked because of what had happened there before. Talk about unfair.
The spam-friendly ISPs forced the blacklisting of IP blocks: there was simply no other way to filter out the spam coming from those netblocks. Other users of that hosting service may be inconvenienced, but the system admin's right to take steps to prevent spam from gumming up the works of HIS OWN NETWORK outweights the right of anybody else to expect email originating from the same IP address used to send out three trillion ads for vgiara the week before to be received with open arms.
Does this catch innocent people in the crossfire? Unfortunately, yes. But with 4,228,250,625 possible IP addresses those who maintain the blacklists can't be expected to personally review each and every email asking to be whitelisted and spend time and effort determining who is telling the truth and who is following spam rule #1.
If widget.qqq has your domain blacklisted then your beef is with the admin of widget.qqq. Period. End of story. Beg him to whitelist you. Buy him a pizza. Send him some free (as in beer) beer. Serenade him at three in the morning. Send three billion statements of character witness. But his network, his gate, his key, his rules on granting admission.
Let's look at this another way: If I am throwing a party and, on the advice of my friend who told me that people who wear Mickey Mouse shirts are boring, I deny admission to people wearing Mickey Mouse shirts from whom will you beg entry and who shall be called nasty names for listening to somebody else?
Of course, that's the solution, isn't it? We must ban any and all people from publishing an opinion regarding the statistical probability that an email from a given IP address is spam.
Not really. Market forces and other laws already address this. This law does nothing other than pander to a predominately Mormon population so parents can feel good that the government is doing something to protect the children and make them actually work to see all of the prawn as they spend 6 unsupervised hours/day cruising the web.
The ACLU must be having a slow month out there in Utah - this law does nothing but allow households to exercise their right to control what enters their homes as affirmed in ROWAN v. U. S. POST OFFICE DEPT. , 397 U.S. 728 (1970)
The single most useful feature introduced in Outlook 2003 (and, by extension, Office 2003) was exactly this: the Unread Mail "folder" and all similar are not folders at all but searches across all folders to match whatever criteria was designed into the search. (All red follow up flags, for example.) I couldn't work with even a semblance of efficiency without it. Thunderbird has the same feature but since that is what I use at home I don't have as much of a use for it so can't comment on how well it works.
Uh oh... somebody doesn't like the way something goes in court and immediately calls it 'legislating' from the bench. I wonder how he (assumption) voted in '04.
In TFA the judge says "Florida cannot contract away the statutory rights of its citizens". See that word statutory? Ever wonder what that means? The use of that particular word denotes actual, codified law in the books somewhere that guarantees those charged with a crime something along the lines of the right to understand how evidence was gathered against them.
Refer back to that word statutory - it appears that the state does have a requirement of disclosure.
I'll bet it does apply. Q: How does a speed gun work? A: http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1ED3343B and has an accuracy of .x +/- mph Q: How does the parking meter keep track of time A: A mechanical or electronic timekeeper which is accurate to within .001 seconds/day
Compare this with Q: How does your test meter detect alcohol and what is the accuracy A: None of your business. Q: So you're saying that if my BAC is .05 your machine could overrepresent this and show .09? A: None of your business. Q: If I eat a tuna sandwich does your machine consistently give false positives? A: None of your business. Q: If I fart will your machine generate a false positive? A: None of your business.
Can you honestly say that you don't have a problem with this? Next time you're in court I will hook you up to a polygraph. You must accept the results without question. There's a red light and a green light on the top - if the red light illuminates then you're guilty and go to jail. No, you aren't allowed to know how it works. Trade secret. But you wouldn't have a problem with this, right? After all, any judge who excludes this is obviously legislating from the bench and needs to be sued if a murderer gets off. Right?
Perhaps allowing a judge to be personally held accountable if he lets somebody back on the street after a 4th or 5th OUI conviction but to punish a judge for dismissing the charges after one's rights were violated due to improper collection of evidence is out of line. If a judge convicts a guy 10 times for OUI but the bum gets parole every time and then goes out and kills somebody you'd be on to something.
Other than that I'd say you're blowing smoke. Better hope that the testing equipment doesn't register smoke as EOH fumes or you're gonna see some jail time. Or maybe just some serious probation.
The only application that I could run under XP but not in w2k was my old copy of Lost Island of Dr Brain (I'm addicted to the music game - one of my favorites of all time) which saw w2k as some sort of alien threat but runs perfectly in 98 compatibility mode in XP. (Compatibility mode in XP is also the only thing that lets me play Alpha Centauri on the AMD 64 when I'm waxing bored... that and fast user switching are the only two advantages XP MCE has over w2k.) Will this SP5-that-isn't-really-SP5 be available as an image I can download for when I rebuild a w2k system at some point in the future?
He doesn't have immortality - the knight was quite clear that the price of eternal life requires that one never pass over the great seal. To maintain immortality it would appear that one would have to regularly drink from the cup.
Counter we contacted our local hospital emergency room and asked if they were equipped to cut off a titanium ring in an emergency. Most hospital emergency rooms are prepared to handle almost anything, and ours assured us that it would be no problem for them. During our 30+ years of jewelry repair experience, we've only seen a dozen or so rings that have been cut off in hospital emergency rooms, and in most of those cases the rings had been bent out-of-round and were putting painful pressure on the finger. Titanium rings are less likely to crush or bend out-of-round, so if you shut your hand in a car door or drop a heavy object on it, it might be safer to be wearing a titanium ring than a precious metal band!
Counter 2 In case of an emergency, such as an injured finger, Emergency Medical Technicians, Fire Departments, and Hospital Emergency Rooms can quickly remove titanium rings. Several non-destructive methods for ring removal are available before resorting to cutting a ring. In the rare event it becomes necessary to cut off a titanium ring, emergency medical professionals carry ring cutters or rotary cut-off tools that cut through metals, including our CP and Aerospace Grade Titanium. In our testing, we found that tools that will cut through steel will also cut through titanium rings.
Counter 3 Titanium rings are created with safety in mind, as there is always the possibility that a ring will need to be removed in an emergency. Tests by various manufacturers have shown that titanium rings can be manually cut with a ring cutter within a matter of minutes, and much faster using an electric ring cutting device, such as those that many paramedics use.
Counter 4 I had heard that there is a "medical emergency" issue (i.e. they can't cut the ring off of your finger with regular ring snippers) but my friend's hubby, who is an EMT, assured me that this isn't something to be concerned about, since they have different types of cutters they can use should the need arise.
The same can be said of the electrical grid. And the cellular network. And the water network. And the sewage system. Or the public road infrastructure. Or the food distribution chain. Face it - virtually every aspect of modern life requires you to rely almost completely on infrastructures that you do not own.
One has to remember what the internet actually is - a system to transport data. For me it has proven to be far more reliable than the power grid - when the lights go out the internet connection at my house remains active. Should a system go down the first time a packet is dropped? Absolutely not. But that isn't the case here. What Russia is seeing is a massive widespread power failure that is probably beyond the designed tolerance. And keep in mind what else -could- be happening. Why was the sewage shunted to the river? Was it to keep it out of the basement of the local hospital?
There's more traffic on the 'net than pr0n, wazrez, mpEs and /.
Some of it actually matters.
Any word on the MTBF of these things? And would they ever need to be defragmented?
When I left my landline service and switched to cell-only (if the phone company was willing to provide DSL I would have stayed, but that's another story) I was a mite confuddled when I kept hearing a dialtone even after the account had supposedly been cancelled. Then one day I decided to test this dialtone and received a recording saying something along the lines of "service to this line has been disconnected but if you dial *pushthesenumbers you can have set up a new account immediately". I didn't test to see if 911 worked.
This was a Verizon-formerly-GTE landline.
It was a very powerful development tool: one of the students wrote some AI routines whereby one dot chased another dot that was learning how to avoid being captured.
A few years after I graduated I heard that the AP exam had stopped using Pascal and switched to C. By then the dual 360kb floppy machines were gone from the lab as were the XL style keyboards that had seen thousands of hours of spacewar.
You've entirely missed the point. Nobody is saying that you have a right to run the OS on this chip, that chip or the other chip. They are saying that Microsoft is stupid/evil/corrupt for implementing this policy.
This is not just a Microsoft thing - this is the future of computing in general. Not only will your computer check for permission to play a song, but your coffeemaker will check for permission to brew specific grounds - the Melitta One brewer is just a sneak peek at what is to come.
Let's face it - the Gillette model of revenue works. Exceptionally well. To a CEO who is focused only on increasing revenue - as CEOs are hired to do - to ignore this opportunity is a career-ending move.
I ask only two things: 1. PLEASE no Jar Jar in any way, shape, form, memory, echo, allusion, hint, reference, tribute, allegory, or any other apt words. 2. Am I the only person who has notices that George loves to use screen wipes? With every screen wipe I get this image of Homer Simpson saying "and star wipe and we're done". I'm sick of those stupid screen wipes between every scene.
The US Senators were written into the Constitution to ensure that the states themselves had representation in the Senate. The states could appoint and recall senators as they saw fit: donating trips on corporate jets, massive soft money donations and use of the corporate suite at the local sporting venue wouldn't hold as much influence over a Senator who had to convince the governor back home that he was doing a good and honest job.
The feds can't order the states to comply but they can withhold funding unless they do. The 0.08 BAL for DWI is a recent example, and the national speed limit is another.
It ain't ignore the rights of the state, it is bribing them away.
So long as the following tweaks to the system are not implemented Congress will be able to ignore the wishes of the people and grant any and all favors to their lobbyists.
No representative or senator should ever be allowed to vote on any piece of legislation which they personally have not read
Any vote on anything that involves de facto laws, rules, regulations or monetary impact of any kind must be by roll call vote
The name of the legislator who introduced or modified each line of text in each and every bill must be fully disclosed
The 17th amendment must be repealed
The federal government is currently experiencing heavy pressure to approve subsidies for HDTV equipment for low income households who will otherwise be cut off at the time of the Great Crossover. The implication is that the ability to watch TV is a right and that anybody who can't afford a set of their own should be given one by the taxpayers.
If broadband access is a similar right, then should free computers be handed out as well? Since the dawn of this nation the local public libraries have been the point of access for all kinds of reference material otherwise inaccessable to the masses. While you have not made the explicit declaration, your argument seems to revolve around the concept that -convenient- access is the right. I reject this premise.
There are many, many goods/products/services which improve the quality of life for just about anybody who owns them. 10 years ago having a complete set of Britannica would have been marvelous. But society never had an obligation to provide them for everybody: there was public access at the library and that was good enough. I hold that the technologically literate wouldn't even be considering the point of "free access in the home for the poor" if they didn't see a means of piggybacking cheaper access for themselves onto the deal.
There are ways to ensure affordable access to more: prohibiting rate increases for phone companies that refuse to offer DSL services (are you listening, Verizon?) and allowing municipalities to offer community access as a utility akin to water/sewer/electric would be a start. Requiring all new developments of 10 units or more to provide fiber service to the curb would be another perfectly valid, reasonable requirement, just as requiring them to provide some sort of electric and water service has been for decades. And once the new development has fiber in the area, patching the surrounding neighborhoods into the line becomes very inexpensive and relatively easy. Eliminating the monopolies that companies such as Comcast enjoy and opening markets up to competition would also bring great benefit to the residents.
But again, internet access should just be considered a utility and spare the "it's for the children" argument - requiring electric service to new houses is good for everybody involved, not just the children who can now read Playboy by nightlight.
(P.S. public schooling has done far more harm to the minds of the children than lack of a T-1 line ever will.)
Yeah... just imagine what Einstein could have accomplished if he had been able to receive 50,000 ads for p3515 pills and lots and lots of juicy pr0n.
As for good, quality ejucashun with computers, there have been articles written from time to time about how teachers, tired of grading 15 page papers for the 45 chillun's in their classes have assigned a 15 slide powerpoint presentation instead. IIRC this was brought up in Scientific American a year or two back, and has surfaced elsewhere a time or three. Google exercise is left for the reader. Yep... dat der's PROGRESS! Instead of graduating vast numbers of people capable of writing, say, a grant proposal or filling out a tax form they'll be able to develop a series of powerpoint slides to defend themselves against RIAA's lawsuits or chart the length of their various bits of anatomy as they freebase their cha3p v14gr4!
After the ark came to rest the snakes approached Noah with a problem. When questioned regarding their point of concern they replied "we can't go forth and multiply - we're adders."
So Noah set out and chopped down several large trees, stripped them of bark and fastened them together to make some crude furniture. Noah proudly declared the issue resolved: "even adders can multiply using log tables".