I just never understand why do you use this awful system of calculating fuel consumption.
Join the world with liters/100 km! It's much easier to calculate.
Or - if you insist - use gallon / 100 miles:)
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists (x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (x) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats (x) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (x) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians (x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Retrofitting a Big Trak with an OOPic Back in late 1979, Milton Bradley created a programmable 6 wheeled vehicle called the Big Trak. It was capable of performing 8 different functions and was considered programmable because it could store and play back a sequence of up to 16 of those functions. After reading the article in Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar Volume III, which was about creating a remote control for the Big Trak, my friend Louie ask for, and received one of these for Christmas of '82. We quickly exhausted all the creativeness we could muster out of Forward, Reverse, Left, Right, Fire, Repeat, Delay, & Dump trailer and decided that it was time that we take it apart and do something else with it. Armed with an assortment of tools, we carefully poked, prodded and pried until the Big Trak was dissected. What we found inside was:
* 1 circuit board populated with 2 integrated circuits, 4 transistors and several other miscellaneous components.
* 1 24-key keypad
* 1 light bulb
* 1 speaker
* 1 dual dc-motor gear box with an optical encoder
* 1 9-Volt battery clip
* 1 4-cell D-sized battery box
Our focus quickly turned to the larger of the two ICs found on the circuit board. The IC was labeled TMS1000NLL and being the larger of the two ICs, it would be the microcontroller. If we were going to be able to program the Big Trak to something other than its original functions, the TMS1000 would have to be reprogrammed. The TMS1000 Microcontroller was a Texas Instruments device. All the information that we had on this IC came from the Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar article which was quite clear in the fact that this IC could not be reprogrammed. What we needed was a small, lightweight computer that could be quickly reprogrammed, had at least 19 I/O lines and could be powered by batteries
At the time that we were doing this, we had two computers. A commodore-64 and an Atari 800. After some deliberation on whether or not the Big Trak could hold the weight of one of those computers plus some extra batteries mounted to the top of it, we decided that the Big Trak would just have to stay in its original condition. That is... until 18 years later. The OOPic microcontroller is lightweight, fits nicely on the back of the Big Trak, has 31 I/O lines and requires no additional batteries other than the ones that the Big Trak used already. And even with the Big Trak using 19 I/O lines, there are still 12 I/O lines available for future expansion.
To mount the OOPic on the Big Trak, the panel on the back of the Big Trak was removed and 4 holes were drilled into the 4-cell D-sized battery case. The four screws were inserted from inside the battery case and nuts were then put on. This holds the screws in place and provides a stand-off for the OOPic. The OOPic was then placed on the screws, with the 40-pin connector towards the top, and 4 more nuts were added to secure it in place. In the Big Trak's design, the TMS1000 was powered directly by the 9-Volt battery. This is very convenient because it brought 9-Volts directly to one of the pins on the TMS1000. As well as the power, all of the I/O used by the electronics of the Big Trak also connects to the pins of the TMS1000. Since every connection that the OOPic needs goes through the 28 pins of the TMS1000, all that will be needed to connect the OOPic to the Big Trak is a single 40-pin ribbon cable which will run from the OOPic to an adapter which will then plug into the same place that the TMS1000 is connected.
Before any connections can be made to the OOPic, the Big Trak's TMS1000 needs to be removed and replaced with a 28-pin socket. When the TMS1000's was desoldered, extra care was given to the traces on the circuit board. Since the circuit board only has traces on one side and the holes are not plated through, it is very easy to have some of the traces lift off of the circuit board. This can happen when too much heat from the soldering iron is applied for too
IIRC nowadays fingerprint readers are set up to allow access with any one of at least two fingers, in case you cut your finger or something, and one "panic" finger which sets off an alarm in case you are forced against your will to open/access the system.
Previous posters pointed out that in zero G your muscles and bones weaken, this came to my mind:
You know that William Gibson story: Red Star, Winter Orbit? It's in the Burning Chrome book by the way. Anyway, in this story there's an old Soviet kosmonaut who can't go back to Earth from the MIR because he spent too much time in zero G. So open up those bank accounts to help this poor Nigerian come home!:)
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I just never understand why do you use this awful system of calculating fuel consumption. Join the world with liters/100 km! It's much easier to calculate. Or - if you insist - use gallon / 100 miles :)
I did RTFA, so:
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (x) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(x) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
(x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
article text:
Retrofitting a Big Trak with an OOPic
Back in late 1979, Milton Bradley created a programmable 6 wheeled vehicle called the Big Trak. It was capable of performing 8 different functions and was considered programmable because it could store and play back a sequence of up to 16 of those functions. After reading the article in Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar Volume III, which was about creating a remote control for the Big Trak, my friend Louie ask for, and received one of these for Christmas of '82. We quickly exhausted all the creativeness we could muster out of Forward, Reverse, Left, Right, Fire, Repeat, Delay, & Dump trailer and decided that it was time that we take it apart and do something else with it.
Armed with an assortment of tools, we carefully poked, prodded and pried until the Big Trak was dissected. What we found inside was:
* 1 circuit board populated with 2 integrated circuits, 4 transistors and several other miscellaneous components.
* 1 24-key keypad
* 1 light bulb
* 1 speaker
* 1 dual dc-motor gear box with an optical encoder
* 1 9-Volt battery clip
* 1 4-cell D-sized battery box
Our focus quickly turned to the larger of the two ICs found on the circuit board. The IC was labeled TMS1000NLL and being the larger of the two ICs, it would be the microcontroller. If we were going to be able to program the Big Trak to something other than its original functions, the TMS1000 would have to be reprogrammed.
The TMS1000 Microcontroller was a Texas Instruments device. All the information that we had on this IC came from the Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar article which was quite clear in the fact that this IC could not be reprogrammed. What we needed was a small, lightweight computer that could be quickly reprogrammed, had at least 19 I/O lines and could be powered by batteries
At the time that we were doing this, we had two computers. A commodore-64 and an Atari 800. After some deliberation on whether or not the Big Trak could hold the weight of one of those computers plus some extra batteries mounted to the top of it, we decided that the Big Trak would just have to stay in its original condition. That is... until 18 years later.
The OOPic microcontroller is lightweight, fits nicely on the back of the Big Trak, has 31 I/O lines and requires no additional batteries other than the ones that the Big Trak used already. And even with the Big Trak using 19 I/O lines, there are still 12 I/O lines available for future expansion.
To mount the OOPic on the Big Trak, the panel on the back of the Big Trak was removed and 4 holes were drilled into the 4-cell D-sized battery case. The four screws were inserted from inside the battery case and nuts were then put on. This holds the screws in place and provides a stand-off for the OOPic. The OOPic was then placed on the screws, with the 40-pin connector towards the top, and 4 more nuts were added to secure it in place.
In the Big Trak's design, the TMS1000 was powered directly by the 9-Volt battery. This is very convenient because it brought 9-Volts directly to one of the pins on the TMS1000. As well as the power, all of the I/O used by the electronics of the Big Trak also connects to the pins of the TMS1000. Since every connection that the OOPic needs goes through the 28 pins of the TMS1000, all that will be needed to connect the OOPic to the Big Trak is a single 40-pin ribbon cable which will run from the OOPic to an adapter which will then plug into the same place that the TMS1000 is connected.
Before any connections can be made to the OOPic, the Big Trak's TMS1000 needs to be removed and replaced with a 28-pin socket. When the TMS1000's was desoldered, extra care was given to the traces on the circuit board. Since the circuit board only has traces on one side and the holes are not plated through, it is very easy to have some of the traces lift off of the circuit board. This can happen when too much heat from the soldering iron is applied for too
aargh please erase my mind i don't wanna think about it
In Soviet Russia the Internet googles YOU!
tell the time traveller guy about this auction. Maybe he can bear with it instead of the watch model time machine, he has.
IIRC nowadays fingerprint readers are set up to allow access with any one of at least two fingers, in case you cut your finger or something, and one "panic" finger which sets off an alarm in case you are forced against your will to open/access the system.
Previous posters pointed out that in zero G your muscles and bones weaken, this came to my mind: You know that William Gibson story: Red Star, Winter Orbit? It's in the Burning Chrome book by the way. Anyway, in this story there's an old Soviet kosmonaut who can't go back to Earth from the MIR because he spent too much time in zero G. So open up those bank accounts to help this poor Nigerian come home! :)