And how do you propose that foreign law is useful in space? You can't really work with airspace zones since orbiting craft will cross them in a few minutes, and to be honest you're not going to scramble jets up to those violating the law are you?
Yes, but if I have Skype on any device then it doesn't cost me to call it.
I have Skype running on my palmtop using Bluetooth to get a net connection. If you need me, you can Skype me anywhere in my home for no additional cost.
After re-reading the article twice and finally twigging what was going on I can see that it is just for termination on POTS networks.
This is getting silly now. Surely VoIP is inherently uncontrollable? Isn't MSN's voice chat a form of VoIP? Isn't Skype?
Nobody is going to charge me termination fees for them are they? Come on, it's like trying to regulate HTTP trafficm it simply cannot be done. The network will find a way round anything it percives as 'damage', and if a certain technology is suddenly being charged for it isn't that hard to find another one.
Think about this - carbon nanotubes are lightweight and burn up rather nicely. The highest you're going to get to break an elevator cable is a few km above the surface. The bit above the break stays in orbit due to a combination of forces, the bit below will fall and burn if it's high enough to gain enough speed to be dangerous.
And of course if you anchor the elevator offshore (makes most sense for security anyway) then all you're going to get is a splash.
Agreed there. This kind of logic is something most phones miss (and those that have it have a bad implementation of the idea). But do phones really have enough use for a scripting engine?
Until there is evidence against the existance of such a creature, you cannot say they do not (or did not) exist.
Go back several hundred years and tell them that there was ice on a moon of Jupiter. You would probably be laughed at, since everyone knew that anything in space was just a lump of rock.
Use Bayesian filters. Take a look on SourceForge for ones such as POPfile(http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/) for platform independance and SpamBayes for Outlook/Outlook Express. These are end-user and as such can be tailored to the spam the user receives.
On the server side I know there are bayesian plugins for things such as SpamAssassin, although the names escape me now since I don't have to deal with them regularly.
For those who don't know, bayesian filtering is adaptive based on how often words and phrases appear in spam and non-spam.
Enough boasting. I think that all spammers should be deliberately placed with gay men who have had rare successes with penis enlarging kit, are in need of a mortgage, want to lose weight and inexplicably find classic literature an intriguing message subject. Oh, and have been made horny from all those damn pr0n emails.
With a punishment like *that*, who's gonna offend?
I still get spam. In fact, 99.5% of my mail is Spam. and 99.63% is accurately filtered out. I only see maybe one or two spams a month, so surely sending me spam has no benefit whatsoever?
Honestly, this is ridiculous. Teach people to properly filter and not to respond, and suddenly there's no more market.
Sentient isn't a problem. But eventually someone will hook their laptop into it. Then bluetooth to their phone, and decide that being able to check their home email from work would be nice.
A few people do this, suddenly there's milnet traffic over public network, and public traffic over military. Simply changing a protocol isn't going to help. It'll just end up as an extension of the internet.
I especially agree with the third point - guessable URLs. Unlike some sites such as Microsoft where their 'easy' urls are along the lines of http://go.microsoft.com/j483dk4, and even worse sites like Nokia where the URLs take the guise of http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,8764,46609,00.html.
Which would you rather have? http://www.apple.com/apple/9407,94,8657.htm l?p=hjf i3 http://www.apple.com/ipod
I find a combination of everything far more effective than one or the other. I use a GUI for getting things done, because nice as the theory is web development and graphic design do not adapt well to CLIs. On the other hand, I get extremely annoyed when I cannot get to a CLI if I want to do something simple behind the scenes (such as on the machines at my school). There is no "GUI is better" or "CLI is better", just "Mixed interfaces cream everything else in most situations".
That given, all my servers are managed exclusively through SSH, and my palmtop completely lacks a CLI.
The loads of changes mainly goes through and tweaks Windows config to remove those bits that you never use. A lot of the graphical quality on XP such as shadowing is cut back, the start menu and all the office menus have their collapse feature disabled and so on.
I've got an application on a pendrive I carry around which is just a one-click corrective action. Firefox, Spybot, loads of config changes, runs auto-update. Great.
It even works through my school's 'security'. Excellent:D
I think it's some kind of mantra to make you send those 'Feedback' boxes that keep telling me Application X has crashed (never!) and Microsoft would really like to know why.
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And how do you propose that foreign law is useful in space? You can't really work with airspace zones since orbiting craft will cross them in a few minutes, and to be honest you're not going to scramble jets up to those violating the law are you?
Gah, must fix my tree view. The grandparent was modded down and I couldn't see it.
My bad, need more coffee.
But still the argument about it burning up in the atmosphere is valid if it breaks high enough to pose a hazard.
I live in the UK and I'll be damned if a US bill forces me to waste bandwidth labelling my IP packets.
Meaning a meter is the distance travelled by light in 1/299,792,458th of a second...
So what's the problem?
Yes, but if I have Skype on any device then it doesn't cost me to call it.
I have Skype running on my palmtop using Bluetooth to get a net connection. If you need me, you can Skype me anywhere in my home for no additional cost.
After re-reading the article twice and finally twigging what was going on I can see that it is just for termination on POTS networks.
Soon your television sets will only be tunable to state approved stations, which must show political broadcasts regularly.
Hmm, sounds like Nazi Germany to me.
It's Saturday, it happens. You obviously forgot to translate the text back to English through Korean and Finnish.
Given that one of them is just an IP address it can't be long before it falls over...
This is getting silly now. Surely VoIP is inherently uncontrollable? Isn't MSN's voice chat a form of VoIP? Isn't Skype?
Nobody is going to charge me termination fees for them are they? Come on, it's like trying to regulate HTTP trafficm it simply cannot be done. The network will find a way round anything it percives as 'damage', and if a certain technology is suddenly being charged for it isn't that hard to find another one.
17, and get phone calls from the school's own IT techs asking how to fix things.
THAT's depressing.
Think about this - carbon nanotubes are lightweight and burn up rather nicely. The highest you're going to get to break an elevator cable is a few km above the surface. The bit above the break stays in orbit due to a combination of forces, the bit below will fall and burn if it's high enough to gain enough speed to be dangerous.
And of course if you anchor the elevator offshore (makes most sense for security anyway) then all you're going to get is a splash.
Agreed there. This kind of logic is something most phones miss (and those that have it have a bad implementation of the idea). But do phones really have enough use for a scripting engine?
Until there is evidence against the existance of such a creature, you cannot say they do not (or did not) exist.
Go back several hundred years and tell them that there was ice on a moon of Jupiter. You would probably be laughed at, since everyone knew that anything in space was just a lump of rock.
Use Bayesian filters. Take a look on SourceForge for ones such as POPfile(http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/) for platform independance and SpamBayes for Outlook/Outlook Express. These are end-user and as such can be tailored to the spam the user receives.
On the server side I know there are bayesian plugins for things such as SpamAssassin, although the names escape me now since I don't have to deal with them regularly.
For those who don't know, bayesian filtering is adaptive based on how often words and phrases appear in spam and non-spam.
I'm referred to as that anyway... ;)
Enough boasting. I think that all spammers should be deliberately placed with gay men who have had rare successes with penis enlarging kit, are in need of a mortgage, want to lose weight and inexplicably find classic literature an intriguing message subject. Oh, and have been made horny from all those damn pr0n emails.
With a punishment like *that*, who's gonna offend?
I still get spam. In fact, 99.5% of my mail is Spam. and 99.63% is accurately filtered out. I only see maybe one or two spams a month, so surely sending me spam has no benefit whatsoever?
Honestly, this is ridiculous. Teach people to properly filter and not to respond, and suddenly there's no more market.
End of spammers.
I'd go with AMD since they seem to work better in purely mathematical applications (such as DSP).
That given, for an audio workstation I'd have a pair of them in parallel with about 4gb of RAM and a very fast bus.
No... no it's not. MSN search has been around while (admittedly snaffling results from Yahoo), but MSN have had experience in this field before.
Sentient isn't a problem. But eventually someone will hook their laptop into it. Then bluetooth to their phone, and decide that being able to check their home email from work would be nice.
A few people do this, suddenly there's milnet traffic over public network, and public traffic over military. Simply changing a protocol isn't going to help. It'll just end up as an extension of the internet.
I especially agree with the third point - guessable URLs. Unlike some sites such as Microsoft where their 'easy' urls are along the lines of http://go.microsoft.com/j483dk4, and even worse sites like Nokia where the URLs take the guise of http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,8764,46609,00.html.
m l?p=hjf i3
Which would you rather have?
http://www.apple.com/apple/9407,94,8657.ht
http://www.apple.com/ipod
Doesn't take a genius.
I find a combination of everything far more effective than one or the other. I use a GUI for getting things done, because nice as the theory is web development and graphic design do not adapt well to CLIs. On the other hand, I get extremely annoyed when I cannot get to a CLI if I want to do something simple behind the scenes (such as on the machines at my school). There is no "GUI is better" or "CLI is better", just "Mixed interfaces cream everything else in most situations".
That given, all my servers are managed exclusively through SSH, and my palmtop completely lacks a CLI.
The loads of changes mainly goes through and tweaks Windows config to remove those bits that you never use. A lot of the graphical quality on XP such as shadowing is cut back, the start menu and all the office menus have their collapse feature disabled and so on.
I've got an application on a pendrive I carry around which is just a one-click corrective action. Firefox, Spybot, loads of config changes, runs auto-update. Great.
:D
It even works through my school's 'security'. Excellent
I think it's some kind of mantra to make you send those 'Feedback' boxes that keep telling me Application X has crashed (never!) and Microsoft would really like to know why.