Make sure you are wearing an appropriate brace when having such a knee-jerk reaction. We wouldn't want you to hurt yourself.
They aren't obligated or even permitted to search your computer or your files. If you ask them to you are required to either offer network level filtering of traffic, or provide software to do the filtering.
I don't see anywhere that this software has to be free or paid for by the ISP. It simply means the ISP must provide some way for parents to be given control over what is viewed in their home.
This law is completely reasonable, and no different than the V-chip.
Well, that is the $10,000,000 question now isn't it:
How exactly does a particle of Teflon (or any other foreign body) behave while floating around between or inside our cells?
This is unchartered territory for the human body. Some level of caution is healthy. Unfortunately, industry has no desire for self-regulation, and the government has no desire to regulate (in this instance).
I live at the base of a dormant volcano. My back yard is full of lava rock. I handle it all the time. Occasionally I squish my fingers or toes while moving it around putting in grass or a garden.
However, pumice is far more dangerous when it is part of a pyroclastic cloud that is inhaled. It slowly (minutes) forms liquid concrete in the lungs until you suffocate.
Unless it's getting piled on you by the ton, I'd say the larger counterpart is much safer to be around.
See also: Asbestos. Safe in chunks, deadly in particles.
Now if the hard drive industry would just put some thought into non-moving heads...
I've thought for years that a series of heads side by side, with code and logic to read sequentially or simultaneously would drastically improve hard drive performance, while reducing hardware failures.
Almost every time I have a hard drive die it's because of failed heads. Since using UPS's I haven't had a single fried board.
The name of the disk is "Gershwin Plays Again", which of course does not imply he's been resurrected and is really playing again.
And no, it's not a new performance BY Gershwin, it is a faithful recreation of one of Gershwins songs as performed by him, as determined by the best efforts of man an machine.
Is it exact or perfect? Of course not. I'm simply saying, for me, a non-musician, it was much more inspirational and moving than hearing someone else play the exact same song.
Kind of like some idiot paying obscene amounts of money for an old car that sucked even when it was new, but doing so because it belonged to a pope they admired. They don't care that the car was, is, and always will be a piece of crap. For them it is inspirational.
Granted, for me half of the inspiration may have come from the fact that it was a nice piece of technological wizardry, not just in analyzing the recording and determining how hard and fast he pressed each key and how long he held each note and pedal, but for actually creating an incredible piano capable of recreating all of those little nuances faithfully enough that if Gershwin's mom were there she couldn't tell the difference.
To me, that was both impressive and inspirational. And that is, afterall, what the story and post was about.
Yamaha has done this with their Disklavier player pianos, so that you can listen to an artists song as the artist actually played it.
It is neat to look at a nice grand piano playing, without anyone sitting at it, keys moving and everything, knowing that if Gershwin were here to play it himself, it would sound just the same.
That, personally, had far more of an impact than just hearing the same piano play the same song.
Because when you launch a new site, or new section of your site, you create the site map and notify Google, rather than hoping some day they'll follow a link somewhere and come spider your site.
Google immediately knows that the site exists, immediately knows how many pages there are, how often they are supposed to change, AND what priority I place on them, so out of my 150 pages, the 10 I want spidered first are labeled as higher priority.
I don't think port 25 should be open for a single IP address on the planet.
That alone would eliminate 90% of SPAM out there, and place the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the ISP's to lock down their mail servers and cut off offending accounts.
What we need is for Postfix to have a built in ability to report IP addresses to which it responds "take a flying leap", once per day, and for the top 1,000 of those IP addresses to be included in a report.
As a safety measure, the IP address has to be reported by X number or percent of the participating Postfix hosts to be considered valid.
Any IP address is added for a short period of time, say 72 hours, so if it's a machine that is hacked and quickly fixed the IP isn't blacklisted forever.
It seems like a distributed, real-time system like this would be effective.
31, why do you ask? And I used to manage a computer store, so I know what it takes and understand profitability, et al.
This AskSlashdot question was prompted by spending 4 hours removing spyware (over 800 different files, hundreds of which were seperate executables) from my in-laws computer, and knowing that IE and Outlook [Express] was behind the majority of it.
I used to skip breakfast, or just have something like cold cereal or a breakfast bar.
Then I tried a really good quality meal replacement shake (NOT slimfast and NOT just a protein drink) and the difference couldn't have been more dramatic!
I can now think much clearer, have more energy, and don't "bonk" or get sleepy like I used to. It has made me a much more productive coder, and since I'm self employed that has a direct impact on my bottom line (and my waist line...).
If the response rate is fast enough it could save thousands of users from falling into the same trap.
Granted a particular phishing / malware site may only be up for a few weeks, but if the browser became aware of it and on day 2, anyone using that browser would be protected.
This would have had me removing 100 spyware programs from my inlaws computer instead of 800...
A solution doesn't have to be perfect to be viable, even helpful can be enough to justify it's existence.
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This is a great idea for Firefox, to support the IE rendering engine, and to allow sites to be set with that rendering engine as default.
So all of your browsing uses Gecko, but your corporate intranet and online banking default to the IE rendering engine because you know they require it.
Isn't the "dark side" of the moon always away from the earth? I don't think the rotation of the moon would be any more of a barrier than the rotation of the earth is for earth-based satellites.
The problem with an atmosphere isn't that it's prone to meteors (in fact the atmosphere protects us from 99%+ of meteors), but rather that it gets in the way of the telescope (atmoshperes contain particles, moisture, etc, etc that obscures our view).
With the moon having almost zero atmosphere, the view is much better from up there. This is also one reason that harvesting solar energy from the surface of the moon is such a good idea: the bright side of the moon always has sunlight, and there is no atmosphere to filter out UV.
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Would our money be better spent building a permanent large telescope on the moon?
We can keep spending the same money over and over again on separate missions, or we can start building infrastructure on the moon that can be used over and over and added to.
I strongly disagree. While just having fun is fine, too much of it is a definite waste.
As an example, one of the young men in my church youth group graduated from high school last year and since has spent about 8 hours a day playing the Xbox.
That is a waste of time, and a waste of life. It's too much. It is completely unproductive and I have a hard time imagining the circumstance where he won't regret that later in life.
No, he doesn't have to spend that time developing wealth or a career, but I'm quite certain later in life he'll regret not spending that time developing himself and relationships with others.
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Make sure you are wearing an appropriate brace when having such a knee-jerk reaction. We wouldn't want you to hurt yourself.
They aren't obligated or even permitted to search your computer or your files. If you ask them to you are required to either offer network level filtering of traffic, or provide software to do the filtering.
I don't see anywhere that this software has to be free or paid for by the ISP. It simply means the ISP must provide some way for parents to be given control over what is viewed in their home.
This law is completely reasonable, and no different than the V-chip.
Well, that is the $10,000,000 question now isn't it: How exactly does a particle of Teflon (or any other foreign body) behave while floating around between or inside our cells? This is unchartered territory for the human body. Some level of caution is healthy. Unfortunately, industry has no desire for self-regulation, and the government has no desire to regulate (in this instance).
Less of a thing != safer.
I live at the base of a dormant volcano. My back yard is full of lava rock. I handle it all the time. Occasionally I squish my fingers or toes while moving it around putting in grass or a garden.
However, pumice is far more dangerous when it is part of a pyroclastic cloud that is inhaled. It slowly (minutes) forms liquid concrete in the lungs until you suffocate.
Unless it's getting piled on you by the ton, I'd say the larger counterpart is much safer to be around.
See also: Asbestos. Safe in chunks, deadly in particles.
Because it's hard to inhale a frying pan?
Seriously, one very real concern of nano-sized particles is their ability to be easily inhaled or otherwise assimilated into the body.
Let's face it: size matters.
Could I please have your name, so that I might know what to engrave on the plaque at the bottom of the statue I erected in your honor?
Now if the hard drive industry would just put some thought into non-moving heads...
I've thought for years that a series of heads side by side, with code and logic to read sequentially or simultaneously would drastically improve hard drive performance, while reducing hardware failures.
Almost every time I have a hard drive die it's because of failed heads. Since using UPS's I haven't had a single fried board.
The name of the disk is "Gershwin Plays Again", which of course does not imply he's been resurrected and is really playing again.
And no, it's not a new performance BY Gershwin, it is a faithful recreation of one of Gershwins songs as performed by him, as determined by the best efforts of man an machine.
Is it exact or perfect? Of course not. I'm simply saying, for me, a non-musician, it was much more inspirational and moving than hearing someone else play the exact same song.
Kind of like some idiot paying obscene amounts of money for an old car that sucked even when it was new, but doing so because it belonged to a pope they admired. They don't care that the car was, is, and always will be a piece of crap. For them it is inspirational.
Granted, for me half of the inspiration may have come from the fact that it was a nice piece of technological wizardry, not just in analyzing the recording and determining how hard and fast he pressed each key and how long he held each note and pedal, but for actually creating an incredible piano capable of recreating all of those little nuances faithfully enough that if Gershwin's mom were there she couldn't tell the difference.
To me, that was both impressive and inspirational. And that is, afterall, what the story and post was about.
Yamaha has done this with their Disklavier player pianos, so that you can listen to an artists song as the artist actually played it.
It is neat to look at a nice grand piano playing, without anyone sitting at it, keys moving and everything, knowing that if Gershwin were here to play it himself, it would sound just the same.
That, personally, had far more of an impact than just hearing the same piano play the same song.
Because when you launch a new site, or new section of your site, you create the site map and notify Google, rather than hoping some day they'll follow a link somewhere and come spider your site.
Google immediately knows that the site exists, immediately knows how many pages there are, how often they are supposed to change, AND what priority I place on them, so out of my 150 pages, the 10 I want spidered first are labeled as higher priority.
This makes total sense to me.
Sorry, I meant to say port 25 should be blocked for every single dynamic IP on the planet.
I don't think port 25 should be open for a single IP address on the planet.
That alone would eliminate 90% of SPAM out there, and place the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the ISP's to lock down their mail servers and cut off offending accounts.
What we need is for Postfix to have a built in ability to report IP addresses to which it responds "take a flying leap", once per day, and for the top 1,000 of those IP addresses to be included in a report.
As a safety measure, the IP address has to be reported by X number or percent of the participating Postfix hosts to be considered valid.
Any IP address is added for a short period of time, say 72 hours, so if it's a machine that is hacked and quickly fixed the IP isn't blacklisted forever.
It seems like a distributed, real-time system like this would be effective.
I think what you aren't getting is that about 32,000 innocents a year are killed by drunk drivers.
Many of those deaths are caused by habitual drunk drivers.
On your first DUI, you are required by law to install this (or a similar) device to prevent subsequent DUI's.
Some states already use something like this.
It does NOT get installed on everyones car. Driving is a privilege, NOT a right.
31, why do you ask? And I used to manage a computer store, so I know what it takes and understand profitability, et al.
This AskSlashdot question was prompted by spending 4 hours removing spyware (over 800 different files, hundreds of which were seperate executables) from my in-laws computer, and knowing that IE and Outlook [Express] was behind the majority of it.
I used to skip breakfast, or just have something like cold cereal or a breakfast bar.
Then I tried a really good quality meal replacement shake (NOT slimfast and NOT just a protein drink) and the difference couldn't have been more dramatic!
I can now think much clearer, have more energy, and don't "bonk" or get sleepy like I used to. It has made me a much more productive coder, and since I'm self employed that has a direct impact on my bottom line (and my waist line...).
I use the IsaLean shake at the bottom of this page:
http://brianallen.isagenix.com/products3.dhtml
If the response rate is fast enough it could save thousands of users from falling into the same trap.
Granted a particular phishing / malware site may only be up for a few weeks, but if the browser became aware of it and on day 2, anyone using that browser would be protected.
This would have had me removing 100 spyware programs from my inlaws computer instead of 800...
A solution doesn't have to be perfect to be viable, even helpful can be enough to justify it's existence.
This is a great idea for Firefox, to support the IE rendering engine, and to allow sites to be set with that rendering engine as default.
So all of your browsing uses Gecko, but your corporate intranet and online banking default to the IE rendering engine because you know they require it.
I'd never have to open IE again...
A cable modem that doesn't support PoE draws about 20 watts from the wall.
Network equipment that adheres to the PoE spec has to draw enough power from the wall to power itself and the devices on each of its ports.
Who says conspiracies require more than one party?
Anyone conspiring to do something would seem to qualify...
Isn't the "dark side" of the moon always away from the earth? I don't think the rotation of the moon would be any more of a barrier than the rotation of the earth is for earth-based satellites.
The problem with an atmosphere isn't that it's prone to meteors (in fact the atmosphere protects us from 99%+ of meteors), but rather that it gets in the way of the telescope (atmoshperes contain particles, moisture, etc, etc that obscures our view).
With the moon having almost zero atmosphere, the view is much better from up there. This is also one reason that harvesting solar energy from the surface of the moon is such a good idea: the bright side of the moon always has sunlight, and there is no atmosphere to filter out UV.
Would our money be better spent building a permanent large telescope on the moon?
We can keep spending the same money over and over again on separate missions, or we can start building infrastructure on the moon that can be used over and over and added to.
I'm for the latter...
Let me guess: You saw the "ride finder" on April 1st, but now it is mysteriously missing?
I strongly disagree. While just having fun is fine, too much of it is a definite waste.
As an example, one of the young men in my church youth group graduated from high school last year and since has spent about 8 hours a day playing the Xbox.
That is a waste of time, and a waste of life. It's too much. It is completely unproductive and I have a hard time imagining the circumstance where he won't regret that later in life.
No, he doesn't have to spend that time developing wealth or a career, but I'm quite certain later in life he'll regret not spending that time developing himself and relationships with others.
In that case, Apache isn't thread safe, because it calls PHP, which calls something else which isn't thread safe.
And Linux must not be thread safe, because requests to port 80 call Apache, which... and so on, and so forth. It's a matter of semantics.
According to the founder of PHP it is.