Where is the reference for this claim: "However, many Firefox supporters question the move complaining of questionable practices by Real. ?
The article referenced did not support this claim at all.
The message this bill sends to the kids, IMHO:
"Being social is bad kids! We do not want to be social.
It is much better to be Anti-social.
Withdraw from other people, and be afraid, be very afraid of them.
The masses have to be kept under control, so let us teach from the beginning,
that they are supposed to be only passive receivers of the mass communication media,
and not active social participants in the active discources of the society."
I thought for couple of seconds, that the unfamiliar word "Mehve" was a Japanese word for Website. So, I was curous to see how the Japanese websites can be made full size and flown in the sky. And who would "click" on the links in this giant monster in the sky?
According to Goran Jovanovic, it seems like production of Bio Diesel in more safe manner than now is just a minor side path of the main area of research. The main area seems to be development of devices that "monitor the environment for potentian human pathogens or toxins."
Or does someone find better articles from the Web written by him or his team mates about building a new safer Biodiesel reactors?
I would not take my kids to any political protests until they are fully capable of doing their own political judgements. Also some protests might become violent, remember that. Do not force your own poltical agenda or view of the world onto your children.
As I was a child, as soon as I can walk and remember, I recall being part of a yearly political "protest" march around May 1st, thanks to my parents. When I reached the teenages I dropped out from these "protests", just because they seemed pointless excercises, and they just artifically polarized people in the town.
Charity is OK mostly. Religion is a BIG NO. Political parties is a big NO. Let your child find their OWN path without forcing it to them.
I agree with you that electronic kits are good. What I would like to suggest to all dads and moms is to let your child learn how to earn their own money, instead of having a big allowance. Let them do door-to-door sales, yardwork for money, car wash for money -- just be involved so that you know they are safe. Then let them decide where to invest their money into.
Usually kids pick up interests following what their parents, siblings, and peers do. If you have some electronics kits for your self, and if you work with them, then I am sure that helps to raise your childrens interest in electronics.
I bought my first German electronics kit with the money I saved from some door-to-door sales. However, later I got my first real computer as a gift. I regret that I did not have to work too much to earn that computer, but it was a good excercise for learning the basic and assembly languages.
As for the good age for first contact with electronics, computers, and the Internet. Well, I guess it goes along with their skills. They have to be able to read, write, be aware of some simple physics, know how to control their time and money, and how to deal with strangers.
I must admit I let my 2 year old play Internet games, but she cannot yet type links directly into the navigator, so I just created her own home page with just two links to some safe sites. On the other hand, my five year old can write something, and I still let him play the same internet games (same safe sites). I just keep eye on him what he does.
Just be involved with what your child does. I am not a strong supporter of cencornship, I usually let my kids watch R-rated films, if I am with them. Just make sure to explain what is going on in the movie. Some of the cartoons on the Cartoon Network are more violent than some of the R-rated films.
To me this sounds more and more like a case of an identity theft victim being sued for using her banking card in a business, who leaked her information to an identity thief. Or maybe she just ordered some magazines from a door-to-door salesman and gave away her information. Who knows, there are too many ways for a thief to get your personal financial data.
How would you prove you are a victim of an identity thief? How could you have prevented the theft from happening in the first place?
Remember, if you have a debit or credit card, you are using computers. Your data gets transferred online between computes, over the phone lines, over the Internet, over the USPS, UPS, FedEx, in tapes, DVD-ROMs, CD-ROMs, etc. Then the courier agent loses your tapes (Read, someone stole them).
Have you red the full constitution of the PRC in English? It is interesting to see how the strong assertions of the first article play with the later amendments.
If you are not sure is it OK to take a picture inside or of a building, and if there is any police or security personnel present, you could ask them to take the picture for you. That is what I usally do. Most of the time the security/police officer is more than happy to assist you to take the picture, if it is OK and most of the times it is.
When I went to the Hermitge in St.Petersburg, Russia, the security asked me if my video camcorder was a CAMERA. They told me no cameras were allowed in the building. Well, I told them that my camcorder is not still camera, and they let me in with it, and I could make a home movie of the Hermitage.
Teach the government what its people want. Inform the lawmakers. One way to do this could be to start hitting sites that teach YOUR point of view on the search engines that you think the government will see.
Punishment is very bad teaching method, as any parent may know. Retaliation is very bad tool.
Shed the light instead. Be the beacon of real hope, real justice, and real change for the better.
Thanks,
Tuomas
You might create a situation where the non root-users ask root-users to do something bad, but the root-users may not catch it. It might create too much overhead work for the root-users checking and double checking that those chown do not cause any trouble.
Let us consider case where the non-root user wants to enable set user-id bit for a file and then change ownership to root. The system could probably be semi-automated to check for this kind of situations.
But seriously, chown root file should not always restricted. What do you think?
1. Sign up with your proper ID and give them current address (if you want to).
2. Move to another address. Never notify the store of your move.
3. Change your phone number after you sign up.
4. Never use a card, just give them the original phone numebr you used to sign up in the step 1.
Extra steps:
5. Share the phone number you used in the step 1 with your family, friends, and co-workers. They'll all get the discount and the poor sob(s) who lives in the address, and those who might get your old recycled phone number, will get all the junk mail and telemarketing harrasment calls, that was given in the step one. Let them complain to the company and tell them to stop pestering them.
Some enhancements:
E1. For step one, use your correct ID, or a fake ID if you have one, but give them totally fictious address and phone number. If this does not work, then revert back to non-enhanced step 1. Anyone got any better ideas?
E2. Better yet, use the junk-mailing companies addresses, or phone numbers when registering for these kinds of card member shops. Let them mail and call themselves!
Who has some good examples of these kind of companies, their addresses and telephone numbers?
1. Sign up with your proper ID and give them current address (if you want to).
2. Move to another address. Never notify the store of your move.
3. Change your phone number after you sign up.
4. Never use a card, just give them the original phone numebr you used to sign up in the step 1.
Extra steps:
5. Share the phone number you used in the step 1 with your family, friends, and co-workers. They'll all get the discount and the poor sob(s) who lives in the address, and those who might get your old recycled phone number, will get all the junk mail and telemarketing harrasment calls, that was given in the step one. Let them complain to the company and tell them to stop pestering them.
Some enhancements:
E1. For step one, use your correct ID, or a fake ID if you have one, but give them totally fictious address and phone number. If this does not work, then revert back to non-enhanced step 1.
Anyone got any better ideas?
Central controlling authority (=The Big Brother).
Wake up man! You want to give the control of the usage rights to the system to a central authority. How would you feel about giving the right for your home door locks to a central authority, lets say the bureau of locks and keys in Washington D.C., is that what you want?
Keep your doors unlocked, and others will keep theirs too. Power to the people!
rms was right. passwords are a way of the big brother to control you, not for your own good, but for their good. if possible, never create a password. never save anything you dont want others to know. information should be free anyway, and sharing should be encouraged.
But seriously. Who wants to remember all ASDF24tsdfgnfadigh438t passwords that make no sense. Passwords and security are just illusion of privacy!
THERE IS NO PRIVACY!
What do you keep in that big disk? And how often the data changes and how much it changes? How about doing differential backups to DVDs? Back up only what has been added or changed in the hard disk to the DVD.
What operating system you are running? Most operating systems have a create or change date stored with the file information.
I am talking from personal experience as an addict to online chatting on the Internet Relay Chat since its conception until around... well, I am still an addict, once an addict, but I have not lapsed back to the online chat channels since I left the Unixverstas Olutensin Finlandia Vodka university around 1997.
Man, I did seek professional help for that addiction and got quite clean with a three month session in a hospital! The rule I told them to make me follow was this: DO NOT LET ME TOUCH COMPUTERS while I am here. That cured some of the problem, but I lapsed back into chatting in IRC for a few years after that, but no longer 48 hour sessions like I used to have in my worst day+night+days.
And talk about the financial costs of enormous long distance phone bills, when I still lived with my parents. Way back in 1986 there was no local dialup for Internet at my home. After moving to the University campus, I got direct feed via their Intranet, so that cut down the costs.
It is NOT just computer games that are addictive. Computer chatting can be too. Someone really should study this phenomenon from the behavioristic perspective. Perhaps they have already, who knows?
"The satellite is to be launched into lunar orbit for comprehensively probing into rich resources on the moon such as He3, Fe, Ti and water-ice, as well as its surface condition, landforms, geologic structure and physical fields through remote sensing. "
Later that article mentions the three step goals as:
"Another two deputy chief designers of Shenzhou III spacecraft revealed a three-step plan of China's first manned spaceflight:
[1] Take Chinese astronauts into space;
[2] create a space laboratory;
[3] and establish China's space station and establish a connection with international space stations. "
Looks like the Moon base and telescope were recent additions to the three step plan.
In November 8, 2003 the Xinhua News Agency reported these four goals for Moon program:
"
For the first goal, there will be three-dimensioned graphs of the lunar surface.
Basic structures and physiognomy units of the lunar surface will be defined precisely. Researches on the shape, size, distribution, and density will be made on the crates on the moon. These researches on the crates will produce data for identifying the age of the surface and early history of terrestrial planets and provide information needed to select the sites selecting for soft landing on the moon surface and for the lunar base.
The second goal is concentrating on the distribution and types of elements.
It will be focused on the content and distribution of 14 elements such as titanium and iron which can be exploited. A map of elements distribution around the moon will be sketched. Graphs for lunar rocks, mineral materials and geology will also be drawn respectively. The area rich in specific elements will be identified. And prospects of the development and exploitation of the mineral resources will be evaluated.
The third goal is to detect the depth of the lunar soil through microwave radiation.
In this way we can calculate the age of the lunar surface and distribution of the lunar soil on the lunar surface. This lays a foundation for the further estimates of the content, distribution, and quantity of helium-3 which is power generating fuel caused by nuclear fusion.
The fourth goal is focused on the space environment between the earth and the moon.
The average distance between the earth and the moon is 380 million km, which is in the earth's far magnetotail. Here the satellite probes solar energetic particles, plasma in solar wind, and the interaction between the solar wind and the moon and between the tail of the magnetic field of the earth and the moon.
"
Then of course we have to look at Chinanews 2005-11-01 article that sums up the most recent plans: "China will consider manned lunar landing after 2017"....
"
As for when the first Chinese astronaut will set foot on the moon, Ouyang said China will be capable of realizing manned lunar landing between 2020 and 2025. After that, China will also plan to build a base on the moon.
"
According to the Finnish Wikipedia on Moon, 25% of the Moon's athmosphere consists of Helium gas. I do not see how this gas could be "mined". Perhaps they could just somehow collect it?
Quoting Wikipedia on Helium:
"On Earth it is created by the radioactive decay of much heavier elements (alpha particles are helium nuclei produced by the decay of uranium). After its creation, part of it is trapped with natural gas in concentrations up to 7% by volume. It is extracted from the natural gas by a low temperature separation process called fractional distillation."
Perhaps the Helium in Moon is trapped similarly in natural gas. OTHO, if there is natural gas in the moon, wouldn't that be a better source of fuel (with current technology)?
Quoting Wikipedia on Moon:
"The lunar crust is composed of a variety of primary elements, including uranium, thorium, potassium, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, titanium, calcium, aluminum and hydrogen. When bombarded by cosmic rays, each element bounces back into space its own radiation, in the form of gamma rays. Some elements, such as uranium, thorium and potassium, are radioactive and emit gamma rays on their own. However, regardless of what causes them, gamma rays for each element are all different from one another -- each produces a unique spectral "signature", detectable by a spectrometer.
A complete global mapping of the Moon for the abundance of these elements has never been performed. However, some spacecraft have done so for portions of the Moon; Galileo did so when it flew by the Moon in 1992. [3] The overall composition of the Moon is believed to be similar to that of the Earth other than a depletion of volatile elements and of iron."
Wikipedia does not even mention Helium, but it mentions hydrogen. Is Wikipedia's Moon article up to date?
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Where is the reference for this claim: "However, many Firefox supporters question the move complaining of questionable practices by Real. ? The article referenced did not support this claim at all.
The message this bill sends to the kids, IMHO: "Being social is bad kids! We do not want to be social. It is much better to be Anti-social. Withdraw from other people, and be afraid, be very afraid of them. The masses have to be kept under control, so let us teach from the beginning, that they are supposed to be only passive receivers of the mass communication media, and not active social participants in the active discources of the society."
I thought for couple of seconds, that the unfamiliar word "Mehve" was a Japanese word for Website. So, I was curous to see how the Japanese websites can be made full size and flown in the sky. And who would "click" on the links in this giant monster in the sky?
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Good article you wrote. One comment I must add: Deng Xiaoping is the correct spelling of the Chinese ruler, and not Deng Xio Ping.
According to Goran Jovanovic, it seems like production of Bio Diesel in more safe manner than now is just a minor side path of the main area of research. The main area seems to be development of devices that "monitor the environment for potentian human pathogens or toxins."
Or does someone find better articles from the Web written by him or his team mates about building a new safer Biodiesel reactors?
As I was a child, as soon as I can walk and remember, I recall being part of a yearly political "protest" march around May 1st, thanks to my parents. When I reached the teenages I dropped out from these "protests", just because they seemed pointless excercises, and they just artifically polarized people in the town.
Charity is OK mostly. Religion is a BIG NO. Political parties is a big NO. Let your child find their OWN path without forcing it to them.
Usually kids pick up interests following what their parents, siblings, and peers do. If you have some electronics kits for your self, and if you work with them, then I am sure that helps to raise your childrens interest in electronics.
I bought my first German electronics kit with the money I saved from some door-to-door sales. However, later I got my first real computer as a gift. I regret that I did not have to work too much to earn that computer, but it was a good excercise for learning the basic and assembly languages.
As for the good age for first contact with electronics, computers, and the Internet. Well, I guess it goes along with their skills. They have to be able to read, write, be aware of some simple physics, know how to control their time and money, and how to deal with strangers.
I must admit I let my 2 year old play Internet games, but she cannot yet type links directly into the navigator, so I just created her own home page with just two links to some safe sites. On the other hand, my five year old can write something, and I still let him play the same internet games (same safe sites). I just keep eye on him what he does.
Just be involved with what your child does. I am not a strong supporter of cencornship, I usually let my kids watch R-rated films, if I am with them. Just make sure to explain what is going on in the movie. Some of the cartoons on the Cartoon Network are more violent than some of the R-rated films.
How would you prove you are a victim of an identity thief? How could you have prevented the theft from happening in the first place?
Remember, if you have a debit or credit card, you are using computers. Your data gets transferred online between computes, over the phone lines, over the Internet, over the USPS, UPS, FedEx, in tapes, DVD-ROMs, CD-ROMs, etc. Then the courier agent loses your tapes (Read, someone stole them).
When I went to the Hermitge in St.Petersburg, Russia, the security asked me if my video camcorder was a CAMERA. They told me no cameras were allowed in the building. Well, I told them that my camcorder is not still camera, and they let me in with it, and I could make a home movie of the Hermitage.
I found this link very interesting. IMHO, Latin should be taught at public schools.
Can onion routers and web anonymization softwares (such as tor/privoxy) be blocked by PRC, are they doing it?
Teach the government what its people want. Inform the lawmakers. One way to do this could be to start hitting sites that teach YOUR point of view on the search engines that you think the government will see. Punishment is very bad teaching method, as any parent may know. Retaliation is very bad tool. Shed the light instead. Be the beacon of real hope, real justice, and real change for the better. Thanks, Tuomas
You might create a situation where the non root-users ask root-users to do something bad, but the root-users may not catch it. It might create too much overhead work for the root-users checking and double checking that those chown do not cause any trouble.
Let us consider case where the non-root user wants to enable set user-id bit for a file and then change ownership to root. The system could probably be semi-automated to check for this kind of situations.
But seriously, chown root file should not always restricted. What do you think?
1. Sign up with your proper ID and give them current address (if you want to).
2. Move to another address. Never notify the store of your move.
3. Change your phone number after you sign up.
4. Never use a card, just give them the original phone numebr you used to sign up in the step 1. Extra steps:
5. Share the phone number you used in the step 1 with your family, friends, and co-workers. They'll all get the discount and the poor sob(s) who lives in the address, and those who might get your old recycled phone number, will get all the junk mail and telemarketing harrasment calls, that was given in the step one. Let them complain to the company and tell them to stop pestering them. Some enhancements:
E1. For step one, use your correct ID, or a fake ID if you have one, but give them totally fictious address and phone number. If this does not work, then revert back to non-enhanced step 1. Anyone got any better ideas?
E2. Better yet, use the junk-mailing companies addresses, or phone numbers when registering for these kinds of card member shops. Let them mail and call themselves!
Who has some good examples of these kind of companies, their addresses and telephone numbers?
1. Sign up with your proper ID and give them current address (if you want to). 2. Move to another address. Never notify the store of your move. 3. Change your phone number after you sign up. 4. Never use a card, just give them the original phone numebr you used to sign up in the step 1. Extra steps: 5. Share the phone number you used in the step 1 with your family, friends, and co-workers. They'll all get the discount and the poor sob(s) who lives in the address, and those who might get your old recycled phone number, will get all the junk mail and telemarketing harrasment calls, that was given in the step one. Let them complain to the company and tell them to stop pestering them. Some enhancements: E1. For step one, use your correct ID, or a fake ID if you have one, but give them totally fictious address and phone number. If this does not work, then revert back to non-enhanced step 1. Anyone got any better ideas?
Central controlling authority (=The Big Brother). Wake up man! You want to give the control of the usage rights to the system to a central authority. How would you feel about giving the right for your home door locks to a central authority, lets say the bureau of locks and keys in Washington D.C., is that what you want? Keep your doors unlocked, and others will keep theirs too. Power to the people!
rms was right. passwords are a way of the big brother to control you, not for your own good, but for their good. if possible, never create a password. never save anything you dont want others to know. information should be free anyway, and sharing should be encouraged. But seriously. Who wants to remember all ASDF24tsdfgnfadigh438t passwords that make no sense. Passwords and security are just illusion of privacy! THERE IS NO PRIVACY!
What do you keep in that big disk? And how often the data changes and how much it changes? How about doing differential backups to DVDs? Back up only what has been added or changed in the hard disk to the DVD. What operating system you are running? Most operating systems have a create or change date stored with the file information.
I am talking from personal experience as an addict to online chatting on the Internet Relay Chat since its conception until around ... well, I am still an addict, once an addict, but I have not lapsed back to the online chat channels since I left the Unixverstas Olutensin Finlandia Vodka university around 1997.
Man, I did seek professional help for that addiction and got quite clean with a three month session in a hospital! The rule I told them to make me follow was this: DO NOT LET ME TOUCH COMPUTERS while I am here. That cured some of the problem, but I lapsed back into chatting in IRC for a few years after that, but no longer 48 hour sessions like I used to have in my worst day+night+days.
And talk about the financial costs of enormous long distance phone bills, when I still lived with my parents. Way back in 1986 there was no local dialup for Internet at my home. After moving to the University campus, I got direct feed via their Intranet, so that cut down the costs.
It is NOT just computer games that are addictive. Computer chatting can be too. Someone really should study this phenomenon from the behavioristic perspective. Perhaps they have already, who knows?
"The satellite is to be launched into lunar orbit for comprehensively probing into rich resources on the moon such as He3, Fe, Ti and water-ice, as well as its surface condition, landforms, geologic structure and physical fields through remote sensing. "
Later that article mentions the three step goals as:
"Another two deputy chief designers of Shenzhou III spacecraft revealed a three-step plan of China's first manned spaceflight:
[1] Take Chinese astronauts into space;
[2] create a space laboratory;
[3] and establish China's space station and establish a connection with international space stations. "
Looks like the Moon base and telescope were recent additions to the three step plan. In November 8, 2003 the Xinhua News Agency reported these four goals for Moon program:
" For the first goal, there will be three-dimensioned graphs of the lunar surface.
Basic structures and physiognomy units of the lunar surface will be defined precisely. Researches on the shape, size, distribution, and density will be made on the crates on the moon. These researches on the crates will produce data for identifying the age of the surface and early history of terrestrial planets and provide information needed to select the sites selecting for soft landing on the moon surface and for the lunar base.
The second goal is concentrating on the distribution and types of elements.
It will be focused on the content and distribution of 14 elements such as titanium and iron which can be exploited. A map of elements distribution around the moon will be sketched. Graphs for lunar rocks, mineral materials and geology will also be drawn respectively. The area rich in specific elements will be identified. And prospects of the development and exploitation of the mineral resources will be evaluated.
The third goal is to detect the depth of the lunar soil through microwave radiation.
In this way we can calculate the age of the lunar surface and distribution of the lunar soil on the lunar surface. This lays a foundation for the further estimates of the content, distribution, and quantity of helium-3 which is power generating fuel caused by nuclear fusion.
The fourth goal is focused on the space environment between the earth and the moon. ...
The average distance between the earth and the moon is 380 million km, which is in the earth's far magnetotail. Here the satellite probes solar energetic particles, plasma in solar wind, and the interaction between the solar wind and the moon and between the tail of the magnetic field of the earth and the moon. " Then of course we have to look at Chinanews 2005-11-01 article that sums up the most recent plans: "China will consider manned lunar landing after 2017".
" As for when the first Chinese astronaut will set foot on the moon, Ouyang said China will be capable of realizing manned lunar landing between 2020 and 2025. After that, China will also plan to build a base on the moon. "
According to the Finnish Wikipedia on Moon, 25% of the Moon's athmosphere consists of Helium gas. I do not see how this gas could be "mined". Perhaps they could just somehow collect it?
Quoting Wikipedia on Helium:
"On Earth it is created by the radioactive decay of much heavier elements (alpha particles are helium nuclei produced by the decay of uranium). After its creation, part of it is trapped with natural gas in concentrations up to 7% by volume. It is extracted from the natural gas by a low temperature separation process called fractional distillation."
Perhaps the Helium in Moon is trapped similarly in natural gas. OTHO, if there is natural gas in the moon, wouldn't that be a better source of fuel (with current technology)?
Quoting Wikipedia on Moon:
"The lunar crust is composed of a variety of primary elements, including uranium, thorium, potassium, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, titanium, calcium, aluminum and hydrogen. When bombarded by cosmic rays, each element bounces back into space its own radiation, in the form of gamma rays. Some elements, such as uranium, thorium and potassium, are radioactive and emit gamma rays on their own. However, regardless of what causes them, gamma rays for each element are all different from one another -- each produces a unique spectral "signature", detectable by a spectrometer.
A complete global mapping of the Moon for the abundance of these elements has never been performed. However, some spacecraft have done so for portions of the Moon; Galileo did so when it flew by the Moon in 1992. [3] The overall composition of the Moon is believed to be similar to that of the Earth other than a depletion of volatile elements and of iron."
Wikipedia does not even mention Helium, but it mentions hydrogen. Is Wikipedia's Moon article up to date?
Here is a link for the 37CFR at s-edison.info.nig.gov ... Patents can be broken if a national interest demands it.