Aren't there better things to do with that bandwidth? Like, oh I don't know, maybe Internet access.
I was part of a team that deployed about 2500 WAP's across the US for a company, and the biggest problem was other 802.11b devices chattering in the bandwidth. Enough of these things in a city, and sure you'll reduce the number of mosquitoes, but you'll never have any wireless ethernet access in that bandwidth. Remember, these things will probably have to use all the channels, just like any other wide-spread deployment of 802.11b WAPs over an area.
I hate the bugs as much as anyone else (I've been swarmed and bitten on eyelids and inside ears because everyplace else was covered in deet). But there are better things to do with that bandwidth. And there are other ways to deal with mosquitoes that are probably just as effective.
"Also, most violent criminals are psychopaths. The threat of death means nothing to a psychopath, so it's a terrible deterrent.
It does work well against the greedy, though."
Actually, since the guilty party is a corporation and not an individual, the penalty has to be directed at the corporation. Since corporations are by definition non-corporeal (prick me I do not bleed), and have no internal moral code also by definition, some fate as loathsome to a corporation as death is to a typical person should be executed. Perhaps sentence Sony to be run by goverment beaurucrats.
That would be just like a death sentence. A living death sentence, or undead sentence.
How about letting each country make up its own mind? It could work easily. However, it would require retiring.com,.gov,.edu,.mil,.org,.info, and so on. Instead, they would be replaced with a country suffix (.com.us,.org.ca,.mil.cn, etc.). That way, each country could have control of its own domain name space. I suggest this would have little, if any, effect on the common usage of various Internet facilities. As evidence of this, just look at a page of google search results. It is most likely uncommon for the vast majority of visitors to that site to pay much attention, or even read, the domain names. By and large, people don't care if the link they click goes to www.ibm.com, or www.ibm.com.uk. They are more concerned with whether or not the search results are in line with their expectations. This phenomenon is more abstract, and focused on the experience of the people searching the internet, and less focused on the structure of the internet. Its more about whats out there than how to get there.
This would follow the moer general phenomenon of how computing facilitates the increased abstraction of data. This is something that will continue long after Moore's law has become irrelavent. Increased abstraction of data will also mandate changes in how data is handled, and existing sociological structures will have to change as well in their approach, or give way to new structures. As the RIAA and MPAA are just starting to learn.
Likewise, DNS will need to change. After all, when DNS started, it had top level domains for countries, and top level domains reflecting the nature of the organization holding the name. One for where you are, and one for what you are. These two different aproaches aren't all that compatible, and the 'what you are' TLDs shouldn't have existed in the first place. Why should universities in the US get the privilege of being a '.edu', and all other universities in the world need to be '.edu.co'? While the arguement can be made that the US started the Internet and 'deserves' special privilege, the end result is inconsistant the the nature of the Internet itself, and this confrontation was inevitable, and will only get worse.
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Now, one may say that without.com,.org, and so forth, people will become confused, but a more accurate assertion would be that people don't pay that much attention to the domain names in the first place - they are more interested in the content. Thus, retiring the non-geographical TLDs will facilitate local control of domain name space, also facilitating self-determination and allowing the global dns to be more de-centralized, like the Internet itself. DNS disputes could then be resolved locally as well. Hence, if walmart is upset with the domain name 'www.walmartisbad.org.mn', they would need to take its issue up with the government of Mongolia, which could decide for itself what, if anything, should be done. There are obvious downfalls to this approach, but its strength is that DNS would no longer be under one organization's thumb. Entities outside the US would not need to concern themselves with internal US affairs when examining or considering the status of their DNS holdings. Of course, in cases where their local government may have more stringent DNS controls, this may be a disadvantage. But, its always their options to seek opportunities elsewhere, either to the pleasure or not of the local government.
This way, if a country chooses to reign back their involvement in the Internet, they miss out on the numerous benefits, too many to list here.
A friend of mine was showing me a chip fabricating lab, and pointed out an alarm that went off if there was an accidental release of a certain chemical. He also pointed out that if that alarm were to go off, only people right next to the exit would survive....
"I have seen people open Internet Explorer, type "Yahoo" in the address bar, and use the MSN search results to find Yahoo to search for what they were looking for."
When I see something like that, I just quit watching . . .
Wouldn't
export http_proxy="http://user:pass@proxy.domain:port" work?
It does for me. Apt, synaptic, and aptitude all work just fine. Of course, you still have to tell firefox about the proxy.
Arguements about whether or not Apple will ultimately allow OSX to run on clones don't quite make sense, given that nearly their entire turnaround has been due to the iPod. Also, they could also just not support OSX on anything other than their own hardware. They're probably just restricting things since moving to Intel is risky, as any such transition is.
Developer: Here's my patch. Sorry its late... Linus:The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee....
I've popped big capacitors, much bigger than those found in PCs, but not the coke can sized ones (I'm not crazy). They will explode with vigor, and I could see them putting a very small dent in thin metal, but not in the gage of metal I see most cases made of - its not impossible though. However, its rare for one which is correctly connected to actually blow up. Usually failure is just a breakdown of the dielectric, resulting in a shunt or short circuit. Worse still, before they go bad, they often change their capacity, resulting in a very different circuit. But, hook one in backwards - yes it'll go boom.
More fun than blowing them up is to charge them and toss them at someone while saying 'catch'. Even more fun is getting a coke can sized one and welding things together with it (you can only get a little spot welded, though - perfect for carraige bolt stick men).
Or better yet, wire one to the inside of a door handle and charge it up. Man, I never thought my grandma could jump so high....
I had a law prof once who pointed out that waivers from liability are very limited in their ability to protect from litigation. If Sony broke the law, they broke the law. No EULA will protect them from being hauled into court.
"The Cisco solution is based on its proprietary Adaptive Wireless Path Protocol, a mesh routing technology designed to allow the wireless network to self-configure, self-optimize, resist interference and network downtime, and reduce network deployment costs" ... "The Aironet 1500 is priced at $3,999. A kit with an Aironet 1500 access point and equipment for pole-top mounting will sell for $4,645, and a 1500 with a rooftop mounting kit will sell for $4,815, according to the documents."
So much for the 'reducing deployment costs' part...
Windows is not only a generic term in the field of information technology, it is also generic in the fields of data communications, telecommunications, and construction, among many others.
One might as well claim tradmarks for 'earth', 'wind', and 'fire'.
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Aren't there better things to do with that bandwidth? Like, oh I don't know, maybe Internet access.
I was part of a team that deployed about 2500 WAP's across the US for a company, and the biggest problem was other 802.11b devices chattering in the bandwidth. Enough of these things in a city, and sure you'll reduce the number of mosquitoes, but you'll never have any wireless ethernet access in that bandwidth. Remember, these things will probably have to use all the channels, just like any other wide-spread deployment of 802.11b WAPs over an area.
I hate the bugs as much as anyone else (I've been swarmed and bitten on eyelids and inside ears because everyplace else was covered in deet). But there are better things to do with that bandwidth. And there are other ways to deal with mosquitoes that are probably just as effective.
Haste makes waste.
To science or not to science...
That is the question.
" In all fairness, this is two guys vs. MIT. Cut them some slack, eh?"
There has to be more than two of them. Who's the guy running the camera? (Although I suppose they go through cameramen like potato chips...)
"Also, most violent criminals are psychopaths. The threat of death means nothing to a psychopath, so it's a terrible deterrent.
It does work well against the greedy, though."
Actually, since the guilty party is a corporation and not an individual, the penalty has to be directed at the corporation. Since corporations are by definition non-corporeal (prick me I do not bleed), and have no internal moral code also by definition, some fate as loathsome to a corporation as death is to a typical person should be executed. Perhaps sentence Sony to be run by goverment beaurucrats.
That would be just like a death sentence. A living death sentence, or undead sentence.
This is texas - you'll ask for Angelina Jolie, and get Rosanne Barr.
"but you have to give them credit"
Your credits are no good here...
What's with the wavy-hand-in-face-thing? What is that - some kind of Jedi mind trick?
Yes, im a bed spaller
Is it just me, or are the terms "microsoft" and "independant" intrinsicaly contradictory?
"microsoft" is to "independant" as "earthquake" is to "construction" or "tsunami" is to "dry"...
How about letting each country make up its own mind? It could work easily. However, it would require retiring .com, .gov, .edu, .mil, .org, .info, and so on. Instead, they would be replaced with a country suffix (.com.us, .org.ca, .mil.cn, etc.). That way, each country could have control of its own domain name space. I suggest this would have little, if any, effect on the common usage of various Internet facilities. As evidence of this, just look at a page of google search results. It is most likely uncommon for the vast majority of visitors to that site to pay much attention, or even read, the domain names. By and large, people don't care if the link they click goes to www.ibm.com, or www.ibm.com.uk. They are more concerned with whether or not the search results are in line with their expectations. This phenomenon is more abstract, and focused on the experience of the people searching the internet, and less focused on the structure of the internet. Its more about whats out there than how to get there.
.com, .org, and so forth, people will become confused, but a more accurate assertion would be that people don't pay that much attention to the domain names in the first place - they are more interested in the content. Thus, retiring the non-geographical TLDs will facilitate local control of domain name space, also facilitating self-determination and allowing the global dns to be more de-centralized, like the Internet itself. DNS disputes could then be resolved locally as well. Hence, if walmart is upset with the domain name 'www.walmartisbad.org.mn', they would need to take its issue up with the government of Mongolia, which could decide for itself what, if anything, should be done. There are obvious downfalls to this approach, but its strength is that DNS would no longer be under one organization's thumb. Entities outside the US would not need to concern themselves with internal US affairs when examining or considering the status of their DNS holdings. Of course, in cases where their local government may have more stringent DNS controls, this may be a disadvantage. But, its always their options to seek opportunities elsewhere, either to the pleasure or not of the local government.
This would follow the moer general phenomenon of how computing facilitates the increased abstraction of data. This is something that will continue long after Moore's law has become irrelavent. Increased abstraction of data will also mandate changes in how data is handled, and existing sociological structures will have to change as well in their approach, or give way to new structures. As the RIAA and MPAA are just starting to learn.
Likewise, DNS will need to change. After all, when DNS started, it had top level domains for countries, and top level domains reflecting the nature of the organization holding the name. One for where you are, and one for what you are. These two different aproaches aren't all that compatible, and the 'what you are' TLDs shouldn't have existed in the first place. Why should universities in the US get the privilege of being a '.edu', and all other universities in the world need to be '.edu.co'? While the arguement can be made that the US started the Internet and 'deserves' special privilege, the end result is inconsistant the the nature of the Internet itself, and this confrontation was inevitable, and will only get worse.
br> Now, one may say that without
This way, if a country chooses to reign back their involvement in the Internet, they miss out on the numerous benefits, too many to list here.
A friend of mine was showing me a chip fabricating lab, and pointed out an alarm that went off if there was an accidental release of a certain chemical. He also pointed out that if that alarm were to go off, only people right next to the exit would survive....
"I have seen people open Internet Explorer, type "Yahoo" in the address bar, and use the MSN search results to find Yahoo to search for what they were looking for."
When I see something like that, I just quit watching . . .
Wouldn't
export http_proxy="http://user:pass@proxy.domain:port" work?
It does for me. Apt, synaptic, and aptitude all work just fine. Of course, you still have to tell firefox about the proxy.
Arguements about whether or not Apple will ultimately allow OSX to run on clones don't quite make sense, given that nearly their entire turnaround has been due to the iPod. Also, they could also just not support OSX on anything other than their own hardware. They're probably just restricting things since moving to Intel is risky, as any such transition is.
" Doing the quoted things can kill people."
That's correct. Never, never play with charged capacitors. Except for the carraige bolt stick man and popping big ones, I was just kidding.
Developer: Here's my patch. Sorry its late...
Linus: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee....
The patent office never wanted to grant patents for software. They were forced to do so by the supreme court in the 1981 Diamond v. Diehr.[bitlaw.com]
I've popped big capacitors, much bigger than those found in PCs, but not the coke can sized ones (I'm not crazy). They will explode with vigor, and I could see them putting a very small dent in thin metal, but not in the gage of metal I see most cases made of - its not impossible though. However, its rare for one which is correctly connected to actually blow up. Usually failure is just a breakdown of the dielectric, resulting in a shunt or short circuit. Worse still, before they go bad, they often change their capacity, resulting in a very different circuit. But, hook one in backwards - yes it'll go boom.
More fun than blowing them up is to charge them and toss them at someone while saying 'catch'. Even more fun is getting a coke can sized one and welding things together with it (you can only get a little spot welded, though - perfect for carraige bolt stick men).
Or better yet, wire one to the inside of a door handle and charge it up. Man, I never thought my grandma could jump so high....
I had a law prof once who pointed out that waivers from liability are very limited in their ability to protect from litigation. If Sony broke the law, they broke the law. No EULA will protect them from being hauled into court.
Or next to the break-in resistant kryptonite bike locks. Able to keep superman at bay, but not Bic-Man!
"The Cisco solution is based on its proprietary Adaptive Wireless Path Protocol, a mesh routing technology designed to allow the wireless network to self-configure, self-optimize, resist interference and network downtime, and reduce network deployment costs"
...
"The Aironet 1500 is priced at $3,999. A kit with an Aironet 1500 access point and equipment for pole-top mounting will sell for $4,645, and a 1500 with a rooftop mounting kit will sell for $4,815, according to the documents."
So much for the 'reducing deployment costs' part...
"No it is not"
Windows is not only a generic term in the field of information technology, it is also generic in the fields of data communications, telecommunications, and construction, among many others.
One might as well claim tradmarks for 'earth', 'wind', and 'fire'.
Oh, wait....
MacOS X 12.0 Alien Autoposy documents Burial place of Jimmy Hoffa ...
Communicating with the dead is not impossible - its just hard to interpet the moaning.
In the space of less than an hour, this comment got modded from 2, funny to 1, flamebait. I guess Michael Dell has lots of modders...