This is the "bcc:" or "blind carbon copy" field. Recipients listed in the bcc field are not listed in any of the headers that anyone else (to and cc reciepients) get sent. It is pretty useful if you are sending to a large list of people and do not want everyone to be forced to page through screens of recipients. It also provides some privacy features in that all of your recipients do not get everyone else's email address - great for things like "STD test results! Very important!" that you might not want everyone to know to whom else you are sending the message.
The bcc field is also often used by spammers who do not go through the trouble of individually addressing each email message. If you combine a filter on your address not being in the "to" or the "cc" fields along with the sender not being someone you know, it probably works pretty well as a spam trap.
Note that many mailing lists might use similar features.
We don't care. We make over a billion dollars a year, we can absorb the fines as the cost of doing business.
Fill out Form 475 at the FCC, and eventaully they will hit them with a large enough fine to make them think twice. I think that willfully breaking federal laws can get you in bigger troubles than just the $500 fine.
I can sort of understand why someone would waste their time posting trolls about how various well known people are sexual deviants, or how Slashdot is tracking us all online, or maybe even the goatsex stuff, but I do not understand this interest in Stephen King.
Is there some sort of historical context that I am missing here? Has slashdot done (or not done) a lot of SK stories? Are people really upset about the ebook situation?
Does anyone ever fall for the SK death trolls (besides I suppose myself?)
Sure, just send them an invoice from "neksys enterprises" or something similar. Generally there are few if any requirements for small self-employed operators. Your average babysitter, lemonade stand, spam-invoicing-company need not incorporate.
Distributed.net is also doing Coulomb Ruler calculations, which have some real world applications in antenna design among other uses. Granted, a "pretty good" Coulomb Ruler is probably not much worse off than the "optimal" Columb Ruler, so it probably isn't buying THAT much.
The thing is though, there is a value in creating communities that in large part cut across national lines and provide interconnectedness between people. Distribued computing projects can aid in this type of social growth.
For those of you are complaining about this being a waste of time and resources, why not back up your indignation by personally making an online donation to the charity of your choice. Quit complaining about people having fun wasting less money and resources than they (collectively) probably waste on cigarettes, and do something yourself to make the world a better place.
I am a bit confused. I thought the GPL only required distributing source code to the people you distributed the binaries to? How did you get the binaries?
It does seem like there might be a conflict between the need to agree with the APSL and access to GPL source, but does the web-based APSL agreement button require you to agree to the APSL for code under the GPL or does it say "I promise to abide by the APSL for APSL code"? While perhaps not ideal, it does not seem too onerous, since obviously you are only interested in the GPLed bits of code available in the ADC areas of their website.
Generally, I think that this analysis is correct, the size of the earth compared to the radius of the orbit is pretty small. In fact I think that the eleptical deviations of the earth's orbit are larger than the size of the earth. Additionally, the volume of the sun from which the neutrinos are created is probably larger than the volume of the earth, so we already have a pretty large uncertainty in knowing where the neutrinos each were created in the first place.
However this does not necessarily mean that the earth has no effect on the situation. The detector itself might not be symmetric - maybe it is more or less accurate when pointing down compared to pointing up? Theories involving neutrino oscillations might have measurably different rates when the neutrinos pass through the earth than when they pass through empty space.
Do I keep one on my person at almost all times? Yes... and I think you are a coward if you don't.
This makes one a coward how?
Now in your mind it is safer to carry a gun than to not do so, but generally doing the more dangerous thing is not what defines a coward. In fact, it is usually the opposite.
A "classic" coward is unable to uphold their beliefs due to fear. They either act (or fail to act) in a way consistent with their beliefs because they are afraid of the consequences of that action (or not performing that action).
It seems to me that not carrying a gun would only be cowardice if the person thought that they *should* carry a gun from some philosophical reason, and yet did not due to fear. Generally this is not the case. I would say that the majority of people involved in this type of debate who do not carry guns have a philosophical reason NOT to carry a gun. Thus pointing out the danger of that decision demonstrates bravery rather than cowardice. Similarly, pointing out the dangers of carrying a gun to someone who thinks that gun possession is philosophically an important issue, might highlight the bravery of the individual in that case.
Granted, one or the other (or both for that matter) of these philosophical positions could be based on ignorance and stupidity, but nobody ever said that stupid people could not be brave.
But to get back on topic - I think it is a shame that we are so willing to invest in military strength and in environmentally unfriendly governments, businesses and practices and all those sorts of "bad" types of things and yet we spend such a relatively small amount on basic research.
I thought part of the process of setting up the bank account was having them deposit a couple of random sub dollar amounts which you would then confirm to verify that you were you and everything worked fine. At least this was the process of setting up the account when I did so long ago.
I have been pretty dissapointed with their dealing with various credit card issues and bank account issues for Canadian customers though.
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Yeah, pretty silly of me. The room is cold, my hands are stiff, and I can't spell worth beans and have come to rely on the crutch that is my spelling checker...and neglected to use it in this instance.
As you can no doubt imagine, I meant "possessive" rather than possissive".
To be fair, Adams does state that his "toy models" are not an attempt to explain all parts of a physical system. And it certainly is valid to question whether things that we currently think are intimately related (the behaviour of falling bodies and the motion of the planets for example).
Granted however, one of the "strengths" of modern science is the use of a small number of models to "explain" a wide variety of behaviours.
Without having read the book, it sounds like the whole point is that these wacko theories, while strange, are just as good as any other theory to explain phenomena we don't understand.
It depends on what you mean by "just as good as any other".
The various scientific theories/models currently being used for gravity, chemistry, nuclear theory, etc. have been created and continue to be used because they are usefull - they allow people to make accurate predictions about system's behaviours and design and build useful devices.
Our understanding of gravity via the general theory of relativity allow our GPS systems and satellites to have the high level of accuracy that they currently have. If Adams' gravity theory doesn't allow such system designs, it is less useful. If his model has different results than what we measure in reality, then either the measurements are wrong, or the model's value is much less than a model that does agree with measurements.
There is much value in thinking about things in new and interesting ways, but it is important to realize that just because there are neat ways to think about things does not mean that such manners of thinking have as much utility as more well established models.
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This rule is less strict that "Elements of Style," but I still feel upholds a ruling to add the 's to Adams in the cases mentioned: "Adams's book" and "Adam's
God's Debris" are both like "James's reptile" and the added 's is not a pronunciation impediment.
True, there is no "pronunciation impediment", but using "Adam's" as the possissive form of "Adams" is as incorrect as using "James's" as the possissive form of "Mary".
The name is "Adams" and not "Adam". One must start from the correct "root" to get a correct possessive.
Re:I'd have a hard time taking this book seriously
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Charles Schultz had a large number of strips dealing with questions of spirtuality, usually from the christian tranditions. Some of them are quite well done and thought provoking.
Linus has always been a bit of a student of theology...
Energy density is usually stated in energy per mass, but even using energy per volume, hydrogen is better than gasoline when measured at typical storage pressures.
Not such a bad idea, but electrical transmission energy losses have got to be less than frictional losses in pumping or trucking the gas to every end user.
But the idea of using hydrogen as a energy storage medium for peak power demand is viable, and using a fuel cell to power your home or business and using the excess heat for space heating is quite possibly ecconomical. Now if we could combine that with rooftop solar cells...
On an only tangentially related topic, the last couple of Home Power Magazine issues (most recent one available for download) have had some articles on solar hot water heating. They very convincingly claim that the return on investment is substantially better than you could possibly expect in the stock market long term:
An investment in a solar water heating system will beat the stock market any day, any decade, risk free. Initial return on investment is on the order of 15 percent, taxfree, and goes up as gas and electricity prices climb. Many states have tax credits and other incentives to sweeten those numbers even more. What are we waiting for? Forget the stock market. If you have invested in a house, your next investment should be in solar hot water.
Energy Density. Look it up. The whole point of using gasoline is that it stores so much energy per unit weight/volume. Hydrogen fuel cells could work, but just to store energy, there are many better alternatives as far as energy density is concerned.
I thought that Hydrogen had the highest energy density, many times that of gasoline... why did I think that?
Pound for pound, hydrogen packs more chemical energy than any other known fuel. Hydrogen also fits the arc of history: From firewood to coal to oil to gasoline to methane, the world's fuels of choice have become increasingly decarbonized. Carbon adds bulk and smoke without adding energy. Hydrogen, the only carbon-free combustible fuel, seems the logical omega point.
Oh yeah, I remember - because it said so in the article!
Sure there are difficulties with transportation and storage of hydrogen, but there are similar issues with gasoline and natural gas and we seem to cope with them relatively easily.
GeDid you have to change your car at all, or should it work with normal engines without modification ?
There are various schemes using plant oils to power engines, moslty diesel engines. Some of them are as simple as mixing it in with the regular diesel gas, which requires basically no modification, but I think the engine doesn't like to start with this mixture, so you might want to be able to switch to a pure source for starting.
The best method does some chemical magic on the oil to make it into biodiesel which can be run in a basically unmodified engine. As with most fuel conversions however, there is some concern about various plastic hoses which might react chemically with the new feul - but this seems to be a minor concern.
For all the details, and a fun read, get thee hence to veggievan.org. And almost no discussion of alternative energy would be complete without a link to Home Power Magazine - download the most recent issue.
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If my memory is correct: ClarisWorks was renamed AppleWorks when Claris Inc. turned into FileMaker Inc. and dropped pretty much all of their non-database software back onto Apple Inc.
I think that there has been talk of doing a new release for Windows, but the Apple online store only seems to have AppleWorks 6.2 for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.
But history has already given its verdict on the browser war, and the verdict is that MS won, hands-down. Period.
The fact is that it is extremely hard to "kill" an OSS project completely, since anyone anytime anywhere could pick it up and start it going again.
Mazilla still has a presence, and is moving forward. Other closed and open browsers are still out there, so it isn't clear that the "hands" are completely "down".
In fact, with Netscape's recent addition of the ability to read/write AOL email (did I read that feature spec correctly?) I would guess that the Netscape browser has a lot of life left in it. There are a lot of people using AOL who might want to read their email without the AOL application and their only choice now is Emailer on the Mac (quite old) and now Netscape on a large number of platforms.
Actually I think that if people are going to post (admiditly interesting) other people's words, they should at least attribute them. Getting called out for not doing so might discourage others from "forgetting" attributions themselves.
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Why wait? They'll be happy to take your money right now, today!.
You can probably even do it online.
The bcc field is also often used by spammers who do not go through the trouble of individually addressing each email message. If you combine a filter on your address not being in the "to" or the "cc" fields along with the sender not being someone you know, it probably works pretty well as a spam trap.
Note that many mailing lists might use similar features.
Fill out Form 475 at the FCC, and eventaully they will hit them with a large enough fine to make them think twice. I think that willfully breaking federal laws can get you in bigger troubles than just the $500 fine.
I can sort of understand why someone would waste their time posting trolls about how various well known people are sexual deviants, or how Slashdot is tracking us all online, or maybe even the goatsex stuff, but I do not understand this interest in Stephen King.
Is there some sort of historical context that I am missing here? Has slashdot done (or not done) a lot of SK stories? Are people really upset about the ebook situation?
Does anyone ever fall for the SK death trolls (besides I suppose myself?)
TPC's coverage is spotty, but often it works, and ties up their line and fax machine for a little while.
How many tonnes of space crudd fall on the earth each day?
The thing is though, there is a value in creating communities that in large part cut across national lines and provide interconnectedness between people. Distribued computing projects can aid in this type of social growth.
For those of you are complaining about this being a waste of time and resources, why not back up your indignation by personally making an online donation to the charity of your choice. Quit complaining about people having fun wasting less money and resources than they (collectively) probably waste on cigarettes, and do something yourself to make the world a better place.
It does seem like there might be a conflict between the need to agree with the APSL and access to GPL source, but does the web-based APSL agreement button require you to agree to the APSL for code under the GPL or does it say "I promise to abide by the APSL for APSL code"? While perhaps not ideal, it does not seem too onerous, since obviously you are only interested in the GPLed bits of code available in the ADC areas of their website.
However this does not necessarily mean that the earth has no effect on the situation. The detector itself might not be symmetric - maybe it is more or less accurate when pointing down compared to pointing up? Theories involving neutrino oscillations might have measurably different rates when the neutrinos pass through the earth than when they pass through empty space.
This makes one a coward how?
Now in your mind it is safer to carry a gun than to not do so, but generally doing the more dangerous thing is not what defines a coward. In fact, it is usually the opposite.
A "classic" coward is unable to uphold their beliefs due to fear. They either act (or fail to act) in a way consistent with their beliefs because they are afraid of the consequences of that action (or not performing that action).
It seems to me that not carrying a gun would only be cowardice if the person thought that they *should* carry a gun from some philosophical reason, and yet did not due to fear. Generally this is not the case. I would say that the majority of people involved in this type of debate who do not carry guns have a philosophical reason NOT to carry a gun. Thus pointing out the danger of that decision demonstrates bravery rather than cowardice. Similarly, pointing out the dangers of carrying a gun to someone who thinks that gun possession is philosophically an important issue, might highlight the bravery of the individual in that case.
Granted, one or the other (or both for that matter) of these philosophical positions could be based on ignorance and stupidity, but nobody ever said that stupid people could not be brave.
But to get back on topic - I think it is a shame that we are so willing to invest in military strength and in environmentally unfriendly governments, businesses and practices and all those sorts of "bad" types of things and yet we spend such a relatively small amount on basic research.
I have been pretty dissapointed with their dealing with various credit card issues and bank account issues for Canadian customers though.
As you can no doubt imagine, I meant "possessive" rather than possissive".
Granted however, one of the "strengths" of modern science is the use of a small number of models to "explain" a wide variety of behaviours.
The various scientific theories/models currently being used for gravity, chemistry, nuclear theory, etc. have been created and continue to be used because they are usefull - they allow people to make accurate predictions about system's behaviours and design and build useful devices.
Our understanding of gravity via the general theory of relativity allow our GPS systems and satellites to have the high level of accuracy that they currently have. If Adams' gravity theory doesn't allow such system designs, it is less useful. If his model has different results than what we measure in reality, then either the measurements are wrong, or the model's value is much less than a model that does agree with measurements.
There is much value in thinking about things in new and interesting ways, but it is important to realize that just because there are neat ways to think about things does not mean that such manners of thinking have as much utility as more well established models.
True, there is no "pronunciation impediment", but using "Adam's" as the possissive form of "Adams" is as incorrect as using "James's" as the possissive form of "Mary".
The name is "Adams" and not "Adam". One must start from the correct "root" to get a correct possessive.
Linus has always been a bit of a student of theology...
I don't think that it costs a point of karma. At least I hope not...
Energy density is usually stated in energy per mass, but even using energy per volume, hydrogen is better than gasoline when measured at typical storage pressures.
But the idea of using hydrogen as a energy storage medium for peak power demand is viable, and using a fuel cell to power your home or business and using the excess heat for space heating is quite possibly ecconomical. Now if we could combine that with rooftop solar cells...
On an only tangentially related topic, the last couple of Home Power Magazine issues (most recent one available for download) have had some articles on solar hot water heating. They very convincingly claim that the return on investment is substantially better than you could possibly expect in the stock market long term:
An investment in a solar water heating system will beat the stock market any day, any decade, risk free. Initial return on investment is on the order of 15 percent, taxfree, and goes up as gas and electricity prices climb. Many states have tax credits and other incentives to sweeten those numbers even more. What are we waiting for? Forget the stock market. If you have invested in a house, your next investment should be in solar hot water.
I thought that Hydrogen had the highest energy density, many times that of gasoline... why did I think that?
Pound for pound, hydrogen packs more chemical energy than any other known fuel. Hydrogen also fits the arc of history: From firewood to coal to oil to gasoline to methane, the world's fuels of choice have become increasingly decarbonized. Carbon adds bulk and smoke without adding energy. Hydrogen, the only carbon-free combustible fuel, seems the logical omega point.
Oh yeah, I remember - because it said so in the article!
Sure there are difficulties with transportation and storage of hydrogen, but there are similar issues with gasoline and natural gas and we seem to cope with them relatively easily.
There are various schemes using plant oils to power engines, moslty diesel engines. Some of them are as simple as mixing it in with the regular diesel gas, which requires basically no modification, but I think the engine doesn't like to start with this mixture, so you might want to be able to switch to a pure source for starting.
The best method does some chemical magic on the oil to make it into biodiesel which can be run in a basically unmodified engine. As with most fuel conversions however, there is some concern about various plastic hoses which might react chemically with the new feul - but this seems to be a minor concern.
For all the details, and a fun read, get thee hence to veggievan.org. And almost no discussion of alternative energy would be complete without a link to Home Power Magazine - download the most recent issue.
I think that there has been talk of doing a new release for Windows, but the Apple online store only seems to have AppleWorks 6.2 for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.
The fact is that it is extremely hard to "kill" an OSS project completely, since anyone anytime anywhere could pick it up and start it going again.
Mazilla still has a presence, and is moving forward. Other closed and open browsers are still out there, so it isn't clear that the "hands" are completely "down".
In fact, with Netscape's recent addition of the ability to read/write AOL email (did I read that feature spec correctly?) I would guess that the Netscape browser has a lot of life left in it. There are a lot of people using AOL who might want to read their email without the AOL application and their only choice now is Emailer on the Mac (quite old) and now Netscape on a large number of platforms.
Actually I think that if people are going to post (admiditly interesting) other people's words, they should at least attribute them. Getting called out for not doing so might discourage others from "forgetting" attributions themselves.