A little oversized is okay for cooling, but you really want to have the right size, or not quite enough. A overpowered cooling until will cool your house down without removing the humidity. A underpowered unit won't get your house as cool as you want, but will be more comfortable because it removes all the humidity, allowing sweat to cool you down.
Best if no AC as all. Unless you are sick or otherwise unhealthy, you don't need it. Drink a lot of water, and sit near a fan which uses less energy. (Yes this is what I do even though I have AC). Go swimming.
That isn't the point though. Nothing we build today can match the shuttle for payload. However there is no way to put a man on mars with anything we have today. Therefore we can conclude that the US is building something to get a lot of weight into orbit.
I think you are mixing up guns and pistols. A gun can mean a long rifle, a pistol (which is normally also a rifle), or a shotgun (almost never rifled). Rifle refers to the scratches in the barrel origionally resulting from bad drilling until they discovered those scratches made the gun much more accurate.
IF I have to take down I bear at close range I want the biggest bullet in the smallest gun I can find. A.50 pistol is much better for the job. (It will hurt, but when a bear is going to attack you don't care) True a pistol isn't as accurate or powerful as a long rifle (though they are not as bad as you imply), but they are much easier to carry. At 50 yards you have plenty of power and accuracy to kill most game with a 9mm.
I don't need a gun to get meat on my table. Then again I don't need a computer either - I could quit my programming job and live on 5 acres in the middle of no where. I enjoy programing though, and society values what I produce on the computer. I also enjoy hunting, I need to eat, and the deer population needs to be thinned.
I've considered getting a semi-automatic for hunting. Last time I was hunting I was unable to shoot at a deer because it was behind me. A pistol would have allowed me a safe shot, where I couldn't move my longer rifle into position. (I tried, but the deer spooked when I made just a little too much noise) This deer was not far from my stand.
Shooting a pistol at a target is fun. I have done it was a 9mm, and can report that it takes far more skill than a.22 pistol.
Hang up on 1994. We don't want the "information superhighway". The internet is important, 1994's information superhighway was some stupid politician's dream.
Did you read what I wrote? True nothing current can do the job, but things to not stand still. The US cannot come even close to putting a man on mars without something bigger than the shuttle. Seems like a no-brainer to me that you would test it before the first missions. Once you are sure it will work, just throw some docking on it, and send the rest of.
Because ISS has needs, they can easily design a test that involves putting a "small" load to ISS. Considering the power needed for a Mas mission, a small load might end up being more than the shuttle can do.
I haven't done this, but I'm been thinking about it. Put a saw, some sandpaper, and glue in the car. Spend 20 minutes a day building. Wouldn't be hard, and I could get a lot done over weeks of it.
Yes, even in these days where seemingly noting is PC, those who can't walk don't get offended by those who can - they are content to be accommodated just by wheeling alongside you. Better yet, it is free, no matter where you live/work you are never more than a few hundred feet from the outdoors.
The shuttle isn't the only way to get to the ISS. The Russians regularly send at least two different craft to the ISS.
In addition China, India, and Japan are all known to be in various stages of constructing their own craft. I wouldn't be surprised if at least one failed due to politics, but I'm not making any bets against their engineers if the governments wants them to succeed. (They will of course have failures along the way, that is part of engineering) I haven't heard of any ESA plans, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had some too.
Now granted the shuttle is the biggest of any of the above. However many missions don't need the full mass hauling ability of the shuttle. Prioritize based on both what the others can do, and what is important now, and most missions can happen anyway.
There is also no reason to assume after the shuttle is gone there will be nothing else. The US plans to go to Mars. There is no way to get to mars without the ability to get more mass in orbit (out of orbit really) than the shuttle can do. I would expect those lower stages will be tested to the ISS with some cargo - as long as we are making them, why not use them.
This depends on your disability. Some are such that you can't go outside, while others should be worked around.
For a normal person[1], there needs to be a balance. I spend 8 hours a day at a computer - nothing strange, I'm a programmer by trade. I go home and I tend my garden and things like that, but I still check my personal email. If you spend a lot of time on the computer, but have activities that you do without the machine, then you are fine. If you spend all your waking hours on the computer there is something wrong.
If you are completely unable to function in public without help, then technology is great. If you control your wheel chair by blowing into a tube because you can't use your arms at all, then technology is all the allows you to live, and computers may be your only way to get things done. I don't think you are in this position - people who are need a lot of help in their daily life, and those helpers would be glad to see you spend more time not needing them.
If your are spending all your time indoors, despite just missing a leg, then perhaps you are using the computer too much. Maybe you need a wheelchair, but you can get involved in a wheelchair basketball league or something. In this case, your balance should not be much different from anyone else's, despite lacking some abilities.
Give your life an honest evaluation. Are you in good physical shape? If not, correct that. Examine the rest of your life. There is nothing wrong with enjoying the computer, but it is not everything in life.
[1]I don't think there is even one person in the world that is completely without a disability. For most people they are minor things, and you can know that person for years without knowing. (For that matter you can go years without knowing - I was in my 20s before I found out I'm color blind) I'm assuming your disability is something more serious, where it does affect your way of life.
Then why for 1000 years did it not exist in a Guild economy with price controls?
It did. They hid it a little better, but it still existed.
No- because most entrepreneurs KNOW this is what will happen and sell out at the first sign of such trouble.
Most people in the US work for a small company. A significant number of Americans own their own company. Nobody other than the black helicopter crowd sees mass murder of entrepreneurs as a possibility. Once in a while it happens, but not often enough to be concerned. Most large business sell to and buy from large businesses. One business might be helped by the murder of a small business, but the others are hurt, and they will take steps to prevent it - if it really happened.
Take off your tin foil hat, which doesn't do anything. Look at the real world. Your claims to not match up with reality.
Forget about your job. The company is dead, and therefore your job is dead. They just don't know it yet.
There are whistle blower laws in place to protect you, but you better be working with the police if you want to apply them. (This may be a civil matter where they don't apply)
Update your resume tonight. The only reason you wouldn't take a new job (even for less money) is if you were collecting evidence, even then you should ask them what you should do.
Contact every piracy organization you can find, and ask their advice. Insist of getting everything in writing.
Get a lawyer. 1 hour with the right lawyer can easily be worth the cost. (You only need 15 minutes of their time, the rest is time for them to research the laws that apply)
I'd tell you to sell your stock, but that would be considered trading on insider information, so I'm not sure if you are safe to do so.
Most important, consider your current company bankrupt - they will be soon anyway.
True, but the fraudsters just skip town when that happens. It can take more than 6 months to figure out there was fraud, and by that time you are gone. Particularly if you know the rules of your state. The IRS gets your W2s (including the unemployment version) in January. They might get quarterly reports as well. Just start your benefits after the quarterly report, and say you found a job just before the next one and leave town.
You can play the time lag well here. As others have said you don't use your address for the checks anyway, so you can leave a check in the mailbox if you suspect watchers. Generally you will have enough time to get a lot of money even if you are careful. Even if you only claim benefits for two weeks from any particular account, if you can do 100 accounts per week for a couple months, you will still make out well.
What makes you think they are checking the right employers? When I filled out the MN forms a few years back they asked me who I was working for in the last 6 months. I list all my past employers, and they call them to verify I was laid off.
If I wanted to cheat I could fill the forms out today, listing "mom and pop, inc" as employer, give my parent's phone number, and have my parents verify "Was a good employee, but we just don't need him anymore so we laid him off." Of course my parents wouldn't cheat for my like that, but some would, and I'm sure I could find some friend who would pretend to have a business for purposes of helping in the fraud - in return for some cash of course.
Some work needs to be done to cover your tracks, but it isn't that hard.
You can catch the fraud next April 15th when you get tax returns (Actually you can compare W2s in January to see that the person really was working), but by then the money is gone. Most likely the fraud will be caught because when you are dealing with that many false claims one person will get a legitimate claim while you are collecting... Then it is just a matter of investigation.
Why do you assume there is one best for all circumstances? Depending on what you are trying to do sometimes you need different underlying algorithms to get the same result.
NetBSD claims to be best because it runs on everything. That means that have to reject code that uses more memory than a VAX or sun3 system is likely to have. FreeBSD can get some extra speed because they can assume you have more memory.
Look closely at DragonFlyBSD. That project split from FreeBSD not long ago because there are two fundamentally different ways to do SMP. Nobody knows which will be best, and until both are implemented fully we cannot know. There is no choice here but to have two different BSDs, each doing their own things.
OpenBSD exists because the founder is a great programmer, but he cannot get along with anyone else.
Particularly when using automatic translation (which is a bad idea anyway), something that is acceptable in your language may come out as something unacceptable in a different one. No matter how cheap you are trying to get by, you still need a someone to check profanity in your output. This is less a problem with human translators who will avoid the issue, but even still you should check because some translators will apply them thinking you won't know.
Morality is important because you don't think of the issue. Muslim societies have restrictions on what females can wear. Show a girl in a swimsuit (even a one-piece) in the context of diving, and you have offended your Muslim audience. Christans have similar taboos, but will generally not be offended by that same picture. Hindu's consider cow sacrid, and your promotion of a pound of beef with any order will offend them.
You might not consider them, but you should. These two issues cover all the subtile things that you won't think about unless you make a special effort.
The problem is you speak English. There is a good chance that you speak no other language. Since nearly everything is written in English first these days, you don't care about these issues.
Many of those who care about i18n do not speak English at all! To these people even spelling the word out gives no help. In fact it is less helpful because they have to learn this large symbol. (There is no reason to assume they even know the Latin alphabit, so they will not think to learn each letter separately)
Of those who speak English, many do not speak it fluently. Often they speak English as a first year student ("hello, my name is"), and they know how to look words up in their English-whatever dictionary.
Of course English is the dominate second language in the world. There are plenty of people who speak English fluently as a second language. They often have trouble with the creative spelling English came up with. Words with 20 letters are hard for anyone to spell, so it would be no surprise if they have trouble spelling it.
The goal is one symbol that is easy for everyone to recognize. No matter what language the page is written in, if you see "i18n", you know you are in a location where people are interested in translation. This is often enough for some educated clicking to find the same information in your language.
i18n may not be a good abbreviation. However can you come up with a way to represent the concept to all 6+billion people on earth?
In the US it is illegal for telemarketers to call cell phones. IT still happens, and you do pay for the minutes. However you can recover several times your costs when it happens. Thus cell phone spam doesn't happen.
Many cell phone plans include national roaming. If you have that, you don't care who owns the tower, because it costs you nothing extra. T-Mobile, Cingler, and Verizon all have such plans. I don't think any of them sell anything other than the cheapest 60 minutes talk time plans without national free roaming. Other carriers have different plans, but those are the big ones.
Sure we have them. They cost ~4 times as much per minute though, so unless you almost never use the phone they are a waste of money. This article is about teen girls who have a reputation of talking on the phone for hours every day. Pre-paid cards would be more expensive for them.
There is a good chance that the teen's parents are intentionally buying them phones with less minutes than the kids want, in teach them a lesson in budget. (Might be misguided, but since I'm not their parent I'm not going to judge) Having the ability to go over minutes can be nice in an emergency situation.
Cell phone minutes here are cheap, so long as you don't talk too much for you plan. For the right to call anywhere in the US (compare to the whole of Europe) as much as I want (That is how much I personally want, YMMV) on my cell phone, I pay just a couple dollars more than my local phone company wanted for the right to the same, except the calling area was limited to the nearest city.
Our system is different. Not better or worse, different. I pay for incoming calls (they are part of my included minutes, so it never costs me extra since I don't talk that much), but in return this means I can sue telemarketer who call me for the time used, because they are costing me money. I don't get cell phone spam as a result, while when I was in Europe a few years back I did (I has a Europe cell phone for that trip).
Another advantage is I pay, so I'm concerned about costs. With your system you don't care how much it costs someone else to call you, so you don't shop around for who has the best incoming deals. Thus the phone companies have no incentive to compete on incoming price - the person who pays has no control of those costs!
Overall it costs significantly less to talk on the phone over in the US. My friends and I think nothing of calling each other, on our cell phones, and talking as much as we want. SMS is popular over there in part because cell phone time is so expensive that it is worth dealing with the bad UI on your phone to type them - we just make a phone call for the same thing. (though I agree in many cases the SMS would be better - if the UI to enter them wasn't so bad)
The systems are different. With ours we have to worry about going over minutes, while yours only worries about cost when you call. In theory the cell phone coverage is better in Sweden, in practice you are unlikely to go to areas without coverage in the US. Different. Looking at both systems objectively, I prefer ours. YMMV.
I just realized the senderID and SPF are not exactly the same... What I said applies to SPF, I'm not sure how SenderID works, since people I trust have told me there are patents involved I see no reason to learn about it either.
I suspect a variation of what I said will apply. I just don't know what.
It may not stop open relays, but it amounts to the same thing. You can trying sending all the email through that open relay you want, it won't get into hotmail because the SPF records do not match.
This is not directly about stopping spam. This is stopping spam from sources we cannot go back and identify latter. If a spammer sends an email with my address, I know they sent it through my ISP's mail servers, and therefore I can contact my ISP to stop it. (By making them require authentication on the email servers) Right now anyone can send email with my name on it, and there is nothing I can do about it.
When we designed our serial number scheme we did research and concluded there was no scheme we could implement that you could not break. Therefore we made the serial number with the idea of keeping the honest people honest. You won't accidental use one more copy than you should because we keep track of how many copies are installed automatically.
Sure we can used a hash, but the problem is we need some way to generate the keys, which isn't easy with a hash.
By keys I'm talking about thousands of keys. We need some way to tell several thousand programs to work, while making it difficult for you to claim it was an accident that you had too many copies installed.
We wrote our scheme before the days of everyone had an internet connection, we could do a little more now. Still isn't much though.
I can buy plenty of "books" by one William Shakesphere, and nothing he wrote was ever protected by copyright in the US. My King James Bible is public domain too. Sure anyone can copy those books, but the effort of doing so makes it not worth while.
As for television, why do they care that I can copy it? They get their money from advertisements. It wouldn't be hard to show a film from 1919 on TV. (Well if they can find a copy - back in the days they burned the old films after the theater was done with them!) Perhaps less people would watch, but so long as they can sell enough commercials to pay for the transmittor who cares?
Public domain would benefit many groups that are ignoring it. They just lack the vision to see how to use it.
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A little oversized is okay for cooling, but you really want to have the right size, or not quite enough. A overpowered cooling until will cool your house down without removing the humidity. A underpowered unit won't get your house as cool as you want, but will be more comfortable because it removes all the humidity, allowing sweat to cool you down.
Best if no AC as all. Unless you are sick or otherwise unhealthy, you don't need it. Drink a lot of water, and sit near a fan which uses less energy. (Yes this is what I do even though I have AC). Go swimming.
That isn't the point though. Nothing we build today can match the shuttle for payload. However there is no way to put a man on mars with anything we have today. Therefore we can conclude that the US is building something to get a lot of weight into orbit.
I think you are mixing up guns and pistols. A gun can mean a long rifle, a pistol (which is normally also a rifle), or a shotgun (almost never rifled). Rifle refers to the scratches in the barrel origionally resulting from bad drilling until they discovered those scratches made the gun much more accurate.
IF I have to take down I bear at close range I want the biggest bullet in the smallest gun I can find. A .50 pistol is much better for the job. (It will hurt, but when a bear is going to attack you don't care) True a pistol isn't as accurate or powerful as a long rifle (though they are not as bad as you imply), but they are much easier to carry. At 50 yards you have plenty of power and accuracy to kill most game with a 9mm.
I don't need a gun to get meat on my table. Then again I don't need a computer either - I could quit my programming job and live on 5 acres in the middle of no where. I enjoy programing though, and society values what I produce on the computer. I also enjoy hunting, I need to eat, and the deer population needs to be thinned.
I've considered getting a semi-automatic for hunting. Last time I was hunting I was unable to shoot at a deer because it was behind me. A pistol would have allowed me a safe shot, where I couldn't move my longer rifle into position. (I tried, but the deer spooked when I made just a little too much noise) This deer was not far from my stand.
Shooting a pistol at a target is fun. I have done it was a 9mm, and can report that it takes far more skill than a .22 pistol.
Hang up on 1994. We don't want the "information superhighway". The internet is important, 1994's information superhighway was some stupid politician's dream.
Did you read what I wrote? True nothing current can do the job, but things to not stand still. The US cannot come even close to putting a man on mars without something bigger than the shuttle. Seems like a no-brainer to me that you would test it before the first missions. Once you are sure it will work, just throw some docking on it, and send the rest of.
Because ISS has needs, they can easily design a test that involves putting a "small" load to ISS. Considering the power needed for a Mas mission, a small load might end up being more than the shuttle can do.
I haven't done this, but I'm been thinking about it. Put a saw, some sandpaper, and glue in the car. Spend 20 minutes a day building. Wouldn't be hard, and I could get a lot done over weeks of it.
Yes, even in these days where seemingly noting is PC, those who can't walk don't get offended by those who can - they are content to be accommodated just by wheeling alongside you. Better yet, it is free, no matter where you live/work you are never more than a few hundred feet from the outdoors.
The shuttle isn't the only way to get to the ISS. The Russians regularly send at least two different craft to the ISS.
In addition China, India, and Japan are all known to be in various stages of constructing their own craft. I wouldn't be surprised if at least one failed due to politics, but I'm not making any bets against their engineers if the governments wants them to succeed. (They will of course have failures along the way, that is part of engineering) I haven't heard of any ESA plans, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had some too.
Now granted the shuttle is the biggest of any of the above. However many missions don't need the full mass hauling ability of the shuttle. Prioritize based on both what the others can do, and what is important now, and most missions can happen anyway.
There is also no reason to assume after the shuttle is gone there will be nothing else. The US plans to go to Mars. There is no way to get to mars without the ability to get more mass in orbit (out of orbit really) than the shuttle can do. I would expect those lower stages will be tested to the ISS with some cargo - as long as we are making them, why not use them.
This depends on your disability. Some are such that you can't go outside, while others should be worked around.
For a normal person[1], there needs to be a balance. I spend 8 hours a day at a computer - nothing strange, I'm a programmer by trade. I go home and I tend my garden and things like that, but I still check my personal email. If you spend a lot of time on the computer, but have activities that you do without the machine, then you are fine. If you spend all your waking hours on the computer there is something wrong.
If you are completely unable to function in public without help, then technology is great. If you control your wheel chair by blowing into a tube because you can't use your arms at all, then technology is all the allows you to live, and computers may be your only way to get things done. I don't think you are in this position - people who are need a lot of help in their daily life, and those helpers would be glad to see you spend more time not needing them.
If your are spending all your time indoors, despite just missing a leg, then perhaps you are using the computer too much. Maybe you need a wheelchair, but you can get involved in a wheelchair basketball league or something. In this case, your balance should not be much different from anyone else's, despite lacking some abilities.
Give your life an honest evaluation. Are you in good physical shape? If not, correct that. Examine the rest of your life. There is nothing wrong with enjoying the computer, but it is not everything in life.
[1]I don't think there is even one person in the world that is completely without a disability. For most people they are minor things, and you can know that person for years without knowing. (For that matter you can go years without knowing - I was in my 20s before I found out I'm color blind) I'm assuming your disability is something more serious, where it does affect your way of life.
Then why for 1000 years did it not exist in a Guild economy with price controls?
It did. They hid it a little better, but it still existed.
No- because most entrepreneurs KNOW this is what will happen and sell out at the first sign of such trouble.
Most people in the US work for a small company. A significant number of Americans own their own company. Nobody other than the black helicopter crowd sees mass murder of entrepreneurs as a possibility. Once in a while it happens, but not often enough to be concerned. Most large business sell to and buy from large businesses. One business might be helped by the murder of a small business, but the others are hurt, and they will take steps to prevent it - if it really happened.
Take off your tin foil hat, which doesn't do anything. Look at the real world. Your claims to not match up with reality.
Forget about your job. The company is dead, and therefore your job is dead. They just don't know it yet.
There are whistle blower laws in place to protect you, but you better be working with the police if you want to apply them. (This may be a civil matter where they don't apply)
Update your resume tonight. The only reason you wouldn't take a new job (even for less money) is if you were collecting evidence, even then you should ask them what you should do.
Contact every piracy organization you can find, and ask their advice. Insist of getting everything in writing.
Get a lawyer. 1 hour with the right lawyer can easily be worth the cost. (You only need 15 minutes of their time, the rest is time for them to research the laws that apply)
I'd tell you to sell your stock, but that would be considered trading on insider information, so I'm not sure if you are safe to do so.
Most important, consider your current company bankrupt - they will be soon anyway.
True, but the fraudsters just skip town when that happens. It can take more than 6 months to figure out there was fraud, and by that time you are gone. Particularly if you know the rules of your state. The IRS gets your W2s (including the unemployment version) in January. They might get quarterly reports as well. Just start your benefits after the quarterly report, and say you found a job just before the next one and leave town.
You can play the time lag well here. As others have said you don't use your address for the checks anyway, so you can leave a check in the mailbox if you suspect watchers. Generally you will have enough time to get a lot of money even if you are careful. Even if you only claim benefits for two weeks from any particular account, if you can do 100 accounts per week for a couple months, you will still make out well.
What makes you think they are checking the right employers? When I filled out the MN forms a few years back they asked me who I was working for in the last 6 months. I list all my past employers, and they call them to verify I was laid off.
If I wanted to cheat I could fill the forms out today, listing "mom and pop, inc" as employer, give my parent's phone number, and have my parents verify "Was a good employee, but we just don't need him anymore so we laid him off." Of course my parents wouldn't cheat for my like that, but some would, and I'm sure I could find some friend who would pretend to have a business for purposes of helping in the fraud - in return for some cash of course.
Some work needs to be done to cover your tracks, but it isn't that hard.
You can catch the fraud next April 15th when you get tax returns (Actually you can compare W2s in January to see that the person really was working), but by then the money is gone. Most likely the fraud will be caught because when you are dealing with that many false claims one person will get a legitimate claim while you are collecting... Then it is just a matter of investigation.
Why do you assume there is one best for all circumstances? Depending on what you are trying to do sometimes you need different underlying algorithms to get the same result.
NetBSD claims to be best because it runs on everything. That means that have to reject code that uses more memory than a VAX or sun3 system is likely to have. FreeBSD can get some extra speed because they can assume you have more memory.
Look closely at DragonFlyBSD. That project split from FreeBSD not long ago because there are two fundamentally different ways to do SMP. Nobody knows which will be best, and until both are implemented fully we cannot know. There is no choice here but to have two different BSDs, each doing their own things.
OpenBSD exists because the founder is a great programmer, but he cannot get along with anyone else.
FreeBSD is a server OS first. Things that make a great server get priority, things that make a great desktop are done whenever.
I use FreeBSD on my desktop and I love it. In large part because all that automatic stuff that makes for a great desktop gets in my way.
They always get a SIGPIPE when they flush.
Because these issues will trip you up.
Particularly when using automatic translation (which is a bad idea anyway), something that is acceptable in your language may come out as something unacceptable in a different one. No matter how cheap you are trying to get by, you still need a someone to check profanity in your output. This is less a problem with human translators who will avoid the issue, but even still you should check because some translators will apply them thinking you won't know.
Morality is important because you don't think of the issue. Muslim societies have restrictions on what females can wear. Show a girl in a swimsuit (even a one-piece) in the context of diving, and you have offended your Muslim audience. Christans have similar taboos, but will generally not be offended by that same picture. Hindu's consider cow sacrid, and your promotion of a pound of beef with any order will offend them.
You might not consider them, but you should. These two issues cover all the subtile things that you won't think about unless you make a special effort.
The problem is you speak English. There is a good chance that you speak no other language. Since nearly everything is written in English first these days, you don't care about these issues.
Many of those who care about i18n do not speak English at all! To these people even spelling the word out gives no help. In fact it is less helpful because they have to learn this large symbol. (There is no reason to assume they even know the Latin alphabit, so they will not think to learn each letter separately)
Of those who speak English, many do not speak it fluently. Often they speak English as a first year student ("hello, my name is"), and they know how to look words up in their English-whatever dictionary.
Of course English is the dominate second language in the world. There are plenty of people who speak English fluently as a second language. They often have trouble with the creative spelling English came up with. Words with 20 letters are hard for anyone to spell, so it would be no surprise if they have trouble spelling it.
The goal is one symbol that is easy for everyone to recognize. No matter what language the page is written in, if you see "i18n", you know you are in a location where people are interested in translation. This is often enough for some educated clicking to find the same information in your language.
i18n may not be a good abbreviation. However can you come up with a way to represent the concept to all 6+billion people on earth?
In the US it is illegal for telemarketers to call cell phones. IT still happens, and you do pay for the minutes. However you can recover several times your costs when it happens. Thus cell phone spam doesn't happen.
Many cell phone plans include national roaming. If you have that, you don't care who owns the tower, because it costs you nothing extra. T-Mobile, Cingler, and Verizon all have such plans. I don't think any of them sell anything other than the cheapest 60 minutes talk time plans without national free roaming. Other carriers have different plans, but those are the big ones.
Sure we have them. They cost ~4 times as much per minute though, so unless you almost never use the phone they are a waste of money. This article is about teen girls who have a reputation of talking on the phone for hours every day. Pre-paid cards would be more expensive for them.
There is a good chance that the teen's parents are intentionally buying them phones with less minutes than the kids want, in teach them a lesson in budget. (Might be misguided, but since I'm not their parent I'm not going to judge) Having the ability to go over minutes can be nice in an emergency situation.
Cell phone minutes here are cheap, so long as you don't talk too much for you plan. For the right to call anywhere in the US (compare to the whole of Europe) as much as I want (That is how much I personally want, YMMV) on my cell phone, I pay just a couple dollars more than my local phone company wanted for the right to the same, except the calling area was limited to the nearest city.
Our system is different. Not better or worse, different. I pay for incoming calls (they are part of my included minutes, so it never costs me extra since I don't talk that much), but in return this means I can sue telemarketer who call me for the time used, because they are costing me money. I don't get cell phone spam as a result, while when I was in Europe a few years back I did (I has a Europe cell phone for that trip).
Another advantage is I pay, so I'm concerned about costs. With your system you don't care how much it costs someone else to call you, so you don't shop around for who has the best incoming deals. Thus the phone companies have no incentive to compete on incoming price - the person who pays has no control of those costs!
Overall it costs significantly less to talk on the phone over in the US. My friends and I think nothing of calling each other, on our cell phones, and talking as much as we want. SMS is popular over there in part because cell phone time is so expensive that it is worth dealing with the bad UI on your phone to type them - we just make a phone call for the same thing. (though I agree in many cases the SMS would be better - if the UI to enter them wasn't so bad)
The systems are different. With ours we have to worry about going over minutes, while yours only worries about cost when you call. In theory the cell phone coverage is better in Sweden, in practice you are unlikely to go to areas without coverage in the US. Different. Looking at both systems objectively, I prefer ours. YMMV.
I just realized the senderID and SPF are not exactly the same... What I said applies to SPF, I'm not sure how SenderID works, since people I trust have told me there are patents involved I see no reason to learn about it either.
I suspect a variation of what I said will apply. I just don't know what.
It may not stop open relays, but it amounts to the same thing. You can trying sending all the email through that open relay you want, it won't get into hotmail because the SPF records do not match.
This is not directly about stopping spam. This is stopping spam from sources we cannot go back and identify latter. If a spammer sends an email with my address, I know they sent it through my ISP's mail servers, and therefore I can contact my ISP to stop it. (By making them require authentication on the email servers) Right now anyone can send email with my name on it, and there is nothing I can do about it.
When we designed our serial number scheme we did research and concluded there was no scheme we could implement that you could not break. Therefore we made the serial number with the idea of keeping the honest people honest. You won't accidental use one more copy than you should because we keep track of how many copies are installed automatically.
Sure we can used a hash, but the problem is we need some way to generate the keys, which isn't easy with a hash.
By keys I'm talking about thousands of keys. We need some way to tell several thousand programs to work, while making it difficult for you to claim it was an accident that you had too many copies installed.
We wrote our scheme before the days of everyone had an internet connection, we could do a little more now. Still isn't much though.
I can buy plenty of "books" by one William Shakesphere, and nothing he wrote was ever protected by copyright in the US. My King James Bible is public domain too. Sure anyone can copy those books, but the effort of doing so makes it not worth while.
As for television, why do they care that I can copy it? They get their money from advertisements. It wouldn't be hard to show a film from 1919 on TV. (Well if they can find a copy - back in the days they burned the old films after the theater was done with them!) Perhaps less people would watch, but so long as they can sell enough commercials to pay for the transmittor who cares?
Public domain would benefit many groups that are ignoring it. They just lack the vision to see how to use it.