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Agreed. The worse thing about 'vigilante justice' is of course that people are going to believe him, even if he's making some or all of it up. Judge, jury, and executioner are separate people for a reason.
When you have a difficult decision to make, it is important to ask as many people as possible what they think you should do. One of them is sure to tell you to do what it is you actually want to do anyway:)
As for moving, it may be that you don't want your family living near a place where rockets are tested, or maybe the place of work is a long way away from populated area's for exactly this reason. Or maybe it's a secret government agency and he's actual flying to the far side of the moon twice a week.
One of my pet peeves is 'ask slashdot' articles with an obvious answer ('move closer to work' in this case), where they don't say why this isn't a possibility. Then 20 different threads are started exploring the possible reasons why this might not be possible.
If nobody listens when we object on privacy grounds, at least object on environmental grounds... how many kw is it going to take to power the systems to record this data?
Oh well... at least somebody is backing up my data, even if it's not me:) (Not that i'm in the US, but i'm sure my government can't be far behind)
Not quite. IRLP allows a ham radio operators to talk to a repeater which talks to another repeater over the internet which in turn talks to another ham operator, but you can't tap into the internet side directly (not allowed by regulation, there is no technical problem with doing so).
Hmmm... maybe that is the definition of Beta. It's release quality software (or at least of the quality of most software releases), but if anything breaks or someone complains about support, you can just say "what do you expect? It's only a beta".
Does anyone know why the next step after beta is rc or gold? Maybe we could have some new classes:
. gamma - it will probably work just fine but may shower you with radiation at any moment. . delta - now that we've got it just about ready for release, we are going to change a heap of things. . psi - high pressure release. 48 hour development sessions to get this one out . omega - the very last pre-release before gold. Software is probably obsolete now. . pi - completely irrational release.
I think you might be a bit confused. It's the Scientologists that don't want your mental state improved with medication. They want you nice and stupid and gullible.
The Catholics are the ones that don't want you preventing pregnancy (be it masturbation, contraception, or abortion). Queue the Monty Python 'Sperm Song':)
I don't see they could be angered by a drug which may (if the research is correct) result in less cases of pulling the plug on someone.
See, it's an awful lot easier to feel good about almost wiping out a supposedly inferior race when you've got a nice convenient story to say that they did the same earlier.
I did some reading after I posted, and I have a sneaking suspicion that that is indeed the motive behind the story I remember.
Based on the research I read, it seems that the "modern human" came out of Africa about 200000 years ago, so it does seem a bit far fetched to think that they made it to Australia at the same time anyway.
Ah. So now all of us Australian's can say to the previous inhabitants, "I know you were treated badly, but we can't be held responsible for anything that happened prior to 1901 because that was the "Colony of New South Wales". No? I didn't think so either. (Not that it matters. Things didn't change in that respect a lot after 1901 anyway)
The name "Commonwealth of Australia" might have been founded in 1901, but it was the same people who were there in 1900, so I don't think the distinction is as important as you say it is.
If you want to be really PC, it was 'founded' 40000 years ago by people who are now known as Aboriginals, or Indigenous Australians. The British established it as a penal colony in the late 1700's (yes, it was established for that purpose and convicts formed a major part of the original colony, so you're speaking out of your arse:P), and basically ignored the rights of the previous inhabitants.
There was a theory that Australia was actually settled some 200000 years ago by another group of settlers, and that they in turn were more or less wiped out 40000 years ago, which kind of reminds me vaguely of the opening storyline of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, for reasons best kept to myself. I can't find any reference to support this theory though, so possibly it was just speculation in a short article I once read.
Doesn't this technology allow a stream of moving molecules to be diverted down one path or another? So the Maxwell's Demon thought experiment would have to be modified so that the molecules would be pumped through a tube where they could be analysed and any that had a temperature above ambient would be diverted into the 'hot' pool, and any that were lower would be diverted back into the 'cold' pool.
Then you have to take into account the pump, the analysis, and the diversion, which would probably cancel out any effect that the 'Demon' would have on the actual temperature of either side, or at least be no more efficient than other methods of pumping heat.
I agree, and I wasn't implying that the 'fear' of nuclear is rational.
But, the thing about nuclear is the potential for big accidents. The effects of a nuclear accident can be around for centuries.
There are nuclear reactor designs around now that are 'passively safe', where if something goes wrong, the design is such that it automatically slows down (eg instead of the nuclear reaction getting faster with heat, it gets slower). Many of the historic concerns for getting energy by splitting atoms are no longer valid.
Nature needs YOUR help to reverse the polar reversal that has already begun.
How can you help?
Break open everything with a magnet. Cut it in half. Send the 'North Pole' half* up to the North Pole, and the 'South Pole' half* down to the South Pole. Shipments will be run every six months. Between shipments, you can help by making sure you store the magnets aligned in a north and south direction.
And be vigilant. Already three terrorist attempts to drop the South Pole magnet halves at the North Pole have been thwarted, and 5 warehouses have been found with magnets aligned in the wrong direction. If you suspect anyone of aligning their magnets the wrong way, call the Magnet Misalignment hotline NOW.
(* I do know that if you cut a magnet in half you don't get a north pole half and a south pole half. I'm just being silly.)
The greens (and other similar political groups) scaremonger against nuclear because it is (according to them), the greater of all the available evils.
If you want nuclear to succeed, you need to find a greater evil, for example: " Scientists have released details of a discovery last month that when a tiny adorable kitten is poked with something pointy and sharp, an incredible amount of energy is released, many many orders of magnitude more energy than the kitten would consume in food during its entire life.
There is much speculation about where the energy comes from, as it clearly violates almost all known 'laws of physics'. It has been determined so far that the more cute and adorable the kitten, the higher the energy output.
But, with the energy crisis worsening, a proof of concept fully-automated-kitten-poking power plant has been set up with the ability to hold 30 cute and adorable baby cats. Even with an initial supply of 10 kittens, being poked 3 times per hour, the energy output is enough to supply a major capital city during peak hours.
Plans are being drawn up to build a plant large enough to supply the whole of Australia. "
Suddenly nuclear doesn't seem like such a bad option:)
A Wiretap is a 3-Way-Call with the Univited Party on Mute
that's even more easily detectable than routing via the proxy. If you're the 'bad guy', you will have a SIP device that can notify you that it has been asked to send a copy of all traffic to a 3rd party. As the cops, not letting the 'bad guy' know that you are on to them is a requirement to being able to catch them red handed.
Properly implemented, SIP (common VoIP protocol) works like this: A='A Party' - the person making the call B='B Party' - the person receiving the call P='Proxy' - the VoIP provider
A and B register with P. A makes a call to B: . A requests P that it be put through to B . P contacts B, B's phone rings . B answers . P lets A know B's details . P lets B know A's details . A and B exchange voice traffic directly, without involving P
This allows latency to remain low when, say, A and B are in Australia and P is on the other side of the world.
To perform a successful wire tap in this scenario, the FCC would need to intercept the data at multiple points, possibly in separate countries.
Alternatively, P can tell A and B that there is too much firewalling in place and that all voice traffic must go via P, but by doing this they are giving the game away... it would be easily detectable by A and or B if they were smart enough to know what was going on.
Maybe the 'non-toxic' thing is there to act as a stupidity amplifier. The more you eat the stupider you get, provided you were stupid enough to eat it in the first place.
Actually, it was the brain damage sustained from the buildup of toxins accumulated from repeated ingestion of Play Doh that made you liberal arts majors.
the car can lock itself to the point where it can not be driven
Ah... i see it now... a drive by DoS attack. Roadside assist companies hiring script kiddies to drive around parking lots in pre-computer vehicles with a high power transmitter issuing authentication requests on all known channels.
I thoroughly agree. And really, what is overtime anyway if you are expected to do it all the time?
Take your salary for the year/month/week/whatever, divide it by the number of hours you worked over that period, and then adjust for superannuation contributions, fringe benefits, leave, public holidays, etc. That's how much you are effectively being payed per hour. If the figure is acceptable to you then stop complaining. If it isn't then discuss it with your boss and go from there. Certainly don't sulk about it quietly for years and then take your employer to court because you didn't have the balls to ask to be paid what you are worth.
I assume your dad would have been payed a wage that reflected the fact that he worked 10-11 hours a day. If he didn't, then he was being screwed over, but I suspect that if he stuck with his job for 20 years then he either enjoyed it, he was taking a wage that paid him for the hours he worked (even if the word 'overtime' didn't appear on his payslip), or both.
I do this too. Spam filtering is a very resource intensive process, if done properly, so taking that function off of your exchange server is not a bad idea for that reason either.
The drawbacks, which I think the original poster listed as requirement, is that it doesn't integrate nicely into exchange. Training the bayes stuff for _your_ mail is hard (eg marking it as spam under exchange doesn't automatically adjust the bayes stuff). That being said, the solution I put togther has very low false positive rate (unless the sender ip is on a blackhole list - then all bets are off), and a fairly low false negative rate (2 or so a day for me on average, out of hundreds a day detected).
The other thing is that you need to muck around a bit to be able to get messages out of quarantine (eg if you do virus scanning too). Not impossible though, all you'd have to do is rig up something that emails the user a link to click on to get the message released, or something where you reply to the 'your message has been quarantined' message and it then releases it.
One thing that has only just occured to me, is that if you put your spam emails into your spam/junk email folder in exchange, then the spam filtering software could use IMAP to get them out again and use them to train the per user bayes lists. You could also place a copy of 'false positives' (assume you tag them instead of deleting them) into a 'Not Spam' folder. In my case this would be too much mucking around to really be useful as my system is about as good as i think it will ever get, but maybe in the future it could be worth considering.
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I'll have my $500,000 now thankyou.
Agreed. The worse thing about 'vigilante justice' is of course that people are going to believe him, even if he's making some or all of it up. Judge, jury, and executioner are separate people for a reason.
When you have a difficult decision to make, it is important to ask as many people as possible what they think you should do. One of them is sure to tell you to do what it is you actually want to do anyway :)
As for moving, it may be that you don't want your family living near a place where rockets are tested, or maybe the place of work is a long way away from populated area's for exactly this reason. Or maybe it's a secret government agency and he's actual flying to the far side of the moon twice a week.
One of my pet peeves is 'ask slashdot' articles with an obvious answer ('move closer to work' in this case), where they don't say why this isn't a possibility. Then 20 different threads are started exploring the possible reasons why this might not be possible.
Careful, now you will have half of the American viewers asking "what is a 'different parts of the world'"?
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... harddisk and other mass storage companies.
:)
If nobody listens when we object on privacy grounds, at least object on environmental grounds... how many kw is it going to take to power the systems to record this data?
Oh well... at least somebody is backing up my data, even if it's not me
(Not that i'm in the US, but i'm sure my government can't be far behind)
Not quite. IRLP allows a ham radio operators to talk to a repeater which talks to another repeater over the internet which in turn talks to another ham operator, but you can't tap into the internet side directly (not allowed by regulation, there is no technical problem with doing so).
Hmmm... maybe that is the definition of Beta. It's release quality software (or at least of the quality of most software releases), but if anything breaks or someone complains about support, you can just say "what do you expect? It's only a beta".
Does anyone know why the next step after beta is rc or gold? Maybe we could have some new classes:
. gamma - it will probably work just fine but may shower you with radiation at any moment.
. delta - now that we've got it just about ready for release, we are going to change a heap of things.
. psi - high pressure release. 48 hour development sessions to get this one out
. omega - the very last pre-release before gold. Software is probably obsolete now.
. pi - completely irrational release.
I think you might be a bit confused. It's the Scientologists that don't want your mental state improved with medication. They want you nice and stupid and gullible.
:)
The Catholics are the ones that don't want you preventing pregnancy (be it masturbation, contraception, or abortion). Queue the Monty Python 'Sperm Song'
I don't see they could be angered by a drug which may (if the research is correct) result in less cases of pulling the plug on someone.
But maybe I missed your point...
Chances are Sun don't need any help with their taxes, they probably already pay as little as possible.
:)
maybe through ventures like this
See, it's an awful lot easier to feel good about almost wiping out a supposedly inferior race when you've got a nice convenient story to say that they did the same earlier.
I did some reading after I posted, and I have a sneaking suspicion that that is indeed the motive behind the story I remember.
Based on the research I read, it seems that the "modern human" came out of Africa about 200000 years ago, so it does seem a bit far fetched to think that they made it to Australia at the same time anyway.
Ah. So now all of us Australian's can say to the previous inhabitants, "I know you were treated badly, but we can't be held responsible for anything that happened prior to 1901 because that was the "Colony of New South Wales". No? I didn't think so either. (Not that it matters. Things didn't change in that respect a lot after 1901 anyway)
The name "Commonwealth of Australia" might have been founded in 1901, but it was the same people who were there in 1900, so I don't think the distinction is as important as you say it is.
If you want to be really PC, it was 'founded' 40000 years ago by people who are now known as Aboriginals, or Indigenous Australians. The British established it as a penal colony in the late 1700's (yes, it was established for that purpose and convicts formed a major part of the original colony, so you're speaking out of your arse :P), and basically ignored the rights of the previous inhabitants.
There was a theory that Australia was actually settled some 200000 years ago by another group of settlers, and that they in turn were more or less wiped out 40000 years ago, which kind of reminds me vaguely of the opening storyline of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, for reasons best kept to myself. I can't find any reference to support this theory though, so possibly it was just speculation in a short article I once read.
Doesn't this technology allow a stream of moving molecules to be diverted down one path or another? So the Maxwell's Demon thought experiment would have to be modified so that the molecules would be pumped through a tube where they could be analysed and any that had a temperature above ambient would be diverted into the 'hot' pool, and any that were lower would be diverted back into the 'cold' pool.
Then you have to take into account the pump, the analysis, and the diversion, which would probably cancel out any effect that the 'Demon' would have on the actual temperature of either side, or at least be no more efficient than other methods of pumping heat.
I agree, and I wasn't implying that the 'fear' of nuclear is rational.
But, the thing about nuclear is the potential for big accidents. The effects of a nuclear accident can be around for centuries.
There are nuclear reactor designs around now that are 'passively safe', where if something goes wrong, the design is such that it automatically slows down (eg instead of the nuclear reaction getting faster with heat, it gets slower). Many of the historic concerns for getting energy by splitting atoms are no longer valid.
Nature needs YOUR help to reverse the polar reversal that has already begun.
How can you help?
Break open everything with a magnet. Cut it in half. Send the 'North Pole' half* up to the North Pole, and the 'South Pole' half* down to the South Pole. Shipments will be run every six months. Between shipments, you can help by making sure you store the magnets aligned in a north and south direction.
And be vigilant. Already three terrorist attempts to drop the South Pole magnet halves at the North Pole have been thwarted, and 5 warehouses have been found with magnets aligned in the wrong direction. If you suspect anyone of aligning their magnets the wrong way, call the Magnet Misalignment hotline NOW.
(* I do know that if you cut a magnet in half you don't get a north pole half and a south pole half. I'm just being silly.)
The greens (and other similar political groups) scaremonger against nuclear because it is (according to them), the greater of all the available evils.
:)
If you want nuclear to succeed, you need to find a greater evil, for example:
"
Scientists have released details of a discovery last month that when a tiny adorable kitten is poked with something pointy and sharp, an incredible amount of energy is released, many many orders of magnitude more energy than the kitten would consume in food during its entire life.
There is much speculation about where the energy comes from, as it clearly violates almost all known 'laws of physics'. It has been determined so far that the more cute and adorable the kitten, the higher the energy output.
But, with the energy crisis worsening, a proof of concept fully-automated-kitten-poking power plant has been set up with the ability to hold 30 cute and adorable baby cats. Even with an initial supply of 10 kittens, being poked 3 times per hour, the energy output is enough to supply a major capital city during peak hours.
Plans are being drawn up to build a plant large enough to supply the whole of Australia.
"
Suddenly nuclear doesn't seem like such a bad option
That's a fair point. I should have defined them more clearly as the distinction is indeed blurry :)
A Wiretap is a 3-Way-Call with the Univited Party on Mute
that's even more easily detectable than routing via the proxy. If you're the 'bad guy', you will have a SIP device that can notify you that it has been asked to send a copy of all traffic to a 3rd party. As the cops, not letting the 'bad guy' know that you are on to them is a requirement to being able to catch them red handed.
ummm... isn't that what I said??? The point is that not only is it bad for performance, it's easily detectable by either end.
Properly implemented, SIP (common VoIP protocol) works like this:
A='A Party' - the person making the call
B='B Party' - the person receiving the call
P='Proxy' - the VoIP provider
A and B register with P.
A makes a call to B:
. A requests P that it be put through to B
. P contacts B, B's phone rings
. B answers
. P lets A know B's details
. P lets B know A's details
. A and B exchange voice traffic directly, without involving P
This allows latency to remain low when, say, A and B are in Australia and P is on the other side of the world.
To perform a successful wire tap in this scenario, the FCC would need to intercept the data at multiple points, possibly in separate countries.
Alternatively, P can tell A and B that there is too much firewalling in place and that all voice traffic must go via P, but by doing this they are giving the game away... it would be easily detectable by A and or B if they were smart enough to know what was going on.
Maybe the 'non-toxic' thing is there to act as a stupidity amplifier. The more you eat the stupider you get, provided you were stupid enough to eat it in the first place.
Actually, it was the brain damage sustained from the buildup of toxins accumulated from repeated ingestion of Play Doh that made you liberal arts majors.
:)
(runs and ducks for cover
the car can lock itself to the point where it can not be driven
Ah... i see it now... a drive by DoS attack. Roadside assist companies hiring script kiddies to drive around parking lots in pre-computer vehicles with a high power transmitter issuing authentication requests on all known channels.
I thoroughly agree. And really, what is overtime anyway if you are expected to do it all the time?
Take your salary for the year/month/week/whatever, divide it by the number of hours you worked over that period, and then adjust for superannuation contributions, fringe benefits, leave, public holidays, etc. That's how much you are effectively being payed per hour. If the figure is acceptable to you then stop complaining. If it isn't then discuss it with your boss and go from there. Certainly don't sulk about it quietly for years and then take your employer to court because you didn't have the balls to ask to be paid what you are worth.
I assume your dad would have been payed a wage that reflected the fact that he worked 10-11 hours a day. If he didn't, then he was being screwed over, but I suspect that if he stuck with his job for 20 years then he either enjoyed it, he was taking a wage that paid him for the hours he worked (even if the word 'overtime' didn't appear on his payslip), or both.
I do this too. Spam filtering is a very resource intensive process, if done properly, so taking that function off of your exchange server is not a bad idea for that reason either.
The drawbacks, which I think the original poster listed as requirement, is that it doesn't integrate nicely into exchange. Training the bayes stuff for _your_ mail is hard (eg marking it as spam under exchange doesn't automatically adjust the bayes stuff). That being said, the solution I put togther has very low false positive rate (unless the sender ip is on a blackhole list - then all bets are off), and a fairly low false negative rate (2 or so a day for me on average, out of hundreds a day detected).
The other thing is that you need to muck around a bit to be able to get messages out of quarantine (eg if you do virus scanning too). Not impossible though, all you'd have to do is rig up something that emails the user a link to click on to get the message released, or something where you reply to the 'your message has been quarantined' message and it then releases it.
One thing that has only just occured to me, is that if you put your spam emails into your spam/junk email folder in exchange, then the spam filtering software could use IMAP to get them out again and use them to train the per user bayes lists. You could also place a copy of 'false positives' (assume you tag them instead of deleting them) into a 'Not Spam' folder. In my case this would be too much mucking around to really be useful as my system is about as good as i think it will ever get, but maybe in the future it could be worth considering.