When you register a domain with Register.com, it comes with a free webmail account with two mailboxes. Their webmail interface is pretty primitive (last I looked anyway), but it allows you to configure email forwarding. So I forward to my Gmail account, and setup Gmail to use my personal domain on outgoing mails.
Well that's the point. The certificate is not valid and there is no way to tell the website is legitimate.
Of course there is. I made the certificate myself! I visit far more SSL web servers on my company's private LAN than I visit on the public internet. Most of the HTTPS connections I make in the course of a workday are to internal servers with self-signed certificates.
It's worse than that. The Prime Directive is a false elitism, built on a fairy-tale version of one's place in the world. It is akin to extreme environmentalist outlooks, and many religiously-based viewpoints, that see humans as separate from nature, and human tampering with nature as "unnatural" or even dangerous. So the Prime Directive asks humans to regard less technologically advanced aliens as something akin to wild animals, that should be left in their natural state - "natural" meaning merely without human contact.
Somehow, the idea that humans should not have any influence over the universe in which we live seems a little, well, self-defeating.
It is not incomprehensible to see the universe was created by a higher power, who set into motion the laws of natural selection and everything we see in it.
Nor is it useful. Postulating a higher power explains nothing, but it does raise the new question: From whence came the higher power?
If vendors are claiming $60 billion in lost revenue. Revenue is payments-received-before-profit, or in other words, the license fees they are charging their customers - the "retail" price of a software package (or negotiated price for large purchases) and the support/maintenance contract.
So what this really means is that open source is saving users $60 billion in license fees and support contracts.
High end cables are for e-peen. There is actually no measurable sonic difference between the output of speakers and systems connected with Monster or Blue Jean cables, and garden-variety cables from Radio Shack or any other non-premium cable vendor. In short, premium cables of any brand are basically ripoffs. Buyers pay a large premium solely to feel better about their expensive home theater system. You spent $10,000 on the electronics, a $5 cable seems - unworthy. And yet, every double-blind study and every sonic measurement ever done on this question has shown that not only is there no measurable difference in the final signal, but persons who claim to be able to hear the difference are always shown to be under the influence of wishful thinking. They are no better at fingering the premium cable than a random guesser.
The snail mail sender pays for the entire cost of the message(paper, printing, delivery, etc). The spammer shares his cost with the recipient's ISP.
That's getting dangerously close to an argument the carriers would use to justify charging content providers for delivery of their content to end users. If everyone is in agreement that no one should be able to force extra infrastructure charges on someone else beyond what was planned for, then what defense do we have against AT&T assessing a surcharge on YouTube?
What, did you think they just plugged in and got whatever they wanted?
What do I care? They sold me Unlimited Internet Service.
unlimited -adjective 1. not limited; unrestricted; unconfined: unlimited trade. 2. boundless; infinite; vast: the unlimited skies. 3. without any qualification or exception; unconditional.
Shouldn't I expect to receive just what I was sold? If the vendor promised something he can't deliver, how is that the customer's fault?
Unfortunately it's one of those obnoxious stories that you have to click like 30x to read the whole thing...
They're not obnoxious, nobody on/. gives a shit, they'll click through anyway. They way to get 30-page click-thrus to go away is not to apologize for them, but to stop posting them on fucking Slashdot! Until then, YOUR the obnoxious one for posting the link to it in the first place, jackass!
1. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
They fold space by having pet mutants snort spice.
2. It's also a lot about pushing the boundaries of what a human body and mind is capable of. You know that at the moment we're using no more than a few percent of our brains, don't you?
There is no evidence whatsoever for that folk tale. In fact, what evidence we have suggests very strongly that even a small loss of brain tissue can cause massive changes in cognition and function. Then there is the evolutionary argument that humans would not have evolved a brain with a mass of about 1400 grams if a brain with a mass of about 140 grams would do. Nervous tissue that is not active atrophies. If we really only used 10% of our brains, it'd be 10% of its present size.
It's swords and sorcery fantasy with a slight patina of technology. You have magic psychics, aircraft that flap their wings, space folding (just say teleport, asshole), and weapons that magnify a shout. This is magic, not sci-fi.
Look at how much damage one smiling, soft-shoe psychopath can inflict upon the world in under eight years. Hundreds of thousands of war dead (for no good reason), an economy brought to the verge of total collapse, and all the works in place to start rounding people into barbed wire enclosures.
Yep, he sure did.
And people are still arguing in defense of this president!
Is it unusual in your experience for, say, a corporate IT department to destroy hard drives by policy?
No. We do it, and all we have to protect is customer credit card data, which is practically public knowledge by now. Imagine if you had some REAL secrets.
The tubes are recycled. I used to to do that job a long time ago. Basically, you have a grinder that is fitted to a lid for a 55-gallon steel drum. The grinder has a feeder tube, you just shove the tubes into the feeder, they get ground up into the 50-gallon drum, and it is classified a solid low-level mercury waste and sent off to the reclamation facility.
So yes, CFLs could get into the same waste stream as for the tubes. But it costs money. The party with the burned out tubes pays for it.
Slashdot Mirror
When you register a domain with Register.com, it comes with a free webmail account with two mailboxes. Their webmail interface is pretty primitive (last I looked anyway), but it allows you to configure email forwarding. So I forward to my Gmail account, and setup Gmail to use my personal domain on outgoing mails.
Well that's the point. The certificate is not valid and there is no way to tell the website is legitimate.
Of course there is. I made the certificate myself! I visit far more SSL web servers on my company's private LAN than I visit on the public internet. Most of the HTTPS connections I make in the course of a workday are to internal servers with self-signed certificates.
This is why we haven't upgraded from FF2.
www.yahoodotcom
com.yahoo.wwwslashslashcolonhttp
in-addr.arpa.168.192
java.lang.Throwable
slash.dotorg
named.conf:--
zone "name-services.com" { type master; file "empty.zone"; };
zone "domainservice.com" { type master; file "empty.zone"; };
zone "fastpark.net" { type master; file "empty.zone"; };
(etc. etc. etc.)
empty.zone:--
@ IN SOA localhost. hostmaster.localhost. ( 2008042900 172800 900 1209600 3600 )
IN NS localhost.
It's worse than that. The Prime Directive is a false elitism, built on a fairy-tale version of one's place in the world. It is akin to extreme environmentalist outlooks, and many religiously-based viewpoints, that see humans as separate from nature, and human tampering with nature as "unnatural" or even dangerous. So the Prime Directive asks humans to regard less technologically advanced aliens as something akin to wild animals, that should be left in their natural state - "natural" meaning merely without human contact.
Somehow, the idea that humans should not have any influence over the universe in which we live seems a little, well, self-defeating.
It is not incomprehensible to see the universe was created by a higher power, who set into motion the laws of natural selection and everything we see in it.
Nor is it useful. Postulating a higher power explains nothing, but it does raise the new question: From whence came the higher power?
Isn't that really how the headline should read?
If vendors are claiming $60 billion in lost revenue. Revenue is payments-received-before-profit, or in other words, the license fees they are charging their customers - the "retail" price of a software package (or negotiated price for large purchases) and the support/maintenance contract.
So what this really means is that open source is saving users $60 billion in license fees and support contracts.
High end cables are for e-peen. There is actually no measurable sonic difference between the output of speakers and systems connected with Monster or Blue Jean cables, and garden-variety cables from Radio Shack or any other non-premium cable vendor. In short, premium cables of any brand are basically ripoffs. Buyers pay a large premium solely to feel better about their expensive home theater system. You spent $10,000 on the electronics, a $5 cable seems - unworthy. And yet, every double-blind study and every sonic measurement ever done on this question has shown that not only is there no measurable difference in the final signal, but persons who claim to be able to hear the difference are always shown to be under the influence of wishful thinking. They are no better at fingering the premium cable than a random guesser.
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1082.html
The snail mail sender pays for the entire cost of the message(paper, printing, delivery, etc). The spammer shares his cost with the recipient's ISP.
That's getting dangerously close to an argument the carriers would use to justify charging content providers for delivery of their content to end users. If everyone is in agreement that no one should be able to force extra infrastructure charges on someone else beyond what was planned for, then what defense do we have against AT&T assessing a surcharge on YouTube?
What do I care? They sold me Unlimited Internet Service.
Shouldn't I expect to receive just what I was sold? If the vendor promised something he can't deliver, how is that the customer's fault?
Sorry, it never ceases to amaze me that when facing a spending problem their first reaction is to increase taxes.
This makes no sense. If you want to buy a car you can't yet afford, what do you do? You figure out how to get more money, same as they do.
Grow up.
Unfortunately it's one of those obnoxious stories that you have to click like 30x to read the whole thing...
/. gives a shit, they'll click through anyway. They way to get 30-page click-thrus to go away is not to apologize for them, but to stop posting them on fucking Slashdot! Until then, YOUR the obnoxious one for posting the link to it in the first place, jackass!
They're not obnoxious, nobody on
1. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
They fold space by having pet mutants snort spice.
2. It's also a lot about pushing the boundaries of what a human body and mind is capable of. You know that at the moment we're using no more than a few percent of our brains, don't you?
There is no evidence whatsoever for that folk tale. In fact, what evidence we have suggests very strongly that even a small loss of brain tissue can cause massive changes in cognition and function. Then there is the evolutionary argument that humans would not have evolved a brain with a mass of about 1400 grams if a brain with a mass of about 140 grams would do. Nervous tissue that is not active atrophies. If we really only used 10% of our brains, it'd be 10% of its present size.
Folding space is more like traveling through a worm hole although that is a crappy analogy as well.
But you forgot about the spice-snorting mutants. Fit that into a scientifically plausible wormhole fiction.
It's swords and sorcery fantasy with a slight patina of technology. You have magic psychics, aircraft that flap their wings, space folding (just say teleport, asshole), and weapons that magnify a shout. This is magic, not sci-fi.
Chocolate Rain! The RIAA got bitchslapped today! Chocolate Rain!
<voice>
Ever wonder why most libertarians tend to be unmarried men?
There, fixed it for ya.
At Wal-Mart, we're a commodity and have to fight for shelf space like Colgate fights for shelf space.
The RIAA should get out of the record business and compete with Home Depot. They have more tools than anyone.
Why not connect future drives through USB 2/3 if SATA is patent encumbered?
Because USB drive interfaces are just SATA or IDE interfaces with a USB bridge.
Look at how much damage one smiling, soft-shoe psychopath can inflict upon the world in under eight years. Hundreds of thousands of war dead (for no good reason), an economy brought to the verge of total collapse, and all the works in place to start rounding people into barbed wire enclosures.
Yep, he sure did.
And people are still arguing in defense of this president!
Oh! I thought you were talking about bin Laden!
Is it unusual in your experience for, say, a corporate IT department to destroy hard drives by policy?
No. We do it, and all we have to protect is customer credit card data, which is practically public knowledge by now. Imagine if you had some REAL secrets.
The tubes are recycled. I used to to do that job a long time ago. Basically, you have a grinder that is fitted to a lid for a 55-gallon steel drum. The grinder has a feeder tube, you just shove the tubes into the feeder, they get ground up into the 50-gallon drum, and it is classified a solid low-level mercury waste and sent off to the reclamation facility.
So yes, CFLs could get into the same waste stream as for the tubes. But it costs money. The party with the burned out tubes pays for it.
Make it up in volume. That's the ticket.
They do exactly what a surgeon's staff does to his instruments before surgery. They bake the spacecraft in a autoclave. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/germ.html
That's the ordinary meaning of the word.
Sterilize
NASA does not sterilize probes it sends.
Yes, they do.