Well that's all I need to know. The one phenomena associated with an electrical arc - a burst of radio emission - has never been detected. Furthermore, a feature always associated with impacts - shatter cones - has no explanation from the electric arc guys. If they can answer those two things, they may be on to something. Until then, it's a very poorly supported hypothesis with some big holes in it.
Does anybody else wonder whether the US government has been taken over by somebody (possibly giant alien lizards) who are deliberately trying to ruin the country?
The Republican party believes government is incompetent to provide many basic public services and therefore underfunds it and runs it incompetently in order to prove their point.
The amateur stacking program Registax seems to be more sophisticated than this. It allows multiple alignment stars or points and shifts the corresponding subregions of the image as needed. Otherwise, the method for selecting the images is very similar.
First, the averaging algorithm is not without its flaws. They make the assumption that by averaging out a bunch of images, you eliminate distortion.
No, they don't assume that. Their assumption is that an average of a bunch of images selected because they are probably sharper than average, will be sharper than an average of a totally random selection of images. And that is a sound assumption. The trick is in selecting images automatically that have a high probability of being sharper than average. A person can do this by sight but with hundreds of thousands of images, it takes a great deal of patience and time. Better to use a computer running a clever algorithm for selecting images.
Amateurs have been doing this for years with video cameras and then web cams. Registax is an one of the workhorse programs for automatically selecting frames from a digital video stream for stacking. There's a couple of others but that one's been the most popular for years.
I assume that the only counter measure would be to ask the recipients of your mailing lists to unflag the message when the first one arrives.
As best we can tell, this is just what Hotmail/MSN intend. It might be a good idea if you move to new address space, to create a bunch of Hotmail/MSN mailboxes, include them on your first mailing from the new addresses and right away login to each of them to un-Bulk your mailing, in the hopes that your mails will get un-Bulked sooner by whatever automated feedback system they are using.
Among machines I use regularly in Seattle and in Southern California I'm now running:
* Two machines that use XP
* A TabletPC with XP
* A Dell XPSII laptop that was running Vista RC1, then Vista RC2, and as of a week ago is running the release version of Vista
* A smaller Dell laptop that followed a similar upgrade path to the machine above
* A new Dell 9200 Desktop with a quad-core Q6600 CPU and a DX10-capable GTS8600 video card
OK, my dick's hard now, too. What's next, buddy?
Part of being a good advocate for a cause like free software is having the maturity to be intellectually honest.
I mean seriously, if they thought it out completely, does it make sense to lock your product to another product that is controlled completely by one company?
Nintendo and Playstation developers say "Yes!" Why can't Xbox and Windows developers say "Yes!" for the same reasons the others do?
Hotmail, AOL, and other large e-mail providers will start filtering out your e-mail if a certain number of their members mark your e-mail as spam (which many seem to use instead of the delete button).
Nope, they just toss you into Bulk Mail if they haven't seen your mail servers before, even if your organization applies for feedback loop, PTR records in order, SPF, and even before any Hotmail user sees your message or presses any buttons. Bulk Mail is where you go regardless of anything else, for about two weeks when you first start sending. We've called them about it, there are no exceptions. That is what they do.
There seems to be a contradiction here. The problem DynDNS is trying to solve stems directly from backup MX that can't verify recipients, which then become spam relays via asynchronous DSNs. But what problem were people trying to solve by using a backup MX that can't read their organizations global address book? Mail will queue on the originating system if the destination can't be reached. If there is a backup MX, this means the recipient organization wants to queue mail destined to themselves on a host other than the sender's, usually because they think it will make them look bad if their mail queues at the sending side. But if they do this, and then don't send DSNs, they are degrading service for their senders, not improving it. If they had no backup MX, mail would queue on the sender's host, which would presumably have no problem sending DSNs to its own mailboxes, or eliminating them if that was their choice. But the sender gets no choice when the recipient uses a backup MX that sends no DSNs. Their service is degraded, and they don't even know it.
If SPF were more widely implemented, or required to be implemented, wouldn't this problem be solved?
No, SPF/Sender-ID are bad ideas, which even their creators don't put much trust into. Don't believe me? Try sending a brand-new newsletter to Hotmail and MSN subscribers. Make sure all your Sender-ID and SPF records are in place and verified with Microsoft's own Sender-ID checker. Make sure all your WHOIS data is current, valid and not obfuscated for privacy. Setup your mail servers on freshly-allocated netblock, which you've verified is not on any DNS blacklists. All your ducks are in a row, so you send your newsletter with high hopes. They will be dashed. Microsoft will stuff your newsletter in the Bulk Mail folder anyway, until their servers "get used to" your mail stream. Even Microsoft places no stock whatsoever in Sender-ID. It is a waste of time, a means of dismissing your attempt to interoperate with them. Sender-ID is just another way for Microsoft to tell you "Not enough dick sucking, try harder."
Well then just don't buy the things at all, then we don't have to worry about "helping you." I don't buy the "my kids are more important than anything else" garbage, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
As a future parent... i don't give a damn if it's an art form or not, if billy is 6 years old he doesn't need to see that content.
Why should I subsidize your Big Mac habit and have my health care dollars go to pay for your CABG (coronary artery bypass grafting) because of the heart disease your brought on by overeating and being obese.
Because that's what insurance was invented to do: share the costs among a large pool of people. Duh.
I think what you are looking for is a pay-as-you-go program, which everybody else refers to as being uninsured. In that program, you don't pay for anything but your own medical needs.
BMI is a very crude measurement. It's chief advantage is that it is an easy measurement to do, which is why it is so popular and well-known. Unfortunately, it can be spectacularly wrong when used to measure muscular people with low body fat - you know, the types that actually use their 24 Hour Fitness membership. I'm one of those, and my BMI suggests I am near overweight (29.1). However, my actual body fat as measured by calipers is just 14% - much less than average (which is about 25% for men and 40% for women in the US). If I gain a few more pounds of muscle (or fat), I will go over 30 BMI, but would still be way below average for percent body fat, and way above average on many other health yardsticks. BMI is pretty useless unless you're already a fat couch potato.
I thought the title of the article was referring to the state of game development, and that they hadn't even got the space ship part done. I figured that meant Mankind would reach the stars before Spore did.
Just what exactly is suspicious about that? I can imagine lots of scenarios unrelated to any spam or malware where emails with attachments are sent at regular intervals. Not everybody knows how to collaborate on electronic documents interactively, not everybody has access to software that can do that. So what do they do? They send drafts back and forth via email, because that's what they have and that's what they know how to use.
No, we should examine the assumptions in his model and propose improvements if we are so inclined. You seem to have completely avoided doing that, while strongly suggesting that this is where the "meat" is.
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Well that's all I need to know. The one phenomena associated with an electrical arc - a burst of radio emission - has never been detected. Furthermore, a feature always associated with impacts - shatter cones - has no explanation from the electric arc guys. If they can answer those two things, they may be on to something. Until then, it's a very poorly supported hypothesis with some big holes in it.
Has any radio burst ever been detected from one of these electrical arcs? Does the electrical arc hypothesis account for shatter cones?
Underfunds is the wrong word, yes. Misappropriates funds is what I meant. As in, ships several hundred tons of greenbacks into a war zone.
Does anybody else wonder whether the US government has been taken over by somebody (possibly giant alien lizards) who are deliberately trying to ruin the country?
The Republican party believes government is incompetent to provide many basic public services and therefore underfunds it and runs it incompetently in order to prove their point.
The amateur stacking program Registax seems to be more sophisticated than this. It allows multiple alignment stars or points and shifts the corresponding subregions of the image as needed. Otherwise, the method for selecting the images is very similar.
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http://www.astronomie.be/registax/html/multi_oper
I love LAMP.
First, the averaging algorithm is not without its flaws. They make the assumption that by averaging out a bunch of images, you eliminate distortion.
No, they don't assume that. Their assumption is that an average of a bunch of images selected because they are probably sharper than average, will be sharper than an average of a totally random selection of images. And that is a sound assumption. The trick is in selecting images automatically that have a high probability of being sharper than average. A person can do this by sight but with hundreds of thousands of images, it takes a great deal of patience and time. Better to use a computer running a clever algorithm for selecting images.
Amateurs have been doing this for years with video cameras and then web cams. Registax is an one of the workhorse programs for automatically selecting frames from a digital video stream for stacking. There's a couple of others but that one's been the most popular for years.
I assume that the only counter measure would be to ask the recipients of your mailing lists to unflag the message when the first one arrives.
As best we can tell, this is just what Hotmail/MSN intend. It might be a good idea if you move to new address space, to create a bunch of Hotmail/MSN mailboxes, include them on your first mailing from the new addresses and right away login to each of them to un-Bulk your mailing, in the hopes that your mails will get un-Bulked sooner by whatever automated feedback system they are using.
Among machines I use regularly in Seattle and in Southern California I'm now running:
* Two machines that use XP
* A TabletPC with XP
* A Dell XPSII laptop that was running Vista RC1, then Vista RC2, and as of a week ago is running the release version of Vista
* A smaller Dell laptop that followed a similar upgrade path to the machine above
* A new Dell 9200 Desktop with a quad-core Q6600 CPU and a DX10-capable GTS8600 video card
OK, my dick's hard now, too. What's next, buddy?
Part of being a good advocate for a cause like free software is having the maturity to be intellectually honest.
I want to have your babies.
I mean seriously, if they thought it out completely, does it make sense to lock your product to another product that is controlled completely by one company?
Nintendo and Playstation developers say "Yes!" Why can't Xbox and Windows developers say "Yes!" for the same reasons the others do?
Hotmail, AOL, and other large e-mail providers will start filtering out your e-mail if a certain number of their members mark your e-mail as spam (which many seem to use instead of the delete button).
Nope, they just toss you into Bulk Mail if they haven't seen your mail servers before, even if your organization applies for feedback loop, PTR records in order, SPF, and even before any Hotmail user sees your message or presses any buttons. Bulk Mail is where you go regardless of anything else, for about two weeks when you first start sending. We've called them about it, there are no exceptions. That is what they do.
Why do right wing sites always have a dead guy as their mascot?
There seems to be a contradiction here. The problem DynDNS is trying to solve stems directly from backup MX that can't verify recipients, which then become spam relays via asynchronous DSNs. But what problem were people trying to solve by using a backup MX that can't read their organizations global address book? Mail will queue on the originating system if the destination can't be reached. If there is a backup MX, this means the recipient organization wants to queue mail destined to themselves on a host other than the sender's, usually because they think it will make them look bad if their mail queues at the sending side. But if they do this, and then don't send DSNs, they are degrading service for their senders, not improving it. If they had no backup MX, mail would queue on the sender's host, which would presumably have no problem sending DSNs to its own mailboxes, or eliminating them if that was their choice. But the sender gets no choice when the recipient uses a backup MX that sends no DSNs. Their service is degraded, and they don't even know it.
If SPF were more widely implemented, or required to be implemented, wouldn't this problem be solved?
No, SPF/Sender-ID are bad ideas, which even their creators don't put much trust into. Don't believe me? Try sending a brand-new newsletter to Hotmail and MSN subscribers. Make sure all your Sender-ID and SPF records are in place and verified with Microsoft's own Sender-ID checker. Make sure all your WHOIS data is current, valid and not obfuscated for privacy. Setup your mail servers on freshly-allocated netblock, which you've verified is not on any DNS blacklists. All your ducks are in a row, so you send your newsletter with high hopes. They will be dashed. Microsoft will stuff your newsletter in the Bulk Mail folder anyway, until their servers "get used to" your mail stream. Even Microsoft places no stock whatsoever in Sender-ID. It is a waste of time, a means of dismissing your attempt to interoperate with them. Sender-ID is just another way for Microsoft to tell you "Not enough dick sucking, try harder."
Then how come people are paying for a Backup MX service?
Of course this presumes regulation and free market is working which it clearly isn't in the US.
I guess you didn't get the memo. "Free market" means no government regulation of business whatsoever.
Needless to say, your pronouncements are rather confused as a result.
I don't buy the "art form" garbage
Well then just don't buy the things at all, then we don't have to worry about "helping you." I don't buy the "my kids are more important than anything else" garbage, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
As a future parent... i don't give a damn if it's an art form or not, if billy is 6 years old he doesn't need to see that content.
Fuck Billy.
Why should I subsidize your Big Mac habit and have my health care dollars go to pay for your CABG (coronary artery bypass grafting) because of the heart disease your brought on by overeating and being obese.
Because that's what insurance was invented to do: share the costs among a large pool of people. Duh.
I think what you are looking for is a pay-as-you-go program, which everybody else refers to as being uninsured. In that program, you don't pay for anything but your own medical needs.
BMI is a very crude measurement. It's chief advantage is that it is an easy measurement to do, which is why it is so popular and well-known. Unfortunately, it can be spectacularly wrong when used to measure muscular people with low body fat - you know, the types that actually use their 24 Hour Fitness membership. I'm one of those, and my BMI suggests I am near overweight (29.1). However, my actual body fat as measured by calipers is just 14% - much less than average (which is about 25% for men and 40% for women in the US). If I gain a few more pounds of muscle (or fat), I will go over 30 BMI, but would still be way below average for percent body fat, and way above average on many other health yardsticks. BMI is pretty useless unless you're already a fat couch potato.
And we don't have to if we don't want to. Rights are taken, not given.
I thought the title of the article was referring to the state of game development, and that they hadn't even got the space ship part done. I figured that meant Mankind would reach the stars before Spore did.
...your only option is to stop participating.
Well then it's a little bit more free than many so-called democracies in the real world, which won't permit you to opt out.
Just what exactly is suspicious about that? I can imagine lots of scenarios unrelated to any spam or malware where emails with attachments are sent at regular intervals. Not everybody knows how to collaborate on electronic documents interactively, not everybody has access to software that can do that. So what do they do? They send drafts back and forth via email, because that's what they have and that's what they know how to use.
No, we should examine the assumptions in his model and propose improvements if we are so inclined. You seem to have completely avoided doing that, while strongly suggesting that this is where the "meat" is.