It seems to be a grouping of power-hogs who want to claim to be environmentally friendly. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it won't do some good, but until it get a few organizations like GreenPeace as members, and asks them to audit its standards, then nobody should take it too seriously. The Green Grid: Members List
in this world you need to prove your identity from time to time, and without having a "proper" identity scheme we end up using all sorts of inappropriate kludges (e.g. banks tend to ask for a gas or electricity bill)
I think I've only had to "prove my identity" twice in the last five years: once when I did jury service, and the second time was to my company accountants because of money laundering regulations or something. This is so infrequent that any extra benefit of simpler ID is much, much less than the additional risks of the government losing my data.
The M-107 enables Army snipers to accurately engage personnel and material targets out to a distance of 1,500 to 2,000 meters respectively - M-107 Long Range Sniper Rifle
The muzzle velocity of such a rifle seems to be about 1 kilometer per second (M16 rifle), and also there's the one-per-second frame rate, so this scope seems best suited to assassinations, where your target is out in the open and stationary.
Your alternative proposal is one of many that reduces the amount of information which represents each image, then compares the condensed data. This sort of approach can be good for small numbers of things compared, but inevitably gives lots of false positives when numbers get huge. This is also why face recognition, iris recognition, etc don't work in the real world.
An alternative way to save the environment by eating less meat...
Here is a recipe for a school sausage, given to us by a manufacturer who prefers to remain anonymous. It is for what he described as a "pork product" made "down to a price" to win a local authority contract. The sausage contents: 50% "meat", of which 30% is pork fat with a bit of jowl, and 20% mechanically recovered chicken meat, 17% water, 30% rusk and soya, soya concentrate, hyrolysed protein, modified flour, dried onion, sugar, dextrose, phosphates, preservative E221 sodium sulphite, flavour enhancer, spices, garlic flavouring, antioxidant E300 (ascorbic acid), colouring E128 (red 2G). Casings: made from collagen from cow hide.
If you keep your backups for one month, S3 costs about $300 per TB. That's not a bad price for offsite backup that's easily accessible from both your main and disaster recovery servers. price list
The implication that Yahoo don't listen to bulk emailers who have been incorrectly marked as spam is false. Yahoo can be an annoying company to deal with, run from offshore call-centres with no freedom of action, but with persistence it is possible to get unblocked. My company has has to do this a couple of times (we send to hundreds of opt-in lists), and without whining to Slashdot.
To me, tens of thousands of dollars does not seem unreasonable. It's not a crippling amount of money (but it will sting) to anybody who owns a computer
Lucky you. So young and innocent. In the real world...
More than a third of adults would be unable to support themselves for a fortnight [14 days] if they were made redundant or found themselves unable to work, according to two separate surveys published today... 36% of people would run out of cash in just 11 days - guardian newspaper, July 25 2008
Obviously he hated other people, or he'd never have been a spammer. Killing those around him was part of the same mind-set.
I hope sellers of spamvertized products take note.
Everyone can detect rapid flickering if they keep their eyes moving quickly. My favourite technique is to eat something crunchy, e.g. potato crisps, so the vibration from my teeth slightly jiggles my eyes.
Look at it this way: there are some people for whom stuffed toys are their fetish. Should we be calling for the banning of Sesame Street for its irresponsible pandering?
The huge surface area means it is much more likley to get gummed up and inactivated almost immediatly causing no more harm than any other chemical you ingest.
Asbestosis is caused when asbestos fibres get gummed up in the lungs, to borrow your phrase, so it stands to reason that there's a potential risk from other nano particles.
Asbestos contains tiny fibres of mineral silicates. People who have worked extensively with asbestos (for example, repairing boilers, demolishing buildings, and asbestos removal workers), or who have lived close to asbestos factories, will have breathed in these fibres. These fibres are extremely irritating to the tissue of the lungs. They settle in the lungs and the lung tissue becomes thickened and scarred. This gradually makes it more difficult for oxygen to get from the atmosphere into the blood and for the waste gas carbon dioxide to be breathed out. - NHS Direct
You have created a legal botnet with as bad a reputation as the illegal botnets.
From an address-reputation perspective EC2 is no different than, say, China. Connections from China start life much closer to my filtering threshold that connections from Europe because a far lower percentage of the connections from China are legitimate. EC2 will get the same treatment - link
I don't see why the government doesn't prosecute the companies that have their products spammed.
One reason is that much of the time the products are fake.
According to a recent [2005] study published in Britain, researchers purchased Viagra from several seemingly reputable Internet sources. They received what looked like branded Viagra, identically packaged like the real product. The sources of the pills were worldwide and included places like Thailand, India and Malta. The content of sildenafil was determined using near infrared microscopy.
Nearly half of the pills contained no active ingredient.
Do you think that anybody seriously monitor those cameras?
In the UK they don't. My bank card got cloned in an ATM within view of six cameras and nobody has been arrested. I think criminals simply wear hoodies or baseball caps and hide their faces. Also a neighbor's husband had a job watching these things and he gave up alerting the police to street crime because they never bothered to respond quickly enough.
The patent system only makes any sense for protecting inventions. The problem with IT patents - and I've read a lot - is that 99% of them are bleeding obvious. So there's no problem with others finding out about them. Unless, as in this case, the patent is pseudo-scientific twaddle, in which case who cares?
If you're serious, how about replacing the current invention standard for new patents by a jury of software programmers who are presented with the problem and asked to design a solution. If any of them gets close to any "invention" in the would-be patent, it's "obvious" and fails.
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It seems to be a grouping of power-hogs who want to claim to be environmentally friendly. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it won't do some good, but until it get a few organizations like GreenPeace as members, and asks them to audit its standards, then nobody should take it too seriously.
The Green Grid: Members List
You can buy top-up vouchers for cash at newsagents or post offices, without providing ID.
I think it's because Internet users needed to use more of their brains, having less to go around. But then I use the Internet too, so what do I know?
I think I've only had to "prove my identity" twice in the last five years: once when I did jury service, and the second time was to my company accountants because of money laundering regulations or something. This is so infrequent that any extra benefit of simpler ID is much, much less than the additional risks of the government losing my data.
The muzzle velocity of such a rifle seems to be about 1 kilometer per second (M16 rifle), and also there's the one-per-second frame rate, so this scope seems best suited to assassinations, where your target is out in the open and stationary.
Your alternative proposal is one of many that reduces the amount of information which represents each image, then compares the condensed data. This sort of approach can be good for small numbers of things compared, but inevitably gives lots of false positives when numbers get huge. This is also why face recognition, iris recognition, etc don't work in the real world.
"Sausage factory"
If you keep your backups for one month, S3 costs about $300 per TB. That's not a bad price for offsite backup that's easily accessible from both your main and disaster recovery servers.
price list
The implication that Yahoo don't listen to bulk emailers who have been incorrectly marked as spam is false. Yahoo can be an annoying company to deal with, run from offshore call-centres with no freedom of action, but with persistence it is possible to get unblocked. My company has has to do this a couple of times (we send to hundreds of opt-in lists), and without whining to Slashdot.
Lucky you. So young and innocent. In the real world...
Be happy, Blizzard just gave you your life back!
Start with "Security Engineering" by Ross Anderson. The first edition is online.
Obviously he hated other people, or he'd never have been a spammer. Killing those around him was part of the same mind-set.
I hope sellers of spamvertized products take note.
Everyone can detect rapid flickering if they keep their eyes moving quickly. My favourite technique is to eat something crunchy, e.g. potato crisps, so the vibration from my teeth slightly jiggles my eyes.
Also ban this porn movie.
Asbestosis is caused when asbestos fibres get gummed up in the lungs, to borrow your phrase, so it stands to reason that there's a potential risk from other nano particles.
Just use Internet Explorer.
To find other sites that make the same beginners' error. Looks like mainly spammers selling blue pills.
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The rest is not quite as funny
One reason is that much of the time the products are fake.
Please reply with your time estimates so we can average them and produce a more accurate answer.
In other news, I prefer cold drinks, hot women, and slow dances. Let's average everyone's opinion on those too.
The patent system only makes any sense for protecting inventions. The problem with IT patents - and I've read a lot - is that 99% of them are bleeding obvious. So there's no problem with others finding out about them. Unless, as in this case, the patent is pseudo-scientific twaddle, in which case who cares?
If you're serious, how about replacing the current invention standard for new patents by a jury of software programmers who are presented with the problem and asked to design a solution. If any of them gets close to any "invention" in the would-be patent, it's "obvious" and fails.
Basically the hacker "lifts" your fingerprint and copies it onto latex/gummi/clay. Or just hacks the device-driver.