How about 5? Most don't, by first instinct, treats the government as a suspicious object and also believe that a collective loss of liberty can be justify by a collective increase in security and harmony.
Yeah, don't throw me that "Those who give up liberty for security deserves neither." quote. This quote is very western-political-philosophy-centric. Surprise! There is a huge population of the world that doesn't necessary share that view due to a different culture and upbringing. And they got nuke!
Because graphene has no gap, by simply gating and controlling the gate voltage you can induce charge carrier, which is essentially the same as dopping in a usual gapful semiconductor.
sing? That's something cool to do. All they have to do is make the lip also a moving part since it already has a speaker. One can then analyze the spectrum of the mp3 file or something and program the lip to moving in sync.
Three top government research institutes spent millions of dollars and several years perfecting a version of kimchi that would not turn dangerous when exposed to cosmic rays or other forms of radiation and would not put off non-Korean astronauts with its pungency.
What danger does mutated kimchi post? That's what I'd like to know.
The iphone is still not available in Taiwan. So when he went back to visit his family during winter break, he bought 4 iphones which he then unloaded to an unlocker-reseller in Taiwan. This made him a cool $200 profit. If you thought the iphone is already expensive (I do), you won't believe what kind of cash some willing to pay just to be trendy.
How did he got hooked up with a reseller? Apparently, there are plenty of posts on discussion board (of Taiwan, so in Chinese) asking if anyone living in the states are going to TW soon. It's guaranteed profit without the trouble of packing (since you are packing for the trip anyway) and shipping.
Here's another funny tips my friend told me. Pack the phone in your carry-on because apparently there are many cases airport security or luggage handler stealing these hot items (iphone, wii, etc). Since most people don't insure their luggage and can't somehow prove what's inside. They are out of luck.
I used to be a viewer of Asian television and worked in the region. Most shows are not re-run. Most drama has well defined 10-20 episodes (sometimes more) story line that ends. So once a drama (or anime) series that end, a new one takes its place. There is not time period during the TV season (say between the "season finale" and "season premier") that you will see re-run. So, your choices are, in the absent of DVR, record the show with VHS or DVD or wait a long time for the DVD. One easily feel left out during those office water-cooler conversation, especially when the show climax.
Now, I'll rant a little bit about American TV. Seems to me, with few exception like 24, most TV program are produced on an episode-by-episode basis. And series can run forever (say, Law and Order?). Where as in Asia (I should say Japan, caz that's the one I know), TV are produced in units of a full story line. So you'll actually have a few boring pilot episode that builds the character and then the plot develops. I am not sure if I am in the minority here, but I think the latter format usually produce better television drama. It feels more like reading a book than, say, a comic strip.
I thought the goal of OLPC is to provide an (cheap) open platform for educational purpose for third-world country. Now, I don't see how any MS involvement can be classified as open (unless hell freezes over, I suppose). Shouldn't OLPC clarify this point in some near future?? Clear the rumor already!!
Now, MS can develop a flavor of Windows that runs on XO. All the power to them. However, no way should that be the endorsed OLPC configuration since it's not open. That said, MS can of course offer some sorts of easy install solid-state storage media to the user of OLPC. OLPC should not offer support for it though. Just like Dell wouldn't offer me support, when they heard that I gutted the original XP installation and installed linux. Surely MS can offer software (even hardware) support. I don't see much incentive, moneywise, to support few million computers that you don't really sell the software to for any value. Surely, one can argue that then these kids would grow up using Windows, but 10+ years of support is not cheap...
There is a MAJOR difference between wireless network and wired network. Suppose someone is doing an unencrypted transaction (say, shopping online with a vendor with no SSL), and a hacker wants to sniff the cc#. With a wired connection, he needs to get through some sort of physical layer say break a lock to the local phone box. We can debate whether a particular physical layer is security at all, but chances are the hacker will leave some physical evident behind. On the other hand, an unprotected wireless network has no such physical layer. And I am sure a talented hacker can obfuscate the software log.
Sure, unprotected wifi is everywhere. But when using it in a cafe, shouldn't common sense (I know, we need more of that around) dictates that we should be careful not to send out sensitive information unencrypted (I NEVER access my ftp server from an open network and double check for the SSL icon in my browswer, for example). So in public, I try to gain security at the loss of convenience. At home, OTOH, is where I expect to have higher convenience. So securing the network makes sense.
Now about the legal argument (IANAL). For a cafe owner, he/she can argue that many people uses the network all the time, so it is not possible to be held legally responsible. Whereas in a home network, users are often few in number. So it is HIGHLY likely, to others anyway, that the owner is the one reading the kiddie porn. Here's my bad analogy: suppose an escape fugitive hid in a Mall and was later found, nobody is going to hold the Mall owner responsible because there are so many people goes in and out the Mall; but if he hid in my home because my front door is open, people will suspect (and rightfully so) that I know the fugitive and is helping him.
I'll keep my network secured, thank you very much.
I thought about this for a while and am not sure if there'll ever be a solution. The reason is that people have a tendency to move into neighborhood they find most friendly or simply economically feasible (and therefore a district would tends to attract people of similar background and voting pattern). So if a district tends to have say 10% consistent Republican (or Democratic) voter, changes are a large portion of the remaining 90% leans that way too. It'll therefore be damn hard for the other party to win. I tends to think that it's the lack of accurate representation that are more problematic. In each district it's winner takes all, but I am not so sure if the person I voted for accurate reflects my political view point or just that the other person is so far away from it, there'd be no chance for me to vote for him/her.
I can see other problems with other country's systems, such as one in which certain # of top vote getter is elected (and therefore you have a spectrum of elected candidate). This is hard business, and I am no political scientist.
I say, let them land. This country needs another Sputnik to remind us that the rest of the world's S&T will still go forward while we "debate" such items as ID v.s. evolution.
Wow, doesn't that mean he was borned a full 105 years before nuclear fission was discovered. Imagine spending a life time protesting against something that does not exist yet. Maybe we should start protesting again our future alien overlord right about...now.
With either license, you can negotiate to be able to use under different terms. Now, with a commercial license, the guy might ask you for $10 buck for each box you sell/rent/whatever...With GPL, chances are, the guy might value code freedom above and sort of compensation you deemed reasonable.
Nobody's forcing you to use GPL'd code except perhaps you own realization that it'll cost a lot more to develop and maintain an in-house version of whatever networking tools you are using. Bottom line, don't want to release the code? fine! Just don't use GPL'd software.
like me, started using facebook because it's a walled-garden with well segregated networks? I mean, I don't want to pervert457 or randomperson223 to be able to view my profile, or try to flood my inbox (or wall, I suppose). Maybe I am mis-informed, but that's how I perceive MySpace from a lot of media reports including here on/.. Now-a-day, facebook seems to become exceeding bloated with random apps. I just want to check what's up with my friend and his profile takes eons to load (partly his fault of course). I also start to notice that my "notification" are filled with (non-deleteable) items for ads (just saw a Blockbuster one).
So now that the likes of Comcast have been confirmed packet shaper, which I suppose involve identifying the packet first, does that mean some ultra-conservative nut-job can sue them claiming that since they got the ability, they cannot avoid the responsibilities of monitoring and reporting porn??
This has exactly been my experience with yahoo and gmail, respectively.
I'll add that I am still using my aim identity on aol's website for its free webmail because at one point I decided to use that as my online shopping, mailing list identities. All the junks were suppose to go there. To my surprise, I receive very few junk mail with AOL, not as rare as gmail, but far far better than yahoo! Since AOL, like Gmail, also offers IMAP access, it has actually risen up in rank as my favorite web mail right behind gmail.
As for hotmail, after I switched it to a white-list only filtering scheme, I stopped getting junks...so I don't think I can fairly evaluate it. And I don't check it any more anyway.
The judge wrote, "The [subpoena's] chilling effect on expressive e-commerce would frost keyboards across America." With the current fed's inaction against global climate change, this effect will be short-lived at best.
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How about 5? Most don't, by first instinct, treats the government as a suspicious object and also believe that a collective loss of liberty can be justify by a collective increase in security and harmony.
Yeah, don't throw me that "Those who give up liberty for security deserves neither." quote. This quote is very western-political-philosophy-centric. Surprise! There is a huge population of the world that doesn't necessary share that view due to a different culture and upbringing. And they got nuke!
Because graphene has no gap, by simply gating and controlling the gate voltage you can induce charge carrier, which is essentially the same as dopping in a usual gapful semiconductor.
sing? That's something cool to do. All they have to do is make the lip also a moving part since it already has a speaker. One can then analyze the spectrum of the mp3 file or something and program the lip to moving in sync.
Thank god! I am not the only one whose immediate reflect is to think dating as in "determined the age of" when I saw the title.
Has ID made any repeatable prediction lately that Evolution failed to produce?
If not, get out of the science classroom!
who needs liquor license? They got all the blood of Jesus they want!!!
The iphone is still not available in Taiwan. So when he went back to visit his family during winter break, he bought 4 iphones which he then unloaded to an unlocker-reseller in Taiwan. This made him a cool $200 profit. If you thought the iphone is already expensive (I do), you won't believe what kind of cash some willing to pay just to be trendy.
How did he got hooked up with a reseller? Apparently, there are plenty of posts on discussion board (of Taiwan, so in Chinese) asking if anyone living in the states are going to TW soon. It's guaranteed profit without the trouble of packing (since you are packing for the trip anyway) and shipping.
Here's another funny tips my friend told me. Pack the phone in your carry-on because apparently there are many cases airport security or luggage handler stealing these hot items (iphone, wii, etc). Since most people don't insure their luggage and can't somehow prove what's inside. They are out of luck.
I used to be a viewer of Asian television and worked in the region. Most shows are not re-run. Most drama has well defined 10-20 episodes (sometimes more) story line that ends. So once a drama (or anime) series that end, a new one takes its place. There is not time period during the TV season (say between the "season finale" and "season premier") that you will see re-run. So, your choices are, in the absent of DVR, record the show with VHS or DVD or wait a long time for the DVD. One easily feel left out during those office water-cooler conversation, especially when the show climax.
Now, I'll rant a little bit about American TV. Seems to me, with few exception like 24, most TV program are produced on an episode-by-episode basis. And series can run forever (say, Law and Order?). Where as in Asia (I should say Japan, caz that's the one I know), TV are produced in units of a full story line. So you'll actually have a few boring pilot episode that builds the character and then the plot develops. I am not sure if I am in the minority here, but I think the latter format usually produce better television drama. It feels more like reading a book than, say, a comic strip.
I thought the goal of OLPC is to provide an (cheap) open platform for educational purpose for third-world country. Now, I don't see how any MS involvement can be classified as open (unless hell freezes over, I suppose). Shouldn't OLPC clarify this point in some near future?? Clear the rumor already!!
Now, MS can develop a flavor of Windows that runs on XO. All the power to them. However, no way should that be the endorsed OLPC configuration since it's not open. That said, MS can of course offer some sorts of easy install solid-state storage media to the user of OLPC. OLPC should not offer support for it though. Just like Dell wouldn't offer me support, when they heard that I gutted the original XP installation and installed linux. Surely MS can offer software (even hardware) support. I don't see much incentive, moneywise, to support few million computers that you don't really sell the software to for any value. Surely, one can argue that then these kids would grow up using Windows, but 10+ years of support is not cheap...
There is a MAJOR difference between wireless network and wired network. Suppose someone is doing an unencrypted transaction (say, shopping online with a vendor with no SSL), and a hacker wants to sniff the cc#. With a wired connection, he needs to get through some sort of physical layer say break a lock to the local phone box. We can debate whether a particular physical layer is security at all, but chances are the hacker will leave some physical evident behind. On the other hand, an unprotected wireless network has no such physical layer. And I am sure a talented hacker can obfuscate the software log.
Sure, unprotected wifi is everywhere. But when using it in a cafe, shouldn't common sense (I know, we need more of that around) dictates that we should be careful not to send out sensitive information unencrypted (I NEVER access my ftp server from an open network and double check for the SSL icon in my browswer, for example). So in public, I try to gain security at the loss of convenience. At home, OTOH, is where I expect to have higher convenience. So securing the network makes sense.
Now about the legal argument (IANAL). For a cafe owner, he/she can argue that many people uses the network all the time, so it is not possible to be held legally responsible. Whereas in a home network, users are often few in number. So it is HIGHLY likely, to others anyway, that the owner is the one reading the kiddie porn. Here's my bad analogy: suppose an escape fugitive hid in a Mall and was later found, nobody is going to hold the Mall owner responsible because there are so many people goes in and out the Mall; but if he hid in my home because my front door is open, people will suspect (and rightfully so) that I know the fugitive and is helping him.
I'll keep my network secured, thank you very much.
I thought about this for a while and am not sure if there'll ever be a solution. The reason is that people have a tendency to move into neighborhood they find most friendly or simply economically feasible (and therefore a district would tends to attract people of similar background and voting pattern). So if a district tends to have say 10% consistent Republican (or Democratic) voter, changes are a large portion of the remaining 90% leans that way too. It'll therefore be damn hard for the other party to win. I tends to think that it's the lack of accurate representation that are more problematic. In each district it's winner takes all, but I am not so sure if the person I voted for accurate reflects my political view point or just that the other person is so far away from it, there'd be no chance for me to vote for him/her.
I can see other problems with other country's systems, such as one in which certain # of top vote getter is elected (and therefore you have a spectrum of elected candidate). This is hard business, and I am no political scientist.
...not until the server computers go quantum!
I say, let them land. This country needs another Sputnik to remind us that the rest of the world's S&T will still go forward while we "debate" such items as ID v.s. evolution.
Is OOXML not already an ECMA standard??
Wow, doesn't that mean he was borned a full 105 years before nuclear fission was discovered. Imagine spending a life time protesting against something that does not exist yet. Maybe we should start protesting again our future alien overlord right about...now.
Do you have a good example of this? Especially with these routers, last I checked, Linux and all its GPL'd-ness is still huge in the embedded world.
With either license, you can negotiate to be able to use under different terms. Now, with a commercial license, the guy might ask you for $10 buck for each box you sell/rent/whatever...With GPL, chances are, the guy might value code freedom above and sort of compensation you deemed reasonable.
Nobody's forcing you to use GPL'd code except perhaps you own realization that it'll cost a lot more to develop and maintain an in-house version of whatever networking tools you are using. Bottom line, don't want to release the code? fine! Just don't use GPL'd software.
like me, started using facebook because it's a walled-garden with well segregated networks? I mean, I don't want to pervert457 or randomperson223 to be able to view my profile, or try to flood my inbox (or wall, I suppose). Maybe I am mis-informed, but that's how I perceive MySpace from a lot of media reports including here on /.. Now-a-day, facebook seems to become exceeding bloated with random apps. I just want to check what's up with my friend and his profile takes eons to load (partly his fault of course). I also start to notice that my "notification" are filled with (non-deleteable) items for ads (just saw a Blockbuster one).
Oh yeah, and this is hilarious...youtube video
So now that the likes of Comcast have been confirmed packet shaper, which I suppose involve identifying the packet first, does that mean some ultra-conservative nut-job can sue them claiming that since they got the ability, they cannot avoid the responsibilities of monitoring and reporting porn??
Ah...probably not...
totally...as if I would take legal advice from a financial magazine...
There IS an MP5 player, you know...
saving-the-internet-with-hate?? This is so going to get Dave Chapelle's "Playa Hater of the Year"...
This has exactly been my experience with yahoo and gmail, respectively.
I'll add that I am still using my aim identity on aol's website for its free webmail because at one point I decided to use that as my online shopping, mailing list identities. All the junks were suppose to go there. To my surprise, I receive very few junk mail with AOL, not as rare as gmail, but far far better than yahoo! Since AOL, like Gmail, also offers IMAP access, it has actually risen up in rank as my favorite web mail right behind gmail.
As for hotmail, after I switched it to a white-list only filtering scheme, I stopped getting junks...so I don't think I can fairly evaluate it. And I don't check it any more anyway.