No idea what the beef is. You can click thru and read CPS interpretive docx(!) a google doc... About five pages of pseudo legalese. Not that hard but not fun either. This sticks out: The operator shall not engage in any advertising, including targeted advertising toward students. MB

her property so yes on loan to Ontario uni now MB

Got the wrong one dude. Mine has a battery only for backup purposes. Draws its power normally from the 24V furnace feed. Good programmability, fair to middling UI. MB

26. We conclude that the best means of assuring the development of a retail market for navigation devices is to require cable operators to allow subscribers to self-install CableCARDs. We believe cable operators should have time to train staff and develop more robust customer support infrastructures and procedures, and provide nine months to comply for any operators that allow subscribers on any of their systems to self-install any cable modems89 or leased set-top boxes.90 We are not persuaded by arguments that cable operators could not support activation of retail CableCARD devices within this reasonable transition period. However, we are concerned that a cable operator that does not permit self-installation of any equipment that attaches to its network may not have the customer support infrastructures in place to handle self-installations and may need a longer transition period.91 Therefore, we will allow cable operators that do not have any self-installation support in place twelve months to phase in this self-installation requirement.92 We also require cable operators to inform their subscribers about the self-installation option when they request CableCARDs.93

From long experience I know that the steps of normal (Canadian) escalators are incorrect for your knees. Walking up or down them is bad for you. Stand, on the right, as much as you can.

Sorry about that rush guy.

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OK, I bit.

I have xcalc and it runs from a command line fine. But not from this PDF.

Document Viewer 2.26.1
using poppler 0.15.5 cairo
from evince.

)P
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Maybe it's just me, but I had to read the summary a couple of times before I saw the ref to New York. That's NEW YORK. This is news, but local news. It looks like Cablevision is the local cablevision supplier. Sucks to live in New York, but they probably have OTA digital ABC there... MB

I get free coffee, did at last job too MB

The new example is much clearer. Basic structure follows well. All the magic numbers in the code that I looked at matched too, and there are quite a few. Looks like it was massaged at least a bit, probably just to fit in with the local code environment not to obscure it.

But ...
The article points out only two weaknesses in this code borrowing. MS did not feed back any (unknown at this point) enhancements to the source. And they did not offer the source under the right license.

It is a real but very minor issue. If it wasn't MS it would not even be interesting.

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Funny, the current Cisco VPN has multiple ways of getting through NAT. NAT-T, udp encapsulation and others. You can even layer them. I find it funny to look in the connect log where it notes each time it had to tunnel through a NAT layer during setup. MB

Working from the BBC report at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021547.stm
Canada reports 2 deaths in 1530 cases giving a raw rate of 0.1%.
Mexico reports 97 deaths in 5029 cases giving a raw rate of 1.9%.
The US reports 17 deaths in 8975 cases giving a raw rate of 0.2%.
The world totals are 117 deaths in 19,315 cases giving a raw rate of 0.6%.
Now, I know the infection rate is institutionally, and systematically under reported in Canada. That means the Canadian death rate is like an upper bound. Assuming ten percent of the world's 6.8 billion inhabitants are infected, then under 680 thousand to 13 million people will die from this. On the Canadian data, I put it at under half a million if the virus does not become more deadly next fall.
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Stoopid ting smashed my firefox tree. tks for linkie

Nice.

If you want a new feature that might really fly, how about this:
ABP gains a setting for each type of ad it can technically distinguish ( text, flash, whatever ) and the user can set it to the maximum number of that type allowed on each page. Defaults of zero get the current behavior.

The webmasters get to add a tag on each type of ad listing the priority order for showing them. If the user says OK, two text ads, then the webmaster gets to say which two are shown.

Neither thing is particularly difficult. Neither one leaves a huge door open for abuse.

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Candian Mind Products http://mindprod.com/ for Java. Good info, and some of the dirt too.