Just this time, the earthquake epicentre was located in the southern part of Chile. The region were the telescopes are located (north of Chile) have been the epicentre of some pretty nasty quakes these past 20 years.
Go Chile, we will rise!
I am chilean, and just two weeks ago, I visited the Tololo Observatory during my vacations. They explained exactly this subject : the telescope itself is embedded on solid rock (not just a concrete or cement foundation). This rock base is surrounded by the typical dome or cupola. Therefore, the telescope and the cupola building are *separate* and almost independent structures.
Go Chile, we will rise!
the article refers to *North*americans, *Central*americans or *South*americans? I am chilean (therefore, I *am* american) and we do not have the sleep problem over here. Yes, I RTFA, so be kind and note the sarcasm.
Not *everything* sucked. What about old *real* rockers, like Judas Priest? KK Downing and Glenn Tipton are guitars KINGS, and would have all the pretty-hair "rockers" for breakfast. What about early Maiden? AC/DC? Van Halen?
I have mixed feelings : on one hand, I cannot deny that we almost deserve this. Piracy is raging here. You could buy illegal translations of Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix, or the Half Blood Prince... the same day it was released in english *in England and USA*!. CD's, DVD and VCD movies, books, you can get *anything* on a sidewalk. IP organizations here have been warning for years, and our legislators have been doing what they do best : talking and lamenting on every step, but so far they have failed to take really strong measures to stop the problem. As a chilean, I find it embarrasing.
On the other hand, what can we expect? during the last four years, we have signed Free Trade Agreements with the USA, Canada, the EU, China, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Korea, Japan is in the works, etc etc. But, both the USA and the EU have been warning us about Intellectual Property and piracy issues. The EU have been having second thoughts about us for a while. And, as we cannot compare in importance to Russia, China or India, it is a sure thing that *we* could be elected to receive the first punishing measures from abroad, and we will unable to say *anything* in our defence. Trade restrictions, additional Custom taxes, etc, and as I said, we are as guilty of this, as the US government, that feels it can rule the laws of any country.
my humble responses to your questions :
1. because I find a little difficult to carry my swimmimg pool to the local school and soak everyone at the cafeteria to death. Also, it is far more easy to protect a children from a swimming pool than from a gun. Does the word "Columbine" ring any bell?
2. Again, it is far more easy to spray bullets than hammering 20 people to death.
3. I think that dialing 911 or installing an alarm system at home is out of the question. I have been burglarized three times, all of them without success. I don't have a gun at home and I have never needed one.
Comparing a swimming pool and a hammer with a gun not only is foolish. It is downright stupid.
Of course you conveniently forget the number of children
Ok, while you gaze at your navel, perhaps you can explain why this must be suffered by people like me, who periodically travel to the US for training courses, trade shows, business meetings and other activities, derived from purchasing US merchandises from US manufacturers.
On my first business trip to the US, five years ago, a customs officer in Miami airport made me boot my laptop, describe RAM and disk capacity, enumerate the installed applications, and then kept me just standing there for 45 minutes, without any explanation or apology. It was an humilliating and degrading experience.
Should we accept it meekly, in a grateful silence, in exchange for being granted the supreme honor of being admitted to the US? Why don't you reopen Ellis Island while you are at it?
Of course, if any country enforces the same procedures on US citizens, it will be accused of arrogance, human rights violatons and the like. Nice going, US!
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org 894.433 bl.spamcop.net 162.456 dnsbl.njabl.org 69.587 Total : 1,126,476
We use RBL's to *block* here, not for any other calculation. We have done so for almost 4 years. I receive 1 or 2 complaints a month for false positives.
We cannot afford to pass the extra traffic to our antispam appliances, because we would have to duplicate the required cpu power, and they don't come cheap (I don't have USD 200.000 in my pockets right now). My current mail server software does not support greylisting either, and change is not an option.
I live in Chile. Not in Illinois, not in the USA, not in the UK. But an incredibly stupid judge in IL is about to cripple my business.
And what will happen when e360 or someone else decides that Spamcop harms his business? and NJABL is also a nuisance? and if he believes that Senderbase is invading his privacy by counting his messages?
Almost all commercial antispam products rely on several network-based layers *before* a message is passed through content filters analyzers, to avoid high cpu usages. RBL's are the first and main. You take away that layer, and voila, you are choked. I have seen misconfigured IronPorts go south because of problems like this.
My IP *has* been blocked several times, thank you very much, because spam from my users sometimes do go out despite all my filters. And I blame myself, not spamhaus nor the peer that block my messages. And the responses I have received have been prompt. *AND* I have two or three outbound IP's reserved for these cases.
I work with an ISP in Chile. Outside UK, outside US. And yet, the RBL that helps me to stop about 800.000 messages a day is about to dissapear because an a**hole in IL got angry.
And who will they shutdown tomorrow? Spamcop? njabl? What will happen then? after this case, *any* RBL will be open to scrutiny... and when others like Masterbase are also shut because someone thinks that a reputation filter also harms their business?
We will have to spend millions to upgrade the cpu power on mail servers and antispam appliances, required to process the additional mail avalanche?
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Just this time, the earthquake epicentre was located in the southern part of Chile. The region were the telescopes are located (north of Chile) have been the epicentre of some pretty nasty quakes these past 20 years. Go Chile, we will rise!
In fact, Chile and Japan have been exchanging engineering methodologies to build anti seismic buildings since the 60's. Go Chile, we will rise!
I am chilean, and just two weeks ago, I visited the Tololo Observatory during my vacations. They explained exactly this subject : the telescope itself is embedded on solid rock (not just a concrete or cement foundation). This rock base is surrounded by the typical dome or cupola. Therefore, the telescope and the cupola building are *separate* and almost independent structures. Go Chile, we will rise!
the article refers to *North*americans, *Central*americans or *South*americans? I am chilean (therefore, I *am* american) and we do not have the sleep problem over here.
Yes, I RTFA, so be kind and note the sarcasm.
Ok, cyber-MAD policy ... the more things change ... (sigh)
maaan you have issues :-)
...
I read it for the first time in 1985. To this date I have read it at least 30 times.
I was almost moved to tears by the quote
Not *everything* sucked. What about old *real* rockers, like Judas Priest? KK Downing and Glenn Tipton are guitars KINGS, and would have all the pretty-hair "rockers" for breakfast. What about early Maiden? AC/DC? Van Halen?
Blasphemy!!!! Even *naming* Def Leppard on the same sentence with Bon Jovi and Europe is insulting!! (for DL of course)
I can attest from Chile :
... the same day it was released in english *in England and USA*!. CD's, DVD and VCD movies, books, you can get *anything* on a sidewalk. IP organizations here have been warning for years, and our legislators have been doing what they do best : talking and lamenting on every step, but so far they have failed to take really strong measures to stop the problem. As a chilean, I find it embarrasing.
I have mixed feelings : on one hand, I cannot deny that we almost deserve this. Piracy is raging here. You could buy illegal translations of Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix, or the Half Blood Prince
On the other hand, what can we expect? during the last four years, we have signed Free Trade Agreements with the USA, Canada, the EU, China, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Korea, Japan is in the works, etc etc. But, both the USA and the EU have been warning us about Intellectual Property and piracy issues. The EU have been having second thoughts about us for a while. And, as we cannot compare in importance to Russia, China or India, it is a sure thing that *we* could be elected to receive the first punishing measures from abroad, and we will unable to say *anything* in our defence. Trade restrictions, additional Custom taxes, etc, and as I said, we are as guilty of this, as the US government, that feels it can rule the laws of any country.
Ok, perhaps Beryl is not a finished product ... but it does not need a fancy video card with 128M of memory to work. It is insulting.
my humble responses to your questions : 1. because I find a little difficult to carry my swimmimg pool to the local school and soak everyone at the cafeteria to death. Also, it is far more easy to protect a children from a swimming pool than from a gun. Does the word "Columbine" ring any bell? 2. Again, it is far more easy to spray bullets than hammering 20 people to death. 3. I think that dialing 911 or installing an alarm system at home is out of the question. I have been burglarized three times, all of them without success. I don't have a gun at home and I have never needed one. Comparing a swimming pool and a hammer with a gun not only is foolish. It is downright stupid. Of course you conveniently forget the number of children
Try this :
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http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,72074-0.h
Not only he is not part of the solution. He is actively being part of the problem
Ok, while you gaze at your navel, perhaps you can explain why this must be suffered by people like me, who periodically travel to the US for training courses, trade shows, business meetings and other activities, derived from purchasing US merchandises from US manufacturers.
On my first business trip to the US, five years ago, a customs officer in Miami airport made me boot my laptop, describe RAM and disk capacity, enumerate the installed applications, and then kept me just standing there for 45 minutes, without any explanation or apology. It was an humilliating and degrading experience.
Should we accept it meekly, in a grateful silence, in exchange for being granted the supreme honor of being admitted to the US? Why don't you reopen Ellis Island while you are at it?
Of course, if any country enforces the same procedures on US citizens, it will be accused of arrogance, human rights violatons and the like. Nice going, US!
Let me share my numbers from yesterday with you :
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org 894.433
bl.spamcop.net 162.456
dnsbl.njabl.org 69.587
Total : 1,126,476
We use RBL's to *block* here, not for any other calculation. We have done so for almost 4 years. I receive 1 or 2 complaints a month for false positives.
We cannot afford to pass the extra traffic to our antispam appliances, because we would have to duplicate the required cpu power, and they don't come cheap (I don't have USD 200.000 in my pockets right now). My current mail server software does not support greylisting either, and change is not an option.
I live in Chile. Not in Illinois, not in the USA, not in the UK. But an incredibly stupid judge in IL is about to cripple my business.
And what will happen when e360 or someone else decides that Spamcop harms his business? and NJABL is also a nuisance? and if he believes that Senderbase is invading his privacy by counting his messages?
Almost all commercial antispam products rely on several network-based layers *before* a message is passed through content filters analyzers, to avoid high cpu usages. RBL's are the first and main. You take away that layer, and voila, you are choked. I have seen misconfigured IronPorts go south because of problems like this.
btdt.
My IP *has* been blocked several times, thank you very much, because spam from my users sometimes do go out despite all my filters. And I blame myself, not spamhaus nor the peer that block my messages. And the responses I have received have been prompt. *AND* I have two or three outbound IP's reserved for these cases.
Anything else?
I work with an ISP in Chile. Outside UK, outside US. And yet, the RBL that helps me to stop about 800.000 messages a day is about to dissapear because an a**hole in IL got angry.
... and when others like Masterbase are also shut because someone thinks that a reputation filter also harms their business?
And who will they shutdown tomorrow? Spamcop? njabl? What will happen then? after this case, *any* RBL will be open to scrutiny
We will have to spend millions to upgrade the cpu power on mail servers and antispam appliances, required to process the additional mail avalanche?
I hope ICANN realizes its real role