Here in Massachusetts this has been around for a long time, although you don't get one until your 2nd DWI offense (last I checked). And it's more than just being a pain in the ass for the initial blow:
They cost a good $3K including installation, payable by you. They make you re-test every X minutes (20 minutes I think?) even if you're currently driving. You have to pull over, turn off the car, and test again. Think about that on your 1hr commute... If you don't pull over when the alarm goes off, you have about 5 minutes (I believe) until you start losing power and have to either pull over or come to a dead stop wherever you are. GLWT on the highway.
I'm glad NYC is finally catching up... but I do wonder about the 1st offense and 0.025 limit... that seems a bit harsh. But I guess on the flip side... it only takes one crash to kill someone.
I've been moving my stuff to dyndns.org, they're cheaper than my previous registrar (Register.com) and seem honest enough. I also use their Dynamic DNS services too, so it's handy.
However, when you think about it, what defines a good/bad registrar? Network Solutions might not have policed their parked sites well, but it doesn't sound like they did it maliciously. They messed up, someone missed something... for a few months... or a year or more... yeah, pretty bad f'up... but I think that's more stupid than dishonest/scummy. Unless that guy with the tinfoil hat is on the right track and they did it themselves... after the last Fed raid I haven't gotten a chance to make another tinfoil hat myself, so I won't get into that.:)
How many registrars will look at every domain that someone registers with them and go, "Hey, you're not doing anything useful with this domain, so we're canceling your registration, you squatter!"? Not too many, that would cost money to police and cost them money in domain registrations.
The only thing I see that defines a registrar as "scummy" are the ones that include the clause that if you ever drop your domain, they take it. Or as soon as you do a "search" for a domain, if it's free, they take it. Like GoDaddy.com used to, last I heard. Just gotta read your registration agreement carefully.
I'd mod this up if I could, I run AdBlock Plus and NoScript and they do everything mentioned above, but a lot cheaper. I don't fear accidentally landing on a "parked" website, as I know any malware/scripts on it won't get a chance to run.
And if I'm running Firefox, and it does what I need it to... why would I need to worry about "the other programs" on my computer? In fact, why would I want any 3rd party software doing anything to my other programs? Will it stop me from wgetting malware by accident?:P
Troll?? Aw come on, that was at least marginally funny. Don't even tell me you've never wanted to stone some complete idiot. Maybe not to death, let's not be mean, but at least pelt them with pebbles.
Oh come on... there's gotta be *some* way to make profit in all of that... maybe steal her underwear while she's in jail? (yes, South Park reference, not meant to be dirty)
How many more lines of code are added when you install LAMP and OBDII?:) And don't forget Nagios or Cacti to keep an eye on the car system trouble so it can generate an "Engine Check Light".
Right, 'cause no Slashdotters engage in any activities that general society might consider "childish"... we're completely above that! *hides his anime, D&D, video games, and comic books*
Does anyone remember this site? mydeadspace.com? At least I'm pretty sure that's the name of it. It's a site where you could "move" your MySpace profile on your death (or rather others could move it there for you, obviously you can't do it, you're dead). But back when MySpace was more of the rage, I always intended to setup a LW&T and include my username/passwords to everything and a request to move my profile over there.
Part of me wants to say that after I'm dead the people who matter will be close enough to know it with any kind of online notification... but then I think... I have a lot of friends in various parts of the country, even those I've never met that I still consider friend... how will they know? How many of you have friends or acquaintences you haven't seen on IM/FB lately? And that lack of online appearance stretches into months... then years... and one day you're randomly thinking about them and go, "Oh yeah, hey, I wonder what happened to GoodbyeCruelWorld74853?" It would be nice to know somehow. Maybe they died, or maybe they just created a new IM name and forgot to tell you, "SurvivingSuicideBringsNewPerspective893"
... The pin number on some bank cards is still limited to only four (four!) digits. So if you want to be more secure organizations are not helping you.
I've switched banks a few times and never had a card that didn't limit me to a 4 digit PIN, which banks allow more?
I'm pretty sure that DCU (Digital Federal Credit Union) allowed (allows?) an 8-digit pin. I never made use of it, but I'm almost positive it was an option (though I haven't used them in 8+ years).
I disagree. And when I start my own bank, I will require all of my customers to input at least one Cyrillic character along with all of the above into their passwords. Possibly even a Kanji character, too. My ATM machines will have huge keypads.
Until your thumb drive falls out of your pocket at work and some clever co-worker finds it and anonymously posts your "bread crumbs" on the corporate bulletin board.;)
I used to properly put 2 spaces after every sentence... but the need to conserve space (literally) in 140 or 240 character posts (Twitter/Facebook, respectively), have kinda started breaking me of that habit. Luckily I don't really use Twitter *that* much and usually only post links on FB, so... thanks to Slashdot and my getting more into forum posting elsewhere (as I'm finally reaching that point in my career/age/wisdom level where I can actually answer some people's questions, heh. And I'm becoming a grouchy, opinionated old man), I do get some practice in double-spacing after periods. As I have always believed it should be.
I dunno, I've often pointed at the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for one of the deeper sources to many of our current issues.:)
Expert, in the old-fashioned sense, was probably hunted by Good Christians for being a witch.
Experts, these days, now have a means to hold up that expertise for everyone to ooh and aah at, and even better, to learn from.
Why, exactly, are experts not referenced hundreds of times by people who know nothing about the domain? Why shouldn't they be? Shouldn't be use these tools we have now to help spread that expertise? Or is it really better to just leave people who know nothing about a given expertise, but might be interested in it, in the dark?
If there's an expert who wants to post tidbits of what they're doing in the course of their practicing their expertise on Twitter, or Facebook, or MySpace, or Blogspot, so that people can catch a glimpse into their world and what makes a genius tick, why would you have a grievance with that?
I don't understand why the spread of knowledge should be limited to only the novices.
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Here in Massachusetts this has been around for a long time, although you don't get one until your 2nd DWI offense (last I checked). And it's more than just being a pain in the ass for the initial blow:
They cost a good $3K including installation, payable by you.
They make you re-test every X minutes (20 minutes I think?) even if you're currently driving. You have to pull over, turn off the car, and test again. Think about that on your 1hr commute...
If you don't pull over when the alarm goes off, you have about 5 minutes (I believe) until you start losing power and have to either pull over or come to a dead stop wherever you are. GLWT on the highway.
I'm glad NYC is finally catching up... but I do wonder about the 1st offense and 0.025 limit... that seems a bit harsh. But I guess on the flip side... it only takes one crash to kill someone.
I've been moving my stuff to dyndns.org, they're cheaper than my previous registrar (Register.com) and seem honest enough. I also use their Dynamic DNS services too, so it's handy.
However, when you think about it, what defines a good/bad registrar? Network Solutions might not have policed their parked sites well, but it doesn't sound like they did it maliciously. They messed up, someone missed something... for a few months... or a year or more... yeah, pretty bad f'up... but I think that's more stupid than dishonest/scummy. Unless that guy with the tinfoil hat is on the right track and they did it themselves... after the last Fed raid I haven't gotten a chance to make another tinfoil hat myself, so I won't get into that. :)
How many registrars will look at every domain that someone registers with them and go, "Hey, you're not doing anything useful with this domain, so we're canceling your registration, you squatter!"? Not too many, that would cost money to police and cost them money in domain registrations.
The only thing I see that defines a registrar as "scummy" are the ones that include the clause that if you ever drop your domain, they take it. Or as soon as you do a "search" for a domain, if it's free, they take it. Like GoDaddy.com used to, last I heard. Just gotta read your registration agreement carefully.
I'd mod this up if I could, I run AdBlock Plus and NoScript and they do everything mentioned above, but a lot cheaper. I don't fear accidentally landing on a "parked" website, as I know any malware/scripts on it won't get a chance to run.
And if I'm running Firefox, and it does what I need it to... why would I need to worry about "the other programs" on my computer? In fact, why would I want any 3rd party software doing anything to my other programs? Will it stop me from wgetting malware by accident? :P
Damn, apparently mWlfG7QG is not your Slashdot password. I was hoping you were being taunting and I was being clever.
Troll?? Aw come on, that was at least marginally funny. Don't even tell me you've never wanted to stone some complete idiot. Maybe not to death, let's not be mean, but at least pelt them with pebbles.
I would think that the "Emperor's Throne Room" would logically be the bathroom.
Oh come on... there's gotta be *some* way to make profit in all of that... maybe steal her underwear while she's in jail? (yes, South Park reference, not meant to be dirty)
That's why in some cases, stoning should be OK.
How many more lines of code are added when you install LAMP and OBDII? :) And don't forget Nagios or Cacti to keep an eye on the car system trouble so it can generate an "Engine Check Light".
Right, 'cause no Slashdotters engage in any activities that general society might consider "childish"... we're completely above that! *hides his anime, D&D, video games, and comic books*
Does anyone remember this site? mydeadspace.com? At least I'm pretty sure that's the name of it. It's a site where you could "move" your MySpace profile on your death (or rather others could move it there for you, obviously you can't do it, you're dead). But back when MySpace was more of the rage, I always intended to setup a LW&T and include my username/passwords to everything and a request to move my profile over there.
Part of me wants to say that after I'm dead the people who matter will be close enough to know it with any kind of online notification... but then I think... I have a lot of friends in various parts of the country, even those I've never met that I still consider friend... how will they know? How many of you have friends or acquaintences you haven't seen on IM/FB lately? And that lack of online appearance stretches into months... then years... and one day you're randomly thinking about them and go, "Oh yeah, hey, I wonder what happened to GoodbyeCruelWorld74853?" It would be nice to know somehow. Maybe they died, or maybe they just created a new IM name and forgot to tell you, "SurvivingSuicideBringsNewPerspective893"
Never know.
I'm thinking they're already bots. This is just their way of hinting it to us.
Well, ya know, when it happens often enough... people start to get numb to even painful things.
http://washingtonindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ltunemployed.png
... The pin number on some bank cards is still limited to only four (four!) digits. So if you want to be more secure organizations are not helping you.
I've switched banks a few times and never had a card that didn't limit me to a 4 digit PIN, which banks allow more?
I'm pretty sure that DCU (Digital Federal Credit Union) allowed (allows?) an 8-digit pin. I never made use of it, but I'm almost positive it was an option (though I haven't used them in 8+ years).
I disagree. And when I start my own bank, I will require all of my customers to input at least one Cyrillic character along with all of the above into their passwords. Possibly even a Kanji character, too. My ATM machines will have huge keypads.
Don't worry, Bender, there's no such thing as 2!
But the FBI/CIA/NSA have ways of reading even zeroed drives! (so I hear) Will we ever be safe??
Until your thumb drive falls out of your pocket at work and some clever co-worker finds it and anonymously posts your "bread crumbs" on the corporate bulletin board. ;)
Oh man, I'm so going to write up a new text editor based on vi called viNYL or vi.nyl or some such. I don't care how crappy it turns out.
Unless you're allergic, then you should use ViNyL.
I used to properly put 2 spaces after every sentence... but the need to conserve space (literally) in 140 or 240 character posts (Twitter/Facebook, respectively), have kinda started breaking me of that habit. Luckily I don't really use Twitter *that* much and usually only post links on FB, so... thanks to Slashdot and my getting more into forum posting elsewhere (as I'm finally reaching that point in my career/age/wisdom level where I can actually answer some people's questions, heh. And I'm becoming a grouchy, opinionated old man), I do get some practice in double-spacing after periods. As I have always believed it should be.
I dunno, I've often pointed at the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for one of the deeper sources to many of our current issues. :)
http://www.sec.gov/about/laws/sa33.pdf
http://www.sec.gov/about/laws/sea34.pdf
But don't you remember the song? ./~ Breaking up is haaaard tooo doooooo. ./~
...for good? Or for awesome?
Expert, in the old-fashioned sense, was probably hunted by Good Christians for being a witch.
Experts, these days, now have a means to hold up that expertise for everyone to ooh and aah at, and even better, to learn from.
Why, exactly, are experts not referenced hundreds of times by people who know nothing about the domain? Why shouldn't they be? Shouldn't be use these tools we have now to help spread that expertise? Or is it really better to just leave people who know nothing about a given expertise, but might be interested in it, in the dark?
If there's an expert who wants to post tidbits of what they're doing in the course of their practicing their expertise on Twitter, or Facebook, or MySpace, or Blogspot, so that people can catch a glimpse into their world and what makes a genius tick, why would you have a grievance with that?
I don't understand why the spread of knowledge should be limited to only the novices.