Tables that stand at about 4.5 ft tall (average elbo hight for an average sized adult), that force people to stand and interact with each other. Intel uses this idea, and from what I've heard it's really effective at shortening meeting times, since it's less comfortable. And shorter meetings are a good thing.
My great grandfather used to have a distillery, and his workdesk was that high, and he worked standing-up. Which made sense since he had to be all over the place, he did not waste time sitting down and up all the time.
And I've seen people holding their condo association meetings in the garage. So they do not last too long, and they're strictly business...
And then it caused impedance issues which you didn't even know existed!
But it worked as far as you know, right?
I mean, all those equations and stuff don't matter, it's just wires. If they connect then everything is fine. Did you ever wonder though, why does an EE degree take 4 years to get when you can just hammer some nails?
If you have had a EE degree, you would know that RS-232c is +/-12 volts, and at that time (20 years ago), the maximum speed the mainframe could work at was 9600 baud, so that's 104 microseconds per cycle, worst case.
So no, it did not have any impedance issues.
And yes, it worked fine, and did so for the next 15 years.
Back in the days when RS-232C ruled, I was in charge of wiring, and our department always made fun of another department's propensity at overspending and buying expensive gadgets.
When they wired their mainframe, they spent about $2000 for a bunch of bix panels.
When it was my turn to do the same job, I took $5.00 and went to the hardware store, I picked up a 1ft by 4fr plywood scrap and bought a box of finishing nails and brought that in the office (the canadian head-office of a fortune 500 company, btw) and started hammering away neat rows of nails to which I soldered wires from a 100 pair cable we ran between two floors.
On hearing the hammering, the boss of the other department (who happenned to pass by by chance) came to have a peek, and he sees me hammering and soldering and asks me "what are you doing???"
- I'm doing a patchboard for the serial lines.
- Why don't you use a BIX board like we did in the plant?
If you leave your ATM card in the ATM machine with the pin in, ready to withdraw cash, would you expect your bank to reimburse you?
Darn right they should! They programmed the ATM with very poor ergonomics. My bank will not give you the cash until you pull out the card from the reader.
I know of several companies with say about 100 outward facing IPs that are registered to the company and connect directly to a peering point (or 10). In effect these companies are their own ISPs. If they get accidently black listed they are phucked. Then what?
Do they OWN their own IP space? If they don't they're NOT "their own" ISPs.
But to answer your question, they should either move or pressure their ISP to dump their spammers.
It's a bit more like hiring someone to go through your snail mail and throw out all of the financial offers from Car Dealers, Credit Card companies and other vermin.
Not exactly. It's more like telling the mailboy in the mailroom to look up a separately-maintained list of the addresses or post-codes of known junk-mailers.
This is where we go back to the statement "default judgment". Since Spamhaus never bothered to show up in court to contest the charges, the judge had to decide in favor of the plaintif and award them whatever they asked.
Why should have they shown up in court? The court has no jurisdiction!!! If you were sued in Azerbaijan, would you show up? No way!!! They have no more jurisdiction on you than the Illinois court has in England.
For example when you tell them that they blacklisted your IP address and you can vouche that you don't spam, but they won't do anything because you belong to a/16 where somewhere sombody is spamming. blacklisting might be a good idea, but organizations like spamhaus make it bad in practice.
This is not the case. When a spammer spams, initially his address is blocked. If the ISP does not responds to complaints by REMOVING the spammer, the listing is "escalated" by being expanded, DELIBERATELY blocking "more" legitimate clients. This is a mean of alerting the other "more" legigimate clients that the ISP is a spam supporter, and that they should either pressure the ISP from dropping their spammers, or simply move elsewhere.
But anyone on a blocklist is not entirely innocent, because by giving their money to a spam-friendly ISP, they indirectly support spammers.
The idea is to eventually make spamming so undesirable that no ISP will keep spammers once warned.
Then the State has been subverted by spammers (CAN SPAM act), the only recourse left is vigilantism.
If a company is sending spam why isn't the ISP for that company shutting them down? Isn't it against the AUP of most providers or at least the big carriers?
How is this smart? If they had simply responded to the lawsuit, this probably would have been over in a heartbeat. Instead, they are basically thumbing their noses at a legal system that they believe is beneath their consideration.
Now let's pretend that the plaintiff in the case wasn't a spam company with a stupid name, but instead is a regular user who gets put on the list by mistake. From what I've read about Spamhaus, they tend to "not give a shit" in that sort of situation either, which is unfortunate. A good example why vigilante justice isn't always a good thing.
If they are legitimate, their deep pockets would be used towards their ISP in order to make them kick their spammers, or simply move elsewhere to cleaner IP space.
"Anonymity, on the other hand, means being able to get away with stealing, or hacking, or disseminating illegal material on the Internet - and presuming the right that nobody should know who you are. There is no such right. This is nothing more than the digital equivalent of putting on a ski mask when you rob a bank." Edgar Bronfman, Jr., CEO Seagram
Only the rich and powerful can enjoy true anonymity.
The rest of the unwashed masses are to be tagged and followed "for their own good" (according to the police).
If you listened to the police, they would jail everyone for their own good.
Here, here! Having spent most of my life in Massachusetts I get to experience the bitter taste of what things are like when you have "professional politicians" acting as a "permanent ruling class". I did spend one wonderful decade living in NH, and the contrast was striking. Of course NH has a citizen legislature (its members get paid a few hundred dollars a year as I recall, are only in session part time, and must hold "real" jobs to survive). I can tell you from personal experience which system works better - at least from the perspective of someone who works in the private sector and pays taxes.
Not sufficiently paying public officials (elected or not) is a guaranteed path to corruption.
Where I work, in a technical field, the old HP had a long history of excellence. Our test equipment was mostly HP, and we liked it. Then it went down hill. I'm curious if the products went downhill first or the quality of their management did. I'd have to guess that management did.
What happenned is that when the founding engineers retired, the company was taken over by the bean-counters and marketoïds. This is what brought down HP.
It's insightful and NOT racist because in the US, the unwashed masses fly, and the volume has caused a huge degradation in the quality of flying. Back in the 50's and the 60's when flying was for the rich, it was a great experience. Now, it's a piss-poor one.
It's absolutely disgraceful that North American airlines are completely backwards and behind in terms of service (given the cost) compared to their Asian counterparts.
That's because in Asia, the unwashed proletarian masses cannot afford flying.
I am a 60 year old Englishman, and I frequently do international yacht deliveries. I usually travel with a crew mate who is a 60 year old American.
Interesting. I've been doing the same, but delivering railcars to the US instead (which I rode while they were delivered on freight trains).
In all cases, I stayed aboard the train, sometimes in the cars, sometimes in the locomotive and was never bothered as the train passed through the border into the US.
And many times when travelling on passenger trains into the US, I never was asked anything when I was hanging around with the train crew...
I suppose this could change the day a train will be hijacked and flown in a building...:):):)
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And I've seen people holding their condo association meetings in the garage. So they do not last too long, and they're strictly business...
Or thongs.
Oh, that's easy to implement. The website calls for a Windoze vulnerability, and 10 seconds after the message is displayed, the computer BSODs...
You should have used CURRENT loop, then... :) :) :)
So no, it did not have any impedance issues.
And yes, it worked fine, and did so for the next 15 years.
When they wired their mainframe, they spent about $2000 for a bunch of bix panels.
When it was my turn to do the same job, I took $5.00 and went to the hardware store, I picked up a 1ft by 4fr plywood scrap and bought a box of finishing nails and brought that in the office (the canadian head-office of a fortune 500 company, btw) and started hammering away neat rows of nails to which I soldered wires from a 100 pair cable we ran between two floors.
On hearing the hammering, the boss of the other department (who happenned to pass by by chance) came to have a peek, and he sees me hammering and soldering and asks me "what are you doing???"
- I'm doing a patchboard for the serial lines.
- Why don't you use a BIX board like we did in the plant?
- Because yours cost $2000 and mine only $5.00.
He left without saying a word.
Why should have they bothered to do more, given that the court has no jurisdiction at all whatsoever????
But to answer your question, they should either move or pressure their ISP to dump their spammers.
Money talks, bullshit walks.
But anyone on a blocklist is not entirely innocent, because by giving their money to a spam-friendly ISP, they indirectly support spammers.
The idea is to eventually make spamming so undesirable that no ISP will keep spammers once warned.
Then the State has been subverted by spammers (CAN SPAM act), the only recourse left is vigilantism.
Money talks, and bullshit walks.
Legos.
The rest of the unwashed masses are to be tagged and followed "for their own good" (according to the police).
If you listened to the police, they would jail everyone for their own good.
It's insightful and NOT racist because in the US, the unwashed masses fly, and the volume has caused a huge degradation in the quality of flying. Back in the 50's and the 60's when flying was for the rich, it was a great experience. Now, it's a piss-poor one.
In all cases, I stayed aboard the train, sometimes in the cars, sometimes in the locomotive and was never bothered as the train passed through the border into the US.
And many times when travelling on passenger trains into the US, I never was asked anything when I was hanging around with the train crew...
I suppose this could change the day a train will be hijacked and flown in a building... :) :) :)