I always like to use the car analogy for this kind of stuff...even if you're getting oh say... your spark plugs replaced (which most half wits can do at home, and the same should go for re-seating ram) you're going to pay for an hour for labor. End of story.
I don't know about the area that they investigated, but most PC repair techs (NOT engineers, if there is such a thing) are lucky to get paid $10-$12/hr in many areas, at least in the US. Given that the market is flooded by that people like that kid who did a website for his uncle and thinks that he's a PC master given that he's the one who figured out how to download mp3s without his parents finding out...
If PC repair shops actually paid for real engineers, rather than techs - I'd be surprised to see this kind of thing, but given the fast food attitude in the PC repair world, it's really not surprising.
Well, I can tell you that I would only like to be censored from child porn only because I have this overwhelming fear that should I happen to perchance upon it somehow, I don't want the FBI breaking down my door - other than that I know it exists and don't seek it out, which should be good enough. So far as children having access to scientific materials, I had such access and was raised to be smart enough to understand consequences to actions. I don't know how you've raised your children, and yes perhaps even if you did everything right they still might run out into traffic or swallow bleach or something, but really what can you do about that in grand scheme of things? Sure, once I was involved in the explosive destruction of an old TV set in a remote location with some homemade bombs that someone made from some bullets he managed to get his hands on (no scientific knowledge necessary!) but we still understood proper handling and nobody got hurt. It's the lack of knowledge that hurts people, not the presence of it!
Why not take up onion routing and stop bitching. Perhaps develop another solution if current standards of encryption are not acceptable.
Too slow with untrustworthy exit points...wait didn't I read this before somewhere? Damn broken records...
Perhaps a particular method where ALL content from server to client is ONLY available to server and client in question? Perhaps some form of consistent session SSL/TLS type validation?
What cave have you been hiding in anyway? Encrypted traffic gets heavily throttled and long sessions are often reset.
Consistently switching ports? Perhaps some public gateways being used to setup the transaction? Perhaps a tunnel being requested before setting up any other form of transaction? I don't know yet... I'm throwing stuff out.
Meh depending on who you ask, robotech and macross are both born of the same idea, but are not the same storyline and have to be taken as separate.
There are some robotech story lines and some macross story lines I'd like to see, actually =))
Invid invasion is by far my fav robotech arc, and I think Macross VII takes the cake in the macross world, although the Valkyries in the Macross II movie were some of the best...I think all in all though, the Macross/Robotech storyline is so expansive they'd end up doing something like Transformers where they just invent a new story for a new toy line...Which, IIRC, is how Macross/Robotech/Transformers were born in the first place.
Yeah, my analogy was bad, and I have to admit that from a PR perspective it works well enough. I just found that the statement "Redhat and Fedora" was redundant, being that Fedora is Red Hat. However yes, I am sure that he meant RHEL/RHED + Fedora... I'm just happy that I'm sober now and finally found the arrogant poorly written post I knew I made, whee!
Flavors of Red Hat & Fedora (we have embedded seat-back units, seat & distribution boxes and a head-end that consists of some file servers)
which is not only redundant, but an annoyingly stupid answer. You'd think that as long as they're talking about linux they'd get someone who wouldn't say something to the effect of "a mix of microsoft and windows" or for the oblig car analogy, "a mix of ford and thunderbird"...
I suspect you didn't read the parent post, so let's break it down:
America is not a country it is a continent get over it.
It's actually two, as long as we're nit-picking
I never defined the two continents, but simply stated that America is two continents. Those continents would obviously be (to those that aren't witless) North, and South America.
I'm too lazy to find the slashdot link from a few months back, but FTA:
The report explained several types of non-lethal laser applications, including microwave hearing, disrupted neural control, and microwave heating. For the first type, short pulses of RF energy (2450 MHz) can generate a pressure wave in solids and liquids. When exposed to pulsed RF energy, humans experience the immediate sensation of "microwave hearing" - sounds that may include buzzing, ticking, hissing, or knocking that originate within the head.
I've always wondered if this is why people feel some kind of effect from these 2.4Ghz devices. It also makes me wonder why that's the unlicensed band that we play with so much O.o
Then again, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I do love coincidences and patterns...The bit about the hissing/ticking/knocking I swear I've been hearing more over recent years than I ever did, but that's hardly scientific evidence for any harmful effect, it is however an effect nonetheless. I believe that this deserves more study, honestly enough.
Actually North and South America historically were considered one continent, but going by the tectonic plates and modern geology they are actually two separate land masses. Europe and Asia, on the other hand, are actually representative of the inverse. They are made distinct for sociological reasons, but share the same plate.
Uhh I hate to break it to your boss, but anyone running an outdated spam filter on a linux box, windows box, free/net/whateverBSD box is gonna be effected. Looking at XWall for exchange for example, you will see that a lot of their retailers claim ORDB support to this day. All I could find to the contrary is this post where they complain that it went down. No mention of disabling it in an update or anything, although it's hard to separate the marketing babble with their actual support. Why on earth would someone assume that this only effects spam filters that run on linux that are out of date?
Wow talk about taking things out of context....Lemme help you a bit:
A normal processor is a set of gates and interconnections, let's use a Z80 as an example of that. Please note that the Z80 assembler is turing complete. An FPGA can emulate any set of gates and interconnections given a description of these as input (I suppose this could include a dump truck full of loose vacuum tubes...but why?!) Protip: In this case we're talking about emulating a Z80, which is turing complete.
While I don't agree that the proof is solid, the logic is. It falls apart in that it only proves that an FPGA, given proper descriptions of input, can be turing complete, still not sure why we need to nitpick on the definition though of a normal processor though, which is clearly a Z80.
So yeah I edited the English, but the facts still retain the same logical structure. Any other strange questions/confusions?
Well, in the case of the small independent ISP I used to work for a few years back, in the beginning things were fine. We could resell DSL lines via Verizon at the same cost as anyone else, allowing us to compete based on services and whatnot. Then Verizon brought in their own ISP devision, and brought all the small ISPs to their knees. How they did this was rather simple, rather how it was explained to me when I asked the higher-ups was simple. Verizon the ISP was not the same as Verizon the Phone provider, in that the phone provider was still leasing their lines to the ISP to conform with the anti-monopoly laws. Verizon the ISP had one core advantage, however, in that Verizon the phone company offered bulk rates on DSL lines, so Verizon the ISP got a huge discount because they had the capital to just buy all the DSL lines for all their customers over vast areas.
There are some areas that had/have regional providers that could still compete, and still do. The smaller ISPs however got swallowed whole, and while I don't live in that state anymore, I understand that the few that did survive did so by forming highly competent web development teams and have moved over to more of a web host/email provider with a local office that gives locals a much more personal feel. Anyway this is all ancient history, and with fiber getting dropped in everywhere by the cable companies things changed again, and many DSL people flocked to the cable company. Interestingly, it was a regional cable provider until the fiber thing started, at which time Time Warner jumped in and bought everything.
Anyway this was just one small example in a small area, but I'm sure if you change the company names you'll find very similar stories just about everywhere in the US. I personally always look for a smaller regional provider when I move somewhere, and do what I can to support them, but that's just not always possible from a price perspective.
Mod parent insightful! As an aside, I'm still totally confused as to what we think the president is supposed to do and how much power he/she should have. I'm still pretty sure that a constant state of war is needed for the president to exercise any reasonable level of power outside a fairly limited constitutional job description. Still not sure if that's why we're always at war, however...
As I had posted in another thread about this case and how it proceeded, as anon probably b/c I can't find it...
The very fact that the domain registration was shut down, but the servers not taken offline just goes to show that the legal system (in the U.S. at least) is woefully uninformed regarding modern tech, and likely swarming with 'experts' who do nothing but spout popular buzz.
They've somehow managed to get away with making decisions about these things for the last, what? 20? 30? 40? 50 years? Okay so sure, a few lawyers are not technically inept, but all it takes is one attorney team and a judge who's willing to do what they want, and we can have all sorts of fun.
All this being said, sadly I can't see a solution. It takes so much just to understand how to work with the law, I can't possibly see these people having the time to become informed with regard to what they're asking for and how they go about it. I suppose it will just have to be documented into law through trial and error (no pun intended), feh.
That's a beautiful excuse, and I understand how that comes to be. Unless corporations are run by AIs these days (and I'm pretty sure that they aren't) there are still people making the decisions, and others executing those decisions. Personal responsibility has to come into play somewhere, somehow. Even if that starts with something as simple as the acknowledgment of the fact.
I don't know if you have had/seen/or been an infant, but if you have... Remember those toys that teach such basic shape/3D puzzle skills? If, by the time someone reaches adulthood they still need these concepts explained to them, well I just don't know what to say. I somehow doubt that adding a lecture on it during preflight would help them very much.
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The tire may have needed to be road-forced too... breaking the bead and reseating the tire may have been enough. Break fluid though? That's a joke!
I always like to use the car analogy for this kind of stuff...even if you're getting oh say... your spark plugs replaced (which most half wits can do at home, and the same should go for re-seating ram) you're going to pay for an hour for labor. End of story.
I don't know about the area that they investigated, but most PC repair techs (NOT engineers, if there is such a thing) are lucky to get paid $10-$12/hr in many areas, at least in the US. Given that the market is flooded by that people like that kid who did a website for his uncle and thinks that he's a PC master given that he's the one who figured out how to download mp3s without his parents finding out... If PC repair shops actually paid for real engineers, rather than techs - I'd be surprised to see this kind of thing, but given the fast food attitude in the PC repair world, it's really not surprising.
Well, I can tell you that I would only like to be censored from child porn only because I have this overwhelming fear that should I happen to perchance upon it somehow, I don't want the FBI breaking down my door - other than that I know it exists and don't seek it out, which should be good enough. So far as children having access to scientific materials, I had such access and was raised to be smart enough to understand consequences to actions. I don't know how you've raised your children, and yes perhaps even if you did everything right they still might run out into traffic or swallow bleach or something, but really what can you do about that in grand scheme of things? Sure, once I was involved in the explosive destruction of an old TV set in a remote location with some homemade bombs that someone made from some bullets he managed to get his hands on (no scientific knowledge necessary!) but we still understood proper handling and nobody got hurt. It's the lack of knowledge that hurts people, not the presence of it!
Meh depending on who you ask, robotech and macross are both born of the same idea, but are not the same storyline and have to be taken as separate.
There are some robotech story lines and some macross story lines I'd like to see, actually =))
Invid invasion is by far my fav robotech arc, and I think Macross VII takes the cake in the macross world, although the Valkyries in the Macross II movie were some of the best...I think all in all though, the Macross/Robotech storyline is so expansive they'd end up doing something like Transformers where they just invent a new story for a new toy line...Which, IIRC, is how Macross/Robotech/Transformers were born in the first place.
Yeah, my analogy was bad, and I have to admit that from a PR perspective it works well enough. I just found that the statement "Redhat and Fedora" was redundant, being that Fedora is Red Hat. However yes, I am sure that he meant RHEL/RHED + Fedora... I'm just happy that I'm sober now and finally found the arrogant poorly written post I knew I made, whee!
which is not only redundant, but an annoyingly stupid answer. You'd think that as long as they're talking about linux they'd get someone who wouldn't say something to the effect of "a mix of microsoft and windows" or for the oblig car analogy, "a mix of ford and thunderbird"...
Erm yeah, although ringing in your ears is drastically different from microwave hearing.
I've always wondered if this is why people feel some kind of effect from these 2.4Ghz devices. It also makes me wonder why that's the unlicensed band that we play with so much O.o
Then again, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I do love coincidences and patterns...The bit about the hissing/ticking/knocking I swear I've been hearing more over recent years than I ever did, but that's hardly scientific evidence for any harmful effect, it is however an effect nonetheless. I believe that this deserves more study, honestly enough.
Actually North and South America historically were considered one continent, but going by the tectonic plates and modern geology they are actually two separate land masses. Europe and Asia, on the other hand, are actually representative of the inverse. They are made distinct for sociological reasons, but share the same plate.
Uhh I hate to break it to your boss, but anyone running an outdated spam filter on a linux box, windows box, free/net/whateverBSD box is gonna be effected. Looking at XWall for exchange for example, you will see that a lot of their retailers claim ORDB support to this day. All I could find to the contrary is this post where they complain that it went down. No mention of disabling it in an update or anything, although it's hard to separate the marketing babble with their actual support. Why on earth would someone assume that this only effects spam filters that run on linux that are out of date?
It's actually two, as long as we're nit-picking...
Wow talk about taking things out of context....Lemme help you a bit:
A normal processor is a set of gates and interconnections, let's use a Z80 as an example of that. Please note that the Z80 assembler is turing complete. An FPGA can emulate any set of gates and interconnections given a description of these as input (I suppose this could include a dump truck full of loose vacuum tubes...but why?!) Protip: In this case we're talking about emulating a Z80, which is turing complete.
While I don't agree that the proof is solid, the logic is. It falls apart in that it only proves that an FPGA, given proper descriptions of input, can be turing complete, still not sure why we need to nitpick on the definition though of a normal processor though, which is clearly a Z80.
So yeah I edited the English, but the facts still retain the same logical structure. Any other strange questions/confusions?
You obviously don't have a boat, which doesn't make you near as avid a fisherman as some I've known over the years.
Well, in the case of the small independent ISP I used to work for a few years back, in the beginning things were fine. We could resell DSL lines via Verizon at the same cost as anyone else, allowing us to compete based on services and whatnot. Then Verizon brought in their own ISP devision, and brought all the small ISPs to their knees. How they did this was rather simple, rather how it was explained to me when I asked the higher-ups was simple. Verizon the ISP was not the same as Verizon the Phone provider, in that the phone provider was still leasing their lines to the ISP to conform with the anti-monopoly laws. Verizon the ISP had one core advantage, however, in that Verizon the phone company offered bulk rates on DSL lines, so Verizon the ISP got a huge discount because they had the capital to just buy all the DSL lines for all their customers over vast areas.
There are some areas that had/have regional providers that could still compete, and still do. The smaller ISPs however got swallowed whole, and while I don't live in that state anymore, I understand that the few that did survive did so by forming highly competent web development teams and have moved over to more of a web host/email provider with a local office that gives locals a much more personal feel. Anyway this is all ancient history, and with fiber getting dropped in everywhere by the cable companies things changed again, and many DSL people flocked to the cable company. Interestingly, it was a regional cable provider until the fiber thing started, at which time Time Warner jumped in and bought everything.
Anyway this was just one small example in a small area, but I'm sure if you change the company names you'll find very similar stories just about everywhere in the US. I personally always look for a smaller regional provider when I move somewhere, and do what I can to support them, but that's just not always possible from a price perspective.
Ok, color me ignorant, but why then did a Swiss bank file in California, again?
Mod parent insightful!
As an aside, I'm still totally confused as to what we think the president is supposed to do and how much power he/she should have. I'm still pretty sure that a constant state of war is needed for the president to exercise any reasonable level of power outside a fairly limited constitutional job description. Still not sure if that's why we're always at war, however...
As I had posted in another thread about this case and how it proceeded, as anon probably b/c I can't find it...
The very fact that the domain registration was shut down, but the servers not taken offline just goes to show that the legal system (in the U.S. at least) is woefully uninformed regarding modern tech, and likely swarming with 'experts' who do nothing but spout popular buzz.
They've somehow managed to get away with making decisions about these things for the last, what? 20? 30? 40? 50 years? Okay so sure, a few lawyers are not technically inept, but all it takes is one attorney team and a judge who's willing to do what they want, and we can have all sorts of fun.
All this being said, sadly I can't see a solution. It takes so much just to understand how to work with the law, I can't possibly see these people having the time to become informed with regard to what they're asking for and how they go about it. I suppose it will just have to be documented into law through trial and error (no pun intended), feh.
Yeah I know...I guess I'm just wishing for a perfect world where people didn't pretend to be so stupid and actually questioned those excuses.
That's a beautiful excuse, and I understand how that comes to be. Unless corporations are run by AIs these days (and I'm pretty sure that they aren't) there are still people making the decisions, and others executing those decisions. Personal responsibility has to come into play somewhere, somehow. Even if that starts with something as simple as the acknowledgment of the fact.
Wow, I thought this was common knowledge already, at least within traffic engineer circles. In my little world, anyway here's a report from 1994...
I don't know if you have had/seen/or been an infant, but if you have... Remember those toys that teach such basic shape/3D puzzle skills? If, by the time someone reaches adulthood they still need these concepts explained to them, well I just don't know what to say. I somehow doubt that adding a lecture on it during preflight would help them very much.
Ok so I used it...they uhh...have my information wrong. Right address, erm wrong birthdate. What a useless pile...