Only that the north, above the 45th parallel is. That's Canada, Northern Europe, Russia and up to the arctic.
And Oregon, Washington, Idaho, both the Dakota's, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc. (45th parallel runs right through Salem, OR, used to be a sign about it a few blocks from my house) or did you mean the 54th parallel?
It is true that you cannot trace back a number based on its caller ID, that it is easy to spoof (and with good reason, you want your 800 number for support on the call, rather than 'bob's' DID at his desk for megacorp).
But most calls also contain the "other" number, I believe they call it the ANI number, the one that 911 uses. the one that cannot be spoofed.
It should be trivial for the phone companies to log and or trace these. When I worked at a school, there was a special number (started with *) you dialed in case of a bomb threat, and it automatically logged your last couple minutes of calls to a file. Then, the police could get a warrant, and go see them. It would not take long to do the same thing for these "untraceable" scammers.
The problem is, you can tell at a glance that if someone knows C++, Java, C, Lisp, Perl, Ruby, and javascript on their resume, it would take them a very, very short time to learn python. (syntax differences, some methodology).
However, the HR person doesn't see Python on the list, and forwards to you; someone less qualified, who has Python written down. The only way to get close, is to start listing a crapton of languages as requirements, and then tell HR, "they have to have at least 4 of these 15 listed", but that almost never happens.
Funny that before the 2009 budget year, the wars in Iraq and Afganistan were not part of the federal budget. Every year since 2001, they were part of a separate "emergency" spending bill. The current president thought that was not proper, and put them into the actual defense budget.
I used to live in a town with no actual UPS office. they flew packages down from Portland, OR on a plane, and had a hanger where they would load the trucks. However, it was not staffed by office staff, and had no posted address.
If you got the note on the door, you're only choice was to have them just leave it on the porch, because there was no office to go pick it up at. Made for some fun conversations with the call center.. Well sir, you just need to go to the office at.. oh, wait.. um, sir, there is no local office, i'm not sure what to tell you...
Kindly point to ANY government agency, or private one, that has to keep enough funds in an account to pay for 70 YEARS worth of benefits if all employees retired tomorrow. (no, you do not get to count interest.)..
Naturally, I have not read the article (this is slashdot), but in the past, the discussion was around not having deliveries, or sorting on Saturdays of first class mail, but Post Offices would remain open.
The original poster was not under contract. Had not been for years. However, yes. When they make a material change to their prices, you can usually cancel without the ETF, since they made a material change to the contract.
My company, and almost every single one in existence lies on its caller ID. When my people call you, it does not show the line associated with the T1. It shows a toll free number, that is technically hosted by a different phone company, that then points back to our T1. The local phone company has no idea what relationship we have with our toll free number provider.
Now, there is a *xx number that will store the number at the central office (the full set of routing info, not just the caller ID). Not sure of it anymore, but when I worked for a school, we had to train our phone people to use it if there was ever a bomb threat. They would dial the *xx number, then call the police, and tell them they dialed the number, and the police would get a warrant, or whatever, and get the call traced.
Why can't the FTC mandate a similar number that you use to complain about a fraudulent call. Something that gets reported back to them in almost real time. you could even ignore them till they got numbered into the thousands, and then trace them to cut down on wild goose chases.
Tell me, how much "safer" is Wisconsin now that we can all conceal weapons? We have had two mass shooting this year.. (one in a Sikh temple, one in a beauty parlor). In fact, the only case I have heard of about weapons being used in self defense so far is some guy who shot an unarmed teenager in the back who was hiding on his porch when the neighbors party was busted by the cops.
Not trying to be a smart-ass (well, maybe I am) but the huge claims the gun lobby was saying would happen so far haven't. Our world is not much safer. I have not heard of any significant crimes stopped by an armed and trained civilian.. (And speaking of trained.. that same gun lobby was PISSED that the govt wanted to attach a requirement for an actual class before you could register to get a permit, when the legislature did not require it. )
I feel no more or less safe walking in Madison at night. Maybe that is telling about the responsibility of those that have gotten those permits, but I was told we would all be safer.. the criminals would be scared to mug us, since any of us could now be armed. Before, we were all just huge victims, waiting to be attacked, and now, the criminals would have to ponder the risks before they commit any crime..
I believe that is for using the google apps for your domain features.
We have an XMPP server and point the client and server DNS records for our domain to our server, and anyone can quickly add us and start chatting.. (well, okay, we block the client port at the firewall, but the server to server works well)
Forget vendors, and go with Protocols. XMPP is supported by how many products and vedors? And if you get tired of google chat, or facebook chat, you can roll your own with a dozen free servers (or find a hosted service.)
Kind of like choosing to use SIP as the basis of your phone system, then deciding on vendors. Keeps you away from many of the whims of the provider of the proprietary one.
Simple fix is to make the money collected for going over a "fee" that can ONLY be used to improve infrastructure.. (ie, it can ONLY buy hardware, and transit)
For issue1.. Any system that gets installed in any jurisdiction I know of, refuses to pump power to the grid, if the power is out. For just that reason. (yes, it would break the "power yourself in an emergency" that the summary mentioned, but it does keep people from dying, which is good.)
I really am looking into doing exactly this. I live in a rural area, and have a propane tank, but nothing works without power (I guess the gas range, if I have a match to start it) . No well, no septic pump, no propane furnace or water heater (Since the electric exhaust fan has to turn on before it will ignite) etc.
I would love to setup a 3Kw grid tie system, and then, be able to do a physical disconnect, and power my own stuff. Being relatively rural, a large blizzard or tornado or other incident would mean a long wait to get back up, since i'm so far out of town.
Not if they are only off by 1% (or even less) over thousands of gallons a day, that is some decent money.
Also, this same division in most states is also in charge of things like Grocery Scales. Unless you want to drag a scale with you to the butcher, its a very good thing. Commerce only works when you know what you are actually getting, so you can compare.
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Two high school kids just got 1 year each for raping a drunk 16 year old at a party (where people actually filmed and took pictures of it happening).. http://www.sheboyganpress.com/viewart/20130318/SHE0101/130317029/Two-Ohio-high-school-football-players-convicted-raping-girl-16
and this guy gets more than 3 times that for mentioning that a web site will give out people's private email address after AT&T did nothing about it?
Only that the north, above the 45th parallel is. That's Canada, Northern Europe, Russia and up to the arctic.
And Oregon, Washington, Idaho, both the Dakota's, Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc. (45th parallel runs right through Salem, OR, used to be a sign about it a few blocks from my house) or did you mean the 54th parallel?
They probably hijack your DNS, or do deep packet inspection, and return their page as the answer. Not sure if NoScript will help you with that.
nobody criticizes gnome anymore, because of Unity, everyone things of Gnome as the Holy Grail of user interface and communication :)
It is true that you cannot trace back a number based on its caller ID, that it is easy to spoof (and with good reason, you want your 800 number for support on the call, rather than 'bob's' DID at his desk for megacorp).
But most calls also contain the "other" number, I believe they call it the ANI number, the one that 911 uses. the one that cannot be spoofed.
It should be trivial for the phone companies to log and or trace these. When I worked at a school, there was a special number (started with *) you dialed in case of a bomb threat, and it automatically logged your last couple minutes of calls to a file. Then, the police could get a warrant, and go see them. It would not take long to do the same thing for these "untraceable" scammers.
The problem is, you can tell at a glance that if someone knows C++, Java, C, Lisp, Perl, Ruby, and javascript on their resume, it would take them a very, very short time to learn python. (syntax differences, some methodology).
However, the HR person doesn't see Python on the list, and forwards to you; someone less qualified, who has Python written down. The only way to get close, is to start listing a crapton of languages as requirements, and then tell HR, "they have to have at least 4 of these 15 listed", but that almost never happens.
Funny that before the 2009 budget year, the wars in Iraq and Afganistan were not part of the federal budget. Every year since 2001, they were part of a separate "emergency" spending bill. The current president thought that was not proper, and put them into the actual defense budget.
Even more interesting, was 30 min later, they shot up another pickup, 2 blocks away from the first shooting..
Any Ubuntu Release marked LTS is supported for 3 years.. they come out every 18 months with new ones, but the old will be supported for 3 years..
I used to live in a town with no actual UPS office. they flew packages down from Portland, OR on a plane, and had a hanger where they would load the trucks. However, it was not staffed by office staff, and had no posted address.
If you got the note on the door, you're only choice was to have them just leave it on the porch, because there was no office to go pick it up at. Made for some fun conversations with the call center.. Well sir, you just need to go to the office at .. oh, wait.. um, sir, there is no local office, i'm not sure what to tell you...
Kindly point to ANY government agency, or private one, that has to keep enough funds in an account to pay for 70 YEARS worth of benefits if all employees retired tomorrow. (no, you do not get to count interest.)..
Naturally, I have not read the article (this is slashdot), but in the past, the discussion was around not having deliveries, or sorting on Saturdays of first class mail, but Post Offices would remain open.
The original poster was not under contract. Had not been for years. However, yes. When they make a material change to their prices, you can usually cancel without the ETF, since they made a material change to the contract.
My company, and almost every single one in existence lies on its caller ID. When my people call you, it does not show the line associated with the T1. It shows a toll free number, that is technically hosted by a different phone company, that then points back to our T1. The local phone company has no idea what relationship we have with our toll free number provider.
Now, there is a *xx number that will store the number at the central office (the full set of routing info, not just the caller ID). Not sure of it anymore, but when I worked for a school, we had to train our phone people to use it if there was ever a bomb threat. They would dial the *xx number, then call the police, and tell them they dialed the number, and the police would get a warrant, or whatever, and get the call traced.
Why can't the FTC mandate a similar number that you use to complain about a fraudulent call. Something that gets reported back to them in almost real time. you could even ignore them till they got numbered into the thousands, and then trace them to cut down on wild goose chases.
Tell me, how much "safer" is Wisconsin now that we can all conceal weapons? We have had two mass shooting this year.. (one in a Sikh temple, one in a beauty parlor). In fact, the only case I have heard of about weapons being used in self defense so far is some guy who shot an unarmed teenager in the back who was hiding on his porch when the neighbors party was busted by the cops.
Not trying to be a smart-ass (well, maybe I am) but the huge claims the gun lobby was saying would happen so far haven't. Our world is not much safer. I have not heard of any significant crimes stopped by an armed and trained civilian.. (And speaking of trained.. that same gun lobby was PISSED that the govt wanted to attach a requirement for an actual class before you could register to get a permit, when the legislature did not require it. )
I feel no more or less safe walking in Madison at night. Maybe that is telling about the responsibility of those that have gotten those permits, but I was told we would all be safer.. the criminals would be scared to mug us, since any of us could now be armed. Before, we were all just huge victims, waiting to be attacked, and now, the criminals would have to ponder the risks before they commit any crime..
I believe that is for using the google apps for your domain features.
We have an XMPP server and point the client and server DNS records for our domain to our server, and anyone can quickly add us and start chatting.. (well, okay, we block the client port at the firewall, but the server to server works well)
$ dig SRV _xmpp-client._tcp.example.net
$ dig SRV _xmpp-server._tcp.example.net
Ensure those point to your XMPP server for example.net
Forget vendors, and go with Protocols. XMPP is supported by how many products and vedors? And if you get tired of google chat, or facebook chat, you can roll your own with a dozen free servers (or find a hosted service.)
Kind of like choosing to use SIP as the basis of your phone system, then deciding on vendors. Keeps you away from many of the whims of the provider of the proprietary one.
The processors are custom made processing boards.. they are not CPU's you would get off the shelf. They are made to do only one task.
But your old fasioned DB isn't "Web Scale": http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/9/5/hilarious-video-relational-database-vs-nosql-fanbois.html
Sorry, I love this video..
That would be correct, if those were windows, and not Transparent Aluminium.
Jobs is that good.
Simple fix is to make the money collected for going over a "fee" that can ONLY be used to improve infrastructure.. (ie, it can ONLY buy hardware, and transit)
Plus, they have a large tract of land that is inhabitable on the surface. Easy access, no complaints from the locals!
For issue1.. Any system that gets installed in any jurisdiction I know of, refuses to pump power to the grid, if the power is out. For just that reason. (yes, it would break the "power yourself in an emergency" that the summary mentioned, but it does keep people from dying, which is good.)
I really am looking into doing exactly this. I live in a rural area, and have a propane tank, but nothing works without power (I guess the gas range, if I have a match to start it) . No well, no septic pump, no propane furnace or water heater (Since the electric exhaust fan has to turn on before it will ignite) etc.
I would love to setup a 3Kw grid tie system, and then, be able to do a physical disconnect, and power my own stuff. Being relatively rural, a large blizzard or tornado or other incident would mean a long wait to get back up, since i'm so far out of town.
Not if they are only off by 1% (or even less) over thousands of gallons a day, that is some decent money.
Also, this same division in most states is also in charge of things like Grocery Scales. Unless you want to drag a scale with you to the butcher, its a very good thing. Commerce only works when you know what you are actually getting, so you can compare.