I wanted to try searching for other petitions that have been similarly denied comment, but I couldn't because whitehouse.gov/robots.txt disallows all petition and response pages. Seems that the petition pages are the only ones they disallow. Also, the petition search on the site doesn't return 86ed petitions.
I suspect you are misreading your electric bill. Even turning on a 25 watt light for three hours every day would use more electricity than you are reporting. The average US household uses about 9000kwh per year, so the 100kwh per month stated above actually is pretty low.
About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. My employer is none the wiser. I pay him $12,000 to do the job I get paid $67,300 for. He is happy to have the work. I am happy that I only have to work about 90 minutes per day (I still have to attend meetings myself, and I spend a few minutes every day talking code with my Indian counterpart). The rest of the time my employer thinks I'm telecommuting. They are happy to let me telecommute because my output is higher than most of my coworkers.
Now I'm considering getting a second job and doing the same thing with it. That may be pushing my luck though. The extra money would be nice, but that could push my workday over five hours.
I'm not condoning this DDoS, but the perpetrator is probably just some sysadmin running a legitimate, secure server that found its way onto some blacklists and got frustrated by all the red tape getting off the lists. This may be his last hope to get off their list.
I wonder how many people really rely on blacklists anymore. I've tried using them before only to find out that over half of my legitimate email was being filtered and a significant amount of spam was still getting through.
Bayesian is the only affective method I've seen for significant spam reduction.
In this book, John Walker does suggest low-impact aerobic exercise to help in weight loss. He also says that he reailizes that most of his readers won't do enough exercise to make a difference no matter what he says (If they enjoyed exercise, they would already exercise regularly). There is nothing wrong with suggesting reasonable dietary modification.
What is to criticize with this book? It is a free book where he endorses no commercial products but instead relays his own experience losing weight.
I'm pretty sure from your comment that you didn't read this. Hacker's diet is anything but a cookie cutter diet. The constant calorie intake to weight comparison makes it flexible between dieters.
In Hacker's Diet, John talks a lot about an "eat watch" that tells you when it is time to eat, so that you can follow the watch instead of your natural cravings that were tuned over millions of years of evolution to store up as much fat as possible during times of abundance. In the book, he says this is not technically possible, but we can get close by constantly comparing our diet to daily weight fluctuations (actually a moving, weighted average to mitigate the effect of one-day anomilies).
Now that several years have gone by since he wrote this book, I wonder if the eat watch is still impossible. Glucose level monitoring is much less invasive than it used to be, and I believe that portable devices are sold so diabetics that will read glucose levels through the skin. With a little bit of modification to accomidate for past food intake and weight, this might be modifiable into John Walker's eat watch.
In case John Walker reads this thread, I want to thank you for Hacker's Diet. It motivated and guided me in losing 30 pounds over a one year period.
If a trusted third party accepted the payments, it would work. I can send you money through paypal without risk of you charging more to my credit card because paypal works as a sort of escrow agent.
Aside from the AOL spam control center, most of the spam prevention discussed in this email is aimed at trying to stop the sender through legislation and black lists. Legislation will never work, and black lists are marginal.
The answer to this shortcoming in the current email infrastructure is redesigning email protocols to allow spam to be stopped as it is sent.
I don't have the answer, but something that forces the sender to verify that the recipient will accept the message before it is relayed will be a start. I also like the idea that came from Microsoft recently of forcing the sender to pay the recipient a small amount of money.
The problem with bayesian filters is that they filter too much spam. The more people that use bayesian filters, the more messages the spammers will have to send to get through. Because it is almost free to send messages, they will continue to increase the number of messages they send until it gets to a point that email infrastructure can't handle it anymore.
Despite the fact that this is spun as a way for airlines to save money, this is a good thing for airline passengers. Making a physician responsible for emergency medical care will expand the care that the flight attendants will be allowed to give. Where they currently don't have much available beyond traditional CPR now, they will be able to dispense drugs that the physician "prescribes" after doing the remote examination.
This doesn't even take into account the liability of a passenger dying. Once the airline has made an active decision not to land, any death can be blamed on their misdiagnosis. I'm no lawyer, but I think that typical liability of a lost life is about $3,000,000. It doesn't take many of those law suits to make this a very bad financial deal for the airlines.
Phone companies have almost free bandwidth back to their own ISP. Power companies don't. They'd have to pay both a phone company and an ISP for bandwidth.
Plus the added benefit of not having to negotiate new agreements with property management and landlords
This assumes that their existing agreements allow them to conduct any sort of transaction on the covered property. If it limits them to phone service, they will have to renegotiate. I can't imagine many property managers would sign an agreement that lets them put anything they want in that spot.
It probably works for you because your machine is probably configured with a maxmtu setting of less than 1492. The problem comes when you are using path mtu discovery, not a defined maxmtu.
They tried to hold me to the terms of this agreement even though I never saw it or agreed to it.
I was selling Kellogg's AAdvantage coupons that I had cut off cereal boxes on ebay. Somebody from American sent me a threatening letter telling me I was in violation of the terms of use of the AAdvantage program. They also sent a letter to my bidders who backed out of the auction on threat of having their AAdvantage accounts terminated.
When I responded to their original email asking how they can enforce a penalty against me if I never signed up for AAdvantage, they never responded.
Since then, I have continued to sell AAdvantage coupons on ebay in private auctions so American Airlines can't hassle my buyers.
This steps all over your right to confront your accuser. If the company refuses to be identified in public, all the suspect has to do is claim her right to face his accuser at trial. If she is denied and convicted, she has excellent grounds to have the conviction overturned on appeal.
The article says this isn't an issue because most hacking computer-crime investigations end in a plea deal, but how willing will suspects be to plea if they know they have an out at trial?
It's going to exempt just about everybody who calls you anyway. I've ordered a screen machine because I refuse to pay $5/month for the phone company to filter solicitors they are selling my phone number too. Telezapper will be useless soon enough when solicitors start comparing their out-of-service lists with the phone company's.
What if instead of the small display, you used an x session (or terminal server for windows) to control the playback? That way, you can have the shortest cable possible between the cpu and the projector and still be able to control it from anywhere (assuming you have 802.11).
I don't know of a way to control playback from a seperate session, but there is probably a simple way to do it.
In a living room setup, where do you put this? If you put it in an entertainment center, you won't be able to read the display from the seating area. Do you put it on a table near the seating and run cables across the floor to the projector?
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There have been two deaths resulting from a Tesla crash.
That sounds more like a popularity contest than a peer review system.
I don't think that is the same Peter Chen.
"You've got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man"
I wanted to try searching for other petitions that have been similarly denied comment, but I couldn't because whitehouse.gov/robots.txt disallows all petition and response pages. Seems that the petition pages are the only ones they disallow. Also, the petition search on the site doesn't return 86ed petitions.
I suspect you are misreading your electric bill. Even turning on a 25 watt light for three hours every day would use more electricity than you are reporting. The average US household uses about 9000kwh per year, so the 100kwh per month stated above actually is pretty low.
> If you keep up with your security patches, it's really not a problem.
I dare say that most sysadmins who keep up with patches don't have telnetd running.
rdev -r /dev/fd0 2684354560
About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. My employer is none the wiser. I pay him $12,000 to do the job I get paid $67,300 for. He is happy to have the work. I am happy that I only have to work about 90 minutes per day (I still have to attend meetings myself, and I spend a few minutes every day talking code with my Indian counterpart). The rest of the time my employer thinks I'm telecommuting. They are happy to let me telecommute because my output is higher than most of my coworkers.
Now I'm considering getting a second job and doing the same thing with it. That may be pushing my luck though. The extra money would be nice, but that could push my workday over five hours.
I'm not condoning this DDoS, but the perpetrator is probably just some sysadmin running a legitimate, secure server that found its way onto some blacklists and got frustrated by all the red tape getting off the lists. This may be his last hope to get off their list.
I wonder how many people really rely on blacklists anymore. I've tried using them before only to find out that over half of my legitimate email was being filtered and a significant amount of spam was still getting through.
Bayesian is the only affective method I've seen for significant spam reduction.
In this book, John Walker does suggest low-impact aerobic exercise to help in weight loss. He also says that he reailizes that most of his readers won't do enough exercise to make a difference no matter what he says (If they enjoyed exercise, they would already exercise regularly). There is nothing wrong with suggesting reasonable dietary modification.
What is to criticize with this book? It is a free book where he endorses no commercial products but instead relays his own experience losing weight.
I'm pretty sure from your comment that you didn't read this. Hacker's diet is anything but a cookie cutter diet. The constant calorie intake to weight comparison makes it flexible between dieters.
In Hacker's Diet, John talks a lot about an "eat watch" that tells you when it is time to eat, so that you can follow the watch instead of your natural cravings that were tuned over millions of years of evolution to store up as much fat as possible during times of abundance. In the book, he says this is not technically possible, but we can get close by constantly comparing our diet to daily weight fluctuations (actually a moving, weighted average to mitigate the effect of one-day anomilies).
Now that several years have gone by since he wrote this book, I wonder if the eat watch is still impossible. Glucose level monitoring is much less invasive than it used to be, and I believe that portable devices are sold so diabetics that will read glucose levels through the skin. With a little bit of modification to accomidate for past food intake and weight, this might be modifiable into John Walker's eat watch.
In case John Walker reads this thread, I want to thank you for Hacker's Diet. It motivated and guided me in losing 30 pounds over a one year period.
If a trusted third party accepted the payments, it would work. I can send you money through paypal without risk of you charging more to my credit card because paypal works as a sort of escrow agent.
Aside from the AOL spam control center, most of the spam prevention discussed in this email is aimed at trying to stop the sender through legislation and black lists. Legislation will never work, and black lists are marginal.
The answer to this shortcoming in the current email infrastructure is redesigning email protocols to allow spam to be stopped as it is sent.
I don't have the answer, but something that forces the sender to verify that the recipient will accept the message before it is relayed will be a start. I also like the idea that came from Microsoft recently of forcing the sender to pay the recipient a small amount of money.
The problem with bayesian filters is that they filter too much spam. The more people that use bayesian filters, the more messages the spammers will have to send to get through. Because it is almost free to send messages, they will continue to increase the number of messages they send until it gets to a point that email infrastructure can't handle it anymore.
I think you don't get it. He is talking about a hippo campus, and most people will only encounter hippos at the zoo.
Despite the fact that this is spun as a way for airlines to save money, this is a good thing for airline passengers. Making a physician responsible for emergency medical care will expand the care that the flight attendants will be allowed to give. Where they currently don't have much available beyond traditional CPR now, they will be able to dispense drugs that the physician "prescribes" after doing the remote examination.
This doesn't even take into account the liability of a passenger dying. Once the airline has made an active decision not to land, any death can be blamed on their misdiagnosis. I'm no lawyer, but I think that typical liability of a lost life is about $3,000,000. It doesn't take many of those law suits to make this a very bad financial deal for the airlines.
Phone companies have almost free bandwidth back to their own ISP. Power companies don't. They'd have to pay both a phone company and an ISP for bandwidth.
This assumes that their existing agreements allow them to conduct any sort of transaction on the covered property. If it limits them to phone service, they will have to renegotiate. I can't imagine many property managers would sign an agreement that lets them put anything they want in that spot.
It probably works for you because your machine is probably configured with a maxmtu setting of less than 1492. The problem comes when you are using path mtu discovery, not a defined maxmtu.
They tried to hold me to the terms of this agreement even though I never saw it or agreed to it.
I was selling Kellogg's AAdvantage coupons that I had cut off cereal boxes on ebay. Somebody from American sent me a threatening letter telling me I was in violation of the terms of use of the AAdvantage program. They also sent a letter to my bidders who backed out of the auction on threat of having their AAdvantage accounts terminated.
When I responded to their original email asking how they can enforce a penalty against me if I never signed up for AAdvantage, they never responded.
Since then, I have continued to sell AAdvantage coupons on ebay in private auctions so American Airlines can't hassle my buyers.
The article says this isn't an issue because most hacking computer-crime investigations end in a plea deal, but how willing will suspects be to plea if they know they have an out at trial?
It's going to exempt just about everybody who calls you anyway. I've ordered a screen machine because I refuse to pay $5/month for the phone company to filter solicitors they are selling my phone number too. Telezapper will be useless soon enough when solicitors start comparing their out-of-service lists with the phone company's.
What if instead of the small display, you used an x session (or terminal server for windows) to control the playback? That way, you can have the shortest cable possible between the cpu and the projector and still be able to control it from anywhere (assuming you have 802.11).
I don't know of a way to control playback from a seperate session, but there is probably a simple way to do it.
In a living room setup, where do you put this? If you put it in an entertainment center, you won't be able to read the display from the seating area. Do you put it on a table near the seating and run cables across the floor to the projector?