Actually drafting is beneficial to both the lead and tail cars. The lead car gets a boost due to the tail car filling in the vacuum caused by their car. I've never heard if this is actually a measurable difference with non-race cars at highway speeds, but it certainly isn't a good idea even if it is.
Biometrics is not all bad, it's just implemented badly. It SHOULD be used on top of existing systems, as an additional barrier along with your password and keycard. It should NEVER be used on its own.
I dont tailgate anymore, because extra lead time = more energy regenerated while breaking.
Um, no. You're bleeding of the exact same amount of kinetic energy either way.
While that's true, I think the GP was trying to make the point that the hybrid is probably going to be able to capture more of that energy if you try to recover it over 15 seconds vs. 5 seconds.
dnsmadeeasy doesn't solve the problem the OP is asking about. They simply monitor your services and start serving a different DNS record if your primary is down.
The OP is concerned with all the DNS servers that aren't yours that would then have a cached version already, and continue to serve up the dead DNS record until their (incorrectly configured) TTL expired.
As another poster already mentioned, BGP is really the only technical solution to this problem. All other "solutions" are going to be convincing people that they don't really need instant failover in the event of a major disaster.
This has nothing to do with using a wireless access point anonymously. This database only functions to allow a wireless enabled device (most likely a pda, or laptop since most cell phones already know where they are) to do a scan of the access points around it, pass the list of AP's it can see to the database/service, which then tells the device exactly where it is.
This doesn't involve you accessing the internet through your WAP and your privacy at all. Your WAP and it's unique ID are simply being used as a reference point for other devices.
It also doesn't seem like their work will pay off, since nearly all new pda's have cell service and already know where they are.
Tariffs are another way of going about the same problem. The main difference I can see between them is that Tariffs will lead to a high price on the goods and subsidies will cost the government more money.
In reality there's probably a swarm of other issues involving the World Trade Organization (not that the US thinks the rules apply to them)
The GP's point was that they don't give you a "No OS" option because they get paid to install all the extra crap on top of windows (toolbars, media players, etc). They wouldn't be able to install this extra garbage if they didn't have an OS.
Dell obviously doesn't install this garbage on their servers, that's probably part of the reason for the full $799 cost of the server OS.
I'm not sure I buy into the fact that all the extras end up negating the cost of the OS in the end, but if you're going to argue, at least argue against the point the GP was making.
It's not permanent because that would cause too much darkness through much of the year. The foxnews article somebody else linked to explained how they actually tried this in the 70's and fatalities among school children went up because they were waiting for the bus in the dark.
What they should do is eliminate DST, and instead implement a Daylight Hours portion of the year where Government agencies (including schools) are required to adjust their operating hours to start and finish an hour earlier. Then encourage all businesses to do the same (which many of them will since their people have to drop and pick up their kids an hour earlier). Same end result, but much less of this mess. That way when you tell somebody in Germany that the meeting is at 8am Pacific Time, they'll actually know what time it is without having to get out the American Time Change Rules for the year.
They already did this. Remember when they eliminated product upgrades (with a few exceptions for home users) and implemented Software Assurance. You pay ~50% of the purchase price and get two years of Software Assurance. A new version comes and you get it for "free". If you don't buy Software Assurance and a new version comes out, there is no upgrade to purchase, so if you want it you have to pay the full price.
Seems like "Pay-As-You-Go" to me anyway. At least that's what we're forced to do unless we want to pay out the nose every 2-3 years for Microsoft Office.
Judging from all the people telling him to get a new activation key from Microsoft, the summary isn't very clear, but this guys problem isn't an activation issue (I think). It's the fact that his OEM Windows disc will not load because it's now detecting that it's not an e-machines computer anymore. e-machines is the problem here.
They don't generate unique decryption keys for each and every player. Individual players are NOT revoked. It is at least a class of players (in this case we're only dealing with software players as a sibling post has pointed out) and I wouldn't be surprised if they keys were only unique on the manufacturer level (i.e. Sony has one key for all the players it makes).
Even if each player did have a unique decryption key though, they would have no way of knowing which key to revoke. This is the reason the person who decrypted the data hasn't said "I used player X" since he doesn't want to make it easy for them to revoke the key for "player X".
I'm guessing the lack of ability to join a game in progess is due to the multiplayer being peer to peer rather than server based. It turns it into quite a different problem with a number of usability issues related to it.
Here's an idea for Microsoft, stop storing the energy saving settings in the registry as a binary value!
Because it's a binary value, it's impossible to use group policies to change energy saving settings across an enterprise (without using a 3rd party tool that essentially gets installed on every machine and does the string->binary conversion).
I know nothing about cable networks, but I do know that ISP's don't try to keep traffic on their own networks for as long as possible. I didn't realize it had a specific name, but it's apparently called Hot-potato Routing
Think of it this way, if you have traffic that is destined for another network, would you dump it onto that network as soon as possible, or would you use up your own bandwidth and resources to get it as close as possible to the destination before dumping it to the other network?
They can afford several more gamecube-level failures, especially since gamecube-level failures still nets them profits without even the need for first-party games.
The HARDWARE costs nets them a profit, they still have R&D costs though.
Well, anyway, in Windows, the SID-500 account (built in Administrator) can't be locked out.
Not totally true. It can't be locked out for use on a domain controller locally, but for remote access, or access across a network, the lockout policies apply just like any other account. So really it's only a concern if the "bad guys" are sitting down at your domain controller.
There are companies making billions off of sending cake through my pipes, and even though it's my infrastructure that I built, for some reason I'm not allowed to see any of that profit?
That's exactly right, or do you think that the phone company should make money based upon how many sales a company makes using the telephone? No, they get money when they carry data over their lines, they are a carrier.
Also, this may be related to my network/outlook setup, but typically my email gets to my BB long before it hits my Outlook client, which is somewhat fun because I'll feel the thing vibrate and look at outlook but see no email.
Your outlook is probably running in the newer exchange cached mode. Originally Outlook was always online and connected to exchange, the cached mode essentially makes outlook offline and it checks for new mail every minute or so.
So you get more of a delay in cached mode, but the benefits far outweigh this one drawback (ability to read emails even if network or exchange server is unavailable, less load on the exchange server)
but if it's licensed then one should be allowed to make backups of the disc or receive a replacement disc if the disc gets lost or damaged. Software companies will argue either way where it suits them.
For Microsoft licensing you can get replacements, not for free, the media kits are normally around $10-$20.
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Actually drafting is beneficial to both the lead and tail cars. The lead car gets a boost due to the tail car filling in the vacuum caused by their car. I've never heard if this is actually a measurable difference with non-race cars at highway speeds, but it certainly isn't a good idea even if it is.
Biometrics is not all bad, it's just implemented badly. It SHOULD be used on top of existing systems, as an additional barrier along with your password and keycard. It should NEVER be used on its own.
Security at general aviation airports is very very lax compared to the airports most of us are used to.
While that's true, I think the GP was trying to make the point that the hybrid is probably going to be able to capture more of that energy if you try to recover it over 15 seconds vs. 5 seconds.
dnsmadeeasy doesn't solve the problem the OP is asking about. They simply monitor your services and start serving a different DNS record if your primary is down.
The OP is concerned with all the DNS servers that aren't yours that would then have a cached version already, and continue to serve up the dead DNS record until their (incorrectly configured) TTL expired.
As another poster already mentioned, BGP is really the only technical solution to this problem. All other "solutions" are going to be convincing people that they don't really need instant failover in the event of a major disaster.
This has nothing to do with using a wireless access point anonymously. This database only functions to allow a wireless enabled device (most likely a pda, or laptop since most cell phones already know where they are) to do a scan of the access points around it, pass the list of AP's it can see to the database/service, which then tells the device exactly where it is.
This doesn't involve you accessing the internet through your WAP and your privacy at all. Your WAP and it's unique ID are simply being used as a reference point for other devices.
It also doesn't seem like their work will pay off, since nearly all new pda's have cell service and already know where they are.
Tariffs are another way of going about the same problem. The main difference I can see between them is that Tariffs will lead to a high price on the goods and subsidies will cost the government more money.
In reality there's probably a swarm of other issues involving the World Trade Organization (not that the US thinks the rules apply to them)
The GP's point was that they don't give you a "No OS" option because they get paid to install all the extra crap on top of windows (toolbars, media players, etc). They wouldn't be able to install this extra garbage if they didn't have an OS.
Dell obviously doesn't install this garbage on their servers, that's probably part of the reason for the full $799 cost of the server OS.
I'm not sure I buy into the fact that all the extras end up negating the cost of the OS in the end, but if you're going to argue, at least argue against the point the GP was making.
It's not permanent because that would cause too much darkness through much of the year. The foxnews article somebody else linked to explained how they actually tried this in the 70's and fatalities among school children went up because they were waiting for the bus in the dark.
What they should do is eliminate DST, and instead implement a Daylight Hours portion of the year where Government agencies (including schools) are required to adjust their operating hours to start and finish an hour earlier. Then encourage all businesses to do the same (which many of them will since their people have to drop and pick up their kids an hour earlier). Same end result, but much less of this mess. That way when you tell somebody in Germany that the meeting is at 8am Pacific Time, they'll actually know what time it is without having to get out the American Time Change Rules for the year.
They already did this. Remember when they eliminated product upgrades (with a few exceptions for home users) and implemented Software Assurance. You pay ~50% of the purchase price and get two years of Software Assurance. A new version comes and you get it for "free". If you don't buy Software Assurance and a new version comes out, there is no upgrade to purchase, so if you want it you have to pay the full price.
Seems like "Pay-As-You-Go" to me anyway. At least that's what we're forced to do unless we want to pay out the nose every 2-3 years for Microsoft Office.
Judging from all the people telling him to get a new activation key from Microsoft, the summary isn't very clear, but this guys problem isn't an activation issue (I think). It's the fact that his OEM Windows disc will not load because it's now detecting that it's not an e-machines computer anymore. e-machines is the problem here.
They don't generate unique decryption keys for each and every player. Individual players are NOT revoked. It is at least a class of players (in this case we're only dealing with software players as a sibling post has pointed out) and I wouldn't be surprised if they keys were only unique on the manufacturer level (i.e. Sony has one key for all the players it makes).
Even if each player did have a unique decryption key though, they would have no way of knowing which key to revoke. This is the reason the person who decrypted the data hasn't said "I used player X" since he doesn't want to make it easy for them to revoke the key for "player X".
Didn't the first generation of DVD players only read single layer discs?
Fortune's requirements are that they have to survey 400 of your employees, so that pretty much puts all small companies out of the running.
I'm guessing the lack of ability to join a game in progess is due to the multiplayer being peer to peer rather than server based. It turns it into quite a different problem with a number of usability issues related to it.
The GP was talking about server side Java and made no mention of Java applets which is what you're talking about.
Here's an idea for Microsoft, stop storing the energy saving settings in the registry as a binary value!
Because it's a binary value, it's impossible to use group policies to change energy saving settings across an enterprise (without using a 3rd party tool that essentially gets installed on every machine and does the string->binary conversion).
I know nothing about cable networks, but I do know that ISP's don't try to keep traffic on their own networks for as long as possible. I didn't realize it had a specific name, but it's apparently called Hot-potato Routing
Think of it this way, if you have traffic that is destined for another network, would you dump it onto that network as soon as possible, or would you use up your own bandwidth and resources to get it as close as possible to the destination before dumping it to the other network?
They can afford several more gamecube-level failures, especially since gamecube-level failures still nets them profits without even the need for first-party games.
The HARDWARE costs nets them a profit, they still have R&D costs though.
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=RMBS
*haha*
Not totally true. It can't be locked out for use on a domain controller locally, but for remote access, or access across a network, the lockout policies apply just like any other account. So really it's only a concern if the "bad guys" are sitting down at your domain controller.
That's exactly right, or do you think that the phone company should make money based upon how many sales a company makes using the telephone? No, they get money when they carry data over their lines, they are a carrier.
Your outlook is probably running in the newer exchange cached mode. Originally Outlook was always online and connected to exchange, the cached mode essentially makes outlook offline and it checks for new mail every minute or so.
So you get more of a delay in cached mode, but the benefits far outweigh this one drawback (ability to read emails even if network or exchange server is unavailable, less load on the exchange server)
For Microsoft licensing you can get replacements, not for free, the media kits are normally around $10-$20.
Looking at this National Debt by % of GDP Japan has a much higher percentage of debt than the United States: 170% vs. 64.7%.
And if you cross reference those numbers with the GDP by Country they actually have more debt in terms of dollars also.
Kinda scary.