One of my distant neighbors has converted his old Mercedes over to fry oil. It starts up on diesel, then after it's warm, he switches it to the used fry oil from his restaurant. He used to pay some company to haul off the used fry oil and figured that it would take about a year or so to pay back the investment in converting the car. He jokes that he gets something like 500 miles to a gallon of diesel. The fry oil doesn't give him as good mileage per gallon as the original diesel system, but the fry oil is, essentially, free, or cheaper than free if you consider that it used to cost him to get rid of it.
Other than the cold problem, the other drawback is that the exhaust smells. Like McDonald's.
Of course DI is also very corrosive, so you have that working against you, too.
That's a fact - as evidenced by a little problem that we had when I was in the Navy. We used DI water in the cooling loop of our 400Hz VDT terminals. Almost everything in the loop was stainless steel, except for a couple of copper flex tubes that looked to have been custom fitted sometime in the past. The DI water went after those tubes and eventually one of them developed a couple of pinholes that sprayed water all over the inside of one of the cabinets. Now, the water wasn't all that conductive, but the bits of dust and other crap that had accumulated over the years was. We got a very satisfactory BANG and some smoke from the high voltage components. Unfortuately, whomever had decided that copper was a fine replacement for stainless steel wasn't around anymore.
I guess that one of the morals of that story is that if there's stainless steel there, it's probably for a reason.
I heartily second that, except with correct capitalization and punctuation. Five years ago, I started as an intern and started the Monday after graduation with a full time job. Besides doing actual engineering work (at my company, interns fill actual engineering job reqs), that year counted towards corporate benefits - 401K and stock vesting, vacation time accrual and the like.
I got the intern job because I paid attention to what was going on around me. I overheard a friend of a friend say that he knew a VP at the company, so I asked him to drop a resume on the VP's desk. I had an interview and an internship offer the next week.
Maybe that's another lesson - don't be afraid to use whatever "connection" comes up. Your abilities will carry the day, but you've gotta get your foot in the door.
The Civil War actually began after Lincoln was elected, but before he took office. It's hard to say that the South was "profitable" when the bulk of the economy of the US was in the industrialized North. To say that Lincoln did favors for "friends and cronies" is to demonstrate ignorance of the man and his philosophy. I highly recommend that you head down to your library and pick up the book "Team of Rivals". It will help you overcome your ignorance.
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
Lincoln did not have to write the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in the Union - there was no slavery there. He wrote it to free slaves in the rebellious southern states - and, in fact, the first Emancipation Proclamation (there were two), freed slaves as the southern states ceased rebelling and re-entered the Union.
Abraham Lincoln did not "hate" blacks. His views were shaped by the times and by society. He felt that slaves would not be able to be assimilated into white society. That's not "hating" blacks. He also felt that blacks were not equal to whites. Again, that's not "hating", that is, unfortunately, the popular thought at the time.
If Lincoln hated blacks so badly, it makes one wonder why he was one of the earliest members of the Republican party, the party opposed to slavery, and why his cabinet consisted of men like William Seward and Edwin Stanton, opponents of slavery, Edward Bates and Salmon Chase, overt abolishonists.
As far as not allowing blacks into Illinois goes, that was a part of the Democratic platform of 1860! At the time, Lincoln was a Whig, soon to become a Republican. He had no part in the drafting of any legislation prohibiting the immigration of blacks into Illinois.
Nope, just pointing out the typical modern-day/. hypocrisy. Funny thing, it didn't used to be like that - back in the day,/. wasn't nearly as polarized as it is today.
Truth be told, I think that the whole thing with the kid and his school should have been handled as a school disciplinary matter.
I have a 26" HDTV and to be honest I cannot tell the difference between DVD quality and high definition on the TV.
I've got a 34" Sony CRT HDTV and I can definitely tell the difference between a DVD and a 1080i HDTV broadcast. One look at Discovery HD Theater and it almost makes you cry. Side by side with an LCD and projection TV, there was no competition - the CRT was the clear quality winner. The drawback? A 220 pound TV.
Guy incites a bunch of his buddies to crash school's web server and gets arrested for it. "What kind of police state is this? He didn't hurt anybody! He has free speech!"
Kid incites a bunch of his buddies to crash Joe Geek's web server in his bedroom. "Joe Geek ought to sue him! He should be arrested for (pick the latest/. obscure legal term of the month). He has free speech? What about my right to host a web server!"
On the other hand he got busted with a felony, while the kids who changed their grades were arrested with misdemeanors. Now that seems a little out of whack.
Dude, how long is it going to take you to figure out that you're wrong? This is the second or third time that I've seen you post that link and it's pretty clear that it doesn't say what you seem to think that it says.
can you remember having the same contempt for the french prior to their [justified] opposition to Iraq II?
What, are you serious? Contempt for the French has been an ongoing sport for years - just as French contempt for anything non-French has been! You mistake humor (tired, hackneyed and cliched) for hatred.
And there are probably a million reasons to oppose the Iraq business, but I wonder if the close economic ties that France had with the previous regime in Iraq had anything to do with their opposition.
With $105 billion in this type of crime in 2005, I'm glad the Department of Homeland Security has had their budget cut to $16 million. That should stop those crooks!
Cyber Security is enhanced in the budget to augment a 24/7 cyber threat watch, warning, and response capability that would identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities and coordinate responses to major cyber security incidents. An increase of $5 million is proposed in the budget for this effort, bringing the program total to $73.3 million.
Can anyone tell me why Marriot has the SSNs of Customers?
They probably don't. As the article says, the backup tapes contained credit card numbers and SSNs of workers, time share owners and customers. That reasonably means that they've lost the credit card numbers of time share owners and customers and the SSNs of time share owners and employees.
So they've lost this data, but it seems to me that they're being reactive in a positive way - they've notified the right people in government, they've contacted financial institutions and they've notified their customers, along with issuing a public statement about it.
The article claims that the data requires "special equipment" to retrieve the data - some comfort, I guess, unless that special equipment isn't just a DAT drive and a backup program.
I wouldn't call their measures "proactive", as did the Marriott spokesperson, but the company seems to be reasonably open about it.
I have to agree. I'm neither an administrator nor a developer. I use Solaris and Linux platforms for electrical simulations. Neither I nor my fellow engineers have, want, or need root access. Our admins handle all of the software installations and other system maintenance, as they should. The admins have created groups for the various functions that we perform - the appropriate user is a member of the appropriate group(s). That way the only files that we can mess up are the files that we own. And, fortunately, our admins have implemented an effective backup plan so that when we do make a mistake (and, believe me, we do make mistakes), it can be fixed with minimal headaches for all concerned.
In our case, there's really no way to allow root access to local machines - everything is on the network via NFS. Software installations are tightly controlled and it's virtually impossible for a hardware casualty to cause any significant loss of data.
This is in an organization with roughly 5000 engineers using the *NIX network and an IT budget in the tens of millions of dollars. Believe me, the *NIX side of the house works a hell of a lot better than the Windows side.
Oh, and on my SunBlade at home, I almost cringe every time I run a command as root...
Because this is/., where everybody knows that the world is evil and you can only trust yourself - everybody else is out to steal you blind. It's the home of the tinfoil hat conspiracy gang, of people who have nothing else to do but sit around and dream up complicated ways of how the military/industrial/governmental complex is working to reduce everyone to nothing but a number - a tightly controlled, paperless, inconsequential number. It's the conspiracy gang that says that the US is a dictatorship with no freedom, the gang that believes that every CEO is a crook and that nobody should have to pay for music/software/(insert fad of the month). It's the home of people who strive to see the worst of any situation and can't admit it when things actually work out just fine.
In other words, you're pretty safe if you take all of the comments that you see here and do exactly the opposite.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: the United States and Somalia are the only countries in the world that have failed to ratify the Convention (and Somalia didn't have a government the last few years).
Incompatible with...? (religious extremists?)
I've done a little research to help you out, since you couldn't do it for yourself. Again, compatibility with US law, but in this case, with state law. Of course, if we had a much stronger Federal government, the feds could just bulldoze the state laws that are in conflict with the Convention and Congress could ratify the treaty. But that pesky Constitution keeps getting in the way.
I'll leave it as an exercise for you to find out what the problem is with certain state laws that conflict with the Convention. I'm not saying that they're right - just that they conflict.
Please remember that the US refused to sign the Berne Convention for 103 years, and didn't sign it until March 1th 1989.
It wasn't so much that the US refused to sign as that the government couldn't sign. The Berne convention was incompatible with US law until 1988. The US has been a member of UCC for over 50 years, though.
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I guess we can try to find the lowest UID for a user that didn't know...
D'oh!
One of my distant neighbors has converted his old Mercedes over to fry oil. It starts up on diesel, then after it's warm, he switches it to the used fry oil from his restaurant. He used to pay some company to haul off the used fry oil and figured that it would take about a year or so to pay back the investment in converting the car. He jokes that he gets something like 500 miles to a gallon of diesel. The fry oil doesn't give him as good mileage per gallon as the original diesel system, but the fry oil is, essentially, free, or cheaper than free if you consider that it used to cost him to get rid of it.
Other than the cold problem, the other drawback is that the exhaust smells. Like McDonald's.
-h-
I'd rather replace my mobo anyday. Try getting 8 gallons of oil out of burbur.
burbur? Try getting out of there alive!
berber? I think I see your point...
Of course DI is also very corrosive, so you have that working against you, too.
That's a fact - as evidenced by a little problem that we had when I was in the Navy. We used DI water in the cooling loop of our 400Hz VDT terminals. Almost everything in the loop was stainless steel, except for a couple of copper flex tubes that looked to have been custom fitted sometime in the past. The DI water went after those tubes and eventually one of them developed a couple of pinholes that sprayed water all over the inside of one of the cabinets. Now, the water wasn't all that conductive, but the bits of dust and other crap that had accumulated over the years was. We got a very satisfactory BANG and some smoke from the high voltage components. Unfortuately, whomever had decided that copper was a fine replacement for stainless steel wasn't around anymore.
I guess that one of the morals of that story is that if there's stainless steel there, it's probably for a reason.
-h-
I heartily second that, except with correct capitalization and punctuation. Five years ago, I started as an intern and started the Monday after graduation with a full time job. Besides doing actual engineering work (at my company, interns fill actual engineering job reqs), that year counted towards corporate benefits - 401K and stock vesting, vacation time accrual and the like.
I got the intern job because I paid attention to what was going on around me. I overheard a friend of a friend say that he knew a VP at the company, so I asked him to drop a resume on the VP's desk. I had an interview and an internship offer the next week.
Maybe that's another lesson - don't be afraid to use whatever "connection" comes up. Your abilities will carry the day, but you've gotta get your foot in the door.
-h-
The Civil War actually began after Lincoln was elected, but before he took office. It's hard to say that the South was "profitable" when the bulk of the economy of the US was in the industrialized North. To say that Lincoln did favors for "friends and cronies" is to demonstrate ignorance of the man and his philosophy. I highly recommend that you head down to your library and pick up the book "Team of Rivals". It will help you overcome your ignorance.
-h-
Nice troll, and a nice rewriting of history.
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
Lincoln did not have to write the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in the Union - there was no slavery there. He wrote it to free slaves in the rebellious southern states - and, in fact, the first Emancipation Proclamation (there were two), freed slaves as the southern states ceased rebelling and re-entered the Union.
Abraham Lincoln did not "hate" blacks. His views were shaped by the times and by society. He felt that slaves would not be able to be assimilated into white society. That's not "hating" blacks. He also felt that blacks were not equal to whites. Again, that's not "hating", that is, unfortunately, the popular thought at the time.
If Lincoln hated blacks so badly, it makes one wonder why he was one of the earliest members of the Republican party, the party opposed to slavery, and why his cabinet consisted of men like William Seward and Edwin Stanton, opponents of slavery, Edward Bates and Salmon Chase, overt abolishonists.
As far as not allowing blacks into Illinois goes, that was a part of the Democratic platform of 1860! At the time, Lincoln was a Whig, soon to become a Republican. He had no part in the drafting of any legislation prohibiting the immigration of blacks into Illinois.
-h-
Nope, just pointing out the typical modern-day /. hypocrisy. Funny thing, it didn't used to be like that - back in the day, /. wasn't nearly as polarized as it is today.
Truth be told, I think that the whole thing with the kid and his school should have been handled as a school disciplinary matter.
-h-
I have a 26" HDTV and to be honest I cannot tell the difference between DVD quality and high definition on the TV.
I've got a 34" Sony CRT HDTV and I can definitely tell the difference between a DVD and a 1080i HDTV broadcast. One look at Discovery HD Theater and it almost makes you cry. Side by side with an LCD and projection TV, there was no competition - the CRT was the clear quality winner. The drawback? A 220 pound TV.
-h-
It ain't dead until Netcraft confirms it!
The typical /. reaction:
/. obscure legal term of the month). He has free speech? What about my right to host a web server!"
Guy incites a bunch of his buddies to crash school's web server and gets arrested for it. "What kind of police state is this? He didn't hurt anybody! He has free speech!"
Kid incites a bunch of his buddies to crash Joe Geek's web server in his bedroom. "Joe Geek ought to sue him! He should be arrested for (pick the latest
On the other hand he got busted with a felony, while the kids who changed their grades were arrested with misdemeanors. Now that seems a little out of whack.
-h-
Slashdotters talking about politics is like fish talking about quantum mechanics.
Dude, how long is it going to take you to figure out that you're wrong? This is the second or third time that I've seen you post that link and it's pretty clear that it doesn't say what you seem to think that it says.
-h-
can you remember having the same contempt for the french prior to their [justified] opposition to Iraq II?
What, are you serious? Contempt for the French has been an ongoing sport for years - just as French contempt for anything non-French has been! You mistake humor (tired, hackneyed and cliched) for hatred.
And there are probably a million reasons to oppose the Iraq business, but I wonder if the close economic ties that France had with the previous regime in Iraq had anything to do with their opposition.
-h-
Ahem, that's Mike in southeastern Idaho.
With $105 billion in this type of crime in 2005, I'm glad the Department of Homeland Security has had their budget cut to $16 million. That should stop those crooks!
I think that you are mistaken.
Cyber Security is enhanced in the budget to augment a 24/7 cyber threat watch, warning, and response capability that would identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities and coordinate responses to major cyber security incidents. An increase of $5 million is proposed in the budget for this effort, bringing the program total to $73.3 million.
-h-
Can anyone tell me why Marriot has the SSNs of Customers?
They probably don't. As the article says, the backup tapes contained credit card numbers and SSNs of workers, time share owners and customers. That reasonably means that they've lost the credit card numbers of time share owners and customers and the SSNs of time share owners and employees.
So they've lost this data, but it seems to me that they're being reactive in a positive way - they've notified the right people in government, they've contacted financial institutions and they've notified their customers, along with issuing a public statement about it.
The article claims that the data requires "special equipment" to retrieve the data - some comfort, I guess, unless that special equipment isn't just a DAT drive and a backup program.
I wouldn't call their measures "proactive", as did the Marriott spokesperson, but the company seems to be reasonably open about it.
-h-
And while we are at it, is it that hard to label the peripheral that goes to said wall-wart power supply?
I don't seem to have any problem using a Sharpie and a strip of masking tape.
-h-
I have to agree. I'm neither an administrator nor a developer. I use Solaris and Linux platforms for electrical simulations. Neither I nor my fellow engineers have, want, or need root access. Our admins handle all of the software installations and other system maintenance, as they should. The admins have created groups for the various functions that we perform - the appropriate user is a member of the appropriate group(s). That way the only files that we can mess up are the files that we own. And, fortunately, our admins have implemented an effective backup plan so that when we do make a mistake (and, believe me, we do make mistakes), it can be fixed with minimal headaches for all concerned.
In our case, there's really no way to allow root access to local machines - everything is on the network via NFS. Software installations are tightly controlled and it's virtually impossible for a hardware casualty to cause any significant loss of data.
This is in an organization with roughly 5000 engineers using the *NIX network and an IT budget in the tens of millions of dollars. Believe me, the *NIX side of the house works a hell of a lot better than the Windows side.
Oh, and on my SunBlade at home, I almost cringe every time I run a command as root...
-h-
Why can't paperless be good?
/., where everybody knows that the world is evil and you can only trust yourself - everybody else is out to steal you blind. It's the home of the tinfoil hat conspiracy gang, of people who have nothing else to do but sit around and dream up complicated ways of how the military/industrial/governmental complex is working to reduce everyone to nothing but a number - a tightly controlled, paperless, inconsequential number. It's the conspiracy gang that says that the US is a dictatorship with no freedom, the gang that believes that every CEO is a crook and that nobody should have to pay for music/software/(insert fad of the month). It's the home of people who strive to see the worst of any situation and can't admit it when things actually work out just fine.
Because this is
In other words, you're pretty safe if you take all of the comments that you see here and do exactly the opposite.
-h-
...as Einstein said God doesn't roll dice.
But Einstein was referring to quantum mechanics, not evolution. I'm not sure if he ever expressed an opinion on natural selection.
-h-
wtf?
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: the United States and Somalia are the only countries in the world that have failed to ratify the Convention (and Somalia didn't have a government the last few years).
...?
Incompatible with
(religious extremists?)
I've done a little research to help you out, since you couldn't do it for yourself. Again, compatibility with US law, but in this case, with state law. Of course, if we had a much stronger Federal government, the feds could just bulldoze the state laws that are in conflict with the Convention and Congress could ratify the treaty. But that pesky Constitution keeps getting in the way.
I'll leave it as an exercise for you to find out what the problem is with certain state laws that conflict with the Convention. I'm not saying that they're right - just that they conflict.
-h-
"Humor, Sense of": What you seem to be missing.
Please remember that the US refused to sign the Berne Convention for 103 years, and didn't sign it until March 1th 1989.
It wasn't so much that the US refused to sign as that the government couldn't sign. The Berne convention was incompatible with US law until 1988. The US has been a member of UCC for over 50 years, though.
-h-