"Double opt-in" is pure spamer-speak. You ARE spammers. I knew it. I called you on it. My original comment got modded as Flamebait. You know what? I don't care about the moderation. I was right.
There IS no such thing as "double opt-in". And to boot, you retort posting as an Anonymous Coward!
First and foremost, don't assume they are reporting your turdlets as spam "by accident". Perhaps they really don't want your emails after all. If they really want to hear from you they'll be signing up again. You're SOL as far as I can tell. The only responsible thing to do is stop sending them to anyone who has complained. Whether on purpose or by accident. Unless you're really spamming, in which case you're the scum of the earth and will keep on sending unwanted email regardless of whether or not the recipient wants it, but I'm not making that accusation.
Secondly, if you're a business then why do you refer to your email recipients as "members"? Are they in some sort of "affiliate" program you manage? I really don't understand this. No real business refers to their cusomers as "members". Well, I guess health clubs, country clubs and other clubs do... And shady operations that want to spin what they're doing as "not spam".
So stop sending the emails and put in place a method where people who really want to receive your email re-sign up with you. Then email them once and ask them to respond affirmatively if they really want to receive email from you. I's called "confirmed opt-in". Once you have that affirmative acceptance in hand you should be able to use it to positively refute any aaccusation by AOL that you are sending unwanted, unsolicited email.
And in New Jersey they've passed a new auto inspection law that says if the "check engine" light is on your car will fail inspection. Doesn't matter if everything checks out OK... tail lights, wipers, emissions check, intact glass, turn signals... if the light is on you fail automatically. I suspect this tweak in the law was instituted after some payola changed hands between lobbyists and the politicians. It sucks, really, but that's Jersey for you. One of the reasons I am so glad I moved out of that fascist state years ago.
You know if I kept setting off a store alarm and I knew damn well I hadn't boosted anything I'd keep right on walking. "Would you step over here, sir?" would be met with a quick "Fuck you. Call the cops if you think I stole something. Who the hell do you think you are?
Retail employees with hand-scanning wands. Give me a break. If there's a living, breathing witness that saw me steal something, that's one thing. But no machine is going to bear false witness against me. I would refuse to cooperate. A truckstop is not an airport where the guards are employees with authority and jurisdiction to prevent "dangerous" items on board aircraft. I refuse to recognize that they have any authority to search or probe my person.
Those magnetic tag detectors you see in stores have only one valid purpose as far as I can see. To act as a deterrent and scare would-be thieves away. They convey no authority to perform a body scan.
Ha. In the linked article on XML on page 4, in section "Recipe For Disaster", there's a link to Lark, Tim Bray's XML Parser. When I click that link I get...
Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
I know the story isn't about XML per se, but by sheer coincidence I've been checking out XML recently so I thought I'd have a look at Lark. LOL. I hope this experience isn't a precursor of what I'm about to get into!
No. RICO requires that they knowingly and willingly engaged in unlawful activities. Unless and untill their claims are judged to be without merit in the IBM case no one can prove they did this knowing for sure that they were wrong in their claims.
OTOH I can see the dam bursting soon with regard to people who don't work for IBM bringing suit against them for violating terms of the GPL. If they deny the GPL then they admit that the authors of the code retain copyright. They can't charge someone for a license to use code they didn't write. Even SCO is not claiming they wrote all/em of it.
I read it last month. I keep most of the books I read when I'm done. I threw this one out. It wasn't a bad read, but I agree with the reviewer that in the end it just wasn't satisfying.
One concept the book deals with that I thought was good was the belief by many intelligence pros that they need to "protect" the citizens from things that cannot be spoken. Hogwash. I'm sure the NSA does valuable work but when they start to trample the Constitution it's time to say ENOUGH. The fouders of the U.S. thought the people should always distrust the government and retain the means to change it if and when it became opressive or tyrannical. If the government accrues too much power to control information and the ability to track what every single person does and says and buys every moment of every waking day then it becomes impossible for the people to exercise that power. It is truly Big Brother-esque.
The book did a good job of exploring both sides of that debate. The guy who wrote the Digital Fortress algorithm was someone who didn't believe that governments should have the right to spy on its own citizens without at least telling them that it was doing so. Central to the plot was an extortion scheme in which the perpetrator, Tankada, wanted only one thing: For the gogernment to come out and publicly admit that it could, in fact, decrypt and read everything that was being sent via encrypted email.
One line from IBM's Report on SCO's Compliance With the Court's order sums up the whole fiasco pretty well I think. It's a line from Paragraph 5:
SCO refuses to disclose from what lines of UNIX System V code these alleged contributions are supposed to derive, which it must know to allege the contributions were improper.
Duh! And Darl wants $5 Billion for this?!?! For what exactly? I can't wait for the stomping to commence.
This isn't the project's fault, I know, but there is a "major", albeit proprietary, VPN protocol that's still not supported on Linux. It's Shiva's SST (Shiva Secure Tunnel). It was originally developed by Shiva, then sold to Intel where it became part of the NetStructure family. I should point out that these VPN gateways also support IPSEC, but some companies - like mine - only permit access using the SST flavor tunnel.
Shiva never had any Linux client software. Intel never developed any either. Then it got sold to HP/Compaq which never developed any Linux client software either. Recently it was sold yet again to a new company called - interestingly enough - Shiva. (No relation to the original company.) Like I said, the SST protocol is proprietary so the lack of support on Linux isn't the fault of the Linux VPN Router project or the FreeSWAN project either. Maybe all that's needed is for someone to contact Shiva/Intel/HP/Shiva to see if they'd be willing to open up the SST spec. I don't know. Unless the Shiva Secure Tunnel protocol offers major advantages over IPSEC I can't imagine any reason why they'd keep it secret. Maybe they're only still using it for backwards compatibility or something, because to me it sure looks like all new developement is geared towards IPSEC. If that's the case I guess I'm screwed. My company flat out refuses to open any IPSEC tunnels on their NetStructure VPN appliances.
The next time you run into severe gotchas give me a call. I only charge $150 an hour and am an expert when it comes to solving complex problems like this.
/me rubs hands together greedily anticipating platy of cash from a clueless "user" who's in over his head
In the world of mainframes, a partition is a common name for a virtual machine...
Nope. A mainframe can have its resources literally partitioned. Physically. Nothing virtual about it. Partion A gets these disk drives, these communication devices, these consoles, this amount of the total physical memory and these dedicated CPUs. A partition runs its own OS natively on the silicon. A virtual machine relies on the parent operating system to make its resources available to it. Lose the main OS and the VM guests die. With a partitioned setup, one partition can crash or be shut down and the opther partitions are not affected.
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam...
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress:...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
The CAN-SPAM law in the U.S. starts January 1 folks! I would conjecture that this new "ISP" will sell a LOT of cheap throwaway dialup accounts to spammers. They'll claim to have an anti-spam TOS but they will make more money from spammers looking for a cheap pipe for their turds than they will the average user.
ISP Waitress: Your account is being cancelled because of SPAM!
Viking Chickenboner: Spam spam spam spam spam...
ISP Waitress: Would you like to open a new account now or wait until the 'morn?
Viking Chickenboner: Let's do it now, love, I've a huge tract o' spam that must go out tonight!
ISP Waitress: We do love our spam sir! Egg bacon and spam, egg sausage TOS and spam.... (repeat ad nauseam)
Since I burned my mod points this morning I'll burn some karma... Amen Brother
There's always been 2 sides to the TI vs. HP debate but IMO real geeks have always used HP calculators. We know they are superior to the TI riff raff. Always have been. (Here is where I was going to write "Always will be", but I don't know if that's necessarily true since HP seems to have largely given up). No one who knows their way around an RPN HP ever lost a competition involving speed, clarity of thought or lapses of logic to a TI nerd. That was the key difference. HP guys were Geeks but the TI boys were only nerds. Parenthesis. Yikes. Might as well program in Visual Basic.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
That's article IX or the U.S. COnstitution. The fact that trroubling issues of privacy and technology didn't arise until 220 years later doesn't mean jack shit to me. Article IX makes it quite clear that the notion of a "Right to Privacy" must certainly exist. How dare anyone disparage my beleif that it is my right? The time is drawing near when politicians who ignore the Constitution and the judges who are bought right along with them, will have to account for their actions. And I'm not talking about violence here. I'm talking about a second Constitutional Convention. Something that strikes fear into the heart of every politician and every greed head in the land.
A Second Constitutional Convention would do us a world of good. And possibly a world of hurt as well, but the medicine must be strong for what we've allowed this nation to mutate into. All it would take is a two-thirds vote of the states. The day is coming. It might not be right around the corner, but it is coming.
That's the same site I was monitoring while the CMEs were hurtling our way last week. None of the blue shaded area in the graphic ever went any further south than where it is right now, which as best as I can make out is ~Roanoke VA. Whenever I checked it wasn't even as far south as it is now (maybe I should check tonight!) That graphic never showed anything remotely close to the 0.1 level over the NY area. I suppose you could be right about the light pollution thing. We did have 1 night of good viewing in August. During the blackout.
Apart from the light pollution, I thought the major reason that there aren't any major observatories was because there aren't any really high mountains. Except for the White Mountains, maybe.
One of the things I want to do someday is see the aurora borrealis. I'd settle for australicus (sp?) too:) I always had the impression that they were spectacular, and I always assumed they would be bright enough to cut through even heavy light pollution. If not, then I suspect when I do finally see them they won't come close to meeting my expectations. Anyway, thx for the 411.
With all those recent CMEs I've been scanning the skies at night for a couple of weeks now. At least the clear nights. I'm in the Northeast U.S. and I sure as hell didn't see any auroras. That was one of the things I was specifically looking for. I think the mention of visible auroras as far south as Florida is hogwash. Is that just something the OP made up for effect or did it actually somehow get that far south unnoticed by just about everyone in the Northeast?
Let me tell you a bit about Cablevision. I am, after all, a customer of theirs. This company cannot do anything right. Several years ago they upgraded most of their infrastructure to fiber optics and tried to sell "enhanced" cable TV service under the name of "Optimum IO". If you had a low-end cable TV plan this upgrade would only cost you another $10 per month PLUS another $3 per month for each cable box. Of course, other than HBO and a few sports channels, the regular cable "Family" package already contains about 15 channels you don't want, but they want - in my case - another $19 a month for questionable added value that no doubt would include another 100 channels I don't want. This $19 would be on top of the $60 per month I already pay, and with which I am already unhappy. Recently, the TV guide they send out each week switched over to only show the digital channel numbers. If you didn't buy their ridiculously overproced digital cable package you're out of luck if you want to find out what channel something's on by looking at the TV guide (which you pay for anyway).
When said Optimum IO did not sell like hotcakes, Cablevision stock took a bit of a hit and has yet to fully rebound. Of course, they blame its poor showing on their own failure to market the IO service enough. Please. They utterly failed to grasp the point that people did evaluate their new product and decided it wasn't worth it. God forbid they admit to themselves (or their shareholders) that they miscalculated.
Enough ranting on cable rates. They also launched their own direct-broadcast TV satellite a few months ago. That's right. They think they can compete with Dish and DirecTV. With one satellite. One.
They offer high-speed internet access via their cable system. Their rates have risen steadily over the last few years until now it runs $50 per month. For that you get pretty reliable high-speed web surfing and not much else. Their email system only works about 80% of the time. They classify their email service as being "for entertainment purposes only". It was certainly entertaining when they sold their customer email address list a couple of years ago to spammers. That fun is still going on. Their newsservers work only about 60% of the time and even when they are working, they are not high-speed by any means. You get about the same d/l speed as you would from a dial-up modem. Their average retention times for articles in the non-binary newsgroups average 3 days. Don't even ask about the binary groups.
The principal owner and CEO of Cablevision also owns 2 pro sports franchises: The NY Knicks and the NY Rangers. He lets his son run them. Bwahahahahaha! Nothing more needs to be said about those fiascos. In fact, nothing more needs to be said about Cablevision at all. This is one fucked company and I wouldn't expect their new VoIP venture to be any more successful than the rest. This is a company that has spread itself far too thin across all its different business lines, and they do none of them well.
Dude, I was there 2 weeks ago. We spent 3 days there and took the regular bus tour PLUS the 2 specialty tours. None of the 3 tour guides we had said anything remotely like that. They did mention that KSC is surrounded by the Merit Island National Wildlife Refuge, and remarked often on the large number of species that call it home. But at no time did we hear anything as ridiculous as that.
We actuatlly saw the bald eagle (and not just its nest), quite a few 'gators, some burrowing tortoises and quite a few vultures. The only animals in for a surprise will be the 2-year olds who get to experience their first Space Shuttle launch in another 14 months or so.
"Several of Microsoft's MVPs, or Most Valuable Professionals, also served as beta testers for Office 2003."
So what is this MVP thing? Microsoft Victimized Programmer? I tried looking it up on the web but it's a very nebulous thing. Sniff Gates' butt enough and they might let you put that after your name for a year. I see nothing that prevents me from putting it after my name as well. Hmmm.... Starting tomorrow I'm going to actually put MVP after my sig on every online forum I participate in! It's not like I'm pretending to be a doctor or a lawyer or *gasp* an MSCE perfessional, is it? Yes. That is what I will do. It will cause chaos and confusion everywhere! I can just see the naive newbies now as a real live MVP starts to dis Microsoft products at every turn.
Thank you! I thought it was just me. I've been seeing these exact same problems lately. I wrote Google an email describing the problems but I only got back the standard form letter response. I attributed the failure to load groups articles to a new "feature" that they implemented to thwart automatic article finders like Perl's LWP. I hope it's really a bug because it is really annoying.
Have you noticed that it's damn near impossible to search for articles or discussion on Google itself? The Googlewhack site looks interesting but a quick glance doesn't reveal its core reason for existence. I need to wait until I have some extra time to check it out some more. For instance I can't tell if Googlewhack is for reporting and discussing Gooogle oddities in general or just weird things you get back from search results using bizarre search terms.
Intel processors have supported the TSS (Task State Segment) for years. This is an architectural feature that enables true task switching in the processor. No OS or other software I'm aware of has ever used this feature of the architecture. The stated reason why it's not used in Windows is "performance". I can see why that would have been a concern 4 or 5 years ago, but it's not very well quantified. I have no idea at all if Linux makes use of the TSS in a way that differs from Windows.
It's the same old story for the pols. They've always regulated and taxed telephone companies, i.e. those who transport sound from one phone to another. This is no different to them. They can't distinguish between completely different types of technology. The Internet is "new", so they have thus far avoided taxing the 'net because they've "never done that before". Nationwide, they even prohibited state sales tax from being collected on purchases over the internet. The politicians really are clueless. Enjoy it while it lasts because once they get a bite of the apple it will be all over and net taxes will be everywhere. Trying to reason with regulators over whether or not VoIP should be taxed and regulated the same way as traditional phone companies is like pissing into the wind.
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"Double opt-in" is pure spamer-speak. You ARE spammers. I knew it. I called you on it. My original comment got modded as Flamebait. You know what? I don't care about the moderation. I was right.
There IS no such thing as "double opt-in". And to boot, you retort posting as an Anonymous Coward!
Anonymous Spammer is more like it. Fuck you.
I don't know where to begin...
First and foremost, don't assume they are reporting your turdlets as spam "by accident". Perhaps they really don't want your emails after all. If they really want to hear from you they'll be signing up again. You're SOL as far as I can tell. The only responsible thing to do is stop sending them to anyone who has complained. Whether on purpose or by accident. Unless you're really spamming, in which case you're the scum of the earth and will keep on sending unwanted email regardless of whether or not the recipient wants it, but I'm not making that accusation.
Secondly, if you're a business then why do you refer to your email recipients as "members"? Are they in some sort of "affiliate" program you manage? I really don't understand this. No real business refers to their cusomers as "members". Well, I guess health clubs, country clubs and other clubs do... And shady operations that want to spin what they're doing as "not spam".
So stop sending the emails and put in place a method where people who really want to receive your email re-sign up with you. Then email them once and ask them to respond affirmatively if they really want to receive email from you. I's called "confirmed opt-in". Once you have that affirmative acceptance in hand you should be able to use it to positively refute any aaccusation by AOL that you are sending unwanted, unsolicited email.
And in New Jersey they've passed a new auto inspection law that says if the "check engine" light is on your car will fail inspection. Doesn't matter if everything checks out OK ... tail lights, wipers, emissions check, intact glass, turn signals ... if the light is on you fail automatically. I suspect this tweak in the law was instituted after some payola changed hands between lobbyists and the politicians. It sucks, really, but that's Jersey for you. One of the reasons I am so glad I moved out of that fascist state years ago.
You know if I kept setting off a store alarm and I knew damn well I hadn't boosted anything I'd keep right on walking. "Would you step over here, sir?" would be met with a quick "Fuck you. Call the cops if you think I stole something. Who the hell do you think you are?
Retail employees with hand-scanning wands. Give me a break. If there's a living, breathing witness that saw me steal something, that's one thing. But no machine is going to bear false witness against me. I would refuse to cooperate. A truckstop is not an airport where the guards are employees with authority and jurisdiction to prevent "dangerous" items on board aircraft. I refuse to recognize that they have any authority to search or probe my person.
Those magnetic tag detectors you see in stores have only one valid purpose as far as I can see. To act as a deterrent and scare would-be thieves away. They convey no authority to perform a body scan.
Ha. In the linked article on XML on page 4, in section "Recipe For Disaster", there's a link to Lark, Tim Bray's XML Parser. When I click that link I get...
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
I know the story isn't about XML per se, but by sheer coincidence I've been checking out XML recently so I thought I'd have a look at Lark. LOL. I hope this experience isn't a precursor of what I'm about to get into!
No. RICO requires that they knowingly and willingly engaged in unlawful activities. Unless and untill their claims are judged to be without merit in the IBM case no one can prove they did this knowing for sure that they were wrong in their claims.
OTOH I can see the dam bursting soon with regard to people who don't work for IBM bringing suit against them for violating terms of the GPL. If they deny the GPL then they admit that the authors of the code retain copyright. They can't charge someone for a license to use code they didn't write. Even SCO is not claiming they wrote all/em of it.
I read it last month. I keep most of the books I read when I'm done. I threw this one out. It wasn't a bad read, but I agree with the reviewer that in the end it just wasn't satisfying.
One concept the book deals with that I thought was good was the belief by many intelligence pros that they need to "protect" the citizens from things that cannot be spoken. Hogwash. I'm sure the NSA does valuable work but when they start to trample the Constitution it's time to say ENOUGH. The fouders of the U.S. thought the people should always distrust the government and retain the means to change it if and when it became opressive or tyrannical. If the government accrues too much power to control information and the ability to track what every single person does and says and buys every moment of every waking day then it becomes impossible for the people to exercise that power. It is truly Big Brother-esque.
The book did a good job of exploring both sides of that debate. The guy who wrote the Digital Fortress algorithm was someone who didn't believe that governments should have the right to spy on its own citizens without at least telling them that it was doing so. Central to the plot was an extortion scheme in which the perpetrator, Tankada, wanted only one thing: For the gogernment to come out and publicly admit that it could, in fact, decrypt and read everything that was being sent via encrypted email.
The book still sucked.
Report on SCO's Compliance With the Court's order sums up the whole fiasco pretty well I think. It's a line from Paragraph 5:
Duh! And Darl wants $5 Billion for this?!?! For what exactly? I can't wait for the stomping to commence.
24 hours?!?!?!
It only took TWO hours! A good job by NASA and JPL, no doubt, but a bit of luck didn't hurt either.
This isn't the project's fault, I know, but there is a "major", albeit proprietary, VPN protocol that's still not supported on Linux. It's Shiva's SST (Shiva Secure Tunnel). It was originally developed by Shiva, then sold to Intel where it became part of the NetStructure family. I should point out that these VPN gateways also support IPSEC, but some companies - like mine - only permit access using the SST flavor tunnel.
Shiva never had any Linux client software. Intel never developed any either. Then it got sold to HP/Compaq which never developed any Linux client software either. Recently it was sold yet again to a new company called - interestingly enough - Shiva. (No relation to the original company.) Like I said, the SST protocol is proprietary so the lack of support on Linux isn't the fault of the Linux VPN Router project or the FreeSWAN project either. Maybe all that's needed is for someone to contact Shiva/Intel/HP/Shiva to see if they'd be willing to open up the SST spec. I don't know. Unless the Shiva Secure Tunnel protocol offers major advantages over IPSEC I can't imagine any reason why they'd keep it secret. Maybe they're only still using it for backwards compatibility or something, because to me it sure looks like all new developement is geared towards IPSEC. If that's the case I guess I'm screwed. My company flat out refuses to open any IPSEC tunnels on their NetStructure VPN appliances.
The next time you run into severe gotchas give me a call. I only charge $150 an hour and am an expert when it comes to solving complex problems like this.
/me rubs hands together greedily anticipating platy of cash from a clueless "user" who's in over his head
In the world of mainframes, a partition is a common name for a virtual machine...
Nope. A mainframe can have its resources literally partitioned. Physically. Nothing virtual about it. Partion A gets these disk drives, these communication devices, these consoles, this amount of the total physical memory and these dedicated CPUs. A partition runs its own OS natively on the silicon. A virtual machine relies on the parent operating system to make its resources available to it. Lose the main OS and the VM guests die. With a partitioned setup, one partition can crash or be shut down and the opther partitions are not affected.
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam... ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress:
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
The CAN-SPAM law in the U.S. starts January 1 folks! I would conjecture that this new "ISP" will sell a LOT of cheap throwaway dialup accounts to spammers. They'll claim to have an anti-spam TOS but they will make more money from spammers looking for a cheap pipe for their turds than they will the average user.
ISP Waitress: Your account is being cancelled because of SPAM!
Viking Chickenboner: Spam spam spam spam spam... ISP Waitress: Would you like to open a new account now or wait until the 'morn?
Viking Chickenboner: Let's do it now, love, I've a huge tract o' spam that must go out tonight!
ISP Waitress: We do love our spam sir! Egg bacon and spam, egg sausage TOS and spam....
(repeat ad nauseam)
Since I burned my mod points this morning I'll burn some karma... Amen Brother
There's always been 2 sides to the TI vs. HP debate but IMO real geeks have always used HP calculators. We know they are superior to the TI riff raff. Always have been. (Here is where I was going to write "Always will be", but I don't know if that's necessarily true since HP seems to have largely given up). No one who knows their way around an RPN HP ever lost a competition involving speed, clarity of thought or lapses of logic to a TI nerd. That was the key difference. HP guys were Geeks but the TI boys were only nerds. Parenthesis. Yikes. Might as well program in Visual Basic.
You've just proved why "military intelligence" is an oxymoron.
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"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
That's article IX or the U.S. COnstitution. The fact that trroubling issues of privacy and technology didn't arise until 220 years later doesn't mean jack shit to me. Article IX makes it quite clear that the notion of a "Right to Privacy" must certainly exist. How dare anyone disparage my beleif that it is my right? The time is drawing near when politicians who ignore the Constitution and the judges who are bought right along with them, will have to account for their actions. And I'm not talking about violence here. I'm talking about a second Constitutional Convention. Something that strikes fear into the heart of every politician and every greed head in the land.
A Second Constitutional Convention would do us a world of good. And possibly a world of hurt as well, but the medicine must be strong for what we've allowed this nation to mutate into. All it would take is a two-thirds vote of the states. The day is coming. It might not be right around the corner, but it is coming.
That's the same site I was monitoring while the CMEs were hurtling our way last week. None of the blue shaded area in the graphic ever went any further south than where it is right now, which as best as I can make out is ~Roanoke VA. Whenever I checked it wasn't even as far south as it is now (maybe I should check tonight!) That graphic never showed anything remotely close to the 0.1 level over the NY area. I suppose you could be right about the light pollution thing. We did have 1 night of good viewing in August. During the blackout.
:) I always had the impression that they were spectacular, and I always assumed they would be bright enough to cut through even heavy light pollution. If not, then I suspect when I do finally see them they won't come close to meeting my expectations. Anyway, thx for the 411.
Apart from the light pollution, I thought the major reason that there aren't any major observatories was because there aren't any really high mountains. Except for the White Mountains, maybe.
One of the things I want to do someday is see the aurora borrealis. I'd settle for australicus (sp?) too
With all those recent CMEs I've been scanning the skies at night for a couple of weeks now. At least the clear nights. I'm in the Northeast U.S. and I sure as hell didn't see any auroras. That was one of the things I was specifically looking for. I think the mention of visible auroras as far south as Florida is hogwash. Is that just something the OP made up for effect or did it actually somehow get that far south unnoticed by just about everyone in the Northeast?
Let me tell you a bit about Cablevision. I am, after all, a customer of theirs. This company cannot do anything right. Several years ago they upgraded most of their infrastructure to fiber optics and tried to sell "enhanced" cable TV service under the name of "Optimum IO". If you had a low-end cable TV plan this upgrade would only cost you another $10 per month PLUS another $3 per month for each cable box. Of course, other than HBO and a few sports channels, the regular cable "Family" package already contains about 15 channels you don't want, but they want - in my case - another $19 a month for questionable added value that no doubt would include another 100 channels I don't want. This $19 would be on top of the $60 per month I already pay, and with which I am already unhappy. Recently, the TV guide they send out each week switched over to only show the digital channel numbers. If you didn't buy their ridiculously overproced digital cable package you're out of luck if you want to find out what channel something's on by looking at the TV guide (which you pay for anyway).
When said Optimum IO did not sell like hotcakes, Cablevision stock took a bit of a hit and has yet to fully rebound. Of course, they blame its poor showing on their own failure to market the IO service enough. Please. They utterly failed to grasp the point that people did evaluate their new product and decided it wasn't worth it. God forbid they admit to themselves (or their shareholders) that they miscalculated.
Enough ranting on cable rates. They also launched their own direct-broadcast TV satellite a few months ago. That's right. They think they can compete with Dish and DirecTV. With one satellite. One.
They offer high-speed internet access via their cable system. Their rates have risen steadily over the last few years until now it runs $50 per month. For that you get pretty reliable high-speed web surfing and not much else. Their email system only works about 80% of the time. They classify their email service as being "for entertainment purposes only". It was certainly entertaining when they sold their customer email address list a couple of years ago to spammers. That fun is still going on. Their newsservers work only about 60% of the time and even when they are working, they are not high-speed by any means. You get about the same d/l speed as you would from a dial-up modem. Their average retention times for articles in the non-binary newsgroups average 3 days. Don't even ask about the binary groups.
The principal owner and CEO of Cablevision also owns 2 pro sports franchises: The NY Knicks and the NY Rangers. He lets his son run them. Bwahahahahaha! Nothing more needs to be said about those fiascos. In fact, nothing more needs to be said about Cablevision at all. This is one fucked company and I wouldn't expect their new VoIP venture to be any more successful than the rest. This is a company that has spread itself far too thin across all its different business lines, and they do none of them well.
Dude, I was there 2 weeks ago. We spent 3 days there and took the regular bus tour PLUS the 2 specialty tours. None of the 3 tour guides we had said anything remotely like that. They did mention that KSC is surrounded by the Merit Island National Wildlife Refuge, and remarked often on the large number of species that call it home. But at no time did we hear anything as ridiculous as that.
We actuatlly saw the bald eagle (and not just its nest), quite a few 'gators, some burrowing tortoises and quite a few vultures. The only animals in for a surprise will be the 2-year olds who get to experience their first Space Shuttle launch in another 14 months or so.
"Several of Microsoft's MVPs, or Most Valuable Professionals, also served as beta testers for Office 2003."
So what is this MVP thing? Microsoft Victimized Programmer? I tried looking it up on the web but it's a very nebulous thing. Sniff Gates' butt enough and they might let you put that after your name for a year. I see nothing that prevents me from putting it after my name as well. Hmmm.... Starting tomorrow I'm going to actually put MVP after my sig on every online forum I participate in! It's not like I'm pretending to be a doctor or a lawyer or *gasp* an MSCE perfessional, is it? Yes. That is what I will do. It will cause chaos and confusion everywhere! I can just see the naive newbies now as a real live MVP starts to dis Microsoft products at every turn.
Thank you! I thought it was just me. I've been seeing these exact same problems lately. I wrote Google an email describing the problems but I only got back the standard form letter response. I attributed the failure to load groups articles to a new "feature" that they implemented to thwart automatic article finders like Perl's LWP. I hope it's really a bug because it is really annoying.
Have you noticed that it's damn near impossible to search for articles or discussion on Google itself? The Googlewhack site looks interesting but a quick glance doesn't reveal its core reason for existence. I need to wait until I have some extra time to check it out some more. For instance I can't tell if Googlewhack is for reporting and discussing Gooogle oddities in general or just weird things you get back from search results using bizarre search terms.
Intel processors have supported the TSS (Task State Segment) for years. This is an architectural feature that enables true task switching in the processor. No OS or other software I'm aware of has ever used this feature of the architecture. The stated reason why it's not used in Windows is "performance". I can see why that would have been a concern 4 or 5 years ago, but it's not very well quantified. I have no idea at all if Linux makes use of the TSS in a way that differs from Windows.
It's the same old story for the pols. They've always regulated and taxed telephone companies, i.e. those who transport sound from one phone to another. This is no different to them. They can't distinguish between completely different types of technology. The Internet is "new", so they have thus far avoided taxing the 'net because they've "never done that before". Nationwide, they even prohibited state sales tax from being collected on purchases over the internet. The politicians really are clueless. Enjoy it while it lasts because once they get a bite of the apple it will be all over and net taxes will be everywhere. Trying to reason with regulators over whether or not VoIP should be taxed and regulated the same way as traditional phone companies is like pissing into the wind.
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