Californians pay for the power they use just like you. They also probably pay more per kW/h.
The problem is that during certain high-demand summer days, California's grid infrastructure cannot provide enough electricity to meet the demand. People are upset because California has not been more aggressive about improving the power grid or building new power plants.
I used MyIE2/Maxthon for a couple years before Firefox finally won me over. Every feature I used in MyIE is available in Firefox. MyIE is still insecure IE at it's core.
This is not good advice for peanut allergy sufferers. Peanut allergies are the most severe food allergy to humans, even worse than shellfish or eggs. Peanut allergies kill 50 to 100 Americans each year. Even ingesting half a peanut will put most sufferers into anaphylactic shock.
The most advanced vaccine research requires monthly injections and has been shown to increase this tolerance to 9 peanuts before anaphylactic shock occurs. It does not appear likely that sufferers will ever be able to purposefully eat peanuts, though it may prevent an emergency room visit or death.
Have you ever seen "May contain traces of peanuts" or seen a sign at Dairy Queen warning that peanuts are used? Airlines are required to accomodate peanut allergy sufferers with peanut-free flights. United Airlines no longer offers peanuts on any flights because of this.
Peanut allergies affect 1.3% of the general population. Siblings of sufferers are 7% likely to also be allergic. Mothers are advised to avoid peanuts during pregnancy and breastfeeding, as well as to avoid giving peanuts to children until they are three years old.
I have been allergic my entire life and have had some scary moments. I've been rushed to the emergency room, and have needed to inject myself with epinephrine. Please understand that your advice does not apply to everyone.
What if the 'positive results for you' are negative results for someone else? If I rob a bank I may get positive results, but it doesn't make it good or right.
My brother used to regularly beat his friends in SNES SFII using his feet only while his opponents played with hands. He beat one friend with two perfects.:)
They involve complex calculations, calculations sufficiently complex that only a very small number of computer programs are capable of doing them, programs maintained by hundreds of developers that depend on data that costs companies like Expedia and Orbitz literally millions of dollars per year.
You honestly believe this? How complex could this possibly be?
The prices between sites are wildly different because there is no benefit for the airlines to compete for price in most situations. Because it is not easy to find the lowest price, people are much more likely to settle for a lower price.
The airlines could easily show you the cheapest prices. The more confusing and complicated this process is, the more likely a customer will pay more money.
"The database firebirds fear that the Mozilla/Phoenix project gets much more attention and thus the default meaning of "Firebird" will become "the browser", requiring that the database references be explained, which ruins the name for them."
Do you really think that 99% of computer users have a clue what Mozilla is, or have any idea what a relational database is?
The name "Firebird" has widespread recognition as a Pontiac automobile and Joe User will never hear the word and think of a computer program.
The real loser here is whoever decided that "Firebird" was a good name for a relational database back in 1999.
This also requires modifying the Dreamcast to accept an IDE hard drive, which likely brings the total cost to over $200. There are many Pentium-class laptops on ebay for less than that.
Is it really that hard to use a program like this?
If the average user is too ignorant to know what their program is doing (or could do) to their system, they should leave it alone. This same argument is used for ignorant users running open relay servers.
If KaZaA users don't understand how to know what they are sharing, they deserve the consequences.
True. I didn't think about that. But I also think the average Google user doesn't know what cached webpages are anyway.
In fact, on Sept 11 a co-worker took a screenshot of an MSN Search of "www.cnn.com" which returned no hits. And immediately underneath is asked if you wanted to visit similar sites, such as http://www.cnn.com.
The internet is not owned by a single country and is not governed by a central authority. Laws that apply in one state or country may not necessarily reflect the laws or customs in another.
Things like sales tax, censorship, and criminal law take whole new meanings online and cannot be held to the old standard. Napster's distribution model disagreed with the old thinking, but proved that not everything can be applyed to those laws.
It's important to realize this before the internet ceases to be relatively free.
The passwords are stored in the customer database in clear-text. The idea is that level 2 technical support can test accounts or provide the password to the customers upon answering a 'secret' question they provided when creating the user account.
No offense, but this doesn't seem like a breach of security for technicians at a technical support office to have logon and e-mail passwords. Especially when the billing office already has your credit card information.
Am I wrong in thinking that most other ISPs do this as well?
Absolutely. Even within my office we are required to change our network passwords every 4 weeks. We are not allowed to use any of the past five passwords either.
Of course, every single person in the office cycles the same 5 passwords so they can get back to their favorite password.
While working in technical support, I noticed that a disturbingly high amount of our users used theie own username as their password. Either that or the highly secure "password".
Sadly, most customers would just be frustrated if we actually disallowed such stupid passwords.
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Californians pay for the power they use just like you. They also probably pay more per kW/h.
The problem is that during certain high-demand summer days, California's grid infrastructure cannot provide enough electricity to meet the demand. People are upset because California has not been more aggressive about improving the power grid or building new power plants.
You didn't look very hard then. Super DragAndGo has been an 'official' plugin from Mozilla.org for at least a year.
p ?application=firefox&numpg=500&id=137
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
I used MyIE2/Maxthon for a couple years before Firefox finally won me over. Every feature I used in MyIE is available in Firefox. MyIE is still insecure IE at it's core.
It's good for Microsoft because they now know exactly who and where the shady dealer is and can go after him.
This policy wasn't intended to fight P2P piracy (not directly anyway).
This is not good advice for peanut allergy sufferers. Peanut allergies are the most severe food allergy to humans, even worse than shellfish or eggs. Peanut allergies kill 50 to 100 Americans each year. Even ingesting half a peanut will put most sufferers into anaphylactic shock.
The most advanced vaccine research requires monthly injections and has been shown to increase this tolerance to 9 peanuts before anaphylactic shock occurs. It does not appear likely that sufferers will ever be able to purposefully eat peanuts, though it may prevent an emergency room visit or death.
Have you ever seen "May contain traces of peanuts" or seen a sign at Dairy Queen warning that peanuts are used? Airlines are required to accomodate peanut allergy sufferers with peanut-free flights. United Airlines no longer offers peanuts on any flights because of this.
Peanut allergies affect 1.3% of the general population. Siblings of sufferers are 7% likely to also be allergic. Mothers are advised to avoid peanuts during pregnancy and breastfeeding, as well as to avoid giving peanuts to children until they are three years old.
I have been allergic my entire life and have had some scary moments. I've been rushed to the emergency room, and have needed to inject myself with epinephrine. Please understand that your advice does not apply to everyone.
What if the 'positive results for you' are negative results for someone else? If I rob a bank I may get positive results, but it doesn't make it good or right.
My brother used to regularly beat his friends in SNES SFII using his feet only while his opponents played with hands. He beat one friend with two perfects. :)
And here is irrefutable proof why the South won't rise again...
That would be cool. Rip the disk to your hard drive, wait until the upper layer is gone, then burn it to the permanent layer. :)
They involve complex calculations, calculations sufficiently complex that only a very small number of computer programs are capable of doing them, programs maintained by hundreds of developers that depend on data that costs companies like Expedia and Orbitz literally millions of dollars per year.
You honestly believe this? How complex could this possibly be?
The prices between sites are wildly different because there is no benefit for the airlines to compete for price in most situations. Because it is not easy to find the lowest price, people are much more likely to settle for a lower price.
The airlines could easily show you the cheapest prices. The more confusing and complicated this process is, the more likely a customer will pay more money.
"The database firebirds fear that the Mozilla/Phoenix project gets much more attention and thus the default meaning of "Firebird" will become "the browser", requiring that the database references be explained, which ruins the name for them."
Do you really think that 99% of computer users have a clue what Mozilla is, or have any idea what a relational database is?
The name "Firebird" has widespread recognition as a Pontiac automobile and Joe User will never hear the word and think of a computer program.
The real loser here is whoever decided that "Firebird" was a good name for a relational database back in 1999.
How uncreative can you get?
My brother's wife can kick all our asses at any Tony Hawk Pro Skater game.
My brother couldn't be more proud.
The expensive part of this is the Dreamcast Broadband Adapter. While a complete Dreamcast system costs under $40 on ebay, the broadband adapter sells for up to $200.
This also requires modifying the Dreamcast to accept an IDE hard drive, which likely brings the total cost to over $200. There are many Pentium-class laptops on ebay for less than that.
If the average user is too ignorant to know what their program is doing (or could do) to their system, they should leave it alone. This same argument is used for ignorant users running open relay servers.
If KaZaA users don't understand how to know what they are sharing, they deserve the consequences.
Try this:
1. Click the link http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circu its/21DRIV.html from the main page.
2. This brings you to the redirect URL: http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.n ytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circuits/21DRIV.h tml
3. Replace the first "www" with the word "college" (or the word "archive").
So it now looks like:
http://college.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://w ww.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/technology/circuits/21DR IV.html
Then go to that page. Voila, no registration required.
Try this:
1. Click the link from the main page.
2. This brings you to the redirect URL:w .n ytimes.com/2002/03/07/arts/music/07POPL.html
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://ww
3. Replace the first "www" with the word "college" (or the word "archive").
So it now looks like:
http://college.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://w ww.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/arts/music/07POPL.html
Then go to that page. Voila, no registration required.
Actually, if you set up Hotmail with Outlook Express it automagically puts a banner ad at the bottom of the Outlook Express window.
Seriously, try it.
But its easy!
1. Teach the monkeys how to play the game using their arms.
2. Cut off their arms.
Now when you set up your new RealTiVo and you forget to uncheck ALL the boxes, its going to make it your default toaster and blender too.
In fact, on Sept 11 a co-worker took a screenshot of an MSN Search of "www.cnn.com" which returned no hits.
And immediately underneath is asked if you wanted to visit similar sites, such as http://www.cnn.com.
Doesn't it seem more logical at just type in http://www.cnn.com ?
Oh yeah. People are stupid.
1. Click the original link from the headline:
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.n ytimes.com/2001/12/28/technology/28CYBERLAW.html
2. From that URL, replace the first "www" with either the word "archive" or the word "college".
That should let you view it without logging in.
Things like sales tax, censorship, and criminal law take whole new meanings online and cannot be held to the old standard. Napster's distribution model disagreed with the old thinking, but proved that not everything can be applyed to those laws.
It's important to realize this before the internet ceases to be relatively free.
No offense, but this doesn't seem like a breach of security for technicians at a technical support office to have logon and e-mail passwords. Especially when the billing office already has your credit card information.
Am I wrong in thinking that most other ISPs do this as well?
Of course, every single person in the office cycles the same 5 passwords so they can get back to their favorite password.
While working in technical support, I noticed that a disturbingly high amount of our users used theie own username as their password. Either that or the highly secure "password".
Sadly, most customers would just be frustrated if we actually disallowed such stupid passwords.