I've seen some pretty impressive shameless exaggeration and exploitation of weather events for ratings over the years, mind you. But the Weather Channel has really stepped it up a notch here in a graphics department. Kudos to them!
Fear mongering? How so? Mandatory evacuation orders are not a joke. Even a three foot storm surge is not a joke.
Ten feet of water, 150 plus people in New Bern that did not head the MANDATORY evacuation warning. That is a foot higher than the example they showed in the animation.
Maybe if people see what a storm surge could actually do with animations like this, less people would ignore the evacuation orders. Mayor of New Bern interview - 10.5 foot storm surge.
From the article in the other Slashdot thread on this issue: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/
Update: In a statement to Ars three hours after this article was published, Verizon acknowledged that it shouldn't have continued throttling the fire department's data service after the department asked Verizon to lift the throttling restrictions.
"Regardless of the plan emergency responders choose, we have a practice to remove data speed restrictions when contacted in emergency situations," Verizon's statement said. "We have done that many times, including for emergency personnel responding to these tragic fires. In this situation, we should have lifted the speed restriction when our customer reached out to us. This was a customer support mistake. We are reviewing the situation and will fix any issues going forward."
Verizon also noted that the fire department purchased a data service plan that is slowed down after a data usage threshold is reached. But Verizon said it "made a mistake" in communicating with the department about the terms of the plan.
"We made a mistake in how we communicated with our customer about the terms of its plan," Verizon said. "Like all customers, fire departments choose service plans that are best for them. This customer purchased a government contract plan for a high-speed wireless data allotment at a set monthly cost. Under this plan, users get an unlimited amount of data but speeds are reduced when they exceed their allotment until the next billing cycle."
Verizon also said that the Santa Clara "situation has nothing to do with net neutrality or the current proceeding in court."
As for the myth that the fire department had a consumer plan:
Verizon specifically says: *"This customer purchased a government contract plan for a high-speed wireless data allotment at a set monthly cost."*
The argument the ISPs made was that they need to be able throttle traffic based on who it was to and what it was for so that they could make sure the most important traffic got priority and would always trump the lower class data. Their promise to emergency services (based on the article on this issue AND supported by statements and previous actions from Verizon) was that your emergency data usage would NEVER be impeded. It seems that Verizon does not have the infrastructure in place to implement their data tiering that they are implementing (again emergency services will never be impeded), which means you are a schmuck to pay a premium for the faster service and service guarantees.
Second, every one needs to stop comparing the plan process the Fire department was paying for that one SIM card to their own data plans. Their monthly bill is probably in the thousands, if not tens of thousands and as such they have access to a whole bunch of tiers and plans that consumers do not have. Verizon came out and said they (Verizon) had misrepresented the terms of the data agreements to the department AND they had failed to make sure that the emergency services tier of data was not impeded.
Ahh... nailed for being a troll for "bashing" Linux. Big suprise.
I agree that the end users, be they home users or large corperations, need to take reposibility for what comes off their networks. At the same time ISPs are teh one handing out the bandwidth. Every one needs to do their part to reduced the dangers of the internet.
What is with all these conspiracy theories? Symantec and McAfee are not writing these things. If they did then their products would be perfect.
I have to deal with this crap every day for work. I work on a collage campus and the network is infested with viruses, zombies, IRC wars, DDoSs, etc. You name it and we have it. This is a serious threat and....
LINUX IS NOT THE ANSWER! It is not a viable option for 90% of the desktops out there. (OMHO)
There will always be multiple OSes on the market, if Linux was the only one then it would stagnate from lack of competition, just like Windows has. We need to get serious about the problem. ISPs need to mandate a AV product and a hard ware firewall to get a connection, even for dialups. Large institutions like universities and corporations need to be held accountable for the targets they are providing. And yes M$ needs to secure their code.
This is a serious issue, the Internet is a dangerous place and as long as we let people on the Internet with out protection they will be targeted and compromised. The mean time of Windows infection on a unprotected unpatched system is 30 minutes or less. Linux viruses are not impossible, all it will take is a script kiddie or two with an axe to grind and you guys are as boned as the rest of us.
With no atmosphere, there is no shockwave. Sure, the debris from the explosion would eventually hit you, but no one would seriously try to call actual matter hitting you "sound."
I repeat: Explosions in space have no shockwaves. A nuke detonated 10 feet over the surface of the moon would amount to little more than a small dust cloud a few feet in diameter (if anything) when the remaining atoms slammed into the surface. It would be nothing compared to a similar detonation on Earth.
Uhhh... Fantastic science there dude. So let me get this straight... a 10 to 100 MEGA ton weapon explodes 10 ft away from the moon and a small dust cloud a few feet in diameter is all that happens. AN EXPLOSION IS THE RAPID EXPANSION OF GASES!!!! For the love of god think before you open your mouth again. 1 Mega ton = 1 million tons of TNT (http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/MuhammadKalee m.shtml). That is not 1 mega ton = 1 million tons of force(units are wrong any way), but the force of 1 million tons of TNT exploding... A nuke does not need air around it to cause damage. It does not need air to create a shock wave; it provides it own super heated gases from the explosion. [W]hen the remaining atoms slammed into the surface... a nuke does not totally turn to energy. The bomb casing and a large portion of the radioactive material still remain to be flung about at incredible speeds. Come on paint chips in space are a real hazard to the space shuttle and they are only moving at a ~22K miles an hour (a href=http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Hazard/Hyper/debris. htm>http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Hazard/Hyper/debris.h tm.
How do you account for phenomena such as solar wind (http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/sun_wi nd.htm)? Basically the sun (a huge nuclear reaction) is spraying atoms into space as it "burns". Even the moon has a thin atmosphere (http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl9826.html).
It is science fiction, not science fact. Hell all the cop dramas out there totally ignore the laws of this country. Does everything need to line up with realty to make a good show. HELL NO! Look at all the crap "reality" TV shows. Let watch the "realty" sci-fi show. You get to watch shuttle telemetry reading for 3.5 hours! YAY! You guys must be really bored with your lives if you sit around debate the science of TV and movies. LIGHTEN UP AN LIV A LITTLE.
The package mentioned in the article includes software. You are not just paying $1200 for a box, you get the GPS software and the OS installed and configured. Also have any of you considered the whole issue with system power? If you notice there are not any AC outlet in your car. If you are considering a invert then you now have two heat sources to cool, plus you have to worry about draining your battery. These specialized systems come with DC to DC (because the computer PS just turns AC to DC anyway) power supplies that can sense when you power off your car. They also will shut the system down if they sense a low battery. If you want more power check out these PIII and PIV systems:
I know it looks crazy, but it works. It is easy to do and the results are great. It is also great in that there is no equipment needed. Many of the exercises can be done in the comfort of your cube/office/closet. The PDF, that you have to pay $50 for (small price for health), contain info on diet, martial arts, and feats of strength that you can do to pick on chicks. I have no work ethic so I have not been good about doing the exercises, but I still got some impressive results.
WTF? Nice to see that the Novell was once again left out of the testing. Why don't you Linux Zealots try and broaden your horizons. After all the recent Novell is "Linux's best friend" posts the last couple weeks and still they get no respect. Novell would rape your Linux in such testing. Also Novell is now giving away 5 user Small Business Licenses. You have to jump through some hoops to be able to get your hands on it, but it is pretty painless. Novell is by far the best NOS out there, it is mature, stable (600+ day uptimes any one), and has great applications. Also most if not all on Novell'a apps run on UNIX, Netware, Linux and Windows.
For the love of god Linux is not the end all be all of NOS, if you hate M$ that much (I do) look at all the alternatives. Free does not make it better.
Has any one stopped to think how one would enforce this tax? The only plausible way is to have ALL email go through government owned servers. Just think every email is not only taxed, but also scanned by the FBI, NSA and CIA before it goes to the correct address. How do we stop the flow of un-taxed email then, do we block port 25 on every network and force every company and every user to change to a taxable email form. What about pop up adds and chat and IRC and AIM and any other type of communications device? Are we going to tax every one of those? What I want to know is why this spam thing is such a problem. I have three email accounts - two free and one corporate, I get less the 20 spam messages a month. Why, because I do not give my email address away to every web page out there and I do not sign up for free p0rn passwords. Come on people this is a technological and social issue, not a government tax issue. People need to change the way they distribute their email address. I bet half the people who get spam have downloaded Webshots, Kazza, the American Flag desktop animation, or send tons of e-cards. STOP GIVING OUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO SITES! If a site asks for your email address - read their privacy statement and then if you do not realy have to put in a real address, make one up. Do not be a dumb ass and give your friend's or enemy's addresses out. Give them spam@is/forsucks.local. This email address is going nowhere.
Here is the solution to spam. Require every email sever to have a digital signature. Then sent up your email server to receive email from server with a valid and current signature. Also then set up the email servers to only send messages from authenticated local users. This will stop spamers from faking addresses. Then we need to crack down on free email accounts. Come on what incentive is there for Hotmail and Yahoo to crack down on users if no one is paying? Either make them pay for the service or put limits on the numbers of out going emails per hour, per day and per month. Disable mailing distribution lists on these sites.
A final thought about taxation. Say by some disastrous turn of events there is a tax on emails... Where is the tax money going to go? Certainly not to maintaining the Internet. It will go to highways and military defense if we are lucky. Most likely it will go to tax cuts for the rich.
We need to come up with a solution that is technological in nature, keep the government away from my emails.
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Every time I bu ATi I am disappointed. The drivers alway suck. I have an old All-in-Wonder Raedon which is sitting in a box because it will not run under Windows 98 2nd ed or 2000 or Xp. Their tech support refused to aknowledge that the card was faulty, instead every response I got from their tech support was - Read the FAQ. You know what the FAQs all said - turn off every feature on your mother board, throttle the card to minumum MHz and set AGP to 1 X. So I do all that and my system runs like a dog and the card still crashes the system every couple hours. Not again, I do not care about the bells and whisles, if I spend $250 on a video card then I expect it to run out of the box and to get phone tech support that will actually help me. Screw ATI, NVIDA al the way baby.
$670 million in construction costs
no maintanence charges
life of loan is 20 years
life of plant is 20 years
construction is instentanious (no time paying interest with out plant online)
monthly interest payments at 10% (0.0083% per month
No down time and all power used as produced
For 200MW average power output
Total cost incluing interest $1,770,546,502.78
Total output over 20 years 35040000000kW
Cost per kW $0.05
For 100MW average power output
Total cost incluing interest $1,770,546,502.78
Total output over 20 years 17520000000kW
Cost per kW $0.10
This could turn out to be more expensive to produce the energy than traditional sources, but the pollution credits could change thet. Also some one pointed out that this would take two and a half years to get it pollution credits in the black because of what is released during construction. Well I would like to say that building any other type of power plant will produce its own share of construction related pollution.
What I do not understand is this. By green house do they mean glass building filled with plants, or do they mean glass building filled with empty space over dirt. Plants would absorb energy (as they will be turning the sunlight into food) and less energy would be put into the air that needs to be heated. Also wouldn't it be better to build in condensors along the inside of the chimney as "dry" air weighs less (so it moves faster), has a lower latent heat energy (has a greater change in temperature with the same amount of heat), and condensing water gives off heat (the activation energy needed to vaporize water in the first place).
Ever watch a Novell server boot up (well our server here in the office has been up for 516 days so I have not seen ours reboot in a LONG while). The last Novell 5.1 server I setup started it boot-up procedure by loading Caldera DOS.
Also the company I work for still active sells and supports TWO DOS applications. Both are property management programs. Both have large install bases countrywide. Our main product has finally developed a stable window's version and we are slow converting people, but most of our users are still on the DOS version.
DOS is not dead, it is just being phased out of the M$ OSes. This is something that they should have done long ago, but from the comments I have been seeing and hearing they did not remove the limitations that DOS placed on the windows products. Seems that while they may have removed the DOS code, they have not gotten rid of the bloat that it created. Once again M$ gives us a half-assed version of what Windows could be.
As a VAR we will be telling every one of our clients to avoid Windows XP like the plague, if just for the DOS issue. This is hard to do as for some reason small businesses buy computers with Windows ME and Windows XP Home Ed. We still push Windows 98 and have just now started supporting Windows 2000 and now there is a new Windows OS. I am so happy, now I will get to go to sites with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP Home (and pro may be) and a couple Windows 2000s thrown in. All in time for M$ to come in and audit the place for valid licenses. Ridiculous.
Look at Israel, a common example of what goes wrong when a democratic nation goes over board with security measures. To get into the mall parking you needed to tell the parking attendant why you are there and have your trunk searched. Then to enter the mall you go through a metal detector and have guards with machine guns run the metal detector wands over you if you look suspicious.
As for the GW comment, I admit is was a blatant attack on wonder boy. This has been going on a long time. We have participated in the overthrow (usually bloody and violent) of democratically elect communist leaders and governments. We have used state-sanctioned assassination. We have burned men, women and children in the houses (Vietnam, Korea, Germany, Japan, etc. We have sat by as other countries have done the horrible things listed above. We need to stop taking the world for granted. We need to stop placing our interests over those of other nations and peoples. The participation I want to see is as such. Collaborate with foreign intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Work in the UN committees (like the Human Right on where since we are not a board member we will not participate) even when we are not the dominate country. Do not boycott meeting because we do not get our way, go and try to fix the wrongs we see. Do not color the world in black and white, make sure we admonish our allies when they "misbehave" and make sure to acknowledge when our enemies make steps in the right direction. We also need to scrutinize our own actions, to make sure we are not perceived as hypocrites.
The real question to ask is, "Will putting crypto back doors in help stop future incidents?" No it will not. There will always be crypto packages that do not have back door. Which one will the terrorists use? This is just like the gun issue, if you take away the guns then only the criminals will have guns. America must remain the example, we must remain the land of the FREE.
Wow guys, why the AC post? Any way the US still has not sign the international treaty (UN convention) on women's rights. You are saying that these terrorist are doing this just for kicks and that they hate the ideal of freedom and the US. That is total crap. Timmy McViegh believed he has a patriot. These guys believe they are doing the right thing. They are pissed because we support Isreal and many of the reprisive governments in the region. Governements like the Saudi and Kuwaiti ones that pay mere lip service to democracy. Lets not forget we helped create the Taliban when the US and other governmnets supported and funded the Afgan resistance to the Soviets. The US does participate in world affairs, but only when it suits us, and almost never to make it a better place. We still have not paid our UN dues. Take a look at who we talk to and what we do to other nations before. We have done a lot of good in the past and will do so in the future, but we need to make sure we help everyone and not just those how offer our companies cheap labor and thousands of customers.
And what about your statement.
I don't give a shit about your freedom, I care about the freedom of society, and a significant amount of freedom has been taken away by a foreign power.
What foregn power has taken away has been taken away by what foreign power?
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Also next time use an ID, I will take you more seriously then.
These new rules WILL NOT prevent future disasters. These rules will not only be used to spied on suspected terrorists (read every group that disagrees with our government or those in power.) We need to get out from under this rock that GW has put our country. We need to participate in the world, we need to cooperate with foriegn countries and work together to stop this stuff. We need to stop pretending that the USA is the end all and be all of the world and that we can go it alone. I will not give upmy freedoms because some a-holes decide they are going to blow stuff up.
How far behind are ID cards and strip searches to get in the mall. Screw that, I say we actually enforce the laws we already have and cooperate with other countries. That is the best way, not trampling the rights of everyone.
The most info I think you can get from the emails is to check the header info. The only info you can get from there, at least when I checked the headers on some of my mail, is the mail servers that the thief is using. Also is this dumbass using your account info or did they go through the trouble of reconfiguring Outlook to use their ISP and their email info. If so may be you can pull an email address and combined with the mail server info you could possibly track the guy (or girl) down.
Another trick is to write a VBS script to figure out a computers IP and email the info back to another address. Then send the message to this guy, since it is obvious he/ she is prone to opening unknown attachments they will run it. Then if they are using DSL or cable you have their asses. If they use dial up then you can only get modem pool they are dialed into, but that is better then nothing.
Umm the whole point of cell phones is that they can be any where. How do you know which route the call is going to make through the telcos system. With this system they can also ease drop on all calls without detection. They only need to recieve the signal and viola they can listen to your phone sex conversations on you cell.
The government is run by people who do not understand technology, or the reality of the world around them. They also have no interest in learning about these issues. These people are subverting the laws of the US, making us a despotic democracy. They know that the masses are just as ignorant as they are and can be easily swayed to their rehtoric about only wanting to protect them from the evils of porn and cyber terrorists. As long as the American people are stupid and lazy these assholes will keep getting elected to government. What can we expect of a government elected by less then 50% of the people. Do you even think that these congressmen (and women) can even grasp the concept of e-mail, for good sakes some of these people were around when airplanes were not yet invented. Given the chance the law enforcement community will collect DNA from every one and put it into a database. They will install video cameras that will cover all public areas (already installed in some cities). They will not have to read suspects their rights (they already tried to get this past the Supreme Court and the procecutor told the justices "two billion people already know about Miranda right why should we have to tell them"). They will require encryption chip in all computers, giving every one powerful encryption that the government can easily break. They will track your every move on-line. The bill of rights is not mean to specify what freedoms we have, but to protect us from the government taking those freedoms away. Unless people form our generation (18 - 30) start taking an interest politics and someone who actually can tell the difference between a intranet and the Internet runs for office we will be run by stupid people who will allow law enforcement trample our rights.
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I've seen some pretty impressive shameless exaggeration and exploitation of weather events for ratings over the years, mind you. But the Weather Channel has really stepped it up a notch here in a graphics department. Kudos to them!
Fear mongering? How so? Mandatory evacuation orders are not a joke. Even a three foot storm surge is not a joke.
Ten feet of water, 150 plus people in New Bern that did not head the MANDATORY evacuation warning. That is a foot higher than the example they showed in the animation.
https://weather.com/storms/hur...
http://www.newbernnc.gov/news_...
Maybe if people see what a storm surge could actually do with animations like this, less people would ignore the evacuation orders.
Mayor of New Bern interview - 10.5 foot storm surge.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/583...
"...produced by water being pushed toward the shore by the force of the winds," according to the National Hurricane Center.
So even they're ignorant as to what causes storm surge... or they've got a young, dumb intern who took a guess... and failed.
What part of anything they said is wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Mechanics
At least five processes can be involved in altering tide levels during storms:
The atmospheric pressure effect
The direct wind effect
The effect of the Earth's rotation
The effect of waves near the shore
The rainfall effect.[11]
From the article in the other Slashdot thread on this issue: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/
Update: In a statement to Ars three hours after this article was published, Verizon acknowledged that it shouldn't have continued throttling the fire department's data service after the department asked Verizon to lift the throttling restrictions.
"Regardless of the plan emergency responders choose, we have a practice to remove data speed restrictions when contacted in emergency situations," Verizon's statement said. "We have done that many times, including for emergency personnel responding to these tragic fires. In this situation, we should have lifted the speed restriction when our customer reached out to us. This was a customer support mistake. We are reviewing the situation and will fix any issues going forward."
Verizon also noted that the fire department purchased a data service plan that is slowed down after a data usage threshold is reached. But Verizon said it "made a mistake" in communicating with the department about the terms of the plan.
"We made a mistake in how we communicated with our customer about the terms of its plan," Verizon said. "Like all customers, fire departments choose service plans that are best for them. This customer purchased a government contract plan for a high-speed wireless data allotment at a set monthly cost. Under this plan, users get an unlimited amount of data but speeds are reduced when they exceed their allotment until the next billing cycle."
Verizon also said that the Santa Clara "situation has nothing to do with net neutrality or the current proceeding in court."
As for the myth that the fire department had a consumer plan:
Verizon specifically says: *"This customer purchased a government contract plan for a high-speed wireless data allotment at a set monthly cost."*
The argument the ISPs made was that they need to be able throttle traffic based on who it was to and what it was for so that they could make sure the most important traffic got priority and would always trump the lower class data. Their promise to emergency services (based on the article on this issue AND supported by statements and previous actions from Verizon) was that your emergency data usage would NEVER be impeded. It seems that Verizon does not have the infrastructure in place to implement their data tiering that they are implementing (again emergency services will never be impeded), which means you are a schmuck to pay a premium for the faster service and service guarantees.
Second, every one needs to stop comparing the plan process the Fire department was paying for that one SIM card to their own data plans. Their monthly bill is probably in the thousands, if not tens of thousands and as such they have access to a whole bunch of tiers and plans that consumers do not have. Verizon came out and said they (Verizon) had misrepresented the terms of the data agreements to the department AND they had failed to make sure that the emergency services tier of data was not impeded.
Ahh... nailed for being a troll for "bashing" Linux. Big suprise.
I agree that the end users, be they home users or large corperations, need to take reposibility for what comes off their networks. At the same time ISPs are teh one handing out the bandwidth. Every one needs to do their part to reduced the dangers of the internet.
What is with all these conspiracy theories? Symantec and McAfee are not writing these things. If they did then their products would be perfect.
I have to deal with this crap every day for work. I work on a collage campus and the network is infested with viruses, zombies, IRC wars, DDoSs, etc. You name it and we have it. This is a serious threat and....
LINUX IS NOT THE ANSWER! It is not a viable option for 90% of the desktops out there. (OMHO)
There will always be multiple OSes on the market, if Linux was the only one then it would stagnate from lack of competition, just like Windows has. We need to get serious about the problem. ISPs need to mandate a AV product and a hard ware firewall to get a connection, even for dialups. Large institutions like universities and corporations need to be held accountable for the targets they are providing. And yes M$ needs to secure their code.
This is a serious issue, the Internet is a dangerous place and as long as we let people on the Internet with out protection they will be targeted and compromised. The mean time of Windows infection on a unprotected unpatched system is 30 minutes or less. Linux viruses are not impossible, all it will take is a script kiddie or two with an axe to grind and you guys are as boned as the rest of us.
With no atmosphere, there is no shockwave. Sure, the debris from the explosion would eventually hit you, but no one would seriously try to call actual matter hitting you "sound."
e m.shtml). That is not 1 mega ton = 1 million tons of force(units are wrong any way), but the force of 1 million tons of TNT exploding... A nuke does not need air around it to cause damage. It does not need air to create a shock wave; it provides it own super heated gases from the explosion. [W]hen the remaining atoms slammed into the surface... a nuke does not totally turn to energy. The bomb casing and a large portion of the radioactive material still remain to be flung about at incredible speeds. Come on paint chips in space are a real hazard to the space shuttle and they are only moving at a ~22K miles an hour (a href=http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Hazard/Hyper/debris. htm>http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Hazard/Hyper/debris.h tm.
i nd.htm)? Basically the sun (a huge nuclear reaction) is spraying atoms into space as it "burns". Even the moon has a thin atmosphere (http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl9826.html).
I repeat: Explosions in space have no shockwaves. A nuke detonated 10 feet over the surface of the moon would amount to little more than a small dust cloud a few feet in diameter (if anything) when the remaining atoms slammed into the surface. It would be nothing compared to a similar detonation on Earth.
Uhhh... Fantastic science there dude. So let me get this straight... a 10 to 100 MEGA ton weapon explodes 10 ft away from the moon and a small dust cloud a few feet in diameter is all that happens. AN EXPLOSION IS THE RAPID EXPANSION OF GASES!!!! For the love of god think before you open your mouth again. 1 Mega ton = 1 million tons of TNT (http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/MuhammadKale
How do you account for phenomena such as solar wind (http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/sun_w
It is science fiction, not science fact. Hell all the cop dramas out there totally ignore the laws of this country. Does everything need to line up with realty to make a good show. HELL NO! Look at all the crap "reality" TV shows. Let watch the "realty" sci-fi show. You get to watch shuttle telemetry reading for 3.5 hours! YAY! You guys must be really bored with your lives if you sit around debate the science of TV and movies. LIGHTEN UP AN LIV A LITTLE.
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The package mentioned in the article includes software. You are not just paying $1200 for a box, you get the GPS software and the OS installed and configured. Also have any of you considered the whole issue with system power? If you notice there are not any AC outlet in your car. If you are considering a invert then you now have two heat sources to cool, plus you have to worry about draining your battery. These specialized systems come with DC to DC (because the computer PS just turns AC to DC anyway) power supplies that can sense when you power off your car. They also will shut the system down if they sense a low battery. If you want more power check out these PIII and PIV systems:
http://www.i-zone-3.com/components.htm
http://www.opussolutions.com/
You are still talking $2000 to $3000 for complete system (including the touch screen), but now you have a much more powerful computer.
http://www.charlesatlas.com
I know it looks crazy, but it works. It is easy to do and the results are great. It is also great in that there is no equipment needed. Many of the exercises can be done in the comfort of your cube/office/closet. The PDF, that you have to pay $50 for (small price for health), contain info on diet, martial arts, and feats of strength that you can do to pick on chicks. I have no work ethic so I have not been good about doing the exercises, but I still got some impressive results.
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May be we could have less spyware pop ups!
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In the eyes of the Justice Department what is/are the greatest threat(s) to IP in the US?
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Too bad they did not inculde Novell, then you could fire your phasers.
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WTF? Nice to see that the Novell was once again left out of the testing. Why don't you Linux Zealots try and broaden your horizons. After all the recent Novell is "Linux's best friend" posts the last couple weeks and still they get no respect. Novell would rape your Linux in such testing. Also Novell is now giving away 5 user Small Business Licenses. You have to jump through some hoops to be able to get your hands on it, but it is pretty painless. Novell is by far the best NOS out there, it is mature, stable (600+ day uptimes any one), and has great applications. Also most if not all on Novell'a apps run on UNIX, Netware, Linux and Windows.
For the love of god Linux is not the end all be all of NOS, if you hate M$ that much (I do) look at all the alternatives. Free does not make it better.
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Has any one stopped to think how one would enforce this tax? The only plausible way is to have ALL email go through government owned servers. Just think every email is not only taxed, but also scanned by the FBI, NSA and CIA before it goes to the correct address. How do we stop the flow of un-taxed email then, do we block port 25 on every network and force every company and every user to change to a taxable email form. What about pop up adds and chat and IRC and AIM and any other type of communications device? Are we going to tax every one of those? What I want to know is why this spam thing is such a problem. I have three email accounts - two free and one corporate, I get less the 20 spam messages a month. Why, because I do not give my email address away to every web page out there and I do not sign up for free p0rn passwords. Come on people this is a technological and social issue, not a government tax issue. People need to change the way they distribute their email address. I bet half the people who get spam have downloaded Webshots, Kazza, the American Flag desktop animation, or send tons of e-cards. STOP GIVING OUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO SITES! If a site asks for your email address - read their privacy statement and then if you do not realy have to put in a real address, make one up. Do not be a dumb ass and give your friend's or enemy's addresses out. Give them spam@is/forsucks.local. This email address is going nowhere.
Here is the solution to spam. Require every email sever to have a digital signature. Then sent up your email server to receive email from server with a valid and current signature. Also then set up the email servers to only send messages from authenticated local users. This will stop spamers from faking addresses. Then we need to crack down on free email accounts. Come on what incentive is there for Hotmail and Yahoo to crack down on users if no one is paying? Either make them pay for the service or put limits on the numbers of out going emails per hour, per day and per month. Disable mailing distribution lists on these sites.
A final thought about taxation. Say by some disastrous turn of events there is a tax on emails... Where is the tax money going to go? Certainly not to maintaining the Internet. It will go to highways and military defense if we are lucky. Most likely it will go to tax cuts for the rich.
We need to come up with a solution that is technological in nature, keep the government away from my emails.
Friendly
Every time I bu ATi I am disappointed. The drivers alway suck. I have an old All-in-Wonder Raedon which is sitting in a box because it will not run under Windows 98 2nd ed or 2000 or Xp. Their tech support refused to aknowledge that the card was faulty, instead every response I got from their tech support was - Read the FAQ. You know what the FAQs all said - turn off every feature on your mother board, throttle the card to minumum MHz and set AGP to 1 X. So I do all that and my system runs like a dog and the card still crashes the system every couple hours. Not again, I do not care about the bells and whisles, if I spend $250 on a video card then I expect it to run out of the box and to get phone tech support that will actually help me. Screw ATI, NVIDA al the way baby.
Friendly
Assumptions:
$670 million in construction costs
no maintanence charges
life of loan is 20 years
life of plant is 20 years
construction is instentanious (no time paying interest with out plant online)
monthly interest payments at 10% (0.0083% per month
No down time and all power used as produced
For 200MW average power output
Total cost incluing interest $1,770,546,502.78
Total output over 20 years 35040000000kW
Cost per kW $0.05
For 100MW average power output
Total cost incluing interest $1,770,546,502.78
Total output over 20 years 17520000000kW
Cost per kW $0.10
This could turn out to be more expensive to produce the energy than traditional sources, but the pollution credits could change thet. Also some one pointed out that this would take two and a half years to get it pollution credits in the black because of what is released during construction. Well I would like to say that building any other type of power plant will produce its own share of construction related pollution.
What I do not understand is this. By green house do they mean glass building filled with plants, or do they mean glass building filled with empty space over dirt. Plants would absorb energy (as they will be turning the sunlight into food) and less energy would be put into the air that needs to be heated. Also wouldn't it be better to build in condensors along the inside of the chimney as "dry" air weighs less (so it moves faster), has a lower latent heat energy (has a greater change in temperature with the same amount of heat), and condensing water gives off heat (the activation energy needed to vaporize water in the first place).
Friendly
Ever watch a Novell server boot up (well our server here in the office has been up for 516 days so I have not seen ours reboot in a LONG while). The last Novell 5.1 server I setup started it boot-up procedure by loading Caldera DOS.
Also the company I work for still active sells and supports TWO DOS applications. Both are property management programs. Both have large install bases countrywide. Our main product has finally developed a stable window's version and we are slow converting people, but most of our users are still on the DOS version.
DOS is not dead, it is just being phased out of the M$ OSes. This is something that they should have done long ago, but from the comments I have been seeing and hearing they did not remove the limitations that DOS placed on the windows products. Seems that while they may have removed the DOS code, they have not gotten rid of the bloat that it created. Once again M$ gives us a half-assed version of what Windows could be.
As a VAR we will be telling every one of our clients to avoid Windows XP like the plague, if just for the DOS issue. This is hard to do as for some reason small businesses buy computers with Windows ME and Windows XP Home Ed. We still push Windows 98 and have just now started supporting Windows 2000 and now there is a new Windows OS. I am so happy, now I will get to go to sites with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP Home (and pro may be) and a couple Windows 2000s thrown in. All in time for M$ to come in and audit the place for valid licenses. Ridiculous.
Friendly
Beer pong, the gentleman's drinking game.
Women in Afganistan do not wear turbans. You obivously did not read up on Afganistan Troll.
Friendly
Look at Israel, a common example of what goes wrong when a democratic nation goes over board with security measures. To get into the mall parking you needed to tell the parking attendant why you are there and have your trunk searched. Then to enter the mall you go through a metal detector and have guards with machine guns run the metal detector wands over you if you look suspicious.
As for the GW comment, I admit is was a blatant attack on wonder boy. This has been going on a long time. We have participated in the overthrow (usually bloody and violent) of democratically elect communist leaders and governments. We have used state-sanctioned assassination. We have burned men, women and children in the houses (Vietnam, Korea, Germany, Japan, etc. We have sat by as other countries have done the horrible things listed above. We need to stop taking the world for granted. We need to stop placing our interests over those of other nations and peoples. The participation I want to see is as such. Collaborate with foreign intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Work in the UN committees (like the Human Right on where since we are not a board member we will not participate) even when we are not the dominate country. Do not boycott meeting because we do not get our way, go and try to fix the wrongs we see. Do not color the world in black and white, make sure we admonish our allies when they "misbehave" and make sure to acknowledge when our enemies make steps in the right direction. We also need to scrutinize our own actions, to make sure we are not perceived as hypocrites.
The real question to ask is, "Will putting crypto back doors in help stop future incidents?" No it will not. There will always be crypto packages that do not have back door. Which one will the terrorists use? This is just like the gun issue, if you take away the guns then only the criminals will have guns. America must remain the example, we must remain the land of the FREE.
Friendly
Wow guys, why the AC post? Any way the US still has not sign the international treaty (UN convention) on women's rights. You are saying that these terrorist are doing this just for kicks and that they hate the ideal of freedom and the US. That is total crap. Timmy McViegh believed he has a patriot. These guys believe they are doing the right thing. They are pissed because we support Isreal and many of the reprisive governments in the region. Governements like the Saudi and Kuwaiti ones that pay mere lip service to democracy. Lets not forget we helped create the Taliban when the US and other governmnets supported and funded the Afgan resistance to the Soviets. The US does participate in world affairs, but only when it suits us, and almost never to make it a better place. We still have not paid our UN dues. Take a look at who we talk to and what we do to other nations before. We have done a lot of good in the past and will do so in the future, but we need to make sure we help everyone and not just those how offer our companies cheap labor and thousands of customers. And what about your statement. I don't give a shit about your freedom, I care about the freedom of society, and a significant amount of freedom has been taken away by a foreign power. What foregn power has taken away has been taken away by what foreign power? Friendly Also next time use an ID, I will take you more seriously then.
These new rules WILL NOT prevent future disasters. These rules will not only be used to spied on suspected terrorists (read every group that disagrees with our government or those in power.) We need to get out from under this rock that GW has put our country. We need to participate in the world, we need to cooperate with foriegn countries and work together to stop this stuff. We need to stop pretending that the USA is the end all and be all of the world and that we can go it alone. I will not give upmy freedoms because some a-holes decide they are going to blow stuff up.
How far behind are ID cards and strip searches to get in the mall. Screw that, I say we actually enforce the laws we already have and cooperate with other countries. That is the best way, not trampling the rights of everyone.
Friendly
The most info I think you can get from the emails is to check the header info. The only info you can get from there, at least when I checked the headers on some of my mail, is the mail servers that the thief is using. Also is this dumbass using your account info or did they go through the trouble of reconfiguring Outlook to use their ISP and their email info. If so may be you can pull an email address and combined with the mail server info you could possibly track the guy (or girl) down.
Another trick is to write a VBS script to figure out a computers IP and email the info back to another address. Then send the message to this guy, since it is obvious he/ she is prone to opening unknown attachments they will run it. Then if they are using DSL or cable you have their asses. If they use dial up then you can only get modem pool they are dialed into, but that is better then nothing.
Umm the whole point of cell phones is that they can be any where. How do you know which route the call is going to make through the telcos system. With this system they can also ease drop on all calls without detection. They only need to recieve the signal and viola they can listen to your phone sex conversations on you cell.
To quote Dr. Dre:
"mother fuck the police"