If your expansion needs are limited (read: nil), you can get the Hawking HNAS1 for $50 at newegg. It's a small 1-drive box that you plug in via Ethernet. Runs Samba and FTP. Draws about 15 watts. It's not silent (it has a fan that runs 24/7), but it's not loud. Complete setup takes about a half-hour, from adding your own drive to setting up passwords. No client-side software is required, unlike some other solutions which use Zetera's pathetic software (free to good home: Netgear SC101 Storage Central. Slight damage due to flinging from rooftop. Have hours of fun wondering why zeteraservice.exe is locking up your machine).
The point is that the webmaster would be informed of his error right away, rather than trying to figure out the problem after his users' credentials were stolen.
Although frankly, I'm not sure a JavaScript attack of the type in the GP (GGP? I lost count) is possible. Browsers have some pretty strict limits on cross-site scripting. But better safe than sorry.
Yes, but then your site won't get any updates to urchin.js (though maybe this is good after all?). I think Google should add something like this to their non-SSL urchin.js:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.location.href.substring(0, 5) == 'https') { alert("Please ask the webmaster to change urchin.js to load via HTTPS!"); }
</script>
Though I haven't actually tried this, I think it should work.
Huh? Saying a lawsuit would bankrupt the defendant does not mean that the lawsuit has merit. SCO vs. AutoZone had no merit, even though the suit might have bankrupted AutoZone. The same goes for many of the suits filed against people who don't own computers by Sony, BMG, and the other **AA member companies.
It can fly twice as fast and twice as high - 25,000ft compared to 50,000ft - as the Predator.
I think you'd need a big shoulder to launch a missile that can hit a drone 10 miles in the air. To be fair, though, you're probably thinking about the drone flying at a lower height, which might be necessary for surveillance or targeting (though maybe not - how good are the cameras on these things, anyway?) The increased speed of the MQ-9 should help against SAMs, though. The picture in TFA was of a Predator, not an MQ-9. See http://www.ga-asi.com/products/fleet-comparison.ph p for some other pictures of drones like this (but again, not of an MQ-9).
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As for ending the war in Iraq, that was also extremely unlikely for pretty much the same reason -- the president said he would veto any bill that stated a timetable for troop withdrawal meaning the only way to get such a bill passed would be to override his veto requiring the same 2/3rds majority vote in congress.
IMHO, the Democrats won the majority because they were seen as more likely to end the Iraq war. Since they've failed to make progress on that, they are seen as ineffective. The Democrats should have grown a pair and sent the same damn bill, troop withdrawal deadline and all, back to the president to sign. They should have made it clear that, unless he paid out of his own pocket to keep the troops in Iraq, that the troop withdrawal was going to happen. Their failure to do this means that they lost a lot of credibility. The Democrats didn't need any Republicans to defect. They just needed a will.
>It's absurd that anyone that knows your name, date of birth, and SSN can pretend to be you and open up accounts in your name.
Not if you have a credit freeze, they can't. Seriously, if you don't need to get credit very often, you should seriously think about putting a credit freeze on your credit record.
At the risk of being pedantic, people in spaceships orbiting earth are not weightless; the Earth's gravity has an effect on them (namely, keeping them in orbit). Their sensation of weight will be zero, because they are essentially in free fall, but they still have weight.
To be fair, though, you didn't specify that the person was in orbit. Maybe you were thinking of in interstellar space, where a person would be weightless.
The Wikipedia article on hypermiling has more useful tips. I have a 2005 Prius and use some techniques (pulse-and-glide), but manage only about 45 (US) miles per (US) gallon. Keeping the tire pressure up helps a lot (darn oil-change people bump me down to 32 psi, though).
Somewhat OT, it's Bike to Work Week in California. I'm trying to keep the Prius in the driveway this week.
You need to read beyond the summary. The blogger in question did little more than upload the content to YouTube, write a diatribe about it on the blog, and send the link to a million media outlets. The media outlets made it into a story, with help from Rev Al (the political activist and talk-show host; no conflict of interest there, no sir!). Then the advertisers started to pull the plug, Les Moonves got tired of hearing the gripes from his own employees, and it was game over for Imus. The blogger got the ball rolling but was not very involved after that.
The 712 area code used by these services allow the local carriers to charge a number of subsidies to those carrying the incoming calls due to the location of the tiny, rural exchange. These fees are split between the local exchange and the "free" conference call company, which allows them to make a pretty penny. The fees for these calls made into 712 are higher than those charged by other exchanges, and AT&T/Cingular has in fact filed a lawsuit against these Iowa-based telcos for what Cingular claims are violation of a number of laws and FCC decisions.
In the meantime, Cingular is not waiting on the outcome of the lawsuit to protect itself.
It sounds to me like the free conferencing services are using a loophole to force Cingular to pay extra to the local exchanges, then the conferencing services are taking a kickback from those exchanges.
Well, I wouldn't say he's a big deal - he sounds more like a paid shill.
As I wrote before, this study uses very flawed assumptions, if not outright lies, to get to its conclusion. Specifically, "As for Hummers, Spinella explains, the life of these cars averaged across various models is over 300,000 miles. By contrast, Prius' life - according to Toyota's own numbers - is 100,000 miles." is utter nonsense. Cars that have 80,000 mile warranties are not designed to last 100,000 miles.
This is SOP at "my" clients who are financial services companies. They can't allow any message into their system unless it's logged. You can't have a customer complaining, "I told you to sell SCOX when it was at $5 and you didn't - give me my money". They prevent this by disallowing instant messaging, webmail (or any mail that doesn't go through their servers), etc. I think they also prevent usage of cell phones, pagers, etc. unless they are company-issued and company-monitored, but I don't talk to them much with these devices.
In Texas, the redistricting was done in 2001, just after the 2000 census. Then the Republicans in Texas redistricted again in 2004. The 2004 redistricting was done solely for partisan political purposes. It was a blatant power grab by Tom DeLay to ensure that popular Democrats were removed from office. So I have a problem with redistricting twice between censuses, when the second redistricting is done solely for partisan political purposes.
I agree that the special interest groups are working with state and local governments to re-district for their own interests. I think that we disagree on what defines a special interest group, though. It's not the minorities or minority groups that scare me -- it's the majorities, such as the Republicans in Texas who redistricted well after the census. Make no mistake, Democrats gerrymander when they have control of the government, but they redistrict at the appropriate time -- after the census results are published, not between censuses.
The open-source n Series desktops feature select popular models from the Dimension(TM) desktop, OptiPlex(TM) desktop and Dell Precision(TM) workstation lines available with a copy of the FreeDOS(TM) open-source operating system included in the box, ready to install. It is not a Microsoft operating system and is not qualified for Windows licensing use under any existing Microsoft Volume Licensing Program (OPEN, Enterprise, etc.) Customers interested in a Microsoft® Windows® solution should purchase a Dell desktop pre-loaded with Windows XP Professional.
This is blatantly false. Well, FreeDOS is not Windows, that is true, but the volume licensing this is pure BS. If you have a Windows license under a Microsoft volume licensing program, you can install Windows onto any box you choose, even a Macintosh. There's no requirement that you have to buy a computer with Windows already installed on it first. Even the lowest level of MS volume licensing the Open license, allows you "the rights to create a standard image and deploy it on multiple machines, and rights to transfer licenses from one machine to another."
Yet another sensationalist headline. Nobody's trying to kill the wifi connection you have in your home, or the one you get at the coffee shop. Dvorak thinks that he's on to something that telcos are trying to prevent municipal governments (or Google, since TFA does mention San Francisco) from setting up free WiFi. This has been covered before.
Yes, you're missing something in your logic: the corporate income tax is paid based on the corporation's profit, not on its sales. So corporations do not raise prices in order to pay taxes and make a profit. Without a profit, there's no tax to be paid (in fact, losses in prior years are deductible in later years when/if the company does turn a profit -- well, with some restrictions). Of course, accounting profits and tax profits are different, but that's another story. Also, as other posters pointed out, the market usually sets a price that a company can charge for its product or service.
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Don't read the news much, do you?
This New York Times writer came to the opposite conclusion about Google Apps (free reg, yada yada).
If your expansion needs are limited (read: nil), you can get the Hawking HNAS1 for $50 at newegg. It's a small 1-drive box that you plug in via Ethernet. Runs Samba and FTP. Draws about 15 watts. It's not silent (it has a fan that runs 24/7), but it's not loud. Complete setup takes about a half-hour, from adding your own drive to setting up passwords. No client-side software is required, unlike some other solutions which use Zetera's pathetic software (free to good home: Netgear SC101 Storage Central. Slight damage due to flinging from rooftop. Have hours of fun wondering why zeteraservice.exe is locking up your machine).
Although frankly, I'm not sure a JavaScript attack of the type in the GP (GGP? I lost count) is possible. Browsers have some pretty strict limits on cross-site scripting. But better safe than sorry.
(Page and Brin went to Stanford, not MIT.)
Huh? Saying a lawsuit would bankrupt the defendant does not mean that the lawsuit has merit. SCO vs. AutoZone had no merit, even though the suit might have bankrupted AutoZone. The same goes for many of the suits filed against people who don't own computers by Sony, BMG, and the other **AA member companies.
IMHO, the Democrats won the majority because they were seen as more likely to end the Iraq war. Since they've failed to make progress on that, they are seen as ineffective. The Democrats should have grown a pair and sent the same damn bill, troop withdrawal deadline and all, back to the president to sign. They should have made it clear that, unless he paid out of his own pocket to keep the troops in Iraq, that the troop withdrawal was going to happen. Their failure to do this means that they lost a lot of credibility. The Democrats didn't need any Republicans to defect. They just needed a will.
Not if you have a credit freeze, they can't. Seriously, if you don't need to get credit very often, you should seriously think about putting a credit freeze on your credit record.
To be fair, though, you didn't specify that the person was in orbit. Maybe you were thinking of in interstellar space, where a person would be weightless.
Somewhat OT, it's Bike to Work Week in California. I'm trying to keep the Prius in the driveway this week.
You need to read beyond the summary. The blogger in question did little more than upload the content to YouTube, write a diatribe about it on the blog, and send the link to a million media outlets. The media outlets made it into a story, with help from Rev Al (the political activist and talk-show host; no conflict of interest there, no sir!). Then the advertisers started to pull the plug, Les Moonves got tired of hearing the gripes from his own employees, and it was game over for Imus. The blogger got the ball rolling but was not very involved after that.
Did you know that one installation of Apache can serve multiple web sites? IIS can do the same. Using 100 guest OSes running on a server to support 100 web sites is insane.
As I wrote before, this study uses very flawed assumptions, if not outright lies, to get to its conclusion. Specifically, "As for Hummers, Spinella explains, the life of these cars averaged across various models is over 300,000 miles. By contrast, Prius' life - according to Toyota's own numbers - is 100,000 miles." is utter nonsense. Cars that have 80,000 mile warranties are not designed to last 100,000 miles.
This is SOP at "my" clients who are financial services companies. They can't allow any message into their system unless it's logged. You can't have a customer complaining, "I told you to sell SCOX when it was at $5 and you didn't - give me my money". They prevent this by disallowing instant messaging, webmail (or any mail that doesn't go through their servers), etc. I think they also prevent usage of cell phones, pagers, etc. unless they are company-issued and company-monitored, but I don't talk to them much with these devices.
In Texas, the redistricting was done in 2001, just after the 2000 census. Then the Republicans in Texas redistricted again in 2004. The 2004 redistricting was done solely for partisan political purposes. It was a blatant power grab by Tom DeLay to ensure that popular Democrats were removed from office. So I have a problem with redistricting twice between censuses, when the second redistricting is done solely for partisan political purposes.
I agree that the special interest groups are working with state and local governments to re-district for their own interests. I think that we disagree on what defines a special interest group, though. It's not the minorities or minority groups that scare me -- it's the majorities, such as the Republicans in Texas who redistricted well after the census. Make no mistake, Democrats gerrymander when they have control of the government, but they redistrict at the appropriate time -- after the census results are published, not between censuses.
Yet another sensationalist headline. Nobody's trying to kill the wifi connection you have in your home, or the one you get at the coffee shop. Dvorak thinks that he's on to something that telcos are trying to prevent municipal governments (or Google, since TFA does mention San Francisco) from setting up free WiFi. This has been covered before.
Yes, you're missing something in your logic: the corporate income tax is paid based on the corporation's profit, not on its sales. So corporations do not raise prices in order to pay taxes and make a profit. Without a profit, there's no tax to be paid (in fact, losses in prior years are deductible in later years when/if the company does turn a profit -- well, with some restrictions). Of course, accounting profits and tax profits are different, but that's another story. Also, as other posters pointed out, the market usually sets a price that a company can charge for its product or service.
>Report back in 2008 when there is more data.
<mode value="term_of_office_nazi"> Or in 2009, after he actually leaves office. </mode>