Draft a local ordinance with a big fine for driving an oversized vehicle on a road where they are prohibittied. Prohibit oversized vehicles on said road. Profit There are small towns that exist only to serve as speed traps on highways. They incorporate near a highway and lower the speed limit to 25 mph. The only service the town provides is a police force. The only thing the police force does is write speeding tickets. Their only sounce for income is from these speeding tickets. This income is only spent providing huge salaries to the police force. I can see truck traps being intentionally created. Find a back road that a sat nav sends trucks down. Incorporate there, narrow the road, start fining trucks.
In the town of Sisters Oregon, that backfired. Sisters is on one of the natural choke points between the Eastern Oregon farmland and the Salem Eugene area in the valley. They were fining trucks for almost anything immaginable. Often truckers were taking a 300 mile detour over Mount Hood through Portland to avoid Sisters.
In the 1970's a brand new truck got pulled over with a brand new tank trailer. He was ticketed for failure to display flamable liquids signs. The trucker kept his mouth shut and said he is fighting the ticket. They prohibited him from leaving town until the court date the following week. He called the press. Then it got interesting..
In court he was asked if he had flamable liquids. He said yes. He countered the cop as he also transported flamable liquids and didn't display signage.
The question finaly came up.. how much did he have? Was signage required. Signage is required for cargo, not engine fuel in the fuel tank. Ooops. It was a milk truck. The countersuit included disposal of the sour milk and damage to the brand new stainless steel food grade trailer. It almost bankrupt the town.
It was in the early 1970's so I haven't found an online refrence to this.
I agree. They need to do a sanity check and check their staff for single moms with 2 kids making less than $30K a year and ask them if it is overly burdensome.
The numbers don't support your claim. iTunes is growing every year and according to the CEO of Universal makes up 23% of all music sales in the US.
iTunes DRM is removable. They can be burnt to regular CD Audio and ripped as MP3. The holes in DRM and compatability is why they sell. DRM WMA didn't have the hole and inspite of the Plays for sure format sold to many manufactures, the format did poorly.
Plays for Sure didn't play for sure near as much as iTunes.
As long as we are talking units... I had to troubleshoot a power cable feeding a gym. It provided all the power for lights, AC, waterheaters, etc. It kept blowing the 9 amp fuse. In normal use the load most of the time was under 2 amps.
Did I mention that the underground 7200 volt feeder had lightning damaged insulation?
Read the article.. it's XuuuuuBuuuuuTTTuuuuuuuuu !!
"The University Toolkit is essentially an operating system (xubuntu) that you can boot up from a CD-ROM. The package bundles some powerful, open-source network monitoring tools, including "Snort," which captures detailed information about all traffic flowing across a network; as well as "ntop," a tool used to take data feeds from tools like Snort and display the data in more user-friendly graphics and charts. " http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/11/mpaa_university_toolkit_opens_1.html
I have been claiming for a long time the only way DRM will get widespread use is if enough people VOTED for it with their $$$$. It looks like the votes are in and the counters are noting the huge number of votes against DRM.. It's about time. Keep up the good work and keep voting with your wallet. They can pass DMCA all they want in congress, but if it fails in the marketplace, that is the ace up the sleeve. It has to sell to become a standard that is used.
I used to fix my own. Until it got too hard to get spares, and I imagine that applied somewhat to companies that were doing it. Rubber pinch rollers seemed to be the real killer. When they split, they were no longer available.
For DIY, it can be hard. For dealers and shops, there is many aftermarket parts sources for the LNA rubber parts. It's much like the auto parts industry. If you can't find the genuine Mopar replacement headlamp bulb, you go armed with make and model and hit the cross refrence. You may find the Sylvania 9004 bulb is an exact replacement.
Check with Diversified Parts and Consolidated Electronics. They used to be dealer only, but with the world going online, you may be able to get orders filled. I wouldn't know the current situation as I left the industry over a decade ago.
What horseshit. 99% of P2P traffic (esp bittorrent) is copyrighted material and EVERYONE knows it. trying to pretend this isn't the case by cherry picking words like this is just laughable.
My latest D/L of Ubuntu is copyrighted. It doesn't happen to be illegal. So what's the point. Almost everything is copyrighted. Much of the copyrighted stuff is legal to share, such as public domain, GNU, Creative Commons, and permission granted by copyright owner. I have posted photos online. They are copyrighted. I am the Copyright Owner. Permission is granted to copy.
I hope you enjoy your BitTorrent-less network, while it lasts!
It will last quite a while. I have underground utilities. I am out of reach of the DSLAM and my lines not up to par for DSL. My choices as are much of the country, A - None, B - Dial-up, or C - Comcast the monopoly high speed choice.
Warranty work is just to fill in on regular business. When I was in the industry, it was common for the brands to set flat rates for repairs, often way below going rates. To make matters worse, it was common to have about 10-20 percent of the claims rejected. You don't make a living doing warranty repairs. You do warranty repairs to learn the new tech so you are trained and have the manuals, parts, knowledge what sets are in the market and of various failure modes for when it goes off warranty. This gives you a leg up on the competition who is trying to troubleshoot the stuff cold turkey. You have already seen most of the common failures and can turn repairs at a profitable rate.
Just for grins, ask the shop about what I just stated. I am wondering if anything has changed in the warranty repair business. It paid poorly.
The point of this is not to keep hackers from finding malware, it is to keep Google search users from getting infected through poisoned search results.
Duh.
This is exactly what ScrubIT has been doing for a long time now. Instead of search results, it is DNS, which blocks malware sites. It has a function to submit sites to be added to the blacklist.
Many think ScrubIT as a filtered DNS service is just a porn filter to protect the kids. It's much more than that. It kills phishing and malware sites also. The only things it doesn't are sites that provide the IP address instead of using DNS. I've been very happy with it, except lately, it has had a couple outages. I'm on Comcast, so maybe they are blocking an alternate DNS server.
None of us kept track of stock in our heads, and the inventory system at bestbuy isn't very accurate, nor is it quick.
It's bad form to have a customer jump through hoops and pick out a configuration, and then tell them, "oh, We are out of stock"
It just looks suspicious. The sale was just fine until I declined the extras. Think how that looks from the consumer side. It leaves them wondering "Are they really out of stock or are they saving it to sell with the profitable bundle?".
With their current reputations, anything going wrong in a sale is looked at with distrust. It's a fact of customer relations. When the reputation is down, everything going on in the store needs to show no signs of possible manipulation.
Electronic Equipment Service and Repair seemed like such a good idea for a small business back when personal cd players where made of metal with windows made of plexi (sp?) glass. Oh how the times have changed....and relatively quickly too.
Skip consumer products. Go industrial. The servo systems are the same. The automation is the same. The hardware is bigger and networked. This isn't the cheap stuff. It still pays to maintain these.
They still are made of mechanical parts that wear and go out of tolerance. They need mechanical parts changed and repaired. They need tested to see if they are within specifications for placement accuracy. It's good work and these are rarely simply trashed instead of repaired.
Plus you can often times prevent any more data from being lost.
Keep a live Ubuntu CD handy. You might be surprised at the ease of recovering some data to a USB drive can be.
Fighting the Owned machine is often a waste of lots of un-billable flat rate time. Boot it with you owning it, recover data, scan it for junk, reformat, reinstall and ship it.
take a nearly completely incapacitated computer and bring it back to full function in a reasonable amount of time is far harder.
Why waste the time. It often takes more time than can be billed.
10 hours of trying to eradicate a polymorphic virus is a waste of time and money.
Oh. At which retail outlet can I replace the last decades' worth of financials and client data for my company? What's that worth, the cost of a CD-R and some shrink wrap?
Data Recovery services is another specialty. That can command high prices for data that is a lot more valuable than the hardware. Often computer repair is wipe and reinstall. You pay more for data recovery.
"Do go down to Worst-Buy and look over the merchandise and the particular model your looking for. If the price is right, buy it. Whatever you do, don't take any extended warranties, service programs or allow any geek install. And for Gods' sake; don't talk to a geek!":-)
What is funny is while I was shopping for a laptop a while ago, I picked out a model I liked an told them I would like it but I would like extra memory. I asked if it had an empty memory slot, or would the memory need exchanged out for a larger size. They sent me to the Geek Squad to get the answer to the memory question. They tried to bundle the extras and I said no thanks to all of it. Then they informed me they were sold out. Somehow the timing of their discovery that the item was sold out deeply cut their credibility. If it was truly sold out, they should have figured that out before sending me to check into a memory upgrade. I'm wondering if they were sold out simply because I didn't buy any of the bundled stuff.
I don't. It is for the same reason we don't use $100/hour TV repairmen. It's cheaper to replace it than fix it. I used to fix VCR's and Camcorders when they were well over $500 items. Now that many of them can be replaced for about 2 hours of labor or less, I have found other employment. Be careful what you wish for. You might get it and have no work.
Tag this 'commonsense'. Finally a record label who is starting to 'get it'.
What I want to know is how tight is the contract with the devil. In other words, if EMI decided to withdraw completely from the RIAA, do they have the same problem the artists have withdrawing from a label? Do the labels get to keep the music, or is the old stuff still RIAA protected property?
If EMI drops the RIAA completely and it removes their entire catalog from the RIAA contracts, I may find them listed on the SAFE section of the RIAA radar!
There, fixed that for you. There's lots of smaller labels who have "got it" all along, but they're just smaller ones, and you don't hear their music on the radio, or on the TV.
This is a myth which is often driven by the amount of payola in the industry. If the RIAA lables owned the airwaves, there would be no need for payola. Payola is to get a larger percentage of RIAA label stuff played to displace other music.
Want proof. If you listen to the radio much lately, I'm sure you have heard most of the popular Christmas tunes. Just this morning I heard Carrol of the Bells by Mannheim Steamroller. They are on American Gramaphone records. According to riaaradar.com, the label is not an RIAA member.
It is true that there is a lot of RIAA label promotion in the media. I is not true that they are the only thing on the radio.
Thanks for the great link. If you do failure analysis you would quickly spot from the photos that the phone didn't explode. In an explosion material is ejected at high speed. In other words, large parts of the phone should be missing, ejected with great force. The shirt has a burn. The phone shows some swelling and is a melted lump. There was no high energy explosion associated with this phone that could have cracked ribs.
Either the man fell and damaged the battery and started a thermal runaway condition, or the phone went into thermal runaway and the man in panic collided into something either causing a fall or as the result of a fall.
Remember for every action, there is an equal reaction in the opposite direction. For an object to explode in a shrt pocket with enough force to crack ribs, the force outward would have been equal as in a mass of the phone would have to have been ejected forward. From the photo, the phone is burnt, but intact.
I read the article. I am not too much into games. I was going "Who is this guy and what did he do to get into this mess?" The parent mentioned the event. I remembered the event, not the name attached to it. Thanks for the information the article is lacking and the link. It saved me from having to do a Google search.
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Draft a local ordinance with a big fine for driving an oversized vehicle on a road where they are prohibittied.
Prohibit oversized vehicles on said road.
Profit
There are small towns that exist only to serve as speed traps on highways. They incorporate near a highway and lower the speed limit to 25 mph. The only service the town provides is a police force. The only thing the police force does is write speeding tickets. Their only sounce for income is from these speeding tickets. This income is only spent providing huge salaries to the police force.
I can see truck traps being intentionally created. Find a back road that a sat nav sends trucks down. Incorporate there, narrow the road, start fining trucks.
In the town of Sisters Oregon, that backfired. Sisters is on one of the natural choke points between the Eastern Oregon farmland and the Salem Eugene area in the valley. They were fining trucks for almost anything immaginable. Often truckers were taking a 300 mile detour over Mount Hood through Portland to avoid Sisters.
In the 1970's a brand new truck got pulled over with a brand new tank trailer. He was ticketed for failure to display flamable liquids signs. The trucker kept his mouth shut and said he is fighting the ticket. They prohibited him from leaving town until the court date the following week. He called the press. Then it got interesting..
In court he was asked if he had flamable liquids. He said yes. He countered the cop as he also transported flamable liquids and didn't display signage.
The question finaly came up.. how much did he have? Was signage required. Signage is required for cargo, not engine fuel in the fuel tank. Ooops. It was a milk truck. The countersuit included disposal of the sour milk and damage to the brand new stainless steel food grade trailer. It almost bankrupt the town.
It was in the early 1970's so I haven't found an online refrence to this.
Hmmm... I suppose that I should disconnect this Phenom-powered computer running Windows from this nuclear power station I'm working at...
Naw, keep using it.. it's Ok for web browsing.
The Windows EULA will keep you safe if you follow all the requirements.
Read it to understand the statement.
What's wrong with being stoned? ;)
;-)
Stoning and being stoned is not the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning
I see the smiley.. Don't stone me for my reply
That's not the DOJ's decision to make.
I agree. They need to do a sanity check and check their staff for single moms with 2 kids making less than $30K a year and ask them if it is overly burdensome.
Thank you, do you know how many cute posts I had to read down just to find out what the item is.
You are welcome. For me instead of reading the cute posts first, I read the article if it isn't Slashdotted.
OMG.. He read the article!
The numbers don't support your claim. iTunes is growing every year and according to the CEO of Universal makes up 23% of all music sales in the US.
iTunes DRM is removable. They can be burnt to regular CD Audio and ripped as MP3. The holes in DRM and compatability is why they sell. DRM WMA didn't have the hole and inspite of the Plays for sure format sold to many manufactures, the format did poorly.
Plays for Sure didn't play for sure near as much as iTunes.
As long as we are talking units... I had to troubleshoot a power cable feeding a gym. It provided all the power for lights, AC, waterheaters, etc. It kept blowing the 9 amp fuse. In normal use the load most of the time was under 2 amps.
Did I mention that the underground 7200 volt feeder had lightning damaged insulation?
Read the article.. it's XuuuuuBuuuuuTTTuuuuuuuuu !!
"The University Toolkit is essentially an operating system (xubuntu) that you can boot up from a CD-ROM. The package bundles some powerful, open-source network monitoring tools, including "Snort," which captures detailed information about all traffic flowing across a network; as well as "ntop," a tool used to take data feeds from tools like Snort and display the data in more user-friendly graphics and charts. "
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/11/mpaa_university_toolkit_opens_1.html
I have been claiming for a long time the only way DRM will get widespread use is if enough people VOTED for it with their $$$$. It looks like the votes are in and the counters are noting the huge number of votes against DRM.. It's about time. Keep up the good work and keep voting with your wallet. They can pass DMCA all they want in congress, but if it fails in the marketplace, that is the ace up the sleeve. It has to sell to become a standard that is used.
I used to fix my own. Until it got too hard to get spares, and I imagine that applied somewhat to companies that were doing it. Rubber pinch rollers seemed to be the real killer. When they split, they were no longer available.
For DIY, it can be hard. For dealers and shops, there is many aftermarket parts sources for the LNA rubber parts. It's much like the auto parts industry. If you can't find the genuine Mopar replacement headlamp bulb, you go armed with make and model and hit the cross refrence. You may find the Sylvania 9004 bulb is an exact replacement.
Check with Diversified Parts and Consolidated Electronics. They used to be dealer only, but with the world going online, you may be able to get orders filled. I wouldn't know the current situation as I left the industry over a decade ago.
http://www.ceitron.com/
http://tacpservice.toshiba.com/ConsumerProductSupport/consumer_parts.htm
What horseshit. 99% of P2P traffic (esp bittorrent) is copyrighted material and EVERYONE knows it. trying to pretend this isn't the case by cherry picking words like this is just laughable.
My latest D/L of Ubuntu is copyrighted. It doesn't happen to be illegal. So what's the point. Almost everything is copyrighted. Much of the copyrighted stuff is legal to share, such as public domain, GNU, Creative Commons, and permission granted by copyright owner. I have posted photos online. They are copyrighted. I am the Copyright Owner. Permission is granted to copy.
Delayed packets is not the same as spoofed RST packets intended to disconnect the connection. At least your download finished. Feel lucky.
I hope you enjoy your BitTorrent-less network, while it lasts!
It will last quite a while. I have underground utilities. I am out of reach of the DSLAM and my lines not up to par for DSL. My choices as are much of the country, A - None, B - Dial-up, or C - Comcast the monopoly high speed choice.
We would send him more but he will not take it.
Warranty work is just to fill in on regular business. When I was in the industry, it was common for the brands to set flat rates for repairs, often way below going rates. To make matters worse, it was common to have about 10-20 percent of the claims rejected. You don't make a living doing warranty repairs. You do warranty repairs to learn the new tech so you are trained and have the manuals, parts, knowledge what sets are in the market and of various failure modes for when it goes off warranty. This gives you a leg up on the competition who is trying to troubleshoot the stuff cold turkey. You have already seen most of the common failures and can turn repairs at a profitable rate.
Just for grins, ask the shop about what I just stated. I am wondering if anything has changed in the warranty repair business. It paid poorly.
The point of this is not to keep hackers from finding malware, it is to keep Google search users from getting infected through poisoned search results.
Duh.
This is exactly what ScrubIT has been doing for a long time now. Instead of search results, it is DNS, which blocks malware sites. It has a function to submit sites to be added to the blacklist.
Many think ScrubIT as a filtered DNS service is just a porn filter to protect the kids. It's much more than that. It kills phishing and malware sites also. The only things it doesn't are sites that provide the IP address instead of using DNS. I've been very happy with it, except lately, it has had a couple outages. I'm on Comcast, so maybe they are blocking an alternate DNS server.
http://www.scrubit.com/
Does anyone else use ScrubIT and noticed any outages in the last couple weeks?
None of us kept track of stock in our heads, and the inventory system at bestbuy isn't very accurate, nor is it quick.
It's bad form to have a customer jump through hoops and pick out a configuration, and then tell them, "oh, We are out of stock"
It just looks suspicious. The sale was just fine until I declined the extras. Think how that looks from the consumer side. It leaves them wondering "Are they really out of stock or are they saving it to sell with the profitable bundle?".
With their current reputations, anything going wrong in a sale is looked at with distrust. It's a fact of customer relations. When the reputation is down, everything going on in the store needs to show no signs of possible manipulation.
Electronic Equipment Service and Repair seemed like such a good idea for a small business back when personal cd players where made of metal with windows made of plexi (sp?) glass. Oh how the times have changed....and relatively quickly too.
Skip consumer products. Go industrial. The servo systems are the same. The automation is the same. The hardware is bigger and networked. This isn't the cheap stuff. It still pays to maintain these.
http://www.asyst.com/products/fsol/amhs/sahms.asp
http://www.robots.com/
http://www.robots.com/parts.php
They still are made of mechanical parts that wear and go out of tolerance. They need mechanical parts changed and repaired. They need tested to see if they are within specifications for placement accuracy. It's good work and these are rarely simply trashed instead of repaired.
Plus you can often times prevent any more data from being lost.
Keep a live Ubuntu CD handy. You might be surprised at the ease of recovering some data to a USB drive can be.
Fighting the Owned machine is often a waste of lots of un-billable flat rate time. Boot it with you owning it, recover data, scan it for junk, reformat, reinstall and ship it.
take a nearly completely incapacitated computer and bring it back to full function in a reasonable amount of time is far harder.
Why waste the time. It often takes more time than can be billed.
10 hours of trying to eradicate a polymorphic virus is a waste of time and money.
Oh. At which retail outlet can I replace the last decades' worth of financials and client data for my company? What's that worth, the cost of a CD-R and some shrink wrap?
Data Recovery services is another specialty. That can command high prices for data that is a lot more valuable than the hardware. Often computer repair is wipe and reinstall. You pay more for data recovery.
"Do go down to Worst-Buy and look over the merchandise and the particular model your looking for. If the price is right, buy it. Whatever you do, don't take any extended warranties, service programs or allow any geek install. And for Gods' sake; don't talk to a geek!" :-)
What is funny is while I was shopping for a laptop a while ago, I picked out a model I liked an told them I would like it but I would like extra memory. I asked if it had an empty memory slot, or would the memory need exchanged out for a larger size. They sent me to the Geek Squad to get the answer to the memory question. They tried to bundle the extras and I said no thanks to all of it. Then they informed me they were sold out. Somehow the timing of their discovery that the item was sold out deeply cut their credibility. If it was truly sold out, they should have figured that out before sending me to check into a memory upgrade. I'm wondering if they were sold out simply because I didn't buy any of the bundled stuff.
Do we really want $350/hr computer technicians?
As a computer technician I say yes, absolutely.
I don't. It is for the same reason we don't use $100/hour TV repairmen. It's cheaper to replace it than fix it. I used to fix VCR's and Camcorders when they were well over $500 items. Now that many of them can be replaced for about 2 hours of labor or less, I have found other employment. Be careful what you wish for. You might get it and have no work.
Tag this 'commonsense'. Finally a record label who is starting to 'get it'.
What I want to know is how tight is the contract with the devil. In other words, if EMI decided to withdraw completely from the RIAA, do they have the same problem the artists have withdrawing from a label? Do the labels get to keep the music, or is the old stuff still RIAA protected property?
If EMI drops the RIAA completely and it removes their entire catalog from the RIAA contracts, I may find them listed on the SAFE section of the RIAA radar!
http://www.riaaradar.com/
There, fixed that for you. There's lots of smaller labels who have "got it" all along, but they're just smaller ones, and you don't hear their music on the radio, or on the TV.
This is a myth which is often driven by the amount of payola in the industry. If the RIAA lables owned the airwaves, there would be no need for payola. Payola is to get a larger percentage of RIAA label stuff played to displace other music.
Want proof. If you listen to the radio much lately, I'm sure you have heard most of the popular Christmas tunes. Just this morning I heard Carrol of the Bells by Mannheim Steamroller. They are on American Gramaphone records. According to riaaradar.com, the label is not an RIAA member.
It is true that there is a lot of RIAA label promotion in the media. I is not true that they are the only thing on the radio.
http://www.riaaradar.com/search.asp Plug in Mannheim Steamroller.
Album info:
Artist: Chip Davis, Mannheim Steamroller, Olivia Newton-John, Johnny Mathis
Album: Mannheim Steamroller: Christmas Song
Year: 2007
Label: American Gramaphone
RIAA Radar result: SAFE
http://www.riaaradar.com/search.asp?searchtype=AsinSearch&keyword=B000TWTBMC
Well, it's certainly demolished. Pictures.
Thanks for the great link. If you do failure analysis you would quickly spot from the photos that the phone didn't explode. In an explosion material is ejected at high speed. In other words, large parts of the phone should be missing, ejected with great force. The shirt has a burn. The phone shows some swelling and is a melted lump. There was no high energy explosion associated with this phone that could have cracked ribs.
Either the man fell and damaged the battery and started a thermal runaway condition, or the phone went into thermal runaway and the man in panic collided into something either causing a fall or as the result of a fall.
Remember for every action, there is an equal reaction in the opposite direction. For an object to explode in a shrt pocket with enough force to crack ribs, the force outward would have been equal as in a mass of the phone would have to have been ejected forward. From the photo, the phone is burnt, but intact.
I read the article. I am not too much into games. I was going "Who is this guy and what did he do to get into this mess?" The parent mentioned the event. I remembered the event, not the name attached to it. Thanks for the information the article is lacking and the link. It saved me from having to do a Google search.