I agree, but ISPs are making money off of it and not likely to give up that extra revenue, which is one more reason I just point to one of my own DNS servers at the office instead.
I think this is a mistake. "goo gle.com" should lead to an error.
If you use the DNS servers of most ISPs, instead of error, you end up either going to a custom search page to which they are getting paid for the ads, or an offer to buy the domain.
Used auto oil can also be used as feed stock for biodiesel. Assuming you put the old oil in the bottles the new oil came out of, it will store just fine, and after a couple of changes, it would be easy to find someone who will take it via craigslist. One of the reasons I am moving to a new house is there is land space to do a little testing on biofuels.
This may sound harsh, but most of us would rather see Iran (for example) having to deal with their own civil war and getting their house together, instead of using the oil money to export terrorism to other countries and buy the loyalty of their citizen. Eventually, they will have to settle the differences between their people and their government, which are NOT on the same page right now. If oil/money is being used to temporarily pacify the masses so that the government can maintain control, then no, I don't feel bad if we instantly quit using oil and it led to civil war there.
I don't like the idea of civil war anywhere, but oil money is only putting off the inevitable. Speaking as a citizen of a country that has already had to have a civil war and became the stronger because of it (the US), I understand that sometimes it can't be helped. And while other countries got involved in ours (France in particular) I would hope that WE would not get involved.
I've played sim city. I know it's only a matter of time before the satellite moves and cuts a firey swatch through my town!
Then you know that sometimes it's an accident, and sometimes it is on purpose under the guise of it being an accident. I guess they could host the receiver at some underprivileged area, you know, to create "opportunity".
We don't have 'debtor's prisons' in the US and pretty sure they don't in Canada, as both use English Common Law as their basis and are likely somewhat similar. They can likely order wage garnishing based on his income, but they can't take more than he actually makes, or leave him with less than he needs to live at the poverty level. They can also put a lien on any property he owns or buys, although they would be 2nd in line to get compensation after primary lenders. As to bankruptcy, not sure if Canada allows discharging fines that way, but I doubt it.
In short, he will live a life that makes his income out of sight of the tax man, so there isn't anything to garnish, in a cat and mouse game. Not much different than he likely has been living it, but with more eyes on him.
I've had TWO teen boys at different times ask me the very question "What do I need to do to get into game programming?" and my answer was simple:
You don't. If that is what you *really* wanted to do, you would already be skinning and modding, but instead you are playing games 24/7.
The problem is that they think it would "be fun", kinda of like playing games, but with more control. I did point the older (17) boy to the Steam SDK, which was free since he had a source game, and told him to dig in using the free tools. That lasted less than the time to download the tools. Two years prior, he had decided he wanted to get a job as a "video game tester".... Yea, I know.
...but only cut off the infected internet user if they are infringing on corporate intellectual rights. After all, that is what is important. At least a glance at the docket would indicate so.
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It's interesting because Iran actually allows and pays for sex-change surgeries.
the GUI will usually fall short compared to just entering a series of command-line configuration commands, or editing the config file by hand.
My understanding is that is by design, to keep the GUI simple. So that the person that would use a GUI isn't overburdened by the sheer volume of options, with the knowledge that someone who is an "expert" wouldn't use the GUI anyway. I have found that both are a problem for users like myself: Fairly experienced at running servers for httpd/samba/ftp/etc but not an expert and stuck with MS on the desktop at work, so the GUI tends to just annoy me because it does half of what I want, but still inexperienced enough with Linux on the desktop that I have to do some serious googling to find the answer.
What has stopped me from using Linux on the desktop at home more than I do now isn't application support, but instead the last time I looked at Gnome, it was too complicated where it didn't need to be. I can deal with "too simple" easier than "too complicated" when it comes to a GUI by simply using a CLI when needed. It has been over a year since I installed Ubuntu, which left this old RH user a bit non-plussed.
Cisco's GUI stuff doesn't really generate any scripts, but the commands it creates are the same things you'd type into a CLI.
Not trying to be argumentative (and I admin some but not an expert), but isn't that pretty much what most every GUI tool for Linux does, as part of the Unix philosophy? IE: just a front end for the real tool(s) in the background? I thought that most bittorrent clients pretty much do the same, act as a front end to the real meat behind the scenes. It would appear that MS has fought designing tools this way since breaking away from DOS based systems. I'm glad to hear that MS is starting to do the same, as it only makes sense, even if they are late to the party.
I don't. And I don't buy any Sony products either. Today, however, my boss was telling me how he wanted to buy one of those new iPads so he can connect to the interweb over his verizon cell phone line to check email and yes, run his Windows apps. I know, so wrong on so many levels. He won't consider a laptop as being too big. The conversation finally ended when I explained that I don't know anything about Apple products, and never will, so I couldn't help him pick one out, get it on the interweb or anything, and I wasn't willing to learn, at any price. I suggested he get an android phone or Blackberry to check email and lower his expectations for running apps. I have no idea what he will buy, and wish I could never know.
So even those of use that simply choose not to buy Apple or Sony products, still get the dirty end of the stick sometimes when others around us make those choices.
I get that, and understood that before, but it still defeats the whole idea of "bittorrent" as others are only receiving data from the much fewer clients that have ports open, or more likely, from the 'official' sites which are setup as superseeders. This of course, defeats the whole purpose of using bittorrent instead of a simple download, and just creates more traffic from failed attempts to initiate a connection to systems behind restrictive firewalls.
In short, you add more overhead, more confusion, another vector for attack and in return, you do NOT get a better update experience for the customer. Even adding bittorrent to non-OS related software (ie: if Valve's Steam wanted to use it) would be problematic because of the fact that the VAST majority of people wouldn't actually be seeding. Think about it: If Valve thought they could make it work, they would do it in a snap. Steam is the perfect platform to test the idea, as a TON of material is pushed daily, and many people run the client 24/7, and security is much less of an issue. But they don't, and likely won't with the current state of bittorrent. Any system that requires a connect to the client is always going to be problematic when it comes to John Q. Public, for many reasons.
"We will mail former customers refund checks. In most cases, these credits are in the $2 to $6 range; some will receive larger credits or refunds." which means actual refunds for larger amounts, and for the $2-$6 range (most customers) it will be a credit on their next bill. Looks like they are trying to do the right thing. For once.
Does any of this matter? Half the bittorrent users have firewalls that disallow seeding as they haven't figured out how to configure their wireless routers properly. Now imagine trying to explain to your mother to log into her Linksys router and set a range of IP addresses that will allow a hole in the firewall so she can seed, then configure the OS to use those/that port. Or everyone can use the same port everywhere, which opens up a new vector for attack by malware writers. Otherwise, she is just leeching and not seeding, which isn't any better than just downloading from a mirror and may actually be slower. Oh, and explain to her that she is sharing data off her computer with other people in Indiana and China.
Bittorrent is a great distribution system for many, many types of media. But not all.
Very, very good link and worthy of a bump. Granted, it doesn't mean we need to cut down trees to reduce CO2 but it does demonstrate that we can't just view the situation in such a simplistic "more trees -> less CO2" viewpoint.
McDonalds cut out the middle man and bred cattle to taste like trees. Now if they can just engineer them to suck carbon...
Or get them to quit producing so much methane, which is much worse than C02 as a greenhouse gas. What we *need* is cows that produce pure 02 flatulence with a fresh pine scent.
PS3 does better than that. It plays all the PS1 and PS2 plus PS3 games.
But does it run Linux? Any other OS or software? Oh it *used* to, but they decided after initial adopters paid $700 for those features and more, to disable that very feature. No thanks. I will stick with platforms that are not built by and controlled by asshats. Of course, that also rules out 360.
Another flimsy conspiracy theory that also fits the very limited available evidence. Hopefully this demonstrates precisely why rushing to assumptions of conspiracies based on minimal evidence is such a bad idea.
Exactly what part of Iran's foreign relations over the last 30+ years would be considered "a good idea"?
For all the stupid stuff that we Americans might be responsible for, from the Shah to funding Iraq during their war with Iran, Iran has consistently been run by fanatics for decades, and the only reasons that they have not been bombed off the map is that they are a major producer of oil. They all but openly support terrorist organizations all over the globe, and their leadership *obviously* does not reflect the will of the people. I just hope that we figure out how to reduce our dependence on their oil quickly, so that when their citizens finally do rise up into civil war, it won't cause a major worldwide recession/depression. And I hope we stay out of it and just let them settle it themselves.
Not exactly. At 45 and someone who gets a 'newer' car about every two years (ie: 1-2 years old) because I drive around 30k miles a year, so I have driven a lot of vehicles. My current car, a Hyundai Azera, has a 5 speed auto and 265 HP, and it shifts just fine. My 2005 Chevy 2500HD has a 6.0L V8 and a 4 speed and is much more jerky with downshifting but not slushy, just jerky. Wife just sold a 07 Mitsubishi Eclipse with a V6 and a 6speed auto, and you can't even tell when it is shifting if you drive normal, completely fluid. Even my old 98 Caddy Deville had a 4 speed and was very fluid unless you stomped it. Granted, all these are higher HP engines (the lowest is the current Hyundai) but the vehicles I have owned in the last 10 years, particularly with 5 or 6 speeds, tend to be quite fluid and capable of staying in the right RPM bands according to how you are driving.
Maybe on older cars, or on less expensive cars with lesser computer controls or smaller I4 engines, but the newer cars just are not 'slushy' anymore. Then, the problem isn't so much the transmission, but the weight/horsepower ratio.
They revamped the EPA methodology a few years ago, which pushed the ratings down for most cars, so it is a bit more accurate. And locking transmissions only affect highway mileage was my point. Yes, they have been around for two decades, but not on all cars. They are much more common now. The main point is that the difference in actual MPG between an automatic and a manual transmission, assuming the same driver and roads, is much smaller than it used to be two decades ago, and in some cases there is virtually no difference. Bank Rate has an article on it, and others do as well, showing the difference is usually minimal or non-existant.
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I agree, but ISPs are making money off of it and not likely to give up that extra revenue, which is one more reason I just point to one of my own DNS servers at the office instead.
I think this is a mistake. "goo gle.com" should lead to an error.
If you use the DNS servers of most ISPs, instead of error, you end up either going to a custom search page to which they are getting paid for the ads, or an offer to buy the domain.
Way to creep me the fuck out, slashdot.
Now they just need to connect frickin' laser beams to their heads, because even rat-bots deserve a hot meal.
Used auto oil can also be used as feed stock for biodiesel. Assuming you put the old oil in the bottles the new oil came out of, it will store just fine, and after a couple of changes, it would be easy to find someone who will take it via craigslist. One of the reasons I am moving to a new house is there is land space to do a little testing on biofuels.
This may sound harsh, but most of us would rather see Iran (for example) having to deal with their own civil war and getting their house together, instead of using the oil money to export terrorism to other countries and buy the loyalty of their citizen. Eventually, they will have to settle the differences between their people and their government, which are NOT on the same page right now. If oil/money is being used to temporarily pacify the masses so that the government can maintain control, then no, I don't feel bad if we instantly quit using oil and it led to civil war there.
I don't like the idea of civil war anywhere, but oil money is only putting off the inevitable. Speaking as a citizen of a country that has already had to have a civil war and became the stronger because of it (the US), I understand that sometimes it can't be helped. And while other countries got involved in ours (France in particular) I would hope that WE would not get involved.
I've played sim city. I know it's only a matter of time before the satellite moves and cuts a firey swatch through my town!
Then you know that sometimes it's an accident, and sometimes it is on purpose under the guise of it being an accident. I guess they could host the receiver at some underprivileged area, you know, to create "opportunity".
We don't have 'debtor's prisons' in the US and pretty sure they don't in Canada, as both use English Common Law as their basis and are likely somewhat similar. They can likely order wage garnishing based on his income, but they can't take more than he actually makes, or leave him with less than he needs to live at the poverty level. They can also put a lien on any property he owns or buys, although they would be 2nd in line to get compensation after primary lenders. As to bankruptcy, not sure if Canada allows discharging fines that way, but I doubt it.
In short, he will live a life that makes his income out of sight of the tax man, so there isn't anything to garnish, in a cat and mouse game. Not much different than he likely has been living it, but with more eyes on him.
I've had TWO teen boys at different times ask me the very question "What do I need to do to get into game programming?" and my answer was simple:
You don't. If that is what you *really* wanted to do, you would already be skinning and modding, but instead you are playing games 24/7.
The problem is that they think it would "be fun", kinda of like playing games, but with more control. I did point the older (17) boy to the Steam SDK, which was free since he had a source game, and told him to dig in using the free tools. That lasted less than the time to download the tools. Two years prior, he had decided he wanted to get a job as a "video game tester".... Yea, I know.
...but only cut off the infected internet user if they are infringing on corporate intellectual rights. After all, that is what is important. At least a glance at the docket would indicate so.
It's interesting because Iran actually allows and pays for sex-change surgeries.
Is that before or after they administer the death penalty for homosexual acts? And they *sometimes* subsidize surgery, which is not the same as "pays for".
Fortunately, Iran doesn't consider the testimony of women to be trustworthy enough to consider as evidence (see first link).
the GUI will usually fall short compared to just entering a series of command-line configuration commands, or editing the config file by hand.
My understanding is that is by design, to keep the GUI simple. So that the person that would use a GUI isn't overburdened by the sheer volume of options, with the knowledge that someone who is an "expert" wouldn't use the GUI anyway. I have found that both are a problem for users like myself: Fairly experienced at running servers for httpd/samba/ftp/etc but not an expert and stuck with MS on the desktop at work, so the GUI tends to just annoy me because it does half of what I want, but still inexperienced enough with Linux on the desktop that I have to do some serious googling to find the answer.
What has stopped me from using Linux on the desktop at home more than I do now isn't application support, but instead the last time I looked at Gnome, it was too complicated where it didn't need to be. I can deal with "too simple" easier than "too complicated" when it comes to a GUI by simply using a CLI when needed. It has been over a year since I installed Ubuntu, which left this old RH user a bit non-plussed.
Cisco's GUI stuff doesn't really generate any scripts, but the commands it creates are the same things you'd type into a CLI.
Not trying to be argumentative (and I admin some but not an expert), but isn't that pretty much what most every GUI tool for Linux does, as part of the Unix philosophy? IE: just a front end for the real tool(s) in the background? I thought that most bittorrent clients pretty much do the same, act as a front end to the real meat behind the scenes. It would appear that MS has fought designing tools this way since breaking away from DOS based systems. I'm glad to hear that MS is starting to do the same, as it only makes sense, even if they are late to the party.
so if you don't like it, don't.
I don't. And I don't buy any Sony products either. Today, however, my boss was telling me how he wanted to buy one of those new iPads so he can connect to the interweb over his verizon cell phone line to check email and yes, run his Windows apps. I know, so wrong on so many levels. He won't consider a laptop as being too big. The conversation finally ended when I explained that I don't know anything about Apple products, and never will, so I couldn't help him pick one out, get it on the interweb or anything, and I wasn't willing to learn, at any price. I suggested he get an android phone or Blackberry to check email and lower his expectations for running apps. I have no idea what he will buy, and wish I could never know.
So even those of use that simply choose not to buy Apple or Sony products, still get the dirty end of the stick sometimes when others around us make those choices.
I get that, and understood that before, but it still defeats the whole idea of "bittorrent" as others are only receiving data from the much fewer clients that have ports open, or more likely, from the 'official' sites which are setup as superseeders. This of course, defeats the whole purpose of using bittorrent instead of a simple download, and just creates more traffic from failed attempts to initiate a connection to systems behind restrictive firewalls.
In short, you add more overhead, more confusion, another vector for attack and in return, you do NOT get a better update experience for the customer. Even adding bittorrent to non-OS related software (ie: if Valve's Steam wanted to use it) would be problematic because of the fact that the VAST majority of people wouldn't actually be seeding. Think about it: If Valve thought they could make it work, they would do it in a snap. Steam is the perfect platform to test the idea, as a TON of material is pushed daily, and many people run the client 24/7, and security is much less of an issue. But they don't, and likely won't with the current state of bittorrent. Any system that requires a connect to the client is always going to be problematic when it comes to John Q. Public, for many reasons.
'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers' - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Act IV, Scene I
Some things never change.
I did RTFA, Verizon said:
"We will mail former customers refund checks. In most cases, these credits are in the $2 to $6 range; some will receive larger credits or refunds." which means actual refunds for larger amounts, and for the $2-$6 range (most customers) it will be a credit on their next bill. Looks like they are trying to do the right thing. For once.
At least their answer was to issue refunds.
Does any of this matter? Half the bittorrent users have firewalls that disallow seeding as they haven't figured out how to configure their wireless routers properly. Now imagine trying to explain to your mother to log into her Linksys router and set a range of IP addresses that will allow a hole in the firewall so she can seed, then configure the OS to use those/that port. Or everyone can use the same port everywhere, which opens up a new vector for attack by malware writers. Otherwise, she is just leeching and not seeding, which isn't any better than just downloading from a mirror and may actually be slower. Oh, and explain to her that she is sharing data off her computer with other people in Indiana and China.
Bittorrent is a great distribution system for many, many types of media. But not all.
I think that translates into: CNUS, Canada's Not the United States.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rain-forests-release-carb
Very, very good link and worthy of a bump. Granted, it doesn't mean we need to cut down trees to reduce CO2 but it does demonstrate that we can't just view the situation in such a simplistic "more trees -> less CO2" viewpoint.
McDonalds cut out the middle man and bred cattle to taste like trees. Now if they can just engineer them to suck carbon ...
Or get them to quit producing so much methane, which is much worse than C02 as a greenhouse gas. What we *need* is cows that produce pure 02 flatulence with a fresh pine scent.
PS3 does better than that. It plays all the PS1 and PS2 plus PS3 games.
But does it run Linux? Any other OS or software? Oh it *used* to, but they decided after initial adopters paid $700 for those features and more, to disable that very feature. No thanks. I will stick with platforms that are not built by and controlled by asshats. Of course, that also rules out 360.
Another flimsy conspiracy theory that also fits the very limited available evidence. Hopefully this demonstrates precisely why rushing to assumptions of conspiracies based on minimal evidence is such a bad idea.
Exactly what part of Iran's foreign relations over the last 30+ years would be considered "a good idea"?
For all the stupid stuff that we Americans might be responsible for, from the Shah to funding Iraq during their war with Iran, Iran has consistently been run by fanatics for decades, and the only reasons that they have not been bombed off the map is that they are a major producer of oil. They all but openly support terrorist organizations all over the globe, and their leadership *obviously* does not reflect the will of the people. I just hope that we figure out how to reduce our dependence on their oil quickly, so that when their citizens finally do rise up into civil war, it won't cause a major worldwide recession/depression. And I hope we stay out of it and just let them settle it themselves.
Not exactly. At 45 and someone who gets a 'newer' car about every two years (ie: 1-2 years old) because I drive around 30k miles a year, so I have driven a lot of vehicles. My current car, a Hyundai Azera, has a 5 speed auto and 265 HP, and it shifts just fine. My 2005 Chevy 2500HD has a 6.0L V8 and a 4 speed and is much more jerky with downshifting but not slushy, just jerky. Wife just sold a 07 Mitsubishi Eclipse with a V6 and a 6speed auto, and you can't even tell when it is shifting if you drive normal, completely fluid. Even my old 98 Caddy Deville had a 4 speed and was very fluid unless you stomped it. Granted, all these are higher HP engines (the lowest is the current Hyundai) but the vehicles I have owned in the last 10 years, particularly with 5 or 6 speeds, tend to be quite fluid and capable of staying in the right RPM bands according to how you are driving.
Maybe on older cars, or on less expensive cars with lesser computer controls or smaller I4 engines, but the newer cars just are not 'slushy' anymore. Then, the problem isn't so much the transmission, but the weight/horsepower ratio.
They revamped the EPA methodology a few years ago, which pushed the ratings down for most cars, so it is a bit more accurate. And locking transmissions only affect highway mileage was my point. Yes, they have been around for two decades, but not on all cars. They are much more common now. The main point is that the difference in actual MPG between an automatic and a manual transmission, assuming the same driver and roads, is much smaller than it used to be two decades ago, and in some cases there is virtually no difference. Bank Rate has an article on it, and others do as well, showing the difference is usually minimal or non-existant.