"Pop quiz time! Fill in the blank.
Water boils at _____ watts.
There is more to it than that. A watt is a Joule per second and the specific heat capacity of water, if I remember correctly from chem class, is 4.2 J/(kg*kelvin).
So the rise in temperature of the water would be dependent on the volume of water and the rate of heat loss to the surroundings (which would be expressed by a differential equation, btw, since the temperature of the water relative to the surroundings would also be changing.)
The way I see it, you can't just say that H20 boils at ____ watts.
But don't forget that It's can also mean "it has" . This is a normal contraction and those are the only two things it can mean.
Its, on the other hand, it a possessive pronoun (which is easily confused with possessive nouns, which *do* take an apostrophe, hence the confusion.)
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"How can they be losing money? They can charge almost anything they want for the booths and the big companies will still pay it."
Because Key3media is one of the most ANNOYING companies on the planet?
They sent me constant spam for months after the last Comdex I signed up for (free passes, btw) and their remove links never did anything.
Eventually I found the homepage of the comdex project group on they key3 site and sent every member of the group a 700K image with nothing but the word 'remove' in it. (I think I accidentally crashed their mailserver too, it must have been one of those ones that made a copy of the mail for every person as opposed to linking it.)
No more spam after that, but damn, a company does not become liked by harassing people that interface with them! I certainly did not go to comdex after that.
"For example, in South Dakota it is legal to shoot Native Americans under certain conditions."
Also, in Chester (county Chechire) England, it is still legal to shoot, with a crossbow, any Welsh person, as long as you do it inside the city walls and after 11 PM.
"How much would it cost to extradite Koreans and Chinese for spamming - thousands of them a year??"
This is when big IPSs start blocking China, Korea, etc by default, so if those countries want to e-mail North American networks easily, they would have to keep a handle on their own spammers.
It's much easier and more cost effective to implement a technical situation than it is to implement a diplomatic/legal one.
"We find ourselves able to zone out and ignore almost anything after awhile. I'm sure that every/.er has grown acustomed to Spam as a fact of Internet Life."
I think a better strategy here is to manage your e-mail addresses properly from the beginning. I get 2-3 spams per YEAR at my main, real e-mail address. (And it's always the same spam too... something about skin blemish removal.)
When you properly use sneakemail, spamcop, an auxiluary spam e-mail account (the one you see attached to this post), proper spamproofing, and aliasing on your own domain name, and you do this all from the very beginning, you can prevent nearly 100% of spam, so no filters are needed.
"untested by me, but: Ad-Aware should be able to handle CnsMin as of reffile 042-24-09-2002. Also, SpyBot - Search & Destroy [kolla.de] should handle it."
I've tested it and it doesn't work. You have to manually castrate the DLL and THEN use ad-aware.
"What prompted me to do this was the 'armor plate your email address' feature in my user settings here on Slashdot. It made me curious if having my e-mail address viewable in the comments I make would mean I'd recieve lots of Spam. My curiosity is satisfied: You can get a good deal of SPAM if you don't use the 'armor plating'."
Agreed. This e-mail address attached to this article is my 'spam account' so I clean it out once a week, but I do actually read legitimate messages.
"When I first started this experiment, I responded to the messages I got. I accused one guy of harvesting my address without really reading what the message said."
Hehe, I make a point of responding to those Nigerian scammers. I tell them my name is James Kirk, phone number is 202-406-5850 and fax number is 202-406-5031. (Yes, the name was inspired by the haxial.org thing.) The zinger here is that those phone and fax numbers correspond to the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes branch!
I actually got a few of those scammers to phone the number. One guy was furious and demanded an apology. Another e-mailed me back and told me that the woman said there was no "James Kirk" there. I got at least 2 of them to fax their financial documents over there. Heh.
"They (the Asians) can fucking well learn to administrate an SMTP server like the rest of the world, if they want to be "brought together" with us. As things stand, they seem to have some culturally-ingrained sense of irresponsibility that ends up hosing the rest of us."
I'd agree with you *if* most servers came with Chinese|Korean|Japanese|etc documentation.
"If you used Mozilla on your Windows box you wouldn't have that problem... I just tried it for myself and no popups or Gator installs."
Just one more reason why I use mozilla religiously and disable activeX downloads in MSIE by using X-Setup.
Seriously, gator has gotten to epidemic levels. I'm a university student (in Canada) and I've gotten to the point where whenever I log onto a machine, I automatically fire up Ad-Aware and scrup the machine for spyware. (Every engineering student gets 500 mb to store/install whatever.) 60%+ of the time gator is running, plus there's a bunch of bonzibuddy shite. The really bad ones have cnsmin installed which is much harder to get rid of. (Ad-aware can't do it on its own.)
The point I'm trying to make here is that it's gotten to the stage where it's "everyone for themselves." The web is the wild wild west and only those gunslingers who are the fastest and smartest remain at the top of the food chain.
"I've also cooked 2 Maxtors to death in a Lian-Li removable IDE Rack for similar reasons. I will never again put any 7200 rpm+ drive in a single enclosure with 40mm fans - my data is too important. "
Interesting... I stopped using a Lian Li removable rank (with 2 x 40 mm fans) because the HDD kept getting messed up!! I would lose entire partitions and the drive refused to be reliably accessible.
When I put back directly on the IDE channel (using the same cabling btw) everything was fine again.)
But I am going to take a look into the S.M.A.R.T. temperature monitoring so I can see if the temperatures in the bay are really higher than the temperatures on the regularly mounted drive. Thanks for the heads up on that.
"So most people end up operating the drives in excess of their rated operating temps... and they fail.
There are some easy things you can do for drive ventillation - the easiest is to put the drive as far down as you can get in the case. Most cases vent from bottom front to top back. Take advantage of that. More extreme measures involve mounting a heat sink on the drive or even fans (either on the drive bay or to the sides).
The world is run by idiots because they're more efficient than hamsters."
I think that power is also an issue. Some power supplies have very weak +5V channels that often drop more than 10%. (*cough*Enermax*cough*) This can also kill a nice HDD.
About heat: One other good strategy for keeping your drives cool is to use a cooling bay. Instead of having 2 x 40 GB maxtors right on top of each other due to the small amount of room in my case, I put one in a 5.25" cooling bay with an integrated fan to get good airflow. This can also prolong the life of your drives.
The cooling bad was pretty cheap (only CAD$10 refurb) but the suction is definitely present through the unit and since it's front loading, I can easily swap drives without opening my machine.
Some modern cases now adays have a cooling fan right next to the HDD mounting area, which is also good for keeping things frosty.
"On a different note, Seagate's ST380023AS and ST3120023AS (Serial ATA) drives which were expected in Mid-October, then late-November, are now, according to a Cnet article a Seagate employee who shall remain nameless, pointed me to, is indicating shipping dates in Mid-December.. hopefully the two are unrelated."
This may not be entirely related and probably just anecdotal, but I had a client's Fujitsu HDD die recently at two years of age with one more year of warranty left to go. This is in Canada, btw.
"It's too late, the slashdot effect has excorcized this ghost."
I loaded the site shortly after the article first came out and it was just dead. Clearly, it was slashdotted.
But I loaded it just now and look what I got: "Account for domain ghostzilla.com has been suspended." Is it possible that we pushed the site over a hosting-set bandwidth limit?
Seriously, there should be a policy when it comes to posting links to small servers on the front page of slashdot. The owners of the pages should be contacted for permission, and if possible mirroring so that the site is not blasted into oblivion.
Posting links on slashdot is destructive and this is a perfect example -- it got a person's account suspended! Instead of spreading the ghostzilla love around, it was annihilated. Not good at all.
"I've worked plenty of places where IS and IS only were allowed to install ANY software. Even though most of us were developers with years of experience, unauthorized installation of anything was potentially grounds for termination."
My last (co-op student) job was like that. I actually got an e-mail from them yesterday asking if I was interested in working for them again in January but I said no. (I've got at least one interview coming up soon.) I made sure they knew it was because such policies limit productivity.
If BMI adopts a "your concerns are worth sh~t to us" attitude and just tells people to accept inferior products, they will get a large public backlash.
If this customer service rep was not just a malcontent and really was telling the customer what was passed down from management, BMI is shooting itself in the foot.
"Ever played sim city 2000? Ever built a microwave power station? Ever had the beam slice through your airport and into a commericial zone?"
A better strat for that is to pre-design the landscape so the outer edge of the entire map is a 1 tile wide waterfall, then build hydroelectric power on it. You can increment in small doses ($400/unit if I reall) and they never expire over time!
"Great, so now I don't just look like a troll, I look like an uneducated troll...."
When you really think about the alternatives, I would prefer to be an uneducated troll as opposed to being an educated troll. The latter would mean that I was JohnKatz:-P
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Its is not special. You have not considered the difference between a contraction involving a pronoun and a possessive pronoun.
But did you want a 486 SX/25 or a 386 DX/33 ?
I can't remember what my decision was.
There is more to it than that. A watt is a Joule per second and the specific heat capacity of water, if I remember correctly from chem class, is 4.2 J/(kg*kelvin).
So the rise in temperature of the water would be dependent on the volume of water and the rate of heat loss to the surroundings (which would be expressed by a differential equation, btw, since the temperature of the water relative to the surroundings would also be changing.)
The way I see it, you can't just say that H20 boils at ____ watts.
But don't forget that It's can also mean "it has" . This is a normal contraction and those are the only two things it can mean.
Its, on the other hand, it a possessive pronoun (which is easily confused with possessive nouns, which *do* take an apostrophe, hence the confusion.)
Because Key3media is one of the most ANNOYING companies on the planet?
They sent me constant spam for months after the last Comdex I signed up for (free passes, btw) and their remove links never did anything.
Eventually I found the homepage of the comdex project group on they key3 site and sent every member of the group a 700K image with nothing but the word 'remove' in it. (I think I accidentally crashed their mailserver too, it must have been one of those ones that made a copy of the mail for every person as opposed to linking it.)
No more spam after that, but damn, a company does not become liked by harassing people that interface with them! I certainly did not go to comdex after that.
Also, in Chester (county Chechire) England, it is still legal to shoot, with a crossbow, any Welsh person, as long as you do it inside the city walls and after 11 PM.
This is when big IPSs start blocking China, Korea, etc by default, so if those countries want to e-mail North American networks easily, they would have to keep a handle on their own spammers.
It's much easier and more cost effective to implement a technical situation than it is to implement a diplomatic/legal one.
I think a better strategy here is to manage your e-mail addresses properly from the beginning. I get 2-3 spams per YEAR at my main, real e-mail address. (And it's always the same spam too... something about skin blemish removal.)
When you properly use sneakemail, spamcop, an auxiluary spam e-mail account (the one you see attached to this post), proper spamproofing, and aliasing on your own domain name, and you do this all from the very beginning, you can prevent nearly 100% of spam, so no filters are needed.
I've tested it and it doesn't work. You have to manually castrate the DLL and THEN use ad-aware.
It would be cool to have one of these inserted into an in-car GPS device. You could have every mapped road in your GPS accessible at all times!
I read about a truck driver in Germany named "Adolph Hittler" who actually lost his job because of his name.
Btw, here is a direct linke to the article: http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/living/1102/14wym an.html which is in the original post, but it is sort of obfustucated.
I wouldn't expect it to be in the next milestone release (1.2) as well, which btw should be out any day now.
Agreed. This e-mail address attached to this article is my 'spam account' so I clean it out once a week, but I do actually read legitimate messages.
"When I first started this experiment, I responded to the messages I got. I accused one guy of harvesting my address without really reading what the message said."
Hehe, I make a point of responding to those Nigerian scammers. I tell them my name is James Kirk, phone number is 202-406-5850 and fax number is 202-406-5031. (Yes, the name was inspired by the haxial.org thing.) The zinger here is that those phone and fax numbers correspond to the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes branch!
I actually got a few of those scammers to phone the number. One guy was furious and demanded an apology. Another e-mailed me back and told me that the woman said there was no "James Kirk" there. I got at least 2 of them to fax their financial documents over there. Heh.
I'd agree with you *if* most servers came with Chinese|Korean|Japanese|etc documentation.
Just one more reason why I use mozilla religiously and disable activeX downloads in MSIE by using X-Setup.
Seriously, gator has gotten to epidemic levels. I'm a university student (in Canada) and I've gotten to the point where whenever I log onto a machine, I automatically fire up Ad-Aware and scrup the machine for spyware. (Every engineering student gets 500 mb to store/install whatever.) 60%+ of the time gator is running, plus there's a bunch of bonzibuddy shite. The really bad ones have cnsmin installed which is much harder to get rid of. (Ad-aware can't do it on its own.)
The point I'm trying to make here is that it's gotten to the stage where it's "everyone for themselves." The web is the wild wild west and only those gunslingers who are the fastest and smartest remain at the top of the food chain.
Interesting ... I stopped using a Lian Li removable rank (with 2 x 40 mm fans) because the HDD kept getting messed up!! I would lose entire partitions and the drive refused to be reliably accessible.
When I put back directly on the IDE channel (using the same cabling btw) everything was fine again.)
But I am going to take a look into the S.M.A.R.T. temperature monitoring so I can see if the temperatures in the bay are really higher than the temperatures on the regularly mounted drive. Thanks for the heads up on that.
I think that power is also an issue. Some power supplies have very weak +5V channels that often drop more than 10%. (*cough*Enermax*cough*) This can also kill a nice HDD.
About heat: One other good strategy for keeping your drives cool is to use a cooling bay. Instead of having 2 x 40 GB maxtors right on top of each other due to the small amount of room in my case, I put one in a 5.25" cooling bay with an integrated fan to get good airflow. This can also prolong the life of your drives.
The cooling bad was pretty cheap (only CAD$10 refurb) but the suction is definitely present through the unit and since it's front loading, I can easily swap drives without opening my machine.
Some modern cases now adays have a cooling fan right next to the HDD mounting area, which is also good for keeping things frosty.
That sentence deserves to be taken out and shot.
This may not be entirely related and probably just anecdotal, but I had a client's Fujitsu HDD die recently at two years of age with one more year of warranty left to go. This is in Canada, btw.
I loaded the site shortly after the article first came out and it was just dead. Clearly, it was slashdotted.
But I loaded it just now and look what I got: "Account for domain ghostzilla.com has been suspended." Is it possible that we pushed the site over a hosting-set bandwidth limit?
Seriously, there should be a policy when it comes to posting links to small servers on the front page of slashdot. The owners of the pages should be contacted for permission, and if possible mirroring so that the site is not blasted into oblivion.
Posting links on slashdot is destructive and this is a perfect example -- it got a person's account suspended! Instead of spreading the ghostzilla love around, it was annihilated. Not good at all.
My last (co-op student) job was like that. I actually got an e-mail from them yesterday asking if I was interested in working for them again in January but I said no. (I've got at least one interview coming up soon.) I made sure they knew it was because such policies limit productivity.
If this customer service rep was not just a malcontent and really was telling the customer what was passed down from management, BMI is shooting itself in the foot.
A better strat for that is to pre-design the landscape so the outer edge of the entire map is a 1 tile wide waterfall, then build hydroelectric power on it. You can increment in small doses ($400/unit if I reall) and they never expire over time!
When you really think about the alternatives, I would prefer to be an uneducated troll as opposed to being an educated troll. The latter would mean that I was JohnKatz :-P
I see the message but the PGP key fingerprint does not match his key on the server for some reason. (Not that the meassage isn't accurate.)
crain@icann.]org
fingerprint: 1AF4 F638 4B2D 3EF2 F9BA 99E4 8D85 69A7