You are correct - Ron Paul has, and I didn't say success was a measure of the quality of the legislation... I merely pointed out that nothing that particular Senator has pushed through recently has made it through, indicating he's not the most effective senator out there.
Ok folks - I live in SC - So I can say with some certanty - CALM DOWN.
1) This is just a BILL introduced in the Senate. I don't see anything on the House calendar indicating that it was also filed there, and if there was a SERIOUS push to make this happen, you'd see a similar bill in the house.
2) He submitted this SAME BILL the last THREE sessions. Thats the last 6 years. See session 117, 116 and 115. Quite frankly I didn't go back any further but he may have introduced this same bill before that, too. EVERY TIME this bill has been introduced, it has died in committee.
3) This guy has a terrible clearance rate. ZERO general bills on which he's the primary sponsor have passed in the last few sessions.
4) I bet if you look, you'll find this same type of legislation popping up in other state houses or county councils... and dying just as quickly. Someone's always going to try - doesn't mean they'll get anywhere and DOES NOT mean to freak out.
I've used DCL for years - as an issue and time tracking system. I even wrote some code to generate some reports out of it that I use directly for billing clients... Works like a champ...
I am a little biased b/c I was added to the project team this past year, but still... great product.... and no where near pre-alpha stage.
As a small business owner, I can certainly fathom why this happens - even if I do find the idea repulsive.
At my office, if my employees don't get paid for certain hours, its because they didn't enter them in the system. They are responsible for ensuring that their billable + nonbillable hours total is correct. They enter it. There is no punch in/punch out system, although we have considered it.
Hence, if their number of hours is wrong, it's their own damned fault - or a typo (hey, it happens - but we allways make it right on the next cycle). We routinely have 1-2 hours of overtime per pay cycle per person. They get every penny, and that's how it should be!
osCommerce is HORRIBLY buggy, poorly written and extremely difficult to extend. We run it for one of our websites only because the customer brought it to us as a partially-implemented website and we (us + the customer) stupidly decided to stick with it instead of spending the time to write a custom one, thinking it MIGHT take less time and less of the customer's money. We (us + customer) seriously regret this decision now, as we (us + customer) have lost an incredible amount of time and they (the customer) have had to pay LOTS of money (to us) keeping it running. Yeah, someone out there will say that I benefitted monetarily from the decision (because of the money they had to pay us), and you are right. But I consider that a negative for customer relations. Thankfully we were finally able to start the process of scrapping this piece of junk and writing something sensible.
Not to mention, osCommerce it is a WEB STOREFRONT, not a CRM or accounting package.
First, does this REALLY come as a surprise to anyone?
And is this really a problem? I know folks who are just now getting a cell phone - and they are 26-27 years old. I don't personally see how they ever lived without one, but I rely on mine for business, and I'm ususally so busy it is the ONLY way to find me. Same with a computer. I NEED to know what GHz, MHz, Bluetooth, WIFI, etc, etc etc is. I WORK in the industry. Does the average joe REALLY need a clue or even need most of this technology in their lives? Does it really even make their lives "easier?" You know what "they" say - "ignorance is bliss."
Changing addresses isn't just about renumbering your network and fixing each computer. IPv4 had a really "elegant" (and by "elegant" I mean "crapily hacked together to make work") fix called DHCP that meant, if you did your work upfront to assign everything a "static" ip from the DHCP server based on MAC address, then you'd just change the info on the server and be done with it.
The problem is changing the 1000s of DNS entries. One of the ASPs I work with host something in the realm of 200 domains. they currently have a class C from Sprint. That's about 400-600 DNS entries that need to be changed. Okay, some are CNAMES, some (like MX records) all point to the same hostname, but it still is a pain and cleanup all the records that are A records... They drop sprint, though they use BGP and have another connection coming in, they lose that IP range and have to go through the hell of fixing 400 DNS entries. The servers' IP addresses are a SNAP by comparison.
The IPv6 has the same problem, unless someone came up with a way to fix it...
I have a question - Why do IPv6 addresses cost so darned much if you want your own block direct from ARIN (or another RIR)? For a/32, they are charging $2500/year. Is that just to keep people from applying for their own "personal"/32 address space?
I mean, I understood why IPv4 addresses cost so damned much - there was a really limited supply. (Having taken econ in high school and college, I'd like to think I understand the basics of supply and demand.)
I thought the point of ipv6 was that there was so huge a supply that it really didn't matter. So - then - WHY do they charge so much for blocks? $2500/year is a lot! Yeah, I know, on a PER ADDRESS basis it is nil, but still!
One problem with that - once you update you can never go back - not even through reinstalling. Quickbooks automatically "updates" its company data file with the new version - even incremental patches. Once it has done that, the file can never be used on a previous version.
Quickbooks is a very evil program. I still use it only because I have little choice. It is cheap and we don't have time to develop our own.
We have an accounting clerk take the tape on a daily basis to the bank next door. He also has to sign on a log saying he did it and then someone else comes by, verifies he did it, and then signs next to him on the log.
"No politians are involved anywhere in the decision making process... [O]nly the electoral commision can make decisions regarding them. Although anyone can appeal to the commision's court, for a recount or re vote or something. Whether such appeals are successful is another matter."
Who decides who gets to be on the election commission? Who is in charge of it? Is it an elected position? Appointed? What about the judges on the appeals court?
If you and the rest of Austrailia think politicians can't get their hands in it, you are all very naive.
"Verisign has taken it upon themselves to hijack my identity and expose me to litigation! At least they let me know!"
Has this happened to anyone else? I'm a bit skeptical of this. This could really land Verisign into some HOT HOT HOT water. It ain't like Verisign is going to target ONE person. If this has only happened to ONE person, then perhaps someone else registered the domain. What other domains does this guy have? Anything similar? Info Info info!!!! The slashback doesn't give much!
I skimmed the TOS and found some interesting notes.
You may be asked from time to time to provide marketing support as a condition for your continued participation in the Joltage Network. Such marketing support may include posting postcards, signage, stickers etc. on your premises and including Joltage's logo on your marketing material.
So, if I'm a business, and I have setup a Joltage system, I can be required to put their logo in my marketing propoganda if I want to remain a Joltage "service provider"? Yuck.
Company providing a huge piece of software for one of my clients - "It has been tested and we have X (don't remember exact number - greater than 5) using it remotely." We ask - how? Terminal services? VPN? PCA? "Oh directly over the network, some via a 56k dialup". Uh huh. Most were using PCA (unacceptable for my client's applications). None were using terminal services, and none had implemented the package in anywhere but the home office.
I had to write a special app just to get it to work on terminal server. Running it over a Point to Point T1 line was too slow, so even the folks in customer's biggest remote office (connected via the FULL point-to-point T1) have to use terminal services.
Same company: oh, sure the database is stable. And the ODBC driver works well.
FEH
Can't complain too much - their bugs keeps my company busy and hence well paid.
Problem with VNC on Windows - Client works fine, server works fine for remote administration but works better on *NIX for true remote desktop work. One can actually have multiple concurrent sessions on VNC for *NIX under X. One can not do that in Windows.
Besides, VNC doesn't include encryption. You can tunnel it through a VPN or SSH or IPSEC etc, but that's it.
Don't get me wrong - I LOVE VNC - I use it at EVERY client site as a remote administration and troubleshooting tool on Windows. I've sat on the mailing list in the past. Quentin Stafford-Fraiser, Wez & co at AT&T labs and Cambridge U. do an OUTSTANDING job - but there are limitations (in MS Windows, mind you - not VNC) that make it not so great for Windows remote desktop applications. Built in encryption would be nice too.
None (or, very very limited). I think that is the point - when the article talks of the counter-intelligence uses for this material, cell phone signals would fall under the same category as other EM signals.
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I didn't say that they shouldn't have killed the sequels as they were designed at the time... I'm just saying they should bring the series back now!
Ok - it was cheesy... lucas arts killed all the sequels... and the game was linear and short... SO WHAT? It was still a FUN GAME!
You are correct - Ron Paul has, and I didn't say success was a measure of the quality of the legislation... I merely pointed out that nothing that particular Senator has pushed through recently has made it through, indicating he's not the most effective senator out there.
Tell me about it... (no - don't really - just an expression). They've been electing him since 1993.
Ok folks - I live in SC - So I can say with some certanty - CALM DOWN.
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1) This is just a BILL introduced in the Senate. I don't see anything on the House calendar indicating that it was also filed there, and if there was a SERIOUS push to make this happen, you'd see a similar bill in the house.
2) He submitted this SAME BILL the last THREE sessions. Thats the last 6 years. See session 117, 116 and 115. Quite frankly I didn't go back any further but he may have introduced this same bill before that, too. EVERY TIME this bill has been introduced, it has died in committee.
3) This guy has a terrible clearance rate. ZERO general bills on which he's the primary sponsor have passed in the last few sessions
4) I bet if you look, you'll find this same type of legislation popping up in other state houses or county councils... and dying just as quickly. Someone's always going to try - doesn't mean they'll get anywhere and DOES NOT mean to freak out.
un you sure you're reading that correctly?
I've used DCL for years - as an issue and time tracking system. I even wrote some code to generate some reports out of it that I use directly for billing clients... Works like a champ... I am a little biased b/c I was added to the project team this past year, but still... great product.... and no where near pre-alpha stage.
Ding dong the witch is dead!
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2) Route your email through your ISP's mail server
One of my customers had this problem. We went through the steps on aol's postmaster.info site. They can now send email to AOL.
Another customer of mine had this problem, we ended up having to forward their mail through their ISP's mail server.
I don't see the problem.
As a small business owner, I can certainly fathom why this happens - even if I do find the idea repulsive.
At my office, if my employees don't get paid for certain hours, its because they didn't enter them in the system. They are responsible for ensuring that their billable + nonbillable hours total is correct. They enter it. There is no punch in/punch out system, although we have considered it.
Hence, if their number of hours is wrong, it's their own damned fault - or a typo (hey, it happens - but we allways make it right on the next cycle). We routinely have 1-2 hours of overtime per pay cycle per person. They get every penny, and that's how it should be!
Not to mention, osCommerce it is a WEB STOREFRONT, not a CRM or accounting package.
I give it 48 hours before Apple shoves a C&D right up their ass.
"Just Because"
And is this really a problem? I know folks who are just now getting a cell phone - and they are 26-27 years old. I don't personally see how they ever lived without one, but I rely on mine for business, and I'm ususally so busy it is the ONLY way to find me. Same with a computer. I NEED to know what GHz, MHz, Bluetooth, WIFI, etc, etc etc is. I WORK in the industry. Does the average joe REALLY need a clue or even need most of this technology in their lives? Does it really even make their lives "easier?" You know what "they" say - "ignorance is bliss."
The problem is changing the 1000s of DNS entries. One of the ASPs I work with host something in the realm of 200 domains. they currently have a class C from Sprint. That's about 400-600 DNS entries that need to be changed. Okay, some are CNAMES, some (like MX records) all point to the same hostname, but it still is a pain and cleanup all the records that are A records... They drop sprint, though they use BGP and have another connection coming in, they lose that IP range and have to go through the hell of fixing 400 DNS entries. The servers' IP addresses are a SNAP by comparison.
The IPv6 has the same problem, unless someone came up with a way to fix it...
I mean, I understood why IPv4 addresses cost so damned much - there was a really limited supply. (Having taken econ in high school and college, I'd like to think I understand the basics of supply and demand.)
I thought the point of ipv6 was that there was so huge a supply that it really didn't matter. So - then - WHY do they charge so much for blocks? $2500/year is a lot! Yeah, I know, on a PER ADDRESS basis it is nil, but still!
Anyone have an answer?
Or is it "because they can?"
Quickbooks is a very evil program. I still use it only because I have little choice. It is cheap and we don't have time to develop our own.
We have an accounting clerk take the tape on a daily basis to the bank next door. He also has to sign on a log saying he did it and then someone else comes by, verifies he did it, and then signs next to him on the log.
Who decides who gets to be on the election commission? Who is in charge of it? Is it an elected position? Appointed? What about the judges on the appeals court?
If you and the rest of Austrailia think politicians can't get their hands in it, you are all very naive.
Has this happened to anyone else? I'm a bit skeptical of this. This could really land Verisign into some HOT HOT HOT water. It ain't like Verisign is going to target ONE person. If this has only happened to ONE person, then perhaps someone else registered the domain. What other domains does this guy have? Anything similar? Info Info info!!!! The slashback doesn't give much!
I just did a search of the entire US on their site and didn't find ANY.
There are 5 in NY, three (including the "Joltage Headquarters") are OFF. So Joltage won't even provide its own service to people?
I found ONE in LA and ONE in Chicago. Both are off.
None in Atlanta, GA, Washington, DC, St. Louis, MO, Charlotte, NC.
They really need to improve their search feature. How do I know if I want to sign up if I can't get an acurate picture of coverage?
Yeah, let me pay you 25 USD/month for NOTHING. RIGHT.
Respond out of band using my email address above instead of posting it.
I had to write a special app just to get it to work on terminal server. Running it over a Point to Point T1 line was too slow, so even the folks in customer's biggest remote office (connected via the FULL point-to-point T1) have to use terminal services.
Same company: oh, sure the database is stable. And the ODBC driver works well.
FEH
Can't complain too much - their bugs keeps my company busy and hence well paid.
Besides, VNC doesn't include encryption. You can tunnel it through a VPN or SSH or IPSEC etc, but that's it.
Don't get me wrong - I LOVE VNC - I use it at EVERY client site as a remote administration and troubleshooting tool on Windows. I've sat on the mailing list in the past. Quentin Stafford-Fraiser, Wez & co at AT&T labs and Cambridge U. do an OUTSTANDING job - but there are limitations (in MS Windows, mind you - not VNC) that make it not so great for Windows remote desktop applications. Built in encryption would be nice too.
None (or, very very limited). I think that is the point - when the article talks of the counter-intelligence uses for this material, cell phone signals would fall under the same category as other EM signals.