Not a troll, seriously, but do you really push 100mbit through the firewall, at your house?
Depends on where you live, I guess. In these parts (northern Europe) it's pretty normal to have reasonably-priced >100mbps broadband connections that really do perform at >100mbps.
I get full speed when downloading things distributed via top-tier CDNs, like Apple/Microsoft/Firefox/Chrome updates and so on. Also the link is easily saturated by bittorrent.
The fact that nobody's died yet doesn't mean the risk is "exactly zero". If the pilot can't see, or he's injured or distracted, that can cause an accident. Nobody's died yet due to firecrackers going off on the cockpit of a plane, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
At no point should the justice system try to make an example out of anyone. Law should always be dealt evenly. The severity of punishment does nothing for deterrence, the only thing that helps serve as a warning is consistent enforcement of the law. To punish one person more than others so others take notice, has never worked, and is more of a sign of seeking vengeance than rehabilitation.
I am not saying that he should be punished more than other people. Everyone should be punished a lot for this sort of behavior, so that it is understood that doing this kind of thing gives you a little bit of stupid entertainment in exchange for the risk of a lot of misery.
He deliberately put people's lives at risk. If anything, the sentence is too short. He doesn't need to be in a maximum security facility, but he needs to be taken out of circulation for a while, both to teach him a lesson and to serve as a warning to others who might be tempted to do the same thing.
What's the spectrum coverage if you install one LED and one CFL in adjacent sockets? Does that solve much of the problem, or do they have the same gaps?
Where do I buy these in Europe? Home Depots are pretty thin on the ground in these parts. Cree's Italian site only has downlights, not the type in the links you provided.
If the Home Depot ones work at 230V/50Hz I'll have someone send me some from the USA. But none of the info I've found includes that level of spec details.
"Algorithms" aren't going to change because that requires a standard that must be followed by the transmitter and receiver. Unless s/he's upgrading from something like 802.11b to 802.11g, then there shouldn't be any such change.
Transmit Power mW (range: 0 - 400, actual max depends on Country selected; use 0 for hardware default)
Transmission Rate
Interference Mitigation
WMM
No ACK
APSD Mode
Wireless Multicast Forwarding
Obviously not all of these affect performance in high-interference situations but many of them do. It's not a matter of implementing 802.11whatever to the spec and then calling it a day. There are many opportunities for tuning leeway and therefore mitigation strategies â" i.e., "algorithms" â" that vendors can employ.
I.e. If your consulting brings in $160k in a year (and ignoring all the costs to you involved) and you give yourself that money, you could pay yourself a salary of $80k a year and pay yourself $80k in distributions. So you pay payroll taxes on 80k and you don't on the other 80k. 80k is a reasonable salary for most types of jobs (in this example - a software engineer.)
Yeah, the thing is that payroll taxes stop after about $107,000. So in many professions the difference between a reasonable salary and the top of the payroll tax isn't enough for this to be a good reason to do anything.
There are some inherent benefits to having an LLC. I'm able to purchase business equipment such as laptops, computers, supplies, etc... with pre-tax money which lets my dollars go much further.
What does this have to do with an LLC? A sole proprietor can do the same.
Except that having a corporation doesn't protect you in this case. Corporations are about separating your liability from the actions of other people, not from your own actions.
What you need in this case is general liability insurance, not a corporation.
The IT people are not going to change it in DNS because that would make the change organization-wide, before marketing has had a chance to proof it. Forcing 5,000 people to see the new web site before it's ready, just so that 3 people can test it, isn't the kind of decision-making that "competent" admins employ.
It's a very common situation that the people who want to test the site are in the marketing department, which could be a different facility or even a different company from the web developers.
Since the dawn of time, it's been typical for the marketing people to edit the hosts file to make a final review before authorizing something to go live.
I don't know what their technical resources are, and they are separate from mine. Insulting their IT staff in absentia isn't going to solve their problem.
Pinging the IP doesn't tell you that the web server is running, let alone configured to serve the proper content when queried with a specific Host: header.
If you think that ping is a good way to conclusively determine that a web site is ready for public deployment then, ahem, you aren't a competent admin.
Also, how many TV channels are in these triple play bundles? I'm paying Comcast $130 / month for 22 Mbps Internet, phone and cable TV service that includes 700+ channels.
What does 700 channels mean? Last time I was in the USA and flipped through the Comcast lineup, there were a whole lot of "channels" that were the same programming as another channel but one hour later, or a blank screen while shitty old music played, and so on. Maybe 100 actual channels that I'd say deserved the word. And that's about what I have in Europe on my triple-play package which is around $60/month for 50mbps internet.
And the phone service provides unlimited calls at no extra cost to the entire US - do Latvians get to call anyone in Europe for no extra charge?
I'd assume they do. Throwing in calls to Europe, USA, developed parts of Asia, etc., for free is pretty common these days. It doesn't cost them anything more to send a call to Australia than to the house next door, so why not?
I recently visited relatives in Malaysia, where there are a number of 4G providers (P1, Yes, umobile, etc) offering what seems like great prices by US standards. However, their real-world speeds are poor, coverage is spotty, monthly download quotas are 10% of what Comcast offers, and connection dropouts are common.
With the newer fiber providers in Malaysia, like Unifi and Time, you really do pretty much get the advertised speed (20mbps or whatever).
Malaysian wireless internet is a mess, true, but wireless internet is pretty much always a mess unless it's so expensive that almost nobody uses it.
get DSL for internet. $15 a month for slow service or $30 for faster service.
Faster?
I've been shopping for broadband for an office in Washington DC and the "fastest" Verizon offers is 7mbps down, 768kbps up for $90/month.
Granted, I don't live in the USA, but it has been many years since I've seen anything that slow. I get better speeds than that on my phone. How can that possibly be the top offering via a wire? At home I am paying half that much for a connection almost 10 times as fast, and I live in a country where broadband is considered expensive compared to the neighbors.
Ringing bells are also a lot less annoying than some guy screaming
A good muezzin is a beautiful thing to hear. And it's only 5 times a day instead of as many as 96, which you get from some churches. And the sound isn't as piercing as a bell.
and they tell the time, they don't do anything religious.
The call to prayer tells the time too, just at different intervals - and they're more connected to nature because they vary with the seasons.
Nevertheless, I don't see any real justification for allowing churches or mosques or any other religious group to be exempt from noise laws. If you want to be reminded what time it is every 15 minutes, or when to pray, get an app for your phone and leave the rest of us in peace. This is not the year 1500.
The connection is that when you understand yourself and your environment, you have a better mastery of cause and effect and are therefore more confident, which is the critical underpinning of good leadership.
Letting kids sit wherever they want is completely chaotic and results in kids talking with their friends and not paying attention.
I've attended many different schools with many different educational philosophies. Some were of the sit-where-you-like variety and they were no more chaotic than the others. What made the difference was the degree to which the kids were already disposed to behave (by home and previous school experience), and the degree to which teachers were able to manage the classroom. Seating had nothing to do with it.
What's wrong with energy efficiency?
Natural light is more energy-efficient than fluorescent. I am not aware that enforcing uniform patterns for floor tile installation has a measurable impact on energy usage.
Having kids run around freely isn't very conductive to the school process.
How is this relevant to "mandatory evacuation"? I'm too old to have experienced this; we were always allowed to hang around the schools I attended until the building closed around dinnertime. I am not sure how that adversely affected the "school process". Can you elaborate?
This is to reduce support costs and improve student safety online, same as any sane workplace. If you want to be a magical hacker rebel, go do it at home and don't vandalize school property
Workplaces with aggressive internet policing have lower morale and productivity. School is a place to learn. Exploration and experimentation are critical parts of learning. If your IT department can't set up the computers to re-image periodically then something's seriously wrong with your HR department.
Love the bartering example. Try that at the hardware store, or the grocery store, or, well, almost anywhere. It only works in specific instances.
I always haggle (not "barter", that means to trade for goods/services instead of paying with money) at the hardware store, and many other people do too. Not if I'm buying a $1.39 pack of screws, but definitely if I'm buying a $100 drill. It works almost all the time.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to avoid bankruptcy when your primary business has been shut down.
By chance I walked by their HQ the other day (it's across the street from our obstetrician's office). Place looked like a ghost town. No activity or people visible inside (not that I went up and stuck my face to the glass), no comings or goings.
The www may not be "required" but it's much more difficult to run a reliable site without it since you then can't use CNAME records to cheaply eliminate a single point of failure.
There's more to the internet than the web, remember.
Same here. WTF is the point of using tabs for email? If I want multiple messages open, it's BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE THEM AT THE SAME TIME. The whole thing felt like using webmail, the avoidance of which is exactly why I was using a desktop email client in the first place.
Still on 2.0.0.24 and apparently I'll still be on it for a long time â" especially since a commenter above said that the "redirect" plugin no longer works in 5.0. Why on earth they are so rabidly resistant to adding that basic feature I'll never understand.
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Already happening.
Depends on where you live, I guess. In these parts (northern Europe) it's pretty normal to have reasonably-priced >100mbps broadband connections that really do perform at >100mbps.
I get full speed when downloading things distributed via top-tier CDNs, like Apple/Microsoft/Firefox/Chrome updates and so on. Also the link is easily saturated by bittorrent.
How about in Italy?
(Yes, I know it was overturned on appeal, but still...)
The fact that nobody's died yet doesn't mean the risk is "exactly zero". If the pilot can't see, or he's injured or distracted, that can cause an accident. Nobody's died yet due to firecrackers going off on the cockpit of a plane, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
I am not saying that he should be punished more than other people. Everyone should be punished a lot for this sort of behavior, so that it is understood that doing this kind of thing gives you a little bit of stupid entertainment in exchange for the risk of a lot of misery.
He deliberately put people's lives at risk. If anything, the sentence is too short. He doesn't need to be in a maximum security facility, but he needs to be taken out of circulation for a while, both to teach him a lesson and to serve as a warning to others who might be tempted to do the same thing.
What's the spectrum coverage if you install one LED and one CFL in adjacent sockets? Does that solve much of the problem, or do they have the same gaps?
Where do I buy these in Europe? Home Depots are pretty thin on the ground in these parts. Cree's Italian site only has downlights, not the type in the links you provided.
If the Home Depot ones work at 230V/50Hz I'll have someone send me some from the USA. But none of the info I've found includes that level of spec details.
I'd rather spend $5 on gas than $10 on electricity to get the same heat.
Wifi settings on my router:
Obviously not all of these affect performance in high-interference situations but many of them do. It's not a matter of implementing 802.11whatever to the spec and then calling it a day. There are many opportunities for tuning leeway and therefore mitigation strategies â" i.e., "algorithms" â" that vendors can employ.
Yeah, the thing is that payroll taxes stop after about $107,000. So in many professions the difference between a reasonable salary and the top of the payroll tax isn't enough for this to be a good reason to do anything.
What does this have to do with an LLC? A sole proprietor can do the same.
Except that having a corporation doesn't protect you in this case. Corporations are about separating your liability from the actions of other people, not from your own actions.
What you need in this case is general liability insurance, not a corporation.
The IT people are not going to change it in DNS because that would make the change organization-wide, before marketing has had a chance to proof it. Forcing 5,000 people to see the new web site before it's ready, just so that 3 people can test it, isn't the kind of decision-making that "competent" admins employ.
It's a very common situation that the people who want to test the site are in the marketing department, which could be a different facility or even a different company from the web developers.
Since the dawn of time, it's been typical for the marketing people to edit the hosts file to make a final review before authorizing something to go live.
I don't know what their technical resources are, and they are separate from mine. Insulting their IT staff in absentia isn't going to solve their problem.
Pinging the IP doesn't tell you that the web server is running, let alone configured to serve the proper content when queried with a specific Host: header.
If you think that ping is a good way to conclusively determine that a web site is ready for public deployment then, ahem, you aren't a competent admin.
What does 700 channels mean? Last time I was in the USA and flipped through the Comcast lineup, there were a whole lot of "channels" that were the same programming as another channel but one hour later, or a blank screen while shitty old music played, and so on. Maybe 100 actual channels that I'd say deserved the word. And that's about what I have in Europe on my triple-play package which is around $60/month for 50mbps internet.
I'd assume they do. Throwing in calls to Europe, USA, developed parts of Asia, etc., for free is pretty common these days. It doesn't cost them anything more to send a call to Australia than to the house next door, so why not?
With the newer fiber providers in Malaysia, like Unifi and Time, you really do pretty much get the advertised speed (20mbps or whatever).
Malaysian wireless internet is a mess, true, but wireless internet is pretty much always a mess unless it's so expensive that almost nobody uses it.
Faster?
I've been shopping for broadband for an office in Washington DC and the "fastest" Verizon offers is 7mbps down, 768kbps up for $90/month.
Granted, I don't live in the USA, but it has been many years since I've seen anything that slow. I get better speeds than that on my phone. How can that possibly be the top offering via a wire? At home I am paying half that much for a connection almost 10 times as fast, and I live in a country where broadband is considered expensive compared to the neighbors.
A good muezzin is a beautiful thing to hear. And it's only 5 times a day instead of as many as 96, which you get from some churches. And the sound isn't as piercing as a bell.
The call to prayer tells the time too, just at different intervals - and they're more connected to nature because they vary with the seasons.
Nevertheless, I don't see any real justification for allowing churches or mosques or any other religious group to be exempt from noise laws. If you want to be reminded what time it is every 15 minutes, or when to pray, get an app for your phone and leave the rest of us in peace. This is not the year 1500.
The connection is that when you understand yourself and your environment, you have a better mastery of cause and effect and are therefore more confident, which is the critical underpinning of good leadership.
I've attended many different schools with many different educational philosophies. Some were of the sit-where-you-like variety and they were no more chaotic than the others. What made the difference was the degree to which the kids were already disposed to behave (by home and previous school experience), and the degree to which teachers were able to manage the classroom. Seating had nothing to do with it.
Natural light is more energy-efficient than fluorescent. I am not aware that enforcing uniform patterns for floor tile installation has a measurable impact on energy usage.
How is this relevant to "mandatory evacuation"? I'm too old to have experienced this; we were always allowed to hang around the schools I attended until the building closed around dinnertime. I am not sure how that adversely affected the "school process". Can you elaborate?
Workplaces with aggressive internet policing have lower morale and productivity. School is a place to learn. Exploration and experimentation are critical parts of learning. If your IT department can't set up the computers to re-image periodically then something's seriously wrong with your HR department.
I always haggle (not "barter", that means to trade for goods/services instead of paying with money) at the hardware store, and many other people do too. Not if I'm buying a $1.39 pack of screws, but definitely if I'm buying a $100 drill. It works almost all the time.
By chance I walked by their HQ the other day (it's across the street from our obstetrician's office). Place looked like a ghost town. No activity or people visible inside (not that I went up and stuck my face to the glass), no comings or goings.
The www may not be "required" but it's much more difficult to run a reliable site without it since you then can't use CNAME records to cheaply eliminate a single point of failure.
There's more to the internet than the web, remember.
Same here. WTF is the point of using tabs for email? If I want multiple messages open, it's BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE THEM AT THE SAME TIME. The whole thing felt like using webmail, the avoidance of which is exactly why I was using a desktop email client in the first place.
Still on 2.0.0.24 and apparently I'll still be on it for a long time â" especially since a commenter above said that the "redirect" plugin no longer works in 5.0. Why on earth they are so rabidly resistant to adding that basic feature I'll never understand.