at work we have a d-link di 614+ router that is someday going to alow all of our networked 'puters to use the cable modem. The funny thing is that the web interface has some javascript issues with IE and opera on win32 that don't exist on my linux machine. Yes it works with moz and galeon, and opera and even khtml under linux but says its broken under windows.
as a regulated utility, I believe that their profits are all so regulalted; 10% is typical. If this is correct in this case, if they lose say 1 million, then they can charge higher rates and end up make an extra 100,000 in extra profits.
I just checked, MSN.com seems to work just fine in opera. I've had a HotMail account that work just fine in netscape under linux. I guess wants and requires are two seperate things
1. the area that may have been damaged by the foam is up-wind from the engines no engine heat there. 2. don't know the altitude of the event but air temp drops drasticaly with altitude, 10K feet is about -10F, 33K feet is about -40-50F 3. Almost every thing shrinks as it freezes, water is the only exception I'm aware of.
I recall seeing an idea of an emergency re-entry capsule that was basicaly a de-orbit engine that was fired then the astronaut was to get in between two plastic bags that were to be filled with a foam insulation for heat protection.
I don't think that any OS would be up to snuff for this, they need both real-time and almost absolute reliability. Don't get me wrong, I love my Linux and I'm being impressed with WindowsXP, but I don't think I'd trust either to keep me out of a flat spin at Mach 20.
I designed a computerized inventory system a few years ago at work. It really worked and all but it also took longer to use than the old pencil, paper and catalog system it replaced. My co-workers at first chaffed at the paper-work and soon outright sabatage.
My boss had assigned me an hour block of time for training on my baby, where I stood up in front of the whole office and said 'You guys hate this all ready don't you? Everybody agreed, I continued, 'It was one of those good ideas that just don't work out in real life, just because you can put a screw in a board with a hammer doesn't mean you should throw ou your screw drivers; we doing it the old way from now on'. Now my ideas are respected more than ever because people now I'm not above giving up on a lost cause.
A very long time ago, I took a class called systems analysis. In this class they taught to design computer systems by using very radical technics like; Asking people how they work
watching them work to make sure they did what they said they were doing or even working with them
Asking people what would make there work easier, faster
Letting them make changes to the user interface and participate in testing
It sounds like all of they radical ideas never took. If the workers don't like say using MS office, then get new people. If the business doesn't fit a Quickbooks template, change your bussiness rules. Why do Games work for their users and business programs don't is an easy one, Game programmers play games, bussiness programmers usualy don't run businesses they work for them.
A general rule, though, is that one must hold a PE to legally represent themselves as engaged in practice of "professional engineering".
Its common for there to be several classes of people working in engineering. Example my wife's ex-husband is an Engineer working for one of the automotive manifactures, but he is not a professional engineer like an person graduating form a college engineering curiculum, he's an overpaid mechanic, not even a certified mechanic at that.
Having said that it's obvious that MCSE's or RCSE are not licensed professional engineers, but I expect that more than a trivial number of licensed professional electronic engineers have the cert's if only for grins and giggles.
With CGI-Shell Anyone can execute ANYTHING on the web server as the web server user (nobody).
Not on my host's server, cgi programs run as my userid. If it ran as nobody who'd care; almost no permissions for anything, but running as my UID definate potential for damage if the password is guessed. Well at least to my stuff!
I think 90v ac is minimum ring voltage, typical is usualy more like 100v, voltage on-hook is usualy about 48 volts(phone hung up) and drops to about 12V DC when 600 ohms of immpeadance is connected like when you pick up the phone.
as for hooking up DSL modems to a dry pair, i've heard of it being done, just done know how. also the telco may have put a filter on the lines that'll keep dsl from working.
Cyber-Soldier> OMG Sir. our Sadamizer worm has breached containment! Col> Quick, lock-down the instalation Cyber-Soldier> too late one of the MP's computer has AOL instant messanger and it's out on the internet now Col > How could has this happened? Cyber-Soldier> our 4 character password with no numbers or special characters just to weak as outlined in my memo dated yesterday. Col> Do we have plausable denighablitiy? Cyber-Soldier> Sure we'll blame some British guy. Col> I guess we'll never crack Sadam Hussain's e-mail password now will we? Cyber-Soldier> Sir maybe I should go undercover, get a bunch of security experts to battle this thing. Col> Good Idea, now excuse me, I going inside my office to get drunk and am going to shoot my self
It would be nice if the local DNS servers had a list of valid top level domains so that it would kill requests to non-existant ones
what happens if I set up my bind so it firstly queries the normal ICANN approved TLD, then use say Pacific Root's root server for unofficial TLD's. Now if i query for bbc.news, the official root server say non-existant while Pacific root happily sends me on my way to the BBC's news site.
I know that things will work better if I convice my ISP to use Pacific Root TLD'snot in the normal 7 TLD's and use their properly configured, richly cached DNS server for a fast response but they're boneheads and who cares if the root servers are jammed with bogus requests?
I don't think the MD5 is even going to be that usefull to ID the music. While I've never tried it, I'd say if you ripped a track off a CD and encoded it to MP3 twice in a row, that each MP3 file would have drasticaly differant MD5 checksums just due to random errors and differences in the rip that are inaudable to the ear.
I don't understand why you'd pay tax when you buy something locally, but wouldn't if you order it from a remote place.
Simply because the state I'm selling remotly to can't force me to collect the tax from the customer, so I don't. The customer is still liable for paying the tax to his home state it just that I'm not collecting it from the customer, telling his home state he made the purchase and didn't pay the tax and neither is he.
When I purchase stuff online and it has to be sent to my APO address I get taxed with the outrageously high California tax, just because my APO address begins there and is then shipped over here. I'm sure that this is wrong, not you but it's a missintreperatation of CA's law. California's and New York's laws cover their states not soldiers and sailors stationed physicaly in foriegn countries, just because the APO or NPO, Army Post Office or Navy Post Offices zip code is in CA or NY doesn't mean that those states have jurisdiction over people serviced by those zip codes. For those/.'s not aware of this, the army/navy operates a postal system for the soldiers and sailors benifit. These systems have zip code typicaly in CA or NY as hand-off points to the military systems. Several benifits to the Service Member is that the mail does not have to go through a foriegn country's sometimes less reliable mail system and as their units are physicaly move, their mail automaticaly follows. Furthermore civilians often establish a vendor agreement with the AAFES or NEX, Army/Air Force Exchange System or Navy Exchange and sell goods and services that are exempt from state sales and use taxes, because they are taking place on federal property, which is foriegn to the surrounding state. Just because a website in California isn't astute enough to recognise that they are making remote sales doesn't mean they are correct. you are probably due refunds, or at least an income tax deductions for taxes paid to a foriegn government. Technicaly many Indian reservations are foriegn to their surrounding states and sales should be exempt unless the goods or services cross the boarder back into state jurisdiction.
Of course IANAL or CPA so check with your own pro's about this.
Your wrong about a couple points, what they want to do is collect from you taxes you owe your own state. If you buy from a website in North Dakota and live in South Dakota, so South Dakota wants the website in ND to collect from you for the sale/use of goods for use in SD for them. Previously there was no way for SD to compell the website in ND to comply. Very likely you owe your state use taxes on the goods you bought in London, but are using in your home state. There is nothing that I'm aware of that keeps SD and ND from passing laws requiring retailers in their states from collecting and paying to the states their use taxes.
Actualy most sale/use tax laws are difficult for businesses to completely understand, add in how the courts have interperated many cases, its means a mom and pop operation on the internet, or telephone sales, or mail-order would have to hire 50 laywers in the 50 some States and territories. If they manage to clean up the mess of laws in the various states, and come up with a easy reporting system, it's likely to happen.
Would they still make music, just getting money off of concerts and stuff?
I don't think that most bands realy make money from sales anyways, the lables make sure that overhead expenses eat up most of the profits. What we hear now is the stuff that's almost guarenteed to be popular or the cookie-cutter crap that we hear. I heard about a band that sold a quarter of a million albums and ended up oweing the record company $28,000.00 in promotional expenses.
I hope this doesn't do more for Microsoft against The Competition(tm) of Linux and Unix than M$ could ever do. What an opportunity for M$ to sieze upon! Oh the sweet irony of this, the first time I touch anything even remoutly like Unix it was a SCO Xenix running on a 25Mhz 80386 w/o math co-processor in an IBM ps2. Every shell script in the machine had copyright notices for both SCO and Microsoft
Basicaly I agree with you and alot of people do know, but one of our employees did this. She wanted to install AOL 8.0 on her computer at home, so she unistalled the previous version from her machine on her own, then popped in the 8.0 cd and found out it was an upgrade only. So she formated her C: drive and reinstalled Win98 to get the aol from the OEM, then upgraded to WinME then installed the AOL8.0 upgrade taking four hours to get it all working.
Now do people like this know what a scrollbar means?
I handle qwerty's Email by FTP, I upload a 0 length file to the server. Presently qwerty has 170,786,816 bytes of Email on the server.
Years ago I used to download it especialy looking for passwords and would go to the site and change them, but now there is just to much to bother with.
One of these days I'm going to learn enough about POP3 to figure out some things like
can I just download headers?
can I delete specific Email from the server w/o downloading the whole message?
or even find out how to delete the Email in a trash bin account in one or two clickes
They are not going to single out the internet. I'm sure that they would rather have six-pack joe who has never bought anything online think they were though.
It's not about a new tax, or an interstate commerce thing, its about almost every state has a sales/use tax, and those that don't specifical include goods shipped in from foriegn states could very probably interperate thier existing laws that way so its only a tax on what is inside that state.
What it is about is the states know that joe internet-shopper is a tax cheat; He's not paying his use taxes. Unfortunately for the state, it's not realy worth their effort to audit is bank and credit card record,unless they are auditing anyways. It's much easier and cheaper for the state to let retailers report and collect the taxes in aggregate as is all ready happening, also a lot more private for you. Alternately the states probably could pass laws requiring the banks credit card companies to report purchase from foriegn corperations to the state, hit a certain threshold and bingo an income tax audit and they hit you with the tax, do it again for a penalty, then charge you interest on it.
I'm sure that if the states can't get some kind of consortium going between them as a group, that individual states will develope reciprocity agreements
Some states exempt some items such as food and clothing even that isn't done very well in Michigan prepared food is taxed but groceries are exempt. It makes sense to me that a bugrer at the resturant is taxed but the ground beef at the grocery isn't; but I can't figure out why a bag of potato chips at the grocery store isn't, but the same bag of chips at the gas station is.
For this to work they are going to have to co-ordinate definitions to classify goods so that taxability can be defined, and as the above example shows it could very well be a double edged sword for the states involved.
Sales tax is a bit more honest because its added to the price for the customer to see. I wonder which state gets the tax when sombody orders with a billing info a Michigan address for his credit card, and ships to his second home in Florida? Or Even more common I buy a gift online, from Michigan and have it shipped to my son in Hawaii.
This will get even more interesting when Cities start complaining, some cities charge sales tax too.
Actualy your right, the car realy isn't a significant factor in the environment. Greenhouse gasses in order of warming potential are
SulpherOxide gasses, come predominatedly from Volcanoes
Methane, come predominately from farts with termites being the biggest source
Water vapor comes predominately from the oceans
Carbon Dioxide, cars put out an average of 2.5 lbs/day of CO2, People put out 3.5 lbs/day
Switching to a Hydrogen based economy is something that will happen eventualy but the benefits gained from it will be primarily psycological rather than practical
It seemed to me that cars going to the auto show are purposefully made outragious when they are impractical for some reason or another. Since there isn't a lot of hydrogen refueling stations around, and the thing would cost $250K, they make it a little outragious so people demand they make it in model year 2005.
If it's something more practical like the Prowler or PT Cruiser there not much outragious. If people start picketing the dealership's demanding that cool car they saw at the show, they can actualy start making them.
Oh about your sig, "People should be allowed to keep midgets as pets.", I had a co-worker who was a Dwarf, she could not reach the pedals on any car. Her car had hand-controls installed for the throtle and brakes.
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at work we have a d-link di 614+ router that is someday going to alow all of our networked 'puters to use the cable modem. The funny thing is that the web interface has some javascript issues with IE and opera on win32 that don't exist on my linux machine. Yes it works with moz and galeon, and opera and even khtml under linux but says its broken under windows.
as a regulated utility, I believe that their profits are all so regulalted; 10% is typical.
If this is correct in this case, if they lose say 1 million, then they can charge higher rates and end up make an extra 100,000 in extra profits.
I just checked, MSN.com seems to work just fine in opera. I've had a HotMail account that work just fine in netscape under linux. I guess wants and requires are two seperate things
1. the area that may have been damaged by the foam is up-wind from the engines no engine heat there.
2. don't know the altitude of the event but air temp drops drasticaly with altitude, 10K feet is about -10F, 33K feet is about -40-50F
3. Almost every thing shrinks as it freezes, water is the only exception I'm aware of.
I recall seeing an idea of an emergency re-entry capsule that was basicaly a de-orbit engine that was fired then the astronaut was to get in between two plastic bags that were to be filled with a foam insulation for heat protection.
I don't think that any OS would be up to snuff for this, they need both real-time and almost absolute reliability. Don't get me wrong, I love my Linux and I'm being impressed with WindowsXP, but I don't think I'd trust either to keep me out of a flat spin at Mach 20.
I designed a computerized inventory system a few years ago at work. It really worked and all but it also took longer to use than the old pencil, paper and catalog system it replaced. My co-workers at first chaffed at the paper-work and soon outright sabatage.
My boss had assigned me an hour block of time for training on my baby, where I stood up in front of the whole office and said 'You guys hate this all ready don't you? Everybody agreed, I continued, 'It was one of those good ideas that just don't work out in real life, just because you can put a screw in a board with a hammer doesn't mean you should throw ou your screw drivers; we doing it the old way from now on'. Now my ideas are respected more than ever because people now I'm not above giving up on a lost cause.
A very long time ago, I took a class called systems analysis. In this class they taught to design computer systems by using very radical technics like;
Asking people how they work
watching them work to make sure they did what they said they were doing or even working with them
Asking people what would make there work easier, faster
Letting them make changes to the user interface and participate in testing
It sounds like all of they radical ideas never took. If the workers don't like say using MS office, then get new people. If the business doesn't fit a Quickbooks template, change your bussiness rules. Why do Games work for their users and business programs don't is an easy one, Game programmers play games, bussiness programmers usualy don't run businesses they work for them.
A general rule, though, is that one must hold a PE to legally represent themselves as engaged in practice of "professional engineering".
Its common for there to be several classes of people working in engineering. Example my wife's ex-husband is an Engineer working for one of the automotive manifactures, but he is not a professional engineer like an person graduating form a college engineering curiculum, he's an overpaid mechanic, not even a certified mechanic at that.
Having said that it's obvious that MCSE's or RCSE are not licensed professional engineers, but I expect that more than a trivial number of licensed professional electronic engineers have the cert's if only for grins and giggles.
With CGI-Shell Anyone can execute ANYTHING on the web server as the web server user (nobody).
Not on my host's server, cgi programs run as my userid. If it ran as nobody who'd care; almost no permissions for anything, but running as my UID definate potential for damage if the password is guessed. Well at least to my stuff!
I think 90v ac is minimum ring voltage, typical is usualy more like 100v, voltage on-hook is usualy about 48 volts(phone hung up) and drops to about 12V DC when 600 ohms of immpeadance is connected like when you pick up the phone.
as for hooking up DSL modems to a dry pair, i've heard of it being done, just done know how. also the telco may have put a filter on the lines that'll keep dsl from working.
Cyber-Soldier> OMG Sir. our Sadamizer worm has breached containment!
Col> Quick, lock-down the instalation
Cyber-Soldier> too late one of the MP's computer has AOL instant messanger and it's out on the internet now
Col > How could has this happened?
Cyber-Soldier> our 4 character password with no numbers or special characters just to weak as outlined in my memo dated yesterday.
Col> Do we have plausable denighablitiy?
Cyber-Soldier> Sure we'll blame some British guy.
Col> I guess we'll never crack Sadam Hussain's e-mail password now will we?
Cyber-Soldier> Sir maybe I should go undercover, get a bunch of security experts to battle this thing.
Col> Good Idea, now excuse me, I going inside my office to get drunk and am going to shoot my self
It would be nice if the local DNS servers had a list of valid top level domains so that it would kill requests to non-existant ones
what happens if I set up my bind so it firstly queries the normal ICANN approved TLD, then use say Pacific Root's root server for unofficial TLD's. Now if i query for bbc.news, the official root server say non-existant while Pacific root happily sends me on my way to the BBC's news site.
I know that things will work better if I convice my ISP to use Pacific Root TLD'snot in the normal 7 TLD's and use their properly configured, richly cached DNS server for a fast response but they're boneheads and who cares if the root servers are jammed with bogus requests?
I don't think the MD5 is even going to be that usefull to ID the music. While I've never tried it, I'd say if you ripped a track off a CD and encoded it to MP3 twice in a row, that each MP3 file would have drasticaly differant MD5 checksums just due to random errors and differences in the rip that are inaudable to the ear.
I don't understand why you'd pay tax when you buy something locally, but wouldn't if you order it from a remote place.
Simply because the state I'm selling remotly to can't force me to collect the tax from the customer, so I don't. The customer is still liable for paying the tax to his home state it just that I'm not collecting it from the customer, telling his home state he made the purchase and didn't pay the tax and neither is he.
When I purchase stuff online and it has to be sent to my APO address I get taxed with the outrageously high California tax, just because my APO address begins there and is then shipped over here. /.'s not aware of this, the army/navy operates a postal system for the soldiers and sailors benifit. These systems have zip code typicaly in CA or NY as hand-off points to the military systems. Several benifits to the Service Member is that the mail does not have to go through a foriegn country's sometimes less reliable mail system and as their units are physicaly move, their mail automaticaly follows. Furthermore civilians often establish a vendor agreement with the AAFES or NEX, Army/Air Force Exchange System or Navy Exchange and sell goods and services that are exempt from state sales and use taxes, because they are taking place on federal property, which is foriegn to the surrounding state. Just because a website in California isn't astute enough to recognise that they are making remote sales doesn't mean they are correct. you are probably due refunds, or at least an income tax deductions for taxes paid to a foriegn government. Technicaly many Indian reservations are foriegn to their surrounding states and sales should be exempt unless the goods or services cross the boarder back into state jurisdiction.
I'm sure that this is wrong, not you but it's a missintreperatation of CA's law. California's and New York's laws cover their states not soldiers and sailors stationed physicaly in foriegn countries, just because the APO or NPO, Army Post Office or Navy Post Offices zip code is in CA or NY doesn't mean that those states have jurisdiction over people serviced by those zip codes. For those
Of course IANAL or CPA so check with your own pro's about this.
Your wrong about a couple points, what they want to do is collect from you taxes you owe your own state. If you buy from a website in North Dakota and live in South Dakota, so South Dakota wants the website in ND to collect from you for the sale/use of goods for use in SD for them. Previously there was no way for SD to compell the website in ND to comply. Very likely you owe your state use taxes on the goods you bought in London, but are using in your home state. There is nothing that I'm aware of that keeps SD and ND from passing laws requiring retailers in their states from collecting and paying to the states their use taxes.
Actualy most sale/use tax laws are difficult for businesses to completely understand, add in how the courts have interperated many cases, its means a mom and pop operation on the internet, or telephone sales, or mail-order would have to hire 50 laywers in the 50 some States and territories. If they manage to clean up the mess of laws in the various states, and come up with a easy reporting system, it's likely to happen.
Would they still make music, just getting money off of concerts and stuff?
I don't think that most bands realy make money from sales anyways, the lables make sure that overhead expenses eat up most of the profits. What we hear now is the stuff that's almost guarenteed to be popular or the cookie-cutter crap that we hear. I heard about a band that sold a quarter of a million albums and ended up oweing the record company $28,000.00 in promotional expenses.
I hope this doesn't do more for Microsoft against The Competition(tm) of Linux and Unix than M$ could ever do. What an opportunity for M$ to sieze upon!
Oh the sweet irony of this, the first time I touch anything even remoutly like Unix it was a SCO Xenix running on a 25Mhz 80386 w/o math co-processor in an IBM ps2. Every shell script in the machine had copyright notices for both SCO and Microsoft
Basicaly I agree with you and alot of people do know, but one of our employees did this. She wanted to install AOL 8.0 on her computer at home, so she unistalled the previous version from her machine on her own, then popped in the 8.0 cd and found out it was an upgrade only. So she formated her C: drive and reinstalled Win98 to get the aol from the OEM, then upgraded to WinME then installed the AOL8.0 upgrade taking four hours to get it all working.
Now do people like this know what a scrollbar means?
Years ago I used to download it especialy looking for passwords and would go to the site and change them, but now there is just to much to bother with.
One of these days I'm going to learn enough about POP3 to figure out some things like
They are not going to single out the internet. I'm sure that they would rather have six-pack joe who has never bought anything online think they were though.
It's not about a new tax, or an interstate commerce thing, its about almost every state has a sales/use tax, and those that don't specifical include goods shipped in from foriegn states could very probably interperate thier existing laws that way so its only a tax on what is inside that state.
What it is about is the states know that joe internet-shopper is a tax cheat; He's not paying his use taxes. Unfortunately for the state, it's not realy worth their effort to audit is bank and credit card record,unless they are auditing anyways.
It's much easier and cheaper for the state to let retailers report and collect the taxes in aggregate as is all ready happening, also a lot more private for you. Alternately the states probably could pass laws requiring the banks credit card companies to report purchase from foriegn corperations to the state, hit a certain threshold and bingo an income tax audit and they hit you with the tax, do it again for a penalty, then charge you interest on it.
I'm sure that if the states can't get some kind of consortium going between them as a group, that individual states will develope reciprocity agreements
Some states exempt some items such as food and clothing even that isn't done very well in Michigan prepared food is taxed but groceries are exempt. It makes sense to me that a bugrer at the resturant is taxed but the ground beef at the grocery isn't; but I can't figure out why a bag of potato chips at the grocery store isn't, but the same bag of chips at the gas station is.
For this to work they are going to have to co-ordinate definitions to classify goods so that taxability can be defined, and as the above example shows it could very well be a double edged sword for the states involved.
Sales tax is a bit more honest because its added to the price for the customer to see. I wonder which state gets the tax when sombody orders with a billing info a Michigan address for his credit card, and ships to his second home in Florida? Or Even more common I buy a gift online, from Michigan and have it shipped to my son in Hawaii.
This will get even more interesting when Cities start complaining, some cities charge sales tax too.
Switching to a Hydrogen based economy is something that will happen eventualy but the benefits gained from it will be primarily psycological rather than practical
It seemed to me that cars going to the auto show are purposefully made outragious when they are impractical for some reason or another. Since there isn't a lot of hydrogen refueling stations around, and the thing would cost $250K, they make it a little outragious so people demand they make it in model year 2005.
If it's something more practical like the Prowler or PT Cruiser there not much outragious. If people start picketing the dealership's demanding that cool car they saw at the show, they can actualy start making them.
Oh about your sig, "People should be allowed to keep midgets as pets.", I had a co-worker who was a Dwarf, she could not reach the pedals on any car. Her car had hand-controls installed for the throtle and brakes.