I imagine that most major carriers have backup plans. For instance I remember reading that Comcast will use @iComcast.net to replace @home.com. Yesterday I received a letter via snail mail from AT&T Broadband stating that should the need arise they would switch over to @attbi.com (AT&T Broadband Internet) and would be calling every individual subscriber by phone! AT&T gains points in my book if they do actually call all of us. Hopefully they will.
this is seriously offtopic but it reminds me of a bbspot (i think) bit i saw about anthrax:
Q: Why are Americans likely targets for Anthrax attacks?
A: Anthrax is a disease found primarily in sheep and cattle. Americans share many similarities with sheep and cattle as they are easily herded and frighten quickly.
This is of course one of the first human cloning successes (that we've been told about). Let's remember that there are bound to be mishaps in early development, but at present methods and reliability have improved greatly with cows. More human successes can't be too far off.
I didn't say we should feel guilty I said we have to accept responsibility for being the most powerful show on the planet. If we say we support democracy and freedom etc etc then we should do so, not just when it is convenient.
If one looks to history one can find a myriad of ways wars could have been prevented. Could this war have been prevented if such broad public apathy wasn't the song of the day? Must every war be so brutal (ten years of Iraqis dying of disease and famine)? I know I'm preaching to the choir, but good God why are we (the American public in general namely) such an ignorant and arrogant group of bastards?
I don't buy the cultural imperialism argument (flooding countries around the world with Nike and Starbucks ads) as warranting such discontent. Hell, it's not like it's OUR culture either, Nike and Starbucks were thrust upon us just as they are/were other cultures.
Now political imperialism is another story. But it seems more distorted than the old Cold War mantra of "spreading freedom and democracy." Americans bleed oil. If we want to keep driving big cars and paying $1+ for gas then we better hope to God the the people of Saudi Arabia, etc. don't get a democracy. For decades the ruling families/parties of the Middle East have neglected to share their oil wealth in ways that make the US look like Finland or Sweden. I am disappointed and saddened that the country I still love (what potential we have) would support and perpetuate oppressive regimes.
I hope this "bioterrorism" FUD doesn't materialize into anthing more than an unholy media ratings campaign. Yes, there are real dangers, but, there have always been those dangers. So please, turn off CNN Headline News, MSNBC, the Oreilly Factor, etc. Instead listen to NPR, read the BBC and ArabNews (www.arabnews.com), and watch CSPAN. And please don't be charmed by the devilishly enigmatic Rumsfeld. (yeah its foxnews but its funny)
As citizens of (a) free society(ies) we are free to choose to be as apathetic as we wish, but we are still bound by the nature of our government. When everyone has a voice if you abstain from expressing yourself you choose to defer your decision to someone else (namely the collective of those that do voice themselves). It's idealistic yes, but if we (again US people) hold our Constitution as ideal, then ideally we have no one to blame but ourselves.
In recent centuries nealy every region of the world has made some progress. It hasn't all been equal but at least there has been some. (I am reminded of the guy in Nepal that is trying to setup an ISP for his town). However, one region has fallen into even deeper chaos and despair, Africa. Will the "enlightened" citizens of a new global community let the dark continent stay that way? Or will we have the heart to finally bring millions of people out of decades of misery (ie - cheap/free medical care, education, civil improvement projects)?
while this idea is a sound theory of economics, your numbers are arbitrary and meaningless. no offence but i trust people with careers in maximizing profits over the long term more than i do random numbers. -here are just a few realities facing production costs vs revenue:
1. drop in price of retail CDs over time... (if any of you remember they used to be hella expensive)
2. inflation / economic growth... that is the CPI has risen almost constantly in recent history. (this means that while other producers have raised prices of their products producers of CDs have been bound by #1)
3. producers also have to account for the *right number* of CDs... (excess inventory was one of the main sources of salt on the economic wound we've taken since last year)
"stealing from a successful person is just as wrong as stealing from a struggling one"
I and the State of Texas disagree. We have in place over our state's independent school districts what's known as the "Robin Hood Plan". Basically the state taxes progressively said districts. When funds are then redistributed poorer districts get a relatively larger chunk of the wealth.
Interesting that what a lot of folks consider a backward reactionary state has such progressive ideas as wealth redistribution. Take that France! Haha.
No, seriously, this is a more fundamental ethical argument. Consider:
"Bart: Uh, say, are you guys crooks?
Tony: Bart, um, is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family?
Bart: No.
Tony: Well, suppose you got a large starving family. Is it wrong to steal a truckload of bread to feed them?
Bart: Uh uh.
Tony: And, what if your family don't like bread? They like... cigarettes?
Bart: I guess that's okay.
Tony: Now, what if instead of giving them away, you sold them at a price that was practically giving them away. Would that be a crime, Bart?
you think thats bad? i was caught off gaurd oneday, thank god no one else was around when someone sent me this anyway... if this site is still up i strongly encourage everyone NOT to go to it
Once in a blue moon there is a second full moon in one month's time. The CNN article failed to mention it but here is a Halloween Blue Moon calendar type-thing.
does anyone have an algorithm to determine if and when a blue moon will occur?
how does one even become such a "security consultant"... do you get a degree for it? i'm a CS major but have always thought it would be cool to do something like this.
i... um... know people that do do stuff like this, but for personal pleasure. they never cause harm to person or property, and i would assume that their hobby lends them more toward a career like this than sitting in an assembly class. Any ideas?
this doesn't seem like it could be done with any real consistency. most bandwidth bottlenecks are local now, but big routers work very hard just to PASS traffic -- and they are only reading the first few bytes. the money that the FBI would have to put into this just to read let alone decrypt all the traffic could be put to much better use (read: PCs in schools, universal broadband, etc).
I can't speak for New York but here in Texas the Texas Workforce Commission oversees employee claims. I had to file a smaller claim (few hundred dollars) once against an employer that refused to pay me part of my last check, it was even a friendly departure, proper notice and all. I must say I was surprised; not only were the people with the TWC informative but they were friendly and prompt. I imagine the Department of Labor or the Office of NY Attorney General would be happy to inform you if you call them.
at least on the @Home network Code Red is still alive and well check out this log file. it's not auto-updated i just catted it at about 5pm central time on 9-18-01... yup thats right mostly TODAY i've managed to rack up a 5599 line file.
I couldn't get to the article but from reading posts I suspect that the new 160 gigger runs at 5400rpm? From what I know the ATA standard refers to BURST rate. I would think that rotation speed and access time play a more important role in overall performace.
does this mean now that Hewlett Packard IS IT? i'm so confused. oh well, as long as i can still run my server in my van off an inverter like in the commercial.
This is just sad. Writers currently have rights to there works online, but these older articles are just going to be removed making them much harder to access. I hope this doesn't affect to greatly research for students and scientists. It should have been obvious that these media companies weren't going to give writers retro pay. What the writers have done in this case is thrust their own work into obscurity.
As a student I can testify to this backlash. I find it very disconcerting when a professor decides to make changes to PowerPoint slides in the middle of class in order to make a point. Under brutal silence students watch the professor's 2 ft. cursor blink and the custom mouse pointer with a tail wave across the projection screen. And if the professor makes a mistake, god forbid, students rarely speak up. Ever increasing is the harsh learning environment where students would rather their peers not learn something than watch the professor fumble through said M$ application.
Welcome to E-learning my friends where the professor's knowledge of the technology and not the subject dictates your experience.
Damn FCC...
We keep getting stuck with this mediocre technology so Company A can milk the publics wallets for all they are worth. I pay 40/month for cable with upstream capped at 128kbps. Boycott the incremental upgrade, it will set you free.
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I imagine that most major carriers have backup plans. For instance I remember reading that Comcast will use @iComcast.net to replace @home.com. Yesterday I received a letter via snail mail from AT&T Broadband stating that should the need arise they would switch over to @attbi.com (AT&T Broadband Internet) and would be calling every individual subscriber by phone! AT&T gains points in my book if they do actually call all of us. Hopefully they will.
"cloning sheep"
this is seriously offtopic but it reminds me of a bbspot (i think) bit i saw about anthrax:
Q: Why are Americans likely targets for Anthrax attacks?
A: Anthrax is a disease found primarily in sheep and cattle. Americans share many similarities with sheep and cattle as they are easily herded and frighten quickly.
This is of course one of the first human cloning successes (that we've been told about). Let's remember that there are bound to be mishaps in early development, but at present methods and reliability have improved greatly with cows. More human successes can't be too far off.
I didn't say we should feel guilty I said we have to accept responsibility for being the most powerful show on the planet. If we say we support democracy and freedom etc etc then we should do so, not just when it is convenient.
that we care more about disease the MAY be released to kill thousands than AIDS which kills MILLIONS...
priorities?
i wonder how much sympathy the HALF MILLION CHILDREN that died from '91-'98 because of US sanctions (famine, disease) would have for us.
smallpox is an uncontrolled agent, sanctions can stop today if we chose to do so.
for thoughts in @rant do
If one looks to history one can find a myriad of ways wars could have been prevented. Could this war have been prevented if such broad public apathy wasn't the song of the day? Must every war be so brutal (ten years of Iraqis dying of disease and famine)? I know I'm preaching to the choir, but good God why are we (the American public in general namely) such an ignorant and arrogant group of bastards?
I don't buy the cultural imperialism argument (flooding countries around the world with Nike and Starbucks ads) as warranting such discontent. Hell, it's not like it's OUR culture either, Nike and Starbucks were thrust upon us just as they are/were other cultures.
Now political imperialism is another story. But it seems more distorted than the old Cold War mantra of "spreading freedom and democracy." Americans bleed oil. If we want to keep driving big cars and paying $1+ for gas then we better hope to God the the people of Saudi Arabia, etc. don't get a democracy. For decades the ruling families/parties of the Middle East have neglected to share their oil wealth in ways that make the US look like Finland or Sweden. I am disappointed and saddened that the country I still love (what potential we have) would support and perpetuate oppressive regimes.
I hope this "bioterrorism" FUD doesn't materialize into anthing more than an unholy media ratings campaign. Yes, there are real dangers, but, there have always been those dangers. So please, turn off CNN Headline News, MSNBC, the Oreilly Factor, etc. Instead listen to NPR, read the BBC and ArabNews (www.arabnews.com), and watch CSPAN. And please don't be charmed by the devilishly enigmatic Rumsfeld. (yeah its foxnews but its funny)
As citizens of (a) free society(ies) we are free to choose to be as apathetic as we wish, but we are still bound by the nature of our government. When everyone has a voice if you abstain from expressing yourself you choose to defer your decision to someone else (namely the collective of those that do voice themselves). It's idealistic yes, but if we (again US people) hold our Constitution as ideal, then ideally we have no one to blame but ourselves.
done
In recent centuries nealy every region of the world has made some progress. It hasn't all been equal but at least there has been some. (I am reminded of the guy in Nepal that is trying to setup an ISP for his town). However, one region has fallen into even deeper chaos and despair, Africa. Will the "enlightened" citizens of a new global community let the dark continent stay that way? Or will we have the heart to finally bring millions of people out of decades of misery (ie - cheap/free medical care, education, civil improvement projects)?
while this idea is a sound theory of economics, your numbers are arbitrary and meaningless. no offence but i trust people with careers in maximizing profits over the long term more than i do random numbers.
-here are just a few realities facing production costs vs revenue:
1. drop in price of retail CDs over time... (if any of you remember they used to be hella expensive)
2. inflation / economic growth... that is the CPI has risen almost constantly in recent history. (this means that while other producers have raised prices of their products producers of CDs have been bound by #1)
3. producers also have to account for the *right number* of CDs... (excess inventory was one of the main sources of salt on the economic wound we've taken since last year)
"stealing from a successful person is just as wrong as stealing from a struggling one"
I and the State of Texas disagree. We have in place over our state's independent school districts what's known as the "Robin Hood Plan". Basically the state taxes progressively said districts. When funds are then redistributed poorer districts get a relatively larger chunk of the wealth.
Interesting that what a lot of folks consider a backward reactionary state has such progressive ideas as wealth redistribution. Take that France! Haha.
No, seriously, this is a more fundamental ethical argument. Consider:
"Bart: Uh, say, are you guys crooks?
Tony: Bart, um, is it wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed your starving family?
Bart: No.
Tony: Well, suppose you got a large starving family. Is it wrong to steal a truckload of bread to feed them?
Bart: Uh uh.
Tony: And, what if your family don't like bread? They like... cigarettes?
Bart: I guess that's okay.
Tony: Now, what if instead of giving them away, you sold them at a price that was practically giving them away. Would that be a crime, Bart?
Bart: Hell, no!"
I rest my case...
you think thats bad? i was caught off gaurd oneday, thank god no one else was around when someone sent me this anyway... if this site is still up i strongly encourage everyone NOT to go to it
This is not new... under the DMCA you are guilty until the accuser decides they want to allow your ISP to give you service again.
Once in a blue moon there is a second full moon in one month's time. The CNN article failed to mention it but here is a Halloween Blue Moon calendar type-thing.
does anyone have an algorithm to determine if and when a blue moon will occur?
how does one even become such a "security consultant"... do you get a degree for it? i'm a CS major but have always thought it would be cool to do something like this.
i... um... know people that do do stuff like this, but for personal pleasure. they never cause harm to person or property, and i would assume that their hobby lends them more toward a career like this than sitting in an assembly class. Any ideas?
this doesn't seem like it could be done with any real consistency. most bandwidth bottlenecks are local now, but big routers work very hard just to PASS traffic -- and they are only reading the first few bytes. the money that the FBI would have to put into this just to read let alone decrypt all the traffic could be put to much better use (read: PCs in schools, universal broadband, etc).
"1.5 x 1.25"?!?!
new cds are going to be elliptical?
OOOOOH they are going to have a plastic shell... who'da thunk it?...
I can't speak for New York but here in Texas the Texas Workforce Commission oversees employee claims. I had to file a smaller claim (few hundred dollars) once against an employer that refused to pay me part of my last check, it was even a friendly departure, proper notice and all. I must say I was surprised; not only were the people with the TWC informative but they were friendly and prompt. I imagine the Department of Labor or the Office of NY Attorney General would be happy to inform you if you call them.
at least on the @Home network Code Red is still alive and well check out this log file. it's not auto-updated i just catted it at about 5pm central time on 9-18-01... yup thats right mostly TODAY i've managed to rack up a 5599 line file.
i got the same thing from 24.0.102.133.
I couldn't get to the article but from reading posts I suspect that the new 160 gigger runs at 5400rpm? From what I know the ATA standard refers to BURST rate. I would think that rotation speed and access time play a more important role in overall performace.
IBM has a white paper regarding the issue.
does this mean now that Hewlett Packard IS IT? i'm so confused. oh well, as long as i can still run my server in my van off an inverter like in the commercial.
This is just sad. Writers currently have rights to there works online, but these older articles are just going to be removed making them much harder to access. I hope this doesn't affect to greatly research for students and scientists. It should have been obvious that these media companies weren't going to give writers retro pay. What the writers have done in this case is thrust their own work into obscurity.
Twelve years male, bookbag, gun
As a student I can testify to this backlash. I find it very disconcerting when a professor decides to make changes to PowerPoint slides in the middle of class in order to make a point. Under brutal silence students watch the professor's 2 ft. cursor blink and the custom mouse pointer with a tail wave across the projection screen. And if the professor makes a mistake, god forbid, students rarely speak up. Ever increasing is the harsh learning environment where students would rather their peers not learn something than watch the professor fumble through said M$ application.
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Welcome to E-learning my friends where the professor's knowledge of the technology and not the subject dictates your experience.
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at least they won't have to worry about mid-air collisions...
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Damn FCC... We keep getting stuck with this mediocre technology so Company A can milk the publics wallets for all they are worth. I pay 40/month for cable with upstream capped at 128kbps. Boycott the incremental upgrade, it will set you free.