I thought the same thing weeks ago when they were talking about the Tomcats being used on bombing missions. The F-14 is there to protect the carrier battle group with long-range Phoenix missles. The cold-war mission this platform was designed for is to stop soviet antiship attacks from 200+ miles out.
You are correct that F15 Eagles (and/or F16 Falcons) are better suited to the task of air superiority, except we don't have any forward ground air bases from which we could operate in Afghanistan at the present.
I would expect Hornets (F/A-18) to be patrolling the skies over Afghanistan. CNN was reporting that F 14's were flying missions over Afghanistan a while back, though:
Heh, you just described my house! (the exception being th Alphastation, there I would substitute my failed attempt at building a box on which to install free Solaris x86)
Jennie Moyer, a spokeswoman for Philadelphia-based Comcast, said her company "does not support VPN residential services," adding that teleworkers or their companies can purchase Comcast Pro service, which supports secure VPNs, at a cost of $95 per month compared with $39.95 per month for the residential broadband service.
Are they automatically changing your monthly rate because they detect you using a VPN? I didn't see that. Just don't call up and ask for help getting you VPN to work with their service unless you are willing to pay.
Did I miss something? This doesn't seem as bad as the write-up implies.
I'll say that when the service goes out for an hour, any you say "shoot, guess I'll go iron my socks for a while and call support if it isn't back up when I'm done" then you are not a business customer.
If the service goes out for ten minutes and you are on the phone right away screaming at them to restore your service RIGHT NOW because every minute that goes by you are losing money, then you are a business customer.
I think they solved this problem in one of the Batman movies, didn't they? You just have 3 or 4 huge mil-sats up there to initially catch the beam and then pass it around until it gets reflected down to an earth-station just outside of Gotham.
Of course, you still have to not miss the first satellite.;-)
>Martin Palmer, also from Washington state, claims to have collected over $18,000 from spammers, mostly through out-of-court settlements
Getting cash from spammers is good, but wouldn't it be better in the long run to get an actual judgement? Seems like a string of judgements would set some precedents that would help the cause for future cases. Taking cash in exchange to drop the court case might punish the individual spammer in the short run, but I would think getting more $500 judgements on the books would be far more damaging.
Yeah, I saw that (although the link is/.ed) but that sounds like you pull it out of your car each time you want to take it inside. Although that would probably work ok, I'd probably rather have a receiver permanently installed with home stereo (especially if wife wants to listen in the car while I'm at home)
Fumbling with a CD case while trying to drive *is* a pain. I put a CD in my player while I'm in my driveway and listen to it all the way to and from work. Beats trying to listen to radio, but I'd really like something more flexible than listening to 10-12 tracks off a single CD.
You could put a CD changer in your trunk to improve it somewhat, but that has other obvious drawbacks.
>continually hitting the "next station" button to find your favorite flavor has to be at least as much work as putting in a CD, right
I don't think so. Changing a CD has more steps (take old one out, put it away or throw it on floor, select new one and insert it) and you likely have to take your eyes off the road.
In general, I agree with your sentiment that Western Civilization prizes convenience above all, but I don't think 100 radio stations at your fingertips is that outrageous a luxury.
>make "portable" receivers that all use the same standards
This is an excellent point and something I was thinking about. Paying for service with commercials aside, I would be interested in something like this if I could have it at home and in the office as well (I spend ~15 minutes in my car each way to work). If I could have 2+ receivers that were tied to a single subscription via some kind of SIM card, I might go for this.
I bet this won't happen for some time though. Something tells me they decided to focus on automotive applications and they probably have exclusivity deals with the automakers.
Its not Outlook's fault either. The problem is in the design of applications that can receive and execute files from untrusted network sources and have carte blanche with the filesystem. At least with NT, you would be limited to the user's permissions, with 9x you can rename c:\windows to c:\urfscked
(I'm sure I'm not saying anything that hasn't already been said, just clarifying my response to the original post that said something about IE only having user permissions - I guess that is still true to the extent that 9x has no user security (don't know the password? Just hit 'esc' and you can still get in and blow away whatever you like))
Obviously you're talking about NT/2000 & probably XP as well. What about 95/98/ME? Correct me if I'm wrong, but IE under 9x would have plenty of authority to do whatever it likes?
About 21,000 cases of child rape were reported to the police in the past year, most committed by male relatives of the victims.
The attacks are fuelled by the myth that sex with a virgin will protect a man against AIDS or even cure him of the incurable disease.
Was true for me as well until AT&T moved us Mediaone customers in Chicago to @home in October.
I started getting an ungodly amount of spam (University Degree program, in particular). I thought it was really odd since my @home address was virtually unused. When we went to attbi last week, the spam stopped. Someone working for @home must have been selling new addresses or something.
intersting idea (and I realize you are probably kidding), unfortunately we've already seen a glimpse of John in one of the previous movies (T2, I think - have to go load it up again tonight) and he looks nothing like Arnold.
Plus, remember that John is the offspring of Linda and that dude in the first movie that was sent back to protect her (only he knocked her up)?
Hmm, what if in this one Arnold doesn't play a Cyberdine Systems creation, but a human character? I don't know, maybe a human traitor that helps Skynet to develop the Terminator technology in the first place?
In the first movie, he was the bad guy. In the second we was good. Maybe he'll go back to being bad. If it turns out that the Terminator was modeled after a real human working with the machines in the first place, it could explain a lot (like why a cybernetic organism would have a bad Austrian accent?)
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I thought the same thing weeks ago when they were talking about the Tomcats being used on bombing missions. The F-14 is there to protect the carrier battle group with long-range Phoenix missles. The cold-war mission this platform was designed for is to stop soviet antiship attacks from 200+ miles out.
You are correct that F15 Eagles (and/or F16 Falcons) are better suited to the task of air superiority, except we don't have any forward ground air bases from which we could operate in Afghanistan at the present.
I would expect Hornets (F/A-18) to be patrolling the skies over Afghanistan. CNN was reporting that F 14's were flying missions over Afghanistan a while back, though:
Footage on al-Jazeera shot during the day showed a U.S. F-14 Tomcat fighter slicing through the skies above Kabul, unchallenged.
heh, you mean Jonathan Pryce in Tomorrow never dies.
The details of the Stealth Ship in the movie are here.
Heh, you just described my house! (the exception being th Alphastation, there I would substitute my failed attempt at building a box on which to install free Solaris x86)
>you are on the phone ... screaming at them to restore your service ... because ... you are losing money
>my son playing on-line games is classified as business use.
Your son makes money playing online games? Sweet!
Good point. I'll just call that other Cable provider in my area and switch right away! ;-)
Jennie Moyer, a spokeswoman for Philadelphia-based Comcast, said her company "does not support VPN residential services," adding that teleworkers or their companies can purchase Comcast Pro service, which supports secure VPNs, at a cost of $95 per month compared with $39.95 per month for the residential broadband service.
Are they automatically changing your monthly rate because they detect you using a VPN? I didn't see that. Just don't call up and ask for help getting you VPN to work with their service unless you are willing to pay.
Did I miss something? This doesn't seem as bad as the write-up implies.
>What exactly classifies as business use
I'll say that when the service goes out for an hour, any you say "shoot, guess I'll go iron my socks for a while and call support if it isn't back up when I'm done" then you are not a business customer.
If the service goes out for ten minutes and you are on the phone right away screaming at them to restore your service RIGHT NOW because every minute that goes by you are losing money, then you are a business customer.
kinda like that Batman movie with mr Freize?
I think they solved this problem in one of the Batman movies, didn't they? You just have 3 or 4 huge mil-sats up there to initially catch the beam and then pass it around until it gets reflected down to an earth-station just outside of Gotham.
;-)
Of course, you still have to not miss the first satellite.
But then isn't the geo-synchronous satellite in shadow part of the day?
>Martin Palmer, also from Washington state, claims to have collected over $18,000 from spammers, mostly through out-of-court settlements
Getting cash from spammers is good, but wouldn't it be better in the long run to get an actual judgement? Seems like a string of judgements would set some precedents that would help the cause for future cases. Taking cash in exchange to drop the court case might punish the individual spammer in the short run, but I would think getting more $500 judgements on the books would be far more damaging.
I dunno, maybe they (the govt) agreed to some ridiculously lenient settlement terms in exchange for their (MS) future cooperation?
Yeah, I saw that (although the link is /.ed) but that sounds like you pull it out of your car each time you want to take it inside. Although that would probably work ok, I'd probably rather have a receiver permanently installed with home stereo (especially if wife wants to listen in the car while I'm at home)
Fumbling with a CD case while trying to drive *is* a pain. I put a CD in my player while I'm in my driveway and listen to it all the way to and from work. Beats trying to listen to radio, but I'd really like something more flexible than listening to 10-12 tracks off a single CD.
You could put a CD changer in your trunk to improve it somewhat, but that has other obvious drawbacks.
>continually hitting the "next station" button to find your favorite flavor has to be at least as much work as putting in a CD, right
I don't think so. Changing a CD has more steps (take old one out, put it away or throw it on floor, select new one and insert it) and you likely have to take your eyes off the road.
In general, I agree with your sentiment that Western Civilization prizes convenience above all, but I don't think 100 radio stations at your fingertips is that outrageous a luxury.
>make "portable" receivers that all use the same standards
This is an excellent point and something I was thinking about. Paying for service with commercials aside, I would be interested in something like this if I could have it at home and in the office as well (I spend ~15 minutes in my car each way to work). If I could have 2+ receivers that were tied to a single subscription via some kind of SIM card, I might go for this.
I bet this won't happen for some time though. Something tells me they decided to focus on automotive applications and they probably have exclusivity deals with the automakers.
>Sure, but that's not IEs fault
Its not Outlook's fault either. The problem is in the design of applications that can receive and execute files from untrusted network sources and have carte blanche with the filesystem. At least with NT, you would be limited to the user's permissions, with 9x you can rename c:\windows to c:\urfscked
(I'm sure I'm not saying anything that hasn't already been said, just clarifying my response to the original post that said something about IE only having user permissions - I guess that is still true to the extent that 9x has no user security (don't know the password? Just hit 'esc' and you can still get in and blow away whatever you like))
Obviously you're talking about NT/2000 & probably XP as well. What about 95/98/ME? Correct me if I'm wrong, but IE under 9x would have plenty of authority to do whatever it likes?
>patenting what a VCR already does
I thought the patent wasn't so much about the what as the how?
I think he is talking about the models that rely on direcTV?
Stand-alones are ~$400
I bought a Sony 30hour when they had the $100 rebate (just got my check last night, just remembered I have to cash it!)
$300 is still pretty cheap.
>Still think it's a gay disease
a nyway post:
Ok, here goes my daily OT-sure-to-get-me-modded-down-but-I'm-at-the-cap-
No, it is a disease of the uninformed, uneducated and otherwise hopelessly ignorant
About 21,000 cases of child rape were reported to the police in the past year, most committed by male relatives of the victims.
The attacks are fuelled by the myth that sex with a virgin will protect a man against AIDS or even cure him of the incurable disease.
One can certainly dig up some facinating stuff
;-)
Darn, and I was planning on getting so much done the rest of the month.
Was true for me as well until AT&T moved us Mediaone customers in Chicago to @home in October.
I started getting an ungodly amount of spam (University Degree program, in particular). I thought it was really odd since my @home address was virtually unused. When we went to attbi last week, the spam stopped. Someone working for @home must have been selling new addresses or something.
intersting idea (and I realize you are probably kidding), unfortunately we've already seen a glimpse of John in one of the previous movies (T2, I think - have to go load it up again tonight) and he looks nothing like Arnold.
Plus, remember that John is the offspring of Linda and that dude in the first movie that was sent back to protect her (only he knocked her up)?
I don't see the family resemblance.
Hmm, what if in this one Arnold doesn't play a Cyberdine Systems creation, but a human character? I don't know, maybe a human traitor that helps Skynet to develop the Terminator technology in the first place?
In the first movie, he was the bad guy. In the second we was good. Maybe he'll go back to being bad. If it turns out that the Terminator was modeled after a real human working with the machines in the first place, it could explain a lot (like why a cybernetic organism would have a bad Austrian accent?)
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