The TCO of an ink jet is higher than any other kind of printer. HP made more than half of its profit last year ($9B out of $17B) on ink sales. I recently decided to replace my 15 year old laser printer and eliminate the need for my old Epson ink jet at the same time. I ended up buying a Xerox Phaser 8560. The speed is amazing and the quality is excellent. This line of printers uses "solid ink" technology which is similar to crayola crayons. You get about 10 times the print volume for the same ink cost vs. any ink jet.
I get about items of USPS mail per year at my home address. That's because I use a PMB for all of my mail, and because my home address has been submitted to the DMA (Direct Market Association) as an "opt-out" address. It costs nothing and it really works. You must send the DMA a letter every 5 years to "refresh" their database. If you don't, you will start receiving junk.
There is no similar method to opt out of unsolicited e-mail so your conclusions are flawed.
If you've worked in IT for a while, you would remember Procomm. It was probably the best PC based terminal emulation/RS-232 scripting programs. I know a few folks who still use it for automated embedded equipment telemetry & command applications. Procomm was written by none other than "Datastorm Technologies corp.".
Now back on topic: If you RTFA it says that there was an embedded networked controller that was "babbling" (flooding the internal network with unwanted traffic). Unless some hacker from outside penetrated their firewall and reprogrammed the embedded controller, this incident is probably due to a simple hardware failure. They should be looking at setting up redundant network interfaces for their "mission critical" systems to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future.
I've been an XM subscriber for many years. I like to listen to Fox News and Fox News Radio on XM. I also like their trance station (82 - "The System"). When I heard about the anti-social behavior of O&A, I wanted to send a message to XM. I did so by getting on their subscriber web site and implementing "parental controls" on both of my XM radios. Now none of my XM radios are even capable of receiving O&A. I will continue to be a subscriber unless they cave in to this recent backlash. If they do, I will then cancel my accounts.
They will unblock it if you are willing to pay about 4 times as much money per month ($200 vs $50). Alternatively you could do what I'm doing right now: Pay $50 per month for a dedicated host somewhere else, and tunnel to it through the FiOS connection. Whoopie! No ports blocked and only a slight increase in latency (which doesn't affect throughput due to windowing). Now of course they could start shaping the encrypted traffic like some other ISPs have done. Thus far they have not.
I'm sure that they are great. I wonder if Global Crossing's TOS can coexist with theirs. I also wonder how big they are and how much support you would get given that their entire Internet presence consists of one half of a class C subnet (about enough for 125 dedicated IP addresses). Of course more than one web site can be hosted from a single IP and server but that's not practical for large sites.
You are correct. But the basic rule of law still applies. You can't have the other party testify about facts and then introduce contrary evidence AFTERWARD.
You should know the law if you're going to be filing motions and litigating against spammers. In court there is a thing called "discovery" which means that both sides get to know everything about the evidence before the court BEFORE giving testimony. You violated that rule by letting the defendant deny the claim BEFORE you introduced your evidence (the recording). You should have introduced it first instead of trying to ambush him. You "entrapped" him by not disclosing the evidence against him and the judge ruled correctly by dismissing the case.
Some real specifications are here. It's not quite as fast as PM is claminig and it has only half the range. No price mentioned other than "six figures".
There's a geographic layout which makes a cell-like pattern. The nearest cell tower handles your call and your frequency can be re-used by other callers and towers as long as they are reasonably far away from you. The whole concept breaks down when you move into the Z axis. All the towers will see your signal and none of them will be able to re-use the frequency you are using. Anybody with a few dozen phones could take out an entire city's cell service from the air.
I once had an ARRL MBNA card which suffered the same fate. MBNA seems to have perfected this marketing scam: They offer the cards with attractive terms which claim to benefit the named non-profit organization; then a year or two later they sever the ties with the organization but allow all the card holders to remain as customers (from which all fees and profits now go directly to MBNA).
I haven't had any dealings with them since I cancelled that card over 15 years ago.
The article seems to place the full blame on Fermilab's poor design. I will withhold judgement until all the facts are known. Did CERN provide specific requirements for asymetric load bearing capacity? If there were no requirements provided to Fermilab, then it would seem to me to be a problem at the CERN end.
I've got a Treo 680 (probably the last ever PalmOS PDA) with an 8GB SD card in it. It plays music (and will stream from the net) and video. It also has full featured GPS navigation SW (TomTom - external GPS required) and the mobile version of Google Maps. It does SSH, FTP, HTTP, POP, IMAP, and more. It can work natively with popular document and spreadsheet formats and -- oh yeah, it's a phone too. I've got my entire company locator database (almost 10K records) at my fingertips.
I wish that M$ had not been successful in their endevor to destroy the Palm computing platform.
Yes, but when you want to send a packet from one part of the world to another using IPv6, it must go through a high volume backbone somewhere. When it does, the latency I mentioned will occur. There's no way around it. Even with a "cut-over" type router it's got to scan through 32 IP address octets instead of just 4 before it cuts over. This means a lot more work for the routers and a lot more crap on the line.
I personally would LOVE to see IPv6 catch on and get wide use. It would stop the monopoly on IPv4 addresses that the early birds now have. Why should I have to pay thousands for a class C when lots of large companies got several class A's for free?
There is significatly more latency in IPv6 routing vs. IPv4 due to the extra address bytes. Each hop that passes through a router would take over 5 times longer. This puts a greater processing burden on the routers and delays all traffic. The impact to the user is the greatest for unconnected data (UDP, ICMP, etc.) since TCP windowing can offset the increased latency.
I'm glad that my co-workers and my management saw now to prosecute me. I did get called on the carpet once and had to explain that I had just finished Cliff Stohl's excellent book "The Cukoo's Egg". The last chapter points out that the biggest weakness in computer security is the user. I was able to "crack" 20% of the unix passwords (including root). I pointed out the weak root password to the admin for that subnet and he just shrugged it off. He knew that I was an admin for a different network and was a trustworthy individual. He completely missed my point; If I could crack it, then anybody else with the proper tools and know-how could do the same.
Anyway, if things had gone differently I may have been in the same position as this poor soul.
I have a few hundred dollars worth of vouchers from the California M$ anti-trust settlement. They want me to send in my original receipts (from 5 years ago) in order to redeem them. For me, it's not worth the trouble to sift through my old records to see if I have them. A better solution would have been to allow for the use of product serial numbers -- they are readily available. I'm sure that I am in the majority. What this means is the the California settlement was a BIG WIN for M$.
I've read all the posts and this is the first one that makes any sense at all to me. 10 Base Ethernet uses about the same amount of power as 100 Base. There's power required to keep the loop active, and there are data transitions. The data transitions are not compressed with 10 but they are with 100 (and moreso with 1000). I could see how 1G Ethernet would use more power due to the extra loops being active -- but not very many folks actually use 1G Ethernet.
To me this whole thing seems like an early April Fools joke.
FiOS became available to me last month. I obtained an appointment for installation after carefully reading their terms of service and FAQs. The Verizon FAQ says (under the BILLING FAQ!); "Please note: Current Verizon Online DSL customers who move to FiOS Internet service will have their Verizon Online DSL permanently disabled after their FiOS conversion." I wasn't worried because I have a Covad SDSL connection which uses a different copper pair than my POTS line. Just to make sure that things would not be disturbed, I checked with my ISP. They informed me that there was a 100% certainty that Verizon would destroy the copper plant leading to my residence. I checked with Verizon and they "could not guarantee" that they would not destroy the leased lines. Needless to say, I cancelled my installation appointment. I wish that somebody would sue them for anti-trust or for establishing a monopoly. Their FiOS service is only available to people who exclude any possibility of EVER being able to switch to a competitor.
I identified a serious flaw in all USR "Sportster" and "Courier" modems (only the ones with flashable firmware). It was reproducable (at least to me) and caused a dropped connection under certain conditions. After making it past the tier 1 support folks, I got in touch with the product engineering group. I gave them enough info that they took me seriously but they claimed that they could not reproduce the problem. They sent me a brand new computer with modem so I could configure it like mine. I did so and they dialed into it and saw the problem. I sent the system back and kept in touch with them until they fell off the face of the earth about 2 weeks after I returned their computer. I have all of the e-mail threads to document this.
USR apparently did not want to deal with the product liablity. It would have bankrupted them to fix all of the modems. Instead they quietly dropped the product line and completely ignored me. I solved my problem by buying a bunch of modems from another manufacturer.
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The TCO of an ink jet is higher than any other kind of printer. HP made more than half of its profit last year ($9B out of $17B) on ink sales. I recently decided to replace my 15 year old laser printer and eliminate the need for my old Epson ink jet at the same time. I ended up buying a Xerox Phaser 8560. The speed is amazing and the quality is excellent. This line of printers uses "solid ink" technology which is similar to crayola crayons. You get about 10 times the print volume for the same ink cost vs. any ink jet.
I get about items of USPS mail per year at my home address. That's because I use a PMB for all of my mail, and because my home address has been submitted to the DMA (Direct Market Association) as an "opt-out" address. It costs nothing and it really works. You must send the DMA a letter every 5 years to "refresh" their database. If you don't, you will start receiving junk.
There is no similar method to opt out of unsolicited e-mail so your conclusions are flawed.
If you've worked in IT for a while, you would remember Procomm. It was probably the best PC based terminal emulation/RS-232 scripting programs. I know a few folks who still use it for automated embedded equipment telemetry & command applications. Procomm was written by none other than "Datastorm Technologies corp.".
Now back on topic: If you RTFA it says that there was an embedded networked controller that was "babbling" (flooding the internal network with unwanted traffic). Unless some hacker from outside penetrated their firewall and reprogrammed the embedded controller, this incident is probably due to a simple hardware failure. They should be looking at setting up redundant network interfaces for their "mission critical" systems to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future.
JSL
I've been an XM subscriber for many years. I like to listen to Fox News and Fox News Radio on XM. I also like their trance station (82 - "The System"). When I heard about the anti-social behavior of O&A, I wanted to send a message to XM. I did so by getting on their subscriber web site and implementing "parental controls" on both of my XM radios. Now none of my XM radios are even capable of receiving O&A. I will continue to be a subscriber unless they cave in to this recent backlash. If they do, I will then cancel my accounts.
I think you misunderstood. FiOS is what does the port blocking. Read the grandparent again. I use FiOS and port 80 is definately blocked.
They will unblock it if you are willing to pay about 4 times as much money per month ($200 vs $50). Alternatively you could do what I'm doing right now: Pay $50 per month for a dedicated host somewhere else, and tunnel to it through the FiOS connection. Whoopie! No ports blocked and only a slight increase in latency (which doesn't affect throughput due to windowing). Now of course they could start shaping the encrypted traffic like some other ISPs have done. Thus far they have not.
I'm sure that they are great. I wonder if Global Crossing's TOS can coexist with theirs. I also wonder how big they are and how much support you would get given that their entire Internet presence consists of one half of a class C subnet (about enough for 125 dedicated IP addresses). Of course more than one web site can be hosted from a single IP and server but that's not practical for large sites.
Sargent & Greenleaf are *THE* stanrdard when it comes to electronic locks. See here.
You are correct. But the basic rule of law still applies. You can't have the other party testify about facts and then introduce contrary evidence AFTERWARD.
You should know the law if you're going to be filing motions and litigating against spammers. In court there is a thing called "discovery" which means that both sides get to know everything about the evidence before the court BEFORE giving testimony.
You violated that rule by letting the defendant deny the claim BEFORE you introduced your evidence (the recording). You should have introduced it first instead of trying to ambush him. You "entrapped" him by not disclosing the evidence against him and the judge ruled correctly by dismissing the case.
JSL
All Bush did was sign the bill. He did not author it. See this.
Spectrolab has cells that are over 40% efficient. See here for more details.
JSL
Some real specifications are here. It's not quite as fast as PM is claminig and it has only half the range.
No price mentioned other than "six figures".
Forget your conspiracy theroy.
There's a geographic layout which makes a cell-like pattern. The nearest cell tower handles your call and your frequency can be re-used by other callers and towers as long as they are reasonably far away from you. The whole concept breaks down when you move into the Z axis. All the towers will see your signal and none of them will be able to re-use the frequency you are using. Anybody with a few dozen phones could take out an entire city's cell service from the air.
I once had an ARRL MBNA card which suffered the same fate. MBNA seems to have perfected this marketing scam: They offer the cards with attractive terms which claim to benefit the named non-profit organization; then a year or two later they sever the ties with the organization but allow all the card holders to remain as customers (from which all fees and profits now go directly to MBNA).
I haven't had any dealings with them since I cancelled that card over 15 years ago.
The article seems to place the full blame on Fermilab's poor design. I will withhold judgement until all the facts are known. Did CERN provide specific requirements for asymetric load bearing capacity? If there were no requirements provided to Fermilab, then it would seem to me to be a problem at the CERN end.
The Palm has a sync feature that will periodically check for mail.
Also, OWA sucks due to the lack of support for encrypted mail.
JSL
I've got a Treo 680 (probably the last ever PalmOS PDA) with an 8GB SD card in it. It plays music (and will stream from the net) and video. It also has full featured GPS navigation SW (TomTom - external GPS required) and the mobile version of Google Maps. It does SSH, FTP, HTTP, POP, IMAP, and more. It can work natively with popular document and spreadsheet formats and -- oh yeah, it's a phone too. I've got my entire company locator database (almost 10K records) at my fingertips.
I wish that M$ had not been successful in their endevor to destroy the Palm computing platform.
Yes, but when you want to send a packet from one part of the world to another using IPv6, it must go through a high volume backbone somewhere. When it does, the latency I mentioned will occur. There's no way around it. Even with a "cut-over" type router it's got to scan through 32 IP address octets instead of just 4 before it cuts over. This means a lot more work for the routers and a lot more crap on the line.
I personally would LOVE to see IPv6 catch on and get wide use. It would stop the monopoly on IPv4 addresses that the early birds now have. Why should I have to pay thousands for a class C when lots of large companies got several class A's for free?
There is significatly more latency in IPv6 routing vs. IPv4 due to the extra address bytes. Each hop that passes through a router would take over 5 times longer. This puts a greater processing burden on the routers and delays all traffic. The impact to the user is the greatest for unconnected data (UDP, ICMP, etc.) since TCP windowing can offset the increased latency.
I'm glad that my co-workers and my management saw now to prosecute me. I did get called on the carpet once and had to explain that I had just finished Cliff Stohl's excellent book "The Cukoo's Egg". The last chapter points out that the biggest weakness in computer security is the user. I was able to "crack" 20% of the unix passwords (including root). I pointed out the weak root password to the admin for that subnet and he just shrugged it off. He knew that I was an admin for a different network and was a trustworthy individual. He completely missed my point; If I could crack it, then anybody else with the proper tools and know-how could do the same.
Anyway, if things had gone differently I may have been in the same position as this poor soul.
JSL
I have a few hundred dollars worth of vouchers from the California M$ anti-trust settlement. They want me to send in my original receipts (from 5 years ago) in order to redeem them. For me, it's not worth the trouble to sift through my old records to see if I have them. A better solution would have been to allow for the use of product serial numbers -- they are readily available. I'm sure that I am in the majority. What this means is the the California settlement was a BIG WIN for M$.
I've read all the posts and this is the first one that makes any sense at all to me.
10 Base Ethernet uses about the same amount of power as 100 Base. There's power required to keep the loop active, and there are data transitions. The data transitions are not compressed with 10 but they are with 100 (and moreso with 1000). I could see how 1G Ethernet would use more power due to the extra loops being active -- but not very many folks actually use 1G Ethernet.
To me this whole thing seems like an early April Fools joke.
JSL
FiOS became available to me last month. I obtained an appointment for installation after carefully reading their terms of service and FAQs.
The Verizon FAQ says (under the BILLING FAQ!); "Please note: Current Verizon Online DSL customers who move to FiOS Internet service will have their Verizon Online DSL permanently disabled after their FiOS conversion." I wasn't worried because I have a Covad SDSL connection which uses a different copper pair than my POTS line.
Just to make sure that things would not be disturbed, I checked with my ISP. They informed me that there was a 100% certainty that Verizon would destroy the copper plant leading to my residence. I checked with Verizon and they "could not guarantee" that they would not destroy the leased lines.
Needless to say, I cancelled my installation appointment. I wish that somebody would sue them for anti-trust or for establishing a monopoly. Their FiOS service is only available to people who exclude any possibility of EVER being able to switch to a competitor.
Verizon sucks
JSL
I identified a serious flaw in all USR "Sportster" and "Courier" modems (only the ones with flashable firmware). It was reproducable (at least to me) and caused a dropped connection under certain conditions. After making it past the tier 1 support folks, I got in touch with the product engineering group. I gave them enough info that they took me seriously but they claimed that they could not reproduce the problem. They sent me a brand new computer with modem so I could configure it like mine. I did so and they dialed into it and saw the problem. I sent the system back and kept in touch with them until they fell off the face of the earth about 2 weeks after I returned their computer. I have all of the e-mail threads to document this.
USR apparently did not want to deal with the product liablity. It would have bankrupted them to fix all of the modems. Instead they quietly dropped the product line and completely ignored me. I solved my problem by buying a bunch of modems from another manufacturer.
JSL