After your first phrase, I covered my eyes and signed "La la la la, I cant read you!"
All that number spouting means nothing coming from someone that does not know the definition of median. (For those too lazy to click on the link, "the middle value between two values") Median is a number that though easy to define, has little value when trying to understand at a bell curve.
So, the highest income in the US is $83,888 per year? No? Well that's what "median" implies. (The lowest number being $0 per year, ignoring the possability of losing money.)
Now, if we assume your phrase meant to say AVERAGE was $41k, then if you review (briefly) the small number of people making astronomically huge salaries (say, above $20mil, or pick your number), you must weigh the lower end of the curve below 41k to have LOTS and LOTS of people in it. And the majority of them significantly lower than 41K, more like 20k-25k.
The fact that you think that any person can waltz right in and get a UPS package handler job, and that you think that two people working at McD's (who's looking after the kids?) can pull down a decent living, smacks of arrogance as coming from someone who hasnt had to find a job recently.
Your point, that it is increasingly easy to make money in America is only correct if you dont look at inflation, cost of health care, cost of day care, and urban sprawl that basically requires one car for every job holder. The numbers might be bigger, but the value the number brings is not as high as it appears.
Do this, on Monday, quit. Then, try to find a job, only dont use geek skills to get a new one, use your physical skills, rudamentary math, and maybe ability to speak, and ride public transportation to and from work every day. Then come back and see how easy you think the masses have it. Sheesh.
Greedy pharmaceutical companies benefit from them, they'll get my cycles when that "patent natural genes" crap stops, until then, they can buy their own damn computers.
SETI has been around longer, and I simply enjoy watching the numbers get bigger. Other projects would make me start over.
Want to do something effective to save lives? Tell the morons around you to wear seatbelts, or stop driving drunk, or maybe tell them fearing vaccinating their children is stupid.
Signals from ET would make a huge metaphysical impact on our society, and I for one want to see the fun of the Christians/Hindus/Muslems/etc. struggle with a demonstration of how retarded they really are.
If all the "yahoos" stopped crunching SETI, it WOULD go away. So you DO wish for it to go away. Let the MAC freaks do the annoying evangelizing, they are better at it.
I agree, Blogging is only a new word for "personal home page" circa '96 - 99'. Usually, those were a hobby page, a links page (like I didnt know how to get to Yahoo), a photo of pet/individual and some boring crap. These were more of an exercise of ego and an excuse to do something with HTML than they were useful.
Recently, however I have discovered an additional facet that makes me whithold my distain for such Blogging or personal pages.
Therapy.
A Blog, is a great place to (not necessarily with an audience) put all that "stuff" one carries around in one's head. Stuff that if let out at work or in front of significant other, would cause fear, loathing and general discomfort in social situations.
For example I collect, the sickest jokes, sayings, photos, vids, porn, and even wrote "theManifesto de Vivando-Merde" (shit to live by) to a co-worker.
It is my firm belief, that my blog (or "Big Dumb Jerk Project") kept me from going on a violent rampage.
When I was done, I felt good, and no longer wanted to hurt anything.
So now, despite not being even slightly interested in the Blogs of others, I think Blogging is good. It'll make some people happy, and just might keep a sniper bullet out of my back some day.
Blog away guys! (But dont expect ME to visit, I am writing my Big Dumb Jerk Project, and hopefully, staying sane.)
it's also sadder that slashuddites continue to play this game.
What? The "do not want to register to see the news" game?
I read about this last week on Salon.com. Unlike Britain, news is not disseminated from one source.
Forgive me if this is news to you, Slashdot is USER SUBMITTED news and topics. Of course it is going to have different stuff on it. It will miss the regular AP tripe sometimes, and wont ever have tips for how old ladies can open tightly closed jars. Submission is Slashdot's major strength, not relying on semi-finished journalism majors to spit out the FUD is good. (No offense to Journalists intended, after meeting a few, I decided not to take news so seriously anymore.)
This site has become so boring and predictable.
Submit an article when you find something interesting. That's how it works.
But how about not one that requires sites to pay to get in? (Yahoo)
At Google, go to the "Directory" tab, or go to DMOZ.org (Open Directory) itself. DMOZ is bigger, better organized, has fewer broken links, no ads, and is built by hand by people who know their categories and are interested in keeping them linking only to sites with meaningful content.
Semi-mindles search spiders are not all there is in finding stuff on the Internet.
The Meta Description tag is copied from the "list this site" function in Open Directory when an editor adds a listing to a site (if there is one).
As such, it is the best chance you get to influence or possibly dictate the description listed in the Directory, as well as any directories it feeds. (Google Directories, AOL, and some other big ones.)
A well written meta description tag is likely to be left nearly intact by the editor. That allows you to include search terms in the description people might use to find your site. (The editor may not think of the same terms on their own.)
Any link you submit to Open Directory should have a description tag in it, including the home page or sub-subject oriented pages of your site.
Beyond the home page, I do not bother with meta-tags anymore, and tell web customers to not bother either. As far as I can tell, most search spiders rely on what a human would see to list content nowdays, so the best way to get good listings is to have a content-rich, well made site.
I still use meta-refresh tags occasionally for reorganizing sites or bouncing traffic off what would be a dead link. (Stupid marketing department does not proofread or think to check their URLs.)
Otherwise, meta tags are a waste of time. (Contact, copyright, author, and other information should be visible without viewing source code, in my opinion.)
I was not aware there was a specific definition written down that dictated who was a common carrier.
As a former AT&T contractor, we were always fed the line that "Worldnet is better than AOL" because it was a common carrier, and did not and could not censor stuff. AOL provides content, AT&T did not (at the time), and therefore could not censor stuff either. As soon as they start providing content, they are supposed to censor too (and loose common carrier status).
What if the ISP *IS* a phone company? What then? What about IP phones? Where I am using my IP block EXACTLY as a phone line, is my ISP still not a common carrier?
I think the guys in PA, despite good intentions, have a overly simplistic idea of things.
If I were WorldComm, I'd simply make all PA go dark. No need to run fibre there at all, just shut em off. What are they going to do? Loose business?
I keep my cover off most of the time. Hot air hanging around in the case is not an issue.
To elaborate:
The Themaltake fan is mounted at the bottom of the ring of fins, on top of a round cylinder of metal, which is mounted on top of the CPU with clip and patch. It sits down at the bottom of the well, with the chassis of the fan in direct contact with one of the hottest part of the heatsink. Conduction heats the fan assembly as the heatsink gets warmer.
The CompUSA fans have basically the same shape of metal, cylinder with fins spiraling off the top. The fan is mounted on a plastic ring which is mounted on *TOP* of the fins on the end. So it is a good inch further from the CPU, making it cooler. Any heat due to conduction is greatly reduced, because it has to travel up the fins (most of it escapes into the air if the fan is running at that point), across the plastic mounting, and into the fan assembly. Some heat due to air currents will get on the fan of course. So when it fails, it would be the plastic mounting melts first, not just warming the bearings enough to make them seize.
CompUSA's fans dont look the same and do not have the fancy grille, but the fan is not IN the heatsink as the earlier Athlon models from Thermaltake; instead, it sits in about the same place, but is mounted on TOP of the fins. The basic point, is to let the heat get away from the heatsink before it gets to the fan, those little fans can't handle high heat of normal operation very long.
But my basic point with the original post; dont believe all the hype, look good !== work good, stick with what you value. (I value a reasonably priced, reasonably fast PC that I do not have to dick with all the time.)
Sigh. Ok. You are right. I cooked 2 fans (no CPU tho) on an Athlon 1ghz.
Compound made do difference at all. The patch on the sink was plenty to bind to the CPU chip.
It was the thermalpuke that was the problem. See, the fan is mounted on the big block of metal-alloy and blows air up through the spiral heat releasing fins. So the plastic parts and bearings and motor in the fan get REALLY hot during operation.
I killed two of them with a Thunderbird playing Tanarus, it got hot enough to cook off part of my fingernail. (Hint, no touchee CPU, fan or heatsink if computer crashee due to heat.)
I bought three fans from CompUSA for the same price as ONE thermalpuke. They have the same basic design, except the fan is mounted on the fins, not the base of the heatsink. That way, most of the heat is dissapated before it gets a chance to melt the bearings, fan, motor, and mountings.
If one goes bad, no big deal. 10 minutes of messing around and I have the spare installed.
Thermaltake should change the design of the fan/sing combos. It is a flawed design to have the fan mounted on the bottom rather than the top.
The burnt out one sits on my desk as a reminder not to buy into the sparklie hype.
Please, stop spreading this kinds of bogus claims.
I've never seen an example of a Linux system from a tier one manufacturer for 1/3 the cost of a comperable Mac system.
In fact, every time I've done the comparison, the MACS ARE CHEAPER.
This kind of flamebait is not appropriate for slashdot
Heh heh, until you have to upgrade to the.2 version for another $129.
Do that a few times and the only thing cheaper about Macs is the foofy-talk that comes out of the Mac-Lusers mouths.
TSU $300 cable $100 Cisco 2500 $1400 or so Cisco 7500 core router ~13K+
And that gets you T1 one line. (Additionals are less cuz you can put two on the 2500, and a bunch through the 7500 to the BB)
Think that routing all that data is going to not be necessary just because there is fiber to the drop in your basement?
For the prices to change, the WHOLE WAY ISPs MOVE PACKETS has to change. Not just the last mile. You cant divide a pipe into more pipes without routing, so your tree structure of routers to smaller routers to your house has to go away.
I am not sure I have ever seen or heard about anything that could do that task. Maybe there will be a cheap, fibre-capable router-on-a-chip someday. But not today.
I am not holding my breath for last mile solution. It's a big problem, it will be a while.
And that's a limited resource on planes, isn't it? What happens when you get 10-20 of these things going at once, and start using more O2 than was designed for? Or am I missing something fundamental? (like planes recycle air, or take air in from the atmosphere, and presurize it?)
The latter is the case. Remember that plane that went runaway and crashed a few years ago with the golfers on it? There was a failure in the venting / compression system that scooped air, compresssed it, and put it in the cabin.
Most modern planes use a some sort of system to scoop from the atmosphere. The smaller ones probably do not go high enough for it to matter.
To keep linking to a minimum. Copy the colors and table structure (but not the nav bars) of the site into the linked page, put some porn on it, and put "Hacked by Chinese" at the bottom. (Or Nimda or whatever) Update the links in your site to avoid this page. Put it up on Friday night, delete it on Monday. Claim you know nothing about it.
Use a server redirect to Goatse.cx or some other web site.
Rename all your images, replace them with porn pics, be sure to update your IMG tags.
Most clueless users will assume the originating web site is deliberately linking to porn and will contact them to complain.
Change the file to a frameset that links back to the original site. Get paid by the banner ads you serve in your portion of the frame.
After a few weeks of this, they will stop linking.
Hyperlinks are one of those things on the internet that sort of relies on both parties sort of getting along. Either one can mess it up.
I assume that also any site that has significant ad revenue, will be wanting to protect their money stream they artificially created by breaking documents up to 10 pages or by making the site structure too deep.
In my opinion, lawyers should be the last line of defense or offense, not the first. This is just another instance of it getting all twisted around.
Would wardriving be an equivalent action to portscanning? As a query for interesting characteristics on a network that one is not authorized to access, they seem like they would be directly analogous.
Following that, warchalking would be about the same as posting the results of "Hey, I found these ports open on this network" [Providing IP Address] in some newsgroup.
Obviously, these things are not illegal (nor should they be), and certainly not a thing that someone would do unless they were at least thinking about doing something more interesting with the information.
This seems like just another example of why one should pay pretty close attention to what is happening on a network. Keep your printer web servers out of Google, secure your wireless, patch your webservers. Duh.
In fact, this would be a great compliment to my "moron reduction attachment" program. It goes like this;
One in every 100 cars built has one of two types of airbag attachments. The other 99 are normal airbags.
Attachment 1 is a simple execution switch, either a.45 slug in a short barrel, or maybe a spike about 2 feet long. (Spike survival rates would be too high I think, the.45 seems like a better option.) These would be pointed right at the center of the driver seat through the stearing wheel.
Attachment 2 is a genitalia removal system, I figure a capacitor in the seat would fire through two electrodes, one in the seat itself, the other on the seat belt. Use enough power to fry the sexual reproductive organs to a crisp.
These attachments fire during the same conditions the airbag do. Your fault or not, too bad.
Now, no one really knows what type of device they got. The end result, is overall lower risk-taking behavior on the roads due to "friend of a friend got his 'nards fried" type stories being common and believable.
I think there should be MORE carnage on the road. Rear-mounted shotguns for everybody! Then maybe the act of driving would get the respect it deserves.
Comming soon! Vote-o-drive! Limit: 5 votes. Timeout: 5 minutes. Get 5 votes from other drivers and POW, blown engine!
Yes. It is the government's job to dispose of waste.
It is my county's job to make sure my garbage goes somewher safe. They charge me for it with taxes and in some cases directly.
It is the city's job to make sure what I flush down the toilet is decontaminated and safely returned to the environment. They charge me for it with taxes and in some cases directly.
Nuclear waste, is also the job of the government. They have been charging for it, and so far have not done it.
The fact remains, whatever you think about Yucca mountain, is the waste exists. It will continue to pile up if something different not done with it. What they are doing is the best we can do for now. Deal with it, and go back to looking at your lead-containing monitor and playing with your heavy-metal containing computer(s).
Start at the bottom and work your way up to get a chronology of what they were doing.
Looks like some British seafarers were invited to bring supplies or something and someone took photos of the process. It is a cruddy looking place. Even if the servers are IN the towers as their web site suggests, there just is not much room in there.
But then again, I spend most of MY time in a basement smaller than that...
Yes. Note however, I stop trying to figure stuff out when I know enough and have enough skills to get what I want accomplished completed.
I program, so I consider my self technically savy, but I definitely have no idea (well I know the rough basics) and truthfully, I don't really care. I just want them to work. If I had to know the intimate details of every tool I used I wouldn't be able to get anything done.
Good, you have learned what is necessary of you.
However. You DO make the effort to figure out those devices to the complication and detail level required to operate them, no? For example, could you change a tire on your car? (I assume so.)
My point is, there comes a time when the interface should get no easier because it will make it too simplistic to go any further with the interface and still operate the device correctly. A computer, SHOULD have a semi-complicated interface, just because it does a HUGE variety of things. (think Turing Machine folks.) An interface that is TOO simple or TOO intuitive does not capture the ability to make the device work for it's intended purpose.
The problem with most Lusers is, they think they can do complicated stuff via a user interface that does not require them to understand what the thing does, or what some of the possible problems might be. Taking the time to learn what the thing does, to meet the complexity of the device, would make the whole "user inteface" thing a nonissue.
**The first time I hear of a "user friendly" nuclear power plant, I am leaving the goddamn country.**
I DO think that interfaces should deal with the largest possible group of people with physical and sensory differences as well as possible. However, the idea that someone should not need to learn how to do something to be able to DO that thing should be separated from being "intuitive". Intuition is using your brain for doing stuff other than memorizing CLI commands fer crissake, not the freedom FROM using your brain at all.
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After your first phrase, I covered my eyes and signed "La la la la, I cant read you!"
All that number spouting means nothing coming from someone that does not know the definition of median. (For those too lazy to click on the link, "the middle value between two values") Median is a number that though easy to define, has little value when trying to understand at a bell curve.
So, the highest income in the US is $83,888 per year? No? Well that's what "median" implies. (The lowest number being $0 per year, ignoring the possability of losing money.)
Now, if we assume your phrase meant to say AVERAGE was $41k, then if you review (briefly) the small number of people making astronomically huge salaries (say, above $20mil, or pick your number), you must weigh the lower end of the curve below 41k to have LOTS and LOTS of people in it. And the majority of them significantly lower than 41K, more like 20k-25k.
The fact that you think that any person can waltz right in and get a UPS package handler job, and that you think that two people working at McD's (who's looking after the kids?) can pull down a decent living, smacks of arrogance as coming from someone who hasnt had to find a job recently.
Your point, that it is increasingly easy to make money in America is only correct if you dont look at inflation, cost of health care, cost of day care, and urban sprawl that basically requires one car for every job holder. The numbers might be bigger, but the value the number brings is not as high as it appears.
Do this, on Monday, quit. Then, try to find a job, only dont use geek skills to get a new one, use your physical skills, rudamentary math, and maybe ability to speak, and ride public transportation to and from work every day. Then come back and see how easy you think the masses have it. Sheesh.
No.
Here's why:If all the "yahoos" stopped crunching SETI, it WOULD go away. So you DO wish for it to go away. Let the MAC freaks do the annoying evangelizing, they are better at it.
If I understand this correctly, describing how the security or encryption can be breeched in plain english is illegal under the DMCA?
What does that do for works of fiction, i.e. Cryptonomicon or anything by William Gibson?
What a crazy law.
Dear AC,
I agree, Blogging is only a new word for "personal home page" circa '96 - 99'. Usually, those were a hobby page, a links page (like I didnt know how to get to Yahoo), a photo of pet/individual and some boring crap. These were more of an exercise of ego and an excuse to do something with HTML than they were useful.
Recently, however I have discovered an additional facet that makes me whithold my distain for such Blogging or personal pages.
Therapy.
A Blog, is a great place to (not necessarily with an audience) put all that "stuff" one carries around in one's head. Stuff that if let out at work or in front of significant other, would cause fear, loathing and general discomfort in social situations.
For example I collect, the sickest jokes, sayings, photos, vids, porn, and even wrote "theManifesto de Vivando-Merde" (shit to live by) to a co-worker.
It is my firm belief, that my blog (or "Big Dumb Jerk Project") kept me from going on a violent rampage.
When I was done, I felt good, and no longer wanted to hurt anything.
So now, despite not being even slightly interested in the Blogs of others, I think Blogging is good. It'll make some people happy, and just might keep a sniper bullet out of my back some day.
Blog away guys! (But dont expect ME to visit, I am writing my Big Dumb Jerk Project, and hopefully, staying sane.)
it's also sadder that slashuddites continue to play this game.
What? The "do not want to register to see the news" game?
I read about this last week on Salon.com. Unlike Britain, news is not disseminated from one source.
Forgive me if this is news to you, Slashdot is USER SUBMITTED news and topics. Of course it is going to have different stuff on it. It will miss the regular AP tripe sometimes, and wont ever have tips for how old ladies can open tightly closed jars. Submission is Slashdot's major strength, not relying on semi-finished journalism majors to spit out the FUD is good. (No offense to Journalists intended, after meeting a few, I decided not to take news so seriously anymore.)
This site has become so boring and predictable.
Submit an article when you find something interesting. That's how it works.
Yes, the web should be indexed by people.
But how about not one that requires sites to pay to get in? (Yahoo)
At Google, go to the "Directory" tab, or go to DMOZ.org (Open Directory) itself. DMOZ is bigger, better organized, has fewer broken links, no ads, and is built by hand by people who know their categories and are interested in keeping them linking only to sites with meaningful content.
Semi-mindles search spiders are not all there is in finding stuff on the Internet.
The Meta Description tag is copied from the "list this site" function in Open Directory when an editor adds a listing to a site (if there is one).
As such, it is the best chance you get to influence or possibly dictate the description listed in the Directory, as well as any directories it feeds. (Google Directories, AOL, and some other big ones.)
A well written meta description tag is likely to be left nearly intact by the editor. That allows you to include search terms in the description people might use to find your site. (The editor may not think of the same terms on their own.)
Any link you submit to Open Directory should have a description tag in it, including the home page or sub-subject oriented pages of your site.
Beyond the home page, I do not bother with meta-tags anymore, and tell web customers to not bother either. As far as I can tell, most search spiders rely on what a human would see to list content nowdays, so the best way to get good listings is to have a content-rich, well made site.
I still use meta-refresh tags occasionally for reorganizing sites or bouncing traffic off what would be a dead link. (Stupid marketing department does not proofread or think to check their URLs.)
Otherwise, meta tags are a waste of time. (Contact, copyright, author, and other information should be visible without viewing source code, in my opinion.)
In case you are too lazy to check Google.
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s /v enera14.jpg
s /v enera9-10.jpg
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/venu
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/pics/v1
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/venu
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/venu
Watch for spaces in the URLs.
I was not aware there was a specific definition written down that dictated who was a common carrier.
As a former AT&T contractor, we were always fed the line that "Worldnet is better than AOL" because it was a common carrier, and did not and could not censor stuff. AOL provides content, AT&T did not (at the time), and therefore could not censor stuff either. As soon as they start providing content, they are supposed to censor too (and loose common carrier status).
What if the ISP *IS* a phone company? What then? What about IP phones? Where I am using my IP block EXACTLY as a phone line, is my ISP still not a common carrier?
I think the guys in PA, despite good intentions, have a overly simplistic idea of things.
If I were WorldComm, I'd simply make all PA go dark. No need to run fibre there at all, just shut em off. What are they going to do? Loose business?
Google Groups Link:
"blackhole lists offer dark prospects"
Bill apparently is too dumb to realize Usenet doesnt like spam either. (Unless it is someone trying to get him blacklisted again.)
Some lawyers never learn.
I keep my cover off most of the time. Hot air hanging around in the case is not an issue.
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To elaborate:
The Themaltake fan is mounted at the bottom of the ring of fins, on top of a round cylinder of metal, which is mounted on top of the CPU with clip and patch. It sits down at the bottom of the well, with the chassis of the fan in direct contact with one of the hottest part of the heatsink. Conduction heats the fan assembly as the heatsink gets warmer.
The CompUSA fans have basically the same shape of metal, cylinder with fins spiraling off the top. The fan is mounted on a plastic ring which is mounted on *TOP* of the fins on the end. So it is a good inch further from the CPU, making it cooler. Any heat due to conduction is greatly reduced, because it has to travel up the fins (most of it escapes into the air if the fan is running at that point), across the plastic mounting, and into the fan assembly. Some heat due to air currents will get on the fan of course. So when it fails, it would be the plastic mounting melts first, not just warming the bearings enough to make them seize.
It is a design flaw.
Here is a link: (wrong design)
http://www.thermaltake.com/products/orbs/chromeor
Newer, more expensive ones have the mount on top, on what thermaltake calls a "grille", here: (correct design)
http://www.thermaltake.com/products/orbs/dragon1.
CompUSA's fans dont look the same and do not have the fancy grille, but the fan is not IN the heatsink as the earlier Athlon models from Thermaltake; instead, it sits in about the same place, but is mounted on TOP of the fins. The basic point, is to let the heat get away from the heatsink before it gets to the fan, those little fans can't handle high heat of normal operation very long.
But my basic point with the original post; dont believe all the hype, look good !== work good, stick with what you value. (I value a reasonably priced, reasonably fast PC that I do not have to dick with all the time.)
Sigh. Ok. You are right. I cooked 2 fans (no CPU tho) on an Athlon 1ghz.
Compound made do difference at all. The patch on the sink was plenty to bind to the CPU chip.
It was the thermalpuke that was the problem. See, the fan is mounted on the big block of metal-alloy and blows air up through the spiral heat releasing fins. So the plastic parts and bearings and motor in the fan get REALLY hot during operation.
I killed two of them with a Thunderbird playing Tanarus, it got hot enough to cook off part of my fingernail. (Hint, no touchee CPU, fan or heatsink if computer crashee due to heat.)
I bought three fans from CompUSA for the same price as ONE thermalpuke. They have the same basic design, except the fan is mounted on the fins, not the base of the heatsink. That way, most of the heat is dissapated before it gets a chance to melt the bearings, fan, motor, and mountings.
If one goes bad, no big deal. 10 minutes of messing around and I have the spare installed.
Thermaltake should change the design of the fan/sing combos. It is a flawed design to have the fan mounted on the bottom rather than the top.
The burnt out one sits on my desk as a reminder not to buy into the sparklie hype.
Hehe, yeah:
.2 version for another $129.
Please, stop spreading this kinds of bogus claims. I've never seen an example of a Linux system from a tier one manufacturer for 1/3 the cost of a comperable Mac system.
In fact, every time I've done the comparison, the MACS ARE CHEAPER.
This kind of flamebait is not appropriate for slashdot
Heh heh, until you have to upgrade to the
Do that a few times and the only thing cheaper about Macs is the foofy-talk that comes out of the Mac-Lusers mouths.
It aint the pipe, its the box.
What is it at the other end;
TSU $300
cable $100
Cisco 2500 $1400 or so
Cisco 7500 core router ~13K+
And that gets you T1 one line. (Additionals are less cuz you can put two on the 2500, and a bunch through the 7500 to the BB)
Think that routing all that data is going to not be necessary just because there is fiber to the drop in your basement?
For the prices to change, the WHOLE WAY ISPs MOVE PACKETS has to change. Not just the last mile. You cant divide a pipe into more pipes without routing, so your tree structure of routers to smaller routers to your house has to go away.
I am not sure I have ever seen or heard about anything that could do that task. Maybe there will be a cheap, fibre-capable router-on-a-chip someday. But not today.
I am not holding my breath for last mile solution. It's a big problem, it will be a while.
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And that's a limited resource on planes, isn't it? What happens when you get 10-20 of these things going at once, and start using more O2 than was designed for? Or am I missing something fundamental? (like planes recycle air, or take air in from the atmosphere, and presurize it?)
The latter is the case. Remember that plane that went runaway and crashed a few years ago with the golfers on it? There was a failure in the venting / compression system that scooped air, compresssed it, and put it in the cabin.
Most modern planes use a some sort of system to scoop from the atmosphere. The smaller ones probably do not go high enough for it to matter.
Other Ideas:
To keep linking to a minimum. Copy the colors and table structure (but not the nav bars) of the site into the linked page, put some porn on it, and put "Hacked by Chinese" at the bottom. (Or Nimda or whatever) Update the links in your site to avoid this page. Put it up on Friday night, delete it on Monday. Claim you know nothing about it.
Use a server redirect to Goatse.cx or some other web site.
Rename all your images, replace them with porn pics, be sure to update your IMG tags.
Most clueless users will assume the originating web site is deliberately linking to porn and will contact them to complain.
Change the file to a frameset that links back to the original site. Get paid by the banner ads you serve in your portion of the frame.
After a few weeks of this, they will stop linking.
Hyperlinks are one of those things on the internet that sort of relies on both parties sort of getting along. Either one can mess it up.
I assume that also any site that has significant ad revenue, will be wanting to protect their money stream they artificially created by breaking documents up to 10 pages or by making the site structure too deep.
In my opinion, lawyers should be the last line of defense or offense, not the first. This is just another instance of it getting all twisted around.
Would wardriving be an equivalent action to portscanning? As a query for interesting characteristics on a network that one is not authorized to access, they seem like they would be directly analogous.
Following that, warchalking would be about the same as posting the results of "Hey, I found these ports open on this network" [Providing IP Address] in some newsgroup.
Obviously, these things are not illegal (nor should they be), and certainly not a thing that someone would do unless they were at least thinking about doing something more interesting with the information.
This seems like just another example of why one should pay pretty close attention to what is happening on a network. Keep your printer web servers out of Google, secure your wireless, patch your webservers. Duh.
hmm... I agree!
.45 slug in a short barrel, or maybe a spike about 2 feet long. (Spike survival rates would be too high I think, the .45 seems like a better option.) These would be pointed right at the center of the driver seat through the stearing wheel.
In fact, this would be a great compliment to my "moron reduction attachment" program. It goes like this;
One in every 100 cars built has one of two types of airbag attachments. The other 99 are normal airbags.
Attachment 1 is a simple execution switch, either a
Attachment 2 is a genitalia removal system, I figure a capacitor in the seat would fire through two electrodes, one in the seat itself, the other on the seat belt. Use enough power to fry the sexual reproductive organs to a crisp.
These attachments fire during the same conditions the airbag do. Your fault or not, too bad.
Now, no one really knows what type of device they got. The end result, is overall lower risk-taking behavior on the roads due to "friend of a friend got his 'nards fried" type stories being common and believable.
I think there should be MORE carnage on the road. Rear-mounted shotguns for everybody! Then maybe the act of driving would get the respect it deserves.
Comming soon! Vote-o-drive! Limit: 5 votes. Timeout: 5 minutes. Get 5 votes from other drivers and POW, blown engine!
(Yes, I am a card-carrying AADA member.)
Uhm.... which one had Tasha Yar on it? That's the one I want. :)
That guy needs a bigger hammer. That's a lot of "bang"s just to pound four spikes through some flesh.
Yes. It is the government's job to dispose of waste.
It is my county's job to make sure my garbage goes somewher safe. They charge me for it with taxes and in some cases directly.
It is the city's job to make sure what I flush down the toilet is decontaminated and safely returned to the environment. They charge me for it with taxes and in some cases directly.
Nuclear waste, is also the job of the government. They have been charging for it, and so far have not done it.
The fact remains, whatever you think about Yucca mountain, is the waste exists. It will continue to pile up if something different not done with it. What they are doing is the best we can do for now. Deal with it, and go back to looking at your lead-containing monitor and playing with your heavy-metal containing computer(s).
Bless those Google guys (and gals).
Here is a list of photos I found on Google Images.
http://www.simson.net/photos/2000/sealand/
Start at the bottom and work your way up to get a chronology of what they were doing.
Looks like some British seafarers were invited to bring supplies or something and someone took photos of the process. It is a cruddy looking place. Even if the servers are IN the towers as their web site suggests, there just is not much room in there.
But then again, I spend most of MY time in a basement smaller than that...
Do you know how your car works?
Yes.
Your fridge?
Yes.
The plane you fly on?
Yes.
Your phone?
Yes. Note however, I stop trying to figure stuff out when I know enough and have enough skills to get what I want accomplished completed.
I program, so I consider my self technically savy, but I definitely have no idea (well I know the rough basics) and truthfully, I don't really care. I just want them to work. If I had to know the intimate details of every tool I used I wouldn't be able to get anything done.
Good, you have learned what is necessary of you.
However. You DO make the effort to figure out those devices to the complication and detail level required to operate them, no? For example, could you change a tire on your car? (I assume so.)
My point is, there comes a time when the interface should get no easier because it will make it too simplistic to go any further with the interface and still operate the device correctly. A computer, SHOULD have a semi-complicated interface, just because it does a HUGE variety of things. (think Turing Machine folks.) An interface that is TOO simple or TOO intuitive does not capture the ability to make the device work for it's intended purpose.
The problem with most Lusers is, they think they can do complicated stuff via a user interface that does not require them to understand what the thing does, or what some of the possible problems might be. Taking the time to learn what the thing does, to meet the complexity of the device, would make the whole "user inteface" thing a nonissue.
**The first time I hear of a "user friendly" nuclear power plant, I am leaving the goddamn country.**
I DO think that interfaces should deal with the largest possible group of people with physical and sensory differences as well as possible. However, the idea that someone should not need to learn how to do something to be able to DO that thing should be separated from being "intuitive". Intuition is using your brain for doing stuff other than memorizing CLI commands fer crissake, not the freedom FROM using your brain at all.
If it can simulate the earth, then maybe they would be kind enough to email me where I left my fucking car keys.