All I know is... the second these things hit the market, those wonderful bullet chains are coming off of our rescue saws, and a bunch of new HPC-bladed chain is going on them. Nothing pisses me off more when I'm trying to cut an egress through brick and concrete, only to have the blade hang up (or overheat/fail) on rebar.
Granted, using a chainsaw on anything not-wood is normally an abomination; but a real bullet chain is intended for these other things, and enables cutting tougher materials (mentioned above) with lighter tools (chainsaws instead of K12s etc), meaning it can be cut sooner, with less effort, and more safety. If HPC eventually pans out, they'll increase this factor even moreso.
As far as toxicity, I suspect it's largely irrelevent when compared to the environment I'd be using it in. The majority of other places and other uses, though... your point is something to think about. I suppose we don't want to, because it'd rain on our parade (so to speak).
From what I can tell, it's not so much about "moving the Stern show"... Sirius / XM are currently a joke; they have no real product.
What he intends to do is create a compelling product that you WOULD subscribe to. I've no idea what it'd be, but he's got three channels to roll out... and I'll bet that they'll have little or nothing to do with music. I expect he's got three ideas that 20% of the market will *want* to subscribe to.
The Stern Show itself will probably be only a small fraction of his final product.
See, we live in a country that's under the Rule of Law. Most of us know what this means; simply put, the rules are written down, in plain english that cannot be misinterpreted (yeah, it's a stretch... but you get my point.)
Contrast that with a place under the Rule of Men. They can change what the law is, or what it means, at will.
And that's the problem with the FCC. They claim they'll punish indecency. Fair enough. Just one problem...... DEFINE IT.
They haven't. And, they can't. Nowhere will you discover any legally binding document that clearly indicates what is and is not acceptable. And it glares in the face of "legitimate law" - it's illegal to murder someone, for example - no doubts as to what that means, right? Then, we'll also make it illegal to kill them with guns. In fact, we'll pass another law that makes it to kill them with guns, in a school. The merits of the examples notwithstanding, they illustrate that US Law is intended to be specific, using specific definitions. FCC "law" defining "indecent" is anything but that. In fact, it's nonexistent.
Do a little research on FCC's concept of "indecent". You'll discover that it basically starts with Mob Rule (actually, "Single Loudmouth Rule"), and it's final interpretation is based on nothing more than the whim of the FCC executive.
It basically seems to be related to having a white pigmentation (NOT albino... albino is completely different). Best summed up from the site that taught me about it -
"Congenital deafness in dogs and cats is primarily of the hereditary sensorineural form associated with white pigmentation genes, although acquired forms of deafness are possible. Highest prevalence is seen in white cats, especially those with blue eyes, and the Dalmatian, with many other dog breeds affected to some extent. This deafness results from degeneration of the cochlear blood supply at age 3 to 4 weeks, presumably resulting from suppression of melanocytes by the white (cat) or merle or piebald (dog) genes",
and
"Deafness prevalence (unilateral and bilateral) in mixed breed white cats was 17%, 40%, and 85% for zero, one, or two blue eyes, respectively."
No, the worst cat I have is our latest, another stray that we picked up. Completely white, with one blue eye, one green/yellow. A total teenager.
We get him fixed, and he's been home for a week. I roll in from work to find he's been clipped by a car. So, wife gets home right behind me and... off to the emergency vet we go (bear with me...)
At the check-in, the receptionist needs to know the cat's name. I say "Doesn't Matter".
"Yes, it does," she explains, "I need to know the cat's name."
"Doesn't matter!" I reply, more deliberately than before. The vet, meanwhile, overhears us and starts in our direction.
"Look, sir, I have to have a na..." I cut her off, and started waving my hands wildly in the air. "Well, if you can find a way to spell THIS (my hands waving)... otherwise, it's Doesn't Matter."
The vet took a glance at the cat, saw the blue eye and said "Just write down Doesn't Matter. The cat's deaf."
Anyway, he's now a semi-permanent fixture next to my keyboard. All the real-estate I gained by swapping out my old CRT 2nd monitor for an LCD has been lost, and the little bastard likes to stretch while he's sleeping to hit various keys. And you can't really yell at him for it... no, really, you can't. You can call him anything you want, all you want - it just doesn't matter. The neighbor sets off a quarter-stick - 3 cats bounce off the ceiling, and one deaf white one sleeps right through it. Which is good, really, because he's 11 pounds of pure Godzilla when he's awake, and he follows me everywhere, forever presenting me with mostly dead frogs, mice, and an occasional rabbit.
Well, there's other challenges as well - there's a human factor to consider. Hydrogen is a lot less forgiving than gasoline.
I spent the bulk of last Saturday morning at a gas station, playing "Hazmat tech". 6am, some idiot swiped his credit card at the pump, filled his car, and drove away. Small problem: He didn't remove the nozzle from his car, first.
Whatever failsafes that were supposed to happen didn't; the hose broke as intended, but not before the pump had twised on it's base and cracked a line. By the time the clerk was able to shut it down, there was about $260 worth of gas on the ground... and paid for, even. Luckily our engine had a spill kit, and we were able to keep the stuff out of the storm sewers. The 35 yr-old yuppie's reaction when the police brought him back? "Eh, whatever. The f*ing thing scratched my SUV."
Liquid Hydrogen at every Quickie-mart. It evaporates crazily, freezes everything as it does, you can't see it when it burns, nor can you put it out easily. There's a fun concept that I want in my town... or in my car, or anywhere NEAR the above prick.
Hydrogen sounds like a neat fuel, and it solves a lot of problems. However, it also introduces a lot of new ones... mostly related to what happens when people are stupid, or things go wrong. And many people are stupid, and things always go wrong.
The media wasn't lost; it was included in the purchase of that camera.
The images weren't lost; they were included on the media.
Your argument is akin to "I bought this MS-Win2K CD from Comp-USA, and it had MS-Win2K on it!" Oh, the DATA on that CD isn't included with the purchase of that media. REGARDLESS that the SELLER should have a REASONABLE EXPECTATION that there was data on them, you can't prove he did, and YOU should GO to JAIL."
Nonsense. If something is purchased "as-is", the door swings both ways.
Perhaps, but... oh hell, the "doh!" factor is killing me. Rant mode on...
a) Commercial fire suppression systems don't extinguish fires; they suppress (localize) them for a finite period of time.
b) Residential fire suppression systems suppress (localize) fires for shorter periods of time, since aesthetics and cost take precedence over function in that market.
c) Residential fire suppression systems are by definition of lower effectiveness. When's the last time you saw 20gpm sprinkler head in someone's living room, and when's the last time you saw a residential water service that could push 20 gpm, period. Never mind if two heads are tripped... and consider that, assuming an 8 minute response by the fire dept, the average fire will trip about 4 heads IF it is in a sprinkled area. You'd need a water source that can sustain a 100 gallon per minute flow to drive those four heads.
d) By contrast, current residential codes only require a flow rate of.05 gpm/sq ft. Assuming 8 foot spacing of heads, that'll be... how many gallons per minute for a single head? A little over 3 gallons to cover 64 square feet. Count your calories, do your math, and even assuming a 100% steam conversion rate (which you won't even get close to, since it's pure water and also is not aimed at anything in particular), you're still looking at.05 gallons of water per square foot, over the course of an entire minute. 5 hundreths of a gallon per square foot, PER MINUTE. Exactly how many calories of heat will be consumed per second at that rate, versus the number of calories being produced by the fire?
e) And again, the average residential water might be able to do 2 gpm, up to 5 gpm. That's enough for one head. It also means that your density goes down as additional heads open up, since they will "steal" flow from those already open.
f) Your typical house fire will typically have an initial source that's either electrical, wood/cardboard, or "methyl-ethyl-badshit". Sprinklers won't do dick for electrical fires. They work well to protect horizontal wood/cardboard surfaces, but do dick in the vertical plane (and undersides, like in shelving). They also don't do dick for MEB fires, which is what wood/cardboard usually evolves into (in basement areas - paint thinners, gas, cans of WD-40, whatever. Typical temperatures will be upwards of 800 degrees along the smoke path, unless plastics or petrols are involved. In living spaces - anything plastic/petrol based. Carpets, curtains, upholstry, cushions, clothing, electronics. Typical temperatures along the immediate smoke path will be anywhere from 1200 to 2300 degrees, depending on materials. Hopefully, that new magnesium-cased laptop is back at the office.)
g) Since the sprinkler can only squirt onto things it has a direct shot at, and since the fires never happen in such places, the sprinkler will not put the fire out. The couch / curtain / shelving / wall / whatever will continue to burn inside and underneath, and still produce enough gases to kill a horse. It just won't produce them as quickly in some places, and fire spread will be hampered along those exposed horizontal planes. Are they worth having? Absolutely... they can localize the fire until we get there, and buy you time to get out in one piece. They don't put things out, however.
h) Fancy Non-Sprinker suppression systems are not going to be found in residential structures, since they require a confined area to function. Somehow, I don't see Mom and Dad dropping $30-50k for an FM200 kit, with auto-closing fire doors separating each area of the house. Any room being protected by such a system must be sealed, including auto-dampers on any HVAC ducting. If a door, window, or duct remains open when the agent is discharged, It's Useless(tm).
i) "Rich enough to build" has nothing to do with it; these "security" items are intended for the common market - to replace ugly steel bars on windows, to make a wall stronger with more math and less mass
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With all the side discussion about "Ok, what's the best way to secure my house", there's something important to remember.
Namely, that there *is* such a thing as being too secure.
Morons who install kevlar window screens, lexan-backed sheetrock, and 50000 spider locks with cross-beams on each door all seem to forget a simple concept -
Some day, your house (or apartment) will have a fire in it. When that happens, you might need to get out of that structure, through those windows, through those doors. And when you can't (because the fire's been going for a good 4 minutes, there is no visibility, and you're dizzy from the phosgenes, monoxides, and methyl-ethyl-badshits in the atmosphere), the fire dept will need to get IN through those windows, through those doors, and breach through those walls to try to find you, or your kids. Once found, the nearest exit (a window) won't be useable; it's "too secure". They can either wait 9 minutes for an outside crew to find and defeat the "window security" (usually via k12 or chainsaw) and hopefully not run out of air during the wait, or the crew will need to drag the victims through the worst areas of the structure (corridors), exposing them to even higher concentrations of ambient death at 800+ degrees, in order to reach a viable egress point. Either way, it's not going to be a rescue. It'll be a recovery... unless the crew fails to abandon you when they're low on air; then it'll be a dead crew as well.
So, when you think about securing your house, understand that some day it can kill you (along with any crew that's trying to reach you, since they can get just as trapped by this bullshit once inside). Understand that you're making this tradeoff, and understand that this tradeoff won't seem worth it when that time finally comes.
Something to think about, at least - meanwhile, back to that book review:)
Ah, yes I did miss the point. And no, FF doesn't have that. Could probably make an extension for it, though... but personally, after suffering years of IE usage trauma, most users might not see the difference between such an extension and the typical IE Hijack unless it's done right.
Eh, mebbie I'll get bored this weekend and see if I can throw something together (if it doesn't already exist), because it sounds like a fun one.
One solution to your "saved" idea is to add a folder to your "bookmarks toolbar" folder. Place your favorites into it; upon startup, merely click on that folder, and choose "open in tabs".
If I'm reading your post correctly, you're (slightly) mistaken. HKCU can be located anywhere (including on a UNC share if you're clever about hating your users), along with the entire "user" directory tree... none of the "per-user" stuff needs to be tied to a specific box or partition, exactly as you wish.
In a perfect world, the user-side of what you're suggesting can be done without too much headache at all - and in fact is mostly done in larger shops via combinations of roaming profiles, policies and "home directories" in the user props.
Isolating apps is another issue altogether, sadly - most of them are so ill behaved (Flash and Real, for example, sticking shit in the $sysroot tree) that it takes more time to create this "isolation" than it'd be worth - compare the time of your ideal strategy (and the hair pulling that's required due to shithead vendors) versus something as trival as Ghost. From a time-required standpoint, when \Winnt gets hosed... App Isolation loses hands down since I can Ghost in about four minutes.
"The hard disks that Windows PCs use get sluggish after a while. The fix is simple: You run the built-in disk defragger, which reconnects the fragments of files on the disk. Running the defragger every few weeks can speed up Windows quite a bit."
Riiiggghttt. It cures GPFs, too, he thinks.
Or, hear about how Win2K fixes everything - http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/texts/tec121000 .ht ml "... But a Windows 2000 PC equipped with a standard log-on password cannot be hacked." "...Windows 2000 will not let any program you are installing wreck the files that Windows itself needs. It also won't let anything happen to files other programs are using..."
Al also suffers from "If I can't do it, it can't be done" syndrome, amongst many other things. Trivial example -
http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/texts/tec051897. ht ml
Gross misunderstanding, pure and simple. Then he misuses an FSA to justify his points (and note that the topic is *can*, not *do*.)
Or a recent good one - http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/texts/tec010404 .ht ml According to Al, only WinXP stores mice settings in the HKCU hive. Or, only WinXP supports individual "logon accounts", I'm not sure which.
But, you'll find plenty in this drivel - and note that the best ones are not present. They either occur on-air over radio, or have been omitted. Sadly, you'll never read any of his "Windows is designed to self-corrupt itself" statements, since they're primarily oral.
No rebuttles are ever needed to anything Al says; all one need do is show some of his past statements to discredit him. He has the perfect combination of stupidity, ignorance, and arrogance that makes for an inflamatory read every time he writes... and his phone-in radio show is even worse (reformat. Yep, reformat. Oh yeah, you probably need to reformat. Sure, defrag first, then reformat.) The phrase "The definition of an expert is any jerk who drops one more buzzword than you" was coined to describe this guy. Totally clueless, and won't admit it.
"Home email servers" are exactly what these concepts are trying to kill... every DHCP typhoid zombie box out there that sources this spam-trash is a "home email server." From the outside looking in, your machine will be no different from them unless you take a few steps.
With that said, all isn't lost - you simply need to set up a legit domain to host your SPF records / etc. It won't be incredibly trivial, but then it isn't supposed to be - otherwise, some spammer could simply do it also, and we're back to square one.
At least here in CNY, TWCable has rolled out a 1-Gig down, 1/2-Gig up service for a couple hundred / month. No SLAs or anything, and no idea on how it scales (as more and more people buy it) - but it is available, no fiber needed.
Actually, I got a Barracuda at work several months back. Works quite well.
What ISPs could do is simple - just offer two domains for their user's email - one filtered, one not. They could both be hosted by the same server(s) easily enough.
The trick to use is the MX records of those domains. For users wanting spam, they setup an account on the non-filtered domain. If they want filtering, OTOH, they set one up on the filtered domain.
The only difference between the two would be the MX records. The non-filtered would go straight into the ISP's box. The filtered MX, however, would point to their 'cuda. It would then relay any surviving mail to the ISP's box.
Simple, cheap, and effective. AND, users get to keep their choice of spam handling, which is the biggest problem the ISPs face.
Could wash, rinse, repeat by offering a nazi-no-spam domain as well - just point that domain's MX to another cuda with an assload of regex blocking, and real tight thresholds. I use such a config at my shop - no img tags, iframes, scripts, objects, you name it.
So, defeating spam can be done at the ISP level - they just need to know what their options are.
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Firefighter?
Dude, firefighting is a dream job (albiet difficult at times, but still incredible). Get your priorities straight!
You mean... arrgh! My blood! It's red because it's RUSTING! ... or something.
Uh, bonehead...
>> doesn't get smashed between hunks of metal colliding at 1500m/s very often
The last time I checked, most "weapon projectiles" only encounter such smashing, ONCE. After that point, it really doesn't f*ing matter.
And I still see no relevence to oxidation.
THAT is a big fat NEGATIVE.
The strongest material in existence is what the A-arms on my RC-truck are made of...
Solid Unobtanium.
All I know is... the second these things hit the market, those wonderful bullet chains are coming off of our rescue saws, and a bunch of new HPC-bladed chain is going on them. Nothing pisses me off more when I'm trying to cut an egress through brick and concrete, only to have the blade hang up (or overheat/fail) on rebar.
Granted, using a chainsaw on anything not-wood is normally an abomination; but a real bullet chain is intended for these other things, and enables cutting tougher materials (mentioned above) with lighter tools (chainsaws instead of K12s etc), meaning it can be cut sooner, with less effort, and more safety. If HPC eventually pans out, they'll increase this factor even moreso.
As far as toxicity, I suspect it's largely irrelevent when compared to the environment I'd be using it in. The majority of other places and other uses, though... your point is something to think about. I suppose we don't want to, because it'd rain on our parade (so to speak).
From what I can tell, it's not so much about "moving the Stern show"... Sirius / XM are currently a joke; they have no real product.
What he intends to do is create a compelling product that you WOULD subscribe to. I've no idea what it'd be, but he's got three channels to roll out... and I'll bet that they'll have little or nothing to do with music. I expect he's got three ideas that 20% of the market will *want* to subscribe to.
The Stern Show itself will probably be only a small fraction of his final product.
Actually, it's easier than that.
... DEFINE IT.
See, we live in a country that's under the Rule of Law. Most of us know what this means; simply put, the rules are written down, in plain english that cannot be misinterpreted (yeah, it's a stretch... but you get my point.)
Contrast that with a place under the Rule of Men. They can change what the law is, or what it means, at will.
And that's the problem with the FCC. They claim they'll punish indecency. Fair enough. Just one problem...
They haven't. And, they can't. Nowhere will you discover any legally binding document that clearly indicates what is and is not acceptable. And it glares in the face of "legitimate law" - it's illegal to murder someone, for example - no doubts as to what that means, right? Then, we'll also make it illegal to kill them with guns. In fact, we'll pass another law that makes it to kill them with guns, in a school. The merits of the examples notwithstanding, they illustrate that US Law is intended to be specific, using specific definitions. FCC "law" defining "indecent" is anything but that. In fact, it's nonexistent.
Do a little research on FCC's concept of "indecent". You'll discover that it basically starts with Mob Rule (actually, "Single Loudmouth Rule"), and it's final interpretation is based on nothing more than the whim of the FCC executive.
Sorry... I was trying to not be long winded :)
It basically seems to be related to having a white pigmentation (NOT albino... albino is completely different). Best summed up from the site that taught me about it -
"Congenital deafness in dogs and cats is primarily of the hereditary sensorineural form associated with white pigmentation genes, although acquired forms of deafness are possible. Highest prevalence is seen in white cats, especially those with blue eyes, and the Dalmatian, with many other dog breeds affected to some extent. This deafness results from degeneration of the cochlear blood supply at age 3 to 4 weeks, presumably resulting from suppression of melanocytes by the white (cat) or merle or piebald (dog) genes",
and
"Deafness prevalence (unilateral and bilateral) in mixed breed white cats was 17%, 40%, and 85% for zero, one, or two blue eyes, respectively."
(source)
So, eyes can be a strong indicator (depending on why they're blue) since they'll indicate an environment in which the deafness can occur.
Bah, my calico would eat that thing for lunch.
No, the worst cat I have is our latest, another stray that we picked up. Completely white, with one blue eye, one green/yellow. A total teenager.
We get him fixed, and he's been home for a week. I roll in from work to find he's been clipped by a car. So, wife gets home right behind me and... off to the emergency vet we go (bear with me...)
At the check-in, the receptionist needs to know the cat's name. I say "Doesn't Matter".
"Yes, it does," she explains, "I need to know the cat's name."
"Doesn't matter!" I reply, more deliberately than before. The vet, meanwhile, overhears us and starts in our direction.
"Look, sir, I have to have a na..." I cut her off, and started waving my hands wildly in the air. "Well, if you can find a way to spell THIS (my hands waving)... otherwise, it's Doesn't Matter."
The vet took a glance at the cat, saw the blue eye and said "Just write down Doesn't Matter. The cat's deaf."
Anyway, he's now a semi-permanent fixture next to my keyboard. All the real-estate I gained by swapping out my old CRT 2nd monitor for an LCD has been lost, and the little bastard likes to stretch while he's sleeping to hit various keys. And you can't really yell at him for it... no, really, you can't. You can call him anything you want, all you want - it just doesn't matter. The neighbor sets off a quarter-stick - 3 cats bounce off the ceiling, and one deaf white one sleeps right through it. Which is good, really, because he's 11 pounds of pure Godzilla when he's awake, and he follows me everywhere, forever presenting me with mostly dead frogs, mice, and an occasional rabbit.
Well, there's other challenges as well - there's a human factor to consider. Hydrogen is a lot less forgiving than gasoline.
I spent the bulk of last Saturday morning at a gas station, playing "Hazmat tech". 6am, some idiot swiped his credit card at the pump, filled his car, and drove away. Small problem: He didn't remove the nozzle from his car, first.
Whatever failsafes that were supposed to happen didn't; the hose broke as intended, but not before the pump had twised on it's base and cracked a line. By the time the clerk was able to shut it down, there was about $260 worth of gas on the ground... and paid for, even. Luckily our engine had a spill kit, and we were able to keep the stuff out of the storm sewers. The 35 yr-old yuppie's reaction when the police brought him back? "Eh, whatever. The f*ing thing scratched my SUV."
Liquid Hydrogen at every Quickie-mart. It evaporates crazily, freezes everything as it does, you can't see it when it burns, nor can you put it out easily. There's a fun concept that I want in my town... or in my car, or anywhere NEAR the above prick.
Hydrogen sounds like a neat fuel, and it solves a lot of problems. However, it also introduces a lot of new ones... mostly related to what happens when people are stupid, or things go wrong. And many people are stupid, and things always go wrong.
Bonehead,
The camera was purchased.
The media wasn't lost; it was included in the purchase of that camera.
The images weren't lost; they were included on the media.
Your argument is akin to "I bought this MS-Win2K CD from Comp-USA, and it had MS-Win2K on it!"
Oh, the DATA on that CD isn't included with the purchase of that media. REGARDLESS that the SELLER should have a REASONABLE EXPECTATION that there was data on them, you can't prove he did, and YOU should GO to JAIL."
Nonsense. If something is purchased "as-is", the door swings both ways.
No the correct response would have been to pee on his leg (ala "Up In Smoke"). Heh.
"Hey man, what's goin on out dere?"
"oh, just some people doing what... hey, hey! Hey! Come back here!"
"They killed my best dog, some asshole pissed on my leg..."
Perhaps, but... oh hell, the "doh!" factor is killing me. Rant mode on...
.05 gpm/sq ft. Assuming 8 foot spacing of heads, that'll be... how many gallons per minute for a single head? A little over 3 gallons to cover 64 square feet. Count your calories, do your math, and even assuming a 100% steam conversion rate (which you won't even get close to, since it's pure water and also is not aimed at anything in particular), you're still looking at .05 gallons of water per square foot, over the course of an entire minute. 5 hundreths of a gallon per square foot, PER MINUTE. Exactly how many calories of heat will be consumed per second at that rate, versus the number of calories being produced by the fire?
a) Commercial fire suppression systems don't extinguish fires; they suppress (localize) them for a finite period of time.
b) Residential fire suppression systems suppress (localize) fires for shorter periods of time, since aesthetics and cost take precedence over function in that market.
c) Residential fire suppression systems are by definition of lower effectiveness. When's the last time you saw 20gpm sprinkler head in someone's living room, and when's the last time you saw a residential water service that could push 20 gpm, period. Never mind if two heads are tripped... and consider that, assuming an 8 minute response by the fire dept, the average fire will trip about 4 heads IF it is in a sprinkled area. You'd need a water source that can sustain a 100 gallon per minute flow to drive those four heads.
d) By contrast, current residential codes only require a flow rate of
e) And again, the average residential water might be able to do 2 gpm, up to 5 gpm. That's enough for one head. It also means that your density goes down as additional heads open up, since they will "steal" flow from those already open.
f) Your typical house fire will typically have an initial source that's either electrical, wood/cardboard, or "methyl-ethyl-badshit". Sprinklers won't do dick for electrical fires. They work well to protect horizontal wood/cardboard surfaces, but do dick in the vertical plane (and undersides, like in shelving). They also don't do dick for MEB fires, which is what wood/cardboard usually evolves into (in basement areas - paint thinners, gas, cans of WD-40, whatever. Typical temperatures will be upwards of 800 degrees along the smoke path, unless plastics or petrols are involved. In living spaces - anything plastic/petrol based. Carpets, curtains, upholstry, cushions, clothing, electronics. Typical temperatures along the immediate smoke path will be anywhere from 1200 to 2300 degrees, depending on materials. Hopefully, that new magnesium-cased laptop is back at the office.)
g) Since the sprinkler can only squirt onto things it has a direct shot at, and since the fires never happen in such places, the sprinkler will not put the fire out. The couch / curtain / shelving / wall / whatever will continue to burn inside and underneath, and still produce enough gases to kill a horse. It just won't produce them as quickly in some places, and fire spread will be hampered along those exposed horizontal planes. Are they worth having? Absolutely... they can localize the fire until we get there, and buy you time to get out in one piece. They don't put things out, however.
h) Fancy Non-Sprinker suppression systems are not going to be found in residential structures, since they require a confined area to function. Somehow, I don't see Mom and Dad dropping $30-50k for an FM200 kit, with auto-closing fire doors separating each area of the house. Any room being protected by such a system must be sealed, including auto-dampers on any HVAC ducting. If a door, window, or duct remains open when the agent is discharged, It's Useless(tm).
i) "Rich enough to build" has nothing to do with it; these "security" items are intended for the common market - to replace ugly steel bars on windows, to make a wall stronger with more math and less mass
With all the side discussion about "Ok, what's the best way to secure my house", there's something important to remember.
:)
Namely, that there *is* such a thing as being too secure.
Morons who install kevlar window screens, lexan-backed sheetrock, and 50000 spider locks with cross-beams on each door all seem to forget a simple concept -
Some day, your house (or apartment) will have a fire in it. When that happens, you might need to get out of that structure, through those windows, through those doors. And when you can't (because the fire's been going for a good 4 minutes, there is no visibility, and you're dizzy from the phosgenes, monoxides, and methyl-ethyl-badshits in the atmosphere), the fire dept will need to get IN through those windows, through those doors, and breach through those walls to try to find you, or your kids. Once found, the nearest exit (a window) won't be useable; it's "too secure". They can either wait 9 minutes for an outside crew to find and defeat the "window security" (usually via k12 or chainsaw) and hopefully not run out of air during the wait, or the crew will need to drag the victims through the worst areas of the structure (corridors), exposing them to even higher concentrations of ambient death at 800+ degrees, in order to reach a viable egress point. Either way, it's not going to be a rescue. It'll be a recovery... unless the crew fails to abandon you when they're low on air; then it'll be a dead crew as well.
So, when you think about securing your house, understand that some day it can kill you (along with any crew that's trying to reach you, since they can get just as trapped by this bullshit once inside). Understand that you're making this tradeoff, and understand that this tradeoff won't seem worth it when that time finally comes.
Something to think about, at least - meanwhile, back to that book review
Ah, yes I did miss the point. And no, FF doesn't have that. Could probably make an extension for it, though... but personally, after suffering years of IE usage trauma, most users might not see the difference between such an extension and the typical IE Hijack unless it's done right.
Eh, mebbie I'll get bored this weekend and see if I can throw something together (if it doesn't already exist), because it sounds like a fun one.
One solution to your "saved" idea is to add a folder to your "bookmarks toolbar" folder. Place your favorites into it; upon startup, merely click on that folder, and choose "open in tabs".
No, you don't have the right to kill yourself. Doing so would harm any parasites and bacteria living in/on you.
If I'm reading your post correctly, you're (slightly) mistaken. HKCU can be located anywhere (including on a UNC share if you're clever about hating your users), along with the entire "user" directory tree... none of the "per-user" stuff needs to be tied to a specific box or partition, exactly as you wish.
In a perfect world, the user-side of what you're suggesting can be done without too much headache at all - and in fact is mostly done in larger shops via combinations of roaming profiles, policies and "home directories" in the user props.
Isolating apps is another issue altogether, sadly - most of them are so ill behaved (Flash and Real, for example, sticking shit in the $sysroot tree) that it takes more time to create this "isolation" than it'd be worth - compare the time of your ideal strategy (and the hair pulling that's required due to shithead vendors) versus something as trival as Ghost. From a time-required standpoint, when \Winnt gets hosed... App Isolation loses hands down since I can Ghost in about four minutes.
Cheers,
"The hard disks that Windows PCs use get sluggish after a while. The fix is simple: You run the built-in disk defragger, which reconnects the fragments of files on the disk. Running the defragger every few weeks can speed up Windows quite a bit."
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Riiiggghttt. It cures GPFs, too, he thinks.
Or, hear about how Win2K fixes everything -
http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/texts/tec12100
"... But a Windows 2000 PC equipped with a standard log-on password cannot be hacked."
"...Windows 2000 will not let any program you are installing wreck the files that Windows itself needs. It also won't let anything happen to files other programs are using..."
Al also suffers from "If I can't do it, it can't be done" syndrome, amongst many other things. Trivial example -
http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/texts/tec051897
Gross misunderstanding, pure and simple. Then he misuses an FSA to justify his points (and note that the topic is *can*, not *do*.)
Or a recent good one -
http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/texts/tec01040
According to Al, only WinXP stores mice settings in the HKCU hive. Or, only WinXP supports individual "logon accounts", I'm not sure which.
But, you'll find plenty in this drivel - and note that the best ones are not present. They either occur on-air over radio, or have been omitted. Sadly, you'll never read any of his "Windows is designed to self-corrupt itself" statements, since they're primarily oral.
http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/windows.html
http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/win.html
http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/net.html
http://aroundcny.com/Technofile/essays.html
No rebuttles are ever needed to anything Al says; all one need do is show some of his past statements to discredit him. He has the perfect combination of stupidity, ignorance, and arrogance that makes for an inflamatory read every time he writes... and his phone-in radio show is even worse (reformat. Yep, reformat. Oh yeah, you probably need to reformat. Sure, defrag first, then reformat.) The phrase "The definition of an expert is any jerk who drops one more buzzword than you" was coined to describe this guy. Totally clueless, and won't admit it.
Lol.
Actually, the "wrong crowd" is exactly the crowd who needs to get off of IE the most, silly.
"Home email servers" are exactly what these concepts are trying to kill... every DHCP typhoid zombie box out there that sources this spam-trash is a "home email server." From the outside looking in, your machine will be no different from them unless you take a few steps.
With that said, all isn't lost - you simply need to set up a legit domain to host your SPF records / etc. It won't be incredibly trivial, but then it isn't supposed to be - otherwise, some spammer could simply do it also, and we're back to square one.
Not true.
At least here in CNY, TWCable has rolled out a 1-Gig down, 1/2-Gig up service for a couple hundred / month. No SLAs or anything, and no idea on how it scales (as more and more people buy it) - but it is available, no fiber needed.
Uh, FlashBlock was the first extension I ever got for Firefox. It's also my number two sales-pitch to users for switching to it. And they agree.
Actually, I got a Barracuda at work several months back. Works quite well.
What ISPs could do is simple - just offer two domains for their user's email - one filtered, one not. They could both be hosted by the same server(s) easily enough.
The trick to use is the MX records of those domains. For users wanting spam, they setup an account on the non-filtered domain. If they want filtering, OTOH, they set one up on the filtered domain.
The only difference between the two would be the MX records. The non-filtered would go straight into the ISP's box. The filtered MX, however, would point to their 'cuda. It would then relay any surviving mail to the ISP's box.
Simple, cheap, and effective. AND, users get to keep their choice of spam handling, which is the biggest problem the ISPs face.
Could wash, rinse, repeat by offering a nazi-no-spam domain as well - just point that domain's MX to another cuda with an assload of regex blocking, and real tight thresholds. I use such a config at my shop - no img tags, iframes, scripts, objects, you name it.
So, defeating spam can be done at the ISP level - they just need to know what their options are.