Generation of power always needs to meet demand. You need baseline power plus on demand power from a reliable source. You need to adapt to changing power demands with a variable source. Variable power from "green" sources (wind, solar) is useless if it can't be stored and released, or balanced by fast acting sources like natural gas or hydro power. Most "green" power sources increase carbon emissions because they need a fast on natural gas power source to balance out their variable power.
My personal website has been around since 1998. I provide/share information on topics that interest me. I have never served ads or collected personal information (logging is not turned on at my website). I can enter search terms on Google and use "I'm Feeling Lucky" to find my website. But now Google is going to downgrade me since I don't use HTTPS, so they can have exclusive access to search results to access my website information. WTF? Not all the information on the web needs to be encrypted.
Somehow "Net Neutrality" has now been equated with government regulation. Newspeak. The internet thrived until Obama used dubious procedures to reclassify it as a regulated monopoly (and the regulations never came into full effect). The internet was much more free before regulation because market forces demanded "Net Neutrality".
Today's vote was a vote to return to the same regulatory environment that the Internet grew up with. It did just fine being regulated by the FTC before the Obama administration reclassified it as a telecommunications environment thru some dubious procedures and put under the control of the FCC. You could say today's vote returned the Internet to the Free Market.
After you spend nearly 50 years doing nearly every job in IT as you kept up with change and looked for new things to learn, you will find that work is getting in the way of all the things YOU want to to, and you retire.
Made reservations last winter for dead center. Arrived a couple days before the eclipse and left a couple days afterwards. No traffic problems (other than the usual construction delays), but it was a day's drive from Michigan. Could put on eclipse glasses and watch from in the pool, or sit on the side and take pictures. All the sites were taken in the private campground, but it certainly was not crowded.
If you are sending with No-Reply@ as your FROM address and the delivery fails, how are you going to fix your mailing list when you don't get the delivery failure notice? Do that too many times and your delivery failure rate will go up and most ISPs will decide you are a spammer and cut you off completely. Businesses sending email need valid FROM addresses so they can actively manage their relationship with their customers, which includes making sure email addresses are current and valid, and it is easy for their customers to contact them.
If you don't want your content to be scraped, don't make it publicly available. If I can view it without a logon you have no claim to protect the data.
I season my variety of domestic news sources, which includes newspapers, television, radio, and the internet, with reporting from outside of the United States. The BBC is the first, and probably best, source that comes to mind, but Australia and India also provide English resources for news not biased by American ideology.
I doubt that you and I use the software in the same way. Your use case and mine are not the same. It is at least 50-50 that your "improvement" will break my use case (or make it more difficult). I did, after all, select the software, as it works today, because it solved one of my problems. BTW, there is a good chance I won't buy/install the next update to the software because it will probably "improve" it to the point it is no longer useable.
Foreign workers may have better technical skills, but they usually lack the quality of ownership of a problem. When the shit hits the fan and things go south, American workers are more likely to take ownership and dig for solutions (foreign workers tend to look for direction).
How is this a patent? Advertisers have been targeting motorists for decades. Digital billboards are old news. What's wrong with this picture? How is this original? What am I missing?
You can sync your computer or smart phone directly with NIST (aka WWV) by visiting http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm and selecting one of the sync options. The screen saver will work as your 'clock'.
My wife and I both work in IT and found Grand Rapids to be a wonderful place to raise a family. The place has been voted Beer City with over 30 craft breweries. Very strong medical community. Art Prize and a Festival of the Arts every year. We also have a local TEDx. And it is only a half hour drive to Lake Michigan beaches in the summer. Well worth a second look.
You had to give a valid credit card to your ISP to get an account. Your credit card providor knows your phone number. Law enforcement agencies can find you by this trail. If you selected a reputable ISP they are not going to give out your personal details voluntarily because they want to keep your account. What's the problem? Are you doing something you shouldn't be doing? Why not leave a trail of accountability for your actions on the internet?
And for the record, I live in Michigan.
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Generation of power always needs to meet demand. You need baseline power plus on demand power from a reliable source. You need to adapt to changing power demands with a variable source. Variable power from "green" sources (wind, solar) is useless if it can't be stored and released, or balanced by fast acting sources like natural gas or hydro power. Most "green" power sources increase carbon emissions because they need a fast on natural gas power source to balance out their variable power.
My personal website has been around since 1998. I provide/share information on topics that interest me. I have never served ads or collected personal information (logging is not turned on at my website). I can enter search terms on Google and use "I'm Feeling Lucky" to find my website. But now Google is going to downgrade me since I don't use HTTPS, so they can have exclusive access to search results to access my website information. WTF? Not all the information on the web needs to be encrypted.
Somehow "Net Neutrality" has now been equated with government regulation. Newspeak. The internet thrived until Obama used dubious procedures to reclassify it as a regulated monopoly (and the regulations never came into full effect). The internet was much more free before regulation because market forces demanded "Net Neutrality".
Today's vote was a vote to return to the same regulatory environment that the Internet grew up with. It did just fine being regulated by the FTC before the Obama administration reclassified it as a telecommunications environment thru some dubious procedures and put under the control of the FCC. You could say today's vote returned the Internet to the Free Market.
You can get the best of both worlds if you use Parallels to run Windows on your Mac.
After you spend nearly 50 years doing nearly every job in IT as you kept up with change and looked for new things to learn, you will find that work is getting in the way of all the things YOU want to to, and you retire.
Made reservations last winter for dead center. Arrived a couple days before the eclipse and left a couple days afterwards. No traffic problems (other than the usual construction delays), but it was a day's drive from Michigan. Could put on eclipse glasses and watch from in the pool, or sit on the side and take pictures. All the sites were taken in the private campground, but it certainly was not crowded.
If you are sending with No-Reply@ as your FROM address and the delivery fails, how are you going to fix your mailing list when you don't get the delivery failure notice? Do that too many times and your delivery failure rate will go up and most ISPs will decide you are a spammer and cut you off completely. Businesses sending email need valid FROM addresses so they can actively manage their relationship with their customers, which includes making sure email addresses are current and valid, and it is easy for their customers to contact them.
If you don't want your content to be scraped, don't make it publicly available. If I can view it without a logon you have no claim to protect the data.
I season my variety of domestic news sources, which includes newspapers, television, radio, and the internet, with reporting from outside of the United States. The BBC is the first, and probably best, source that comes to mind, but Australia and India also provide English resources for news not biased by American ideology.
Good old mainframe COBOL. Followed by System 360 assembler. Some years later the PC was invented.
I doubt that you and I use the software in the same way. Your use case and mine are not the same. It is at least 50-50 that your "improvement" will break my use case (or make it more difficult). I did, after all, select the software, as it works today, because it solved one of my problems. BTW, there is a good chance I won't buy/install the next update to the software because it will probably "improve" it to the point it is no longer useable.
Foreign workers may have better technical skills, but they usually lack the quality of ownership of a problem. When the shit hits the fan and things go south, American workers are more likely to take ownership and dig for solutions (foreign workers tend to look for direction).
How is this a patent? Advertisers have been targeting motorists for decades. Digital billboards are old news. What's wrong with this picture? How is this original? What am I missing?
The Way-Back-Machine helps preserve deleted content.
You can sync your computer or smart phone directly with NIST (aka WWV) by visiting http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm and selecting one of the sync options. The screen saver will work as your 'clock'.
My wife and I both work in IT and found Grand Rapids to be a wonderful place to raise a family. The place has been voted Beer City with over 30 craft breweries. Very strong medical community. Art Prize and a Festival of the Arts every year. We also have a local TEDx. And it is only a half hour drive to Lake Michigan beaches in the summer. Well worth a second look.
You had to give a valid credit card to your ISP to get an account. Your credit card providor knows your phone number. Law enforcement agencies can find you by this trail. If you selected a reputable ISP they are not going to give out your personal details voluntarily because they want to keep your account. What's the problem? Are you doing something you shouldn't be doing? Why not leave a trail of accountability for your actions on the internet? And for the record, I live in Michigan.