I've switched over to Google Apps from 1&1 for my home domain. I don't like the restriction to Page Creator, but I'll live with it if the uptimes are better than flippin' 1&1, especially for free. Web Gmail was out yesterday, though since I use IMAP exclusively, I was unaffected. If Google has the same problems 1&1 has, I will switch to someone else.
11 and 13 year olds are barely above functionally retarded. I have explained it to them. Don't worry about that. No filter is perfect and the older one has started downloading bots for Diablo and Runescape so his exposure has gone waaaay up versus even 6 months ago. He's matured a lot over the last several months and I have rewarded his generally reasonable behavior by unblocking various bits.
I know you're trolling but if I could watch 'em all the time I wouldn't bother with the filter. On the other hand, I don't need the RIAA or the Catch a Predator guy showing up at my house cause my kids were downloading crap without any understanding the consequences. Believe me: You can talk about it 50 times but they're not gonna believe you until it happens.
This is the solution we have come to in our family. You are free to do otherwise.
Bah, it's only a matter of time before they hear some crap from a friend at school, disable Google safe search, and find lots of porn. My kids forced me to put Netnanny on cause it was the only way to monitor their usage at all hours (other trade off is very limited Internet time when I'm able to monitor -- too difficult in this situation). Just be prepared for it.
I dunno, my kids don't use the Internet the same way as I do. I hate Youtube and that's what they love the most. It could be a maturity thing (they are 11 and 13), but mostly they use the Net for playing games and watching videos. Research is not terribly interesting to them (though my eldest is getting better since he's been roving for Diablo 2 bots and patches...).
The language in the bills only says that insurance can be reimbursed for providing end of life counseling. The counseling is not mandated anywhere. Furthermore, there are millions of people who have decided on a DNR instead of ridiculous "life"-saving "treatment" (hello Terri Shiavo). Perhaps there are more who have not had the presence of mind to think about such issues who could use a free counseling session about it. Lastly, this is one of those bills that won't be anywhere near finished until conference committee. It will be nigh impossible to tell what will be in the sausage until we get to that point.
Yep. Low sulfur + bluetec help diesel emissions tremendously. If they bother to market to the public sufficiently and don't charge too much for the tech, they could sell a lot more diesels here.
Consumer-focus as well as EPA rules which have discouraged manufacturers from selling many diesels here (EPA rules typically apply to fleets of cars and if you have too many diesels sold here, it makes your fleet particulates and NOX higher, violating the rules). However, now that we have low-sulfur diesel here, Bluetec may be the gamechanger that makes a diesel hybrid a legitimate possibility.
Won't help me anytime soon, though. Our next vehicle will be a minivan and there has only been discussion of a hybrid minivan at this point.
It doesn't have to be bombarded, though. Dust falls into the atmosphere all the time. It doesn't burn up on reentry because it doesn't have enough mass.
I grew up with static pages and flashy websites drive me crazy when I'm trying to read an article (get off my lawn, etc.). Flashblock to the rescue. I imagine I will be downloading a Videoblock/Audioblock add-on for Firefox when HTML 5 starts making waves.
I'm curious if something like Wiibrew counts as circumvention. I used the Twilight Hack to install the Homebrew Channel. Mostly I use it for listening to my favorite radio station on the nice stereo in the living room. Though, I have downloaded some of the free applications from the website. I bought the Space Quest collection and play it under Dosbox* on the Wii on my TV. In the future, I might consider playing Gauntlet on it, though I might buy a used NES version to make myself feel better about it.
Is that so wrong?
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* I tried the ScummVM port, but it was crashy. The only problem with Dosbox on Wii is the mouse emulation for the Wiimote.
I'm just saying that 3 seconds is ridiculous unless you are grandma or talking on the cell phone or something. If we all drove with 3-second gaps at 65 mph, we could not all fit on the highway.
Indeed, keeping the packets closer together expands bandwidth while attempting to maintain low latency. I was more disturbed by a traffic scientist still carting around that old myth about reaction times being a second. Bzzt wrong. The real answer is that a non-distracted driver's reaction time is = 0.5 seconds.
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Your post doesn't make any sense. The F-35 is the JSF. Is there a word missing or something? The F-35 fits the wars we anticipate fighting. The F-22 doesn't fit as well, though we will have 187 of these Ferraris available anyway.
You don't really need super-stealth for the wars we're fighting now and the fact is we will still have a complement of 187 F-22s. No one says the F-35 is as good as the F-22 at what the F-22 excels it. What is said is that we don't really need the capabilities that the F-22 provides for the vast majority of missions.
This reminds me of Magic the Gathering where they issue new cards every year that are better and if your deck doesn't have them (i.e., you don't keep buying more cards) then you lose the arms race.
I read your journal about hating the home page. Allow me to suggest the Lite mode preferences: "Use Classic Index, Simple Design, Low Bandwidth, No Icons".
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I've switched over to Google Apps from 1&1 for my home domain. I don't like the restriction to Page Creator, but I'll live with it if the uptimes are better than flippin' 1&1, especially for free. Web Gmail was out yesterday, though since I use IMAP exclusively, I was unaffected. If Google has the same problems 1&1 has, I will switch to someone else.
I have one lousy domain left to switch.
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Awesome. +1 Internets for you.
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11 and 13 year olds are barely above functionally retarded. I have explained it to them. Don't worry about that. No filter is perfect and the older one has started downloading bots for Diablo and Runescape so his exposure has gone waaaay up versus even 6 months ago. He's matured a lot over the last several months and I have rewarded his generally reasonable behavior by unblocking various bits.
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I know you're trolling but if I could watch 'em all the time I wouldn't bother with the filter. On the other hand, I don't need the RIAA or the Catch a Predator guy showing up at my house cause my kids were downloading crap without any understanding the consequences. Believe me: You can talk about it 50 times but they're not gonna believe you until it happens.
This is the solution we have come to in our family. You are free to do otherwise.
Cheers,
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Yeah. Half the time Net nanny blocks videos due to the comments. I override them, usually.
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Bah, it's only a matter of time before they hear some crap from a friend at school, disable Google safe search, and find lots of porn. My kids forced me to put Netnanny on cause it was the only way to monitor their usage at all hours (other trade off is very limited Internet time when I'm able to monitor -- too difficult in this situation). Just be prepared for it.
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I dunno, my kids don't use the Internet the same way as I do. I hate Youtube and that's what they love the most. It could be a maturity thing (they are 11 and 13), but mostly they use the Net for playing games and watching videos. Research is not terribly interesting to them (though my eldest is getting better since he's been roving for Diablo 2 bots and patches...).
Guess we'll see how this all plays out.
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The language in the bills only says that insurance can be reimbursed for providing end of life counseling. The counseling is not mandated anywhere. Furthermore, there are millions of people who have decided on a DNR instead of ridiculous "life"-saving "treatment" (hello Terri Shiavo). Perhaps there are more who have not had the presence of mind to think about such issues who could use a free counseling session about it. Lastly, this is one of those bills that won't be anywhere near finished until conference committee. It will be nigh impossible to tell what will be in the sausage until we get to that point.
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+1 insightful
Yep. Low sulfur + bluetec help diesel emissions tremendously. If they bother to market to the public sufficiently and don't charge too much for the tech, they could sell a lot more diesels here.
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Consumer-focus as well as EPA rules which have discouraged manufacturers from selling many diesels here (EPA rules typically apply to fleets of cars and if you have too many diesels sold here, it makes your fleet particulates and NOX higher, violating the rules). However, now that we have low-sulfur diesel here, Bluetec may be the gamechanger that makes a diesel hybrid a legitimate possibility.
Won't help me anytime soon, though. Our next vehicle will be a minivan and there has only been discussion of a hybrid minivan at this point.
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How dare you include our oil wars in the cost of our oil!
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It doesn't have to be bombarded, though. Dust falls into the atmosphere all the time. It doesn't burn up on reentry because it doesn't have enough mass.
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But how efficient would this be vs a wall wart?
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My only arguments against flash are:
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I'm curious if something like Wiibrew counts as circumvention. I used the Twilight Hack to install the Homebrew Channel. Mostly I use it for listening to my favorite radio station on the nice stereo in the living room. Though, I have downloaded some of the free applications from the website. I bought the Space Quest collection and play it under Dosbox* on the Wii on my TV. In the future, I might consider playing Gauntlet on it, though I might buy a used NES version to make myself feel better about it.
Is that so wrong?
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* I tried the ScummVM port, but it was crashy. The only problem with Dosbox on Wii is the mouse emulation for the Wiimote.
No one is suggesting a following distance of 0.5 or even 1 second. That is entirely different from actual reaction time.
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Same response as here
I'm just saying that 3 seconds is ridiculous unless you are grandma or talking on the cell phone or something. If we all drove with 3-second gaps at 65 mph, we could not all fit on the highway.
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Indeed, keeping the packets closer together expands bandwidth while attempting to maintain low latency. I was more disturbed by a traffic scientist still carting around that old myth about reaction times being a second. Bzzt wrong. The real answer is that a non-distracted driver's reaction time is = 0.5 seconds.
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Your post doesn't make any sense. The F-35 is the JSF. Is there a word missing or something? The F-35 fits the wars we anticipate fighting. The F-22 doesn't fit as well, though we will have 187 of these Ferraris available anyway.
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You don't really need super-stealth for the wars we're fighting now and the fact is we will still have a complement of 187 F-22s. No one says the F-35 is as good as the F-22 at what the F-22 excels it. What is said is that we don't really need the capabilities that the F-22 provides for the vast majority of missions.
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I understand that, it's just not all that necessary with the kinds of wars we are fighting and anticipate fighting.
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Having read about the F-35, I can see why the administration and the Pentagon would favor it over the F-22.
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This reminds me of Magic the Gathering where they issue new cards every year that are better and if your deck doesn't have them (i.e., you don't keep buying more cards) then you lose the arms race.
$0.02USD,
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Hi Tom,
I read your journal about hating the home page. Allow me to suggest the Lite mode preferences: "Use Classic Index, Simple Design, Low Bandwidth, No Icons".
It looks a little boring but loads quickly.
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