As fun as it is to say that, not only does Chattanooga have electricity, Chattanooga also has the fastest residential internet service in the country (I think). 1gbit fiber to your home for $350/mo.
If you don't want to learn Prawn and are more comfortable with HTML, use something like PDFKit, which is a wrapper around wkhtmltopdf, which basically just packages WebKit for PDF printing. You'll be able to use CSS3 and other niceties and it'll be consistent, since it's creating a pdf. Perhaps you can do better things with Prawn, but I guarantee that writing moderately complex reports will be easier with PDFKit then with Prawn.
Get your facts straight. The legal justification was not written by the Clinton Justice department. Most, if not all, of the legal justification was done by John Yoo (in the Office of Legal Counsel) and David Addington (Cheney's legal counsel, now chief of staff). They were the people who empowered the NSA, the Justice Department and the President to act so egregiously.
Google Video is not going away! All they're doing is adding YouTube results to the search results when you search Google Video. Their plan is to at some point incorporate other video websites so that Google Video is not just a place to view videos, but also the one place to search for videos.
Basically, the combination of you drinking too much water and not getting rid of it throws your electrolytes out of whack... you have too much water, so the concentration of electrolytes isn't high enough for your body to carry signals. It happens a lot with marathon runners. Especially runners that don't stop to pee. Many people have died from this even though they were getting enough because they refused to pee out the excess water.
You're looking at this wrong. When you buy the computer, you will be paying for the future disposal of the computer. So, the company is not responsible for disposing of your waste (as in, you can do whatever you want with it and the company won't be at fault if you throw it in a ravine), BUT if you bring the e-waste to them, they are required to dispose of it responsibly -- since you have already paid them to do so.
Currently, hardly anyway disposes of e-waste responsibly because it costs a lot of money to do this.
You're missing the point that it would (or should be) easily replacable, as gasoline is. It doesn't really matter that a battery can hold more energy -- it still takes hours and hours to charge the damn thing. The goal (as it pertains to cars, at least) is to have something as close to gasoline that doesn't produce the pollution that gas does. So -- "Generating electricity to produce hydrogen to produce electricity" is not stupid.
You only pay for the calls you make, and your credits only expire if you don't use your account for six months.
What a crock! They make it sound like they're doing you a favor by taking your money only after 6 months. I've heard of gift card companies that take a percentage off your credit every few months, but taking all your credit after 6 months? Yikes!
The site seems to be slashdotted, but I'm assuming that he's using an evaporative cooler. These are very cool, but you can't use them in the east. You have to have pretty arid conditions for enough evaporation to occur to actually make a difference. Very cool idea though -- just wish I could do it in my background.
I've been using CampusFood.com to make my takeout (or pick-up) deliveries for quite some time. Great service. I don't think that online delivery services ever left the internet -- this story is just a shameless plug for some new startup.
Perhaps it does not make that much of a difference in your case, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't make a difference. In hyrbids, it makes a HUGE difference how you drive. If you are constantly nailing the gas pedal, the gas engine will kick in quicker and you will not get as efficient of a ride. If you are accelerating/decelerating slowly you will make more use of the electric motors and use much more regenerative braking. I have a friend that has a hybrid and consistently gets mpgs in the 60s. Its just the way that he drives and how he is able to use only the electric motor for most all of his commute.
Also, I've always thought that SUVs were so damned inefficient in the first place that it doesn't matter what you do, you;re not going to get that much better. In my civic I can tell noticeably the difference when I drive aggressively and passively -- but I could never tell this difference when driving an Explorer...
I refuse to believe that its news that some ISP in Australia is following the lead of many, many other ISPs. Are we going to have a story when roadrunner starts doing this? I doubt it. And do you know for a fact that roadrunner doesn't actively block trojaned boxes? I never knew adelphia did until it happened to us.
I really hate the people that complain about the people complaining.
ISPs around the world have been doing this for a while now! I live in a house with 12 people and one person had a hijacked computer sending out mail and Adelphia cut us off. Although they never told us that they did (a quick call to customer support hooked us back up).
All the posts I see are comdeming the public for not knowing that your hold time is being recorded. But honestly, why would you EVER think that it would be? When they say "this call may be monitored for quality control assurance" or whatever -- wouldn't that apply only to what the operator says? It seems to me like it means that.
Also, remember that most people think of hold as the hold that you have on your phone at home -- you can't listen to someone while they are on hold, they are just sitting there waiting for you to pick up.
Stop being elitist pricks and saying that its stupid to think that no one is recording while you're on hold
Thunderbird's spam filtering really is amazing. Spend 2 weeks 'training' it with what is spam and what is not, and then tell it to automatically move spam to the junk folder. I have 150 junk mails from the past week -- never saw any of them in my inbox and not one is a false positive.
The disposal of nuclear waste IS a technical problem. This problem is inherently imposed by the politicians forcing science to its limits, but to say that we can safely throw tons and tons of nuclear waste in a mountain without a hitch is utterly ridiculous. There are a few problems that are not political...
Getting the waste there: Yes, that's right, the waste has to get there. ALmost all nuclear plants are on the east coast and would be moving to the west coast. That is A LOT of waste being transported on today's roads or rails. What would happen if just one of these 96,000 (! over 40 years) trucks got in an accident. What if it were hit by a terrorist? Does it make sense to send this waste thousands of miles by road?
Keeping the waste away from groundwater/reducing other contamination: If you are ignorant on the situation, let me remind you of Maxi Flats, KY. A temporary nuclear waste depository was made there in the 80s. They said that it would take 24,000 for the radioactivity to travel a 1/2 inch ON SITE... they were off by SIX orders of magnitude. It took 10 years for the radioactivity to get TWO MILES OFF SITE. That's a serious mistake! Now, I'm not saying we haven't gotten smarter, but there are many similar assumptions about migration that are still being used.
Geological problems: There are earthquakes near Yucca Mountain -- there was one there last year. Geologist CANNOT predict what's going to happen. Also, geologist model Yucca mountain as a uniform rock instead of the complex, cracked, structure that it probably is. This makes simulation easier but can lead to drastic miscalculations.
Anyway, if you look at the FACTS and past history, you will see that a permanent storage facility is perhaps not as great as you would think. It makes much more sense to have many, small, repositories that could be guarded for 100 years, and hopefully in that time we know more about what the hell is going on. Politics does not play into these technological problems -- politics is what is making these problems a serious problem because it is forcing scientist to come to conclusions which aren't very well founded..
Everytime I hear about tablet pcs on/. people post about 'using it for linux' and 'can you run linux on it' and everything. Now, I understand this is slashdot, but is it not missing the point of a tablet pc? The only reason that I see to spend more money on a tablet pc is to get the advantages of the handwriting recognition and to do interactive presentations. As far as I know, Linux either does not have the tools necessary to take advantage of this, or what is out there isn't as good as the windows counterpart. I have teachers at school that are absolutely amazing with the tablet pc and lecturing, but everything they use is ms-centric.
Is there anything out there for Linux that makes a tablet PC worthwhile? I would love to look at someone's post about Linux on tablet pc and say "yes, that would be worth it" but right now all I have to say is you're wasting your money.
If you RTFA, it says that it will only hack the following passwords:
a-z;0-9 [8]
This just seems sorta pointless. Many people are ocmplaining about you getting a password for someone else's stuff -- but if they put a capital letter, or any sort of special character, they're safe from this attack. Is there a reason that they didn't add capital letters into the algorithm?
I am sad to say that I was caught by one of these auto-dialers about 7 years ago. I was looking for porn (in 8th grade, I think) and saw one of these "free porn" dialers. Anyway, I heard it dial and everything -- but I didn't think it was international. Anyway -- I was stupid and actually stopped looking at porn after maybe 5 minutes, and stayed on the line, browsing, for an hour. The call cost my parents $500. My mom got the bill and immediately called to complain and AT&T said it was a pornographic number, so they nailed me. Anyway, my mom complained to the company that I was just a supid kid, and they waived the fee. So, my mom, who was about to pay this $400 was so happy that she got it waived that she bought me a digital camcorder ($800) for Christmas (which was about a week away). Who said porn never pays?
I don't understand why they would use these systems to respond to price changes. I mean, if you can get by with less power (less money) why would you be using more power? Am I missing something? It makes sense for this to be brownout protection, since you could shut down unnecessary services to keep from everything going black... but I don't understand why you would, say, run the AC at full when the price is low and half when the price is high, when you can easily just run it at half the entire time.
I got to the University of Virginia, and the entire network took a huge hit last year with all the viruses. So, they started requiring people to register their MAC addresses. Basically, before they could tell what room you were in by IP address, but to be able to contact you, they would have to search who is living in that room, and which jack a person is on. Anyway, with the new system, they can easily send you an email saying "your computer is infected" and send you a link to the updates for norton antivirus (which is free for students). It seems to work pretty well and its not that much of a pain. Much less involved on the network admin's part, and much, much, much less over-the-shoulder monitoring.
Slashdot Mirror
Pretty serious: http://jmckinley.posterous.com/dc-earthquake-devastation
Hah, riiight.
As fun as it is to say that, not only does Chattanooga have electricity, Chattanooga also has the fastest residential internet service in the country (I think). 1gbit fiber to your home for $350/mo.
So do we in the US, although Chattanooga, TN is the only place to have it, as far as I know.
https://epbfi.com/you-pick/
Verizon FIOS has nothing on "Fi-Internet" in Chattanooga, TN. 1000 Mbps to your house for $350/month.
https://epbfi.com/internet/
If you don't want to learn Prawn and are more comfortable with HTML, use something like PDFKit, which is a wrapper around wkhtmltopdf, which basically just packages WebKit for PDF printing. You'll be able to use CSS3 and other niceties and it'll be consistent, since it's creating a pdf. Perhaps you can do better things with Prawn, but I guarantee that writing moderately complex reports will be easier with PDFKit then with Prawn.
Get your facts straight. The legal justification was not written by the Clinton Justice department. Most, if not all, of the legal justification was done by John Yoo (in the Office of Legal Counsel) and David Addington (Cheney's legal counsel, now chief of staff). They were the people who empowered the NSA, the Justice Department and the President to act so egregiously.
Google Video is not going away! All they're doing is adding YouTube results to the search results when you search Google Video. Their plan is to at some point incorporate other video websites so that Google Video is not just a place to view videos, but also the one place to search for videos.
- at-google-video-and-youtube.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/look-ahead
Basically, the combination of you drinking too much water and not getting rid of it throws your electrolytes out of whack... you have too much water, so the concentration of electrolytes isn't high enough for your body to carry signals. It happens a lot with marathon runners. Especially runners that don't stop to pee. Many people have died from this even though they were getting enough because they refused to pee out the excess water.
You're looking at this wrong. When you buy the computer, you will be paying for the future disposal of the computer. So, the company is not responsible for disposing of your waste (as in, you can do whatever you want with it and the company won't be at fault if you throw it in a ravine), BUT if you bring the e-waste to them, they are required to dispose of it responsibly -- since you have already paid them to do so.
Currently, hardly anyway disposes of e-waste responsibly because it costs a lot of money to do this.
You're missing the point that it would (or should be) easily replacable, as gasoline is. It doesn't really matter that a battery can hold more energy -- it still takes hours and hours to charge the damn thing. The goal (as it pertains to cars, at least) is to have something as close to gasoline that doesn't produce the pollution that gas does. So -- "Generating electricity to produce hydrogen to produce electricity" is not stupid.
From their "FAQ...
You only pay for the calls you make, and your credits only expire if you don't use your account for six months.
What a crock! They make it sound like they're doing you a favor by taking your money only after 6 months. I've heard of gift card companies that take a percentage off your credit every few months, but taking all your credit after 6 months? Yikes!
The site seems to be slashdotted, but I'm assuming that he's using an evaporative cooler. These are very cool, but you can't use them in the east. You have to have pretty arid conditions for enough evaporation to occur to actually make a difference. Very cool idea though -- just wish I could do it in my background.
I've been using CampusFood.com to make my takeout (or pick-up) deliveries for quite some time. Great service. I don't think that online delivery services ever left the internet -- this story is just a shameless plug for some new startup.
Perhaps it does not make that much of a difference in your case, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't make a difference. In hyrbids, it makes a HUGE difference how you drive. If you are constantly nailing the gas pedal, the gas engine will kick in quicker and you will not get as efficient of a ride. If you are accelerating/decelerating slowly you will make more use of the electric motors and use much more regenerative braking. I have a friend that has a hybrid and consistently gets mpgs in the 60s. Its just the way that he drives and how he is able to use only the electric motor for most all of his commute.
Also, I've always thought that SUVs were so damned inefficient in the first place that it doesn't matter what you do, you;re not going to get that much better. In my civic I can tell noticeably the difference when I drive aggressively and passively -- but I could never tell this difference when driving an Explorer...
I refuse to believe that its news that some ISP in Australia is following the lead of many, many other ISPs. Are we going to have a story when roadrunner starts doing this? I doubt it. And do you know for a fact that roadrunner doesn't actively block trojaned boxes? I never knew adelphia did until it happened to us.
I really hate the people that complain about the people complaining.
ISPs around the world have been doing this for a while now! I live in a house with 12 people and one person had a hijacked computer sending out mail and Adelphia cut us off. Although they never told us that they did (a quick call to customer support hooked us back up).
Seriously, why is this news?
All the posts I see are comdeming the public for not knowing that your hold time is being recorded. But honestly, why would you EVER think that it would be? When they say "this call may be monitored for quality control assurance" or whatever -- wouldn't that apply only to what the operator says? It seems to me like it means that.
Also, remember that most people think of hold as the hold that you have on your phone at home -- you can't listen to someone while they are on hold, they are just sitting there waiting for you to pick up.
Stop being elitist pricks and saying that its stupid to think that no one is recording while you're on hold
Download Firefox!
Seriously, all of these are fixed in the current version. The poster even says it with regards to the buffer overflow problem!
MOD PARENT UP!
Thunderbird's spam filtering really is amazing. Spend 2 weeks 'training' it with what is spam and what is not, and then tell it to automatically move spam to the junk folder. I have 150 junk mails from the past week -- never saw any of them in my inbox and not one is a false positive.
Ok, I'll bite...
The disposal of nuclear waste IS a technical problem. This problem is inherently imposed by the politicians forcing science to its limits, but to say that we can safely throw tons and tons of nuclear waste in a mountain without a hitch is utterly ridiculous. There are a few problems that are not political...
Getting the waste there:
Yes, that's right, the waste has to get there. ALmost all nuclear plants are on the east coast and would be moving to the west coast. That is A LOT of waste being transported on today's roads or rails. What would happen if just one of these 96,000 (! over 40 years) trucks got in an accident. What if it were hit by a terrorist? Does it make sense to send this waste thousands of miles by road?
Keeping the waste away from groundwater/reducing other contamination:
If you are ignorant on the situation, let me remind you of Maxi Flats, KY. A temporary nuclear waste depository was made there in the 80s. They said that it would take 24,000 for the radioactivity to travel a 1/2 inch ON SITE... they were off by SIX orders of magnitude. It took 10 years for the radioactivity to get TWO MILES OFF SITE. That's a serious mistake! Now, I'm not saying we haven't gotten smarter, but there are many similar assumptions about migration that are still being used.
Geological problems:
There are earthquakes near Yucca Mountain -- there was one there last year. Geologist CANNOT predict what's going to happen. Also, geologist model Yucca mountain as a uniform rock instead of the complex, cracked, structure that it probably is. This makes simulation easier but can lead to drastic miscalculations.
Anyway, if you look at the FACTS and past history, you will see that a permanent storage facility is perhaps not as great as you would think. It makes much more sense to have many, small, repositories that could be guarded for 100 years, and hopefully in that time we know more about what the hell is going on. Politics does not play into these technological problems -- politics is what is making these problems a serious problem because it is forcing scientist to come to conclusions which aren't very well founded..
Everytime I hear about tablet pcs on /. people post about 'using it for linux' and 'can you run linux on it' and everything. Now, I understand this is slashdot, but is it not missing the point of a tablet pc? The only reason that I see to spend more money on a tablet pc is to get the advantages of the handwriting recognition and to do interactive presentations. As far as I know, Linux either does not have the tools necessary to take advantage of this, or what is out there isn't as good as the windows counterpart. I have teachers at school that are absolutely amazing with the tablet pc and lecturing, but everything they use is ms-centric.
Is there anything out there for Linux that makes a tablet PC worthwhile? I would love to look at someone's post about Linux on tablet pc and say "yes, that would be worth it" but right now all I have to say is you're wasting your money.
If you RTFA, it says that it will only hack the following passwords:
a-z;0-9 [8]
This just seems sorta pointless. Many people are ocmplaining about you getting a password for someone else's stuff -- but if they put a capital letter, or any sort of special character, they're safe from this attack. Is there a reason that they didn't add capital letters into the algorithm?
I am sad to say that I was caught by one of these auto-dialers about 7 years ago. I was looking for porn (in 8th grade, I think) and saw one of these "free porn" dialers. Anyway, I heard it dial and everything -- but I didn't think it was international. Anyway -- I was stupid and actually stopped looking at porn after maybe 5 minutes, and stayed on the line, browsing, for an hour. The call cost my parents $500. My mom got the bill and immediately called to complain and AT&T said it was a pornographic number, so they nailed me. Anyway, my mom complained to the company that I was just a supid kid, and they waived the fee. So, my mom, who was about to pay this $400 was so happy that she got it waived that she bought me a digital camcorder ($800) for Christmas (which was about a week away). Who said porn never pays?
I don't understand why they would use these systems to respond to price changes. I mean, if you can get by with less power (less money) why would you be using more power? Am I missing something? It makes sense for this to be brownout protection, since you could shut down unnecessary services to keep from everything going black... but I don't understand why you would, say, run the AC at full when the price is low and half when the price is high, when you can easily just run it at half the entire time.
I got to the University of Virginia, and the entire network took a huge hit last year with all the viruses. So, they started requiring people to register their MAC addresses. Basically, before they could tell what room you were in by IP address, but to be able to contact you, they would have to search who is living in that room, and which jack a person is on. Anyway, with the new system, they can easily send you an email saying "your computer is infected" and send you a link to the updates for norton antivirus (which is free for students). It seems to work pretty well and its not that much of a pain. Much less involved on the network admin's part, and much, much, much less over-the-shoulder monitoring.