The primary reason the home security industry exists is because home construction/improvement products and services aren't naturally secure. If houses were already secure against burglars, there wouldn't be any need for locks. If city streets couldn't be used to break into homes, no one would bother buying a fence. If there were no more keyholes on locks, no one would have to buy products to protect against lock pickers. If the home improvement products we purchased were secure out of the box, we wouldn't have to spend billions every year making them secure.
(Yeah, it's not quite right, but I trust most people will get the point)
That would have to be some overheat.... Between 500 degress f and up....
I've never seen a chip do that, but I've seen resistors and electrolytic caps that have fallen right off of their boards in toasted switching power supplies.
Just look at my sig and tell me which one the Democrats aren't attacking - even the alcohol is being attacked here in Oregon as the Democrat-controlled legislature is trying (and maybe succeeded by now) to take the beer tax from one of the lowest in the nation to one of the highest.
For the record, I never specifically disagreed with the post I originally replied to. I was merely stating that I don't see the Democrats as any different.
No, because the Republicans believe they are only elected to represent the people who voted for them, rather than the whole country. So a little less than half of us will lose if the Republicans win.
Funny, I feel that the Democrats believe the same thing.
Do you REALLY want the managers around, especially on a late night call? I think they're likely, even if they're a "good manager", to make a situation where you're tired, cranky, and under pressure even worse.
That's precisely why, where I work, we have two calls going on during system outages and the like. One call is the technical call, and one call is the management call. One manager stays on the technical call but does not interfere except to ask for clarification on what's happening every now and then. Every so often that manager reports to the management call what the status of the technical work is. The manager is also available to get anyone needed, relay information, etc.
It's much better than the old system of having six technicians plus their managers, directors, and occasionally vice presidents on the call.
Now wait a minute here.I paid tax on my income when I earned the money from my regular job to buy something and then when I bought it I had to pay a sales tax and now I want to sell it and I have to pay taxes on it AGAIN????
Maybe. Here's how it works in the real world:
Suppose you paid tax on your income and then paid a sales tax on a $100 item. Some time down the road you decide to put the item up on eBay. One of two things happens:
(a) The item has depreciated in value and you have sold it at a net loss. For ease we will fit break-even sales into this category as well.
(b) The item has appreciated in value and you have sold it at a net profit.
You do not owe any tax for (a). The IRS doesn't really care about you. You do technically owe tax for n net profit from (b), but the IRS probably doesn't care if the gain is less than some attention-getting amount and it is not a usual source of income for you.
What the IRS cares about is if a major source of your income for a year is all from the (b) category, and you are not paying the taxes owed. At that point you are operating a business (whether licensed or not, the Federal gov't doesn't care) and should be filing schedule C for ongoing activities or adding it as an income source (on the honor system) on your 1040 for occasional activities.
Naturally, if you are buying stuff at wholesale (as a business) and retailing it on eBay, you are operating a business and should be paying applicable taxes as well (and won't be paying sales taxes except to buyers resident in a state where you have a business presence).
It may not seem right, but that's the way it works. You can minimize your tax burden if you are doing something on eBay that could be considered a business activity. You need to save your receipts, account your profits and losses, and deduct all your business expenses, such as computer upgrades and the fees that eBay, paypal, et al charges. File your Schedule C and be done with it.
Remember, it is the duty of citizens to pay their lawful taxes - and it is also a right of all taxpayers to pay the minimum possible tax that they can legally justify. So if you are doing significant business on eBay, you should be deducting your fees, computer costs, etc.
There's no need for a car that goes more than 70mph.
Yeah, because there's nowhere in the United States where the speed limits are faster than 70 MPH.
I use a very old technology 1300cc car
Good for you and your VW beetle/van or whatever. I'm the guy who passed you when your car was struggling to go uphill, and I was still getting 30 MPG and probably putting out less pollution than your tired jalopy.
It was possible to get rid of the Start button and its associated menu in Windows 95. The trick was as follows:
1. Click the start button to open the menu 2. Hit ESC (closes the menu, leaves start button in focus) 3. Hit ALT+MINUS (pops up a menu) 4. Click "Close"
Start menu goes the way of the dodo until explorer.exe is restarted. Great for a practical joke back in the day.
Well, I am a UNIX admin at a large company and I have a lot of machines in my cube:
* One laptop running Windows * One laptop running Linux * One x86 workstation running Linux * One x86 workstation running Solaris * Two Sun Fire V120s (these will be moved into my lab racks eventually)
Unfortunately the budget's a bit tight these days, otherwise I'd be asking for an Ultra 45 to replace my older Dell.
The trick is to be good at what you do, and then say you can do better with more hardware (and prove it once you get it).
But I don't find that administering Unix via the command line and text files is so difficult. In fact, it makes the configuration and admin process more transparent (IMO)... there's a lot less 'magic' going on under the hood to make things work. Also, our Unix servers don't require the GUI to be loaded, so we don't pay for the overhead on the system.
I've also worked with Windows systems during my time as a sysadmin, and one thing that we always did was install an SSH server on Windows because of the amount of problems we had with remote desktop. Also frustrating about Windows is that there are some things that can only be done through the GUI, and some things that can only be done through the command line.
I had the opportunity to be the first in our company to employ T2000s and Solaris 10. Awesome to work with and the performance with our applications running on them is incredible.
I can't wait for the Niagara 2 processors... twice as many threads running in parallel and one FPU per core... that'll let us branch out to stuff that is more FPU-heavy.
Obviously. However, I'm not sure who is trying to run Solaris as a desktop OS anyway.
I have built and/or maintained hundreds of Solaris servers over the past year. If getting a pretty desktop with fancy widgets means any tradeoff on its strength as a server, then I'd rather Sun not invest in Solaris as a desktop OS.
Has a known price (TFA says the vendor of this new system is reluctant to quote a price).
Doesn't have to run constantly.
Is already known to work.
Doesn't require you to work like you instantly rose 6000 feet in elevation.
Doesn't lose effectiveness if we open the big doors for a while to bring in new equipment - after we shut the doors we are fully protected, we don't have to wait for oxygen concentration to go down before a fire can be stopped.
Yeah, except I'd pick Solaris to run a mission-critical app over Linux any day.
I started off as a Linux admin. Today I am a Solaris admin and I like it that way. Yeah, some of the user-land utilities could be improved, but overall Solaris is a solid operating system that handles some of our hefty applications admirably. Sun also has the best support money can buy. Our x86 vendor is a pain in the ass and there is nothing quite like your Linux vendor and your hardware vendor blaming each other while you wait to get your problem sorted out.
We have thousands of Solaris machines across seven data centers, and I am responsible for a few hundred.
Still, first poster is right. Wtf uses telnet anymore, unless they're dealing with the most legacy of legacy crap.
Agreed. Even "the most legacy of crap" can usually be adapted to SSH by proxy or other means. We don't have telnet installed anywhere (it is explicitly excluded from our Jumpstart profiles), we scan our systems for vulnerabilities and unwanted services, and like all good shops we are well-firewalled.
This is just another form of disciminatory [sic] pricing, like having the Home/Premium/Ultimate split in the first place.
Yeah! And you know what? Car manufacturers are just as guilty! Can you believe that they charge more to have power door locks, power windows, and heated seats?
Hell, I'll just give it to you: if you RTFA right at the end it says "Anti-virus software from CA, Fortinet, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Sophos and Symantec successfully achieved VB100 certification."
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The primary reason the home security industry exists is because home construction/improvement products and services aren't naturally secure. If houses were already secure against burglars, there wouldn't be any need for locks. If city streets couldn't be used to break into homes, no one would bother buying a fence. If there were no more keyholes on locks, no one would have to buy products to protect against lock pickers. If the home improvement products we purchased were secure out of the box, we wouldn't have to spend billions every year making them secure.
(Yeah, it's not quite right, but I trust most people will get the point)
That would have to be some overheat.... Between 500 degress f and up....
I've never seen a chip do that, but I've seen resistors and electrolytic caps that have fallen right off of their boards in toasted switching power supplies.
Just look at my sig and tell me which one the Democrats aren't attacking - even the alcohol is being attacked here in Oregon as the Democrat-controlled legislature is trying (and maybe succeeded by now) to take the beer tax from one of the lowest in the nation to one of the highest.
For the record, I never specifically disagreed with the post I originally replied to. I was merely stating that I don't see the Democrats as any different.
No, because the Republicans believe they are only elected to represent the people who voted for them, rather than the whole country. So a little less than half of us will lose if the Republicans win.
Funny, I feel that the Democrats believe the same thing.
Do you REALLY want the managers around, especially on a late night call? I think they're likely, even if they're a "good manager", to make a situation where you're tired, cranky, and under pressure even worse.
That's precisely why, where I work, we have two calls going on during system outages and the like. One call is the technical call, and one call is the management call. One manager stays on the technical call but does not interfere except to ask for clarification on what's happening every now and then. Every so often that manager reports to the management call what the status of the technical work is. The manager is also available to get anyone needed, relay information, etc.
It's much better than the old system of having six technicians plus their managers, directors, and occasionally vice presidents on the call.
I should really not write first thing after waking up.
At least my grammar errors don't make my post unintelligible.
Now wait a minute here.I paid tax on my income when I earned the money from my regular job to buy something and then when I bought it I had to pay a sales tax and now I want to sell it and I have to pay taxes on it AGAIN????
Maybe. Here's how it works in the real world:
Suppose you paid tax on your income and then paid a sales tax on a $100 item. Some time down the road you decide to put the item up on eBay. One of two things happens:
(a) The item has depreciated in value and you have sold it at a net loss. For ease we will fit break-even sales into this category as well.
(b) The item has appreciated in value and you have sold it at a net profit.
You do not owe any tax for (a). The IRS doesn't really care about you. You do technically owe tax for n net profit from (b), but the IRS probably doesn't care if the gain is less than some attention-getting amount and it is not a usual source of income for you.
What the IRS cares about is if a major source of your income for a year is all from the (b) category, and you are not paying the taxes owed. At that point you are operating a business (whether licensed or not, the Federal gov't doesn't care) and should be filing schedule C for ongoing activities or adding it as an income source (on the honor system) on your 1040 for occasional activities.
Naturally, if you are buying stuff at wholesale (as a business) and retailing it on eBay, you are operating a business and should be paying applicable taxes as well (and won't be paying sales taxes except to buyers resident in a state where you have a business presence).
It may not seem right, but that's the way it works. You can minimize your tax burden if you are doing something on eBay that could be considered a business activity. You need to save your receipts, account your profits and losses, and deduct all your business expenses, such as computer upgrades and the fees that eBay, paypal, et al charges. File your Schedule C and be done with it.
Remember, it is the duty of citizens to pay their lawful taxes - and it is also a right of all taxpayers to pay the minimum possible tax that they can legally justify. So if you are doing significant business on eBay, you should be deducting your fees, computer costs, etc.
It seems that both is basically security through obscurity, and that has not worked very well in the future.
Ahh, I see you have already attended the time travel seminar that will be held in two weeks.
If you booted the disk upside-down, the game ran with the graphics upside-down.
Each kids does not need his own bedroom.
Oh yeah? Tell that to overzealous family/child services departments who may consider this "abusive" because said children do not have enough privacy.
Ah, the average American more money than brains and still not enough money.
Ah, the average critic still hasn't learned to write proper English.
There's no need for a car that goes more than 70mph.
Yeah, because there's nowhere in the United States where the speed limits are faster than 70 MPH.
I use a very old technology 1300cc car
Good for you and your VW beetle/van or whatever. I'm the guy who passed you when your car was struggling to go uphill, and I was still getting 30 MPG and probably putting out less pollution than your tired jalopy.
It was possible to get rid of the Start button and its associated menu in Windows 95. The trick was as follows:
1. Click the start button to open the menu
2. Hit ESC (closes the menu, leaves start button in focus)
3. Hit ALT+MINUS (pops up a menu)
4. Click "Close"
Start menu goes the way of the dodo until explorer.exe is restarted. Great for a practical joke back in the day.
Well, I am a UNIX admin at a large company and I have a lot of machines in my cube:
* One laptop running Windows
* One laptop running Linux
* One x86 workstation running Linux
* One x86 workstation running Solaris
* Two Sun Fire V120s (these will be moved into my lab racks eventually)
Unfortunately the budget's a bit tight these days, otherwise I'd be asking for an Ultra 45 to replace my older Dell.
The trick is to be good at what you do, and then say you can do better with more hardware (and prove it once you get it).
This book. Its companion site. SPIM.
Ah. That makes somewhat more sense.
But I don't find that administering Unix via the command line and text files is so difficult. In fact, it makes the configuration and admin process more transparent (IMO)... there's a lot less 'magic' going on under the hood to make things work. Also, our Unix servers don't require the GUI to be loaded, so we don't pay for the overhead on the system.
I've also worked with Windows systems during my time as a sysadmin, and one thing that we always did was install an SSH server on Windows because of the amount of problems we had with remote desktop. Also frustrating about Windows is that there are some things that can only be done through the GUI, and some things that can only be done through the command line.
Oh yeah.
I had the opportunity to be the first in our company to employ T2000s and Solaris 10. Awesome to work with and the performance with our applications running on them is incredible.
I can't wait for the Niagara 2 processors... twice as many threads running in parallel and one FPU per core... that'll let us branch out to stuff that is more FPU-heavy.
Obviously. However, I'm not sure who is trying to run Solaris as a desktop OS anyway.
I have built and/or maintained hundreds of Solaris servers over the past year. If getting a pretty desktop with fancy widgets means any tradeoff on its strength as a server, then I'd rather Sun not invest in Solaris as a desktop OS.
Our FM-200 system:
Yeah, and then Solaris will be good as a server OS like OSX is!
Yeah, except I'd pick Solaris to run a mission-critical app over Linux any day.
I started off as a Linux admin. Today I am a Solaris admin and I like it that way. Yeah, some of the user-land utilities could be improved, but overall Solaris is a solid operating system that handles some of our hefty applications admirably. Sun also has the best support money can buy. Our x86 vendor is a pain in the ass and there is nothing quite like your Linux vendor and your hardware vendor blaming each other while you wait to get your problem sorted out.
It has been cooling for billions of years.
My only hope is that all commercial airline pilots have already done their obligatory gear-up landings while still flying small GA aircraft...
I'd really not like to experience the thrill of being a passenger on a 747 during a gear-up landing.
I've got 5 Solaris machines
We have thousands of Solaris machines across seven data centers, and I am responsible for a few hundred.
Still, first poster is right. Wtf uses telnet anymore, unless they're dealing with the most legacy of legacy crap.
Agreed. Even "the most legacy of crap" can usually be adapted to SSH by proxy or other means. We don't have telnet installed anywhere (it is explicitly excluded from our Jumpstart profiles), we scan our systems for vulnerabilities and unwanted services, and like all good shops we are well-firewalled.
This is just another form of disciminatory [sic] pricing, like having the Home/Premium/Ultimate split in the first place.
Yeah! And you know what? Car manufacturers are just as guilty! Can you believe that they charge more to have power door locks, power windows, and heated seats?
Try reading it again.
Hell, I'll just give it to you: if you RTFA right at the end it says "Anti-virus software from CA, Fortinet, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Sophos and Symantec successfully achieved VB100 certification."