Is anyone brought to tears by this announcement? Is anyone other than myself rejoicing? Every Nvidia POS I ever bought was a complete piece of junk. I'd buy something worthless like the ASUS VT333 w/ RAID and get screwed by the onboard Nvidia shit. I'd swear off Nvidia but forget about it in a year or two only to find myself pulling a dumbass move and buying another Nvidia piece of shit. Of course I'd get burnt again. Nvidia and their chipsets can rot in hell for all I care. There's no love lost here.
Level3, and don't bother using them. They've already stated that they will block non-customer access to their recursive DNS servers in the near future, something they should have done years ago.
I'm a good example of that. I am the only technical person behind our ISP. No one else has access at this point in time. Now am I overly security paranoid to the point of not writing configs to NVRAM or disabling password-recovery? No, that would be dumb. If I got hit by a bus the network will keep on working. My replacement can regain access to the network by doing a password recovery on each of the devices. Everything is fully redundant with the exception of the access edges (which can't feasibly be redundant anyhow). This is our solution until I finish the documentation and complete our one-time password solution for our network, or they get me a backup. I'm not going to hoard access but I won't give it to someone who will likely cause me more work and that includes my super. No matter how well-intentioned someone is, if they don't know what they're doing then they have no business on a SP network.
This is only a very short-term fix. L3 has already said that they will block non-customer access to their recursive name servers. They should have done it years ago and didn't.
I worked for a particular university in their IT department for a few extremely long years. They had a 2MB hard quota on mail spools. I worked around this issue within my first few weeks by putting up my own mail server and forwarding all mail to it from the University mail servers. The university had a significant deficiency in mail admin knowledge (which I came to them with a plethora of). During an outage I discovered some serious screwups in their mail system. They didn't put an MX record on the university's domain. RFCs allow delivery to a domain's A record (if one exists) in the absence of MX records. At this university mail delivery flowed to their internal admin box (the AIX DB server). It happened to have Sendmail up and running on it with a default config and local access to the mail spool directories (that were remotely mounted to the mail server). All those years and they thought that their intended mail server (another old AIX box) was handling all mail functions when in reality it only handled outbound mail flow and delivery to MUAs. Inbound mail delivery was sent through their DB server by accident. When the DB server suffered an outage mail delivery also failed and no one could figure out why (like I said, a deficiency in mail administration). Hell it took me a little while to find it just because I wasn't looking for that particular problem. I couldn't imagine a mail admin could over look something so simple and standard. But they did. I remember when I told them what the problem was. Disbelief that I figured out what was wrong, that I knew what I was talking about, blame placed on my network, etc. But that's what it was.
I had 2 identical shipments from Cisco last year that were shipped on the same day from Singapore. All the boxes contained were license agreements, about 5-6 pages in total. Apparently it was cheaper to print the material in Singapore. I seriously doubt that the shipping and handling costs were cheaper going that route though.
Sorry for the delay. I don't know the actual feature name. I first learned about Panamax during a dog and pony they did for us as a college I used to work for. They took half a dozen of our old surge strips, even some from production gear, on the promise that they'd replace them with new units. They explained a bit about the architecture inherent in most surge strips, about the pot that can only take a single surge before it's burnt out, leaving the device after that point to be nothing more than a receptacle expansion unit. They had a nifty briefcase rig that took in 110v from 2 different circuits (trial and error to get opposing 110v legs). It had a built in circuit breakers. They briefcase had a simple light fixture base attached to it. They added a 100w build and flipped the breaker for 110v, just to show that it would work. Then they added the second 110v leg and the bulb got real bright. Then they disconnected the lamp fixture's cord from the briefcase and hooked up one of our surge strips inline between the bulb and briefcase. They repeated the test. 110v, just fine. They flicked on 220v and not a single one of our surge strips popped. Come to find out that they all already had been popped through normal use and no one knew it. The APC surge strip actually melted down in front of our eyes. Nice. Then they hooked up the Panamax. I forget to mention earlier that they had a simple voltage meter in the rig as well to give us some visual output. Anyway they did the same test and the instant the 220v was flicked on the Panamax cut out. They had a dial in the chassis as well, on the second 110v leg. A reostat or something like that (I've forgotten most of my component electronic knowledge I'm sorry to say). They started cranking up the voltage until the Panamax cut out. I forget the exact number but it was something like 135v and it cut out. They disconnected the first 110v leg and started back the second leg down from 110v and it cut out at around 95v. Slick. Anyway, that's the premise behind their gear. It cuts out before it burns something out. I've been impressed with their gear and have their units all over my house. You can find more models that they've discontinued online too.
Agreed on the power problems. I'm the engineer for an ISP here too and we also run into problems with our residential FWs. We were reselling D-Link but have switched to LinkSys. Both of them exhibit problems with power fluctuations. My parent's live in our service area, far from the paved roads. They are literally the last meter on the line. They get browns often. The usual outcome is that the router freezes hard. Rebooting does not fix it. The only fix appears to be a week or so with no power. The device eventually starts working again. We resell 350w UPSs to our users but our CSRs don't push them hard enough IMHO. Since most of our service area is rural we should really push them a lot harder. Personally I recommend Panamax surge strips. They actually open the circuit on undervoltage. Unlike most surge strips they actually cut off on overvoltage as well. They don't require the massive surges to set them off like most of the rest. Good stuff. I wish we sold them.
What a load of horseshit. The DNC list didn't even make a dent in the number of marketing calls that I get. If anything the load has increased many fold since its implementation. I get more calls than ever. Frankly I think the DNC list is being used like unsubscribe forms are for spammers. Every single sales calls I get I always tell the person that they called a number on the DNS, ask for their company name, physical address of the company, and their employee ID information. About 9 out of 10 times they hang up on me at that point. The DNC is feel-good worthless political horseshit. It's the typical kind of crap that comes out of Washington. The best answer to sales calls is an answering and caller-ID. Don't recognize the # then don't answer the phone. Let it go to VM and listen to it then. Other than that simply hang up on them. Forget about being rude. They're less than honest by calling a # that's on the DNC. The need to get a real job and leave us the hell alone. Hang up on them. Don't argue. Just hang up.
Sorry but that's a very bad idea. Users can't be trusted to set QoS parameters themselves. We've already seen a plethora of hardware hit the shelves touted to accelerate the user's traffic. It does this mainly by setting the ToS bits in all packets to the max of 7 (or an adjustable value) hoping that the provider has loose or no edge re-coloring policies. In a perfect world the CE would take care of this for the provider but we don't live in a perfect world and users like our colleagues here on Slashdot are far from trustworthy. I wouldn't put it past any Slashdot reader to take advantage of the system if they were permitted to define their own QoS parameters. Then you get a user who thinks he knows what he's doing with regards to QoS but really has no clue (again the vast majority of Slashdot's dedicated followers). This user thinks that voice should be set to an absurdly-high value such as 7 instead of the accepted values of 3 or 5, depending on your design. "...but it's important; it's voice!" Let me tell you, this person is primed for management.
No, I'm afraid that users can not be trusted to set their own QoS parameters. Business customers could be more trustworthy in a controlled environment. For example you could accept prioritized packets from a business with values between 0 and 3. Those ToS settings you map to specific MPLS EXP bits based on where the packets originate. Transport that across you Ps and to your PEs before dropping the labels and sending the packet on its way to the next peer. Business have a higher level of accountability than residential customers. Violating a contract and being forced to switch providers is much more difficult for a business than an individual. Residential customer switch voice, video and data providers at the drop of a hat (if alternatives are available in their area). Violating the SP's TOS and being terminated is a minor inconvenience to them.
The best thing that we SPs can do is offer broadband packages with QoS built in. Do you want generic broadband with no services? QoS level of 0 (best effort, the default). Do you want a SOHO package? QoS on your voice (RTP, Skype, SIP, MGCP, H.323) with a setting of 3. Gamers? QoS match VoIP (like the SOHO) and as much of the FPS gaming traffic as possible (of which there is no standard so matching this traffic is very difficult and ever-changing). Set matching packets to 3 as well. You could elevate both SOHO and Gamers to 1 in general to give a higher priority to non-recognizable traffic patterns. Business customer with QoS? 4. SP-provided VoIP and video? 5. The SP's L3 routing protocols and other management traffic (BGP, IS-IS, LDP, FHRPs, SSH, etc) 6. L2 link-state status protocols like BFD and UDLD? 7. That's a very common arrangement. Map that into DiffServ and on into MPLS EXP bits and you have QoS-enabled SP network. If only it were really that easy.
That just means you didn't use the gold-plated Monster cables. Silly audiophile. Copper is for kids! You probably also don't have a proper Ethernet patchcord for your PC. here, let me help you out. Kids these days. I swear...
I understand the dilemma. Personally I'm one of those people who check their email as soon as they roll out of bed in the morning. It's not unusual to find me sitting in my recliner at 1am watching an attack on our network and adding IPs to my RTBH as fast as I can copy and paste. I'm more connected than not. That said I've fixed my phone (HTC 6800) so that it will only make noise (including vibrate) if I get a voice call or SMS in the middle of the night. The SP I run uses SMS messages from Nagios (via email) to alert me to problems so I want those messages. I want voice calls of course too. I absolutely do not want my phone to making a damn peep after 11PM or before 7AM if I get an email (and I get hundreds daily). To do this on my WM6 phone I bought a copy of PhoneAlarm from PocketMax. It lets me have complete control over alerts and notifications of all types. Do you want your phone to vibrate and make noise for emails at work? Change the work profile to do that. Do you want it to make a helluva lot of noise while you're driving down the road (because you like having the music up loud and the windows down). You can do that too, just pick a ringtone that is exceedingly loud. Do you want the headset and bluetooth to be disabled when you're at home. Set your Home profile to reflect that. Then set up schedules to switch between them. It's a slick application. The features should come built into Windows Mobile but I don't mind paying someone else to give me what I need.
So I don't mind being connected most of the time. It helps me keep up with my network. I'm also a 1 man show so if something goes wrong there isn't anyone else to work on it. But that doesn't mean that I'll answer an email in the middle of the night. When I'm sleeping I'm sleeping. Unless you're a good-looking redheaded female in a cheerleading outfit, don't call me unless something is severely broken.
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and not to be a tremoundous nit-picker, but for 100% true data protection you can't rely just on what type of RAID set you employe. A tested backup/restore process must be put in place, anything less and you risk data loss.
To pseudo-quote a Direct TV commercial, "100% of statistics can be said to say anything, 50% of the time."
I have 14 mod points and yet for some reason Slashdot won't let me mod in this thread (no I haven't posted in the thread until now). Weird.
Anyway I wholeheartedly agree. The "awesome bar" is an awesome cluster fuck. I can't believe the devs pulled this kind of shit on the FireFox faithful. Forcing a change on the userbase is something one of the many proprietary companies we all hate would do. I think Moz is getting to big for it's britches.
This will probably be formatted like ass because the CSS sheet for Slashdot have somehow gotten screwed up again, causing this text box to be about 20 characters wide. Nice.
Anyway when I was in HS I was a long-distance runner. I wasn't terribly good at it but I ran at least a little every day. I'm 6'1" tall. When I graduated I weighed 155lbs and had a 3% bodyfat (not kidding). I was a lean SOB. I went to college and joined the marching band, toting around a 55lbs instrument 5 days a week plus game days. I lost 10lbs the first week, though I don't know where it came from. When I was in that kind of shape I could eat any food and up to any quantity I could stuff in my stomach. After track meets we would go to McD's and have an eating contest. I would put away $25-30 worth of food easy. A couple Big Macs meals "super-sized", milkshakes, fries, etc. A couple boxes of McNuggets. Toss on some doublequarter-pounders with cheese and an ice cream cone for the road. It never affected me. I also didn't drink pop in HS.
College was pretty much the same thing. Then came my first real job as a netadm. A sit down job. I packed on 30lbs within a few months' time. I wasn't gorging myself (couldn't afford to). I couldn't many of my meals. We ate out for lunch as a group. I really wasn't eating that much. So what changed? My metabolism. It dropped like a rock. It total I put on 90lbs after HS.
That was many years ago now. I've been fighting to get back into shape but it's hard. I still have a sit down job. I still cook most of my meals. I started drinking pop again in HS and abused it at that first job. Since then I've cut it down to maybe 1 glass a day with lunch. I drink iced tea during other times. I don't do coffee unless it's cold as hell. I work out doing cardio for at least 30m a day but I need to do more. I was doing weights until I hosed up my back muscles and spent a few quality hours in the ER. Last summer/fall I was going to the gym twice a day doing mainly cardio. I didn't drop much weight but I was starting to feel much better. I was very careful to avoid high concentrations of caffeine after workouts for at least a couple hours. Meaning I would still have some pop at lunch, though I would only let it be half a glass or so. I would drink tea at work. Yes, tea has caffeine in it but far less than pop or coffee. The reason behind the avoiding caffeine after working out is that caffeine causes your blood glucose levels to skyrocket. Your body burns off this glucose first instead of focusing on your fat cells, thus mitigating the benefits of working out.
Anyway, back to your point, yes weight can be caused by genetic attributes. Overall though if you can maintain your metabolism you can generally stiff-arm genetics.
A CD isn't required. Score 1 for us. The product can be installed on more than one PC at a time. Now we're 2-0. The CEO said that they'll release a non-DRM fix if the company ever goes under so your purchase has future guarantees. 3-0! So what are ya'll bitching about?
At the ISP that I run I would personally love to block China. For that matter I would block all of Asia if I could. 98% of the attacks we've been under and the network reconnaissance we've seen comes from China and other Asian countries. I maintain a sizeable block list that I have to feed by hand. I check the WHOIS on every IP or netblock I add. The number of RIPE or ARIN-registered netblocks are so few that I actually author an email to the abuse contacts for that non-Asian SP to report the abuse. I would block Asian countries if I could, if I didn't fear some foreign-made el-cheapo device that my users own having a support site in China. Were it not for that I seriously doubt if my users would even notice.
Seriously, how long do we have to put up with this horseshit of modifying the content of a proposed bill once it's been proposed? It always gets abused and it seldom gets used for anything good. If you want to change a proposed bill then it should be completely and entirely withdrawn and resubmitted. This kind of horseshit is a perfect example of why unrelated amendments should never be allowed to piggyback on bills. I'm less than impressed with just about every elected representative we have today.
I would challenge you to find a Canadian bank that didn't invest that customer's money in the US markets. With a little creativity and some balls a corresponding portion of that investment could be seized. The whole thing is moot though because the Canadian authorities were directly involved in the whole thing. They were partners with the US authorities.
The defendants named in the FTC complaint are Data Business Solutions Inc., also doing business as Internet Listing Service Corp., ILS Corp., ILSCORP.NET, Domain Listing Service Corp., DLS Corp., and DLSCORP.NET, and its principals, Ari Balabanian, Isaac Benlolo and Kirk Mulveney.
The case listed 3 principals by name so they should be able to be held liable for the judgement in the scenarios I outlines above.
That's if the Canadian legal system agrees that they are criminals... If for whatever reason, they determine that preying on stupidity isn't a crime, then a disagreement may ensue.
If this happens then prosecution can go back to the US courts can go after the assets of the foreign entity that happen to exist in the US. So if this company happens to use Bank of America for their banking service then their BoA funds can be seized. If they used PayPal for collecting the extortion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H payments then the can seize the contents of the PayPal accounts.
In addition to that if they can get US indictments against the individual players within the bogus Canadian company then they can be identified as they enter or pass through the US and can be arrested there.
There are a number of ways that US courts can influence the foreign entities, even if Canada disagrees. I don't think Canada will disagree though.
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Is anyone brought to tears by this announcement? Is anyone other than myself rejoicing? Every Nvidia POS I ever bought was a complete piece of junk. I'd buy something worthless like the ASUS VT333 w/ RAID and get screwed by the onboard Nvidia shit. I'd swear off Nvidia but forget about it in a year or two only to find myself pulling a dumbass move and buying another Nvidia piece of shit. Of course I'd get burnt again. Nvidia and their chipsets can rot in hell for all I care. There's no love lost here.
Well, this is Slashdot. The difference between the two is what?
Level3, and don't bother using them. They've already stated that they will block non-customer access to their recursive DNS servers in the near future, something they should have done years ago.
I'm a good example of that. I am the only technical person behind our ISP. No one else has access at this point in time. Now am I overly security paranoid to the point of not writing configs to NVRAM or disabling password-recovery? No, that would be dumb. If I got hit by a bus the network will keep on working. My replacement can regain access to the network by doing a password recovery on each of the devices. Everything is fully redundant with the exception of the access edges (which can't feasibly be redundant anyhow). This is our solution until I finish the documentation and complete our one-time password solution for our network, or they get me a backup. I'm not going to hoard access but I won't give it to someone who will likely cause me more work and that includes my super. No matter how well-intentioned someone is, if they don't know what they're doing then they have no business on a SP network.
This is only a very short-term fix. L3 has already said that they will block non-customer access to their recursive name servers. They should have done it years ago and didn't.
I worked for a particular university in their IT department for a few extremely long years. They had a 2MB hard quota on mail spools. I worked around this issue within my first few weeks by putting up my own mail server and forwarding all mail to it from the University mail servers. The university had a significant deficiency in mail admin knowledge (which I came to them with a plethora of). During an outage I discovered some serious screwups in their mail system. They didn't put an MX record on the university's domain. RFCs allow delivery to a domain's A record (if one exists) in the absence of MX records. At this university mail delivery flowed to their internal admin box (the AIX DB server). It happened to have Sendmail up and running on it with a default config and local access to the mail spool directories (that were remotely mounted to the mail server). All those years and they thought that their intended mail server (another old AIX box) was handling all mail functions when in reality it only handled outbound mail flow and delivery to MUAs. Inbound mail delivery was sent through their DB server by accident. When the DB server suffered an outage mail delivery also failed and no one could figure out why (like I said, a deficiency in mail administration). Hell it took me a little while to find it just because I wasn't looking for that particular problem. I couldn't imagine a mail admin could over look something so simple and standard. But they did. I remember when I told them what the problem was. Disbelief that I figured out what was wrong, that I knew what I was talking about, blame placed on my network, etc. But that's what it was.
I had 2 identical shipments from Cisco last year that were shipped on the same day from Singapore. All the boxes contained were license agreements, about 5-6 pages in total. Apparently it was cheaper to print the material in Singapore. I seriously doubt that the shipping and handling costs were cheaper going that route though.
Sorry for the delay. I don't know the actual feature name. I first learned about Panamax during a dog and pony they did for us as a college I used to work for. They took half a dozen of our old surge strips, even some from production gear, on the promise that they'd replace them with new units. They explained a bit about the architecture inherent in most surge strips, about the pot that can only take a single surge before it's burnt out, leaving the device after that point to be nothing more than a receptacle expansion unit. They had a nifty briefcase rig that took in 110v from 2 different circuits (trial and error to get opposing 110v legs). It had a built in circuit breakers. They briefcase had a simple light fixture base attached to it. They added a 100w build and flipped the breaker for 110v, just to show that it would work. Then they added the second 110v leg and the bulb got real bright. Then they disconnected the lamp fixture's cord from the briefcase and hooked up one of our surge strips inline between the bulb and briefcase. They repeated the test. 110v, just fine. They flicked on 220v and not a single one of our surge strips popped. Come to find out that they all already had been popped through normal use and no one knew it. The APC surge strip actually melted down in front of our eyes. Nice. Then they hooked up the Panamax. I forget to mention earlier that they had a simple voltage meter in the rig as well to give us some visual output. Anyway they did the same test and the instant the 220v was flicked on the Panamax cut out. They had a dial in the chassis as well, on the second 110v leg. A reostat or something like that (I've forgotten most of my component electronic knowledge I'm sorry to say). They started cranking up the voltage until the Panamax cut out. I forget the exact number but it was something like 135v and it cut out. They disconnected the first 110v leg and started back the second leg down from 110v and it cut out at around 95v. Slick. Anyway, that's the premise behind their gear. It cuts out before it burns something out. I've been impressed with their gear and have their units all over my house. You can find more models that they've discontinued online too.
Agreed on the power problems. I'm the engineer for an ISP here too and we also run into problems with our residential FWs. We were reselling D-Link but have switched to LinkSys. Both of them exhibit problems with power fluctuations. My parent's live in our service area, far from the paved roads. They are literally the last meter on the line. They get browns often. The usual outcome is that the router freezes hard. Rebooting does not fix it. The only fix appears to be a week or so with no power. The device eventually starts working again. We resell 350w UPSs to our users but our CSRs don't push them hard enough IMHO. Since most of our service area is rural we should really push them a lot harder. Personally I recommend Panamax surge strips. They actually open the circuit on undervoltage. Unlike most surge strips they actually cut off on overvoltage as well. They don't require the massive surges to set them off like most of the rest. Good stuff. I wish we sold them.
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What a load of horseshit. The DNC list didn't even make a dent in the number of marketing calls that I get. If anything the load has increased many fold since its implementation. I get more calls than ever. Frankly I think the DNC list is being used like unsubscribe forms are for spammers. Every single sales calls I get I always tell the person that they called a number on the DNS, ask for their company name, physical address of the company, and their employee ID information. About 9 out of 10 times they hang up on me at that point. The DNC is feel-good worthless political horseshit. It's the typical kind of crap that comes out of Washington. The best answer to sales calls is an answering and caller-ID. Don't recognize the # then don't answer the phone. Let it go to VM and listen to it then. Other than that simply hang up on them. Forget about being rude. They're less than honest by calling a # that's on the DNC. The need to get a real job and leave us the hell alone. Hang up on them. Don't argue. Just hang up.
Sorry but that's a very bad idea. Users can't be trusted to set QoS parameters themselves. We've already seen a plethora of hardware hit the shelves touted to accelerate the user's traffic. It does this mainly by setting the ToS bits in all packets to the max of 7 (or an adjustable value) hoping that the provider has loose or no edge re-coloring policies. In a perfect world the CE would take care of this for the provider but we don't live in a perfect world and users like our colleagues here on Slashdot are far from trustworthy. I wouldn't put it past any Slashdot reader to take advantage of the system if they were permitted to define their own QoS parameters. Then you get a user who thinks he knows what he's doing with regards to QoS but really has no clue (again the vast majority of Slashdot's dedicated followers). This user thinks that voice should be set to an absurdly-high value such as 7 instead of the accepted values of 3 or 5, depending on your design. "...but it's important; it's voice!" Let me tell you, this person is primed for management.
No, I'm afraid that users can not be trusted to set their own QoS parameters. Business customers could be more trustworthy in a controlled environment. For example you could accept prioritized packets from a business with values between 0 and 3. Those ToS settings you map to specific MPLS EXP bits based on where the packets originate. Transport that across you Ps and to your PEs before dropping the labels and sending the packet on its way to the next peer. Business have a higher level of accountability than residential customers. Violating a contract and being forced to switch providers is much more difficult for a business than an individual. Residential customer switch voice, video and data providers at the drop of a hat (if alternatives are available in their area). Violating the SP's TOS and being terminated is a minor inconvenience to them.
The best thing that we SPs can do is offer broadband packages with QoS built in. Do you want generic broadband with no services? QoS level of 0 (best effort, the default). Do you want a SOHO package? QoS on your voice (RTP, Skype, SIP, MGCP, H.323) with a setting of 3. Gamers? QoS match VoIP (like the SOHO) and as much of the FPS gaming traffic as possible (of which there is no standard so matching this traffic is very difficult and ever-changing). Set matching packets to 3 as well. You could elevate both SOHO and Gamers to 1 in general to give a higher priority to non-recognizable traffic patterns. Business customer with QoS? 4. SP-provided VoIP and video? 5. The SP's L3 routing protocols and other management traffic (BGP, IS-IS, LDP, FHRPs, SSH, etc) 6. L2 link-state status protocols like BFD and UDLD? 7. That's a very common arrangement. Map that into DiffServ and on into MPLS EXP bits and you have QoS-enabled SP network. If only it were really that easy.
That just means you didn't use the gold-plated Monster cables. Silly audiophile. Copper is for kids! You probably also don't have a proper Ethernet patchcord for your PC. here, let me help you out. Kids these days. I swear...
I understand the dilemma. Personally I'm one of those people who check their email as soon as they roll out of bed in the morning. It's not unusual to find me sitting in my recliner at 1am watching an attack on our network and adding IPs to my RTBH as fast as I can copy and paste. I'm more connected than not. That said I've fixed my phone (HTC 6800) so that it will only make noise (including vibrate) if I get a voice call or SMS in the middle of the night. The SP I run uses SMS messages from Nagios (via email) to alert me to problems so I want those messages. I want voice calls of course too. I absolutely do not want my phone to making a damn peep after 11PM or before 7AM if I get an email (and I get hundreds daily). To do this on my WM6 phone I bought a copy of PhoneAlarm from PocketMax. It lets me have complete control over alerts and notifications of all types. Do you want your phone to vibrate and make noise for emails at work? Change the work profile to do that. Do you want it to make a helluva lot of noise while you're driving down the road (because you like having the music up loud and the windows down). You can do that too, just pick a ringtone that is exceedingly loud. Do you want the headset and bluetooth to be disabled when you're at home. Set your Home profile to reflect that. Then set up schedules to switch between them. It's a slick application. The features should come built into Windows Mobile but I don't mind paying someone else to give me what I need.
So I don't mind being connected most of the time. It helps me keep up with my network. I'm also a 1 man show so if something goes wrong there isn't anyone else to work on it. But that doesn't mean that I'll answer an email in the middle of the night. When I'm sleeping I'm sleeping. Unless you're a good-looking redheaded female in a cheerleading outfit, don't call me unless something is severely broken.
To pseudo-quote a Direct TV commercial, "100% of statistics can be said to say anything, 50% of the time."
Anyway I wholeheartedly agree. The "awesome bar" is an awesome cluster fuck. I can't believe the devs pulled this kind of shit on the FireFox faithful. Forcing a change on the userbase is something one of the many proprietary companies we all hate would do. I think Moz is getting to big for it's britches.
Amazon has a very large distribution center in my state and they have to charge me sales tax because of it.
Simply search for "sex". That by far outweighs any other adult search string you can think of.
Anyway when I was in HS I was a long-distance runner. I wasn't terribly good at it but I ran at least a little every day. I'm 6'1" tall. When I graduated I weighed 155lbs and had a 3% bodyfat (not kidding). I was a lean SOB. I went to college and joined the marching band, toting around a 55lbs instrument 5 days a week plus game days. I lost 10lbs the first week, though I don't know where it came from. When I was in that kind of shape I could eat any food and up to any quantity I could stuff in my stomach. After track meets we would go to McD's and have an eating contest. I would put away $25-30 worth of food easy. A couple Big Macs meals "super-sized", milkshakes, fries, etc. A couple boxes of McNuggets. Toss on some doublequarter-pounders with cheese and an ice cream cone for the road. It never affected me. I also didn't drink pop in HS.
College was pretty much the same thing. Then came my first real job as a netadm. A sit down job. I packed on 30lbs within a few months' time. I wasn't gorging myself (couldn't afford to). I couldn't many of my meals. We ate out for lunch as a group. I really wasn't eating that much. So what changed? My metabolism. It dropped like a rock. It total I put on 90lbs after HS.
That was many years ago now. I've been fighting to get back into shape but it's hard. I still have a sit down job. I still cook most of my meals. I started drinking pop again in HS and abused it at that first job. Since then I've cut it down to maybe 1 glass a day with lunch. I drink iced tea during other times. I don't do coffee unless it's cold as hell. I work out doing cardio for at least 30m a day but I need to do more. I was doing weights until I hosed up my back muscles and spent a few quality hours in the ER. Last summer/fall I was going to the gym twice a day doing mainly cardio. I didn't drop much weight but I was starting to feel much better. I was very careful to avoid high concentrations of caffeine after workouts for at least a couple hours. Meaning I would still have some pop at lunch, though I would only let it be half a glass or so. I would drink tea at work. Yes, tea has caffeine in it but far less than pop or coffee. The reason behind the avoiding caffeine after working out is that caffeine causes your blood glucose levels to skyrocket. Your body burns off this glucose first instead of focusing on your fat cells, thus mitigating the benefits of working out.
Anyway, back to your point, yes weight can be caused by genetic attributes. Overall though if you can maintain your metabolism you can generally stiff-arm genetics.
A CD isn't required. Score 1 for us. The product can be installed on more than one PC at a time. Now we're 2-0. The CEO said that they'll release a non-DRM fix if the company ever goes under so your purchase has future guarantees. 3-0! So what are ya'll bitching about?
At the ISP that I run I would personally love to block China. For that matter I would block all of Asia if I could. 98% of the attacks we've been under and the network reconnaissance we've seen comes from China and other Asian countries. I maintain a sizeable block list that I have to feed by hand. I check the WHOIS on every IP or netblock I add. The number of RIPE or ARIN-registered netblocks are so few that I actually author an email to the abuse contacts for that non-Asian SP to report the abuse. I would block Asian countries if I could, if I didn't fear some foreign-made el-cheapo device that my users own having a support site in China. Were it not for that I seriously doubt if my users would even notice.
Seriously, how long do we have to put up with this horseshit of modifying the content of a proposed bill once it's been proposed? It always gets abused and it seldom gets used for anything good. If you want to change a proposed bill then it should be completely and entirely withdrawn and resubmitted. This kind of horseshit is a perfect example of why unrelated amendments should never be allowed to piggyback on bills. I'm less than impressed with just about every elected representative we have today.
I would challenge you to find a Canadian bank that didn't invest that customer's money in the US markets. With a little creativity and some balls a corresponding portion of that investment could be seized. The whole thing is moot though because the Canadian authorities were directly involved in the whole thing. They were partners with the US authorities.
The defendants named in the FTC complaint are Data Business Solutions Inc., also doing business as Internet Listing Service Corp., ILS Corp., ILSCORP.NET, Domain Listing Service Corp., DLS Corp., and DLSCORP.NET, and its principals, Ari Balabanian, Isaac Benlolo and Kirk Mulveney.
The case listed 3 principals by name so they should be able to be held liable for the judgement in the scenarios I outlines above.
If this happens then prosecution can go back to the US courts can go after the assets of the foreign entity that happen to exist in the US. So if this company happens to use Bank of America for their banking service then their BoA funds can be seized. If they used PayPal for collecting the extortion^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H payments then the can seize the contents of the PayPal accounts.
In addition to that if they can get US indictments against the individual players within the bogus Canadian company then they can be identified as they enter or pass through the US and can be arrested there.
There are a number of ways that US courts can influence the foreign entities, even if Canada disagrees. I don't think Canada will disagree though.