And with Korea , I don't know if I would trust them as well.
South Korea?
They make some of the biggest ships in the world right now- and handling 1"+ plates of steel the size of several houses isn't exactly a trivial task... I wouldn't underestimate them!
I would really appreciate it if all my extension cords were clearly labeled for recommended maximum voltage. I'll assume you are serious and that isn't trollbait.
Firstly, every cord *SHOULD* be labeled with maximium voltage... most likely 600V for most equipment. This is based on the voltage the insulation on the wires can withstand in a normal environment.
What you likely meant to say is the maximum AMPERAGE (or wattage, which is voltage*amperage) a cable is designed for. This is a much harder thing to spec... just like a CPU, it depends what the temperature is. The larger a conductor (think cross-sectional area), the less resistance it has, and the less current will be lost to heat while in use. It is this heat that makes things unpleasant... you could take a "standard" cord and run 29384092385902380953A through it, but not for more than a millisecond or two whilst the metal melts and subsequently vaporizes in an explosive poof at room temperature.
However, if you put it in liquid nitrogen, you likely will increase that time by several orders of magnitude... more assuming you can keep the cold flowing in (maybe a continual stream of L/N?)
Coming back to reality, it may be safe to run your vacuum cleaner for a few minutes on the cord, even if it gets warm... assuming you *KNOW* it is getting warm, and you will stop using it shortly. Where it isn't safe is if you run a heater off of an undersized cord, then throw a rug on top of it to further keep ambient losses from cooling the cord, then spill something with a low flashpoint on the rug.
There are also water powered sump pumps available if you are in a municipality with city water. Used to have a fridge that was powered by natural gas, too...
Cable might be like taking a bus to the station. There might be other people there. However, its not that significant. Unless your bus is, say, giving away free money/crack/heroin/whatever and starting in a high-density housing project. Then it would be a ride like my former.
In Chicago, Comcast acquired their monopoly from several other smaller cable companies. The one I had apparently had some pretty sleazy workings- the cable modem appeared to be in some sort of bridge mode, as I could see ARP requests from other modems. For one weekend, I counted over two thousand unique MAC addresses worth of ARP requests.
And the type of speeds you'd expect from sharing that pipe with two thousand other people- barely above ISDN.
Not saying that that didn't happen, but from some of our firm's work with a firm... uh, lets say associated with credit card processing, they are *VERY* aware of that threat. They take the "secrets" and divide them among multiple envelopes sent by different carriers, at different times... the data in any one envelope would be pretty useless, and it would be quite hard (read: monetary gain not worth the effort) to hijack three separate trucks several days in a row to "steal" all three. We never got to even see what was in the envelopes, so I can't confirm or deny they were encrypted...
Having been a locksmith for six years prior to "coming" to IT, I can say there is a lot more to it that most outside the trade think.
Learning car systems (knowing what wire to unplug so an airbag doesn't explode in your face whilst pulling a steering column lock), campus masterkey systems, troubleshooting and even crafting parts for old locks (esp in a place like Chicago, where we have 150+yr houses), keeping up with high security systems, etc, keeps you a lot busier than you would think learning. To this day, many years later, I still want to shoot half the professional locksmiths I deal with (and the other half just push out of the way and do it myself).
The on-call thing works out pretty well; usually you can pick when you want to be on call, esp if you are part of a relatively large shop. Most of those calls are the 30 second unlock calls that take you much longer to drive out than they do fix. Had one time a large chain here lost a grand master key, and we ended up rekeying about 75 of their offices in one night.
The hardest thing I had to deal with is the Saturday morning calls where an elderly couple comes into the shop, shaking, explaining they were the victims of a robbery the night before, and then having to explain to them what a door that you can't open with a good kick costs.
approach to fighting phishers. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
I can personally say I got the Casino Royale DVD (from Netflix) and it didn't play on either of two set-top boxes (a Tivo and some generic DVD player I got for $30). Pissed as hell, brought it down to my PC, and VLC and Media Player Classic both played it like a charm. I usually watch about 75% of my movies on the PC anyway- and on every occasion that I bother to sit on my couch and try it on "consumer" equipment, I am just apalled by the anti-piracy warnings, threats, forced previews, and other crap they felch on us. It is getting to difficult to event try... now where are those MythTV live CDs?
Try Unplug ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2254/ ), which is pretty good. You can play the extract (The.FLV file) in VLC under Win32; assumedly you can do it on the other platforms VLC compiles on?
Only the geekiest of geeks could tell me whether 1984293617 falls on a Thursday without runing it through some kind of conversion program
And just to claim those geek points, that algorithm is called "zeller's congruence", and can be easily done in about 4 lines of C. (Depending on how you place your brackets;) )
With our system of a representative republic, and our current state of two dominant parties, it's difficult for most individuals to find a choice that even remotely represents our opinions.
First, let me say *I* agree with most of that, and, for certain types of people, all of that (I don't know your opinions, so it is mathematically possible no canidate comes close to representing you).
<rant>
However, there are so many people who don't have the intestinal fortitude to stand up and vote for a candidate that *DOES* represent their beliefs come polling day that it makes me bow my head in shame. They think a vote for their canidate is a vote wasted to prevent the lesser of the (other) two (main) evils.
Arguably true, technically- but it does nothing to cure the problem of only two choices, neither of which are, as you say, remotely close. The last presidential election, our state's Libertarian candidate (And, yes, slashnazis, I know the linked site is not for the presidential election) actually put his views up for people to read! (GASP!) The other two "big" guys had sackless, neutered positions to appeal to a broad audience. I know not everyone would even come close to his opinions; there may be "green" or independent candidates that do though- and it is a shame that grown men and women can't manage the cojones (or, slashnazis, whatever you conceive the female equiv to be) to place a vote in line with their opinion when they *DO* find one.
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South Korea?
They make some of the biggest ships in the world right now- and handling 1"+ plates of steel the size of several houses isn't exactly a trivial task... I wouldn't underestimate them!
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If their one-way agreement is binding, so is mine.
Firstly, every cord *SHOULD* be labeled with maximium voltage... most likely 600V for most equipment. This is based on the voltage the insulation on the wires can withstand in a normal environment.
What you likely meant to say is the maximum AMPERAGE (or wattage, which is voltage*amperage) a cable is designed for. This is a much harder thing to spec... just like a CPU, it depends what the temperature is. The larger a conductor (think cross-sectional area), the less resistance it has, and the less current will be lost to heat while in use. It is this heat that makes things unpleasant... you could take a "standard" cord and run 29384092385902380953A through it, but not for more than a millisecond or two whilst the metal melts and subsequently vaporizes in an explosive poof at room temperature.
However, if you put it in liquid nitrogen, you likely will increase that time by several orders of magnitude... more assuming you can keep the cold flowing in (maybe a continual stream of L/N?)
Coming back to reality, it may be safe to run your vacuum cleaner for a few minutes on the cord, even if it gets warm... assuming you *KNOW* it is getting warm, and you will stop using it shortly. Where it isn't safe is if you run a heater off of an undersized cord, then throw a rug on top of it to further keep ambient losses from cooling the cord, then spill something with a low flashpoint on the rug.
Would make a hell of a warning label...
There are also water powered sump pumps available if you are in a municipality with city water. Used to have a fridge that was powered by natural gas, too...
Yes, but a swarm of volunteer Axe Murders would cost even less than that. As a matter of fact, maybe the state could take bids for the position.
No, then it is fun and game [sic] without depth perception.
Who did you activate with? Did they not give you a bunch of BS activation fees or still try to stick you with a 2yr contract?
In Chicago, Comcast acquired their monopoly from several other smaller cable companies. The one I had apparently had some pretty sleazy workings- the cable modem appeared to be in some sort of bridge mode, as I could see ARP requests from other modems. For one weekend, I counted over two thousand unique MAC addresses worth of ARP requests.
And the type of speeds you'd expect from sharing that pipe with two thousand other people- barely above ISDN.
How about "The fucking fuckers are fucking fucking me, fuck!" ?
Not saying that that didn't happen, but from some of our firm's work with a firm... uh, lets say associated with credit card processing, they are *VERY* aware of that threat. They take the "secrets" and divide them among multiple envelopes sent by different carriers, at different times... the data in any one envelope would be pretty useless, and it would be quite hard (read: monetary gain not worth the effort) to hijack three separate trucks several days in a row to "steal" all three. We never got to even see what was in the envelopes, so I can't confirm or deny they were encrypted...
We could call it the "Open Source Association of America" (or OSAA for short).
Having been a locksmith for six years prior to "coming" to IT, I can say there is a lot more to it that most outside the trade think.
Learning car systems (knowing what wire to unplug so an airbag doesn't explode in your face whilst pulling a steering column lock), campus masterkey systems, troubleshooting and even crafting parts for old locks (esp in a place like Chicago, where we have 150+yr houses), keeping up with high security systems, etc, keeps you a lot busier than you would think learning. To this day, many years later, I still want to shoot half the professional locksmiths I deal with (and the other half just push out of the way and do it myself).
The on-call thing works out pretty well; usually you can pick when you want to be on call, esp if you are part of a relatively large shop. Most of those calls are the 30 second unlock calls that take you much longer to drive out than they do fix. Had one time a large chain here lost a grand master key, and we ended up rekeying about 75 of their offices in one night.
The hardest thing I had to deal with is the Saturday morning calls where an elderly couple comes into the shop, shaking, explaining they were the victims of a robbery the night before, and then having to explain to them what a door that you can't open with a good kick costs.
YMMV.
We need one of those checklists that show up everytime someone proposes an anti-spam "revelation"...
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Your post advocates a
( ) Technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting phishers. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(Ugh... coffee underrun error... can't
I can personally say I got the Casino Royale DVD (from Netflix) and it didn't play on either of two set-top boxes (a Tivo and some generic DVD player I got for $30). Pissed as hell, brought it down to my PC, and VLC and Media Player Classic both played it like a charm. I usually watch about 75% of my movies on the PC anyway- and on every occasion that I bother to sit on my couch and try it on "consumer" equipment, I am just apalled by the anti-piracy warnings, threats, forced previews, and other crap they felch on us. It is getting to difficult to event try... now where are those MythTV live CDs?
Try Unplug ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2254/ ), which is pretty good. You can play the extract (The .FLV file) in VLC under Win32; assumedly you can do it on the other platforms VLC compiles on?
And just to claim those geek points, that algorithm is called "zeller's congruence", and can be easily done in about 4 lines of C. (Depending on how you place your brackets ;) )
Yep. Spammers. There is no reform for those shits. Just kill 'em.
If I'm wrong, it will be one awesome party down there in Hell.
Hell, I still play Civ 1 all the way through at least once or twice a year!.
First, let me say *I* agree with most of that, and, for certain types of people, all of that (I don't know your opinions, so it is mathematically possible no canidate comes close to representing you).
<rant>However, there are so many people who don't have the intestinal fortitude to stand up and vote for a candidate that *DOES* represent their beliefs come polling day that it makes me bow my head in shame. They think a vote for their canidate is a vote wasted to prevent the lesser of the (other) two (main) evils.
Arguably true, technically- but it does nothing to cure the problem of only two choices, neither of which are, as you say, remotely close. The last presidential election, our state's Libertarian candidate (And, yes, slashnazis, I know the linked site is not for the presidential election) actually put his views up for people to read! (GASP!) The other two "big" guys had sackless, neutered positions to appeal to a broad audience. I know not everyone would even come close to his opinions; there may be "green" or independent candidates that do though- and it is a shame that grown men and women can't manage the cojones (or, slashnazis, whatever you conceive the female equiv to be) to place a vote in line with their opinion when they *DO* find one.
</rant>Because the competent don't leave it for last.
Although *MOST* turns to heat, you also forgot light and deformation as energy sinks as well.
Maybe not Appple per se, but what about NeXT? They had a slew of things that nothing else did for years...
It just raises the cost of a page and creates pollution...
Can't believe there aren't enough /.ers familiar with nuclear science to bring up the Chart Of The Nuclides....
All of a sudden, everything on the P/T seems so oversimplified
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