My well's transformer pole got hit last year -- that's about 150 feet from my house. Zapped both transformers, their fuses, two 100A fuses in my breaker box, and my well's booster pump. Didn't affect anything in my house, tho.
Even so, I had to replace a $700 pump (with a $500 deductable:(
Lightning hit the transformer pole (an ordinary power pole) just down the street from me. The resulting surge blew out the two transformers, their associated fuses-the-size-of-truck-shocks, two 100 amp fuses in my breaker box, and after all that, still had enough juice left to zap my well pump and let out all its magic smoke.
Right-o, let's put a lightning rod in the back yard, sounds dandy!!
The idea is to remove revenue from AOL, as a sort of boycott of the "pay to send" process. And yes, it's liable to hit the good with the bad, that unfortunately being the nature of boycotts.
Users will just have to decide what's worth it to them... and opinions may change a great deal if this "pay to whitelist" does get abused by mass emailers, as some folks feel it will be. Even a legit company can abuse your inbox.
Wow. That's actually kindof cool as an historical artifact. What's the date on the floppy?
Are there any modem diagnostics on the disk? AOL's PC disks have always included some nice modem tools. I still use "findport" that came with their DOS/Win16 floppies, and the modem tools that come on their Win32 CDs are handy for quickly querying for modem commands and settings.
Whatever one may think of AOL, their *coders* have occasionally done some clever and useful things.
Just curious, what's your beef against Yahoo Groups?
I've used 'em for years, without any problems (other than when Yahoo's mail servers have a spate of misconfugurism and lose mail for a while). No spam from Yahoo either, and I'd *know*, cuz I have an email address set up solely for YG, and it gets ZERO spam.
Just to be contrary [g] I feel compelled to note that I last saw a spam that =actually= came from a real AOL address about 6 or 7 years ago.
And I only started doing light filtering of spam at all a couple years back. Until then I was seeing EVERYTHING that reached my mailbox.
BTW back when there were still spammers on AOL, I'd report 'em to Abuse, and invariably got back an "account cancelled" message from AOL within 30 minutes.
Mind you, I have no love for AOL, but even they do some things right.
(Tho this "pay to be an approved sender" thing isn't one of them. IMO it's going to create a whole new class of spam for the hapless AOLers, unless AOLers themselves can find a way to block it.)
I was thinking along similar lines, but in terms of something AOL users could conceivably do:
Block emails from "paid senders". And if possible, bounce them, so the paid-senders KNOW they paid for nothing.
I don't know if this is possible for AOLers to do, but it would sure send a message to the companies that would make such a scheme fly -- the ones willing to pay AOL for the privilege of unfiltered access to every AOL mailbox.
I had the same thought as I read that quote -- what sort of money does Bush think the Indian middle class makes, anyway?? A comfortable middle-class income there won't buy the barest necessities at even the bargain-basement level of made-in-America prices. So that's a non-market, even if India couldn't do for themselves or didn't have China -- eager, willing, and right next door.
So... no instant profits for Bush's friends, whether that's one of his motivators or not, because India's *middle-class* market for *American-made* goods doesn't exist.
And as you say, it won't matter if goods made in India or China come from an American-owned factory; the jobs, taxes, and benefits accrue mainly to India and China, secondarily to the factory owner, and not one shit worth to the rest of America. So... explain to me how this benefits American workers??
Speaking as a mostly-Republican, this is the last straw, and Bush has officially lost what remained of my support.:(
Back in the days of yore, when DOS machines roamed the earth, the vast majority of really creative viruses came from eastern Europe (one reason I heard for this was that these viruses were targeted at disabling the remains of their Soviet overlords). So it makes sense that people living at Virus Ground Zero would develop frontline expertise at protecting themselves from said viruses.
Tho one does have to wonder how many eastern European virus-writing kiddies grew up to become eastern European antivirus experts.:)
Remember the old Bitcom for DOS? if you were reading messages on a BBS, and if in one of those messages you encountered the phrase "NO CARRIER", Bitcom would helpfully hang up the modem!
Considering how many people are out to lunch, it appears that you've leapt straight to the "Profit!" step, thus infringing on my patent for gaining wealth with no work. Pay up!!
Unfortunately, it's pretty consistent... tho I would hope that if a person goes into parenting with the problem firmly in mind, they might at least have SOME memory of what being a kid was like.
I've also noticed that even people who don't have kids often forget this, as they go thru the "I'm an adult now, so I know everything better than kids do" stage. I don't have kids, but I was old enough to be a grandparent before I really understood the issue. Maybe it's just having enough life experience to gain perspective that lets a person have these insights.
School shootings are not about deranged kids killing other kids. Rather, they are loud, messy suicides.
That's what these idiots who want to ban stuff don't get. Kids are tribal, and like any tribe, will attempt to eliminate nonconformists (kids who are different, or foreign, or whatever). And the kids who feel bullied will WANT to strike back, whether they actually act on it or not. And this goes on whether they have violent games and porn or not. But lack of an outlet for these feelings (and violent games are one such outlet) means that the mainstream kids' desire to "purify the tribe" and the outcasts' desire to "strike back" have nowhere to GO but at each other.
I swear there's a stupid gene that gets turned on as soon as people have kids, that makes them forget how much it sucked to be a kid...
It might be interesting to rewrite those more-sordid chunkc of the bible such that it's set as a completely modern tale, but without changing anything BUT the setting... and see how quickly it gets tagged as unwholesome, violent, pornographic, etc.
Of course the people most in need of enlightenment would just be horrified by our "perversion of the holy word", and wouldn't learn a thing.:/
It sounds like an ancestral platypus or other otter-like or seal-like creature to me, too -- not at all like a beaver.
The article is a little confused; it says:
"Like modern beavers, the creature had fur, a broad scaly tail, and webbed feet for swimming. It was about the size of a small female platypus and had seal-like teeth for eating fish. "
Modern beavers are RODENTS, and they eat tree bark (to be accurate, the growth layer under the hard bark) and small shoots. Beavers have RODENT type teeth for gnawing; very different from a carnivore or omnivore's teeth (for one thing, a rodent's front teeth grow continuously).
Very interesting. So how does one convince holders of other document formats that they too wish to be FIPS-compliant, and therefore should be happy to open their document specs??
The concept isn't news to anyone who ever got nailed by a good old-fashioned encrypting virus... there were a few that offered to send you a decryption key, once you'd paid to ransom back your data.
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Some guy a few miles east of Helena, Montana, built this mondo cross out of 55 gallon drums. It was about 15 drums tall, or about 60 feet.
Even so, his faith was evidently somewhat lacking, because he felt a need to brace it up with half a dozen guy wires.
It may be there yet, for all I know.
My well's transformer pole got hit last year -- that's about 150 feet from my house. Zapped both transformers, their fuses, two 100A fuses in my breaker box, and my well's booster pump. Didn't affect anything in my house, tho.
:(
Even so, I had to replace a $700 pump (with a $500 deductable
Lightning hit the transformer pole (an ordinary power pole) just down the street from me. The resulting surge blew out the two transformers, their associated fuses-the-size-of-truck-shocks, two 100 amp fuses in my breaker box, and after all that, still had enough juice left to zap my well pump and let out all its magic smoke.
Right-o, let's put a lightning rod in the back yard, sounds dandy!!
Great, now I've got cookie crumbs in my monitor!!
The idea is to remove revenue from AOL, as a sort of boycott of the "pay to send" process. And yes, it's liable to hit the good with the bad, that unfortunately being the nature of boycotts.
Users will just have to decide what's worth it to them... and opinions may change a great deal if this "pay to whitelist" does get abused by mass emailers, as some folks feel it will be. Even a legit company can abuse your inbox.
Yeah... I was thinking that it might have to be done via a 3rd party utility.
Wow. That's actually kindof cool as an historical artifact. What's the date on the floppy?
Are there any modem diagnostics on the disk? AOL's PC disks have always included some nice modem tools. I still use "findport" that came with their DOS/Win16 floppies, and the modem tools that come on their Win32 CDs are handy for quickly querying for modem commands and settings.
Whatever one may think of AOL, their *coders* have occasionally done some clever and useful things.
Just curious, what's your beef against Yahoo Groups?
I've used 'em for years, without any problems (other than when Yahoo's mail servers have a spate of misconfugurism and lose mail for a while). No spam from Yahoo either, and I'd *know*, cuz I have an email address set up solely for YG, and it gets ZERO spam.
Just to be contrary [g] I feel compelled to note that I last saw a spam that =actually= came from a real AOL address about 6 or 7 years ago.
And I only started doing light filtering of spam at all a couple years back. Until then I was seeing EVERYTHING that reached my mailbox.
BTW back when there were still spammers on AOL, I'd report 'em to Abuse, and invariably got back an "account cancelled" message from AOL within 30 minutes.
Mind you, I have no love for AOL, but even they do some things right.
(Tho this "pay to be an approved sender" thing isn't one of them. IMO it's going to create a whole new class of spam for the hapless AOLers, unless AOLers themselves can find a way to block it.)
I was thinking along similar lines, but in terms of something AOL users could conceivably do:
Block emails from "paid senders". And if possible, bounce them, so the paid-senders KNOW they paid for nothing.
I don't know if this is possible for AOLers to do, but it would sure send a message to the companies that would make such a scheme fly -- the ones willing to pay AOL for the privilege of unfiltered access to every AOL mailbox.
"Either you figure out a way to exploit those low-wage workers, or you end up being one."
:(
That's the best Global-Economy-in-a-Nutshell statement I've seen all day
I had the same thought as I read that quote -- what sort of money does Bush think the Indian middle class makes, anyway?? A comfortable middle-class income there won't buy the barest necessities at even the bargain-basement level of made-in-America prices. So that's a non-market, even if India couldn't do for themselves or didn't have China -- eager, willing, and right next door.
:(
So... no instant profits for Bush's friends, whether that's one of his motivators or not, because India's *middle-class* market for *American-made* goods doesn't exist.
And as you say, it won't matter if goods made in India or China come from an American-owned factory; the jobs, taxes, and benefits accrue mainly to India and China, secondarily to the factory owner, and not one shit worth to the rest of America. So... explain to me how this benefits American workers??
Speaking as a mostly-Republican, this is the last straw, and Bush has officially lost what remained of my support.
Dang... whoda thunk someone would still be using Bitcom in this day and age?
McAfee is no wonder of the western world, either.
:)
Back in the days of yore, when DOS machines roamed the earth, the vast majority of really creative viruses came from eastern Europe (one reason I heard for this was that these viruses were targeted at disabling the remains of their Soviet overlords). So it makes sense that people living at Virus Ground Zero would develop frontline expertise at protecting themselves from said viruses.
Tho one does have to wonder how many eastern European virus-writing kiddies grew up to become eastern European antivirus experts.
Remember the old Bitcom for DOS? if you were reading messages on a BBS, and if in one of those messages you encountered the phrase "NO CARRIER", Bitcom would helpfully hang up the modem!
Hmmph. Sounds like you've also infringed on my "fooling your boss into thinking slashdot is work-related" patent. Pay again!
Young'uns... when I read Harry Potter, my first thought was -- the Bobbsey Twins on bad drugs!!
Crap, now someone's gonna ask me to act my age...
Considering how many people are out to lunch, it appears that you've leapt straight to the "Profit!" step, thus infringing on my patent for gaining wealth with no work. Pay up!!
Unfortunately, it's pretty consistent... tho I would hope that if a person goes into parenting with the problem firmly in mind, they might at least have SOME memory of what being a kid was like.
I've also noticed that even people who don't have kids often forget this, as they go thru the "I'm an adult now, so I know everything better than kids do" stage. I don't have kids, but I was old enough to be a grandparent before I really understood the issue. Maybe it's just having enough life experience to gain perspective that lets a person have these insights.
School shootings are not about deranged kids killing other kids. Rather, they are loud, messy suicides.
That's what these idiots who want to ban stuff don't get. Kids are tribal, and like any tribe, will attempt to eliminate nonconformists (kids who are different, or foreign, or whatever). And the kids who feel bullied will WANT to strike back, whether they actually act on it or not. And this goes on whether they have violent games and porn or not. But lack of an outlet for these feelings (and violent games are one such outlet) means that the mainstream kids' desire to "purify the tribe" and the outcasts' desire to "strike back" have nowhere to GO but at each other.
I swear there's a stupid gene that gets turned on as soon as people have kids, that makes them forget how much it sucked to be a kid...
Therefore we should ban schools, as they are obviously dangerous!!
It might be interesting to rewrite those more-sordid chunkc of the bible such that it's set as a completely modern tale, but without changing anything BUT the setting... and see how quickly it gets tagged as unwholesome, violent, pornographic, etc.
:/
Of course the people most in need of enlightenment would just be horrified by our "perversion of the holy word", and wouldn't learn a thing.
It sounds like an ancestral platypus or other otter-like or seal-like creature to me, too -- not at all like a beaver.
The article is a little confused; it says:
"Like modern beavers, the creature had fur, a broad scaly tail, and webbed feet for swimming. It was about the size of a small female platypus and had seal-like teeth for eating fish. "
Modern beavers are RODENTS, and they eat tree bark (to be accurate, the growth layer under the hard bark) and small shoots. Beavers have RODENT type teeth for gnawing; very different from a carnivore or omnivore's teeth (for one thing, a rodent's front teeth grow continuously).
Very interesting. So how does one convince holders of other document formats that they too wish to be FIPS-compliant, and therefore should be happy to open their document specs??
The concept isn't news to anyone who ever got nailed by a good old-fashioned encrypting virus... there were a few that offered to send you a decryption key, once you'd paid to ransom back your data.