I have some friends who are strong greenies, and most of them understand that humans are going to have an impact, and what they would like to have happen are the small changes that we have from time to time such as recycling bins efforts to carpoole etc. However most of them also note that whatever they ask for they will only get a comprimise if they get anything at all. This is why they ask for so much.
As my friend told me "if you want a hundred bucks, don't ask for a hundred bucks ask for a thousand, you will be stoked if you get the whole thing, but you will be satisfied if you only get a tenth of what you ask for"
While it is not the person who actulay calls fault, I still must be a jerk to encourage them to quit, becaues if they quit a new person must be hired, and trained and this costs the real villians money. As an added benifit the job of telemarketer gets its deserved reputation as being a speacial level of hell. This causes telemarketers to gt paid fairly well for their job.
[humor] it was almost 1/600th of Rhode Island long and could have crossed more than 4 Texas's (Texii?)in less than a day! [/humor] There are times that I wish we could all just use one measuring system, I vote for furlongs per fortenite.
A 400 mhz machine used as a server can handle 50-60 simultanious connections (thats what I have, thats what I can handle I pray I don't get slashdotted and I don't post links to my site), A commercial ebusiness should have dozens of time the capicity of me. so lets go with math time
lets just say they can handle 100 transactions a second (not unreasonable) then all 140000 transaction could happen in 23 minutes,
so lets say a computer flagged unusual activity and after 40000 transactions it would still take a t least fifteen minutes for the guy who saw the flag to ask his manager what he should do about it and make the call, by that timeit could be over.
This could happen much faster than the video stores big business day.
As an investorwho got burned, (wiping my ass with some worldcom stock right now). The company looked solid, made profits, had a real product. Much more than I could say about the dozen or so dotcom stocks I bought during the bubble and made out on. Turns out they world com was managed by some clever crooks who made pets.com seem wel managed. But these guys fooled me, and oh yeah I want their balls.
If you are going to all of this trouble, have you considered setting up a spammer Tar Pit*, Sure mostly you will be nailing r00t3d boxen, but you would be providing a valuable if secret service to the rest of the web.
*by tarpit I mean a program that responds to incorrect and invalid requests verrry sllowwwly. Someting on the rate of one character per second, just long enough to keep them from timing out, but still tieing up the connection for minutes on end.
I hate to say it but other than the crappy unrequested browser windows (which I fixed by using mozilla) Java script isn't too bad, It does simple math problems fairly well (most of the time) it does nice image swapping for navigation, it does navigation pretty well (pull down menus for navigation are nice.)
At any rate I would rather a site made use of javascripts than flash
Perhaps you have forgooten, but in late september some little idiot in florida signed up for a flight lesson and as the instructor went to file a flight plan the kid taxied the aircraft to the runway took off and flew straight into the side of the nearest skyscraper. The effect was less than spectacular and much less than the the drunk driver who crahsed into a mexican resteraunt yesterday. (just think a small truck could carry real tonnage of explosive as opposed to just 1500 lbs).
My point is is that the method of the terrorist attack is impossible to predict and to a lesser degree prevent so even if you stop all aircraft from crashing into buildings and all trucks from blowing themselves to dust you still need to deal with the lone fuckhead starpped to the bomb who steps into a crowded resterarant.
So you don't like the way Balmer Gates & Co runs microsoft. So willing that you would be willing to throw away $100 to try to hurt msft well buy up their stock @ 54.16 you should be able to almost pick up two shares. In theory if you get enough disgruntled Linux guys with enough money you could go ahead and make changes at M$. (of course MSFT still isn't paying any dividends and their price is dropping so this may not be a great investment right now). This applies to most of the big corps that you dislike so much. The problem with doing this is that you become invested in their future and suddenly their money grubbing doesn't seem so bad.
Biometrics is based off the trust that the machine that is doing the scanning of said body part is trusted. what happens when someone sticks a packet sniffer or similar between said trusted device and the box that handles the processing? could you take the packets that you captured, run them into the box at a later time and bypass the system (or empty an account). I know you could make this more difficult by encrypting the data before it hits the wire with a time based algorythem, but once again these are justs bits , and once you have a device that lets you emulate the signals given by a good box doesn't this make it trivial to break the system?
For the most part I don't have a problem with them archiving my sites (after all they can show me what a site used to look like faster than digging out my back ups), but recently one of my customers told me to remove all traces of a product from thier site (something about nasty litigatiation). I pulled the info off our servers quickly, but three hours later I get a nasty phone call from the customer saying he can still see the product on the site. seems it was hung up in some proxy server between here and there.
back to the point how do you deal with an archive when you need to get rid of information that is a liability to you now? Maybe we are better off without them in some cases
This comes back to problem of paying for some one elses advertising. Before telcos started chageing per meg of download (some as high as $.20 per Mb) it was hard to put a cost on that 15k download (some spams lately are using html tags to pull in images that weigh in at 150kb or with a little math $.03) after recivieng 100+ 15k spams a day you are losing around $.03 assuming that there are no bloated images attached. Multiply that time 365 (spammers don't take days off) adn you wasted around $10.00 on advertising for some one else. And that is assuming that your time is worthless.
Whenever i here someone defending spam the only thing I can think of is that they must be spammer or they are teminaly clueless.
So he mangaed to move the radiation around he built what boils down to a radiation/particle gun, the fact that he pointed it at what was debateably uranium is more or less irrelevent had he pointed his geiger counter at a wad of aluminium foil that he was bombarding with assorted radiation he would have seen a similar rise in radiation. At any rate I agree that he did manage to isolate some radioactive elements, but anything else he may have accomplished boils down to making a radioactive mess in the shed.
And if this doesn't show that he is darwin award material I don't know what does. A little knowledge mixed with a bunch of ignorance and ingenuity at an early age.
Oh yeah they have had it for while... usualy it is awarded for things like wiping your ass with poison oak or pissing on the electric fence. But as I said this kid was only working on getting it
And at the time I remeber the consensus was that he hadn't made any kind of reactor at all, all he had actualy managed to do was isolate a bunch of radioactive junk and produce a pile of low grade radioactive waste. No fission reaction had been accomplished, nothing useful had been done. Not much had been learned, except that if you quietly bang around in your shed no one will pay much attention until you blow something up or get busted by the cops.
Last I checked a digital gyroscope (the type used for model helicopters) went for around $50 and the attached analog circuitry could probibly be built for around $20, so I figure you are adding about another $100 per blade (gotta pay someone to make this cool little circuit). looks to me like this would increase the cost on these things by 25-40%. This would make it not a cheap mod. But it would be cool
I give mad props to your boss for finaly standing up for his peeps, this got him fired, ouch. My bet is that had he stood up for his peeps sooner he would have (suprise surprise) gotten fired sooner and made exactly no difference at all.
First the barracks are coed second the when I was in the army there wasn't a handful of wome I wanted to see naked (shudder) Third In every barracks I ever lived in there was some sort of wierd jamming field in place that made it so that nothing wireless worked unless it was in the same room as the base. no radio, no pagers, no cordless phones, no....(etc)
Your screwed by not being able to see it and I am screwed by driving straight into it. on the Northbound 101 in California (the freeway actualy goes west on the part that I drive). with congestion as normal I should get to see the whole event from the comfort of my SUVs seat. (not that I have a choice)
I haven't had too many problems swapping back in forth. At home I use the copy of star office that came with mandrake 8.0 and I have not had any problems with word documents, and the only excell problem I have had was with the curve fit option in calc. The curve fit thing just stopped working, but all of fields and all of my data ported back and forth between me and my lab partner without a hitch. I have heard that there are some fancy features that star office fscks up, but so far the only office file I couldn't open with Star, I couldn't open with M$ office either.
It's all about the money. I read somewhere (I forgot where) that the average wire-tap costs about $50,000 a pop, and rarely results in a conviction. For me I feel like this a waste of the goverment's (and by extention my) money.
This kills me that the govt is wasteing my hard earned tax dollars on this crap. Wire taps need to be difficult to get if only because they are too expensive.
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I have some friends who are strong greenies, and most of them understand that humans are going to have an impact, and what they would like to have happen are the small changes that we have from time to time such as recycling bins efforts to carpoole etc.
However most of them also note that whatever they ask for they will only get a comprimise if they get anything at all. This is why they ask for so much.
As my friend told me "if you want a hundred bucks, don't ask for a hundred bucks ask for a thousand, you will be stoked if you get the whole thing, but you will be satisfied if you only get a tenth of what you ask for"
Is that like those "beans" thing that Whoopy Goldberg was trying to sell a couple of years ago?,
or would it be more like evercrack plat?
just curioud
While it is not the person who actulay calls fault, I still must be a jerk to encourage them to quit, becaues if they quit a new person must be hired, and trained and this costs the real villians money. As an added benifit the job of telemarketer gets its deserved reputation as being a speacial level of hell. This causes telemarketers to gt paid fairly well for their job.
nate
[humor]
it was almost 1/600th of Rhode Island long and could have crossed more than 4 Texas's (Texii?)in less than a day!
[/humor]
There are times that I wish we could all just use one measuring system, I vote for furlongs per fortenite.
A 400 mhz machine used as a server can handle 50-60 simultanious connections (thats what I have, thats what I can handle I pray I don't get slashdotted and I don't post links to my site), A commercial ebusiness should have dozens of time the capicity of me. so lets go with math time
lets just say they can handle 100 transactions a second (not unreasonable) then all 140000 transaction could happen in 23 minutes,
so lets say a computer flagged unusual activity and after 40000 transactions it would still take a t least fifteen minutes for the guy who saw the flag to ask his manager what he should do about it and make the call, by that timeit could be over.
This could happen much faster than the video stores big business day.
As an investorwho got burned, (wiping my ass with some worldcom stock right now). The company looked solid, made profits, had a real product. Much more than I could say about the dozen or so dotcom stocks I bought during the bubble and made out on. Turns out they world com was managed by some clever crooks who made pets.com seem wel managed. But these guys fooled me, and oh yeah I want their balls.
15-1244
Looking at the box I use this to make my PS2 and my dvd player work on my archaic TV (and a number of other boxes too)
I have found that spammers lately have been formating their tags to get around this so you may want to add
If message contains "< img" or "< html"
If you are going to all of this trouble, have you considered setting up a spammer Tar Pit*, Sure mostly you will be nailing r00t3d boxen, but you would be providing a valuable if secret service to the rest of the web.
*by tarpit I mean a program that responds to incorrect and invalid requests verrry sllowwwly. Someting on the rate of one character per second, just long enough to keep them from timing out, but still tieing up the connection for minutes on end.
I hate to say it but other than the crappy unrequested browser windows (which I fixed by using mozilla) Java script isn't too bad, It does simple math problems fairly well (most of the time) it does nice image swapping for navigation, it does navigation pretty well (pull down menus for navigation are nice.)
At any rate I would rather a site made use of javascripts than flash
Perhaps you have forgooten, but in late september some little idiot in florida signed up for a flight lesson and as the instructor went to file a flight plan the kid taxied the aircraft to the runway took off and flew straight into the side of the nearest skyscraper. The effect was less than spectacular and much less than the the drunk driver who crahsed into a mexican resteraunt yesterday. (just think a small truck could carry real tonnage of explosive as opposed to just 1500 lbs).
My point is is that the method of the terrorist attack is impossible to predict and to a lesser degree prevent so even if you stop all aircraft from crashing into buildings and all trucks from blowing themselves to dust you still need to deal with the lone fuckhead starpped to the bomb who steps into a crowded resterarant.
So you don't like the way Balmer Gates & Co runs microsoft. So willing that you would be willing to throw away $100 to try to hurt msft well buy up their stock @ 54.16 you should be able to almost pick up two shares. In theory if you get enough disgruntled Linux guys with enough money you could go ahead and make changes at M$. (of course MSFT still isn't paying any dividends and their price is dropping so this may not be a great investment right now). This applies to most of the big corps that you dislike so much. The problem with doing this is that you become invested in their future and suddenly their money grubbing doesn't seem so bad.
Biometrics is based off the trust that the machine that is doing the scanning of said body part is trusted. what happens when someone sticks a packet sniffer or similar between said trusted device and the box that handles the processing? could you take the packets that you captured, run them into the box at a later time and bypass the system (or empty an account). I know you could make this more difficult by encrypting the data before it hits the wire with a time based algorythem, but once again these are justs bits , and once you have a device that lets you emulate the signals given by a good box doesn't this make it trivial to break the system?
I am partial to having it renamed to the ministry of love
(orwell reference)
For the most part I don't have a problem with them archiving my sites (after all they can show me what a site used to look like faster than digging out my back ups), but recently one of my customers told me to remove all traces of a product from thier site (something about nasty litigatiation). I pulled the info off our servers quickly, but three hours later I get a nasty phone call from the customer saying he can still see the product on the site. seems it was hung up in some proxy server between here and there.
back to the point how do you deal with an archive when you need to get rid of information that is a liability to you now? Maybe we are better off without them in some cases
This comes back to problem of paying for some one elses advertising. Before telcos started chageing per meg of download (some as high as $.20 per Mb) it was hard to put a cost on that 15k download (some spams lately are using html tags to pull in images that weigh in at 150kb or with a little math $.03) after recivieng 100+ 15k spams a day you are losing around $.03 assuming that there are no bloated images attached. Multiply that time 365 (spammers don't take days off) adn you wasted around $10.00 on advertising for some one else. And that is assuming that your time is worthless.
Whenever i here someone defending spam the only thing I can think of is that they must be spammer or they are teminaly clueless.
So he mangaed to move the radiation around
he built what boils down to a radiation/particle gun, the fact that he pointed it at what was debateably uranium is more or less irrelevent had he pointed his geiger counter at a wad of aluminium foil that he was bombarding with assorted radiation he would have seen a similar rise in radiation. At any rate I agree that he did manage to isolate some radioactive elements, but anything else he may have accomplished boils down to making a radioactive mess in the shed.
And if this doesn't show that he is darwin award material I don't know what does. A little knowledge mixed with a bunch of ignorance and ingenuity at an early age.
Oh yeah they have had it for while... usualy it is awarded for things like wiping your ass with poison oak or pissing on the electric fence. But as I said this kid was only working on getting it
And at the time I remeber the consensus was that he hadn't made any kind of reactor at all, all he had actualy managed to do was isolate a bunch of radioactive junk and produce a pile of low grade radioactive waste. No fission reaction had been accomplished, nothing useful had been done. Not much had been learned, except that if you quietly bang around in your shed no one will pay much attention until you blow something up or get busted by the cops.
That and work on his own personal Darwin award
Last I checked a digital gyroscope (the type used for model helicopters) went for around $50 and the attached analog circuitry could probibly be built for around $20, so I figure you are adding about another $100 per blade (gotta pay someone to make this cool little circuit). looks to me like this would increase the cost on these things by 25-40%. This would make it not a cheap mod.
But it would be cool
I give mad props to your boss for finaly standing up for his peeps, this got him fired, ouch. My bet is that had he stood up for his peeps sooner he would have (suprise surprise) gotten fired sooner and made exactly no difference at all.
Oh yeah and always bolt for the door.
First the barracks are coed
second the when I was in the army there wasn't a handful of wome I wanted to see naked (shudder)
Third In every barracks I ever lived in there was some sort of wierd jamming field in place that made it so that nothing wireless worked unless it was in the same room as the base. no radio, no pagers, no cordless phones, no....(etc)
Your screwed by not being able to see it and I am screwed by driving straight into it. on the Northbound 101 in California (the freeway actualy goes west on the part that I drive). with congestion as normal I should get to see the whole event from the comfort of my SUVs seat.
(not that I have a choice)
I haven't had too many problems swapping back in forth. At home I use the copy of star office that came with mandrake 8.0 and I have not had any problems with word documents, and the only excell problem I have had was with the curve fit option in calc. The curve fit thing just stopped working, but all of fields and all of my data ported back and forth between me and my lab partner without a hitch. I have heard that there are some fancy features that star office fscks up, but so far the only office file I couldn't open with Star, I couldn't open with M$ office either.
It's all about the money. I read somewhere (I forgot where) that the average wire-tap costs about $50,000 a pop, and rarely results in a conviction. For me I feel like this a waste of the goverment's (and by extention my) money.
This kills me that the govt is wasteing my hard earned tax dollars on this crap. Wire taps need to be difficult to get if only because they are too expensive.