So when I open up this article, the fortune at the bottom of the page reads:
Eat shit -- billions of flies can't be wrong.
On a more serious note, a lot of research seems to be moving in the direction of supressed co-existence with pathogens, rather than outright destruction. A recent PBS show explored how a mild form of syphilis was quite common, and provided immunity against the nasty variety we know today. The nasty variety was only able to take over when people started living in a more modern manner, and the weaker variety was no longer transmitted.
Never mind....the 2x was a coincidence and threw me off....the original Code Red put a malformed header error in the error_log, whereas the new one throws a 404 and puts the default.ida in the error_log.
I'm still ingesting the first caffeine for the day...
Can anyone explain why, when doing a grep -c for default.ida, I get exactly twice the number of reported results in my access_log than I do in my error_log?
I think there are a few things that contribute this being a ho-hum feat:
* Fosset is a billionaire. He spent a lot of money to do this, so it's a very professional attempt, not the apparent bubblegum and duct-tape events of the past. As I recall, Lindbergh didn't even have a radio on board due to the extra weight.
* We're inundated with statistics these days. Someone can tell you who the first 5'9" bleach-blonde half-Spanish-half-Japanese woman to pick her nose on a commercial airline flight was.
* While there is an element of danger, most people don't think of this as terribly risky...after all, people fly in balloons all the time. With the rise of "extreme" sports, people see a lot of people taking risks with obvious dangerous consequences.
Not only the assets, but the "company as a going concern" or one or several of their markets. In other words, this bankruptcy isn't to just unload the physical assets of the company, but to sell all or parts of an operating entity.
In Robichaux's book Managing Microsoft Exchange Server, he has a little section devoted to e-mail disclaimer messages:
"Most of the people I see asking about this work for either financial services firms (including brokerage houses and investment bankers) or law firms. Draw your own conclusions."
...
"A better solution might be to ask whether having a disclaimer like this really buys you anything. The preceding example says that email is confidential, which it normally isn't, and that you can't rely on it. Does adding a 2KB block of meaningless boilerplate text to every outgoing message actually accomplish anything productive?"
So, can anyone fill me in on the wiring problem that Solar Miner III had? They were leading the race, then fell back. An article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch mentioned a wiring problem in the solar array, which was repaired. However, I haven't seen any other info about that problem. Was enough time lost for that repair that the team couldn't recover first place?
I've seen this on a number of posts from Michigan people. I guess this is part of the brainwashing that goes on to make you feel good after they ream you for tuiton....
Let's see. Using the best technology available, the solar car teams learned a great deal about engineering. They also demonstrate just how impractical solar cars are going to be for a while: A one-person vehicle, nothing to speak of in the way of creature comforts, no night driving, no real safety if you get hit by something, etc.
That means any practical electric car is going to need be charged by something other than solar, and unless you want to wait several hours per charge, that means high-speed charging stations. Who has the money to roll out this kind of infrastructure? Oil companies and electric utilities. Where does the electricity come from? Mostly coal, oil, and natural gas.
So even if the world did away with internal combustion engines tomorrow and made every car electric, the major corporation would continue to take in the bucks.
While Mitch Pileggi does a good job on the X-Files, every time I've seen him host a program (like all of the magic's secrets shows), he always sounds like he's flatly reading from a script that he didn't get to see before filming started.
Speakeasy is not an open relay; they are correctly handling outgoing SMTP only for their own customers (including me). They know it's me because I connect through their network.
Exactly! Once the person is authenticated through the ISP's network, the ISP knows who they are. If a bunch of bulk traffic goes through their servers, with a non-Verizon From: address, they should be able to figure out what customer it came from, and term them for AUP violations.
This strikes me more as a corporate strategy to attempt to lock in users and get Verizon's name broader exposure via e-mail addresses than any kind of security or anti-spam tool.
It is obvious Microsoft will continue to resist attempts to require this remedy. It is time to settle this case and move forward.
Yeah, and most murderers resist attempts to require the death penalty. Must be nice to have the prosecutors give up just because you resist their penalties....
Try The Cooling by Ponte Lowell. It summarized all the doom and gloom of the world turning colder. There wasn't quite the hype over global cooling as there is over global warming, but the point is that there was all this great evidence, lots of people jumped on board without really understanding it, and now the same thing has happened with global warming.
First, it's worth noting that Compaq is not leaving the hardware business, contrary to what Hemos put in the subtitle. In fact, the article states they plan to grow their workstation and server business.
Second, a lot of people have been slagging on Compaq. If your only experience is with the one your mom bought at Best Buy, I can see why you'd feel that way. But then pretty much any consumer oriented PC is gonna suck to the average/. reader. I honestly don't know why Compaq doesn't just punt most of their consumer line.
However, in the world of business with lots of systems to care for, Compaqs are great. They're very easy to work on.
non-standard screws? You mean Torx-head screws? They're a very standard item on factory-assembled items. They're great for use in power screwdrivers, and it's nearly impossible for the bit to slip out of one.
Hope you never have to work on any cars. You'll see Torx and Pozidriv screws and complain that the manufacturer sucks.
Uh, yeah. But while the EULA doesn't mention the BSD license specifically in their examples, the Open Source Initiative does list BSD as an open source license.
Even though MS doesn't consider the BSD license 'viral', their lawyers have outsmarted themselves with their broad definitions: "open source software...or similar licensing or distribution models" I'd say that covers BSD as well....
Gephardt is a classic politician, and has managed to convince his constituents to vote him back into office again and again. Those of us in the 2nd District of MO just shake our heads.
Gephardt once supported a proposal that would require cars to be taken to dealers for any service for the first 5 or so years, so he's not exactly the champion of the people he makes himself out to be.
It's worth keeping an eye on Gephardt though, as he's trying to position himself as the Democratic candidate for President in 2004.
Well, considering that they say you can't use any tools to develop software which fall under this clause:
(i) any software that contains, or is derived in any manner (in whole or in part) from, any
software that is distributed as free software, open source software (e.g. Linux) or similar licensing or distribution models;
Then you can't even develop under NT...that pesky BSD TCP/IP code that NT contains would appear to make NT fall into the category of "Potentially Viral Software"
Drunk drivers cause a very high percentage of motor vehicle accidents that result in death. Those who are involved in such accidents typically are repeat offenders who have BAC's of 0.15 or higher. Most states in the U.S. have had laws putting 0.10 as the legal limit. The most impaired and most dangerous drivers are, at that standard, legally drunk.
Now, the push is on to lower the legal limit to 0.08. This will cause more people to be arrested for driving under the influence. This may appear good, but we can't even keep the most dangerous repeat offenders off the roads. Now, we're going to add in the burden of people who, while they may be impaired to some extent, are not the main cause of deaths.
Say Jim Smith is driving along with a burnt out taillight, not weaving or driving recklessly. He gets pulled over. Cop smells alcohol on his breath. Gives him a breathalyzer..... "I'm sorry Mr. Smith. Last week I could have sent you on your way, but due to tougher drunk driving laws, you're under arrest." Now the officer has to deal with the paperwork....about 2 hours of paperwork for a DWI arrest. Add to that the extra load on the courts, which can't even effectively deal with the existing DWI caseload, and you've got real problems dealing with the situation. Not to mention the fact that if a lot more people are arrested for DWI, it's going to have about as much stigma as a speeding ticket, and it won't be thought of as the serious issue that it is.
Fine, but my point is that what they're doing isn't necessarily increasing safety. Like a cop in a speed trap, they're going after the easy prey, which are typically those who aren't a major threat.
Actually, the fact that this particular system only triggered above 90 mph is perhaps the worst part.
From a safety standpoint, going through a school zone at 55 mph is far worse than doing 90 on a lightly traveled highway.
So speeding through residential areas, areas with high traffic, etc. won't get you fined by ACME, even though you're running a much greater risk of damaging ACME's property and the property of others.
True, but the automated toll systems know who you are, so the whole thing could be automated to add your speeding fine to your toll bill. The "old way" requires a cop there to write out the tickets....
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So when I open up this article, the fortune at the bottom of the page reads:
Eat shit -- billions of flies can't be wrong.
On a more serious note, a lot of research seems to be moving in the direction of supressed co-existence with pathogens, rather than outright destruction. A recent PBS show explored how a mild form of syphilis was quite common, and provided immunity against the nasty variety we know today. The nasty variety was only able to take over when people started living in a more modern manner, and the weaker variety was no longer transmitted.
Never mind....the 2x was a coincidence and threw me off....the original Code Red put a malformed header error in the error_log, whereas the new one throws a 404 and puts the default.ida in the error_log.
I'm still ingesting the first caffeine for the day...
Can anyone explain why, when doing a grep -c for default.ida, I get exactly twice the number of reported results in my access_log than I do in my error_log?
I think there are a few things that contribute this being a ho-hum feat:
* Fosset is a billionaire. He spent a lot of money to do this, so it's a very professional attempt, not the apparent bubblegum and duct-tape events of the past. As I recall, Lindbergh didn't even have a radio on board due to the extra weight.
* We're inundated with statistics these days. Someone can tell you who the first 5'9" bleach-blonde half-Spanish-half-Japanese woman to pick her nose on a commercial airline flight was.
* While there is an element of danger, most people don't think of this as terribly risky...after all, people fly in balloons all the time. With the rise of "extreme" sports, people see a lot of people taking risks with obvious dangerous consequences.
Not only the assets, but the "company as a going concern" or one or several of their markets. In other words, this bankruptcy isn't to just unload the physical assets of the company, but to sell all or parts of an operating entity.
In Robichaux's book Managing Microsoft Exchange Server, he has a little section devoted to e-mail disclaimer messages:
"Most of the people I see asking about this work for either financial services firms (including brokerage houses and investment bankers) or law firms. Draw your own conclusions."
...
"A better solution might be to ask whether having a disclaimer like this really buys you anything. The preceding example says that email is confidential, which it normally isn't, and that you can't rely on it. Does adding a 2KB block of meaningless boilerplate text to every outgoing message actually accomplish anything productive?"
So, can anyone fill me in on the wiring problem that Solar Miner III had? They were leading the race, then fell back. An article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch mentioned a wiring problem in the solar array, which was repaired. However, I haven't seen any other info about that problem. Was enough time lost for that repair that the team couldn't recover first place?
Hail! Hail! To Michigan
The Leaders and Best!
I've seen this on a number of posts from Michigan people. I guess this is part of the brainwashing that goes on to make you feel good after they ream you for tuiton....
Let's see. Using the best technology available, the solar car teams learned a great deal about engineering. They also demonstrate just how impractical solar cars are going to be for a while: A one-person vehicle, nothing to speak of in the way of creature comforts, no night driving, no real safety if you get hit by something, etc.
That means any practical electric car is going to need be charged by something other than solar, and unless you want to wait several hours per charge, that means high-speed charging stations. Who has the money to roll out this kind of infrastructure? Oil companies and electric utilities. Where does the electricity come from? Mostly coal, oil, and natural gas.
So even if the world did away with internal combustion engines tomorrow and made every car electric, the major corporation would continue to take in the bucks.
something i`ll be employing when GPS systems become small and cheap enough to fit inside tv`s and computers.
Is this small enough for you?
While Mitch Pileggi does a good job on the X-Files, every time I've seen him host a program (like all of the magic's secrets shows), he always sounds like he's flatly reading from a script that he didn't get to see before filming started.
Speakeasy is not an open relay; they are correctly handling outgoing SMTP only for their own customers (including me). They know it's me because I connect through their network.
Exactly! Once the person is authenticated through the ISP's network, the ISP knows who they are. If a bunch of bulk traffic goes through their servers, with a non-Verizon From: address, they should be able to figure out what customer it came from, and term them for AUP violations.
This strikes me more as a corporate strategy to attempt to lock in users and get Verizon's name broader exposure via e-mail addresses than any kind of security or anti-spam tool.
It is obvious Microsoft will continue to resist attempts to require this remedy. It is time to settle this case and move forward.
Yeah, and most murderers resist attempts to require the death penalty. Must be nice to have the prosecutors give up just because you resist their penalties....
Try The Cooling by Ponte Lowell. It summarized all the doom and gloom of the world turning colder. There wasn't quite the hype over global cooling as there is over global warming, but the point is that there was all this great evidence, lots of people jumped on board without really understanding it, and now the same thing has happened with global warming.
Which is why you are not a patent attorney, since you cannot even understand the basics.
Seems that not understanding the basics is a rampant problem, since the issue is trademarks here, not patents....
First, it's worth noting that Compaq is not leaving the hardware business, contrary to what Hemos put in the subtitle. In fact, the article states they plan to grow their workstation and server business.
/. reader. I honestly don't know why Compaq doesn't just punt most of their consumer line.
Second, a lot of people have been slagging on Compaq. If your only experience is with the one your mom bought at Best Buy, I can see why you'd feel that way. But then pretty much any consumer oriented PC is gonna suck to the average
However, in the world of business with lots of systems to care for, Compaqs are great. They're very easy to work on.
non-standard screws? You mean Torx-head screws? They're a very standard item on factory-assembled items. They're great for use in power screwdrivers, and it's nearly impossible for the bit to slip out of one.
Hope you never have to work on any cars. You'll see Torx and Pozidriv screws and complain that the manufacturer sucks.
Uh, yeah. But while the EULA doesn't mention the BSD license specifically in their examples, the Open Source Initiative does list BSD as an open source license.
Even though MS doesn't consider the BSD license 'viral', their lawyers have outsmarted themselves with their broad definitions: "open source software...or similar licensing or distribution models" I'd say that covers BSD as well....
Gephardt is a classic politician, and has managed to convince his constituents to vote him back into office again and again. Those of us in the 2nd District of MO just shake our heads.
Gephardt once supported a proposal that would require cars to be taken to dealers for any service for the first 5 or so years, so he's not exactly the champion of the people he makes himself out to be.
It's worth keeping an eye on Gephardt though, as he's trying to position himself as the Democratic candidate for President in 2004.
Well, considering that they say you can't use any tools to develop software which fall under this clause:
(i) any software that contains, or is derived in any manner (in whole or in part) from, any
software that is distributed as free software, open source software (e.g. Linux) or similar licensing or distribution models;
Then you can't even develop under NT...that pesky BSD TCP/IP code that NT contains would appear to make NT fall into the category of "Potentially Viral Software"
Well, let's see...
Drunk drivers cause a very high percentage of motor vehicle accidents that result in death. Those who are involved in such accidents typically are repeat offenders who have BAC's of 0.15 or higher. Most states in the U.S. have had laws putting 0.10 as the legal limit. The most impaired and most dangerous drivers are, at that standard, legally drunk.
Now, the push is on to lower the legal limit to 0.08. This will cause more people to be arrested for driving under the influence. This may appear good, but we can't even keep the most dangerous repeat offenders off the roads. Now, we're going to add in the burden of people who, while they may be impaired to some extent, are not the main cause of deaths.
Say Jim Smith is driving along with a burnt out taillight, not weaving or driving recklessly. He gets pulled over. Cop smells alcohol on his breath. Gives him a breathalyzer..... "I'm sorry Mr. Smith. Last week I could have sent you on your way, but due to tougher drunk driving laws, you're under arrest." Now the officer has to deal with the paperwork....about 2 hours of paperwork for a DWI arrest. Add to that the extra load on the courts, which can't even effectively deal with the existing DWI caseload, and you've got real problems dealing with the situation. Not to mention the fact that if a lot more people are arrested for DWI, it's going to have about as much stigma as a speeding ticket, and it won't be thought of as the serious issue that it is.
Fine, but my point is that what they're doing isn't necessarily increasing safety. Like a cop in a speed trap, they're going after the easy prey, which are typically those who aren't a major threat.
Actually, the fact that this particular system only triggered above 90 mph is perhaps the worst part.
From a safety standpoint, going through a school zone at 55 mph is far worse than doing 90 on a lightly traveled highway.
So speeding through residential areas, areas with high traffic, etc. won't get you fined by ACME, even though you're running a much greater risk of damaging ACME's property and the property of others.
True, but the automated toll systems know who you are, so the whole thing could be automated to add your speeding fine to your toll bill. The "old way" requires a cop there to write out the tickets....