Self-resistence isometric and isotonic training. Costs nothing, builds muscle efficiently, surprises your friends and balances your life. Also, you can do it while posting to/. from your basement;)
I find that it's much easier to use your carpet as a source of organization. Or, better yet, staple your cables to the walls and/or cabinetry. I recommend purchasing multi-colored cabling, to show off your diversity. As for patch-panels.. well, it's far easier to daisy-chain a few 4-port hubs together and let them hang off a wall, suspended by a few cables. Nothing says elegance quite like a cabling setup that uses all available resources.
Any Mechanic I've even seen will look at a car for Free and try to tell you what's wrong.... I've been taking cars to dealers and private mechanics for estimates and second estimateas for years and I've only been charged a few times.
There's a self-defeating statment if I've ever seen one. Regardless, a quick search reveals that many mechanic services do indeed bill for diagnostics. Those who don't either pay their technicians less or charge you a higher hourly rate. The general reason why diagnositc fees are either all or nothing is because it is common to spend differing amounts of time diagnosing the same symptoms. Even a doctor will tell you that (who do, in fact, charge for s/office visits/diagnostic fees/).
Asking for the card up front is just a scare tatic to try to get consumers to not call in.
Seeing that technical support (the type in question) is fee-based, call centers are paid by customers. So, it's only logical that if a customer is unwilling to pay, they will be deterred from speaking to a CSR. Additionally, more supervisor-escalations are generated by asking for billing information at the beginning of a call when compared to in the middle of the call. The customer has already invested x amount of time into an issue, and then finding out they need to pay for a fix is not what they want to hear.
The system might not be perfect, but it is set up for a reason. Most companies strive to break-even in their customer service departments, so cost-cutting through tactics like this is merely a way of life. Otherwise, you'd get more outsourcing, crappier customer service, and a buttload of other problems associated with under-funded agencies. Just look at the PTO.
How is that in any way bad? Mechanics charge upwards of $50 just to take a look at your car to see what's wrong, and this has been standard industry practice for a long period of time.
If companies didn't charge you for technical support, you'd wind up paying more up front for a support contract (or more for a product with free technical support) and the cost would even out in the end. I deal with this argument all day long, and it simply does not hold up.
Where did that 19 mile mark come from? Right there in the summary it clearly says that the 21-foot Civilian Space Xploration Team (CSXT) GoFast rocket quickly attained the 100 km altitude (you also said that later on...)
I would have thought two naked guys was enough reason to turn the power off. You must have a higher filth-threshold than the rest of us.
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As an antivirus tech at one of the bigger anti-virus companies, I can say that I see this all the time. Real simple example:
Hacker breaks into adware web server, replaces lots_of_banners_here.html with omg_olol_teh_hax.html
said adware gets on a user's computer
said adware tries to get its banner ads, and BAM, user now has redlof.A
Given this isn't exactly a code-level exploit, though it is annoying enough that I sent two people to the reformat docters today because of it. Antivirus installed on the system beforehand, too.
I'll save everyone the bother of having to trudge through this whole depressing article:
It should be added that most physicists disagree with Deutsch's conclusion that what is detected in this experiment is another universe. For brevity's sake, the argument against can be summarized as, there is something interfering with the light in this experiment, why does it have to be a parallel universe? Why can't it be just be left to something that we don't yet understand?
In other words, they're using the term "parallel universe" to get people to read this. They found a neat effect with photons, yes. Might as well just call it a Terroristic Particle Exploitation, and then maybe the real media will examine it at that point. Nothing to see here, move along.
From what I can tell of the post-9/11 legislation, it seems that for congress to even mention the ECPA, they'd have to remove both 1984 and The Colonel's Recipe just to be able to see the layer of dust covering it.
One word to all these gmail protesters: gohugatree!
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Self-resistence isometric and isotonic training. Costs nothing, builds muscle efficiently, surprises your friends and balances your life. Also, you can do it while posting to /. from your basement ;)
I believe you need to WTFM.
I find that it's much easier to use your carpet as a source of organization. Or, better yet, staple your cables to the walls and/or cabinetry. I recommend purchasing multi-colored cabling, to show off your diversity. As for patch-panels.. well, it's far easier to daisy-chain a few 4-port hubs together and let them hang off a wall, suspended by a few cables. Nothing says elegance quite like a cabling setup that uses all available resources.
"Slashdot - We might not be first to the news, but we sure as hell are going to nuke your server. And then some."
memepool article, complete with link to security focus memo.
If you want to format your notes into a hierarchical outline, ecco is awesome.
Disclaimer: I've used the old version, which is no longer available from normal distribution channels. No idea if this one requires the mouse or not.
Does this remind anyone else of Crazy Taxi?
I for one welcome our organ-bank overlords!
"Animation World Magazine has an article online
Not anymore!
Any Mechanic I've even seen will look at a car for Free and try to tell you what's wrong. ... I've been taking cars to dealers and private mechanics for estimates and second estimateas for years and I've only been charged a few times.
There's a self-defeating statment if I've ever seen one. Regardless, a quick search reveals that many mechanic services do indeed bill for diagnostics. Those who don't either pay their technicians less or charge you a higher hourly rate. The general reason why diagnositc fees are either all or nothing is because it is common to spend differing amounts of time diagnosing the same symptoms. Even a doctor will tell you that (who do, in fact, charge for s/office visits/diagnostic fees/).
Asking for the card up front is just a scare tatic to try to get consumers to not call in.
Seeing that technical support (the type in question) is fee-based, call centers are paid by customers. So, it's only logical that if a customer is unwilling to pay, they will be deterred from speaking to a CSR. Additionally, more supervisor-escalations are generated by asking for billing information at the beginning of a call when compared to in the middle of the call. The customer has already invested x amount of time into an issue, and then finding out they need to pay for a fix is not what they want to hear.
The system might not be perfect, but it is set up for a reason. Most companies strive to break-even in their customer service departments, so cost-cutting through tactics like this is merely a way of life. Otherwise, you'd get more outsourcing, crappier customer service, and a buttload of other problems associated with under-funded agencies. Just look at the PTO.
How is that in any way bad? Mechanics charge upwards of $50 just to take a look at your car to see what's wrong, and this has been standard industry practice for a long period of time.
If companies didn't charge you for technical support, you'd wind up paying more up front for a support contract (or more for a product with free technical support) and the cost would even out in the end. I deal with this argument all day long, and it simply does not hold up.
I cooked up a script that converts all iTunes playlists to M3U playlists to import into Winamp in the case of a migration attempt.
Hopefully this doesn't cause too much of a karma burn seeing that iTunes appears to be the preferred player around here.
Where did that 19 mile mark come from? Right there in the summary it clearly says that
the 21-foot Civilian Space Xploration Team (CSXT) GoFast rocket quickly attained the 100 km altitude
(you also said that later on...)
I would have thought two naked guys was enough reason to turn the power off. You must have a higher filth-threshold than the rest of us.
Given this isn't exactly a code-level exploit, though it is annoying enough that I sent two people to the reformat docters today because of it. Antivirus installed on the system beforehand, too.
My apologies, I must have left out part of my post in haste. Make that a very butteredhamster.
Cheers!
In other words, they're using the term "parallel universe" to get people to read this. They found a neat effect with photons, yes. Might as well just call it a Terroristic Particle Exploitation, and then maybe the real media will examine it at that point. Nothing to see here, move along.
Detection of tachyons now possible via the usage of duck tape, scissors, a wooden spoon, and a very unhappy hamster.
Or even more?
This could get to be a mildly dangerous thread..
I think I'm going to be sick.. my sea-legs aren't sprouting right. Oh, wow, I'm not really a pirate!
t he lastgirlawakeatthishour*
*pukesoverthesideoftheboatandmanagestoscareaway
Arrr mateys! Three swigs ah rum to anyone who can find out who slashdotted our ship! Yarr!!
Proof once again that english is not a programming language.
Latency != Bandwidth
Also, this article is about disk I/O, not network capacity. RTFA.
From what I can tell of the post-9/11 legislation, it seems that for congress to even mention the ECPA, they'd have to remove both 1984 and The Colonel's Recipe just to be able to see the layer of dust covering it.
One word to all these gmail protesters: gohugatree!
Reason #1230983 not to use non-free apps.
Slashdotted before 20 comments.. it must have been overwhelmed by free thought. Crashed by will power, be it.