If this was Windows, we'd get a cryptic update on the next Patch Tuesday. Something about "de-ceramicizing for new Intel cards".
Nobody would know any better -- except for the 5000, or so, users who had their systems bricked by the bug..... of course, they wouldn't get the new update because their ethernet cards were bricked. (nor would they ever be told the real source of the problem).
Yeah, but how many people have Windows on their machine and it works like a brick? It's not like even this beta leaves people worse off than Using MS Windows....
Actually, it takes four of them (and a boatload of epoxy) to make a brick -- but it's all the same result.
I think, however, that I can safely claim that the 'brick' moniker is meant to imply the kind of result you get when you smash the device with a brick.
It's my story, and I'm sticking to it (until something better comes along)
A guy with a ski mask over his head and what appeared to be burglary tools comes to my back door and asks if he can pay me $500 to rent my ladder for a couple of hours. He then offers me another $250 to help me place it against my neighbor's window and quietly go away. No problem, and easy $750 in one night.
The next day, the police are asking about a breakin next door the previous night. I tell them nothing because "I had nothing to do with any burglary".
Spamhaus seems to have a personal vendetta against Intercage even though they have nothing to do with spam.
So is Intercage paying you to post this, Esthost, or PIE?
If you do a search on the page given, your first search returns to regular english, but if you replace the hl=un with hl=xx--pirate, (such as here), then you'll stay in pirate booty (er, search) mode).
I was thinking that the problem wasn't sweeping te transformer under the rug, but rather smoothing the rug down once you're done. I think that the black hole solution might actually do the job (as long as you can keep the rug from being sucked in too).
Door to door solicitation doesn't fit. The relative costs are too even. This is more like running around the neighborhood with a 150db (at 10 feet) speaker system blaring it so loud that it threatens to overwhelm more wanted communications.
There is no other communication method which attempts to deliver it's message whether you want it or not. Most spam is designed to get around filters designed to stop spam. That is, at least implicitly, an indication that the sender recognized that I do not want his message.
Even with television and radio ads, you have to entice the listener with (at lseat vaguely) interesting programming.
Freedom of speech includes the right to listen to (or not) whichever message you want to.
The Church of scientology should be responsible for these DMCA takedown notices, and liable for costs flowing from them. I think that this may be time for a class-action lawsuit for all of the people hit by these illegal notices.
I don't know what the cost of an improper takedown notice is supposed to be, but if you multiply that by 4000, that should cause even Scientology to say 'ouch'.
And it might be enough to make even the RIAA sit up and take notice.
all of the units in a single project could easily fit into a single 48-bit user space, but if you start trying to give individual sensors unique IP4 addresses, you're going to chew through the IP address space in short order.
If, on the other hand, you try to use private IP4 address blocks, you're going to risk address collisions when you try to combine networks (and have a harder time resolving such collisions, given the kind of objects you're playing with).
The station layout may be fixed, but the astronauts move around. Having an ethernet cord on your laptop that you have to plug in every time you move to another (part of the) module could easily be annoying. In space, you'll also have the added annoyance of the cable coiling in unexpected configurations.
Also... you don't have to worry about the neighbors jacking into your wifi connection unless they have their radio-telescope (in which case, they can probably afford their own cable (or even microwave) connection).
Nah. FTTS (Fiber To The Satellite) would have most of the engineering problems associated with a Space elevator, plus issues associated with the ISS's low orbit (and, thus, high speed relative to the ground).
Hell, no. The whole point is to annoy them. I don't care what she's teasing me about... If you pay a supermodel to follow me around 24/7 I'm gonna be calling you up to thank you.
Of course, I'll be walking around backwards, walking into lightposts and getting run over by cars, but I'll be happy the whole time.
It might be worthwhile to offer to let them buy it if they guarantee to forward your email to you in perpetuity (and within reason, in terms of changes).
That way, you:
show that you are legitimately using the domain, and care about it.
don't have to change all of your existing email
get to make money off of the domain
minimally inconvenience them.
I think that this might be a bit of a win-win situation.
It's not what it was made of that made it important -- it's was how it was processed. If it was a block of silicon, it would be like the difference between a 4-core CPU die, and a solar cell block of the same size.
2 hours? That's about how long it's gonna take you to get home after the hurricane hits. We're talking about the possibility of 2-12 days of power outage if you're unlucky -- and that also depends on the cable company having the kind of power backup built into their systems that the phone companies do.
Until recently, cable companies were considered entertainment infrastructure, so I'm not at all sure that they're going to be built to provide service in the aftermath of a disaster the way that phone systems were built. Anybody who work{s,ed} with cable company infrastructure who can comment on that?
The phone system is built to be pretty much bomb-proof. I've spent time inside of a phone Central Office, and those things are built like an over-sized bunker.
Beyond that, I'd say always have a simple brainless corded phone in the house. Wireless is nice, and battery backup is good if the power's only out for a couple of days -- but if things are bad for a while, or your phone battery just HAPPENS to be almost fully discharged the day the disaster hits (because of a 4 hour support call), it's nice to know that you have something that's guaranteed to work for as long as the telephone system is intact.
I've had days that I've been on the phone so much that I've gone through both the main and the backup battery for my cordless phone. Until then my 'always have a corded phone' rule was considered a 'just in case' rule. It wasn't even a disaster, but I'm glad that I had the rule.
I mean, it's not like a dumb phone is gonna cost you more than a couple of lattes at the local coffee shop.
A friend of mine's dad was a civil engineer and, one day, my friend asked him how he chose the family home.
"Well", he said "the greater Vancouver region is in an earthquake fault zone, so the house is high enough on the mountain that it won't be hit by a Tsunami. It's built on solid rock, so it's nice and sturdy and it's on a knoll so that any landslides higher on the mountain are likely to go around the house."
Needless to say, he was a very good engineer. If I was going to build a data center, I would have been happy to have him pick the site.
Even if they compress your voice down to 5kilobits/second, that's 500 characters per second. Even a reasonably long text message isn't going to be longer than 200 characters. -- more likely to be 20.....
In other words, you can send about 10-20 average text messages full of useful information in the bandwidth it takes to say "Wazzup dood?".
(and, as qw0ntum noted, you don't even have to send the text message data in realtime... which makes transmission even easier on the provider)
Oh, and Text also filters out the sound of howling wind.
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Nobody would know any better -- except for the 5000, or so, users who had their systems bricked by the bug. .... of course, they wouldn't get the new update because their ethernet cards were bricked. (nor would they ever be told the real source of the problem).
Yeah, but how many people have Windows on their machine and it works like a brick? It's not like even this beta leaves people worse off than Using MS Windows....
I think, however, that I can safely claim that the 'brick' moniker is meant to imply the kind of result you get when you smash the device with a brick.
It's my story, and I'm sticking to it (until something better comes along)
The next day, the police are asking about a breakin next door the previous night. I tell them nothing because "I had nothing to do with any burglary".
Spamhaus seems to have a personal vendetta against Intercage even though they have nothing to do with spam.
So is Intercage paying you to post this, Esthost, or PIE?
When fans can just set the volume knob to 11 on the amp?
If you do a search on the page given, your first search returns to regular english, but if you replace the hl=un with hl=xx--pirate, (such as here), then you'll stay in pirate booty (er, search) mode).
I was thinking that the problem wasn't sweeping te transformer under the rug, but rather smoothing the rug down once you're done. I think that the black hole solution might actually do the job (as long as you can keep the rug from being sucked in too).
+1 informative.
Wait and see if the Secret Service kicks their butts from here to Guantanimo.
cayenne8: Michelle, do you believe I'd make a great lover?
Michelle: Hell, no!
Cayanne8: <<big grin>>
Michelle: Don't even go there....
There is no other communication method which attempts to deliver it's message whether you want it or not. Most spam is designed to get around filters designed to stop spam. That is, at least implicitly, an indication that the sender recognized that I do not want his message.
Even with television and radio ads, you have to entice the listener with (at lseat vaguely) interesting programming.
Freedom of speech includes the right to listen to (or not) whichever message you want to.
(with fewer reasons). Please post {descriptions of /links to} the articles, etc. which he lists in his FAQ (Frequently Answered Questions)
I don't know what the cost of an improper takedown notice is supposed to be, but if you multiply that by 4000, that should cause even Scientology to say 'ouch'.
And it might be enough to make even the RIAA sit up and take notice.
Yep. And they'll charge you $25,000 to ship the coffee to the ISS.
If, on the other hand, you try to use private IP4 address blocks, you're going to risk address collisions when you try to combine networks (and have a harder time resolving such collisions, given the kind of objects you're playing with).
Also... you don't have to worry about the neighbors jacking into your wifi connection unless they have their radio-telescope (in which case, they can probably afford their own cable (or even microwave) connection).
Shouldn't they have fiber by now?
Hire SUPERMODELS instead of mere "people".
Hell, no. The whole point is to annoy them. I don't care what she's teasing me about... If you pay a supermodel to follow me around 24/7 I'm gonna be calling you up to thank you.
Of course, I'll be walking around backwards, walking into lightposts and getting run over by cars, but I'll be happy the whole time.
That way, you:
I think that this might be a bit of a win-win situation.
It's not what it was made of that made it important -- it's was how it was processed. If it was a block of silicon, it would be like the difference between a 4-core CPU die, and a solar cell block of the same size.
Until recently, cable companies were considered entertainment infrastructure, so I'm not at all sure that they're going to be built to provide service in the aftermath of a disaster the way that phone systems were built. Anybody who work{s,ed} with cable company infrastructure who can comment on that?
Beyond that, I'd say always have a simple brainless corded phone in the house. Wireless is nice, and battery backup is good if the power's only out for a couple of days -- but if things are bad for a while, or your phone battery just HAPPENS to be almost fully discharged the day the disaster hits (because of a 4 hour support call), it's nice to know that you have something that's guaranteed to work for as long as the telephone system is intact.
I've had days that I've been on the phone so much that I've gone through both the main and the backup battery for my cordless phone. Until then my 'always have a corded phone' rule was considered a 'just in case' rule. It wasn't even a disaster, but I'm glad that I had the rule.
I mean, it's not like a dumb phone is gonna cost you more than a couple of lattes at the local coffee shop.
"Well", he said "the greater Vancouver region is in an earthquake fault zone, so the house is high enough on the mountain that it won't be hit by a Tsunami. It's built on solid rock, so it's nice and sturdy and it's on a knoll so that any landslides higher on the mountain are likely to go around the house."
Needless to say, he was a very good engineer. If I was going to build a data center, I would have been happy to have him pick the site.
. I wonder why they can do text, but, not voice?
Even if they compress your voice down to 5kilobits/second, that's 500 characters per second. Even a reasonably long text message isn't going to be longer than 200 characters. -- more likely to be 20. ....
In other words, you can send about 10-20 average text messages full of useful information in the bandwidth it takes to say "Wazzup dood?".
(and, as qw0ntum noted, you don't even have to send the text message data in realtime... which makes transmission even easier on the provider)
Oh, and Text also filters out the sound of howling wind.
When's the last time you saw this sort of 'complaint' about a Microsoft product. It may start the same, but the ending is very very different.