Except that in many of these cases, allowing the customer to be "right" was to allow them to continue putting mission critical data in jeoprady of loss due to hardware failure or loss through theft due to insecurity. (No firewall, default passwords left intact on database servers.)
So the problem is, for them to be right means we're actually doing them a dis-service because: 1) We're not a network consulting firm, 2) They didn't hire us to be a network consulting firm, and 3) We don't have the expertise to be a network consulting firm, (see number 1.)
Also, it's important to note that what is "right for the customer" might be wrong for the individual person who calls on the phone. If they were the one responsible for data security or backups, and the data wasn't secure or backed up, do you really think they're going to report their incompetence to their own boss without a fight?
Your chief responsibility is to make sure your boss doesn't make any mistakes, and that he/she looks like a hero. As long as that's the case, your boss will always go to the mat for you, no matter how old/young you are, and nobody else in the company will be able to override them.
I can personally attest to this with two examples.
Example the first: I worked for a woman with about a decade of managing tech support experience. If we had a conflict with a customer, she was available and knew how to handle it without compromising the support team. We worked well together and when it was review time she showed lots of appreciation.
Example the second: Same company, different boss, similar job. Worked for a dude with about 3 years experience as a manager. He was unavailable most of the time and when you had a conflict with a customer, automatically sided with the customer even if they were wrong. (This often meant hours sometimes days of extra work cleaning up messes that weren't ours to begin with.) As a result the technical folks all knew him to be an idiot.
(Note to non-tech support people: Conflicts are 99% of the time revolving around "we want you to do something" that the customer isn't paying for or that we don't know how to do because we don't sell/service that product.)
But HR still backed him when he decided to fire me over a short list of said conflicts.
Moral of the story: If your boss that you directly report to is an idiot, QUIT! Don't even bother trying to document anything and try to "take action with HR" becauses in this economy a bad boss will trump up a "performance-issue" and replace you like that. Better to find another position (even within the company) before you even consider blowing the whistle. Until the economy is chugging again, don't even think about it.
It's a lesson I learned by getting fired a week before Christmas.
They're constanly advertising offers for 18-month master's degree programs. Most are for MBA or teaching BUT I have heard about fast-track CS programs too.
This assumes, of course, that you're interested in a master's degree. If you've never gotten a bachelor's degree, there's no way in the world you're getting out in one year.
The money doesn't "ping" or anything else. It's not self-powered at all.
...And I didn't say it was. If you go back and read the post I simply was trying to say that future versions will undoubtedly include new, more frightening "features". Again, it's not self-powered--today. What about in five years?
Drug money doesn't spend time "outside the legitimate banking system" at all. This is one of the main reasons why money laundering is so popular.
Really? So the last time you bought pot you paid with...what...American Express?
If you paid cash, the guy at some point would have to get it into the bank. Either by 1) depositing it himself (stupid) 2) Spending it on small stuff w/legit merchants, or 3) Giving it to a "legit" proxy somewhere who deposits the money as legitimate income.
Until #3 happens it IS outside of the legitimate banking system...It's in his pocket.
Having cash is not a warrantable offense. There are those who will tell you horror stories about being detained for having lots of cash, but if you ask all of them to leave except the ones who were detained on a warrant you'd be a lonely person.
Actually, you're right (although not in the way I think you intended)... Most of them aren't actually arrested and/or charged with anything. The money is simply siezed.
Based on "Know Your Customer" and other bank snooping laws/policies, it seems obvious that the government sees something sinister in large, cash transactions. Their preference is to have transactions done electronically. Why does the government care? (It's not because they're worried about you being robbed...)
If you do an electronic transaction it is stored somewhere, and could later be used against you in a court of law.
You made the point that it's not technically feasible for the cops to drive by and tell me how much money is in your house right now, but you ignore what will happen when technology advances far enough. Remember when we thought is was a paranoid delusion that the government would one day try to monitor e-mail? At first, it was because we thought it wasn't technically feasible. Then we thought, "Surely our laws would protect us", but here we are.
Also, although a large pile of cash by itself isn't grounds for a warrant, a cop could easily (truthfully or not) say there were cars coming and going from your home at all hours and combine THAT with the information that you have a pile of cash to get a warrant. You laugh, but "drug" warrants have been gotten on far less damning evidence than what I described above.
The police driving by the house would need a warrant to drive by and check (if it were possible; see number 1 above) as radio communications are protected from illegal search unless they're detectable to the general public.
...And there's the loophole. If the signal is detectable outside your domicile, it is admissable evidence in court. It's why you shouldn't talk about anything you're not willing to explain in court on a cordless phone.
Also you may be confusing "inadmissable in court" with "not valid justification for getting a warrant."
You'll find that what is "not valid justification" for a warrant with one judge will fly with the next. The cops know which judges to ask for a warrant when they have flimsy evidence.
Don't kid yourself into thinking it couldn't happen to you just because you're technically a "good guy".
Organized Crime can continue to induct illegal cash into the receipts of legitimate businesses, just by running them through the money scanner belonging to that business. If money actually passes from Joe Public to John Criminal for drugs, but is eventually labelled as having been used to buy pizza, how will the authorities know the difference?
The answer is that the version talked about in the article won't do jack squat to stop money laundering, but... The G2 chips will likely contain other "law-enforcement friendly" features... Like a "no-recent-transaction" ping.
This would be very effective since drug money often comes in large piles, and would spend large amounts of time outside the legitimate banking system. As such, the transaction records of these bills would have big holes in them. Add in a feature that says: If a transaction isn't recorded against this bill for 10 days (or whatever number) it emits a radio "ping".
Passing police cars would then be able to scan for how much "suspicious" cash you're sitting on at home. See $20 at somebody's house, no big deal. See $20,000 in "no-recent-transaction" pings when you drive by? Get a warrant.
Does this explain why www.theregister.co.uk is returning NXDOMAIN?
I've certainly noticed problems resolving various places from.au recently, and put it down to holidays being had by people who usually boot broken kit.
After they switched our cable modem over to AT&T's new network from Excite, I noticed that even though they were dynamically assigning the router 5 different DNS servers on widely disparate networks, I still couldn't resolve regular sites like slashdot or CNN. Just errored out.
Did Excite do some sort of large scale public service that I'm unaware of? Were they providing really top of the line DNS service and I was just too dumb to realize it?
Doesn't this sound like a country song... "Didn't know what good DNS I had, until it was gone..."
Maybe it's time I press this old windows box into service as a public DNS server. I mean, small contributions make the world go around, right? I bet I could get redhat running in an hour or less...
This just proves, an idle mind is the devil's workshop...
Your appetite drops dramatically after dropping carbs, and not because you hate your food choices. When you come off the diet and eat your first chips, fries, whatever, you'll "need" another and another...
It's important to note that you can't really ever "go off the diet for good" and expect to maintain your weight loss. If your weight problem was caused mostly by eating too many carbs, going back to eating too many carbs is just going to make you fat again.
This is an aspect that many people miss about the Atkins and other low-card related diets: It's not really a diet, it's a lifestyle choice. Much like a lifestyle choice to exercise, worship Buddha, or wear polka-dot pants.
And you shoudn't un-do a lifestyle choice without giving it serious thought... That's why they call it a "lifestyle choice".
That being said, I know it's hard to say no to "just one" christmas cookie or "just a piece" of pecan pie on christmas day... And once in a while you can have these sorts of treats, just not on a daily basis.
But if you go back to eating fries and drinking regular pop at lunch every day, you're back to square one.
Meat and vegetables/nuts/other proteins is a caveman diet. Cavemen died of infections from lack of pennicillin, and you don't find many caveman skeletons from folks who weighed 350 lbs. So besides the food, the other aspect of the caveman lifestyle is exercise.
Chasing down a wild boar is hard work. Wrestling and killing it even harder. Carrying it's dead butt home even more hard work. With this in mind, hit the cardiovascular and weights. Ladies, low weight, high repetition for strength, Guys, high weight, less repetitions for size. If you're more than 20 lbs. overweight you should try and get access to an eliptical exercise machine. These minimize the jarring impact to the knees, which can be a big deal if you're real big.
While I agree that eating ZERO carbohydrates is not a good choice, I have had nothing but positive health affects from the diet. My goal is to eat around 30g of carbs per day. I'm down about 60 lbs from my original weight. I'm under 300 for the first time since high school, and one day want to be around 240. I'm 6'4", so this works out just fine.
Although the Christmas holiday is a difficult time to stick to any diet, I know that when January First comes and I get it together again, I'm going to be back on course for my goal.
I went on this diet because I was dying on my feet everyday. Dying physically, destroying my knees, ankles and feet by making them carry such a huge load, and pushing myself straight towards diabetes, heart attack and death. I was also dying emotionally as the things I always wanted got further away from me behind a wall of fat. I can honestly say that this diet has saved me from an early grave. (Early as in: Next 5 years I would've bought the box condo.)
If you feel lousy about the way your body looks, you should see two people: A doctor (M.D.) and a psychiatrist. You're not crazy, but a lot of people who are more than a few pounds overweight are stuck with crippling emotional scars and these are just as treatable as your weight problem. Losing the weight and still being miserable are a distinct possibility if you don't get treatment for your whole self.
Get examined by your doctor before you start this or any other diet: Find out your cholesterol, get a blood sugar analysis test (Are you already diabetic?) etc. If your doctor doesn't like Atkins, get a second opinion.
If you don't have health insurance because of a layoff (or whatever), ask around: Some doctors have what's called a conscience and do low-cost health clinics for flat fees.
BillTheKatt writes: "The formerly (as in a couple of weeks) "unbreakable" Oracle 9i has been found to be vulnerable to a Denial Of Service bug...
Just as there is no truly free lunch, nothing is truly "unbreakable".
We've said it before so lets go once more around the old oak tree: When you claim something is unbreakable you 1) Immediately mobilize an army of dorks trying to prove you wrong and 2) Are lying to sell more goods since nothing in this universe is truly unbreakable.
Even the our beautiful Earth will one day be burnt to cinders when the Sun expands before dying...
Has anybody that isn't as paranoid as me considered that this may have been a reasoned move on the part of Oracle? (Or on the part of any company that has claimed it's software to be "Unbreakable"...) After all, QA people cost money. It would be relatively simple to do a short QA on functionality, call it unbreakable, and let somebody else find the "show-stopper" bugs for you, for free. For the myopic business man, this looks like a win-win.
"If I say it's unbreakable, and nobody finds any problems, we sell $1 billion worth of software and I'm happy...if they find bugs I can always say all software has bugs and we'll have found a big problem without paying QA an extra month's salary to find it."
ATTbi's DHCPd doesn't want to cooperate with Linux, and they don't seem to take static IPs either. So what can I do to fix it?
Hmm... The DHCP server shouldn't care what OS you're using: My Netgear router isn't running Windows (as far as I know) and I have never had a problem get an dynamic IP.
If you have another machine, connect it to the cable modem, set it for DHCP, and then get all ipconfig info (IP, DNS servers, subnet mask, gateway, etc) and write it down. Reconnect your linux box and use your notes to setup for static IP. It should work: I did this with my mac (OS X 10.1.2 (BSD/Darwin etc) and also my win2k domain controller. No problems. I'm on the attbi network right now with static IP set...No problem. Can you connect to local network resources with the linux box? Possibbly something else wrong...
Also, if you don't have a router it's a good investment for your parents to make, regardless of how many machines are "normally" connected to the network. If you have ANY connected you need a router. Otherwise, your butt is swinging in the breeze...
Alternately, you could monitor your local network to see if the linux box is sending a DHCP broadcast or not.
My biggest complaint is the speed cap. Mine was slower from the get-go: I've been capped all along. Me-thinks this is old news, though one wonders why the article I submitted didn't get posted...
Bottom line: I signed up for @Home's speed. To get less than half of what I'm paying for (price didn't go down by 65% when they capped my speed) really really sucks. If there was an alternative within $20 per month in price, I'd be on it in a jiffy. But alas, DSL and fixed wireless are all very pricey right now. Maybe I should start a fixed wireless ISP?
But unless I can convince my neighbors to let me split up a fractional T3 amongst us... (Where's my high-gain 802.11x antenna?)... I'm basically stuck with cable modem.
The biggest thing is how portable software is between linux and OS X. Essentially, most stuff just needs to be copmiled and it works. GUI stuff usually has to be worked on, but this is minimal.
OS X won't kill Linux on the desktop because Macs cost more than PCs, but Linux will help OS X by virtue of the applications which will be easily ported and distributed for X. The biggest fight for a new OS is software, but X is rapidly finding itself flush with free software, ported from linux or OS9...
I think the "Open by themselves" nomenclature is great. I understood immediately which one to click to not be annoyed (or annoyed a little less) by exit pop-ups.
Let's go easy on the Mozilla team. They have fixed about a million (estimate) bugs this year...
"They do not want to licence their products for sale on the internet."
No, they just don't want to give their product away for free. They're perfectly willing to sell on the internet, but they don't want to be in a position where they only see 1 sale for every 1,000 people listening.
You're both wrong. They're asking for the right to charge twice: Once for the CD, and again if you want it as a file for your portable MP3 box (or wherever you store it.)
"A good way to do that is to swap MP3s. "
A good way to convince BMW to sell cars for $100 is to steal them?"
A download from Kazaa is not the same as stealing a BMW, no matter what your employers might think. In your ludicrous "$100 BMW" example, BMW would lose about $45k per unit because they have large production costs associated with creating a BMW. Relative to the record industry, BMWs profit margins are very thin: The car sells for, at extremes, twice what it cost to produce. Compare with the recording industry, where a CD sells for 18-25 times what it cost to produce. While there is no way BMW could stay in business selling $100-540i sedans, music publishers could easily come up with a subscription style license and divvy up the royalties collected among the artists based on their percentage of downloads.
You make the same assumption that the recording industry does in looking at the issue: You assume every download from Kazaa is theft. While some undoubtedly are, if I download something I already own (on cassette, vinyl, or CD) that certainly can't be considered theft: I've paid for the right to have that music in my collection. Based on the Audio Home Recording Act I have the right to record a copy for my own personal use, so what's the difference if I rig up my turntable to create an MP3 or download from Kazaa? What's the difference if I rip my own MP3 from my CD, or get a copy from a friend (or Kazaa)? Again, I already own that CD/LP.
Also, if I download something then buy the CD because I liked it so much, is the download still theft? You can't say "because RIAA wants it to be illegal, so shall it be" and expect us all to just follow along blindly. In America, when a device can be used for a crime, but also has common, legitimate uses, it is tolerated.
Consider the gun, the car, and the baseball bat, all examples of things that CAN be used to commit a crime, just as Kazaa could be used to commit a crime. But it could also be used to share photographs of Bobby with grandma, to share music that I created with the world, or to share corporate videos with overseas divisions cheaply.
Your post is what we in the industry call clueless
Your post is what I'd call very condescending. Do you have stock in the recording industry, per chance? Or are you on the payroll?
Because, like it or not, high school is, for most, valuable job training before they leave high school and enter the work force, be that as secretaries using MS Office or accountants using Excel, etc. When you teach them to use software that is completely irrelevant outside of school, you are crippling them for life as they have to retrain themselves on all the applications that school had taught them in order to use something as commonplace as Office.
If you're hiring high school graduates, chances are you aren't hiring for accounting. Frankly, I wouldn't hire a secretary with only a high school diploma, either. After all, secretaries are often called upon to write letters for their employers. So far, I haven't met anybody who could put together a coherent thought (in writing) without at least some college coursework.
I also don't see how having MS in the workplace makes Linux wrong for schools. 90% of the people using MS Office never use 90% of the features. The 10% of the features used by this supermajority are found in products like Star Office, OpenOffice.org or (Insert your favorite non-MS word processor here).
Many people who argue against Star leave neophytes with the impression that Star Office lacks basic functionality when what it really lacks is excessive bloat: Features that are useless to most users, but that all users must pay for when buying Office.
If MS-Office (any version) stripped out the bloat (and hadn't paid to develop the bloat) I bet they could make a profit selling it for $100. (Instead of the $400+ it costs now...)
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If Sony started selling a $200 more expensive version of the PS2 with the mod chip already installed, I'd be willing to bet they would make more money on game consoles than from games.
I will not buy a PS2 until I can backup my game collection.
The only thing Sony is doing is guaranteeing that hobbyists who want to do fun projects (like hack Linux, etc) will have a harder time doing so. A true pirate wouldn't need the ability to read CD-Rs because he has the pressing equipment to make CDs that appear to be "originals".
Ever take apart a full-tower? Or better yet, one of those IBM Netfinity boxes that covers about two square blocks? Much easier than working on, say, my Titanium Powerbook...
I'm just curious if, from the point your friends house caught on fire, until you die, any joke relating to fire would not be funny.
A joke about fire isn't automatically in bad taste, but the point I was making is that the poster was not making a joke. The moderator made a joke out of what is a serious issue for anybody who likes having a place to live and prefers to not have their pets burned alive.
... dare I commit a computer junkie sin, and ask what is *truly* the point in running dual processors, if when you are already running a decent (1 gig +) board and chipset... the difference is only in a few seconds? I haven't been using *nix systems for very long (I just started running Debian recently) but the first thing I noticed after switching from windows was that the sheer processing power from my 1 gig chipset (with my measly 128 ram) is already fast enough that compiling the kernel isn't a long wait at all... I'm almost afraid to know how fast it would have compiled if I had been running a dual chipset.
For you, probably not useful enough to be cost effective, but heavy duty gamers/mid-range server guys on a budget need this sort of stuff.
The real reason the Athlon MP is coming to desktops is Windows big fat bloated ass. As you so eloquently pointed out, 1 ghz is plenty of power to run a real OS. Windows chugs with 1ghz....
To the people who modded the above as a "Troll"... Is this because:
1) You think Windows isn't bloated.
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2) You think I'm wrong about it multi-processing being not-cost-effective for AverageJoeUser to have on his machine.
Either way, why didn't you write a response instead of moderating down mine which you disagreed with? It would seem to me that the purpose of moderation is to make more interesting comments more visible, not hide away comments you disagree with.
Radio's biggest advantage is LOCAL INFORMATION, in the car. Neither Sirius nor XM offers any local programming. Are you willing to pay $400 plus a monthly sur-charge so you can change the station to decide whether to take an alternate route?
Also, besides those of you who bought a new Cadillac this year (congratulations, by the way, on a fine purchase!) who has $400 to spend for just a radio? Why not buy a portable MP3 player and plug it into your existing car stereo? This still gives you digital audio out the wazoo, and you're not roped into a monthly subscription (not to mention proprietary hardware that will be useless if the vendor goes out of business on January 1, 2003.)
My final point: Unless the price on the receivers comes down to cheap or free, before the end of 2002, these companies simply won't survive, because they will not achieve wide acceptance without cheap receivers: There are too many other sources of potential digital entertainment in the car.
... dare I commit a computer junkie sin, and ask what is *truly* the point in running dual processors, if when you are already running a decent (1 gig +) board and chipset... the difference is only in a few seconds? I haven't been using *nix systems for very long (I just started running Debian recently) but the first thing I noticed after switching from windows was that the sheer processing power from my 1 gig chipset (with my measly 128 ram) is already fast enough that compiling the kernel isn't a long wait at all... I'm almost afraid to know how fast it would have compiled if I had been running a dual chipset.
For you, probably not useful enough to be cost effective, but heavy duty gamers/mid-range server guys on a budget need this sort of stuff.
The real reason the Athlon MP is coming to desktops is Windows big fat bloated ass. As you so eloquently pointed out, 1 ghz is plenty of power to run a real OS. Windows chugs with 1ghz....
Although the poster's point is taken, I am a little saddened to see this moderated as "Funny".
Having known a couple friends who lost their homes to fire (and the absolute devastation it caused) is not funny. Whoever moderated it as such was either not thinking, or is a very sick puppy.
The downside though - that hard drive makes a fair bit of heat meaning my friend can't run his ipaq for many more than twenty minutes at a time. A fan is definitely in order, but he lost interest in the project.
Since it has USB ports, why not use an external USB hard disk? Of course, that further blows our budget sky high...While we're at it, how about a Radeon 8500?
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Except that in many of these cases, allowing the customer to be "right" was to allow them to continue putting mission critical data in jeoprady of loss due to hardware failure or loss through theft due to insecurity. (No firewall, default passwords left intact on database servers.)
So the problem is, for them to be right means we're actually doing them a dis-service because: 1) We're not a network consulting firm, 2) They didn't hire us to be a network consulting firm, and 3) We don't have the expertise to be a network consulting firm, (see number 1.)
Also, it's important to note that what is "right for the customer" might be wrong for the individual person who calls on the phone. If they were the one responsible for data security or backups, and the data wasn't secure or backed up, do you really think they're going to report their incompetence to their own boss without a fight?
I can personally attest to this with two examples.
Example the first: I worked for a woman with about a decade of managing tech support experience. If we had a conflict with a customer, she was available and knew how to handle it without compromising the support team. We worked well together and when it was review time she showed lots of appreciation.
Example the second: Same company, different boss, similar job. Worked for a dude with about 3 years experience as a manager. He was unavailable most of the time and when you had a conflict with a customer, automatically sided with the customer even if they were wrong. (This often meant hours sometimes days of extra work cleaning up messes that weren't ours to begin with.) As a result the technical folks all knew him to be an idiot.
(Note to non-tech support people: Conflicts are 99% of the time revolving around "we want you to do something" that the customer isn't paying for or that we don't know how to do because we don't sell/service that product.)
But HR still backed him when he decided to fire me over a short list of said conflicts.
Moral of the story: If your boss that you directly report to is an idiot, QUIT! Don't even bother trying to document anything and try to "take action with HR" becauses in this economy a bad boss will trump up a "performance-issue" and replace you like that. Better to find another position (even within the company) before you even consider blowing the whistle. Until the economy is chugging again, don't even think about it.
It's a lesson I learned by getting fired a week before Christmas.
They're constanly advertising offers for 18-month master's degree programs. Most are for MBA or teaching BUT I have heard about fast-track CS programs too.
This assumes, of course, that you're interested in a master's degree. If you've never gotten a bachelor's degree, there's no way in the world you're getting out in one year.
...And I didn't say it was. If you go back and read the post I simply was trying to say that future versions will undoubtedly include new, more frightening "features". Again, it's not self-powered--today. What about in five years?
Really? So the last time you bought pot you paid with...what...American Express?
If you paid cash, the guy at some point would have to get it into the bank. Either by 1) depositing it himself (stupid) 2) Spending it on small stuff w/legit merchants, or 3) Giving it to a "legit" proxy somewhere who deposits the money as legitimate income.
Until #3 happens it IS outside of the legitimate banking system...It's in his pocket.
Actually, you're right (although not in the way I think you intended)... Most of them aren't actually arrested and/or charged with anything. The money is simply siezed.
Based on "Know Your Customer" and other bank snooping laws/policies, it seems obvious that the government sees something sinister in large, cash transactions. Their preference is to have transactions done electronically. Why does the government care? (It's not because they're worried about you being robbed...)
If you do an electronic transaction it is stored somewhere, and could later be used against you in a court of law.
You made the point that it's not technically feasible for the cops to drive by and tell me how much money is in your house right now, but you ignore what will happen when technology advances far enough. Remember when we thought is was a paranoid delusion that the government would one day try to monitor e-mail? At first, it was because we thought it wasn't technically feasible. Then we thought, "Surely our laws would protect us", but here we are.
Also, although a large pile of cash by itself isn't grounds for a warrant, a cop could easily (truthfully or not) say there were cars coming and going from your home at all hours and combine THAT with the information that you have a pile of cash to get a warrant. You laugh, but "drug" warrants have been gotten on far less damning evidence than what I described above.
...And there's the loophole. If the signal is detectable outside your domicile, it is admissable evidence in court. It's why you shouldn't talk about anything you're not willing to explain in court on a cordless phone.
Also you may be confusing "inadmissable in court" with "not valid justification for getting a warrant."
You'll find that what is "not valid justification" for a warrant with one judge will fly with the next. The cops know which judges to ask for a warrant when they have flimsy evidence.
Don't kid yourself into thinking it couldn't happen to you just because you're technically a "good guy".
The answer is that the version talked about in the article won't do jack squat to stop money laundering, but... The G2 chips will likely contain other "law-enforcement friendly" features... Like a "no-recent-transaction" ping.
This would be very effective since drug money often comes in large piles, and would spend large amounts of time outside the legitimate banking system. As such, the transaction records of these bills would have big holes in them. Add in a feature that says: If a transaction isn't recorded against this bill for 10 days (or whatever number) it emits a radio "ping".
Passing police cars would then be able to scan for how much "suspicious" cash you're sitting on at home. See $20 at somebody's house, no big deal. See $20,000 in "no-recent-transaction" pings when you drive by? Get a warrant.
Scary.
After they switched our cable modem over to AT&T's new network from Excite, I noticed that even though they were dynamically assigning the router 5 different DNS servers on widely disparate networks, I still couldn't resolve regular sites like slashdot or CNN. Just errored out.
Did Excite do some sort of large scale public service that I'm unaware of? Were they providing really top of the line DNS service and I was just too dumb to realize it?
Doesn't this sound like a country song... "Didn't know what good DNS I had, until it was gone..."
Maybe it's time I press this old windows box into service as a public DNS server. I mean, small contributions make the world go around, right? I bet I could get redhat running in an hour or less...
This just proves, an idle mind is the devil's workshop...
It's important to note that you can't really ever "go off the diet for good" and expect to maintain your weight loss. If your weight problem was caused mostly by eating too many carbs, going back to eating too many carbs is just going to make you fat again.
This is an aspect that many people miss about the Atkins and other low-card related diets: It's not really a diet, it's a lifestyle choice. Much like a lifestyle choice to exercise, worship Buddha, or wear polka-dot pants.
And you shoudn't un-do a lifestyle choice without giving it serious thought... That's why they call it a "lifestyle choice".
That being said, I know it's hard to say no to "just one" christmas cookie or "just a piece" of pecan pie on christmas day... And once in a while you can have these sorts of treats, just not on a daily basis.
But if you go back to eating fries and drinking regular pop at lunch every day, you're back to square one.
Well I have a couple things to say about this:
Meat and vegetables/nuts/other proteins is a caveman diet. Cavemen died of infections from lack of pennicillin, and you don't find many caveman skeletons from folks who weighed 350 lbs. So besides the food, the other aspect of the caveman lifestyle is exercise.
Chasing down a wild boar is hard work. Wrestling and killing it even harder. Carrying it's dead butt home even more hard work. With this in mind, hit the cardiovascular and weights. Ladies, low weight, high repetition for strength, Guys, high weight, less repetitions for size. If you're more than 20 lbs. overweight you should try and get access to an eliptical exercise machine. These minimize the jarring impact to the knees, which can be a big deal if you're real big.
While I agree that eating ZERO carbohydrates is not a good choice, I have had nothing but positive health affects from the diet. My goal is to eat around 30g of carbs per day. I'm down about 60 lbs from my original weight. I'm under 300 for the first time since high school, and one day want to be around 240. I'm 6'4", so this works out just fine.
Although the Christmas holiday is a difficult time to stick to any diet, I know that when January First comes and I get it together again, I'm going to be back on course for my goal.
I went on this diet because I was dying on my feet everyday. Dying physically, destroying my knees, ankles and feet by making them carry such a huge load, and pushing myself straight towards diabetes, heart attack and death. I was also dying emotionally as the things I always wanted got further away from me behind a wall of fat. I can honestly say that this diet has saved me from an early grave. (Early as in: Next 5 years I would've bought the box condo.)
If you feel lousy about the way your body looks, you should see two people: A doctor (M.D.) and a psychiatrist. You're not crazy, but a lot of people who are more than a few pounds overweight are stuck with crippling emotional scars and these are just as treatable as your weight problem. Losing the weight and still being miserable are a distinct possibility if you don't get treatment for your whole self.
Get examined by your doctor before you start this or any other diet: Find out your cholesterol, get a blood sugar analysis test (Are you already diabetic?) etc. If your doctor doesn't like Atkins, get a second opinion.
If you don't have health insurance because of a layoff (or whatever), ask around: Some doctors have what's called a conscience and do low-cost health clinics for flat fees.
A sorority full of tech-worshipping nymphomaniacs living next door...
...maybe not so realistic, but a good idea none the less.
Just as there is no truly free lunch, nothing is truly "unbreakable".
We've said it before so lets go once more around the old oak tree: When you claim something is unbreakable you 1) Immediately mobilize an army of dorks trying to prove you wrong and 2) Are lying to sell more goods since nothing in this universe is truly unbreakable.
Even the our beautiful Earth will one day be burnt to cinders when the Sun expands before dying...
Has anybody that isn't as paranoid as me considered that this may have been a reasoned move on the part of Oracle? (Or on the part of any company that has claimed it's software to be "Unbreakable"...) After all, QA people cost money. It would be relatively simple to do a short QA on functionality, call it unbreakable, and let somebody else find the "show-stopper" bugs for you, for free. For the myopic business man, this looks like a win-win.
"If I say it's unbreakable, and nobody finds any problems, we sell $1 billion worth of software and I'm happy...if they find bugs I can always say all software has bugs and we'll have found a big problem without paying QA an extra month's salary to find it."
Hmm... The DHCP server shouldn't care what OS you're using: My Netgear router isn't running Windows (as far as I know) and I have never had a problem get an dynamic IP.
If you have another machine, connect it to the cable modem, set it for DHCP, and then get all ipconfig info (IP, DNS servers, subnet mask, gateway, etc) and write it down. Reconnect your linux box and use your notes to setup for static IP. It should work: I did this with my mac (OS X 10.1.2 (BSD/Darwin etc) and also my win2k domain controller. No problems. I'm on the attbi network right now with static IP set...No problem. Can you connect to local network resources with the linux box? Possibbly something else wrong...
Also, if you don't have a router it's a good investment for your parents to make, regardless of how many machines are "normally" connected to the network. If you have ANY connected you need a router. Otherwise, your butt is swinging in the breeze...
Alternately, you could monitor your local network to see if the linux box is sending a DHCP broadcast or not.
My biggest complaint is the speed cap. Mine was slower from the get-go: I've been capped all along. Me-thinks this is old news, though one wonders why the article I submitted didn't get posted...
... I'm basically stuck with cable modem.
Bottom line: I signed up for @Home's speed. To get less than half of what I'm paying for (price didn't go down by 65% when they capped my speed) really really sucks. If there was an alternative within $20 per month in price, I'd be on it in a jiffy. But alas, DSL and fixed wireless are all very pricey right now. Maybe I should start a fixed wireless ISP?
But unless I can convince my neighbors to let me split up a fractional T3 amongst us... (Where's my high-gain 802.11x antenna?)
The biggest thing is how portable software is between linux and OS X. Essentially, most stuff just needs to be copmiled and it works. GUI stuff usually has to be worked on, but this is minimal.
OS X won't kill Linux on the desktop because Macs cost more than PCs, but Linux will help OS X by virtue of the applications which will be easily ported and distributed for X. The biggest fight for a new OS is software, but X is rapidly finding itself flush with free software, ported from linux or OS9...
I think the "Open by themselves" nomenclature is great. I understood immediately which one to click to not be annoyed (or annoyed a little less) by exit pop-ups.
Let's go easy on the Mozilla team. They have fixed about a million (estimate) bugs this year...
You're both wrong. They're asking for the right to charge twice: Once for the CD, and again if you want it as a file for your portable MP3 box (or wherever you store it.)
A download from Kazaa is not the same as stealing a BMW, no matter what your employers might think. In your ludicrous "$100 BMW" example, BMW would lose about $45k per unit because they have large production costs associated with creating a BMW. Relative to the record industry, BMWs profit margins are very thin: The car sells for, at extremes, twice what it cost to produce. Compare with the recording industry, where a CD sells for 18-25 times what it cost to produce. While there is no way BMW could stay in business selling $100-540i sedans, music publishers could easily come up with a subscription style license and divvy up the royalties collected among the artists based on their percentage of downloads.
You make the same assumption that the recording industry does in looking at the issue: You assume every download from Kazaa is theft. While some undoubtedly are, if I download something I already own (on cassette, vinyl, or CD) that certainly can't be considered theft: I've paid for the right to have that music in my collection. Based on the Audio Home Recording Act I have the right to record a copy for my own personal use, so what's the difference if I rig up my turntable to create an MP3 or download from Kazaa? What's the difference if I rip my own MP3 from my CD, or get a copy from a friend (or Kazaa)? Again, I already own that CD/LP.
Also, if I download something then buy the CD because I liked it so much, is the download still theft? You can't say "because RIAA wants it to be illegal, so shall it be" and expect us all to just follow along blindly. In America, when a device can be used for a crime, but also has common, legitimate uses, it is tolerated.
Consider the gun, the car, and the baseball bat, all examples of things that CAN be used to commit a crime, just as Kazaa could be used to commit a crime. But it could also be used to share photographs of Bobby with grandma, to share music that I created with the world, or to share corporate videos with overseas divisions cheaply.
Your post is what I'd call very condescending. Do you have stock in the recording industry, per chance? Or are you on the payroll?
If you're hiring high school graduates, chances are you aren't hiring for accounting. Frankly, I wouldn't hire a secretary with only a high school diploma, either. After all, secretaries are often called upon to write letters for their employers. So far, I haven't met anybody who could put together a coherent thought (in writing) without at least some college coursework.
I also don't see how having MS in the workplace makes Linux wrong for schools. 90% of the people using MS Office never use 90% of the features. The 10% of the features used by this supermajority are found in products like Star Office, OpenOffice.org or (Insert your favorite non-MS word processor here).
Many people who argue against Star leave neophytes with the impression that Star Office lacks basic functionality when what it really lacks is excessive bloat: Features that are useless to most users, but that all users must pay for when buying Office.
If MS-Office (any version) stripped out the bloat (and hadn't paid to develop the bloat) I bet they could make a profit selling it for $100. (Instead of the $400+ it costs now...)
'nuff said.
The only thing Sony is doing is guaranteeing that hobbyists who want to do fun projects (like hack Linux, etc) will have a harder time doing so. A true pirate wouldn't need the ability to read CD-Rs because he has the pressing equipment to make CDs that appear to be "originals".
Ever take apart a full-tower? Or better yet, one of those IBM Netfinity boxes that covers about two square blocks? Much easier than working on, say, my Titanium Powerbook...
A joke about fire isn't automatically in bad taste, but the point I was making is that the poster was not making a joke. The moderator made a joke out of what is a serious issue for anybody who likes having a place to live and prefers to not have their pets burned alive.
To the people who modded the above as a "Troll"... Is this because:
1) You think Windows isn't bloated.
or
2) You think I'm wrong about it multi-processing being not-cost-effective for AverageJoeUser to have on his machine.
Either way, why didn't you write a response instead of moderating down mine which you disagreed with? It would seem to me that the purpose of moderation is to make more interesting comments more visible, not hide away comments you disagree with.
Radio's biggest advantage is LOCAL INFORMATION, in the car. Neither Sirius nor XM offers any local programming. Are you willing to pay $400 plus a monthly sur-charge so you can change the station to decide whether to take an alternate route?
Also, besides those of you who bought a new Cadillac this year (congratulations, by the way, on a fine purchase!) who has $400 to spend for just a radio? Why not buy a portable MP3 player and plug it into your existing car stereo? This still gives you digital audio out the wazoo, and you're not roped into a monthly subscription (not to mention proprietary hardware that will be useless if the vendor goes out of business on January 1, 2003.)
My final point: Unless the price on the receivers comes down to cheap or free, before the end of 2002, these companies simply won't survive, because they will not achieve wide acceptance without cheap receivers: There are too many other sources of potential digital entertainment in the car.
For you, probably not useful enough to be cost effective, but heavy duty gamers/mid-range server guys on a budget need this sort of stuff.
The real reason the Athlon MP is coming to desktops is Windows big fat bloated ass. As you so eloquently pointed out, 1 ghz is plenty of power to run a real OS. Windows chugs with 1ghz....
What do you do when the building burns down?
Although the poster's point is taken, I am a little saddened to see this moderated as "Funny".
Having known a couple friends who lost their homes to fire (and the absolute devastation it caused) is not funny. Whoever moderated it as such was either not thinking, or is a very sick puppy.
If only I had mod points...
Since it has USB ports, why not use an external USB hard disk? Of course, that further blows our budget sky high...While we're at it, how about a Radeon 8500?