Probably because most people know a guy down the road or from school or in the family who's over there, and especially those who have family in service know what it's like to be out of touch for long periods of time and would want to fix that. It's human nature to care more about people who are closer to you. Also I'd guess most people have a mindset that makes them think whatever they put in would be so small as to be a drop in the bucket in the rebuilding effort (whether that's true or not i can't say)...with this wireless thing you can donate equipment and know you put a piece of it in place.
That said, even though you're trolling you have somewhat of a point...
It works though. When I go to right click and "Block images from" on an advert (in firefox) you may be surprised how many come from "ads.xxx.com" or something similar. I'd guess only a very few sites get blocked unfairly such as the original poster had happen
Its true ceramic kitchen knives are cheapish, however self defense or utility knives made in ceramics (which often still have a bit of metal on the handle and clip) go straight into the 70$ and up range from what I've seen of them
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Beware the union shop (well, some of them), where it might be the status quo to slack off and delay work, and anything resembling industrious labor will get you ostracized
PHP written by any kind of competent coder would either scan for important characters and escape them or (Less elegantly) simply disallow they be input to begin with
Any computer shop that spends 10.5 hrs trying to fix spyware is either deliberately running up the bill or incompetent. Once the level of destruction was clear the tech should have tossed the drive in an old machine, pulled off anything important and formatted it. As other posters have said, that would have taken 2-3 hours tops.
Japan goes out of its way to make it harder for international interests to do ANYthing, while their own companies are very much the Megacorps of Shadowrun/Cyberpunk literature
My buddy has a sweet radar detector...in the past year he's been nailed twice due to going around odd corners that blocked signal from the radar detector
I drive a major interstate to and from work. Speed limit along most of it is between 60 and 65.
Yet I STILL happen upon cars going 55 or 50. Sometimes large trucks as well. Your idea may make it illegal to pass those...why, again? That just backs up traffic.
You'll notice those 12-24month schools often advertise "Engineering technology", whatver that is. I get the impression basically working in the tech lab and doing menial stuff is all it makes you good for.
I was referring to the origninal 12Mb connection mostly. I'm on (at the moment) 1.4mbit ADSL but it's hardly ever that fast unless I'm pulling from an exceptionally good server (windowsupdate.com usually is about all that can saturate it)
Perhaps the better turn of phrase would be to say "not everyone has the connections you do"
Point being, bittorrent really ISNT for people who have servers with 12mbit connections *UNLESS they're seeding =D*
Probably lack of fast connections that have the pieces you want.
I've experiemented some with torrents via a 100mbit LAN and it STILL doesnt utilize the type of bandwith you'd expect it to (couple hundred kb out of 100mbit) ---I think it's simply not a mature implementation as of yet, and pretty ineffecient unless you get lucky.
Most of my torrents go slow but steady, which is why i prefer them over other P2P apps (1 person signing off doesnt usually screw you over on a torrent)
Try using a 3rd party BT client to throttle back your upstream. In my experience and from what I've heard from severla other slashdotters it tends to "drown" itself out uploading.
I tried this on my ADSL connection (1.4mbit/128kbit) using Torrentstorm, changed the upload rate from "unlimited" to 42k or in that neighborhood, and my donwload rates skyrocketed in a minute or two.
Odd thing is, my upload rate didnt change a whole lot, but apparently having the client stop *trying* to saturate the upstream does wonders for getting it to actually download some.
Course back on my campus connection, which was 3mbit or so, i've downloaded at 150K steadily for some files, but not many.
If you have a small upstream pipe, setting BT to less than "max" upload will give you better download rates and not change your actual upload speed at all.
people still buy the misconception that being vegetarian means a low-protein, low iron, low energy diet.
Not to start an arguement, but I'm not going by what I read, but who i know. I realize it's *possible*, but for a large part of my life the vegetarians I met were content with the aforementioned low protien low iron low energy system.
I figure public conception is because most people think of the wispy "hippy" vegetarian they met at school (college, whatever) and simply haven't encountered any people who are counterexamples to the image
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Probably because most people know a guy down the road or from school or in the family who's over there, and especially those who have family in service know what it's like to be out of touch for long periods of time and would want to fix that. It's human nature to care more about people who are closer to you. Also I'd guess most people have a mindset that makes them think whatever they put in would be so small as to be a drop in the bucket in the rebuilding effort (whether that's true or not i can't say)...with this wireless thing you can donate equipment and know you put a piece of it in place.
That said, even though you're trolling you have somewhat of a point...
It works though. When I go to right click and "Block images from" on an advert (in firefox) you may be surprised how many come from "ads.xxx.com" or something similar. I'd guess only a very few sites get blocked unfairly such as the original poster had happen
What it does is reduces the likeliehood of someone going "My favorite site doesnt work in Moz, so i'm sticking to IE"
Pinging a server isn't illegal either, but it becomes so when you do it in such a way (volume and repitiion) to disrupt traffic
No and No.
the only reason it's on my computer at all is because iTunes requires it, so the stand alone player never gets run
AND spysweeper as well (even though it is not freeware)
Ad aware, spybot and spysweeper all have different checklists and one may find things the others dont'
I unticked the box in msconfig (WinXP) and it stayed gone...
Its true ceramic kitchen knives are cheapish, however self defense or utility knives made in ceramics (which often still have a bit of metal on the handle and clip) go straight into the 70$ and up range from what I've seen of them
Beware the union shop (well, some of them), where it might be the status quo to slack off and delay work, and anything resembling industrious labor will get you ostracized
PHP written by any kind of competent coder would either scan for important characters and escape them or (Less elegantly) simply disallow they be input to begin with
Any computer shop that spends 10.5 hrs trying to fix spyware is either deliberately running up the bill or incompetent. Once the level of destruction was clear the tech should have tossed the drive in an old machine, pulled off anything important and formatted it. As other posters have said, that would have taken 2-3 hours tops.
I think you should mean "Only foreign companies"
Japan goes out of its way to make it harder for international interests to do ANYthing, while their own companies are very much the Megacorps of Shadowrun/Cyberpunk literature
Perhaps one would learn quickly not to pirate software if that happened more often
Vandalism is vandalism, regardless if its on public or private property...
My buddy has a sweet radar detector...in the past year he's been nailed twice due to going around odd corners that blocked signal from the radar detector
;p
Hope yours is better
I drive a major interstate to and from work. Speed limit along most of it is between 60 and 65.
Yet I STILL happen upon cars going 55 or 50. Sometimes large trucks as well. Your idea may make it illegal to pass those...why, again? That just backs up traffic.
You'll notice those 12-24month schools often advertise "Engineering technology", whatver that is. I get the impression basically working in the tech lab and doing menial stuff is all it makes you good for.
I was referring to the origninal 12Mb connection mostly. I'm on (at the moment) 1.4mbit ADSL but it's hardly ever that fast unless I'm pulling from an exceptionally good server (windowsupdate.com usually is about all that can saturate it)
Perhaps the better turn of phrase would be to say "not everyone has the connections you do"
Point being, bittorrent really ISNT for people who have servers with 12mbit connections *UNLESS they're seeding =D*
Probably lack of fast connections that have the pieces you want.
I've experiemented some with torrents via a 100mbit LAN and it STILL doesnt utilize the type of bandwith you'd expect it to (couple hundred kb out of 100mbit) ---I think it's simply not a mature implementation as of yet, and pretty ineffecient unless you get lucky.
Most of my torrents go slow but steady, which is why i prefer them over other P2P apps (1 person signing off doesnt usually screw you over on a torrent)
Try using a 3rd party BT client to throttle back your upstream. In my experience and from what I've heard from severla other slashdotters it tends to "drown" itself out uploading.
I tried this on my ADSL connection (1.4mbit/128kbit) using Torrentstorm, changed the upload rate from "unlimited" to 42k or in that neighborhood, and my donwload rates skyrocketed in a minute or two.
Odd thing is, my upload rate didnt change a whole lot, but apparently having the client stop *trying* to saturate the upstream does wonders for getting it to actually download some.
Course back on my campus connection, which was 3mbit or so, i've downloaded at 150K steadily for some files, but not many.
If you have a small upstream pipe, setting BT to less than "max" upload will give you better download rates and not change your actual upload speed at all.
Get a grip dude, not everyone is blessed with mad bandwith like you.
I was pulling 40-50K/sec on the torrent i was using, which was a good bit faster that windowsbeta, which was DOWN at the time.
Your mom ever tell you "Two wrongs dont make a right" when you were younger?
Don't you mean "Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of meta-comments?"
people still buy the misconception that being vegetarian means a low-protein, low iron, low energy diet.
Not to start an arguement, but I'm not going by what I read, but who i know. I realize it's *possible*, but for a large part of my life the vegetarians I met were content with the aforementioned low protien low iron low energy system.
I figure public conception is because most people think of the wispy "hippy" vegetarian they met at school (college, whatever) and simply haven't encountered any people who are counterexamples to the image