postini does 3rd party spam filtering for a number of companies. However if mozilla mail (1.3 I take it) isn't picking up all the spam postini won't do much better but it will cut down on the amount that gets to your inbox at least.
And freaking hilarious. Lighten up man, it is just one day of the year. Stop getting your panties in a bundle and have a good laugh at the fun he is having. I mean look at you people... this wouldn't even be that funny except for all the people getting themselves into a worked-up fervor over this.
I've used a chargeback twice with paypal, no problems and worked just great getting my money back (damm ebay defrauders). Visa debit card, don't know if that had anything to do with it.
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Supporting the troops means literally that, you wish them the best of luck and hope and pray they do not die.
You can be against the war, as I am, and still wish for the quickest, fastest, and least bloody conclusion to the war. That is MY view of "Supporting the troops." It also means that you won't call the troops baby killers or stuff like that because they are following orders (blah blah blah nazi's blah blah blah leave it alone) of their duly elected officials and politicians. When it comes right down to it I think supporting the troops means, your elected officials have decided to go to war and your country men are out there risking their lives so while you may oppose the war -- and continue to do so -- you shouldn't wish for your soldiers to die or fail at their objectives.
Political Connections Galore. Seriously, he was the former vice president and has a ton of political connections and can seriously help apple in this arena. This is important for any major company, to have good lobbyists and such and Al Gore will only help them in the area.
That and the prestige of having the fomer vice president (and nearly president) be on your board of directors.
You never know, maybe Al really does love apple and technology as well. Shrug, maybe HE wants to do this and approached apple about it.
The Panthenon is made out of concrete and has stood for 2 millenia, in an earthquake prone region even when plenty of smaller buildings have collapsed. The Hagia Sohpia is another good example of this, a building that has withstood multiple 8-9 magnitude earthquakes and is made out of concrete.
Alot of the reason roman buildings have stood for millenia is that they where way overengineered. Building huge structures wasn't an exact science so they overengineered everything.
My theory: most spammers are the cyber equivalent of "flashers" - sexual deviants who derive thrill from shocking unsuspecting citizens.
Possibly. My theory, based on reading a number of spammer interviews, are spammers are clueless morons who spam indiscretely because they believe they have perverse right to do so. Factor in equal amounts of greed, stupidity, and ignorance and you have yourself a spammer.
I use ipcop and an jerry-riggged 2.4 kernel to accomplish this with QOS controls. You can find out all about it through ipcop and check out the "english support web" on where to find the modified kernel.
Cool! Kudos to you for doing that on purpose. How do you make sure your connection is not abused though?
Well like I said the connection is capped at 256/256kbits for non-leased IP's. I assign fixed-lease IP's by MAC address and if your mac isn't in the database you get one of the capped IP's. 256/256 I figure is plenty if people are jsut wardriving and wanting to check email/surf web, etc for a bit of time.
Well since you are on I-80 you will be driving through Lincoln, Nebraska. I have a couple of suggestions. One, you can try driving through campus (university of nebraska-lincoln) to pick up some internet.
Also, you could drive by my house - I leave a WAP open to all (well bandwith capped at 256/256 for non-fixedlease DHCP address's). Heh, I decided to do this right after I went on vacation and relied on other people's WAP's for internet. I would suggest driving around campus and the college areas, kids always leave open WAP's and the university has a number of WAP's open to all that you can pick up. Downtown also has a ton of WAP's.
For eggs it is necassary to cook them on both sides obviously. Also, those little gimmicks won't work for line cooks because you can flip them in the air faster than anything with a spatula or other method and also because they don't necassarily work all the time.
Basically for time saving. When you are cooking 20 eggs/omelettes at a time you have to be able to flip them in about 2-3 seconds, not waste a minute or more gently flipping them over/using some other method.
Heh. I'm a line cook here in the US and there is quite a bit more to flipping American Pancakes (I realize english pancakes are somewhat different).
Stuff like how long you wait till you flip it, the perfect angle to get the spatula underneath the pancake (directly parallel to both the grill and the pancake), what to do with blueberry/raspberry/banana/etc pancakes, what to do when the cake sticks, and the rest. I'm sure you could come up with an equation to perfectly predict this and it wouldn't mean a damm thing -- like this one.
I mean you could equally use a formula to try and tell somebody how to flip eggs and it wouldn't meen a damm thing. To train line cooks to flip the proper, and perfect, Over Easy egg requires about 100-200 wasted eggs until you get it down to about 95% of the time -- and that extra 5% is a pain since each egg varies in how much force will require before it breaks, etc and usually requires thousands of eggs before you can go nearly an entire 8 hour shift without breaking at least 1 yolk open. By 'flip' an egg I mean using only your wrist, no sissy spatulas involved. It takes alot of work and effort to learn to do these things which is why almost nobody outside cooks can probably cook eggs or omeletes the *right way*, no spatulas/informercial specials involved.
Well the latency would, of course, be much higher. Probably something on the order of 300-400ms (I'm probably way off on this...). And we STILL don't have robots that can perfectly duplicate everything humans can do in orbit. Maybe someday but right now it is just easier to send humans up... probably. I mean you cannot build robots that could repair the Hubble for instance, and I would hate to try.
The software problem was rectified and the next attempt was set for 15 November at 06:00 (03:00 GMT). Came the morning, the weather was snow flurries with 20 m/s winds. Launch abort criteria were 15 m/s. The launch director decided to press ahead anyway. After 12 years of development everything went perfectly. Buran, with a mass of 79.4 tonnes, separated from the Block Ts core and entered a temporary orbit with a perigee of -11.2 km and apogee of 154.2 km. At apogee Burn executed a 66.6 m/s manoeuvre and entered a 251 km x 263 km orbit of the earth. In the payload bay was the 7150 kg module 37KB s/n 37071. 140 minutes into the flight retrofire was accomplished with a total delta-v of 175 m/s. 206 minutes after launch, accompanied by Igor Volk in a MiG-25 chase plane, Buran touched down at 260 km/hr in a 17 m/s crosswind at the Jubilee runway, with a 1620 m landing rollout. The completely automatic launch, orbital manoeuvre, deorbit, and precision landing of an airliner-sized spaceplane on its very first flight was an unprecedented accomplishment of which the Soviets were justifiably proud. It completely vindicated the years of exhaustive ground and flight test that had debugged the systems before they flew.
Man that would be sweet. Of course it would also be impossible with our current technology. Morrowind - the actual playable game area -- is something like 4x4 miles or such. 16 square miles basically.
I guess you could model a part of the LotR universe but certainly not all of it. Good god would that take some time -- of course if it was as good as Morrowind I would play it constantly nonstop until I had finished it =).
No offense but if NASA's DSN network, the most advanced tracking and recieving facility in the world, cannot detect it why would you think 1000 amateur astronomers would have any luck? I pulled this from the Voyager home page but presumably Pioneer would be much weaker:
" The antennas must capture Voyager information from a signal so weak that the power striking the antenna is only 10 exponent -16 watts (1 part in 10 quadrillion). A modern-day electronic digital watch operates at a power level 20 billion times greater than this feeble level. "
Then again I am no radio expert so maybe what you describe is feasible.
A snippet(s) of info:
"Based on the NEC SX architecture, 640 nodes, each node with 8 vector processors (8 Gflop/s peak per processor), 2 ns cycle time, 16GB shared memory. Total of 5120 total processors, 40 TFlop/s peak, and 10 TB memory. "
"Earth Simulator's processors are one-chip LSIs fabricated with 0.15 micron CMOS process and copper wiring. Highly optimized software and high-speed networks that pump massive amounts of data through 7.8TB/s bandwidth connecting the 640 processing nodes are key to the amazing efficiency of Earth Simulator."
They do advertise it as a selling point is the sad thing. Shrug. It is fairly close to downtown in a college type town (lincoln, nebraska) and the apartments aren't bad. It is odd that very few people use it.
You would think that would work would ya? I know of an apartment complex here, my friend lives there, that offers free DSL access. They have a shared tier 3 (1.2 down/512 up) DSL line available to anyone who wants it for *free*. Just plug in your ethernet cable and go. Now out of 100 some apartments how many people do you think opt to use this *free* DSL? 4. Yep. 4. High speed internet just isn't a priority to alot of people apparently since you can't even give DSL away...
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postini does 3rd party spam filtering for a number of companies. However if mozilla mail (1.3 I take it) isn't picking up all the spam postini won't do much better but it will cut down on the amount that gets to your inbox at least.
that would be excellent.
It's ridiculous all right.
And freaking hilarious. Lighten up man, it is just one day of the year. Stop getting your panties in a bundle and have a good laugh at the fun he is having. I mean look at you people... this wouldn't even be that funny except for all the people getting themselves into a worked-up fervor over this.
Man oh man. I hope he posts it again.
Oh lighten up this is april fools man! Come on, you spent what 5 bucks? So did I and I cracked up seeing this story for the fifth time.
What better way to poke fun of himself by posting a story 5 times?
Lighten up and have a laugh - it will do you good.
I've used a chargeback twice with paypal, no problems and worked just great getting my money back (damm ebay defrauders). Visa debit card, don't know if that had anything to do with it.
Supporting the troops means literally that, you wish them the best of luck and hope and pray they do not die.
You can be against the war, as I am, and still wish for the quickest, fastest, and least bloody conclusion to the war. That is MY view of "Supporting the troops." It also means that you won't call the troops baby killers or stuff like that because they are following orders (blah blah blah nazi's blah blah blah leave it alone) of their duly elected officials and politicians. When it comes right down to it I think supporting the troops means, your elected officials have decided to go to war and your country men are out there risking their lives so while you may oppose the war -- and continue to do so -- you shouldn't wish for your soldiers to die or fail at their objectives.
Political Connections Galore. Seriously, he was the former vice president and has a ton of political connections and can seriously help apple in this arena. This is important for any major company, to have good lobbyists and such and Al Gore will only help them in the area.
That and the prestige of having the fomer vice president (and nearly president) be on your board of directors.
You never know, maybe Al really does love apple and technology as well. Shrug, maybe HE wants to do this and approached apple about it.
The Panthenon is made out of concrete and has stood for 2 millenia, in an earthquake prone region even when plenty of smaller buildings have collapsed. The Hagia Sohpia is another good example of this, a building that has withstood multiple 8-9 magnitude earthquakes and is made out of concrete.
Alot of the reason roman buildings have stood for millenia is that they where way overengineered. Building huge structures wasn't an exact science so they overengineered everything.
My theory: most spammers are the cyber equivalent of "flashers" - sexual deviants who derive thrill from shocking unsuspecting citizens.
Possibly. My theory, based on reading a number of spammer interviews, are spammers are clueless morons who spam indiscretely because they believe they have perverse right to do so. Factor in equal amounts of greed, stupidity, and ignorance and you have yourself a spammer.
i believe that the powers running SETI@home send out redundant data and compare, so as to reflect a more accurate statistic
They do, iirc every packet is sent out to at LEAST 3 clients to get 3 independent results.
Yeah but 22nd and holdrege is so much cooler tom! you know this man! Everybody loves stealing my tw cable.
I use ipcop and an jerry-riggged 2.4 kernel to accomplish this with QOS controls. You can find out all about it through ipcop and check out the "english support web" on where to find the modified kernel.
Cool! Kudos to you for doing that on purpose. How do you make sure your connection is not abused though?
Well like I said the connection is capped at 256/256kbits for non-leased IP's. I assign fixed-lease IP's by MAC address and if your mac isn't in the database you get one of the capped IP's. 256/256 I figure is plenty if people are jsut wardriving and wanting to check email/surf web, etc for a bit of time.
Well since you are on I-80 you will be driving through Lincoln, Nebraska. I have a couple of suggestions. One, you can try driving through campus (university of nebraska-lincoln) to pick up some internet.
Also, you could drive by my house - I leave a WAP open to all (well bandwith capped at 256/256 for non-fixedlease DHCP address's). Heh, I decided to do this right after I went on vacation and relied on other people's WAP's for internet. I would suggest driving around campus and the college areas, kids always leave open WAP's and the university has a number of WAP's open to all that you can pick up. Downtown also has a ton of WAP's.
nah I stole it.
Heh believe it or not cooking pays fairly well for a college job. 10-12$ dollars an hour.
For eggs it is necassary to cook them on both sides obviously. Also, those little gimmicks won't work for line cooks because you can flip them in the air faster than anything with a spatula or other method and also because they don't necassarily work all the time.
Basically for time saving. When you are cooking 20 eggs/omelettes at a time you have to be able to flip them in about 2-3 seconds, not waste a minute or more gently flipping them over/using some other method.
Heh. I'm a line cook here in the US and there is quite a bit more to flipping American Pancakes (I realize english pancakes are somewhat different).
Stuff like how long you wait till you flip it, the perfect angle to get the spatula underneath the pancake (directly parallel to both the grill and the pancake), what to do with blueberry/raspberry/banana/etc pancakes, what to do when the cake sticks, and the rest. I'm sure you could come up with an equation to perfectly predict this and it wouldn't mean a damm thing -- like this one.
I mean you could equally use a formula to try and tell somebody how to flip eggs and it wouldn't meen a damm thing. To train line cooks to flip the proper, and perfect, Over Easy egg requires about 100-200 wasted eggs until you get it down to about 95% of the time -- and that extra 5% is a pain since each egg varies in how much force will require before it breaks, etc and usually requires thousands of eggs before you can go nearly an entire 8 hour shift without breaking at least 1 yolk open. By 'flip' an egg I mean using only your wrist, no sissy spatulas involved. It takes alot of work and effort to learn to do these things which is why almost nobody outside cooks can probably cook eggs or omeletes the *right way*, no spatulas/informercial specials involved.
Well the latency would, of course, be much higher. Probably something on the order of 300-400ms (I'm probably way off on this...). And we STILL don't have robots that can perfectly duplicate everything humans can do in orbit. Maybe someday but right now it is just easier to send humans up... probably. I mean you cannot build robots that could repair the Hubble for instance, and I would hate to try.
An interesting footnote, the Soviets launched their space shuttle,Buran completely automated into orbit and back again with no problems. To Quote:
The software problem was rectified and the next attempt was set for 15 November at 06:00 (03:00 GMT). Came the morning, the weather was snow flurries with 20 m/s winds. Launch abort criteria were 15 m/s. The launch director decided to press ahead anyway. After 12 years of development everything went perfectly. Buran, with a mass of 79.4 tonnes, separated from the Block Ts core and entered a temporary orbit with a perigee of -11.2 km and apogee of 154.2 km. At apogee Burn executed a 66.6 m/s manoeuvre and entered a 251 km x 263 km orbit of the earth. In the payload bay was the 7150 kg module 37KB s/n 37071. 140 minutes into the flight retrofire was accomplished with a total delta-v of 175 m/s. 206 minutes after launch, accompanied by Igor Volk in a MiG-25 chase plane, Buran touched down at 260 km/hr in a 17 m/s crosswind at the Jubilee runway, with a 1620 m landing rollout. The completely automatic launch, orbital manoeuvre, deorbit, and precision landing of an airliner-sized spaceplane on its very first flight was an unprecedented accomplishment of which the Soviets were justifiably proud. It completely vindicated the years of exhaustive ground and flight test that had debugged the systems before they flew.
Stolen directly from osnews.com!. Congratulations you have succesfully plagarized!
Man that would be sweet. Of course it would also be impossible with our current technology. Morrowind - the actual playable game area -- is something like 4x4 miles or such. 16 square miles basically.
I guess you could model a part of the LotR universe but certainly not all of it. Good god would that take some time -- of course if it was as good as Morrowind I would play it constantly nonstop until I had finished it =).
A little FYI As/400's can also run Red Hat linux. And do so quite well I might add.
No offense but if NASA's DSN network, the most advanced tracking and recieving facility in the world, cannot detect it why would you think 1000 amateur astronomers would have any luck? I pulled this from the Voyager home page but presumably Pioneer would be much weaker:
" The antennas must capture Voyager information from a signal so weak that the power striking the antenna is only 10 exponent -16 watts (1 part in 10 quadrillion). A modern-day electronic digital watch operates at a power level 20 billion times greater than this feeble level. "
Then again I am no radio expert so maybe what you describe is feasible.
Well that would, of course, depend on how much bandwith is running to said server now wouldn't it? =)
Found some nice info (good old google) on said Supercomputer though since the sites linked article didn't have much.
A Time Article on The Earth Simulator
Top 500 page on Earth Simulator
NEC page on the Earth Simulator
Google Translated Powerpoint presentation on the Earth Simulator
A snippet(s) of info:
"Based on the NEC SX architecture, 640 nodes, each node with 8 vector processors (8 Gflop/s peak per processor), 2 ns cycle time, 16GB shared memory. Total of 5120 total processors, 40 TFlop/s peak, and 10 TB memory. "
"Earth Simulator's processors are one-chip LSIs fabricated with 0.15 micron CMOS process and copper wiring. Highly optimized software and high-speed networks that pump massive amounts of data through 7.8TB/s bandwidth connecting the 640 processing nodes are key to the amazing efficiency of Earth Simulator."
They do advertise it as a selling point is the sad thing. Shrug. It is fairly close to downtown in a college type town (lincoln, nebraska) and the apartments aren't bad. It is odd that very few people use it.
You would think that would work would ya? I know of an apartment complex here, my friend lives there, that offers free DSL access. They have a shared tier 3 (1.2 down/512 up) DSL line available to anyone who wants it for *free*. Just plug in your ethernet cable and go. Now out of 100 some apartments how many people do you think opt to use this *free* DSL? 4. Yep. 4. High speed internet just isn't a priority to alot of people apparently since you can't even give DSL away ...