stupider isn't a word. No wonder you can't figure out the processor naming.
Re:WLANs don't bother the plane?
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Contrary to popular belief, the main reason you can't use a cellphone in a plane is the altitude. A cell phone will register with any cell it can reach. On the ground, this isn't going to be a problem, but at 30000 feet, your phone could theoretically tie up many many cells with the same connection.
Who was it that said "there's a sucker born every minute"? I think it was P.T. Barnum.
Anyway, as long as there are complacent idiots willing to spend this much , there will be someone there to sell it to them.
This is why we have things like AOL and MS Windows. People who don't know any better will buy them.
You want to do something about this? Go get a job with the California State government and show then how you really could have saved them some money by using free software.
If you're right (you probably are), the spooks will only need to install one wire/fiber tap, to sniff ALL of your communications, except wireless of course.
"I've had the service since Friday and the quality is indistinguishable from a regular phone line"
Now you guys are gonna Slashdot this poor guy's phoneline. Heh...I bet it won't be indistinguishable from a regular phoneline in about 5 minutes from now...
In less than one year, I've received 19 emails from various Nigerian government officials, as well as several from the Republic Republic of Congo, each promising me at least $30 million if I store some money for them.
That comes to $17,100,000,000, more than enough to pay the paltry $500 million bandwidth bill.
Funny you should mention that. I used to work for an airship company (the coolest job I ever had).
Anyway, it turns out that the Germans *wanted* to use helium in the Hindenburg, but the US controlled most of the world's helium supply at that time, and wouldn't sell to Germany, so they were forced to use hydrogen.
Also, did you know that 1 million cattle were slaughtered to make the gas bladders for the Hindendurg? The cow's intestines were sewn together to make the bladders.
Most modern fuel injected cars *do* have pressurized fuel tanks. This is the motorized whine you hear when when you turn the key halfway, and have not started the engine yet. The fuel pump runs for a bit to pressurize the tank and lines.
This is also why, when removing your fuel filler cap at the gas station, you sometimes hear a "whoosh" and see a bit of vapor as the pressure is released.
Granted, a hydrogen powered car would probably need to have it's fuel tank at a much higher pressure than a gasoline car, but this is not limited to hydrogen only. Any engine which uses fuel in a gas form, but stores it in a liquid form would suffer from this. Natural gas vehicles come to mind, and so do propane powered industrial equipment (forklifts) and outdoor barbeque grills, but we don't get scared of those, much less almost every can of aerosol whatever in our homes. Well, I don't anyway.
I wonder...If slashdot was using google's search engine API, would Taco have been able to find the previous story already posted about Google releasing their API?
Think about it. With the scarcity of domain names lately, chances are that while the garbage email addresses may not be valid, more than a few domain names would be valid.
So then the spammer fills his database with these non-existant addresses on existing domain names. He then sends his spam to these addresses, and their mail servers not only have to process the message to determine that it's an invalid address, but they also have to bounce the message back as undeliverable.
IMO this is going to use twice the bandwidth, since you now have to consider the bandwidth used by all of those bounces.
You could always use some non-existant domain names for the garbage email addresses, but the spammer could just as easily check a domain name's validity before sending spam to it, making it trivial to remove all of the trash from his database.
Remember, the spammer couldn't care less about sending mail to bad addresses, as long as the good addresses are spammed as well. It's left to the poor sysadmin to clean up the mess.
I wanted to do the same thing at my condo development with wireless. It would have been perfect because all of the buildings are arranged in a circular fashion.
The only problem is that this is a community of mostly senior citizens (I like the quiet neighborhood) that are content to dial in to AOHell, and would have no need for faster, much less wireless access.
My company's a Yipes customer.
Here's what we got from them:
Dear Yipes Customer:
I am writing to let you know that Yipes has voluntarily filed for
reorganization under Chapter 11 in the San Francisco federal bankruptcy
court. Market conditions beyond our control prompted us to seek this
temporary protection. Yipes plans to use this process to restructure
our finances and balance sheet.
The good news is that Yipes has made arrangements for
debtor-in-possession financing that will allow us to continue offering
customers 24x7 service and support. Chapter 11 will protect our ongoing
operations against lawsuits or other actions by creditors, while we
restructure our obligations. This restructure should lead to a stronger
financial footing for the company and ensure our long-term viability.
We remain committed to delivering a high standard of customer care
without interruption. You can continue to reach us any time, toll free,
at 877-740-6600 or support@yipes.com.
John Doe (Name changed)
Chief Operating Officer
Yipes Communications, Inc.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a smartass ar troll, and I'm certainly no maths professor, but I'd really like to know how they're so sure that they're right.
I mean, with all of this wonderful math, we can't even predict the weather reliably. We can't predict hurricaines or tornadoes, much less lightning or earthquakes.
And on that note, are there any massively parallel or distributed computing projects currently running to simulate the weather or the other natural phenomena mentioned above?
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stupider isn't a word. No wonder you can't figure out the processor naming.
Contrary to popular belief, the main reason you can't use a cellphone in a plane is the altitude. A cell phone will register with any cell it can reach. On the ground, this isn't going to be a problem, but at 30000 feet, your phone could theoretically tie up many many cells with the same connection.
Um, this is how our corrupt politicians work, in case you haven't noticed.
Politician 1 "You want me to vote yes to your anti-handgun law? Well sure, but first, modify it to include my no bathing on Wednesdays law"
Politician 2 "Sure, no problem".
It's called "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours".
Welcome to America
Who was it that said "there's a sucker born every minute"? I think it was P.T. Barnum.
Anyway, as long as there are complacent idiots willing to spend this much , there will be someone there to sell it to them.
This is why we have things like AOL and MS Windows. People who don't know any better will buy them.
You want to do something about this? Go get a job with the California State government and show then how you really could have saved them some money by using free software.
Think of it this way:
If you're right (you probably are), the spooks will only need to install one wire/fiber tap, to sniff ALL of your communications, except wireless of course.
"I've had the service since Friday and the quality is indistinguishable from a regular phone line"
Now you guys are gonna Slashdot this poor guy's phoneline. Heh...I bet it won't be indistinguishable from a regular phoneline in about 5 minutes from now...
... and determined that Murder stimulates evolution in the human species.
That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, though.
In less than one year, I've received 19 emails from various Nigerian government officials, as well as several from the Republic Republic of Congo, each promising me at least $30 million if I store some money for them.
That comes to $17,100,000,000, more than enough to pay the paltry $500 million bandwidth bill.
Funny you should mention that. I used to work for an airship company (the coolest job I ever had).
Anyway, it turns out that the Germans *wanted* to use helium in the Hindenburg, but the US controlled most of the world's helium supply at that time, and wouldn't sell to Germany, so they were forced to use hydrogen.
Also, did you know that 1 million cattle were slaughtered to make the gas bladders for the Hindendurg? The cow's intestines were sewn together to make the bladders.
Wrong.
Most modern fuel injected cars *do* have pressurized fuel tanks. This is the motorized whine you hear when when you turn the key halfway, and have not started the engine yet. The fuel pump runs for a bit to pressurize the tank and lines.
This is also why, when removing your fuel filler cap at the gas station, you sometimes hear a "whoosh" and see a bit of vapor as the pressure is released.
Granted, a hydrogen powered car would probably need to have it's fuel tank at a much higher pressure than a gasoline car, but this is not limited to hydrogen only. Any engine which uses fuel in a gas form, but stores it in a liquid form would suffer from this. Natural gas vehicles come to mind, and so do propane powered industrial equipment (forklifts) and outdoor barbeque grills, but we don't get scared of those, much less almost every can of aerosol whatever in our homes. Well, I don't anyway.
There is:/ bioma ss/ethanolcar.htm
http://www.eya.ca/mainresources/energymodels
Funny thing is, you probably drive around in a car with a tank full of gasoline, right? What's the difference?
"Carbon dioxide gas also can be sold commercially to the petrochemical industry, which uses large quantities of it to extract fossil fuels"
So They're going to accellerate the "harvest" of fossil fuels, thereby increasing the CO2 production, and on and on.
Reminds me of 'dude where's my car?':
(Chinese drive-thru lady)"And Then?"
I wonder...If slashdot was using google's search engine API, would Taco have been able to find the previous story already posted about Google releasing their API?
'Nuff said.
...And slashdot announces that goolge has released an api for thir database not once, but twice.
Way to go, dorks.
This helps, but not much...
Think about it. With the scarcity of domain names lately, chances are that while the garbage email addresses may not be valid, more than a few domain names would be valid.
So then the spammer fills his database with these non-existant addresses on existing domain names. He then sends his spam to these addresses, and their mail servers not only have to process the message to determine that it's an invalid address, but they also have to bounce the message back as undeliverable.
IMO this is going to use twice the bandwidth, since you now have to consider the bandwidth used by all of those bounces.
You could always use some non-existant domain names for the garbage email addresses, but the spammer could just as easily check a domain name's validity before sending spam to it, making it trivial to remove all of the trash from his database.
Remember, the spammer couldn't care less about sending mail to bad addresses, as long as the good addresses are spammed as well. It's left to the poor sysadmin to clean up the mess.
I'd love to collaborate, but unfortunately i can program worth a sh1t, so....
If you're going to release this, just let me know what you plan to call it, and I'll keep an eye out. It looks really promising.
That's ok. If you kid keels over dead, you can always sue, right?
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/02/155
Not only can you sue for damages, but the company is also liable for $10000 per call if they refuse your do-not-call requests.
The story mentions that this is Washington state law.
Does anyone know what other states this law applies to? I'd love to do this, as I get on average 10 telemarketing calls a day.
Cool.
Is this based on a WinTV type card? Perhaps something driven by the bttv driver?
Where can I get this?
Yipes was just our secondary connection as well, so we're ok too.
It's a shame really. We always got great speed and uptime from them. Never had a problem actually.
I wanted to do the same thing at my condo development with wireless. It would have been perfect because all of the buildings are arranged in a circular fashion.
The only problem is that this is a community of mostly senior citizens (I like the quiet neighborhood) that are content to dial in to AOHell, and would have no need for faster, much less wireless access.
My company's a Yipes customer.
Here's what we got from them:
Dear Yipes Customer:
I am writing to let you know that Yipes has voluntarily filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the San Francisco federal bankruptcy court. Market conditions beyond our control prompted us to seek this temporary protection. Yipes plans to use this process to restructure our finances and balance sheet.
The good news is that Yipes has made arrangements for debtor-in-possession financing that will allow us to continue offering customers 24x7 service and support. Chapter 11 will protect our ongoing operations against lawsuits or other actions by creditors, while we restructure our obligations. This restructure should lead to a stronger financial footing for the company and ensure our long-term viability.
We remain committed to delivering a high standard of customer care without interruption. You can continue to reach us any time, toll free, at 877-740-6600 or support@yipes.com.
John Doe (Name changed) Chief Operating Officer Yipes Communications, Inc.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be a smartass ar troll, and I'm certainly no maths professor, but I'd really like to know how they're so sure that they're right.
I mean, with all of this wonderful math, we can't even predict the weather reliably. We can't predict hurricaines or tornadoes, much less lightning or earthquakes.
And on that note, are there any massively parallel or distributed computing projects currently running to simulate the weather or the other natural phenomena mentioned above?