But besides operating in a vacuum, they also have a much higher impulse? (correct terminology?) So if you want to drag-race, (fastest to hit mach 2, etc) shouldn't you be able to beat out a jet or any other technology with a rocket?
The question I have is won't they quickly hit the human limit? People can take what, 9G's of continuous acceleration? Once you hit that it doesn't matter how much you can improve on your design if it's going to kill the pilot or is at least guaranteed to black them out.
Divers change their gas mix (add nitrogen iirc) when going to depths to prevent "the bends". Is there anything like that possible to mitigate the effects of high G's? Hurry up Star Trek, we need those Inertial Dampers.
Ship building in early and mid WW2 was a race to make ships faster than the U-boats could sink them. Keep trading quality for quantity until the number that sink on their own approaches the number that the enemy sinks for you, and you have hit the right tradeoff.
I wonder how many of those ships made in the early supply of Britain survived more than a couple crossings before soaking up a torpedo? Need to find some statistics on how many ships simply sank due to defect vs attack.
too true. I can put "requires FTL drive" on a car tire I sell, and that does not make it illegal for you to buy it and install on your Ford.
All that accomplishes is if I complain that I can't go at least.5c on your tire that I don't have any grounds to complain about it not performing as described, since you didn't meet the specified requirements..
Sounds like when a country invades and takes over, ousts the government and replaces it with their own, and then wants a cease-fire with the citizens? They don't want to end hostilities. They've already committed all the atrocities and they are trying to escape retribution.
That's like someone shooting you and then trying to declare an armistice as you reach for YOUR revolver.
Ya right.
We'll take the cease-fire after the standard is struck down, thank you.
The one ship that did get released only paid 60 grand to get out of hock. I can't imagine that covering the cost to repair the cable, let alone the loss incurred by the cutting of the cable.
I wonder how much that cost the internet providers... one would assume that whoever they leased the pipe from had to be given an alternate service, paid for by the company owning the cables that were cut, since they were likely under contract to provide the service. That can't have been cheap. Unless they used another line they owned, but still you'd think they would have to compensate their customers somewhat for the severe degradation of services and the downtime?
I work two jobs with two email addresses, and also have my own mailserver plus another email address from my ISP. I would never send personal information from either of my work email addresses. The same would go for a phone conversation, I don't use the work phones to make personal phonecalls of a private nature. I may call during my lunch break to arrange a plumber's appointment etc, but never anything "private".
Using resources of your employer, provided for the purpose of getting your job done, for private personal things is just a bad idea all around. Just because your phone or email at home is private does not mean anyone's phone or anyone's email is private for YOU.
It unfortunately comes as a surprise to me that there are many that believe to the contrary, from both sides of the fence. We're always reading about someone that got busted doing something patently stupid, like making a drug deal over the company phone, or conducting for corporate espionage over the company email.
But then recently I was surprised that when an employee left, the owner did not want us to forward her email to her replacement, because it may contain personal information. That totally took me by surprise, as I thought that any employer would see no expectation of privacy in the company email.
I dunno. To me these things seem like common sense, but you know how that goes. That reminds me of the story of the interviewee that took a personal call on his cell phone during a job interview, and asked the interviewer to leave the room to give him some privacy on his call. For things like that I have to ask, "What do you think you're there for? For your employer, or for yourself?"
I suppose now there will be someone complaining, "But I don't have my own email address." Just because you don't have any means of privacy arranged for yourself does not mean you can just declare privacy anywhere else you find convenient. That's like trying to change clothes in the middle of a public park, and expecting everyone to "look the other way" for you. It's not the world's obligation to provide you with privacy, take ownership of yourself.
First off as a dealer you should not allow anyone to test drive without proof of insurance and license. Your dealer lot insurance may cover an uninsured/unlicensed driver's accident, (I've been hit by someone that way before) but your insurance co is not going to like you after the fact. That license has your name and picture on it. You should at least record their name. Better would be a photocopy of both before you give them the keys.
Second, why are they letting someone go for a test drive unaccompanied by someone from the dealership, someone they don't personally know?
This should not have happened in the first place. I can't say I would have felt sorry for them had it not gone this well. It does not set a good example to show how you can be stupid and get away with it due to the marvels of modern technology.
I personally hope their lot insurance rates go through the roof for a year over this. Roundabouts, it's people doing stupid things like this and NOT getting lucky that result in MY rates going up to spread the loss coverage.
There are also several titles that will not INSTALL under OS X unless you are logged in as an administrator. Some of them simply cry and die and tell you to login as an admin, and others prompt for an admin l/p, and then either get an error because they are doing something semi-privileged like accessing an admin write only folder (without invoking the borrowed privs, just assuming you are an admin group member), or they fail to install properly. (installer gets a generic or undecipherable error) I've even seen Apple installers fail in this way.
Fortunately these are extremely rare under OS X. Lifetouch CDs are annoying doubly, they will not install unless you are logged in as an admin, then they botch the installation such that the (Shared) image files are only readable by the user that installed them. Since we are installing onto user desktops, and they are not admins, this means we have to login to install it, then we have to dump into terminal and fix the permissions on the data folders so the non-admins can use the stuff.
Canon print drivers will prompt you for an admin l/p, but then the drivers fail to install properly if you are not logged in as an admin. (no error msg)
Apple Remote Desktop Admin requires you to be logged in as an admin before you launch the installer, even though it will immediately be asking you to authenticate to perform the installation.
Getting back to Lifetouch, the LT rep was there and said like it was nothing, "well just make them an admin and it'll work fine." THOSE are the people we need to deal with. The really astonishing thing is this is software that many schools are using, and I can't believe that very many of the other schools' techs have figured out how to fix the installation like I did, so they have probably tossed in the hat and made their secretaries admins on their machines just to concede to the software vendors bad coding.
I am SO GLAD this is not a common issue on Mac like it is on Windows. Though with Vista's annoyatron at work I suppose they will have to start behaving.
If it costs you $500 to rent a chunk of botnet bandwidth for a few days. It blasts 1,000,000 of your spam. 25,000 of them survive all the layers of filtering (2.5%) and are viewed. 1000 of those (4%) get their link clicked on. 100 of those people (10%) actually buy the product, netting you $15 each, for a total of $1,500 in untaxable income. That's $1,000 total profit for your 30 minutes of work.
So of that 1,000,000 spam you sent, only 100 had to be actually bought for you to turn a big buck. (1-100th of 1%)
Do the math, that's why it works. Spam works due to cheap volume. Anything works if you can have cheap volume.
I went to that URL and followed the link and it seems to give you an EXE to uninstall their malware. But then are you that brave?;) I'm on a mac so that whole process was a lot less worrysome. I can send you the EXE if you like.
This has been awhile ago, but my grandmother wanted to get a credit card. This was her first. The application asked her to write down her SSN. In the generation she was brought up in, they hammered into you that you should only give this number to three people: your bank, the IRS, and your employer.
They went round and round for well over an hour. (this was a local store's card) Finally they determined that she was correct and they could not demand her ssn. So they had to dig into their books and call their manager's manger etc and find out the way to make the card with a special generated unique number that was not her ssn.
I have no idea how that process works now, that's been about 15 yrs ago, but I assume the same laws are still in place, but I'd wonder in cases like that if you refuse to give your ssn, if they can just refuse to do business with you, or if they are legally required to offer an alternative to turning over your ssn?
Are there more than just those three now? I thought for awhile your ssn was also on your driver's license, tho mine is not now.
is not so much what the identity is "worth", but rather how easy it is to steal. If your identity is going for say, $6 "retail", then it must have been very easy to steal for them to sell it and turn a buck at that price, especially considering the additional business risk. Hey that's lunch at McDonalds.
The reality is probably placing greater value on the actual identity and the money that can be scammed from it, it's just that there are so many identity thieves out there and it's so easy to do, that the market for stolen IDs is saturated.
This is what, "superlaser" nuber four in the last couple months. Always with a firing time down in the femptoseconds or something like that.
New rule. You cannot call it "world's most powerful laser" until you understand the definition of power. I don't care if you ARE dumping jiggawats into it, if the time period is dividing it by a trillion to come up with the power which ends up somewhere around a AA battery, I don't need to hear about it.
I just recently bought a set of Logitec Z4 speakers, and I am very impressed with them. They have a good deal of volume capacity (not that I blast them all the time), good bass, but also has good mid and high range as well. Not too expensive either.
Good for movies, but also good for gaming. Sends the cat out of the room at a high rate of speed when something gets blown up.
Not entirely on topic but people need to learn to live without their cell phones. A few people I know, anywhere they go, anything they're doing, their phone is ringing. usually several times. And they always have to answer it. We can be playing a multiplayer game and they'll just stop playing to answer the phone, sometimes costs us the game.
No amount of heckling them about their constantly having to answer the phone seems to help.
"I have to answer it. What if it's an important call? What if my wife just got in a car accident or something?" You can't reason with them.
I don't believe introverts regard IM the same way as face-to-face communications. I know a lot of people that are socially very shy in public, that practically live in IM or WOW etc.
I'd mod you up but you're at +5 already so I'll just add my 2c to your comments. "About damned time!" Got that straight.
A coworker got his xbox-live account phished several weeks ago. Although he's having a really hard time getting his account recovered properly, he's fully accepted responsibility for what he did. I showed him an example phishing email I got and how it takes you to chase visa and you look in the url and it's some random IP in russia. He had no idea to pay attention to that, but now he does.
And he 100% accepts responsibility for his actions. And that's how it should be. But there's not enough of that going around right now, too many people wanting to blame their own lack of education on the world. If you don't understand a system to the point that you are not able to use it responsibly, you shouldn't be using it.
That's why we have drivers licenses. I've seen the idea jokingly suggested from time to time that you should require a permit to get on the internet. And it's things like this that make me seriously wonder if they have something there. But then it's someone taking the responsibility away from you and accepting the burden themselves. They can be held accountable for giving you a permit if you don't know what you're doing. So you see, these types don't want to accept the responsibility for making sure they are educated, and they don't want to accept the responsibility for what happens to them as a result.
Can't have it both ways.
You either have to submit to someone else making sure you are competent, or you have to be willing to accept responsibility for the outcome of your incompetence.
Glad I'm not the only one that questions why this guy is complaining about a few tradeoffs he had to make to become a millionaire.
So all I need to do to become a millionaire is to lose some sleep, gain a little weight, and use my home as an office for a few years? Hey, I'm cool with that.
My next question would be, so... if you've made a ton of money, and are starting to feel the backlash, why haven't you handed the torch off to someone else to go retire somewhere and enjoy a relaxing, stress-free early retirement?
Close to 50% of the page space is ads. Very slow loading ads. And annoying javascript popups. Just start moving your mouse around and hover-triggered popups start going off like landmines.
How can people stand to go there on a regular basis?
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But besides operating in a vacuum, they also have a much higher impulse? (correct terminology?) So if you want to drag-race, (fastest to hit mach 2, etc) shouldn't you be able to beat out a jet or any other technology with a rocket?
The question I have is won't they quickly hit the human limit? People can take what, 9G's of continuous acceleration? Once you hit that it doesn't matter how much you can improve on your design if it's going to kill the pilot or is at least guaranteed to black them out.
Divers change their gas mix (add nitrogen iirc) when going to depths to prevent "the bends". Is there anything like that possible to mitigate the effects of high G's? Hurry up Star Trek, we need those Inertial Dampers.
Ship building in early and mid WW2 was a race to make ships faster than the U-boats could sink them. Keep trading quality for quantity until the number that sink on their own approaches the number that the enemy sinks for you, and you have hit the right tradeoff.
I wonder how many of those ships made in the early supply of Britain survived more than a couple crossings before soaking up a torpedo? Need to find some statistics on how many ships simply sank due to defect vs attack.
too true. I can put "requires FTL drive" on a car tire I sell, and that does not make it illegal for you to buy it and install on your Ford.
.5c on your tire that I don't have any grounds to complain about it not performing as described, since you didn't meet the specified requirements..
All that accomplishes is if I complain that I can't go at least
Sounds like when a country invades and takes over, ousts the government and replaces it with their own, and then wants a cease-fire with the citizens?
They don't want to end hostilities. They've already committed all the atrocities and they are trying to escape retribution.
That's like someone shooting you and then trying to declare an armistice as you reach for YOUR revolver.
Ya right.
We'll take the cease-fire after the standard is struck down, thank you.
The one ship that did get released only paid 60 grand to get out of hock. I can't imagine that covering the cost to repair the cable, let alone the loss incurred by the cutting of the cable.
I wonder how much that cost the internet providers... one would assume that whoever they leased the pipe from had to be given an alternate service, paid for by the company owning the cables that were cut, since they were likely under contract to provide the service. That can't have been cheap. Unless they used another line they owned, but still you'd think they would have to compensate their customers somewhat for the severe degradation of services and the downtime?
I work two jobs with two email addresses, and also have my own mailserver plus another email address from my ISP. I would never send personal information from either of my work email addresses. The same would go for a phone conversation, I don't use the work phones to make personal phonecalls of a private nature. I may call during my lunch break to arrange a plumber's appointment etc, but never anything "private".
Using resources of your employer, provided for the purpose of getting your job done, for private personal things is just a bad idea all around. Just because your phone or email at home is private does not mean anyone's phone or anyone's email is private for YOU.
It unfortunately comes as a surprise to me that there are many that believe to the contrary, from both sides of the fence. We're always reading about someone that got busted doing something patently stupid, like making a drug deal over the company phone, or conducting for corporate espionage over the company email.
But then recently I was surprised that when an employee left, the owner did not want us to forward her email to her replacement, because it may contain personal information. That totally took me by surprise, as I thought that any employer would see no expectation of privacy in the company email.
I dunno. To me these things seem like common sense, but you know how that goes. That reminds me of the story of the interviewee that took a personal call on his cell phone during a job interview, and asked the interviewer to leave the room to give him some privacy on his call. For things like that I have to ask, "What do you think you're there for? For your employer, or for yourself?"
I suppose now there will be someone complaining, "But I don't have my own email address." Just because you don't have any means of privacy arranged for yourself does not mean you can just declare privacy anywhere else you find convenient. That's like trying to change clothes in the middle of a public park, and expecting everyone to "look the other way" for you. It's not the world's obligation to provide you with privacy, take ownership of yourself.
Let us pray they don't have hopes of it rising from the ashes in the crater, in case it makes an abnormally hard landing.
First off as a dealer you should not allow anyone to test drive without proof of insurance and license. Your dealer lot insurance may cover an uninsured/unlicensed driver's accident, (I've been hit by someone that way before) but your insurance co is not going to like you after the fact. That license has your name and picture on it. You should at least record their name. Better would be a photocopy of both before you give them the keys.
Second, why are they letting someone go for a test drive unaccompanied by someone from the dealership, someone they don't personally know?
This should not have happened in the first place. I can't say I would have felt sorry for them had it not gone this well. It does not set a good example to show how you can be stupid and get away with it due to the marvels of modern technology.
I personally hope their lot insurance rates go through the roof for a year over this. Roundabouts, it's people doing stupid things like this and NOT getting lucky that result in MY rates going up to spread the loss coverage.
Though I have never seen the former, I have twice seen the latter.
Sad, isn't it?
There are also several titles that will not INSTALL under OS X unless you are logged in as an administrator. Some of them simply cry and die and tell you to login as an admin, and others prompt for an admin l/p, and then either get an error because they are doing something semi-privileged like accessing an admin write only folder (without invoking the borrowed privs, just assuming you are an admin group member), or they fail to install properly. (installer gets a generic or undecipherable error) I've even seen Apple installers fail in this way.
Fortunately these are extremely rare under OS X. Lifetouch CDs are annoying doubly, they will not install unless you are logged in as an admin, then they botch the installation such that the (Shared) image files are only readable by the user that installed them. Since we are installing onto user desktops, and they are not admins, this means we have to login to install it, then we have to dump into terminal and fix the permissions on the data folders so the non-admins can use the stuff.
Canon print drivers will prompt you for an admin l/p, but then the drivers fail to install properly if you are not logged in as an admin. (no error msg)
Apple Remote Desktop Admin requires you to be logged in as an admin before you launch the installer, even though it will immediately be asking you to authenticate to perform the installation.
Getting back to Lifetouch, the LT rep was there and said like it was nothing, "well just make them an admin and it'll work fine." THOSE are the people we need to deal with. The really astonishing thing is this is software that many schools are using, and I can't believe that very many of the other schools' techs have figured out how to fix the installation like I did, so they have probably tossed in the hat and made their secretaries admins on their machines just to concede to the software vendors bad coding.
I am SO GLAD this is not a common issue on Mac like it is on Windows. Though with Vista's annoyatron at work I suppose they will have to start behaving.
well you have to manufacture and plan it somewhere.
If it costs you $500 to rent a chunk of botnet bandwidth for a few days. It blasts 1,000,000 of your spam. 25,000 of them survive all the layers of filtering (2.5%) and are viewed. 1000 of those (4%) get their link clicked on. 100 of those people (10%) actually buy the product, netting you $15 each, for a total of $1,500 in untaxable income. That's $1,000 total profit for your 30 minutes of work.
So of that 1,000,000 spam you sent, only 100 had to be actually bought for you to turn a big buck. (1-100th of 1%)
Do the math, that's why it works. Spam works due to cheap volume. Anything works if you can have cheap volume.
I went to that URL and followed the link and it seems to give you an EXE to uninstall their malware. But then are you that brave? ;) I'm on a mac so that whole process was a lot less worrysome. I can send you the EXE if you like.
What's the best way to make this determination
FORMAT it, reinstall from media, and only run updates manually from burned CDs. Then you can be as sure as possible (tho not 100%) that it's clean.
This has been awhile ago, but my grandmother wanted to get a credit card. This was her first. The application asked her to write down her SSN. In the generation she was brought up in, they hammered into you that you should only give this number to three people: your bank, the IRS, and your employer.
They went round and round for well over an hour. (this was a local store's card) Finally they determined that she was correct and they could not demand her ssn. So they had to dig into their books and call their manager's manger etc and find out the way to make the card with a special generated unique number that was not her ssn.
I have no idea how that process works now, that's been about 15 yrs ago, but I assume the same laws are still in place, but I'd wonder in cases like that if you refuse to give your ssn, if they can just refuse to do business with you, or if they are legally required to offer an alternative to turning over your ssn?
Are there more than just those three now? I thought for awhile your ssn was also on your driver's license, tho mine is not now.
is not so much what the identity is "worth", but rather how easy it is to steal. If your identity is going for say, $6 "retail", then it must have been very easy to steal for them to sell it and turn a buck at that price, especially considering the additional business risk. Hey that's lunch at McDonalds.
The reality is probably placing greater value on the actual identity and the money that can be scammed from it, it's just that there are so many identity thieves out there and it's so easy to do, that the market for stolen IDs is saturated.
This is what, "superlaser" nuber four in the last couple months. Always with a firing time down in the femptoseconds or something like that.
New rule. You cannot call it "world's most powerful laser" until you understand the definition of power . I don't care if you ARE dumping jiggawats into it, if the time period is dividing it by a trillion to come up with the power which ends up somewhere around a AA battery, I don't need to hear about it.
it? you mean they. The last 9 articles are kdawson... wow.
I just recently bought a set of Logitec Z4 speakers, and I am very impressed with them. They have a good deal of volume capacity (not that I blast them all the time), good bass, but also has good mid and high range as well. Not too expensive either.
Good for movies, but also good for gaming. Sends the cat out of the room at a high rate of speed when something gets blown up.
they may be referring only to the physical parts of the printer, and omitting the circuits from that generalization
Not entirely on topic but people need to learn to live without their cell phones. A few people I know, anywhere they go, anything they're doing, their phone is ringing. usually several times. And they always have to answer it. We can be playing a multiplayer game and they'll just stop playing to answer the phone, sometimes costs us the game.
No amount of heckling them about their constantly having to answer the phone seems to help.
"I have to answer it. What if it's an important call? What if my wife just got in a car accident or something?" You can't reason with them.
I don't believe introverts regard IM the same way as face-to-face communications. I know a lot of people that are socially very shy in public, that practically live in IM or WOW etc.
I'd mod you up but you're at +5 already so I'll just add my 2c to your comments. "About damned time!" Got that straight.
A coworker got his xbox-live account phished several weeks ago. Although he's having a really hard time getting his account recovered properly, he's fully accepted responsibility for what he did. I showed him an example phishing email I got and how it takes you to chase visa and you look in the url and it's some random IP in russia. He had no idea to pay attention to that, but now he does.
And he 100% accepts responsibility for his actions. And that's how it should be. But there's not enough of that going around right now, too many people wanting to blame their own lack of education on the world. If you don't understand a system to the point that you are not able to use it responsibly, you shouldn't be using it.
That's why we have drivers licenses. I've seen the idea jokingly suggested from time to time that you should require a permit to get on the internet. And it's things like this that make me seriously wonder if they have something there. But then it's someone taking the responsibility away from you and accepting the burden themselves. They can be held accountable for giving you a permit if you don't know what you're doing. So you see, these types don't want to accept the responsibility for making sure they are educated, and they don't want to accept the responsibility for what happens to them as a result.
Can't have it both ways.
You either have to submit to someone else making sure you are competent, or you have to be willing to accept responsibility for the outcome of your incompetence.
Glad I'm not the only one that questions why this guy is complaining about a few tradeoffs he had to make to become a millionaire.
So all I need to do to become a millionaire is to lose some sleep, gain a little weight, and use my home as an office for a few years? Hey, I'm cool with that.
My next question would be, so... if you've made a ton of money, and are starting to feel the backlash, why haven't you handed the torch off to someone else to go retire somewhere and enjoy a relaxing, stress-free early retirement?
Close to 50% of the page space is ads. Very slow loading ads. And annoying javascript popups. Just start moving your mouse around and hover-triggered popups start going off like landmines.
How can people stand to go there on a regular basis?