Getting a patent is EXPENSIVE. I seriously doubt that whatever company she's working for is going to give this back to the world for the betterment of mankind.
I find them both funny too. The problem I have nowadays is that the second one is typical of the type of presentation of men that is prevalent in TV & advertising today. Men are portrayed more often than not as insensitive, stupid, dirty louts, who have women to guide and babysit them.
After having my kids taken away by a clueless judge and given to my ex-wife based solely on her qualification of having a second X chromosome (no amount of proof of lack of parenting ability would sway him), I have a problem with it.
If you think that any teachers work from 7am until 11pm more than once in their entire career you must be deranged.
I was married to a HS teacher for 17 yrs. Most teachers DO work 12 hr days. In the week or 2 leading up to midterms/exams, they turn int 16+ hr days. The last 2 weeks of school it was 20 hr days.
I hate the bitch for cheating on me and breaking up our marriage, but credit where credit is due - Most teachers are hard working, dedicated people. You have to LOVE the job to put up with the BS. I saw many people come, work a semester, then tell the administration they would not be returning for the next semester. They also spend a significant amount of their breaks readying for the next term or year.
You are the one deranged. They don't print enough money to get me to work as hard and put up with as much crap as they do.
Funny - I loved Firefly. Started watching Angel and bought the entire series, loved it. Went back to Buffy, bought the first 3 seasons, got bored mid-season 3 and quit watching. I would catch Buffy every once in a while when it was on the air, but it didn't catch my attention then either.
I think your analogy is flawed. You seem to be looking at this from a US point of view.
Prior poster mentioned that the Canadian courts have validated the P2P filesharers multiple times. There's a reason. Every piece of storage media has a *IAA surcharge/tax/extortion built in. Regardless of what it is used for. That money goes straight to the pockets of the media companies/*IAA. The charge is there specifically because the media COULD be used to copy music/movies/etc - DESPITE what it actually gets used for. For years, the *IAA has gotten tons of money for media that never had a scrap of music/movies copied to it.
Basically, the agreement the government made (despite the protestations of its citizens) with the media companies is now turned on them because every time a Canadian buys digital media, there is an inherent contract that they already paid for whatever media they want to copy to it. Law of unintended consequences. The *IAA whines now because they want everyone to buy media twice, guaranteeing that they can have their cake, and eat it too. Tough nuts for you *IAA.
It's like feeding a troll. He WANTED it to happen. All they had to do was use their brains just a LITTLE. Take him outside. He wanted the attention, and got what he was after.
They could have defused the situation by taking him another 15-20 ft and through the door. The tasering was completely unnecessary.
It's not just about "offensive" ads...It's ads that slow down your goddamn page loads, because the page waits for the massively overloaded ad server to finish loading its ad before the rest of the content pops up. Screw that.
Hear, hear!
That was my motivation - the ad servers/networks are too damn overloaded. Cutting page load times by as much as 90% says a lot about how crappy they are.
It isn't theft if I NEVER click an ad. I don't use them. No guilt about the site losing revenue they'd never get in the first place, so I streamline the process.
That would be a neat trick. I live in a college town (War Eagle!). 10 years ago (heck, probably 5) we had 2-3 used CD stores. Now there are ZERO.
I don't frequent pawn shops, but I suppose that would be the next thing. Hard to make a living selling used CD's when no one is buying them used either.
While the Clinton years did good to reduce the budget (Keep in mind he had to work with a Republican Congress - Funny how things work better when those 2 branches offset each other). They were not *actually* balanced budgets. We were still using Social Security as part of the numbers. Separate SS, and we're in a deficit again. Add in the long-term accounts payable of SS, and we were actually still deficit spending. Not to dismiss the effort, it was a good start.
Read here: The Great Surplus Debate for detail. "The surpluses belong to Social Security; there are no surpluses in the rest of the budget."
I agree completely, we need to operate in a (money in) >= (money out) manner. I don't know if we'll ever get a group of people in Washington honest enough (HA!) to make that happen, no matter what political persuasion they claim.
I think that there should not have been tax cuts 5 yrs ago. We should have taken the short-term punch-in-the-gut to the economy for the long-term benefits. A little every year starting then would have been far easier than the huge tax hikes that are inevitable in the near future.
Iraq is a cluster-fsck. We could have waited and had far fewer people die through sanctions and Saddam's attentions. (For the sake of clarity, I bought the "Lets get Saddam/Iraq" thing as much as anyone else, hindsight is 20/20) We are going to be a century working our way out of this one if we start correcting things after the next election (big "if" knowing how Congress works).
Ah well. Time to do something less frustrating and get a little work done.
I felt a great disturbance in the intertubes, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Half hour a day is fine even if it's moderate stress. The other half of that equation is diet. You can eat like a pig and work yourself near to death and lose weight. You can show some moderation in your diet, and still get good effects from moderate exercise.
I'm a case in point. I lost 50lbs last year. I was swimming 5 days a week, 1500+ yards a day, and being VERY good about my diet. I got to a point where I decided to see if I could do 10,000 yards in one week (haven't done that much since I was competitively swimming in HS, when I did a lot more). I did 10,600 yards that week, but damaged my shoulder in the process.
Since then, I cannot swim as much as I'd like to. My shoulder lets me know quickly if I'm overdoing it. I've put weight back on that I'd like to lose, but it's hard to do gimped.
Doubling the horizontal and vertical resolution gets you 4 times the number of pixels. Even if it could drive 4 1080p screens, that doesn't mean the timing logic is there to actually make a picture that makes sense. Most likely you would end up with a completely scrambled picture off a separate set of signals meant to drive 4 1080p screens.
According to the article, it uses IDEAS from those avoidance/recovery algorithms. Be sure that there are many patents covering MS's implementation, and that it will be incompatible with the standard algorithms.
I agree 100% that parents need to be aware of their children's activities. I fully plan on monitoring mine once they get to that point. I hope the prinicpal wins out. I do, however, have a problem with this statement:
"I hope the principal wins a significant judgement"
In today's courtrooms, it seems the awards are seldom in line with the crime. I would find it VERY hard to believe that there was ANY real damage done to the principal. Awarding more than attorney's fees and something small, but punitive enough to get the parents attention, would be a waste of time. A $5,000 judgement for the principal would hurt pretty bad to most families. The usual braindead jury award of $X million would be stupid and pointless.
It seems to me that the proper punishment for the kids would be to lose a few months worth of weekend time doing community service.
You operate under a huge misconception. The credit card companies risk very little. The online merchant who accepts a fraudulent transaction is the one who takes the risk. It is part of your merchant agreement that they can charge back any contested or fraudulent charge. You should worry about security - those fraudulent purchases add to the merchant's bottom line, raising prices to all of us.
I had a computer store for 8 years, I learned a lot about credit card companies the hard way. People who just don't want to pay for services can just call and complain to the CC company and voila! - No more charge and I'm out a hundred bucks. I even had a group of scammers calling one fall with stolen CC #'s and purchasing laptops to ship out of state (we are near a military base and the stories they used made sense at the time). I got hit with over $20,000 worth of fraudulent purchases over a couple of months before we got the first inquiry from the CC companies about them and figured out what was going on.
At that point, I quit taking phone orders. Required ID for every purchase from someone I didn't know. Imprinted every card, every time, even though we were doing electronic approvals.
The credit card companies get you coming & going. As a merchant, I had to pay 4% off the top when I did paper filing only. When I went electronic, the rate went to 2.1%. Add that to the interest & fees the consumer pays on any balances they carry. Add the merchant taking the risk for fraudulent purchases.
It's not just clean water, though that is a big piece of the pie. My parents spent 18 months in Mozambique doing missionary work. Diarrhea kills a LOT of children there. The important part is where it starts. In Mozambique, they don't have effective (or any) mosquito control programs. Nor do they have much access to anti-malarial drugs. As cheap as anti-malarials are, they cost too much for most of the population. Then you have to add to the problem that the hospitals don't have adequate equipment to sterilize everything, so it gets soap and water cleaning.
The best example I have is the story my dad told me about the security guard at the church (yes 24x7 security or everything would be stolen). This man's 2 year old daughter got malaria from a mosquito bite. The resulting diarrhea made him desperate enough to take her to the hospital. The IV of fluids she got helped, but she died shortly after from the staph infection she got from the needle.
When my parents went to her funeral, they were SHOCKED at the size of the cemetary. It was for children only. Dad said he'd never seen such a huge cemetary - it was 5 miles across. Every grave marker had a number on it. The marker for the little girl they were there to bury was #278,xxx. That is a LOT of children.
I don't remember the exact statistics my dad quoted me, but something like half of all children in Mozambique die by the age of 5. It would be even easier to provide mosquito control pesticides (which work quite well next door in South Africa, no anti-malarials needed), and the cheap anti-malarial drugs in bulk.
I'm no expert, but I'm a parent. I really feel for the people in these countries. It wouldn't take much to improve their situation dramatically. The other side of that coin is the rampant corruption in most African nations, which is a big stumbling block to getting aid to the people. That's a subject for another day though.
I don't know if you can turn down the power on those devices, but it sure helped us here. We have 138 Cisco 1200 AP's in this building. First step was to turn all of them WAY down. 20mw. Then tweak a few up to fill in. After that, I noticed some of the same kind of behavior you speak of on the device side. We run either Cisco or Intel cards primarily.
I found that turning the signal down to 20-30mw reduces the number of AP's that try to negotiate with you, and AP-to-AP handoff went a lot smoother. YMMV.
The main problem with this is that you'll end up with some nice cool servers at the bottom, and burnt up servers at the top.
Nowadays, you need cold air in FRONT of the rack. All our servers pull air in front, exhaust in back. We have vented panels up front to create a curtain of cold air that they can (more or less) pull in evenly through vented/grill doors.
Multiple points here to related posts in this thread.
Diesel engines aren't very practical for hybrids because they are not very efficient and certainly not clean till they are at full operating temperature. You would need to run the engine for 15+ minutes at load to get it there.
Modern TDi's are now PD (Pump Deuse). There is no longer a high pressure injection pump. The last generation of TDi's prior to PD were reaching injection pressures of 18000+ psi. The PD injector has a piezoelectric mini-pump (to really simplify it) right in the injector assembly. Incoming fuel pressure is the same as a gasoline engine, because all that's needed is to move the fuel to the injector. Now we're talking about a cheap (relative to injection pressure) pump. Design the pump correctly, and it should handle BD fine.
Somehow I think that VW says "We do not support BioDiesel" simply because they haven't dedicated the resources to test it thouroughly. I know plenty of people who have tens (and probably hundreds) of thousands of miles on BD blends or straight Bio.
The big problem you run into running BD after Petro is that it dissolves a lot of the Petro gunk in the gas tank and lines, depositing it in the fuel filter. Clogs it up pretty quickly. Most people switching are aware of this, and will either put a cheap filter in line for the first tank, or just be prepared to spend $50 on a new filter after the first tank of BD.
If I could get BD here I'd buy it. I have it in mind to make some of my own, but work, family, and life in general haven't left much time for it. I've read about it, and cooking it up and doing all the chemistry right takes about a month (to get nice, clean fuel).
If you're really interested in TDi's and BD, check out the forums at http://www.tdiclub.com/. There's an entire section dedicated to BioDiesel.
If they're more than say 5 levels below you, it's a dishonorable kill.
The exception is if the lowbie attacks first. Set a HK flag that stays on for 5 min or until death.
I don't mind the PvP server so much, it's just the groups of people who will gank a solo player 20+ levels below them for the sheer annoyance factor. Any more than a few levels difference, and you don't stand a chance against someone.
The honor system in its current form does nothing but encourage ganking. It's broken
Nice thing about PoE in the switch is that you have the ability to remotely power cycle a device.
I have 135 wireless access points and 100+ IP telephones in this hospital. If one freaks out and becomes non-responsive, I can shut the port down and bring it back up for a cold start. Doesn't happen very often, but I live 45 miles away, and it's a lifesaver in the middle of the night.
Also, the switch will auto-detect whether the device needs power or not. The injector panels I've seen are dumb, and will happily provide enough juice to fry your NIC if you happen to plug into the wrong jack.
Consider Microsoft's history and business practices and the reputation that has earned them. In the eyes of virtually everyone in the community, everything "Microsoft Research" does will be viewed as tainted.
iptables is awful - poorly documented and has a terrible syntax
I think it's a matter of perspective. I used ipchains first (yuk). After that, iptables is a work of art.
Granted, the man page isn't great, but be honest, I've NEVER seen a man page that really, truly did a great job of documenting things. Unless what you're documenting is very simple, real documentation is more suited for a website with howtos and examples.
Looking at the man page for pf, it looks straightforward enough. Being used to iptables, I like the way iptables logic works. Not having actually used both (due to BSD's generally horrible hardware support and documentation), I personally can't say for sure that one or the other is **really** better. Your argument sounds (to me) like one of personal preference rather than fact.
They both will do some very complex things if you get into the nuts & bolts. I have found the online documentation for iptables http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/ to be EXTREMELY good.
It's funny you should pass judgement on what is obviously a totally un-researched point of view. Have you read the Book of Mormon? Have you attended the church to see what they practice?
I was raised Mormon. I don't subscribe to any religion in particular any more, I can't resolve the conflicts inherent in every one I've looked at. The Mormons I know, and I know quite a few, ARE Christians. They add a layer of teaching, but that whole layer is nothing but reinforcement of what goes on in the Bible. It's not subtractive, it's addative.
I'd add more, but I have a family to attend to. Go Troll somewhere else.
Simple example. Say I am an ISP. I assign customer A a class C network 192.168.100.0. I assign customer B 192.168.200.0.
I set an ACL that says only packets with a SOURCE address of 192.168.100.x are allowed to come FROM customer A, and only 192.168.200.x are allowed to come FROM customer B.
If customer A, PC1 gets a trojan that starts happily spoofing from customer B's IP block, the packets are dropped by the ACL, and the problem is short-circuited at the SOURCE.
It's something that we were discussing doing when I worked at a large ISP back in 1998. It amazes me that ISP's don't do this now. It's so amazingly simple to do, and modern hardware can handle that kind of ACL with little load.
Even better, for ISP's that offer managed routers, set the ACL on the inbound Ethernet port.
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Getting a patent is EXPENSIVE. I seriously doubt that whatever company she's working for is going to give this back to the world for the betterment of mankind.
I find them both funny too. The problem I have nowadays is that the second one is typical of the type of presentation of men that is prevalent in TV & advertising today. Men are portrayed more often than not as insensitive, stupid, dirty louts, who have women to guide and babysit them.
After having my kids taken away by a clueless judge and given to my ex-wife based solely on her qualification of having a second X chromosome (no amount of proof of lack of parenting ability would sway him), I have a problem with it.
If you think that any teachers work from 7am until 11pm more than once in their entire career you must be deranged.
I was married to a HS teacher for 17 yrs. Most teachers DO work 12 hr days. In the week or 2 leading up to midterms/exams, they turn int 16+ hr days. The last 2 weeks of school it was 20 hr days.
I hate the bitch for cheating on me and breaking up our marriage, but credit where credit is due - Most teachers are hard working, dedicated people. You have to LOVE the job to put up with the BS. I saw many people come, work a semester, then tell the administration they would not be returning for the next semester. They also spend a significant amount of their breaks readying for the next term or year.
You are the one deranged. They don't print enough money to get me to work as hard and put up with as much crap as they do.
Funny - I loved Firefly. Started watching Angel and bought the entire series, loved it. Went back to Buffy, bought the first 3 seasons, got bored mid-season 3 and quit watching. I would catch Buffy every once in a while when it was on the air, but it didn't catch my attention then either.
I think your analogy is flawed. You seem to be looking at this from a US point of view.
Prior poster mentioned that the Canadian courts have validated the P2P filesharers multiple times. There's a reason. Every piece of storage media has a *IAA surcharge/tax/extortion built in. Regardless of what it is used for. That money goes straight to the pockets of the media companies/*IAA. The charge is there specifically because the media COULD be used to copy music/movies/etc - DESPITE what it actually gets used for. For years, the *IAA has gotten tons of money for media that never had a scrap of music/movies copied to it.
Basically, the agreement the government made (despite the protestations of its citizens) with the media companies is now turned on them because every time a Canadian buys digital media, there is an inherent contract that they already paid for whatever media they want to copy to it. Law of unintended consequences. The *IAA whines now because they want everyone to buy media twice, guaranteeing that they can have their cake, and eat it too. Tough nuts for you *IAA.
It's like feeding a troll. He WANTED it to happen. All they had to do was use their brains just a LITTLE. Take him outside. He wanted the attention, and got what he was after. They could have defused the situation by taking him another 15-20 ft and through the door. The tasering was completely unnecessary.
It's not just about "offensive" ads...It's ads that slow down your goddamn page loads, because the page waits for the massively overloaded ad server to finish loading its ad before the rest of the content pops up. Screw that.
Hear, hear!
That was my motivation - the ad servers/networks are too damn overloaded. Cutting page load times by as much as 90% says a lot about how crappy they are.
It isn't theft if I NEVER click an ad. I don't use them. No guilt about the site losing revenue they'd never get in the first place, so I streamline the process.
That would be a neat trick. I live in a college town (War Eagle!). 10 years ago (heck, probably 5) we had 2-3 used CD stores. Now there are ZERO.
I don't frequent pawn shops, but I suppose that would be the next thing. Hard to make a living selling used CD's when no one is buying them used either.
While the Clinton years did good to reduce the budget (Keep in mind he had to work with a Republican Congress - Funny how things work better when those 2 branches offset each other). They were not *actually* balanced budgets. We were still using Social Security as part of the numbers. Separate SS, and we're in a deficit again. Add in the long-term accounts payable of SS, and we were actually still deficit spending. Not to dismiss the effort, it was a good start.
Read here: The Great Surplus Debate for detail. "The surpluses belong to Social Security; there are no surpluses in the rest of the budget."
I agree completely, we need to operate in a (money in) >= (money out) manner. I don't know if we'll ever get a group of people in Washington honest enough (HA!) to make that happen, no matter what political persuasion they claim.
I think that there should not have been tax cuts 5 yrs ago. We should have taken the short-term punch-in-the-gut to the economy for the long-term benefits. A little every year starting then would have been far easier than the huge tax hikes that are inevitable in the near future.
Iraq is a cluster-fsck. We could have waited and had far fewer people die through sanctions and Saddam's attentions. (For the sake of clarity, I bought the "Lets get Saddam/Iraq" thing as much as anyone else, hindsight is 20/20) We are going to be a century working our way out of this one if we start correcting things after the next election (big "if" knowing how Congress works).
Ah well. Time to do something less frustrating and get a little work done.
I felt a great disturbance in the intertubes, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Half hour a day is fine even if it's moderate stress. The other half of that equation is diet. You can eat like a pig and work yourself near to death and lose weight. You can show some moderation in your diet, and still get good effects from moderate exercise.
I'm a case in point. I lost 50lbs last year. I was swimming 5 days a week, 1500+ yards a day, and being VERY good about my diet. I got to a point where I decided to see if I could do 10,000 yards in one week (haven't done that much since I was competitively swimming in HS, when I did a lot more). I did 10,600 yards that week, but damaged my shoulder in the process.
Since then, I cannot swim as much as I'd like to. My shoulder lets me know quickly if I'm overdoing it. I've put weight back on that I'd like to lose, but it's hard to do gimped.
Doubling the horizontal and vertical resolution gets you 4 times the number of pixels. Even if it could drive 4 1080p screens, that doesn't mean the timing logic is there to actually make a picture that makes sense. Most likely you would end up with a completely scrambled picture off a separate set of signals meant to drive 4 1080p screens.
According to the article, it uses IDEAS from those avoidance/recovery algorithms. Be sure that there are many patents covering MS's implementation, and that it will be incompatible with the standard algorithms.
I agree 100% that parents need to be aware of their children's activities. I fully plan on monitoring mine once they get to that point. I hope the prinicpal wins out. I do, however, have a problem with this statement:
"I hope the principal wins a significant judgement"
In today's courtrooms, it seems the awards are seldom in line with the crime. I would find it VERY hard to believe that there was ANY real damage done to the principal. Awarding more than attorney's fees and something small, but punitive enough to get the parents attention, would be a waste of time. A $5,000 judgement for the principal would hurt pretty bad to most families. The usual braindead jury award of $X million would be stupid and pointless.
It seems to me that the proper punishment for the kids would be to lose a few months worth of weekend time doing community service.
You operate under a huge misconception. The credit card companies risk very little. The online merchant who accepts a fraudulent transaction is the one who takes the risk. It is part of your merchant agreement that they can charge back any contested or fraudulent charge. You should worry about security - those fraudulent purchases add to the merchant's bottom line, raising prices to all of us.
I had a computer store for 8 years, I learned a lot about credit card companies the hard way. People who just don't want to pay for services can just call and complain to the CC company and voila! - No more charge and I'm out a hundred bucks. I even had a group of scammers calling one fall with stolen CC #'s and purchasing laptops to ship out of state (we are near a military base and the stories they used made sense at the time). I got hit with over $20,000 worth of fraudulent purchases over a couple of months before we got the first inquiry from the CC companies about them and figured out what was going on.
At that point, I quit taking phone orders. Required ID for every purchase from someone I didn't know. Imprinted every card, every time, even though we were doing electronic approvals.
The credit card companies get you coming & going. As a merchant, I had to pay 4% off the top when I did paper filing only. When I went electronic, the rate went to 2.1%. Add that to the interest & fees the consumer pays on any balances they carry. Add the merchant taking the risk for fraudulent purchases.
Where exactly do the CC companies take losses?
It's not just clean water, though that is a big piece of the pie. My parents spent 18 months in Mozambique doing missionary work. Diarrhea kills a LOT of children there. The important part is where it starts. In Mozambique, they don't have effective (or any) mosquito control programs. Nor do they have much access to anti-malarial drugs. As cheap as anti-malarials are, they cost too much for most of the population. Then you have to add to the problem that the hospitals don't have adequate equipment to sterilize everything, so it gets soap and water cleaning.
The best example I have is the story my dad told me about the security guard at the church (yes 24x7 security or everything would be stolen). This man's 2 year old daughter got malaria from a mosquito bite. The resulting diarrhea made him desperate enough to take her to the hospital. The IV of fluids she got helped, but she died shortly after from the staph infection she got from the needle.
When my parents went to her funeral, they were SHOCKED at the size of the cemetary. It was for children only. Dad said he'd never seen such a huge cemetary - it was 5 miles across. Every grave marker had a number on it. The marker for the little girl they were there to bury was #278,xxx. That is a LOT of children.
I don't remember the exact statistics my dad quoted me, but something like half of all children in Mozambique die by the age of 5. It would be even easier to provide mosquito control pesticides (which work quite well next door in South Africa, no anti-malarials needed), and the cheap anti-malarial drugs in bulk.
I'm no expert, but I'm a parent. I really feel for the people in these countries. It wouldn't take much to improve their situation dramatically. The other side of that coin is the rampant corruption in most African nations, which is a big stumbling block to getting aid to the people. That's a subject for another day though.
I don't know if you can turn down the power on those devices, but it sure helped us here. We have 138 Cisco 1200 AP's in this building. First step was to turn all of them WAY down. 20mw. Then tweak a few up to fill in. After that, I noticed some of the same kind of behavior you speak of on the device side. We run either Cisco or Intel cards primarily.
I found that turning the signal down to 20-30mw reduces the number of AP's that try to negotiate with you, and AP-to-AP handoff went a lot smoother. YMMV.
The main problem with this is that you'll end up with some nice cool servers at the bottom, and burnt up servers at the top.
Nowadays, you need cold air in FRONT of the rack. All our servers pull air in front, exhaust in back. We have vented panels up front to create a curtain of cold air that they can (more or less) pull in evenly through vented/grill doors.
Multiple points here to related posts in this thread.
Diesel engines aren't very practical for hybrids because they are not very efficient and certainly not clean till they are at full operating temperature. You would need to run the engine for 15+ minutes at load to get it there.
Modern TDi's are now PD (Pump Deuse). There is no longer a high pressure injection pump. The last generation of TDi's prior to PD were reaching injection pressures of 18000+ psi. The PD injector has a piezoelectric mini-pump (to really simplify it) right in the injector assembly. Incoming fuel pressure is the same as a gasoline engine, because all that's needed is to move the fuel to the injector. Now we're talking about a cheap (relative to injection pressure) pump. Design the pump correctly, and it should handle BD fine.
Somehow I think that VW says "We do not support BioDiesel" simply because they haven't dedicated the resources to test it thouroughly. I know plenty of people who have tens (and probably hundreds) of thousands of miles on BD blends or straight Bio.
The big problem you run into running BD after Petro is that it dissolves a lot of the Petro gunk in the gas tank and lines, depositing it in the fuel filter. Clogs it up pretty quickly. Most people switching are aware of this, and will either put a cheap filter in line for the first tank, or just be prepared to spend $50 on a new filter after the first tank of BD.
If I could get BD here I'd buy it. I have it in mind to make some of my own, but work, family, and life in general haven't left much time for it. I've read about it, and cooking it up and doing all the chemistry right takes about a month (to get nice, clean fuel).
If you're really interested in TDi's and BD, check out the forums at http://www.tdiclub.com/. There's an entire section dedicated to BioDiesel.
Set a level range, and a flag.
If they're more than say 5 levels below you, it's a dishonorable kill.
The exception is if the lowbie attacks first. Set a HK flag that stays on for 5 min or until death.
I don't mind the PvP server so much, it's just the groups of people who will gank a solo player 20+ levels below them for the sheer annoyance factor. Any more than a few levels difference, and you don't stand a chance against someone.
The honor system in its current form does nothing but encourage ganking. It's broken
Nice thing about PoE in the switch is that you have the ability to remotely power cycle a device.
I have 135 wireless access points and 100+ IP telephones in this hospital. If one freaks out and becomes non-responsive, I can shut the port down and bring it back up for a cold start. Doesn't happen very often, but I live 45 miles away, and it's a lifesaver in the middle of the night.
Also, the switch will auto-detect whether the device needs power or not. The injector panels I've seen are dumb, and will happily provide enough juice to fry your NIC if you happen to plug into the wrong jack.
Consider Microsoft's history and business practices and the reputation that has earned them. In the eyes of virtually everyone in the community, everything "Microsoft Research" does will be viewed as tainted.
iptables is awful - poorly documented and has a terrible syntax
I think it's a matter of perspective. I used ipchains first (yuk). After that, iptables is a work of art.
Granted, the man page isn't great, but be honest, I've NEVER seen a man page that really, truly did a great job of documenting things. Unless what you're documenting is very simple, real documentation is more suited for a website with howtos and examples.
Looking at the man page for pf, it looks straightforward enough. Being used to iptables, I like the way iptables logic works. Not having actually used both (due to BSD's generally horrible hardware support and documentation), I personally can't say for sure that one or the other is **really** better. Your argument sounds (to me) like one of personal preference rather than fact.
They both will do some very complex things if you get into the nuts & bolts. I have found the online documentation for iptables http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/ to be EXTREMELY good.
It's funny you should pass judgement on what is obviously a totally un-researched point of view. Have you read the Book of Mormon? Have you attended the church to see what they practice?
I was raised Mormon. I don't subscribe to any religion in particular any more, I can't resolve the conflicts inherent in every one I've looked at. The Mormons I know, and I know quite a few, ARE Christians. They add a layer of teaching, but that whole layer is nothing but reinforcement of what goes on in the Bible. It's not subtractive, it's addative.
I'd add more, but I have a family to attend to. Go Troll somewhere else.
You ENTIRELY missed the point.
Simple example. Say I am an ISP. I assign customer A a class C network 192.168.100.0. I assign customer B 192.168.200.0.
I set an ACL that says only packets with a SOURCE address of 192.168.100.x are allowed to come FROM customer A, and only 192.168.200.x are allowed to come FROM customer B.
If customer A, PC1 gets a trojan that starts happily spoofing from customer B's IP block, the packets are dropped by the ACL, and the problem is short-circuited at the SOURCE.
It's something that we were discussing doing when I worked at a large ISP back in 1998. It amazes me that ISP's don't do this now. It's so amazingly simple to do, and modern hardware can handle that kind of ACL with little load.
Even better, for ISP's that offer managed routers, set the ACL on the inbound Ethernet port.