Two minor yet important nits on the USPS thing. One, overnight "Express Mail" postage is $13.65. Two, sending express may be redundant, since most local congressional offices will receive mail the next day if you put a $.37 stamp on it.
That being said, perhaps sending it to the congresscritters' Washington DC offices may not be a bad idea.
As is pointed out elsewhere, the process is reproduced and accordingly tested with your own city water.
In the case of Anaheim, California, if I might use an example, water is filtered into aquifers via the Santa Ana River (an exposed river that fish shit in and birds swim in) and many reservoirs throughout the city (again, all open air), pumped out of wells, and filtered like crazy before it's released to the municipal plumbing.
Even those wells that some bottled water companies use have to go through that process before it's considered fit for something other than gray water or sewage filler. It has to be sterile before they put it in a carboy and put it on a truck for delivery to your door.
I mean, really, where do you think they're getting the stuff?
In this case, it's no different. They're just using the water from treated sewage and reprocessing it. It's no different than taking a leak into a reservoir.
Thusly the site, I suppose. People are starting to more or less be uninterested in them, unless they're trading the stocks for small gains.
The stock price has been gradually dwindling down, and I've noticed that previously they'd say something (with an additional "OBTW, Linux Sucks!" included in the press release), the stock price would get a nudge. That being said, a press release yesterday seems to be slightly related to an end-of-day rally yesterday which caused their stock to hit $3.64 at end of day yesterday, yet is still moot because it's right back to a few pennies above where it opened yesterday. Click here to see the five-day chart on Y! finance, click around to explore.
And yes, there was indeed an EOD rally today, how'd you know? =^_^=
The apartment complex I live at has similar problems - although our management company is the largest in Orange County, CA. All machines are running XP of some variant, however the IT department has seen fit to not restrict internet access and never did bother installing spyware proofing, AdAware, etc. Though they did install a commercial AV package. I wound up installing Spybot and AdAware on one of the boxen, and should check with the complex manager
I think it comes down to an important thing - it's a case of general ignorance of facts, but what's scary is that it's the system adminstrators that seem somehow lacking this key data in some cases. I don't know if it's some bit of arrogance that comes with an MCSE or what - but it's kind of scary how that works at times.
Quick recap on how this works for those unfamiliar:
A bill, when introduced, must pass muster with both the house of representativs and the senate in the form of a simple majority vote in both houses before being presented to the president for signing into law. That's an optimal scenario, however 'optimal' doesn't equal realistic. It might bounce between both houses for a bit before passing onto the president, the president may say no (in which case a 2/3 majority is required in order to enact it as law, overriding presidential veto).
Another user has pointed out that the Advanced option is under Edit|Preferences. Note, you must be root to do this - not merely 'su', but 'su -' at the bare minimum.
If this doesn't work, of course, you'll have to download and install, which is almost as painless as the upgrade frob. The red 'upgrade' icon may still be present, so you'll have to click that so that Firefox will find that all is well with the world.
Forget about the number of holes. Remember, this is still a 0.x release.
In otherwords, it's beta. This kind of stuff is going to happen.
Aside from that rather mediocre detail, rather than counting the number of holes in something, try and take a look at the period of time that exists between initial discovery and when the hole gets closed.
What I suspect is that it was a routine case of people stealing other peoples' stuff. If they were after the data, there are other more surreptitious means to go about this, but I get the feeling that they were more concerned with the hardware than the data.
The only thing I have that has the Microsoft brand name in my household is a mouse. WTF would I want to run ANY version of Windows at home, if I'm running Linux?
Now go away, Gartner, before I taunt you a second time.
First, PO boxes. Diverting all domain related snail spam to a post office box really isn't the purpose of putting a PO box in your whois record, it's to divert the attention from where your system really is. I for one really don't get that much snail spam or domain spam (more on that in a second).
So you get the PO box, for one reason - as far as the untrained eye without a legal proceeding is concerned, your computer with your domain is actually housed inside of a box that, at its smallest, is the size of a one foot thick index card. They need legal documentation to get your real address, and you in turn need to prove to the USPS where you really live.
The email address is a little simpler. It's easy enough to set in your/etc/aliases file (or whatever your MTA of choice uses) something like 'hostmaster' or 'hostslave' and have it divert to you, and in turn you just have either Procmail or your MUA of choice to stick it in a folder that you might check on once in a while. After a while, remove/change the address, change it in the whois record, and watch as the few spams that come in just kind of bounce.
In short, in my experience it's really not that much that you're going to get in the way of junk mail of any flavor. YMMV.
Slashdot Mirror
That being said, perhaps sending it to the congresscritters' Washington DC offices may not be a bad idea.
So perhaps we just start sending random emails to 'root@addlebrain.com' from nonexistant addresses?
In the case of Anaheim, California, if I might use an example, water is filtered into aquifers via the Santa Ana River (an exposed river that fish shit in and birds swim in) and many reservoirs throughout the city (again, all open air), pumped out of wells, and filtered like crazy before it's released to the municipal plumbing.
Even those wells that some bottled water companies use have to go through that process before it's considered fit for something other than gray water or sewage filler. It has to be sterile before they put it in a carboy and put it on a truck for delivery to your door.
I mean, really, where do you think they're getting the stuff?
In this case, it's no different. They're just using the water from treated sewage and reprocessing it. It's no different than taking a leak into a reservoir.
Next!
Thusly the site, I suppose. People are starting to more or less be uninterested in them, unless they're trading the stocks for small gains.
The stock price has been gradually dwindling down, and I've noticed that previously they'd say something (with an additional "OBTW, Linux Sucks!" included in the press release), the stock price would get a nudge. That being said, a press release yesterday seems to be slightly related to an end-of-day rally yesterday which caused their stock to hit $3.64 at end of day yesterday, yet is still moot because it's right back to a few pennies above where it opened yesterday. Click here to see the five-day chart on Y! finance, click around to explore.
And yes, there was indeed an EOD rally today, how'd you know? =^_^=
There's been a cybersquatter there since 15Jul2001, acording to whois.
Why, MSN of course. Because I'm just one of those weird lie-nucks people, and Microsoft is the best company in the world.
You know, all they have to do is pinpoint all the chemtrail conspiracy people and ask them to do the deed for them.
This isn't Murphy's Law, it's Finagle's Law.
In some places like California, that can earn you a 30-day notice to leave - which can be issued for any reason, including "no reason".
No, really, he's addicted to this crap. It's like he enjoys getting people upset at him. Makes me wonder what the cause was though.
I think it comes down to an important thing - it's a case of general ignorance of facts, but what's scary is that it's the system adminstrators that seem somehow lacking this key data in some cases. I don't know if it's some bit of arrogance that comes with an MCSE or what - but it's kind of scary how that works at times.
Quick recap on how this works for those unfamiliar:
A bill, when introduced, must pass muster with both the house of representativs and the senate in the form of a simple majority vote in both houses before being presented to the president for signing into law. That's an optimal scenario, however 'optimal' doesn't equal realistic. It might bounce between both houses for a bit before passing onto the president, the president may say no (in which case a 2/3 majority is required in order to enact it as law, overriding presidential veto).
Source: US History course, 8th grade.
Of course, that's just me.
If this doesn't work, of course, you'll have to download and install, which is almost as painless as the upgrade frob. The red 'upgrade' icon may still be present, so you'll have to click that so that Firefox will find that all is well with the world.
As always, YMMV.
In otherwords, it's beta. This kind of stuff is going to happen.
Aside from that rather mediocre detail, rather than counting the number of holes in something, try and take a look at the period of time that exists between initial discovery and when the hole gets closed.
What I suspect is that it was a routine case of people stealing other peoples' stuff. If they were after the data, there are other more surreptitious means to go about this, but I get the feeling that they were more concerned with the hardware than the data.
Now go away, Gartner, before I taunt you a second time.
FP?
You should notify your landlord about this. Plain and simple.
Good idea, but that's not really what a post office box is for as far as domains is concerned. See my post below.
So you get the PO box, for one reason - as far as the untrained eye without a legal proceeding is concerned, your computer with your domain is actually housed inside of a box that, at its smallest, is the size of a one foot thick index card. They need legal documentation to get your real address, and you in turn need to prove to the USPS where you really live.
The email address is a little simpler. It's easy enough to set in your /etc/aliases file (or whatever your MTA of choice uses) something like 'hostmaster' or 'hostslave' and have it divert to you, and in turn you just have either Procmail or your MUA of choice to stick it in a folder that you might check on once in a while. After a while, remove/change the address, change it in the whois record, and watch as the few spams that come in just kind of bounce.
In short, in my experience it's really not that much that you're going to get in the way of junk mail of any flavor. YMMV.
They'll mail a personal check... man, I hope they aren't going to write all those personal checks, that's gonna kill their arms.
Hey, don't fret. This just means that those who read directions will get theirs in.
Oh, quit whining about that, it's his baby!
Oh, yes it is.