According to Fosspatents on blogspot.com, one of BT's claims includes: "Following a login or the transmission of an authentication token, Google "offers the list of items that the user is entitled to access", and retrieves any such items at the user's request." Doesn't that pretty much cover *any* web server where you login to gain access to whatever your account entitles you?
I like Hobbit/Xymon too. I had it running for about 8 years quite happily on an old DL380, single 733MHz cpu, 512Mb memory. I think the peak traffic it took was about 3500 status messages for 500 hosts. Almost all the messages were generated by scripts running on the server, grabbing web pages from all those hosts.
every business with a Web presence will have to incorporate 50+ different tax rules based on customer location
This has come up before, with Internet-based catalog sales. IIRC, there's more like 7,200 different tax rules to apply. Certainly around here there are different city tax rates in the nearby cities. My wife is looking into starting a small store, and as we're outside the city limits she would only have to calculate the state sales tax and not state+city sales tax.
Just because a road is on the maps, does not make it a public road.
Just because a road is on the map, doesn't mean it's even a road, public or otherwise. maps.google.com shows a road running past my house that's actually been a drainage ditch for the 14 years I've lived there...
I'm still waiting to hear a good reason for *needing* to have the results faster. From where I stand, I see "more verifiable" as always being more important than speed. I think the only folks that benefit from getting results faster are the media.
One of the big gains from tech like this would be the reduction in transmission losses.
Those losses are presumably contributing to global warming, unless the energy is going into loud humming or glowing-in-the-dark. Should be able to gain some support from the anti-global-warming folks.
There's one thing I don't understand: isn't Iran a big oil exporter?? If so, why don't they offer to shut down their nuclear program *and* their oil exports, and start building themselves some big oil burning electricity generating plants??
I think the worst IT class I ever took was a mandatory class in Structured Analysis/Structured Design, or something like that. The first couple of days the instructors showed us how do do various things, then on the third day there was a practical, where we ran through an example and everybody in the class had to contribute ideas and answers. Only, there were *no* right answers. Absolutely everything anyone said was wrong in some way. About halfway through the day this became obvious, so people quit contributing. Someone even pointed this out and *that* was shot down too. It was hard to believe that 25+ people (including me) had all completely misunderstood the previous two days of instruction, but apparently we had. It wasn't even that the first two days were crap. I think the instructors honestly thought the best way to teach their class was to belittle and humiliate everyone. And then they worked through the correct answer, and people started saying "but I said that already", and they were told, "no you didn't, you said this other thing, which was wrong."
I never did use the techniques they taught - it was an "all employees must take" class and it was completely irrelevant to my work at the time. Some PHB had the class on a list of qualifications that SysAdmins were supposed to have, so we all had to do it.
run the whole town off of steam pipes that they shove into the ground
Been there, seen that. There's a power plant near Lake Myvatn that pipes steam from the ground direct into the generator shed. I don't know how much of the country gets power from that.
They also have hot water feeds direct from the ground to holding tanks in the hills outside Reykjavik. The water temp is around 87 Celsius, losing a couple of degrees in the pipework going down into the nearby towns. The hot water provides heating for the houses.
I'm not entirely sure why ISPs hand out real IP addresses. Would everything be royally screwed if ISPs used the 10.x.x.x addresses?? I mean, most people don't run any kind of server at home, so they wouldn't even notice their home ip wasn't reachable from outside their ISP network. It might even help to improve the survival time of an unpatched Windows box, if it couldn't be attacked from China or Russia or wherever...
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If the law is applied equally, those routers *should* be confiscated, all the way out to the border. Now, if there was a way to ensure that downloads were routed through Washington DC, maybe it would be possible to cut off the gov't from the Intarweb...
I predict a rise in sales of old 386 PCs on eBay or wherever, to be used as decoys... I think my personal favorite would be to have the power wired directly to all external ports, so that as soon as it gets powered up it fries any keyboard, mouse, router, etc.
Note: I'm assuming that the people seizing the equipment would power it up to see what goodies they got.
Some things will just go rusty anyway... I used to work at a place with a state-of-the-art GEC 4080. When I started there, the techie running the system proudly showed off the brand new mass storage device which could hold much more data that the 2-foot-diameter 10Mb white frisbee type disks they *also* had in the system. Anyway, at one point in the summer, the A/C blower froze up because it was just a little bit too efficient at chilling the air. That wasn't a problem - just turn it off for a couple of hours, right?? OK, yep, that worked, and the ice-melt dripped nicely into a trashcan that was parked under the chiller.
So far, so good, not a big problem. Then the techie fired up the A/C again, lifted out the trashcan, caught it on something, and dumped the contents down the front of the cpu rack... I think the big white frisbee-type removable disks in the pull-out drawers survived, but the fixed disks didn't. They were taken away to be ground into dust (due to UK MOD data on them) and over the next couple of weeks, the paper tape punch/reader acquired a light coating of rust that it never recovered from.
They already gave away their methodology - they match names against a watch list. I just hope all the terrorists got the memo about not being allowed to use fake names...
Apparently your god has limitations. That's sad for you, whoever you are.
Fact is, he didn't create this world next week
Show me proof. No, really, I'd like to see it. It would appear that you don't really understand the meaning of 'omnipotent'. A truly all-powerful God would not be limited to forming a ball of dirt and then letting life develop on it. He might do that for some mysterious reason of His own, but He wouldn't *have* to. He could just as easily create a world with geological history and people with memories, so pointing to genealogy as proof doesn't really work.
Around here, even people *on* the access list don't get to go into the server room without a phone call to the guard from elsewhere in the building. Heck, you can't even get into the building without an access card, or someone going to the guard shack to check you in.
On the other hand, it wouldn't be too hard for a disgruntled IT worker to set up a WAP for someone to gain access, but I suspect the signal would be a bit hard to pick up through concrete walls and across 500 feet of parking lot...
All of which could have been created last week, along with 6,000 years of human history and the entire universe, by the omnipotent being of your choice.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out something that seems to have eluded the creationists, that you can't point to a specific point in time and say "God created everything *here*". If He truly is omnipotent, He could have created this whole sorry mess *next* week, along with everything we think we're writing today...
I (for one) find it hard to believe that making everyone remove their shoes at the airport has saved so much as a single life.
I'd have to agree to that. If anyone was caught with explosives/weapons in these "security" checks, the government would be screaming it from the rooftops, if only to justify continuing the checks. Instead, we hear of security screeners at some airport failing to detect 75% (or whatever) of fake bombs. I don't think serious terrorists will ever again try to take an airplane, because the passengers are likely to beat them to death or die trying.
So don't they "gate check" baggage any more?? I haven't flown in the last couple of years, but back then they would occasionally announce "the flight's full, so large carryons must be gate-checked". Those would be loaded last, then unloaded first so you'd pick them up on the ramp when exiting from the plane. This was particularly handy for moms with kids in strollers.
Or maybe Amazon just don't want to tell you the stuff you ordered isn't in stock, and it takes them a couple of days to get it in?? Just-in-time inventory management running a little slow...
Ahh, pre-boot authentication... You'd think that any company requiring laptops to have full disk encryption would want that. Not, apparently, where I work. My full-disk-encrypted laptop boots all the way to the Windows login prompt without asking for anything, even though there's a device driver loaded extremely early on. I know it's not talking to the company server either, because it'll boot at home with no network access whatsoever.
I wouldn't be too terribly surprised to find that people with desktops have encrypted disks too.
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According to Fosspatents on blogspot.com, one of BT's claims includes: "Following a login or the transmission of an authentication token, Google "offers the list of items that the user is entitled to access", and retrieves any such items at the user's request." Doesn't that pretty much cover *any* web server where you login to gain access to whatever your account entitles you?
I like Hobbit/Xymon too. I had it running for about 8 years quite happily on an old DL380, single 733MHz cpu, 512Mb memory. I think the peak traffic it took was about 3500 status messages for 500 hosts. Almost all the messages were generated by scripts running on the server, grabbing web pages from all those hosts.
This has come up before, with Internet-based catalog sales. IIRC, there's more like 7,200 different tax rules to apply. Certainly around here there are different city tax rates in the nearby cities. My wife is looking into starting a small store, and as we're outside the city limits she would only have to calculate the state sales tax and not state+city sales tax.
Just because a road is on the map, doesn't mean it's even a road, public or otherwise. maps.google.com shows a road running past my house that's actually been a drainage ditch for the 14 years I've lived there...
I'm still waiting to hear a good reason for *needing* to have the results faster. From where I stand, I see "more verifiable" as always being more important than speed. I think the only folks that benefit from getting results faster are the media.
Those losses are presumably contributing to global warming, unless the energy is going into loud humming or glowing-in-the-dark. Should be able to gain some support from the anti-global-warming folks.
There's one thing I don't understand: isn't Iran a big oil exporter?? If so, why don't they offer to shut down their nuclear program *and* their oil exports, and start building themselves some big oil burning electricity generating plants??
I never did use the techniques they taught - it was an "all employees must take" class and it was completely irrelevant to my work at the time. Some PHB had the class on a list of qualifications that SysAdmins were supposed to have, so we all had to do it.
Better keep their trainers locked in too, because historically they've been known to be the pushers...
Been there, seen that. There's a power plant near Lake Myvatn that pipes steam from the ground direct into the generator shed. I don't know how much of the country gets power from that.
They also have hot water feeds direct from the ground to holding tanks in the hills outside Reykjavik. The water temp is around 87 Celsius, losing a couple of degrees in the pipework going down into the nearby towns. The hot water provides heating for the houses.
I'm not entirely sure why ISPs hand out real IP addresses. Would everything be royally screwed if ISPs used the 10.x.x.x addresses?? I mean, most people don't run any kind of server at home, so they wouldn't even notice their home ip wasn't reachable from outside their ISP network. It might even help to improve the survival time of an unpatched Windows box, if it couldn't be attacked from China or Russia or wherever...
Reminds me of Dark Star.
If the law is applied equally, those routers *should* be confiscated, all the way out to the border. Now, if there was a way to ensure that downloads were routed through Washington DC, maybe it would be possible to cut off the gov't from the Intarweb...
Note: I'm assuming that the people seizing the equipment would power it up to see what goodies they got.
So far, so good, not a big problem. Then the techie fired up the A/C again, lifted out the trashcan, caught it on something, and dumped the contents down the front of the cpu rack... I think the big white frisbee-type removable disks in the pull-out drawers survived, but the fixed disks didn't. They were taken away to be ground into dust (due to UK MOD data on them) and over the next couple of weeks, the paper tape punch/reader acquired a light coating of rust that it never recovered from.
They already gave away their methodology - they match names against a watch list. I just hope all the terrorists got the memo about not being allowed to use fake names...
Show me proof. No, really, I'd like to see it. It would appear that you don't really understand the meaning of 'omnipotent'. A truly all-powerful God would not be limited to forming a ball of dirt and then letting life develop on it. He might do that for some mysterious reason of His own, but He wouldn't *have* to. He could just as easily create a world with geological history and people with memories, so pointing to genealogy as proof doesn't really work.
On the other hand, it wouldn't be too hard for a disgruntled IT worker to set up a WAP for someone to gain access, but I suspect the signal would be a bit hard to pick up through concrete walls and across 500 feet of parking lot...
All of which could have been created last week, along with 6,000 years of human history and the entire universe, by the omnipotent being of your choice.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out something that seems to have eluded the creationists, that you can't point to a specific point in time and say "God created everything *here*". If He truly is omnipotent, He could have created this whole sorry mess *next* week, along with everything we think we're writing today...
Personally, I think creationists are airheads.
I'd have to agree to that. If anyone was caught with explosives/weapons in these "security" checks, the government would be screaming it from the rooftops, if only to justify continuing the checks. Instead, we hear of security screeners at some airport failing to detect 75% (or whatever) of fake bombs. I don't think serious terrorists will ever again try to take an airplane, because the passengers are likely to beat them to death or die trying.
That would be so you can avoid the dangerous part of the flight - the actual landing- by climbing down the last ten feet...
So don't they "gate check" baggage any more?? I haven't flown in the last couple of years, but back then they would occasionally announce "the flight's full, so large carryons must be gate-checked". Those would be loaded last, then unloaded first so you'd pick them up on the ramp when exiting from the plane. This was particularly handy for moms with kids in strollers.
Or maybe Amazon just don't want to tell you the stuff you ordered isn't in stock, and it takes them a couple of days to get it in?? Just-in-time inventory management running a little slow...
I wouldn't be too terribly surprised to find that people with desktops have encrypted disks too.
3) Install Outlook, let it get updated, uninstall Outlook