An "MSCE" is *NOT* a college degree. It's a certificate meaning you passed a test. And they're worth little. Maybe you give the nod to the guy/gal that has one if you need to hire some kid to crawl around on the floor hooking up PCs, but that's it.
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You mean you have a battery for your CB radio? (I see your CB callsign in your sig. Or are you a no-code Extra? It's really the same thing.)
Is CB radio really useful in an emergency? I thought it was dead, and all that remain are trucker and gangsert wannabees yelling at each other with overmodulated audio.
This is dumb and dangerous.
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I would not recommend doing this. Batteries are dangerous and can overhead or explode.
Also the cost for these components is *much* higher than a $59 APS UPS.
However, if you wanted to roll your own you would ditch the inverter and simply regulate the gel-cel down to the +12, +5, +3.3, +2.2, etc that your computer needs, and use a DC-DC converter chip to get the -12 and -5volts.
That's much more efficient and somewhat safer.
You wouldn't want a person without a CS degree writing software; we shouldn't have folks without EE degrees designing power supplies.
How are you going to enforce this when the email comes from China and the sender claims the user opted in?
Nearly every spam I get (and I get 10,000 a day, no kidding) says "You have received this because you have opted in" or words to that effect.
Many of these emails were sent to "honeypot" email addresses embedded on a spamcatcher site. They couldn't possible have opted in.
I do a word frequency analysis on incoming "honeypot" spam and generate a fingerprint that's compared to email to be delivered to my inbox. If the fingerprint matches, I discard the email. I never had a false positive that I know of (I do spot checks).
To "Opt-In" really should mean that the user has signed up, and then responded to a confirmation email. Anything else isn't opting in because people often use false email addresses.
I think you're in the "rebuilt-toner cart" scam business and you're telling this story to encourage people to accept the order.
What isn't credible is that HP picked up the cartridges from you and told you to keep a few for your troubles. No way in hell would HP recommend that you use a rebuilt toner cartridge in a laser printer!
And nobody intelligent wastes time reporting stuff to the BBB. They're owned by the businesses they "investigate."
I listened to that MP3 a few times and I still can't understand the words.
Here's a transcription, as best I can figure it out.
Ohh! Sing along kids.
Tinsel Town Club x3
Who believes the average [inaudible] a criminal [inaudiable]
Disney and ??? showbiz friends, hugalguglalguglsg
Who blah blah blah and blah blah the rights we have today
huguaglguglugualg
We're all gay at the EFF
We love to hug our macintoshes and program in Java
DMCA!
DCMA!
See ya real soon
You should be angry at TIME WARNER, a true monopoly that wants to control every inch of the "entertainment food chain" from the movie studios to the set-top-box.
People who are "served" by Warner digital cable are paying more $$$ than ever before for poorer service. (And each TV now needs its own Set Top Box.)
AOL TIME Warner owns the magazines you read, the movie studios, movie theatres, 50% of internet users and nearly half of the cable TV customers.
It seems like AOL Time Warner has the EFF in their pocket, too! They convinced the EFF to attack poor Disney, which is struggling to compete in the shadow of the massivce AOL Time Warner monopoly.
The posting contained factual information, and links to reputable sources about the convicted felon who wrote "Carnivore" for the FBI.
If you read the original post, you'll see that the FBI chose a not-to-smart on-line sex predator (after all, he got caught!) to write their snooping software.
I was forced to work for this pervert for a few months . Everyone knew he was bad news, even before he entered a guilty plea for possession of child pornography including photos of infants.
Why are we letting pedophiles write software to catch criminals?
This guy is NO GENIUS! After all, he thought there really were young girls in an IRC chat room called "Dads & Daughters Sex" and he got caught!
Patrick was supposed to be an Internet Expert, yet he didn't even PGP his kiddie porn!
The Walt Disney Company lost $1Billion dollars investing in Patrick Naughton's company (his college roommate and best friend still works for Disney!). Now the FBI lost hard-earned evidence investing in Naughton's technology.
-Disney paid the price for Naughton's stupidity.
The FBI paid the price for Naughton's stupidity.
And THE AMERICAN PUBLIC did, too! By standing still while "pretty boy" Patrick was able to plea bargain by writing crappy software for the FBI, he got out of jail sooner and he's free to endanger more young girls, maybe even your son or daughter!
I used to like "AltaVista". Then "Ask Jeeves" came along, where I could ask English questions.
However, the best site on the web for getting a good answer to any query is the Oracle of Ya-Hoot
I am simply amazed every time I ask "the Oracle" a question and I get a good answer. You have to be patient...sometimes it takes days to get an answer, but I always get one and it's always goo.
I have no idea how it works. It's probably some AI thing or a neural network on a linux cluster.
...for Carpal Tunnel Syndrom is obesity. There are many sources for this, do a google search for "Carpal Tunnel +obesity" to see many, many different sites that mention this.
I play the piano for at least 2 hours every day, and I'm in front of a computer keyboard for another 4 to 6 hours.
Interestingly, the most uncomfortable action for me is mousing! If I have to do something like Image Editing for hours at a time, I have to take breaks or risk getting a sore hand and wrist.
I think the way you sit, how relaxed you are, and how fat you are are more important to working a keyboard without injury than the particular layout of the computer keyboard.
Pianists learn quickly that the way to get "velocity" and fluidity at the piano is not to waste any energy! Don't keep "pressing" at the key once it's down, just let gravity hold you hand on it, and don't move your hands and fingers any more than absolutely necessary.
The same holds true on a computer keyboard. Learn how to type properly. "Eyes on copy" with your hand in the proper position; Don't press at the keys any harder than needed.
...allowing OEMs to "customize" windows is bad news for consumers.
I just bought a Compaq PC that was "Enhanced" by Compaq. Most of these enhancements were annoying at best, and detrimental at worst.
For example, it came bundled with Roxio EZ-CD creator preinstalled. This breaks windows XP's built in CD-ROM burning that lets you simply drop files on the CD-ROM icon in the explorer.
It came with about 6 useless programs that all took up space in the toolbar tray. I spent about an hour getting rid of them.
The browser came with some silly browser-bar extensions (how often do I need to visit Compaq.com?) and the toolbar is set to say "Microsoft Internet Explorer--Enhanced by Compaq")
It came with some stupid imaging packacge preinstalled that broke the "filmstrip" preview mode that XP has.
Considering all of this, I shudder when I think of all the "enhancements" that vendors will add if given the chance.
Apple doesn't let vendors much with the OS when it sells boxes. Why should Microsoft?
Even if you want to be a sysadmin, why don't you go to college, or a junior college, and get a "liberal arts" degree, a Math degree, or some subject not directly related to CS?
I work for a Big Company, and we have folks from many different backgrounds, including degrees in Biology, Agriculture, Music, etc, working in the software and IT departments.
College isn't trade school. If you have the means to go to college after high school, do it. You'll be glad you did, and it may help your career in ways you can't predict now.
Just about 4 years ago, people like Patrick Naughton were telling me that I'm wasting my time with C++, and that Java would replace everything. (I heard that story before, 20 years earlier, with UCSD Pascal!).
Today, of course, C++ is the only choice for many real-world applications, and Patrick Naughton, Sun's Java Guru, is on the "Megan's Law" list as a convicted and admitted child raper
I have a domain that's ONE LETTER OFF from Yahoo. (Well, it has one extra letter).
Very often, wise-asses mutate their email addresses when posting to USENET with this additional letter, thinking they've stopped their spam. They haven't. *I* get it.
Of course, I don't see 99% of it--it's thrown in the bit bucket. However it is disturbing how much I get. Not only from email address grazers on USENET, but from people who use fake email address--often in my near-miss domain, and sites that gladly add it to their mailing list without a confirming email. Some of these are otherwise "reputable" companies, too. (This is so they can claim they have 4 billion registered users--easy to do if you don't verify!)
...that you linked to in the article appears to be an unnofficial site; at least the "faq" disclaims any connection to Stanford.
It's interesting, though, that according to whois, the same guy who runs that web site, also owns this curious site . I wonder if David W. Packard has anything to do with the Mighty Oracle of Ya-hoot?
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An "MSCE" is *NOT* a college degree. It's a certificate meaning you passed a test. And they're worth little. Maybe you give the nod to the guy/gal that has one if you need to hire some kid to crawl around on the floor hooking up PCs, but that's it.
Is CB radio really useful in an emergency? I thought it was dead, and all that remain are trucker and gangsert wannabees yelling at each other with overmodulated audio.
Also the cost for these components is *much* higher than a $59 APS UPS.
However, if you wanted to roll your own you would ditch the inverter and simply regulate the gel-cel down to the +12, +5, +3.3, +2.2, etc that your computer needs, and use a DC-DC converter chip to get the -12 and -5volts.
That's much more efficient and somewhat safer.
You wouldn't want a person without a CS degree writing software; we shouldn't have folks without EE degrees designing power supplies.
Nearly every spam I get (and I get 10,000 a day, no kidding) says "You have received this because you have opted in" or words to that effect.
Many of these emails were sent to "honeypot" email addresses embedded on a spamcatcher site. They couldn't possible have opted in.
I do a word frequency analysis on incoming "honeypot" spam and generate a fingerprint that's compared to email to be delivered to my inbox. If the fingerprint matches, I discard the email. I never had a false positive that I know of (I do spot checks).
To "Opt-In" really should mean that the user has signed up, and then responded to a confirmation email. Anything else isn't opting in because people often use false email addresses.
What isn't credible is that HP picked up the cartridges from you and told you to keep a few for your troubles. No way in hell would HP recommend that you use a rebuilt toner cartridge in a laser printer!
And nobody intelligent wastes time reporting stuff to the BBB. They're owned by the businesses they "investigate."
Here's a transcription, as best I can figure it out.
Ohh! Sing along kids.
Tinsel Town Club x3
Who believes the average [inaudible] a criminal [inaudiable]
Disney and ??? showbiz friends, hugalguglalguglsg
Who blah blah blah and blah blah the rights we have today
huguaglguglugualg
We're all gay at the EFF
We love to hug our macintoshes and program in Java
DMCA!
DCMA!
See ya real soon
If you want to receive a digital signal, you need a box for each TV set.
People who are "served" by Warner digital cable are paying more $$$ than ever before for poorer service. (And each TV now needs its own Set Top Box.)
AOL TIME Warner owns the magazines you read, the movie studios, movie theatres, 50% of internet users and nearly half of the cable TV customers.
It seems like AOL Time Warner has the EFF in their pocket, too! They convinced the EFF to attack poor Disney, which is struggling to compete in the shadow of the massivce AOL Time Warner monopoly.
here it says he's "helping law enforcement track down pedophiles
and here it says that the FBI's deal to have him write snoop software saved him from jail.
The posting contained factual information, and links to reputable sources about the convicted felon who wrote "Carnivore" for the FBI.
If you read the original post, you'll see that the FBI chose a not-to-smart on-line sex predator (after all, he got caught!) to write their snooping software.
I was forced to work for this pervert for a few months . Everyone knew he was bad news, even before he entered a guilty plea for possession of child pornography including photos of infants.
Why are we letting pedophiles write software to catch criminals?
This guy is NO GENIUS! After all, he thought there really were young girls in an IRC chat room called "Dads & Daughters Sex" and he got caught!
Patrick was supposed to be an Internet Expert, yet he didn't even PGP his kiddie porn!
The Walt Disney Company lost $1Billion dollars investing in Patrick Naughton's company (his college roommate and best friend still works for Disney!). Now the FBI lost hard-earned evidence investing in Naughton's technology.
-Disney paid the price for Naughton's stupidity.
The FBI paid the price for Naughton's stupidity.
And THE AMERICAN PUBLIC did, too! By standing still while "pretty boy" Patrick was able to plea bargain by writing crappy software for the FBI, he got out of jail sooner and he's free to endanger more young girls, maybe even your son or daughter!
However, the best site on the web for getting a good answer to any query is the Oracle of Ya-Hoot
I am simply amazed every time I ask "the Oracle" a question and I get a good answer. You have to be patient...sometimes it takes days to get an answer, but I always get one and it's always goo.
I have no idea how it works. It's probably some AI thing or a neural network on a linux cluster.
I play the piano for at least 2 hours every day, and I'm in front of a computer keyboard for another 4 to 6 hours.
Interestingly, the most uncomfortable action for me is mousing! If I have to do something like Image Editing for hours at a time, I have to take breaks or risk getting a sore hand and wrist.
I think the way you sit, how relaxed you are, and how fat you are are more important to working a keyboard without injury than the particular layout of the computer keyboard.
Pianists learn quickly that the way to get "velocity" and fluidity at the piano is not to waste any energy! Don't keep "pressing" at the key once it's down, just let gravity hold you hand on it, and don't move your hands and fingers any more than absolutely necessary.
The same holds true on a computer keyboard. Learn how to type properly. "Eyes on copy" with your hand in the proper position; Don't press at the keys any harder than needed.
And I got all excited when I saw that headline! "Finally," I thought, "now there'll be space to store all my pr0n!"
I just bought a Compaq PC that was "Enhanced" by Compaq. Most of these enhancements were annoying at best, and detrimental at worst.
For example, it came bundled with Roxio EZ-CD creator preinstalled. This breaks windows XP's built in CD-ROM burning that lets you simply drop files on the CD-ROM icon in the explorer.
It came with about 6 useless programs that all took up space in the toolbar tray. I spent about an hour getting rid of them.
The browser came with some silly browser-bar extensions (how often do I need to visit Compaq.com?) and the toolbar is set to say "Microsoft Internet Explorer--Enhanced by Compaq")
It came with some stupid imaging packacge preinstalled that broke the "filmstrip" preview mode that XP has.
Considering all of this, I shudder when I think of all the "enhancements" that vendors will add if given the chance.
Apple doesn't let vendors much with the OS when it sells boxes. Why should Microsoft?
While the "crackers" (who did nothing more than use a leaked password), should be held accountable, so should FORD and its executives
I hope each and every victim files a separate multi-million dollar lawsuit. I'd bet that juries would be very sympathetic to these cases.
I work for a Big Company, and we have folks from many different backgrounds, including degrees in Biology, Agriculture, Music, etc, working in the software and IT departments.
College isn't trade school. If you have the means to go to college after high school, do it. You'll be glad you did, and it may help your career in ways you can't predict now.
You mean you support what Patrick Naughton did?
I mean, 10 seconds of experimentation shows that http://www.msnbc.com/news/748889.aspworks just as well, and is at least 30% less messy looking.
Just about 4 years ago, people like Patrick Naughton were telling me that I'm wasting my time with C++, and that Java would replace everything. (I heard that story before, 20 years earlier, with UCSD Pascal!).
Today, of course, C++ is the only choice for many real-world applications, and Patrick Naughton, Sun's Java Guru, is on the "Megan's Law" list as a convicted and admitted child raper
Now that's funny!
Use C++ because Java is for Child-Rapers
So, pardon my french, I usually register as fuck@me.uptheass or something, and they take it just fine.
I have a domain that's ONE LETTER OFF from Yahoo. (Well, it has one extra letter).
Very often, wise-asses mutate their email addresses when posting to USENET with this additional letter, thinking they've stopped their spam. They haven't. *I* get it.
Of course, I don't see 99% of it--it's thrown in the bit bucket. However it is disturbing how much I get. Not only from email address grazers on USENET, but from people who use fake email address--often in my near-miss domain, and sites that gladly add it to their mailing list without a confirming email. Some of these are otherwise "reputable" companies, too. (This is so they can claim they have 4 billion registered users--easy to do if you don't verify!)
It's interesting, though, that according to whois, the same guy who runs that web site, also owns this curious site . I wonder if David W. Packard has anything to do with the Mighty Oracle of Ya-hoot?