The antenna is directional so this kind of range isn't that helpful unless the two end points are stationary.
Wrong. It isn't helpful unless one end point is stationary. Which is a big difference.
Case in point. I live on a fairly large property. I'm trying to extend my wireless signal to the edge of the property, where my hammock is, so I can work in my hammock. A directional antenna hooked to the transmitter on my router inside my house extends the range in whatever direction I point the antenna in, i.e. towards my hammock. Since the antenna increase pickup as well as transmit power, I just put it on my stationary router, and I don't need to do anything to my wi-fi card on my mobile laptop.
If I wanted to extend coverage to the whole property, I could aim my antenna at a distant repeater to get omnidirectional coverage from the repeater, while still increasing range from my base-station router.
I must say, this is more entertainment than you get at most movies! Someone answers each time I phone, but hangs up immediately. On the occasions that they are a bit slower, I can hear some background noise, and it sounds like a symphony of phones ringing there.
If nothing else, some of the employees will probably quit. Ah hah hah hah!
Comcast: To conclude, we here at Comcast know where the line is, so don't cross it, or your house might accidentally catch on fire. I'll take a couple of questions - you there, in the "Got DSL" shirt.
Customer: If you're the only ones that know where the line is, how will we know if we...
Comcast: That was it.
(Break to scene of Customer's house on fire).
As an other example, I love computers and I really dig Buffy, but I really don't care to know what CPU Sarah Michelle Gellar is writing her email with.
You're just jealous because you missed out on owning sarahmichellegellarscpu.com, the original source for uncensored celeb pics of Buffy's CPU!
No no, you have it all wrong. Brewers brew... it's tailors that sew. In rare cases of sewing involving wool and people's eyes, you will find that lawyers might be involved as well.
It's true that standards are important, but obviously spam has become an issue that the standards organizations have so far failed to solve.
If someone other than a standards organization, including corporations, comes up with a good idea that stops spam and solves the problem without causing more problems, then that sounds like a Good Thing to me.
I agree with your post completely, except for the part about it being trivial to do. An emergency meeting of the state legislature would not be trivial, nor would the amount of effort needed to convince the legislature that this is the appropriate course of action. It would be difficult to make this come around, but maybe a situation like this will be a catalyst.
There are a ton of posts with uppity, sarcastic tones about how this can possibly be a crisis. I would like to point out that these posts are short-sighted and the posters are obviously not thinking before posting.
If you own a pub, club, restaurant or booze store in the state, you have the potential to suffer serious business losses. Imagine the pub that has no beer. The rent and administration costs for pubs and clubs are astronomical... without anything to sell they will have serious problems.
Imagine if you were in a retail business, and suddenly all of your suppliers stopped supplying. You are boned. If it's a large retail industry, a lot of people are boned. This is that exact situation. Hopefully it can be fixed in a short time before any serious losses are taken. If it stretches into weeks, then there are going to be lawsuits, I can almost guarantee it.
An excellent point! This is a fine metaphor indeed. One might also note that dog crap can actually become apples as well! The requirements for this is that you:
Annihilate the dog crap into it's associated molecules
Bury said molecules in the ground for some other life form to use constructively
I think we can see that this is a logical course of action to take with all sorts of dog crap. Although, one might also note that if left alone to it's own devices, the dog crap will complete the process by itself!
That's being kind of short-sighted. Obviously not everyone would upgrade at the same time. If a domain didn't have a published list, then you simply would not be able to verify the sending IP, and could not filter based on this. As domains upgraded their mail software over time, this would become more useful.
And if Hotmail did it... well, just think how much spam uses spoofed hotmail addresses. It's not a permanent solution, but it's a useful stop-gap. It would be easy to implement for mail administrators, and make life for spammers a little harder.
That seems like a really good idea. If the major MTA's adopted this and made it a part of the configuration files, then new installations would be easily configurable.
If the big email services such as Hotmail and Yahoo adopted it, spammers would suddenly find that they have to spend more effort to send out spam by finding domains that didn't opt to use these rules. Even so, it would be a lot easier to filter a specific domain in China or Nigeria than worrying about every piece of mail from Hotmail.
with some MEPs even claiming to feel harassed because they are suddenly also being lobbied by numerous concerned citizens, rather than solely by industry representatives as usual
Nowhere in that article does it say this. micheal is once again voicing his loud uninformed knee-jerk opinions. If you read the article, the quote in question is:
Arlene McCarthy regrettably added that in all the years that she had been an MEP, she had not been treated in such an aggressive manner. She said she and her staff had been bullied and harassed.
However, this MEP is AGAINST software patents, and if you read the summary of her statements, she mentions that she has been lobbied aggressively by the corporate sector, not private citizens. If you think for a second, you'll realize that means that companies have been lobbying to her to support patents, and the harassment is likely from that sector.
Try reading the articles before posting jaded editorials.
Curse you, Internet! You've ruined my day for the last time. To the scrap heap with you, modem!
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Spoken language and written language are two separate entities when it comes to usage and process. It is not uncommon to find people who are very well-spoken in a second language, but cannot write a word. I would venture to guess that your student takes much longer to read something in English than in her native language, despite her fluency. The patterns of English words would still require more concentration and interpretation by her brain than those of her native language, which have been ingrained into her since she was very young.
You did not mention if she is a fluent reader/writer, speaker, or both? From what you describe I would say that when you said "fluent" you meant as a speaker.
Rings? Are you implying *all* servers involved in the replication process could handle writes rather than a master that handles writes and a bunch of slaves that handle all the read access? If this is true, point me to some docs:) That would be too cool.
You should run your slaves with the --log-bin option and without --log-slave-updates. This way the slave will be ready to become a master as soon as you issue STOP SLAVE; RESET MASTER, and CHANGE MASTER TO on the other slaves.
Note that if you decide to "ring" your server setups, then you are not necessarily helping distribute the load, you are simply creating redundant masters in the case that your primary machine becomes unavailable. Also, you'll have to write your own monitoring scripts. MySQL says they are working on some tools for this... I'm excited to see what they come up with.
The reasoning is sound, but the intent behind it is not. In situations like this, the user has no clue as to what they are agreeing to. It is a shady practice, as WhenU can specifically target UHaul's ads and replace them with their own.
If you ran a website that relied on advertising to stay alive, and suddenly all of your ads were being removed and users started seeing only ads for your competitors sites, you would cry "Unfair!" as well. It's like someone putting up their own billboards over existing ones for free.
If you saw Pepsi's logo every time you visited coke.com, you can bet this would have been a much bigger deal.
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The antenna is directional so this kind of range isn't that helpful unless the two end points are stationary.
Wrong. It isn't helpful unless one end point is stationary. Which is a big difference.
Case in point. I live on a fairly large property. I'm trying to extend my wireless signal to the edge of the property, where my hammock is, so I can work in my hammock. A directional antenna hooked to the transmitter on my router inside my house extends the range in whatever direction I point the antenna in, i.e. towards my hammock. Since the antenna increase pickup as well as transmit power, I just put it on my stationary router, and I don't need to do anything to my wi-fi card on my mobile laptop.
If I wanted to extend coverage to the whole property, I could aim my antenna at a distant repeater to get omnidirectional coverage from the repeater, while still increasing range from my base-station router.
Wireless rules.
I must say, this is more entertainment than you get at most movies! Someone answers each time I phone, but hangs up immediately. On the occasions that they are a bit slower, I can hear some background noise, and it sounds like a symphony of phones ringing there.
If nothing else, some of the employees will probably quit. Ah hah hah hah!
For ultimate points, he should have worked in Monkey HOT or NOT. That would be really impressive for the front page...
Yes, but do you want a million idiots calling you, thinking they are talking to god?
Wouldn't be much more than I get now doing tech support. And for all intents and purposes, to them I am.
You know, I could really use a new phone. I think I've got some darts and a net around here somewhere...
...this penny-arcade comic.
If we just change it to go something like this:
Comcast: To conclude, we here at Comcast know where the line is, so don't cross it, or your house might accidentally catch on fire. I'll take a couple of questions - you there, in the "Got DSL" shirt.
Customer: If you're the only ones that know where the line is, how will we know if we...
Comcast: That was it.
(Break to scene of Customer's house on fire).
As an other example, I love computers and I really dig Buffy, but I really don't care to know what CPU Sarah Michelle Gellar is writing her email with.
You're just jealous because you missed out on owning sarahmichellegellarscpu.com, the original source for uncensored celeb pics of Buffy's CPU!
The brewers sewed,
No no, you have it all wrong. Brewers brew... it's tailors that sew. In rare cases of sewing involving wool and people's eyes, you will find that lawyers might be involved as well.
It's true that standards are important, but obviously spam has become an issue that the standards organizations have so far failed to solve.
If someone other than a standards organization, including corporations, comes up with a good idea that stops spam and solves the problem without causing more problems, then that sounds like a Good Thing to me.
and at least they stop people from using carbon fiber rods to cheat.
Wow! Did you actually get to see the rod?
I agree with your post completely, except for the part about it being trivial to do. An emergency meeting of the state legislature would not be trivial, nor would the amount of effort needed to convince the legislature that this is the appropriate course of action. It would be difficult to make this come around, but maybe a situation like this will be a catalyst.
There are a ton of posts with uppity, sarcastic tones about how this can possibly be a crisis. I would like to point out that these posts are short-sighted and the posters are obviously not thinking before posting.
If you own a pub, club, restaurant or booze store in the state, you have the potential to suffer serious business losses. Imagine the pub that has no beer. The rent and administration costs for pubs and clubs are astronomical... without anything to sell they will have serious problems.
Imagine if you were in a retail business, and suddenly all of your suppliers stopped supplying. You are boned. If it's a large retail industry, a lot of people are boned. This is that exact situation. Hopefully it can be fixed in a short time before any serious losses are taken. If it stretches into weeks, then there are going to be lawsuits, I can almost guarantee it.
Then you guessed wrong.
I'm guessing you don't know a thing about the RIAA, and that you are a humorless blob.
- Annihilate the dog crap into it's associated molecules
- Bury said molecules in the ground for some other life form to use constructively
I think we can see that this is a logical course of action to take with all sorts of dog crap. Although, one might also note that if left alone to it's own devices, the dog crap will complete the process by itself!RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes?
A statement like that puts an unfair association on Edison. It's like comparing apples to dog crap.
That's being kind of short-sighted. Obviously not everyone would upgrade at the same time. If a domain didn't have a published list, then you simply would not be able to verify the sending IP, and could not filter based on this. As domains upgraded their mail software over time, this would become more useful.
And if Hotmail did it... well, just think how much spam uses spoofed hotmail addresses. It's not a permanent solution, but it's a useful stop-gap. It would be easy to implement for mail administrators, and make life for spammers a little harder.
That seems like a really good idea. If the major MTA's adopted this and made it a part of the configuration files, then new installations would be easily configurable.
If the big email services such as Hotmail and Yahoo adopted it, spammers would suddenly find that they have to spend more effort to send out spam by finding domains that didn't opt to use these rules. Even so, it would be a lot easier to filter a specific domain in China or Nigeria than worrying about every piece of mail from Hotmail.
with some MEPs even claiming to feel harassed because they are suddenly also being lobbied by numerous concerned citizens, rather than solely by industry representatives as usual
Nowhere in that article does it say this. micheal is once again voicing his loud uninformed knee-jerk opinions. If you read the article, the quote in question is:
Arlene McCarthy regrettably added that in all the years that she had been an MEP, she had not been treated in such an aggressive manner. She said she and her staff had been bullied and harassed.
However, this MEP is AGAINST software patents, and if you read the summary of her statements, she mentions that she has been lobbied aggressively by the corporate sector, not private citizens. If you think for a second, you'll realize that means that companies have been lobbying to her to support patents, and the harassment is likely from that sector.
Try reading the articles before posting jaded editorials.
Hey, there's a new Rush album and DVD coming out.
Curse you, Internet! You've ruined my day for the last time. To the scrap heap with you, modem!
Spoken language and written language are two separate entities when it comes to usage and process. It is not uncommon to find people who are very well-spoken in a second language, but cannot write a word. I would venture to guess that your student takes much longer to read something in English than in her native language, despite her fluency. The patterns of English words would still require more concentration and interpretation by her brain than those of her native language, which have been ingrained into her since she was very young.
You did not mention if she is a fluent reader/writer, speaker, or both? From what you describe I would say that when you said "fluent" you meant as a speaker.
Bad splelnig no logner nedes to hlod aynnoe bcak!
As if that's stopped anyone on Slashdot before.
Any article mentioning Scott McCloud must of course include the views of two of my favourite philosophers.
(P.S. If you read the news article that goes with it, you'll see that the comic is actually about micropayments.)
With IPv6 on the verge of being implemented...
Ha ha! Ah ha ha! Ha!
*wipes tear*
Thanks dude, I needed that.
Here you go.
The part you are probably interested in is this: Note that if you decide to "ring" your server setups, then you are not necessarily helping distribute the load, you are simply creating redundant masters in the case that your primary machine becomes unavailable. Also, you'll have to write your own monitoring scripts. MySQL says they are working on some tools for this... I'm excited to see what they come up with.
The reasoning is sound, but the intent behind it is not. In situations like this, the user has no clue as to what they are agreeing to. It is a shady practice, as WhenU can specifically target UHaul's ads and replace them with their own.
If you ran a website that relied on advertising to stay alive, and suddenly all of your ads were being removed and users started seeing only ads for your competitors sites, you would cry "Unfair!" as well. It's like someone putting up their own billboards over existing ones for free.
If you saw Pepsi's logo every time you visited coke.com, you can bet this would have been a much bigger deal.