Name-based virtual hosting doesn't care at all who the DNS provider is. The browser resolves the IP address via DNS, then connects to the server and includes the desired hostname in the request header.
Unless GoDaddy doesn't allow it for some reason, there's no reason that you can't use a different DNS provider, or even keep them as your primary but add a third-party secondary. Though I would be hesitant to stay with them for any services, regardless - they've already shown that their DNS infrastructure - which is arguably among the easiest services to make extremely fault-tolerant - was not able to handle this attack; I wouldn't have high hopes for their other infrastructure.
My wife is a Board-Certified Music Therapist, and she sees this sort of thing all the time. Often, when she's working with an elderly patient with advanced dementia, the patient will start to sing along to a song that's familiar to them (often a hymn), even though they might otherwise be completely nonverbal.
Music Therapy has been used by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords as part of her rehabilitation, and is often used as a treatment for a variety of conditions.
Generally, you don't want to heat your attic. This is why properly designed houses have either a vented attic (designed to stay as close to outside temperature as possible) or thick insulation against the roof deck. Cathedral ceilings (i.e. no attic) also should have thick insulation in the ceiling. Either way, the roof should not contribute to heating the house in the wintertime unless there is a design fault.
Many/most distros will use the NTP servers provided via DHCP (if configured) instead of the built-in defaults. I know this is true for Ubuntu, at least — not sure if their dhclient/ntpd configuration is nonstandard or not (knowing Ubuntu, there's a high likelihood that it is).
Expensive? The hardware is all there already - these systems are mostly drive-by-wire, and there are sensors to know when the brake pedal has been pushed. All that's needed is a software change.
Unfortunately, you're mostly correct. However, I don't think that special training is necessary; instead, some basic knowledge of the vehicle's workings, along with defensive driving habits, should be all that is necessary.
I had this happen to me just over five years ago. I was accelerating to pass another vehicle, and the gas pedal didn't come back up (this was a '97 Ford Taurus - the pedal got stuck because of poor workmanship on an engine rebuild). My first instinct, like you said, was to push on the brake. When it very quickly became clear that the car was still accelerating (that V-6 engine was pretty powerful) and with stopped traffic ahead getting ever-closer, I threw the car into neutral and coasted - engine screaming - into the left-turn lane. I don't have superior training, and would consider myself a slightly above-average driver (mostly because I refuse to even talk on the cell phone - hands-free or not - while driving). However, I try to drive defensively: constantly monitoring the environment to imagine possible dangers, along with ways to avoid them.
In the oft-cited tragedy in California, the car was a rental with a non-traditional (at the time) control system. The driver's biggest mistake was likely not taking the time beforehand to familiarize himself with the vehicle's unfamiliar controls. Had the driver been prepared, this tragedy could have likely been avoided.
Nonetheless, I think it makes perfect sense to require a brake-acceleration pedal lockout - in fact, I'm surprised that automakers' insurance companies aren't requiring them to already. In virtually all cases, when a driver is pressing on the brake, they want to stop. If wannabe stunt drivers want the ability to use both pedals simultaneously, automakers can provide a hidden "sport" mode, similar to how some European cars have a hidden sequence of commands to disable their speed governors.
That's because you bought a shitty printer. A good color laser suffers from none of those problems. In fact, many inkjets are better than that - I have a portable HP inkjet that I use infrequently (it's used to print receipts when I'm selling products at conventions) and the original printhead and ink cartridge are still good, two years after I purchased the printer. The last time I used it, the first few pages showed evidence of a clogged nozzle, but then it was fine.
Also, why are you using expensive paper? Unless you're printing photos, there's no reason to use anything but regular paper. This is a welcome change from the 90's, when inkjets had difficulty printing anything - even text - on regular paper.
I had AT&T remove text message support to my phone completely.
I've done that - twice. Both times, texting was mysteriously enabled a few months later. When I called after it happened the first time, the customer service rep said something along the lines of, "Yeah, they removed all of the text messaging blocks; I have no idea why." After the second time, I decided to switch carriers as soon as my contract is up.
Would be nice if they switch to the method Japan uses; receiving the message is free*, sending costs me.
My first regular cell phone contract - Voicestream (now T-Mobile) back in 2002 - had free incoming texts, and outgoing were 5 or 10 cents. I had a prepaid phone with Airtouch in the late 90's that had texting for free. Isn't new technology supposed to make services cheaper?
Another +1 for Brother MFC's. I have two - a 7840W at home and a 7440N (basically the same, but no wifi) at work, and they rock. They're both set up to scan direct to FTP - no messing with drivers. I also have my work one set up to integrate with an email-to-fax service, so the fax functionality works without a phone line - yes, it's not hard to scan a file and then email it, but having it integrated means that anyone can send a fax without me teaching them how to use it. I've never had either machine jam.
Sales tax here adds on $8.13. So Newegg is cheaper (granted, not by much, but still)
I'd rather pay a little extra to have the money go to my state rather than to the shipping carrier, as my state provides lots of things that I like (as well as some things that I don't like, but that other people like).
An employee needing corporate network access who has ``little in the way of computer skills'' shouldn't be accessing the network.
If all they need is email, I'm sure a corp can provide a web-based ssl thing for that. If they need to read docs, I'm sure a web-based ssl doc thing (like an in-house version of google docs) would work.
How would they access those "web-based SSL things"? Are you proposing that they be hosted somewhere other than the corporate network? Regardless of where they're hosted, they'd need to be open to the world. VPNs are useful for adding an additional layer of security between sensitive services (including web-based email) and the world. Making the needed services public defeats the point.
I've gotten used to carrying a PDA - starting with various Palms (V, Z72, TX, and others I'm forgetting), then a Nokia N800, and finally an Android phone. I don't need a good cell phone - I have a much more ergonomic phone at my desk and a decent landline (VOIP wholesale, very cheap) at home, so I really only need a cell phone for emergencies and occasional use. For me, having a smartphone allows me to carry one less device in my pocket.
The main problem is the cell plan. I'm on an IBM employee plan with AT&T, which gives my wife and I a good discount. Even so, it's too expensive for the amount of use we have - and we don't have data or texting. When our current contract with AT&T is up, I'm looking forward to switching to a carrier - such as Ting or Republic Wireless - that's better suited for our usage patterns. We'll be able to get voice, data and texting for less money than we're spending for voice alone right now.
Most individuals suck at negotiating. This is a large part of the reason Unions were born in the first place.
It's not so much that most individuals suck at negotiating (which may be true), but that corporations usually have much more leverage. A corporation can say, "well, we have 100 other applicants, so we'll find someone who is more desperate than you," while the individual could be facing homelessness if they don't find a job within the next few months. You'd have to be an extraordinary negotiator to get a good deal in that situation.
NAT decouples the internal private network from the external network - and I'm sure any IT admin who has had to renumber their internal network would agree it's a huge PITA on IPv4. They see the ISP giving them a prefix and changing that prefix willy-nilly causing lots of fun for everyone inside.
IPv6 provides an excellent way to address this: prefix delegation. Your router gets a prefix assignment automatically from your ISP and advertises it to clients. If the ISP renumbers, everything is automatically reconfigured when the ISP's announcement changes. The only issue is DNS, and there are mechanisms to ease that as well (though some manual intervention is required with current tooling).
More importantly, prefixes won't need to change very often. The only times I've ever had to renumber were when I was either changing ISPs or when I wanted a different size IP block. The former case still exists (though the mechanisms I mentioned above help with that transition), but the latter case should be virtually nonexistent, as everyone will be assigned a block of subnets large enough to service them for the foreseeable future, no matter how big they get.
Even worse - home users, who most likely do NOT have a working DNS setup and have to type the damn things in.
Thankfully, there are solutions for this problem as well - and they're already widespread. Look for technologies such as zeroconf to become even more common going forward (all of the printers I've purchased in the past few years - including a large corporate laser [Ricoh] and two smaller multifunctions [Brother] - include and enable it by default).
I had the 'pleasure' of driving a 2011 with electronic everything, including throttle. it's a crapshoot whether the car will do nothing for a second, or rocket out from under me after a light change.
The behavior you're complaining about is probably caused by the transmission rather than the drive-by-wire components. I've driven many automatics of varying vintages, all of which exhibit that behavior. My manual with electronic throttle, OTOH, always behaves exactly as I expect it to. This actually confirms your base point, though - with a manual transmission, I'm able to select the gear I want for the conditions, rather than having the computer guess for me.
In other news, Mozilla is considering dropping support for Java in Firefox, to fix SSL/TLS vulnerabilities... so yeah, I'd say it's close.
Huh? Java in the browser has been dead for quite some time, as it should be (along with Flash, Quicktime, and all other plugins). You do realize that your Android phone, Blu-ray player, and a large percentage of servers you connect to are all running Java VMs, right?
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According to the article, SpaceX is turning a profit.
Name-based virtual hosting doesn't care at all who the DNS provider is. The browser resolves the IP address via DNS, then connects to the server and includes the desired hostname in the request header.
Unless GoDaddy doesn't allow it for some reason, there's no reason that you can't use a different DNS provider, or even keep them as your primary but add a third-party secondary. Though I would be hesitant to stay with them for any services, regardless - they've already shown that their DNS infrastructure - which is arguably among the easiest services to make extremely fault-tolerant - was not able to handle this attack; I wouldn't have high hopes for their other infrastructure.
Who decides who these official arbiters are? Does it have to be an established, traditional publishing house? What if it's a self-published e-book?
My wife is a Board-Certified Music Therapist, and she sees this sort of thing all the time. Often, when she's working with an elderly patient with advanced dementia, the patient will start to sing along to a song that's familiar to them (often a hymn), even though they might otherwise be completely nonverbal.
Music Therapy has been used by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords as part of her rehabilitation, and is often used as a treatment for a variety of conditions.
I'd support the campaign of Inanimate Carbon Rod if it were to run...
Unfortunately, that's prohibited by the United States Constitution, which states that the same person can't be on a ticket twice.
First, most of the United States won't get government sponsored health insurance. Nope, that's reserved for politicians, soldiers, and the very poor.
You're forgetting the elderly - remember, they were the ones that were deathly afraid of the federal government meddling in their Medicare.
Among the accomplishments listed on the Garden State Fireworks (pyrotechnics company responsible for the show) web site:
Statue of Liberty Bicentennial Celebration
That time, they managed to shoot off the show a whole century early!
Generally, you don't want to heat your attic. This is why properly designed houses have either a vented attic (designed to stay as close to outside temperature as possible) or thick insulation against the roof deck. Cathedral ceilings (i.e. no attic) also should have thick insulation in the ceiling. Either way, the roof should not contribute to heating the house in the wintertime unless there is a design fault.
Many/most distros will use the NTP servers provided via DHCP (if configured) instead of the built-in defaults. I know this is true for Ubuntu, at least — not sure if their dhclient/ntpd configuration is nonstandard or not (knowing Ubuntu, there's a high likelihood that it is).
Safer than a jigsaw? As in, a jigsaw puzzle? I didn't realize the edges of the puzzle pieces were that sharp...
...or maybe it's a jigsaw puzzle of a laser cutter?
Or, perhaps, safer than an actual jigsaw - you know, the kind that they used to use to cut the puzzles (giving them their name).
Expensive? The hardware is all there already - these systems are mostly drive-by-wire, and there are sensors to know when the brake pedal has been pushed. All that's needed is a software change.
Unfortunately, you're mostly correct. However, I don't think that special training is necessary; instead, some basic knowledge of the vehicle's workings, along with defensive driving habits, should be all that is necessary.
I had this happen to me just over five years ago. I was accelerating to pass another vehicle, and the gas pedal didn't come back up (this was a '97 Ford Taurus - the pedal got stuck because of poor workmanship on an engine rebuild). My first instinct, like you said, was to push on the brake. When it very quickly became clear that the car was still accelerating (that V-6 engine was pretty powerful) and with stopped traffic ahead getting ever-closer, I threw the car into neutral and coasted - engine screaming - into the left-turn lane. I don't have superior training, and would consider myself a slightly above-average driver (mostly because I refuse to even talk on the cell phone - hands-free or not - while driving). However, I try to drive defensively: constantly monitoring the environment to imagine possible dangers, along with ways to avoid them.
In the oft-cited tragedy in California, the car was a rental with a non-traditional (at the time) control system. The driver's biggest mistake was likely not taking the time beforehand to familiarize himself with the vehicle's unfamiliar controls. Had the driver been prepared, this tragedy could have likely been avoided.
Nonetheless, I think it makes perfect sense to require a brake-acceleration pedal lockout - in fact, I'm surprised that automakers' insurance companies aren't requiring them to already. In virtually all cases, when a driver is pressing on the brake, they want to stop. If wannabe stunt drivers want the ability to use both pedals simultaneously, automakers can provide a hidden "sport" mode, similar to how some European cars have a hidden sequence of commands to disable their speed governors.
That's because you bought a shitty printer. A good color laser suffers from none of those problems. In fact, many inkjets are better than that - I have a portable HP inkjet that I use infrequently (it's used to print receipts when I'm selling products at conventions) and the original printhead and ink cartridge are still good, two years after I purchased the printer. The last time I used it, the first few pages showed evidence of a clogged nozzle, but then it was fine.
Also, why are you using expensive paper? Unless you're printing photos, there's no reason to use anything but regular paper. This is a welcome change from the 90's, when inkjets had difficulty printing anything - even text - on regular paper.
... and the Penguin giveth back with interest!
Only to be taketh back again by Mark Shuttleworth.
I had AT&T remove text message support to my phone completely.
I've done that - twice. Both times, texting was mysteriously enabled a few months later. When I called after it happened the first time, the customer service rep said something along the lines of, "Yeah, they removed all of the text messaging blocks; I have no idea why." After the second time, I decided to switch carriers as soon as my contract is up.
Would be nice if they switch to the method Japan uses; receiving the message is free*, sending costs me.
My first regular cell phone contract - Voicestream (now T-Mobile) back in 2002 - had free incoming texts, and outgoing were 5 or 10 cents. I had a prepaid phone with Airtouch in the late 90's that had texting for free. Isn't new technology supposed to make services cheaper?
Another +1 for Brother MFC's. I have two - a 7840W at home and a 7440N (basically the same, but no wifi) at work, and they rock. They're both set up to scan direct to FTP - no messing with drivers. I also have my work one set up to integrate with an email-to-fax service, so the fax functionality works without a phone line - yes, it's not hard to scan a file and then email it, but having it integrated means that anyone can send a fax without me teaching them how to use it. I've never had either machine jam.
Sales tax here adds on $8.13. So Newegg is cheaper (granted, not by much, but still)
I'd rather pay a little extra to have the money go to my state rather than to the shipping carrier, as my state provides lots of things that I like (as well as some things that I don't like, but that other people like).
An employee needing corporate network access who has ``little in the way of computer skills'' shouldn't be accessing the network.
If all they need is email, I'm sure a corp can provide a web-based ssl thing for that. If they need to read docs, I'm sure a web-based ssl doc thing (like an in-house version of google docs) would work.
How would they access those "web-based SSL things"? Are you proposing that they be hosted somewhere other than the corporate network? Regardless of where they're hosted, they'd need to be open to the world. VPNs are useful for adding an additional layer of security between sensitive services (including web-based email) and the world. Making the needed services public defeats the point.
I'm running Gingerbread and have a VPN option with PPTP, L2TP, & OpenVPN. Could be a CyanogenMod feature but I don't think so.
OpenVPN is a Cyanogenmod addition: [source]
I've gotten used to carrying a PDA - starting with various Palms (V, Z72, TX, and others I'm forgetting), then a Nokia N800, and finally an Android phone. I don't need a good cell phone - I have a much more ergonomic phone at my desk and a decent landline (VOIP wholesale, very cheap) at home, so I really only need a cell phone for emergencies and occasional use. For me, having a smartphone allows me to carry one less device in my pocket.
The main problem is the cell plan. I'm on an IBM employee plan with AT&T, which gives my wife and I a good discount. Even so, it's too expensive for the amount of use we have - and we don't have data or texting. When our current contract with AT&T is up, I'm looking forward to switching to a carrier - such as Ting or Republic Wireless - that's better suited for our usage patterns. We'll be able to get voice, data and texting for less money than we're spending for voice alone right now.
Most individuals suck at negotiating. This is a large part of the reason Unions were born in the first place.
It's not so much that most individuals suck at negotiating (which may be true), but that corporations usually have much more leverage. A corporation can say, "well, we have 100 other applicants, so we'll find someone who is more desperate than you," while the individual could be facing homelessness if they don't find a job within the next few months. You'd have to be an extraordinary negotiator to get a good deal in that situation.
I modify my hosts file directly. I don't need extra shit using resources.
I let Adblock do the work for me, even if it does use a few more computing resources. My computer has a lot more spare time than I do...
NAT decouples the internal private network from the external network - and I'm sure any IT admin who has had to renumber their internal network would agree it's a huge PITA on IPv4. They see the ISP giving them a prefix and changing that prefix willy-nilly causing lots of fun for everyone inside.
IPv6 provides an excellent way to address this: prefix delegation. Your router gets a prefix assignment automatically from your ISP and advertises it to clients. If the ISP renumbers, everything is automatically reconfigured when the ISP's announcement changes. The only issue is DNS, and there are mechanisms to ease that as well (though some manual intervention is required with current tooling).
More importantly, prefixes won't need to change very often. The only times I've ever had to renumber were when I was either changing ISPs or when I wanted a different size IP block. The former case still exists (though the mechanisms I mentioned above help with that transition), but the latter case should be virtually nonexistent, as everyone will be assigned a block of subnets large enough to service them for the foreseeable future, no matter how big they get.
Even worse - home users, who most likely do NOT have a working DNS setup and have to type the damn things in.
Thankfully, there are solutions for this problem as well - and they're already widespread. Look for technologies such as zeroconf to become even more common going forward (all of the printers I've purchased in the past few years - including a large corporate laser [Ricoh] and two smaller multifunctions [Brother] - include and enable it by default).
I had the 'pleasure' of driving a 2011 with electronic everything, including throttle. it's a crapshoot whether the car will do nothing for a second, or rocket out from under me after a light change.
The behavior you're complaining about is probably caused by the transmission rather than the drive-by-wire components. I've driven many automatics of varying vintages, all of which exhibit that behavior. My manual with electronic throttle, OTOH, always behaves exactly as I expect it to. This actually confirms your base point, though - with a manual transmission, I'm able to select the gear I want for the conditions, rather than having the computer guess for me.
In other news, Mozilla is considering dropping support for Java in Firefox, to fix SSL/TLS vulnerabilities... so yeah, I'd say it's close.
Huh? Java in the browser has been dead for quite some time, as it should be (along with Flash, Quicktime, and all other plugins). You do realize that your Android phone, Blu-ray player, and a large percentage of servers you connect to are all running Java VMs, right?