Seriously though, wouldn't it be quite a bit of overkill? Besides, a plasma cutter would probably be faster, not to mention cleaner and safer (relatively speaking).
I'm guessing he's talking about bead blasting rather than sand blasting. Same process but instead of sand it uses tiny glass beads to do the job. Works a good deal better/faster.
Go read again. The roof is a "common area" and isn't covered by that rule. It only applies to antennas mounted in an area you have sole access to, so the property owner can remove them whenever they want.
Operators have to maintain confidentiality. No excuses. There's a section in our manual (i'm an operator btw) that specifically deals with bomb threats to the center. But there are 2 different situations. One is if they direct it to the operator, in which case it's treated like a normal call to the center and law enforcement is notified etc. The other one is if they mention it during a call. The operator is bound by law to say nothing, and continue relaying the call as normal ("Sorry, i have to go home, I don't feel well. And for that matter neither do you::SIGNIFICANT LOOK::").
I would also assume that any information given by an operator in breach of confidentiality would be inadmissible. Operators cannot be forced to divulge information from call content, and doing so is risking your job, and possibly other penalities. Someone did post links to sites about operators doing that though, so it's not like it doesn't happen.
I think you're going wrong on one thing. You seem to be assuming that it takes the same amount of "work" to create an album/movie/etc as it does to perform it live. But that's just not quite right. How long did it take to create movie X? Probably orders of magnitude longer than it takes you to watch it. When you go to see a movie, or purchase a DVD, you're not paying for the 2 hours of "performance" you're paying for the thousands of hours of labor put into making it. Same with a book. The author spent a huge amount of time creating it, even if you can read it in a day.
Now I'm not saying that prices aren't inflated, I agree with you there. But just because it costs less than a dollar to make a copy of a cd, don't throw away the value of what's on it. You're not paying for the disc, you're paying for the content of the disc. You're paying your share of the creator's time and energy aka WORK.
Maybe he doesn't care? Personally, I'm trying to convince my parents to get Dish Network instead, but frankly it's not that big a deal to me. If it were my only choice, I'd take it too.
Well, if you're an audiophile looking for the best headphones out there, the 5.1 are definitely not it. However, if you want them to play games or watch movies with 5.1 sound, they're definitely preferable. My friend has a pair, everyone thinks he cheats now:)
It was the long, long history-lesson-style monologue by Shaftoe's brother immediately followed by a second chapter of Waterhouse presented as a period-style drama that did me in.
I think this sort of thing is one of the reasons I've enjoyed this book so much(so far, about 200 pages left). I just find it interesting the different ways he presents parts of the story. I will admit to not being too sure about this one after the first 150 pages or so, but it has definitely grabbed and held my interest since.
I've been doing a lot of catch up reading of Stephenson and Gibson this year. I'd have to say my favorite has been Zodiac, and the rest I won't bother trying to put in order.
I was just thinking about this. The poster said that one email came through initially to check that the relay works. If this email doesn't get sent, then the spammer knows its not an open relay and moves on. This is all automatic as well, so wouldn't cause them and grief. But what if you set it up to allow that first message? So the relay gets marked as open, distributed to other spammers, but then when the real spam starts, it all goes to/dev/null? The spammer wouldn't even know it was happening unless they were continually checking to make sure. Eventually it would get blacklisted, but not before it caused their servers to waste a bit of time and save a few people's mailboxes a message. Maybe even combine this with the tarproxy idea of slowing the connections to maximize their wasted time.
But I agree, something definitely needs to be done about smtp, it is WAY past its prime. Spam is a battle that must be fought on many fronts, but the servers are definitely the most important.
I'm not claiming to know anything about using CLI to do administration on windows machines, but in my experience, trying to manage windows from the command line is a horrendous task. It seems like the text commands were the afterthought and simply hacked together so that they can claim to have them. Is this just my inexperience showing through?
So I guess this is just pointing out that anything anyone says on any site you have control over is your responsibility. You are responsible for verifying any and all statements for truth to protect yourself from being sued. Is this the way its supposed to be?
Somehow, I think Ebay gets a lot of baseless complaints from people about feedback left by other members. So why would this one be any different? Did he come to them with concrete evidence that the comment was untrue? I didn't read anything like that. Do they have the right or responsibility to moderate what are essentially opinions? I think not.
Why does everyone seem to think that just because a message is hosted by a company, that they should be responsible for its content? If you have a problem with what someone is saying about you, you SUE THEM. If someone spraypaints totally untrue statements about me on the sidewalk, who am I going to sue? According to this guy, the city is responsible because its their sidewalk. Come on people, think before you sue.
I nominate you Robert Grace, for biggest douche in the world. (ok, maybe not biggest, but you're still a douche. enough southpark reference for today...)
One more thing though, about this sales tax plan. WHAT? Ebay sells nothing, so there is nothing to tax right? Unless their services are taxable, this is just pointless fluff to throw at them.
Do we really need windows running the windshield wipers? I can understand a spiffy radio with lots of visualizations to handle needing something more than your standard microcontroller, but it just seems a bit absurd to put such a complex system (with complex bugs) in control of such basic things in a car. If its a choice between coding some GUI functionality for the basic tasks, and putting a fullblown OS (which has proven itself to be problematic) in charge, I choose to hire someone to write me a nice GUI. Let Windows deal with those things which can handle a quick reboot.
Unless i'm reading this article wrong, what they mean by "plugging the analog hole" is basically back to the old "VCRs will bankrupt us with rampant piracy!" I thought the point of DRM technology was to protect DIGITAL signals. Once it goes analog, you're no better off than you are now, and I don't see the big media companies going under due to analog piracy any time soon (when did the VCR become popular?)
One other thing i thought was interesting, if they're going to sell a settop box for analog TVs, now you have an unencrypted signal on the wire. I know they're talking about watermarking in the digital/analog converters, but I just dont see this as very feasible. No matter what sort of watermarking they put in that signal, my current computer will happily record, store, and transmit that signal from now until forever. Just because you can't do it with a standard device, doesn't mean its going to make it a rare occurrence. Once one person records it, strips the watermarkings, and throws it up on Kazaa, you're back to the same problem.
So how much money are they wasting on technology that is destined to fail (someone mentioned 45 seconds at the hands of a Satellite cracker?) It'd probably be cheaper to pay microsoft to let them snoop on everyone running windows. Then again, they are already paying the government to let them do that aren't they?
honestly, it doesn't matter how many cd burners they have, what matters is how many cds they can produce. i dont get why they would try to make it seem like there were so many burners when they say exactly how many they estimate they could produce. If they have 1000 1x burners, would they say thats only really equivalent to about 50 "normal" burners? somehow i think not.
btw, what is the burner equivalent of an actual pressing machine?:)
I'm just going to admit I don't know what im talking about, but isn't it possible to cause actual harm to your vision by wearing glasses that are too strong a perscription? That and headaches and other things that you could potentially cause to yourself.
Man, I was hoping they were finally going to have the neat wearable active camouflage. While this is interesting as well, its way too limited to be used for anything I can think of.
When are we going to see the day when adolescent males can buy a camouflage suit to sneak into the girls locker room?
While in the majority of cases now, ident information can't be trusted, there are still systems (universities, etc...) that run the real deal. The problem is, requiring ident is just an exercise in futility. If someone has control of the box and doesn't want to give you their username, they aren't going to. The outcome is the same whether they disable ident, or simply have it serve up fake information.
Now thats not saying ident can't be useful. If you run a large system with multiple users, running ident can help you track down the 1 or 2 abusers since you know your ident is offering the correct information. If the server is logging ident, then when problems arise you can ask them for it and make your life a hell of a lot easier.
So ident isn't something you should be using to authenticate your clients, but keeping track of it (when it is available on the client) can prove useful when working with the administration of the client's host.
I think i've rambled enough to get to the point now: Don't REQUIRE ident, it'll just get spoofed 99.9% of the time. However, if it is available, you might as well use it to your advantage when the friendly sysadmin asks you for it so he can cut off the jerk who's abusing you.
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Everyone focuses on the large record companies (and movie studios for that matter) when they talk about p2p piracy and how its going to kill them. What alot of people miss are the small independent labels. The people who sell music for at least somewhere remotely close to what its worth. Am i the only person who likes having that little plastic disc tucked safely in its case on a shelf? No matter how large p2p gets, or how much music gets pirated, the small companies will survive. They will survive because they dont need to make millions in profit to stay alive. They're happy enough to sell a smaller amount of cds for less.
Of course their material will get pirated too, but they dont need to worry much about that, because the people that buy their music are more likely to keep wanting to buy it, to support the group.
I'm actually looking forward to when the large companies bite the big one and people finally realize that the radio doesn't give them all that is out there. And brittney will just have to go get a job.
I dont know why, but this all really doesn't worry me that much. I mean, now the government will know when i go out and buy new speakers for my computer, or that new nifty spiffy triple blade razor. I know a lot of people are horribly worried about the government knowing what they buy, but think about it, are they going to CARE? You are still 1 in however many millions of people that they're looking at. And well...if you go and buy fertilizer, kerosene and a truck, maybe they'll go and make sure you're not hanging around with any known terrorists or sympathizers. Maybe they'll investigate you and your family. If you aren't doing anything wrong, then why are you worried? (i know i've heard that before, its supposed to be scary right?)
Well, certainly not to the extent the carts do, but years ago (5 or 6 i believe) the supermarket near my house started attaching small computers to the carts which would tell you where you were in the store and let you search for an item and then it shows you where it is on a little map. They may have told you about sales and such but i dont really remember. Quite handy tho a bit difficult to use, must have been just a little before their time.
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Is your case made of tool steel? :-)
Seriously though, wouldn't it be quite a bit of overkill? Besides, a plasma cutter would probably be faster, not to mention cleaner and safer (relatively speaking).
I'm guessing he's talking about bead blasting rather than sand blasting. Same process but instead of sand it uses tiny glass beads to do the job. Works a good deal better/faster.
The patent was filed in 2002. Hasn't this sort of thing been done for MUCH longer than that?
I guess that's two of us. It's really not that hard guys :)
Konqueror 3.2.1 on SuSE has it.
Go read again. The roof is a "common area" and isn't covered by that rule. It only applies to antennas mounted in an area you have sole access to, so the property owner can remove them whenever they want.
Operators have to maintain confidentiality. No excuses. There's a section in our manual (i'm an operator btw) that specifically deals with bomb threats to the center. But there are 2 different situations. One is if they direct it to the operator, in which case it's treated like a normal call to the center and law enforcement is notified etc. The other one is if they mention it during a call. The operator is bound by law to say nothing, and continue relaying the call as normal ("Sorry, i have to go home, I don't feel well. And for that matter neither do you ::SIGNIFICANT LOOK::").
I would also assume that any information given by an operator in breach of confidentiality would be inadmissible. Operators cannot be forced to divulge information from call content, and doing so is risking your job, and possibly other penalities. Someone did post links to sites about operators doing that though, so it's not like it doesn't happen.
I think you're going wrong on one thing. You seem to be assuming that it takes the same amount of "work" to create an album/movie/etc as it does to perform it live. But that's just not quite right. How long did it take to create movie X? Probably orders of magnitude longer than it takes you to watch it. When you go to see a movie, or purchase a DVD, you're not paying for the 2 hours of "performance" you're paying for the thousands of hours of labor put into making it. Same with a book. The author spent a huge amount of time creating it, even if you can read it in a day.
Now I'm not saying that prices aren't inflated, I agree with you there. But just because it costs less than a dollar to make a copy of a cd, don't throw away the value of what's on it. You're not paying for the disc, you're paying for the content of the disc. You're paying your share of the creator's time and energy aka WORK.
So we're all a bunch of hippies now?
Maybe he doesn't care? Personally, I'm trying to convince my parents to get Dish Network instead, but frankly it's not that big a deal to me. If it were my only choice, I'd take it too.
Well, if you're an audiophile looking for the best headphones out there, the 5.1 are definitely not it. However, if you want them to play games or watch movies with 5.1 sound, they're definitely preferable. My friend has a pair, everyone thinks he cheats now :)
It was the long, long history-lesson-style monologue by Shaftoe's brother immediately followed by a second chapter of Waterhouse presented as a period-style drama that did me in.
I think this sort of thing is one of the reasons I've enjoyed this book so much(so far, about 200 pages left). I just find it interesting the different ways he presents parts of the story. I will admit to not being too sure about this one after the first 150 pages or so, but it has definitely grabbed and held my interest since.
I've been doing a lot of catch up reading of Stephenson and Gibson this year. I'd have to say my favorite has been Zodiac, and the rest I won't bother trying to put in order.
where are my mod points when i need them?
Why is this funny? Quake ran just fine on Windows.
I was just thinking about this. The poster said that one email came through initially to check that the relay works. If this email doesn't get sent, then the spammer knows its not an open relay and moves on. This is all automatic as well, so wouldn't cause them and grief. But what if you set it up to allow that first message? So the relay gets marked as open, distributed to other spammers, but then when the real spam starts, it all goes to /dev/null? The spammer wouldn't even know it was happening unless they were continually checking to make sure. Eventually it would get blacklisted, but not before it caused their servers to waste a bit of time and save a few people's mailboxes a message. Maybe even combine this with the tarproxy idea of slowing the connections to maximize their wasted time.
But I agree, something definitely needs to be done about smtp, it is WAY past its prime. Spam is a battle that must be fought on many fronts, but the servers are definitely the most important.
I'm not claiming to know anything about using CLI to do administration on windows machines, but in my experience, trying to manage windows from the command line is a horrendous task. It seems like the text commands were the afterthought and simply hacked together so that they can claim to have them. Is this just my inexperience showing through?
But at what level do you tax them? They aren't an entity of a specific state are they? If its different for every state, that'd be an utter nightmare.
So I guess this is just pointing out that anything anyone says on any site you have control over is your responsibility. You are responsible for verifying any and all statements for truth to protect yourself from being sued. Is this the way its supposed to be?
Somehow, I think Ebay gets a lot of baseless complaints from people about feedback left by other members. So why would this one be any different? Did he come to them with concrete evidence that the comment was untrue? I didn't read anything like that. Do they have the right or responsibility to moderate what are essentially opinions? I think not.
Why does everyone seem to think that just because a message is hosted by a company, that they should be responsible for its content? If you have a problem with what someone is saying about you, you SUE THEM. If someone spraypaints totally untrue statements about me on the sidewalk, who am I going to sue? According to this guy, the city is responsible because its their sidewalk. Come on people, think before you sue.
I nominate you Robert Grace, for biggest douche in the world. (ok, maybe not biggest, but you're still a douche. enough southpark reference for today...)
One more thing though, about this sales tax plan. WHAT? Ebay sells nothing, so there is nothing to tax right? Unless their services are taxable, this is just pointless fluff to throw at them.
Do we really need windows running the windshield wipers? I can understand a spiffy radio with lots of visualizations to handle needing something more than your standard microcontroller, but it just seems a bit absurd to put such a complex system (with complex bugs) in control of such basic things in a car. If its a choice between coding some GUI functionality for the basic tasks, and putting a fullblown OS (which has proven itself to be problematic) in charge, I choose to hire someone to write me a nice GUI. Let Windows deal with those things which can handle a quick reboot.
Unless i'm reading this article wrong, what they mean by "plugging the analog hole" is basically back to the old "VCRs will bankrupt us with rampant piracy!" I thought the point of DRM technology was to protect DIGITAL signals. Once it goes analog, you're no better off than you are now, and I don't see the big media companies going under due to analog piracy any time soon (when did the VCR become popular?)
One other thing i thought was interesting, if they're going to sell a settop box for analog TVs, now you have an unencrypted signal on the wire. I know they're talking about watermarking in the digital/analog converters, but I just dont see this as very feasible. No matter what sort of watermarking they put in that signal, my current computer will happily record, store, and transmit that signal from now until forever. Just because you can't do it with a standard device, doesn't mean its going to make it a rare occurrence. Once one person records it, strips the watermarkings, and throws it up on Kazaa, you're back to the same problem.
So how much money are they wasting on technology that is destined to fail (someone mentioned 45 seconds at the hands of a Satellite cracker?) It'd probably be cheaper to pay microsoft to let them snoop on everyone running windows. Then again, they are already paying the government to let them do that aren't they?
honestly, it doesn't matter how many cd burners they have, what matters is how many cds they can produce. i dont get why they would try to make it seem like there were so many burners when they say exactly how many they estimate they could produce. If they have 1000 1x burners, would they say thats only really equivalent to about 50 "normal" burners? somehow i think not.
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btw, what is the burner equivalent of an actual pressing machine?
I'm just going to admit I don't know what im talking about, but isn't it possible to cause actual harm to your vision by wearing glasses that are too strong a perscription? That and headaches and other things that you could potentially cause to yourself.
Man, I was hoping they were finally going to have the neat wearable active camouflage. While this is interesting as well, its way too limited to be used for anything I can think of.
When are we going to see the day when adolescent males can buy a camouflage suit to sneak into the girls locker room?
While in the majority of cases now, ident information can't be trusted, there are still systems (universities, etc...) that run the real deal. The problem is, requiring ident is just an exercise in futility. If someone has control of the box and doesn't want to give you their username, they aren't going to. The outcome is the same whether they disable ident, or simply have it serve up fake information.
Now thats not saying ident can't be useful. If you run a large system with multiple users, running ident can help you track down the 1 or 2 abusers since you know your ident is offering the correct information. If the server is logging ident, then when problems arise you can ask them for it and make your life a hell of a lot easier.
So ident isn't something you should be using to authenticate your clients, but keeping track of it (when it is available on the client) can prove useful when working with the administration of the client's host.
I think i've rambled enough to get to the point now:
Don't REQUIRE ident, it'll just get spoofed 99.9% of the time. However, if it is available, you might as well use it to your advantage when the friendly sysadmin asks you for it so he can cut off the jerk who's abusing you.
Everyone focuses on the large record companies (and movie studios for that matter) when they talk about p2p piracy and how its going to kill them. What alot of people miss are the small independent labels. The people who sell music for at least somewhere remotely close to what its worth. Am i the only person who likes having that little plastic disc tucked safely in its case on a shelf? No matter how large p2p gets, or how much music gets pirated, the small companies will survive. They will survive because they dont need to make millions in profit to stay alive. They're happy enough to sell a smaller amount of cds for less. Of course their material will get pirated too, but they dont need to worry much about that, because the people that buy their music are more likely to keep wanting to buy it, to support the group.
I'm actually looking forward to when the large companies bite the big one and people finally realize that the radio doesn't give them all that is out there. And brittney will just have to go get a job.
I dont know why, but this all really doesn't worry me that much. I mean, now the government will know when i go out and buy new speakers for my computer, or that new nifty spiffy triple blade razor. I know a lot of people are horribly worried about the government knowing what they buy, but think about it, are they going to CARE? You are still 1 in however many millions of people that they're looking at. And well...if you go and buy fertilizer, kerosene and a truck, maybe they'll go and make sure you're not hanging around with any known terrorists or sympathizers. Maybe they'll investigate you and your family. If you aren't doing anything wrong, then why are you worried? (i know i've heard that before, its supposed to be scary right?)
Besides, is your life really that interesting?
Well, certainly not to the extent the carts do, but years ago (5 or 6 i believe) the supermarket near my house started attaching small computers to the carts which would tell you where you were in the store and let you search for an item and then it shows you where it is on a little map. They may have told you about sales and such but i dont really remember. Quite handy tho a bit difficult to use, must have been just a little before their time.