Local boy here tried that route. Was making all of his own bio-deisel by recycling/converting waste deep-frier oil from the local resturaunt chains. Made the newspaper, was praised up and down for being thinking outside the box, was really cool....
Now the state govt. has stepped in and want him to pay state fuel tax on the fuel what he makes and uses himself....
If he were making it and selling it to others, I could see their point...but jeez!
I live and work up to my elbows in electronics, so I have long since given up wearing rings and metal watches, and in some cases even static straps!
In this case while connecting the sound cable from the CDROM to the sound card (which I had forgotten to do when I installed the drive) the metal d-ring on my plastic watch band shorted a +5v pin on the sound card to ground resulting in a burnt a trace on the motherboard. I soldered a wire across the burn (after it was OFF) and all was well again. The machine had a long well used life, and is now retired to the position of household fileserver.
...if they can do it at 55MPH. Getting insane milage at 15MPH, while cool, doesnt seem very useful as a route toward replacing the current gas guzzlers in use.
What ever happend to tinkering with things like the California Commuter ???
I own a 1994 Mustang GT 5.0L manual transmission, which EPA claims a sticker of 18 City and 26 Highway. I have a 70 mile commute every day (35 each way) mostly highway miles, and I average 22mpg. On long trips I can see as high as 28mpg, especially in those nice states that allow 75mph on the interstate.
I burn 89 octane w/ethanol except when I cant get ethanol, then I burn whatever is cheapest. This summer in Utah I got 27 and 28mpg regularly while burning the lower grade 85-87 octane. It must like the higher altitude.
Most people would say I baby my car and do not drive it as agressively as a sports car should be. But I'm rather proud that I am at 180K miles and still have the original clutch!:)
When you have a stripped down efficient program, and are then allowed to add the 'features' you want, it is worth far more than a single bloated do-all application.
My 'MUST HAVE' list on any Firefox installation is AdBlock, GoogleBar, DownloadStatusbar and perhaps a custom theme, but all the else is un-needed fluff for my needs. Keeping the overall application trim and allowing the user to choose how much bloat to add is what makes Firefox a superior product.
Addons/plugins also allow for easier feature specific specialization. Rather than a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, each addon is a master of its own, doing its job. ex: using a Broswer for FTP vs. a dedicated FTP client or plugin.
So when you get arrested for kiddie porn...
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..you can plead insanity, since negligence never works...
Something about listening to music and -knowing- what is to be played next takes some of the enjoyment out of it. A good random shuffle is essential, unless you are listing to Audio Books or something similarly linear. Imagine listening to Lord of the Rings on shuffle!
But apart from needing the ability to shuffle, is the need for a -GOOD- shuffle. I have an el-cheepo model mp3/cd player made by Emerson which claims to have a RND mode. The randomness is apparently an algorithm based on the number and length of songs on the disk. Therefore, the disk you insert is played randomly the same way every time.
Will having this kind of hardware 'protection' simply lead to sloppier code writing?
"Sure my code is shite and full of security holes, but what do I care, the processor will catch it and prevent trouble."
What ever happend to "we'll fix it in software" ?
You get what you pay for. When you rely on free or low-cost products, you often get the shaft, and that, in my opinion, is exactly what governments are on track to get.
You mean as opposed to the security hole ridden crap that my tax $$ pay for now?
What conspiracy? A conspiracy would imply that something was done behind closed doors, covertly away from the public eye.
The DMA (Direct Marketing Association), remember those guys, the ones who opposed the junk-fax ban and Do-Not-Call list? They supported the senators who wrote the freaking bill!! There was no conspiracy. Fox/Henhouse.
Launching services in parallel is a new idea?
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At least April of 2002 -- http://freshmeat.net/projects/serel/
Any number of things may have caused a drop in cost. Decreased customer service, competition from other providers, pink contracts with spammers, initial startup costs for the ISP at the beginning, who knows, maybe you were just getting raped by your ISP the first couple years.
Your little file-sharing operation doesnt do squat to their harddrives or servers (other than create nice logfiles). It adds to their total bandwidth costs of course, but thats minor compared to the cost of hardware, upkeep and storage to deal with spam email. And if you think, 'heck, i can get a new 120GB drive for $100 if i need more storage', heres a little clue for you. People who maintain servers do not buy their harddrives from BestBuy. (not any serious ISP anyway)
If you think that your ISP does not incur cost by having to deal with the traffic load and disk storage caused by spam, you are the one in need of a reality check. And if you think that your DSL/Cable traffic is free, then gimmie some of the stuff you're smoking, it must be good.
Your server and its harddrives still end up being a storage bin for it, and the spammers will continue to send as long as your machine allows it to be recieved. Always remember that spam differs from postal junk mail, in that the -receiver- pays for it. Unsolicited postage due mail.
Spam must be -blocked- and the ISPs that allow/encourage its continued spread must re-educated, or be put out of business. Only when spam becomes costly to send with it diminish.
The current proposed laws concerning the subject are currently focusing on content rather than consent. They dont mind if you get spammed with hundreds of ads, provided what is being advertised isnt fraudulent.
They overlook the fact that the claim of you having 'opt in' for the spam is in itself the lie and fraud.
Economics 101 --
Succesful companies are those that have seen a need and filled it by the efficient use of manpower to produce the product for which there is a demand. There is no profit in making a product that does nobody wants.
DMA 101 --
Successful companies are those that have made every effort to advertise their product, even to people do not want or need the product. People who do not need a product obviously dont know about it, and a product which is not making a profit is obviously not being advertised hard enough.
Companies across the country are having a hard enough time maintaining their current workforces and remaining profitable. People caught in the current economic crunch have my sympathy. But I have no sympathy for any employee of any company that is determined to profit by pushing a product that they KNOW is unwanted.
Playing the sobbing violin for the two million jobs that will be lost is hopefully the last dying gasp of this failed advertisement scheme. They have known this was coming for quite some time, its not like this is some major shock and werent prepared.
I find it hard to believe that there was no indication that they were being blocked. In my experience, most ISPs that use blacklists are more than happy to send bounces proclaiming quite clearly in no uncertain terms why the mail is being blocked. To simply drop the message in/dev/null without a bounce would do nothing to stop the flow of spam, as all email would appear to have gone through without trouble. ie: it was received, therefore keep spamming.
Spammers and the ISPs who facilitate them need to be held accountable.
Blocking spam on the receiving end via filters is always going to be a losing battle. Blocking at the server by IP is the next best solution, but far from ideal. Making spamming difficult and/or expensive at its source is the only real way to stem the pink tide.
Until ISPs begin to enforce the AUPs they claim to operate under will there be any real change. Even if that means having to be forced to do so.
It wasnt all that long ago, I said the exact same thing about my first >500MB drive. If you think about the increase of drive capacity vs speed, and the vast amount of data racing by under those magnetic heads...I think its amazing that they have remained as fast as they have.
In the old days it would have been like being at the Indianapolis 500, watching 18-wheel semi-trucks driving around the track at 100mph and picking out the one with 'PIGGLY WIGGLY' written on the side as it passes.
Now they are doing the same race around the track at the same speed, but now with mosquitos instead of trucks, and they have to find the one with West Nile as it flys by.
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Now the state govt. has stepped in and want him to pay state fuel tax on the fuel what he makes and uses himself....
If he were making it and selling it to others, I could see their point...but jeez!
AC gets a +5 Informative, I get a -1 Offtopic. Moddy needs a funnybone transplant.
Should have read:: "preventing up to 75% of advertising from making it to /dev/null"
HOORAY FOR ADBLOCK!
In this case while connecting the sound cable from the CDROM to the sound card (which I had forgotten to do when I installed the drive) the metal d-ring on my plastic watch band shorted a +5v pin on the sound card to ground resulting in a burnt a trace on the motherboard. I soldered a wire across the burn (after it was OFF) and all was well again. The machine had a long well used life, and is now retired to the position of household fileserver.
I have since gone to using VELCRO watch straps.
...if they can do it at 55MPH. Getting insane milage at 15MPH, while cool, doesnt seem very useful as a route toward replacing the current gas guzzlers in use. What ever happend to tinkering with things like the California Commuter ???
I burn 89 octane w/ethanol except when I cant get ethanol, then I burn whatever is cheapest. This summer in Utah I got 27 and 28mpg regularly while burning the lower grade 85-87 octane. It must like the higher altitude.
Most people would say I baby my car and do not drive it as agressively as a sports car should be. But I'm rather proud that I am at 180K miles and still have the original clutch! :)
Totally agree. Perhaps thats why I use Sylpheed and Pan for mail and news instead of Thunderbird. :)
My 'MUST HAVE' list on any Firefox installation is AdBlock, GoogleBar, DownloadStatusbar and perhaps a custom theme, but all the else is un-needed fluff for my needs. Keeping the overall application trim and allowing the user to choose how much bloat to add is what makes Firefox a superior product.
Addons/plugins also allow for easier feature specific specialization. Rather than a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none, each addon is a master of its own, doing its job. ex: using a Broswer for FTP vs. a dedicated FTP client or plugin.
..you can plead insanity, since negligence never works...
What lenghths have they gone through to hide their IP addresses to thwart would-be terrorists from performing dDOS attacks?
But apart from needing the ability to shuffle, is the need for a -GOOD- shuffle. I have an el-cheepo model mp3/cd player made by Emerson which claims to have a RND mode. The randomness is apparently an algorithm based on the number and length of songs on the disk. Therefore, the disk you insert is played randomly the same way every time.
When you can waste clock cycles on crap like this. Long live the command line!
Will having this kind of hardware 'protection' simply lead to sloppier code writing? "Sure my code is shite and full of security holes, but what do I care, the processor will catch it and prevent trouble." What ever happend to "we'll fix it in software" ?
You get what you pay for. When you rely on free or low-cost products, you often get the shaft, and that, in my opinion, is exactly what governments are on track to get.
You mean as opposed to the security hole ridden crap that my tax $$ pay for now?
What conspiracy? A conspiracy would imply that something was done behind closed doors, covertly away from the public eye. The DMA (Direct Marketing Association), remember those guys, the ones who opposed the junk-fax ban and Do-Not-Call list? They supported the senators who wrote the freaking bill!! There was no conspiracy. Fox/Henhouse.
See also -- http://www.fastboot.org/
Your little file-sharing operation doesnt do squat to their harddrives or servers (other than create nice logfiles). It adds to their total bandwidth costs of course, but thats minor compared to the cost of hardware, upkeep and storage to deal with spam email. And if you think, 'heck, i can get a new 120GB drive for $100 if i need more storage', heres a little clue for you. People who maintain servers do not buy their harddrives from BestBuy. (not any serious ISP anyway)
If you think that your ISP does not incur cost by having to deal with the traffic load and disk storage caused by spam, you are the one in need of a reality check. And if you think that your DSL/Cable traffic is free, then gimmie some of the stuff you're smoking, it must be good.
Your server and its harddrives still end up being a storage bin for it, and the spammers will continue to send as long as your machine allows it to be recieved. Always remember that spam differs from postal junk mail, in that the -receiver- pays for it. Unsolicited postage due mail.
Spam must be -blocked- and the ISPs that allow/encourage its continued spread must re-educated, or be put out of business. Only when spam becomes costly to send with it diminish.
The current proposed laws concerning the subject are currently focusing on content rather than consent. They dont mind if you get spammed with hundreds of ads, provided what is being advertised isnt fraudulent. They overlook the fact that the claim of you having 'opt in' for the spam is in itself the lie and fraud.
--Teh
Economics 101 -- Succesful companies are those that have seen a need and filled it by the efficient use of manpower to produce the product for which there is a demand. There is no profit in making a product that does nobody wants.
DMA 101 -- Successful companies are those that have made every effort to advertise their product, even to people do not want or need the product. People who do not need a product obviously dont know about it, and a product which is not making a profit is obviously not being advertised hard enough.
Companies across the country are having a hard enough time maintaining their current workforces and remaining profitable. People caught in the current economic crunch have my sympathy. But I have no sympathy for any employee of any company that is determined to profit by pushing a product that they KNOW is unwanted.
Playing the sobbing violin for the two million jobs that will be lost is hopefully the last dying gasp of this failed advertisement scheme. They have known this was coming for quite some time, its not like this is some major shock and werent prepared.
Spammers and the ISPs who facilitate them need to be held accountable. Blocking spam on the receiving end via filters is always going to be a losing battle. Blocking at the server by IP is the next best solution, but far from ideal. Making spamming difficult and/or expensive at its source is the only real way to stem the pink tide.
Until ISPs begin to enforce the AUPs they claim to operate under will there be any real change. Even if that means having to be forced to do so.
It wasnt all that long ago, I said the exact same thing about my first >500MB drive. If you think about the increase of drive capacity vs speed, and the vast amount of data racing by under those magnetic heads...I think its amazing that they have remained as fast as they have. In the old days it would have been like being at the Indianapolis 500, watching 18-wheel semi-trucks driving around the track at 100mph and picking out the one with 'PIGGLY WIGGLY' written on the side as it passes. Now they are doing the same race around the track at the same speed, but now with mosquitos instead of trucks, and they have to find the one with West Nile as it flys by.
As YDL is based on RH, the uproar shouldnt be any more extreme than usual.