TechTV also did a good piece on The Screen Savers showing most of the more interesting wipeouts. That episode is schedule to rerun Monday at 8AM and 12 Noon ET.
Nope. NCOA just reroutes mail associated with your name sent to your old address to your new one. The database of deliverable address doesn't have names, just the street numbers and city/town associations that the mailman stops at. If your new address isn't in this database, the mailman doesn't stop there, so you don't get any mail at all.
Yeah, robot cars would work best only being robotic in HOV-like offshoot lanes, and returning to manual control once they leave the autopilot lane. Control transfers would best be done on an offramp where the car can stop...
Actually, the database is kept up-to-date in realtime as the post office is told to start delivery to the address, and contains all of the acceptable substitutions for communities known by multiple names.
It's a pretty sophisticated tool aimed at junk mailers who don't want to get any return-to-sender pieces, and used by anybody who presorts their mail in order to get lower postal rates since the post office already gets the groups in ready-to-split packages.
It would not be too hard for domain registrars to be required to send a postcard to a physical address with a passphrase that would need to be supplied back in order to verify the physical address just as much as verification e-mails are being sent to confirm e-mail addresses.
This would be what most domain registrars are doing for e-mail addresses, which explain why e-mail is so accurate yet physical addresses are wrong. However, domain registrars would drag their feet on this because 1. It costs money, and 2. It'd block most sales to fraudsters.
The US Postal Service, along with most of its counterpart postal authorties around the world, sells a master database of all "deliverable" addresses to vendors so that they can create services that will easily detect incorrect addresses such as streets that don't exist in the given town, or a number that doesn't exist on a real street. In short, if you have this software, you can reliably predict if the postal serivce would bounce a piece of mail as an invalid address and know why.
It'd be interesting to see what would result if WHOIS is washed against such a list...
Just because a rule has gone unenforced for years doesn't make it an invalid rule. I think the Internet would become a much better place if everybody with bad WHOIS information lost their domains until they corrected it.
Only dropped cars a couple of times too. (much less than 0.01% error given how often it pushes n pulls cars...)
I'd consider that kind of error ratio perfectly acceptable, compared to the number of human fender-benders that happen in a typical parking garage setup. Sure, sucks to be the owner of the dropped car... but insurance will pay for that.
The password is "Microsoft". Even if it's a money-loser, it's a money loser that's being made in order to provide a free advertising venue for other MSN sites, as well as produce content that fills up voids on other MSN sites.
The thing is, such a rental car system would work just as well, if not better, with cars being parked the old fashioned way. The reason why this hasn't taken off in the USA is it's a very expensive way to make up for a lack of available land... we're not as densely packed as some other parts of the world.
Cars not picked up in time to avoid having racked up more charges for being parked than they're worth are automatically loaded into the attached crusher...
Actually, most (all?) of the September 11 hijackers entered the USA legally. The problem was that no-one stopped them.
The real problem is that most had legal paperwork while entering the country, but then did not leave when that paperwork said they had to. What we really need to do is actually enforce the visa laws, which means when a foriegn student skips too many classes, we find them and throw them outta here. Yeah, it's a bit mean to the student who is harmlessly goofing off... but we can't stand allowing the ones who aren't so harmless being allowed to go untracked.
It seems to me that SCO is going after companies that are more likely to pay up than go to court to fight them, taking a bit of a path of least resistance. We don't know how many private license deals they did in the first quarter of 2004... they'll have to release the total revenues in a few months, but it's not out yet.
SCO might be making more deals than we know with companies less likely to fight back because they know they will lose the IBM fight... so they're profiting while they can.
In other words, both the critics and the supporters are telling the truth. Their main points don't contradict...
The BSA isn't just in business to chase down pirates of commerical software, they're also in the business of getting people to buy more. Effectively, what the BSA wants is for companies that don't buy any information security products to get in trouble with the SEC... therefore practically mandating that everybody by something from one of the BSA members.
Damn right emachines is cheap Last week my uncle bought a 2 ghz AMD, cd-r, dvd-rom, and 40gig harddrive and 17" monitor emachine for 350$ after rebates. It was too damn good to pass up.
There's something that can be said about mass production. You just can't get those parts for $350 if you are buying them one at a time.
Of course, what you give up is flexabilty. You're not going to have an easy time wedging the latest and greatest gigabit networking card and coolest sound card into it. However, if 100mpbs is fast enough for ya, and two speakers is all that you're ever going to have on the desk... then that machine's perfect.
Actually, the roll-out trays are designed so that you can't find anything without the assistance of a salesperson... open any drawer and a salesperson is supposed to immediately ask if you need help, since more likely than not you've opened the one that doesn't contain what you're looking for.
Ask about that to the people who authorize your purchases at work... any business that has to show its books to the state (that's nearly all of them) has to pay use tax.
Unfortantely, your subject line isn't. Gateway is shuttering the store chain because they don't need it anymore... eMachines has more than enough retail distribution.
This can really add up for those who buy their more premium solutions via mail order.
However, this doesn't make their business offerings any more attractive, since every state that has a sales tax also has a use tax. The Fifth Amendment makes it awfully hard to extract use tax from an individual, but businesses enjoy no such protection...
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TechTV also did a good piece on The Screen Savers showing most of the more interesting wipeouts. That episode is schedule to rerun Monday at 8AM and 12 Noon ET.
Nope. NCOA just reroutes mail associated with your name sent to your old address to your new one. The database of deliverable address doesn't have names, just the street numbers and city/town associations that the mailman stops at. If your new address isn't in this database, the mailman doesn't stop there, so you don't get any mail at all.
Yeah, robot cars would work best only being robotic in HOV-like offshoot lanes, and returning to manual control once they leave the autopilot lane. Control transfers would best be done on an offramp where the car can stop...
Get a restraining order, and then when she calls you in violation of said order you can have her arrested... no more problem.
Actually, the database is kept up-to-date in realtime as the post office is told to start delivery to the address, and contains all of the acceptable substitutions for communities known by multiple names.
It's a pretty sophisticated tool aimed at junk mailers who don't want to get any return-to-sender pieces, and used by anybody who presorts their mail in order to get lower postal rates since the post office already gets the groups in ready-to-split packages.
You've never had a right to privacy as a domain owner. If that bothers you, don't use DNS and just publish your web server's IP number.
It would not be too hard for domain registrars to be required to send a postcard to a physical address with a passphrase that would need to be supplied back in order to verify the physical address just as much as verification e-mails are being sent to confirm e-mail addresses.
This would be what most domain registrars are doing for e-mail addresses, which explain why e-mail is so accurate yet physical addresses are wrong. However, domain registrars would drag their feet on this because 1. It costs money, and 2. It'd block most sales to fraudsters.
The US Postal Service, along with most of its counterpart postal authorties around the world, sells a master database of all "deliverable" addresses to vendors so that they can create services that will easily detect incorrect addresses such as streets that don't exist in the given town, or a number that doesn't exist on a real street. In short, if you have this software, you can reliably predict if the postal serivce would bounce a piece of mail as an invalid address and know why.
It'd be interesting to see what would result if WHOIS is washed against such a list...
Just because a rule has gone unenforced for years doesn't make it an invalid rule. I think the Internet would become a much better place if everybody with bad WHOIS information lost their domains until they corrected it.
Only dropped cars a couple of times too. (much less than 0.01% error given how often it pushes n pulls cars...)
I'd consider that kind of error ratio perfectly acceptable, compared to the number of human fender-benders that happen in a typical parking garage setup. Sure, sucks to be the owner of the dropped car... but insurance will pay for that.
The password is "Microsoft". Even if it's a money-loser, it's a money loser that's being made in order to provide a free advertising venue for other MSN sites, as well as produce content that fills up voids on other MSN sites.
The thing is, such a rental car system would work just as well, if not better, with cars being parked the old fashioned way. The reason why this hasn't taken off in the USA is it's a very expensive way to make up for a lack of available land... we're not as densely packed as some other parts of the world.
Nope... it appears the company really exists.
Slate would have had to have gone a long way to fake a website this detailed and then not link to it in the story.
The system is designed to require that the user declare no pets nor small children are in the car...
Which apparently means that it's safe to allow teenagers to ride in the machine?!?
Cars not picked up in time to avoid having racked up more charges for being parked than they're worth are automatically loaded into the attached crusher...
What's the difference between this and a video camera?... you roll back the tape and then decide which frames to keep as screen grabs?
Actually, most (all?) of the September 11 hijackers entered the USA legally. The problem was that no-one stopped them.
The real problem is that most had legal paperwork while entering the country, but then did not leave when that paperwork said they had to. What we really need to do is actually enforce the visa laws, which means when a foriegn student skips too many classes, we find them and throw them outta here. Yeah, it's a bit mean to the student who is harmlessly goofing off... but we can't stand allowing the ones who aren't so harmless being allowed to go untracked.
It seems to me that SCO is going after companies that are more likely to pay up than go to court to fight them, taking a bit of a path of least resistance. We don't know how many private license deals they did in the first quarter of 2004... they'll have to release the total revenues in a few months, but it's not out yet.
SCO might be making more deals than we know with companies less likely to fight back because they know they will lose the IBM fight... so they're profiting while they can.
In other words, both the critics and the supporters are telling the truth. Their main points don't contradict...
The BSA isn't just in business to chase down pirates of commerical software, they're also in the business of getting people to buy more. Effectively, what the BSA wants is for companies that don't buy any information security products to get in trouble with the SEC... therefore practically mandating that everybody by something from one of the BSA members.
Damn right emachines is cheap
Last week my uncle bought a 2 ghz AMD, cd-r, dvd-rom, and 40gig harddrive and 17" monitor emachine for 350$ after rebates.
It was too damn good to pass up.
There's something that can be said about mass production. You just can't get those parts for $350 if you are buying them one at a time.
Of course, what you give up is flexabilty. You're not going to have an easy time wedging the latest and greatest gigabit networking card and coolest sound card into it. However, if 100mpbs is fast enough for ya, and two speakers is all that you're ever going to have on the desk... then that machine's perfect.
Actually, the roll-out trays are designed so that you can't find anything without the assistance of a salesperson... open any drawer and a salesperson is supposed to immediately ask if you need help, since more likely than not you've opened the one that doesn't contain what you're looking for.
Ask about that to the people who authorize your purchases at work... any business that has to show its books to the state (that's nearly all of them) has to pay use tax.
They freak the moment you navigate off the Radio Shack website, screaming that they "hear about it" from the main office whenever this happens.
You'd think that if they know how to log it, they'd also know how to block it...
because it's true!
Unfortantely, your subject line isn't. Gateway is shuttering the store chain because they don't need it anymore... eMachines has more than enough retail distribution.
This can really add up for those who buy their more premium solutions via mail order.
However, this doesn't make their business offerings any more attractive, since every state that has a sales tax also has a use tax. The Fifth Amendment makes it awfully hard to extract use tax from an individual, but businesses enjoy no such protection...