I've been to a couple of sites where you get a question like
How many ears does the typical person have?
Most people know the answer, but it's hard enough for computers to even find the question.
Anyway, I don't know what this type of "test" is called, but I don't think it's considered part of CAPTCHA, is it? If not, does anyone know the name of it?
My brother recently tried to get the really cheap low bandwidth DSL from Verizon in IL. The only thing you could do through the DSL modem initially was install the Verizon software that took you through setup.
My brother doesn't currently have a computer. He wanted the DSL so he could VPN to work with his work computer. The work computer is locked down and will only do VPN to the company over non company networks.
Using a borrowed computer, he went through the process. All the software did was ask some quesitons to verify who he was etc. (probalby for billing purposes) and allow him to build a Verizon email account etc. All things that could have been done via a web service and a browser, if set up that way.
This worked for about a week, and then magically reverted, requiring it to be done again. So, he called Verizon explaining that he didn't have a computer, and they basically said he wasn't going to be able to use the service.
So, did he just get bad information from a bad rep, or is Verizon one company basically forcing you to put software on your computer (at least initially) to set up the account?
Yes, and a lot of people do this with 220/240 and their electric close dryer outlet. Couple things to keep in mind.
1. Always have everything turned off when working with a cord with two male plug ends. Otherwise, when one end is plugged and the other isn't, you have a nice arc welder. A few extra minutes of running up and down your stairs may save your life.
2. Let the generator warm up first (see #4), then shut down and g to #1. Otherwise, when the furnace blower surges and your generator dies, you get to undo/redo #1 a few more times.
3. Typical master switch on your breaker panel is not really designed to prevent electricity inside your house from going back out onto the grid. This means, you might actually injure the people trying to fix your electricity. Lawsuits? might just want to wire in a outlet for your furnace and run only the furnace and fridge etc. directly from generator bypassing house wiring.
4. Most generators in the 3500 W range are really alternators, not generators. This means as long as your generator is perfectly tuned and running at the correct RPM the frequency of your electricity is good. Otherwise, not so much. So, I generally recommend run your furnace and your fridge/freezer, and not your expensive electronics that prefer clean electricity.
My Cable provider gave me a cable modem with a built in 8 hour UPS, so I get phone when the power is out. Except I don't because all of my phones are cordless phones. So, if you're using only cordless phones, you've got no phone service when the power is out anyway.
I see the security concerns, but there are situations that need this or something like it, right?
You're 1,000 miles away on vacation. You left your kids with your parents. They get in a bad car accident, and the hospital needs your signed permission to operate on your child. Since a fax can easily be forged and can't be trusted, what's a better solution?
The solution needs to use things equally available as a piece of paper, a pen, and a fax machine. I may not have my computer with PGP encryption etc. with me.
I went to AT&T last fall to add a new line to my account. I specifically borrowed an old phone from a friend, because I wanted to wait for an iphone upgrade or a new android phone and didn't want to be locked into a cancellation fee contract. I was still locked into a 2 year contract. They specifically told me the contract had nothing to do with the free phone etc., but that they wanted their 2 years minimum of money on that new contract or their cancellation fee.
Now, I can upgrade the phone anytime I want, without penalty, because I brought in the original phone, but I can't cancel the contract.
So, it would appear that, at least in some cases, the cancellation fee is simply to stick it to the *new* customer.
If they're sending RST packets, won't they be sending it to both parties? Just because you ignore them, doesn't mean the other end will. At best you'll have a half open socket, which is basically the same (or maybe worse) than a completely closed socket, no?
It's been my experience that IBM's power architecture isn't really known for being "green". Can anyone provide some expertise behind the statement that running Linux VM's on the P hardware will really save energy in heating and cooling over other concepts like a rack of 1-U rack servers, a VMWare/Xen type solution on x86 hardware, or some type of blade solution?
I did my taxes in February. There were multiple times in January and February where I just gave up and came back later, due to unresponsiveness.
Even if it's unreasonable to expect any company to keep up with the last minute demand, considering my experince WAY before the last minute, I think they need look into this.
If it wasn't for the fact that my bank (State Farm) has had a deal with them for two years now, where I get to use it, and electronically file, for free because I'm a customer, I'd be using TaxCut. I've always liked it better anyway.
There may be an opportunity to leverage the DRM stuff to do movie rentals this way, like Circuti City's DIVX tried to do. If I'm just going to watch it once, I really don't care if I get all the bits as long as there's enough quality so that it looks good to watch.
I'm so sick of renting a movie from BlockBuster and wasting time Windex-ing the DVD etc. to try and get it to play all the way through etc. They're busted policy on this is they will only give you another copy of the same movie, so as long as it was good enough to fight through it and finish it I just paid $4 to watch a shite quality movie.
For rentals, I'd actually rather go back to VHS tapes and have to deal with rewidning them... or some alternative method like download it, watch it, delete it.
So what is the definition of morals and ethics then? Your examples of the Dolphins and cats, seems more like animals demonstrating "love" for their partner/buddy and owner respectively. Love being the desire to not lose the person/thing you care about, in this case.
All I know is I have two kids, and I've never seen them exibit moral behavior without being taught that behavior. On the other hand, I've never had to show them how to be bad or immoral. They seem to have been born with that.
Arguably, all "bad" behavior ultimately boils down to selfishness, and morals are a set of behaviors that guide a person when to put yourself last. So, I'll agree that the selfishness part gets passed down from offspring to offspring, but moral behavior has to be taught in my experience.
I managed to survive the 2007-002 update, but the 10.4.8 update that came back in September that originally "fixed" the wireless bugs caused me all kinds of problems. I finally had to turn off some security features on my WAP (specifically turn (E)SSID broadcasting back on) in order to get my boiler-plate "it just works" experience back. Same exact problem (and fix) for my dad with a different model of MacBook and a different brand and model of WAP.
That, and I magically couldn't change my password on non admin accounts anymore, and assuming I was the problem, completely broke my account in netinfo manager before finding the Apple fix documentation.
I'm convinced that If I wiped the drive, re-installed, completely patched up to date, and then added my real users, I'd probably be OK. But who want's to go through all that? Perhaps 10.5 will be the savior.
I do prefer OS X over Windows, but you definitely have to take "it just works" with a grain of salt.
Both are great. I've used Mythtv now for about 3 years. However, whenever someone comes and asks me about using Mythtv, I always ask them "what do you want to do with it?" Basically, if you don't plan on keeping what you record permanently (where pre re-encoding commercial flagging comes in nice), and you don't plan on watching downloaded/otherwise created elsewhere video conenct, then I recommend just geting a tivo. Mythtv can be a lot of work to set up, and as others have mentioned, depending on your setup you'll be plagued with problems permanently.
Commercial flagging is nice, but reporogramming the tivo remote to do 30 second forwrad jumps is trivial and taking 8 seconds to get through 6 minutes of commercials plenty good enough. If you don't want all the quasi legal features of Mythtv, then there's no point in messing with it... unless messing with it is the point.
Figures. I've had Vonage for ~ 18 months. They finally get local numbers in my area, so I drop other services and solidify Vonage as my only home phone service.
Guess who's going to really pay that 5.5% / customer / year.:(
Is this an oversimplification? Pass a bill that requires the schools to hire only fully qualified teachers. Since there appears to be a shortage of them, would that not automaticaly bring their salaries up?
In the short term, people move to California for the pay increase. Over time, California "grows" enough qualified teachers. Also, other states tend to follow suit on good ideas, so after a period of time, most states might have similar requirements, improving education across the country.
Re #2 above, yes. Cat [56] has a 100 meter limitation. Depending on the type of TAP, you need to factor the length of wire on both sides of the TAP, plus ~ 10 feet for the TAP itelf. So the length of wire from the switch/router/server to side A of the TAP + the length of wire from the switch/router/server on side B of the TAP + ~ 10 feet must be = 100 meeters.
Been bitten by this one a few times. It's a real b!tch to troubleshoot, depending on how close to 100 meters you are. It works - doesn't work - works - doesn't work -...
I am also not sticking up for Microsoft, but I agree with the Parent poster here.
I work in the information security area at my company, and we recognize that every employee and associate at the company needs to help with security. We have slogans like "security is everyone's business", and we have mandatory annual security training that everyone must take. It's simple stuff like have a secure password, keep it safe, never give it to anyone, no legitimate person will ever ask you for it, etc.
At the very least, we force our employees to spend 20 minutes a year thinking about it, in hopes of cutting down on problems.
To tie back in to the home user, at some point they need to take on a more "buyer beware" attitude and take some responsibility for their part. I know it's "en vogue" these days to, for example, sue the lawn mower manufacturer because they forgot to put a sticker on the mower that said "don't use as a hedge trimmer", when you lose an arm; however, "en vogue" is not necessarily right. If the user would exercise a little bit of common sense, most things could be avoided.
That being said. If Microsoft can do something diffeernt to help out their user base, I think they should.
If you're a Hebrew living in ~ 30 AD, calling yourself "the son of Man" is calling yourself God. Make no mistake, that's what they understood it to mean.
He never actually said "I am God" in that exact phrase, as that is too simplistic to be completely correct, and would have just confused the people. God is a triune being. John 1:1-5,14 explains the part of the Trinity that became Jesus.
John 10:30 "I and the Father are one"
It only takes a cursory reading of the 4 gospels to understand that Jesus thought of himself as God the Son. It's plainly clear that they killed him for blasphemy because they didn't believe him.
I suppose you will now argue that the scriptures have been contaminated over the years and are not an accurate reflection of what really happened 2,000. You'll have to excuse me if I take the scriptures over your statement, a non believer, "I know Jesus never referred to himself as "God" or even the "Son of God"." Unless, you can prove somehow that you were there taking notes.
It's about respecting you enough to let you use the free will He gave you.
First, you can't doubt something that's "slap you up the side of the head" obvious, even if you have the free will to do so. I have the free will to doubt that 2 + 2 = 4, but clearly it does. It's so ovious that it equals 4 I woudln't be able to use the doubt about it not equaling 4 as basis for my chosing to believe it doesn't equal 4. I'd simply be choosing to not believe it. So, if He just showed up to clear things up for us, it would hinder (maybe even effectively eliminate) free will.
2nd, people still wouldn't choose to follow Him if it was "slap you up the side of the head" obvious that He existed. Look at Satan and the 1/3 of the angels that rebelled and were kicked out of heaven. It was no big mystery to them whether or not God existed, they just chose not to have faith, follow, and obey. Again, in the book of Revelation, it states that after Jesus does come down and clear it all up for us, there will be a millennial period were Jesus will be sitting on His throne in Jerusalem. It states that not everyone born in that age will choose to accept Him. He'll be sitting right there in front of their faces, but there will still be people born in that age that will not choose to follow Him.
That aside, I don't understand how people can call Jesus a "great teacher" or "great moral person" or "realtively bright". Not that He wasn't that too, but the man walked around for 3+ years openly claiming to be God. Generally when you do that, you fall into one of three categories: liar, lunatic, or Lord. There have been others who have claimed to be God or Jesus in more recent times. No one's calling them anything positive like "great moral teacher".
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I've been to a couple of sites where you get a question like
How many ears does the typical person have?
Most people know the answer, but it's hard enough for computers to even find the question.
Anyway, I don't know what this type of "test" is called, but I don't think it's considered part of CAPTCHA, is it? If not, does anyone know the name of it?
My brother recently tried to get the really cheap low bandwidth DSL from Verizon in IL. The only thing you could do through the DSL modem initially was install the Verizon software that took you through setup.
My brother doesn't currently have a computer. He wanted the DSL so he could VPN to work with his work computer. The work computer is locked down and will only do VPN to the company over non company networks.
Using a borrowed computer, he went through the process. All the software did was ask some quesitons to verify who he was etc. (probalby for billing purposes) and allow him to build a Verizon email account etc. All things that could have been done via a web service and a browser, if set up that way.
This worked for about a week, and then magically reverted, requiring it to be done again. So, he called Verizon explaining that he didn't have a computer, and they basically said he wasn't going to be able to use the service.
So, did he just get bad information from a bad rep, or is Verizon one company basically forcing you to put software on your computer (at least initially) to set up the account?
1. Always have everything turned off when working with a cord with two male plug ends. Otherwise, when one end is plugged and the other isn't, you have a nice arc welder. A few extra minutes of running up and down your stairs may save your life.
2. Let the generator warm up first (see #4), then shut down and g to #1. Otherwise, when the furnace blower surges and your generator dies, you get to undo/redo #1 a few more times.
3. Typical master switch on your breaker panel is not really designed to prevent electricity inside your house from going back out onto the grid. This means, you might actually injure the people trying to fix your electricity. Lawsuits? might just want to wire in a outlet for your furnace and run only the furnace and fridge etc. directly from generator bypassing house wiring.
4. Most generators in the 3500 W range are really alternators, not generators. This means as long as your generator is perfectly tuned and running at the correct RPM the frequency of your electricity is good. Otherwise, not so much. So, I generally recommend run your furnace and your fridge/freezer, and not your expensive electronics that prefer clean electricity.
My Cable provider gave me a cable modem with a built in 8 hour UPS, so I get phone when the power is out. Except I don't because all of my phones are cordless phones.
So, if you're using only cordless phones, you've got no phone service when the power is out anyway.
I see the security concerns, but there are situations that need this or something like it, right?
You're 1,000 miles away on vacation. You left your kids with your parents. They get in a bad car accident, and the hospital needs your signed permission to operate on your child. Since a fax can easily be forged and can't be trusted, what's a better solution?
The solution needs to use things equally available as a piece of paper, a pen, and a fax machine. I may not have my computer with PGP encryption etc. with me.
I went to AT&T last fall to add a new line to my account. I specifically borrowed an old phone from a friend, because I wanted to wait for an iphone upgrade or a new android phone and didn't want to be locked into a cancellation fee contract. I was still locked into a 2 year contract. They specifically told me the contract had nothing to do with the free phone etc., but that they wanted their 2 years minimum of money on that new contract or their cancellation fee.
Now, I can upgrade the phone anytime I want, without penalty, because I brought in the original phone, but I can't cancel the contract.
So, it would appear that, at least in some cases, the cancellation fee is simply to stick it to the *new* customer.
If they're sending RST packets, won't they be sending it to both parties? Just because you ignore them, doesn't mean the other end will. At best you'll have a half open socket, which is basically the same (or maybe worse) than a completely closed socket, no?
I don't understand. I't been a good two years since I tried to use wi-fi at a Starbucks, but when I did, I didn't pay anything for it.
Is that no longer true, or what does an iPhone user get that I don't?
It's been my experience that IBM's power architecture isn't really known for being "green". Can anyone provide some expertise behind the statement that running Linux VM's on the P hardware will really save energy in heating and cooling over other concepts like a rack of 1-U rack servers, a VMWare/Xen type solution on x86 hardware, or some type of blade solution?
I did my taxes in February. There were multiple times in January and February where I just gave up and came back later, due to unresponsiveness.
Even if it's unreasonable to expect any company to keep up with the last minute demand, considering my experince WAY before the last minute, I think they need look into this.
If it wasn't for the fact that my bank (State Farm) has had a deal with them for two years now, where I get to use it, and electronically file, for free because I'm a customer, I'd be using TaxCut. I've always liked it better anyway.
There may be an opportunity to leverage the DRM stuff to do movie rentals this way, like Circuti City's DIVX tried to do. If I'm just going to watch it once, I really don't care if I get all the bits as long as there's enough quality so that it looks good to watch.
... or some alternative method like download it, watch it, delete it.
I'm so sick of renting a movie from BlockBuster and wasting time Windex-ing the DVD etc. to try and get it to play all the way through etc. They're busted policy on this is they will only give you another copy of the same movie, so as long as it was good enough to fight through it and finish it I just paid $4 to watch a shite quality movie.
For rentals, I'd actually rather go back to VHS tapes and have to deal with rewidning them
So what is the definition of morals and ethics then? Your examples of the Dolphins and cats, seems more like animals demonstrating "love" for their partner/buddy and owner respectively. Love being the desire to not lose the person/thing you care about, in this case.
All I know is I have two kids, and I've never seen them exibit moral behavior without being taught that behavior. On the other hand, I've never had to show them how to be bad or immoral. They seem to have been born with that.
Arguably, all "bad" behavior ultimately boils down to selfishness, and morals are a set of behaviors that guide a person when to put yourself last. So, I'll agree that the selfishness part gets passed down from offspring to offspring, but moral behavior has to be taught in my experience.
I managed to survive the 2007-002 update, but the 10.4.8 update that came back in September that originally "fixed" the wireless bugs caused me all kinds of problems. I finally had to turn off some security features on my WAP (specifically turn (E)SSID broadcasting back on) in order to get my boiler-plate "it just works" experience back. Same exact problem (and fix) for my dad with a different model of MacBook and a different brand and model of WAP.
That, and I magically couldn't change my password on non admin accounts anymore, and assuming I was the problem, completely broke my account in netinfo manager before finding the Apple fix documentation.
I'm convinced that If I wiped the drive, re-installed, completely patched up to date, and then added my real users, I'd probably be OK. But who want's to go through all that? Perhaps 10.5 will be the savior.
I do prefer OS X over Windows, but you definitely have to take "it just works" with a grain of salt.
Sh!t. I even used spell checker: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hazzard
..." messages. :) Oh well ... jokes on me!
Didn't get any "Did you mean
Now we'll have to give hazzard pay to our hands-on teams. :)
Both are great. I've used Mythtv now for about 3 years. However, whenever someone comes and asks me about using Mythtv, I always ask them "what do you want to do with it?" Basically, if you don't plan on keeping what you record permanently (where pre re-encoding commercial flagging comes in nice), and you don't plan on watching downloaded/otherwise created elsewhere video conenct, then I recommend just geting a tivo. Mythtv can be a lot of work to set up, and as others have mentioned, depending on your setup you'll be plagued with problems permanently.
... unless messing with it is the point.
Commercial flagging is nice, but reporogramming the tivo remote to do 30 second forwrad jumps is trivial and taking 8 seconds to get through 6 minutes of commercials plenty good enough. If you don't want all the quasi legal features of Mythtv, then there's no point in messing with it
Figures. I've had Vonage for ~ 18 months. They finally get local numbers in my area, so I drop other services and solidify Vonage as my only home phone service.
:(
Guess who's going to really pay that 5.5% / customer / year.
Is this an oversimplification? Pass a bill that requires the schools to hire only fully qualified teachers. Since there appears to be a shortage of them, would that not automaticaly bring their salaries up?
In the short term, people move to California for the pay increase. Over time, California "grows" enough qualified teachers. Also, other states tend to follow suit on good ideas, so after a period of time, most states might have similar requirements, improving education across the country.
Perhaps I'm missing something.
I believe there are a few states that generate there spending capital via sales tax, and not income tax.
It seems to work for those states, so at the very least it's worth consideration, no?
Actually, knowing this is in place, the military base will be the target.
1. Sneak bomb/biochemical weapon on plane.
2. Attempt to hijack plane, causing auto pilot to kick in
3. once plane lands, detonate weapon.
In Linux: /etc/localtime | grep 2007
zdump -v
Re #2 above, yes. Cat [56] has a 100 meter limitation. Depending on the type of TAP, you need to factor the length of wire on both sides of the TAP, plus ~ 10 feet for the TAP itelf. So the length of wire from the switch/router/server to side A of the TAP + the length of wire from the switch/router/server on side B of the TAP + ~ 10 feet must be = 100 meeters.
...
Been bitten by this one a few times. It's a real b!tch to troubleshoot, depending on how close to 100 meters you are. It works - doesn't work - works - doesn't work -
I am also not sticking up for Microsoft, but I agree with the Parent poster here.
I work in the information security area at my company, and we recognize that every employee and associate at the company needs to help with security. We have slogans like "security is everyone's business", and we have mandatory annual security training that everyone must take. It's simple stuff like have a secure password, keep it safe, never give it to anyone, no legitimate person will ever ask you for it, etc.
At the very least, we force our employees to spend 20 minutes a year thinking about it, in hopes of cutting down on problems.
To tie back in to the home user, at some point they need to take on a more "buyer beware" attitude and take some responsibility for their part. I know it's "en vogue" these days to, for example, sue the lawn mower manufacturer because they forgot to put a sticker on the mower that said "don't use as a hedge trimmer", when you lose an arm; however, "en vogue" is not necessarily right. If the user would exercise a little bit of common sense, most things could be avoided.
That being said. If Microsoft can do something diffeernt to help out their user base, I think they should.
If you're a Hebrew living in ~ 30 AD, calling yourself "the son of Man" is calling yourself God. Make no mistake, that's what they understood it to mean.
He never actually said "I am God" in that exact phrase, as that is too simplistic to be completely correct, and would have just confused the people. God is a triune being. John 1:1-5,14 explains the part of the Trinity that became Jesus.
John 10:30 "I and the Father are one"
It only takes a cursory reading of the 4 gospels to understand that Jesus thought of himself as God the Son. It's plainly clear that they killed him for blasphemy because they didn't believe him.
I suppose you will now argue that the scriptures have been contaminated over the years and are not an accurate reflection of what really happened 2,000. You'll have to excuse me if I take the scriptures over your statement, a non believer, "I know Jesus never referred to himself as "God" or even the "Son of God"." Unless, you can prove somehow that you were there taking notes.
It's about respecting you enough to let you use the free will He gave you.
First, you can't doubt something that's "slap you up the side of the head" obvious, even if you have the free will to do so. I have the free will to doubt that 2 + 2 = 4, but clearly it does. It's so ovious that it equals 4 I woudln't be able to use the doubt about it not equaling 4 as basis for my chosing to believe it doesn't equal 4. I'd simply be choosing to not believe it. So, if He just showed up to clear things up for us, it would hinder (maybe even effectively eliminate) free will.
2nd, people still wouldn't choose to follow Him if it was "slap you up the side of the head" obvious that He existed. Look at Satan and the 1/3 of the angels that rebelled and were kicked out of heaven. It was no big mystery to them whether or not God existed, they just chose not to have faith, follow, and obey. Again, in the book of Revelation, it states that after Jesus does come down and clear it all up for us, there will be a millennial period were Jesus will be sitting on His throne in Jerusalem. It states that not everyone born in that age will choose to accept Him. He'll be sitting right there in front of their faces, but there will still be people born in that age that will not choose to follow Him.
That aside, I don't understand how people can call Jesus a "great teacher" or "great moral person" or "realtively bright". Not that He wasn't that too, but the man walked around for 3+ years openly claiming to be God. Generally when you do that, you fall into one of three categories: liar, lunatic, or Lord. There have been others who have claimed to be God or Jesus in more recent times. No one's calling them anything positive like "great moral teacher".