Comically, not scanning for spam can cause spammers to recognize your servers are a safe haven, and the amount of spam can rise. As the amount of mail rises, the time it takes to process it goes up and delays occur. Putting in a spam filtering/scanning solution shouldn't increase the time it takes to get through the system by all that much and should decrease the levels of spam you get. Obviously it could have even bigger slow downs in the filtering/scan solution given a large enough amount of spam, but generally these solutions are setup in rather large clusters of servers to handle the load or at least that is my experience.
Having worked at a major hosting provider and a few ISPs, it was simply staggering how much spam would come through. It is hard to make email instant at a company level, it is crazy hard to make email instant when you host hundreds of thousands of domains who use you for their MX. Staggering... is such an understatement.
Anyhow, don't want your ISP's mail server logic screening through your email? Setup your own mail server, and welcome to the world of personally managing your own spam hell.
Your post comes acrossed a bit conspiratorial. Many other News networks have spoken in a negitive light about Obama, not just Fox. I'll cite this if you'd like, but it is pretty obvious.
As for why he would be speaking against Fox I feel is because every time I and flipping through channels and land on Fox, they are being hyper-critical about every minor(and major, to be fair) detail of the Obama admin. I'm happy to say I'm a Libertarian, and could care less for either the Dems/Repubs but what I see Fox espousing borders on hate and has a subtle vibe of racism. They have been doing it since he has gotten into office, and act like the few months he has had in office should have been enough to have fixed the world.
Perhaps if they represented themselves as News reporting agency, instead of a soapbox of fear and misdirection, then this would be a non-issue. If I were the President, I would avoid contact with Fox as well, as it is obvious the only thing they would do is bait him with questions that would cast a bad light on anyone.
I mean its cool and all, but I'm not sure I see where this is going. Can someone enlighten me?
Much like how Star Trek has helped inspire technology, I believe Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick pioneered an application that could utilize this. That application would be the orbital baby. How the baby was made and the uses of said baby are left up to the opinion of the viewer. Of course that could be said for the rest of 2001: A Space Odyssey as well.
Sorry for the double post. I should have done the math with 69% usage to avoid hitting the 70% trigger.
So short version:
12Mbit at 69% usage 24/7 for 30 days = 2,619.8 GB/month
12Mbit at 50% usage 24/7 for 30 days = 1,898.4 GB/month
This makes me realize that I'm glad I stuck with the cheaper 6Mbit line from Comcast, seems how it is impossible to even begin to get even 50% usage at 12Mbit without running into the 250GB cap. The only benefit of the additional bandwidth is the higher burst it would seem.
Given a 30 day month, running at 70% usage every second of every day for the entire month, 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 2,592,000 seconds in the month
2,592,000 sec * 1,101,004.8 bytes = 2,853,804,441,600 bytes transferred for the entire month of usage running @ 70% usage. (i.e. 2,657.8 GB is possible if you run a 12Mbit connection at 70% 24/7, you'd hit the 250GB cap very quickly)
And to you I'd say, whatever. Tickets are used as a means of driving up cash for the local coffers. I've never been pulled over for speeding, nor have I noticed anyone going over 100 mph around here in a long while (it does happen no doubt. I'm on the highway 5 days a week, it is just rare where I live I guess). What we have here is police who pull you over for driving violations that are at best minor, and generally are made up.
I've been pulled over for dim tail lights, I got out checked them myself, saw no problems and asked the officer how many lumen are required for tail lights as they seemed plainly lit to me. He didn't like my answer so he kept me their a while so he could call his buddies and generally just give me a hard time and a $80 ticket. I still haven't replaced that tail light and this was several years ago, no problems with the light.
Another time was for failing to come to a complete stop. This was due to how the road was laid out, I came to a stop, and then pulled out into traffic, but due to where the stop is it is hard to see if you are driving perpendicular to it. So when I pulled out to turn right the cop never saw I was stopped, and didn't care for my excuse, $120 ticket.
Yet another time was while I was in the left turn lane and when I made the turn I ended up in the right lane (in order to make the turn in to a gas station, as it would be impossible to get to the station otherwise). Got an improper turn for that one and another $120 ticket. These are just a 'few' examples. Police where I live pull over anything that moves and I do feel it is largely a tax. I'd like to end this by saying I am nothing but 100% polite to these officers, and I still have never talked my way out of a ticket. Safer roads indeed.
Confirmed, they can be a mean and tough creature. And given the chance they will try to lay your leg open or worse when they run up to gore you. Generally as long as you are careful it is hard to get in that situation though.
A few years back I was out hunting with a friend who handloads his own 30'06 rounds. He was trying out different powder loads and at a lower powder he couldn't drop this hog. It must have been out about 400m and every shot looked like it knocked dust off of the hog, would get turned sideways a bit from the shot, correct itself, and just kept running (away). It is one of the only hogs we ever lost. We followed the blood trail for ~2 miles before we realized we'd been walking in the middle of a snake breeding ground (which in and of itself is a pretty freaking scary experience) and had to call it quits.
My understanding of our tests of entangled pairs have shown that they propagate at the speed of light. You'd still have the ~3 to ~20 min delay in communications with Mars.
I just got done working on my grandparents machine. They only have dial up, with one phone line in the house. They connect, check their email via POP3, and disconnect. They had 336 viruses that I could find (many of them worms). I don't think connection times matter that much, especially since this was over a 56k modem only connected a few times a week for 10-20 minutes at a shot.
Not sure when you tried building it, but I build cheap computers for friends / family, at least 2 or 3 computers a year. Almost a decade ago... maybe really only 8 years ago, all cheapo generic cases stopped having razor sharp edges. I used to get cuts all the time, but cheap cases, at least in the realm of having sharp edges, haven't been an issue in a long time. (I purchase all my cheapo cases from newegg these days)
With the way CSS is developing, won't flash be redundant soon anyway? I certainly hope so!
I haven't been paying attention to CSS and Flash development for a while, so please help fill me in. How does CSS and flash relate? CSS is used for easy and consistent page formatting across a site, where flash is used for a specific page to render something, be it an app/movie/effect. Please explain how flash will be made redundant in favor of CSS for the uninformed of us. Thanks.
And people complained about the King James version being altered. I can just picture it, 20 years from now, a group of tomorrows theologians are busy studying the Authorized Amazon Version of the Bible trying to deduce the 'real' meaning of the text/God.
We have this where I work. You can get up to $5200 a year toward school, but once you are done taking the money they expect you to stick around for 1 year or they want their money back (unless you get let go, then the money was free). Pretty sweet deal even if it doesn't pay for 100% of my schooling.
Sorry, I have no knowledge of error smoothing. But your explanation made me chuckle thinking about a program monitoring itself, see's it had an error, then injects another error to smooth it out. As in the program was expecting 10, saw it output a 7, so the next iteration it puts in a 13 just to smooth it out (even though it is expecting a 10).
Because it, like many other things, can give you peace of mind. Sure, it may not be your cup of tea, and reading your response makes that pretty clear. But for some of us, the out of pocket cost of seeing a movie, plus the hassle of it all (be it in the theaters, or now waiting longer to rent), isn't a high enough value for me to want to pay for. I have better things to do with my time and my money. No doubt whatever movie it is will be released sooner or later on basic cable or I can borrow / watch it with a friend if any of them found the movie too good not to share (most of the better movies even end up in my local library to borrow). Regardless of any of this, I do not see how not seeing a movie somehow makes your life worse than it was without it (maybe from a cultural standpoint, but come on, it is only a movie). I guess we all have our own fix, and for you, movies must be one of them.
What's the computer equivalent of the "This car protected by Smith & Wesson" bumper sticker?
This computer is protected by retaliatory DoS attacks? I guess that is the best we can hope for until we work out a better implementation of PoIP (Punched over Internet Protocol).
I wrote my congress critter with a similar proposal about a year a ago in light of the rising unemployment numbers. Basically my suggestion was that the US should go build several cross country superconductive transmission lines. It could be a public works on a similar scale as the Interstate Highway System with that would give job opportunities to a full range of workers, from grunts to scientists to engineers. We need some means to efficiently transmitting energy otherwise all of these tidal/solar/wind/thermal projects will only be a benefit to the localities that house them and will never be capable to scale to the level required in order to move away from oil. I suspect having numerous clean(er) energy sources all tied together might be enough to supply even the base load once you start thinking large enough.
I'm wondering about how they would intercept and retrieve the payload once it is in orbit. The amount of kinetic energy it retains from getting to orbit (I'd assume, likely incorrectly, IANARS) would still be pretty massive problem to tackle.
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Comically, not scanning for spam can cause spammers to recognize your servers are a safe haven, and the amount of spam can rise. As the amount of mail rises, the time it takes to process it goes up and delays occur. Putting in a spam filtering/scanning solution shouldn't increase the time it takes to get through the system by all that much and should decrease the levels of spam you get. Obviously it could have even bigger slow downs in the filtering/scan solution given a large enough amount of spam, but generally these solutions are setup in rather large clusters of servers to handle the load or at least that is my experience.
Having worked at a major hosting provider and a few ISPs, it was simply staggering how much spam would come through. It is hard to make email instant at a company level, it is crazy hard to make email instant when you host hundreds of thousands of domains who use you for their MX. Staggering... is such an understatement.
Anyhow, don't want your ISP's mail server logic screening through your email? Setup your own mail server, and welcome to the world of personally managing your own spam hell.
This should be modded insightful/interesting. Good idea b4upoo!
Your post comes acrossed a bit conspiratorial. Many other News networks have spoken in a negitive light about Obama, not just Fox. I'll cite this if you'd like, but it is pretty obvious.
As for why he would be speaking against Fox I feel is because every time I and flipping through channels and land on Fox, they are being hyper-critical about every minor(and major, to be fair) detail of the Obama admin. I'm happy to say I'm a Libertarian, and could care less for either the Dems/Repubs but what I see Fox espousing borders on hate and has a subtle vibe of racism. They have been doing it since he has gotten into office, and act like the few months he has had in office should have been enough to have fixed the world.
Perhaps if they represented themselves as News reporting agency, instead of a soapbox of fear and misdirection, then this would be a non-issue. If I were the President, I would avoid contact with Fox as well, as it is obvious the only thing they would do is bait him with questions that would cast a bad light on anyone.
I mean its cool and all, but I'm not sure I see where this is going. Can someone enlighten me?
Much like how Star Trek has helped inspire technology, I believe Arthur C. Clark and Stanley Kubrick pioneered an application that could utilize this. That application would be the orbital baby. How the baby was made and the uses of said baby are left up to the opinion of the viewer. Of course that could be said for the rest of 2001: A Space Odyssey as well.
Sorry for the double post. I should have done the math with 69% usage to avoid hitting the 70% trigger.
So short version:
12Mbit at 69% usage 24/7 for 30 days = 2,619.8 GB/month
12Mbit at 50% usage 24/7 for 30 days = 1,898.4 GB/month
This makes me realize that I'm glad I stuck with the cheaper 6Mbit line from Comcast, seems how it is impossible to even begin to get even 50% usage at 12Mbit without running into the 250GB cap. The only benefit of the additional bandwidth is the higher burst it would seem.
How can they advertise a 250GB cap when they make it incredibly difficult to reach it?
You should have no problems reaching 250GB cap.
.7 = 1,101,004.8 bytes/s at 70% usage.
12Mb/s = 1,572,864 bytes/s *
Given a 30 day month, running at 70% usage every second of every day for the entire month, 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 2,592,000 seconds in the month
2,592,000 sec * 1,101,004.8 bytes = 2,853,804,441,600 bytes transferred for the entire month of usage running @ 70% usage. (i.e. 2,657.8 GB is possible if you run a 12Mbit connection at 70% 24/7, you'd hit the 250GB cap very quickly)
And to you I'd say, whatever. Tickets are used as a means of driving up cash for the local coffers. I've never been pulled over for speeding, nor have I noticed anyone going over 100 mph around here in a long while (it does happen no doubt. I'm on the highway 5 days a week, it is just rare where I live I guess). What we have here is police who pull you over for driving violations that are at best minor, and generally are made up.
I've been pulled over for dim tail lights, I got out checked them myself, saw no problems and asked the officer how many lumen are required for tail lights as they seemed plainly lit to me. He didn't like my answer so he kept me their a while so he could call his buddies and generally just give me a hard time and a $80 ticket. I still haven't replaced that tail light and this was several years ago, no problems with the light.
Another time was for failing to come to a complete stop. This was due to how the road was laid out, I came to a stop, and then pulled out into traffic, but due to where the stop is it is hard to see if you are driving perpendicular to it. So when I pulled out to turn right the cop never saw I was stopped, and didn't care for my excuse, $120 ticket.
Yet another time was while I was in the left turn lane and when I made the turn I ended up in the right lane (in order to make the turn in to a gas station, as it would be impossible to get to the station otherwise). Got an improper turn for that one and another $120 ticket. These are just a 'few' examples. Police where I live pull over anything that moves and I do feel it is largely a tax. I'd like to end this by saying I am nothing but 100% polite to these officers, and I still have never talked my way out of a ticket. Safer roads indeed.
Confirmed, they can be a mean and tough creature. And given the chance they will try to lay your leg open or worse when they run up to gore you. Generally as long as you are careful it is hard to get in that situation though.
A few years back I was out hunting with a friend who handloads his own 30'06 rounds. He was trying out different powder loads and at a lower powder he couldn't drop this hog. It must have been out about 400m and every shot looked like it knocked dust off of the hog, would get turned sideways a bit from the shot, correct itself, and just kept running (away). It is one of the only hogs we ever lost. We followed the blood trail for ~2 miles before we realized we'd been walking in the middle of a snake breeding ground (which in and of itself is a pretty freaking scary experience) and had to call it quits.
My understanding of our tests of entangled pairs have shown that they propagate at the speed of light. You'd still have the ~3 to ~20 min delay in communications with Mars.
I just got done working on my grandparents machine. They only have dial up, with one phone line in the house. They connect, check their email via POP3, and disconnect. They had 336 viruses that I could find (many of them worms). I don't think connection times matter that much, especially since this was over a 56k modem only connected a few times a week for 10-20 minutes at a shot.
Excellent explanation. Many thanks :)
Not sure when you tried building it, but I build cheap computers for friends / family, at least 2 or 3 computers a year. Almost a decade ago... maybe really only 8 years ago, all cheapo generic cases stopped having razor sharp edges. I used to get cuts all the time, but cheap cases, at least in the realm of having sharp edges, haven't been an issue in a long time. (I purchase all my cheapo cases from newegg these days)
With the way CSS is developing, won't flash be redundant soon anyway? I certainly hope so!
I haven't been paying attention to CSS and Flash development for a while, so please help fill me in. How does CSS and flash relate? CSS is used for easy and consistent page formatting across a site, where flash is used for a specific page to render something, be it an app/movie/effect. Please explain how flash will be made redundant in favor of CSS for the uninformed of us. Thanks.
And people complained about the King James version being altered. I can just picture it, 20 years from now, a group of tomorrows theologians are busy studying the Authorized Amazon Version of the Bible trying to deduce the 'real' meaning of the text/God.
We have this where I work. You can get up to $5200 a year toward school, but once you are done taking the money they expect you to stick around for 1 year or they want their money back (unless you get let go, then the money was free). Pretty sweet deal even if it doesn't pay for 100% of my schooling.
Doh! Didn't mean for that to be anon... not sure what happened.
Sorry, I have no knowledge of error smoothing. But your explanation made me chuckle thinking about a program monitoring itself, see's it had an error, then injects another error to smooth it out. As in the program was expecting 10, saw it output a 7, so the next iteration it puts in a 13 just to smooth it out (even though it is expecting a 10).
Once you add in foreplay and snuggling afterward the time frame makes sense. ;-)
Because it, like many other things, can give you peace of mind. Sure, it may not be your cup of tea, and reading your response makes that pretty clear. But for some of us, the out of pocket cost of seeing a movie, plus the hassle of it all (be it in the theaters, or now waiting longer to rent), isn't a high enough value for me to want to pay for. I have better things to do with my time and my money. No doubt whatever movie it is will be released sooner or later on basic cable or I can borrow / watch it with a friend if any of them found the movie too good not to share (most of the better movies even end up in my local library to borrow). Regardless of any of this, I do not see how not seeing a movie somehow makes your life worse than it was without it (maybe from a cultural standpoint, but come on, it is only a movie). I guess we all have our own fix, and for you, movies must be one of them.
Not sure who said it first but I recall reading that line in The Black Company by Glen Cook.
They use Tigerdirect as a front company to push their failing and half broken computers and peripherals back out onto the market. (tongue-in-cheek)
Let me guess, you are a manager :-)
What's the computer equivalent of the "This car protected by Smith & Wesson" bumper sticker?
This computer is protected by retaliatory DoS attacks? I guess that is the best we can hope for until we work out a better implementation of PoIP (Punched over Internet Protocol).
I wrote my congress critter with a similar proposal about a year a ago in light of the rising unemployment numbers. Basically my suggestion was that the US should go build several cross country superconductive transmission lines. It could be a public works on a similar scale as the Interstate Highway System with that would give job opportunities to a full range of workers, from grunts to scientists to engineers. We need some means to efficiently transmitting energy otherwise all of these tidal/solar/wind/thermal projects will only be a benefit to the localities that house them and will never be capable to scale to the level required in order to move away from oil. I suspect having numerous clean(er) energy sources all tied together might be enough to supply even the base load once you start thinking large enough.
I'm wondering about how they would intercept and retrieve the payload once it is in orbit. The amount of kinetic energy it retains from getting to orbit (I'd assume, likely incorrectly, IANARS) would still be pretty massive problem to tackle.