May fvorite was a Washington DC news company that had implemented extreme spamfighting measures. Since our outgoing mail server doesn't receive incoming mail, its not in the MX records. This guy was bouncing our mail because of that. God hopes that the next Deep throught doesn't try to contact his news organization...
I can tell. The CRT is brighter and has a wider viewing angle.
Its also heavier (important for the younger crowd thats likely to move two more times in the next 10 years), has an unweildy depth (about 3 feet versus 6" thus occupying more square footage, big for us in expensive urban areas), and consumes far more power, which generates far more heat (higher bills).
The problem I have is prices are falling rapidly and the tech keeps improving. (In 1 year the Dell 30" LCD TV I'm eyeing has fallen 30%, to about $2,200). I'd still really prefer a 1080p panel, or better yet a 2160p panel (2x 1080i, 3x 720p; no interpolation, or better yet, interpolate those extra pixels).
Cloudmark has an implementation for Windows, I'm a long time subscriber that gets about 400 less messages a day because of the product.
The only real problem is the jokers who submit mailing lists as spam because they are too thick headed to separate "mail I don't want to read" from actual spam. However, its a minor problem.
It's also clear that during the interview process, they're gonna ask people how they found the answer.
I used outside the box reasoning to devine the answer. This is a very desirable trait. I'd also point out that my solution was far more efficient than the one my so called competition utilized, and after all don't they want someone who can find the fastest, most efficient, solution?
You must be joking, but I'm sure someone will actually do that if use of wind energy becomes widespread.
Why is this joking? You are talking about pulling a lot of energy out of the climatic system, and I'm sure 100 years ago folks would have laughed themselves silly if you tried to imply all that combustion was going to have an effect on the earth's atmosphere. Just because a hippie thinks of it doesn't mean its safe for the environment.
Three years ago, I could handle the amount of sunlight that came through the upper windows above my main windows. A year ago, I couldn't, so I put in mini-blinds on those. Now even that is bright enough to bother me (even at night, just from the moonlight), hence the line of thinking. Maybe it's just me.
Dude, you're either turning into a vampire or have a serious medical problem. Either way I suggest a doctors visit...
from the grandparent... These two competitors have agreed on a completely arbitrary limit for recording PPV shows. Why? Think about it: the PVR market is growing. Rather than focusing on new features for the consumer (ie:...) they've come to an agreement that is good for no one but themselves. There's no way in hell that they just decided to do this, the entire agreement has the fetid stink of collusion.
Get a clue, this "feature" is good for no one but the movie industry. My Tivo already keeps PPV movies as long as a choose to, as does a ReplayTV. It sure as heck isn't good for Tivo/ReplayTV.
They now have to differentiate and tag PPV content vs other content
They have to deal with more support calls ("My show is gone, even though I set Save until I delete")
They get put in a situation where old code/hardware is percieved as "better" than new code/hardware
This isn't collusion, this is concession. And it sucks, because if I use a VCR to record my PPV movies, I face no such restrictions. Fortunately, I don't ever buy PPV movies, but this begins a long slide where soon all content will be forcibly expired off my Tivo because Seinfeld's owners don't want me to watch the "Soup Nazi" episode at will. Which is foolish because the trick of Tivo is that I watch MORE TV now that I can always find something I want to watch, and I'm more likely to fast forward through a show than the commercials, because these days I'm amazed at the amount of crap that fills the "program" time; title segments, recaps, slow pans to establish location, end credits, watching guests walk accross stage and waiting for applause to die down, etc, etc.
And you can tell. Up until now, I didn't know it was entirely shot in front of a blue screen, but every time I saw the commercial the thing that struck me was just how obvious the blue screen effect is.
Just think of it as an animated film and it will all go down better. Even the parts with live actors.:)
I say the same thing about Sendmail during interviews.
I use a similar process when interviewing. Our company hands prospects one of those "Rate yourself from 1 to 10 forms on these 20 topics" forms. Anyone who rates themselves a 10 on ANYTHING gets a mental 7, because clearly they don't even know what they don't know. Somebody with the brains to rate themselves a 9 is very likely an expert, though some quizzing is needed to make sure, though a cross check on the number of 8-10's can usually tell you; nobody is an expert at everything. Problem is, HR departments often don't get this, and tend to forward the idiots who rate themselves a 10 on 90% of the topics.
What you folks see to be missing is that its not just a question of supporting Linux, but a very specific case of supporting DB2 client (and possibly Websphere and Tivoli). It takes time and money to certify these products for a platform, and given all the variations between distributions they'll get the best "bang for the buck" by picking the most popular distribution (which was Red Hat at the time) and concentrate on that.
The author gave NO reasons why Red Hat was unacceptable enough to motivate him to seek an unsupported configuration, risking support leaving him high and dry if anything goes wrong. Why not bring managemet two proposals, one using a supported RedHat configuration and one using Debian and a truckload of your time. If management decides your time is worth more than you think, consider it a good thing. Or maybe they dont like the idea of you risking 100 hours of your time pursuing a project of questionable benefit (running Debian instead of RedHat) and uncertain outcome (what is the odds that at some point you need to call IBM support?)
... and thus is the disadvantage of rented equipment.
Tivo's aren't rented. The box is purchased and a service is subscribed. Cancel the service and you can still record, you just have to use old fashioned date/time methods.
Comcast DVR's ARE rented, the price is good at $10/month, but the service sucks. Just tried the thing out at my parents; its slow, unresponsive, and low res. Thanks, but I'll be keeping my DirecTiVo's for a long while...
The group is not using their name or trademark. They are using a parody of it.
I question whether Mister Sinus is an obvious parady of Mystery Science, though the attempt at a homonym is clear. Perhaps if the show were a parady of the original and not a tribute/inspired by version I'd be more open to that defense. The tone of the article implied the group was making fun of the movies, not of the MST3k format, which is a pretty important distinction. If they aren't actually doing parady they don't really have a right to claim it as a defense.
Seems to me it's the name AND format Best Brains is complaining about-
To paraphrase from the article:
"All we want is for them to stop using our name"
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure if they don't defend their trademark, they lose it. And if they license to this group they'll be diluting the brand, since they can't guarantee the quality of humor, there's no mad scientists, no sketches, etc. In other words, it's not MST3k, it's MST3k-like.
Ok, Since the article context was Credit Cards on the web, I was replying in the context of web merchants, who I expect are grabbing all the data via web-forms for prossessing, since embedding forms from another web site should set off all sorts of security alarms.
However, "Even then, it doesn't do them any good without your card" is flat wrong, cards can be forged, magnetic stripes rewritten (Ever see a cashier verify the numbers that got approved are the numbers on the card? They rarely confirm the signature, and I've even used other peoples Photo Visa's).
Also, video cameras can record pin numbers, electronic eavesdropping tricks could "hear" the PIN number, etc. Heck, what guarantee do you have walking into any store that the CC terminal is legitimate, and not a fake designed to capture your CC number and PIN before passing it on to a legitimate machine in the back? Dig around for ATM fraud to see what is actively going on.
It would be nice if we could switch away from totally unverified financial transactions like the current credit card systems, and start using something that at least requires a PIN. That way, instead of having to trust every single company with which I do business, I only have to trust my bank.
And then you give the PIN to the business to complete the transaction and now they have that. Exactly how does this improve security when you transact business with a company? It might improve security if someone were to steal your wallet, but without some complicated and difficult to verify one time hash scheme. Which has been done and tried (Amex gave me a smart card reader, Visa has tried 1-time CC numbers picked up their site.
Thanks, but I'll stick with the fool me twice, shame on me system. MS has proven time and time again that they play to win, and that their idea of fair play is whatever they can get away with. Wasn't that long ago they decided I needed to buy a second Windows license for every PC in my office because the one I bought with the computer didn't include a right for me to Ghost(tm) images onto it.
Fortunately, there's a lot of really sharp and really paranoid folks who understand the law better than me (IANAL, though I do work in IP protection); you just have to separate them from the really paranoid people who don't understand the law.
The objective of spam is to be delivered. That's it. Once it hits your server, the objective has been completed, whether or not it's filtered by a second stage server is irrelevant.
Thats the worst theory I've ever heard. Did you dump you newspapers in the trash and call them delivered? Spam isn't delivered until it gets in front of you. If it manages to get into my inbox where I can delete it after reading the subject, thats victory, +5 points; if I am tricked into opening it, +50 points. If it gets delivered to my spam folder without any imput from me and its one of 2 thousand messages I delete twice weekly without even noticing it, the most the spammer would get is some incremental thousandth of a cent because some fool paid him to deliver a million messages to/dev/null.
Speaking of which, I can deliver to a million+ distinct email addresses for you, and I'll guarantee at least 50% will trigger whatever tracking link you choose to embed in that email. All for the low low price of $5,000. Just send me a mail at FatTony@Gmail.com
In order to promote Sender ID, Microsoft is pleased to offer its necessary Sender ID patent
rights on a royalty-free basis but only to those who are also willing to make their Sender ID
patents available on a reciprocal royalty-free basis.
Has anyone looked at the actual license to ensure that the patent reciprosity is limited only to Sender-ID? This thing could be a hell of a submarine patent reciprosity agreement, freeing MS to violate patents of anyone using email if it was worded carefully enough
you can actually set this so that it won't ever fsck itself without you doing it. Just so you know:)
Yes, and to its credit it informs you how to do this after you perform a mkfs.ext3. But its something that has to be done, its not the default behavior; and it might catch quite a few novice admins unaware, especially if they are working with remote systems they did not build.
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Um, No.
HDTV is a digital signal, all you need to do is record that signal to the hard drive.
May fvorite was a Washington DC news company that had implemented extreme spamfighting measures. Since our outgoing mail server doesn't receive incoming mail, its not in the MX records. This guy was bouncing our mail because of that. God hopes that the next Deep throught doesn't try to contact his news organization...
Its also heavier (important for the younger crowd thats likely to move two more times in the next 10 years), has an unweildy depth (about 3 feet versus 6" thus occupying more square footage, big for us in expensive urban areas), and consumes far more power, which generates far more heat (higher bills).
The problem I have is prices are falling rapidly and the tech keeps improving. (In 1 year the Dell 30" LCD TV I'm eyeing has fallen 30%, to about $2,200). I'd still really prefer a 1080p panel, or better yet a 2160p panel (2x 1080i, 3x 720p; no interpolation, or better yet, interpolate those extra pixels).
Obviously you were never laid off for an extended period. Either that or the alcohol is starting to have its effect...
Cloudmark has an implementation for Windows, I'm a long time subscriber that gets about 400 less messages a day because of the product.
The only real problem is the jokers who submit mailing lists as spam because they are too thick headed to separate "mail I don't want to read" from actual spam. However, its a minor problem.
The downside is now I can hear the siren song of the HD DirecTiVo calling to me... Man I need a price drop!!!
Picture the population of China.
Now imagine them all mad at you because you stole their soul when you took that picture
You better start hiding now!
Apologies to Jack Handy
I used outside the box reasoning to devine the answer. This is a very desirable trait. I'd also point out that my solution was far more efficient than the one my so called competition utilized, and after all don't they want someone who can find the fastest, most efficient, solution?
Now, who can help me with part two
The answer to this equation as the password.
Why is this joking? You are talking about pulling a lot of energy out of the climatic system, and I'm sure 100 years ago folks would have laughed themselves silly if you tried to imply all that combustion was going to have an effect on the earth's atmosphere. Just because a hippie thinks of it doesn't mean its safe for the environment.
Dude, you're either turning into a vampire or have a serious medical problem. Either way I suggest a doctors visit...
from the grandparent...
These two competitors have agreed on a completely arbitrary limit for recording PPV shows. Why? Think about it: the PVR market is growing. Rather than focusing on new features for the consumer (ie:...) they've come to an agreement that is good for no one but themselves. There's no way in hell that they just decided to do this, the entire agreement has the fetid stink of collusion.
Get a clue, this "feature" is good for no one but the movie industry. My Tivo already keeps PPV movies as long as a choose to, as does a ReplayTV. It sure as heck isn't good for Tivo/ReplayTV.
They now have to differentiate and tag PPV content vs other content
They have to deal with more support calls ("My show is gone, even though I set Save until I delete")
They get put in a situation where old code/hardware is percieved as "better" than new code/hardware
This isn't collusion, this is concession. And it sucks, because if I use a VCR to record my PPV movies, I face no such restrictions. Fortunately, I don't ever buy PPV movies, but this begins a long slide where soon all content will be forcibly expired off my Tivo because Seinfeld's owners don't want me to watch the "Soup Nazi" episode at will. Which is foolish because the trick of Tivo is that I watch MORE TV now that I can always find something I want to watch, and I'm more likely to fast forward through a show than the commercials, because these days I'm amazed at the amount of crap that fills the "program" time; title segments, recaps, slow pans to establish location, end credits, watching guests walk accross stage and waiting for applause to die down, etc, etc.
Just think of it as an animated film and it will all go down better. Even the parts with live actors. :)
I use a similar process when interviewing. Our company hands prospects one of those "Rate yourself from 1 to 10 forms on these 20 topics" forms. Anyone who rates themselves a 10 on ANYTHING gets a mental 7, because clearly they don't even know what they don't know. Somebody with the brains to rate themselves a 9 is very likely an expert, though some quizzing is needed to make sure, though a cross check on the number of 8-10's can usually tell you; nobody is an expert at everything. Problem is, HR departments often don't get this, and tend to forward the idiots who rate themselves a 10 on 90% of the topics.
Which is why I hate those things.
What you folks see to be missing is that its not just a question of supporting Linux, but a very specific case of supporting DB2 client (and possibly Websphere and Tivoli). It takes time and money to certify these products for a platform, and given all the variations between distributions they'll get the best "bang for the buck" by picking the most popular distribution (which was Red Hat at the time) and concentrate on that.
The author gave NO reasons why Red Hat was unacceptable enough to motivate him to seek an unsupported configuration, risking support leaving him high and dry if anything goes wrong. Why not bring managemet two proposals, one using a supported RedHat configuration and one using Debian and a truckload of your time. If management decides your time is worth more than you think, consider it a good thing. Or maybe they dont like the idea of you risking 100 hours of your time pursuing a project of questionable benefit (running Debian instead of RedHat) and uncertain outcome (what is the odds that at some point you need to call IBM support?)
Trust me, running unsupported configs sucks.
Tivo's aren't rented. The box is purchased and a service is subscribed. Cancel the service and you can still record, you just have to use old fashioned date/time methods.
Comcast DVR's ARE rented, the price is good at $10/month, but the service sucks. Just tried the thing out at my parents; its slow, unresponsive, and low res. Thanks, but I'll be keeping my DirecTiVo's for a long while...
In secret underground bases under the Arizona desert, why do you ask?
I question whether Mister Sinus is an obvious parady of Mystery Science, though the attempt at a homonym is clear. Perhaps if the show were a parady of the original and not a tribute/inspired by version I'd be more open to that defense. The tone of the article implied the group was making fun of the movies, not of the MST3k format, which is a pretty important distinction. If they aren't actually doing parady they don't really have a right to claim it as a defense.
To paraphrase from the article:
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure if they don't defend their trademark, they lose it. And if they license to this group they'll be diluting the brand, since they can't guarantee the quality of humor, there's no mad scientists, no sketches, etc. In other words, it's not MST3k, it's MST3k-like.
However, "Even then, it doesn't do them any good without your card" is flat wrong, cards can be forged, magnetic stripes rewritten (Ever see a cashier verify the numbers that got approved are the numbers on the card? They rarely confirm the signature, and I've even used other peoples Photo Visa's).
Also, video cameras can record pin numbers, electronic eavesdropping tricks could "hear" the PIN number, etc. Heck, what guarantee do you have walking into any store that the CC terminal is legitimate, and not a fake designed to capture your CC number and PIN before passing it on to a legitimate machine in the back? Dig around for ATM fraud to see what is actively going on.
And then you give the PIN to the business to complete the transaction and now they have that. Exactly how does this improve security when you transact business with a company? It might improve security if someone were to steal your wallet, but without some complicated and difficult to verify one time hash scheme. Which has been done and tried (Amex gave me a smart card reader, Visa has tried 1-time CC numbers picked up their site.
Thanks, but I'll stick with the fool me twice, shame on me system. MS has proven time and time again that they play to win, and that their idea of fair play is whatever they can get away with. Wasn't that long ago they decided I needed to buy a second Windows license for every PC in my office because the one I bought with the computer didn't include a right for me to Ghost(tm) images onto it.
Fortunately, there's a lot of really sharp and really paranoid folks who understand the law better than me (IANAL, though I do work in IP protection); you just have to separate them from the really paranoid people who don't understand the law.
Thats the worst theory I've ever heard. Did you dump you newspapers in the trash and call them delivered? Spam isn't delivered until it gets in front of you. If it manages to get into my inbox where I can delete it after reading the subject, thats victory, +5 points; if I am tricked into opening it, +50 points. If it gets delivered to my spam folder without any imput from me and its one of 2 thousand messages I delete twice weekly without even noticing it, the most the spammer would get is some incremental thousandth of a cent because some fool paid him to deliver a million messages to /dev/null.
Speaking of which, I can deliver to a million+ distinct email addresses for you, and I'll guarantee at least 50% will trigger whatever tracking link you choose to embed in that email. All for the low low price of $5,000. Just send me a mail at FatTony@Gmail.com
Tracked by MS Passport, of course. Don't worry about getting your Credit Card out, MS already has it.
Man, I just love a good conspiracy theory!
Has anyone looked at the actual license to ensure that the patent reciprosity is limited only to Sender-ID? This thing could be a hell of a submarine patent reciprosity agreement, freeing MS to violate patents of anyone using email if it was worded carefully enough
Yes, and to its credit it informs you how to do this after you perform a mkfs.ext3. But its something that has to be done, its not the default behavior; and it might catch quite a few novice admins unaware, especially if they are working with remote systems they did not build.