Most tapes drives remain backwards compatible, so those new SDLT 320 drives will read the old DLT 10/20 format that is about 8 years old at least. By sticking with an accepted corporate format you're pretty safe that something will be able to read the data in the future. If your looking to 50 year recoverability, do what the pro's do and lock a few new computers away, etc.
Now call me crazy, but have folks completely forgotten the age old solution, TAPE? A SDLT tape goes for about $50 and holds about 320GB, LTO holds even more, and I believe Quantum has just released the latest generation of SDLT. While its not "cheap" an autoloader can be had for about $15,000 that can backup many TB hands off. Might be a bit much initially, but it the best solution long term
...self-experimentation... The doors were suddenly flung open for a new age of exploration into the human mind.
I like this line, just because it so perfectly captures the stupidity of the drug culture. exactly what deep insights into the workings of the human mind are we supposed to get from researchers tripping on LSD? The color purple tastes salty? Dogs are really psychic, and want researchers to kill Santa Claus?
There was no evidence given in the articles that the pumps "catch up" on measured increments, I suspect that was a bit of tin-foil hat paranoia on the posters part. If they did it would be proof that such crimes are a much bigger problem than station owners tweaking their pumps to deliver on the low side of whats allowed, that would require the pump manufaturers to be writing code for their pumps that specifically enabled this short of cheating, vs just having fine adjustment screws for flow rates, which are likely neccessary so the pumps can be kept accurate.
Personally, I'm more concerned with stations pumping regular from their premium pumps. My old care required premium because the knock sensor was hosed, and wouldn't retard the spark to account for knock with regular, so I knew pretty quick when I had been ripped off. Fortunately my new car doesn't have this issue, but I can no longer tell when I've been screwed, so I stick to clean stations that I trust (theives are rarely industrious enough to keep their shops neat).
As a matter of fact, there is. All other things being equal, a 100Mbit connection will return a ping faster than a 10Mbit connection, since the ping will get onto the wire faster.
And how does this prevent sandbox pages from being targetted by spambots?
This is not the spam you are looking for...
The parent wasn't refering to e-mail spam, but rather google-spam, jerks posting links to their website on your site to prop up their rankings. The idea was to kill the usefulness of the technique by blocking Googlebot from the areas that are vulnerable to this sort of spam.
We've tried switching to Linux, but have switched back because the costs of training were simply too high to justify it.
I can't decide if this is a troll or if this is one of those "underground" marketing campaigns Microsoft like to pay for. Hmm, let me try:
I tries switching to Windows 2003, but switched back because the lack of standards compliance, security flaws, and high costs of training made it impossible to justify, even when MS offered to give it to me for free.
They bribe the artist to sign away their rights with what are likely unneeded signing bonuses (unneeded in the sence that most bands would sign if a major record label said they would like to publish their songs). Most folks don't read and understand the finance contracts when they buy a car, why would anybody think a typical unsigned musician reads and understands a record contract that yesterday he would have paid you to get when a talent scout waives tens of thousands of dollars at him to sign on the dotted line. Its not like an NFL draft, where you have dozens of folks eager to sign you up. Tell that talent scout "You need to amend this part, where its gives you ownership of my soul" and you have to be prepared for him to walk away, after he finishes that good belly laugh.
I'm not benifiting from it any more than any Native American born in the last 100 years. It's not like there are fences around the reservations keeping them in, they've been free to do as they please for as long or longer than my ancestors have been here.
I don't know how long your ancestors have been here (in the US), but native american tribes weren't allowed to walk back home after being forcibly marched to their new homes on the reservations. Those who tried might get slaughtered, or at the least forced to walk back by the freindly neighborhood calvary, which American History shows had a pretty liberal policy when it came to killing. Judges were settlers, they had no voting rights, and popular fiction often painted them as murderous savages.
I won't deny you that native americans get some benefit from living inside the borders of the United States, but the conditions many were forced to endure for generations has left many in a position that owning computers isn't really an option. The casino thing is a relatively new phenomea, often funded by outside interests that syphon off profits, and lets not forget the nasty social issues that gambling also brings.
Doesn't matter when they arrived, they are now living on land that belong to the Native American people. If a friend gives you a stlen car, you are benefiting from that crime, it doesn't matter that you aren't the one that stole car. If you buy a car from someone who's friend stole the car for him, you are stil benefiting from that crime.
If big evil corporation employees slave labor to make your shoes, you are benefiting from that crime. If your immigrant father worked as a piss boy for a tycoon whose father got rich building railroads accross the nation that forced native americans off the railroads right of way, you have benefited from that act. If you eat the bread that is produced from the huge American corn and wheat fields you are benefiting from the abuse the native americans suffered. If your Chinese father wasn't slaughtered at the fans of savage Japanese soldiers during World War II its very likely you benefited by the existance of the United States of America, which had the industrial power it did because of the callous way it forced the native peoples of the land it occupied out of its way.
I'm not suggesting that we return North American to the Native Americans and go home, just pointing out that everybody who is enjoying the freedoms and rights of the United States or has been aided by this nation has benefited by the oppression of the native american people. Unless you have had all your belongs that you couldn't carry 500 miles stolen and forced to live on the least desirable chunk of property the theives could find, you aren't THEY.
I also don't recall killing anyones ancestors, and I don't know anyone who did.
And yet you are directly benefiting from those who did. If you are not directly benefiting from those who did, you are not a US Citizen nor living in the United States, and hence the "we" isn't really inclusive of you. And as far as "THEY" go, while I'm not sure of the reservations current status, historically Indian nations on reservations were viewed as non-citizens, that were not due the rights and protections of US Citizens; how else could the US military be massacring hundreds without massive outcry and inflicting forced marches as late as 1890? Indian Reservations were still being established less than 90 years ago. I also believe that this separation is actually the basis for allowing Indians to build casinos on their "reservation", because they exist outside the scope of the State laws.
each one of those SMSs could of cost the phonecompany 5-10cents..
And they could have gone to the other carrier and asked to re-negotiate the terms, 5-10 cents per message is insane. First they'll save money by not spending time counting and billing all those messages, with the simple hammer that if you don't, we'll stop forwarding the messages to you. Obviously they have a big chunk of the texters, and if their plan is cheaper its a nice way to steal even more customers.
That rate was probably set ages ago, when no one understood the usage it would get and the interaction was considered "complex"BR
The problem with resurrecting it on Cartoon Network is that Futurama's 2D-CG hybrid style is very, very expensive to produce (at least several million per episode).
That just seems amazingly doubtful. The pilot might have cost that much, to develop the style, etc., but to wrap simple cartoon textures on 3-D objects sounds pretty cheap these days. Far cheaper than paying animators to hand paint, arrange, and photograph thousands of animation cells...
As the Cypherpunks like to point out, encryption is less useful if only the stuff you want to hide gets encrypted. knowing that 500k is the stuff I need to decrypt makes my life easier than trying to decrypt 3GB of stuff. Plus, the existance of JPEGs likely makes decrypting orders of magnatude worse, since about 90% of the data will effectively decrypt to random data; how do you know you're successful?
I'd say with few exceptions anybody capable of posting to Slashot is capable of not being poor. That is, whatever joblessness or other funk they are in is temporary and will pass; I'd lay money that our poor parent doesn't really know the meaning of poor, that he's not a homeless person plagued with health and mental problems, an itinerant farmer, or illegal immigrant forced to endure the whims of the slime that employ such laborers in lieu of legal workers that might complain about the sweatshop conditions. If you earn $10k a year working McDonalds you still will use credit, credit reports might be pulled to qualify you for a job, an irate creditor might press charges against you for fraud. Worse yet, you can't afford a lawyer to prove the identity theft happened, and creditors are more likely to think you are behind the scam.
Telling creditors they are SOL isn't enough, they can continue to hound you and add interest and fees, while identity theft awareness is rising, there are still few good methods of addressing the chaos it causes, there is no "reset button" to restore your good credit and name, as a "poor" person, you might easily be driven into bankruptcy as a way to save yourself, where folks with 33% interest rates wait to prey on your needs, where decent housing becaomes unavailable because you cant be trusted to pay rent on time, etc.
Its a very serious problem, I wouldn't take it so lightly if I were you.
Funny as it sounds, just wait till someone get a hold of your identity, you'll be poor and deeply in debt. Scammers are very good and obtaining credit, it helps that they don't fear the repercussions of being unable to pay.
Being poor is no reason to not protect your identity. You'll just get more funny looks.
It bugs me when otherwise funky geeks pigeonhole women into the "oh look, cute fluffy bunnies" games. sure there's a market for them, but a lot of us find it really condescending.
Used to work at an arcade/race track where the macho guys would come to. They would by themselves a book of 20 laps and get two for their girls. I'd take great delight in giving the girls free laps and advice on how to get their times down, so that after 5 or 6 more laps they would be beating the boys who blindly storm around the track completely without finese. Then I'd get them out and flirt with them until their fool boyfreinds finished. Then I got to see them ask their girls what their lap times were; it was fun to see their reactions when they learned she was 2-3 seconds faster than they were.
As a side benefit, sometimes they would "lose" the guy in the arcade and come visit some more;D
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Most tapes drives remain backwards compatible, so those new SDLT 320 drives will read the old DLT 10/20 format that is about 8 years old at least. By sticking with an accepted corporate format you're pretty safe that something will be able to read the data in the future. If your looking to 50 year recoverability, do what the pro's do and lock a few new computers away, etc.
Now call me crazy, but have folks completely forgotten the age old solution, TAPE? A SDLT tape goes for about $50 and holds about 320GB, LTO holds even more, and I believe Quantum has just released the latest generation of SDLT. While its not "cheap" an autoloader can be had for about $15,000 that can backup many TB hands off. Might be a bit much initially, but it the best solution long term
Every new Countach will come with one. Better yet, every new Tucker will come with one as well!
I like this line, just because it so perfectly captures the stupidity of the drug culture. exactly what deep insights into the workings of the human mind are we supposed to get from researchers tripping on LSD? The color purple tastes salty? Dogs are really psychic, and want researchers to kill Santa Claus?
Personally, I'm more concerned with stations pumping regular from their premium pumps. My old care required premium because the knock sensor was hosed, and wouldn't retard the spark to account for knock with regular, so I knew pretty quick when I had been ripped off. Fortunately my new car doesn't have this issue, but I can no longer tell when I've been screwed, so I stick to clean stations that I trust (theives are rarely industrious enough to keep their shops neat).
I'm just wondering how long it will be until they figure out how to use a cell phone as a spam relay...
Rule number one, all things are never equal.
This is not the spam you are looking for...
The parent wasn't refering to e-mail spam, but rather google-spam, jerks posting links to their website on your site to prop up their rankings. The idea was to kill the usefulness of the technique by blocking Googlebot from the areas that are vulnerable to this sort of spam.
I can't decide if this is a troll or if this is one of those "underground" marketing campaigns Microsoft like to pay for. Hmm, let me try:
I tries switching to Windows 2003, but switched back because the lack of standards compliance, security flaws, and high costs of training made it impossible to justify, even when MS offered to give it to me for free.
Yeah, definately underground marketing....
More precisesly, Water is a subset of liquid.
Gasoline and alcohol are also liquids, but will have a distictly different effect on you when consumed...
I don't know how long your ancestors have been here (in the US), but native american tribes weren't allowed to walk back home after being forcibly marched to their new homes on the reservations. Those who tried might get slaughtered, or at the least forced to walk back by the freindly neighborhood calvary, which American History shows had a pretty liberal policy when it came to killing. Judges were settlers, they had no voting rights, and popular fiction often painted them as murderous savages.
Once you give it back to yourself, don't forget to start your Casino!
If big evil corporation employees slave labor to make your shoes, you are benefiting from that crime. If your immigrant father worked as a piss boy for a tycoon whose father got rich building railroads accross the nation that forced native americans off the railroads right of way, you have benefited from that act. If you eat the bread that is produced from the huge American corn and wheat fields you are benefiting from the abuse the native americans suffered. If your Chinese father wasn't slaughtered at the fans of savage Japanese soldiers during World War II its very likely you benefited by the existance of the United States of America, which had the industrial power it did because of the callous way it forced the native peoples of the land it occupied out of its way.
I'm not suggesting that we return North American to the Native Americans and go home, just pointing out that everybody who is enjoying the freedoms and rights of the United States or has been aided by this nation has benefited by the oppression of the native american people. Unless you have had all your belongs that you couldn't carry 500 miles stolen and forced to live on the least desirable chunk of property the theives could find, you aren't THEY.
And yet you are directly benefiting from those who did. If you are not directly benefiting from those who did, you are not a US Citizen nor living in the United States, and hence the "we" isn't really inclusive of you. And as far as "THEY" go, while I'm not sure of the reservations current status, historically Indian nations on reservations were viewed as non-citizens, that were not due the rights and protections of US Citizens; how else could the US military be massacring hundreds without massive outcry and inflicting forced marches as late as 1890? Indian Reservations were still being established less than 90 years ago. I also believe that this separation is actually the basis for allowing Indians to build casinos on their "reservation", because they exist outside the scope of the State laws.
And they could have gone to the other carrier and asked to re-negotiate the terms, 5-10 cents per message is insane. First they'll save money by not spending time counting and billing all those messages, with the simple hammer that if you don't, we'll stop forwarding the messages to you. Obviously they have a big chunk of the texters, and if their plan is cheaper its a nice way to steal even more customers.
That rate was probably set ages ago, when no one understood the usage it would get and the interaction was considered "complex"BR
If they haven't read it in 90 days, they've already ignored it.
Personally I'm waiting for the version 4.0 "Ludicrous speed" [Thanks Mel Brooks/Spaceballs]
Low Speed (1.5Mbps)
Full Speed (12Mbps)
Hi-Speed (480Mbps)
That just seems amazingly doubtful. The pilot might have cost that much, to develop the style, etc., but to wrap simple cartoon textures on 3-D objects sounds pretty cheap these days. Far cheaper than paying animators to hand paint, arrange, and photograph thousands of animation cells...
As the Cypherpunks like to point out, encryption is less useful if only the stuff you want to hide gets encrypted. knowing that 500k is the stuff I need to decrypt makes my life easier than trying to decrypt 3GB of stuff. Plus, the existance of JPEGs likely makes decrypting orders of magnatude worse, since about 90% of the data will effectively decrypt to random data; how do you know you're successful?
Telling creditors they are SOL isn't enough, they can continue to hound you and add interest and fees, while identity theft awareness is rising, there are still few good methods of addressing the chaos it causes, there is no "reset button" to restore your good credit and name, as a "poor" person, you might easily be driven into bankruptcy as a way to save yourself, where folks with 33% interest rates wait to prey on your needs, where decent housing becaomes unavailable because you cant be trusted to pay rent on time, etc.
Its a very serious problem, I wouldn't take it so lightly if I were you.
Funny as it sounds, just wait till someone get a hold of your identity, you'll be poor and deeply in debt. Scammers are very good and obtaining credit, it helps that they don't fear the repercussions of being unable to pay.
Being poor is no reason to not protect your identity. You'll just get more funny looks.
Used to work at an arcade/race track where the macho guys would come to. They would by themselves a book of 20 laps and get two for their girls. I'd take great delight in giving the girls free laps and advice on how to get their times down, so that after 5 or 6 more laps they would be beating the boys who blindly storm around the track completely without finese. Then I'd get them out and flirt with them until their fool boyfreinds finished. Then I got to see them ask their girls what their lap times were; it was fun to see their reactions when they learned she was 2-3 seconds faster than they were.
As a side benefit, sometimes they would "lose" the guy in the arcade and come visit some more ;D