I used to work in HVAC and I have to disagree with you, in pilot mode the thermocouple is still in use, that is why you have to push the button in to get the gas flowing till it heats up, if your furnace pilot is using that much gas it needs to be fixed.
well that depends on how bad someone wants to rob you. If you are known to have a Colt 45 security system and most of the people on your block dont have one, unless someone wants to get YOU than they will pick an easier target
IF it where real there would be a loophole... I don't see a congressman passing a law that says that they have to pay a fee to put in a nice entertainment center
I have seen somewhat similar results here, I have a 450mhz p2 with 300ish mb of ram it ran XP just fine but when I went to put Ubuntu 6.6 (install off the live CD nothing extra or fancy as it was my first successful Linux install) but it was slow as a dog... it took FF 15-20 seconds to appear to say nothing of loading a page... XP on the same box was almost twice as responsive... not sure why it was so but I wont be switching to Ubuntu anytime soon.
that is for ROAD Diesel, what you would be running in a generator would be UNtaxed Diesel (here in upstate NY that is about $0.80/gal of difference... (making UNtaxed Diesel about $2 per gallon)) making it $245.7 per hour to run said generator
that or make the prius with a TDI engine... the '03 Jetta TDI (no electric just a normal IC engine) gets 50Mpg... build that into a hybrid (ie a prius) and you should be able to get MUCH better Mpg...
dont know about VMware but VPC can do that, you can tell it to discard changes when yuo shut down the virtual pc and it is just like when you last saved changes...
not to be rude or anything but most CONSUMER grade digital cameras dont have a hotshoe however many high end/professional ones do (search eBay for "professional digital camera")
"Just because someone doesn't know anything and everything about computers and networks
doesn't make them an idiot, it just means that they actually have a life.
You oughta give it a try, although it's probably too late."
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (*) legislative (*) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(*) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(*) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(*) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
(*) Jurisdictional problems
(*) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(*) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
if you had read the story you would have seen that it says 1600 Dual CPU servers (3200 CPU's)
"Mr Houston says Weta Digital owns about 1600 servers incorporating 3200 processors in total"
Ahem A jury can choose to disregard a law just like they can choose to ignore instructions from a judge
http://www.deoxy.org/juryrite.htm
A Jury's Rights, Powers, and Duties
But does the jury's power to veto bad laws exist under our Constitution?
It certainly does! In the February term of 1794, the Supreme Court conducted a jury trial in the case of the State of Georgia vs. Brailsford (3 Dall 1). The instructions to the jury in the first jury trial before the Supreme Court of the United States illustrate the true power of the jury. Chief Justice John Jay said: "It is presumed, that juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the other hand, presumed that courts are the best judges of law. But still both objects are within your power of decision." (emphasis added) "...you have a right to take it upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy".
So you see, in an American courtroom there are in a sense twelve judges in attendance, not just one. And they are there with the power to review the "law" as well as the "facts!" Actually, the "judge" is there to conduct the proceedings in an orderly fashion and maintain the safety of all parties involved.
As recently as 1972, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that the jury has an "unreviewable and unreversible power... to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge..." (US vs Dougherty, 473 F 2d 1113, 1139 (1972))
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I used to work in HVAC and I have to disagree with you, in pilot mode the thermocouple is still in use, that is why you have to push the button in to get the gas flowing till it heats up, if your furnace pilot is using that much gas it needs to be fixed.
Aaron Z
he must have had a nonworking firewall or another infected computer behind the firewall.
well that depends on how bad someone wants to rob you. If you are known to have a Colt 45 security system and most of the people on your block dont have one, unless someone wants to get YOU than they will pick an easier target
Aaron Z
IF it where real there would be a loophole... I don't see a congressman passing a law that says that they have to pay a fee to put in a nice entertainment center
Aaron Z
I have seen somewhat similar results here, I have a 450mhz p2 with 300ish mb of ram it ran XP just fine but when I went to put Ubuntu 6.6 (install off the live CD nothing extra or fancy as it was my first successful Linux install) but it was slow as a dog... it took FF 15-20 seconds to appear to say nothing of loading a page... XP on the same box was almost twice as responsive... not sure why it was so but I wont be switching to Ubuntu anytime soon.
Aaron Z
that is for ROAD Diesel, what you would be running in a generator would be UNtaxed Diesel (here in upstate NY that is about $0.80 /gal of difference... (making UNtaxed Diesel about $2 per gallon)) making it $245.7 per hour to run said generator
that or make the prius with a TDI engine... the '03 Jetta TDI (no electric just a normal IC engine) gets 50Mpg... build that into a hybrid (ie a prius) and you should be able to get MUCH better Mpg...
Just my $.02
Aaron Z
ahem I belive you meant to say 243,000 sq km...
dont know about VMware but VPC can do that, you can tell it to discard changes when yuo shut down the virtual pc and it is just like when you last saved changes...
lol this statment could be appended to any /. thread and be correct
not to be rude or anything but most CONSUMER grade digital cameras dont have a hotshoe however many high end/professional ones do (search eBay for "professional digital camera")
here are some examples:
a Canon one
or
a Nikon one
perhaps those of us who need to talk to people on AIM, Y! and MSN but dont want to have 3 diffrient clients open????
"Just because someone doesn't know anything and everything about computers and networks doesn't make them an idiot, it just means that they actually have a life. You oughta give it a try, although it's probably too late."
no it isnt but it is more so than a 800 lb one person car would be
FYI: Windows 2000 is NT 5.0 XP is NT 5.1 and 2003 Server is NT 5.2 so it is possible to be running "Windows NT" and still be under support Aaron Z
Your post advocates a ( ) technical (*) legislative (*) market-based ( ) vigilante approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(*) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(*) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(*) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
(*) Jurisdictional problems
(*) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(*) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Less than 30 comments and the server running Orrin Hatch's Senate page is slashdotted..... Well now we know where the budget is not being spent
if you had read the story you would have seen that it says 1600 Dual CPU servers (3200 CPU's) "Mr Houston says Weta Digital owns about 1600 servers incorporating 3200 processors in total"
Ahem A jury can choose to disregard a law just like they can choose to ignore instructions from a judge http://www.deoxy.org/juryrite.htm A Jury's Rights, Powers, and Duties But does the jury's power to veto bad laws exist under our Constitution? It certainly does! In the February term of 1794, the Supreme Court conducted a jury trial in the case of the State of Georgia vs. Brailsford (3 Dall 1). The instructions to the jury in the first jury trial before the Supreme Court of the United States illustrate the true power of the jury. Chief Justice John Jay said: "It is presumed, that juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the other hand, presumed that courts are the best judges of law. But still both objects are within your power of decision." (emphasis added) "...you have a right to take it upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy". So you see, in an American courtroom there are in a sense twelve judges in attendance, not just one. And they are there with the power to review the "law" as well as the "facts!" Actually, the "judge" is there to conduct the proceedings in an orderly fashion and maintain the safety of all parties involved. As recently as 1972, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that the jury has an "unreviewable and unreversible power... to acquit in disregard of the instructions on the law given by the trial judge..." (US vs Dougherty, 473 F 2d 1113, 1139 (1972))
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Aaron Z
Point of information: The whole east coast DID NOT lose power. Only the northeastern united states did
Click Here
Aaron Z
That is what a webcam is for
Aaron Z
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
good idea
Aaron Z
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
25%??? most cops are in the car 90% of the time unless they are doing a roadblock or the like
Aaron Z
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."