Because ISPs have a history of not respecting RFCs? For example a lot of large ISPs used to (and may still do) ignore the TTL data for a zone and just use a TTL of 3 days.
It's not like it's difficult to change
But why wait to change? I have shown that ISPs don't run proper DNS servers, and you stated that it is easy to change, so what are you waiting for?
This is the kind of thing that makes linux a poor choice on the desktop. While the fix is correct from a technical perspective, it fails the "Grandma Test". If you're incredibly technical, no problem. Grandma, however, isn't going to know and understand how to enable ASPM via grub.conf. Her response is probably going to be, "Why are there worms in my computer?" A better route would be to develop a test to detect the error condition on the install of the OS, then save the configuration accordingly.
The problem has its roots in the fact that very, very few people actually install Windows. I recently installed a non-OEM (bare Microsoft disk) copy of Windows 7 on a PC and guess what? It was very unstable. Crashed at least once per day. So, I tracked down the vendor's drivers and installed the chipset driver. Now it is stable.
If Grandma installed her own copy of Windows, this kind of problem would be fixed very quickly.
With Reid under arrest and handcuffed in the patrol car, Deputy Ryan decided to
have Reid's Acura towed. Reid had wanted Deputy Ryan to leave the Acura on the side
of the road or to drive the vehicle to his house, which was a half mile up the road....... Deputy Ryan's decision to
take the vehicle into safekeeping was based on his concern that leaving the car on the side
of the road would expose it to possible vehicular theft or burglary since it was nighttime,
The reason it was towed was concern that it might be stolen if left by the side of the road. Yeah, right. I am sure that the "concern" was totally unrelated to the fact that towing the car created a situation under which it could be searched.
It's the same like everywhere in Asia. You walk to mall, nearest street store or market and buy a sim card.
Not so easy in India. Legally, you can only buy a SIM card if you can prove residence. Some carriers have even de-activated SIM cards of people who have moved and not updated the records. Not all stores are so picky about the law, but it may take some legwork to find such a store.
How the christ can it possibly be legal to sue people who use technology that infringes a patent which was sold to them by someone else?
It's not even clear that they are suing over technology that was sold to them by someone else. This could be Broadcom suing their own customers (indirectly, they could be using equipment with Broadcom chips in it) and the company doing the suing could have close ties to Broadcom. Why else would Broadcom sell the patents to a patent troll?
They did give us the option to press 1 to talk to an associate, but it was an emergency phone. You could only pick it up, and press the single button to call the fire department.
What you need is a dtmf tone generator that can be held over the mouthpiece to send the appropriate tones. Where you would buy one of these now, I have no idea, but they used to be quite common in the days when rotary dial phones still existed, but were being phased out and replaced with dtmf phones. With one of these gizmos, you could answer the call, puut the gizmo against the mothpiece and send the tone for "1".
Bullying people with the legal system is not legal.
But it is. It shouldn't be, but right now it is. I wonder if it is related to the fact that everyone who makes the law is a lawyer...
When does it become criminal extortion? Everything Righthaven did fits the definition on Wikipedia -- but taking legal advice from Wikipedia is a very bad idea. Righthaven used threats to coerce people into giving them money. If they were not the copyright owners, the threats amounted to something along the lines of "we will cost you a lot of money unless you give us some money now". Suing people is a protected activity, but if RIghthaven got settlements based on a mere threat to sue, is that protected?
and they have also set me up with free SMS anyway because one phone number which keeps sending me texts was getting through anyway (they don't know why).
Amazing. I have found that, with 100% reliabiltiy, SMS messages will not arrive when sent between AT&T and T-Mobile in the USA, but my daughter, travelling in Africa and using a local SIM card can always get an SMS message through to us.
It seems the word "tunnel" is shared between English and Italian.
Yes, but it is clearly an English word, used in Italian. While not an expert Italian speaker, to me the use of the word "tunnel" seems odd, since the word often used for a literal tunnel is "galleria". According to one website, there are some idiomatic uses of "tunnel" in relation to drugs, so perhaps it has some other meanings which may make more sense in the context of this quote.
As long as there is nothing on file, IBM no long has to invent anything. Anything they see and think "that is clever" or "I wonder if there is a patent on that?" will be quickly written up as a new patent. By reading scientific research, watching for new apps, looking at every business process, etc., IBM can find things others haven't patented.
Pure FUD. First to file does NOT mean that prior art is ignored. Prior art will invalidate a patent now just as it did before. The rest of the world has been "first to file" for, like, forever. If someone has published it, then no-one can patent it.
The cost of unleaded gasoline was astronomical in the early 1970s - because unleaded gasoline was produced in relatively small batches and could not compete at scale with leaded gasoline. When leaded gasoline was banned, we were all told that we'd be paying more for gasoline. In fact, the price of unleaded gasoline production fell.
Unleaded gas wasn't patented. The prices will only fall when the patents on the new propellants expire.
The high price of the albuterol inhalers in the USA is due to the control of manufacturing of the propellant by the patent holder. Albuterol inhalers sold in India and made in Australia by well-known brands cost about $2 becasue they don't care about the CFC in the propellant.
This happened to me as well. A series of mysterious iTunes charges popped up all over my CC statement, totaling hundreds of dollars.
You think that's a large fraudulent charge? Last month, my credit card got hit for not one, but 3 charges of $1030 each, plus the credit card's foreign exchange fees. Over $3200 in total. All three charges came from a caribbean airline.
exactly what benefit does the community gain from allowing limited-liability companies?
Imagine that you are a small-time investor. You see that a company called Enron seems to be doing well, but as a small investor, you have no idea that there is anything fishy going on. S you buy a few shares of Enron. Suddenly Enron implodes, and you lost your investment. Now, the people that were owed money by Enron (employees, for example) sue you because there is no limited liability. Not only did you lose your investment, but you could lose your house because you invested a small amount in Enron.
In this scenario, how much money would go into the stock market? How much money would be available for companies to raise for capital projects?
I use the name+company@gmail.com trick to sign up when their form will allow it,
I use this also, but far too many websites won't accept it. I run my own email domain, so if I want to sign up, I just create a <me>_<company>@<my domain> alias.
I even came across a website that would not accept a "." at the end of the domain part of an email address, which is surely valid.
Set up your firewall to redirect all outgoing port 80, 8080, etc packets to the proxy (running squid), then use calamaris to analyze the logs (or roll your own analysis). Squid can also block urls based or regular expression matching.
ATT isn't buying T-Mobile in order to get a corner on the market. They are buying them to expand their network so they can have a hope of competing with Verizon.
Naivete and ignorance in one post. It has already been made public that expanding AT&T's network would cost about 1/4 (IIRC) of the cost of buying T-Mobile. This merger is all about taking out the competition, not improving AT&T's service to make it competitive.
Today's CEO get paid multi-million dollar bonuses win, lose or draw. Someone has to lose, and right now that is the rest of us. Every CEO should be given an agreed goal, and their bonus works both ways
You are probably (certainly?) right the case of most CEOs. However, Elon Musk has invested a lot of his own money in Tesla and if it fails, he stands to lose that investment -- far, far more than he has likely received from Tesla in his position as CEO.
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Check your history. The UK has had coalition governments in recent history. They have not lasted past the next election.
Because ISPs have a history of not respecting RFCs? For example a lot of large ISPs used to (and may still do) ignore the TTL data for a zone and just use a TTL of 3 days.
But why wait to change? I have shown that ISPs don't run proper DNS servers, and you stated that it is easy to change, so what are you waiting for?
The problem has its roots in the fact that very, very few people actually install Windows. I recently installed a non-OEM (bare Microsoft disk) copy of Windows 7 on a PC and guess what? It was very unstable. Crashed at least once per day. So, I tracked down the vendor's drivers and installed the chipset driver. Now it is stable.
If Grandma installed her own copy of Windows, this kind of problem would be fixed very quickly.
The reason it was towed was concern that it might be stolen if left by the side of the road. Yeah, right. I am sure that the "concern" was totally unrelated to the fact that towing the car created a situation under which it could be searched.
Not so easy in India. Legally, you can only buy a SIM card if you can prove residence. Some carriers have even de-activated SIM cards of people who have moved and not updated the records. Not all stores are so picky about the law, but it may take some legwork to find such a store.
It's not even clear that they are suing over technology that was sold to them by someone else. This could be Broadcom suing their own customers (indirectly, they could be using equipment with Broadcom chips in it) and the company doing the suing could have close ties to Broadcom. Why else would Broadcom sell the patents to a patent troll?
What you need is a dtmf tone generator that can be held over the mouthpiece to send the appropriate tones. Where you would buy one of these now, I have no idea, but they used to be quite common in the days when rotary dial phones still existed, but were being phased out and replaced with dtmf phones. With one of these gizmos, you could answer the call, puut the gizmo against the mothpiece and send the tone for "1".
When does it become criminal extortion? Everything Righthaven did fits the definition on Wikipedia -- but taking legal advice from Wikipedia is a very bad idea. Righthaven used threats to coerce people into giving them money. If they were not the copyright owners, the threats amounted to something along the lines of "we will cost you a lot of money unless you give us some money now". Suing people is a protected activity, but if RIghthaven got settlements based on a mere threat to sue, is that protected?
Amazing. I have found that, with 100% reliabiltiy, SMS messages will not arrive when sent between AT&T and T-Mobile in the USA, but my daughter, travelling in Africa and using a local SIM card can always get an SMS message through to us.
Yes, but it is clearly an English word, used in Italian. While not an expert Italian speaker, to me the use of the word "tunnel" seems odd, since the word often used for a literal tunnel is "galleria". According to one website, there are some idiomatic uses of "tunnel" in relation to drugs, so perhaps it has some other meanings which may make more sense in the context of this quote.
Pure FUD. First to file does NOT mean that prior art is ignored. Prior art will invalidate a patent now just as it did before. The rest of the world has been "first to file" for, like, forever. If someone has published it, then no-one can patent it.
Unleaded gas wasn't patented. The prices will only fall when the patents on the new propellants expire.
The high price of the albuterol inhalers in the USA is due to the control of manufacturing of the propellant by the patent holder. Albuterol inhalers sold in India and made in Australia by well-known brands cost about $2 becasue they don't care about the CFC in the propellant.
You think that's a large fraudulent charge? Last month, my credit card got hit for not one, but 3 charges of $1030 each, plus the credit card's foreign exchange fees. Over $3200 in total. All three charges came from a caribbean airline.
Imagine that you are a small-time investor. You see that a company called Enron seems to be doing well, but as a small investor, you have no idea that there is anything fishy going on. S you buy a few shares of Enron. Suddenly Enron implodes, and you lost your investment. Now, the people that were owed money by Enron (employees, for example) sue you because there is no limited liability. Not only did you lose your investment, but you could lose your house because you invested a small amount in Enron.
In this scenario, how much money would go into the stock market? How much money would be available for companies to raise for capital projects?
I use this also, but far too many websites won't accept it. I run my own email domain, so if I want to sign up, I just create a <me>_<company>@<my domain> alias.
I even came across a website that would not accept a "." at the end of the domain part of an email address, which is surely valid.
Set up your firewall to redirect all outgoing port 80, 8080, etc packets to the proxy (running squid), then use calamaris to analyze the logs (or roll your own analysis). Squid can also block urls based or regular expression matching.
Just a guess here, since I am not a lawyer, but I don't think sovereign immunity protects the states from being sued under federal law.
1.That's what backups are for.
2. I think that Seagate will fix it for you so that the data is recovered.
Naivete and ignorance in one post. It has already been made public that expanding AT&T's network would cost about 1/4 (IIRC) of the cost of buying T-Mobile. This merger is all about taking out the competition, not improving AT&T's service to make it competitive.
Let me suggest that you look up SMTP-TLS. A lot (not all, but a lot) of email is encrypted between email servers.
You are probably (certainly?) right the case of most CEOs. However, Elon Musk has invested a lot of his own money in Tesla and if it fails, he stands to lose that investment -- far, far more than he has likely received from Tesla in his position as CEO.
Perhaps it was a link to an entry in his own domain table, which pointed to the IP of the server (not his) that hosted the other software.
Didn't Jobs try to promote Lisa and kill Mac before it was released? IIRC, the first Mac was released in spite of Jobs, not because of him.
... that RealNetworks is still in business.