...once I started reading his replies on the postfix-user mailing list. He's extremely blunt. While many are VERY helpful and detailed, a number are a sentence or two long that, paraphrased, consist of "you're an idiot."
However, he's nothing compared to Victor Duchovni (who works for Morgan Stanley, and is a major poster on the postfix-users list). His signature, and I'm not making this up:
-- Viktor.
Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header.
If my response solves your problem, the best way to thank me is to not send an "it worked, thanks" follow-up. If you must respond, please put "It worked, thanks" in the "Subject" so I can delete these quickly.
Yeah, you read that right. 11 lines long...and this asshole thinks he's so fucking important, he lectures you about how to thank him so he can delete your acknowledgment/thank you as quickly as possible. He's often more willing to insult than help, and on numerous occasions, comes to the wrong conclusion. Worse still, he often presents his solution with complete authority and confidence, putting the helpless user on a primrose path.
a spokesman for Chicago 2016, a moniker protected by trademark.
Awww, isn't it too bad that trademarks don't give you retroactive ownership of whatever you like? Next time, check BEFORE you secure the trademark to see if it's already available. In fact, I bet they did- and just assumed they could take it over, just like how the IOC and USOC shut down everything named "olympic", even stuff that was named because said business was near a (different) Mount Olympus.
Raise your hand if you're completely fed up with the Olympics. Raise your hand if you think it's time that the IOC/USOC-bought legislation "protecting" the Olympic "trademark" was repealed.
The US border guards are on par with some of the worst that I've seen on the east-west German and Polish borders when the Iron Curtain was still firmly in place.
I've crossed the US/Canadian border 3 times for driving school events. Each time, it was completely painless, except once when I (truthfully) said I was unemployed, and then mis-understood the following question: "How do you intend to pay for things on the trip?"
On following crossings, the guards, both US and Canada, were quick and businesslike, and about half of the time, pretty friendly. One asked "What is the purpose of your trip?". Me: "A driving school at Tremblant." "Oh, what do you drive at the event?" "This car." *looks* "Really? Cool!" His Canadian counterpart seemed to have remembered the other zillion guys with sporty cars driving up that afternoon, and barely gave me a glance.
Once, I lost my license right before a trip and wanted to get the EXACT story on whether my replacement temporary paper license would be sufficient. Everyone I called in Washington etc was useless, but one person gave me the number of one of the Vermont border crossings. I called, and spoke to quite possibly the most helpful and friendly federal employee in the country, who was happy to chat during his lunch break; he even apologized for munching noises as he ate his sandwich. His opinion: I was probably okay, and he personally would waive me through, especially if I had a work ID (I worked for a major hospital in my state) and maybe a utility bill, etc...but he wasn't sure a coworker would. He was happy to give me his name to reference the conversation if I decided to cross (I did not) and got any flak, and he gave me the number of the equivalent office on the Canadian side.
There, I got a rude operator who transferred me to the world's grumpiest Canadian with thick french accent, who wanted to know who the fuck gave me his telephone number, no he wouldn't tell me if my license was good enough, and NO, he most certainly would not give me his name.
Granted, it's my only border experience, but maybe you've got a giant pine tree up your ass with a nest of stinging insects...and they're picking up on that. I can see all of the people in this story who are bitching about "Amerikkka" being EXACTLY the types of people to get pulled aside for some extra attention.
For years, the FBI and state crime labs used "hair analysis" at the capital-crime level, despite being repeatedly questioned and disproven. They'd find a hair at the crime scene, a hair on the suspect, and then look at them under the microscope. If they looked similar, bam, you've got your man.
I was recently hired by a company that works on classified information. Cell phones are not allowed, by DOD policy. The risk lies in the ability of [??] to remotely activate the phone and eavesdrop on the microphone. This wasn't a joke, several people believe the capability already exists.
Having the cell phone remotely activated is the least of their concerns. They're more concerned about YOU activating it, or using it to store something.
I have a friend who works on classified stuff too (as does just about anyone who works in DC/Maryland.) They have a room that is for use of classified systems and materials.
Cell phones etc are kept outside because everything that goes in, stays in, so that it can't be used to bring something out. For example, he took a USB mouse in, and had to buy a new one to replace it- they wouldn't let the USB mouse out, because it could be used to hide stuff. Maybe it had been modified with memory, or opened up and something classified stuffed inside the case. Etc.
All of it can be recycled through your local municipal waste program in the same manner as you dispose of household batteries.
I don't know about anyone else, but my town had an entire shed at the local transfer station for putting batteries.
Ie, you can't "just" throw them out, even into the recycle bin at the end of your driveway...at least, not in most municpalities. You're not supposed to dispose of batteries as part of regular trash, regardless of whether they're lead-acid car batteries, lithium, alkaline, etc.
I don't doubt them on the display, though. It really is just polarized particles that are white on one pole and black on the other, in a suspension, with electrodes...
Why are e-ink based e-books so expensive, while Esquire can afford to use it as a cover for their magazine? Something's missing here.
11 very large segments versus 480,000 very small segments. PIC programed to go "turn on segment 1, then 2, then 3. Pause. Switch all them off. Repeat"...versus "fully fledged operating system and electronic document presentation system."
Oh yes, and Equire printed roughly 233,300 of them (one in three of their circulation of 700,000) in one go. That's roughly equal to the 240,000 Kindle units Amazon has supposedly sold in about 10 months.
I don't see where there's any important difference between that and the Jetta TDI that they actually do offer.
Let me guess, you believe that same stupid shit, that because VAG owns Audi, that a Jetta and an A4 are the same? Newsflash: they're not like Toyota, re-badging the JDM-only cars differently here. They are completely different base platforms, there's little parts-sharing, and VW's US models are mostly built in Mexico, not Europe.
Sounds like another good reason to donate your spare CPU cycles to projects like Folding@home."
So the public is donating a lot of computing time and electrical energy. What does the public get back?
If Folding@Home goes towards lining the pockets of a university endowment or a drug company's coffers, count me out. If the research product is required to be free from patents, and available for public good...full speed ahead. Somehow, I seriously doubt that any successful results will be freely available.
Well, VW has double-clutched diesels in the American market right now.
Aside from the unfortunate fact that the TDI's don't pay for themselves for at least a couple years (they cost several grand more than the 2.0T's)...
The last piece to fall into place is all wheel drive, but it won't happen, because that would be stepping on VW's richer brother's toes. I own a very powerful, older AWD Audi, and I can't stand driving FWD or RWD cars with any kind of power...especially in New England winters.
Unfortunately, Audi in its infinite wisdom has been dragging feet on bringing in TDI models, despite a big PR campaign and racing in Le Mans and American Le Mans with the TDI R10. I remember when the R10 started racing ALMS- there were dozens of videos up on Youtube and tons of buzz in the online car enthusiast community.
The first model in the US to see a TDI engine will be the Q7, the huge SUV. It'll be a V10 (yes, V10), similar to what the Toureg was available with for a bit. There's a slight rumor floating around that the A3 will be offered with a 1.8 TDI, but that's at least a year off, and it reportedly won't get very good mileage anyway; even now, the A3 2.0 turbo struggles to get high 20's, pathetic for a car its size.
If they offered the A4 with a TDI and either DSG or a 6-speed manual, they'd probably sell well...
I'm confused- I thought mirror arrays were far superior at least in part because they don't have sagging problems and can correct on the fly for atmospheric disturbances by actuating the segments of the mirror. It certainly is a hell of a lot cheaper; U Texas did it for one third the cost of this thing, and theirs is almost a meter larger in "effective" diameter.
Obviously, they wouldn't have done something like this if it was inferior, unless this was just for PR/bragging rights. So, why? Is the image quality inferior?
As my dad used to tell me, "If I didn't take cash off the top, I couldn't afford to stay in business. Nobody could. The taxes are too high."
So, your dad was fucking over fellow small business owners who were honest, and justifying it by complaining about a problem he was helping maintain.
Next time you talk to your old man about skimming, try pointing out that every tax dollar he avoided was a tax dollar that had to be paid by someone else. Perhaps a supplier, who had to charge him more- or customers, who couldn't buy as much.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
I always make a point of paying in cash at local family-owned businesses whenever I can. Times are tough for those folks, and I can assure you that they appreciate a cash transaction.
I'm so tired of hearing this "pay us in cash" beggar's line. I make it a point not to pay in cash, because it makes it that much harder for the business to hide it (and thus cheat the rest of us, and honest businesses), and the credit card transaction fees are pretty effin' small (generally under 3%, plus 25 cents per transaction.)
So you want to test 35,000,000 cows a year? If the test is 99.999999% accurate, it'll produce 35 false positives each year. And countries are going to stop importing our beef on those false positives.
You're (rather idiotically) assuming that a positive test wouldn't be followed up with further testing, or even just a repeat test.
Despite the proliferation of mobile phones & wireless email, no one comes close to the blackberry platform for features & security. Not iphone, not windows mobile, not nokia. Some very smart people at RIM have looked at wireless email from end-to-end.
Um- wrong. Blackberry wanted to get government contracts, so they went through all the government security requirements.
You make it sound like this is some sort of rocket science. It's preposterous to suggest that only RIM has the talent to design a "secure" phone. It's not a matter of talent; it's a matter of whether or not the market demands it. We've seen it with the iPhone; after the initial crazy rush for v1.0, v2 has much more for enterprise users.
What RIM really needs is a good marketing campaign to establish themselves as a "cool" brand.
You incorrectly assume that RIM wants to compete in a "cool" market. Many companies purposefully restrict the market they target.
The first half of the article expouses the most blatant TSA apologist bullshit I've ever seen:
Whatever you may think about the rules that the TSA enforces (and I agree with Bruce Schneier in that regard), the fact of the matter is that the frontline staff that you deal with have little or no freedom to apply common-sense discretion, and are often placed in situations where they don't have the time, or the background knowledge, to make an informed decision, which means that the default answer is "no". When you couple that with the fact that anyone can be having a horrible day, and some small percentage of people are jerks to begin with (a smaller percentage than most people assume), and multiply by hundreds of thousands of people going through security a day, it's a recipe for horror stories.
...and then he describes how they were pre-briefed and OK with everything...except some clay. Yeah, you heard that right. They were briefed ahead of time, there was no terrorist risk, and these asshats objected to clay because it looked like plastic explosive.
This has nothing to do with the people going through security, and it's only partly the rules. It is absolutely not okay for a TSA agent to "have a bad day" and do anything except apply TSA policies in a humane but consistent manner. If they can't do so on a "bad day", they need to find a different job.
TSA screeners and management absolutely LOVE the fact that despite being badly paid, undereducated, and almost always minorities- being a TSA agent places them at the top of the food-chain in an airport. Their words and decisions are that of god, and with a word they can transform anyone's business trip or vacation into sheer hell. Like the case where TSA screeners forced a new mother to drink her own breastmilk to prove it wasn't an explosive or poison.
They're also, in many cases, dumber than fenceposts. The guy whose Audi key was confiscated because it was a "switchblade", the Macbook Air fiasco...I'm sure there are thousands of similar incidents we never hear about.
For chrissakes, these people banned NAIL CLIPPERS and thought liquid binary explosives were possible to deploy on a plane because they'd seen in the movies that the baddies had these scary devices that mixed different colored liquids...
Every time Redhat releases a hotfix, CentOS grabs the source and compiles it. They use the exact same toolchain to compile the exact same source. The only difference between a redhat package and a CentOS package is that CentOS has replaced "Redhat" everywhere, because Redhat started using trademark law to keep them from doing what the GPL entitled them to do (it got so bad that at one point, Redhat was threatening CentOS over even mentioning Redhat on their website.)
Let's keep our eye on the ball, here: this is a known bug, in Redhat's bug tracker, since 2006. Fixes have been commonplace since 2007, and only just now did Redhat get around to fixing the problem. The question remains: what good is Redhat over CentOS (the only difference being logos and a support contract) if they ignore a major performance bug for two years?
If I did my math right, it's a 7.5:1 disparity between advertised data rates and the buried-in-legal-print limit.
250GB in a 30 day month is 8.3GB a day, 355MB/hour, ~6MB a minute, 101KB/sec.
Or, 809kbps. On a connection which is advertised as being at least 6mbit/sec.
It's also the beginning of the end- they'll use this to justify limits per week next. Then per day. They already have a hidden cap on uploads; they advertise a 768kbit upload limit, but if you upload at more than 384kbit/sec (the old limit) for more than about 4-5 minutes, your connection gets massively crippled, not just until you slow back down to 384kbit/sec, but until your upload drops *dramatically*.
They call this "powerboost", but it's really "ripoff technique" to let them advertise one speed, but actually have another.
You know what still gets my goat? That comcast has for more than a decade had an incredibly hostile AUP that banned any form of mailing list or discussion group hosting, yet you people only started screaming about your "rights" and network neutrality when they brought the hammer down on your precious porn and TV episodes.
it can't handle the various spikes that wind farms sometimes have, and there's no efficient way to currently move massive amounts of that power from one section of the country to the other
Flywheels? Superconductor storage units? Both are in use in the commercial sector, most notably semiconduct processing plants, which lose tens (or more) of millions of dollars in product if there's any power problem.
Also, regarding state vs. federal regulation- nothing precludes states (gasp) cooperating with each other. Also, nothing precludes the grid being maintained with an eye towards solving this problem. Also, as you have more distributed generation that windfarms allow, regions become more self-sufficient.
People trying to work this out may find it helpful to start meetings with, "the fate of the planet hinges upon us finding a way to make this work."
...given that almost all of the toll transponder systems in the US have cameras, and plate recognition is done. I once got a ticket from another state (NY), claiming a plate I had years ago had gone through one of their upstate tollbooths.
Also, my father would get notices in the mail from our state's system when he moved the transponder to a vehicle that wasn't registered to use it.
So. Useless hack, sensationalist article, film at 11.
I recall hitting numerous sections of the site that were protected. One was a log of superconducting magnet quenches.
I guess that openness doesn't extend to embarrassing operational problems...
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...once I started reading his replies on the postfix-user mailing list. He's extremely blunt. While many are VERY helpful and detailed, a number are a sentence or two long that, paraphrased, consist of "you're an idiot."
However, he's nothing compared to Victor Duchovni (who works for Morgan Stanley, and is a major poster on the postfix-users list). His signature, and I'm not making this up:
Yeah, you read that right. 11 lines long...and this asshole thinks he's so fucking important, he lectures you about how to thank him so he can delete your acknowledgment/thank you as quickly as possible. He's often more willing to insult than help, and on numerous occasions, comes to the wrong conclusion. Worse still, he often presents his solution with complete authority and confidence, putting the helpless user on a primrose path.
(Since "Olympic" has a classic meaning, the trademark is dubious at best, IMHO)
That's precisely why they were given special legislation. It also happens to far outpace normal protection for normal trademarks.
a spokesman for Chicago 2016, a moniker protected by trademark.
Awww, isn't it too bad that trademarks don't give you retroactive ownership of whatever you like? Next time, check BEFORE you secure the trademark to see if it's already available. In fact, I bet they did- and just assumed they could take it over, just like how the IOC and USOC shut down everything named "olympic", even stuff that was named because said business was near a (different) Mount Olympus.
Raise your hand if you're completely fed up with the Olympics. Raise your hand if you think it's time that the IOC/USOC-bought legislation "protecting" the Olympic "trademark" was repealed.
The US border guards are on par with some of the worst that I've seen on the east-west German and Polish borders when the Iron Curtain was still firmly in place.
I've crossed the US/Canadian border 3 times for driving school events. Each time, it was completely painless, except once when I (truthfully) said I was unemployed, and then mis-understood the following question: "How do you intend to pay for things on the trip?"
On following crossings, the guards, both US and Canada, were quick and businesslike, and about half of the time, pretty friendly. One asked "What is the purpose of your trip?". Me: "A driving school at Tremblant." "Oh, what do you drive at the event?" "This car." *looks* "Really? Cool!" His Canadian counterpart seemed to have remembered the other zillion guys with sporty cars driving up that afternoon, and barely gave me a glance.
Once, I lost my license right before a trip and wanted to get the EXACT story on whether my replacement temporary paper license would be sufficient. Everyone I called in Washington etc was useless, but one person gave me the number of one of the Vermont border crossings. I called, and spoke to quite possibly the most helpful and friendly federal employee in the country, who was happy to chat during his lunch break; he even apologized for munching noises as he ate his sandwich. His opinion: I was probably okay, and he personally would waive me through, especially if I had a work ID (I worked for a major hospital in my state) and maybe a utility bill, etc...but he wasn't sure a coworker would. He was happy to give me his name to reference the conversation if I decided to cross (I did not) and got any flak, and he gave me the number of the equivalent office on the Canadian side.
There, I got a rude operator who transferred me to the world's grumpiest Canadian with thick french accent, who wanted to know who the fuck gave me his telephone number, no he wouldn't tell me if my license was good enough, and NO, he most certainly would not give me his name.
Granted, it's my only border experience, but maybe you've got a giant pine tree up your ass with a nest of stinging insects...and they're picking up on that. I can see all of the people in this story who are bitching about "Amerikkka" being EXACTLY the types of people to get pulled aside for some extra attention.
Sound absurd? It's true.
You do realize that you're not even beating inflation, right?
I was recently hired by a company that works on classified information. Cell phones are not allowed, by DOD policy. The risk lies in the ability of [??] to remotely activate the phone and eavesdrop on the microphone. This wasn't a joke, several people believe the capability already exists.
Having the cell phone remotely activated is the least of their concerns. They're more concerned about YOU activating it, or using it to store something.
I have a friend who works on classified stuff too (as does just about anyone who works in DC/Maryland.) They have a room that is for use of classified systems and materials.
Cell phones etc are kept outside because everything that goes in, stays in, so that it can't be used to bring something out. For example, he took a USB mouse in, and had to buy a new one to replace it- they wouldn't let the USB mouse out, because it could be used to hide stuff. Maybe it had been modified with memory, or opened up and something classified stuffed inside the case. Etc.
All of it can be recycled through your local municipal waste program in the same manner as you dispose of household batteries.
I don't know about anyone else, but my town had an entire shed at the local transfer station for putting batteries.
Ie, you can't "just" throw them out, even into the recycle bin at the end of your driveway...at least, not in most municpalities. You're not supposed to dispose of batteries as part of regular trash, regardless of whether they're lead-acid car batteries, lithium, alkaline, etc.
I don't doubt them on the display, though. It really is just polarized particles that are white on one pole and black on the other, in a suspension, with electrodes...
Why are e-ink based e-books so expensive, while Esquire can afford to use it as a cover for their magazine? Something's missing here.
11 very large segments versus 480,000 very small segments. PIC programed to go "turn on segment 1, then 2, then 3. Pause. Switch all them off. Repeat"...versus "fully fledged operating system and electronic document presentation system."
Oh yes, and Equire printed roughly 233,300 of them (one in three of their circulation of 700,000) in one go. That's roughly equal to the 240,000 Kindle units Amazon has supposedly sold in about 10 months.
Still, the biggie is the simplicity...
I don't see where there's any important difference between that and the Jetta TDI that they actually do offer.
Let me guess, you believe that same stupid shit, that because VAG owns Audi, that a Jetta and an A4 are the same? Newsflash: they're not like Toyota, re-badging the JDM-only cars differently here. They are completely different base platforms, there's little parts-sharing, and VW's US models are mostly built in Mexico, not Europe.
Sounds like another good reason to donate your spare CPU cycles to projects like Folding@home."
So the public is donating a lot of computing time and electrical energy. What does the public get back?
If Folding@Home goes towards lining the pockets of a university endowment or a drug company's coffers, count me out. If the research product is required to be free from patents, and available for public good...full speed ahead. Somehow, I seriously doubt that any successful results will be freely available.
Well, VW has double-clutched diesels in the American market right now.
Aside from the unfortunate fact that the TDI's don't pay for themselves for at least a couple years (they cost several grand more than the 2.0T's)...
The last piece to fall into place is all wheel drive, but it won't happen, because that would be stepping on VW's richer brother's toes. I own a very powerful, older AWD Audi, and I can't stand driving FWD or RWD cars with any kind of power...especially in New England winters.
Unfortunately, Audi in its infinite wisdom has been dragging feet on bringing in TDI models, despite a big PR campaign and racing in Le Mans and American Le Mans with the TDI R10. I remember when the R10 started racing ALMS- there were dozens of videos up on Youtube and tons of buzz in the online car enthusiast community.
The first model in the US to see a TDI engine will be the Q7, the huge SUV. It'll be a V10 (yes, V10), similar to what the Toureg was available with for a bit. There's a slight rumor floating around that the A3 will be offered with a 1.8 TDI, but that's at least a year off, and it reportedly won't get very good mileage anyway; even now, the A3 2.0 turbo struggles to get high 20's, pathetic for a car its size.
If they offered the A4 with a TDI and either DSG or a 6-speed manual, they'd probably sell well...
I'm confused- I thought mirror arrays were far superior at least in part because they don't have sagging problems and can correct on the fly for atmospheric disturbances by actuating the segments of the mirror. It certainly is a hell of a lot cheaper; U Texas did it for one third the cost of this thing, and theirs is almost a meter larger in "effective" diameter.
In fact, there are 7 or 8 telescopes larger than this, and eleven if you widen it to "larger or equal to".
Obviously, they wouldn't have done something like this if it was inferior, unless this was just for PR/bragging rights. So, why? Is the image quality inferior?
As my dad used to tell me, "If I didn't take cash off the top, I couldn't afford to stay in business. Nobody could. The taxes are too high."
So, your dad was fucking over fellow small business owners who were honest, and justifying it by complaining about a problem he was helping maintain.
Next time you talk to your old man about skimming, try pointing out that every tax dollar he avoided was a tax dollar that had to be paid by someone else. Perhaps a supplier, who had to charge him more- or customers, who couldn't buy as much.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
I always make a point of paying in cash at local family-owned businesses whenever I can. Times are tough for those folks, and I can assure you that they appreciate a cash transaction.
I'm so tired of hearing this "pay us in cash" beggar's line. I make it a point not to pay in cash, because it makes it that much harder for the business to hide it (and thus cheat the rest of us, and honest businesses), and the credit card transaction fees are pretty effin' small (generally under 3%, plus 25 cents per transaction.)
Boston police arrested dozens of suspected trouble makers for the explicit purpose of keeping them in jail for the duration of the festival.
You're so full of shit. Please read the fucking article:
looking for people who had defaulted on warrants for crimes including shoplifting, rape of a child, and assault and battery with a deadly weapon
The better question is why these people hadn't been arrested before.
So you want to test 35,000,000 cows a year? If the test is 99.999999% accurate, it'll produce 35 false positives each year. And countries are going to stop importing our beef on those false positives.
You're (rather idiotically) assuming that a positive test wouldn't be followed up with further testing, or even just a repeat test.
They enjoy a strong reputation within the relatively small community of terrorism experts
Would those be the experts that have many failures, few successes, and been largely reactionary?
Despite the proliferation of mobile phones & wireless email, no one comes close to the blackberry platform for features & security. Not iphone, not windows mobile, not nokia. Some very smart people at RIM have looked at wireless email from end-to-end.
Um- wrong. Blackberry wanted to get government contracts, so they went through all the government security requirements.
You make it sound like this is some sort of rocket science. It's preposterous to suggest that only RIM has the talent to design a "secure" phone. It's not a matter of talent; it's a matter of whether or not the market demands it. We've seen it with the iPhone; after the initial crazy rush for v1.0, v2 has much more for enterprise users.
What RIM really needs is a good marketing campaign to establish themselves as a "cool" brand.
You incorrectly assume that RIM wants to compete in a "cool" market. Many companies purposefully restrict the market they target.
Whatever you may think about the rules that the TSA enforces (and I agree with Bruce Schneier in that regard), the fact of the matter is that the frontline staff that you deal with have little or no freedom to apply common-sense discretion, and are often placed in situations where they don't have the time, or the background knowledge, to make an informed decision, which means that the default answer is "no". When you couple that with the fact that anyone can be having a horrible day, and some small percentage of people are jerks to begin with (a smaller percentage than most people assume), and multiply by hundreds of thousands of people going through security a day, it's a recipe for horror stories.
...and then he describes how they were pre-briefed and OK with everything...except some clay. Yeah, you heard that right. They were briefed ahead of time, there was no terrorist risk, and these asshats objected to clay because it looked like plastic explosive.
This has nothing to do with the people going through security, and it's only partly the rules. It is absolutely not okay for a TSA agent to "have a bad day" and do anything except apply TSA policies in a humane but consistent manner. If they can't do so on a "bad day", they need to find a different job.
TSA screeners and management absolutely LOVE the fact that despite being badly paid, undereducated, and almost always minorities- being a TSA agent places them at the top of the food-chain in an airport. Their words and decisions are that of god, and with a word they can transform anyone's business trip or vacation into sheer hell. Like the case where TSA screeners forced a new mother to drink her own breastmilk to prove it wasn't an explosive or poison.
They're also, in many cases, dumber than fenceposts. The guy whose Audi key was confiscated because it was a "switchblade", the Macbook Air fiasco...I'm sure there are thousands of similar incidents we never hear about.
For chrissakes, these people banned NAIL CLIPPERS and thought liquid binary explosives were possible to deploy on a plane because they'd seen in the movies that the baddies had these scary devices that mixed different colored liquids...
Let's keep our eye on the ball, here: this is a known bug, in Redhat's bug tracker, since 2006. Fixes have been commonplace since 2007, and only just now did Redhat get around to fixing the problem. The question remains: what good is Redhat over CentOS (the only difference being logos and a support contract) if they ignore a major performance bug for two years?
250GB in a 30 day month is 8.3GB a day, 355MB/hour, ~6MB a minute, 101KB/sec.
Or, 809kbps. On a connection which is advertised as being at least 6mbit/sec.
It's also the beginning of the end- they'll use this to justify limits per week next. Then per day. They already have a hidden cap on uploads; they advertise a 768kbit upload limit, but if you upload at more than 384kbit/sec (the old limit) for more than about 4-5 minutes, your connection gets massively crippled, not just until you slow back down to 384kbit/sec, but until your upload drops *dramatically*. They call this "powerboost", but it's really "ripoff technique" to let them advertise one speed, but actually have another.
You know what still gets my goat? That comcast has for more than a decade had an incredibly hostile AUP that banned any form of mailing list or discussion group hosting, yet you people only started screaming about your "rights" and network neutrality when they brought the hammer down on your precious porn and TV episodes.
it can't handle the various spikes that wind farms sometimes have, and there's no efficient way to currently move massive amounts of that power from one section of the country to the other
Flywheels? Superconductor storage units? Both are in use in the commercial sector, most notably semiconduct processing plants, which lose tens (or more) of millions of dollars in product if there's any power problem.
Also, regarding state vs. federal regulation- nothing precludes states (gasp) cooperating with each other. Also, nothing precludes the grid being maintained with an eye towards solving this problem. Also, as you have more distributed generation that windfarms allow, regions become more self-sufficient.
People trying to work this out may find it helpful to start meetings with, "the fate of the planet hinges upon us finding a way to make this work."
...given that almost all of the toll transponder systems in the US have cameras, and plate recognition is done. I once got a ticket from another state (NY), claiming a plate I had years ago had gone through one of their upstate tollbooths. Also, my father would get notices in the mail from our state's system when he moved the transponder to a vehicle that wasn't registered to use it. So. Useless hack, sensationalist article, film at 11.
I recall hitting numerous sections of the site that were protected. One was a log of superconducting magnet quenches. I guess that openness doesn't extend to embarrassing operational problems...
You're doing a heck of a job.