Negative. It just proves people speed. (and that some people are complete asses. but we knew that already.) No matter what the posted speed limit is, people are going to exceed it. And those people will be very pissed at those that don't.
While many modern cars can reach those speeds, few can do so safely. Are your cars equiped with V (149mph) or W (168mph) rated tires? Unless you specifically put speed rated tires on your car or lucked into it with "sport performance" tires, odds are you have H rated tires... 85mph. Unless you keep them in perfect condition, 80mph is pushing your luck.
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Many of these restrictions are due to arbitrary laws that say, in essence, "speed limits must be X within Y miles of a city", with no regard to the actual road or what it could safely handle.
If you worked for the DOT for a little while, you'd know there really are reasons why limits are what they are. What you are thinking is arbitrary is, in fact, based on real factors. The reason the limit drops as you approach a city is because of the increase in traffic, more lanes which means more lane changes, and increases in merging and exiting traffic. If you wanna see a perfect example, look at the Hillsborough St./I-440 interchange; Outer 440 (right side) isn't that much of a problem... it's a tight area, but it's visable from some distance. Inner 440 is a nightmare... traffic merges around a corner, up a hill, on a bridge, with about 100ft to reach left-lane-merge-speed before running into the bridge. And on the very opposite side is the 440 exiting traffic... about a 50ft exit lane before dropping down hill and sharply right. For people unaware of that mess (which equals thousands of NCSU students each year), it's a horrible wreck waiting to happen.
And the 70mph (what used to be 55) is a federal mandate. I don't know if it's still a law or not. But, states have always been free to set the interstate limits to whatever they want. If they exceed the federal limit, the feds just don't provide any funding. Simple.
Speed limits on "surface roads" (non-interstates) are set by schedules keyed primarily on "access". Which means long stretches of open road with few cross/side streets will have higher limits. Residential areas are limited due to the people. If there's a side walk beside it, it isn't going above 45mph no matter how big the bribes.
(Next you're going to say the suggested speeds through curves are also arbitrary. Well, they aren't. Someone actually drives through them in a truck with an accelerometer on the dash. I've actually played with said truck:-) If you want a gubment job, that's the one to have. [or at least the NCDOT did 15years ago])
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Look up the video sometime of when a bunch of college students lined up across I-285 in Atlanta and did the posted speed limit (55). Traffic backed up for MILES behind them.
Traffic was backed up because they backed it up. They are quilt of both "failure to yeild right of way" and "impeding traffic flow." They failed to mention (or obey) those signs that say "slow traffic keep right" -- if you aren't passing the person to your right, you should speed up and merge or slow down and merge; there is zero reason for traffic to be standing across all the lanes. When traffic stacks up behind you in the left most lane, you're impeding traffic flow. No matter how fast you're going. It doesn't matter if there are 2 lanes or 7, I see that shit every time I drive on an interstate. I've never seen a cop pull someone over for it; I followed a cop who almost pushed someone out of the way, but still didn't pull them over. In some states, you can be ticketed for traveling more than a mile in the left lane. (sadly, NC isn't one of them.)
All the "experiment" shows is that people drive faster than 55. The variablity between odometers ensures there will be slower traffic and faster traffic. Even if everyone sticks the needle to 55 on their dash. If everyone followed the speed limits, then they would not have had so a pile up behind them. The problem is not the limit; the problem is people disobey the limit. Even if the posted limit was 120, people would still exceed it -- or at least try. I'd venture most american owned cars cannot go that fast. My '97 Nissan Altima... no f'ing way. My '01 Bug... most certainly can -- on paper it's red-line is ~150. And even fewer have tires rated beyond 85mph; this above all else worries me when I see soccor mom suv's screamin' down the road at 90mph... those H rates tires *will* fail at 90.
PS: In NC, they'd also be guilty of causing an accident, even when it was the idiot in the van's illegal emergency lane pass that resulted in the crash.
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The quality of both the road and car is much higher over there. Drive down I-40 east from about Hickory on... the pavement is so uneven, no speed is "safe". Get to Greensboro and the pavement is good enough to go 120.
"safe" is dependant on both the road and the car. Most of the roads across the US are pretty bad. (SC really drags the average down.) And your average soccer mom's suv isn't even safe at 45... go to a junk yard and see for yourself.
Almost all consumer class inkjets have integrated carts -- the cart is both the ink well and the print head. So, a clog is a simple cart change to fix. You make it sound like the entire printer has to be thrown out because of a clog.
Even a business class inkjet -- with individual ink well and print head -- is easily fixed when anything clogs. A clog in an ink tube is the only time any real, measurable work is necessary. And even then, an eye dropper is all you need.
If you aren't going to be using your inkjet printer regularly, it's best to remove the carts and store them in air tight holders -- preferablly those with silicon gell pads at the bottom to press against the ejectors to seal them so they'll never dry out.
Not anymore. It's too much data and it changes far too often. I can remember, years ago, when you could ftp the master zone files from what is today Network Solutions.
Indeed. However, for anything you buy and then turn around and sell, you can claim the sales tax you paid and thus get it back. However, if you're doing this on a measurable scale, you should have a business license and thus be able to purchase (for resale) without paying sales tax. Of course, no ebayer wants to do this because it's expensive and time consuming. (all the accounting and paperwork)
But technically, the buyer pays the sales tax(es). That's why there are fields on most state tax forms to report uncollected sales tax -- from sales where the buyer didn't collect any taxes. The real issue is, as others have said, eBay only knows how much was sold, they don't know how much you paid and thus what you should be claiming as a taxable profit, etc., etc.
That makes the downloader the only human responsible
What about the "human" that put the file on the server in the first place?
"DISTRIBUTION" is what's unlawful. Downloading is not distribution -- i.e. I, as the downloader, am not doing anything illegal; the person sending me the data, and therefor both creating a copy and distributing to me, *is* doing something illegal. What trips up most people is their p2p application sharing everything they download -- and bittorrent does this as part of it's design. Of course, the various **AA's aren't collecting anything more than a directory listing and screaming "copyright violation". They need actual downloaded data from you to *prove* you a) possess their IP, and b) are distributing it without permission.
Sometimes. However, history has shown upgrading from version to version is always problematic. Yum, while a very useful tool, is still incrediblly stupid. The recommended path is to do an "upgrade install" -- select upgrade when booting the install CD. It is insanely difficult to properly "dist-upgrade" a running system. Depending on what you have installed, it may work, but you're much more likely to run into circular dependencies or situations where deps cannot be met without breaking the system (at least temporarily.)
Debian is the only distro I've ever used to do this without completely (or even partially) screwing up the system; gentoo is a close second, but it tends to break things in impossible-to-fix ways.
DHT works from the exact same torrent file as everything else. Bittorrent doesn't care about the name of the TORRENT FILE, but the names, sizes, and order of files within the torrent file does matter. If I create a torrent of a file called 'foo' and you create the torrent but your file is named 'bar', they will have different info_hash's and thus be unique to both a tracker and DHT despite them both covering exactly the same data. The same is true if I make a torrent of 'foo' plus 'bar' and you make one of 'bar' plus 'foo'. Torrents don't represent files; they represent a "data set".
As such, torrents have two flaws... first, the file name, which even the spec calls "advisory only", should NOT be part of the info dictionary. Filenames (and paths) do not uniquely identify a file. (Even the MPAA/RIAA know this.) Second, there should be a hash per file, not just per peice of the resulting concatenated dataset. That is what is needed to identify a specific file.
As others have said thousands of times now, URL FILTERS ARE USELESS. Even a 5yo can get around them... proxies, rewriting rules, web caches, etc, etc, etc.
The best, and most productive, thing to do is enact a "No Myspace" policy and punish students who violate it. Don't block access; monitor access. Speeding is illegal, but we don't have cars with speed limiting governors (we'd just remove them anyway); we have police to punish you for violating the limits.
Hasn't happened to any of my keys. (I have a list of ~100.) And I've not heard of any issues with those installed with the keygen keys, which logically would be simple to ban.
No ISP is going to shut off an account because of an infected computer.
Not 100% true. While it's certainly a last resort, as a network admin I've turned off dsl and T1 customers because of compromised systems. Let me tell you, that'll get people's attention FAST. (Of course, the terms of their contract state we can cut 'em off for "disruptive activity", so they can be as mad as they want:-))
That's 100% bull. Any running installation can install SP2. Only OFFICE patches blacklist keys. You still won't pass validation (without some tweaking), but SP2 will indeed install. (If you are trying to install from a SP2 integrated disc, then it's a different story.)
If it's just a pbx robbing timeslots on a T1, then it doesn't count. That's simply a multiplexor. TW delivers voice to our office that way; voice takes timeslots away from data on the T1 when necessary.
That's exactly what I was thinking... the PSTN has increasingly been a "computer network" since the mid-80's. In fact, the Lucent 5ESS I used to walk past several times a month has 2 sparc computers in it. And it dates back to 1980; however, I'm unaware of when those were installed. (They run "AT&T System V UNIX"... release 3 if memory serves. We had our own programs cron'd on it.) 'tho I think it's a stretch to call the PSTN a "computer network." (but not much of one. there is routing information crossing the network.)
Indeed. We've had the technology to make highly efficient cars for decades. But gas was generally cheap and plentiful, so no one cared -- and gas companies REALLY don't want people drive 75-100mpg cars. Plus, people want POWER; even blue hairs are driving 400hp cars these days. The GM gas turbine car from the 70's was pretty good for the era (and would be unmatched after 30 years of development), but "it was too sluggish" and they pulled them (and destroyed them.)
I've heard of someone getting ~80mpg out of a VW Bettle (new bug)... they reduced the power output to around 90hp 'tho.
And how do you suppose they find all the BT traffic? It doesn't run on any specific port like ftp or http. And given the move to end-to-end encryption, it's impossible to know which connections are moving BT traffic. (that's the entire reason crypto was added.) The best they could do is install a cache and hope people will use it -- it takes cooperation from the client. Even that wouldn't reduce the congestion in the cell network which is what they are really trying to limit; they just aren't doing a very good job with it. (they should go talk with Hughes to learn how to correctly police the bits.)
there's absolutely no reason IP networks can't have the same service requirements [as] POTS
Except they aren't designed for or dedicated to voice traffic. It's an unreliable transport medium. Placing traffic that requires some measure of reliablity on such a system and then bitching about it being unreliable is laughable. Mandating reliablity standards suitable for voice is also laughablly misplaced. IP networks are reasonablly reliable for most purposes, but not critical, emergency communications.
Verizon's FiOS system
... IS A PHONE SERVICE. Since it carries "lifeline service", it must meet the same reliablity standards as any other part of the PSTN... 99.999% uptime. And for the record, Bellsouth has been installing similar systems for at least a decade... they just don't tell you there's a tiny fibre node on the side of your house. (I don't know how (un)common they are, but I've seen more than one.)
My cell phone.... I personally leave my home on occasion, and thus have no access to 911 via my POTS line.
Right. And that cell phone has no access to 911 at all? Your point is mostly chicken-little-screaming, most likely from someone with little to no actual knowledge of any of the systems.
Is a POTS line a requirement? The answer is increasingly "no". Cell phones, even ones without a service plan, can call 911. For that matter, so can any POTS line still physically connected to a switch. The issue with voip-911 has NOTHING AT F'ING ALL to do with local phone companies. 911 calls are normally processed directly to a 911 call center over a dedicated trunk. For voip providers to provide the same level of service, they'd need the same dedicated connectivity. To hundreds of thousands of call centers all over the country. That's why Vonage, et. al. send 911 calls to a national call center who then transfer the call to an appropriate local center... over a non-dedicated line. (the same as calling the local directory number for the center instead of 911.)
This thing is a single LNB, so there's no skew to worry about. Aiming a single sat dish is simple. If it takes more than 10min, then you shouldn't be doing it. The builtin zip code map will get you in the right general direction.
A multi-LNB dish is a bit more work, because you're trying to aim at 3 spots at once. And the new 5 LNB systems are just insane; you won't have much success without a sat-finder. (I've seen an experienced, professional installer take over an hour to aim a DISH 1000+.)
YOU might. Unless you work for every nic manufacturer on Earth, you cannot make such a blanket statement. And it's already a proven falsehood as others have reused addresses. Both 3Com and Intel have been scolded for "rolling over" within the same OUI. And then there's the infamous case (story?) of 3Com shipping an entire unit (bulk pack up to palet, everytime you tell the story, the fish gets bigger) with the same address; granted, that wasn't intentional.
As we've discussed elsewhere, Sun Microsystems didn't used to put a MAC address on their nics. The MAC was generated from the system hostid (which is stored in nvram.) So, every nic in the machine has the same address. They stopped doing that stupid shit several years ago.
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Negative. It just proves people speed. (and that some people are complete asses. but we knew that already.) No matter what the posted speed limit is, people are going to exceed it. And those people will be very pissed at those that don't.
While many modern cars can reach those speeds, few can do so safely. Are your cars equiped with V (149mph) or W (168mph) rated tires? Unless you specifically put speed rated tires on your car or lucked into it with "sport performance" tires, odds are you have H rated tires... 85mph. Unless you keep them in perfect condition, 80mph is pushing your luck.
And the 70mph (what used to be 55) is a federal mandate. I don't know if it's still a law or not. But, states have always been free to set the interstate limits to whatever they want. If they exceed the federal limit, the feds just don't provide any funding. Simple.
Speed limits on "surface roads" (non-interstates) are set by schedules keyed primarily on "access". Which means long stretches of open road with few cross/side streets will have higher limits. Residential areas are limited due to the people. If there's a side walk beside it, it isn't going above 45mph no matter how big the bribes.
(Next you're going to say the suggested speeds through curves are also arbitrary. Well, they aren't. Someone actually drives through them in a truck with an accelerometer on the dash. I've actually played with said truck
All the "experiment" shows is that people drive faster than 55. The variablity between odometers ensures there will be slower traffic and faster traffic. Even if everyone sticks the needle to 55 on their dash. If everyone followed the speed limits, then they would not have had so a pile up behind them. The problem is not the limit; the problem is people disobey the limit. Even if the posted limit was 120, people would still exceed it -- or at least try. I'd venture most american owned cars cannot go that fast. My '97 Nissan Altima... no f'ing way. My '01 Bug... most certainly can -- on paper it's red-line is ~150. And even fewer have tires rated beyond 85mph; this above all else worries me when I see soccor mom suv's screamin' down the road at 90mph... those H rates tires *will* fail at 90.
PS: In NC, they'd also be guilty of causing an accident, even when it was the idiot in the van's illegal emergency lane pass that resulted in the crash.
The quality of both the road and car is much higher over there. Drive down I-40 east from about Hickory on... the pavement is so uneven, no speed is "safe". Get to Greensboro and the pavement is good enough to go 120.
"safe" is dependant on both the road and the car. Most of the roads across the US are pretty bad. (SC really drags the average down.) And your average soccer mom's suv isn't even safe at 45... go to a junk yard and see for yourself.
Almost all consumer class inkjets have integrated carts -- the cart is both the ink well and the print head. So, a clog is a simple cart change to fix. You make it sound like the entire printer has to be thrown out because of a clog.
Even a business class inkjet -- with individual ink well and print head -- is easily fixed when anything clogs. A clog in an ink tube is the only time any real, measurable work is necessary. And even then, an eye dropper is all you need.
If you aren't going to be using your inkjet printer regularly, it's best to remove the carts and store them in air tight holders -- preferablly those with silicon gell pads at the bottom to press against the ejectors to seal them so they'll never dry out.
Not anymore. It's too much data and it changes far too often. I can remember, years ago, when you could ftp the master zone files from what is today Network Solutions.
Indeed. However, for anything you buy and then turn around and sell, you can claim the sales tax you paid and thus get it back. However, if you're doing this on a measurable scale, you should have a business license and thus be able to purchase (for resale) without paying sales tax. Of course, no ebayer wants to do this because it's expensive and time consuming. (all the accounting and paperwork)
But technically, the buyer pays the sales tax(es). That's why there are fields on most state tax forms to report uncollected sales tax -- from sales where the buyer didn't collect any taxes. The real issue is, as others have said, eBay only knows how much was sold, they don't know how much you paid and thus what you should be claiming as a taxable profit, etc., etc.
"DISTRIBUTION" is what's unlawful. Downloading is not distribution -- i.e. I, as the downloader, am not doing anything illegal; the person sending me the data, and therefor both creating a copy and distributing to me, *is* doing something illegal. What trips up most people is their p2p application sharing everything they download -- and bittorrent does this as part of it's design. Of course, the various **AA's aren't collecting anything more than a directory listing and screaming "copyright violation". They need actual downloaded data from you to *prove* you a) possess their IP, and b) are distributing it without permission.
Sometimes. However, history has shown upgrading from version to version is always problematic. Yum, while a very useful tool, is still incrediblly stupid. The recommended path is to do an "upgrade install" -- select upgrade when booting the install CD. It is insanely difficult to properly "dist-upgrade" a running system. Depending on what you have installed, it may work, but you're much more likely to run into circular dependencies or situations where deps cannot be met without breaking the system (at least temporarily.)
Debian is the only distro I've ever used to do this without completely (or even partially) screwing up the system; gentoo is a close second, but it tends to break things in impossible-to-fix ways.
DHT works from the exact same torrent file as everything else. Bittorrent doesn't care about the name of the TORRENT FILE, but the names, sizes, and order of files within the torrent file does matter. If I create a torrent of a file called 'foo' and you create the torrent but your file is named 'bar', they will have different info_hash's and thus be unique to both a tracker and DHT despite them both covering exactly the same data. The same is true if I make a torrent of 'foo' plus 'bar' and you make one of 'bar' plus 'foo'. Torrents don't represent files; they represent a "data set".
As such, torrents have two flaws... first, the file name, which even the spec calls "advisory only", should NOT be part of the info dictionary. Filenames (and paths) do not uniquely identify a file. (Even the MPAA/RIAA know this.) Second, there should be a hash per file, not just per peice of the resulting concatenated dataset. That is what is needed to identify a specific file.
Except transisters (PN junctions) have a negative thermal coefficient... their resistance drops as they heat up.
As others have said thousands of times now, URL FILTERS ARE USELESS. Even a 5yo can get around them... proxies, rewriting rules, web caches, etc, etc, etc.
The best, and most productive, thing to do is enact a "No Myspace" policy and punish students who violate it. Don't block access; monitor access. Speeding is illegal, but we don't have cars with speed limiting governors (we'd just remove them anyway); we have police to punish you for violating the limits.
Hasn't happened to any of my keys. (I have a list of ~100.) And I've not heard of any issues with those installed with the keygen keys, which logically would be simple to ban.
That's 100% bull. Any running installation can install SP2. Only OFFICE patches blacklist keys. You still won't pass validation (without some tweaking), but SP2 will indeed install. (If you are trying to install from a SP2 integrated disc, then it's a different story.)
If it's just a pbx robbing timeslots on a T1, then it doesn't count. That's simply a multiplexor. TW delivers voice to our office that way; voice takes timeslots away from data on the T1 when necessary.
That's exactly what I was thinking... the PSTN has increasingly been a "computer network" since the mid-80's. In fact, the Lucent 5ESS I used to walk past several times a month has 2 sparc computers in it. And it dates back to 1980; however, I'm unaware of when those were installed. (They run "AT&T System V UNIX"... release 3 if memory serves. We had our own programs cron'd on it.) 'tho I think it's a stretch to call the PSTN a "computer network." (but not much of one. there is routing information crossing the network.)
Indeed. We've had the technology to make highly efficient cars for decades. But gas was generally cheap and plentiful, so no one cared -- and gas companies REALLY don't want people drive 75-100mpg cars. Plus, people want POWER; even blue hairs are driving 400hp cars these days. The GM gas turbine car from the 70's was pretty good for the era (and would be unmatched after 30 years of development), but "it was too sluggish" and they pulled them (and destroyed them.)
I've heard of someone getting ~80mpg out of a VW Bettle (new bug)... they reduced the power output to around 90hp 'tho.
There's even a magazine called "Y'All" [click]
And how do you suppose they find all the BT traffic? It doesn't run on any specific port like ftp or http. And given the move to end-to-end encryption, it's impossible to know which connections are moving BT traffic. (that's the entire reason crypto was added.) The best they could do is install a cache and hope people will use it -- it takes cooperation from the client. Even that wouldn't reduce the congestion in the cell network which is what they are really trying to limit; they just aren't doing a very good job with it. (they should go talk with Hughes to learn how to correctly police the bits.)
Is a POTS line a requirement? The answer is increasingly "no". Cell phones, even ones without a service plan, can call 911. For that matter, so can any POTS line still physically connected to a switch. The issue with voip-911 has NOTHING AT F'ING ALL to do with local phone companies. 911 calls are normally processed directly to a 911 call center over a dedicated trunk. For voip providers to provide the same level of service, they'd need the same dedicated connectivity. To hundreds of thousands of call centers all over the country. That's why Vonage, et. al. send 911 calls to a national call center who then transfer the call to an appropriate local center... over a non-dedicated line. (the same as calling the local directory number for the center instead of 911.)
This thing is a single LNB, so there's no skew to worry about. Aiming a single sat dish is simple. If it takes more than 10min, then you shouldn't be doing it. The builtin zip code map will get you in the right general direction.
A multi-LNB dish is a bit more work, because you're trying to aim at 3 spots at once. And the new 5 LNB systems are just insane; you won't have much success without a sat-finder. (I've seen an experienced, professional installer take over an hour to aim a DISH 1000+.)
YOU might. Unless you work for every nic manufacturer on Earth, you cannot make such a blanket statement. And it's already a proven falsehood as others have reused addresses. Both 3Com and Intel have been scolded for "rolling over" within the same OUI. And then there's the infamous case (story?) of 3Com shipping an entire unit (bulk pack up to palet, everytime you tell the story, the fish gets bigger) with the same address; granted, that wasn't intentional.
As we've discussed elsewhere, Sun Microsystems didn't used to put a MAC address on their nics. The MAC was generated from the system hostid (which is stored in nvram.) So, every nic in the machine has the same address. They stopped doing that stupid shit several years ago.