Shut up. You have no idea what you're talking about. Its trivial to detect line voltage in the system on both sides and has been a solved problem for years.
There are plenty of systems that do continue to function just fine when outside power is loss, in fact, all but the cheapest ones do so.
'high power switching' is a oil filled relay. Its hardly the expensive part when you have 40 solar panels on your roof.
'power company guy's assume ALL WIRES ARE HOT ALWAYS, and thats why they stay alive. He/She doesn't give a fuck what side of 'the break' its own for under many many many many reasons even the 'dead' side can be energized.
When you deal with high voltage equipment you always assume it will kill you if you touch it. Always.
The catch is that if the grid power goes out, the microinverters shut down so they are not putting juice onto the grid and zapping linesmen.
Good for you, you're following the law that pretty much every state has and pretty much every power company requires of such installations.
Of course the rest of your post about expensive batteries and 'shedding' just shows you should stop using websites you don't understand to inform you about things you don't understand.
Your house was utterly destoryed and you think you're making an effective argument about solar panels being damaged? What exactly were you powering with the generator? A vacuum cleaner to clean the carpets of leaves where the tree came in or a wet/dry vac to suck water up from the rooms where it rained in because you had no roof over them?
Your story, at least the way you put it, sounds absolutely silly.
The simple solution is to keep your cars topped off and remember that they hold a fair amount of fuel ready to burn in an emergency.
In my case, between my boat and cars, I have at least 50 gallons of fuel available at any given time, with full tanks in the cars leading us up to nearly a 100 gallons.
Fuel for boats (typically found at gas stations near lakes and always the ones on the water) typically doesn't have ethanol due to the fact that they tend to sit for long periods of time.
Automobile engines are no more tolerant. The problem is the fuel absorbs water and eventually separates back out into acids. The acids then destroy just about everything that matters including sensors and seals. Automobiles don't sit long enough for the fuel to absorb then separate back out and settle into acids.
Unfortunately, most generators in the sub-$2,000 range require an oil change every 12-20 hours of runtime
While this is entirely true, there are also kits that will pump the oil in the sump through a filter effectively mitigating the problem. Oil filters are why larger generators can go longer without changes.
Except that it comes from a big tank in the ground where it stays pretty much a constant temp all year round regardless of weather, so as it goes through the pump, its always the same.
Seriously? Who didn't know this? Stupid question, my boss is one of those people that doesn't get it, but he's old and doesn't understand the Internet. Why anyone who can find slashdot on their own wouldn't get it is beyond me.
If the for-profit hospital is doing something that I find benefit in, then yes, its a good thing.
I don't have some retarded 'all corporations are evil and everything should only believe the way I do' complex that prevents me from functioning like a normal citizen.
The behavior of people like Bruce and RMS is a clear indication of mental defect. Its a phobia. I don't ignore it just because they do some things well any more than I ignore the things they do well just because they have other defects.
I see the big picture, no some narrow minded retarded hippie commune idealistic world that will never exist. There is a reason people like this will never real the world. You (and he) can do whatever you want to try and justify it so you can sleep at night but that won't make it any less true nor will it make the silly fantasy any more likely to become reality.
Apparently you (and he) do have a hard time grasping reality in a rational, logical way.
You're comparing different types of RAM and pretending they are the same.
I said you can't afford gigabytes of RAM running at those speeds. You can not afford gigabytes of SRAM running at full CPU speed. I'd say it again, but you'll still pretend I said something else.
IF you could, you wouldn't need a memory controller in the way.
And those few CPU cycles you speak of... are nothing compared to the waits spent while the data is fetched, buffered and latched by DRAM. Of course some of those cycles are spent trying to do a cache hit on L1... then L2... then commanding the memory controller which may have to wait due to a DRAM refresh in progress... and all these things are still trivial compared to the access speed of the DRAM itself.
Slow DRAM (even your PC-9BILLION sticks of DDR360000 you use in your super fast machine is still slower than balls compared to the expensive as all fuck L1 SRAM.
Read the summary at least troll, a FreeBSD rep reported that the income was from the slashvertisement based on actual data, like you know... referrer headers.
The brunt of BSD donations comes from larger organizations, but it certainly did result in some contributions.
Really? I know a couple people who do. You might not be able to hold two 40 hour desk jobs, but desk jobs don't make up the majority of the work done in the world.
Bullshit. Intel doesn't lay out CPUs by hand and hasnt' for years.
Ivy Bridge CPUs have roughly 1.4 billion transistors, the mere idea of doing that by hand is silly in and of itself.
Minor tweaks and learning new ways make the process work better? Sure for a bit longer, but CPUs are already highly built by themselves. The only thing that saves us is that the CPUs have no motivation to make CPUs for themselves.
Thats a pretty stupid statement, and I use stupid in the exact dictionary definition sense.
All of those things rely on someone else having EXTRA money to waste on them. None of those services are required and are generally some of the first to be ignored when times are tight.
Its impossible for him his lists content to follow CAN-SPAM laws... he lists open proxies so people can not be censored... do you think the spammers don't use them to get around blocks as well?
He facilitates spamming (not intentionally, but does none the less) so he's being blocked as such.
If it requires anymore than clicking a link in the email, its failed. Going to a page, doing more crap, blah blah blah, I just hit 'spam' and move on, so does everyone else. If I don't want it, its spam, period. You as the sender need to make it so A) I want it and B) I don't get bored/annoyed trying to get rid of it after I'm done wanting it.
He also hasn't bothered to setup feedback loops with Yahoo and Hotmail, which would solve his problem and show that he had a clue.
He's also sending a list of open proxies which can be used to... login to yahoo/hotmail with fake accounts and send spam.
There is nothing about what he is doing that makes him wanted by anyone.
I personally have several accounts subscribed to his list. I use his list to block domains at my mail server, he provides me an up to date set of lists every few days so I can block him.
What do you think spammers do with a nice list of open proxies? THEY SPAM FROM THEM. He's distributing a list of spam producing sites and you're shocked that the list gets blocked?
No, you left out the part where it has nothing to do with his list that causing him to get blacklisted and the fact that the list contains sites themselves that are used for spamming.
Yes, open proxies get blacklisted, no shit, its a true story.
Its not about who he mails the list to, its about who uses the services provided by the list.
The list provides a nice collection of proxies to use to send spam.
He could post the list on a website and never email it to anyone and it would STILL be blacklisted since spammers would still find and use his proxies.
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Shut up. You have no idea what you're talking about. Its trivial to detect line voltage in the system on both sides and has been a solved problem for years.
There are plenty of systems that do continue to function just fine when outside power is loss, in fact, all but the cheapest ones do so.
'high power switching' is a oil filled relay. Its hardly the expensive part when you have 40 solar panels on your roof.
'power company guy's assume ALL WIRES ARE HOT ALWAYS, and thats why they stay alive. He/She doesn't give a fuck what side of 'the break' its own for under many many many many reasons even the 'dead' side can be energized.
When you deal with high voltage equipment you always assume it will kill you if you touch it. Always.
The catch is that if the grid power goes out, the microinverters shut down so they are not putting juice onto the grid and zapping linesmen.
Good for you, you're following the law that pretty much every state has and pretty much every power company requires of such installations.
Of course the rest of your post about expensive batteries and 'shedding' just shows you should stop using websites you don't understand to inform you about things you don't understand.
Your house was utterly destoryed and you think you're making an effective argument about solar panels being damaged? What exactly were you powering with the generator? A vacuum cleaner to clean the carpets of leaves where the tree came in or a wet/dry vac to suck water up from the rooms where it rained in because you had no roof over them?
Your story, at least the way you put it, sounds absolutely silly.
The simple solution is to keep your cars topped off and remember that they hold a fair amount of fuel ready to burn in an emergency.
In my case, between my boat and cars, I have at least 50 gallons of fuel available at any given time, with full tanks in the cars leading us up to nearly a 100 gallons.
Fuel for boats (typically found at gas stations near lakes and always the ones on the water) typically doesn't have ethanol due to the fact that they tend to sit for long periods of time.
Automobile engines are no more tolerant. The problem is the fuel absorbs water and eventually separates back out into acids. The acids then destroy just about everything that matters including sensors and seals. Automobiles don't sit long enough for the fuel to absorb then separate back out and settle into acids.
Unfortunately, most generators in the sub-$2,000 range require an oil change every 12-20 hours of runtime
While this is entirely true, there are also kits that will pump the oil in the sump through a filter effectively mitigating the problem. Oil filters are why larger generators can go longer without changes.
Except that it comes from a big tank in the ground where it stays pretty much a constant temp all year round regardless of weather, so as it goes through the pump, its always the same.
Seriously? Who didn't know this? Stupid question, my boss is one of those people that doesn't get it, but he's old and doesn't understand the Internet. Why anyone who can find slashdot on their own wouldn't get it is beyond me.
If the for-profit hospital is doing something that I find benefit in, then yes, its a good thing.
I don't have some retarded 'all corporations are evil and everything should only believe the way I do' complex that prevents me from functioning like a normal citizen.
The behavior of people like Bruce and RMS is a clear indication of mental defect. Its a phobia. I don't ignore it just because they do some things well any more than I ignore the things they do well just because they have other defects.
I see the big picture, no some narrow minded retarded hippie commune idealistic world that will never exist. There is a reason people like this will never real the world. You (and he) can do whatever you want to try and justify it so you can sleep at night but that won't make it any less true nor will it make the silly fantasy any more likely to become reality.
Apparently you (and he) do have a hard time grasping reality in a rational, logical way.
You're comparing different types of RAM and pretending they are the same.
I said you can't afford gigabytes of RAM running at those speeds. You can not afford gigabytes of SRAM running at full CPU speed. I'd say it again, but you'll still pretend I said something else.
IF you could, you wouldn't need a memory controller in the way.
And those few CPU cycles you speak of ... are nothing compared to the waits spent while the data is fetched, buffered and latched by DRAM. Of course some of those cycles are spent trying to do a cache hit on L1 ... then L2 ... then commanding the memory controller which may have to wait due to a DRAM refresh in progress ... and all these things are still trivial compared to the access speed of the DRAM itself.
Slow DRAM (even your PC-9BILLION sticks of DDR360000 you use in your super fast machine is still slower than balls compared to the expensive as all fuck L1 SRAM.
Read the summary at least troll, a FreeBSD rep reported that the income was from the slashvertisement based on actual data, like you know ... referrer headers.
The brunt of BSD donations comes from larger organizations, but it certainly did result in some contributions.
Is this the same post from 2004 or did you edit it before you reposted it?
Really? I know a couple people who do. You might not be able to hold two 40 hour desk jobs, but desk jobs don't make up the majority of the work done in the world.
Wrong.
Europe has different laws, not by choice. Try again.
Sure you can. Work is being done every day on growing organs in the lab.
Bullshit. Intel doesn't lay out CPUs by hand and hasnt' for years.
Ivy Bridge CPUs have roughly 1.4 billion transistors, the mere idea of doing that by hand is silly in and of itself.
Minor tweaks and learning new ways make the process work better? Sure for a bit longer, but CPUs are already highly built by themselves. The only thing that saves us is that the CPUs have no motivation to make CPUs for themselves.
Thats a pretty stupid statement, and I use stupid in the exact dictionary definition sense.
All of those things rely on someone else having EXTRA money to waste on them. None of those services are required and are generally some of the first to be ignored when times are tight.
Its impossible for him his lists content to follow CAN-SPAM laws ... he lists open proxies so people can not be censored ... do you think the spammers don't use them to get around blocks as well?
He facilitates spamming (not intentionally, but does none the less) so he's being blocked as such.
And yet they seem to be able to do all the right things to not get blocked.
Perhaps you should consider that before you say anything else.
Wrong.
If it requires anymore than clicking a link in the email, its failed. Going to a page, doing more crap, blah blah blah, I just hit 'spam' and move on, so does everyone else. If I don't want it, its spam, period. You as the sender need to make it so A) I want it and B) I don't get bored/annoyed trying to get rid of it after I'm done wanting it.
He also hasn't bothered to setup feedback loops with Yahoo and Hotmail, which would solve his problem and show that he had a clue.
He's also sending a list of open proxies which can be used to ... login to yahoo/hotmail with fake accounts and send spam.
There is nothing about what he is doing that makes him wanted by anyone.
I personally have several accounts subscribed to his list. I use his list to block domains at my mail server, he provides me an up to date set of lists every few days so I can block him.
He's really not that good at what he's doing.
Not a spammer != Not facilitating spammers.
What do you think spammers do with a nice list of open proxies? THEY SPAM FROM THEM. He's distributing a list of spam producing sites and you're shocked that the list gets blocked?
So you fail to understand why running open proxies gets you black listed?
Hell they don't have to have a 'secret domain blacklist' he freaking mails them the domains to ban.
The newsletter isn't the issue.
The content of the newsletter is.
He sends out a list of open proxies which can be used for spamming, THAT is why he is blocked.
Guess what? I subscribe to his 'newsletter' just so I can get his list of domains so I can block them myself.
No, you left out the part where it has nothing to do with his list that causing him to get blacklisted and the fact that the list contains sites themselves that are used for spamming.
Yes, open proxies get blacklisted, no shit, its a true story.
Its not about who he mails the list to, its about who uses the services provided by the list.
The list provides a nice collection of proxies to use to send spam.
He could post the list on a website and never email it to anyone and it would STILL be blacklisted since spammers would still find and use his proxies.