In the scheme of things with modern alloys, etc, is "Stronger Than Steel" that much of a claim these days? Sure for "glass" its impressive, but overall, is the phrase overused?
As a metalworker, I can assure you it is a meaningless marketing phrase due to the extreme range of commercially available steel.
Looking just at yield strength, cheapest crappiest low carbon hotroll from China (with embedded spark plugs and chunks of furnace slag included at no extra charge) maybe 20 or so kpsi on a really good day. Lets just say for man-rating purposes you design with Chinese steel around 5 kpsi, and even then you have nervous sleeping. Relatively exotic Northern European specialty steel mill product maybe mid 200s kpsi. So way over one order of magnitude.
Complicating it more, do you mean strength like per unit mass, where exotic non-iron alloys have beaten steels for decades, or per unit volume, where very little even approaches steel?
Standard slashdot car analogy... Steel strength varies like engine size, you know, from 50 cc mopeds up to 12 liter sports car engines. Steel strength does not vary like commuter car MPG, all of which are about 30 MPG.
How do you tell the difference between a blob of dark matter and a black hole?
In theory due to hawking radiation etc black holes temperature increases over time as it shinks (weird but true). Both probably live around the cosmic microwave blackbody limit.
A big array of dark matter would be a hair above 2.7 kelvin and tending to thermalize down to 2.7, but a big array of black holes would tend to be a hair above 2.7 kelvin and tend to increase over time.
So basically something cold that tends to stay cold is probably dark matter and something that seems to be warming up more than reasonable is probably a black hole.
Given a long enough time for thermal like diffusion, a mixture of them might behave like stellar formation, and the higher temperature of the black holes would tend to push dark matter away. So in a density map of old empty space, look for a "bulls eye" to find the black holes.
Before video games there were plenty of other reasons to neglect school and chores... I know I came up with plenty of them as a child.
My second college roommate was convinced by his parents and church to sign a pledge that he would never play old school books -n- dice dungeons and dragons.
Two decades earlier, the mainstream media was trying to portray DnD as being the main source of evil in teenagers lives. Now replaced by video games, to be replaced by something new and scarier once most of those kids are old enough to be parents.
I would assume when my little toddlers are in college they'll meet other kids whom recently signed pledges not to place CoD or WoW despite it being 2025 and those pledges being 20 years out of date... Meanwhile the terror propaganda will be in full swing attacking something new that kids like as the source of all evil (4chan?)
Any activity that displaces the individual's perception from reality has the potential to contribute to mental illness. Whether it is drugs, TV, online games or romance novels, susceptible people risk becoming wrapped up in a fantasy world. Most often the results are benign to the outside world, so the pathology goes unnoticed. It doesn't mean the problem doesn't affect and detract from the lives of many.
Don't forget that the "American Dream in Suburbia" is, itself, an equally profound displacement from reality. And comic books / rock music / DnD (old school with books and dice not online) / Rap music / Video Games are another displacement. Watching delusional believers on both sides fight each other about "truth" is about as insightful as listening to theological debates.
Now the injection theory is something I've always wondered about, if you added enough USP ethyl alcohol to an IV bag to make it 0.15% and then hooked yourself up... This totally sounds like a biological hardware hacker stunt.
... I want at-risk children proactively locked up for life, because they are statistically most likely to become violent criminals. Also, get more illiterate, minorities, and mentally disabled in there too, because they are more likely to cause problems for society.
We already do that. We segregate our homes by income, and run the "poor kids schools" like a wannabe jail, complete with guards, searches, lockdowns, locked doors, yard/exercise time, tight schedules, solitary confinement, guard patrols, sometimes uniforms, ID numbers instead of names... All they need is some bars on the windows.
Look, if you're a danger to society, you should be removed from that society.
Finally someone that agrees that we should greatly expand the death penalty!
Its funny to look at how ingrained some cultural beliefs are. "There is either picket fence suburbia with a school or daycare every 500 feet and a law preventing being within 500 feet of said building, or.. death".
Somebody with that illness might make an excellent farmhand at a non-family industrial farm, or as part of an all male all adult crew on a ship, or all male all adult construction worker or civil engineering project worker, or some weird child free "colony" type ideas come to mind in certain semi-industrial areas. Probably they couldn't be trusted with working/living at a senior care facility, probably.
I just always laugh a bit at the whole "either the american dream or die trying" attitude.
I can't find the section of the constitution that allows lawmakers to do that, nor would such a heavy handed policy be justified.
Well thats never stopped them from doing what they want in the past, has it?
Aside from that, if my local monopoly regulated cableco is required to provide service rates, that can be provided by docsis 3.0, and no other competing technology exists but docsis 3.0, and docsis 3.0 also happens to require a working ipv6 implementation, which it does, we are half way there.
Now convince the docsis 4.0 guys to demand the removal of ipv4 or whatever and you're basically done.
The main problem with the guys plan, is equipment rollout, depreciation, replacement/upgrade cycle is a bit longer than one year.
I wouldn't say paranoid so much as wasted effort compared to other things having a much higher rate of return. You can configure a LAN using private space at huge time and effort both in set up and long term maintenance. Grats, you did it. However that time would far better be spent on securing your internal clients which do have access to the NAS, patching your NAS, patching your firewall, etc.
That particular layer is very expensive yet likely to be spectacularly ineffective. If everything worse has already been done, then it makes sense to waste time and money on that plan.
It would be like hurricane proofing my server, despite the nearest coast being over 1000 miles away...
Here's an IPv6 address: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334, the bold bit is the local part. How much bandwidth is your script kiddie going to have to have to find 0000:8a2e:0370:7334 in the range 0-ffffffffffffffff?
That's like taking all the money from your bank account and throwing it on the ground across the globe. People looking for money aren't possibly going to be able to search across 200 million square miles to find all your money, so it's perfectly safe, right?
Hmm, lets run the math here. If you insist on not installing a stateful firewall (why? Its already a part of your old ipv4 nat box) then they have to find a random-ish 32 digit hexadecimal number, in order to find an address to break into, then break in, which is hopefully non-trivial, and then hopefully steal your random-ish 16 digit decimal credit card number. However, if the bad guy has the resources to randomly find a needle in a haystack inside a 32 digit number, why waste the time? Why not randomly farm the 16 digit number directly and skip all that "breaking into" junk and searching about and installing keyloggers?
whether is has a public or private address is nothing to do with scarcity of IP but need and suitability and there a lot of IP device's that do not need a public address, my printer for starters, don't need to manage it from the outside, don't need to print to if from outside. Plain old private IP4 seems to work fine and dandy.
But using a separate address space makes your work WAY more complicated and less reliable.
All public scenario: Your stateful firewall prevents incoming traffic to your printer, just like it prevents incoming connections to anything else that you haven't specifically allowed. One address range everything reaches everything. Everything on one happy layer 2 LAN. Simple dynamic (re-)addressing.
Public plus private scenario: You still need a configured stateful firewall for all your other devices but now you have the joy of adding a statically configured LAN. How do the two networks reach each other? Route thru your slow firewall? Or multiple static and dynamic addresses on every device in your LAN? The time you spend complicating the heck out of your LAN, is time you're not spending securing it at the network and device layers.
So, sure, if you really want, you can spend a lot more time, money and effort to get a LAN that is much harder to design, configure, troubleshoot and monitor, all while being less secure, but you would be "saving" one of the 3 x 10 ^ 38 addresses, except you actually aren't because they assigned you a/64 for your LAN so its not like anyone else could use that address anyway.
IPv6 doesn't outright prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot, but its still kinda usable.
Plus if your LAN is a corporate LAN you've now gained the nightmare of merging multiple LANs using the same private addresses. Even if FC00::/8 is mostly empty, you know most clowns are going to use network=0 / host=1 for their firewall and watch the chaos when they interconnect.
There seems to be no advantage to private ipv6 space...
I guess it's time that porn... sites switched over to v6 only, that should put some pressure on hardware manufacturers and ISPs to finally deliver v6
More like, a bunch of clowns in the government trying to make v6 illegal because they think everyone should have to do what their imaginary man in the sky told them.
Can any of you give me a brand of WiFi N router that can do ipv6? I guess there aren't that many. Why manufacturers aren't FORCED by law to do it?
In bridging mode, you can't (easily) make a wifi access point that won't support ipv6. Its just another type of packet on the (virtual) wire. For a good fraction of a decade that is how I've had my home set up.
The market has spoken and you cannot buy a non-docsis 3.0 cablemodem anymore. docsis 3.0 requires ipv6 support. Many people have a "wireless cablemodem" basically a modem and router and access point in one little box. Thus all wireless cablemodems going forward will support ipv6, and presumably at least some will support N.
The main problem with N wifi is I do not have the connection speed to saturate my decade old plain ole 802.11B network. If I upgrade to N, rather than being capped by my provider to max out at about 33% of my network speed, I'll merely run at about 1% of my network speed. Who cares?
My dlink router does IPV6, but my cable modem doesn't. Until my provider goes IPv6, it's just a curiosity.
You can't buy a cablemodem that doesn't support V6. Don't get all technical with me about buying some stolen properly out of a car trunk from 1997 meaning you can buy a non-ipv6 cablemodem. I mean anything sold to the cablecos for years has supported v6. Its now gotten to the point that you can't legally call yourself DOCSIS 3.0 compatible without shipping a working ipv6 implementation. Mandatory ability as part of the standard.
Now your local provider can limit any and all technical abilities. Just like a cellphone manufacturer is free to include hardware and firmware which the local cellphone company can prevent you from using (tethering etc). Or your cableco is free to enable/disable any output jack on the back of your settop box.
Your cablemodem almost certainly merely requires some behind the scenes work at the cableco and one remotely initiated reboot of your modem and you've got working ipv6.
If you don't believe me, find your modems model number and google for the promotional fliers or even technical manuals from the manufacturer.
With current implementations turning on IPv6 can cause long resolutions and even failures.
Only if you connect to a faulty v6 network, that no one bothers to fix because "its only ipv6". Current *network* implementation not end user boxes. Its hardly an inherent part of the protocol or OS implementation.
Because not everything behind a router needs a public address?
Um, why? Here's a resource that is inherently by design non-scarce, but you prefer to act as if it were? The "hair shirt" brigade might approve but the rest of us kinda laugh.
The plant which is closing is in Pitman, NJ. The article never bothered to mention which plant. Whatever happened to the basics of reporting - who/what/where/why/when?
not to be harsh, but probably only 300 people (plus extended family) care, vs 1 billion english readers on the internet.
That makes me wonder about a lot of things. I always see furniture at Wal Mart, but I've never seen anyone purchase it. Does that sell nearly as well - or is there just enough markup to make the profits reasonable when it does?
It is true that the primary concern in retail is profit per inch of shelf space. Some things are loss leaders. What kind of walmart would not have a particle board bookshelf for sale?
The original posters cd problem is probably more related to walmarts vaguely bible-belt sensitivity toward anything not utterly bland and boring. Unless the CD he was looking for was baptist gospel, that is almost certainly the problem.
300 people are responsible for making 18 million CDs/month. I saw another story about a sleeping bag factory cranking out 20 million bags a year with 500 empoloyees for the whole company.
Its entertaining to try and figure out how I'd do it... Thats a CD every 1/10 second 24 hours/day. I'm assuming this place is a stamp plant. None the less, going burners, I'd get 100 cd burners per person and give a person a 100 cdr blank tower stack and tell them to fill the burners. You need about twenty lines to keep up. That gives you about 5 minutes to burn, verify, and load. To staff a single 24/7 position for very long term in the military we always assumed about 6 people. So thats about 120 personnel. Add another 120 for general warehouse tasks, stacking, wrapping, unwrapping, boxing... leaves about 60 for overhead, repair work, etc.
I do believe I could do it with CD-r. Harder if they print and stuff jewel boxes.
its nice that the government does just about nothing for my dog, which is how i like it, but why the hell do i hav to pay them to keep there dirty nose out of my shit!
A large fraction of dog owners do not properly train their dogs, thus endless barking, thus endless disturbing the peace police calls. Also raw (animal) sewage getting washed into the storm sewers and into the river. Finally its a proxy for registering rabies vaccinations. Rather than dealing with multiple vets or multiple 3rd parties, you simply prove vaccination to the govt and they proxy that knowledge to the inevitable bite victims.
If they got rid of the tax, the tiny fraction of good owners would benefit from lower costs (obviously) while the larger fraction of bad owners would simply have to pay higher tickets / fees and historically bad owners have been credit risks whom don't pay and the fees have been less than collection costs... So its easier to just bill all the owners every year. Rather like how I pay car insurance all the time, despite only having needed it twice in my life.
On the other hand, I have no idea why indoor housecats "need" a license other than pure fundraising. My father always said that he knew it was time to move out of his dying urban community a couple decades ago when they wanted to start cat licenses. Next thing up is tropical fish taxes. Maybe they could tax the squirrels in my neighbors yard...
As the parent of an autistic child I always thought this one was bullshit. I witnessed my sons development. My family was convinced it was a result of the vaccines. He was normal and suddenly he stopped all the babble. Started staring into space for long periods of time. I think I'm the only one who noticed it happening before the vaccines. Its like no one looked before that. At least now when someone tells me that was the cause I can at least tell them it was a scam.
I'm convinced its coincidental that it occurs at the same stage of development, more or less. The observable symptoms of the brain damage that results from bad vaccination outcomes is vaguely remotely superficially similar to the observable symptoms of whatever is going on in the brains of autistic kids. That proves, uh, nothing at all, not that one must cause the other or be related to the other. Its of about the same quality of scientific theory as making the observation that extreme lead poisoning and extreme mercury poisoning cause similar symptoms, therefore they must be the same thing, and to heck with the chemist and nuclear physicist conspiracy to claim mercury and lead atoms are different, my Aristotelian "earth humours" vital force theory must be correct.
The chance a kid dies from diseases he could have been vaccinated against is higher, dunno the exact number and am to lazy to look'em up.
Humorously your lazyness led you to have it completely backwards. The rate for measles, once diagnosed, is something less than 0.3%. But that requires a measles diagnosis. You can't discuss the death rate due to measles in the USA because its only single digits yearly for the entire developed western world. Its like debating the public health implications of protecting childrens heads from meteorite impacts. Before the measles vaccine, about as many kids died of measles as died of lightning every year, roughly. Compared to falls, car accidents, etc, its pretty much a rounding error.
So these people think it's worse to have a kid with autism than to lose your child to a disease? Are these people insane?
Hmm... Around a 1 in 100 chance of lifetime debilitating illness vs far less than 1 in 10000000 chance of death. IF the vaccine caused autism at 1% rates (which it seems it does not), they would be far better off taking their chances without the vaccine.
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In the scheme of things with modern alloys, etc, is "Stronger Than Steel" that much of a claim these days? Sure for "glass" its impressive, but overall, is the phrase overused?
As a metalworker, I can assure you it is a meaningless marketing phrase due to the extreme range of commercially available steel.
Looking just at yield strength, cheapest crappiest low carbon hotroll from China (with embedded spark plugs and chunks of furnace slag included at no extra charge) maybe 20 or so kpsi on a really good day. Lets just say for man-rating purposes you design with Chinese steel around 5 kpsi, and even then you have nervous sleeping. Relatively exotic Northern European specialty steel mill product maybe mid 200s kpsi. So way over one order of magnitude.
Complicating it more, do you mean strength like per unit mass, where exotic non-iron alloys have beaten steels for decades, or per unit volume, where very little even approaches steel?
Standard slashdot car analogy... Steel strength varies like engine size, you know, from 50 cc mopeds up to 12 liter sports car engines. Steel strength does not vary like commuter car MPG, all of which are about 30 MPG.
How do you tell the difference between a blob of dark matter and a black hole?
In theory due to hawking radiation etc black holes temperature increases over time as it shinks (weird but true). Both probably live around the cosmic microwave blackbody limit.
A big array of dark matter would be a hair above 2.7 kelvin and tending to thermalize down to 2.7, but a big array of black holes would tend to be a hair above 2.7 kelvin and tend to increase over time.
So basically something cold that tends to stay cold is probably dark matter and something that seems to be warming up more than reasonable is probably a black hole.
Given a long enough time for thermal like diffusion, a mixture of them might behave like stellar formation, and the higher temperature of the black holes would tend to push dark matter away. So in a density map of old empty space, look for a "bulls eye" to find the black holes.
There are some scalability problems here.
Before video games there were plenty of other reasons to neglect school and chores... I know I came up with plenty of them as a child.
My second college roommate was convinced by his parents and church to sign a pledge that he would never play old school books -n- dice dungeons and dragons.
Two decades earlier, the mainstream media was trying to portray DnD as being the main source of evil in teenagers lives. Now replaced by video games, to be replaced by something new and scarier once most of those kids are old enough to be parents.
I would assume when my little toddlers are in college they'll meet other kids whom recently signed pledges not to place CoD or WoW despite it being 2025 and those pledges being 20 years out of date... Meanwhile the terror propaganda will be in full swing attacking something new that kids like as the source of all evil (4chan?)
Any activity that displaces the individual's perception from reality has the potential to contribute to mental illness. Whether it is drugs, TV, online games or romance novels, susceptible people risk becoming wrapped up in a fantasy world. Most often the results are benign to the outside world, so the pathology goes unnoticed. It doesn't mean the problem doesn't affect and detract from the lives of many.
Don't forget that the "American Dream in Suburbia" is, itself, an equally profound displacement from reality. And comic books / rock music / DnD (old school with books and dice not online) / Rap music / Video Games are another displacement. Watching delusional believers on both sides fight each other about "truth" is about as insightful as listening to theological debates.
In addition to smoking alcohol or drinking alcohol, I hear you can inject it...
You can in fact get drunk off vaporized alcohol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_without_liquid
Now the injection theory is something I've always wondered about, if you added enough USP ethyl alcohol to an IV bag to make it 0.15% and then hooked yourself up... This totally sounds like a biological hardware hacker stunt.
that people in a certain category are statistically likely to buy.
It sees two girls, they get one cup.
... I want at-risk children proactively locked up for life, because they are statistically most likely to become violent criminals. Also, get more illiterate, minorities, and mentally disabled in there too, because they are more likely to cause problems for society.
We already do that. We segregate our homes by income, and run the "poor kids schools" like a wannabe jail, complete with guards, searches, lockdowns, locked doors, yard/exercise time, tight schedules, solitary confinement, guard patrols, sometimes uniforms, ID numbers instead of names ... All they need is some bars on the windows.
Look, if you're a danger to society, you should be removed from that society.
Finally someone that agrees that we should greatly expand the death penalty!
Its funny to look at how ingrained some cultural beliefs are. "There is either picket fence suburbia with a school or daycare every 500 feet and a law preventing being within 500 feet of said building, or .. death".
Somebody with that illness might make an excellent farmhand at a non-family industrial farm, or as part of an all male all adult crew on a ship, or all male all adult construction worker or civil engineering project worker, or some weird child free "colony" type ideas come to mind in certain semi-industrial areas. Probably they couldn't be trusted with working/living at a senior care facility, probably.
I just always laugh a bit at the whole "either the american dream or die trying" attitude.
I can't find the section of the constitution that allows lawmakers to do that, nor would such a heavy handed policy be justified.
Well thats never stopped them from doing what they want in the past, has it?
Aside from that, if my local monopoly regulated cableco is required to provide service rates, that can be provided by docsis 3.0, and no other competing technology exists but docsis 3.0, and docsis 3.0 also happens to require a working ipv6 implementation, which it does, we are half way there.
Now convince the docsis 4.0 guys to demand the removal of ipv4 or whatever and you're basically done.
The main problem with the guys plan, is equipment rollout, depreciation, replacement/upgrade cycle is a bit longer than one year.
Paranoid? maybe, but so what.
I wouldn't say paranoid so much as wasted effort compared to other things having a much higher rate of return. You can configure a LAN using private space at huge time and effort both in set up and long term maintenance. Grats, you did it. However that time would far better be spent on securing your internal clients which do have access to the NAS, patching your NAS, patching your firewall, etc.
That particular layer is very expensive yet likely to be spectacularly ineffective. If everything worse has already been done, then it makes sense to waste time and money on that plan.
It would be like hurricane proofing my server, despite the nearest coast being over 1000 miles away...
Here's an IPv6 address: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334, the bold bit is the local part. How much bandwidth is your script kiddie going to have to have to find 0000:8a2e:0370:7334 in the range 0-ffffffffffffffff?
That's like taking all the money from your bank account and throwing it on the ground across the globe. People looking for money aren't possibly going to be able to search across 200 million square miles to find all your money, so it's perfectly safe, right?
Hmm, lets run the math here. If you insist on not installing a stateful firewall (why? Its already a part of your old ipv4 nat box) then they have to find a random-ish 32 digit hexadecimal number, in order to find an address to break into, then break in, which is hopefully non-trivial, and then hopefully steal your random-ish 16 digit decimal credit card number. However, if the bad guy has the resources to randomly find a needle in a haystack inside a 32 digit number, why waste the time? Why not randomly farm the 16 digit number directly and skip all that "breaking into" junk and searching about and installing keyloggers?
whether is has a public or private address is nothing to do with scarcity of IP but need and suitability and there a lot of IP device's that do not need a public address, my printer for starters, don't need to manage it from the outside, don't need to print to if from outside. Plain old private IP4 seems to work fine and dandy.
But using a separate address space makes your work WAY more complicated and less reliable.
All public scenario: Your stateful firewall prevents incoming traffic to your printer, just like it prevents incoming connections to anything else that you haven't specifically allowed. One address range everything reaches everything. Everything on one happy layer 2 LAN. Simple dynamic (re-)addressing.
Public plus private scenario: You still need a configured stateful firewall for all your other devices but now you have the joy of adding a statically configured LAN. How do the two networks reach each other? Route thru your slow firewall? Or multiple static and dynamic addresses on every device in your LAN? The time you spend complicating the heck out of your LAN, is time you're not spending securing it at the network and device layers.
So, sure, if you really want, you can spend a lot more time, money and effort to get a LAN that is much harder to design, configure, troubleshoot and monitor, all while being less secure, but you would be "saving" one of the 3 x 10 ^ 38 addresses, except you actually aren't because they assigned you a /64 for your LAN so its not like anyone else could use that address anyway.
IPv6 doesn't outright prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot, but its still kinda usable.
Plus if your LAN is a corporate LAN you've now gained the nightmare of merging multiple LANs using the same private addresses. Even if FC00::/8 is mostly empty, you know most clowns are going to use network=0 / host=1 for their firewall and watch the chaos when they interconnect.
There seems to be no advantage to private ipv6 space...
I guess it's time that porn ... sites switched over to v6 only, that should put some pressure on hardware manufacturers and ISPs to finally deliver v6
More like, a bunch of clowns in the government trying to make v6 illegal because they think everyone should have to do what their imaginary man in the sky told them.
Can any of you give me a brand of WiFi N router that can do ipv6? I guess there aren't that many. Why manufacturers aren't FORCED by law to do it?
In bridging mode, you can't (easily) make a wifi access point that won't support ipv6. Its just another type of packet on the (virtual) wire. For a good fraction of a decade that is how I've had my home set up.
The market has spoken and you cannot buy a non-docsis 3.0 cablemodem anymore. docsis 3.0 requires ipv6 support. Many people have a "wireless cablemodem" basically a modem and router and access point in one little box. Thus all wireless cablemodems going forward will support ipv6, and presumably at least some will support N.
The main problem with N wifi is I do not have the connection speed to saturate my decade old plain ole 802.11B network. If I upgrade to N, rather than being capped by my provider to max out at about 33% of my network speed, I'll merely run at about 1% of my network speed. Who cares?
My dlink router does IPV6, but my cable modem doesn't. Until my provider goes IPv6, it's just a curiosity.
You can't buy a cablemodem that doesn't support V6. Don't get all technical with me about buying some stolen properly out of a car trunk from 1997 meaning you can buy a non-ipv6 cablemodem. I mean anything sold to the cablecos for years has supported v6. Its now gotten to the point that you can't legally call yourself DOCSIS 3.0 compatible without shipping a working ipv6 implementation. Mandatory ability as part of the standard.
Now your local provider can limit any and all technical abilities. Just like a cellphone manufacturer is free to include hardware and firmware which the local cellphone company can prevent you from using (tethering etc). Or your cableco is free to enable/disable any output jack on the back of your settop box.
Your cablemodem almost certainly merely requires some behind the scenes work at the cableco and one remotely initiated reboot of your modem and you've got working ipv6.
If you don't believe me, find your modems model number and google for the promotional fliers or even technical manuals from the manufacturer.
We've known about the ipv6 push for years now, and major Operating Systems have supported it.
If you want a good laugh look up major OBSOLETE OS that support ipv6. W2K, NT, even to a limited extend supposedly W98 had an addon.
With current implementations turning on IPv6 can cause long resolutions and even failures.
Only if you connect to a faulty v6 network, that no one bothers to fix because "its only ipv6". Current *network* implementation not end user boxes. Its hardly an inherent part of the protocol or OS implementation.
Because not everything behind a router needs a public address?
Um, why? Here's a resource that is inherently by design non-scarce, but you prefer to act as if it were? The "hair shirt" brigade might approve but the rest of us kinda laugh.
The plant which is closing is in Pitman, NJ. The article never bothered to mention which plant. Whatever happened to the basics of reporting - who/what/where/why/when?
not to be harsh, but probably only 300 people (plus extended family) care, vs 1 billion english readers on the internet.
Considering digital downloads typically cost about 75-50% of a CD I would say yes, the reduction in costs is being reflected in the price.
What kind of torrent site charges $5 to $10 per album? Oh, you mean that OTHER kind of digital download.
That makes me wonder about a lot of things. I always see furniture at Wal Mart, but I've never seen anyone purchase it. Does that sell nearly as well - or is there just enough markup to make the profits reasonable when it does?
It is true that the primary concern in retail is profit per inch of shelf space. Some things are loss leaders. What kind of walmart would not have a particle board bookshelf for sale?
The original posters cd problem is probably more related to walmarts vaguely bible-belt sensitivity toward anything not utterly bland and boring. Unless the CD he was looking for was baptist gospel, that is almost certainly the problem.
300 people are responsible for making 18 million CDs/month. I saw another story about a sleeping bag factory cranking out 20 million bags a year with 500 empoloyees for the whole company.
Its entertaining to try and figure out how I'd do it... Thats a CD every 1/10 second 24 hours/day. I'm assuming this place is a stamp plant. None the less, going burners, I'd get 100 cd burners per person and give a person a 100 cdr blank tower stack and tell them to fill the burners. You need about twenty lines to keep up. That gives you about 5 minutes to burn, verify, and load. To staff a single 24/7 position for very long term in the military we always assumed about 6 people. So thats about 120 personnel. Add another 120 for general warehouse tasks, stacking, wrapping, unwrapping, boxing... leaves about 60 for overhead, repair work, etc.
I do believe I could do it with CD-r. Harder if they print and stuff jewel boxes.
its nice that the government does just about nothing for my dog, which is how i like it, but why the hell do i hav to pay them to keep there dirty nose out of my shit!
A large fraction of dog owners do not properly train their dogs, thus endless barking, thus endless disturbing the peace police calls. Also raw (animal) sewage getting washed into the storm sewers and into the river. Finally its a proxy for registering rabies vaccinations. Rather than dealing with multiple vets or multiple 3rd parties, you simply prove vaccination to the govt and they proxy that knowledge to the inevitable bite victims.
If they got rid of the tax, the tiny fraction of good owners would benefit from lower costs (obviously) while the larger fraction of bad owners would simply have to pay higher tickets / fees and historically bad owners have been credit risks whom don't pay and the fees have been less than collection costs... So its easier to just bill all the owners every year. Rather like how I pay car insurance all the time, despite only having needed it twice in my life.
On the other hand, I have no idea why indoor housecats "need" a license other than pure fundraising. My father always said that he knew it was time to move out of his dying urban community a couple decades ago when they wanted to start cat licenses. Next thing up is tropical fish taxes. Maybe they could tax the squirrels in my neighbors yard...
As the parent of an autistic child I always thought this one was bullshit. I witnessed my sons development. My family was convinced it was a result of the vaccines. He was normal and suddenly he stopped all the babble. Started staring into space for long periods of time. I think I'm the only one who noticed it happening before the vaccines. Its like no one looked before that. At least now when someone tells me that was the cause I can at least tell them it was a scam.
I'm convinced its coincidental that it occurs at the same stage of development, more or less. The observable symptoms of the brain damage that results from bad vaccination outcomes is vaguely remotely superficially similar to the observable symptoms of whatever is going on in the brains of autistic kids. That proves, uh, nothing at all, not that one must cause the other or be related to the other. Its of about the same quality of scientific theory as making the observation that extreme lead poisoning and extreme mercury poisoning cause similar symptoms, therefore they must be the same thing, and to heck with the chemist and nuclear physicist conspiracy to claim mercury and lead atoms are different, my Aristotelian "earth humours" vital force theory must be correct.
The chance a kid dies from diseases he could have been vaccinated against is higher, dunno the exact number and am to lazy to look'em up.
Humorously your lazyness led you to have it completely backwards. The rate for measles, once diagnosed, is something less than 0.3%. But that requires a measles diagnosis. You can't discuss the death rate due to measles in the USA because its only single digits yearly for the entire developed western world. Its like debating the public health implications of protecting childrens heads from meteorite impacts. Before the measles vaccine, about as many kids died of measles as died of lightning every year, roughly. Compared to falls, car accidents, etc, its pretty much a rounding error.
So these people think it's worse to have a kid with autism than to lose your child to a disease? Are these people insane?
Hmm... Around a 1 in 100 chance of lifetime debilitating illness vs far less than 1 in 10000000 chance of death. IF the vaccine caused autism at 1% rates (which it seems it does not), they would be far better off taking their chances without the vaccine.