That still doesn't mean that they had the right to do that. Of course, its pretty unlikely that the domain owner will choose to dispute this in open court.
For every false set of data they receive they have to try to use that invalid credit card number, ebay password, etc... Thus, costing them extreme amounts of time.
Hmm. You take the time to fill out their form. They have an automated batch verification process that checks the ID/Pass and, separately, the credit card. I can't see that you're hurting anyone except yourself there, unless you actually start running script attacks against their website which are, well, also illegal...
EBay has also been trying to shut down the Web site by working with the Internet registrar that was used to acquire the ebaychristmas.net domain, Pires said. Despite these efforts, however, the site has remained operational.
That registrar, which does business under the name Joker.com, has the power to shut down the scam Web site, Jennings said. "If they were taking their responsibilities seriously, the site would have been shut down weeks ago," he said.
Last time I checked, the Registrar wasn't responsible if a server that happened to be pointed to by a record on a DNS server is registered as primary for one of the domains that they registered contained fraudulent or misleading content. In fact, checking Joker's TOS, while Joker may have the "power" to shut him down, I don't immediately see that they have any legal right to do so.
Finally you must explain to a non techie that holds your paychecks why not simply buying DELL and allowing them to fix the computers is not a good idea. because the CFO and CTO is thinking that exact thought
Before doing that, though, you should actually check to make sure that this is true. I know a ton of smaller companies, in the 20-30 person range, that have a poorly paid IT guy and would do much better by outsourcing almost everything to people like Dell. Never underestimate how much money even a single person costs a company - its huge.
Well, considering the fact that Rogers Wireless is a Canadian company, and as far as I know, doesn't operate in the United States, I'd be deeply disturbed if the FBI stepped in.
And so would I. After all, that's the NSA's job - and believe me, you don't want to piss of their union.
Ah, the all-in-ones. I had a TI back in 198[3|4]. One half height floppy drive but, what was really k3wl, it had a half-height 10MB genuine Winchester hard drive. Way cool. Being a TI product its graphics card was significantly better than EGA, and almost compatible, so games would very nearly work.
You might want to go back and re-read the article, and look at the sheer size of the PC market these days. Believe me, a few colos don't even register.
You're moving beyond my 2nd hand knowledge, but I just have to say... I love your use of the word "explosionless," in the sentence above. I mean, hey, that's a battery standard that even as an uninformed layman I wouldn't mind endorsing.
Cold air systems can give some really great power improvements. In fact, googling for measurements of ram air systems shows that many of them give 15-20 RWHP increases. Note: that's on a dyno. That means that you're getting some pretty solid gains by redirecting the airflow out of the engine compartment, with some (small but non-zero) risks of flooding, or by removing fog lights, or whatever other trade-offs stopped the manufacturer from doing it in the first place. But that's on a dyno, which means that you're getting no "Ram" effect whatsoever - your car is strapped to the floor and isn't moving.
I've seen ram air VE measurements taken on the road as boosting air pressure on the order of.10-.40 PSI. Remember that it takes about 15 PSI to "double" your power, assuming no other parasitic losses are taken into account. I therefore posit that very few gains are shown from the "Ram Air" system itself operating as a ram, and that most (if not all) of the gains are due purely to cooler air and (often) a more direct induction pathway.
The 25% boost I mentioned above was intended to be an exaggeration to make a point. A typical ram system, at low (ie: ~100 mph) speeds, is going to be giving you more like a 5% air pressure boost, probably a lot less. Even a very restricted factory turbocharger is generally providing at least a 50% boost (ie: 7psi), most are safe up to at least an atmosphere (100% boost).
Additionally, many cold air systems (and yes, in my past more-cars-than-money life stage I've rebuilt many an engine and do know a little about this) have their own problems. For something to be a factory piece, you're not allowed to have warnings urging people to, for example, relocate the intake if they're likely to drive through puddles (surprisingly uncommon on some of these pieces). Its all a compromise. The days of easy 20+ HP gains are long since gone, I'm afraid - if there really wasn't any downside (noise/safety/etc) don't you think the car companies would have incorporated them? Indeed, many times they already have. Now, if you've got a bunch of power-adders going on you'll often exceed your filter's capacity pretty quickly, but that's another story.
My massive drag comment was talking about the size of scoop (back of the envelope thinking: huge) that it would take to get, oh, even a quarter atmosphere pressure boost (ie: 25% of a common turbo setting) from a low speed ram air system. If it was even possible.
Why on earth would a car or lorry need to use diesel electric transmission?
Replacing the drive shaft? No good reason. As an assist? To take advantage of the other efficiencies available when you've got electric motors hanging around, like shutting off at a stop, regenerative breaking, and not having to size your main (direct drive) diesel motor for peak power, but rather for something a bit below that point? Here in the US a lot of newer diesel buses are sporting "Hybrid" badging. I've never looked into it to figure out what technology grouping they're calling hybrid, but I'm betting its something similar to those listed above.
And, from a UK ex-pat living in the US, I agree with you about the small diesels. Got to play with one of the A3 diesels earlier this year in England, very fun and (relatively) frugal at the pump. Even my Focus diesel rental car was surprisingly peppy, from the standpoint of someone who's grown accustomed to US vehicles (large and slow, but sold as "small and fast" to people who've never left the country).
Although the modern electrics still have nothing like the startup torque of the older engines. My step-father was a UP roadmaster, has some great stories to tell. Don't get me wrong, they're better in almost every other way for the business, but they don't have the sheer raw power that the old ones did. Of course, it turns out that you generally don't need it either.
There are some interesting people out there doing Prius conversions - my in-laws are looking at one. Basically they increase the battery capacity (using more efficient parts, IIRC, so it doesn't significantly increase the weight, but this is 2nd hand) and install a house charger. The new cars get ~200 miles on a full "charge" but, unlike traditional plug-in electrics, the motor is there for when you want to go further without plugging in.
I realize why none of the current hybrids do this - their whole selling position is that the public API is just like the current gasoline vehicles - but having the option makes a lot of sense. This means that its cheaper to "fuel" the batteries at home during the night, and cleaner too thanks to more efficient power plants, but you can treat it just like a regular car for a cross-country trip. Not a bad idea. Currently the conversion is expensive, ~$5K, but that's mainly because its a complex, low-volume retrofit.
Oh, I'm all for specifying graphic sizes in "inches." Or actually, once you can assume that all graphics are scalable, it doesn't really matter what you specify in - inches, pixels, etc - as long as its consistent relative to each other component of the page. If the client can scale both, then the problem is solved.
A valid point - these days, most code (not including the GP) is written in some form of OO language, so you'd have if(smsAccount.isValid()) or something similar. And yes, you still (or at least I still) see a ton of if(smsAccount.checkStatus()) type calls. So in this case, with some language tweaking, you can have your grammar and, er, eat it too. Or something.
That's where you get issues, unfortunately. I use a 23" monitor, but I don't want to see text large and beautiful, I want to see it - well - pretty much the way it is right now. But there's a bigger problem. If you specify font sizes in points (and if they were respected), you'd have to be able to specify all of the other parts of your website in inches. You know, pictures, backgrounds, applets of all sorts, et cetera. Having to do half the site in one system and half in the other, then mixing randomly for each user, really sucks. That's why people size fonts in pixels for some sites.
That's why you never do password recovery. You never let a user recover their password, but you give them the tools to ask you to set a new one for them, which will be emailed to you, and which you will have to change the first time they log in with it. So this is not a problem.
Not that I'm defending Larry, but Martha wore the shackles for lying to the Feds, not the insider trading. I'm sure if she hadn't been so arrogant and just 'fessed up front, she would have received similar treatment.
Well, maybe. Wasn't she also on the board of the SEC at the time? That, to me, ups the ante somewhat in that she should be held to a higher standard. I don't know that it would be legal to do that, though... but at least ethically it seems to make sense.
... i am associate editor at make. this wasn't any marketing stunt, not sure what i could say or do to prove that, but it's the truth. i'm sorry you don't care for make. what could we change, what could we improve?
You're an associate editor looking for suggestions? How about improving your writing with some capital letters? They do make it much easier to read prose, even in this wacky ".com" world of ours.
If you're on a Windows machine (as a lot of people are), I recommend AdMuncher. I'm a paying customer, and its worth every dime. It serves as a kind of dynamic web proxy and rewrites using the best set of rules I've yet found. Ads are effectively eliminated with very few other issues, all rectifiable with a quick right-click. I used to use a hosts file, and deal with some annoying issues because of it - this works an order of magnitude better. And it comes with (IIRC) a 30-day free trial.
If a ERP module doesn't do what it's supposed to, I get a call on my mobile, with the CEO at the other end telling me that he's losing 200 Euro an hour because order processing has gone haywire.
Only losing 200 Euro an hour? That's almost not worth fixing.
Well, you did say that you were writing an ERP in Python...
There were people who extoled that format of comment there, as well, except that who the fuck cares that JGQ (whoever that was, he left a decade ago) modified a line of code seven years ago?
Preventative note to smart-alecks: Yes, I see that it would indeed be quite interesting to see that someone who quit 10 years ago still had checkin privs 3 years after the fact. Its an example. You know what I mean.
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That still doesn't mean that they had the right to do that. Of course, its pretty unlikely that the domain owner will choose to dispute this in open court.
For every false set of data they receive they have to try to use that invalid credit card number, ebay password, etc... Thus, costing them extreme amounts of time.
Hmm. You take the time to fill out their form. They have an automated batch verification process that checks the ID/Pass and, separately, the credit card. I can't see that you're hurting anyone except yourself there, unless you actually start running script attacks against their website which are, well, also illegal...
From the InfoWorld article:
EBay has also been trying to shut down the Web site by working with the Internet registrar that was used to acquire the ebaychristmas.net domain, Pires said. Despite these efforts, however, the site has remained operational.
That registrar, which does business under the name Joker.com, has the power to shut down the scam Web site, Jennings said. "If they were taking their responsibilities seriously, the site would have been shut down weeks ago," he said.
Last time I checked, the Registrar wasn't responsible if a server that happened to be pointed to by a record on a DNS server is registered as primary for one of the domains that they registered contained fraudulent or misleading content. In fact, checking Joker's TOS, while Joker may have the "power" to shut him down, I don't immediately see that they have any legal right to do so.
Finally you must explain to a non techie that holds your paychecks why not simply buying DELL and allowing them to fix the computers is not a good idea. because the CFO and CTO is thinking that exact thought
Before doing that, though, you should actually check to make sure that this is true. I know a ton of smaller companies, in the 20-30 person range, that have a poorly paid IT guy and would do much better by outsourcing almost everything to people like Dell. Never underestimate how much money even a single person costs a company - its huge.
Well, considering the fact that Rogers Wireless is a Canadian company, and as far as I know, doesn't operate in the United States, I'd be deeply disturbed if the FBI stepped in.
And so would I. After all, that's the NSA's job - and believe me, you don't want to piss of their union.
Right, but the article is talking about system sales. Its trivially easy to determine the number of new machines that are sold with Windows.
Ah, the all-in-ones. I had a TI back in 198[3|4]. One half height floppy drive but, what was really k3wl, it had a half-height 10MB genuine Winchester hard drive. Way cool. Being a TI product its graphics card was significantly better than EGA, and almost compatible, so games would very nearly work.
You might want to go back and re-read the article, and look at the sheer size of the PC market these days. Believe me, a few colos don't even register.
You're moving beyond my 2nd hand knowledge, but I just have to say ... I love your use of the word "explosionless," in the sentence above. I mean, hey, that's a battery standard that even as an uninformed layman I wouldn't mind endorsing.
Cold air systems can give some really great power improvements. In fact, googling for measurements of ram air systems shows that many of them give 15-20 RWHP increases. Note: that's on a dyno. That means that you're getting some pretty solid gains by redirecting the airflow out of the engine compartment, with some (small but non-zero) risks of flooding, or by removing fog lights, or whatever other trade-offs stopped the manufacturer from doing it in the first place. But that's on a dyno, which means that you're getting no "Ram" effect whatsoever - your car is strapped to the floor and isn't moving.
.10-.40 PSI. Remember that it takes about 15 PSI to "double" your power, assuming no other parasitic losses are taken into account. I therefore posit that very few gains are shown from the "Ram Air" system itself operating as a ram, and that most (if not all) of the gains are due purely to cooler air and (often) a more direct induction pathway.
I've seen ram air VE measurements taken on the road as boosting air pressure on the order of
The 25% boost I mentioned above was intended to be an exaggeration to make a point. A typical ram system, at low (ie: ~100 mph) speeds, is going to be giving you more like a 5% air pressure boost, probably a lot less. Even a very restricted factory turbocharger is generally providing at least a 50% boost (ie: 7psi), most are safe up to at least an atmosphere (100% boost).
Additionally, many cold air systems (and yes, in my past more-cars-than-money life stage I've rebuilt many an engine and do know a little about this) have their own problems. For something to be a factory piece, you're not allowed to have warnings urging people to, for example, relocate the intake if they're likely to drive through puddles (surprisingly uncommon on some of these pieces). Its all a compromise. The days of easy 20+ HP gains are long since gone, I'm afraid - if there really wasn't any downside (noise/safety/etc) don't you think the car companies would have incorporated them? Indeed, many times they already have. Now, if you've got a bunch of power-adders going on you'll often exceed your filter's capacity pretty quickly, but that's another story.
My massive drag comment was talking about the size of scoop (back of the envelope thinking: huge) that it would take to get, oh, even a quarter atmosphere pressure boost (ie: 25% of a common turbo setting) from a low speed ram air system. If it was even possible.
Because its pretty hard to use a ram air system to get compression up to 2 atmospheres without massive drag? At speeds of ~20 mph?
Why on earth would a car or lorry need to use diesel electric transmission?
Replacing the drive shaft? No good reason. As an assist? To take advantage of the other efficiencies available when you've got electric motors hanging around, like shutting off at a stop, regenerative breaking, and not having to size your main (direct drive) diesel motor for peak power, but rather for something a bit below that point? Here in the US a lot of newer diesel buses are sporting "Hybrid" badging. I've never looked into it to figure out what technology grouping they're calling hybrid, but I'm betting its something similar to those listed above.
And, from a UK ex-pat living in the US, I agree with you about the small diesels. Got to play with one of the A3 diesels earlier this year in England, very fun and (relatively) frugal at the pump. Even my Focus diesel rental car was surprisingly peppy, from the standpoint of someone who's grown accustomed to US vehicles (large and slow, but sold as "small and fast" to people who've never left the country).
Although the modern electrics still have nothing like the startup torque of the older engines. My step-father was a UP roadmaster, has some great stories to tell. Don't get me wrong, they're better in almost every other way for the business, but they don't have the sheer raw power that the old ones did. Of course, it turns out that you generally don't need it either.
There are some interesting people out there doing Prius conversions - my in-laws are looking at one. Basically they increase the battery capacity (using more efficient parts, IIRC, so it doesn't significantly increase the weight, but this is 2nd hand) and install a house charger. The new cars get ~200 miles on a full "charge" but, unlike traditional plug-in electrics, the motor is there for when you want to go further without plugging in.
I realize why none of the current hybrids do this - their whole selling position is that the public API is just like the current gasoline vehicles - but having the option makes a lot of sense. This means that its cheaper to "fuel" the batteries at home during the night, and cleaner too thanks to more efficient power plants, but you can treat it just like a regular car for a cross-country trip. Not a bad idea. Currently the conversion is expensive, ~$5K, but that's mainly because its a complex, low-volume retrofit.
Oh, I'm all for specifying graphic sizes in "inches." Or actually, once you can assume that all graphics are scalable, it doesn't really matter what you specify in - inches, pixels, etc - as long as its consistent relative to each other component of the page. If the client can scale both, then the problem is solved.
A valid point - these days, most code (not including the GP) is written in some form of OO language, so you'd have if(smsAccount.isValid()) or something similar. And yes, you still (or at least I still) see a ton of if(smsAccount.checkStatus()) type calls. So in this case, with some language tweaking, you can have your grammar and, er, eat it too. Or something.
That's where you get issues, unfortunately. I use a 23" monitor, but I don't want to see text large and beautiful, I want to see it - well - pretty much the way it is right now. But there's a bigger problem. If you specify font sizes in points (and if they were respected), you'd have to be able to specify all of the other parts of your website in inches. You know, pictures, backgrounds, applets of all sorts, et cetera. Having to do half the site in one system and half in the other, then mixing randomly for each user, really sucks. That's why people size fonts in pixels for some sites.
That's why you never do password recovery. You never let a user recover their password, but you give them the tools to ask you to set a new one for them, which will be emailed to you, and which you will have to change the first time they log in with it. So this is not a problem.
Not that I'm defending Larry, but Martha wore the shackles for lying to the Feds, not the insider trading. I'm sure if she hadn't been so arrogant and just 'fessed up front, she would have received similar treatment.
Well, maybe. Wasn't she also on the board of the SEC at the time? That, to me, ups the ante somewhat in that she should be held to a higher standard. I don't know that it would be legal to do that, though... but at least ethically it seems to make sense.
... i am associate editor at make. this wasn't any marketing stunt, not sure what i could say or do to prove that, but it's the truth. i'm sorry you don't care for make. what could we change, what could we improve?
You're an associate editor looking for suggestions? How about improving your writing with some capital letters? They do make it much easier to read prose, even in this wacky ".com" world of ours.
If you're on a Windows machine (as a lot of people are), I recommend AdMuncher. I'm a paying customer, and its worth every dime. It serves as a kind of dynamic web proxy and rewrites using the best set of rules I've yet found. Ads are effectively eliminated with very few other issues, all rectifiable with a quick right-click. I used to use a hosts file, and deal with some annoying issues because of it - this works an order of magnitude better. And it comes with (IIRC) a 30-day free trial.
I wonder if they advertise?
If a ERP module doesn't do what it's supposed to, I get a call on my mobile, with the CEO at the other end telling me that he's losing 200 Euro an hour because order processing has gone haywire.
Only losing 200 Euro an hour? That's almost not worth fixing.
Well, you did say that you were writing an ERP in Python...
*ducks*
Fixed that for ya.
Aha - but how do you know it shouldn't have been:Rule of thumb: if the comments and the code don't match, don't trust either one of 'em.
There were people who extoled that format of comment there, as well, except that who the fuck cares that JGQ (whoever that was, he left a decade ago) modified a line of code seven years ago?
Preventative note to smart-alecks: Yes, I see that it would indeed be quite interesting to see that someone who quit 10 years ago still had checkin privs 3 years after the fact. Its an example. You know what I mean.