Don't worry, I don't know why the post was then modded as a troll. Thanks for the info, I couldn't figure out what in the world he might be talking about.
Someone modded me a TROLL!?!?!?! I was asking a freakin' question, not telling the guy he was an insensitive clod for chrissake. I was legitimately curious where he heard that.
"Actually, around 1998, a DNS server that returned a different IP address for a lookup based on who the request is for was not only novel, it was considered WRONG."
Yet nothing about that makes the patent non-obvious to someone in the field, which is how the USPTO is supposed to rate obviousness, not whether the RFC happened to concur with the idea. I specifically remembering thinking that the patent was so bloody obvious that I couldn't believe it had been granted in the first place.
Let me clarify by saying that the person might be using their *personal* email account while on the clock. Speaking in negatives often confuses the context.
How about saving your CPU when your electric controlled fan on your server silently bites the dust while you're away on vacation or the like? I have to replace a minimum of 1 CPU fan every year at my house and sometimes "CPU fan" is replaced by "entire motherboard, memory, etc." because a fan failed and the CPU took everything with it.
Unfortunately not everyone making that kind of money is an attorney/has a receptionist, nor would they necessarily be using their company email address while on the clock.
You missed the GP's point while at the same time helping prove it.
He was saying that it costs nearly nothing to send email and your 2% statistic there proved that. The point about it costing the recipient had little to do with bandwidth. Hint, Time=Money. If you make $15/hr it's not much to spend a couple of minutes per day deleting spam; if you make $150/hr it starts to add up quickly.
Goddamn, you sound just like the retarded cop who told me that my radar detector was illegal(he was full of shit and I knew it), I told him that I bought it in a store in tow; the cop then replies with what is the most laughable statement I've ever encountered in my life "well they sell bombs too"; I had to suppress my response of "oh yeah? tell me where I find a store selling bombs *legally* here in Columbus, OH" or else he'd have made it a bit rough on me at the time.
I ain't calling you retarded or trying to flame you but that leap of "logic" is identical, almost as if you and he were obsessing that SOMETHING had to be illegal so you had to drag out the first thing that came to mind regardless if it made any sense at all.
So seriously, how did you come to your statement since it was obvious that they were discussing legal adverts, legal graphic design, and, in theory, a future that contains legal unsolicited commercial email where these snail-mailings would co-exist?
"Come to think about it, Microsoft has always had a blind spot for some simple concepts. Yes, No, No to all, Yes to all. Which ever option I needed they always neglected to put in the menu."
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<ctrl-alt-delete> NO CARRIER
"Hmm. I imagine that therein lies a story AND even not having heard it yet, I'm not sure I will be 100% convinced that the company and receptionist were in the wrong."
Actually no story. However you sound like you could be a receptionist. I guess if I say that someone was black balled from my club that you'd testify that it was both a racist and sexist statement since it mentioned both color and alluded to testicles? Or how about if I say that someone was acting in a niggardly fashion? Panties in a wad yet?
Political correctness and euphemisms are the death of true expression. I'm not a "Native American", I'm an Indian; my cousins aren't "African American", they're Black. Your bra isn't showing, it's your tits.
You hit the nail on the head. It has little to do with what you think you might like about the job but rather is more about what you actually experience in the job. I always look at these types of things as making a kind of deal with the devil: you might get all the things you want for the price they ask(your skills and knowledge), or you might discover they withheld information about some of their internal policies, or that the receptionist is overly sensitive to anything remotely "off-color", or that they don't dig you wearing open-toe sandals and cargo shorts during the summer(for me that is an absolute requirement over any other; even if they refuse to let anyone else do it since I make a very good living freelancing).
"This whole argument about the definition of theft is manufactured just as much as the amounts being claimed lost due to piracy by the other side."
I refer you to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics . Semantics is entirely about defining symbols, manufactured symbols if you will. The *AA's symbol for theft is the exact same symbol for rights of living in the digital age to the file sharers.
This is exactly what we need at this moment. This might be the straw that broke the camel's back because with so many potentially affected, and with HDTV the new "standard", we are going to see a backlash not from a single company but an entire industry that is now being forced to pay ransom to stay in business thanks to that standard. The way I see it is that the FCC(and any other FCC-like organizations in other countries) will take a decent portion of the heat for forcing the industry to use a non-open standard, that will then put pressure on the USPTO to make some real reform. Where it goes from there is a bit cloudy but I suspect this will be enough to force the Supreme Court to rule on this type of behavior; after all, patents are supposed to promote innovation, not stifle it.
If a rogue DHCP server is "closer"(faster response time basically) to the target than the real one, it is an almost trivial task to poison their DNS. One could setup a fake AP and then route all traffic to the real AP but only after the DHCP server has had time to do its work. The same can go for wired communication as well, especially since running a DHCP server on a cable network is going to give the rogue server a much quicker response time for the machines in the server's general physical area.
I think it's going to be less about air resistance and more about gravity's effect in this instance. And the longer they wait, the more the orbit will decay and the less chance there is of anything causing this. Regardless, any debris that does move to a higher altitude isn't going to actually achieve orbit because it'll require more than just some upward force to do so.
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The link is a myminicity(or whatever the hell it is). Avoid.
Don't worry, I don't know why the post was then modded as a troll. Thanks for the info, I couldn't figure out what in the world he might be talking about.
Someone modded me a TROLL!?!?!?! I was asking a freakin' question, not telling the guy he was an insensitive clod for chrissake. I was legitimately curious where he heard that.
I don't think I have ever read that photons travel instantaneously. Care to cite?
I'm down with that if they'll let me teach that x/0 is actually infinity, except of course where x=0 in which case the answer is 1.
What in the world is that supposed to mean? I see your ;) but that doesn't help it make any sense either.
Yeah, if it actually worked when needed, and if I didn't actually need the server up and running the entire time.
"Actually, around 1998, a DNS server that returned a different IP address for a lookup based on who the request is for was not only novel, it was considered WRONG."
Yet nothing about that makes the patent non-obvious to someone in the field, which is how the USPTO is supposed to rate obviousness, not whether the RFC happened to concur with the idea. I specifically remembering thinking that the patent was so bloody obvious that I couldn't believe it had been granted in the first place.
Let me clarify by saying that the person might be using their *personal* email account while on the clock. Speaking in negatives often confuses the context.
How about saving your CPU when your electric controlled fan on your server silently bites the dust while you're away on vacation or the like? I have to replace a minimum of 1 CPU fan every year at my house and sometimes "CPU fan" is replaced by "entire motherboard, memory, etc." because a fan failed and the CPU took everything with it.
Yeah, you're going to be up to your neck in dancing protein poontang....
Unfortunately not everyone making that kind of money is an attorney/has a receptionist, nor would they necessarily be using their company email address while on the clock.
That is true but currently there is more good that is legal than not.
You missed the GP's point while at the same time helping prove it.
He was saying that it costs nearly nothing to send email and your 2% statistic there proved that. The point about it costing the recipient had little to do with bandwidth. Hint, Time=Money. If you make $15/hr it's not much to spend a couple of minutes per day deleting spam; if you make $150/hr it starts to add up quickly.
Goddamn, you sound just like the retarded cop who told me that my radar detector was illegal(he was full of shit and I knew it), I told him that I bought it in a store in tow; the cop then replies with what is the most laughable statement I've ever encountered in my life "well they sell bombs too"; I had to suppress my response of "oh yeah? tell me where I find a store selling bombs *legally* here in Columbus, OH" or else he'd have made it a bit rough on me at the time.
I ain't calling you retarded or trying to flame you but that leap of "logic" is identical, almost as if you and he were obsessing that SOMETHING had to be illegal so you had to drag out the first thing that came to mind regardless if it made any sense at all.
So seriously, how did you come to your statement since it was obvious that they were discussing legal adverts, legal graphic design, and, in theory, a future that contains legal unsolicited commercial email where these snail-mailings would co-exist?
Thanks. You've proven your "ass" ets as well with that snide remark.
"Come to think about it, Microsoft has always had a blind spot for some simple concepts. Yes, No, No to all, Yes to all. Which ever option I needed they always neglected to put in the menu."
Abort, Retry, Cancel, Fail?
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Abort, Retry, Cancel, Fail?
R
Abort, Retry, Cancel, Fail?
C
Abort, Retry, Cancel, Fail?
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Abort, Retry, Cancel, Fail?
grrr
Abort, Retry, Cancel, Fail?
<ctrl-alt-delete> NO CARRIER
"Hmm. I imagine that therein lies a story AND even not having heard it yet, I'm not sure I will be 100% convinced that the company and receptionist were in the wrong."
Actually no story. However you sound like you could be a receptionist. I guess if I say that someone was black balled from my club that you'd testify that it was both a racist and sexist statement since it mentioned both color and alluded to testicles? Or how about if I say that someone was acting in a niggardly fashion? Panties in a wad yet?
Political correctness and euphemisms are the death of true expression. I'm not a "Native American", I'm an Indian; my cousins aren't "African American", they're Black. Your bra isn't showing, it's your tits.
Now how about you go get me some coffee, cupcake.
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Mods, wake up!! The parent post is "interesting" but it's magnitudes more "funny".
You hit the nail on the head. It has little to do with what you think you might like about the job but rather is more about what you actually experience in the job. I always look at these types of things as making a kind of deal with the devil: you might get all the things you want for the price they ask(your skills and knowledge), or you might discover they withheld information about some of their internal policies, or that the receptionist is overly sensitive to anything remotely "off-color", or that they don't dig you wearing open-toe sandals and cargo shorts during the summer(for me that is an absolute requirement over any other; even if they refuse to let anyone else do it since I make a very good living freelancing).
"This whole argument about the definition of theft is manufactured just as much as the amounts being claimed lost due to piracy by the other side."
I refer you to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics . Semantics is entirely about defining symbols, manufactured symbols if you will. The *AA's symbol for theft is the exact same symbol for rights of living in the digital age to the file sharers.
This is exactly what we need at this moment. This might be the straw that broke the camel's back because with so many potentially affected, and with HDTV the new "standard", we are going to see a backlash not from a single company but an entire industry that is now being forced to pay ransom to stay in business thanks to that standard. The way I see it is that the FCC(and any other FCC-like organizations in other countries) will take a decent portion of the heat for forcing the industry to use a non-open standard, that will then put pressure on the USPTO to make some real reform. Where it goes from there is a bit cloudy but I suspect this will be enough to force the Supreme Court to rule on this type of behavior; after all, patents are supposed to promote innovation, not stifle it.
If a rogue DHCP server is "closer"(faster response time basically) to the target than the real one, it is an almost trivial task to poison their DNS. One could setup a fake AP and then route all traffic to the real AP but only after the DHCP server has had time to do its work. The same can go for wired communication as well, especially since running a DHCP server on a cable network is going to give the rogue server a much quicker response time for the machines in the server's general physical area.
Goddamn richers gonna ruin our neighborhood again!!
I think it's going to be less about air resistance and more about gravity's effect in this instance. And the longer they wait, the more the orbit will decay and the less chance there is of anything causing this. Regardless, any debris that does move to a higher altitude isn't going to actually achieve orbit because it'll require more than just some upward force to do so.