I was thinking about that but also was wondering why they bothered with the magnets instead of using the piezo effect. Crystals can be much smaller, and I think more effective at that size, than magnets.
This actually reminds me of the old hack to crash NT3.X, "telnet host:19|telnet host:53", which would take output from the random character generator port and pipe it to the DNS port which would then crash the DNS server and maybe the host itself. I remember making a friend scream in horror as I did this to his machine across his LAN where he thought it could only be done locally.
Bravo! That's the best metaphor/translation/analogy I've seen, maybe in my life. I understood the summary but this was a very, umm, insightful, and short and to the point.
I don't know whether you should be modded Insightful, Interesting, Funny, or GoddamnedScary.
Are you serious when you say you have to have drivers to get your monitor, mouse, etc. to work? I have no plans on "downgrading" to Vista but I'll at least be able to warn some friends.
Someone got to it already but you're right, it's not 500, it's 230 years, and it's not originated in America. I for some odd reason had thought I read it was 500 years old and had Scottish origins but it was late when I wrote that so maybe it was a hallucination. Regardless, 230 years is a long time to stay a non-standard word.
No seriously, these days I've found it's much easier to do your best to mod positively, otherwise you spend far too much energy pointing out the negative things. I'll still point out a lot of negative things but at least I search for insightful, interesting or funny comments first before I look for Mac fanboys who need to be brought down a notch or two.;)
Wikipedia, regardless of its apparent usefulness on geeky and interesting subjects, is not something I'd risk my career on its trustworthiness. While I'm sure all sorts of dictionaries are lowering their standards, the fact that "ain't" hasn't made it out of the "non-standard" class even after, what, 500 years of use speaks volumes, redundant volumes, of those who use or accept "irregardless" as anything more than a nonsensical word. Fnord.
Yep, they can do that but without the help from state law enforcement which is a big let down for them. The DEA has heavier things to do than bust every nickel and dime dealer, or even semi-respectable pot growing operations. If they didn't we would have heard of MANY more busts in California and also would have heard of many of the "clubs" shutting down because of them but that's not the case.
"nonstandard" also applies to the word "ain't" which your source states is used by the uneducated.
Regardless, you failed to quote the rest of the citation from dictionary.com:
Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
Funny but it was Chevy that had the bad reputation for rusting back then. A former teacher once remarked that he knew someone who took extremely good care of their Vega, or the like, and in under a couple years it had a rust hole in the fender "so big you could throw a cat through it", referring to the way a cat would sprawl its legs. I see old Ford cars and trucks all the time but almost the only Chevy vehicles I see are the old collectibles, otherwise most don't seem to have survived.
Ahem, maybe you should have read the post I was responding to...
"Yes, that ancient hunting tradition of firing bomb lances from a heavy shoulder gun...
I hear your point, but this hunt doesn't sound very traditional."
The topic was that the Inuit's hunting was only for sustainability, they did not over hunt and they used traditional methods, not bomb lances.
Ahem, that was for commercial whalers, not the Inuits. Maybe you should read up on how the Inuits actually hunt whales, you'll have much more respect for what they are doing.
Does that include the inability to accept that you should change whom you blame for the whales' dwindling numbers... like the Japanese? Nothing against the Japanese, but they(their industry) are the ones insisting that we no longer have a whale shortage and that they should be able to hunt them again. The Inuits aren't trying to make money, they're trying to put food on the table for chrissake, and they were doing this long before we arrived here and they were doing it well within the limits of the reproduction cycles of the whales(and are still doing so considering the dwindling numbers of Inuits requires much fewer whales). But we can ignore the Japanese exploiting the sea because they give us Sony? If the Japanese were to stop and the numbers of whales *continued* to decrease then I'd say you had a point but that's never been the case.
The one that gets me is the "totable" computer. Not simply because I'm typing this on a laptop BUT I actually have the case for that particular system in my sight about 5 feet from where I'm now sitting. I saw it years ago at a flea market for $3 and couldn't let it go to waste, plus I needed something to put my Amiga computer in for my video performances. I think right now I've got a sewing machine stored in it but it has been delegated to hold everything from my magic collection to books.
"How do you know that computers were in the bible?"
You must have forgotten that an identity thief can commit crimes under your identity as well and guess who takes the blame for it? Hell, I'm a victim of an accidental mix up at my bank that has caused me, so far, a month of drama over something I had absolutely nothing to do with other than sharing the same first and last name as another bank customer(I really feel for the John Smith's of this world after this crap).
A real identity thief could make things a LOT harder and I simply wouldn't have time for it in my life, it would seriously be easier to kill myself(or the thief) than to deal with all the red tape you have to go through. The lady in the article said she often had to use 1 day per week devoted to dealing with all the after effects of the theft. I don't know about you but I don't have an extra day in my life; I have a wife, kids, 4 businesses to run and a house to maintain.
There's justifiable homicide, and then, for people like the thief in the article, there's praise-worthy homicide cause she had/has zero plans of bettering society or herself on any level other than to bring in the next batch of stolen bling.
Unfortunately I don't think this is necessarily under the racist umbrella this time. There are several factors in delivering tech support and one of them is for the customer to be able to understand the tech. If that weren't enough, try calling tech support and finding one of the smarmy mofos who think they are engineers instead of peon techs reading from a script. I've seriously had some guy, who I'll only say was from the middle east by the sound of his accent, try to tell me repeatedly that Windows was running out of resources and that's the reason I was having problems with my internet connection; I was using an SGI and was trying to report a router that was failing and told him this no less than 25 times. I blame it on their culture that they think that being in any position of power "over" you means they know everything you do not about that subject; I don't know where it comes from but it's prevalent. That doesn't mean I hate the person, but I understand fully why someone might want to talk to someone who'll actually LISTEN(and understand what you're saying) for a change. Besides, I don't need something petty like a person's accent or skin color to hate them when there are so many other good reasons to hate everyone.
"It sounds like you are one of those people who obeys the unspoken rule of buying what you keep and supporting the artists that you like. I admire you for that. There would be less talk about piracy if everybody kept to that rule set."
It's not an easy one to keep. I've got a growing list of albums that I'm hunting for but am unable to find in physical form. That's my biggest dilemma but I'm diligent if nothing else.
"The question I have is, how feasible is it to log all IP addresses from the RAM and associate them with the transactions in question?"
I would guess that depends on how much RAM they have, how many transactions they get an hour and the amount of data necessary for each transaction. Seeing as how mysql is going to eat a ton per transaction, I don't think they're going to get nearly as much as they'd like even with rather large amounts of memory.
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I was thinking about that but also was wondering why they bothered with the magnets instead of using the piezo effect. Crystals can be much smaller, and I think more effective at that size, than magnets.
Blue pill? Sorry, maybe you need V!agararara but I'm fine.
"To say copying data is the opposite just confuses the issue."
No more than saying that copying data equals theft.
This actually reminds me of the old hack to crash NT3.X, "telnet host:19|telnet host:53", which would take output from the random character generator port and pipe it to the DNS port which would then crash the DNS server and maybe the host itself. I remember making a friend scream in horror as I did this to his machine across his LAN where he thought it could only be done locally.
I got a free CD in one of those magazines but the penny/nickel keeps screwing with my CD player. ;)
Bravo! That's the best metaphor/translation/analogy I've seen, maybe in my life. I understood the summary but this was a very, umm, insightful, and short and to the point.
I don't know whether you should be modded Insightful, Interesting, Funny, or GoddamnedScary.
Are you serious when you say you have to have drivers to get your monitor, mouse, etc. to work? I have no plans on "downgrading" to Vista but I'll at least be able to warn some friends.
Someone got to it already but you're right, it's not 500, it's 230 years, and it's not originated in America. I for some odd reason had thought I read it was 500 years old and had Scottish origins but it was late when I wrote that so maybe it was a hallucination. Regardless, 230 years is a long time to stay a non-standard word.
That was YOU!?!?!? You jerk!!!!
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No seriously, these days I've found it's much easier to do your best to mod positively, otherwise you spend far too much energy pointing out the negative things. I'll still point out a lot of negative things but at least I search for insightful, interesting or funny comments first before I look for Mac fanboys who need to be brought down a notch or two.
O RLY!?
Wikipedia, regardless of its apparent usefulness on geeky and interesting subjects, is not something I'd risk my career on its trustworthiness. While I'm sure all sorts of dictionaries are lowering their standards, the fact that "ain't" hasn't made it out of the "non-standard" class even after, what, 500 years of use speaks volumes, redundant volumes, of those who use or accept "irregardless" as anything more than a nonsensical word. Fnord.
Yep, they can do that but without the help from state law enforcement which is a big let down for them. The DEA has heavier things to do than bust every nickel and dime dealer, or even semi-respectable pot growing operations. If they didn't we would have heard of MANY more busts in California and also would have heard of many of the "clubs" shutting down because of them but that's not the case.
"nonstandard" also applies to the word "ain't" which your source states is used by the uneducated.
Regardless, you failed to quote the rest of the citation from dictionary.com:
Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
Funny but it was Chevy that had the bad reputation for rusting back then. A former teacher once remarked that he knew someone who took extremely good care of their Vega, or the like, and in under a couple years it had a rust hole in the fender "so big you could throw a cat through it", referring to the way a cat would sprawl its legs. I see old Ford cars and trucks all the time but almost the only Chevy vehicles I see are the old collectibles, otherwise most don't seem to have survived.
Oh, we also were not referring to the particular whale in the article. You'd know this if you had bothered to read.
Ahem, maybe you should have read the post I was responding to...
"Yes, that ancient hunting tradition of firing bomb lances from a heavy shoulder gun...
I hear your point, but this hunt doesn't sound very traditional."
The topic was that the Inuit's hunting was only for sustainability, they did not over hunt and they used traditional methods, not bomb lances.
You can integrate it with Thunderbird as well. I know most companies don't use non-M$ email clients but the more widespread it is the better.
Ahem, that was for commercial whalers, not the Inuits. Maybe you should read up on how the Inuits actually hunt whales, you'll have much more respect for what they are doing.
Does that include the inability to accept that you should change whom you blame for the whales' dwindling numbers... like the Japanese? Nothing against the Japanese, but they(their industry) are the ones insisting that we no longer have a whale shortage and that they should be able to hunt them again. The Inuits aren't trying to make money, they're trying to put food on the table for chrissake, and they were doing this long before we arrived here and they were doing it well within the limits of the reproduction cycles of the whales(and are still doing so considering the dwindling numbers of Inuits requires much fewer whales). But we can ignore the Japanese exploiting the sea because they give us Sony? If the Japanese were to stop and the numbers of whales *continued* to decrease then I'd say you had a point but that's never been the case.
The one that gets me is the "totable" computer. Not simply because I'm typing this on a laptop BUT I actually have the case for that particular system in my sight about 5 feet from where I'm now sitting. I saw it years ago at a flea market for $3 and couldn't let it go to waste, plus I needed something to put my Amiga computer in for my video performances. I think right now I've got a sewing machine stored in it but it has been delegated to hold everything from my magic collection to books.
"How do you know that computers were in the bible?"
"Eve had an Apple and Adam had a Wang!!"
Thanks! I'll be here all night.
No, it was their router, not mine. I was trying to report it as giving marginal(at best) service and would often force me to reset my connection.
I have a good ISP now, run by a group of old friends and I can do almost anything I like with the bandwidth.
You must have forgotten that an identity thief can commit crimes under your identity as well and guess who takes the blame for it? Hell, I'm a victim of an accidental mix up at my bank that has caused me, so far, a month of drama over something I had absolutely nothing to do with other than sharing the same first and last name as another bank customer(I really feel for the John Smith's of this world after this crap).
A real identity thief could make things a LOT harder and I simply wouldn't have time for it in my life, it would seriously be easier to kill myself(or the thief) than to deal with all the red tape you have to go through. The lady in the article said she often had to use 1 day per week devoted to dealing with all the after effects of the theft. I don't know about you but I don't have an extra day in my life; I have a wife, kids, 4 businesses to run and a house to maintain.
There's justifiable homicide, and then, for people like the thief in the article, there's praise-worthy homicide cause she had/has zero plans of bettering society or herself on any level other than to bring in the next batch of stolen bling.
Unfortunately I don't think this is necessarily under the racist umbrella this time. There are several factors in delivering tech support and one of them is for the customer to be able to understand the tech. If that weren't enough, try calling tech support and finding one of the smarmy mofos who think they are engineers instead of peon techs reading from a script. I've seriously had some guy, who I'll only say was from the middle east by the sound of his accent, try to tell me repeatedly that Windows was running out of resources and that's the reason I was having problems with my internet connection; I was using an SGI and was trying to report a router that was failing and told him this no less than 25 times. I blame it on their culture that they think that being in any position of power "over" you means they know everything you do not about that subject; I don't know where it comes from but it's prevalent. That doesn't mean I hate the person, but I understand fully why someone might want to talk to someone who'll actually LISTEN(and understand what you're saying) for a change. Besides, I don't need something petty like a person's accent or skin color to hate them when there are so many other good reasons to hate everyone.
"It sounds like you are one of those people who obeys the unspoken rule of buying what you keep and supporting the artists that you like. I admire you for that. There would be less talk about piracy if everybody kept to that rule set."
It's not an easy one to keep. I've got a growing list of albums that I'm hunting for but am unable to find in physical form. That's my biggest dilemma but I'm diligent if nothing else.
"The question I have is, how feasible is it to log all IP addresses from the RAM and associate them with the transactions in question?"
I would guess that depends on how much RAM they have, how many transactions they get an hour and the amount of data necessary for each transaction. Seeing as how mysql is going to eat a ton per transaction, I don't think they're going to get nearly as much as they'd like even with rather large amounts of memory.