Oh, the heck with Karma. I'm asking nicely. I'd like a GMail invite from someone please. This will be modded to burnt toast soon, so send me one while this is still at 1. Eternal thanks.
I have a specific application in mind for the GMail drive extension recently mentioned here, and no account to test it on.
See my journal for my addy.
And for those who say "Your suggesting diesel you heathen"
No problem using diesel - just make it bio-diesel. Congress just passed a biodiesel tax incentive... making its use in B2 to B20 blends all the way up to to B100, a very attractive alternative. Check out http://www.nbb.org/ .
The selections I have checked to exclude still appear. If I reverse all the checkbox selections (in case you have to check them to make them *appear*) - nothing changes. Nothing I do in the section preferences makes a diff what's on the front page - checked or unchecked. Yes, I am logged in and cookies are enabled for this domain.
The slashboxes however are working as selected.
The article says it can carry 4,000 pounds, and loiter at 12 miles altitude for a year:
From a military perspective, such an XXL craft may seem like an inviting target, especially since its top speed is only 80 mph. However, parked 12 miles up, it will be immune to most ground-launched missiles, and its onboard sensor systems will "see" at least 350 miles in any direction, allowing it to spy most incoming military threats. A fleet of 10, says the MDA, could provide an early-warning curtain for the continental United States.
Location: Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and American Samoa ( 5 52 N, 162 06 W)
Area: about 50 islets covered with dense vegetation, coconut trees, and balsa-like trees up to 30 meters tall total: 11.9 sq km land: 11.9 sq km
Population: no indigenous inhabitants; 4 to 20 Nature Conservancy staff, US Fish and Wildlife staff (July 2004 est.)
Dependency status: incorporated territory of the US; privately owned, but administered from Washington, DC, by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior; the Office of Insular Affairs of the US Department of the Interior continues to administer nine excluded areas comprising certain tidal and submerged lands within the 12 nm territorial sea or within the lagoon
Legal system: the laws of the US, where applicable, apply
Flag description: the flag of the US is used
Economy - overview: no economic activity
This page was last updated on 14 September, 2004
Translation of eProvisia's four-page web site : We're from the Government, and we're here to help you.
Bill Gates is the John D. Rockerfeller of his day.
Slashdot needs to revise the moderation system to allow scores higher than 5. Too large a number of the 5:Funny or 5:Interesting posts are not nearly as deserved of their scores as the parent above are. There truly needs to be a next level, above the simply cutesy posts.
Well, for Visa for example, they use 16 digits, each using all of the characters 0-9.
Straight factorial math means there are 20,922,789,888,000 combinations.
Will that be enough for VISA for awhile? Other than the fact that VISAs typically start with 4 I think, then that makes it 15!=1,307,674,368,000
But I could be wrong.
Didn't see This sign for sale - call 555-xxxx. But then again if this sign is (was) just for the private amusement of some guy in his basement I guess the response rate would be kinda poor.
How much really is this a deterrence to other spammers? The extent of public commitment, investigation, and expenditure to bring these types of cases to trial is so enormous, that I see it unlikely to happen against the midsized or small time spammers. The very few big fish that are netted with this judicial approach, will be quickly replaced by the small timers looking to make their mark in the field.
While I applaud the sentencing, I don't think it will make much of a dent in the overall problem. Fixing SMTP might. But I could be wrong.
It seems that whatever Comcast are doing is working.
(On windows,) I run WallWatcher to monitor my Linksys router log, with MyNetWatchman reporting the intrusions (all incoming traffic is firewalled here). Over the last few months, the Linksys has rejected over 1,000 incoming attempts each day, mostly the typical popular target ports 135/137/139/445/1026/1680/5000 (etc. etc.), and mostly from dynamic cable IPs. Now, in just the last day or two, I am seeing maybe 1/3 to 1/2 less incoming zombie-like traffic on these ports.
Hopefully other large residential broadband providers will become as belatedly proactive.
Reasonably reliable IP service for an office of 8 users in very remote Colorado mountain country, although their call center blows chunks.
Uhhhh, that would be Starband's 1st level CS that blows. Our Colorado office (not an IT related business) is pretty competent. Except for the occasional dumb/. post.
you should look at the newer stuff, it's very different (but still has 3000ms latency minimum.)
Try Starband for 700-800ms latency. Reasonably reliable IP service for an office of 8 users in very remote Colorado mountain country, although their call center blows chunks.
I can even VNC (through SSH) to that office, it's slow but the link doesn't drop and it's useable.
>>Doesn't the entire FM range fall between >>channels 6 and 7? Why aren't the TV stations >>getting pissed off at the FM stations???
Brilliant observation of the day. Please mod up the parent of this reply.
Of course, the general public doesn't have a clue about frequency allocations, but that won't stop the misinformation campaign from the large OTA broadcast conglomerates.
Those big guys probably own many of the FM's in their markets anyways as well, and the FM transmitters are frequently co-located on TV broadcast towers too. If the big kilowatt and megawatt FMs don't leak into my TV channels I can't see milliwatt WiFi being a problem either.
Pure protectionism, nothing more. Write your local television broadcaster and point out the obvious.
...their space plane flew to 212,000 feet altitude, almost 41 miles. NASA awards astronaut status to anyone who flies above 50 miles in altitude.
On April 1, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced it had issued to Scaled Composites the world's first license for a sub-orbital manned rocket flight.
XCOR Aerospace, also of Mojave, California, announced in April it had received a Reusable Launch Vehicle mission license from the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
NASA, DOT, FAA...
Forgive me for being cynical, but how many government agencies need to be involved? Do we really need this much agency and departmental overlap for this stuff?
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Oh, the heck with Karma. I'm asking nicely. I'd like a GMail invite from someone please. This will be modded to burnt toast soon, so send me one while this is still at 1. Eternal thanks. I have a specific application in mind for the GMail drive extension recently mentioned here, and no account to test it on. See my journal for my addy.
See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=deta il&aid=994148&group_id=4421&atid=10442 1
Taco has "known" about this since late July or earlier. He promised to fix it "soon". Taco, Slashdot is now officially pathetic. Karma be damned.
Keep shoving Politics section (among others) down our throats. Way to go.
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The article says it can carry 4,000 pounds, and loiter at 12 miles altitude for a year:
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another please? and thank you.
Yeah, that's it. We dote on your servers.
Mirrors anyone? (yeah, I know, someone already asked. It's at -1).
/archives/worldwind-1_2.zip was not found on this server.
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The requested URL
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
From the CIA World Factbook on Palmyra Atoll:
Translation of eProvisia's four-page web site : We're from the Government, and we're here to help you.
Is a single web page really a site?
Denmark. Didn't see many locks on bikes in Glesborg and Bønnerup Strand.
Slashdot needs to revise the moderation system to allow scores higher than 5. Too large a number of the 5:Funny or 5:Interesting posts are not nearly as deserved of their scores as the parent above are. There truly needs to be a next level, above the simply cutesy posts.
Guess I know how to make the cover of slashdot come next spring/summer.
Ahh, but you're forgetting about that iPod deal. Instant CredibilityTM
No planning before that?
http://www.seifried.org/security/cryptography/2001 1009-storing-cc.html
http://www.totse.com/en/bad_ideas/scams_and_rip_of fs/credit1.html
Well, for Visa for example, they use 16 digits, each using all of the characters 0-9. Straight factorial math means there are 20,922,789,888,000 combinations. Will that be enough for VISA for awhile? Other than the fact that VISAs typically start with 4 I think, then that makes it 15!=1,307,674,368,000 But I could be wrong.
Didn't see This sign for sale - call 555-xxxx. But then again if this sign is (was) just for the private amusement of some guy in his basement I guess the response rate would be kinda poor.
How much really is this a deterrence to other spammers? The extent of public commitment, investigation, and expenditure to bring these types of cases to trial is so enormous, that I see it unlikely to happen against the midsized or small time spammers. The very few big fish that are netted with this judicial approach, will be quickly replaced by the small timers looking to make their mark in the field.
While I applaud the sentencing, I don't think it will make much of a dent in the overall problem. Fixing SMTP might. But I could be wrong.
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(On windows,) I run WallWatcher to monitor my Linksys router log, with MyNetWatchman reporting the intrusions (all incoming traffic is firewalled here). Over the last few months, the Linksys has rejected over 1,000 incoming attempts each day, mostly the typical popular target ports 135/137/139/445/1026/1680/5000 (etc. etc.), and mostly from dynamic cable IPs. Now, in just the last day or two, I am seeing maybe 1/3 to 1/2 less incoming zombie-like traffic on these ports.
Hopefully other large residential broadband providers will become as belatedly proactive.
Uhhhh, that would be Starband's 1st level CS that blows. Our Colorado office (not an IT related business) is pretty competent. Except for the occasional dumb /. post.
Try Starband for 700-800ms latency. Reasonably reliable IP service for an office of 8 users in very remote Colorado mountain country, although their call center blows chunks. I can even VNC (through SSH) to that office, it's slow but the link doesn't drop and it's useable.
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Karma and Foes, who cares.
>>Doesn't the entire FM range fall between
>>channels 6 and 7? Why aren't the TV stations
>>getting pissed off at the FM stations???
Brilliant observation of the day. Please mod up the parent of this reply.
Of course, the general public doesn't have a clue about frequency allocations, but that won't stop the misinformation campaign from the large OTA broadcast conglomerates.
Those big guys probably own many of the FM's in their markets anyways as well, and the FM transmitters are frequently co-located on TV broadcast towers too. If the big kilowatt and megawatt FMs don't leak into my TV channels I can't see milliwatt WiFi being a problem either.
Pure protectionism, nothing more. Write your local television broadcaster and point out the obvious.
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On April 1, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced it had issued to Scaled Composites the world's first license for a sub-orbital manned rocket flight.
XCOR Aerospace, also of Mojave, California, announced in April it had received a Reusable Launch Vehicle mission license from the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
NASA, DOT, FAA...
Forgive me for being cynical, but how many government agencies need to be involved? Do we really need this much agency and departmental overlap for this stuff?
Time to burn the newly minted Karma I guess.