Optimum Online (CableVision) still blocks port 80 (and I think 25, too) on all but their most expensive residential plans.
You say that as if it's a bad thing. Sure, you know what you're doing and probably won't get something nasty on your machine, but blocking 80 and 25 for the Great Unwashed is a *good* thing and helps protect the rest of us. (ObFullDisclosure: I drive the web and mail filters at work, so my view is perhaps a little jaundiced)
Indeed it is. In some ways it's not as functional as others I've seen - one of the more famous commercial models is properly terminated and functions as several different kinds of test cable, for example - but that's not really its point. The plugs on the commercial models are too fragile for use in a *really* satisfying beating in a hard-core server decommissioning.
For a short time, I lived within a couple of kilometres of an AM transmission tower. A pair of vintage high-impedence headphones, a high-power rectifier diode and an earth were all I needed to listen. I was toying with the idea of home-made detectors (galena, iron pyrites, rusty razor blades and a piece of lead etc), but moved before I got around to it.
I have this: http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/216/9123/320/DSC00213.jpg
and several other similar examples hanging from the coat rack just inside my office door. That, and a copy of "WHO WILL BE EATEN FIRST" printed out across four A4 sheets on my wall, seems to work really well.
The yellow gold one at erinfinnegan[dot]com seems to be constructed similarly to my gold-and-titanium wedding ring, which was made about 20 years ago by this guy: http://jewellerydavidcruickshank.com.au/
I understand your anger, and feel a lot of sympathy for you, but look at it from their perspective. The car has shut down, and for all they knew you might be some wack-job who'd sue if they said "go ahead" and either the vehicle or you were damaged. Under those circumstances, even telling you what the defect was and letting you make up your own mind may be enough for your landsharks to go after them.
The only "354" I can find in there suggests it may have been one of the ignition coils, and it's probably not good to run short of one cylinder (your injectors would still dump fuel in there, so neither the catalytic convertor nor your rings would be happy if you ran that way for an extended time).
IANAM (I am not a mechanic), but my thoughts are that it might have been something as simple as a loose ignition lead or loose wire to that coil. Even if the coil was fried, it *may* have been relatively safe to drive the vehicle a short distance if you could find a way to disable the injector for that cylinder and thus save your rings and the catalytic convertor. Maybe they even automatically disable the injector on cylinders that aren't firing, I don't know (it would make sense to me, but it's also just one more thing to potentially go wrong in the software). If I was a mechanic, though, I wouldn't have tried to diagnose that kind of thing and provide advice over the phone. Over the phone, they can't necessarily tell the difference between a clueful user and a clueless luser. There must surely be things *you* wouldn't tell people over the phone too, for *everybody's* protection.
A non-dealer Mini-specialist reasonably local to your home address *might* have been more forthcoming, especially if there was a chance of gaining a new customer from the experience. But dealer service departments? Anything they do that *might* be construed to be a "Yeah, don't worry, drive it anyway" statement could get them in trouble with their bosses or their bosses lawyers.
I also didn't mention anything on facilities, furniture, computers, paperwork, power, phone, internet, etc. I was just trying to give a sense of how small that amount of funding is.
That depends on how they're doing it. If they give money to universities that are already doing something in that area, desks and computers and paperwork and power and internet are already largely paid for and they can plough some of that money into getting the wacademics already there to research and build shiny toys. Plus, universities are sometimes quite good at making use of government money - look what happened at MIT and Stanford and various other places when Licklider and his successors splashed all that ARPA money around in the sixties, and the long-term good that came out of that.
Plus the tenting would help keep the atmosphere CO2-rich. But there's also the fact that you're essentially taking water and CO2 and turning that into materials you can produce fuel from - so effectively, you're burning what was once water. That water has to come from somewhere. So, use salt-water tolerant algae in deserts not too far away from the sea. Pump in seawater, grow algae in it (and find some way to deal with the fact that as you use water, your growth medium will become more saline...)
There's also, I guess, going to be the matter of what you do with the excess oxygen. Normally, in agriculture, it just gets vented to the atmosphere. If you have a largely-sealed system where you only push water and CO2 and selected other nutrients in at one end and only pull alagae out the other, the percentage of oxygen in the system will increase over time. Oxygen at high levels can be toxic and also increase the ferocity of a fire in your tents. So, you'd need to find some way to extract it from the system and either vent it or commercially exploit it.
Or, the algae could be grown in clear tubes. Recirculate the water through the system, add CO2 and nutrients as required, extract excess oxygen. If you're not adding CO2 until you inject the water into the start of the tube system, you could actually end up with osygen-rich and CO2-depleted water coming out the far end which could be useful for growing fish or shrimp as food for people or livestock.
The CO2 could come from captured emissions or be extracted from the air. If this is being done in a desert, there'd presumably be plenty of sunshine and plenty of space for solar collectors for either producing electricity for refrigeration or capturing heat for direct use in a refrigeration cycle. Obviously, it'd be beneficial to initially use captured emissions as an input - for cost reasons, and because you'd still be reducing overall CO2 emissions by whatever amount of oil you avoided pulling out of the ground - but in the longer term it'd be desirable to find ways of economically extracting and using atmospheric CO2. Carbon capture and storage is all well and good, but it relies on the hope that that CO2 will *never* get out into the environment, and I suspect that's more a matter of faith and hope than practicalities. Getting double-use out of the carbon in the gas and coal we burn for power and reducing the amount of oil used for transportation fuels has to be a better alternative for now than just burying the CO2 and hoping for the best.
Meh. If you're wearing a gun you're automatically a bad guy.
I don't think it's quite that clear cut. There are the bad guys who'll pull a machine gun out and rob an open ATM, and there are the "bad guys" who spend their days and nights running around servicing and refilling devices that much of society finds immensely convenient. Unless we kill all the "bad guys" (and who's to decide what's "bad enough"?), and indoctinate all our young so they're always nice law-abiding citizens and always do as they're asked by authority figures, I don't think we can do away with guns any time soon.
I had a cart, a bag in my hands and was getting ready to pick out some plums which were right next to me when the Brinks rent-a-cop decided he was Dirty Harry and told me to back away. I sent them an angry letter and got no response.
The better reaction would have been to piss your pants and faint at having had a gun pulled on you. THAT, by the time it got documented by the supermarket and possibly even in ambulance and police records, would provide indisputable proof that something happened. Odds are Harry didn't file any kind of incident report and denied it even happened, so it would have been your word against his and he would have made you out to be a crank.
Unfortunately, in the heat of the moment and facing a gun held by someone who may or may not shoot, most people aren't up to creatively finding ways to escalate the situation in their favour. That's what Harry was counting on, and why *some* rent-a-cops will continue to get their jollies giving people a hard time.
That said, those guys have a hard job. They never know whether the person with the bag and trolley is planning to pull out a machine gun and rob them or buy some plums. Odds are it'll be the latter, but if I did that for a living I wouldn't want someone to have to explain the exception to *my* wife and kids. Whenever I see an open ATM, I try to keep a reasonable distance away just to give them some space and avoid making their job any harder.
I would pry the logos off of the SGI rackmount servers. My dell at work was an SGI after that
Soon as I get around to scrapping one of the E250 servers at work, my car is becoming a Sun. I've got an Alphaserver carcass somewhere in the server room, so it might even become a Digital tomorrow.
No, of course not. We'll need the borg to help us when the azzopardi and the xuereb come for us. ...and Cthulhu help you if you ever see a rampaging camilleri or fenech!
[19] Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt [20] and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
I suspect linhares may have taken a liberty or two for dramatic effect. On reflection, and further searching, the God's Word translation seems to fit the purpose at hand well enough, without need for further massaging:
She remembered how she had been a prostitute in Egypt when she was young. So she took part in even more prostitution. She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose semen was like that of horses.
It somehow lacks the dramatic resonance of the ESV or KJV, though.
Mind you, on further reading, it's clear that ALL of this misses the essential point that you can't take it as literally talking about a woman who liked men who were hung like donkeys and who blew their loads like horses. No, it's very much a parable about how Samaria and Jerusalem prostituted themselves to neigbouring nations, and how God punished them for their evil-doings.
That's not to say that I wouldn't want to see a Sunday School diorama based on a literal and out-of-context interpretation of Ezekiel 23:10-20 though - I think that would be rather amusing. All construction paper phalluses and copious amounts of paste...
Which translation is that from? I'm not disputing the content - on the contrary, I think we all know what they mean by "flesh" and "issue" in the more common translations - but I don't think I've seen it put quite so bluntly before. I can put a copy of that translation to *very* good use, making heads explode.
Wouldn't the law at the time of the signing apply?
Um, yes, maybe...
IANAL, and I don't particularly like the idea of non-compete agreements... but it seems pretty clear, at least to me, that it's worthwhile for the employers to get them signed if they can.
What currently makes them unenforceable in California? Is it something enshrined in legislation, or the result of previous court decisions about legislation that tried to make them enforceable?
If it's a matter of the legislation saying they're enforceable, and the courts having decided they're not enforceable, then if that interpretation changes it may well be that currently-invalid non-compete agreements will suddenly become enforceable again. It'd all be under the one set of legislation, but changing interpretations of it.
If it's a matter of the legislation currently saying they're unenforceable, and some lawyer comes up with a new spin on them that the courts say *does* make them enforceable, and that survives the appeal process, then it may also be that currently-invalid non-compete agreements suddenly become enforceable. Again, it'd all be under the one set of laws, with again different interpretations of them at different times.
If the legislation currently says they're unenforceable, and the legislation gets changed to make them enforceable, then you'd have to expect that the law - as it stood at the time the agreement was signed, as also adjusted by any relevant case law during the lifetime of that legislation - should stand. But then, it's not unheard of for legislatures to try to get retroactive legislation through...
So, it's in the employers interests to try to get non-compete agreements signed if they can - just in case.
No, that's not it - the combination of the slashdot effect and people looking for naked pictures of his uncle's ex-wife was too much for his hosting account to bear.
In the case of a Microsoft/GM merger, I'd say pretty much everyone having to share the road with them. Symantec Automotive might be *very* happy, though...
having something that only supports bittorrent seems pretty limiting when you can have a fully featured unix CLI-based machine with plenty of room for expansion. but i said the same thing about a device that would "only play mp3's" in 2000
From the article, it's not just bittorrent - they've got other large downloads in mind too. It'd be nice to be able to leave a device like that downloading something like the entire debian stable branch for my particular architecture to a soon-to-be-cheap 64 gigabyte micro-SDHC card - a nice little pocket-sized debian mirror, up to date and fully populated from my ISP's free mirror just in case I need it. That may be a bit beyond what's described in TFA, but not by much.
Having that kind of functionality in your router or in a box on your network is nice, but you can't necessarily take that with you wherever you go. Plus, as that kind of device gets more powerful over time, it'd be nice to have a decent firewall built into the NIC too. Give it a few years... they haven't commercialised these things yet, and there will be a *far* bigger difference between this and future versions of this concept than there is between a circa-1999 MP3 player and the iPod Touch.
regular CAT 5 isn't going to get you over 100Mbs - and that's no fun.
I bet you work at BestBuy...
I'm getting near 1Gbps NIC linerate throughput with Cat5. thank you.
Yeah? Good for you. Over what length, and with what other conditions? For short runs I'd be perfectly happy with Cat5 too.
I was getting perfect 10 megabit performance between three machines over a total cable run of five metres of 75 ohm TV coax with four 100 ohm resistors in parallel at one end, because that's all I had at hand when I first took some surplus 3C503 cards home. No T pieces, no shielding, and cheap-and-nasty BNC plugs connected straight to the ends - with the middle BNC plug having two cables running into it in parallel. My point is, you can get all kinds of oddball sub-optimal things to work quite well if the run is short enough.
Apple has an enterprise program. You buy the $299 dev licence, and you can install to your own company/platoon/whatever's devices.
That's interesting. Does it also allow you to lock it down so that only sanctioned apps can go on it, or so that only fully approved updates can be installed? They're the kind of features I'd be looking for if I had to approve the phone or touch for military applications.
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Optimum Online (CableVision) still blocks port 80 (and I think 25, too) on all but their most expensive residential plans.
You say that as if it's a bad thing. Sure, you know what you're doing and probably won't get something nasty on your machine, but blocking 80 and 25 for the Great Unwashed is a *good* thing and helps protect the rest of us. (ObFullDisclosure: I drive the web and mail filters at work, so my view is perhaps a little jaundiced)
Indeed it is. In some ways it's not as functional as others I've seen - one of the more famous commercial models is properly terminated and functions as several different kinds of test cable, for example - but that's not really its point. The plugs on the commercial models are too fragile for use in a *really* satisfying beating in a hard-core server decommissioning.
For a short time, I lived within a couple of kilometres of an AM transmission tower. A pair of vintage high-impedence headphones, a high-power rectifier diode and an earth were all I needed to listen. I was toying with the idea of home-made detectors (galena, iron pyrites, rusty razor blades and a piece of lead etc), but moved before I got around to it.
I have this:
http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/216/9123/320/DSC00213.jpg
and several other similar examples hanging from the coat rack just inside my office door. That, and a copy of "WHO WILL BE EATEN FIRST" printed out across four A4 sheets on my wall, seems to work really well.
http://www.erinfinnegan.com/sam/?cat=20
The yellow gold one at erinfinnegan[dot]com seems to be constructed similarly to my gold-and-titanium wedding ring, which was made about 20 years ago by this guy: http://jewellerydavidcruickshank.com.au/
I don't think it qualifies as a honeymoon, but there's this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310288/
This will disturb the bears to the point that they become bipolar bears.
What, fat hairy albinos who swing both ways?
Yeah, it sounded funnier in my head...
I understand your anger, and feel a lot of sympathy for you, but look at it from their perspective. The car has shut down, and for all they knew you might be some wack-job who'd sue if they said "go ahead" and either the vehicle or you were damaged. Under those circumstances, even telling you what the defect was and letting you make up your own mind may be enough for your landsharks to go after them.
That said, would this information have been handy?
http://www.mini2.com/forum/faults-fixes/160336-fault-codes.html
The only "354" I can find in there suggests it may have been one of the ignition coils, and it's probably not good to run short of one cylinder (your injectors would still dump fuel in there, so neither the catalytic convertor nor your rings would be happy if you ran that way for an extended time).
IANAM (I am not a mechanic), but my thoughts are that it might have been something as simple as a loose ignition lead or loose wire to that coil. Even if the coil was fried, it *may* have been relatively safe to drive the vehicle a short distance if you could find a way to disable the injector for that cylinder and thus save your rings and the catalytic convertor. Maybe they even automatically disable the injector on cylinders that aren't firing, I don't know (it would make sense to me, but it's also just one more thing to potentially go wrong in the software). If I was a mechanic, though, I wouldn't have tried to diagnose that kind of thing and provide advice over the phone. Over the phone, they can't necessarily tell the difference between a clueful user and a clueless luser. There must surely be things *you* wouldn't tell people over the phone too, for *everybody's* protection.
A non-dealer Mini-specialist reasonably local to your home address *might* have been more forthcoming, especially if there was a chance of gaining a new customer from the experience. But dealer service departments? Anything they do that *might* be construed to be a "Yeah, don't worry, drive it anyway" statement could get them in trouble with their bosses or their bosses lawyers.
I also didn't mention anything on facilities, furniture, computers, paperwork, power, phone, internet, etc. I was just trying to give a sense of how small that amount of funding is.
That depends on how they're doing it. If they give money to universities that are already doing something in that area, desks and computers and paperwork and power and internet are already largely paid for and they can plough some of that money into getting the wacademics already there to research and build shiny toys. Plus, universities are sometimes quite good at making use of government money - look what happened at MIT and Stanford and various other places when Licklider and his successors splashed all that ARPA money around in the sixties, and the long-term good that came out of that.
Plus the tenting would help keep the atmosphere CO2-rich. But there's also the fact that you're essentially taking water and CO2 and turning that into materials you can produce fuel from - so effectively, you're burning what was once water. That water has to come from somewhere. So, use salt-water tolerant algae in deserts not too far away from the sea. Pump in seawater, grow algae in it (and find some way to deal with the fact that as you use water, your growth medium will become more saline...)
There's also, I guess, going to be the matter of what you do with the excess oxygen. Normally, in agriculture, it just gets vented to the atmosphere. If you have a largely-sealed system where you only push water and CO2 and selected other nutrients in at one end and only pull alagae out the other, the percentage of oxygen in the system will increase over time. Oxygen at high levels can be toxic and also increase the ferocity of a fire in your tents. So, you'd need to find some way to extract it from the system and either vent it or commercially exploit it.
Or, the algae could be grown in clear tubes. Recirculate the water through the system, add CO2 and nutrients as required, extract excess oxygen. If you're not adding CO2 until you inject the water into the start of the tube system, you could actually end up with osygen-rich and CO2-depleted water coming out the far end which could be useful for growing fish or shrimp as food for people or livestock.
The CO2 could come from captured emissions or be extracted from the air. If this is being done in a desert, there'd presumably be plenty of sunshine and plenty of space for solar collectors for either producing electricity for refrigeration or capturing heat for direct use in a refrigeration cycle. Obviously, it'd be beneficial to initially use captured emissions as an input - for cost reasons, and because you'd still be reducing overall CO2 emissions by whatever amount of oil you avoided pulling out of the ground - but in the longer term it'd be desirable to find ways of economically extracting and using atmospheric CO2. Carbon capture and storage is all well and good, but it relies on the hope that that CO2 will *never* get out into the environment, and I suspect that's more a matter of faith and hope than practicalities. Getting double-use out of the carbon in the gas and coal we burn for power and reducing the amount of oil used for transportation fuels has to be a better alternative for now than just burying the CO2 and hoping for the best.
Meh. If you're wearing a gun you're automatically a bad guy.
I don't think it's quite that clear cut. There are the bad guys who'll pull a machine gun out and rob an open ATM, and there are the "bad guys" who spend their days and nights running around servicing and refilling devices that much of society finds immensely convenient. Unless we kill all the "bad guys" (and who's to decide what's "bad enough"?), and indoctinate all our young so they're always nice law-abiding citizens and always do as they're asked by authority figures, I don't think we can do away with guns any time soon.
The better reaction would have been to piss your pants and faint at having had a gun pulled on you. THAT, by the time it got documented by the supermarket and possibly even in ambulance and police records, would provide indisputable proof that something happened. Odds are Harry didn't file any kind of incident report and denied it even happened, so it would have been your word against his and he would have made you out to be a crank.
Unfortunately, in the heat of the moment and facing a gun held by someone who may or may not shoot, most people aren't up to creatively finding ways to escalate the situation in their favour. That's what Harry was counting on, and why *some* rent-a-cops will continue to get their jollies giving people a hard time.
That said, those guys have a hard job. They never know whether the person with the bag and trolley is planning to pull out a machine gun and rob them or buy some plums. Odds are it'll be the latter, but if I did that for a living I wouldn't want someone to have to explain the exception to *my* wife and kids. Whenever I see an open ATM, I try to keep a reasonable distance away just to give them some space and avoid making their job any harder.
Soon as I get around to scrapping one of the E250 servers at work, my car is becoming a Sun. I've got an Alphaserver carcass somewhere in the server room, so it might even become a Digital tomorrow.
No, of course not. We'll need the borg to help us when the azzopardi and the xuereb come for us.
...and Cthulhu help you if you ever see a rampaging camilleri or fenech!
That's the English Standard Version (ESV).
Not quite:
[19] Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt [20] and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.
I suspect linhares may have taken a liberty or two for dramatic effect. On reflection, and further searching, the God's Word translation seems to fit the purpose at hand well enough, without need for further massaging:
She remembered how she had been a prostitute in Egypt when she was young. So she took part in even more prostitution. She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose semen was like that of horses.
It somehow lacks the dramatic resonance of the ESV or KJV, though.
Mind you, on further reading, it's clear that ALL of this misses the essential point that you can't take it as literally talking about a woman who liked men who were hung like donkeys and who blew their loads like horses. No, it's very much a parable about how Samaria and Jerusalem prostituted themselves to neigbouring nations, and how God punished them for their evil-doings.
That's not to say that I wouldn't want to see a Sunday School diorama based on a literal and out-of-context interpretation of Ezekiel 23:10-20 though - I think that would be rather amusing. All construction paper phalluses and copious amounts of paste...
Which translation is that from? I'm not disputing the content - on the contrary, I think we all know what they mean by "flesh" and "issue" in the more common translations - but I don't think I've seen it put quite so bluntly before. I can put a copy of that translation to *very* good use, making heads explode.
Wouldn't the law at the time of the signing apply?
Um, yes, maybe...
IANAL, and I don't particularly like the idea of non-compete agreements... but it seems pretty clear, at least to me, that it's worthwhile for the employers to get them signed if they can.
What currently makes them unenforceable in California? Is it something enshrined in legislation, or the result of previous court decisions about legislation that tried to make them enforceable?
If it's a matter of the legislation saying they're enforceable, and the courts having decided they're not enforceable, then if that interpretation changes it may well be that currently-invalid non-compete agreements will suddenly become enforceable again. It'd all be under the one set of legislation, but changing interpretations of it.
If it's a matter of the legislation currently saying they're unenforceable, and some lawyer comes up with a new spin on them that the courts say *does* make them enforceable, and that survives the appeal process, then it may also be that currently-invalid non-compete agreements suddenly become enforceable. Again, it'd all be under the one set of laws, with again different interpretations of them at different times.
If the legislation currently says they're unenforceable, and the legislation gets changed to make them enforceable, then you'd have to expect that the law - as it stood at the time the agreement was signed, as also adjusted by any relevant case law during the lifetime of that legislation - should stand. But then, it's not unheard of for legislatures to try to get retroactive legislation through...
So, it's in the employers interests to try to get non-compete agreements signed if they can - just in case.
No, that's not it - the combination of the slashdot effect and people looking for naked pictures of his uncle's ex-wife was too much for his hosting account to bear.
dosbox supports a whole swag of graphics modes, including (from memory) hercules.
In the case of a Microsoft/GM merger, I'd say pretty much everyone having to share the road with them. Symantec Automotive might be *very* happy, though...
...instant Shoggoths!
From the article, it's not just bittorrent - they've got other large downloads in mind too. It'd be nice to be able to leave a device like that downloading something like the entire debian stable branch for my particular architecture to a soon-to-be-cheap 64 gigabyte micro-SDHC card - a nice little pocket-sized debian mirror, up to date and fully populated from my ISP's free mirror just in case I need it. That may be a bit beyond what's described in TFA, but not by much.
Having that kind of functionality in your router or in a box on your network is nice, but you can't necessarily take that with you wherever you go. Plus, as that kind of device gets more powerful over time, it'd be nice to have a decent firewall built into the NIC too. Give it a few years... they haven't commercialised these things yet, and there will be a *far* bigger difference between this and future versions of this concept than there is between a circa-1999 MP3 player and the iPod Touch.
no shielding
Oops... make that "crap shielding".
Mind you, the two machines over five metres of 300 ohm TV ribbon, again with four 100 ohm resistors on one end, worked perfectly too...
regular CAT 5 isn't going to get you over 100Mbs - and that's no fun.
I bet you work at BestBuy...
I'm getting near 1Gbps NIC linerate throughput with Cat5. thank you.
Yeah? Good for you. Over what length, and with what other conditions? For short runs I'd be perfectly happy with Cat5 too.
I was getting perfect 10 megabit performance between three machines over a total cable run of five metres of 75 ohm TV coax with four 100 ohm resistors in parallel at one end, because that's all I had at hand when I first took some surplus 3C503 cards home. No T pieces, no shielding, and cheap-and-nasty BNC plugs connected straight to the ends - with the middle BNC plug having two cables running into it in parallel. My point is, you can get all kinds of oddball sub-optimal things to work quite well if the run is short enough.
That's interesting. Does it also allow you to lock it down so that only sanctioned apps can go on it, or so that only fully approved updates can be installed? They're the kind of features I'd be looking for if I had to approve the phone or touch for military applications.