Cheese. Four-month-old cheddar, to be exact. There was a block of sharp cheddar in the fridge and he was really tempted to break-out the Toasteds Wheat (http://www.bigapplegrocer.net/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=18697), some venison sausage and the sharp cheddar for a tasty afternoon snack. But his willpower prevailed and he made it to the theatre and he still had room for some $8 popcorn and $6 soda.
I may be able to clear a few things up, I am a friend of all three of the sophmores, in their class at their school. They are not naming it yet because the people in charge have to make sure its not just a piece from another asteroid that broke off. They monitor it for a year, and then are able to name it. They can not name it what ever they want the people in charge of the minor planet center thing regulate it. They can only suggest. All three students are not planning on naming it something stupid. Any other questions just reply.
What the fuck are you doing posting on/. on a school night? Is your English homework done, Mr. RunOnSentence?
Funny thing is, it was a less than a mile from my house, and probably a week after 2 friends of mine in the area signed up for u*verse.
I hope you live a mile west or a mile south of 64th and North. A mile east would put you in the ghet-to. And a mile north of there ain't such a sweet place to live either. Can you post some photos of the new cabinet that ATT installed at that location? You mentioned that some of your friends ordered uverse. Are they happy with uverse? I have seen a million white ATT trucks running around Waukesha but I don't know anyone who has uverse.
There are some ports.. 137,139,445,etc. that you really don't want on the open internet. If the plugin does something like a port forward of 0-65535 to your machine suddenly *every* service on there is wide open to any attack. It'll bypass protections from eg. the default XP firewall as the packets will appear to be coming from the local LAN (the router) rather than the original source.
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? If not, it would be best for you to sit quietly and let the grown-ups talk.
Just repeating the argument. FWIW my own access point is secured with 64 bit WEP, which I suppose is worst of both worlds. But it keeps my bandwidth available for myself, and uses a short passphrase I can remember.
Why aren't you using WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK instead of WEP? Using either WPA method is far more secure than WEP (which can be cracked by using a paperclip, the foil wrapper from a stick of chewing gum, two buttons from your shirt and a 20-oz bottle of Mountain Dew).
Thegood idea, however, would be to have time-dependent pricing on power. Power production is very expensive at some times of day, typically mid-day during the air-conditioning season, and very cheap at other times of day, in fact, nearly cost-free from midnight to 5 AM, when the power plants are still turning over but nobody's using much electricity. A lot of people would revise their lifestyles to buy electricity at low rates instead of high if the price accurately reflected the actual cost of production.
Gee, I wonder why no utilities have thought of charging more for electricity used during the day and less for electricity used at night:
This seems like a reasonable idea if there's not enough power to go around.
We already have this in Wisconsin. My AC compressor is connected to a box that is controlled by We Energies. If the electrical demand gets too high for We Energies in the summer, they can turn off my AC compressor via remote control. I get a $12.50 credit during the summer months for this "feature" (whether We Energies activates it or not).
[I tried to copy-and-paste the rates from the We Energies web page but the Slashdick lameness filter will not let me include that info. If you are interested in the details of the plan, please view the PDF on the We Energies website: http://www.weenergies.com/pdfs/etariffs/wisconsin/ewi_sheet21-22.pdf Please refer to the section labeled "Central Air Conditioning Load Management Credit"]
The remote control unit from We Energies controls only the AC compressor, not the fan on my furnace. I can still run the furnace fan to circulate the air inside the house if We Energies sends the signal to cut the power.
I am not home during the day (the time when We Energies would disable my AC) so I wouldn't notice if they sent the signal. The house might be a little warmer when I got home (if the AC compressor was off for six hours on a very hot day - the most extreme case) but that's not a huge deal to me. As long as the AC can run at night to cool the house down enough for me to sleep, that's fine by me.
I agree that the idea of switching to a barter-based system is appealing. But the age-old question will still have to be answered: Who runs Bartertown?
What many people probably don't know or understand is that "precautions" (aka mask, gown, gloves, eye protection; so-called universal protection or BSI) are for the wearer's benefit first and foremost.
Interesting. When I (an IT person) go into the OR suites to work on a computer problem, I either have to put on the Tyvek "bunny suit" over my street clothes (which can get very warm very quickly) or I have to change out of my street clothes and put on scrubs just like the docs. By changing into scrubs (or putting-on the Tyvek suit), am I protecting myself from bugs that I may encounter in the "sterile" part of the hospital or am I keeping my bugs (which may be on my street clothes) from hitching a ride into the OR with me and affecting a patient?
There's this farmer out in the middle of nowhere, and one day the government decides they need to run a high way through his farm. They make a proposition to buy the needed land (not the entire farm, mind you), and he says okay, under one condition: That he be able to run pipes under the high way, and do whatever he wants with them. The government, not sure of his intentions, but thinking there's not much harm in it, says okay.
What the farmer did, was run pipes from under the highway, right into his house, keeping it heated for free all year.
I calleth bullshit! How much heat can be absorbed by pipes buried in a highway when the temp of highway's surface is 32 degrees F? The current temp outside my house is 0.7F. I would imagine that the road surface is not a whole lot warmer than the air temp. How much heat could I really expect to "harvest" from tubes running under the street? This is the time of the year when I could use the free heat.
Or is this technology designed for the warmer climates where the sun shins on the blacktop and the heat from the tires of passing cars makes the road surface warm enough that heat could be harvested?
Well, because otherwise they might think it refers to pig meat ?
I agree with you. Uppercase "HAM" is for radio operators and lowercase "ham" is for little piggies. The only time someone should use "ham radio" is this site:
Scott, buddy, if you're out there - Sorry, but really, it was kind of funny, right?
Yeah, looking back, it was kinda funny - no hard feelings. I quit my job at BB a few days after that fiasco and got into real estate. I made $970,000 last year. I wear a watch that costs more than your car. Can I interest you in a set of steak knives?:^)
I live near Milwaukee so I can choose between CompUSA, Worst Buy and a local computer chain called Milwaukee-PC (which never has anything in inventory). I don't shop at any of those stores. I buy *everything* from Newegg. Newegg has an awesome selection, good pricing and, best of all, I don't have to deal with cashiers asking me if I want to buy the extended service plan.
When I am building a new machine at home, I put together my Newegg shopping list and then place the order with Newegg (sometimes in the middle of the night when retail stores are not open). A few days later, the boxes arrive at my house. The Newegg warehouses are on both coasts but the parts always arrive in a few days.
Shopping online also gives the consumer a chance to read the comments and reviews left by other people who purchased that product. If there is a "five golden egg" rating next to a product and five hundred or a thousand customers have bothered to rate the product, you can be pretty sure that the component is going to be of high quality.
I have been shopping with Newegg since the days when they shipped free black Newegg t-shirts, pens, stickers and other swag with their orders. I've never been disappointed by Newegg. I have returned a few parts that were DOA and Newegg's return policy is great.
I don't shop locally any more for computer parts. I don't even bother to look at Worst Buy or CompUSA. Newegg.com is the answer for me.
Here's a few VERY basic facts that most people seem to forget to just simply don't care about.
Here's a basic fact that most truckers seem to forget or simply don't care about: Stay the fuck out of the left lane on interstate highways! I have seen too many semis hold-up traffic because one semi (going 66 mph) wanted to pass another semi (going 65 mph). For extra credit points, don't pull into the left lane if there is a long hill ahead of you where you know you won't be able to maintain your speed.
For all of your "hardest working men (or women) in the country" talk, there are a lot of truck drivers who are real jag-offs. Semis are like slow moving trains. They should stay in the right lane and let the cars pass them (unless there is a road sign that specifically says that semis should use the left lane).
...basically, by misdirecting trucks via GPS, the machines now have a way to kill us.
I spent a portion of my afternoon working with various ultrasound machines in a hospital. Trust me, the machines already have a way to kill us. An evil ultrasound machine could decide to add a tumor to an image where a tumor doesn't exist (resulting in unnecessary chemo, radiation and surgery) or, worse yet, delete a real tumor from an image (resulting in the patient not knowing they have cancer).
they can be dynamic and block legitimate messages!!!
No, real mail servers have static IP addresses (and SPF records as well as matching A and PTR records). I use the Trend Micro RBL service at work and I know that the Trend RBLs aggressively discriminate against IP addresses that are known to be in blocks of dynamically assigned addresses. If you have a business behind a dynamic IP address and you try to email me (or one of my 5000 co-workers), your email will never reach us.
I heard that the Mossad actually used that on a Palestinian terrorist once. Presumably he said "hello", and they said "goodbye" before sending the "detonate" command....
I would have gone for something a little more clever before sending the detonation command:
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Four month old what?
Cheese. Four-month-old cheddar, to be exact. There was a block of sharp cheddar in the fridge and he was really tempted to break-out the Toasteds Wheat (http://www.bigapplegrocer.net/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=18697), some venison sausage and the sharp cheddar for a tasty afternoon snack. But his willpower prevailed and he made it to the theatre and he still had room for some $8 popcorn and $6 soda.
It will be called Nay Palm.
I love the smell of Nay Palms in the morning. It smells like...a fig tree.
I may be able to clear a few things up, I am a friend of all three of the sophmores, in their class at their school. They are not naming it yet because the people in charge have to make sure its not just a piece from another asteroid that broke off. They monitor it for a year, and then are able to name it. They can not name it what ever they want the people in charge of the minor planet center thing regulate it. They can only suggest. All three students are not planning on naming it something stupid. Any other questions just reply.
/. on a school night? Is your English homework done, Mr. RunOnSentence?
What the fuck are you doing posting on
-A fellow Cheesehead
Funny thing is, it was a less than a mile from my house, and probably a week after 2 friends of mine in the area signed up for u*verse.
I hope you live a mile west or a mile south of 64th and North. A mile east would put you in the ghet-to. And a mile north of there ain't such a sweet place to live either. Can you post some photos of the new cabinet that ATT installed at that location? You mentioned that some of your friends ordered uverse. Are they happy with uverse? I have seen a million white ATT trucks running around Waukesha but I don't know anyone who has uverse.
There are some ports.. 137,139,445,etc. that you really don't want on the open internet. If the plugin does something like a port forward of 0-65535 to your machine suddenly *every* service on there is wide open to any attack. It'll bypass protections from eg. the default XP firewall as the packets will appear to be coming from the local LAN (the router) rather than the original source.
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? If not, it would be best for you to sit quietly and let the grown-ups talk.
Well said, -thimk!-. I have no mod points today so I will give you kudos instead. Very informative post.
Just repeating the argument. FWIW my own access point is secured with 64 bit WEP, which I suppose is worst of both worlds. But it keeps my bandwidth available for myself, and uses a short passphrase I can remember.
Why aren't you using WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK instead of WEP? Using either WPA method is far more secure than WEP (which can be cracked by using a paperclip, the foil wrapper from a stick of chewing gum, two buttons from your shirt and a 20-oz bottle of Mountain Dew).
Thegood idea, however, would be to have time-dependent pricing on power. Power production is very expensive at some times of day, typically mid-day during the air-conditioning season, and very cheap at other times of day, in fact, nearly cost-free from midnight to 5 AM, when the power plants are still turning over but nobody's using much electricity. A lot of people would revise their lifestyles to buy electricity at low rates instead of high if the price accurately reflected the actual cost of production.
Gee, I wonder why no utilities have thought of charging more for electricity used during the day and less for electricity used at night:
RESIDENTIAL SERVICE -- TIME-OF-USE
http://www.weenergies.com/pdfs/etariffs/wisconsin/ewi_sheet23-24.pdf
making all TV sets powered by threadmills...Seriously, threadmills with a wall-socket
WTF is a threadmill?
This seems like a reasonable idea if there's not enough power to go around.
We already have this in Wisconsin. My AC compressor is connected to a box that is controlled by We Energies. If the electrical demand gets too high for We Energies in the summer, they can turn off my AC compressor via remote control. I get a $12.50 credit during the summer months for this "feature" (whether We Energies activates it or not).
[I tried to copy-and-paste the rates from the We Energies web page but the Slashdick lameness filter will not let me include that info. If you are interested in the details of the plan, please view the PDF on the We Energies website: http://www.weenergies.com/pdfs/etariffs/wisconsin/ewi_sheet21-22.pdf Please refer to the section labeled "Central Air Conditioning Load Management Credit"]
The remote control unit from We Energies controls only the AC compressor, not the fan on my furnace. I can still run the furnace fan to circulate the air inside the house if We Energies sends the signal to cut the power. I am not home during the day (the time when We Energies would disable my AC) so I wouldn't notice if they sent the signal. The house might be a little warmer when I got home (if the AC compressor was off for six hours on a very hot day - the most extreme case) but that's not a huge deal to me. As long as the AC can run at night to cool the house down enough for me to sleep, that's fine by me.
If you don't like it, start bartering.
I agree that the idea of switching to a barter-based system is appealing. But the age-old question will still have to be answered: Who runs Bartertown?
What many people probably don't know or understand is that "precautions" (aka mask, gown, gloves, eye protection; so-called universal protection or BSI) are for the wearer's benefit first and foremost.
Interesting. When I (an IT person) go into the OR suites to work on a computer problem, I either have to put on the Tyvek "bunny suit" over my street clothes (which can get very warm very quickly) or I have to change out of my street clothes and put on scrubs just like the docs. By changing into scrubs (or putting-on the Tyvek suit), am I protecting myself from bugs that I may encounter in the "sterile" part of the hospital or am I keeping my bugs (which may be on my street clothes) from hitching a ride into the OR with me and affecting a patient?
There's this farmer out in the middle of nowhere, and one day the government decides they need to run a high way through his farm. They make a proposition to buy the needed land (not the entire farm, mind you), and he says okay, under one condition: That he be able to run pipes under the high way, and do whatever he wants with them. The government, not sure of his intentions, but thinking there's not much harm in it, says okay.
What the farmer did, was run pipes from under the highway, right into his house, keeping it heated for free all year.
I calleth bullshit! How much heat can be absorbed by pipes buried in a highway when the temp of highway's surface is 32 degrees F? The current temp outside my house is 0.7F. I would imagine that the road surface is not a whole lot warmer than the air temp. How much heat could I really expect to "harvest" from tubes running under the street? This is the time of the year when I could use the free heat.
Or is this technology designed for the warmer climates where the sun shins on the blacktop and the heat from the tires of passing cars makes the road surface warm enough that heat could be harvested?
I wonder what the trekkie said when he found out the item was not authentic.
"Target that auction house and fire!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102975/
He and my sister are expecting their first child in 6 weeks.
Now that's a powerful proton beam!
Well, because otherwise they might think it refers to pig meat ?
I agree with you. Uppercase "HAM" is for radio operators and lowercase "ham" is for little piggies. The only time someone should use "ham radio" is this site:
http://1029thehog.com/
Scott, buddy, if you're out there - Sorry, but really, it was kind of funny, right?
:^)
Yeah, looking back, it was kinda funny - no hard feelings. I quit my job at BB a few days after that fiasco and got into real estate. I made $970,000 last year. I wear a watch that costs more than your car. Can I interest you in a set of steak knives?
I live near Milwaukee so I can choose between CompUSA, Worst Buy and a local computer chain called Milwaukee-PC (which never has anything in inventory). I don't shop at any of those stores. I buy *everything* from Newegg. Newegg has an awesome selection, good pricing and, best of all, I don't have to deal with cashiers asking me if I want to buy the extended service plan.
When I am building a new machine at home, I put together my Newegg shopping list and then place the order with Newegg (sometimes in the middle of the night when retail stores are not open). A few days later, the boxes arrive at my house. The Newegg warehouses are on both coasts but the parts always arrive in a few days.
Shopping online also gives the consumer a chance to read the comments and reviews left by other people who purchased that product. If there is a "five golden egg" rating next to a product and five hundred or a thousand customers have bothered to rate the product, you can be pretty sure that the component is going to be of high quality.
I have been shopping with Newegg since the days when they shipped free black Newegg t-shirts, pens, stickers and other swag with their orders. I've never been disappointed by Newegg. I have returned a few parts that were DOA and Newegg's return policy is great.
I don't shop locally any more for computer parts. I don't even bother to look at Worst Buy or CompUSA. Newegg.com is the answer for me.
Here's a few VERY basic facts that most people seem to forget to just simply don't care about.
Here's a basic fact that most truckers seem to forget or simply don't care about: Stay the fuck out of the left lane on interstate highways! I have seen too many semis hold-up traffic because one semi (going 66 mph) wanted to pass another semi (going 65 mph). For extra credit points, don't pull into the left lane if there is a long hill ahead of you where you know you won't be able to maintain your speed.
For all of your "hardest working men (or women) in the country" talk, there are a lot of truck drivers who are real jag-offs. Semis are like slow moving trains. They should stay in the right lane and let the cars pass them (unless there is a road sign that specifically says that semis should use the left lane).
And don't get me started on dog owners who use those ten-foot leashes and assume their mutts understand traffic
Actually, that would be a safe assumption to make. The mutts who don't understand traffic are not on leashes anymore...
...basically, by misdirecting trucks via GPS, the machines now have a way to kill us.
I spent a portion of my afternoon working with various ultrasound machines in a hospital. Trust me, the machines already have a way to kill us. An evil ultrasound machine could decide to add a tumor to an image where a tumor doesn't exist (resulting in unnecessary chemo, radiation and surgery) or, worse yet, delete a real tumor from an image (resulting in the patient not knowing they have cancer).
What if you were doing scientific computing? 20% drop could mean a lot of time for a calculation. I use to run calculations that would take months...
Just thinking out-loud here: Did you trying pushing-in the Turbo button?
they can be dynamic and block legitimate messages!!!
No, real mail servers have static IP addresses (and SPF records as well as matching A and PTR records). I use the Trend Micro RBL service at work and I know that the Trend RBLs aggressively discriminate against IP addresses that are known to be in blocks of dynamically assigned addresses. If you have a business behind a dynamic IP address and you try to email me (or one of my 5000 co-workers), your email will never reach us.
I heard that the Mossad actually used that on a Palestinian terrorist once. Presumably he said "hello", and they said "goodbye" before sending the "detonate" command....
I would have gone for something a little more clever before sending the detonation command:
PT: "Hello?"
M: "deadpalestinianterroristsayswhat"
PT:"What?" KA-BOOM!
I am also bold since I was around 25.
Just thinking out-loud here: Have you tried </b>?