Global oil production has been relatively flat since 2004, while oil exports have actually been decreasing.
That is the major cause of the price increase; the other biggie being investor flight to commodities to escape Helicopter Ben's torpedoing of the US dollar.
In the beginning, C/R is handled y the PERSON sending the mail, not the server. it uses the existing SMTP infrastructure to send an e-mail back to the sender. If they get it, which they should in SECONDS from sending the message, they open it, and in 1-2 seconds can click the right spot in the reply automatically verfying the captcha request. A computer can do it automatically, but needs a lot of horsepower to do so.
This C/R makes you a spammer.
The C/R described in the grandparent post has the problems I described.
Because Microsoft hijacked the SPF approval process and patented the bastardized (and useless) hybrid that resulted, a combination of which resulted in the approval process dying a horrible death.
I still want to know why challenge response e-mail never caught on. It's a simple process really, would have been easy to implement (for end users), would have allowed any who complied with it to e-mail anyone else with ease, and would have incurred major costs only for companies who send more than ten thousand or more e-mails a day (mostly advertisers and other really big firms).
Because spammers have access to more computing resources than anyone else. Any it would require a "flag day", or a time when everyone switched over, in order to work, and that will never ever happen on the Internet.
Hitler was blatantly evil (at least if you were a Jew or Eastern European, and bored enough to read his book).
He also didn't win an election. The Nazis won at best 42% of the popular vote. Hitler did not win the Presidential vote. He was appointed as Chancellor by Hindenburg (who was a moron, and an old, tired moron at that) to avoid yet another election and more fights in the streets, even though the Nazis had already passed the peak of their popularity.
And in today's world, it takes very specialized setups to be 100% certain data has actually been commited to disk
A $500 RAID controller and Seagate drives will do the job nicely. No, your on-board fake-raid crap and Windoze won't do it, but it isn't exactly expensive or specialized to do so.
A PostgreSQL schema is just a namespace qualifier; it functions just like MySQL's cross-database joins and is conceptually similar. It isn't a full copy of your database DDL.
I tested them about 2 years ago. MySQL was about 25% faster for simple queries, hundreds of them per second (all read-only). But that's only with MyISAM; if you're that unconcerned about your data you might as well just use SQLite. And PostgreSQL has gotten even faster since then (I think that was 8.0); with prepared queries I would expect the margin is 10% - and your data is safe, and you can actually do updates on the database without locking the whole thing for the duration.
Well, only a tiny fraction of those 10 million people have come anywhere near BT yet. Not many people finish all the content before the next expansion...
My wife and I were flying back from Maui last year. She had bought some little jars of jam or something and had them in her carry-on.
Her bag goes through X-ray, and the guy starts rooting around in it, and comes up with these jars of jam. He unwraps them and looks them over. He then proceeds to lecture her how she can only carry "liquids" on a flight if they're carried in a clear plastic bag. Presumably, this is to permit ease of inspection. At this point, however, he has already inspected them. He forced her to dispose of them (or else go outside and mail them or something, since our checked bags were already done with), rather than carry them on the plane, even though he had inspected them and knew what they were.
I mean, you can't make this stuff up. These guys are such morons it isn't even funny.
Of course, up here in Canada it's just as bad. I was up in a small northern town a couple years ago and before getting on the plane (which holds all of like 30 people or something), there are 5 full-time security people, some of them doing random chemistry-set tests on our bags, because obviously there are terrorists lining up to blow up a Dash-8 coming out of Terrace.
Verisign is beta testing a service that will allow registrars limited access to.COM query data. This is being done specifically to reduce registration churn by domain tasters.
By criticizing the deal, you are implying that Iran (and, indeed, every other nation) has the right to enrich as much uranium as they please, which is not significantly different from saying that every nation has the right to acquire nuclear weapons.
Well, the Iranians are crazy bastards and I personally wouldn't want to see them with nuclear weapons. But, seriously, why wouldn't they have just as much "right" to do so as the US? Or, at least as much right as Pakistan or Israel? Ahmadinejad has invaded substantially fewer sovereign nations than either Israel or the US has during his term.
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Or smoking. Or drinking. Or eating unhealthy food. Or not exercising enough. Who gets to draw that line?
Yeah, those bastards, stealing that oil. How did _our_ oil end up under their ground, anyway? geez, the nerve of people.
Global oil production has been relatively flat since 2004, while oil exports have actually been decreasing.
That is the major cause of the price increase; the other biggie being investor flight to commodities to escape Helicopter Ben's torpedoing of the US dollar.
Bullshit.
Gasoline accounts for 45% of US oil usage, and distillates use quite a bit too (including diesel and other transportation fuels).
How to avoid most of the whiners and griefers:
Don't read the forums.
Don't play on a PvP server.
Don't play Alliance.
Congratulations, you've just discovered feudalism. The problem is that the griefers always end up running the joint.
He's been president for 7 years ...
Murderers barely serve jail time up here. Don't hold your breath.
In the beginning, C/R is handled y the PERSON sending the mail, not the server. it uses the existing SMTP infrastructure to send an e-mail back to the sender. If they get it, which they should in SECONDS from sending the message, they open it, and in 1-2 seconds can click the right spot in the reply automatically verfying the captcha request. A computer can do it automatically, but needs a lot of horsepower to do so.
This C/R makes you a spammer.
The C/R described in the grandparent post has the problems I described.
Because Microsoft hijacked the SPF approval process and patented the bastardized (and useless) hybrid that resulted, a combination of which resulted in the approval process dying a horrible death.
I still want to know why challenge response e-mail never caught on. It's a simple process really, would have been easy to implement (for end users), would have allowed any who complied with it to e-mail anyone else with ease, and would have incurred major costs only for companies who send more than ten thousand or more e-mails a day (mostly advertisers and other really big firms).
Because spammers have access to more computing resources than anyone else. Any it would require a "flag day", or a time when everyone switched over, in order to work, and that will never ever happen on the Internet.
Hitler was blatantly evil (at least if you were a Jew or Eastern European, and bored enough to read his book).
He also didn't win an election. The Nazis won at best 42% of the popular vote. Hitler did not win the Presidential vote. He was appointed as Chancellor by Hindenburg (who was a moron, and an old, tired moron at that) to avoid yet another election and more fights in the streets, even though the Nazis had already passed the peak of their popularity.
And in today's world, it takes very specialized setups to be 100% certain data has actually been commited to disk
A $500 RAID controller and Seagate drives will do the job nicely. No, your on-board fake-raid crap and Windoze won't do it, but it isn't exactly expensive or specialized to do so.
A PostgreSQL schema is just a namespace qualifier; it functions just like MySQL's cross-database joins and is conceptually similar. It isn't a full copy of your database DDL.
I tested them about 2 years ago. MySQL was about 25% faster for simple queries, hundreds of them per second (all read-only). But that's only with MyISAM; if you're that unconcerned about your data you might as well just use SQLite. And PostgreSQL has gotten even faster since then (I think that was 8.0); with prepared queries I would expect the margin is 10% - and your data is safe, and you can actually do updates on the database without locking the whole thing for the duration.
And that's why most websites run on Windows servers -- there's just so many more MSCE certificate-holders than competent *nix admins!
+5 funny
Well, only a tiny fraction of those 10 million people have come anywhere near BT yet. Not many people finish all the content before the next expansion ...
Now pretend you had a minimum wage job in those hours. You're probably paying $415 a month in opportunity cost
Minus the 60% marginal tax rate. Oh, and the cost of killing myself rather than work most minimum wage jobs.
WoW is actually fun. A lot of the time anyway.
They probably would make it free if it wouldn't kill them in the retail channel. Can't put boxes on shelves for free.
But I still get to drive my SUV! And it only costs a few tens of thousands of dead foreigners every year, and the future of the human race to do it.
He still has to get through Congress, so it's not like he can disband the Federal Reserve 2 weeks after he's elected.
Of course not. He'd be assassinated long before he was allowed to do that.
My wife and I were flying back from Maui last year. She had bought some little jars of jam or something and had them in her carry-on.
Her bag goes through X-ray, and the guy starts rooting around in it, and comes up with these jars of jam. He unwraps them and looks them over. He then proceeds to lecture her how she can only carry "liquids" on a flight if they're carried in a clear plastic bag. Presumably, this is to permit ease of inspection. At this point, however, he has already inspected them. He forced her to dispose of them (or else go outside and mail them or something, since our checked bags were already done with), rather than carry them on the plane, even though he had inspected them and knew what they were.
I mean, you can't make this stuff up. These guys are such morons it isn't even funny.
Of course, up here in Canada it's just as bad. I was up in a small northern town a couple years ago and before getting on the plane (which holds all of like 30 people or something), there are 5 full-time security people, some of them doing random chemistry-set tests on our bags, because obviously there are terrorists lining up to blow up a Dash-8 coming out of Terrace.
(which can and does cause all sorts of problems for a company)
Like people finding out the truth before their children get eaten.
Verisign is beta testing a service that will allow registrars limited access to .COM query data. This is being done specifically to reduce registration churn by domain tasters.
By criticizing the deal, you are implying that Iran (and, indeed, every other nation) has the right to enrich as much uranium as they please, which is not significantly different from saying that every nation has the right to acquire nuclear weapons.
Well, the Iranians are crazy bastards and I personally wouldn't want to see them with nuclear weapons. But, seriously, why wouldn't they have just as much "right" to do so as the US? Or, at least as much right as Pakistan or Israel? Ahmadinejad has invaded substantially fewer sovereign nations than either Israel or the US has during his term.