Microsoft makes a very significant percentage of their revenue from Office. They will never do anything to jeopardize that. There is no chance that their "open" specification will permit genuine competing implementations.
This while the whole country is in the starting stages of an enormous financial debacle caused by making millions of mortgage loans to people who would never be able to pay them back?
I hate government as much as the next guy, but get real. This didn't even cause a problem, it's just embarrassing.
What free market? Comcast's network was built as a legislated monopoly. There is no competition. If you're really lucky, you get your choice of 2 legislated monopolies, the cable company or the phone company.
Anyone who yells "Asset protection" at me and runs at me, is going to get a really really nasty surprise. And when they get out of the hospital, they'll need a lawyer.
How about.. all the good sites have dams on them so there's no point talking about it either way? It's not like anyone can expand hydro power generation on any kind of scale.
No one notices the sysadmin until things break. The other 364 days out of the year, when you could all log in fine, and get things done, nada.
Of course, you never make mistakes in your job.
I'm not suggesting that they didn't screw up, because clearly they did, but if your job consisted of working on live systems all day, you might consider how your normal daily mistakes would become more noticeable. Deleting all those accounts could have happened because of a one character error in an otherwise flawless script, that was thrown together because someone up top mandated that something in everyone's accounts just had to be changed Right Now. Think about it.
My insurance in BC is over $1600.00 for a 2 year old Jetta, and that's with the maximum safe driving discount. BC also has government insurance.
I just did an online quote for Ontario car insurance (with a Toronto postal code) and it came back with $1330.00 for the same car, and it's better coverage to boot (no deductible).
It hurts your ability to buy anything on the AH, because the players with purchased gold can afford to spend more. You often need those items to complete quests, craft potions, upgrade items; many of which you need in order to run instances. At the same time, the farmers are camping those rare items so that they can get more gold to sell, so you can't even farm them yourself.
Perhaps you'd like to explain how you get from there to the conclusion that most people using port 25 are spammers.
I have no problem saying that the vast majority of the systems attempting to connect to port 25 from end-user space are spammer-controlled zombies. The portion of the population that either runs their own MTA or attempts to use a third-party mail service on port 25 is vanishingly small.
Blocking port 25 outbound only affects people trying to run their own MTA, and even then only if you don't want to smarthost through your ISP. Third-party mail services should accept client submission on port 587.
So it's OK to punish the innocent along with the guilty if you're too lazy or incomopetent to determine which someone is? Nice.
Who said it was OK? It is, however, what they are doing.
It's got nothing to do with spam, just an excuse to make you upgrade to a business package (only twice the price) if you want to choose your own mail provider.
Most spam is sent directly from consumer Windows machines that have been hijacked and turned into bots. All those systems send out on port 25. Blocking port 25 cuts off the bots without the ISP having to spend any time or money educating their customers and getting the bots cleaned up.
Ask Canadians if they think their system is working?
It's hard to tell. Most people don't live long enough to make it through the waiting lists to find out.
j/k. But the waiting lists for non-critical care are ridiculously long. Like 6 months for an MRI or ultrasound, and over a year for some surgeries. And it's the only free country in the world where it's illegal to spend your own money on getting better care... fortunately the US is a short drive for most.
Of course, the fact that the only argument against the tidal wave of facts is "Al Gore spends a lot of money on utilities" really show how pathetic the head in sand people have become.
It shows that Al Gore is a hypocrite, that he obviously doesn't care enough about the environment to reduce his own emission footprint, and therefore he must have some other agenda for pushing his anti-CO2 stance.
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Who reads 1984 and then says to himself, "wow, that sounds like a great idea. I should work on tech to do that"?
geez.
Microsoft makes a very significant percentage of their revenue from Office. They will never do anything to jeopardize that. There is no chance that their "open" specification will permit genuine competing implementations.
Ever hear of the US Civil War?
This while the whole country is in the starting stages of an enormous financial debacle caused by making millions of mortgage loans to people who would never be able to pay them back?
I hate government as much as the next guy, but get real. This didn't even cause a problem, it's just embarrassing.
What free market? Comcast's network was built as a legislated monopoly. There is no competition. If you're really lucky, you get your choice of 2 legislated monopolies, the cable company or the phone company.
I'm sure he's in favour of the Church paying taxes, too, though. Just to be fair.
Anyone who yells "Asset protection" at me and runs at me, is going to get a really really nasty surprise. And when they get out of the hospital, they'll need a lawyer.
Refusing to show identification is _not_ being a dick. Cops work for you, unless you're committing a crime, which he wasn't.
Only for geosync. LEO satellite networks would work fine ... there's just no money to launch them.
And that lack of understanding is the result of the North winning the Civil War.
How about .. all the good sites have dams on them so there's no point talking about it either way? It's not like anyone can expand hydro power generation on any kind of scale.
What do you think it's using?
Wind needs an equal amount of baseline power generation available to back it. And baseline power means coal or nuclear.
Really? Like the British and the Norwegians didn't pump the North Sea dry at $10/barrel rather than wait for it to be worth more?
That might be true if there was new oil being made somewhere ... but there isn't. It's a finite commodity and it will eventually run out.
No one notices the sysadmin until things break. The other 364 days out of the year, when you could all log in fine, and get things done, nada.
Of course, you never make mistakes in your job.
I'm not suggesting that they didn't screw up, because clearly they did, but if your job consisted of working on live systems all day, you might consider how your normal daily mistakes would become more noticeable. Deleting all those accounts could have happened because of a one character error in an otherwise flawless script, that was thrown together because someone up top mandated that something in everyone's accounts just had to be changed Right Now. Think about it.
Hardly. The best way to make sure a species doesn't go extinct is to make them taste good to humans. We'd have ranches full of them in no time.
My insurance in BC is over $1600.00 for a 2 year old Jetta, and that's with the maximum safe driving discount. BC also has government insurance.
I just did an online quote for Ontario car insurance (with a Toronto postal code) and it came back with $1330.00 for the same car, and it's better coverage to boot (no deductible).
It hurts your ability to buy anything on the AH, because the players with purchased gold can afford to spend more. You often need those items to complete quests, craft potions, upgrade items; many of which you need in order to run instances. At the same time, the farmers are camping those rare items so that they can get more gold to sell, so you can't even farm them yourself.
So, yes, it does definitely hurt you.
Perhaps you'd like to explain how you get from there to the conclusion that most people using port 25 are spammers.
I have no problem saying that the vast majority of the systems attempting to connect to port 25 from end-user space are spammer-controlled zombies. The portion of the population that either runs their own MTA or attempts to use a third-party mail service on port 25 is vanishingly small.
Blocking port 25 outbound only affects people trying to run their own MTA, and even then only if you don't want to smarthost through your ISP. Third-party mail services should accept client submission on port 587.
So it's OK to punish the innocent along with the guilty if you're too lazy or incomopetent to determine which someone is? Nice.
Who said it was OK? It is, however, what they are doing.
It's got nothing to do with spam, just an excuse to make you upgrade to a business package (only twice the price) if you want to choose your own mail provider.
Most spam is sent directly from consumer Windows machines that have been hijacked and turned into bots. All those systems send out on port 25. Blocking port 25 cuts off the bots without the ISP having to spend any time or money educating their customers and getting the bots cleaned up.
You forgot: wars against oil-producing countries, bridges to nowhere, etc. They always need more money.
Murderers barely get jail time in Canada. No Canadian judge will ever actually put someone in jail for this.
Ask Canadians if they think their system is working?
... fortunately the US is a short drive for most.
It's hard to tell. Most people don't live long enough to make it through the waiting lists to find out.
j/k. But the waiting lists for non-critical care are ridiculously long. Like 6 months for an MRI or ultrasound, and over a year for some surgeries. And it's the only free country in the world where it's illegal to spend your own money on getting better care
Of course, the fact that the only argument against the tidal wave of facts is "Al Gore spends a lot of money on utilities" really show how pathetic the head in sand people have become.
It shows that Al Gore is a hypocrite, that he obviously doesn't care enough about the environment to reduce his own emission footprint, and therefore he must have some other agenda for pushing his anti-CO2 stance.