I wish they'd just block port 25 outbound... blocking inbound connections to port 25 on my mailserver from Chinese address space caused a non-insignificant drop in the amount of spam I receive.
Rather than playing into the recipients insecurities, why not cause their partners to realize how dissatisfied they are?
You get a breast enlargement spam. You start thinking, "Man, it *would* be nice if she had bigger boobs. Maybe I'll get her this cream."
Meanwhile, she's checking her e-mails and thinking, "Hmm, needledick could use some help. Maybe if I get pills from this one place, and a vacuum pump from this other one..."
Not that they really intended that, but it's another valid way to market. ED pill commercials often show how much happier the women are.
You really should check into Moniker.com. While it's double what you're going to pay at $CHEAP_REGISTRAR if you're only going for a few domains, their CEO Monte Cahn, in addition to being a damn fine individual, hosts a weekly "internet radio" show called Domain Masters on http://www.webmasterradio.fm/ Wednesday nights at 7PM EDT. Just listening for a bit lets you see how well he understands the undeerlying issues. His guests (sometimes they're even his competition) are top notch. You can listen to the show archives at http://www.webmasterradio.fm/episodes/index.php?sh owId=20.
Well, the reason I asked it instead of stating it is because I'm not sure if some supersmart person figured out a way to mitigate the normal variation which would happen while reading the biometric information, perhaps using redundancy in some fashion. Smart people do amazing things all the time which seem counterintuitive.
I would object far less to having biometric data on an ID card if it were a one-way hash than if it's storing a copy of my fingerprint/retina scan. Can the biometric data be hashed and the hash used for verification instead? Like what we do for passwords... the scary thing about someone being able to get an electronic copy of the data is the ability to make a replica.
You and I know that administration of a firewall doesn't take much of your time, but lots of businesses don't. So what do you do? Start a business providing managed firewall services for a flat fee per month. Use free tools and provide services on top of them, and even RMS is happy.
So... if I go with SBC wifi instead of gov't wifi, I get to pay for both, one through taxes, and the other through subscription fees?
How's that a bargain, again?
The reason why ILECs are regulated is because the telephone was the primary method of realtime person-to-person communication which wasn't face to face for damn near 100 years, and government decided that it was vital enough to require that telephone service be provided to as many people as possible in as high of a state of reliability as possible. My wireline phone service has "downtime" far less than just about any other service I get.
However, it's a fair question to ask why they're regulated more than their new breed of competition. This new competition (wireless, VoIP, etc) has been far less reliable to this point in my experience. Vonage, while I love it, has certainly had repeated outages in the year that I've had it. It's been more reliable than Windows, but less reliable than my Verizon POTS.
Ditto with my Optimum Online.
If communications are essential for things like emergency service, and are a cause worthy of "universal service" type of access, then we need to regulate them to an extent to get the same level of reliability. If it's not that important, then there's no reason SBC should have to play by these rules, but not their competition.
Most internet data centers are not equipped with the cooling to handle customers with racks full of blades. A rack of HP BL40p blades puts out 55000 BTUs. A tier 1 data center in which I've worked was designed to cool 5000 BTUs per rack. While blades are pushed as a way to save space by increasing computing density, the amount of cooling per square foot of data center space, unless it has specifically been designed for blades, is rarely sufficient for cooling them. The aforementioned data center has more power available than it can cool. When sales gets its way (as it almost always does), more power is delivered to customer per square foot than the data center was designed for, then the room warms up, and everyone bitches.
It is right and proper for a data center to make it difficult to allow a customer to go that far out of the specs that the data center can support, or it'll negatively impact the other customers in the room. If they can't meet your needs, it's better to look elsewhere than to go that far out of engineering spec.
When you go back into the shuttle/station/building, you trek dust in with you.
Copyright more relevant than the GPL
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In this instance, I think copyright violation would take precedence over the GPL, and since it's a clear violation of copyright... that the GPL aspect of things wouldn't even come into play in court.
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I'm not talking about not having due process. I'm talking about having due process not take years. This isn't about something that's been done behind closed doors. This fuckbag is a commercial pirate hiding behind the thinnest veil. It's like he burned copies of an X-Men DVD and put a label on it calling it Y-People, and selling them as a product of his own.
Why does everything take so damned long?
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It's frustrating that everything takes so damn long... since it's trivial to show that CherryOS is a rip-off of PearPC, why does this guy still even have a home to sleep in? Justice is too damned slow.
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Sorry, it just had to be said.
I wish they'd just block port 25 outbound... blocking inbound connections to port 25 on my mailserver from Chinese address space caused a non-insignificant drop in the amount of spam I receive.
Rather than playing into the recipients insecurities, why not cause their partners to realize how dissatisfied they are?
You get a breast enlargement spam. You start thinking, "Man, it *would* be nice if she had bigger boobs. Maybe I'll get her this cream."
Meanwhile, she's checking her e-mails and thinking, "Hmm, needledick could use some help. Maybe if I get pills from this one place, and a vacuum pump from this other one..."
Not that they really intended that, but it's another valid way to market. ED pill commercials often show how much happier the women are.
Even if people say it sucks, the purist fan base will still check it out to see for themselves what it is.
Hey man, he called it an ecosystem...
Killing and eating are implied. Even maggots on rotting flesh!
Will this project be moved out of the Googleplex and into a Biodome?
Only if they figure out how to charge for it. I don't know how readily a payment system will work within this framework.
You really should check into Moniker.com. While it's double what you're going to pay at $CHEAP_REGISTRAR if you're only going for a few domains, their CEO Monte Cahn, in addition to being a damn fine individual, hosts a weekly "internet radio" show called Domain Masters on http://www.webmasterradio.fm/ Wednesday nights at 7PM EDT. Just listening for a bit lets you see how well he understands the undeerlying issues. His guests (sometimes they're even his competition) are top notch. You can listen to the show archives at http://www.webmasterradio.fm/episodes/index.php?sh owId=20.
Well, the reason I asked it instead of stating it is because I'm not sure if some supersmart person figured out a way to mitigate the normal variation which would happen while reading the biometric information, perhaps using redundancy in some fashion. Smart people do amazing things all the time which seem counterintuitive.
I would object far less to having biometric data on an ID card if it were a one-way hash than if it's storing a copy of my fingerprint/retina scan. Can the biometric data be hashed and the hash used for verification instead? Like what we do for passwords... the scary thing about someone being able to get an electronic copy of the data is the ability to make a replica.
I think that it's fair to say that this is the first time in history that people everywhere else see America whining about its inability to compete.
In times past, the American workforce was something to admire. I don't think that's the case any longer.
You and I know that administration of a firewall doesn't take much of your time, but lots of businesses don't. So what do you do? Start a business providing managed firewall services for a flat fee per month. Use free tools and provide services on top of them, and even RMS is happy.
Well, actually, the root of the whole thing, ".", is handled by UNIX servers.
So... if I go with SBC wifi instead of gov't wifi, I get to pay for both, one through taxes, and the other through subscription fees? How's that a bargain, again?
The reason why ILECs are regulated is because the telephone was the primary method of realtime person-to-person communication which wasn't face to face for damn near 100 years, and government decided that it was vital enough to require that telephone service be provided to as many people as possible in as high of a state of reliability as possible. My wireline phone service has "downtime" far less than just about any other service I get.
However, it's a fair question to ask why they're regulated more than their new breed of competition. This new competition (wireless, VoIP, etc) has been far less reliable to this point in my experience. Vonage, while I love it, has certainly had repeated outages in the year that I've had it. It's been more reliable than Windows, but less reliable than my Verizon POTS.
Ditto with my Optimum Online.
If communications are essential for things like emergency service, and are a cause worthy of "universal service" type of access, then we need to regulate them to an extent to get the same level of reliability. If it's not that important, then there's no reason SBC should have to play by these rules, but not their competition.
I wouldn't have even thought to look in the tanks.
Material is copyrighted by default at its creation.
Haven't you read 1984? Eventually it will be a thoughtcrime to think about downloading music.
Most internet data centers are not equipped with the cooling to handle customers with racks full of blades. A rack of HP BL40p blades puts out 55000 BTUs. A tier 1 data center in which I've worked was designed to cool 5000 BTUs per rack. While blades are pushed as a way to save space by increasing computing density, the amount of cooling per square foot of data center space, unless it has specifically been designed for blades, is rarely sufficient for cooling them. The aforementioned data center has more power available than it can cool. When sales gets its way (as it almost always does), more power is delivered to customer per square foot than the data center was designed for, then the room warms up, and everyone bitches.
It is right and proper for a data center to make it difficult to allow a customer to go that far out of the specs that the data center can support, or it'll negatively impact the other customers in the room. If they can't meet your needs, it's better to look elsewhere than to go that far out of engineering spec.
Incremental costs of running them must be a bargain. Great to see how well these things were made.
Resilient?
Well, if it hooks in like Velcro(tm), it's not going to just go away when you cough.
When you go back into the shuttle/station/building, you trek dust in with you.
In this instance, I think copyright violation would take precedence over the GPL, and since it's a clear violation of copyright... that the GPL aspect of things wouldn't even come into play in court.
I'm not talking about not having due process. I'm talking about having due process not take years. This isn't about something that's been done behind closed doors. This fuckbag is a commercial pirate hiding behind the thinnest veil. It's like he burned copies of an X-Men DVD and put a label on it calling it Y-People, and selling them as a product of his own.
It's frustrating that everything takes so damn long... since it's trivial to show that CherryOS is a rip-off of PearPC, why does this guy still even have a home to sleep in? Justice is too damned slow.