You jest, but in some countries like China or Mexico, the excrement-ridden toilet paper isn't flushed. It's simply tossed into the wastebasket. It's one of those foreign things that's hard to take at first sight, much like public sale of dogs for human-food.
In college, there was a dorm room next to mine with three foreign guys in it. Two were from Singapore, and the third was from a different country that I can't recall. The third guy practiced this habit and the two Singapore guys were about to strangle him over it.
I use a procmail filter that sends mail from known addresses into my mailbox, and dumps everything else into a "garbage" file that I check every morning before deleting it, (on the off change that a friend or business has sent mail from a new address). This morning for the first time in *years*, the file was empty.
The front has four USB ports, one SD card slot, and one optical drive. The back has two more USB ports, HDMI, and S-video output...
S-video??? The '80's called; They want their video back.
And what I see missing is any mention of copper/optical digital audio input/output that can be plugged into a home entertainment system.
4) If you have more then 1 PC, install a proxy server. Or perhaps using your providers proxy server won't count for as much (a long shot, but worth ti check out)
Even with a single machine, a proxy server can be a real help. A proxy server can use far more advanced algorithms for what to keep cached and when to try fetching than the simpler caching mechanism of a browser.
Very true, and there is more; Extreme example: When installing an OS like FreeBSD via the Internet I use my proxy. The first time I install it, the installation time depends on the speed I can download across the 'net. Now suppose I want to install on a second machine, or some got messed up with the initial install and I want to re-install; The *second* time I install, the only Internet traffic is Squid checking to see if the files changed, so the second install is purely a data transfer between my proxy and the machine I am building. It takes a tiny fraction of the time for the first installation!
Well, i guess i'm crazy, i have 3TB of space on my home PC, and no way to back it all up offsite. I do have some important folders from one drive automatically copy to another drive periodically, so if one drive dies the other will be okay, but if i lose them both or the place burns down or i get a nasty virus, it's all going to hell.
Most of my space is taken up by pirated... err... backed up... HD movies. And porn, lots of porn...
Ummm...if you're looking for offsite storage, you just lemme know, m'kay?
Unbelievable that the Fox announcer can't comprehend how the human body could possibly withstand Mach 6, when astronauts have been exceeding that for nearly 50 years. Where does Fox find these morons???
In the real world, all identification used by individuals to prove who they are is issued by governments. How far would you get trying to prove your identity using ID from some self-appointed "identification authority". Why should the latter be trust-worthy in the electronic world? Especially from a company like VeriSign who are the same nimrods who foisted "SiteFinder" on us???
I'm reminded of a quote I once read:
"A certificate authority will protect you from anyone from whom they won't take money."
IIRC, it was made by Paul Vixie on the NANOG mailing list.
Then the US should drop their trade sanctions, and station ships off the Cuban coast, or possibly blimps flying over Cuba, with *huge* wireless network systems on. Basically, turn a ship into one giant floating wireless AP, with a satellite connection to the Internet. Then give all the people USB wireless adaptors.
What makes you think you would need a ship, or a blimp flying over Cuba?
Hint: Google for "cudjoe key" and "fat albert".
I wonder: how many of those 8k concurrent connections are from people who paid the money but couldn't download their digital purchase from NIN.com because of how incapable the servers were of handling the demand? I for one bought the $10+$6.99S&H CD set, then spent the next 6 hours repeatedly trying and failing to download the Apple Lossless files for which I paid. Once those files appeared on The Pirate Bay, I jumped on that torrent and downloaded from there in a matter of minutes. I'm messing with the statistics by doing that, and I would argue that many other people did likewise.
I wonder if the next stage would be "certified" DNS results, where a company gets a certificate signed by their registrar, signs DNS with their own private key, and propagates the results to the secondary servers.
Then clients can grab the results from any DNS server and validate that they are actual results or phonies.
Caveat: This would add another layer of processing and fetching keys, slowing everything down, when DNS is supposed to be a quick way to fetch an IP from a host name. You also have your usual PKI issues as well, such as compromised keys, expired certifications, etc.
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In college, there was a dorm room next to mine with three foreign guys in it. Two were from Singapore, and the third was from a different country that I can't recall. The third guy practiced this habit and the two Singapore guys were about to strangle him over it.
I use a procmail filter that sends mail from known addresses into my mailbox, and dumps everything else into a "garbage" file that I check every morning before deleting it, (on the off change that a friend or business has sent mail from a new address). This morning for the first time in *years*, the file was empty.
...just as fleas are "interested" in dogs.
I really *want* to believe!
That is been becoming more obvious every year. ;-)
S-video??? The '80's called; They want their video back. And what I see missing is any mention of copper/optical digital audio input/output that can be plugged into a home entertainment system.
Very true, and there is more; Extreme example: When installing an OS like FreeBSD via the Internet I use my proxy. The first time I install it, the installation time depends on the speed I can download across the 'net. Now suppose I want to install on a second machine, or some got messed up with the initial install and I want to re-install; The *second* time I install, the only Internet traffic is Squid checking to see if the files changed, so the second install is purely a data transfer between my proxy and the machine I am building. It takes a tiny fraction of the time for the first installation!
Ummm...if you're looking for offsite storage, you just lemme know, m'kay?
Well, they *have* been known to kill their wives. :-(
Where the bullet strikes a person is just as large a determinate as muzzle energy in whether the wound is fatal or not.
Unbelievable that the Fox announcer can't comprehend how the human body could possibly withstand Mach 6, when astronauts have been exceeding that for nearly 50 years. Where does Fox find these morons???
In the real world, all identification used by individuals to prove who they are is issued by governments. How far would you get trying to prove your identity using ID from some self-appointed "identification authority". Why should the latter be trust-worthy in the electronic world? Especially from a company like VeriSign who are the same nimrods who foisted "SiteFinder" on us???
I'm reminded of a quote I once read: "A certificate authority will protect you from anyone from whom they won't take money." IIRC, it was made by Paul Vixie on the NANOG mailing list.
Damn! And here I was looking forward to having every open AP on the planet available to me. :-(
So they are saying it won't litter debris across several Southern states when it burns?
...will be held in orbit this year?
...John Cusack and Billy Bob Thorton?