Unfortunately at the time the only other option was dialup. I chose to simply not tell the cable company what I was doing.
Back before any kind of broadband was available in our area, I ran NAT on our local 10mb ethernet network (in our house, just dumb hubs) on a Mac Quadra 800 in the basement connected to a 56.6 modem. The NAT software would detect when a client machine was trying to access something outside the network, turn on the modem and dial. It would leave the connection up for 5 or 6 hours after the last request to reduce the 40 second of so latency it took to connect (second dedicated phone line, but the ISP would bitch if you left the sessions open for forever and ever).
And this was like the year 2000 or so, not ancient ancient history. Surfed the web and such. Not ideal, but it worked well enough. And multiple people could surf at the same time!
Almost all my professors believed in God. They thought the Initial Singularity, big bang, expansion, evolution of stars, and all of it was part of his design.
Yup, and that's OK with me, because they're trying to answer the "Why?" question, which is outside the purview of science. You can have your own "Why?"s, but not your own "How?"s.
And the one movie that came out of a Heinlein work (Starship Troopers), that was actually pretty good, was good mainly because the director recognized it for the piece of fascist garbage that it was and cleverly decided to produce a parody.
Yes, yes, A MILLION TIMES YES. The exact reason I hold that movie in such high esteem.
It's camp! I put it in the same category as RoboCop, if that movie had been based on a "serious" book about the humanity of cyborgs.
Sadly, the coal and oil industries are probably providing the funding for all this as building more reactors in the US will now be impossible or more difficult than usual.
This crisis has nothing to do with the earthquake and everything to do with the tsunami. And the tsunami didn't even affect the core plant; the 33-foot-deep flood of water "simply" knocked out the diesel backup generators that ran the cooling pumps.
So a 50-foot standpipe around the generators would have avoided the entire issue. Or having generators with tall-ass snorkels, or whatever. This was a "weakest link" issue.
Summer Glau, the unpredictable River Tam in Firefly, has proven to be the kiss of death for any show she works.
That's because she sucks. Easily the worst character on Firefly, and I don't think it was the script. She's just the same person on every show she's on...
I assume these developers would need a Mac and extensive knowledge of its inner workings in order to develop and test an exploit. Therefore it make no sense to say this is just some hacker after the nicest prize.
Yeah, seeing as I already have one dollar, I certainly wouldn't want another dollar.
Proper? Sounds like IMproper behavior to me, seeing as there's no reason to count an email as part of the same thread once the subject has changed (substantially, not just the addition of a few RE:RE:RE:).
Either that or there should be an option to "break thread".
I set up an account there using Sipdroid, the only issue is that when I call my GV number, my phone will ring like normal (due to my real cell number being set as a number to call in the GV settings) AND over SIP, so the phone is ringing 2 things at the same time. Weird.:)
That's completely ridiculous. You think that every kid that owns an iPhone understands things like HTTP, iOS, Bluetooth, and the 802.11 specs? Do they also understand database clusters, content delivery networks, event-based user interfaces and load balancing?
You don't have know any of that to understand that a company can go tits-up some day and take all your stuff with them, seeing as you gave (uploaded) it to them to keep for you.
It would be like giving money to a bank without deposit/FDIC insurance. "Oh, you mean if they go under I don't get my money back?"
It would be like if Google created a new standard called norobotsexceptgoogles.txt and lowered the page rank of any sites that didn't refuse to be crawled by anyone but google.
I happen to be a huge proponent of robot sex! How dare they!
And I don't think TRIM instructions follow the exact specifications I laid out above (e.g. using Brilliant! as an ACK).
Useless but on-topic information:
I once wrote a protocol in C that would blast out packets containing a string to a broadcast address (over 802.11 wireless), and any other wireless unit that heard it responded with one of two ACK values and then negotiated an open-vpn tunnel over an ad-hoc connection to the originating device.
The beacon packet contained the string "BEEF", and the 2 flavors of ACK packets contained either "PORK" or "CHICKEN".
I have no idea how we came up with this scheme, but it's probably floating around in production software....somewhere. I should have used "Brilliant!" instead, but I'm in the USA.:)
The guy worked as an intelligence analyst under 7 different administrations (27 years) and was the guy who prepared/gave the daily intel briefing to the president for a lot of those years.
That gives him at least a *little* base credibility. He's not some "Don't taze me bro" protester.
But that's not what is required in 99% of the IT jobs out there. Efficiency? Who cares, have our customers buy better machines rather than you spending another 3 hours to improve the efficiency of the algo.
This this this. Actually, it even applies when the code is running on the company's own infrastructure. It costs the company less to buy a few extra servers to manage the load of OK code compared to engineers actually writing highly-efficient code. And frankly, I agree with them.
10% of the personal computing market is Apple. That's it. Now, sure some of the remaining 90% aren't running Windows...[snip]
Do you really, REALLY think malware authors are content to let 10% of their target market slip through their fingers?
COME ON, writing just about any level of mass-distributed malware has an excellent ROI. There's malware for almost every network-connected device out there....except for Macs.
It's funny that the page-load is blocked. Monkey.org is even using the more recent "asynchronous" Google Analytics code that's *not* supposed to affect page loads when blocked/slow.
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Congrats on having a vocational, non-well-rounded education.
Unfortunately at the time the only other option was dialup. I chose to simply not tell the cable company what I was doing.
Back before any kind of broadband was available in our area, I ran NAT on our local 10mb ethernet network (in our house, just dumb hubs) on a Mac Quadra 800 in the basement connected to a 56.6 modem. The NAT software would detect when a client machine was trying to access something outside the network, turn on the modem and dial. It would leave the connection up for 5 or 6 hours after the last request to reduce the 40 second of so latency it took to connect (second dedicated phone line, but the ISP would bitch if you left the sessions open for forever and ever).
And this was like the year 2000 or so, not ancient ancient history. Surfed the web and such. Not ideal, but it worked well enough. And multiple people could surf at the same time!
Almost all my professors believed in God. They thought the Initial Singularity, big bang, expansion, evolution of stars, and all of it was part of his design.
Yup, and that's OK with me, because they're trying to answer the "Why?" question, which is outside the purview of science. You can have your own "Why?"s, but not your own "How?"s.
Yeah, it's called a Central Nervous System.
"Ow! I've been shot!" :)
If he had a really good, evidence based, reason for believing that, and is open to different theories based on the strength of the evidence; then yes.
I'd agree, but of course that's an impossibility...just like having evidence-based reasons for thinking ID is correct.
Now when unions browbeat companies into paying out unfairly high wages and benefits, there becomes a major problem
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And the one movie that came out of a Heinlein work (Starship Troopers), that was actually pretty good, was good mainly because the director recognized it for the piece of fascist garbage that it was and cleverly decided to produce a parody.
Yes, yes, A MILLION TIMES YES. The exact reason I hold that movie in such high esteem.
It's camp! I put it in the same category as RoboCop, if that movie had been based on a "serious" book about the humanity of cyborgs.
Sadly, the coal and oil industries are probably providing the funding for all this as building more reactors in the US will now be impossible or more difficult than usual.
FTFY
This crisis has nothing to do with the earthquake and everything to do with the tsunami. And the tsunami didn't even affect the core plant; the 33-foot-deep flood of water "simply" knocked out the diesel backup generators that ran the cooling pumps.
So a 50-foot standpipe around the generators would have avoided the entire issue. Or having generators with tall-ass snorkels, or whatever. This was a "weakest link" issue.
Summer Glau, the unpredictable River Tam in Firefly, has proven to be the kiss of death for any show she works.
That's because she sucks. Easily the worst character on Firefly, and I don't think it was the script. She's just the same person on every show she's on...
I am selling an iPhone game at 0.99 $ and there's still people pirating it. Does it have to be even cheaper?
Try selling at it $5.99 and see what happens to the app's piracy rate...
Ocean very big... radioactive materials very small...
But American penis SO BIG!
I assume these developers would need a Mac and extensive knowledge of its inner workings in order to develop and test an exploit. Therefore it make no sense to say this is just some hacker after the nicest prize.
Yeah, seeing as I already have one dollar, I certainly wouldn't want another dollar.
Proper? Sounds like IMproper behavior to me, seeing as there's no reason to count an email as part of the same thread once the subject has changed (substantially, not just the addition of a few RE:RE:RE:).
Either that or there should be an option to "break thread".
I set up an account there using Sipdroid, the only issue is that when I call my GV number, my phone will ring like normal (due to my real cell number being set as a number to call in the GV settings) AND over SIP, so the phone is ringing 2 things at the same time. Weird. :)
. Especially if you're in a relationship, as a guy you're offered more than you can do with
I take it you're not married. Or have kids.
That's completely ridiculous. You think that every kid that owns an iPhone understands things like HTTP, iOS, Bluetooth, and the 802.11 specs? Do they also understand database clusters, content delivery networks, event-based user interfaces and load balancing?
You don't have know any of that to understand that a company can go tits-up some day and take all your stuff with them, seeing as you gave (uploaded) it to them to keep for you.
It would be like giving money to a bank without deposit/FDIC insurance. "Oh, you mean if they go under I don't get my money back?"
It would be like if Google created a new standard called norobotsexceptgoogles.txt and lowered the page rank of any sites that didn't refuse to be crawled by anyone but google.
I happen to be a huge proponent of robot sex! How dare they!
And I don't think TRIM instructions follow the exact specifications I laid out above (e.g. using Brilliant! as an ACK).
Useless but on-topic information:
I once wrote a protocol in C that would blast out packets containing a string to a broadcast address (over 802.11 wireless), and any other wireless unit that heard it responded with one of two ACK values and then negotiated an open-vpn tunnel over an ad-hoc connection to the originating device.
The beacon packet contained the string "BEEF", and the 2 flavors of ACK packets contained either "PORK" or "CHICKEN".
I have no idea how we came up with this scheme, but it's probably floating around in production software....somewhere. I should have used "Brilliant!" instead, but I'm in the USA. :)
The guy worked as an intelligence analyst under 7 different administrations (27 years) and was the guy who prepared/gave the daily intel briefing to the president for a lot of those years.
That gives him at least a *little* base credibility. He's not some "Don't taze me bro" protester.
Especially in unicode!
But that's not what is required in 99% of the IT jobs out there. Efficiency? Who cares, have our customers buy better machines rather than you spending another 3 hours to improve the efficiency of the algo.
This this this. Actually, it even applies when the code is running on the company's own infrastructure. It costs the company less to buy a few extra servers to manage the load of OK code compared to engineers actually writing highly-efficient code. And frankly, I agree with them.
10% of the personal computing market is Apple. That's it. Now, sure some of the remaining 90% aren't running Windows...[snip]
Do you really, REALLY think malware authors are content to let 10% of their target market slip through their fingers?
COME ON, writing just about any level of mass-distributed malware has an excellent ROI. There's malware for almost every network-connected device out there....except for Macs.
Dude, you're falling for this hook, line, and sinker. He's a lightning rod.
It's funny that the page-load is blocked. Monkey.org is even using the more recent "asynchronous" Google Analytics code that's *not* supposed to affect page loads when blocked/slow.
Weird...