There are a lot of religious leaders over there that condemn the attacks in an interview with the media, and then go right out and hold one of their "death to America" rallies and preach how soon allah will wipe us all out and then Muslims will rule the world.
Just because they say they condemn the attacks doesn't mean they aren't rejoicing off the air.
If you haven't seen "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West", we can't continue this discussion.
Catholic school is not the same as being raised in an environment where you are fed this stuff 24 / 7 / 365 in every way and from every source. Not even close to the same.
Which only furthers my point: The U.S. has lost it, so even our last remaining nuclear power plant company, GE, isn't selling it's own products in the U.S. but is instead working with a Japanese firm to get their stuff sold here.
Nah, the whole viral / referral marketing thing works because it is upfront. Companies that try to force it end up failing.
I think Google has succeeded because they haven't done anything seedy or contrived. They have tried to be very fair with AdSense and AdWords, and they owe much of their financial success to that.
Their hatred for us is taught to them from a very young age and is religious in nature. It will not change or go away without decades of effort. No one change will even come close. Ever. Period.
It is simply beyond our comprehension without seeing that documentary or understanding what it demonstrates. I thought I already understood radical islam but was blown away by some of the stuff in it. And it is their words, their TV, their music, their teachings.
1. Amazon may have stopped the 45 day thing as part of their fraud prevention. 45 - 90 days is still very common (if not the standard) for affiliate payouts. I couldn't find it mentioned on their site.
2. The person that followed that link had cookies turned off, cleared their cookies, used a different browser or computer the second time, etc.
3. As the original post discussed, the persons computer could have had malware that hijacked the sale, taking credit for it. It would be very easy to detect the use of another affiliate code, replace it with their code, and redirect to that page. Especially using IE 6 and below, which felt like they were designed to cater to the malware designers.
In any event the hijacking of affiliate commissions is very real and widely used.
Various terrorists, including Bin Laden, have threatened to kill millions of Americans.
The threat isn't that North Korea or anyone else will nuke the U.S. They're probably smarter than that.
The real threat is that they'll sell components to terrorists who will smuggle them into the U.S. across our porous southern borders, then detonate them in a big city ala Jericho.
This threat is a lot more real than any other we face, IMHO.
I'm not sure of how it works, exactly, but they make most of their money from hi-jacking affiliate sales.
For instance, if they have a popup that redirects you to a specific URL at Amazon.com, then for the next 45 or 90 days anything you buy at Amazon.com gets credited to them as an affiliate, even if you go directly to their site.
Commission Junction tracks stuff for 45 days the same way.
Consider how much money will be spent at Amazon.com for the next 90 days (holiday season) and how widespread their adware is. They could be making incredible amounts of money, and you wouldn't even know it. Unfortunately, neither would Amazon.com (who just thinks their affiliate program is working wonders and these guys are super affiliates).
My friend used to work at Skywest and later did consulting from them and had 2 HPUX servers identical to those used at Skywest at the time, and he just kept them in a room in his office for development, and cooling was never an issue.
I don't think cooling would be an issue for the short term in most server rooms, and even in a lot of data centers (though I could be way off on that, I don't have direct experience).
If you're trying to power the whole building, no you can't plug them in willy-nilly and yes you would need extra equipment. I doubt Lowe's would sell it.
But that isn't what I'm suggesting. Plug each rackmount battery backup into 1 generator, powering 2 or 3 servers.
No synchronizing, speed controls, relays, etc needed. Plug and play.
Optimal? No. Effective enough to mitigate most of the downtime and safe for the equipment? In my opinion, yes.
In this instance, Skywest is in a small town and many of their employees live quite close, so worst case scenario they could get enough gas from someones house, ATV, car, whatever, to run it long enough to drive to a gas station where the power wasn't out.
1. Lowes is right across the street. They don't run out of generators after a 2 or 3 hour outage. Days, maybe; hours, no.
2. The equipment was successfully running off of power from the UPS's. Each UPS is rackmount and powers 2 to 4 servers. Unplug the UPS from the wall, and plug it into a running generator.
I've been in the Skywest server room. It's not much bigger than my home office, and no bigger than my master bedroom. We're not talking about a 2,000kw generator. We're talking about a maximum of 10 HPUX servers running off of rackmount UPS's, which will run off of 220v, which generators at Lowe's will supply.
I appreciate the reference to Mario's frogger.
I'm just saying, a little thinking outside the box and quick action may have had them down as little at 0 - 10 minutes instead of 3 hours, and could have saved most of their flights, a lot of lost profits, and a lot of inconvenience.
Well, I do think we'll see more and more of that in the future. The infrastructure is really overwhelmed, and the upgrades and maintenance is slow in coming.
I've thought a lot about solar or generators and how to get off-grid, or at least not so dependent on the grid.
Yes, but very seldom is a power outage so far spread that you can't get to a gas station with power within 10 minutes or so. At least not around here. We have 3 different power companies within 10 miles, and I've never known them to go off at the same time.
You may have missed the sarcasm in my [entire] post, but you are correct. Using a farm of smaller generators has many complications, not the least of which is inefficiency and managability.
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Here is part 1 on YouTube.
The other 7 parts are linked in from there.
Did you watch the whole 2 hour documentary, or the few minute clip on YouTube (which covers nothing)?
If you watched the whole movie, where did you find it so others can see it?
There are a lot of religious leaders over there that condemn the attacks in an interview with the media, and then go right out and hold one of their "death to America" rallies and preach how soon allah will wipe us all out and then Muslims will rule the world.
Just because they say they condemn the attacks doesn't mean they aren't rejoicing off the air.
VirtualDub would do it easily, but not automatically.
Google Video doesn't have that limit, though that video isn't already there so you probably couldn't put it there.
If you haven't seen "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West", we can't continue this discussion.
Catholic school is not the same as being raised in an environment where you are fed this stuff 24 / 7 / 365 in every way and from every source. Not even close to the same.
Which only furthers my point: The U.S. has lost it, so even our last remaining nuclear power plant company, GE, isn't selling it's own products in the U.S. but is instead working with a Japanese firm to get their stuff sold here.
Nah, the whole viral / referral marketing thing works because it is upfront. Companies that try to force it end up failing.
I think Google has succeeded because they haven't done anything seedy or contrived. They have tried to be very fair with AdSense and AdWords, and they owe much of their financial success to that.
Adware and spammers be damned.
I agree with you that the U.S. should think long and hard about how it is viewed in the world and why.
However, I disagree strongly that the terrorists or their movement would ever just "go about their everyday lives".
You need to see "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West", a 2 hour or so documentary about the radical islam.
Their hatred for us is taught to them from a very young age and is religious in nature. It will not change or go away without decades of effort. No one change will even come close. Ever. Period.
It is simply beyond our comprehension without seeing that documentary or understanding what it demonstrates. I thought I already understood radical islam but was blown away by some of the stuff in it. And it is their words, their TV, their music, their teachings.
Well, that could be for 2 reasons:
1. Amazon may have stopped the 45 day thing as part of their fraud prevention. 45 - 90 days is still very common (if not the standard) for affiliate payouts. I couldn't find it mentioned on their site.
2. The person that followed that link had cookies turned off, cleared their cookies, used a different browser or computer the second time, etc.
3. As the original post discussed, the persons computer could have had malware that hijacked the sale, taking credit for it. It would be very easy to detect the use of another affiliate code, replace it with their code, and redirect to that page. Especially using IE 6 and below, which felt like they were designed to cater to the malware designers.
In any event the hijacking of affiliate commissions is very real and widely used.
According to their own site GE is the last company in the U.S. making light water reactors.
There was a time the U.S. was the big man on campus for nuclear technology. I think that time has passed.
We haven't built a nuclear reactor in 20 years, and unfortunately don't plan to. Why would anyone buy from us?
People already ~are~ threatening to use them.
Various terrorists, including Bin Laden, have threatened to kill millions of Americans.
The threat isn't that North Korea or anyone else will nuke the U.S. They're probably smarter than that.
The real threat is that they'll sell components to terrorists who will smuggle them into the U.S. across our porous southern borders, then detonate them in a big city ala Jericho.
This threat is a lot more real than any other we face, IMHO.
I'm not sure of how it works, exactly, but they make most of their money from hi-jacking affiliate sales.
For instance, if they have a popup that redirects you to a specific URL at Amazon.com, then for the next 45 or 90 days anything you buy at Amazon.com gets credited to them as an affiliate, even if you go directly to their site.
Commission Junction tracks stuff for 45 days the same way.
Consider how much money will be spent at Amazon.com for the next 90 days (holiday season) and how widespread their adware is. They could be making incredible amounts of money, and you wouldn't even know it. Unfortunately, neither would Amazon.com (who just thinks their affiliate program is working wonders and these guys are super affiliates).
"Bird flu" is not synonymous H5N1.
H5N1 is a strain of bird flu, not the bird flu itself.
All H5N1 is the bird flu, but not all bird flu is not H5N1, like all Ford Focus's are cars, but not all cars are Ford Focus's.
There are many strains of the bird flu (Hello, the article we are responding to is about another strain of the bird flu!).
The 1918 pandemic WAS caused by a strain of the bird flu. See also NYTimes.
Um, the 1918 flu pandemic that killed around 40 million people worldwide WAS the bird flu.
Show me 40 million shark deaths anywhere in history and we'll talk.
The value of google bombing unpopular search terms is that they become popular due to viral marketing.
I've had a LOT of people email and message me about "miserable failure", and these are typically non-technical and non-political people.
So in that respect google bombing is effective, and quite so.
My friend used to work at Skywest and later did consulting from them and had 2 HPUX servers identical to those used at Skywest at the time, and he just kept them in a room in his office for development, and cooling was never an issue.
I don't think cooling would be an issue for the short term in most server rooms, and even in a lot of data centers (though I could be way off on that, I don't have direct experience).
If you're trying to power the whole building, no you can't plug them in willy-nilly and yes you would need extra equipment. I doubt Lowe's would sell it.
But that isn't what I'm suggesting. Plug each rackmount battery backup into 1 generator, powering 2 or 3 servers.
No synchronizing, speed controls, relays, etc needed. Plug and play.
Optimal? No. Effective enough to mitigate most of the downtime and safe for the equipment? In my opinion, yes.
Good advice.
In this instance, Skywest is in a small town and many of their employees live quite close, so worst case scenario they could get enough gas from someones house, ATV, car, whatever, to run it long enough to drive to a gas station where the power wasn't out.
Here is the story.
1. Lowes is right across the street. They don't run out of generators after a 2 or 3 hour outage. Days, maybe; hours, no.
2. The equipment was successfully running off of power from the UPS's. Each UPS is rackmount and powers 2 to 4 servers. Unplug the UPS from the wall, and plug it into a running generator.
I've been in the Skywest server room. It's not much bigger than my home office, and no bigger than my master bedroom. We're not talking about a 2,000kw generator. We're talking about a maximum of 10 HPUX servers running off of rackmount UPS's, which will run off of 220v, which generators at Lowe's will supply.
I appreciate the reference to Mario's frogger.
I'm just saying, a little thinking outside the box and quick action may have had them down as little at 0 - 10 minutes instead of 3 hours, and could have saved most of their flights, a lot of lost profits, and a lot of inconvenience.
So running a server off of a battery backup UPS plugged into a generator from Lowes for 2 hours is going to kill the server?
You're gonna have to sell me on that...
If you need to keep 10 servers online you buy 10 generators and 10 UPS's, plug each server into a UPS, each UPS into a generator (already running).
I'm not talking about daisy-chaining the generators in to power the whole building.
Well, I do think we'll see more and more of that in the future. The infrastructure is really overwhelmed, and the upgrades and maintenance is slow in coming.
I've thought a lot about solar or generators and how to get off-grid, or at least not so dependent on the grid.
Yes, but very seldom is a power outage so far spread that you can't get to a gas station with power within 10 minutes or so. At least not around here. We have 3 different power companies within 10 miles, and I've never known them to go off at the same time.
Who said anything about running anything in phase?
The last time I checked most of their HPUX server run on 110 volts, or ~maybe~ 220.
If you have 10 mission critical servers, get 10 cheap generators and hook them up on a 1-to-1 basis.
Very cheap, very effective, very easy.
WAY cheaper and easier than canceling $1M in flights.
You may have missed the sarcasm in my [entire] post, but you are correct. Using a farm of smaller generators has many complications, not the least of which is inefficiency and managability.