Technically you should say the mousetrap is fully powered when armed, yes with stored energy but it still is powered in a sense, if not, put your fingers where the mouse is supposed to be.
And ideally the mousetrap doesn't draw down energy from the spring, but practically it does. After months or years, the spring will lose tension strength and wait a longer time (if nothing trips it) and it will eventually be all the way back to it's beginning.
I have had this type of rsync backups for years now on personal computers and servers. There are several scripts floating around the internet that do exactly what Time Machine does. The problem is 1) usability and 2) interface.
No end-user is going to put an rsync script in their cron jobs and specify in what mounted partition to store it and then later use rsync to restore the specified files. -- if an end user understands at all what I just said of course
Time Machine's interface is revolutionary. It gives you a way of looking back in time at your own computer and does it in a fancy way consistent with the interface. It does so for any Time Machine enabled application including Mail, Address Book, i*. If you have to restore a piece of mail from backup I doubt you'll know the name of the file it was stored in rsync or any other type of backup let alone knowing how to restore it without removing all the new messages.
Why did we always have to be bashing users for not creating their backups again? Because it was too difficult and too time consuming to make them. Time Machine takes literally 30 seconds to set up and the rest is automated. That's why people will start making backups. It's not difficult anymore and it's going to save me a lot of headaches.
Inappropriate work relationship: They would've quietly let him go unless there was a lawsuit brought against him although that might have been known by the press. Maybe he was boning Ballmer's or Gates' wife (or daughter(s)) Divulging info to a competitor: Well, unless he planned on jumping ship he might not have done that. Indeed a good possibility Inappropriate use of company funds/stock/falsifying data: You don't get fired for that, you resign yourself after a large SEC investigation and get a big cash bonus on top of it. Gee, don't you read the news.
It was either 2: he was boning a higher up (CEO's or board's) wife or daughter or he was caught with kiddy porn.
Well, from experience: the more south or east you go in Europe, the more lax security gets and the less stringent the rules. I went to Crete and the Czech Republic and they didn't even have a x-ray detector for our luggage. Just a metal detector that beeped when I went through it, they just waved me through.
Germans and Austrians however still think they've won the war and can treat anybody as lesser than them. Especially their police and border forces but also the average tourist in Spain or wherever you go. We drove through Germany and Austria several times going to (what was back then) Yugoslavia and when the border patrol stopped us (sometimes even after we drove for about an hour in the country, pulled us over) they walked, talked and treated people like they were from the Gestapo. The Germans in Spain think they can just cut in lines in the super mercado's, drive however they want to on the streets and be plain out rude to everybody that's not German. However, some of us called on them in perfect German and then they back down.
In the case of your doctor or shrink you most likely have an agreement with or the doctor has an agreement with his boss/union/whatever to not publish those facts or your records with your personal information still attached or recoverable from it. In case of them, it still wouldn't be defamation but a breach of privacy/contract or even government compliance (HIPAA in the US) and you can call them on that.
I know from experience because I do work in a research imaging environment and if a case is published with imaging (which is with or without the permission of the subject), special filter programs have to be ran on the imaging (although the imaging is exported without any possible ties to the subjects' information) as to remove the skull bone or other information (implants, injuries...) in the picture that could be used to recover your facial image or identify you.
Now if somebody were to get a hold on your private information from your doctor/shrink and publish it, you can call them out on theft or something else that has to do with illegally obtaining your information and your doctor on negligence. You still can't use defamation if it's true. Now if you tell your friend something in private and he has decided to publish that information or tell it further I doubt you can take any steps against that (IANAL) since you told him and you trusted him not to tell anyone, but he broke your trust. Since there is no contract (unless you get a contract between your friends) then all he knows and says further is hearsay.
The tricky part about hearsay is that he (the publisher) can't verify if what he heard is true upon publishing so he might be defaming you. If you only told him, then you can say in court you didn't and what he says isn't true since nobody else knows, it would be his word against yours in favor of you => defamation. However if he has proof of what you told him is true, then it isn't defamation. If the information is publicly available from a reliable source, then it's not defamation but a repetition of facts and thus free speech or the source is defaming you which you can start a suit against said source.
It already happened a few months ago with the Intel ad-section where Intel marketing got to talk about some of their new stuff. It turned me off from reading those articles but luckily they were clearly marked. If they wouldn't have been, I would've forked Slashdot or so.
I use whois everyday to check domains and IP's from command line. The simplest way to get an IP range is just "whois xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" and then block/allow the whole range depending on your needs.
It's an invaluable network tool and just like DNS, you can't just scrap it. That there is abuse is always going to be a problem and that can be done with any list you put your data on. Ever wondered why you get so much credit card offers in your mailbox? Yes, it's because your name and address is somewhere on a list and most likely you have put yourself on it by using your address with either a banking institute or a vendor. You can't stop abuse by taking away services just like you can't say that you are going to solve those credit card offers in your mailbox by removing the postal services. If you do, the abuse is just going to shift from whois to your webhosters' site or DNS just like the credit card offers will be carried out by FedEx or UPS.
Never worked in big corps that charge between departments? I am an IT department of a department of a larger entity that also has an IT department that provides us with our network.
Last week they had to install 2 network drops. Just 2* CAT6 going from the network closet on the first floor to the network closet on the second floor, there are 10ths of cables already running so all they need to do is feed it. They were busy with 2 people not even 1 hour and then somebody came afterwards to reconfigure switches and document the change for about 1 hour, they used maybe 50 feet of cable. They charged our department more than USD 700 (I'm not kidding). According to my calculations (if the cable was overpriced at $100 (copper, not fiber) those people are making each $200/hour. I can hire a consultant a whole day to install my cables and be out cheaper.
It irritates me that people are still holding on to the '7 days' story in the bible account as being literal days. And that they take everything the bible says very literal. I can understand that the bible is a 'good book' and it has very interesting and insightful lessons, but when God created light, sun and earth the 24-hour days didn't exist yet, so what day was used? It could be a day on Jupiter, Mars or Pluto. Really, get a grip and understand that you CAN unify religion (to satisfy the necessity to worship) and science (to satisfy the necessity to learn)
According to the account in several religious books (not only the bible) God created light, sun, stars and moon and that means the first day when that wasn't created yet couldn't have been a 24 hour day since you don't have a reference. Therefore a "day" has to be an unspecified period of time as a 'day' can also mean that.
From Wikipedia:
In the Bible, as a way to describe that time is immaterial to God, one day is described as being like one thousand years (Psalm 90:4, 2 Peter 3:8) to him. Also in 2 Peter 3:8, one thousand years is described as being like one day. However, some Bible experts interpret this more literally as a way to understand some prophecies like those in Book of Daniel and others (like the Book of Revelation) where are mentioned days in form of weeks and years.
Day: The period of light when the Sun is above the local horizon (i.e., the time period from sunrise to sunset). The full day covering a dark and a light period, beginning from the beginning of the dark period or from a point near the middle of the dark period. A full dark and light period, sometimes called a nychthemeron in English, from the Greek for night-day. The time period from 06:00 to 18:00 or 21:00 or some other fixed clock period overlapping or set off from other time periods such as "morning", "evening", or "night". The mostly regular interval of one awaking, usually in the morning (personal day)
I call FUD. I wish Spotlight were indexing my network drive but it doesn't.
It only indexes drives directly attached to the computer and it doesn't necessarily slow down the computer (only when first started and that is when you install Mac OS X 10.4) after that it only indexes (very quickly I might add) any added documents and files.
Well your 'other circumstances' CAN apply for some products, but not the full 250k+
Fell off the truck: those wouldn't be 'sold', they were shipped and lost (or they are still showing up as 'in-stock'), money has not been received for those items. People buying extras in case they break: There is a one-year full warranty and for a few bucks you can get a 3-year replacement warranty. Spending $400 just so I wouldn't have to buy the warranty, doesn't make sense for anyone. Buying for kids/boyfriend/girlfriend: Well, they still need activated (or hacked) before we can use them Buying but waiting for contract to expire: Why? They will still be available (probably cheaper) within a few months. Sure, you can sit on them, but again doesn't make sense unless you hack them and use the functionality without the phone in the mean time. Buying but pissed/waiting for unlock: There are unlocks for both the old and the new firmware, those would be counted as 'hacked' Buying for use outside US: again, how is this not hacked then? Try and unlock/analyze/reverse engineer: again, how is this not hacked? Miscounted or in transit: Miscounts are difficult since they're either sold or not, that number they DO know (otherwise their finances wouldn't be right) they can indeed be in transit or waiting to be unlocked, but not 250,000, probably not even 10,000. Employees/associates who bought it up to make a killing: Well, eventually they are re-sold and either activated or hacked, they won't sit on it until eternity People who want revenge by making them loose money: There are better ways to do it (go into the stock market, buy lots of stock, then dump them) than to buy a non-subsidized phone
Interviewing will be more problematic because hacking is 'illegal' in the US, so people won't be forthcoming about it nor can you round up everybody that bought a phone.
Ever tried legally copying a DVD? Ever tried getting into a movie theater with something that resembles a camcorder-pack (I was being a tourist and wanted to go to the movies)? Ever tried downloading a legal copy of music you like that you can use on any device?
The internet has been around for 30 years now, it ain't going anywhere anytime soon.
We (hopefully) will all be using IPv6 and have 1G fibre-to-the-home and 200M cell phone links and some marketing ploy will call it Internet-3G or Web 5.0 but it will still be the ol' internet with all the spam unless we hire ninja assassins to kill all spam-lords.
Your both geeks, that imaginary wife and girlfriends cannot be tracked unless you have a VR gHelmet and matching suit or modify that roomba for other purposes.... mmm sexy robots
That's RIAA FUD. From experience in a webhosting company, RIAA will just send you a notice that there was illegal music found and just give a listing of ALL similar content (like: delete all MP3's although only one is actually infringing) on the site even though it might not be infringing (copyright law DOES have exceptions) or the site might have been hacked before.
They probably refuse to take down content that is legally protected or that is legally not a full work and even if they take it down, within a few minutes another version might be up again so it sounds like the RIAA is going to have to send a lot of notices to take every single Usenet post down.
'Other law enforcement agencies have seen similar breaches into their 911 systems as part of a trend picked up by computer hackers in the nation called "SWATting"'
Well, if they already have a name for it and they still don't fix a critical system like this, I don't know whether they're ever. If some script kiddie can break into 911, then the OMG TRAINED TERRARIST FROM EASTERN BLOCK can certainly do it as well.
Actually speed limits on the highway only became that low after the Suez Canal crisis. Then a lot of European countries and American states implemented anal speed limits to conserve oil.
I used to drive in a professional setting and 55-65mph WILL put you to sleep after a few hours (why do you think so many truckers cause crashes). Going faster (~90mph) on the highway (where no pedestrians are) will cause you to be more alert to what's happening and will not cause any major crashes. The major crashes are people that are drugged up (either medical or otherwise including alcohol), fall asleep at the wheel, don't pay attention to the road or get distracted (cell phones, kids fighting in the back seat) or shouldn't be on the road in the first place (old people that had their drivers license handed to them in the '70s or that have other medical conditions that impair their vision, hearing or cognition).
Heck, Europe has ~80mph speed limits and they don't cause any more crashes than their American counterparts, lowering speed limits to the point where everybody says "screw that, too slow for me" will cause more problems since 'speed traps' will cause people to brake hard (while it might already be too late if they don't have a radar detector) or there are some people that just 'have to' obey the speed limit slowing down all traffic to a crawl (go on 390 & 490 in and around Rochester, NY to see the results of arbitrarily putting down 40mph zones in the middle of a 3-lane highway). The cause of most traffic jams (now they're doing construction, but otherwise) on that is just because SOME people slow down in the 40mph zone and then as soon as you get through that 40mph zone back to the 55mph zone (where everybody goes 65-70 anyway) traffic clears out.
Actually you'll have to change the TTL prior to failing over. So if you use it for active fail-over and not for scheduled maintenance, the other nameservers will be using your 'old' TTL. A common mistake by cheap webhosters.
The other issue is that TTL is a suggested time for keeping your records alive. The other (caching) nameserver can choose to ignore it (to circumvent stuff like this botnet or just to keep it's own load down) or if it can't reach your nameservers after that TTL you specified it will just wait until the next cycle (2*TTL) or until your Maximum TTL (there is another record for that) has been exceeded which means it will not give any results anymore if it can't contact the nameservers. There are also caching nameservers that set up a minimum TTL which overrides your recommended TTL and maximum TTL.
The Evil Bit? I can imagine 14 bits + 1 parity bit + 1 DRM-bit. But who the heck still uses 16-bit? DOS? Oh, yeah, we're talking about Windows here, maybe they're back to going to real mode, using INT13 for stuff like this?
$249 -> Leopard Server 10-client (which is only applicable for file sharing) $249 -> Leopard Server 10-client to Unlimited license upgrade $499 -> Leopard Server Unlimited
iWork & iLife '08 = $39 or $29 for more than 10 seats
It has to do with computers, the internet, geeks and a left or right hand to stimulate certain nerve endings... that's probably the cause of all that carpal tunnel excuse. Introduce more girls into the world that would accept people here at/. and we'll have the 'cure'
IFPI is not a trademark, it's an acronym . Even if it was a trademarked acronym, TPB could have trademarked their acronym as well (IFPI: International Federation of Pirates Interests) and since they are not in the same business as IFPI they do not infringe on the trademarks. If TPB would be a protection/racketeering agency too, then they might infringe...
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Technically you should say the mousetrap is fully powered when armed, yes with stored energy but it still is powered in a sense, if not, put your fingers where the mouse is supposed to be.
And ideally the mousetrap doesn't draw down energy from the spring, but practically it does. After months or years, the spring will lose tension strength and wait a longer time (if nothing trips it) and it will eventually be all the way back to it's beginning.
I have had this type of rsync backups for years now on personal computers and servers. There are several scripts floating around the internet that do exactly what Time Machine does. The problem is 1) usability and 2) interface.
No end-user is going to put an rsync script in their cron jobs and specify in what mounted partition to store it and then later use rsync to restore the specified files. -- if an end user understands at all what I just said of course
Time Machine's interface is revolutionary. It gives you a way of looking back in time at your own computer and does it in a fancy way consistent with the interface. It does so for any Time Machine enabled application including Mail, Address Book, i*. If you have to restore a piece of mail from backup I doubt you'll know the name of the file it was stored in rsync or any other type of backup let alone knowing how to restore it without removing all the new messages.
Why did we always have to be bashing users for not creating their backups again? Because it was too difficult and too time consuming to make them. Time Machine takes literally 30 seconds to set up and the rest is automated. That's why people will start making backups. It's not difficult anymore and it's going to save me a lot of headaches.
Just my 2c.
Inappropriate work relationship: They would've quietly let him go unless there was a lawsuit brought against him although that might have been known by the press. Maybe he was boning Ballmer's or Gates' wife (or daughter(s))
Divulging info to a competitor: Well, unless he planned on jumping ship he might not have done that. Indeed a good possibility
Inappropriate use of company funds/stock/falsifying data: You don't get fired for that, you resign yourself after a large SEC investigation and get a big cash bonus on top of it. Gee, don't you read the news.
It was either 2: he was boning a higher up (CEO's or board's) wife or daughter or he was caught with kiddy porn.
Well, from experience: the more south or east you go in Europe, the more lax security gets and the less stringent the rules. I went to Crete and the Czech Republic and they didn't even have a x-ray detector for our luggage. Just a metal detector that beeped when I went through it, they just waved me through.
Germans and Austrians however still think they've won the war and can treat anybody as lesser than them. Especially their police and border forces but also the average tourist in Spain or wherever you go. We drove through Germany and Austria several times going to (what was back then) Yugoslavia and when the border patrol stopped us (sometimes even after we drove for about an hour in the country, pulled us over) they walked, talked and treated people like they were from the Gestapo. The Germans in Spain think they can just cut in lines in the super mercado's, drive however they want to on the streets and be plain out rude to everybody that's not German. However, some of us called on them in perfect German and then they back down.
That was already done 2000 years ago, that's not really groundbreaking.
The russians do it too, their water (wodka) is quite strong.
In the case of your doctor or shrink you most likely have an agreement with or the doctor has an agreement with his boss/union/whatever to not publish those facts or your records with your personal information still attached or recoverable from it. In case of them, it still wouldn't be defamation but a breach of privacy/contract or even government compliance (HIPAA in the US) and you can call them on that.
I know from experience because I do work in a research imaging environment and if a case is published with imaging (which is with or without the permission of the subject), special filter programs have to be ran on the imaging (although the imaging is exported without any possible ties to the subjects' information) as to remove the skull bone or other information (implants, injuries...) in the picture that could be used to recover your facial image or identify you.
Now if somebody were to get a hold on your private information from your doctor/shrink and publish it, you can call them out on theft or something else that has to do with illegally obtaining your information and your doctor on negligence. You still can't use defamation if it's true. Now if you tell your friend something in private and he has decided to publish that information or tell it further I doubt you can take any steps against that (IANAL) since you told him and you trusted him not to tell anyone, but he broke your trust. Since there is no contract (unless you get a contract between your friends) then all he knows and says further is hearsay.
The tricky part about hearsay is that he (the publisher) can't verify if what he heard is true upon publishing so he might be defaming you. If you only told him, then you can say in court you didn't and what he says isn't true since nobody else knows, it would be his word against yours in favor of you => defamation. However if he has proof of what you told him is true, then it isn't defamation. If the information is publicly available from a reliable source, then it's not defamation but a repetition of facts and thus free speech or the source is defaming you which you can start a suit against said source.
It already happened a few months ago with the Intel ad-section where Intel marketing got to talk about some of their new stuff. It turned me off from reading those articles but luckily they were clearly marked. If they wouldn't have been, I would've forked Slashdot or so.
I use whois everyday to check domains and IP's from command line. The simplest way to get an IP range is just "whois xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" and then block/allow the whole range depending on your needs.
It's an invaluable network tool and just like DNS, you can't just scrap it. That there is abuse is always going to be a problem and that can be done with any list you put your data on. Ever wondered why you get so much credit card offers in your mailbox? Yes, it's because your name and address is somewhere on a list and most likely you have put yourself on it by using your address with either a banking institute or a vendor. You can't stop abuse by taking away services just like you can't say that you are going to solve those credit card offers in your mailbox by removing the postal services. If you do, the abuse is just going to shift from whois to your webhosters' site or DNS just like the credit card offers will be carried out by FedEx or UPS.
Never worked in big corps that charge between departments? I am an IT department of a department of a larger entity that also has an IT department that provides us with our network.
Last week they had to install 2 network drops. Just 2* CAT6 going from the network closet on the first floor to the network closet on the second floor, there are 10ths of cables already running so all they need to do is feed it. They were busy with 2 people not even 1 hour and then somebody came afterwards to reconfigure switches and document the change for about 1 hour, they used maybe 50 feet of cable. They charged our department more than USD 700 (I'm not kidding). According to my calculations (if the cable was overpriced at $100 (copper, not fiber) those people are making each $200/hour. I can hire a consultant a whole day to install my cables and be out cheaper.
It irritates me that people are still holding on to the '7 days' story in the bible account as being literal days. And that they take everything the bible says very literal. I can understand that the bible is a 'good book' and it has very interesting and insightful lessons, but when God created light, sun and earth the 24-hour days didn't exist yet, so what day was used? It could be a day on Jupiter, Mars or Pluto. Really, get a grip and understand that you CAN unify religion (to satisfy the necessity to worship) and science (to satisfy the necessity to learn)
According to the account in several religious books (not only the bible) God created light, sun, stars and moon and that means the first day when that wasn't created yet couldn't have been a 24 hour day since you don't have a reference. Therefore a "day" has to be an unspecified period of time as a 'day' can also mean that.
From Wikipedia:
In the Bible, as a way to describe that time is immaterial to God, one day is described as being like one thousand years (Psalm 90:4, 2 Peter 3:8) to him. Also in 2 Peter 3:8, one thousand years is described as being like one day. However, some Bible experts interpret this more literally as a way to understand some prophecies like those in Book of Daniel and others (like the Book of Revelation) where are mentioned days in form of weeks and years.
Day:
The period of light when the Sun is above the local horizon (i.e., the time period from sunrise to sunset).
The full day covering a dark and a light period, beginning from the beginning of the dark period or from a point near the middle of the dark period.
A full dark and light period, sometimes called a nychthemeron in English, from the Greek for night-day.
The time period from 06:00 to 18:00 or 21:00 or some other fixed clock period overlapping or set off from other time periods such as "morning", "evening", or "night".
The mostly regular interval of one awaking, usually in the morning (personal day)
GoDaddy's doing it for sure. Several domains that I have probed with their service that are currently not available anymore:
...
http://guruevi.com/
http://pcman.com/
my last name
I call FUD. I wish Spotlight were indexing my network drive but it doesn't.
It only indexes drives directly attached to the computer and it doesn't necessarily slow down the computer (only when first started and that is when you install Mac OS X 10.4) after that it only indexes (very quickly I might add) any added documents and files.
Well your 'other circumstances' CAN apply for some products, but not the full 250k+
Fell off the truck: those wouldn't be 'sold', they were shipped and lost (or they are still showing up as 'in-stock'), money has not been received for those items.
People buying extras in case they break: There is a one-year full warranty and for a few bucks you can get a 3-year replacement warranty. Spending $400 just so I wouldn't have to buy the warranty, doesn't make sense for anyone.
Buying for kids/boyfriend/girlfriend: Well, they still need activated (or hacked) before we can use them
Buying but waiting for contract to expire: Why? They will still be available (probably cheaper) within a few months. Sure, you can sit on them, but again doesn't make sense unless you hack them and use the functionality without the phone in the mean time.
Buying but pissed/waiting for unlock: There are unlocks for both the old and the new firmware, those would be counted as 'hacked'
Buying for use outside US: again, how is this not hacked then?
Try and unlock/analyze/reverse engineer: again, how is this not hacked?
Miscounted or in transit: Miscounts are difficult since they're either sold or not, that number they DO know (otherwise their finances wouldn't be right) they can indeed be in transit or waiting to be unlocked, but not 250,000, probably not even 10,000.
Employees/associates who bought it up to make a killing: Well, eventually they are re-sold and either activated or hacked, they won't sit on it until eternity
People who want revenge by making them loose money: There are better ways to do it (go into the stock market, buy lots of stock, then dump them) than to buy a non-subsidized phone
Interviewing will be more problematic because hacking is 'illegal' in the US, so people won't be forthcoming about it nor can you round up everybody that bought a phone.
The Music and Movie Industry?
Ever tried legally copying a DVD? Ever tried getting into a movie theater with something that resembles a camcorder-pack (I was being a tourist and wanted to go to the movies)? Ever tried downloading a legal copy of music you like that you can use on any device?
I wonder how they will handle the nuclear safety of their own and their crew.
The internet has been around for 30 years now, it ain't going anywhere anytime soon.
We (hopefully) will all be using IPv6 and have 1G fibre-to-the-home and 200M cell phone links and some marketing ploy will call it Internet-3G or Web 5.0 but it will still be the ol' internet with all the spam unless we hire ninja assassins to kill all spam-lords.
Your both geeks, that imaginary wife and girlfriends cannot be tracked unless you have a VR gHelmet and matching suit or modify that roomba for other purposes.... mmm sexy robots
That's RIAA FUD. From experience in a webhosting company, RIAA will just send you a notice that there was illegal music found and just give a listing of ALL similar content (like: delete all MP3's although only one is actually infringing) on the site even though it might not be infringing (copyright law DOES have exceptions) or the site might have been hacked before.
They probably refuse to take down content that is legally protected or that is legally not a full work and even if they take it down, within a few minutes another version might be up again so it sounds like the RIAA is going to have to send a lot of notices to take every single Usenet post down.
'Other law enforcement agencies have seen similar breaches into their 911 systems as part of a trend picked up by computer hackers in the nation called "SWATting"'
Well, if they already have a name for it and they still don't fix a critical system like this, I don't know whether they're ever. If some script kiddie can break into 911, then the OMG TRAINED TERRARIST FROM EASTERN BLOCK can certainly do it as well.
Actually speed limits on the highway only became that low after the Suez Canal crisis. Then a lot of European countries and American states implemented anal speed limits to conserve oil.
I used to drive in a professional setting and 55-65mph WILL put you to sleep after a few hours (why do you think so many truckers cause crashes). Going faster (~90mph) on the highway (where no pedestrians are) will cause you to be more alert to what's happening and will not cause any major crashes. The major crashes are people that are drugged up (either medical or otherwise including alcohol), fall asleep at the wheel, don't pay attention to the road or get distracted (cell phones, kids fighting in the back seat) or shouldn't be on the road in the first place (old people that had their drivers license handed to them in the '70s or that have other medical conditions that impair their vision, hearing or cognition).
Heck, Europe has ~80mph speed limits and they don't cause any more crashes than their American counterparts, lowering speed limits to the point where everybody says "screw that, too slow for me" will cause more problems since 'speed traps' will cause people to brake hard (while it might already be too late if they don't have a radar detector) or there are some people that just 'have to' obey the speed limit slowing down all traffic to a crawl (go on 390 & 490 in and around Rochester, NY to see the results of arbitrarily putting down 40mph zones in the middle of a 3-lane highway). The cause of most traffic jams (now they're doing construction, but otherwise) on that is just because SOME people slow down in the 40mph zone and then as soon as you get through that 40mph zone back to the 55mph zone (where everybody goes 65-70 anyway) traffic clears out.
Actually you'll have to change the TTL prior to failing over. So if you use it for active fail-over and not for scheduled maintenance, the other nameservers will be using your 'old' TTL. A common mistake by cheap webhosters.
The other issue is that TTL is a suggested time for keeping your records alive. The other (caching) nameserver can choose to ignore it (to circumvent stuff like this botnet or just to keep it's own load down) or if it can't reach your nameservers after that TTL you specified it will just wait until the next cycle (2*TTL) or until your Maximum TTL (there is another record for that) has been exceeded which means it will not give any results anymore if it can't contact the nameservers. There are also caching nameservers that set up a minimum TTL which overrides your recommended TTL and maximum TTL.
The Evil Bit? I can imagine 14 bits + 1 parity bit + 1 DRM-bit. But who the heck still uses 16-bit? DOS? Oh, yeah, we're talking about Windows here, maybe they're back to going to real mode, using INT13 for stuff like this?
Since I have access to an Apple EDU store with official pricing:
$69 -> Leopard
$59 -> Leopard >= 10 seats
$49 -> Leopard >= 100 seats
$39 -> Leopard >= 1000 seats
$249 -> Leopard Server 10-client (which is only applicable for file sharing)
$249 -> Leopard Server 10-client to Unlimited license upgrade
$499 -> Leopard Server Unlimited
iWork & iLife '08 = $39 or $29 for more than 10 seats
It has to do with computers, the internet, geeks and a left or right hand to stimulate certain nerve endings... that's probably the cause of all that carpal tunnel excuse. Introduce more girls into the world that would accept people here at /. and we'll have the 'cure'
IFPI is not a trademark, it's an acronym . Even if it was a trademarked acronym, TPB could have trademarked their acronym as well (IFPI: International Federation of Pirates Interests) and since they are not in the same business as IFPI they do not infringe on the trademarks. If TPB would be a protection/racketeering agency too, then they might infringe...