Take note everyone, this is a variant of the Conficker worm, though much more nefarious. According to preliminary reports, it will harness the power of infected, "zombie" computers to flood the internet with pretty pictures of butterflies, ponies, and various other graphic files. The only sure-fire way to protect yourselves is to do a 'search' on your PC for any file with the.JPG extension and delete it.
Hurry, there is precious little time left. The end is pretty frickin' nigh.
An American harpist reported that her music helped calm sick digs at a Florida vet's clinic and one online retailer sells specially selected CDs for cats.
Excerpt from "Snatch" for reference:
- Is the big fella not coming with us? - He's minding the car.
- What does he think we are, thieves? - No, nothing like that.
- He just likes looking after cars. - Good dags. Do you like dags?
- Dags? - What?
- Yeah, dags. - Dags. You like dags?
Oh, dogs.
Sure, I like dags.
- I like caravans more. - You're very welcome.
Pikeys are well-known for their skills of negotiation in business.
It's probably why they talk like that...... so you can't follow what's being said.
that tagged this story "eHamburglar", but I want to thank you. For whatever reason, that struck me so funny that I laughed out loud...so loudly that I can only truly call it a "guffaw", and as a result, everyone within earshot of my office is convinced I'm off my meds.
Mod Parent up!! This is the area of one's "ability" that so often gets overlooked in the various "studies" that seem to come out periodically (probably because it's so difficult to quantify). Too often, people focus on specific and often technical skills in their particular field, and completely disregard the "people skills". For those interested, I must recommend this book.
And then there's the whole light temperature issue, which is very difficult for a consumer to determine.
I second this. A couple of years ago, I was trying to implement a LEED/EnergyStar retrofit at the Corporate Campus of a major financial provider. They had 29 elevators all with these horrible, 50W halogen lamps with a life of +/- 2000 hours. I got with a few lighting vendors who were able to provide me some LED retrofits. I was asking for something in the 'warm white' range (i.e. 3500K). Well, despite the manufacturers' assurances, these things were as blue as they come. The only thing that was missing was a Velvet Elvis poster in the back of each elevator car.
No doubt. I submitted this last week as the rumor mill was getting churned up. Sad to say, it looks like a few people saw it coming, and with what's happening at HP, Intel, and Sun, it wasn't totally out of the (big) blue.
bout the rock stars : their particularity is that, unlike an opera diva, or a virtuoso violinist, they have a very big audience. Their money is (was ?) made through record sales. Given an international success, one (studio) performance could lead to a huge monetary return. That is the accident. That is the passing fad and that is what **AA are fighting to preserve. I still believe that the fortune of the most wealthy modern singers are without historical precedents. According to a quick Google Search, Michael Jackson would have close to a billion dollars of assets, Madonna would have even more than that, according to another source. There have been rich artists in the past, but not at this scale.
You are incorrect, sir. Successful artists (particularly those working with record labels) do not make the majority of their money through music sales. Rather, they tend to make more money through live performances, merchandising and (if they were actually able to maintain the rights to their songs as part of their contract(s)) licensing their recordings for commercial use.
I still believe that being an artist is not a job. The job you are looking for is entertainer. Creating art is a different piece of work that won't have you making something of value every month
You have a right to your beliefs, however not everyone shares those beliefs. While being an artist may be an unconventional means of employment, it is still a viable means of employment. I think you are trying to equate the "regularity" of a "conventional" job with validity. That is, you seem to postulate that because being an artist may generate income irregularly (i.e. not necessarily monthly) which seems kind of short sighted to me. Is this really any different than any job where a person works on commission only? There are plenty of sales people/real estate agents who go months without a paycheck. Do you feel differently about a writer? Writers often take months/years to write a book, and generally do not get paid until they go to press and start selling books, so does that make them less valid as "workers"?
This is marginally interesting, but light on specifics. I mean, the article claims that the new Data Center is going to use "renewable energy" to power it, however it doesn't explain what kind of renewable energy or how it's going to do so.
Furthermore, while the air side economizer is a great idea (and more data centers should be using it), there is no description of what supplemental, mechanical cooling there will be in this facility. I can't honestly believe that there will never be a need for any cooling other than what mother nature is providing. Sure, geographically, it's bound to be cooler than say the southwest U.S. but there are still apt to be days in the summer where temperatures make it implausible to be on "economizer only".
Insightful?? Come on mods! I respect if your preference is for John, but that's your opinion and hardly an Insightful comment on their music. It is kind of interesting that you like Sgt. Pepper given how many of the songs have Paul taking the lead vocal (Getting Better, Fixing a Hole, Lovely Rita, etc). For me, I like the balance/juxtaposing of John and Paul, but that's just my opinion.
Michael Jackson is still making plenty of money from the Beatles' music. Also, a music publisher has plenty of say as to who can license music that they hold the rights to. This is precisely why we're seeing more and more Beatles' music in commercials for Target, or for use in the Cirque du Soleil. It ain't cause Paul McCartney wants to, it's because Michael Jackson wants some cash.
Half of the homes (give or take half of a house) would be under the "median price", in either case. Unlike the mean, how far some go above or below it doesn't affect it. If the prices were $5, $5, $5, $60000, $80000, $80000, and $85000, $60000 would be the median.
Well, that example would be true, and I realize that half of the homes would be below the median price and half would be above. My point essentially was that I thought (and was correct) that the median price he was quoting sounded a little on the high side.
I know we're off on a tangent from the main story's topic, but I just took issue with the idea that someone making $75,000 a year can't own a home. Consider that if you calculate his monthly, bring-home pay, he's looking at between $3900 and $4000 (depending on 401k, benefits, other deductions). Consider also that even if he gets a home for $325K, if you calculate his monthly mortgage payment at current iterest rates, he's looking at a payment of around $1900/month which should be quite do-able.
I agree that the guy's not going to have money coming out his ears, I just disagree with the idea that trying to own a home at that salary, even in that town, doesn't necessarily have to be "living beyond your means". All it really ends up being about is, how much are you willing to work/sacrifice to make it happen.
Median home price hit 625k here. A bad place in the bay is about 425k, condos *start* at 450k and quickly move to 550k.
I'm gonna have to call "shenanigans" on your $$ figures there. According to this it would appear there are plenty of homes one could buy that are FAR less than your supposed $625K "median" price.
A total of 7,271 new and resale houses and condominiums sold last month in the nine-county region, marking a 0.5 percent uptick from August. The median sales price fell 36 percent from a year earlier to a five-year low of $400,000, MDA DataQuick said.
That's kind of what I thought. IANAP, but in the electrical engineering world, particularly in Critical applications, there is a lot of testing and commissioning that goes on prior to bringing something online. Does anyone know if there are tests that can be done on this equipment to rule out such flaws? Something similar to "megger" testing or Infrared Scans and Load Banking? It would have been nice for them to have had this happen during commissioning rather than during "online activities".
I agree that this is one way to go, but I wonder if there isn't a simpler way: store your "private" data in an obscure folder. Chances are, the border police aren't going to have oceans of time to pore over every bit and byte on your system searching for stuff (nor do most of them likely have the technical skills to look deeply into your system), so as long as your laptop appears like a "normal" laptop, I'd be willing to bet you get by.
For example, if you're running Windows, stick a few pictures in your My Pictures folder, then store the rest of your stuff in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Components or something like that and just don't act all jittery and odd while they're inspecting your laptop (if they even do).
Emailhosting.com has been great for me. I was one of those poor souls who got sucked into oblivion when RegisterFly tanked, and took a chance on Emailhosting, and I have to say I've been quite pleased. $20 a year, decent spam filters, fast servers, it's been all I need for my site.
downtime costs per hour (if not minute) equal to the cost of the hardware
No argument there, and I'm not stepping past the potential losses in terms of business impact, I'm simply pointing out that the cost of the machines themselves aren't exactly negligible (regardless of how those costs stack up compared to other costs). As you probably know, there are people within an organization who get their butts chewed when a service stops running on a box and there are also those who get their butts chewed when a piece of hardware fails. I'm saying that just because the potential loss in revenue during the outage may be higher than the cost of the box, doesn't make the thousands of dollars invested in that box immaterial, cause someone's going to have to answer for it.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been watching this ConFlickr worm closely
Take note everyone, this is a variant of the Conficker worm, though much more nefarious. According to preliminary reports, it will harness the power of infected, "zombie" computers to flood the internet with pretty pictures of butterflies, ponies, and various other graphic files. The only sure-fire way to protect yourselves is to do a 'search' on your PC for any file with the .JPG extension and delete it.
Hurry, there is precious little time left. The end is pretty frickin' nigh.
An American harpist reported that her music helped calm sick digs at a Florida vet's clinic and one online retailer sells specially selected CDs for cats.
Excerpt from "Snatch" for reference:
- Is the big fella not coming with us?
- He's minding the car.
- What does he think we are, thieves?
- No, nothing like that.
- He just likes looking after cars.
- Good dags. Do you like dags?
- Dags? - What?
- Yeah, dags. - Dags. You like dags?
Oh, dogs. Sure, I like dags.
- I like caravans more.
- You're very welcome.
Pikeys are well-known for their skills of negotiation in business. It's probably why they talk like that... ... so you can't follow what's being said.
that tagged this story "eHamburglar", but I want to thank you. For whatever reason, that struck me so funny that I laughed out loud...so loudly that I can only truly call it a "guffaw", and as a result, everyone within earshot of my office is convinced I'm off my meds.
Mod Parent up!! This is the area of one's "ability" that so often gets overlooked in the various "studies" that seem to come out periodically (probably because it's so difficult to quantify). Too often, people focus on specific and often technical skills in their particular field, and completely disregard the "people skills". For those interested, I must recommend this book.
(BIGGER SECRET: If you're industrious and smart, and you have the ability to adapt to your environment, you don't HAVE to have a degree)
;-)
Man, your poor slash key has a hard life.
And then there's the whole light temperature issue, which is very difficult for a consumer to determine.
I second this. A couple of years ago, I was trying to implement a LEED/EnergyStar retrofit at the Corporate Campus of a major financial provider. They had 29 elevators all with these horrible, 50W halogen lamps with a life of +/- 2000 hours. I got with a few lighting vendors who were able to provide me some LED retrofits. I was asking for something in the 'warm white' range (i.e. 3500K). Well, despite the manufacturers' assurances, these things were as blue as they come. The only thing that was missing was a Velvet Elvis poster in the back of each elevator car.
Needless to say, we didn't go with LEDs.
No doubt. I submitted this last week as the rumor mill was getting churned up. Sad to say, it looks like a few people saw it coming, and with what's happening at HP, Intel, and Sun, it wasn't totally out of the (big) blue.
You could ask Sheik Yerbouti, he'd probably know.
There are over 3000 recorded (cover) versions of "Yesterday". I doubt even "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" or Beethoven's 9th comes close.
Yeah, you're probably right.
*Disclaimer: I'm a big Beatles fan, but I had to take issue with that statement.
bout the rock stars : their particularity is that, unlike an opera diva, or a virtuoso violinist, they have a very big audience. Their money is (was ?) made through record sales. Given an international success, one (studio) performance could lead to a huge monetary return. That is the accident. That is the passing fad and that is what **AA are fighting to preserve. I still believe that the fortune of the most wealthy modern singers are without historical precedents. According to a quick Google Search, Michael Jackson would have close to a billion dollars of assets, Madonna would have even more than that, according to another source. There have been rich artists in the past, but not at this scale.
You are incorrect, sir. Successful artists (particularly those working with record labels) do not make the majority of their money through music sales. Rather, they tend to make more money through live performances, merchandising and (if they were actually able to maintain the rights to their songs as part of their contract(s)) licensing their recordings for commercial use.
I still believe that being an artist is not a job. The job you are looking for is entertainer. Creating art is a different piece of work that won't have you making something of value every month
You have a right to your beliefs, however not everyone shares those beliefs. While being an artist may be an unconventional means of employment, it is still a viable means of employment. I think you are trying to equate the "regularity" of a "conventional" job with validity. That is, you seem to postulate that because being an artist may generate income irregularly (i.e. not necessarily monthly) which seems kind of short sighted to me. Is this really any different than any job where a person works on commission only? There are plenty of sales people/real estate agents who go months without a paycheck. Do you feel differently about a writer? Writers often take months/years to write a book, and generally do not get paid until they go to press and start selling books, so does that make them less valid as "workers"?
Yes, Dante, we know all about it, and we know you weren't supposed to be there that day too. Maybe you could just have some Chewlies gum instead.
d'oh, I mean muggs.
Apologies to muggs for inadvertantly filling his inbox
Imagine, a guy with the name muggs would have the inside scoop on this story.
This is marginally interesting, but light on specifics. I mean, the article claims that the new Data Center is going to use "renewable energy" to power it, however it doesn't explain what kind of renewable energy or how it's going to do so.
Furthermore, while the air side economizer is a great idea (and more data centers should be using it), there is no description of what supplemental, mechanical cooling there will be in this facility. I can't honestly believe that there will never be a need for any cooling other than what mother nature is providing. Sure, geographically, it's bound to be cooler than say the southwest U.S. but there are still apt to be days in the summer where temperatures make it implausible to be on "economizer only".
Insightful?? Come on mods! I respect if your preference is for John, but that's your opinion and hardly an Insightful comment on their music. It is kind of interesting that you like Sgt. Pepper given how many of the songs have Paul taking the lead vocal (Getting Better, Fixing a Hole, Lovely Rita, etc). For me, I like the balance/juxtaposing of John and Paul, but that's just my opinion.
Michael Jackson is still making plenty of money from the Beatles' music. Also, a music publisher has plenty of say as to who can license music that they hold the rights to. This is precisely why we're seeing more and more Beatles' music in commercials for Target, or for use in the Cirque du Soleil. It ain't cause Paul McCartney wants to, it's because Michael Jackson wants some cash.
Half of the homes (give or take half of a house) would be under the "median price", in either case. Unlike the mean, how far some go above or below it doesn't affect it. If the prices were $5, $5, $5, $60000, $80000, $80000, and $85000, $60000 would be the median.
Well, that example would be true, and I realize that half of the homes would be below the median price and half would be above. My point essentially was that I thought (and was correct) that the median price he was quoting sounded a little on the high side.
I know we're off on a tangent from the main story's topic, but I just took issue with the idea that someone making $75,000 a year can't own a home. Consider that if you calculate his monthly, bring-home pay, he's looking at between $3900 and $4000 (depending on 401k, benefits, other deductions). Consider also that even if he gets a home for $325K, if you calculate his monthly mortgage payment at current iterest rates, he's looking at a payment of around $1900/month which should be quite do-able.
I agree that the guy's not going to have money coming out his ears, I just disagree with the idea that trying to own a home at that salary, even in that town, doesn't necessarily have to be "living beyond your means". All it really ends up being about is, how much are you willing to work/sacrifice to make it happen.
Median home price hit 625k here. A bad place in the bay is about 425k, condos *start* at 450k and quickly move to 550k.
I'm gonna have to call "shenanigans" on your $$ figures there. According to this it would appear there are plenty of homes one could buy that are FAR less than your supposed $625K "median" price.
While we're on it, according to this:
A total of 7,271 new and resale houses and condominiums sold last month in the nine-county region, marking a 0.5 percent uptick from August. The median sales price fell 36 percent from a year earlier to a five-year low of $400,000, MDA DataQuick said.
"assembly" is an adjective
As long as we're beating a dead horse...no, "asssembly" isn't an adjective, it's a noun.
Example: This assembly is broken.
"Assembled" would be an adjective.
That's kind of what I thought. IANAP, but in the electrical engineering world, particularly in Critical applications, there is a lot of testing and commissioning that goes on prior to bringing something online. Does anyone know if there are tests that can be done on this equipment to rule out such flaws? Something similar to "megger" testing or Infrared Scans and Load Banking? It would have been nice for them to have had this happen during commissioning rather than during "online activities".
I agree that this is one way to go, but I wonder if there isn't a simpler way: store your "private" data in an obscure folder. Chances are, the border police aren't going to have oceans of time to pore over every bit and byte on your system searching for stuff (nor do most of them likely have the technical skills to look deeply into your system), so as long as your laptop appears like a "normal" laptop, I'd be willing to bet you get by.
For example, if you're running Windows, stick a few pictures in your My Pictures folder, then store the rest of your stuff in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Components or something like that and just don't act all jittery and odd while they're inspecting your laptop (if they even do).
Emailhosting.com has been great for me. I was one of those poor souls who got sucked into oblivion when RegisterFly tanked, and took a chance on Emailhosting, and I have to say I've been quite pleased. $20 a year, decent spam filters, fast servers, it's been all I need for my site.
downtime costs per hour (if not minute) equal to the cost of the hardware
No argument there, and I'm not stepping past the potential losses in terms of business impact, I'm simply pointing out that the cost of the machines themselves aren't exactly negligible (regardless of how those costs stack up compared to other costs). As you probably know, there are people within an organization who get their butts chewed when a service stops running on a box and there are also those who get their butts chewed when a piece of hardware fails. I'm saying that just because the potential loss in revenue during the outage may be higher than the cost of the box, doesn't make the thousands of dollars invested in that box immaterial, cause someone's going to have to answer for it.
Just my 2 cents.
I don't know about that. They look expensive to me, though I guess it depends on the specific options.