Unfortunately, registering domains in bulk is so cheap that the 5 days of squatting and any further hits over the next year is probably enough to pay for the registration. That being the case, the asshats win anyway.
I believe that Belial is attempting to point out the following series of actions:
1. You have $10K in your day to day account (to which a Visa or Mastercard Debit card is attached). 2. Your debit card number is used in a series of fraudulent transactions totalling $32,450. 3. Your account is overdrawn, netting you a $30 fee from your bank. 4. You dispute all the charges. 5. You cannot pay your mortgage (and your salary is only beginning to make a dent on your debt to the bank). This costs you an extra $2000 in interest charges each month, along with fees for failure to pay. The bank graciously extends your mortgage rather than foreclosing. The debit from your account is declined, netting you a $50 fee from your bank each month. 6. You cannot pay your electricity bill. You get charged penalties. The debit from your account is declined, netting you a $50 fee from your bank each month. 7. You cannot pay your water bill. You get charged penalties. The debit from your account is declined, netting you a $50 fee from your bank each month. 8. You cannot pay phone, gas, and other bills. You get charged penalties. The debits from your account are declined, netting you $150 fees from your bank each month. 9. Visa/Mastercard and your bank send you a letter requiring a statutory declaration (or equivalent in your country) saying you didn't auth the charges, even though they have no signature. 10. You cannot buy food. The debit from your account is declined, netting you a $50 fee from your bank each month. 11. You die from starvation. The debit from your account for your funeral is declined, netting you a $50 fee from your bank. 12. The $32,450 is refunded to your account. It pays off part of the debt caused by the recurring overdraft charges, interest charges, payment declined fees, and the extra interest on your mortgage. 13. Your wife is forced to sell the house to pay off the mortgage. She and your kids live in poverty after she is forced to declare bankruptcy.
Total cost for 2 years of disputed charges that were never yours: $55,200 (24 months of $2000 mortgage interest and $300 fees/overdraft charges, ignoring any other costs incurred as a result of the fraud). Total refund from Visa/Mastercard/Bank: $32,450.
Total cost to you: $22,750.
(Note: Some items above may have been slightly dramatized to increase their impact)
I doubt it - the moon rotates on its axis precisely once per revolution of the earth, so the part of the moon facing the earth always changes. As a result, we can take see just over 50% of the moon's surface [ref: http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html] from Earth. Pictures of the far side must be taken by a lunar satellite.
Modern hard drives just take a second to read 4GB... Dude... which alternate universe do YOUR hard drives come from?! I can't find any consumer drives that can beat 50-60MB/sec... (that's almost 2 orders of magnitude difference).
All it's missing is iSCSI support for it to be a diskless yet completely functional desktop. Central storage (and upgrade) of apps, documents and settings, just by mounting the appropriate partitions from a large, fast shared disk array.
It gets worse. While inhouse software is often to blame, there's also a wonderful piece of software from our friends at Oracle called JInitiator.
Only some versions work with IE7. One of my current clients is deploying a new SOE with, you guessed it, IE6, because (they say) to upgrade JInitiator to a version that supports IE7 and Vista also requires server upgrades, and lots of $ in the budget.
I'm not an Oracle expert so I cannot verify this, but it sounds like a typical Oracle thing, so I'm not dismissing it yet.
You're working with some assumed knowledge - you know that Synaptic is the package manager (heck, you know what a package manager is!)
When I first tried Ubuntu it took me hours and hours to find that Synaptic existed - yes I know there's an interface in the Ubuntu GUI now, but there wasn't when I first used it.
What seems to make it harder is that the last time I tried to find the package manager in the man pages I didn't know it was called a package manager - and even with UNIX experience (and the subsequent knowledge of man -k) I didn't have the right context with which to find the right tool.
Bad analogy - if you don't know what a spade is called, you may not find it in the Sears online catalogue, because you're looking for "digging tool".
Not quite. If it were a direct analogue of RAID 0, as you postulate, then the failure of a single manned capsule would imply the failure of the whole lot.
The way it should be setup, is that the helpdesk has a button that says "Reset this users password" that generates a new random password and e-mails it to the user, using the e-mail address tied to that username.
How, exactly, is the user supposed to get the email, when they can't log on to the network? If you're going to do password resets in such a fashion that the helpdesk cannot know the password, you need to have a suitable "out-of-band" delivery mechanism for the password. SMS to a mobile is out for security reasons, paper would require someone deliver it (no good for remote locations, doesn't scale, too slow etc etc etc).
Perhaps the answer is a common logon that is restricted to running only a password reset program, or a password reset integrated into the logon screen of whatever system floats your boat (I've seen them on NetWare, Windows... *nix can't be that hard to add if it isn't already there...). The only problem is that many environments actually have data showing an increase in password calls to the helpdesk _after_ the implementation of user-initiated password resets. Apparently over half the calls are "I can't remember the answer to my sooper-sekret question".
A hint for these systems; someone wiser than I once wrote "If you do enter information into a password reset system, don't answer the questions with real answers. Choose a nonsense answer and use it as the answer for every question:"
What is your favourite colour?
--> Quack Quack
What was your first phone number?
--> Quack Quack
What is your mother's maiden name?
--> Quack Quack
And guess what? Those linux PCs running Evolution against the Exchange Server need CALs. It's pretty clearly spelled out at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/howtobuy/default .mspx (Exchange 2007 - but 2003, 2000, 5.5, 5.0 and 4.0 were the same):
Exchange Server is licensed in the Server / Client Access License (CAL) model. Under this model, an Exchange Server license is required for each operating system environment running Exchange Server. A CAL is required for each user or device accessing Exchange Server.
Note the complete lack of qualifiers on the CAL statement - all users or devices must be licensed. No you don't need to double-license a user.
People wouldn't stand for this with their cars or their toasters, but they go along with it for the most crucial part of their businesses! Whatta scam!
You know, it's strange, but I don't recall getting a copy of the source code for my ECU when I bought my last car. And I don't see any way I can upgrade it in place; the manufacturer owns the code and generally epoxies the ECU so it can't be easily tampered with. Hell, they generally try not to release the error codes to anyone either!
The same could be said for the circuits in my toaster, my microwave, my hard disks, the BIOS, the office aircon, etc etc etc
Yes, in my car I can cut the ECU wires and replace the ECU, or put in a piggyback ECU in series or parallel with the car's ECU, but it's definitely not the same as fixing it if it's broken, or improving it where it's weak. And I don't have control over it, so following your logic, I don't have control over my car. In some ways those modifications are rather similar to installing Linux or BSD on your PC.
So it sounds like people do stand for it, with most of the appliances they own. And let's face it, to a large number of people (smart and stupid alike), cars and computers are both appliances.
Meh, I figure if I accidentally take out some SOB who actually has a life, I'll get off with good behaviour anyway (apologies to the BOFH of course).
You have to figure ONE of the jurors has a BT-enabled phone. Just arrange to have someone send that person 2386523897 copies of goatse, tubgirl et al during the trial using dozens of different BT device names and lots of enticing filenames.
Actually, VT is required on the Intel chips (and Rev F chips seem to be required for Opteron) to run 64-bit VMs on VMWare Server. The free one.
I just replaced the CPUs (820's with 940's) in a pair of servers we use for lab virtualisation, to get 64-bit guest capability. The 820 is a dual core supporting EM64T, just not VT.
Someone should have modded you "-1 Idiot" because you failed to understand that the owner of the copyright sued a parody site. Parody is protected speech I believe (no, IANAL either) and the lawsuit therefore has no basis.
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Unfortunately, registering domains in bulk is so cheap that the 5 days of squatting and any further hits over the next year is probably enough to pay for the registration. That being the case, the asshats win anyway.
No, not the entire continent, just Tel$tra.
It's such a wonderful company name too:
T ell
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L ies
S o
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A ccumulates
(I can't take credit for it, it's not mine. But I still like it. And it's still true.)
Oh, notice I'm not saying he's correct, or wrong. I suspect it will depend entirely on your own specific circumstances.
But I think I have explained what he meant.
I believe that Belial is attempting to point out the following series of actions:
1. You have $10K in your day to day account (to which a Visa or Mastercard Debit card is attached).
2. Your debit card number is used in a series of fraudulent transactions totalling $32,450.
3. Your account is overdrawn, netting you a $30 fee from your bank.
4. You dispute all the charges.
5. You cannot pay your mortgage (and your salary is only beginning to make a dent on your debt to the bank). This costs you an extra $2000 in interest charges each month, along with fees for failure to pay. The bank graciously extends your mortgage rather than foreclosing. The debit from your account is declined, netting you a $50 fee from your bank each month.
6. You cannot pay your electricity bill. You get charged penalties. The debit from your account is declined, netting you a $50 fee from your bank each month.
7. You cannot pay your water bill. You get charged penalties. The debit from your account is declined, netting you a $50 fee from your bank each month.
8. You cannot pay phone, gas, and other bills. You get charged penalties. The debits from your account are declined, netting you $150 fees from your bank each month.
9. Visa/Mastercard and your bank send you a letter requiring a statutory declaration (or equivalent in your country) saying you didn't auth the charges, even though they have no signature.
10. You cannot buy food. The debit from your account is declined, netting you a $50 fee from your bank each month.
11. You die from starvation. The debit from your account for your funeral is declined, netting you a $50 fee from your bank.
12. The $32,450 is refunded to your account. It pays off part of the debt caused by the recurring overdraft charges, interest charges, payment declined fees, and the extra interest on your mortgage.
13. Your wife is forced to sell the house to pay off the mortgage. She and your kids live in poverty after she is forced to declare bankruptcy.
Total cost for 2 years of disputed charges that were never yours: $55,200 (24 months of $2000 mortgage interest and $300 fees/overdraft charges, ignoring any other costs incurred as a result of the fraud).
Total refund from Visa/Mastercard/Bank: $32,450.
Total cost to you: $22,750.
(Note: Some items above may have been slightly dramatized to increase their impact)
Oh for goodness sake. Previewed the darn thing twice and STILL missed it:
...)
The part of the moon facing the earth NEVER changes.
Doofus!
(I'd have posted this sooner if I didn't have to wait a few hours between comments
I doubt it - the moon rotates on its axis precisely once per revolution of the earth, so the part of the moon facing the earth always changes. As a result, we can take see just over 50% of the moon's surface [ref: http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html] from Earth. Pictures of the far side must be taken by a lunar satellite.
The Viewer's Choice winner was "The Problem with Math". Ducky was the judges' winner.
All it's missing is iSCSI support for it to be a diskless yet completely functional desktop. Central storage (and upgrade) of apps, documents and settings, just by mounting the appropriate partitions from a large, fast shared disk array.
It gets worse. While inhouse software is often to blame, there's also a wonderful piece of software from our friends at Oracle called JInitiator.
Only some versions work with IE7. One of my current clients is deploying a new SOE with, you guessed it, IE6, because (they say) to upgrade JInitiator to a version that supports IE7 and Vista also requires server upgrades, and lots of $ in the budget.
I'm not an Oracle expert so I cannot verify this, but it sounds like a typical Oracle thing, so I'm not dismissing it yet.
Wait, that's two. Our two chief weapons are surprise, a floppy disk ... and an external hard disk.
You're working with some assumed knowledge - you know that Synaptic is the package manager (heck, you know what a package manager is!)
When I first tried Ubuntu it took me hours and hours to find that Synaptic existed - yes I know there's an interface in the Ubuntu GUI now, but there wasn't when I first used it.
What seems to make it harder is that the last time I tried to find the package manager in the man pages I didn't know it was called a package manager - and even with UNIX experience (and the subsequent knowledge of man -k) I didn't have the right context with which to find the right tool.
Bad analogy - if you don't know what a spade is called, you may not find it in the Sears online catalogue, because you're looking for "digging tool".
Next time could you put the NSFW tags on it? Please!?
Not quite. If it were a direct analogue of RAID 0, as you postulate, then the failure of a single manned capsule would imply the failure of the whole lot.
It just doesn't fit the RAID model all that well.
And it's obviously not possible for the APIs to suddenly stop working. (I'm not saying they will, I'm playing devil's advocate a bit here).
So your data are on the Google servers, because you've been using GMail for years.
Tomorrow POP3 is disabled, because "Demand is very low and there's still IMAP4".
Next week IMAP4 stops working, because "We're experiencing service difficulties".
And in a month the APIs are killed off, because "We've been notified that APIs X, Y and Z have security vulnerabilities that cannot be fixed".
So now your data is completely inaccessible except via the web service.
How, exactly, is the user supposed to get the email, when they can't log on to the network? If you're going to do password resets in such a fashion that the helpdesk cannot know the password, you need to have a suitable "out-of-band" delivery mechanism for the password. SMS to a mobile is out for security reasons, paper would require someone deliver it (no good for remote locations, doesn't scale, too slow etc etc etc).
Perhaps the answer is a common logon that is restricted to running only a password reset program, or a password reset integrated into the logon screen of whatever system floats your boat (I've seen them on NetWare, Windows ... *nix can't be that hard to add if it isn't already there ...). The only problem is that many environments actually have data showing an increase in password calls to the helpdesk _after_ the implementation of user-initiated password resets. Apparently over half the calls are "I can't remember the answer to my sooper-sekret question".
A hint for these systems; someone wiser than I once wrote "If you do enter information into a password reset system, don't answer the questions with real answers. Choose a nonsense answer and use it as the answer for every question:"
What is your favourite colour? --> Quack Quack What was your first phone number? --> Quack Quack What is your mother's maiden name? --> Quack QuackWait, your 2 year old is 12cm wide and shiny?
Damn, mine must have been defective!
Oh dear ... that's priceless. Wonder how long until a user of one of THOSE PCs calls up?
I'd have modded you up but I'm skint :)
And guess what? Those linux PCs running Evolution against the Exchange Server need CALs. It's pretty clearly spelled out at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/howtobuy/default .mspx (Exchange 2007 - but 2003, 2000, 5.5, 5.0 and 4.0 were the same):
Note the complete lack of qualifiers on the CAL statement - all users or devices must be licensed. No you don't need to double-license a user.
You know, it's strange, but I don't recall getting a copy of the source code for my ECU when I bought my last car. And I don't see any way I can upgrade it in place; the manufacturer owns the code and generally epoxies the ECU so it can't be easily tampered with. Hell, they generally try not to release the error codes to anyone either!
The same could be said for the circuits in my toaster, my microwave, my hard disks, the BIOS, the office aircon, etc etc etc
Yes, in my car I can cut the ECU wires and replace the ECU, or put in a piggyback ECU in series or parallel with the car's ECU, but it's definitely not the same as fixing it if it's broken, or improving it where it's weak. And I don't have control over it, so following your logic, I don't have control over my car. In some ways those modifications are rather similar to installing Linux or BSD on your PC.
So it sounds like people do stand for it, with most of the appliances they own. And let's face it, to a large number of people (smart and stupid alike), cars and computers are both appliances.
Ooh, I just realised, the absolute best fake Bluetooth device name has to be "XXX_Cust_Svc" where XXX is one of the mobile providers in the country.
Meh, I figure if I accidentally take out some SOB who actually has a life, I'll get off with good behaviour anyway (apologies to the BOFH of course).
You have to figure ONE of the jurors has a BT-enabled phone. Just arrange to have someone send that person 2386523897 copies of goatse, tubgirl et al during the trial using dozens of different BT device names and lots of enticing filenames.
He/she will hang the jury guaranteed (at worst).
Actually, VT is required on the Intel chips (and Rev F chips seem to be required for Opteron) to run 64-bit VMs on VMWare Server. The free one.
I just replaced the CPUs (820's with 940's) in a pair of servers we use for lab virtualisation, to get 64-bit guest capability. The 820 is a dual core supporting EM64T, just not VT.
Someone should have modded you "-1 Idiot" because you failed to understand that the owner of the copyright sued a parody site. Parody is protected speech I believe (no, IANAL either) and the lawsuit therefore has no basis.