Right.
The reason they do the studies and research about why things don't work is because most of the money for NASA is from the taxpayers. If it was private then things would probably be different, not that I'm for a privatized NASA.
Whats interesting is that the American public and politicians don't give a crap when billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars go for questionable (at best) military endeavors and projects that even the Pentagon says are a waste...
Yes, T/S is a joke. I wasted much time and energy with Sonicwall's (ahem...) support over this last weekend. Then I realized the problem was that the firmware I installed on the fw was corrupt...
Ahh yes, history repeating itself before our very eyes...
This is simply more proof that the U.S. is on it's way down in world status. Don't give me that krap about wage parity either, because the Asians will for the forseeable future, have much more abundant labor force that is better educated than our (ahem...) immigrant labor force.
Forget the fact that more and more R&D will be done in China and India, but ALL the manufacturing will be done there. Americans and our ridiculously non-patriotic and money-grubbing politicians live in a fantasy world of a 'service industry' panacea. We'll live in a country of cooks, cleaners and corporate crooks...
From someone who did t/s for years I can assure you that from the accounting/shareholders perspective, tech support is nothing but a hole. It is a money loser that they would rather consign to the depths than invest in training, customer contact database upgrades, etc; I used to hear it repeatedly that support wasn't a \revenue\generator.
" What is the Singularity? Sometime in the next few years or decades, humanity will become capable of surpassing the upper limit on intelligence that has held since the rise of the human species. We will become capable of technologically creating smarter-than-human intelligence, perhaps through enhancement of the human brain, direct links between computers and the brain, or Artificial Intelligence. This event is called the "Singularity" by analogy with the singularity at the center of a black hole - just as our current model of physics breaks down when it attempts to describe the center of a black hole, our model of the future breaks down once the future contains smarter-than-human minds. Since technology is the product of cognition, the Singularity is an effect that snowballs once it occurs - the first smart minds can create smarter minds, and smarter minds can produce still smarter minds."
Can't syn cookies help against DDOS attacks?
I agree that a vigilante approach is not the best way to deal with this, but at the same time, to continue paying off the extortionists will probably only lead to more of the same behavior.
Well, all I can tell you is that I'm not lds, but I have lived in Utah most of my life and I married someone who was raised lds, as were most of my friends. I also know and work with people who are direct descendents of polygamists. These are people who have a large number of siblings, something on the order of 50 or more. Yes, check that number again, 50 or more. The polygamists in Utah have what could loosely be termed "compounds", not only in the lonesome deserts of southern Utah/northern Arizona, but right in the thick of the urbanized Wasatch Front. This is common knowledge to most Utahns, lds or not.
I think you would best be served reading "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" by Jon Krakauer.
This is the guy who wrote "Into thin air" about a disastrous Everest expedition. Also check this link: http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/polygamy/los tboys.htm
One of my users, a west coast sales rep, uses internet cafes. I have warned him about the possibility of his wireless connection being hijacked, among other things. I would avoid using unsecured connections if possible... Use a vpn client if possible. But a keylogger would/could catch that too...
Personally, if you are going to use an unsecured connection, then don't access your bank account or anything of that nature while doing it.
Stick to a basic email account you don't care about, like a yahoo account.
Email things like, "The Germans never take showers!" or "Why are they showing another Harry Potter movie on the plane?"
You might also want to note that polygamy in Utah has been \ignored\ and \accepted\ since the late 19th century. The polygamist communities in Utah and other western states and Canada own large tracts of land and several powerful business interests... They number in the tens if not hundreds of thousands.
This is typical neo-con krap; or should I say kompassionate konservative koalition?
I remember when those on the rotwing were all for smaller government, etc; They were also for fiscal responsibility...; remember that one? They would scream bloody murder when new laws affecting them or their guns were enacted.
Sure, there may be loop holes as far as ISP's are concerned in this regard, but who gets to create the list of questionable content and sites.
Stunningly ridiculous!
And since all the legislators in Utah are lds why don't they just get little jimmy from the ward to come over and configure their firewalls and security software to block that content.
And you got it.
9/11 brought out the real vengeance aspect of the American public. Whats funny in a very sith sort of way is that the only ones (besides Iraqi civilians) who are getting the short end of the revenge are the American public. Bush and his buddies knew within nano-seconds that 9/11 was their big break, their great once in a lifetime opportunity to push through this kind of crap legislation. Why? Because if you voted against it you weren't (ahem) "patriotic"...
When was the last time the term "Homeland" was used with such broad applications by a government?
I would definitely suggest any Polycom products. Their web interface config was relatively easy to use and configure the device. The only issues you will run into is when you config your firewalls to support H323, in regards to things like TCP timeouts, etc; Polycoms support is pretty good also.
It cracks me up how theres all this hype about blogs... I'm sick to death of hearing about it. Just the phrase "blog" seems to imbue some kind of extree-special ambiance, as it were, when in reality, its just another goddam opinion on the web. And China exploding with blogs? I can't wait to spend endless hours glued to my FP slavoring over the latest agricultural news from Guangdong...
From what it shows here there may not be many Japanese around to fly to the Moon... Oh, I keep forgetting, they will be the first to implant their 125 year old brains into robotic bodies...
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Right.
The reason they do the studies and research about why things don't work is because most of the money for NASA is from the taxpayers. If it was private then things would probably be different, not that I'm for a privatized NASA.
Whats interesting is that the American public and politicians don't give a crap when billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars go for questionable (at best) military endeavors and projects that even the Pentagon says are a waste...
Hey, whats a few hundred billion among friends?
Yes, T/S is a joke. I wasted much time and energy with Sonicwall's (ahem...) support over this last weekend. Then I realized the problem was that the firmware I installed on the fw was corrupt...
Ahh yes, history repeating itself before our very eyes...
This is simply more proof that the U.S. is on it's way down in world status. Don't give me that krap about wage parity either, because the Asians will for the forseeable future, have much more abundant labor force that is better educated than our (ahem...) immigrant labor force.
Forget the fact that more and more R&D will be done in China and India, but ALL the manufacturing will be done there. Americans and our ridiculously non-patriotic and money-grubbing politicians live in a fantasy world of a 'service industry' panacea. We'll live in a country of cooks, cleaners and corporate crooks...
The worst thing is when you've been on hold for so long that after a while you forget who you've called, why, or for how long...
From someone who did t/s for years I can assure you that from the accounting/shareholders perspective, tech support is nothing but a hole. It is a money loser that they would rather consign to the depths than invest in training, customer contact database upgrades, etc; I used to hear it repeatedly that support wasn't a \revenue\generator.
Great post.
" What is the Singularity? Sometime in the next few years or decades, humanity will become capable of surpassing the upper limit on intelligence that has held since the rise of the human species. We will become capable of technologically creating smarter-than-human intelligence, perhaps through enhancement of the human brain, direct links between computers and the brain, or Artificial Intelligence. This event is called the "Singularity" by analogy with the singularity at the center of a black hole - just as our current model of physics breaks down when it attempts to describe the center of a black hole, our model of the future breaks down once the future contains smarter-than-human minds. Since technology is the product of cognition, the Singularity is an effect that snowballs once it occurs - the first smart minds can create smarter minds, and smarter minds can produce still smarter minds."
Can't syn cookies help against DDOS attacks? I agree that a vigilante approach is not the best way to deal with this, but at the same time, to continue paying off the extortionists will probably only lead to more of the same behavior.
"Follow suit"? Thats a good one...
s tboys.htm
Well, all I can tell you is that I'm not lds, but I have lived in Utah most of my life and I married someone who was raised lds, as were most of my friends. I also know and work with people who are direct descendents of polygamists. These are people who have a large number of siblings, something on the order of 50 or more. Yes, check that number again, 50 or more. The polygamists in Utah have what could loosely be termed "compounds", not only in the lonesome deserts of southern Utah/northern Arizona, but right in the thick of the urbanized Wasatch Front. This is common knowledge to most Utahns, lds or not.
I think you would best be served reading "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" by Jon Krakauer.
This is the guy who wrote "Into thin air" about a disastrous Everest expedition. Also check this link: http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/polygamy/lo
One of my users, a west coast sales rep, uses internet cafes. I have warned him about the possibility of his wireless connection being hijacked, among other things. I would avoid using unsecured connections if possible... Use a vpn client if possible. But a keylogger would/could catch that too...
Personally, if you are going to use an unsecured connection, then don't access your bank account or anything of that nature while doing it.
Stick to a basic email account you don't care about, like a yahoo account.
Email things like, "The Germans never take showers!" or "Why are they showing another Harry Potter movie on the plane?"
You might also want to note that polygamy in Utah has been \ignored\ and \accepted\ since the late 19th century. The polygamist communities in Utah and other western states and Canada own large tracts of land and several powerful business interests... They number in the tens if not hundreds of thousands.
This is typical neo-con krap; or should I say kompassionate konservative koalition? I remember when those on the rotwing were all for smaller government, etc; They were also for fiscal responsibility...; remember that one? They would scream bloody murder when new laws affecting them or their guns were enacted. Sure, there may be loop holes as far as ISP's are concerned in this regard, but who gets to create the list of questionable content and sites. Stunningly ridiculous! And since all the legislators in Utah are lds why don't they just get little jimmy from the ward to come over and configure their firewalls and security software to block that content.
This is akin to the problem that pops up when data transfer is allowed over high voltage power lines and it's interference with Ham radio.
I think these government goon squads need an outside audit from someone in private industry. That would straighten their shit out.
And you got it. 9/11 brought out the real vengeance aspect of the American public. Whats funny in a very sith sort of way is that the only ones (besides Iraqi civilians) who are getting the short end of the revenge are the American public. Bush and his buddies knew within nano-seconds that 9/11 was their big break, their great once in a lifetime opportunity to push through this kind of crap legislation. Why? Because if you voted against it you weren't (ahem) "patriotic"... When was the last time the term "Homeland" was used with such broad applications by a government?
I would definitely suggest any Polycom products. Their web interface config was relatively easy to use and configure the device. The only issues you will run into is when you config your firewalls to support H323, in regards to things like TCP timeouts, etc; Polycoms support is pretty good also.
It cracks me up how theres all this hype about blogs... I'm sick to death of hearing about it. Just the phrase "blog" seems to imbue some kind of extree-special ambiance, as it were, when in reality, its just another goddam opinion on the web. And China exploding with blogs? I can't wait to spend endless hours glued to my FP slavoring over the latest agricultural news from Guangdong...
From what it shows here there may not be many Japanese around to fly to the Moon... Oh, I keep forgetting, they will be the first to implant their 125 year old brains into robotic bodies...