No surprise, it appears to be human error in Border Gateway Protocol information sharing. Again.
Whether deliberate or unintentional, human-introduced errors in BGP routing (typo or espionage?) have happened before, and from reports I've seen, happened again this morning. This isn't something easily bypassed, like using numeric IP addresses instead of DNS lookups. It's fundamental to the resiliency of the Internet by design. Too bad such a fundamental part of the Internet architecture is still so dependent on trust.
Comcast-provided DNS wasn't the problem for us. We don't use Comcast DNS, we use OpenDNS. We were not getting packets routed reliably or promptly to numeric IP addresses. Not a DNS issue at all, from our location near San Francisco.
Very nice inside. Lots of leg room, good head height, cargo capacity is about the same as our Prius, slightly less than the Subaru Outback wagon we had.
Pretty quiet, same road noise as you'd expect from any car of similar size and weight. A couple of annoyances with the electronic controls and the "Entertainment Center", but that actually might be changed by software updates.
I have a Volt, for almost 1 year now. I've been getting 38-40 miles on a charge, and that's even driving on hilly terrain in the San Francisco coastal mountains. On longer drives, or trips where I don't have time or opportunity to plug in and charge, the gas generator is getting about 36 mpg. That's not too shabby. Overall, in the last year the car calculates 191 mpg. Doing the numbers differently, considering cost of electricity/mile and cost of gas/mile, it's more like 140mpg. Fluctuating gas and electricity prices make that a hard number to settle on.
I really depend on the fact that I can recharge the gas tank in minutes and continue a long drive. But for the majority of my trips, and all of my normal commuting to the Day Job, I charge at each end and drive on battery only for about 40 miles. A side trip might eat into that battery range a bit, but that only means that the gas generator kicks in just before I get home, and the silent drive gains a little rumble.
Yeah, well, we run raffle/lotteries several times a month. The wadded-up mumbles of paper are *not* the ones that get pulled out when we're fishing for winners. Just sayin'.
Nor are the illegible scribbles even considered as possible winners. "Penmanship, people! PENMANSHIP!" If I can't read your winning name, then you ARE NOT the winner.
This is especially funny because our market is elementary school teachers. Yes: the ones who should be teaching children how to write legibly.
Be careful whereof you pontificate. Different states have different laws.
In California, what you said is largely correct. The seller is responsible for remitting the sales tax to the state, whether it was collected from the purchaser or not. In fact, if the seller collects less than is due, the seller must remit the full amount due; if the seller collects more than the amount due, the seller must remit the entire amount collected (i.e. can not keep any overcharged tax).
In Pennsylvania, and perhaps other states, it is specifically ILLEGAL for the seller to include the sales tax amount in the retail price. The seller is legally REQUIRED to collect the sales tax as a separate amount from the purchaser. Or at least this was true a few years ago when my company was selling at a conference in Pennsylvania; it may not be true today, but the law was made quite clear to sellers at the event.
This is just a tiny, tiny hint of the complexity of the sales tax situation nationally. Also consider that a specific food item may be taxable in some states and not in others. Indeed, that same food item might be taxable in some jurisdictions (city, county) within a state, and not in others within that same state.
And then get into whether the purchaser is exempt from sales tax or not. For example, in many states, schools do not pay sales tax. In others, they do. It gets very interesting when a teacher goes to a professional conference in another state, and will not be reimbursed for any amount charged for sales tax even though the sale is not exempt in the state where it took place.
Most settlements are self-contained, and are not affected by outside events or court judgments. A settlement by definition is a short-cut to circumvent going to trial; that pretty much limits its scope in both directions. The settlement does not affect other litigation (outbound effect = 0) nor is it affected by other litigation (inbound effect = 0).
If other parties to other lawsuits which have settled agree to reopen those settled (i.e. closed) suits, then they are open game. Otherwise, them's the rules of the game.
The incentive to settle is both to reduce the current thread and also to avoid future exposure. Every settlement includes language to include both past and possible future liability.
No. This is not what Net Neutrality means. Net Neutrality means giving the same priority to the same type of traffic (voice, data, SMS, etc.) categorized by data type, and most especially NOT categorized by source provider. Net Neutrality means that a carrier should treat all voice calls equally, even if the call originates/terminates/transits a provider other than the carrier. For example, Sprint should not give higher priority to digital voice packets from a Sprint source than they would to digital voice packets from a Verizon source. AT&T should not allow full bandwidth to streamed video from AT&T movie archives but throttle video from UTube. Emergency voice traffic would warrant higher priority categorization than normal voice traffic. But the important point is the *type* of traffic, not the source of the funding that pays for it.
Without exception, in traveling to >30 hotels each year for the past [wayyy too many years], the higher the per-night rate for the hotel, the more the nickel-and-dime charges for what should be included as part of the accomodations.
< $100/night usually includes:
- FREE wifi, unspecified throughput, non-public IP
- FREE incoming phone calls
- FREE incoming faxes
- FREE outgoing phone calls up to 30 min
- FREE computer near lobby for guest use
- FREE document printing for reasonable # pages
- FREE microwave oven in the room
- FREE mini-fridge in the room
- FREE pillows & linens on the bed
- FREE pull-out drying line for laundry in the bathroom
- coin-op laundry for hotel guests
> $100/night often imposes charges for:
- WIFI: $12.95+tax per day
- public IP: additional $10+tax per day
- incoming faxes: $.50/page
- outgoing phone calls: AT&T Operator rates + 200% surcharge
- document printing: $.50/page
- fridge in room: $25 per night, special request
- microwave in room: $25 per night, special request
- linens: changed every 3 days at no charge, no discount for multi-day stay
- laundry: 24-48 hr turnaround; $5.00 per shirt, $10.00 per pants, don't even ask about other items!
Unrelated amendments should not be allowed to be attached to any proposed legislation. This kind of nonsense is and always has been an abuse of the system, and has been exploited by both parties forever.
Congress could very easily amend its rules to prohibit unrelated riders to legislation. But since congress-critters are the very animals that benefit from the hidden sleight-of-hand, it's unlikely they would take this course on their own.
We can't even get this done in California, where the Initiative Process lets anything get on the ballot. How can we possibly get this idea passed at the Federal level?
I vaguely remember a fictional story I read ~20 years ago about someone who had had recent cataract surgery and was kidnaped by smugglers, forced to be their spotter watching for a signal from a UV flashlight on a boat offshore running dark. The story made a point about how people with cataract surgery but no implanted replacement lenses were able to sense UV light (not necessarily "see", but sense).
gmail.com may be around for a long time. But you may decide at some point, for whatever reason, that you do not want Google Gmail to be handling your email. It's pure hell to change to a new email address, much harder than changing a phone number, because senders' records of what they *think* is your email address last essentially forever. Not at all like a little black phone book.
Domain names are cheap, as low as $5 a year depending on the Registrar you use, but certainly easy to find for less than $10/year. Buy one for your personal use. They're not just for business any more!
Set up your private/personal/vanity domain so that email gets handled by whatever email service provider you are using for the moment. Change providers when you want, for whatever reason. Your email address doesn't need to change.
Benefit: if you own the whole domain, you can change the "local" part (to the left of the '@') any time you want if the S/N ratio goes bad due to spam.
It took more than a century to get phone number portability, so that you can take your phone number with you when you change phone service providers. It's built into the email system, if you use it correctly.
And since domain names are quite cheap, compared to the "Old Days", by all means use a different one for a hobby or small business, from Day One, separate from your personal domain. Then you don't have to struggle to separate your personal life from your hobby-become-business from your small-business-just-sold.
Please don't generate a new email message, that's a potential source of new spam.
Much better to configure your SMTP server to reject the email at SMTP connect time, with the error message containing the new address to use. The error message usually ends up visible to the human sender, and spam 'bots will ignore it.
I've not been able to find a direct source for that famous pie chart, let alone the original data source. But in my experience as a musician and publisher, it's plausible.
More seriously, the link is a totally valuable yet MF time sink! I mean both valuable and time-sink. This is what the Web was meant to be: a twisty maze of clickable links, all of which are fascinating to read and may sink your time
I did sink quite a bit of time into reading the presented data/trivia. I'm amazed at how much information was readily available at a click or two.
I can't tell from TFA whether the user's custom whitelist has also disappeared on the affected accounts. If it has been deleted, then your newly-emptied inbox might start filling up quickly, even if you thought you had whitelist protection on your inbox. S/N ratio essentially zero? Even negative?
Even better: how about 'It should apply to all OBJECTS'. Every single object, mobile or immobile should emit a different tone constantly.
They already do. Every object in the universe already emits its own vibrations. Your sensory apparatus just needs to be tuned correctly to detect it. The extremely narrow range of oscillating frequencies detectable by the auditory sense of earth humans is only a tiny slice.
On Optheria they have a musical instrument (inadequately called an "organ") that plays to many senses, not just hearing. Some would say it plays directly to the soul and bypasses the senses entirely. That's another story altogether.
Wimpy Earthling: if you can't detect objects because you can't sense the vibrations they already radiate,
GET A HEARING (or whatever) AID!
Or use your other sense organs. Whatever. Or maybe, just maybe, DON'T WALK DOWN THE F**KING MIDDLE OF THE ROAD WITHOUT LOOKING BEHIND YOU. Sheesh!
I have not been killed by H1N1, nor by any of the seasonal flu variants:-). But because my job requires lots of travel meeting face-to-face with people who are likely to be vectors of flu (and other casually communicable infections), I always take the seasonal flu vaccine, and this year also the H1N1 vaccine. If there were an innoculation to protect from the "common cold" I would go for it in a heartbeat.
It's not that I am afraid that I might die from flu; I'm not -- it's just that since I run my own business, I simply can't afford the downtime from getting sick for a week to 10 days. And if I go back to work before my illness has run its course, I'll risk getting my employees sick. That doesn't help the business productivity at all. It's really frustrating to go to my health provider and have him rattle on and on about how H1N1 probably won't kill me. I'm not worried about that, I expect to survive a flu infection, just as I have and nearly everyone has. Only a tiny percentage of people have a serious problem with H1N1, which is the flu variant everyone is scared so shitless about.
But lots of people think that everyone dies if they catch H1N1 flu; this 100% mortality mindset is a problem for employers. On the one had we have people who come in even though they are clearly and obviously sick (risking infecting everyone else). And on the other hand we have people who stay out with just a sniffle.
Preventive measures contributing toward uptime are seldom brought up in this discussion. And we simple non-medical people have no way to discern proper response in each individual case.
I agree, superb.net is a good hosting service. We used them for several years, but have moved to another provider for reasons completely unrelated to the service/support/security we received with Superb (we had to switch because of states claiming that web hosting constituted a "nexus" for tax purposes).
I would recommend Superb for hosting, as well as our current provider Westhost. We've had good service and good support, with people who actually know what they're doing. Quite refreshing!
I've been called for jury duty more than 30 times over the past 20 years in the San Francisco area (the same region as the Reiser trial, but not the same court). I've never once actually served on a jury. Each and every time, after sitting and waiting for possibly hours or days, when my turn finally came I was dismissed by either one side or the other as soon as they learned through questioning that I:
- went to college, and
- have multiple Master's degrees, and
- am an engineer, and
- own and run my own successful business
I can only conclude that both sides prefer to exclude jurors who can think, who evaluate the evidence presented and are not swayed by emotional arguments beyond the evidence itself. Both sides (prosecution and defense) seem to want jurors who can be hoodwinked into believing the out-of-band implications of a theatrical presentation.
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No surprise, it appears to be human error in Border Gateway Protocol information sharing. Again.
Whether deliberate or unintentional, human-introduced errors in BGP routing (typo or espionage?) have happened before, and from reports I've seen, happened again this morning. This isn't something easily bypassed, like using numeric IP addresses instead of DNS lookups. It's fundamental to the resiliency of the Internet by design. Too bad such a fundamental part of the Internet architecture is still so dependent on trust.
Comcast-provided DNS wasn't the problem for us. We don't use Comcast DNS, we use OpenDNS. We were not getting packets routed reliably or promptly to numeric IP addresses. Not a DNS issue at all, from our location near San Francisco.
Very nice inside. Lots of leg room, good head height, cargo capacity is about the same as our Prius, slightly less than the Subaru Outback wagon we had.
Pretty quiet, same road noise as you'd expect from any car of similar size and weight. A couple of annoyances with the electronic controls and the "Entertainment Center", but that actually might be changed by software updates.
I have a Volt, for almost 1 year now. I've been getting 38-40 miles on a charge, and that's even driving on hilly terrain in the San Francisco coastal mountains. On longer drives, or trips where I don't have time or opportunity to plug in and charge, the gas generator is getting about 36 mpg. That's not too shabby. Overall, in the last year the car calculates 191 mpg. Doing the numbers differently, considering cost of electricity/mile and cost of gas/mile, it's more like 140mpg. Fluctuating gas and electricity prices make that a hard number to settle on.
I really depend on the fact that I can recharge the gas tank in minutes and continue a long drive. But for the majority of my trips, and all of my normal commuting to the Day Job, I charge at each end and drive on battery only for about 40 miles. A side trip might eat into that battery range a bit, but that only means that the gas generator kicks in just before I get home, and the silent drive gains a little rumble.
So far I'm quite pleased.
Yeah, well, we run raffle/lotteries several times a month. The wadded-up mumbles of paper are *not* the ones that get pulled out when we're fishing for winners. Just sayin'.
Nor are the illegible scribbles even considered as possible winners. "Penmanship, people! PENMANSHIP!" If I can't read your winning name, then you ARE NOT the winner.
This is especially funny because our market is elementary school teachers. Yes: the ones who should be teaching children how to write legibly.
Yeah, right...
This.
Be careful whereof you pontificate. Different states have different laws.
In California, what you said is largely correct. The seller is responsible for remitting the sales tax to the state, whether it was collected from the purchaser or not. In fact, if the seller collects less than is due, the seller must remit the full amount due; if the seller collects more than the amount due, the seller must remit the entire amount collected (i.e. can not keep any overcharged tax).
In Pennsylvania, and perhaps other states, it is specifically ILLEGAL for the seller to include the sales tax amount in the retail price. The seller is legally REQUIRED to collect the sales tax as a separate amount from the purchaser. Or at least this was true a few years ago when my company was selling at a conference in Pennsylvania; it may not be true today, but the law was made quite clear to sellers at the event.
This is just a tiny, tiny hint of the complexity of the sales tax situation nationally. Also consider that a specific food item may be taxable in some states and not in others. Indeed, that same food item might be taxable in some jurisdictions (city, county) within a state, and not in others within that same state.
And then get into whether the purchaser is exempt from sales tax or not. For example, in many states, schools do not pay sales tax. In others, they do. It gets very interesting when a teacher goes to a professional conference in another state, and will not be reimbursed for any amount charged for sales tax even though the sale is not exempt in the state where it took place.
Most settlements are self-contained, and are not affected by outside events or court judgments. A settlement by definition is a short-cut to circumvent going to trial; that pretty much limits its scope in both directions. The settlement does not affect other litigation (outbound effect = 0) nor is it affected by other litigation (inbound effect = 0).
If other parties to other lawsuits which have settled agree to reopen those settled (i.e. closed) suits, then they are open game. Otherwise, them's the rules of the game.
The incentive to settle is both to reduce the current thread and also to avoid future exposure. Every settlement includes language to include both past and possible future liability.
The extent of that agreement is the question.
No. This is not what Net Neutrality means. Net Neutrality means giving the same priority to the same type of traffic (voice, data, SMS, etc.) categorized by data type, and most especially NOT categorized by source provider. Net Neutrality means that a carrier should treat all voice calls equally, even if the call originates/terminates/transits a provider other than the carrier.
For example, Sprint should not give higher priority to digital voice packets from a Sprint source than they would to digital voice packets from a Verizon source. AT&T should not allow full bandwidth to streamed video from AT&T movie archives but throttle video from UTube.
Emergency voice traffic would warrant higher priority categorization than normal voice traffic. But the important point is the *type* of traffic, not the source of the funding that pays for it.
Without exception, in traveling to >30 hotels each year for the past [wayyy too many years], the higher the per-night rate for the hotel, the more the nickel-and-dime charges for what should be included as part of the accomodations.
< $100/night usually includes:
- FREE wifi, unspecified throughput, non-public IP
- FREE incoming phone calls
- FREE incoming faxes
- FREE outgoing phone calls up to 30 min
- FREE computer near lobby for guest use
- FREE document printing for reasonable # pages
- FREE microwave oven in the room
- FREE mini-fridge in the room
- FREE pillows & linens on the bed
- FREE pull-out drying line for laundry in the bathroom
- coin-op laundry for hotel guests
> $100/night often imposes charges for:
- WIFI: $12.95+tax per day
- public IP: additional $10+tax per day
- incoming faxes: $.50/page
- outgoing phone calls: AT&T Operator rates + 200% surcharge
- document printing: $.50/page
- fridge in room: $25 per night, special request
- microwave in room: $25 per night, special request
- linens: changed every 3 days at no charge, no discount for multi-day stay
- laundry: 24-48 hr turnaround; $5.00 per shirt, $10.00 per pants, don't even ask about other items!
Unrelated amendments should not be allowed to be attached to any proposed legislation. This kind of nonsense is and always has been an abuse of the system, and has been exploited by both parties forever.
Congress could very easily amend its rules to prohibit unrelated riders to legislation. But since congress-critters are the very animals that benefit from the hidden sleight-of-hand, it's unlikely they would take this course on their own.
We can't even get this done in California, where the Initiative Process lets anything get on the ballot. How can we possibly get this idea passed at the Federal level?
> Please mark .com as depreciated.
Depreciated, as in has lost value...
I vaguely remember a fictional story I read ~20 years ago about someone who had had recent cataract surgery and was kidnaped by smugglers, forced to be their spotter watching for a signal from a UV flashlight on a boat offshore running dark. The story made a point about how people with cataract surgery but no implanted replacement lenses were able to sense UV light (not necessarily "see", but sense).
gmail.com may be around for a long time. But you may decide at some point, for whatever reason, that you do not want Google Gmail to be handling your email. It's pure hell to change to a new email address, much harder than changing a phone number, because senders' records of what they *think* is your email address last essentially forever. Not at all like a little black phone book.
Domain names are cheap, as low as $5 a year depending on the Registrar you use, but certainly easy to find for less than $10/year. Buy one for your personal use. They're not just for business any more!
Set up your private/personal/vanity domain so that email gets handled by whatever email service provider you are using for the moment. Change providers when you want, for whatever reason. Your email address doesn't need to change.
Benefit: if you own the whole domain, you can change the "local" part (to the left of the '@') any time you want if the S/N ratio goes bad due to spam.
It took more than a century to get phone number portability, so that you can take your phone number with you when you change phone service providers. It's built into the email system, if you use it correctly.
And since domain names are quite cheap, compared to the "Old Days", by all means use a different one for a hobby or small business, from Day One, separate from your personal domain. Then you don't have to struggle to separate your personal life from your hobby-become-business from your small-business-just-sold.
Please don't generate a new email message, that's a potential source of new spam.
Much better to configure your SMTP server to reject the email at SMTP connect time, with the error message containing the new address to use. The error message usually ends up visible to the human sender, and spam 'bots will ignore it.
There's a pie-chart meme several years old:
http://artandavarice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/record-company.gif
That graphic might be derived from information in this article from the 1990s:
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
I've not been able to find a direct source for that famous pie chart, let alone the original data source. But in my experience as a musician and publisher, it's plausible.
[heed the signature]
Sarah Palin just took down her USA Map with targets drawn over democratic leaders, one of them was for Gabrielle Giffords.
It's still on her Facebook page as of 8:57pm PST:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/dont-get-demoralized-get-organized-take-back-the-20/373854973434
Palin put a crosshairs over the congresswoman's face in a political setting.
Source or it didn't happen. And before you link, how do I know that came from Palin is not just some image made by somebody else?
March 23, 2010 4:49 PM on CBSNews.com:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001021-503544.html
Oh, yeah. That's what I'm talkin' about!
More seriously, the link is a totally valuable yet MF time sink! I mean both valuable and time-sink. This is what the Web was meant to be: a twisty maze of clickable links, all of which are fascinating to read and may sink your time
I did sink quite a bit of time into reading the presented data/trivia. I'm amazed at how much information was readily available at a click or two.
Nicely done!
I can't tell from TFA whether the user's custom whitelist has also disappeared on the affected accounts. If it has been deleted, then your newly-emptied inbox might start filling up quickly, even if you thought you had whitelist protection on your inbox. S/N ratio essentially zero? Even negative?
Even better: how about 'It should apply to all OBJECTS'. Every single object, mobile or immobile should emit a different tone constantly.
They already do. Every object in the universe already emits its own vibrations. Your sensory apparatus just needs to be tuned correctly to detect it. The extremely narrow range of oscillating frequencies detectable by the auditory sense of earth humans is only a tiny slice.
On Optheria they have a musical instrument (inadequately called an "organ") that plays to many senses, not just hearing. Some would say it plays directly to the soul and bypasses the senses entirely. That's another story altogether.
Wimpy Earthling: if you can't detect objects because you can't sense the vibrations they already radiate,
GET A HEARING (or whatever) AID!
Or use your other sense organs. Whatever. Or maybe, just maybe, DON'T WALK DOWN THE F**KING MIDDLE OF THE ROAD WITHOUT LOOKING BEHIND YOU. Sheesh!
Although this was posted to the wrong thread/window, it definitely is a very interesting read.
I have not been killed by H1N1, nor by any of the seasonal flu variants :-). But because my job requires lots of travel meeting face-to-face with people who are likely to be vectors of flu (and other casually communicable infections), I always take the seasonal flu vaccine, and this year also the H1N1 vaccine. If there were an innoculation to protect from the "common cold" I would go for it in a heartbeat.
It's not that I am afraid that I might die from flu; I'm not -- it's just that since I run my own business, I simply can't afford the downtime from getting sick for a week to 10 days. And if I go back to work before my illness has run its course, I'll risk getting my employees sick. That doesn't help the business productivity at all. It's really frustrating to go to my health provider and have him rattle on and on about how H1N1 probably won't kill me. I'm not worried about that, I expect to survive a flu infection, just as I have and nearly everyone has. Only a tiny percentage of people have a serious problem with H1N1, which is the flu variant everyone is scared so shitless about.
But lots of people think that everyone dies if they catch H1N1 flu; this 100% mortality mindset is a problem for employers. On the one had we have people who come in even though they are clearly and obviously sick (risking infecting everyone else). And on the other hand we have people who stay out with just a sniffle.
Preventive measures contributing toward uptime are seldom brought up in this discussion. And we simple non-medical people have no way to discern proper response in each individual case.
I agree, superb.net is a good hosting service. We used them for several years, but have moved to another provider for reasons completely unrelated to the service/support/security we received with Superb (we had to switch because of states claiming that web hosting constituted a "nexus" for tax purposes).
I would recommend Superb for hosting, as well as our current provider Westhost. We've had good service and good support, with people who actually know what they're doing. Quite refreshing!
- - went to college, and
- - have multiple Master's degrees, and
- - am an engineer, and
- - own and run my own successful business
I can only conclude that both sides prefer to exclude jurors who can think, who evaluate the evidence presented and are not swayed by emotional arguments beyond the evidence itself. Both sides (prosecution and defense) seem to want jurors who can be hoodwinked into believing the out-of-band implications of a theatrical presentation.