I can make hydrogen at my house from either a) electricy and water or b) natural gas (all three are items I can pull from utilities at my home). I see this is making it much harder for a cartel to restrict my access to the substance.
You have your transport vehicle (i.e. the shuttle) position itself between the light source (i.e. our sun) and the generation system (i.e. the panels) during repair. Last time I checked, the shuttle had a fairly wide body.
Actually, they should push the shuttle launch ahead, and when the shuttle is close to the ISS, have it move in front of the panels to block the sunlight. Then someone can repair the panels without fear of being lit up like a christmas tree, as well as the possible use of both the ISS and space shuttle arms for assistance.
Please note I'm not taking any arcing effects into account here.
I think it's pretty ignorant of you to call me a "salesdroid." I've been in the hosting industry for the last 8 years. If Comcast wants to say they offer "Unlimited internet" and then define that to be what they want (unlimited connectivity, not unlimited bandwidth, whatever) that's their perogative. Have you read their Terms of Service?
Network, Bandwidth, Data Storage and Other Limitations
Comcast may provide versions of the Service with different speeds and bandwidth usage limitations, among other characteristics, subject to applicable Service plans. You shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or degrade any other user's use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network. In addition, you shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, disrupt, degrade, or impede Comcast's ability to deliver and provide the Service and monitor the Service, backbone, network nodes, and/or other network services.
You further agree to comply with all Comcast network, bandwidth, and data storage and usage limitations. You shall ensure that your bandwidth consumption using the Service does not exceed the limitations that are now in effect or may be established in the future. If your use of the Service results in the consumption of bandwidth in excess of the applicable limitations, that is a violation of this Policy. In such cases, Comcast may, in its sole discretion, terminate or suspend your Service account or request that you subscribe to a version of the Service with higher bandwidth usage limitations if you wish to continue to use the Service at higher bandwidth consumption levels.
You're a typical Slashdot user. You expect the world on pauper's budget. Get over it. It's clearly spelled out in the terms of service. Perhaps customers should, you know, read the fucking terms they're agreeing to by getting service from a company. "News for Nerds" my ass. "News for cheap bastards who take advantage of everyone else, while pretending they have a technical clue" is more like it.
Despite what you may think, all ISPs oversubscribe. All of them. It's the only way to stay in business when offering residential pricing. If you want 8Mb down and 384-768k up all the time, non-stop, buy a dedicate circuit (which usually isn't oversubscribed). People don't get any room to complain that they can't suck down 300Gb of data monthly for only $40. While I think Comcast has marketing problems by using the word "Unlimited", I also believe their major problem is with leeches on the network who are like porkers who sit at a buffet all day long.
While I understand this point of view is frowned on here at Slashdot (due to the, ahem, participant base), them be the facts. People should get over their whining and either deal with Comcast, or look for another provider.
If the network is fragile, and they're taking steps to mitigate applications/protocols that are breaking their network (sending RST packets to Bittorrent clients), I don't see a problem. Also, if you read the Comcast Terms of Service, you'll see that they don't guarantee any speeds. You get unlimited internet access (it's on all the time). They aren't offering you unlimited bandwidth. Only a fool would believe such a thing.
You should check out the NANOG mailing list. This argument is currently raging about the same issue (Comcast using RST packets to kill Bittorrent connections). Bittorrent does have the ability to severely break their network due to asymmetric bandwidth (lots of download, not so much upload available).
1) Have BIOS boot using NIC every X boots.
2) Have NIC grab IP using DHCP (something that can be done on almost any network) and call home over HTTP (something almost never filtered).
3) If NIC calls home, and laptop is marked as stolen by HQ, wipe the hard disk and generate a support ticket for the IT department to pass along network info gathered to law enforcement.
All of this could be done in the background as well, masqueraded as an NTFS disk check.
As Homer Simpson would say, "PATENT PENDING!" =)
Public transportation is a joke (at least in the US). It's also naive to believe public transportation is a viable solution in the United States. It works in small land masses (Europe, for example), but is inefficient and impractical. Why should I ride two hours each way to work on public transportation, making multiple connections when I can take a car and have a 25-30 minute commute? The problem isn't public transportation, it's the fuel source/storage problem. Electric drivetrains will fix transportation problems in the US, not public transportation.
Perhaps you should get a flash media device that actually uses wear leveling. You're probably being cheap and purchasing cheap $5-$15 USB media devices, and then are curious why the quality isn't there.
As individuals, yes. But as groups of people interacting, no. If a group of "friends" says, "Hey, this new networking site popped up, let's try it out" and people slowly migrate, there's nothing to stop people from leaving the old site.
Social networking sites are easy. Let people join, let them interconnect with each other, and then let them interact with each other. The rest is just code.
Personally, I use Facebook, and know roughly 200 people who are "friends" with me through the service. A fair majority have shared their displeasure at Facebook slowly eroding into a MySpace equivalent with the drivel applications everyone pushes.
From a business perspective, the company I consult/work for has over 500 employees. Almost all have AIM (some have Microsoft messenger, some have Yahoo) and most of us use Trillian (as it's lightweight and integrates with several different IM networks).
Don't treat my anecdotes as scientific in nature, as they're only anecdotes.
Have to correct myself. Twitter is not owned by Google. But the theory still holds true. There's no "stickyness" (god I hate that word) with social networking sites. Everyone can pick up and move to the next one, therefore their valuation is a snapshot of the estimated value of their membership at that point.
Facebook is close to reaching "jumped the shark" status. I worry that Microsoft dumped a ton of cash into Facebook just like News Corp did for MySpace. As News Corp ramped up ads on the MySpace platform, people defected in droves to Facebook. What happens if history repeats themselves? That's right. People end up on Twitter (owned by Google), and Google didn't have to shell out a quarter of a billion dollars in the end.
Come party with me sometime (IT fellow/manager). The only time I got outed at a party was when some numb nut said some creationist drivel, and I responded with "Surely you jest, the universe was built with Perl." Their response? "God did not make the universe from a necklace!" Funny stuff.
Just because you disagree with a business model doesn't mean it should be a felony. You don't like it? Pay $500/month for a T1 and get your guaranteed 1.544Mb/s.
How about how many offenders come from low, medium, and high-income families? Income is a huge discriminator in picking who will and won't commit crimes.
Most of the people who can afford this luxury aren't 9 to 5ers. They're independently wealthy, and operate on their own schedule. Because of this, I don't foresee contention for the elevator being an issue.
Hah! You're not counting on the combination of an airhead and a trust conduit. Death at an early age from weight-induced heart attack? Not that bad if you're getting some hot sex up till the end, AND your fortune goes to a non-profit dedicated to instead of the gold digger. Check. Mate.
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I can make hydrogen at my house from either a) electricy and water or b) natural gas (all three are items I can pull from utilities at my home). I see this is making it much harder for a cartel to restrict my access to the substance.
You have your transport vehicle (i.e. the shuttle) position itself between the light source (i.e. our sun) and the generation system (i.e. the panels) during repair. Last time I checked, the shuttle had a fairly wide body.
Please note I'm not taking any arcing effects into account here.
http://www.comcast.net/terms/use.jsp
Network, Bandwidth, Data Storage and Other LimitationsComcast may provide versions of the Service with different speeds and bandwidth usage limitations, among other characteristics, subject to applicable Service plans. You shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, or degrade any other user's use of the Service, nor represent (in the sole judgment of Comcast) an overly large burden on the network. In addition, you shall ensure that your use of the Service does not restrict, inhibit, interfere with, disrupt, degrade, or impede Comcast's ability to deliver and provide the Service and monitor the Service, backbone, network nodes, and/or other network services.
You further agree to comply with all Comcast network, bandwidth, and data storage and usage limitations. You shall ensure that your bandwidth consumption using the Service does not exceed the limitations that are now in effect or may be established in the future. If your use of the Service results in the consumption of bandwidth in excess of the applicable limitations, that is a violation of this Policy. In such cases, Comcast may, in its sole discretion, terminate or suspend your Service account or request that you subscribe to a version of the Service with higher bandwidth usage limitations if you wish to continue to use the Service at higher bandwidth consumption levels.
You're a typical Slashdot user. You expect the world on pauper's budget. Get over it. It's clearly spelled out in the terms of service. Perhaps customers should, you know, read the fucking terms they're agreeing to by getting service from a company. "News for Nerds" my ass. "News for cheap bastards who take advantage of everyone else, while pretending they have a technical clue" is more like it.While I understand this point of view is frowned on here at Slashdot (due to the, ahem, participant base), them be the facts. People should get over their whining and either deal with Comcast, or look for another provider.
If the network is fragile, and they're taking steps to mitigate applications/protocols that are breaking their network (sending RST packets to Bittorrent clients), I don't see a problem. Also, if you read the Comcast Terms of Service, you'll see that they don't guarantee any speeds. You get unlimited internet access (it's on all the time). They aren't offering you unlimited bandwidth. Only a fool would believe such a thing.
You should check out the NANOG mailing list. This argument is currently raging about the same issue (Comcast using RST packets to kill Bittorrent connections). Bittorrent does have the ability to severely break their network due to asymmetric bandwidth (lots of download, not so much upload available).
1) Have BIOS boot using NIC every X boots.
2) Have NIC grab IP using DHCP (something that can be done on almost any network) and call home over HTTP (something almost never filtered).
3) If NIC calls home, and laptop is marked as stolen by HQ, wipe the hard disk and generate a support ticket for the IT department to pass along network info gathered to law enforcement.
All of this could be done in the background as well, masqueraded as an NTFS disk check. As Homer Simpson would say, "PATENT PENDING!" =)
s/lazy/desensitized
Public transportation is a joke (at least in the US). It's also naive to believe public transportation is a viable solution in the United States. It works in small land masses (Europe, for example), but is inefficient and impractical. Why should I ride two hours each way to work on public transportation, making multiple connections when I can take a car and have a 25-30 minute commute? The problem isn't public transportation, it's the fuel source/storage problem. Electric drivetrains will fix transportation problems in the US, not public transportation.
Perhaps you should get a flash media device that actually uses wear leveling. You're probably being cheap and purchasing cheap $5-$15 USB media devices, and then are curious why the quality isn't there.
Social networking sites are easy. Let people join, let them interconnect with each other, and then let them interact with each other. The rest is just code.
From a business perspective, the company I consult/work for has over 500 employees. Almost all have AIM (some have Microsoft messenger, some have Yahoo) and most of us use Trillian (as it's lightweight and integrates with several different IM networks).
Don't treat my anecdotes as scientific in nature, as they're only anecdotes.
Have to correct myself. Twitter is not owned by Google. But the theory still holds true. There's no "stickyness" (god I hate that word) with social networking sites. Everyone can pick up and move to the next one, therefore their valuation is a snapshot of the estimated value of their membership at that point.
Facebook is close to reaching "jumped the shark" status. I worry that Microsoft dumped a ton of cash into Facebook just like News Corp did for MySpace. As News Corp ramped up ads on the MySpace platform, people defected in droves to Facebook. What happens if history repeats themselves? That's right. People end up on Twitter (owned by Google), and Google didn't have to shell out a quarter of a billion dollars in the end.
Wait till Comcast incorporates the price of the legal battle in to their service ;) Welcome to "cost of business".
Just because you disagree with a business model doesn't mean it should be a felony. You don't like it? Pay $500/month for a T1 and get your guaranteed 1.544Mb/s.
The Changing Relationship between Income and Crime Victimization
http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittTheChangingRelationship1999.pdf
Poverty, Inequality, and Crime
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/TOCONNOR/301/301lect07.htm
And my favorite example: Per Capita Income vs. Property Crime
http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/1015722
How about how many offenders come from low, medium, and high-income families? Income is a huge discriminator in picking who will and won't commit crimes.
Probably not, as no kinetic energy is built up due to a counterweight being used.
Most of the people who can afford this luxury aren't 9 to 5ers. They're independently wealthy, and operate on their own schedule. Because of this, I don't foresee contention for the elevator being an issue.
Hah! You're not counting on the combination of an airhead and a trust conduit. Death at an early age from weight-induced heart attack? Not that bad if you're getting some hot sex up till the end, AND your fortune goes to a non-profit dedicated to instead of the gold digger. Check. Mate.
Aren't electric motors amazing? They tell me they're going to run cars some day =)
I would rather have a professor redirect his energy from dressing in a suit to teaching more thoroughly.