Comcast is blocking a whole range of yahoo IP addresses.
actually, a huge range of yahoo ip addresses is blacklisted in sorbs. i was having the same problem since i block based on sorbs, then whitelist one at a time as a sender receives a bounced rejection. it's tedious, but sorbs helps me block thousands of spam messages every week, so it's worth it. it's the same story with gmail, but the difference is google is aware of the problem and responds to email requesting they take action to get the server delisted. petitions to yahoo requesting the same action go unanswered (and, i assume, are ignored).
it's actually because >0.5 of the Democratic voters in CT think he's a Republican in all but name
actually, just a cursory glance at his voting record for the past couple of months indicate lieberman has sided with the GOP on just 2 issues: the war in iraq and illegal immigration. everything else has been a lock-step march with the democrat party. btw, hillary clinton also voted with the GOP on the illegal immigration ammendment (S 2611), and also supported the war in iraq. would you also consider her a republican in all but name? make no mistake - lieberman is a liberal.
i just got a panasonic dmr-es40v off ebay for around $185 (including shipping) brand new. it was rated 7 out of 10 on zdnet and also pretty well on a slew of other customer rating guides i've read. the only drawback is the inability to create chapter stops. doesn't matter to me as i'll be using it primarily for converting vhs->dvd. if i want chapter stops, i'll use my computer. i've been researching them for a few months now and for the money, this one looks like a good buy.
...and found that, as with almost any situation, there were good and bad things associated with it.
the good: i can work in my underwear if i like, i can set my own hours, i can get a sandwich anytime i'm hungry, i can smoke at my desk, and i can accomplish more in 40 hours than someone who's constantly bothered by office distractions.
the bad: i stopped taking showers and wearing clothes regularly, i got migraine headaches from concentrating too hard, i gained weight, my house stinks like cigarettes, and sometimes house distractions are worse than office distractions.
what did i learn? one thing was that i noticed my bosses started heaping more work on me because they wanted me to work overtime. i guess those who worked at the office regularly put in overtime because the distractions caused them to require more time to finish a project than had been planned. of course, i was salaried, and would have none of unpaid overtime, so i concentrated even harder and shut out more of what was going on around me in order to finish my work in 40 hours/week. the result? migraine headaches.
the thing that irked me the most about telecommuting is that the office dwellers sometimes forget that those who work elsewhere can't attend company picnics, softball games, or lunch for all at the local restaurant. so when they email all@companynamehere.com and announce that tonight's softball game is at 6:30 instead of 6:00 it leaves a 'left out' kind of feeling to those who work there but can't be around physically.
it lasted 3 years. that was all i could take. incidentally, the migraines are gone.
Why do you think all these new tv/video/movie services are "about to strike"? It's because the network is now fast enough to handle them.
sure, the network is fast enough, but it isn't wide enough to handle everyone downloading large files or streaming tv at the same time. the internet was built for 'burst-type' content - an email here, a click on a web page there. look at this story which was on yahoo! news last week. oversubscription is common among isps. the only way to fix it is to make the pipes fatter.
i have been keeping very close track of this story for the past 2 months now. both sides of the argument have valid points.
for example, consider the telecommunications companies' point of view. currently, they sell more access to bandwidth than they have available. which is fine for regular, burst-type internet use.
now, with internet tv, video-on-demand, and movie downloads looming on the horizon, their argument is, "the current infrastructure can't handle everyone watching streaming video or downloading movies at the same time. if your house is on fire, and all your neighbors are downloading the last episode of '24', your VoIP phone call to 911 may not go through."
so their goal is to get the gov't to allow them to run their part of the internet as a private network. where they can partition off portions of their bandwidth that's dedicated to VoIP phone calls and such, while allowing a (perhaps smaller) portion of the pipe to be available for video downloads and such.
but the potention for abuse is there. what's to stop comcast from throttling a customer's bandwidth if they're using vonage so it basically becomes unusable, then forcing that customer to use comcast's VoIP service instead?
then you have the argument of the google's, microsoft's, amazon's, etc. they know that they'll be charged money to guarantee fast delivery of their services on infrastructure of those companies they're not partnered with. for example, if comcast and yahoo partner up, comcast can guarantee yahoo's search page comes up right away, but google's might take a few seconds longer. that would be a disaster for anyone who doesn't pay the 'comcast tax' and relies on their ads being served up.
one thing the telecom companies forget is that, although they've invested billions into this country's infrastructure, joe taxpayer has had a hand in that investment too. look at your phone bill. see those taxes? universal service charge - what's that for? it's to encourage better connectivity to schools, libraries and rural areas. it's collected and distributed back to the telecoms to invest in infrastructure.
the root problem is the current infrastructure won't be able to handle all the new tv/video/movie services that are about to strike. so instead of investing in more bandwidth to handle the load in the manner we currently enjoy (net neutrality), the telecoms want to use the 'tiered' structure instead.
i'm with tim berners-lee on this - provide either service or content, but not both.
at usf, mechanical engineering lab II is no longer a required course to earn a BSChE (which, i think, is a big mistake). but it was when i went there.
i learned more about the proper technique for writing a lab report from Dr. Wilkinson than i learned in any other technical writing class i took.
sure, it was damn near impossible to earn an 'a' in his lab, but the time spent was well worth it. even now, some 15 years later, i still refer back to his class and those labs when preparing a report.
funny how the most informative writing class i had was a lab and not technical writing.
i'm a little late to this thread, but for the past 3 years i've been volunteering for a 1 hour/week 'computer club' at my daughter's catholic school. i usually have between 7 and 10 6th, 7th and 8th graders who learn vi, creating a web page (in vi), shell scripting, perl/cgi, using yum and rpm, cvs, and what to do with all those files in/etc. in short, it's a crash course in linux systems administration, light programming, and user maintenance.
sure, it's hard for them to wrap their heads around all i throw at them in 1 hour a week, but i can easily tell which of them are adept and will easily have careers in IT.
they also learn other lessons by accident, like noticing the fact that in 3 years there's been only one girl who stayed with the club, so a career in IT is probably not a great way to meet women.
in any case, it's possible that next year we'll be expanding the club to a regular class for the older kids where they'll learn just one topic, like systems admin, or programming, or whatever. all this is still up in the air.
the most frequent question i get asked by them is, "will we learn how to program games?" and i tell them "yes" because one of the perl programs we write is 'russian roulette.' it's a great way to teach the logic that's necessary for programming.
interesting that msn bills move as 'making the operating system compete better with windows' instead of 'making it easier for developers to write applications that work on different flavors.'
i would think the former is a result of the latter, instead of the other way around.
i'm not completely sure this invention is deserving of a 'national medal of technology,' but i know one thing - the first time i played pong is a very fond memory i'll never forget. in the 70's, my dad worked part-time in a bowling alley. i was about 10, and sometimes helped him out in exchange for quarters to play pinball.
one night the vending company delivered the game 'pong,' and my dad and i were the 1st ones to try it out. even though it seems like a simple game compared to today's standards, i distinctly remember us standing there for what seemed like hours while we feverishly battled back and forth, back and forth, until one of us scored, laughing heartily the whole time. it may sound cheesy, but we both remember that moment vividly, and joke about it often. it was worth every bit of the $0.25 we spent.
The plugin is unfinished, but usable for its primary purpose, and since I'm unlikely to have time to develop it further in the near future, I'm releasing it as is.
not exactly a ringing endorsement of cmyk, especially when you read further:
What can't it do?
* Load CMYK TIFFs into individual layers. If you want to edit a CMYK image, save it in XCF format as well as CMYK TIFF, so the layers are preserved for future editing.
you're right, those who need cmyk are not interested, because it's not fully functional.
Ubuntu is a good user-friendly distribution but how is your statement anything more than an off-topic pro-Linux flame in a thread about a MS security VP's responses?
because to me and my customers, the best way to battle the constant barrage of viruses, spyware, etc. that proliferate because of poor windows security is to stop using windows.
all the steps m$ takes to improve their security are valiant, but they mean nothing when faced with a dialup user that doesn't want to (or can't) spend the time it takes to maintain the installation. i've found that these customers are best served by installing an o/s that is relatively safe, even if left alone.
You simply do not go from a fully functional Windows installation that runs all your software to a random variation of Linux that extremely little runs on without coersion
most of my customers are on dialup, since there's no high-speed internet available in most of the areas here (except for satellite, which is cost-prohibitive for most). most of my customers use their computers for little else than surfing the web, sending email, instant messaging, typing an occasional document and getting pics off their digital camera. when faced with the task of diligently installing o/s updates, virus updates, spyware/malware updates, on a weekly and sometimes daily basis, they realize they'll likely be spending more time maintaining their computer instead of using it. i'd probably make more money if they did keep their windows, since i'd be called out to 'fix the slowness' once or twice a year. but when they switch to ubuntu, i usually don't hear from them again until they want to buy a peripheral or new computer.
your 'extremely little runs on without coersion' statement is misleading as well. they pay me to convert their windows computer to ubuntu, and i do all the coersion that's necessary. before they bring their computer in, i ask what peripherals they have and check to make sure they're supported. if not, i explain one of the caveats of switching means that lexmark you got for $10 probably won't work. in cases like this i'm usually able to secure a used printer that's fully supported off ebay or someplace similar.
since most customers are on dialup, another sticking issue is winmodems. i've found that installing the sl-modem-daemon works for most cases. in the others, i again explain the caveat of switching and sell them a 3com 5610.
after they've switched, when they learn that upgrades are free, well, that's just icing on the cake.
something as basic as floppy disk support is broken out-of-the-box
there may be issues, but for me it's not an issue as none of my customers use floppys anymore, opting for cd/rw instead. in fact, i encourage them to not use floppys due to their lack of space and fragility. almost all of the computers i work on these days don't even have a floppy drive.
One thing that is for sure is that human polution is not helping the enviroment any, and has other deletarious effects on human habitability as well. Global Warming is just one of several reasons why reducing carbon emmisions would be a good plan
In late 2001, I sent a mail to all of my family members telling them that I would only help them with their PC if they were running Windows XP, so my grandmother ran out and bought an XP machine.
In February of 2004 I was down visiting Nanny in Florida. I was on my way home from a business trip, so I was only there for about a day. When I got to her house she fed me breakfast, looked at the latest pictures of her great-grandsons and then said to me that she needed some help with her PC. When I powered the thing on, it was clear that something was wrong. The machine was very slow and you could see the icons on her desk being drawn pixel by pixel.
all my windows customers that call and say, "there's something wrong with my computer, it's really slow," get a short sales pitch on switching to ubuntu. to date 100% have switched, and i have had 0 complaints. it's the best way to upgrade any windows installation.
How exactly are rural states better represented when Florida sends 27 Republicans than they would be if Florida instead sent representatives proportional to the actual votes (What a concept !) (say 12 Republicans, 11 Democrats, 2 liberals, 2 green f.ex)
this thread has gotten wot, so i'm going to sum up my thoughts:
to answer your question: because an election is a winner take all deal. if 40% voted republican, 30% voted democrat, 20% voted libertarian and 10% voted other, you wouldn't have 4 candidates winning, with the republican doing 40% of the work, the democrat doing 30%, etc. and, in fact, as another poster pointed out, the issue of how many electoral college votes go to the candidates is a state-by-state issue, and not all states are required to commit all electoral college votes for the candidate with the most votes (in their state)
if the electoral college seems so unfair, there is a way to change it, e.g. an ammendment to the constitution. however, since a 3/4 majority of states is required to ratify an ammendment, it's unlikely it would get passed since the states that have the most to lose outnumber those that have the most to gain.
For your information: most countries, including those with vastly superior election-systems to the US ones choose to give rural states with low population some overrepresentation compared to densely populated states.
hrm, you seem to have forgoten to list some of these countries with 'vastly superior' election systems.
how is it "fair" that the people of Florida then send 27 members of the Electoral College from the Democratic party?
I am amazed this was modded-up to 'insightful'. The electoral college was created by our founding fathers to preserve liberty. The primary reason for its use is to prevent less densely populated states from being dominated by more densely populated states. Is rural America unworthy of representation, simply because less people live there? A quick glance at the county-by-county map of the 2000 election results clearly show this system works, as Bush carried 2439 counties to 674 for Gore.
if your small business has more than $5 million in "gross remote taxable sales" each year, I think you can handle a little paperwork. Unless you're too busy rolling around in your piles of money.
in the business world, sales != profit. this is expecially true in the cutthroat ecommerce industry.
the state i pay sales taxes to gives out a coupon book (just like a mortgage) where you rip out a coupon for each sales period (monthly, quarterly, annually), fill it out and mail it in with a check. i assume most other states do something similar.
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actually, a huge range of yahoo ip addresses is blacklisted in sorbs. i was having the same problem since i block based on sorbs, then whitelist one at a time as a sender receives a bounced rejection. it's tedious, but sorbs helps me block thousands of spam messages every week, so it's worth it. it's the same story with gmail, but the difference is google is aware of the problem and responds to email requesting they take action to get the server delisted. petitions to yahoo requesting the same action go unanswered (and, i assume, are ignored).
actually, just a cursory glance at his voting record for the past couple of months indicate lieberman has sided with the GOP on just 2 issues: the war in iraq and illegal immigration. everything else has been a lock-step march with the democrat party. btw, hillary clinton also voted with the GOP on the illegal immigration ammendment (S 2611), and also supported the war in iraq. would you also consider her a republican in all but name? make no mistake - lieberman is a liberal.
maybe, but we'll always have her at her beautifully big-breasted best in "The Rocketeer" and "Requiem".
i just got a panasonic dmr-es40v off ebay for around $185 (including shipping) brand new. it was rated 7 out of 10 on zdnet and also pretty well on a slew of other customer rating guides i've read. the only drawback is the inability to create chapter stops. doesn't matter to me as i'll be using it primarily for converting vhs->dvd. if i want chapter stops, i'll use my computer. i've been researching them for a few months now and for the money, this one looks like a good buy.
http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Panasonic_DMR_ES40V/4 505-6505_16-31570865.html?tag=pdtl
...and found that, as with almost any situation, there were good and bad things associated with it.
the good: i can work in my underwear if i like, i can set my own hours, i can get a sandwich anytime i'm hungry, i can smoke at my desk, and i can accomplish more in 40 hours than someone who's constantly bothered by office distractions.
the bad: i stopped taking showers and wearing clothes regularly, i got migraine headaches from concentrating too hard, i gained weight, my house stinks like cigarettes, and sometimes house distractions are worse than office distractions.
what did i learn? one thing was that i noticed my bosses started heaping more work on me because they wanted me to work overtime. i guess those who worked at the office regularly put in overtime because the distractions caused them to require more time to finish a project than had been planned. of course, i was salaried, and would have none of unpaid overtime, so i concentrated even harder and shut out more of what was going on around me in order to finish my work in 40 hours/week. the result? migraine headaches.
the thing that irked me the most about telecommuting is that the office dwellers sometimes forget that those who work elsewhere can't attend company picnics, softball games, or lunch for all at the local restaurant. so when they email all@companynamehere.com and announce that tonight's softball game is at 6:30 instead of 6:00 it leaves a 'left out' kind of feeling to those who work there but can't be around physically.
it lasted 3 years. that was all i could take. incidentally, the migraines are gone.
sure, the network is fast enough, but it isn't wide enough to handle everyone downloading large files or streaming tv at the same time. the internet was built for 'burst-type' content - an email here, a click on a web page there. look at this story which was on yahoo! news last week. oversubscription is common among isps. the only way to fix it is to make the pipes fatter.
i have been keeping very close track of this story for the past 2 months now. both sides of the argument have valid points.
for example, consider the telecommunications companies' point of view. currently, they sell more access to bandwidth than they have available. which is fine for regular, burst-type internet use.
now, with internet tv, video-on-demand, and movie downloads looming on the horizon, their argument is, "the current infrastructure can't handle everyone watching streaming video or downloading movies at the same time. if your house is on fire, and all your neighbors are downloading the last episode of '24', your VoIP phone call to 911 may not go through."
so their goal is to get the gov't to allow them to run their part of the internet as a private network. where they can partition off portions of their bandwidth that's dedicated to VoIP phone calls and such, while allowing a (perhaps smaller) portion of the pipe to be available for video downloads and such.
but the potention for abuse is there. what's to stop comcast from throttling a customer's bandwidth if they're using vonage so it basically becomes unusable, then forcing that customer to use comcast's VoIP service instead?
then you have the argument of the google's, microsoft's, amazon's, etc. they know that they'll be charged money to guarantee fast delivery of their services on infrastructure of those companies they're not partnered with. for example, if comcast and yahoo partner up, comcast can guarantee yahoo's search page comes up right away, but google's might take a few seconds longer. that would be a disaster for anyone who doesn't pay the 'comcast tax' and relies on their ads being served up.
one thing the telecom companies forget is that, although they've invested billions into this country's infrastructure, joe taxpayer has had a hand in that investment too. look at your phone bill. see those taxes? universal service charge - what's that for? it's to encourage better connectivity to schools, libraries and rural areas. it's collected and distributed back to the telecoms to invest in infrastructure.
the root problem is the current infrastructure won't be able to handle all the new tv/video/movie services that are about to strike. so instead of investing in more bandwidth to handle the load in the manner we currently enjoy (net neutrality), the telecoms want to use the 'tiered' structure instead.
i'm with tim berners-lee on this - provide either service or content, but not both.
the quote may be interesting, but it may also be false
at usf, mechanical engineering lab II is no longer a required course to earn a BSChE (which, i think, is a big mistake). but it was when i went there.
i learned more about the proper technique for writing a lab report from Dr. Wilkinson than i learned in any other technical writing class i took.
sure, it was damn near impossible to earn an 'a' in his lab, but the time spent was well worth it. even now, some 15 years later, i still refer back to his class and those labs when preparing a report.
funny how the most informative writing class i had was a lab and not technical writing.
i'm a little late to this thread, but for the past 3 years i've been volunteering for a 1 hour/week 'computer club' at my daughter's catholic school. i usually have between 7 and 10 6th, 7th and 8th graders who learn vi, creating a web page (in vi), shell scripting, perl/cgi, using yum and rpm, cvs, and what to do with all those files in /etc. in short, it's a crash course in linux systems administration, light programming, and user maintenance.
sure, it's hard for them to wrap their heads around all i throw at them in 1 hour a week, but i can easily tell which of them are adept and will easily have careers in IT.
they also learn other lessons by accident, like noticing the fact that in 3 years there's been only one girl who stayed with the club, so a career in IT is probably not a great way to meet women.
in any case, it's possible that next year we'll be expanding the club to a regular class for the older kids where they'll learn just one topic, like systems admin, or programming, or whatever. all this is still up in the air.
the most frequent question i get asked by them is, "will we learn how to program games?" and i tell them "yes" because one of the perl programs we write is 'russian roulette.' it's a great way to teach the logic that's necessary for programming.
interesting that msn bills move as 'making the operating system compete better with windows' instead of 'making it easier for developers to write applications that work on different flavors.'
i would think the former is a result of the latter, instead of the other way around.
i sent my first email in 1990 at college using pine, and i still use it to this day. imho, pine is the best email client available.
i'm not completely sure this invention is deserving of a 'national medal of technology,' but i know one thing - the first time i played pong is a very fond memory i'll never forget. in the 70's, my dad worked part-time in a bowling alley. i was about 10, and sometimes helped him out in exchange for quarters to play pinball.
one night the vending company delivered the game 'pong,' and my dad and i were the 1st ones to try it out. even though it seems like a simple game compared to today's standards, i distinctly remember us standing there for what seemed like hours while we feverishly battled back and forth, back and forth, until one of us scored, laughing heartily the whole time. it may sound cheesy, but we both remember that moment vividly, and joke about it often. it was worth every bit of the $0.25 we spent.
Been done, nobody seems very interested. http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml
yes, but (from the aforementioned site):
The plugin is unfinished, but usable for its primary purpose, and since I'm unlikely to have time to develop it further in the near future, I'm releasing it as is.
not exactly a ringing endorsement of cmyk, especially when you read further:
What can't it do?
* Load CMYK TIFFs into individual layers. If you want to edit a CMYK image, save it in XCF format as well as CMYK TIFF, so the layers are preserved for future editing.
you're right, those who need cmyk are not interested, because it's not fully functional.
interesting that autocad is #2 but microstation didn't even make the list? they're pretty much the last 2 standing in the design world.
i think if the gimp had cmyk support photoshop probably wouldn't be on the list at all.
Ubuntu is a good user-friendly distribution but how is your statement anything more than an off-topic pro-Linux flame in a thread about a MS security VP's responses?
because to me and my customers, the best way to battle the constant barrage of viruses, spyware, etc. that proliferate because of poor windows security is to stop using windows.
all the steps m$ takes to improve their security are valiant, but they mean nothing when faced with a dialup user that doesn't want to (or can't) spend the time it takes to maintain the installation. i've found that these customers are best served by installing an o/s that is relatively safe, even if left alone.
You simply do not go from a fully functional Windows installation that runs all your software to a random variation of Linux that extremely little runs on without coersion
most of my customers are on dialup, since there's no high-speed internet available in most of the areas here (except for satellite, which is cost-prohibitive for most). most of my customers use their computers for little else than surfing the web, sending email, instant messaging, typing an occasional document and getting pics off their digital camera. when faced with the task of diligently installing o/s updates, virus updates, spyware/malware updates, on a weekly and sometimes daily basis, they realize they'll likely be spending more time maintaining their computer instead of using it. i'd probably make more money if they did keep their windows, since i'd be called out to 'fix the slowness' once or twice a year. but when they switch to ubuntu, i usually don't hear from them again until they want to buy a peripheral or new computer.
your 'extremely little runs on without coersion' statement is misleading as well. they pay me to convert their windows computer to ubuntu, and i do all the coersion that's necessary. before they bring their computer in, i ask what peripherals they have and check to make sure they're supported. if not, i explain one of the caveats of switching means that lexmark you got for $10 probably won't work. in cases like this i'm usually able to secure a used printer that's fully supported off ebay or someplace similar.
since most customers are on dialup, another sticking issue is winmodems. i've found that installing the sl-modem-daemon works for most cases. in the others, i again explain the caveat of switching and sell them a 3com 5610.
after they've switched, when they learn that upgrades are free, well, that's just icing on the cake.
something as basic as floppy disk support is broken out-of-the-box
there may be issues, but for me it's not an issue as none of my customers use floppys anymore, opting for cd/rw instead. in fact, i encourage them to not use floppys due to their lack of space and fragility. almost all of the computers i work on these days don't even have a floppy drive.
One thing that is for sure is that human polution is not helping the enviroment any, and has other deletarious effects on human habitability as well. Global Warming is just one of several reasons why reducing carbon emmisions would be a good plan
fyi - CO2 is not 'pollution', it's plant food.
In late 2001, I sent a mail to all of my family members telling them that I would only help them with their PC if they were running Windows XP, so my grandmother ran out and bought an XP machine.
In February of 2004 I was down visiting Nanny in Florida. I was on my way home from a business trip, so I was only there for about a day. When I got to her house she fed me breakfast, looked at the latest pictures of her great-grandsons and then said to me that she needed some help with her PC. When I powered the thing on, it was clear that something was wrong. The machine was very slow and you could see the icons on her desk being drawn pixel by pixel.
all my windows customers that call and say, "there's something wrong with my computer, it's really slow," get a short sales pitch on switching to ubuntu. to date 100% have switched, and i have had 0 complaints. it's the best way to upgrade any windows installation.
this thread has gotten wot, so i'm going to sum up my thoughts:
For your information: most countries, including those with vastly superior election-systems to the US ones choose to give rural states with low population some overrepresentation compared to densely populated states.
hrm, you seem to have forgoten to list some of these countries with 'vastly superior' election systems.
I am amazed this was modded-up to 'insightful'. The electoral college was created by our founding fathers to preserve liberty. The primary reason for its use is to prevent less densely populated states from being dominated by more densely populated states. Is rural America unworthy of representation, simply because less people live there? A quick glance at the county-by-county map of the 2000 election results clearly show this system works, as Bush carried 2439 counties to 674 for Gore.
if your small business has more than $5 million in "gross remote taxable sales" each year, I think you can handle a little paperwork. Unless you're too busy rolling around in your piles of money.
in the business world, sales != profit. this is expecially true in the cutthroat ecommerce industry.
the state i pay sales taxes to gives out a coupon book (just like a mortgage) where you rip out a coupon for each sales period (monthly, quarterly, annually), fill it out and mail it in with a check. i assume most other states do something similar.
Of course, maybe my definition of small business is different than the posters.
according to the SBA, the threshold for 'nonstore retailers, electronic shopping' is $23M.
ps - i did read the article.