No, this denier is uninterested in AlGore. Much more interesting to Michael E Mann twist in the wind refusing to show his data to a Canadian court. Way more fun to the claimers explain just how hard it is to measure the actual temperature anywhere, reliably, over a period of time.
These arguments are neither new nor exceptional. Some believe, some do not.
...because Centurylink had a 36+ hour total outage in my area, starting Saturday night.
To this day no explanation, no apology, no rebate or refund for service not delivered. When my 'contract', triggered by signing up for automatic pay, expires, they will see me gone. I would rather have DirecTV than Prism ever again.
The Etherium fork showed an interesting problem with blockchain technology. How do you, in fact, address fraud?
If you can't roll back to 'erase' the fraud, then you have built a system that makes fraud permanent. And yet the blockchain was intended to expose transactions, to validate them, and let the community determine that validity. When a transaction is identified as 'fraudulent', which in Ethereum's case was declaring it to be the result deceptively manipulating 'The DAO' for the purpose of extracting Ether contrary to the intentions of the majority of funders. The fix was to freeze the Ether within the DAO and children, not rewrite the log.
But, for me the bottom line was and is that blockchain is not well suited to dealing with (ie correcting or punishing) fraudulent activity. And it should not be. That would be the province of users.
What a mess. Bitcoin is proving that its blockchain has scaling issues, which I recognized about 6 minutes after having it explained to me, with profuse denials by all in attendance. Ethereum is proving that DAOs as code are fraught with danger and not easily fixed.
And financial fraud in the blockchain industry is a big deal.
"I don't have the time or resources to personally-inspect the source code"
"everybody sees it and sees the build process,"
So you don't trust or inspect the code, you rely on others to do that. In other words, choose one community over the other.
Ok, in other words, you trust that community more than you trust the manufacturer and Amazon.
Which I understand, but I'm curious - You have some rational basis for that trust, beyond the size and presumed motivations/ethics/history of that COMMUNITY?
Not that they can be presumed to be nefarious, but when I write that I 'understand', I do not necessarily agree or approve.
In the beginning, Android on-screen keyboards were inflexible, inaccurate, and ugly.
Then came the third-party keyboard apps. And beauty. And flexible layouts. And somewhat more accurate.
In time, these became more accurate, though they have somehow recently become accurate at guessing what THEY thin you meant to type, based on some history you are unfamiliar with.
And, lo, Google, being Android, brought us Gboard. Flexible, attractive, fairly accurate.
It is not going to take long for the hobbyist community to leverage this and start showing how to build small furnaces with both thermal and microwave heating. Half-wave traps are simple, and small magnetos are ubiquitous. Kits will show up soon (18-24 months?) enough.
This will probably [please you more when you can actually get a replacement inside door handle for your beloved 14-year-old beater, rather than use a coathanger until you succumb to the accursed 7-year-old self-driving electric banshee that takes off and picks up another ChevyLyft ride, leaving you with the subtle aroma of vomit from last night's last ride off Mill Ave. The one where it stopped at the autowash to hose out the rubber interior. Because they tried, really tried, to cover the smell with something mildly allergenic and ineffective to boot.
The autonomous vehicle future will have a lot of us resisting. And parts availability for older vehicles will be the hammer to recommend us to submit.
If this works as it looks to the problems will be shrinkage during fusing, material differences and so the need to calibrate for given material, and of course wear and tear.
This is all solvable. FDM machines do this already. If you need truly fine tolerances, some of your parts may need precise machining, and still that's likely faster and cheaper than trying to machine or cast something intricate. For prototyping, this promising. When costs dive down, it makes for useful one-off parts, and the collectible car industry will be pretty giddy.
No, I didn't forget. The previous hero is now known to have done much worse, secretly.
Trying to indict a President for his abuses is an exercise in one-up-manship. This one we can, possibly, influence. Not many did we have any such hope. But even if you don't believe that, you've merely indicted him for what so many have done. He's wrong on these things, but he's not even exceptional in that.
It took you until NT 3.51 to protest? What, 95 was the breaking point?
When I installed WIn 95 *upgrade* version, over WFW 3.11, which BTW would need to be rebooted 3-4 times a night accessing AOL via TCP/IP over a 33.6k SLIP connection to my micro-ISP. 95 ran for about 28 days, until I applied the update. After that, usually a week or so before needing a reboot.
Yeah, my Novell server didn't *need* a reboot for about 15 months, or so, when finally I had to patch something the kernel would not let go of. No, not the IDE driver.
PS - did anyone really use Wolverine? Even my corporate clients used Trumpet.
"If you are opposed to a president who is committed to roll back every single socialist policy since 1901 and a president who declares America First, and you resort to violence to express that opposition, you deserve to be ploughed under."
0) Permit local municipalities to form utility-style ISPs. 1) Permit companies such as Google to light up dark fiber. 2) Watch as T-Mobile turns up 600Mhz wireless broadband. 3) Figure out how to prevent ISPs with competing businesses diminishing various streaming services.
It's not uncommon for a hosting provider to require admin and technical contact as a condition of service. Of course, this lends it self to abuse, such as refusing to relinquish control, change DNS, etc. I've suffered through this, and advise a previous employer to not take that path when dealing with a deadbeat customer.
This is hard to fix, since the hoster will claim they are the owner if ti gets to the registrar level. Network Solutions has been from one extreme to the other in these cases, denying the rightful owners a hearing and falling for the scam where someone tells a good enough story to whisk a domain away. They usually kept out of billing disputes, such as this *appears* to be.
Good luck, Snopes. Even contracts, letters, etc fail. Send lawyers, money, dogs, and guns.
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No, this denier is uninterested in AlGore. Much more interesting to Michael E Mann twist in the wind refusing to show his data to a Canadian court. Way more fun to the claimers explain just how hard it is to measure the actual temperature anywhere, reliably, over a period of time.
These arguments are neither new nor exceptional. Some believe, some do not.
...because Centurylink had a 36+ hour total outage in my area, starting Saturday night.
To this day no explanation, no apology, no rebate or refund for service not delivered. When my 'contract', triggered by signing up for automatic pay, expires, they will see me gone. I would rather have DirecTV than Prism ever again.
Ever. I just won't pay extra to leave.
The simple solution is for Bitcoin to halve in exchange value, relative to fiat currencies. then you can double spend, but get similar value.
The real question is if double spending happens, and the fork is rejoined, what then? I don't think the fork can be rolled back or 'unforked'.
Probably the hard fork will result in one chain attracting most of the volume, the other losing acceptance, and one survives.
The Etherium fork showed an interesting problem with blockchain technology. How do you, in fact, address fraud?
If you can't roll back to 'erase' the fraud, then you have built a system that makes fraud permanent. And yet the blockchain was intended to expose transactions, to validate them, and let the community determine that validity. When a transaction is identified as 'fraudulent', which in Ethereum's case was declaring it to be the result deceptively manipulating 'The DAO' for the purpose of extracting Ether contrary to the intentions of the majority of funders. The fix was to freeze the Ether within the DAO and children, not rewrite the log.
But, for me the bottom line was and is that blockchain is not well suited to dealing with (ie correcting or punishing) fraudulent activity. And it should not be. That would be the province of users.
What a mess. Bitcoin is proving that its blockchain has scaling issues, which I recognized about 6 minutes after having it explained to me, with profuse denials by all in attendance. Ethereum is proving that DAOs as code are fraught with danger and not easily fixed.
And financial fraud in the blockchain industry is a big deal.
"I don't have the time or resources to personally-inspect the source code"
"everybody sees it and sees the build process,"
So you don't trust or inspect the code, you rely on others to do that. In other words, choose one community over the other.
Ok, in other words, you trust that community more than you trust the manufacturer and Amazon.
Which I understand, but I'm curious - You have some rational basis for that trust, beyond the size and presumed motivations/ethics/history of that COMMUNITY?
Not that they can be presumed to be nefarious, but when I write that I 'understand', I do not necessarily agree or approve.
As Jay Leno told us years ago, it's not the baby in your hand...
Ok.
In the beginning, Android on-screen keyboards were inflexible, inaccurate, and ugly.
Then came the third-party keyboard apps. And beauty. And flexible layouts. And somewhat more accurate.
In time, these became more accurate, though they have somehow recently become accurate at guessing what THEY thin you meant to type, based on some history you are unfamiliar with.
And, lo, Google, being Android, brought us Gboard. Flexible, attractive, fairly accurate.
Just don't try to swype the word 'stop'.
Choice is good. Even for iOS users. Sometimes.
Fast forward to today - and the Surface Pro keyboard could use a little Word Flow love.
C'mon, Microsoft, give us a swype-y, even a SwiftKey keyboard for the Surface, in all incarnations. You can do it, right?
It is not going to take long for the hobbyist community to leverage this and start showing how to build small furnaces with both thermal and microwave heating. Half-wave traps are simple, and small magnetos are ubiquitous. Kits will show up soon (18-24 months?) enough.
This will probably [please you more when you can actually get a replacement inside door handle for your beloved 14-year-old beater, rather than use a coathanger until you succumb to the accursed 7-year-old self-driving electric banshee that takes off and picks up another ChevyLyft ride, leaving you with the subtle aroma of vomit from last night's last ride off Mill Ave. The one where it stopped at the autowash to hose out the rubber interior. Because they tried, really tried, to cover the smell with something mildly allergenic and ineffective to boot.
The autonomous vehicle future will have a lot of us resisting. And parts availability for older vehicles will be the hammer to recommend us to submit.
If this works as it looks to the problems will be shrinkage during fusing, material differences and so the need to calibrate for given material, and of course wear and tear.
This is all solvable. FDM machines do this already. If you need truly fine tolerances, some of your parts may need precise machining, and still that's likely faster and cheaper than trying to machine or cast something intricate. For prototyping, this promising. When costs dive down, it makes for useful one-off parts, and the collectible car industry will be pretty giddy.
Which hero? Whose hero? So many to choose from...
No, I didn't forget. The previous hero is now known to have done much worse, secretly.
Trying to indict a President for his abuses is an exercise in one-up-manship. This one we can, possibly, influence. Not many did we have any such hope. But even if you don't believe that, you've merely indicted him for what so many have done. He's wrong on these things, but he's not even exceptional in that.
My first solar eclipse I watched in a pail of water. The reflection.
It took you until NT 3.51 to protest? What, 95 was the breaking point?
When I installed WIn 95 *upgrade* version, over WFW 3.11, which BTW would need to be rebooted 3-4 times a night accessing AOL via TCP/IP over a 33.6k SLIP connection to my micro-ISP. 95 ran for about 28 days, until I applied the update. After that, usually a week or so before needing a reboot.
Yeah, my Novell server didn't *need* a reboot for about 15 months, or so, when finally I had to patch something the kernel would not let go of. No, not the IDE driver.
PS - did anyone really use Wolverine? Even my corporate clients used Trumpet.
"If you are opposed to a president who is committed to roll back every single socialist policy since 1901 and a president who declares America First, and you resort to violence to express that opposition, you deserve to be ploughed under."
FTFY.
What were the terms of the contract? Did it specify your recourse?
That was point 3.
And so the UniParty is exposed.
Perhaps we could just stop funding them on the backs of consumers?
Oh, wait. Done that.
Comcast doesn't have to be split up.
0) Permit local municipalities to form utility-style ISPs.
1) Permit companies such as Google to light up dark fiber.
2) Watch as T-Mobile turns up 600Mhz wireless broadband.
3) Figure out how to prevent ISPs with competing businesses diminishing various streaming services.
Ok, what did I miss here?
It's not uncommon for a hosting provider to require admin and technical contact as a condition of service. Of course, this lends it self to abuse, such as refusing to relinquish control, change DNS, etc. I've suffered through this, and advise a previous employer to not take that path when dealing with a deadbeat customer.
This is hard to fix, since the hoster will claim they are the owner if ti gets to the registrar level. Network Solutions has been from one extreme to the other in these cases, denying the rightful owners a hearing and falling for the scam where someone tells a good enough story to whisk a domain away. They usually kept out of billing disputes, such as this *appears* to be.
Good luck, Snopes. Even contracts, letters, etc fail. Send lawyers, money, dogs, and guns.
I use several apps that give me an option to turn off notifications, but they come back on...
Complaints do not solve these problems...
So do I. I suspect I can use P3D just fine.
That is manageable. It CAN be fixed. Even by you.
My nick came from AOL, i tried and tried to get something else... Way back when.
BUT having my name as email would indeed end up like this. An easy way to sign up for crap you really didn't want to be associated with.