Those same ISP's which do not support rDNS for customers typically host a well-configured SMTP server which customers can use as a smarthost. So, you configure your SMTP server to relay mail through your ISP's SMTP server.
In an organization operating a mailserver without a PTR record for their SMTP, the users should be having so much difficulty sending outbound mail that they know something is wrong. I know this from experience, having set up an SMTP without reverse DNS, and then observing that half my test messages bounced back.
The fact that the coverage of the protests focus on New York and not Washington DC (which would be closer to the root of the 1% problem) suggests the protests are a stealth campaign by backers of the incumbent Obama against the presumed challenger Romney in the 2012 presidential election. The protests are being used to paint Romney's success as villainy, so that casting a vote against Romney is equivalent to casting a vote against the 1%.
Whether you leave your employer, or your employer lets you go, the taste it leaves in your mouths comes from how it's executed.
If your employer lays you off by talking to you personally and taking you out for drinks, then that will leave a much better feeling than if they lock you out of the building, mail you a cardboard box filled with your personal belongings, and threaten to sue you if you work for anyone they feel is a competitor.
Likewise, if you document really well, make yourself available for questions, take everyone out for drinks, and get your coworkers to feel happy for you about the promotion, then that makes a huge difference compared to if you just hand in two weeks notice and split as if you don't care.
The web and electronic services offered by the USPS are certainly part of their problem. You would think that by now, almost everyone would be logging into USPS.com to print POSTNET/IM barcoded prepaid envelopes and labels with inexpensive tracking and delivery confirmation options. You would also expect USPS.com to contain complete information and offer every service your local post office offers.
Instead, USPS.com has not changed much at all in the past 10 years. You cannot print out an envelope with delivery confirmation from your PC. Delivery confirmation is not even available for the first-class envelope you use to pay your electric bill, unless you stick in a couple of styrofoam peanuts to make the envelope 1/4" thick to convert it from a flat to a parcel. The post office does offer a certificate-of-mailing service, and their legacy certified and registered mail services, both of which require you visit a post office and handwrite all the information out on paper forms.
The USPS offers a bloated Windows desktop "Shipping Assistant" application, which still cannot print out a simple envelope.
They updated the USPS.com website about a month ago, but that was barely more than a homepage redesign. click a few times and you're back to their old web apps.
It's such a stagnant situation that the only viable fix is to have the federal government just sign a contract with stamps.com and make it a free service for everyone.
They sweet-spot in enterprise storage is doing deduplication with SSD with both direct attached and networked storage, plus 15k 2.5" and 7.2K 3.5" disk for the rest. Deduplication saves a lot space and with SSD it works like cache, especially in scaled out environments.
It's weird that most posters (not to mention the author of the TFA) seem totally unaware that the 56-mpg figure does not mean what anyone thinks it does.
Obama, Detroit, and the press are doing a good job of glossing over the details.
Sometime in the early 20th century RCA did an experiment where they had people come into a room where opera music was playing. They had the test subject adjust two dials until the music sounded 'best'.
The result was half the subjects turned both dials all the way down. The other half adjusted the dials to the midpoints.
The two dials were for treble and bass. Half the test subjects were people who went to a lot of live opera performances. The other half where people who listened mostly to the radio. The live listeners adjusted the dials to the midpoint, matching the sound they usually listen to. The other half listened over the radio. They adjusted the dials all the way down because that's how radio sounds.
The moral of the story- what "sounds best" depends a lot on what you think "sounds best", and is not necessarily a measure of accurate sound reproduction.
"exploring the stars" has nothing to do with the ISS. The ISS and manned space program are a relatively expensive dog and pony show. Shoot ex-senator John Glenn into orbit to research the effects of weightlessness on octogenarians. Study the behavior of honeybees in zero gravity. Seriously?
Real space exploration involves telescopes and astronomers. Budgets for deep space astronomy (and high energy particle physics) have suffered since the early 1990's when the ISS started sucking away all the funding from basic research. We used to call it the International Waste Station because it sucked money from so many other worthy research projects which promised to reveal more of the universe's secrets for far fewer dollars than the manned space program.
Yes the shuttle program and ISS are nice for entertaining imaginative little kids, but I think even if your goal is to get to a "Star Trek" future for mankind, the manned space program, sending people up for no good reason, is not the way to get there. Better to do more physics and astronomy on the ground first, and then after someone invents the magic impulse engine or warp drive, send people and experiments into space later.
Kerry's biggest problem in 2004 was not the voting machines in Ohio or Pennsylvania, but his inability to coherently and succinctly answer a simple question.
In 2004, a ham sandwich would have out-polled George W, but the Democrats nominated John Friggin Kerry. Vote tampering in Ohio does not excuse the Democrats for losing that election.
These ANPR systems for law enforcement have been around for a really long time. They're even become more common for private businesses, owners of parking lots, event parking, and the like.
The real question is today is having personal services using them too. Earlier this year, AutoTrader in the UK had an iPhone app that could snap a photo of a plate, OCR the tag number, and spit back at you the make, model, and KBB value of the car it's assigned to. For some reason, they were asked by the government to remove that feature for privacy reasons, even though the information they're using is publicly available and not personally identifiable.
It's only a matter of time before ANPR is available to the masses. Then it's not a question of Big Brother watching you, but a million annoying Little Brothers following you around.
One of the current illegal practices at airports is how first/business/elite passengers get directed to use a different, shorter line ahead of the TSA checkpoint compared to the economy passengers. Legally, this is not legal at all. Officially, they claim it's okay because "TSA controls the checkpoint,. the airlines control the line going to the checkpoint" which is transparent BS even Alito/Scalia wouldn't let fly.
The fact that nobody's sued the airlines/TSA for this violation of equal-protection makes me wonder what's up with the ACLU.
1) The whole mercury issue is overblown, and also trivial to solve. You just use CFL capsules and then you don't have to worry about mercury. The capsule encapsulates the glass bulb, and is nearly indestructible. You can break the capsule with a hammer, but even if you squeeze really hard, you can't crush it with your hand. Mercury is not easily released. Capsules are suitable for CFL's not installed in enclosed fixtures.
2) The biggest problem with the CFL market I see is the lack of quality control. You buy a cheapie CFL from your local dollar store. The spectrum emitted by the phosphor makes your house look like crap. Your wife makes you swear to never install CFL's in her house ever again. CFL's with better quality control, not-the-cheapest phosphor, cold cathode, and more durable electronics cost closer to $10 than $1. Stores don't sell them because the average consumer is accustomed to buying the cheapest incandescent lamp they can find, and not noticing a difference between the generic and the brand-name incandescent lamp.
3) It's really hard to manage color-temperature when you go to CFL. If you select a high-color temperature 6500K "daylight" CFL, and only install one 13-watt lamp to light up your bathroom, the light will look terrible and unhealthy. Replace it with a 2700K or 2650K CFL, and the light will look much more natural. Repeat with ten times the lumens, and then the results are the opposite. The daylight lamps will look a lot better than the warm-white lamps when the light is very bright, like in an office environment. You basically have to do work and put thought into selecting the color temperature of your lamps when lighting your home.
Basically, CFL's and even LED's need better quality standards and better labeling. Without that, it's harder to use them residentially and get attractive results.
Anti-competitive, or competitive? Anybody can edit anyone out of Wikipedia, and then anyone can edit anyone back in. That makes it merely competitive. If wikipedia employees/metas actually blacklisted references to someone out of Wikipedia, that might be anti-competitive, since nobody else can undo that.
"How do I put my actual name on the domain instead of your hidden service?"
Your question stumped me too until I thought of it for a while and figured out you are _probably_ talking about WHOIS data and private domain regisration. If so, if you ask Google/Godaddy that way, they should be able to give you a straight answer.
Or are you seriously asking how to replace their generic parked domain webpage with your own website? If so, then I don't know what to tell you.
What government puts on the web usually works out to 1/3 propaganda (see the wonderful things our fearless leader is doing), 1/3 vanity (stuff that that gets made without asking constituents first, because you know the constituents will just say it's a bad idea), and 1/3 actually useful stuff (putting up FAQ's, exposing data).
I totally agree. Traditional unions (which reward seniority) are poison for technology organizations by exacerbating the dead sea effect. What's worse is not just that the senior employees can't be fired, but that union rules demand that older employees will always be better compensated (in salary, vacation time, pension, job protection, union backing) than new employees.
Whenever I see Gartner recommend something, I usually look for the opposite. Gartner is inclined to promote technology that looks good on Powerpoint which the PHB's will spend $$$ to read about in Gartner reports, and then the PHB's use Gartner to validate their own preferences for the vendor with the high price tag but slick and charming sales team. Meanwhile the people who actually work with tech prefer totally different products, vendors, tools, and processes.
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Those same ISP's which do not support rDNS for customers typically host a well-configured SMTP server which customers can use as a smarthost. So, you configure your SMTP server to relay mail through your ISP's SMTP server.
This solves the rDNS problem.
In an organization operating a mailserver without a PTR record for their SMTP, the users should be having so much difficulty sending outbound mail that they know something is wrong. I know this from experience, having set up an SMTP without reverse DNS, and then observing that half my test messages bounced back.
The fact that the coverage of the protests focus on New York and not Washington DC (which would be closer to the root of the 1% problem) suggests the protests are a stealth campaign by backers of the incumbent Obama against the presumed challenger Romney in the 2012 presidential election. The protests are being used to paint Romney's success as villainy, so that casting a vote against Romney is equivalent to casting a vote against the 1%.
Or maybe I'm just being cynical.
Get the kid a job as a janitor at MIT. That oughta do it.
Whether you leave your employer, or your employer lets you go, the taste it leaves in your mouths comes from how it's executed.
If your employer lays you off by talking to you personally and taking you out for drinks, then that will leave a much better feeling than if they lock you out of the building, mail you a cardboard box filled with your personal belongings, and threaten to sue you if you work for anyone they feel is a competitor.
Likewise, if you document really well, make yourself available for questions, take everyone out for drinks, and get your coworkers to feel happy for you about the promotion, then that makes a huge difference compared to if you just hand in two weeks notice and split as if you don't care.
The web and electronic services offered by the USPS are certainly part of their problem. You would think that by now, almost everyone would be logging into USPS.com to print POSTNET/IM barcoded prepaid envelopes and labels with inexpensive tracking and delivery confirmation options. You would also expect USPS.com to contain complete information and offer every service your local post office offers.
Instead, USPS.com has not changed much at all in the past 10 years. You cannot print out an envelope with delivery confirmation from your PC. Delivery confirmation is not even available for the first-class envelope you use to pay your electric bill, unless you stick in a couple of styrofoam peanuts to make the envelope 1/4" thick to convert it from a flat to a parcel. The post office does offer a certificate-of-mailing service, and their legacy certified and registered mail services, both of which require you visit a post office and handwrite all the information out on paper forms.
The USPS offers a bloated Windows desktop "Shipping Assistant" application, which still cannot print out a simple envelope.
They updated the USPS.com website about a month ago, but that was barely more than a homepage redesign. click a few times and you're back to their old web apps.
It's such a stagnant situation that the only viable fix is to have the federal government just sign a contract with stamps.com and make it a free service for everyone.
http://xkcd.com/932/
They sweet-spot in enterprise storage is doing deduplication with SSD with both direct attached and networked storage, plus 15k 2.5" and 7.2K 3.5" disk for the rest. Deduplication saves a lot space and with SSD it works like cache, especially in scaled out environments.
It's weird that most posters (not to mention the author of the TFA) seem totally unaware that the 56-mpg figure does not mean what anyone thinks it does.
Obama, Detroit, and the press are doing a good job of glossing over the details.
Sometime in the early 20th century RCA did an experiment where they had people come into a room where opera music was playing. They had the test subject adjust two dials until the music sounded 'best'.
The result was half the subjects turned both dials all the way down. The other half adjusted the dials to the midpoints.
The two dials were for treble and bass. Half the test subjects were people who went to a lot of live opera performances. The other half where people who listened mostly to the radio. The live listeners adjusted the dials to the midpoint, matching the sound they usually listen to. The other half listened over the radio. They adjusted the dials all the way down because that's how radio sounds.
The moral of the story- what "sounds best" depends a lot on what you think "sounds best", and is not necessarily a measure of accurate sound reproduction.
"exploring the stars" has nothing to do with the ISS. The ISS and manned space program are a relatively expensive dog and pony show. Shoot ex-senator John Glenn into orbit to research the effects of weightlessness on octogenarians. Study the behavior of honeybees in zero gravity. Seriously?
Real space exploration involves telescopes and astronomers. Budgets for deep space astronomy (and high energy particle physics) have suffered since the early 1990's when the ISS started sucking away all the funding from basic research. We used to call it the International Waste Station because it sucked money from so many other worthy research projects which promised to reveal more of the universe's secrets for far fewer dollars than the manned space program.
Yes the shuttle program and ISS are nice for entertaining imaginative little kids, but I think even if your goal is to get to a "Star Trek" future for mankind, the manned space program, sending people up for no good reason, is not the way to get there. Better to do more physics and astronomy on the ground first, and then after someone invents the magic impulse engine or warp drive, send people and experiments into space later.
Kerry's biggest problem in 2004 was not the voting machines in Ohio or Pennsylvania, but his inability to coherently and succinctly answer a simple question.
In 2004, a ham sandwich would have out-polled George W, but the Democrats nominated John Friggin Kerry. Vote tampering in Ohio does not excuse the Democrats for losing that election.
These ANPR systems for law enforcement have been around for a really long time. They're even become more common for private businesses, owners of parking lots, event parking, and the like.
The real question is today is having personal services using them too. Earlier this year, AutoTrader in the UK had an iPhone app that could snap a photo of a plate, OCR the tag number, and spit back at you the make, model, and KBB value of the car it's assigned to. For some reason, they were asked by the government to remove that feature for privacy reasons, even though the information they're using is publicly available and not personally identifiable.
It's only a matter of time before ANPR is available to the masses. Then it's not a question of Big Brother watching you, but a million annoying Little Brothers following you around.
And fix the slashdotted batserver!
FTFY
One of the current illegal practices at airports is how first/business/elite passengers get directed to use a different, shorter line ahead of the TSA checkpoint compared to the economy passengers. Legally, this is not legal at all. Officially, they claim it's okay because "TSA controls the checkpoint,. the airlines control the line going to the checkpoint" which is transparent BS even Alito/Scalia wouldn't let fly.
The fact that nobody's sued the airlines/TSA for this violation of equal-protection makes me wonder what's up with the ACLU.
You're half right - I should have referred to "correlated color temperature" and not "color temperature".
Two problems:
1) The whole mercury issue is overblown, and also trivial to solve. You just use CFL capsules and then you don't have to worry about mercury. The capsule encapsulates the glass bulb, and is nearly indestructible. You can break the capsule with a hammer, but even if you squeeze really hard, you can't crush it with your hand. Mercury is not easily released. Capsules are suitable for CFL's not installed in enclosed fixtures.
2) The biggest problem with the CFL market I see is the lack of quality control. You buy a cheapie CFL from your local dollar store. The spectrum emitted by the phosphor makes your house look like crap. Your wife makes you swear to never install CFL's in her house ever again. CFL's with better quality control, not-the-cheapest phosphor, cold cathode, and more durable electronics cost closer to $10 than $1. Stores don't sell them because the average consumer is accustomed to buying the cheapest incandescent lamp they can find, and not noticing a difference between the generic and the brand-name incandescent lamp.
3) It's really hard to manage color-temperature when you go to CFL. If you select a high-color temperature 6500K "daylight" CFL, and only install one 13-watt lamp to light up your bathroom, the light will look terrible and unhealthy. Replace it with a 2700K or 2650K CFL, and the light will look much more natural. Repeat with ten times the lumens, and then the results are the opposite. The daylight lamps will look a lot better than the warm-white lamps when the light is very bright, like in an office environment. You basically have to do work and put thought into selecting the color temperature of your lamps when lighting your home.
Basically, CFL's and even LED's need better quality standards and better labeling. Without that, it's harder to use them residentially and get attractive results.
This comes to mind:
http://web.mit.edu/voodoo/www/degree.gif
Anti-competitive, or competitive? Anybody can edit anyone out of Wikipedia, and then anyone can edit anyone back in. That makes it merely competitive. If wikipedia employees/metas actually blacklisted references to someone out of Wikipedia, that might be anti-competitive, since nobody else can undo that.
"How do I put my actual name on the domain instead of your hidden service?"
Your question stumped me too until I thought of it for a while and figured out you are _probably_ talking about WHOIS data and private domain regisration. If so, if you ask Google/Godaddy that way, they should be able to give you a straight answer.
Or are you seriously asking how to replace their generic parked domain webpage with your own website? If so, then I don't know what to tell you.
Any chance Alito will break his record of never seeing a police search he didn't like? Nah....
What government puts on the web usually works out to 1/3 propaganda (see the wonderful things our fearless leader is doing), 1/3 vanity (stuff that that gets made without asking constituents first, because you know the constituents will just say it's a bad idea), and 1/3 actually useful stuff (putting up FAQ's, exposing data).
Is there a pandemic of terrorism directed at airplanes which I don't know about?
I totally agree. Traditional unions (which reward seniority) are poison for technology organizations by exacerbating the dead sea effect. What's worse is not just that the senior employees can't be fired, but that union rules demand that older employees will always be better compensated (in salary, vacation time, pension, job protection, union backing) than new employees.
Whenever I see Gartner recommend something, I usually look for the opposite. Gartner is inclined to promote technology that looks good on Powerpoint which the PHB's will spend $$$ to read about in Gartner reports, and then the PHB's use Gartner to validate their own preferences for the vendor with the high price tag but slick and charming sales team. Meanwhile the people who actually work with tech prefer totally different products, vendors, tools, and processes.