Pull the network cable or disable your net connection while he's doing it. If he asks you if your machine is having problems, say no.
If everyone gets in on it at once he'll be unable to single anyone out as the cause and presume it's his machine.
It appears there's a very twisted opportunity here: patent as many evil ideas as you can then wait for companies to pursue those strategies by patent trolling them. How about starting by patenting violations of net neutrality like "a system and method for filtering internet content to prevent civil unrest." Or protecting an emerging tech like SVG: "System and method to extend svg-format files with any non-svg content."
Yes switch providers and post them here so we know to avoid them.
Find a provider with a good uptime SLA (EC2 for example) that doesn't root you when they screw up.
It's the cars! So many people have their pet problem to itch of ___ while driving. Driving on your cell, driving and texting, driving drunk - in some US states they even banned driving and talking! They banned driving under 18 with friends in the car. Driving is obviously the common theme here. The fact is a car is between 2000-7000lbs of metal moving 5-20x faster than you can run. Allowing them to become something everyone uses to accomplish a fundamental task like get to work has guaranteed we put fast-moving, fatal machines in the hands of poorly trained people, sometimes in poorly thought-out situations, and in some cases, just plain idiots.
This is especially stupid in London where there are such great alternatives to driving.
In the US, Boston has taken the right approach - make it impossible to drive fast on local roads and bury the highways. This puts the dangerous vehicles out of the way of pedestrians and buildings where they can do damage. The only remaining risk is to the drivers themselves, who put themselves at the peril of everyone else choosing this dangerous method of travel over Boston's excellent subway system. Few sane residents of Boston elect to drive in that environment.
Stop making stupid laws about driving and just bury the expressways in populated areas. Laws saying "Stop that" are the easy, cheap way out, and they'll never work.
2 comments:
1) This sounds better suited to desalination. A house on California's beaches or a boat could use this to evaporate ocean water. Current methods use too much electricity.
2) Maintaining a vacuum - how is the vacuum maintained? The sun sets, pausing evaporation. The exit tube drains or dries. Vacuum lost. It seems like there's more to a closed loop, specifically a solar panel, battery, valve, and controller. When the sun sets the valve would shut to keep water in the tube. When evaporation
resumes the valve opens and trickling continues.
Or perhaps there is a power-free mechanical solution where the tube expands for a lot of water and squeezes shut when there is little.
Ergonomically that's how far you're supposed to be... 14 inches in fact. Were these users blind or something? You're just making yourself nearsighted otherwise.
We need a public standard for battery interfaces so the replacement process is cheap and the batteries can be trusted. That makes swapping them cheap and robots like this can improve to be faster and cheaper, and battery manufacturers compete broadly across all electric cars on cost, performance, range, and durability.
The US could ask existing players for comment, establish the standard, then enforce it to incentivize interested businesses and ensure consumers can trust the battery claims on what they swap in.
With this kind of competition freed up, you separate the car, which is largely a style choice, from the batteries which advance rapidly every year, avoiding justified fears of obsolescence.
It's crime-riddled isn't it? Ridding of something removes it, so wouldn't crime-ridden be free of crime?
Unless a multicore CPU is actually duplicating calculations, and multiple hard drives are duplicating writes, etc
This is exactly why I still use Windows Mobile, despite how difficult it is to develop for (thousand dollar Visual Studio license fee) and its browser being well behind iPhone and Android.
Now, some providers block this built-in tether (Verizon, Sprint) so they can charge you double to enable it - but without an app store to lock you into, it's easy to install an app that works around their block (PDANet). With tethering officially blocked on Android, I am kinda freaked out to say Windows Mobile is officially the most open cellphone platform. Weird.
Yes but then moving into previously worthless land to grow biofuels means converting a lot of animal habitat that once was left alone. Animals like tigers are in danger because where humans are they tend to get shot, no matter why it is we're there.
If those new farms can actually provide habitat to existing local species you mitigate this but it takes smart government incentive to get there, the kind that doesn't exist on anyone's law books yet.
Yes, this is my problem with the story. The CEO sets policy. Nowhere in his blog response is a statement about what would happen to a salesperson if they were found to be selling review removal, or moving ads. The entry should have stated how they check for this (like the way Starbucks uses Secret Shoppers to pose as customers) and that salespeople violating it will be fired.
Instead the response read as, "We're doing nothing wrong, because if we did, we'd be violating what we say we do"... yes that's what you're accused of... that you run a business doesn't imply you do so honorably.
And he spends time impeaching the sources, which is sometimes the proper response but often how liars get away with a lie - reframe the conversation to be about those who speak up's honesty, and you'll kick up some dirt but most importantly shift the conversation to be about them, not you.
It sounds to me like this CEO is out of his league. There's probably some salespeople out of line and nothing being done to account for it.
In my opinion it's just lack of competition. The Windows standard for running apps needs to become a fully documented public, free work so that competing OS manufacturers can finally start showing up. Then you'll get great boot times.
Vista is a crime but in a competitive market it would have been a blip everyone ignored for other, better competitors. Ubuntu with Wine is almost there but still too complex for your average user with a Windows software install CD and without a clue.
I'm not a Biologist but I've read ~5 years ago most malignant tumor cells emit proteins that "encourage arterial growth" - increase bloodflow. Malignant tumors that don't will most likely starve so it's hard for cancer to get far without emitting that marker.
BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing. -- Seymour Papert
