Who cares if you have a huge dropout rate? You'll still have a completion rate that is way more then any conventional class and even the dropouts will have learned something.
The education system has built a big blind process that isn't about learning. It is about the process. If you happen to learn at the rate that the info is fed to you and if the process intersects with your learning style then you are great. If you learn faster or slower or in a different fashion then the accepted process you are screwed.
This is more about the legal department making decisions. Are they going to decide "Let's not do any litigation!"? Of course not. They will always pick a choice that keeps them employed.
It wasn't "to prevent people using it for terrorist activities". This was before the 911 "hide in your closet" era. They were protecting against foreign countries using the system.
The controller could be disciplined for that type of slip up. A flight level does not refer to an altitude. It refers to a pressure altitude. What this means is if you set the altimeter correction to 29.92 inches of mercury (standard sea level pressure) and you fly based on the altitude that gives. That means if you are flying at FL300 you could be actually at an altitude hundreds of feet above or below 30,000 feet because of the variations in pressure from high pressure or low pressure systems. This is really the only way to control high altitude traffic because if two planes were flying with different altimeter corrections they could collide because their altimeters were giving different readings.
The reason there is a "transition altitude" is because when you are closer to the ground it is much more important that you are aware of your actual altitude over obstructions. Flying into the ground is a much higher risk than colliding into another plane. I would assume the reason that 18,000 feet was picked as the transition altitude is that there aren't any 18,000 foot mountains in the lower 48 and of the 4 mountains taller then 18,000 feet; two are in Alaska, one is 15 miles outside of Alaska, and the last is way down in the south end of Mexico.
FLxxx numbers are simply pressure altitude in hundreds of feet. In North America flight levels start at 18,000 feet so the lowest FL number is FL180. (In Europe it is much more complicated...) Below that level it is simply "altitude". A normal cruising altitude would be from FL300 to FL410 and may vary from that based on length of hop, specs of the aircraft, congestion, and weather. Not sure where you are going to find any quantity of aircraft cruising at FL180 and FL280 is definitely not "high".
Cabin pressure is not measured in "Flight Levels". That is just silly.
Common commercial aircraft are pressurized to a pressure equivalent of 8,000 feet. The big exception to this is the new Boeing Dreamliner that is pressurized to 6,000 feet which is hailed as a major improvement in passenger comfort and safety.
I think the submitter of this article (and the approver...) think that this is something new.
They will be horrified if they ever run across standard management modules like iLo2 or DRAC.
This "warning" is like the warnings for dihydrogen monoxide and hydric acid.
Honestly, transit (air and subway) is one of the few places you could get some peace and quiet.
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You've never been on BART have you?
BART is the loudest subway I've ever seen and goes over 100 decibels repeatedly.
After riding on quality systems in other places such as Munich I find that BART is just a technical embarrassment.
As far as turning off the cell data coverage... BART consistently has the worst station announcements and the worst station signage. Without the data coverage the only way I can figure out which station I'm at half the time is to get the station map up on the cell and count stops from an identifiable station. I'm really at a loss how a system that big isn't internally audited for simple things like clarity and volume of station announcements. And the lack of clear, obvious, unmistakable station signage is just stupid negligence or apathy on the management's part. 5 minutes on the S-Bahn in Munich will show you how worse then just "Bad" BART is.
This kind of points out why the RIAA and the MPAA (who are incestuous siblings) will now have to seriously up the ante in their attacks on the Pirate Bay.
There isn't any way that they can allow competition in a market that their cartel controls. Dammit!!! They paid good money for their monopoly so their senators better get cracking to wipe them out.
We used to have to explain to customers that had run out to get 56K modems that the faster speeds would only work if their local phone company had switches that would support it. This was particularly rampant in the south. When 56K modems had started to become pretty common Bell South still didn't own a switch that would support the faster speeds. If I remember correctly there was a class action relating to either Bell South's part in it or maybe it was the retailers that were selling them.
If you're gonna lie, at least do some research first so that those of us from that era might believe you for a sec.
Bzzzzzt thankyouforplaying...
AT&T supplied 9600 baud data lines for the ARPANET way back in the late 60s. And yes... They used modems!!!
Almost all of the endpoints for the ARPANET were universities. That would make someone that claiming to use a 9600 baud terminal in the late 70s easily accurate and using a technology that was at least a decade old.
So I suspect two things: (1) You weren't there. (2) You are an anonymous idiot who can't Google.
The Wikipedia article lists the release years of modems conforming to various V.xx standards.
There were modems available that exceeded that timeline by quite a bit. Telebit made their TrailBlazer series that uses quite a different scheme to encode the data on the line from the ITU-T V series schemes. Telebit used what they called PEP which stood for Packetized Ensemble Protocol. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebit#Models
They exceeded the speeds of the commonly available "Hays compatible" modems by a huge margin. PEP still works faster on very noisy phone lines then today's commonly available modems. In situations where a 56K modem will only hook up at 1200 baud the Telebits will generally connect at 9600+.
I assume this bill is on the AZ legislature's website which is an electronic medium.
I find this type of assault on the first amendment blatantly obscene. And I am very offended.
Voting to pass this makes it the voice of everyone that voted Yes on it. Let the first round of class 1 misdemeanors begin.
The only reason that the FDA wouldn't approve LSD as a drug is it isn't patentable and the FDA doesn't do ANYTHING unless it benefits a major pharmaceutical company.
The magnets are GREAT for hanging stuff on cube walls They will stick to almost anything with a minimal quantity of iron in it. If you have a number of the magnets they can even pinch hard enough to injure...
Back to the original point...
To 'wipe out' a laptop drive just hit it with a hammer. The platters will shatter.
To 'wipe out' a desktop drive go get one of those 6' steel spikes used for breaking up concrete or ice. The spike will go right through the drive with almost no effort.
Government unobserved very quickly starts to smell very bad. Often government only has to obfuscate their actions in plain sight to hide their actions. The City of Bell in Los Angeles is a prime example. Take an organization that is granted extraordinary powers, self regulated, and (when caught out) investigates itself and you have a recipe for disaster. The only protection that the public has to protect itself is to be able to observe in a meaningful manner the actions of the police.
Do you think that police are good and magically 'special' so they can be trusted? It is a pretty well excepted fact that a single person, observed, will tend to make choices that we would describe as moral simply because they are being observed. You put together a group of like minded people and then you can start to see really questionable behavior. When you get really large masses of people in a hierarchy then you can get truly obscene, despotic behavior. Question any police officer you know and you will find seeds of this. They have a culture ingrained with the idea that the laws don't really apply to them combined with equal parts of "they are a brotherhood that stands apart" and the fact that they investigate themselves.
Ask any police officer you know if they have chosen to not give a 'brother officer' a traffic citation simply because they are a police officer ("One of the brotherhood"). They will say things like "professional courtesy" and if pressed for a better reason will come up with something like, "I don't give them a ticket because this is someone that I might have to count on to back me up in an emergency situation at a moments notice". Really!??? The police officer's excuse breaks down to, "a policeman might be so unreliable and sophomoric to not pitch in during an emergency situation because someone gave them a traffic ticket"? I don't believe that answer for a minute even though the officer probably believes it, because it has been ingrained in him through the culture of his department and training.
Let's break it down:
- They can choose which laws apply to their brotherhood.
- They have a culture of protecting their own before they protect the public. (all people are this way)
- They are put in situations where on an average day they see the worst in humanity and the normal human thing to do is to anticipate/expect/look-for that behavior out of of every new person they meet.
- They have a culture of secrecy.
- And then they investigate themselves and only they can decide to send one of their own in front of a judge.
- - - - - - - - -
Trust your government as far as you can spit upwind in a hurricane. A government unobserved is a recipe for tyranny... and the baking time till ready is almost instantaneous. Remember that Morality is a function of consciousness, and a government (or corporation) is not conscious so it cannot make moral choices. They may appear moral or the actions may agree with your moral choices but that doesn't make them moral choices.
It is actually just a big process populated by people wanting to justify their own positions and to a large part by people who think citizens are accountable to 'The Process instead of the other way around. A big thing to look for are governments that think that the constituents are their source of revenue. This tells you what the people at the top think the relationship is. And everyone else in the hierarchy is sucking from the teat above them so you know how the Kool-Aid is distributed.
Exactly what part of our government has shown a molecule of respect for privacy and free speech?
Any "Respect" went away a while ago. Only a thin lip service to it remains.
Yeah and exactly how crazy will that make the DHS? Every encrypted message would probably put you on a terror watch list.
(It is probably a good thing that no one has pointed out to them that 100% of terrorists breath air. They would probably regulate that or put all people who breath air on the 'no fly' list...)
Actually it depends on how good your lobbyist is...
And while you are at it you should incorporate because Washington recognizes that the rights of individuals are subordinate to the rights of corporations. Don't go in groveling. If you go in as a corporation they are already trained to do whatever you ask.
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Exactly!
Who cares if you have a huge dropout rate? You'll still have a completion rate that is way more then any conventional class and even the dropouts will have learned something.
The education system has built a big blind process that isn't about learning. It is about the process. If you happen to learn at the rate that the info is fed to you and if the process intersects with your learning style then you are great. If you learn faster or slower or in a different fashion then the accepted process you are screwed.
This is more about the legal department making decisions. Are they going to decide "Let's not do any litigation!"? Of course not. They will always pick a choice that keeps them employed.
It wasn't "to prevent people using it for terrorist activities". This was before the 911 "hide in your closet" era. They were protecting against foreign countries using the system.
How can I be sure? FAA regulations.
The controller could be disciplined for that type of slip up. A flight level does not refer to an altitude. It refers to a pressure altitude. What this means is if you set the altimeter correction to 29.92 inches of mercury (standard sea level pressure) and you fly based on the altitude that gives. That means if you are flying at FL300 you could be actually at an altitude hundreds of feet above or below 30,000 feet because of the variations in pressure from high pressure or low pressure systems. This is really the only way to control high altitude traffic because if two planes were flying with different altimeter corrections they could collide because their altimeters were giving different readings.
The reason there is a "transition altitude" is because when you are closer to the ground it is much more important that you are aware of your actual altitude over obstructions. Flying into the ground is a much higher risk than colliding into another plane. I would assume the reason that 18,000 feet was picked as the transition altitude is that there aren't any 18,000 foot mountains in the lower 48 and of the 4 mountains taller then 18,000 feet; two are in Alaska, one is 15 miles outside of Alaska, and the last is way down in the south end of Mexico.
Here is a wikipedia article explaining it all...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level#Transition_altitude
FLxxx numbers are simply pressure altitude in hundreds of feet. In North America flight levels start at 18,000 feet so the lowest FL number is FL180. (In Europe it is much more complicated...) Below that level it is simply "altitude". A normal cruising altitude would be from FL300 to FL410 and may vary from that based on length of hop, specs of the aircraft, congestion, and weather. Not sure where you are going to find any quantity of aircraft cruising at FL180 and FL280 is definitely not "high".
Cabin pressure is not measured in "Flight Levels". That is just silly.
Common commercial aircraft are pressurized to a pressure equivalent of 8,000 feet. The big exception to this is the new Boeing Dreamliner that is pressurized to 6,000 feet which is hailed as a major improvement in passenger comfort and safety.
That old saw was "Turned off, disconnected from all cables, and locked in a closet."
The article is silly.
I think the submitter of this article (and the approver...) think that this is something new.
They will be horrified if they ever run across standard management modules like iLo2 or DRAC.
This "warning" is like the warnings for dihydrogen monoxide and hydric acid.
The survivors will be buried in the press.
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Honestly, transit (air and subway) is one of the few places you could get some peace and quiet.
. . .
You've never been on BART have you?
BART is the loudest subway I've ever seen and goes over 100 decibels repeatedly.
After riding on quality systems in other places such as Munich I find that BART is just a technical embarrassment.
As far as turning off the cell data coverage... BART consistently has the worst station announcements and the worst station signage. Without the data coverage the only way I can figure out which station I'm at half the time is to get the station map up on the cell and count stops from an identifiable station. I'm really at a loss how a system that big isn't internally audited for simple things like clarity and volume of station announcements. And the lack of clear, obvious, unmistakable station signage is just stupid negligence or apathy on the management's part. 5 minutes on the S-Bahn in Munich will show you how worse then just "Bad" BART is.
If they do manage to make drones and start using them it will just add cover for ours. They won't know what to shoot at.
This kind of points out why the RIAA and the MPAA (who are incestuous siblings) will now have to seriously up the ante in their attacks on the Pirate Bay.
There isn't any way that they can allow competition in a market that their cartel controls. Dammit!!! They paid good money for their monopoly so their senators better get cracking to wipe them out.
We used to have to explain to customers that had run out to get 56K modems that the faster speeds would only work if their local phone company had switches that would support it. This was particularly rampant in the south. When 56K modems had started to become pretty common Bell South still didn't own a switch that would support the faster speeds. If I remember correctly there was a class action relating to either Bell South's part in it or maybe it was the retailers that were selling them.
Bullshit.
9600 didn't show up until the mid 1980s. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-29.html
If you're gonna lie, at least do some research first so that those of us from that era might believe you for a sec.
Bzzzzzt thankyouforplaying...
AT&T supplied 9600 baud data lines for the ARPANET way back in the late 60s. And yes... They used modems!!!
Almost all of the endpoints for the ARPANET were universities. That would make someone that claiming to use a 9600 baud terminal in the late 70s easily accurate and using a technology that was at least a decade old.
So I suspect two things: (1) You weren't there. (2) You are an anonymous idiot who can't Google.
This Wikipedia article shows the modem types and years released. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem
The Wikipedia article lists the release years of modems conforming to various V.xx standards.
There were modems available that exceeded that timeline by quite a bit. Telebit made their TrailBlazer series that uses quite a different scheme to encode the data on the line from the ITU-T V series schemes. Telebit used what they called PEP which stood for Packetized Ensemble Protocol. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telebit#Models
They exceeded the speeds of the commonly available "Hays compatible" modems by a huge margin. PEP still works faster on very noisy phone lines then today's commonly available modems. In situations where a 56K modem will only hook up at 1200 baud the Telebits will generally connect at 9600+.
I assume this bill is on the AZ legislature's website which is an electronic medium.
I find this type of assault on the first amendment blatantly obscene. And I am very offended.
Voting to pass this makes it the voice of everyone that voted Yes on it. Let the first round of class 1 misdemeanors begin.
Facts don't matter. It's the feeling that matters.
I think you are perfect for a career opportunity with the TSA!!!
The only reason that the FDA wouldn't approve LSD as a drug is it isn't patentable and the FDA doesn't do ANYTHING unless it benefits a major pharmaceutical company.
And there have never been successful non-military application for any advancements DARPA has been involved in....
Yeah, the ARPANET never really went anywhere...
The magnets are GREAT for hanging stuff on cube walls They will stick to almost anything with a minimal quantity of iron in it. If you have a number of the magnets they can even pinch hard enough to injure...
Back to the original point...
To 'wipe out' a laptop drive just hit it with a hammer. The platters will shatter.
To 'wipe out' a desktop drive go get one of those 6' steel spikes used for breaking up concrete or ice. The spike will go right through the drive with almost no effort.
Ding,ding,ding,ding! We have a winner!!!
Government unobserved very quickly starts to smell very bad. Often government only has to obfuscate their actions in plain sight to hide their actions. The City of Bell in Los Angeles is a prime example. Take an organization that is granted extraordinary powers, self regulated, and (when caught out) investigates itself and you have a recipe for disaster. The only protection that the public has to protect itself is to be able to observe in a meaningful manner the actions of the police.
Do you think that police are good and magically 'special' so they can be trusted? It is a pretty well excepted fact that a single person, observed, will tend to make choices that we would describe as moral simply because they are being observed. You put together a group of like minded people and then you can start to see really questionable behavior. When you get really large masses of people in a hierarchy then you can get truly obscene, despotic behavior. Question any police officer you know and you will find seeds of this. They have a culture ingrained with the idea that the laws don't really apply to them combined with equal parts of "they are a brotherhood that stands apart" and the fact that they investigate themselves.
Ask any police officer you know if they have chosen to not give a 'brother officer' a traffic citation simply because they are a police officer ("One of the brotherhood"). They will say things like "professional courtesy" and if pressed for a better reason will come up with something like, "I don't give them a ticket because this is someone that I might have to count on to back me up in an emergency situation at a moments notice". Really!??? The police officer's excuse breaks down to, "a policeman might be so unreliable and sophomoric to not pitch in during an emergency situation because someone gave them a traffic ticket"? I don't believe that answer for a minute even though the officer probably believes it, because it has been ingrained in him through the culture of his department and training.
Let's break it down:
- They can choose which laws apply to their brotherhood.
- They have a culture of protecting their own before they protect the public. (all people are this way)
- They are put in situations where on an average day they see the worst in humanity and the normal human thing to do is to anticipate/expect/look-for that behavior out of of every new person they meet.
- They have a culture of secrecy.
- And then they investigate themselves and only they can decide to send one of their own in front of a judge.
- - - - - - - - -
Trust your government as far as you can spit upwind in a hurricane. A government unobserved is a recipe for tyranny... and the baking time till ready is almost instantaneous. Remember that Morality is a function of consciousness, and a government (or corporation) is not conscious so it cannot make moral choices. They may appear moral or the actions may agree with your moral choices but that doesn't make them moral choices.
It is actually just a big process populated by people wanting to justify their own positions and to a large part by people who think citizens are accountable to 'The Process instead of the other way around. A big thing to look for are governments that think that the constituents are their source of revenue. This tells you what the people at the top think the relationship is. And everyone else in the hierarchy is sucking from the teat above them so you know how the Kool-Aid is distributed.
Exactly what part of our government has shown a molecule of respect for privacy and free speech?
Any "Respect" went away a while ago. Only a thin lip service to it remains.
Yeah and exactly how crazy will that make the DHS? Every encrypted message would probably put you on a terror watch list.
(It is probably a good thing that no one has pointed out to them that 100% of terrorists breath air. They would probably regulate that or put all people who breath air on the 'no fly' list...)
And you responded to the apes on this board?
(ignoring the fact that I did too...)
Actually it depends on how good your lobbyist is...
And while you are at it you should incorporate because Washington recognizes that the rights of individuals are subordinate to the rights of corporations. Don't go in groveling. If you go in as a corporation they are already trained to do whatever you ask.
45 minutes of previously unknown audio tape discovered this week:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/207343-newly-discovered-jfk-assassination-tapes-made-public