It doesn't say that Verizon offers broadband service at your address.
The list below contains broadband providers that have reported offering service to all or part of the area that is shaded on the map to the right...
It says that Verizon advertizes the ability to provide broadband service for the area that your address falls in. It might only be in a single office building in your area. This might not be any help to you, but it doesn't necessarily mean the information in inaccurate.
After nearly three decades the source of an annoying buzz emanating form the center of Russia has been determined. Radio operators at a secret military base have been broadcasting the buzz of their fluorescent lighting for nearly 30 years.. "We couldn't stand the blasted environment that they kept us working in." says an unnamed soldier. "We've been here since the friggin' Cold War listening to this crap, while the whole country changed around us. To protest we simply switched on the radio and let her go." As part of a cost saving effort by the Russian military, all military buildings are being converted to high efficiency lighting, replacing the original noisy ballasts with compact fluorescent canisters. "The lighting quality is still crap, but at least the noise is gone."
Of course not. Municipalities have every right to photograph their intersections as works of art. The fact that the owner of a Toyota triggered the camera just makes it a performance art piece.
As someone who had my 18 month old daughter's car seat confiscated while connecting through Schipol a few years back, I can understand how upsetting the entire experience can be. But even when traveling before 2001, if I was flying from Amsterdam to Panama City, with a connection in Miami, I think that I would do whatever I could to avoid having to pass through security in Miami. I'm actually a little surprised they didn't take urine and stool samples. I'm not saying any of it is right, but I might have seen it coming.
Profiling went on long before 2001 in airports across the world. Previously they would politely ask you step into a side room while they violated you. Every friend I had who traveled as much as I did joked about it in the late 80s. Granted, I wasn't on business travel, but I always tried to limit the number of electronic devices I carried and dressed so that it didn't look like I could hide something. I didn't have to worry about that when I traveled in the US before, but now I do. All I can say is I hope that someday it will change. In the meantime, if you see me in the security line, wearing a thong and trying to do a sodoku with a pencil, feel free to wave, if it won't draw too much attention. I'll try to wave too.
Although I never worked directly for HP, several people I worked closely with at a fortune 100 company were spun off to HP with the rest of their department. At that time (about 8 years ago), Hp had a policy where you were essentially on probation for about a year. Since it did not happen to me directly, I can not speak from direct experience about how it happened, but after 12 months, only about 1/3 of the individuals I worked closest with still worked for HP. I believe most left of their own volition. Within another 12 months, several of those who left returned, some to HP, but most to other positions within the original fortune 100 company or to other sub-contractors working with either HP or the original fortune 100 company. As I remember, as people left, more work fell upon those who remained, although some efficiencies were also introduced into their jobs. Of the ones who remained after the initial 12 months, most were willing to take on extra work, and were the ones responsible for introducing the efficiencies mentioned earlier.
No matter what, make sure your Resume/CV is up-to-date. Pay close attention to the terms of your employment under HP. Understand exactly what benefits (both HR-related and other) that you will be afforded. If you start fishing for new employment, it is possible that HP will notice this and treat you accordingly. That has both positive and negative aspects, but most likely, I would not expect that they will make a counter-offer if you are offered a job at another company.
There is a lot of talk about secure ways to transfer this data off-site, but you should be trying to determine whether it is really necessary for them to load this data off-site. Once the data is off-site, encrypted or not, it is out of your control.....and that should give you pause.
It sounds like they want to load the data onto a system that they are building for you. I suspect that this system will eventually be installed at your office, not theirs. What they need to do is formalize the process for importing data from your existing system into their new system. There is no reason that they need to use live data for this purpose. At the very least, you should be able to create a file (or tables) with non-sensitive data fields filled with real data and sensitive fields filled with test data. This should allow them to perfect their import process. You should then load the real data only when they deliver the system to your location. Or as an alternative, you can then just update the records to fill in the sensitive data when the system arrives. Following this, you and the developer should then be able to perform a full series of tests with the real data before you deploy the system.
I don't think there is much likelihood that this prize will have any major impact on an environmental level. Addressing fuel economy globally is not at all about creating the most efficient technology. It will be about creating the most mass producible solution. The best solution will be the one that relies on the most abundant resources.
We see contention now in the number of hybrid electric vehicles that can be produced, because they all depend on a limited supply of some common parts. The more Prius vehicles produced means the fewer HEVs that can be produced by other manufacturers. Doesn't the Tesla run on something like 100 laptop batteries. That means that for each one, 100 fewer laptops can be produced. One factory produces seemless containment units for nuclear reactors. They produce 8 a year. That means that only 8 reactors based on that technology can be opened each year. Wind power is more viable solution for global impact because the materials for turbines are easily acquired, even if the power source is unreliable.
I suspect that this will produce a nice pet project for enthusiasts, but not one that will have a large impact.
Assuming your local astronomy club IS in fact local, bag your budget for a while. Get a subscription to a hobiest magazine. Most important, attend club meetings regularly and try EVERY scope you can. Help set them up. Halp take them down. Carry them to the car, see what type of cases they use. As mentioned by others, pick the scope that is the MOST CONVENIENT for you. (I.E. I have to carry this bad boy up a hill, or take it out without waking the kids.)
If you want to spend money, get some binoculars to participate at the meetings. But after a few months, you will have much more knowledge about what you really want. Your first purchase should be enough to grow your interest, but leave you wanting more.
I've only recently started working for a contractor that does government work, although not for the NSA. In the few months that I've been working with the government, I get the strong feeling that the problem is not as much the governments inability to to manage money, but there inability to structure decent contracts.
From my perspective, most government work involves contracts for limited term projects. Assuming that this project may outlive the life of the contract, the government stipulates that the project will own outright the equipment for the project. They simply don't ever use a utility model, even when its is clear that a project will have a limited life (I.E. process this bulk some of data). This inevitably leads to a ton of outdated equipment at the end of contracts, that no other project wants to reuse. Nearly all means of consolidating equipment (I.E. virtualization, utility computing) is out of the question, because it is all built one-off. Most of the work I support is public domain, so some of it is farmed out to outside suppliers with limited risk of exposure. Assuming none of the NSA work is done outside, you might think that they would have more control over the systems that re bought, but somehow I expect that they don't exercise THAT kind of control.
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It says that Verizon advertizes the ability to provide broadband service for the area that your address falls in. It might only be in a single office building in your area. This might not be any help to you, but it doesn't necessarily mean the information in inaccurate.
After nearly three decades the source of an annoying buzz emanating form the center of Russia has been determined. Radio operators at a secret military base have been broadcasting the buzz of their fluorescent lighting for nearly 30 years.. "We couldn't stand the blasted environment that they kept us working in." says an unnamed soldier. "We've been here since the friggin' Cold War listening to this crap, while the whole country changed around us. To protest we simply switched on the radio and let her go." As part of a cost saving effort by the Russian military, all military buildings are being converted to high efficiency lighting, replacing the original noisy ballasts with compact fluorescent canisters. "The lighting quality is still crap, but at least the noise is gone."
Of course not. Municipalities have every right to photograph their intersections as works of art. The fact that the owner of a Toyota triggered the camera just makes it a performance art piece.
As someone who had my 18 month old daughter's car seat confiscated while connecting through Schipol a few years back, I can understand how upsetting the entire experience can be. But even when traveling before 2001, if I was flying from Amsterdam to Panama City, with a connection in Miami, I think that I would do whatever I could to avoid having to pass through security in Miami. I'm actually a little surprised they didn't take urine and stool samples. I'm not saying any of it is right, but I might have seen it coming.
Profiling went on long before 2001 in airports across the world. Previously they would politely ask you step into a side room while they violated you. Every friend I had who traveled as much as I did joked about it in the late 80s. Granted, I wasn't on business travel, but I always tried to limit the number of electronic devices I carried and dressed so that it didn't look like I could hide something. I didn't have to worry about that when I traveled in the US before, but now I do. All I can say is I hope that someday it will change. In the meantime, if you see me in the security line, wearing a thong and trying to do a sodoku with a pencil, feel free to wave, if it won't draw too much attention. I'll try to wave too.
Although I never worked directly for HP, several people I worked closely with at a fortune 100 company were spun off to HP with the rest of their department. At that time (about 8 years ago), Hp had a policy where you were essentially on probation for about a year. Since it did not happen to me directly, I can not speak from direct experience about how it happened, but after 12 months, only about 1/3 of the individuals I worked closest with still worked for HP. I believe most left of their own volition. Within another 12 months, several of those who left returned, some to HP, but most to other positions within the original fortune 100 company or to other sub-contractors working with either HP or the original fortune 100 company. As I remember, as people left, more work fell upon those who remained, although some efficiencies were also introduced into their jobs. Of the ones who remained after the initial 12 months, most were willing to take on extra work, and were the ones responsible for introducing the efficiencies mentioned earlier.
No matter what, make sure your Resume/CV is up-to-date. Pay close attention to the terms of your employment under HP. Understand exactly what benefits (both HR-related and other) that you will be afforded. If you start fishing for new employment, it is possible that HP will notice this and treat you accordingly. That has both positive and negative aspects, but most likely, I would not expect that they will make a counter-offer if you are offered a job at another company.
And a good thing too....otherwise it might develop an unnatural lean towards the sun.
There is a lot of talk about secure ways to transfer this data off-site, but you should be trying to determine whether it is really necessary for them to load this data off-site. Once the data is off-site, encrypted or not, it is out of your control.....and that should give you pause.
It sounds like they want to load the data onto a system that they are building for you. I suspect that this system will eventually be installed at your office, not theirs. What they need to do is formalize the process for importing data from your existing system into their new system. There is no reason that they need to use live data for this purpose. At the very least, you should be able to create a file (or tables) with non-sensitive data fields filled with real data and sensitive fields filled with test data. This should allow them to perfect their import process. You should then load the real data only when they deliver the system to your location. Or as an alternative, you can then just update the records to fill in the sensitive data when the system arrives. Following this, you and the developer should then be able to perform a full series of tests with the real data before you deploy the system.
I don't think there is much likelihood that this prize will have any major impact on an environmental level. Addressing fuel economy globally is not at all about creating the most efficient technology. It will be about creating the most mass producible solution. The best solution will be the one that relies on the most abundant resources.
We see contention now in the number of hybrid electric vehicles that can be produced, because they all depend on a limited supply of some common parts. The more Prius vehicles produced means the fewer HEVs that can be produced by other manufacturers. Doesn't the Tesla run on something like 100 laptop batteries. That means that for each one, 100 fewer laptops can be produced. One factory produces seemless containment units for nuclear reactors. They produce 8 a year. That means that only 8 reactors based on that technology can be opened each year. Wind power is more viable solution for global impact because the materials for turbines are easily acquired, even if the power source is unreliable.
I suspect that this will produce a nice pet project for enthusiasts, but not one that will have a large impact.
Assuming your local astronomy club IS in fact local, bag your budget for a while. Get a subscription to a hobiest magazine. Most important, attend club meetings regularly and try EVERY scope you can. Help set them up. Halp take them down. Carry them to the car, see what type of cases they use. As mentioned by others, pick the scope that is the MOST CONVENIENT for you. (I.E. I have to carry this bad boy up a hill, or take it out without waking the kids.) If you want to spend money, get some binoculars to participate at the meetings. But after a few months, you will have much more knowledge about what you really want. Your first purchase should be enough to grow your interest, but leave you wanting more.
I've only recently started working for a contractor that does government work, although not for the NSA. In the few months that I've been working with the government, I get the strong feeling that the problem is not as much the governments inability to to manage money, but there inability to structure decent contracts.
From my perspective, most government work involves contracts for limited term projects. Assuming that this project may outlive the life of the contract, the government stipulates that the project will own outright the equipment for the project. They simply don't ever use a utility model, even when its is clear that a project will have a limited life (I.E. process this bulk some of data). This inevitably leads to a ton of outdated equipment at the end of contracts, that no other project wants to reuse. Nearly all means of consolidating equipment (I.E. virtualization, utility computing) is out of the question, because it is all built one-off. Most of the work I support is public domain, so some of it is farmed out to outside suppliers with limited risk of exposure. Assuming none of the NSA work is done outside, you might think that they would have more control over the systems that re bought, but somehow I expect that they don't exercise THAT kind of control.