Yup. The practice of small controlled burns and/or fuel management just aren't practiced. I was shocked earlier this year with this story where they mentioned that it hadn't burned in 70 years. It probably hadn't been logged or cleaned out at all in that time either. From a few years back here in MN there was the gigantic fires up in the BWCA and there was a big concern about the blow down from several years previous since there were just piles of dry wood laying around from that still. After the blow down a bunch of timber companies wanted to go in and take a bunch of the timber as it had economic value at the time but weren't allowed to so instead it was just left there to pile up. I know that the BWCA has been a stop all fires a quickly as possible before the massive fires a few years back so there likely was a lot of built up dry fuel.
I have a lake property up in northern Minnesota and since acquiring it have started the massive effort of cleaning out the dead wood and brush on the property to prevent a bad fire. Last year I cut split and stacked about 6 cords of wood and sold 4 of them to the neighbor for $300 to heat his house. The rest was stacked in a neat tightly packed pile in the middle of the clearing where the fire ring, picnic tables, chairs, and where the tents go. This year I have already done 4 cords and will probably get another 3 cords. I will likely sell another 4 cords to the neighbor this year as well as I won't go through that much wood. Next year the neighbor wants me to go and start clearing his property of dead tree as he is afraid of using a chain saw so he is willing to pay me a couple hundred dollars to take down and cut up dead trees so they are in manageable chunks he can split.
It is only in the last few years that they have gotten back to this practice but to undo the decades of poor management will take time or a few more massive fires. There is a lot of fuel out there on the forest floor in a lot of places and it needs to be dealt with and that does take time. Hell it seems like almost every year I see an article about how some forestry department rediscovered that small cool forest fires are actually good for the forest.
Up here in Minnesota we have a lot of concrete roads and frost heaving isn't a problem. The only roads that I have seen that have problems with frost heaving are ones that are fairly thin and on those you wouldn't be able to embed cable into the surface anyway. So why not embed the cable into the middle of the concrete.
You don't even need imaging technology. These things have been around for ages and work well enough and it looks like there are more advanced counters that also don't do anything particularly special with image processing.
A better for making lane following better may be to put a thick steel cable down the middle of each land just under the surface of the concrete or asphalt. Then just let the car figure out where the cable is. It isn't like they don't already put rebar in the road so why not thick cable down the middle that would function like a piece of rebar as well. As an added bonus you could probably arrange new rebar so that can provide information to driver-less cars.
There are also commercial applications for sensor data: How many cars drive by a billboard? How many people walk by a storefront per day? How many of those people have dogs? These are all questions we could easily answer with roadside sensors.
How about you fuck off and die. Not everything needs to be used to deliver more ads to me.
Now that brings joy to my heart. I didn't get a link to their web cam when I did my search. Sometimes the world just needs to be a little weirder but I don't recommend bobcats.
There was this story from about 12 years ago. Unfortunately the linked article is no longer available but I did find a follow up that has a more "current" one. The dino has survived until at least 2014 but I didn't find anything newer than that.
The law is the financial disclosure law which Trump has complied with. This does not require disclosing tax returns but that is more of a tradition for presidential candidates.
I would imagine that people like Trump with lots of income and complex taxes get audited frequently as there are lots of questionable ways to hide things. The options for dodging taxes are high with with people like Trump and the amount of dodged tax is also likely high so it would make sense for them to be audited frequently.
One of the best ways to protect yourself, as noted in the report, is to keep your apps and operating system updated.
So how many of the devices listed are basically unsupported since initial sale and will never be update?.
I really wonder if things like this should be treated as manufacturing defects and since carriers and phone vendors don't seem to want to support these devices people should start bringing them back and getting them replaced for free as they are obviously defective.
I don't know warranty law but maybe someone one could chime in who has some idea as it would seem that if these issues aren't fixed then the customer is due a replacement or refund because their device does have a manufacturing or design defect.
Are there any gopher servers left? Also do any modern browsers support the gopher protocol anymore?
Yes those are somewhat serious questions as it has been ages since I accessed a gopher server, probably since the mid to late 90s and the last time I did was probably when I was at the University of Minnesota.
And Cat offers a rugged smart phone that is waterproof down to 2 or 5 meters (there is a switch that closes ports for deeper depths) for 1 hour and it has a headphone jack. It also has a removable battery and a microSD card slot. It also appears that Cat didn't go and do much molesting of android for their phone either.
I replaced the stereo in my car a couple years back and put in one that you can connect a phone or USB stick to, gets the HD sub channels, and has all the standard features for like $120 (included the wiring harness). What I couldn't find was a radio that had USB, HD-Radio, and weather band. The adapter box so I could use the steering wheel controls was another $20 and was only 3 wires. So for about $140 and a couple hours of work outside on a nice sunny day I installed a new better stereo in my car. If you are spending more than $300 dollars on a car stereo you are likely being suckered, are in a high school dick measuring contest, or one of those people who thinks that everyone else likes to hear your shit music from your ghetto blaster.
be as it may, one of the two is going to be president.
But I would prefer that the one who wins gets something like 35% (Johnson has a good showing) or 27% (Johnson and Stein have a good showing) of the popular vote so it becomes clear that the majority of people don't want what the major parties are selling.
I'd rather have his likely flavor of jurists in place when we have future cases involving the Commerce Clause, campaign finance, balance of power issues, and friction around the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth amendments.
I'm not sure on that. He seem to indicate that he supports the second amendment but on things like the first it seems likely that his choices would be just as bad had Hillary's but on different aspects. On the 4th amendment it seems that both Trump and Clinton want more powers for government so there it would be a loss and the fifth seems like Clinton would be all for that given that she would likely like to still use it in the future. On the commerce clause I'm not sure there is anything that could fix that at the moment as it ha been so convoluted and with campaign finance Trump would seem like someone who would want to continue to buy politicians in the future. If by balance of power issues you mean the 9th and 10th amendment it seems unlikely that either would be in favor of those given how the last group who was about them (the TEA PARTY) doesn't like Trump and Clinton is all about the large all powerful federal government. If you meant separation of powers with 3 co-equal branches then Trump's justices may be better in ensuring that but likely would be partisan hacks just like Clinton's.
I got a Samsung color laser about 6 years ago and am only on the second set of toner cartridges and it is going strong. Unfortunately I do need to print color often enough that getting a color laser instead of a black and white made sense. That said I don't print off pictures at home as there are cheaper services for that and give me better results. At the time it was one of the better small laser printers and convinced the wife that we would save money the first time we didn't have to go buy a set of ink cartridges for the epson it replaced because they dried out. My usage is very sporadic, I will go months without printing and then I will end up printing 300-400 pages in a month, so ink drying out and nozzles getting cloggedwas a problem.
I think half of that was in my equipment closet (that cold space under the stairs in the basement) that I cleaned up the other weekend. Although most of what I got rid of was old cat5 stuff as I only have couple of things that don't support GigE now.
Sometimes there are industry regulations that have the backing of laws that demand reporting at specific stages. That is the set of requirements I am most familiar with and violations of NERC CIP can be absolutely devastating to a company reaching to $1,000,000 a day for violations.
But that Roku has to pass through a real firewall and because I know it is stupid little device I only let it talk to a select few domains (really how many domains do you need to connect to to watch internet TV) and there is a lot of crap that I just block at the firewall including ad servers for all hosts. That is the benefit of having a good knowledge of computer security is that I can set things up to actually be secure. Also I view all mobile devices as the security holes they are and separate them from the computer that do real things. For shits and giggles I will also screw around with having my own Upside-down-ternet and do various things like substitute words in articles or redirect ad images and flash video to porn images and videos although the latter I really only do when I want to mess with my buddies at poker night.
As one of the old guys here, although my UID would indicate that I am younger than I am, I don't want a smart TV. What I really want it is big monitor with lots of hookups, a fast response time, and good color reproduction. I don't care if it has Netflix built in, my computer, my roku, my tablet, my phone all will play it just fine and likely the apps there will be kept more up to date than the prebundled shit on the "smart" TV.
Well usually an insurance company would require a SOC-1 or SOC-2 report to issue a policy but they are still under the belief that those magic pieces of paper are proof that you are secure but are really a joke. I mean you can negotiate with the company generating the report (large accounting firms usually do it) and they tend to not really know how to secure a system but are really good at seeing that you have the right checkboxes checked. You have AV on your systems check (not up to date), you have a firewall device check (not configured), you don't have lime wire running check, etc. The basic check boxes they follow are probably the ones layed out by PCI DSS which is a fucking joke of a standard.
My experience has taught me to just say no to the new wiz-bang "security appliance" as a rule of thumb. They very often don't provide a ton of security and likely are attempting to do something that another tool already does better. I have seen a ton of system monitoring tools and most of them wish they were Nagios. I will say that the commercial version of Nagios is nice but then they went and extended the good parts of Nagios Core. I have also seen way too many network monitoring devices that really wish they were Snort. In all of these cases if you want something special the device is a black box and it costs big bucks to extend it to something they haven't' seen before, and it is stupid stuff like their device only looks at SSL/TLS traffic on port 443 so it requires creating custom code to scan SSL/TLS on a different port.
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Yup. The practice of small controlled burns and/or fuel management just aren't practiced. I was shocked earlier this year with this story where they mentioned that it hadn't burned in 70 years. It probably hadn't been logged or cleaned out at all in that time either. From a few years back here in MN there was the gigantic fires up in the BWCA and there was a big concern about the blow down from several years previous since there were just piles of dry wood laying around from that still. After the blow down a bunch of timber companies wanted to go in and take a bunch of the timber as it had economic value at the time but weren't allowed to so instead it was just left there to pile up. I know that the BWCA has been a stop all fires a quickly as possible before the massive fires a few years back so there likely was a lot of built up dry fuel.
I have a lake property up in northern Minnesota and since acquiring it have started the massive effort of cleaning out the dead wood and brush on the property to prevent a bad fire. Last year I cut split and stacked about 6 cords of wood and sold 4 of them to the neighbor for $300 to heat his house. The rest was stacked in a neat tightly packed pile in the middle of the clearing where the fire ring, picnic tables, chairs, and where the tents go. This year I have already done 4 cords and will probably get another 3 cords. I will likely sell another 4 cords to the neighbor this year as well as I won't go through that much wood. Next year the neighbor wants me to go and start clearing his property of dead tree as he is afraid of using a chain saw so he is willing to pay me a couple hundred dollars to take down and cut up dead trees so they are in manageable chunks he can split.
It is only in the last few years that they have gotten back to this practice but to undo the decades of poor management will take time or a few more massive fires. There is a lot of fuel out there on the forest floor in a lot of places and it needs to be dealt with and that does take time. Hell it seems like almost every year I see an article about how some forestry department rediscovered that small cool forest fires are actually good for the forest.
Up here in Minnesota we have a lot of concrete roads and frost heaving isn't a problem. The only roads that I have seen that have problems with frost heaving are ones that are fairly thin and on those you wouldn't be able to embed cable into the surface anyway. So why not embed the cable into the middle of the concrete.
You don't even need imaging technology. These things have been around for ages and work well enough and it looks like there are more advanced counters that also don't do anything particularly special with image processing.
A better for making lane following better may be to put a thick steel cable down the middle of each land just under the surface of the concrete or asphalt. Then just let the car figure out where the cable is. It isn't like they don't already put rebar in the road so why not thick cable down the middle that would function like a piece of rebar as well. As an added bonus you could probably arrange new rebar so that can provide information to driver-less cars.
There are also commercial applications for sensor data: How many cars drive by a billboard? How many people walk by a storefront per day? How many of those people have dogs? These are all questions we could easily answer with roadside sensors.
How about you fuck off and die. Not everything needs to be used to deliver more ads to me.
Now that brings joy to my heart. I didn't get a link to their web cam when I did my search. Sometimes the world just needs to be a little weirder but I don't recommend bobcats.
There was this story from about 12 years ago. Unfortunately the linked article is no longer available but I did find a follow up that has a more "current" one. The dino has survived until at least 2014 but I didn't find anything newer than that.
My bet is mental deficiency.
Seems like that isn't the case. Looks like you can even get some custom order lenses if you would like. In doing a bit more digging it looks like sapphire would be a better material with better light transmission properties over a greater range.
The law is the financial disclosure law which Trump has complied with. This does not require disclosing tax returns but that is more of a tradition for presidential candidates.
I would imagine that people like Trump with lots of income and complex taxes get audited frequently as there are lots of questionable ways to hide things. The options for dodging taxes are high with with people like Trump and the amount of dodged tax is also likely high so it would make sense for them to be audited frequently.
One of the best ways to protect yourself, as noted in the report, is to keep your apps and operating system updated.
So how many of the devices listed are basically unsupported since initial sale and will never be update?.
I really wonder if things like this should be treated as manufacturing defects and since carriers and phone vendors don't seem to want to support these devices people should start bringing them back and getting them replaced for free as they are obviously defective.
I don't know warranty law but maybe someone one could chime in who has some idea as it would seem that if these issues aren't fixed then the customer is due a replacement or refund because their device does have a manufacturing or design defect.
Are there any gopher servers left?
Also do any modern browsers support the gopher protocol anymore?
Yes those are somewhat serious questions as it has been ages since I accessed a gopher server, probably since the mid to late 90s and the last time I did was probably when I was at the University of Minnesota.
I did misunderstand it as I took it as meaning that one had simple tastes, but then it is early and that is my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
And Cat offers a rugged smart phone that is waterproof down to 2 or 5 meters (there is a switch that closes ports for deeper depths) for 1 hour and it has a headphone jack. It also has a removable battery and a microSD card slot. It also appears that Cat didn't go and do much molesting of android for their phone either.
Seriously how?
I replaced the stereo in my car a couple years back and put in one that you can connect a phone or USB stick to, gets the HD sub channels, and has all the standard features for like $120 (included the wiring harness). What I couldn't find was a radio that had USB, HD-Radio, and weather band. The adapter box so I could use the steering wheel controls was another $20 and was only 3 wires. So for about $140 and a couple hours of work outside on a nice sunny day I installed a new better stereo in my car. If you are spending more than $300 dollars on a car stereo you are likely being suckered, are in a high school dick measuring contest, or one of those people who thinks that everyone else likes to hear your shit music from your ghetto blaster.
be as it may, one of the two is going to be president.
But I would prefer that the one who wins gets something like 35% (Johnson has a good showing) or 27% (Johnson and Stein have a good showing) of the popular vote so it becomes clear that the majority of people don't want what the major parties are selling.
I'd rather have his likely flavor of jurists in place when we have future cases involving the Commerce Clause, campaign finance, balance of power issues, and friction around the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth amendments.
I'm not sure on that. He seem to indicate that he supports the second amendment but on things like the first it seems likely that his choices would be just as bad had Hillary's but on different aspects. On the 4th amendment it seems that both Trump and Clinton want more powers for government so there it would be a loss and the fifth seems like Clinton would be all for that given that she would likely like to still use it in the future. On the commerce clause I'm not sure there is anything that could fix that at the moment as it ha been so convoluted and with campaign finance Trump would seem like someone who would want to continue to buy politicians in the future. If by balance of power issues you mean the 9th and 10th amendment it seems unlikely that either would be in favor of those given how the last group who was about them (the TEA PARTY) doesn't like Trump and Clinton is all about the large all powerful federal government. If you meant separation of powers with 3 co-equal branches then Trump's justices may be better in ensuring that but likely would be partisan hacks just like Clinton's.
Why can't someone hurry up and hack Trumps phone for some entertainment?
Because nude selfies of Trump would make goatse look like My Little Ponies
I got a Samsung color laser about 6 years ago and am only on the second set of toner cartridges and it is going strong. Unfortunately I do need to print color often enough that getting a color laser instead of a black and white made sense. That said I don't print off pictures at home as there are cheaper services for that and give me better results. At the time it was one of the better small laser printers and convinced the wife that we would save money the first time we didn't have to go buy a set of ink cartridges for the epson it replaced because they dried out. My usage is very sporadic, I will go months without printing and then I will end up printing 300-400 pages in a month, so ink drying out and nozzles getting cloggedwas a problem.
I think half of that was in my equipment closet (that cold space under the stairs in the basement) that I cleaned up the other weekend. Although most of what I got rid of was old cat5 stuff as I only have couple of things that don't support GigE now.
Sometimes there are industry regulations that have the backing of laws that demand reporting at specific stages. That is the set of requirements I am most familiar with and violations of NERC CIP can be absolutely devastating to a company reaching to $1,000,000 a day for violations.
But that Roku has to pass through a real firewall and because I know it is stupid little device I only let it talk to a select few domains (really how many domains do you need to connect to to watch internet TV) and there is a lot of crap that I just block at the firewall including ad servers for all hosts. That is the benefit of having a good knowledge of computer security is that I can set things up to actually be secure. Also I view all mobile devices as the security holes they are and separate them from the computer that do real things. For shits and giggles I will also screw around with having my own Upside-down-ternet and do various things like substitute words in articles or redirect ad images and flash video to porn images and videos although the latter I really only do when I want to mess with my buddies at poker night.
As one of the old guys here, although my UID would indicate that I am younger than I am, I don't want a smart TV. What I really want it is big monitor with lots of hookups, a fast response time, and good color reproduction. I don't care if it has Netflix built in, my computer, my roku, my tablet, my phone all will play it just fine and likely the apps there will be kept more up to date than the prebundled shit on the "smart" TV.
Well usually an insurance company would require a SOC-1 or SOC-2 report to issue a policy but they are still under the belief that those magic pieces of paper are proof that you are secure but are really a joke. I mean you can negotiate with the company generating the report (large accounting firms usually do it) and they tend to not really know how to secure a system but are really good at seeing that you have the right checkboxes checked. You have AV on your systems check (not up to date), you have a firewall device check (not configured), you don't have lime wire running check, etc. The basic check boxes they follow are probably the ones layed out by PCI DSS which is a fucking joke of a standard.
My experience has taught me to just say no to the new wiz-bang "security appliance" as a rule of thumb. They very often don't provide a ton of security and likely are attempting to do something that another tool already does better. I have seen a ton of system monitoring tools and most of them wish they were Nagios. I will say that the commercial version of Nagios is nice but then they went and extended the good parts of Nagios Core. I have also seen way too many network monitoring devices that really wish they were Snort. In all of these cases if you want something special the device is a black box and it costs big bucks to extend it to something they haven't' seen before, and it is stupid stuff like their device only looks at SSL/TLS traffic on port 443 so it requires creating custom code to scan SSL/TLS on a different port.