I don't think so. Monopole speakers are kind of... fake. If you're increasing pressure in one direction it decreases in the other. The difference in a "monopole" is that the pressure is decreased inside an enclosure. The majority of speakers are monopole. I suspect they could mount these in such a way that they'd be mono-poles, but they still wouldn't have very good bass response unless that's a hell of a magnetic field.
That's the problem, employers are starting to stop worrying about healthcare because, hey, the government will do it for you right?
I pretty much didn't like this from the start but I'm no fool, I'll take advantage of any government program I can. But this one sucks. First, my employer dropped 4 of our 6 healthcare options this year because some didn't qualify (they were the super cheap options the younger sales guys usually took) and some because they would have fallen into the "Cadillac" class. So now we can pick from either Blue Cross or a local HMO. Our rates also went up by 15% and they specifically stated this was due to compliance with the new law. We were told we could go to the exchanges if we wanted, but the prices were ridiculous, even with the subsidies they were totally unaffordable. I'm not even sure if I'd get a subsidy, but even the highest one still out-priced me. I can't imagine how a poor person could pay for it.
The republicans are idiots. The worst thing they could do to Obama would be to let this thing run its course. It's a disaster.
Yes, but this isn't some rival corporation. This is a federally mandated spy agency that has the ability to charge you with treason, put you in prison, have you hanged, have you rendered to a foreign government for torture, to flat out assassinate you or just get you drunk, put you in a car and then have the police pick you up for a DUI.
I could have been more creative but I wanted to stick to things that there is solid evidence the NSA has actually done, and they have done all of those things. The NSA is our Stasi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
I'm willing to bet they have very similar performance to Electrostatic speakers. Very low distortion, acting like a dipole radiator so you have to spend a lot of time positioning them to get them to sound right, very good dampening due to low driver weight. I'd suspect these things have near perfect dampening since all they're moving is a magnetic field and air.
There are a lot of downsides though, and I think they'd all apply here as well. Most notably, terrible bass response. And the number 1 problem in sound reproduction is and has always been bass. This is basically yet another new and inovative way to reproduce high frequencies. We have hundreds... yay...
The program was a total failure at conception. There is no benefit to this other than to be able to claim that the school districts new and modern. Imagine how many teachers they could have hired for the cost of this program. I like computers, but they have no place in rudimentary education other than the computer lab.
The media does what they're told. Do you think that the NSA has the ability to force Google ($292B), Apple ($438B) and Microsoft ($277B) but they don't have any control over turner broadcasting ($60B) or NPR who is partially funded by the government?
All they have to do is monitor a couple of CEOs internet connections and wait for them to look up something embarrassing. Tada! The NSA controls the news.
What they are doing almost guarantees real commercial video drivers for linux. Something AMD and NVIDIA have never had a financial interest in really pursuing just became a market place. That alone would likely the single biggest advance in linux gaming in the past 10 years. It's really up to Valve to get the ball rolling, but if they do, and they can get enough games working initially it's going to be a huge advance, and they'll likely skyrocket to Google/Apple levels of success. This is their hail marry, and if any company is crazy enough to pull it off I think its Valve.
Why does every keep replying as if I were saying the NSA wasn't spying on us at all? Clearly they are... I was specifically talking about capturing metadata... That's it. My point was, the PHONE COMPANY doesn't even capture most of that data... so it just does not exist for the NSA to take.
Can they use their prism thing to mirror a transatlantic trunk and monitor phone calls? Sure! I doubt the efficiency of that method though. And it has nothing to due with Metadata, the subject of my post and this article.
That is a completely different situation. Yes, they are collecting everything they can. That's all data. So maybe some calls that have been converted to Voip and area headed long distance. But all they are getting (as far as phone calls go) is the entry point and the exit point of THAT network. The way phone calls are routed, that's not a lot of information. Now if both the caller and the receiver are AT&T customers they likely have a lot more information. But if they are different carriers then they really don't have a lot of info. I'm talking about meta-data here, not directly snooping on the call or Man in the middle attacks on network connections. That's a whole different subject.
First let me say: I work for a phone company. I'm a DBA, I've had my hands on just about everything, so I know what's possible and what's not. Also, no, I do not know of any access the NSA has to our records. Clearly they could have API access but I'm pretty sure I'd have heard about it. If they are in our systems it's likely without our knowledge. Second: I hate the NSA and everything they are doing. I do not doubt they are already collecting everything they possibly can.
But... We don't collect "All phone records" All this meta-data everyone is talking about is useless to us. Why would we keep a record of you calling your brother? If it's a toll free call we could give a fuck less and it's NOT recorded. You have to remember that the majority of phone switches in the US today were built in the 60's and 70's. The largest drives they have are incredibly old 20mb hard drives the size of a phone book. (ironic huh?) To allow us to store more data, these drives are dumped via netowork every night to standard Oracle databases. If the NSA is hacking us, this is likely where they get their info. As all the daily data rolls off we can collect more. But the truth of it is, we only collect data for billing purposes. So if your call doesn't generate a charge it doesn't get logged. The switch does not have the disk space to store it. We CAN log all your calls, if requested. CALEA requests come in for that sort of thing, but the number of lines that can be going on in one switch at a time is very limited. The data stacks up fast and we have engineers checking regularly to make sure there aren't too many running at once. I think the most I ever saw, in a city of 50k+ was 3...
Then you have the toll calls. Now your phone company logs those but where the call actually goes? No... They know you dialed X number, were on the phone for Xmin and they charge you. Where the call actually went they have no idea. If you have a number in Istanbul that automatically forwards to some other number? Your phone company has no clue. Your phone company looks up the number from a public list, figures out which exchange it belongs to, then passes the call along the cheapest route to that destination. Each subsequent exchange only knows where the call is headed and the preceding exchange. They do not know who made the call, they may get caller id info but that stuff is ridiculously easy to fake. Your call jumps from exchange A to B to C to D to E... all exchange C knows is that the call is headed to E and it came from B... so they can bill B... B bills A and so on. The only exchange the NSA could get any real data from is A, the one the call originated from.
Long story short, this data is pretty much useless for terrorists. If you're making ANY attempt to disguise where you're calling they're pretty much out of luck. Disposable cellphones from wallmart pretty much make this entire effort pointless.
Now the real question is: What is the NSA really using this data for?
Right, and there was a time when any site that did anything similar to what facebook does, they'd have a disclaimer up front that you had to be 18 to have an account. But facebook and others have wantently ignore the very obvious fact that the majority of their users are under age. Well you can't have a legally binding contract with a Tween. Fuck them.
Precedents only count when they are in favor of the side with money. In most cases the poor sap getting sued doesn't have any access to prior cases and will just settle via mail to avoid the scary court time. It's ironic that it doesn't matter if they lose every case, that they are still very profitable. These guys ruin their law careers but likely make tens of millions in the process. You may call this case "when the troll finally gets his" but he likely sees it as "time to cash out"
I dunno, Mint still had some UI nonsense that drove me crazy. I went to puppy and really like it. I've no security concerns on my laptop, no files I'm worried about so the root user thing is a non-issue to me. I've never had a Linux distro instal with such ease, no driver issues, no package problems, and things just work the way I'd expect them to.
Because we always need "some" and those guys are basically permanent. But when we rolled out Windows7? We needed more. Was there anything unique about that rollout? No... they're rolled it out other places, it was pretty much the same with us.
That depends on who you outsource it to. We have some of our stuff outsourced (can't have all due to regulations) but our outsourced guys are better than are local IT staff in most cases. But they are more expensive that the local guys to. They're outsourced not to save money, but to make the department more agile. They can have 20 guys today and 50 next month if they want. There is really good outsourced IT, it's just not going to save you any money if it's good.
lol, you should see our battery room. We've got a 10 story building and every single computer in it is on the UPS. And that is just there to keep everything up long enough for the two 500hp natural gas generators can kick in. They feed off both the city feed as well as have their own separate tanks. Short of a meteor hitting the building the power will never go out. And we're pretty much small time.
These are AI laws. They have nothing to do with what we have now, as we don't have any real AIs. Our governments use of these will basically be machine guns with servos that shoot anything that moves or possibly drones that are authorized to shoot anyone identified with a weapon in hand in a given area. If we actually had real AIs I'd be less concerned, but having a computer that's likely not any more intelligent than my smartphone or, at best, my desktop PC decide if someone should be killed or not is terrifying.
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I don't think so. Monopole speakers are kind of... fake. If you're increasing pressure in one direction it decreases in the other. The difference in a "monopole" is that the pressure is decreased inside an enclosure. The majority of speakers are monopole. I suspect they could mount these in such a way that they'd be mono-poles, but they still wouldn't have very good bass response unless that's a hell of a magnetic field.
Both parties? When was it we got 2 parties?
You mean like the sequester? Because that was supposed to devastate the economy and such...
Yes, they cost $800, they break when you drop them and you're giving them to children. I don't really need any other argument than that.
That's the problem, employers are starting to stop worrying about healthcare because, hey, the government will do it for you right?
I pretty much didn't like this from the start but I'm no fool, I'll take advantage of any government program I can. But this one sucks. First, my employer dropped 4 of our 6 healthcare options this year because some didn't qualify (they were the super cheap options the younger sales guys usually took) and some because they would have fallen into the "Cadillac" class. So now we can pick from either Blue Cross or a local HMO. Our rates also went up by 15% and they specifically stated this was due to compliance with the new law. We were told we could go to the exchanges if we wanted, but the prices were ridiculous, even with the subsidies they were totally unaffordable. I'm not even sure if I'd get a subsidy, but even the highest one still out-priced me. I can't imagine how a poor person could pay for it.
The republicans are idiots. The worst thing they could do to Obama would be to let this thing run its course. It's a disaster.
Yes, but this isn't some rival corporation. This is a federally mandated spy agency that has the ability to charge you with treason, put you in prison, have you hanged, have you rendered to a foreign government for torture, to flat out assassinate you or just get you drunk, put you in a car and then have the police pick you up for a DUI.
I could have been more creative but I wanted to stick to things that there is solid evidence the NSA has actually done, and they have done all of those things. The NSA is our Stasi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
I'm willing to bet they have very similar performance to Electrostatic speakers. Very low distortion, acting like a dipole radiator so you have to spend a lot of time positioning them to get them to sound right, very good dampening due to low driver weight. I'd suspect these things have near perfect dampening since all they're moving is a magnetic field and air.
There are a lot of downsides though, and I think they'd all apply here as well. Most notably, terrible bass response. And the number 1 problem in sound reproduction is and has always been bass. This is basically yet another new and inovative way to reproduce high frequencies. We have hundreds... yay...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_loudspeaker#Disadvantages
The program was a total failure at conception. There is no benefit to this other than to be able to claim that the school districts new and modern. Imagine how many teachers they could have hired for the cost of this program. I like computers, but they have no place in rudimentary education other than the computer lab.
The media does what they're told. Do you think that the NSA has the ability to force Google ($292B), Apple ($438B) and Microsoft ($277B) but they don't have any control over turner broadcasting ($60B) or NPR who is partially funded by the government?
All they have to do is monitor a couple of CEOs internet connections and wait for them to look up something embarrassing. Tada! The NSA controls the news.
What they are doing almost guarantees real commercial video drivers for linux. Something AMD and NVIDIA have never had a financial interest in really pursuing just became a market place. That alone would likely the single biggest advance in linux gaming in the past 10 years. It's really up to Valve to get the ball rolling, but if they do, and they can get enough games working initially it's going to be a huge advance, and they'll likely skyrocket to Google/Apple levels of success. This is their hail marry, and if any company is crazy enough to pull it off I think its Valve.
Why does every keep replying as if I were saying the NSA wasn't spying on us at all? Clearly they are... I was specifically talking about capturing metadata... That's it. My point was, the PHONE COMPANY doesn't even capture most of that data... so it just does not exist for the NSA to take.
Can they use their prism thing to mirror a transatlantic trunk and monitor phone calls? Sure! I doubt the efficiency of that method though. And it has nothing to due with Metadata, the subject of my post and this article.
That is a completely different situation. Yes, they are collecting everything they can. That's all data. So maybe some calls that have been converted to Voip and area headed long distance. But all they are getting (as far as phone calls go) is the entry point and the exit point of THAT network. The way phone calls are routed, that's not a lot of information. Now if both the caller and the receiver are AT&T customers they likely have a lot more information. But if they are different carriers then they really don't have a lot of info. I'm talking about meta-data here, not directly snooping on the call or Man in the middle attacks on network connections. That's a whole different subject.
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First let me say: I work for a phone company. I'm a DBA, I've had my hands on just about everything, so I know what's possible and what's not. Also, no, I do not know of any access the NSA has to our records. Clearly they could have API access but I'm pretty sure I'd have heard about it. If they are in our systems it's likely without our knowledge.
Second: I hate the NSA and everything they are doing. I do not doubt they are already collecting everything they possibly can.
But...
We don't collect "All phone records" All this meta-data everyone is talking about is useless to us. Why would we keep a record of you calling your brother? If it's a toll free call we could give a fuck less and it's NOT recorded. You have to remember that the majority of phone switches in the US today were built in the 60's and 70's. The largest drives they have are incredibly old 20mb hard drives the size of a phone book. (ironic huh?) To allow us to store more data, these drives are dumped via netowork every night to standard Oracle databases. If the NSA is hacking us, this is likely where they get their info. As all the daily data rolls off we can collect more. But the truth of it is, we only collect data for billing purposes. So if your call doesn't generate a charge it doesn't get logged. The switch does not have the disk space to store it. We CAN log all your calls, if requested. CALEA requests come in for that sort of thing, but the number of lines that can be going on in one switch at a time is very limited. The data stacks up fast and we have engineers checking regularly to make sure there aren't too many running at once. I think the most I ever saw, in a city of 50k+ was 3...
Then you have the toll calls. Now your phone company logs those but where the call actually goes? No... They know you dialed X number, were on the phone for Xmin and they charge you. Where the call actually went they have no idea. If you have a number in Istanbul that automatically forwards to some other number? Your phone company has no clue. Your phone company looks up the number from a public list, figures out which exchange it belongs to, then passes the call along the cheapest route to that destination. Each subsequent exchange only knows where the call is headed and the preceding exchange. They do not know who made the call, they may get caller id info but that stuff is ridiculously easy to fake. Your call jumps from exchange A to B to C to D to E... all exchange C knows is that the call is headed to E and it came from B... so they can bill B... B bills A and so on. The only exchange the NSA could get any real data from is A, the one the call originated from.
Long story short, this data is pretty much useless for terrorists. If you're making ANY attempt to disguise where you're calling they're pretty much out of luck. Disposable cellphones from wallmart pretty much make this entire effort pointless.
Now the real question is: What is the NSA really using this data for?
Right, and there was a time when any site that did anything similar to what facebook does, they'd have a disclaimer up front that you had to be 18 to have an account. But facebook and others have wantently ignore the very obvious fact that the majority of their users are under age. Well you can't have a legally binding contract with a Tween. Fuck them.
Precedents only count when they are in favor of the side with money. In most cases the poor sap getting sued doesn't have any access to prior cases and will just settle via mail to avoid the scary court time. It's ironic that it doesn't matter if they lose every case, that they are still very profitable. These guys ruin their law careers but likely make tens of millions in the process. You may call this case "when the troll finally gets his" but he likely sees it as "time to cash out"
I dunno, Mint still had some UI nonsense that drove me crazy. I went to puppy and really like it. I've no security concerns on my laptop, no files I'm worried about so the root user thing is a non-issue to me. I've never had a Linux distro instal with such ease, no driver issues, no package problems, and things just work the way I'd expect them to.
Because we always need "some" and those guys are basically permanent. But when we rolled out Windows7? We needed more. Was there anything unique about that rollout? No... they're rolled it out other places, it was pretty much the same with us.
Yes, but perhaps not from Apple any longer.
That depends on who you outsource it to. We have some of our stuff outsourced (can't have all due to regulations) but our outsourced guys are better than are local IT staff in most cases. But they are more expensive that the local guys to. They're outsourced not to save money, but to make the department more agile. They can have 20 guys today and 50 next month if they want. There is really good outsourced IT, it's just not going to save you any money if it's good.
lol... someone put a silver bullet through my mod points damn it!
lol, you should see our battery room. We've got a 10 story building and every single computer in it is on the UPS. And that is just there to keep everything up long enough for the two 500hp natural gas generators can kick in. They feed off both the city feed as well as have their own separate tanks. Short of a meteor hitting the building the power will never go out. And we're pretty much small time.
Yea, no shit... is it License renewal time for anyone else right now? Oracles the fucking devil.
Yea but... the rover is also using a spectrometer.
These are AI laws. They have nothing to do with what we have now, as we don't have any real AIs. Our governments use of these will basically be machine guns with servos that shoot anything that moves or possibly drones that are authorized to shoot anyone identified with a weapon in hand in a given area. If we actually had real AIs I'd be less concerned, but having a computer that's likely not any more intelligent than my smartphone or, at best, my desktop PC decide if someone should be killed or not is terrifying.