Yeah, good luck with that. They give more upgrades to monkeys that use their credit cards than they do people who travel often. As somebody who used to travel > 100k a year of domestic travel (plus international), those would barely qualify for an upgrade to super coach every so often given today's rates.
Then those people can request that option when they purchase their car. I have no need for it -- in fact in a car like a Mini Cooper or a Fiat where you are practically sitting in the back seat anyway it would be closer to look out the back window than the dashboard.
This forces manufacturers to re-design their dash system to be overly complex, have large, hard screen in the middle of the dashboard (which could be an issue during an accident), and add more UI issues to do simple things like put the car into reverse.
But, just like cash, why couldn't you call the cops or "beat him up" when the product is not produced? Nothing with BTC prevents you from doing this.
What you are proposing is similar to eBay or PayPal, and is ripe for abuse just like those methods. You could easily claim you didn't get object X from a BTC transaction and that transaction gets yanked even though you did get object X.
The only way to make it trouble-free is to have a real mediator that can handle disputes. We would all pay to have this mediator (lets call them an escrow), in between each transaction (lets say 3%), and they would be the ones that would mediate the dispute, or take the hit if it can't be resolved.
Not as true as it used to be. Most business-class switches offer a full IP stack that they use for VLAN routing, and QoS among other things. And if you start to add in things like Multicast you immediately need to add in L3 stuff to process PIM messages to do proper multicast switching.
The dirty little secret is that most routers and switches can't do IPv6 in hardware yet. If they can, they are buggy as all hell. And if you have to route in software, you tax the CPU and get only a portion of your possible (and advertised) throughput.
Hell, I'm lucky to find equipment that can do IPv6 routing at 1G linerate, let alone 10G. And this excludes everything else in our network like our IDP/IPS equipment that better run at linerate or it's toast...
I doubt you work a whole lot more than 220 days a year yourself. Plus, they are physically in the school usually for about 8 hours a day (most teachers I knew were in at 7am and left around 4-ish). PLUS grading, lesson plans, preparing assignments, etc. (which when I was teaching could take > 40 hours a week by itself). I'd say being a teacher would probably average a 14-16 hour day. 14 * 180 = 2,520 hours, where you work 8 * 220 = 1,760 hours a year. Sounds like you are overpaid.
$36k is pretty measly for what they have to do. When I was teaching, I ended up having to buy about $1,200 to $1,500 in materials and stuff for the kids in my class each year. About $200 of that is tax deductible. Turns out, not many kids are fed when they show up to school. And their parents would rather go gamble than buy them the required things -- like pens, paper, folders, etc. Each one of my class periods had at least three or four kids that didn't have the basics -- yet I'm still responsible for them to pass. The school didn't provide any of this. Hell, at the end of the term I was forced to buy copy paper to print quizzes on because I ran out of my allotment of 500 sheets of paper per month. For 160 students.
I also had to pay into health insurance, and I missed the pension system by a few years (they offer a 403(b), but no matching for the first 10 years).
And sure, they work "10.5 months", but they also put in well more than 12 hours per day, plus weekends. It averages out to 12 months of work of 8-5 crammed into fewer months. I was usually in by 7am and left no earlier than 6. Then I still had to correct papers, do my lesson plan, speak with parents, etc.
And you are lucky if you get a 1% raise. Scratch that, you are lucky if you kept the same salary as you had the year before.
JIT logistics are fine for manufactured goods, but for minerals and other things that you have to mine out of the ground, it is not possible. For things like salt, you place your order in the spring for next winter -- they then dig it out of the ground and deliver it to you sometime in the summer. Once the ground is frozen they can't dig it out anymore and the supply that is in the chain is all that there is.
Sure, some places keep some spare around, but if every city thinks they can just order it on a whim there won't be enough supply. The midwest (USA) has run out of salt for a couple weeks now. This winter was much harsher than everybody expected and they were expecting about 10 - 15 storm days this season (days of active snowing/icing) -- we've had over 30 this year alone. All the stores are out of salt and the community supplies are done.
CATV is heavily regulated by the FCC, because they use high RF energy that duplicates the RF spectrum that exists outside the cable network. Leaks of RF can and are very problematic for everybody involved. Cable companies are required to do very regular checks of their plant for leaks and if they find them are required to do immediate remediations. While a big focus of CLIs are in the aeronautical band (because of the atmosphere, leaks often go "up" and cause issues for airplanes), the entire spectrum needs to be tight. And on long-lines where you are pushing the RF energy to +60dBm, leaks can be problematic for a very large distance if they actual do happen. Regardless of QAM modulation or not, if there is noise on the wire you start to get errors -- and if you are running at QAM256 like most cable plants, there is very little room for error.
The FCC regulates RF airspace. They are involved with anything that emits or accepts RF energy, whether purposefully or not. They are the responsible federal agency for enforcing this matter.
It's not that the lighting system uses 700 Mhz, but that the ballasts or other high-energy equipment that is used to power these lights leak RF in the 700Mhz band. Cheap electronics are noisy and they leak out RF like crazy. Hell, just last week I found an old CRT monitor that was flooding out the aeronautical band at about 9,000 mV -- enough for my meter to go crazy over a football field-length away.
Most likely the electronics are not grounded properly, or they aren't properly shielded. That is why the UL and and FCC require certifications on most classes of devices in order to catch this stuff. Of course, with our global economy it is easy to order cheap crap from Asia or elsewhere that was never tested by the UL or FCC.
It's not even that good. It's Mag Strip + Signature for credit transactions. It's Mag Strip + PIN for ATM/ECH transactions (which are a separate issue all together). I keep smirking that the PCI industry is pushing for new notification laws but is totally ignoring upgrading their systems to at LEAST Chip + Pin terminals or cards. Things won't get better, and notification will only make people paranoid at first, then eventually ignore them as they become white noise.
Hell, I can't even get a chip+pin card here in the states anymore. My bank stopped issuing cards with chip+pin about two years ago, even for those who requested it.
Actually, the human eye can really only perceive images with 16ms at the very fastest. Most people's cognitive recognition is at about 50ms, and auditory recognition is about 70ms.
Because when these people graduate, they become our peers in society. They become the people on your jury, they become the people that vote in our elections, and they become the people who end up brainwashing the rest of society.
These types of devices have existed in the SCUBA community for quite a while -- they are known as rebreathers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather . Usual rebreathers add O2 from an external tank and replenish (as oppose to air/nitrox from a regular scuba tank). This device is supposed to extract o2 from the water using an osmosis type of approach. Should be doable, but I don't know how it could keep up based on the design.
Its not always about level of care the parents are providing but what they can provide. How much care towards education can a low-income single parent working two full time jobs provide?
What is the parent doesn't have a great education themselves and aren't able to help their child academically (and only motivationally)?
I'm a first generation American, so my parents were not well educated. My dad was always gone at work (out of state) and my mom worked two jobs. While my mom wasn't able to help me with my homework the key was that she made sure I did it and got me the resources when I needed them. Those resourced didn't cost the family a dime -- they were a combination of after-school programs, but more often they were friends and co-workers who helped me out. She would take a shift for a co-worker while they would tutor me on things like Shakespeare.
It required a LOT of motivation and dedication on my parents part. It wasn't the school that helped me a long -- I came from a failing school, in a failing district that had no resources outside what it was legally required to provide. Hell, sports were "pay-to-play" which precluded about 3/4 of the school from participating. When you go to a school that had 61% of the kids on the hot-lunch-program and a graduation rate that was less than 50%, you know what you are dealing with. I was lucky to escape the environment, graduating HS and attending a University and getting an awesome job out the gate.
Let alone many schools won't accept AP credit if that is what your major is in. Why take an AP test if CS is your passion but it does absolutely no good? Unlike most other AP exams (language, math, etc) those credits are useful for people who are not in those majors.
But they don't see a way to make money off the content online.... They are forcing us to subscribe to a cable service, or we will be punished and will have to wait the extra week to see that content..
It's a play to get more money out of the re-trans fees they are getting from the cable companies. If they help get more cable subs, then they can demand more in retrans fees from the cable providers...
If you use your card with a PIN (or PIN and Chip), then there are much fewer protections. If you use your debit card with a VISA or MC logo as a credit-card then you are generally protected (although you will need to fight for the money to come back in your account sooner than later, as opposed to not paying that amount when your statement comes).
It all depends on the bank. Last time my debit card got lifted they reported my card as stolen. They overnighted a new card for me (they called me at 6pm, I had the new card in my hands by 9am, four states away), and they setup a 90 day, interest-free loan to cover all the transactions that happened during the time the card was being used by somebody else. I got back a week later, filled out a form, the charges were reversed and I paid back the loan with the money that came in on the reversed charges.
Sure it was an extra headache, but they really didn't put me out for anything. In fact, they called back a few times to make sure everything was ok.
You don't have to have a fork up your ass all the time -- you choose it by association. If you let assholes handle your money then expected to be treated as such when things go wonky;)
Every time you join their wireless network, there is a click-through stating you agree that your traffic will be stored, should you do something stupid. Not in those same words, but close enough (at least in a series of two sentences... of which any Harvard student should be able to understand..
Most of their traffic capturing was put in because of a mandate from the MPAA and RIAA back quite a few years ago. They were either going to be sued for aiding and abetting or they had to keep logs of which students were downloading which Metallica songs. They don't keep the traffic just the IP headers (actually trends, not every IP header). This was very well publicized a few years ago and shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.
Additionally, the upstream provider is required to conform to CALEA laws anyway, which would have been able to provide the same types of reports. It would have required Harvard's assistance to translate an IP to a person (I'm more than assuming they would have been willing to do this as well). CALEA does not require ISPs to notify that their traffic is being recorded, but guess what -- anything that leaves your network is out there in the open and may be open for inspection.
Most likely they had to put them in due to agreements with the MPAA and RIAA. Back about 6 or 7 years ago when music piracy was still at the tips of everyone's tongues, these organizations threatened to sue most of the major universities for aiding and abetting piracy if they didn't track what their users were doing. Most schools put in IDP systems on their outer-most gateways to the world to capture the data out of band for a short amount of time.
It's easy to buy somebody a military-grade weapon to respond to a shooting. A few buck, one-time charge to a department that wants to spend it. Heck, just think of all the uses that one-time charge would provide!
It's not easy to reform our health system (look at how they tried, then completely failed because of the political battles and lobbyists), where there would be an ongoing charge that people would be reminded of each and every year when they pay their taxes. Regardless if they get better services (like mental health services) for the same if not lower prices -- it became a perceived burden that is subject to the political whims each and every year there is a new congress that wants to push their current agenda.
In my mind, the reason why the USA has all these problems with guns is not because of the guns. It's because of the people (guns don't kill people -- people kill people). All of the comparables that you can look at in Europe, Asia, etc. where firearms are available (or even in many places where it is not), if somebody has a mental illness there are actually resources available to help them. In the USA getting any help for mental illnesses is discouraged either due to lack of insurance, the incorrect insurance (service A is covered, but you need service B, which is not), or even the fear that they find something worse and you end up having to sell your house to get basic coverage. I have a few friends that are taking care of others who have severe mental issues -- and even though they have good jobs they have to live like paupers because of all the stuff that isn't covered by the insurance they can afford (and even them, the people they are helping get treatment are only getting the bare minimal treatment) . A fellow engineer who makes $100k/yr is living with his mother who has dementia barely has enough to pay for gas each week. Her medical bills alone after insurance is still $5k/month. If that doesn't discourage you to get treatment, I don't know what will.
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Yeah, good luck with that. They give more upgrades to monkeys that use their credit cards than they do people who travel often. As somebody who used to travel > 100k a year of domestic travel (plus international), those would barely qualify for an upgrade to super coach every so often given today's rates.
Then those people can request that option when they purchase their car. I have no need for it -- in fact in a car like a Mini Cooper or a Fiat where you are practically sitting in the back seat anyway it would be closer to look out the back window than the dashboard.
This forces manufacturers to re-design their dash system to be overly complex, have large, hard screen in the middle of the dashboard (which could be an issue during an accident), and add more UI issues to do simple things like put the car into reverse.
But, just like cash, why couldn't you call the cops or "beat him up" when the product is not produced? Nothing with BTC prevents you from doing this.
What you are proposing is similar to eBay or PayPal, and is ripe for abuse just like those methods. You could easily claim you didn't get object X from a BTC transaction and that transaction gets yanked even though you did get object X.
The only way to make it trouble-free is to have a real mediator that can handle disputes. We would all pay to have this mediator (lets call them an escrow), in between each transaction (lets say 3%), and they would be the ones that would mediate the dispute, or take the hit if it can't be resolved.
If that sounds a lot like a CC processor, it is.
Not as true as it used to be. Most business-class switches offer a full IP stack that they use for VLAN routing, and QoS among other things. And if you start to add in things like Multicast you immediately need to add in L3 stuff to process PIM messages to do proper multicast switching.
The dirty little secret is that most routers and switches can't do IPv6 in hardware yet. If they can, they are buggy as all hell. And if you have to route in software, you tax the CPU and get only a portion of your possible (and advertised) throughput.
Hell, I'm lucky to find equipment that can do IPv6 routing at 1G linerate, let alone 10G. And this excludes everything else in our network like our IDP/IPS equipment that better run at linerate or it's toast...
I doubt you work a whole lot more than 220 days a year yourself. Plus, they are physically in the school usually for about 8 hours a day (most teachers I knew were in at 7am and left around 4-ish). PLUS grading, lesson plans, preparing assignments, etc. (which when I was teaching could take > 40 hours a week by itself). I'd say being a teacher would probably average a 14-16 hour day. 14 * 180 = 2,520 hours, where you work 8 * 220 = 1,760 hours a year. Sounds like you are overpaid.
$36k is pretty measly for what they have to do. When I was teaching, I ended up having to buy about $1,200 to $1,500 in materials and stuff for the kids in my class each year. About $200 of that is tax deductible. Turns out, not many kids are fed when they show up to school. And their parents would rather go gamble than buy them the required things -- like pens, paper, folders, etc. Each one of my class periods had at least three or four kids that didn't have the basics -- yet I'm still responsible for them to pass. The school didn't provide any of this. Hell, at the end of the term I was forced to buy copy paper to print quizzes on because I ran out of my allotment of 500 sheets of paper per month. For 160 students.
I also had to pay into health insurance, and I missed the pension system by a few years (they offer a 403(b), but no matching for the first 10 years).
And sure, they work "10.5 months", but they also put in well more than 12 hours per day, plus weekends. It averages out to 12 months of work of 8-5 crammed into fewer months. I was usually in by 7am and left no earlier than 6. Then I still had to correct papers, do my lesson plan, speak with parents, etc.
And you are lucky if you get a 1% raise. Scratch that, you are lucky if you kept the same salary as you had the year before.
JIT logistics are fine for manufactured goods, but for minerals and other things that you have to mine out of the ground, it is not possible. For things like salt, you place your order in the spring for next winter -- they then dig it out of the ground and deliver it to you sometime in the summer. Once the ground is frozen they can't dig it out anymore and the supply that is in the chain is all that there is.
Sure, some places keep some spare around, but if every city thinks they can just order it on a whim there won't be enough supply. The midwest (USA) has run out of salt for a couple weeks now. This winter was much harsher than everybody expected and they were expecting about 10 - 15 storm days this season (days of active snowing/icing) -- we've had over 30 this year alone. All the stores are out of salt and the community supplies are done.
CATV is heavily regulated by the FCC, because they use high RF energy that duplicates the RF spectrum that exists outside the cable network. Leaks of RF can and are very problematic for everybody involved. Cable companies are required to do very regular checks of their plant for leaks and if they find them are required to do immediate remediations. While a big focus of CLIs are in the aeronautical band (because of the atmosphere, leaks often go "up" and cause issues for airplanes), the entire spectrum needs to be tight. And on long-lines where you are pushing the RF energy to +60dBm, leaks can be problematic for a very large distance if they actual do happen. Regardless of QAM modulation or not, if there is noise on the wire you start to get errors -- and if you are running at QAM256 like most cable plants, there is very little room for error.
The FCC regulates RF airspace. They are involved with anything that emits or accepts RF energy, whether purposefully or not. They are the responsible federal agency for enforcing this matter.
It's not that the lighting system uses 700 Mhz, but that the ballasts or other high-energy equipment that is used to power these lights leak RF in the 700Mhz band. Cheap electronics are noisy and they leak out RF like crazy. Hell, just last week I found an old CRT monitor that was flooding out the aeronautical band at about 9,000 mV -- enough for my meter to go crazy over a football field-length away.
Most likely the electronics are not grounded properly, or they aren't properly shielded. That is why the UL and and FCC require certifications on most classes of devices in order to catch this stuff. Of course, with our global economy it is easy to order cheap crap from Asia or elsewhere that was never tested by the UL or FCC.
It's not even that good. It's Mag Strip + Signature for credit transactions. It's Mag Strip + PIN for ATM/ECH transactions (which are a separate issue all together). I keep smirking that the PCI industry is pushing for new notification laws but is totally ignoring upgrading their systems to at LEAST Chip + Pin terminals or cards. Things won't get better, and notification will only make people paranoid at first, then eventually ignore them as they become white noise.
Hell, I can't even get a chip+pin card here in the states anymore. My bank stopped issuing cards with chip+pin about two years ago, even for those who requested it.
Actually, the human eye can really only perceive images with 16ms at the very fastest. Most people's cognitive recognition is at about 50ms, and auditory recognition is about 70ms.
Because when these people graduate, they become our peers in society. They become the people on your jury, they become the people that vote in our elections, and they become the people who end up brainwashing the rest of society.
They had their most profitable year ever last year (the first full year since they made the change), so I guess good?
These types of devices have existed in the SCUBA community for quite a while -- they are known as rebreathers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather . Usual rebreathers add O2 from an external tank and replenish (as oppose to air/nitrox from a regular scuba tank). This device is supposed to extract o2 from the water using an osmosis type of approach. Should be doable, but I don't know how it could keep up based on the design.
Its not always about level of care the parents are providing but what they can provide. How much care towards education can a low-income single parent working two full time jobs provide?
What is the parent doesn't have a great education themselves and aren't able to help their child academically (and only motivationally)?
I'm a first generation American, so my parents were not well educated. My dad was always gone at work (out of state) and my mom worked two jobs. While my mom wasn't able to help me with my homework the key was that she made sure I did it and got me the resources when I needed them. Those resourced didn't cost the family a dime -- they were a combination of after-school programs, but more often they were friends and co-workers who helped me out. She would take a shift for a co-worker while they would tutor me on things like Shakespeare.
It required a LOT of motivation and dedication on my parents part. It wasn't the school that helped me a long -- I came from a failing school, in a failing district that had no resources outside what it was legally required to provide. Hell, sports were "pay-to-play" which precluded about 3/4 of the school from participating. When you go to a school that had 61% of the kids on the hot-lunch-program and a graduation rate that was less than 50%, you know what you are dealing with. I was lucky to escape the environment, graduating HS and attending a University and getting an awesome job out the gate.
Let alone many schools won't accept AP credit if that is what your major is in. Why take an AP test if CS is your passion but it does absolutely no good? Unlike most other AP exams (language, math, etc) those credits are useful for people who are not in those majors.
Stupid shop owner and their bengal tiger... Always getting in the way of Ozzy's M&M's...
But they don't see a way to make money off the content online.... They are forcing us to subscribe to a cable service, or we will be punished and will have to wait the extra week to see that content..
It's a play to get more money out of the re-trans fees they are getting from the cable companies. If they help get more cable subs, then they can demand more in retrans fees from the cable providers...
If you use your card with a PIN (or PIN and Chip), then there are much fewer protections. If you use your debit card with a VISA or MC logo as a credit-card then you are generally protected (although you will need to fight for the money to come back in your account sooner than later, as opposed to not paying that amount when your statement comes).
It all depends on the bank. Last time my debit card got lifted they reported my card as stolen. They overnighted a new card for me (they called me at 6pm, I had the new card in my hands by 9am, four states away), and they setup a 90 day, interest-free loan to cover all the transactions that happened during the time the card was being used by somebody else. I got back a week later, filled out a form, the charges were reversed and I paid back the loan with the money that came in on the reversed charges.
Sure it was an extra headache, but they really didn't put me out for anything. In fact, they called back a few times to make sure everything was ok.
You don't have to have a fork up your ass all the time -- you choose it by association. If you let assholes handle your money then expected to be treated as such when things go wonky ;)
Every time you join their wireless network, there is a click-through stating you agree that your traffic will be stored, should you do something stupid. Not in those same words, but close enough (at least in a series of two sentences... of which any Harvard student should be able to understand..
Most of their traffic capturing was put in because of a mandate from the MPAA and RIAA back quite a few years ago. They were either going to be sued for aiding and abetting or they had to keep logs of which students were downloading which Metallica songs. They don't keep the traffic just the IP headers (actually trends, not every IP header). This was very well publicized a few years ago and shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.
Additionally, the upstream provider is required to conform to CALEA laws anyway, which would have been able to provide the same types of reports. It would have required Harvard's assistance to translate an IP to a person (I'm more than assuming they would have been willing to do this as well). CALEA does not require ISPs to notify that their traffic is being recorded, but guess what -- anything that leaves your network is out there in the open and may be open for inspection.
Most likely they had to put them in due to agreements with the MPAA and RIAA. Back about 6 or 7 years ago when music piracy was still at the tips of everyone's tongues, these organizations threatened to sue most of the major universities for aiding and abetting piracy if they didn't track what their users were doing. Most schools put in IDP systems on their outer-most gateways to the world to capture the data out of band for a short amount of time.
I don't think it's that simple.
It's easy to buy somebody a military-grade weapon to respond to a shooting. A few buck, one-time charge to a department that wants to spend it. Heck, just think of all the uses that one-time charge would provide!
It's not easy to reform our health system (look at how they tried, then completely failed because of the political battles and lobbyists), where there would be an ongoing charge that people would be reminded of each and every year when they pay their taxes. Regardless if they get better services (like mental health services) for the same if not lower prices -- it became a perceived burden that is subject to the political whims each and every year there is a new congress that wants to push their current agenda.
In my mind, the reason why the USA has all these problems with guns is not because of the guns. It's because of the people (guns don't kill people -- people kill people). All of the comparables that you can look at in Europe, Asia, etc. where firearms are available (or even in many places where it is not), if somebody has a mental illness there are actually resources available to help them. In the USA getting any help for mental illnesses is discouraged either due to lack of insurance, the incorrect insurance (service A is covered, but you need service B, which is not), or even the fear that they find something worse and you end up having to sell your house to get basic coverage. I have a few friends that are taking care of others who have severe mental issues -- and even though they have good jobs they have to live like paupers because of all the stuff that isn't covered by the insurance they can afford (and even them, the people they are helping get treatment are only getting the bare minimal treatment) . A fellow engineer who makes $100k/yr is living with his mother who has dementia barely has enough to pay for gas each week. Her medical bills alone after insurance is still $5k/month. If that doesn't discourage you to get treatment, I don't know what will.