Southwest Airlines was aware of the situation last night, and is working to remedy it. Nothing to see here, move along rubber neckers.
From @SouthwestAir:
I've read the tweets all night from @thatkevinsmith - He'll be getting a call at home from our Customer Relations VP tonight.
My apologies for my US-centric vocabulary. Apparently this is a valid phrase in British and Australian english. I'm from the Midwest where we play Euchre. Other parts of the country tend to look at us funny when we talk about it.
When I googled "trumps" I didn't see anything that made sense - until the reference was to the famous family.
Not to nitpick, but what the hell are "trumps"? AFAIK, there is no plural form of "trump". The idiom I believe you were looking for was "...comes up aces" - which even in context seems like a stretch to find a phrase synonymous with "is the winner" or "comes out on top"
The talx website, which was where my former employer made us go to fetch our pay statements and W2s, only allowed digits, and IIRC had a minimum length of 8. So I picked an old 10-digit phone number I don't use anymore for my password. How the hell else am I going to remember a random 8 digit number that *isn't* my birthday or something similarly obvious?
Use a password generator like Password Hasher to generate a unique password for that site (you can give the hasher the same password for every site, it generates a password for you based on your password and a key for that site like the domain name), or use a throw away password that you don't care if anyone gets it.
What TiVo brought to the table was a user experience so that was so friendly all those folks who couldn't set their VCR clock could figure it out, but was still flexible and powerful enough for some die hard techies like myself to really enjoy having it in the house.
I'm a former AT&T U-Verse customer, and a former TiVo customer. I switched to U-Verse from T/W because TimeWarner refused to provide adequate support for the CableCards they supplied in my TiVo - channels would randomly go missing causing difficulty or programs to record an hour of black. Had TiVo for years and loved it. Always explained it to people that I'm a tech/programmer who spends all day fighting with computers. I loved that I could come home and not fight with my TV (until the cablecards, that is).
The U-Verse DVR *sucked*. If you pressed the "skip ahead" key at just the wrong interval, it would inexplicably jump to the end of the program with the "do you want to delete this?" prompt. To which I would invariably yell at the DVR "no you dumbass, I just wanted to skip ahead two minutes". The software, frankly was awful in a multitude of ways. I switched to DirecTV, and the DVR software is better, but still stinks compared to TiVo.
For me as big of a fan as I am of Linux, etc it wasn't about the OS. It was about the user experience. The U-Verse DVR did stupid, unexplainable shit often enough that I cancelled it after a little less than a year.
You think Microsoft was happy every time a user got the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death?
Yes, in a way. I never really thought about it until you asked, but it fits with their business model of forcing users into an expensive upgrade of their OS every few years. Look what has happened with XP. It doesn't blue screen [as] much, and they've met heavy resistance from folks not wanting to upgrade to Vista. (Never mind that Vista is crap.) So now they've re-packaged Vista as "Windows 7" and hope folks don't realize it looks the same and smells the same, because it basically is.
Thanks for this reply. I'm scratching my head asking the same question. To take it a step further, are there that many jailbroken iPhones out there? That seems like a large number of folks taking the risk that ATT or Apple is going to come in and brick their phone (intentionally or otherwise). I just don't buy it. I'm fairly technical, but I'm not going chance my $400 phone.
Your righteous indignation has actually stunned me
We must have been brought up in different generations. I didn't grow up with the notion that the world revolved around me. I was raised with the idea that it was my job to make whatever adjustments were necessary.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that a person's life is a bit more important than a snack.
This isn't a spaceship headed for Mars where no one can get off. The woman has a wide variety of travel options. If her life is held in such peril by a peanut as you suggest, she should drive her own car, or if she absolutely must fly, charter an aircraft that is specially steam cleaned for her. Whatever she does, acting like a mature adult responsible for her own actions and for putting herself in "dangerous" situations would be a good start.
I don't ask everyone around me to bend to my special, specific needs. If you read TFA, she demands it.
She wants all nuts banned from all airlines.
Call this what it is: the tyranny of the minority.
No, there is not. If Ms. Huyer does not wish to adjust herself to another position in her company that requires less travel, she has plenty of alternative transportation options: car, bus, train, charter aircraft, private aircraft (she can go get her pilot's license), etc. You don't have a RIGHT to get on an airplane. What happens when someone drops a peanut on the floor and it rolls into the "buffer" zone? Is the airline going to be held responsible for not building a glass-enclosed, hermetically sealed environment?
It is not the government's job to bring down an iron fist because ONE passenger had ONE incident where she hid in the bathroom - with full and complete knowledge that on commercial flights, they serve nuts. I'm tired of the government mandated bullshit where everyone ELSE has to accommodate, bend over for, and kiss the ass of the one. Where are all of these people on airplanes that have had violent, fatal reactions to nuts? Either she's full of shit, or all of them except for her have all found ways of dealing with it.
I see it's available, but wait it's only available to buy - in standard definition no less. Why I can't I rent it?
I like amazon's music store because they provide actual mp3s. However, I ran into this exact problem with TiVo and Amazon's downloadable movie partnership. As of a couple of years ago when I last tried, many of the movies I wanted to watch either weren't available for download, or were only available for purchase - not rental. It didn't make any sense at all, and was quite frustrating. I want to pay $2.99 to watch a movie once. Not $14.99. So instead, they got neither.
The cost of running the heaters (assuming they use the same amount of energy as the old incandescent bulbs) would still be significantly less, because you're only running the heaters a fraction of the time that the incandescent bulbs were burning.
The cost of the heater mechanism and trigger itself would further offset some of the cost savings of switching to LEDs, but all of it?
Or, if you can somehow detect the snow, you could fully automate it. But doing it purely based on temperature would be wasteful because a lot of the time you have cold without snow.
Aviation (and I'm sure other applications) use "precipitation discriminators" in many of our weather stations to tell if it is raining, snowing, etc. I don't know the technical details of how they work, but they're used all over the place. No reason they couldn't be applied to the suggestion of only using the heating element when needed. Even with as little information as temperature/dewpoint spread, when it gets small enough we know to watch out for the high probability of icing.
You wouldn't need a station at every intersection. Hell, there are enough airports in Ohio alone with AWOS/ASOS systems that you could probably just use their data and err on the side of caution.
I'm honestly a little bit confused about jurisdiction.
On Dec. 23, Middlesex County Superior Court Judge James Hurley ordered firms that register domains...
How does a county judge in nowhere New Jersey have any jurisdiction over multiple companies that are not in his county? He can't order someone who lives in Bakersfield, CA arrested for knocking off a 7-11 in downtown LA. It has nothing to do with his jurisdiction.
DiscountASP.Net said it has disabled Endh1b.com after it received the order from the New Jersey Superior Court.
Is this the same court, or a state court of New Jersey? Regardless, the same question applies. GoDaddy's domain (whois) shows that they're in Arizona. How the hell does some random county or state judge in NJ have any authority over a company in Arizona? I'm not saying that APEX should have no recourse at all. They're entitled to be heard in a court of law, but shouldn't it have to be a court that actually has jurisdictional authority over the target (GoDaddy, DiscountASP, etc)
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like the attack vectors are shifting away from going after your target directly, but instead attacking the critical infrastructure support services like DNS.
I have a collection of perfectly fine old phones lying around
If you want to get rid of the phones, these guys will take them for a good cause: http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/ (Try to ignore the stupid music player, not sure who decided that was a good idea to set the auto-play).
If that does'nt work then just let the edict wash over you. In a few weeks he will have forgotten about this and moved on to something else. If you make a big fuss over this then he will dig his heels and and police it more fervently.
I've found this more times than I can count over the years. Pick your battles. Decide which ones he is serious about, and which ones he is just flapping his jaw about because he's bored.
Alternatively, you and your team are certainly smart enough to seek out the individual responsible for bitching (providing that was the catalyst) that they weren't allowed to have headphones. There are at least a few subtlepossibilities.
My department's director came into my office the other day. After I took my headphones off to find out what he was yammering on about, he remarked that I needed to stop wearing my "noise-cancelling headphones" (they're old-school over-the-ear radio-shack classic headphones). I wanted to say something to the effect of how well they'd been working.
The incentives for sending the takedown notice are multiple, and there are no consequences when you're wrong. At least, none that anyone pursues.
Hate me for the comparison, but this is exactly what happened to Gov. Palin during and after the 2008 presidential race. A handful of people filed baseless ethics complaints based on an Alaska law she helped pass to bring sunlight to government corruption. They filed complaints, and filed more of them. Sometimes for really stupid stuff (read the book). I mean, why not? There are no consequences and no costs (other than your own time) for doing so, even if you're just making shit up. The result was that the Alaska state government was virtually brought to a halt by the paperwork. Yes, "good" whatever. That isn't the point.
The point is that if filing DMCA take-down notices, ethics complaints, or lawsuits without merit or basis have no consequences then our legal system is a joke. If you're an asshole, trying to use the legal system to bully someone either negligently or maliciously, then you should face your own medicine. If you file a patently ridiculous lawsuit and lose, you pay damages. No more of this BS of tying up individuals and businesses for years in legal wrangling until the "defendant" cries uncle. This also includes the extortion "settlement" letters by RIAA, MPAA, and the BSA. If you don't make your case, you pay. If you've filed a claim you know to be false, then you pay double. Simple.
A word of caution: Congressman King has been known to make inflammatory and unpopular statements.
Word of caution my ass. Every congressman says dopey things that someone finds inflammatory and unpopular. Why is it pointed out here so specifically? How about leaving the bullshit sniping behind when posting the summaries there, kdawson?
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There are only a few of us thinking that, including myself. The rest are now thinking we're trolls for bringing it up.
I think the question you're really asking is ... "Will it blend?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI
I've read the tweets all night from @thatkevinsmith - He'll be getting a call at home from our Customer Relations VP tonight.
So why is this posted as a story on /.?
My apologies for my US-centric vocabulary. Apparently this is a valid phrase in British and Australian english. I'm from the Midwest where we play Euchre. Other parts of the country tend to look at us funny when we talk about it. When I googled "trumps" I didn't see anything that made sense - until the reference was to the famous family.
of course the Qwerty keyboard comes up trumps
Not to nitpick, but what the hell are "trumps"? AFAIK, there is no plural form of "trump". The idiom I believe you were looking for was "...comes up aces" - which even in context seems like a stretch to find a phrase synonymous with "is the winner" or "comes out on top"
The talx website, which was where my former employer made us go to fetch our pay statements and W2s, only allowed digits, and IIRC had a minimum length of 8. So I picked an old 10-digit phone number I don't use anymore for my password. How the hell else am I going to remember a random 8 digit number that *isn't* my birthday or something similarly obvious?
Use a password generator like Password Hasher to generate a unique password for that site (you can give the hasher the same password for every site, it generates a password for you based on your password and a key for that site like the domain name), or use a throw away password that you don't care if anyone gets it.
What TiVo brought to the table was a user experience so that was so friendly all those folks who couldn't set their VCR clock could figure it out, but was still flexible and powerful enough for some die hard techies like myself to really enjoy having it in the house.
I'm a former AT&T U-Verse customer, and a former TiVo customer. I switched to U-Verse from T/W because TimeWarner refused to provide adequate support for the CableCards they supplied in my TiVo - channels would randomly go missing causing difficulty or programs to record an hour of black. Had TiVo for years and loved it. Always explained it to people that I'm a tech/programmer who spends all day fighting with computers. I loved that I could come home and not fight with my TV (until the cablecards, that is).
The U-Verse DVR *sucked*. If you pressed the "skip ahead" key at just the wrong interval, it would inexplicably jump to the end of the program with the "do you want to delete this?" prompt. To which I would invariably yell at the DVR "no you dumbass, I just wanted to skip ahead two minutes". The software, frankly was awful in a multitude of ways. I switched to DirecTV, and the DVR software is better, but still stinks compared to TiVo.
For me as big of a fan as I am of Linux, etc it wasn't about the OS. It was about the user experience. The U-Verse DVR did stupid, unexplainable shit often enough that I cancelled it after a little less than a year.
You think Microsoft was happy every time a user got the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death?
Yes, in a way. I never really thought about it until you asked, but it fits with their business model of forcing users into an expensive upgrade of their OS every few years. Look what has happened with XP. It doesn't blue screen [as] much, and they've met heavy resistance from folks not wanting to upgrade to Vista. (Never mind that Vista is crap.) So now they've re-packaged Vista as "Windows 7" and hope folks don't realize it looks the same and smells the same, because it basically is.
Thanks for this reply. I'm scratching my head asking the same question. To take it a step further, are there that many jailbroken iPhones out there? That seems like a large number of folks taking the risk that ATT or Apple is going to come in and brick their phone (intentionally or otherwise). I just don't buy it. I'm fairly technical, but I'm not going chance my $400 phone.
Your righteous indignation has actually stunned me
We must have been brought up in different generations. I didn't grow up with the notion that the world revolved around me. I was raised with the idea that it was my job to make whatever adjustments were necessary.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that a person's life is a bit more important than a snack.
This isn't a spaceship headed for Mars where no one can get off. The woman has a wide variety of travel options. If her life is held in such peril by a peanut as you suggest, she should drive her own car, or if she absolutely must fly, charter an aircraft that is specially steam cleaned for her. Whatever she does, acting like a mature adult responsible for her own actions and for putting herself in "dangerous" situations would be a good start.
I don't ask everyone around me to bend to my special, specific needs. If you read TFA, she demands it.
She wants all nuts banned from all airlines.
Call this what it is: the tyranny of the minority.
There is some iota of rationale.
No, there is not. If Ms. Huyer does not wish to adjust herself to another position in her company that requires less travel, she has plenty of alternative transportation options: car, bus, train, charter aircraft, private aircraft (she can go get her pilot's license), etc. You don't have a RIGHT to get on an airplane. What happens when someone drops a peanut on the floor and it rolls into the "buffer" zone? Is the airline going to be held responsible for not building a glass-enclosed, hermetically sealed environment?
It is not the government's job to bring down an iron fist because ONE passenger had ONE incident where she hid in the bathroom - with full and complete knowledge that on commercial flights, they serve nuts. I'm tired of the government mandated bullshit where everyone ELSE has to accommodate, bend over for, and kiss the ass of the one. Where are all of these people on airplanes that have had violent, fatal reactions to nuts? Either she's full of shit, or all of them except for her have all found ways of dealing with it.
FTFA:
She wants all nuts banned from all airlines.
I say start with her.
4 hours? I'd say that in any given day, I probably do about, oh 15 minutes of real actual work.
I see it's available, but wait it's only available to buy - in standard definition no less. Why I can't I rent it?
I like amazon's music store because they provide actual mp3s. However, I ran into this exact problem with TiVo and Amazon's downloadable movie partnership. As of a couple of years ago when I last tried, many of the movies I wanted to watch either weren't available for download, or were only available for purchase - not rental. It didn't make any sense at all, and was quite frustrating. I want to pay $2.99 to watch a movie once. Not $14.99. So instead, they got neither.
The cost of running the heaters (assuming they use the same amount of energy as the old incandescent bulbs) would still be significantly less, because you're only running the heaters a fraction of the time that the incandescent bulbs were burning.
The cost of the heater mechanism and trigger itself would further offset some of the cost savings of switching to LEDs, but all of it?
Or, if you can somehow detect the snow, you could fully automate it. But doing it purely based on temperature would be wasteful because a lot of the time you have cold without snow.
Aviation (and I'm sure other applications) use "precipitation discriminators" in many of our weather stations to tell if it is raining, snowing, etc. I don't know the technical details of how they work, but they're used all over the place. No reason they couldn't be applied to the suggestion of only using the heating element when needed. Even with as little information as temperature/dewpoint spread, when it gets small enough we know to watch out for the high probability of icing.
You wouldn't need a station at every intersection. Hell, there are enough airports in Ohio alone with AWOS/ASOS systems that you could probably just use their data and err on the side of caution.
On Dec. 23, Middlesex County Superior Court Judge James Hurley ordered firms that register domains...
How does a county judge in nowhere New Jersey have any jurisdiction over multiple companies that are not in his county? He can't order someone who lives in Bakersfield, CA arrested for knocking off a 7-11 in downtown LA. It has nothing to do with his jurisdiction.
DiscountASP.Net said it has disabled Endh1b.com after it received the order from the New Jersey Superior Court.
Is this the same court, or a state court of New Jersey? Regardless, the same question applies. GoDaddy's domain (whois) shows that they're in Arizona. How the hell does some random county or state judge in NJ have any authority over a company in Arizona? I'm not saying that APEX should have no recourse at all. They're entitled to be heard in a court of law, but shouldn't it have to be a court that actually has jurisdictional authority over the target (GoDaddy, DiscountASP, etc)
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like the attack vectors are shifting away from going after your target directly, but instead attacking the critical infrastructure support services like DNS.
I have a collection of perfectly fine old phones lying around
If you want to get rid of the phones, these guys will take them for a good cause: http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/ (Try to ignore the stupid music player, not sure who decided that was a good idea to set the auto-play).
If that does'nt work then just let the edict wash over you. In a few weeks he will have forgotten about this and moved on to something else. If you make a big fuss over this then he will dig his heels and and police it more fervently.
I've found this more times than I can count over the years. Pick your battles. Decide which ones he is serious about, and which ones he is just flapping his jaw about because he's bored. Alternatively, you and your team are certainly smart enough to seek out the individual responsible for bitching (providing that was the catalyst) that they weren't allowed to have headphones. There are at least a few subtle possibilities.
My department's director came into my office the other day. After I took my headphones off to find out what he was yammering on about, he remarked that I needed to stop wearing my "noise-cancelling headphones" (they're old-school over-the-ear radio-shack classic headphones). I wanted to say something to the effect of how well they'd been working.
Plus, I run out of music to listen to.
Try something that creates variety to your taste like Pandora?
The incentives for sending the takedown notice are multiple, and there are no consequences when you're wrong. At least, none that anyone pursues.
Hate me for the comparison, but this is exactly what happened to Gov. Palin during and after the 2008 presidential race. A handful of people filed baseless ethics complaints based on an Alaska law she helped pass to bring sunlight to government corruption. They filed complaints, and filed more of them. Sometimes for really stupid stuff (read the book). I mean, why not? There are no consequences and no costs (other than your own time) for doing so, even if you're just making shit up. The result was that the Alaska state government was virtually brought to a halt by the paperwork. Yes, "good" whatever. That isn't the point.
The point is that if filing DMCA take-down notices, ethics complaints, or lawsuits without merit or basis have no consequences then our legal system is a joke. If you're an asshole, trying to use the legal system to bully someone either negligently or maliciously, then you should face your own medicine. If you file a patently ridiculous lawsuit and lose, you pay damages. No more of this BS of tying up individuals and businesses for years in legal wrangling until the "defendant" cries uncle. This also includes the extortion "settlement" letters by RIAA, MPAA, and the BSA. If you don't make your case, you pay. If you've filed a claim you know to be false, then you pay double. Simple.
A word of caution: Congressman King has been known to make inflammatory and unpopular statements.
Word of caution my ass. Every congressman says dopey things that someone finds inflammatory and unpopular. Why is it pointed out here so specifically? How about leaving the bullshit sniping behind when posting the summaries there, kdawson?