You need to find a car that has a strong community of people who like to make these kinds of changes. I have a Prius (actually 2). There is a ton of information on the car. For example, someone posted instructions for ordering parts and wiring in accessories that allow you to unlock the car by touch from the passenger door handle and the rear hatch. That feature was only offered by Toyota on the top models in 2011.
PriusChat is my favorite place for researching maintaining and enhancing my 2 Priuses. Good luck and have fun!
Leo Bodnar launched a small balloon with a 11 gram payload. The payload is solar powered and has telemetry. Balloon hobbyists have been watching the flight since July 12th 2014. It is still flying. It has circled the earth (not at equator) about 5 times now I believe.
Simply amazing. The longest flight I can recall prior to this was one that was launched in California and made it to somewhere near the Mediterranean sea a few days later.
That certainly sounds good. But, the reality is that many times the elected officials' and their appointees' involvement is the problem. And most of the time the public doesn't know and doesn't care. When the 'broadband over power lines' debacle was going on during the FCC Powell years, a friend of mine privy to some of the discussions said that when FCC engineers were talking to industry engineers things progressed in a reasonable way. As soon as the political appointees showed up, things went stupid. The engineers could no speak frankly and just work through the issues. And in the end the FCC literally created regulation based on incorrect physics. Fortunately, BPL pretty much died on its own. So, we dodged one there.
Same here. I still managed to keep him on the line for maybe 10 minutes. So, at the very least, that was 10 minutes he could not be scamming someone who didn't know better. Someone needs to develop some kind of phone bot that you can just transfer these calls to. Then it could waste their time in some automated fashion.
Sure it might be better, but it definitely can be much worse.
Worse than no high speed broadband service? Wilson built their system because Time Warner and others refused to. So, the city decided to solve the problem themselves. When you refuse to serve a community, you can't complain about 'unfair competition' when they decide to serve themselves.
It is wonderful that someone took the time to have him recognized. So many times people don't take the time to do things like this.
Regarding contracting out:
I was a boom operator in the Air Force (inflight refueling specialist). In my free time, I wrote an aircraft weight and balance calculation application in basic that ran on desktop PCs (which were brand spanking new at the time). We had been filling a form out (called a Form-F) by hand using numbers looked up in charts. It took about 20 minutes to fill this form out. The Air Force had contracted out the creation of an app that ran in an HP programmable calculator to do this same task. It took about 5 minutes to fill the form out using the calculator. My program could generate this form in about 2 minutes. And my program was also more accurate (and it printed on a full page instead of 2" wide thermal paper). After I wrote my app, nobody used the calculator to generate the Form-F unless they filling it out on the airplane.
I was already out of the Air Force at the time. But a buddy of mine who took on maintaining the program I wrote said it was used to 'load plan' every KC-135 flight in the first gulf war. Not bad for a program that I could not even get certified (if you used it on a check ride you would have actually failed the check ride, even though the result was actually more accurate).
I certainly never got a medal for my app. It did get me Airman of the Quarter at our base. But, the real reward was that it worked and that people loved it. The fact that it worked better than the contracted solution was icing on the cake. I think this guy's story is great.
We have heard your concerns and being the responsible and responsive agency that we are, we have revised our proposal. Companies like Netflix can now pay companies like Comcast to degrade data delivery for everyone else. See, we've completely reversed course. Thank you for expressing your concern. See what a difference you can make when you stay informed and involved?
The cars with the start button are locked. You can unlock the car by touching the door handle. Then start the car without ever pushing a button on the key fob.
Looking at the screen and interacting with it is obviously safer than holding the phone to your ear and talking to someone. Don't be an idiot. You're operating a two ton machine at speed. Keep your eyes on the road.
Steven R. Spriggs, the appellant, held his mobile phone in his hand to use the mapping application to find his way around the congestion
when STOPPED in heavy traffic
This person was not moving at the time. On top of that, if the phone had been a Garmin GPS instead of a phone the ticket would never have been issued even though the user would have been using both devices in the same way. This kind of stuff is just stupid.
Clearly T-Mobile will make some additional money by doing this. But bravo! Talk about an industry that preys on the most vulnerable. We have a local check cashing company that goes by the name 'RobCo'. No kidding (I guess the owners name is Rob). You couldn't find a more appropriate name.
How dare the government force me to buy seat belts for my car!
Hey, don't laugh, I remember when seat belts were an option. My grandmother literally said "I don't want to wear a seat belt. If I get in an accident, I want to be thrown from the car."
Then of course she would talk about one person who was thrown from a car and then the vehicle caught on fire. "And if they had worn their seat belt they wouldn't be alive today." It didn't matter that almost any day in the newspaper you could point out where someone died in an auto accident and almost every time they were not wearing a seat belt.
No, you really can't count on people on their own to do what is best even for their own long term self interest.
Congress (especially GOP members) don't seem to understand that we have no choice but to pick losers and winners. Their reluctance to fund research into alternative energy sources just ensures that the United States will lose. By the time they finally realize we have no choice but to get on board, we will have to pay China, Germany..... to use the technology because it will have already been developed and made practical (and profitable) by them.
What did the janitors at Olive-Harvey do to deserve having their names and wages published?
If you work for the public, you can't count on this information not being exposed in a freedom of information act request. I don't think it is fair either. But, this kind of information is posted at least once a year by our local newspaper for people working for our county.
So if you don't want this kind of information publicly available, don't work in a public sector job.
Slashdot Mirror
You need to find a car that has a strong community of people who like to make these kinds of changes. I have a Prius (actually 2). There is a ton of information on the car. For example, someone posted instructions for ordering parts and wiring in accessories that allow you to unlock the car by touch from the passenger door handle and the rear hatch. That feature was only offered by Toyota on the top models in 2011.
PriusChat is my favorite place for researching maintaining and enhancing my 2 Priuses. Good luck and have fun!
Leo Bodnar launched a small balloon with a 11 gram payload. The payload is solar powered and has telemetry. Balloon hobbyists have been watching the flight since July 12th 2014. It is still flying. It has circled the earth (not at equator) about 5 times now I believe.
B-64/M0XER-4 Flight Web Page
APRS Position
Simply amazing. The longest flight I can recall prior to this was one that was launched in California and made it to somewhere near the Mediterranean sea a few days later.
That certainly sounds good. But, the reality is that many times the elected officials' and their appointees' involvement is the problem. And most of the time the public doesn't know and doesn't care. When the 'broadband over power lines' debacle was going on during the FCC Powell years, a friend of mine privy to some of the discussions said that when FCC engineers were talking to industry engineers things progressed in a reasonable way. As soon as the political appointees showed up, things went stupid. The engineers could no speak frankly and just work through the issues. And in the end the FCC literally created regulation based on incorrect physics. Fortunately, BPL pretty much died on its own. So, we dodged one there.
Touché! LOL
Same here. I still managed to keep him on the line for maybe 10 minutes. So, at the very least, that was 10 minutes he could not be scamming someone who didn't know better. Someone needs to develop some kind of phone bot that you can just transfer these calls to. Then it could waste their time in some automated fashion.
Sure it might be better, but it definitely can be much worse.
Worse than no high speed broadband service? Wilson built their system because Time Warner and others refused to. So, the city decided to solve the problem themselves. When you refuse to serve a community, you can't complain about 'unfair competition' when they decide to serve themselves.
(Time Warner thanks you for your loyalty)
It is wonderful that someone took the time to have him recognized. So many times people don't take the time to do things like this.
Regarding contracting out:
I was a boom operator in the Air Force (inflight refueling specialist). In my free time, I wrote an aircraft weight and balance calculation application in basic that ran on desktop PCs (which were brand spanking new at the time). We had been filling a form out (called a Form-F) by hand using numbers looked up in charts. It took about 20 minutes to fill this form out. The Air Force had contracted out the creation of an app that ran in an HP programmable calculator to do this same task. It took about 5 minutes to fill the form out using the calculator. My program could generate this form in about 2 minutes. And my program was also more accurate (and it printed on a full page instead of 2" wide thermal paper). After I wrote my app, nobody used the calculator to generate the Form-F unless they filling it out on the airplane.
I was already out of the Air Force at the time. But a buddy of mine who took on maintaining the program I wrote said it was used to 'load plan' every KC-135 flight in the first gulf war. Not bad for a program that I could not even get certified (if you used it on a check ride you would have actually failed the check ride, even though the result was actually more accurate).
I certainly never got a medal for my app. It did get me Airman of the Quarter at our base. But, the real reward was that it worked and that people loved it. The fact that it worked better than the contracted solution was icing on the cake. I think this guy's story is great.
I certainly wouldn't wear a suit that had been brined for a few days.
You'd be in a pickle.
Defending is typically more expensive then brining a suit
Brining a suit would actually be pretty cheap.
:-)
A bucket of water, a few cups of salt, a few cups of sugar. I'd probably leave it overnight.
The only combat aircraft that can suffer a bird strike from the rear. Man they are slow.
Revised proposal from FCC:
We have heard your concerns and being the responsible and responsive agency that we are, we have revised our proposal. Companies like Netflix can now pay companies like Comcast to degrade data delivery for everyone else. See, we've completely reversed course. Thank you for expressing your concern. See what a difference you can make when you stay informed and involved?
My car
Wife's car
Two teenage drivers share a car.
3 cars. Not atypical here.
(Plus, I never thought I was speaking for the majority of car owners)
The cars with the start button are locked. You can unlock the car by touching the door handle. Then start the car without ever pushing a button on the key fob.
I have one car with an ignition key and two cars with start buttons.
Every time I get in the car with the key it goes something like this:
Sit down
Reach for start button
Curse under my breath
Dig through pocket for key
Start vehicle with key.
I'd love to be done with mechanical keys.
'Diverse' the population, the easier it is to get re-elected?
I figured they would just sell the customers to Time Warner :-)
Just make a rule that you cannot own shares less than some arbitrary time. Say 10 minutes or maybe an hour.
Thanks for your proclamation! (It threw a little sunshine on my day)
Anonymous cowards
Can be deranged
This one’s below the IQ range.
Anomymous cowards
Some say they love God
But this one’s behavior would make that seem odd
Consider this
It’s no surprise
That the stench of his stink, will water your eyes
For in fair society
If you know you are wrong
Post anonymously as none can tie you to your bomb.
Looking at the screen and interacting with it is obviously safer than holding the phone to your ear and talking to someone. Don't be an idiot. You're operating a two ton machine at speed. Keep your eyes on the road.
Steven R. Spriggs, the appellant, held his mobile phone in his hand to use the mapping application to find his way around the congestion when STOPPED in heavy traffic
This person was not moving at the time. On top of that, if the phone had been a Garmin GPS instead of a phone the ticket would never have been issued even though the user would have been using both devices in the same way.
This kind of stuff is just stupid.
Fuller of information?
Is it just me, or did that topic title make you cringe? So I guess my mind treats information like a fuller treats wool?
Here is an article about fullers:
Wool industry
Also, things cannot be 'fuller' than full. Things are full or they are not. And even then, it would be 'more full' not fuller.
Clearly T-Mobile will make some additional money by doing this. But bravo! Talk about an industry that preys on the most vulnerable. We have a local check cashing company that goes by the name 'RobCo'. No kidding (I guess the owners name is Rob). You couldn't find a more appropriate name.
How dare the government force me to buy seat belts for my car!
Hey, don't laugh, I remember when seat belts were an option. My grandmother literally said "I don't want to wear a seat belt. If I get in an accident, I want to be thrown from the car."
Then of course she would talk about one person who was thrown from a car and then the vehicle caught on fire. "And if they had worn their seat belt they wouldn't be alive today." It didn't matter that almost any day in the newspaper you could point out where someone died in an auto accident and almost every time they were not wearing a seat belt.
No, you really can't count on people on their own to do what is best even for their own long term self interest.
Congress (especially GOP members) don't seem to understand that we have no choice but to pick losers and winners. Their reluctance to fund research into alternative energy sources just ensures that the United States will lose. By the time they finally realize we have no choice but to get on board, we will have to pay China, Germany ..... to use the technology because it will have already been developed and made practical (and profitable) by them.
What did the janitors at Olive-Harvey do to deserve having their names and wages published?
If you work for the public, you can't count on this information not being exposed in a freedom of information act request. I don't think it is fair either. But, this kind of information is posted at least once a year by our local newspaper for people working for our county.
So if you don't want this kind of information publicly available, don't work in a public sector job.