Why is this worthy of Slashdot? This is just an executive being busted by the FBI. I can think of far more worthy subjects, say, for example, do a comparison between Raspberry PI 3 and the latest Intel Edison, and the latest Beaglebone.
Please tell me that something is scrambled up in my brain!
I am making an assumption that the average (or mean) TV show is 60 minutes. There are some 30 minute shows. There are even some 15 minute shows (Three Stooges and Popeye are examples) and there are the 2 hour movies. Put the whole shebang together and I believe that the average/mean is 60 minutes.
There are 24 hours per day. Times 7 days per week. That is 160 hours per week.
In the old days (I am 63 years old, so I am talking about my childhood in the 1960's). There were three TV networks, PBS, and maybe one independent TV station. Boston (my childhood home) had two independents; wsbk 38 and wlvi 56.
So, let's be conservative and multiply the 160 hours per week by 4 channels in the average viewing area of my childhood (prior to cable) and you get 672.
So, that's 672 discreet programs/series per week. (Give or take). Now, Slashdot is crying on my shoulders that we have too many shows at 455.
Huh, please help me. I need to cry on Slashdot's shoulders and understand where I f**ked up.
Intel has nothing blasting over any speakers except for the once a year evacuation drill and occasional coded call-outs for security to head to a certain door to dear with someone trying to tailgate into the facility.
Yes, they did. However, many of those folks, like myself, are now Escaped Mental Patients From Intel Corporation. They are now living happy lives in places like the Shangri-La of Bellingham, Washington and volunteering for places such as the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention fixing antique vintage vacuum tube radios and electronics and having one heck of a good time!
Yes, but I did something better. I invited your wife to be my apprentice in woodworking and cabinetmaking. She did so well that she decided to go into business making fine furniture and selling it to very fine hotels for 5,000 to 10,000 per piece. Just recently she made and sold an exact replica of an antique desk for over 50,000.
Now that she has this skill, she wants to divorce you and make a name for herself far away from the tech world!
And I did not have to come any where near having sex with her!!
Besides, I am queer with a fetish in clear plastic.
I am an escaped mental patient from Intel corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon (Retired for those of you with an IQ of less than -1) and I need some help.
Do any of you, particularily if you are in the great asylum of Intel, know where Intel's MCM leadership (BK and his direct reports) stand on Trump? I seem to have heard silence from my vantage point up here in the Shang-gre-la of Bellingham, Washington on what is happening between Intel and Trump.
There have been problems with hackers installing credit/debit card skimmers at gas pumps.
Now, they choose the pumps furthest out from the convenience store itself so that the human clerk inside does not see what they are doing.
Now that the clerk is about to be replace by one of these Panasonic machines, will these machines do any better job keeping an eye on the gas pumps to make sure that no one is installing credit/debit card skimmers?
We need better movies. Movies like The Sound of Music! Jesus Christ Superstar! The early James Bond Movies! State Fair! Singing In The Rain! West Side Story!
Too many movies now feel like you are in a video game that is continuous violance with no real plot or closure! Sequels that do noting but live on the coat tails of the original movie!
Put it this way! I would rather watch The Sound of Music on a crappy burning up Samsung Phone than any of the Transformer series movies at Radio City Music Hall (One of the finest theaters on the land)!
Please, folks, produce better movies! Take the time to do a real piece of art! Don't just spruce up the delivery infrastructure and not do anything to what you want to deliver!
Okay. You say 2 states. Do you mean Texas and New Mexico, or do you mean Rhode Island and Connecticut? And, of, yes, by the say, you are still in the U.S., which is in Funny Candy Company (FCC) land and subject to it's rules.
Which reminds me, the FCC has monitoring stations throughout the country. And they are very sensitive. Once about 40 years ago, when I had my novice amateur radio license, I accidentally transmitted about.1 khz beyond the end of the novice band. I was transmitting with 50 watts in Massachusetts and the FCC monitoring station in Nebraska sent me a citation. I had to write to them to apologize and explain that I will watch my edge of band operation closer.
So, until they actually give permission for us to use this new fangled toy, please don't use it in the open ether. The only legal use that I can think of is to build a faraday cage; put the device in one end of the faraday cage, put a cup of lukewarm office coffee in the other end of the faraday cage. Then close and lock the door of the faraday cage. And then turn the device on and zap(warm) your coffee.
I love the rich diversity of your comments and stories! They are great entertainment!
I get laughter, joy, tears, and wisdom watching your comments go by!
You are so much more colorful than tv, the movies, and sports combined!
I yearn for your wisdom every day in response to every major event and for this election, you have not dissapointed me!!
I look forward to your comments during the next four to eight years of excitement! You make such a nice companion during this upcoming roller coaster ride!!!
Okay folks; this seems to be interesting, overpriced, impractical, unproven, consumptive of slave labour, questionable profit/loss, etc.
But they missed the important question. Will the darn thing have bicycle racks so you can bring you bikes on board?????
The MAX in Portland and WTA here in Bellingham have racks/hooks for bicycles.
Perhaps if this is successful, the next one could be from Seattle to Vancouver with stops in Everett, and Bellingham, also with bicycle access? I ride my bicycle from home here in Bellingham to Hyperloop (most likely sited at the Amtrak station in Fairhaven) than take the 8 minute ride to Seattle (most likely King Street Station) then ride the bicycle to the Opera, then be back home here in Bellingham in time for my 11 PM bedtime????????
I am sitting at my computer killing time because the glue is drying on one of my projects (you can see my work at www.allyn.com)
And suddenly I felt like I had a fire hose aimed at me with a full blast of high pressure water! Only it was not water. It was russian data.
My computer decided to hack for me even though I did now want it to and now I am diluged with russian excrement; ie; data that I don't give one whack about.
I only wanted to wait for my project's glue to dry.
Please, data, don't come to me. I don't want you. Now get out of my office and off my land.
Actually they may have already got their hand in this.
I currently have a bidet seat on my toilet. A bidet is a device that washes my privates after I do my thing.
This bidet seat does have a microprocessor in it that controls both the heater for the water jet as well as the heater for the air jet used to blow dry my privates.
Right at the moment, I see no reason for this bidet seat to be on line. Perhaps there might be some reason in the future. Oh, it could be something to do with sensing that I have some sort of contagios stomach disease and can page/im DCD or NIH. Be as it may, there is enough real estate inside that bidet seat unit the accomodate either a 4G modem or a WIFI device.
Here in Bellingham, I cannot find a place where I can get wirecutters sharpened. I wonder if any of these folks here talking about wirecutter know where the New York Times plan to get them sharpened.
Equipment like this one http://www.directindustry.com/... tend to be quite expensive. Have the times figgered out what they will do with the wirecutter becomes dull?
I am a 63 years old young man and I think my brain may need a software upgrade:) Or do I need to step into a Tesla coil and give my self a control alt delete reboot?:)
Who was HP? I have an HP 202C Audio Oscillator. It's one of those instruments that have the tubes (little glass bulbs that glow dimly in the dark) inside it and creates audio tones. I truly wonderful piece of test equipment.:)
Now, please remind me, who are HP now? I don't think they make test equipment; isn't it computers now? Or is it printers? I forgot. Or do they only manufacture layoffs now?
MITRE. These people I hold the highest respect for.
One of my former classmates from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Who got FAR better grades that I ever did; and who was near the top of the Engineering class of 1976) is working for them.
I also met some former MITRE folks here in Bellingham whom I immediately knew were very smart in the security field.
If these folks are offering the prize; I know they will be very diligent in assessing the applications.
Shall we the internet nominate the maker of Oreos for the Nobel Prize in Culinary Arts? It seems that they are the world favorite for Intenet and computer hacking nutrition.
When I lived in Portland, Oregon, I used Movie Madness on Belmont St. It's the largest video store in the Northwest, if not the entire west coast. If you live in Portland, I highly recommend you use them and drop netflix.
Now that I am retired in Bellingham, Washington, I miss them. Here in Bellingham, we have the Pickford Film Center, which is the only non-chain art cinema north of Seattle in Washington State. Between going there for movies and keeping busy with my multiple hobbies ans sports, I still have not touched any streaming service for entertainment.
The little video that I look at on line is how-to videos on Youtube on doing stuff as welding, sewing, glass engraving, and so on.
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Why is this worthy of Slashdot? This is just an executive being busted by the FBI. I can think of far more worthy subjects, say, for example, do a comparison between Raspberry PI 3 and the latest Intel Edison, and the latest Beaglebone.
Please tell me that something is scrambled up in my brain!
I am making an assumption that the average (or mean) TV show is 60 minutes. There are some 30 minute shows. There are even some 15 minute shows (Three Stooges and Popeye are examples) and there are the 2 hour movies. Put the whole shebang together and I believe that the average/mean is 60 minutes.
There are 24 hours per day. Times 7 days per week. That is 160 hours per week.
In the old days (I am 63 years old, so I am talking about my childhood in the 1960's). There were three TV networks, PBS, and maybe one independent TV station. Boston (my childhood home) had two independents; wsbk 38 and wlvi 56.
So, let's be conservative and multiply the 160 hours per week by 4 channels in the average viewing area of my childhood (prior to cable) and you get 672.
So, that's 672 discreet programs/series per week. (Give or take). Now, Slashdot is crying on my shoulders that we have too many shows at 455.
Huh, please help me. I need to cry on Slashdot's shoulders and understand where I f**ked up.
Intel has nothing blasting over any speakers except for the once a year evacuation drill and occasional coded call-outs for security to head to a certain door to dear with someone trying to tailgate into the facility.
Yes, they did. However, many of those folks, like myself, are now Escaped Mental Patients From Intel Corporation. They are now living happy lives in places like the Shangri-La of Bellingham, Washington and volunteering for places such as the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention fixing antique vintage vacuum tube radios and electronics and having one heck of a good time!
Now that she has this skill, she wants to divorce you and make a name for herself far away from the tech world!
And I did not have to come any where near having sex with her!!
Besides, I am queer with a fetish in clear plastic.
www.disney.com
I am an escaped mental patient from Intel corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon (Retired for those of you with an IQ of less than -1) and I need some help.
Do any of you, particularily if you are in the great asylum of Intel, know where Intel's MCM leadership (BK and his direct reports) stand on Trump? I seem to have heard silence from my vantage point up here in the Shang-gre-la of Bellingham, Washington on what is happening between Intel and Trump.
There have been problems with hackers installing credit/debit card skimmers at gas pumps.
Now, they choose the pumps furthest out from the convenience store itself so that the human clerk inside does not see what they are doing.
Now that the clerk is about to be replace by one of these Panasonic machines, will these machines do any better job keeping an eye on the gas pumps to make sure that no one is installing credit/debit card skimmers?
You asked for it! Now I need to rant!
We don't need better delivery or better theaters!
We need better movies. Movies like The Sound of Music! Jesus Christ Superstar! The early James Bond Movies! State Fair! Singing In The Rain! West Side Story!
Too many movies now feel like you are in a video game that is continuous violance with no real plot or closure! Sequels that do noting but live on the coat tails of the original movie!
Put it this way! I would rather watch The Sound of Music on a crappy burning up Samsung Phone than any of the Transformer series movies at Radio City Music Hall (One of the finest theaters on the land)!
Please, folks, produce better movies! Take the time to do a real piece of art! Don't just spruce up the delivery infrastructure and not do anything to what you want to deliver!
Thank you!
Which reminds me, the FCC has monitoring stations throughout the country. And they are very sensitive. Once about 40 years ago, when I had my novice amateur radio license, I accidentally transmitted about .1 khz beyond the end of the novice band. I was transmitting with 50 watts in Massachusetts and the FCC monitoring station in Nebraska sent me a citation. I had to write to them to apologize and explain that I will watch my edge of band operation closer.
So, until they actually give permission for us to use this new fangled toy, please don't use it in the open ether. The only legal use that I can think of is to build a faraday cage; put the device in one end of the faraday cage, put a cup of lukewarm office coffee in the other end of the faraday cage. Then close and lock the door of the faraday cage. And then turn the device on and zap(warm) your coffee.
I am writing to you because I really love you!
I love the rich diversity of your comments and stories! They are great entertainment!
I get laughter, joy, tears, and wisdom watching your comments go by!
You are so much more colorful than tv, the movies, and sports combined!
I yearn for your wisdom every day in response to every major event and for this election, you have not dissapointed me!!
I look forward to your comments during the next four to eight years of excitement! You make such a nice companion during this upcoming roller coaster ride!!!
Love and peace to you all!
But they missed the important question. Will the darn thing have bicycle racks so you can bring you bikes on board?????
The MAX in Portland and WTA here in Bellingham have racks/hooks for bicycles.
Perhaps if this is successful, the next one could be from Seattle to Vancouver with stops in Everett, and Bellingham, also with bicycle access? I ride my bicycle from home here in Bellingham to Hyperloop (most likely sited at the Amtrak station in Fairhaven) than take the 8 minute ride to Seattle (most likely King Street Station) then ride the bicycle to the Opera, then be back home here in Bellingham in time for my 11 PM bedtime????????
Flying lids? Exploding batteries? I can see it. TSA will ban Samsung washing machines from all flights going into the USA :)
This is my fault.
I am sitting at my computer killing time because the glue is drying on one of my projects (you can see my work at www.allyn.com)
And suddenly I felt like I had a fire hose aimed at me with a full blast of high pressure water! Only it was not water. It was russian data.
My computer decided to hack for me even though I did now want it to and now I am diluged with russian excrement; ie; data that I don't give one whack about.
I only wanted to wait for my project's glue to dry.
Please, data, don't come to me. I don't want you. Now get out of my office and off my land.
Thank you!
I currently have a bidet seat on my toilet. A bidet is a device that washes my privates after I do my thing.
This bidet seat does have a microprocessor in it that controls both the heater for the water jet as well as the heater for the air jet used to blow dry my privates.
Right at the moment, I see no reason for this bidet seat to be on line. Perhaps there might be some reason in the future. Oh, it could be something to do with sensing that I have some sort of contagios stomach disease and can page/im DCD or NIH. Be as it may, there is enough real estate inside that bidet seat unit the accomodate either a 4G modem or a WIFI device.
Thank you. I did not know about them.
Equipment like this one http://www.directindustry.com/... tend to be quite expensive. Have the times figgered out what they will do with the wirecutter becomes dull?
Your link at: https://gist.github.com/gwille... is dead. Please ensure that this is correct.
Thank you.
I am a 63 years old young man and I think my brain may need a software upgrade :) Or do I need to step into a Tesla coil and give my self a control alt delete reboot? :)
Who was HP? I have an HP 202C Audio Oscillator. It's one of those instruments that have the tubes (little glass bulbs that glow dimly in the dark) inside it and creates audio tones. I truly wonderful piece of test equipment. :)
Now, please remind me, who are HP now? I don't think they make test equipment; isn't it computers now? Or is it printers? I forgot. Or do they only manufacture layoffs now?
Drivers need to have these glow so they can stay off of them!
MITRE. These people I hold the highest respect for.
One of my former classmates from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Who got FAR better grades that I ever did; and who was near the top of the Engineering class of 1976) is working for them.
I also met some former MITRE folks here in Bellingham whom I immediately knew were very smart in the security field.
If these folks are offering the prize; I know they will be very diligent in assessing the applications.
I watched BRI (blade runner 1) many times just for that scene! In fact, I made my own clear plastic raincoat that looks like the one in the movie!
Reference Media is such a shop here in Bellingham, Washington. This is their website: http://www.reference-media.net...
Shall we the internet nominate the maker of Oreos for the Nobel Prize in Culinary Arts? It seems that they are the world favorite for Intenet and computer hacking nutrition.
Now that I am retired in Bellingham, Washington, I miss them. Here in Bellingham, we have the Pickford Film Center, which is the only non-chain art cinema north of Seattle in Washington State. Between going there for movies and keeping busy with my multiple hobbies ans sports, I still have not touched any streaming service for entertainment.
The little video that I look at on line is how-to videos on Youtube on doing stuff as welding, sewing, glass engraving, and so on.
'In fact, I have done my own videos on Youtube such as thins one https://www.youtube.com/watch?...