I know this might sound a little crazy, but I don't think it's designed for the whole workforce to wear. It's used during a study in a large environment to see how the workforce performs tasks. You assign it to a number of statistically neutral individuals, and they represent the workforce as a whole. An analyst (or consultant) determines work patterns and can charge the company $10,000 to move the water cooler from one side of the office to the other to promote efficiency in movement, or even relocate a team within a building so they don't have to walk across the building to interact with them.
Sure, it's orwell in a can, but it's not designed for every day use. Can you even imagine the nightmare of tracking those on people that don't want to wear them?
I run bug/task reporting tools at a marginally large company. We use Atlassian Jira for that, and one of the processes that has worked well to capture data from non QA type folks is a bug type called "simplified bug" that simply has space to comment, add screen shots, and feed in minimal data (what release is it, platform, and maybe two others).
Any bugs filed from simplified that appear coherent enough are modified into a full regular bug, with some followup. It's a bit more labor intensive, but the qa team has a few people watching the simplified bug list, and we get a lot of useful data from it.
Actually, there are reserved parking spaces for Bill and Steve. In the building 35 parking garage, there's an area cordoned off with a little guard house. Unless your vehicle is on the list, or happen to be a particular person driving a slightly beat up black lexus sedan, you can't park in that spot.
It's funny when you happen to ride the elevator up in the morning with one of them, they almost look like they try to appear busy so they don't have to talk to you.:)
This to me sounds a lot like a small plutonic magma complex, which can also be called called a stock or batholith. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batholith>
Basically, a large intrusion of magma pushes up into and against the crust but doesn't break the surface. It then hardens and cools leaving a big lump. Sort of like one of those zits that you can't pop because it's not close enough to the surface.
Give it a few hundred million years of exposure to erosion and it'll be a new scenic park of some kind.
I call bullshit on that. I remember reading somewhere they're totally carved out of foam, and that they had some big guy wearing the machine, and the sigourney was just basically riding on his shoulders.
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No way does a cargo pilot gross that much income in a year.
If you're a top captain for a popular route hauling PEOPLE, (say NY to London), AND you've been flying for 20 years, AND your employer isn't laying people off because they're not making any money, then you might make that much.
But I'm willing to bet the captain of a FED-EX 737 domestic cargo route takes home at a maximum 40-50k gross per year.
Playing the "protected" cds in a CDROM drive would quickly reveal if they are truly copy protected.
I've found that a lot of the stuff you can buy from the sharper image, brookstone, etc. is kind of cheesy. Maybe it's just a crappy drive mechanisim.
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Bah. The only time you're going to get enough oil into an diesel engine to cause run-away operation would be leaky oil seals on a turbo. The vapors from the crank case do not provide enough fuel to sustain operation of the engine.
This is similar to the USGS's identification of a volcanic uplift in Oregon. There's a large bulg developing near the Three Sisters Peaks. (it's only a couple inches different though).
Here's a link.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Sisters/West Up lift/ground_uplift_may2001.html
Somebody posted an XLS document listing all their sites, both active and inactive. I graphed the data out and listed the geographical location of the inactive sites. Go to http://aaron.cyberfreakout.com/inactivebell.htm to view it.
I would imagine that they're trying to sell the inactive ones...
I'm not so sure. Using the analogy of the CSS decryption keys on a DVD, why not decrypt the keys and write out the unencrypted data back to another disc, then eliminate the security wrappers (whatever those may be) that are embedded in the formerly protected software?
Seems to me that it's no different than old protection methods on floppy discs, except that you've added another layer by decrypting most of the executable data with keys stored in the hidden "uncopyable" areas of the disc.
If someone wants that software bad enough to steal it, it will get stolen.
To me, it seems similar in concept to how one would steal a motorcycle. You can lock the handlebars, put an alarm on it, lock the wheels, etc. but there aren't any passive security mesaures that prevent 5-6 guys from just picking it straight up and into the back of a truck, where they can disarm it at their leasure.
According to their documents, the cable weighs 7.5 kilograms per kilometer. Somehow I don't think that would cause a lot of damage if someone were to drag it across the ground.
About a week ago, Microsoft laid off about 65 employees in their TV division due a "re-organization". (including me)
Almost all of the people who were cut were developers and technical people.
Since the restructure, they're attempting to target the low-end middleware platform. For example the software that runs on a Motorola DCT-2000 cable box, and gives you the channel listings, and in the future VOD and purchase control.
It makes me wonder what they're trying to accomplish by purchasing yet another small itv company in the UK when they don't make enough money to support their own engineering efforts.
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I know this might sound a little crazy, but I don't think it's designed for the whole workforce to wear. It's used during a study in a large environment to see how the workforce performs tasks. You assign it to a number of statistically neutral individuals, and they represent the workforce as a whole. An analyst (or consultant) determines work patterns and can charge the company $10,000 to move the water cooler from one side of the office to the other to promote efficiency in movement, or even relocate a team within a building so they don't have to walk across the building to interact with them.
Sure, it's orwell in a can, but it's not designed for every day use. Can you even imagine the nightmare of tracking those on people that don't want to wear them?
You know, I always liked the system layout of the TI-99/4a
I'm not interested until it's strong enough to use as a space elevator ribbon.
I run bug/task reporting tools at a marginally large company. We use Atlassian Jira for that, and one of the processes that has worked well to capture data from non QA type folks is a bug type called "simplified bug" that simply has space to comment, add screen shots, and feed in minimal data (what release is it, platform, and maybe two others).
Any bugs filed from simplified that appear coherent enough are modified into a full regular bug, with some followup. It's a bit more labor intensive, but the qa team has a few people watching the simplified bug list, and we get a lot of useful data from it.
They're in the basement of the Alamo!
Actually, there are reserved parking spaces for Bill and Steve. In the building 35 parking garage, there's an area cordoned off with a little guard house. Unless your vehicle is on the list, or happen to be a particular person driving a slightly beat up black lexus sedan, you can't park in that spot.
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It's funny when you happen to ride the elevator up in the morning with one of them, they almost look like they try to appear busy so they don't have to talk to you.
This to me sounds a lot like a small plutonic magma complex, which can also be called called a stock or batholith. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batholith>
Basically, a large intrusion of magma pushes up into and against the crust but doesn't break the surface. It then hardens and cools leaving a big lump. Sort of like one of those zits that you can't pop because it's not close enough to the surface.
Give it a few hundred million years of exposure to erosion and it'll be a new scenic park of some kind.
This disc (and player) will self destruct in 5 seconds.
D!
It's time to confiscate all cameras, so we can't take pictures of people talking on cel phones:
www.brownequalsterrorist.com
That's not much of a crack now, is it?
I call bullshit on that. I remember reading somewhere they're totally carved out of foam, and that they had some big guy wearing the machine, and the sigourney was just basically riding on his shoulders.
No way does a cargo pilot gross that much income in a year.
If you're a top captain for a popular route hauling PEOPLE, (say NY to London), AND you've been flying for 20 years, AND your employer isn't laying people off because they're not making any money, then you might make that much.
But I'm willing to bet the captain of a FED-EX 737 domestic cargo route takes home at a maximum 40-50k gross per year.
Playing the "protected" cds in a CDROM drive would quickly reveal if they are truly copy protected.
I've found that a lot of the stuff you can buy from the sharper image, brookstone, etc. is kind of cheesy. Maybe it's just a crappy drive mechanisim.
Bah. The only time you're going to get enough oil into an diesel engine to cause run-away operation would be leaky oil seals on a turbo. The vapors from the crank case do not provide enough fuel to sustain operation of the engine.
This is similar to the USGS's identification of a volcanic uplift in Oregon. There's a large bulg developing near the Three Sisters Peaks. (it's only a couple inches different though).
t Up lift/ground_uplift_may2001.html
Here's a link.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Sisters/Wes
Somebody posted an XLS document listing all their sites, both active and inactive. I graphed the data out and listed the geographical location of the inactive sites. Go to http://aaron.cyberfreakout.com/inactivebell.htm to view it.
I would imagine that they're trying to sell the inactive ones...
I'm not so sure. Using the analogy of the CSS decryption keys on a DVD, why not decrypt the keys and write out the unencrypted data back to another disc, then eliminate the security wrappers (whatever those may be) that are embedded in the formerly protected software?
Seems to me that it's no different than old protection methods on floppy discs, except that you've added another layer by decrypting most of the executable data with keys stored in the hidden "uncopyable" areas of the disc.
If someone wants that software bad enough to steal it, it will get stolen.
To me, it seems similar in concept to how one would steal a motorcycle. You can lock the handlebars, put an alarm on it, lock the wheels, etc. but there aren't any passive security mesaures that prevent 5-6 guys from just picking it straight up and into the back of a truck, where they can disarm it at their leasure.
Aaron
So what's to prevent hacker group x from modifying the software on the disc so it doesn't check for the keys anymore?
According to their documents, the cable weighs 7.5 kilograms per kilometer. Somehow I don't think that would cause a lot of damage if someone were to drag it across the ground.
Heh. I replied with a link about this device in an older article. I believe it was the build your own battlemech posting. Wheee!
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/26/121
Some company in finland figured out a way to build a forest harvesting machine that walks.
It uses a diesel engine driving a hydraulic pump to acutate it's limbs. Check it out:
http://www.plustech.fi/Walking1.html
About a week ago, Microsoft laid off about 65 employees in their TV division due a "re-organization". (including me)
Almost all of the people who were cut were developers and technical people.
Since the restructure, they're attempting to target the low-end middleware platform. For example the software that runs on a Motorola DCT-2000 cable box, and gives you the channel listings, and in the future VOD and purchase control.
It makes me wonder what they're trying to accomplish by purchasing yet another small itv company in the UK when they don't make enough money to support their own engineering efforts.
Aaron
Where exactally is the article at? I don't see it in this journal.