Or perhaps someone had thought of it, and found that different batteries from different manufacturers with different nipples and dimples on the ends rendered their contact design unreliable across different battery brands.
I've seen similar mechanical solutions before and they had the problem you stated. IIRC it was in portable vacuum tube radios that had a seperate bias battery. (1950s)
The only thing that matters is the male female birth ratio which is something like 106:100 So it's approx. 50:50 The day of the week means nothing. It's added to cause confusion.
70000 dollars? 80? I can hardly get a job for 35000. I'm certified and experienced, have good references and a well written resume. am I the only one who thinks these numbers are artificially inflated?
"IT" covers a really broad range. Help Desk, programing, testing, networking, security, architecture, system administration, backup and recovery, DBA, R&D, management and many other catagories are considered IT. A range for all of IT is too general. Location also makes a lot of difference. If you look at some of the more focused salary surveys you'll still find a wide range.
Don't pay too much attention to salary surveys. Look for interesting gigs that will improve your skills.
I don't know who authorized it. Martial law is the suspension of civil authority and imposition of military authority. The authority is argued about frequently. The citation is usually: Article 1, section 9 of the Constitution.
I'm not sure if 911 was implimented then. I do know that dialing operator didn't work. 911 wouldn't have helped anyway. I was getting priority 1 pages every few seconds to report my positions and situation to my dispatcher and my family.
Maybe you had to be there. It was the epitome of chaos.
the need to cut off the internet makes perfect sense IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT.
I don't see a "RIGHT CONTEXT". The Internet is the electronic equivalent of bill boards. Critical systems should not be connected to a public network. If critical systems are connected to the Internet that is an engineering mistake and should be corrected. There is no excuse for having Internet access to critical systems. Cheap and convenient is not a rational reason to compromise security.
The problem is that there are people in government and industry that don't understand the Internet but they want laws to control it. People in power want to control anything they don't understand.
The problem with the Internet is that once something is put out there, it can't be taken back. Once that happens shutting down the Internet is not going to solve that.
According to the article:
would require that private companies -- such as "broadband providers, search engines, and software firms -- immediately comply with any emergency measure or action" put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, or else face fines.
That doesn't make sense.
The government already has the right, under martial law, to shutoff anything. Since that requires declaring martial law it can't be done secretly. That's the way it should be.
What is your opinion on the government being able to turn off the phone system in case of emergency?
The phones can be shut off under martial law. It's been done many times. The National Guard shutoff phones in Portage and Summit counties Ohio in less then 10 minutes after they shot the students at Kent State (May 4, 1970). They also closed all East/West highways between the counties. I heard the shots as I was going out the driveway. I pulled into a Lugans and tried to call dispatch from the phone booth. The phone had a recorded messge to the effect "by order of the government the phone service has been suspended". or somthing like that. I went into the restaraunt and asked to use their phone. Same message.
For the record I was Sr. Field Engineer tech specialist assisting on a machine in Taylor Hall when I and the FE that I was assisting were forced to leave the building at gun point by a NG officer. I drove to the hospital, in Ravenna, since I was sure the pathologist, who I knew, would allow me to use his phone. Arriving in Ravenna I was faced by cops with Thompson pointed at me. At the hospital the pathologist told me I could use the phone but first he wanted me to go in the morgue and make sure one of the 4 dead students wasn't his daughter. She wasn't one of them. That done I was able to make phone calls since the emergency phones were not affected.
This all traspired in less then 30 minutes. It got worse as the day wore on, but that's another story.
Freedom can be taken away faster then seems possible.
To the best of my knowledge any power produced above what is needed isn't stored anywhere and thus is wasted.
The power isn't wasted. If you don't use it it's not created. Power (watts) = voltage (volts) * current (amps) If there is no load then there is no current, so since 120 Volts * 0 Amps = 0 Watts, there is no power. The load on the turbine driving the generator is reduced, so the fuel requirement is reduced. A turbine, with no load, only needs enough power to rotate because there is no mechanical load.
Heating and cooling are the major power users in homes. That demand can be predicted by the weather conditions quite accurately.
If the taps stopped working, where is the nearest fresh water from your current location, miles?
Water is delivered by gravity from tanks in most places. The pumping stations that fill the tanks have backup power sources. My backup supply of water is on my property, along with my backup power, backup food, etc.
There is no excuse for using the Internet for controlling anything critical. The Internet is in the same security class as the billboards along the highway.
If the attack was from outside the country then you drop that countries IP at the gateways.
The government wants control of the Internet because they want control of everything. That's the nature of governments.
The Federal and State governments have been trying to find a way to tax the Internet for a long time. If the FCC controls it they will change the type of service to "communication" just like phone service.
Then they can add taxes just like they do on the phone service. There will be a tax to provide service for those areas that don't justify the build out, tax to support equipment for the imparied, and for people that can't afford it. It will be like your phone bill which is over half taxes now.
Ask the two oldest kids for technical support? You can put up any barrier you want but they will find a way around it.
Seriously: At that age you can guide them but you can't control them. Keep the machine(s) in a public area of the house. Observe what they are doing. Talk to them. The most important thing is to be honest with them. At that point in life you are preparing them to leave the nest. In 3 or 4 years they will ready to leave and face a world without parental controls or filters. Prepare them the best you can and have some confidence in them. Letting go is very difficult.
I also pay cash and usually get a 50% discount. The amount I pay is about the same as my share would have been if I still had insurance. If I had done that since I started working my 401K would be much larger today.
Who do you get your catastrophic insurance from? There are too many players between you and the person that provides your medical services. That's where the big cost is.
Those prices are obscene. A hearing aid is an amplifier with some filters to shape the output. Google the following for your area: - Deaf & Hard of Hearing services - Center for the deaf & hard of hearing. - Center for independent living.
They can advise you and in some cases supply needed equipment; hearing aids, TDD support, etc. They also help you avoid being ripped off.
Thanks for a reasonable answer. Dropping the "N" was unfortunate. In the early years "nuclear" == "magic". One could purchase atomic cures for many things. Odd how things change.
Particle physics is very interesting and should eventually lead to world changing discoveries. We need a clean source of cheap, plentiful power and we also need to be able to migrate to other planets. That will require energy levels that we aren't capable of delivering today. Research in particle physics may be the key to accomplishing that.
The research needs to continue but that is going to be difficult unless the people can see enough progress to be willing to support the cost. In our current economic climate that is a hard sell. The problems with the LHC don't help either. We need something positive and very visible in order to keep funding projects like this.
Structure Elucidation for drug development (or if you're of the other mindset, QC/QA for herbals)
The Internet (developed at CERN)
...
Are any of those the result of particle research? Super conductors are from the early 1900s. MRI is an application of NMR spectroscopy (1930s). The Internet grew from the DOD's ARPA net (1960s) but, the web browser was developed by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in the 90s. I don't know about "Structure Elucidation for drug development".
Particle physicists have basically been fucking with us for years, haven't they?
I wonder about that too. The tools of the trade are incredible. They are also very expensive. Has anything of practical value come out of this? What's the return on this investment? In our current economic mess, can we afford it?
If those top managers are being paid in stock instead of in dollars, then clearly they are stockholders and hence their interests are one and the same as the stockholders.
The executives are different then the stockholders in that they make the future. They have inside information before it becomes inside information and act on it to their own benefit. Watch the insider trading of a company.
They regard employees as assets. They don't layoff people they liquidate assets.
I've got a merger pen. I've helped put 2 CFOs and 1 CEO away. As a result I'm unemployable. That doesn't matter though because it's about honor not money.
Ubuntu cribbed almost all of that stuff from RedHat/Fedora?
Ubuntu is based on Debian not RedHat.
Video resolution can be changed dynamically with CTRL/ALT plus or minus. Most distros have a gui app to change the default resolution, fonts, font size. etc.
without special package installation requirements
Probably means dependencies. Debian/Ubuntu handle that well.
QNX is fast, stable and small. If you need something extra you mount it to the kernel. When you no longer need it you unmount it. The message passing is great. Downside: It's not free.
Three OSS projects were used to build an application for the Gov that everyone can use and evaluate. The White House is using OSS. That is a step forward. The creators of the packages can put this on there resumes. Business see this and OSS becomes more acceptable. I read this and find three packages used in a working app that can be evaluated on-line. I will definitely look into how I can use these packages.
"The public and the scientists have very different views on many different issues, including the science of evolution and climate change," Scott Keeter of the Pew Research Center said in a telephone briefing. The center conducted the wide-ranging telephone survey in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.
The research included responses from 2,533 scientists in the AAAS, and 2,001 public respondents.
I read the article and watched the video and it set off my BS sensor. The video reminded me of the first time I heard the term "symbiosis" used in a merger meeting.
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Or perhaps someone had thought of it, and found that different batteries from different manufacturers with different nipples and dimples on the ends rendered their contact design unreliable across different battery brands.
I've seen similar mechanical solutions before and they had the problem you stated. IIRC it was in portable vacuum tube radios that had a seperate bias battery. (1950s)
The only thing that matters is the male female birth ratio which is something like 106:100
So it's approx. 50:50
The day of the week means nothing. It's added to cause confusion.
70000 dollars? 80? I can hardly get a job for 35000.
I'm certified and experienced, have good references and a well written resume. am I the only one who thinks these numbers are artificially inflated?
"IT" covers a really broad range. Help Desk, programing, testing, networking, security, architecture, system administration, backup and recovery, DBA, R&D, management and many other catagories are considered IT. A range for all of IT is too general. Location also makes a lot of difference. If you look at some of the more focused salary surveys you'll still find a wide range.
Don't pay too much attention to salary surveys. Look for interesting gigs that will improve your skills.
I don't know who authorized it. Martial law is the suspension of civil authority and imposition of military authority. The authority is argued about frequently. The citation is usually: Article 1, section 9 of the Constitution.
I'm not sure if 911 was implimented then. I do know that dialing operator didn't work. 911 wouldn't have helped anyway. I was getting priority 1 pages every few seconds to report my positions and situation to my dispatcher and my family.
Maybe you had to be there. It was the epitome of chaos.
the need to cut off the internet makes perfect sense IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT.
I don't see a "RIGHT CONTEXT". The Internet is the electronic equivalent of bill boards. Critical systems should not be connected to a public network. If critical systems are connected to the Internet that is an engineering mistake and should be corrected. There is no excuse for having Internet access to critical systems. Cheap and convenient is not a rational reason to compromise security.
The problem is that there are people in government and industry that don't understand the Internet but they want laws to control it. People in power want to control anything they don't understand.
The problem with the Internet is that once something is put out there, it can't be taken back. Once that happens shutting down the Internet is not going to solve that.
According to the article:
would require that private companies -- such as "broadband providers, search engines, and software firms -- immediately comply with any emergency measure or action" put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, or else face fines.
That doesn't make sense.
The government already has the right, under martial law, to shutoff anything. Since that requires declaring martial law it can't be done secretly. That's the way it should be.
What is your opinion on the government being able to turn off the phone system in case of emergency?
The phones can be shut off under martial law. It's been done many times. The National Guard shutoff phones in Portage and Summit counties Ohio in less then 10 minutes after they shot the students at Kent State (May 4, 1970). They also closed all East/West highways between the counties. I heard the shots as I was going out the driveway. I pulled into a Lugans and tried to call dispatch from the phone booth. The phone had a recorded messge to the effect "by order of the government the phone service has been suspended". or somthing like that. I went into the restaraunt and asked to use their phone. Same message.
For the record I was Sr. Field Engineer tech specialist assisting on a machine in Taylor Hall when I and the FE that I was assisting were forced to leave the building at gun point by a NG officer. I drove to the hospital, in Ravenna, since I was sure the pathologist, who I knew, would allow me to use his phone. Arriving in Ravenna I was faced by cops with Thompson pointed at me. At the hospital the pathologist told me I could use the phone but first he wanted me to go in the morgue and make sure one of the 4 dead students wasn't his daughter. She wasn't one of them. That done I was able to make phone calls since the emergency phones were not affected.
This all traspired in less then 30 minutes. It got worse as the day wore on, but that's another story.
Freedom can be taken away faster then seems possible.
To the best of my knowledge any power produced above what is needed isn't stored anywhere and thus is wasted.
The power isn't wasted. If you don't use it it's not created.
Power (watts) = voltage (volts) * current (amps)
If there is no load then there is no current, so since 120 Volts * 0 Amps = 0 Watts, there is no power. The load on the turbine driving the generator is reduced, so the fuel requirement is reduced. A turbine, with no load, only needs enough power to rotate because there is no mechanical load.
Heating and cooling are the major power users in homes. That demand can be predicted by the weather conditions quite accurately.
How many people would this agency employ? The manpower required to do this would be staggering.
Job creation at it's finest!
At least until they off-shore it.
If the taps stopped working, where is the nearest fresh water from your current location, miles?
Water is delivered by gravity from tanks in most places. The pumping stations that fill the tanks have backup power sources. My backup supply of water is on my property, along with my backup power, backup food, etc.
There is no excuse for using the Internet for controlling anything critical. The Internet is in the same security class as the billboards along the highway.
If the attack was from outside the country then you drop that countries IP at the gateways.
The government wants control of the Internet because they want control of everything. That's the nature of governments.
The Federal and State governments have been trying to find a way to tax the Internet for a long time. If the FCC controls it they will change the type of service to "communication" just like phone service.
Then they can add taxes just like they do on the phone service. There will be a tax to provide service for those areas that don't justify the build out, tax to support equipment for the imparied, and for people that can't afford it.
It will be like your phone bill which is over half taxes now.
This is about taxation not neutrality.
Ask the two oldest kids for technical support? You can put up any barrier you want but they will find a way around it.
Seriously: At that age you can guide them but you can't control them. Keep the machine(s) in a public area of the house. Observe what they are doing. Talk to them. The most important thing is to be honest with them. At that point in life you are preparing them to leave the nest. In 3 or 4 years they will ready to leave and face a world without parental controls or filters. Prepare them the best you can and have some confidence in them. Letting go is very difficult.
I also pay cash and usually get a 50% discount. The amount I pay is about the same as my share would have been if I still had insurance. If I had done that since I started working my 401K would be much larger today.
Who do you get your catastrophic insurance from?
There are too many players between you and the person that provides your medical services. That's where the big cost is.
Those prices are obscene. A hearing aid is an amplifier with some filters to shape the output.
Google the following for your area:
- Deaf & Hard of Hearing services
- Center for the deaf & hard of hearing.
- Center for independent living.
They can advise you and in some cases supply needed equipment; hearing aids, TDD support, etc.
They also help you avoid being ripped off.
Thanks for a reasonable answer.
Dropping the "N" was unfortunate. In the early years "nuclear" == "magic". One could purchase atomic cures for many things. Odd how things change.
Particle physics is very interesting and should eventually lead to world changing discoveries. We need a clean source of cheap, plentiful power and we also need to be able to migrate to other planets. That will require energy levels that we aren't capable of delivering today. Research in particle physics may be the key to accomplishing that.
The research needs to continue but that is going to be difficult unless the people can see enough progress to be willing to support the cost. In our current economic climate that is a hard sell. The problems with the LHC don't help either. We need something positive and very visible in order to keep funding projects like this.
Energy, transportation - Superconductors
Medical imaging - MRI etal
Structure Elucidation for drug development (or if you're of the other mindset, QC/QA for herbals)
The Internet (developed at CERN)
Are any of those the result of particle research?
Super conductors are from the early 1900s.
MRI is an application of NMR spectroscopy (1930s).
The Internet grew from the DOD's ARPA net (1960s) but, the web browser was developed by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in the 90s.
I don't know about "Structure Elucidation for drug development".
Particle physicists have basically been fucking with us for years, haven't they?
I wonder about that too.
The tools of the trade are incredible. They are also very expensive.
Has anything of practical value come out of this?
What's the return on this investment?
In our current economic mess, can we afford it?
If those top managers are being paid in stock instead of in dollars, then clearly they are stockholders and hence their interests are one and the same as the stockholders.
The executives are different then the stockholders in that they make the future. They have inside information before it becomes inside information and act on it to their own benefit. Watch the insider trading of a company.
They regard employees as assets. They don't layoff people they liquidate assets.
I've got a merger pen. I've helped put 2 CFOs and 1 CEO away. As a result I'm unemployable. That doesn't matter though because it's about honor not money.
Ubuntu cribbed almost all of that stuff from RedHat/Fedora?
Ubuntu is based on Debian not RedHat.
Video resolution can be changed dynamically with CTRL/ALT plus or minus.
Most distros have a gui app to change the default resolution, fonts, font size. etc.
without special package installation requirements
Probably means dependencies. Debian/Ubuntu handle that well.
QNX is fast, stable and small.
If you need something extra you mount it to the kernel.
When you no longer need it you unmount it.
The message passing is great.
Downside: It's not free.
Three OSS projects were used to build an application for the Gov that everyone can use and evaluate. The White House is using OSS. That is a step forward. The creators of the packages can put this on there resumes. Business see this and OSS becomes more acceptable. I read this and find three packages used in a working app that can be evaluated on-line. I will definitely look into how I can use these packages.
From the article:
"The public and the scientists have very different views on many different issues, including the science of evolution and climate change," Scott Keeter of the Pew Research Center said in a telephone briefing. The center conducted the wide-ranging telephone survey in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.
The research included responses from 2,533 scientists in the AAAS, and 2,001 public respondents.
I read the article and watched the video and it set off my BS sensor. The video reminded me of the first time I heard the term "symbiosis" used in a merger meeting.
...it's not something you can completely prevent.
You can prevent it by saying NO and walking away.
If you don't have the stones to say no then your password is the least of your problems.
People have rights, things do not.
Laws control the rights of a person to possess and use things.
The delivery method should not be relevant.
You do it for the same reason you climb a mountain.
Because it's there.