Looks like the NYPD is taking a page out of NASA's preparation for the moon landing. Where Apollo astronauts worked with geologists to better be able to describe what they saw while they were on (or flying above) the moon's surface. Instead of calling something a gray rock, they could give it a more scientific and accurate description.
After reading their FAQ, looks like Comcast is doing the right thing and also admitting the DNS Redirector/Helper wasn't the right solution.
Are customers who have opted in to or out of Comcast Domain Helper impacted by this?
* When DNSSEC is deployed on all of our DNS servers, the web error redirect function at the core of Comcast Domain Helper will be disabled, as this is not technically compatible with DNSSEC.
* Customers that have opted out of Domain Helper will be the first customers that we migrate to the new DNSSEC servers. Domain Helper will not be active.
* Comcast does plan to turn off Domain Helper when DNSSEC is fully implemented.
What happens to Comcast Domain Helper, which offers DNS redirect services, when you fully implement DNSSEC?
* We believe that the web error redirection function of Comcast Domain Helper is technically incompatible with DNSSEC.
* Comcast has always known this and plans to turn off such redirection when DNSSEC is fully implemented.
* The production network DNSSEC servers do not have Comcast Domain Helper's DNS redirect functionality enabled.
* We recently updated our IETF Internet Draft on this subject, available at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-livingood-dns-redirect, to reflect this.
My wife is a nurse with 25years of experience. The local colleges crank out nurses at an alarming rate, all with no experience and willing to work for peanuts. The hospital knows this, and this is why my wife has to work on Xmas and New Years.
The gov't can flaunt all the studies/stats out there even show videos of what happens when you get into an accident, but that won't help. People will still think to themselves, "Shit, I need to tell XYZ that I'm going to be home late, or to let out the cat...."
Last week I was walking in the mall and saw a woman about 75ft in front of me looking at her phone while she was texting and walking. I stopped walking and just stood there. A few seconds later she walked right into me. In the 75ft that she walked, she never looked up once. She proceeded to blame me for not getting out of the way and I calmly told her that I was standing there looking at the display, I can't be responsible if you were not paying attention to where you were walking.
I can only imagine what this woman is like when she's driving a 3000lb car going 45mph.
I agree with the other posters, if you're texting while in an accident, hefty fine, removal of driving privileges, suspension of license, put it on your record (like a DUI), increase your auto insurance rates, public flogging etc...
Btw, in California they are trying to lower the fine for making a 'rolling stop' at a stop sign from $450 to $219. The fine is supposed to be painful.
Peapod founded in 1989 by Andrew and Thomas Parkinson, both of whom are still executive officers. Its original name was IPOD for Information and Product on Demand, but as they were creating their business cards they changed it to Peapod on a whim. Before 1996, it provided an on-line grocery shopping service in partnership with Jewel in Chicago and surrounding towns; Safeway in San Francisco, California; Randall's in Houston, Texas; and Kroger in Columbus, Ohio.
In 1996, it launched its website and became one of the earliest internet start-ups; the company made the Inc. 500 list of fast-growing privately held US companies. It parlayed this success and good press into an IPO on NASDAQ. Between 1997 and 2000, Peapod expanded into Boston and Watertown, Massachusetts, Long Island, New York, and Norwalk, Connecticut in partnership with Stop & Shop. In late 2000, they entered Washington, DC and surrounding towns with Giant Food.
The year 2000 also saw a fundamental change in Peapod's corporate structure. Worldwide grocery giant Royal Ahold bought 51% of Peapod's shares in June 2000. In August 2001, Royal Ahold bought out the entire company. As a result, Peapod cancelled its contracts with all grocery companies except for Royal Ahold's two main American chains, Stop & Shop and Giant Food. This caused Peapod to abandon San Francisco, Houston, and Columbus entirely, but the company maintained service, albeit with some interruptions and inconveniences, everywhere else.
"CD Quality" is dead, to be replaced by downsampled and compressed mp3s "Bluray Quality" is dead, to be replaced by downsampled, compressed iTunes downloads, streamed netflix/comcast, Hulu etc..
Hell, even the stuff on TV that is claimed to be "HD" is compressed by your cable provider. It's a shame as a Bluray just provides that much more content than some compressed/re-encoded file. While it's not as easy to tell when watching "HDTV" on a iPhone or iPod. When you have a 50in TV and a 5.1 stereo, you can tell.
Steve Jobs' motto should be, "Compressed media, through earbuds, it's good enough."
How many PS3 Anime style RPG/action games does japan crank out a year? The gameplay is exactly the same in every one. You have a party of 3 characters (most are of the 'cutesy' type) run around a map, collect roots/sticks/bugs/trinkets randomly encounter some cuddly monster, have a live action battle with it and the 3 characters in your party. Then resume running around.
I swear in one of these games, you were attacking these... these CHICKENS. Sure they were bigger than you, but to me this type of game summarizes the classic Japanese adventure game. My friend has probably played about 20 of these and every one looks exactly the same except the monsters are slightly different, the currency has a different name and your main character is a blonde haired dude instead of a blue haired dude.
In one of the games it simulated a MMORPG as you had to check an ingame email account and an in game message board to get tips and new adventures. But other than that, back to the grind, running around getting beetle wings and bat toes....
Unless you look for a generic unshaped mouse/trackball. You're out of luck.
I was forced to learn to use a right handed trackball, since I wanted a shaped one. It was easier to learn to use my right hand than try to find a left handed or one of the crappy ambidextrous ones.
Logitech out of all their trackballs, only makes one that is ambidextrous, and it's crap.
In the last US presidential election only about 60% of the people eligible to vote, actually did. However, I bet a much greater number of people complained about the president/candidates. I remember reading somewhere that even though Hollywood (Puff Daddy etc..) started the whole "Vote of Die" campaign to get young people (age 18-24) to vote, approximately 1 in 10 actually did.
I always tell people, if you didn't vote in in the election, don't complain.
On Wednesday, August 25, at approximately 3 p.m., the Commonwealth of Virginia experienced an information technology (IT) infrastructure outage that affected 27 of the Commonwealth's 89 agencies and caused 13 percent of the Commonwealth's file servers to fail. The failure was in the equipment used for data storage, commonly known as a storage area network (SAN). Specifically, the SAN that failed was an EMC DMX-3.
According to the manufacturer of the storage system, the events that led to the outage appear to be unprecedented. The manufacturer reports that the system and its underlying technology have an exemplary history of reliability, industry-leading data availability of more than 99.999 percent and no similar failure has occurred in more than one billion hours of run time. A root cause analysis of the failure is currently being conducted.
Anybody else read this like some middle age guy after "finishing a bit too quickly" and telling his , "I swear honey, this the first time this has ever happened to me..."
There's plenty of rogue/fake AntiVirus programs out there. Is the new part that they imitate your browser rather than looking like a real anti virus program?
Plex running on a MacMini is what I use. The mini is a solid low power platform that you can easily hook up external disk or access your NAS with. Has HDMI output for connecting to your stereo/tv etc.
Plex is made to use the apple remote control, so you don't need a keyboard/mouse after the very initial setup. There's also a iPhone/Pad/Touch app so you can control Plex or stream from the plex app to your iPhone/Touch/Pad. The main application for your mac mini is free and the iOS component is $5.
Great community of support for the app definitely better than XBMC.
Because all of their friends/family use it, since all of my friends/family are already on Facebook, what is the incentive for me to switch to a system that none of my friends/family are using. How many people are on multiple social networks? Most early adopters of social networks switched from myspace to facebook due to a multitude of reasons, but the number one was that in their opinion FB was a better product.
Now if Apple can convince the majority of users that they have a better product (in that FB was much much better than myspace) then you might be able to swing enough people to achieve critical mass.
I agree. The difference is that in those other fields, electricians/plumbers/carpenters they don't revolutionize how pipes/toilets/light fixtures/wiring is installed. However, in computers we put on our job postings that we want 10years of XYZ experience. The hiring companies don't care if you have 15years of mainframe administration if you don't have 5years of VMWare experience. MSFT comes out with a new language every few years, so nobody is caring if you are an expert in VBA if you don't have 5years of whatever MSFT's current language is (.NET?)
Or you could just move into storage:) SCSI is still around, it's just that we run it over fibre optics, and then we'll encapsulate it in Ethernet, but it's still SCSI commands:)
As an avid cyclist, I often have to ride long stretches amongst traffic. Often times there's no cars on the road and then a single car will pass me on a lone stretch of road. If I hear the car coming, I can move more to the right of the road/bicycle lane. Prius' just come up with no warning.
In california, motorcycles are allowed to "lane split", hearing their engine (either the rumble of a cruiser or the street bike reving it's engine while it sneaks through the traffic, allows me to move a bit over to the side of my lane to give them a few extra inches to avoid hitting my mirrors.
I'm a long time back country camper and hiker (meaning I carry my own tent/bag etc on my back). One of my favorite routes in Yosemite is to take a route in which I camp at the base of halfdome and then finish in the valley. The best part is that I don't encounter the crowds until I'm 75% done.
The last 25% is along the main tail between half-dome and the valley. This passes by the major water falls which people do a simple day hike to. While most people doing a day hike to half dome start at dark, I've seen more than my share of "dumb hikers" who are dressed in jeans/doc martins/sneakers or other non-hiking apparel and in their hand was a bottle of water (the kind you get for a few bucks at the supermarket, not a camelbak and ample supplies). I think they only see the pictures of the cables and forget that it's 14miles miles round trip and 5k feet of elevation gain.
I've had more than one occasion where some unprepared day hiker has asked me for water/food/help. I had one woman ask me for water and I when I told her that the water that I had in my camelbak was filtered (I have a portable pump/filter) from a local stream, she refused to take it.
I agree with the article, GPS and electronics haven't made people more stupid, the devices have enabled more stupid people to do things whereby they are critically dependent on the device. I never hike without a paper map. Why? Maps don't need batteries, and still work when wet and dirty.
On a side note, people that leave food in their cars in Yosemite should not only be fined, but they themselves should be fed to the bears.
State test scores are depressing. I had 142 kids take the CST. 5 of the scores were undetermined so I guess they don't count. Of the 137, 42 received scores of Advanced or Proficient. Tons of scores went down over last year. About 20 went up. I don't understand. I almost want to survey the kids the first week to ask them to rate their effort on those exams, as most kids don't even try very hard on them.
30% are Advanced or Proficient 35% are Basic The rest aren't worth doing the math for right now...My BB and FBB both raised up about 23% each.
If I were ranked by my test scores I'd be screwed...
Unless they want to judge teachers by taking into account their students' grades throughout middle and high school, suspensions, how long they were at each previous school, etc. ; only then can we really see our effectiveness.
It's obvious to me that a child in a stable home, in the burbs, who goes to the same school, has educated and involved parents as far as school goes, etc, these students are at a higher advantage compared to my kids who are low income, inner city, transient, immigrant, English As A Second Language Learners, etc.
Just saying that my kids didn't pass without putting the kid's socio-economic background is just a witch hunt. The numbers at this point become inflamatory
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Looks like the NYPD is taking a page out of NASA's preparation for the moon landing. Where Apollo astronauts worked with geologists to better be able to describe what they saw while they were on (or flying above) the moon's surface. Instead of calling something a gray rock, they could give it a more scientific and accurate description.
That's a lot of textbooks, teacher's salaries, roads to be paved, police/fire stations to NOT be closed etc etc etc..
After reading their FAQ, looks like Comcast is doing the right thing and also admitting the DNS Redirector/Helper wasn't the right solution.
Are customers who have opted in to or out of Comcast Domain Helper impacted by this?
* When DNSSEC is deployed on all of our DNS servers, the web error redirect function at the core of Comcast Domain Helper will be disabled, as this is not technically compatible with DNSSEC.
* Customers that have opted out of Domain Helper will be the first customers that we migrate to the new DNSSEC servers. Domain Helper will not be active.
* Comcast does plan to turn off Domain Helper when DNSSEC is fully implemented.
What happens to Comcast Domain Helper, which offers DNS redirect services, when you fully implement DNSSEC?
* We believe that the web error redirection function of Comcast Domain Helper is technically incompatible with DNSSEC.
* Comcast has always known this and plans to turn off such redirection when DNSSEC is fully implemented.
* The production network DNSSEC servers do not have Comcast Domain Helper's DNS redirect functionality enabled.
* We recently updated our IETF Internet Draft on this subject, available at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-livingood-dns-redirect, to reflect this.
My wife is a nurse with 25years of experience. The local colleges crank out nurses at an alarming rate, all with no experience and willing to work for peanuts. The hospital knows this, and this is why my wife has to work on Xmas and New Years.
I didn't pay my auto insurance premiums last year...
Then I got in a wreck...
Why should my insurance company pay for my accident...
The gov't can flaunt all the studies/stats out there even show videos of what happens when you get into an accident, but that won't help. People will still think to themselves, "Shit, I need to tell XYZ that I'm going to be home late, or to let out the cat...."
Last week I was walking in the mall and saw a woman about 75ft in front of me looking at her phone while she was texting and walking. I stopped walking and just stood there. A few seconds later she walked right into me. In the 75ft that she walked, she never looked up once. She proceeded to blame me for not getting out of the way and I calmly told her that I was standing there looking at the display, I can't be responsible if you were not paying attention to where you were walking.
I can only imagine what this woman is like when she's driving a 3000lb car going 45mph.
I agree with the other posters, if you're texting while in an accident, hefty fine, removal of driving privileges, suspension of license, put it on your record (like a DUI), increase your auto insurance rates, public flogging etc...
Btw, in California they are trying to lower the fine for making a 'rolling stop' at a stop sign from $450 to $219. The fine is supposed to be painful.
Contact, been there done that.
Peapod founded in 1989 by Andrew and Thomas Parkinson, both of whom are still executive officers. Its original name was IPOD for Information and Product on Demand, but as they were creating their business cards they changed it to Peapod on a whim. Before 1996, it provided an on-line grocery shopping service in partnership with Jewel in Chicago and surrounding towns; Safeway in San Francisco, California; Randall's in Houston, Texas; and Kroger in Columbus, Ohio.
In 1996, it launched its website and became one of the earliest internet start-ups; the company made the Inc. 500 list of fast-growing privately held US companies. It parlayed this success and good press into an IPO on NASDAQ. Between 1997 and 2000, Peapod expanded into Boston and Watertown, Massachusetts, Long Island, New York, and Norwalk, Connecticut in partnership with Stop & Shop. In late 2000, they entered Washington, DC and surrounding towns with Giant Food.
The year 2000 also saw a fundamental change in Peapod's corporate structure. Worldwide grocery giant Royal Ahold bought 51% of Peapod's shares in June 2000. In August 2001, Royal Ahold bought out the entire company. As a result, Peapod cancelled its contracts with all grocery companies except for Royal Ahold's two main American chains, Stop & Shop and Giant Food. This caused Peapod to abandon San Francisco, Houston, and Columbus entirely, but the company maintained service, albeit with some interruptions and inconveniences, everywhere else.
The iPod in comparison was launched in 2001.
"CD Quality" is dead, to be replaced by downsampled and compressed mp3s
"Bluray Quality" is dead, to be replaced by downsampled, compressed iTunes downloads, streamed netflix/comcast, Hulu etc..
Hell, even the stuff on TV that is claimed to be "HD" is compressed by your cable provider. It's a shame as a Bluray just provides that much more content than some compressed/re-encoded file. While it's not as easy to tell when watching "HDTV" on a iPhone or iPod. When you have a 50in TV and a 5.1 stereo, you can tell.
Steve Jobs' motto should be, "Compressed media, through earbuds, it's good enough."
How many PS3 Anime style RPG/action games does japan crank out a year? The gameplay is exactly the same in every one. You have a party of 3 characters (most are of the 'cutesy' type) run around a map, collect roots/sticks/bugs/trinkets randomly encounter some cuddly monster, have a live action battle with it and the 3 characters in your party. Then resume running around.
I swear in one of these games, you were attacking these... these CHICKENS. Sure they were bigger than you, but to me this type of game summarizes the classic Japanese adventure game. My friend has probably played about 20 of these and every one looks exactly the same except the monsters are slightly different, the currency has a different name and your main character is a blonde haired dude instead of a blue haired dude.
In one of the games it simulated a MMORPG as you had to check an ingame email account and an in game message board to get tips and new adventures. But other than that, back to the grind, running around getting beetle wings and bat toes....
Unless you look for a generic unshaped mouse/trackball. You're out of luck.
I was forced to learn to use a right handed trackball, since I wanted a shaped one. It was easier to learn to use my right hand than try to find a left handed or one of the crappy ambidextrous ones.
Logitech out of all their trackballs, only makes one that is ambidextrous, and it's crap.
In the last US presidential election only about 60% of the people eligible to vote, actually did. However, I bet a much greater number of people complained about the president/candidates. I remember reading somewhere that even though Hollywood (Puff Daddy etc..) started the whole "Vote of Die" campaign to get young people (age 18-24) to vote, approximately 1 in 10 actually did.
I always tell people, if you didn't vote in in the election, don't complain.
Go see it yourself here.
On Wednesday, August 25, at approximately 3 p.m., the Commonwealth of Virginia experienced an information technology (IT) infrastructure outage that affected 27 of the Commonwealth's 89 agencies and caused 13 percent of the Commonwealth's file servers to fail. The failure was in the equipment used for data storage, commonly known as a storage area network (SAN). Specifically, the SAN that failed was an EMC DMX-3.
According to the manufacturer of the storage system, the events that led to the outage appear to be unprecedented. The manufacturer reports that the system and its underlying technology have an exemplary history of reliability, industry-leading data availability of more than 99.999 percent and no similar failure has occurred in more than one billion hours of run time. A root cause analysis of the failure is currently being conducted.
Anybody else read this like some middle age guy after "finishing a bit too quickly" and telling his , "I swear honey, this the first time this has ever happened to me..."
There's plenty of rogue/fake AntiVirus programs out there. Is the new part that they imitate your browser rather than looking like a real anti virus program?
Plex running on a MacMini is what I use. The mini is a solid low power platform that you can easily hook up external disk or access your NAS with. Has HDMI output for connecting to your stereo/tv etc.
Plex is made to use the apple remote control, so you don't need a keyboard/mouse after the very initial setup. There's also a iPhone/Pad/Touch app so you can control Plex or stream from the plex app to your iPhone/Touch/Pad. The main application for your mac mini is free and the iOS component is $5.
Great community of support for the app definitely better than XBMC.
Odd that all the articles cite TechCrunch as the source of the rumor yet this guy from Barrons, says it's untrue.
Because all of their friends/family use it, since all of my friends/family are already on Facebook, what is the incentive for me to switch to a system that none of my friends/family are using. How many people are on multiple social networks? Most early adopters of social networks switched from myspace to facebook due to a multitude of reasons, but the number one was that in their opinion FB was a better product.
Now if Apple can convince the majority of users that they have a better product (in that FB was much much better than myspace) then you might be able to swing enough people to achieve critical mass.
I agree. The difference is that in those other fields, electricians/plumbers/carpenters they don't revolutionize how pipes/toilets/light fixtures/wiring is installed. However, in computers we put on our job postings that we want 10years of XYZ experience. The hiring companies don't care if you have 15years of mainframe administration if you don't have 5years of VMWare experience. MSFT comes out with a new language every few years, so nobody is caring if you are an expert in VBA if you don't have 5years of whatever MSFT's current language is (.NET?)
Or you could just move into storage :) SCSI is still around, it's just that we run it over fibre optics, and then we'll encapsulate it in Ethernet, but it's still SCSI commands :)
As an avid cyclist, I often have to ride long stretches amongst traffic. Often times there's no cars on the road and then a single car will pass me on a lone stretch of road. If I hear the car coming, I can move more to the right of the road/bicycle lane. Prius' just come up with no warning.
In california, motorcycles are allowed to "lane split", hearing their engine (either the rumble of a cruiser or the street bike reving it's engine while it sneaks through the traffic, allows me to move a bit over to the side of my lane to give them a few extra inches to avoid hitting my mirrors.
Plenty of TV commercials show nothing but cutscenes and not actual game play.
I'm a long time back country camper and hiker (meaning I carry my own tent/bag etc on my back). One of my favorite routes in Yosemite is to take a route in which I camp at the base of halfdome and then finish in the valley. The best part is that I don't encounter the crowds until I'm 75% done.
The last 25% is along the main tail between half-dome and the valley. This passes by the major water falls which people do a simple day hike to. While most people doing a day hike to half dome start at dark, I've seen more than my share of "dumb hikers" who are dressed in jeans/doc martins/sneakers or other non-hiking apparel and in their hand was a bottle of water (the kind you get for a few bucks at the supermarket, not a camelbak and ample supplies). I think they only see the pictures of the cables and forget that it's 14miles miles round trip and 5k feet of elevation gain.
I've had more than one occasion where some unprepared day hiker has asked me for water/food/help. I had one woman ask me for water and I when I told her that the water that I had in my camelbak was filtered (I have a portable pump/filter) from a local stream, she refused to take it.
I agree with the article, GPS and electronics haven't made people more stupid, the devices have enabled more stupid people to do things whereby they are critically dependent on the device. I never hike without a paper map. Why? Maps don't need batteries, and still work when wet and dirty.
On a side note, people that leave food in their cars in Yosemite should not only be fined, but they themselves should be fed to the bears.
State test scores are depressing. I had 142 kids take the CST. 5 of the scores were undetermined so I guess they don't count. Of the 137, 42 received scores of Advanced or Proficient. Tons of scores went down over last year. About 20 went up. I don't understand. I almost want to survey the kids the first week to ask them to rate their effort on those exams, as most kids don't even try very hard on them.
30% are Advanced or Proficient ...My BB and FBB both raised up about 23% each.
35% are Basic
The rest aren't worth doing the math for right now
If I were ranked by my test scores I'd be screwed...
Unless they want to judge teachers by taking into account their students' grades throughout middle and high school, suspensions, how long they were at each previous school, etc. ; only then can we really see our effectiveness.
It's obvious to me that a child in a stable home, in the burbs, who goes to the same school, has educated and involved parents as far as school goes, etc, these students are at a higher advantage compared to my kids who are low income, inner city, transient, immigrant, English As A Second Language Learners, etc.
Just saying that my kids didn't pass without putting the kid's socio-economic background is just a witch hunt. The numbers at this point become inflamatory
Is Reckless speeding? Weaving in and out of other cars? Sudden/frequent lane changes?
Do you need video of the vehicle driving recklessly in order to prosecute?
So if the iPhone kid was in China, Apple wouldn't waste a penny going after him...
So with the iPhone 4, Apple sued the bajeezus out of that kid from Cupertino, CA.
Why isn't Apple suing the hell out of some factory in China for leaking secrets?