Seems that in June of '09, LA wanted to try to catch up with LasVegas who is paying people to rip up their lawns as well.
the intent of the cash-for-grass program is to reduce the 50 to 90 inches of water routinely applied to turf every year. Drought-tolerant substitutes may require just 15 -- in keeping with L.A.'s average annual rainfall.
For information on the L.A. Department of Water and Power program, call the regional water agency rebate hotline at..... The recording will say funding for regionwide programs is exhausted, but keep listening. DWP customers can press 3 for more details on their rebate.
Some friends of my kids recently got the LEGO Star Wars video game. The day my kids got home, they started picking up everything that could be imagined as a sword and starting chasing each other around the house swinging away. It could be something as small as an empty paper towel tube or a banana to a tennis racket, wood spoons or even an umbrella.
Let's just say I called up the parent and told her I didn't want my kids playing star wars games at their house, just like my kids aren't allowed "to play guns."
China administers its internet according to law, and this position will not change.
Like there's anybody out there reading/. or the WSJ for that matter that is fluent in Chinese Law. This is their perfect 'get out of jail free card.' They can play the PR game all day long and hide behind whatever laws are defined. Any government would do the same thing, this isn't exclusive to the Chinese.
Unless there's a solid moderation system (like/., but then you could have moderators battling it out, which probably happens here, but I don't see it) you could end up with stuff like this.
Recently at UC Irvine the Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, had been invited to campus to speakabout Israeli-U.S. relations, but his lecture before about 500 people at the Student Center was interrupted 10 times by students denouncing Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Earlier that day, UCI's Muslim Student Union had issued a statement condemning the decision to invite a "public figure who represents a state that continues to break international and humanitarian law...."
After the 10th interruption, the event deteriorated further as a large group of students walked out of the conference room to jeers - and, the protesters allege, threats - by Oren's supporters. Eight UCI students and three UC Riverside students were briefly detained in another room before being released, after Oren had finished his speech. A planned 30-minute question-and-answer session with Oren was scrapped.
I've always wondered why we don't see more phishing attacks with URL shortening services. Why not just tweet "Hey check out the pictures of my latest vacation at my picasaweb page"? I don't think forcing users to install yet another plugin which checks out the tinyurl link as there's more than enough companies that do shorten URLs to make this plugin be yet another one which has to have to phone home to get updates...
You must have a pretty small site if all of your data is contained within the.vmdk files and you can restore an entire datacenter (from bare metal) in 3-4 hours (including OS install time).
I see some isolation pads under equipment, but how do you handle vibration in a seismically active area?
I used to work in IBM's Storage group in SanJose, California. This facility used to manufacture disk drives and storage subsystems. One of the manufacturing buildings was actually built on rollers so that if an earthquake hit, the building would stay one in place while the ground moved underneath it. This wouldn't eliminate 100% of the motion, but would dampen it so that the equipment specific dampeners wouldn't have to handle the entire load.
According to Merriam-Webster, terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion while terror is defined as a state of intense fear.
Nice going anonymous. While I applaud how you've peacefully gone after the Church of Scientology; DOS attacks are going a bit too far. You probably picked this type of attack because it's hard to determine who's actually launching it.
If Apple marketed to corporate america, they'd have to make docking stations... not the crappy third party ones that by pulling a handle, they plug in all your cables.
I work for a company that considers itself very forward thinking with it's own products... you know those products that replace products like the telephone and fax with HD Videoconferencing... or 10baseT with 10Gb Ethernet... or dial up networking with VPN... or ancient parallel SCSI with 8/10Gb FibreChannel... or routers that take up multiple racks... or replace PBXs with VOIP.. Our workforce has a choice of lenovo or apple laptops (internal community supported which is pretty amazing btw)...pretty forward thinking...
yet we just rolled out a new expense reporting system which requires IE6. Ask them why they just announced this new tool that requires IE6... falls on deaf ears.
I just want displayport implementations in laptops to transfer audio as well? Even the current Lenovo W500 laptop, which comes with a displayport, does not transfer audio over it. Even if you buy the bluray option for the laptop. It just pisses me off that there's no way to get high quality audio out of this laptop. Even lenovo admits this.
I'm just sick of these ever evolving home theater standards. There was a time when most home receivers didn't support DTS and dolby digital and so if you had a DVD which was only encoded in one, and your receiver didn't support it, you were out of luck.
Why don't we see articles about a lack of male nurses or male kindergarten teachers? I would bet there are far fewer male kindergarten teachers compared to female kindergarten teachers than there is male vs female VC.
Here my neck of the woods, I've heard countless mothers talk about how they would never get their kids vaccinated for seasonal or H1N1 flu, because of "what if..." syndrome. As in "What if.. the vaccine wasn't sufficiently tested, or what if my kid has a reaction, or I'd rather he get the flu than have a side effect.
Of course if their kid gets sick and gives it to the kid's entire 25student classroom. The mother doesn't give a shit, because atleast she didn't get the side effect.
My favorite is, "We have no idea what the side effect is of this vaccine in 10 or 20yrs."
Can you give examples of English songs that someone should be listening to? If I turned on the radio, I don't think hearing Beyonce/Eminem/Green Day/Metallica/Jay-Z/BrittneySpears would help me learn english. I can't imagine trying to pick out Farsi with a singer who's using a voice synthesizer.
In the comic book the gun would explode if it did not detect the correct palm print (of the owner) when fired. While in the Stallone movie, the gun would deliver a powerful electric shock. I think the gun would also encode each bullet with the DNA of the shooter for bullet identification...
Runewars for the Casual gamer? Give me a fucking break. I've never heard of it, and when I looked at the # of pieces that comes with the game, I thought it made Axis and Allies look like Candyland.
Runewars includes:
* 40-page instruction guide
* Nearly two hundred highly-detailed plastic miniatures
* Over two hundred tokens
* Over two hundred cards, both small and standard sized
* 13 map tiles
Is the gov't doing anything about this 'brain drain'? We loved it when the best minds from Asia came to the US to study, start families and have their careers here. Now that they are heading back while our top minds continue to become lawyers and doctors (those that practice medicine not research it). All the while US companies have their IP stolen.
Maybe in 2020 the US will have large botnets stealing IP from China...
You honestly recommend to your clients/customers that they plug in a HD sitting on their desk? What's to stop someone from just walking up to an temporarily empty cube or unlocked office and walking away with their backup drive? You should assume that anything that isn't locked down (and those security cables can be cut in about 10seconds) can and will be stolen (except those 90s era 21in SUN b/w monitors). There are plenty of solutions for WAN based backups, everyone should have backup agent installed on their PC which dedups and backs up their data to the datacenter. Unless of course your company is too small to have a datacenter and is just a single office, then toss it in the server room with a small autoloader.
So you're going to take my laptop, back it up, reload it and give it to the next guy? I in turn will get someone else's formatted laptop?
Or are you just trying to say, "we lost a lot of data when someone's laptop failed without proper backup processes in place. So we've decided that everyone needs to regularly connect to the company network and back up their laptop. The owner's of the company never back up their laptop"?
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I seem to recall that mouthing "vacuum" and "f*ck you" look the same.... ah the joys of being 10...
The punishment should fit the crime...
He should be tarred and feathered.
Actually he tasted it first, just a nibble.
Since this is storage, I believe you mean dumping core.
I think he needs more Fibre Channel.
The federal gov't RAIDed his house?
If you consume too many of these drives, you get FAT, worst case you get FAT32.
Good thing he didn't have a tape WORM. (ha! two storage jokes in one!).
DAT is a bad way to backup your data.
The article got it wrong, when asked about the USB drive, he didn't say he "ate it" he said he used ADIC.
SSSSHhhhhh. You'll ruin my chance at poking fun at people from LA.
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LA Offers upto a $2000 rebate for ripping up your lawn
Seems that in June of '09, LA wanted to try to catch up with LasVegas who is paying people to rip up their lawns as well.
the intent of the cash-for-grass program is to reduce the 50 to 90 inches of water routinely applied to turf every year. Drought-tolerant substitutes may require just 15 -- in keeping with L.A.'s average annual rainfall.
For information on the L.A. Department of Water and Power program, call the regional water agency rebate hotline at ..... The recording will say funding for regionwide programs is exhausted, but keep listening. DWP customers can press 3 for more details on their rebate.
Also, here's the link to the SoCal Turf Removal Program.
Some friends of my kids recently got the LEGO Star Wars video game. The day my kids got home, they started picking up everything that could be imagined as a sword and starting chasing each other around the house swinging away. It could be something as small as an empty paper towel tube or a banana to a tennis racket, wood spoons or even an umbrella.
Let's just say I called up the parent and told her I didn't want my kids playing star wars games at their house, just like my kids aren't allowed "to play guns."
China administers its internet according to law, and this position will not change.
Like there's anybody out there reading /. or the WSJ for that matter that is fluent in Chinese Law. This is their perfect 'get out of jail free card.' They can play the PR game all day long and hide behind whatever laws are defined. Any government would do the same thing, this isn't exclusive to the Chinese.
Unless there's a solid moderation system (like /., but then you could have moderators battling it out, which probably happens here, but I don't see it) you could end up with stuff like this.
Recently at UC Irvine the Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, had been invited to campus to speakabout Israeli-U.S. relations, but his lecture before about 500 people at the Student Center was interrupted 10 times by students denouncing Israel's treatment of Palestinians. Earlier that day, UCI's Muslim Student Union had issued a statement condemning the decision to invite a "public figure who represents a state that continues to break international and humanitarian law ... ."
After the 10th interruption, the event deteriorated further as a large group of students walked out of the conference room to jeers - and, the protesters allege, threats - by Oren's supporters. Eight UCI students and three UC Riverside students were briefly detained in another room before being released, after Oren had finished his speech. A planned 30-minute question-and-answer session with Oren was scrapped.
(follow up article at the UC Register)
I've always wondered why we don't see more phishing attacks with URL shortening services. Why not just tweet "Hey check out the pictures of my latest vacation at my picasaweb page"? I don't think forcing users to install yet another plugin which checks out the tinyurl link as there's more than enough companies that do shorten URLs to make this plugin be yet another one which has to have to phone home to get updates...
You must have a pretty small site if all of your data is contained within the .vmdk files and you can restore an entire datacenter (from bare metal) in 3-4 hours (including OS install time).
I see some isolation pads under equipment, but how do you handle vibration in a seismically active area?
I used to work in IBM's Storage group in SanJose, California. This facility used to manufacture disk drives and storage subsystems. One of the manufacturing buildings was actually built on rollers so that if an earthquake hit, the building would stay one in place while the ground moved underneath it. This wouldn't eliminate 100% of the motion, but would dampen it so that the equipment specific dampeners wouldn't have to handle the entire load.
According to Merriam-Webster, terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion while terror is defined as a state of intense fear.
Nice going anonymous. While I applaud how you've peacefully gone after the Church of Scientology; DOS attacks are going a bit too far. You probably picked this type of attack because it's hard to determine who's actually launching it.
Cowards.
If Apple marketed to corporate america, they'd have to make docking stations... not the crappy third party ones that by pulling a handle, they plug in all your cables.
I work for a company that considers itself very forward thinking with it's own products... you know those products that replace products like the telephone and fax with HD Videoconferencing... or 10baseT with 10Gb Ethernet... or dial up networking with VPN... or ancient parallel SCSI with 8/10Gb FibreChannel... or routers that take up multiple racks... or replace PBXs with VOIP.. Our workforce has a choice of lenovo or apple laptops (internal community supported which is pretty amazing btw) ...pretty forward thinking...
yet we just rolled out a new expense reporting system which requires IE6. Ask them why they just announced this new tool that requires IE6... falls on deaf ears.
I just want displayport implementations in laptops to transfer audio as well? Even the current Lenovo W500 laptop, which comes with a displayport, does not transfer audio over it. Even if you buy the bluray option for the laptop. It just pisses me off that there's no way to get high quality audio out of this laptop. Even lenovo admits this.
I'm just sick of these ever evolving home theater standards. There was a time when most home receivers didn't support DTS and dolby digital and so if you had a DVD which was only encoded in one, and your receiver didn't support it, you were out of luck.
Why don't we see articles about a lack of male nurses or male kindergarten teachers? I would bet there are far fewer male kindergarten teachers compared to female kindergarten teachers than there is male vs female VC.
Here my neck of the woods, I've heard countless mothers talk about how they would never get their kids vaccinated for seasonal or H1N1 flu, because of "what if..." syndrome. As in "What if.. the vaccine wasn't sufficiently tested, or what if my kid has a reaction, or I'd rather he get the flu than have a side effect.
Of course if their kid gets sick and gives it to the kid's entire 25student classroom. The mother doesn't give a shit, because atleast she didn't get the side effect.
My favorite is, "We have no idea what the side effect is of this vaccine in 10 or 20yrs."
Can you give examples of English songs that someone should be listening to? If I turned on the radio, I don't think hearing Beyonce/Eminem/Green Day/Metallica/Jay-Z/BrittneySpears would help me learn english. I can't imagine trying to pick out Farsi with a singer who's using a voice synthesizer.
In the comic book the gun would explode if it did not detect the correct palm print (of the owner) when fired. While in the Stallone movie, the gun would deliver a powerful electric shock. I think the gun would also encode each bullet with the DNA of the shooter for bullet identification...
Runewars for the Casual gamer? Give me a fucking break. I've never heard of it, and when I looked at the # of pieces that comes with the game, I thought it made Axis and Allies look like Candyland.
Runewars includes:
* 40-page instruction guide
* Nearly two hundred highly-detailed plastic miniatures
* Over two hundred tokens
* Over two hundred cards, both small and standard sized
* 13 map tiles
The contents of the box:
192 plastic figures
10 plastic mountains
12 plastic dial connectors
16 activation tokens
1 battle marker
7 city tokens
26 damage tokens
8 defeated hero markers
20 development tokens
35 exploration tokens
4 home realm setup markers
40 influence tokens
13 large map tiles
12 resource arrows
38 rune tokens
16 stronghold tokens
24 training tokens
4 faction sheets
4 reference sheets
32 order cards
23 quest cards
30 fate cards
12 hero cards
16 objective cards
25 reward cards
32 season cards
50 tactics cards
3 title cards
1 40-page rulebook
Is the gov't doing anything about this 'brain drain'? We loved it when the best minds from Asia came to the US to study, start families and have their careers here. Now that they are heading back while our top minds continue to become lawyers and doctors (those that practice medicine not research it). All the while US companies have their IP stolen.
Maybe in 2020 the US will have large botnets stealing IP from China...
Don't forget that companies are already shutting down their own game servers to get people to play the newer games. Madden 07 and 08 are already being shut down...
You honestly recommend to your clients/customers that they plug in a HD sitting on their desk? What's to stop someone from just walking up to an temporarily empty cube or unlocked office and walking away with their backup drive? You should assume that anything that isn't locked down (and those security cables can be cut in about 10seconds) can and will be stolen (except those 90s era 21in SUN b/w monitors). There are plenty of solutions for WAN based backups, everyone should have backup agent installed on their PC which dedups and backs up their data to the datacenter. Unless of course your company is too small to have a datacenter and is just a single office, then toss it in the server room with a small autoloader.
So you're going to take my laptop, back it up, reload it and give it to the next guy? I in turn will get someone else's formatted laptop?
Or are you just trying to say, "we lost a lot of data when someone's laptop failed without proper backup processes in place. So we've decided that everyone needs to regularly connect to the company network and back up their laptop. The owner's of the company never back up their laptop"?