thought so to - when I first powered on my palm long ago, the first thing it did was ask me to touch the stylus to the points it displayed on the screen. How hard would it be to have the first thing the voter does is do a 1-2-3 point touch calibration?
then again, this assumes you _want_ the machine to accurately record voter intent;-)
Parent is exactly right, this is about FM modulators, not terrestrial repeaters
actually both if you lump NAB and NPR's complaints together, as Olga has done...
There are several complaints, and several possible outcomes. Take the NAB claim, supported by XM and Sirius' own filings, that some of the satellite companies' terrestrial repeaters (devices that receive signals and retransmit them), installed on buildings and towers to ensure seamless satellite radio coverage, don't comply with FCC rules. ...
In its second claim, the NAB contends that XM and Sirius shouldn't be allowed to give away their products for free to new car buyers or online. Last week, Sirius streamed Howard Stern's program for free on its Web site. ...
Finally, there's the third complaint, from NPR, which claims that many FM modulators, used to feed programming from portable satellite radio devices into car stereos, exceed FCC power requirements.
so yeah, the modulator problem is one I've heard of before. The author is taking this along with the NAB complaints and turning it into a terrestrial broadcaster vs satellite battle royale.
I just got an XM receiver a couple weeks ago, the Pioneer Inno. The car kit has a cassette adapter, which works really nice as long as you have a tape deck and don't mind the wires (sound was a little better than the modulator option anyway).
"Cake or death?" "Eh, cake please." "Very well! Give him cake!" "Oh, thanks very much. It's very nice." "You! Cake or death?" "Uh, cake for me, too, please." "Very well! Give him cake, too! We're gonna run out of cake at this rate. You! Cake or death?" "Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake! Cake, sorry. Sorry..." "You said death first, uh-uh, death first!" "Well, I meant cake!" "Oh, all right. You're lucky I'm Church of England!" Cake or death?"" </eddie izzard>
Because you need a fission bomb to trigger the fusion reaction
Hydrogen bombs work by utilizing the Teller-Ulam design, in which a fission bomb is detonated in a specially manufactured compartment adjacent to a fusion fuel.
It's our involvement, particularly in the middle east, that he would like to change. 9/11 didn't exactly work out that way for him.
Yep, our support of Israel and having troops in holy lands (Saudi Arabia) were among his stated gripes. I thought we did eventually move troops out of SA, though.
I think the larger agenda was to provoke a conflict that would appear as a war on Islam to muslims, and that would incite the muslim world to rise up and fight against the US and "Zionist Crusaders". I'm not so sure that isn't starting to happen. 9/11 made us appear vulnerable and not so all-powerful to the world. All of a sudden, it seems possible to attack us where it will hurt.
Yep, I agree with this take. There is definitely a balance and chemistry between the two that makes the show what it is.
Adam is great, but I don't think I would have the patience to work with him. He seems the type to rush in and start working on something without thinking it through. That's actually a positive for him, he gets right to it and doesn't waste time over-analyzing things. Often his approach fails, or he gets frustrated when it doesn't immediately work out the way he imagined. He stomps around a bit when he doesn't get his way, but he seems to diffuse most situations with humor.
His best quote: "I reject your reality, and substitute my own!"
Jamie is great, but I don't think I would have the patience to work with him. He takes his time and carefully thinks through his ideas and spends time trying out small-scale tests before he commits to full-blown builds. He's cautious nearly to a fault, but that's actually a positive for him as he acts as a couter-balance to Adam's rush-in-and-do-it style. You can't always tell what he's thinking, but sometimes you can see the look on his face as Adam starts ranting about something.
My favorite Jamie moment: when he puts on the fire suit and says "I kind of like it in here -- it's private."
When you think of your own personal assets, chances are your home, car, and savings and investments come to mind. But what about your Social Security number (SSN), telephone records and your bank and credit card account numbers? To people known as "pretexters," that information is a personal asset, too.
Pretexting is the practice of getting your personal information under false pretenses. Pretexters sell your information to people who may use it to get credit in your name, steal your assets, or to investigate or sue you. Pretexting is against the law.
How Pretexting Works Pretexters use a variety of tactics to get your personal information. For example, a pretexter may call, claim he's from a survey firm, and ask you a few questions. When the pretexter has the information he wants, he uses it to call your financial institution. He pretends to be you or someone with authorized access to your account. He might claim that he's forgotten his checkbook and needs information about his account. In this way, the pretexter may be able to obtain personal information about you such as your SSN, bank and credit card account numbers, information in your credit report, and the existence and size of your savings and investment portfolios.
Keep in mind that some information about you may be a matter of public record, such as whether you own a home, pay your real estate taxes, or have ever filed for bankruptcy. It is not pretexting for another person to collect this kind of information.
There Ought to Be a Law -- There Is Under federal law -- the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act -- it's illegal for anyone to:
* use false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or documents to get customer information from a financial institution or directly from a customer of a financial institution.
* use forged, counterfeit, lost, or stolen documents to get customer information from a financial institution or directly from a customer of a financial institution.
* ask another person to get someone else's customer information using false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or using false, fictitious or fraudulent documents or forged, counterfeit, lost, or stolen documents.
The Federal Trade Commission Act also generally prohibits pretexting for sensitive consumer information.
yeah, and they thought the Manhattan project's test at Trinity might spark a chain reaction consuming the entire planet.
Reminds me of the episode on Lexx where "type 13" planets invariably destroyed themselves while attempting to determine the mass of Higgs boson particle (the experiment inadvertently results in the planet being collapsed into a pea-sized object).
yeah, but it was bound to come out, better to at least have full disclosure at some point?
The Wall Street Journal reported this afternoon that George Keyworth will not be renominated to the company's board because he disclosed confidential information to the press.
Perkins, along with presumably the rest of the board, was investigated to determine the source of the leak, and then all of this was laid out in a board meeting. Keyworth was the guy, but Perkins was so pissed about the methods used he walked out. I'm surprised he was the only one, seems a gross breach of trust and ethics to employ these tactics on members of the board.
I think Dunn is done. Nobody will trust her ever again. What the hell was she thinking?
nah, we had the worst thing I've ever heard of here during one of our cullings a couple years ago.
Guy was a trainer, travelling all over to various offices. He was here in our office to deliver Lotus Notes training to about 20 people. Yep, they showed up for the class only to see a quickly scrawled note on the whiteboard informing them class was cancelled.
We found out later he was on the list, his manager knew (as did my manager about one of the ppl on our team) a couple days before and tried to arrange things so this poor guy wasn't in Chicago the day he was to be laid off.
No, said HR: this has to be super-secret and no one can get any hint that there are layoffs or it will be anarchy among the workers. Telling this guy to not go to Chicago on Tuesday might upset the balance of the elemental forces of nature! A@@hats.
So, the manager has no choice but to watch Bob pack his things and take a flight to Chicago, knowing he was going to have to call him there to tell him he was out of a job. The best part is they were supposed to coordinate the "involuntary separations" at 10:00, presumably so word would not spread to those affected before their managers got to them. Of course, word spread early in the day and people knew names and everything hours before this damn super-secret plan was to go into action. Poor Bob heard from a stranger that he was "on the list". He called his boss and asked if this was true, was told yes. So he wrote the note on the wall, headed to the nearest open bar (8 am) and proceeded to drink his return ticket.
Late last night, between midnight and 1:30, somebody (MS? probably) dumped a huge IE logo on Netscape's front lawn
(...)
MS was dumb: they forgot that we're *here* at midnight! Somebody spotted it, and, rather than waste effort trying to get rid of the logo, they decided to slap MS in the face with it instead. (Figuratively.:-) They gathered people to help, and they tipped over the IE logo so that it was lying on its back, spraypainted "Netscape Now" on the side facing the street...and then carried over our 7-foot-tall statue of Mozilla (Netscape's Godzillaoid mascot) and stood it up on top of the IE logo.
I remember that now, thought it was great. I agree, there needs to be a little room for fun in business, long as you don't look stupid. I think you look stupid taking yourself too seriously. Having a chuckle in some harmless pranking makes you look human.
was watching season 2 reruns recently and saw the scene where Jack blacks out the glass in his office with the flick of a remote. I decided then that I must eventually get a job with a glass office where the walls can be made opaque with a click of a button.
Huh, I warned you not to get me started -- that morning I was trying to catch a train from Paddington station to take me out to the sticks where Vodafone had some office. I was still all screwed up from the flight (first time I had travelled international on business at that point) and was trying to get there, get something to blow my nose with and something in my stomach.
I wasn't so thick as to think I was going to find a micky-d or something familiar to grab a quick bite, but I walked into a little place and asked if they had a special or something quick as I was hurrying to a train. "sure, you want 'English Breakfast'? That's quick"
Ok, sure -- yeah, my own fault for being abroad and not knowing anything, I was like 25. I got this plate of what I regarded as slop and did my best to choke it down as quickly as I could. I finished and dashed out to the station to catch my train. About 20 minutes later, my stomach started to reject this meal. Was the most miserable hour of my life, trying not to puke, trying to find somewhere to puke, trying to clean up after having puked, etc.
I got there, no doubt looking like Keith Richards and the meeting went ok. But they worked through the lunch hour, my stomach growling angrily at me the whole time and my head pounding. They explained they wanted to work through and would supply "tea". I took this to mean sandwiches or something. No, they came out with somekind of hard boiled egg wrapped in sausage. I couldn't have been more revolted if they had served haggis. I think I made some excuse about not feeling well and stepped out around the corner to a shop I had seen on the way in and bought some crackers and soda water or something.
I should say that other than this first day I had a lovely time. I found lots of good food and good times the rest of the week, that first day was a killer.
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feh, I think it's more about excusing yourself for telling a joke like that.
...'bless his heart', it's ok."
...bless his heart!"
kind of like the "bless his heart" thing ( can't remember which comedian has a rap on this )
"It's like, you could say the meanest, crappiest thing about people, but as long as you postfix it with
"Oh my Lord, look at that ugly baby!!!
thought so to - when I first powered on my palm long ago, the first thing it did was ask me to touch the stylus to the points it displayed on the screen. How hard would it be to have the first thing the voter does is do a 1-2-3 point touch calibration?
;-)
then again, this assumes you _want_ the machine to accurately record voter intent
then you will be relieved to know that Stern is not on XM
he's on Sirius, but I get your point.
Actually, I just got XM in the last couple weeks and I'm pretty happy. A friend of mine got a radio a while back and I've wanted one since.
actually both if you lump NAB and NPR's complaints together, as Olga has done...
There are several complaints, and several possible outcomes. Take the NAB claim, supported by XM and Sirius' own filings, that some of the satellite companies' terrestrial repeaters (devices that receive signals and retransmit them), installed on buildings and towers to ensure seamless satellite radio coverage, don't comply with FCC rules.
In its second claim, the NAB contends that XM and Sirius shouldn't be allowed to give away their products for free to new car buyers or online. Last week, Sirius streamed Howard Stern's program for free on its Web site.
Finally, there's the third complaint, from NPR, which claims that many FM modulators, used to feed programming from portable satellite radio devices into car stereos, exceed FCC power requirements.
so yeah, the modulator problem is one I've heard of before. The author is taking this along with the NAB complaints and turning it into a terrestrial broadcaster vs satellite battle royale.
I just got an XM receiver a couple weeks ago, the Pioneer Inno. The car kit has a cassette adapter, which works really nice as long as you have a tape deck and don't mind the wires (sound was a little better than the modulator option anyway).
"Cake or death?"
"Eh, cake please."
"Very well! Give him cake!"
"Oh, thanks very much. It's very nice."
"You! Cake or death?"
"Uh, cake for me, too, please."
"Very well! Give him cake, too! We're gonna run out of cake at this rate. You! Cake or death?"
"Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake! Cake, sorry. Sorry..."
"You said death first, uh-uh, death first!"
"Well, I meant cake!"
"Oh, all right. You're lucky I'm Church of England!" Cake or death?""
</eddie izzard>
sorry, first thing I thought of
yah, I was and I do -- you wasted quite a bit of time on a long post there
well, yah -- SAC flying around all the time with thermo-nuclear weapons, crashing into stuff or catching on fire: some scary shiat for sure.
Then again, having them all in silos ready to go with one guy with his thumb hovering over the button...
Because you need a fission bomb to trigger the fusion reaction
Hydrogen bombs work by utilizing the Teller-Ulam design, in which a fission bomb is detonated in a specially manufactured compartment adjacent to a fusion fuel.
These are known as hydrogen bombs, H-bombs, thermonuclear bombs, or fusion bombs.
17 January 1966 A B-52 collided with an Air Force KC-135 jet tanker while refueling over the coast of Spain...
apparently, this thing happens a lot.
Yep, our support of Israel and having troops in holy lands (Saudi Arabia) were among his stated gripes. I thought we did eventually move troops out of SA, though.
I think the larger agenda was to provoke a conflict that would appear as a war on Islam to muslims, and that would incite the muslim world to rise up and fight against the US and "Zionist Crusaders". I'm not so sure that isn't starting to happen. 9/11 made us appear vulnerable and not so all-powerful to the world. All of a sudden, it seems possible to attack us where it will hurt.
heh...
<georgecarlin>Have you ever noticed, anybody who drives slower than you is a moron, and anyone who drives faster is a maniac?</georgecarlin>
Yep, I agree with this take. There is definitely a balance and chemistry between the two that makes the show what it is.
Adam is great, but I don't think I would have the patience to work with him. He seems the type to rush in and start working on something without thinking it through. That's actually a positive for him, he gets right to it and doesn't waste time over-analyzing things. Often his approach fails, or he gets frustrated when it doesn't immediately work out the way he imagined. He stomps around a bit when he doesn't get his way, but he seems to diffuse most situations with humor.
His best quote: "I reject your reality, and substitute my own!"
Jamie is great, but I don't think I would have the patience to work with him. He takes his time and carefully thinks through his ideas and spends time trying out small-scale tests before he commits to full-blown builds. He's cautious nearly to a fault, but that's actually a positive for him as he acts as a couter-balance to Adam's rush-in-and-do-it style. You can't always tell what he's thinking, but sometimes you can see the look on his face as Adam starts ranting about something.
My favorite Jamie moment: when he puts on the fire suit and says "I kind of like it in here -- it's private."
Oh, and the term, as it relates to this scandal, was introduced by the guy who quit after finding out all about this, not by HP's PR department.
See the previous story Boardroom Spying Debacle at HP
also, the Smoking Gun had copy of letters where he accuses the chair of using this "pretexting" method to obtain private telephone records.
close, the idiotic federal government apparently thought it needed an important sounding new word
There ought to be a law... There is!
Pretexting: Your Personal Information Revealed
When you think of your own personal assets, chances are your home, car, and savings and investments come to mind. But what about your Social Security number (SSN), telephone records and your bank and credit card account numbers? To people known as "pretexters," that information is a personal asset, too.
Pretexting is the practice of getting your personal information under false pretenses. Pretexters sell your information to people who may use it to get credit in your name, steal your assets, or to investigate or sue you. Pretexting is against the law.
How Pretexting Works
Pretexters use a variety of tactics to get your personal information. For example, a pretexter may call, claim he's from a survey firm, and ask you a few questions. When the pretexter has the information he wants, he uses it to call your financial institution. He pretends to be you or someone with authorized access to your account. He might claim that he's forgotten his checkbook and needs information about his account. In this way, the pretexter may be able to obtain personal information about you such as your SSN, bank and credit card account numbers, information in your credit report, and the existence and size of your savings and investment portfolios.
Keep in mind that some information about you may be a matter of public record, such as whether you own a home, pay your real estate taxes, or have ever filed for bankruptcy. It is not pretexting for another person to collect this kind of information.
There Ought to Be a Law -- There Is
Under federal law -- the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act -- it's illegal for anyone to:
* use false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or documents to get customer information from a financial institution or directly from a customer of a financial institution.
* use forged, counterfeit, lost, or stolen documents to get customer information from a financial institution or directly from a customer of a financial institution.
* ask another person to get someone else's customer information using false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or using false, fictitious or fraudulent documents or forged, counterfeit, lost, or stolen documents.
The Federal Trade Commission Act also generally prohibits pretexting for sensitive consumer information.
yeah, and they thought the Manhattan project's test at Trinity might spark a chain reaction consuming the entire planet.
Reminds me of the episode on Lexx where "type 13" planets invariably destroyed themselves while attempting to determine the mass of Higgs boson particle (the experiment inadvertently results in the planet being collapsed into a pea-sized object).
Perkins, along with presumably the rest of the board, was investigated to determine the source of the leak, and then all of this was laid out in a board meeting. Keyworth was the guy, but Perkins was so pissed about the methods used he walked out. I'm surprised he was the only one, seems a gross breach of trust and ethics to employ these tactics on members of the board.
I think Dunn is done. Nobody will trust her ever again. What the hell was she thinking?
good link, I've tried to avoid those not always able to remember which was which. thanks
Didn't this happen in HongKong or somewhere?
nah, we had the worst thing I've ever heard of here during one of our cullings a couple years ago.
Guy was a trainer, travelling all over to various offices. He was here in our office to deliver Lotus Notes training to about 20 people. Yep, they showed up for the class only to see a quickly scrawled note on the whiteboard informing them class was cancelled.
We found out later he was on the list, his manager knew (as did my manager about one of the ppl on our team) a couple days before and tried to arrange things so this poor guy wasn't in Chicago the day he was to be laid off.
No, said HR: this has to be super-secret and no one can get any hint that there are layoffs or it will be anarchy among the workers. Telling this guy to not go to Chicago on Tuesday might upset the balance of the elemental forces of nature! A@@hats.
So, the manager has no choice but to watch Bob pack his things and take a flight to Chicago, knowing he was going to have to call him there to tell him he was out of a job. The best part is they were supposed to coordinate the "involuntary separations" at 10:00, presumably so word would not spread to those affected before their managers got to them. Of course, word spread early in the day and people knew names and everything hours before this damn super-secret plan was to go into action. Poor Bob heard from a stranger that he was "on the list". He called his boss and asked if this was true, was told yes. So he wrote the note on the wall, headed to the nearest open bar (8 am) and proceeded to drink his return ticket.
thought it was the other way round, or did netscape retaliate... *googles*
Mozilla stomps IE
Late last night, between midnight and 1:30, somebody (MS?
probably) dumped a huge IE logo on Netscape's front lawn
(...)
MS was dumb: they forgot that we're *here* at
midnight! Somebody spotted it, and, rather than waste effort trying to
get rid of the logo, they decided to slap MS in the face with it
instead. (Figuratively.
tipped over the IE logo so that it was lying on its back, spraypainted
"Netscape Now" on the side facing the street...and then carried over
our 7-foot-tall statue of Mozilla (Netscape's Godzillaoid mascot) and
stood it up on top of the IE logo.
I remember that now, thought it was great. I agree, there needs to be a little room for fun in business, long as you don't look stupid. I think you look stupid taking yourself too seriously. Having a chuckle in some harmless pranking makes you look human.
was watching season 2 reruns recently and saw the scene where Jack blacks out the glass in his office with the flick of a remote. I decided then that I must eventually get a job with a glass office where the walls can be made opaque with a click of a button.
shooting junk?
new episodes this fall
Ok, can't wait to see how Colbert would botch this now.
would it be "M" or "L" as in "Planet Luna"? would it come before or after Earth?
Inquiring minds want to know!
M-V-E-L-M-J-S-U-N-P-C-X ?
"My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas" just isn't going to work anymore, is it?
oh, I know _just_ the guy that would appreciate something like this
:-)
that'd teach him to follow the corporate security policy and use a password-protected screen saver
not that I would ever do something like this, just saying...
Huh, I warned you not to get me started -- that morning I was trying to catch a train from Paddington station to take me out to the sticks where Vodafone had some office. I was still all screwed up from the flight (first time I had travelled international on business at that point) and was trying to get there, get something to blow my nose with and something in my stomach.
I wasn't so thick as to think I was going to find a micky-d or something familiar to grab a quick bite, but I walked into a little place and asked if they had a special or something quick as I was hurrying to a train. "sure, you want 'English Breakfast'? That's quick"
Ok, sure -- yeah, my own fault for being abroad and not knowing anything, I was like 25. I got this plate of what I regarded as slop and did my best to choke it down as quickly as I could. I finished and dashed out to the station to catch my train. About 20 minutes later, my stomach started to reject this meal. Was the most miserable hour of my life, trying not to puke, trying to find somewhere to puke, trying to clean up after having puked, etc.
I got there, no doubt looking like Keith Richards and the meeting went ok. But they worked through the lunch hour, my stomach growling angrily at me the whole time and my head pounding. They explained they wanted to work through and would supply "tea". I took this to mean sandwiches or something. No, they came out with somekind of hard boiled egg wrapped in sausage. I couldn't have been more revolted if they had served haggis. I think I made some excuse about not feeling well and stepped out around the corner to a shop I had seen on the way in and bought some crackers and soda water or something.
I should say that other than this first day I had a lovely time. I found lots of good food and good times the rest of the week, that first day was a killer.