That's one extra stop every time that particular car is scanned. I bet it's easier to get off the No-Fly list than it is to get a mistaken entry removed from the NCIC. Stories abound of people being arrested over and over on the same erroneous warrants. Isn't this going to be fun...
It's very simple. The NEA and local teacher's unions are the equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA. They're frantically trying to protect their mostly-obsolete delivery system, while compromising the quality of the product. The government school systems are failing their students, yet the educational bureauracy seems to be mostly concerned with maintaining the status quo. I somewhat expect a media campaign linking alternative education (homeschool, charter school, etc.) to child abuse, in the same way that media sharing is called piracy.
It's not about education - it's about maintaining power.
Here's a related thought. If you wanted to keep tagged people OUT of an area, could you build an RF generator tuned to cause inductive heating of the tags? Some waveguides and shielding to limit the range and area of the emissions? Maybe even auto-triggered by a long-range tag reader/detector.
At least there's some Sci-Fi story potential there...
Frys' has customer service? I thought that was against their corporate policy... In any event, there's no way WalMart is going to stock components like Frys (chips, connectors, etc.). They'll just have a selection of mix-and-match major components (case with mb installed, hard drive, keyboard, etc.). All things that their customers can pay the 12-year old next door to snap together in 15 minutes.
I thought it was their *NOVEL* management system (i.e. http://books.google.com/) - you know, the one that got them in trouble with the book publishers....
I tend to agree. I bought a Compaq laptop a few years ago (at BB), and got their 3-year warranty. Compaq's warranty was only 1 year, and fairly limited. Wadda you know - 18 months later, the motherboard fried. Seems that model had a little heat dissipation problem (made a dandy lap warmer, though). So I truck on down to the BB with my smoking wreckage and my warranty forms, and they decide it's not cost effective to repair the unit (duh). So they give me full purchase price credit towards a new laptop.
After 18 months, my original $1800, 1.5Ghz Compaq magically turned into a 2.5Ghz Toshiba with twice the RAM, 3x the hard drive, and better quality.
I don't think they offer that type of warranty anymore....
a few seconds after T-0 - it was looking good until then, but then the stream dropped. There was a few seconds of video through a window with water streaming down it - probably one of the pad cameras.
This method has never worked out in practice - it's only good for producing spinning, suspended cats.
If you try to attach a shaft to the cat to transfer the rotational energy, the cat will stop trying to land on it's feet, and cling to the shaft. Thus no work is produced.
Attempts have been made to glue magnets to the cat, which is then suspended in a coil. However, it appears that the natural static charge produced by the cat seems to cancel out the expected induced current.
Experiments are continuing with *shaved* cats. I'm thinking about publishing some preliminary results, in hopes of winning an IgNoble.
Yes! - The sweetest little single-board machine ever. There's nothing like squeezing hand-crafted assembly code into it's whopping 1K of RAM to teach you tight programming... Sure, I was doing real work on a PDP-11 at the time, but I *owned* the KIM-1.
I've still got mine - in a small 19" rack case with a hand-wired expansion bus. I added a SWTP GT-6144 bit-mapped graphics board - so I had an fantastic 64x96x1 graphics display. Just 'cause the GPU had 6 times as much memory as the main system,doesn't mean it wasn't useful.
I wish there was an emulator for it - that would be easier than wiring up a 20MA/RS-232 converter and turning on the real one.
Well, that depends on what you consider small. From a relevant article:
"In 1999, 8.5 million women enrolled in U.S. colleges, versus 6.4 million men, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics. Last year women made up 57 percent of those entering college. That percentage is expected to rise to 61 percent by 2009, according to the NCES." http://www.virtuallyadvising.com/content/wic/11gen dergap.shtml
Or from the NCES directly:
"Since 1984, the number of women in graduate schools has exceeded the number of men. Between 1991 and 2001, the number of male full-time graduate students increased by 14 percent, compared to 52 percent for full-time women. Among part-time graduate students, the number of men decreased by 3 percent compared to a 13 percent increase for women." http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98
Given the current trends, and the public comments from officials in various higher-education oragnizations, I know this:
When my daughters are ready for college, there will be an abundance of opportunities for them.
When my sons want to go, there will be no place open to them. Non-minority, non-athlete, middle-class males will all but disappear from the post-secondary system.
Tell me about it. Got the patent in 2035, but it was later reversed on prior art. *Now* I've got to muck around in *this* era trying to establish prior-prior art.
Comparing the airspeed of African and European swallows, both with and without coconuts. And if such laden swallows could achieve the necessary range to carry the coconuts to England.
> But for that I'd say if you don't have janitorial staff you can >trust at least that much, you need to find new janitors.
I always thought that a janitorial company would make the perfect cover for an industrial espionage outfit. The janitors have nearly complete acccess to all sorts of high-tech offices, with no one to monitor them. (I don't worry about startups and game shops - their coders are in the office all night anyways:-)
How many designers/developers/etc. remember to wipe the whiteboards every day? Or clean off their desks and lock down their systems? How many product designs/customers lists/launch dates/etc. have been leaked out and sold to competitors? And the victim totally in the dark about the source of the leak?
If properly managed, the information brokerage could bring in lots more money than the legitimate janitorial side of the business, with practically no risk to the principals.
And I'm not even considering the possibility of outright theft - either by the real low-paid janitors, or imposters.
Out of the last 10 or so software companies I've worked for, only one paid any attention to the cleaning staff. We had the cleaning company assign specific people to the developers floors, and had their photos posted in a common area. This made it a bit harder for a phony to claim they were part of the cleaning staff.
>Anyway, the real purpose of this bill is to prevent people from >recording their own movies. Every camcorder made now will have to have >DRM protection -- which will allow the movie industry to prevent you >from recording independent films. With no independent films, the MPAA >will be the only game in town for movies. Profit profit profit.
Absolutely correct. Oh, you'll be able to record little Johnny's baseball games (unless Little League slaps some restrictions on *that* - their logo's are (c), after all). But your consumer camcorder will be DRM-tied to a limited number of playback devices. Only the machines registered to you or your family will be able to play back the videos. And there will be a strict limit on the number of devices you can register.
Want to produce indie films? You'll have to fork over big $$$ for "Professional" equiptment, *AND* get a content-production license. That will give you the ability to produce media that can be played back on consumer-grade devices.
If the media-licensing organization approves you, that is...
All this is possible *today*, and it's a media studio's dream. Given the right marketing, most consumers will snap it up.
It could even be spun as a feature - no more embarassing celebrity "home videos" leaking onto the Net...
The carriers will then have a choice: let the encrypted traffic through, or restrict their customer's Internet use to only approved (and monitored) traffic.
It will be interesting to see which option various countries choose...
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That's one extra stop every time that particular car is scanned. I bet it's easier to get off the No-Fly list than it is to get a mistaken entry removed from the NCIC. Stories abound of people being arrested over and over on the same erroneous warrants. Isn't this going to be fun...
Not to mention the Manhattan Project....
or Chernobyl...
It's very simple. The NEA and local teacher's unions are the equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA. They're frantically trying to protect their mostly-obsolete delivery system, while compromising the quality of the product. The government school systems are failing their students, yet the educational bureauracy seems to be mostly concerned with maintaining the status quo. I somewhat expect a media campaign linking alternative education (homeschool, charter school, etc.) to child abuse, in the same way that media sharing is called piracy.
It's not about education - it's about maintaining power.
If he had been using an "Ouroboros Brand" powerstrip, it wouldn't have been a problem.... :-)
>The Strawjet, a creation that weaves straw left over from a harvest into building materials, won the grand prize."
The firm of Rumpelstiltskin & Co. has filed a lawsuit against David R. Ward, claiming patent infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets.
>where techies can chase others around in the computer lab.
*That's* the sort of behavior that leads to sexual-harassment lawsuits....:-)
Here's a related thought. If you wanted to keep tagged people OUT of an area, could you build an RF generator tuned to cause inductive heating of the tags? Some waveguides and shielding to limit the range and area of the emissions? Maybe even auto-triggered by a long-range tag reader/detector.
At least there's some Sci-Fi story potential there...
Frys' has customer service? I thought that was against their corporate policy... In any event, there's no way WalMart is going to stock components like Frys (chips, connectors, etc.). They'll just have a selection of mix-and-match major components (case with mb installed, hard drive, keyboard, etc.). All things that their customers can pay the 12-year old next door to snap together in 15 minutes.
Not exactly Heathkit....
I thought it was their *NOVEL* management system (i.e. http://books.google.com/) - you know, the one that got them in trouble with the book publishers....
I tend to agree. I bought a Compaq laptop a few years ago (at BB), and got their 3-year warranty. Compaq's warranty was only 1 year, and fairly limited. Wadda you know - 18 months later, the motherboard fried. Seems that model had a little heat dissipation problem (made a dandy lap warmer, though). So I truck on down to the BB with my smoking wreckage and my warranty forms, and they decide it's not cost effective to repair the unit (duh). So they give me full purchase price credit towards a new laptop.
After 18 months, my original $1800, 1.5Ghz Compaq magically turned into a 2.5Ghz Toshiba with twice the RAM, 3x the hard drive, and better quality.
I don't think they offer that type of warranty anymore....
a few seconds after T-0 - it was looking good until then, but then the stream dropped. There was a few seconds of video through a window with water streaming down it - probably one of the pad cameras.
These things happen...
We used to use mice. The cats ate all the mice, so....
This method has never worked out in practice - it's only good for producing spinning, suspended cats.
If you try to attach a shaft to the cat to transfer the rotational energy, the cat will stop trying to land on it's feet, and cling to the shaft. Thus no work is produced.
Attempts have been made to glue magnets to the cat, which is then suspended in a coil. However, it appears that the natural static charge produced by the cat seems to cancel out the expected induced current.
Experiments are continuing with *shaved* cats. I'm thinking about publishing some preliminary results, in hopes of winning an IgNoble.
In the produce section, and at each checkout line. Already conditioned to tune them out....
Yes! - The sweetest little single-board machine ever. There's nothing like squeezing hand-crafted assembly code into it's whopping 1K of RAM to teach you tight programming... Sure, I was doing real work on a PDP-11 at the time, but I *owned* the KIM-1.
I've still got mine - in a small 19" rack case with a hand-wired expansion bus. I added a SWTP GT-6144 bit-mapped graphics board - so I had an fantastic 64x96x1 graphics display. Just 'cause the GPU had 6 times as much memory as the main system,doesn't mean it wasn't useful.
I wish there was an emulator for it - that would be easier than wiring up a 20MA/RS-232 converter and turning on the real one.
Well, that depends on what you consider small. From a relevant article:
n dergap.shtml
"In 1999, 8.5 million women enrolled in U.S. colleges, versus 6.4 million men, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics. Last year women made up 57 percent of those entering college. That percentage is expected to rise to 61 percent by 2009, according to the NCES." http://www.virtuallyadvising.com/content/wic/11ge
Or from the NCES directly:
"Since 1984, the number of women in graduate schools has exceeded the number of men. Between 1991 and 2001, the number of male full-time graduate students increased by 14 percent, compared to 52 percent for full-time women. Among part-time graduate students, the number of men decreased by 3 percent compared to a 13 percent increase for women."
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98
Given the current trends, and the public comments from officials in various higher-education oragnizations, I know this:
When my daughters are ready for college, there will be an abundance of opportunities for them.
When my sons want to go, there will be no place open to them. Non-minority, non-athlete, middle-class males will all but disappear from the post-secondary system.
But he won't be able to rescue you...
Union rules.
Tell me about it. Got the patent in 2035, but it was later reversed on prior art. *Now* I've got to muck around in *this* era trying to establish prior-prior art.
The system's seriously screwed up, I tell ya...
Microsoft is apparently winning.... :-)
At least it's got Security on the run.
Comparing the airspeed of African and European swallows, both with and without coconuts. And if such laden swallows could achieve the necessary range to carry the coconuts to England.
*That* I'd like to see.....
> But for that I'd say if you don't have janitorial staff you can
:-)
>trust at least that much, you need to find new janitors.
I always thought that a janitorial company would make the perfect cover for an industrial espionage outfit. The janitors have nearly complete acccess to all sorts of high-tech offices, with no one to monitor them. (I don't worry about startups and game shops - their coders are in the office all night anyways
How many designers/developers/etc. remember to wipe the whiteboards every day? Or clean off their desks and lock down their systems? How many product designs/customers lists/launch dates/etc. have been leaked out and sold to competitors? And the victim totally in the dark about the source of the leak?
If properly managed, the information brokerage could bring in lots more money than the legitimate janitorial side of the business, with practically no risk to the principals.
And I'm not even considering the possibility of outright theft - either by the real low-paid janitors, or imposters.
Out of the last 10 or so software companies I've worked for, only one paid any attention to the cleaning staff. We had the cleaning company assign specific people to the developers floors, and had their photos posted in a common area. This made it a bit harder for
a phony to claim they were part of the cleaning staff.
>Anyway, the real purpose of this bill is to prevent people from
>recording their own movies. Every camcorder made now will have to have
>DRM protection -- which will allow the movie industry to prevent you
>from recording independent films. With no independent films, the MPAA >will be the only game in town for movies. Profit profit profit.
Absolutely correct. Oh, you'll be able to record little Johnny's baseball games (unless Little League slaps some restrictions on *that* - their logo's are (c), after all). But your consumer camcorder will be DRM-tied to a limited number of playback devices. Only the machines registered to you or your family will be able to play back the videos. And there will be a strict limit on the number of devices you can register.
Want to produce indie films? You'll have to fork over big $$$ for "Professional" equiptment, *AND* get a content-production license. That will give you the ability to produce media that can be played back on consumer-grade devices.
If the media-licensing organization approves you, that is...
All this is possible *today*, and it's a media studio's dream. Given the right marketing, most consumers will snap it up.
It could even be spun as a feature - no more embarassing celebrity "home videos" leaking onto the Net...
In *that* case - ask your manager which wire to cut. Then snip the other one...
Oxygenate the fluid, and you can even dispense with the scuba gear...
Going to have to bugdet for towels, though...
As if it wasn't on the way anyway...
The carriers will then have a choice: let the encrypted traffic through, or restrict their customer's Internet use to only approved (and monitored) traffic.
It will be interesting to see which option various countries choose...