This holiday, every person that I saw pulled out for secondary screening was an elderly black woman with a bunch of little kids.
While I agree this is clueless, I see it happen all the time as well. But, the reason is usually because the woman is trying to carry-on items that have been recently prohibited by TSA (or haven't been allowed since the days of D.B. Cooper).
Or, she is wearing all kinds of jewelry or shoes with metal buckles, or something else that sets off the metal detector. TSA waves these people over for secondary screening, because the alternative is to wait while she takes off one thing at a time and walks back and forth through the detector.
Honestly, I hate flying during holidays. The airport is full of people that haven't traveled for the past year, if that. The security theater is a PITA, but frequent travelers have learned to deal with it. When the infrequent travelers try to navigate the maze, it turns into a mess.
And as usual, there is no explanation as to *why* lithium batteries are now illegal to carry.
The AP article linked in the summary explains why:
The Federal Aviation Administration has found that fire-protection systems in the cargo hold of passenger planes can't put out fires sparked in lithium batteries.
Now, Verizon could be protected from having to distribute the code by either of two ways that I can think of. The first might be in that they don't actually sell it but lease it and keep control of it.
No, you "purchase" the router. Actually, you get it free. But, if it dies after the 1-year warranty period, you must buy another.
There is an exception: if you are also a FIOS TV subscriber, they will replace it -- because it is used to download program guide information and pay-per-view videos into the set-top box(es).
I had exactly this problem earlier this year. At that time, customer service for Internet service wasn't aware of the distinction, and insisted that I purchase another router. I hung up and called back, claiming I had a FIOS TV problem instead -- and they arranged a service call to replace it.
If you are only using FIOS Internet, there's no need to use their router -- you can use any router that can keep up with the bit-rate.
As for the phones they sell you, I've heard that if you ask nicely, and have an account history with them, they will unlock your phone for a legitimate reason - e.g., if you are traveling overseas for a few months.
Not as long if you are still under contract. I've been with SBMS/Cingular/ATT since 1992, and they refused to unlock my phone for an international trip (so I could use a pre-paid SIM card) because I had 6 months left on my contract.
I should have dumped them at the end of my contract. But, some of my clients are Cingular/ATT customers and have a cell base station on-site. Any other cell-phone doesn't work well.
[...] the applicant
must state the intended use for the UAS and provide sufficient
information to satisfy the FAA that the aircraft can be operated
safely. The time or number of flights must be specified along with a
description of the areas over which the aircraft would operate. The
application must also include drawings or detailed photographs of the
aircraft. An on-site review of the system and demonstration of the area
of operation may be required.
The link on the submitter's name should no longer be an issue. The URL has a "nofollow" attribute -- if a search engines honors it. However, the remaining links in the article summary do not have the no-follow attribute.
Thanks for doing your part to help undermine democracy.
I lie to exit pollers, too.
I do it because the exit pollsters (the mainstream media) have been undermining democracy by manipulating elections at least since I was old enough to recognize it.
Exit polls allegedly serve one purpose: so that competing media organizations can project the outcome of an election before the votes are counted. But, doing so has been shown to affect the outcome of elections that close after projections are announced.
The media certainly has the right to do this. But, it's irresponsible. And it's not difficult to deduce a particular media outlet's bias by observing the timing of their projections.
I see it as my opportunity for payback: I lie to them once every two years, they lie to me the rest of the time.
Even if all controlled substances were legal do you think people would just start paying taxes on their purchases of crack cocaine when they haven't had to for all this time?
When Prohibition ended, that's pretty much what happened with alcohol.
Do you really think Crack Cocaine belongs on the streets?
Since crack was invented to sell expensive cocaine in smaller and more affordable doses, it would probably disappear if cocaine were available legally at a reasonable price.
Do you think that Children will not be able to acquire Crack Cocaine once it's price has plummeted?
Probably. But, how many distillers or brewers do you see hanging around schools, offering free samples of alcoholic beverages?
Really I could care less what people do in their personal time but if you think that legalizing drugs will not have an effect on society in general and even yourself then you are dillusional.
I know it will have an effect, so I'm guess I'm not delusional. But, the real question is: how much damage is the War on Some Drugs doing to our society? Is it less or more than legalization of drugs?
Proponents of Prohibition put forth exactly the same arguments as you have. Unfortunately, we (as a society) have forgotten the lessons from Prohibition.
Organized crime made a fortune off Prohibition, and the resulting corruption permeated throughout law enforcement and the criminal justice system.
Violent crime dropped significantly after Prohibition was repealed.
Today, the profits from illegal drugs funds gangs throughout North and South America. These gangs fight among each other to protect their business, just as they did during Prohibition.
Why did we repeal Prohibition, but retain and strengthen the prohibitions on other mood-altering substances? It's in the Congressional Record: alcohol was the drug of choice for the white majority. The Record doesn't actually say that, but it does make it clear what racial and cultural minorities were being targeted.
I for one don't want to deal with my neighbor dancing around my condo complex naked and screaming because he took some PCP and is having a bad trip.
The legal status of PCP isn't going to prevent or facilitate this kind of idiot behavior. It's just a modern form of natural selection.
No, I think it could initiate one instruction per cycle for a maximum of four running at once. Very few instructions executed in a single cycle.
The maximum was limited by the number of functional units, and of course the mix of available non-conflicting instructions to be executed. But you are correct: the instruction issue was once every minor cycle, or every 100 ns. I thought that was correct, too -- but my memory was foggy and I made the mistake of believing the inaccurate Wikipedia entry. For an authoritative source, see appendix B in ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/CDC-6600-R-M.html.
The 1968 7600 was the real screamer.
The 7600 implemented another feature that is common now, but rare at the time: pipelined functional units. While the 6600's functional units could only perform one operation at a time, the 7600's functional units were segmented and some could start a new instruction every cycle. The 7600 also had a 27.5 ns clock, so the net result was quite a bit faster than the 6600. In later incarnations, the 7600 CPU eventually reached 25 ns on the 875. Back then, 40 MHz was really fast.
That was the fun part! Nothing unlucky about it at all.
After awhile, it got old, especially when trying to account for all the different potential architectures that were still in use.
The super computer I worked on in 1970 was a CDC 6400, came out in 1966, kid brother to the 6600 of 1964. They had a memory cycle time of 1 microsecond for 60 bits, and I think 64K words but I forget exactly. Instructions executed in various times, but the 6600 could pipeline to an extent, call it a 2-3 Mhz machine with 512K of core memory.
The 6600 was 10 MHz (100 ns clock), but the 6600 could initiate up to four instructions per cycle as long as the input and output registers didn't conflict and different functional units were required (back then, this technique wasn't yet called "superscalar"). The FORTRAN compiler knew how to take advantage of it, and the assembly language programmers unlucky enough to work on the sections of the OS that were critical to performance were always rearranging instructions to maximize instruction overlap. However, operations like floating point multiply and divide required multiple cycles to complete, so any parallelism was usually brief.
The maximum central/main memory was 128K 60-bit words, which doesn't directly translate into bytes because all arithmetic and logical operations were 60-bit, while characters were generally packed 10 per word, or 6 bits apiece (less frequently-used characters occupied 12 bits).
I'm not sure if this is related or not, but my Comcast workplace business connection has been having severe problems with Lotus Notes (cannot send emails with attachments) and my VPN sessions drop or severely degrade if I try to transfer a large (several meg) amount of data over it.
Yes, it is related. Lotus Notes apparently uses the same port as some P2P applications, and Comcast is mistaking it for P2P traffic and playing the same game with RST frames:
I haven't had any problems with DHCP timeout, but that might be because I'm not on DHCP. For some lame reason, the early adopters were set up as PPPoE, and they can't change it without literally shutting down and reactivating my account. It's clearly an administrative problem, rather than a technical one -- new customers get DHCP.
It works, it's reliable, except for when the ActionTec router (provided by them) starting acting wonky. If you have multiple static IP's, they will sell you a better AdTran router. I get the advertised speeds (15M down, 2M up), with no throttling that I've noticed. However, I rarely use P2P. Latency is fast and consistent: I have a Vonage phone that is as good or better than my POTS line.
The guy who didn't recognize the "Danger, Will Robinson!" was the best of the lot. I'm amazed at how clueless some people can be.
At one point, I used an email address specifically for posting to Usenet, and set it up to auto-respond with a simple message: "This is an automatically-generated response. I don't read email to this address, please reply to my posting in the newsgroup".
One guy continued to reply to the automatic response, asking, then demanding that I stop emailing him. He claimed to be very upset, threatened to call the police, etc... despite the line at the beginning of every reply: "this is an automatically-generated response".
His email address was in the tamu.edu domain. At that point, I started to wonder if most Aggie jokes were actually true.
I've had good luck with housing in Pavonia/Newport NJ (pretty much anywhere along the PATH line would probably be good) and also in Washington Heights (Near the GWB). Both areas had very reasonable rent and an easy commutes to the financial district.
I don't live in the NYC area, but I've been working there off-and-on for the past 6-7 years.
The Pavonia/Newport area has changed tremendously during that time. I typically stay at the Courtyard across from the mall and commute across the river to the financial district. There are at least two PATH train stations, but I actually prefer the ferry -- I take the light rail to either Hoboken or Exchange Place (Paulus Hook) and from there it's only about 15 minutes to Pier 11.
I had this achy pinky because of emacs... All those Ctrl key sequences had a really negative impact on my left pinky. And, when I switched to vi, it disapeared. It's probably because most sequences use both hands on vi.
I had the same problem, but it affected the entire left side of my left hand.
However, it occurred after I switched from an NCD X-term to a PC running Windows and Reflection X. The typical position for the control key on a PC keyboard requires me to twist my entire hand to press it.
I just remapped the typical PC keyboard so that the caps-lock and control keys are switched. It causes me a bit of trouble when I use other people's keyboards (or they try to use mine), but the pain never returned.
I imagine he looked at you like you were from another planet, and politely told you where you could put that memory stick. Or at least, I hope he did. What harm does that do to you?
He copied those files without even asking my permission. If you don't understand why that's wrong, then I can't explain it to you -- because we are indeed from "different planets".
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While I agree this is clueless, I see it happen all the time as well. But, the reason is usually because the woman is trying to carry-on items that have been recently prohibited by TSA (or haven't been allowed since the days of D.B. Cooper).
Or, she is wearing all kinds of jewelry or shoes with metal buckles, or something else that sets off the metal detector. TSA waves these people over for secondary screening, because the alternative is to wait while she takes off one thing at a time and walks back and forth through the detector.
Honestly, I hate flying during holidays. The airport is full of people that haven't traveled for the past year, if that. The security theater is a PITA, but frequent travelers have learned to deal with it. When the infrequent travelers try to navigate the maze, it turns into a mess.
Port 123 (both UDP and TCP) is the NTP port.
Double-click on the time on the right end of your taskbar to open the Date and Time Properties dialog box, then click on the Internet Time tab.
I believe it defaults to time.windows.com. I change mine to us.pool.ntp.org.
The AP article linked in the summary explains why:
The Federal Aviation Administration has found that fire-protection systems in the cargo hold of passenger planes can't put out fires sparked in lithium batteries.
No, you "purchase" the router. Actually, you get it free. But, if it dies after the 1-year warranty period, you must buy another.
There is an exception: if you are also a FIOS TV subscriber, they will replace it -- because it is used to download program guide information and pay-per-view videos into the set-top box(es).
I had exactly this problem earlier this year. At that time, customer service for Internet service wasn't aware of the distinction, and insisted that I purchase another router. I hung up and called back, claiming I had a FIOS TV problem instead -- and they arranged a service call to replace it.
If you are only using FIOS Internet, there's no need to use their router -- you can use any router that can keep up with the bit-rate.
Not as long if you are still under contract. I've been with SBMS/Cingular/ATT since 1992, and they refused to unlock my phone for an international trip (so I could use a pre-paid SIM card) because I had 6 months left on my contract.
I should have dumped them at the end of my contract. But, some of my clients are Cingular/ATT customers and have a cell base station on-site. Any other cell-phone doesn't work well.
I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!
I wonder if they even informed the FAA, as required:
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/air/hq/engineering/uapo/
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-2402.htm
[...] the applicant must state the intended use for the UAS and provide sufficient information to satisfy the FAA that the aircraft can be operated safely. The time or number of flights must be specified along with a description of the areas over which the aircraft would operate. The application must also include drawings or detailed photographs of the aircraft. An on-site review of the system and demonstration of the area of operation may be required.
The link on the submitter's name should no longer be an issue. The URL has a "nofollow" attribute -- if a search engines honors it. However, the remaining links in the article summary do not have the no-follow attribute.
I'm not sure which is funnier: the witty one-liner ("wind power") or that someone moderated it "interesting".
I lie to exit pollers, too.
I do it because the exit pollsters (the mainstream media) have been undermining democracy by manipulating elections at least since I was old enough to recognize it.
Exit polls allegedly serve one purpose: so that competing media organizations can project the outcome of an election before the votes are counted. But, doing so has been shown to affect the outcome of elections that close after projections are announced.
The media certainly has the right to do this. But, it's irresponsible. And it's not difficult to deduce a particular media outlet's bias by observing the timing of their projections.
I see it as my opportunity for payback: I lie to them once every two years, they lie to me the rest of the time.
But as an acronym, it's easier to deride it as:
Many Unusually Large Tables In Core Simultaneously.
Tom Lehrer - Who's next
Hey, that looks just like my first cellphone!
Oh, wait.....
When Prohibition ended, that's pretty much what happened with alcohol.
Do you really think Crack Cocaine belongs on the streets?
Since crack was invented to sell expensive cocaine in smaller and more affordable doses, it would probably disappear if cocaine were available legally at a reasonable price.
Do you think that Children will not be able to acquire Crack Cocaine once it's price has plummeted?
Probably. But, how many distillers or brewers do you see hanging around schools, offering free samples of alcoholic beverages?
Really I could care less what people do in their personal time but if you think that legalizing drugs will not have an effect on society in general and even yourself then you are dillusional.
I know it will have an effect, so I'm guess I'm not delusional. But, the real question is: how much damage is the War on Some Drugs doing to our society? Is it less or more than legalization of drugs?
Proponents of Prohibition put forth exactly the same arguments as you have. Unfortunately, we (as a society) have forgotten the lessons from Prohibition.
Organized crime made a fortune off Prohibition, and the resulting corruption permeated throughout law enforcement and the criminal justice system.
Violent crime dropped significantly after Prohibition was repealed.
Today, the profits from illegal drugs funds gangs throughout North and South America. These gangs fight among each other to protect their business, just as they did during Prohibition.
Why did we repeal Prohibition, but retain and strengthen the prohibitions on other mood-altering substances? It's in the Congressional Record: alcohol was the drug of choice for the white majority. The Record doesn't actually say that, but it does make it clear what racial and cultural minorities were being targeted.
I for one don't want to deal with my neighbor dancing around my condo complex naked and screaming because he took some PCP and is having a bad trip.
The legal status of PCP isn't going to prevent or facilitate this kind of idiot behavior. It's just a modern form of natural selection.
The maximum was limited by the number of functional units, and of course the mix of available non-conflicting instructions to be executed. But you are correct: the instruction issue was once every minor cycle, or every 100 ns. I thought that was correct, too -- but my memory was foggy and I made the mistake of believing the inaccurate Wikipedia entry. For an authoritative source, see appendix B in ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/CDC-6600-R-M.html.
The 1968 7600 was the real screamer.
The 7600 implemented another feature that is common now, but rare at the time: pipelined functional units. While the 6600's functional units could only perform one operation at a time, the 7600's functional units were segmented and some could start a new instruction every cycle. The 7600 also had a 27.5 ns clock, so the net result was quite a bit faster than the 6600. In later incarnations, the 7600 CPU eventually reached 25 ns on the 875. Back then, 40 MHz was really fast.
That was the fun part! Nothing unlucky about it at all.
After awhile, it got old, especially when trying to account for all the different potential architectures that were still in use.
The 6600 was 10 MHz (100 ns clock), but the 6600 could initiate up to four instructions per cycle as long as the input and output registers didn't conflict and different functional units were required (back then, this technique wasn't yet called "superscalar"). The FORTRAN compiler knew how to take advantage of it, and the assembly language programmers unlucky enough to work on the sections of the OS that were critical to performance were always rearranging instructions to maximize instruction overlap. However, operations like floating point multiply and divide required multiple cycles to complete, so any parallelism was usually brief.
The maximum central/main memory was 128K 60-bit words, which doesn't directly translate into bytes because all arithmetic and logical operations were 60-bit, while characters were generally packed 10 per word, or 6 bits apiece (less frequently-used characters occupied 12 bits).
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6000_series
As others have noted, this is not a new drug combination. It's currently sold under the brand name of Augmentin
Yes, it is related. Lotus Notes apparently uses the same port as some P2P applications, and Comcast is mistaking it for P2P traffic and playing the same game with RST frames:
http://kkanarski.blogspot.com/2007/09/comcast-filtering-lotus-notes-update.html
Dunno about your VPN sessions, though.
I haven't had any problems with DHCP timeout, but that might be because I'm not on DHCP. For some lame reason, the early adopters were set up as PPPoE, and they can't change it without literally shutting down and reactivating my account. It's clearly an administrative problem, rather than a technical one -- new customers get DHCP.
It works, it's reliable, except for when the ActionTec router (provided by them) starting acting wonky. If you have multiple static IP's, they will sell you a better AdTran router. I get the advertised speeds (15M down, 2M up), with no throttling that I've noticed. However, I rarely use P2P. Latency is fast and consistent: I have a Vonage phone that is as good or better than my POTS line.
At one point, I used an email address specifically for posting to Usenet, and set it up to auto-respond with a simple message: "This is an automatically-generated response. I don't read email to this address, please reply to my posting in the newsgroup".
One guy continued to reply to the automatic response, asking, then demanding that I stop emailing him. He claimed to be very upset, threatened to call the police, etc... despite the line at the beginning of every reply: "this is an automatically-generated response".
His email address was in the tamu.edu domain. At that point, I started to wonder if most Aggie jokes were actually true.
I don't live in the NYC area, but I've been working there off-and-on for the past 6-7 years.
The Pavonia/Newport area has changed tremendously during that time. I typically stay at the Courtyard across from the mall and commute across the river to the financial district. There are at least two PATH train stations, but I actually prefer the ferry -- I take the light rail to either Hoboken or Exchange Place (Paulus Hook) and from there it's only about 15 minutes to Pier 11.
WN is the two-letter airline code used by the industry for Southwest Airlines:
http://www.avrefdesk.com/two_letter_airline_codes.htm
This article on Yahoo! News points to Sandvine.
However, neither Comcast or Sandvine would comment about the technology being used.
I had the same problem, but it affected the entire left side of my left hand.
However, it occurred after I switched from an NCD X-term to a PC running Windows and Reflection X. The typical position for the control key on a PC keyboard requires me to twist my entire hand to press it.
I just remapped the typical PC keyboard so that the caps-lock and control keys are switched. It causes me a bit of trouble when I use other people's keyboards (or they try to use mine), but the pain never returned.
He copied those files without even asking my permission. If you don't understand why that's wrong, then I can't explain it to you -- because we are indeed from "different planets".