This! In a "waste of my time boring meeting that has nothing to do with me" and was looking here for tech "news." Good thing the sound was down on my device.
When I purchased my home, the Notary got pissed when I started reading the loan documents. She said: "Are you really going to read that? It's going to take you hours. They sent you another copy in the mail last week." My response was: "I didn't sign the copy I read last week. I'm signing this copy. I want to make sure its the same." Her response: "I have an appointment in an hour. I'll be late if you don't just sign." My response: "You better go ahead and cancel your appointment, I'm not going anywhere until I am done. You were supposed to block off at least two hours for this."
I Know its a statistically small sample, but I've asked 5 or 6 people whether they were rushed during their signing and they all said yes. These were in different states, with different escrow offices, and some before and after the crash. These people don't like you to read, even if there are some polite enough to not pressure you. It has to be boring to watch, I don't blame them for wanting to hurry, but that's their job.
A car has a lifetime of up to 20 years (mercedes are known to have a long life).
My first car was 30 years old when I started driving it. I had to work on it quite a bit, but it was still in pretty decent mechanical shape. Any worthwhile car should last a lot longer than 20 years, if properly maintained. This depends on how you use the car, and how many miles you put on it, of course.
My guess is the the first reason I outlined is the biggest issue. Often when I'm driving with passengers I'll pause mid-sentence for some time while doing something that requires my full attention and nobody says anything or thinks twice about it. When on the phone, pausing that long prompts "Hello? Are you there? Did I lose you?" from the person I'm talking to.
This is when a person with common sense says "Hold on a second." I do it all the time when I'm on the phone in my car. I have integrated Bluetooth in my car, and I absolutely love it. I use it maybe once every month or two (I hate the phone), but its great. You can just as easily pause a phone conversation as you can an in-person conversation.
Why did you wait till 15 to learn to drive? Because at twelve you would have killed someone.
Hmmm... I started driving when I was 10, and I have yet to be in an accident, let alone kill anyone. And I'm not talking about sitting on daddy's lap while I use the wheel. I was behind the wheel by myself, with 100% control of the vehicle. I think the AC was trying to say that we try to create concrete lines as to when things are appropriate for people. I know plenty of twenty somethings that shouldn't be driving. People even older than that, that definitely shouldn't be driving. They don't know how to merge, check their mirrors, or whatever. It's not safe. But we let them anyway. Some people are ready for life much earlier than their peers. Its hard to gauge when a person is ready for a given activity, however. So that's not to say that hard set ages isn't acceptable. But a magic number doesn't make a person any more or less responsible.
Your post if filled with so many inaccuracies it makes my head hurt. First of all no plane has ever been mistaken for a flock of birds, this is Hollywood nonsense. METAL reflects radar better then flesh, the RCS of a person is -15dB about the same as an 8 inch metal sphere, also a planes move at a much faster speed and higher elevations then a flock of birds. Drones have large returns they are not designed to deflect radar away from the source their smaller size means little even a traditional looking plane with a 5' wing span will have a return more then large enough to be detected at 100 miles. The only statement you got correct is that drones should have transponders this is simply to give a better picture of the plane's elevation it can only be approximated using location and doppler information.
They do make drones for stealth. Maybe they won't deploy them in the US, but they do. Just ask our friends in Iran. They have a stealth drone of their own now. Maybe it wouldn't appear as a flock of birds, I don't know. I've never operated radar. But I've heard people who worked on the original SR-71 blackbird and U-2 projects say that very thing. That when they performed radar testing, the operators indicated that the planes looked like the size of a flock of birds. Perhaps speed and altitude would convince an operator that it is not a flock of birds, but those same shows drag out incident reports that show U-2s (not a stealth plane) having their altitude and speed incorrectly identified by ATC. I don't know. In any event, the drones can be as small as an RC airplane, and could be flying extremely low. Depending on whether its a helicopter, or a fixed wing vehicle, it could easily be flying slow enough, and low enough, to not provide any sort of return, or to appear to be a bird. So, no, I don't think that your head should be exploding any time soon.
As for metal... well I wouldn't expect drones to be made of much metal at all. Even in the hobbyist world, they have been using fiberglass and other composites for wings, rotor blades, etc, for a very long time. A friend of mine used fiberglass for a P-51 mustang model as early as 1994, if not sooner. The only metal it had was its engine, and some metal in the servos. They also use a lot of balsa wood. Why? Because its cheap and light. So that just furthers my point about there being poor radar returns.
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Look at all the "millionaires" during the dot-com boom that suddenly became broke after the bubble collapsed. Are you saying those people should all have paid hefty taxes based on that so-called "wealth" they owned? What about when it all became worthless because those silly companies all dried up and blew away when people finally realized their business plans were idiotic? Is the government going to refund billions of dollar in taxes when that happens?
Some of them paid very hefty tax bills that practically bankrupted them when their stocks crashed. That was due to AMT penalties that occurred when they exercised their options. Those same penalties are the reason the Z. has to sell stock in the first place, to cover his tax bill.
They'd still show up on radar without a transponder and it would make no sense at all to not have a $200 transponder on $200,000 drone. Without a transponder ATC just wouldn't have any altitude data (if turning off your transponder was all it took to hide from radar, radar would be useless in a war situation where the enemy is trying to hide - obviously not the case - and there would be no need for stealth aircraft).
We aren't talking about Military radar installations, NORAD will already know where those drones are. We are talking about FAA style ATC, which DOES depend on transponders. If you have a big enough bird, you may get painted by ATC, but these drones are probably small enough and low enough that they will not give good returns. Even if there is a return, it may just look like a flock of birds, you never know. Without transponders, these drones will be dangerous. Even with transponders they may be dangerous for people flying in VFR and below ATC altitudes.
The one thing I don't really get, superpoke had a rabbid insanely loyal fanbase... why didn't they just port it to G+, leave it in the games tab just like all of their other games that can't annoy people who don't use it, and basically have millions of people with a reason to sign into g+ on a regular basis? That being said, I also don't see a single way that the users can even expect to have a shot in a million at this, games with microtransactions shut down, it is a fact of life. That is what you get when you buy image files on someone else's server.
They may be suing for virtual currency that they had bought, but not spent. If that is the case, then I hope they win. It would be very shady to sell people millions of dollars in in game currency, and then just cut the cord on the game and keep the money. If I paid for a year of WoW service and Blizzard shut that down before I used it, I'd want it back. I don't think this is terribly different (though admittedly they could have consumed the in-game currency at any time, and didn't have to hold on to it).
Mother nature called. She said that was very quaint and reminded humanity as a civilization that it would not be getting any dinner for the next five hundred years unless it smartened up, bathed, and cleaned its room, and stopped making excuses about imaginary friends that live in the sky.
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You can't just refuse to hand over evidence in your possession that might incriminate you. You are allowed not to say anything that might incriminate you.
But you can't refuse to let the police (with a correct warrant to search for drugs) search your house for drugs because you have a murdered prostitute under your bed.
Sure you can't refuse to give them evidence that they can find. But in the case of the encrypted drive, well they have the evidence! It is up to them to find something worthwhile from it! You don't have to tell them how to interpret the evidence.
A private religious organization is free to do and say as they see fit. If the CLDS wants to claim Mitt's dead atheist father-in-law is actually a Mormon just because they performed a ritual after his death, they can go ahead and say it... and if you or I wants to state that the CLDS is stupid and insane for doing so, we are also free to do that.
I assume you are talking about the Mormon practice of doing religious ceremonies on behalf of the dead. If so, then you have to understand that they are in no way saying that the person was ever a Mormon, or ever would accept the ceremonies performed on his behalf. They do not believe that they are revoking the person's right to choice in this life, or the after-life. Their belief is that everyone has to have those ceremonies performed in their behalf to have a chance at salvation. The person still has the right to choose to accept it, according to their beliefs. Since they do not, in general, believe there is a way to talk to any random dead person, they do not consider them members. They do keep track of who they have performed these ceremonies for, however. The purpose behind that is to avoid the duplication of work. There are also strict rules about who can submit the names of people for these ceremonies. I don't know the exact rules, but in most cases you have to be a direct descendent to submit someone's name for these ceremonies.
If you are going to try and attack a religion's beliefs, then you really ought to get your facts straight about it.
Summary says go through the scanner or be banned from flying, why would you pat down someone banned from flying, you just send them home. Tell them to take a boat or something if they'd like to leave.
How do they send them home if they refuse to go thru the body scanner? This makes me want to go to Australia and then when they ask me to go thru the scanner, I would opt for a pat down. When they tell me that I can't fly home without going thru the scanner, I then ask them where to apply for citizenship! Its brilliant, right?
Everyone who can't play a game during this move should take Ubisoft to small claims court. Lawyers are not allowed in small claims court, so this is an advantage for you.
Any officer of the company can show up on their behalf. They can send a corporate lawyer to small claims. They certainly couldn't expect the CEO of the company to have to show up to every single small claims hearing!
Hawaii is one state, yet it has 'interstate highways' in it (H-1), but it's one State. So how is that possible? Well the answer is obvious - when federal government wants to build a highway system in order to interfere with States rights logic exits the doors.
I think Hawaii has interstates thanks to the Eisenhower interstate program. The purpose behind it was to allow the army to move resources throughout the country without depending upon the rail system. So if the roads were built in HAwaii for defense purposes, then its only natural for the Federal government to foot some of the bill for construction and maintenance, even if the road is not used to travel across state lines. The town I live in now has an interstate that does nothing but circle the town. Why is it an interstate? Because the purpose of it is to provide another transportation route for military assets between the multiple bases in town.
I did once work for a company that offered free certificate training / examinations for their products. They were pretty stringent about the tests too. At the time they offered one certificate, I was one of only 6 people in the entire company (or world) that knew how to setup and run the system. Yet I was unable to pass the certification test (because I didn't memorize a few things having to do with the physical requirements of the system). Anyone of that company's customers could come in, take a few weeks of training, and take the test for free. That didn't mean you would get the cert, but you were only out your airfare and hotel costs!
You really sound like someone who's supported Windows for years, learning the little details like hashing together a program to automate your workflow.
Yet you don't have any clue about the Mac, and that makes it hard. Somehow, that's OS X's fault.
VPN issues are VPN company issues. Ask them to write the software?
That was his complaint. You had to set up VPNs differently for every version of MacOS. It's ridiculous. I've used a Mac for work for OS 10.4 and 10.5, and have had a personal Mac for 10.6 and 10.7. The VPN setup/connection process is still annoying.
There is full disk encryption. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790
What the hell is launch on startup? Google shows nothing. Launch at login is a user preference that's been around for a decade. It doesn't make the computer slow.
He may be referring to the Lion preference that restarts all of your closed apps automagically after a reboot. It does make your Mac slower. I can attest to that. Even when you don't have any applications for it to restart. My MacBook now takes twice as long to boot into Mac OS as it does into Windows. I can also boot up my old Dell XPS 1530 (core 2 duo) into Windows 7 (from a cold boot) faster than my Sandy Bridge MacBook (i7 quad core) can wake up from sleep. That's with an SSD in the windows machine.
Never had any issues importing certificates across all those versions of OS X.
defaults settings are well documented. http://secrets.blacktree.com/
There's also things like radmind that would probably be much better at doing what you want. But your ignorance led you astray.
I agree that the person was definitely not a skilled Mac admin, but they aren't as common as Windows pros.
While the president was republican, the house and senate were controlled by a democrat majority. It is very hard for a president to do much of anything without support from the legislation. Of course some try to get around this VIA executive orders.
It probably basically totalled the airframe. At that point it's cheaper to take the payload out- but don't think pulling the payload and putting it into a new 707 is going to be cheap. It's probably going to cost something on the order of a third to half of the 25 mil at least to do it and then recertify the new plane for service.
You'd think that, but I'd be willing to bet that you're wrong. I'd be willing to bet that they will have mechanics pick the parts off of that thing in their downtime. You see, the military keeps mechanics on staff for 3 shifts a day. They may not be fully tasked all the time, but need to have enough mechanics to fix everything as quickly as possible when the workload is at its worst. I'd be willing to bet that they spend several months picking that thing clean when their mechanics have free time. They were going to pay those mechanics anyway.
Except that most airports have officially closed the metal detector lines, except when the backup is too great. I travel only occasionally, and have seen the body scanner used more and more over the last few months. I went from only having to opt out once every blue moon, to having to opt out almost every time I travel. And the sad thing is that there are plenty of airports without body scanners at all. SFO, for example, has no body scanners in terminal 3. Norfolk has no body scanner at all. If you wanted to plot an attack that might be foiled by a body scanner, there are plenty of airports to start in. Once you get past a body scanner in 1 airport, you're free to travel to any major hub to execute your attack. It's just silly.
The last time I went thru airport security, they made me throw away a butt end crimper because it was longer than 7". They let me bring in a 1 3/8" ball hitch because it was less than 7 inches. It's a 3 or 4lb ball of steel with a giant pointy bolt sticking out of it, but it is somehow safer than a 7.25" crimper tool, with no sharp edges except between the handles? The current security is a huge waste and all for nothing.
If I could know in advance? Yes. (it would be irrational, but since I am agnostic and do not know if there is an afterlife, I will pay anything/everything to not die)
That's insane. There are some things worse than death, no matter what your beliefs are. If you are enjoying a reasonable quality of life, then I understand. But there may come a point where your quality of life suffers to the point that you no longer agree with that statement. But that's kind of off topic here, I suppose...
Sure there are security systems that are already designed to use maps. I am sure the software could be adapted to do this, but it probably wouldn't be cheap.
This is the way the world works, sell it to me, it's mine so you just forget about what I do with it, rent it to me, then you have a say. There is NOTHING IN BETWEEN!
*GASP* You just made me realize. Not only is Curt Shilling's name very apt (he is a Shill), but I just realized he is a Goblin from Harry Potter! See, anyone who reads the 7th book of the series knows that Goblins believe that any item crafted belongs TO the crafter. That you only pay to use the item during your lifetime. You cannot transfer ownership of a Goblin made item. It belongs to the Goblin. Now we know his true identiy....
.... or I have just been reading too many books lately....
If I offer to buy your coffee table and you set the price to $100 million plus a kidney then I have the right to refuse it but I don't have the right to steal it from you just because I don't like your terms. If you don't like it then get angry and scream a lot, cause then the companies will do things your way just like your mom did when you were a baby.
Except that in this free world, we have laws. Laws protect people from things like usury, or prevent people from buying and selling kidneys. So you may think that this is a free country, and that you can write up a contract that demands whatever you want, but you can't. There are laws you have to follow. You've been signing so many releases of liability and other such hogwash that you think lawyers can walk on water.
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This! In a "waste of my time boring meeting that has nothing to do with me" and was looking here for tech "news." Good thing the sound was down on my device.
When I purchased my home, the Notary got pissed when I started reading the loan documents. She said: "Are you really going to read that? It's going to take you hours. They sent you another copy in the mail last week." My response was: "I didn't sign the copy I read last week. I'm signing this copy. I want to make sure its the same." Her response: "I have an appointment in an hour. I'll be late if you don't just sign." My response: "You better go ahead and cancel your appointment, I'm not going anywhere until I am done. You were supposed to block off at least two hours for this."
I Know its a statistically small sample, but I've asked 5 or 6 people whether they were rushed during their signing and they all said yes. These were in different states, with different escrow offices, and some before and after the crash. These people don't like you to read, even if there are some polite enough to not pressure you. It has to be boring to watch, I don't blame them for wanting to hurry, but that's their job.
A car has a lifetime of up to 20 years (mercedes are known to have a long life).
My first car was 30 years old when I started driving it. I had to work on it quite a bit, but it was still in pretty decent mechanical shape. Any worthwhile car should last a lot longer than 20 years, if properly maintained. This depends on how you use the car, and how many miles you put on it, of course.
My guess is the the first reason I outlined is the biggest issue. Often when I'm driving with passengers I'll pause mid-sentence for some time while doing something that requires my full attention and nobody says anything or thinks twice about it. When on the phone, pausing that long prompts "Hello? Are you there? Did I lose you?" from the person I'm talking to.
This is when a person with common sense says "Hold on a second." I do it all the time when I'm on the phone in my car. I have integrated Bluetooth in my car, and I absolutely love it. I use it maybe once every month or two (I hate the phone), but its great. You can just as easily pause a phone conversation as you can an in-person conversation.
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Why did you wait till 15 to learn to drive? Because at twelve you would have killed someone.
Hmmm... I started driving when I was 10, and I have yet to be in an accident, let alone kill anyone. And I'm not talking about sitting on daddy's lap while I use the wheel. I was behind the wheel by myself, with 100% control of the vehicle. I think the AC was trying to say that we try to create concrete lines as to when things are appropriate for people. I know plenty of twenty somethings that shouldn't be driving. People even older than that, that definitely shouldn't be driving. They don't know how to merge, check their mirrors, or whatever. It's not safe. But we let them anyway. Some people are ready for life much earlier than their peers. Its hard to gauge when a person is ready for a given activity, however. So that's not to say that hard set ages isn't acceptable. But a magic number doesn't make a person any more or less responsible.
Your post if filled with so many inaccuracies it makes my head hurt. First of all no plane has ever been mistaken for a flock of birds, this is Hollywood nonsense. METAL reflects radar better then flesh, the RCS of a person is -15dB about the same as an 8 inch metal sphere, also a planes move at a much faster speed and higher elevations then a flock of birds. Drones have large returns they are not designed to deflect radar away from the source their smaller size means little even a traditional looking plane with a 5' wing span will have a return more then large enough to be detected at 100 miles. The only statement you got correct is that drones should have transponders this is simply to give a better picture of the plane's elevation it can only be approximated using location and doppler information.
They do make drones for stealth. Maybe they won't deploy them in the US, but they do. Just ask our friends in Iran. They have a stealth drone of their own now. Maybe it wouldn't appear as a flock of birds, I don't know. I've never operated radar. But I've heard people who worked on the original SR-71 blackbird and U-2 projects say that very thing. That when they performed radar testing, the operators indicated that the planes looked like the size of a flock of birds. Perhaps speed and altitude would convince an operator that it is not a flock of birds, but those same shows drag out incident reports that show U-2s (not a stealth plane) having their altitude and speed incorrectly identified by ATC. I don't know. In any event, the drones can be as small as an RC airplane, and could be flying extremely low. Depending on whether its a helicopter, or a fixed wing vehicle, it could easily be flying slow enough, and low enough, to not provide any sort of return, or to appear to be a bird. So, no, I don't think that your head should be exploding any time soon.
As for metal... well I wouldn't expect drones to be made of much metal at all. Even in the hobbyist world, they have been using fiberglass and other composites for wings, rotor blades, etc, for a very long time. A friend of mine used fiberglass for a P-51 mustang model as early as 1994, if not sooner. The only metal it had was its engine, and some metal in the servos. They also use a lot of balsa wood. Why? Because its cheap and light. So that just furthers my point about there being poor radar returns.
Look at all the "millionaires" during the dot-com boom that suddenly became broke after the bubble collapsed. Are you saying those people should all have paid hefty taxes based on that so-called "wealth" they owned? What about when it all became worthless because those silly companies all dried up and blew away when people finally realized their business plans were idiotic? Is the government going to refund billions of dollar in taxes when that happens?
Some of them paid very hefty tax bills that practically bankrupted them when their stocks crashed. That was due to AMT penalties that occurred when they exercised their options. Those same penalties are the reason the Z. has to sell stock in the first place, to cover his tax bill.
They'd still show up on radar without a transponder and it would make no sense at all to not have a $200 transponder on $200,000 drone. Without a transponder ATC just wouldn't have any altitude data (if turning off your transponder was all it took to hide from radar, radar would be useless in a war situation where the enemy is trying to hide - obviously not the case - and there would be no need for stealth aircraft).
We aren't talking about Military radar installations, NORAD will already know where those drones are. We are talking about FAA style ATC, which DOES depend on transponders. If you have a big enough bird, you may get painted by ATC, but these drones are probably small enough and low enough that they will not give good returns. Even if there is a return, it may just look like a flock of birds, you never know. Without transponders, these drones will be dangerous. Even with transponders they may be dangerous for people flying in VFR and below ATC altitudes.
The one thing I don't really get, superpoke had a rabbid insanely loyal fanbase... why didn't they just port it to G+, leave it in the games tab just like all of their other games that can't annoy people who don't use it, and basically have millions of people with a reason to sign into g+ on a regular basis? That being said, I also don't see a single way that the users can even expect to have a shot in a million at this, games with microtransactions shut down, it is a fact of life. That is what you get when you buy image files on someone else's server.
They may be suing for virtual currency that they had bought, but not spent. If that is the case, then I hope they win. It would be very shady to sell people millions of dollars in in game currency, and then just cut the cord on the game and keep the money. If I paid for a year of WoW service and Blizzard shut that down before I used it, I'd want it back. I don't think this is terribly different (though admittedly they could have consumed the in-game currency at any time, and didn't have to hold on to it).
Mother nature called. She said that was very quaint and reminded humanity as a civilization that it would not be getting any dinner for the next five hundred years unless it smartened up, bathed, and cleaned its room, and stopped making excuses about imaginary friends that live in the sky.
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I am a biologist. Ask me questions in my journal. I'll give car/computer analogies if possible!
That didn't sound like a car analogy to me...
You can't just refuse to hand over evidence in your possession that might incriminate you. You are allowed not to say anything that might incriminate you. But you can't refuse to let the police (with a correct warrant to search for drugs) search your house for drugs because you have a murdered prostitute under your bed.
Sure you can't refuse to give them evidence that they can find. But in the case of the encrypted drive, well they have the evidence! It is up to them to find something worthwhile from it! You don't have to tell them how to interpret the evidence.
A private religious organization is free to do and say as they see fit. If the CLDS wants to claim Mitt's dead atheist father-in-law is actually a Mormon just because they performed a ritual after his death, they can go ahead and say it... and if you or I wants to state that the CLDS is stupid and insane for doing so, we are also free to do that.
I assume you are talking about the Mormon practice of doing religious ceremonies on behalf of the dead. If so, then you have to understand that they are in no way saying that the person was ever a Mormon, or ever would accept the ceremonies performed on his behalf. They do not believe that they are revoking the person's right to choice in this life, or the after-life. Their belief is that everyone has to have those ceremonies performed in their behalf to have a chance at salvation. The person still has the right to choose to accept it, according to their beliefs. Since they do not, in general, believe there is a way to talk to any random dead person, they do not consider them members. They do keep track of who they have performed these ceremonies for, however. The purpose behind that is to avoid the duplication of work. There are also strict rules about who can submit the names of people for these ceremonies. I don't know the exact rules, but in most cases you have to be a direct descendent to submit someone's name for these ceremonies.
If you are going to try and attack a religion's beliefs, then you really ought to get your facts straight about it.
Summary says go through the scanner or be banned from flying, why would you pat down someone banned from flying, you just send them home. Tell them to take a boat or something if they'd like to leave.
How do they send them home if they refuse to go thru the body scanner? This makes me want to go to Australia and then when they ask me to go thru the scanner, I would opt for a pat down. When they tell me that I can't fly home without going thru the scanner, I then ask them where to apply for citizenship! Its brilliant, right?
Everyone who can't play a game during this move should take Ubisoft to small claims court. Lawyers are not allowed in small claims court, so this is an advantage for you.
Any officer of the company can show up on their behalf. They can send a corporate lawyer to small claims. They certainly couldn't expect the CEO of the company to have to show up to every single small claims hearing!
Hawaii is one state, yet it has 'interstate highways' in it (H-1), but it's one State. So how is that possible? Well the answer is obvious - when federal government wants to build a highway system in order to interfere with States rights logic exits the doors.
I think Hawaii has interstates thanks to the Eisenhower interstate program. The purpose behind it was to allow the army to move resources throughout the country without depending upon the rail system. So if the roads were built in HAwaii for defense purposes, then its only natural for the Federal government to foot some of the bill for construction and maintenance, even if the road is not used to travel across state lines. The town I live in now has an interstate that does nothing but circle the town. Why is it an interstate? Because the purpose of it is to provide another transportation route for military assets between the multiple bases in town.
I did once work for a company that offered free certificate training / examinations for their products. They were pretty stringent about the tests too. At the time they offered one certificate, I was one of only 6 people in the entire company (or world) that knew how to setup and run the system. Yet I was unable to pass the certification test (because I didn't memorize a few things having to do with the physical requirements of the system). Anyone of that company's customers could come in, take a few weeks of training, and take the test for free. That didn't mean you would get the cert, but you were only out your airfare and hotel costs!
You really sound like someone who's supported Windows for years, learning the little details like hashing together a program to automate your workflow.
Yet you don't have any clue about the Mac, and that makes it hard. Somehow, that's OS X's fault. VPN issues are VPN company issues. Ask them to write the software?
That was his complaint. You had to set up VPNs differently for every version of MacOS. It's ridiculous. I've used a Mac for work for OS 10.4 and 10.5, and have had a personal Mac for 10.6 and 10.7. The VPN setup/connection process is still annoying.
There is full disk encryption. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790 What the hell is launch on startup? Google shows nothing. Launch at login is a user preference that's been around for a decade. It doesn't make the computer slow.
He may be referring to the Lion preference that restarts all of your closed apps automagically after a reboot. It does make your Mac slower. I can attest to that. Even when you don't have any applications for it to restart. My MacBook now takes twice as long to boot into Mac OS as it does into Windows. I can also boot up my old Dell XPS 1530 (core 2 duo) into Windows 7 (from a cold boot) faster than my Sandy Bridge MacBook (i7 quad core) can wake up from sleep. That's with an SSD in the windows machine.
Never had any issues importing certificates across all those versions of OS X. defaults settings are well documented. http://secrets.blacktree.com/
There's also things like radmind that would probably be much better at doing what you want. But your ignorance led you astray.
I agree that the person was definitely not a skilled Mac admin, but they aren't as common as Windows pros.
I prefer to call them "Republican'ts and Democraps." But I am moderately childish... and I think they are equally effed up these days.
While the president was republican, the house and senate were controlled by a democrat majority. It is very hard for a president to do much of anything without support from the legislation. Of course some try to get around this VIA executive orders.
It probably basically totalled the airframe. At that point it's cheaper to take the payload out- but don't think pulling the payload and putting it into a new 707 is going to be cheap. It's probably going to cost something on the order of a third to half of the 25 mil at least to do it and then recertify the new plane for service.
You'd think that, but I'd be willing to bet that you're wrong. I'd be willing to bet that they will have mechanics pick the parts off of that thing in their downtime. You see, the military keeps mechanics on staff for 3 shifts a day. They may not be fully tasked all the time, but need to have enough mechanics to fix everything as quickly as possible when the workload is at its worst. I'd be willing to bet that they spend several months picking that thing clean when their mechanics have free time. They were going to pay those mechanics anyway.
Except that most airports have officially closed the metal detector lines, except when the backup is too great. I travel only occasionally, and have seen the body scanner used more and more over the last few months. I went from only having to opt out once every blue moon, to having to opt out almost every time I travel. And the sad thing is that there are plenty of airports without body scanners at all. SFO, for example, has no body scanners in terminal 3. Norfolk has no body scanner at all. If you wanted to plot an attack that might be foiled by a body scanner, there are plenty of airports to start in. Once you get past a body scanner in 1 airport, you're free to travel to any major hub to execute your attack. It's just silly.
The last time I went thru airport security, they made me throw away a butt end crimper because it was longer than 7". They let me bring in a 1 3/8" ball hitch because it was less than 7 inches. It's a 3 or 4lb ball of steel with a giant pointy bolt sticking out of it, but it is somehow safer than a 7.25" crimper tool, with no sharp edges except between the handles? The current security is a huge waste and all for nothing.
If I could know in advance? Yes. (it would be irrational, but since I am agnostic and do not know if there is an afterlife, I will pay anything/everything to not die)
That's insane. There are some things worse than death, no matter what your beliefs are. If you are enjoying a reasonable quality of life, then I understand. But there may come a point where your quality of life suffers to the point that you no longer agree with that statement. But that's kind of off topic here, I suppose...
Sure there are security systems that are already designed to use maps. I am sure the software could be adapted to do this, but it probably wouldn't be cheap.
This is the way the world works, sell it to me, it's mine so you just forget about what I do with it, rent it to me, then you have a say. There is NOTHING IN BETWEEN!
*GASP* You just made me realize. Not only is Curt Shilling's name very apt (he is a Shill), but I just realized he is a Goblin from Harry Potter! See, anyone who reads the 7th book of the series knows that Goblins believe that any item crafted belongs TO the crafter. That you only pay to use the item during your lifetime. You cannot transfer ownership of a Goblin made item. It belongs to the Goblin. Now we know his true identiy....
.... or I have just been reading too many books lately....
If I offer to buy your coffee table and you set the price to $100 million plus a kidney then I have the right to refuse it but I don't have the right to steal it from you just because I don't like your terms. If you don't like it then get angry and scream a lot, cause then the companies will do things your way just like your mom did when you were a baby.
Except that in this free world, we have laws. Laws protect people from things like usury, or prevent people from buying and selling kidneys. So you may think that this is a free country, and that you can write up a contract that demands whatever you want, but you can't. There are laws you have to follow. You've been signing so many releases of liability and other such hogwash that you think lawyers can walk on water.