But the issue is to remedy wrongful termination. termination based on
information and data we are not privy to.
As the summary indicated they terminated her without this information
so I cannot see that it is of interest to arbitration. UNLESS there is an
internal note where the manager has been a FB "Friend" that acted on
FB information.
If I was invited to rule on this based only on the face of it this is invasive and punitive.
I would rule in an invasive and punitive manner against the airline.
Arbitration is interesting -- there are contractual bounds and contractual limits
to the process. However, In the US these limits can vanish as soon as actions cross the line and
become illegal. The arbitrator may have an obligation to act on observed illegal
actions and for those what-if-ers on/. there may be serious illegal activity behind the
curtain.
The arbiter should also subpoena records from the NSA, FBI, CIA, MI5 and more.
Fat chance of getting them but what the heck this is/.
They may have no process but first you have to ask.
Tell them that you do not trust the coffee house WiFi that
you need to use and that this is important to you.
Since we do not know who the company is, who you are and what nation/ locality
you are in we can go nuts on all the options. Consider the chaos that Obama
is having over his birth certificate. Personal data needs protection you and
those that mandate you disclose it to have a shared responsibility. The law
in many jurisdictions almost protects you.
Print it out and send it registered snail mail requiring that the paper
be signed for by the recipient unopened. i.e. Old School.
The best way is always in person. Joe Baddude could send you
half of a digital encryption key pair and you would never know.
Building a personal library/ web of public keys is important for many.
For example if you have a trusted friend in a city far far away that individual
could pick up the public half of a key from a company or individual
you need to work with and send it signed by his key that you have.
You need to do the same for him or her. Many post their key on
their personal web site and validate with a MD5SUM or other hash
validation.
Unlike modern processors people do not read any faster.
i.e. even speed reading is slow speed and has no way to improve beyond a little.
The net result is the global consumption of words is limited by literacy which is declining.
It is an opportunity to cut the string to MS and deploy their own.
Linux or Android is poised to fill in the gap on what is surely venerable hardware.
Or they could roll their own...
Despite the subject this old dog will not go poof the day MS backs away. It will simply live on and fester. By all/. Accounts the sources to the older version of MS stuff have bee slurped up. Combine this with the piles of national debt paper to use as a pry bar they could demand fixes or the "right" to fix their own problems.
One very real possible outcome is that this will crack the MS hold on a large part of the world's desktops.
I've been modded up, which is fantastic, but to be honest I was hoping to provoke discussion.
What I was thinking when I wrote the above post (and was more sober) was that this issue is affecting regular people. I'm a real person! I live in an apartment in midtown Atlanta! I have a trilobite collection and I like to take long walks.......snip....
GMail users are safe from shutdowns because even in 2009 we knew that Google didn't care about your privacy, but I wouldn't be surprised that the stakes will continue to increase as time wears on.
Maybe I deserve to be alone in this mess because I left Manning, Snowden, and probably untold others in the lurch when they needed support. Yes, I probably do...
Hidden in this thread might be the old phrase about breaking eggs to make an omelet.
If you are feeling like Humpty Dumpty you need to quickly put to paper contact information
and back up your data because your identity could all but vanish in a pink-foam of bits
as your ISP is assaulted and your personal machines "taken into custody" for analysis.
As for Google and privacy I suspect they are more on your side than you might expect.
They are not going to be happy if customers vanish overnight... Their entire business
model depends on them being the only one to generate derived products based on your
personal information flow. Their data collection is so large that requests must be focused
and specific (i.e. a good subpoena by most measures).
Phone company "meta data" is more troubling as it is the social graph that stitches thousands
of other random bits of stuff together. It also makes parallel discovery fabrication impossible
to dissect if done with simple care.
Consider the darn inventory wireless tags used by retailers for any and nearly all products.
The readers that detect theft can log all the tags associated with all entry and exit. The set
of tags presented over time very clearly identifies you. These short range readers and services
are often managed by a third party where the inventory tags and your are well cross referenced.
Like many cars you just walk up and the car unlocks. With RFID tags easy to poll at
the cash register, combined with your near field cell phone ID, cell provider ID, CellPhone WiFi MAC address
and more no one will be anonymous.
Little of this bothers me today except that there are almost no limits on corruption in the future.
Without checks and balances today Kristallnacht is a simple secret report generator away. Adolph was
duly elected but because it was convenient to too many, elections were suspended.
Troubles that festered from WW1 surfaced once the influenza pandemic relented
and one of the great bureaucratic evils prevailed for too long. In part this explains
to me why privacy law in Germany is held in high regard.
As for Lavabit replacements good luck. Even stenography is challenged by the flood of
mp3 and other lossy media tools where DRM is inserted and cloud storage of
images and more will have visited compression and more levels of post processing than
subtle stenography tricks can survive.
For now -- well I dare not divulge tricks that might work for fear I would aid and abet a bad guy.
Spot on. The PPC core is well received in the embedded world. The ARM folk have powered up and moved into space once owned by PPC. With newer process the PPC could move down and put a lot of pressure on ARM.
The 64bit ARM is a reach.
Now if someone could build a five watt PPC Raspberry-Pi/BBB with 2x more RAM and GigE for five bucks less the landscape would shift in no time.
The most common internal bus designs are simple and ill suited
to large SMP. And eight 1GHz engines is large from an OS and
application point of view.
That being said an improved system architecture could change the
rules. Current RAM and ROM bandwidth is over taxed but graphic
devices may provide a model for how to improve this tangle. Nothing less
than a full data path redesign including ECC analysis is going to allow
large core counts to play well. The data path redesign may trigger
OS and application redesign.
The results of eight+ core designs will tell us more when we get them
in a lot of hands.
It makes me wonder about the cash flow associated with
energy taxes in Utah.
If this is an honest tax and not a pure revenue grab then I believe
the Feds should pay their own way. i.e. if the tax exists to pay
for associated infrastructure used and consumed by the site then
there is a need for the Feds to pay their own way.
Utah to my knowledge is a net energy exporter because of the Colorado
River and the large low sulfur coal deposits and tall stack power generation
facilities. To tax local consumption seems at odds with a net exporter.
Further is there a power export tax.
I also wonder about hazards natural and man made in this area.
The area has one of the largest production and storage facilities associated
with rocket fuel. Mostly relocated from southern Nevada after the big
blast south of Vegas.
The area has some earthquake risks. A major quake zone "Intermountain
Seismic Belt" runs through the area. It is unclear if there is a modern risk
but when I lived there and looked into the topic I was concerned and put
together my first quake bug out kit.
Lastly and most importantly is "GLOBAL WARMING" that could turn the Great
Salt Lake Desert into a great brine lake that laps up on the bounds of the
new facility. Electronics and brine do not play well together. I do not know
the elevation of the construction and if they site could be cut off but I do know
that many wells south of the area are salty as heck and also contain serious
levels of radon.
That wouldn't solve the problem? USB chargers on Android can install apps and transfer files either way if the device has USB debugging enabled. If iPhones used USB the data protocols wouldn't be changed and would have the same capabilities...
Almost.
I have seen USB wire things that do not have data connected (at AT&T shops).
At the time I passed on the $9 cable because I wanted to
move stuff on and off my phone via USB.
Now that someone has done this hack I will get and keep
a no data USB wire for travel and other situations where
I might plug into a random who knows USB charger and
not my own charger.
It does tell me that the TLA guys now have a window into
my soul should they replace my charger at home with their
device that sends my soul to mars.
It takes a social infrastructure to "grow" insects. Their food needs
to be harvested and stored. Then the insects need to be caged
and contained. Building a bug proof anything is darn hard if you
toss your resources back a couple thousand years.
Further healthy bugs and unsanitary bugs are not mutually exclusive.
Infestations of bugs in food stores are just down right nasty. Bug poo is
still poo. Bug guts are full of stuff that our gut does not like. This alone may
be the root of our social prohibitions to some degree.
Today however we can spin steel into screen. We can freeze food
to kill many insects and insect eggs. We can put the dead bugs in
a low to zero oxygen bubble to kill them.
It may be that modern technology
will put solar food energy much closer to our ever increasing and all consuming wants and needs.
In the case where vegetable material is low on protein bugs that eat is
may be rich enough to justify high temp frying in oil to sanitize the buggers.
And BTW, Lobsters were considered bugs and bad food because it was
poor people food.
It could be a case of turtles all the way down. But if the boot loader has virtulation hooks the sytem could be at risk... the only solution is physical access to the boot ROM and full design disclosure.
The serious anchor for Google is search and marketing.
Samsung has its own anchor in displays and silicon technology.
I suspect this involves Android but the reality is that Android is tossable
and will be tossed should there be a real advantage in making the massive
investment that building a sufficiently interesting software platform
for a phone and other stuff might get them.
Will Samsung fork a version of Android, well I would not bet against
it unless you gave me good odds. The risk to Sammy is that the
GPL mandates that they play moderately fair. Any forked project
would be open enough for others to pull from (both ways).
Will Samsung roll out a new generation SOC for phones that goes beyond
ARM and does not embrace Intel? Who knows? But that will be a different tangle because
sammy could have some locks on the tool chain (not Android). At this point ARM SOC land is a
massive tangle but a player like Intel or Samsung could launch a new ISA/API
and do a full endrun. Modest homework not unlike that which led to Dalvic could result
in a hardware solution that could fly. Especially with the rubbish 64bit grafts onto ARM.
As long as they help the Raspberry-Pi folk I am all for it. What ever it is.
Ok, well clearly you are a genius. And let's explore that --- because it's important...
Schools are targeted for the middle of the bell curve --....snip.....
Gack I hate bell shaped curves. They almost never ring true.
My personal expectation is that the curve is more of a
bactrian camel than a dromedary. Statistics are further complicated by maturation,
nutrition and more.
The interesting bit about thinking about two types of camels is that
it gets easy to see that decisions based on simple statistics like
averages will underspend on the population under one hump and
overspend on the population under another hump.
This is the reason that state and national education mandates are
so often far from the mark. And if you look deeper is why one room
schools are so effective at teaching a wide range of students.... iff
the instructor is clever enough and policy+syllabus permit.
The babble about thyroid cancer tells me that
this is related to the escape of short lived iodine isotopes.
This is vastly better than the same dose from
longer lived isotopes which keep on giving and giving.
This was also predictable because these very active alpha emitters
are darn hard to measure. Alpha particles are easy
to shield and it is mostly the thyroids bio affinity for iodine that
makes this a problem. There is data from decades
of radioactive iodine uptake tests that can tell us more
about the risk.
Many individuals would have been given KI tablets to saturate the thyroid with
stable iodine isotopes.... These need to be subtracted from the statistics.
If you are downwind of a reactor (any reactor) and
do not have one dose per family member (+1 for guest each) you should. Yes, you should
consult your family doctor for advice the next time you visit.
I think it's important to point out that you're missing Microsoft's hugest market, the business market. Tablets can take over at home, and Microsoft never really got much traction in the server space, but the business market is where they've dominated. And you're not going to use a tablet there.
Decent point.
I did not miss it. I only went part way down that rat hole with my udderly bad pun.
Businesses that pay attention will resort to pure text in email when they discover how much rich content is costing them.
Way back in/. there was a discussion on how much BS rich text loaded up a message just to say "I agree".
When the message itself jumps from 9 characters to +1K the hit on storage and bandwidth is real.
Too many managers are simply ignorant but challenge them to work via a 300 baud modem
with a connect time budget and you will see behavior changes. Yes I know that this
will never happen but at IBM it did, way back. All upper level over head presentations were to
be typed with a Selectric on transparency black and white only. Too many groups had staffed up large expensive
art departments...
Other businesses will begin email gif and jpegs of their messages so automated
legal/ litigation search engines cannot search and read them as quickly.
Well, you still need to store the energy somehow for non-sunny times. Even if it's a pump filling up a big water tank during the day, and then letting the water turn a turbine at night.
A modest battery for LED lights to read a book (or kindle paper white).
A modest battery for a modest low power display and low power computer.
The new XO tablet should run for hours after dark.
Lights out and go to bed at a decent hour. That is a darn good thing.
Sun rises and store and forward technology fires up a mesh WiFi and
bob's your uncle. News and mail flow up and down the valleys. Yes West Virgina
could too.
The flaw from the outside looking in is that folk want "Las Vegas" power budgets for them. When a lot less
is needed to get them a lot more than they have.
The DOJ assertion is so out there that the letter justifies a
court order and freedom of information request to very that
these people are not acting as agents of foreign nations.
There are hundreds of courts and a hundred actions could freeze
the information and eventually unearth the social network of
anti americans that are involved in this plot.
Ties to the EU, France, Germany, China and more are clearly
important links....
Get real. A $50 panel will be stolen and on the black market faster than you can say "ay carumba".
Yes... yet the OLPC folk found that social pressure more than locks and chains protected their resources.
Many stable social systems are very effective in keeping shared commons resources protected. Libraries are
a good example. Yes books are stolen but by and large they are returned. Extra books are donated for the
good of the community.
In truly remote communities a thief would be days from a black market and a community resource
would have Matt Dillon and Festus run the dog to ground.
Drug cartels and others might complicate this... yet investing for this is far better than
investing in gun ships.
His attorney Wesley White — who resigned from the State Attorney’s Office in December and is a critic of Corey — said the firing was aimed at sending a message to office employees “that if they feel like there is wrongdoing,” they should not disclose it or seek legal guidance from a private attorney.
“If they do speak to an attorney, then they are dead,” he said. “The State Attorney’s Office will do whatever is necessary to not only terminate them, but destroy their reputations in the process.”
OK so.If you do not understand these rights and you cannot afford one an attorney will
be appointed for you.
If you retain an attorney you will be sacked and unable to afford one....
The attorney will be appointed by --- you guessed it.
Two million times say $50 per panel is not crazy money.
a $50 panel can power LED lights for hours.
a $50 panel can power cell phones or mountain top
to mountain top mesh networks.
Mountain top mesh networks can look like those old
triangulation meshes that worked their way up canyons.
Line of site Pringle-can style WiFi can support networking
fully as rich as the Telebit modem networks that bootstrapped
the computer age. Dust off the old store and forward protocols
like mail and "bob's your uncle".
Release windows for free, and we will finally see how it competes.
TFT (the fine title) suggests that they can still charge for windows as long as they keep eating the windows users (or only their bases?) without worry - and this "without worry" is somehow the miraculous key to the solution.
Not for free but they need to understand that as you suck harder and harder on the udder of
a cash cow the less friendly that cow will be to you and will dry up or kick you in the head.
At this point it is difficult to believe that MS has not realized an honest profit from the honest investments
it has made. They have done a lot of service but there is a point when the business model must change.
Worthy computers can be had for yuppiy pocket change and free software has gotten well beyond the
experimental stages. Especially in server land.
The home computer model has changed, and there will be less and less need for WindowZ.
My smart TV has more compute power than my early on desktops. Which were well beyond
my 6502, MC14500 and 8080 processor based projects. It is a new day, MS and many others
need to take stock or see their financial models fall apart.
Servers and server farms will grow.... but be in the hands of a small number of companies. In the
price range of a UPS delivery van small companies will have local computer resources
than can be installed and serviced by folk at an equivalent level of a USP van driver.
Yes the Brown UPS vans are a marvel of technology but they make money delivering
packages shipped for sub $10... that is astounding.
Chromebooks and the new XO tablet are showing that the old models are fragile
and new ideas are welcome.
Raspberry-Pi and project boards like the pandaboard and Beaglebone Black are showing
that sufficiently interesting hardware need not cost a lot of $$. Invest $100 in these
school and development boards and revisit your education.
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As the summary indicated they terminated her without this information so I cannot see that it is of interest to arbitration. UNLESS there is an internal note where the manager has been a FB "Friend" that acted on FB information.
If I was invited to rule on this based only on the face of it this is invasive and punitive. I would rule in an invasive and punitive manner against the airline.
Arbitration is interesting -- there are contractual bounds and contractual limits to the process. However, In the US these limits can vanish as soon as actions cross the line and become illegal. The arbitrator may have an obligation to act on observed illegal actions and for those what-if-ers on /. there may be serious illegal activity behind the
curtain.
The arbiter should also subpoena records from the NSA, FBI, CIA, MI5 and more. Fat chance of getting them but what the heck this is /.
They may have no process but first you have to ask.
Tell them that you do not trust the coffee house WiFi that
you need to use and that this is important to you.
Since we do not know who the company is, who you are and what nation/ locality you are in we can go nuts on all the options. Consider the chaos that Obama is having over his birth certificate. Personal data needs protection you and those that mandate you disclose it to have a shared responsibility. The law in many jurisdictions almost protects you.
Print it out and send it registered snail mail requiring that the paper be signed for by the recipient unopened. i.e. Old School.
The best way is always in person. Joe Baddude could send you half of a digital encryption key pair and you would never know.
Building a personal library/ web of public keys is important for many. For example if you have a trusted friend in a city far far away that individual could pick up the public half of a key from a company or individual you need to work with and send it signed by his key that you have. You need to do the same for him or her. Many post their key on their personal web site and validate with a MD5SUM or other hash validation.
i.e. even speed reading is slow speed and has no way to improve beyond a little. The net result is the global consumption of words is limited by literacy which is declining.
Scripting and patching need to operate at an "interesting" security level. What does this tell us about the system security?
There is no way to validate the script thus there is no way to patch it.
Perhaps like an Android update an entire new system image could do the job but that is not a patch.
File this under the definition of "is" (thanks Bill).
It is an opportunity to cut the string to MS and deploy their own.
Linux or Android is poised to fill in the gap on what is surely venerable hardware.
Or they could roll their own...
Despite the subject this old dog will not go poof the day MS backs away. It will simply live on and fester. By all /. Accounts the sources to the older version of MS stuff have bee slurped up. Combine this with the piles of national debt paper to use as a pry bar they could demand fixes or the "right" to fix their own problems.
One very real possible outcome is that this will crack the MS hold on a large part of the world's desktops.
I've been modded up, which is fantastic, but to be honest I was hoping to provoke discussion.
What I was thinking when I wrote the above post (and was more sober) was that this issue is affecting regular people. I'm a real person! I live in an apartment in midtown Atlanta! I have a trilobite collection and I like to take long walks. ......snip....
GMail users are safe from shutdowns because even in 2009 we knew that Google didn't care about your privacy, but I wouldn't be surprised that the stakes will continue to increase as time wears on.
Maybe I deserve to be alone in this mess because I left Manning, Snowden, and probably untold others in the lurch when they needed support. Yes, I probably do...
Hidden in this thread might be the old phrase about breaking eggs to make an omelet.
If you are feeling like Humpty Dumpty you need to quickly put to paper contact information and back up your data because your identity could all but vanish in a pink-foam of bits as your ISP is assaulted and your personal machines "taken into custody" for analysis.
As for Google and privacy I suspect they are more on your side than you might expect. They are not going to be happy if customers vanish overnight... Their entire business model depends on them being the only one to generate derived products based on your personal information flow. Their data collection is so large that requests must be focused and specific (i.e. a good subpoena by most measures).
Phone company "meta data" is more troubling as it is the social graph that stitches thousands of other random bits of stuff together. It also makes parallel discovery fabrication impossible to dissect if done with simple care.
Consider the darn inventory wireless tags used by retailers for any and nearly all products. The readers that detect theft can log all the tags associated with all entry and exit. The set of tags presented over time very clearly identifies you. These short range readers and services are often managed by a third party where the inventory tags and your are well cross referenced.
Like many cars you just walk up and the car unlocks. With RFID tags easy to poll at the cash register, combined with your near field cell phone ID, cell provider ID, CellPhone WiFi MAC address and more no one will be anonymous.
Little of this bothers me today except that there are almost no limits on corruption in the future. Without checks and balances today Kristallnacht is a simple secret report generator away. Adolph was duly elected but because it was convenient to too many, elections were suspended.
Troubles that festered from WW1 surfaced once the influenza pandemic relented and one of the great bureaucratic evils prevailed for too long. In part this explains to me why privacy law in Germany is held in high regard.
As for Lavabit replacements good luck. Even stenography is challenged by the flood of mp3 and other lossy media tools where DRM is inserted and cloud storage of images and more will have visited compression and more levels of post processing than subtle stenography tricks can survive.
For now -- well I dare not divulge tricks that might work for fear I would aid and abet a bad guy.
The 64bit ARM is a reach.
Now if someone could build a five watt PPC Raspberry-Pi/BBB with 2x more RAM and GigE for five bucks less the landscape would shift in no time.
Company phones.
Personal phones.
Kids phones....
WHAT a RACKET!
The most common internal bus designs are simple and ill suited to large SMP. And eight 1GHz engines is large from an OS and application point of view.
That being said an improved system architecture could change the rules. Current RAM and ROM bandwidth is over taxed but graphic devices may provide a model for how to improve this tangle. Nothing less than a full data path redesign including ECC analysis is going to allow large core counts to play well. The data path redesign may trigger OS and application redesign.
The results of eight+ core designs will tell us more when we get them in a lot of hands.
Hope to Christ he took good notes.
Trust but verify a list of things.
Change and verify each password in turn.
Interact with the hiring manager on ALL the above and more. It has been his job and obligation to manage all of the above for the last years.
Yes pray is a good idea. Take a hint and improve your own situation.
It makes me wonder about the cash flow associated with energy taxes in Utah.
If this is an honest tax and not a pure revenue grab then I believe the Feds should pay their own way. i.e. if the tax exists to pay for associated infrastructure used and consumed by the site then there is a need for the Feds to pay their own way.
Utah to my knowledge is a net energy exporter because of the Colorado River and the large low sulfur coal deposits and tall stack power generation facilities. To tax local consumption seems at odds with a net exporter. Further is there a power export tax.
I also wonder about hazards natural and man made in this area.
The area has one of the largest production and storage facilities associated with rocket fuel. Mostly relocated from southern Nevada after the big blast south of Vegas.
The area has some earthquake risks. A major quake zone "Intermountain Seismic Belt" runs through the area. It is unclear if there is a modern risk but when I lived there and looked into the topic I was concerned and put together my first quake bug out kit.
Lastly and most importantly is "GLOBAL WARMING" that could turn the Great Salt Lake Desert into a great brine lake that laps up on the bounds of the new facility. Electronics and brine do not play well together. I do not know the elevation of the construction and if they site could be cut off but I do know that many wells south of the area are salty as heck and also contain serious levels of radon.
Perhaps the location is exactly correct.
That wouldn't solve the problem? USB chargers on Android can install apps and transfer files either way if the device has USB debugging enabled. If iPhones used USB the data protocols wouldn't be changed and would have the same capabilities...
Almost.
I have seen USB wire things that do not have data connected (at AT&T shops).
At the time I passed on the $9 cable because I wanted to move stuff on and off my phone via USB.
Now that someone has done this hack I will get and keep a no data USB wire for travel and other situations where I might plug into a random who knows USB charger and not my own charger.
It does tell me that the TLA guys now have a window into my soul should they replace my charger at home with their device that sends my soul to mars.
It takes a social infrastructure to "grow" insects. Their food needs to be harvested and stored. Then the insects need to be caged and contained. Building a bug proof anything is darn hard if you toss your resources back a couple thousand years.
Further healthy bugs and unsanitary bugs are not mutually exclusive.
Infestations of bugs in food stores are just down right nasty. Bug poo is still poo. Bug guts are full of stuff that our gut does not like. This alone may be the root of our social prohibitions to some degree.
Today however we can spin steel into screen. We can freeze food to kill many insects and insect eggs. We can put the dead bugs in a low to zero oxygen bubble to kill them.
It may be that modern technology will put solar food energy much closer to our ever increasing and all consuming wants and needs. In the case where vegetable material is low on protein bugs that eat is may be rich enough to justify high temp frying in oil to sanitize the buggers.
And BTW, Lobsters were considered bugs and bad food because it was poor people food.
Locked boot loaders tangle this stuff to no end.
Samsung has its own anchor in displays and silicon technology.
I suspect this involves Android but the reality is that Android is tossable and will be tossed should there be a real advantage in making the massive investment that building a sufficiently interesting software platform for a phone and other stuff might get them.
Will Samsung fork a version of Android, well I would not bet against it unless you gave me good odds. The risk to Sammy is that the GPL mandates that they play moderately fair. Any forked project would be open enough for others to pull from (both ways).
Will Samsung roll out a new generation SOC for phones that goes beyond ARM and does not embrace Intel? Who knows? But that will be a different tangle because sammy could have some locks on the tool chain (not Android). At this point ARM SOC land is a massive tangle but a player like Intel or Samsung could launch a new ISA/API and do a full endrun. Modest homework not unlike that which led to Dalvic could result in a hardware solution that could fly. Especially with the rubbish 64bit grafts onto ARM.
As long as they help the Raspberry-Pi folk I am all for it. What ever it is.
Combination of too much tequila and sex?
At least that is what came to mind.
Ok, well clearly you are a genius. And let's explore that --- because it's important ...
Schools are targeted for the middle of the bell curve -- ....snip.....
Gack I hate bell shaped curves. They almost never ring true.
My personal expectation is that the curve is more of a bactrian camel than a dromedary. Statistics are further complicated by maturation, nutrition and more.
The interesting bit about thinking about two types of camels is that it gets easy to see that decisions based on simple statistics like averages will underspend on the population under one hump and overspend on the population under another hump.
This is the reason that state and national education mandates are so often far from the mark. And if you look deeper is why one room schools are so effective at teaching a wide range of students.... iff the instructor is clever enough and policy+syllabus permit.
This is both good and bad news.
The babble about thyroid cancer tells me that this is related to the escape of short lived iodine isotopes.
This is vastly better than the same dose from longer lived isotopes which keep on giving and giving.
This was also predictable because these very active alpha emitters are darn hard to measure. Alpha particles are easy to shield and it is mostly the thyroids bio affinity for iodine that makes this a problem. There is data from decades of radioactive iodine uptake tests that can tell us more about the risk.
Many individuals would have been given KI tablets to saturate the thyroid with stable iodine isotopes.... These need to be subtracted from the statistics.
If you are downwind of a reactor (any reactor) and do not have one dose per family member (+1 for guest each) you should. Yes, you should consult your family doctor for advice the next time you visit.
I think it's important to point out that you're missing Microsoft's hugest market, the business market. Tablets can take over at home, and Microsoft never really got much traction in the server space, but the business market is where they've dominated. And you're not going to use a tablet there.
Decent point.
I did not miss it. I only went part way down that rat hole with my udderly bad pun.
Businesses that pay attention will resort to pure text in email when they discover how much rich content is costing them.
Way back in /. there was a discussion on how much BS rich text loaded up a message just to say "I agree".
When the message itself jumps from 9 characters to +1K the hit on storage and bandwidth is real.
Too many managers are simply ignorant but challenge them to work via a 300 baud modem with a connect time budget and you will see behavior changes. Yes I know that this will never happen but at IBM it did, way back. All upper level over head presentations were to be typed with a Selectric on transparency black and white only. Too many groups had staffed up large expensive art departments...
Other businesses will begin email gif and jpegs of their messages so automated legal/ litigation search engines cannot search and read them as quickly.
Well, you still need to store the energy somehow for non-sunny times. Even if it's a pump filling up a big water tank during the day, and then letting the water turn a turbine at night.
A modest battery for LED lights to read a book (or kindle paper white).
A modest battery for a modest low power display and low power computer. The new XO tablet should run for hours after dark.
Lights out and go to bed at a decent hour. That is a darn good thing.
Sun rises and store and forward technology fires up a mesh WiFi and bob's your uncle. News and mail flow up and down the valleys. Yes West Virgina could too.
The flaw from the outside looking in is that folk want "Las Vegas" power budgets for them. When a lot less is needed to get them a lot more than they have.
The DOJ assertion is so out there that the letter justifies a court order and freedom of information request to very that these people are not acting as agents of foreign nations.
There are hundreds of courts and a hundred actions could freeze the information and eventually unearth the social network of anti americans that are involved in this plot.
Ties to the EU, France, Germany, China and more are clearly important links....
It is time for action... or just another beer.
Get real. A $50 panel will be stolen and on the black market faster than you can say "ay carumba".
Yes... yet the OLPC folk found that social pressure more than locks and chains protected their resources.
Many stable social systems are very effective in keeping shared commons resources protected. Libraries are a good example. Yes books are stolen but by and large they are returned. Extra books are donated for the good of the community.
In truly remote communities a thief would be days from a black market and a community resource would have Matt Dillon and Festus run the dog to ground.
Drug cartels and others might complicate this... yet investing for this is far better than investing in gun ships.
His attorney Wesley White — who resigned from the State Attorney’s Office in December and is a critic of Corey — said the firing was aimed at sending a message to office employees “that if they feel like there is wrongdoing,” they should not disclose it or seek legal guidance from a private attorney.
“If they do speak to an attorney, then they are dead,” he said. “The State Attorney’s Office will do whatever is necessary to not only terminate them, but destroy their reputations in the process.”
OK so .If you do not understand these rights and you cannot afford one an attorney will
be appointed for you.
If you retain an attorney you will be sacked and unable to afford one....
The attorney will be appointed by --- you guessed it.
Kafka would be happy with this...
Two million times say $50 per panel is not crazy money.
a $50 panel can power LED lights for hours.
a $50 panel can power cell phones or mountain top to mountain top mesh networks.
Mountain top mesh networks can look like those old triangulation meshes that worked their way up canyons. Line of site Pringle-can style WiFi can support networking fully as rich as the Telebit modem networks that bootstrapped the computer age. Dust off the old store and forward protocols like mail and "bob's your uncle".
Release windows for free, and we will finally see how it competes.
TFT (the fine title) suggests that they can still charge for windows as long as they keep eating the windows users (or only their bases?) without worry - and this "without worry" is somehow the miraculous key to the solution.
Not for free but they need to understand that as you suck harder and harder on the udder of a cash cow the less friendly that cow will be to you and will dry up or kick you in the head.
At this point it is difficult to believe that MS has not realized an honest profit from the honest investments it has made. They have done a lot of service but there is a point when the business model must change.
Worthy computers can be had for yuppiy pocket change and free software has gotten well beyond the experimental stages. Especially in server land.
The home computer model has changed, and there will be less and less need for WindowZ. My smart TV has more compute power than my early on desktops. Which were well beyond my 6502, MC14500 and 8080 processor based projects. It is a new day, MS and many others need to take stock or see their financial models fall apart.
Servers and server farms will grow.... but be in the hands of a small number of companies. In the price range of a UPS delivery van small companies will have local computer resources than can be installed and serviced by folk at an equivalent level of a USP van driver. Yes the Brown UPS vans are a marvel of technology but they make money delivering packages shipped for sub $10... that is astounding.
Chromebooks and the new XO tablet are showing that the old models are fragile and new ideas are welcome.
Raspberry-Pi and project boards like the pandaboard and Beaglebone Black are showing that sufficiently interesting hardware need not cost a lot of $$. Invest $100 in these school and development boards and revisit your education.
The future is at hand -- yet again.