Not the terrorism that breaks things the way weapons do but terrorism against others in that these actions are above the law and are an abuse of power.
The scary part is that the same shield that protects these terrorists is the same shield that would protect worse.
The scary bit here is that this is all too close and parallel to the umbrella protections that the executioners of WW2 concentration camps operated under and behind.
These camps did not start out as death camps -- they evolved as middle level players began to optimize the solution. The camps did not start out as the "final solution" they were handy and without oversight by the public eye could and were devoted to evil.
Survivors of the WW2 terror are rare and today exceedingly old so pay attention. Listen to the tapes found in a basement of iit.edu These Holocaust tapes tell the story in first person and in some cases how "innocent" it looked from outside. http://voices.iit.edu/
I am not a fan of WiKi leaks but there does need to be some global way to let the public and other governments exercise oversight.
With luck this posting from a coffee house in Syria will look like it came from someplace in the West Coast of the US.
Really the problem is software patents. I think everyone can understand mechanical and chemical innovations being patented but software just doesn't seem to work as well under the patent system. Maybe if they just let copyright cover software it would solve most of the problem.
Copyright as in Micky Mouse +100 years... are you NUTS.
For years it was necessary to build a working model of the invention as part of the process. That needs to happen for software.
The bit I have been noticing are the large number of method patents where the patent is little more than a text summary of an early white board pre-design brainstorming session.
These white board extractions often talk about the internals of a process. I have watched many white board patents show up as the topic of Texas litigation.
At best they describe an API yet the litigation is interesting. To discover if someone is in violation of the process patent insider knowledge is necessary. Thus litigation forces discovery of the internals of a company.
Another telling characteristic of these white board patents is they tend to be litigated in mass. A process patent that triggers five to fifteen or more actions is most likely not novel but is clear workman like coding where anyone "knowledgeable in the art" would have no trouble building one just like another.
Lastly another telling characteristic is that many of these new white board patents are using a new technology in an old way. i.e. using WiFi when a wired connection was previously used. The problem is that the new technology is being used in a way that it was designed to be used. i.e. it is not novel to use something new in a way that it was intended.
I recall lining up for the first polio vaccine trials c. 1953. My mothers brother had polio and my Mom was keen to be first in line with us.
The point is that there are and were folk that had first hand knowledge about polio. From a little gimp limp to an iron lung to death. Knowledge about small pox is richly documented in literature, but who reads today so ask an American Indian....
So not stupid in too many case IGNORANT and gullible.
Pertussis... is evil. Mom, Dad, Grand parents... all need to get a booster for pertussis and also wash their hands with common soap (need not, should not, be antibacterial).
As any reward based system those playing the game will "game" the system to their own ends. This game has nothing to do with Lance. This game has everything to do with prosecution and "winning" by the prosecutors. Those that look will find it at play in courts world wide.
The game is one that plays rats against rats. The problem is that the wrong rats are getting tossed in jail (found guilty, jail may not come to play).
It is most visible by way of the prosecution of US drug laws where reduced punishment or even exemption from prosecution is traded for information (good and bad).
The result of the game is that the ones with the least information to trade get the maximum punishment while those with the most culpability get a "get out of jail free" card.
Consider the immediate family and girlfriend of a drug criminal. A vehicle gets pulled over and enough contraband is found to prosecute. The girlfriend with almost no knowledge or awareness about the "bag" under the seat has no information to trade so gets 20 years. The boyfriend gives her up and perhaps some kid ( 18) that "works" the corner. The owner of the car looses because the car is impounded then confiscated and sold at auction to pad the local budget. The most culpable criminal gets little or no punishment because he cooperated. The least culpable get the most punishment because they have nothing to trade.
The prosecution chalks all the prosecutions including the plea bargain as a win. Most are in truth of fact collateral and manufactured offensives.
The media news outlets are on to this in Iraq and Afghanistan where a surgical strike using a dull knife kills bystanders. Decades ago in South East Asia such body counts were counted and inflated when ever possible (not at first, but the metric was gamed).
So the issue that I see is that the regulating organizations have put this system in place and are abusing the system to improve their own won loss tally.
Since all the contestants are not tested equally this is a very handy game. Reality is that the entire event is likely void if the rules were applied to all.
I would ask that those enforcing the rules be fully subject to the same random and on-call testing, access and location rules.
Also a happy Raspberry Pi owner. I also am posting from my little Pi... Midori displayed remotely over an ssh connection.
$ uname -ar Linux raz2 3.1.9+ #272 PREEMPT Tue Aug 7 22:51:44 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux
This little board will address the goals of the designers! It will not replace a $1200 desktop or quad core laptop.
I have run it powered via the laptop USB and connected via the laptop ethernet... I have 100% control. I can break it and reload or edit the SD card to recover. "apt-get" delivers nearly any package my heart desires.
True parts of it are a work in progress but hey that is what students are for.
Important: it also depends on the density of life that is disrupted by any cleanup. The larger visible bits are not a big problem beyond the jelly fish look alike plastic bags that turtles ingest.
If anyone cared enough a sail assisted ship or two could tow a modest mesh screen and fill a barge with bits that could be compressed, dewatered and perhaps recycled or sunk into the abyss.
The problem is that such a skimmer would collect 90+% living critters to the small percentage of plastic.
The region is full of sea weed and other animal+vegetable life. To some degree the floating big bits provide habitat that enhances the ecology.
Of interest is the recent pumice islands in the pacific that went undetected for so long and still has a best guess only source.
Perhaps there is a rumor that Travis Tygart, chief executive officer of the USADA, gathered a group of people to swear they saw Armstrong doping.
If not there should be.
Anyone that could live under the microscope that winning the Tour that many times would have a vanishing small likelihood of doping.
Lance is in the impossible position of proving a negative.
The rules of the game... pee in a cup, submit to drug test.... sure but not the presence of a handful of people willing to testify. That simply proves that a handful of folk can convince themselves of anything. We see it in conspiracy theory all the time... example the collapse of the twin towers was:
A: a Bush conspiracy
B: the act of extra terrestrials
C: the act of terrorists fully planning to bring the towers down
D: the act of terrorists totally astounded by the success, expecting
to see an aircraft tail sticking out of the building for months not
unlike the old DC3 or what ever that crashed into the Empire State building.
E: a CIA conspiracy
F: an FBI conspiracy
G: a KGB conspiracy
H: an act of God.. striking the heathens down..
I: a fraternity prank run amok.
J: big Oil asserting their power
K: big Pharm asserting their power.
L: 19 hijackers acting in isolation with no guidance
What the hey 20 hours... If you are part time that takes you to full time. If you are full time that is a 60 hour week and should be getting compensation for the hours beyond 40. It is the rare person that is truly exempt from overtime if the boss calls at random time to see if you answer in a sliding 12 hour window.
Keep a call log.... normal bills will do. If the boss is calling and checking on you he is in effect posting extended hours and you should be compensated. If he leaves a demand for prompt action outside of normal business hours....
The dam OCD fast twitch caffeine over loaded ADD kids that so quickly get into middle management will cost the company good employees or big bucks. They look at their smart phone like a Gameboy and your are some little sprite gathering power points and gold coins for them.
Every web page you visit (practically) has an ad.doubleclick reference. Could be a pretty effective attack vector to spoof them. But, clearly preventing someone from doing this through hosts would not eliminate the ability to do it.
One critical key in this is that the issue and risk is not at doubleclick but at one of the many cascaded CSS and the embedded JS that these pages contain. We know of services and ISPs that rewrite JS on the fly to their own ends and have discussed them here. And yes adding JS to this tangle is a distraction but necessary to make the point that the masses trust the internet to work and their machines to work as expected.
There is value in this yet the silent un-announced activity that changes things behind our collective back is troubling. Clearly this mechanism can be employed by law enforcement and others to intercept what they might not see in other ways.
If I know that you have moved... I should be able to send snail mail to you with an address I know to be better than yesterday's default. you % hotel Holiday destination foreign shore some nation planet earth.
A gallon of bio-diesel be cheaper per gallon than petrol diesel at some point, Solar will be cheaper per KWh than burning coal at some point.
That's not such a simple certainty. It's very likely that solar will get cheaper than coal at some point, but the judge is still out on biodiesel.
There is a feedback loop hidden there, dumped by the EROEI of those sources.
No the numbers to not support bio-diesel as a primary fuel.
It makes a lot of sense in terms of trash and recycling. This is the same as ethanol... the intensive cultivation to make enough is hungry for fuel. It is not clear to me that one could farm any "oil" while depending on that same oil to fuel the farm and delivery process. I suspect the economics of a corn oil farm using corn oil bio-diesel are a long way from being 1:1 with fuel from the ground.
But "spent" corn oil from a fryer at a fast food shop is waste and converting it has a totally different economic foundation. It is also limited in quantity by those economics.
We have massive power going to AC systems to cool a house and also natural gas going in to heat hot water in the same house and electricity to run the refrigerator....
With good insulation, low delta solar could keep a home warm in the winter and flush with hot water all year long.
The simple trick for many would be to reconfigure attic insulation to collect the serious heat that collects near the ridge pole all year long and collect it for space heating in the winter and water heating for the rest of the season.
Living in Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson with AC and a golf course lawn is INSANE in terms of energy responsibility and stewardship.
Having lived in Tucson year round without AC and without a big lawn... It can be done and enjoyed but it is not for all. Before lawn irrigation had altered the regional humidity Phoenix was tolerable.
Golly make a backup. Ask folk at what was Danger. Anytime something changes hands stuff falls on the ground.
The problem with the cloud is a backup takes time and bandwidth in addition to capacity. When something breaks or changes all the users have the same problem slowing things a lot.
My headaches vanished when I stopped listening to Rush Limbaugh. I am not willing to endure a double blind test. The blonds on FOXnews are hot, now, if only they would not talk.
While not fast you have a USB port and can connect them via ethernet and ssh and start tinkering.
A good USB hub can turn one USB to four The local Costco has 3TB USB disks. Yes you have to organize your data into 2.8TB chunks or so with some script foo but rsync can help verify the bits.
N.B. this is 10/100 ethernet not GigE and USB2 (at best) and they share a single USB link to an onboard USB hub.
But you could automate the thing and not have to swap out USB cables for a week.
MD5 checksums and an index...
Let us know how it goes.;-)
No matter what you do you will have to do some scripting. Do label each of the USB disks (physical and logical names that match).
Did someone way that this was a marginal idea? Backing up to USB has some value but does not sound magical and error free.
Since 24TB is a lot of junk -- good luck but with the crazy big USB disks -- what the hey.
Huricane/Hisacane -- not to worry. Friends that have been in these monster sites are mighty closed mouthed but the concensus is that they are a lot like hardened bunkers. Genarators.. yes, food, water, cooling.... check....
But how about a backhoe. A backhoe cutting the data links is much more likely followed by a host of crazy other things. Should the site have fibre heading out to all four points of the compass it is unclear if the long haul dark and dim fibre centers are as well provisioned.
Then there is that last 20 mile leg to your company or home that is even more fragile.
The risks are real but when companies understand this a simple contract line can mandate redundancy a third of the continent away. And with the price of storage the local machine rooms could be backup data centers when five years back they were data processing centers. i.e. minimum CPU, max local disk ready to push to another cloud.
Search for any and all partial phrases and number sequences and when found remove the file...
Get the company to sign on the dotted line.
i.e. When you return the hardware get a receipt.... Prepare it in advance: State clearly that there may be personal data including but not limited to credit card data, financial and tax data and that in accepting the hardware they acknowledge this fact and will take all due care and understand the potential damage to you.
Have a second line... We decline to accept this liability and here is a used lap top that we value at $0.00.
Have a third line: We decline to accept this liability and in your presence and with your help will take a large hammer to the computer to render it inoperable and impossible to recover anything from....
Have a fourth line: We decline to sign any of the above.
In this world of gay transgender it can get real complex.
How does one cope with a person in transition (can take years)? Dresses like a women but still pees standing up.... I know of work places where women have left to do their bit at Starbucks five blocks away rather than shave the "Ladies" with what ever seems to be in there stinking it up...
Sadly the entire process is designed to protect the company at the expense of individuals. The slightest whisper of a indiscretion in companies can get you on a plan or even tossed. There are no rules of evidence no due process and no penalty (to the company and most often not for the accuser ) for a false accusation.
I am old enough to recall a time when your were considered odd if you did not make a remark or even take a pass at the new girl. And this is not just the guys.... the gals thought you odd and it would get difficult to get typing paper let alone get your paper typed.
Companies and the law need to wake up perhaps a very very expensive tort for a false claimed wrong will help.
At least until a smart phone becomes cheaper than a dumb phone - which imho is possible considering.....snip....
My next turn of the equipment knob will be a DUMB as a brick long talk time phone and a tablet with a big enough screen and a modest data plan for the time I cannot find a HotSpot.
I am sick of having a phone that always needs a charge and has a screen too small to read without a magnifying glass.
What I have discovered is the measures of battery life are selectively true. Talk time and stand by time for the phone I had is on paper a wonder however it is a smart phone and the smart part chews through the battery in no time. The smart part depends on phone data plan but phone data is not talk time and is a brutal power hungry service. Then there is the bright display.... Each of these four subsystems has fine numbers but the SUM of the four gives a charge to charge time that is about half a day (less than four hours). Walk away from a bluetooth link and it is less than three...
I recently swapped phones (the update fee was less than a new battery).
I have learned some things.... I have been playing with the now un-provisioned android phone and it makes a fine camera, a fine audio player, a fine email reader with multiple days of battery life and almost constant WiFi connectivity. My new phone no longer needs constant data and by running a brutal well tuned task killer has MUCH improved talk time and stand by time.
It is true that in two years the phone folks have learned some things but if after jailbreaking my old hardware and updating I find that the vendor lethargy in shipping new versions of Android is robing me of service quality I will swap providers....
One would think that here in silicon valley phone and internet service would be good but it is not. But hey I could move to another state.... and may well do so based substantially on internet and phone service.....;-)
This article is just anti-government spin and alarmism. It is government policy to move as much computation as possible into the *public* cloud.......clip-snip......
This move is premature and ill founded if the reaction to it is a law to conscript the people and seize the resources.
In colonial times there was an issue where troops would seize homes, businesses, stables, goods and more... The constitution has addressed this via amendments.
3rd Prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers out of war time.. 4th Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause
In this case the hidden conscription may not be covered by the 1918, the Supreme Court ruling that the World War I draft did not violate the United States Constitution in the Selective Draft Law Cases mumble, mumble....
This issue is a massive tangle and ill conceived at multiple levels.
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It is terrorism with a global reach.
Not the terrorism that breaks things the way weapons do
but terrorism against others in that these actions are above
the law and are an abuse of power.
The scary part is that the same shield that protects these
terrorists is the same shield that would protect worse.
The scary bit here is that this is all too close and parallel to the
umbrella protections that the executioners of WW2 concentration
camps operated under and behind.
These camps did not start out as death camps -- they evolved as
middle level players began to optimize the solution. The camps
did not start out as the "final solution" they were handy and without
oversight by the public eye could and were devoted to evil.
Survivors of the WW2 terror are rare and today exceedingly old so pay attention.
Listen to the tapes found in a basement of iit.edu These Holocaust tapes tell
the story in first person and in some cases how "innocent" it looked from outside.
http://voices.iit.edu/
I am not a fan of WiKi leaks but there does need to be
some global way to let the public and other governments
exercise oversight.
With luck this posting from a coffee house in Syria
will look like it came from someplace in the West Coast
of the US.
Really the problem is software patents. I think everyone can understand mechanical and chemical innovations being patented but software just doesn't seem to work as well under the patent system. Maybe if they just let copyright cover software it would solve most of the problem.
Copyright as in Micky Mouse +100 years... are you NUTS.
For years it was necessary to build a working model of the invention as
part of the process. That needs to happen for software.
The bit I have been noticing are the large number of method patents
where the patent is little more than a text summary of an early white board
pre-design brainstorming session.
These white board extractions often talk about the internals of a process.
I have watched many white board patents show up as the topic of Texas
litigation.
At best they describe an API yet the litigation is interesting.
To discover if someone is in violation of the process patent
insider knowledge is necessary. Thus litigation forces discovery
of the internals of a company.
Another telling characteristic of these white board patents is they
tend to be litigated in mass. A process patent that triggers five to fifteen
or more actions is most likely not novel but is clear workman like
coding where anyone "knowledgeable in the art" would have
no trouble building one just like another.
Lastly another telling characteristic is that many of these new white board patents
are using a new technology in an old way. i.e. using WiFi when a wired
connection was previously used. The problem is that the new technology
is being used in a way that it was designed to be used. i.e. it is not
novel to use something new in a way that it was intended.
at first he thought it was a virus
And of course a viral infection cannot cause pneumonia. He was right not to have diagnosed it, because it wasn't pneumonia then (yet) and your story stinks.
Standard "Oh bother". ....
Viral pneumonia is possible. It however does not respond to antibiotics.
Yet bacterial infections often follow
The team expects the stethoscope to cost..... WHAT...
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/stehoclou/
Nevermind the cost of the phone is many times more.
For the same price a classic stethoscope could be had.
Better to have developed a HTML5 trainer
That can run on any phone, laptop, desktop....
I recall lining up for the first polio vaccine trials c. 1953.
My mothers brother had polio and my Mom was keen to be first in line
with us.
The point is that there are and were folk that had first hand
knowledge about polio. From a little gimp limp to an iron lung
to death. Knowledge about small pox is richly documented in
literature, but who reads today so ask an American Indian....
So not stupid in too many case IGNORANT and gullible.
Pertussis... is evil. Mom, Dad, Grand parents... all need
to get a booster for pertussis and also wash their hands with
common soap (need not, should not, be antibacterial).
There is a game afoot.
As any reward based system those playing the game
will "game" the system to their own ends. This game
has nothing to do with Lance. This game has everything
to do with prosecution and "winning" by the prosecutors.
Those that look will find it at play in courts world wide.
The game is one that plays rats against rats.
The problem is that the wrong rats are getting tossed
in jail (found guilty, jail may not come to play).
It is most visible by way of the prosecution of US drug laws where
reduced punishment or even exemption from prosecution is
traded for information (good and bad).
The result of the game is that the ones with the least
information to trade get the maximum punishment while
those with the most culpability get a "get out of jail free" card.
Consider the immediate family and girlfriend of a drug criminal.
A vehicle gets pulled over and enough contraband is found to
prosecute. The girlfriend with almost no knowledge or awareness
about the "bag" under the seat has no information to trade
so gets 20 years. The boyfriend gives her up and perhaps some
kid ( 18) that "works" the corner. The owner of the car looses
because the car is impounded then confiscated and sold at auction
to pad the local budget. The most culpable criminal gets
little or no punishment because he cooperated. The least culpable
get the most punishment because they have nothing to trade.
The prosecution chalks all the prosecutions including the plea bargain
as a win. Most are in truth of fact collateral and manufactured offensives.
The media news outlets are on to this in Iraq and Afghanistan
where a surgical strike using a dull knife kills bystanders. Decades
ago in South East Asia such body counts were counted and inflated
when ever possible (not at first, but the metric was gamed).
So the issue that I see is that the regulating organizations have
put this system in place and are abusing the system to improve
their own won loss tally.
Since all the contestants are not tested equally this is a very
handy game. Reality is that the entire event is likely void if
the rules were applied to all.
I would ask that those enforcing the rules be fully subject
to the same random and on-call testing, access and location
rules.
Also a happy Raspberry Pi owner.
I also am posting from my little Pi...
Midori displayed remotely over an ssh connection.
$ uname -ar
Linux raz2 3.1.9+ #272 PREEMPT Tue Aug 7 22:51:44 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux
This little board will address the goals of the designers!
It will not replace a $1200 desktop or quad core laptop.
I have run it powered via the laptop USB and connected
via the laptop ethernet... I have 100% control.
I can break it and reload or edit the SD card to recover.
"apt-get" delivers nearly any package my heart desires.
True parts of it are a work in progress but hey that is what students are for.
I am 100% on board with this little project.
Yes it depends on the density...
Important: it also depends on the density of life that is disrupted
by any cleanup. The larger visible bits are not a big problem
beyond the jelly fish look alike plastic bags that turtles ingest.
If anyone cared enough a sail assisted ship or two could tow a
modest mesh screen and fill a barge with bits that could
be compressed, dewatered and perhaps recycled or sunk
into the abyss.
The problem is that such a skimmer would collect 90+% living
critters to the small percentage of plastic.
The region is full of sea weed and other animal+vegetable
life. To some degree the floating big bits provide habitat
that enhances the ecology.
Of interest is the recent pumice islands in the
pacific that went undetected for so long and
still has a best guess only source.
Perhaps there is a rumor that Travis Tygart, chief executive officer of the
USADA, gathered a group of people to swear they saw Armstrong doping.
If not there should be.
Anyone that could live under the microscope that winning the Tour
that many times would have a vanishing small likelihood of doping.
Lance is in the impossible position of proving a negative.
The rules of the game... pee in a cup, submit to drug test.... sure
but not the presence of a handful of people willing to testify.
That simply proves that a handful of folk can convince themselves
of anything. We see it in conspiracy theory all the time...
example the collapse of the twin towers was:
A: a Bush conspiracy
B: the act of extra terrestrials
C: the act of terrorists fully planning to bring the towers down
D: the act of terrorists totally astounded by the success, expecting
to see an aircraft tail sticking out of the building for months not
unlike the old DC3 or what ever that crashed into the Empire State building.
E: a CIA conspiracy
F: an FBI conspiracy
G: a KGB conspiracy
H: an act of God.. striking the heathens down..
I: a fraternity prank run amok.
J: big Oil asserting their power
K: big Pharm asserting their power.
L: 19 hijackers acting in isolation with no guidance
Clearly they intend clean up in this market.
Sadly the folk that need this are ignorant that it is needed
With the possible parent as an exception.
What the hey 20 hours...
If you are part time that takes you to full time.
If you are full time that is a 60 hour week and
should be getting compensation for the hours
beyond 40. It is the rare person that is truly
exempt from overtime if the boss calls at random
time to see if you answer in a sliding 12 hour
window.
Keep a call log.... normal bills will do. If the boss is
calling and checking on you he is in effect posting extended hours and
you should be compensated. If he leaves a demand
for prompt action outside of normal business hours....
The dam OCD fast twitch caffeine over loaded ADD kids that so quickly
get into middle management will cost the company good employees
or big bucks. They look at their smart phone like a Gameboy
and your are some little sprite gathering power points and gold coins
for them.
Every web page you visit (practically) has an ad.doubleclick reference. Could be a pretty effective attack vector to spoof them. But, clearly preventing someone from doing this through hosts would not eliminate the ability to do it.
One critical key in this is that the issue and risk is not at doubleclick but at one of the many
cascaded CSS and the embedded JS that these pages contain. We know of
services and ISPs that rewrite JS on the fly to their own ends and have
discussed them here. And yes adding JS to this tangle is a distraction but
necessary to make the point that the masses trust the internet to work and
their machines to work as expected.
There is value in this yet the silent un-announced activity that changes
things behind our collective back is troubling. Clearly this mechanism
can be employed by law enforcement and others to intercept what
they might not see in other ways.
If I know that you have moved... I should be able to send snail mail to
you with an address I know to be better than yesterday's default.
you % hotel
Holiday destination
foreign shore
some nation
planet earth.
Start with something quick, commonly used and easy to "get 'er done".
Middle man or not. Even a 30 day evaluation package.
Then load and configure something more to your liking, test it
and unload the first tool.
The alternative is a house call which might be fine.
I would bet you owe the family members involved a visit!
That's not such a simple certainty. It's very likely that solar will get cheaper than coal at some point, but the judge is still out on biodiesel.
There is a feedback loop hidden there, dumped by the EROEI of those sources.
No the numbers to not support bio-diesel as a primary fuel.
It makes a lot of sense in terms of trash and recycling.
This is the same as ethanol... the intensive cultivation to make enough
is hungry for fuel. It is not clear to me that one could farm any "oil"
while depending on that same oil to fuel the farm and delivery process.
I suspect the economics of a corn oil farm using corn oil bio-diesel
are a long way from being 1:1 with fuel from the ground.
But "spent" corn oil from a fryer at a fast food shop is waste and
converting it has a totally different economic foundation. It is also
limited in quantity by those economics.
Wait wait, fusion is 93 million miles away.
We have massive power going to AC systems to cool a house and
also natural gas going in to heat hot water in the same house and
electricity to run the refrigerator....
With good insulation, low delta solar could keep
a home warm in the winter and flush with hot water
all year long.
The simple trick for many would be to reconfigure attic
insulation to collect the serious heat that collects
near the ridge pole all year long and collect it for
space heating in the winter and water heating for
the rest of the season.
Living in Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson with AC
and a golf course lawn is INSANE in terms
of energy responsibility and stewardship.
Having lived in Tucson year round without AC
and without a big lawn... It can be done and enjoyed
but it is not for all. Before lawn irrigation had
altered the regional humidity Phoenix was tolerable.
These regions need a "lawn brown out" badly.
Seriously,
Get reading glasses!
Then renew your library card and hunt some fun books to get back in the habbit.
Samsung apparently has a new tablet so look for bargains ...
Should be a winner.
IPods screen resolution is good and makes a big difference. Eink is easier to read in daylight.
The key is content and presentation. Since type setting is absent on all electronic presentations go for application flexibility. I.e a tablet.
The bigger screens win.
Golly make a backup.
Ask folk at what was Danger.
Anytime something changes hands stuff falls on the ground.
The problem with the cloud is a backup takes time and bandwidth in addition to capacity.
When something breaks or changes all the users have the same problem slowing things a lot.
Antique-Double-Sided-School-Student-Chalk-Board-Slate-Vintage
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Double-Sided-School-Student-Chalk-Board-Slate-Vintage-House-Kids-Lined-/200805561955
Prototype of the Notepad application:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Childs-Primitive-Wooden-Slate-Schoolhouse-Chalk-Board-School-Chalkboard-/170895205376
My headaches vanished when I stopped listening to Rush Limbaugh.
I am not willing to endure a double blind test. The blonds on FOXnews
are hot, now, if only they would not talk.
At $35 each you get a dozen Raspberry Pi's.
While not fast you have a USB port and can connect them
via ethernet and ssh and start tinkering.
A good USB hub can turn one USB to four
The local Costco has 3TB USB disks. Yes
you have to organize your data into 2.8TB chunks
or so with some script foo but rsync can help
verify the bits.
N.B. this is 10/100 ethernet not GigE and USB2 (at best)
and they share a single USB link to an onboard USB hub.
But you could automate the thing and not have to
swap out USB cables for a week.
MD5 checksums and an index...
Let us know how it goes. ;-)
No matter what you do you will have to do some
scripting. Do label each of the USB disks
(physical and logical names that match).
Did someone way that this was a marginal
idea? Backing up to USB has some value but does not
sound magical and error free.
Since 24TB is a lot of junk -- good luck
but with the crazy big USB disks -- what the hey.
Huricane/Hisacane -- not to worry.
Friends that have been in these monster sites are mighty closed mouthed
but the concensus is that they are a lot like hardened bunkers.
Genarators.. yes, food, water, cooling.... check....
But how about a backhoe. A backhoe cutting the data links
is much more likely followed by a host of crazy other things.
Should the site have fibre heading out to all four points of the
compass it is unclear if the long haul dark and dim fibre centers
are as well provisioned.
Then there is that last 20 mile leg to your company or home
that is even more fragile.
The risks are real but when companies understand this
a simple contract line can mandate redundancy a third
of the continent away. And with the price of storage the
local machine rooms could be backup data centers when
five years back they were data processing centers. i.e.
minimum CPU, max local disk ready to push to another
cloud.
Search for any and all partial phrases and number sequences
and when found remove the file...
Get the company to sign on the dotted line.
i.e. When you return the hardware get a receipt.... Prepare it in advance:
State clearly that there may be personal data including
but not limited to credit card data, financial and tax data
and that in accepting the hardware they acknowledge this
fact and will take all due care and understand the potential
damage to you.
Have a second line... We decline to accept this liability
and here is a used lap top that we value at $0.00.
Have a third line: We decline to accept this liability
and in your presence and with your help will take a
large hammer to the computer to render it inoperable
and impossible to recover anything from....
Have a fourth line: We decline to sign any
of the above.
In this world of gay transgender it can get real complex.
How does one cope with a person in transition (can take years)?
Dresses like a women but still pees standing up.... I know
of work places where women have left to do their bit at Starbucks
five blocks away rather than shave the "Ladies" with what ever
seems to be in there stinking it up...
Sadly the entire process is designed to protect the company
at the expense of individuals. The slightest whisper of a indiscretion
in companies can get you on a plan or even tossed. There are
no rules of evidence no due process and no penalty (to the company
and most often not for the accuser ) for a false accusation.
I am old enough to recall a time when your were considered odd
if you did not make a remark or even take a pass at the new girl.
And this is not just the guys.... the gals thought you odd and
it would get difficult to get typing paper let alone get your paper
typed.
Companies and the law need to wake up perhaps a very very expensive
tort for a false claimed wrong will help.
At least until a smart phone becomes cheaper than a dumb phone - which imho is possible considering .....snip....
My next turn of the equipment knob will be a DUMB as a brick long talk time
phone and a tablet with a big enough screen and a modest data plan for the time
I cannot find a HotSpot.
I am sick of having a phone that always needs a charge and has a screen
too small to read without a magnifying glass.
What I have discovered is the measures of battery life are selectively
true. Talk time and stand by time for the phone I had is on paper a wonder
however it is a smart phone and the smart part chews through the battery
in no time. The smart part depends on phone data plan but phone data
is not talk time and is a brutal power hungry service. Then there is the
bright display.... Each of these four subsystems has fine numbers
but the SUM of the four gives a charge to charge time that is about half
a day (less than four hours). Walk away from a bluetooth link and it is less than
three...
I recently swapped phones (the update fee was less than a new battery).
I have learned some things....
I have been playing with the now un-provisioned android phone and it makes
a fine camera, a fine audio player, a fine email reader with multiple days
of battery life and almost constant WiFi connectivity. My new phone no
longer needs constant data and by running a brutal well tuned task killer
has MUCH improved talk time and stand by time.
It is true that in two years the phone folks have learned some things ....
but if after jailbreaking my old hardware and updating I find that the vendor
lethargy in shipping new versions of Android is robing me of service quality
I will swap providers
One would think that here in silicon valley phone and internet service would be good ;-)
but it is not. But hey I could move to another state.... and may well do so
based substantially on internet and phone service.....
This article is just anti-government spin and alarmism. It is government policy to move as much computation as possible into the *public* cloud. ......clip-snip......
This move is premature and ill founded if the reaction to it is a law to conscript the people
and seize the resources.
In colonial times there was an issue where troops would seize homes, businesses,
stables, goods and more... The constitution has addressed this via amendments.
3rd Prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers out of war time..
4th Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause
In this case the hidden conscription may not be covered by the 1918, the Supreme Court ruling
that the World War I draft did not violate the United States Constitution in the Selective Draft Law Cases
mumble, mumble....
This issue is a massive tangle and ill conceived at multiple levels.