Look moderately hard at: Patent No. 6,266,674
Filed... Mar 16, 1992
Issued Jul. 24, 2001
Did they patent the original adventure game (created c. 1975-76)?....http://rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html Dropping a gold coin or more is clearly a user defined label for navigating a data structure. Game after game would play a tune... Recall the interface for Marble Madness Atari Games c.1984. http://www.aes.org/aeshc/pdf/f...
Except my tax rate went up 17% last year in San Mateo for special assessments.
.....
Well San Mateo... that puts you in harms way of water department fines and fee abuses.
If it does not rain up on the hills the SF bay area will have a handy dandy excuse to reset the entire water delivery fee structure. Almond growers are being vilified yet the domestic water delivery system and the agriculture water systems are parted off way way upstream and little is going to fix this issue and not kill a couple oddball fish in the delta.
Let's say he has a 1,500 square foot home that he purchased.........leaves him with about $600 a month, which may be needed for cars and everything else. So yeah, sad to say, he's almost poor in California.
Close with a footnote that his personal tax rate does not pay for the solar array. Some other person or company must make more $$ to pay the tax to finance the install of this array.
Note that he owns his home and in Calf there is the Prop 13 thing that effectively freezes his property tax to levels as much as decades ago.
In all arrogant opinionated fairness I would rather give him a power subsidy and allow others to install and properly maintain an array on their property. Because he is "poor" the maintenance issue is very real and will haunt these efforts. Two sons and a daughter tell me that the local education system needs attention too. His tax footprint does not pass the "pay his way sniff test" for his children through the education system.
Should he move the title to his home into a family trust the tax basis could be frozen for his grand kids and beyond.
A good thing... sure. A smart thing I suspect not.
This is also a serious problem in Computer Science. Anything involving data or empirical results is susceptible to these sorts of issues. So, machine learning, computer vision, performance benchmarks, all these areas are rife with the sorts of issues discussed above.
This is not new -- I recall a final exam in a geology class where the answers came out of the "geosynclinal book" and an hour later I sat in a lecture hall and listened to a plate tectonic talk which disclosed that the big oil companies had used plate tectonics to identify target regions on the globe to explore over the previous ten years.
The omission in all of this is the effective application of "deprecation" and retirement.
Consider the bogus paper on "Autism and measles-mumps-rubella vaccination" and the associated controversy. Technical journals of the future must have on line free errata. Even if the original paper is behind a pay wall! Those doing modern work need to know what can be known about the foundations of prior art that they depend on. Another internet issue is a glorious lack of dates. This allows content to look new when it is a reissue with a new cover.
I recall mapping a fault in a region of central Arizona that was obviously a normal fault but consulting the old maps from the USGS it was marked as a thrust fault (no map in those old days lacked a thrust fault as was the fashion). In Nevada other old map thrust fault structures are now clearly wrong in light of awareness of the modern understanding of volcanic activity.
Computer science has update processes and within some bounds a structure that allows the replacement of some foundation library when a bug has been discovered and fixed but that does not cover the case of the bad decision of null terminated strings. Buffer overflow and OBTW the world has more alphabets than just ASCII.
The patent offices of the world are in serious need of a pile of Rosetta Stones. And they have need of international digitization of computer science literature to apply those Rosetta Stone translations to. Other literature searches for prior art stumble over new language and news standards... A 7 layer OSI stack in contrast to a TCP/IP model or the five layers of the VINES protocol stack.
RAID vendors all have their own tools and names for features, functions and devices. RAID technology has science behind it but vendors like to differentiate or add value so the names get changed for good or selfish reasons and subtle improvements to the science might make it into a public scientific journal within a decade. That is to say that some science has value and publication is delayed. Some inventiveness is hidden in patent applications (locked and confidential) then revision after revision attempts to lock in the flow of knowledge as the initial work is not "quite right" but the.... well that is another topic to rant on.
It's that eventually, Germany is going to get tired...................
A big component of the problem Greece was the collapse of tourist trade because of the burst bubble and economic fool hardiness. Tourist trade economies are very sensitive to the real economy. Greece, Italy, Spain (the "PIGS"). As low as interest rates are servicing debt is as easy as it gets short of not servicing it.
Currently the Whitehouse is telling us that the economy is booming and going full steam ahead. I suspect that the problem in Greece ando more is a reflection that the economic profile has not recovered.
Lots of folk working, but no spare cash to travel to Greece (PIGS) or no paid vacation to take.
We can wave our hands and say that the longer this goes on the worse it gets but there is more involved here than many are factoring into their solution view.
The PIGS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGS_%28economics%29) are the brightly colored canaries in the system. But there are other less connected nations and conflict areas quietly spilling into the Mediterranean trying to find landfall and a future..
It is bigger than Greece and the uber rich 1/10 of 1% cannot bail this out with a tax but they might invest. I might note that the needs of a tourist economy are not the same as an industrial economy in terms of education and training. Education and training has a plus 20 year lead time -- generational and changes to the infrastructure are more complex and difficult than many grock.
One small bright light is Amazon paying local tax on local profit. But these large apparently rich companies are not rich enough to be a magical tap to turn and refill coffers of corrupt and ill managed countries.
Or a very large powered barge that is keeping your absolute position the same while you travel a relative position across its surface.......
but he's probably looking for the north pole answer.......which again, requires a rather large floating platform for at least some portion of the journey.
He did say "on the surface of the earth" not on the surface of a barge.
However since the earth is moving at an astounding speed through the universe and polar ice is floating and vanishing there are many footnotes to this...
Other than high precision GPS what does this have to do with satellites?
Sensor technology is improving so fast that tools better than this are possible and inexpensive. It just takes doing it. Perhaps a gaggle of folk from the Makers Fair will do it for $101.00 next weekend.
In all fairness bureaucratic constipation costs lives. Positive train controls should have been installed years ago on all rolling stock in the US.
Baring that a software and map update to a common sub $200 GPS that could track and log train speed as well as sound a Klaxton to alert the engineer. It need not be integrated to the train in a way that requires system review. Management could apply a GPS-RF transparent optionally solar powered box to the outside of engines and other common rolling stock to record travel data. DOT could do the same and track to see if management pressure is pushing engineers to operate outside of guidelines.
A little harder is realtime track monitoring but a shipping container bed could be modified with sensors and a container of instrument systems mounted on it. Again there is no need to touch critical controls in ways that risk safety for many audits. Lasers could locate surfaces on tracks with precision. G-sensors, accelerometers acoustic audits, time, temperature are all possible. To get back to the original topic the container would "see" track as well as bridges. Offloaded to a truck bed the container would see highways and rubber wheel only bridges and roads. Tesla seems to have helped with the battery packaging but older Fe based power storage would be fine as the "pig" need not be weight limited like a car.
Some of this is already happening just not enough of it. More agility is needed.
Aha... but all it would take is.... the soap in the bathroom of the police office to be contaminated
And all it takes to resolve that is using individually wrapped soap packets.
I don't disagree with the rest of your post vis a vis privacy, invasiveness, etc.
Individual packets establish a clear non random way to contaminate an individual's hands. The key is who is in control of the soap and it is not the accused.
Adds an entire new perspective to "do not drop the soap".
New technology can be used for good or evil. Understanding it only begins to lock it down. Voting machines --- too easy to hack evidence that can be falsified or more troubling woven into an airtight net that ensnares the innocent on demand.
TLAs that sit on flaws in common operating systems so they can exploit them simply keep the door open wide for abuse. Since the flaws are unreported bad guys, good guys and those of androgynous morality can play with impunity as long as the list is not too long.
Yea, well you were not kept as slaves, killed for learning to read, beaten with inch and a quarter thick poles (often to death). Your families were not sold separately to different owners and broken up. You were not systematically........
Some forget that Asia has its own history of slavery, persecution and genocide. Most Harvard and Yale graduates do not get to read or hear about. Mostly it is not in English and mostly the written record had been edited by the victors.
On the US side of all this is some omission that the second generation of immigration is a big portion of the group involved in this. The tiger-mom culture is well represented in this group. In addition there are some bell curve selection at play here. Those that immigrated chose to for many reasons. Reasons that involve situational awareness and the drive to act on it.
I am not sure if there is a good solution but the ivy league is fraught with legacy issues that are integral to their finance and endowment structure. There is a small admission group that does not get filled by the astoundingly clever and qualified combined with legacy admissions.
The result is a stinkpot that the admissions must cope with.
Also to detect anyone who has any money, for confiscation of evidence of course
vs the summary
[...] by the excreted metabolites â" benzoylecgonine and methylecgonine â" resulting from abuse of the drug.
Sure. Unless simply handling money doesn't result in your body absorbing enough cocaine to synthesize and excrete " benzoylecgonine and methylecgonine".
In other words, you are probably entirely wrong.
Aha... but all it would take is.... the soap in the bathroom of the police office to be contaminated with benzoylecgonine and methylecgonine and then any perp could be convicted by simply getting them to wash their hands.
The article implied that it could not be manipulated but there are some articles that describe the synthesis of cocaine beginning with what the article asserts are metabolites.
Further there are privacy issues. Should a crime scene have a lot of fingerprints (a public or near public place) then testing prints for metabolites would be invasive in many cases. Yes I was there Tuesday officer but I was back in Europe on Wednesday and Thursday when the murder took place. However now this individual is tied to drug consumption.
Seems clever from an instrument point of view but could be used to build a synthetic profile around a crime that ties a "person of interest" to another crime unknown to the authorities, unknown because it was fabricated and did not exist in the real world.
Well, do you? And what about cats and radio towers?
Wind turbines kill between 214,000 and 368,000 birds annually - a small fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers and the 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion deaths from cats
Yes the world is a difficult place. The big wind farms that I drive past are also the best location for large soaring birds to get their lift before they fly out over the flatter areas with good hunting So as correct as you are the big raptors suffer from some installations out of measure.
Closer to home I have noticed a hawk lurking in a tall tree to swoop down and gobble doves. For dessert he has been observed grabbing a hummingbird on the wing.
I should rate you as overrated, but will answer you instead.
It is mostly another anti-AGW myth that large numbers of big birds are being killed by wind generators. One site has a serious issue and others have a small issue.
Now, with that said, BATS do suffer greatly at this. Not any particular bat, but all of them seem to not see the blades even though they have the ability to track small fast things. This might help save them.
Personally, I would be far more interested in seeing what the $/KW are on this, along with what kind of winds are required to move it.
I learned something... the bats issue is new to me. Yes the $/WK and towers per acre seem important.
Another remarked that Altamont pass is worse in this regard than most other locations. It seems to me that Towers with confirmed bird problems could be replaced with this as an alternative iff it works well.
If it works as well as hoped this will save a lot of big birds from an early demise.
Big fans rotating like heck are an astounding challenge to keep intact and maintain. Not that these will be any easier but "Big Bird's" yellow feathers will be safer (one can hope).
And: http://sebastianmillerlaw.com/... Then there is the inside and outside sales. "If you have been misclassified as exempt from overtime, California law provides significant remedies. You may recover damages for up to four years of unpaid overtime, daily penalties for missed meal and rest periods, a post-termination penalty equal to six weeks’ pay, attorneys’ fees and other amounts on a “per-pay period” basis. Damages for these violations would exceed $150,000 for someone who made $60,000/year over a four year period, worked ten hours of overtime per week and was not provided meal or rest periods. The applicable statutes also mandate awards of attorneys’ fees."
Both state and federal law applies. The company has offices in multiple states so it is interesting how complex this can get for payroll. Now that it has become an issue all the Ts need crossing and all the Is need dotting or someone will slash the cash reserves.
Good thing she has legal council! The only time I had experience in this was one case in Georgia (complaint not even in court) caused payments to like positions in all 50 states. Very expensive...
Does it spell out that she was compensated on a 24 hour basis? Didn't think so. F U company, and every other company that requires 24/7 support for 8/5 wages.
$7200/month is pretty good wages, and she knew the 24/7 on call requirement before she took the job. She was, apparently, also working for another company doing the same kind of job. Of all the things to object to, this is about the least objectionable.
The first claims in her case are shaky because she agreed to them all. Use your personal phone for work, check. Have it with you 24/7, check. Install the app so you can be tracked, check. She's pretty much got them by the shorts when it comes to them telling her other employer she was disloyal, though.
Of course, it's hard to understand why any company would let you work for three months for a competitor while they're paying you to work for them.
Good wages or not: http://www.latimes.com/local/l... Employees who while on call are required to stay at a worksite should be compensated for all their hours, including sleep time, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday (Jan 8, 2015)
"On call" means she's always on the clock and therefore has a billing claim against her employers. At least, that's how it theoretically works in England (RCN V London NHS,
Most likely, she is an "exempt" employee. In this context, "exempt" means that a lot of employee protections don't apply. Specifically, exempt employees normally don't have specific hours of work, so the employer can claim that they are paying her for 24/7 work.
Except in this case the application has a clock in clock out function enabled. Clocking in and out is one of the key differentiators for exempt and non-exempt. Should she clock 39 hours and get paid for 39 is proof that she is not exempt and N need not be 39. The text message history seems to be an important bit of evidence here.
Wrapping it in foil means it won't function as anything.
But it also means the work application will not record any downtime for the app running.
If you are "on call" then you are technically working, so that phone needs to be 100% functional and they have the right to track it.
True enough (I totally agree the company as the right to track their own equipment) but if a boss said something creepy like "I can see how fast you are driving" in the bag it would go when I was driving anywhere and I'd just blame bad cell reception on the dropoff... I could pull it out every 15 min or so to see if there were any messages. But it would technically be dereliction of being on-duty...
Yes... I might start with a nice professional "Premium Slimline Aluminum Attache" case from Halliburton. If I was poor, two nested shoe boxes cushioned with foil and steel wool. A cooler makes a nice auto case. Blue ice even warm would hamper cell reception as would bottled water. i.e. Blocking GPS is darn easy. Cell phones and driving almost universally illegal especially texting.
Of the clock and into the box it goes.
My "stucco" home stinks for cell reception. The expanded metal, cement and trees give astoundingly thing windows of reception.
We already spend more per student than the rest of the developed world, how much more should we spend? Maybe it's how it's being spent, not now much is being spent...
Education is a hot button. When a school district rolls up all their expenses and divides by N students we have no notion about the content of the roll.
Retirement is a big expense. Management is a big expense. Compliance is a big expense. Text books are a big expense. Interest on bonds is a big expense.
Teachers with a clue in front of students priceless.
So, Go to work and take it out of a tin foil lined box turn it on and clock in. Leave work turn if off and put it back in the box. Perhaps with recharge battery in the box so it is fully charged.
A key to deciding if a person is entitled to overtime is tracking and a time clock. Her salary sounds nice but will not pay the rent in San Francisco today. If she is on call 7x24 they need to pay her 7x24 with time and a half and double time on holidays etc. To me she is not exempt but they are playing that game on both sides of the coin. They owe her coin.
The application allows: See the location of every mobile worker on a Google Map. You can drill down on an individual worker to see where they have been, the route they have driven and where they are now. It also tracks mileage so all the miles they tracked need to be paid for.
In addition ALL the employees that are so tracked need to be compensated retroactively.
The key words in the Xora application are "work" and "mobile worker". Since they bragged that they could and do track her any time and anyplace they trespassed on her life or they owe her and the other employes a lot of $$.
FWIW: http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nsw...
Opportunity to have essentially unlimited use of one of the most powerful computer complexes in the country. Still guessing... I have no direct knowledge or information.
Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona Division. It is in the service area and could be the fixed address of some tunnel for security purposes. Simple google proximity search no direct personal knowledge.
OMG, "Senators Demand CIA Director Admit He Lied About Spying On Senate Computers"
What if the senator is demanding the CIA director lie?
If he did lie make a case and charge him.
The senators should simply demand honesty.
However N.B. the senate and congress passed laws with little audit and oversight. Some senators may in point of fact be legitimate targets of investigations one, two, three, four degrees of Bacon connection.
OBTW the spying might have been to track back international criminals that had illegally compromises Senate computers.
Keep the recording live but not pointed at anything as long as possible to record the illegal request to stop recording civic actions in a public place.
Should you feel a need to answer why... one answer might be "to protect the innocent like you officer."
If you're looking for people who generate a profit from their time, the curve is almost certainly......
The shape of the curve has statistical value and analysis value but most companies are too small to care about the curve. They are saddled with finding the necessary skill set and also stay within budget. Some suffer sticker shock.
In my limited lifetime the best model for programmers is book authors.
A programmer must communicate with clarity to the machine and with management. So as a minimum two context sensitive language constructs must be mastered.
Skills and details can be learned but the set of necessary detailed skills is moving so fast that a hiring manager has no clue anymore. When I first put a deck of cards on the in window for the new 1401 I had a short list of languages to work in. Today I need wc to count them and all the ways they can be cross linked. N! comes to mind and as the number of coding methods expands to embrace more languages and vastly more libraries the ability to find a match becomes astonishingly small.
One might see a list of words unique to one university recolored by the language of the last programming team. This is seen in patent applications where an examiner has no encyclopedic knowledge that allows him to see that this is the same as ______.
I have suffered through at least four iterations of RAID technology and tools. They all had the same underlying "stuff" but the language and tool names made them incomparable without a magic decoder ring.
The authorship thing is interesting... A look at the NYT best seller list and there is not enough data to describe the curve. Amazon might have a modern data set that can describe this but they may not have more than noise.
Good authors of books and programs are simply uncommon. Editors reviewers and typesetters much more common.
Which opens you up to all kinds of high circumstantial evidence prosecution.........
But of interesting value for ANY business or ANY consultant or ANY person or any government employee that might have valuable data on hardware that might get lost or stolen.
A person might have bank records A consultant might have trade secret or confidential NDA informatio....data has value or liability....
Since the presence or absence of such a device in a corporate or government context is a strong signal that the device is interesting or not I can see ALL portable systems get outfitted with such a device+software. With modern encryption there may be little need for the exit(SmokeAndFire) of mission impossible but that is possible.
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i) Yes, unless it qualifies ........
Look moderately hard at:
Patent No. 6,266,674
Filed... Mar 16, 1992
Issued Jul. 24, 2001
Did they patent the original adventure game (created c. 1975-76)? ....http://rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html
Dropping a gold coin or more is clearly a user
defined label for navigating a data structure.
Game after game would play a tune...
Recall the interface for Marble Madness Atari Games c.1984.
http://www.aes.org/aeshc/pdf/f...
....
Except my tax rate went up 17% last year in San Mateo for special assessments.
Well San Mateo... that puts you in harms way of water department fines
and fee abuses.
If it does not rain up on the hills the SF bay area will have a handy dandy
excuse to reset the entire water delivery fee structure.
Almond growers are being vilified yet the domestic water delivery system
and the agriculture water systems are parted off way way upstream and
little is going to fix this issue and not kill a couple oddball fish in the delta.
Let's say he has a 1,500 square foot home that he purchased.........leaves him with about $600 a month, which may be needed for cars and everything else. So yeah, sad to say, he's almost poor in California.
Close with a footnote that his personal tax rate does not pay for the solar array.
Some other person or company must make more $$ to pay the tax to finance
the install of this array.
Note that he owns his home and in Calf there is the Prop 13 thing that effectively
freezes his property tax to levels as much as decades ago.
In all arrogant opinionated fairness I would rather give him a power subsidy and allow
others to install and properly maintain an array on their property. Because he is
"poor" the maintenance issue is very real and will haunt these efforts.
Two sons and a daughter tell me that the local education system needs
attention too. His tax footprint does not pass the "pay his way sniff test" for his
children through the education system.
Should he move the title to his home into a family trust the tax basis
could be frozen for his grand kids and beyond.
A good thing... sure. A smart thing I suspect not.
This is also a serious problem in Computer Science. Anything involving data or empirical results is susceptible to these sorts of issues. So, machine learning, computer vision, performance benchmarks, all these areas are rife with the sorts of issues discussed above.
This is not new -- I recall a final exam in a geology class where the answers
came out of the "geosynclinal book" and an hour later I sat in a lecture hall
and listened to a plate tectonic talk which disclosed that the big oil companies
had used plate tectonics to identify target regions on the globe to explore over
the previous ten years.
The omission in all of this is the effective application of "deprecation" and retirement.
Consider the bogus paper on "Autism and measles-mumps-rubella vaccination"
and the associated controversy. Technical journals of the future must have
on line free errata. Even if the original paper is behind a pay wall! Those doing
modern work need to know what can be known about the foundations of prior
art that they depend on. Another internet issue is a glorious lack of dates.
This allows content to look new when it is a reissue with a new cover.
I recall mapping a fault in a region of central Arizona that was obviously
a normal fault but consulting the old maps from the USGS it was marked
as a thrust fault (no map in those old days lacked a thrust fault as was the fashion).
In Nevada other old map thrust fault structures are now clearly wrong in light of awareness of the
modern understanding of volcanic activity.
Computer science has update processes and within some bounds a structure
that allows the replacement of some foundation library when a bug has been
discovered and fixed but that does not cover the case of the bad decision
of null terminated strings. Buffer overflow and OBTW the world has more alphabets
than just ASCII.
The patent offices of the world are in serious need of a pile of Rosetta Stones.
And they have need of international digitization of computer science literature
to apply those Rosetta Stone translations to. Other literature searches for
prior art stumble over new language and news standards... A 7 layer OSI stack
in contrast to a TCP/IP model or the five layers of the VINES protocol stack.
RAID vendors all have their own tools and names for features, functions and devices. .... well that is another topic to rant on.
RAID technology has science behind it but vendors like to differentiate or add value
so the names get changed for good or selfish reasons and subtle improvements
to the science might make it into a public scientific journal within a decade.
That is to say that some science has value and publication is delayed.
Some inventiveness is hidden in patent applications (locked and confidential) then
revision after revision attempts to lock in the flow of knowledge as the initial work
is not "quite right" but the
It's that eventually, Germany is going to get tired ...................
A big component of the problem Greece was the collapse of tourist trade
because of the burst bubble and economic fool hardiness. Tourist trade
economies are very sensitive to the real economy. Greece, Italy, Spain
(the "PIGS"). As low as interest rates are servicing debt is as easy
as it gets short of not servicing it.
Currently the Whitehouse is telling us that the economy is booming
and going full steam ahead. I suspect that the problem in Greece
ando more is a reflection that the economic profile has not recovered.
Lots of folk working, but no spare cash to travel to Greece (PIGS) or no paid vacation
to take.
We can wave our hands and say that the longer this goes on the worse it
gets but there is more involved here than many are factoring into their
solution view.
The PIGS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGS_%28economics%29) are the
brightly colored canaries in the system. But there are other less connected
nations and conflict areas quietly spilling into the Mediterranean trying to
find landfall and a future..
It is bigger than Greece and the uber rich 1/10 of 1% cannot bail this out
with a tax but they might invest. I might note that the needs of a tourist economy
are not the same as an industrial economy in terms of education and training.
Education and training has a plus 20 year lead time -- generational and changes
to the infrastructure are more complex and difficult than many grock.
One small bright light is Amazon paying local tax on local profit. But these
large apparently rich companies are not rich enough to be a magical tap to
turn and refill coffers of corrupt and ill managed countries.
#include "Goose, golden egg story" // here
Or a very large powered barge that is keeping your absolute position the same while you travel a relative position across its surface.......
but he's probably looking for the north pole answer.......which again, requires a rather large floating platform for at least some portion of the journey.
He did say "on the surface of the earth" not on the surface of a barge.
However since the earth is moving at an astounding speed through
the universe and polar ice is floating and vanishing there are many footnotes
to this...
Other than high precision GPS what does this have to do with satellites?
Sensor technology is improving so fast that tools better than this are possible
and inexpensive. It just takes doing it. Perhaps a gaggle of folk from
the Makers Fair will do it for $101.00 next weekend.
In all fairness bureaucratic constipation costs lives.
Positive train controls should have been installed years ago on all rolling stock in the US.
Baring that a software and map update to a common sub $200 GPS that could track and log train speed
as well as sound a Klaxton to alert the engineer. It need not be integrated to the train in a
way that requires system review. Management could apply a GPS-RF transparent optionally solar powered box to
the outside of engines and other common rolling stock to record travel data. DOT could do the same
and track to see if management pressure is pushing engineers to operate outside of guidelines.
A little harder is realtime track monitoring but a shipping container bed could be modified with sensors and
a container of instrument systems mounted on it. Again there is no need to touch critical controls in ways that
risk safety for many audits. Lasers could locate surfaces on tracks with precision. G-sensors, accelerometers
acoustic audits, time, temperature are all possible. To get back to the original topic the container would
"see" track as well as bridges. Offloaded to a truck bed the container would see highways and rubber wheel
only bridges and roads. Tesla seems to have helped with the battery packaging but older Fe based power
storage would be fine as the "pig" need not be weight limited like a car.
Some of this is already happening just not enough of it. More agility is needed.
Aha... but all it would take is ....
the soap in the bathroom of the police office to be contaminated
And all it takes to resolve that is using individually wrapped soap packets.
I don't disagree with the rest of your post vis a vis privacy, invasiveness, etc.
Individual packets establish a clear non random way to contaminate an individual's hands.
The key is who is in control of the soap and it is not the accused.
Adds an entire new perspective to "do not drop the soap".
New technology can be used for good or evil. Understanding it
only begins to lock it down. Voting machines --- too easy to hack
evidence that can be falsified or more troubling woven into an airtight
net that ensnares the innocent on demand.
TLAs that sit on flaws in common operating systems so they can
exploit them simply keep the door open wide for abuse. Since the
flaws are unreported bad guys, good guys and those of androgynous
morality can play with impunity as long as the list is not too long.
Yea, well you were not kept as slaves, killed for learning to read, beaten with inch and a quarter thick poles (often to death). Your families were not sold separately to different owners and broken up. You were not systematically........
Some forget that Asia has its own history of slavery, persecution and genocide.
Most Harvard and Yale graduates do not get to read or hear about. Mostly it
is not in English and mostly the written record had been edited by the victors.
On the US side of all this is some omission that the second generation of immigration
is a big portion of the group involved in this. The tiger-mom culture is well represented
in this group. In addition there are some bell curve selection at play here. Those
that immigrated chose to for many reasons. Reasons that involve situational awareness
and the drive to act on it.
I am not sure if there is a good solution but the ivy league is fraught with legacy issues
that are integral to their finance and endowment structure. There is a small admission
group that does not get filled by the astoundingly clever and qualified combined
with legacy admissions.
The result is a stinkpot that the admissions must cope with.
Your post:
Also to detect anyone who has any money, for confiscation of evidence of course
vs the summary
[...] by the excreted metabolites â" benzoylecgonine and methylecgonine â" resulting from abuse of the drug.
Sure. Unless simply handling money doesn't result in your body absorbing enough cocaine to synthesize and excrete " benzoylecgonine and methylecgonine".
In other words, you are probably entirely wrong.
Aha... but all it would take is ....
the soap in the bathroom of the police office to be contaminated
with benzoylecgonine and methylecgonine and then any perp
could be convicted by simply getting them to wash their hands.
The article implied that it could not be manipulated but there are some articles
that describe the synthesis of cocaine beginning with what the
article asserts are metabolites.
Further there are privacy issues. Should a crime scene have a lot of
fingerprints (a public or near public place) then testing prints for metabolites
would be invasive in many cases. Yes I was there Tuesday officer
but I was back in Europe on Wednesday and Thursday when the murder
took place. However now this individual is tied to drug consumption.
Seems clever from an instrument point of view but could be used to
build a synthetic profile around a crime that ties a "person of interest"
to another crime unknown to the authorities, unknown because it was
fabricated and did not exist in the real world.
You must go nuts at people who install windows in their houses because:
Windows may kill up to 988 million birds a year in the United States | Science News
Well, do you? And what about cats and radio towers?
Yes the world is a difficult place.
The big wind farms that I drive past are also the best location for
large soaring birds to get their lift before they fly out over the flatter
areas with good hunting So as correct as you are the big raptors suffer
from some installations out of measure.
Closer to home I have noticed a hawk lurking in a tall tree to swoop down and
gobble doves. For dessert he has been observed grabbing a hummingbird on the wing.
I should rate you as overrated, but will answer you instead.
It is mostly another anti-AGW myth that large numbers of big birds are being killed by wind generators. One site has a serious issue and others have a small issue.
Now, with that said, BATS do suffer greatly at this. Not any particular bat, but all of them seem to not see the blades even though they have the ability to track small fast things. This might help save them.
Personally, I would be far more interested in seeing what the $/KW are on this, along with what kind of winds are required to move it.
I learned something... the bats issue is new to me.
Yes the $/WK and towers per acre seem important.
Another remarked that Altamont pass is worse in this regard than most
other locations. It seems to me that Towers with confirmed bird problems
could be replaced with this as an alternative iff it works well.
If it works as well as hoped this will save a lot of
big birds from an early demise.
Big fans rotating like heck are an astounding challenge to keep intact
and maintain. Not that these will be any easier but "Big Bird's" yellow
feathers will be safer (one can hope).
And: http://sebastianmillerlaw.com/...
Then there is the inside and outside sales.
"If you have been misclassified as exempt from overtime, California law provides significant remedies. You may recover damages for up to four years of unpaid overtime, daily penalties for missed meal and rest periods, a post-termination penalty equal to six weeks’ pay, attorneys’ fees and other amounts on a “per-pay period” basis. Damages for these violations would exceed $150,000 for someone who made $60,000/year over a four year period, worked ten hours of overtime per week and was not provided meal or rest periods. The applicable statutes also mandate awards of attorneys’ fees."
Both state and federal law applies. The company has offices in multiple
states so it is interesting how complex this can get for payroll. Now that it
has become an issue all the Ts need crossing and all the Is need dotting
or someone will slash the cash reserves.
Good thing she has legal council!
The only time I had experience in this was one case in Georgia (complaint not even in court)
caused payments to like positions in all 50 states. Very expensive...
Does it spell out that she was compensated on a 24 hour basis? Didn't think so. F U company, and every other company that requires 24/7 support for 8/5 wages.
$7200/month is pretty good wages, and she knew the 24/7 on call requirement before she took the job. She was, apparently, also working for another company doing the same kind of job. Of all the things to object to, this is about the least objectionable.
The first claims in her case are shaky because she agreed to them all. Use your personal phone for work, check. Have it with you 24/7, check. Install the app so you can be tracked, check. She's pretty much got them by the shorts when it comes to them telling her other employer she was disloyal, though.
Of course, it's hard to understand why any company would let you work for three months for a competitor while they're paying you to work for them.
Good wages or not:
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
Employees who while on call are required to stay at a worksite should be compensated for all their hours, including sleep time, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday (Jan 8, 2015)
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
Most likely, she is an "exempt" employee. In this context, "exempt" means that a lot of employee protections don't apply. Specifically, exempt employees normally don't have specific hours of work, so the employer can claim that they are paying her for 24/7 work.
Except in this case the application has a clock in clock out function enabled. Clocking in and out is one of the key differentiators
for exempt and non-exempt. Should she clock 39 hours and get paid for 39 is proof that she is not exempt and N need not be 39.
The text message history seems to be an important bit of evidence here.
Wrapping it in foil means it won't function as anything.
But it also means the work application will not record any downtime for the app running.
If you are "on call" then you are technically working, so that phone needs to be 100% functional and they have the right to track it.
True enough (I totally agree the company as the right to track their own equipment) but if a boss said something creepy like "I can see how fast you are driving" in the bag it would go when I was driving anywhere and I'd just blame bad cell reception on the dropoff... I could pull it out every 15 min or so to see if there were any messages. But it would technically be dereliction of being on-duty...
Yes... I might start with a nice professional "Premium Slimline Aluminum Attache" case from Halliburton.
If I was poor, two nested shoe boxes cushioned with foil and steel wool.
A cooler makes a nice auto case. Blue ice even warm would hamper cell
reception as would bottled water.
i.e. Blocking GPS is darn easy.
Cell phones and driving almost universally illegal especially texting.
Of the clock and into the box it goes.
My "stucco" home stinks for cell reception. The expanded metal, cement
and trees give astoundingly thing windows of reception.
We already spend more per student than the rest of the developed world, how much more should we spend? Maybe it's how it's being spent, not now much is being spent...
Education is a hot button. When a school district rolls up all their expenses and divides by N students
we have no notion about the content of the roll.
Retirement is a big expense.
Management is a big expense.
Compliance is a big expense.
Text books are a big expense.
Interest on bonds is a big expense.
Teachers with a clue in front of students priceless.
If you ask me... it was a company iPhone.
So, Go to work and take it out of a tin foil lined box turn it on and clock in.
Leave work turn if off and put it back in the box. Perhaps with recharge battery in the
box so it is fully charged.
A key to deciding if a person is entitled to overtime is tracking and a time clock.
Her salary sounds nice but will not pay the rent in San Francisco today. If she is
on call 7x24 they need to pay her 7x24 with time and a half and double time on holidays etc.
To me she is not exempt but they are playing that game on both sides of the coin.
They owe her coin.
The application allows: See the location of every mobile worker on a Google Map. You can drill down
on an individual worker to see where they have been, the route they have driven and where they are now.
It also tracks mileage so all the miles they tracked need to be paid for.
In addition ALL the employees that are so tracked need to be compensated retroactively.
The key words in the Xora application are "work" and "mobile worker". Since they bragged that they could
and do track her any time and anyplace they trespassed on her life or they owe her and the other employes
a lot of $$.
FWIW: http://www.navsea.navy.mil/nsw...
Opportunity to have essentially unlimited use of one of the most powerful computer complexes in the country.
Still guessing... I have no direct knowledge or information.
Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona Division.
It is in the service area and could be the fixed address
of some tunnel for security purposes. Simple google proximity
search no direct personal knowledge.
This topic could get very very quiet.
OMG,
"Senators Demand CIA Director Admit He Lied About Spying On Senate Computers"
What if the senator is demanding the CIA director lie?
If he did lie make a case and charge him.
The senators should simply demand honesty.
However N.B. the senate and congress passed laws with little audit and oversight.
Some senators may in point of fact be legitimate targets of investigations one,
two, three, four degrees of Bacon connection.
OBTW the spying might have been to track back international criminals that had
illegally compromises Senate computers.
This proves that it is turtles all the way down.
The right answer is: "Yes sir".
"yes sir" and back away.
Keep the recording live but not pointed at anything as long as possible to record the illegal request
to stop recording civic actions in a public place.
Should you feel a need to answer why... one answer might be "to protect the innocent
like you officer."
If you're looking for people who generate a profit from their time, the curve is almost certainly......
The shape of the curve has statistical value and analysis value but most companies are too small
to care about the curve. They are saddled with finding the necessary skill set and also stay
within budget. Some suffer sticker shock.
In my limited lifetime the best model for programmers is book authors.
A programmer must communicate with clarity to the machine and with
management. So as a minimum two context sensitive language constructs
must be mastered.
Skills and details can be learned but the set of necessary detailed skills is moving so fast that
a hiring manager has no clue anymore. When I first put a deck of cards on the in window
for the new 1401 I had a short list of languages to work in. Today I need wc to count them and
all the ways they can be cross linked. N! comes to mind and as the number of coding methods
expands to embrace more languages and vastly more libraries the ability to find a match
becomes astonishingly small.
One might see a list of words unique to one university recolored by the language of the
last programming team. This is seen in patent applications where an examiner has no
encyclopedic knowledge that allows him to see that this is the same as ______.
I have suffered through at least four iterations of RAID technology and tools.
They all had the same underlying "stuff" but the language and tool names
made them incomparable without a magic decoder ring.
The authorship thing is interesting... A look at the NYT best seller list and there
is not enough data to describe the curve. Amazon might have a modern data set
that can describe this but they may not have more than noise.
Good authors of books and programs are simply uncommon.
Editors reviewers and typesetters much more common.
Which opens you up to all kinds of high circumstantial evidence prosecution. ........
But of interesting value for ANY business or ANY consultant or ANY person or any government employee
that might have valuable data on hardware that might get lost or stolen.
A person might have bank records ....data has value or liability....
A consultant might have trade secret or confidential NDA informatio
Since the presence or absence of such a device in a corporate or government context is a strong
signal that the device is interesting or not I can see ALL portable systems get outfitted with such
a device+software. With modern encryption there may be little need for the exit(SmokeAndFire) of
mission impossible but that is possible.