That reminds me of an AM radio I built from one of those copper coil kits for kids. It was more of an ear-plug than a headphone, though. And when I say ear-plug, I mean that it was a massive thing that went right down your ear canal.
A crystal radio.
Sadly, every crystal radio I ever built only picked up WBAL, which turned me into a talk radio junkie at 7.
I've had problems with this in the past. If I actually remember to turn my phone off when I enter a theatre, I forget to turn it back on when I leave.
Is my phone the only one on the planet that has "Vibrate, then ring"? I get 3 rings of time (about 10 seconds or so) to look at who is calling and answer or push them to voicemail. If I'm not wearing my phone (it's on my dresser at night, for example), I'll hear it after the first 3 rings.
Honestly, I can't why more people don't use that:
If I'm in a loud situation (a loud concert, for example), the vibration will get my attention where I might not necessarily hear the ring
If I'm in a quiet situation (church or theater), the vibration will get my attention without disturbing others
If I take my phone off my belt for whatever reason (charging it in the car, sleeping, throwing the football around, etc.) I'll still hear it when it rolls over to a ring.
I NEVER have to adjust my phone for any situation. Which is good because I'm insanely forgetful.
Even if you felt that you should take out the ammo box, and you find enough like-minded-people (and "your local militia" is far from enough to overthrow the entire US army), don't you think you would be jailed for conspiracy first?
The US military is made up of citizen volunteers, with a huge amount of support from private contractors. So by definition a true uprising among the citizens would include some number of members of the military. A sufficiently large uprising among the people could do some pretty serious damage. If the citizens that make up the army were to accept an openly corrupt election system that installed an illegitimate leader, then it just goes back to my original point of the US citizenry getting what it deserves.
Besides, the main target of such an uprising would be to forcibly remove from office or kill the members of each of the branches of the government that were installed by the fraudulent election as well as the leaders who refused to do anything about it. At most, that's only (435 + 100 + 2 + 9) = 546 people.
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
This may not be so protected anymore, thanks to Diebold. For all we know, it doesn't matter who people vote for, because Diebold could be making sure that only their favorite candidates actually win the elections.
If that is really true, and if the checks and balances in our system of government turn a blind eye to such a thing were it ever to be uncovered, then it's time to pull out the ammo box and have another revolutionary war.
Personally, I don't think it's gone quite that far yet. So vote in people who will correct the election system.
Umm....can someone please remind me how this is the greatest and most free country in the world?
Because you have a protected right to go into a voting booth in November and vote out the people who disagree with your opinion.
The American people get what they ask for. And they'll get what they ask for in November -- the Same Old Shit, no matter who wins. We, as a country, have no one to blame but ourselves for the lazy, uninformed choices that we make.
What's to say that a VoIP telco couldn't replace your "corded phone" with an IP set, also plugged into your wall, but using an RJ45 jack instead of an RJ11?
The fact that there is only a single pair of wires per line coming from the ILEC CO?
Learn a little bit of self-discipline if you are a work time web junkie.
As a non-diagnosed ADHD guy (self-diagnosed?) I've found that if I schedule my time in tiny increments with tiny breaks inbetween, it helps me to focus.
I tell myself that I will focus exclusively on a particular task for 15 minutes, then allow myself 5 minutes to do something else before returning for another 15 minutes, etc. It works great most of the time. Once my thoughts start to wander, I can remind myself that I only have to think about this for another 8 minutes.
Aren't they kind of putting the wagon before the horse? Shouldn't they work on making the product just work correctly when you're by yourself?
Trying to work in Microsoft Word is like trying to build a house of cards during a fucking earthquake.
Oh, what a load of crap. Have you actually even USED Windows 2000 or later, and Microsoft Office 2000 or later? I NEVER have any of these apps crash on me.
OpenOffice.Org under Linux crashes on me. Not often, it's quite rare, but it happens.
I swear the anti-MS FUD around here is really, really starting to get to me. People on/. can't just say "Hey, neat idea, I hope it works out." Comments can't be "Gee, I wonder how it will work" , nooo, they have to be "Gawsh, If it comes from Micro$oft it must crash every 3 minutes! ha ha ha I'm so funny and original!"
...And they should get rid of that fucking talking paperclip while they're at it.
They did, but you're so busy being a bigot you failed to notice.
Is this counting the spare battery (or does the spare only kick in after 8 hours)?
Probably if it's like any of the Dells I use. On my Inspiron, putting a spare battery in the media bay drains both batteries simultaneously, resulting often in a much better that 2X gain in runtime. (For some reason when they drain together they drain slower.)
However, the most common usage of SSL cert's is simply to enable encryption between two points. For this, there's nothing wrong with even a home-brew cert - validation of the cert via it matching the domain should be sufficient. A SSL cert generated by a 3rd party adds absolutely nothing to security, and it shouldn't do anything to reassure the customer/client that they're dealing with a legitimate operation.
It prevents man-in-the-middle attacks. That's the most important reason for me to use a trusted CA.
The last thing I want is some moron rushing through a $3000 laptop repair, losing parts and breaking things in the process!
Honestly, whom do you think Toshiba employs in their repair shops now? You can be sure it's not an EE. Six of one...
Besides, you all aren't reading TFA. They aren't going to be doing computer repairs in the local UPS hub or depot, all of the repairs are going to one central UPS shop in Louisville, KY. So it's either morons who work for Toshiba in God Knows Where or morons who work for UPS in Kentucky, what's the difference from the consumer POV?
Try to obtain and hold down two or three of the following jobs during the year: Retail Sales/clerk, some sort of receptionist/secretarial/clerical work, car sales or some similar "high stakes" sales job, or some sort of construction or low end mechanic work (a jiffy lube or similar).
I can't agree with this more. I spent a year in construction prior to my current job. I had quit my previous job to take a new job. Unfortunately, my new job was contingent on me passing a criminal background check, which I did not. (Long story;) ) A friend offered me a job hauling around drywall supplies to job sites. I considered it so beneath me, but I always believed that an able-bodied man had no excuse not to work, so I took the job.
Several weeks into the job, I met a finisher named Carl. Carl had a masters in EE. Carl found his old job too stressful and bothersome. He quit his old job and started finishing drywall. He made more money doing that ($xxx,xxx), and he was in a quiet, stree-free job. Carl spent a good bit of time helping me with some Calc II problems I had.
After meeting Carl, I started to look more closely at the folks I was working with. I began to realize that just because a guy was wearing muddy boots, it was not necessarily an indication that he was an uninteligent person who didn't go to college. No, many of these folks had degrees, were intelligent, made more money than my then-dot-com friends, worked reasonable hours, and immensely enjoyed their jobs. I realized what an arrogant snob I had been. I realized what a high degree of prejudice I was exibiting. Wow, what an eye-opener.
I started to realize how much I was enjoying the job. I drove around a truck all day listening to the radio (NPR, C-SPAN, and whatnot), enjoying the outdoors, and getting excercise. Lifting drywall isn't easy, but it's good for you physically.
When I watched Office Space a few years later, I identified with Peter at the end very well. It was nice to get out of the office for a little while. I gained some skills that I can use in life. And I gained substantial life lessons from the experience. These days I work in high performance computing at NASA, which is a stark contrast. But even there I apply a lot of the life lessons I learned driving the drywall truck.
But actually, this is pretty common when multiple companies try to share a wiring room. At a company I worked at a couple years back, one of the T1 lines would get disconnected multiple times in the wire room when some other company was trying to either hook up a new tenant in the office complex or disconnect someone else's service.
I'm amazed at the number of service calls my side business gets from people stealing bridge clips off of 66 blocks. Bring yer own damn clips!
Are there any documented cases of Mobil Speedpass RFID's being stolen and cloned?
Hell, I have a hard enough time getting my Speedpass to read when I'm pressing it right up against the pump, I'm not afraid of somebody reading one from a few meters away.
The good thing about Gator going public is that their Financial Statements will tell us what advertisers are funding them. Makes for a nice boycott list.
The ads popping up on desktops might give us a clue as to whom is paying for ads as well...:)
As if the closed circuit TV systems that monitor every square inch of the store aren't enough.
Actually, not all of the camera domes you see in the ceiling have cameras in them.
That being said, I once had one of the Wal*Mart greeters chase me out into the parking lot and demand that I return inside the store because I apparently set off "Wal*Mart's inventory control system!". She refused to tell me why I needed to go back inside, so I shrugged and walked away. A plainclothesd LP came up to my drivers window as I was about to pull off. I told her she was free to ask her question in the parking lot, but I would not be inconvenienced to return inside the store unless she could give me a good reason. She told me they were calling the cops. I handed her my driver's license, said "Write down my name, go watch your videotape, and decide if you need to call the cops", took it back and drove away.
The funny thing was the reaction of the cops when I called them warning them that Wal*Mart was going to call them, and I gave them the full story. The copy who answered the phone had kind of an exasperated sound. "Yeah, they do that sort of stuff all the time", he told me.
Go figure.
Speaking of cameras, some Best Buy stores actually track 1 in 50 or so customers from entrance to exit for marketing purposes. You won't see the typical big black camra domes, instead there are little white camera domes on the trusswork, very, very inconspicuous. They're a few meters apart and completely blanket the store. (You should see the racks they go back to, it's insane) It's not in every store, but they tell me that the watch where you go, what you pick up, what you actually buy, etc.
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That reminds me of an AM radio I built from one of those copper coil kits for kids. It was more of an ear-plug than a headphone, though. And when I say ear-plug, I mean that it was a massive thing that went right down your ear canal.
A crystal radio.
Sadly, every crystal radio I ever built only picked up WBAL, which turned me into a talk radio junkie at 7.
Is my phone the only one on the planet that has "Vibrate, then ring"? I get 3 rings of time (about 10 seconds or so) to look at who is calling and answer or push them to voicemail. If I'm not wearing my phone (it's on my dresser at night, for example), I'll hear it after the first 3 rings.
Honestly, I can't why more people don't use that:
I NEVER have to adjust my phone for any situation. Which is good because I'm insanely forgetful.
Don't forget to salute Alan Keyes also for "crashing" a republican primary presidential debate back in 1996 as well.
Even if you felt that you should take out the ammo box, and you find enough like-minded-people (and "your local militia" is far from enough to overthrow the entire US army), don't you think you would be jailed for conspiracy first?
The US military is made up of citizen volunteers, with a huge amount of support from private contractors. So by definition a true uprising among the citizens would include some number of members of the military. A sufficiently large uprising among the people could do some pretty serious damage. If the citizens that make up the army were to accept an openly corrupt election system that installed an illegitimate leader, then it just goes back to my original point of the US citizenry getting what it deserves.
Besides, the main target of such an uprising would be to forcibly remove from office or kill the members of each of the branches of the government that were installed by the fraudulent election as well as the leaders who refused to do anything about it. At most, that's only (435 + 100 + 2 + 9) = 546 people.
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
This may not be so protected anymore, thanks to Diebold. For all we know, it doesn't matter who people vote for, because Diebold could be making sure that only their favorite candidates actually win the elections.
If that is really true, and if the checks and balances in our system of government turn a blind eye to such a thing were it ever to be uncovered, then it's time to pull out the ammo box and have another revolutionary war.
Personally, I don't think it's gone quite that far yet. So vote in people who will correct the election system.
Umm....can someone please remind me how this is the greatest and most free country in the world?
Because you have a protected right to go into a voting booth in November and vote out the people who disagree with your opinion.
The American people get what they ask for. And they'll get what they ask for in November -- the Same Old Shit, no matter who wins. We, as a country, have no one to blame but ourselves for the lazy, uninformed choices that we make.
Or, as I've taken to saying over the summer:
"Bush vs. Kerry: No matter who wins, we lose!"
What's to say that a VoIP telco couldn't replace your "corded phone" with an IP set, also plugged into your wall, but using an RJ45 jack instead of an RJ11?
The fact that there is only a single pair of wires per line coming from the ILEC CO?
So will it make it past the Senate and the White House?
Affected people start running RAID-1 on a bunch of Gmail accounts :-)
:)
Yes, as soon as someone creates the GMail block device and not the GMail filesystem.
Learn a little bit of self-discipline if you are a work time web junkie.
As a non-diagnosed ADHD guy (self-diagnosed?) I've found that if I schedule my time in tiny increments with tiny breaks inbetween, it helps me to focus.
I tell myself that I will focus exclusively on a particular task for 15 minutes, then allow myself 5 minutes to do something else before returning for another 15 minutes, etc. It works great most of the time. Once my thoughts start to wander, I can remind myself that I only have to think about this for another 8 minutes.
Trying to work in Microsoft Word is like trying to build a house of cards during a fucking earthquake.
Oh, what a load of crap. Have you actually even USED Windows 2000 or later, and Microsoft Office 2000 or later? I NEVER have any of these apps crash on me.
OpenOffice.Org under Linux crashes on me. Not often, it's quite rare, but it happens.
I swear the anti-MS FUD around here is really, really starting to get to me. People on
They did, but you're so busy being a bigot you failed to notice.
Now if I ever make $120,000 in capital gains in the future I will get back the money the IRS stole from me.
Don't blame the IRS, blame Congress.
I'm already ahead of the curve...the automotive and insurance industries had already squeezed the last drop out of this turnip.
Funny, I'd argue that you've already given up and they've beaten you.
I'll give you *two*: Adam and Eve. They both are quite famous.
;)
Well in that case I can give you two more further down, Noah and his wife.
Is this counting the spare battery (or does the spare only kick in after 8 hours)?
Probably if it's like any of the Dells I use. On my Inspiron, putting a spare battery in the media bay drains both batteries simultaneously, resulting often in a much better that 2X gain in runtime. (For some reason when they drain together they drain slower.)
If content producers want to control how their content is distributed, isn't that the content producer's perogative?
Good point, I agree. In that case, they are welcome to not use public television frequencies.
However, the most common usage of SSL cert's is simply to enable encryption between two points. For this, there's nothing wrong with even a home-brew cert - validation of the cert via it matching the domain should be sufficient. A SSL cert generated by a 3rd party adds absolutely nothing to security, and it shouldn't do anything to reassure the customer/client that they're dealing with a legitimate operation.
It prevents man-in-the-middle attacks. That's the most important reason for me to use a trusted CA.
The last thing I want is some moron rushing through a $3000 laptop repair, losing parts and breaking things in the process!
Honestly, whom do you think Toshiba employs in their repair shops now? You can be sure it's not an EE. Six of one...
Besides, you all aren't reading TFA. They aren't going to be doing computer repairs in the local UPS hub or depot, all of the repairs are going to one central UPS shop in Louisville, KY. So it's either morons who work for Toshiba in God Knows Where or morons who work for UPS in Kentucky, what's the difference from the consumer POV?
NASA already has given more than $500,000 to study the idea...
That's not all that much money at NASA, it's the equivalent of 2 Full Time Equivalents (FTEs), plus a little bit of equipment to work with.
Try to obtain and hold down two or three of the following jobs during the year: Retail Sales/clerk, some sort of receptionist/secretarial/clerical work, car sales or some similar "high stakes" sales job, or some sort of construction or low end mechanic work (a jiffy lube or similar).
;) ) A friend offered me a job hauling around drywall supplies to job sites. I considered it so beneath me, but I always believed that an able-bodied man had no excuse not to work, so I took the job.
I can't agree with this more. I spent a year in construction prior to my current job. I had quit my previous job to take a new job. Unfortunately, my new job was contingent on me passing a criminal background check, which I did not. (Long story
Several weeks into the job, I met a finisher named Carl. Carl had a masters in EE. Carl found his old job too stressful and bothersome. He quit his old job and started finishing drywall. He made more money doing that ($xxx,xxx), and he was in a quiet, stree-free job. Carl spent a good bit of time helping me with some Calc II problems I had.
After meeting Carl, I started to look more closely at the folks I was working with. I began to realize that just because a guy was wearing muddy boots, it was not necessarily an indication that he was an uninteligent person who didn't go to college. No, many of these folks had degrees, were intelligent, made more money than my then-dot-com friends, worked reasonable hours, and immensely enjoyed their jobs. I realized what an arrogant snob I had been. I realized what a high degree of prejudice I was exibiting. Wow, what an eye-opener.
I started to realize how much I was enjoying the job. I drove around a truck all day listening to the radio (NPR, C-SPAN, and whatnot), enjoying the outdoors, and getting excercise. Lifting drywall isn't easy, but it's good for you physically.
When I watched Office Space a few years later, I identified with Peter at the end very well. It was nice to get out of the office for a little while. I gained some skills that I can use in life. And I gained substantial life lessons from the experience. These days I work in high performance computing at NASA, which is a stark contrast. But even there I apply a lot of the life lessons I learned driving the drywall truck.
But actually, this is pretty common when multiple companies try to share a wiring room. At a company I worked at a couple years back, one of the T1 lines would get disconnected multiple times in the wire room when some other company was trying to either hook up a new tenant in the office complex or disconnect someone else's service.
I'm amazed at the number of service calls my side business gets from people stealing bridge clips off of 66 blocks. Bring yer own damn clips!
Because it's a guaranteed "+5 Informative".
Are there any documented cases of Mobil Speedpass RFID's being stolen and cloned?
Hell, I have a hard enough time getting my Speedpass to read when I'm pressing it right up against the pump, I'm not afraid of somebody reading one from a few meters away.
The good thing about Gator going public is that their Financial Statements will tell us what advertisers are funding them. Makes for a nice boycott list.
:)
The ads popping up on desktops might give us a clue as to whom is paying for ads as well...
As if the closed circuit TV systems that monitor every square inch of the store aren't enough.
Actually, not all of the camera domes you see in the ceiling have cameras in them.
That being said, I once had one of the Wal*Mart greeters chase me out into the parking lot and demand that I return inside the store because I apparently set off "Wal*Mart's inventory control system!". She refused to tell me why I needed to go back inside, so I shrugged and walked away. A plainclothesd LP came up to my drivers window as I was about to pull off. I told her she was free to ask her question in the parking lot, but I would not be inconvenienced to return inside the store unless she could give me a good reason. She told me they were calling the cops. I handed her my driver's license, said "Write down my name, go watch your videotape, and decide if you need to call the cops", took it back and drove away.
The funny thing was the reaction of the cops when I called them warning them that Wal*Mart was going to call them, and I gave them the full story. The copy who answered the phone had kind of an exasperated sound. "Yeah, they do that sort of stuff all the time", he told me.
Go figure.
Speaking of cameras, some Best Buy stores actually track 1 in 50 or so customers from entrance to exit for marketing purposes. You won't see the typical big black camra domes, instead there are little white camera domes on the trusswork, very, very inconspicuous. They're a few meters apart and completely blanket the store. (You should see the racks they go back to, it's insane) It's not in every store, but they tell me that the watch where you go, what you pick up, what you actually buy, etc.
Kinda scary really.