They would still need to haul the raw materials up there. And since there is bound to be some inefficiency in the process, you would probably end up carrying more in raw materials than you would if you just sent up the wrench in the next service flight. But it would be a timesaver because they wouldn't have to wait several weeks for another service flight.
There is no constitutional gauruntee for privacy. The closest thing would be the fourth amendment which prohibits unreasonable search and siezure. The constitution generally limits government power instead of granting freedoms. For instance, the government cannot arbitrarily force you to take a drug test (without a warrant, which requires some evidence of wrongdoing), but a company can force you to do so as a condition for employment. Technically, if you refuse the drug test, your prospective employer can show you the door.
(Offtopic) One should note that most companies do not rigidly enforce this and a short talk will usually result in them dropping the request.
I believe that the disc is corrupted by introducing errors into the error correcting sectors of the disk. Simple CD players simply average out the errors, but CD-ROMS require every bit to be properly reconstructed. With a fragged error correction sector, the CDROM is unable to reconstruct the data and reports an I/O error.
I'm sure someone will hack some CD firmware eventually, but until then, just put bogus information into the computer. As I write this GWBush@whitehouse.gov is gettings tons of crap because that's the address I give to all these people who ask for personal information. I also live at
Also, I'd be very interested to know why it takes 80 agents to raid a server farm. What were they expecting? "You can have my root password when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers"?
Its all about law enforcement ego. Everyone wants a piece of the action, so everyone goes on the raid. That's how they validate their budgets and promotions. I gaurantee that 70 of them were standing around in their bullet-proof vests and sidearms sipping a latte for six hours after the initial entry.
Begin silly anecdote. A friend of mine witnessed this firsthand some years ago. While working for a company that investigates accident claims for insurance companies, he was called to the scene of a boat fire. The sherrif detectives were already on the scene. Shortly afterwards, the marine patrol investigators (state police) showed up because the fire was on a boat in the water and hence in their jurisdiction. All these investigators were walking around with clipboards and cameras. Then comes walking in the BATFAgs - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Agents, carrying clipboards, fancy cameras, and their sidearms. Well, everyone got in each other's way until lunch, when they went their separate ways - except for the sherrif who got the job of watching the scene. Upon returning from lunch, the sherrif investigators were now armed and the marine patrol investigators were now armed. Coupled with the fact that most of the company investigators were legally carrying concealed weapons (in Florida its OK if you have a permit), my friend was looking at a fairly volitile situation, should some kid decide to light some firecrackers. Keep in mind that police are not neseccarily good shooters as evidenced by the Waco fiasco where several agent wounds were either self-inflicted or inflicted by fellow agents.
This is designed for embedded devices, not your home computer. Therefore, you'd likely be hard pressed to find a delete button (or any other one for that matter) that would let you into the BIOS.
...reinforce the elite/idiot problem. The fact is, that until people all have the same brains and the same learning ability we will always have elites/ignorant. Just like there will always be rich and poor.
In most of the United States the only way you can graduate from college without taking a single science course is to major in elementary education.
Well, here in Florida the requirements for an elementary school teacher (K-3) are listed
here. In summary...
STA 1060C Basic Statistics using MS Excel or
STA 2014C Principles of Statistics
AST 2002 Astronomy or
GEO 1200 Physical Geography or
GLY 1030 Geology and its Applications
BSC 1005L Biological Principles Laboratory or
GEO 1200L Physical Geography Laboratory or
PSC 1121L Physical Science Laboratory
Granted, this cirriculum will not produce someone who is going to develop a cure for cancer, but it does introduce them to the scientific principles. Remember, the goal for teaching teachers is teaching them HOW to teach, not necessarily what to teach.
By the way, my wife is currently taking this program and is being told by the advisor that she needs to complete up to Calc 3, Physics (with calculus), and Chemistry 2 if she is going to meet the department's requirements. I've seen business majors get away with less.
And do we really want to train all of our kids to be engineers and scientists? That would be a hellish world, indeed.
Yeah, a PhD doesn't guarantee good teaching, but it does at least guarantee competence.
Competence in one very specific area. I knew a PhD who could tell you all you wanted to know about physical vapor deposition, but ask him to find the position of a ball dropped from a roof (typical physics question) and he didn't even know where to start.
On the other hand, my high school physics teacher could answer almost any question you threw at him. If he didn't know, he'd look it up and get back to you. Wanna know what his qualifications were? He was an EMT who got tired of dealing with highway fatalities all the time.
More than anything else, teachers need to be able to relate to the people they are teaching. If they cannot communicate with their students, then any level of competence is not going to help. Teachers need to be able to present the information in a way that their pupils can digest. I have often found that the most brilliant practitioners are the worst teachers because they assume that their students are on their level.
The police officer must be operating his/her car in a legal fasion. At night, if they are on the shoulder of the road, they must have their hazard lights on. If they are on a sidestreet, they must have their headlights on.
It is not about the police being visible, it is about them obeying the law while they enforce it.
BTW - I had a traffic lawyer sucessfully fight a ticket for me on this issue.
You could probably filter out Ranger Inc's IP addresses out at your firewall.
They fingered this guy from a Usenet post. Either someone forged the IP address, this guy had his computer compromised, or he actually did it and is crying 'foul' because he was caught. It's hard to say what is up with this article. But it does bring up perfectly valid points about the enforcement of a penalty without due process.
It's like $30 per seat every two years and that is just the OS. That doesn't include the $300 student version of Office and any other applications that you usually have to pay for. Coupled with the fact that the security is swiss cheese and you have to buy additional security software, the $30 is just the hook. You end up spending ten times that just to defend your initial investment and make it workable.
I recall a story about a state legislature (Illinois, I believe) that passed a law (unanimously) that declared pi to be equal to 3.2. So you can legislate physics, but you'll probably have to include a conversion constant.
How often do you see jet contrails overhead, yet you can barely make out the jet? These planes are flying at about 35,000 feet.
This plane is much smaller than a 747 and will be 2-3 times higher. Throw on some paint of the appropriate color and this plane will not be seen without some powerful optics.
It seems that journalists simply don't know who to ask. They'll ask the first person that seems to have credentials. As we all know, credentials don't really mean much, and can give the journalist a false sense of truth. They may be thinking that they are getting a good insight about computer virii, when in fact it is a confused loudmouth with some personal goal that he/she is interviewing.
In Living Color did a skit about this. It involved a journalist who was covering a shooting and as she was looking for someone to interview, she happened to pick out a street punk who went on to describe a ludicrous sequence of events.
"And there you have it..."
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This reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert is talking to a salesman about a new computer. The salesman points out that this computer has only one button (implied ideal user interface). When asked what the button does, the salesman pulls back and says "Whoa, I'm in over my head, you'd better call tech support."
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And to sell these new Windowses (Windii??) they'll have a loud, tough-sounding man with his voice electronically deepened yelling at you about the "once in a lifetime blowout event" with explosions in the background.
The gist that I got was that the internet served as a backbone for a VPN. In order to connect to the grid you would probably need to log on (via the internet again), at which point IBM starts metering your disk usage and CPU cycles. That's just my impression, tho; I got no facts.
I have the first version of this book. It is an excellent book. All you need is some C programming experience, and it will step you through using the tools. The book is fairly detailed about the internals of Linux and at worst, provides you with enough information to do some searches on the web or in the kernel code. Definitely worth the $35 USD that I paid for it.
Elcomsoft has no right to *sell* products in the United States whose purpose is to disable Adobe's encryption, esp. when such knowledge was gained through reverse-engineering.
They have every right to sell it in Russia, where it is a fair-use tool.
And the picture? It's like watching a DVD all the time. I can't wait for football season to start again.
Until CBS loses the bid to host the NFL and then it's back in the dark!
It just goes to illustrate that these early adopters are the ones that pay for all the advancements while cheapskates like myself wait until everyone and their dog has one. But then my savings account is usually a bit higher than my peers as well. I guess I just don't care that much about TV.
How the hell could a Fiero with a small inline 4 be a threat to a world class sportscar. I rebuilt one of those with my friend and his brother and there was absolutely no room to icorporate a larger engine. And the price difference was about 2x.
Chevy may have hated it, but it was not because the Fiero threatened the Corvette. They are in two different market segments. That's like the PT Cruiser threatening a Viper.
The bill of rights is more concerned with limiting government power rather than granting citizen rights. You are not granted the right to speak by the government, but rather the government cannot silence you without due process.
But one should always keep in mind that this is not absolute. Foriegners cannot just come to America and buy a firearm. They must obtain residency first, then they can load up. The government can also take away rights, but only after due process (eg. felons can't vote, own guns, etc.) But most of the other rights should apply to everyone without distinction to citizenship.
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How long before we see the Ronco TrashMaster 3000 on Sunday mornings.
Brinux?
They would still need to haul the raw materials up there. And since there is bound to be some inefficiency in the process, you would probably end up carrying more in raw materials than you would if you just sent up the wrench in the next service flight. But it would be a timesaver because they wouldn't have to wait several weeks for another service flight.
There is no constitutional gauruntee for privacy. The closest thing would be the fourth amendment which prohibits unreasonable search and siezure. The constitution generally limits government power instead of granting freedoms. For instance, the government cannot arbitrarily force you to take a drug test (without a warrant, which requires some evidence of wrongdoing), but a company can force you to do so as a condition for employment. Technically, if you refuse the drug test, your prospective employer can show you the door.
(Offtopic) One should note that most companies do not rigidly enforce this and a short talk will usually result in them dropping the request.
I believe that the disc is corrupted by introducing errors into the error correcting sectors of the disk. Simple CD players simply average out the errors, but CD-ROMS require every bit to be properly reconstructed. With a fragged error correction sector, the CDROM is unable to reconstruct the data and reports an I/O error.
I'm sure someone will hack some CD firmware eventually, but until then, just put bogus information into the computer. As I write this GWBush@whitehouse.gov is gettings tons of crap because that's the address I give to all these people who ask for personal information. I also live at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW #101,
Washington, DC 20500.
Phone number? 202-456-1414.
Also, I'd be very interested to know why it takes 80 agents to raid a server farm. What were they expecting? "You can have my root password when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers"?
Its all about law enforcement ego. Everyone wants a piece of the action, so everyone goes on the raid. That's how they validate their budgets and promotions. I gaurantee that 70 of them were standing around in their bullet-proof vests and sidearms sipping a latte for six hours after the initial entry.
Begin silly anecdote. A friend of mine witnessed this firsthand some years ago. While working for a company that investigates accident claims for insurance companies, he was called to the scene of a boat fire. The sherrif detectives were already on the scene. Shortly afterwards, the marine patrol investigators (state police) showed up because the fire was on a boat in the water and hence in their jurisdiction. All these investigators were walking around with clipboards and cameras. Then comes walking in the BATFAgs - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Agents, carrying clipboards, fancy cameras, and their sidearms. Well, everyone got in each other's way until lunch, when they went their separate ways - except for the sherrif who got the job of watching the scene. Upon returning from lunch, the sherrif investigators were now armed and the marine patrol investigators were now armed. Coupled with the fact that most of the company investigators were legally carrying concealed weapons (in Florida its OK if you have a permit), my friend was looking at a fairly volitile situation, should some kid decide to light some firecrackers. Keep in mind that police are not neseccarily good shooters as evidenced by the Waco fiasco where several agent wounds were either self-inflicted or inflicted by fellow agents.
Wait till there's enough of those guys to seriously annoy the big providers, and the watch them buy up some more laws...
No laws are needed, just another clause in the contract.
This is designed for embedded devices, not your home computer. Therefore, you'd likely be hard pressed to find a delete button (or any other one for that matter) that would let you into the BIOS.
...reinforce the elite/idiot problem. The fact is, that until people all have the same brains and the same learning ability we will always have elites/ignorant. Just like there will always be rich and poor.
In most of the United States the only way you can graduate from college without taking a single science course is to major in elementary education.
Well, here in Florida the requirements for an elementary school teacher (K-3) are listed
here. In summary...
STA 1060C Basic Statistics using MS Excel or
STA 2014C Principles of Statistics
AST 2002 Astronomy or
GEO 1200 Physical Geography or
GLY 1030 Geology and its Applications
BSC 1005L Biological Principles Laboratory or
GEO 1200L Physical Geography Laboratory or
PSC 1121L Physical Science Laboratory
Granted, this cirriculum will not produce someone who is going to develop a cure for cancer, but it does introduce them to the scientific principles. Remember, the goal for teaching teachers is teaching them HOW to teach, not necessarily what to teach.
By the way, my wife is currently taking this program and is being told by the advisor that she needs to complete up to Calc 3, Physics (with calculus), and Chemistry 2 if she is going to meet the department's requirements. I've seen business majors get away with less.
And do we really want to train all of our kids to be engineers and scientists? That would be a hellish world, indeed.
Yeah, a PhD doesn't guarantee good teaching, but it does at least guarantee competence.
Competence in one very specific area. I knew a PhD who could tell you all you wanted to know about physical vapor deposition, but ask him to find the position of a ball dropped from a roof (typical physics question) and he didn't even know where to start.
On the other hand, my high school physics teacher could answer almost any question you threw at him. If he didn't know, he'd look it up and get back to you. Wanna know what his qualifications were? He was an EMT who got tired of dealing with highway fatalities all the time.
More than anything else, teachers need to be able to relate to the people they are teaching. If they cannot communicate with their students, then any level of competence is not going to help. Teachers need to be able to present the information in a way that their pupils can digest. I have often found that the most brilliant practitioners are the worst teachers because they assume that their students are on their level.
Kind of true.
The police officer must be operating his/her car in a legal fasion. At night, if they are on the shoulder of the road, they must have their hazard lights on. If they are on a sidestreet, they must have their headlights on.
It is not about the police being visible, it is about them obeying the law while they enforce it.
BTW - I had a traffic lawyer sucessfully fight a ticket for me on this issue.
You could probably filter out Ranger Inc's IP addresses out at your firewall.
They fingered this guy from a Usenet post. Either someone forged the IP address, this guy had his computer compromised, or he actually did it and is crying 'foul' because he was caught. It's hard to say what is up with this article. But it does bring up perfectly valid points about the enforcement of a penalty without due process.
It's like $30 per seat
It's like $30 per seat every two years and that is just the OS. That doesn't include the $300 student version of Office and any other applications that you usually have to pay for. Coupled with the fact that the security is swiss cheese and you have to buy additional security software, the $30 is just the hook. You end up spending ten times that just to defend your initial investment and make it workable.
I recall a story about a state legislature (Illinois, I believe) that passed a law (unanimously) that declared pi to be equal to 3.2. So you can legislate physics, but you'll probably have to include a conversion constant.
Unfortuneatly, Icaraus' apparatus fell apart in mid-flight causing death. Not exactly a good metaphor.
How often do you see jet contrails overhead, yet you can barely make out the jet? These planes are flying at about 35,000 feet.
This plane is much smaller than a 747 and will be 2-3 times higher. Throw on some paint of the appropriate color and this plane will not be seen without some powerful optics.
It seems that journalists simply don't know who to ask. They'll ask the first person that seems to have credentials. As we all know, credentials don't really mean much, and can give the journalist a false sense of truth. They may be thinking that they are getting a good insight about computer virii, when in fact it is a confused loudmouth with some personal goal that he/she is interviewing.
In Living Color did a skit about this. It involved a journalist who was covering a shooting and as she was looking for someone to interview, she happened to pick out a street punk who went on to describe a ludicrous sequence of events.
"And there you have it..."
This reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert is talking to a salesman about a new computer. The salesman points out that this computer has only one button (implied ideal user interface). When asked what the button does, the salesman pulls back and says "Whoa, I'm in over my head, you'd better call tech support."
And to sell these new Windowses (Windii??) they'll have a loud, tough-sounding man with his voice electronically deepened yelling at you about the "once in a lifetime blowout event" with explosions in the background.
Yippie.
The gist that I got was that the internet served as a backbone for a VPN. In order to connect to the grid you would probably need to log on (via the internet again), at which point IBM starts metering your disk usage and CPU cycles. That's just my impression, tho; I got no facts.
I have the first version of this book. It is an excellent book. All you need is some C programming experience, and it will step you through using the tools. The book is fairly detailed about the internals of Linux and at worst, provides you with enough information to do some searches on the web or in the kernel code. Definitely worth the $35 USD that I paid for it.
Elcomsoft has no right to *sell* products in the United States whose purpose is to disable Adobe's encryption, esp. when such knowledge was gained through reverse-engineering.
They have every right to sell it in Russia, where it is a fair-use tool.
And the picture? It's like watching a DVD all the time. I can't wait for football season to start again.
Until CBS loses the bid to host the NFL and then it's back in the dark!
It just goes to illustrate that these early adopters are the ones that pay for all the advancements while cheapskates like myself wait until everyone and their dog has one. But then my savings account is usually a bit higher than my peers as well. I guess I just don't care that much about TV.
How the hell could a Fiero with a small inline 4 be a threat to a world class sportscar. I rebuilt one of those with my friend and his brother and there was absolutely no room to icorporate a larger engine. And the price difference was about 2x.
Chevy may have hated it, but it was not because the Fiero threatened the Corvette. They are in two different market segments. That's like the PT Cruiser threatening a Viper.
The bill of rights is more concerned with limiting government power rather than granting citizen rights. You are not granted the right to speak by the government, but rather the government cannot silence you without due process.
But one should always keep in mind that this is not absolute. Foriegners cannot just come to America and buy a firearm. They must obtain residency first, then they can load up. The government can also take away rights, but only after due process (eg. felons can't vote, own guns, etc.) But most of the other rights should apply to everyone without distinction to citizenship.