... like the last alien invader was going to do (experiment 626).
But if he shot that toad in the beginning of the movie, the toad would not have woken him up right as the laser was about to vaporize him at the end of the movie.
I agree. Western and Peterson in Chicago is *more* dangerous because of the cameras. They have made the intersection much less predictable.
Before the cameras, some people would blast through the intersection a little late. It's such a large intersection, it takes a few seconds for traffic to clear. The problem to me was the clueless "drag racers" who would stomp on the gas the mili-second that the light turned green. The solution should have been a couple of seconds of four-way-red.
As a side note: my wife got a camera ticket at Western and Peterson for making a right on red. The ticket just said "proceding into the interection on a red light". There was no fighting it either, our request for a hearing was turned down. It's on *my* record now because the car is in my name.
I wonder if Fresh Direct could "scale" in NYC? They only make it by double parking. If "everyone" started getting Fresh Direct deliveries, they would completely tie up traffic in some neighborhoods.
I used to have a brokerage debit card. It withdrew funds from my money market account. It was an insane risk to use that card. It would have been a jackpot if thieves got that number. And my financial life would have been in ruins for months.
Since the bubble burst, I don't have to worry about having a lot of money in a money market account.
if you can't really achieve victory, just change the goalposts to something easier and calim you won.
I used to have a Project Manager who did that for his trainwreck projects. His projects were *always* successful. Unfinished requirements became "future enhancements". Non-working projects became "proof of concepts". Half-baked projects became "prototypes".
The wonderful thing about project schedules and requirements is nobody saves the previous version.
Nobody has ever underestimated the gullibility of upper-managers.
And nobody has ever underestimated the gullibility of people who read industry press releases.
the US industry has invented the cupholder ..because they listen to their customers. It's called market research. It's a very common US characterictic.
I would not buy a car without a cupholder. That's right, I would refuse to purchase a multi-thousand dollar car that did not have a $5 piece of plastic to hold a cup. I've had two cars that didn't have cup holders and I'm never buying another one like them.
I don't need "German engineering" or "European styling", but I do want a cup holder.
911 is for "real time" situations. You should call well before it becomes a life-threatening emergency.
In my district, you're not only supposed to call 911 for a fleeing thief, you're supposed to call 911 before they become a thief and flee. I can tell you with certainty that my local police commander would have encouraged people at that gas station to call 911 with a suspicious person report before he stole anything. Think about it, does the guy's panhandling story make any sense (unless it was a bus terminal)?
My advice: use the service with the strongest signal where you will be using your laptop. That may not be the service with the highest published data rate, or the lowest cost plan. Unfortunately, I have no advice for determining the service with the strongest signal other than testing each service.
As with a cell phone, the signal strength can be very fickle. If your move you laptop to a different desk, your signal strength could plummet.
You need a strong signal to make wireless broadband work. The published data rates are useless unless you get a perfect signal. What kills the data transfer rate is retries cause by weak signals. With a weak voice signal you can still go about your business, just with a little frustration. Not so with a weak wireless broadband signal. Your connection will slow to uselessness.
Most all of the broadband wireless cards can be used with a larger antenna. My next bit of advice is to replace the cute little tiny antenna with something that has a higher gain. I've seen antennas that mount on the laptop monitor, table top, or car roof. Use whatever size antenna that you can manage.
2600 lost because they were not a noble defendant.
I think that the same lawsuit with a defendant of higher moral character would have had a different result (eg., Google).
In some cases, the judge can't seem to look at the law instead of the defendant. I think 2600 was one of those cases. The judge saw scary hackers and seem to react "they must be stopped". It was a stupid ruling from a stupid judge. Don't expect that to slow Google down one bit.
Where's the crack-down on a dad's 40-year old drinking buddy slipping upstairs to visit his daughter during a back-yard BBQ?
You described a situation that I'm familiar with. Only it was the mom's 40-year-old priest who slipped upstairs to visit his daughter during a back-yard BBQ. His son walked in on them after hearing noises coming from his sister's bedroom and thinking that everyone was in the backyard.
That was *years* ago. The daughter is still pretty messed up over it. No "stranger in the bushes" indeed.
I worked with a salesman who was laid off. Before he left, he used his company cell phone to call customers just to say "I won't be your salesman anymore, you'll be getting a new company salesman". The company tried to sue him for that (the customers were angry with the company for laying him off) and revoke his severance package. He fought and won, but it costs him a chunk of his severance.
His excuse was that he wanted to leave his customers on good terms in case he every had to sell to them again. It was a good move. He later got a job selling a similar product and called upon those same customers. They wee very supportive of him.
In 20 minutes, the car could be at a garage far away and nearly stripped.
My brother's car was stolen with a tow truck. It probably took 20 second (I'd bet that the theives didn't bother with the safety chains). The cops told him that the car would be stripped before they finished taking the report.
With a 90% installbase and billions and billions of dollars...
Sounds like the minicomputer industry in the early 1980's. I remember a few: DEC, Prime, Tandem, Data General, Burroughs, Control Data, Scientific Data, Honeywell...
H.235 was a good VoIP encryption standard - good for the large service providers who wrote the standard.
VPN, SSL, and other open transportation security layers are a much better choice.
But there are a lot of folks out there who do not encrypt VoIP at all. The future will include a few scandals about personal/company/government VoIP phone calls that were monitored, recorded, and posted on the Internet.
If you traveled on the US interstate highways you were identified, you just didn't know it.
There have been vehicle license plate/tag readers for a long time, at least 20 years that I am aware. Every state has computer camera readable letters on their license plates at this point.
I live in the mid-west too. And I pass at least two plate readers a day. Granted, those are supposed to be for enforcement of the automatic toll system. But I presume that the data is available to any law enforcement organization.
I have heard, from good sources, that there are plate readers all over the interstate highway system for law enforcement purposes. I have no hesitation believing it. If you try to "run from the law" using interstate highways, they will catch you. Followed by a cover story about how some very observant cop just happened to spot you (taken from the last case where I strongly suspect they used the plate/tag readers to catch a guy).
Insteon would not work in my home, which I wired myself according to the NEC. I never used a wall box or a ceiling box as junction boxes, so there are no "extra" wires in places they don't belong. From my junction boxes for a ceiling light , I run one cable to the ceiling box and one cable to the wall switch box. The wall switch cable is a switch loop (with ground). Meaning that the hot wires goes in and a switched-hot wire comes out. There is no neutral wire at the wall switch.
This is the first I have ever heard of a reason to have a neutral wire with a wall switch. The neutral wire is not need for the operation of the switch.
Neutral wires carry current. There is no way that I would run a "extra" neutral wire just in case I need to power some gadget.
Insteon should be designed to be located in the juction box, not the switch box.
I just wish that it had told me which extensions will no longer be working *before* it did the update. You have to install the update before it tells you. Some extensions can be updated. Some will be killed.
I lost AniDisable and AutoForm. I'm going to miss AutoForm.
Armed militants captured on the field of battle don't merit a trial.
Really? Does that apply for both sides in a conflict, or just the ones you consider to be your opponents?
It applies to the losers of the battle. If you take up arms in battle, don't expect to treated like a petty criminal if you lose.
We have thousand of years of history telling us what happens to the losers of armed combat. Sometimes they are returned to their sponsoring organization. Most often, the best they get is a mass grave marker.
In almost any other time in history, those Gitmo guys would have been killed without hesitation.
Not only did she put something very hot between her legs (don't quibble about the temperature - hot coffee is hot coffee, right up to boiling hot coffee), she did so in the confines of a car seat. Then she pried off the lid while squeezing the cup with her thighs. The cup collapsed. If you want to do acrobatics with hot coffee, don't sue when you get burned.
Bubba is a genius. He's found a way to make 50% more than you.
Income taxes are really not 33% like most people think. They are 50% from the point of view of the earner.
Consider this, Mr Wage earner: In order to earn $100, you have to generate $150 of income (if taxed at 33%). That's an extra 50% of income over Bubba who gets his $100 earnings in $100 of untaxed income. Yes, Bubba loves his 50% of extra income to spent on beer and toys.
All you have to do is game the system. All systems are gamed. Of course, those who designed the system (or influenced the design), made it easier for themselves to game. Quit whining because you are not the genius gaming the system.
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But if he shot that toad in the beginning of the movie, the toad would not have woken him up right as the laser was about to vaporize him at the end of the movie.
(yes, I watch way too many kid's movies)
I agree. Western and Peterson in Chicago is *more* dangerous because of the cameras. They have made the intersection much less predictable.
Before the cameras, some people would blast through the intersection a little late. It's such a large intersection, it takes a few seconds for traffic to clear. The problem to me was the clueless "drag racers" who would stomp on the gas the mili-second that the light turned green. The solution should have been a couple of seconds of four-way-red.
As a side note: my wife got a camera ticket at Western and Peterson for making a right on red. The ticket just said "proceding into the interection on a red light". There was no fighting it either, our request for a hearing was turned down. It's on *my* record now because the car is in my name.
On other words...
I wonder if Fresh Direct could "scale" in NYC? They only make it by double parking. If "everyone" started getting Fresh Direct deliveries, they would completely tie up traffic in some neighborhoods.
I used to have a brokerage debit card. It withdrew funds from my money market account. It was an insane risk to use that card. It would have been a jackpot if thieves got that number. And my financial life would have been in ruins for months.
Since the bubble burst, I don't have to worry about having a lot of money in a money market account.
Compare for yourself these two fine examples of the US government showing how much they can be trusted ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
if you can't really achieve victory, just change the goalposts to something easier and calim you won.
I used to have a Project Manager who did that for his trainwreck projects. His projects were *always* successful. Unfinished requirements became "future enhancements". Non-working projects became "proof of concepts". Half-baked projects became "prototypes".
The wonderful thing about project schedules and requirements is nobody saves the previous version.
Nobody has ever underestimated the gullibility of upper-managers.
And nobody has ever underestimated the gullibility of people who read industry press releases.
the US industry has invented the cupholder ..because they listen to their customers. It's called market research. It's a very common US characterictic.
I would not buy a car without a cupholder. That's right, I would refuse to purchase a multi-thousand dollar car that did not have a $5 piece of plastic to hold a cup. I've had two cars that didn't have cup holders and I'm never buying another one like them.
I don't need "German engineering" or "European styling", but I do want a cup holder.
He called the right number - 911
911 is for "real time" situations. You should call well before it becomes a life-threatening emergency.
In my district, you're not only supposed to call 911 for a fleeing thief, you're supposed to call 911 before they become a thief and flee. I can tell you with certainty that my local police commander would have encouraged people at that gas station to call 911 with a suspicious person report before he stole anything. Think about it, does the guy's panhandling story make any sense (unless it was a bus terminal)?
I know that certain frequencies must be blocked by any radio receiver sold in the US.
A friend of mine bought WinRadio from Austrailia in order to get the full spectrum version.
My advice: use the service with the strongest signal where you will be using your laptop. That may not be the service with the highest published data rate, or the lowest cost plan. Unfortunately, I have no advice for determining the service with the strongest signal other than testing each service.
As with a cell phone, the signal strength can be very fickle. If your move you laptop to a different desk, your signal strength could plummet.
You need a strong signal to make wireless broadband work. The published data rates are useless unless you get a perfect signal. What kills the data transfer rate is retries cause by weak signals. With a weak voice signal you can still go about your business, just with a little frustration. Not so with a weak wireless broadband signal. Your connection will slow to uselessness.
Most all of the broadband wireless cards can be used with a larger antenna. My next bit of advice is to replace the cute little tiny antenna with something that has a higher gain. I've seen antennas that mount on the laptop monitor, table top, or car roof. Use whatever size antenna that you can manage.
2600 lost because they were not a noble defendant.
I think that the same lawsuit with a defendant of higher moral character would have had a different result (eg., Google).
In some cases, the judge can't seem to look at the law instead of the defendant. I think 2600 was one of those cases. The judge saw scary hackers and seem to react "they must be stopped". It was a stupid ruling from a stupid judge. Don't expect that to slow Google down one bit.
Where's the crack-down on a dad's 40-year old drinking buddy slipping upstairs to visit his daughter during a back-yard BBQ?
You described a situation that I'm familiar with. Only it was the mom's 40-year-old priest who slipped upstairs to visit his daughter during a back-yard BBQ. His son walked in on them after hearing noises coming from his sister's bedroom and thinking that everyone was in the backyard.
That was *years* ago. The daughter is still pretty messed up over it. No "stranger in the bushes" indeed.
I worked with a salesman who was laid off. Before he left, he used his company cell phone to call customers just to say "I won't be your salesman anymore, you'll be getting a new company salesman". The company tried to sue him for that (the customers were angry with the company for laying him off) and revoke his severance package. He fought and won, but it costs him a chunk of his severance.
His excuse was that he wanted to leave his customers on good terms in case he every had to sell to them again. It was a good move. He later got a job selling a similar product and called upon those same customers. They wee very supportive of him.
In 20 minutes, the car could be at a garage far away and nearly stripped.
My brother's car was stolen with a tow truck. It probably took 20 second (I'd bet that the theives didn't bother with the safety chains). The cops told him that the car would be stripped before they finished taking the report.
With a 90% installbase and billions and billions of dollars...
Sounds like the minicomputer industry in the early 1980's. I remember a few: DEC, Prime, Tandem, Data General, Burroughs, Control Data, Scientific Data, Honeywell...
Dust in the wind...
H.235 was a good VoIP encryption standard - good for the large service providers who wrote the standard.
VPN, SSL, and other open transportation security layers are a much better choice.
But there are a lot of folks out there who do not encrypt VoIP at all. The future will include a few scandals about personal/company/government VoIP phone calls that were monitored, recorded, and posted on the Internet.
If you traveled on the US interstate highways you were identified, you just didn't know it.
There have been vehicle license plate/tag readers for a long time, at least 20 years that I am aware. Every state has computer camera readable letters on their license plates at this point.
I live in the mid-west too. And I pass at least two plate readers a day. Granted, those are supposed to be for enforcement of the automatic toll system. But I presume that the data is available to any law enforcement organization.
I have heard, from good sources, that there are plate readers all over the interstate highway system for law enforcement purposes. I have no hesitation believing it. If you try to "run from the law" using interstate highways, they will catch you. Followed by a cover story about how some very observant cop just happened to spot you (taken from the last case where I strongly suspect they used the plate/tag readers to catch a guy).
I have the box checked "Warn me if this will disable extensions or themes". It didn't work for this update.
Insteon would not work in my home, which I wired myself according to the NEC. I never used a wall box or a ceiling box as junction boxes, so there are no "extra" wires in places they don't belong. From my junction boxes for a ceiling light , I run one cable to the ceiling box and one cable to the wall switch box. The wall switch cable is a switch loop (with ground). Meaning that the hot wires goes in and a switched-hot wire comes out. There is no neutral wire at the wall switch.
This is the first I have ever heard of a reason to have a neutral wire with a wall switch. The neutral wire is not need for the operation of the switch.
Neutral wires carry current. There is no way that I would run a "extra" neutral wire just in case I need to power some gadget.
Insteon should be designed to be located in the juction box, not the switch box.
I just wish that it had told me which extensions will no longer be working *before* it did the update. You have to install the update before it tells you. Some extensions can be updated. Some will be killed.
I lost AniDisable and AutoForm. I'm going to miss AutoForm.
Progress has a price.
But some of them weren't even fighting!
Then they don't qualify as armed militants captured on the field of battle, which is what the grandparent post was talking about.
I guess I shouldn't have said "the Gitmo guys", since that does indeed include many who are dubious "unlawful combatants".
Armed militants captured on the field of battle don't merit a trial.
Really? Does that apply for both sides in a conflict, or just the ones you consider to be your opponents?
It applies to the losers of the battle. If you take up arms in battle, don't expect to treated like a petty criminal if you lose.
We have thousand of years of history telling us what happens to the losers of armed combat. Sometimes they are returned to their sponsoring organization. Most often, the best they get is a mass grave marker.
In almost any other time in history, those Gitmo guys would have been killed without hesitation.
Agreed.
Not only did she put something very hot between her legs (don't quibble about the temperature - hot coffee is hot coffee, right up to boiling hot coffee), she did so in the confines of a car seat. Then she pried off the lid while squeezing the cup with her thighs. The cup collapsed. If you want to do acrobatics with hot coffee, don't sue when you get burned.
It was a stupid lawsuit. And most people know it.
Bubba is a genius. He's found a way to make 50% more than you.
Income taxes are really not 33% like most people think. They are 50% from the point of view of the earner.
Consider this, Mr Wage earner: In order to earn $100, you have to generate $150 of income (if taxed at 33%). That's an extra 50% of income over Bubba who gets his $100 earnings in $100 of untaxed income. Yes, Bubba loves his 50% of extra income to spent on beer and toys.
All you have to do is game the system. All systems are gamed. Of course, those who designed the system (or influenced the design), made it easier for themselves to game. Quit whining because you are not the genius gaming the system.