True, but the environmental cost has already been paid in the creation of that clunker. No matter how bad your car pollutes, it is still more environmentally friendly to drive it into the ground than to get a new vehicle.
Sure. It is more environmentally friendly to drive a vehicle that in one year puts out more air pollution than a new car will do in a lifetime.
Yes, drive the old car into the ground. Let it leak and burn oil as the seals rot and the piston rings wear. Oh, and you can leak a little anti-freeze along the way.
Hey, How about you just run a cheap straight pipe in place of that expensive catalytic converter? who needs to convert those exhaust gasses into something a little cleaner.
It's not more environmentally friendly, it's just cheaper. When the car dies, just leave it by the side of the road, let someone take care of the mess. Where's the good old -1:Troll when you need it?
Wasn't there a story that came up, perhaps here, a while back about a tech at $RANDOM_PODUNK_SATILLITTE_COMPANY, i think in arizona, who found out one night he could overpower Showtime or HBO's satillitte feed? Didn't he then end up with teams of federal agents mobbing him, calling him a threat to national security?
yeah, He ought to be court martialed by the captain of the USS.....oh, wait, He doesn't say he's in the military. The original poster calls himself "communications officer" which implies jack shit.
He also talks about two cameramen running up the gangway. Given our military's stance of peace love and happiness, those guys should've been shredded by gunfire before getting two steps up the gangway.
Russia has one. At least six other nations maintain at least one true aircraft carrier. Including those dastardly evil french, whose Nuclear powered Charles De Gaulle holds 40+ aircraft. China has been supposedly working on a supercarrier for years, but nothing has been confirmed, though 'chinese interests' bought the Varyag the second of the ex. USSR's carriers. Supposedly to become an "entertainment complex." A list of other nations who have kept carriers or plan to can be found here
Now, as for having 13 aircraft carriers. Technically there's 15 (a list can be found here), with two (Ranger and Independance) in mothballs at Bremerton, Wash. 16 if you want to count the America, but she's due to be scrapped. Of those 15, Three; The Kitty Hawk, Constellation, and Enterprise, were all commision in 1961. Any one of those ships could stand to be retired. Granted the Kitty Hawk went through a major upgrade recently, a 40 year old ship is still a 40 year old ship. It's also one of two non-nuke carriers (the other being the Kennedy, next oldest in line) still in service.
Those six carriers will likely all be out of service by the time the George H.W. Bush hits the water. Independance and Ranger will probably be property of the Gillette and bic razor blade companys, Kitty Hawk and Constellation won't be far behind.
Given our Military policy (!= foreign policy) of being able to project force quickly, anywhere in the world, A fair number of carriers makes sense. Not to sound like a classic republican hawk, but We don't have to wait and see who will allow us use of airbases, we don't have to worry about what country will bitch and moan about airspace. What once took months now takes weeks.
Given that we've decided to play world cop and send in American forces to try and solve to world's problems, these fit in well with our military strategy. 15 is definatly overkill, but that number will decline. The new carriers will be cheaper than the old, making those carreiers prime tagets for scrapping.
I think our current leadership is hovering around 50% full of shit, but they have nothing to due with this carrier or the next.
Plus, I suspect that the darn things are just named after the president when they were first proposed.
Not quite. Plans for this carrier were finalized under either Bush or Clinton. Warships are almost never named for a living person.
The Ronald Reagan got its name from a group of hardcore reagan fans in our legislature that decided reagan was an ab-so-freakin-lute god, and everything should be named for him. one of Washington DC's airports became Ronald Reagan (inter?)national. The new carrier that had just had her keel laid? The USS Ronald Regan. That persistant and idiotic rumor that Reagan's face was going on Mount Rushmore? That started around this time.
What you described is the same reason I got out of playing yahoo poker. The model they were using at the time filled out a table with AI players.
Players would agree to play check-raise. check around the table (not bet) until an AI bet. Then they would progressivly raise until the AI folded. Annoying as all hell, no fun, and just made sure the twelve year olds got an ego boost from 'winning' a 50k pot.
A decent AI model for poker could be developed, but it lacks the fundamental strength of poker; the social interaction. Computers will play a great game of chess, mostly because the entire game can be predicted entirely off of what is showing the board. Poker, on the other hand, is all about the bluff. BS'ing the guy across from you. Statistics can tell you what he probably has. But the supposed "art" of reading a player can tell you nearly much.
This is sort of like the people that use cheat cards at a blackjack table. These cards have a color coded table that tell you how you should play a particular hand (i.e. the dealer has a 6 showing, you've got 13, Hit - stand - double down etc). It takes a way the human element of the game, which makes it fun in the first place.
A blackjack AI could be written by a novice programmer in a couple of hours, but still wouldn't do that much better than human.
Fun. Let's see how they screw this up. Our roads suck ass, our schools are bankrupt, with the state close behind, but at least I won't get junk e-mail.
Honestly, when intellegent sounding ideas come out of the michigan legislature, it usually means a lawmaker has shoved his/her head so far up their own ass they've begun to see daylight.
it also adds "impersonating a law enforcement officer" to the list of charges. Given that the crime would likely span over two or more states, it becomes a federal offense.
What side should ebay err on? the side of protecting the privacy of a seller or the side of protecting a user from being bilked out of a few grand? There's privacy and there's protection, and a hard line to walk between the two.
So the system triggers when something is within 300 feet? That'd get annoying pretty quickly on a michigan, hell, on any highway. 300 feet of following disitance is non existant. We've got too many people that don't realize that drafting is for the professionals at talledgeda, not the commuters on I-94
Unfortunately, Japanese regulations don't allow for the system to fully stop the vehicle."
That's not a bad thing. Let's say a good sized bug or a small bird hits near the radar sensor. The system becomes confused since, from what it can tell, something huge is about to hit your car. It gives an emergency stop command to the brakes, and you're stuck in the middle of the highway until the system decides you're all clear.
In time these situations could be easily resolved, but I'd rather not be part of the frist focus group / crash statistics.
Wrong. Ford, like other vehicle manufacturers, sell what is most profitable. SUVs were comparatively cheap to make, and sold for a nice premium. That they were in vogue only helped to make that market segment the most profitable for them. However, if you ask the average American, buying an unsafe, gas-guzzling automobile is probably not what they want. However, that is what they get when they buy conventional SUVs.
So those millions of people that own an SUV don't really want one, they're just forking over 350-400 per month for no good reason?
We'll start here. 'Unsafe' is subjective term, like all accident data. If I'm going to be in a head on accident, I'll take an explorer over my own S-10 (which garnered only 3 stars according to government crash test data). Same goes for side impact. You are statisically more likely to be hit than to hit someone. If you're being hit, then no, I'd rather not get hit by an SUV. I'd also not want to be hit by a semi, Fed-EX truck, Special Ed. Bus, or any other heavy vehicle that sits higher than my own car.
SUV sales are still brisk, although larger models such as the expedition, and lincoln's new aviator have fallen off, mostly due to the deservedly poor reviews. Strangely enough, the fastest selling vehicle in the first half of this year has been the H2 hummer.
Why then did Ford and other automakers suddenly announce fuel-cell cars, and hybrids? Because someone actually started selling hybrids to the American public - cars that weren't styled too strangely or overpriced (due to low production volume.) Can you say fear of the Japanese again?
Have you looked an a honda insight? It looks strange and is horridly over priced considering it's functionality. great gas milage, but as a family car it falls short of even the accord or camry.
Kudos to Toyota and Honda for actually putting THEIR money where the market is. Boo on Ford for announcing a hybrid Escape well over a year ago, and (evidently) pushing the release date back by another year... AGAIN.
If by market you mean "sell a few hundred cars so our PR people can get in good" then yes, you are correct. the closest data I couple find comes from an insight fan site here. 2001 sales of 4726 and 2002 sales of 2,216 don't consitute much of a market. That includes a one-time $2000 IRS Clean Fuel Vehicles tax credit on top of regular honda incentives. those sales put it behind even the Pontiac Aztec, a spectacular failure in comparison to most cars and SUV's
The 'sudden announcment' of hybrid vehicles; could just be reaction to our glorious and fearless leader's announcment that there was government (read: free) money in them thar hills for the development of fuel cell and hybrid vehicles?
'Alternative fuel vehicles' have been under continuous development by the big three automakers since the dawn of the industry, and long before it was fashionable. It's called innovation. if there is a chance to make money by being unique, someone will try it. Steam powered and electric cars have been around sinces the turn of the century, back when they were as functional as the early gasoline engines. through the 50's and 60's Chrysler had been doing work on turbine engines, only to see the program die without fruitition in the late 70s. the Ford and GM electric car programs have all but died at the hands of the fuel cell vehicle.
The hybrid Escape hits the market in the middle of next year to coincide with the release of several newly redesigned vehicles (including the mustang, getting it's first ground up redesign since 1977). Escape hyrbids will enter fleet services this year. The main delay in getting the escape to the streets has been the mandate from Bill Ford jr. that the hybrid vehicle's performance be as close to that of a regular escape as possible.
Hybrid vehicles are a niche market car in the US. In Europe or Japan
Wierd trivia for that flick. The three principle actors (stamp, weaving, and pearce) next major film went on to become a blockbuster, academy award winner. (Terrance Stamp did Episode 1, Guy Pearce did L.A. Confidential, and Hugo Weaving did that computer movie with the lousy sequel)
Quit now! make a really big deal out of it, scream and cry and yell and bitch and moan! make a big jerry maguire-esqe scene and yell "who's coming with me?!" as you're escorted to the door. From there, I suggest you go to ask.slashdot.org (while you can still afford to pay your ISP) and ask "How do I find a job in IT even though demand is so low?"
Short answer: quitcherbitchin. You've got a job, be thankful.
Medium sized answer: If you want to organize your co-workers to do something productive, You've got better odds at starting a circle jerk. Pulling a giant walk out isn't going to accomplish anything more than making you feel good about yourself for a week or so. After that, you're going to come to the quick realization that your skills, no matter how good you may think they are, aren't in demand. The IT market is horrid, and odds are you'll end up working in a shop that's just as bad, for less money. Be prepared to lose out on jobs to people that have double your education, triple your experience, and are willing to work for 10k a year less than you.
(would you like to look at the stack or job applications I've got? We've bachelors, masters, and a handful of PhD's who want an $8.60/hr p/t lab job.)
Grab a newspaper, bulk print your resume, start looking hard, and give your two weeks notice like the rest of the world. The credits will not roll and you will not live happily ever after by staging a walkout.
The SCO is starting to remind me of Dean Wormer from 'Animal House.' First they put the linux world on double secret probation. Now, as the majority of the IT world is walking out on them humming the star spangled banner, they're shouting "You're all expelled! No more fun of any kind!"
I guess that leaves microsoft as as the preppy frat boy stuck banging the gavel.
thousands may have survived the sinking of the Titanic if only the outcome had been different.....
Really now. Let's all play the "what if" game. What if they'd sent another shuttle? What if they'd looked at spy sat. images? What if a race of friendly aliens repaired the shuttle the erased the memories of those aboard? What if we could have sent Bruce Willis up there with a team of loveable hacks? You know what? None of that happened, and Columbia is still sitting in pieces. Deal with it. Establish what went wrong, do your best to ensure it doesn't happen again, and move on with the space program.
I'm just glad we've got experts in the media that can press home the fact that they're smarter than those in charge. "Hey, let's make NASA acknolwedge the fact that there was a super slim chance of possibly rescuing those poor, departed ratings....er...heros"
This sort of thing provides good justification for having a loging banner on a system. Make it clear that "unauthorized use is prohibited, and activity on said systems may be monitored." From that point on you should be well justified in any monitoring of your network.
So long as you can prove that the systems are not configured for ues by the general public, There shouldn't be much to build a case on. Getting around entrapment may be a little harder ("but your honor, when i set up that RedHat 6.2 box, named it "Hax0r|\/|e", and connected it to a comcast hispeed line with no firewall, I had no idea something bad would happen!"), but that's a whole new thread.
It's not that tornados skip cities. Far from it. You mentioned Salt Lake City, and New Orleans had a tornado form in the middle of downtown. Those are the exceptions though, not the rule.
I didn't say tornados skip cities. Thunderstorms will *usually* begin to break up when they hit a major urban area. It's the ones that don't break up that you worry about.
Tornados have been recorded on 6 of 7 continents, and in all 50 states. If you've had a thunderstorm, you can have a tornado. Granted, they take a very specific set of conditions to form, and even then you've got no guarentees. Move to Antarctica if you want to avoid them.
Here in SE Michigan you can get a very easy feel for what storms you can watch from the porch, and what storms you should watch from the TV in the basement. "good" storms track West to East. A high percentage of storms come off of lake michigan, track across the state, then split north or south when they hit Ann Arbor.
(The city's a heat island. 10-ish square miles of concrete and asphault that forms a giant column of rising air that tends to split all but the biggest storms. Once the storms hit Ann Arbor, they either go north and hit Oakland county or Head south and slam Monroe. Ypsilanti, which is just west of Ann Arbor, seldom catches the full force of a storm.)
"bad" storms are the ones that trace South to North. Theres nothing south of us (except ohio farm fields, ideal storm breeding grounds) to protect the urban areas. The worst storms I can remember have all run South - North.
Moral of the story; know your local weather, your TV weather man is a dipshit, weather.com radar is your friend, and when in doubt, go for the basement. (if you have one, you insensitve clod)
I figured I may as well use that as the subject line, since that's all that's really being discussed.
Freenet, according to their website, works somewhat like this. I want file XYZ. I search for file XYZ. Freenet brings all 68 parts of X from node 1, 13 parts of Y from node two, the other 13 parts of Y from node three, and the rest of the file comes from node four, five, six, seven, and twelve.
The guilty party is the person that's got file XYZ. The guilty party is the person who *requested* file XYZ. You may or may not have had part of file Z, You don't know, the people up and down stream from you don't know, and the person requesting the file doesn't know.
Child Pornongraphy is reprehensable. Duh. But using it as an argument against freenet is like using the "it's for the children" to ban guns and remove them from every house that owns one.
Anonymity comes with a cost. So does freedom. The price of being able to write a letter to the editor about the 2000 election is seeing that the letter next to yours is from the Grand Wizard of the KKK. The price of seeing the Rodney King video on a cheesy fox special is the knowledge that someone, somewhere is being exploited and it's on video tape.
1984 isn't worth fearing in this society. Farenheit 451 is.
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True, but the environmental cost has already been paid in the creation of that clunker. No matter how bad your car pollutes, it is still more environmentally friendly to drive it into the ground than to get a new vehicle.
Sure. It is more environmentally friendly to drive a vehicle that in one year puts out more air pollution than a new car will do in a lifetime.
Yes, drive the old car into the ground. Let it leak and burn oil as the seals rot and the piston rings wear. Oh, and you can leak a little anti-freeze along the way.
Hey, How about you just run a cheap straight pipe in place of that expensive catalytic converter? who needs to convert those exhaust gasses into something a little cleaner.
It's not more environmentally friendly, it's just cheaper. When the car dies, just leave it by the side of the road, let someone take care of the mess. Where's the good old -1:Troll when you need it?
Wasn't there a story that came up, perhaps here, a while back about a tech at $RANDOM_PODUNK_SATILLITTE_COMPANY, i think in arizona, who found out one night he could overpower Showtime or HBO's satillitte feed? Didn't he then end up with teams of federal agents mobbing him, calling him a threat to national security?
yeah, He ought to be court martialed by the captain of the USS.....oh, wait, He doesn't say he's in the military. The original poster calls himself "communications officer" which implies jack shit.
He also talks about two cameramen running up the gangway. Given our military's stance of peace love and happiness, those guys should've been shredded by gunfire before getting two steps up the gangway.
But hey, what do I know?
Where does it say he's american?
You might want to wear a brace around that jerking knee.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZT Wrong answer.
Russia has one. At least six other nations maintain at least one true aircraft carrier. Including those dastardly evil french, whose Nuclear powered Charles De Gaulle holds 40+ aircraft. China has been supposedly working on a supercarrier for years, but nothing has been confirmed, though 'chinese interests' bought the Varyag the second of the ex. USSR's carriers. Supposedly to become an "entertainment complex." A list of other nations who have kept carriers or plan to can be found here
Now, as for having 13 aircraft carriers. Technically there's 15 (a list can be found here), with two (Ranger and Independance) in mothballs at Bremerton, Wash. 16 if you want to count the America, but she's due to be scrapped. Of those 15, Three; The Kitty Hawk, Constellation, and Enterprise, were all commision in 1961. Any one of those ships could stand to be retired. Granted the Kitty Hawk went through a major upgrade recently, a 40 year old ship is still a 40 year old ship. It's also one of two non-nuke carriers (the other being the Kennedy, next oldest in line) still in service.
Those six carriers will likely all be out of service by the time the George H.W. Bush hits the water. Independance and Ranger will probably be property of the Gillette and bic razor blade companys, Kitty Hawk and Constellation won't be far behind.
Given our Military policy (!= foreign policy) of being able to project force quickly, anywhere in the world, A fair number of carriers makes sense. Not to sound like a classic republican hawk, but We don't have to wait and see who will allow us use of airbases, we don't have to worry about what country will bitch and moan about airspace. What once took months now takes weeks.
Given that we've decided to play world cop and send in American forces to try and solve to world's problems, these fit in well with our military strategy. 15 is definatly overkill, but that number will decline. The new carriers will be cheaper than the old, making those carreiers prime tagets for scrapping.
I think our current leadership is hovering around 50% full of shit, but they have nothing to due with this carrier or the next.
Plus, I suspect that the darn things are just named after the president when they were first proposed.
Not quite. Plans for this carrier were finalized under either Bush or Clinton. Warships are almost never named for a living person.
The Ronald Reagan got its name from a group of hardcore reagan fans in our legislature that decided reagan was an ab-so-freakin-lute god, and everything should be named for him. one of Washington DC's airports became Ronald Reagan (inter?)national. The new carrier that had just had her keel laid? The USS Ronald Regan. That persistant and idiotic rumor that Reagan's face was going on Mount Rushmore? That started around this time.
What you described is the same reason I got out of playing yahoo poker. The model they were using at the time filled out a table with AI players.
Players would agree to play check-raise. check around the table (not bet) until an AI bet. Then they would progressivly raise until the AI folded. Annoying as all hell, no fun, and just made sure the twelve year olds got an ego boost from 'winning' a 50k pot.
A decent AI model for poker could be developed, but it lacks the fundamental strength of poker; the social interaction. Computers will play a great game of chess, mostly because the entire game can be predicted entirely off of what is showing the board. Poker, on the other hand, is all about the bluff. BS'ing the guy across from you. Statistics can tell you what he probably has. But the supposed "art" of reading a player can tell you nearly much.
This is sort of like the people that use cheat cards at a blackjack table. These cards have a color coded table that tell you how you should play a particular hand (i.e. the dealer has a 6 showing, you've got 13, Hit - stand - double down etc). It takes a way the human element of the game, which makes it fun in the first place.
A blackjack AI could be written by a novice programmer in a couple of hours, but still wouldn't do that much better than human.
Fun. Let's see how they screw this up. Our roads suck ass, our schools are bankrupt, with the state close behind, but at least I won't get junk e-mail.
Honestly, when intellegent sounding ideas come out of the michigan legislature, it usually means a lawmaker has shoved his/her head so far up their own ass they've begun to see daylight.
No one asks for a tissue, they ask for a 'kleenex.'
No one asks for an adhesive strip, they want a 'band-aid.'
cotton swab? no, a 'q-tip'
gelatin? of course not, 'jell-o'
clear tape? no, 'scotch tape'
soda, pop, or soft drink? in some parts of the country it's 'coke'
corporate takeover of the english language is a bitch. Hormel hasn't taken many steps to protect their trademark, and now they're getting bit.
it also adds "impersonating a law enforcement officer" to the list of charges. Given that the crime would likely span over two or more states, it becomes a federal offense.
What side should ebay err on? the side of protecting the privacy of a seller or the side of protecting a user from being bilked out of a few grand? There's privacy and there's protection, and a hard line to walk between the two.
So the system triggers when something is within 300 feet? That'd get annoying pretty quickly on a michigan, hell, on any highway. 300 feet of following disitance is non existant. We've got too many people that don't realize that drafting is for the professionals at talledgeda, not the commuters on I-94
Unfortunately, Japanese regulations don't allow for the system to fully stop the vehicle."
That's not a bad thing. Let's say a good sized bug or a small bird hits near the radar sensor. The system becomes confused since, from what it can tell, something huge is about to hit your car. It gives an emergency stop command to the brakes, and you're stuck in the middle of the highway until the system decides you're all clear.
In time these situations could be easily resolved, but I'd rather not be part of the frist focus group / crash statistics.
Wrong. Ford, like other vehicle manufacturers, sell what is most profitable. SUVs were comparatively cheap to make, and sold for a nice premium. That they were in vogue only helped to make that market segment the most profitable for them. However, if you ask the average American, buying an unsafe, gas-guzzling automobile is probably not what they want. However, that is what they get when they buy conventional SUVs.
So those millions of people that own an SUV don't really want one, they're just forking over 350-400 per month for no good reason?
We'll start here. 'Unsafe' is subjective term, like all accident data. If I'm going to be in a head on accident, I'll take an explorer over my own S-10 (which garnered only 3 stars according to government crash test data). Same goes for side impact. You are statisically more likely to be hit than to hit someone. If you're being hit, then no, I'd rather not get hit by an SUV. I'd also not want to be hit by a semi, Fed-EX truck, Special Ed. Bus, or any other heavy vehicle that sits higher than my own car.
SUV sales are still brisk, although larger models such as the expedition, and lincoln's new aviator have fallen off, mostly due to the deservedly poor reviews. Strangely enough, the fastest selling vehicle in the first half of this year has been the H2 hummer.
Why then did Ford and other automakers suddenly announce fuel-cell cars, and hybrids? Because someone actually started selling hybrids to the American public - cars that weren't styled too strangely or overpriced (due to low production volume.) Can you say fear of the Japanese again?
Have you looked an a honda insight? It looks strange and is horridly over priced considering it's functionality. great gas milage, but as a family car it falls short of even the accord or camry.
Kudos to Toyota and Honda for actually putting THEIR money where the market is. Boo on Ford for announcing a hybrid Escape well over a year ago, and (evidently) pushing the release date back by another year... AGAIN.
If by market you mean "sell a few hundred cars so our PR people can get in good" then yes, you are correct. the closest data I couple find comes from an insight fan site here. 2001 sales of 4726 and 2002 sales of 2,216 don't consitute much of a market. That includes a one-time $2000 IRS Clean Fuel Vehicles tax credit on top of regular honda incentives. those sales put it behind even the Pontiac Aztec, a spectacular failure in comparison to most cars and SUV's
The 'sudden announcment' of hybrid vehicles; could just be reaction to our glorious and fearless leader's announcment that there was government (read: free) money in them thar hills for the development of fuel cell and hybrid vehicles?
'Alternative fuel vehicles' have been under continuous development by the big three automakers since the dawn of the industry, and long before it was fashionable. It's called innovation. if there is a chance to make money by being unique, someone will try it. Steam powered and electric cars have been around sinces the turn of the century, back when they were as functional as the early gasoline engines. through the 50's and 60's Chrysler had been doing work on turbine engines, only to see the program die without fruitition in the late 70s. the Ford and GM electric car programs have all but died at the hands of the fuel cell vehicle.
The hybrid Escape hits the market in the middle of next year to coincide with the release of several newly redesigned vehicles (including the mustang, getting it's first ground up redesign since 1977). Escape hyrbids will enter fleet services this year. The main delay in getting the escape to the streets has been the mandate from Bill Ford jr. that the hybrid vehicle's performance be as close to that of a regular escape as possible.
Hybrid vehicles are a niche market car in the US. In Europe or Japan
why he didn't just kill the king and dump the stupid ring into mount doom after sauron's apparent destruction eludes me.
Duh. So he could pursue a career in a cross dressing cabaret act under the name "Mitzi Del Bra." (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)
Wierd trivia for that flick. The three principle actors (stamp, weaving, and pearce) next major film went on to become a blockbuster, academy award winner. (Terrance Stamp did Episode 1, Guy Pearce did L.A. Confidential, and Hugo Weaving did that computer movie with the lousy sequel)
Quit now! make a really big deal out of it, scream and cry and yell and bitch and moan! make a big jerry maguire-esqe scene and yell "who's coming with me?!" as you're escorted to the door.
From there, I suggest you go to ask.slashdot.org (while you can still afford to pay your ISP) and ask "How do I find a job in IT even though demand is so low?"
Short answer: quitcherbitchin. You've got a job, be thankful.
Medium sized answer: If you want to organize your co-workers to do something productive, You've got better odds at starting a circle jerk. Pulling a giant walk out isn't going to accomplish anything more than making you feel good about yourself for a week or so. After that, you're going to come to the quick realization that your skills, no matter how good you may think they are, aren't in demand. The IT market is horrid, and odds are you'll end up working in a shop that's just as bad, for less money. Be prepared to lose out on jobs to people that have double your education, triple your experience, and are willing to work for 10k a year less than you.
(would you like to look at the stack or job applications I've got? We've bachelors, masters, and a handful of PhD's who want an $8.60/hr p/t lab job.)
Grab a newspaper, bulk print your resume, start looking hard, and give your two weeks notice like the rest of the world. The credits will not roll and you will not live happily ever after by staging a walkout.
% apt-get skynet
I guess this really is the rise of the machines
(Score: -1 bad pun)
Swing for the fences.
The SCO is starting to remind me of Dean Wormer from 'Animal House.' First they put the linux world on double secret probation. Now, as the majority of the IT world is walking out on them humming the star spangled banner, they're shouting "You're all expelled! No more fun of any kind!"
I guess that leaves microsoft as as the preppy frat boy stuck banging the gavel.
thousands may have survived the sinking of the Titanic if only the outcome had been different.....
Really now. Let's all play the "what if" game. What if they'd sent another shuttle? What if they'd looked at spy sat. images? What if a race of friendly aliens repaired the shuttle the erased the memories of those aboard? What if we could have sent Bruce Willis up there with a team of loveable hacks? You know what? None of that happened, and Columbia is still sitting in pieces. Deal with it. Establish what went wrong, do your best to ensure it doesn't happen again, and move on with the space program.
I'm just glad we've got experts in the media that can press home the fact that they're smarter than those in charge. "Hey, let's make NASA acknolwedge the fact that there was a super slim chance of possibly rescuing those poor, departed ratings....er...heros"
This sort of thing provides good justification for having a loging banner on a system. Make it clear that "unauthorized use is prohibited, and activity on said systems may be monitored." From that point on you should be well justified in any monitoring of your network.
So long as you can prove that the systems are not configured for ues by the general public, There shouldn't be much to build a case on. Getting around entrapment may be a little harder ("but your honor, when i set up that RedHat 6.2 box, named it "Hax0r|\/|e", and connected it to a comcast hispeed line with no firewall, I had no idea something bad would happen!"), but that's a whole new thread.
It's not that tornados skip cities. Far from it. You mentioned Salt Lake City, and New Orleans had a tornado form in the middle of downtown. Those are the exceptions though, not the rule.
I didn't say tornados skip cities. Thunderstorms will *usually* begin to break up when they hit a major urban area. It's the ones that don't break up that you worry about.
Tornados have been recorded on 6 of 7 continents, and in all 50 states. If you've had a thunderstorm, you can have a tornado. Granted, they take a very specific set of conditions to form, and even then you've got no guarentees. Move to Antarctica if you want to avoid them.
Here in SE Michigan you can get a very easy feel for what storms you can watch from the porch, and what storms you should watch from the TV in the basement. "good" storms track West to East. A high percentage of storms come off of lake michigan, track across the state, then split north or south when they hit Ann Arbor.
(The city's a heat island. 10-ish square miles of concrete and asphault that forms a giant column of rising air that tends to split all but the biggest storms. Once the storms hit Ann Arbor, they either go north and hit Oakland county or Head south and slam Monroe. Ypsilanti, which is just west of Ann Arbor, seldom catches the full force of a storm.)
"bad" storms are the ones that trace South to North. Theres nothing south of us (except ohio farm fields, ideal storm breeding grounds) to protect the urban areas. The worst storms I can remember have all run South - North.
Moral of the story; know your local weather, your TV weather man is a dipshit, weather.com radar is your friend, and when in doubt, go for the basement. (if you have one, you insensitve clod)
...pictured Slim Pickens on a bomb in a space suit riding towards the moon yelling "whoo hoo", a la Dr. Strangelove?
In space, no one can hear a hillbilly scream.
I figured I may as well use that as the subject line, since that's all that's really being discussed.
Freenet, according to their website, works somewhat like this. I want file XYZ. I search for file XYZ. Freenet brings all 68 parts of X from node 1, 13 parts of Y from node two, the other 13 parts of Y from node three, and the rest of the file comes from node four, five, six, seven, and twelve.
The guilty party is the person that's got file XYZ. The guilty party is the person who *requested* file XYZ. You may or may not have had part of file Z, You don't know, the people up and down stream from you don't know, and the person requesting the file doesn't know.
Child Pornongraphy is reprehensable. Duh. But using it as an argument against freenet is like using the "it's for the children" to ban guns and remove them from every house that owns one.
Anonymity comes with a cost. So does freedom. The price of being able to write a letter to the editor about the 2000 election is seeing that the letter next to yours is from the Grand Wizard of the KKK. The price of seeing the Rodney King video on a cheesy fox special is the knowledge that someone, somewhere is being exploited and it's on video tape.
1984 isn't worth fearing in this society. Farenheit 451 is.
Let's just say it involes some blinking LED's, a few junk motherboards, 4 Square yards of tinfoil, and kidnapping Jeff Gordon.
That's the first I've heard of it, thanks for the link.
The selection is still pretty spotty, considering the collection they've got to drawn from.