There was just (March 6) a good documentary on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Background Briefing radio show about where the JSF was right plane for Australia. http://www.abc.net.au/radionat...
Quite the interesting show and it seems like there are lots of problems still with the plane. Like how it still doesn't like the heat so that the weapons bay doors have to be opened every ten minutes when it's hot out. On the ground or in flight! The problem with the weight of the helmet still hasn't been taken care of so pilots can still be killed. The training simulators that pilots have been using haven't actually been verified to be accurate.
Might be just me but you probably don't want to generate the steam that directly runs the turbines from the fission reaction and instead transfer that heat through another medium. And this would lower the efficiency. But if you want a more efficient power plant by all means leave out this step. I'm sure that it's not important.
The financial system still uses double entry accounting. Just because you don't see it on your statement doesn't mean it isn't happening on the back-end.
But before computers came in a lot of the transactions were done in person so you would catch any errors right away before they would make it into the system. For example if a teller made an error on a slip you would verify it before signing it. Or if you made an error the teller would verify it before entering it. Now it goes into the system and it can gets a correction if caught or else you have to check your statement.
The other thing is that products are much more complex than they were even 20 years ago as financial institutions try to differentiate from one another so there is more opportunities for things to go wrong. That's just on the customer front. I'd hate to think what the regulatory side makes their systems look like.
And you've never had a piece of snail mail go missing? The post office isn't 100% reliable either so there isn't a guarantee that you are going to get the statement that way either. Very probably you will.
If you always pay off your bill in full why not set it up to do so automatically? Or just set a reminder to go off to check in case you hadn't got your statement. A good idea even if you are getting a paper statement.
Maybe they think you will download your statement when you go to check it each month to make sure that it's correct. I don't know what it is where you are but I only have 30 days to report any errors or else they assume it's correct. And since I've caught a couple of errors (over 25 years mind you) I make sure that I check my statements, especially for the bank and credit cards.
My bank gives you 30 days to dispute a charge so if you aren't looking at them on a regular basis then you miss your chance to fix a problem. It doesn't happen often but in 25 years I have found a couple. So if you wait to go over your statements only once a year then you can be losing money. Same thing for credit cards.
Every weekend I set aside 15 or 30 minutes to update my finances. It's this much because I keep track of everything I spend down to the cent. If you don't want to be as thorough then it would just take five minutes once a week to look through your email for any new statements and download the PDFs. Give them a quick look to make sure that everything looks good and file them on your computer. Then they are there for when you want them later on.
Which is why I don't use an app that stores it all on a server. The program that I use is called Codebook though it used to be called STRIP. Been using it for a long time. It was on the Palm before the iPhone.
OMG, a 300 baud modem. I remember using the 14.4k baud up to 56k modems and things were downloading slow. Yes, a 56k baud dial-up with compression would be enough to download PDF files but I wouldn't really want to do it. You must really be sadistic if you want people to do it on a 300 baud modem! One of my latest utility statements would have taken over two hours to download with that.
1) Run backups 2) Verify that they are working on a regular basis 3) Stay away from Windows
The second step is the most important. Just having the backup process come back without an error doesn't mean that you are safe. If you can't get your files from a backup then they aren't backed up!
Where is the pride that people use to have? At least use encryption to send the passwords back to your site! I mean, what's the point of gathering all of those passwords if you are going to send them plain text for all of the world to see. Probably sent them directly to the final site too instead of round about way that's hard to trace.
Yes, restricting the export of software that does encryption would work so well. It would take Apple and any other company all of two minutes to get around that.
"Hey everyone. The encryption group is going to have to relocate due to these new rules. What country do we want to move to? Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, anywhere else? Relocation expenses and a large bonus for the hassle. The final OS integration team is coming too."
And then Apple isn't exporting the software but importing it.
They use solar power to create the carbon nanotubes using CO2 from the atmosphere. This creates oxygen which could be released into the atmosphere or compressed and sold into industry. But they are suggesting putting the plant next to a fossil fuel electrical plant and piping the oxygen gas into the combustion chamber to increase the efficiency of the burn process.
Of course: - If you are going to use CO2 why not just use the CO2 from the emissions from the power plant instead of the atmosphere? It would be a lot easier but then it's just carbon capture which is just a bunch of garbage and doesn't work. - It would be much more efficient to just use the electricity from the solar panels and feed it into the power grid instead of splitting CO2. That way CO2 doesn't get generated in the first place. - Just how many batteries do they really think we are going to need? I mean society is going to need a lot of batteries for the future but to avert any damage from climate change there is no way we could use, let alone store, the number of batteries that would have to be made with the Carbon taken out of the atmosphere. We could probably make all of the batteries we will ever need and not make a dent in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Yes, I know the term is last mile but I put kilometre in as a joke since I'm in Canada and it should be metric.
I've been with TekSavvy for a couple of years now and they have been pretty good. The CRTC says that the independent ISPs pay a rate that allows Bell or Rogers to recover their costs plus make a specified percentage of profit (at least that's how it was). I do wish that the physical network was split from the service side of the companies. It would make an independent company to provide what's required for ISPs. But the incumbents have too much political capital for that to happen so I'm thankful that I'm at least able to have a choice at all. The problem is that too many people aren't aware that such a choice exists. If the other ISPs could actually start making a dent into the subscriber numbers then we might see some pricing changes.
Hey BBC, I understand this loophole problem is costing you £150m a year. We'll look into it for you but you have to do something for us. We want you to shoulder the cost of seniors not having to pay the license fee (costing £750m a year). Glad we agreed on that!
So they are going to bring in a draconian, half thought out (I'm being generous here) law to save £150m a year that won't work while giving up £750m to buy votes. Sounds like typical politicians.
Yes but blaming ad blocking allows you to say it's someone else and continue on knowing that you are perfect so most people prefer that option than to actually looking at the root causes of the problem and fixing them. A quick two second slogan which means that you don't have to do anything is much better even if it doesn't solve anything. Look at how people vote.
We are part of the way there in that they are forced to open up their infrastructure for the last mile (kilometer?) to competitors. I haven't been with Bell or Rogers for Internet access in over 15 years.
Cell phone service is a different matter. Seems like anytime a competitor comes along it stays around for a few years and then gets bought up by one of the big three. It then gets kept around to show that there's some competition even if there isn't. The problem is that there is only two national cell networks in the country (Bell and Telus share one) and the cost to build a competing one is so large. It's hard to see were a third one would come from. I had looked into Wind before they were bought out and their network in Ottawa was so poor I was going to pay roaming charges at my house because it's near the greenbelt.
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There was just (March 6) a good documentary on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Background Briefing radio show about where the JSF was right plane for Australia. http://www.abc.net.au/radionat...
Quite the interesting show and it seems like there are lots of problems still with the plane. Like how it still doesn't like the heat so that the weapons bay doors have to be opened every ten minutes when it's hot out. On the ground or in flight! The problem with the weight of the helmet still hasn't been taken care of so pilots can still be killed. The training simulators that pilots have been using haven't actually been verified to be accurate.
Might be just me but you probably don't want to generate the steam that directly runs the turbines from the fission reaction and instead transfer that heat through another medium. And this would lower the efficiency. But if you want a more efficient power plant by all means leave out this step. I'm sure that it's not important.
The financial system still uses double entry accounting. Just because you don't see it on your statement doesn't mean it isn't happening on the back-end.
Yeah, but think of the cleanup costs that it won't have to pay when they are swallowed up by the earth in the next quake!
That's quite possible.
But before computers came in a lot of the transactions were done in person so you would catch any errors right away before they would make it into the system. For example if a teller made an error on a slip you would verify it before signing it. Or if you made an error the teller would verify it before entering it. Now it goes into the system and it can gets a correction if caught or else you have to check your statement.
The other thing is that products are much more complex than they were even 20 years ago as financial institutions try to differentiate from one another so there is more opportunities for things to go wrong. That's just on the customer front. I'd hate to think what the regulatory side makes their systems look like.
But what if decrypting the phone is the only way to stop the pathogen from activating? Crap it's Schrödinger's pathogen!
to the idea that probable cause should mean that the cause be near the 1.0 end of probability and not the 0.0 end?
The Great Leader was in charge of the expedition himself!
And you've never had a piece of snail mail go missing? The post office isn't 100% reliable either so there isn't a guarantee that you are going to get the statement that way either. Very probably you will.
If you always pay off your bill in full why not set it up to do so automatically? Or just set a reminder to go off to check in case you hadn't got your statement. A good idea even if you are getting a paper statement.
Maybe they think you will download your statement when you go to check it each month to make sure that it's correct. I don't know what it is where you are but I only have 30 days to report any errors or else they assume it's correct. And since I've caught a couple of errors (over 25 years mind you) I make sure that I check my statements, especially for the bank and credit cards.
My bank gives you 30 days to dispute a charge so if you aren't looking at them on a regular basis then you miss your chance to fix a problem. It doesn't happen often but in 25 years I have found a couple. So if you wait to go over your statements only once a year then you can be losing money. Same thing for credit cards.
Every weekend I set aside 15 or 30 minutes to update my finances. It's this much because I keep track of everything I spend down to the cent. If you don't want to be as thorough then it would just take five minutes once a week to look through your email for any new statements and download the PDFs. Give them a quick look to make sure that everything looks good and file them on your computer. Then they are there for when you want them later on.
Which is why I don't use an app that stores it all on a server. The program that I use is called Codebook though it used to be called STRIP. Been using it for a long time. It was on the Palm before the iPhone.
OMG, a 300 baud modem. I remember using the 14.4k baud up to 56k modems and things were downloading slow. Yes, a 56k baud dial-up with compression would be enough to download PDF files but I wouldn't really want to do it. You must really be sadistic if you want people to do it on a 300 baud modem! One of my latest utility statements would have taken over two hours to download with that.
It's not slow. Your connection to the Internet is slow and it's having a hard time sending everything you do to Microsoft.
Then I order cement.
1) Run backups
2) Verify that they are working on a regular basis
3) Stay away from Windows
The second step is the most important. Just having the backup process come back without an error doesn't mean that you are safe. If you can't get your files from a backup then they aren't backed up!
Where is the pride that people use to have? At least use encryption to send the passwords back to your site! I mean, what's the point of gathering all of those passwords if you are going to send them plain text for all of the world to see. Probably sent them directly to the final site too instead of round about way that's hard to trace.
No, they just need to shift the encryption team offshore and create it as a separate company. Then they are importing it.
Yes, restricting the export of software that does encryption would work so well. It would take Apple and any other company all of two minutes to get around that.
"Hey everyone. The encryption group is going to have to relocate due to these new rules. What country do we want to move to? Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, anywhere else? Relocation expenses and a large bonus for the hassle. The final OS integration team is coming too."
And then Apple isn't exporting the software but importing it.
They use solar power to create the carbon nanotubes using CO2 from the atmosphere. This creates oxygen which could be released into the atmosphere or compressed and sold into industry. But they are suggesting putting the plant next to a fossil fuel electrical plant and piping the oxygen gas into the combustion chamber to increase the efficiency of the burn process.
Of course:
- If you are going to use CO2 why not just use the CO2 from the emissions from the power plant instead of the atmosphere? It would be a lot easier but then it's just carbon capture which is just a bunch of garbage and doesn't work.
- It would be much more efficient to just use the electricity from the solar panels and feed it into the power grid instead of splitting CO2. That way CO2 doesn't get generated in the first place.
- Just how many batteries do they really think we are going to need? I mean society is going to need a lot of batteries for the future but to avert any damage from climate change there is no way we could use, let alone store, the number of batteries that would have to be made with the Carbon taken out of the atmosphere. We could probably make all of the batteries we will ever need and not make a dent in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Yes, I know the term is last mile but I put kilometre in as a joke since I'm in Canada and it should be metric.
I've been with TekSavvy for a couple of years now and they have been pretty good. The CRTC says that the independent ISPs pay a rate that allows Bell or Rogers to recover their costs plus make a specified percentage of profit (at least that's how it was). I do wish that the physical network was split from the service side of the companies. It would make an independent company to provide what's required for ISPs. But the incumbents have too much political capital for that to happen so I'm thankful that I'm at least able to have a choice at all. The problem is that too many people aren't aware that such a choice exists. If the other ISPs could actually start making a dent into the subscriber numbers then we might see some pricing changes.
Gee I wonder how I got this wrong?
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a...
https://www.thestar.com/busine...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (and the section below about LTE)
Hey BBC, I understand this loophole problem is costing you £150m a year. We'll look into it for you but you have to do something for us. We want you to shoulder the cost of seniors not having to pay the license fee (costing £750m a year). Glad we agreed on that!
So they are going to bring in a draconian, half thought out (I'm being generous here) law to save £150m a year that won't work while giving up £750m to buy votes. Sounds like typical politicians.
Yes but blaming ad blocking allows you to say it's someone else and continue on knowing that you are perfect so most people prefer that option than to actually looking at the root causes of the problem and fixing them. A quick two second slogan which means that you don't have to do anything is much better even if it doesn't solve anything. Look at how people vote.
We are part of the way there in that they are forced to open up their infrastructure for the last mile (kilometer?) to competitors. I haven't been with Bell or Rogers for Internet access in over 15 years.
Cell phone service is a different matter. Seems like anytime a competitor comes along it stays around for a few years and then gets bought up by one of the big three. It then gets kept around to show that there's some competition even if there isn't. The problem is that there is only two national cell networks in the country (Bell and Telus share one) and the cost to build a competing one is so large. It's hard to see were a third one would come from. I had looked into Wind before they were bought out and their network in Ottawa was so poor I was going to pay roaming charges at my house because it's near the greenbelt.